3/20/17 - Full Show

Speaker 1 This is the Blaze Radio on Demand.

Speaker 2 Well, seemingly

Speaker 7 the big topic over the weekend was Tommy Laren's appearance on The View on Friday, where she announced that she is

Speaker 13 pro-choice,

Speaker 10 which is a massive change for her.

Speaker 16 She said that she couldn't consider herself a conservative who believes in the Constitution

Speaker 2 and be pro-life without being a hypocrite.

Speaker 16 She couldn't see the truth of the Constitution.

Speaker 21 Well, I'm going to do my best to shed some light on that, beginning right now.

Speaker 21 I will be my drum. I have made my choice.
We will overcome.

Speaker 21 Cause we are one.

Speaker 1 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

Speaker 22 This is the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 16 Hello, America. There are two things to discuss on this Tommy Larin

Speaker 23 dust up with The View.

Speaker 24 And one of them is her employment at the Blaze.

Speaker 28 The other is the constitutionality or the constitutional argument for conservatives on pro-life.

Speaker 32 And let's start there.

Speaker 9 First of all, we have a whole bunch of different kinds of people that work here.

Speaker 9 We started the Blaze with a show called The Real News.

Speaker 35 Real News was absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 15 And it was hosted by Amy Holmes, who was openly pro-choice.

Speaker 23 So if you're pro-choice, you can have a job at the Blaze.

Speaker 9 I don't hire people who are sycophants or who have my opinion.

Speaker 15 I try to hire people who have a different opinion because I believe in being intellectually rigorous.

Speaker 39 I don't want straw men.

Speaker 41 I want people to make a real argument on the other side so we can learn from each other and we can grow.

Speaker 30 So let's learn from each other and grow, shall we? What is the constitutional argument for conservatives on life?

Speaker 35 A lot of people will think that this is a new argument, that their founders never really,

Speaker 45 they never discussed this, you know.

Speaker 40 Abortion is a new idea.

Speaker 40 And if it's not abortion, women's rights is a new idea.

Speaker 49 Well, I want you to put women's rights into

Speaker 50 context here.

Speaker 51 Women's rights are important.

Speaker 40 However, they're not the only thing to consider when another person's life is at stake.

Speaker 55 We have to consider the other person's life when it is at stake.

Speaker 44 The founders were really, really clear.

Speaker 40 The preamble of the Constitution clearly states, to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

Speaker 43 Well,

Speaker 17 who Who are our posterity if not our unborn children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, our descendants and future generations.

Speaker 62 That's who the Constitution is securing the blessings of liberty for, not just us.

Speaker 27 The founders wrote endlessly about things that they wanted to change about British common law.

Speaker 65 Comparatively, they didn't talk about abortion often, but they did talk about it.

Speaker 15 And that's because abortion was already illegal under British common law.

Speaker 67 The context of the comments made in the era shows this really clearly.

Speaker 49 James Wilson, one of the only six people who signed both the Declaration and the Constitution, he was also an original judge on the Supreme Court.

Speaker 26 He said, and I quote, human life from its commencement to its close is protected by common law.

Speaker 28 Life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb.

Speaker 49 In other words, as soon as people knew they were pregnant,

Speaker 62 you couldn't do anything.

Speaker 71 As soon as you knew, when it stirred in the womb, now that's something that's when they knew back then.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's when they knew.

Speaker 61 We know almost instantly now.

Speaker 34 Signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Witherspoon, said, quote, some nations have given parents the power of life and death over their children, but here in America, we have denied the power of life and death to parents, end quote.

Speaker 15 State law of Virginia at the time, of Jefferson Jefferson and Madison, laid it out pretty well, quote, but if a woman be with child and any gives her a potion to destroy the child within her, this is murder, for it was not given to her to cure a disease, but unlawfully to destroy the child within her, end quote.

Speaker 35 So I would disagree

Speaker 46 that you're a hypocrite if you want limited government

Speaker 72 and yet you want the government to protect life of the unborn.

Speaker 9 It's very, very clear.

Speaker 60 But it takes intellectual honesty

Speaker 61 and it takes a willingness to actually think these things through and to do more than just read Twitter or Facebook to get your news and your political opinions.

Speaker 17 You actually have to study these things out in your mind, especially at a time period like today.

Speaker 65 Bomb throwing is

Speaker 61 bomb throwing in today's world is dangerous.

Speaker 61 Freedom of speech, it's not free.

Speaker 28 Speech isn't free.

Speaker 45 It comes with a very high price tag.

Speaker 11 First,

Speaker 66 being intellectually honest and intellectually curious.

Speaker 57 Speech is not free.

Speaker 75 It comes with another cost, and usually to the other people at the other end of your argument.

Speaker 27 The pen is mightier than the sword, and it can destroy people

Speaker 80 if your

Speaker 81 aim is clicks, views, and ratings.

Speaker 82 For Tommy, this seems to be a relatively recent change.

Speaker 47 There was a clip done by the Reagan Brigade.

Speaker 73 Listen to this.

Speaker 84 The pro-choicers are supposed to be about rare and state abortions.

Speaker 84 That's how they avoid sounding like straight-up baby killers by acknowledging abortion is not a positive thing and a difficult choice.

Speaker 84 Then we have Lena freaking Dunham out there wishing she could have murdered a fetus, wishing for the option to kill your child.

Speaker 84 Doesn't exactly say much about the cause, her character, or the pro-choice movement. Now, I'm pro-choice, and here's why.
I am a constitutional, you know, someone that loves the Constitution.

Speaker 84 I am someone that's for limited government, and so I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think that the government should decide what women do with their bodies.

Speaker 84 I can sit here and say that as a Republican, and I can say, you know what, I'm for limited government, so stay out of my guns, and you can stay out of my body as well.

Speaker 4 She did a bit last year written by Stu.

Speaker 86 Is this for the Wonderful World of Stu?

Speaker 41 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 8 It was called Mommy's Choice.

Speaker 87 This was mocking a progressive video that came out where the women were saying, I choose, I choose, I choose to do my body what I will. And so this was

Speaker 72 mocking that.

Speaker 54 To

Speaker 15 make the opposite point and make it pretty harshly, here it is.

Speaker 17 You have it?

Speaker 87 It's not just Tommy. It's several women, but Tommy's among them.

Speaker 84 I, I, I, I, am, I am, I am a woman. And I have a choice.
A choice. A choice to work.
A choice to achieve. A choice to succeed.
A choice to fly. To fly.
To fly. A choice to be anything.

Speaker 84 A choice to be anything that I want to be. I, I, I, I am, I, I am a woman.
And I have a choice. I have a choice to be a mother.
I have a choice when it's the morning after.

Speaker 84 I have a choice at one month. I have a choice at three months.
I have a choice in the second trimester. I have a choice three seconds before birth.
Or three seconds after birth.

Speaker 84 I have a choice the first year when they can't sleep through the night. When they can't sleep through the night.
I definitely have a choice during the terrible twos. During the terrible twos.

Speaker 84 I have a choice when I get sick of little league and soccer practice. I hate soccer.
I have a choice. I have a choice when they hit those awkward teen years.

Speaker 84 I have a choice when they go off to college. I have a choice on their wedding day.

Speaker 80 Their wedding day.

Speaker 84 I have two choices when I become a grandmother. I'm a mother.
I am a mother. I am a mother.
And every mother has a right to choose their child's expiration date.

Speaker 90 No mother.

Speaker 84 No mother should have to unwillingly suffer. Suffer.
Suffer through a day where their child is alive. Not one single day.
If I want them gone, they're they're gone. They're gone.
It's all about women.

Speaker 84 It's all about choice. Choice.
Choice. It's all about me.
It's all about me.

Speaker 88 Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.

Speaker 84 Join the movement. Join the movement.
Join the movement.

Speaker 91 Hashtag, hashtag mommy's choice.

Speaker 87 And that's especially funny when you know the style of the liberal spot.

Speaker 92 The problem here is with all of society, too much is about me, me, me, me, me, me,

Speaker 85 me.

Speaker 47 The blaze cannot be about me, me, me, me, me.

Speaker 47 Media should not be about me, me, me, me, me.

Speaker 40 It's no secret that Tommy and I don't agree on

Speaker 23 quite a lot.

Speaker 72 But that is

Speaker 15 about personalities.

Speaker 56 The ideas are what are important.

Speaker 66 And if you cannot defend the idea, no matter which side you're on,

Speaker 78 if you can't defend the idea,

Speaker 53 that leads to the second part of the discussion,

Speaker 30 which is the people calling for Tommy to be fired.

Speaker 40 That's not for you to call.

Speaker 82 That's not appropriate

Speaker 63 to be discussed on the radio.

Speaker 15 That's in the privacy of the office

Speaker 53 of the Blaze.

Speaker 68 The thing I wanted to do today is defend life

Speaker 97 because instead of being about people or events, I'd rather be about the big ideas.

Speaker 36 Dana Lash is going to join us next.

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Speaker 102 This is

Speaker 103 the Glen Peck Program.

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Speaker 103 This is the Glen Beck Program.

Speaker 16 Dana Lash joins us now. Hello, Dana.

Speaker 25 Hey, Glenn.

Speaker 30 Do women have the right to abort their children in the terrible twos?

Speaker 41 I'm just

Speaker 41 throwing that out there.

Speaker 106 I mean, do other women have the right to abort women that whine too much?

Speaker 73 I mean, that's the complex question that we should ask.

Speaker 106 It goes all ages.

Speaker 18 How are you doing, Dana?

Speaker 106 I'm doing well. I'm actually, I'm going to be doing some tactical training, so I'm going to go blow some stuff up later.

Speaker 85 So I feel like you're going to be able to do that.

Speaker 104 You are, man.

Speaker 54 You are.

Speaker 87 You are more macho than we are, that's for sure.

Speaker 61 I mean, that's not saying very much, you know.

Speaker 52 No.

Speaker 80 But see last week's monologue about the opera.

Speaker 107 If you'd like to

Speaker 80 investigate that one.

Speaker 108 So she's blowing stuff up.

Speaker 109 And and

Speaker 46 going to the opera

Speaker 21 anyway butterfly

Speaker 110 anyway uh uh dana let's just talk let's talk about the uh underpinnings of the constitution for life are you would you be a hypocrite and i know tommy you know didn't call people hypocrites she said she would be a hypocrite if she do you believe that

Speaker 106 Well,

Speaker 106 I don't want to get into what other people say and where other people stand because people are going to do them. I'm going to keep doing me.

Speaker 106 And the position that I've always held as a limited government conservative is that it's completely not hypocritical because you cannot, you simply cannot enjoy the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness without first having the right to life because everything else hinges on your right to exist.

Speaker 106 And that's how it always is then.

Speaker 106 You don't have the right to have the pursuit of anything if you can't live first. And it's not, I think it's a cop-out.
When people say that it's a purity test, you know what?

Speaker 106 Yes, life should be a purity test. And I think it's a cowardly position for people who lack the courage of their own convictions and they publicly hold that position.

Speaker 85 That's what I think it is.

Speaker 17 We are, I mean, you know, I was talking off air this morning.

Speaker 28 You have to start with, is it life?

Speaker 17 And the founders knew the moment it stirs, so the moment you know it's up, you're pregnant, the moment it stirs,

Speaker 35 called the, I believe that they used to call that the quickening,

Speaker 69 then it was a child.

Speaker 58 We're trying to go

Speaker 69 scientifically in this scientific age, we're trying to deny it's a child by denying people the right to an ultrasound.

Speaker 86 It's really crazy to think how anti-science we have become.

Speaker 69 But you have to decide whether that's a child or not.

Speaker 25 Once you decide, yes, it is a child, there is no right that anyone would have to take another's life.

Speaker 106 No, I agree with that. It's science.
We should be the people, the party, the tent of science. And we all know how birds are disease.

Speaker 106 I don't want to give anybody a talk, but we all know how conception takes place. It's a life.
I mean, it's a life once conception is life. That's the bottom line.
Choice occurs before conception.

Speaker 106 If we want to talk about choice, the choice

Speaker 106 occurs before conception. Afterwards, it's not choice.
It's pro-infanticide.

Speaker 106 It should be always,

Speaker 106 that should be our mantra, choice before conception. Afterwards, it's pro-infanticide.
And choice is just a fancy word that people use to hide the fact that it is murder.

Speaker 87 You know, that's what I've always felt too, Dana. But

Speaker 87 from that standpoint,

Speaker 87 in order to be consistent, you'd almost have to say that you're conceding when a woman is raped then,

Speaker 87 that abortion would be legal in the case of rape and incest.

Speaker 89 Aren't you?

Speaker 87 Because her choice was taken away in that case.

Speaker 106 Well, but even then, to use that as a universal measurement, I mean, according to Planned Parenthood's own statistics, and that's from the Guttmacher Institute, it's fewer than 1% of all cases.

Speaker 106 And if people want to have a discussion about the fewer than 1% of all cases to stop the 99% that's being used, elective abortions that's being used as birth control, I think it's a great argument to have.

