1⧸2⧸18 - It's a new day!
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1 hour and 47 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Glenn Beck Show, Glenn is joined by Randy Kaye ( ) and Jeff Perla ( ) to talk about CNN using a gas mask to do a bong hit and how to make a pot hit.
Transcript
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Pat Gray and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
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Glenn still on vacation until a few days from now.
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Almost forgot the phone number. It's been a while.
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Because normally we're doing the Pat Gray Unleashed show,
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immediately following this show on the Blaze Radio and Television Network.
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And there was certainly some interesting New Year's celebrations.
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CNN, for instance, showed America how to do bong hits.
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Yeah, it was very helpful, especially if your kids are watching
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and they're not familiar with how to actually take a bong hit.
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If they're not familiar with a gas mask bong, now they are,
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Well, nothing says ring in the New Year like a gas mask bong.
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And so that's apparently what CNN thought as well.
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I mean, I guess because they didn't have Kathy Griffin to be super offensive
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They had another CNN reporter do something stupid and ridiculously insane things.
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They actually had a reporter in Colorado on a cannabis, which is a bus, a pot bus,
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on the way to a pot party where they were going to paint and do pot, I guess.
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I mean, that was their whole guys for the news story around a cannabis reporting from Colorado
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Yes, except for it's not because the state law does not supersede federal law.
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And Smoky Pot is still illegal on a federal level.
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So Colorado, California, Washington, and I believe there's a few others continue to break federal law
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And it's interesting because CNN took advantage of that.
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Their reporter actually put on a gas mask bong.
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And it was already filled, I guess, stuffed with pot.
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If not, I really highly recommend you go to YouTube and have your children watch it so
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that they understand the proper way to do a bong hit.
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She's joining us again along with a, well, she's in Colorado where I guess recreational marijuana
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I'm sorry I'm not hip enough to the, as hip to the pot culture as I should be.
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I can guess what it is, but, you know, I don't know for sure what she's referring to.
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So, listen, I came prepared, you know, this year.
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I thought maybe I would bring a gas mask with me so I wouldn't, you know, get that contact
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But look at what's on the other end of the gas mask.
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And, of course, they couldn't stand to see a bong that didn't have any cannabis in it.
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Now, you're going to celebrate a little New Year's early or what?
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She's at this point reaching back and lighting the bong for him.
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I don't think this is really what a gas mask is used for, but, um, wow.
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This is New Year's Eve, Denver style, everybody.
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But we are making our way to a puff, pass, and paint party.
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People were actually tweeting, you know, and keep in mind, these are CNN fans, presumably.
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You know, so they're probably somewhat left of center.
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And even the CNN viewers weren't especially appreciating it because they had kids watching
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Hey, I got to turn this off because you're showing my kids how to do bong hits.
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That's, I mean, I, what has happened to journalism in this country?
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Well, to be a little bit fair, CNN has always tried to be aloof on New Year's with their
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I mean, that's why the Kathy Griffin and the Anderson Cooper, and that's why they push it.
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And I don't know why Anderson Cooper continues to put his credibility on the line like this.
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Because I think he just has fun with it, right?
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Seriously, I don't know, but I guess he just has fun with it.
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Would Walter Cronkite have had fun with a bong hit on the year?
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Well, the times are a little bit different than that.
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I mean, Walter probably wouldn't have broadcast himself with a, you know, a pot mask.
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Huntley Brinkley probably wouldn't have, you know, donned the bong mask.
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And if you weren't fortunate enough to be able to watch it, I just tweeted the story out at Jeffy MRA.
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And share it with your family if you missed it on New Year's Eve.
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Because, you know, for sure you want to be able to let your kids know how to wear the mask properly.
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If you're not familiar enough to teach them, CNN certainly is and was and handled that for you.
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I mean, it just shows you that America's gone to pot.
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Like, traffic and weather together every three minutes on the twos.
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But if you want some actual hard-hitting CNN news, they did take the opportunity yesterday to make sure to bash the president again.
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In a ridiculous way, in a not introspective way, having no clue for the way they've gone overboard on Trump criticism.
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And actually, it was so ridiculous that Woodward actually jumps in at the end of Bernstein's rant about what a great job the press is doing generally and kind of corrects it just a bit.
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We oughtn't to be too provocative, which we sometimes are, with a president who's putting a lot of bait out there.
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And sometimes we take the bait and get a little petty.
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So, see, even then, it's not their fault, according to Bernstein.
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I'd like to see a lot less of criticizing on our air the president for playing golf.
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We've got a deadly, serious inquiry in front of us.
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And the reporting, by and large, by the mainstream press, by the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, the Wall Street Journal,
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has been some of the greatest reporting of the presidency that we have seen in the last 50, 60 years.
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We've done the greatest job on reporting on the president in the last 50, 60.
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Let's say since the dawn of time, we've done the greatest reporting on a president that anyone's ever done.
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And lots of reporting, particularly on television commentary, there's a kind of self-righteousness and smugness and people kind of ridiculing the president.
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When we reported on Nixon, it was obviously a very different era.
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I have to, before we go, I have to ask about something that you informed me about.
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Before we go, I've got to change the subject now because now you're criticizing us.
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And I can't have that because I was given the amens and the hallelujahs to Bernstein, who was attacking the president and calling our job the greatest in the last 50 to 60 years.
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Now, they've got no, they have no realization of the kind of job they've actually done, which has been horrific.
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They gave no criticism at all to the last president.
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They gave, they never paid attention to the fact, I mean, they call Trump a liar all the time and he's, he's, you know, had his share of lies.
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But never did they call Barack Obama out online virtually every day.
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5% of the mainstream media's reports have been positive on Donald Trump.
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And this year has been horrifically negative toward President Trump.
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Yeah, it's something like 62 to 65% or something of all reporting has been negative on you.
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It was, you know, I've actually, and we've talked about this a couple times in the past, you know, last year, that they make us defend them.
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I mean, we want to be able to say, look, here's what's happening.
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This is what's going on, whether we like it or not, right?
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But instead of that, we have to say, well, you know, give the guy a break.
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They're so unbelievably overboard in their criticism of Trump that it almost forces you to defend him.
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I mean, I hate to break that to you, but he won.
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As you said a few minutes ago, Trump is a president.
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And that's what the media used to continually remind the right about Barack Obama.
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And we actually, you know, I don't think it was really personal.
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It was about the fact that we didn't want socialism, and he had socialist tendencies.
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I mean, he said he likes redistribution of wealth, which is a Marxist principle.
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He instituted Obamacare, which took control of the American health care system, insurance system.
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So, you know, there were obvious criticisms to make there.
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And if you tried to make them during the Obama years, you were a racist.
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They didn't even pay attention to what it was you were saying.
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But as the Pew Research Center found, six in ten stories on Trump's early days in office, negative assessment.
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That's three times more than the early coverage of Obama, twice that of Bush and Clinton.
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In fact, they think they've done the best coverage, according to Bernstein, in 50 to 60 years.
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You're on the Glenn Beck Program with Pat and Jeffy.
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I was listening to the news, drive-by medias, and it blew me away.
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All weekend long, it was President Obama did this.
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But everything else was Trump, Trump, Trump had people down at his White House.
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And they don't even realize, and they don't even give him that honor of being president.
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It's a little slam every single time they report on him.
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And, you know, you can understand it every once in a while, or you're not always paying
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But they almost never call him President Trump.
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And it's been interesting to watch Barack Obama during this time period because the tradition
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is that an ex-president doesn't bash the policies of the current president, of the sitting president.
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Now, George W. Bush, as we all know, stayed out of the fray.
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He stayed out of it, despite the fact that they blamed him for every bill in our country.
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Even in the second term, they're still blaming everything that went wrong on Bush.
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And it's interesting because Obama, former President Obama, is out there now criticizing
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And, you know, just as a side note, you never hear them say former President Obama.
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I mean, if you're lucky to hear President Trump, but you never hear former President Obama.
