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Alexa, can you help me with this murder case?
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Amazon is pushing back against an Arkansas prosecutor's demand for information on what they have stored at Amazon from Alexa.
Now,
here's the story.
A guy
died in a hot tub
early in the morning, and they get a call and say, hey, my friend is...
died
four times the limit of alcohol in his blood it was just an accident and he's dead.
Police
are concerned because there were signs of a struggle.
There was a broken shot glass.
There was some blood, but you could explain the blood in the shot glass, right?
But there's a device in the home that is a smart meter for the water usage.
And in the middle of the night, the water usage
happens to use
exactly the amount of water to drain and refill the hot tub.
So it looks as though
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.
Now
the police are saying, look,
there's evidence here that something is not right, and we don't think it was an accident.
And they have
Anybody have Alexa or Google Home?
Yeah.
Yeah, you do?
Yeah.
Shut up, you do not.
Yeah, we do.
Do you really?
Do you like it?
No, it's terrible.
It's terrible in the Siri way or...
Yeah, it's terrible in the Siri way.
I mean, it's worthless.
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...
Yeah,
I don't understand what you're asking me.
I'll have to look that up.
Hmm.
I'll think about that.
Yeah, shut up.
It's like Siri.
You know, Siri has those same issues.
You ask it something, and it's like, I can't find that on the web.
I just got one as well, and I haven't.
It seems to be that it's I'm hoping for better.
Yeah.
In the future.
I understand OK Google is better.
You know, I know
the Google home.
Yeah.
That's possible.
Let's get one.
Let's put one in the studio.
We should try should try both of them and get one each, see which one works.
I'm not putting one in my house.
Oh, no, but there's Amazon.
You can order what you want from it.
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.
Because this area, we're close to a huge Amazon out
warehouse.
Within hours.
Yeah, here you'll have it within five hours.
Yeah, I mean,
I mean, you go on Amazon Prime now and they'll deliver it to you the same day.
Well, the commercials say,
hey, we need,
Alexa, we need more paper towels.
Order more paper towels.
Okay, ordered.
I mean, that's pretty cool.
And
I haven't used it in that way yet because I don't really...
trust it because it can't even find the BYU score.
So
I'm a little nervous about it.
If it didn't come in blue.
Right?
Right.
It doesn't know.
Right?
So.
So, okay, so here's the thing.
So
Alexa or Google Home, they're going after Amazon's Alexa.
And they're saying that
it records everything, listening for the keyword, the wake word.
And with Amazon, it's either Amazon or Alexa.
So I didn't know that.
Everything that you say is recorded.
It's recording.
Recorded.
Even when you don't say Alexa and wake it up, it's recording everything.
It is constantly listening to you.
That is fascinating.
And it's recording everything, waiting for the wake-up.
Amazing.
Oh, yeah.
Because
we have welcomed the NSA in.
We sure have.
We sure have.
I didn't even think of that.
And
we'll have it in the kitchen and we'll be sitting in the living room.
And I tested it a few times to see how
well it hears.
And I've said, Alexa, you're just speaking in a normal voice, and it turns on.
It hears.
I mean, so it hears from a long way.
Yeah, no, it is constantly listening and evaluating
and learning from your speech.
And so interesting.
So here's the thing.
So the police have gone in Arkansas and said, we need the tapes.
Amazon has said, no, we're not giving you the tapes.
Thank you.
And they said, said, well, we need them because we think there was a murder.
Wow.
Now, who wins in this?
It's like a murder to be solved?
I know, but it's always for your safety when they break it.
Oh, it's a murder.
Yeah, it's always for your safety.
That's always for your safety.
They say the attorney is now saying that if this goes all the way to the Supreme Court, there's no way Amazon wins.
Right.
Oh, I wouldn't bet on that.
Amazon's got a lot of money.
And look at the decisions that have been made recently.
I mean,
I would not bet against
the government winning that case.
No, that's what they're saying.
Yeah.
Amazon will not win the case.
Oh, I believe that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I believe that.
Yeah.
Because look at the way the Supreme Court's been ruling rightly.
So they're saying now, you know, what's the difference?
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.
You know,
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.
And they're taking it, they're already taking access to all our mobile devices.
Yeah, I mean,
people don't have anything.
They literally have invited them into the house.
Invited them into the house.
There are no secrets.
Now, here's the thing.
We are living 1984.
And we welcomed it.
We're not living 1984.
Right, because we're living brave new world.
Yeah.
We welcomed it in.
1984 was a hostile takeover.
Right.
Brave New World was
through better living through pharmaceuticals, better entertainment, better everything.
You're just going to welcome it in.
That's exactly what happened.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When do the pharmaceuticals?
Huxley was right.
When do the pharmaceuticals?
When the articles start?
Oh, they already have started, my friend.
They've already started.
Alexa, can we get Jeffy a blood test?
No, no, Alexa, turn off.
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.
Yeah.
Kids love it.
Kids will grab the phone and they'll say, Siri, what's the...
I don't use Siri.
Nobody.
I've tried Siri a few times and it was so worthless, I just gave up.
Yeah, but the kids have fun with it.
They love it.
And it's just like the
virtual reality headsets.
Oh, my God.
Don't get me started.
Oh, those are all good.
I mean, I love it, but my kids fell in love with it.
Oh, my gosh.
It's the end of civilization as we know it.
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Good night, everyone.
14 minutes in the new year.
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
Yeah.
It's true, though.
I mean,
we have welcomed all of this stuff.
And
it's amazing when you stop and think about what we have in our homes.
And it's amazing how...
Much more intrusive it's going to become.
Hang on just a second.
Before we go there, I want to go to Betty, New Jersey.
We have a problem, I guess.
Alexa.
Betty in New Jersey.
Hello, Betty.
Yes, hello.
We do have a problem.
Tell Pat Gray to be quiet.
He keeps turning on my Alexa.
I come already.
Alexa.
Please.
Alexa, play bad jazz.
Yeah, it does that too.
Really bad jokes, too, though.
They make you laugh.
Oh, man.
Have a great day, but shut up.
Alexa, record everything Betty says.
Tony, let's go to Tony in Florida.
Hi, Tony.
Yeah, hey there.
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.
That's not a very nice thing to say.
And I'm not making it up.
I've never heard her say that before.
Oh, yes, Alexa, we are talking about you.
Yes, we are.
Yep.
But she does not like it.
She does not like you guys.
Thanks a lot.
Stand in line, Alexa.
Stand in line.
Steve, go ahead.
Hello, man.
Just want to let you know, I'm 61 years old, and I am a massive fan of OK Google.
In fact, I called the show.
I said, call Glenn Beck Radio Show, pop me right in, and here I was.
I like that Siri.
Siri, the worst thing there is.
You can't get that thing to do anything for you.
That's right.
Okay, Google.
When you try it, it is awesome.
So here you are.
You're in Arkansas, arkansas right
yes okay so steve are you paying attention to this story about
in arkansas about the murder
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
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
Oh, I see.
Yeah,
so it records everything you say, whether you're talking to it or not.
Okay, Google is on the spot.
There ain't no way.
No, no, no, I understand that.
I understand.
I believe that.
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.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they've done it in some cities.
They've done it.
They'll control the smart meters.
They'll control the information in whole towns.
As long as our life is easy.
Right?
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.
I'm saying to you that it's listening to everything that you say.
It
is recording you.
And now police are trying to get
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.
Are you comfortable with that?
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.
Got nothing to be scared of.
But man, I don't know where you're going to draw draw the line.
That's exactly right.
That's right.
And the problem is, a lot of people will say, well, I don't care if they're listening.
I'm not saying anything wrong.
Well, that's not up to you to decide, is it?
Because
it might be wrong to whomever is listening.
Or they might make it into something wrong.
And can.
And can.
And have.
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,
you know, I'm not saying that this is happening now.
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.
I have no idea.
But one will appear.
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.
