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Also, did you know that now you could get a $128 fine if you go out and start your car to warm it up on your property, in your driveway, your car?

Yes.

Because some cities now are worried about insurance rates for all the people in the neighborhood.

Oh.

a little overstep?

I think so.

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Taylor Trapano says he's still shaking his head over a parking ticket he got on his own property.

Quote, I thought it was some kind of joke at first, then I was thrown back by it a bit.

I was really surprised.

The ticket was for leaving the keys in the ignition with the motor running and no one around.

He said he was only doing something that he thought everybody does in Michigan during the winter.

I was in and out probably seven to eight minutes.

So

in about that amount of time, the cop ran up here, gave me a ticket, and by the time I got out, he was nowhere to be seen.

Frustrated with a ticket, he posted it on Facebook where he racked up thousands of comments and shares.

Roseville Police Department ticket comes with a $128 fine.

There's no state law against leaving your car turned on and unattended, but dozens of cities across Michigan have local ordinances.

We have five to ten cars stolen this way every winter, said the Roseville police chief.

It's dangerous.

And of course, it drives everybody's insurance rates up.

It drives our crime rates up.

It also defrosts the ice for me on the window.

Oh, yeah.

It also, it's my house.

It's my car.

It's my house, my driveway.

It's none of your business.

Get the hell off of my property.

Yeah.

And that might be something for the insurance companies to recommend.

Recommend or even tell you you're not supposed to do if you're not writing about rates.

Whatever.

Or if it's really such a problem, then the insurance companies can say, we're going to give you an automatic car starter.

Or go buy one and we'll give you a discount on your insurance rates.

Because the problem is the key.

He had the key.

It's not against the law if you have an automatic car start.

So if you go to the window and start it without the key, then it's not a problem.

Maybe Roseville Police could, I I don't know,

up their police officers through the neighborhoods, keep an eye on people stealing cars.

They are.

They're just doing it to place tickets, apparently.

Unbelievable.

To catch the criminals.

Well, unbelievable.

Five a year?

You're going to fine people for five cars stolen per year?

That makes everybody's insurance rates go up.

And

it makes our crime rate go up.

Crime rate is not something, like, I mean, they act as if crime rate is a thing other, I mean, it's a measure of what's happening.

If, you know, yes, there might be an increase in your crime rate over five cars.

However, to fine

hundreds of citizens

for doing something.

It's the most reactive society, maybe in the history of the planet.

We're the biggest bait

because...

We are the helicopter parents that run in to save our children from any little boo-boo.

And so now when we're not busy with our children in class, we're busy with somebody else and treating them like a child.

I have to tell you, I would, if I were this guy, I'd lose my mind.

I'd lose my mind.

That really is infuriating.

I mean, and not to mention that there's an actual, I mean, you don't do it just for comfort.

I mean, like, you know, you're, if your car is cold, like, you want to make sure it's running properly.

Like, there's, there's some benefits to it.

Not to mention going out in the middle of the freezing cold in Michigan.

of

the snow.

You can chip it off all you want, but unless the car is warm and the windows are warm,

you'll have just your breath on really cold days will fog that window up because the glass is so cold.

And it could re-ice as you're driving, which will cause a car accident.

I mean, that's just crazy.

It's so stupid.

Crazy.

And let's be honest.

None of these reasons are the reasons why they're fighting people.

They're fighting people because they want the money.

They've really come up with a justification to suck more money.

That's not entirely true.

In this case, it is.

It might be.

It might be.

But in other cases, you heard the lady yesterday who was the blog person that you read, the leftist who's like, we're not going to live in your crappy cities until you start voting progressives in.

Blah, blah, blah.

Well, their idea is that they can manage absolutely everything.

So it might be just a progressive city that thinks that they can fix absolutely every problem in everybody's life.

Remember New Canaan when I tried to build the fence around my house?

In a town of Connecticut, yeah.

Yeah, and they told me literally everybody has a fence.

You drive down my street, remember that?

Everybody has these stone walls because they're all old houses.

And I'm sure they all voted for the guy who wanted to build the wall too.

Right.

Yeah.

So

I want to build a wall, a stone wall around my house.

They said, no, too close to the road.

And I'm like, no, it's as close to the road as all of theirs.

Well, there's new ordinances.

You can't build it.

And so

they told me, with a straight face, they told me that I could build that wall exactly the way I wanted it, but it would be five feet from my front door and it would cross the center of my swimming pool.

That's it, though.

But that's it.

But I mean, so if you don't, you'll have a private pool and a public pool.

You could put a big, beautiful door in your pool wall where you just can open it as you swim and swim the rest of the way.

Right.

That would have been really good.

But that was just, that was just people who wanted to control other people's lives.

Well,

did you guys talk last week about the Philadelphia soda tax going into effect?

No.

At all.

No.

I mean, it's unreal.

There is a guy who.

We waited for the guy who has so much passion on soda.

On Philadelphia and soda.

Anything Philadelphia, the Eagles, or soda.

This is all me.

So a guy, Chuck Andrews,

purchased a gallon jug of iced tea.

Okay.

Looked at his receipt when he got home.

The cost

of the tea itself, $1.77.

The tax on the tea, new soda tax and sugary beverage tax in Philadelphia, was $1.92.

Oh my gosh.

So $1.77 for the tea, $1.92

for the tax on the tea.

Taxes more than the tea.

More than the product.

It's time for a Philadelphia tea party.

Yeah.

Oh, my gosh.

But it'll never happen.

They'll just take it.

Unbelievable.

People in Philadelphia will just take it.

People will start selling gallons of tea out of their trunk coming in

from other cities.

Can I tell you something?

There is a road in Philadelphia

called City Line Avenue.

And the reason why it's called City Line Avenue is to let everybody know tax-free on this side of the road, not tax-free on that side.

That's true.

And it's poverty and wealth.

And where were our studios located?

On the wealthy side.

The tax-free side.

Exactly.

Because there's, first of all, there's, among other things, a city wage tax.

Yes.

So

you look at one side of the road and there's a few businesses that are stragglers.

And on the other side, it's packed with office buildings because everyone and packed with good office buildings.

Like, they're real jobs.

You go away.

I remember that, remember the house we rented when we first moved to Philadelphia?

And I wanted to stay near the studios.

So we, we're by City Line.

This is before I know what City Line Avenue is.

And I'm, uh, I'm going to work and

I'm fine.

I'm, you know, we're in good neighborhoods, everything else.

At one point, my wife said,

Have you ever taken a right on your way to work?

And I said, no, why?

She's like, do sometime.

I took a right and literally within three, four, five blocks, you're in blight.

Why?

Why?

How could you possibly be in blight five blocks away from wealthy neighborhoods?

Is there any correlation to City Line Avenue?

Yes.

Sure.

And 60 years of progressive ideas and taxes.

It's so clear to most of us, but the people who are.

Well,

again, the lady who wrote that blog yesterday.

She said, you guys keep voting what's

not in your best interest.

When you start.

Again, she knows what the best interests are.

Sure.

Correct.

Sure.

And when you start voting in progressive city council and progressive elected officials, then we might move there.

Oh,

you're Philadelphia, Detroit, Washington,

New York, Newark, New Jersey.

I can continue.

Atlantic City, no thank you.

No, thank you.

You are the one who are voting in things that are against your best interest.

Yeah, absolutely.

And it goes to the point where, you know, this is all, it's always about control and money, right?

Yeah.

And money is a secondary aspect to control, but it results in control.

So, I mean, the two are so closely tied.

Going back to the soda tax, how many times have we heard this argument for the sugary beverages tax?

They always call it that.

So that's way, so they don't, it's not just soda.

They can tax you with a Kool-Aid, and they can tax you on flavored juices and iced tea.

But it's always sugary beverage tax.

There's no sugar in Lipton Diet Green iced tea.

Okay, there's zero sugar in Lipton Diet Green Citrus Iced Tea, which is delicious, by the way.

A 12-pack of that particular tea in Philadelphia on December 31st cost $4.99 for a 12-pack.

Now, $8.03.

That is unbelievable.

I mean, almost doubled.

So is that the same?

I can guarantee you.

Is that the same for like Coke?

I mean, if you buy a Coke, is it going to double the cost?

Yeah, I mean, I just said use tea because this is the example in this story, but it's 1.5

per ounce.

That is maddening.

When you go to a vending machine,

and you go to a Coke vending machine, how much is a Coke now?

Well, like, for example, a 20-ounce soda, usually 188, is now 218.

So that 30 cents, because it's 1.5 cents per ounce.

So you might say, okay, well, you know, you might not notice necessarily when you buy one 218, you might not notice.

It's when you're getting this, you know, going to a grocery store, which is why what a parent would do or what a family would do to save money instead of buying them in

bulk.

You buy it in bulk.

Or you might buy a gallon

of iced tea instead of an individual package or an individual bottle of iced tea, a small one.

You might buy a gallon.

Well, a gallon is 64 ounces times 1.5.

You're getting into a lot of money and it winds up being more.

So here's

my

New England they call liquor stores package stores.

Yeah.

Okay.

And there are dry counties in Connecticut and

you can't buy alcohol in dry counties.

And it happens that way in,

is it Utah now?