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I don't even think, I think, I'm going to look it up right now again, but it seemed to
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me I was looking at his Twitter account, and his Twitter account still has him, you know,
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Now, Obama said when he left office he was going to try to stay out of Donald Trump's hair
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Well, he's found virtually every issue to be really, really important.
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And he's jumped in to talk about, of course, the fight of Obamacare and many other issues.
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And Obama said, reality continues to discredit the false claim that this law, Obamacare, is
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Nothing could be more untrue than that statement from Obama.
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It is in a death spiral, and it needs to be repealed.
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Sometimes he doesn't call him by name, but you know who he's talking about.
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One of Obama's spokespeople said, President Obama feels it's important to provide the same
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He feels it's important to provide the same respect to the current administration that
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was provided to him by the Bush administration.
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President Bush and his team gave President Obama and his team the space to do our jobs
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and did not come forward and comment on every decision that we made.
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And surely they disagreed with a lot of what we were doing.
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Because you were bludgeoning them with bats every time you could.
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No matter what, we're just going to pummel you.
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And every issue was the opposite of where Bush stood on it.
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And not a word from W, which was really frustrating at the time.
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It is kind of frustrating still today, as a matter of fact.
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So Obama now says, folks, don't folks, don't feel real good right now about what they see.
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So he's talking about Trump without actually naming him.
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Maybe they don't feel as if our public life reflects our best.
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When is this guy going to understand we are not a democracy?
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And it is important to make that correction because.
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And as brilliant as Barack Obama is supposed to be, he's never understood that we're a republic, not a democracy.
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Your comments as we get the new year started here on the Glenn Beck Program with Pat Gray and Jeffy.
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In fact, because Glenn is out this week, this building is about 150,000 square feet of wasteland.
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It's just, I mean, there's not even camera people.
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You mean there's people filling in for Glenn when he's off?
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And so because Glenn's not here and most people are still on vacation, the building is about 14 below zero.
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I've got this too little pansy heater down here if you want.
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This doesn't happen very often, but like the other night, it got down, I think, to about 14 or 15 degrees.
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Yeah, but there was ice and, you know, kind of snow.
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No accumulation, obviously, but we've, and then the last two days didn't get out of the 20s during the day.
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So that cold front, that polar vortex that has invaded the country actually hit us fairly hard.
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And people were freaking out on New Year's Eve.
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I mean, I was out, you know, I was out early and there were still ice patches on the road, New Year's Eve day, and people were starting to figure out where they were going to go.
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And I was like, you know, I'm going to pick up what I need and I'm back home.
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You people go and drive yourselves into the, into the railings.
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In my house, New Year's Eve is really not a thing.
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Just eat nonstop and maybe watch a movie or two.
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I mean, most people would think that the entire holiday is like, you know, where you would, I don't know, binge shows on whatever, whatever, whatever you're watching, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon.
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And you would just eat and, you know, nap and hang out and maybe, you know, maybe look outside once in a while.
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The family was like, Dad, are you going to be home at all over the holiday?
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And you don't get this by going, not going to the gym every day.
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I felt bad because I told my youngest son that we'd go because he's a fan.
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I was like, go see your stupid Star Wars with you.
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And then last night I was like, oh, we never got to see Star Wars.
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I didn't want to be a pain and keep bugging you about it.
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Most everybody in my family was like, that was terrible.
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Most of the Star Wars people that we ran into really liked it.
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This one actually is interesting because if you look at Rotten Tomatoes, it got huge, great
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Whereas the audience is only about, I think it was 52 or 54%, which is really low, especially
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And it's the opposite of what a Star Wars movie usually is.
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Well, what's good about the Star Wars movie, though, is it hasn't made any money at all.
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And I think for the four days, it brought in 68 million, which is pretty good in week
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But it's on a slower pace than The Force Awakens by quite a bit.
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At this point, The Force Awakens was at 750 million.
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This one's at 517 or 530 or something like that.
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So it's lagging behind, but still, I mean, it's still huge, but it's lagging behind probably
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And I, you know, there's some problems with it and I won't explain what my problem is with
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it in case you haven't seen it because it would give away some things and I'm sure you
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I thought it was the best Star Wars since 19, whatever, 83.
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Jumanji was number two, the reboot with The Rock.
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Greatest Showman and then Ferdinand, which is an animated feature.
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Also, an incredible bowl season culminated last night with the – it actually didn't
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And isn't it amazing that football is almost over now.
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The college – we have one collegiate football game left, the national championship between
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I ran into a lot – you know, I realize that time ticks on at the same pace over and
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over, and it doesn't – nothing really – you know, it isn't true, but it feels like
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I mean, it does not feel – it's 2018 already?
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And I really am amazed that football season is over.
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Man, I was – it's going to – I'm missing that a little bit already.
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Even with the bowl games, I was still missing a little bit of the college football season.
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Interesting that Oklahoma and Georgia, that phenomenal game yesterday.
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If you didn't see it or haven't heard about it or you were in Afghanistan for the weekend,
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I was rooting for Oklahoma, and that's just the way the season's gone this year.
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You'd have made some money betting with you this year.
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Whatever you were rooting for, you should have bet on the opposite.
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But I've got kind of a man crush on Baker Mayfield.
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He might be the third or fourth or fifth quarterback taken in the draft.
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I think – you know, if he doesn't turn out to be like Johnny Manziel,
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The other thing that was fascinating was Central Florida,
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who is one of the forgotten schools from our forgotten league.
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They were 12-0 and didn't get into the playoff, obviously.
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But they beat the team that beat both of the teams in the national championship game.
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Proving, to me, they should have entered the playoffs.
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Should have – 13-0 season, winning over Auburn in their final game,
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But, you know, really, with the point system, they did have an issue with, you know,
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a couple of – you know, a lot of the games that were played against teams that weren't that good.
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Yeah, they – I mean, obviously, the schedule is going to hurt them.
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But they beat everybody you put in front of them.
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Just like BYU in 1984, they beat everybody you put in front of them.
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I'm BYU in 1984 because we were talking about the 17-18 bowl season is what we were talking about.
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Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program with Pat and Jeffy.
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I need to remind you guys that W has not been silent the entire time during his retirement.
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Do you remember last fall when Hillary was out on her god-awful book tour and then they asked H.W. Bush whether or not he voted for Trump?
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And he went off and bashed Trump and said, well, no, I didn't vote for him.
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And W hemmed and hawed and he didn't answer whether or not he voted for Trump.
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Then he was interviewed and he gave these sort of wimpy answers about some half-hearted support for Trump.
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So, of course, we're not going to support Trump, which is just petty.
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And it's interesting that when he does speak out, when the family spoke out, it was against Trump.
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I believe he is doing the best job that he can after the mess that Obama has made.
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Like they gave Obama respect to people that didn't like him as well.
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I mean, I don't know if I call the job fantastic.
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I would say he's doing much better than I thought he was going to do.
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Well, up against what he's been up against, no question.
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I mean, he gets stonewalled and blocked at every turn, despite no matter what the guy does.
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You know, whatever he has for dinner and lunch is a hated thing.
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So, I mean, he's done a great job, comparatively speaking, to that.
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I mean, I will say he's genuinely surprised me.
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I thought it was going to be a lot worse than this.
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I'm trying to think, what was the latest thing?
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It was right when we went on vacation a couple of weeks ago.
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Yeah, it was right after Jerusalem, because Jerusalem was great.
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And then he did something else that surprised me.
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I'm going to try to change the subject matter here on health care.
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My idea is, why can't you get a couple of Republicans, a couple of Democrats, get some CEOs from insurance companies,
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along with hospital administrators, and some doctors that actually work with health care,
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set them together, sequester them in a room for a week or two, whatever you need to do,
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until they come up with a plan, and that way you get people that actually work with the system
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to have some input on it, and maybe we can come up with a better plan.
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Common sense and government does not work together.
