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Pat, Stu, and Jeffy in for Glenn today.

As you may or may not know, it's International Women's Day.

So women all over the country are striking and not going to work, not going to school, supposedly.

And of course, Glenn being 89% woman, he's taking the day off.

Fully supports it.

Fully supports it, fully into it.

And, you know, again, he's mostly woman.

So it makes perfect sense.

And it's a shame because we've got all kinds of great stuff to get to today.

The American Health Care Act, pretty controversial, at least to us.

The CIA is hacking into your cell phones, your televisions, supposedly, according to WikiLeaks.

And we may touch on the actual agenda behind this International Women's Day.

We'll start there right now.

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Already halfway through the week.

Man, it goes by fast, doesn't it?

Jeez.

International Women's Day, I guess it's kind of like the day without an immigrant.

They're trying to give us a day without a woman to see how much we should appreciate it.

I already appreciate women.

I love women.

I have one in my house who

I'm pretty fond of.

In fact,

there's four.

Two of them are out on their own and in their own houses now.

But

I mean,

the day without immigrants should be renamed the day without illegal immigrants, because that's a great day.

We should do that every day.

Let's have every day be the day without illegal immigrants and then everything would be as it should be.

But the day without immigrants, nobody wants that.

No, that would be.

I mean, I don't know what the point of that.

I mean,

almost everyone I know, literally everyone I know, is for legal immigration.

So they leave off the illegal part, but that's what it's really about

with the day without an immigrant thing.

And actually, the day without an immigrant thing just means less traffic in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

I will say, I did not notice any reduction in traffic today.

Oh, okay.

So I don't know if there's no women that work in Texas or maybe people in Texas think this is really dumb.

My guess is the second one.

I hope so.

But yeah,

I did not notice.

In fact, it seemed like there was more traffic than usual today.

Maybe guys were like, you know what?

I'm going to go in just because I don't think any of those women will be there.

I mean, that's what sexist men are like, right?

That's what I heard.

Yes.

Yeah, no, I mean, it's sort of a silly idea, right?

I mean,

you know, again, no one, is there any, there are people, a lot of them, looking to ban illegal immigration.

I know of no one who's looking to ban women.

I think

there's a 0% support level for banning women in immigration.

Maybe not ban women, Stu, but there's certainly a war on them.

Is there?

Yeah, there's a war.

And today, I guess, would be a ceasefire because there won't be a round to shoot at

The perception is that they make, what, 78 cents or 87 cents on the dollar for every man or whatever.

And we've, I don't know how many times that has to be debunked.

Even the Washington Post has debunked that nonsense every year since 2012, when this first started to become such a big issue again.

And Obama used the war on women to try to bash.

Mitt Romney over the head with it.

And so,

you know, when you compare apples to apples instead of apples to oranges, men and women make about the same.

And in some fields, women make more than men.

But I think that's what this is about, the perception that they don't make as much, that they don't have the equal rights, all of those things.

Is it?

I kind of get the sense that it's just Trump-related.

I get the sense that because, you know, Donald Trump has said, you know, a couple of offensive things about women and they just are taking, despite the fact that, again, he's offered a $680 billion maternity leave plan.

Like, this is,

I mean, by the way, something that Barack Obama did not

at least push hard.

He did just talk about it, I believe, a couple times.

But

he's doing a lot of things in that realm as well.

I mean, his daughter is obviously big on women's rights and likes these larger programs.

So it seems as if at some point some of that stuff could be reality if...

if women didn't constantly constantly, seemingly try to antagonize Donald Trump.

I mean, you know, again,

I understand that we are just on teams now.

I think that's just where this comes from.

They're not, they don't care what policies he's promoting.

They just say, well, he's evil.

You know, the new health care plan does look like it would defund Planned Parenthood if passed as constructed at this point, which is...

Do you mean a private agency?

might have to raise their own funds and not take mine and your money?

What?

I know.

It's crazy.

It's It's crazy.

But that could be part of it, I guess.

It probably is.

They're not going to like everything the guy does, but I think it's more about his personality than anything else.

I mean, the women's pay thing,

again, Democrats had, remember, Democrats had the House, the presidency, and

a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and did nothing about this issue.

Right.

They did a giant zilch.

What if they passed the Lilly Leadbetter Act or something?

Remember that thing?

And then they bragged about that for me.

They bragged about that for years.

We passed the Lily Leadbetter Act.

Oh, okay.

I don't know what to go.

Nice job.

That's really good.

Yeah, is that a Pearl Jam song, I think?

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

So, you know, I get that

they're going to, you know, I think the standard response to any Republican in the way that we have our politics right now is just to protest anything that they do.

Remember that song is really good.

I do.

I'm actually really

interested in the

new symbol of international feminist protest that I hope you guys are on top of.

It's basically the diagram of a woman's lady parts.

And then

it's flipping you off.

The actual, yes, I don't know how to describe it.

Jeffy, how would you describe

how would you describe this exactly?

Yes, the hoo-ha.

The hoo-ha.

And part of the hoo-ha.

The fallopian tube comes up and flips you off.

And just flips you off.

And so

first of all,

there's a nice...

Nice.

That's very classy.

This is writing about this.

It says, how Jezebel, the website, unknowingly created an international symbol of feminist protest.

The author of the article, Jezebel.

So they've now said that they created this and it's an international symbol.

But I love this because the reason they created it is because they wanted women to take a stand, I guess.

And they were discussing how women were taking a strong feminist stand by saying F you to the CDC about drinking while pregnant.

They will not live under your guidelines about staying away from alcohol while pregnant.

Darn you.

And, you know, if you try to squash a woman's rights by not allowing her to just get plastered in the eighth month or the third month or the fifth month whatever month

whatever month then you are a monster and a and a

a horrible horrible violation of women's rights what a great story to launch a movement on are we want the right to be able to get sloshed when we got a kid inside which by the way they have It's just that most women care about their babies

inside the womb and don't.

Yeah, I mean, you know, there's no law that says you can't drink when you're pregnant.

Right.

That's why you have the signs everywhere.

Guys,

we would request that if you're pregnant, you don't have nine shots of tequila this evening in every restaurant.

Because I go to classy restaurants, obviously.

But they do have that all the time.

Like, you know, the warning for alcohol, one of the main ones that they would post or put on a bottle of alcohol is pregnant women should not consume this product because of, you know, some side effects.

It's not necessarily a good thing for the baby.

Now, you know, there are obviously parts of the lines to that.

but it's still an amazing thing that you launch an international symbol of women's protest on the back of an article about how you should be able to say F you to the CDC for trying to stop you to drink while pregnant.

I don't even recognize our dimension anymore.

We've slipped into a new dimension.

It must be one of the 28 different dimensions that Neil Patrick Warren matches people on at eLearmity.com.

I don't recognize it.

I really don't.

It's unbelievable.

You know what we should do is organize an international day without white men.

And every white man, just stay home.

Let's get some appreciation there.

I don't want to hear about your white privilege nonsense anymore.

I don't want to hear any of it.

Let's see how you deal with us being gone for a day.

How would that work out?

I know how I deal with it.

Sleeping.

Yep.

Me too.

A lot of eating.

So they're not even, they're encouraging women not to even purchase anything in stores or online to show just how critical a role

play.

Some of the schools in Virginia are closing because so many people are off.

According to UNESCO,

87% of U.S.

elementary school teachers are women.

And I mean, I pretty much believe that.

Yeah, yeah.

I believe that too, but where is the equality?

Why don't men get some of those jobs?

I mean, here we are.

I thought we were in an equal society.

I thought it was the year 2017, not 1825.

You know what that means?

Likely about 87% of the money that goes to kindergarten teachers or elementary school teachers go to women.

Right.

I mean, that is,

where's the equality?

It's unconscionable.

It's unconscionable.

It's funny because they said, first of all, who are you screwing if you are out of nowhere taking a day off?

as an elementary school teacher so the school has to close down.

You're screwing families and mothers.

You're screwing other women, right?

Because they have to.

And they start scrambling.

They were supposed to screw up.

Because if they're working, then they've got to rearrange your whole schedule.

Yeah.

Or if they have other things planned, you know, or, you know, who knows what they're doing on that particular day, but what you're doing is making them scramble.

And you're also screwing the kids out of a day of learning, right?

You're screwing a kid, yeah, out of a day of learning.

But I mean, it's funny that the women's protest winds up screwing women.

I don't know why that would, why they'd want to do that.

It's bizarre.

The whole thing is bizarre and ridiculous.

And

I do give Glenn some credit, though, for stepping up and taking a stand on this today.

Yeah, he did.

I mean, a hardcore.

Good for him.

He's like, look, you know, I need to stand with my kind.

Right.

And everyone knows.

And everyone knows.

I've been mostly woman

all my life.

And

he likes musicals.

Broadway show tunes.

Oh, my gosh.

Barry Manelow.

Yeah.

You know, so.

People think we're kidding when we've discussed it in the past.

We're not.

This is proof.

This is.

This is.

I came into the studio and Glenn was sitting alone in the room before, you know, and people had walked out and everything.

He was in the, you know, just prepping and reading emails and going through stories while blasting Lucky by Brittany Spears

by himself, in a room by himself,

a man.

I mean, that's just embarrassing.

I got video of it to make sure that everyone was able to do that.

I could prove my point.

Oh, yeah.

You know what?

I'm going to repost it because

it was real.

And, you know, this is, so he heard this Women's Day thing was coming up and was just like, you know, I can't, I have to show solidarity.

I cannot go in there today.

So it's a brave standby, Glenn.

And I think he'll get some prisoners.

I applaud it.

Oh, yeah.

You know, wow.

I applaud it.

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Glenn's out today for International Women's Day.

Being 89% woman himself.

Pat Stew and Jeffy in for Glenn.

I love the fact that

conservatives in Congress aren't lying down with this Trump care thing.

In fact, Rand Paul is calling it Obamacare light.

It's beyond Trump care.

It's just essentially Obamacare

light, as he says.

Yeah, Justin Amash called it, I think, Obamacare 2.0.

You know, and that's what it is.

I mean,

we broke it down yesterday, all the details, if you want to go back and listen to the show.