Speaker 106 But to use it when it's fewer than 1%

Speaker 106 as the universal rule in arguing for legalized infanticides,

Speaker 106 I think it's a disingenuous argument.

Speaker 17 How do you feel, Dana, about

Speaker 31 what's happening to the conservative movement becoming this populist,

Speaker 32 really in some ways, non-intellectual

Speaker 29 kind of movement?

Speaker 106 I think there's industry conservatism, and then there's the actual movement of conservatism.

Speaker 106 I think that the industry attracts people who think that they, and rightfully, you know, they're capitalists. I've got to give them credit.

Speaker 106 I'm always going to trust a capitalist because you know what motivates them but I think that there it looks like an opportunity for people to seize upon and in an era of new media it's great to put out content and it's great to get views for it but at the same time it's still a real movement I like populism in in tiny amounts I don't like a whole lot of populism because I think then it tends to obscure the truth and people look for personalities instead of principle and you always have to fall back on principle because everything else is going to be a flash in the plan but principle is always going to stay and that's something that we should be focusing on as a movement but I look at it and I think that the the right it's a big tent and this is these are the conversations that we're going to have when you have a big tent here's the big problem that I have Glenn and I know that I've spoken with you about this before people use the words like Republican and independent and conservative they use these terms interchangeably because they think incorrectly that they all mean the same thing when they do not and you're going to have pro-choice republicans and atheist Republicans, and you're going to have pro-choice and atheist independents.

Speaker 106 But one of the things that I cannot see and that I do not define conservatism as is as a pro-choice conservative because the basis of conservatism is conserving the liberty of the individual, conserving the individual.

Speaker 106 And it all goes back to the right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. So you cannot, and people, I'm not being a bouncer of conservatism.
I'm pointing to logic.

Speaker 106 And if people want to accuse me of having a purity test, hell yes, by all means, I will always use life as a purity test. And if anyone else doesn't, I pity those people.

Speaker 106 But yes, conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical tocville liberalism.

Speaker 106 And if anybody who knows anything about Politics 101, if they know this, this should not be a surprise to them. This is why political theory in class is important.
This is why history is important.

Speaker 106 This is why learning what these terms mean is important. They are not clickbait sound bites.
They mean something.

Speaker 89 And so, yes, it is just a term.

Speaker 2 I got a run, David. God bless you.

Speaker 111 You're listening to the Glenbeck Program.

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Speaker 46 Hello, America.

Speaker 49 Welcome to the Glen Beck Program. Glad you're here.

Speaker 15 Did you see Jimmy Kimmel and

Speaker 41 Tim Allen

Speaker 39 on Friday, I think it was?

Speaker 56 I saw the interview in a clip, and it was,

Speaker 82 he is funny, just straight out funny.

Speaker 107 Did you see it? Did you see it?

Speaker 41 I see that I watched it. I watched the whole thing.

Speaker 113 It was really funny because he's one of the ones that, you know, he gets away with it.

Speaker 2 He does. He gets away with it.

Speaker 110 So he's still very careful.

Speaker 9 He's still very, very careful.

Speaker 108 Because he explains that he has to be.

Speaker 54 Here, play the short clip.

Speaker 23 Here's the short clip. Listen to this.

Speaker 17 I went to the presidential inauguration.

Speaker 115 I was invited by, we did a VIP thing for the vets and went to the Veterans Ball. And so I went to go see Democrats and Republicans.
Yeah, I went to the inauguration.

Speaker 85 I'm backing you.

Speaker 91 You get missed out.

Speaker 88 I'm not kidding.

Speaker 114 You got to be real careful around here. You know, you get beat up.

Speaker 36 If you don't believe what everybody believes, this is like 30s Germany.

Speaker 85 I don't know what. I don't know what happened.

Speaker 114 If you're not part of the group,

Speaker 117 you know what we believe is right.

Speaker 85 I go, well, I might have a problem with that.

Speaker 115 I'm a comedian. I like going on both sides.

Speaker 76 That's amazing.

Speaker 55 First of all, I mean, he went there. Yeah, he did.

Speaker 17 And

Speaker 31 listen to the way he answered that question right off the bottom.

Speaker 73 I was going there for both.

Speaker 108 Democrats and Republicans.

Speaker 12 That was research. I was doing research.

Speaker 12 I just wanted to go royal. I just was amazed.

Speaker 109 Okay, yes, I whipped. Okay.

Speaker 80 And that show is Last Man Standing, which is his show.

Speaker 81 Yeah. So good.

Speaker 80 It's amazing because we had a lot of people in the audience,

Speaker 80 you know, call us up and email us and tweet us and say, hey, you guys got to watch this show. You're not going to believe it.

Speaker 80 It's actually conservative. It's funny.

Speaker 80 And I remember, you know, you hear a lot of people were, you know, people will say the same thing about the most boring movie that came from some church that is awful.

Speaker 80 So I didn't necessarily take it immediately seriously. And one day I happened to flip on the show.
And it's Tim Allen, so you know it's going to be at least funny.

Speaker 80 And it was as if I was like on vacation in another country and didn't understand the traditions.

Speaker 90 Like it's, it's, it's actually funny and conservative in America on network television.

Speaker 73 Couldn't believe it.

Speaker 22 It's incredible.

Speaker 80 I couldn't believe it. I mean, Sarah, you know what's amazing is it does it.

Speaker 45 You don't hear everybody talking about it.

Speaker 79 We cry and scream and say there's nothing conservative. We can't watch.
Here's the show.

Speaker 49 Now, it's been number one for how long? It was number one for a long, long time.

Speaker 119 Was it not?

Speaker 120 I don't know what the ratings are. I don't know what the hell is that.

Speaker 99 Yeah, I don't get it. It was still

Speaker 73 a great rating.

Speaker 73 This is the sixth or seventh year.

Speaker 41 So, I mean, it's yeah, no, it's had a great run.

Speaker 97 It's had a great run.

Speaker 17 And

Speaker 80 you don't really hear people,

Speaker 3 everybody buzzing about it.

Speaker 52 And it's shocking to watch.

Speaker 80 It is. The episode that I watched was about 10, it seemed like 10 minutes of jokes about Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Speaker 80 And I'm like, what? EPA jokes? What is this show?

Speaker 80 It honestly feels like

Speaker 80 something.

Speaker 80 You watch it and you cannot believe it's on Network Technology.

Speaker 113 It could be one of those shows like the way Tim answers on Kimmel.

Speaker 107 Is like, do you watch Last Man Standing?

Speaker 93 No.

Speaker 99 Right.

Speaker 73 I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 35 Can you

Speaker 29 play the rest of his rant on Jimmy Kimmel?

Speaker 115 Yeah, keep paying for the

Speaker 116 veterans there.

Speaker 40 Have you ever catched that plane twice.

Speaker 85 I'm not saying a problem at all.

Speaker 107 We'll have to work that out.

Speaker 80 Did you hear the story that's worth seeing?

Speaker 35 You'll find it at theblaze.com.

Speaker 80 He made the point about Nazi Germany there in the 30s in Germany.

Speaker 80 And it's funny because that's a point when you make that. You usually get in trouble.
I would not be surprised to see him get

Speaker 80 his wrists slapped for making some comparison like that because these things happen. I don't know.

Speaker 41 It's Tim Alley. Maybe Tim Alley gets away with it.

Speaker 86 I don't know. Maybe he gets away with it.

Speaker 80 I thought this was interesting, though, because this has happened to this program maybe a couple hundred thousand times or so which you know you make a comment about Nazi Germany or make that comparison or say here's the worst example of going down this road or worst case scenario whatever you want to do but I'm the only one I want you to know I'm still the only one that'll make it for both sides yeah right exactly I'm still I'm still you know a fair use of Nazi analogies I use them for both sides you do you are you Republican Democrats

Speaker 80 yeah exactly so uh and it's interesting because we always we've gotten in trouble for so many times and I thought thought this was an interesting story from the Seattle Times that talks about the border wall.

Speaker 80 Now, the border wall is going into effect right now. You know, they're talking about, they're taking solicitations for people who want to be involved building it.

Speaker 80 So, you know, if you're a contractor and you want to be building this, they're getting bids and people, I would like to be involved in this.

Speaker 80 One of the companies they got, it's a Canadian company called Trump Wall Solutions.

Speaker 80 The head of this company, Albert Speer,

Speaker 80 is an interesting character you might recognize from 1930s Germany. It was Hitler's architect.

Speaker 80 So the whole story is about, and I would say a very positive look at the comedians who decided to do this and say, wow, what a great idea.

Speaker 80 They really got Trump, right? Like it's that feel where it's like, wow, these guys are satired a Nazi joke. Right.
And the symbol for their company looks very much like, you know, like a Nazi joke.

Speaker 107 Is that the dollar sign

Speaker 15 or something?

Speaker 27 Yeah, have you seen the one that looks like a dollar sign?

Speaker 80 No.

Speaker 80 Maybe that's it. I can't remember.
I saw it. It has like the German writing, like that German font.
I mean, it looks like Nazi font, right?

Speaker 119 Nazi font.

Speaker 80 Nazi font, which I love. And it's like, it's interesting in that, like, they go through this entire article and it's almost all positive, essentially comparing Donald Trump to Hitler.

Speaker 80 That's what they're doing, right? Good. Now, are they saying he's going to execute millions of Jews? No.

Speaker 80 What they're saying is they think their vision of this is that it's overtly down this fascist road. However, not as far down the fascist road as Avolf Hitler, obviously.

Speaker 80 And they ended it with this, which I thought was, this is going to be my answer to every one of these things. Every time this pops up, I'm going to give this answer.

Speaker 80 Asked whether it's offensive to compare Trump's, because they waited to the last paragraph to put this in. Is it offensive to compare Trump's wall with the genocidal acts of Hitler?

Speaker 80 Now, that would be the only part of this story that even existed if it was someone from our side. But here it is, the last paragraph, and they answer it this way.

Speaker 80 Satire by nature is an extreme statement. The offense should be moderated by the fact that we are pointing to a slippery slope.
Excessive uses of power lead to tyrannical regimes.

Speaker 117 Okay,

Speaker 108 how come that doesn't work for us?

Speaker 80 It should. It sure should.
Because it's true. They're not saying he's going to execute 6 million Jews.
Let's be fair about it.

Speaker 90 They're not saying that.

Speaker 80 Just like we're not saying they're going to kill 6 million Jews when we compare Barack Obama's overreach in government to another tyrannical government that overreached.

Speaker 35 Well, except for Bill Ayers, who the Weather Underground said they would kill 25 million Jews.

Speaker 109 That's a totally different point.

Speaker 73 My point is

Speaker 80 that satire should be. You're right.

Speaker 15 I didn't say 6 million. I said 25 because that's what Bill Ayers said.

Speaker 80 Exactly. But just like that should cover Tim Allen.
And if he does get heat on it, he should just quote that because he says it, and Kimmel laughs.

Speaker 80 Because everyone knows he's not comparing Hollywood to Adolf Hitler. They all know it, yet they look for the outrage anyway.

Speaker 87 There's a great comparison, though, actually, to the 1950s, right? And the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Speaker 87 There's a big-time comparison to be made there, and I'm pretty comfortable with just stating that because that's what they're doing. That's what they're doing.

Speaker 87 They're doing the same thing that happened to the left in the 50s to the right today.

Speaker 80 And more on the internal.

Speaker 75 No, no, no.

Speaker 31 But the right is also doing it to the right today.

Speaker 73 Yeah.

Speaker 72 The right is trying to silence the right.

Speaker 40 You know, I was thinking about this.

Speaker 80 The alt-right is trying to silence the alt-right. There's a four-way breakup in the alt-right that's happening right now, which is amazing in and of itself.

Speaker 15 What's amazing is we're watching happen to the GOP

Speaker 60 what happened to the Democrats back in the 90s.

Speaker 97 Remember when finally all the blue dogs just left and said, you know, there's no place for me in this party anymore.

Speaker 77 And Joe Lieberman went independent.

Speaker 121 Okay.

Speaker 49 What was happening to the Democrats then is what's happening to the GOP now.

Speaker 97 It's deciding whether or not it's going to be a radical

Speaker 64 party one way or another.

Speaker 40 Is it going to be alt-right?

Speaker 34 Is it going to be a nationalist, a populist party? Is it going to be a conservative constitutional party?

Speaker 69 What is it going to be?

Speaker 37 And

Speaker 66 it didn't happen with the Democrats

Speaker 29 at the time of them being out of power.

Speaker 15 It happened when Bill Clinton was in power.

Speaker 15 And the same thing is happening now.

Speaker 40 When Donald Trump is in power, it's starting to

Speaker 77 look at how we were united for eight years.

Speaker 76 And now it's fragment, fragment, fragment, fragment, fragment.

Speaker 39 Everything is fragmenting.

Speaker 15 It's going to decide. It's going to settle at some point and going to decide

Speaker 33 where its real root is.

