3/9/17 - Full Show

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Hello, America.

Welcome to the Glen Beck Program.

We want to talk a little bit about healthcare.

Stu is trying to convince us that maybe,

maybe we should lower our standards a bit.

This is not the pitch.

He's done progressive.

He's become all 100% progressive.

We'll get into that here in a second.

Also, day 47 of Stu being held hostage.

George Soros yesterday gave $246 million

to give the Day Without Women protest a little lift.

$246 million to the organizers of that particular event.

All men, by the way.

We're all men.

Yeah, they're all men.

Every one of them was a man.

What has happened to men?

Seriously, what has happened to men?

And why are women allowing men to dictate what they're doing?

Well, I thought that was the whole point of it.

Women are now taking on the CDC and saying, I mean, out of all the things that women

can take on,

this is the one you take on the CDC and you say, you're not going to tell me not to drink when I'm pregnant.

Got it?

What a song.

Lots to talk about.

Let's get started right now.

May I share something with you?

I believe,

I believe I have found the biggest flip-flop that any of us ever do, and we've all done it.

And I can't think of something that is a bigger switch in your mind than this, where you will literally pray for something.

And 30 seconds later, you are literally praying for the exact opposite.

And you meant them both times.

Okay.

Wow.

That's quite the sell.

But it's absolutely true.

Think of that.

That where you are so committed, you are literally begging the Lord for something.

30 seconds later, you are begging him for the exact opposite.

Can you think?

Other than an episode of Law and Order, no.

I mean, I have a pretty good idea.

I have a pretty good idea.

Yeah, what is it?

Because

some people in this building were

and have been pretty sick

the last few years.

You're on your knees praying, Lord, just get this over with.

Please, just let me throw up.

Please, just let me throw up.

And then when it starts it, you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, please, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

There is nothing.

I had the stomach flu.

Five of us in the family had it all at once.

Every adult except for Tanya.

So Tanya was left with the kids, the grandkids.

I mean, she was.

But she's fine.

She's fine.

What?

That's what she does.

What?

No big deal.

She was Florence Nightingale for the last two days with a house full of.

And a visitor, somebody who came to visit us, barfing as well.

It was a nightmare.

Hey, come on down, visit.

How was your weekend with the Becks?

It was great.

I spent the weekend barfing.

It was wonderful.

Anyway, so I'm sitting, I'm kneeling there, and I realize I've just flip-flopped.

And I don't, I can't think of a stronger prayer either way.

So it was, please kill me.

It was, please, just let me get this out of my system now.

Just let me barf, please.

Why drag this on for an hour?

I know.

Stop building towards it.

Let's just get it done.

I'll feel so much better.

And then the minute you start,

the minute you feel like your mouth starts to water, you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Stop, stop, stop.

And then when it's over, it's back to thank God.

Thank God.

Thank God it's over.

Thank you.

It's really a double flip-flop.

Yeah.

I mean,

it's crazy.

And there is nothing that the body does that is more amazing than that.

Completely reversing your system.

Yeah.

It's an awful process.

Awful.

There's few things in life that are less pleasant than throwing up.

I haven't thrown up in 32 years.

It's the first time I've had the stomach fluid.

I don't know how long.

But I remember it like it was yesterday because it's so

horrifying.

Pat and I, we worked in Baltimore and we had a boss.

We had a boss who.

Oh, no, you're not going to tell this story.

Oh, this is a great story.

This is a great story.

This is a classic.

We would have been legend had we done it, but our wives stopped us from doing it.

I was happy.

Would you have done it if it wasn't for your wife?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I would have too.

And our wives were like, no, no, Daniel.

Don't do that.

We would have been legends had we not listened to her.

And instead, you just, you back down to your wives.

You're the opposite of legends.

Yes.

Exactly.

So anyway, so we had this boss, and he was.

fastidious on everything.

He would sit at his desk and you'd be sitting there and he would adjust his pens and his pencils and he'd make sure and he had a beautiful office he was always meticulously groomed and $2,000 suits back in 1990 yeah I mean he would make sure that his ink blotter was just everything was just so

and he was calling us in he was going to fire us and we knew we were going to be fired and it was after our vacation yeah he said to us

we said

look we're not going to go on vacation if you're going to fire us please fire us before vacation before we go spend all this money on vacation we know you're going to fire us Just fire us before.

Glenn, Pat, stop.

Come on.

There's nothing to be.

We're not going to do that.

Go into, relax.

You're being paranoid.

Relax.

Go on vacation.

We get back from vacation the night before we start on that Sunday night.

Hey, why don't you guys take another day or two and come in on Wednesday and talk to me in the morning?

Right.

When we're supposed to be doing a radio show?

Oh, okay, but we're not going to get fired.

So Pat and I had three days to think about it we knew we were gonna be fired so we used to go to this place called the hard times cafe which i first found in old town alexandria when i lived there just outside of washington and it is the best chili cincinnat chili you've ever had it has a five-way five-way stuff comes with spaghetti and cheese and cheese on top chili on top of chili chili and everything else

so we were gonna go to get a whole eat as much of that as we possibly could like at eight o'clock in the morning Then we were going to take Icapac

and we were going to just, you know, that's the stuff that makes you throw up, you know, for kids.

And we were going to take some Icapac and then go into his office.

We're going to take it like four minutes before we went in

and then just take that ICAPAC.

And then vomit all over his desk.

Vomit.

Vomit just chilling up all over his desk, all over his office, all the way to the bathroom.

Jim, sorry.

Yellow fire made us ill.

I'm sorry.

Oh my god.

I would have been so

legendary.

Legendary.

Kids, live your dreams.

Don't listen.

Don't listen to somebody

stop you from doing crushed

dreams.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

Pat and I have been crushed ever since.

It was our one chance.

We were emasculating.

Being decent people.

Loves.

Our opportunity to do something great.

And instead, we were doing this.

It's gone.

We would have gotten awards for that.

Yeah, oh, yeah.

You might ask, how did we get on Vomit Talk so early in the morning?

Well, we were talking about the healthcare plan.

That is an amazing story, though.

And you guys, at that point in your lives, probably would have actually pulled the trigger on.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

We absolutely would have.

They started in on the HICAPAC stuff is dangerous, blah, blah, blah.

We give it to kids.

It makes you vomit.

How could it possibly be dangerous?

Well, it probably is.

I mean, you know, it's a last resort to get poison out of your system.

It probably is less dangerous than the poison.

That doesn't mean it's not dangerous.

Damn.

You only live once.

Only live once.

Better than your plan of living with health care.

Hey, let's just all throw in this bad health care bill.

Maybe it's not so bad.

Let's take the turd sandwich.

Why not?

Why not?

Let's eat crap.

As we talked about the other day,

it's more like a normal hamburger bun with a turd burger, but it's a slider.

Yeah, yeah.

So there is room around the edges to eat.

Now, you might not want to do that, but there is a little room outside the turd toast.

Literally, I'm going to go out, and you like good wheat toast?

Yeah, sure.

You like good wheat toast?

I'm going to go have Matthew make the greatest piece of toast you've ever had, and I'm going to have him go out to the lawn.

I'm going to have him find some turd of something out in the the lawn.

He's going to put it right in the center of that.

He is not going to touch the edges at all.

You can even watch him.

He's just going to put it right in the center.

Then he's going to put another piece of toast on top.

You go ahead and eat around the edges.

When you do that, I'll listen to you about your let's eat around the edges of this turd burger.

Well, I mean, that's, of course, saying if this, if the turd burger you just described does not occur, you will then eat a piece of bread, a toast sandwich with turd all the way around, right?

You'll be happy to swallow that instead of the slightly improved turd burger.

No, you don't want that either.

Well, I don't want either of them.

However, if I were to choose between the two, I might choose the turd burger.

This is what I would do.

I should also state that this is actually not my opinion.

I just, I'm, I'm, I'm playing this out mentally.

Here's what we should do: we should find a guy and elect a guy who's just not going to sit down, who will do the right thing and knows what is going on with the American people and hears our cry for once and will stand up for us for once and won't let the party ram it down our throats.

An outsider who's not already so tainted that he just starts playing the Washington game immediately.

Exactly.

However, this outsider who's going to push everything through promised something considerably more liberal than what this plan is.

That is true.

So if he does decide to push through what he actually wants, it's going to be considerably worse.

He's not pushing that through because he knows he can't get away with it.

I'm convinced of it.

Maybe

it doesn't stop him on anything else.

I mean, I'm convinced that he, he,

he is,

I'm not convinced of anything.

Never mind.

I know nothing.

I know nothing.

And that's where I think I learned from the leave.

I know nothing.

And that's where I, because this was a moment of weakness as I described it as I was coming in today and I was listening to the plans.

The reporting today is that behind the scenes, Trump is saying, well, if they don't want this plan, if we can't get this past conservatives, can't get it passed in the House and the Senate, then I'll just do nothing and let Obamacare fail on its own.

And then we'll blame the Democrats and we'll move it.

But you won't blame the Democrats.

The Democrats will blame us.

Well, that's it.

And we will get that because it was a do-nothing Congress.

Right.

But, I mean, it will still be Obamacare.

And maybe he can make the case.

It might work, right?

I don't know.

What happens after that?

Who knows?

Because, I mean, again, he ran on a government paying for health.

Well, how about this?

How about we pass this and it fails anyway and makes things worse?

I mean, however,

and this was my moment of weakness.

What you might get out of that is a few years of lower taxes, less regulation,

bigger health savings accounts to put money away.

You might get a short reprieve from the terrible,

some of the terrible effects of Obamacare.