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Also, just before Christmas, the Trump administration, through Nikki Haley,
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They cut the amount that the United States gives to the UN by $285 million.
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Now, that's a drop in the bucket compared to what we pay to keep that hideous organization in operation.
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That's a lot of money from slush funds, though.
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We should just kick them off the entire continent.
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And I love the fact that they're not letting the UN push us around.
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The UN got together and, like, 130 countries condemned us for stating that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel.
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And so, Nikki Haley has said, we will not forget this.
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Essentially, she didn't say it exactly that way.
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And it was just a few days later, they cut the budget.
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And on top of that, in her speech about that, after that, she talked about when those countries come calling for more help and cash.
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Not even Reagan, I don't think, actually took action that was meaningful against the UN.
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Even though they have never been a friend to the United States.
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And we pump billions into that organization just to be condemned all the time.
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And so for this administration to take a different line on that, I think it's fantastic.
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Hey, I just wanted to say, oh, Bill O'Reilly said one of his best movies was The Godfather.
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On The Godfather, a Turk guy came, wanted to sell the white powder.
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He said, well, you got the politicians in your pocket.
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I personally feel that Bill Clinton has the politicians in his pocket.
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Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program, 888-727-BECK.
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You can also catch me, Pat Gray, on Pat Gray Unleashed, which immediately follows this show
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North Korea seems to be softening a little bit.
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Kim Jong-un maybe realizing that there's a new sheriff in town.
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I think Trump's had something to do with this as well.
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It's to the point where not only is his rhetoric softening, but his wardrobe is softening.
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He's changed the style of his Mao outfits to tone it down a little bit and look less menacing.
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That latest picture, though, that's a good haircut.
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Oh, the guy's always been impeccable in his hair.
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It's gotten to the point where North Korea has wished the Winter Olympics games in South
00:37:46.720
Meaning, okay, we're not going to, we're not, you're not in trouble there.
00:37:50.360
I mean, we're not going to attack you during the Olympics.
00:37:55.640
They said that the sporting event reaches beyond all political division.
00:38:00.640
Now, I've never heard that kind of talk come out of North Korea.
00:38:04.080
Maybe it's happened, but, and I just wasn't aware of it, but I've never noticed it, if it has.
00:38:09.040
It says, the Winter Olympic Games that will soon be held in the South will be a good opportunity
00:38:13.860
to display the status of the Korean nation, and we sincerely wish that the event will be held with good results.
00:38:22.760
In a separate message, IOC President Thomas Bach said he was confident the games will be held without incident,
00:38:32.540
And then there was some conciliatory language, at least that's the way I took it,
00:38:40.220
After all the rhetoric that he has spewed about warmongering in the United States,
00:38:45.180
now they're saying the United States will never start the war.
00:38:47.900
Now, I don't know if he meant by that that we don't have the giblets to do that.
00:38:56.900
But still, well, if that's what you believe, then you've got no reason to call us warmongers, right?
00:39:03.140
Then you've got no reason to say that we're on the verge of attacking you.
00:39:11.380
Right, well, this is his way to not be able to shut up, right?
00:39:13.620
Because he can't shut up for his people, right?
00:39:18.260
So his way is saying, hey, I know you guys aren't going to start anything.
00:39:21.340
I've got the little button here on my desk, and we can reach all the United States anytime we want to,
00:39:32.300
It's interesting because he's got the little button on his desk.
00:39:42.000
And I think they're starting to realize that, and maybe that is behind all of this talk.
00:39:49.500
Maybe we found a way to back out of it and let him save a little bit of face, even though
00:40:00.280
And if it helps the Olympic Games get pulled off without incident, then so be it.
00:40:08.540
It's so interesting, I guess is the word, that it's in South Korea this year.
00:40:22.080
They were right in the middle of it with the Olympics.
00:40:24.200
Also, some interesting goings on at MSNBC and the Chris Matthews show.
00:40:31.400
Have you heard about his, the allegations against him that he's abusive?
00:40:42.900
And says that he runs at times openly derisive and brazenly sexist news operation that has
00:40:51.340
led at least some of his staffers to describe themselves as victims of battered wives syndrome.
00:40:57.340
At least three of the show's guests and two former producers have spoken out to the Daily Caller.
00:41:04.440
Two former NBC producers independently alleged Matthews would rate the looks of his female guests on a scale
00:41:11.940
and said Matthews was so abusive that the staff joked about being battered women.
00:41:19.020
The interviews paint Matthews as a tyrant, likely to fly off the handle.
00:41:28.600
Now, eager to objectify women and made inappropriate sexual comments appear to be a matter of course.
00:41:37.220
Both former NBC producers requested anonymity out of concern for their future careers.
00:41:43.140
Now, if you're a former producer, if you're not producing for Chris, how can he affect you at this point?
00:41:52.100
Chris Matthews is not that powerful, a news person, that he could reach out and stop your career from afar.
00:42:02.560
One of them is actively seeking a job in the media and the other still works closely with MSNBC.
00:42:07.800
One expressed fears about being labeled a troublemaker and cited the string of former Fox News women who have all but disappeared from TV.
00:42:14.960
Sadly, I know other women who won't even be an anonymous source regarding Chris Matthews because they're they're that concerned about the door closing on career opportunities.
00:42:27.220
The producers whose combined time at the network nearly spans the entire existence of hardball said Matthews frequently objectified female guests and staffers inappropriately commented on their appearance and clothing.
00:42:38.880
He would allegedly use pet names like cutie and sweetie pie to refer to female guests and was constantly making uncouth and boorish remarks about women.
00:42:49.140
He would eye down a woman who walked on our set or comment on their future features or what they were wearing.
00:42:57.000
I mean, there's there's no way you don't believe this.
00:43:14.940
CNBC show was allegedly on the receiving end of many of his comments.
00:43:22.160
She wouldn't want to get her makeup done if he was in there, too.
00:43:28.220
I wonder, will this affect his situation at MSNBC?
00:43:36.860
Everybody else who's even been accused is gone.
00:43:42.040
Now, they've been talking about this with Chris Matthews for three or four weeks now, and he's still unscathed.
00:43:49.820
Matthews has also creepily told then CNBC reporter Aaron Burnett to get closer to the camera and asserted that vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is electric, but could be hotter.
00:44:02.040
See, now some of this stuff, now I, no, never mind, never mind, never mind.
00:44:15.940
But there's no, uh, there's no, uh, accusation of any kind of assault.
00:44:23.660
I haven't seen anything where he's actually touched anybody.
00:44:26.640
He's just a, he's just a, you know, he's just a, he's just a, he's just a, he's just a d-bag.
00:44:31.020
But, uh, one former producer said, I would describe it as verbal abuse.
00:44:36.160
The screaming is beyond the screaming you've ever heard.
00:44:45.020
What are you supposed to do when somebody is verbally abusing you and attacking you this way?
00:44:52.320
I mean, there's no reason to be miserable like that.
00:44:57.380
I mean, I get that, I get that, you know, you want to work in television or you want
00:45:01.740
to work in television news or you want to work in radio.
00:45:07.980
And you shouldn't have to put up with this, but there are jerky people in every walk of
00:45:15.180
And I don't know that, you know, coming out now and saying, boy, that guy I worked for
00:45:29.400
You waited for him to walk back down the hallway and turn the corner so you could go, man, that
00:45:35.580
And that's why the behavior continued all that time.
00:45:41.140
Triple eight, seven, two, seven, Beck, uh, Bill in California.
00:45:49.820
Um, I was listening to the opening part about president Trump and Obama, et cetera, et cetera.
00:45:56.900
And my view, sorry, is that this president Trump has come along at the exact right time.
00:46:05.200
These, one of the few people in that office who has actually come out and defended the
00:46:11.020
Americans and actually expressed a love for America.