Speaker 31 And then pieces will come back together.

Speaker 76 I'm just, I'm not sure which pieces are coming.

Speaker 113 He goes on to

Speaker 113 talk about privacy and your security in that interview with Jimmy Kimmel, too.

Speaker 64 It's really good.

Speaker 68 Yeah, you know, it's really interesting.

Speaker 63 Let's see if we can get it on the other side of the break.

Speaker 53 What's really interesting about that is how he phrases it.

Speaker 15 He phrases it in such a way as, you know, I got this crazy friend. Yeah.

Speaker 24 And,

Speaker 17 you know,

Speaker 45 it sounds to me like your crazy friend you agree with.

Speaker 125 But he's not willing to say it.

Speaker 28 He's not willing to say it.

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Speaker 115 This government does stuff big. I've never been anything like that.

Speaker 81 Was it a big deal?

Speaker 115 I mean, just so many people. And when they show up, you know, the ex-president gets in a helicopter and there's jets and Marines taking him this way and other.

Speaker 115 And there's parades, but it looks like a Cadillac parade. Everything was just rows of Cadillacs.
My kids were going, is this the parade?

Speaker 115 It's like black Cadillac after black Cadillac and then a tractor.

Speaker 91 I don't know what was...

Speaker 114 There's no like marching bands.

Speaker 115 I like parades. I used to like parades, which is a funny off story.
I took my little ones.

Speaker 115 I'm not ignorant, but sometimes I play it. We went to see the Santa Monica parade down on Santa Monica Boulevard.
Okay.

Speaker 23 The gay parade.

Speaker 80 Oh, I thought I would, when it wouldn't say gay, I thought when there would be floats and stuff.

Speaker 115 You don't want to take a five-year-old to that parade.

Speaker 4 You don't want to.

Speaker 115 I'm standing on it and say, look at the music. And look, it's a fire truck with naked men on it.

Speaker 116 There's no bullwinkle.

Speaker 91 Well, there's no

Speaker 115 gay pride parades have a different tone than Disney on ice parade.

Speaker 115 There's no ice for one ice it's a lot of nude guys on vehicles and it's hard to so you're talking about you know well you do stand-up you go around the country is very divided you know you you're do you well like what are you worried about i'm worried about i've i've i have buddies that are in the security business i'm a tech freak so i i have a guy that's got no he always has battery like cell phones that batteries come out because he tells me this weird story he says you put an iphone down for a week you shut it off in a week it's dead right and i go oh god it's not really ever off he goes no it's never off they always know where you are.

Speaker 101 And I go, oh, God.

Speaker 115 I get paranoid just from being around this cat. But one day I was thinking, if a government drove by down the street with like a gray sedan with a camera on it, you'd be rioting, going to Washington.

Speaker 115 But if it's white with emojis and Google on it, yay, you're waving at it.

Speaker 74 Tim Allen.

Speaker 15 Tim Allen is so funny.

Speaker 99 He is funny.

Speaker 33 He's so funny.

Speaker 80 He's had quite a career.

Speaker 15 He has. I mean, to think that the guy started in jail.

Speaker 85 Yeah.

Speaker 46 Yeah. I mean, remember, he went to prison for cocaine, right?

Speaker 93 Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 109 Back in the 80s.

Speaker 99 Yeah.

Speaker 80 Yeah. And he's made an incredible career.
I mean, really, obviously, Home Improvement is really alleged.

Speaker 87 One of my favorite TV shows of all time.

Speaker 5 Home Improvement. Yeah.

Speaker 31 He is just such a, I mean, he has tapped into the psyche of being a guy.

Speaker 53 Yeah, he has. He's just, he just, he has it.

Speaker 80 He has it. And Last Man Standing is a big hit.
Obviously, he's had a lot of voice work as well. Funny stuff.
Throughout the years. Voice movie.

Speaker 4 What did he do? Oh, he did.

Speaker 83 Toys Story.

Speaker 67 You might remember that movie.

Speaker 73 A few people saw that.

Speaker 80 Did that make any money, though? That wasn't profitable, was it?

Speaker 41 You see what Disney made on the business?

Speaker 73 I don't know if the first weekend does.

Speaker 15 It cost him $160 million to make.

Speaker 56 This weekend, it made $170.

Speaker 90 Did it really?

Speaker 80 And $350 worldwide first weekend.

Speaker 87 I heard it was fantastic. That's a good movie.

Speaker 73 It is fantastic.

Speaker 107 It is fantastic. Did you see it? I saw it.

Speaker 31 Yeah, I saw it. And

Speaker 87 there's definitely gay stuff in it.

Speaker 118 Yeah, you know,

Speaker 107 here, from announce it, right?

Speaker 54 Well, here, at the very end, I mean, all the way through, your kids aren't going to notice it, I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 31 But all the way through, I'm like, this gay thing is so overblown.

Speaker 83 Overblown.

Speaker 31 Overblown.

Speaker 63 It's not a gay character.

Speaker 35 I mean, you could read it that way if you're really looking.

Speaker 96 It's just stop it.

Speaker 23 And I don't think the one that they say is gay is the gay character.

Speaker 39 I didn't get that impression at all.

Speaker 15 Why am I, am I supposed to,

Speaker 15 am I supposed to assume he's gay?

Speaker 96 Because

Speaker 74 why?

Speaker 60 Why? The way he talks or

Speaker 82 maybe the way he moves or that he likes Broadway shows?

Speaker 86 I mean, I was told my whole life that stereotyping somebody stereotyping

Speaker 39 all the way through, no.

Speaker 17 But then when,

Speaker 58 and I think it happens in the movie, the dresser,

Speaker 71 you know, explodes at one point when they're fighting and the three guys are wearing women's clothing, remember?

Speaker 74 Right.

Speaker 25 Okay, so the only thing is, is

Speaker 92 the two of them turn and run, and the other one's like, oh my gosh, thank you, or has that kind of appearance of, finally I can come out wearing a woman's dress.

Speaker 72 So that's a cross-dresser.

Speaker 23 That's not gay.

Speaker 107 That's a cross-dresser.

Speaker 63 Like, we have to have this discussion with our kids.

Speaker 107 He's not gay, son.

Speaker 99 He's a cross-dresser.

Speaker 30 And then at the very, very end, while they're all dancing,

Speaker 49 the ballroom kind of shifts and you see him dressed as a woman and he grabs LeFou's hand like, let's dance.

Speaker 83 Spoiler alert, by the way.

Speaker 123 Well,

Speaker 9 spoiler alert.

Speaker 30 You've seen the movie.

Speaker 63 You've seen the cartoon.

Speaker 119 It's exactly the same.

Speaker 47 But I thought it was really good. I thought it was really good.

Speaker 87 That's what I heard.

Speaker 14 Yeah, really good.

Speaker 15 It is a statement by Disney on

Speaker 119 gay rights.

Speaker 10 And so it should be recognized as that, no matter which side you stand on the aisle.

Speaker 87 You just know that going in with your kids.

Speaker 14 Yeah,

Speaker 82 it is that, but I don't think your kids are going to notice it.

Speaker 1 But really good. Really good.

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Speaker 15 Kelly Shackleford is the president and CEO of FirstLiberty.org.

Speaker 34 He is probably

Speaker 10 the guest that everybody wants to have on this week,

Speaker 10 talking about the new Supreme Court nominee and the hearings that are going on this week, because this is what he does for a living, is look at the courts in regards to religious freedom, especially, but freedom and the

Speaker 8 constitutionalist view of the Supreme Court nominee.

Speaker 10 This is what he does.

Speaker 14 He looks for the case to be made.

Speaker 98 Do the Democrats have a case to be made that this guy is out of control?

Speaker 2 Do we have,

Speaker 10 can we take real solace in the fact that this guy won't turn out to be John Roberts?

Speaker 2 We go to Kelly, beginning right now.

Speaker 2 I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand. Cause we have won.
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Speaker 10 Welcome to the program, Kelly Shackleford. How are you, sir?

Speaker 8 Great.

Speaker 19 Good to have you here.

Speaker 41 It's good to be here.

Speaker 63 You have been looking at all of the Supreme Court nominees when they had a list of 20.

Speaker 17 And

Speaker 28 I believe he was on your short list, Gorsuch,

Speaker 9 of somebody that you felt pretty comfortable with.

Speaker 54 Going into this, how comfortable are you that he's not John Roberts or any of the other conservatives that we always nominate and then they always turn out to be a huge progressive.

Speaker 101 Well, there's a few things that are different about him and what Republicans were doing in the past.

Speaker 101 In the past, there was this Republican thing of picking people without a record.

Speaker 123 Yeah.

Speaker 101 And John Roberts, for instance. I mean...

Speaker 130 That was Ted Cruz's argument against him.

Speaker 101 And that's what people did. Now, John Roberts has been really solid on most cases.
On Obamacare, twice, inexplicably, he...

Speaker 64 Oh, he rewrote the law.

Speaker 87 Exactly.

Speaker 101 So I will point out that while a lot of people are really disappointed in him, it's those two cases that they're disappointed in, not what he did on the same-sex marriage case or the live cases or whatever.

Speaker 33 Yeah,

Speaker 33 pretty big. I agree with you.

Speaker 101 I agree with you. But John Roberts was a guy who had no

Speaker 101 record. Now, that usually says one of two things.
If you're 50 years old and you have no conservative record,

Speaker 101 you're either not a conservative or you're hiding.

Speaker 101 And if you're hiding, then how much courage are you going to have when the heat's on? So that's why I think that was a really bad approach that the Republicans had. That is not their approach anymore.

Speaker 101 Really, it changed with Alito.

Speaker 101 You had Harriet Myers being appointed by President Bush. That didn't work.
They went back and he said, okay, I'm just going to pick a full-fledged conservative with a long record. And guess what?

Speaker 101 Alito got through.

Speaker 101 They tried a filibuster. It got 25 votes.

Speaker 101 And I think since then now it's changed. So when you look at Gorsuch,

Speaker 101 he had 3,000 opinions that his name is connected to. Either he wrote or he was on those opinions, joined those opinions.

Speaker 101 So you see a long swath of where his philosophy has been, what he believes, where he stands. And so that's a little different.

Speaker 11 Chuck Schumer said, you know, there are many reasons to fear him, but the one that it looks like they're really going after is that he's a corporatist, that he's always for the corporation and is just going to sink us all because smokestacks will be everywhere.

Speaker 101 Really silly.

Speaker 101 What you find with Gorsuch is he doesn't really care who the plaintiff and the defendant are. He's just going to go, what does the law say? And that's the result.

Speaker 101 And the funny thing is when you ask him, okay, if he's this person that you're saying he is, then what are the opinions?

Speaker 101 And then they'll pull out two or three opinions and you'll go, wait, those those are unanimous. And you have a liberal Democrat joining him on those opinions.

Speaker 101 So I've never seen such a weak set of attacks on anybody. They really don't have anything on him.

Speaker 101 And so I think their only hope is to create something in the hearing, to hope that he says something or does something. Because I think right now they're in serious trouble at trying to stop it.

Speaker 9 It seems like, I mean, it was a really big deal.

Speaker 63 A lot of people voted for Trump because of this.

Speaker 49 In fact, I would say

Speaker 9 perhaps a majority of people voted for Trump because of this.

Speaker 58 And yet, here we are in the hearings, and it doesn't seem like it's going to be a big deal.

Speaker 31 It doesn't seem like when we were building up to Bork, we knew that was going to be a big deal and a big fight.

Speaker 28 Is it because we're replacing Scalia that it's not that big of a deal?

Speaker 33 Or what's happening?

Speaker 101 I think that's part of it. I think part of it is most people, for whatever reason, don't even know it's occurring.

Speaker 101 We put a website up, trumpnomine.com, where people can watch the hearing, get the information. Where does he stand? What are his past opinions? What does the NRA say about him?

Speaker 101 What are the Right to Life say about him? What are the different groups that are out there say?

Speaker 101 But I think most people have no idea that the hearings are starting this week.

Speaker 101 Starting today.

Speaker 27 I mean, we won't hear from him until late this afternoon.

Speaker 33 Right.

Speaker 101 It's something that they don't know. And And the media, I think, is probably not playing this up because I think they realize

Speaker 101 as far as the left wing that this is not going to work out well for them, most likely. So they're not highlighting this.

Speaker 101 I do think you're right, though. I think if we had the next nominee,

Speaker 101 the rumors are it's happening soon, like within the next year.

Speaker 101 And let's say if a Kennedy did step down, Now you're talking about the control of the court because you essentially have four, when you had Scalia, you had four conservatives, four liberals, and one who kind of moves back and forth.

Speaker 42 Kennedy was a conservative appointment, though, wasn't he?

Speaker 101 He was, but he's been, he votes, he's been voting on different sides depending upon the issues.

Speaker 100 Never trusted Kennedy.

Speaker 101 But then you would have, now you would have, I mean, theoretically, you would have, if you replace Kennedy, you're talking about overruling Roe v.

