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Greg Brady is clearly the greatest Super Bowl

guy winner thing of all time.

time.

And that's about as deep as my analysis is going to go into the game last night.

Mainly because I did what all real huge sports fans do.

I went to bed at halftime because it was clear that Jack Ryan was going to pull it off, even though I don't think he's been as good since Clancy died.

But

it was clear to me.

And who knew?

Surprise of surprises, Greg Brady pulls it off.

So we'll get into that.

Also, the

Super Bowl Bowl commercials

was, do they do that anymore?

Did anybody else notice that they were just like normal commercials, most of them?

Except for the ones that

wanted to make a

strong point.

You know, you can piss off half of the

country.

That half is okay.

You can go ahead and attack that half of the country, and you won't have any ramifications, or so they think.

The funniest segment on Saturday Night Live, I think, in maybe a decade,

happened this weekend.

And Donald Trump sat down with Bill O'Reilly.

A lot to talk about, and we begin right now.

I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand.

Cause we have won.

I will beat my drum.

I I have made my choice.

We will overcome.

Cause we are one.

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I have to tell you, I'm not a Super Bowl fan.

I've always watched it for the commercials and for the,

you know, everybody getting together and having wings and eating your face off and everything else.

I went to bed at exactly the wrong time.

Holy cow.

Yeah, that was quite a comeback.

Yeah.

Quite a comeback.

But I will tell you that

there was the

quintessential

only listening to sound bites and letting those sound bites control your life.

Example with Lady Gaga.

Lady Gaga, the whole thing was Lady Gaga is going to say something about Donald Trump.

Lady Gaga is going to say something about Donald Trump.

She's going to make an anti-Trump thing.

Well, where did we get that from?

Oh, I know, the press.

And was it fake news?

Or did we play into that?

Did we

see one soundbite and then say, oh, well, of course, she's going to make fun of Donald Trump.

First of all, Lady Gaga has always been

about inclusion.

That's one of her things.

So she's always, there's nothing new there.

This isn't a Donald Trump thing.

She was saying those things under Obama.

Really, all she did was there anything beyond the song?

What do you mean?

I mean, her statement, she didn't make any statements about inclusion.

No, she made no statement about anybody.

Last night, she said nothing.

Nothing.

Right.

So all of this came from her press conference where she said she's for inclusion.

Inclusion and equality, which she has always been for.

Always been there.

Always.

So nothing new to be seen.

The press wanted a story.

Yeah.

And by

making up a story about Lady Gaga, they missed one of the best stories from her press conference last week.

Listen to what Lady Gaga said.

Forget about inclusion.

She said that in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2015, and last week.

But she also said this.

Listen.

I am

going to have to say that the preparation for this show is the show business version of the athlete.

We have our own set of criteria that we go through.

Myself and my dancers have been training for months on this.

For two months, we dedicated our time to creating the story of the show, creating the musical score, and then we

created the set, what it would look like.

Then we choreographed the actual dance routine, and then we choreographed the pyrotechnics.

Additionally, to all of that, we go through an extensive amount of training so that I can sing and dance at the same time for the show for 13 minutes.

What I would say is that what you're watching at the halftime show,

it's not easy.

And

I say that because I want young people at home that are watching when they see it.

If you have a dream to be something big,

you should go for it.

But you got to give it everything you've got.

You got to wake up and you got to eat it.

breathe it, see it every second of the day.

And if you do that,

you might be lucky enough one day to wake up and be playing the halftime show.

Is that not incredible?

That's great.

That is exactly.

Here's something uniting, she said.

No kidding.

And all the press did on both sides was work us up into a lather that she's going to say something outrageous.

First of all, the only thing Lady Gaga, I think she's smart enough to realize the only thing left that

is outrageous is someone not being outrageous.

I mean, that's the only thing that Lady Gaga can do that's outrageous is not do something controversial.

So we spent all of that time and energy reading those stories, talking about it, talking about before she's going to say something.

She's going to say something.

She's going to say something.

She better not say something.

I hope she says something.

Instead of concentrating on what she did say, and that is,

if you have a dream,

go for it, but understand,

you have to sleep it, dream it, live it, eat it.

You have to do, you have to live it 24-7 and work hard, and then

you may be lucky enough.

You may be.

You may be.

It's still not a guaranteed outcome there.

Correct.

I mean,

how great is that?

Here's somebody telling you how to achieve the American dream.

And we missed it because we wanted to talk about politics.

Why?

Why are we doing this to ourselves?

Look at the energy.

Look at how they took a sound bite and made you hate

Lady Gaga.

Now, you may not like her.

You may not even know her.

But how many people that don't know her, don't have any idea of who she is, now hate her because of all of the stories that she was so passionate about anti-Trump?

No, no, she didn't say any of that.

She's for inclusion, which and diversity, which she has always been for.

She spoke out about it under Barack Obama.

And that's all I heard in the lead up to her performance: was was how the NFL wasn't going to stop her from saying anti-Trump things, that

she intended on making some sort of statement.

Where do they get that?

And during the performance, there was nothing.

You tell me,

you tell me, you name a rock or pop star that has started the Super Bowl halftime dressed like that.

with those expectations that starts it with the Pledge of Allegiance.

She started it with the Pledge of Allegiance.

And Laura Ingram immediately tweets, notice she left out God?

No, she didn't.

I mean,

I have TiVo, so I could rewind it.

Do you not have TiVo, Laura?

She said, under God,

but had to have something that we hated her for.

Why?

Have you seen, I haven't even seen a country star start the halftime with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Not only did she not make an anti-Trump statement, she started the week before with a pro-capitalism, pro-work hard, live your dreams, you just may achieve it message, then started with

the Pledge of Allegiance

and the flag and fireworks.

Yeah, but she didn't say she voted for Trump.

No, she didn't.

I mean, it is crazy.

It is crazy what we have turned ourselves into.

Yeah, it is.

Look at how much time we spent wasted,

wasted

on trying to hate each other.

I don't get it.

I just don't get it.

I have had

such a

come to Jesus

couple of months.

I really have.

I mean, I

yesterday

I went to church and I'm listening to this sermon and

this preacher, I went to

Watermark Church here in Dallas, and I'm listening to this preacher, Todd Wagner's partner,

JP, and he is speaking.

So Clyde Peck is, he is leaving the Mormon Church.

Cline Peck is leaving the Mormon church.

He's going to Matermark Church over the weekend.

Thank you, Soundbite.

Thank you, Soundbite Central.

So

he's talking about

who are you?

Who are you really?

And I loved it.

He said, and don't give me that Jesus jive.

Well, I'm a child of God.

Don't stop it.

Stop it.

Way too easy.

Who are you?

And he did this amazing sermon, and it ended with

he saw a movie

called Lion.

Have you ever heard of the movie Lion?

I've heard of it just recently because the awards are a little bit different.

He said it was fantastic.

And he said it ends with a stat: 80,000 people a year, 80,000 children a year are kidnapped and put into the sex slave trade in India every

year.

80,000 children.

He said, he got into the car

and he said, I looked at my wife and I just burst out in tears saying,

What am I doing?

I'm wasting my life.

What am I doing?

80,000 children, and I'm what?

Gonna go see this movie, then I'm gonna go home to my house, and I'm gonna be comfortable, and maybe we'll talk about it.

And then tomorrow I'll go to church and I'll preach.

What am I actually doing?

I have to tell you, if more of us could have that wake-up call,

how much time

did America spend last week

on either defending or hating Lady freaking Gaga?

Gaga is her name.

How much time did we spend?

How ridiculous.

What are we doing with our life?

Our country is burning down to the ground, and we spent our time worried about Lady Gaga,

who

started her performance with the Pledge of Allegiance.

There couldn't have been a more uniting message than what she presented.

Hello?

What do you say we concentrate on bigger things?

What do you say we concentrate on real things?

What do you say we look at our life and say, you know what?

Maybe there's more to being alive.

Maybe there's a bigger responsibility that we all have than politics.

Somebody wrote yesterday, somebody tweeted to me, you're just afraid of the war.

What?

What?

First, what war?

What war?

Yeah, and you're not afraid of a war?

Yeah,

that was my first thought.

Yeah, you should be afraid of war.

Yeah.

And what they were implying was the war between

the Patriots and the Progressives.

Oh, dear God.

So we're talking civil war.

We're talking civil war.

Anybody who is rooting for a civil war is out of their mind.

Go read history.

Just go look at the pictures of the dead bodies in the fields.

Are you rooting for a civil war?

Good times, man.

The civil war.

Remember those?

Oh, yeah, they don't come back.

These dudes don't come back.

Well, they could.

They could come back.

They're trying to make them come back.

Good times.

So, rooting for a war.

And I said,

and the message was, because they hate us and we must hate them.

My message yesterday on Twitter was:

we all have to remove the hatred in our own heart.

That's all that has to be done.

Not everybody's going to do it,

but you have to remove the hatred in your own heart.

You have to remove the willingness

to jump to hate

or have somebody talk you into hate.

I hate to go to a Broadway Showtune, but in South Pacific,

there's a great line.

You have to be carefully taught how to hate.

And it's true.