00:46:14.740
And this is like the first time, the first president in my lifetime, since Reagan, Reagan made us
00:46:24.120
Trump is coming in like to the rescue after eight years of criminal, uh, regime of Obama's
00:46:31.560
and then do nothing or, um, well, not completely, but the, the silence of George Bush, the 43rd,
00:46:43.280
I mean, it's like you have a cop sitting there and crimes are being committed and he says and does
00:46:52.340
It's like, I, I, when you go to a movie and you see that he will finally, finally stand up to the
00:46:58.780
bad guy and beat the crap out of him or whatever kind of a thing that people are tired of getting
00:47:05.080
beat up and, you know, Trump is not Mr. Nice guys, not the decorative guy.
00:47:12.360
I mean, he, he has been in, in very solemn situations when he, when it's called for, but when
00:47:19.120
the media and these countries, I mean, he slapped the UN, I mean, it's not a big slap, but they took
00:47:25.280
money away from him and Kim Jong-un or whatever that crazy kid with a bad haircut is doing is seeing
00:47:32.160
this and he's going, well, this guy isn't just a, you know, speaks, you know, loudly and do nothing.
00:47:40.460
And that's one thing that, that I think people are, are latching onto today.
00:47:44.660
Us just regular American people out here with no power except to maybe voice our opinion here or
00:47:51.340
there or vote, which I do both of as much as possible.
00:47:59.720
And I'm tired of this elitist bunch of Republicans and elitist bunch of Democrats who were only
00:48:06.840
there in Washington to protect the little pile of goodies that they have accumulated over
00:48:12.400
the years, being these people in the government that, that, you know, they, they abuse the hell
00:48:22.760
Then I think just about every ex president is a multimillionaire.
00:48:26.220
And I'm for the life of me, I can't understand why we're still feeding them money for secret
00:48:38.280
There's no independence here from these people.
00:48:41.220
And they're just sucking off the people of the United States of America who are out there
00:48:45.300
trying to make a living for their families where these guys are just like, they, they
00:48:50.180
have a care in the world except to come in like Obama does and lambast our current president
00:48:56.820
who's actually a real American president standing up for the real American people instead of all
00:49:06.760
We keep hearing this stuff about all these poor dreamers.
00:49:11.560
We've got plenty of children and people, I mean, real children, not 20 some year olds that
00:49:16.980
they, that they are, you know, that's a whole DACA thing.
00:49:21.020
We have real Americans, real people here that have earned their way that have, you know, stood
00:49:26.860
up and gone through like, you know, the immigrants.
00:49:29.920
My, my daughter married a, an immigrant Canadian.
00:49:34.980
They went through hell trying to get through this in this country, 10 years, all this stuff.
00:49:40.080
And now they're handing it out Brown and the, and the Democrats in California, just, you
00:49:49.320
I mean, look at that guy that just murdered that poor woman in San Francisco, totally getting
00:49:55.080
It's just, this is the kind of stuff that just ticks us off.
00:49:58.420
And president Trump is actually turning and doing things.
00:50:09.300
I understand he fired over 500 people from the VA, you know, that are just, I mean, our
00:50:15.360
troops are getting screwed by these people and he's actually doing something.
00:50:26.120
But that's exactly how Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.
00:50:33.560
Because we're just fed up and, and we, we just got the crap beat out of us for eight
00:50:40.240
And somebody was going to stand up and say, okay, we've had enough of this.
00:50:45.300
And if he said it in a rude way, so be it good.
00:50:49.240
In fact, for most of the American people, good.
00:51:15.400
Then you can also tune in to Pat Gray Unleashed immediately following this on the Blaze radio
00:51:23.320
Been talking about some of the accomplishments of Donald Trump.
00:51:26.260
Frankly, I will admit I've been fairly pleasantly surprised during this administration and Bill
00:51:33.340
kind of summed up, I think he sure did a lot of what the American people feel and felt
00:51:41.320
They're just sick and tired of getting hammered by the left.
00:51:46.640
They want somebody who will call out the media and they want somebody who will call out the
00:51:53.260
And they want someone who at least appears to stand up to other countries around the
00:51:59.500
world and at least appear to say that the United States is number one.
00:52:05.680
We're the United States and it's time to start thinking about us first.
00:52:10.180
And I mean, his first tweet of 2018 this morning, the United States has foolishly given
00:52:16.260
Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years.
00:52:20.640
They have given us nothing but lies and deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools.
00:52:25.460
They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan with little help.
00:52:38.960
Iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the Obama administration.
00:52:44.320
The great Iranian people have been repressed for many years.
00:52:49.940
Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted.
00:52:58.460
Again, he speaks his mind and he's got people from his mind.
00:53:04.040
And he's got people in the Obama administration saying, shh, you should be silent on Iran like
00:53:11.260
Like we were back in 2009 when we did nothing and didn't encourage the overthrow of that
00:53:24.040
Because they wanted to get this Iranian nuclear treaty done.
00:53:28.640
They wanted to get that crappy treaty done with Iran and so they said nothing and they
00:53:37.860
And maybe it could have brought about freedom in Iran.
00:53:45.260
And things are being fired up in Iran right now.
00:53:51.660
And it's, you know, unfortunately, there have been 12 people or so that have been killed.
00:53:59.040
And I would venture to say that that number is probably much higher than that.
00:54:03.620
I mean, it's ugly because it's it is oppressive and they're calling these protests illegal
00:54:08.840
and they've paid people to go out and counter protest and then they clash with the protesters.
00:54:17.460
But you've got an American president now who is encouraging people to see freedom.
00:54:23.920
At least we're able to, you know, if they can hear it anyway, they know that, you know,
00:54:28.180
we will, you know, we're if you want the change, we're here for you.
00:54:33.320
We're not just going to let the let the the regime on top of you pummel you forever.
00:54:39.260
What could have happened in in 2009 had Obama taken that tactic?
00:54:44.060
Like, there might we might have a friendly regime in Iran.
00:54:50.320
I mean, you know, it's not necessarily the most likely scenario, but it's certainly possible.
00:54:56.060
And you can't get any more antagonistic against us than this current one.
00:55:05.800
Much more coming up on Gladbeck with Pat Gray and Jeffy.
00:55:35.520
Hard to believe that football season is almost over.
00:55:49.580
You start to realize it's sinking in that football is coming to a screeching halt.
00:56:26.240
And for a while, I thought that actually Oklahoma did have a little defense.
00:56:30.380
At least for the first half, anyway, that game.
00:56:37.500
And then, boy, the last play of the first half, Georgia kicked a field goal.
00:56:56.940
You know, I think they ought to take the crappiest two teams in the NCAA and call it the toilet bowl.
00:57:29.100
First time getting through to talk to you guys.
00:57:33.420
You guys, earlier you referenced 1984 being a fantastic winning team.
00:57:45.000
But if you go all the way back to 1954, 55, and 56, the Sooners were undefeated.
00:57:55.180
I was just about ready to mention that earlier.
00:58:01.560
And then the next two seasons, they went 10-1 also.
00:58:09.220
I wish they would turn that up now and maybe get rid of Mike Stoops and get back to it.
00:58:15.740
For somebody who can get the kids to play a little defense.
00:58:22.440
I mean, so far, Link's done great this year as a head coach.
00:58:28.700
Can I talk to you guys about Obama and Trump for a second?
00:58:42.980
I spent one year under him, and I didn't figure there would be a big regime change,
00:58:51.900
And the poor leadership that he facilitated in the armed services is one of the reasons
00:58:59.400
why you see a lot of people getting out instead of making careers out of it.
00:59:03.060
Had there been positive leadership in the military at the time,
00:59:07.960
I probably would have stuck it out, done my 20, and been looking at retirement here soon.
00:59:20.580
At least I feel that way, and I think the military feels that way.
00:59:28.380
You know, the rules of engagement are back the way they ought to be.
00:59:30.700
If someone shoots at you, you're allowed to shoot back at him.
00:59:33.100
But do you think there's still plenty of people still involved in the military now,
00:59:37.760
though, that were there under the Obama administration?
00:59:39.760
So, I mean, Trump is still fighting that as well.
