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00:00:41.960 Interesting couple of weeks over the holidays.

00:00:45.720 Hope you had a great Christmas and New Year's.

00:00:49.740 And there was certainly some interesting New Year's celebrations.

00:00:53.440 CNN, for instance, showed America how to do bong hits.

00:00:59.700 Isn't that great?

00:01:00.740 Yes.

00:01:01.360 Yeah, it was very helpful, especially if your kids are watching

00:01:04.500 and they're not familiar with how to actually take a bong hit.

00:01:08.780 If they're not familiar with a gas mask bong, now they are,

00:01:13.680 which is pretty helpful.

00:01:15.300 Thank you, CNN.

00:01:16.060 Well, nothing says ring in the New Year like a gas mask bong.

00:01:18.720 Sure doesn't.

00:01:19.260 And so that's apparently what CNN thought as well.

00:01:23.780 I mean, I guess because they didn't have Kathy Griffin to be super offensive 1.00

00:01:28.060 and do ridiculously stupid things. 0.79

00:01:30.780 They had another CNN reporter do something stupid and ridiculously insane things. 0.82

00:01:36.080 They actually had a reporter in Colorado on a cannabis, which is a bus, a pot bus,

00:01:45.180 on the way to a pot party where they were going to paint and do pot, I guess.

00:01:51.040 I mean, that was their whole guys for the news story around a cannabis reporting from Colorado

00:01:56.100 where it's legal.

00:01:57.120 Yes, except for it's not because the state law does not supersede federal law.

00:02:05.040 And Smoky Pot is still illegal on a federal level.

00:02:09.440 So Colorado, California, Washington, and I believe there's a few others continue to break federal law

00:02:15.920 by writing their own local and state laws.

00:02:19.140 And it's interesting because CNN took advantage of that.

00:02:22.120 Yes, they did.

00:02:22.780 Their reporter actually put on a gas mask bong. 0.59

00:02:28.320 And it was already filled, I guess, stuffed with pot.

00:02:31.660 No, I don't think so.

00:02:32.680 I think they filled it up later.

00:02:34.320 I think actually she gets away.

00:02:36.180 She said it was already stuffed.

00:02:38.280 Well, here's the report.

00:02:39.800 It's a really good one.

00:02:41.280 And hopefully you got a chance to see it.

00:02:43.220 If not, I really highly recommend you go to YouTube and have your children watch it so

00:02:48.640 that they understand the proper way to do a bong hit.

00:02:52.960 Here's that segment.

00:02:54.360 I do want to go to Randy Kaye.

00:02:55.620 She's joining us again along with a, well, she's in Colorado where I guess recreational marijuana

00:03:02.760 is surrounded by weed.

00:03:04.180 Did you get me the cheap and choose?

00:03:05.320 She's on a pot bus, basically. 0.98

00:03:07.700 How's it going, Randy?

00:03:10.560 It's going great.

00:03:11.840 I'm definitely earning the nickname Cush K. 1.00

00:03:13.980 That's for sure.

00:03:15.620 Right.

00:03:16.220 Oh, yeah.

00:03:17.900 I don't get that reference.

00:03:19.320 Do you?

00:03:19.900 You must.

00:03:20.860 How do you know what Cush?

00:03:22.300 No.

00:03:23.200 Honestly, I don't.

00:03:24.380 Stop.

00:03:25.940 Cush K is what?

00:03:26.980 You're embarrassing yourself.

00:03:28.420 Okay.

00:03:28.820 Sorry.

00:03:29.880 I'm sorry I'm not hip enough to the, as hip to the pot culture as I should be.

00:03:34.880 You don't even know what that is?

00:03:35.760 I can guess what it is, but, you know, I don't know for sure what she's referring to.

00:03:39.400 You don't even know?

00:03:40.000 No, I don't.

00:03:40.580 Oh, wow.

00:03:41.100 Well, everybody knows what Cush is. 0.79

00:03:42.600 So, listen, I came prepared, you know, this year.

00:03:44.860 I thought maybe I would bring a gas mask with me so I wouldn't, you know, get that contact

00:03:49.360 high.

00:03:50.060 But look at what's on the other end of the gas mask.

00:03:52.340 Yes, a bong. 0.93

00:03:53.720 And, of course, they couldn't stand to see a bong that didn't have any cannabis in it.

00:03:58.240 So, you actually put it in the bong.

00:04:01.900 You filled it up.

00:04:03.080 And you don't want to, you don't want to.

00:04:04.400 You packed it.

00:04:04.840 You packed it.

00:04:05.700 Okay.

00:04:06.260 Okay.

00:04:06.600 So, you're going to, now what?

00:04:07.940 Now, you're going to celebrate a little New Year's early or what?

00:04:09.940 To be honest with you, I've never hit bong. 0.67

00:04:10.960 Oh, right.

00:04:11.880 Okay.

00:04:12.860 She's at this point reaching back and lighting the bong for him.

00:04:17.220 I don't think this is really what a gas mask is used for, but, um, wow.

00:04:21.940 Okay.

00:04:22.360 Wow.

00:04:22.920 Okay.

00:04:23.120 This is New Year's Eve, Denver style, everybody.

00:04:24.560 This is legal in Colorado.

00:04:25.840 I know.

00:04:26.500 Oh, boy.

00:04:27.060 Oh, boy.

00:04:27.640 I'm moving to Colorado.

00:04:28.400 It's legal.

00:04:29.040 It is.

00:04:29.560 It is very legal.

00:04:33.180 Wow.

00:04:33.860 But we are making our way to a puff, pass, and paint party.

00:04:37.640 Yes, Anderson, go.

00:04:39.060 Puff, pass, and paint.

00:04:39.800 Okay.

00:04:40.160 Yeah.

00:04:40.380 So, just explain what you're on.

00:04:42.660 I mean, that is unbelievable.

00:04:43.820 That sure is.

00:04:44.720 That is unbelievable.

00:04:46.620 People were actually tweeting, you know, and keep in mind, these are CNN fans, presumably.

00:04:51.560 You know, so they're probably somewhat left of center.

00:04:54.940 And even the CNN viewers weren't especially appreciating it because they had kids watching

00:05:00.200 the New Year's Eve.

00:05:00.760 Oh, you're all watching with the family.

00:05:01.560 Yeah.

00:05:02.640 Hey, I got to turn this off because you're showing my kids how to do bong hits. 0.99

00:05:08.400 That's our job.

00:05:10.080 Yes.

00:05:10.320 That's our job.

00:05:11.200 Darn it.

00:05:12.580 That's, I mean, I, what has happened to journalism in this country?

00:05:17.960 Well.

00:05:18.260 It just doesn't exist anymore.

00:05:19.640 Well, to be a little bit fair, CNN has always tried to be aloof on New Year's with their

00:05:26.880 coverage, right?

00:05:28.540 I mean, that's why the Kathy Griffin and the Anderson Cooper, and that's why they push it.

00:05:31.260 You can't have it both ways, though.

00:05:32.660 And I don't know why Anderson Cooper continues to put his credibility on the line like this.

00:05:37.320 Because I think he just has fun with it, right?

00:05:39.240 I don't know.

00:05:40.180 Seriously, I don't know, but I guess he just has fun with it.

00:05:42.160 Would Walter Cronkite have had fun with a bong hit on the year? 1.00

00:05:44.460 Well, the times are a little bit different than that.

00:05:46.200 A little bit different, yeah.

00:05:47.860 Yeah, clearly.

00:05:48.580 A little bit different.

00:05:49.440 Clearly.

00:05:49.900 I mean, Walter probably wouldn't have broadcast himself with a, you know, a pot mask. 0.78

00:05:54.140 Huntley Brinkley probably wouldn't have, you know, donned the bong mask. 0.99

00:05:59.000 They may have.

00:05:59.680 You know, they may have if there was a bus.

00:06:01.920 Would be a layer.

00:06:03.000 Perhaps.

00:06:03.700 You know, maybe.

00:06:04.660 Maybe.

00:06:05.420 I mean, who am I to say?

00:06:06.540 Americans, we're Americans.

00:06:10.920 I know.

00:06:11.300 That's who we are to say.

00:06:12.320 And it's just, it's embarrassing.

00:06:14.360 That's for sure.

00:06:15.180 How far downhill television news has traveled.

00:06:19.500 It's incredible.

00:06:21.460 It is literally embarrassing.

00:06:24.140 And I'm not even a CNN fan.

00:06:26.220 And I'm just horrified on their behalf.

00:06:29.300 Because they're not horrified enough.

00:06:31.220 No, they are not.

00:06:32.140 No, they are not.

00:06:32.880 They could care less.

00:06:34.000 And if you weren't fortunate enough to be able to watch it, I just tweeted the story out at Jeffy MRA.

00:06:39.560 So you'll be able to see it for yourself.

00:06:40.980 And share it with your family if you missed it on New Year's Eve.

00:06:43.420 Because, you know, for sure you want to be able to let your kids know how to wear the mask properly.

00:06:48.380 Right.

00:06:48.620 If you're not familiar enough to teach them, CNN certainly is and was and handled that for you.

00:06:54.520 I mean, it just shows you that America's gone to pot.

00:06:56.800 Oh, this is a bad little.

00:07:00.660 Good morning.

00:07:01.600 Good morning, everybody.

00:07:02.420 Like, traffic and weather together every three minutes on the twos.

00:07:07.000 Oh, I got that right.

00:07:07.960 It's actually every two minutes on the threes.

00:07:09.640 Thank you.

00:07:09.880 Yeah, we changed it for the new year.

00:07:13.780 So bad.

00:07:14.360 But if you want some actual hard-hitting CNN news, they did take the opportunity yesterday to make sure to bash the president again.

00:07:25.580 Of course.

00:07:25.980 In a ridiculous way, in a not introspective way, having no clue for the way they've gone overboard on Trump criticism.

00:07:38.660 They had Woodward and Bernstein on a segment.

00:07:42.120 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.

00:07:56.340 And we need to admit our mistakes.

00:07:58.520 We oughtn't to be too provocative, which we sometimes are, with a president who's putting a lot of bait out there.

00:08:04.980 And sometimes we take the bait and get a little petty.

00:08:08.640 So, see, even then, it's not their fault, according to Bernstein.

00:08:12.240 Even then, it's not their fault.

00:08:13.500 He's put out the bait, and we've taken it.

00:08:16.100 I'd like to see a lot less of criticizing on our air the president for playing golf.

00:08:21.600 Let him play all the golf that he wants.

00:08:23.740 I don't think that's our job.

00:08:25.040 We've got a deadly, serious inquiry in front of us.

00:08:28.580 And the reporting, by and large, by the mainstream press, by the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, the Wall Street Journal,

00:08:36.820 has been some of the greatest reporting of the presidency that we have seen in the last 50, 60 years.

00:08:43.580 Amen, Carl.

00:08:44.480 Amen.

00:08:44.900 Amen.

00:08:45.760 Amen from the little CNN reporterette.

00:08:48.320 You didn't hear me the first time.

00:08:49.420 Amen.

00:08:49.660 Hallelujah.

00:08:50.640 Yes, we are the greatest.

00:08:52.520 We've done the greatest job on reporting on the president in the last 50, 60.

00:08:56.960 Let's not even stop there.

00:08:58.360 Let's say since the dawn of time, we've done the greatest reporting on a president that anyone's ever done.

00:09:05.000 Amen.

00:09:05.180 Are you kidding me?

00:09:07.000 But she's eaten it up.

00:09:08.360 But if just real quickly.

00:09:10.180 Finally, in comes Bob Woodward.

00:09:11.540 The tone is a big issue here.

00:09:14.620 I agree.

00:09:15.040 Yes.

00:09:15.320 And lots of reporting, particularly on television commentary, there's a kind of self-righteousness and smugness and people kind of ridiculing the president.

00:09:28.480 Where are the amens now?

00:09:29.900 Amen.

00:09:30.460 Amen.

00:09:30.840 Hallelujah.

00:09:31.620 No, complete silence.

00:09:32.760 When we reported on Nixon, it was obviously a very different era.

00:09:39.220 But we did not adopt a tone of ridicule.

00:09:43.680 The tone was, what are the facts?

00:09:45.300 I have to, before we go, I have to ask about something that you informed me about.

00:09:49.560 Before we go, I've got to change the subject now because now you're criticizing us.

00:09:52.980 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.

00:10:02.960 Really?

00:10:03.580 Come on.

00:10:05.740 Amen.

00:10:06.340 Amen.

00:10:06.940 Amen.

00:10:07.660 Amen.

00:10:09.760 Hallelujah.

