Trump Playing Media Brilliantly? 1/25/17

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Speaker 14 I, you know, we're just going over the headlines of the day,

Speaker 18 and I honestly do not recognize this planet as my home planet anymore.

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Speaker 24 Paris Jackson says that somebody murdered her father, Michael Jackson, and they're going to murder her very, very soon.

Speaker 24 Here's one from the Washington Post.

Speaker 36 The Washington Post believes, quote, Donald Trump will probably be the most ridiculed president ever.

Speaker 16 No,

Speaker 13 I find that so hard to believe.

Speaker 3 Let's see.

Speaker 40 How about this one from the Huffington Post?

Speaker 42 Four things you should never say to the queer cripple during or after sex.

Speaker 21 Ooh.

Speaker 45 Only the four?

Speaker 46 I know about two, but I didn't realize.

Speaker 21 No, there's four of them. Wow.
And the other people.

Speaker 2 I just.

Speaker 22 I find this. Let's start here right now.

Speaker 33 Yes, yes.

Speaker 21 I will make a stand. I will raise my voice.
I will hold your hand. Cause we are one.

Speaker 21 I will be my drum.

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

Speaker 21 Cause we are run.

Speaker 48 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 12 So

Speaker 18 I'm just looking for, I'm looking at the news and I'm trying to understand,

Speaker 50 you know, everybody's point of view.

Speaker 4 And I'm learning so much stuff, good and

Speaker 14 stuff I don't want to learn,

Speaker 28 quite honestly.

Speaker 16 There's nothing wrong with more knowledge.

Speaker 52 Why wouldn't you want to?

Speaker 53 Right.

Speaker 54 I'm just trying to figure out some of

Speaker 43 the Huffington Post just confuses me a lot.

Speaker 40 And I'm sure they feel that way about conservative.

Speaker 37 It just confuses them a lot.

Speaker 4 This one

Speaker 58 confuses me.

Speaker 59 The headline is four things you should never say to the queer cripple during or after sex.

Speaker 60 There's a lot there because.

Speaker 62 Right. I didn't know

Speaker 47 cripple is an okay word to even use.

Speaker 40 Thank you. Thank you.

Speaker 16 Right? Thank you.

Speaker 22 I thought we weren't supposed to use cripple.

Speaker 49 Cripple.

Speaker 52 And queer was also not okay to use until recently.

Speaker 52 Yeah.

Speaker 52 Like maybe the last 10 years, maybe?

Speaker 30 Oh, I don't know if it's been that long.

Speaker 64 I'll have to get my book on what's okay to say and what's not okay to say.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 But I say it in a news context and commentary.

Speaker 49 Fair use.

Speaker 52 See, conservatives can use words like that when it's fair use.

Speaker 52 There's a very

Speaker 52 complex.

Speaker 69 I learned that from Media Matters

Speaker 18 because they have shocking audio of me yesterday.

Speaker 68 Oh, no. Shocking audio.

Speaker 66 Oh, not again, not again.

Speaker 16 Yes.

Speaker 70 Oh, no. Yes.

Speaker 2 Wait till you see it, Stu. You're going to be so sad.

Speaker 71 I showed it to Pat and I said, how did you allow me to say this on the air?

Speaker 38 How did somebody not notice what I said?

Speaker 34 And he listened to it and he was like, oh, my gosh, I didn't even hear that.

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 34 You listen to it, and it is pretty.

Speaker 73 You're

Speaker 56 bat crap crazy. Crazy.

Speaker 53 Yeah, crazy.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 37 Anyway, so four things you should never say to the queer cripple during or after sex.

Speaker 16 Here's example number one.

Speaker 23 Okay. Here's example number one.

Speaker 66 All right.

Speaker 41 Taking care of you isn't so bad.

Speaker 62 Oh, crap. Now you tell me I'm not supposed to say that.

Speaker 21 What?

Speaker 16 Damn it. Yeah.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 52 That is not. You're telling me that's not the first thing you say every time you have sex with a queer cripple?

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's like number one.

Speaker 49 The number one thing I would say.

Speaker 48 I see.

Speaker 41 I know better.

Speaker 64 I say that.

Speaker 32 I say that.

Speaker 52 Say that.

Speaker 76 I say that before sex.

Speaker 52 Oh, before sex.

Speaker 48 Because there's only during

Speaker 16 and after sex.

Speaker 46 Because what an aphrodisia that is.

Speaker 11 Right? Yes.

Speaker 77 Yeah, then they're all hot.

Speaker 21 They're all hotty in your hands.

Speaker 48 Who the hell would say that? What is it?

Speaker 22 When we'd say that in anything, Taking care of you isn't so bad.

Speaker 52 You know, you're a wonderful sexual burden. Thank you for joining the party.

Speaker 17 Who would say that to anybody on any front?

Speaker 12 Queer, straight, cripple, fully abled.

Speaker 32 Who would say that?

Speaker 78 Okay.

Speaker 34 I'm going to skip the second one that you shouldn't say.

Speaker 48 Whoa, whoa, whoa. What if we say it?

Speaker 21 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 48 This is the issue.

Speaker 52 If we don't know it, we might say it and then violate Huffington Post's rules.

Speaker 77 Do you really want me to say it?

Speaker 53 No.

Speaker 53 Okay, thank you.

Speaker 52 You can't massage it as a broadcaster?

Speaker 75 Yes, okay. All right.

Speaker 80 Um, can you perform?

Speaker 61 Perform. I mean, it's not.

Speaker 80 Can you

Speaker 22 the equipment still works?

Speaker 16 Get it going?

Speaker 59 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 11 Can you get it going?

Speaker 21 You're not supposed to say that? How?

Speaker 41 If you're saying it during or after, it doesn't work.

Speaker 81 You say that before,

Speaker 30 not during or after.

Speaker 53 If you don't know after,

Speaker 52 it wasn't that good.

Speaker 75 It wasn't that good. No, okay.
Okay.

Speaker 83 You remind me of.

Speaker 84 Dot, dot, dot.

Speaker 26 So probably the most unsettling thing a guy said to me was this.

Speaker 72 Let me say that we were in the middle of a heavy, heavy makeout session that was really intense.

Speaker 34 And all of a sudden he stops abruptly and looks me straight in the face.

Speaker 43 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.

Speaker 87 There we were, half naked, and he said, we have to stop. We have to stop right now.

Speaker 65 Okay, okay, no problem.

Speaker 87 Against my better judgment, I asked, why?

Speaker 36 Because you remind

Speaker 89 because you remind me of my ex's 12-year-old child who passed away.

Speaker 37 They were in a wheelchair just like you.

Speaker 67 Oh,

Speaker 52 I am so embarrassed. I said the exact same

Speaker 21 thing.

Speaker 32 That has happened to me.

Speaker 2 I don't know how many times.

Speaker 52 I know. That is so embarrassing.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 67 Wow.

Speaker 21 I think this article is a little too specific.

Speaker 52 Because I know they go after niches

Speaker 52 on the internet, but this is not specific.

Speaker 23 I have not noticed that on the HuffPo, like that, on HuffPo, like this.

Speaker 64 So wait a minute.

Speaker 52 So this is a, so the group that would be targeted with this specific thing would be a...

Speaker 49 a queer cripple, using their terms,

Speaker 52 who had a, who had a person, a lover who had a 12-year-old daughter

Speaker 16 in a wheelchair, in a wheelchair that died.

Speaker 49 Don't say that. That's microcasting there.

Speaker 38 And here's the number one thing that you should not say.

Speaker 30 Actually, it's number three, but I put it at number one.

Speaker 16 I think it's you've reordered the list. I have

Speaker 52 much of an expert on this topic that you could reorder the list.

Speaker 14 Let's not get into it.

Speaker 87 I just think this one you shouldn't say.

Speaker 11 And it's so, it's,

Speaker 37 boy, it's something we would all say.

Speaker 84 Yeah. And just slip out.
Okay.

Speaker 61 Okay.

Speaker 40 The number one thing that you should not say to the queer cripple before, I'm sorry, during or after sex,

Speaker 61 if I were you, I would just kill myself.

Speaker 21 What?

Speaker 16 Yes.

Speaker 21 Yes. Who the hell would say that to someone?

Speaker 52 Yes.

Speaker 46 Well, obviously this happened to him, right? Did this happen to him?

Speaker 29 To be honest, this one came out of left field for me.

Speaker 90 Quote, I had met this guy at a conference and we went back to my hotel room to play.

Speaker 30 We had a pretty good time.

Speaker 90 Clothes came off, bodies touched.

Speaker 44 Things gone pretty okay for the impromptu hookup.

Speaker 27 He was putting his shirt back on and

Speaker 12 fairly nonchalantly remarked, I don't know how you do it, man.

Speaker 36 And if I were you, I'd just end it.

Speaker 75 I'd kill myself.

Speaker 21 Holy crap.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 48 That is a dark turn to the evening.

Speaker 21 Yes, it is.

Speaker 36 So I guess the Huffington Post readers need this kind of advice.

Speaker 92 I'm proud to say, I don't think we need this kind of advice.