There are

dry counties in Utah.

I doubt it now.

I've lived in places

where there are dry counties.

You work in one where

there's no liquor stores.

Here?

Yeah, in Irving, where we are, you have to go across the border to the next town to go to liquor stores.

I will bet you, I haven't seen this, but I will bet you on that city line of Irving, there are nothing but liquor stores.

Absolutely.

Go down.

You're going to see.

bulk soda places and sugary tea on City Line Avenue in Pennsylvania.

It's the same thing with cigarettes.

On certain state lines, you'll go across a state line.

There's just cigarette emporiums.

How about, I mean, this is how the Native Americans have become wealthy.

They sell cigarettes with no income tax on the reservation.

They do everything that is not legal in the United States.

Where they locked, you know, my whole Indian nation.

What?

Put us on that reservation.

Yeah.

I think that's a good thing.

They took away our native tongue.

I think that's a good thing.

Taught their English to our young.

Again, I I really, you know, all the beads

made by hand.

No, they're made in Japan.

Nowadays, they're made in Japan.

Okay, thank you for the

please, dear God.

India.

He's the only person that I have ever prayed for selective Alzheimer's.

Just to wipe out the music.

Wow.

Just to wipe out the musical lyrics.

But let's not mock anyone.

We can pray Alzheimer's on somebody.

No, no, no.

Selective, only hitting your musical-lyrical knowledge.

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Gary lives in this town in Michigan that is giving out these fines.

Gary.

Yeah, hey.

What is up with your town, dude?

Getting a fine for $128

because you went out and warmed up your car?

Yeah, it's ridiculous.

You know, everybody around here does it.

We get really bad winters in Michigan.

No.

You know,

and I understand, you know, the whole point of, you know, the car theft thing.

It makes sense.

But the problem is, is their priorities.

They literally put that higher up as priority versus the safety of other people.

And I've got a perfect example.

Two years ago, I was driving through Roseville on the freeway, and a girl in a car next to me literally changed lanes and drove right into the side of my car because her windows were all fogged up.

Obviously she didn't let her car sit and warm up and she was in a new car so it's not like it had an inferior heating system.

The car literally, she couldn't see out the windows and drove right into the side of my car in Roseville.

She was not given a ticket and Michigan's a no-fault state, so your insurance pays for your damage.

Holy cow.

But

I'm allowed to sue her insurance company for a mini torque claim to cover my deductible.

But she had a rinky-dink insurance company in Texas, and since she didn't get a ticket, they refused to pay my deductible.

So I got a damaged car and a $1,000 deductible to have it fixed.

And

the reason for anybody who lives in the South that doesn't understand foggy windows, explain why that makes a difference.

What did she not do?

Well, I mean, well, for starters,

the moisture and the humidity in the air, even when it's cold, it ices up the glass.

And your windows are literally covered in glass.

And even if you get all the glass scraped on the ice and the snow cleaned off,

it's 20 or 10 or 5 or below zero outside.

And you get in your car, it's the same exact temperature because the heat hasn't been running long enough to heat the car up, and you're breathing 98-degree air out of your body into a car.

It's kind of like a glass Coke bottle on a hot summer day, how it sweats.

Well, it creates the same moisture on your glass, and all your windows get completely fogged up, and you literally cannot see in or out of a car.

That was a really good exercise.

I mean, you almost had a pocket check to chalkboard.

That was,

I mean, are you a teacher?

What do you do for a living?

That was really good.

I appreciate it.

Well, it's just, it sucks because they're literally showing priorities that they're going to cater to insurance companies who are afraid of less than a half dozen cars a year getting stolen versus the safety of other people driving on the roads.

Right.

And, of course, obviously that would affect insurance companies too, first of all, because they would be dealing with the accidents that happen.

And secondarily, it's up to the insurance companies, if they believe that that's an issue, that they can address that in the policy with the person who signs the policy gary i think you're mistaken i don't think that this is about uh the insurance company and them in bed with the insurance company i really don't because the insurance company would care about the uh the windshield fogging up et cetera etc they would they would care about that because they just spent more money on on that car um so that is

statistics that they're after oh i think it's they're after your money do they ticket like this a lot

yeah yeah you get stupid tickets all over the place.

You know,

there's a city right next door to Roseville called St.

Clair Shores I lived in, and it's literally an unwritten law that you cannot park on a city street between the hours of 3 and 5 a.m.

in case there's a fire and a fire truck would not be able to safely get down the street.

Apparently, fires only happen between 3 and 5 a.m.

and

you're looking at a town that wants your dollars

plus your tax dollars.

I think they are on a they're on a phishing mission into your wallet, but I could be wrong.

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Confirmation hearings are going on for the Attorney General, but we really want to talk about Barack Obama's farewell address tonight.

Can you believe we made it?

I mean, I talked to Tucker Carlson last night.

I was on his first show.

Congratulations, Tucker, on getting the 9 o'clock spot.

And

he had me on, and I said, you know,

how many of us, let's take a moment and recognize, how many of us thought we would never make it to the end of the Obama administration, that the country wouldn't make it?

Let's take a moment here and celebrate We made it.

We were wrong.

To some degree.

To somebody who thought that we wouldn't make it.

He did transform us to a certain extent.

Oh, yeah, no, no.

He fundamentally transformed America.

Or I think he's done more than that.

I mean, I think whenever we talked about that, it was America as we know it was the way it was

as we know it.

Correct.

But we all thought that, at least I did, that there was a chance of real economic peril that would come.

It just hasn't come yet.

And

it's not tied to him.

They pumped

trillions of dollars into the economy artificially.

Yeah.

And he has fundamentally transformed the nation.

I think, have I told you guys about Defying Hitler, this book, Defying Hitler?

Did I tell you about it yesterday?

No.

Stew's a new fresh meat.

Fresh meat.

Yeah, Stew's been good.

Okay, Stew.

Remember when I said you need to read Garden of Beasts?

Yes.

And remember, you guys heard it for about six six months until you couldn't take it anymore.

Oh my gosh, yes.

And we finally had to read it.

Right?

Yes.

And then you read it and you came back and you were like.

It was awesome.

Awesome.

Right.

And the reason why I wanted you to read it is because it was a different perspective on Germany than you'd ever read before.

Right?

Great, great book.

And by the way, it's supposedly going to be a movie at some point.

Yeah.

Right.

Okay.

So

I'm telling you.

This one, A, it's a lot shorter.

This book that I've recently found is

a hundred times Garden of Beasts.

And what it is, is a guy who was German, was growing up in Germany,

came of age about 1920.

So he was a teenager during the First World War.

He started writing it in the 30s, but he's going after all of his recollections starting at 1914.

So he remembers what Germany was.

Then he remembers the war, and he talks about the war and what happened.

Then the 1920s, the Weimar Republic, hyperinflation, he talks about that.

And then the coming of Hitler, and then Hitler, and who he was and what happened.

This book was written in the 30s as a warning to the world.

He escaped Germany and came to the United States, became a professor, he became a huge

author of historic books.

He wrote wrote the quintessential book on who Adolf Hitler really was, his character and his personality back in like 1972.

He dies.

His family finds on a shelf this manuscript in 2003 or 2006, something like that.

It's published.

It becomes a big bestseller during the Bush years.

I'd never heard of it.

Saw somebody reading it the other day and I said, what is that?

And they're like, defying Hitler.

And I'm like, ooh, that sounds good.

And they started talking to me about it.

And now now I have read, you name it, I have read it on

the,

you know, on Hitler.

I mean, I've gotten all the way down to I was Hitler's chauffeur,

which isn't worth a read.

But anyway,

I started reading this book.

You will learn more

important

things about what happened.

and what allowed Hitler to take place than any other book I've ever read about the Second World War.

It has a completely different point of view because he's not writing it from the point of view of the Nazis and what they were doing it.

He's writing it from the point of view of the youth of the day.

And

he was young.

So he was in his teens.

when America or when Germany was a certain way.

And that 9-11 event, if you you will, that changed them was the First World War.

Then they came back and they were at each other's throats politically and the churches were at each other's throats.

And then jobs were hard to find and then they started printing money.

And then money became, you couldn't, you know, we've read a million times that when you got paid, you stopped working, cashed your check, went in, and bought anything you could in the store, right?

Because a a week from now, by the end of your workday, it would be,

your paycheck would be worthless.

What he talks about is, and I've never heard this, it was the stock market that

anybody who didn't have a family, they took their money and they immediately poured it into the stock market.

And they got wildly wealthy.

Now think of this.

Why don't we have hyperinflation?

Why isn't isn't our meat and milk and everything else, why isn't that

reflective of the $4 trillion that we have just pumped into the system, right?

If I said 10 years ago, you put $2 trillion into this system, and you're going to start to see massive inflation, okay?

We're at $4 trillion.

Where's the inflation?

You know this.

I know you know this.

You're going to go, of course, yes, when I say it.

The stock market.

Everybody says, though there's no, the fundamentals are gone.

What they should be saying is the stock market is reflective of hyperinflation because the stock market is a reflection of who has the money.

Dot and velocity.

Right.

I mean, there's a couple of things.

So they don't, so the people who got the money are the big corporations, the big banks.

They're not giving it to you and me.