Speaker 87 Wade.

Speaker 101 You're talking about, you know, a lot of huge issues now that if you had five conservatives, and by overruling, I mean they would say, this is goes to the states, this is an issue to be a vote.

Speaker 101 So, you're talking about big issues, so you can see the other side would really come out for that next seat.

Speaker 101 Where this, I mean, really, the conservatives, the best they can do is stay even with replacing Scalia. Correct.
Now, I think they're probably going to do that.

Speaker 101 In fact, many people think Gorsuch might be a little bit more conservative than Scalia was.

Speaker 20 Holy cow.

Speaker 101 But not as conservative as Thomas, but more conservative than Scalia. And so.

Speaker 82 How close are these guys?

Speaker 26 I know that Scalia and Ginsburg were really close and good friends.

Speaker 82 And I really wish Ginsburg would have spoken at his funeral because I just, I would have liked to show America that you can be on complete opposite ends of the spectrum and still be good friends.

Speaker 73 But

Speaker 60 how close is Thomas with

Speaker 28 Roberts? Do they influence each other at this point?

Speaker 101 I don't know how much they influence it, but they are friends.

Speaker 101 But the uniqueness of the Scalia-Ginsburg relationship, I mean,

Speaker 101 they grew up in New York. I mean,

Speaker 101 there was a real connection there.

Speaker 101 And

Speaker 101 they're friends with one another. They're in a very small, special group, obviously.
But guys like Thomas aren't really influenced by

Speaker 101 what other people say or do to him.

Speaker 60 Do you think, I mean,

Speaker 63 Calvin Coolidge

Speaker 15 nominated a good friend of his who is a staunch, he thought, conservative.

Speaker 11 He gets onto the court and he's so bad, he becomes progressive, that even FDR makes him the chief justice.

Speaker 64 Really

Speaker 11 crazy.

Speaker 129 Do they get into the court?

Speaker 31 Do you think some of them get into the court and think, well, now I have such an important position and I can't, I want a legacy.

Speaker 52 Does that happen?

Speaker 101 Well, yeah, I think the old cocktail circles in D.C. wanting to fit in, wanting to

Speaker 101 be accepted. I mean, that's always what people really worry about.

Speaker 101 I think that's one of the unique things that Gorsuch has going for him that a lot of others didn't, and that is his mom was the head of the EPA under Reagan and was savagely attacked by the Democrats.

Speaker 101 And

Speaker 101 he felt that sting. It's well known.
I think he knows who his friends are and who aren't, and so I don't think he would fall into that trap.

Speaker 63 But I think

Speaker 101 when you have somebody, though, who

Speaker 101 doesn't have a lot of record and they go in there and then they get this social pressure, you can see that kind of thing happening. Again, Gorsuch has 3,000 opinions connected with him.

Speaker 101 He has a pretty strong, deep philosophy that's been expressed for many years. Anybody can surprise us, right? I mean, people are people, but

Speaker 101 this is about as good of a record. I mean, we're a group that focuses on religious liberty.
We've never seen anybody with this many solid religious liberty opinions. I mean, he wrote the lower court.

Speaker 101 I mean, he was involved on the right side, on Hobby Lobby, on Little Sisters of the Poor,

Speaker 101 on just a number of these cases where you've heard about him later, and maybe he was in the dissent, depending upon which one it was, but he always did the right thing, wrote an excellent opinion, stood for religious freedom.

Speaker 101 So I think he's going to be good on a lot of the constitutional issues that your listeners really care about, really solid, because he's an originalist, and he's just going to follow what the text says, and he doesn't think it evolves to mean whatever he wants it to mean, which is unfortunately a common approach today.

Speaker 80 I've heard the argument that he's made, Gorsuch has made a lot of decisions that would indicate he would be on the pro-life side of Roe versus Wade.

Speaker 80 However, there's never been a specific ruling by him on abortion. What is your level of concern on that?

Speaker 112 I don't really have any.

Speaker 101 Again, he's... He's really solid about what does the Constitution say?

Speaker 101 What does the text say? He's not going to create things that aren't there.

Speaker 101 He criticized, there's an article where he actually criticized the LGBT community for trying to use the courts instead of the legislative process and

Speaker 101 opinion. So even if he would agree with something, he would never

Speaker 83 use the courts.

Speaker 7 Do you think there is a constitutional case for pro-life?

Speaker 101 I think he is more likely to say this is something left to the legislative process.

Speaker 94 I'm asking you, is there a

Speaker 101 people can argue under the 14th Amendment, you know, that there's a right to life.

Speaker 86 I think

Speaker 123 what about the

Speaker 40 just what about the preamble?

Speaker 101 Yeah, I mean, there are people that look at that and say, I think

Speaker 101 he would look at the original intent of what the founders were doing with those things, whether they were trying to create a substantive right.

Speaker 101 Again, I think you're going to find that a lot of the more conservative judges are more, if it's not clearly there, then let's leave it to the legislative process.

Speaker 68 Why is that when, you know, I quoted several of the signers of the Constitution and Declaration today that

Speaker 15 took a stand?

Speaker 39 I mean, this was not unheard of in the day.

Speaker 63 Abortion was a thing, and they all came out as that's murder.

Speaker 28 Why is that not in the Constitution, or did they just think it was so plain that murder is murder?

Speaker 101 I think that's it. I think there are a lot of things they couldn't conceive that we would have to deal with.
I mean, same-sex marriage, right?

Speaker 101 A lot of these things we're seeing now, they didn't even think of, so they didn't address them necessarily in the Constitution in a direct way.

Speaker 101 I do think Gorsuch, you've got a little more on where he stands, at least personally.

Speaker 101 He wrote a book on euthanasia.

Speaker 101 His editor of the book was Professor Robert George, probably one of the most well-respected. He's great.

Speaker 122 Probably George is fantastic.

Speaker 101 And he went, a lot of people look at his education and see how incredible it was where he goes to Columbia, undergrad, Harvard Law School, all this, and then he goes to Oxford.

Speaker 101 What a lot of people don't know is why he went to Oxford. He went to Oxford to get his Ph.D.

Speaker 101 to study under the top brain in the world on natural law, a guy by the name of John Finnis, the same guy who trained Robbie George.

Speaker 80 So it tells you a lot about the philosophy and background.

Speaker 5 And long-standing philosophy.

Speaker 119 Let me ask you this final question.

Speaker 92 Nobody is really thinking about this, but he's young enough to be dealing with this in the next 10 to 20 years.

Speaker 17 Is he going to be able to handle or is anybody looking into

Speaker 27 the definition of life when it comes to AI?

Speaker 118 I mean, we're moving into the realm of transhumanism and that is going to be an issue.

Speaker 17 Have you seen anything from him on that?

Speaker 101 Well, I mean,

Speaker 101 I don't know how he would do. You have to look at what legal

Speaker 101 case

Speaker 83 is.

Speaker 101 But I think he's probably got the most extensive background background to prepare him for that than any justice because, again, he studied

Speaker 101 his Ph.D. in understanding of natural law, of life.
What did he write his book on? Euthanasia.

Speaker 101 That he is steeped in that philosophy and that whole line of thinking. So he would probably be much more thoughtful than probably anybody we have on the board.

Speaker 21 I wonder which way he would go on that.

Speaker 80 Two quick things. One,

Speaker 80 is this the first question you've had about transhumanism in your Gorsuch interviews so far?

Speaker 99 My guess is going to be yes.

Speaker 73 Is that true?

Speaker 99 Yes, yes. We're just ahead of the curve.

Speaker 41 I'm telling you, that will come. It is coming.

Speaker 80 And secondly, I was a big Trump skeptic on him making a good pick for the Supreme Court. And that should be stated because we were out about it and I did not think it would be this good.

Speaker 80 In fact, if it came from the list, I thought it would be on the bottom of the list. I feel like Gorsuch is towards the top of that list.

Speaker 80 And looking at it from my perspective, I think he did a great job with this pick.

Speaker 80 If, let's say, name the constitutionalist, your favorite guy you want to be president, we were going for Ted Cruz, but Brandon Paul, Mike Lee, whoever, any of those guys are president of the United States and they pick Gorsuch, is that a good pick for them too?

Speaker 83 Because I think it is.

Speaker 101 Yeah,

Speaker 101 he's an excellent pick.

Speaker 33 He's that good.

Speaker 101 Very brilliant, yeah. I mean, there are some other people out there that like, that weren't even on the list that people go, why didn't they pick them?

Speaker 101 But I'm not saying they're better than Gorsuch.

Speaker 85 Wow.

Speaker 101 You know, I think we're going to have to wait and see

Speaker 101 after he gets on the court. But everything we see, we've got so many opinions.
We've got this steeped training background.

Speaker 101 We've got this situation that happened in his own family where his mother was really unfairly treated by the Democrats. So I don't think he's going to go to D.C.
and cozy up

Speaker 101 to the cocktail crowd. So there's a lot of things in his favor that, again, his manner is mild and humble.
And again, I think that's why they can't attack him.

Speaker 101 They can't make him a bork or a, he's just, that's not his personality.

Speaker 101 And so I think they're really desperate during these hearings to get him to make a mistake somehow, which I just don't see him do.

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Speaker 27 You'll be able to watch the hearings, get the analysis there.

Speaker 53 And Kelly, we'd love to have you back just to give us a highlight of what we

Speaker 13 saw.

Speaker 94 you know,

Speaker 31 starting tomorrow, because the hearings kind of start today with opening statements.

Speaker 26 Thank you so much, Kelly.

Speaker 50 Appreciate it.

Speaker 101 Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 127 No, we're just, you know what?

Speaker 130 I just asked Kelly to stay just for a couple of extra minutes.

Speaker 60 How is he, how is he on privacy and the Commerce Clause?

Speaker 101 Well, he's great on the Commerce Clause.

Speaker 101 On privacy, I would have to know what the issue is. What you're going to find with with him is he's one of those boring guys that's going to say, what does the statute say? What does the Constitution

Speaker 101 say? What did it mean?

Speaker 100 For instance, the NSA gathering information on everyone.

Speaker 97 I mean, to me,

Speaker 63 the Constitution is very, very clear.

Speaker 33 No, unless you have a warrant.

Speaker 101 Yeah, I think he'll be solid on any sort of constitutional violations that violate the words of the Constitution. But see, privacy has been converted into all kinds of other things.

Speaker 101 It was the basis for Roe v. Wade.
It was, you know, so you can stretch it and turn it into something else. What you're going to find with him, though, is

Speaker 101 he's all about what does it say.

Speaker 101 And now, I do think one of the things that's really important, the Chevron deference, I don't want to get people's eyes glazed over, but there's this approach that the courts have taken that I think the conservatives now realize was a big mistake, where they essentially show deference to bureaucrats.

Speaker 101 So Congress passes a law and they say, we'll let the bureaucrats figure out how to apply the law. And then they massively violate people's rights in court.

Speaker 52 And they make regulations.

Speaker 86 Yeah.

Speaker 101 They make regulations, including criminal type things. And then the court says, well, we have chevron.
We defer. We have chevron deference.

Speaker 101 He has been really strong in the other direction on that in saying, oh, no, that's not, no, we protect our Constitution against

Speaker 99 Bureau.

Speaker 80 That's where Scalia on that issue is.

Speaker 101 Better than Scalia.

Speaker 29 And that's where people like Mike Lee are going in Congress.

Speaker 101 Exactly.

Speaker 87 The other thing you were mentioning off the air is that there may be another justice opening this year.

Speaker 36 He said Kennedy.

Speaker 9 But are we pretty sure on that?

Speaker 123 We have a pretty good idea.

Speaker 101 The rumors are there's going to be another.

Speaker 35 Because I've heard as soon as like 10 months.

Speaker 101 That's very, very possible. I think we very well might have another one of these before a year from now.

Speaker 87 So Kennedy may be stepping down then.

Speaker 86 He could be, yeah.

Speaker 101 I mean, he probably wants to step down under Republican. He's reported under a Republican.
If you wait too late towards the end, then it gets stalled up.

Speaker 80 As every liberal in the audience is saying right now with Merrick Garland, that's exactly if you get too close to the end. You might not even get a so, so that's now.

Speaker 101 And of course, that's talking about people voluntarily stepping down if you know.

Speaker 12 There's health issues.

Speaker 101 So that could be even more.

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Speaker 35 Did you see Angela Merkel's visit to the White House?

Speaker 73 Angela? Frosty.

Speaker 129 Angela? Angela.

Speaker 55 Is it Angela? Angela?

Speaker 99 No, it's Angela.

Speaker 113 It's Angela Merkel.

Speaker 49 Angela.

Speaker 86 Angela.

Speaker 67 The handshake scene was...

Speaker 131 Oh, my.

Speaker 17 But they did shake hands at another point, right? That was.

Speaker 27 Yeah, but she leaned over and she's like, we have a handshake.

Speaker 67 And he didn't even turn it to react to her.

