4/18/17 - What Will Your Legacy Be? & Allen West on Dealing With North Korea

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North Korea is going to test missiles weekly, says senior official of the BBC.

Oh, that's good.

We have three aircraft carrier groups now going to the Korean Peninsula.

Yesterday,

I saw Alan West.

He was walking in the hallway here at the Blaze and Mercury Studios.

And I said, hey, Alan, when's the last time we had three carrier groups in that region?

And he said, hmm, let me think.

Midway?

Oh!

Oh!

Oh, by the way, the United States has 10 carrier groups total.

Three of them now are off the coast of

North Korea.

That's war footing.

He said, you can't can't hold that war footing very long and you lose credibility.

You're sending a message.

This either implodes or explodes, but it is over.

You don't put three carrier groups there without it exploding or imploding.

We'll have more on that in just a second.

Also, the accused Facebook killer, Steve Stevens,

faced multiple evictions and financial troubles, and his mom wasn't very nice.

I don't feel bad for him at all.

At all.

They haven't caught him yet.

But maybe we should look at the victim for just a few minutes.

We begin there right now.

I will make a stand,

I will raise my voice.

I will hold your hand.

Cause we are one.

I will be my drum.

I have made my choice.

We will overcome.

Cause we are one.

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Do you ever think about your legacy?

I mean, I know dictators do that.

Presidents do that.

But have you really ever thought of the legacy about building?

What are you building?

What do do you leave behind?

None of us are really going to be remembered by

a monument.

Most of us will never have a book in the library that people go to read about.

What are the intangible things that you leave behind

just because of the way you live your life?

Last night, I sat with my eldest sister, Coletta, and we sat around the dining room table for about an hour or so.

She's writing a book.

She's writing a pie book.

It's a recipe book.

She said it may just be for, you know, her family

and the kids.

Are you consulting on it?

I am consulting on it, yeah.

Kind of.

I'm not.

Need any help?

Yeah.

I'm not helping her with any of the words.

I'm just testing all of the pies.

And I suggested to her one of the last lines.

I said,

consider this.

I remember people because of pies.

I remember people because I remember my grandmother used to make...

lemon meringue pie for me every time and it was just for me and she would make pie for each of us kids but she would make a lemon meringue pie.

I would always get one every time I would come to her house.

I remember walking in the front door and smelling it, and I must have been eight years old.

The

legacy she left for me was that lemon meringue pie says to me, I love you.

What is it that we're passing on to our friends and our family and our children?

For better or for worse, what you do today

is building your legacy.

I did an interview with the New York Times yesterday.

Oof.

It was in their style sex

section, and it was about watches.

And it was...

It was about...

It turned into time.

He said, why are you fascinated by watches?

And I said, I don't know.

I have three clocks in my kitchen.

There's something about time and always has been with me.

Pat will tell you I'm a freak on clocks.

Maybe because

for some reason, maybe it's my

the legacy of my mother.

She left me suicide.

And maybe it's that that makes me understand and made me understand even at a small age that

life

is short

and life is precious.

I'm going to tell you about a man who was born in 1942

when the world was in the thick of fighting World War II.

He was a teenager when desegregation of American schools was just getting started.

He was in his 20s during the heart of the 1960s civil right movement.

He worked as a foundry worker.

Foundry worker, we don't have foundries really anymore.

Taking metal and melting it down, then pouring that liquid metal into a mold, and it created new shapes, new tools, new parts.

We have 3D printing now.

Boeing just got the FAA to approve the first titanium part for one of their new jet airliners.

It's all 3D printed.

First time.

They said it'll save Boeing $3 million per plane just to have this one part 3D printed.

Foundry workers worked with their hands.

They would pour that liquid metal in and then

they would remove that new shape from the mold and they would sand the rough edges and then they would scrub the molds and prepare for the next batch.

It was hard, honest, and old-fashioned work.

This man raised nine children, had five daughters, four sons.

Wasn't easy.

It's not for any of us, especially when you get a divorce and he had a divorce.

He fixed cars on the side just to help keep food on the table and clothes on the backs of his children.

He was a dad that was there.

One of his daughters, Debbie, said, He always taught her and her sisters that they needed to fend for themselves and not provide not depend on a man to provide for them.

She said he was gentle and sweet.

One of his sons said he was quiet and always respectful.

Eventually, he retired.

His daily trek to the foundry was now replaced with fishing on Lake

cans and turn them in for money.

Debbie said he didn't need the extra money.

He just

something that he did.

He was 74 years old.

His name was Robert Godwin Sr.

He was on one of his long walks.

This last Sunday afternoon, he was carrying a plastic bag.

He held that empty plastic bag up as if it were a shield in the last moment of his life.

I accidentally saw yesterday

his shooting by the quote Facebook killer end quote.

I'll never get that image out of my mind

as he held that empty bag up as a shield and said, No, wait, I don't understand.

He was carrying that plastic bag looking for cans along East 93rd Street in Cleveland,

when what he had left of his life was cruelly stolen from him and his family.

And none of us would ever know his name had it not been for Facebook.

He would have just been another guy and a statistic

on the streets of Cleveland.

The real tragedy of Robert Godwin Sr.

is he wasn't done creating his legacy.

He still had a lot left to give to his family.

He had just left his son's home

to pick up some basketball equipment and take it to one of his other sons on Easter morning.

The opposite of Godwin's legacy is that of his killer.

No real legacy there.

What has he created?

Blame?

Hate?

Selfishness?

Darkness?

Despair?

I would hate to be a member of his family.

The legacy he has left.

Today, I just want you to spend just a couple of minutes today.

At some point in your life, you have a down moment.

Just

think of the legacy that you're creating.

Even small gestures can mean the world to people.

This last Sunday,

Robert Godwin did not, I'm sure he wasn't thinking about what he's leaving behind.

What am I building with my legacy

but he was working on it nonetheless by visiting his son

the hugs that he left his son and his daughter-in-law now mean more

than any of them could have imagined

some good old fashioned work

we are the foundry workers when it be when it comes to our own legacy we're fashioning the molds we're pouring in the liquid metal bit by bit, day by day, and we are shaping that legacy.

One of Robert's daughters, Tanya, said, he taught us about God.

He taught us about love.

He taught us about forgiveness.

Just to know that I'll never hear my father's voice again is devastating.

I want you to hear the legacy that this man left behind

on Anderson Cooper last night.

I wasn't going to ask you this, but since you brought this person up, and I'm not going to use this person's name in front of you, but if this person is out there and they're listening, what do you want them to know?

Obviously, you want them to turn themselves in, but what would you say to them?

I would say turn yourself in.

That would be number one.

I mean, because although, you know, I do believe in forgiveness, I do believe in the law, meaning when you break the law, there's a penalty for breaking the law.

And this man broke the law by taking my father's life.

And so, although I forgive him, there is still a penalty that he must pay for what he did to my dad.

And so, I would want him to turn himself in.

And you know what?

I believe that God would give me the grace to even embrace this man and hug him without anything.

I truly do.

It's just the way my heart is, and it's the right thing to do.

And so,

you know, I just would want him to know that even in his worsted state, that he's loved, you know, by God, that God loves him, even in the bad stuff that he did to my dad, that he's still loved, and that

he has some worthwhile, even though he's going to have to go through many things to get better.

There's worth in him.

And as long as there's life in him, there is hope for him, too.

I do believe that.

that.

Boy,

if that's the legacy I could leave behind,

children

that thought, believed, and behaved like that,

my life would have been well spent.

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North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un

has a diabolical plan, according to CNN.

In case tensions with the U.S.

continue to escalate, they are going to start kidnapping Americans.

Oh, that's going to be...

Oh, that'll function.

That'll be fun.

That'll be work.

Yeah.

So

what happens with three aircraft carrier groups?

you know there's one battle group in the middle terrain mediterranean it's the sixth fleet

that has one carrier if i'm not mistaken so

i don't know if i've ever seen more than one carrier in the entire uh mediterranean maybe two maybe

we have three

I mean, they are signaling that there is a legitimate change in policy.

No, no, they're signaling.

Big time.

They're signaling war is coming.

Well, because they've been saying this, that the policy of strategic patience is over.

In other words, we're going to stop appeasing this guy.

Yeah.

And we're going to put the hammer down.

And

I'm not sure that's the best course of action.

Again, I talked to Alan West yesterday.

He was getting ready to go on Dana's show.

And I talked to him in the green room for a few minutes.

And he said,

you know, he said, Glenn, I know you've been saying it for a long time.

He said, I was saying it under Clinton.

You have to take care of these guys.

You have to, they're going to get nuclear weapons.

And then all the options are bad.

I mean, didn't we say that?

We're headed right now.

We are facing in North Korea what we're going to face with the mullahs in Iran.

Yeah.

Think about that.

What do you think we're going to do when Iran gets nuclear-tipped missiles?

You talk about crazy people.

They're stark-graving nuts.

The mullahs in Iran are just nuts.

That's not a good question.

I will tell you, I'm not sure.

I think this guy is legitimately nuts.

Kim Drugman.

Yes.

Would you agree with that?

Yeah.

I think he's legitimately nuts.

Yeah.

I don't think the mullahs are nuts.

I think they're religious zealots.