But

we summarize it as if Obamacare is an F, maybe this is a D plus.

Maybe.

There are some things that are better than Obamacare in there.

And the thing is, John.

Shouldn't we strive for at least above average?

Yeah.

I mean, at least a B?

I mean, we've got the executive office, the Senate, and the House.

There's no reason to settle for this.

There's no reason.

Why?

I mean, and if you think about it, it's like if...

there were 51, 52 Democrats in the Senate and

you're trying to get a gang of eight bill passed.

This is the type of thing you might accept in that scenario.

You might say, you know what?

I mean, look, the Democrats have control of the presidency.

They have control of the House.

They have control of the Senate.

But with a small majority, they can't get the filibuster through.

So maybe what we do here is work with them and get some of this stuff stuck.

It's not where we are, though.

It's not where we are.

You can do whatever you want.

Why not shoot for something you actually want?

If you have to negotiate from that point

and relinquish a couple of good things,

probably conservatives will, you know, plug their nose and go along with it.

If you don't believe us, listen to Rand Paul.

This is Obamacare light.

It will not pass.

Conservatives aren't going to take it.

Premiums and prices will continue to spiral out of control.

They do nothing to help the consumer join associations to bring prices down.

I like the president's statement that it's up for negotiation, and I think those have begun.

I spoke with the president yesterday, and I think he's open-minded on this.

He wants Obamacare repealed like all conservatives do, but he realizes that conservatives have a lot of objections.

I mean, that's somewhat, he sounds somewhat hopeful there that, you know, maybe we can make it better through the negotiation instead of worse through the negotiation.

But you usually don't start with really bad.

Like if you need to make $100,000 a year, you don't go to your employer and say, I demand $20,000.

That's my starting point.

Well, he'll say, okay,

I'll give you 20.

Well, it's interesting.

Or he might say, I'll give you 10 and we'll meet at 15.

You start at 500 000 and then you work your way backward you don't start at this crappy point yeah it's interesting because i i mean when i heard because trump when he first tweeted his support for this bill um said it was a he mentioned negotiation in there in my my mind as a republican president thought he's thinking this is the point where i will negotiate and hopefully you know there's going to be some negotiation with left right but maybe he's thinking he's negotiating with the right yeah maybe maybe he's entering this and saying, hey, I'm going to negotiate with the Rand Paul's and Ted Cruzes and it's going to move more conservative.

I guess we'll see that process.

I mean, he tweeted this morning.

I have to be reporting on the Donald Trump tweets every day.

But I feel sure that my friend at Rand Paul will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster.

Yeah, and

this is

too.

So

this won't help.

As Rand said, it's not going to bring down costs, which we were promised.

And ever since Obamacare came out and the prices went up, instead of saying, well, you're right, the prices didn't go down by $2,500 per family, what they say now is, well, they didn't go up as much as they would have.

Well, that wasn't your promise in the beginning.

And also, you don't know what that would happen.

And you don't know what would have happened.

We have no idea.

Yeah.

That's just a BS argument, especially when you promise something specific.

You promise $2,500 decrease and over family.

And over.

So you don't get get to now say, well, what we meant was it wasn't $1 million more per family.

That's just like when the unemployment rate was 10%, Obama's line was, well, at least it's not 15 or 20.

Yeah, that's

right, but it could be maybe better than 10.

Yeah, maybe.

Is that possible?

You're just, you know, when you go through this line by line, you see way,

way too much of Obamacare still in it.

And, you know, the technical way they're doing this is they're repealing the whole thing and then just adding back all the parts of Obamacare that they like and calling it a full repeal.

It's not a full repeal.

When you have the same things in there,

they're repealing half of it and they're putting in some things that are good, some things that are not so good to replace it.

And

they're going to have all sorts of problems and then it's going to be their problem.

It's going to be the Republicans' problem after this.

And in some ways, I think the Democrats really like this because obviously they don't care about anyone's health care when it's been established.

So,

you know, they like the fact that now Republicans will take the blame for their crap that they've built up over the past 10 years.

It's really a sad situation.

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This Obamacare

repeal

so far has been pretty disappointing.

First of all, they haven't repealed it.

They're not really traveling that route.

They're just trying.

It looks to me like they're just patching Obamacare.

It's not what they're doing.

They're just they're they're putting some band-aids on this thing.

Yeah, I mean, they're acting as if their tax credit system is different than the subsidy system that exists.

Really, it's not.

I mean, you know, the old way that you would go to the Obamacare Exchange and you'd get a subsidy and $1,000 policy looks like it costs you $150.

It's basically what would happen again.

But they'd be dumping a bunch of tax credits and then, and it's not just tax credits.

It's refunds in excess of what you pay in taxes.

So

if you pay $3,000 of taxes a year and the tax credit is for $10,000, they're going to give you a check for $7,000 to go buy health insurance.

I mean,

that's just a government.

How is that different than a big government liberal program?

Well, it's a handout.

Yeah, it's just acting as if when you call it tax credits, conservatives are supposed to be like, oh, well, that's totally different.

I'm so much happier about that.

I'm not.

And all during Obama, everybody screamed about the fact that we're going to repeal this thing and we're going to put together a bill and we're going to pass it.

And they did.

They passed the bill in the House.

They passed the bill in the Senate.

And Obama, of course, didn't sign it.

He vetoed it.

He vetoed them.

But I mean, look at what that reveals about Republicans.

When they knew, when they knew there was no chance of getting it through yeah they passed a clean obamacare repeal when they knew the guy with the who has the name before care in obamacare was president they had no problem passing this because they knew it wouldn't do anything now the second they have a chance to all they have to do is pass this and they have control of everything

And what happens?

This.

Nothing.

I mean, something crappy.

Yeah.

They have a replacement that

embraces and entrenches large portions of Obamacare, many of the biggest portions that were problematic.

It just shows how worthless they are.

This is why we're not high on the Republican Party.

This is exactly the reason we're not.

Congressman Jason Chaffetz said something that's a little controversial in this room.

I took this to mean one thing.

Stu takes it to mean another.

See what you think think about the way Jason Chaffetz describes health care and young people and their spending on health care.

And you know what?

Americans have choices and they've got to make a choice.

And so maybe rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest it in their own health care.

They've got to make those decisions themselves.

So in other words, for lower-income Americans, you're saying that this is going to require some sacrifice on that.

Well, we've got to be able to actually lower the cost of health care.

See, to me, he seems to be saying that's why we're allowing the fine from the insurance companies or the extra 30% from the insurance companies if they don't choose the right thing that we want them to choose.

It's a lot like what Obama was saying a few years ago.

I guess what I would say is if you looked at that person's budget and you looked at their cable bill, their telephone,

their cell phone bill,

other things that they're spending on, it may turn out that it's just they haven't prioritized health care because right now everybody's healthy.

Nobody actually wants to spend money on health insurance.

But we're going to make sure they do.

We're going to force them into it because we know better because we're the government.

We're big brother.

We know better than you.

We're progressives.

We're going to be your parent and you're going to do the right thing.

Isn't that the same message from both Obama and Chaffetz?

I think it's the exact same observation.

Differently, though.

A little bit.

Maybe not that much, though, because I think it's the exact same observation.

So the fact that the Chaffetz comment is controversial today, which it seems to be,

is another example of hypocrisy where no one thought the Barack Obama thing was controversial on the left, at least.

So Chaffitz is, I guess, in hot water over that comment, but it's the exact same observation.

And look, it's plainly true.

We went back, it was, you know, there was millions, millions and millions of people who made over $50,000, over $75,000 a year, over $100,000 a year, who did not have health insurance under the old system.

And because Obamacare was going to force people into it, those people theoretically would become covered.

That was Barack Obama's point.

I think the observation is exactly the same.

However, I think what they're doing here, I think Obama is saying people are spending money on phones instead of health care, so we need to require them to buy health care.

I think Chaffetz is saying people are spending money on

phones instead of health care and they need to prioritize what they're doing there.

We're not going to force them to make that choice, but maybe if they didn't choose expensive electronics all the time, they'd have money for the healthcare that they say they don't have money for.

That's true, but I get the impression that he is, they're trying to backdoor force them.

This is how he's justifying allowing the fine or the extra payment from the insurance companies if you don't have health care insurance.

Yeah, and this goes back to that weird clause.

And it is a weird clause in the Republican replacement.

And the way it works is if, let's say you have health care from January to March, and then you get fired, okay, you lose your health care.

You have no health care, April, May, June.

You come back in July and pick up the health care again.

The GOP plan allows a 30%

fine or surcharge, whatever you want to call it, from the insurance companies onto you as you get reinsured.

And the reason for that is...

And you lost, by the way, you lost your insurance through no fault of your own.

Well, I mean, I don't know how you got fired, but the fact is, once you're unemployed,

maintaining insurance through that period is almost impossible for most people.

It's cost-prohibitive.

Right.

So the issue here is you have a couple months off and you come back on your insurance, you get an extra 30% on top of your current fees.

And the idea is, well, you know,

we want to keeping, having people keep consistent coverage throughout the year is important for insurance companies to be able to figure out how much everything costs.

So if you go off the insurance, you come back on, they're going to give you a fine.

This works in a similar way as the individual mandate does.

If you don't have insurance, they will fine you.

And so, I mean, you know, you could see how that would be similar.

Sean Spicer was asked about this yesterday and he denied that it was a backdoor mandate.

But I mean, you can pretty clearly say it is.

Oddly, though, If you have insurance for a couple months, lose it, and come back on, you get fined.

If you don't have it at all, for any months, you don't get fined.

So

it's a very weird, quirky part of this law.

And, you know, whether it stays or not, who knows?

But

you're saying that you think Chaffetz is saying, this is why we put this in here because people will avoid insurance.

And I will say

it's a pretty compelling case.

Let's say you're 22 years old.

You don't have, you know, you're off of insurance for a couple of months.

Would you come back on?

Would you bother getting insurance again?

No.

I mean, because I mean,

so so if you get sick and you need the insurance and it's a desperate situation, you got to pay a 30% surcharge.

Is that really a huge,

is that going to dissuade you, really, from your decision?