Speaker 36 I think these are just straight up common decency kind of things.

Speaker 66 They do seem that way.

Speaker 52 I will say, however, it was a more interesting article than about 90% of the crap I read on political news right now.

Speaker 21 I will tell you.

Speaker 52 That was an interesting perspective.

Speaker 53 It really was.

Speaker 16 It really was.

Speaker 13 I am looking for, I'm looking for new perspectives.

Speaker 94 I'm looking to understand people.

Speaker 76 I'm trying to read as as much diversity as I possibly can to see the language and the point of view.

Speaker 38 And this

Speaker 39 is a confusing one for me

Speaker 34 because I read this, honestly.

Speaker 37 It was.

Speaker 17 It was fascinating to read.

Speaker 27 But the whole time, I'm like, who needs this advice?

Speaker 43 Seriously.

Speaker 81 Not that it's about a queer cripple.

Speaker 26 It's about common decency.

Speaker 22 Who needs somebody to say, hey, don't if I were you, I'd just kill myself.

Speaker 52 I will say, I have said that to Jeffy, I think, several times.

Speaker 2 I believe everyone in this room has.

Speaker 21 Yes.

Speaker 48 You're just having to do with sex.

Speaker 82 But I'm not a queer cripple.

Speaker 37 But yeah, but Jeffy, it's true with you.

Speaker 67 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 21 It wasn't accurate. He was like, you're a good guy.

Speaker 53 You're a good guy.

Speaker 48 You're not a good guy.

Speaker 21 You're not Jeffy.

Speaker 16 It's like label.

Speaker 47 It has to be false before it's a problem.

Speaker 46 If you can prove it's true, then you're okay.

Speaker 52 On your perspective of the Huffington Post and how people see things, you know, you see different perspectives. Yeah.

Speaker 79 I thought this was fascinating yesterday.

Speaker 52 Did you see this Shia LaBeouf video?

Speaker 68 Yeah, it was like a rabbit dog.

Speaker 52 Yeah, he was screaming into the ear of this guy. Now, the other part of that is the guy who is a,

Speaker 52 was saying Heil Hitler.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 If this does not show you so much about the way the media is right now.

Speaker 14 I love it.

Speaker 54 Can I tell you something?

Speaker 86 I love this time period.

Speaker 34 I really do.

Speaker 52 It's fascinating.

Speaker 83 It's a fascinating time period to live.

Speaker 64 And

Speaker 27 it's fascinating in the way that you can point it out on both sides.

Speaker 76 Where five years ago, three years ago, we had a hard time.

Speaker 2 We thought we were all high and mighty.

Speaker 23 And we're like, well, we would never do that.

Speaker 53 Well, no.

Speaker 39 And so now it's like I'm an observer.

Speaker 75 Now I'm just sitting here watching my country burn itself to the ground

Speaker 98 and no one seems to be looking for an exit.

Speaker 99 And it's like, huh.

Speaker 21 Sarah's like, yeah,

Speaker 52 this was fun for the past couple hundred years.

Speaker 24 Right.

Speaker 100 It was, it's very interesting to watch.

Speaker 52 So

Speaker 52 Huffington Post reports that incident as Shia LaBeouf expertly shouts down alleged white supremacists during live stream.

Speaker 35 Expertly.

Speaker 55 Expertly. Shouts down.
Right.

Speaker 52 Now, it wasn't that he was screaming in his ear as loud as he could to try to force him off the screen.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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

Speaker 52 favoring sites reported it this way. Shia LaBeouf melts down and gets physical with counter-protester, dude is a ticking time bomb.
Now,

Speaker 52 it's the same incident.

Speaker 52 I do think there are elements of truth

Speaker 52 in those

Speaker 66 in both of them, I guess.

Speaker 14 But see,

Speaker 88 all they're doing is they're counting on you just

Speaker 15 reading the headline and then watching the video

Speaker 52 and just seeing

Speaker 76 or watching the video with the sound off.

Speaker 41 You know what I mean?

Speaker 24 Just seeing Shia LaBouffe just going crazy because you don't have to watch it with the sound,

Speaker 45 just read the headline because that's all people do is read the headline.

Speaker 52 What are you going to get from the headlines?

Speaker 30 You know, I've been trying to, you know,

Speaker 30 try to make points on Twitter, trying to,

Speaker 103 you know,

Speaker 52 you can't.

Speaker 97 You can't.

Speaker 27 You can't have any

Speaker 104 definition.

Speaker 100 I mean,

Speaker 53 it's just black or white the whole time.

Speaker 71 Because you say one thing, you don't, 144 characters, there's no nuance there.

Speaker 94 There's no nuance.

Speaker 98 And life is, because here's what happened.

Speaker 56 Shia LaBeouf looked like a rabid dog in that video.

Speaker 98 Okay, so what does that say?

Speaker 36 Glenn Beck's just saying Shia LaBeouf is recruit and he supports the Heil Hitler guy.

Speaker 22 If I say the Heil Hitler guy was a straight-up racist

Speaker 27 and I don't have time to write, I don't have enough characters to write anything about Shia LaBeouf.

Speaker 82 There are

Speaker 101 yeah.

Speaker 28 There are only two sides now to everything and there's no nuance.

Speaker 24 You're either for Shia LaBeouf or against Shia LaBeouf, which means, translation, you're either for Donald Trump or against Donald Trump.

Speaker 32 That's it.

Speaker 52 It's so weird.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 So if you don't give the nuance of,

Speaker 52 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

Speaker 53 that you have.

Speaker 52 Exactly right. That doesn't make you smart.
No. That doesn't make you interesting.
Obviously, this format is not designed for nuance.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 So it's not notable that you could come up with something else that could have been said, but didn't fit.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 53 Well,

Speaker 93 it's 144 character format.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 48 It's incredible.

Speaker 49 But it's incredible.

Speaker 52 An opportunity for everybody to feel so

Speaker 52 intelligent. Superior.

Speaker 23 Every liberal in the world.

Speaker 41 It's amazing.

Speaker 79 It happens on both sides.

Speaker 85 Both sides. Now, this.

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Speaker 19 No, I didn't see Florence Foster Jacies.

Speaker 52 What?

Speaker 55 I don't even know what that movie is.

Speaker 2 Meryl Streep.

Speaker 38 Meryl Streep is 50 to 1 odds that she's going to to win the Oscar.

Speaker 42 But after that speech she gave, you think that remains 50 to 1 odds?

Speaker 14 No.

Speaker 48 I mean, I think that's a good one

Speaker 79 after the speech.

Speaker 52 However, I think it's a good bet.

Speaker 66 Yeah.

Speaker 66 I think it's a really good bet.

Speaker 52 Apparently, everyone thinks Emma Stone's going to win for La La Land.

Speaker 85 She was some of the best acting I have seen.

Speaker 48 Is she a good singer?

Speaker 54 Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 14 it wasn't, it's weird.

Speaker 39 It's not like the musical musicals.

Speaker 92 I mean, the first scene is, but the rest of it is, you know,

Speaker 69 more like...

Speaker 73 Are they talking songs?

Speaker 51 No, they're not talking songs, but it's not full-throated Broadway show tunes either.

Speaker 33 And so it's just different.

Speaker 56 But I thought they were both really good.

Speaker 66 I think they were good.

Speaker 64 But the acting that Emma Stone did is off the charts.

Speaker 52 The other favorite is Natalie Portman for Jackie.

Speaker 49 But I thought she wasn't nominated.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 You got to pull the trigger on that. That's a solid.
But just because they want another one of her speeches, right?

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 79 You want to talk about fake news.

Speaker 52 They get critical of Sean Spicer. That's much worse.

Speaker 52 But she's been nominated 19 times. This is her 20th nomination.
She's only won three.

Speaker 52 So percentage-wise, I mean, you know, she's under the Mendoza line a little bit. She needs to get that up.

Speaker 52 And this would be a perfect time to give her this award so she can come out and rail against people who like.

Speaker 53 When do they vote for this?

Speaker 38 They voted after the nominations, right?

Speaker 116 The nominations.

Speaker 20 Well, yeah, you've got to have somebody to vote for.

Speaker 61 Yeah.

Speaker 63 So it was after the nominations. Yeah.

Speaker 61 And then before the initials.

Speaker 40 No, I know before the award.

Speaker 36 But I mean.

Speaker 48 They vote after the Oscars era.

Speaker 41 But the nominations.

Speaker 44 I thought the nominations come from a vote.

Speaker 50 Don't the nominations come from the vote?

Speaker 63 No, I think the Academy throws out a group of people and then

Speaker 63 you vote for who you vote for. Okay.

Speaker 11 Well, I think there's a good shot.

Speaker 44 She is the darling of Hollywood right now.

Speaker 49 I mean, that's not a bad bet. No, it's that.
Take a shot. Yeah.

Speaker 60 It'd be a total rip-off, but exactly like Hollywood would do it.

Speaker 86 Yep.

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Speaker 12 So

Speaker 90 where are we headed as a culture and a people?