Speaker 3 It was awkward.

Speaker 79 It was like, I've never seen that.

Speaker 102 I have.

Speaker 17 Remember when Obama was sitting there with Benjamin Netanyahu?

Speaker 40 And you could tell

Speaker 27 they didn't want to sit there.

Speaker 60 With Trump, Angela was kind of happy.

Speaker 78 She was bubbly. She was fine.

Speaker 76 But Trump looked pissed.

Speaker 4 I don't know what happened in the meeting.

Speaker 97 You know, there was a,

Speaker 97 you know, he said that Germany hasn't been paying their fair share with NATO.

Speaker 124 And then he went off on this thing about, you know, trying to negotiate a better deal with Germany.

Speaker 104 Well,

Speaker 27 Germany doesn't make the trade agreement.

Speaker 9 It's the EU.

Speaker 76 And she said to him, apparently, several times,

Speaker 33 you're under the false.

Speaker 27 understanding that we negotiate our trade deals.

Speaker 9 We don't. It's the EU that negotiates the trade deal.

Speaker 97 And he's like, yeah, well, we need a better deal with you and, you know, with Germany.

Speaker 31 Again, it's not us, it's the EU.

Speaker 17 And

Speaker 92 apparently that didn't sit well with him.

Speaker 85 I'm sure it didn't.

Speaker 31 And it didn't sit well with him.

Speaker 113 But even the photographers at the very, you know, handshake, we need the handshake shot. They're all looking for the regular handshake shot.
And he was having none of it.

Speaker 17 Can we not piss off Germany?

Speaker 64 That never goes well.

Speaker 87 Just never goes well all of its move because we've already pissed off north korea and uh they've vowed to reduce us to ashes oh no yeah

Speaker 87 korean people's army this is her statement will reduce the bases of aggression and provocation to ashes with its invincible rockets tipped with nuclear warheads and reliably defend the security of the country and its people's happiness because as you know the people in north korea are exceedingly happy.

Speaker 83 Well, they've never been happier.

Speaker 108 No, they've never been happier in those labor camps.

Speaker 108 They love the labor camp.

Speaker 4 They would

Speaker 57 up to 100% full employment in those labor camps.

Speaker 69 That's right. And okay, so I'm sorry.

Speaker 18 I'm asking you to concentrate in your camp for a little while.

Speaker 80 We all know it's jobs, jobs, jobs. That's right.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 99 that's what it's all about.

Speaker 40 I will tell you this.

Speaker 6 I mean, we make fun of North Korea.

Speaker 69 This guy is just nuts enough.

Speaker 83 He killed his own brother, right?

Speaker 5 For no reason.

Speaker 80 For no reason. For no reason.
And it's his uncle's father.

Speaker 117 And openly, right?

Speaker 80 openly yeah he's killed his uncle yeah but he went i mean that that thing in the airport there's no reason to do that in the airport unless you wanted everybody to see seemingly no reason to do it period anywhere for any time the guy wasn't seeking power yeah he lived somewhere else he was like the playboy brother right get him because he was he's a brother a stepbrother first of all and he uh had no designs on the you know throne of North Korea.

Speaker 80 He did not want to go back. He did not want to become the leader.
He just wanted to go gamble

Speaker 80 and drink in his peace.

Speaker 80 He was not interested, and they killed him anyway. I mean, and think about this.

Speaker 80 Very rarely, I think, in our history do we have a foreign government overtly and constantly threatening nuclear annihilation of the world's superpower,

Speaker 80 really with very little repercussion and really

Speaker 80 very little fear.

Speaker 83 This is a nuclear power I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 I've talked to somebody who is over in North Korea and

Speaker 54 you go through

Speaker 97 their history of North Korean-U.S.

Speaker 63 relations and we are absolutely the aggressor.

Speaker 27 They're people.

Speaker 15 I mean, you read that statement again and

Speaker 32 read it in a cartoon voice, Pat. I mean,

Speaker 40 you listen to this statement, and it sounds like something from a superhero movie.

Speaker 108 The Korean People's Army will reduce the bases of aggression and provocation to ashes with its invincible rockets tipped with nuclear warheads.

Speaker 122 Right, with its invincible rockets next time on North Korea.

Speaker 108 And we will reliably defend the security of the country and its people's happiness.

Speaker 67 I mean, it's crazy.

Speaker 38 It sounds like an episode of Batman.

Speaker 123 Yeah, it does.

Speaker 63 And, you know, how do you get people to believe that?

Speaker 27 You shut off all information. I would love to go to North Korea.
I think you said this last week, just because it is like going to the moon.

Speaker 60 Yeah.

Speaker 27 They have no idea what is happening in the rest of the world none

Speaker 28 and so he does this because he's made us into the chief bad guy and it gives his people you know something to think about oh man if we could just stop the oppression we'd be good it's not about him it's about us oppressing

Speaker 80 Yeah, I mean, and it would be incredible to see because it's like, you know, it is really like going to another planet. I mean,

Speaker 80 the architecture and

Speaker 80 the way the people act and how they're terrified.

Speaker 80 I mean, there was a documentary that happened, this is a few years ago and back now, where they went, they snuck cameras into North Korea with doctors.

Speaker 80 And so the doctors go over there and they have these charities that go over there to repair. I think it's cataracts.
It's something that every other nation on Earth.

Speaker 63 We pronounce it here, Cadillacs.

Speaker 33 Cadillacs.

Speaker 80 Every other nation on earth has a minor surgery and you're fine. Like it is

Speaker 80 there, these people people just go blind because they have no ability to ever correct this very easy problem so doctors go i think maybe doctors without borders go in and just do eye surgeries and then leave and they brought in the cameras and it it was so bizarre to watch these people as they will sit there every time they would get the surgery They would see these people were blind and now could see.

Speaker 80 I mean, that is a moment that, you know, historically has some significance.

Speaker 73 I think there's a song.

Speaker 41 I was once blind and now I can see.

Speaker 80 It's a pretty overwhelming experience. In fact, it's the example of the most overwhelming experience you can have as a human being.
And these people would

Speaker 80 have the surgery, see for the first time, the first thing they would do would walk up to the giant paintings of, at that time, I think it was Kim Jong-il

Speaker 80 and thank the painting of Kim Jong-il. The only reason they couldn't see is because of Kim Jong-il.
But they walked up and thanked and bowed before the painting to thank him for healing them.

Speaker 80 That's how crazy it is.

Speaker 42 Bizarre.

Speaker 80 Bizarre. I mean, he's the reason it was happening.
If they had any

Speaker 80 connection with the rest of the world and allowed capitalist inventions and innovation to be there, every one of those people would have seen years ago.

Speaker 80 And yet here we are, these people,

Speaker 99 such a bizarre thing.

Speaker 16 So am I taking it too seriously?

Speaker 34 Because I really, I'm very frustrated with the press because nobody's really paying attention to North Korea.

Speaker 31 I think this is a big thing.

Speaker 11 The MP thing is really frightening.

Speaker 87 The CIA believes them to have 20 nuclear warheads. 20.

Speaker 87 I mean, I doubt that they can even reach mainland America with those.

Speaker 87 But, you know, you can launch an EMP attack from a boat, from a submarine, from pretty much anywhere near the coast, and do serious, serious damage. The EMP thing is a legitimate concern.

Speaker 87 And I don't know why we don't guard against it.

Speaker 80 And it goes back and and forth, too, of how scared you are on that is kind of based on where you fall in the debate between the government is incredibly efficient.

Speaker 80 And as Tim Allen points out, they know the location of your iPhone after it's been turned off for two weeks.

Speaker 80 Or are they the people who let a guy jump the fence and walk around the White House property for 16 minutes

Speaker 80 before discovering he's there? I don't know which one they are. I'm, you know, when that came out, that it was

Speaker 73 16 minutes.

Speaker 98 That's just astounding.

Speaker 22 Incredible.

Speaker 80 How on earth is that possible? How inept.

Speaker 75 Did you see?

Speaker 83 Did you see, though?

Speaker 97 They announced yesterday there are going to be some changes at the White House Secret Service.

Speaker 52 You think? Oh, you think?

Speaker 35 How many times do we have to have somebody break in?

Speaker 83 Well, good.

Speaker 15 I mean, they were breaking in all during the last president, now breaking in and just, what, setting up a tea party for 16 minutes?

Speaker 52 How is that possible?

Speaker 43 I don't know.

Speaker 70 I have to tell you, if somebody brought, I mean that I don't have Secret Service protection.

Speaker 66 If someone climbed my fence and was walking around my house for 16 minutes,

Speaker 36 other than Jeffy. Other than Jeffy.

Speaker 126 If somebody did that,

Speaker 7 I would get a new security company.

Speaker 99 And

Speaker 40 I would expect, you know, be like, okay, well, I don't have Secret Service.

Speaker 80 We're talking about the Secret Service.

Speaker 36 They have, the problem with the Secret Service is all they think about are ways to spend money.

Speaker 44 They don't, they don't, they'll solve every problem.

Speaker 63 More men, more cameras, more this, more that.

Speaker 25 They don't think things through at all.

Speaker 3 They just solve it because they have lots of money.

Speaker 100 No one is ever saying, hey, hey, hey, slow down on the Secret Service spending there at the White House.

Speaker 122 Spend. What is it?

Speaker 80 Spend away.

Speaker 122 What is happening?

Speaker 80 Well, we said this before, too.

Speaker 101 I mean, look,

Speaker 80 in an actual security environment, there would be people all over that lawn all the time. And the only reason we don't do that is because we don't want it to look like a police station.

Speaker 108 Not true.

Speaker 74 Not true.

Speaker 83 You can, there is no way you could have trip wires with lasers that could set off an alarm.

Speaker 80 What would happen if they set off an alarm?

Speaker 73 Yeah, you would.

Speaker 52 Right, right, right. But you don't have to have actual physical people on the lawn.

Speaker 80 But I mean, if you're, we're talking about the president of the United States here. If

Speaker 80 you do what you have to do to secure that environment the best way that you can, we don't do all of those things because understandably, I'm not even criticizing this, but like understandably, you don't want like a million agents out of the lawn all the time

Speaker 80 because it just doesn't look right.

Speaker 89 It doesn't look right.

Speaker 87 No, but look what happened after 2001. I mean, you didn't have access to Pennsylvania Avenue, that portion of it, at all.
I mean, you couldn't go anywhere near the White House.

Speaker 87 And now it's so bad that people can walk around for 16 years.

Speaker 60 We don't have laser technology.

Speaker 73 It's hard to find.

Speaker 129 We We don't have ground sensing technology.

Speaker 83 And apparently they don't.

Speaker 15 We don't have motion detectors. I mean, that's crazy.

Speaker 80 And the scary thing about this is, look, this person just seems to be a disturbed person who jumped the fence and was not a serious danger.

Speaker 80 However, how many times can we teach the lesson that people can get up to this freaking building?

Speaker 80 How many times? This goes for Obama, it goes for Trump.

Speaker 83 At least for Trump.

Speaker 80 How many times are we teaching these really bad people that we know exist and we know want to do things that are terrible? How many times times can we tell them just walk on up? Yeah.

Speaker 80 I mean, I've been a terrorist.

Speaker 90 God, the guy was there for 16 minutes with a backpack.

Speaker 108 And Trump was home.

Speaker 80 He was there. It's terrifying.
I mean, honestly, like, I am much more of the opinion, like, you jump that fence, whether you're disturbed or not, you're shot 10 feet.

Speaker 80 You take three steps and you're dead. And I would sit here on the air the next day when they say, wait a minute, this person was just disturbed and they were still 200 feet away from the White House.

Speaker 108 So what?

Speaker 80 Don't go near the fence. Yeah.
Honestly, I would sit here and defend Secret Service for doing those types of things because it's that important. This is the president of the United States.

Speaker 80 We cannot afford something terrible happening. And the fact is,

Speaker 80 we have taught terrible lessons to our real enemies, and we need to take care of that. Hopefully, that's what Trump's doing.

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Speaker 122 I'm just saying.

Speaker 80 Maybe that's probably a good idea.

Speaker 6 All he has to do is count the windows and doors.

Speaker 15 He knows where the motion detectors should be.

Speaker 80 And this devastating budget cut that he's going through, this would help that.

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Speaker 17 I mean, you think about this.

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Speaker 84 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

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Speaker 16 It's

Speaker 97 quite fascinating what is happening on the Hill today.

Speaker 21 It is.

Speaker 64 A lot of really important stuff going on.

Speaker 4 James Comey, who, if you remember right, was a hero of the left, then a hero of the right,

Speaker 49 then a hero of the left again, I believe.

Speaker 17 And now we're not sure what's going to happen today.

Speaker 29 But he goes from good guy to bad guy on each side, depending on what day of the week it is.

Speaker 92 He just testified that there is an investigation, an ongoing investigation, of Russian ties to any campaign in the last

Speaker 21 election.