We're not born hating each other.

We didn't hate each other 10 years ago, 20 years ago, last year.

Now all of a sudden, people who loved each other all of a sudden hate each other's guts, can't stand each other.

One side or the other is an absolute enemy.

It's not true.

It is as true as Lady Gaga is going to say something really controversial.

She's going to finally put Donald Trump in her place, in his place.

Yeah, either that or she's going to start with the Pledge of Allegiance.

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I have such fear of, you know, of missing out

on the Super Bowl?

On everything.

I always, I have that.

What is that?

F-O-B-O?

Is it Phobo or something?

Is that what it is?

Fear of missing out.

FOMO.

And I am.

You've never heard that?

Yes, but I've heard some other Phobo things.

Yeah.

FOMO.

Or something else.

Okay, so anyway, so.

All right.

So.

Or maybe that's FUBU.

It's one of those.

We probably don't want to go.

Let's move on.

Anyway, I always have the fear of missing out, of just like, oh, man, that could have been historic.

Last night I go to bed, and of course, it is the greatest Super Bowl of all time.

Yeah, when you went to bed, it was, what, 21-3 or 28-3 or whatever?

I almost gave up on it at that point, too, because I was like, I was sort of rooting for the Patriots.

I didn't really care that much, but my only interest in it really was where BYU is concerned.

It was really, I mean, it was really, I mean, I thought it was colossally boring.

It was

for three quarters.

It was boring.

And then at 28 to 3, the Patriots started their comeback.

And it turned out to be, they're already calling it the greatest Super Bowl of all time now.

Now, he's the only one that has won five Super Bowls, right?

Right, correct.

He was tied at four with

Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw.

And Terry Bradshaw.

Yeah.

And

so he's the only one to win five.

And

I mean, I don't know any of that.

I mean, that's tremendous reading.

He's no longer in doubt as the greatest.

No, he's, I mean, you got to say, five Super Bowls.

What is it?

And his statistics, he's probably the greatest of all time.

And we should probably remove the probably.

Yes, we should.

He's the greatest of all time.

I think we should.

Back in a minute.

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Mercury.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

You guys are are bad people.

Why?

Bad people.

Oh, come on, you're talking about the coin toss.

I'm talking about the coin toss, and I bring it up off air, and I'm like, I think that was a great, that was a great moment.

I thought it was sad.

I thought it was really sad.

Come on.

I think he was 91.

I know, and they put him in a bad position.

Oh, they did not.

It was good to see him.

There was no way to do it.

He just got out of the hospital.

That's why they should have given him some help.

I mean, something.

He looked, I mean, what they needed to do was have, you know,

the president,

son, and

his father.

It was him.

They could have had W and H W.

And if they didn't want to have a family, and W could have flipped the

window.

If I were W, I wouldn't have done it.

This is my dad's moment.

This is my dad's moment.

Your dad's moment is past, and he wasn't...

He's not healthy enough to have that moment right now.

He's just not.

He just got out of the hospital.

You can't handle

the ravages of of

it.

It's hard to see him like that.

I mean, being pushed out of the wheelchair.

You can see him, and he was alert.

He knew what was going on.

I'm not sure that's true.

Yes, he did.

Yeah, the first time.

The first time he was like where's my coin?

He went to reach for the coin.

And

the referee walked away and he was left hanging out there in his wheelchair.

No, and he said for the coin.

He said, You can read his listeners.

No, it was nice.

Thank you, Jeff.

You could.

You could

read his

So meanwhile.

It was not pleasant.

It was not good.

I'm glad most people don't see that.

That's why.

I mean, you can talk about Donald Trump making fun of a handicap.

I watched it on the television.

Yeah.

They showed him.

So bad.

So bad.

But I thought it was a nice moment.

He couldn't flip the coin.

That's the problem.

Yes, he did.

No, no, it kind of rolled off his chin.

It rolled off his thumb and rolled on down on the ground.

It rolled.

So here's the: can we say something nice?

Yes.

Yes.

And I mean this in a nice way,

except it made me realize

that

Barbara hasn't aged today.

Does she look great?

No, she looks the same.

She looked the same in 1989 as she does

as she does.

And that is amazing.

Amazing because

we didn't realize she looked 90 when she was 40.

But she was.

So now that she's 90, she looks 40.

She looks 40.

Right.

It didn't work out for her when she was younger, but now it's perfect.

She can get all of the guys who are still aware.

You know, if they ever go on a

singles cruise after, God forbid he passes on and they're on a single cruise and she'll be like, she's the one because she looks 40.

Right.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

But she's, she's the same age as he.

She got a great reception.

Yeah.

I mean, they got a great reception.

I mean, they gave him a lot of fun.

You would expect that.

Well, the music they played.

The music they played was just really just noble.

It was a nice moment.

It was a little bit sad, but it was nice because it's hard to see him

age this way.

And he's sick.

I think the two of them, I think the two of them, who in politics is not sick.

I think the two of them, though, I love them as a couple.

They always have struck me as the kind that will go out.

at the same time.

Boy, that's possible.

It is.

When she went into the hospital, when he was there.

He went there and then she stayed.

I mean, she was.

No, they checked her in.

Yeah.

Because she was getting sick, too.

And I'm like, oh, my gosh.

Are they going to take both of these?

I mean, they're going to take both of these at the same time, which in some way is

hard on the family, but great for them.

Great for them.

Very notebook-esque.

Brutal.

Just brutal.

Anything else you'd like to make fun of?

I'm not making fun of him.

I am not making fun of him.

I just think they put him in a bad position.

And they could have made a bed effort for him.

But they didn't.

But I guess maybe that's the best position they had for him, right?

Tell me the deal.

Tell me the deal.

See, look, there is a picture of him flipping.

It did not roll out of his hands.

Oh, he's thipping.

He really cut it down.

Look at it.

He's flipping it up.

It's going up in the air.

Look at it.

I saw it yesterday.

And I've seen this still.

There wasn't a lot of flip in that coin.

No, there was not.

There was not a lot of flip.

Anyway.

Can you tell me the deal with the

egomaniacs that came out without their NFL Hall of Fame jackets at the beginning?

There were like three guys that would not wear the jackets.

That wouldn't wear the jackets?

Did you guys notice that?

No.

Yeah.

Did you see when the Hall of Famers came out?

I must have missed that.

From the black universities?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, there were.

I saw

Jerry Rice didn't wear his.

And there was someone else, too.

Yes, you're right.

And they didn't wear their NFL, you know, Hall of Fame jackets.

Hall of Fame jacket.

And

it was amazing to me to see how the older guys came out and they were just like, hi.

And the younger guys, all showboats.

Yes.

All showboats.

Just at first they refused to wear the jacket.

It appeared as though they were like, are you kidding me?

Look at this outfit.

Not messing with it.

That was for sure Jerry Rice.

I mean, he danced out.

Yeah.

And the other one did, too.

The two of them that didn't.

We got to see who that was.

Yeah, the two of them that did, they both walked out and they were both showboats.

Both showboats.

I completely missed that.

I don't must have been getting food or something, which

was pretty continual.

Yeah.

Really?

It was pretty continual.

I'm fascinated by that.

I know.

Isn't that surprising?

Yeah, that was a little shocking there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So they brought out the new Hall of Fame guys?

Yeah.

Kurt Warner and LaDani and Tomlinson, those guys?

Or was it?

What Glenn's talking about is they brought out the

Hall of Fame

history from black universities that have played such a prominent role in the NFL over the years.

It was really good.

Like guys who were in the Hall of Fame that went to black-only universities.

My father-in-law said, he was watching it with us and he said,

when I was growing up, he said, you couldn't find a black guy on the football team.

He said it was a, you know, it was

a big deal to be black.

He said, now

you can't find the black.

You can't find the white guys.

Yeah, it's harder.

Yeah.

Much, much harder.

Yeah, you know, Lem Barney, Alvin Bethea, Mel Blunt, Roosevelt Brown, Willie Brown, Buck Buchanan, Harry Carson, Willie Davis, Richard Dent, Bob Hayes, Claude Humphrey, Len Ford.

Wow.

All I keep thinking when I see these old guys, all I keep thinking is them walking out to this and thinking, geez, if I could have just waited 10 or 20 more years to play football, I wouldn't, you know, be working, you know, at the

patent store.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, the guys who played football when it was really playing football and, you know, now are just leading an ordinary life.

If you played in the 50s and 60s, you really wish you were born a little bit later.

Don't you think in the 70s, too?

70s,

I think the salaries really started to kick in in the 70s because while it was hundreds of thousands instead of tens of millions, it was still commensurate with, I think, what they have today.

You know, if you were to adjust for inflation, you'd find that $400,000 in 1978 was

like $4 million today, probably.

I mean, they made a lot of money in the 70s.

Made a lot of money, but the 50s and 60s guys made nothing.

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Mercury.

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You know, is there a company

that does a better job at

we love America, God bless our troops, and fathers and sons make memories together than the NFL?

I mean,

the commercials that they run, the way they present themselves, at least on the Super Bowl, it is, it's always

good at it.

They're really good at it.

Yes, really good at it.