Speaker 40 There's this war going on

Speaker 42 over truth, over media.

Speaker 16 And if we can't agree on facts, we're toast.

Speaker 55 And yesterday, Jake Tapper took down

Speaker 70 Donald Trump in an epic proportion.

Speaker 3 And I'm sorry, but Jake Tapper was one of the only guys telling the truth during the Obama administration.

Speaker 89 He asked all of the tough questions.

Speaker 103 He was one of the only ones that did.

Speaker 42 He's got real credibility.

Speaker 52 And he's a Philadelphia Eagles fan.

Speaker 33 So I mean, that's a good idea.

Speaker 16 Well, he has real credibility.

Speaker 66 Thank you for that.

Speaker 91 Just lost it.

Speaker 43 Here he is yesterday.

Speaker 34 Listen to this.

Speaker 117 President Trump is claiming, and the White House is reaffirming, the fiction that millions of illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election.

Speaker 117 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.

Speaker 117 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.

Speaker 117 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.

Speaker 117 Now, has there ever been voter fraud? Any instances?

Speaker 21 Yes.

Speaker 117 Massive voter fraud? Three to five million votes cast illegally in 2016? No.

Speaker 117 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.

Speaker 117 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.

Speaker 117 If President Trump's beliefs are true, Republican leaders in Congress should be holding hearings and trumpeting this injustice every single day.

Speaker 117 His Justice Department, his Department of Homeland Security, all of them would need to crack down immediately.

Speaker 117 Unless, of course, it's not even remotely true. which is, of course, the case.

Speaker 21 Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 79 Well, all the down ballot races. You had, I mean, Republicans who lost in very close races.

Speaker 52 You had Democrats who lost in very close races.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 Beyond that, you know,

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 53 So

Speaker 52 if that wound up being, we don't even know. You can't assume they all voted one way.

Speaker 52 If you have millions of votes missing, it's important because it theoretically could

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 And

Speaker 52 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...

Speaker 63 Apparently, Trump has just called for a major investigation.

Speaker 52 Yes,

Speaker 52 he did do that on Twitter this morning.

Speaker 16 Yeah. This morning.
Because of Tapper.

Speaker 67 Yes.

Speaker 103 No doubt of Tapper.

Speaker 46 No doubt.

Speaker 63 He called him out, and so now he has.

Speaker 52 He didn't say it was about the election, though.

Speaker 79 He said it was about voter rolls and such.

Speaker 52 He said it was about voter fraud and going through the voter rolls.

Speaker 40 But that's good.

Speaker 101 Sure.

Speaker 52 That's good.

Speaker 52 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

Speaker 52 moved to other states. That does not mean they cast votes.
The people who did the study say it does not mean that.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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

Speaker 52 manipulator for a long time.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 16 I think that's what he's doing.

Speaker 4 I mean, play.

Speaker 38 Can you play what Van Jones said yesterday?

Speaker 30 Listen to Van Jones.

Speaker 75 He knows.

Speaker 123 In a key election, Van Jones,

Speaker 122 but hold on a second.

Speaker 122 Three to five million people is bigger than some of our states.

Speaker 122 It would be a massive number of people. And you would have to believe some of the worst things possible, both about our

Speaker 122 electors,

Speaker 122 the, it's hard. It's also,

Speaker 122 I didn't want to talk about this, but

Speaker 122 as I've been trying to point out, trying to get people to vote when they are eligible to vote is almost impossible.

Speaker 122 The idea that there's five million people out there who are not eligible to vote, that you could somehow get to vote.

Speaker 124 I don't know if you can. Why not find out how many?

Speaker 122 Well, Trump doesn't want want to, apparently. But let me say something else.

Speaker 123 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.

Speaker 21 He's doing terrible things.

Speaker 3 That was the strategy of the Bush administration.

Speaker 23 Somebody else yesterday wrote about how

Speaker 66 he's trying to overwhelm the system.

Speaker 44 He's trying to put all these things out to overload the system.

Speaker 30 I'm like, well,

Speaker 39 huh, it's interesting that you would say that, and you didn't recognize it when Obama was doing it.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 You pointed that out over the Obama administration as watch the other hand.

Speaker 52 And

Speaker 52 that is a strategy that is successful here. I mean, look,

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 They are talking about whether, you know, Sean Spicer is lying. They are talking about this thing

Speaker 52 with the millions of votes. When, yes, it would be a gigantic story, as Jake Tapper points out.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 I don't think that's overstating it, but none of them believe that Trump even believes it's true.

Speaker 52 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

Speaker 52 it's distracting them from all the typical things they would go after a Republican on, where he's opening up pipelines,

Speaker 52 which is obviously a really positive thing. And basically, they're not even mentioning it.

Speaker 30 What does Air Force One have?

Speaker 68 What do our

Speaker 23 bombers, our B-1 bombers, what do they have?

Speaker 38 When somebody's sending a missile up, what do they do?

Speaker 52 They spray debris so it chases the wrong thing. It doesn't chase the plane.
It's the debris.

Speaker 30 You send out flares or what do they call it?

Speaker 34 Chaff.

Speaker 30 They send it out with a heat signature and it scatters everywhere, hoping that the missile goes after that.

Speaker 40 This

Speaker 59 would be a smart strategy.

Speaker 66 I don't know that it is.

Speaker 14 Yeah, I don't know that it is a strategy.

Speaker 60 It would be smart to be able to get things through.

Speaker 42 It would be smart, but it destroys the fabric of the Republic.

Speaker 52 Yeah, I mean, I don't like it as a strategy, but it might be right.

Speaker 49 It might be effective.

Speaker 89 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

Speaker 74 a president that believes in conspiracy theories.

Speaker 91 You just can't.

Speaker 89 You can't.

Speaker 16 And you can't have a press dismo past blatant lies.

Speaker 110 Because there's going to be a lot of people out there that believe all this stuff.

Speaker 34 They will never look at it as a strategy.

Speaker 52 How do you

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 70 They dug a giant hole.

Speaker 52 And I don't know. But I don't know what you're saying.

Speaker 52 because I think that they probably feel like, well, we should, we have to say this stuff. We have to go after these claims.

Speaker 52 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,

Speaker 52 you know, if this was a Mitt Romney administration, him opening up that pipeline would have been the biggest story for three weeks.

Speaker 34 Yep.

Speaker 52 And so it's an effective strategy.

Speaker 19 You know,

Speaker 52 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

Speaker 52 that was, it's a note in the,

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 And so, and

Speaker 52 it very well might be that the Trump administration has figured this formula out and are working it well.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 2 And a lot of things getting done will be good.

Speaker 68 The question is:

Speaker 16 does he believe it?

Speaker 53 You know, that, you know, with Barack Obama,

Speaker 90 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?

Speaker 38 Because Time magazine said it doesn't exist.

Speaker 16 Do you have it? Yeah, I have it.

Speaker 126 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,

Speaker 126 they might get reimbursed a pittance.

Speaker 126 But if that same diabetic ends up getting their foot amputated, that's $30,000, $40,000, $50,000.

Speaker 99 Immediately,

Speaker 126 the surgeon is reimbursed.

Speaker 63 I mean, there it is.

Speaker 47 You did the same thing with tonsils.

Speaker 49 Same basic premise with tonsils and you come in and you've got a bad sore throat

Speaker 118 or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats

Speaker 118 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

Speaker 21 uh

Speaker 63 That was during that period where he was saying all these stupid things. And

Speaker 21 I was just going to say.

Speaker 53 He was just speaking out about that.

Speaker 99 I know.

Speaker 43 And I was just going to say the press didn't report it.

Speaker 38 The doctors didn't speak out.

Speaker 39 Nobody spoke out about that and said it was an outrageous lie, an outrageous accusation.

Speaker 30 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.

Speaker 41 Well, I don't know.

Speaker 77 No, he means it.

Speaker 35 No, I'm not sure.

Speaker 16 Listening to it again, he, you know.

Speaker 64 I think he did. I don't know if

Speaker 74 he meant it or if he knew that it was just a ruse.

Speaker 52 He meant it as an argument to win that particular moment at the very least.

Speaker 127 But I believe he thinks American doctors would amputate somebody's feet

Speaker 46 for 30,000 expenses.

Speaker 21 I do believe that.

Speaker 32 He doesn't like capitalism.

Speaker 16 He doesn't.

Speaker 75 Yeah, he doesn't.

Speaker 52 And the profit motive is evil to them.

Speaker 52 It's a negative.

Speaker 63 And in that context, it would be, right?

Speaker 30 So I guess it's exactly the same thing because they just didn't cover Barack Obama.

Speaker 44 Now, in fairness, people like Jake Tapper did most times.

Speaker 55 I don't think he did it on this one, but he did call him out.

Speaker 66 Remember.

Speaker 52 I mean, Jake Tapper, I'll give you a good example of this. He's the guy who found

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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%.

Speaker 49 And that's when we were at 10%.

Speaker 52 And that was, that's digging and looking through, you know, he is a good he did that over and over again.

Speaker 21 He's a fair journalist.

Speaker 75 He is.

