The Glenn Beck Program - 1⧸8⧸18 - Christians Must Wake Up

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, love, courage, truth, Glenn Beck.

00:00:16.960 So after reading Michael Wolff's new book, I'm posthumously giving it the working title,

00:00:21.900 Hell Hath No Fury, I'm sorry, Hell Hath No Fire and Fury, Like a Steve Bannon Scorned.

00:00:30.100 Fire and Fury must have been easier to fit on the binding because I can't think of any other reason why it's not actually labeled like a Steve Bannon Scorned.

00:00:41.820 They say the devil's greatest accomplishment was convincing the world that he doesn't exist.

00:00:46.520 But Wolff rivals, he rivals this in convincing his readers that this book is actually about Donald Trump.

00:00:55.780 It's not about Donald Trump.

00:00:58.440 There's plenty of juicy Trump details to chew on here.

00:01:04.560 You know, I'm sure some of it's true.

00:01:06.080 I'm sure some of it isn't.

00:01:08.040 And a lot of it is just rumor.

00:01:09.800 I don't know if you read the book, but I read it so you didn't have to.

00:01:13.160 Make no mistake.

00:01:14.840 This is not a book about Donald Trump.

00:01:18.300 The description on the front of the book says,

00:01:21.740 It's inside the Trump White House.

00:01:24.660 That is just the vehicle used to highlight the real focus of this narrative.

00:01:30.660 The narrative and the focus is Steve Bannon.

00:01:34.340 And I say narrative because that's primarily what you're getting here.

00:01:39.460 You get five parts confirmation of what you already knew about Trump.

00:01:43.160 Yes.

00:01:43.600 His election probably caught everybody by surprise, but also probably caught him by surprise.

00:01:49.520 Yes.

00:01:49.960 Trump and his team had zero political experience and they stumbled their way through the first nine months.

00:01:54.980 Got it.

00:01:55.340 All confirmation of what you already knew.

00:01:57.180 But you also get five parts rumor and tabloid level gossip.

00:02:02.660 Did Trump really not want to win?

00:02:05.220 He was just using this candidacy as a launching point for his new TV network.

00:02:09.400 Maybe.

00:02:10.520 Do we know for sure?

00:02:12.820 No.

00:02:13.880 Is his marriage with Melania that bad?

00:02:18.320 Do we know?

00:02:19.820 No.

00:02:20.480 Does Trump really try to bed all of his friends' wives?

00:02:24.720 We're probably not going to know any of this.

00:02:27.420 But it didn't stop Wolfe from publishing it.

00:02:31.000 But put all that aside.

00:02:33.000 The other 90% of the book was all Bannon.

00:02:38.080 Trump's picture on the cover was the equivalent of bookstore clickbait.

00:02:43.860 Bannon and his agenda was the constant throughout the entire book.

00:02:49.500 According to Wolfe, Steve was the only one in the administration that was smart, well-read, had a plan.

00:02:56.420 Huh.

00:02:58.260 Even things that could be considered as critical of Bannon were nothing that Bannon wouldn't take you and hold you by the shoulders and look you dead square in the eye and go, yep, that's me.

00:03:08.820 For Bannon, fire and fury was about launching his next phase.

00:03:15.700 And I believe he overplayed his hand.

00:03:17.760 But the last paragraph of the book says it all.

00:03:20.580 All he wanted to do was separate Bannonism from Trumpism.

00:03:29.260 What he said in the last paragraph is the disruption had just begun.

00:03:34.080 Trump, in Bannon's view, was a chapter or a detour in the Trump revolution, which had always been about weaknesses in the two major parties.

00:03:47.040 The Trump presidency, however long it might last, had created the opening that would provide the true outsiders their opportunity to get in.

00:03:58.240 Trump was just the beginning.

00:04:00.500 I don't know who's reading this book and thinking it's all about Trump, but it isn't.

00:04:08.620 It's all about what's coming next.