So we don't have too many dollars chasing too few goods.

They do.

And so that's why big, elaborate houses are still going through the roof.

The rich are starting to feel that inflation, and it's concentrated in the stock market.

Well, that's the same thing that happened in Germany.

They started concentrating,

but everybody was doing it.

I'm sorry.

The youth without children were taking, they were buying a little bit of food to last them the week to the next paycheck.

Then they were taking all that money and putting it into the stock market.

And the stock market did what it's doing now.

And now, here's what happened.

Now, think of this.

I've never heard this point of view before, and I think this is accurate.

He says,

in reading, remember, he's writing in the mid-30s as a warning to the West: you don't know who this guy is, and you don't know what happened to Germany.

The older people in Germany are not with him,

the youth are with him.

And here's why.

Because

they

were too young to really understand the real German society, the German ethics and being kind to each other because

they came of age during the war.

And then they came to age during the war.

And right after the war, then the people turned on themselves, were arguing politics, demonizing each other.

The Weimar Republic came in, delegitimized the money.

All morals went out the window.

So if you're 25, you have no kids, you're going to the cabaret every night,

you have a ton of money because you put it all in the stock market.

You're living large, you're a titan, you're getting all of the girls, your life is absolutely sweet.

Then what happens?

At the end of the Weimar Republic, a sensible guy comes in, an older statesman comes in and says, I can fix the hyperinflation.

He fixes the hyperinflation.

He fixes the fact that he says, for two years during this guy's rule, we're not even talking about politics anymore.

No one is arguing politics.

We're on the road back to the way we were.

But all those youth who were bank presidents, they were 25-year-old bank presidents,

they're not bank presidents anymore because they were all discredited because it was a game of, it was a shell game.

It was like Wall Street, you know, the movie.

Just a shell game.

So those guys don't, they have to go down into other jobs and work hard for their money.

And those days are over for them, those glory days.

They want the glory days.

So when Hitler comes in and says, we're going to set the rules, we're going to privatize business with us.

And if you're in with the Nazi party, you're going to be able to make it.

They recognize this game of

just

do the ends justify the means.

And I can have that life back.

So the youth throw their lot in with Hitler.

And that's why it worked.

I've never heard that before.

It's really interesting.

And that's only, that's like the first third of the book.

It's really good called Defying Hitler.

I'm in.

I'm going to read it.

I'm in.

I just finished Hitler Ascent.

I have not read that one.

It's the new, like, it's, the Ascent is till 1939, so it's a two-part series, a thousand books per

edition,

a thousand pages per edition.

You know, one of those type of books.

But, I mean, fascinating.

Just the chapter on Hitler and the churches.

is so worth your time.

If you've ever had the argument with someone on Facebook where they say, oh, you know, every one of these mass murders is always fueled by religion.

And you would say,

Hitler?

He was?

Look at this quote from Hitler.

He said things that were religious.

Prior to 1933.

All of it happened really early on, in the first few weeks of

his reign as chancellor.

But I mean, the behind the scenes quotes they have from this guy in which his entire mission was to discredit the churches afterwards.

It was like living space, get rid of the Jews, then let's get rid of the churches.

That was his plan.

And he used those relationships, tried to destroy the churches, and the quotes they have from him and Goebbels and

it's amazing.

Hitler's Ascent?

Hitler Ascent.

Volcker Ulrich is the guy who wrote it.

It's the new sort of...

Volcker?

Volker Ulrich.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, it's amazing.

It's the new like...

you know, biography on Hitler, the new one.

Like, you know, every 10 to 15 years, a new one gets written.

The last one.

and that's a problem too, because the farther we get away from these guys, I mean, it's a double-edged source.

Yeah, it's a double-edged sword.

You want to be, you want to, the time to write it is when some of the people are still alive, but they're not powerful.

So, at the end of their life, so

they can still, you can still check and say, right, right, right.

And if you use original sources, you're good.

So, the first ones that are written in the first 30 years are probably a little skewed, probably,

unless they're attached entirely to original first-person sources.

Right.

And so you had, I mean, you've had this where, you know, Joachim Fest had one, which was influenced by a lot of the people who were alive, but a lot of the people who wanted to rehabilitate their reputations, Albert Speer being the main one.

Yes.

And that one came later.

Kershaw's in 2000, I think, was

seen as the standard.

And this one, I think, because while you're right, a lot of these guys aren't around anymore to tell the stories, more and more documentation has come out.

And really, I mean, the fuel for the industry, if you want to say the Hitler,

is

the Goebbels diaries.

I mean, those changed the whole world of how much we understand.

The guy was writing a diary entry about every meeting he had throughout the era.

That's a great thing about.

That's a great thing.

And the founders, too.

But with the founders, they stopped using those diaries.

They stopped using the original sources.

Right.

Because it didn't give them the narrative they were looking for.

The narrative on the Nazis is they were bad guys.

And so their diaries back all of that stuff up.

So

as long as you're pegged to original sources, you're good.

This has been Hitler Book Corner.

I just finished Hitler's Mailman's Neighbor.

Yeah, he died in 1934, so he doesn't have a lot of perspective.

What was Hitler?

But he talked about the junk mail he heard Adolph got early in his chancellorship.

Fascinating.

Regional sources and footnotes.

Can I get your copy?

Do you mind if I borrow it?

823 pages.

So the two books.

The three books.

The three books.

The one I'm talking about is Defying Hitler.

Hitler Assent is Stu's.

And Hitler's

next door neighbor.

Is the third one.

Thank you very much.

It's a long read, eh?

Pats is, I will say, a little bit academic.

I mean, it's a little bit.

It's deep pictures even of

2400 pages

oh my god he dies before 33 dies huh yeah yeah amazing

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We were just talking about Star Wars, who was catching up with Stu, who was sick early last week,

and asked about the new Star Wars, if he had seen it, Rogue One, and what he thought.

We all are of the same opinion.

Really good.

We don't know how to compare it.

Really, really good for an offshoot.

I mean, this is the good times or the

mod, if you will,

of

the mod of the Star Wars story.

Yeah, it is.

It's a kind of a complete

prequel to.

It's a prequel to the original

1976.

I don't think it is.

It's a parallel storyline that feeds it.

Yeah.

So it's not, it's not

exactly a prequel.

Right.

You're right.

Yeah.

It's an offshoot.

It's a second storyline.

But in it, it brings up the ethical choice of what all of us are going to have to face in the future.

And a question of, wow, would you have the right to do that?

We'll talk about it next.

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The Jeff Sessions hearings are underway in Capitol Hill, and

I just saw Diane Feinstein say that quote the country right now is overwhelmed by fear

and we need to know how to answer a few things yada yada yada the country is overwhelmed by fear

now no one

on in the media will print

anything like

What are they talking about?

Why are the Democrats just peddling fear?

Why are they playing on people's fears?

What is this, what is their gain to be got by saying that people are fearful?

They're fear mongers.

Except that's exactly what they're doing.

That's exactly what we said politely at the beginning.

Wait, you know, there's a lot of us that are a little freaked out.

This guy has been surrounded by Marxists and communists his whole life, and you guys are changing things.

What are we changing to?

The same kind of fear, except the rules are reversed.

So, now, what is the media going to do?

What are the politicians going to do?

I don't know.

But what we should do is very, very clear.

And we begin there right now.

I will make a stand, I will raise my voice.

I will hold your hand.

Cause we have won.

I will beat my drum.

I have made my choice.

We will overcome.

Cause we are one.

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I want to take you back eight years ago.

Tonight is the night that Barack Obama

gives his farewell speech.

And we made it, gang.

We made it.

And a lot of the things that we said would happen have happened.

Some of the things are worse.

Some of the things are better.

But the country has been fundamentally transformed.

Now I want to start there.

Eight years ago.

Eight years ago, five days before the election, he said, we are five days away from the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.

And then after he was elected, Newsweek magazine published an article.

Their headline on the front page was, we're all socialists now.

We heard from the president's pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who said awful things about white people.

He is, in my opinion, clearly a racist.

He has surrounded himself with people like Jeremiah Wright his whole life.

Not only is Jeremiah Wright a clear racist, Jeremiah Wright is also a clear liberation theology Marxist.

Barack Obama grew up around Marxists and communists.

So there was a reason for half the country to say, wait a minute, wait a minute, what do you mean by fundamental transformation?

Remember when he was talking to Joe the Plumber and he talked about redistribution of wealth.

But they said that we were racists for even saying that he has socialist or Marxist leanings.

Remember that.

We're racists for saying he has socialist or Marxist leanings when he was proposing universal health care.

Well, that's a socialist program.

How can they be racist to point out that the socialist program that

he is proposing is socialist?

When you are running

a newspaper, or I mean a magazine cover that says we're all socialists now, how can it be racist for me to say I'm not a socialist, and I think he is, and I think that's bad?

So, it was not only the move of

the fundamental transformation and the loss of fundamental underpinnings of the Constitution, where nobody was talking about the Constitution.

Remember, the problem with George W.

Bush was executive orders, executive overreach, spying on people, and endless wars.

We agree, a lot of America agreed with that in 2008.

Yeah, we should stop spying on people.

We should reduce the size of the federal government's overreach with things like the NSA, things like the Patriot Act.