00:59:42.820
I mean, it's been pretty difficult for him to work his way through that.
00:59:48.560
And look what's happened to ISIS since that happened.
00:59:51.800
You can't deny the victories we've had against ISIS since Trump took over.
01:00:01.740
Heck, I was in a convoy going from Mosul to Q West in 2009, and we had an RPG shot at us,
01:00:11.160
went between two fuel trucks, and we were not allowed to return fire.
01:00:29.820
It must take you back a ways to your service on the Island of Spice.
01:00:36.940
When he was talking about the battle, and I was trying, you know, I tried to get that
01:00:42.540
Yeah, I apologize for bringing it up, because I know how traumatic that can be for us.
01:00:50.000
That seems to be where your sentence ends every time.
01:00:54.220
When we stormed the island, oof, and then kind of left on set.
01:01:00.060
That's kind of like the stuff for me to think about, Pat.
01:01:11.340
I want your opinion on something about Trump, but this morning, all you've been doing is
01:01:15.400
depressing me that football season is on forever.
01:01:23.340
No, I want to say to you, I couldn't agree more with your Trump comments right now.
01:01:37.200
And to be honest with you, you've seen those pictures of before and after when a president
01:01:46.420
Do you even think, do you think Trump's going to be able to survive eight years?
01:01:51.740
You know, it's funny that you bring that up, though, because I was looking at a picture
01:01:54.700
this morning with our producer, Keith, and I was like, look at that.
01:01:58.400
I mean, it's a big difference, and it's already, it's only been a year.
01:02:09.300
But do you think, if Trump leaves, I mean, Pence isn't going to hold the baton.
01:02:12.820
I don't imagine him being the type of president that Trump is, to flip the tables and try to
01:02:21.740
No, he'd be a more traditional type of president.
01:02:28.620
And maybe after four years of Trump, that's what we'll need.
01:02:34.140
I, you know, according to Melania, who said there wasn't, she doesn't think he'll run
01:02:52.200
I mean, he can use, that's definitely a great excuse for him.
01:02:55.480
He has that excuse of, I've got businesses to run.
01:03:10.080
I mean, we were, I looked at a picture of him this morning.
01:03:14.320
And it was shocking, really, for, it's only been a year.
01:03:19.700
And it was, I mean, he was, he's still got the Trump hair.
01:03:23.060
I was looking, I was actually looking at the hairdo of how he combs it.
01:03:26.420
And there's a couple of shots every now and then that you get a really good look at how
01:03:30.640
And, uh, whoo, it's thinning out a little bit on top there, a little bit more than it
01:03:36.140
I mean, he's got to, he's got to get that co-opted just right.
01:03:38.580
Well, do you remember when Obama went into office in 09, he had black hair and maybe a
01:03:52.680
I mean, look, there's no, that job is, is not an easy job.
01:03:57.520
I've, I've, I've, it's difficult to understand how someone would want to do it.
01:04:06.340
It would be probably a little difficult for the country.
01:04:10.740
If the presidency was unoccupied, you know, we can't find anybody.
01:04:15.560
We got a lot of bills on a desk, but nobody there to sign them.
01:04:28.500
They, several callers back, there was a gentleman that was talking about how Trump has people
01:04:33.480
voted for him because they was tired of how Washington was not listening and Trump does
01:04:44.580
Jeffy, I don't know his last name, so I have to go with Mr.
01:04:49.580
If the American people were that fed up, then they would start voting senators and congressmen
01:04:54.640
that's been there since Noah built the art out of office and put new people in and let
01:05:01.920
If you don't do what the government, the American people want, you're our mouthpiece.
01:05:06.460
You can be replaced just like somebody at a regular job.
01:05:14.500
Uh, surprising somebody in Alabama didn't talk about the tide crimson tide who won handily
01:05:24.640
my perception of term limits used to be, well, we've got elections.
01:05:32.120
If you don't want them around, vote them out of office, but we don't do that.
01:05:35.460
It doesn't seem like, so that's why I am now in favor of term limits.
01:05:39.500
And I don't think anybody should be in office longer than 12 years.
01:05:42.900
So that's part of six terms for Congress people and two terms for, for a Senator.
01:05:51.360
That's what should happen because, because the election process is not working to that
01:05:56.060
extent where we're getting rid of this, of these people who've gotten so comfortable
01:06:01.800
Uh, but we're comfortable voting for them because we know their name and it's easier to just
01:06:06.500
vote for the person whose name, you know, that it is to do the research on their opponent.
01:06:10.820
And then you also have, I mean, we try, you know, when you say that, talk about that,
01:06:14.220
one of the reasons that led to Donald Trump was the tea party movement and doing exactly
01:06:20.800
Getting some of the new people in there and getting some new blood in there.
01:06:23.320
And then we find out that the new blood is just like the old blood.
01:06:30.260
So, I mean, and that again is part of what led to, look, we need a Donald Trump in office.
01:06:35.100
We need somebody that can say, no, enough is enough.
01:06:39.540
Uh, to here in Texas, I, you're on the Glenn Beck program.
01:06:55.860
So, uh, I have a different theory about, uh, Kim Jong-un softening his stance with, uh,
01:07:07.800
I think that's all just an act and it's a ruse.
01:07:12.740
He knows that if he plays nice that, uh, you know, we'll let our guard down.
01:07:18.800
Hopefully he thinks that Trump will, you know, cut down his rhetoric a little bit and that'll
01:07:23.760
give him time to get his nuclear program up and running.
01:07:26.500
And then before you know it, before we can even do anything about it, it'll be there and
01:07:30.560
we won't, we'll, you know, we won't be able to do anything about it.
01:07:33.420
Um, and also one more thing, uh, that's a happy thought.
01:07:45.360
Uh, that was about a four minute soliloquy for a monologue.
01:07:49.280
Uh, he didn't take a breath and he had a lot to say.
01:08:24.280
It's, uh, out here in the socialist anti-American state of Oregon.
01:08:30.160
It's, well, that was, it didn't used to be that way on the West Coast.
01:08:35.080
It's been, it's been real sad that we've changed so drastically in just a short period of time.
01:08:41.220
Uh, my thing is, I was telling the deal, the guy on the, whatever you call me, phone guy.
01:08:50.320
You know, there's so many people that are down on Trump.
01:08:54.160
I see is he's a new guy and he's a businessman and he doesn't take, why does it take six months
01:09:00.480
And he's done more in a few months than most presidents have done in anywhere from four
01:09:10.620
He's, he's, he's done a lot and appreciate the call.
01:09:13.560
And yeah, and no, no, no, no offense, but you guys sometimes, uh, are a little down on
01:09:18.940
him when you shouldn't be, cause you know, he's trying to do a good job.
01:09:21.920
But other than that, thanks for letting me call.
01:09:25.340
I mean, we're trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.
01:09:27.500
He was not obviously our first choice, mine, nor Glenn's, nor Stu's, nor Jeffy's.
01:09:35.440
Uh, and it's because, uh, some of the things that everybody loves about him and that I
01:09:43.340
now kind of appreciate in him are some of the things I didn't like.
01:09:46.960
You don't want a president who tweets every thought that enters his mind.
01:09:54.980
You don't want to, uh, a president necessarily with some of the baggage that he came with.
01:10:04.940
And I think he would even, he would even tell you that he's Republican, but he's not a
01:10:15.160
However, as I've stated numerous times, he's been a pleasant surprise to me so far.
01:10:20.460
You know, there's things I don't like about what he's doing, but there, there's been much
01:10:24.820
to like and more than I thought there would be.
01:10:27.580
And, you know, we're just always trying to be, I'm not trying to, it's not our job to sing
01:10:34.080
the praises of the president, whether Republican or Democrat, it's our job to speak our opinions
01:10:41.360
on the news of the day and the policies that people have.
01:10:51.520
I mean, this is exactly why my first choice was Jim Gilmore.
01:11:35.560
Immediately following this show on the Blaze Radio and TV Network.