00:10:10.500 Yes, we've done a great job.

00:10:11.920 Now, they've got no, they have no realization of the kind of job they've actually done, which has been horrific.

00:10:20.680 They gave no criticism at all to the last president.

00:10:25.320 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.

00:10:34.120 But never did they call Barack Obama out online virtually every day.

00:10:41.800 They didn't even notice it.

00:10:43.260 They didn't care about it.

00:10:44.700 They did no reporting on it.

00:10:46.400 It was critical.

00:10:47.680 What was it?

00:10:48.160 5% of the mainstream media's reports have been positive on Donald Trump.

00:10:53.320 Well, the first 60 days for sure.

00:10:55.900 And this year has been horrifically negative toward President Trump.

00:11:00.880 Yeah, it's something like 62 to 65% or something of all reporting has been negative on you.

00:11:06.940 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.

00:11:18.580 I mean, we want to be able to say, look, here's what's happening.

00:11:22.020 Here's the facts.

00:11:22.740 This is what's going on, whether we like it or not, right?

00:11:25.180 Whether it's true, whether it's false.

00:11:26.840 But instead of that, we have to say, well, you know, give the guy a break.

00:11:30.000 Yeah.

00:11:30.840 Well, because they're so overboard.

00:11:32.200 I mean, not everything is wrong.

00:11:33.020 They're so unbelievably overboard in their criticism of Trump that it almost forces you to defend him.

00:11:41.540 I mean, he is the president after all.

00:11:43.880 Yeah.

00:11:44.660 I mean, I hate to break that to you, but he won.

00:11:48.520 Yes, he did.

00:11:50.100 They don't want to admit that.

00:11:51.060 No, they do not.

00:11:51.960 But it is the fact.

00:11:54.020 All right.

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00:13:15.280 Glenn Beck.

00:13:22.140 Glenn Beck.

00:13:23.980 Yeah, what happened to all of the crimes?

00:13:26.780 As you said a few minutes ago, Trump is a president.

00:13:29.500 And that's what the media used to continually remind the right about Barack Obama.

00:13:34.940 He won.

00:13:35.320 Hey, he's the president.

00:13:37.000 He won.

00:13:38.320 You've got to have respect for the president.

00:13:40.280 You can't be criticizing him like this.

00:13:41.880 And we actually, you know, I don't think it was really personal.

00:13:44.760 It was about his policies.

00:13:45.680 Yeah.

00:13:46.340 It was about the fact that we didn't want socialism, and he had socialist tendencies.

00:13:51.920 Huh.

00:13:52.820 I mean, he said he likes redistribution of wealth, which is a Marxist principle.

00:13:57.640 He instituted Obamacare, which took control of the American health care system, insurance system.

00:14:07.780 So, you know, there were obvious criticisms to make there.

00:14:12.540 And if you tried to make them during the Obama years, you were a racist.

00:14:16.600 They didn't even pay attention to what it was you were saying.

00:14:19.580 They didn't care about the substance.

00:14:20.820 But as the Pew Research Center found, six in ten stories on Trump's early days in office, negative assessment.

00:14:29.320 That's three times more than the early coverage of Obama, twice that of Bush and Clinton.

00:14:34.120 So it's even worse than Bush.

00:14:35.660 Yeah.

00:14:36.000 And it's far worse than Obama.

00:14:39.980 So, but they have no awareness.

00:14:41.980 There's no self-awareness there at all.

00:14:44.380 They think they're fine.

00:14:45.320 In fact, they think they've done the best coverage, according to Bernstein, in 50 to 60 years.

00:14:51.880 You can't be serious.

00:14:54.600 888-727-BECK.

00:14:56.440 Jody in Florida.

00:14:58.080 Hi.

00:14:58.400 You're on the Glenn Beck Program with Pat and Jeffy.

00:15:01.940 Happy New Year, guys.

00:15:03.420 Happy New Year.

00:15:04.020 Thanks for taking my call.

00:15:04.400 I was listening to the news, drive-by medias, and it blew me away.

00:15:10.240 Jeffy was right.

00:15:11.360 They don't know that Trump has won.

00:15:14.180 All weekend long, it was President Obama did this.

00:15:18.080 President Obama was seen here.

00:15:19.580 But everything else was Trump, Trump, Trump had people down at his White House.

00:15:24.240 Trump.

00:15:25.160 And they don't even realize, and they don't even give him that honor of being president.

00:15:28.580 And that's frustrating.

00:15:29.960 It is very frustrating.

00:15:31.240 Thanks for the call.

00:15:32.240 And it is.

00:15:32.820 You're right.

00:15:33.040 It's a little slam every single time they report on him.

00:15:35.880 Not to apply the word president before.

00:15:39.560 And, you know, you can understand it every once in a while, or you're not always paying

00:15:44.240 attention to that.

00:15:45.740 But they almost never call him President Trump.

00:15:50.220 Right.

00:15:50.500 It's, you know, it's with complete disrespect.

00:15:53.540 And they were not my president.

00:15:55.500 Well, you know, guess what?

00:15:56.760 Yes, he is.

00:15:58.420 Yes, he is.

00:15:59.480 American citizen.

00:16:00.580 Yeah, he is.

00:16:01.440 So you can say that all you want, but he is.

00:16:04.780 And it's been interesting to watch Barack Obama during this time period because the tradition

00:16:11.400 is that an ex-president doesn't bash the policies of the current president, of the sitting president.

00:16:18.960 Now, George W. Bush, as we all know, stayed out of the fray.

00:16:24.440 He stayed out of it, despite the fact that they blamed him for every bill in our country.

00:16:31.060 They did nothing but hammer him.

00:16:32.700 Almost.

00:16:33.320 Every turn.

00:16:34.580 Almost the entire eight years.

00:16:36.400 It wasn't just the first term.

00:16:38.240 Even in the second term, they're still blaming everything that went wrong on Bush.

00:16:42.280 They're still trying now.

00:16:43.880 And he sat silently on the sidelines.

00:16:46.160 And it's interesting because Obama, former President Obama, is out there now criticizing

00:16:55.500 Trump.

00:16:56.940 And, you know, just as a side note, you never hear them say former President Obama.

00:17:02.360 No, it's President Obama.

00:17:03.200 I mean, if you're lucky to hear President Trump, but you never hear former President Obama.

00:17:08.680 I don't even think, I think, I'm going to look it up right now again, but it seemed to

00:17:11.580 me I was looking at his Twitter account, and his Twitter account still has him, you know,

00:17:15.440 it says, you know, President.

00:17:17.440 It doesn't say former President.

00:17:19.860 It's amazing.

00:17:20.800 Most certainly.

00:17:21.480 Now, Obama said when he left office he was going to try to stay out of Donald Trump's hair

00:17:26.640 unless it was really, really important.

00:17:29.180 Well, he's found virtually every issue to be really, really important.

00:17:34.400 And he's jumped in to talk about, of course, the fight of Obamacare and many other issues.

00:17:41.700 And Obama said, reality continues to discredit the false claim that this law, Obamacare, is

00:17:48.820 in a death spiral.

00:17:50.580 Nothing could be more untrue than that statement from Obama.

00:17:55.280 It is in a death spiral, and it needs to be repealed.

00:17:59.060 He says, likewise, this law is no job killer.

00:18:02.280 So he's been speaking about Trump.

00:18:05.260 Sometimes he doesn't call him by name, but you know who he's talking about.

00:18:10.640 And George W. Bush didn't do any of that.

00:18:15.820 One of Obama's spokespeople said, President Obama feels it's important to provide the same

00:18:20.960 respect to the current.

00:18:21.760 So they even admit that he got that respect.

00:18:25.280 He feels it's important to provide the same respect to the current administration that

00:18:28.820 was provided to him by the Bush administration.

00:18:31.460 President Bush and his team gave President Obama and his team the space to do our jobs

00:18:35.900 and did not come forward and comment on every decision that we made.

00:18:40.180 And surely they disagreed with a lot of what we were doing.

00:18:42.540 Because you were bludgeoning them with bats every time you could.

00:18:46.800 Yes.

00:18:47.080 No matter what, we're just going to pummel you.

00:18:48.760 And every issue was the opposite of where Bush stood on it.

00:18:53.820 Nearly every issue.

00:18:54.860 And not a word from W, which was really frustrating at the time.

00:18:58.340 It really kind of was.

00:18:59.060 It is kind of frustrating still today, as a matter of fact.

00:19:01.240 Really kind of was.

00:19:02.060 So Obama now says, folks, don't folks, don't feel real good right now about what they see.

00:19:10.540 So he's talking about Trump without actually naming him.

00:19:14.440 Maybe they don't feel as if our public life reflects our best.

00:19:19.060 Our democracy is at stake.

00:19:21.620 When is this guy going to understand we are not a democracy?

00:19:29.360 Pretty sure you've told him that before.

00:19:31.200 Pretty sure.

00:19:32.840 And it is important to make that correction because.

00:19:37.460 Nobody does.

00:19:38.200 Nobody does.

00:19:38.840 Nobody does.

00:19:39.860 Man, that is a huge thing.

00:19:43.460 And you hear it all.

00:19:45.600 All the time.

00:19:46.280 And as brilliant as Barack Obama is supposed to be, he's never understood that we're a republic, not a democracy.

00:19:55.940 888-727-BECK.

00:19:58.720 Your comments as we get the new year started here on the Glenn Beck Program with Pat Gray and Jeffy.

00:20:13.840 Glenn Beck.

00:20:16.280 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:22.840 With Pat Gray and Jeffy for Glenn this week.

00:20:26.760 888-727-BECK.

00:20:28.120 In fact, because Glenn is out this week, this building is about 150,000 square feet of wasteland.

00:20:37.880 There's no one here.

00:20:38.840 It's just, I mean, there's not even camera people.

00:20:43.000 There's not makeup people.

00:20:44.620 There's nobody.

00:20:45.400 You mean there's people filling in for Glenn when he's off?

00:20:49.360 What?

00:20:50.620 Really?

00:20:51.460 What?

00:20:51.580 And so because Glenn's not here and most people are still on vacation, the building is about 14 below zero.

00:21:00.740 It feels tremendous in here.

00:21:03.100 Oh my gosh.

00:21:03.560 I have lost all feeling in my hands.

00:21:05.700 It feels so good in here.

00:21:06.040 I've got frostbite in my toes.

00:21:07.640 I've got this too little pansy heater down here if you want.

00:21:10.880 It is frigid in here.

00:21:12.760 Because it actually got cold.

00:21:14.260 I mean, legitimately cold in Dallas.

00:21:15.640 Yes, it did.

00:21:16.220 This doesn't happen very often, but like the other night, it got down, I think, to about 14 or 15 degrees.

00:21:21.760 Yeah, but there was ice and, you know, kind of snow.

00:21:26.060 Yeah.

00:21:26.380 Not really.

00:21:27.120 It's sort of a winter mix.

00:21:28.920 No accumulation, obviously, but we've, and then the last two days didn't get out of the 20s during the day.

00:21:37.340 That hardly ever happens here.

00:21:38.860 So that cold front, that polar vortex that has invaded the country actually hit us fairly hard.

00:21:47.200 And people were freaking out on New Year's Eve.

00:21:48.600 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.

00:21:55.260 And I was like, you know, I'm going to pick up what I need and I'm back home.

00:21:58.800 Yeah, definitely.

00:21:59.160 You people go and drive yourselves into the, into the railings.

00:22:02.200 That's fine with me.

00:22:03.320 Yeah.

00:22:03.640 In my house, New Year's Eve is really not a thing.

00:22:06.640 Oh man, we part of it.

00:22:07.880 Not a thing.

00:22:08.340 Oh, we party.

00:22:09.340 Yeah.

00:22:09.920 We eat, which is a problem.

00:22:13.380 Just eat nonstop and maybe watch a movie or two.

00:22:16.220 For New Year's or just the entire holiday?

00:22:18.240 Well, the whole holiday.

00:22:18.900 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.

00:22:30.260 And you would just eat and, you know, nap and hang out and maybe, you know, maybe look outside once in a while.

00:22:36.340 A lot of people do.

00:22:36.640 Not me, though.

00:22:37.200 No.

00:22:37.620 Not over the holidays.

00:22:38.460 You're a gym rat.

00:22:39.120 You could not keep me out of the gym.

00:22:41.700 Just the gym for you.

00:22:42.660 Oh man.

00:22:42.880 Just work out the whole time.

00:22:44.540 Yeah.

00:22:44.740 Well, you got to stay in your tip top shape.

00:22:46.340 The family was like, Dad, are you going to be home at all over the holiday?

