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Don Lemon was

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Speaker 6 and embarrassing. We'll talk about that.

Speaker 6 Also, I want to start with this.

Speaker 6 Alexa, can you help me with this murder case? We begin there right now.

Speaker 6 I will make a stand.

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Speaker 6 Amazon is pushing back against an Arkansas prosecutor's demand for information on what they have stored at Amazon from Alexa. Now,

Speaker 15 here's the story.

Speaker 6 A guy

Speaker 16 died in a hot tub

Speaker 6 early in the morning, and they get a call and say, hey, my friend is... died

Speaker 6 four times the limit of alcohol in his blood it was just an accident and he's dead.

Speaker 17 Police

Speaker 6 are concerned because there were signs of a struggle. There was a broken shot glass.

Speaker 6 There was some blood, but you could explain the blood in the shot glass, right?

Speaker 6 But there's a device in the home that is a smart meter for the water usage.

Speaker 6 And in the middle of the night, the water usage

Speaker 6 happens to use

Speaker 6 exactly the amount of water to drain and refill the hot tub.

Speaker 16 So it looks as though

Speaker 6 something happened around the hot tub and they drained it and then filled it, cleaned it up, and then filled it back up. So smart device number one.

Speaker 22 Now

Speaker 6 the police are saying, look,

Speaker 6 there's evidence here that something is not right, and we don't think it was an accident. And they have

Speaker 6 Amazon's Alexa.

Speaker 6 Anybody have Alexa or Google Home?

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 23 Yeah, you do?

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Shut up, you do not.

Speaker 24 Yeah, we do.

Speaker 25 Do you really?

Speaker 26 Do you like it? No, it's terrible.

Speaker 6 It's terrible in the Siri way or...

Speaker 27 Yeah, it's terrible in the Siri way. I mean, it's worthless.

Speaker 30 And we just got it recently, and I understand that it learns the kinds of things you're looking for and what you want. But right now, it's like...

Speaker 34 Yeah,

Speaker 34 I don't understand what you're asking me.

Speaker 35 I'll have to look that up.

Speaker 36 Hmm. I'll think about that.

Speaker 37 Yeah, shut up.

Speaker 35 It's like Siri.

Speaker 38 You know, Siri has those same issues.

Speaker 40 You ask it something, and it's like, I can't find that on the web.

Speaker 42 I just got one as well, and I haven't.

Speaker 42 It seems to be that it's I'm hoping for better.

Speaker 44 Yeah.

Speaker 45 In the future.

Speaker 15 I understand OK Google is better.

Speaker 42 You know, I know

Speaker 46 the Google home.

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 6 That's possible. Let's get one.
Let's put one in the studio.

Speaker 41 We should try should try both of them and get one each, see which one works.

Speaker 47 I'm not putting one in my house.

Speaker 23 Oh, no, but there's Amazon.

Speaker 49 You can order what you want from it.

Speaker 42 You order, I mean, if you're an Amazon Prime customer, I mean, we, in this area, we haven't used it for that yet.

Speaker 42 Because this area, we're close to a huge Amazon out

Speaker 53 warehouse.

Speaker 53 Within hours.

Speaker 6 Yeah, here you'll have it within five hours.

Speaker 54 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 6 I mean, you go on Amazon Prime now and they'll deliver it to you the same day.

Speaker 56 Well, the commercials say,

Speaker 58 hey, we need,

Speaker 41 Alexa, we need more paper towels. Order more paper towels.

Speaker 59 Okay, ordered.

Speaker 15 I mean, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 37 And

Speaker 62 I haven't used it in that way yet because I don't really...

Speaker 40 trust it because it can't even find the BYU score.

Speaker 23 So

Speaker 47 I'm a little nervous about it.

Speaker 53 If it didn't come in blue. Right? Right.
It doesn't know.

Speaker 9 Right? So.

Speaker 6 So, okay, so here's the thing. So

Speaker 6 Alexa or Google Home, they're going after Amazon's Alexa. And they're saying that

Speaker 6 it records everything, listening for the keyword, the wake word.

Speaker 6 And with Amazon, it's either Amazon or Alexa.

Speaker 62 So I didn't know that.

Speaker 65 Everything that you say is recorded.

Speaker 66 It's recording.

Speaker 11 Recorded.

Speaker 68 Even when you don't say Alexa and wake it up, it's recording everything.

Speaker 6 It is constantly listening to you.

Speaker 9 That is fascinating.

Speaker 6 And it's recording everything, waiting for the wake-up.

Speaker 44 Amazing. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 69 Because

Speaker 6 we have welcomed the NSA in.

Speaker 57 We sure have. We sure have.
I didn't even think of that. And

Speaker 26 we'll have it in the kitchen and we'll be sitting in the living room.

Speaker 51 And I tested it a few times to see how

Speaker 71 well it hears.

Speaker 31 And I've said, Alexa, you're just speaking in a normal voice, and it turns on.

Speaker 17 It hears.

Speaker 44 I mean, so it hears from a long way.

Speaker 6 Yeah, no, it is constantly listening and evaluating

Speaker 6 and learning from your speech.

Speaker 46 And so interesting.

Speaker 6 So here's the thing.

Speaker 6 So the police have gone in Arkansas and said, we need the tapes.

Speaker 6 Amazon has said, no, we're not giving you the tapes. Thank you.

Speaker 6 And they said, said, well, we need them because we think there was a murder. Wow.

Speaker 6 Now, who wins in this?

Speaker 13 It's like a murder to be solved?

Speaker 42 I know, but it's always for your safety when they break it. Oh, it's a murder.

Speaker 54 Yeah, it's always for your safety.

Speaker 44 That's always for your safety.

Speaker 6 They say the attorney is now saying that if this goes all the way to the Supreme Court, there's no way Amazon wins.

Speaker 47 Right.

Speaker 31 Oh, I wouldn't bet on that.

Speaker 53 Amazon's got a lot of money.

Speaker 75 And look at the decisions that have been made recently.

Speaker 61 I mean,

Speaker 76 I would not bet against

Speaker 30 the government winning that case.

Speaker 6 No, that's what they're saying. Yeah.
Amazon will not win the case.

Speaker 59 Oh, I believe that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 12 I believe that.

Speaker 27 Yeah.

Speaker 17 Because look at the way the Supreme Court's been ruling rightly.

Speaker 6 So they're saying now, you know, what's the difference?

Speaker 6 If I can go and I can monitor what you've done at... at the typewriter or your phone, you know, or at the keyboard.

Speaker 6 You know,

Speaker 6 if I can just get that from the keyboard, what's the difference between you at the keyboard and you speaking it? There's no difference.

Speaker 42 And they're taking it, they're already taking access to all our mobile devices.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 74 people don't have anything.

Speaker 55 They literally have invited them into the house.

Speaker 6 Invited them into the house.

Speaker 6 There are no secrets. Now, here's the thing.

Speaker 13 We are living 1984.

Speaker 6 And we welcomed it. We're not living 1984.
Right, because we're living brave new world. Yeah.
We welcomed it in.

Speaker 52 1984 was a hostile takeover.

Speaker 25 Right.

Speaker 6 Brave New World was

Speaker 6 through better living through pharmaceuticals, better entertainment, better everything.

Speaker 78 You're just going to welcome it in.

Speaker 6 That's exactly what happened.

Speaker 79 Wow.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 12 Yeah. When do the pharmaceuticals?

Speaker 6 Huxley was right.

Speaker 80 When do the pharmaceuticals? When the articles start?

Speaker 6 Oh, they already have started, my friend.

Speaker 42 They've already started.

Speaker 6 Alexa, can we get Jeffy a blood test?

Speaker 2 No, no, Alexa, turn off.

Speaker 6 So now everything in your home is being listened to. And you know who uses this? At least nobody in my family uses Siri except the kids.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 45 Kids love it.

Speaker 6 Kids will grab the phone and they'll say, Siri, what's the...

Speaker 50 I don't use Siri. Nobody.

Speaker 29 I've tried Siri a few times and it was so worthless, I just gave up.

Speaker 49 Yeah, but the kids have fun with it.

Speaker 6 They love it.

Speaker 42 And it's just like the

Speaker 42 virtual reality headsets.

Speaker 53 Oh, my God.

Speaker 53 Don't get me started.

Speaker 46 Oh, those are all good.

Speaker 42 I mean, I love it, but my kids fell in love with it.

Speaker 6 Oh, my gosh. It's the end of civilization as we know it.

Speaker 6 14 minutes into the show, end of civilization.

Speaker 23 Good night, everyone. 14 minutes in the new year.

Speaker 53 Happy New Year.

Speaker 47 Happy New Year. Yeah.

Speaker 45 It's true, though. I mean,

Speaker 27 we have welcomed all of this stuff.

Speaker 81 And

Speaker 15 it's amazing when you stop and think about what we have in our homes.

Speaker 31 And it's amazing how...

Speaker 83 Much more intrusive it's going to become.

Speaker 6 Hang on just a second. Before we go there, I want to go to Betty, New Jersey.

Speaker 6 We have a problem, I guess. Alexa.
Betty in New Jersey. Hello, Betty.
Yes, hello. We do have a problem.

Speaker 85 Tell Pat Gray to be quiet. He keeps turning on my Alexa.

Speaker 66 I come already.

Speaker 60 Alexa. Please.

Speaker 6 Alexa, play bad jazz.

Speaker 88 Yeah, it does that too. Really bad jokes, too, though.

Speaker 89 They make you laugh.

Speaker 90 Oh, man. Have a great day, but shut up.

Speaker 91 Alexa, record everything Betty says.

Speaker 6 Tony, let's go to Tony in Florida. Hi, Tony.

Speaker 89 Yeah, hey there.

Speaker 92 I was just going to say, I was actually listening to you guys on my Alexa, and every time you say Alexa, the first couple of times she would stop the program. She'd say, I heard what you said.

Speaker 92 That's not a very nice thing to say.

Speaker 49 And I'm not making it up.

Speaker 47 I've never heard her say that before.

Speaker 6 Oh, yes, Alexa, we are talking about you.

Speaker 93 Yes, we are. Yep.

Speaker 94 But she does not like it.

Speaker 88 She does not like you guys.

Speaker 23 Thanks a lot.

Speaker 53 Stand in line, Alexa.

Speaker 6 Stand in line.

Speaker 42 Steve, go ahead.

Speaker 95 Hello, man. Just want to let you know, I'm 61 years old, and I am a massive fan of OK Google.

Speaker 95 In fact, I called the show. I said, call Glenn Beck Radio Show, pop me right in, and here I was.

Speaker 98 I like that Siri.

Speaker 95 Siri, the worst thing there is.

Speaker 97 You can't get that thing to do anything for you.

Speaker 94 That's right.

Speaker 97 Okay, Google.

Speaker 93 When you try it, it is awesome.

Speaker 45 So here you are. You're in Arkansas, arkansas right

Speaker 6 yes okay so steve are you paying attention to this story about

Speaker 6 in arkansas about the murder

Speaker 95 well okay google only responds when you ask it it isn't on all the time but when you need information okay google is right there that's but i will tell you

Speaker 6 that's the same with alexa though too yeah that's the same it's the same it's it's it's off but it's always listening for its wake word

Speaker 97 Oh, I see.

Speaker 23 Yeah,

Speaker 44 so it records everything you say, whether you're talking to it or not.

Speaker 97 Okay, Google is on the spot.

Speaker 77 There ain't no way.

Speaker 6 No, no, no, I understand that.

Speaker 53 I understand.

Speaker 100 I believe that.

Speaker 6 I look at it and say, for instance, who's going to lead this one? Why do you think Google is laying Google fiber everywhere? They're trying to make Google cities.

Speaker 46 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 78 And they've done it in some cities.

Speaker 53 They've done it.

Speaker 6 They'll control the smart meters.

Speaker 6 They'll control the information in whole towns.

Speaker 49 As long as our life is easy.

Speaker 54 Right?

Speaker 6 And I am up to a point comfortable with a private business doing that and having a contract. But now, Steve, you're talking to me about the benefits of it.

Speaker 6 I'm saying to you that it's listening to everything that you say.

Speaker 53 It

Speaker 6 is recording you. And now police are trying to get

Speaker 6 a through a court order trying to get the tape to be able to solve a murder case if that happens the police will be able to grab all private conversations from your home if they suspect you of something.

Speaker 6 Are you comfortable with that?

Speaker 95 Well, I'm like you Glenn to a point I'm saying I love it as a law-abiding citizen never been involved in a crime love to be able to solve these issues.

Speaker 93 Got nothing to be scared of.

Speaker 95 But man, I don't know where you're going to draw draw the line.

Speaker 12 That's exactly right.

Speaker 93 That's right.

Speaker 100 And the problem is, a lot of people will say, well, I don't care if they're listening.

Speaker 72 I'm not saying anything wrong.

Speaker 56 Well, that's not up to you to decide, is it?

Speaker 65 Because

Speaker 31 it might be wrong to whomever is listening.

Speaker 61 Or they might make it into something wrong.

Speaker 2 And can.

Speaker 44 And can. And have.

Speaker 6 Just with the regulations that they have put in in the last eight years, everybody's breaking some law. And I'm not saying that this is,

Speaker 6 you know, I'm not saying that this is happening now.

Speaker 6 I'm saying you don't worry about who's in office today for instance i gave the democrats this warning eight years ago don't do this with executive power right because you're not always going to hold power and when somebody else comes in and wields that same stick and now look at them you're not going to like it look at them right and now they're freaking out right and i'm saying the same thing now to the republicans don't do this because you're not always going to be in power it i i I don't know who the next Hitler is.

Speaker 6 I have no idea. But one will appear.

Speaker 6 If you give all of this power, all of this information, all of this regulation, and we instill it behind one man, we are begging for someone to step in in an emergency and take care of things for us.

Speaker 6 Back in just a second.

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Speaker 3 Individuals and businesses with tax problems, listen carefully. If you owe over $10,000 in in back taxes or have unfiled tax returns, we can help you take back control.