Well, yeah, but to the point of being nuts.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like the people who like charm snakes in church are also religious zealots, but maybe nuts.

Well,

well, okay.

Maybe I see see that.

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Can I just, can I, can I just,

may I just,

I don't, I mean, I don't want to, I don't want to sound like this is a good thing

by any stretch of the imagination, but how come we haven't caught this guy yet?

I mean, don't we have all this technology that's been spooking the hell out of my life?

I don't know.

Maybe we don't have the technology we think we have.

We should have been caught a long time ago.

I mean, we are all

spooked by, you know, how the government could just grab you at any time.

They can get your cell phone.

They know where you are every minute of the day.

This guy's uploading videos and like

I'm on Snapchat.

I mean, how do we not find him already?

Yeah, I go back and forth between like the Edward Snowden view of the world, which is they have everything all the time to this where like they, you know, when the most basic things happen, this guy is, how do we get on the phone?

I mean, on 24, we can transfer video to their screen on their cell phone 17 miles away.

We can't find this taken no seriously.

And I mean,

I'm so torn on this because I want this guy caught.

The Cleveland murder.

And I can't believe that we don't have him in custody.

And

I got up this morning and I thought, this guy's, look, I mean, he's not the lead story today.

He's not the lead story today.

And by tomorrow, he certainly is going to be, you know, down.

Does he decide, you know, I got to do something else.

We got to catch this guy before he kills again.

Um, and who knows?

Maybe he already has killed people.

We don't know where he is.

And so I'm, I really want to catch this guy.

And on the other hand, I'm thinking, well, wow, whoo, maybe the technology that the government, we think the government has, they don't have all that because I can't believe we haven't triangulated this guy's position.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, but maybe he's just maybe he's just completely gone off.

If they can turn on your computer in the middle of the night and watch you sleep, you would think they could find this guy.

And he still apparently has his phone because they pinged him in

Pennsylvania.

He's turning off the phone.

Well, what happened to the whole thing of, oh, they can turn your phone's never off.

Yeah.

Well, apparently his is.

You know what I mean?

They know which phone it is.

It's so weird.

It's really strange.

It's really strange.

How do you even drive around these days without them knowing where you are with cameras with your which kind of car what kind of car does he have yeah what kind of car does he have he has a newer car how does they not have how do they not have a tracking in fact he has like a chamaro or something doesn't he a newer or something like that he has a newer car what is fusion who's a forward fusion right oh was it a fusion

Now he owes money on another car that wasn't a fusion.

But fusion, I mean...

It's a lot of technology in the Fusion.

Fusion has, like, doesn't the Fusion have the hard drive for all the music?

I think it does.

And, like, yeah.

You can record your CDs or your

iPod into the car, and then the car just holds your music.

Nice.

I mean, that's really cool.

Yeah, I mean, that has a, you know, wouldn't necessarily get you found unless you played the music really loud.

But still,

but I'm going to say, it's got a lot of technology in it.

They do have it.

I mean, boy, you know, I took

a lot of technology in it.

Yeah,

the Fords of today,

you could take the greatest car from the 70s or 80s and compare it to the crappiest Ford today.

And it's

the new Ford is better than anything else.

Oh, I don't even think you have to go back that far.

You could be in the 90s and easily make that happen.

Yeah.

I mean, you go back to these older cars, which I have one as we were kind of talking about in the break.

You mentioned your MG.

I have an MGB as well.

I just love them.

I bought one because I just loved them when I was a kid.

So I have a, you know, a little, and it's just, you know, it's nothing, it's a 78 MGB.

And it, you know, loved that.

It's just fun.

I just love it.

That was the one I wanted to have.

I had about a 71, and I really wanted to have the hot 78.

It was still used at the time I bought it.

A 78 still would have been used, but that was a great car.

But, you know,

driving that car, you realize how far we've come.

I mean, well, well, wait, wait a minute.

That's English.

No, it was a crafty car even for the time.

It totally sucks.

No, you're right.

It was a crafty car even for the time.

But I mean, just just the basic, I mean, you know, the very basic, like, for example, the car has no air conditioning.

And it's like, I mean,

does that even exist in a car anymore?

It was a soft top.

It's a very good one.

I don't know what a convertible is, but I mean.

That's your air conditioning.

Yeah, I know, but not today.

When I grew up, I want to find a convertible that's being sold today that doesn't have air conditioning in it.

Good luck.

I never thought of it that way.

I mean, like,

these features are, and then add on the technology, obviously, you know, this between the stereo and GPS.

Just the way the the cars run.

Like, just turning the car.

This car has no power steering.

No, it has rack and pinion steering.

Right, I know.

That's what I'm saying.

You don't want power steering.

That rack and pinion was

an upgrade.

At the time, it was the big thing, but now you could, I could drive a car with my pinky.

Rack and pinion steering.

I mean, that was the victim.

Rack and pinion.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Rack and pinion steering, though, I believe, is still the thing for a real sports car.

I'm sure it is.

But I mean, it's not going to be as hard to drive as this thing is.

Like, just doing the little three-point turn I have to do to get it.

I'm possible.

I remember having to crank that steering wheel.

You can drive those days.

If you drive a car from the 1970s, you can skip the gym for sure.

You should drive.

You think that's hard?

You should drive my 1958 Apache truck.

Didn't you get rid of that yet?

No.

No.

My wife gave it to me as a birthday, and it's beautiful.

No, it's really good.

I know.

Absolutely.

You're going to get rid of it.

I i drove it what you want to talk about you know only driven by a little old man who only drove it once it's that i drove it we had to get a i just got it and my daughter get in got into the car hannah and she said dad i i'd love to learn how to drive the truck and i'm like oh come come with me i'm gonna run to the you know walgreens and get something for tanya so um

we're driving down the road i get into the parking lot of the walgreens which is maybe a mile and a half away I'm winded.

I'm like, this is the hardest damn car I have ever.

And I realized why my grandmother never drived.

Never drived.

Never drove.

We had a truck like that.

My grandpa always drove.

My grandmother would not have been able to handle that truck.

I mean, it is tough.

It is a man's truck.

That's why I need to get rid of it.

But I mean, think about that.

Really, the cheapest car that you can lease for a couple hundred bucks a month now has tons of technology in it.

It drives so easily and smoothly, gets decent gas mileage.

Like, I mean, all the things that have been tough for car companies to do this entire time, they all do now.

All of them.

Ikea, you know,

the cheapest cars.

I mean, you talked about South Korea.

I mean, Hyundai used to be a joke.

Oh, it was a joke.

Those cars are really good now.

The Sonata, what is that, $65,000 now?

The Genesis.

The Genesis.

That's right.

Really nice.

But even their lower models are really nice.

They're comfortable.

They ride really smoothly.

They get good gas mileage.

They have pretty good.

It's just weird because my perception of Hyundai is that it's a, you know, it's a crap can.

You know what it is?

Our generation

looks at stuff like Kia's like the generation that we grew up with looked at anything from Japan.

A Toyota.

Yeah.

They looked at Toyotas and went, that's a piece of crap.

It's made in Japan.

And we're like, no, guys, Japan is beating the snot out of us on everything now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's true.

It's true.

I mean, that was really the, you know, every era, I guess, has its,

because it gets built into you.

And over time, even when the product improves, it's impossible to do.

Have you ever noticed, if you've ever driven into, like, if you have a Cadillac, I wonder, you're, because you have a Cadillac, but you have the sports Cadillac.

If you drive in a Cadillac or you drive in a

Mercedes or something like that, the technology in the car, not nearly as good as it is in like a Ford, what with the car, the

Ford Fusion.

And I think it's because the people who can afford to buy a Mercedes, they're not there.

They're old, and so they're not into the technology.

Ford Fusion has to have, because it's your entry car.

So it has to have all of of the technology that everybody would expect.

It's basically an iPhone on wheels.

Like that, that's what the business is.

It really is.

Really is.

Did you hear that Elon Musk said that next year,

this is, and you know what?

Let's talk about this tomorrow.

Write this down because we're out of time here.

Let's talk tomorrow about

the new

Elon Musk Tesla semi-trucks that are coming to the market next year.

That means not only that it will be an electric truck,

but that is the first step towards self-driving semi-trucks.

How many people in the truck driving industry, I want you to tell your trucker friends to call tomorrow.

I want to know what is the union, the truckers union, saying about self-driving semi-trucks?

What are they saying to the workers?

Are you hearing anything among the truck drivers that self-driving semi-trucks are coming in the next five years and you're going to be out of a job?

This is going to be the first massive impact of technology will be the semi-trucks.

Unless the government and the unions get in the way.

And my guess is that's exactly what's going to happen.

The unions will pressure the government and they'll say, you can't just get rid of these.

It's not safe.

It's not this.

It's not that.

And the unions will pressure the government to be able to stop the semi-trucks from being fully automated.

That would stink.

Right?

I mean, that would be.

You're getting the way of progress.

You're a progressive, really?

Are you?

You're a progressive.

You're getting in the way of progress?

Getting in the way of capitalism and companies making money.

Yeah,

but

if we can automate the highways, think of how many lives we'll save.

Think how your products will be moved faster and better.

You don't have to stop, pull off on the side of the road and stop.