01:11:40.540
We've been talking a little bit about some of what happened over the Christmas and New
01:11:47.000
Year's break, especially where it concerns bowl games.
01:11:50.960
And also some of the things, you know, just to kind of wrap up Donald, President Donald Trump's
01:11:56.420
first year, talking about some of the positives and certainly the media response to everything
01:12:08.940
Even if they can find a way to bash Donald Trump, they do it.
01:12:15.460
And if they can't find a way, they dig deeper until they finally find something.
01:12:23.800
And all their rules, none of their rules apply to Donald Trump and his wife and family.
01:12:31.900
If they can comment on Melania and the way she looks or the way she dresses or whatever,
01:12:38.820
they'll even do that when that was completely out of bounds with Michelle Obama.
01:12:45.640
The only thing you could say about Michelle Obama was, wow, are her arms fantastic?
01:12:53.320
If they were dressed up for a black tie event, any kind of event like that, then it was okay.
01:13:01.420
And if she was wearing a $25,000 gown, it was perfectly fine.
01:13:10.100
But if they were coming back from one of their vacations, which I know, you know, they didn't take very many away.
01:13:20.280
She was wearing tennis shoes and torn up jeans and a ripped T-shirt.
01:13:37.200
Also, we've got some new laws to share with you because obviously we have listeners from shore to shore.
01:13:48.160
And there's some things you might want to be aware of that are taking effect.
01:13:58.720
I hope this is going to make me feel good, isn't it?
01:14:06.920
Well, when you only have like 35 million laws to begin with, you know, that's way short of where it should be.
01:14:16.780
So some of the legislatures across this great nation of ours have decided that they're going to do something about that.
01:14:32.160
They get rid of Kathy Griffin, who is just reprehensible and has been every single, well, every day, but especially on the New Year's Eve celebrations that CNN always has with Anderson Cooper.
01:14:42.980
I believe that they never said it or anything, but I mean, they pretty much let that's what they wanted from her.
01:14:48.420
On their New Year's Eve, you go out and be idiots.
01:14:51.820
And that's do what you do and do it worse than you do.
01:14:54.620
And because they didn't have her this year, they instead checked in with a reporter in Colorado who was riding the cannabis, the cannabis.
01:15:15.900
Like smoking pot, like doing bong hits on the air, like being on a cannabis.
01:15:20.300
It's interesting because think of everything that's happening there.
01:15:24.320
First of all, you're showing kids how to light a bong, how to smoke a bong in a, in a gas mask, in a bong gas mask.
01:15:32.380
You're holding lit joints while you're doing your report.
01:15:37.600
You know, children are watching and it's against federal law and they still do it.
01:15:49.180
It's fascinating to me to think when you talk about holding the lit joints, do you know what kind of trouble she would get in?
01:15:53.900
And, and just, let's just back that up a little bit and say that she's doing a report from South Carolina and we're doing a tobacco story and she's got a cigarette, pack of cigarettes on the counter.
01:16:04.160
She's smoking a cigarette, telling you the story.
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I mean, it would just be, it's insane to me that they could, that they do this and get away with it as easily as they seem to have gotten away with it.
01:16:20.220
And Randy Kaye was the reporter in, in Denver and she actually donned the bong gas mask.
01:16:29.860
Then she took it off and handed it to some pot smoker.
01:16:43.160
So for some reason, you know, we, we've expressed the fact that we kind of like Anderson Cooper.
01:17:01.980
I don't, obviously he leans left and, but he always seems to be.
01:17:11.580
Maybe not always is, but is generally considered a pretty good journalist.
01:17:17.020
How does he associate himself with that debacle on CNN every New Year's Eve?
01:17:23.540
He wouldn't even, the last time that he, maybe not the last time, one of the times he was
01:17:30.340
We, I remember talking to him a little bit about the New Year's Eve celebration and he
01:17:36.120
Like, you know, that's kind of what the deal is.
01:17:40.920
And it was, you know, I know it's, everybody gives us a hard time over it.
01:17:44.460
I mean, it wasn't, it wasn't like they were, he didn't come out and say they're forcing
01:17:52.440
I mean, it was all, it was all like it was just, that's just part of the deal.
01:17:55.980
So he apparently enjoys it, which is strange because it seems like it erodes his credibility.
01:18:13.200
Hey, my question was earlier, I heard you say something about you're disappointed that
01:18:19.580
Now, were you talking about college or were you talking about the NFL?
01:18:21.980
Yeah, college, but the NFL too, I, you know, I just like football.
01:18:26.940
Well, yeah, I mean, I do too, but you know, with all this stuff that's going on with that,
01:18:30.320
I just feel like these guys are so pampered and they feel like they can, they can protest
01:18:37.640
Why aren't these guys protesting on the off season?
01:18:41.400
Why aren't they doing something for the greater good in the off season?
01:18:45.160
Like, I believe if we, we could all band together and really, you know, cut the ratings
01:18:49.940
even more, we could drop the salaries out of these pampered guys and really do some
01:18:54.480
good, maybe send that money to some military that deserve it.
01:18:57.960
And besides, college football is just, for me, it's a much more interesting game.
01:19:04.980
I know a lot of people don't feel that way, but.
01:19:16.380
And my wife has this theory that most NFL games are set up.
01:19:22.740
I don't think I subscribe to that theory, but good for her for.
01:19:26.500
Although I have seen some calls by the referees that lead me to that decision once in a while.
01:19:32.420
It's not a bad thing saying that the players go to the NFL for the dollars.
01:19:35.960
I mean, that's what these, that's what you're doing, you know, as you're moving to the
01:19:39.880
If you can make it to the next level and play in the NFL, good.
01:19:45.260
Yeah, and you're going, if they're paying you the money that they want to pay you, thank
01:19:54.300
But the whole point of the, of the, the celebrations or the non-celebrations and the protests and
01:20:06.200
They should have, they should have nipped it in the bud at the beginning and, and let
01:20:11.540
The reason they don't do it on their own time, it's because nobody would pay attention
01:20:17.920
Go out on a street corner and protest all you want.
01:20:38.380
We're, we're irritated and sick and tired of hearing from the Hollywood leftist, but we
01:20:45.100
And you know, the Sunday, the Sunday game that you want to catch.
01:20:49.700
I'll just, I'll jump into the middle of the first quarter.
01:21:03.060
Also the co-anchor with Savannah Guthrie has been named.
01:21:12.740
It's, uh, and we, I think we need a drum roll for this because it's a really special announcement.
01:21:19.180
What now they could have, uh, I'm sure they went outside.
01:21:24.440
They could have gone pretty much anywhere for this.
01:21:50.680
Because, you know, obviously everybody's been saying, Hey, you know who I really love is
01:22:00.700
Hey, you know, it would make the today show even better.
01:22:05.400
Even without, even if Matt Lauer will, we're still there.
01:22:19.700
Out of the entire pool that you have, uh, to pick from, you go with Hoda.
01:22:28.460
I, I'm not a big, I'm not as big a Hoda Cutby fan as I probably should be.
01:22:35.500
It's just, it's just the way you're reporting the story.
01:22:38.020
I mean, we don't need a few research funds study for that.
01:22:46.140
And it's, it's, um, it shows also how far Megan either is fallen or how far they actually
01:22:54.380
think that they can take her in the direction they've taken her because, but it would seem
01:23:04.180
There's just not, I, you know, there's not the same.
01:23:10.160
It's more of what she did and what she became famous for.
01:23:12.560
Now eight months ago you would have said, oh, it'll be Megan Kelly.
01:23:19.060
I mean, what she's doing on the Today Show is not even close to what she was doing on Fox.
01:23:24.880
No, I mean this homie mother stuff and interviews and nicey, nice and dance and we all get along
01:23:44.180
She's a, you know, she's a loving mother and a loving wife and she's working hard and she's
01:23:48.940
doing stuff, but it just doesn't seem like it's her.
01:23:52.400
So this would be interesting to see how that works out.