They didn't get to be a $10 billion a year industry by doing things poorly.

And they've really been innovators in television they've they've come a long way yeah yeah what was the helmet cam thing is that new

as far as i can tell i i don't think i've seen it before yeah where you're looking through the eyes where it's like the player's view or whatever it was how are they doing

the cameras in the helmets

no i don't know if that's a cgi thing I assumed it was, but it wasn't.

No, I don't think so.

It looked like it was a distorted, like a really bad distorted picture.

Yeah, but they go right through, like at one point, they went right through Matt Ryan's eyes and showed what he sees on the field.

I couldn't believe one time I saw

one time that I saw what,

from the perspective of Tom Brady and when he was throwing a pass.

And I'm like, there's no, there's no, I mean, what do you, how are you even seeing that?

Yeah, it's incredible.

I mean, it is really incredible.

Yeah.

Really incredible.

To see the field the way they do, it's so much easier when you get the bird's eye view.

Yeah, you're like, why not?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Why can't you see that?

Right.

Except for that.

Well, you got seven six-foot nine guys in front of you.

That's why.

And you have to make a snap decision and anticipate where they're going to be.

Before your head's torn off.

It is amazing.

It really is amazing.

It's pretty incredible.

Yeah.

And the speed of the game is so fast.

You get just a teeny sense of that when you get that player's view.

So that was another innovation that's pretty cool.

And it seems like they just got the overhead camera that kind of slides up and down the field.

And now they've got inside.

That's been around for a while.

Yeah.

One of the cameras, the cameras on the

pylons during the playoffs and stuff, those were great cameras.

They got some great shots.

These are some great camera shots.

Five years,

those are all yesterday.

I mean, why they're not using drones now is beyond me.

Right.

I mean,

well, they talked about drones, the company that supplied drones, so they had them.

No, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no.

That was for Lady Gaga.

Oh, maybe it was.

Yeah, for the drone, you know, the flag in the sky?

Yeah.

Those were all drones.

That Pepsi logo, that was those are, what, 2,100 or 21,000?

I can't remember the number.

It was a huge number of drones and all programmed by Intel.

So when you saw the flag behind her, those were drones with lights on them.

Was it really?

Yeah.

It looked like CGI.

That's what I thought it was.

I thought only we were seeing that.

No, I wow, that's cool.

I said to my wife that.

Are you sure?

Positive.

The thing that

was the most impressive, but everybody just blew off as CGI was the drones.

That flag, the Pepsi logo, all of that was

sure the Pepsi logo was CGI.

But it wasn't live.

It wasn't live?

That part wasn't live?

No, because the FAA regulations wouldn't let them do it.

You've got to be kidding me.

Still, pretty cool.

Yeah, Yeah, really, really cool.

That's what it was saying, the drones from Intel.

Intel did all that.

Right, yeah.

She, uh, Lady Gaga at the top of the stadium also wasn't live, was it?

It couldn't have been because you didn't see the shot.

You didn't see the drop.

Yeah, you were like, why wouldn't they do the drop?

I thought that would have been the coolest part of it.

When she jumped down, but then they cut away from it, and then they showed her later being lowered.

So I'm pretty sure the top of the stadium was not live.

Couldn't have been.

Oh, that's why we didn't see the drop.

Yeah.

That's weird because they made such a big deal out of saying they opened it for lady.

Well, they had to open it for the fireworks.

Right.

Because they said, you know, it was pretty weird to see this thing closed for the game and then open just for the halftime.

Then they closed it back up again.

And then they closed it back up again.

So they did open it, but it had to be for the fireworks.

Had to be.

Yeah.

I am surprised you didn't know that about the

drones.

I thought that was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

That's cool.

It would be a lot cooler in person, too, I think.

Yes, and live.

Yeah.

You know, so, but I mean, if, I mean, if you saw that, I mean, you know, you'll see that now.

Can you imagine?

I mean, that's

think of that.

Think about what it takes,

what kind of computing it takes to make sure those things can go in the right design, move quickly, and not crash into each other.

I mean, that's, that's

really impressive.

Really, really.

It really is.

Again, is it worth doing or you just put up CGI since that's what everybody thought it was anyway?

I mean, you probably spent a fortune trying to make that happen.

Just to prove that you could do it.

Intel.

Put it up CGI.

Intel.

They do it on their lunch breaks.

I mean, I thought it was worth it because I just, I mean, I just thought it was cool technology.

Yeah, it is.

I mean, there's no question.

That's

again,

that's the NFL innovating.

They just do that.

Think about the halftime shows when we were growing up where there were bands that used to do those things on the ground.

You know, like the Ohio State band.

Isn't it the Ohio State that does all the...

Yeah, it's been a while since the Ohio State marching band got out there.

But remember when

we'd watch those, we'd think that's cool.

Now they're flying drones up above the stadium to do that.

I was just watching

some Super Bowl retrospectives that they do on the NFL Network, and they showed the halftime show of Green Bay, Kansas City, I think it was.

And it was some,

I don't even think it was

a college band.

I think it was a high school band from Green Bay that went out and performed at halftime.

It was like, really, the high school marching band.

They won the state marching band championship.

Now, here for the Super Bowl.

Come a long way.

I mean, a long way.

How much does it cost to sequester

Lady Gaga for two months of rehearsal?

I don't know.

They claim that she was paid, right?

Oh, yeah, they do say that.

I mean, but all that money, right?

I mean, they're putting up some of the stuff.

Yeah, they're designing the show,

they're putting the bills.

And, you know, the numbers all

bode well for doing the halftime shows.

Artists have done quite well with sales.

Yeah, for a billion people to see you for 13 minutes.

It's like, how did Jimmy Kimmel get the Oscars?

Shouldn't that be Jimmy Fallon?

Yeah, you would think so.

I mean, Jimmy Kimmel, remember when he was just the guy who was, what was the beer drinking show that he used to do?

The man show.

Yeah.

Remember when he used to do the man show?

Yeah.

Now he's, you know, now he's somebody.

And it's kind of like he's one of those guys that you're like, how'd that happen?

How'd that happen?

I mean, I'm glad for him, but how'd that happen?

Seriously.

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People are still trying to

take Lady Gaga and make it into something that

half the country could hate.

I don't know.

I think her starting with the Pledge of Allegiance was pretty uniting myself, but some people are saying totally missed the boat.

She doesn't, she doesn't.

They don't see that she was making massive political

with the song?

The only political statement she made was with the song Born This Way.

Yeah, so what?

I mean, you know what?

But that didn't came out six years ago, 2011.

One of her hits.

The right proves it doesn't understand subtleties and art.

Okay.

Okay.

Whatever.

All right.

Well, I'm going to do my best to hate Lady Gaga just for you guys on Twitter today.

Again, like you said earlier, her name is Lady Gaga.

Who cares?

It's really amazing.

Something we should care about that I'm also getting blasted for.

And I'll.

There's a couple of things that were said this weekend that I'll wear as a badge of honor.

One is coming out and saying,

you know, I disagree with Donald Trump on what he said about the United States in comparison to Putin.

I'll let you decide his interview with Bill O'Reilly right now.

I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand.

Cause we have won, I will beat my drum, I have made my choice, we will overcome,

cause we are one

the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Let's uh

let's take this first.

Um,

Richard Spencer tweeted a picture of

Brady kissing his wife after the Super Bowl.

Okay.

And he tweets, for the white race, it's never over.

What?

What?

What?

What does that mean?

For the white race, it's never over.

What?

I have no idea.

But Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro,

we tweeted and said, I'm not in favor of you being punched in the face, but you're not making it easy.

I tweeted something.

Spencer, he's the guy who leads the alt-right.

He's absolutely a neo-Nazi.

But

he's a new kind of neo-Nazi.

He's the new happy, smiling,

new and improved, you can love me neo-Nazi.

And he said, nobody listens to Glenn Beck anymore.

And so I saw that and I tweeted back, I wear it as a badge of honor that nobody you know listens to me.

I think that is great.

Take your neo-Nazi crap and go elsewhere.

You wouldn't believe the number of people that

were defending him.

That, you know, he helped Trump get in.

Okay.

Yeah, that was one of our problems.

Yeah, I'm not sure that's true, but it is one of the problems.

It is one of the problems.

We can't defend the indefensible.

The other thing that

I'm getting heat on, and I can't believe this, I guess if you're one of these people, then I guess we should have a conversation.

What Donald Trump said to Bill O'Reilly

in the interview after the Super Bowl is indefensible.

They're talking about Vladimir Putin being a killer.

Listen to what he said.

I do respect him, but why?

Well, I respect a lot of people, but that doesn't mean I'm going to get along with him.

He's a leader of his country.

I say it's better to get along with Russia than not.

And if Russia helps us in the fight against ISIS, which is a major fight and Islamic terrorism all over the world, major fight, that's a good thing.

Will I get along with him?

I have no idea.

He's a killer.

Putin's a killer.

A lot of killers.

You've got a lot of killers.

Why do you think our country's so innocent?

Whoa.

Oh, my God.

Whoa.

I mean,

I guess all the

new right that we don't really identify with will jump all over that and be happy about that.

I don't.