Yeah, you're right.

And maybe we should humble ourselves a little bit and maybe not get tied into all of these wars all around the world.

That was the fundamental transformation that we were all under the understanding that we were told was going to happen.

But when it got down to it, there were too many questions about this man's past and character that no one would ask.

No one would say.

No one would verify.

And when we did, we were called conspiracy theorists, racist, or fearmongers.

When I said, the Fed has pumped $4 trillion

into the economy.

No country has ever done that and survived.

Check it out.

Do your own homework.

No country has ever printed $4 trillion

of paper or digits and survived.

Never has happened in the history of the world.

I'm called a fearmonger.

I'm called crazy.

To say that a man is not listening to those who disagree with him

and is doing things by hook or by crook

and say that the person who says that is a fear monger, a radical, a racist, when his own quotes and the quotes from people like Nancy Pelosi by hooker by crook, Obama, will pole vault into it if we have to.

You have to pass the bill to see what's in the bill.

Those are all legitimate reasons for fear.

But we were told there is no legitimate reason for fear.

That we are out of step, we are dragging us back to the past, that we are racist, hate-mongers, and dangerous.

Now,

The one message they didn't hear from me in the last eight years because they weren't listening, they only had selective hearing, was guys don't do this because the tables will turn and the next guy could come in and it might not be your guy and you won't like him having all of this power.

Don't do it.

Now the tables have turned and now

the good senator from California says the country is overwhelmed by fear now.

Good.

I'm glad she's overwhelmed by fear.

Good.

Are you?

Are you?

Yes.

Yes.

I think turn about is fair play in this particular instance.

I don't feel that bad for Diane Feinstein or Barbara Boxer or any of these phonies who are now afraid.

Good.

Good.

Whether you voted for Trump or not, you have to feel good about that particular instance.

Don't you?

It's probably wrong of me to feel that way.

I'm going to go a step further and say I'm pretty sure it is wrong.

However, I completely validate your feeling of

good

okay

you're feeling what you're feeling yeah good yeah and there is part of me that says oh really right oh now the shoe's on the other foot exactly and I could say good

you want some fear oh I'll show you some fear

and then do all of the things and I and there is a part of me that would revel

in doing and going back, and we could do this easily, going back and looking for all of the things Chris Matthews said,

all the things that everybody on the left

said about us,

and then having just a book of it, and then applying it to them and saying,

Good.

Who are you trying to take America back for?

What does that even mean?

What are you, a bunch of racists?

I mean, we could play that game.

Yeah.

Or

we could say,

finally,

you understand what we felt like.

And no one in America should ever feel that way.

No one in America should ever feel like the President of the United States is a danger to them personally.

That's crazy.

No one should ever feel that way.

The president should not have that power.

Or because they don't understand that, we could just say, good.

Right.

Good.

We could.

Be afraid.

Yes, we could say that.

Or we could say,

I understand that.

Now,

for those of you who are feeling that, I really get it.

And let me show you how I get it.

And you're not going to understand it because you believe.

that everyone involved in this have good intentions, just like those who support Donald Donald Trump all believe he has good intentions and he'll never do anything wrong.

He will not hurt anything.

He's a reasonable businessman.

Yes, his hyperbole or some of the people that have been around him, yes, they're of concern.

I get that, but that's not who he is.

Exactly what you said to me.

Right.

Let me say that back to you.

Now, let me show you

what scared us, because I can turn the tables and show you the exact reverse of this that's got you freaking out.

That's a long way.

Now, I like good.

It's shorter.

But you're right.

It is shorter.

It's easier to remember.

And it's easier for them to understand.

So, yeah, good.

No, no, no.

They're smarter than we are.

Oh, so let's make a reasoned argument here, okay?

Okay.

They said we were afraid of progress and we were afraid of anything new.

All right.

We say,

look,

what you deem new,

we deem as

a severing of

important traditions.

The day of the inauguration, we got a call from a listener who said, my daughter was involved to listen to the Vice President of the United States, Al Gore, speak.

And I said to her, you better go in and tape it on my cell phone.

So she went in and taped it.

He sent us the tape, and this is what was on it.

There are some things about our world

that you

know

that older people don't know.

Okay, what he was saying in this, no adults were allowed in.

It was just the vice president and teenage kids.

And what he was saying there was,

you don't have to talk to your parents about this one-on-one.

There are things that you know that they are, they're just not going to understand.

And global warming, they will never understand.

But know that you're right.

And if you can bring your parents along, good.

But don't worry about your parents because they didn't understand racism either in the day.

Okay, that's what he said.

That was his whole point, yeah.

Now that frightened a lot of people.

who have families and believe the sanctity of the family belongs to the mother or father.

And I know those on the left feel that if it's a mother and a mother or a father and a father, their word is what is raising that child.

You don't want somebody from my side coming in and saying, hey, I want to talk to your kid by themselves.

Glenn Beck wants to talk to your teenage child.

Yeah, they'd love it.

And no recording devices.

And then I say, you know, your dad and your dad,

look,

you know things

that they don't understand.

So you just keep moving forward on the agenda that we're talking about here.

And don't worry about your mom and dad.

You got to love them because they don't, they never got the traditional marriage thing in the first place, but we love them anyway.

That would scare you to the core of your existence.

That's what happened to us for eight solid years.

Now

you are feeling, here's a guy that is coming in and we've made all of this progress

and it's all being reversed on us.

Overnight it's being reversed.

And then I would say to you,

that's wrong, isn't it?

That's wrong.

isn't it?

We can't, how can you possibly run a country?

And what were we told?

Elections have consequences.

Correct.

The fundamental transformation is underway because elections have consequences.

And I would say to you,

we can't run a country where every four or eight years we turn the boat around 180 degrees.

We will have no credibility.

We will have no stability.

It will only lead to more and more division.

We can't have that happening in our country.

So So what's the solution?

The solution is the federal government never makes big changes unless they're constitutional changes.

And the power is restrained because elections do have consequences and they're having more and more consequences for us now.

You don't want those consequences.

I don't want those consequences.

And for us to project stability, we have to have some rock of foundation.

And it's not a person.

It's not Obamaism and it's not Trumpism.

It's constitutionalism.

That is the rock of

our stability.

If we can talk to them and have an honest conversation where we can start instead of saying good, which we all want to say,

good, Diane, really?

Why don't you feel that for a while?

Instead, saying,

finally,

finally, you understand exactly how we have felt.

It doesn't feel good, does it?

And the last thing I want to do to you, Diane, is to mock you because that's what was done to us.

And I remember how that felt as well.

I mean, it's not the last thing we want to do.

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Welcome to the program.

One feels good and one wins.

The question is: do we want to feel good or do we want to bring people together and win on both sides?

And if we feel good, what does that do?

It just continues to divide, right?

It just

goes to the Dyan Feinsteins of the world.

And that just continues the

division between the two.

And

you are played as

a bad guy yeah or or you can say like you said very reasonably finally

you know what I was talking about eight or eight years ago

I hate to say this because this is so against what conservat how conservatives talk but this is how liberals understand things

finally you understand how I feel I feel yes yeah this is how I felt what you're feeling right now is what I felt Right.

But you can connect.

Who's the reasonable

liberal to have that?

I've had it with lots of them.

Not Dianne Feinstein.

Nobody has to do that.

No, I don't think it's going to come from the.

I don't think so either.

It's not going to come from the media class.

It's not going to come from the politician class.

You had a good talk with Charlie Rose, who I think is probably quite liberal.

Right.

I had a great talk.

Samantha B was an amazing conversation.

I think the truth is, obviously, that Dianne Feinstein doesn't really.

Her, she doesn't really fear too much government power.

She's just doing doing what she does.

Oh,

I think they do.

I think,

let's put it this way.

They fear government power if it's not them.

Them.

The same way that many of the people who said that they were on our side are

first in line for giant government programs now because they're in charge.

If Donald Trump

and the GOP

rebuilds Obamacare into another government program, program, well, then it shows that some people didn't actually believe that the government wasn't the answer.

I still do.

And I think there's a lot of people on both sides that still do.

But don't discount the fear on both sides because the fascists and the communists have always been afraid of this.

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Right now,

Diane Feinstein just said that there is the country is overwhelmed by fear.

And

finally, they understand how we have felt.

We have felt this way when we had somebody who was not a capitalist, who was talking about socialist programs.

And then when they would deny and say, no, he's not a socialist.

Well, then that makes me feel like you're hiding something even bigger.

And he had communists that were in his life early in his age that was part of our fear and he put a communist uh at the head of uh what was he he was the climate czar the green job czar green job czar correct yeah correct so you know now people are afraid that Trump will bring in totalitarianism, that he will shut people up he disagrees with, that he will reverse all of the things, listen to this, reverse all of the things that you value.

Well, that's exactly how I felt about Barack Obama.

I can relate to you 100%.

I could sit there at a bar with you while you're pouring shots down your throat and crying at the bar, and I could just have my hand on your back the whole time going, I know, I know, get it all out.

I know.

I was there.

Right.

That's the way we have to react to our liberal friends.

Don't fall into the trap of mocking them or dismissing them.

Don't fall into the trap and saying, yeah, that's the way we felt, okay?