Speaker 76 You don't know if he is Republican, Democrat, Independent.

Speaker 55 You don't know.

Speaker 27 And that's the way it should be.

Speaker 24 He takes on both sides fairly.

Speaker 23 Hopefully.

Speaker 64 people recognize that.

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Speaker 53 This is

Speaker 114 the Glenn Beck Program.

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Speaker 28 So glad that you're here today.

Speaker 52 Do you want a quick update here, Glenn? All-time first.

Speaker 52 First time it's ever happened.

Speaker 78 Okay, yeah.

Speaker 52 Dow 20,000.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 52 First time ever.

Speaker 72 So everything's fixed.

Speaker 21 The economy's good.

Speaker 55 We will be saying.

Speaker 34 We will be saying.

Speaker 34 Wow, this is worse than 1931.

Speaker 74 And we will be saying it,

Speaker 34 well, I'll just leave it at that.

Speaker 64 We'll be saying it in the future.

Speaker 100 This is worse than 1931.

Speaker 16 This is

Speaker 38 people don't understand.

Speaker 28 You're seeing the effects of hyperinflation in the stock market.

Speaker 51 That is the beginning of massive inflation.

Speaker 97 Remember how everybody says it's not pegged to any fundamentals?

Speaker 6 How is this pegged to fundamentals?

Speaker 85 These are not average investors.

Speaker 100 These are the big investors who have

Speaker 33 the access to the cash to the $4 trillion

Speaker 94 that was printed.

Speaker 55 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.

Speaker 99 And the banks took that money and they're investing it in the stock market and they are making money on it.

Speaker 91 It's all inflated money, it's

Speaker 82 bogus money.

Speaker 88 And when this comes apart,

Speaker 28 hyperinflation or inflation will hit you like it is the stock market.

Speaker 21 The Glenn Beck program, Mercury.

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Speaker 82 Hello, America.

Speaker 90 Welcome to the program.

Speaker 44 Well, the stock market is broke $20,000.

Speaker 50 It's broken for $20,000. And

Speaker 29 a lot of people that were giving,

Speaker 27 Obama credit for the economy, saying the stock market is the ultimate

Speaker 50 in judging a president and

Speaker 50 his effect on the economy.

Speaker 39 Listen, listen to hear them compliment Donald Trump now.

Speaker 20 No,

Speaker 37 I can't hear their voices.

Speaker 50 It has nothing to do with the president, has everything to do with the Fed.

Speaker 29 And it's an important thing that you need to understand.

Speaker 100 Also, the first poll numbers are out about Donald Trump and some interesting things that actually appear to be a real positive for Donald Trump.

Speaker 27 We'll get there.

Speaker 24 Coming up, we begin with the stock market right now.

Speaker 24 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

Speaker 21 This is the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 50 I'm trying to get to the information I had on the stock market, and I can't

Speaker 50 because it's on, what is it?

Speaker 59 What is it?

Speaker 95 Jump cloud.

Speaker 16 That's our jump cloud.

Speaker 46 Is that like Reich?

Speaker 48 Reich or

Speaker 21 Reich.

Speaker 59 Reich is separate.

Speaker 34 We're using Reich as, and Reich is really good, but it's pissing me off because

Speaker 55 I can't get, I can't, my password won't work.

Speaker 89 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.

Speaker 95 That's why you just keep the same password. Jump cloud, and then everything is the same.

Speaker 52 Oh, yeah, that's a good safe. A good cyber safety tip there, Jeffy.
Just keep the same value.

Speaker 2 Let's just get in.

Speaker 23 We're on this side of the wall.

Speaker 53 Let them try to get in.

Speaker 46 What is jump cloud anyway? What do you say?

Speaker 16 I don't understand any of this news.

Speaker 52 We should explain that we're in the middle of a

Speaker 52 transitional period of technology here at the studios, and it's a challenging, uh, it's a challenging task.

Speaker 121 It may be challenging for others. Well, Pat,

Speaker 106 I walked in this morning, and Pat was

Speaker 38 what were you trying to, you were trying to log into, it wasn't jump cloud.

Speaker 73 Uh, no, I was trying to log into uh uh

Speaker 77 the just the Wi-Fi Wi-Fi, just the Wi-Fi.

Speaker 63 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.

Speaker 77 I have to tell you this.

Speaker 22 I am ready to voluntarily give anyone who asks, including the government, a retina scan

Speaker 11 as opposed to all of the stupid password stuff.

Speaker 59 I can't take it anymore.

Speaker 67 Oh, I do. I do

Speaker 60 in a heartbeat.

Speaker 94 We haven't watched our television in about

Speaker 26 two months?

Speaker 52 Two months?

Speaker 75 Two months.

Speaker 16 Two months.

Speaker 36 Well, I'm not really sure.

Speaker 24 We had the Wi-Fi changed

Speaker 76 and we have because of because of we have to have firewalls and everything, you know,

Speaker 34 I want to be safe and I am a little paranoid.

Speaker 52 The cyber.

Speaker 21 I am a little

Speaker 40 of the cyber.

Speaker 55 And so we have Cisco systems.

Speaker 90 It's not like I go, you know, I just have an Apple, you know,

Speaker 52 like a normal consumer product. Like a normal business.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 17 So I have absolutely no idea.

Speaker 14 I opened up,

Speaker 34 a friend came over and I said, can't reset the Wi-Fi. I have absolutely no idea how to reset the Wi-Fi.

Speaker 15 And they're like, well,

Speaker 57 where is it?

Speaker 64 And I said, come on.

Speaker 35 I went upstairs and went into the

Speaker 76 equipment closet for the cyber, opened it up and he went, holy.

Speaker 66 And I I said, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 40 So

Speaker 22 all I can think of is either push reset, but reset may reset the entire thing back to the you know factory settings,

Speaker 11 or I could unplug it.

Speaker 19 And we both looked at each other for a while and went, Well, reset sounds like a bad idea

Speaker 34 because that's probably what it does.

Speaker 11 But he, what the hell?

Speaker 16 Let's unplug it.

Speaker 121 Unplug it is worse than reset, probably.

Speaker 56 No, it didn't work. Neither.
It didn't work.

Speaker 36 So anyway, so

Speaker 89 because of the Wi-Fi,

Speaker 89 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

Speaker 30 on the iPads.

Speaker 53 Okay?

Speaker 53 So

Speaker 2 God help us on that.

Speaker 35 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.

Speaker 67 Yep.

Speaker 16 Okay.

Speaker 13 Then I finally found the Apple TV remote control.

Speaker 63 These are all first world problems, we understand,

Speaker 61 but

Speaker 33 it's infuriating. It's infuriating.

Speaker 69 I can't take it anymore.

Speaker 39 So last night we finally got, we're just using the mirror on the, I mean, to use my TV.

Speaker 69 Haven't used the TV in the bedroom either. I mean, that one won't work either.

Speaker 28 Yeah, the bedroom's strictly for sleeping now.

Speaker 52 So I can't get it. Interesting, you didn't even include the possibility of sex.

Speaker 49 It was just either sleeping or TV.

Speaker 21 These are the two things they use for it. So, yep.
So,

Speaker 21 so

Speaker 11 haven't used that one in I don't know how long.

Speaker 76 I don't even know if that thing, it probably has tubes in it.

Speaker 33 The last time I checked that television,

Speaker 38 the television in the

Speaker 65 family room finally got it to work last night, but we're just using the mirror on the on the iPad.

Speaker 16 Oh, okay.

Speaker 52 So you're gonna see it.

Speaker 16 So just the Apple mirror.

Speaker 80 But I can't hear it because I can't turn on

Speaker 22 the speaker system.

Speaker 22 And so, like, you have to sit up

Speaker 22 right close to the TV to be able to hear it.

Speaker 21 It's insane.

Speaker 53 It is.

Speaker 63 We have the, you know, I told you that my wife got me that.

Speaker 73 that big TV for Christmas.

Speaker 79 Yes. 75 inches.

Speaker 63 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.

Speaker 93 What are you doing?

Speaker 93 You've got this 75-inch TV.

Speaker 62 Yeah, I can't get on anything on that.

Speaker 86 So I'm just watching it right here.

Speaker 21 It's just pissing.

Speaker 30 We have watched show after show after show on the iPad, sitting there next to a 65-inch television screen.

Speaker 4 Got two of them in the house.

Speaker 14 We just sit there and it's just, it's just gathering dust.

Speaker 127 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.

Speaker 21 I don't know any of them.

Speaker 91 So here's what happened.

Speaker 69 So we went on and we go and we start my son's PS4.

Speaker 37 And he's like, dad, this is the greatest because we can use the PS4.

Speaker 13 So we spend the time trying to remember all the...

Speaker 35 damn passwords for Hulu, for Amazon, for Netflix, for everything.

Speaker 12 We finally get it all set up.

Speaker 105 He signs into

Speaker 100 something on PS4,

Speaker 38 and my wife says, do not sign that thing up with anything that has anything to do with our family.

Speaker 35 You're not signing that up for the family.

Speaker 77 Okay.