01:23:55.580
If I, you know, for, uh, Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb.
01:24:03.880
I gotta tell you, nothing says the Today Show like Hoda Kotb.
01:24:11.740
I mean, when you think of the Today Show, think of the history of the Today Show.
01:24:15.040
The, the, the, the people that have come before Hoda Kotb and, uh, now she's now there's,
01:24:47.320
Uh, we're going to get to some of the new laws, regulations that have been, uh, passed.
01:24:51.860
One of them, uh, in Texas, uh, has just killed the straight party voting situation.
01:25:00.260
So you can no longer go into the, into the booth and vote just straight Republican ticket
01:25:07.400
You're actually going to have to go through that ballot one by one and consider each individual
01:25:21.980
So that's, that's just one of the, uh, changes.
01:25:26.060
Weird that that's a big, that's, that's a big deal.
01:25:32.220
I don't, I don't know why you'd even do legislation on that one way or the other.
01:25:37.940
When you're reading some of the stories, I mean, some of the, the local county judges
01:25:41.920
here in Dallas were saying how much it was going to cost the county to implement
01:25:47.200
it and, um, I, you know, I've heard this particular.
01:25:59.500
Plus this particular, the one county judge here in Dallas, uh, Clay Jenkins, my favorite,
01:26:10.180
And so he used to work for Barack Obama as, and, uh, makes me for it.
01:26:19.600
I, how is it that you are familiar with this county judge?
01:26:22.620
He's on the radio and on the TV here locally all the time.
01:26:25.500
He's likes to have his mug on the screen all the time and on radio all the time.
01:26:35.340
He probably does actually runs the joint in the city of Dallas and Dallas County.
01:26:46.580
I wouldn't think of it is, uh, until this moment, I didn't even know who he was.
01:26:57.900
Uh, I just wanted to, um, mention that on the second day of the new year, so it is still
01:27:06.460
Uh, the, the idea that the polls, the national polls, the Democrats and progressives and
01:27:12.980
media will lead them and shout them from the rooftops and the conservatives are in fear
01:27:19.120
And what that goes back to, I heard on the Glenn Beck show back in the early summer of
01:27:25.180
2016 that the, uh, polls and we're not very much in Hillary's favor.
01:27:32.300
She was only up by a couple of points and they couldn't figure out why.
01:27:36.480
Uh, so the national polls decided to stop, uh, uh, interviewing or polling anyone that
01:27:46.980
Um, well, we all know that there were 4 million plus evangelicals that didn't vote for Mitt
01:27:51.620
Ronnie for whatever reason, and they no longer were going to be in the part of the polling
01:27:58.420
At very same time, a couple of weeks later, Hillary's numbers started increasing and everybody
01:28:08.260
Well, those 4 million people came out and voted for Donald Trump.
01:28:17.740
Again, I remember black, uh, Beck mentioning that fact, uh, early on, you guys are going
01:28:23.540
to make national headlines because of something that I am probably the only person in the entire
01:28:28.980
world that realized that that happened and no one has showered at the, the conservatives
01:28:35.380
are still, uh, total, totally in fear of these national polls and they're always wrong.
01:28:43.580
They always quote them as being wrong or they, the conservatives always say that they're wrong.
01:28:50.700
And that's really all I have to, uh, promote, but again, you guys make national headlines with
01:28:55.720
this on all the news tonight, despite letting the Democrats know that they do have something
01:29:02.040
to fear in these midterm elections because the national polls that they're using now still
01:29:08.860
do not include those 4 million evangelicals that they, uh, knocked out of the polling questions
01:29:20.460
Well, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't look for this on the news and I wouldn't hold your
01:29:24.500
breath, uh, for that, uh, national news report from the Glenn Beck program.
01:29:34.820
Uh, they won't, they won't say a word about that.
01:29:41.920
Also, we got to tell you about this, um, uh, new decision by the military that they're, they're
01:29:46.980
apparently going to seek out trans people, uh, for, for recruitment.
01:29:55.720
They're actually going to recruit trans people now.
01:29:59.480
Rather than just let them come if they want to or not, they're actively seeking them.
01:30:03.860
And I don't know if that's based on some research that has shown that, uh, transsexual
01:30:09.520
people are better soldiers than non-transsexuals.
01:30:18.320
Uh, we'll kick that around a little bit on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Jeffy.
01:30:43.320
Stay tuned for Pat Gray Unleashed immediately following this show on the blaze radio and
01:30:53.180
Uh, some of the new laws that we're looking at as the new year begins include, uh, the one
01:31:01.780
in Texas that eliminates the possibility of just voting straight ticket.
01:31:11.200
Employers can no longer ask about your prior salary.
01:31:15.300
Job applicants can volunteer that information if they want to, but you can't ask, Hey, what'd
01:31:24.140
Why would the government get involved in that negotiation at all?
01:31:29.280
I'm guessing, no, I don't know, but I'm guessing that, uh, they figure that, uh, you should
01:31:36.820
I guess, but I mean, who answers that truthfully anyway?
01:31:49.540
Now I'm willing to come in for somewhat less than that, but it might be able to work out
01:31:56.280
A new Nevada law requires employers to grant up to 160 hours of leave per year to employees
01:32:03.140
who are victims of domestic violence or have family members who are victims or who know
01:32:08.720
someone who is a victim or who has ever heard of being a victim.
01:32:13.380
Well, I've, I have, I have heard and I've, I've, I've, well, then you've got 160 hours
01:32:17.580
coming, uh, employers in Vermont can't request or require employees to provide their social
01:32:25.260
That act is meant to provide social media privacy for employees.
01:32:28.580
Well, that's kind of strange because you don't have it.
01:32:31.860
If it's on social media, you've already compromised your privacy.
01:32:36.420
It's kind of, I, they want their cake and eat it too, right?
01:32:38.940
You want to be able to have your social media, but you want to be able to have your job and
01:32:43.580
you want to be able to say bad things about your company.
01:32:46.840
Part of your job is representing the company you work for.
01:32:52.200
Maybe that's just my old school thinking, but you know, you represent who you work for.
01:33:01.300
These players are, you know, talking about, you know, slave owners and we, we should be
01:33:06.400
Well, you signed a contract to provide a service.
01:33:11.660
I mean, but you said, you know, the contract is you signed a contract to provide a service
01:33:20.100
And if the job says, Hey, your Twitter account, you can't say anything bad against whatever
01:33:31.100
Also, California has become the latest state to legalize recreational marijuana.
01:33:36.460
I think that this is about medicinal marijuana, right?
01:33:39.580
I mean, in every state where it's legal, it's recreational now.
01:33:42.980
I think we've pretty much passed that a long time ago.
01:33:48.580
It's amazing how society is changing at an exponential rate now.
01:33:54.980
Uh, you know, and in the last 20 years, we went from a country that was 65, 27 against
01:34:03.360
same-sex marriage to a country that is 62, 32 in favor of same-sex marriage.
01:34:10.320
We've also gone from a society that overwhelmingly wanted marijuana to be illegal to a society
01:34:18.420
where it's overwhelming that they're saying marijuana should be legal now.
01:34:27.660
So California, now you don't have to pretend like you've got anxiety.
01:34:38.680
You just, you'll be able to have it at your disposal, I guess, at these dispensaries.
01:34:45.920
And I know they've had, they've had some, uh, some studies out that talked about how
01:34:49.780
it didn't help, uh, medically for some patients.
01:34:57.280
And, you know, I, I, I, I mean, there should be some, uh, some leeway for the, and obviously
01:35:03.200
now it doesn't matter, but you know, the leeway for the medical marijuana for sure.
01:35:07.400
If you were, yeah, but it's gone way beyond that.
01:35:09.680
Yeah, we're already, it doesn't even matter now.
01:35:11.640
August 4th is now officially Barack Obama day, a state holiday in Illinois.
01:35:26.220
So a barber couldn't come to your house before?