I think for me, I'm going to say I'm just going to keep.

Right.

You know, I'm not going to get it.

You know, I'm not going to get it.

And if you're not going to be able to do it,

when I was 23, I would have, and if I was single,

absolutely,

I wouldn't buy health insurance.

Yeah, I'm going to prioritize other things.

Sorry, because I'm just going to roll the dice that I don't need your health insurance.

And if I have to go to the doctor, doctor, I'll just pay for it out of my pocket.

Because the chances are great that nothing catastrophic is going to happen to you.

You know, hopefully at 23, you're not going to get cancer or have a heart attack or a stroke or any of those things.

And you kind of gamble with that.

And I would really resent somebody trying to tell me, well, you should have spent the money not on that cell phone in that nice apartment.

You get a health insurance like we try to make you do.

Well, I did what I wanted to do.

Yeah.

None of your business.

Now, you have to accept the consequences that go along with that.

And it doesn't seem like anyone wants to do that.

But yes, you're right.

I mean, look,

you could make a legitimate argument that no person in the United States who does not have health insurance should have

cable,

cell phones,

any of these things by their own choice, right?

Like you should probably prioritize health insurance over all of those things.

Now, if you have health insurance and you get those things too, that's great.

But if you don't have health insurance and your reason is because I don't have enough money to pay for it, you probably should get health insurance before you pay for those things.

Now, no one wants to hear that in our society anymore.

Although I hearken back to the words of one Barack Obama back in early 2008, when he said that the mandate makes no sense because

if that's what we were going to do, we should cure homelessness by mandating that everybody buy a house.

Right.

That was the Barack One to make the homeless man buy a house.

It doesn't make any sense.

It doesn't.

It doesn't.

And that's why you don't have the government mandated.

People make their own choices, right?

And so if they want to make a choice where they prioritize electronics over health care, they should be able to make that choice.

However, they also should live with those consequences.

And Chaffetz tried to walk it back a little bit later yesterday, too, because he said,

maybe I didn't say it as smoothly as possibly that I should have, but people need to make a conscious choice.

And I believe in self-reliance, and they're going to have to make those decisions.

Right.

So I think he is, I think he's saying it as.

Maybe, but apparently a lot of people took it the way I did.

They sure did.

And what's amazing about that is that shouldn't be particularly controversial.

And you want a way for people to never learn

to prioritize healthcare over electronics is if you enforce it by law, that they have to have insurance.

That way they never make that choice.

They're never prioritizing.

They're just simply taking a government program.

And so then it becomes an entitlement.

Right.

And now they should get the entitlement plus their electronics.

I mean,

I understand that that's going to be a controversial thing.

And we can all pretend as if that's the meanest thing in the world.

But electronics are not a God-given right.

No, there is, neither is health.

I mean, neither is healthcare, by the way.

But it's not an American right.

It's not your human right to have an iPhone.

And if you have a lot of electronics, and look, this is the case, not necessarily among the poor.

It's a case more among the young.

The young who might have plenty of money to buy lots of things that they want and enjoy, but don't prioritize health care because they don't believe they need it.

And isn't that their choice?

These people are adults.

Well, under Obamacare, it's not their choice because Obamacare was set up for the young to pay for the old.

Yeah.

That's how it's set up.

How's that working out?

Not very well.

Not very well.

Because then cost went up for everybody.

It's a hell of a sales job, though, because the people who supported it more than anybody were the young people, and they were the ones putting the bill.

Yep.

It's just a bizarre thing.

All it is, I mean, look, insurance is never a good investment by the numbers.

If it were a good investment by the numbers, then insurance companies wouldn't exist.

They are on the side of the numbers.

The people collecting money for your policy are winning this bet.

But for an individual, it might screw your life up.

If you lose the bet, right?

I mean, everyone knows this.

Insurance companies wouldn't operate if they were on the wrong side of this bet.

So every 22-year-old making the decision to not be on healthcare is statistically making the right choice.

The problem is that when the bad thing happens to that individual, it winds up burning them and can create huge problems and drains on the healthcare system.

But I mean, you know, we have to be honest about this.

You have to prioritize these things.

That is what life is.

And human beings are supposed to be able to make these choices for themselves.

You know, that is what that's their role.

Their role in their life is controlling what happens to them.

And we constantly are going down this road where the government gets to decide what happens to you.

They are the ones that are the only ones who can understand your priority system, and that's not the right way to go.

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I love the liberals who are trying to support Nordstrom now because Nordstrom dropped Ivanka Trump's line.

And so

some Republicans and Trump supporters were saying, well, we're not going to shop at Nordstrom anymore.

So Hollywood is rallying behind Nordstrom now like they need it.

But all these big Hollywood celebrities are tweeting out and bragging about the fact that they're shopping at Nordstrom more than ever and spending thousands of dollars on shoes and whatever.

It's so pathetic because Ivanka Trump thinks just like they do.

What are they trying to make a point against Ivanka Trump for?

She's a liberal.

She's as liberal as they are.

It's bizarre.

First of all, that's bizarre.

Secondly.

I mean, and you think on the day without women, you wouldn't make a point to hold the daughter responsible for what you think the father believes.

I mean, what a weird stance to take for a living.

Really weird.

Right?

I guess because she supported her dad, criticized out on her.

Of course she's going to.

It's madness.

It's madness.

But sure hasn't hurt her because

she's just released that her clothing line is posting record sales in the midst of all this.

Up by hundreds of percent, right?

300% or something like that.

Is she pulling

her dad, though?

I mean, do we know for sure that

her sales are that high?

Is she pulling a Donald by saying, the number one, they're selling better than anybody.

We don't know that.

However, I would say that the target of Ivanka Trump clothing before this election was not a bunch of Republicans.

No, it was not.

It was every day.

Now you have a huge new audience that's brought into looking at these clothes who probably never was looking at them before.

I mean,

the target of Ivanka Trump at Nordstrom clothing is probably not that, you know, the average Republican, although some obviously buy it.

But I mean,

this business was probably constructed as they're registered Democrats, right?

I mean, and they probably were targeting more, you know, high-style fashion type people that, you know, maybe weren't all, you know, percentage-wise

or Republicans.

And now Republicans are like, screw it, I don't care what it looks like.

I'm buying it.

Is her clothing line expensive?

Do you know?

Is it like elite stuff?

Because her dad's line is not.

No, it's trying to keep it down.

Yeah.

I think they've both done, you know, fairly affordable stuff, but kind of interesting.

And I love the in-your-face to the Hollywood crowd.

It's just so despicable.

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Uh, we need to get to the WikiLeaks claim, too, that the CIA hacking into your phones and televisions is happening.

So, like, if you have a Samsung TV, supposedly, even if it's not on, they can watch you.

That's been reported for a long time, yeah.

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Jake Tapper yesterday

talking about this latest report from about the CIA and what they're doing with their spy efforts.

Documents they claim are from the CIA Center for Cyber Intelligence that reveal the methods the spy agency uses to gather information on targets without them knowing, among them turning household items such as computers or smartphones or a Samsung smart TV into surveillance tools, turning your own electronics into spy devices, even when they're powered off.

The CIA hackers are apparently able to bypass encryption on popular communication applications such as WhatsApp or Signal or Confide by hacking the smartphones the apps run on and collecting the data before the encryption is applied.

Now CNN cannot independently verify the information contained in these 8,761 documents and files, which Wikileaks is calling Vault 7.

In a statement, a CIA spokesman said, quote, we do not comment on the authenticity or content of purported intelligence documents, unquote.

Well, that is true.

How have we not killed every terrorist there is in the world?

A great point.

If they're capable of all of that, we should have no issues anymore.

That's amazing stuff.

Unless they're just directing it toward American citizens.

Right.

And you think they'd actually have lines against Americans that they wouldn't have against terrorists.

They could do kind of whatever they want.

They don't have to worry about the Constitution necessarily

when they're going against terrorists in Afghanistan somewhere.

That is amazing.

I mean, you know, obviously their answer to this is, A, we'd need a warrant to do any of this stuff.

Easily obtainable through FISA.

Yeah.

I mean, right.

But I mean,

because you're saying because most of them.

don't get the overwhelming majority get approved.

But there's a process to get to that point.

They won't win last year.

Right.

But there's a process to get to that point.

They don't bring, I mean, they don't bring, you know, 12 million of those a year.

Right.

I think it was 1,689 last year and 1,688 were approved.

Right.

And which, you know, look, if the number was actually, if they were spying on 1,888

households because they believed terrorism was involved, that actually seems pretty rational.

Right?

Like, that's probably a totally normal number.

I think

the conversations that have been problematic around this are the mass gathering of data of every citizen making phone calls and everything that we've learned from these past things.

But just the ability, the fact that they are able to use your smart TV to somehow monitor you is kind of, I guess, what's coming out of this.

That's more noteworthy.

We've talked about these possibilities before.

We've had experts on saying that they could do these things.

But I guess this would be the deepest evidence to confirm that.

And, you know, the idea that they can do it with your, with the power off is interesting as well.

They're talking about how, obviously, while your power of your TV might be off, it has to be on at some level because the remote know, like it's detecting the remote, right?

If it was completely off and there was no power going to it, it would not be able to detect the remote.

It's in essentially a slate mode, right?

And it's like, you know, Google now and Alexa, because if you okay the voice command on the TV, if you say yes, I want to use it, then it's always listening.

Always.

I mean, it has to be able to hear what you say.

Now, do you have these devices in your home, Pat?

You know, the Alexa or Google Play?

We have an Alexa.

It's not currently plugged into anything, though, because I found it kind of worthless.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I like the Google Home seems more

viable.

The Alexa didn't do anything I really care about.

I mean, it would give you the weather, but I can get that from

my iPad.

But I do have a Samsung TV.

I have several Samsung TVs that they could be watching me.

But have you okayed them to use the ⁇ I think the big thing was in the beginning was that if you said okay to the voice command, then they were able to listen and take the information.

Because

they've already been, I think they were sued at one point for using information about what people were watching without their knowledge.

for they were using that obviously for, you know, our safety and, you know, to help us purchase products better for our families, of course.

Yeah, right.