And maybe at this point, when you can get two years of okay,

you take it, realizing that the crap is coming anyway.

Yeah, but we just elected a guy who's not going to give us two years.

He's going to smash the system.

He's going to be,

I mean, seriously, I know

you're being sarcastic.

No,

I'm saying the things that everyone told me that they cared about two things, the border and health care.

But his stating goal on health care.

No, but we don't believe him on that.

But he didn't mean that.

To be fair to Donald Trump, this is what he ran on.

Oh, I know.

He ran on a system.

No, he didn't.

He ran on something much worse.

Much worse.

So again, again if you have but let's remember also that when he was running on something much worse we weren't supposed to listen to him because what we wanted to do is get a guy what we wanted to do is get a guy who would not listen to paul ryan because paul ryan's plan was incomprehensible right so okay yes i agree with you i would have rather had ted cruise as well right um but we don't have him um so you have what you have in there is you have donald trump and donald trump a guy who ran on hey government's going to pay for all the health care.

And this plan is not that.

It's not.

Is it Obamacare light?

Yes, it is.

It's a turd sandwich with a slider in the middle.

But it's still going to collapse on itself.

Probably.

But you know what's going to happen?

That's the other

opportunity is we stick with Obamacare and it collapses on itself.

So again, I'm not saying I actually believe this position.

It's important to note.

I'm making the devil's devil's.

Devil's advocate.

Yeah, you're playing devil's advocate.

I'm playing the devil's advocate.

I'm making that argument.

But there's a case to be made that maybe you just, I don't know, take it and get a couple years and you lose a 4% tax from Medicaid and

you lose

the medical devices tax.

You get health savings accounts largely expanded.

You get to open up potentially if they release this in a future plan.

Let me play

this.

Let me play devil's advocate to me.

What you're saying is

you're not going to get what you want.

So

stop with your highfalutin principles

and just take what you can get because your principles are going to get you nowhere right and this is why i don't actually believe this but i i will say uh you know i can understand like you know there's a difference between what you what you advocate for and what you root for right so what you what do you advocate for like i if i i am advocating a hundred percent for a much better health plan what do you root for well i don't know i mean i don't think we're getting the plan i want yeah so this is the same.

This is just a smaller version of the same conversation we had over the last, you know, two years.

Yeah.

Is, you know, so what do you do?

Well, I'm just not going to jump in the bandwagon for either of them.

But what, but,

and I think that's the right thing.

However, right now, we have a bill out there that has been advertised as a negotiation point.

So right now, I actually really like the way Cruz is dealing with this.

And that Cruz went and said, he did not say come out against the bill.

What he said was there are some issues, but this is, I'm really excited to negotiate it.

So let's push for the best possible bill and see if we can move it to a point where it's acceptable.

I am totally good with negotiating to see if we can get this to a workable bill.

I am not for supporting anything like this bill.

No, well, and I'm with you on that.

But still, let's at least try.

Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah.

Got a window here to push it.

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Shut up.

Jeffy said in the break, you know, that, and it's

Ipacac.

Yes.

I just get that wrong.

But we were talking and Jeffy said, you know, that just, that would have made you legends.

Yes, I know it would have.

And we missed the boat.

Kids, don't let a woman crush your dreams.

The other, and then he brings up, oh, but you know what?

The other legend is the Clear Channel stock thing.

Pat and I were poor,

and we were negotiating our first deal with Clear Channel when they had like 12 radio stations.

Yeah, this is before Clear Channel was Clear Channel.

Yeah, they had nothing.

And the

president was at the time.

The president of the corporation was negotiating our contract and he said to me,

look, how about we pay you this and then we'll give you half the rest of the salary in Clear Channel stock.

No.

And I looked at Pat.

I covered the phone and I looked at Pat and I said, ooh, they're offering clear channel stock.

Want some?

No, thank you.

Okay.

We did the figuring.

That stock between us was worth like $6 million.

Yeah.

Okay.

Because Clear Channel stock at the time was, I don't know,

$10 or $8

ridiculous.

It went up to 90 and split, and then it went back up to 80 and split.

And then

it was worth a lot of money.

So the end of the story is 10 years later, I'm still working for Clear Channel.

Okay.

And I said, I'm talking to the guy who was on the phone, who we had never spoken about that moment ever again, 10 years, maybe 15 years later, never spoken of that moment.

And he said, I was just in Louisville.

And I said, oh, yeah, you guys own WHAS, right?

And he said, yeah.

And I said, is Wayne Perkey there still?

And he looked at me and he put his hand around the shoulder and he, my shoulder, and he said, no, Glenn, he took the stock.

Oh,

oh, oh, man.

Oh, that hurts.

Oh, man.

That still hurts.

Some of us are still working today.

Thank you for that.

Back in a minute.

This is the Glenn Vec program.

Mercury.

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Hello, America.

Glad you're here.

I am so excited.

The Americans is back on television, season five of The Americans.

Anybody watch that?

I've watched a little bit of it.

It's about

a spy, right?

Spy.

Yeah, it's about a husband and wife in quotation marks and their family here in America who are deep cover KGB agents in the 1980s.

And if you are my age, this is like zero set right in your coming of age

time.

And it's so well done.

And the storyline is so good.

And

they live across the street.

They're in, I think, Alexandria, Virginia.

And

they live across the street from an FBI agent who is looking for undercover KGB guys.

And they have no idea.

He moves in after they live there.

And he moves in and they're like, hey, neighbor, they bring over a cake.

So what do you do?

Well, Bill's an FBI agent and they just go, white.

You, yeah, really?

Yeah, I'm looking for the commies that are here.

Oh, great.

And so it's this tension between them and they become friends.

And he's always on the verge.

I mean, he's looking for literally looking for them.

And,

you know, they will, he will say, rough day, man.

I was trying to catch, well, never mind.

And they know he's looking for them.

And it's just, it's great.

And they do things all the way through it.

Like, I just thought this was brilliant.

For, again, people who are my age,

in one episode I saw in one of the seasons, they're in the kitchen and they're talking.

The TV is like on.

It's always on, radio or TV.

And they start talking and the kitchen, the camera is where like the refrigerator is.

It's open concept.

And then it shoots down the aisle, the, you know, the

island, and sees the TV at the other end of the living room.

And they're all standing at the counter and they're arguing about something.

And they're like, he's like, just stop.

I mean,

okay, look.

But in that pause, you're seeing something on TV.

And I don't remember if it was, I think it was a commercial for a like, you know, the Monday night movie or the Sunday night movie, something that was like so ingrained in your head, you're like, oh my gosh, I haven't thought of that forever.

And it's just really cool, this time tunnel that you're in.

All of the things, all Reagan, I mean, you want to have Reagan as president, watch this, because they're constantly watching the speeches from Reagan and what he's doing.

It just brings you back to a time

when all we had to worry about was being vaporized by the Russians.

Good times.

Good times.

Good times.

And it really really does kind of show because you have this, you have this remembrance of those times being so good.

And

if you're, if you're that age, you will watch this and go, oh man, I long for those simpler days.

But it was still, it reminds you, boy, those were scary times, really frightening times.

Yeah.

But to see them without.

To see them without the cell phones, to see them with the gigantic computers, with the gigantic floppy disks, is pretty amazing to see.

Oh my gosh, they had to stop at a payphone.

Yeah.

Right.

All the things that we have forgotten is pretty amazing.

Wow.

So this is like season five?

Season five.

Yeah, because I was just the ratings are the lowest season premiere

this week that they've ever had.

Oh, that's too bad.

Season five might be it.

Well, I mean, season five, five seasons is a good run for anything.

Yeah.

And also FX will finish it.

That's FX, right?

Yeah.

Because Because FX has split their channels into about 60 different places

as well.

Like, I mean, it's also.

I think FX is making stuff mainly for Netflix now.

I mean,

I've never watched it on Philadelphia.

I've never watched it on Philadelphia.

It's always sunny in Philadelphia, which is a show I've loved for many years.

That's still on.

Season 13, 12, 13, 14.

It is

according to an article I read this week, the longest-running

sitcom?

Longest-running live-action comedy comedy series of all time.

What?

No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Live action comedy.

No, live action.

So they do it in front of an audience?

What do you mean, live action?

Like, not a cartoon, not The Simpsons.

Okay.

Okay.

But I mean, MASH wasn't a comedy series.

Yeah, it was.

It was a dramedy.

So maybe that's...

It was mostly comedy.

No.

I don't know.

It was a lot of.

No, it's not a sitcom.

Yeah, it was a comedy.

That was a dramedy.

I put that in a different category.

That had real series.

Cheers.

Look Look at the animals.

Cheers run.

Yeah, but Cheers didn't have...

Like, MASH had those a lot in almost every episode, a poignant moment.

Cheers didn't.

Now, I'm sure there's some little, you know, they're doing some...

1982 to 1993 for Cheers.

So right on that.

11 years.

11 years.

This is 13 years?

I think it's

same cast.

This wasn't Danny DeVito in that?

DeVito joined in season two, and he's been there the whole time.

He was not there for season one, and the rest of them are all the same.

Isn't it weird how people can be star?

Like Danny DeVito will be, we think of Danny DeVito again because of cheers.

Isn't that where we first saw him?

Danny DeVito?

Taxi, right?

Taxi.

Taxi, taxi.

I mean, you think of him as either taxi or cheers, and then he kind of dropped off the map.

For some people, our, our, our viewing habits, our culture is so split that Danny DeVito could walk into a room and a 20-something might say, oh my gosh, it's Danny DeVito and be a huge fan.

He'd be like, how the hell do you know about Danny DeVito?

And you're a rabid fan.