Speaker 3 The IRS is the largest and most aggressive collection agency in the world, and they can seize your bank account, garnish your paycheck, close your business, and file criminal charges.

Speaker 3 Take control of your tax problems now by calling the experts at Tax Mediation Services.

Speaker 5 At 800-600-1645. That's 800-600-1645.
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Speaker 77 This is the Glenn Vet program.

Speaker 6 Holy cow. I mean, I'm just listening to these two fat cats and what they got for Christmas because we're talking about Alexa, Google Home,

Speaker 6 PlayStation 4.

Speaker 6 Santa brought a PlayStation 4 for my son, which I had a talk with a fat man and I informed him.

Speaker 53 My son,

Speaker 6 fat men have, we have a council. We have a council meeting.
All fat men get together.

Speaker 6 And Santa is not the chairman of the board this year.

Speaker 23 I am.

Speaker 6 But, you know, just watching he was playing Star Wars with it yesterday, and

Speaker 6 he gets so wrapped up,

Speaker 6 you know, with, you know, with a 50-inch screen.

Speaker 6 He gets so wrapped up into it when you put, and he wanted it, virtual reality, and I just laughed.

Speaker 104 Like, yeah, no.

Speaker 6 Oh, like I told my kids fell in love with it.

Speaker 42 And because you're totally immersive.

Speaker 12 Right.

Speaker 46 That's all there is.

Speaker 66 That's all there is. All you are is.

Speaker 53 There is.

Speaker 12 It's really immersive.

Speaker 74 It does feel like you're not.

Speaker 51 It does feel like you're there.

Speaker 54 It really is. It really does.

Speaker 53 When it can get better.

Speaker 29 Did you get it? Yeah, my son has it.

Speaker 15 And fortunately, he took it with him to college, but he has it, and I tried it a few times.

Speaker 40 And it's pretty amazing.

Speaker 45 So

Speaker 21 you got virtual reality and the curve.

Speaker 87 Did you get a curve TV?

Speaker 52 That's one of the 55 curves for the house.

Speaker 46 Oh, nice.

Speaker 53 What is that like?

Speaker 42 It's actually really nice. It looks a lot bigger.

Speaker 54 The old 55 was a piece of junk.

Speaker 66 Oh, I know.

Speaker 53 That thing had to go.

Speaker 2 How much are those curves now?

Speaker 54 That had to go.

Speaker 8 I was so sick of looking at that.

Speaker 12 How much are those now?

Speaker 6 Can you get them at Costco yet?

Speaker 23 I'm never buying a TV.

Speaker 6 I'm never buying a TV again unless it's from Costco.

Speaker 42 Yeah, Costco or Sam's. I mean, you can get all those there.
Yeah.

Speaker 79 I mean, it's under

Speaker 46 $1,000.

Speaker 44 Under $1,000?

Speaker 64 Yeah.

Speaker 25 Was it really? Yeah. Nice.

Speaker 69 And you got a 4K?

Speaker 70 I got the, yeah.

Speaker 57 My wife really went crazy.

Speaker 54 Your wife bought a show?

Speaker 13 Shit, I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 93 What could

Speaker 23 she do?

Speaker 53 That's not her at all.

Speaker 46 That is not.

Speaker 65 That thing is huge.

Speaker 55 It's a big TV.

Speaker 6 And it's

Speaker 106 an ultra-high definition.

Speaker 6 It's a 75-inch. Is anything

Speaker 23 like a 4K?

Speaker 55 Ultra-high definition 4K.

Speaker 74 It's more expensive than your house. Yes, it is.

Speaker 74 Wow.

Speaker 107 Is anything broadcast in that?

Speaker 40 Yeah, Netflix is broadcast in that.

Speaker 108 The new original series.

Speaker 48 I don't know if all shows are

Speaker 42 reaches you is, though. What the weather is.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 42 Sometimes, like the cable companies are.

Speaker 64 Yeah, they won't do 4K.

Speaker 22 That's a lot of space.

Speaker 38 Yeah,

Speaker 110 some of them are in 4K.

Speaker 28 I think

Speaker 17 there's certain cable stations or satellite stations that are.

Speaker 46 That is a total waste of time.

Speaker 47 Unbelievable, though.

Speaker 53 I just think that's a good thing. The things that are in 4K are unbelievable.

Speaker 107 I've seen it.

Speaker 23 It's so vivid.

Speaker 68 And it makes all all my other TVs look, you know, like they're from the 50s.

Speaker 46 Yeah, like the older definition.

Speaker 53 I know that's the best.

Speaker 6 You watch the blaze on some cable channels, it is high definition. On some cable, they only give a standard.
You watch it in standard,

Speaker 6 it's like watching from 1970.

Speaker 46 Standard television is awful.

Speaker 112 Once you're used to high definition,

Speaker 6 and 4K is just as much, it looks blurry.

Speaker 48 And then 4K is that much better.

Speaker 68 Yeah, it makes HD look like standards.

Speaker 53 I mean, I'm pretty amazing.

Speaker 42 I'm sorry guys, but I'm still driving my car.

Speaker 42 I mean, I don't know. I just,

Speaker 42 I like the way

Speaker 42 I feel driving to work.

Speaker 25 What are you talking about?

Speaker 42 Are you still...

Speaker 79 I mean, you don't.

Speaker 42 You have a car that just takes you places now, right?

Speaker 25 No.

Speaker 74 What?

Speaker 6 Are you talking about like the Tetanu theater?

Speaker 53 The Tetanus future.

Speaker 23 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 8 We're talking about all this future stuff. We're still, people are going to be not driving.

Speaker 74 But can we?

Speaker 8 Can we soon?

Speaker 23 Very soon.

Speaker 6 I predict by 2030, you will not be allowed to drive. You'll be able to drive.

Speaker 23 You will not be allowed to drive.

Speaker 8 I think that's a self-prediction.

Speaker 6 So let's talk about virtual reality and the drive to work and

Speaker 6 some of the new technology that people are just gobbling up.

Speaker 42 The Glenn Beck Program.

Speaker 6 We go to Chip in Ohio. Hello, Chip.

Speaker 89 Hey, guys.

Speaker 42 Hey.

Speaker 89 I do some work for a company that does work for

Speaker 96 Google.

Speaker 89 And I can tell you that

Speaker 89 the reason there's a big reason why Google Home and Google Now work better than Alexa, and it's because Alexa

Speaker 89 really mostly just has access to if they either have access to what you search when you shop or they have access to just what you say and that's that's how it learns.

Speaker 89 Meanwhile, Google, when everything gets set up, they look at everything.

Speaker 89 They look at anything you search. When you're searching Google, they have all these different accounts to look at.

Speaker 89 And so they pull from a lot more information.

Speaker 89 Of course.

Speaker 77 Yeah, it's a lot smarter.

Speaker 67 You know, there's a funny video.

Speaker 41 This is interesting that you mentioned that because there's a funny video on the web right now that's gone viral about this little boy, cute little guy, asking for

Speaker 26 hot diggity giggity or something.

Speaker 51 And he asks, okay, Google hot giggity googity or Lexa, I forget which one.

Speaker 102 Is it Alexa?

Speaker 65 And

Speaker 39 Alexa perceives it as some sort of porn.

Speaker 17 So is that because her parents, his parents, were watching porn or searching for porn?

Speaker 66 Or?

Speaker 89 No,

Speaker 89 actually with that, and that's something else I work on, and I can't really talk a whole lot else about it but it's

Speaker 89 no see Amazon the way that they do their products it's got to learn from it and if Alexa doesn't have a base to work off of then it I'm I'm

Speaker 22 on a link

Speaker 89 so I'm guessing Alexa just learns from the internet while the Google now home products they learn from

Speaker 89 people that get on and do work and say no you don't want to show porn Or if the parents have a special setting turned on, the Google products can say, okay, a child's messing with this.

Speaker 89 And even though I think he may be looking for porn, he's just a child, and I need to stop and not let him see it.

Speaker 60 Oh, the Google will do that for you?

Speaker 89 There are settings you can do, parental settings, that kind of thing.

Speaker 89 But yeah, it's also, they actually have people do work to make sure that the kids are safe online, that kind of stuff.

Speaker 6 So Chip, I don't know if you can say this, but I mean, it's it's pretty well known.

Speaker 6 The reason why Google is doing all of this and the search engine, the reason why it's free is because, and the same thing here is they are trying to develop artificial intelligence.

Speaker 6 And so they're using all of this information as a way to map how the human brain and how humans interact and how they think.

Speaker 6 And so

Speaker 6 you're looking at the benefit.

Speaker 11 Oh, this is great.

Speaker 6 I get this. I get this.

Speaker 6 Their benefit, the reason why this is so cost-up-effective for you in the home, is because they want all of that information because they're striving for artificial intelligence.

Speaker 6 And if there was one company that I think is going to do it, it would be Google, because as you said, Chip, they have access to absolutely everything.

Speaker 89 Yeah, I can't comment a whole lot on that to tell you whether or not you might be right. But what I can say may make you feel a little bit better is

Speaker 89 whenever we do our work,

Speaker 89 we're not told to bias anything in a certain way or do it's what they want, they really want it to be how

Speaker 89 they want it to be something that works for everyone because it but you know, I

Speaker 89 don't know about maybe if they're doing anything like that, like you're talking about.

Speaker 46 I will tell you this.

Speaker 6 I'm not assigning

Speaker 53 nefarious. Yeah, no, no.

Speaker 6 I mean, it's a private corporation, and AI would be exceptional to have. I mean, you've already said, Chip, and I, I, I, you know, we should probably

Speaker 6 cut this conversation with you because you don't get any trouble here.

Speaker 6 But, you know, when, you know, as Chip was saying here a second ago, that they're using all of the information.

Speaker 6 The goal is eventually to be able to say,

Speaker 6 you're reading something and it's starting to now think like you are. So it is the ultimate assistant.
And so it knows what you're reading because you're reading it on your device.

Speaker 6 It knows what you've underlined. It knows when you say, for instance, it has all of my patterns of when I read,

Speaker 6 it knows that I go and I will highlight a name or I will jump off and I will look for additional information. It will already do those things.

Speaker 6 And so when you get up in the morning, it will say, hey, Glenn, I noticed that last night you were reading such and such.

Speaker 6 Would you like some more information? I did some research. I think you'll find this really interesting.
Or I know you've been talking about your anniversary is coming up.

Speaker 6 And I know that you've been talking to your assistant because it's reading my mail about setting something up for your anniversary. Have you considered these things?

Speaker 6 Because I also read Tanya's mail and I know she's interested right now in these things.

Speaker 6 There's nothing nefarious about it.

Speaker 12 But first, let me get to a cup of coffee.

Speaker 53 How great is that going to be?

Speaker 47 Well,

Speaker 89 I'll just say, and I'll just get off of here for you. But yeah, I'll just say no comment on that.

Speaker 89 You can figure that out.

Speaker 49 Yeah.

Speaker 119 But yeah,

Speaker 89 no comment.

Speaker 6 Thank you very much, Jim.

Speaker 42 I appreciate it. Yeah.

Speaker 6 I mean,

Speaker 6 there's no secret to that.

Speaker 6 I mean, he probably can't talk about it because of his non-disclosures, but there's nothing nefarious about that. The question is, where do you draw the line?

Speaker 6 At what point do you say, I don't want to go any further than this?

Speaker 42 I don't think there is a line anymore.

Speaker 53 I don't think there is either.

Speaker 60 No.

Speaker 6 I think, I mean, this is what Al Gore talks about it in the first chapter of his book that nobody read,

Speaker 6 the idea of transhumanism. And transhumanism is targeted to be about 2030.
And that is the merging of man and machine, where artificial intelligence is so good that

Speaker 6 you will automatically upload things. You'll be able to download some of your thoughts and upload some new information.

Speaker 25 Well, who's...

Speaker 6 How are you going to compete if you don't want to do that? Right now, think of our conversations. It's the 10-year anniversary of the smartphone, of the iPhone this year.
10-year anniversary.

Speaker 6 10 years.

Speaker 6 Now, think about

Speaker 6 conversations because we just had them. We were

Speaker 6 up at the ranch.

Speaker 6 We don't really have

Speaker 6 devices. So you're up at the ranch and you're...
playing cards or you're playing a game. Nobody has Google out where you're talking about a story, where you're saying, hey, what was the name of that?

Speaker 6 You actually have to search for that stuff in your own mind to go, was it no, no, no, it was something like that. No, I'll think about it in a second.

Speaker 6 We don't have those conversations anymore because you start down that road and somebody has it and they've done the Google search.

Speaker 6 When that is merged with you, think of the power that you have as an individual. When you are able to access the internet inside your own self, that's 2030.

Speaker 6 I am convinced.

Speaker 6 It was with my sister and her son over the holiday and

Speaker 6 she got him VR goggles.

Speaker 53 And I looked at her and I'm like, are you out of your mind?

Speaker 46 She's like, oh no, they're great. Have you seen it? No, yeah, no, I've seen them.

Speaker 6 It's the end. I'm convinced.
The end of civilization.

Speaker 42 I just want to ride the roller coaster.

Speaker 53 No, I know you do. I know you.

Speaker 87 But if you look at where that's headed,

Speaker 6 when you have, and by 2025, 2025, you'll have this.

Speaker 6 When you have the virtual suit that you can put on.

Speaker 42 Yeah, when you're able to feel, when you're able to feel when you're riding or whatever you're doing and you're able to actually feel the sensation.

Speaker 12 If you're

Speaker 65 already reaching for things

Speaker 53 and you can't. And you're like,

Speaker 6 when you can reach, when you can reach out and grab something, when someone can tap you on the shoulder in VR and you can feel it.

Speaker 106 Can you imagine?

Speaker 51 They have these horror scenarios that you watch.

Speaker 53 And if you can't see it, they can reach out and touch you.