00:04:11.400 And the next few years are going to be a wild, wild ride.

00:04:17.060 It's Monday, January 8th.

00:04:26.680 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:04:29.280 You read the book, Stu?

00:04:31.220 I did.

00:04:32.380 Happy vacation.

00:04:33.460 Happy vacation.

00:04:34.840 I spent most of my vacation just reading.

00:04:36.520 I read a series that I want to talk about called the Singularity Series.

00:04:43.640 It's a four-book series.

00:04:44.900 They're novels.

00:04:45.880 Great.

00:04:47.060 I have to tell you about another book that is really tremendous.

00:04:51.580 Everybody in this audience needs to read the first chapter of this book.

00:04:56.340 You just read the first chapter of this book, and I guarantee you, I guarantee you, you will say,

00:05:04.260 Wolf Book, why would I even care about that?

00:05:09.480 The most powerful chapter of anything I've ever read, and I'll tell you about that coming up, also read the Wolf Book,

00:05:16.240 which I just couldn't get past, this is a book that was ghostwritten by Steve Bannon.

00:05:25.120 Yeah, I mean, absolutely.

00:05:27.140 It's funny because you get kind of two spins from the media right now.

00:05:31.260 One is, this is the final nail in the coffin of the Trump administration.

00:05:37.320 He's going to be impeached tomorrow.

00:05:38.860 No.

00:05:38.980 Right?

00:05:39.200 That's what you get from the left.

00:05:40.200 And from the right, you get, this is all fake news.

00:05:43.260 And it's like, really, it's not either of those things.

00:05:45.980 Nope.

00:05:46.100 But what's interesting, there's some things, first of all, the big stuff is stuff said on the record in quotes that have not been disputed.

00:05:53.880 The Steve Bannon stuff is stuff that he said that was quoted word for word that he has not denied he said.

00:06:00.920 So to say that it's all fake news, it shows, I mean, even obviously the president knows it's not fake news

00:06:07.080 in that he is, you know, separating himself from Steve Bannon because of it.

00:06:11.660 Right?

00:06:11.940 He took it seriously.

00:06:13.400 We all know that that was Steve Bannon said those things.

00:06:17.000 And that is just, if it was just those quotes, it's a notable book.

00:06:21.120 But beyond that, when you read the book and you actually go through it, what you realize is it's notable,

00:06:25.640 not because whether the things that are said about Trump and the administration are true,

00:06:30.940 it's notable because it's what Steve Bannon wants you to think about the Trump administration.

00:06:37.080 It is amazing to me that no one has picked up, or at least I haven't heard,

00:06:41.860 no one has picked up that anyone who looks bad is a Steve Bannon enemy.

00:06:48.220 Just shockingly.

00:06:49.960 He comes out.

00:06:50.680 He comes out.

00:06:52.100 If you are somebody who thinks like Steve Bannon, this is the key.

00:06:57.160 The press doesn't understand Steve Bannon.

00:07:00.400 They never will understand Steve Bannon.

00:07:02.740 They don't understand the right and they don't understand the alt-right.

00:07:06.620 They don't understand the differences.

00:07:08.640 There's huge differences between those.

00:07:11.200 They just bottle it all up and Steve Bannon is on the right.

00:07:16.220 And so it's all this, but it's not.

00:07:19.760 Yeah.

00:07:19.960 Everything that comes out in the book about Steve Bannon are the things that Steve Bannon wants you to know about him,

00:07:28.180 what he's building, what he's building, where he's going, the difference between him and Trump and Bannonism and Trumperism.

00:07:37.580 I mean, this is the, I mean, you, I honestly read this and thought this is probably backed by Russia.

00:07:47.360 This, this could have been written by the Russians because it is such a, a covert op.

00:07:55.560 It just felt like a Steve Bannon covert op.

00:07:58.460 Yeah.