00:22:49.420 I said, no, I got to be at the gym.

00:22:51.140 I got to work out.

00:22:52.760 And you don't get this by going, not going to the gym every day.

00:22:56.320 That's right.

00:22:56.820 That's right.

00:22:56.860 That's right.

00:22:57.440 No.

00:23:00.540 No.

00:23:01.240 Did you get out to Star Wars?

00:23:03.580 You know what?

00:23:04.320 No.

00:23:05.380 I didn't go out of my way.

00:23:06.800 I should have.

00:23:07.300 I felt bad because I told my youngest son that we'd go because he's a fan.

00:23:12.380 I was like, all right.

00:23:13.200 I was like, go see your stupid Star Wars with you.

00:23:16.280 And then you didn't.

00:23:17.420 No.

00:23:17.820 And then last night I was like, oh, we never got to see Star Wars.

00:23:20.900 I know.

00:23:21.900 I didn't want to be a pain and keep bugging you about it.

00:23:24.500 Oh, that was nice of him.

00:23:25.420 Oh, was it?

00:23:25.900 Because he's a pain about everything else.

00:23:28.200 He was a pain about everything else.

00:23:29.820 You did it.

00:23:30.960 Not Star Wars.

00:23:33.180 So, I mean, you saw it, right?

00:23:34.660 I did.

00:23:35.140 I actually liked this one.

00:23:36.720 Yeah.

00:23:36.880 A lot of people we ran into over the holidays.

00:23:38.620 My family mostly did not.

00:23:39.440 Oh, really?

00:23:40.000 Yeah.

00:23:40.240 Wow.

00:23:41.420 Most everybody in my family was like, that was terrible.

00:23:45.100 Wow.

00:23:45.500 But I came out of it and I loved it.

00:23:49.000 Most of the Star Wars people that we ran into really liked it.

00:23:53.900 Yeah, I liked it a lot.

00:23:55.180 I will say this.

00:23:55.900 And I know you're a Star Wars guy, though.

00:23:56.700 Yeah, I love Star Wars.

00:23:58.160 Always have.

00:23:59.820 This one actually is interesting because if you look at Rotten Tomatoes, it got huge, great

00:24:05.880 reviews from critics.

00:24:07.580 90% of critics gave it thumbs up.

00:24:09.580 Whereas the audience is only about, I think it was 52 or 54%, which is really low, especially

00:24:16.140 for Star Wars.

00:24:17.500 And it's the opposite of what a Star Wars movie usually is.

00:24:21.920 Well, what's good about the Star Wars movie, though, is it hasn't made any money at all.

00:24:27.260 Well, 517 million domestically.

00:24:29.760 It's over a billion worldwide.

00:24:31.140 Yeah, that's unbelievable.

00:24:32.460 It was number one again over the weekend.

00:24:34.360 And I think for the four days, it brought in 68 million, which is pretty good in week

00:24:40.440 three.

00:24:41.200 But it's on a slower pace than The Force Awakens by quite a bit.

00:24:46.020 At this point, The Force Awakens was at 750 million.

00:24:49.880 This one's at 517 or 530 or something like that.

00:24:53.020 So it's lagging behind, but still, I mean, it's still huge, but it's lagging behind probably

00:24:58.140 because more people feel like your family.

00:25:01.240 I think so.

00:25:01.700 They're not going back again.

00:25:02.900 And I, you know, there's some problems with it and I won't explain what my problem is with

00:25:06.260 it in case you haven't seen it because it would give away some things and I'm sure you

00:25:10.940 wouldn't appreciate that.

00:25:12.280 So, but I don't care.

00:25:13.520 Go ahead.

00:25:13.920 I liked it the best since Return of the Jedi.

00:25:18.100 Wow.

00:25:18.800 Yeah.

00:25:19.360 I thought it was the best Star Wars since 19, whatever, 83.

00:25:22.600 Yeah, that was a long time.

00:25:23.480 When that came out.

00:25:23.800 Yeah.

00:25:23.900 Yeah.

00:25:24.020 There's been a number of them, right?

00:25:25.180 I mean, oof.

00:25:26.140 Wow.

00:25:27.040 So, that was number one.

00:25:28.720 Jumanji was number two, the reboot with The Rock.

00:25:32.640 That guy cannot do wrong, man.

00:25:34.200 God, he really can't.

00:25:36.040 Pitch Perfect was number three.

00:25:37.920 Greatest Showman and then Ferdinand, which is an animated feature.

00:25:39.840 I have to see Showman, too.

00:25:40.860 I really want to see that.

00:25:42.020 Really?

00:25:42.420 Yeah, I was told that was really good.

00:25:43.380 It's not about Barnum.

00:25:44.340 Yeah.

00:25:44.720 Yeah, P.T. Barnum.

00:25:46.500 Also, an incredible bowl season culminated last night with the – it actually didn't

00:25:53.080 culminate.

00:25:53.620 It's almost over.

00:25:54.320 Almost over.

00:25:55.220 And isn't it amazing that football is almost over now.

00:25:58.540 I know.

00:25:59.100 The college – we have one collegiate football game left, the national championship between

00:26:03.900 Georgia and Alabama, of course.

00:26:07.240 And we got the NFL playoffs, and that's it.

00:26:09.640 Then we're done.

00:26:10.860 It's gone by so fast.

00:26:12.100 Boy, no kidding.

00:26:12.740 I ran into a lot – you know, I realize that time ticks on at the same pace over and

00:26:17.320 over, and it doesn't – nothing really – you know, it isn't true, but it feels like

00:26:22.920 2017 flew by.

00:26:25.500 Yeah, it does.

00:26:26.280 I mean, it does not feel – it's 2018 already?

00:26:30.340 Yeah, it's incredible.

00:26:31.500 I mean, it's been amazing.

00:26:32.860 Really.

00:26:33.280 And I really am amazed that football season is over.

00:26:35.460 Whew.

00:26:35.820 Man, I was – it's going to – I'm missing that a little bit already.

00:26:40.200 Yeah.

00:26:40.560 Even with the bowl games, I was still missing a little bit of the college football season.

00:26:45.160 I like that a lot.

00:26:46.620 Interesting that Oklahoma and Georgia, that phenomenal game yesterday.

00:26:52.320 Tremendous game.

00:26:52.780 So much fun to watch.

00:26:53.860 If you didn't see it or haven't heard about it or you were in Afghanistan for the weekend,

00:26:58.960 Georgia finally won it 54-48.

00:27:02.940 48, yeah.

00:27:03.440 You know, in double overtime.

00:27:06.140 And I was – of course, Georgia won.

00:27:09.680 I was rooting for Oklahoma, and that's just the way the season's gone this year.

00:27:13.240 You'd have made some money betting with you this year.

00:27:16.140 Whatever you were rooting for, you should have bet on the opposite.

00:27:18.820 Go the other way.

00:27:19.740 Exactly right.

00:27:21.140 Exactly.

00:27:22.000 But I've got kind of a man crush on Baker Mayfield.

00:27:25.940 I think the kid is – he's tremendous.

00:27:28.340 I can't believe they're talking.

00:27:29.640 He might be the third or fourth or fifth quarterback taken in the draft.

00:27:33.440 How do you pass him up?

00:27:34.920 He's a little agonizing.

00:27:36.960 Why is he agonizing?

00:27:37.660 Because he is.

00:27:38.420 He just is.

00:27:39.240 He's exuberant.

00:27:40.420 That exuberance, though.

00:27:41.940 That exuberance kind of –

00:27:43.480 I like the exuberance.

00:27:44.880 I think – you know, if he doesn't turn out to be like Johnny Manziel,

00:27:48.540 I think he's got a big future in the NFL.

00:27:50.420 As sure as possible.

00:27:51.680 I mean, it's disappointing.

00:27:52.340 He came back, right?

00:27:53.140 He came back.

00:27:53.860 Yeah, to win the championship.

00:27:55.420 The championship.

00:27:55.960 And he got so close.

00:27:57.280 No defense, though, man.

00:27:58.420 No defense, you're not winning a championship.

00:28:00.580 It's true.

00:28:01.980 The other thing that was fascinating was Central Florida,

00:28:05.880 who is one of the forgotten schools from our forgotten league.

00:28:12.160 They were 12-0 and didn't get into the playoff, obviously.

00:28:16.580 But they beat the team that beat both of the teams in the national championship game.

00:28:23.520 Think of that.

00:28:25.180 Proving, to me, they should have entered the playoffs.

00:28:27.660 Absolutely.

00:28:28.360 Should have – 13-0 season, winning over Auburn in their final game,

00:28:35.520 in whatever bowl game that was.

00:28:36.760 What was – it's nuts.

00:28:38.060 I don't remember.

00:28:38.520 Peach Bowl.

00:28:39.040 Yeah, in the Peach Bowl.

00:28:41.600 And then finishing unbeaten all season?

00:28:44.700 Good for them.

00:28:45.400 Wow.

00:28:46.220 There's got to be something done.

00:28:47.380 You've got to expand the playoffs.

00:28:48.300 Well, but with the point system –

00:28:49.060 Well –

00:28:49.380 You've got to expand the playoffs to eight.

00:28:51.700 Either six or eight.

00:28:52.060 I'm okay with that.

00:28:52.860 I'm personally okay with that.

00:28:54.260 You know, whatever.

00:28:55.320 But, you know, really, with the point system, they did have an issue with, you know,

00:28:58.960 a couple of – you know, a lot of the games that were played against teams that weren't that good.

00:29:05.700 Yeah, they – I mean, obviously, the schedule is going to hurt them.

00:29:09.180 But they – I mean, look, they deserved it.

00:29:10.960 But they beat everybody you put in front of them.

00:29:12.520 I know.

00:29:12.900 No one could beat them.

00:29:14.780 Just like BYU in 1984, they beat everybody you put in front of them.

00:29:18.460 And, I mean, what more can you do?

00:29:20.500 What more can you do?

00:29:21.700 I'm BYU in 1984 because we were talking about the 17-18 bowl season is what we were talking about.

00:29:27.540 I know.

00:29:27.940 But I was just making a comparison is all.

00:29:29.960 I know.

00:29:30.220 But what about – did they win this bowl?

00:29:33.700 They didn't have a season this year.

00:29:34.740 They didn't play.

00:29:35.520 Oh, they didn't play.

00:29:36.260 Yeah, they took the year.

00:29:36.700 Oh, okay.

00:29:37.500 Because –

00:29:38.020 Essentially, that is what happened.

00:29:39.040 I mean, they didn't lose the bowl game.

00:29:40.620 No, they did not lose their bowl game.

00:29:41.980 I guarantee you that.

00:29:45.280 All right.

00:29:46.140 888-727-BECK-LORIE in Washington.

00:29:50.480 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program with Pat and Jeffy.

00:29:53.820 Hi.

00:29:54.400 Good morning.

00:29:54.820 Happy New Year.

00:29:55.580 You too.

00:29:56.500 I need to remind you guys that W has not been silent the entire time during his retirement.

00:30:02.820 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?

00:30:10.380 And he went off and bashed Trump and said, well, no, I didn't vote for him.

00:30:13.720 And then they got to W.

00:30:15.300 And W hemmed and hawed and he didn't answer whether or not he voted for Trump.

00:30:19.700 Then he was interviewed and he gave these sort of wimpy answers about some half-hearted support for Trump.

00:30:27.220 And it sounded like sore loser.

00:30:29.220 Our boy didn't win.

00:30:31.040 So, of course, we're not going to support Trump, which is just petty.

00:30:34.880 Yeah, you're right.

00:30:36.320 Yeah.

00:30:36.920 Thanks for the call.

00:30:37.820 I had forgotten that.

00:30:38.920 And it's interesting that when he does speak out, when the family spoke out, it was against Trump.

00:30:43.980 Correct.

00:30:44.560 Rather than Obama.

00:30:46.020 A little agonizing.

00:30:47.320 A little irritating.

00:30:48.760 Barbie in Maine.

00:30:50.180 You're on with Pat and Jeffy.

00:30:52.320 Good morning.

00:30:54.480 Hi.

00:30:54.660 And Happy New Year.

00:30:55.620 You too.

00:30:56.720 I am calling in regards to President Trump.

00:31:01.140 Mm-hmm.

00:31:01.540 I believe he is doing the best job that he can after the mess that Obama has made.

00:31:07.860 And people have got to give him respect.

00:31:10.900 Like they gave Obama respect to people that didn't like him as well.

00:31:15.300 So.

00:31:16.360 Yeah, they're not.

00:31:17.180 All in all, he's doing a fantastic job.