Listen to them and say, I know.

Now, I'm not talking about the elites.

The elites and the ones who are driving everything, it's just like my stance on Black Lives Matter.

I don't believe in the people who are running it or wrote the manifesto.

They're communists.

They're dangerous.

Most of the people, I believe, that are following them, that they're average people, are just trying to say, somebody, will somebody listen to us?

Because there's a problem in our community.

Those are the people that we need to reach out to.

I think to

let's let me back you strategically here for a moment as well.

Because a lot of your stuff, you know, it seems like you're going to play the, you know, the

sitar, and we're all going to, you know, go join around a campfire or something.

It might.

I think you're probably right.

But just

if you think differently for a moment, let me sell this to you strategically.

Okay.

If you were a liberal right now,

what would be the best course of action with Donald Trump?

You realize that Donald Trump is going to do things that are conservative and he's going to do things on the border that you're not going to like, and you're going to oppose him on those things.

However, if you're smart, you don't just come out and trash the guy around every corner.

You say to him, you know what?

Like, for example, this trillion-dollar stimulus that you want, there's a lot of things in there that would, that agree with what I want.

And you would not only

help him along on that process, but you'd loudly sell those things to make the process easier for him to pass those parts of his agenda that would help you.

I think everybody in the audience would agree that would be a smart thing for a liberal to do right now.

Right?

You would find those things, and there are many where Donald Trump might agree.

And I think there are those people in Congress that are playing three-dimensional chess that will get there.

Yeah.

The most

want to be reelected and want their fundraising.

And so they will push racism.

Right.

They will push fear.

every step of the way because they know that their part of the audience does actually have fear.

So there's two people.

There are those on our side that may have been pushing fear just to sell stuff.

I was accused of that all the time.

I'm consistent.

Donald Trump is in office.

Donald Trump, anybody but Jesus could not fix what is coming in our economy.

Now, maybe I'm wrong, but we will be the first in human history to do it.

So I still say, Crash is coming.

Big crash is coming.

There are some that now say, oh, no, nothing to fear.

Well, so then were you just selling fear?

Right.

So

revisiting this quickly, though.

So you would come and you'd say, okay, I want to help him along there.

And you know what?

It would hurt you maybe politically.

It might necessarily not feel good.

You know, you might have people pushing back at you and your Twitter feed might go nuts.

You know, people will be opposing you.

And you say, why are you helping Donald Trump?

I don't care.

But you know, in the end, you're getting something of lasting value,

a proposal that you're going after, right?

Now let's look at this the other way.

There are a lot of liberals out there who are suddenly upset about federal government power.

They can't believe how there could be somebody out there

who would want all of this power in the middle of the executive branch, because you know what?

Right now, they don't like the executive branch.

It's easy to come out here, I think, and say, and I think as we are all tempted to do, just to say good and screw you, which I will probably do privately when you're not around.

But the other part of that is, is there, are there opportunities to say, hey, there is a long-lasting benefit for us to look at the left and their sudden opposition to federal power and lock it in now while they care about it.

Yes.

Use the fake momentum of your dislike of Donald Trump.

Oh, yes, eat that sandwich.

I want what you're having.

Go.

Thank you.

Yes.

And minimize government power.

Look for ways to to shrink government because they don't want Donald Trump to have it.

Who cares why they don't want it?

Get it passed now and lock it in so the next 20 administrations that want to abuse it have to work a lot harder to do it.

So then you would be making a case for like an Article 5 convention.

I would love an Article 5 that restrains the federal government.

Yes.

And like

we have so much in common, we just have to learn how to talk to each other.

I mean, I hate to say this to learn strategically, learn from Ted Kennedy, right?

Go back to the Bush administration for a second.

Do you think if Al Gore was president, they would have got been able to lock down Medicare prescription drug entitlements?

No, because every Republican would have opposed it.

But when George Bush came up with the idea, say, I want a new entitlement program, Ted Kennedy and others were smart enough to say, I don't know, I'm a little skeptical, but you know, let me work with you and see what we can find.

When they wanted an expansion of government control education, what did they do?

They went in there and they said, you know what, we're skeptical, but let's try this no child left behind thing and see if we can get some of these standards put in there.

And I'm going to put on my best hat and trust you guys, even though I'm not always with you.

And what they got is a long-lasting

expansion of government in multiple major areas.

And we should be looking at that the same way.

Yes.

Yeah, we should.

Very good point.

In some ways, though, the right can't even talk to the right.

And I think last night's appearance with Tucker Carlson.

You are so wrong on this.

Sort of a sort of proof of that.

I mean, you talked to him really well.

And I think he...

I think he was

trying to

incite violence there.

No, he wasn't.

I think he was trying to incite violence.

Incite talking about the violence.

There was nothing to have violence over.

It was like

if I.

So, Glenn, you said that Glenn Beck

during the campaign said that Ted Cruz was anointed by God.

Play it so you hear his tongue.

It's good to see you.

Play it so you hear his tone.

Okay.

Beck went on the road in support of rival candidate Ted Cruz, whom he said was anointed by God to stop Trump.

At one point, he predicted that four years of a Trump presidency would lead, quote, to civil war or worse.

Well, his exhortations went unheeded, and a Trump presidency is 11 days away.

His what went unheeded?

Exhortations.

Exhortations went unheeded.

Yeah, so but

isn't that inaccurate?

Isn't that exactly what happened?

Well, to some degree, and I correct it.

Now, listen.

So where's Glenn Beck on all of this now?

Glenn Beck joins us tonight.

Glenn, great to see you.

Good to see you, Chucky.

Okay, that's a different tone.

All right.

That's a different tone.

He was

the reporter

as he saw it.

Good to see you.

Uh-huh.

Yeah.

First of all, let me say congratulations on your new show, and I'm honored that you would ask me to be on

your first show.

Let me just clarify a couple things.

You bet.

Never said he was anointed by God to be president of the United States.

I do believe that people are called.

All of us are.

You're called for your job.

I'm called for my job.

All of us are called for a specific time.

That doesn't mean that...

Nice explanation of that, by the way.

He's the only one that can do it.

It doesn't mean any of that.

And it certainly doesn't mean that God's going to make that happen.

We have to all play our roles.

So I appreciate what you said, but it's not exactly what it meant.

Interesting, there's no clarification this morning on the Drudge report who continually said, Glenn Beck, Ted Cruz anointed by God.

And then the actual explanation of it.

Well, I think I remember it pretty well.

You had said you'd been praying for and with Ted Cruz and that you had heard that you believed that God had called him forward at this time.

And so I just, my question is really simple.

And I'm not attacking you.

I'm just wondering, because he didn't win and Trump did win, did it shake your faith?

And what lessons, spiritual lessons, did you take from that?

No,

none.

I think that all of us are called by God.

This kind of, and Tucker, you know this.

All of us are called by God to do certain things.

And sometimes those things mean just take a stand.

It doesn't mean that what you think is going to work out is worked out.

Just you're called for this time.

So how would you have responded to that patient responded the way you would have I mean that was a good response so by the end of this we walk away we walk away fine with each other and we walk away friends we he made his points that he wanted to make yes and which we're all

trying to trip you up or you could say that they were all legitimate things that people have said about me in the last year yeah they'll

give me and give me a chance to respond to them um in a in a non-hostile atmosphere so you're saying this is a Bill O'Reilly-esque idea I don't know I don't know Tucker right that's why I'm saying I listened to Tucker last night I thought they were I thought they were odd questions only because that's not what I would have started with right I wouldn't have started my first show with you know hey Glenn I've got some philosophical questions about your business etc

from six months ago right I just wouldn't have done that but I don't know Tucker and it it ended up a really good conversation and he was I thought he was polite to me, and I tried to be polite to him.

Yeah, he wasn't screaming at you.

Right.

And so

there was serious intent, though.

I guess your point, I guess.

My point is the intent, which was malignant.

The intent didn't seem to matter because we all

were reasonable with each other, and I didn't assume the worst of him.

And so the attent, if that was his intent,

it didn't matter.

Yeah.

It didn't matter.

I think you diffused.

It's clear in that.

He looked good.

I looked good.

What's the problem?

It's clear both in your response and in your segment currently going on on the air right now on the show that we're speaking on.

You are doing your best to not

think the worst thing.

That's a good set of tests.

Which is, I think, a good way to handle it.

That's what we have to do.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If we do it.

You could have obviously fought.

I mean, because look, I mean, it's kind of a BS premise to come in in here and say, hey,

hey, you said you, you know, you say you believe in God.

You said God was going to make Ted Cruz president and you lost.

Is God real?

I mean, that's essentially the premise of Sports.

Well, you could have said that.

However, let's talk about some of the things you said during the campaign, Tucker.

Let's go down that road.

Right, but that's no benefit to you.

I'm just saying, you could have done that.

We agree that I think your approach is much better than that.

Much better.

And I think it is a change.

It's not what you would normally expect.

I think, you know, from what I understand, I haven't watched tons of Tucker's show, but I mean, what he's done on what he's done in

had a pickup in the media and social media has been essentially him fighting with a lot of people.

And I think that's kind of his

approach to that format.

And you kind of went a different way, and it still resulted in a good segment.