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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,
Santa brought a PlayStation 4 for my son, which I had a talk with a fat man and I informed him.
My son,
fat men have, we have a council.
We have a council meeting.
All fat men get together.
And Santa is not the chairman of the board this year.
I am.
But, you know, just watching he was playing Star Wars with it yesterday, and
he gets so wrapped up,
you know, with, you know, with a 50-inch screen.
He gets so wrapped up into it when you put, and he wanted it, virtual reality, and I just laughed.
Like, yeah, no.
Oh, like I told my kids fell in love with it.
And because you're totally immersive.
Right.
That's all there is.
That's all there is.
All you are is.
There is.
It's really immersive.
It does feel like you're not.
It does feel like you're there.
It really is.
It really does.
When it can get better.
Did you get it?
Yeah, my son has it.
And fortunately, he took it with him to college, but he has it, and I tried it a few times.
And it's pretty amazing.
So
you got virtual reality and the curve.
Did you get a curve TV?
That's one of the 55 curves for the house.
Oh, nice.
What is that like?
It's actually really nice.
It looks a lot bigger.
The old 55 was a piece of junk.
Oh, I know.
That thing had to go.
How much are those curves now?
That had to go.
I was so sick of looking at that.
How much are those now?
Can you get them at Costco yet?
I'm never buying a TV.
I'm never buying a TV again unless it's from Costco.
Yeah, Costco or Sam's.
I mean, you can get all those there.
Yeah.
I mean, it's under
$1,000.
Under $1,000?
Yeah.
Was it really?
Yeah.
Nice.
And you got a 4K?
I got the, yeah.
My wife really went crazy.
Your wife bought a show?
Shit, I couldn't believe it.
What could
she do?
That's not her at all.
That is not.
That thing is huge.
It's a big TV.
And it's
an ultra-high definition.
It's a 75-inch.
Is anything
like a 4K?
Ultra-high definition 4K.
It's more expensive than your house.
Yes, it is.
Wow.
Is anything broadcast in that?
Yeah, Netflix is broadcast in that.
The new original series.
I don't know if all shows are
reaches you is, though.
What the weather is.
You know what I mean?
Sometimes, like the cable companies are.
Yeah, they won't do 4K.
That's a lot of space.
Yeah,
some of them are in 4K.
I think
there's certain cable stations or satellite stations that are.
That is a total waste of time.
Unbelievable, though.
I just think that's a good thing.
The things that are in 4K are unbelievable.
I've seen it.
It's so vivid.
And it makes all all my other TVs look, you know, like they're from the 50s.
Yeah, like the older definition.
I know that's the best.
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,
it's like watching from 1970.
Standard television is awful.
Once you're used to high definition,
and 4K is just as much, it looks blurry.
And then 4K is that much better.
Yeah, it makes HD look like standards.
I mean, I'm pretty amazing.
I'm sorry guys, but I'm still driving my car.
I mean, I don't know.
I just,
I like the way
I feel driving to work.
What are you talking about?
Are you still...
I mean, you don't.
You have a car that just takes you places now, right?
No.
What?
Are you talking about like the Tetanu theater?
The Tetanus future.
Oh, yeah.
We're talking about all this future stuff.
We're still, people are going to be not driving.
But can we?
Can we soon?
Very soon.
I predict by 2030, you will not be allowed to drive.
You'll be able to drive.
You will not be allowed to drive.
I think that's a self-prediction.
So let's talk about virtual reality and the drive to work and
some of the new technology that people are just gobbling up.
We go to Chip in Ohio.
Hello, Chip.
Hey, guys.
Hey.
I do some work for a company that does work for
Google.
And I can tell you that
the reason there's a big reason why Google Home and Google Now work better than Alexa, and it's because Alexa
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.
Meanwhile, Google, when everything gets set up, they look at everything.
They look at anything you search.
When you're searching Google, they have all these different accounts to look at.
And so they pull from a lot more information.
Of course.
Yeah, it's a lot smarter.
You know, there's a funny video.
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
hot diggity giggity or something.
And he asks, okay, Google hot giggity googity or Lexa, I forget which one.
Is it Alexa?
And
Alexa perceives it as some sort of porn.
So is that because her parents, his parents, were watching porn or searching for porn?
Or?
No,
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
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
on a link
so I'm guessing Alexa just learns from the internet while the Google now home products they learn from
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.
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.
Oh, the Google will do that for you?
There are settings you can do, parental settings, that kind of thing.
But yeah, it's also, they actually have people do work to make sure that the kids are safe online, that kind of stuff.
So Chip, I don't know if you can say this, but I mean, it's it's pretty well known.
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.
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.
And so
you're looking at the benefit.
Oh, this is great.
I get this.
I get this.
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.
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.
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
whenever we do our work,
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
they want it to be something that works for everyone because it but you know, I
don't know about maybe if they're doing anything like that, like you're talking about.
I will tell you this.
I'm not assigning
nefarious.
Yeah, no, no.
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
cut this conversation with you because you don't get any trouble here.
But, you know, when, you know, as Chip was saying here a second ago, that they're using all of the information.
The goal is eventually to be able to say,
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.
It knows what you've underlined.
It knows when you say, for instance, it has all of my patterns of when I read,
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.
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.
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.
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?
Because I also read Tanya's mail and I know she's interested right now in these things.
There's nothing nefarious about it.
But first, let me get to a cup of coffee.
How great is that going to be?
Well,
I'll just say, and I'll just get off of here for you.
But yeah, I'll just say no comment on that.
You can figure that out.
Yeah.
But yeah,
no comment.
Thank you very much, Jim.
I appreciate it.
Yeah.
I mean,
there's no secret to that.
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?
At what point do you say, I don't want to go any further than this?
I don't think there is a line anymore.
I don't think there is either.
No.
I think, I mean, this is what Al Gore talks about it in the first chapter of his book that nobody read,
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
you will automatically upload things.
You'll be able to download some of your thoughts and upload some new information.
Well, who's...
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.
10 years.
Now, think about
conversations because we just had them.
We were
up at the ranch.
We don't really have
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?
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.
We don't have those conversations anymore because you start down that road and somebody has it and they've done the Google search.
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.
I am convinced.
It was with my sister and her son over the holiday and
she got him VR goggles.
And I looked at her and I'm like, are you out of your mind?
She's like, oh no, they're great.
Have you seen it?
No, yeah, no, I've seen them.
It's the end.
I'm convinced.
The end of civilization.
I just want to ride the roller coaster.
No, I know you do.
I know you.
But if you look at where that's headed,
when you have, and by 2025, 2025, you'll have this.
When you have the virtual suit that you can put on.
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.
If you're
already reaching for things
and you can't.
And you're like,
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.
Can you imagine?
They have these horror scenarios that you watch.
And if you can't see it, they can reach out and touch you.
Oh, my gosh.
Okay.
So now imagine, and we've talked about this before.
Imagine
my life is just a piece of crap.
I just go to work.
I don't have a job that I like.
I don't have any satisfaction.
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.
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.
I go home, I get into the suit.
I now have a girlfriend who can touch me.
She learns all about me.
I have an assistant.
I have the virtual, I live in a palace.
Everything I do.
And then I take off the goggles and I'm back to this world.
Oh, I'm telling you, it is the end of civilization.
Because the other world will be so much better for so many people.
Oh, my gosh.
So many people.
It's created for you.
How can it not be?
It's personalized to fit your every want and need.
Tell me how you don't end up in the Matrix.
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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.
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.
And it's really good.
And it talks about this virtual world and what it's really going to be like
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?
Yeah, I liked it.
I liked it a lot.
Yeah.
I thought when I watched it, I thought it was, you know,
it wasn't fabulous, but it was really good.
It was a really good movie.
It was a really good movie for a secondary storyline.
Yeah.
It's a fantastic movie, and it's just a printing press for Disney.
Think of what Disney has now.
Disney has the Marvel series.
Yeah.
They own Marvel.
They own Pixar.