Speaker 86 Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 53 Okay. So now imagine, and we've talked about this before.

Speaker 6 Imagine

Speaker 6 my life is just a piece of crap. I just go to work.
I don't have a job that I like.

Speaker 6 I don't have any satisfaction.

Speaker 6 I just, you know, I have a crappy life. I'm just, I'm just not making it.
But I can afford VR and I can afford the internet and I can afford this. I'll save up for this suit.

Speaker 6 I go out and I just do my job dead to the world. Just dead to the world.
I'm just living for my paycheck to feed. and to be able to pay for the internet and the services that I want.

Speaker 6 I go home, I get into the suit.

Speaker 6 I now have a girlfriend who can touch me.

Speaker 44 She learns all about me.

Speaker 6 I have an assistant. I have the virtual, I live in a palace.

Speaker 122 Everything I do.

Speaker 6 And then I take off the goggles and I'm back to this world.

Speaker 6 Oh, I'm telling you, it is the end of civilization.

Speaker 72 Because the other world will be so much better for so many people.

Speaker 45 Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 6 So many people.

Speaker 6 It's created for you.

Speaker 6 How can it not be? It's personalized to fit your every want and need.

Speaker 6 Tell me how you don't end up in the Matrix.

Speaker 8 Back in just a second.

Speaker 77 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 77 The Glenn Beck Program.

Speaker 6 By the way, talking about this stuff, if you want to read a book, we read it as a family. It is fantastic and it talks about this coming world.

Speaker 6 It's called Ready Player One. It came out a few years ago, bestseller.
Steven Spielberg just bought it, making a movie in the next couple of years.

Speaker 6 And it's really good. And it talks about this virtual world and what it's really going to be like

Speaker 6 and how the corporations and the government have kind of intertwined. It's really fascinating.
It's called Ready Player One. Did anybody see Rogue One?

Speaker 51 Yeah, I liked it. I liked it a lot.

Speaker 123 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I thought when I watched it, I thought it was, you know,

Speaker 60 it wasn't fabulous, but it was really good.

Speaker 80 It was a really good movie.

Speaker 6 It was a really good movie for a secondary storyline.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 6 It's a fantastic movie, and it's just a printing press for Disney.

Speaker 6 Think of what Disney has now. Disney has the Marvel series.

Speaker 109 Yeah. They own Marvel.

Speaker 6 They own Pixar. And they own Star Wars.

Speaker 80 It's a pretty good lineup.

Speaker 6 What else do they need? It's a pretty good lineup. That's an amazing company.

Speaker 72 Not to mention the Parks,

Speaker 6 ABC Television. ABC TV.

Speaker 35 Yeah, they're pretty well set.

Speaker 6 When ABC Television is kind of like the junk,

Speaker 6 you're kind of like, oh, you work for that part of Disney.

Speaker 73 Unless it's ESPN, because I think ESPN is probably more

Speaker 29 valuable than ABC.

Speaker 54 Oh, it is now.

Speaker 18 Oh, it is. Yeah.

Speaker 6 ESPN. Yeah.
Except, what was the controversy on ESPN over the holiday?

Speaker 6 Oh, there was something that I read about ESPN. Maybe it was just a year in review.
talking about how ESPN

Speaker 6 is losing viewership because they become so politically correct.

Speaker 6 I saw a research report

Speaker 6 on

Speaker 6 Facebook and the difference between Republicans and Democrats, and I couldn't believe how different we are.

Speaker 6 The people who said that they were voting for a Republican versus the people who said they were voting for Democrats, like 60% of Republicans, 70% of Republicans said they were NFL, also liked the NFL or an NFL team, and only like 40% of Democrats.

Speaker 6 Wow.

Speaker 6 It's a weird split. Really?

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Really weird split.

Speaker 29 And yet it's interesting because anytime you listen to a sports station, anytime they get on politics,

Speaker 102 completely liberal.

Speaker 23 And it's just agonizing to listen to.

Speaker 6 And I think that's part of the problem with ESPN. ESPN

Speaker 52 appeals to the heartland,

Speaker 6 except they don't understand that. Yeah.

Speaker 124 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I don't, I mean, have you guys ever noticed a split between people who live in New York and

Speaker 6 football?

Speaker 54 I mean, I was shocked by that.

Speaker 6 It was, it was, and I'm trying to remember. I think it was also

Speaker 6 there were more conservatives or more Republicans that followed soccer than Democrats.

Speaker 105 Oh, that can't be because soccer fans are communists.

Speaker 23 Right?

Speaker 23 We all know that.

Speaker 23 That's just as clear.

Speaker 6 They're all open-border communists.

Speaker 66 That's right.

Speaker 23 It just can't be.

Speaker 12 It's already flawed.

Speaker 2 We're not talking about it anymore.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Soccer.

Speaker 6 You guys make a New Year's resolution?

Speaker 41 No, I never do that.

Speaker 72 It's a waste of time.

Speaker 40 I gave that up for Lent a long time ago.

Speaker 102 And I don't even do Lent. And that is your resolution.

Speaker 65 Yeah, it is.

Speaker 26 Not to make New Year's resources.

Speaker 125 You know, I just try to do better and then leave it at that.

Speaker 106 Because anytime you make a resolution.

Speaker 6 That's why you never really.

Speaker 8 And that's why I never really improve.

Speaker 6 That's why you're the same man you were I met 30 years ago.

Speaker 84 Probably even worse.

Speaker 37 You know, I've gone backward.

Speaker 53 I've gone backwards.

Speaker 53 So

Speaker 30 it's not working well for me.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I've never kept a New Year's resolution.

Speaker 65 Has anybody?

Speaker 25 Oh.

Speaker 45 We should ask.

Speaker 30 I mean, I'd love to hear if somebody who's, you know, for 10 or 15 or 20 years kept a resolution.

Speaker 113 Even for 15 minutes.

Speaker 84 Have you kept a resolution?

Speaker 7 Go to the gym every day, you know, working out, eating better, feeling good.

Speaker 23 Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 53 Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 6 We as a family.

Speaker 13 And it never happens.

Speaker 6 We as a family,

Speaker 6 we were buying somebody a gym membership

Speaker 6 and they got to me.

Speaker 6 You know, you want to donate for the gym? I said, they're never going to use that.

Speaker 23 They're never going to use that.

Speaker 23 Oh, no, but they really need to.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I know they need to.

Speaker 2 They really need to.

Speaker 12 They're not going to get to.

Speaker 23 We all need to.

Speaker 6 Yeah, no, but they're really talking about getting healthy.

Speaker 4 They're not going to get healthy.

Speaker 6 No. Maybe if you, maybe if you buy maybe a couple of times to the gym, they'll use that.
Not the memberships.

Speaker 14 This is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury.

Speaker 23 Happy New Year!

Speaker 67 Jamaica New Year's resolution.

Speaker 39 We want to hear from you about what you'd like to do differently this year, if anything.

Speaker 84 And we'll start there right now.

Speaker 84 I will raise my voice. I will hold your hand.

Speaker 84 Cause we have won. I will beat my drum.

Speaker 84 I have made my choice. We will overcome.

Speaker 84 Cause we are one.

Speaker 13 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

Speaker 14 This is the Glenn Beck

Speaker 14 program.

Speaker 1 It is the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 39 As sometimes happens with fat people like us,

Speaker 84 Glenn just threw his back out

Speaker 26 by sitting there.

Speaker 49 He was lifting a plate of food.

Speaker 33 Lifting a plate of food and threw his back out.

Speaker 58 He wasn't even doing that.

Speaker 104 He just moved.

Speaker 61 And I don't know.

Speaker 109 Sometimes, you know, when you've got bad back, when you have a bad back, it doesn't take anything.

Speaker 32 I mean, you just move a certain way and bang, you're in massive pain, which was what just happened to him moments ago.

Speaker 29 And so he's kind of been carried off on a stretcher almost.

Speaker 11 Not quite a stretcher, but he was definitely helped out of the studio.

Speaker 46 Pretty close.

Speaker 30 So, Pat Gray and Jeffy for Glenn right now.

Speaker 129 And then Stu is really sick today.

Speaker 51 I went through that too.

Speaker 28 I got that flu really bad a few weeks ago, and I was in bed for several days and just feeling like crap.

Speaker 42 Did you get any of that? No, I did not. No, that's nice.
I was very fortunate about that.

Speaker 111 That's nice because it's definitely going around.

Speaker 42 Yeah, I mean, I got the beginning. I felt like the beginnings of illness coming on, and then

Speaker 18 it's all good. And then you were fine.

Speaker 42 I mean, weather here in Texas has been so weird.

Speaker 45 Well, I mean, it's like like

Speaker 53 80, freezing, 80, freezing.

Speaker 57 That's a Dallas winter, though.

Speaker 29 You know, it goes 75, 43,

Speaker 73 68, 52.

Speaker 28 It's a beautiful day.

Speaker 42 Let's go out and share it. Tonight is going to be freezing.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 122 All right. Triple eight, seven, two, seven.

Speaker 16 Right before the break, we were talking about the fact that I just

Speaker 51 I never make resolutions anymore.

Speaker 30 And I don't know anybody who does.

Speaker 28 Do you still make New Year's resolutions?

Speaker 60 Oh,

Speaker 53 actually,

Speaker 42 I sent the one for the workout and the

Speaker 42 gym, and so that's gone so well that I decided, why do I need to

Speaker 53 for all of us?

Speaker 60 Yeah, it's just the same thing.

Speaker 80 You're setting yourself up, first of all, for failure.

Speaker 53 That's what I mean. Immediately.

Speaker 66 That's what I.

Speaker 69 You do it, and it's like you're done.

Speaker 44 Yeah.

Speaker 55 According to Business Insider,

Speaker 28 the most popular resolutions your coworkers are making for 2017.

Speaker 109 One-fifth of people, 22% of the 3,400, this is a pretty big survey, 3,411 employees were surveyed.

Speaker 33 And they said their top resolution for 2017 is to leave their current job and find a new one.

Speaker 79 Wow.

Speaker 32 Among younger workers,

Speaker 41 the number is even higher.

Speaker 15 35% of those between 18 and 34 expect to have a new job by the end of the year.

Speaker 31 It was conducted online by the Harris poll.

Speaker 15 And about half of the respondents, 49%,

Speaker 125 say they plan to put more of their paycheck into savings.

Speaker 68 About a third, 38% want to decrease their stress level.

Speaker 30 Another third would like to move up a step on the ladder over the next 12 months.

Speaker 117 28% plan to consume less junk food at the office.

Speaker 105 Yeah, that's just not going to happen, people.

Speaker 25 That's not going to happen.

Speaker 69 Why bother? It's just not.

Speaker 41 Just understand that and know it, and then you don't have to be disappointed the whole year.

Speaker 17 And just about 26% resolved to make more courses, training, or seminars in 2017.

Speaker 120 Why? I don't know.

Speaker 17 That's just stupid.

Speaker 23 It's just...

Speaker 84 And very few of these are actually going to happen, which is why I, you know.

Speaker 108 And then the other resolution for most people

Speaker 84 is to eat right.

Speaker 46 Oh, eat right. Exercise.

Speaker 54 Exercise, feel better, lose weight.

Speaker 23 Lose weight.

Speaker 63 And it's important.

Speaker 4 And I want to. I do too.
I really do.

Speaker 16 I just don't call it a resolution.

Speaker 27 Because,

Speaker 75 again, I think you're setting yourself up for failure.

Speaker 42 Yeah I mean I just I mean I want to I want to drive by the gym and use that as a priority and pull in.

Speaker 4 I don't want anything to do with the gym.

Speaker 41 I don't even pretend I want anything to do with the gym.

Speaker 53 No.

Speaker 35 I mean eat right and exercise maybe at home maybe take a walk from time to time.

Speaker 61 I do not want to go to the gym.

Speaker 116 I've got family members now several kids who are just obsessed

Speaker 56 with the gym.

Speaker 42 I'm a son part owner of gyms.

Speaker 46 I mean, I can't, I know, I'm not doing it.

Speaker 29 Plus, your son actually does work out.

Speaker 22 A lot.

Speaker 47 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 42 Pretty sad.

Speaker 28 That's how you get to be, what, 6'5 and 3'10 without an ounce of fat on your bones.

Speaker 42 Yeah, well, now he's lost a lot of weight by working out so hard. Yeah.
I mean, he's down like 50 pounds. Oh, is he really? Yeah, he's ready to play tight end.

Speaker 42 If you're looking to draft somebody NFL for a new contract, he's a good one.

Speaker 60 What is he?

Speaker 68 43 now?

Speaker 25 It's probably a little beyond draft time.

Speaker 53 Yeah, I know. Well, I was just taking a shot.

Speaker 35 Triple 8-727, back, 888-727-B-E-C-K.

Speaker 56 If you've got some resolutions that you'd like to share with us, I don't even know if anybody does this anymore.

Speaker 103 Does anybody even do resolutions?

Speaker 57 I don't think so.

Speaker 42 I mean, I have not known at least nobody.

Speaker 26 There must be somebody, right?

Speaker 51 Because we talk about it every year.

Speaker 53 There has to be.

Speaker 26 There has to be somebody.

Speaker 16 Let's go to Pete in Texas.

Speaker 109 Pete, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Jeff.

Speaker 35 Hey, guys, how are you doing? Good.

Speaker 35 So, I actually was calling earlier.

Speaker 114 I guess my resolution would probably be that I don't have radio hosts to order things off of Amazon for me anymore.

Speaker 114 Seeing as you guys caused total chaos in our house this morning saying the Alexa keyword over

Speaker 23 and over again.

Speaker 132 It's surprising how many people, first of all, it's amazing how many people have that.

Speaker 56 Because we've heard that quite a bit so far this morning today.

Speaker 31 And then

Speaker 56 that it would set off from listening to the radio is kind of interesting to me, too.

Speaker 73 I didn't even think of that when we were saying, Alexa.

Speaker 84 See, now we just did it again.

