Trump Playing Media Brilliantly? 1/25/17

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I, you know, we're just going over the headlines of the day,

and I honestly do not recognize this planet as my home planet anymore.

It is, it's absolutely crazy.

I don't even know where to begin.

Sheriff says Florida cops shoved pills down an elderly woman's throat and stole her dog.

How a single typo led to the unraveling of Hillary Clinton's campaign.

They figured out what was wrong.

It was a...

It was a typo that

Paris Jackson says that somebody murdered her father, Michael Jackson, and they're going to murder her very, very soon.

Here's one from the Washington Post.

The Washington Post believes, quote, Donald Trump will probably be the most ridiculed president ever.

No,

I find that so hard to believe.

Let's see.

How about this one from the Huffington Post?

Four things you should never say to the queer cripple during or after sex.

Ooh.

Only the four?

I know about two, but I didn't realize.

No, there's four of them.

Wow.

And the other people.

I just.

I find this.

Let's start here right now.

Yes, yes.

I will make a stand.

I will raise my voice.

I will hold your hand.

Cause we are one.

I will be my drum.

I have made my choice.

We will overcome.

Cause we are run.

The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

So

I'm just looking for, I'm looking at the news and I'm trying to understand,

you know, everybody's point of view.

And I'm learning so much stuff, good and

stuff I don't want to learn,

quite honestly.

There's nothing wrong with more knowledge.

Why wouldn't you want to?

Right.

I'm just trying to figure out some of

the Huffington Post just confuses me a lot.

And I'm sure they feel that way about conservative.

It just confuses them a lot.

This one

confuses me.

The headline is four things you should never say to the queer cripple during or after sex.

There's a lot there because.

Right.

I didn't know

cripple is an okay word to even use.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Right?

Thank you.

I thought we weren't supposed to use cripple.

Cripple.

And queer was also not okay to use until recently.

Yeah.

Like maybe the last 10 years, maybe?

Oh, I don't know if it's been that long.

I'll have to get my book on what's okay to say and what's not okay to say.

I feel like queer eye for the straight guy made it okay for you to say queer.

Now, I don't ever want to say the word in any other context.

You just did twice.

But I say it in a news context and commentary.

Fair use.

See, conservatives can use words like that when it's fair use.

There's a very

complex.

I learned that from Media Matters

because they have shocking audio of me yesterday.

Oh, no.

Shocking audio.

Oh, not again, not again.

Yes.

Oh, no.

Yes.

Wait till you see it, Stu.

You're going to be so sad.

I showed it to Pat and I said, how did you allow me to say this on the air?

How did somebody not notice what I said?

And he listened to it and he was like, oh, my gosh, I didn't even hear that.

Yeah.

You listen to it, and it is pretty.

You're

bat crap crazy.

Crazy.

Yeah, crazy.

Okay.

Anyway, so four things you should never say to the queer cripple during or after sex.

Here's example number one.

Okay.

Here's example number one.

All right.

Taking care of you isn't so bad.

Oh, crap.

Now you tell me I'm not supposed to say that.

What?

Damn it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That is not.

You're telling me that's not the first thing you say every time you have sex with a queer cripple?

Yeah.

That's like number one.

The number one thing I would say.

I see.

I know better.

I say that.

I say that.

Say that.

I say that before sex.

Oh, before sex.

Because there's only during

and after sex.

Because what an aphrodisia that is.

Right?

Yes.

Yeah, then they're all hot.

They're all hotty in your hands.

Who the hell would say that?

What is it?

When we'd say that in anything, Taking care of you isn't so bad.

You know, you're a wonderful sexual burden.

Thank you for joining the party.

Who would say that to anybody on any front?

Queer, straight, cripple, fully abled.

Who would say that?

Okay.

I'm going to skip the second one that you shouldn't say.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What if we say it?

No, no, no, no.

This is the issue.

If we don't know it, we might say it and then violate Huffington Post's rules.

Do you really want me to say it?

No.

Okay, thank you.

You can't massage it as a broadcaster?

Yes, okay.

All right.

Um, can you perform?

Perform.

I mean, it's not.

Can you

the equipment still works?

Get it going?

Okay.

Okay.

Can you get it going?

You're not supposed to say that?

How?

If you're saying it during or after, it doesn't work.

You say that before,

not during or after.

If you don't know after,

it wasn't that good.

It wasn't that good.

No, okay.

Okay.

You remind me of.

Dot, dot, dot.

So probably the most unsettling thing a guy said to me was this.

Let me say that we were in the middle of a heavy, heavy makeout session that was really intense.

And all of a sudden he stops abruptly and looks me straight in the face.

I was secretly hoping for a second he was catching his breath or regrouping or something, but he had something, and I didn't expect this to come out of his mouth.

There we were, half naked, and he said, we have to stop.

We have to stop right now.

Okay, okay, no problem.

Against my better judgment, I asked, why?

Because you remind

because you remind me of my ex's 12-year-old child who passed away.

They were in a wheelchair just like you.

Oh,

I am so embarrassed.

I said the exact same

thing.

That has happened to me.

I don't know how many times.

I know.

That is so embarrassing.

Yeah.

Wow.

I think this article is a little too specific.

Because I know they go after niches

on the internet, but this is not specific.

I have not noticed that on the HuffPo, like that, on HuffPo, like this.

So wait a minute.

So this is a, so the group that would be targeted with this specific thing would be a...

a queer cripple, using their terms,

who had a, who had a person, a lover who had a 12-year-old daughter

in a wheelchair, in a wheelchair that died.

Don't say that.

That's microcasting there.

And here's the number one thing that you should not say.

Actually, it's number three, but I put it at number one.

I think it's you've reordered the list.

I have

much of an expert on this topic that you could reorder the list.

Let's not get into it.

I just think this one you shouldn't say.

And it's so, it's,

boy, it's something we would all say.

Yeah.

And just slip out.

Okay.

Okay.

The number one thing that you should not say to the queer cripple before, I'm sorry, during or after sex,

if I were you, I would just kill myself.

What?

Yes.

Yes.

Who the hell would say that to someone?

Yes.

Well, obviously this happened to him, right?

Did this happen to him?

To be honest, this one came out of left field for me.

Quote, I had met this guy at a conference and we went back to my hotel room to play.

We had a pretty good time.

Clothes came off, bodies touched.

Things gone pretty okay for the impromptu hookup.

He was putting his shirt back on and

fairly nonchalantly remarked, I don't know how you do it, man.

And if I were you, I'd just end it.

I'd kill myself.

Holy crap.

Yeah.

That is a dark turn to the evening.

Yes, it is.

So I guess the Huffington Post readers need this kind of advice.

I'm proud to say, I don't think we need this kind of advice.

I think these are just straight up common decency kind of things.

They do seem that way.

I will say, however, it was a more interesting article than about 90% of the crap I read on political news right now.

I will tell you.

That was an interesting perspective.

It really was.

It really was.

I am looking for, I'm looking for new perspectives.

I'm looking to understand people.

I'm trying to read as as much diversity as I possibly can to see the language and the point of view.

And this

is a confusing one for me

because I read this, honestly.

It was.

It was fascinating to read.

But the whole time, I'm like, who needs this advice?

Seriously.

Not that it's about a queer cripple.

It's about common decency.

Who needs somebody to say, hey, don't if I were you, I'd just kill myself.

I will say, I have said that to Jeffy, I think, several times.

I believe everyone in this room has.

Yes.

You're just having to do with sex.

But I'm not a queer cripple.

But yeah, but Jeffy, it's true with you.

Yeah, yeah.

I think when it's accurate, you can say it.

It's just what they're saying in this article is that it's not, it wasn't accurate.

It wasn't accurate.

He was like, you're a good guy.

You're a good guy.

You're not a good guy.

You're not Jeffy.

It's like label.

It has to be false before it's a problem.

If you can prove it's true, then you're okay.

On your perspective of the Huffington Post and how people see things, you know, you see different perspectives.

Yeah.

I thought this was fascinating yesterday.

Did you see this Shia LaBeouf video?

Yeah, it was like a rabbit dog.

Yeah, he was screaming into the ear of this guy.

Now, the other part of that is the guy who is a,

was saying Heil Hitler.

So I don't, there's no one to like in this video, right?

Like they're both bizarre, terrible people.

Listen to the two ways this was reported.

If this does not show you so much about the way the media is right now.

I love it.

Can I tell you something?

I love this time period.

I really do.

It's fascinating.

It's a fascinating time period to live.

And

it's fascinating in the way that you can point it out on both sides.

Where five years ago, three years ago, we had a hard time.

We thought we were all high and mighty.

And we're like, well, we would never do that.

Well, no.

And so now it's like I'm an observer.

Now I'm just sitting here watching my country burn itself to the ground

and no one seems to be looking for an exit.

And it's like, huh.

Sarah's like, yeah,

this was fun for the past couple hundred years.

Right.

It was, it's very interesting to watch.

So

Huffington Post reports that incident as Shia LaBeouf expertly shouts down alleged white supremacists during live stream.

Expertly.

Expertly.

Shouts down.

Right.

Now, it wasn't that he was screaming in his ear as loud as he could to try to force him off the screen.

Also, you know, the Huffington Post, I know your journalistic standards are strong here, but he's not an alleged white supremacist when he says the abbreviation for Heil Hitler into the camera.

He's just a white supremacist.

You don't need a legend for that one.

He said it into the camera.

Minor difference there, but expertly.