Speaker 80 So he's putting in,

Speaker 59 she says, use this

Speaker 37 use this

Speaker 69 email address. Right.

Speaker 75 Separate stuff.

Speaker 37 Okay.

Speaker 72 So use this email address, everything else well my son sets it up and he

Speaker 92 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

Speaker 86 so then the system resets he logs out

Speaker 40 and we're like okay well you got to log back in

Speaker 20 Okay, well, I don't remember the pass.

Speaker 21 What the?

Speaker 52 Oh my gosh. And then, of course, doesn't know the birthday or doesn't know anything to the password.

Speaker 33 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,

Speaker 34 How?

Speaker 64 And he's like, The hints will help.

Speaker 56 Okay, good.

Speaker 43 So, just said, What's your birthday?

Speaker 100 And he said, Well, I think it was March,

Speaker 21 and

Speaker 24 it wasn't over March 20th, and it was between 1972 and 1980.

Speaker 27 Like,

Speaker 12 every five times it will reset on you,

Speaker 66 But don't worry about it.

Speaker 67 Unbelievable.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 And the DVD player, when you do the sort of the cost-benefit analysis,

Speaker 52 you probably get one at Walmart for $30 right now. I mean, maybe $40,000 or $50,000.

Speaker 52 They're very cheap. And it would be a great thing if they were watching DVDs.

Speaker 63 Remember when they were like $500,000, $600?

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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?

Speaker 78 $50,000.

Speaker 52 So is it worth $50,000 and $30 to get this DVD player to answer?

Speaker 116 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.

Speaker 37 But the TV, no idea.

Speaker 102 I have had, you know, these home theater experts, we'll make everything in your house work and it'll be great.

Speaker 40 It'll all be on your ipad shut up

Speaker 95 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.

Speaker 75 You can't watch it on this TV.

Speaker 40 So

Speaker 75 I just go in the the bedroom.

Speaker 116 And I'm telling my wife, how come we can't watch it?

Speaker 95 We need to kill a device. Oh, no, we don't need to kill a device.

Speaker 95 You need to use

Speaker 95 the Blu-ray Bluetooth DVD player that's hooked up to the 55-inch curve.

Speaker 16 That's a smart DVD player that has all the apps on the DVD player, not the TV.

Speaker 63 How helpless are we going to be when the EMP hits?

Speaker 2 We are.

Speaker 21 Oh, my gosh. Oh, man.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 16 We are already at the place.

Speaker 11 I convinced you.

Speaker 35 Do you remember the book?

Speaker 38 The book that changed the course of my life for entirely different reasons was Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World.

Speaker 53 Do you remember that?

Speaker 73 I remember you talking about it.

Speaker 63 Okay, I've not read it.

Speaker 14 So Carl Sagan wrote a book.

Speaker 37 It was his last book before he died of cancer.

Speaker 15 And

Speaker 20 it was called

Speaker 65 The Demon Haunted World.

Speaker 90 Highly recommended. And he talks about a time when

Speaker 89 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.

Speaker 56 Evil spirits, evil spirits are making that happen to you.

Speaker 69 I can make the evil spirits go away because they were the only ones that spoke the language.

Speaker 94 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.

Speaker 40 When your 12-year-old can't figure it out and gives up, my son was walking around like me.

Speaker 28 I said, you're turning into an old man.

Speaker 101 He's like, oh, this is so frustrating.

Speaker 3 It doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 25 Why is this not working?

Speaker 4 And I'm like, oh,

Speaker 25 hello, grandpa.

Speaker 55 But we're entering that world to where the people who have the answers.

Speaker 39 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?

Speaker 55 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?

Speaker 52 Might I suggest something like LastPass? Have you used that?

Speaker 2 What is that?

Speaker 20 People on the feed are just bringing that up as well.

Speaker 52 It's a system that basically stores all your passwords and fills it out.

Speaker 49 Oh, it's a system?

Speaker 27 No, it's a system.

Speaker 92 It's going to make our lives easy.

Speaker 52 The word system is the enemy? I don't know.

Speaker 21 It's a system that's. In my house, I haven't had TV off of my iPad.
It's a freaking

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 63 Yeah, but don't you have to remember the passwords in the beginning to put the passwords into the system?

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 79 And a lot of them you'll actually.

Speaker 30 I'm ready to write it on my forehead.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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

Speaker 52 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?

Speaker 52 Like if this company goes out of business tomorrow, which there's no sight of it, I'm going to be in trouble.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 But you just, whenever you go to the site, it it automatically just logs you in.

Speaker 66 So you don't need to remember them.

Speaker 52 You just need to remember the one password to get yourself.

Speaker 87 That's good, though.

Speaker 19 I was actually trying to watch something with my son last night, and I thought, that's what needs to happen.

Speaker 64 Yeah. You need to have some system.

Speaker 70 You know, like the random

Speaker 96 one ring to rule them all.

Speaker 84 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 61 That's what we need.

Speaker 68 You need a, you need a,

Speaker 39 what is the device that

Speaker 28 it would give you an auto, it would change the

Speaker 102 combination locks of very, very complex systems.

Speaker 37 Like every 12 hours, this combination changes, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 64 And they would just send you what the combination is, you know, so you would have it.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 27 I was thinking last night, that's what you need.

Speaker 92 To remain safe, you need to be able to have something that generates it and keeps it and does it for you.

Speaker 34 It's like Authy.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 You have to open up the app to get the exact code at that second to log you into the other site.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 64 I will give you the retina.

Speaker 20 I will actually dig the retina of my eye out with a spoon and give it to you.

Speaker 52 Take my blood every hour. Is that what you need? What do you need?

Speaker 37 I don't care what it is.

Speaker 86 Just make the damn stuff work.

Speaker 66 Now, this.

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Speaker 65 I have, I mean, we live in an area where we get tornadoes, and I have one-of-a-kind artifacts.

Speaker 65 When you have something that is a signed document from George Washington and a letter from Thomas Jefferson, there's one.

Speaker 68 One copy of that.

Speaker 75 What do you do with it?

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Speaker 94 Sucked up in a tornado.

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Speaker 87 I don't think so.

Speaker 53 Don't? No. Really?

Speaker 73 Yeah. Are you thinking Sean Spicer is a really good White House press secretary?

Speaker 106 No, I think he's in an impossible situation. Yeah, he is.
He's in an impossible situation.

Speaker 43 That is true.

Speaker 15 But he is, but it's bizarre what we're learning about him.

Speaker 28 Like yesterday, we learned that Sean Spicer.

Speaker 67 Dippin Dots.

Speaker 16 That's really it.

Speaker 64 He went to war with Dippin Dots.

Speaker 65 That was great.

Speaker 103 Today, we learn that he has a habit of chewing gum and swallowing two packs of orbit cinnamon gum by noon every day.

Speaker 63 So instead of throwing the gum away when it's getting

Speaker 95 swallows it.

Speaker 96 He just swallows it.

Speaker 66 Doesn't that stay in your stomach for seven years?

Speaker 16 Yes, it is.

Speaker 75 That's That's an alternate fact.

Speaker 66 Stomach.

Speaker 71 Alternative fact.

Speaker 63 That can't be digested by the human digestive system.

Speaker 32 When they take an x-ray of his innards, it's going to be just a lot of gum.

Speaker 23 Ball of orbit gum.

Speaker 30 That's all. Luckily, our mom was wrong on that one.

Speaker 16 Okay, we're good.

Speaker 103 Moms were wrong on that one. Good.

Speaker 52 It's a weird thing, though. Like,

Speaker 52 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?

Speaker 52 It's just a weird thing that we just don't do it it's like is it

Speaker 37 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

Speaker 52 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,

Speaker 32 what I mean, I don't want to, what's it look like on the

Speaker 2 I don't want to think about that.

Speaker 52 Why would I want to think? Why would you go there?

Speaker 16 I don't know.

Speaker 86 I mean, how much is it, how much of it is digestible?

Speaker 52 You're asking another question related to the same topic. I don't know why you would do that.

Speaker 16 Just saying.

Speaker 27 That's what I want.

Speaker 50 That's what I want Sean Spicer to talk about in the press conference today.

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Speaker 46 Interesting.

Speaker 63 Because normally we lead with our mistakes, and something slipped past us yesterday that I've noticed,

Speaker 63 Glenn, you haven't brought any attention to, and you always brag about where we lead with our mistakes.

Speaker 27 We're going to lead the halfway point of the show with our mistakes.

Speaker 96 That's what we're doing.

Speaker 56 We're leading right now.

Speaker 63 All right, if you feel good about that, but here we are halfway through the show.

Speaker 40 No, seriously, take this seriously because this is something that slipped bad.

Speaker 26 Yeah, slipped by me, and I didn't, I didn't even realize it.

Speaker 55 I'm surprised, Stu, you didn't hear it.

Speaker 37 When Pat heard it, because he was like, You didn't say that.

Speaker 70 And I'm like, Yeah,

Speaker 55 I want you to listen to it.

Speaker 85 And when he heard it, he was like,

Speaker 69 Was Stu even in the room?