Think of the time

of getting a product from one place to another.

I mean,

they don't stop.

Truckers are getting on their CBs right now and talking about it.

They're talking about breaker one eight.

Their CBs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They're talking about, we got to be here,

good buddy, on the show tomorrow.

All right.

On the show tomorrow.

Make sure you're going to be a little bit more convoy to the

bank.

Make sure you, because I really like to hear from truck drivers on what you're hearing.

Globally.

The pigben, you want to back that thing up?

Globally, 1.3 million people die in car crashes every year.

1.3 million people.

What is it, like 56,000 in the United States alone?

Tens of thousands, yeah.

37,000 in road crashes in the United States.

I mean, those are numbers that actually, with technology, could solve at least 90% of the problems.

But you know what I heard from a, I read an article from somebody in Washington.

And that wasn't enough, right?

According to that article, it was a lot of fun.

In Washington, it was a person in Congress who said, if we can only save one, if we can only save four out of every five people, is that enough?

And what happened to if you saved one life?

Isn't it worth doing?

Right.

That's what we all do.

This is if we can only save four out of every five.

Is it enough?

But I mean, if you see, there are dangers to automated cars.

I mean, if you look at the documentary, The Fate of the Furious, in which Charlize Theron actually controlled with an iPad all the cars in New York City had them crashing out of garages onto people.

People were being tagged by the cars.

Guys, that's not a documentary.

No, I saw it.

No, it's not a.

I'll explain it later.

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Again, we're just talking about, you know, what happens, you know, you get these self-driving trucks out and somebody hacks into them and, you know, they mow down a lot of people.

It'll be like what's happening now with Facebook.

Here's almost 2 billion Facebook users.

They've had a murder and everybody's saying this could be the end of Facebook Live.

2 billion users

and one

has done this.

They've had well they've had a few they've had a few incidents they've had a few incidents um yeah they've had some suicides they've had some rapes they had some really bad stuff happen but again it's two

billion i was just looking at some sites rundown of it it was probably it was less than 10 instances right so put that in two billion people less than 10 that's better than any medication that you buy over the counter that everybody trusts and by the way uh facebook had absolutely nothing to do with it nothing and it wasn't even on facebook Live, even though everyone keeps saying it was Facebook Live, which it wasn't.

He just uploaded a video.

I mean, there's no.

How can you ever stop that?

I mean, you have to do it.

You can't.

It's too bad.

You can kill video on Facebook.

Some side effects.

The side effects of Facebook with this are in the.000 percentage.

I mean,

it's one of the safest things out there.

And yet everybody's freaking out.

It was a bad thing, but one guy out of two billion.

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The accused Facebook killer, Steve Stevens.

Do we have to call him the accused Facebook?

I mean, how about not calling him the Facebook killer?

It has nothing to do with Facebook.

He posted a video of it happening.

He's a murderer.

It's got nothing, it's not Facebook's fault.

Jeez.

He faced multiple evictions and financial trouble, and it was his mom's fault, and it's his girlfriend's fault.

And

I don't care, but can we get him off of the street?

Also, yesterday, Trump called Erdogan in Turkey to congratulate him on his contested referendum.

Okay, a couple of things.

We should not be congratulating a dictator on his seizing of additional powers.

But on top of that, I can't take the press saying that Erdogan is now a dictator and he's doing all kinds of things to screw the country of Turkey when Barack Obama said that was his best friend on the world stage, and he had the most in common with Erdogan.

And they praised Erdogan at that time.

Now, suddenly, a phone call saying, Hey, congratulations on the referendum, and Donald Trump is tangling with a wannabe dictator.

I can't take the hypocrisy anymore.

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So yesterday we were talking about survivor.

Gee, who knew that it was even on?

We were talking about survivor and how this one guy was

fired because at the council meeting, the tribe meeting, he said, you know, he was trying to

he was trying to say, this guy's not being honest with us.

And the way he did it, he said, you want to tell him about your sex change?

And he just outed that this person, this guy, was used to be a woman.

Yeah, he asked him,

why haven't you shared that you're transgender?

And

it didn't seem like a big deal on the show, but he was fired back home, I think, from his job in Atlanta.

And

isn't that what you do on those

reality?

There's a couple of things.

There's a couple of things here.

You try to get other people kicked off the island, and he was saying the guy's being dishonest.

Right.

So there's a couple of things

to factor in here.

One, i don't think you out people i mean it's just like you know

you know you're you're doing something and you're what you're gonna out you know you're gonna out me for being a christian are you gonna out me for being gay you're gonna out me for being transgendered that's just not cool however

aren't they both gay yeah well hang on before you get to that um this is a reality show like pat said this is a reality show These don't have rules like that.

And if you're in the closet, probably a bad place to go is a a reality show.

It's a reality show.

Right?

It's going to come out.

Right.

How did the guy

how did the guy find out that he was transgendered?

It was either fed by somebody on the, you know, on the staff and the crew, or it came out in some conversation.

Well, so, okay.

If you don't want to be outed, you probably shouldn't be on a reality show where it's kill or be killed.

The second thing is: is what Pat said: the guy who outed him was gay, which two thoughts on that.

Then you should know how outing is wrong.

I mean, would you have liked it if somebody came over and you know, before you told your parents and everything else, they were like, oh, by the way,

your son is gay.

What?

So he was outed,

but he was outed by a gay guy.

So,

compassion?

Second,

transgender, does this now trump

plain old everyday homosexuality?

Which special interscoop group wins in this particular battle?

For instance, transgenders now beat women.

Women, there's almost no chance of winning against the feminist movement or a women's movement.

It's a bathroom

Except for the bathroom issue.

Now, transgender beat our daughters,

our children, pretty amazing.

And our wives and women.

They don't count for anything up against transgender.

They lose.

However,

if you're a lesbian, we're an NCAA tournament going on.

I know.

If you're a lesbian, I believe you beat transgender.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure anybody beats transgenders right now.

I think so.

I think so.

I've read several articles that lesbian, there's this thing because lesbians are saying,

you're not, I don't remember what it was, you're not real women or whatever.

Something that nobody else could possibly ever see.

It's easy insensitive.

Yes.

And I never see them called on it for it.

Because I feel like still, like, there certainly would never be a law passed right now that gay people couldn't do something like go into whatever bathroom they wanted, right?

Like that would never happen.

However, there are still laws that are passed saying that transgendered people can't go into their chosen bathroom, right?

So I think like, you know, it feels like maybe.

No, I don't think that's true.

I don't think there's a problem.

I don't think society has a problem with a transgender.

You're talking, or is it transgender or transsexual?

What's the difference between transgender and transsexual?

Which one has had the plumbing fixed?

I don't think anybody has a problem if you're having the plumbing fixed.

If you're transsexual, then you've actually had the surgery, right?

Right.

And it's transgender.

I'm just taking the hormones and everything else.

I mean, if you're committed to it, I think that's what I'm saying.

Those who are committed to it, I don't think people actually have a problem, you know, that you've committed.

to

that gender.

I think what America has a problem with is not transgendered people, but perverts, people who are using that to be able to get in,

probably heterosexual perverts.

Yeah.

Just

using the transgender people.

Probably 99% of the time.

Yeah.

Using the law.

And that's what we've said from the beginning was going to be the biggest problem on this.

Because now you've given the out to the heterosexual pervert, which they don't even seem to acknowledge that that's our problem.

They don't even care that that's the issue.

Well, because they say that that never happens and they're dismissing

you're a news denier.

I mean, that's

happened now.

It's happened.

It has happened.

It's happened twice to people on our own staff.

Yeah.

Twice.

I mean, you know, if it's happening in your own circle of friends, you're getting

illegal out.

If

some perv wants to go into the bathroom and oggle women or girls, now they can say, well, I was identifying as a woman.

Right.

Even though I'm wearing women's clothing.

The legal defense, right?

I mean, you know, because obviously it is very rare, right?

I mean, like, you're saying, you know, like it's happened a couple of times and it has.

It's not, but it's not.

The vast majority of people who go into bathrooms don't deal with this.

The vast majority of transgendered people who go to, you know, the opposite bathroom of the person.

But the vast majority of people aren't perverts.

Right, exactly.

Like, so this comes down to when someone who has a

current company accepted.

Yeah, good.

When you have a Jeffy who uses this as an excuse, do they have a legal basis that you, by the way, can even question?

I mean, if someone comes in here and says, someone goes to court and says, I am transgendered, I was in the opposite bathroom, can you even try to say, no, you're not?

No.

I don't think you can even do that.

Was it Dave Chappelle?

Do you have that Dave Chappelle cut?

There's that Dave Chappelle where he talks about,

how's the African-American losing here?

They are.

Yeah, he's like, we've lost our place.

I mean, we've struggled forever and ever and ever.

And now, where are we?

And he's not the only comedian.

Who's the other comedian?

Yeah, I mean,

Patton Oswalt did something kind of on this where, you know, again, these are not conservatives.

These are liberals who are like, wait a minute, guys.

So was, what's his name, Louis C.K.

Here's here's Dave Chappelle on this

on the gay movement.

Right now, I don't think it's sounding that loud.

I think it would be louder a little better.

Well, he's got a very quiet voice.