And they own Star Wars.
It's a pretty good lineup.
What else do they need?
It's a pretty good lineup.
That's an amazing company.
Not to mention the Parks,
ABC Television.
ABC TV.
Yeah, they're pretty well set.
When ABC Television is kind of like the junk,
you're kind of like, oh, you work for that part of Disney.
Unless it's ESPN, because I think ESPN is probably more
valuable than ABC.
Oh, it is now.
Oh, it is.
Yeah.
ESPN.
Yeah.
Except, what was the controversy on ESPN over the holiday?
Oh, there was something that I read about ESPN.
Maybe it was just a year in review.
talking about how ESPN
is losing viewership because they become so politically correct.
I saw a research report
on
Facebook and the difference between Republicans and Democrats, and I couldn't believe how different we are.
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.
Wow.
It's a weird split.
Really?
Yeah.
Really weird split.
And yet it's interesting because anytime you listen to a sports station, anytime they get on politics,
completely liberal.
And it's just agonizing to listen to.
And I think that's part of the problem with ESPN.
ESPN
appeals to the heartland,
except they don't understand that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't, I mean, have you guys ever noticed a split between people who live in New York and
football?
I mean, I was shocked by that.
It was, it was, and I'm trying to remember.
I think it was also
there were more conservatives or more Republicans that followed soccer than Democrats.
Oh, that can't be because soccer fans are communists.
Right?
We all know that.
That's just as clear.
They're all open-border communists.
That's right.
It just can't be.
It's already flawed.
We're not talking about it anymore.
Yeah.
Soccer.
You guys make a New Year's resolution?
No, I never do that.
It's a waste of time.
I gave that up for Lent a long time ago.
And I don't even do Lent.
And that is your resolution.
Yeah, it is.
Not to make New Year's resources.
You know, I just try to do better and then leave it at that.
Because anytime you make a resolution.
That's why you never really.
And that's why I never really improve.
That's why you're the same man you were I met 30 years ago.
Probably even worse.
You know, I've gone backward.
I've gone backwards.
So
it's not working well for me.
Yeah, I've never kept a New Year's resolution.
Has anybody?
Oh.
We should ask.
I mean, I'd love to hear if somebody who's, you know, for 10 or 15 or 20 years kept a resolution.
Even for 15 minutes.
Have you kept a resolution?
Go to the gym every day, you know, working out, eating better, feeling good.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
We as a family.
And it never happens.
We as a family,
we were buying somebody a gym membership
and they got to me.
You know, you want to donate for the gym?
I said, they're never going to use that.
They're never going to use that.
Oh, no, but they really need to.
Yeah, I know they need to.
They really need to.
They're not going to get to.
We all need to.
Yeah, no, but they're really talking about getting healthy.
They're not going to get healthy.
No.
Maybe if you, maybe if you buy maybe a couple of times to the gym, they'll use that.
Not the memberships.
This is the Glenn Beck program.
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Happy New Year!
Jamaica New Year's resolution.
We want to hear from you about what you'd like to do differently this year, if anything.
And we'll start there right now.
I will raise my voice.
I will hold your hand.
Cause we have won.
I will beat my drum.
I have made my choice.
We will overcome.
Cause we are one.
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program.
It is the Glenn Beck program.
As sometimes happens with fat people like us,
Glenn just threw his back out
by sitting there.
He was lifting a plate of food.
Lifting a plate of food and threw his back out.
He wasn't even doing that.
He just moved.
And I don't know.
Sometimes, you know, when you've got bad back, when you have a bad back, it doesn't take anything.
I mean, you just move a certain way and bang, you're in massive pain, which was what just happened to him moments ago.
And so he's kind of been carried off on a stretcher almost.
Not quite a stretcher, but he was definitely helped out of the studio.
Pretty close.
So, Pat Gray and Jeffy for Glenn right now.
And then Stu is really sick today.
I went through that too.
I got that flu really bad a few weeks ago, and I was in bed for several days and just feeling like crap.
Did you get any of that?
No, I did not.
No, that's nice.
I was very fortunate about that.
That's nice because it's definitely going around.
Yeah, I mean, I got the beginning.
I felt like the beginnings of illness coming on, and then
it's all good.
And then you were fine.
I mean, weather here in Texas has been so weird.
Well, I mean, it's like like
80, freezing, 80, freezing.
That's a Dallas winter, though.
You know, it goes 75, 43,
68, 52.
It's a beautiful day.
Let's go out and share it.
Tonight is going to be freezing.
Yeah.
All right.
Triple eight, seven, two, seven.
Right before the break, we were talking about the fact that I just
I never make resolutions anymore.
And I don't know anybody who does.
Do you still make New Year's resolutions?
Oh,
actually,
I sent the one for the workout and the
gym, and so that's gone so well that I decided, why do I need to
for all of us?
Yeah, it's just the same thing.
You're setting yourself up, first of all, for failure.
That's what I mean.
Immediately.
That's what I.
You do it, and it's like you're done.
Yeah.
According to Business Insider,
the most popular resolutions your coworkers are making for 2017.
One-fifth of people, 22% of the 3,400, this is a pretty big survey, 3,411 employees were surveyed.
And they said their top resolution for 2017 is to leave their current job and find a new one.
Wow.
Among younger workers,
the number is even higher.
35% of those between 18 and 34 expect to have a new job by the end of the year.
It was conducted online by the Harris poll.
And about half of the respondents, 49%,
say they plan to put more of their paycheck into savings.
About a third, 38% want to decrease their stress level.
Another third would like to move up a step on the ladder over the next 12 months.
28% plan to consume less junk food at the office.
Yeah, that's just not going to happen, people.
That's not going to happen.
Why bother?
It's just not.
Just understand that and know it, and then you don't have to be disappointed the whole year.
And just about 26% resolved to make more courses, training, or seminars in 2017.
Why?
I don't know.
That's just stupid.
It's just...
And very few of these are actually going to happen, which is why I, you know.
And then the other resolution for most people
is to eat right.
Oh, eat right.
Exercise.
Exercise, feel better, lose weight.
Lose weight.
And it's important.
And I want to.
I do too.
I really do.
I just don't call it a resolution.
Because,
again, I think you're setting yourself up for failure.
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.
I don't want anything to do with the gym.
I don't even pretend I want anything to do with the gym.
No.
I mean eat right and exercise maybe at home maybe take a walk from time to time.
I do not want to go to the gym.
I've got family members now several kids who are just obsessed
with the gym.
I'm a son part owner of gyms.
I mean, I can't, I know, I'm not doing it.
Plus, your son actually does work out.
A lot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Pretty sad.
That's how you get to be, what, 6'5 and 3'10 without an ounce of fat on your bones.
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.
If you're looking to draft somebody NFL for a new contract, he's a good one.
What is he?
43 now?
It's probably a little beyond draft time.
Yeah, I know.
Well, I was just taking a shot.
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If you've got some resolutions that you'd like to share with us, I don't even know if anybody does this anymore.
Does anybody even do resolutions?
I don't think so.
I mean, I have not known at least nobody.
There must be somebody, right?
Because we talk about it every year.
There has to be.
There has to be somebody.
Let's go to Pete in Texas.
Pete, you're on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Jeff.
Hey, guys, how are you doing?
Good.
So, I actually was calling earlier.
I guess my resolution would probably be that I don't have radio hosts to order things off of Amazon for me anymore.
Seeing as you guys caused total chaos in our house this morning saying the Alexa keyword over
and over again.
It's surprising how many people, first of all, it's amazing how many people have that.
Because we've heard that quite a bit so far this morning today.
And then
that it would set off from listening to the radio is kind of interesting to me, too.
I didn't even think of that when we were saying, Alexa.
See, now we just did it again.
All right, go ahead.
Exactly.
So, one thing you guys were discussing with that this morning
was the way it works.
You were saying that it always listens and it's always recording.
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,
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.
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.
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?