Yeah, it's always funny.

It's always sunny in Philadelphia.

Yeah.

And I mean, so it's been a,

but they, what my point on that is.

It's still funny.

Oh, yeah.

It's still crazy.

I will also say Danny DeVito didn't exactly drop off the map.

He did

refer to

he did Romancing the Switzerland.

But you could be a movie.

I mean, there were some big movies.

Okay, but that could be a good idea.

So that's after that.

No, but after that.

Well, after that.

Yeah.

When have you seen him?

The Lorax.

Yeah.

The Lorax.

Yeah.

Stop.

But I mean, that's up.

Somebody has IMDB open.

I see.

Yeah.

Was it really nothing until because it's always sunny in Philadelphia is huge, but you could know him from taxi, and it's always sunny in Philadelphia.

That is a long, free span.

It's a span of comedy.

A long, long span, especially when both of those shows at the time were cutting edge.

Yeah.

I mean,

that's where Christopher Lloyd came with his Back to the Future character, darn close.

Right?

Didn't Christopher Lloyd

play in that kind of like a

Jim Ignatowski?

Yeah.

He was playing that same kind of character.

We were just talking about the comedian, Andy Kaufman.

Andy Kaufman Kaufman.

Yeah, oh, my gosh.

Because we've, you know, obviously we discovered recently that Bill Hicks, the former comedian who supposedly passed away, is actually Alex Jones.

So we didn't,

the same person.

Bill Hicks.

So Bill Hicks died supposedly.

And then right at that exact same time.

Okay, no, I'm thinking.

Alex Jones came out.

I'm thinking of somebody else that just passed away.

Didn't the guy who played the president

in Independence Day just die, too?

Bill Paxton.

Oh, Bill Paxton.

Bill Paxton.

Didn't he just die?

Yes.

He did.

Was he number one, two, or three of the

who's died recently?

Yes, celebrities.

He was all of them.

No, I think he was number one of

the new three?

Of the new three, because there hasn't been celebrities.

But there was in a while.

That spam, there was.

Because it was right at the.

Are you really going to?

So my point tell us, however, was that

FX split into FX,

FXX,

FX,

XXX,

maybe

yeah, like three or four, and they're all FX something

in a really weird split.

So all the ratings for all of those shows went down because they brushed them out over multiple networks.

So like, you know, like it's going to do that.

I guess to build the other brands.

I mean, like, you, so they moved like flagship shows like It's Always Sunny from FX to FXX and Archer and some of their other, I mean, they have a lot of good programming on those networks.

but they still.

I don't even know where they are.

I am so

it's so weird.

Remember, five, six years ago we started the Blaze.

We were the ones, I got the Disruptor of the Year award for disrupting television.

Yeah, right?

From

the Tribeca Film Festival.

So I get that.

That's what, six years ago, I get that award for disrupting and breaking television and breaking out and starting something new.

And our biggest problem, if you remember, six years ago was people won't stream it.

It's not fast enough.

True.

That was our big struggle at the beginning of this thing is that no one

had fast enough internet to be able to stream.

Yeah.

And people would get on their Roku and they'd be like, I tried to watch it, but it would just stop.

Yeah.

Netflix used to have that problem.

Yeah.

It would stop and buffer and you'd be like, and you'd be like, I can't, I'm just not.

And that was our number one complaint back then.

Yeah.

Now it's just that, you know, you guys stink.

But the number one complaint back then

was that it wouldn't buffer.

Now look at it.

I remember when I said to you, someday, Stu, people will just wait for the download and Thursday night must-see TV will be a thing of the past?

Yeah.

That was back in the, what, mid-90s?

Yeah.

I'm excited about Americans because I've been watching for it on Netflix.

When is it going to download?

When's it going to start?

When are they going to start again?

It's like,

what's the TV show with the kids from the 80s?

Strangest.

Stranger Things.

Yeah, that's Halloween, by the way, new season.

Yeah, I mean,

I'm just waiting for the download times.

Really, we aren't really there.

And the whole season, too, by the way.

Whole season.

Yeah.

This one's not the whole season.

I hate when they're slaved to a network.

Right, because that's what they do.

With FX, like, it's always Sunday in Philadelphia won't put the season on Netflix until the new one starts.

Right.

So they'll put the entire season on right around the same time the new season starts.

Walking Dead does that too on Netflix, yeah.

But that's not a bad way to go.

You can buy them.

I think you can buy them on Amazon on NFTs.

Yes, you can.

You can buy them right now.

So, I mean,

okay.

I mean, okay, Mr.

Richie Rich over here with his

$199 per episode.

I mean, there's three bucks an episode.

If you get HD, it's three bucks an episode.

You buy the season, it's like $45 or something if you buy a season.

You could just

watch it live.

But you don't have to put up with commercials.

Yeah, but you don't have to put up with commercials either.

Although, you do have to do it.

How lazy and how spoiled are we?

Barry.

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so i i have to tell you i saw this picture today and i will describe it if you're if you're watching on the blaze or watching online um you'll see it here in a second um but let me describe it for radio it is a picture of john f kennedy standing like on an old kitchen chair this is like 1960.

he's standing it looks like some maybe West Virginia.

He's standing out in the country someplace.

And he's giving a speech.

And all of these people are standing around, and they are

cordoned off.

Nobody's cordoned off.

Right by the president of the United States.

Right by him.

Amazing.

And what's incredible is imagine having your picture, and you're in a picture with John F.

Kennedy.

I mean, there's no bigger icon of the 20th century.

You know, having these kids down here that were in this picture, you'd be like, wow, look at me.

And unless you do this and you see the whole picture with this kid with a gun in his mouth.

Now, it looks like a real gun.

He's right at the calf of the president.

It looks just like a real revolver.

But it made me remember when we were kids, remember we had those revolvers that were squirt guns.

And they were absolutely like a real gun.

They were great.

Either that's photoshopped or I doubt it is.

Or the Secret Service knew it was a squirt gun and

even I don't even think they looked at those I mean they would see that and they'd be like whatever

Kennedy might have that's amazing taken a drink from it before he stood up on the chair because we all as kids we all had those guns yeah and we used to do that think of that we used to all put the barrel of our gun in our mouth and squirt water into our mouth if that was today that kid would be shot dead Not only would that kid be shot dead, can you imagine how many people would say, oh my gosh, look at that culture treat teaching that kid to blow his own head off.

Yeah.

It's just a way to deliver water we used to drink we used to drink squirt guns all the time all the time we would put real looking guns into our mouth and drink our what instead of having a water bottle and it did not simulate suicide either it did no it did we were just drinking the water and our parents never said that don't put a gun in your mouth they would have never said that we weren't that stupid don't use it to squirt your sister Exactly right.

Exactly right.

Things have changed ever so much slightly.

Ever so slightly.

Ever so slightly.

What are our kids?

Our kids are going to look back now.

No, they're not.

They're going to look back now and say, the number one thing our children or our children's children will say, number one thing,

they let you drive.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You used to drive

in a car?

In a car.

And I'm telling you, they will sit by, because I have the old chief from the 1950s, that old truck.

um

i i

just you

really my grandfather i know why my grandmother never drove that thing is a beast that is hard no power anything yeah and you are just you're driving those scars from the 50s oh my gosh difficult yeah they let you drive that how

Well, people had muscle tone back then.

Look at some of the pictures from that.

They hated women.

But it was.

It had a lot of muscle tone.

Yeah.

Well, it was.

It was just under a lot of fat.

Like, my muscle tone is great.

That's five pounds away from just ripped abs right here.

Just burning about five pounds of fat between them.

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It's an amazing story.

Even social media savvy teens cannot fake a news story, a fake news story.

We'll give you that coming up in a second.

Also, there's a woman from the Westboro Baptist Church

that

has left the Westboro Baptist Church, and the reason why she left is fascinating and can be totally applied to your life today.

We begin there right now.

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Can they spot fake news stories?

Can they spot bias?

We'll give that to you here in just a second.

So Megan Phelps Roper, she was in the Westboro Baptist Church.

Phelps, so she is.

So Phelps is the name.

Fred Phelps was the head guy.

And 90%.

She's adopted or is she

a child?

I don't think she's married.

Okay.

So she was a a child of Fred.

Yeah.

She grew up in,

or it might be grandchild of Fred.

Fred's.

Have we lost him?

He's very old.

I don't know if we've lost him.

I don't keep up with every iteration of what goes on in the Westboro Baptist Church, but I do find it a fascinating topic in that it's they're just such they're so crazy And to see that you know the people if you don't know who they are the people that go and they protest military funerals They say God hates Jews and gays and all kinds of stuff and all the things really bad You know, they're the worst part of every news story, basically.

They come out and they're like, oh God, this is a tragedy.

Now it's worse.

Like they are able to do it every single time.

So

she grew up, and I don't, you know, I know we had someone who left the Westboro Baptist Church on a long time ago, and I can't remember if it was her or if it was someone else because a couple people have left.

But almost everybody at the Westboro Baptist Church is from the Phelps family.

It's like 80%

Phelps family members.

So she left the church a while ago and did it, recently did a TED talk on why she left and how it happened.

And it's fascinating because, I mean, there are parts of it that sound like she's just lifting lines from Glenn Beck

about how to deal with the world.

Now, you might not want to be associated with someone who's in the Westboro Baptist Church.

But she's out of the Westboro Baptist Church.

And she's

talking about how she, why she left.

And for everybody who says, oh, you know, the left won't listen,

Let's listen to how the woman...

Do you think the left is less extreme than the Westboro Baptist church?

If you could communicate with someone like that and break down those walls, you could do it with anybody.