Speaker 63 I'm kind of ashamed that it took Media Matters to point this out to us.

Speaker 87 Okay, so Media Matters said Glenn Beck is back to his old tricks.

Speaker 19 The woke Beck thing is not happening.

Speaker 85 He is saying that

Speaker 38 the women's march was a conspiracy and a

Speaker 40 caliphate clue.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 28 I didn't remember saying it, but listen to the tape.

Speaker 128 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.

Speaker 128 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.

Speaker 14 You listening, Stu?

Speaker 15 And

Speaker 128 have a talk with her.

Speaker 128 Tomorrow, I'm bringing the chalkboard in because the connections are there.

Speaker 128 And if you want to call me a conspiracy theorist again, you can.

Speaker 100 I'm not going to accuse anybody of anything.

Speaker 128 I'm just going to point out the facts.

Speaker 128 Because somebody has to.

Speaker 128 And perhaps, perhaps, someone in the media will listen.

Speaker 128 I don't know if they will.

Speaker 64 Are you hearing the spooky music afterwards?

Speaker 49 Yeah.

Speaker 48 I did hear the spooky music afterwards.

Speaker 63 You can't play spooky music like that after

Speaker 46 if it's not incredibly incendiary.

Speaker 90 Did you hear the caliphate and damning the caliphate clue there?

Speaker 96 You heard it all, right?

Speaker 52 The caliphate clue? Yeah.

Speaker 66 Yeah. Yeah, that was the headline.

Speaker 56 The conspiratorial clue.

Speaker 53 The conspiratorial caliphate. The caliphate clue.

Speaker 121 You bastard.

Speaker 52 It's interesting they're still mocking the caliphate given that we're at a war with ISIS.

Speaker 16 Well, there's actually a caliphate.

Speaker 47 But he did not say any of that stuff.

Speaker 3 And experts. This is what we haven't even talked about.

Speaker 29 I can't remember which government expert it was, but a government expert has said that

Speaker 38 Erdogan is going to be the caliph by 2018.

Speaker 53 Oh, cool.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I like that. I think about it.

Speaker 52 That does make it feel like you've said something bad.

Speaker 49 Right.

Speaker 52 You know? Right.

Speaker 46 Because he did say something bad.

Speaker 52 What was their problem with that? I mean, obviously, I know they're not going to agree to your conclusions.

Speaker 86 My tricks of conspiracy and caliphate.

Speaker 66 They caught you dead to right.

Speaker 52 You said you were going to do an interview with someone who wrote a story for the New York Times.

Speaker 49 Now it sounds like that was bad.

Speaker 93 I love this because all the people are back to their tricks and we're being so careful.

Speaker 70 I'm trying to be so careful and so calm and so rational

Speaker 3 i didn't present this uh story about george soros

Speaker 21 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

Speaker 52 that's a very strange thing to complain about yeah well that was the audio that they actually put with the headline.

Speaker 64 So if you read the audio, because I read the story and I'm like, holy cow, I said, what?

Speaker 64 And I listened to the and I'm like, oh my gosh, that is hysterical.

Speaker 38 There's nothing, I didn't say anything in that clip.

Speaker 88 There was nothing except I'm going to do an interview with somebody who wrote an article in the New York Times.

Speaker 52 But if you have the stinger there, it's going to sound bad. Yeah.

Speaker 33 So now our deepest apologies for.

Speaker 52 I love that. That's their attempt at like we're pensive and serious.

Speaker 81 And we've we've just uncovered something.

Speaker 64 You know who's doing this is the guy, what was his name?

Speaker 15 Angelo

Speaker 67 Corrosive.

Speaker 43 I can't remember Caruso or something.

Speaker 27 He's like one of the big guys at Media Matters.

Speaker 79 Okay.

Speaker 15 And

Speaker 34 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.

Speaker 103 Do you remember that?

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 106 Yeah, that did all the fake news about me.

Speaker 11 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 59 And I thought, here's a guy who's holding himself up as a guardian of fake news.

Speaker 46 And

Speaker 63 wasn't that the website that claimed you killed a nine-year-old girl?

Speaker 53 I don't remember.

Speaker 49 I think it was. You know, I didn't believe it.

Speaker 66 I must have until I heard that, and I didn't even think of it.

Speaker 44 Now you know it's true.

Speaker 2 Nine-year-old girl.

Speaker 96 Now,

Speaker 120 normally people can't get away with that, but somehow you did.

Speaker 52 Isn't it just inherently kind of ridiculous to post a clip of a guy you said you stopped?

Speaker 52 If you're bragging rights that you stopped someone, how can you be playing clips of them speaking on the air

Speaker 63 on a nationwide broadcast?

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 74 Oh, my gosh, did you just hear what Stu said?

Speaker 21 But I didn't say anything about it. Really?

Speaker 2 It was really bad.

Speaker 64 That's crazy.

Speaker 53 That's crazy.

Speaker 63 That's a quality organization, Media Matters. A quality, quality organization.

Speaker 11 So where do we head?

Speaker 39 Seriously, where do we end up?

Speaker 28 We have Jake Tapper being demonized.

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 68 We have

Speaker 101 people

Speaker 89 arguing over actual facts.

Speaker 91 Like

Speaker 76 all of these organizations are tied to George Soros, printed in the New York Times.

Speaker 67 Okay.

Speaker 34 That somehow or another is now being questioned, but not the New York Times.

Speaker 88 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.

Speaker 31 Which came from the New York Times.

Speaker 103 From the New York Times.

Speaker 83 I mean, where do we go go when neither side will agree?

Speaker 24 And neither side is self-aware.

Speaker 63 A really good example of that is the argument at the rally that they had between,

Speaker 63 I think the guy was one of the bikers that came and we're trying to speak truth to the people who were protesting.

Speaker 16 Well, he was one of the bikers.

Speaker 95 He was with his bicycle.

Speaker 16 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 95 He was just walking through the crowd with his bicycle.

Speaker 16 Okay.

Speaker 63 But this black bicyclist confronted some of of these women who were yelling about women's rights, and his issue was Planned Parenthood.

Speaker 63 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.

Speaker 63 See how settled this argument is now.

Speaker 21 Political correctness is a disease.

Speaker 130 Oh, yeah, I feel sorry for you because Planned Parenthood is a racist system. Margaret Sanger was a Planned Parenthood.
You know what?

Speaker 130 Margaret Sanger thought very little

Speaker 130 of black people.

Speaker 21 She thought they were ignorant and they shouldn't

Speaker 21 reproduce.

Speaker 130 Planned parenthood is a good sterilized black people.

Speaker 21 We shouldn't be getting about Planned Parenthood.

Speaker 21 We shouldn't be funding any type of Planned Parenthood.

Speaker 130 Planned Parenthood is a joke. And anyone that doesn't know the history, know your history about Margaret Sanger, the beginning of Planned Parenthood.

Speaker 130 Planned Parenthood is the most racist organization. Know your history before you start supporting some.

Speaker 21 It is

Speaker 37 it is it is nice, though, to see that blacks are waking up to Planned Parenthood.

Speaker 61 I love that.

Speaker 105 Yeah, I think that is, I think that's starting to come undone.

Speaker 38 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.

Speaker 30 You would be happy because it's all going to come undone.

Speaker 52 And that is the audio of, it's a reenactment of the text of every Facebook argument in America right now.

Speaker 16 Like, that is Twitter. That's all it is.

Speaker 52 I had my wife had

Speaker 52 yesterday posted something relatively innocuous on the issue of abortion, which she opposes.

Speaker 52 And of course, she has lots of friends, however, who do not oppose that. And it began.

Speaker 19 They finally go about Stu and his wife.

Speaker 16 Oh, wait, I didn't even know.

Speaker 48 Yeah, the people they hang out with.

Speaker 52 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,

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 You're just going to wind up getting pissed off and screaming at each other on the And it wrecks your day.

Speaker 48 And it wrecks your day.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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

Speaker 52 if you let the government into your business,

Speaker 52 what's next? Where are they going to go from there?

Speaker 52 If you let them do stuff with your body, where are you going to go from there?

Speaker 3 It's like, it's nice to say you found limited government in this one issue.

Speaker 52 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,

Speaker 52 which is always entertaining. But she writes something to the effect of, you know, I am not going to let,

Speaker 52 first of all, Planned Parenthood does a lot of good things. And I am not going to let some

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 First of all, if Planned Parenthood, they may do very, very well, may do many things that are positive.

Speaker 52 In fact, if they, and this is how you know it, if they stopped doing abortions, no one would protest them.

Speaker 46 No one would care that they existed.

Speaker 52 If they stopped doing abortions and only did cancer screenings, there wouldn't be one person on earth who opposed them. Nobody.

Speaker 45 Everyone would be completely fine.

Speaker 52 It's this one issue.

Speaker 52 Well,

Speaker 52 you don't want people to tell you about your body.

Speaker 49 Well, you know what?

Speaker 52 Let's go to this point.

Speaker 62 We all would agree

Speaker 52 that

Speaker 52 a tumor is a bunch of meaningless cells that we don't care about. There's no life there.