Speaker 46 All right, go ahead.

Speaker 86 Exactly.

Speaker 86 So, one thing you guys were discussing with that this morning

Speaker 86 was the way it works.

Speaker 86 You were saying that it always listens and it's always recording.

Speaker 123 Because there's that case in Arkansas where the murder's happening where the murder occurred, and you can try to get a warrant to try to get the data. Anyway,

Speaker 123 so that it's not actually always listening and recording everything everyone says. I'm I'm a software engineer.
Um what it does is sits and and listens for the keyword and then it starts listening.

Speaker 123 Um it's actually on the device, it's encoded in a chip on the device uh to listen for that that keyword of Alexa or hate Google or hate Siri, you know, that sort of thing. Yeah.

Speaker 123 Um then it starts listening. You can test this too if you just sit and you know say, hey, you know, what's the weather outside, Alexa?

Speaker 123 It doesn't have the context to, or it's not recording to be able to pick up what you said before it.

Speaker 21 Then

Speaker 41 why then would the police want access to

Speaker 84 its recordings?

Speaker 84 They don't realize that it's not functioning like a microphone.

Speaker 84 They think that it is Big Brother style, and maybe someday it'll get to that.

Speaker 84 I could easily see Google or Amazon going, hey, you know, let's offer this ability for it to have context, and then it starts recording everything.

Speaker 114 You could see that happening in the future.

Speaker 118 But today, that's not how it works.

Speaker 134 So it would do them no good, then, is what you're saying.

Speaker 31 So even if Amazon said, sure, we'll give you the tape, the recordings, then

Speaker 56 it wouldn't do them any good because it wouldn't have recorded unless they said, hey, Alexa, I'm about to kill this guy.

Speaker 19 Exactly.

Speaker 98 Which if you're doing that, well, you're probably not going to get away with it.

Speaker 77 Probably not.

Speaker 125 Yeah, you're probably not that smart a murderer.

Speaker 42 Alexa, I need cleaning products to clean up this blood.

Speaker 11 Well, that's interesting.

Speaker 35 Actually,

Speaker 41 that's a relief because I don't want a recording everything.

Speaker 48 I wouldn't want that in my house.

Speaker 42 In standby listening mode.

Speaker 42 Amazon's detriment, if they were going for Google or anyone, to sit and take in all of that data, if they were

Speaker 77 screaming everyone's seg.

Speaker 124 I mean, think about them. That would be a lot.

Speaker 124 It would be a ton of data, and they'd have to process it. And most of this, what's the purpose in it? They want to sell you paper towels.

Speaker 44 You know, they don't, yeah. They don't want to

Speaker 44 know any of that other stuff.

Speaker 122 So

Speaker 122 that's a pretty good point.

Speaker 13 That's a pretty good point.

Speaker 107 Appreciate the call.

Speaker 63 Thanks a lot, Pete.

Speaker 57 Let's go to Zach at Ohio.

Speaker 15 Zach, you're on the Glen Peck program.

Speaker 81 Hi.

Speaker 82 Hello. How are you? Good.

Speaker 96 Well,

Speaker 96 I got a couple New Year's resolutions.

Speaker 92 I need to lose a little bit of weight.

Speaker 135 I'm going to actually start holding my representatives accountable. I'm actually from West Virginia, but I'm a truck driver and I'm outside of Cincinnati, Ohio right now.

Speaker 135 So my senators are Capito and Manchin and my congressman's McKinley.

Speaker 135 And I've seen those suspense horror flicks of the smart houses from the 90s.

Speaker 93 So I'm not ever going to get any AI fiber optics because my fear is that it will enslave me in my own house.

Speaker 112 You know, I mean, I don't think that's ridiculous anymore.

Speaker 45 I think it could happen.

Speaker 46 Appreciate the call.

Speaker 25 We're pretty close.

Speaker 46 I mean, it could happen.

Speaker 42 Yeah, with the computer information and then the robotics mixed with the robotics. I mean, even without the robotics, just the information in your home, but with robotics as well?

Speaker 69 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 13 I mean, it's not that far-fetched.

Speaker 42 No, it is not.

Speaker 41 If anything with haywire, I mean, let's say we're completely dependent on a smart home and the power goes out for an extended period of time.

Speaker 76 Then what do you do?

Speaker 65 I mean, if your house,

Speaker 16 I could see a scenario where you'd be pretty powerless.

Speaker 105 If you depend on the smart functions of your house to do everything,

Speaker 26 then

Speaker 113 without power, you've got nothing. Right.

Speaker 42 There's no way to switch away from that.

Speaker 40 Yeah, I can see where that would be kind of a problem.

Speaker 24 I'm trying to think.

Speaker 51 Even if it's nothing sinister, you know, just a power outage would screw things up.

Speaker 23 Right, right.

Speaker 116 Let's go to Brian in Massachusetts.

Speaker 31 Brian, you're on the Glen Beck program.

Speaker 115 Hey,

Speaker 115 how you guys doing?

Speaker 136 Happy New Year.

Speaker 93 Happy New Year. Thank you.

Speaker 118 I'm just calling regards to the Alexa.

Speaker 115 And now, so Massachusetts, it's a two-party state in terms of oral communication.

Speaker 49 Yeah.

Speaker 99 And that both parties need to be aware.

Speaker 11 that you're recording, if you are.

Speaker 121 Yeah.

Speaker 96 Correct.

Speaker 137 So there's obviously exceptions: state and federal law enforcement, phone companies, et cetera. So now the summary of mass law is

Speaker 137 prevents private citizens from secretly recording others or possessing a device with the intent to secretly record.

Speaker 86 Okay.

Speaker 136 I know the key word there is secretly and also intent.

Speaker 137 But if you bring a case from, I believe it's Arkansas

Speaker 93 in the past,

Speaker 137 I think the friend who found the dead guy in the tub, how could you argue, well, he doesn't know he's being recorded, and how can you prove intent of a guy who's dead?

Speaker 65 You can't.

Speaker 66 You can't.

Speaker 80 You can't.

Speaker 56 That would be interesting

Speaker 9 to test in Massachusetts or any of these states with a two-party law.

Speaker 39 I'd be interested to see.

Speaker 27 but it's kind of a moot point if what our previous caller was saying is true in that if it doesn't record.

Speaker 42 But if it does, buying the product is a simple admission that you're aware that it's recording.

Speaker 53 And that would be the argument. That's true.

Speaker 101 It's like intent is implied.

Speaker 46 Like when you call a radio station,

Speaker 68 it's implied that you're giving us consent to put you on the air.

Speaker 83 Correct.

Speaker 63 It's different if we call you.

Speaker 42 You know, I got the latest telephone and I put in new applications.

Speaker 46 Do you read what's good?

Speaker 42 Do you read all the agreements that you agreed to with every app? Or do you just say, agree, I want to use the app, move on?

Speaker 12 Yes.

Speaker 42 And all that information is going to those apps.

Speaker 16 And they make it impossible.

Speaker 83 38 pages of.

Speaker 49 And you can't deny.

Speaker 42 There's nothing. They used to break it up into sections where you could, okay,

Speaker 42 you can do this, but you can't do this. No.

Speaker 18 No more of that.

Speaker 42 It's deny or not use the app.

Speaker 139 Appreciate the call, Brian. Thanks.

Speaker 15 Let's go to Eric in California.

Speaker 81 Eric, you're on the Glen Beck program.

Speaker 88 What's up, Pat and Stu?

Speaker 88 I'm glad to see you guys again.

Speaker 99 I've been having withdrawals from missing you guys.

Speaker 53 Oh, it's good to be back.

Speaker 88 But yeah, hey, it's true.

Speaker 99 My resolutions are: I'm 24 years old from California, and my resolutions are to quit drinking alcohol.

Speaker 47 Oh, wow.

Speaker 4 I mean, completely.

Speaker 27 Not just cut back, you're going to quit.

Speaker 67 Yeah, completely. All right.
When did that start? After New Year's Eve?

Speaker 94 Oh, Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 77 Three days.

Speaker 66 Three days.

Speaker 23 That's pretty good.

Speaker 47 Congratulations.

Speaker 13 Three days is three days.

Speaker 73 Was there more or is that it?

Speaker 26 I mean, that's a big one, though.

Speaker 26 That's huge.

Speaker 136 I've tried it a few times.

Speaker 99 But I watched something on YouTube from Glenn Beck.

Speaker 99 You guys talked to an alcoholic, actually.

Speaker 98 You called him to the show.

Speaker 82 Right.

Speaker 88 Yeah.

Speaker 136 And it did motivate me and it stopped me from drinking for six months when I was working for Ted Cruz.

Speaker 65 Really? Wow. Nice.

Speaker 42 So, what I would do first is start by maybe watching that video every three months.

Speaker 43 Then you'd be all right.

Speaker 42 Just kind of roll into that.

Speaker 43 Yeah.

Speaker 35 Is that the guy who called us and said that he'd gotten sober,

Speaker 51 inspired by Glenn, right?

Speaker 42 Sobriety. Then he read the books, read live.
Read the books.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 47 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 108 Yeah, that was a

Speaker 28 powerful story.

Speaker 12 It would have been great if it was true.

Speaker 53 It is awesome.

Speaker 98 It really speaks volumes to what you guys do and i really do appreciate uh the network and kind of street show as well appreciate it

Speaker 51 every day thanks a lot eric appreciate it thanks for the call

Speaker 28 man uh let's go to andrew in florida andrew you're on the glenbeck program hi

Speaker 28 hey

Speaker 115 good morning hey i just wanted to say uh i have not only made my new year's resolutions for the past four years have i kept every single one of them really and what are they have they been difficult or are they just throwaway resolutions?

Speaker 41 Yeah, give us an example.

Speaker 93 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 115 Well, you know, I obviously, you know, I'm a fat man, so the obvious resolution is to become not a fat man, but that's not something that's going to happen.

Speaker 23 Thank you.

Speaker 46 Welcome, Andrew. Welcome.

Speaker 77 Yes, I'm weak.

Speaker 115 But I made resolutions. I started making resolutions to learn and become proficient at something new every year.

Speaker 65 Oh, nice.

Speaker 93 Okay.

Speaker 115 So four years ago, I started with archery. I wanted to learn archery, just something to do.
So I learned archery and I became proficient.

Speaker 115 Then, you know, I wanted to learn to use a cast net, catch my own bait, clean a fish properly, you know, and become an angler.

Speaker 89 And this year,

Speaker 119 my goal is hunting.

Speaker 115 So I secured my hunting license and I'm going to learn whatever I can about that and, you know, how to clean an animal and do whatever else needs to be done.

Speaker 57 So are you is this with the goal of becoming sort of um more self-sufficient and survivalist?

Speaker 115 To an extent, yes. Okay.

Speaker 92 I realize that you know things might not always go as planned, and I'm gonna be ready.

Speaker 74 Nice. Nice.

Speaker 102 That's a good way to go about it.

Speaker 107 I appreciate the call.

Speaker 110 Thanks a lot, Andrew.

Speaker 35 Triple 8-727-BEC, 888-727.

Speaker 9 B-E-C-K.

Speaker 31 It's the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 7 The Glenn Beck Program.

Speaker 86 Mercury.

Speaker 86 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

Speaker 62 Pat Gray and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glen Glenn Back program.

Speaker 124 He had a weird accident where he was sitting and hurt himself.

Speaker 29 So

Speaker 62 you don't want to sit.

Speaker 42 No, you don't.

Speaker 4 And you've got to be careful.

Speaker 61 I mean, he was not careful.

Speaker 42 I was going to worry about him every night because

Speaker 42 he's hurting himself sitting now.

Speaker 49 Yeah, he was.

Speaker 42 As soon as he's going to hurt himself sleeping, he was

Speaker 84 sitting there, and we're like, be careful.

Speaker 31 And he wasn't. No, he wasn't.

Speaker 42 Because

Speaker 125 he apparently moved

Speaker 110 in some way.

Speaker 63 And seriously, he threw his back out really badly.

Speaker 47 Oh, he did.

Speaker 51 He had to be helped from the studio.

Speaker 42 Steve, I mean, I saw it happen where it was like it hit, you know, you're right.

Speaker 12 He moved. He moved.

Speaker 42 He moved. Yeah.

Speaker 41 And it was not pretty.

Speaker 111 It was not good.

Speaker 142 It was not.

Speaker 29 So,

Speaker 80 I mean, just a cautionary tale.

Speaker 51 If you're a big fat guy like we are, don't move.

Speaker 46 Don't move.

Speaker 42 Don't.

Speaker 60 Move. It's what I try to live by.

Speaker 11 I try not to move as much as possible.

Speaker 143 So don't be telling me about this gym stuff.

Speaker 45 Well, you need a gym membership and you need to work out your abs.

Speaker 87 That'll strengthen your core.

Speaker 116 No.

Speaker 127 No.

Speaker 133 The thing is, don't move and then there won't be a problem.

Speaker 42 Your core is fine.

Speaker 12 Because it's not moving.

Speaker 113 I'm not moving right now.

Speaker 134 And so my core is perfect.

Speaker 104 Right.

Speaker 56 Triple 8727 back.

Speaker 15 We've been talking about New Year's resolutions.

Speaker 116 And if anybody makes them anymore, and apparently a few people still do.

Speaker 48 And

Speaker 84 Business Insider just did a poll, career builder, top resolutions for working people.

Speaker 68 About half the respondents, 49% plan to put more of their paycheck into savings.

Speaker 55 About a third want to decrease their stress level.

Speaker 39 About 22% of employees just want to change jobs this year.

Speaker 40 That's, wow, I mean, you hear that from a lot of people. A lot of people not doing what they like doing.

Speaker 10 And I mean, it's important to do what you like, right?

Speaker 7 You're just better at it.

Speaker 68 888-727-BEC, eight seven two seven.

Speaker 128 Beat ECK if you've made a resolution.

Speaker 128 The Glenbeck program

Speaker 23 looking

Speaker 77 The Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 14 888-727-VEC.