I don't know if you've ever seen him live, but he's very, very, very quiet.

I get it, though.

I understand why gay people are mad, and I empathize.

You know what?

I'm just telling you this as a black dude.

I support your movement, but if you want to take some advice from a Negro, pace yourself.

These things take a while.

Just because they passed the law doesn't mean they're going to like it.

Brown versus Board of Education was in 1955.

Somebody called me in traffic last Wednesday.

So long, it takes a minute.

He's really funny.

He is.

He's really funny.

He's really genius.

So we have a bunch of clips here of comedians.

I'm going to just take a quick break here with Mr.

Pat Gray to make sure that he has the most updated emails.

You're saying that maybe there's an F-word or two.

I'm saying we need to be careful to make sure you're playing.

We'll take a quick break here, and then we'll make sure that we

have rinsed out their mouths.

You're listening to the Glen Beck program.

Mercury.

This is the Glen Beck Program.

Welcome to the program.

So, you know, we're talking about

political correctness and

who's at the top of the food chain.

Used to be white males.

That's long gone.

You're at the bottom of the food chain.

You're at the the very bottom.

Very bottom.

Very bottom.

Long ago.

Then it was females, but females are no longer at the top.

Then it was homosexuals.

Homosexuals are not at the top.

It might be transgender, but I don't think so.

Who's at the top of the female?

It's not the African-American anymore, as you just heard from Dave Chappelle.

Yeah.

Now, listen, we've got about four comedians that are right now

out

who are not conservative.

At all.

At all.

exact opposite play this play this cutscene

could not be a more committed progressive feminist pro-gay pro transgender person

but I cannot keep up with the glossary of correct terms

I'm trying I want to help but holy

they change it's like a secret club password they change it every week and then you're in trouble that's not the word we use.

Just, it was last week.

I have hemorrhoids, my ass is falling out.

I want to help.

I know I'm an old cis white,

but don't give me shit because I didn't know the right term.

RuPaul, RuPaul got into shit for saying tranny.

Ru

Paul,

RuPaul, who she laid down on the barbed wire of discrimination throughout the 70s and 80s, so this new generation could run across her back and yell at her for saying Tranny.

So that is a fact.

I mean, that's amazing that, you know,

progressive

comedians are even noticing how far this has come.

And they're not going to agree with the conservative audience on the points behind it, but that's kind of the issue here is you're even taking your own allies and people want who are rooting for you and want you to get everything that you want and they say you're still torturing them over these things same comedian patton oswald was it his nephew that's gay i think that came to him and was talking about how bad things were

yeah came out of the closet told his parents parents went duh now he's he's happy he's married he's happy running a business but he has a nephew who goes to his old high school.

And so he's really protective of this kid because his nephew is openly, proudly, defiantly gay, going to high school.

And my friend is like, if anyone gives him, I will burn that

town through the ground.

He's so protective.

And I get it.

So he went back for Thanksgiving and he's talking to his nephew.

And he goes, everything okay at that school?

You know, I went there.

I didn't have the best time.

If you ever want to like talk to me about it, how are things?

Are they oppressive?

Are they mean?

And his nephew started choking up and said,

yeah, you know,

it's pretty rough there, you know.

They're still really oppressive, and

it's pretty harsh.

And my friend, the way he put it to me was,

my inner Liam Neeson woke up.

He was just like, he was thinking, like, give me a name.

Like, he just wanted to

wipe out this.

But he kept his cool, and he was like, well, just let's talk about it.

What's going on?

Like, how, what are they doing to you?

And his nephew said,

well, you know, for instance,

my gay, lesbian, transgender club at school, we wanted to have our prom the same night as the straight kids' prom, and they're going to make us wait two weeks to have it.

So it's just really oppressive, you know?

And my friend had to stop himself from saying, you need to shut the f up because

I don't think you know what oppressive means.

How true is that?

Oh, man.

I mean, because you know,

there was no gay and lesbian club.

Right.

My uncle went there.

There was no gay and lesbian prom.

The fact that you had to hold it on a different day, that actually seems more special.

Like you got your own day.

It's amazing to see that happening in, you know, in that, in the world of, you know, pop culture.

i mean comedians who who are you know and comedians lead the way and they're the ones that will constantly walk over lines that the rest of society has drawn uh you know they and they've done this forever they did it with religion back in the day and they didn't do this before they didn't they weren't ever making these kinds of points in the last 20 years

They were not making the, hey, hey, get control.

They were not making those points.

They were making the point of, we've got to move forward.

We've got to progress.

Look at these hicks.

Look at these hicks that are stopping.

And they still make those points.

There's no doubt.

But I mean, this is, you're right.

It's the opposite.

It's like, wait a minute.

You know, like, I mean, we're trying to help you.

And still, you're torturing us over these things.

I mean, that RuPaul point is amazing.

That sure is.

I mean, I don't remember that story, but I mean, if RuPaul is getting heat for not being transgender friendly enough, you might be going too far here.

You might be over a line.

Well,

if you want to be a hate monger like that, Stu,

then you can hate all you want.

The rest of us know.

The rest of us.

The rest of us.

The rest of us know.

Yeah, the rest of us know.

The enlightened ones.

The enlightened ones.

But the Chappelle thing is new.

Patton Oswalt's within the last.

I know there's a Lewis C.K.

thing, too.

There's also Jim Norton.

Do we have a Jim Norton clip as well?

His latest Netflix special has.

I hope they edited this one.

Jim Norton can.

Yeah, he can get it.

If they didn't edit this, I just want to say goodbye now.

Yeah, no, no.

So, stations out here.

Thank you for the time spent listening to us and all of your support over the years.

We do have a delay built in.

So if anything happens, you'll be fine.

Here we go.

But it's so funny.

The whole country is like trans crazy, and we're really obsessed with it.

And it's so funny how when the new thing happens or becomes in the lexicon, you can't joke about it on TV.

Like I tried to do a Caitlin Jenner joke on the network.

network.

It's like, oh, no transitioning joke.

I'm like, well, it's not even a mean joke.

And they're like, yeah, but we just don't like it.

They've been marginalized.

I'm like, look, just because you've been marginalized doesn't mean that you're removed from the humor spectrum like everybody else.

Like, it wasn't even a mean joke.

Like, first of all, the network canceled her reality show.

How is your reality show?

When you were on a ladies' box, you're now a woman, you are a Kardashian, you've killed somebody driving, and the network goes, it's boring, there's just nothing happening.

And I think Hollywood means well.

I think their hearts are in the right place.

But it's a little bit phony.

Some of it is just a little bit vague.

Because you know how they can't talk about Caitlin without saying how beautiful she is?

Have you seen how beautiful Caitlin is?

No.

She looks like the gypsy from Finner.

Oh, my God.

He's awesome.

But I mean, that, look, I mean, that's what three big comedians.

You also mentioned Louis C.K.

We may be providing that clip for tomorrow or something, but it's like it's a bizarre trend, right?

It's strange to hear.

It shows that perhaps the PC pendulum is swinging back closer to the,

you know, let's have common sense and being able to laugh at ourselves and each other just a little bit here.

No execution for words.

Safe zones are ridiculous.

Back in a minute.

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Have you guys seen the Dave Chappelle comedy specials on Netflix?

No, not yet.

Oh my gosh, they're funny.

I, you know, I watch them begrudgingly almost.

I mean,

I'm not a Dave Chappelle fan.

Back in the day, I saw some stuff, thought it was funny, seen some clips that I thought were funny.

I am a huge Jim Gaffigan fan.

I think Jim Gaffigan is just brilliant.

I watched the Dave Chappelle special on Netflix, and there is something about that guy that

he is a master of comedy.

He is,

he walks with this way.

I mean, just the, I don't know even what it is, but he just,

you can, I think he's the best comedian alive today.

He may very well be.

I mean, I saw him live a couple of years ago after, like, it was when he was first coming out of his sort of extended silence after he left.

And

I went there again, same thing, but begrudgingly, not really thinking much of him.

I wasn't a huge Chappelle show fan.

I mean, there's funny moments,

but he just owns the room.

He owns it.

I mean, like, you saw him two years ago?

Yeah, probably about two years ago.

He just commands your attention in a weird sort of way.

Yeah, it's a weird.

And I didn't know if it was because I hadn't hadn't seen him for, what, 10 years?

When did he disappear?

I think it was around 2006 when he quit the Chappelle show.

And then went off and went to like Africa or someplace.

Yeah.

Tour of the world.

Right.

So

maybe it's that mystique that he didn't want the money so much.

He didn't need the fame so much.

He was like, I know, I don't want to be that guy.

That he's, you just know he's speaking from a place of truth, his truth at least.

And

he's just, I mean, and he's saying things that you just haven't heard.

I mean, when you got a black guy on stage defending the cops,

that's risky in comedy.

That's risky.

That's the difference.

So many comedians will spend so much of their time figuring out some new way to attack religion, for example.

And it's like...

You're going to beat George Carlin?

You're never going to beat George Carlin at that game.

That was something that was edgy at one time, right?

Like there was a time in our history in which it was hard to push back against religion.

That time is long past.

If you don't have just heard it, that's really difficult.

It's what comedy should do.