But they were, you know, I think they were already sued for that once or twice because they were using that information without our knowledge.

So why wouldn't they?

And, you know, we talked about this yesterday.

The principle of this is to elevate it to a conversation about whether these things should be allowed anyway.

Yeah, because, and it's also to elevate it to a point where people care about it.

Because a lot of Americans think, well, I'm not doing anything wrong anyway.

What do I care if they're watching me?

Well, because you don't know what they consider wrong.

At any given point, what you're doing might be wrong, or they might construe it as wrong, or we might not always have the benevolence in power that we have today.

So you don't ever want the government to have this kind of power and use it against us.

That's why whether you're doing anything wrong or not isn't the point.

It's should they be doing this at all?

That's the point.

Because the fact that they can do it means if anything ever turns kind of ugly, then we're in real trouble.

I mean, you're really talking about

a seriously oppressive government if they can do all of this stuff.

It's kind of scary.

It's chilling.

So an interesting report.

And again, I don't know if it's true.

I don't know if they can actually do this stuff or if they are doing this stuff.

And if they are, again,

there should be a lot more dead terrorists than there are today because those guys are using cell phones.

And if you can get it before the encryption process, which I didn't think was possible, what good is encryption

if the CIA can take the data before it's encrypted?

Yeah, so the way

like, for example, those encrypted messaging apps like Confide.

Confide, it's like a, it basically like covers all your messages.

So if you send a message in Confide, the person who receives it gets a message that's covered.

and only when they touch it can they see what's going on

so yeah it's a way to so you can't really screenshot a message which is a way that you can get around some other messaging uh uh things uh services so the idea though is that they're hacking in before it's encrypted so like the way that it helps if you want to keep send a secret message is I send a message to Pat and I'm stopping the people in between Pat and I from intercepting it on the internet right the way they're talking about it with the CIA is as I'm typing it, they're able to see it before I send it.

So

it's actually,

you know, getting around that whole system.

And you know, I gotta assume, I don't know, maybe terrorists

are thinking, you know what, we're gonna get away with this because we're gonna send it through a commercially available messaging system.

I mean, like, I don't think they're that dumb.

I mean, they probably are.

I don't know.

Some of them are.

But you'd think that you're right.

Like, I go back and forth with this, and it's like watching a Law and Order episode.

If you're watching Law and Order, if you're like me, you believe every attorney and every argument they make.

So like, it's like the greatest defense of all time.

And you're like, this guy is so innocent.

And then there's a prosecution comes on, like, this guy's got a fry.

It's like, you go back and forth.

And that's why it's a great show.

I mean,

I'm constantly convinced.

It's the same thing with this.

I go back and forth with, do we have this incredible ability to monitor everything everywhere?

Part of when on days like this, I feel that way.

Like they're coming through our TVs and they're able to do this.

And then the other part of me is like, so much crap gets by them.

So

many things.

So many obvious things.

So many things they should have caught.

So many times do we have people who they have, they talk to, the FBI brings into the room and then they let go and then they wind up doing something terrible.

We're told things like this all the time.

Well, the CIA can monitor you through a Lego system.

Through my Legos?

What?

They're watching your child play right now.

Isn't that a bad thing?

He's building a little pirate ship.

Well,

why did it take 11 years to get Osama bin Laden there?

That's their deal, though, right?

They say, isn't that what the CIA guy told us on our For the Record is that they get all the information.

It's a matter of, obviously, disseminating it going through it.

So unless someone comes to them and says,

Stubrageer,

and then they go to you and then they're able to knock out everything that you're doing.

Then the information's there, it's just there's no way that they can cover it.

But, like, do you think, and I do not think that they somewhere have a hard drive or multiple hard drives, multiple thousands of hard drives, with every word spoken in a room with the Samsung TV that has voice recognition on it?

Like, that's not a thing.

Right.

However, can they go on a specific case and say, you know what, Pat Gray, we think Pat Gray, or actually a better example, Jeff Fisher, we think Jeff Fisher is a criminal.

And

we want to listen to his Samsung to see, you know, how he's organizing that.

Stupid examples, Stu.

Why are you using me?

The point is, like, can they do that?

That is, I guess, the news today, which is they seemingly can, if you believe WikiLeaks in these documents.

So, you know, that's a pretty impressive technological advancement.

But again, when you don't have these rules, there's nothing saying to them that they can't have the data from some terrorist who lives in Yemen, right?

Like there's no constitutional requirement necessarily of them saying, well, we have to respect the privacy rights of the people in Yemen.

Yeah, I don't think they worry about that much.

No.

So if they can get that information and it's available.

Now, I understand there might not be that many Samsung smart TVs in Yemen, but I mean that's a thing.

But they have cell phones, probably.

Chances are pretty good they got smartphones.

But the other chilling part of this, again, is if the government is ever not as benevolent as it is today, we don't have a chance if this technology exists.

You don't have a chance.

Doomed.

I mean...

You're so dependent on it.

Wow.

So dependent on it.

It's incredible.

I mean, there is never a time when you're alone without the government beside you.

There's never a time.

Everywhere you go, whatever you do, they know about it.

They're watching you.

Well, I mean, they could be.

You talk about every breath you take, I'll be watching you that was creepy enough from sting it's a lot creepier from the government though i will say i looked in my backyard yesterday and sting was there looking in i will say that sting was there he was watching you watching you i love sting i would have invited him in

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It's bizarre.

I've seen several, by the way.

So they're here.

So have I.

They're still here.

They're still alive and moving around and doing their thing.

I guess some of them aren't showing up to work, which is apparently a big thing to show women are an important part of the workforce.

They're going to show you what it's like to get through a day without women in the workforce, which so far seems fine.

I don't know.

I haven't seen a big adjustment.

So far, though, maybe it's because in Texas they're all just showing up for freaking work.

Could be.

But so far, it seems pretty fine.

Could be.

So we were talking yesterday about Ben Carson and his really weird comment about slaves and immigrants.

Here's what he said.

That's what America

is about.

A land of dreams and opportunity.

There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, a lot less.

They too had a dream

that one day their sons,

daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great-grandsons,

Great-granddaughters might pursue prosperity.

Yeah,

that's what they were thinking.

That's what they were thinking.

When they were stolen from their land, thrown in the bottom of a nasty slave ship, and sailed 3,000 miles across the sea against their will.

That's what they were thinking.

You know, one day, my granddaughters and grandsons, they're going to be rich.

They're still going to prosper.

I can't wait to get there.

Part of

I can't wait to get there.

Bizarre.

Part of the strangeness of that moment is the 65 ambient delivery of Ben Harson, which is just odd.

Yes.

But, you know, apparently this commentary is not all that rare.

I know he's getting a lot of flack.

And I think rightly so.

But

he phrased things

a little weird.

However, he's not the first person to compare immigrants and slaves like this.

In fact,

the Republican has done this too.

Of course, some other

people.

We've had to have run that person out of the country.

Yeah, we have, we have.

Naturalization in a ceremony in 2015,

President Barack Obama referred to slaves as immigrants.

Did he really?

Yeah.

How about this one?

A

naturalization ceremony in 2012.

Obama said this.

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, we are all descended from folks who came from someplace else, whether they arrived on the Mayflower or a slave ship, whether they came through the Ellis Island or crossed the Rio Grande.

And April 28th, 2011.

And nobody, nobody

said a peep about that.

While addressing crowd hosted by the DNC on April 28th, no matter where ancestors landed on Ellis Island or came here on a slave ship across the Rio Grande, we are all connected to one another.

We rise and fall together.

April 29th, 2011, we didn't raise the Statue of Liberty with its back to the world.

We raised it with this light to the world.

Whether your ancestors came here on the Mayflower or a slave ship, whether they signed in at Ellis Island or across the Rio Grande, we are one people.

Now, the difference here, though, is he's comparing them to immigrants, but he's not actually saying they were immigrants.

So listen to this.

Yes, you're right.

Listen to this one.

Whether your forebears landed at Ellis Island or they came here on a slave ship or they crossed the Rio Grande, it was nothing if you were to go.

And by the way, my forebears didn't land on Ellis Island.

Ellis Island landed on me.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you for that.

Or however they got here, they typically had a commitment to hard work.

Well, yeah, I guess you could say that about slaves.

Sure, they did have a commitment to hard work.

They did, because the whip really helped

slaves.

Are you sure it wasn't the thought that their grandkids would prosper?

Wow, that's bizarre.

So they typically had a commitment to hard work and a commitment to community and a commitment to family and a willingness to dream big dreams.

I mean, that's pretty similar.

That's close to what Carson said.

To what Carson said.

And a patriotism that was not rooted in ethnicity, but was rooted in a creed and a set of ideals and beliefs that in America, anything was possible.

There's no way slaves were thinking that.

Not that.

Where are you getting that?

I mean, maybe after they were free, they believed that.

Nobody loves this country more than I do.

But there is no way when you had slaves in a cotton field being whipped, their women being raped,

being

tortured and killed in some cases, sold to other people.

I mean, there is no way.

They had patriotism for the country.

If they did, wow, they were far, far, far better people than I am.

And the other thing is, how do you dream big when that's your lot in life?

I mean,

you couldn't fathom such a thing in those days if you were a slave.

Could you?

I mean, we did some stories, right?

We did some stories in our serials about some of the, you know, during Black History Month of some of the men that fought for this country.

There were examples.

There were examples.

But I mean,

there were slaves.

Yes.

Among the black founders, there were former slaves who fought hard for the country.

When When you're talking, however, as a general point, I don't think it applies.

No, no, no.

Yes.

I mean, look, everyone has a dream for their world to get better, whatever that world is.

So, yes,

they were all hoping that someday they would be free to be able to pursue

their lives the way they wanted to.

However, I don't know if that they would categorize that as patriotism.

No, that's crazy.

There's 11 of these, by the way, and many of them are similar, but kind of amazing.

Coming up next, we're getting to our second segment in our serial of the craziest elections.

This one features the election of 1860, which is fascinating.

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In this series, we're talking about crazy elections.

And one of the more crazy elections happened in the 1800s.

They were turbulent.

It was an amazing century for the United States.

The nation was discovering who it was, what it was.