If that's the problem.

Obama saying that?

In defense of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, there are a lot of now people on the right that will and are defending that.

It's indefensible.

If Barack Obama would have said that, all of the people who are

already breaking loose on the right today.

Absolutely.

Most outrageous thing the president could say.

He's siding with Vladimir Putin and he's saying that

he's equivocating with us.

He's saying that we're the equals.

Right.

And how dare you?

Does he have any idea?

what Vladimir Putin has done, what Russia does to its political opponents?

There's no equivalency there.

None.

None.

None.

And again, it's obscene.

Ronald Reagan would never say that.

Ronald Reagan, it's his birthday today.

Ask him if he were around.

Ask your memory what Ronald Reagan would have said about somebody who said that.

You know who would have said that?

Ted Kennedy.

Back in the 80s.

That's the kind of stuff Ted Kennedy would have said.

You think we're so innocent?

And no, I don't think we're so innocent, but I don't put us in the same category as Vladimir Putin.

And if we are in the same category as Vladimir Putin, then we're in more trouble than I think we are.

If that's what our presidents do, just kill the people that disagree with them in elevators and throw them off

of windows.

And didn't this guy get elected on the premise that America is

the greatest country on earth and needs to return to that position in the world?

I don't understand this.

And then he says this.

It's completely inconsistent with everything else he's ever said.

And yet, I'm sure that will make no difference.

Oh, you should have seen the tweets.

I can't believe it.

You should have seen the tweets.

I can't believe it.

But it's us.

It's us.

It's, I mean, wow.

Truly, truly amazing.

The guy can take on America and it's fine.

The guy can side with Putin and it's fine.

He can side with,

what's his face from WikiLeaks?

And it's fine.

That guy was one of the most dangerous people in the world a few years ago.

Now, he's our best friend.

He's our best friend.

Wow, it doesn't make any sense.

Here, Anna, I don't get it.

What's your problem with that statement?

The U.S.

is guilty of killing innocents.

Where's your common sense?

There's a huge difference between the

unintentional killings of civilians in a war zone and Putin's murders, okay?

Are you telling me what we did in Nagasaki and Hiroshima was unintentional?

Dresden, Tokyo, learn your own history.

We know it.

That sounds like somebody on the left.

Nobody.

Nobody on the right attacks what we did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II.

A war we didn't start, by the way.

Here's one from Christy.

America has been innocent in the last eight years.

We gave billions to Iranian terrorist dictator, major cover-up in Benghazi.

Have you seen the entire O'Reilly factor interview?

What POTA said in full context?

Because we know you don't like out-of-context videos.

That's in context.

There's no way else to.

How much innocent blood is America shed in abortions?

There is a lot.

There's a big difference.

Yeah.

That's what I like about Trump.

He doesn't try to tickle our ears.

He just says what we have to hear.

Really?

I mean, it's pretty amazing.

Trump is right, Beck.

If they call you only by your last name, you know they mean it.

They're either a right.

No, you shouldn't even read it out loud after that.

Obama did say that in many words.

Relax, Glenn.

This is how a non-polished politician talks.

It's nice not to see the polish.

Obama did say it, and we went nuts over.

But he was a politician.

Donald Trump's not a politician, Pat.

I see.

And so he's just not polished.

I see.

Oh.

Oh, okay.

At least Trump didn't go on an apology tour.

I mean, what are we doing?

What are we defending?

People were defending Richard Spencer and Milo.

Yeah, Panopoulos?

Yeah.

I mean,

what are we turning into?

I don't know.

I mean,

you can support this guy, and we've tried to since his election because we've wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.

But you don't have to support every utterance coming out of his mouth.

Do you?

When did that begin?

When did it start when everything he says is sacrosanct and you can't say word one against it?

When we decided to play teams, when we decided that it is a team sport and that's it, I'm sorry.

That's ridiculous.

Ridiculous.

I went to Los Angeles last week, and I can't tell you how many people I met who would tell me,

I'm done with the Democratic Party.

And I would think, I really thought,

you know, with some of them, that it was because, you know, they're not socialist enough.

No, some of them are actually saying because they're in bed with a socialist.

I had one guy tell me, Wow, between between the Marxists of Bernie Sanders and all of his gang

and the DNC trying to put into place Keith Ellison, I'm done with them.

We've been begging for that.

Where are the normal Democrats?

Right?

The American Democrats.

And they are there.

They are there.

They just need to hear common sense.

We have the greatest opportunity handed to us right now.

Right now.

You don't have to change any of your principles.

You don't have to buy into any policies that

you don't like.

Don't buy into any policies.

Don't change your principles or your policies.

Just stick to common sense and decency, and you'll win.

You'll win.

At least you'll win the hearts of people.

And that's the first thing.

We never win the hearts of people.

And right now, the left is looking at us going, how are you guys for this?

See, they are the people that we thought they were.

They're just these heartless bastards.

There's no way you can

approve Vladimir Putin.

And I believe that that there are enough Democrats out there that didn't approve Vladimir Putin when their side was saying all of the good things.

And if not, let's at least find the handful of people that still live with common sense.

I think there is a silent majority out there.

The real Reagan revolution is yet to come.

I really think there is a silent majority out there that is tired of the Democrats and tired of the Republicans.

They're tired of both of them.

And they just,

I gave a speech last week.

I was invited to

something called,

shoot, upfront.

It's the biggest

venture capitalist convention in Los Angeles.

And

everybody who's anybody, I guess, who's a venture capitalist, I don't know that world.

So everybody who's anybody is there.

I met some some pretty stunning people.

It's not necessarily a

friendly crowd for someone of my opinion.

I started my speech with.

Which is weird because you would think venture capitalists are, I don't know, capitalists.

Right.

That's the second part of venture capitalism.

I know.

I know.

So I go out and I'm speaking to these guys.

And

I mean, Robert Downey Jr.

spoke like two people before me.

Then this professor gets up and he talks and he actually made me look, you know, positively optimistic.

And then I get up and it's an interview.

And

I start the interview with, okay, so let me just ask everybody in the audience, raise your hand if you think you hate me.

Half the audience, at least half the audience, raise their hand.

I bet it was three three-quarters, raised their hand.

I said, Okay, what do you hate me for?

According to the article that I read, it was pretty overwhelming.

It was, it was, it was not, it was not a friendly crowd, it was not a friendly crowd.

They weren't fans.

Yes, no.

Um, and I said, So, how many?

And now, why?

Why?

Because you've seen some clip, you've seen something on YouTube.

Do you even know who I am or what I really believe?

The response from this speech

was remarkable.

And I got to the end.

So what do we have in common?

Because I didn't change a single principle, not one.

I've changed my approach

and I've said, let's listen to one another.

Let's not hate one another.

Let's not worry about Lady Gaga songs.

Right.

Let's just, let's, let's see where we can come together because there's so much we can do before we actually have to be at each other's throats.

I ended the speech with, okay, so this is where I am.

This is who I am and what I believe right now.

That it doesn't have to be this way.

That I'm tired of hating the other side.

I'm tired of having to worry about politicians and politics and the president.

And I don't want to live this way anymore.

And I want to find Americans who feel the same way.

Raise your hand if you feel the same way.

Almost every single hand went up.

Now, I read a story today, the one Pat's referring to, that is like this glowing

article about how

I reached the crowd in way, and that's not from a conservative, how I reached the crowd

in a completely amazing way.

and

hadn't seen anything like it.

And they were worried about inviting me in the first place,

but how the crowd completely transformed.

Now, what does that tell you?

That tells you that we can either keep hating each other,

we can either keep bashing, or

there's a good portion of us, both left and right, that know we're better than Vladimir Putin in Russia.

We don't kill our reporters.

And I'm tired.

I'm tired of the arguing back and forth.

There is so much we can do together

if we just try.

As I said to the crowd,

you think all conservatives are like Milo Yapanapoulos or whatever his name is.

You think that that's who we are.

Racist provocateurs.

We think you're all Occupy Wall Street protesters that want to burn down the Starbucks.

But I don't know a Democrat who, or I mean, a Republican who is a racist, who just wants to shut all white people down and make sure that gays never leave their house.

And I don't know a single Democrat that actually wants to burn down a Starbucks.

Why are we letting the two parties convince us that that's who we are?

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You know,

any wannabe dictator, any of them, Barack Obama, any of them that want me on my side, they'd make the day after Super Bowl a holiday.

I'm just saying.

I'm just saying.

I think it should be.

I mean, I don't even drink the poor people who were drinking last night.

We're pretty close to being there.

Yeah, we are.

We're the day after Super Bowl.

I would love to see our productivity on this day.

It's got to drop a lot.

Yeah, I bet you there has to be a study on the cars that are made on Super Bowl.

You know how they always say, don't buy a car that was built on a Monday?

Do not want a Super Bowl car.

Yeah, I bet you don't want a Super Bowl car.

No way.

Like, isn't this a Super Bowl car?

You're doomed.

The steering wheel is where the tire tire should be.

It's road.

That was made in the fourth quarter.

I just don't think you want one of those cars.

No.

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Oh my gosh, the Lady Gaga controversy is still continuing.