Speaker 79 We don't care about it.

Speaker 52 Has you ever seen a conservative oppose removing a tumor?

Speaker 52 Have you ever seen a conservative

Speaker 52 oppose removing a lump of cells that is benign?

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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?

Speaker 52 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?

Speaker 16 And if it's a black perv, is it okay?

Speaker 52 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?

Speaker 101 Why?

Speaker 52 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%

Speaker 53 thing.

Speaker 52 on abortion with Planned Parenthood.

Speaker 93 Oh, it's only 3% of their business.

Speaker 52 No, it's not.

Speaker 52 And we've debunked that stat many, many times. Again, how can you use the stat to get

Speaker 85 out of your business? Then get out of it.

Speaker 52 Right. Well, first of all, it's not 3% of their business.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 They would do multiple tests on each person.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 So if every person walked into into

Speaker 52 Planned Parenthood and said, I want an abortion today, they would say only 25% of our 20% of our procedures are abortions.

Speaker 21 All right. Now,

Speaker 81 I got it.

Speaker 89 I got it.

Speaker 32 You don't like Planned Parenthood and your wife is some rabid anti- What was happening in that break?

Speaker 48 You were under the couch for half an hour.

Speaker 103 I couldn't take you anymore. I couldn't take you anymore.

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Speaker 50 Income inequality.

Speaker 80 Equal is unfair.

Speaker 50 Quite a charge to make in today's America.

Speaker 29 We begin there right now.

Speaker 29 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

Speaker 48 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

Speaker 50 Yarn Brooke, friend of ours and

Speaker 50 the head of the Ayn Rand Society here in America, welcome to the program. He's got a book called Equal is Unfair.

Speaker 34 He was here a couple of weeks ago and I said, my fault.

Speaker 116 I'm sorry, I didn't even know you had a book out.

Speaker 115 Come back and talk about the book.

Speaker 30 So we want to talk about it because it is really an important thing because people, we're now talking about a universal

Speaker 116 minimum living wage,

Speaker 30 giving everybody, you know, a stipend to live on. And I want to talk about that.

Speaker 125 I also want to talk because you just got back from Europe

Speaker 39 and there is something happening in Europe.

Speaker 70 It's Eastern Europe, but they are more free market than probably anybody in the world right now.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 They want something different. They want something new.

Speaker 81 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,

Speaker 81 life is good.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 demonstrating for freedom. For freedom.

Speaker 53 Like real freedom.

Speaker 81 Like real freedom. And I'm not saying all of them get it,

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 It hasn't happened, which is no surprise, really, but it hasn't happened. And there are people.
Because everything is so corrupt.

Speaker 101 Yeah, they're poor.

Speaker 81 They want to be middle class. They want to be rich.
And they're they're saying nothing we've been promised is happening.

Speaker 81 And they're willing to look at ideas that I think Americans and others have forgotten, take for granted,

Speaker 81 ignore, because they want to be mainstream, they want to be cool, they want to be part of the,

Speaker 81 they want to be what their professors want them to be.

Speaker 100 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,

Speaker 89 you know, we're looking at a disruption of about 50% of all jobs in the next 20 to 30 years.

Speaker 90 Technology is going to disrupt absolutely everything.

Speaker 51 So the amount of unemployment is going to be outrageous.

Speaker 55 And I shouldn't say that.

Speaker 116 The amount of displacement is going to be outrageous, not necessarily unemployment.

Speaker 30 And people are thinking now, and I think all governments need to think,

Speaker 28 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 I strongly believe in a separation of state from economics.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 Central planning cannot solve this issue. The market will solve it.

Speaker 21 How?

Speaker 16 I don't know.

Speaker 81 I mean, we have today

Speaker 81 tens of millions, globally, hundreds of millions of jobs that 50 years ago you could not have imagined would exist.

Speaker 30 So do you think if we had a separation of education and state, we probably would be safer in the middle of the year.

Speaker 81 Well, I mean, there are four separations that

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 But I think generally the government is there to protect our rights, period. Full stop.
That's it.

Speaker 81 If you want to be a communist under a free society, that's okay.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 32 It doesn't work big.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 So it's morally offensive offensive and it's economically stupid. Separation of state from education.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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?

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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

Speaker 81 global warming, about stem cells, left and right. When government intervenes in science, it corrupts the science.

Speaker 28 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?

Speaker 81 I think the scientists to some extent recognize that, but what option do they have? If you're dependent,

Speaker 81 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

Speaker 81 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

Speaker 81 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?

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 34 How do you get the youth?

Speaker 103 away from the word progressives and progress when progressivism is the exact opposite of progress?

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 Liberal used to mean free market, free thinking.

Speaker 97 Classic liberalism.

Speaker 81 Classic liberalism.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 So they've done that to the word liberal. They've done it to the word progressive.
These are anti-progress ideas.

Speaker 81 And, you know, part of it is,

Speaker 81 you know, and the same is true on the other side, right?

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 We're not trying to conserve. We're trying to push forward.

Speaker 16 We're trying to grow and develop.

Speaker 88 You know who the person who named us conservatives?

Speaker 23 Do you know where that came from? No, no, not sure.

Speaker 81 FDR.

Speaker 42 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.

Speaker 58 And we just embraced it.

Speaker 32 We just allowed him to label us.

Speaker 81 Partially it comes from

Speaker 81 way back from really the French Revolution, where

Speaker 81 the French Revolution was deemed to be the progressives,

Speaker 81 you know, where the real action was. This was the good guys.

Speaker 81 And the British, looking at that, said, oh, wait a minute, that's a bad idea. We need to conserve our institutions.

Speaker 81 So the conservative movement really starts in England as a rebellion against, in a sense, the French Revolution.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 And what happened to those 13 colonies,

Speaker 81 that's the margin.

Speaker 81 That's not a significance. So

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 27 So do you see, we're talking to Jaron Brooks.

Speaker 37 He is Jarn Yarn Brooks.

Speaker 116 He is the author of Equal is Unfair, America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.

Speaker 98 Do you see

Speaker 42 with the fight over facts today,

Speaker 116 the war with the media, the war with the White House, the war against left and right?

Speaker 85 I mean, it's getting insane.

Speaker 44 We're all living in a movie that none of us would believe if we were sitting around the scriptwriting table.

Speaker 116 We would all say,

Speaker 34 nobody's going to buy this movie.

Speaker 98 Do you see

Speaker 14 enough people saying, kind of like we are, I'm just tired of all the labels.

Speaker 125 I'm tired of all of it.

Speaker 39 None of this stuff works.

Speaker 81 I want to find reason

Speaker 3 and find the way out through this.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 The American Revolution is about the individual first, placing the individual at the core. Everything's about protecting that individual and his freedom.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 It's not about country. It's not about America as a geographic place.

Speaker 2 It's about

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 And the government's there to protect you from people who would coerce you. And of course, the biggest violator,

Speaker 81 as the founders knew and warned us, the biggest violator is government. And today,

Speaker 81 the left and right, they want to violate our rights.

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Speaker 125 Yaron Brook is here.

Speaker 35 Name of his book is Equal is Unfair, America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.

Speaker 37 And you think this fight is the revolution?

Speaker 81 It really is the core fight.

Speaker 81 This is the intellectuals in America trying to make us like Europe.

Speaker 62 And I believe that.

Speaker 81 You know,

Speaker 81 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?

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 So what did they mean when they said all men are created equal?

Speaker 21 They meant we're all equally free.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 It should treat us all the same. But once you free us up,

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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...

Speaker 81 Well, this is the thing about freedom, is that under freedom, those people have a chance not to be hungry anymore.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 And some people will never be as wealthy as I am. That's just reality.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 What is the alternative? The alternative is no freedom. Where all of us are poor.
Yes, there's equality, but equality of poverty.

Speaker 81 250 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.

Speaker 81 Well, what were children doing before the Industrial Revolution?

Speaker 2 They were dying

Speaker 81 and working. But 50% of kids didn't make it to age 10.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 2 No, Stu'd be dead too. Okay, Stu'd be dead.

Speaker 93 He just looks young.

Speaker 81 People have no concept of what life before the Industrial Revolution, before capitalism, before freedom, before America.

Speaker 89 I know, but now think about how great it will be after America.

Speaker 81 Yes, after America, we all revert back to what it was. Look, as late as the 1960s, in China,

Speaker 81 because of communism, because of an attempt to make us all equal in outcome, somewhere between 40 to 60 million people died of starvation.

Speaker 81 In one of the most fertile countries in the world, they died of starvation. That's what equality of outcome means.

Speaker 21 Now,

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 93 That's my decision.

Speaker 21 And you know what?

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 So leave people free to make decisions about how far they want to go in life, financially, in terms of other things.

Speaker 81 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,

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 72 Equal is Unfair is the name of the book by Yarin Brook and Don Watkins.

Speaker 109 Yarn is joining us.

Speaker 50 The argument that you have to make and the best argument to win this case of freedom coming up.

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Speaker 50 The Glenn Beck Program. 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.