It was growing exponentially.

It was assimilating tens of millions of new immigrants.

And it was expanding.

It was discovering, flexing its muscle.

It had captured the imagination of the entire world.

But it was also the time when it was finally forced to confront the evil that it didn't end on its inception.

The founders had laid the groundwork.

They stopped the importation of slaves.

But the ending of slavery itself had to wait for the right leader at the right time in order to see the country safely through to the other side.

That is why the election of 1860 was so critically important.

The two-party system at the time was just comprised of the Democrats and the Whigs.

And the sitting Democratic president, James Buchanan, was so unpopular that he wasn't even brought up by his party to be nominated to run for re-election.

They made the frontrunner, Democratic Illinois Senator Stephen A.

Douglas, John Breckinridge, the vice president from Kentucky, he was representing the Southern Democratic Party.

John Bell from Tennessee was the Constitutional Union Whig Party candidate.

And then, representing a new four-year-old Republican Party, was an awkward, lanky Abraham Lincoln.

Here's the question I asked: Were there Americans in 1860 that were saying, you know, if you vote for Abraham Lincoln, you're just wasting your vote?

Or that a vote for Lincoln is actually a vote for Breckinridge?

Because Lincoln was the third-party candidate in 1860.

And the country was a mess.

Many southern states were already threatening to secede in the lead-up to the election.

And one of the things that was well known in the South about Lincoln was that he hated slavery.

And many in the South, especially the deep South, hated him for it.

At the time, Lincoln had no intention of going to war with the South if elected, which in part won him the Republican nomination.

But those in the South, they didn't believe him.

Lincoln had an interesting strategy for the campaign, which was very different from the plan that Douglas had.

Photographs played a vital role in the election of Abraham Lincoln as the 16th U.S.

President.

In the final weeks of the campaign, instead of giving speeches, Lincoln took every available available opportunity to pose for photographers and sculptors.

Simultaneously, his old rival Stephen Douglas made the critical mistake of hitting the campaign trail.

In the 1800s, a presidential nominee who actively campaigned was ridiculed for seeming so desperate.

And this is exactly how the public reacted to the Douglas Whirlwind Tour.

Lincoln was campaigning just as hard, but not by making visits and giving speeches.

Instead, by having his photograph show up everywhere in his place.

Actively campaigning was seen as desperate in the 1800s.

Oh, if we could only get that desperate part of our country back.

A lot of secession talk from the South rumors were swirling and scare tactic rhetoric was abundant that if Lincoln won, there'd be secession and war.

But Lincoln and his team ignored that.

He carried the North and did well enough elsewhere to win the presidency by a significant margin, taking the popular vote 39.8% to 29.5% for Douglas and the electoral vote 180 to 72 over Breckinridge.

But by the time Lincoln was inaugurated, six states had already seceded from the Union.

Nine more would follow, as well as the bloodiest war in American history.

Abraham Lincoln was perhaps the man born to see America through its most perilous period.

In 1875, Ulysses S.

Grant, the two-term President of the United States, about to attempt to become America's first three-term president, ignoring the tradition set by George Washington to self-limit to two.

Grant himself, despite the terrible economy, in fact, a three-year depression that had left 3 million Americans unemployed and being bogged down in corruption and scandals, Grant was ready to go for the presidency again, as were his advisors.

But then, Congress passed a resolution by a vote of 233 to 18, stating that Washington started the two-term tradition to avoid a dictatorship.

And apparently, that helped sway the American public as it turned the tide in the thinking and the plans of Ulysses S.

Grant.

In the end, he finally decided against running for a third term.

That left the election to the eventual Republican nominee.

Ohio Governor Rutherford B.

Hayes and the Democratic nominee, Samuel Tilden, the governor of New York.

After winning the Republican nomination on the seventh ballot, political writer Roy Morris Jr.

explained that Hayes.

In his acceptance letter to the Republican convention,

nominees didn't appear at the convention in those days.

He promised a return to good, honest government, a reform of the civil service system, and an elimination of bribery and corruption in Washington.

Compared to the other Republican candidates, such as Blaine and Conkling, he was squeaky clean.

So is his wife, a tireless temperance crusader known as Lemonade Lucy, for her refusal to serve alcoholic beverages at official state functions.

Tilden, on the other hand, presented by newspaper men at the time in a rather unusual way.

He was a lifelong bachelor.

And during the ensuing campaign, there were several cartoons ran showing him wearing a dress,

which was a not so subtle suggestion that he was gay.

Even with the insinuation of Tilden being gay, keeping in mind this is 1876 and a very different mindset, still Samuel Tilden won the popular vote for presidency 51 to 48.

Oh, we were such haters.

He also won the Electoral College vote 184-165 with 20 electoral votes unresolved.

Wait a minute.

Yeah, you heard me right.

I did just say that.

Sam Tilden won both the popular and electoral vote.

But we don't have President Sam Tilden anywhere.

What happened?

Well, two days before Inauguration Day, March 2nd, 1877, facing a constitutional crisis, the likes of which the nation had never experienced, Congress created a temporary group called the Electoral Commission, which superseded the Electoral College.

You want to talk about election being stolen?

They wanted to determine what to do with the 20 unresolved, uncommitted electoral votes.

The Democrats threatened to filibuster through Inauguration Day in order just to get their nominee the necessary votes.

But instead, a deal was struck with the Democrats by the Electoral Commission.

They would accept Republican Rutherford Hayes as president, and in exchange, they would withdraw the northern occupation troops from the south.

This turned out to be a really bad thing because it ended Reconstruction, enabled the South to reenact all the laws that were discriminatory towards blacks.

So yes, once again, the Democrats and all the weasely politicians in Washington made a deal that somehow worked out for them, but not so much for the American people.

The 20 unresolved votes all went to Hayes, giving him the closest margin of victory in American history, 185 to 184 electoral votes.

It was also the election with the highest percentage of voter turnout in American history, 82%.

It was also the only time in American history when a candidate received more than 50% of the popular vote, but was denied the presidency.

It kind of puts the whole election mess of 2000 into perspective, doesn't it?

The elections of 1912, progressive versus progressive, for the first time in American history, and the election of 1948.

In the next episode,

tomorrow in the Glenbeck program, in chapter three of the craziest elections in history, you'll learn how Woodrow Wilson was elected.

Listen live or online at Glenbeck.com slash serials.

Is that crazy?

I mean, when you say crazy elections, you have no idea

how crazy our elections have been in the past.

In case you The guy won the popular, Tilden won the popular vote in 1876.

Popular vote and the electoral vote, but was denied the presidency.

And it was because there was 20 votes that were uncommitted.

Right.

And so to decide those 20, they put together an electoral commission.

And

Rutherford B.

Hayes' camp

promised them to remove the troops, the occupying troops from the South, if everybody would throw the votes his way.

It worked.

And he won, despite the fact that he lost both the actual votes.

You should have seen the tweets from Tilden after that.

Oh, man.

Oh, my God.

Baby, he was ripping them.

I imagine if that happened today, there's like, yeah, sad, stolen election.

And he'd be right on that one, probably.

Yeah.

I mean, it's hard to argue that that wasn't stolen.

It's impossible to argue it.

It was stolen.

And I don't see how that was constitutional.

I mean, I clearly think that was unconstitutional.

And I think Hayes was a,

you talk about selected, not elected.

He was the selected, not elected president.

I mean,

not elected.

Tilted at a raw deal through that whole thing.

I mean, his tweets,

when they started publishing pictures of him in a dress, he was.

Well,

he was mad.

Wow.

It's hard to believe that kind of stuff happened, isn't it?

Yeah,

I like, and the reason why we decided to do this particular serial was because we were going through the last election and everyone was just saying how unprecedented everything was.

And when you look back at history, you realize, no, none of this is unprecedented.

It's not unprecedented.

It really isn't.

I mean, some of these elections are insane.

And it's honestly amazing the union made it through some of them.

I mean,

the fact that the union made it through that election is incredible.

Shows how strong it is.

And

we can get through anything, I guess, if we can get through that.

And the election of 1824 that we talked about yesterday went through 35 votes in the House of Representatives.

Just the 35.

35

before they finally came up with John Quincy Adams.

I mean, some just staggering, unbelievable stuff that we'd have a conniption over today.

I mean, you go through if it was too...

Remember how controversial it was going to be if the primary on the Republican side went to

the delegates?

Yeah.

Remember how

they were talking about that being like the biggest controversy.

This is 35 votes in the Electoral College.

Amazing.

It's absolutely amazing.

Amazing.

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They just came out with another

best countries in the world ranking.

And,

of course, Uganda is number one.

Best place in the world to live.

It's beautiful this time of year.

Really?

Beautiful, especially this time of year.

You know,

spring in Uganda.

There's nothing like it.

Actually, the number one country in the world, what would you expect it to be?

Well, certainly not the United States of America.

Not in these surveys.

It's got to be something like Norway or something.

Very close.

Switzerland.

Switzerland, number one.

Switzerland has some, and it has some really some things they do better than us when it comes to free markets, honestly.

Yeah.

But that's probably not why they're rating them that high.

They rank it on categories they call adventure, citizenship, cultural influence, entrepreneurship, heritage, movers, open for business, power, and quality of life.

None of those, the United States, should rank anything above 25 or 30.

Not one of those.

Number two is Canada.

That's why everybody's flocking across the Canadian border to get there because it's the second greatest place in the world to live.

That's why 35 million people live in a country that's like 20 times the size of ours.

United Kingdom is number three.

Come on now.

Stop it.

At fourth is Germany.

Germany's always in the top five of these.

Well, not there are certain decades.

Yeah, maybe not in the 30s and 40s.

Certain decades, and maybe that was an exception.

Same thing with Japan.

They're number five.

And maybe in the 40s and the 30s, they weren't quite as high.

And number six, you might be thinking, okay, are we there?

No, Sweden.

Sweden, number six.

And they're having some issues right now.

Yes, they are.

I've heard that.

Number seven, the United States of America.

And we went from fourth to seventh.

They rank us 35th in adventure.

Come on.

I don't really know what that means.

We should look at the criteria and see how, what do you you mean by adventure?

Adventure.