Speaker 10 Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 84 Glenn threw his back out, so he's out for the rest of the day.

Speaker 30 He'll hopefully be on tomorrow, maybe from his bed.

Speaker 61 We'll see.

Speaker 130 And then Stu came down with some kind of Chinese crud.

Speaker 130 I don't even know if he's been to China, but somehow he got to the Chinese crud.

Speaker 35 Triple 8-727-BEC, 888-727-B-E-C-K.

Speaker 11 It was so weird that, what, a week after the Rogue One Star Wars movie was released, Carrie Fisher died.

Speaker 102 Was it a week, maybe a week and a half, something like that?

Speaker 42 I don't know the time frame, but close enough to be

Speaker 24 part of this

Speaker 53 sadness.

Speaker 9 She was only 60.

Speaker 12 I know. Only 60.

Speaker 35 And boy, 60 looks like, to me, you look like a teenager when you're 60.

Speaker 42 I remember when I took a step back.

Speaker 106 That's just a few years away now.

Speaker 133 And then, I mean, I know it's in your rear view.

Speaker 54 I don't even think about 60 anymore.

Speaker 49 But I mean, 60 seems.

Speaker 12 I remember worrying about turning 60 and thinking, wow, that's horrible. But now it seems

Speaker 26 you're an infant at 60.

Speaker 42 But when they talked about her having problems on the airplane and,

Speaker 42 you know, and then

Speaker 42 being rushed to the hospital, I was, I was afraid she was.

Speaker 11 Didn't they then, though, like a while later, they said she was stable.

Speaker 84 She was in stable.

Speaker 42 Her mother made a, you know, and then all of a sudden she was fine.

Speaker 105 Yeah, and then and all of a sudden she's gone. Really sad.

Speaker 124 And then and then her mom died within what a day of that.

Speaker 15 So Debbie Reynolds, we lost like within 48 hours of Carrie Fisher.

Speaker 46 Fisher.

Speaker 28 And then George Michael died.

Speaker 129 And that's kind of, those are weird circumstances.

Speaker 29 Nobody really knows what happened there, right?

Speaker 42 Have they released that? No, but they were just saying he died at home.

Speaker 43 So. Well, you know, everybody dies at home.

Speaker 42 They won't, but we got to die somewhere.

Speaker 41 When they won't say.

Speaker 33 It usually is. It's usually suicide or AIDS,

Speaker 82 right?

Speaker 31 Isn't that normally the case?

Speaker 25 Well,

Speaker 42 one of the pictures that they showed, they saw of him last being photographed, which was in the last month or so before he died. He didn't look that thin.

Speaker 48 No, he didn't.

Speaker 1 That is true.

Speaker 42 So usually if you're close to death with the disease, you

Speaker 12 stop gazing.

Speaker 47 That's true.

Speaker 32 And then there seems to be some suspicion with his significant other person

Speaker 30 because first of all, this guy said that he was with him all weekend, and then he suddenly, no, I fell asleep in my car, and I slept the night.

Speaker 46 You fell asleep in your car?

Speaker 41 Oh, okay.

Speaker 76 That must have been a good night's rest.

Speaker 9 All right.

Speaker 33 So that's a weird circumstance, too.

Speaker 15 And then Lavelle Edwards, one of my heroes,

Speaker 131 legendary coach of BYU for 30 years, died as well.

Speaker 22 They come in threes, boy.

Speaker 24 That's bad.

Speaker 81 Unfortunately, that's four.

Speaker 47 That's four people.

Speaker 23 That's four.

Speaker 56 Triple eight seven two seven B E C K 888 727 Beck.

Speaker 124 We're talking about New Year's resolutions.

Speaker 26 So if you've made one, if you still have those, we'd like to hear what yours is.

Speaker 75 In Finland, they have an ambitious New Year's resolution in mind.

Speaker 33 They want to find out how offering people free money for two years helps the unemployed get back to work.

Speaker 12 Gets them back on their feet.

Speaker 84 They're going to take 2,000 people who are currently unemployed.

Speaker 125 and give them free money for two years.

Speaker 46 No matter what, either.

Speaker 42 When you're going to get the money, first of the month, period.

Speaker 101 And then they're going to see how that helps them get back to work.

Speaker 2 That's going to get them right back to work.

Speaker 42 What? It's going to get them right back to work.

Speaker 106 Right back to work.

Speaker 58 Because if you're getting more money by sitting home doing nothing, you know you're going to be inspired and motivated to get out and get a job.

Speaker 42 No, you're going to want to because you're going to be able to afford a new shirt and some new pants and get out there and look good and clearly

Speaker 23 the theory behind it.

Speaker 53 It must be, right?

Speaker 47 Of course it is.

Speaker 31 They're going to give them $590 a month, which is not a lot of money.

Speaker 84 But

Speaker 116 it supplements people enough that maybe that'll be enough for them.

Speaker 42 And in Finland, I mean, what, most people are living in small apartments anyway. I mean, you're a little bit familiar with Finland.

Speaker 72 My son lived there for two years.

Speaker 42 Yeah, I mean, so,

Speaker 42 you know, I don't know how much it costs for one of the smaller places, but it can be.

Speaker 30 Yeah, I don't either.

Speaker 51 But everything's government subsidized.

Speaker 84 So the taxes are ridiculous for everybody.

Speaker 129 And the government takes care of everything to begin with.

Speaker 42 So wait, the government that's giving out money to people for doing nothing

Speaker 42 charges other people a bunch of money

Speaker 111 to do that with.

Speaker 110 And now apparently they're going to do that.

Speaker 12 It's even more of that. Yeah.

Speaker 40 And so that's got to work out really well.

Speaker 70 Opponents of the experiment say it will just allow people to sit on their couch all day.

Speaker 76 I mean, of course that's going to happen.

Speaker 15 What do you I can't wait to hear the results of this and see if they but if they tell the truth.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they might not.

Speaker 83 These are socialists to begin with.

Speaker 40 So are they going to tell the truth?

Speaker 65 Well, you know what? It didn't work giving people free money.

Speaker 62 We found out it did didn't motivate them.

Speaker 31 But proponents claim they'll actually use the money to make their lives better.

Speaker 133 In what way?

Speaker 25 How is that what?

Speaker 74 How?

Speaker 31 The system nowadays, it's pretty negative for people who try to do something, even little, in their lives and get something out of it.

Speaker 31 A basic income might turn risky, might turn a risky move into a much safer one.

Speaker 31 So they think that getting $590 a month will allow them to become more adventurous and try something new and give them a little bit more of a safety net than they already have.

Speaker 124 It's a bizarre. Wow, that's a bizarre plan.

Speaker 47 Okay.

Speaker 42 That's a bizarre plan.

Speaker 145 AAA. And then you wonder, you know, why we're in the kind of situation that we're in.

Speaker 42 But that's what some people have touted would be a fix here, right?

Speaker 43 I mean, as a theory,

Speaker 42 just pay everybody

Speaker 42 their monthly stipend.

Speaker 121 Yeah. And

Speaker 44 for

Speaker 126 the

Speaker 68 most menial of jobs to pay people $15 an hour to do them,

Speaker 41 even that is a terrible plan.

Speaker 32 But when you're paying people to do absolutely nothing, how do you think that's going to work?

Speaker 121 We've seen over and over and over when people become reliant on the government, it doesn't motivate them to do better.

Speaker 27 They simply rely on the government.

Speaker 42 No, and there are some states that have made

Speaker 126 people

Speaker 18 do

Speaker 42 services for the state, public service, or have a job for the state if they're going to take state money. And that's been where the people say, you know, no, that's fine.
You keep your money.

Speaker 42 I don't want to do that. Yeah.
I don't even want to work.

Speaker 79 I don't want to work at all.

Speaker 42 I'm not going to sweep a street and get your money.

Speaker 46 Yeah. Well, okay.

Speaker 105 It doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 35 Triple 8-727-Beck.

Speaker 62 Let's go to Johnny and Ohio.

Speaker 4 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 115 How's it going, guys?

Speaker 46 Doing good. Good.

Speaker 115 Good.

Speaker 141 Just wanted to give my resolutions, my three that I had for the last about eight years.

Speaker 23 Oh, wow. Okay.

Speaker 140 They're very hard to keep a hold of, but you know, I stay strong and I do it.

Speaker 140 My first one is to not write a novel.

Speaker 48 Do not write a novel?

Speaker 86 Okay.

Speaker 114 Yes, sir, to not write a novel.

Speaker 140 And my second one is to not climb Mount Everest.

Speaker 140 And my third one is to not run a marathon.

Speaker 2 How's that working out for you?

Speaker 42 You're doing all right with that?

Speaker 141 You know what?

Speaker 96 I am solid.

Speaker 19 Wow.

Speaker 140 I am strong as could be with those.

Speaker 31 Congratulations.

Speaker 9 I mean, those, that's commendable.

Speaker 48 It's commendable that year after year, you've not run a marathon, nor have you climbed Mount Everest.

Speaker 102 That's

Speaker 46 admirable.

Speaker 63 Thanks, Joni.

Speaker 39 Let's go to Ginger.

Speaker 68 Ginger, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 109 Hi.

Speaker 85 That I love your program. I've been listening since you guys were in Tampa Bay.
I'm in St. Pete, and I love the program.

Speaker 115 And I actually like it better with you guys without fun.

Speaker 94 So,

Speaker 77 good job.

Speaker 85 And I'm not trying to be mean. I'm not trying to be mean.
It's just the truth.

Speaker 93 I think you guys are hysterically funny.

Speaker 23 Injured, and you've hurt himself sitting today.

Speaker 85 I don't wish him any at all. I'm sorry that he's not feeling well if he's listening, but you guys, you two are hysterically funny, and I really enjoy listening to you.

Speaker 77 And oddly enough, isn't it ironic how your listeners

Speaker 85 like, you know, share so many things in common? Because my resolutions were exactly the same as Johnny's. And that's just, you must be the influence that you guys have on me.

Speaker 85 But I also wanted to wish you Happy New Year and to say thanks for the entertainment. And also to remind you that you forgot number five.

Speaker 85 William Christopher, the gentleman that played Father Mulcahy on MASH, died on New Year's Eve.

Speaker 4 Oh, I didn't even hear about that one.

Speaker 13 So is that, but that's not the fifth?

Speaker 100 According to Jeffy, that would be the second of the new three.

Speaker 46 The second of the two, right?

Speaker 49 Because if you back up, well, there was one before Kerry.

Speaker 10 I can't remember the guy's guy's name at 32.

Speaker 77 I saw him, and

Speaker 85 he was a great actor. He was an awesome dude.

Speaker 46 He was really good. Yeah.

Speaker 30 I loved the show, and I really liked him in it.

Speaker 73 Yeah. So I hadn't heard he died.

Speaker 26 Appreciate it. Thanks a lot, Ginger.
All right.

Speaker 39 Triple 8-727-BEC.

Speaker 84 Let's go to Dave in California.

Speaker 81 Hey, Dave, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 82 Hello. Hi.

Speaker 136 How are you doing today? Doing good.

Speaker 118 I made two resolutions in 1989.

Speaker 98 I retired from the military with 31 years' service.

Speaker 44 Thank you for your service.

Speaker 98 I would thank you.

Speaker 118 One, I would still be in the same shape the rest of my life till my dying days and wear the same size clothes. And I'm 72 now, and I do.

Speaker 98 I play racquetball twice a week. Wow.

Speaker 114 And that second one.

Speaker 133 Amazing.

Speaker 118 And the second one is I would do something good every day, no matter whether it was Little Bitty or no matter what it was.

Speaker 98 And I've lived up to that every single day. You guys should try that.

Speaker 71 Really?

Speaker 98 Something simple. Well, I changed the lady's wet tire for her this morning.
Every day,

Speaker 98 something as simple as carrying someone's groceries to their car.

Speaker 66 Just something

Speaker 98 every single day.

Speaker 63 What did you do on June 6th, 1993?

Speaker 126 One good thing.

Speaker 118 1993,

Speaker 93 June 6th.

Speaker 118 Oh, I do remember that as a mirror.

Speaker 53 I do.

Speaker 98 Another reason I remember that? It was a car accident. I pulled a guy out of a car.

Speaker 23 Wow.

Speaker 96 I remember that exactly.

Speaker 112 On June 6th, 1993?

Speaker 86 That's it. Wow.

Speaker 42 All right. That's fantastic.

Speaker 28 How about that?

Speaker 12 You weren't so exhausted from pulling the guy out of the car.

Speaker 42 What happened on June 7th?

Speaker 98 I can't tell you on June 7th.

Speaker 56 Amazing, I picked the day you actually do remember.

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 98 You know what?

Speaker 118 At 72, I'm lucky I remember.

Speaker 98 The way this works is from 50 to 60, you learn all your aches and pains, tell Glad Dad.

Speaker 118 And then from 60 to 70, you learn to accept them. And then usually after 70, guess what?

Speaker 115 You start forgetting them.

Speaker 84 All right. Thanks a lot, Dave.
Appreciate it.

Speaker 110 I'm not sure that's that's really comforting.

Speaker 109 No, it's not.

Speaker 110 But we'll take it.

Speaker 122 Triple 8-727-BEC.

Speaker 81 More of the Glenn Beck program. Come on up, Rod.

Speaker 14 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 47 The Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 77 I will beat my drum. I have made my choice.
We will overcome.

Speaker 77 Cause we have one

Speaker 14 Mercury.

Speaker 77 You're listening to the Glen Beck program.

Speaker 95 Zuckerberg Buddhist, and seems to love Buddhism.

Speaker 42 Welcome to the Glenbeck program.

Speaker 42 Jeff Fisher, Jeffy, and Pat Gray in for Glenbeck, who had to leave a couple minutes early.

Speaker 124 Well, he had a tragic accident sitting in a chair and

Speaker 46 moved.

Speaker 42 I mean, it's almost as if we were joking and we're not.