It doesn't have the context to, or it's not recording to be able to pick up what you said before it.
Then
why then would the police want access to
its recordings?
They don't realize that it's not functioning like a microphone.
They think that it is Big Brother style, and maybe someday it'll get to that.
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.
You could see that happening in the future.
But today, that's not how it works.
So it would do them no good, then, is what you're saying.
So even if Amazon said, sure, we'll give you the tape, the recordings, then
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.
Exactly.
Which if you're doing that, well, you're probably not going to get away with it.
Probably not.
Yeah, you're probably not that smart a murderer.
Alexa, I need cleaning products to clean up this blood.
Well, that's interesting.
Actually,
that's a relief because I don't want a recording everything.
I wouldn't want that in my house.
In standby listening mode.
Amazon's detriment, if they were going for Google or anyone, to sit and take in all of that data, if they were
screaming everyone's seg.
I mean, think about them.
That would be a lot.
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.
You know, they don't, yeah.
They don't want to
know any of that other stuff.
So
that's a pretty good point.
That's a pretty good point.
Appreciate the call.
Thanks a lot, Pete.
Let's go to Zach at Ohio.
Zach, you're on the Glen Peck program.
Hi.
Hello.
How are you?
Good.
Well,
I got a couple New Year's resolutions.
I need to lose a little bit of weight.
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.
So my senators are Capito and Manchin and my congressman's McKinley.
And I've seen those suspense horror flicks of the smart houses from the 90s.
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.
You know, I mean, I don't think that's ridiculous anymore.
I think it could happen.
Appreciate the call.
We're pretty close.
I mean, it could happen.
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?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it's not that far-fetched.
No, it is not.
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.
Then what do you do?
I mean, if your house,
I could see a scenario where you'd be pretty powerless.
If you depend on the smart functions of your house to do everything,
then
without power, you've got nothing.
Right.
There's no way to switch away from that.
Yeah, I can see where that would be kind of a problem.
I'm trying to think.
Even if it's nothing sinister, you know, just a power outage would screw things up.
Right, right.
Let's go to Brian in Massachusetts.
Brian, you're on the Glen Beck program.
Hey,
how you guys doing?
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
Thank you.
I'm just calling regards to the Alexa.
And now, so Massachusetts, it's a two-party state in terms of oral communication.
Yeah.
And that both parties need to be aware.
that you're recording, if you are.
Yeah.
Correct.
So there's obviously exceptions: state and federal law enforcement, phone companies, et cetera.
So now the summary of mass law is
prevents private citizens from secretly recording others or possessing a device with the intent to secretly record.
Okay.
I know the key word there is secretly and also intent.
But if you bring a case from, I believe it's Arkansas
in the past,
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?
You can't.
You can't.
You can't.
That would be interesting
to test in Massachusetts or any of these states with a two-party law.
I'd be interested to see.
but it's kind of a moot point if what our previous caller was saying is true in that if it doesn't record.
But if it does, buying the product is a simple admission that you're aware that it's recording.
And that would be the argument.
That's true.
It's like intent is implied.
Like when you call a radio station,
it's implied that you're giving us consent to put you on the air.
Correct.
It's different if we call you.
You know, I got the latest telephone and I put in new applications.
Do you read what's good?
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?
Yes.
And all that information is going to those apps.
And they make it impossible.
38 pages of.
And you can't deny.
There's nothing.
They used to break it up into sections where you could, okay,
you can do this, but you can't do this.
No.
No more of that.
It's deny or not use the app.
Appreciate the call, Brian.
Thanks.
Let's go to Eric in California.
Eric, you're on the Glen Beck program.
What's up, Pat and Stu?
I'm glad to see you guys again.
I've been having withdrawals from missing you guys.
Oh, it's good to be back.
But yeah, hey, it's true.
My resolutions are: I'm 24 years old from California, and my resolutions are to quit drinking alcohol.
Oh, wow.
I mean, completely.
Not just cut back, you're going to quit.
Yeah, completely.
All right.
When did that start?
After New Year's Eve?
Oh, Yeah.
Yeah.
Three days.
Three days.
That's pretty good.
Congratulations.
Three days is three days.
Was there more or is that it?
I mean, that's a big one, though.
That's huge.
I've tried it a few times.
But I watched something on YouTube from Glenn Beck.
You guys talked to an alcoholic, actually.
You called him to the show.
Right.
Yeah.
And it did motivate me and it stopped me from drinking for six months when I was working for Ted Cruz.
Really?
Wow.
Nice.
So, what I would do first is start by maybe watching that video every three months.
Then you'd be all right.
Just kind of roll into that.
Yeah.
Is that the guy who called us and said that he'd gotten sober,
inspired by Glenn, right?
Sobriety.
Then he read the books, read live.
Read the books.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was a
powerful story.
It would have been great if it was true.
It is awesome.
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
every day thanks a lot eric appreciate it thanks for the call
man uh let's go to andrew in florida andrew you're on the glenbeck program hi
hey
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?
Yeah, give us an example.
No, no, no, no.
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.
Thank you.
Welcome, Andrew.
Welcome.
Yes, I'm weak.
But I made resolutions.
I started making resolutions to learn and become proficient at something new every year.
Oh, nice.
Okay.
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.
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.
And this year,
my goal is hunting.
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.
So are you is this with the goal of becoming sort of um more self-sufficient and survivalist?
To an extent, yes.
Okay.
I realize that you know things might not always go as planned, and I'm gonna be ready.
Nice.
Nice.
That's a good way to go about it.
I appreciate the call.
Thanks a lot, Andrew.
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Pat Gray and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glen Glenn Back program.
He had a weird accident where he was sitting and hurt himself.
So
you don't want to sit.
No, you don't.
And you've got to be careful.
I mean, he was not careful.
I was going to worry about him every night because
he's hurting himself sitting now.
Yeah, he was.
As soon as he's going to hurt himself sleeping, he was
sitting there, and we're like, be careful.
And he wasn't.
No, he wasn't.
Because
he apparently moved
in some way.
And seriously, he threw his back out really badly.
Oh, he did.
He had to be helped from the studio.
Steve, I mean, I saw it happen where it was like it hit, you know, you're right.
He moved.
He moved.
He moved.
Yeah.
And it was not pretty.
It was not good.
It was not.
So,
I mean, just a cautionary tale.
If you're a big fat guy like we are, don't move.
Don't move.
Don't.
Move.
It's what I try to live by.
I try not to move as much as possible.
So don't be telling me about this gym stuff.
Well, you need a gym membership and you need to work out your abs.
That'll strengthen your core.
No.
No.
The thing is, don't move and then there won't be a problem.
Your core is fine.
Because it's not moving.
I'm not moving right now.
And so my core is perfect.
Right.
Triple 8727 back.
We've been talking about New Year's resolutions.
And if anybody makes them anymore, and apparently a few people still do.
And
Business Insider just did a poll, career builder, top resolutions for working people.
About half the respondents, 49% plan to put more of their paycheck into savings.
About a third want to decrease their stress level.
About 22% of employees just want to change jobs this year.
That's, wow, I mean, you hear that from a lot of people.
A lot of people not doing what they like doing.
And I mean, it's important to do what you like, right?
You're just better at it.
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Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
Glenn threw his back out, so he's out for the rest of the day.
He'll hopefully be on tomorrow, maybe from his bed.
We'll see.
And then Stu came down with some kind of Chinese crud.
I don't even know if he's been to China, but somehow he got to the Chinese crud.
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It was so weird that, what, a week after the Rogue One Star Wars movie was released, Carrie Fisher died.
Was it a week, maybe a week and a half, something like that?
I don't know the time frame, but close enough to be
part of this
sadness.
She was only 60.
I know.
Only 60.
And boy, 60 looks like, to me, you look like a teenager when you're 60.
I remember when I took a step back.
That's just a few years away now.
And then, I mean, I know it's in your rear view.
I don't even think about 60 anymore.