This was an expert move by Shia LaBeouf.

Now, the Trump

favoring sites reported it this way.

Shia LaBeouf melts down and gets physical with counter-protester, dude is a ticking time bomb.

Now,

it's the same incident.

I do think there are elements of truth

in those

in both of them, I guess.

But see,

all they're doing is they're counting on you just

reading the headline and then watching the video

and just seeing

or watching the video with the sound off.

You know what I mean?

Just seeing Shia LaBouffe just going crazy because you don't have to watch it with the sound,

just read the headline because that's all people do is read the headline.

What are you going to get from the headlines?

You know, I've been trying to, you know,

try to make points on Twitter, trying to,

you know,

you can't.

You can't.

You can't have any

definition.

I mean,

it's just black or white the whole time.

Because you say one thing, you don't, 144 characters, there's no nuance there.

There's no nuance.

And life is, because here's what happened.

Shia LaBeouf looked like a rabid dog in that video.

Okay, so what does that say?

Glenn Beck's just saying Shia LaBeouf is recruit and he supports the Heil Hitler guy.

If I say the Heil Hitler guy was a straight-up racist

and I don't have time to write, I don't have enough characters to write anything about Shia LaBeouf.

There are

yeah.

There are only two sides now to everything and there's no nuance.

You're either for Shia LaBeouf or against Shia LaBeouf, which means, translation, you're either for Donald Trump or against Donald Trump.

That's it.

It's so weird.

And the Twitter thing is a particularly interesting place for that stuff to happen because people tend to think that they are very smart if they can identify an argument you didn't make in the 144 characters.

So if you don't give the nuance of,

you know, oh, you try to make your main point.

Yes.

And then they think, well, here's something you didn't say in that one half sentence

that you have.

Exactly right.

That doesn't make you smart.

No.

That doesn't make you interesting.

Obviously, this format is not designed for nuance.

You have a short period of time to deliver the information.

It has to be quick.

You can't give all the disclaimers.

That's what the format is designed to do.

So it's not notable that you could come up with something else that could have been said, but didn't fit.

I'm always amazed by that that people think, because you have, if you're going to sit there and obsess and like everyone gets off the, off the rails on some point you're trying to make because they try to think of all the things you didn't say.

Well,

it's 144 character format.

No, I didn't say every single disclaimer.

No, I didn't give you every bit of nuance.

That's not what you're supposed to do on Twitter.

It's incredible.

But it's incredible.

An opportunity for everybody to feel so

intelligent.

Superior.

Every liberal in the world.

It's amazing.

It happens on both sides.

Both sides.

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No, I didn't see Florence Foster Jacies.

What?

I don't even know what that movie is.

Meryl Streep.

Meryl Streep is 50 to 1 odds that she's going to to win the Oscar.

But after that speech she gave, you think that remains 50 to 1 odds?

No.

I mean, I think that's a good one

after the speech.

However, I think it's a good bet.

Yeah.

I think it's a really good bet.

Apparently, everyone thinks Emma Stone's going to win for La La Land.

She was some of the best acting I have seen.

Is she a good singer?

Yeah.

I mean,

it wasn't, it's weird.

It's not like the musical musicals.

I mean, the first scene is, but the rest of it is, you know,

more like...

Are they talking songs?

No, they're not talking songs, but it's not full-throated Broadway show tunes either.

And so it's just different.

But I thought they were both really good.

I think they were good.

But the acting that Emma Stone did is off the charts.

The other favorite is Natalie Portman for Jackie.

But I thought she wasn't nominated.

Yeah, she was.

She was nominated for Best Actress.

And she's kind of like the second favorite, and everyone else is a long shot.

But Meryl Streep at 50 to 1.

You got to pull the trigger on that.

That's a solid.

But just because they want another one of her speeches, right?

If she wins, she goes in front of, as they always say, a billion people and gets to say bad things about Donald Trump, which is, of course, what they want.

You would not be surprised at all.

Remember, this is a woman who they say is the greatest actress of all time.

That is obviously a lie.

You want to talk about fake news.

They get critical of Sean Spicer.

That's much worse.

But she's been nominated 19 times.

This is her 20th nomination.

She's only won three.

So percentage-wise, I mean, you know, she's under the Mendoza line a little bit.

She needs to get that up.

And this would be a perfect time to give her this award so she can come out and rail against people who like.

When do they vote for this?

They voted after the nominations, right?

The nominations.

Well, yeah, you've got to have somebody to vote for.

Yeah.

So it was after the nominations.

Yeah.

And then before the initials.

No, I know before the award.

But I mean.

They vote after the Oscars era.

But the nominations.

I thought the nominations come from a vote.

Don't the nominations come from the vote?

No, I think the Academy throws out a group of people and then

you vote for who you vote for.

Okay.

Well, I think there's a good shot.

She is the darling of Hollywood right now.

I mean, that's not a bad bet.

No, it's that.

Take a shot.

Yeah.

It'd be a total rip-off, but exactly like Hollywood would do it.

Yep.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

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So

where are we headed as a culture and a people?

There's this war going on

over truth, over media.

And if we can't agree on facts, we're toast.

And yesterday, Jake Tapper took down

Donald Trump in an epic proportion.

And I'm sorry, but Jake Tapper was one of the only guys telling the truth during the Obama administration.

He asked all of the tough questions.

He was one of the only ones that did.

He's got real credibility.

And he's a Philadelphia Eagles fan.

So I mean, that's a good idea.

Well, he has real credibility.

Thank you for that.

Just lost it.

Here he is yesterday.

Listen to this.

President Trump is claiming, and the White House is reaffirming, the fiction that millions of illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election.

It is empirically a stunning allegation for which the White House is providing no evidence.

And there is a reason they are providing no evidence.

There is no evidence.

It is not true.

Moments ago, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer acknowledged that the president believes three to five million votes were illegally cast in November.

It was interesting what Mr.

Spicer did not say.

He did not say that he shared the belief, even after he was asked.

Now, why would that be?

Perhaps because there's zero evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election.

Now, has there ever been voter fraud?

Any instances?

Yes.

Massive voter fraud?

Three to five million votes cast illegally in 2016?

No.

It's simply not true.

In fact, if there were even a fraction of the voter fraud that President Trump is alleging, he would be derelict not to order a major investigation.

It would likely require a vast conspiracy involving public officials all over the country and would likely have had far-reaching impact in other contests, tainting races down the ballot, not just the presidential race.

If President Trump's beliefs are true, Republican leaders in Congress should be holding hearings and trumpeting this injustice every single day.

His Justice Department, his Department of Homeland Security, all of them would need to crack down immediately.

Unless, of course, it's not even remotely true.

which is, of course, the case.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, the first point is interesting that he makes in there, which is all the down, he keeps talking about the presidential race.

Well, all the down ballot races.

You had, I mean, Republicans who lost in very close races.

You had Democrats who lost in very close races.

If this is true, then there should be a giant investigation and the balance of the Senate could be at stake.

Or maybe a 60-seat majority.

Who knows?

With these sorts of numbers for Republicans.

Beyond that, you know,

we have this, he has this weird thing where he says that, you know, three to five million people voted illegally, and the assumption is they all voted for Hillary Clinton.

However, he told us a million times how well he was going to do with Hispanics.

He got, I think, what, 15% of the vote, 17% of the vote of Hispanics.

So

if that wound up being, we don't even know.

You can't assume they all voted one way.

If you have millions of votes missing, it's important because it theoretically could

swing the entire election.

If 40,000 people in those three states switched their vote from one way to the other, Hillary Clinton would have won.

Now, the interesting part about that is they didn't.

And

that didn't happen.

She didn't win.

There wasn't these millions of votes that could turn this election.

Why he keeps touting this is bizarre.

I don't know if it's...

Apparently, Trump has just called for a major investigation.

Yes,

he did do that on Twitter this morning.

Yeah.

This morning.

Because of Tapper.

Yes.

No doubt of Tapper.

No doubt.

He called him out, and so now he has.

He didn't say it was about the election, though.

He said it was about voter rolls and such.

He said it was about voter fraud and going through the voter rolls.

But that's good.

Sure.

That's good.

The one piece of evidence they keep pointing to is a 2000, I believe 2012 study from, I think it's Pew, where they talk about how there are millions of people on the voter rolls that maybe have died or maybe have

moved to other states.

That does not mean they cast votes.

The people who did the study say it does not mean that.

They specifically said, no, that's what he's, what they're claiming about this study is not what the study says.

But they just keep quoting it over and over again.

And I don't know if this, this very well might just be one of those things where they think it's a good strategy.

We've talked about Trump as a brilliant media

manipulator for a long time.

And it may very well very well be they're doing these things like, we'll say this thing that is blatantly, obviously false, that everyone can go and fact check, like the crowd sizes, or whatever.

People will chase that squirrel over there, and we'll get real work done over here.

And that is the best way to look at it.

I think that's what he's doing.

I mean, play.

Can you play what Van Jones said yesterday?

Listen to Van Jones.

He knows.

In a key election, Van Jones,

but hold on a second.

Three to five million people is bigger than some of our states.

It would be a massive number of people.

And you would have to believe some of the worst things possible, both about our

electors,

the, it's hard.

It's also,

I didn't want to talk about this, but

as I've been trying to point out, trying to get people to vote when they are eligible to vote is almost impossible.

The idea that there's five million people out there who are not eligible to vote, that you could somehow get to vote.