Speaker 53 So this is the first time the FBI has admitted this, but they are looking into

Speaker 17 ties to the Trump campaign and apparently the Clinton campaign as well.

Speaker 80 Yeah, I think they were trying to keep it broad and say,

Speaker 80 yeah, they did say the Trump campaign part as well. The other side of that, too, is they also said there is no evidence that the Russians

Speaker 80 hacked any votes. Now, you might say, well, obviously we know that, but this is a big thing.
We've talked about how the kind of echo chambers talk to themselves.

Speaker 80 The left hears this stuff all the time, that the election was hacked. And to any normal person, the election was hacked.
That means you changed the vote totals so the wrong person won, right?

Speaker 80 They are saying that did not happen.

Speaker 80 No evidence of that happening, which I knew, but I think that might be big news to half the country.

Speaker 65 He also

Speaker 53 said that

Speaker 15 there was no investigation that included wiretapping in the traditional sense, but but Trump would say that he used wiretapping in quotation marks.

Speaker 31 And so he didn't mean that literally.

Speaker 46 But Comey did say that there was no wiretapping involved with Trump

Speaker 76 at the Trump Tower.

Speaker 121 However,

Speaker 5 he did also go on to say,

Speaker 4 But

Speaker 29 we don't have the answer if there were other non-conventional wiretapping

Speaker 83 means being used.

Speaker 80 Yeah, it left it open to potentially there could be something else, but there was not. I mean, if you want to take, again, the Trump tweet literally, they are saying that did not happen.

Speaker 80 Now, since the Trump tweet came out, it's been brought.

Speaker 86 In quotation marks.

Speaker 52 Exactly.

Speaker 52 Okay.

Speaker 102 But I actually believe that.

Speaker 99 I agree.

Speaker 107 I totally think he's.

Speaker 80 I do, too. I think it's ridiculous to hold him to like he was talking about a conventional wiretap at only this building.

Speaker 80 I mean, I think the bigger part of that, however, is Obama ordered it, which we still have zero evidence over. And they all say that that can't be done anyway.

Speaker 21 Whether you believe that or not is a whole other story, but still. That's a real big thing.
And the other big thing to me on the whole wiretapping is our ally, England.

Speaker 21 You know, that the English did it.

Speaker 40 And immediately

Speaker 15 the English come out and say, no, no, no, no, no, don't involve us in this.

Speaker 19 We did not do that.

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Speaker 127 No surprise, 50% of Canadians are hate mongers.

Speaker 126 Did you know that?

Speaker 15 50% of Canadians say

Speaker 8 illegal immigrants are making us less safe.

Speaker 87 It's okay for them, though. They're a different country.

Speaker 87 We're the ones who can't say that.

Speaker 98 We can't.

Speaker 73 You're right, Pat.

Speaker 87 It's all the all-come free in America.

Speaker 8 You're right, you're right.

Speaker 107 We'll talk about that.

Speaker 10 Also, the FBI has arrested a Twitter user who sent

Speaker 67 a seizure-inducing

Speaker 33 GIF.

Speaker 2 Did you read about this?

Speaker 69 A guy who sent somebody, sent somebody on Twitter a GIF that caused him to have an epileptic seizure

Speaker 132 we'll talk about that right now

Speaker 22 the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 92 So this is a really amazing story.

Speaker 27 Kurt Eichenwald, he's a journalist who writes for Vanity Fair and Newsweek.

Speaker 58 He tweeted on Friday the FBI had arrested a man suspected of purposefully sending him a gift that triggered an epileptic seizure.

Speaker 31 The Department of Justice confirmed the statement that John Rain Ravello, 29 of Maryland, was arrested Friday on federal charges of cyber stalking a Dallas victim.

Speaker 15 That victim presumably is Eichenwald, though

Speaker 95 his identity wasn't released in the statement.

Speaker 31 Eichenwald has written openly about his epilepsy in the years past.

Speaker 29 In December 2016, Twitter user with the handle at JewGoldstein sent him a strobing gif, which induced a seizure.

Speaker 28 According to Eichenwald, the tweet came with the message, you deserve a seizure.

Speaker 15 So he opens it up and it has

Speaker 23 several pictures with the flash before it and a strobe.

Speaker 76 Like, Mary can never go to a concert, my daughter Mary.

Speaker 76 And she really wants to go to concerts.

Speaker 31 And sometimes, you know, we'll go to one of these mega churches or something, and they'll have all the flashing lights, and she'll have to put her head down.

Speaker 48 Otherwise, she could go into a seizure.

Speaker 79 So this guy knew what he was doing.

Speaker 49 And apparently, he was doing it because he was a Donald Trump supporter and didn't like what this guy was writing.

Speaker 85 Wow.

Speaker 102 And this is,

Speaker 80 I mean, always just these stories you don't know.

Speaker 80 This is confirmed that it actually happened this way? Or is it

Speaker 17 this is what's his case, I assume?

Speaker 96 Whose case?

Speaker 80 The guy who sent the tweet.

Speaker 38 Nothing.

Speaker 31 Nothing.

Speaker 15 That complaint was unsealed today.

Speaker 64 It's amazing.

Speaker 76 Following his initial appearance, according to the affidavit, Ravello's Twitter account contained direct messages from Ravello's account to other Twitter users concerning the victim, the Justice Department said.

Speaker 27 Those direct messages included statements by Rovello, including, I hope this sends him into a seizure.

Speaker 83 That's pretty clear. That's pretty clear.

Speaker 119 You know, I know he has epilepsy.

Speaker 82 Let's see if he dies.

Speaker 22 Yeah, okay. Okay.

Speaker 99 They seem to have a case there. So I don't know why.

Speaker 109 So that's pretty solid.

Speaker 41 Yeah, that's pretty solid.

Speaker 92 That's pretty solid. That's pretty solid.

Speaker 26 Let's go to Canada because we're not allowed to say these things, but the peace-loving

Speaker 124 cheese-eating population of Canada, I don't know why they're eating cheese-eating.

Speaker 104 I don't know why they're.

Speaker 87 Because they're near Wisconsin,

Speaker 87 at least part of the country.

Speaker 2 Do they eat a lot of cheese?

Speaker 15 Do they make cheese in Canada?

Speaker 73 I don't know why they're called cheeseheads.

Speaker 55 I don't think.

Speaker 87 That's Wisconsinites.

Speaker 86 No, it has nothing to do with Canadians.

Speaker 87 No, it does.

Speaker 108 They're called cheeseheads?

Speaker 76 And where I came from, they were called cheese heads.

Speaker 83 Really? Yeah. No, that's Wisconsin.

Speaker 20 I've never.

Speaker 15 I grew up in Washington State, you know, and we called Canadians cheeseheads. I don't know if people still do.

Speaker 17 I don't know why we called them cheeseheads.

Speaker 122 I don't either. That's kind of weird.

Speaker 29 It was wrong.

Speaker 81 It was wrong of us, but we did it.

Speaker 80 Okay, Urban Dictionary says cheesehead is,

Speaker 80 in your usage, a Canadian who, because of the significantly higher price of cheese in Canada than the U.S., makes periodic trips into border towns to buy large

Speaker 109 cheese and

Speaker 83 no wonder.

Speaker 49 So like on border towns,

Speaker 63 because I lived up by the border,

Speaker 83 I knew that

Speaker 40 there were places where they just couldn't keep milk in stock.

Speaker 31 It's still like this.

Speaker 71 You can't keep milk in stock.

Speaker 65 They'll have, you know,

Speaker 40 they'll order gallons and gallons and gallons of milk, and they still can't keep them in stock because the Canadians come down because it's so much cheaper.

Speaker 119 They just buy the milk.

Speaker 80 It's an interesting commentary on it. It is tariffs and taxes.

Speaker 83 Isn't it, though? It is.

Speaker 80 I wonder what you'd learn from.

Speaker 87 But what's also happening in Canada is that because some of the illegals here have been scared off by Donald Trump, they've crossed the border into Canada.

Speaker 86 And the Canadians, surprisingly, aren't liking that.

Speaker 87 And so 48%, almost 50% of Canadians say, yeah, we need to step up deportation.

Speaker 87 Let's get the illegals out of our country. Now, if we do that, We're the worst people alive.
We're the worst living human beings.

Speaker 87 How dare you try to get rid of people who shouldn't be in your country in the first place? How dare you?

Speaker 108 Once they break into your house, they're there and you need to take care of them.

Speaker 108 How can you, you can protect the White House.

Speaker 87 You put a fence around that and rightly so, right?

Speaker 80 But the rest of the country can be completely unprotected.

Speaker 17 Doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 87 Completely unprotected.

Speaker 80 I started to do Brian Lilly up in Canada

Speaker 80 with Rebel, the media up there, And

Speaker 80 he was saying that, you know,

Speaker 80 they're noticing a big change up there because, you know, Trump has obviously been outwardly, hey, don't come here if you're illegal.

Speaker 80 Where to contrast that and look wonderful to the world, Trudeau has said the opposite. Hey, come on.
We want you here. Come on in.
So they're getting, those problems are starting to go that direction.

Speaker 13 What problems are those, racist?

Speaker 99 What's that?

Speaker 80 What problems? The problems associated with illegal immigration.

Speaker 87 As if there were any.

Speaker 59 Yeah, racist.

Speaker 4 What kind of problems would those people? What are you talking about?

Speaker 80 Well, especially, they're particularly bad when you're a country like Canada that makes our welfare state look like nothing.

Speaker 80 When you have everything guaranteed.

Speaker 80 I mean, because we obviously have a problem and we're going the wrong direction when it comes to entitlements and paying for everything.

Speaker 112 They're already there, right?

Speaker 80 We are. shooting towards them, but they're further down this road.
So illegal immigration is more of an issue in a country that has those those things built in.

Speaker 80 You know, we've made this point before, and libertarians will make this point at times because a lot of libertarians are pretty much open borders. And their point essentially is you can't be both.

Speaker 80 You can't be both. That's because I mean, if you have the libertarian state where you don't pay for anyone's anything, then maybe you could argue, you know, some of these things are okay.

Speaker 127 I will tell you, if it wasn't for the danger that we face, if this was, you know, 40 years ago,

Speaker 57 I would be fairly okay with that.

Speaker 101 Maybe.

Speaker 64 It'd still be rule of law.

Speaker 4 I still would be rule of law.

Speaker 15 But I would say, you know,

Speaker 40 there's no danger necessarily coming over the, I'm just trying to think out loud.

Speaker 17 Maybe you shouldn't.

Speaker 40 Yeah, maybe 50 years ago.

Speaker 73 I'm not sure.

Speaker 83 Maybe you shouldn't think out loud.

Speaker 70 The thing that really puts

Speaker 23 this on the front burner is

Speaker 73 still going.

Speaker 21 All right, go ahead.

Speaker 26 The thing that puts this on the front burner is the danger that

Speaker 96 our society is threatened with, with jihad and the gangs.

Speaker 129 Well, and drugs, yeah.

Speaker 87 Right.

Speaker 52 So

Speaker 69 if we decriminalize drugs,

Speaker 18 we also said no free anything for anybody.

Speaker 42 There's nothing free here. You got to work for all of it.

Speaker 69 Open borders isn't as bad as you would think.

Speaker 15 uh as it is now except for the jihadists that want to come and kill us So

Speaker 9 you take care of the drug thing, you take care of the drain on our society.

Speaker 100 You just can't have both.

Speaker 28 You can't say, I'm for open borders and free stuff for everything.

Speaker 62 Free, come on in.

Speaker 34 You can use our hospitals. You can have our doctors.

Speaker 110 You can have free food.

Speaker 44 You can have welfare.

Speaker 52 We'll give you a house.

Speaker 87 You can say that, but it doesn't work. It doesn't work.
Leads to total collapse and chaos.

Speaker 86 Correct.

Speaker 98 It just doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 31 And that's the problem.

Speaker 63 We have both of those.

Speaker 87 And again, we're the only country on earth that is expected to just welcome all of it. Just, yeah, whoever wants to come into our country illegally, come on in.
We'll take care of you.

Speaker 108 Everybody else can have quotas on immigration.

Speaker 87 Everybody else can ask something of the immigrants, like, what do you bring to us?

Speaker 86 What skills do you have?

Speaker 87 Okay, if you have no skills and you have no reason to be here, we're not going to allow you to be here. Everybody else does that, but we can't.

Speaker 98 I just don't understand that.

Speaker 64 Let me change gears.

Speaker 66 Over the weekend, Beauty and the Beast broke five records.

Speaker 93 It was the top domestic opening of all time for a film-rated PG.

Speaker 43 Wow.

Speaker 85 Wow.

Speaker 123 No doubt.

Speaker 15 That's amazing.

Speaker 17 $135 million was Finding Dory

Speaker 15 in 2016.

Speaker 17 This one is beauty scored the top opening of all time for a PG film internationally. 180 million led by China,

Speaker 33 44.8 million.

Speaker 72 Up next was the UK,

Speaker 100 22.8 million.