So everybody wins, right?

Right.

I think that's a good thing.

And there's no reason you can't have a conversation.

No, you don't know.

I wrote to Tucker afterwards and thanked him for the interview and said, there's no reason for us, even if we disagree on policies.

principles we have.

There's no reason for us to come at each other.

And anything I can do to help you, I stand ready to help you.

I think that's going to be,

we have to do that because we have a historic opportunity right now.

And I don't know if we get another chance.

I don't know.

If we just continue the same fight over the next four or eight years,

what happens to us in 2020 or 2024?

I don't know.

But I don't think it's good.

I don't think it just gets miraculously better on its own.

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I'm excited to see.

I think the

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I've tried, unless there was something that was important to say.

I want to see the man in action.

We have, I gave him the same thing that I said about Barack Obama.

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Well, the new GOP Congress has now twice tried to bring pork barrel spending back.

If you think that the deficit was a problem under George Bush and then under Barack Obama, can you be consistent enough to say it's still a problem?

So many people said it wasn't a problem under George Bush, and we thought about that.

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From stage 19 in the Mercury Studios in Dallas, Texas, Mark Meckler is joining us.

He's with Article 5 Conventionofstates.com.

Welcome, Mark.

How are you?

I'm glad to be here.

Always better when I'm in Texas.

Yeah, I know.

We were just talking about

this historic opportunity.

You know, the confirmation hearings are happening this week, and a lot of liberals are really freaked.

And I'm not talking about the ones that are in Congress because I think they'll play to anybody who will give them their power.

But the average person is...

for the first time in eight years, afraid of exactly the same things we were afraid of, right?

It's really interesting how the narratives converge.

You know, I'm from California, and suddenly in California, you have people on the left talking about nullification and secession, which apparently was the province of the right-wing crazy fringe, is now the province of the left-wing crazy fringe.

Everything comes full circle.

Correct.

So I'm talking to my friends who are telling me great things from inside of the Trump administration, that they're going to make some real changes, et cetera, et cetera.

And I keep saying,

But they're not structural changes.

They're not, that is just reversing legislation or reversing executive orders.

We have to have constitutional changes.

Otherwise, we're going to play this back and forth every two or eight years or four or eight years.

You know, I'm in the fight for my kids and my grandkids and our posterity.

And you're exactly right.

Even if we presume that we're going to get great stuff out of this administration, it's temporary because that pendulum will swing.

You know, we all looked at the map, the red map with excitement after the election.

If you take that same map and look at it and only count voters age 18 to 35, entire map is blue.

So you're going to see some demographic shift in this country over time.

And if we don't make the structural changes that protect liberty, then we're in trouble.

And that's what the founders knew, right?

They knew it was about structure, not about people.

So tell me some of the new things that are happening.

You know, when we talked to you, it was just before the election, I think.

Yeah, it was right before the election.

And now, so now tell me what's happening on the ground.

Is there more steam to get there, less steam?

Yeah, there's a lot more steam.

And I I think because the public sentiment in the country is just continuing to be anti-DC.

And now, again, this weird alignment, both sides are anti-DC.

Folks on the right, we've always been skeptical of concentrated power at the federal government level.

Folks on the left are now jumping on that bandwagon, talking about states' rights and federalism for the first time.

So you have this sort of unity of narrative, different purpose coming out of the narrative, but a unity of narrative.

What's your purpose from the left?

Well, from the left is just, it's to defend themselves against Donald Trump and federal overreach.

I mean, a lot of the things that we say, conservatives, we want to defend ourselves against the federal government all the time in the image of the founders.

The left, it's about personality and people.

And so now they fear Trump.

They fear Republican Congress.

They fear these people coming through these confirmation hearings.

They fear a conservative Supreme Court.

So now they're on the bandwagon, at least temporarily, about federalism.

So.

Do you trust the people that are getting involved?

Because, you know, we have been um

very leery of a hijack which last time you were here you explained cannot happen it just it cannot happen um because of the laws and the and the rules of the of article five um but are there any states like california that

i guess they would be alone wouldn't they i mean if they came up with their own list of things and it wasn't it wasn't the same then well and they will come up with their list of things and they will attempt to introduce them at any convention And if they're not germane, if they don't fit the rails that have been set for convention, somebody from Texas or North Carolina will stand up and object that it's not Germane, and it will be ruled out of order, and the conventional.

And Texas could say, you know,

we move for secession.

And it's not.

It's not German.

It's not German.

Right.

And so that will be objected to, and it'll move on.

You know, we saw sort of the ultimate example of that this week.

I thought it was really interesting to see, of all people, Joe Biden shut down the protests over the count on the Electoral College, right?

And he he basically said, look, there are rules.

It's game over.

We follow the rules.

It's an institutional thing.

And he shut down the protests in Congress over the Electoral College count.

So rules work, institutions work.

This is the way our country is set up.

We've survived a lot of crises.

We know how to do this kind of stuff in this country.

So what are the states that are moving?

Where do you need help?

Well, I think to me, the most important state, I'm not saying it just because I'm here, is Texas.

Texas is big.

Texas leads the way in the South and the Midwest.

Always other states look to Texas.

It's really extraordinary what's happened in the state of Texas.

They've named the resolution in the Senate SJR 2, the second joint resolution.

That's a priority.

The first one is reserved, by the way, for Texas constitutional matters, specifically in Texas.

So we are the very first priority outside of the Texas Constitution.

By the way, that same thing's happening all over the country.

In Utah, we've got a low priority number.

Just found out in Missouri, we've got a low priority number.

Those are three states that for me are really important right now.

Texas, Utah, and Missouri, likely to happen early, very high priority states for us.

So

what is the word?

Because I have heard that here in Texas, there are many in the GOP who are, again, kind of the progressive arm of the GOP.

They're saying, oh, it's not so bad.

We don't need to have this now.

Are we making, are we, who's winning on that argument?

I think we, those who say we need to have it now, are winning.

But I think there are those who are saying that.

And to be fair, there are even some good conservatives who are saying that.

They're excited by the fact that Trump has taken office.

They're hearing the same things that you and I are hearing from the transition team.

What I say about that is, you know, this, with all due respect to the Trump administration,

don't be Trump drunk.

And what I mean by Trump drunk is if you think things are going to change, then you're not looking at Congress, right?

This is the exact same Congress.

that didn't stand against Obamacare.

This is the exact same Congress, same leadership that didn't stand against illegal, unconstitutional, executive amnesty.

So the idea that these guys are suddenly going to get a spine, all we have to do is look what they tried to do with the ethics office, look what they just tried to do with the pork barrel spending and earmarks.

Same Congress.

So the idea that suddenly we're going to have a magical transformation in Washington, D.C., if you believe that, then you're Trump drunk.

And anybody who is a real conservative should,

even if I had Ronald Reagan in the office, I would still be for Article 5.

And I would think Ronald Reagan would be for Article 5 as well.

In fact, he was, and he spoke about it, and he was in favor of Article 5.

And look, Reagan, the great conservative icon, with everything he tried to do and everything he said he was going to do, was such a great communicator of conservative ideals.

The federal government grew under Ronald Reagan's watch.

He specifically set out to do away with the Department of Education.

He appointed a secretary to do that.

It grew under his watch.

So the idea that somehow Donald Trump or any other individual is going to magically transform the federal Leviathan is just fantasy.

You can't because, I mean, even if you've ever run a company and you're like, I've got to shut this division down, that division will spend all of its time trying to find ways to show you you cannot shut it down.

Absolutely.

So, you know, Glenn, that's another thing when I talk about being Trump drunk.

This idea that 1.35 million federal employees are simply going to roll over, give up their jobs, give up their benefits.

I mean, this is not to be critical of them.

It goes against human nature.

They're not going to be in favor of shrinking their own agencies.

It's just not human nature.

Okay, so how do people get involved?

Conventionofstates.com.

And what we need is people to get serious, go there, sign the petition, volunteer to be involved.

That's the most important thing they can do.

So primarily what you do is

we generate the people who are interested in helping.

I mean, there are literally now 2.1 million volunteers in the field.

We need people who are just willing to help send the emails, make the calls, make sure people people show up for legislative hearings.

You know, we're going to have the governor state of the state here in Texas at the end of the month.

We intend to have over a thousand people there.

So that takes people calling.

You can't just send emails.

I mean, one of the things our organization believes in is high touch.

We definitely use technology, but we believe in reaching out and building this network of people.

Thank you.

Thank you for everything you're doing.

I think you guys are absolute patriots.

And the answer to the cancer that is eating us, 100 years ago, over 100 years ago, the progressives introduced a cancer that was designed to eat the Constitution.

It's time to look for the pill that the founders gave us if the Constitution was being eaten.

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I get in early today, and Jeffy, you would know this because you do the Patton Stew show with him.

They haven't let go of the Meryl Streep thing.

It's tough to let go of.

Yeah.

When you say they, I mean, I'm in there with them.

You're still in there.

It's tough to let go of.

Still tough to let go of.

She is, first of all, agonizing.

You know, here's what kills me is that the fact that the media actually tried to do a

what do they call it a debunking of that.

And they went to see if, indeed, Meryl Streep was irrelevant and overrated.