I don't know if you can.

Why not find out how many?

Well, Trump doesn't want want to, apparently.

But let me say something else.

It could be the case that this is the most genius thing that Trump has ever done because we are talking about this, and maybe he's glad because all these wonderful things that he's done today are actually awful things from my point of view.

He's doing terrible things.

That was the strategy of the Bush administration.

Somebody else yesterday wrote about how

he's trying to overwhelm the system.

He's trying to put all these things out to overload the system.

I'm like, well,

huh, it's interesting that you would say that, and you didn't recognize it when Obama was doing it.

Yeah, I believe Major Garrett actually did do something back in the Obama administration where he talked about this as a strategy where you let flares go out there that everyone's going to go crazy about while you get all the other stuff done.

You pointed that out over the Obama administration as watch the other hand.

And

that is a strategy that is successful here.

I mean, look,

the media has spent the entire first week of the Donald Trump administration talking about nonsense.

They are talking about whether these crowds are bigger.

They are talking about whether, you know, Sean Spicer is lying.

They are talking about this thing

with the millions of votes.

When, yes, it would be a gigantic story, as Jake Tapper points out.

It would be one of the most, probably the biggest election story in the history of the republic if what Donald Trump said was true.

I don't think that's overstating it, but none of them believe that Trump even believes it's true.

They're all just saying, well, this is an opportunity for us to say that Donald Trump is lying to us, which I guess you have to do if you're the media, but

it's distracting them from all the typical things they would go after a Republican on, where he's opening up pipelines,

which is obviously a really positive thing.

And basically, they're not even mentioning it.

What does Air Force One have?

What do our

bombers, our B-1 bombers, what do they have?

When somebody's sending a missile up, what do they do?

They spray debris so it chases the wrong thing.

It doesn't chase the plane.

It's the debris.

You send out flares or what do they call it?

Chaff.

They send it out with a heat signature and it scatters everywhere, hoping that the missile goes after that.

This

would be a smart strategy.

I don't know that it is.

Yeah, I don't know that it is a strategy.

It would be smart to be able to get things through.

It would be smart, but it destroys the fabric of the Republic.

Yeah, I mean, I don't like it as a strategy, but it might be right.

It might be effective.

It's effective to get things done, but it is also an effective strategy to destroy the fabric of the republic because you cannot have

a president that believes in conspiracy theories.

You just can't.

You can't.

And you can't have a press dismo past blatant lies.

Because there's going to be a lot of people out there that believe all this stuff.

They will never look at it as a strategy.

How do you

know what you're supposed to do as if you're in the media?

I mean, you know, look, they've dug themselves this hole.

They dug a giant hole.

And I don't know.

But I don't know what you're saying.

because I think that they probably feel like, well, we should, we have to say this stuff.

We have to go after these claims.

But at the same time, I mean, and believe me, I look at this as a real positive.

Like, the fact that they're not covering,

you know, if this was a Mitt Romney administration, him opening up that pipeline would have been the biggest story for three weeks.

Yep.

And so it's an effective strategy.

You know,

no one's even talking about it.

I mean, it was a big story when Obama had the thing, the pipeline going through the Dakotas.

He opened up that pipeline.

It's the one they were protesting.

And

that was, it's a note in the,

to use TV terms, D-block, the fourth segment, where they're kind of just throwing in the other stuff you might need to know.

And so, and

it very well might be that the Trump administration has figured this formula out and are working it well.

And it's constantly presented as, well, he's just angry and he can't believe it and no one will take him seriously.

Maybe it's not that guy.

Maybe he's not.

And if he's not, it's going to be an effective strategy.

It's still not one that I like, but it might be an effective strategy to get these things done.

And a lot of things getting done will be good.

The question is:

does he believe it?

You know, that, you know, with Barack Obama,

you pretty much knew he didn't believe the thing, you know, doctors are cutting the feed off of, by the way, could you please find that audio, Pat?

Because Time magazine said it doesn't exist.

Do you have it?

Yeah, I have it.

If a family care physician works with his or her patient to help them lose weight, modify diet, monitors whether they're taking their medications in a timely fashion,

they might get reimbursed a pittance.

But if that same diabetic ends up getting their foot amputated, that's $30,000, $40,000, $50,000.

Immediately,

the surgeon is reimbursed.

I mean, there it is.

You did the same thing with tonsils.

Same basic premise with tonsils and you come in and you've got a bad sore throat

or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats

the doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself you know what i make a lot more money if i take this kid's tonsils out wait i mean or if you need a breathalyzer or an insulator not a breathalyzer

uh

That was during that period where he was saying all these stupid things.

And

I was just going to say.

He was just speaking out about that.

I know.

And I was just going to say the press didn't report it.

The doctors didn't speak out.

Nobody spoke out about that and said it was an outrageous lie, an outrageous accusation.

And I was going to make the point before I heard it again that at least with Obama, we knew that he didn't mean it.

Well, I don't know.

No, he means it.

No, I'm not sure.

Listening to it again, he, you know.

I think he did.

I don't know if

he meant it or if he knew that it was just a ruse.

He meant it as an argument to win that particular moment at the very least.

But I believe he thinks American doctors would amputate somebody's feet

for 30,000 expenses.

I do believe that.

He doesn't like capitalism.

He doesn't.

Yeah, he doesn't.

And the profit motive is evil to them.

It's a negative.

And in that context, it would be, right?

So I guess it's exactly the same thing because they just didn't cover Barack Obama.

Now, in fairness, people like Jake Tapper did most times.

I don't think he did it on this one, but he did call him out.

Remember.

I mean, Jake Tapper, I'll give you a good example of this.

He's the guy who found

initially the chart that revealed what the Obama administration's projections on the unemployment rate, if we pass the stimulus, and if we don't.

And he was the one that said, by the way, did you know when they were pitching this to you, they said it was never going to go above 9%.

And that's when we were at 10%.

And that was, that's digging and looking through, you know, he is a good he did that over and over again.

He's a fair journalist.

He is.

You don't know if he is Republican, Democrat, Independent.

You don't know.

And that's the way it should be.

He takes on both sides fairly.

Hopefully.

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Do you want a quick update here, Glenn?

All-time first.

First time it's ever happened.

Okay, yeah.

Dow 20,000.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

First time ever.

So everything's fixed.

The economy's good.

We will be saying.

We will be saying.

Wow, this is worse than 1931.

And we will be saying it,

well, I'll just leave it at that.

We'll be saying it in the future.

This is worse than 1931.

This is

people don't understand.

You're seeing the effects of hyperinflation in the stock market.

That is the beginning of massive inflation.

Remember how everybody says it's not pegged to any fundamentals?

How is this pegged to fundamentals?

These are not average investors.

These are the big investors who have

the access to the cash to the $4 trillion

that was printed.

It didn't go to the plumber that wants to have a loan to expand his business.

It went to the gigantic businesses and the banks.

And the banks took that money and they're investing it in the stock market and they are making money on it.

It's all inflated money, it's

bogus money.

And when this comes apart,

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Well, the stock market is broke $20,000.

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And

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No,

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I'm trying to get to the information I had on the stock market, and I can't

because it's on, what is it?

What is it?

Jump cloud.

That's our jump cloud.

Is that like Reich?

Reich or

Reich.

Reich is separate.

We're using Reich as, and Reich is really good, but it's pissing me off because

I can't get, I can't, my password won't work.

So if I try to get to Reich, Reich is this thing where you can do group projects, and I can't get my password to work.

That's why you just keep the same password.

Jump cloud, and then everything is the same.

Oh, yeah, that's a good safe.

A good cyber safety tip there, Jeffy.

Just keep the same value.

Let's just get in.

We're on this side of the wall.

Let them try to get in.

What is jump cloud anyway?

What do you say?

I don't understand any of this news.

We should explain that we're in the middle of a

transitional period of technology here at the studios, and it's a challenging, uh, it's a challenging task.

It may be challenging for others.

Well, Pat,

I walked in this morning, and Pat was

what were you trying to, you were trying to log into, it wasn't jump cloud.

Uh, no, I was trying to log into uh uh

the just the Wi-Fi Wi-Fi, just the Wi-Fi.

So I've got like 19 different devices here because I can access it on one, but I can't access it on the other.

So I go to the other one for this and something else to put.

I have to tell you this.

I am ready to voluntarily give anyone who asks, including the government, a retina scan

as opposed to all of the stupid password stuff.

I can't take it anymore.

Oh, I do.

I do

in a heartbeat.

We haven't watched our television in about

two months?

Two months?

Two months.

Two months.

Well, I'm not really sure.

We had the Wi-Fi changed

and we have because of because of we have to have firewalls and everything, you know,

I want to be safe and I am a little paranoid.

The cyber.

I am a little

of the cyber.

And so we have Cisco systems.

It's not like I go, you know, I just have an Apple, you know,

like a normal consumer product.

Like a normal business.

Yeah.

So I have absolutely no idea.

I opened up,

a friend came over and I said, can't reset the Wi-Fi.

I have absolutely no idea how to reset the Wi-Fi.

And they're like, well,

where is it?

And I said, come on.

I went upstairs and went into the

equipment closet for the cyber, opened it up and he went, holy.

And I I said, Yeah, yeah.

So

all I can think of is either push reset, but reset may reset the entire thing back to the you know factory settings,

or I could unplug it.

And we both looked at each other for a while and went, Well, reset sounds like a bad idea

because that's probably what it does.