And listen to what she said, how it was done.

Listen to me.

In 2009, that zeal brought me to Twitter.

Initially, the people I encountered on the platform were just as hostile as I expected.

They were the digital version of the screaming hordes I'd been seeing at protests since I was a kid.

But in the midst of that digital brawl, a strange pattern developed.

Someone would arrive at my profile with the usual rage and scorn.

I would respond with a custom mix of Bible verses, pop culture references, and smiley faces.

They would be understandably confused and caught off guard.

But then a conversation would ensue.

And it was civil, full of genuine curiosity on both sides.

How had the other come to such outrageous conclusions about the world?

Sometimes the conversation even bled into real life.

People I'd sparred with on Twitter would come out to the picket line to see me when I protested in their city.

A man named David was one such person.

He ran a blog called Julicious

and after several months of heated but friendly arguments online, he came out to see me at a picket in New Orleans.

He brought me a Middle Eastern dessert from Jerusalem where he lives.

and I brought him kosher chocolate and held a God hates Jews sign.

There was no confusion about our positions, but the line between friend and foe was becoming blurred.

We'd started to see each other as human beings, and it changed the way we spoke to one another.

It took time, but eventually these conversations planted seeds of doubt in me.

Now imagine how many Jewish friends this guy had who said, what are you selling out?

Don't you know she's using you?

Don't you know you're being pulled in?

You're a sellout.

You got to stand against.

how many people she had in her life saying the same thing, but they both were being civil to each other.

And

probably everyone in their life said, it's not going to change anything.

And look what happened.

You have another cut from her?

If you can win over the Westboro Baptist Church.

And one of the things she mentioned quickly in there, and she went on at length later, is something you've said a million times.

She said, the conversations always started and neither of us changed our positions.

Neither of us changed our principles.

It wasn't, it was just listening.

You don't have to change your ideas.

It was listening and communicating like your friend.

And then start talking about families and things you have in common.

Yeah.

And it helped, I mean, win over a Westboro Baptist church member.

And to the extent of how crazy that would be, because you think of these people, I mean, they're obviously

crazy.

God hates Jews.

God hates gays.

I mean, you can't think of people who are more off the rocker than that.

She goes into that.

Yeah, and to talk about how indoctrinated she was, she talks about at the very beginning of this that the first protest she went to, she was five years old protesting gays somewhere, holding a sign she couldn't even read.

That's how deeply she was in this.

And she goes through this entire process.

And through Twitter, we think of all these good people being turned bad through Twitter.

Here's someone who went through Twitter and turned her life from pure evil to something else.

My friends on Twitter took the time to understand Westbro's doctrines, and in doing so, they were able to find inconsistencies I'd missed my entire life.

Why did we advocate the death penalty for gays when Jesus said, let he who is without sin cast the first stone?

How could we claim to love our neighbor while at the same time praying for God to destroy them?

The truth is that the care shown to me by these strangers on the internet was itself a contradiction.

It was growing evidence that people on the other side were not the demons I'd been led to believe.

These realizations were life-altering.

Once I saw that we were not the ultimate arbiters of divine truth, but flawed human beings, I couldn't pretend otherwise.

I couldn't justify our actions, especially our cruel practice of protesting funerals and celebrating human tragedy.

Okay, stop here for a second.

Let's just put this together.

Both sides have this problem.

Both sides, in one way or another, are the Westboro Baptist Church, both left and right.

We have extremists on both sides.

But think of, let's just think of for this audience, let's just think of

the right or the left thinks they're the arbiter of everything that is true.

We're not the science deniers.

We're not that way.

You're the science denier.

Well, you aren't educated.

We're educated.

We have all the universities.

They believe that everything intellectually is on their side, right?

So they're morally superior.

They don't see

the

disconnect between saying, let's march for women and yesterday, while this was going on, they were advocating, the left was advocating and going against the CDC, saying, Women are protesting the CDC because you men can't tell us not to drink during our pregnancy.

Well, I agree that we can't tell you what to do.

That's your decision.

But that doesn't seem like something you later in life will be proud of standing and marching for.

It doesn't seem logical to me that when all is said and done, you'll be proud that you marched for abortion.

for the killing of children, that at some point in your life, you or most, I believe, will come to the determination that, you know,

that is a child because there's no way because of science is going to force you.

I'm not the science denier.

You're the one that says, I don't want, I don't want

a scan.

I don't want an ultrasound to happen and give the women a chance to say, oh my gosh, it is a child.

If they have that scan and they say, I don't care, well, that's a different subject.

But you have to admit that that is a child.

Otherwise, why would you say no to ultrasounds?

Which one of us is in this bubble?

Now, I'm only using this because both sides are in a bubble.

But anybody who says that they cannot reach the left,

listen to what she just said.

It was by kindness on the internet first, kindness.

of not slamming back because the left does see the right as a monster, just like many on the right see the left as a monster.

They're not.

We're not.

We disagree on things and we ratchet it up because we're screaming at each other.

But if we'll just start talking and better yet, listening, listening first to one another, you will find what I have found, wow, we have a ton in common.

Now, it's not going to change anything overnight.

People say to me all the time, yeah, well, who have you changed?

Well, nobody.

But I will tell you, look how many people from the left have been on this show.

Just two days ago, we had somebody on the left who said, you know what?

I've changed my mind.

I'm actually not on the left.

I'm on the right.

And I was diehard on the right or on the left.

And now I've changed.

So while I haven't personally done it,

I think it is happening.

And if you want to make it happen,

She's giving you the recipe.

And it's Martin Luther King's recipe.

And unfortunately, most of our society is siding with Malcolm X.

Most of us want the anger and hate and rage.

We all want it to stop.

But we're all being led to be convinced that nothing will ever change with the other side.

And so it's of no use.

That's a lie.

And she's proof positive of that lie.

At least I think so.

At the most extreme level, possibly.

I mean,

if this doesn't, if this isn't a proof of concept, I don't know what it is.

Now this.

Let me talk to you a little bit about what I think is

coming in the economy.

And I got, you know,

I'm working on something where I'm going to try to put a grand unified theory down because

it's important that you understand how I view the world.

What lens am I using to pull these things together?

Why hasn't my viewpoint changed on the economy, even though we have a Republican president, Congress, and Senate?

Why haven't I changed on the economy?

Because I don't view the world through politics alone.

That's only one lens.

And if you look at what is happening to the banks right now, where the banks are pouring their money into the stock market.

So they're borrowing money, cheap money from the Federal Reserve, and they're pouring that money into the stock market.

This is exactly what happened in 1929.

Everyone became over-leveraged, which means they borrowed too much money and they were paying on margin.

And when those margins were called, they couldn't pay them and everything collapsed.

That's what's happening now in the stock market.

And eventually, that's going to collapse.

Eventually, this game, we had QE, quantitative easing, where the money was just being printed and then given to the banks.

We all now say, no, that won't work.

But instead of shutting it off, Donald Trump is going to take a trillion dollars of printed money and pump it into the system through a stimulus package.

It's the same thing, just a different faucet.

And why is that happening?

Because the people at the Federal Reserve and the central banks around the world say you have to continue to spend money to be able to get out of this hole.

It didn't work in Japan.

It's not going to work here.

It won't work.

It's never worked anywhere.

At some point, we have to pay the price.

And looking at the things that are coming, we are going to

pay the price.

With all the wealth that we have now, I believe we're going to move to a digital economy.

And with all of the wealth stored digitally,

what

what happens when there is

a myriad of things?

One, all of our wealth is stored digitally.

You can no longer go to the bank and withdraw your money.

Do they care about what you say about a bail-in where the bank just gives everybody a haircut, which they've already done in Europe?

Do they care?

Because you can't take your money out of the bank.

How about cybercrime, hacking, identity theft, when all of the money is digital and it will go there.

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Crazy Selections.

Our series continues just in a few minutes.

Also, we want to talk to you a little bit about Obamacare.

And Stu wants to give us the four steps that this woman from the Westboro Baptist Church said got me out of the church.

Yeah, she identified these, which I thought were interesting.

One, don't assume bad intent.

And that's something I like to use on social networks because

it just makes your life better.

You know, if you're constantly getting in fights with people, it's just annoying.

And I've gone in like a, I've gone, because people will insult you.

Like, I insult Jeffy all the time.

And he knows it comes from a good place.

You know, but I mean, that's how I look at everybody who calls me Hitler on the internet.

Like it's somebody that's like saying, like Jeffrey Sanders.

They mean it in a joking way, and I just treat it that way.

And I don't care.

A lot of times I'll see people online.

They'll say something like, you know, you're so mean to Glenn and blah, blah, blah.

You know, the one defender.

You know, little, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And they'll be like, no, I'm a big fan of the show.

I was joking.

Right, yeah.

And so if you don't assume bad intent, it saves you a lot of angst.

Yeah, and it also means you never get pissed off at the internet.

Yes.

I mean, I know a lot of people, so many people get obsessed in these little battles.

They never bother me.

I never care what you say about me because I just, it's just, you let, if you, if you go with that principle, just don't assume it's bad, all these interactions wind up being better.

And many times, by the way, you turn people around.

There's people who were fans of the show that didn't like one things that we said.

They came out, they call us all sorts of names.

If you respond,

typically they'll just turn around.

Finding the rainbow in all of that during the election when they were saying things like, eat crap and die.

I didn't think that was necessary.

But I will tell you, though, I gave up because it was just overwhelming at the time.

But

I will tell you that a lot of people will say, you know what?

You're right.

I'm sorry.

I flew off the handle.

Yeah, I flew off the handle.