I mean, first of all, that's an opinion.

It's not, I mean, this is the thing they decide to spend their time on to

really

pretty weird.

It's just so bizarre.

And of course, she is overrated.

And irrelevant.

Well, I don't know about irrelevant.

Unless you have a standard

criteria.

I think

I look at her, with an exception of that ABBA nightmare that just won't leave me alone.

Mama Me is a good example.

And that's one of the things they featured prominently.

Yeah, they love that.

The only reason I know about that show is because

my parents loved that show.

And so there was a lot of people.

Oh, I hated that show.

I hated every second of that show.

I would have eaten off

my arms

if it would have meant I could be free.

And if you're not sure if you're not like a musical, there must have been something wrong with it.

Oh, it was horrendous.

It was horrendous.

Mamma Mia was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life, seeing it.

You made me go see it.

I made you go see it for the show.

You don't remember that?

Oh, yeah, I did.

As a punishment.

As a punishment for something.

I don't remember what it was.

Let's talk Ricky and the Flash.

Ricky and the Flash.

But

while it was one of the worst, I think we can all agree Mamma Mia was one of the worst things that's ever been created.

It is also her highest-grossing picture.

Just to make Shelly.

In case you're worried,

but that's not her.

Yeah, I know it's not her.

It's success.

It's not her.

I'm with you.

And that's kind of the point I'm trying to make.

Her entire career is filled with

Sophie Dews.

Not good.

Sophie's choice.

81 to 85.

She has two movies in there.

Kramer versus Kramer.

No, that was 79.

But 79 to 85 was probably the highlight of her career.

Pre-85, yeah.

Kramer vs.

Kramer.

Excellent.

Sophie's choice.

Excellent.

And Out of Africa.

Maybe

you're going to give her out of Africa.

Give her out of Africa.

Fly.

Then she takes away.

She's good.

Silkwood.

Yeah.

Silkwood.

I mean, filmed in the stage.

On this stage.

And that's what it was.

However, I mean, you know, okay, let's just give her that for the fun of it.

Okay.

That gets you to 1985.

All right.

Okay.

So she's got a few movies pre-1985

that you could say are good.

Yeah.

Then you got a good decade of nothing unless you wanted to throw She-Devil in the mix for a good film.

Are you forgetting Ironweed?

Thank you very much.

So

a bunch of nothing until...

Now, yes, she appeared.

Like, for example, she was a supporting actress in

Defending Your Life.

Now, Defending Your Life isn't a thing that I...

That was an Albert Books.

That's an Albert Brooks movie, though.

It's not a Meryl Street movie.

No, but she was good in it.

She was okay in it.

Okay.

But again, she was okay.

Is that a career?

She wasn't bad.

She was good in it.

Is it a career-defining role?

The answer to that is no.

The next one one of those.

She's, you might say, a lot of people like that.

The next one you get, really, though, is Bridges of Madison County, which is

agonizing.

Horrific.

Horrible.

Horrible.

No, wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Let's have the discussion.

Terrible.

Is it horrible?

Wait a minute.

Is it horrible or is it horrible because we saw her and Clint Eastwood with his and her shirts off?

Yes.

That was, I was

the worst part of the movie, but it's still a bad movie.

I don't have any recollection other than that.

Let's get Pat.

Can you give me a recollection quickly of what happened in the movie Bridges of Madison County?

Let's see.

I know this is a hardworking, loving,

considerate husband and father, protector of his wife and children, as kind of a favor, a good thing for his children and a favor to his wife, takes the two kids to the state fair for a week.

That's nice.

And while he is doing that that loving act of kindness for his wife, she is inviting some stranger, some drifter who showed up at the door in to do her for the week.

I mean, it is a horrific premise.

What a wonderful.

I mean, it's that's the thanks he gets for being a good man.

I hate this movie.

I hate that book.

I hate that movie.

I remember reading the book and liking it, but I don't remember it framed that way.

I don't think the book framed itself that way.

But that's what it is.

So that's the breakup from 83 to 95.

We find the good piece of work, which is British Bridges of Madison County, which, as Pat, I think, just described, was not as good as maybe some others say.

Then you're taking some more time off from her wonderful success as a magical actress.

And you clear, I mean, you could go to adaptation, which I didn't particularly like, but I mean, it was a critical darling, I guess.

I didn't see it.

I don't even know what that is.

Then you're going all the way, I would say, to probably

Devil Worst Prada.

Now, Devil Worst Prada

is a career-defining movie, I think you can put it that way.

However, is it really, be honest, a role that any other

somewhat similarly aged actress could do?

Glenn Close could do that.

Could Glenn Close pull that role?

Especially.

Absolutely.

Could Gourney Weaver pull that role?

Absolutely.

There's a dozen people you can think of off the top of your head.

Glenn Roberts.

Julia Roberts was no problem.

I was on that movie.

Yes.

You have to be old and mean, and that was essentially it.

Right, that's right.

And it's not that big of a deal.

So then you're, that's, so we're now, again, Betty White could have done that.

Absolutely.

Betty could be fantastic in that role.

But because it was Meryl Streep, it was some amazing thing that she did.

In reality, it was just another movie.

And she, again, wasn't even the star of the movie.

Like, I mean, she was the secondary character.

So who, where did she?

So where did she develop this

right?

That's a good question, isn't it?

Yes.

Okay.

Well, I was actually not on your side until you started presenting the case.

Because there's a lot of stuff in here.

I mean, you want to pull out.

Julie versus Julia.

Okay, Julie versus Julie.

Where she did a pretty serviceable impression of

Julia Childs.

Again, but so did Dan Aykroyd.

He could have played that part of the world.

No, that's not true.

He could have played that.

That's not true.

No, no, no.

He's right, Bat.

That's not true.

Aykroyd's was better.

But I mean, the point is they both had...

No, she did a good impression of that.

But, for example, Jim Carrey did a much better impression of Andy Kaufman.

Oh, yeah.

No one's throwing him into the freaking Hall of Fame for it.

No, like, no genius.

But he was genius in that role.

And everyone's like, oh, well, you know,

it was just an impression.

That's what she did.

And by the way, she wasn't even the main character in the movie.

She was in the movie for like 10 minutes.

Okay, so where are we here?

Then we're Mama Mia, okay, which we've all discussed as a disaster.

You're right.

144 million.

That's her biggest box.

Biggest box off the house.

And I will tell you that

she just literally,

literally, that could have been done by Muppets.

It's the music that carried that.

And again, all that was.

If you put a different person who was a better singer in that role, it would have been better.

It wasn't that she nailed the part above and beyond anybody else.

Again, I think the Muppets would have done better than that.

Then you get to some roles where she was actually terrible.

And Into the Woods is one of them.

Oh, my God.

Into the Woods.

I thought she was absolutely

bad in a fairy tale, right?

What we talked about?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She was terrible in that.

Terrible.

Surprisingly bad because I was under the impression, still, buying into the three Oscars and eight golden globes.

She's a great actress.

And I'm thinking, she is terrible in this.

What happened?

And then Ricky and the Flash is the ultimate exclamation point in this conversation when she plays an aging rock star.

A complete disaster.

And yeah, yeah, she has three Oscars.

She's had 19 nominations.

How about winning occasionally?

How about that?

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We're doing tonight his story

on Upton Sinclair.

And Upton Sinclair is,

I contend,

kind of Meryl Streep.

I mean, much worse.

But Meryl Streep, as I'm

looking at the roles that she's played,

Yes, she is.

You're right.

She is way overrated.

There's some art house stuff in between that I couldn't.

But the art house stuff, like, she did suffragette.

Yeah, some of it.

You know, I mean, people would like Osage County.

I know everyone loves that.

But, like, you get into some of the art house stuff.

And obviously, like, they like arthouse stuff anyway.

But it's also just because, because she's a crazy liberal, she was doing anti-Iraq war movies that completely bombed in the here that I didn't mention, Lions for Lambs being the main one.

She also did The Manchurian Candidate, which at the time, which, by the way, was a terrible version of that movie that should have been good.

But at the time, it was all targeted about how bad George W.

Bush was.

It was in the middle of his administration.

She's taken liberal, crazy liberal stance after crazy liberal stance after crazy liberal stance, all while incidentally looking like a bird, which is something completely separate, but also true.

Again, not necessary.

And

so she has this glean on her, which they throw her in all sorts of movies.

Most of it is crap.

I mean, she is legitimately, I have never agreed with Donald Trump more than saying that Meryl Streep is overrated.

She is overrated.

As soon as the country can

come to that conclusion, we'll all be better off.

But beyond that, she's also

not a very good representation of our new moral overlords because she's going to tell us, and I, look, we've been honest about this.

We've had many problems with things that Donald Trump has done throughout his life and his campaign.

For her to be the one telling us, for her to come out and preach to America that we should be all worried worried about Donald Trump.

I mean, the picture I have it on my Facebook page, it's circulated fairly widely of her giving a standing ovation to Roman Polanski,

a director.

Just let me bring you back a little bit here.

This is from 1977.

Yeah, I love it when Stu is passionate about

something so small, such

as small.

Because not

talking Meryl Streep, and look at he comes loaded like it's like we're in front of the Supreme Court.

There's a couple of things.