I can't, I mean, it's Lady freaking Gaga, man.

I know.

They're now saying, because she sang this land is your land, that was, that was, that was, we're the ones who pointed that out.

I know, every time I say that's a leftist Marxist song, the left says, No, it's not.

How dare you say that about that?

Now they're now they're all tweeting, that was a leftist Marxist song.

She was speaking right to us.

Oh, stop it.

First of all, she didn't sing those lyrics.

No, she didn't get to that part.

She didn't get to that part of the song.

So if you want to say it was a tip of the hat, great, whatever.

And then

you don't know the meaning behind the other song or her hit.

That's been out for six years.

Six.

That's old news.

We got it.

We know the meaning behind it.

We got it.

We just don't care.

It's lady Gaga.

I want to enjoy it.

She was great.

She was fine.

She started, even if she did the Marxist lyrics of the song, she started with the Pledge of Allegiance.

There, something for all of us.

And did you hear what she said to the youth of this country?

Work hard and you might

make it big.

She didn't guarantee the outcome.

She didn't say you're owed it.

She didn't say just, you know, graduate from school and you'll get a mansion.

No,

no, no.

No, Twitter is saying today how stupid I am for not seeing that she's all for, because of the

Woody Guthrie song, that she's all for wealth redistribution.

Really?

Listen to any of that.

Listen to what she said last week behind stage.

I am.

Going to have to say that the preparation for this show is the show business version of the athlete.

We have our own set of criteria that we go through.

Myself and my dancers have been training for months on this.

For two months, we dedicated our time to creating the story of the show, creating the musical score.

And just happened.

And then we

created the set, what it would look like.

And why she's

saying the actual dance.

Listen to this.

This is so important.

And then we choreographed the pyrotechnics.

Additionally, to all of that, we go through an extensive amount of training so that I can sing and dance at the same time for the show for 13 minutes.

What I would say is that what you're watching at the halftime show,

it's not easy.

And

I say that because I want young people at home that are watching, when they see it, If you have a dream to be something big,

you should go for it.

But you got to give it everything you got.

You got to wake up and you got to eat it, breathe it, see it every second of the day.

And if you do that,

you might be lucky enough one day to wake up and be playing the halftime show.

Okay, so now look, does Lady Gaga and I agree on everything?

No, of course not.

Do I think Lady Gaga is a Glenn Beck fan?

No, I don't.

I'm actually a Lady Gaga fan because I appreciate, I remember my daughters coming to me saying, Dad, you've got to go see her show.

You will appreciate the amount of work that she does and how smart she is.

And I have.

Do I agree with her on everything?

No, but I don't have to agree with Lady Gaga and she doesn't have to agree with Glenn Beck.

What is this deal where we have to hate each other?

I'm telling you, there is a new time coming.

There's a new time coming.

And maybe it's just with me and 10 people.

I don't know.

But there's a new time coming.

It might be just you and the guy who wrote this venture capitalist article.

Might be just the two of you that are having this love affair.

But he, like, is this the same guy that, is this the guy that invited you to the summit?

Yes.

To the upfront summit, which is a big venture capitalist thing, the biggest one in Los Angeles.

It's by invitation only.

And

nobody turns down their invitation.

He asked me to speak and just wanted to do an interview.

And he said in this article, doesn't he, that he was worried about.

Yes.

And he said, if you know, if I was worried, imagine how worried Glenn should have been knowing what he knew, that he was coming into really hostile territory and this was not like his home field.

There was a definite disadvantage in the home field.

But

he says here, Glenn Beck owned his past communication style.

He didn't say you've changed.

He didn't say you've completely reorganized your ideology.

notice, I mean,

this is what the right and the left of the extremes are both saying.

Glenn Beck's changed.

The left wants me to, the extreme, and the right wants to discredit me, the extreme.

He didn't say that.

I've owned my past communication style, which is absolutely true.

Right.

And he wants to move beyond that.

If we can't accept somebody who reaches out like this with open arms, even if we don't agree on policy, then we have no hope for healing.

It's so true.

So true.

I, for one, am ready for the embrace.

So it might be...

I will tell you,

I met a lot of people who

it is happening.

I would have never seen this possible.

I was the one who stood in Birmingham and said, it's not going to be possible.

I'm telling you, it's happening.

Don't miss the train.

Don't miss the opportunity.

I know we are way ahead of

a lot of people,

but I don't think we're way ahead of,

I should say, we're way ahead of other leaders.

They don't get it, and I don't know if they ever will, but we're not ahead of a lot of people.

The average person wants this to stop.

They don't want to hate each other.

They don't.

I don't.

Don't you want to stop hating Lady Gaga?

Don't you want that taken off your plate?

You got to hate Lady Gaga today.

You got to say something on Twitter and Facebook and take a stand on Lady Gaga.

The thing is, don't you want to just say, I don't care.

Yeah, and that's where I've always been with Lady Gaga.

I don't like her music.

I don't like her attitude.

I don't like her politics.

So I just don't care what she says.

She doesn't have a lot.

She doesn't sound a lot like Boston, so I can understand.

But it's not even, but

anything like Boston, isn't it?

This isn't even, I don't care what she said and she said something bad.

This is

no, you know, I disagree with her politics, but I like what she says about X, Y, and Z.

So while I don't care what she says about politics, I actually like her.

Can we get to that point?

That's where we used to be, Pat.

That's a big stretch.

It's where we used to be.

It's where we used to be.

And I'm not saying for those people who are the extremes on either side, I don't think you can.

I mean, the ones who need us to hate each other,

I don't think you can get there.

The ones who say this is a war and it's always going to be a war.

No,

it doesn't have to be.

It doesn't have to be.

For most people, it doesn't have to be.

And you're certainly not going to convince the next generation that capitalism is a good thing when they're already on the socialist bandwagon, you're certainly not going to convince the next generation by saying, yeah, and Lady Gaga, I hate her.

By the way, did you see the Audi commercial

last night?

The Audi one?

Yeah.

Yes, it was.

The one on redistric on women equal pay.

Yes.

Did you see that Audi

corrected themselves?

Because I saw that commercial and I thought, because it starts with, what am I going to have to say to my daughter?

Uh-huh.

Am I going to?

And I kept saying all during the commercial: I don't know, tell her the truth.

I don't know, tell her the truth.

You could tell her the truth.

You could tell her the truth.

You could tell her that

this inequality of income is bogus.

So look up

the Audi response because people started to tweet that.

And Audi said, when you take into account

time at

Audi Audi

and equalize all the conditions, women are paid the same as men.

That's Audi.

I mean, they debunked themselves within 20 minutes of running the ad.

Unbelievable.

So they spent $5 million on a stupid ad that doesn't even apply to real life.

So now...

I watched, and I have to say,

I watched this with a side eye, and I didn't watch it all the way through because I thought I was going to hate it.

The The 84 lumber thing.

Do you see that?

I didn't see it on TV.

Apparent illegal aliens

getting on a train heading toward apparently the United States.

Then they camp out.

The coyotes are howling.

It's just a mother and her child.

And they don't make it to the United States.

Heading for the U.S.

and we don't see the outcome necessarily.

Okay.

So everybody was outraged by this.

They send you to a website.

Right.

Their journey, which they have complete the journey and watch the entire journey again again

this is people now here's 84 lumber knowing that no one is going to watch it and so they're making the point and uh and you either love them or hate them

did anybody actually go to the website no because i saw the ending of it and i have a zero problem with it I've never gone to a website for the rest of the story.

Correct.

I don't care enough.

Correct.

Really?

I'm going to see the the rest of the story of this commercial?

Correct.

No, thank you.

Well, then

what you're going to do is you're going to be on tweeting about how much you hate 84 Lumber.

Except I didn't.

Right, I know, I know.

So here's the thing.

They go out and they're, you know, catching a train and then they're, you know, they're obviously going to cross the border illegally.

They get there and there's a giant wall.

a huge wall.

And the music changes and it's like, oh, mom looks at her daughter like we came all this way, and we're not going to be able to cross illegally into America.

Darn it.

And I'm watching that part, and I'm like, okay,

alrighty then.

Okay, we get it.

And then what happens?

The daughter hears a noise.

And so she goes around like the wall kind of bends and she goes around and she's like, Mom, come here.

And there is, and I quote, a big, beautiful door.

in the wall and it's closed and the daughter pushes on the door and the light like God's light streams through the door and they walk through the door now I don't know about you I could spend the day hating 84 lumber or I could take

President Trump at his word that it's going to have a big beautiful door I don't mind people coming through a big beautiful door do you not legally no no no it it was showing that you can't come through unless you come through the door i'm fine with that yeah that's good what's that problem not the impression you're left with when you see the card i know i know so is 84 really weird tactic yes is 84 lumber are they just trying to get you to talk get the free advertising that they have

by by playing into our anger and our fears and everything else now

there's not a border guard on the other side of the wall when it opens up.

It's just desert still.

But what's the point of a door?

To go through it.

Right.

You build a wall.

You wouldn't build a giant wall and then put a door there if you weren't meant to go through that door.

Right.

Just do it the right way.

Yeah.

I hold my lamp beside a golden door.