Great places to go, things to do, I would think.

There's a lot.

And there's a lot here.

Citizenship, I don't really know what that means.

Citizenship, like how many citizens there are.

It could be like how easy is it?

It's easy to get.

Or the value of citizenship.

Cultural influence, they ranked us third.

How do you rank the United States of America third in influence?

Who's more influential than we are?

And culture.

I mean, with Hollywood and

how.

I mean, maybe because we're not as high as every country in the world has been Americanized.

How do you give us third in that?

Yeah, that's crazy.

Entrepreneurship nursery, number three.

And that's something we should be number one in.

Yes.

Heritage, 22.

Movers, whatever that means, 24.

Open for business.

We're 35th.

It's a weird one.

It's three men in a truck in the middle of this countdown.

It's kind of a strange thing.

Look, it's just hard to book them.

Let's be honest about it.

That's why they're number 22.

We are number one in power.

So obviously the most powerful nation on earth.

They actually did cede that to us.

Thank you.

Thank you.

But that's evil to them.

Yeah, of course.

And quality of life, we're only 18th.

What?

Probably things like crime factor into that.

I don't know.

Sure.

And I'm sure.

Income inequality.

Income inequality.

And probably health care.

Does the government pay for everybody's health care?

That's why the United States will never do as well as we should in these things because of the criteria involved.

Almost seventh, I'm actually impressed with on some of these.

It's better than I thought it would be.

They're like right behind North Korea, is where we have them this year.

That's usually the way these things go.

Australia, France, and uh, Norway, of course, round off the top 10.

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Halfway through the week with Pat, Stewart, and Jeffy in for Glenn today, who's still celebrating a day without women.

Now, you might be thinking, well, Glenn's not a woman, and you'd be wrong.

He's about 89%.

In fact, not about.

He is 89% woman.

We've done studies.

There's been DNA testing, and it's confirmed.

The Brookings Institute, Susan Hennessy, she should stay home every day, not just today.

We'll get into that coming up, as well as new regulations at the TSA that you're going to love.

Well, Jeffy's going to love them.

We'll tell you what those are and so much more.

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Susan Hennessy from the Brookings Institute was on with Chris Matthews about climate change because, as you know,

the world is

burning up with a fever right now.

It's got a fever of 103.

So come on, baby.

Do you do more than dance?

It's hot-blooded.

The earth is hot-blooded.

But here's,

they just keep repeating the same tired, untrue

dogma every single time they talk about this stuff.

Look, for all of the Trump administration's sort of focus on refugees, the single biggest national security threat is climate change.

We've seen the ways in which climate change has either either sparked conflicts or has made existing conflicts worse again and again.

Okay, we see the ways in which climate change has sparked conflicts.

Can you name one for me?

What is the Syrian thing over climate change?

It got 0.9 degrees hotter, so everybody tried to overthrow Bashir Assad.

Is that what happened?

Well, you just nailed it.

I mean, that's exactly what happened, yeah.

All right.

The one before that, I believe they titled it Desert Storm.

Wow, that's true.

That's a good point.

They titled it.

They titled it Desert Storm.

Yeah, no, I mean, this is a typical thing they pitch.

I mean, how do you even make that case?

How do you make that case?

What's the evidence that climate change is causing war or strife

or even famine and hunger?

Is there any evidence of that?

This has been a major DOD.

What'd you think of the weather two weeks ago?

What'd you think of the weather two weeks ago?

Okay, so now it's okay to talk about the weather because the weather is the climate.

It used to be every time you say, well, what about the snow?

You said it wasn't going to snow, now it's snowing.

Well, don't you confuse weather for climate.

Yep.

And now they do it every single time.

Every single.

What about the weather two weeks ago?

I don't know.

Was there a warm front in winter?

That's never happened before, right?

Other than every single year in human history.

Right, so we've seen this.

What do you mean?

Do you think it has anything to do with the weather we've been having?

I don't think that that necessarily has sparked conflict.

Years in a row now, the hottest years on record.

It hasn't been the hottest years on record many years in a row now.

In fact, for no years in a row since 1998.

And I know they go back and they try to manipulate the data so that they can get rid of that fact.

But the fact is there's been a pause in the warming.

There's been a pause in the warming.

Ever since the sun activity went down, it's been paused.

Also, the El Niño messes with the the weather.

We've had that coming and going.

Again and again, we're seeing a more intense sort of conflict for resources.

We're seeing more and more displaced people.

That causes, that has spillover effects with really dramatic security concerns.

Yeah, I think you're right about the Horn of Africa and Somalia, a place like that.

It's just horrible what people are driven to.

By the way, there's no A in the word horrible.

It's not horrible?

No, it's not horrible.

It's H-A-R-R-R.

It's H-O-R-R.

Horrible.

There's no A in the word at all.

No, it's horrible.

It's not horrible.

It's not horrible.

It is not.

I know many, many.

H-A-R-R-A-B.

There's two A's.

A-H-R-R-A-B.

Horrible.

I'm pretty sure there's

no A in the word horrible.

But that, I mean, he knows horrible.

If there's anybody who knows horrible, it's Chris Matthews.

That whole segment was horrible.

It's just agonizing.

Are they really

saying that the climate has, that the temperature has gone up every single year?

Is that a new thing now?

Because for a while they were admitting, no, there's a pause.

Yeah, we don't know why there's a pause, but there's a pause.

And now they're just ignoring that fact?

No, well, 2016, again,

obviously these numbers have just come in the last month or two.

The 2016, I believe, was either equal or slightly above or slightly below 1998.

Statistically, is that unadjusted?

And is that surface or satellite?

Because all those are important details.

You're right.

In fact, the satellites have shown, which would you think,

if you want to come up with a more accurate way of measuring temperature, you're you're going to go with satellites.

Of course, they show less warming.

So

we ignore those and we go with the surface temperatures.

Right.

Which the surface can be manipulated.

You can put them in direct sun.

You can put them near an air conditioning unit.

Black top is a big one.

Blacktop, I mean, and that's what they do.

And they have standards for this in which they say, okay,

there's a five-tier system, if I remember right.

And basically,

the really bad ones, like if you put it next to a heater, for example, and that sounds ridiculous, but there are examples, there's photos of this,

of these surface stations that are next to heaters and heating ducts that are in the middle of blacktop that obviously 100 years ago were not in the middle of blacktop.

And they have a way of showing what the error is, and the error is huge.

I mean, the error is more than the temperature rise

on many of these stations.

Wow.

Now, they try to adjust for it.

They say they are adjusting for it.

They go back in the past.

60, 70 years ago, and adjust the temperatures from the past.

How they do that today, I don't know.

I don't know how they do that today.

But I mean, look, the argument is not about whether it is warmed.

Okay.

The argument is about A, what has caused the warming

and B, whether it will be catastrophic in the future.

And if you want to go to C, it's whether we can do anything about it.

And

as for, I think you're on B,

which is

how much is it hurting, right?

How catastrophic is it?

Or will it be?

Most, many of these so-called climate scientists admit that some of the warming is really good because i don't know growing food right for decades and decades and decades helpful now eventually it could get to the point where it really caused some negative

crops however

but we're nowhere near that right now no um and you know look

this is an easy thing to do right because you can come out and you can blame every i mean to blame a war on climate change is so ridiculous.

It's almost Alex Jones-ish.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It really is on that level.

Yeah.

It really is on that level.

And they'll mock that because they'll mock Alex Jones

every day of the week, which so will we.

However, that is just as ridiculous.

Let's be honest about it.

You know, it's not to say, now, the way they're arguing that,

if you're not following their logic at all, which I would understand, is they'll say, look,

if there's a huge drought caused by climate change

and so one group of people loses access to water, they will get desperate and maybe a war will start.

Like, that's how they sort of do these things.

And they'll look for every environmental factor to retroactively blame war on climate.

Single war that has begun that way, admittedly, on either side.

Well, I mean, I've never heard of it.

They'll always find a way to justify it.

I've never heard of it.

It's the same way.

Really, really hot.

So, we went to war with the Sudan because it was too hot in the country.

But they say exactly that, Pat.

And then we got to the Sudan and we realized that was even hotter there.

So we went to Ethiopia and attacked them.

That's how they justified a lot of the murders in Chicago.

I am not kidding about this.

They will say

when it's warmer in the summer, people get more irritable and will commit more crimes.

Therefore, as it warms from climate, those climate

deaths

will be included in our total.

That's exactly why I killed more people in Houston than I have in Dallas.

Because it's hotter there.

That's Friday.

I remember that.

You said you killed, what, 85 people in Houston and only 45 people.

It was 89 in Houston, and I think I'm up to 53 here.

Oh, wow.

Oh, wow.

You've been active.

Is Fort Worth close, though?

Is Fort Worth?

Well, I mean, I guess it is Metroplex, yeah.

Yeah, 53, though.

So, okay.

So, I mean, this is more believable.

And to feel what the children are feeling.

Oh, yeah.

Got it.

Oh, buddy.

Oh, yeah.

Well, this one's true.

This one is true.

Folks,

we gotta get good people to stand up against these people.

We gotta get people, good people, to stand up against these people.

Well, you have a bumper sticker in your car that says we gotta have people good people to stand up against people.

And then I've got one, a companion bumper sticker that says people, people who need people are the luckiest people in the world.

Yeah, you do.

Fabulous.

Fabulous.

So good.

Greatest moment in the the broadcast history.

I probably shouldn't have.

You just heard it right there.

I should have done this radio show today

because I have this disgusted cover for how I just hate the globalists, but it's more than that.

And I just get flippant and angry, but it's because deep down, folks, I can see what they're doing.

And we have a responsibility to stop these globalists.

Where are the men in this country?

Where are the men in this world?

What the hell have we become?

Where are the men?

We just offer our children up to the system with the fluoride and the water and the GMO hurting them.

And we let fat perverts grab them at the airport to train them for the pedophile government.

Train them for the government.

And we've just got such a sick society.

Sick.

But all that is truer than the global warming crap.

Or at least on par with the global warming crap.

More, Pat, Stu, and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program coming up at a sec.

We discussed a lot with Glenn, especially, about the effects of the economy and where we're going and the negative effects of a cashless society.