But I mean, 60 seems.
I remember worrying about turning 60 and thinking, wow, that's horrible.
But now it seems
you're an infant at 60.
But when they talked about her having problems on the airplane and,
you know, and then
being rushed to the hospital, I was, I was afraid she was.
Didn't they then, though, like a while later, they said she was stable.
She was in stable.
Her mother made a, you know, and then all of a sudden she was fine.
Yeah, and then and all of a sudden she's gone.
Really sad.
And then and then her mom died within what a day of that.
So Debbie Reynolds, we lost like within 48 hours of Carrie Fisher.
Fisher.
And then George Michael died.
And that's kind of, those are weird circumstances.
Nobody really knows what happened there, right?
Have they released that?
No, but they were just saying he died at home.
So.
Well, you know, everybody dies at home.
They won't, but we got to die somewhere.
When they won't say.
It usually is.
It's usually suicide or AIDS,
right?
Isn't that normally the case?
Well,
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.
No, he didn't.
That is true.
So usually if you're close to death with the disease, you
stop gazing.
That's true.
And then there seems to be some suspicion with his significant other person
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.
You fell asleep in your car?
Oh, okay.
That must have been a good night's rest.
All right.
So that's a weird circumstance, too.
And then Lavelle Edwards, one of my heroes,
legendary coach of BYU for 30 years, died as well.
They come in threes, boy.
That's bad.
Unfortunately, that's four.
That's four people.
That's four.
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We're talking about New Year's resolutions.
So if you've made one, if you still have those, we'd like to hear what yours is.
In Finland, they have an ambitious New Year's resolution in mind.
They want to find out how offering people free money for two years helps the unemployed get back to work.
Gets them back on their feet.
They're going to take 2,000 people who are currently unemployed.
and give them free money for two years.
No matter what, either.
When you're going to get the money, first of the month, period.
And then they're going to see how that helps them get back to work.
That's going to get them right back to work.
What?
It's going to get them right back to work.
Right back to work.
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.
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
the theory behind it.
It must be, right?
Of course it is.
They're going to give them $590 a month, which is not a lot of money.
But
it supplements people enough that maybe that'll be enough for them.
And in Finland, I mean, what, most people are living in small apartments anyway.
I mean, you're a little bit familiar with Finland.
My son lived there for two years.
Yeah, I mean, so,
you know, I don't know how much it costs for one of the smaller places, but it can be.
Yeah, I don't either.
But everything's government subsidized.
So the taxes are ridiculous for everybody.
And the government takes care of everything to begin with.
So wait, the government that's giving out money to people for doing nothing
charges other people a bunch of money
to do that with.
And now apparently they're going to do that.
It's even more of that.
Yeah.
And so that's got to work out really well.
Opponents of the experiment say it will just allow people to sit on their couch all day.
I mean, of course that's going to happen.
What do you I can't wait to hear the results of this and see if they but if they tell the truth.
Yeah, they might not.
These are socialists to begin with.
So are they going to tell the truth?
Well, you know what?
It didn't work giving people free money.
We found out it did didn't motivate them.
But proponents claim they'll actually use the money to make their lives better.
In what way?
How is that what?
How?
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.
A basic income might turn risky, might turn a risky move into a much safer one.
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.
It's a bizarre.
Wow, that's a bizarre plan.
Okay.
That's a bizarre plan.
AAA.
And then you wonder, you know, why we're in the kind of situation that we're in.
But that's what some people have touted would be a fix here, right?
I mean, as a theory,
just pay everybody
their monthly stipend.
Yeah.
And
for
the
most menial of jobs to pay people $15 an hour to do them,
even that is a terrible plan.
But when you're paying people to do absolutely nothing, how do you think that's going to work?
We've seen over and over and over when people become reliant on the government, it doesn't motivate them to do better.
They simply rely on the government.
No, and there are some states that have made
people
do
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.
I don't want to do that.
Yeah.
I don't even want to work.
I don't want to work at all.
I'm not going to sweep a street and get your money.
Yeah.
Well, okay.
It doesn't make any sense.
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Let's go to Johnny and Ohio.
You're on the Glenn Beck program.
How's it going, guys?
Doing good.
Good.
Good.
Just wanted to give my resolutions, my three that I had for the last about eight years.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
They're very hard to keep a hold of, but you know, I stay strong and I do it.
My first one is to not write a novel.
Do not write a novel?
Okay.
Yes, sir, to not write a novel.
And my second one is to not climb Mount Everest.
And my third one is to not run a marathon.
How's that working out for you?
You're doing all right with that?
You know what?
I am solid.
Wow.
I am strong as could be with those.
Congratulations.
I mean, those, that's commendable.
It's commendable that year after year, you've not run a marathon, nor have you climbed Mount Everest.
That's
admirable.
Thanks, Joni.
Let's go to Ginger.
Ginger, you're on the Glenn Beck program.
Hi.
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.
And I actually like it better with you guys without fun.
So,
good job.
And I'm not trying to be mean.
I'm not trying to be mean.
It's just the truth.
I think you guys are hysterically funny.
Injured, and you've hurt himself sitting today.
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.
And oddly enough, isn't it ironic how your listeners
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.
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.
William Christopher, the gentleman that played Father Mulcahy on MASH, died on New Year's Eve.
Oh, I didn't even hear about that one.
So is that, but that's not the fifth?
According to Jeffy, that would be the second of the new three.
The second of the two, right?
Because if you back up, well, there was one before Kerry.
I can't remember the guy's guy's name at 32.
I saw him, and
he was a great actor.
He was an awesome dude.
He was really good.
Yeah.
I loved the show, and I really liked him in it.
Yeah.
So I hadn't heard he died.
Appreciate it.
Thanks a lot, Ginger.
All right.
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Hey, Dave, you're on the Glenn Beck program.
Hello.
Hi.
How are you doing today?
Doing good.
I made two resolutions in 1989.
I retired from the military with 31 years' service.
Thank you for your service.
I would thank you.
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.
I play racquetball twice a week.
Wow.
And that second one.
Amazing.
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.
And I've lived up to that every single day.
You guys should try that.
Really?
Something simple.
Well, I changed the lady's wet tire for her this morning.
Every day,
something as simple as carrying someone's groceries to their car.
Just something
every single day.
What did you do on June 6th, 1993?
One good thing.
1993,
June 6th.
Oh, I do remember that as a mirror.
I do.
Another reason I remember that?
It was a car accident.
I pulled a guy out of a car.
Wow.
I remember that exactly.
On June 6th, 1993?
That's it.
Wow.
All right.
That's fantastic.
How about that?
You weren't so exhausted from pulling the guy out of the car.
What happened on June 7th?
I can't tell you on June 7th.
Amazing, I picked the day you actually do remember.
Yeah.
You know what?
At 72, I'm lucky I remember.
The way this works is from 50 to 60, you learn all your aches and pains, tell Glad Dad.
And then from 60 to 70, you learn to accept them.
And then usually after 70, guess what?
You start forgetting them.
All right.
Thanks a lot, Dave.
Appreciate it.
I'm not sure that's that's really comforting.
No, it's not.
But we'll take it.
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You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
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I will beat my drum.
I have made my choice.
We will overcome.
Cause we have one
Mercury.
You're listening to the Glen Beck program.
Zuckerberg Buddhist, and seems to love Buddhism.
Welcome to the Glenbeck program.
Jeff Fisher, Jeffy, and Pat Gray in for Glenbeck, who had to leave a couple minutes early.
Well, he had a tragic accident sitting in a chair and
moved.
I mean, it's almost as if we were joking and we're not.
Let that be a cautionary tell to you.
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
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
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
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
Yeah.
That always bothers me.
I mean, that's kind of disturbing.
I went through a period where I questioned things.
Like, what?
Religious people don't question things, they just blindly accept.
That's the implication.
Yes, it is.
I mean, from all these intellectual atheists.
I went through a period where I at least question things.