We don't have a golden door.

So you got the impression that the

point of the ad was: yes, we want you to come here legally.

We want you to come here.

If you are, if you do everything that you can, you won't give up the will to

come here.

We want you here.

Just come through the door.

Now, that's what I got from it.

That's a good message.

That's a great message.

That is.

And yet,

go to...

Go to Facebook, go to Twitter.

Guarantee you, 84 Lumber being bashed or being upheld as these great saviors.

Oh, look, they're for illegal immigration.

No, they're not.

No, they're not.

At least that's not the impression I got.

Of course, maybe I'm just not as smart as those on the left, and I don't understand art.

Well, you don't hate Lady Gaga, and you're supposed to.

Right, I know.

So clearly, I know.

I know.

To listen to her song, Born This Way, right.

Well, I've got a real problem with that.

I'll tell you that right now.

Man, I've been fuming over that song for the last six years.

I still can't get over it.

I can barely sleep at night because of it.

I know.

Can't eat asleep.

She did a song I disagree with.

Man, I got to hate her.

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Yesterday, or last week, I had some conversations

with some

people who are

Wall Street guys.

And then I had conversations with some billionaires.

You'll never guess which ones were optimistic on...

Wall Street and which ones were saying run for the hills.

I heard two

radically different opinions within two hours of each other.

And

I can't find a bridge for them to meet anywhere.

Because one was the Wall Street guys were telling me that, oh my gosh, $4 trillion, dumping $4 trillion into the system, that's nothing.

That's nothing.

That won't affect us at all.

It's fine.

It's fine.

Don't worry about it.

Put your get in the game.

Yeah.

I'm like, what?

Fine.

Where have we seen this happen before where it's worked out?

Oh, well, this is different.

Quote, this is different.

It goes again talking about history, blah, blah, blah.

I mean, it was amazing.

Why is it different?

Why is it different?

Oh, because our economy, the fundamentals of our economy.

Oh, yes, right, right.

They're just fundamentals.

I mean,

we could literally wall America off and we would be totally fine.

It's the rest of the world that'll hurt.

Not us.

We're going to be, we're good.

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So glad that you have joined us today.

A lot to talk about.

Touch on the Super Bowl, some of the commercials,

and some of the things that are happening around politics.

But I really want to tell you a tale of two cities yesterday or last week.

I experienced two radically different points of view within an hour of each other.

And

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One is not so much.

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Just looking at the

I am just looking at the headline today.

Any news polls, any polls that are negative, this according to Donald Trump, are fake news.

That's the latest today.

Any negative polls are fake news.

Wow.

We can either live in

a fantasy world or we can actually

embrace the truth.

It's amazing to me how so many people now on the left are saying we are at the point of catastrophe, that the West is about to collapse, that

the dollar is about to collapse, that everything is on the verge of destruction when they said anyone who said that before under Barack Obama was a lunatic.

And now what do you have?

Now you have a group of people on the right.

who have suddenly lost all perspective and say that this is going to take care of it, that Donald Trump can take care of this.

It's $17 trillion

in debt.

Sorry, deficit.

The real,

wait, is that that's debt, and then the deficit is $150 trillion.

Yeah,

one way or another, we're

screwed.

We're absolutely screwed.

I went to Los Angeles last week, and I met with some investors.

I met with a group of stock market guys who were telling me that

I'm nothing but hot air, that there is no way anything that I say is coming is coming our way.

And I wanted to believe them badly.

I brought in Chris Martinson.

He does peakprosperity.com.

He happens to be in town for the next couple of days, and I wanted to talk to you about what these guys said to me.

Chris, they said,

yes, we've printed $4 trillion,

but it doesn't matter.

That's nothing in compared to our GDP.

That's just a blip.

They said that

the market is connected to fundamentals.

And I said, where?

And they said, everybody agrees that it is fundamentally sound.

The stock market, those numbers are not inflation.

You're crazy for saying that.

One of them actually said, quote,

if we have bad trade barriers, it's not going to matter.

Quote, America could practically wall herself off and we would be fine.

I've never heard,

those were like 1930 answers, if I've ever heard them.

Do you have thoughts on any of those?

I think your microphone is off.

Can somebody turn his microphone on, please?

It's Pac.

I've not heard anything so optimistic, and I wanted, they said it with such conviction, I wanted to believe them.

Do we

get another microphone in?

It might be, he's not potted up in the other room.

Or is he not on?

Have you spoken?

Yes, he has.

Yeah, he's not on.

He's speaking, so it's not up.

You need the fourth one.

This would be really good.

this would really be good there we go yeah that's it are you there now

or not no

can we get another microphone in here please top

i don't know

check check check nope somebody you should take his take jeffy's mic here take jeffy's mic that's a dream come true taking his microphone you don't know what kind of disease it is all over you don't have to take it down just grab his mic and clip it to your shirt there real quick chris okay so

I've never heard anything so

crazy as we could print $4 trillion and it's not going to matter.

I have a lot of thoughts about this.

Look, the central banks have been printing money like crazy and it's really benefited a very small select crew of people.

And

this is something that's really driving me crazy.

Because, look, all the social tensions we're seeing, one of my key theories on this is that people are right to be angry They're right to be concerned.

Yeah, but they're fighting each other not understanding where the shocks are coming from correct right?

So they did these studies in the 40s where they would put to a rat in a cage and shock the rat and it would be miserable But it would it would it would handle it the trouble began when you put a second rat in the cage now They still administer the shocks and they look at the other rat and they say oh, it's you and they fight Right because they don't understand where the shocks are coming from the shocks that people are experiencing are very real.

Get out of the, you know, the super uber wealthy Wall Street big money managers and talk to Main Street.

And what you find is, no, it's getting harder and harder.

And we can't get by in two incomes.

And yes, my healthcare costs are spiraling out of control.

And yes, the groceries do seem to be more expensive.

And no, I can't afford college anymore.

Those are real.

Right.

That's all very real stuff.

Right.

So for these ivory tower or super wealthy people to be going, I don't see any trouble.

Of course they don't.

What's amazing is I then,

within an hour, I was sitting and had an hour with a very large billionaire.

And

first thing I said to him, he said, how's your day?

And I said, well, it's been amazing.

I just met with these guys from Wall Street that said, everything is good.

Now, this is a guy who's generally on the left.

He's a Democrat.

And he said,

are you kidding me?

This thing is on the verge of collapse.

And I said, is this a new thought for you because of Donald Trump?

And he said, no,

the fundamentals are all wrong.

And here's a guy who, again, has his own money at stake, not somebody else's, who is saying, no,

this is not going to be good.

Yeah.

Well, Glenn, I get to talk to wealth conferences a lot.

These are family offices, private equity, pension funds, people who are managing large amounts of money.

And they fall into two classes, like you just mentioned.

They fall into managing somebody else's money and managing their own money.

These people, they're pretty happy.

They think things are good, but they have to tell that tale.

That's their job.

The people who are managing their own money are very worried.

They're getting very defensive.

They're pulling out of the markets.

They are going to cash.

They're going to gold.

They're doing things like this now because they're worried about what they see.

And in fact, the people I know personally who are the most worried at this point in time are the people who have the most time in the markets.

Hedge fund managers who've been doing this for 30 years, eating, breathing, sleeping.

These guys don't sleep.

24-7, 365, there's a market going on.

They've been tapped into it their whole lives, and they're very worried right now.

His point was: don't play the market.

Just put your money with Apple and Google and these blue chips that are not going away.

Catastrophic failure nobody can plan for.

He said, but these blue chips

are not going away.

And I love this line.

The Great Depression is a once-in-a-lifetime event.

And I thought, well, yeah, and everybody, almost everybody who lived through that is dead now.

So it's a new lifetime to experience.

What do you say to A, blue chip companies?

They're not going away.

Why not just leave your money in?

You don't know the top or you never know the bottom?

Well, I have a position that it's time to be pretty defensive right now, and here's why.

We can clearly see that a lot of the gains in the stock market have been due to central bank printing.

And so, the first question we have to ask is: look, can the central banks just keep printing?

Maybe, maybe they can.

You know, that's a valid point.

We can take it from that point, but not from a fundamental standpoint.

When we look at stocks today, they are the most expensive they've ever been when we compare the price of stocks to the amount of revenues that they're actually generating at this point in time.

The most in all of history.

Eclipse is 1929, 2000, 2007.

So if you like buying stocks at the top or at the most expensive they've ever been, you have to have a good story that says, and here's why that's okay to do today.

I don't think it's sufficient to say, well, it's worked out in the past, so it's going to be okay today.

I think people have to be very defensive.

And that's admittedly a contrarian point of view.

Not everybody goes for that.

Maybe that doesn't sound as optimistic as some would like, but the base data says this is a really unusual time in history.

We've never been here before.

So when we're doing something brand new, I like to say, all right, what are we doing new and where could this lead?

So if we took a chart and we said, show me the price of all the equities in the world, and then let's compare that to the central bank balance sheets, these two things work in perfect lockstep.

They're going up together.

So all we have to really ask is, can the central banks print forever?

Well, they can, as long as they're all willing to sing kumbaya, hold hands, and there's no differences.