00:31:20.860 Appreciate it.

00:31:21.420 Thanks, Barbie.

00:31:22.080 And I will say, though, I agree.

00:31:25.080 I mean, I don't know if I call the job fantastic.

00:31:27.400 I would say he's doing much better than I thought he was going to do.

00:31:30.080 Well, up against what he's been up against, no question.

00:31:33.340 Yeah.

00:31:33.620 Right?

00:31:33.880 I mean, he gets stonewalled and blocked at every turn, despite no matter what the guy does.

00:31:41.340 You know, whatever he has for dinner and lunch is a hated thing.

00:31:45.000 So, I mean, he's done a great job, comparatively speaking, to that.

00:31:48.920 Yeah.

00:31:48.980 You know, has he been tremendous?

00:31:52.160 Yeah.

00:31:52.620 Yeah.

00:31:52.960 I mean, I will say he's genuinely surprised me.

00:31:57.760 I thought it was going to be a lot worse than this.

00:32:00.120 And he's done pretty well.

00:32:02.040 Yes, he has.

00:32:02.760 And he did something.

00:32:03.420 I'm trying to think, what was the latest thing?

00:32:05.200 It was right when we went on vacation a couple of weeks ago.

00:32:09.120 That was Jerusalem, right?

00:32:10.500 Yeah, it was right after Jerusalem, because Jerusalem was great. 0.97

00:32:13.760 And then he did something else that surprised me.

00:32:17.000 And I can't think of what it is, but I will.

00:32:19.280 So, 888-727-BECK.

00:32:22.340 Lois in Ohio, you're on with Pat and Jeffy.

00:32:25.740 Hi.

00:32:26.680 I'm going to try to change the subject matter here on health care.

00:32:30.580 My idea is, why can't you get a couple of Republicans, a couple of Democrats, get some CEOs from insurance companies,

00:32:39.360 along with hospital administrators, and some doctors that actually work with health care,

00:32:45.360 set them together, sequester them in a room for a week or two, whatever you need to do,

00:32:50.060 until they come up with a plan, and that way you get people that actually work with the system

00:32:55.020 to have some input on it, and maybe we can come up with a better plan.

00:32:59.020 Would that work?

00:33:01.000 Yes, so they'll never do it.

00:33:04.660 It's just, it makes too much sense, Lois.

00:33:07.100 Well, that's what I think.

00:33:07.960 Common sense and government does not work together.

00:33:10.400 Right.

00:33:10.660 They have no relationship whatsoever.

00:33:13.580 I appreciate the call.

00:33:14.520 888-727-BECK.

00:33:16.900 Glenn Beck.

00:33:28.940 Glenn Beck.

00:33:31.540 So, tax cuts passed.

00:33:34.860 House and Senate.

00:33:37.020 Got that done.

00:33:38.540 Also, just before Christmas, the Trump administration, through Nikki Haley,

00:33:45.660 who's doing a tremendous job as UN ambassador.

00:33:48.980 Standing tall.

00:33:49.860 They cut the amount that the United States gives to the UN by $285 million.

00:33:58.800 Now, that's a drop in the bucket compared to what we pay to keep that hideous organization in operation. 0.99

00:34:05.900 That's a lot of money from slush funds, though.

00:34:07.620 But that's pretty darn good.

00:34:08.700 You aren't lying, it is.

00:34:09.660 It's $285 million.

00:34:10.900 It's a good start.

00:34:12.040 We should just kick them off the entire continent. 0.96

00:34:14.260 But, barring that, this is a great move.

00:34:17.900 Yeah.

00:34:18.180 And I love the fact that they're not letting the UN push us around.

00:34:22.460 The UN got together and, like, 130 countries condemned us for stating that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel.

00:34:31.880 Are you kidding me?

00:34:32.720 So?

00:34:33.780 Unbelievable.

00:34:34.780 And so, Nikki Haley has said, we will not forget this.

00:34:38.840 We're going to take names here.

00:34:41.020 And in the future, you're going to be sorry.

00:34:43.240 Yeah.

00:34:43.660 Essentially, she didn't say it exactly that way.

00:34:45.800 But in the future, you're going to be sorry.

00:34:47.160 And it was just a few days later, they cut the budget.

00:34:49.700 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.

00:34:57.440 Oh, sorry.

00:34:58.320 We'll remember.

00:34:59.420 Yeah.

00:34:59.700 I love that.

00:35:01.240 I love that.

00:35:02.200 Who's done that?

00:35:03.060 No one.

00:35:03.700 Not even Bush.

00:35:04.580 No one.

00:35:05.340 Yeah.

00:35:06.180 Oh, no.

00:35:06.620 This was, I mean.

00:35:07.380 Not even Reagan, I don't think, actually took action that was meaningful against the UN.

00:35:15.580 Even though they have never been a friend to the United States.

00:35:19.520 Ever.

00:35:20.340 I mean, all they do is take our money.

00:35:21.860 Yes.

00:35:22.440 Yes.

00:35:22.880 They need our money.

00:35:23.660 Yeah.

00:35:23.820 They need our money.

00:35:24.980 And we pump billions into that organization just to be condemned all the time.

00:35:28.760 I don't get it.

00:35:30.200 It's despicable.

00:35:30.620 I really don't.

00:35:31.120 I don't understand it.

00:35:32.020 And so for this administration to take a different line on that, I think it's fantastic.

00:35:37.880 I love to see it and I hope it continues.

00:35:40.560 Let's go to Tim in Ohio.

00:35:42.340 Tim, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

00:35:43.840 Hi.

00:35:45.120 Well, good morning.

00:35:46.180 Morning.

00:35:46.460 Hey, I just wanted to say, oh, Bill O'Reilly said one of his best movies was The Godfather.

00:35:54.040 On The Godfather, a Turk guy came, wanted to sell the white powder. 1.00

00:36:00.560 He goes, why don't you come to me?

00:36:02.300 He said, well, you got the politicians in your pocket.

00:36:05.960 Right.

00:36:06.100 Now he turned down everything.

00:36:08.540 Yes, he did.

00:36:09.000 I personally feel that Bill Clinton has the politicians in his pocket.

00:36:14.940 Yeah, possibly.

00:36:16.380 Possibly.

00:36:17.960 Glenn Beck.

00:36:24.320 Love.

00:36:25.860 Courage.

00:36:27.660 Truth.

00:36:28.860 Glenn Beck.

00:36:29.580 Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program, 888-727-BECK.

00:36:34.160 You can also catch me, Pat Gray, on Pat Gray Unleashed, which immediately follows this show

00:36:39.700 on the Blaze Radio and Television Network.

00:36:42.200 Make sure you join us then.

00:36:44.400 North Korea seems to be softening a little bit.

00:36:47.780 Kim Jong-un maybe realizing that there's a new sheriff in town.

00:36:55.320 I think Trump's had something to do with this as well.

00:36:58.440 He's trying to save face a little, I think.

00:37:00.100 It sure feels that way.

00:37:01.000 It really does.

00:37:02.380 It's to the point where not only is his rhetoric softening, but his wardrobe is softening.

00:37:09.560 Yeah.

00:37:09.980 He's changed the style of his Mao outfits to tone it down a little bit and look less menacing.

00:37:19.320 I don't know.

00:37:19.660 That latest picture, though, that's a good haircut.

00:37:22.780 Oh, the guy's always been impeccable in his hair.

00:37:27.100 Oh, yeah.

00:37:27.720 That is tremendous.

00:37:30.520 Looks like it was cut by a blind person. 1.00

00:37:33.100 But I think that's a good look.

00:37:34.860 That is a good look.

00:37:35.840 It's a really good look.

00:37:37.280 It's gotten to the point where North Korea has wished the Winter Olympics games in South

00:37:43.860 Korea, they wished them well.

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.

00:37:52.260 They basically came out and said that.

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.

00:38:03.820 No kidding.

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.

00:38:20.740 That was according to Kim Jong-un.

00:38:22.760 In a separate message, IOC President Thomas Bach said he was confident the games will be held without incident,

00:38:29.940 and it certainly seems that way.

00:38:32.540 And then there was some conciliatory language, at least that's the way I took it,

00:38:37.920 and maybe he didn't mean it this way.

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.

00:38:54.360 Yeah, I kind of got that.

00:38:55.760 Yeah.

00:38:55.920 A little bit like, you know.

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.

00:39:06.860 If that's what you believe, then shut up.

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?

00:39:15.760 He's got to show off to his people.

00:39:17.940 Yeah.

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,

00:39:26.640 and we're ready to fire back if you start it.

00:39:30.660 Yeah.

00:39:32.300 It's interesting because he's got the little button on his desk.

00:39:34.840 You know what?

00:39:35.300 So does Donald Trump.

00:39:37.000 And his button's a little bit bigger.

00:39:38.620 This is a tad.

00:39:39.500 Yeah.

00:39:39.920 This is a tad bit bigger.

00:39:40.820 A lot more firepower there.

00:39:42.000 And I think they're starting to realize that, and maybe that is behind all of this talk.

00:39:48.220 I mean, good.

00:39:48.860 And that's great.

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

00:39:53.800 I don't really.

00:39:54.740 You know, okay, fine.

00:39:55.820 Yeah.

00:39:56.160 Let him have that.

00:39:56.680 If it saves lives, great.

00:39:58.600 Exactly right.

00:40:00.280 And if it helps the Olympic Games get pulled off without incident, then so be it.

00:40:05.820 It'd be really good.

00:40:06.840 No kidding.

00:40:08.540 It's so interesting, I guess is the word, that it's in South Korea this year.

00:40:15.100 Yeah.

00:40:15.580 That's interesting.

00:40:16.320 As everything got, you know, fired up again.

00:40:18.920 I know.

00:40:19.780 All the rhetoric back and forth.

00:40:22.080 They were right in the middle of it with the Olympics.

00:40:23.980 Yeah.

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?

00:40:36.300 He's got a really-

00:40:37.260 Chris Matthews is abusive?

00:40:38.980 Yeah.

00:40:39.260 No.

00:40:39.920 Apparently very 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.

00:41:24.140 Does that surprise you in the least?

00:41:25.760 Not at all.

00:41:26.540 You would totally expect that.

00:41:27.660 Does not surprise me at all.

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?

00:41:49.980 I don't understand that.

00:41:51.680 I don't either.

00:41:52.100 Chris Matthews is not that powerful, a news person, that he could reach out and stop your career from afar.

00:42:00.980 Stop it.

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

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.

00:43:02.180 There's no way you don't believe this.

00:43:03.980 No, I absolutely believe it.

00:43:05.560 I believe it.

00:43:05.920 A hundred percent.

00:43:06.800 No way.

00:43:07.520 There's no way.

00:43:08.140 There's no way.

00:43:08.160 This is not true.

00:43:09.100 I think there's no way.

00:43:10.900 There's no way.

00:43:11.540 It's not true.

00:43:12.080 Absolutely.

00:43:13.760 One host on a seat.

00:43:14.940 CNBC show was allegedly on the receiving end of many of his comments.

00:43:18.160 Tried to avoid being around him.

00:43:20.020 She didn't want to be in the same room as him.

00:43:22.160 She wouldn't want to get her makeup done if he was in there, too.

00:43:26.200 Wow.

00:43:28.220 I wonder, will this affect his situation at MSNBC?

00:43:33.940 It'll be interesting to see.

00:43:35.000 In today's world, it very well should.

00:43:36.860 Everybody else who's even been accused is gone.

00:43:40.200 Have a nice day.

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.

00:44:13.080 He's just, he's a bad guy, first of all.

00:44:14.860 There's no question.

00:44:15.740 Yes.

00:44:15.940 But there's no, uh, there's no, uh, accusation of any kind of assault.

00:44:22.440 No.

00:44:23.080 Anything like that.

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. 0.97

00:44:30.320 Yeah.

00:44:30.800 Yeah.

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.

00:44:38.900 You just feel so under attack.

00:44:41.540 He did it so openly.

00:44:43.260 It's not just sexual harassment.

00:44:45.020 What are you supposed to do when somebody is verbally abusing you and attacking you this way?

00:44:49.000 Well, you leave.

00:44:49.860 Yeah.

00:44:50.400 You get another job.

00:44:51.760 Yeah.

00:44:52.320 I mean, there's no reason to be miserable like that.

00:44:54.520 There are other jobs.

00:44:56.500 You leave.

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.

00:45:04.660 I mean, I'm there with you.

00:45:05.900 I got it, but you can't.

00:45:07.980 And you shouldn't have to put up with this, but there are jerky people in every walk of

00:45:11.820 life.