I don't agree with you, but I appreciate it.

Step two, ask questions.

So that's a great thing to do.

Even the very existence of God.

Honest people.

But I mean, asking questions

is important and honest ones, right?

It's not just like trying to come up with a point and just saying what you believe and pushing other people and then asking questions that aren't honest because you don't ask honestly

that you know the answer to just

trying to trap them into it.

This one is very difficult for a lot of people.

But if you do the other two,

you can do this one, which is stay calm.

You know, the person who you're going up against in an argument, especially from the other side, are going to say terrible things about it.

Why let it bother you?

That's you.

That's not them.

That's you letting it bother you.

You're making the choice to allow it to bother you.

If you stay calm and don't let it bother you, you're able to kind of reason your way through the argument.

How amazing is it that this is coming from

a Phelps, the granddaughter of Fred Phelps, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church.

This is astounding.

And because it worked on her to get her out.

That's really amazing.

She and her sister both got out.

Yep.

Yeah.

It might have been her sister.

It might have been her sister Grace we talked to.

Yeah, I think so.

I think it was.

But we should see if she'll come on too, because it's great.

And then the last one is make the argument, which that one didn't strike me as obvious when I was listening to that list.

But when you're on the line,

you're in a battle with someone on the left, or you're on the battle with someone who's nuts, and you're trying to actually persuade them.

A lot of times, I think because we believe, for example, low taxes are the right thing to do or abortion is wrong or whatever the belief is, it's so apparent to us, we treat it as if it's doctrine to everybody.

And we don't bother to walk people through the step-by-step argument of how you actually get there.

So many people have

start at their arrival point.

I'm young, I'm in college, I'm a liberal, I'm a leftist, I love abortion.

And there's not the process very well, it may not have ever happened where they made that decision organically, where they walked through the steps they had.

You know, I got to get to the survey.

This survey shows that most people, and this includes teens, and I'll narrow it down to teens, but most people get their opinion from a friend or a blog, a commentator of some sort.

They haven't done the thinking.

They get their opinion from someone else who may or may not have done all of the thinking themselves.

So take the time to actually make the argument when you're talking to someone calmly.

Don't assume they're bad intent.

You follow those few steps.

You're not going to win everybody over, nor should you care if you're interesting.

But

you're on the bandwagon.

I've been on the band freaking wagon.

I brought these clips to the show.

Listen to them now.

Stay calm.

That's all I'm saying.

Stay calm.

I'm assuming bad intent.

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No examination of crazy elections in America would be complete without mentioning the nation-altering election of 1912.

Who would have guessed Woodrow Wilson will make an appearance?

That would be the year incumbent President Republican William Howard Taft, you know, the bathtub guy, battled for his party's nomination against former President Theodore Roosevelt.

Roosevelt was the celebrity candidate of the day, with the press and throngs of admirers following him wherever he went.

During the primaries, Roosevelt easily outdistanced the sitting president Taft in votes, roughly 1.2 million to 800,000.

History professor Margaret O'Meara shares how different the convention turned out to be from the primaries.

When the convention opened, there were so many contested delegates that no single candidate had enough for the nomination.

It was open, open season.

So Roosevelt decides it's time for some bold moves, for some new politics.

So he bucks tradition.

Usually the candidates don't even show up at the conventions during this era.

He comes to Chicago where the convention's happening and has a predictably a rock stars reception.

He doesn't go into the hall, but he's right outside causing a big ruckus outside of it.

But inside the hall, it's politics as usual.

Taft's party machinery swings into action.

And the result?

Taft got nearly all the contested delegates and he got the nomination.

When the dust settled, President Taft had taken 566 delegates to Roosevelt's 466.

Progressive giant Robert La Follette claimed just 36.

On the Democratic side, Woodrow Wilson and House Speaker Champ Clark were locked in a virtual dead heat after the primary season, each having won five states.

Wilson had a slight edge in votes.

However, heading into the Democratic convention in Baltimore, Clark actually had a significant lead in the delegate count.

Professor O'Mara explains, Even though he had the delegate lead, the conventional wisdom was that Clark was not up to the job of being president, and Wilson took advantage of that.

Over the course of multiple rounds of balloting, day after day of the convention, Wilson steadily chipped away at Clark's delegate count.

And on that 46th round of voting, Wilson got it.

Amazingly, it took 46 ballots for the worst president in American history to finally win his party's nomination.

So the stage was set for a major showdown in the general election between Republican President Taft and the Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson.

However, Teddy Roosevelt wasn't about to give up his Progressive Party dream so easily.

Roosevelt left the GOP and started a new American party called the Bull Moose Party, or the Progressive Party.

Yes, for those who refused to recognize it, it was the Republicans that started the Progressive Party.

When you're running under the banner Bull Moose or Progressive Party, the name sounds every bit progressive, but so did the words of Theodore Roosevelt.

We propose, on the contrary, to extend governmental power in order to secure the liberty of the wage workers, of the men and women who toil in industry, to save the liberty of the oppressed from the oppressor.

Hiding his true leanings, as so many progressives do, Roosevelt set out a plan to put a positive spin on his new progressive politics.

Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare, they have become the tools of corrupt interest which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Unhampered by tradition, uncorrupted by power, undismayed for the magnitude of the task, the new party offers itself as the instrument of the people to sweep away old abuses, to build a new and nobler Commonwealth.

Taft did his part to counter the popular unrest and division being created by Roosevelt, but perhaps not in the most electric or exciting ways.

But insofar as the propaganda for the satisfaction of unrest involves the promise of a millennium, a condition in which the rich are to be made reasonably poor and the poor reasonably rich by law, we are chasing a phantom.

We are holding out to those whose unrest we fear a prospect and a dream.

a vision of the impossible.

After we have changed all the governmental machinery so as to permit instantaneous expression of the people in constitutional amendments, in statutes, and in recall of public agents, what then?

Almost sounding desperate, Taft bellowed on.

Votes are not bread.

Constitutional amendments are not work.

Referendums do not pay rent or furnish houses.

Recalls do not furnish clothing.

Initiatives do not supply employment or relieve inequalities of condition or of opportunity.

We still ought to have set before us the definite plan to bring on complete equality of opportunity and to abolish hardship and evil for humanity.

Seemingly splitting the difference between the two and presenting himself as the reasonable alternative was Woodrow Wilson.

There is a new party which it is difficult to characterize because it is made up of several elements.

As I see it, it is made up of three elements in particular.

The first consists of those Republicans whose consciences and whose stomachs could not stand what the regular Republicans were doing.

Added to this element are a great many men and women of noble character and of elevated purpose who believe that this combination of forces may in the future bring them out on a plane where they can accomplish those things which their hearts have so long desired.

I have no word of criticism for them.

Then there is a third element in the new party of which the less said, the better.

To discuss it would be interesting, only if I could mention names, and I have forbidden myself that it doesn't.

We have in this party two things, a political party and a body of social reformers.

Wilson continued, making it seem like there was no way the presidency could ever accomplish the reforms he sought, never mind that years later Wilson wouldn't let that stop him when he was the chief executive.

Mr.

Roosevelt puts forth an admirable platform of what he would like to do for the people.

But how is he going to do it?

He proposes in his platform not to abolish monopoly, but to take it under the legal protection of the government and the regulator.

In other words, to take the very men into partnership who have been making it impossible to carry out these great programs by which all of us wish to help the people.

It is perfectly idle to talk of doing things when your hands are tied for you, so long as the men who now control the industry of the country continue to control it.

As the election drew near, just three weeks prior, while campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was about to deliver a speech when Roosevelt was shot.

From the Roosevelts, an intimate portrait.

The bullet passed through the ex-president's spectacles case and the folded 50-page speech behind it, smashed through his chest wall and lodged in a splintered rib less than a quarter of an inch from his heart.

Roosevelt dabbed at his mouth, found no blood, and concluded his lungs were undamaged.

Roosevelt informed the crowd that he had been shot, asked them to keep the noise level down as he was unable to project too loudly.

He showed his glasses case to his audience, the bullet hole that remained, and displayed his bloody shirt beneath his jacket.

He insisted on delivering his speech despite his wound.

What we progressives are trying to do is to enroll rich and poor, to stand together for the most elementary rights of good citizenship.

Mr.

Wilson has distinctly committed himself to the old flintlock muzzle-loaded doctrine of states' rights.

We are for the people's rights.

Pale and sometimes swaying at the podium, he went on for more than an hour before his aides could get him to stop and agree to go to the hospital.

In an age of people seeking medical treatment because they may have heard a word that triggered a negative feeling, it's nearly impossible to believe that a man who was severely wounded after being shot in the chest and bleeding profusely could deliver a 90-minute speech before agreeing to any kind of medical care.

But that was the world of 1912, especially if you were standing anywhere anywhere around Theodore Roosevelt.

What is almost as hard to believe was the Marxist rhetoric coming from the formerly fairly conservative Republican war hero, President Roosevelt.

As it turned out, it was probably inevitable Roosevelt and Taft would split the Republican vote, ensuring a Woodrow Wilson victory.

Yes, we all have the fat bathtub president to thank for Woodrow Wilson.

That's exactly what happened.

Wilson received 42% of the vote, Roosevelt was second, and Taft was third.

Together, Roosevelt and Taft cornered 50% of the American people's vote.

Socialist Eugene Debs finished a distant fourth at 6%.

Woodrow Wilson used his victory to begin the fundamental transformation of the United States of America, reinstating segregation in the military and civil service, and giving life to the KKK in the process.

Yet, despite all of that and more, historians continue to place him among the top five presidents in U.S.

history.

Next time, the crazy election of 1948.