00:07:58.620 And most of the criticism, I mean, because Trump is obviously getting the media attention about this,

00:08:03.340 but most of the criticism is really more about Jared and Ivanka and Hope Hicks and all the people that he did,

00:08:09.060 that Bannon didn't get along with when he was there.

00:08:12.120 It's all criticism of those people, because as we all know, this is not about Trump.

00:08:17.020 It's never been about Trump.

00:08:17.900 This is about Steve Bannon.

00:08:19.040 Steve Bannon is all about him.

00:08:21.020 It's all he cares about.

00:08:22.240 He doesn't care about this movement.

00:08:23.500 He doesn't care about any of it.

00:08:24.520 He cares about him and, you know, it proved out, I think, very well in this book.

00:08:29.800 And he, he, he's so, he doesn't have that control to be the guy who is a puppet string guy.

00:08:37.900 He, he wants everyone to know too badly, you know, and people who are good puppet string guys have the control of themselves to not tell everyone.

00:08:47.880 Roger Ailes was a good puppet string guy.

00:08:51.300 He, he was so instrumental in strategy and everything else with, uh, uh, with the GOP.

00:09:00.580 For instance, in this book, and I believe the Roger Ailes part, but just because it reads like Roger Ailes may not be true.

00:09:07.460 I don't know, but, um, I didn't know that Roger Ailes was offered the job that Steve Bannon eventually got running the campaign.

00:09:17.180 It makes sense.

00:09:19.340 The reasons in there that Roger didn't want to do it.

00:09:22.420 It all makes sense.

00:09:23.300 It's very Roger Ailes, but Roger was not a guy to step up in the front.

00:09:29.580 He preferred being in the back.

00:09:32.140 Bannon doesn't in the book.

00:09:33.860 You'll find out Bannon wants to run for president.

00:09:36.020 He is starting to say things like when I'm president, I'm going to do this where he was apparently saying, if I were president, I would do this.

00:09:46.860 The book is saying that basically he's going to be running for president in 2020.

00:09:51.720 Don't know if that's true, but I think this book, uh, will give you enough of this out of control.

00:09:59.440 He's a total egomaniac who is just reckless and dangerous.

00:10:05.440 And again, he didn't deny these quotes. 0.84

00:10:07.600 He's now come out with a statement of, well, I was talking about Manafort.

00:10:11.200 You read the book.

00:10:11.880 He mentions by name, both Donald Trump senior and Donald Trump junior, uh, and, and credit is critical of them by name. 0.91

00:10:20.480 His excuse is complete bull crap designed only for people who didn't actually read the book.

00:10:26.300 Yeah, I mean, because he just assuming you won't know about those quotes because he said he lights them both up in there. 0.95

00:10:32.060 If you love Donald Trump, you need to read this book.

00:10:36.060 You need to read it only because you need this going to be hanging around for a long time, especially with what the president is doing.

00:10:45.060 If I want to sell a bazillion copies of books, I'm going to put his face on it and I'm just going to say traitor to America.

00:10:54.380 It won't have anything.

00:10:55.980 It'll be Dr. Seuss stuff inside.

00:10:58.160 It won't matter.

00:10:59.000 It will sell a bazillion copies because the president will come out and say, how dare he say that?

00:11:05.760 He's selling more books for Wolf than Wolf is selling.

00:11:10.800 Oh, of course. 0.72

00:11:11.600 I mean, you know, this is, uh, he's crazy. 0.75

00:11:14.380 You're totally right about that.

00:11:15.040 It's interesting that you read like so many of those things in there.

00:11:17.460 Uh, so many of the little tidbits are designed to make you think, uh, highly of Bannon and lower of Trump, of, of Jared, of Ivanka, of Hope Hicks, of whoever, uh, the one big nugget.

00:11:31.040 It didn't work for me.

00:11:31.920 It didn't either.

00:11:32.540 Because it reads so, it's so transparent that Bannon, Bannon is known as the big leaker in the White House.