But he, what the hell?

Let's unplug it.

Unplug it is worse than reset, probably.

No, it didn't work.

Neither.

It didn't work.

So anyway, so

because of the Wi-Fi,

I couldn't get my remote control to connect to the television because the television, the remote control on the television is through Wi-Fi

on the iPads.

Okay?

So

God help us on that.

We finally found the remote control, but then the remote control will turn on the television, but won't turn on the other devices that the iPad would.

Yep.

Okay.

Then I finally found the Apple TV remote control.

These are all first world problems, we understand,

but

it's infuriating.

It's infuriating.

I can't take it anymore.

So last night we finally got, we're just using the mirror on the, I mean, to use my TV.

Haven't used the TV in the bedroom either.

I mean, that one won't work either.

Yeah, the bedroom's strictly for sleeping now.

So I can't get it.

Interesting, you didn't even include the possibility of sex.

It was just either sleeping or TV.

These are the two things they use for it.

So, yep.

So,

so

haven't used that one in I don't know how long.

I don't even know if that thing, it probably has tubes in it.

The last time I checked that television,

the television in the

family room finally got it to work last night, but we're just using the mirror on the on the iPad.

Oh, okay.

So you're gonna see it.

So just the Apple mirror.

But I can't hear it because I can't turn on

the speaker system.

And so, like, you have to sit up

right close to the TV to be able to hear it.

It's insane.

It is.

We have the, you know, I told you that my wife got me that.

that big TV for Christmas.

Yes.

75 inches.

And so I walk into the bedroom the other night as we're getting ready for bed.

Jackie's watching Netflix on our little computer screen.

What are you doing?

You've got this 75-inch TV.

Yeah, I can't get on anything on that.

So I'm just watching it right here.

It's just pissing.

We have watched show after show after show on the iPad, sitting there next to a 65-inch television screen.

Got two of them in the house.

We just sit there and it's just, it's just gathering dust.

Well, and if you use all the apps and stuff on the TV, you need, you need separate passwords for Amazon, for iTunes, for Netflix, for Hulu.

Your cable system, you got to know that.

I don't know any of them.

So here's what happened.

So we went on and we go and we start my son's PS4.

And he's like, dad, this is the greatest because we can use the PS4.

So we spend the time trying to remember all the...

damn passwords for Hulu, for Amazon, for Netflix, for everything.

We finally get it all set up.

He signs into

something on PS4,

and my wife says, do not sign that thing up with anything that has anything to do with our family.

You're not signing that up for the family.

Okay.

So he's putting in,

she says, use this

use this

email address.

Right.

Separate stuff.

Okay.

So use this email address, everything else well my son sets it up and he

he sets it all up but then he doesn't put in his name he doesn't put in his his birth date he doesn't put in anything and he doesn't write anything down

so then the system resets he logs out

and we're like okay well you got to log back in

Okay, well, I don't remember the pass.

What the?

Oh my gosh.

And then, of course, doesn't know the birthday or doesn't know anything to the password.

Yeah, so he says, Well, I can retrieve the password, and this is honestly what he said, I can retrieve the password.

And I said,

How?

And he's like, The hints will help.

Okay, good.

So, just said, What's your birthday?

And he said, Well, I think it was March,

and

it wasn't over March 20th, and it was between 1972 and 1980.

Like,

every five times it will reset on you,

But don't worry about it.

Unbelievable.

We have our kids, you know, watch, they tend to watch the same movie over and over again, as some kids tend to do.

And so we have DVDs for the car that they'll occasionally watch in there.

And my wife keeps saying to me, I'm in the middle of sort of an internal household civil war over this issue, which she keeps suggesting very nicely that we should get a DVD player for our downstairs, like main family room area, because, you know, I I don't watch DVDs anymore, so I don't have a DVD player hooked up to that system.

And the DVD player, when you do the sort of the cost-benefit analysis,

you probably get one at Walmart for $30 right now.

I mean, maybe $40,000 or $50,000.

They're very cheap.

And it would be a great thing if they were watching DVDs.

Remember when they were like $500,000, $600?

Oh, yeah.

They used to be really expensive, but they're nothing now.

You could buy them for nothing.

So that is part of the cost-benefit analysis.

The other part is, how much do I price the frustration it will be for me to try to hook that DVD player into the system and reprogram the remote to actually make it thousands of dollars?

$50,000.

So is it worth $50,000 and $30 to get this DVD player to answer?

I'll tell you, I have had, I mean, we've had the engineers from the studios come out, I don't know how many times, and the Wi-Fi in my house is finally working.

But the TV, no idea.

I have had, you know, these home theater experts, we'll make everything in your house work and it'll be great.

It'll all be on your ipad shut up

just give i don't care if the remote control is wired to the tv and i have to have a big cable that i drag just make the damn thing work well we got i i got the new smart you know the new curve smart tv in the family room i thought i'm gonna go watch one of my one of my new movies and it's smart tv so i just log on to where i watch my movies right from voodoo No, there's too many devices logged in.

You can't watch it on this TV.

So

I just go in the the bedroom.

And I'm telling my wife, how come we can't watch it?

We need to kill a device.

Oh, no, we don't need to kill a device.

You need to use

the Blu-ray Bluetooth DVD player that's hooked up to the 55-inch curve.

That's a smart DVD player that has all the apps on the DVD player, not the TV.

How helpless are we going to be when the EMP hits?

We are.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, man.

Oh, my God.

We are already at the place.

I convinced you.

Do you remember the book?

The book that changed the course of my life for entirely different reasons was Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World.

Do you remember that?

I remember you talking about it.

Okay, I've not read it.

So Carl Sagan wrote a book.

It was his last book before he died of cancer.

And

it was called

The Demon Haunted World.

Highly recommended.

And he talks about a time when

we will go back like the days of the Renaissance, where it was a demon-haunted world, where the experts, the ones who spoke Latin, would say, oh, well, you know what's making that happen.

Evil spirits, evil spirits are making that happen to you.

I can make the evil spirits go away because they were the only ones that spoke the language.

Well, your IT guys and the people who can make these things work, when it's beyond your son, my 12-year-old, you know, it's, it's, that's saying something.

When your 12-year-old can't figure it out and gives up, my son was walking around like me.

I said, you're turning into an old man.

He's like, oh, this is so frustrating.

It doesn't make any sense.

Why is this not working?

And I'm like, oh,

hello, grandpa.

But we're entering that world to where the people who have the answers.

They can make your life just you just all you do is you sit at home and just go somebody make it work Can somebody make it work?

And that's what he predicted that Americans and the world would come to a place where you would just sit at home and go, can somebody make this work?

Might I suggest something like LastPass?

Have you used that?

What is that?

People on the feed are just bringing that up as well.

It's a system that basically stores all your passwords and fills it out.

Oh, it's a system?

No, it's a system.

It's going to make our lives easy.

The word system is the enemy?

I don't know.

It's a system that's.

In my house, I haven't had TV off of my iPad.

It's a freaking

It's a website.

You got to remember one password.

But then you go in, once you're in there, you have all of your passwords in one place and it fills them in for you.

Yeah, but don't you have to remember the passwords in the beginning to put the passwords into the system?

Well, it actually does like a scan of your system.

A lot of people have a lot of them already stored somewhere, so it can find the ones that you have already there.

And a lot of them you'll actually.

I'm ready to write it on my forehead.

It will actually dig them out of your system a lot of times.

Really?

Yeah, because some that you may have forgotten, but you had stored in an old browser, you'll find those.

But the point is, you do probably have to know some of them.

I mean, it's not going to magically create your passwords for you.

But then it will also

generate passwords for new sites that are, I don't know the passwords to any of my sites.

You want to talk about your problem with Carl Sagan?

Like if this company goes out of business tomorrow, which there's no sight of it, I'm going to be in trouble.

But they'll give you all these crazy symbols and sevens and exclamation points and these crazy passwords you'd never be able to remember.

But you just, whenever you go to the site, it it automatically just logs you in.

So you don't need to remember them.

You just need to remember the one password to get yourself.

That's good, though.

I was actually trying to watch something with my son last night, and I thought, that's what needs to happen.

Yeah.

You need to have some system.

You know, like the random

one ring to rule them all.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's what we need.

You need a, you need a,

what is the device that

it would give you an auto, it would change the

combination locks of very, very complex systems.

Like every 12 hours, this combination changes, et cetera, et cetera.

And they would just send you what the combination is, you know, so you would have it.

Yeah.

I was thinking last night, that's what you need.

To remain safe, you need to be able to have something that generates it and keeps it and does it for you.

It's like Authy.

And there's Authy is one of them, and there's another, there's a Google product that does this.

So like when you have it for two-way confirmation, they'll send you something.

You have to open up the app to get the exact code at that second to log you into the other site.

And it is like that constantly randomly generating number combinations for high-level security, which is kind of nice.

And it's pretty easy because you just have to look at one app to get it.

I will give you the retina.

I will actually dig the retina of my eye out with a spoon and give it to you.

Take my blood every hour.

Is that what you need?

What do you need?

I don't care what it is.

Just make the damn stuff work.

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I don't think so.

Don't?

No.

Really?

Yeah.

Are you thinking Sean Spicer is a really good White House press secretary?

No, I think he's in an impossible situation.

Yeah, he is.

He's in an impossible situation.

That is true.

But he is, but it's bizarre what we're learning about him.

Like yesterday, we learned that Sean Spicer.

Dippin Dots.