Tomorrow on the Glenbeck program, in chapter four of the craziest elections in history, you'll learn about the elections of Harry S.

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No.

That's crazy.

That is.

Is that amazing?

I mean, what's amazing?

There's so many points there that are amazing.

I know.

La Follette,

who is one of, I mean, Wisconsin's governor, home of progressivism.

Yeah, he's one of the founders of progressivism.

Right.

On the right, on the Republican side, Theodore Roosevelt speaking about Marxism,

Woodrow Wilson, the king of progressives, and Eugene Debs with Woodrow Wilson.

That was an elected.

Unbelievably bad election.

There was only one guy constituting.

And it was Taft.

It was Taft.

And because Roosevelt had such an ego and desperately wanted to be president again, he split the vote and we wound up with the government.

Yeah, don't be blaming the fat man.

Yeah,

it was Roosevelt's fault.

It was absolutely Roosevelt.

It was.

It was.

It was him.

And let me tell you something else.

Imagine any candidate today being shot as they're walking in to give a speech.

In the chest,

in the chest.

Standing there for 90 minutes.

Blood coming out on their shirt, so it's seeping out on their shirt.

Uh-huh.

Going on stage, doing that, giving a rip-roaring speech.

It was a great speech.

A rip-roaring speech.

Then he's finally, because he's so weak, he's taken off stage.

Tell me that in the time of social media and television, that that guy would be president.

He'd be president.

Yeah, he'd be president.

He would win with 90%.

I want the guy with a bullet in his chest.

You see him?

I concluded there's no blood in my lungs.

I'm going to continue.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

That's the way he was.

I mean, he was just

bull moose.

Yeah.

You know, really is the

other thing is

the Republican Party at this time was trying to co-opt Coolidge into all of that too, into the progressive wing.

And he refused.

Fortunately.

Yeah, we have a series on Coolidge coming.

You will, Jeffy just said, because he's doing a lot of the interviews.

I've become a fan.

He was unbelievable yeah we're reaching out to all of the greatest scholars on coolidge he's always ranked low and by scholars and historians he's one of my favorites yeah he is top five he's he's probably

he is

i think he was the best president of the 20th century reagan was very very good and reagen was a fan right that was his favorite president yeah um reagan was very very good uh and ended the cold war but coolidge took progressivism and sucked it out of society sure did Sure did.

I mean, he lived.

He lived it too.

Yeah, he lived it.

The most important thing is he lived.

His childhood says a lot.

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I am just

I can't believe how much I hated history when I was a kid.

I know.

I think all of us did.

They have destroyed.

Progressives have destroyed history.

I didn't.

You didn't?

You liked history?

I've always loved it.

Oh, man.

They are the greatest stories.

Unbelievable.

You just have to know how to tell them and where they are.

But they're just the greatest stories.

Yeah, and you find out so many things that are just like unbelievable to us at this time.

You know, like the like the Teddy Roosevelt thing.

There's no politician on earth who would be shot in the chest and just stand there there and speak for an hour and say, hey, look, if you guys could keep it down a little bit, I can't project much because I have a bullet in my lung

and then go for an hour and a half.

He went 90 minutes before he went to the hospital.

Nobody would do that now.

Nobody would do that.

No way.

If you get a hangnail on the way up the stairs, you're going home.

And beyond that, all the conservatives that say, I love Theodore Roosevelt, but they don't know that he was, in many ways, more radical than Woodrow Wilson.

What he was proposing was more radical than Woodrow Wilson.

And nobody knows that in the Republican Party.

No.

They all love Theodore Roosevelt.

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So in talking to my liberal friends,

they all say the same thing about

immigration.

We have to care about refugees.

Yes, we absolutely do.

I completely agree with you.

So who are the ones that are most at risk?

The ones that are most at risk are the Christians and the Yazidis.

Okay,

you say you really care.

My audience has saved 6,000 Christians and Yazidis.

How many have you saved?

Well, no, I care about the ones from Syria.

Yes, they were from Syria.

Well, okay, well, but I mean the Muslims.

Okay.

How many have you personally reached in and saved?

When it comes to the Christians and the Yazidis, I will open my house to them.

The government won't allow me to do it.

I will shelter the Christians and the Yazidis.

I would do it and it's not a bluff.

And I have millions of Americans that would do the same thing.

But when you say that about the Muslims,

will you shelter the Muslims?

Christians, will you do it?

Don't be ridiculous.

Well, wait a minute.

Why not?

There is a difference.

between the Muslim that is under attack and the Islamist.

And that is something that we need to talk about.

Now, how do we approach our friends who just don't get it?

Michael Yosef has a new book out called The Barbarians Are Here.

He was raised in a Coptic Orthodox church in Egypt.

He now runs a huge evangelical church in Atlanta and may have the answer for us.

We begin there right now.

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Hello, America, and welcome to Dr.

Michael Yosef.

He is the author of the new book, The Barbarians Are Here.

Here.

And

Doctor, I want to talk to you

from the perspective of somebody who says they really care, as do I, about the refugees and getting the right refugees out of a war-torn country.

Thank you so much for having me.

I really appreciate that.

I want you to know, I mean, and I want all your audience to know that I love everybody, and I have no hatred in my heart toward anybody.

Having said that, that is part of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

As a matter of fact, we as a ministry, we have a television station 24-7 going into $160 million,

$160 million homes in the Middle East and the Arab world, preaching the gospel, called Kingdoms Hat.

So we are there doing everything we can to reach them with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We've seen a lot of people come to Christ.

Let me first talk about, as an immigrant myself.

You see, I immigrated to this country many years ago, but I had to provide all kinds of information.

I had to be examined by the embassy doctor.

I had to provide

tax information that I don't owe the government tax, that I

have good police records.

And I came here and I love this country.

I am grateful.

Every single morning I'm thankful to God that I live in this country.

So there's nothing wrong.

This country has always loved immigrants.

But when you say we want to take the refugees without any vetting, without any

interviews, except by blinded United Nations officials who are really very biased.

They're biased against Christians.

We've seen it firsthand on the Jordanian side, on the Lebanese side.

And so what we're saying is we're going to let the terrorists come in.

And here's the problem.

Islamists always

somehow got in cohort with the leftists in order to accomplish their purpose.

They, in in a sense, consider them to be useful idiots.

And

sadly, if we've seen recently the feminist movement that is being

protesting

as recently as yesterday and then the day after the inauguration, who was leading it?

Linda Sarsour.

Linda Sarsour is a woman who wants to bring the Sharia law to America.

And just think about this.

I want to scream and say to these women, do you know what Sharia law says about women?

You're half of a man.

You inherit half of what your brother would inherit.

In the court of law, you're considered to be half of a man.

You can be beaten by your husband or your father.

She'll say she doesn't want any of that.

Pardon?

She'll say that's not what Sharia law means to her.

She doesn't want any of that.

I mean, she can't pick and choose.

That's what the Sharia is.

You look at Saudi Arabia and you see the way they apply the Sharia, literally, chopping the hands of somebody, or maybe a petty thief, and left hand first, then the right hand.

You see people maimed everywhere in Saudi Arabia.

And so, I mean, she can't really pick and choose.

That's what Sharia is.

That's what the Quran says.

That's what

all these

teachers on the satellite channels, the Muslim Islamist satellite channels, they're actually showing the young men the length of the stick by which they can beat their wives and their daughters.

I mean, I've seen it.

I actually screened it to my congregation to just wake them up to the fact that

these people mean business.

And their ultimate goal is to dominate the West and take over.

They feel that they failed twice, back in the 700s, then the 1400s, to take over Europe.

Now, this is their final third jihad, and they're going to do it by birth rate, and they're going to do it by financial investments.

Now, you say in chapter three, you talk about Germany and New Year's Eve.

And you say the barbarians are already here.

You can see

what the migration of

undocumented or at least poorly screened immigrants are doing to Europe, and yet still, the media over in Europe still is not awake.

I know This is a blindness of biblical proportion.

I mean, almost they got a blind

iconic picture that I saw that really told the whole story.

These young bearded men from the Middle East in a German train coming out of the station shouting, Allahu Akbar, means Allah greater,

which is the cry of jihad, the cry of war.

And these sweet German ladies holding this placard that says,

welcome refugees.

I mean, I said, this said it all.

And we're not really shooting ourselves in the foot, we're shooting ourselves in the head.

And we're saying, hey, come on in, destroy us, take over.

We're so blind as to who you are and what your ideology is, and it doesn't matter.

I often wonder sometimes if these folks really just hate America.

I mean, I think of people like Soros and so forth.

I mean, I just wonder,

you know, I don't want to accuse anybody of anything, but they just, it makes me wonder why would not allow the government to vet people before they come into this country?

Why they don't give them time in order to it took me two years to immigrate what?

Oh, actually, more than that.

So what?

That's fine.

I think every country has the right to determine the criterion by which they accept people to come in.

You talk about some solutions and some things that we have have to do, but

about halfway through the book, you talk about the pattern of Babylon and that we have been saved over and over again.

But you, if I may quote, again and again, God has defended Western civilization from attack, from barbarian slave merchants, totalitarianism, genocidal racists, segregationists.

But instead of thanking God for his mercy and protection, we have now taken all the credit for those victories.

Instead of giving God glory, we give credit to secularism, materialism, multiculturalism, pluralism, political political correctness, feminism, the welfare state, moral relativism, progressivism, environmentalism, atheism, humanism.

Yeah.

That is exactly what, in fact, I refer to

these Christians who turned their back on the Christian faith or had Christian heritage and turned their back on the Christian faith.

They're equally barbarians too.