Speaker 15 It's available everywhere, Amazon and the few remaining bookstores.

Speaker 57 Yarn Brooke is here with us.

Speaker 85 He's from the Ayn Rand Institute, and it's his book about the fight against inequality.

Speaker 63 Yarn, one of the things that drives me out of my mind when it comes to this discussion is

Speaker 73 when they talk about how disparate the incomes are from like a Bill Gates to the average person.

Speaker 101 Who cares?

Speaker 47 How does it hurt me that Bill Gates is worth $72 billion and I'm not?

Speaker 93 It's worse than that.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 Now, does Bill Gates get any moral credit for making the world a better place?

Speaker 16 No. Why?

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 But giving money away, that's good. That's noble.
Now, I have nothing against charity and philanthropy.

Speaker 81 Good things for good causes. If you believe in them, that's wonderful.
But that doesn't change the world.

Speaker 2 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

Speaker 29 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 Third-rate colony, the mightiest economic power in the world. How did that happen? Not because of charity, not because of community service.

Speaker 81 As good as those things might be under the right circumstances.

Speaker 53 No.

Speaker 81 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,

Speaker 103 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.

Speaker 15 Yeah, you know, the difference between Google or no, Apple and Microsoft is Apple started

Speaker 90 right away with Washington.

Speaker 14 And

Speaker 3 Bill Gates said, my biggest mistake was I didn't think we needed Washington.

Speaker 81 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

Speaker 81 was lamblasting them for not being more involved in lobbying.

Speaker 93 Look,

Speaker 81 this goes back to my separations.

Speaker 81 If you get government out of the business of business, then there's no reason for me to lobby.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 Unfortunately, even in the beginning of the United States,

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 And we have to differentiate between political power and economic power. Fundamental difference.
Political power is about force. Political power is about coercion.

Speaker 81 The essence of government, as George Washington said, I think in his second inaugural, the essence of government is a gun.

Speaker 81 The essence of business is a trade. You have to benefit, otherwise you're not going to engage in.

Speaker 81 When I hire somebody, Their time has to be worth less than what I'm paying them, otherwise they wouldn't come to work.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 Essence of business is trade.

Speaker 82 Win-win, win-win.

Speaker 81 This is something, unfortunately, this administration, or at least the president, doesn't seem to understand.

Speaker 81 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?

Speaker 81 This zero-sum idea that Bill Gates'$72 billion came out of my pocket.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 53 Out of nothing.

Speaker 16 Yeah, wealth is not a pie. There's not just one pie.

Speaker 63 If I get a really big piece of pie, you can have less.

Speaker 16 This is wrong in so many dimensions, right?

Speaker 81 So many dimensions. One,

Speaker 81 the pie is growing all the time in a sense, because wealth is created. It's not just there.

Speaker 40 But more importantly,

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 And if I want to share some pie with my friends or my family or even with strangers, that's my business.

Speaker 93 That's not your business.

Speaker 70 But there's people who don't have any pie.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 We understand that on one-on-one relationships, that's...

Speaker 53 I'm gonna go vote some people exactly so we've take theft which we all know is wrong

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 But it's still as evil when we vote for it as it is when it's one-on-one.

Speaker 30 Here's the thing that people don't understand.

Speaker 88 You cannot assign a right to the government that you don't have.

Speaker 69 All rights come to us from God, and then we lend a few of them to the government to protect those rights.

Speaker 30 But I don't have a government. I don't have a right to come over and take any percentage of your money.

Speaker 104 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.

Speaker 17 We have no right to do that.

Speaker 67 Absolutely.

Speaker 105 So we can't assign that right to a government to do that.

Speaker 90 Absolutely.

Speaker 81 And we're going to disagree on where rights come from, and that's okay.

Speaker 2 I believe it's.

Speaker 21 I figured from the Ion Random Republic.

Speaker 81 Yes, no. Glenn knows.

Speaker 2 By the time we get to that, we've solved 90% of the world's problems.

Speaker 81 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

Speaker 81 when we use it as authority, as a means.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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,

Speaker 81 in self-defense.

Speaker 81 I should usually chase after the robber and shoot them down.

Speaker 48 I said, you know what?

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 You know, other than an emergency where I would shoot the thief on the spot.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 116 I just watched the Magnificent 7, the new Magnificent 7.

Speaker 4 I saw that.

Speaker 90 And I thought to myself,

Speaker 59 this is the job of government.

Speaker 40 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 Basically, it's anarchy, and they have nobody to defend themselves. The modern Magnificent VII is set in the United States, in California.

Speaker 81 The villain is a businessman who has connections with the government in Sacramento. Remember, he keeps going to Sacramento.

Speaker 81 I mean, the political agenda of shifting that, right?

Speaker 16 It was a heroic story of people standing up to crooks,

Speaker 81 bad guys, right? Now,

Speaker 53 they're helping the people.

Speaker 81 You know, this is businessmen.

Speaker 16 And he's actually called crooks in the movie.

Speaker 81 Standing up against Robert Barons, right? He's a robber baron, and

Speaker 81 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

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 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

Speaker 81 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.

Speaker 81 of the modern intellectual world. Well, thank you for

Speaker 18 wrecking that movie for me.

Speaker 91 Right.

Speaker 21 Anytime, Glenn.

Speaker 21 All right.

Speaker 82 The name of the book is Equal is Unfair.

Speaker 27 The pie, everything that we've talked about is in the book.

Speaker 28 And it's important for you to be able to make these arguments.

Speaker 34 Equal is Unfair by Yarin Brook, America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.

Speaker 88 Yarn, thank you for being on the program.

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Speaker 50 We're just talking.

Speaker 86 I want to thank Yarin again for wrecking Magnificent 7.

Speaker 72 I just saw that again the second time, and I love that movie.

Speaker 16 Well, I like it too.

Speaker 32 You can still like it.

Speaker 37 You just have to realize that that shows how much Hollywood hates America.

Speaker 30 Never noticed that.

Speaker 41 Never.

Speaker 120 I didn't think of it that way either.

Speaker 63 But I was telling my son while we were watching

Speaker 63 the new movie.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 63 I kept saying, you got to see the, we got to go back home and watch the original.

Speaker 62 And one night we did.

Speaker 60 Rafe loves the original.

Speaker 53 We watched the original first.

Speaker 47 And we started watching it, and it was too much for him.

Speaker 63 He couldn't handle it.

Speaker 120 Really? Yeah.

Speaker 63 But I remembered, oh, yeah, it's in Mexico the first time.

Speaker 62 That's

Speaker 58 it. But I didn't really make that connection like he did.

Speaker 52 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,

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 48 That's not what we were aspired to.

Speaker 52 That's a problem in and of itself.

Speaker 52 And then the other part of that is a promise. The government should never be promising you anything.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 I think that's, generally speaking, been ingrained in our culture for a really long time, but it's gone away.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 53 It's always especially holiday movies.

Speaker 52 Yes, especially

Speaker 16 if you have a heart.

Speaker 89 If you have a heart,

Speaker 85 you can't be in business.

Speaker 16 No. I mean,

Speaker 85 if you want to live like Jesus, you can't be in business.

Speaker 52 Well, it's every villain of every one of those Hallmark Christmas movies. It's always the evil business movie.

Speaker 63 Jesus was a community organizer. We all know that.

Speaker 63 We were told that by a congressman back nine years ago.

Speaker 70 Yeah, and a socialist.

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 47 Which is such nonsense.

Speaker 63 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.

Speaker 49 Stunning like that.

Speaker 68 I don't remember that part.

Speaker 47 I remember him saying, give your money to the poor.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 34 Go find them. That's kind of interesting.
Go find them.

Speaker 30 Yeah. Go help them.

Speaker 88 Good Samaritan.

Speaker 116 He didn't teach that the Good Samaritan stopped and called for help.

Speaker 67 Right.

Speaker 4 He didn't go run for somebody else to go.

Speaker 63 I mean, go back to the Sanhedrin and see if they can get somebody to help you out here.

Speaker 120 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.

Speaker 61 Paid for it. Yeah.

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 35 Himself.

Speaker 28 Right. He the Grinch.

Speaker 46 Yes. Right.

Speaker 53 Right.

Speaker 2 Exactly right.

Speaker 52 But that's not how businessmen are. Businessmen want to come into your town and buy the cookie factory that's been the entire

Speaker 52 reason the town exists this whole time and then move it to Buffalo where

Speaker 52 no one's going to care. They're going to lose all the time.

Speaker 21 The town of Buffalo.

Speaker 52 Yeah, the big town. Yeah.
And you know why? Because they want to make one extra percent or something on their profits.

Speaker 66 And the fib will fool the child.

Speaker 52 The last one that they had was this cookie movie from

Speaker 52 this past Christmas on one of the Chinese hallmark or whatever.

Speaker 10 And

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 52 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.

Speaker 48 Of course, if you're closed nine months of the year, you're going to lose money.

Speaker 45 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.

Speaker 21 Evil businessmen.

Speaker 48 This is the Glenn Beck program,

Speaker 119 Mercury.