That's really it.

He went to war with Dippin Dots.

That was great.

Today, we learn that he has a habit of chewing gum and swallowing two packs of orbit cinnamon gum by noon every day.

So instead of throwing the gum away when it's getting

swallows it.

He just swallows it.

Doesn't that stay in your stomach for seven years?

Yes, it is.

That's That's an alternate fact.

Stomach.

Alternative fact.

That can't be digested by the human digestive system.

When they take an x-ray of his innards, it's going to be just a lot of gum.

Ball of orbit gum.

That's all.

Luckily, our mom was wrong on that one.

Okay, we're good.

Moms were wrong on that one.

Good.

It's a weird thing, though.

Like,

everyone spits it out.

Like, it doesn't, it wouldn't be problematic to swallow it, right?

I mean, it wouldn't, it's obviously not hurting him, right?

It's just a weird thing that we just don't do it it's like is it

told it would stick inside us we all had our moms say my mom that is true my mom used to say it'll stick to your ribs how does it get out of my stomach and get to my ribs that's not a

stomach it just sticks it just sticks to your ribs all the way down yeah it gets out of the esophagus goes right to the ribs and then just jumps right to the ribs wow like isn't it more kind of gross to take it out of your mouth and put it i mean like it's kind of a weird thing that we are like oh i would if you're eating two packs of of orbit,

what I mean, I don't want to, what's it look like on the

I don't want to think about that.

Why would I want to think?

Why would you go there?

I don't know.

I mean, how much is it, how much of it is digestible?

You're asking another question related to the same topic.

I don't know why you would do that.

Just saying.

That's what I want.

That's what I want Sean Spicer to talk about in the press conference today.

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Interesting.

Because normally we lead with our mistakes, and something slipped past us yesterday that I've noticed,

Glenn, you haven't brought any attention to, and you always brag about where we lead with our mistakes.

We're going to lead the halfway point of the show with our mistakes.

That's what we're doing.

We're leading right now.

All right, if you feel good about that, but here we are halfway through the show.

No, seriously, take this seriously because this is something that slipped bad.

Yeah, slipped by me, and I didn't, I didn't even realize it.

I'm surprised, Stu, you didn't hear it.

When Pat heard it, because he was like, You didn't say that.

And I'm like, Yeah,

I want you to listen to it.

And when he heard it, he was like,

Was Stu even in the room?

I'm kind of ashamed that it took Media Matters to point this out to us.

Okay, so Media Matters said Glenn Beck is back to his old tricks.

The woke Beck thing is not happening.

He is saying that

the women's march was a conspiracy and a

caliphate clue.

Yeah.

I didn't remember saying it, but listen to the tape.

I'm afraid tomorrow I have to go back to my chalkboard.

We've been working on it this weekend.

We're going to give you some of the connections.

We're going to talk to the woman who wrote that article for the New York Times about the connections to George Soros and to radical Islam.

You listening, Stu?

And

have a talk with her.

Tomorrow, I'm bringing the chalkboard in because the connections are there.

And if you want to call me a conspiracy theorist again, you can.

I'm not going to accuse anybody of anything.

I'm just going to point out the facts.

Because somebody has to.

And perhaps, perhaps, someone in the media will listen.

I don't know if they will.

Are you hearing the spooky music afterwards?

Yeah.

I did hear the spooky music afterwards.

You can't play spooky music like that after

if it's not incredibly incendiary.

Did you hear the caliphate and damning the caliphate clue there?

You heard it all, right?

The caliphate clue?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was the headline.

The conspiratorial clue.

The conspiratorial caliphate.

The caliphate clue.

You bastard.

It's interesting they're still mocking the caliphate given that we're at a war with ISIS.

Well, there's actually a caliphate.

But he did not say any of that stuff.

And experts.

This is what we haven't even talked about.

I can't remember which government expert it was, but a government expert has said that

Erdogan is going to be the caliph by 2018.

Oh, cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like that.

I think about it.

That does make it feel like you've said something bad.

Right.

You know?

Right.

Because he did say something bad.

What was their problem with that?

I mean, obviously, I know they're not going to agree to your conclusions.

My tricks of conspiracy and caliphate.

They caught you dead to right.

You said you were going to do an interview with someone who wrote a story for the New York Times.

Now it sounds like that was bad.

I love this because all the people are back to their tricks and we're being so careful.

I'm trying to be so careful and so calm and so rational

i didn't present this uh story about george soros

the author of the story from the new york times did and she was a oh wow now it sounds terrible that she knew that yeah um was it uh she was a wall street journal reporter too i mean it's not like just somebody who's not no

that's a very strange thing to complain about yeah well that was the audio that they actually put with the headline.

So if you read the audio, because I read the story and I'm like, holy cow, I said, what?

And I listened to the and I'm like, oh my gosh, that is hysterical.

There's nothing, I didn't say anything in that clip.

There was nothing except I'm going to do an interview with somebody who wrote an article in the New York Times.

But if you have the stinger there, it's going to sound bad.

Yeah.

So now our deepest apologies for.

I love that.

That's their attempt at like we're pensive and serious.

And we've we've just uncovered something.

You know who's doing this is the guy, what was his name?

Angelo

Corrosive.

I can't remember Caruso or something.

He's like one of the big guys at Media Matters.

Okay.

And

he was shopping this yesterday, but he still proudly puts on his Twitter feed that he was, you know, he was the guy behind Stop Beck.

Do you remember that?

Yes.

Yeah, that did all the fake news about me.

Yeah, yeah.

And I thought, here's a guy who's holding himself up as a guardian of fake news.

And

wasn't that the website that claimed you killed a nine-year-old girl?

I don't remember.

I think it was.

You know, I didn't believe it.

I must have until I heard that, and I didn't even think of it.

Now you know it's true.

Nine-year-old girl.

Now,

normally people can't get away with that, but somehow you did.

Isn't it just inherently kind of ridiculous to post a clip of a guy you said you stopped?

If you're bragging rights that you stopped someone, how can you be playing clips of them speaking on the air

on a nationwide broadcast?

It's weird, but I'm sure it's valid.

Because if I said anything bad about them, they might put this sound after me.

Oh, my gosh, did you just hear what Stu said?

But I didn't say anything about it.

Really?

It was really bad.

That's crazy.

That's crazy.

That's a quality organization, Media Matters.

A quality, quality organization.

So where do we head?

Seriously, where do we end up?

We have Jake Tapper being demonized.

Yeah.

We have

people

arguing over actual facts.

Like

all of these organizations are tied to George Soros, printed in the New York Times.

Okay.

That somehow or another is now being questioned, but not the New York Times.

New York Times is not a place where fake news happens, but yet they apparently must have printed the fake news because Glenn Beck is a conspiratorial freak who's back to his old tricks with fake news about George Soros.

Which came from the New York Times.

From the New York Times.

I mean, where do we go go when neither side will agree?

And neither side is self-aware.

A really good example of that is the argument at the rally that they had between,

I think the guy was one of the bikers that came and we're trying to speak truth to the people who were protesting.

Well, he was one of the bikers.

He was with his bicycle.

Oh, yeah.

He was just walking through the crowd with his bicycle.

Okay.

But this black bicyclist confronted some of of these women who were yelling about women's rights, and his issue was Planned Parenthood.

And he was trying to tell them, look, that's, I mean, that's not a good organization, but here's all that was accomplished.

See how settled this argument is now.

Political correctness is a disease.

Oh, yeah, I feel sorry for you because Planned Parenthood is a racist system.

Margaret Sanger was a Planned Parenthood.

You know what?

Margaret Sanger thought very little

of black people.

She thought they were ignorant and they shouldn't

reproduce.

Planned parenthood is a good sterilized black people.

We shouldn't be getting about Planned Parenthood.

We shouldn't be funding any type of Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood is a joke.

And anyone that doesn't know the history, know your history about Margaret Sanger, the beginning of Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood is the most racist organization.

Know your history before you start supporting some.

It is

it is it is nice, though, to see that blacks are waking up to Planned Parenthood.

I love that.

Yeah, I think that is, I think that's starting to come undone.

I think, I mean, you know, if you were a Leninist and you didn't believe necessarily in Marxism, but you did believe in destroying the system and tearing all of it apart, you would be happy today.

You would be happy because it's all going to come undone.

And that is the audio of, it's a reenactment of the text of every Facebook argument in America right now.

Like, that is Twitter.

That's all it is.

I had my wife had

yesterday posted something relatively innocuous on the issue of abortion, which she opposes.

And of course, she has lots of friends, however, who do not oppose that.

And it began.

They finally go about Stu and his wife.

Oh, wait, I didn't even know.

Yeah, the people they hang out with.

So it was this great, they went back and forth, of course.

And, you know, my, my, my advice on these, in these situations is realize they're meaningless.

Yeah.

Realize, you know, someone,

one of the people on her little feed there had gone to the march and was obviously a hardcore liberal.

And I'm like, you're not going to change, you're not going to change any minds.

You're just going to wind up getting pissed off and screaming at each other on the And it wrecks your day.

And it wrecks your day.

But, you know, in the world that we live in, luckily, these things do not wreck our day.

And I feel very confident in just blowing them off.

But one of the people, one of the, I guess, women who went to the rally wrote something to the effect of like, first of all, it was this long diatribe about

if you let the government into your business,

what's next?

Where are they going to go from there?

If you let them do stuff with your body, where are you going to go from there?