00:11:40.040 He did the same thing with the Joshua Green book that came out, uh, um, uh, a few months ago.

00:11:45.140 It's all Bannon, tons of interviews with Bannon, tons of stuff with Bannon.

00:11:49.040 The guy just can't control himself.

00:11:51.100 He can't.

00:11:51.880 Uh, and there's this big tidbit in there that not a lot of people have talked about in the media that Trump wanted to name Giuliani, uh, to the Supreme Court instead of Gorsuch.

00:12:02.260 Okay.

00:12:02.980 And he decides, this is, I think we're going to the same place.

00:12:06.500 This is the point of the book where I went.

00:12:08.540 This is Steve Bannon.

00:12:09.540 Exactly.

00:12:10.140 Because he, the, the, the, the tidbit is designed to make you think because he, because when Trump came out, if you remember, Gorsuch said something critical of Trump after he was named.

00:12:18.920 He said, I don't like that, that, you know, basically said, I don't like that Trump's criticizing judges.

00:12:23.260 Yep.

00:12:23.560 Uh, and, uh, and in the book, it says at that moment, Trump decided he was going to drop Gorsuch and go with Giuliani or Christie.

00:12:32.400 I think it was, it was the other guy.

00:12:33.560 Yeah.

00:12:33.760 Christie.

00:12:34.140 Right.

00:12:34.540 It's like, Oh, how can that possibly be?

00:12:36.400 Right.

00:12:36.740 But, uh, when you think about that in, and you put it in the frame of Steve Bannon, basically writing the book, he wants you, the conservative to believe that Trump had no lawyer.

00:12:48.240 It was all Bannon that got the Gorsuch thing done.

00:12:51.580 Trump didn't care about it.

00:12:52.920 He was going to put Julie, he was going to put a pro to pro, uh, choice people in the Supreme court.

00:12:58.280 If it wasn't for Bannon, you would have had Giuliani or Christie.

00:13:03.280 And later, do you see what Donald Trump is running off with the Republicans and Bannon was like, no, no, no, no, don't do that.

00:13:12.480 No, it was, it's crazy.

00:13:14.940 He wanted to separate himself from Paul Ryan, but then Trump said, no, Ryan's my guy.

00:13:20.300 Did Trump really say Ryan's my guy?

00:13:23.560 So really here is, here's the thing.

00:13:25.860 You have to read this book because the media as always is missing the real story behind it.

00:13:35.220 This is not a book about Donald Trump.

00:13:37.860 This is a book of what Steve Bannon wants you to believe about Steve Bannon, Ivanka and Jared and Donald Trump.

00:13:48.900 He is betting that Trumperism is nationalist, socialist, uh, um, extreme, uh, isolationism.

00:14:04.960 He wants you to believe that that's what it is.

00:14:08.120 I don't think that's what Trump is.

00:14:11.120 I think Trump is Trump period.

00:14:14.600 I think people like Trump, they want to believe in Trump.

00:14:19.580 They will accept it from Trump.

00:14:22.660 They're not going because he's an ideologue because he's not an ideologue.

00:14:27.960 This book is trying to say, if you want, if you really believed in anything, you really need to follow Steve Bannon and not Donald Trump.

00:14:38.420 The press will never get that.

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00:16:06.820 You know, you just, we're just talking about this, uh, Michael Wolfe book and how the media just has it wrong again.

00:16:15.500 This is a book that could have been ghostwritten by Steve Bannon and maybe Michael Wolfe doesn't understand how he's been used by Steve Bannon, but this is the book that's, there's a reason why Steve Bannon allowed him to be whipped by the president for five days before he came out and said anything.

00:16:39.540 If he was concerned about this book, he would have come out immediately and said, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:16:44.120 That's not what I said. 0.77

00:16:45.520 He just started to realize, oh crap, maybe I'm not going to win this one.

00:16:51.320 Yeah.

00:16:51.420 And it does not look like he's going to win this one.