But could we imagine a situation where Europe starts to depart from the United States, starts to depart from Japan, starts to depart from England or the UK?

I can, particularly in this environment.

I don't know how anybody looks at this political environment, looks at Europe potentially fragmenting.

looks at the relationships that Trump is now establishing on a trade basis, if not a diplomatic basis, with all these other countries and says, oh, this will be fine.

No worries.

So, what do the other countries have to do?

I don't understand.

What do you mean?

They split from us.

All of a sudden, somebody says, I'm not going to play this game anymore.

And where do they go?

Because if they're not going to play this game, they're not getting their gold back from us.

I mean, Germany's not getting their gold back.

So, what do they do?

How do you eject?

Because this is the question that I get from

people who know the central banks.

Who's going to be the one who spits themselves out?

Because they'll be destroyed first?

It might be Switzerland for all I know.

They have a different central bank.

Their central bank now has assets, meaning they've bought Apple.

They've bought Google.

They've bought all kinds of assets as well as other debts of other countries.

And the central bank now has a balance sheet that's more than 100%

of the GDP of their country.

That would be like

the United States central bank instead of $4.5 trillion, having more than $18 trillion on the books.

So they're way over the tips of their skis, and all that has to happen for literally the central bank of Switzerland to bankrupt the entire nation is for those bets to start going against it.

Now I could imagine them saying,

you know, and sitting in their suits in their little oval offices with a nice dessert trolley on the side, I don't want to be responsible for bankrupting my entire nation.

And they might say, I have to depart from this.

I can't play this game anymore.

It's too much.

But who's going to let them do that?

That's, again, the wall is, who's going to let Switzerland do that?

Because they know

if they do it, then it's going to collapse collapse everything.

So, who's going to

block the door for Switzerland to dump all of that?

That's the million-dollar question, maybe the billion, trillion-dollar question, right?

We don't know how this is going to play out, but look what's happening now with Greece central banks unable to cope with the banking situation in Greece.

Italy, their banking system has non-performing loans of 20% of GDP.

They can't possibly pay it back.

Germany doesn't know what to do about how would they risk bailing out the Italian banks under this political environment where populism is on the rise, which is mostly this.

Hey, every time you fat cats get in trouble, you bail yourselves out.

And every time the little people get in trouble, you tell us that we have to pay for this and tighten our belts.

So you were on, I don't know, a couple of months ago,

we talked about

bonds,

municipal bonds, people, you know,

the pension funds

and how these cities are not prepared to pay these pensions back.

They're just, it's not going to happen.

And you said, once that catches on, once people really understand that,

then the panic will ensue.

How long before that happens?

I would submit it's already afoot, even in Dallas, where the police pension fund is known to be insolvent.

And they had to block the gates because police were retiring early, taking out their lump sum distribution, which was encoded.

That was the rule they agreed to.

They said, when you retire, you're going to put all this money in.

We're going to manage it for you.

When you retire, you either take a stream of payouts or a lump sum.

They started taking a lump sum because the police who were retiring could see that this is an insolvent fund.

I better get mine out while I can.

And they had to stop that.

They gated the fund and said, you can't do that anymore.

And that's going to spread.

So look, you mentioned a key thing before, looking at 20 trillion in debt.

It's just federal debt.

Once we add in all the corporate debt and household debt and all those unfunded liabilities, the underfunded pension funds, the United States is carrying a load of debt that's measured in the hundreds of trillions of dollars.

It's literally 1100% of GDP.

No country has ever dug out from a load that big.

So, you know, when I was at a conference recently, I thought John Malden said it best.

He said, people ask me if I'm worried about Social Security.

I say, no, I don't worry about it because it won't be paid back.

Nothing to worry about.

Here's the operative question in this story who's going to eat the losses?

And right now, the people that you're talking to, they're being, I think, misled badly by media.

That's basically trying to say, this is all resolvable.

It's okay.

We'll get through it.

And meanwhile, you watch the people who know the system best removing their assets from the system really as fast as they can.

And that's what bothers me most.

So the average person who doesn't have anything,

the average person, maybe something in their 401k,

get it out of your 401k, put it into some sort of hard asset.

The basic advice I would give is if you have any non-productive debt, like you've got auto loans, student loans,

maybe high credit card bills, pay those all off.

Because that's what the lessons of the 30s taught us, was that debt was the stone-cold killer in that story.

You know, Bank of America went from a cheesy regional bank out of San Francisco area to a national behemoth because they had money to buy broken mortgages and they bought a lot of farmland and other things like that.

So it was the debt on the farmland that hurt the farmers most.

And so in this story, I say, get out of debt.

Just don't have it if you can.

Two, have some cash reserves.

Absolutely have those built in.

And if you have a 401k, you can't take it out for tax reasons.

So when we come back, I want to ask you about the debt thing again

because

my grandfather used to always say the people who survived the depression were the people who had money.

But that's not the same as just being out of debt.

Right.

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Chris Martinus is here, and we were just talking about what you should do if you happen to believe the economy is not doing, not going to do well.

And you said in the Depression, the lesson was be out of debt.

Is it enough to be out of debt?

It's not enough.

It's a great first step.

Debt is that stone cold killer.

If you can't make your debt payments, you lose whatever it is the debt was associated with.

So you might lose your car, your house,

whatever that is.

So being out of debt is really important.

I know that's not an option for a lot of people.

But still, it's something we should aspire towards, and it's something that would make a huge difference.

Being out of debt plus starting starting to build up cash is really important and then you can use that cash to buffer the storms when they come or to pick up

the assets you want at a future point.

But cash is a really certified.

It's going to be a great, I think, for a while.

It's going to be a good asset to hold on to.

And then I think there's another part of the story coming, which is, look, the Federals are printed like crazy.

They rescued Wall Street.

They drove financial prices up for stocks and bonds.

That's what they meant to do.

What didn't happen was they didn't get the economic patient revived again.

Correct.

You know, yes, we see new jobs coming, but you dig under the jobs data and they're all part-time jobs.

They're all low-paying jobs.

They're not the kind of jobs you say, yeah, that's the future.

You know, that's really going to drive us to new prosperity in this country.

We saw corporations get incentivized to buy their own shares back, right?

So

this is happening.

The Fed has been printing money and dumping it.

It hasn't been working for the little guy.

You say there's a part two.

We'll get to that when we come back.

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All right.

So

Chris Martin is here from peakprosperity.com, and we're talking a little bit about the economy and what is to come.

And there is this weird switching switching of musical chairs where the right is now convinced that everything is fine, and the left is now convinced that we're on the precipice.

And

I'm happy to say I haven't changed my position in two presidents.

What was coming in 2006 that we felt coming is still coming.

We propped it up.

It's still coming.

It's going to be worse.

You said that

there's two parts to this: there's the downside,

right?

And

part two?

Well, economically, there's first the downside, and then the Federal Reserve has to print more and more and more.

They're going to keep trying the same thing over and over again, and it's not really going to work.

I haven't changed my position over a couple of presidents either because there's deeper structural things that we need to attend to.

And that's part two.

That's the part of the story I'm actually excited about is can we finally have the conversation to say, who do we want to be?

You know, where do we want to go as a country and have that vision and really bring that forward?

Okay.

Before we get there, tell me

they've printed all this money and it all went to the Wall Street fat cats.

Okay.

I was just told by Wall Streeters that this is not true, Glenn.

They're not buying back their own stock.

The fundamentals are sound.

And I said, you're starting to see the beginnings.

of inflation.

There's no inflation on chicken.

There is inflation in the stock market.

That's inflation.

That is inflated money, funny money had by all the fat cats.

They're dumping it in there.

That's making the stock market go up and everybody feels good.

But the average person didn't get that money.

Banks never lent that money to go try to get a business loan.

Now you're saying that they're going to print again.

Where are they going to give the money this time?

This time it's got to go to Main Street.

They've tried giving all this money to Wall Street.

They'll keep doing that.

The Federal Reserve and the other central banks.

are scared to death of even the most minor market correction.

When the markets start to go down even a little bit, they come out and they use words and I think they might even be using other means to drive the markets back up again.

They're scared of that, but it hasn't really worked.

When you look at overall economic growth, worldwide, United States, it's not there.

We're still accumulating debt at more than twice the rate that the economy is growing.

Try doing that.

You know, your credit card's growing at twice as fast as your income.

It doesn't work.

It's a math problem.

So to get around that math problem, they're going to have to give money to Main Street.

And I'm talking like, you know, complete tax holiday next year, a check from the Federal Reserve, something like like that.

For everybody?

Everybody.

They'll have to do something like that.

Yay!

I mean, it would be hard to

be disappointed on a tax holiday.

Yeah, it would.

A complete tax holiday, that would be really hard to say no to.

And they expect us just to then dump it into the system.

And I not only would expect people to do that, I'll encourage them to do that.

As soon as that tax holiday comes, run, don't walk, and make sure you know what your buy list is going to look like, because that's when we're starting down to act two of the story.

Inflation, hyperlinks.

Hyperinflation and all of that.