Because it was turning away from the Christian faith first in Europe, now it's happening here, is the very thing that that has created that vacuum in society.

And the vacuum has got to be filled, and it is filled by the Islamists who are coming in with pure ideology.

It's very simple.

Allah spoken, and therefore he must be obeyed.

And we have to do it if we kill or impose jizya, which is a form of high taxation on Christians and Jews, in order to make Islam dominant.

You see, that is, and that happens every time.

And you see it in Israel when they, the prophet Jeremiah, who literally pleaded with him and pleaded with him and pleaded with him, turned back to God, turned back, stop worshiping Baal, stop worshiping false God.

They wouldn't do it.

Finally, God said, Okay,

God is not capricious.

He's going to say, I'm going to suck it to you.

He said, No, I'm just going to take my hand of protection off and leave you to the consequences of your choices.

And so the Babylonians, the terrorists of their day, came over and ransacked Jerusalem and took hostages 70 years.

It happened again

in

Rome, when Rome fell.

Rome fell because of similar things that are happening for our day.

But what happened, the pagans blamed the Christians for it.

And so Saint Augustine sat down and wrote a book, and that's really the book that influenced me the most, The City of God.

And I began to see things from that perspective where he literally maps out biblical history to the point when Rome Rome fell.

And I'm seeing that pattern almost repeated.

And that's what I talk about in the book.

And the only answer, the only solution, the only hope is for God's people to stop being compromisers and stand up for the truth and stand up for their faith and stop watering it down and preaching a false gospel.

Give me the pattern.

Give me the pattern from City of God.

Well,

what Saint Augustine did, and again I say that in the book, he influenced me greatly, so

this is not all original with me.

He begins back in the Garden of Eden, and he starts from there, and then he shows historically

two strains, if you like, of humanities.

One who are pursuing what he calls the city of man, that is secular humanism to the core, And the other who were pursuing the city of God, for example, Abraham.

The Bible said Abraham looked forward to that city which is built by God,

whose architect is God and built by God.

Even back then, he was looking forward to the city of God.

So there is a godly line from Enoch all the way to Abraham and down to even Lot, even though he lived in such a miserable place.

Peter said that he was literally torturing himself by living in that kind of a sinful environment.

But you go all the way down through, and then God remembers his people when they were in slavery in Egypt, and he sends them a deliverer.

And Moses comes in, and he delivers them from the horrors of the whips of the Egyptians.

And he takes them out, and there in the book of Deuteronomy, toward the end of it, he says, look, I'm sending you to the promised land.

I promised that land to your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And I'm going to send you there.

But here's the temptation.

You're going to be facing it.

You're going to face the temptation to turn against me and worship other gods.

And if that happens, my judgment

is going to follow.

And sure enough, they go into the promised land, and what happens?

They start worshiping Ashtar and Baal and Ashtaroth and so forth.

And God says, okay, I'm going to take my hand.

So I just saw a study from Barna, who does research on

so you know, if you saw his latest,

that we say that America now has a 49% biblical worldview, meaning that 49% of the people view truth and right and wrong and how they just view the world through the truths in the Bible.

It's only 49%.

However, he did something new and he attached morals and principles to it.

So he asked, do you believe in Noah?

Do you believe in Moses?

Do you believe in the Ten Commandments?

Instead of just that, the other half was, hey, do you think it's okay to steal?

Do you think...

And he found that actually that number is 15%.

Biblical worldview.

So how do you save it if that's true?

Well,

here's the core of the problem.

So many evangelical pastors who started well

because and for the sake of popularity, they started kind of watering down the message.

One pastor said, well, I believe in the virgin birth, but you don't have to.

I believe in Noah, but you don't have to.

I believe in

Jonah, but you don't have to.

Okay, what you've done, you just basically disintegrated or you destroyed the integrity of Jesus.

If you believe that he is a triune God,

was there before the foundation of the world, and together with the Father and the Son created the world,

therefore he was there.

And then in his earthly life, he talked about Jonah, and he talked about Noah.

And, of course, we know about his virgin birth.

That has to be in order for him to be divine.

Otherwise, if he was born of a seed of a man, just like all of us, then he cannot be the sin-bearer.

He cannot take away our sin.

So, all of that, and my appeal to these preachers who have sold out their birthright for a pot of soup, return to God.

Return to God now because you are misleading a lot of people.

And in in misleading them, you have created this 15%.

And that is one of the saddest things, I think, that I've seen.

In fact, Bono also said 64% of those who call themselves born-again evangelicals,

that they believe there are many ways to God.

Give me a break.

The word evangelical comes from the Greek word oangelion, which means the gospel, namely that Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

No one comes to the Father but by me.

That is the very core of what they call themselves, and yet they are denying by their very practice what they claim to be

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Dr.

Michael Yosef, thank you so much for being on the program.

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Welcome to the program.

So glad that you are tuning in today.

A lot of things going on.

Let's play Mike Lee on universal health care.

Okay, so just to be clear, are you for repeal, but not yet replaced?

Where are you on that?

I'm for repeal.

Look, we've been waiting for seven years for the opportunity to repeal Obamacare.

We waited for the election in 2010 where we got the majority in the House.

In 2014, where we got the majority in the Senate.

In 2016, where we've now got a Republican in the White House as a result of that election.

This is not the repeal bill that we've been waiting for for all these years.

This is a huge opportunity that's been missed, and it's a step in the wrong direction.

What we need to do is repeal the bill and then bring about an iterative step-by-step process, one in which we can put the American consumer, the patients and doctors, back in charge of their own health care decisions rather than having them made by government bureaucrats in Washington.

Yeah.

So how do you feel about this, Duke?

Because you brought up the today that maybe

we should consider

going for what we have because this is better than Obamacare.

Yeah, and I do think even as it is right now, it's better than Obamacare.

I think, you know, if Obamacare is an F, this is a D plus.

So that does not mean that it's good.

However, there's negotiation here.

I

do support the idea to try to improve it, you know, without necessarily coming out and saying, hey, there's no way I'll vote for anything, even in the realm of this possibility.

I'd rather see how good they can get it and then make that decision.

You got to push hard right now because they're negotiating the bill.

You know, I'd hate to have, I'd hate to let this go by and Obamacare lives, but I mean, this is obviously not the right bill.

So you need dramatic improvement to it.

But if you can get dramatic improvement,

you know, maybe you do pull the trigger on it, even if it's not perfect.

You know, you want this, you want Obamacare gone.

I want those taxes gone.

I want a lot of that regulation gone.

If you can get most of it gone, maybe you do it.

I don't know.

Back in a minute.

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Okay, in England at Glennbeck.com, there is this great

story I found

about

a series of rabbit holes.

Look at this, a series of rabbit holes in England.

And you walk by them and you think, oh, it's just, you know, little rabbit holes, and you don't realize what it leads to.

Somebody found this recently, and this photographer went in and took some photographs of it.

The rabbit holes lead

to

a cave, and they say it's like an indoor underground temple.

And it was originally used for the christians um who were fighting they were notorious christians that were fighting during the crusades a very militaristic um christian sect then it was later used by the druids and everybody else but look at this wow that is really cool that is incredible isn't it yeah it is this gigantic wow cave all carved out of stone um

and it has lighting well no no those are just i think those are just candles i don't think i actually

plumbed it for electricity.

That's fantastic.

Some really nice uplighting there.

Yeah.

But isn't that amazing?

Yeah, that's really amazing.

And the guy said you could walk by in this place in England if you don't know it's there,

you would have no idea.

And it was a hiding place for whichever Christian sect was not popular at the time.

Oh, wow.

That's incredible.

And just little holes in the ground.

Why did anyone look into the rabbit hole in the first place?

I don't know.

It's not part of the story.

But it says it's a seven-year-old underground hideout.

And, you know, it's Alice in Wonderland.

Go down the rabbit hole and look what you find.

Seven years old years old.

700.

I'm sorry.

700-year-olds.

I was going to say, 7 years old.

Yeah, no, they just got a caterpillar.

I don't know why you guys were so excited about this.

It's no big deal.

They just got a cat.

No wonder it's got indoor lighting.

Yeah, right.

Oh, it's pretty amazing, though, isn't it?

Yeah.

And it looks like it's all made out of rock.

I mean, it's all dug into the rock.

Wow.

So, anyway.

Yeah, amazing.

A couple of quick stories that we haven't hit yet today.

Yeah.

The reporting now is that the DACA, which is the deferred action for children,

it's the dreamers thing.

So, you know, kids don't get deported.

And it was sort of that

thing that Barack Obama wanted out of comprehensive immigration reform.

And because they couldn't pass it, he just did it.

I mean, I think blatantly unconstitutionally, just decided, we're not going to do it.

We're not going to enforce

the law on these people, which I thought equal treatment under the law was a pretty foundational principle of this.

I thought so, too.

Apparently not.

So Donald Trump ran on day one repeal.

And it was honestly the easiest.

It was an easy thing.

Every Republican said they were going to repeal that under the law.

Yeah, because

it's executive order.

Right.

It was an executive order.

He could do it.

It was an executive order, and it's illegal.

I mean, you are literally saying these laws were not paying attention to.

So, everyone expected him to do that before some of these other bigger scale immigration

wanted to do.

So, he didn't do it on day one, and everyone's like, well, maybe he's just waiting a little while.

Reporting now is that it's concrete, not going to be repealed.

And the reason is, I guess, Steve Bannon is for keeping it.

Other people, Sessions was against keeping it, and Stephen Miller was against keeping it, but Bannon wanted to keep it.

Again, I don't know.

I mean, I don't know if it's just popular or politics.