What could they have on your privacy?

We've talked a lot about privacy today.

What can they have on your savings?

Cybersecurity is a huge issue.

And all of our wealth is stored digitally.

And we don't seem to have a problem with that.

It's like we just

kind of giving up to it.

It's too convenient.

It is.

That's how they get us with all this stuff.

It's so convenient.

All the stuff we were warned about, we don't care about anymore because

it just became convenience to us and we didn't realize the danger.

Right?

I mean, you don't think that anything's going to go wrong with it.

And you kind of assume because everyone's doing it, it's fine.

Everyone's doing it.

A lot of it is fine.

It's not to say that you need to have all your money under your bed.

You don't need to never go on the internet.

That's not the answer.

But the answer is maybe to have an insurance policy.

Or you could go the Jeffy way and just not have any money ever.

That's a good point, Jeffy.

How's that working out for you?

I mean,

from an outsider's perspective, it looks like it's working well, but how is it working for you?

I mean, you're fed well.

There's no question of that.

What he's saying is you're overweight.

I understood what he was.

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Is that a lot?

Yeah, it's

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It's not a quadrillion, though.

That's true.

It's not that high.

Barack Obama would say, at least it's not a quadrillion.

Here's what he'd say.

That's exactly what he'd say.

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You know, Alex Jones reminded us here a moment or two ago about the situation at the airport with the pedophile government training child abusers or whatever.

You know, they feed them toothpaste and then they go nuts and then they start abusing people.

And it's just not right.

And then you've got the fluoride in the water, which has killed

20s of millions of people.

Not just tens, but 20s of millions of people.

Yeah, the fluoride in the water.

But there's something else going on at the airport now that you're going to love, Jeffy.

You're going to love this a lot.

Pat Downs at the airport are becoming more intimate under a new national security guideline to improve safety for travelers.

Well, that's awful.

Because since 9-11, we've had so many,

so

many

air disasters that they've finally decided to really do something.

Now,

up until now, there's been five different ways they can pat you down.

You know, there's the discreet, the way, there's this non-intrusive way, and usually that's what they do for people who

are, you know, just randomly selected, which is no good to anybody anyway.

Of course, I understand the randomly selected, but I have to.

There's no understanding it.

It's the dumbest thing of all time.

I do go through the scanner, though,

the electronic wizard machine.

And sometimes if you have something,

they'll have to wand you after

a couple times.

Because I always go through.

I got the knee replacement.

Go ahead, do the thing.

Give me the wand.

We move on.

And then if something happens with the wand, that's when you get the pat down.

Or if you're randomly selected, like every fifth person or whatever criteria they use.

But now everybody gets the more intrusive, abusive sexual assault.

Well, I mean,

you call it assault.

I call it assault.

You call it Friday night downtown.

I mean, they tell you where they're going to pat.

I don't care.

Okay.

I'm going to feel your giblets now.

That makes it better when they do?

No.

No.

Not to me.

So you're saying you would rather not have them touch your genitals when you go to the airport?

I'm picky that way.

I am picky that way.

That's an interesting stance.

I don't know if I've heard that.

I don't want another man doing that to me.

The fact is, other than my wife, I don't want another woman doing it to me.

So

just leave me alone.

Leave me

alone at the airport.

And I see everybody putting up with this in the happy attitude.

No, they need to do this because it's for our safety.

I know.

And it pisses me off every time I go through these.

I want to say something so bad.

It's like, this is not, first of of all this is not helping it's not helping anything i

if you do this in a random way what are the odds that you actually randomly screen a terrorist isn't your argument though i mean your argument is that we haven't had any attacks since 9-11 which is that's our argument right because of this i believe it has nothing to do with this i believe it has nothing to do with this I think the next thing they do is going to be some other...

They've gone a different direction now.

Now, we had a little discussion about this yesterday on the Patton Stew show, which, by the way, airs on the blaze

after this show every day.

And

during that show, I said something that I've said many times, which is this is a great commercial for TSA precheck, in which you walk through the line basically with almost no delay when you go to the airport.

You get it done once, and then it's over with, and then you just keep going.

And you said an interesting response.

I'm going to do that today.

I did say that.

Which was yesterday.

Which I did not do.

Okay.

There's the update.

That's the update.

You just want to complain.

Maybe.

No, maybe you like it.

Maybe you like it.

I get caught up in stuff and I forget.

I do not.

I would like it if at least they bought me dinner first.

Maybe a candlelit little thing intimate over on the side.

They got a little table there.

They serve me some wine.

They get me liquored up.

And then they steal me up.

So now what you're saying, though, is, hey, if you don't want to get felt up going through TSA and get on an airplane, which, you know, why not?

What else you got to do in the airport?

But if you're Pat and don't want to do that, now you want to go to the TSA Pre and give them every bit of information about you, everything

forever to the end of time, just so you can get on a plane quicker.

We talk about things being easy.

It doesn't seem right either.

It doesn't, but I'm okay with it.

I mean, given the choice between the two, I'll take the TSA Pre.

Look, yeah, I mean, you talked about this with these transgendered bathroom issues.

We are doing news stories about people who are walking into into into bathrooms and are having conversations which they find offensive.

That's a news story today.

But my feelings don't matter in this feel-up.

When you're touched,

I'm really uncomfortable with it.

First of all, I'm a private person to begin with.

Secondly, I really don't want you touching my genitals.

I really don't.

And I'm super uncomfortable with that.

Does that matter to them?

Nope.

Not one iota.

They don't give a rat's butt about that.

I mean, they're giving us rectal exams almost at the airport now.

No, they're not.

They're not doing that.

They're giving you cancer screenings.

They're feeling your rectum,

reaching up there in your colon.

It's a little swollen, Mr.

Airline is doing that.

Yes, you wouldn't.

He would either this afternoon.

He just booked a flight.

Orbits to the rescue.

Let's go to Upside.

So

it's interesting because

it's not obviously that bad, but it is really annoying.

Right?

And TSA PreCheck is the service.

and there's also Clear, I think, is the other one, which is a separate service, but it's really good, I've heard.

But TSA PreCheck is the government solving a problem

they created.

And it's frustrating because you're right, Jeffy.

You're giving them a lot of information.

You're going through a pre-check.

You have to go down for an interview.

It's not the worst process in the world.

This doesn't include a lot of your time, but it does include you hitting appointments and hitting deadlines.

And it's a little bit frustrating.

And you wouldn't need it.

And I'm uncomfortable with it.

Unless.

I don't want it.

Why are transgender people the only people we're worried about their comfort level?

Why?

Why is that the case?

But here's how bad it's going to be.

Due to this change, TSA asked the field secretary directors to contact airport law enforcement and brief them on the procedures in case the police are called on them.

So they're calling police departments and they're saying, okay, you're going to get a lot of complaints.

And they're talking to the airport security.

Okay, you're going to get a lot of complaints.

That's how bad this is going to be.

And you're welcome, America.

You're welcome.

Thank you, TSA.

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Well, first we were concerned about

fluoride and our water, and then

then it was the toothpaste that's killing our children.

And then, you know, it's at the airports with the perverts training the sexual predators for the children or something.

GMOs.

I forget how that works with Alex Jones.

But now it's the Pat Down.

And the Pat Down is real.

And they used to do it in five different ways.

I don't know, depending on the risk, maybe.

I don't know.

Now they're only doing it one way, and that's intensively.

They're calling it comprehensive.

And And they're so

convinced that it's going to be offensive to people that they're alerting the authorities that they're going to receive complaints from passengers.

Let's go to Dale in Kansas.

Dale, you're on the Glenn Deck program with Pat Stew and Jeffy.

Hi.

Hey, Jeffy, I just wanted to make sure you understood that there is a massage parlor there in Dallas that will give you a TSA-inspired pat down.

And you're guaranteed to reach your destination.

Are you you actually

calling me to remind me of something like that?

I mean, like, I wouldn't.

Like, he doesn't know that?

Yeah.

That's embarrassing.

He runs the business.

How would he not know about it?

Thanks, Dale.

Appreciate it.

What do you think about these?

This is off topic a little bit, but what about these

massage chairs that are now just everywhere in common spaces?

They're at gyms.

They're at airports.

They're at grocery stores.

They must be making a fortune off.

They must be.

You know what I've noticed now, too.

You're right, Stu, now, when I think about it, because they used to be where they'd just pop up where they'd be like four or five of them together.

And now they're branching out on their own when you walk places.

All of a sudden, there's just one by itself.

Yeah, malls?

Like,

you go through a mall, and there's just a bunch of people with their heads down towards the ground getting back massages from these people in the middle of the aisles.

That seems like a new thing.

Isn't that a little weird?

It's been going on for a couple of years.

Yeah, that's what's going on, but the chairs breaking off on their own is new.

But my question is, isn't that, I don't know.

I mean, i've never had one uh at a massage a chair like this it feels like

you have okay i like it because it feels like a private moment i don't know why i mean it's it's not sexual no i didn't say it was sexual i said it was private why i don't know why you're fully clothed i i yeah i know you're fully clothed when the tsa is patting you down too

yeah but i'm being touched i'm not being touched by the chair in those areas it's my back that the chair is touching that's what i'm worried about If TSA wants to touch my

automated massage chairs, or I'm talking about

attended by masseuse, I'm talking about the actual masseuse.

Yes, I'm not talking about the electronic masses.

No, no, no, no.

Oh, I'm talking about there is someone employed and is giving live massage chairs.

Like at Grapevine Mall, they do that in the middle of the mall.

Yeah, that's what they're doing.

They've got it for a while.

They've got separate stations.

And then they have one.

Then they also have one that's inside a retail space.

So you can get more extensive service there.

That's the one I'm talking about.

So, have you ever done that?

I've done all that.

You've done live masseuses and stuff.

I've done every sort of massage you could possibly imagine.

I don't think you want to say that on the air.

I will say right now.

Not every kind of mass.

I can guarantee you I have done every kind.

Yes, we know.

You've received and given every kind of massage.

We got that, Jeffy.

There's no question.

It's never struck me as weird, though.

The massage thing, you know, when they're rubbing your back and shoulders.