Speaker 4 Let that be a cautionary tell to you.

Speaker 72 If you're, you know, big fat person like we are and you're sitting in a chair, don't move it's just that simple

Speaker 46 i gotta be honest with you pat i'm a fan of that yeah i am too i am too we you might think we're kidding we're not

Speaker 109 we're not uh it looks like mark zuckerberg has gotten religion we don't know what religion that is but the facebook uh co-founder and ceo says he's not an atheist anymore His Facebook profile once identified him as an atheist, but he revealed that he's had a change of heart on his social media network after he wished everyone a merry christmas and happy hanukkah on uh christmas day yeah that was because he had just had a kid though right

Speaker 33 yeah i guess i guess maybe i i don't know he but he he said merry christmas happy hanukkah from priscilla max beast and me that's his wife daughter and dog uh when a commentator asked him aren't you an atheist he responded no i i was raised jewish and then i went through a period where i questioned things but now i believe religion is very important

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 31 That always bothers me.

Speaker 129 I mean, that's kind of disturbing.

Speaker 15 I went through a period where I questioned things.

Speaker 40 Like, what?

Speaker 31 Religious people don't question things, they just blindly accept.

Speaker 27 That's the implication.

Speaker 4 Yes, it is.

Speaker 28 I mean, from all these intellectual atheists.

Speaker 46 I went through a period where I at least question things.

Speaker 36 Yeah, so do the rest of us, okay?

Speaker 33 We don't just swallow everything fed to us.

Speaker 41 But, you know, I don't want to detract from the fact that that's definitely a positive.

Speaker 31 He didn't provide any details on his faith,

Speaker 83 but he just said it's important.

Speaker 73 So he apparently

Speaker 55 in 2015 went to China and he posted at the time that he knelt in front of the Buddhist, some Buddhist landmark, and he said, Priscilla is Buddhist and asked me to offer a prayer from her as well.

Speaker 108 Buddhism is an amazing religion and philosophy, and I've been learning more about it over time.

Speaker 130 I hope to continue understanding the faith more deeply.

Speaker 40 So it leads you to believe maybe it's not Christianity, it's Buddhism.

Speaker 12 Very possible.

Speaker 42 But it is all about, I mean, they just had the baby, you know, end of November, first part of December. So, you know, new life in

Speaker 42 your house and watching a birth makes you believe that there's something bigger than you going on.

Speaker 28 A baby changes everything.

Speaker 17 It sure does.

Speaker 35 Triple 8-727-BEC, 888-727-BECK.

Speaker 56 I also understand that Facebook is developing.

Speaker 31 You know, we were talking about the Amazon Echo and the OK Google, Google Home thing.

Speaker 30 Supposedly, Zuckerberg's developed something that's also pretty amazing along those lines that does a lot of things in your home.

Speaker 10 Good.

Speaker 68 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 6 I'm excited to.

Speaker 7 Nothing bad could happen.

Speaker 10 No, nothing bad can happen from any of these wonderful innovations.

Speaker 77 The Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 23 Lucky.

Speaker 127 Pat and Jeffy in for Glenn,

Speaker 124 who just threw his back out about an hour ago.

Speaker 1 Technology is awesome, but what are the drawbacks?

Speaker 35 What are we becoming?

Speaker 15 We'll talk about some of the latest innovations to be in every home, as we have been today.

Speaker 128 We've been talking about your New Year's resolutions.

Speaker 111 We also want to get into Black Lives Matter.

Speaker 23 Yeah,

Speaker 23 do they?

Speaker 68 We don't hear much about the Black Lives Being Lost in Chicago, do we?

Speaker 105 And

Speaker 128 what a year 2016 was for murders in Chicago, which is unbelievable.

Speaker 112 Also,

Speaker 56 the Russians influencing the election, nah, that didn't happen.

Speaker 128 That wasn't, had nothing to do with Russians, according to Julian Assange, and we certainly believe him.

Speaker 107 Also, George Washington University has apparently removed U.S.

Speaker 128 history from their curriculum.

Speaker 40 We'll start there right now.

Speaker 40 I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand.

Speaker 40 Cause we have won.

Speaker 40 I will beat my drum.

Speaker 40 I have made my choice. We will overcome.

Speaker 40 Cause we are hungry.

Speaker 13 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

Speaker 14 This is the Glenn Beck

Speaker 14 program.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Glenn just hurt his back pretty badly.

Speaker 10 Hopefully, he'll be back on tomorrow. Maybe

Speaker 23 I don't know from a hospital bed or his own bed.

Speaker 7 We'll see.

Speaker 35 Triple 8-727, Beck.

Speaker 103 It's Pat Gray and Jeffy in.

Speaker 57 Stu is also sick today, so not a great start for those guys.

Speaker 24 Oh, God.

Speaker 68 In 2017.

Speaker 73 So

Speaker 70 the other thing that we were going to mention, you just mentioned right before we came on.

Speaker 121 Apparently the Rock Hall of Fame

Speaker 55 has decided to go into the Hall of Fame for this year.

Speaker 46 And we were pretty close.

Speaker 42 We were pretty close

Speaker 42 when we talked about who we thought they would pick.

Speaker 31 Tell us again the nominations.

Speaker 26 Do you have that in front of you?

Speaker 53 I just have who they picked.

Speaker 42 I don't have the entire nominations, but we can certainly get it.

Speaker 83 Who's actually going in this year?

Speaker 4 I'm sure they're all incredibly deserving.

Speaker 36 No question.

Speaker 35 And certainly more deserving than Foreigner, who can't even be nominated, because they only had about 30 top 40 hits.

Speaker 62 They only had, I don't know, 15 or 20 top 10 hits.

Speaker 103 They only sold about 80 million records worldwide.

Speaker 48 They've only been icons for about 40 years.

Speaker 41 You wouldn't want them in the Rock Hall of Fame.

Speaker 21 But you do want...

Speaker 42 Joan Baez.

Speaker 87 Oh, my God.

Speaker 66 Joan Baez.

Speaker 146 Joan Baez?

Speaker 101 Did you see the people?

Speaker 70 They always do

Speaker 11 the people's vote on the website for a month or two leading up to

Speaker 57 the actual

Speaker 101 and Joan Baez was at the bottom of that list.

Speaker 133 So the

Speaker 53 people's vote means nothing.

Speaker 42 Here or on Patton Stew, we did both. We talked about who we thought they would pick and obviously who was in the running.

Speaker 59 Right. And we were pretty close.

Speaker 13 We were pretty close.

Speaker 100 Because I think we said Joan Baez would be one of them because all you have to do is sing a protest song in the 1960s and you're in.

Speaker 53 Oh, and she's

Speaker 4 the house queen of that.

Speaker 13 Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 42 ELO, Electric Light Orchestra.

Speaker 60 Okay, that's a good one. Worthworthy.

Speaker 15 Absolutely believe.

Speaker 42 Workworthy.

Speaker 48 Should have been in a long time ago.

Speaker 73 Yes.

Speaker 68 So ELO, Joan Baez, Journey.

Speaker 29 Journey, of course, had to do it.

Speaker 102 I mean, they deserve it.

Speaker 42 I know.

Speaker 82 Pearl Jam.

Speaker 27 Pearl Jam. Yep.

Speaker 42 We said there's no way they're not going to let the song. No way.

Speaker 53 That's right.

Speaker 44 That's an icon.

Speaker 101 The other thing, besides protest songs, is singing about how you're abused as a child.

Speaker 8 That's an era.

Speaker 50 That's what they represent, right?

Speaker 13 I hate my parents.

Speaker 82 I've never liked them.

Speaker 36 I got beaten when I was a kid.

Speaker 121 And you're in.

Speaker 66 You're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Speaker 75 So who else?

Speaker 71 So Joan Baez, E-L-O, Journey, Pearl Jam.

Speaker 42 And of course, Tupac Shakur. Who else do you think of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Speaker 46 Other than Tupac Shakur?

Speaker 42 And Tupac was not at the bottom, but he was down there.

Speaker 55 Oh, yeah, he was very near.

Speaker 43 He was down there.

Speaker 102 With Joan Baez. Yes.

Speaker 4 Unbelievable.

Speaker 42 You knew there was no way they weren't going to put Tupac in.

Speaker 21 No way. And he's not rock.

Speaker 18 No way.

Speaker 134 But

Speaker 41 they don't go by that for some reason. The Rock Hall of Fame really has very little to do with rock and roll because a lot of rap artists are in R ⁇ B, you know, so

Speaker 63 it's frustrating.

Speaker 80 It's really frustrating. Finally, we have.

Speaker 53 Oh, there's another one. There is.

Speaker 49 And finally, we have yes.

Speaker 15 So they did get into it. Of course.

Speaker 79 Yeah, of course.

Speaker 34 Because they're a rolling stone favorite right the if the rolling stone magazine liked the band uh there's a good chance they're gonna get in name it other than owner of a lonely heart

Speaker 81 and roundabout name a yes song

Speaker 54 are you talking to me yeah i'm talking to you i i can't yeah

Speaker 42 no one can i want to i want to look it up bad

Speaker 42 no one can i can't because i thought i didn't even know about the

Speaker 42 I would have just said Roundabout.

Speaker 65 Oh, really? You didn't even?

Speaker 70 Owner of a Lonely Heart, yeah, I mean, she was bigger than Roundabout.

Speaker 18 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 11 I mean, that was her biggest hit.

Speaker 42 But Roundabout was longer, so you played it to take a longer break.

Speaker 12 Yes, you did.

Speaker 33 If you ever had to go to the bathroom and you worked at a classic rock station, you go roundabout.

Speaker 132 Because it was about

Speaker 4 eight minutes.

Speaker 42 I'll be around about 80,000 times. You were good.
You were good.

Speaker 46 Yeah. No problem.

Speaker 90 Roundabout and stairway to heaven were the two.

Speaker 35 Triple-8-727, Beck eight eight eight seven two seven B E C K.

Speaker 31 George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 56 has decided that giving students more flexibility.

Speaker 49 Isn't that nice?

Speaker 72 They're going to give them more flexibility.

Speaker 28 Isn't that nice?

Speaker 72 That means freeing them up from taking required courses like

Speaker 83 U.S. history.

Speaker 113 Even if they're history majors,

Speaker 43 they don't have to take U.S. history.
Come on now.

Speaker 42 That's agonizing. We should sell any government money they get should be taken from them immediately.

Speaker 24 You xenophobic bastard.

Speaker 42 I don't care if you tell me we don't like the U.S. history they're teaching.
I don't care. It should be U.S.
history. That should be a mandatory thing.

Speaker 12 It should absolutely be required.

Speaker 51 Especially if you're a history major.

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 56 How do you not study U.S.

Speaker 83 history?

Speaker 60 According to the college fix, the new requirements allow for students to take an optional course in previously required courses or a high score on a placement test to opt out of the requirements.

Speaker 79 Well, good.

Speaker 31 But there's no more mandate to take U.S.

Speaker 28 history.

Speaker 42 Now, they changed a couple other things, too. I will say they eliminated the requirements for

Speaker 42 U.S., North American, and European history, which, you know,

Speaker 42 even if you're a history major is absolutely wrong, as well as foreign language requirement.

Speaker 42 That's not required now for a major. So

Speaker 42 you could get your U.S.

Speaker 42 history major without that history

Speaker 113 big deal.

Speaker 56 And the reason that they're saying they decided to do this is because

Speaker 28 they want to recruit new students to better reflect a globalizing world.

Speaker 39 Because, Jeffy, we're citizens of the globe.

Speaker 46 Are we?

Speaker 12 We're not U.S. citizens anymore.

Speaker 124 We're citizens of the globe.

Speaker 105 Citizens of this planet.

Speaker 56 So this is a beautiful thing.

Speaker 26 They can

Speaker 16 take

Speaker 67 world history instead,

Speaker 65 European history.

Speaker 11 We are just, we're begging for trouble.

Speaker 80 Every

Speaker 12 dime.

Speaker 42 If they take a dime of taxpayers' money, it should be taken from them right now. That's fine.
You can do what you want.

Speaker 79 Right.

Speaker 24 I don't care what they do.

Speaker 29 But you get no taxpayer money.

Speaker 22 Come on now.

Speaker 42 I mean, you're a United States University.

Speaker 84 I'm just really worried.

Speaker 42 United States of America University.

Speaker 83 I'm really worried about what's going on in our colleges because even at the so-called conservative-leaning schools,

Speaker 20 they're teaching our kids garbage.

Speaker 19 Garbage.

Speaker 63 I was talking to my son over the Christmas break about what he was learning from his professors in history.

Speaker 31 And he said they hate Israel, for one thing.

Speaker 48 And the slant on Israeli-Palestinian

Speaker 28 relations was all Palestinian-leading.

Speaker 72 Of course.

Speaker 125 And he said they didn't come right out and say that Israel is in the wrong, but everything

Speaker 82 they taught led you to believe.

Speaker 49 Why not?

Speaker 53 I mean,

Speaker 42 our country is,

Speaker 42 you know, we don't want to vote. We know what's going to happen.
We've got John Kerry telling us that they're wrong and bad.

Speaker 42 Obama's been telling us they want us, well, they should go back to the 68 borders, and Israel's in the wrong.

Speaker 42 Why wouldn't you be that way?

Speaker 113 And

Speaker 4 I told him, you know,

Speaker 4 do they even talk about the fact that the Palestinians had their shot at a homeland when the partition was made in 1948?

Speaker 71 When the UN gave birth to Israel, they also gave birth to a Palestinian state.

Speaker 109 And the Palestinians rejected it and instead went to war with their Arab brethren against Israel in 1948.

Speaker 82 Well, what?

Speaker 46 They never, what?

Speaker 25 What?

Speaker 69 Did that happen?

Speaker 36 They didn't even talk.

Speaker 27 They never talked about it.

Speaker 36 They never talked about it?

Speaker 133 How is that possible?