If you don't have the audience, if you don't, if a comedian doesn't say, oh, come on, at least once, come on, you know that's true.

Right.

It should offend you.

It should push your audience.

It should push.

That's what good comedy does.

I mean, Louis C.K.

does that all the time.

He constantly has those moments where the crowd groans and isn't sure whether they're allowed to laugh.

even though they know it's funny.

They don't feel comfortable actually laughing.

That should happen every time you go to a comedy show.

Look what Chappelle was willing to say in 2004 when he was doing a stand-up performance in Sacramento, California, and people kept shouting his catchphrase, his Rick James catchphrase from the show.

Which was what?

I'm Rick James, bitch.

Okay.

And so

he got frustrated and he left the stage.

And then a few minutes later, he came back and he said to the audience, you know why my show is good?

Because the network officials say, you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing.

And every day I fight for you.

I tell them how smart you are.

Turns out, I was wrong.

You people are stupid.

Wow.

That's brilliant.

That's brave and it's brilliant.

Really funny.

Name the comedian.

Name the George Carlin of today.

I think it could be Chappelle.

Yeah.

Yeah, probably is.

And really well thought out.

Because Carlin did the same thing.

Like you obviously Carlin was not conservative, but I mean you'd listen to him at times and you'd say like wow that really like even though

you know if you're a liberal you could like it if you're a conservative you could like

you could be a

real religious person and listen to him on God and laugh all the way through.

Louis C.K.

is definitely in that conversation as well.

I mean, you know.

Have you guys seen Mike Bariglia?

Oh, yeah.

He's great.

I mean, totally different style.

Totally different style.

I think he's one of the most brilliant storytellers.

I mean, he is.

Have you seen him, Pat?

No, I don't know who that is.

Oh, look up.

There's a Netflix special.

There's several of them on Mike Berbiglia.

One is Thank God for Jokes, I think is his latest one.

And he tells stories.

And so he starts out, and it's just like a running monologue with the audience.

And he just starts to tell stories about his life or whatever.

And it all ties in and wraps up at the end.

It's really well crafted, really well crafted.

He's great.

I mean, Gaffigan's great too, in a different style.

Gaffigan is the quintessential

comedian for these times.

He doesn't offend anyone.

He just doesn't offend anyone.

And that's like, I feel like that's a,

while I think largely true, except for maybe the makers of Hot Pockets who are frequently offended by his comedy routine, I think it almost feels fat, pasty white people.

When you say something like that, it almost feels like.

Here's a guy who's just, he's just saying some honest things and he's getting along with everybody.

That's not it at all.

He's an incredibly talented comedian.

He just talks about things that everyone can relate to.

It's a lot harder to be funny without the F-word.

Oh, yeah.

And without being

throwing hard,

throwing people under the bus can be really, really funny.

He never, he throws himself,

you know, on the tracks every time.

And so there's no malice to what he does.

And Jeff Foxworthy does that forever, right?

I mean, Ron White, Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable guy.

That's what those guys do.

Yeah.

That's the Jeffy School of Comedy right there.

I love those guys.

And we like go.

We've had them on.

I love those guys.

But like, it's a little, it's totally different styles.

Well, that's what's great about it, though, right?

I mean, you know, you watched the Jim Gaffigan show that he had for a couple of seasons.

He tried to watch that with the kids.

Boy, don't do that.

It's not.

And it's a little edgier.

Yeah.

However, really funny.

And he quit that show legitimately.

And

this excuse is never real.

But with Jim Gaffigan, it was to actually be with his family because he was spending too much time on it.

The show, they wanted the show back desperately.

It was really funny.

Is he back as the colonel now?

In that

five buck for five meals?

I thought he was crazy.

I think it's the best.

It's better to be the colonel.

They wouldn't let me be the colonel.

I want to be the colonel.

You'd be a great colonel.

You're already the great colonel.

I already have the hair for it.

I look like I've been around buckets of chicken.

You could be a great colonel.

Have you thrown your name into the mix?

I have not.

Come on.

And you look like you've been preparing for the role for quite some time.

I have been.

I have been.

I'm throwing Glenn Beck into the mix right now.

I'm going to go

right now.

Try my chicken.

And you don't have to sell anything like him either.

I don't think he actually.

We should cut our own Kentucky fried chicken with me as the colonel and just.

put it out there.

Right.

Just show them what they're missing.

Show them what you're missing.

And then maybe they'll jump on.

You could have some of that.

You could have some of that, KFC.

I mean, it seems like a good idea.

It does, doesn't it?

It does.

It does.

You is the herbal.

I could see it.

I could

see it.

I'm just saying.

That's a weird ad campaign.

Very unique because they keep...

changing.

Like every few months, they change who impersonates him.

And it's really not an impersonation either.

It's just dressing up in the outfit.

They're not even trying to sound like him.

It's kind of weird.

So it's a weird presentation.

It's kind of a parody of the character.

I guess.

Yeah.

It's strange, though, that his family's okay with that.

Yeah.

I don't know.

The Colonel's family?

I don't think the Colonel's family has been involved with KFC in forever.

Maybe not.

Maybe not.

I mean, you know how that guy started?

Do you guys know the story of KFC?

He's out of his trunk, right?

Yeah, to the back of the

trunk of his car.

I lived in Louisville where I passed the place on the highway all the time where he just, you know, on weekends, he'd just have

his big, I don't know, Cadillac or something, and he just opened up the pack.

And Dave Thomas was

one of the first guys that I think agreed to use his recipe.

That's why he and Dave Thomas of Wendy's were pretty close.

Dave Thomas was the one that talked him into being the colonel and promote his own project.

Yeah, Thomas helped him out.

Maybe Thomas worked for him.

There was an interesting tie there somewhere.

I'd have to bone up on it again.

But you know where the first Kentucky Fried Chicken was?

Alaska.

No.

Wasilla, Alaska.

I'll be disappointed if it's any place in the United States.

It actually is in the United States.

I'm disappointed.

You're disappointed.

It's in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Really?

Yeah.

Get out of town.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Why?

Why?

Isn't that fascinating?

No.

Okay.

Why was it there?

You would think it would be in Kentucky.

Yeah, it's Kentucky Fried Chicken, right?

That was the first thing that popped in my mind.

Yeah, it would be somewhere else.

It was named Kentucky Fried Chicken.

And it would have been boring if that would have been the answer.

Right, right.

Not quite as boring as Salt Lake City, but still right.

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You know, we're just talking about when did 24 end?

Last night.

Last night.

Last night was the final episode.

There were 12 episodes.

So they should have called it 12.

Yeah, they should have called it 12.

With about 10 minutes left in the hour, they go to commercial breaking and come back, and they start with the clock like they always do.

And then it says 12 hours later, and the clock speeds up really fast.

Bing, ding, bing, bing, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, bing.

12 hours later.

And then they just finished up the show.

That sucks.

Really weird.

Cheap.

So

did it did did it was it good?

Yeah, I mean, it was pretty good.

It was as good as you could probably expect without Kiefer Sutherland on it.

You know, without Jack Bauer, do you have 24?

I didn't think so, but I

watched it every week.

And it was good?

It was pretty good.

Yeah.

The ratings weren't that great.

Super Bowl Sunday was when it debuted, right?

Yeah, for the Super Bowl Sunday.

You watch television with commercials.

Well, I don't.

I tape it.

I record it and then watch it later.

But the first episode had $17,500,000.

The second episode, $6,225,000.

It ended up with 3.1.

But the first one was post-Super Bowl, right?

Yeah, but going from 6 to 3 is 2.

Still, it hemorrhaged viewers the whole time.

And I don't know.

Maybe people just didn't accept it without Jack Bauer.

That's just not telling me.

I mean, man, I don't know the last time.

You're only not interested?

I'm not interested at all.

The only thing on television that we watch is HGTV.

That's it.

It does not, the television does not switch from that unless it's news.

Really?

Yeah.

I don't know what we watched on the news.

Maybe history channels.

We also watch history channels.

I mean, if you want to watch something, just DVR it and watch it when you have to.

You know, on your time.

Yeah, but I mean, HGTV, I'll come home and the, you know, TV will be on and it'll be HGTV and everybody will be, you know, they'll be in the kitchen or something and then they'll say, okay, you ready to see your new house?

And then they'll come around the corner of the refrigerator and they'll be like, ah.

So you don't have anything.

That color stinks in that house, huh?

Oh, you should have seen it before.

It looks really, it's a lot different.

Really?

So you don't watch any current shows that are like currently coming out with like new episodes.

24 was the only one I've watched.

No, I don't watch anything.

But you watch a lot of Netflix, right?

I watch Netflix.

Like House of Cards, when that comes out, I will

watch that.

But I'm not watching it on TV.

Right.

I mean, we've watched a lot of things that are broadcast on television, but it's DVR.

Did you guys see The Wizard of Oz?

The Wizard of Oz on NBC?

Definitely not.

No.

It was actually really good.

It had Vincent DiNofrio in it.

Was it a different story?

It was.

It was.

No, it is.

It's a completely different story.

Yeah,

nothing based on the Wizard of Oz is interesting to me at all.

The Wiz?

Wasn't The Wiz something?

Yes, it was.

Michael Jackson.

As genius.