Yeah, so do the rest of us, okay?
We don't just swallow everything fed to us.
But, you know, I don't want to detract from the fact that that's definitely a positive.
He didn't provide any details on his faith,
but he just said it's important.
So he apparently
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.
Buddhism is an amazing religion and philosophy, and I've been learning more about it over time.
I hope to continue understanding the faith more deeply.
So it leads you to believe maybe it's not Christianity, it's Buddhism.
Very possible.
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
your house and watching a birth makes you believe that there's something bigger than you going on.
A baby changes everything.
It sure does.
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I also understand that Facebook is developing.
You know, we were talking about the Amazon Echo and the OK Google, Google Home thing.
Supposedly, Zuckerberg's developed something that's also pretty amazing along those lines that does a lot of things in your home.
Good.
Yeah, I mean,
I'm excited to.
Nothing bad could happen.
No, nothing bad can happen from any of these wonderful innovations.
Lucky.
Pat and Jeffy in for Glenn,
who just threw his back out about an hour ago.
Technology is awesome, but what are the drawbacks?
What are we becoming?
We'll talk about some of the latest innovations to be in every home, as we have been today.
We've been talking about your New Year's resolutions.
We also want to get into Black Lives Matter.
Yeah,
do they?
We don't hear much about the Black Lives Being Lost in Chicago, do we?
And
what a year 2016 was for murders in Chicago, which is unbelievable.
Also,
the Russians influencing the election, nah, that didn't happen.
That wasn't, had nothing to do with Russians, according to Julian Assange, and we certainly believe him.
Also, George Washington University has apparently removed U.S.
history from their curriculum.
We'll start there right now.
I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand.
Cause we have won.
I will beat my drum.
I have made my choice.
We will overcome.
Cause we are hungry.
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Yeah, Glenn just hurt his back pretty badly.
Hopefully, he'll be back on tomorrow.
Maybe
I don't know from a hospital bed or his own bed.
We'll see.
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Stu is also sick today, so not a great start for those guys.
Oh, God.
In 2017.
So
the other thing that we were going to mention, you just mentioned right before we came on.
Apparently the Rock Hall of Fame
has decided to go into the Hall of Fame for this year.
And we were pretty close.
We were pretty close
when we talked about who we thought they would pick.
Tell us again the nominations.
Do you have that in front of you?
I just have who they picked.
I don't have the entire nominations, but we can certainly get it.
Who's actually going in this year?
I'm sure they're all incredibly deserving.
No question.
And certainly more deserving than Foreigner, who can't even be nominated, because they only had about 30 top 40 hits.
They only had, I don't know, 15 or 20 top 10 hits.
They only sold about 80 million records worldwide.
They've only been icons for about 40 years.
You wouldn't want them in the Rock Hall of Fame.
But you do want...
Joan Baez.
Oh, my God.
Joan Baez.
Joan Baez?
Did you see the people?
They always do
the people's vote on the website for a month or two leading up to
the actual
and Joan Baez was at the bottom of that list.
So the
people's vote means nothing.
Here or on Patton Stew, we did both.
We talked about who we thought they would pick and obviously who was in the running.
Right.
And we were pretty close.
We were pretty close.
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.
Oh, and she's
the house queen of that.
Oh, my gosh.
ELO, Electric Light Orchestra.
Okay, that's a good one.
Worthworthy.
Absolutely believe.
Workworthy.
Should have been in a long time ago.
Yes.
So ELO, Joan Baez, Journey.
Journey, of course, had to do it.
I mean, they deserve it.
I know.
Pearl Jam.
Pearl Jam.
Yep.
We said there's no way they're not going to let the song.
No way.
That's right.
That's an icon.
The other thing, besides protest songs, is singing about how you're abused as a child.
That's an era.
That's what they represent, right?
I hate my parents.
I've never liked them.
I got beaten when I was a kid.
And you're in.
You're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
So who else?
So Joan Baez, E-L-O, Journey, Pearl Jam.
And of course, Tupac Shakur.
Who else do you think of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Other than Tupac Shakur?
And Tupac was not at the bottom, but he was down there.
Oh, yeah, he was very near.
He was down there.
With Joan Baez.
Yes.
Unbelievable.
You knew there was no way they weren't going to put Tupac in.
No way.
And he's not rock.
No way.
But
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
it's frustrating.
It's really frustrating.
Finally, we have.
Oh, there's another one.
There is.
And finally, we have yes.
So they did get into it.
Of course.
Yeah, of course.
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
and roundabout name a yes song
are you talking to me yeah i'm talking to you i i can't yeah
no one can i want to i want to look it up bad
no one can i can't because i thought i didn't even know about the
I would have just said Roundabout.
Oh, really?
You didn't even?
Owner of a Lonely Heart, yeah, I mean, she was bigger than Roundabout.
Yeah, I know.
I mean, that was her biggest hit.
But Roundabout was longer, so you played it to take a longer break.
Yes, you did.
If you ever had to go to the bathroom and you worked at a classic rock station, you go roundabout.
Because it was about
eight minutes.
I'll be around about 80,000 times.
You were good.
You were good.
Yeah.
No problem.
Roundabout and stairway to heaven were the two.
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George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
has decided that giving students more flexibility.
Isn't that nice?
They're going to give them more flexibility.
Isn't that nice?
That means freeing them up from taking required courses like
U.S.
history.
Even if they're history majors,
they don't have to take U.S.
history.
Come on now.
That's agonizing.
We should sell any government money they get should be taken from them immediately.
You xenophobic bastard.
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.
It should absolutely be required.
Especially if you're a history major.
Yes.
How do you not study U.S.
history?
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.
Well, good.
But there's no more mandate to take U.S.
history.
Now, they changed a couple other things, too.
I will say they eliminated the requirements for
U.S., North American, and European history, which, you know,
even if you're a history major is absolutely wrong, as well as foreign language requirement.
That's not required now for a major.
So
you could get your U.S.
history major without that history
big deal.
And the reason that they're saying they decided to do this is because
they want to recruit new students to better reflect a globalizing world.
Because, Jeffy, we're citizens of the globe.
Are we?
We're not U.S.
citizens anymore.
We're citizens of the globe.
Citizens of this planet.
So this is a beautiful thing.
They can
take
world history instead,
European history.
We are just, we're begging for trouble.
Every
dime.
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.
Right.
I don't care what they do.
But you get no taxpayer money.
Come on now.
I mean, you're a United States University.
I'm just really worried.
United States of America University.
I'm really worried about what's going on in our colleges because even at the so-called conservative-leaning schools,
they're teaching our kids garbage.
Garbage.
I was talking to my son over the Christmas break about what he was learning from his professors in history.
And he said they hate Israel, for one thing.
And the slant on Israeli-Palestinian
relations was all Palestinian-leading.
Of course.
And he said they didn't come right out and say that Israel is in the wrong, but everything
they taught led you to believe.
Why not?
I mean,
our country is,
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.
Obama's been telling us they want us, well, they should go back to the 68 borders, and Israel's in the wrong.
Why wouldn't you be that way?
And
I told him, you know,
do they even talk about the fact that the Palestinians had their shot at a homeland when the partition was made in 1948?
When the UN gave birth to Israel, they also gave birth to a Palestinian state.
And the Palestinians rejected it and instead went to war with their Arab brethren against Israel in 1948.
Well, what?
They never, what?
What?
Did that happen?
They didn't even talk.
They never talked about it.
They never talked about it?
How is that possible?
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.
And
the Israelis had had enough by 67 and finally kept the West Bank.
Because the Palestinians have always been, that's not enough.
I mean, I don't know what enough is for them.
Well, enough is means getting rid of Israel.
Yeah, the entire issue.
It means getting rid of Israel.
And unless we do that, it's not enough.
That's right.
So we're not agreeing to anything.
And really, you have the UN going along with that.
And now, apparently, you've got the Obama administration going along with the UN
in these resolutions.
And Israel is pretty fed up with it.