00:45:12.240 And we've all dealt with them.

00:45:13.660 We've all dealt with them in our jobs.

00:45:15.180 And I don't know that, you know, coming out now and saying, boy, that guy I worked for

00:45:19.660 in 1984 was such a dirt bag.

00:45:22.700 Okay.

00:45:23.780 I mean, what'd you do then?

00:45:27.380 He was nothing, nothing, nothing.

00:45:29.400 You waited for him to walk back down the hallway and turn the corner so you could go, man, that

00:45:33.260 guy's such a jerk.

00:45:35.580 And that's why the behavior continued all that time.

00:45:39.260 I know.

00:45:39.880 Right.

00:45:40.240 I know.

00:45:41.140 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, Beck, uh, Bill in California.

00:45:45.240 Hi, you're on, uh, with Pat Gray and Jeffy.

00:45:48.480 Good morning.

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

00:46:21.200 all love America and feel good about it.

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,

00:46:39.580 who was complicit because of his silence.

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

00:46:48.880 nothing.

00:46:49.700 Yeah.

00:46:50.220 This is what ticks people off.

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.

00:47:38.020 He is actually doing both.

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.

00:47:55.740 Then somebody is actually listening.

00:47:58.060 Somebody is actually doing something.

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

00:48:18.420 out of their power.

00:48:19.580 That's what Obama did.

00:48:20.680 He's a multimillionaire now.

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

00:48:31.440 service.

00:48:32.000 They could pay for their own.

00:48:33.280 Glenn pays for his own.

00:48:34.900 Yes, he does.

00:48:35.300 Why can't they?

00:48:36.120 You know?

00:48:36.980 Yeah.

00:48:37.460 It's just nuts.

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 0.65

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

00:49:02.680 these foreign people.

00:49:04.120 I mean, what about American dreamers?

00:49:06.760 We keep hearing this stuff about all these poor dreamers.

00:49:09.720 How about the American 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. 1.00

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

00:49:45.680 know, just a criminal state.

00:49:47.380 We're not going to observe laws.

00:49:49.320 I mean, look at that guy that just murdered that poor woman in San Francisco, totally getting

00:49:54.300 off.

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.

00:50:03.440 He's cutting regulations.

00:50:05.060 He's cutting payments to the UN.

00:50:07.800 I'd like to see him wipe them out.

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.

00:50:21.060 Yep.

00:50:21.420 Appreciate it.

00:50:21.900 Thanks a lot, Bill.

00:50:22.980 I mean, that was a mouthful.

00:50:25.540 That sure was.

00:50:26.120 But that's exactly how Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.

00:50:30.000 I was thinking the same thing.

00:50:30.880 Exactly how and why he was elected.

00:50:33.060 Yes.

00:50:33.560 Because we're just fed up and, and we, we just got the crap beat out of us for eight

00:50:37.920 years and we were sick and tired of it.

00:50:40.240 And somebody was going to stand up and say, okay, we've had enough of this.

00:50:44.660 Enough is enough.

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.

00:50:53.700 I don't want you to say it nicely.

00:50:58.620 Glenn back.

00:50:59.940 Glenn back.

00:51:10.200 Pat Gray and Jeffy for Glenn this week.

00:51:15.400 Then you can also tune in to Pat Gray Unleashed immediately following this on the Blaze radio

00:51:20.400 and TV network.

00:51:21.160 Triple eight, seven, two, seven back.

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

00:51:40.120 when they voted for him.

00:51:41.320 They're just sick and tired of getting hammered by the left.

00:51:44.260 They're sick and tired of the media.

00:51:46.640 They want somebody who will call out the media and they want somebody who will call out the

00:51:50.760 left.

00:51:51.560 And that's Donald Trump.

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.

00:52:03.360 He said, you know, he goes, we're number one.

00:52:05.680 We're the United States and it's time to start thinking about us first.

00:52:09.540 Right.

00:52:09.700 Yeah.

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. 0.51

00:52:29.980 No more.

00:52:32.160 I mean, it's great.

00:52:33.620 I know.

00:52:34.240 Didn't he have a statement about Iran?

00:52:35.500 I know.

00:52:36.100 Yes, he did.

00:52:36.780 Tweet number two of 2018.

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.

00:52:47.540 They are hungry for food and for freedom.

00:52:49.940 Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted.

00:52:53.200 Time for change in all caps.

00:52:55.700 I mean, hello.

00:52:57.660 Yep.

00:52:58.460 Again, he speaks his mind and he's got people from his mind.

00:53:02.700 Yes.

00:53:03.140 Yeah, exactly.

00:53:04.040 And he's got people in the Obama administration saying, shh, you should be silent on Iran like

00:53:10.540 we were.

00:53:11.260 Like we were back in 2009 when we did nothing and didn't encourage the overthrow of that

00:53:17.140 horrifically oppressive government.

00:53:19.500 They sat back.

00:53:21.140 They said nothing.

00:53:22.380 They did nothing.

00:53:23.400 Why?

00:53:24.040 Because they wanted to get this Iranian nuclear treaty done.

00:53:28.080 That's why.

00:53:28.640 They wanted to get that crappy treaty done with Iran and so they said nothing and they 0.69

00:53:35.180 did nothing.

00:53:35.820 When they could have encouraged it.

00:53:37.040 Yes, they could have.

00:53:37.860 And maybe it could have brought about freedom in Iran.

00:53:40.920 And so Trump's not going to be silent on this.

00:53:44.540 Good.

00:53:45.260 And things are being fired up in Iran right now.

00:53:48.980 There's massive protests every day.

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.

00:54:14.280 So it's going to be ugly.

00:54:15.660 It's going to get worse before it gets better.

00:54:17.460 But you've got an American president now who is encouraging people to see freedom.

00:54:23.760 Right.

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.

00:54:32.080 We're not just silent.

00:54:33.000 Yeah.

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.

00:54:48.860 Who knows?

00:54:49.700 Think of that.

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.

00:55:00.100 Boy, no kidding.

00:55:01.440 Triple eight.

00:55:02.620 Seven to seven.

00:55:03.780 B.E.C.K.

00:55:05.800 Much more coming up on Gladbeck with Pat Gray and Jeffy.

00:55:14.060 Glenn Beck.

00:55:29.200 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:55:31.700 Pat Gray and Jeffy for Glenn this week.

00:55:33.660 Triple eight.

00:55:34.480 Seven to seven.

00:55:35.320 Beck.

00:55:35.520 Hard to believe that football season is almost over.

00:55:41.220 I hate that.

00:55:42.300 I do.

00:55:42.720 January 2nd is the worst day of the year.

00:55:46.420 Holiday is completely over.

00:55:48.020 You got nothing to look forward to.

00:55:49.580 You start to realize it's sinking in that football is coming to a screeching halt.

00:55:53.620 It's cold.

00:55:56.340 It's just a depressing day.

00:55:58.420 You know what?

00:55:58.940 You're right.

00:55:59.860 It's just a crappy day.

00:56:03.020 Happy New Year.

00:56:04.440 Happy New Year, everybody.

00:56:05.840 But some great bowl games to finish things up.

00:56:12.840 Yesterday's Rose Bowl was fantastic.

00:56:14.580 A double overtime Rose Bowl.

00:56:16.700 As a fan, it's exciting to watch.

00:56:18.020 As a defensive coordinator coach.

00:56:19.880 Wow.

00:56:20.180 That was a bad game for them.

00:56:21.720 There was no defense yesterday.

00:56:23.960 None.

00:56:25.400 This is rough.

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.

00:56:33.300 It felt like Oklahoma had that game in hand.

00:56:35.820 Yeah, they were up by 17 at one point.

00:56:37.500 And then, boy, the last play of the first half, Georgia kicked a field goal.

00:56:41.440 And it was just a field goal.

00:56:42.700 But it made the shift of that game.

00:56:45.160 Like, Georgia still got a shot at this. 0.98

00:56:47.840 Changed everything.

00:56:48.420 It sure did.

00:56:49.180 Yeah.

00:56:50.300 Let's go to Don in Maryland.

00:56:52.500 Don, you're on the Clempec program.

00:56:54.400 Pat Gray and Jeffy High.

00:56:56.360 Yes.

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.

00:57:03.360 Okay.

00:57:04.040 Yeah.

00:57:04.440 Why not?

00:57:05.180 I mean...

00:57:05.600 I don't have a problem with that.

00:57:06.360 We almost have that now.

00:57:08.140 Yeah.

00:57:09.320 I mean, there's...

00:57:10.380 How many bowl games were there this year?

00:57:11.980 41?

00:57:13.040 Something like that.

00:57:13.840 Yeah.

00:57:13.920 Meaning...

00:57:14.340 Something like that.

00:57:15.060 Meaning 82 teams got a bowl?

00:57:17.080 I love it.

00:57:17.600 Let them have a bowl. 0.96

00:57:18.280 Who cares?

00:57:18.680 That's too many.

00:57:19.100 Oh, stop it.

00:57:20.240 There's too many.

00:57:21.020 Thanks, Don.

00:57:21.980 Jared in Oklahoma.

00:57:23.140 Welcome to the Blaze.

00:57:24.900 Hey, how you doing?

00:57:26.080 Doing well.

00:57:26.740 How you doing?

00:57:27.520 Long time listener.

00:57:29.100 First time getting through to talk to you guys.

00:57:31.080 I'm very excited.

00:57:33.420 You guys, earlier you referenced 1984 being a fantastic winning team.

00:57:39.040 Well, someone did.

00:57:40.140 Don't say we.

00:57:41.880 Yeah, yeah.

00:57:42.840 Pat.

00:57:43.380 That guy.

00:57:44.360 Freaking Pat.

00:57:45.000 But if you go all the way back to 1954, 55, and 56, the Sooners were undefeated.

00:57:52.580 Yes, they were.

00:57:53.140 That was just on the tip of my tongue, too.

00:57:55.180 I was just about ready to mention that earlier.

00:57:57.180 I think it was 47 in a row, wasn't it?

00:58:00.260 Yeah, it was something like that.

00:58:01.560 And then the next two seasons, they went 10-1 also.

00:58:04.520 Wow.

00:58:04.880 Did they really?

00:58:06.140 Yes, sir.

00:58:06.820 They were fantastic back in the day.

00:58:08.720 Good times.

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.

00:58:20.720 Yeah, that would be great.

00:58:22.440 I mean, so far, Link's done great this year as a head coach.

00:58:27.640 Yeah.

00:58:28.700 Can I talk to you guys about Obama and Trump for a second?

00:58:31.620 Sure.

00:58:32.960 Fantastic.

00:58:34.700 I'm an eight-year Army combat veteran.

00:58:37.640 Thanks for your service.

00:58:39.220 Yeah, no problem.

00:58:39.920 I enlisted under W. Bush.

00:58:42.980 I spent one year under him, and I didn't figure there would be a big regime change,

00:58:47.580 but I should have seen that coming.

00:58:49.240 So I spent seven years under Obama.

00:58:51.540 Wow.

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.

00:59:13.760 Wow.

00:59:14.240 But that wasn't in the cards.

00:59:16.260 Yeah.

00:59:16.580 And I think Trump has turned that around.

00:59:20.240 Oh, yeah.

00:59:20.580 At least I feel that way, and I think the military feels that way.

00:59:24.540 Oh, yeah, definitely.

00:59:26.380 He's taken the reins off.

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.

00:59:46.360 Although you're right.

00:59:46.980 They have changed the rules of engagement.

00:59:48.560 And look what's happened to ISIS since that happened. 0.90

00:59:51.800 You can't deny the victories we've had against ISIS since Trump took over.

00:59:59.220 Oh, it's been fantastic.

01:00:00.360 Yeah, it's changed everything.

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.

01:00:14.560 Oh, my gosh.

01:00:15.080 Because they were no longer a combatant.

01:00:17.360 Oh, that is unbelievable.

01:00:19.360 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:00:20.400 I mean, that costs lives.

01:00:22.500 Yes.

01:00:22.800 You know?

01:00:23.120 Yeah.

01:00:23.460 And that's inexcusable.

01:00:26.120 Thanks for the call, Jared.

01:00:27.160 Jared, and again, thanks for your service.

01:00:28.460 Jared, that was great.

01:00:29.260 Appreciate it.

01:00:29.820 It must take you back a ways to your service on the Island of Spice.

01:00:34.020 I was trying not to think about it.

01:00:35.540 Right.

01:00:35.780 Yeah, I know.

01:00:36.160 I know you hate that being brought up.

01:00:36.940 When he was talking about the battle, and I was trying, you know, I tried to get that

01:00:40.880 out of my head, Pat, because it was so...