01:35:29.700
You know, those little barbers coming around, knocking on your door.
01:35:36.360
If I, if I had one barber, uh, knock on my door in the last few weeks, uh, well, I would
01:35:43.360
have had one barber, I would be all for that haircut.
01:35:54.540
If you got to have an official grain, how many times have we had calls saying, when is
01:36:00.820
I mean, I can't count them as many calls right now.
01:36:03.420
I don't know if it's corn or if it's wheat or if it's barley, but I want corn to be the
01:36:10.620
I don't even care about wheat and barley anymore.
01:36:14.220
I mean, I thought corn was like the official grain of Nebraska.
01:36:21.020
We'll have to take this all the way to the Supreme Court.
01:36:23.900
Uh, also public officers, such as elected officials and managers who are convicted of
01:36:31.360
a felony that's relevant to their jobs can have their pensions revoked or reduced.
01:36:39.520
So if I get in trouble, you could lose your pension if you commit a felony.
01:36:51.180
Did you also read, yeah, of course you don't like that.
01:36:56.300
Did you also see that, uh, right at the beginning of our, of our vacation, this was a couple
01:37:01.740
of weeks ago, Sheila Jackson Lee was, uh, wanted to board a flight and apparently she didn't
01:37:08.240
have a ticket and she decided she needed one and she was going home and she wanted to go
01:37:13.460
And she gets first, you know, our Congress people get the first, you know, the first grab
01:37:20.900
Off the flight who had a first class ticket and inserted Sheila Jackson Lee in that seat.
01:37:28.720
Well, they actually, I think she flew, she flew, right?
01:37:42.040
And we know that you specifically, because the report I read was that the woman was taken
01:37:47.220
off the flight in first class or, or put in coach and Sheila Jackson Lee took her.
01:37:57.520
But you buy a first class ticket and you're going back to coach?
01:38:03.800
You're going to have to arrest me because I'm, you know.
01:38:05.740
Because she took a picture when she was boarding.
01:38:09.240
There was a photo of, uh, of Sheila Jackson Lee talking on the cell phone in first class
01:38:15.820
There was a photo of her sitting in first class and I think, I don't know if it was from the
01:38:20.400
lady who, who got, who got the boot, but it was, uh, it was fascinating to see Sheila
01:38:26.420
just sitting there and it was just, I, it's agonizing that, uh, you know, it's expected.
01:38:34.100
That just shows you that we're a nation of people, not a nation of laws.
01:38:38.080
And like these elected officials are above the rest of us.
01:38:44.780
They, how do you, how do you take me out of my first class seat, which I paid a lot
01:38:49.500
of money for and bump me back to coach and put her in just because she's a congresswoman.
01:39:06.960
I would hope that I would hope if this particular story happened around me, I would hope that
01:39:11.360
my wife was with me so that I would not be thrown in jail.
01:39:15.300
And then again, I still might be thrown in jail because I would be, I would be through
01:39:20.540
Uh, no, uh, no, uh, Congresswoman, uh, you are not taking my seat that I paid for.
01:39:26.420
Uh, no, it's just no way that is not happening.
01:39:32.600
They're, they're better, uh, human beings than we are.
01:39:43.120
Um, I don't believe that the people in the house and the Senate really want to own the
01:39:48.320
immigration and Obamacare and all the other issues.
01:39:51.040
Um, how many times did they vote against Obamacare for eight years when Obama was in, when they
01:39:56.500
knew they couldn't do anything about it or more, I think more than 50 times an opportunity.
01:40:01.760
They knew a year ago, just a minute after, well, the next day after Trump was president,
01:40:08.300
And then now they're even encouraging people to vote against Roy Moore, who was questionable,
01:40:14.180
but they were knowing that they could lose that seat.
01:40:16.760
To me, they're, they say with their mouths, one thing, but they honestly don't want to
01:40:27.480
If we could get people to understand that, stop just automatically putting incumbents back
01:40:38.340
Some of these people have won their seats 20 to 30 times.
01:40:45.120
John Conyers, 28 times, 28 times they reelected that guy.
01:40:55.500
Uh, Lynn in South Carolina, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
01:41:02.880
Uh, I just wanted to, first of all, please say that I am not trying to hurt anybody, but
01:41:08.320
I see how people are coming in through particularly grocery stores and have one child in the hand,
01:41:15.580
another child in the shopping cart, then that woman's pregnant.
01:41:19.300
This happens with a lot of people that are coming in from even the United States, but from different
01:41:25.800
And my primary concern is this, is that people are relying upon too much of the United States
01:41:31.440
to support their ways by having too many children that they cannot themselves support.
01:41:38.140
The government is running out of funding, and it's very important that people understand
01:41:43.940
not to create new life and not to be able to sustain that child's life.
01:41:48.780
Because eventually, the gravy train's going to end.
01:41:52.420
And I know myself, I'm a happily divorced, battered wife.
01:41:55.640
And I will say this very openly, and it's very personal, that whenever I was married to a very
01:42:02.300
abusive man, I had my tubes tied because I would not create a life and have that child
01:42:13.200
People, immigrants, people in the United States that were born here, please, take care of
01:42:25.140
Disabilities, illnesses, but do not have child after child, knowing you cannot personally take
01:42:33.180
You're not saying that there should be government intervention into procreation, though, are you?
01:42:40.520
But what I'm saying is, very frankly, is that eventually, government funding does run out.
01:42:46.240
And whenever that does run out, how are these little children going to be fed?
01:42:50.500
That's what's concerning me, plus all sorts of hospitalizations.
01:42:56.980
However, however, I mean, I don't know what you do about that.
01:43:03.900
You're not going to tell people when they can have children and when they can't.
01:43:09.460
That's Chinese communist government business is when you're when you're limiting family
01:43:14.720
sizes of the poor or, you know, the only way to stop that is through legislation.
01:43:22.440
I appreciate that Lynn went through some really hard times.
01:43:26.900
But you can't you can't jump into people's lives like that and say, stop having children.
01:43:32.380
Well, we're not telling you to stop having children.
01:43:34.240
Pat, what we're saying is that, you know, maybe perhaps you should limit to two.
01:43:40.040
What we're saying is we're saying is maybe we're just, you know, limit to, you know.
01:43:45.680
That's all I'm saying is you can't do that, you know, and the way to do that is to fix
01:43:52.500
our society by getting back to personal responsibility, which is, which is, you know, from where we're
01:44:19.280
Just in case you didn't know his last name is our caller a while ago.
01:44:29.400
Hey, Tom, welcome to the Glenn Beck program with Pat Gray.
01:44:37.280
Hey, if I were king, I'll tell you what I would love to see happen in English, that we would
01:44:42.040
have a detailed list, both the hard left, the socialist left, whatever, and some of the
01:44:51.160
Let's take the time, spend it where we check it off.
01:44:54.180
You have to be an actual citizen of this country that can speak English, that knows where we
01:45:02.120
And let's make a list, detail out that you have to prove who you are, proper identification,
01:45:08.820
no BS here, and that we check this thing off and let's get this country headed in a
01:45:16.200
Our forefathers pretty well laid it out, but it's obvious we got smoke screens everywhere.
01:45:21.900
Everybody wants this country to be filled with others that don't know what it is because
01:45:25.780
the rest of the world can't figure out how we've done it.
01:45:28.120
So now we're trying to bring this country down to their levels and it's not going to happen.
01:45:33.280
And it's never going to be total peace no matter what anywhere.
01:45:36.500
So let's, before we lose this country, let's get an itemized list and let's all work towards
01:45:42.060
the list is what, if I was king, that's how I would do it.
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Although, Jeffy, did you hear the hatred there?
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This hate monger wants to know if people are actual citizens before they vote?
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I mean, I'm surprised that we left that racist on that long.
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Interesting to note, Iowa voters will be asked to show their IDs at the polls.
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That's one of the laws taking effect this year.
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Make sure you tune in for the Pat Gray Unleashed program coming up immediately following this