It's like, it's nice to say you found limited government in this one issue.

You can do anything else you want.

The federal government has control of your entire life, but this one issue when it involves another person is off limits,

which is always entertaining.

But she writes something to the effect of, you know, I am not going to let,

first of all, Planned Parenthood does a lot of good things.

And I am not going to let some

old white pervy congressman tell me what to do with my body.

Now, just in that, in that two-sentence period, the amount of idiocy contained is it's almost incomprehensible.

It's mind-boggling.

First of all, if Planned Parenthood, they may do very, very well, may do many things that are positive.

In fact, if they, and this is how you know it, if they stopped doing abortions, no one would protest them.

No one would care that they existed.

If they stopped doing abortions and only did cancer screenings, there wouldn't be one person on earth who opposed them.

Nobody.

Everyone would be completely fine.

It's this one issue.

Well,

you don't want people to tell you about your body.

Well, you know what?

Let's go to this point.

We all would agree

that

a tumor is a bunch of meaningless cells that we don't care about.

There's no life there.

We don't care about it.

Has you ever seen a conservative oppose removing a tumor?

Have you ever seen a conservative

oppose removing a lump of cells that is benign?

No, because they don't care.

It's not about your body.

It's about the other person.

And that is a vital thing that we care about.

We care about the other person.

And then finally, I loved how it was old white pervy congressmen.

Right.

First of all, pervy.

They're pervy because why?

They care about an issue that relates to children being born?

Well, is that a perverted thing?

Are you saying it's perverted because they're old men who care about a women's issue, which every Democrat does that you praise?

And if it's a black perv, is it okay?

And that's the last part.

What the hell does this person's race have to do with it?

You're making racially based decisions on this issue?

Why?

What does that have to do with anything?

And it's like these things are so inherently pathetic.

Oh, and by the way, then they went on to the 97%

thing.

on abortion with Planned Parenthood.

Oh, it's only 3% of their business.

No, it's not.

And we've debunked that stat many, many times.

Again, how can you use the stat to get

out of your business?

Then get out of it.

Right.

Well, first of all, it's not 3% of their business.

For example, if every single person went to Planned Parenthood, if you don't know this stat, if every single person went to Planned Parenthood and the first thing they said walking in the door was, I would like an abortion, please do it for me.

They would do multiple tests on each person.

And Planned Parenthood, because they're trying to lie to stupid people who will quote it on Facebook, count each individual thing like a blood test or a STD test or a consultation as an individual procedure.

So if every person walked into into

Planned Parenthood and said, I want an abortion today, they would say only 25% of our 20% of our procedures are abortions.

All right.

Now,

I got it.

I got it.

You don't like Planned Parenthood and your wife is some rabid anti- What was happening in that break?

You were under the couch for half an hour.

I couldn't take you anymore.

I couldn't take you anymore.

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Income inequality.

Equal is unfair.

Quite a charge to make in today's America.

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Yarn Brooke, friend of ours and

the head of the Ayn Rand Society here in America, welcome to the program.

He's got a book called Equal is Unfair.

He was here a couple of weeks ago and I said, my fault.

I'm sorry, I didn't even know you had a book out.

Come back and talk about the book.

So we want to talk about it because it is really an important thing because people, we're now talking about a universal

minimum living wage,

giving everybody, you know, a stipend to live on.

And I want to talk about that.

I also want to talk because you just got back from Europe

and there is something happening in Europe.

It's Eastern Europe, but they are more free market than probably anybody in the world right now.

Well, what I'm finding is places in the world that have experienced communism, have experienced some form of fascism, and are still poor and are oppressed, the young people are rising up.

They want something different.

They want something new.

They're willing to be radical.

They're willing to consider new ideas.

Whereas you find that in Western Europe and even in the United States, young people, as long as the new iPhone comes out on time,

life is good.

Why challenge oneself?

Why push oneself?

Why be radical and upset a lot of people when life is comfortable?

So Brazil.

Brazil is fascinating.

Thousands of kids out in the streets.

demonstrating for freedom.

For freedom.

Like real freedom.

Like real freedom.

And I'm not saying all of them get it,

but more of them get it than I think as a percentage than anything we see in the West.

Again, Brazil, they've lived under all these different regimes.

They were promised that they would be middle class.

You remember the BRICS?

BRICS were going to take over the world?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Brazil, Russia, China, India.

It hasn't happened, which is no surprise, really, but it hasn't happened.

And there are people.

Because everything is so corrupt.

Yeah, they're poor.

They want to be middle class.

They want to be rich.

And they're they're saying nothing we've been promised is happening.

And they're willing to look at ideas that I think Americans and others have forgotten, take for granted,

ignore, because they want to be mainstream, they want to be cool, they want to be part of the,

they want to be what their professors want them to be.

Can I, because you're probably one of the guys, one of the few in the world that we can actually talk to about this who has probably thought this through,

you know, we're looking at a disruption of about 50% of all jobs in the next 20 to 30 years.

Technology is going to disrupt absolutely everything.

So the amount of unemployment is going to be outrageous.

And I shouldn't say that.

The amount of displacement is going to be outrageous, not necessarily unemployment.

And people are thinking now, and I think all governments need to think,

what do you do in this period of great change so you don't have revolution in the street?

Now, one of the solutions is this minimum living wage.

This is the easy solution, and this is a government solution.

I would say the last people in the world you want thinking about this problem is anybody in government.

This is not a government problem.

I strongly believe in a separation of state from economics.

If I had the opportunity to rewrite the Constitution, if I could be that arrogant, I would include a separation of state from economics.

They have no business in it.

Central planning cannot solve this issue.

The market will solve it.

How?

I don't know.

I mean, we have today

tens of millions, globally, hundreds of millions of jobs that 50 years ago you could not have imagined would exist.

So do you think if we had a separation of education and state, we probably would be safer in the middle of the year.

Well, I mean, there are four separations that

I would put into the Constitution.

Separation of state from ideas.

I don't think government should be in the business of ideas.

Religion is one set of ideas.

I think it should be separate.

But I think generally the government is there to protect our rights, period.

Full stop.

That's it.

If you want to be a communist under a free society, that's okay.

Get your friends together, go start a commune, be pathetic and miserable in that commune, to each according to his, from each according to his ability, to each according to his means.

As long as you're not imposing it on people, you can do your own thing in a free society.

That's the beauty of freedom.

Separation of state from economics.

The government has no economic policy.

There shouldn't be a Treasury Department in the center there is today.

Economic advisors.

Central planning doesn't work.

It doesn't work big.

It doesn't work small.

It just doesn't work.

And it's immoral.

It's wrong.

for the government to impose their values on us as individuals.

So it's morally offensive offensive and it's economically stupid.

Separation of state from education.

State has no role in education and the reason our educational system is breaking down is as corrupt and as awful as it is, particularly in the inner cities, particularly for poor people.

Everybody's always concerned when I say privatized education.

What will happen with poor kids?

Well, it can't be worse than it is today.

with these poor kids, right?

Think about the educational quality they're getting from our public educational system.

So I'd like to privatize the whole system and get the government out of it.

This is one of my disagreements with Thomas Jefferson is over the University of Virginia and the idea that the state should be involved in education.

And the fourth is separation of state from science.

Let's get the state out of science so that we can have scientists, unincentivized by government grants and politics and all of that, decide about

global warming, about stem cells, left and right.

When government intervenes in science, it corrupts the science.

Isn't Does it amaze you that the scientists don't realize that the government, which is not controlled by religion this time, is doing the same thing that they were doing to the scientists when it was controlled by religion?

I think the scientists to some extent recognize that, but what option do they have?

If you're dependent,

as our scientific world has evolved to a position where If you're not getting grants from the government, how are you going to continue doing the science some of the science you want to do now some people have integrity but the fact is most people just go with the flow and if the governor is giving them money to do x they're going to do x and if you do a government study and at the end of the government study

you discover that everything is great life's good there's no problems nobody's going to renew your grant nobody wants to hear that but if you say

The end of the world might be near, I'm not sure, I'm not convinced, But there's a possibility that we are heading towards a catastrophe.

I need to study this further.

Guess what?

You're going to get tons of more money flowing your way, particularly if the end of the world is being caused by something like industry, progress, capitalism, which certain people in the intelligentsia and in government would like to believe are the cause of all our problems.

How do you get the youth?

away from the word progressives and progress when progressivism is the exact opposite of progress?

Well, the left has been very clever about this.

I mean, they have managed to take words, take concepts, and adapt them to their use and pervert them.

Liberal.

Liberal used to mean free market, free thinking.

Classic liberalism.

Classic liberalism.

And to some extent, when you go to a place like Georgia, Ukraine, and so on, and you talk about liberal ideas, they understand it to mean in Eastern Europe and in the West to some extent as pro-capitalist ideas, pro-freedom ideas.

So they've done that to the word liberal.

They've done it to the word progressive.

These are anti-progress ideas.

And, you know, part of it is,

you know, and the same is true on the other side, right?

Are we really, does anybody really want to be a conservative?

What are we conserving?

Aren't we really, those of us who believe in free markets and freedom, we're the real progressives and liberals.

We're not trying to conserve.

We're trying to push forward.

We're trying to grow and develop.

You know who the person who named us conservatives?

Do you know where that came from?

No, no, not sure.

FDR.

FDR was the one who said, this group of people, they are conservatives and they're trying to conserve these ideas and it won't work.

And we just embraced it.

We just allowed him to label us.