01:00:42.540 Yeah, I apologize for bringing it up, because I know how traumatic that can be for us.

01:00:46.540 Oh, man, we stormed that island, though, Pat.

01:00:48.000 Oh, I know.

01:00:48.800 I know.

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.

01:01:03.420 Mark in Florida.

01:01:04.760 Hiya.

01:01:05.180 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

01:01:07.200 Hey, Pat, Gray, and Jaffe.

01:01:08.780 I got to tell you, you know, I had a question.

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.

01:01:18.560 Sorry.

01:01:19.540 I apologize.

01:01:22.500 Please stop.

01:01:23.340 No, I want to say to you, I couldn't agree more with your Trump comments right now.

01:01:27.880 America doesn't need a diplomatic president.

01:01:31.240 America needs more of a brawler president. 1.00

01:01:33.800 But my real question is, Trump's 71.

01:01:37.200 And to be honest with you, you've seen those pictures of before and after when a president

01:01:42.300 is no more famous than Abraham Lincoln.

01:01:45.040 It's already taken hold, Mark.

01:01:46.420 Do you even think, do you think Trump's going to be able to survive eight years?

01:01:51.220 I don't know.

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.

01:02:01.340 It does take a toll.

01:02:02.780 It really does.

01:02:03.620 I'm not sure he's going to want to.

01:02:05.340 I know.

01:02:05.820 He might be able to say, well, I got it now.

01:02:07.460 Yeah.

01:02:07.920 Melania.

01:02:08.540 That's what I was thinking.

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

01:02:19.980 drain the swamp.

01:02:21.740 No, he'd be a more traditional type of president.

01:02:25.120 Okay.

01:02:25.620 And a little more conservative, actually.

01:02:27.360 But although, again.

01:02:28.620 And maybe after four years of Trump, that's what we'll need.

01:02:31.660 Maybe.

01:02:32.420 Maybe.

01:02:33.020 Appreciate the call.

01:02:33.760 Thanks, Mark.

01:02:34.140 I, you know, according to Melania, who said there wasn't, she doesn't think he'll run

01:02:40.980 for a second term.

01:02:42.220 She said that, what, this fall sometime.

01:02:45.420 And so, I don't know.

01:02:48.280 It may take a toll on him.

01:02:49.440 And he may want to get back to his businesses.

01:02:52.040 We'll see.

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.

01:02:58.620 And it's true. 0.56

01:02:59.240 He does.

01:02:59.900 And I've got, I did my four years.

01:03:02.020 I did what I could.

01:03:02.660 I got it back on track.

01:03:04.120 There you go.

01:03:05.300 Take it.

01:03:06.180 Right.

01:03:06.460 And, you know, and that's great.

01:03:08.840 No problem.

01:03:09.380 Because it has.

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.

01:03:26.060 Yeah.

01:03:26.420 And there's a couple of shots every now and then that you get a really good look at how

01:03:30.080 he combs it.

01:03:30.640 And, uh, whoo, it's thinning out a little bit on top there, a little bit more than it

01:03:35.380 has been, Don.

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

01:03:45.580 year, year and a half.

01:03:46.740 It wasn't long at all.

01:03:47.660 It, I mean, it took a toll quickly.

01:03:50.180 Uh, you can really see it.

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.

01:04:01.320 Uh, but I'm glad that someone does.

01:04:05.480 Yes.

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.

01:04:15.360 Yeah.

01:04:15.560 We got a lot of bills on a desk, but nobody there to sign them.

01:04:18.760 Chip in Alabama.

01:04:19.720 You're on the blaze.

01:04:21.420 Uh, and the Glenn Beck.

01:04:23.160 Hey, I'll be this morning, sir.

01:04:25.820 Doing good.

01:04:26.420 Thanks.

01:04:26.820 I want to get straight to it.

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

01:04:38.200 listen, but they're not fed up enough yet.

01:04:41.620 In my opinion, I want your opinion.

01:04:43.100 If you don't mind giving it to you and Mr.

01:04:44.580 Jeffy, I don't know his last name, so I have to go with Mr.

01:04:46.700 Jeffy, but I want y'all's opinion.

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

01:04:59.860 them see that that's not a lifetime job.

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.

01:05:10.240 And that's what I wanted was your opinion.

01:05:11.860 And I'll hang up and listen.

01:05:12.920 Thank you.

01:05:13.500 Thanks, Chip.

01:05:14.500 Uh, surprising somebody in Alabama didn't talk about the tide crimson tide who won handily

01:05:19.820 against Clemson.

01:05:20.640 That's probably an Auburn fan.

01:05:21.920 Uh, might be, but, uh,

01:05:24.640 my perception of term limits used to be, well, we've got elections.

01:05:29.860 That's, that's your term limit right there.

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.

01:05:48.840 I, I, and then you gotta go.

01:05:50.460 Seems fair.

01:05:51.160 Yeah.

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

01:06:00.160 in their jobs.

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.

01:06:10.360 Right.

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

01:06:20.020 that, right?

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.

01:06:26.920 Yeah.

01:06:27.880 I mean, we got burned strong with that.

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.

01:06:38.500 That's right.

01:06:39.540 Uh, to here in Texas, I, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

01:06:44.880 Hey, Pat.

01:06:45.900 Happy New Year.

01:06:46.740 You too.

01:06:47.200 You brought the village idiot back with you? 1.00

01:06:49.360 Yes.

01:06:51.600 Who's that?

01:06:52.500 I'm here.

01:06:53.440 Well, who are you talking about?

01:06:54.800 Exactly.

01:06:55.860 So, uh, I have a different theory about, uh, Kim Jong-un softening his stance with, uh,

01:07:02.880 uh, South Korea.

01:07:03.820 I think that he's just stalling for time.

01:07:07.800 I think that's all just an act and it's a ruse.

01:07:11.520 It's easy for him to play.

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.

01:07:36.460 Thank you.

01:07:36.900 Thank you for that happy thought.

01:07:38.560 Oh yeah.

01:07:39.500 Bill from California.

01:07:41.040 Amen, brother.

01:07:42.080 You nailed it.

01:07:42.840 Yeah.

01:07:43.220 Yeah, he did.

01:07:43.680 He sure did.

01:07:44.400 Thanks to hear.

01:07:45.360 Uh, that was about a four minute soliloquy for a monologue.

01:07:48.680 Yes, it was.

01:07:49.280 Uh, he didn't take a breath and he had a lot to say.

01:07:52.520 Rich.

01:07:52.800 He got it out though.

01:07:53.340 He did.

01:07:53.880 Yes, he did.

01:07:54.420 Uh, all right.

01:07:55.300 888-727-BECK.

01:08:01.420 Glenn Beck.

01:08:09.240 Glenn Beck.

01:08:10.900 That great.

01:08:11.720 And Jeffy.

01:08:12.800 For Glenn this week.

01:08:14.400 888-727-BECK.

01:08:17.520 Uh, Rich in Oregon.

01:08:21.680 Welcome.

01:08:23.300 Hi guys.

01:08:24.000 Hey.

01:08:24.280 It's, uh, out here in the socialist anti-American state of Oregon.

01:08:28.780 Yeah.

01:08:29.220 Yeah, baby.

01:08:29.820 Yeah.

01:08:30.160 It's, well, that was, it didn't used to be that way on the West Coast.

01:08:33.780 I know.

01:08:34.420 I know.

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.

01:08:40.600 It really is.

01:08:41.220 Uh, my thing is, I was telling the deal, the guy on the, whatever you call me, phone guy.

01:08:47.840 Um, I agree with that bill guy.

01:08:50.320 You know, there's so many people that are down on Trump.

01:08:52.820 No reason they're down on him.

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

01:08:59.240 to get something done?

01:09:00.480 And he's done more in a few months than most presidents have done in anywhere from four

01:09:07.140 to eight years.

01:09:08.260 Yeah.

01:09:08.780 I mean, I, yeah, I think he has.

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.

01:09:24.380 Uh, you bet.

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.

01:09:33.240 He was well down that list.

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.

01:09:53.340 You don't, you don't want that.

01:09:54.980 You don't want to, uh, a president necessarily with some of the baggage that he came with.

01:09:59.120 We couldn't ignore those things.

01:10:00.640 And I, you know, he's not super conservative.

01:10:03.640 He's not conservative at all.

01:10:04.940 And I think he would even, he would even tell you that he's Republican, but he's not a

01:10:09.540 conservative.

01:10:10.860 So yes, we have, and had issues with him.

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.

01:10:46.680 And so we do.

01:10:51.520 I mean, this is exactly why my first choice was Jim Gilmore.

01:10:56.240 That's exactly why Jim Gilmore.

01:10:59.180 Right.

01:10:59.660 But, you know, unfortunately he dropped out.

01:11:01.540 But he did.

01:11:02.480 And so we have President Trump.

01:11:03.800 We lost him.

01:11:04.780 We did.

01:11:05.560 Lost him early too.

01:11:15.280 Glenn Beck.

01:11:23.100 Love.

01:11:24.660 Courage.

01:11:26.020 Truth.

01:11:27.260 Glenn Beck.

01:11:28.200 Pat Gray for Glenn, as well as Jeffy.

01:11:30.700 888-727-BECK.

01:11:33.020 I'll be back to do Pat Gray Unleashed as well.

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

01:12:04.940 he does and even some things he doesn't do.

01:12:08.940 Even if they can find a way to bash Donald Trump, they do it.

01:12:15.060 They sure do.

01:12:15.460 And if they can't find a way, they dig deeper until they finally find something.

01:12:20.020 And they still, I mean, they still bash him.

01:12:21.340 If they can't find a way, they bash him.

01:12:22.700 Yes.

01:12:23.180 Doesn't matter.

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.

01:12:43.720 Oh, my gosh.

01:12:45.640 The only thing you could say about Michelle Obama was, wow, are her arms fantastic? 0.99

01:12:53.320 If they were dressed up for a black tie event, any kind of event like that, then it was okay.

01:12:59.820 Oh, it was the greatest.

01:13:00.720 It was the best ever.

01:13:01.420 And if she was wearing a $25,000 gown, it was perfectly fine.

01:13:06.040 Or a $50,000 gown, that didn't matter.

01:13:09.660 It was elegant.

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.

01:13:15.460 Except for every weekend.

01:13:19.080 It didn't matter.

01:13:20.280 She was wearing tennis shoes and torn up jeans and a ripped T-shirt. 0.99

01:13:23.740 You can't comment on that.

01:13:24.700 They're coming back from vacation.

01:13:26.080 Exactly.

01:13:27.400 She's a mother.

01:13:28.500 So all bets are off now.

01:13:30.200 Absolutely.

01:13:31.020 With Donald Trump and Melania Trump.

01:13:34.540 888-727-BECK.

01:13:37.200 Also, we've got some new laws to share with you because obviously we have listeners from shore to shore.

01:13:47.280 Sea to shining sea.

01:13:48.160 And there's some things you might want to be aware of that are taking effect.

01:13:52.780 Well, probably took effect yesterday.

01:13:54.500 If it's a law, I'm for it.

01:13:56.800 Oh, really?

01:13:57.620 If it's a law, I'm for it.

01:13:58.720 I hope this is going to make me feel good, isn't it?

01:14:01.600 Because I'm usually all for laws.

01:14:04.300 You're going to love it.

01:14:05.200 We need more laws in America. 0.64

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.

01:14:27.360 And they have.

01:14:27.840 And we'll tell you about some of them.

01:14:29.140 Also, an interesting celebration again on CNN.

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. 1.00

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.

01:14:47.900 Right.

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. 0.84

01:15:08.760 They're on a bus headed for a marijuana party.

01:15:13.080 I just.

01:15:13.740 Nothing says New Year's Eve.

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.

01:15:35.940 You're on national television.

01:15:37.600 You know, children are watching and it's against federal law and they still do it.

01:15:44.520 Just really outrageous.

01:15:47.200 I don't even understand it.

01:15:48.660 I don't either.

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.

01:16:05.900 Oh, there'd be huge outrage.

01:16:07.000 I mean.

01:16:07.600 And people go crazy.

01:16:09.460 Right.

01:16:09.900 And cigarettes are legal.

01:16:12.000 Yeah.

01:16:12.360 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.

01:16:29.420 Yeah.

01:16:29.860 Then she took it off and handed it to some pot smoker. 1.00

01:16:33.220 Because she didn't smoke it. 1.00

01:16:34.440 And lit the pipe for him.

01:16:36.160 Yeah, she didn't smoke it. 0.70

01:16:36.800 Lit the bong for him.