Yeah, I mean, they think, you know, what

doesn't fit into his everything else that he says he believes in.

You're going to have, and plus, you're going to have, you know, you'll have children crying on the news and

that's why.

So maybe they're thinking it's not worth it.

So that is interesting.

And then the other part of that is, you know, a trillion-dollar stimulus.

We've talked about this and

complained about the idea of a trillion-dollar stimulus.

Some new polling is out on this.

And if you're wondering why Trump supports it, here's your evidence.

Do you support or oppose increasing federal spending for roads, bridges, mass transit, or other infrastructure?

Yes.

Right.

And now it sounds so great.

Yes.

I'm a little skeptical of this poll because the $1 trillion number was not included.

But remember, Republicans viciously opposed $787 billion with the same pitch when Barack Obama did it.

Now it's a trillion dollars.

The number, however, not included in this poll, but listen to this.

Democrats favor it 90 to 7.

Independents favor it 91 to 8.

Republicans favor it 90 to 7.

You wondering why they're pushing a trillion-dollar stimulus right now?

If you're complaining about it, you are in the vast minority.

90 to 7 among Republicans.

Now, that was certainly not the polling when Barack Obama was trying to do the same thing.

However, it's interesting to see that

Republicans apparently are completely on board with this.

That's what I said.

You know, I called Samantha B the other day, and we were talking, and I said, I don't know what you guys are raising all hell about.

Why are you doing that?

He's doing everything you want.

He's giving you everything you want.

That's been a mixed bag, though.

They don't want Neil Gorsuch, right?

Yeah, they don't want Neil Gorsuch.

Yes, but they, are you kidding me?

They don't

have a trillion-dollar

stimulus package.

DACA, you bet they do.

So Quinnipiak ran basically the same poll.

Universal health care, the way he rolled it out?

They love that.

Well, I mean, they're opposing it.

They don't get votes because it's worse for them than Obamacare.

But I mean, if they were to get a Republican plan, they would.

Believe me,

they're sitting there going, okay, we got to oppose this, but that ain't so bad.

Listen to this.

This is, again, the same type of question from CNN.

And

again, the approval is not quite as universal among this poll, 79 to 18 overall.

But Democrats, 72 to 25, approve the stimulus spending.

Independents, 79 to 19.

Republicans, 87 to 10.

Republicans have

eight point

believe in the stimulus spending eight points more than Democrats.

Well, Stu, ask yourself this question.

Do you want roads to drive on?

Do you want our bridges to crumble?

Do you want to not be able to cross over a chasm?

I'm sorry.

You don't like telephones now?

No, they're fine.

that's interesting it's interesting i do you want to go to an airport someday they're gone they're all gone they're all gone or they're falling they're going they're either going or they're not going to have some calls on this ivan because that's fascinating

it's interesting

do we have anybody on the phone no we don't ivan um i will say that's the one is there a number they can call i'm skeptical of both of these polls because i think a lot of people would say like well yeah we got to spend money on that and it's true obviously these things are we are already spent money on it and we have scheduled spending on it the question is do you want to increase that by a trillion dollars?

There's an important detail to ask for these polls.

You know what's funny is

the people said no to this

under the biggest socialist president.

Well, I can't say that.

One of the biggest socialist presidents we had, FDR.

But we had the Great Depression.

So it wasn't phrased, hey, do you want better roads and bridges?

It was phrased, should the government put people to work

building bridges and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

I can understand it then.

I'm sorry.

When people are hungry, when people are worried about their own jobs, when people are freaked out about everything that's going on in the world,

you think the government

should spend another trillion dollars on something you know they wasted last time?

That's hard to understand.

Understand.

Yeah, because our infrastructure is crumbling.

Yeah, planes are going to fall out of the sky.

Right.

You know where the infrastructure is crumbling?

Where?

Roads, bridges.

Rust belt.

Where everybody raised their taxes so high that nobody wants to live anymore.

Yeah.

It's all crumbling up in the northeast.

No, do we have problems around the rest of the country?

Yeah.

But the places that...

Our problem is we're building too many roads and bridges right now.

Yeah, we're probably.

I think everywhere you go, there's

in Texas.

I want that fence to be the northern border, not the southern border.

Yes.

And the eastern and western borders.

Yes.

Yeah.

Mainly the western border to stop people from

California.

The problem

of building too many roads is a result of not doing the things we're talking about.

Texas has taken a conservative positions on all these issues for so many years

that they have the horrible problem of an exploding economy in which they need to build roads because so many people are moving here every year.

When you do the opposite of that, you don't need all the new roads.

I'm telling you, my campaign slogan as president, and I think any campaign person, anybody who wants to be president in the future needs to say this.

Now, this will never happen because

nobody would ever actually be elected president that said this.

I'm convinced of it.

But this is in a common sense world, this would be the winning campaign.

Hey, everybody in the Washington, D.C.,

Virginia, Maryland area, everybody who lives in that governmental space.

I just want to show you a picture of all the cranes building all of the buildings all around you, all the high-rises, all the stuff.

These are all filled with government employees that work for government agencies.

I want you to know that you should sell your home right now, right now,

because when I get into office, your property rates are going to crash.

Your property rates in the greater Washington, D.C.

area are going to be worthless very soon because I'm cutting all these jobs.

There is no reason why we're building, it's grotesque, and Americans don't see it unless you travel to Washington, D.C., it is grotesque.

There are buildings being built next to buildings being built, next to buildings being built.

It looks like a giant ghost city of China being built.

Everything is under construction there.

Expansion beyond your wildest dreams.

And then you go to a place like Rochester.

Then you go to a place like even Chicago.

You go to any place else in the country, and it's not being built out like that.

Why?

Because all of the growth is in government jobs.

Those should, all of those

be reduced.

Calvin Coolidge was right.

Reduce it by half.

I'm going to cut 50%

of these jobs.

High unemployment in Washington, D.C.

We can't cut 1% anymore.

No.

No.

Can't even agree to that.

Nope.

No, we can't even.

I mean, one of the pitches that libertarians make is just don't increase spending.

Forget cutting.

Just keep it flat for the next five years.

They can't even come close to that.

That would be the biggest, you know, it's like a nuclear holocaust in our budget.

There is some really good news, though.

I think this is going to brighten your day.

Congratulations are in order.

Yes.

Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace.

The Nobel Peace Prize.

Same qualifications as Barack Order.

So congratulations, yes.

Wade.

Wade.

Uh-huh.

What?

Yes?

Wade.

You're excited?

It's a three-year-old.

Are you joking?

No, I'm not.

He was nominated by an American for his efforts to bring peace to the world via strength and for combating terrorism.

Okay, well, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Seeing him do either of those things yet.

There's a difference between someone nominating you

actually getting that's correct.

Well, yes, absolutely correct but he's been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize so you're trying to downplay the nomination of Donald

just as much and if you opposed Barack Obama's nomination and victory in the Nobel Peace Prize

you better be opposing this too one month in a month and a half in where before he's done anything come on now come on now unbelievable let's be consistent

no no no he deserves it well being consistent uh would be that he wins the Nobel Peace Prize well if if you're the consistent with the Nobel Peace Prize people, you're right.

The first year of any new president gets the privilege of being a private.

You automatically come in and collect your prize.

He won.

I'm actually not asking for consistency from the Norwegians, but rather us here in this country.

Well, I'm anxious to see the comedy writers on, you know.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, because they'll do something else.

They didn't mock Obama at all.

They didn't mock Obama at all.

They will mock Trump.

I'm sure.

Yeah, just for the nomination, they will mock Trump.

Now this, the Consumer Electronics Show, trade show where all the big tech companies reveal their newest innovations.

I got to go next year.

I almost went this year.

I got to go.

I mean, that's just the Consumer Electronics Show.

You remember when that was like,

you know,

just for geeks?

Okay, well, yes, it still is.

But, I mean, it is, it's everything that affects your life now.

One of the big items was actually brought by a client of ours, SimplySafe.

They had the new SimplySafe security camera.

It connects wirelessly to the sensors in your alarm.

And if an intruder tries to break in,

the camera automatically starts to record.

The lens cap comes off, opens up, because that way nobody can hack into it.

It's a really, it's a very cool device at a really inexpensive price.

The camera

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You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

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Act Up is back.

I haven't heard from Act Up in a while.

Have we heard from them?

No.

They're out protesting and they're upset about something again, and they've developed another chant.

Oh, no.

So it's

they're, I guess they're pissed off about Planned Parenthood and

I guess the defunding that the GOP is considering.

Now, the GOP said, hey, if you cut abortion out of what you do, then we'll fund you.

We'll keep funding you.

How dare you?

But if you don't, then we're going to

defund you.

We don't want to fund the abortions.

Right.

Why should abortions be federally funded?

In fact, why should this organization be funded at all?

It doesn't need to be.

But what they'll claim is, well, it's all about women's health services.

It's all about cancer screenings.

Is it?

So ACT UP was out screaming about it.

When a partial rights are under attack, what do we do?

When a party rights are under attack, what do we do?

When trans lives are under attack, trans lives.

Hi, Claire.

What do we do?

What do we do?

What do we do?

Trans lives are under attack.

What do we do?

What was that last one?

Oh, women's lives are under attack.

How are women's lives?

We're trying to save women's lives by stopping abortions.

Hack up, fight back.

Jeez.

And I, how are trans lives under attack?

Maybe abortion too.

Because transgendered babies get aborted as well.

When they may grow up to be transgendered, and they've it's probably been what, a million transgendered babies since Roe versus Wade have probably been aborted.

500,000.

A lot.

A lot.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Mercury.