Partially it comes from

way back from really the French Revolution, where

the French Revolution was deemed to be the progressives,

you know, where the real action was.

This was the good guys.

And the British, looking at that, said, oh, wait a minute, that's a bad idea.

We need to conserve our institutions.

So the conservative movement really starts in England as a rebellion against, in a sense, the French Revolution.

And nobody saw, and this is one of the great tragedies of history, nobody saw that there was a third alternative.

There was a revolution, but not the French Revolution.

And that was the American Revolution, the real revolution, because everybody was so Europe-centric that they viewed anything that happened in Europe as important.

And what happened to those 13 colonies,

that's the margin.

That's not a significance.

So

the American Revolution was what is really meaningful historically.

The French Revolution is a footnote at the end of the day.

It's America that moved the world forward, that progressed us.

So do you see, we're talking to Jaron Brooks.

He is Jarn Yarn Brooks.

He is the author of Equal is Unfair, America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.

Do you see

with the fight over facts today,

the war with the media, the war with the White House, the war against left and right?

I mean, it's getting insane.

We're all living in a movie that none of us would believe if we were sitting around the scriptwriting table.

We would all say,

nobody's going to buy this movie.

Do you see

enough people saying, kind of like we are, I'm just tired of all the labels.

I'm tired of all of it.

None of this stuff works.

I want to find reason

and find the way out through this.

You know, I can be optimistic here.

No, I'm not seeing enough people do this.

I mean, I don't consider myself right or left anymore.

You know, I'm done with those labels because they're so perverted, so distorted, they're meaningless.

I don't know, you know, I view everything in a sense and

in terms of what America is, what it represents, and what is going on today.

So I believe America is individualism.

That's the essential characteristic of what America is.

The American Revolution is about the individual first, placing the individual at the core.

Everything's about protecting that individual and his freedom.

Everybody today on the political map, everybody on the political map is is a collectivist of one sort or another.

On the right, they're collectivists.

On the left, they're collectivists.

America First is an awful slogan.

I couldn't vote for John McCain when he came out of the Republican convention with the term country first.

It's not about country.

It's not about America as a geographic place.

It's about

the idea.

But the idea is the individual first.

The state is there.

The only purpose of the American state, and should be the only purpose of every state, is to protect us.

It's a policeman.

It is a judge when there are disputes between us and a policeman and a military.

And other than that, it's supposed to leave us alone to live our lives as we see fit.

That's what the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means.

It means you have the freedom to act in pursuit of the values necessary for your life, free of coercion.

And the government's there to protect you from people who would coerce you.

And of course, the biggest violator,

as the founders knew and warned us, the biggest violator is government.

And today,

the left and right, they want to violate our rights.

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Yaron Brook is here.

Name of his book is Equal is Unfair, America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.

And you think this fight is the revolution?

It really is the core fight.

This is the intellectuals in America trying to make us like Europe.

And I believe that.

You know,

think about America.

America was founded on the idea that all men are created equal, right?

It's in our Declaration of Independence.

But what did the founders mean?

The founders knew that we're all different.

We're all unequal in fundamental metaphysical sense.

We are unequal.

If you put us out there and you free us, we're all going to have unequal results.

So what did they mean when they said all men are created equal?

They meant we're all equally free.

We all equally have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We all have equality before the law.

The law, the government, should not treat us differently.

It should treat us all the same.

But once you free us up,

We are all going to produce different amounts.

We're all going to do different things with our lives.

We're all going to, you know, express who we are.

And we're all genetically different, environmentally different and you know what we make different choices in our lives because free will does exist and we choose different things

So in my view inequality of outcome is a feature of freedom.

It's not a bug It's not a distortion.

It's a feature.

It's part of what freedom is about because freedom allows us to express who we are and what we are and we're all different and isn't that beautiful isn't that amazing that we're all different isn't that's good for you to say who's successful i mean you know, what about those people who are going to be, you know, hungry and won't be able to...

Well, this is the thing about freedom, is that under freedom, those people have a chance not to be hungry anymore.

Under freedom, those people have a chance to get a job and to rise up to whatever level they can.

And some of them won't, you know, I'm never going to be super rich.

And some people will never be as wealthy as I am.

That's just reality.

But the beauty is that under freedom they can rise and they can live a good life.

And all of history of capitalism and freedom shows that, that the poor do very well when they are free.

What is the alternative?

The alternative is no freedom.

Where all of us are poor.

Yes, there's equality, but equality of poverty.

250 years ago, people don't know this because they don't study history.

250 years ago, all of us were poor.

People blame the Industrial Revolution for child labor.

Well, what were children doing before the Industrial Revolution?

They were dying

and working.

But 50% of kids didn't make it to age 10.

And those that did make it to age 10 kept on working on the farm.

And life expectancy generally was 39.

All of us in this room, with exception maybe of Stu, would be dead by now.

No, Stu'd be dead too.

Okay, Stu'd be dead.

He just looks young.

People have no concept of what life before the Industrial Revolution, before capitalism, before freedom, before America.

I know, but now think about how great it will be after America.

Yes, after America, we all revert back to what it was.

Look, as late as the 1960s, in China,

because of communism, because of an attempt to make us all equal in outcome, somewhere between 40 to 60 million people died of starvation.

In one of the most fertile countries in the world, they died of starvation.

That's what equality of outcome means.

Now,

no American intellectual is going to say that's what they actually want.

Oh, no, we don't believe in complete equality.

We just believe in more equality than we have now.

And I always ask them, give me a number.

How much is the right number?

Yeah, they can't.

And they can't.

They, oh, we'll decide when we get there.

That's what democracy is about.

No, the whole point is you don't get to decide whether I pursue a financial career and make a lot of money or go and become a teacher and not make a lot of money.

That's my decision.

And you know what?

Many of us choose not to make a lot of money because life, in spite of what the left says, is not only about money.

It's about the pursuit of happiness.

It's about the pursuit of flourishing, of human fulfillment.

Sometimes that involves money.

It certainly involves a certain amount of money.

But it's not just about money.

So leave people free to make decisions about how far they want to go in life, financially, in terms of other things.

And the poor, again, the poor, the people who get a bad education, and some people, no fault of their own, are going to be,

you know, it's going to be hard for them.

They're going to do better on that free system than any other system possible.

Equal is Unfair is the name of the book by Yarin Brook and Don Watkins.

Yarn is joining us.

The argument that you have to make and the best argument to win this case of freedom coming up.

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If there were any bookstores left or people actually went to bookstores, I would say go to the bookstore today and grab Equal is Unfair.

It's available everywhere, Amazon and the few remaining bookstores.

Yarn Brooke is here with us.

He's from the Ayn Rand Institute, and it's his book about the fight against inequality.

Yarn, one of the things that drives me out of my mind when it comes to this discussion is

when they talk about how disparate the incomes are from like a Bill Gates to the average person.

Who cares?

How does it hurt me that Bill Gates is worth $72 billion and I'm not?

It's worse than that.

It's worse than that.

The fact that Bill Gates is worth the $72 billion or that any billionaire is worth what he's worth means that they have produced value.

The only way to get rich in a free market, now granted, they're cronies out there, the people who didn't get rich this way, but in a free market, the only way to get rich in a free market is to make our lives better.

When I see a billionaire, I want to go rush up to them and thank them because in some way, whether I know the exact connection or not, they have made my life better.

Every time I buy a Microsoft product for $100, it's worth more than $100 to me.

That's why I'm willing to give it up.

So my life is a little bit better for giving up the $100 and getting the Microsoft.

Billions of people have made that exchange.

That means billions of people's lives are better off.

Now, does Bill Gates get any moral credit for making the world a better place?

No.

Why?

Because he dared to profit from it.

We have this notion, this moral notion, that if you benefit from the actions that you engage in, it is morally offensive.

But when does Bill Gates become a good guy?

When he leaves Microsoft and starts a foundation, he has to leave Microsoft because as long as he's making money, it's tainted.

But giving money away, that's good.

That's noble.

Now, I have nothing against charity and philanthropy.

Good things for good causes.

If you believe in them, that's wonderful.

But that doesn't change the world.

What changes the world, what actually changes the world is business is microsoft microsoft changed the world it did google is changing the world absolutely i will tell you i think in some ways that a well-run smart business is

in default the best charity out there because they care that if you are gonna if you're really gonna be successful i'm gonna find out everything i can about you and figure out the way to make your life better absolutely that's every single successful business makes a lot of people's lives better.

Otherwise, they couldn't be successful.

But let's go back to America.

250 years ago, we were all poor.

Everybody was poor.

Today, or by 1914, America was the mightiest economic power in the world.

Third-rate colony, the mightiest economic power in the world.

How did that happen?

Not because of charity, not because of community service.

As good as those things might be under the right circumstances.

No.

All of that happened because of businessmen, because of wealth creation, because of the people we now call robber barons.

So, how do you, but how do you stop, for instance,

you do get to a point, and this is to Tocqueville, you get to a point where some, not all, some will become so powerful then they will start using the government like Google.

Yeah, you know, the difference between Google or no, Apple and Microsoft is Apple started

right away with Washington.

And

Bill Gates said, my biggest mistake was I didn't think we needed Washington.

He literally said, you stay out of our business, we'll stay out of your business, and walked out of a congressional hearing where Arlen Hatch, of all people

was lamblasting them for not being more involved in lobbying.

Look,

this goes back to my separations.

If you get government out of the business of business, then there's no reason for me to lobby.