Speaker 15 Fifth biggest for any film, and the biggest for a PG title.

Speaker 17 Seventh number seven launch of all time for any movie.

Speaker 75 It barely beat out the final Harry Potter movie at 169.

Speaker 27 Ranked number seven.

Speaker 82 I wonder what the

Speaker 56 beauty could even come in this weekend as high as 174 million, which it would then tie Iron Man.

Speaker 87 It wound up at 170. 170 million.
And it only cost 100 only, but it cost 160 to make.

Speaker 87 So domestically, it's at 170, but worldwide, it's already at 350 million.

Speaker 73 That's about incredible.

Speaker 77 Look at the worldwide openings, biggest worldwide openings.

Speaker 80 Am I out of step here, not at all being interested to see this?

Speaker 53 No, you don't have kids this age yet.

Speaker 80 What's the right age for that? Because I would think for a Disney special,

Speaker 80 I would be thinking my kids. I mean, kids are certainly, they went to Disney on Ice this week.

Speaker 80 So I'd think they would be.

Speaker 41 How old are the kids?

Speaker 80 Five and four. Yeah, a little young.
But this is a PG movie, so which makes you think that they're not going after it.

Speaker 51 No,

Speaker 94 this one is a little tough for little kids.

Speaker 107 Right, because I mean, like,

Speaker 17 Cheyenne went and she was okay.

Speaker 68 She is,

Speaker 17 what, 10 or 11 now?

Speaker 68 And she is,

Speaker 122 she's very sensitive.

Speaker 73 Super sensitive.

Speaker 14 She's super sensitive.

Speaker 29 And so she didn't, she barely made it into this one.

Speaker 46 Like she would have never been able to see Kit Kong.

Speaker 29 King Kong would have.

Speaker 124 She would have never been able to sleep again.

Speaker 26 And she, you know, she can watch the regular, you know, Beauty and the Beast.

Speaker 9 But this one is the wolves are scary.

Speaker 81 The beast is scary. This is

Speaker 80 why, I don't know why, again, and this is, I do not run a movie studio. I don't know if anyone knows that.

Speaker 80 And this might be the reason, but like, it just doesn't seem to me to be, in a formulaic sense, something that would make a lot of sense to spend $160 million on because you're targeting it a little bit older than you think the general target would be.

Speaker 101 So this is for teenagers is the target?

Speaker 102 This is it.

Speaker 52 For Beauty and the Beast?

Speaker 109 I think it's not. It's for everybody because everybody remembers the cartoon.

Speaker 87 You either went to it as a kid or you took your kids to it. And so there's a huge audience.

Speaker 76 Whoever it was in Disney who said, let's open the vault and make them all live action, I think it is the smartest thing I've ever seen any entertainment company ever do.

Speaker 80 And they've done a bunch of these, right? Jungle Book, they did.

Speaker 83 Oh, yeah, they're all brilliant. Yeah, they're all Cinderella.

Speaker 39 They're all stunningly brilliant.

Speaker 80 I've seen none of these films. And this is why I'm not the target.

Speaker 99 Watched last night of Passengers.

Speaker 97 You know the movie Passengers?

Speaker 4 Do you remember what the girl's name was that woke up?

Speaker 87 That he woke up?

Speaker 85 I don't know if they're was. Aurora, right?

Speaker 74 Right.

Speaker 52 Yeah. Did you connect that?

Speaker 87 I didn't.

Speaker 48 I didn't at the time. To what?

Speaker 83 Right. Sleeping Beauty.
Sleeping Beauty.

Speaker 35 Sleeping Beauty.

Speaker 129 Her name is Aurora.

Speaker 15 And I was watching it last night, and I'm like, Aurora, that's Sleeping Beauty.

Speaker 27 I wonder if that was intentional or not.

Speaker 94 I would imagine it was. Yeah, probably.

Speaker 17 Also broke the biggest debut of all time for a female-fueled film.

Speaker 80 A female-fueled film?

Speaker 109 That's an actual category?

Speaker 80 Did Did they burn women to make the cameras run?

Speaker 83 What does that mean?

Speaker 83 Now you're starting to interest me.

Speaker 31 No movie fueled at this level by females of all ages has ever opened such big numbers.

Speaker 40 Hunger Games, 158.

Speaker 17 Okay.

Speaker 4 Twilight, 142.

Speaker 15 And those were the best

Speaker 53 series.

Speaker 85 Right. Wow.

Speaker 87 Well, I'm glad it passed up Twilight because what a horrible, horrible movie.

Speaker 122 Oh, that series.

Speaker 87 That whole series is a horrible phenomenon are you kidding me

Speaker 87 that whole series is great am i kidding you yeah you kidding me that twilight was horrible no i'm i'm not kidding you

Speaker 118 don't i don't even want to hear it from you you don't no i don't it's too late

Speaker 17 who had to go sit through that movie with their wife whose wife said that's horrible i'm not gonna go and whose wife said mine mine said mine and who's what and whose wife said i love this i want to go and i want to see everyone on opening yours

Speaker 55 right.

Speaker 72 So don't talk to me about how bad it was.

Speaker 108 Just because you suffered through it doesn't mean it would take that doesn't take the horribleness out of it.

Speaker 41 Did you enjoy them at all?

Speaker 83 It wasn't a slightly different. Your horribleness, though, is different, isn't it?

Speaker 99 Your horribleness is different.

Speaker 87 Because I didn't have to sit through the horribleness.

Speaker 83 No, no. I didn't read the books.

Speaker 35 I didn't see the movies.

Speaker 15 Right, but your horribleness was because of vampires, right?

Speaker 46 You don't like vampire movies.

Speaker 87 Yeah, that. And it's just the whole theme of it, the whole thing.
I just didn't like any of it.

Speaker 80 It feels like it was like a vampire movie aimed at teenagers, too. Do I have any perspective on any of these movies?

Speaker 80 I feel like I'm talking to a totally

Speaker 80 different world. I don't understand any of these trends that's going on.

Speaker 73 Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 12 He's turning.

Speaker 125 Jacob of Mining Long.

Speaker 80 By the way, Beauty and the Beast opening worldwide weekend, number 14 of all time. And I will say, none of the ones ahead of it, with the exception of number one, really interest me at all.

Speaker 123 Wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 56 Say that standard?

Speaker 80 14 when it comes to all-time worldwide opening

Speaker 87 worldwide.

Speaker 108 So there have been bigger movies than 350?

Speaker 80 Real quick: 14, Beauty and the Beast, 13 Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides, 12, Iron Man 3, 11, Captain America Civil War, 10, Spider-Man 3,

Speaker 80 9, Transformers, Dark of the Moon,

Speaker 80 8, Avengers, Age of Ultron, 7, Marvel's the Avengers. Listen to this.

Speaker 73 Listen to this.

Speaker 99 It's all

Speaker 41 is Marvel one of the greatest ever.

Speaker 80 Six, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Five,

Speaker 80 Furious Seven. 397.

Speaker 113 I saw the preview of Furious Seven.

Speaker 122 Why was

Speaker 80 it so great? That was the one after he died, right? Seven was the latest one after he died.

Speaker 64 The Duet looks really good, too.

Speaker 112 Number four,

Speaker 80 Batman vs. Superman, Dawn of Justice.

Speaker 41 That is an abomination.

Speaker 27 That makes me question America.

Speaker 29 Number two.

Speaker 86 And the world.

Speaker 80 Number three, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, $483 million opening. Wow.
Number two, Jurassic World, $524.9 million.

Speaker 80 Wow. Number one, shouldn't surprise you, Star Wars, The Force Awakens, $529 million opening weekend world.

Speaker 40 Was that number one?

Speaker 80 No, that's number seven.

Speaker 121 Number seven.

Speaker 80 So that's the newest one of the latest relaunches.

Speaker 66 Do you remember how big

Speaker 17 Star Wars 1 was when it opened?

Speaker 80 Now, I will say, I don't, these do not appear to be inflation adjusted.

Speaker 80 So that could be a big part of that. It's why you're seeing a lot of recent ones.

Speaker 80 But

Speaker 80 it's Twilight Series.

Speaker 87 Yeah, if you go to Inflation Adjusted, it's probably still Gone with the Wind.

Speaker 41 I was going to say, yeah.

Speaker 15 Gone with the Wind was like 26 cents a ticket.

Speaker 17 And I don't remember what it was, but like almost everybody in the movie, like everyone in the movie saw it.

Speaker 131 Yeah, everyone in the United States had to see that like one and a half times.

Speaker 35 It was something crazy.

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Speaker 63 Pat is very upset today.

Speaker 27 There's one thing that he, there's one thing that would really hack him off.

Speaker 19 It's the happiest countries list.

Speaker 100 And we go to that when we come back.

Speaker 100 This is the Glenn Beck Program,

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Speaker 40 Just

Speaker 53 looking at the happy index, this is the happiest countries in the world.

Speaker 87 Now, if you had to guess before you even heard

Speaker 87 what the survey says, where would you guess the United States to be?

Speaker 80 Right behind North Korea.

Speaker 108 Yes, yes, you would.

Speaker 87 Especially when the report is produced by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Speaker 87 You know, we're not doing well in that. No.

Speaker 20 Why? There's no code words in that.

Speaker 104 No code words at all.

Speaker 83 No, not code words at all. No.

Speaker 80 This is a report about how socialist your country is.

Speaker 83 So

Speaker 9 I actually agree with this.

Speaker 36 I actually agree with some of this.

Speaker 32 For instance,

Speaker 72 on the scale of the saddest countries,

Speaker 74 Rwanda is fifth from the bottom.

Speaker 80 Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 39 You know, Syria, not going to be that.

Speaker 99 152.

Speaker 5 Tanzania, 153.

Speaker 54 The Central African Republic is 153.

Speaker 87 No one has ever confused the Central African Republic for Disney World. You know,

Speaker 5 South Sudan is 147.

Speaker 15 Yemen is 146.

Speaker 3 It's pretty accurate on the bottom of the scale.

Speaker 44 So I personally think that it is fairly accurate on the upper side of the scale as well.

Speaker 17 And hear me out.

Speaker 129 Hear me out.

Speaker 29 Hear me out.

Speaker 24 Norway, Denmark,

Speaker 95 Finland, maybe, the Netherlands, and Iceland, maybe.

Speaker 68 But definitely Norway, Denmark, Netherlands.

Speaker 28 I can see because, A, it's a very, it used to be

Speaker 5 a very homogenized society.

Speaker 6 Everybody pretty much looked the same.

Speaker 17 Everybody, you know, they were just all the same.

Speaker 49 So it didn't have that conflict that comes with a melting pot.

Speaker 17 And

Speaker 58 they view themselves as

Speaker 9 a home for refugees because of World War II.

Speaker 58 They view themselves as a country that

Speaker 3 gets along and they love everybody.

Speaker 17 and

Speaker 28 they don't get into people's faces and we share everything.

Speaker 17 They have this mentality that we do not have.

Speaker 39 And they revel in that.

Speaker 131 They pride themselves on that kind of an attitude.

Speaker 7 So when you're coming to them and saying, hey, do you trust your government?

Speaker 29 They generally do.

Speaker 130 Does your government have that safety net in case you're in trouble?

Speaker 87 And they definitely do.

Speaker 81 Absolutely do.

Speaker 34 Are you happy with your surroundings and the people around you?

Speaker 131 Yeah.

Speaker 17 I mean, mean,

Speaker 75 that's who they are.

Speaker 87 Are you okay with living in 700 square feet of living space? Yes, they generally are because they don't know any better.

Speaker 36 Right, they generally are. And

Speaker 34 do you consider you and your fellow citizens generous?

Speaker 41 Yes, they do.

Speaker 109 They're generous because they pay high taxes.

Speaker 83 Right, but they're not generosity.

Speaker 97 I think they also look at generosity as being the

Speaker 15 I think they view themselves as the

Speaker 108 the humble little America bring your refuge refu you bring your wretched refuse to our shore I think they look at themselves as we take in all the undesirables and and we love everybody and but that really wasn't the case until recently and until this refugee crisis in in the Middle East they weren't you know they were like you said homogenized they're all the same right how hard is it to get along when you're all the same no it's not hard at all it's not hard that's why why I think it's pretty easy to be the happiest countries.

Speaker 129 Yeah.

Speaker 73 I suppose.

Speaker 51 And it is also looking for the Marxist kind of countries.

Speaker 87 Yeah, because here's the criteria. They have a healthy balance of prosperity as conventionally measured.
I don't know what that means. I don't know what that means either.

Speaker 87 And social capital, meaning a high degree of trust in society, low inequality. And you know, that's where we're going to get dinged with that.

Speaker 38 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 87 Massive inequality.

Speaker 92 But they don't even have inequality, A, because the government takes it all, but also because everyone's the same.

Speaker 58 Yes.

Speaker 79 Is there a trust in your society?

Speaker 58 Yes, because everyone's the same. Yeah.