And I don't blame them.
I don't blame them.
So what chance do our kids have when they're hearing all of this garbage in college?
And these are the people that we've set up as the the authority figures.
This is where you're going to go and learn all these great things to prepare you for life.
And then they're hearing all of this stuff, and now they're not getting any U.S.
history on top of that at places like George Washington University.
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.
It's not going to be.
No, it's not going to be.
It's not going to be.
No.
It's going to be a worldview.
It's going to be an anti-American view.
And it's hard to to overcome that slant.
And so if your kids are attending universities,
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.
It may take a while.
As I told Sean, I don't mind if they teach you both sides.
I don't care about that at all.
In fact, that's the way you should.
Let them decide.
Just teach them both sides of the issue.
Don't slant it one way or the other.
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
came at him with questions.
And then the next day he would argue the other side of it and have them respond accordingly.
And I thought, well, yeah, that's what you should be doing.
Absolutely.
Let them decide.
Because otherwise it's indoctrination.
Well, sadly, that's what's happening.
Yeah, absolutely.
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Some people under fire for comments that they've made.
Steve Martin, this weird controversy is one of the dumbest I've ever
seen in my life.
And he deleted it.
Well, of course.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, especially these lefties in Hollywood, they don't understand
the insanity of the left because they're part of it.
And so the least little criticism they get, oh, okay, I'm sorry.
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?
Because he mentioned her intelligence, matching her beauty, something to that effect.
Well,
the feminists went crazy.
How dare you mention a person's appearance after they've died?
What?
Right, right.
When did that become a thing that I can't do that?
What do you are you kidding me?
So, if Brad Pitt dies,
no woman better ever mentioned that he was good looking,
or we will hit the roof.
I've done he's asinine.
Do you have the tweet?
It was innocuous.
It wasn't offensive in any way.
And yet, because he got so much flack,
he deleted it.
What was the original tweet?
From
at Steve Martin Go.
Think she was aspiring.
Oh,
These are the ones that are against him.
His tweet.
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.
Witty and bright as well.
How
horrific.
How dare you?
How Deeve Martin?
You'd think he committed genocide on women or something.
I think she aspired to something higher than just being pretty.
How do you want to be remembered?
Brother.
Oh, my.
At least, yeah, these are some of the ones that the people that were so mad at him.
Unbelievable.
Can her looks not be one of the things you remember?
No.
Okay.
No.
Is it really an insult?
If Carrie Fisher were alive today, would she say that's an insult?
Absolutely.
How dare you say I was beautiful?
How dare you?
And witty.
I am not.
I am not witty.
I am the dullest person going.
I am so dull, you couldn't cut butter with me.
That's how dull I am.
Also, under fire right now, and maybe rightly so, and I've defended him in the past.
Brent Muskberger maybe shouldn't broadcast anymore.
Oh, no.
What'd he do?
I don't know this.
Yeah,
he broadcast the Sugar Bowl last night with Oklahoma.
Of course.
Yeah, Brent.
They still let Brent hang around for a while.
He's one of those.
I'm a sportscaster whose time has maybe passed and by.
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
name.
Yes.
The name recognition.
He does.
But last night, he was talking about Joe Mixon, who
in public punched a woman in the face.
And the video was released recently.
And, you know, it's horrific.
It was a couple of years ago when it happened.
And he got suspended for all of the 2014 season.
so then he came back and uh
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.
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.
Now, as soon as he said that, I thought, oh, you don't know what you just said.
Brent.
That is not going to go over well.
It is though.
And it didn't.
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.
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.
Let me make something perfectly clear.
What he did with that young lady was brutal, uncalled for.
He's apologized.
He was tearful.
And now, okay, I know, but
let's, you know, in Brent's...
Go ahead, finish what he had to say.
Yeah, okay.
He got a second chance.
He got a second chance from Bob Stoops.
I happen to pull for people with second chances, okay?
Let me make it absolutely clear that I hope he has a wonderful career and he teaches people with that brutal, violent video.
Okay?
See?
No, that's not okay.
In today's world,
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
you're guilty of hitting a woman.
Well, that's true.
If
you're a sportsman,
any kind of sports, any kind of athlete,
and there's video of it.
Well, I will say this.
You certainly can't be celebrated.
No.
Right?
No, you cannot.
No.
Musk Berger should have left it alone.
If I were that.
Great run by now.
How dare you?
He hit his woman.
I wouldn't have even brought up
the whole incident because he knows better than this.
In the past, you should leave it alone.
You don't wish him well.
What you're talking about, in the same breath, he beat some woman in the face.
He used to.
So you're right, Brian.
Maybe time.
It may be time.
It may be time.
It just may be time, Brian.
Call it it.
You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
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We were talking about Brent Musberger's problems last night.
And this kind of follows up from, was it last year or the year before?
It was a couple years ago now, right?
When he was talking about A.J.
McCarron's girlfriend during the Sugar Bowl.
Was it the Sugar Bowl?
I don't know.
One of the Bull Bowls.
I mean, it was.
Some Alabama game.
Yeah, it was in Alabama.
Might have been the SEC championship.
Possibly.
But here's what he said then,
which was somewhat interesting.
I will admit that.
But she also, this Alabama, and that's A.J.
McCarron's girlfriend, okay?
Oh, yeah.
And right there on the right is D.D.
Bomber.
That's A.J.'s mom.
Wow, I'm telling you, quarterbacks, you get all the good looking.
Yeah, she's the bomb.
What a beautiful woman.
Wow, A.J.'s doing
some things right now.
You're a youngster in Alabama.
Start getting the football out and throw around the backyard with the hop.
Okay, now that you ought to be a quarterback.
He got all kinds of flack for that.
I didn't think that was that bad.
Boy, social media, Twitter went crazy.
It went nuts because he's talking about, again,
a beautiful woman.
And I guess that's...
You're not allowed.
That's verboten.
You are not allowed.
It's forbidden.
You can't talk about.
You can't talk about the girl.
You can't talk about the mother.
You can't talk about the boy for nothing.
Uh-uh.
And I,
you know, people made a big deal.
Oh, that's a 72-year-old man talking about a 21-year-old girl.
He's not asking her for a date.
He didn't try to sleep with her.
He's saying AJ made a great choice.
And wow, there's her mother.
And she's attractive, too.
Yeah.
Terrible?
No.
And then he's got Herb Street next to him, who was a quarterback, by the way,
when he said, wow, you quarterbacks.
Yes, true.
Right.
And
last night was a little different deal.
It was a lot different.
Last night he deserved some criticism.
And it wasn't just the Joe Mixon thing,
sort of,
you know, celebrating him and hoping he has a great career after he punched a woman in the face.
And I guess,
should that
end his career over all time?
There's a lot of people who think so.
Yeah, there's a lot of people who think so.
There's a lot of people that think
you should stop existing.
Yeah.
And I don't think that Brent gets that at this stage.
I don't know how old, what is he?
75?
Probably now, yeah.
But the other thing he was doing, I don't know how many times he called these large football players rascals.
That rascal, that's a big rascal.
That's a big.
What?
Hey, big him.
And the other thing he kept saying was young'uns.
Young'uns.
These younger.
Young'uns and rascals.
Okay.
You're not in 1956 anymore, Brent.
And so again, it just might be time.
It might be time, Brent.
Just to give it.
We love you.
And I do.
I think he's great.
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.
The Sugar Bowl maybe gives you a special award.
You're the Sugar Bowl
guy.
You're the honorary
color man for the Sugar Bowl.
We allow you to say three things during the Sugar Bowl.
We allow you to say,
Sugar Bowl winner this year is.
So it just might be time.
You get get your ticket, you're up at the booth, and you're good.
And I will say it definitely is time for the Obamas.
Now, this happened a couple of weeks ago, but we were on vacation when she said it.
And I
couldn't believe the insensitivity of it at the time.
But it reminded me how glad I am to see these two go when Michelle Obama sat down with Oprah.