It was genius.

I thought it was actually pretty good.

I mean,

it was.

The whiz was great.

The whiz was awful.

Or famously awful, right?

Oh, the whiz.

It's always

on you in Philadelphia did something based on the whiz in this past season, which, again, is one of the few shows I do watch on television.

And it was, first of all, tremendous.

But second of all, I didn't know any of the references.

I'm like, what?

The whiz?

Am I supposed to be so in tune with the whiz that I'm going to get all these jokes?

I did not have to.

Wasn't Diana Ross and Michael Jackson in it?

Yes, so weird.

Yeah, I don't know which one played Dorothy.

I don't either.

That's a fun question.

I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know.

All right, all right.

How did you not get a Michael Jackson on the path there?

I don't even understand.

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10 Ways North Koreans Use Technology Differently Than Other Countries.

Here's the first one.

Almost no one uses the internet.

I mean, that's not using it differently.

That's not using it.

North Korea banned Facebook, but has built a clone.

Well, Facebook is

banned.

The regime seems to like the concept.

Country built a clone, which was discovered by DIN networks.

The clone was fully functional, allowing users to sign up via email and post messages on each other's wall.

It isn't clear whether the clone went on to attract more users in North Korea after the hack or not.

I mean,

what are you going to say in a communist country?

What are you going to say

with a clone of Facebook?

You feeling comfortable with that?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm not too.

You know, I just don't like these new policies.

I got to say, who's with me?

One in 10 North Koreans has a smartphone.

Again, that's not a way they use technology differently.

They're not using technology.

I mean, if you said they use their smartphones for a spade in their garden, then that's using it differently than us.

They don't have it.

One way they use breathing differently, they're not breathing.

They don't use their lungs.

They can't make any international calls.

Yeah, that's not using it differently.

That's not using technology.

It's not doing it differently.

North Koreans do use PCs.

Do they use them for like a doorstep?

No, listen to that.

That would be using it differently.

Listen to this.

North Koreans do use PCs,

but mostly only the elites.

So this is

not using it differently.

PC access is so restricted that USB sticks are a fashion accessory.

Now, there you go.

That's using it differently.

Okay, so what's a fashion accessory?

The USB sticks.

Oh, wow.

they're like you know i don't know if they're like like a necklace earrings or i don't know what it is nice i'll bet you those look good

oh uh come on now stick around your neck oh man yeah

from your ear

cheap tiny tablets are only for the elite

Some people own TVs, but they can't watch much.

TV ownership is unusual in North Korea.

Boy, can you imagine?

What is this country?

So bad.

If that wall ever comes down?

You're just never going to be able to...

I mean, how are you ever going to be able to

talk to them?

They are in a different world.

They have no idea what's happening

around the country,

around the world.

They have no idea.

Sets are pre-tuned to North Korean stations.

Police visit households that have televisions to check whether the TV settings have been tampered with.

What?

So you can only watch certain things.

Yeah, remember that Gestapo radio that we have in the museum?

Right.

They did the same thing.

Oh, right.

They blocked the BBC, and so this blocks all the Chinese channels, the North or the South Korean channels, so you can't watch anything.

Don't be messing with it.

You imagine living in a place where they could just knock on your door and say, We need to check your TV.

I mean, that's using technology differently.

It is.

People have a choice just between two mobile phone carriers.

I mean,

this is a bad thing.

There are still people saying that the deregulation of the phone industry was bad.

We just had the Ma Bell system.

Yeah, we'd be North Korea.

I've been doing those military parades, too.

Yeah, I know.

I think anybody who has the military parades, if you have, this is a sign that you just need to be annihilated as

a government.

If you have military parades,

big pictures of

your leaders on the sides of buildings,

if your troops march in goose step,

I mean, that's like, I mean, that's the sign that you're

the higher you goose step, the more evil you are.

The more evil you are.

Directly, I saw them on the parade over the weekend, and they're all goose stepping, and I'm like, clearly evil.

These people all should be wiped out.

And then for the first time ever that I've ever seen, Kim Jung-un was wearing an actual suit like we would wear in the West.

No, it was like a

jacket.

It was pretty close.

It was like a Pavarati jacket for thinner people.

Yes, and that's not a good look for him.

No, it's not.

Did you notice his pants are like

navy bell bottoms?

They're not bell bottoms.

If you look at them,

they're like the size of the waist.

Top of the thigh, all the way down.

All the way down.

It's bizarre.

And it looks like it's everything on him looks like you need a tailor.

You don't have a tailor.

He's got such a weird

body shape that I think it's tough to fit him with clothing.

Yeah, that's a good question.

But he's the ruler.

Yeah.

Who was it?

I heard the other day that said he's, I think it was one of you guys say that he's kind of in between of, you know,

you know, being fat and giving up.

Well,

given his life circumstances, right?

Because like Jeffy, for example, might be a little

overweight.

However, he is limited by his circumstances.

Athletically overweight, unlike Kim Jong-un.

No.

But he's limited by a certain person

in that we don't pay him a salary.

He doesn't have any income.

He's basically.

There's not much he can do.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

This is the opposite.

That's what makes you work out.

If you're Kim Jong-un and everybody has to say, oh, dear leader, whew, you are smoking out.

You are sexy.

But this is sexy, then why work out?

Right.

There's no, there's nothing in Kim Jong-un's life that would lead him to be in shape, right?

Oh, so you're saying he should be fatter.

I think he should be fatter because why would you stop at, what is he?

What is he, Jeffy?

350?

You know, with something?

No, he's not.

No, he's only like

tall.

Yeah, he's five.

Yeah, he's probably like

580.

He's probably 80.

Yeah, 280.

At one point, when he had knee surgery and stuff, he probably pushed three.

And there's nothing balloons out there that you can wear when you're built like that, right?

So that's why he does the Nehru.

What is the deal with the Nehru jacket?

He looks like he's the fifth member of Herman's Hermits in the 1960s.

What is the deal with the, seriously, with the, with the, you know, all the Chinese leaders wear that, and it was never a good.

That's a good look.

It was never a good look.

Your comrade did.

Hillary Clinton thinks it's a good look.

She wears it all all the time.

She's the only Western person to wear the Herman's Hermits outfit.

And why doesn't this guy wear the uniform?

I mean, if you're going to be a dictator, his dad did, right?

You got to get yourself a snappy uniform.

Yeah.

I mean, I think honestly, you look because, again, I don't know what the uniform would look like on him.

There's not a lot of military guys that are

overweight.

Garing.

Yes,

I said there's not a lot.

There wasn't one.

There's not a lot.

It's not common.

You can name him because.

I mean, when he was at trial for war crimes, they were looking and going, we can't hang this guy.

No.

How are we going to hang him?

There's no way we can hang him.

We've got to shoot this guy.

He's got the Jeffy problem.

Can you make the argument, though?

Kim Jong-un basically is

basically God.

What he's saying there is,

you're overweight.

That's what he's saying.

Yeah.

Fast.

I understand where it is.

Okay.

All right.

Go ahead and break whatever they use to hang you.

So Kim Jong-un in this country is essentially.

God of them.

Is essentially god right like he rules the country well he claims right he claims to be god yeah right he can do anything he wants if anyone looks at him and says wow he looks like you've put on a few he will murder them right this is his role in this nation for anyone who says anything about him if i was in that position i think he's actually i i would eat anything everything i'd be like job of the hut exhibiting restraint here you'd be job of the hut the fact that he's only 300 pounds is actually pretty impressive uh for him again like he can do anything he he wants.

You get any food he wants.

He can spend anything on food.

No one can say anything bad about him.

Would you say you would live the life of Job of the Hutt?

You'd have somebody on Little Chain in a swimsuit or whatever, and then you would just have people feed you and you'd be like,

Yes, that's what we would all do.

Let's be honest with you.

Yeah, I think we would.

The rest of the world may not, or the population, but the Fort of Allison self-respect would not do that.

No, but we would.

But obviously, we would.

I mean, sure, you'd have moral lines.

I would think probably putting a princess in a neck collar and a bathing suit is probably not the greatest idea there.

But I mean, it's not a good idea.

But how would you know?

Because everybody is telling you that's genius.

Yeah.

It's true.

But I mean, again, like, you get to this point of the food thing.

You'd never stop eating.

You'd never stop.

You would be, my 600-pound life would be like the minor leagues compared to the show you'd be on.

I mean,

no human beings.

That's a good question.

I'm stuck at you wouldn't put the princess in a neck collar.

You've just snuffed your brother out at an airport.

I mean, you're killing everybody who.

I didn't kill his brother at an airport.

No, this guy did.

I mean, you've killed everybody who disagrees with you.

Oh, oh, I'm going to put a princess in a neck collar.

I mean, I think the princess is happier than being killed.

Yeah, that's true.

She actually survived it.

I'm just saying that, you know, there's a lot of of things that Jabba may have

doesn't realize how lucky she has it.

That's exactly right.

As Kim Jong-un is participating in many horrible, horrible things.

But we're just, you know, we are talking a little surface here.

You know, a lot of people are going to go into depth on these issues, and we will not.

We'll stay right on the surface talking about his weight and his dress.

And his haircut.

And his stupid haircut, which is reason enough to go to war with him.