01:16:38.900 That's unbelievable.

01:16:40.840 So good.

01:16:42.340 So good.

01:16:43.160 So for some reason, you know, we, we've expressed the fact that we kind of like Anderson Cooper.

01:16:48.360 We, we know him a little bit.

01:16:49.440 Glenn knows him very well.

01:16:50.680 And he's been on our show.

01:16:52.340 He's been on the Glenn Beck show.

01:16:54.180 And he's a genuinely decent guy.

01:16:57.900 Sure seems that way.

01:17:00.020 I don't like his politics, obviously.

01:17:01.980 I don't, obviously he leans left and, but he always seems to be.

01:17:07.320 He, to me, try, tries to be fair.

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?

01:17:22.400 I mean, that's his deal, right?

01:17:23.540 He wouldn't even, the last time that he, maybe not the last time, one of the times he was

01:17:27.060 here, here in the Mercury studios.

01:17:30.340 We, I remember talking to him a little bit about the New Year's Eve celebration and he

01:17:35.020 just kind of blew it off.

01:17:36.120 Like, you know, that's kind of what the deal is.

01:17:38.520 And, you know, Kathy's nice.

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

01:17:49.740 me to do it.

01:17:50.820 It wasn't, it wasn't network.

01:17:52.440 I mean, it was all, it was all like it was just, that's just part of the deal.

01:17:55.820 Yeah.

01:17:55.980 So he apparently enjoys it, which is strange because it seems like it erodes his credibility.

01:18:03.920 And it seems like that happens every year.

01:18:06.040 Eric in Virginia.

01:18:07.920 Welcome.

01:18:10.000 Hey.

01:18:10.620 Hey.

01:18:11.040 Thanks for having me on the call, guys.

01:18:13.200 Hey, my question was earlier, I heard you say something about you're disappointed that

01:18:17.580 football is coming to an end.

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

01:18:33.980 whenever they want.

01:18:34.800 I'm wondering how you feel about this.

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. 0.89

01:18:57.500 Yeah.

01:18:57.960 And besides, college football is just, for me, it's a much more interesting game.

01:19:03.700 Me too.

01:19:04.320 No, no.

01:19:04.980 I know a lot of people don't feel that way, but.

01:19:07.960 That's the truth.

01:19:08.820 College football is way better.

01:19:10.680 Yeah.

01:19:11.760 They're actually there to play.

01:19:13.240 I feel like these guys want to get in the NFL.

01:19:15.460 They're there for the dollar.

01:19:16.380 And my wife has this theory that most NFL games are set up.

01:19:20.560 Really?

01:19:21.680 Oh, yeah.

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.

01:19:30.940 That's true.

01:19:31.780 Thanks, Eric.

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

01:19:39.420 next level.

01:19:39.880 If you can make it to the next level and play in the NFL, good.

01:19:43.960 You're obviously going to do that.

01:19:45.260 Yeah, and you're going, if they're paying you the money that they want to pay you, thank

01:19:50.400 you.

01:19:51.040 I know.

01:19:52.000 You're welcome.

01:19:53.320 Good luck.

01:19:53.800 God bless.

01:19:54.300 But the whole point of the, of the, the celebrations or the non-celebrations and the protests and

01:20:00.520 it's gotten, you know, out of hand.

01:20:03.160 It's just a little agonizing.

01:20:04.440 Yeah.

01:20:04.620 It got away from the NFL this year.

01:20:06.200 They should have, they should have nipped it in the bud at the beginning and, and let

01:20:09.680 those guys do that stuff on their own time.

01:20:11.540 The reason they don't do it on their own time, it's because nobody would pay attention

01:20:15.240 to it.

01:20:16.100 And everybody knows that.

01:20:17.580 Right.

01:20:17.920 Go out on a street corner and protest all you want.

01:20:20.720 Don't ruin my football game.

01:20:22.680 Right.

01:20:23.800 With your political nonsense.

01:20:26.780 So it is agonizing from that standpoint.

01:20:30.360 Um, but we love football too much.

01:20:33.660 Yeah, that's for sure.

01:20:35.680 And we make that decision every day.

01:20:37.760 Don't we?

01:20:38.380 We're, we're irritated and sick and tired of hearing from the Hollywood leftist, but we

01:20:43.040 go to their movies every weekend.

01:20:44.580 Yeah.

01:20:45.100 And you know, the Sunday, the Sunday game that you want to catch.

01:20:49.160 All right.

01:20:49.700 I'll just, I'll jump into the middle of the first quarter.

01:20:52.500 Then I'd have to see the beginning.

01:20:53.460 The beginning didn't happen then.

01:20:57.680 Right.

01:20:59.620 Triple eight, uh, seven, two, seven B E C K.

01:21:03.060 Also the co-anchor with Savannah Guthrie has been named.

01:21:07.480 So Matt Lauer's replacement.

01:21:09.260 Oh yeah.

01:21:09.760 Yeah.

01:21:10.040 Yeah.

01:21:10.240 They've, they made the big announcement today.

01:21:12.140 Excellent.

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.

01:21:23.820 Oh yeah.

01:21:24.440 They could have gone pretty much anywhere for this.

01:21:26.780 I mean, it's the today show, right?

01:21:28.120 Uh, right.

01:21:28.720 Right.

01:21:29.040 That's the foundational show of America.

01:21:31.540 The big announcement.

01:21:33.860 Hoda Cutby.

01:21:36.340 Wait, who?

01:21:37.880 What?

01:21:39.900 From, uh, Kathy Lee, Gifford and Hoda.

01:21:43.660 Oh.

01:21:44.540 Kathy Lee and Hoda.

01:21:45.620 Is that what they call that show?

01:21:46.460 Hoda Cutby is the new replacement.

01:21:50.680 Because, you know, obviously everybody's been saying, Hey, you know who I really love is

01:21:57.060 that Hoda Cutby. 1.00

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.

01:22:09.060 I'd fire him to get Hoda Cutby.

01:22:12.900 What a weird decision.

01:22:17.440 That's a weird decision.

01:22:18.880 I know.

01:22:19.700 Out of the entire pool that you have, uh, to pick from, you go with Hoda.

01:22:25.320 That's just strange.

01:22:26.660 Sure is.

01:22:27.640 Maybe it's just me.

01:22:28.460 I, I'm not a big, I'm not as big a Hoda Cutby fan as I probably should be.

01:22:33.820 Is that coming through?

01:22:34.640 I mean, that's obvious.

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.

01:22:42.800 Probably not.

01:22:44.480 Probably not.

01:22:45.180 It is strange though.

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

01:22:59.520 to me that that job was hers.

01:23:01.980 That job should have been hers. 1.00

01:23:04.180 There's just not, I, you know, there's not the same.

01:23:07.420 I know, but it's more of what she does.

01:23:09.740 Yeah.

01:23:10.000 Oh yeah.

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.

01:23:15.500 I mean, she, what she did on Fox is nothing.

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

01:23:31.560 and everybody's beautiful.

01:23:32.980 Mm hmm.

01:23:33.980 Mm hmm.

01:23:35.400 Doesn't, doesn't seem to be.

01:23:36.860 No.

01:23:37.560 Her deal.

01:23:38.160 It does not.

01:23:38.900 It just feels disingenuous.

01:23:40.360 It sure does.

01:23:41.140 Based on, uh, past performance.

01:23:43.640 And I got it.

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.

01:23:52.160 Yeah.

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.

01:24:01.820 I mean, that's team up together.

01:24:03.880 I gotta tell you, nothing says the Today Show like Hoda Kotb.

01:24:09.340 Yeah.

01:24:09.820 I mean, it says it all.

01:24:11.740 I mean, when you think of the Today Show, think of the history of the Today Show.

01:24:14.740 Right.

01:24:15.040 The, the, the, the people that have come before Hoda Kotb and, uh, now she's now there's,

01:24:21.860 you've got Hoda Kotb.

01:24:23.920 At the helm.

01:24:24.540 Yeah.

01:24:25.360 Nothing better.

01:24:28.040 Glenn Beck.

01:24:37.040 Glenn Beck.

01:24:39.040 Pat and Jeffy for Glenn.

01:24:40.400 888-727-BECK.

01:24:46.020 Still a lot to talk about.

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

01:25:05.980 or straight Democrat ticket.

01:25:07.400 You're actually going to have to go through that ballot one by one and consider each individual

01:25:15.600 vote you cast.

01:25:16.760 The horror.

01:25:17.960 The horror.

01:25:18.960 How can they do that to people?

01:25:21.700 Wow.

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.

01:25:27.820 That's a big deal.

01:25:29.080 It's kind of strange that that is.

01:25:30.520 Yeah.

01:25:30.740 I don't understand.

01:25:31.200 It's really not that big a 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.

01:25:36.080 I don't either.

01:25:36.500 People want to do that.

01:25:37.240 Let them do it.

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.

01:25:51.340 Why should it cost you anything?

01:25:52.420 I don't know.

01:25:53.900 You just take that one option off the table.

01:25:55.760 Right.

01:25:56.120 It's going to cost you anything?

01:25:57.960 I, I don't understand that either.

01:25:59.500 Plus this particular, the one county judge here in Dallas, uh, Clay Jenkins, my favorite,

01:26:04.280 um, county judge in Dallas County.

01:26:06.680 Um, he, uh, he's saying that he's against it.

01:26:10.180 And so he used to work for Barack Obama as, and, uh, makes me for it.

01:26:17.200 Uh, yeah.

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.

01:26:29.440 I've never once seen him.

01:26:30.720 Clay Jenkins.

01:26:31.480 No, no.

01:26:31.960 I don't know him at all.

01:26:33.660 He pretty much thinks he runs the place.

01:26:35.340 He probably does actually runs the joint in the city of Dallas and Dallas County.

01:26:40.180 Yeah.

01:26:40.500 He's a, he's a big time judge here.

01:26:42.460 Big time guy.

01:26:43.640 Don't mess with Clay Jenkins.

01:26:44.680 I wouldn't know why you're.

01:26:46.580 I wouldn't think of it is, uh, until this moment, I didn't even know who he was.

01:26:52.100 Walt in Illinois.

01:26:53.440 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:26:56.720 Yes.

01:26:57.160 Good morning.

01:26:57.900 Uh, I just wanted to, um, mention that on the second day of the new year, so it is still

01:27:03.440 in the early year.

01:27:04.120 It's about time to get this way behind us.

01:27:06.180 Okay.

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

01:27:18.740 of them.

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

01:27:44.560 didn't vote in the 2012 election.

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

01:27:57.520 process.

01:27:58.420 At very same time, a couple of weeks later, Hillary's numbers started increasing and everybody 0.96

01:28:04.960 just took those new polls as the gospel.

01:28:08.260 Well, those 4 million people came out and voted for Donald Trump.

01:28:15.000 That's where they are wrong.

01:28:16.420 They've been wrong ever since.

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.

01:28:47.700 They don't say why that was why.

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

01:29:17.280 back in 2016.

01:29:19.460 All right.

01:29:19.740 Appreciate it.

01:29:20.220 Thanks.

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.

01:29:29.320 Oh, that would doubt that's going to happen.

01:29:32.140 Yeah.

01:29:32.620 I can guarantee that's not going to happen.

01:29:34.820 Uh, they won't, they won't say a word about that.

01:29:38.160 Uh, triple eight, seven, two, seven B E C K.

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.

01:29:54.880 Right.

01:29:55.720 They're actually going to recruit trans people now.

01:29:58.900 Okay.

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 1.00

01:30:09.520 people are better soldiers than non-transsexuals. 1.00

01:30:15.500 But, uh, I'd like to see that research.

01:30:17.220 I'd like to see it too.

01:30:18.320 Uh, we'll kick that around a little bit on the Glenn Beck program with Pat and Jeffy.

01:30:28.900 Glenn Beck.

01:30:37.860 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:30:39.520 With Pat and Jeffy.

01:30:43.320 Stay tuned for Pat Gray Unleashed immediately following this show on the blaze radio and

01:30:49.660 TV network.

01:30:50.480 Triple eight, seven, two, seven B E C K.

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.

01:31:06.540 Uh, not a huge deal in California.

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

01:31:19.940 you make before?

01:31:20.640 What were you making?

01:31:22.140 Strange, right?

01:31:23.660 Right.

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

01:31:33.860 be paid for what you're worth on this job.

01:31:36.820 I guess, but I mean, who answers that truthfully anyway?

01:31:42.020 Nobody.

01:31:42.740 Thank you.

01:31:43.200 What'd you make on your last job?