Speaker 62 And then they went to war again in 1956 and again in 1967 and again in 1973 and 1981 and so on and so forth through history.

Speaker 63 And

Speaker 62 the Israelis had had enough by 67 and finally kept the West Bank.

Speaker 42 Because the Palestinians have always been, that's not enough. I mean, I don't know what enough is for them.

Speaker 74 Well, enough is means getting rid of Israel.

Speaker 12 Yeah, the entire issue.

Speaker 31 It means getting rid of Israel.

Speaker 44 And unless we do that, it's not enough.

Speaker 69 That's right.

Speaker 42 So we're not agreeing to anything.

Speaker 31 And really, you have the UN going along with that.

Speaker 113 And now, apparently, you've got the Obama administration going along with the UN

Speaker 61 in these resolutions.

Speaker 71 And Israel is pretty fed up with it.

Speaker 109 And I don't blame them.

Speaker 4 I don't blame them.

Speaker 30 So what chance do our kids have when they're hearing all of this garbage in college?

Speaker 68 And these are the people that we've set up as the the authority figures.

Speaker 72 This is where you're going to go and learn all these great things to prepare you for life.

Speaker 125 And then they're hearing all of this stuff, and now they're not getting any U.S.

Speaker 51 history on top of that at places like George Washington University.

Speaker 42 And that actually is the argument for not having to get through U.S. history, right? You're hoping that maybe the history they get will be correct and not at least.

Speaker 12 It's not going to be. No, it's not going to be.
It's not going to be. No.

Speaker 27 It's going to be a worldview.

Speaker 30 It's going to be an anti-American view. And it's hard to to overcome that slant.

Speaker 116 And so if your kids are attending universities,

Speaker 31 I recommend talking to them about what they're learning from their professors so that you can at least provide them with the other side of it.

Speaker 59 It may take a while.

Speaker 33 As I told Sean, I don't mind if they teach you both sides.

Speaker 132 I don't care about that at all.

Speaker 35 In fact, that's the way you should. Let them decide.

Speaker 100 Just teach them both sides of the issue.

Speaker 34 Don't slant it one way or the other.

Speaker 31 He said one of the things he liked best about one of his professors was one day he would come in with one side of an argument and he would argue the other side while the students

Speaker 29 came at him with questions. And then the next day he would argue the other side of it and have them respond accordingly.

Speaker 69 And I thought, well, yeah, that's what you should be doing.

Speaker 12 Absolutely.

Speaker 124 Let them decide.

Speaker 11 Because otherwise it's indoctrination.

Speaker 28 Well, sadly, that's what's happening.

Speaker 42 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 35 Triple eight seven two seven Beck.

Speaker 81 It's Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 81 We are one.

Speaker 47 The Glenn Beck program.

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Speaker 77 This is the Glen Beck program.

Speaker 76 Patton Jeffy for Glenn on the Glen Beck program. He

Speaker 55 hurt his back, threw it out again, and so hopefully he'll be back tomorrow.

Speaker 35 88727 B-E-C-K.

Speaker 11 Some people under fire for comments that they've made.

Speaker 63 Steve Martin, this weird controversy is one of the dumbest I've ever

Speaker 15 seen in my life.

Speaker 42 And he deleted it.

Speaker 53 Well, of course.

Speaker 65 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 30 I mean, especially these lefties in Hollywood, they don't understand

Speaker 31 the insanity of the left because they're part of it.

Speaker 36 And so the least little criticism they get, oh, okay, I'm sorry.

Speaker 83 He actually said, I can't remember the exact tweet, but he tweeted out after Carrie Fisher died that she she was beautiful and she was also smart and talented, or something to that effect, right?

Speaker 31 Because he mentioned her intelligence, matching her beauty, something to that effect.

Speaker 123 Well,

Speaker 68 the feminists went crazy.

Speaker 144 How dare you mention a person's appearance after they've died?

Speaker 25 What? Right, right.

Speaker 127 When did that become a thing that I can't do that?

Speaker 146 What do you are you kidding me?

Speaker 63 So, if Brad Pitt dies,

Speaker 46 no woman better ever mentioned that he was good looking,

Speaker 46 or we will hit the roof.

Speaker 143 I've done he's asinine.

Speaker 53 Do you have the tweet? It was innocuous.

Speaker 113 It wasn't offensive in any way.

Speaker 62 And yet, because he got so much flack,

Speaker 71 he deleted it.

Speaker 15 What was the original tweet?

Speaker 46 From

Speaker 42 at Steve Martin Go.

Speaker 24 Think she was aspiring.

Speaker 42 Oh,

Speaker 42 These are the ones that are against him.

Speaker 71 His tweet.

Speaker 42 When I was a young man, Carrie Fisher was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen. She turned out to be witty and bright as well.

Speaker 26 Witty and bright as well.

Speaker 23 How

Speaker 53 horrific.

Speaker 80 How dare you?

Speaker 87 How Deeve Martin?

Speaker 125 You'd think he committed genocide on women or something.

Speaker 42 I think she aspired to something higher than just being pretty. How do you want to be remembered?

Speaker 46 Brother. Oh, my.

Speaker 42 At least, yeah, these are some of the ones that the people that were so mad at him.

Speaker 90 Unbelievable.

Speaker 31 Can her looks not be one of the things you remember?

Speaker 11 No.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 53 No.

Speaker 113 Is it really an insult?

Speaker 36 If Carrie Fisher were alive today, would she say that's an insult?

Speaker 70 Absolutely.

Speaker 101 How dare you say I was beautiful?

Speaker 25 How dare you?

Speaker 69 And witty.

Speaker 23 I am not.

Speaker 23 I am not witty.

Speaker 144 I am the dullest person going.

Speaker 144 I am so dull, you couldn't cut butter with me. That's how dull I am.

Speaker 48 Also, under fire right now, and maybe rightly so, and I've defended him in the past.

Speaker 133 Brent Muskberger maybe shouldn't broadcast anymore.

Speaker 60 Oh, no.

Speaker 42 What'd he do?

Speaker 49 I don't know this. Yeah,

Speaker 12 he broadcast the Sugar Bowl last night with Oklahoma.

Speaker 46 Of course.

Speaker 46 Yeah, Brent.

Speaker 42 They still let Brent hang around for a while. He's one of those.

Speaker 143 I'm a sportscaster whose time has maybe passed and by.

Speaker 42 Well, I mean, that was a while ago, but they still, he's, you know, they still throw him to the bone for a game or two. He's been around enough.
He's got the

Speaker 49 name.

Speaker 42 Yes. The name recognition.

Speaker 12 He does.

Speaker 29 But last night, he was talking about Joe Mixon, who

Speaker 31 in public punched a woman in the face.

Speaker 15 And the video was released recently.

Speaker 29 And, you know, it's horrific.

Speaker 108 It was a couple of years ago when it happened.

Speaker 126 And he got suspended for all of the 2014 season.

Speaker 100 so then he came back and uh

Speaker 125 musberger originally said it was troubling very troubling to see we've talked to the coaches and they all swear this young the young man is doing fine like i said oklahoma thought he might even transfer but he sat out the suspension reinstated and folks he's just one of the best and let's hope given a second chance by Bob Stoops and Oklahoma.

Speaker 130 Let's hope that this young man makes the most of his chance and goes on to have a career in the National Football League.

Speaker 124 Now, as soon as he said that, I thought, oh, you don't know what you just said.

Speaker 120 Brent.

Speaker 73 That is not going to go over well.

Speaker 50 It is though.

Speaker 31 And it didn't.

Speaker 57 And so they're getting all kinds of tweets and they're getting all kinds of social media backlash and people are going crazy about it.

Speaker 68 And so later in the game, he came out again and said, Apparently, some people were upset when I wished this young man well at the next level.

Speaker 31 Let me make something perfectly clear.

Speaker 62 What he did with that young lady was brutal, uncalled for.

Speaker 124 He's apologized.

Speaker 27 He was tearful.

Speaker 42 And now, okay, I know, but

Speaker 52 let's, you know, in Brent's...

Speaker 42 Go ahead, finish what he had to say.

Speaker 53 Yeah, okay.

Speaker 35 He got a second chance.

Speaker 56 He got a second chance from Bob Stoops.

Speaker 57 I happen to pull for people with second chances, okay?

Speaker 73 Let me make it absolutely clear that I hope he has a wonderful career and he teaches people with that brutal, violent video.

Speaker 80 Okay? See?

Speaker 74 No, that's not okay.

Speaker 12 In today's world,

Speaker 69 you can't even live. Nope.
You can't live. You can't walk down the street.
You can't go out of your house if

Speaker 42 you're guilty of hitting a woman.

Speaker 11 Well, that's true. If

Speaker 11 you're a sportsman,

Speaker 20 any kind of sports, any kind of athlete,

Speaker 43 and there's video of it.

Speaker 46 Well, I will say this.

Speaker 15 You certainly can't be celebrated.

Speaker 21 No.

Speaker 42 Right? No, you cannot.

Speaker 43 No.

Speaker 30 Musk Berger should have left it alone.

Speaker 7 If I were that. Great run by now.
How dare you? He hit his woman.

Speaker 10 I wouldn't have even brought up

Speaker 7 the whole incident because he knows better than this.

Speaker 1 In the past, you should leave it alone.

Speaker 10 You don't wish him well.

Speaker 7 What you're talking about, in the same breath, he beat some woman in the face.

Speaker 23 He used to.

Speaker 1 So you're right, Brian.

Speaker 10 Maybe time. It may be time.
It may be time. It just may be time, Brian.
Call it it.

Speaker 77 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 23 Mercury.

Speaker 14 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

Speaker 76 Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program threw us back out earlier.

Speaker 10 Hopefully, be back with us tomorrow.

Speaker 128 888727.

Speaker 68 Back.

Speaker 33 We were talking about Brent Musberger's problems last night.

Speaker 33 And this kind of follows up from, was it last year or the year before?

Speaker 15 It was a couple years ago now, right?

Speaker 11 When he was talking about A.J.

Speaker 117 McCarron's girlfriend during the Sugar Bowl.

Speaker 23 Was it the Sugar Bowl? I don't know. One of the Bull Bowls.

Speaker 134 I mean, it was.

Speaker 113 Some Alabama game.

Speaker 73 Yeah, it was in Alabama.

Speaker 53 Might have been the SEC championship.

Speaker 57 Possibly. But here's what he said then,

Speaker 29 which was somewhat interesting.

Speaker 147 I will admit that. But she also, this Alabama, and that's A.J.
McCarron's girlfriend, okay?

Speaker 142 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 86 And right there on the right is D.D.

Speaker 147 Bomber.

Speaker 147 That's A.J.'s mom.

Speaker 86 Wow, I'm telling you, quarterbacks, you get all the good looking.

Speaker 12 Yeah, she's the bomb.

Speaker 142 What a beautiful woman.

Speaker 147 Wow, A.J.'s doing

Speaker 147 some things right now.

Speaker 147 You're a youngster in Alabama. Start getting the football out and throw around the backyard with the hop.

Speaker 48 Okay, now that you ought to be a quarterback.

Speaker 60 He got all kinds of flack for that.

Speaker 46 I didn't think that was that bad.

Speaker 42 Boy, social media, Twitter went crazy.

Speaker 56 It went nuts because he's talking about, again,

Speaker 109 a beautiful woman. And I guess that's...

Speaker 54 You're not allowed.

Speaker 27 That's verboten.

Speaker 42 You are not allowed.

Speaker 54 It's forbidden.

Speaker 11 You can't talk about.

Speaker 52 You can't talk about the girl.

Speaker 46 You can't talk about the mother.

Speaker 12 You can't talk about the boy for nothing.

Speaker 69 Uh-uh.

Speaker 105 And I,

Speaker 30 you know, people made a big deal.

Speaker 122 Oh, that's a 72-year-old man talking about a 21-year-old girl.

Speaker 139 He's not asking her for a date.

Speaker 112 He didn't try to sleep with her.

Speaker 8 He's saying AJ made a great choice.

Speaker 87 And wow, there's her mother.

Speaker 36 And she's attractive, too.

Speaker 87 Yeah.

Speaker 70 Terrible?

Speaker 48 No.

Speaker 42 And then he's got Herb Street next to him, who was a quarterback, by the way,

Speaker 42 when he said, wow, you quarterbacks.

Speaker 46 Yes, true.

Speaker 123 Right.

Speaker 121 And

Speaker 133 last night was a little different deal.

Speaker 51 It was a lot different.

Speaker 72 Last night he deserved some criticism.

Speaker 31 And it wasn't just the Joe Mixon thing,

Speaker 33 sort of,

Speaker 26 you know, celebrating him and hoping he has a great career after he punched a woman in the face.

Speaker 35 And I guess,

Speaker 63 should that

Speaker 27 end his career over all time?

Speaker 37 There's a lot of people who think so. Yeah, there's a lot of people who think so.

Speaker 42 There's a lot of people that think

Speaker 26 you should stop existing.

Speaker 123 Yeah.

Speaker 72 And I don't think that Brent gets that at this stage.

Speaker 30 I don't know how old, what is he?

Speaker 51 75?

Speaker 18 Probably now, yeah.

Speaker 28 But the other thing he was doing, I don't know how many times he called these large football players rascals.

Speaker 139 That rascal, that's a big rascal.

Speaker 53 That's a big.

Speaker 43 What? Hey, big him.

Speaker 67 And the other thing he kept saying was young'uns.

Speaker 121 Young'uns.

Speaker 113 These younger. Young'uns and rascals.

Speaker 46 Okay.

Speaker 127 You're not in 1956 anymore, Brent.

Speaker 33 And so again, it just might be time.

Speaker 42 It might be time, Brent.

Speaker 42 Just to give it. We love you.

Speaker 53 And I do.

Speaker 27 I think he's great.

Speaker 42 Every once in a while, you know, you come back around. Maybe we maybe do a press conference at the bowl games every once in a while.

Speaker 42 The Sugar Bowl maybe gives you a special award.