There's no reason for me to bribe congressmen and senators and the president if they have nothing to give me.

If they have no power over me, then we don't lobby.

Unfortunately, even in the beginning of the United States,

there was room where the government intervened.

Even the railroads, right?

The government took the land and the government invested and did all these things.

But if you actually had a strong separation of state from economics, the powerful financially would not be engaged in politics because politicians would have nothing to give them.

And we have to differentiate between political power and economic power.

Fundamental difference.

Political power is about force.

Political power is about coercion.

The essence of government, as George Washington said, I think in his second inaugural, the essence of government is a gun.

The essence of business is a trade.

You have to benefit, otherwise you're not going to engage in.

When I hire somebody, Their time has to be worth less than what I'm paying them, otherwise they wouldn't come to work.

And I pay them a little bit less than than what they make for me because I have to make a profit over every single one of my employees, right?

Otherwise, I can't stay in business.

Essence of business is trade.

Win-win, win-win.

This is something, unfortunately, this administration, or at least the president, doesn't seem to understand.

Trade is a win-win, whether it's done with faunas or whether it's done with locals.

All trade is a win-win, otherwise, you wouldn't engage in it.

So we have to get away from the zero-sum, right?

This zero-sum idea that Bill Gates'$72 billion came out of my pocket.

I wish I'd had $72 billion to give to Bill Gates, but, you know, no, he created it.

And this is the thing that's hard for people.

Out of nothing.

Yeah, wealth is not a pie.

There's not just one pie.

If I get a really big piece of pie, you can have less.

This is wrong in so many dimensions, right?

So many dimensions.

One,

the pie is growing all the time in a sense, because wealth is created.

It's not just there.

But more importantly,

there is no pie.

There is no wealth is not collective.

There is no American American wealth.

There's your pie and your pie and my pie.

We each bake our own pie.

And you don't have a right to my pie.

You don't get to decide how much of my pie I get to keep.

I get to decide how much of my pie I get to eat.

And if I want to share some pie with my friends or my family or even with strangers, that's my business.

That's not your business.

But there's people who don't have any pie.

That's right.

And they can come and ask me for my pie.

What they don't have a right to do, even those who don't have any pie, is pull out a gun and take my pie from me.

We understand that on one-on-one relationships, that's...

I'm gonna go vote some people exactly so we've take theft which we all know is wrong

and by voting for it we legitimize it so we have taken things that we understand as all human beings understand that stealing is wrong and somehow through democracy Because we voted for it, we make it okay.

But it's still as evil when we vote for it as it is when it's one-on-one.

Here's the thing that people don't understand.

You cannot assign a right to the government that you don't have.

All rights come to us from God, and then we lend a few of them to the government to protect those rights.

But I don't have a government.

I don't have a right to come over and take any percentage of your money.

And no matter how many people I get into the room to vote on it, that we're going to go in and take a portion of your money.

We have no right to do that.

Absolutely.

So we can't assign that right to a government to do that.

Absolutely.

And we're going to disagree on where rights come from, and that's okay.

I believe it's.

I figured from the Ion Random Republic.

Yes, no.

Glenn knows.

By the time we get to that, we've solved 90% of the world's problems.

If we can agree to stay out of each other's business in terms of physical force, then now we can argue about ideas, and that's fine.

Disagreement about ideas.

But

when we use it as authority, as a means.

But yes, all we have done is we institute government for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to assign the government the right to defend us.

So we've in a sense given them the ability to be a monopoly over the use of retaliatory force.

They can't initiate force, but they are my agent, just an agent, nothing more than an agent,

in self-defense.

I should usually chase after the robber and shoot them down.

I said, you know what?

That is anarchy and it's very dangerous and it lacks objectivity.

We need an agency to do that.

And that's the role of government is to do the self-defense for me.

You know, other than an emergency where I would shoot the thief on the spot.

But if they got away, that's the job of the government to step in and bring an objective perspective to the issue of criminal law, for example.

I just watched the Magnificent 7, the new Magnificent 7.

I saw that.

And I thought to myself,

this is the job of government.

Nobody in that town could just be a farmer, could be a business person, could run the saloon, could live their life because the government wasn't strong enough or wasn't there to protect what they had as individuals.

Notice the difference between this Magnificent Seven and the old Magnificent Seven.

Very telling, very, very telling.

And the original, which is the Seven Samurais by Corsella.

In the original Magnificent Seven, the villains are thieves who roam around and steal from the villages.

And it's in Mexico, it's not in the United States.

Basically, it's anarchy, and they have nobody to defend themselves.

The modern Magnificent VII is set in the United States, in California.

The villain is a businessman who has connections with the government in Sacramento.

Remember, he keeps going to Sacramento.

I mean, the political agenda of shifting that, right?

It was a heroic story of people standing up to crooks,

bad guys, right?

Now,

they're helping the people.

You know, this is businessmen.

And he's actually called crooks in the movie.

Standing up against Robert Barons, right?

He's a robber baron, and

that's supposed to give us a sweeping, and it's in America, which is meaningful, right?

They had to place the original Magnificent 7 in Mexico, because in America, it would be unconceivable

that rolling gangs would be robbing people, right, in the 19th century, which we glorified.

But now, in our modern times, we want to vilify the 19th century.

We want to turn that era of relative freedom into the enemy.

And therefore, we have to place it in the 19th century.

And the crook is a businessman.

And you need these

humanitarians to come together to save the town.

So in that sense, while I enjoyed certain aspects of the movie, it's sickening.

And it's an expression.

of the modern intellectual world.

Well, thank you for

wrecking that movie for me.

Right.

Anytime, Glenn.

All right.

The name of the book is Equal is Unfair.

The pie, everything that we've talked about is in the book.

And it's important for you to be able to make these arguments.

Equal is Unfair by Yarin Brook, America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.

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Yeah.

He made up for it.

We're just talking.

I want to thank Yarin again for wrecking Magnificent 7.

I just saw that again the second time, and I love that movie.

Well, I like it too.

You can still like it.

You just have to realize that that shows how much Hollywood hates America.

Never noticed that.

Never.

I didn't think of it that way either.

But I was telling my son while we were watching

the new movie.

Yeah.

I kept saying, you got to see the, we got to go back home and watch the original.

And one night we did.

Rafe loves the original.

We watched the original first.

And we started watching it, and it was too much for him.

He couldn't handle it.

Really?

Yeah.

But I remembered, oh, yeah, it's in Mexico the first time.

That's

it.

But I didn't really make that connection like he did.

It shows how deeply all this stuff is ingrained in the culture.

I mean, you know, Yarn pointed out at the beginning of the interview that in Brazil,

the government promised them that they could be middle class and failed.

So people are turning away from that.

But think of just how problematic the initial claim is.

First of all, as an aspirational goal, there's certainly nothing wrong with being middle class, but as an aspirational goal to promise middle class.

That's not what we were aspired to.

That's a problem in and of itself.

And then the other part of that is a promise.

The government should never be promising you anything.

That's not what the government does.

It's up to you to make your way.

And you hope that people in these other countries will actually understand that.

I think that's, generally speaking, been ingrained in our culture for a really long time, but it's gone away.

And I think partially because of things like, you know, like Hollywood constantly vilifying the businessman.

They do this, and it's not just a magnificent seven, it's throughout everything.

It's always especially holiday movies.

Yes, especially

if you have a heart.

If you have a heart,

you can't be in business.

No.

I mean,

if you want to live like Jesus, you can't be in business.

Well, it's every villain of every one of those Hallmark Christmas movies.

It's always the evil business movie.

Jesus was a community organizer.

We all know that.

We were told that by a congressman back nine years ago.

Yeah, and a socialist.

Yeah.

Which is such nonsense.

Remember when Jesus said, make sure that you give your money to Rome so that they can distribute it the way they see fit and some of the money will trickle down to the poor.

Stunning like that.

I don't remember that part.

I remember him saying, give your money to the poor.

Yeah.

Go find them.

That's kind of interesting.

Go find them.

Yeah.

Go help them.

Good Samaritan.

He didn't teach that the Good Samaritan stopped and called for help.

Right.

He didn't go run for somebody else to go.

I mean, go back to the Sanhedrin and see if they can get somebody to help you out here.

No, he took care of the guy, took him to the hotel, bandaged his wounds, all of those things, paid for a couple of nights.

Paid for it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Himself.

Right.

He the Grinch.

Yes.

Right.

Right.

Exactly right.

But that's not how businessmen are.

Businessmen want to come into your town and buy the cookie factory that's been the entire

reason the town exists this whole time and then move it to Buffalo where

no one's going to care.

They're going to lose all the time.

The town of Buffalo.

Yeah, the big town.

Yeah.

And you know why?

Because they want to make one extra percent or something on their profits.

And the fib will fool the child.

The last one that they had was this cookie movie from

this past Christmas on one of the Chinese hallmark or whatever.

And

one of the mean complaints about the businessman who wanted to come in and buy the cookie factory was they wanted to keep it open all year.

They only opened this Christmas cookie factory for like three months a year around Christmas.

And so he didn't make any money.

It's like, well, wait, it's a bad idea to freaking open a cookie.

Of course, if you're closed nine months of the year, you're going to lose money.

Of course, yes, you need to be open all the time so people in April can get cookies.

I'm sorry, that's such a problem for you.

I'm sorry, you wanted to exist on only three months of work per year.

Evil businessmen.

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Mercury.