Meryl Streep is one and soda is another is another those

should have nobody he comes like we are arguing in front of the Supreme Court so go ahead look there there there are two things here that are important and yes you might say one of them uh is uh you know the Meryl Streep thing maybe not that consequential however I would say child rape is pretty consequential I'm gonna go with consequential when it comes to child rape.

1977,

Roman Polanski drove a 13-year-old girl to Jack Nicholson's house.

Nicholson not home at the time.

His ex-girlfriend, Angelica Houston, was there when they arrived.

He photographed her.

He then gave her alcohol at 13 years old, then gave her a Kwalud.

Does Bill Cosby, is that kicking in for anybody here?

Gave her a Kwalud at 13 years old,

told her to strip naked and get into the jacuzzi, where, despite her protests, he soon joined her after removing his own clothes.

She lied about having asthma to try to remove herself from the situation, although that was unsuccessful.

She repeatedly told him no, asked him to drive her home.

Regardless of all of that, he proceeded to perform oral, vaginal, and another one type of sex on her inside of the house.

She told the grand jury she was reluctant to resist because she was afraid of him.

When she was taking him home, he said, you know, when I first met you, I promised myself I wouldn't do anything like this with you.

He then later admitted in open court to knowing that she was 13 years old at the time of the sex, knew it.

Okay.

Then, once, as we all know now, he leaves, then escapes the country and has been hiding from prosecution for multiple decades.

He wins an award, which he can't attend because

he's a rapist.

A child rapist.

She stands up and gives him a giant

standing ovation.

Meryl Streep gives him our moral overlord gives us the standing ovation while sitting next to another person who happens to be clapping for him, Jack Nicholson, which is where the incident took place at his house.

Wow.

Now, you could sit here and say all you want about Donald Trump has he done things that people don't like, absolutely.

But there is a little bit of a line here between mocking someone inappropriately and, you know,

child rape.

Actual rape.

And to sit here and act as if because he's an artiste, I don't know, and because he's liberal, it's it's okay for them to sit here and get all excited and happy about some man and his art, which, by the way, part of this incident was because of art.

He told her he was going to take these wonderful photos of her.

It's how we got her in the sack.

It's inexplicable that this goes on, and this man is still over there making movies.

And they're applauding him.

So don't tell us about how high and mighty your morals are and how you can tell us what what we should and should not judge as as part of an acceptable society.

Are you finished, Counsel?

Yes, sorry.

I don't know that I've ever heard the picture.

The soda tax in Philadelphia is.

Sorry.

Yeah, I know.

I don't know the details either.

I didn't know the details.

If I'd ever heard the details, I'd forgotten them.

Yeah, it's been a long time.

But I mean, that's not something you just forgive and get it.

All you do is you get

the romanticized

picture of Roman Polanski.

He did something, but it wasn't so bad, and people are

just persecuting.

the business.

They make it sound like it was consensual, she was underage, whatever.

Right.

It wasn't even the BS4.

I didn't know how old she was.

It wasn't even that.

He said

he knew.

I mean, it's absolutely open and shut.

I will tell you.

That is why he won't come back in the country.

People get away.

Today, we're doing Upton Sinclair.

Upton Sinclair on his story.

This is on The Blaze at 5 p.m.

tonight.

A really

fascinating story.

Because if you go to college, you're going to read the jungle.

You're going to read Upton Sinclair.

And you're going to be told, it's, oh, he's wonderful.

He's the best.

Look at this is, this is the beginning of the progressive movement.

He goes into the meat packing industry in 1903, 1906, someplace like that, and he decides he's going to do a

a journalistic piece for his paper on the meatpacking industry.

Well then he doesn't do a journalistic piece for the paper.

Why?

Because he was making up the facts.

So he decided to write, quote, a novel

called The Jungle.

He writes this novel and then claims that it is all true.

When asked by some reporters, then Why isn't this a true story?

Why is this a novel?

Well, I had to change some of the facts to be able to get permission.

Well, he didn't get permission.

He went in and worked at this meat packing place and then

made things up to be able to tell this story.

And we detail it all in tonight's episode of his story

on the Blaze.

It's such an incredible story, what lengths.

this guy went to.

And even Teddy Roosevelt thought he was a hero, invited him in to the White House to meet with him and said, Upton,

you have to tell me about this.

I mean, I've got to get,

I just started the

FDA.

Maybe I've got to get the FDA out to those meat packing plants.

He confesses to Roosevelt that, no, well, no, no, it's not.

No, no, no,

you're not going to find that out.

Roosevelt is.

That actually led to the creation of the FDA.

Roosevelt.

Because of his book.

Roosevelt is so disgusted by

Sinclair that he wants nothing to do with him.

In his writings and according to other people that were around him, he said he was a despicable human being because he didn't care about any facts.

So

he goes through his whole life.

It becomes a huge success.

It is the progressive darling.

It starts the whole progressive era.

It gets the whole thing chugging.

People believe all of this nonsense.

He continues to write books.

What's interesting is at the end of the story, at the end of the story, it is this audience, a member of this audience, that actually uncovered the truth of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

Prove

that it is completely false.

and knowingly false in Upton Sinclair's own handwriting.

We, a few years ago, I bet you don't even remember it.

Does anybody remember it?

A few years ago, that evidence was brought by a listener.

We flew him in.

He sat here, told us a story, showed us the evidence.

Not one story was ever written about it.

It is game-changing with history.

And here's what it is.

One of our listeners happened to be in an auction.

An old guy dies in California.

Well, the old guy was either Sinclair's

attorney or had

taken his estate and had it now part of his estate.

So he's going through these boxes, just letters and things that are unmarked.

Nobody knows what it is.

And he's opening up one of these boxes and he pulls one out and he sees that it's from Upton Sinclair.

He sees the postmark date on it and knows that this is to Upton Sinclair's attorney at the time of the jungle.

He's like, wow, I bet this is pretty interesting.

Stuffs it back, bids on the box, like, $10.

They give him the box.

He takes it.

He opens up the letter.

And in the letter, it says, and I'm paraphrasing, hey, listen, I'm going to tell you the truth.

And I'm going to tell you what really happened on the way back on a train that is well documented, that shows that he went to Colorado and it was to prove all of this was true.

He goes back to his hotel in Denver that night and he writes this letter.

Here's what was actually said.

I want to send this to you for safekeeping.

Someday after I die,

you might want to release it if anybody finds it newsworthy.

Sealed after his death.

Still,

you will go to colleges and they will tell you that Upton Sinclair was a great journalist, a guy who

changed the world, and a hero of the progressive movement.

We tell you the real story about him, his story tonight at five, only on the Blaze TV.

The Glenn Beck Program,

Mercury,

The Glenn Beck Program.

Let's go to...

Is it Mark in Texas?

Let's go to Mark.

Hi, Mark.

Glenn, you missed the biography of Meryl Streep.

She's an aging, has-been actress in Death Becomes Her.

Autobiographic.

Wow.

Yeah, and she was terrible in that, too.

That was a bad movie.

Worst movie ever, guys.

Worst.

Come on, Stu, help me out.

No, I am

definitely one of them.

No, no, no, no, no.

That's not the worst movie ever made.

Mama Mia.

Mamma Mia

might be the worst movie ever made.

Yeah, the worst movie ever made cannot have Bruce Willis in it.

And that's what I'll say.

I did not make it to Bruce Willis.

That's one thing that Murray does now.

What?

I don't think she had to act for that movie.

I mean, she was an irrelevant, aging screen star.

It was beautiful.

It was bad.

It was really bad.

I honestly do not understand

why she is so revered outside of the politics of the situation.

And that's really what it is.

I mean, you know, she does.

There's nobody that does awards as much as Hollywood.

Yeah.

It is, it's a circular argument.

We're great because we tell you we're great.

Right.

In fact, that was exactly what the AP did with their fact check.

Is Meryl Streep overrated?

This is the evidence they gave.

And they did acknowledge, yes, this is obviously overrated is an opinion.

She has earned 19 Oscar nominations and three wins, which, by the way, I mean, you don't want to do that percentage.

Not a good percentage.

Your batting average, you're not even in single A with that one.

29 Golden Globe nominations and eight wins, two Emmy Awards.

Plus, there's a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Again, these are all people telling her she's great.

Four National Society of Film Critics Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Again, those are your friends

telling you you're a friend.

That's like saying, I know that

Spanky is one of the greatest greatest guys ever because look at our gang.

Our gang has been holding clubhouse meetings with him and he's been the head of the clubhouse meeting.

I mean, it's Spanky and our gang.

Do you have anything else besides our gang giving her these awards?

She also won a Commandeur de l'Hord des Art de la Tê.

The highest civilian honor given to the French by the French government.

They also gave that to Peter Sellers.

That's my case.

A Tony Award, five Grammy Award nominations, and a American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain, American Comedy Award, Irish Film and Television Award, two Italian online movie awards.

None of this proves that she's good at anything.

So their rating is false.

Is that what they do?

They rate it false then?

Yes.

Well, no, they didn't give a specific rating.

I think what happens is they initially headlined it a fact check and then changed the headline after everyone was like, you can't fact check the word overrated.

This is the Glenn Beck Program,

Mercury.