Speaker 87 Definitely. And they say we're falling due to inequality, obviously, because that's what they like to harp on.

Speaker 80 Well, there's people who make a billion dollars while others make $7 an hour.

Speaker 87 Yeah, but the people who make a billion dollars employ the people who make $7 an hour. Otherwise, they'd make $0 an hour.
Oh, my God. So listen to the rhetoric.

Speaker 113 The United States can and should raise happiness by addressing America's multifaceted social crisis.

Speaker 48 Well, why don't I just go live in Siberia or Togo?

Speaker 109 Togo? Togo?

Speaker 120 I don't know.

Speaker 81 Yeah, I think it is T-O-G-O.

Speaker 53 Togo?

Speaker 83 I think it's Togo.

Speaker 80 I'm so fascinated by the Iceland thing. I mean, their entire economy collapsed.

Speaker 109 I think our economy collapsed.

Speaker 80 Theirs, like, legitimately, they lost their currency.

Speaker 54 And their head of Ice.

Speaker 51 They rewrote their Constitution.

Speaker 102 On Twitter.

Speaker 108 Yeah. They were looking for suggestions on Twitter.

Speaker 80 Hey, what should we put in our Constitution?

Speaker 87 Remember when the Founding Fathers did that? They wanted everybody to write something down, put it in a hat, kind of just drew stuff out.

Speaker 85 Can I tell you?

Speaker 38 There?

Speaker 4 I mean, unbelievable. What do you, I mean,

Speaker 126 you know, somebody said to me the other day, they said,

Speaker 32 it was George.

Speaker 93 I think it was George Lang.

Speaker 40 Somebody was, yeah, I think it was George Lang.

Speaker 17 He came over.

Speaker 87 He was a photographer, by the way.

Speaker 15 Yeah, a good friend of ours. And

Speaker 19 he came over to the house last Sunday, and he had, he went to church with us, and then he

Speaker 100 spent the afternoon.

Speaker 68 We had dinner together and he stayed the night.

Speaker 15 And he was saying

Speaker 27 how much he enjoyed.

Speaker 31 the day with the family.

Speaker 15 He said, it was just so great to be with the family.

Speaker 56 And he said, it was,

Speaker 63 what did he call it?

Speaker 63 An immigrant philosophy, I think.

Speaker 17 And

Speaker 30 in some ways, it's true.

Speaker 121 America has lost

Speaker 26 its roots to the family.

Speaker 100 And you'll see it with Mexican immigrants.

Speaker 71 You will see it with the old Italian immigrants. Asians.

Speaker 28 Asians, where the family comes together still.

Speaker 96 Yeah.

Speaker 15 And so, you know, a lot of these countries, they haven't lost that.

Speaker 20 We have.

Speaker 82 We've replaced a lot of that.

Speaker 87 Yeah, but I don't think that's what they're basing this on, right? They're not basing it on family values. That's the last thing they care about.

Speaker 27 Read the first one again.

Speaker 23 The first one will.

Speaker 8 The first criteria?

Speaker 23 Yeah, first criteria.

Speaker 87 A healthy balance of prosperity as conventionally measured.

Speaker 87 Social capital, meaning a high degree of trust in a society, low inequality, and confidence in government. And of course, the socialists have confidence in their socialist government.

Speaker 86 Not necessarily.

Speaker 31 Venezuelans don't.

Speaker 87 No, but I mean, the European socialism is different. Yeah.

Speaker 85 Well,

Speaker 100 I don't know if it translates. See, I don't think so, because it doesn't translate into Spain.

Speaker 92 It doesn't translate into Greece.

Speaker 97 It doesn't translate into Italy. It doesn't translate into Germany.
It translates into the Netherlands.

Speaker 27 That is one place where it seems to work until it doesn't, and they're trying to get out of it now because of finances.

Speaker 5 The math doesn't work.

Speaker 42 But in that part of the world, it did kind of work.

Speaker 27 But it doesn't translate outside of that.

Speaker 52 I mean, probably because you're too cold to go out and pick it or march.

Speaker 33 You're just like, oh, whatever.

Speaker 48 It's cold outside.

Speaker 80 You know, a couple of things. First of all,

Speaker 80 socialism can be nice for a country for a very short period of time. I mean, a lot of people are getting a lot of money.

Speaker 80 The overwhelming majority of people aren't rich and aren't the ones paying for it.

Speaker 80 until the entire society breaks down, you have some positive moments in theory.

Speaker 80 To me, you're fighting long-term for your country, so you don't want to do that. Secondarily, you're right.
Like

Speaker 80 the sort of idea that everyone is uniform

Speaker 80 does

Speaker 80 help in some ways as far as strife, but it's also not worth the trade-off.

Speaker 112 I mean, I don't want that trade-off.

Speaker 80 I mean,

Speaker 80 it's not something that I think is a good idea.

Speaker 80 But it's amazing to see these countries

Speaker 80 that are up at the top of that list. And I keep going back to this, but think of how bad this was.
This is Iceland again. I'm fascinated by this.

Speaker 80 Now I'm going back and looking at all my notes on this.

Speaker 87 Is this the meat thing where they didn't even have meat in McDonald's?

Speaker 80 No, this is just stock markets. Remember that?

Speaker 109 Just to show you how serious it is.

Speaker 87 They couldn't even afford meat at McDonald's

Speaker 108 so that they could make hamburgers.

Speaker 31 They don't grow their own beef for McDonald's, so they had no body.

Speaker 87 Cows can't live in that kind of cold.

Speaker 87 Cows can't live.

Speaker 15 You can send Jeffy there.

Speaker 48 You watch how long he lives.

Speaker 99 That's

Speaker 73 meaningful. That's

Speaker 83 what I'm talking about.

Speaker 104 Cows.

Speaker 121 Yeah,

Speaker 121 whatever.

Speaker 80 So, because they had this big thing where they got in, they were, you know, they were just, they were fishermen. Everyone was a fisherman, basically, there.

Speaker 80 And so they wound up expanding into international finance in a big way, which really helped their stock market for a while until people who were better at international banking wound up beating them down with it.

Speaker 80 But so our stock market before the financial crisis was at about 14,000 and change and fell to about 6,600 at the bottom.

Speaker 89 Okay.

Speaker 80 14,000, 6,600. So you're talking a pretty big drop there, 60%.

Speaker 80 Their stock market in mid-2007 was about 9,100.

Speaker 80 It fell to 200.

Speaker 12 Wow.

Speaker 80 9,100 to 200. Can you imagine your, and I mean, they blew up their entire currency.
They had to rewrite their constitution. That is a financial crisis.

Speaker 80 I mean, what we dealt with in the United States and the rest of the world dealt with was nothing compared to Iceland.

Speaker 28 But I think they weren't.

Speaker 28 I mean, I've not been to Iceland, but aren't they still pretty much fishermen?

Speaker 80 I think they've gone back to a lot of that, yes. And I mean, it's apparently a great place to visit.

Speaker 80 Like, it actually is pretty amazing to visit, and like, it's a really nice culture, and it's an interesting place, and they're welcoming, and there's a lot of great things about it.

Speaker 80 However, you know, it depends on what you feel.

Speaker 87 And the names of their cities are all 26 letters long.

Speaker 109 Yeah, it's really cool.

Speaker 120 You know, it's amazing.

Speaker 124 You know what's amazing?

Speaker 11 You know, so try this on for size.

Speaker 48 You're India.

Speaker 34 How do you feel?

Speaker 94 You're India.

Speaker 39 You're at 122.

Speaker 7 And Pakistan is 80.

Speaker 117 Wow.

Speaker 73 That's a good idea.

Speaker 67 I mean, if I had a choice of which country I'm going to, I'm going to India.

Speaker 15 I read this.

Speaker 80 What were the two again? It was India.

Speaker 41 Pakistan was 80.

Speaker 83 Oh, wow.

Speaker 5 India, 122.

Speaker 61 Bangladesh is at 110.

Speaker 80 Wow, that's a commentary on India there.

Speaker 5 Sri Lanka, 120.

Speaker 87 Bangladesh has a natural disaster about every 15 minutes.

Speaker 79 Two natural disasters have happened.

Speaker 72 How happy we started talking about the happiness report.

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Speaker 15 I mean, when we look into the happiness of Iceland, it's not possible.

Speaker 2 It's just not possible.

Speaker 87 They're like seven or eight places ahead of us on the happiness scale. We were 14th.
I think they're sixth or seventh, whatever.

Speaker 87 And this is a backward country.

Speaker 80 I'm amazed by this story.

Speaker 87 They should be taken over before they hurt themselves.

Speaker 83 So

Speaker 80 the naming thing is really fascinating.

Speaker 69 So,

Speaker 80 you know, in the United States, Glenn Beck has a daughter, Hannah. It's Hannah Beck.
That's not how it works in Iceland at all.

Speaker 49 Well, they don't have last names.

Speaker 80 They don't essentially don't have last names. They have last names, but the last name is essentially a formation of the parent's first name.

Speaker 80 So Hannah Beck here would be in Iceland, Hannah Beckdaughter.

Speaker 80 So.

Speaker 5 No, it'd be Hannah Glendaughter.

Speaker 86 Hannah Glenda.

Speaker 109 Sorry.

Speaker 55 Hannah Glendaughter.

Speaker 33 Their first name.

Speaker 86 That's the first name.

Speaker 80 So Hannah Glendaughter. He could also be the wife's first name, potentially.
Or you could do, some of them are both first names, which is a very strange thing.

Speaker 49 Hannah Glenn, Tanya daughter.

Speaker 33 Right.

Speaker 89 Well, yeah, kind of.

Speaker 80 Then you have

Speaker 80 when you get married, you can't take the other person's name. Of course not.
That can't happen.

Speaker 102 That's not legal.

Speaker 80 And then thirdly, if you want to name your, so you go through this process when your baby's born, you don't name the kid for multiple months.

Speaker 80 Okay, this is the tradition is you have to get to know them first before you name them.

Speaker 29 Right.

Speaker 80 They they come into their name, they come into a name, so they start out for the first few months as boy or girl, which, by the way, is hateful.

Speaker 64 I don't know if they're right off the bat, that's it.

Speaker 87 Well, you're assigning a gender

Speaker 99 to that, right?

Speaker 80 How can you possibly know in three months what their gender is? There's no way to know.

Speaker 80 No, um, but so they call them boy or girl for like three months or longer, and then when you come up with a name, if it's not on the normal name list,

Speaker 80 you have to submit the name uh to uh Sven,

Speaker 83 I think that one's on there, uh, Sven Sven Wilhelm's son.

Speaker 80 You have to send the request to the Icelandic Naming Committee before being allowed to name your child.

Speaker 80 For example, because it has to fit the

Speaker 80 Icelandic alphabet.

Speaker 80 And they rejected, for example, Pedro because no Icelandic word ends in O, which I mean, we're hateful here.

Speaker 90 We're the hateful.

Speaker 83 They rejected all Pedros and we're the hate mongers.

Speaker 85 Wow.

Speaker 21 Incredible. Maybe that's why they're happy they have no Pedros there.

Speaker 83 Well, I wouldn't.

Speaker 47 And who's doing the work that all the Icelanders won't do?

Speaker 80 I don't know the answer to that.

Speaker 113 There is no work the Icelanders won't do.

Speaker 59 Yeah, that's

Speaker 80 because the only work is fishing, and they do that.

Speaker 129 Right.

Speaker 27 Okay, so now we are number 14 on the list of happy places.

Speaker 63 So I went, of course, right to HuffPo to find out the 45 things we can do to be happier instantly.

Speaker 39 Oh, good.

Speaker 42 Oh, I got a few of them.

Speaker 39 Number 45.

Speaker 101 Look at the bright side.

Speaker 73 Right. Wow.
That's really deep.

Speaker 5 I like this one. You want to be happier?

Speaker 34 Lower your expectations.

Speaker 129 That's number 45.

Speaker 73 I actually fully agree with that one.

Speaker 104 I'll tell you what.

Speaker 73 I actually really do agree with that.

Speaker 52 Want to be happy?

Speaker 69 Take a selfie.

Speaker 80 Oh, God. I've seen my selfies.

Speaker 73 No.

Speaker 83 That makes me happier.

Speaker 59 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 41 Want to be happy?

Speaker 75 I like this one.

Speaker 63 Recite a positive mantra, like the only thing I have to do is follow my bliss.

Speaker 109 You made me angry by reciting it.

Speaker 3 Skip the small talk and go deep.

Speaker 25 Think of happy memories.

Speaker 8 Celebrate little victories.

Speaker 120 Try to cut back on work.

Speaker 27 Here's my favorite.

Speaker 28 Number 32: just try.

Speaker 27 I mean, really try to be happy.

Speaker 12 Wow. It's really profound.

Speaker 12 It is.

Speaker 73 I'm immediately happier.

Speaker 21 Well, I'm instantly happier now, but right now it's faster than immediately.

Speaker 114 This is the Glen Beck program,

Speaker 115 Mercury.