And because, and they're talking about the Trump presidency and how the left is going crazy.
And here's what Michelle Obama said.
We're feeling what not having hope feels like.
You know?
Hope is necessary.
It's a necessary
concept.
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?
What do you give your kids if you can't give them hope?
I'm sorry, was she saying that about the right, who almost lost all hope when her husband was elected?
When her Marxist husband was elected in 2008?
No.
They didn't care at all what the right was feeling.
They didn't care at all about anybody but themselves.
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.
None.
They are the most unaware people.
These liberals and progressives apparently can't see beyond their own noses.
It's just amazing.
And
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.
Just so they're gone.
And he makes a big point now of
continuing to say that he's still going to be involved.
I'm not going anywhere.
I'm not going anywhere.
I'm still leaving.
I'm still going to be living in Washington.
He told some little girl that.
I don't know what the...
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.
Because the kid was saying how he's going to miss him and all that.
And I thought, oh, God.
I don't know if I can handle it if you don't go anywhere.
You need to go somewhere and just leave us alone now.
You've done enough.
There's no way he does that either.
It's fascinating to watch this, though, because again, they are so unaware.
Paul Krugman, Nobel-winning economist and liberal New York Times columnist, said that he's lost faith in the future of the United States.
Now, when we were saying this in 2008 and 2012, that we were concerned about the future.
Who do you want to take back the country from?
A black man?
Well, who do you want to take back the country from?
A white guy?
A capitalist?
What are you saying?
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.
So it's official, and it's vile.
The loser of the popular vote installed by Russian intervention, a rogue FBI, and epic media malfunction, he tweeted.
We should never accept this as okay.
It may be the new normal, but that's a new normal in which the America we knew and loved is gone.
It's just agonizing.
It is.
It sure is.
Agonizing.
Are people noticing that the Trump economic team is shaping up as a gathering of gold bugs?
What is it?
I don't, I'm not sure what that means.
Goldman Sachs people, I guess he's talking about.
Yeah.
People who are successful economically, I guess he's talking about.
I hate those people.
You got to hate them.
I hate those people that are successful.
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.
Kudlow,
who thinks it's always the 1970s, but doesn't seem to hyperinflation under his bed, is the most reasonable.
Okay, well, I mean, it's fascinating to watch their machinations now.
It's fascinating to watch their their panic, their fear, the fact that they're all buying shelters now.
They're installing
these self-sufficient shelters that in some cases are costing $7, $10, $15 million.
Now, when we said, hey, you might want to store some extra food.
It was crazy.
It was nothing.
It's not the world.
What are you talking about?
Preaching the end of times?
When we were saying, hey, maybe it's good to have 10% gold in your portfolio.
I'm not talking about buying all the gold in the universe.
I'm just saying maybe 10% of what you own.
Oh, what are you doing?
For gold, you're so crazy, are you?
You're so crazy.
You're just making money.
And now they're taking these incredibly drastic measures.
And it's perfectly fine.
That's okay.
It's perfectly fine.
There's nothing wrong with it.
Not crazy at all.
Now, when they say the end of the world is coming because of Donald Trump, it's perfectly fine.
There's no problem.
I mean, I would just, I would just, I'm not asking them not to say it.
I'm just asking them to notice that you thought all of that was crazy in 2008 when we were concerned.
That would be nice.
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
we'd even have no place in it.
I'm not sure what we thought would happen.
Economic collapse,
who knows?
And he did do a lot of damage, but we survived it.
And here we are.
So it would be nice if they could learn that lesson that we thought it was going to be catastrophic when he was elected.
And he's been elected to two terms and we survived it.
We'll survive this guy no matter what.
We'll survive him.
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.
We survived a Marxist president who I don't think even has much admiration for this country.
Not a chance.
No way.
Somehow we got through it all.
We survived his socialist program, his Obamacare.
We survived the government taking over 17% of the economy.
Now it's made things worse.
There's no doubt about that.
And a lot worse.
And it's even for people who don't have Obamacare, it's made health care.
extraordinarily expensive and has ruined our coverage.
I mean, we used to have the best coverage I've ever had.
It has declined so much over the last few years since Obamacare, it's almost unrecognizable now.
It's quite a bit different.
It's a lot different.
And Glenn was really proud of the fact that he offered the best insurance available, and he did.
And he should be.
And he should be.
Yes.
But now you can't even get that insurance anymore.
You can't even get it.
They won't even put the parameters into the computer because they don't have those parameters.
I mean, I did.
It was, as long as we're down down this road,
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
realtor's got to be.
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.
Yeah, well, that doesn't exist anymore.
So.
Okay, well, thank you, Obamacare.
Appreciate it.
Right.
And that's why Nancy Pelosi is proud to tell the Republicans: look, if you break Obamacare,
they own it.
They break it, they own it.
It's already broken.
I got news for Nancy Pelosi.
It's been broken since day one.
Day one.
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If he doesn't move.
Yeah, if he doesn't move.
He doesn't move if he listens to it.
Because again, he was sitting in a chair doing just fine and then he moved.
He moved.
You can't do that.
How many times do we say, sit down?
Don't move.
Don't move.
And maybe he's learned an important lesson here today.
I sure hope so.
I hope so.
We were talking about the Rock Hall of Fame a little bit earlier.
Who are the, are there five or six?
There's five or six artists that got into the Rock Hall.
Strong artists this year.
Strong, like Joan Baez.
Who doesn't love Joan Baez?
I may have taken the full list down, yeah, but Tupac.
Tupac Chakur, Journey, Journey who deserves it, ELO deserves it, and yes.
Yeah,
uh, let's go to Pearl Jam.
Oh, and Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam, so that's the other one.
Uh, Chris in California, you're on the Glenn Beck program.
Absolutely.
So I think that we should probably go with Phoebe Snow because Phoebe Snow has got that like 70s sound.
I mean, we're all about 70s.
I love Phoebe.
Phoebe Snow, Poetry Man, right?
Come on, now.
No, I was thinking more of Midnight in the Oasis.
Oh, and that's Maria Molder.
That's Marie Moore.
I've got an album of Phoebe doing some covers, and she may have done that song on that album.
She might have, but nobody does it like the original
done by Maria Holdauer.
Oh, man.
There you go.
Come on, who doesn't love that song?
Thanks a lot, Chris.
Who doesn't love Midnight at the Oasis?
Oh, I think everybody does.
Thank you.
I know I do.
And he's at a point with Phoebe Snow.
I mean, Poetry Man is.
And as long as we're at it, why not put Minnie Ripperton into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
The one who did Loving You is easy because
you're beautiful.
There should actually be, there should be like a wing to the Rock Hall of Fame, to the one-hit greatness of songs.
Well, there's definitely a wing for rap artists.
There's a wing for R ⁇ B.
There's a wing for people who are just influential.
I mean, you've never
heard of.
But people were influenced by them.
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.
The iconic band
came from here.
He liked them, and so they're in.
So why not a one-hit Wonder Wing?
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a sham.
It's a Travis shamachery.
And I think we all know it.
So what happens?
Do you change your tune if
they put 400 in?
Well, it'll help.
I don't know if it cures the pain.
It eases the pain, but it eases the pain a little bit.
I mean, it would ease the pain a little.
I think that's just throwing.
But look how long it took to put Journey in.
I mean, not, come on, that's a no-brainer.
I'm not a big Journey fan anymore.
I'm not either, but who's in the business?
They're so overplayed.
I just got sick.
No, no, but it's Journey.
But it's Journey.
They sold, I don't know, 100 million plus.
That's not about that.
Chicago went in, I think, last year.
They sold 125 million at least.
They're iconic.
So how do you leave those bands out?
ELO just got in this year.
It's a, it's a
Tupac.
So that's good.
It's good.
Yes.
Tupac's it.
And I mean, he was shot nine times, right?
So he should have been in a long time ago.
Right.
Long time ago.
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