Speaker 22 You're the Sugar Bowl

Speaker 71 guy.

Speaker 109 You're the honorary

Speaker 46 color man for the Sugar Bowl.

Speaker 13 We allow you to say three things during the Sugar Bowl.

Speaker 42 We allow you to say,

Speaker 42 Sugar Bowl winner this year is.

Speaker 35 So it just might be time.

Speaker 42 You get get your ticket, you're up at the booth, and you're good.

Speaker 15 And I will say it definitely is time for the Obamas.

Speaker 11 Now, this happened a couple of weeks ago, but we were on vacation when she said it.

Speaker 61 And I

Speaker 143 couldn't believe the insensitivity of it at the time.

Speaker 31 But it reminded me how glad I am to see these two go when Michelle Obama sat down with Oprah.

Speaker 109 And because, and they're talking about the Trump presidency and how the left is going crazy.

Speaker 29 And here's what Michelle Obama said.

Speaker 148 We're feeling what not having hope feels like.

Speaker 148 You know?

Speaker 148 Hope is necessary.

Speaker 148 It's a necessary

Speaker 148 concept.

Speaker 148 And Barack didn't just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes. I mean, he and I and so many believe that if you, what else do you have if you don't have hope?

Speaker 148 What do you give your kids if you can't give them hope?

Speaker 13 I'm sorry, was she saying that about the right, who almost lost all hope when her husband was elected?

Speaker 27 When her Marxist husband was elected in 2008?

Speaker 70 No.

Speaker 57 They didn't care at all what the right was feeling.

Speaker 70 They didn't care at all about anybody but themselves.

Speaker 62 And now all of a sudden, now they see that their reaction is much the same as ours, and they have no recognition of that.

Speaker 21 None.

Speaker 127 They are the most unaware people.

Speaker 113 These liberals and progressives apparently can't see beyond their own noses.

Speaker 33 It's just amazing.

Speaker 67 And

Speaker 29 it's one of the reasons I'll be very happy to say goodbye to them on January 20th, regardless of who's entering the White House, just so they're going out the other day.

Speaker 109 Just so they're gone.

Speaker 42 And he makes a big point now of

Speaker 42 continuing to say that he's still going to be involved.

Speaker 18 I'm not going anywhere.

Speaker 53 I'm not going anywhere. I'm still leaving.

Speaker 42 I'm still going to be living in Washington.

Speaker 46 He told some little girl that.

Speaker 111 I don't know what the...

Speaker 26 I was only paying half attention to the news cycle when we were on vacation, but he was telling some little kid, I'm not going anywhere.

Speaker 57 Because the kid was saying how he's going to miss him and all that.

Speaker 31 And I thought, oh, God.

Speaker 40 I don't know if I can handle it if you don't go anywhere.

Speaker 51 You need to go somewhere and just leave us alone now.

Speaker 111 You've done enough.

Speaker 42 There's no way he does that either.

Speaker 83 It's fascinating to watch this, though, because again, they are so unaware.

Speaker 33 Paul Krugman, Nobel-winning economist and liberal New York Times columnist, said that he's lost faith in the future of the United States.

Speaker 134 Now, when we were saying this in 2008 and 2012, that we were concerned about the future.

Speaker 122 Who do you want to take back the country from?

Speaker 36 A black man?

Speaker 41 Well, who do you want to take back the country from?

Speaker 59 A white guy?

Speaker 28 A capitalist?

Speaker 43 What are you saying?

Speaker 31 In a series of tweets following Trump's expected triumph in the Electoral College, Krugman seemed to be despondent with the state of the U.S.

Speaker 91 So it's official, and it's vile.

Speaker 133 The loser of the popular vote installed by Russian intervention, a rogue FBI, and epic media malfunction, he tweeted.

Speaker 33 We should never accept this as okay.

Speaker 31 It may be the new normal, but that's a new normal in which the America we knew and loved is gone.

Speaker 109 It's just agonizing.

Speaker 79 It is. It sure is.

Speaker 76 Agonizing.

Speaker 29 Are people noticing that the Trump economic team is shaping up as a gathering of gold bugs?

Speaker 105 What is it?

Speaker 128 I don't, I'm not sure what that means.

Speaker 51 Goldman Sachs people, I guess he's talking about. Yeah.

Speaker 105 People who are successful economically, I guess he's talking about.

Speaker 22 I hate those people.

Speaker 84 You got to hate them.

Speaker 42 I hate those people that are successful.

Speaker 30 Krugman gave the highest praise to Larry Kudlow, who's expected to be named the head of the Council of Economic Advisors in this crew.

Speaker 71 Kudlow,

Speaker 9 who thinks it's always the 1970s, but doesn't seem to hyperinflation under his bed, is the most reasonable.

Speaker 112 Okay, well, I mean, it's fascinating to watch their machinations now.

Speaker 15 It's fascinating to watch their their panic, their fear, the fact that they're all buying shelters now.

Speaker 117 They're installing

Speaker 55 these self-sufficient shelters that in some cases are costing $7, $10, $15 million.

Speaker 33 Now, when we said, hey, you might want to store some extra food.

Speaker 44 It was crazy. It was nothing.

Speaker 79 It's not the world.

Speaker 80 What are you talking about?

Speaker 42 Preaching the end of times?

Speaker 11 When we were saying, hey, maybe it's good to have 10% gold in your portfolio.

Speaker 110 I'm not talking about buying all the gold in the universe.

Speaker 27 I'm just saying maybe 10% of what you own.

Speaker 19 Oh, what are you doing?

Speaker 66 For gold, you're so crazy, are you?

Speaker 112 You're so crazy.

Speaker 58 You're just making money.

Speaker 34 And now they're taking these incredibly drastic measures.

Speaker 28 And it's perfectly fine. That's okay.
It's perfectly fine.

Speaker 123 There's nothing wrong with it.

Speaker 66 Not crazy at all.

Speaker 30 Now, when they say the end of the world is coming because of Donald Trump, it's perfectly fine.

Speaker 25 There's no problem.

Speaker 101 I mean, I would just, I would just, I'm not asking them not to say it.

Speaker 117 I'm just asking them to notice that you thought all of that was crazy in 2008 when we were concerned.

Speaker 42 That would be nice.

Speaker 134 And maybe you could learn the lesson from us that, okay, we thought that he would, and he did fundamentally transform America, but we thought it might be to the point where

Speaker 125 we'd even have no place in it.

Speaker 70 I'm not sure what we thought would happen.

Speaker 62 Economic collapse,

Speaker 31 who knows?

Speaker 29 And he did do a lot of damage, but we survived it.

Speaker 46 And here we are.

Speaker 15 So it would be nice if they could learn that lesson that we thought it was going to be catastrophic when he was elected.

Speaker 109 And he's been elected to two terms and we survived it.

Speaker 56 We'll survive this guy no matter what.

Speaker 57 We'll survive him.

Speaker 31 And that's, you know, I think that's what's given me so much hope is that, is that realization after the election, I thought, well, you know, we've survived a lot.

Speaker 113 We survived a Marxist president who I don't think even has much admiration for this country.

Speaker 42 Not a chance.

Speaker 44 No way.

Speaker 101 Somehow we got through it all.

Speaker 25 We survived his socialist program, his Obamacare.

Speaker 56 We survived the government taking over 17% of the economy.

Speaker 33 Now it's made things worse.

Speaker 110 There's no doubt about that.

Speaker 27 And a lot worse.

Speaker 132 And it's even for people who don't have Obamacare, it's made health care.

Speaker 31 extraordinarily expensive and has ruined our coverage.

Speaker 75 I mean, we used to have the best coverage I've ever had.

Speaker 83 It has declined so much over the last few years since Obamacare, it's almost unrecognizable now.

Speaker 53 It's quite a bit different.

Speaker 63 It's a lot different.

Speaker 57 And Glenn was really proud of the fact that he offered the best insurance available, and he did.

Speaker 42 And he should be.

Speaker 12 And he should be.

Speaker 24 Yes.

Speaker 58 But now you can't even get that insurance anymore.

Speaker 45 You can't even get it.

Speaker 127 They won't even put the parameters into the computer because they don't have those parameters.

Speaker 42 I mean, I did.

Speaker 42 It was, as long as we're down down this road,

Speaker 42 it was frustrating in our gatherings with changing of insurance that we kept hearing, well, this is the best it is. This is the best it is.
This is the

Speaker 46 realtor's got to be.

Speaker 73 It was so frustrating that I had to point out to them, yeah, well, it's not to us because we used to have much better.

Speaker 13 Yeah, well, that doesn't exist anymore.

Speaker 134 So.

Speaker 110 Okay, well, thank you, Obamacare.

Speaker 43 Appreciate it. Right.

Speaker 42 And that's why Nancy Pelosi is proud to tell the Republicans: look, if you break Obamacare,

Speaker 120 they own it.

Speaker 7 They break it, they own it.

Speaker 57 It's already broken.

Speaker 53 I got news for Nancy Pelosi.

Speaker 31 It's been broken since day one.

Speaker 116 Day one.

Speaker 67 Triple 8727, back more of the Glenn Beck program coming up.

Speaker 14 Glenn Beck program.

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Speaker 18 The Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 104 Welcome.

Speaker 35 Pat and Jeffy, triple eight, seven two seven B E C K.

Speaker 84 Hopefully Glenn will be back feeling better tomorrow.

Speaker 10 Triple 8, 727.

Speaker 54 If he doesn't move.

Speaker 12 Yeah, if he doesn't move. He doesn't move if he listens to it.

Speaker 33 Because again, he was sitting in a chair doing just fine and then he moved.

Speaker 59 He moved.

Speaker 49 You can't do that.

Speaker 42 How many times do we say, sit down?

Speaker 46 Don't move. Don't move.

Speaker 41 And maybe he's learned an important lesson here today.

Speaker 46 I sure hope so.

Speaker 79 I hope so.

Speaker 110 We were talking about the Rock Hall of Fame a little bit earlier.

Speaker 11 Who are the, are there five or six?

Speaker 51 There's five or six artists that got into the Rock Hall.

Speaker 12 Strong artists this year.

Speaker 11 Strong, like Joan Baez.

Speaker 31 Who doesn't love Joan Baez?

Speaker 42 I may have taken the full list down, yeah, but Tupac.

Speaker 69 Tupac Chakur, Journey, Journey who deserves it, ELO deserves it, and yes.

Speaker 22 Yeah,

Speaker 133 uh, let's go to Pearl Jam.

Speaker 45 Oh, and Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam, so that's the other one.

Speaker 84 Uh, Chris in California, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 81 Absolutely.

Speaker 92 So I think that we should probably go with Phoebe Snow because Phoebe Snow has got that like 70s sound.

Speaker 94 I mean, we're all about 70s. I love Phoebe.

Speaker 107 Phoebe Snow, Poetry Man, right?

Speaker 23 Come on, now.

Speaker 47 Poetry Man.

Speaker 92 No, I was thinking more of Midnight in the Oasis.

Speaker 8 Oh, and that's Maria Molder.

Speaker 46 That's Marie Moore.

Speaker 42 I've got an album of Phoebe doing some covers, and she may have done that song on that album.

Speaker 108 She might have, but nobody does it like the original

Speaker 48 done by Maria Holdauer.

Speaker 43 Oh, man. There you go.
Midnight at the Oasis.

Speaker 42 Come on, who doesn't love that song?

Speaker 23 Thanks a lot, Chris.

Speaker 52 Who doesn't love Midnight at the Oasis?

Speaker 35 Oh, I think everybody does.

Speaker 102 Thank you. I know I do.

Speaker 69 And he's at a point with Phoebe Snow.

Speaker 42 I mean, Poetry Man is.

Speaker 127 And as long as we're at it, why not put Minnie Ripperton into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Speaker 70 The one who did Loving You is easy because

Speaker 110 you're beautiful.

Speaker 42 There should actually be, there should be like a wing to the Rock Hall of Fame, to the one-hit greatness of songs.

Speaker 32 Well, there's definitely a wing for rap artists.

Speaker 28 There's a wing for R ⁇ B.

Speaker 15 There's a wing for people who are just influential.

Speaker 46 I mean, you've never

Speaker 46 heard of.

Speaker 31 But people were influenced by them.

Speaker 41 Whether they're a producer or they're a writer or they were a band that nobody's ever heard of, but bands heard of.

Speaker 53 The iconic band

Speaker 87 came from here.

Speaker 31 He liked them, and so they're in.

Speaker 48 So why not a one-hit Wonder Wing?

Speaker 15 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a sham.

Speaker 11 It's a Travis shamachery.

Speaker 4 And I think we all know it.

Speaker 12 So what happens?

Speaker 54 Do you change your tune if

Speaker 42 they put 400 in?

Speaker 25 Well, it'll help.

Speaker 132 I don't know if it cures the pain.

Speaker 31 It eases the pain, but it eases the pain a little bit.

Speaker 42 I mean, it would ease the pain a little. I think that's just throwing.

Speaker 107 But look how long it took to put Journey in.

Speaker 17 I mean, not, come on, that's a no-brainer.

Speaker 26 I'm not a big Journey fan anymore.

Speaker 44 I'm not either, but who's in the business? They're so overplayed.

Speaker 55 I just got sick.

Speaker 12 No, no, but it's Journey.

Speaker 17 But it's Journey.

Speaker 110 They sold, I don't know, 100 million plus.

Speaker 28 That's not about that.

Speaker 68 Chicago went in, I think, last year.

Speaker 31 They sold 125 million at least.

Speaker 4 They're iconic.

Speaker 107 So how do you leave those bands out?

Speaker 68 ELO just got in this year.

Speaker 54 It's a, it's a

Speaker 54 Tupac.

Speaker 42 So that's good. It's good.
Yes. Tupac's it.

Speaker 10 And I mean, he was shot nine times, right? So he should have been in a long time ago.

Speaker 54 Right. Long time ago.

Speaker 14 This is the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 14 Mercury.