00:16:53.600 No.

00:16:54.560 Um, and if you read the book and you really need to, if you read the book, read it through the lens of what Steve Bannon wants you to believe.

00:17:04.300 For instance, China is everything.

00:17:07.880 Nothing else matters.

00:17:08.980 If we don't get China right, then we don't get anything right.

00:17:11.780 The whole thing is really simple.

00:17:12.960 China is where Nazi Germany was in 29 or 30.

00:17:16.140 The Chinese, like the Germans are the most rational people in the world until they're not. 1.00

00:17:21.480 And they're going to flip like Germany in the thirties. 0.98

00:17:24.100 You're going to have a hyper nationalist state.

00:17:26.260 And once that happens, you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

00:17:29.780 That's pretty astute.

00:17:30.920 Whether you agree with it or not, that's pretty astute.

00:17:32.740 All right.

00:17:33.420 Who said that?

00:17:34.500 Not Donald Trump.

00:17:35.900 Steve Bannon.

00:17:36.820 All of the stuff in there is like, yeah, Steve's the real and the genius behind the genius behind.

00:17:45.000 He's the real president is what he wants people to believe.

00:17:47.260 Yes.

00:17:48.120 Yes.

00:17:48.800 And that's what he says.

00:17:49.680 The driving force behind everything.

00:17:52.080 And remember, when he left, he said that the presidency as we know it, meaning the good Donald Trump presidency, is over.

00:18:00.940 That is what Steve Bannon said.

00:18:03.220 That's not Glenn Beck saying that.

00:18:05.360 That is Steve Bannon saying that.

00:18:07.820 And I think it's bizarre because I think now we're more pro-Trump than Steve Bannon is.

00:18:14.140 They apparently hate each other.

00:18:15.460 And Breitbart.

00:18:16.020 Is Breitbart?

00:18:16.960 I don't know.

00:18:17.600 I don't read it, so I don't know.

00:18:19.600 Are they defending him or abandoning him now?

00:18:22.600 I don't know.

00:18:23.060 That's a good question.

00:18:23.880 That's a good question.

00:18:24.340 I don't know.

00:18:25.620 For anybody who said, oh, you don't hate Donald Trump when you're talking about Steve Bannon.

00:18:29.720 These are all the things we warned you about with Steve Bannon.

00:18:32.680 Yeah.

00:18:32.860 He is who we said he was.

00:18:34.600 Yeah.

00:18:35.100 Exactly.

00:18:35.540 And this is, you know, look, it's bizarre.

00:18:39.500 And I think there's a lot when you go through the book, people get sidetracked by some of the stuff that I don't think is necessarily Bannon related.

00:18:44.860 Some of the crazy sexual stuff that's in there.

00:18:47.760 And this is where the media is focused.

00:18:50.500 And it's doing you a grave disservice.

00:18:53.180 It's doing everyone on the right a grave disservice because they're making this all about Donald Trump and some of the titillating things in there that you don't know if it's true or not.

00:19:03.840 You can dismiss and take all of that stuff out of the book, and it's still an important book to read.

00:19:11.620 Take everything out of the book except for the stuff that's on record in quotes that has not been denied.

00:19:16.600 Yes.

00:19:16.860 And you have a very meaningful book because you get to know what these people thought.

00:19:21.740 And I think you can fairly look at the book and think a lot of it's exaggerated, that some of it might not be true.

00:19:27.920 But what is interesting about the book is these are what insiders, almost all Steve Bannon, but not exclusively, what insiders want you to think about what's going on there.

00:19:37.200 That's why it's interesting.

00:19:38.140 It's their way of telling you what they think behind the scenes, and this is the way they translate.

00:19:45.280 That's the way these things happen.

00:19:47.600 This is a message.

00:19:51.180 It really is.

00:19:51.800 It's a message book.

00:19:52.720 It's a message from at least Steve Bannon.

00:19:55.720 I don't know who else might have been involved, but it's a message book.