The haircut is so dumb that I think we should actually

this guy has all of the earmarks of a Hitler.

I mean, a bad haircut,

right?

He's got the goose-stepping troops.

Yep, yep.

The beast pictures.

He's got the Doring fans, the giant pictures.

And then they always...

Now, Germany never really did this.

But for some reason, in the Asian countries, the dictators in the Asian countries, they always

have everybody wear like certain color hats or something and that spells something out.

I mean, have you ever noticed that the dictator is always way up?

Everybody else that's watching it is down on the street, but he's up on the big podium, you know, everybody can see him.

He's the only one that gets to see what they're spelling out with their hats.

It's like everybody else in the country have no idea that their hats are certain colors and when they stand together, it spells out, you know, Kim Jong-un, you're the best, or whatever it says.

Usually that, yeah.

Right.

Exactly.

He's the only one that gets to see it.

Nobody else gets to see it.

They're all down on the ground.

Surprisingly, he's the one that matters.

He's the only one.

He doesn't care about anyone else seeing it.

Anybody else needs to see it?

He just needs to know he's the best.

Just put that hat on there.

Get down there and stand where I tell you to stand.

Right.

Bring me some chicken.

The only other people who see it are the drones flying above.

They all see it.

Oh, we could bomb, but you know, he's the best.

So maybe we shouldn't.

Maybe it says, maybe what it says is, Kim Jong-un is not here.

He could be.

It's an interesting life he leads what do you think is going to happen you know did you see oh my gosh there was this agonizing editorial see if i have it agonizing editorial about

um from the new york times today

i i mean you want to talk about your head exploding uh

it was about how donald trump has no

um

here it is

i'll just just make your head explode.

In times of crisis, credibility is an American president's most valuable currency.

It's one thing for a

foreign partner to doubt a president's judgment.

It's entirely more debilitating when a partner doubts the president's words.

Trump confronts twin challenges of North Korea

and Syria, and he must overcome credibility gap of making his own.

Goes on and on and on about how he has no credibility

at all.

Then says President John F.

Kennedy

demonstrated the value of presidential credibility at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis when he sent emissaries to America's allies in October 1962 to secure support for the quarantine of Cuba.

He designated Dean, how do you say his name?

Achson, the former Secretary of State, to deal with Washington's prickliest partner, Charles de Gaulle of France.

When he offered to show de Gaulle the spy plane imagery, de Gaulle threw up his hands and said, I only need the word of the president of the United States.

That's good enough for me.

Every country has a founding mythology.

For American, it starts with our first president's youthful encounter with a cherry tree.

Mr.

Trump would do well to find inspiration in that story.

You ready?

His youthful encounter.

Mr.

Trump is challenged by relationships.

Mr.

Obama released more than 100 detainees from Guantanamo who returned to the battlefield and Democrats made

and that Democrats made up allegations about Russians' efforts to influence the election.

Mr.

Trump's canards risk undermining his ability.

Okay.

I hate it when canards undermine your ability.

So do you notice what he's saying?

This is a guy who used to be in the

State Department for Obama.

He's saying

that

Donald Trump is saying that Obama released 100 detainees from Guantanamo who returned to the battlefield.

Yeah, that was true.

And that

Russians were influencing our election.

Yeah, well, that was true.

He then goes on to say that at least with President

Obama, Putin's propaganda campaign made our job tougher than expected.

But we had one Trump card that usually carried the day.

President Obama had credibility.

Foreign leaders trusted his word, even when they disagreed with his policies.

How many times

did we see that foreign leaders had no respect for President Obama?

And by the way,

he had credibility.

How about the red line in the sand of Syria?

Really?

Well, he did make them pay for crossing the red line.

He drew another one.

I know, I know.

And

here's what the problem is with this show of force in North Korea.

You can't send three aircraft carriers and then turn them around.

But you can.

Well, you can, but you don't.

I mean, you show this kind of force.

Unless it implodes.

You're going to have to make it explode.

You can't marshal your forces like that and then do nothing and just go back to a stalemate.

So, something's going to happen one way or another.

They're saying very specifically, they will no longer continue to stalemate.

Right.

Like, I mean, they're not saying we're going to go to war, but they're saying we're upping the pressure and we're going to change the situation.

No more strategic patience.

We've upped our pressure now.

Up to yours.

That's what we're saying right now.

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Every time I look up at a news channel, I see Mike Pence in South Korea, and I feel good about that.

I mean, I don't know if I would feel good if I were him.

I'd be like, is this a message or something?

Do you not like that?

Why are you sending me to the war zone?

But if this thing comes undone, it may be because of Mike Pence.

He's working overtime.

You're saying in a good way.

In a good way.

Yeah,

he's a very calm, balanced guy

in a crazy world, and it's kind of nice to see.

And that is actually, it's interesting to see what happens with Kirchner and Bannon because Pence is gone.

Because Pence is apparently, it's not a two-pronged war, it's a three-prong war.

And there's some really interesting things happening behind the scenes.

We'll get into that political talk when we come back.

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See that Donald Trump has made millennials more politically active than ever before.

They say

2020, election 2020, is going to be massive one way or another because the millennials

are activated and they don't like what's happening and yada, yada, yada.

Do you believe that?

I mean, if they were activated last time, he would have lost.

They weren't.

If they voted for him like they voted for Obama, Trump would have lost.

But it depends on who the person is running.

I mean, if you don't really, you know, if they go Marxist, if they go Bernie Sanders, you know, that might catch fire and actually win.

Well, rumor is they're going Andrew Cuomo, maybe.

Yeah, that's not true.

I mean, New York.

I mean, please.

Everyone loves Andrew Cuomo.

I mean, everybody's screaming for Andrew Cuomo.

Here's the real problem with America.

Yesterday, now, this is our audience.

This is our audience.

Yesterday, Glennbeck.com, about 6,000 people took this poll while we were on the air yesterday, and it was the tax quiz.

I gave it to you yesterday.

Yep.

The average score, the average score

was 55%.

Wow.

That means those questions were pretty simple.

There were some challenges in there.

There were.

There were 80%.

Average score, 70%.

Yeah.

I can understand.

Not 55%.

No.

How many times did Jeffy take it, though?

At this audience, he has to do it.

If Jeffy took it a couple times, 5500 times.

Okay, well, that's fine.

I mean,

that's incredible to me.

We don't know our own history about things like basic income tax.

By the way, how charitable do you feel today?

I'm crazy charitable today.

That's why I file for an extension to draw the pain out even longer.

You just want to drag it out and just let it needle you and let them add on some fees.

You pretty much do that every year, don't you?

Too many years.

Yeah, a couple of years I've made it on time, but usually something is always going on that's absolutely insane between the beginning of the year and now, and I can never get to it.

So, yet again, another extension.

I've had a lot of them.

And the crazy thing is, he never goes back and files his taxes.

He files for the extension and just never does it.

I heard you got a call from someone in your office that said I hadn't paid taxes in 10 years.

I get it.

And now it's out there, and you should answer for it.

I just did.

But that's a different story.

You know, we were talking about Pence.

You know, I have confidence in Mike Pence.

Yeah.

I mean, I mean, the only thing that gives me, you know, that makes me question Mike Pence is the sometimes the blind following of Donald Trump on things like, you know, the capitalist system, I don't think working.

Okay.

Okay, Mike, what?

Yeah, he said something like the free, well, the free market's been going on for a long time and we're losing.

Yeah.

America's losing.

It's like, wait a minute.

Actually, we're the most powerful country.

This is also part of his gig as vice president, right?

I mean, mean, you know, you excuse that at some level.

Yeah.

You know, Sarah Palin was, you know, gave a lot of things.

Her and McCain disagreed on a lot.

He was a really liked governor, though, wasn't he?

In Indiana?

Yeah, I did.

He did pretty well.

I think so, yeah.

Who's the most popular governor in America?

Okay, so this is incredible, actually.

Let me give you the top 10.

Number 10, Gary Herbert from Utah.

64%.

Number 10.

Number 10.

Wow.

Tied with number 9.

I like Gary.

I don't necessarily like his policy.

I don't know much about it.

Yeah.

But I like him.

He's a nice guy.

There's four governors tied at 64%.

Gary Erbert, Greg Abbott here in Texas.

Greg Abbott is only at 64%.

It's pretty good.

Greg Abbott should be the number one governor in America.

Good for top 10.

That's pretty good.

That is an insult to Greg Abbott.

Tennessee, Bill Haslam, and Nevada's Brian Sandoval, all at 64%.

In sixth place, Arkansas,

Asa Hutchinson, at 67%.

Wait a minute.

So far,

aren't all of these guys are Republican, aren't they?

So far, all Republicans.

Yes, they are.

Fifth place, South Dakota, Dennis Dorgard, another Republican.

60%.

Don't know about it.

Also tied at 68%.

Vermont's Phil Scott,

also a Republican.

In Vermont.

In Vermont.

Kind of interesting.

Number three, North Dakota's Doug Bergum.

At 69%.

Gotta be

a Republican.

Number two, Maryland's Larry Hogan.

Can't be a Republican.

Also a Republican.

He is.

You've got to be kidding me.

73% approval for

Maryland for a Republican.

What has he done?