Okay, because when they start dumping, you know, this is one of the guy, but one of the guys said, Glenn, these corporations are going to get, you're going to get tax breaks, and these corporations are going to repatriate their money.

And I said, that's $15 trillion.

Repatriated to the United States.

Where's all that money going to go?

It's either going to go to the stock market or they're going to start building factories and and everything else.

Then that's $15 trillion

that is going to be seeping through the system.

How do you not have inflation?

And they said that wasn't a concern.

And I didn't understand the math on that one, but that's what the experts told me.

Now, look, everybody fights their last battle.

So when we say inflation, people think back to the 70s.

where you had a wage price spiral.

Thinking 30s.

Or 30s.

Right.

Right.

But we're not having that world.

So you're absolutely right in identifying, look, when you dump money into a market, you get inflation.

But we are getting inflation

to the people who got the money.

Sure.

It's the stock market.

Look at the trophy properties in Manhattan and San Francisco and London.

Look at the price for rare gems fine art, Gulfstream 5s, all very hard to come by, trophy islands, right?

They dump the money in to the fat cats and they've bid up everything they care about, right?

All of those things I just mentioned, through the roof inflation.

But people aren't recognizing it because we don't measure that when we look at the inflation measures.

We measure chicken.

This next part of the story is they start pushing the money in to the people, and that's where we get the other inflationary parts.

Now, the real question is, does the rest of the world say, yeah, I'll continue to hold U.S.

dollars under that circumstance?

So you have corporations rushing their money back.

Hey, but maybe the bank of Iraq says we don't want dollars anymore.

We don't like what you're doing.

They start selling.

China starts selling.

That's when you start getting the external inflation that comes back into this country because we've been great exporters, fantastic of dollars we've done a lot of that and we're just kind of hoping that that won't stop like everybody will just continue to want to hold our dollars forever and ever no matter what and that's an assumption that really needs to be tested

well preferably not in my lifetime but it's going to be tested it's going to be tested

you just said that

Coming to this realization has been the best thing in your life.

Really?

Because it always makes me really miserable.

I mean, I look at it and think, holy cow, I don't want to go through that.

Who cares?

And what's the use?

Yes.

Right.

What's the use?

What am I going to do about it?

So listen, there's a lot of things I can't control in this story.

I can't control what the Federal Reserve is going to do about money printing.

I have some ideas.

I think I know what they're going to do.

What can I do about that?

Nothing.

I can, however, control my exposure to the dollar.

So I have a lot of my assets out of the dollar.

I have a lot of gold, a lot of silver, own real estate, tangible things, because we've seen this story before, right?

From 1918 to 1923 in Austria, they went through the Weimar hyperinflation.

They write books about it, and they talk about it as if the great wealth destruction, the middle class, was wiped out.

And they still talk about it.

Oh, it's a wealth destruction.

But not if you understand what wealth really is.

Wealth is productive farmland, factories, hotels, the productive enterprises of the nation.

Those didn't go away because they went through a hyperinflation, but who owned them?

That changed a lot.

So yes, in this story, it's already happening.

You know who the largest landlord in America is right now?

It's the Federal Reserve.

They own $1.75 trillion in mortgage-backed securities, which makes them the largest landlord in America.

Where did they get that $1.75 trillion to own more real estate?

than anybody else in this country.

Well, they printed it out of thin air.

We should be talking about that.

So this ownership is going to change a a lot.

So this is my advice to everybody is watch the trends, understand this is coming, and then own real assets.

But doesn't that, doesn't the

ownership of more property in America by the Federal Reserve, isn't that just now, once again, the rich getting richer?

I mean,

this income,

what was it?

Somebody last night was doing income redistribution for the Super Bowl.

That's not the answer, answer but there is a problem here and i don't know i don't know how to solve that you do have the uber uber fat cats not the guys that are living in the fancy houses in most in most uh towns but the the the uber uber billionaires that are up at the top of this banking um problem and wall street problem

there's where they're sucking up all of the money right so how do we solve

without riots in the street?

But we're getting there already because they have that sucking sound is them sucking the economic oxygen out.

Let's look at like rental prices in all the major cities have been going up at 8, 9, and 10% for the past five or six years.

And the reason for that is you have big, giant private equity companies.

They get to borrow at 1%.

So their rate of mortgage is a 1% mortgage.

And they're competing against you or I, who might want to try and buy that apartment, so we're not renting it.

But our cost of capital is 4%, 4.5% on a mortgage.

So they borrow at 1%, unlimited, and buy up all these things because they can make that number work at 1%.

And for you, it's harder to make it work at 4%,

right?

So they just have access to capital.

And this is what Janet Yellen and the Central Bank of the United States, this is what they're defending.

This is what they're saying has had no economic harm, that they haven't been driving this wealth gap that exists in America, but it's happening structurally because we haven't been able to face it as a

way.

We can't borrow the money that they can borrow.

Right.

It's totally unfair playing field.

It's shaped like this.

So how do we fix that?

How does that fix it when they hold all the cards?

Well,

this is a very big topic, but in my mind, we have to first confront the problem, understand it for what it is.

And

I think this is almost a cultural piece.

I think it's time to actually not say, oh, it's this big private equity company, but let's call out the CEO of that company and let's make them understand that we have, we're watching them.

And I mean, maybe public shame used to be a feature, right?

CEOs used to be ashamed to take more money than their workers back in the 50s and 60s.

It was a thing that you wouldn't do that.

Today, we've become shameless in the city.

I don't necessarily have, I mean, I don't have a problem.

You know, if you are the, if you're the wealth creator, like I'm the wealth creator here.

Everybody is working for me.

We all know key man insurance.

I die.

The company dies.

So

why should I not make more than the people who work?

Well, let's separate people who actually are generating, creating value and people who are skimming.

All right.

What I'm talking about, these people are just running skimming operations.

They don't create anything.

They're just running a skimming operation.

I might pick on, for instance,

In the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare.

They went after everything.

My, I'm getting killed by this, by the way.

My 61.5% increase this year, 25% last year, right?

And that's also dialing my way down through the bronze plans and, you know, all kinds of like deductible increases, all that.

Where my anger, if not rage, comes up, is when I open it up and discover that the CEO of Humana Healthcare took home $66 million last year.

$66 million.

And that's just him.

You look at the rest of the C-suite.

They might have skimmed a billion dollars out of this.

They weren't asked to contribute anything to this story, right?

You would have to have over 4,500 families at my level paying into that system just to pay that one person's salary.

What did he actually do?

He skimmed.

So there's a level beyond which, which is, there's a tougher story we have to get to here, but that's just gone off the rails.

You ever see that old game show where they put somebody in a new plexiglass thing and dollars around and trying to grab them as fast as they can?

I feel like that's the part of the story we're in.

That's what it feels like.

Everybody's just grabbing money as fast as they can because we all know that you can't print your way to prosperity the money machine turns off at some point so you might as well grab as much as you can while the fans are still blowing and the money swirling isn't that i mean that's that's market value though right i mean if if his company is willing to pay him 66 million dollars then

you pay him 66 million dollars Because who's else going to do it?

Because

they can make $65 million someplace else.

So

isn't that the free market system?

I'm not sure how you get around that.

How do you

you can't make it equitable for everybody.

It's never going to be.

That's not capitalism.

That's communism.

We can make it equitable if it's bad for everybody, but we can't make it equitably good for everybody.

Yeah, so

the CEO of a major corporation is going to make a heck of a lot more than

a worker with less

education, with less skill.

And I'm concerned because there are less work ethics.

You know, there are things, you know, these some of these CEOs, you know, the banks really bother me because they know exactly what they're doing.

They know exactly what's happening.

They know the game that's being played.

They know that it's not going to work.

And they're not warning anybody.

They're out there while they're taking tons of cash.

However, I hate to say, you know, CEOs because

how do we know?

I mean, that just gets into the mob mentality of get them.

Well, in this particular case, I'm talking about a highly regulated industry.

So in my state, and I live in Massachusetts.

There's your problem right there.

I know.

Highly regulated.

Well, it's regulated to the point that in my state, there's no competition allowed, right?

I can't buy certain levels of insurance because they've been lobbied out of my state.

Correct.

But that's not the CEO's fault.

That's the government's fault.

Well, no, the CEO's fault is not.

Yeah, I will tell you, I'm actually

with both of you here.

It is the government, Pat, but it is the CEOs.

What did Bill Gates just say his biggest problem was?

His biggest problem was that he didn't feel at the time he created Microsoft that they needed the government.

His deal was, I'm going to create what I create.

You do your job.

Leave me alone.

Where Apple went and they partnered with the government.

He said, Microsoft is paying the price right now because they didn't feel they needed somebody to go in.

So you're kind of like the free market.

If you have a fiduciary responsibility,

I'm the CEO.

I'm going to go.

If my business competitor is going the other direction and they're going to the government, my fiduciary responsibility isn't it to go to the government as well?

I mean, we just, this whole system.

Yeah, but again, that's

an intervention and it shouldn't be there.

It shouldn't be there.

Right, but how many people have the principles to be able to hold fast, especially when you have shareholders?

Yeah.

Beating you down the door.

I mean, I don't have an answer.

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