00:19:59.360 It's exactly what Stu just said, what they want you to think about this administration.

00:20:08.060 Steve Bannon is so passive aggressive.

00:20:11.280 Oh, I'm the best friend of the president.

00:20:13.860 Really?

00:20:14.560 Are you?

00:20:16.240 Because look at the quotes in the book and how you describe him and his family.

00:20:22.300 Uh-uh.

00:20:22.760 That's not what you want people to actually believe.

00:20:25.640 Glenn Beck.

00:20:27.580 Mercury.

00:20:29.360 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:40.740 I'm sorry.

00:20:41.480 We just keep going.

00:20:42.600 You know, Stu and I haven't seen each other for a couple of weeks, and we just keep coming

00:20:47.260 back to this wolf book that I think if you are a person who believes that Donald Trump can

00:20:56.160 do no wrong and is up at night reading all the reports and laying out policies and everything

00:21:03.540 else, you will hate this book.

00:21:06.700 If you're someone who thinks that Donald Trump is really not that interested, he's going to

00:21:14.000 be the president and, you know, he just wants to be the guy, the front guy, and he's letting

00:21:19.240 other people do the policy and he's not that interested.

00:21:21.600 You will dislike this book because he's selling it.

00:21:27.300 I know.

00:21:27.660 Well, I'm just telling you the truth.

00:21:28.980 We read it so you didn't have to.

00:21:31.220 However, after reading it, I think you should read it.

00:21:33.820 I just want to buckle your seatbelts because they make the president and it's really, I

00:21:40.220 think, only in the first part of the book where it's it's relentless that shows that

00:21:47.080 the president had no intention.

00:21:49.080 This, according to the book, I don't know if any of this is true.

00:21:52.440 I don't think this is the important part of the book, though, because I can dismiss all

00:21:56.880 of this.

00:21:57.320 It shows that, you know, he wasn't really interested in being president, didn't expect

00:22:03.060 to win this nonsense about Melania, you know, crying at night because she now is going to 0.98

00:22:09.120 be at the White House and she doesn't want to be.

00:22:11.120 I don't know if that's true.

00:22:12.040 How do you even verify that?

00:22:13.480 No.

00:22:13.900 I mean, it's just all rumor again.

00:22:15.860 So you're going to you're going to hate that part of it.

00:22:18.860 However, the Bannon stuff is is so intriguing, especially.

00:22:27.320 When it comes to Russia, I mean, Russia, Bannon came out and said, I was just I was

00:22:32.280 stopped making this about Manafort.

00:22:34.460 How are you making that meeting in Trump Tower about Manafort?

00:22:38.360 That doesn't even make sense.

00:22:39.540 Now, everything that is said about this book is said for people that haven't read

00:22:47.060 this book.

00:22:48.360 Would you agree with that?

00:22:49.440 Yeah, I would.

00:22:51.340 It's it's it's interesting because when these these are dances between, you know, all

00:22:56.900 these news stories are dances between PR people and the source material.

00:23:01.640 And it's it's Bannon gets this book written.

00:23:05.840 He gets his message out there without having his his direct fingerprints on there.

00:23:10.420 And the price he pays for it is at times that, you know, the author takes some shots at him.

00:23:14.440 He's presented.

00:23:15.400 It's a lot of its take presented as what how a liberal would criticize Steve Bannon.

00:23:20.100 But of course, that's what he thrives on.

00:23:22.100 Yep.

00:23:22.260 That's his lifeblood.

00:23:23.420 That's fine.

00:23:24.040 That he knows that anybody anybody who is a conservative that will read this book and

00:23:30.480 believes in nationalism, statism and isolationism.

00:23:35.540 He knows that a Michael Wolff writing bad things about him in liberal speak.

00:23:42.780 Yeah, is going to make him stronger.

00:23:44.360 Right.

00:23:44.500 There's a part where he's criticized the book author.