I've never.

But you're kind of

you wouldn't do that?

It feels so nice.

It's good.

I like massaging.

I'm a massage fan.

I do like it.

I like the fact, I like it in the mall because, as opposed to when you go to a spa, you don't have to be naked.

You're there fully clothed.

That really should be more odd to me, but don't like the naked massage thing.

No, like that.

They actually stop you from getting naked at the mall.

Yeah, they might.

I thought that was you, Jeffy, when I saw all the police hanging out in the middle.

Can you imagine?

Jeffy's got his clothes on, his big whale body laying on on the table

i mean

whale body what the hell is that land mass over there

why would you call it

i uh as much as uh that might seem mean it's true um so

and that's no offense to whales no no no offense to whales you know obviously we're just illustrating whales,

much lower body fat percentages.

Did not mean to insult an entire species.

That would be wrong.

So we should clarify that.

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What about this Berkeley thing where

they had to remove...

This is fascinating.

We've been waiting to do this story all day.

At Berkeley, they're removing...

20,000 free online videos

to comply with some Justice Justice Department ruling because of

the hard of hearing or the Americans with Disability Act.

It's an incredible story.

And you know what, you raise

a think about this for a moment.

Berkeley is an expensive school, which is responsible for this sort of nonsense all over the country.

But they decide to give 20,000 lectures on YouTube for free.

What a great idea.

So this is

sort of like the TED Talks series, right?

Is that kind of along those lines?

It's an opportunity for you to go to Berkeley, sort of, for free.

Now, you might not be able to get the degree, but you can actually go through a lot of the learning that you would go through

if you actually attend.

20,000 different lectures.

What a great thing.

So a school

across the country, I want to say it's a School for the Deaf

in Washington, D.C.

filed a complaint with the DOJ alleging that Berkeley's online content was inaccessible to the hearing disabled community.

And after looking into the matter, the DOJ DOJ determined that Berkeley had indeed violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Berkeley had two choices: either spend a fortune adding closed captioning to 20,000 videos or remove them from public view.

They decided to just remove them.

And we'll just pull the plug.

Available to no one.

So now no one gets them because they were not available to deaf people in closed captioning.

I mean, that is insanity.

Insanity.

How do you survive as a people this stupid?

How do you you survive this?

You don't.

I mean, eventually you don't, right?

Eventually you don't.

But I mean, this is exactly what government does.

It's getting all the time.

It's exponentially dumber, though.

Right?

I mean, we used to have stupid things during the Bush administration, and we'd complain about it a little bit, and we'd talk about it, and it would make for fun radio talk, and callers would sound off.

Now it's every day, all day, something that's just extraordinarily ridiculous in our face every day.

He's just like, what?

I mean, it's completely upside down now.

And I don't know.

I mean, this, I'm sure, is not top of the agenda for the Trump administration at the moment, but this is the type of thing you think Donald Trump would be completely right and say, wait a minute, this is ridiculous.

We need to stop this.

Because, I mean, that's ridiculous.

We've seen it with the same thing happen with

net neutrality.

Because, look, how does it help the deaf people that it's been removed?

Right, it doesn't.

Now they can't even see it.

So they're just happy that nobody can hear it if they can't?

I mean, that is essential.

We remove every television show then?

Are all TV shows closed captioned?

Many of them are.

Maybe they are.

Many of them are.

Maybe they are.

Maybe through even the cable systems.

You know, so it's not to say.

I hate the closed captioning button more than anything else in life.

Really?

Yeah.

Because

the words that pop up at the bottom drive me nuts while I'm trying to watch a show.

I hate it.

And then I can't find out how to turn it off.

Where's the button for this?

You don't want shows that need to be translated?

No, I don't want those either.

Jeffy watches a lot of foreign films, so he's in that.

Yeah, and Telemundo.

Maria.

Telemundo.

That's not Telemundo.

I like the closed captioning.

You know where you get the closed captioning is helpful is on flights when it's like you're near the engine and it's really loud and you're, you know, you don't have the right headphones.

If you don't have the noise-blocking headphones, sometimes you can't make out every word.

Pop that on.

It works well.

But we saw this with net neutrality in that.

I think it was T-Mobile and a couple of other services decided to offer unlimited streaming to YouTube,

Netflix, Hulu, all the video streaming apps that most people use.

So you wouldn't waste your data by using any of those services.

Exactly.

It's a great idea.

It's a great idea, right?

And a lot of other things.

A really nice service for their customers.

Right.

So, okay, you have that.

Well, people who believe in net neutrality, and luckily this is being pushed to the background now with Ajit Pai, who's the new FCC guy.

He's the only guy who's sane of the FCC on net neutrality.

And now he's in control, which is nice.

But he,

the idea from people who believe in net neutrality is, wait a minute, you can't give free data to Netflix and Hulu and all of these other, unless you give free data for everyone to stream, because we've got to treat all data as equal.

So

they would have to give free data to everyone, which means they'd give it to no one.

They couldn't give it to everyone, so they would give it to no one.

Instead,

they were able to give it to these companies where most people do their streaming.

And that's a huge advantage.

Again, you're taking away advantages to the consumer to hit these mysterious guidelines you've built for yourself.

And the Berkeley situation is the same thing.

Obviously, the intent of the Americans with Disabilities Act is not to pull 20,000 lectures that were given for free off of the internet because deaf people would not be able to consume them.

That is a ridiculous standard.

And what it meant is people lose access to information.

They lose access to free content that

the organization itself wanted to give away for nothing and now can't.

Cutting off your nose to spite your face.

That's what we're doing.

Ask, and I guarantee you could ask,

if you sampled deaf people around America, 99% of them would say that that's ridiculous.

And yet, what does the law do?

It puts this into, you know, I mean, I guess at some point they might be able to find an automated way, but it might not be accurate.

Who knows?

You know, why would they want to do this?

They're trying to do something nice for people, give away 20,000 lectures to make people a hell of a lot more liberal.

They can't even do that.

All they want to do is indoctrinate people on YouTube for free, and they can't even get away with that.

How sad.

How are there any television shows that are broadcast visually when there are blind people in this country?

That's a great point.

One of the problems is probably as though that partly takes government money, right?

I'm guessing, and I don't know.

I didn't read the

story of the case.

Okay, well, then they have to abide by that.

That's why they have to do it then, right?

If they were private, they could say goodbye.

Dumb, I agree.

I hear this is the reason why they have to do it.

It's dumb.

And it has nothing to do with the intent of the law.

Nobody thinks, oh, you know, it would be a great idea if we can get rid of all the free material that people can see and hear.

That's a stupid standard.

It makes no sense at all.

And it's not that, you know, I have a real problem with public funding of universities.

And so

I understand that.

But to me, that's a separate issue here.

Even if you want public funding for these universities, it just shows how bad government is at these universities.

There's no doubt.

You know,

even when they try, everyone agrees that people with disabilities should not be abandoned by our society.

We all freaking agree on that.

Yet

the government is so bad.

at what it does on a daily basis that they can't even figure out something like this, which is blatantly obvious.

You know, we used to talk about common sense all the time.

It was one of the first things that,

I don't know, it seemed like one of Glenn's first catchphrases or brands that sort of caught on in the early days of the show.

When you talk about, you know, you just got to be, this is common sense.

That's dead.

There is no common sense.

It doesn't exist.

That's why we talk about it.

It's not common.

That's why we don't talk about it anymore because it's extinct.

Yeah.

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That's just so infuriating.

This is why you need a good night's sleep.

This is why you need when you lay your head down on a bill.

You know what?

Last night, I got almost too much sleep.

Oh, really?

Two and a half to three hours.

Wow.

And so now I'm just groggy.

Yeah, I'm just, yeah, I'm just worthless today.

It's important, though.

I mean, you know, you think about this.

You have three-thirds of your life, right?

You spend a third of your life working, most likely.

You spend a third of your life sleeping, and you spend a third of your life doing everything else.

Most people spend all their time thinking about the everything else.

They spend no time trying to figure out if they're working at a job that they like.

Spend a ton of money on our cars.

Yeah, our cars.

Certainly our homes.

Yep.

Vacations.

But a bed.

It's critical.

A bed is critical, and it's a third of your life you're going to spend in this thing.

Why would you not focus and get the best one that you possibly could?

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You need to open it on your bed.

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The opposite of what the government does, right?

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You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

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With Pat, Stu, and Jeffy.

Today it looks like the legislature is looking into the transgendered situation.

They're not voting on it today.

Is that right, Jeffy?

But

they're sort of

showing up and taking testimony on a chance.

And there's some heartbreaking stories, and we'll have some of those for you tomorrow.

Oh, yeah?

Oh, you wait until you hear some of the

stories there.

I hate to have that.

They'll make you really want to.

Now, yesterday we played.

There was a little dust-up at Tarrant County Community College here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area because a, I think, this is a high school student, but they were at a

college class or something.

They went on a physical event.

An event with a counselor.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then so this person who actually has the physicality of a man went into the woman's bathroom because she considers herself a man, a girl.

A girl.

A girl.

But the teacher said, okay, I got an issue with that because, first of all, you're not a girl.

And so it will be interesting to see.

That hater.

You know that they're going to go straight to Austin and they're going to testify about this.

And it's going to be interesting to see how Texas handles this.

Will they cave in like everybody else is?

Look at the pressure brought to bear on, was it South Carolina?

North Carolina.

North Carolina.

Oh, my gosh.

And there was another state, too.

Texas had it recently they were talking about it because they were going to get no more Super Bowls.

Right.

And all of, I mean,

the other sports are coming out out of them and businesses.

They brought in the North Carolina

lieutenant governor, I think,

one of the leaders in North Carolina to talk and say that they have not lost that much business from this.

Oh, really?

Yeah, and that

stand strong.

Good.

And that businesses have not left, and they have not lost very much business at all.

A few high-profile examples, but really that's about it.

So he was here saying stand strong.

Hopefully it'll be upset.

Whatever losses you incur will be offset by the gains you make from other people trying to support you.

There you go.

You would hope it would be that way.

And it really has been for Ivanka Trump, by the way.

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See you tomorrow.

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