01:31:44.720 $17.9 million.

01:31:49.540 Now I'm willing to come in for somewhat less than that, but it might be able to work out

01:31:53.420 something else.

01:31:54.120 Got to be in the ballpark.

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

01:32:23.100 media content.

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.

01:32:35.080 Haven't you?

01:32:36.000 Yeah.

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.

01:32:45.820 Well, guess what?

01:32:46.840 Part of your job is representing the company you work for.

01:32:49.700 Yeah.

01:32:49.860 I mean, I don't, that's your life, right?

01:32:52.200 Maybe that's just my old school thinking, but you know, you represent who you work for.

01:32:57.840 Yes.

01:32:58.580 And that's kind of my deal with the NFL too.

01:33:01.300 These players are, you know, talking about, you know, slave owners and we, we should be 0.98

01:33:05.100 able to, in freedom of speech.

01:33:06.400 Well, you signed a contract to provide a service.

01:33:09.300 I'd love to be a $7 million a year slave.

01:33:11.300 Right.

01:33:11.660 I mean, but you said, you know, the contract is you signed a contract to provide a service

01:33:16.760 for this amount of money to your job.

01:33:19.360 Yeah, exactly.

01:33:20.100 And if the job says, Hey, your Twitter account, you can't say anything bad against whatever

01:33:25.140 team you're playing for.

01:33:26.820 You know, that's the deal.

01:33:28.420 Yeah.

01:33:29.200 That's, but don't sign the contract.

01:33:31.100 Also, California has become the latest state to legalize recreational marijuana.

01:33:35.340 So we can stop pretending.

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.

01:33:46.440 That boat sailed.

01:33:47.480 Yeah.

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.

01:34:23.300 Yeah.

01:34:24.280 It's pretty amazing.

01:34:25.460 It's pretty amazing, the shift.

01:34:27.660 So California, now you don't have to pretend like you've got anxiety.

01:34:32.020 Oh, it's glaucoma.

01:34:33.060 It's killing me today.

01:34:34.000 Or glaucoma.

01:34:34.860 Or an upset stomach.

01:34:36.820 You know, you don't have to pretend anymore.

01:34:38.680 You just, you'll be able to have it at your disposal, I guess, at these dispensaries.

01:34:42.960 Uh, so it's pretty mainstream now.

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.

01:34:53.920 Yeah.

01:34:54.340 But I've witnessed that it did help.

01:34:56.100 Oh, really?

01:34:56.720 In my life.

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.

01:35:11.240 Right.

01:35:11.640 August 4th is now officially Barack Obama day, a state holiday in Illinois.

01:35:17.520 Oh, good.

01:35:19.100 Man, I hope that spreads all over the country.

01:35:21.220 That's great.

01:35:21.720 I do too.

01:35:22.860 Barbers can now make house calls in Tennessee.

01:35:26.220 So a barber couldn't come to your house before?

01:35:28.120 No, no, I'm going to tell you something.

01:35:29.700 You know, those little barbers coming around, knocking on your door. 1.00

01:35:32.600 Yeah, you don't want that.

01:35:33.580 You can't have that.

01:35:33.760 They're banging on your door.

01:35:34.660 Hey, hey, you need a haircut?

01:35:35.760 No, you don't want that.

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.

01:35:49.440 Yeah.

01:35:49.640 Come on in.

01:35:50.320 This is also important.

01:35:51.500 Corn is now the official grain of Illinois.

01:35:54.540 If you got to have an official grain, how many times have we had calls saying, when is

01:35:58.360 corn going to be declared the official grain?

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

01:36:09.100 official grain.

01:36:10.620 I don't even care about wheat and barley anymore.

01:36:13.200 Can they do that though?

01:36:14.220 I mean, I thought corn was like the official grain of Nebraska.

01:36:16.440 Can they steal that from another state?

01:36:19.380 Apparently.

01:36:19.960 Who do they think they are?

01:36:20.580 They're doing it.

01:36:21.020 We'll have to take this all the way to the Supreme Court.

01:36:22.800 Yes.

01:36:23.080 If that's constitutional.

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.

01:36:36.320 Wow.

01:36:36.900 We got to get that for Congress.

01:36:39.520 So if I get in trouble, you could lose your pension if you commit a felony.

01:36:47.380 That's interesting.

01:36:48.400 That's very interesting.

01:36:49.800 It's interesting.

01:36:50.300 I like that.

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 0.89

01:37:08.240 have a ticket and she decided she needed one and she was going home and she wanted to go

01:37:12.280 first class.

01:37:13.040 Yes.

01:37:13.460 And she gets first, you know, our Congress people get the first, you know, the first grab

01:37:17.400 of right from the airline.

01:37:18.720 So they kicked a woman. 1.00

01:37:20.460 Yes.

01:37:20.900 Off the flight who had a first class ticket and inserted Sheila Jackson Lee in that seat. 1.00

01:37:28.720 Well, they actually, I think she flew, she flew, right?

01:37:31.160 They moved her back to steerage. 0.98

01:37:33.400 They did?

01:37:33.920 She didn't take the first class?

01:37:35.480 No, no.

01:37:36.060 I think they just moved her back to steerage.

01:37:37.800 It's unbelievable.

01:37:38.740 We don't have any first class available.

01:37:40.860 We know you paid for it.

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.

01:37:52.120 Yeah.

01:37:52.280 Yeah.

01:37:52.500 No, that's what I mean.

01:37:53.200 In first class.

01:37:53.620 Yeah.

01:37:53.760 The lady still flew. 1.00

01:37:55.240 She just flew in steerage and not first class. 0.52

01:37:57.520 But you buy a first class ticket and you're going back to coach?

01:38:01.100 Oh my gosh.

01:38:02.100 No way.

01:38:02.700 No.

01:38:03.400 Oh my gosh.

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.

01:38:07.720 I'd be out of my mind.

01:38:09.240 There was a photo of, uh, of Sheila Jackson Lee talking on the cell phone in first class

01:38:14.640 as she'd walked by.

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.

01:38:32.900 She doesn't care.

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.

01:38:43.480 They sure feel that way.

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. 1.00

01:38:56.060 You put her in my seat. 1.00

01:38:57.480 Yep.

01:38:58.980 I would be.

01:39:00.100 Oh man.

01:39:01.040 I'm living.

01:39:02.160 And it didn't happen to me.

01:39:03.260 I know.

01:39:04.080 I know.

01:39:04.620 I don't know that.

01:39:05.260 I don't know that I would handle it well.

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

01:39:19.200 the room.

01:39:20.540 Uh, no, uh, no, uh, Congresswoman, uh, you are not taking my seat that I paid for. 1.00

01:39:26.420 Uh, no, it's just no way that is not happening.

01:39:29.260 No way.

01:39:29.700 Uh, but they're above us, Jeffy.

01:39:31.920 They're above us.

01:39:32.600 They're, they're better, uh, human beings than we are.

01:39:35.660 Uh, triple eight, seven to seven back.

01:39:38.520 Uh, melody in Indiana.

01:39:40.600 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

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,

01:40:06.480 they knew they should be getting ready.

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

01:40:21.300 own these issues.

01:40:22.400 Yes.

01:40:22.660 And that's where the problem is.

01:40:23.640 We need to get them cleaned out.

01:40:25.440 You're exactly right.

01:40:26.560 Appreciate it, Melody.

01:40:27.480 If we could get people to understand that, stop just automatically putting incumbents back

01:40:34.040 in their seat over and over and over again.

01:40:38.340 Some of these people have won their seats 20 to 30 times.

01:40:43.620 Yeah.

01:40:44.540 Uh, you know.

01:40:45.120 John Conyers, 28 times, 28 times they reelected that guy.

01:40:52.020 Jeez.

01:40:52.700 Well, they reelected him 27 times.

01:40:54.680 Right.

01:40:55.500 Uh, Lynn in South Carolina, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:40:59.600 Hi.

01:41:00.400 Hi.

01:41:00.780 How are you?

01:41:01.480 Good.

01:41:02.200 Great.

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. 1.00

01:41:19.300 This happens with a lot of people that are coming in from even the United States, but from different

01:41:24.920 countries as well.

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

01:42:08.360 exposed to what I was exposed.

01:42:10.700 Yeah.

01:42:11.020 That's why I'm saying what I'm saying.

01:42:12.400 Difficult choice.

01:42:13.200 People, immigrants, people in the United States that were born here, please, take care of 0.99

01:42:18.860 your own families whenever you can.

01:42:22.260 Sometimes things happen that's understood.

01:42:25.140 Disabilities, illnesses, but do not have child after child, knowing you cannot personally take

01:42:30.700 care of that child on your own means.

01:42:33.180 You're not saying that there should be government intervention into procreation, though, are you?

01:42:40.040 No, sir.

01:42:40.520 But what I'm saying is, very frankly, is that eventually, government funding does run out.

01:42:45.800 Yes, it does.

01:42:46.240 And whenever that does run out, how are these little children going to be fed?

01:42:49.720 Yeah.

01:42:50.500 That's what's concerning me, plus all sorts of hospitalizations.

01:42:53.400 There's so much involved.

01:42:54.640 Yeah.

01:42:55.180 Appreciate the call.

01:42:55.980 Thanks, Lynn.

01:42:56.260 It's a big concern.

01:42:56.980 However, however, I mean, I don't know what you do about that.

01:43:02.300 You're not going to get into reproduction.

01:43:03.900 You're not going to tell people when they can have children and when they can't.

01:43:07.800 That's dangerous business.

01:43:09.460 That's Chinese communist government business is when you're when you're limiting family 0.54

01:43:14.720 sizes of the poor or, you know, the only way to stop that is through legislation.

01:43:20.180 And I'm certainly not in favor of that.

01:43:22.440 I appreciate that Lynn went through some really hard times.

01:43:25.540 And I'm sorry about that.

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.

01:43:38.080 We're not telling you to stop having kids.

01:43:40.040 What we're saying is we're saying is maybe we're just, you know, limit to, you know.

01:43:43.300 And what I'm saying is you can't do that.

01:43:45.020 That's what I'm saying.

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

01:43:58.500 at now, that's a long road.

01:43:59.820 It is a long, long road, a long way away.

01:44:06.500 Glenn back.

01:44:14.340 Glenn back.

01:44:15.820 Pat Gray.

01:44:17.020 Jeff Fisher.

01:44:19.280 Just in case you didn't know his last name is our caller a while ago.

01:44:22.600 Oh, that is my last name.

01:44:23.620 That is your last name.

01:44:24.720 Yeah.

01:44:26.020 Triple eight.

01:44:26.960 Seven, two, seven.

01:44:27.520 Beck.

01:44:27.720 Let's go to Tom in Kentucky.

01:44:29.400 Hey, Tom, welcome to the Glenn Beck program with Pat Gray.

01:44:33.360 Great show, guys.

01:44:34.580 Thank you.

01:44:35.120 This is Tom Murphy from Kentucky.

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

01:44:46.800 rights that don't know where they're at.

01:44:48.220 of what this country needs to be like.

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

01:45:00.560 come and how great we have been.

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

01:45:14.780 direction of what we want.

01:45:16.200 Our forefathers pretty well laid it out, but it's obvious we got smoke screens everywhere.

01:45:20.760 Everybody wants favors.

01:45:21.900 Everybody wants this country to be filled with others that don't know what it is because 1.00

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.

01:45:32.300 Can't do it.

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.

01:45:45.340 Thanks a lot, Tom.

01:45:46.320 Appreciate it.

01:45:47.240 Although, Jeffy, did you hear the hatred there?

01:45:49.360 I most certainly did.

01:45:50.740 Did you hear the hatred?

01:45:51.340 It was agonizing.

01:45:52.960 This hate monger wants to know if people are actual citizens before they vote?

01:45:59.420 What?

01:45:59.860 What?

01:46:00.320 I mean, I'm surprised that we left that racist on that long.

01:46:04.920 Okay.

01:46:05.720 It was screaming.

01:46:07.080 Interesting to note, Iowa voters will be asked to show their IDs at the polls.

01:46:11.320 That actually passed.

01:46:12.280 That's one of the laws taking effect this year.

01:46:14.260 That'll get shot now. 0.79

01:46:15.140 In Iowa.

01:46:16.020 That won't stand.

01:46:18.460 We'll see.

01:46:19.460 We'll see if that stands.

01:46:20.360 Make sure you tune in for the Pat Gray Unleashed program coming up immediately following this

01:46:26.100 one on the Blaze Radio and TV Network.

01:46:28.180 We'll see you tomorrow right back here.

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The Glenn Beck Program - January 02, 2018

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