Wow.

What pack with the devil has he made?

That's amazing, isn't it?

Yeah, that's incredible.

A Republican governor with 73% approval in Maryland.

And nine points higher than Greg Abbott.

Greg Abbott.

That's crazy.

I'm telling you, America,

Greg Abbott is the greatest.

I mean, I'd vote for him in 2020.

I'd I'd vote for him.

I don't think he's running in 2020.

No, he's not.

Against a Republican.

He is likely to be a part of the Republican.

You mean for president?

For president.

He's remarkable.

He's remarkable.

You could remark upon him, yes.

Yes.

And you just did.

You do have the ability to remark upon him.

It's historic.

It happened in history.

Number one, governor of approval rating in America,

Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, 75%.

Holy cow.

A Republican.

A Republican.

Oh, my gosh.

That's the thing.

All of the top 10.

Yeah.

The whole top 10 are all Republicans.

Number one, number two, and number four, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Vermont.

Republicans.

That's crazy.

I mean, look, they might not be as conservative as you might want.

And by the way, number 11 is Nathan Deal from Georgia.

Where do you have to go to get to the first Democrat?

Number 12, New York's Andrew Cuomo at 62%.

I wonder why if that's

it.

That just fits New York.

I mean, you know.

Yeah, obviously, you know, you've got the history there with his father.

Everybody's screaming: if I could just get another New York liberal to choose from.

That was it.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Now, if I could get Donald Trump and the governor of New York, now that's Philip.

Maybe we only allow people from New York to run for president.

Maybe that's a new rule, a constitutional amendment.

How about the bottom 10?

This is kind of interesting.

So, wait, when was this taken?

Very recently, last week it was released.

Is the governor of Alabama

the last one?

I bet not.

I bet not.

Even with that scandal, I bet his approval ratings.

That scandal's been going on a long time ago.

2013 has started, right?

So a long time.

Where is he?

Robert Bentley is who you're referring to.

He has a 44% approval rating, which is not terrible.

Not terrible.

He had his apology written by his mistress.

Yeah, I mean, she was like his chief of staff or whatever.

So she would do stuff for him.

She would have done it.

And a lot of stuff.

I mean, a lot of stuff for the chief of staff you wanted.

She did a lot of stuff for him.

Yeah.

So he's actually in 41st place

at a 49.

Below that.

So there's 49 governors in the poll because Nikki Haley had just left.

So there's no South Carolina poll.

So

interesting one because we were guessing at who would be the top in the other

kind of off the air.

Wisconsin Scott Walker was guessed.

He's actually in 40th.

So he's only one slot away ahead of Alabama's Robert Benlin.

Wow.

It's interesting.

He's at 46, which is not terrible for his blue state.

Scott Walker.

He turned that state's economy around.

How does he have an approval rating so low?

I don't know.

So 41st, Alabama's Robert Henry.

42 is New Mexico's Susanna Martinez, another one who's talked about for VP roles over the years.

Alaska's Bill Walker at 43% is also in 43rd place.

Wow.

I think Alaska's got to be hard because everybody else is like.

They're so cold, they don't even know

what's going on in that.

Do you know?

I mean, what Alaskan wants any government,

right?

Yeah.

Alaskans are like, I want to kill a bear with my bare hands and my boy's teeth.

You want to use your own.

You don't think Texans are like that?

Texans are like that.

No, they used to be.

We have too much California.

Who lives up in Alaska except people who are like,

I want to prove to myself every day that I'm alive.

You're like, okay, all right.

You thought Sarah Palin had a really high approval rating when she

was shooting wolves from a helicopter.

Well, there you go.

Maybe that's the secret.

Right.

Illinois Bruce Rauner, 42%.

Then this one surprised me, actually.

Oklahoma's Mary Fallon at 41%.

I think she sold out on a couple of big things.

Yeah, the Common Core was one of the big things.

She came around on that one, right?

At least a little bit.

Yeah, but nobody believed her.

Yeah.

So she's in 45th out of 49.

46th place, Michigan's Rick Snyder at 40%.

Now, he had the Flint thing going on, and that is where he got some of the blame for that.

That would hurt.

However, you know, Trump won Michigan, and they got a Republican governor, and he still got only a 40% approval rate.

And how do you blame the city's water thing on the governor's house?

You know, I got to tell you,

if you can't, after two years, you can't put the water out.

I mean, it's water.

You use water to put fire out when the water is on fire.

You got to fix that kind of thing.

The water was on fire.

It was that lead in it.

You just got to fix it, kind of fact.

It was a little scary.

So now we come off a cliff because we've gone through the first 46 governors and we're still above 40%.

Now we fall off the cliff.

There are no governors in the 30% approval range.

None.

So you go down to 29% is the next approval range.

And the governor of Alabama is not there.

No,

he's way ahead of 20%.

Who's got that?

Connecticut's Dan Malloy.

Oh, that's 29%.

It's hard to blame Connecticut

on anything other than a hundred years of nasty Democratic corruption, right?

But they have they got their guy, right?

I mean, Malloy is that guy, I know, and they should be thrilled with that because, as a resident of Connecticut for most of my life, I realized that this is what they want with their state.

This is what they choose every time.

And it's hard to remember.

No, no, no, but they think that it's going to end differently every time.

That's the thing.

You talk to them and you're like, no, neighbor, it doesn't work out.

Remember, you've done this for the last 40 years, and it's why we're paying taxes so high, and Bridgeport is turning into North Korea.

I mean, there's a problem here.

Change the way you vote.

And they're like, no, that's just going to know

Democrats are going to be great.

Yeah.

They deserve it.

In second to last place,

Kansas, Sam Brownback, 27%.

Wow.

That one's interesting.

What the hell has happened to Sam Brownback?

We actually did a segment on this on Patton Stew the other day, and it's like,

it doesn't seem to be a real clear answer.

There doesn't seem to be.

There's been some,

you know, he lowered taxes, and they've had some budget issues.

Like, you know,

we

heard that he lowered taxes and then didn't cut spending.

So he only did half of the formula.

And there was an issue there.

And there's a lot of people who are.

We learned that from Calvin Coolidge.

You've got to cut first.

But he was important.

He was a popular guy at one point, a popular senator from there.

And that's really fallen off the rails there.

And it was one of the reasons why they think the most recent replacement for Mike Pompeo, the congressional race, was much closer than it was

in the presidential race.

It was like, what was it, seven points he won by the Republican in a district that was heavily favored for Republicans.

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And nobody has updated it yet.

The Facebook serial killer, or the Facebook killer, is dead.

Self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

Apparently, they found him in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Yes, and they cornered him and he shot himself.

Also, he did not kill Facebook, therefore is not the Facebook killer.

He is actually just a murderer.

And the video was posted there, which has nothing to do with Facebook.

Just thought I'd point that out for the 550th time.

In Erie, Pennsylvania, I mean, that's less than two hours from Cleveland.

Yeah,

yeah, there was reports he was even further away, but in Erie.

And, you know, thank God, because he was obviously an active danger to everyone he was near.

And so that is over.

Thank God.

Thank God.

Any idea?

We don't have anything yet.

Here's I have Steve Stevens, a man who posted the Facebook

video to Facebook showing him fatally shooting an elderly man in Cleveland, was found dead on Tuesday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Stevens was reportedly driving a White Ford fusion, was found dead inside the car Tuesday morning after state troopers followed the car.

Stevens was on the run since Sunday, thought to have been spotted as far away as Philadelphia on Monday.

So there you go.

In fact, Philadelphia, Glenn, happens to be just across the river from the least popular governor in the United States of America to bring him back.

No way.

Yes.

Number 49.

49 of 49 is Chris Christie.

Oh, my God.

Massive failure.

25% approval rating, 71% disapprove.

Wow.

How did that happen?

Was that all Trump?

No, actually, he had really tanked before that.

The Bridgegate thing, probably.

The Bridgegate thing, I would say, is the biggest part of that because he obviously was tied into that.

Bridgegate, and he's Mr.

Climate Change.

Yeah, well, but in New Jersey, I don't think that hurt him that much.

The issue with him was the Bridgegate thing started it, and he had already fallen from his heights at that point.

The Bridgegate thing made it worse.

Then he was so desperate knowing his career was essentially over in New Jersey, that's why he ran for president, a lot of people argue.

And then, of course, it's also why Christie, who is the guy you'd think would not be the one immediately tied to Trump, was one of the first people to endorse him because he kind of saw it as his only way out of the position he was in.

Trump wins, and then he still gets a giant zilch out of the battle.

So that sucks for him.

But 25% last place for Chris Christian.

He's not coming back.

I wouldn't be shocked to see him get some role.

He did have some transition roles with

the Trump administration.

Wouldn't be shocked to see him get something

at some point.

He was very, very loyal to Trump

in the toughest of moments.

I'll tell you, we should look at the policies of the top 10.

They're all Republican, but let's see how conservative they really are.

Let's see what's making them so popular in each of those states

and see if there's a thread, a conservative, a real conservative thread that ties them all together.

I mean, the reason why the Texas government is so popular is it only meets every other year.

And only for a few months, they're never in session.

So everybody's like,

I'm good with F.

Who are they again?

What do they do?

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Mercury.