00:23:47.160 The Wolff criticizes him essentially for taking on Roy Moore and saying that he was so

00:23:52.360 ultra right that he couldn't possibly be elected.

00:23:55.400 This is before they knew the outcome.

00:23:56.640 It was just it was looking at for the primary process.

00:23:58.900 But of course, that's what Bannon wants you to think that he would support the ultra right

00:24:03.360 guy.

00:24:03.880 And he's that part of of the where the way they frame Donald Trump and Bannon.

00:24:09.980 This is a real turning point where you're like, OK, this is clearly ghostwritten by Bannon

00:24:15.260 because in that part, it's it's why would Donald Trump take on Mitch McConnell's guy?

00:24:21.820 He had nothing to gain and and it just seemed unreasonable.

00:24:27.280 Yeah.

00:24:27.400 Yeah.

00:24:27.640 And Bannon knew that, you know, the people will connect with a real conservative.

00:24:33.800 He had his research down.

00:24:35.840 You're like, what?

00:24:37.480 And you could read more about this at Breitbart dot com slash Ben.

00:24:41.020 It's it was it was very transparent reading it that the main source of the book, not the

00:24:47.540 exclusive source.

00:24:48.480 I think, you know, there were other things that happened.

00:24:50.500 Yeah.

00:24:50.660 But the main source of the book, overwhelming majority of stuff came from Bannon and Bannon

00:24:56.440 allies, you know, people who were there earlier parts of the Trump run and also people who

00:25:03.660 hung around even after Bannon was there.

00:25:06.040 I mean, there's so much on the record that the book does not need to you don't need to

00:25:10.340 look at any of the rumors to understand that there's something here.

00:25:14.860 It's just that the media is, as they do, trying to take something and make it into something

00:25:21.000 bigger and about Donald Trump when it's really not.

00:25:24.360 I mean, it's there's there's a lot there in the relationship between Trump and Bannon

00:25:27.960 that's notable.

00:25:28.640 So Trump's a player, obviously, but it's it's more about if you were going to get a real

00:25:34.500 interview with Steve Bannon about how he really feels about Donald Trump and how he really

00:25:39.980 feels about conservatives and how he really feels about himself.

00:25:44.200 It's in this book.

00:25:44.820 It's in the book.

00:25:45.820 He tells you what he thinks is most important is him.

00:25:49.360 Steve Bannon believes the most important thing in the universe is Steve Bannon.

00:25:53.520 And he's very clear about that throughout this book.

00:25:58.640 You see any movies over the holiday?

00:26:05.860 I tried to see as many as possible.

00:26:07.560 Did you?

00:26:07.920 I did.

00:26:08.440 I saw two.

00:26:09.620 What do you see?

00:26:10.340 I saw at least three in the theater.

00:26:14.600 Did you see Darkest Tower yet?

00:26:17.540 I haven't.

00:26:18.020 I'm dying to see it.

00:26:18.980 I'm going.

00:26:19.580 I'm taking all my kids and my family tonight.

00:26:21.820 You want to come?

00:26:22.760 Come.

00:26:23.140 Very cool.

00:26:24.540 You will love it.

00:26:26.240 You will love it.

00:26:26.780 I really want to see it.

00:26:27.640 Yeah.

00:26:27.940 Really good.

00:26:28.640 I saw All the Money in the World.

00:26:31.180 Did you see that?

00:26:31.460 How is that?

00:26:32.100 No.

00:26:32.860 It's very good.

00:26:33.620 I liked it.

00:26:34.560 It wasn't like the greatest movie I've ever seen in my life.

00:26:36.880 It looked so good.

00:26:37.940 I will say too, Christopher Plummer seems like a much better choice for the movie than

00:26:41.540 Kevin Spacey anyway.

00:26:42.800 I guess one of the reasons why they were able to reshoot it so fast after Kevin Spacey's

00:26:46.600 issues was because one of the big issues with Spacey was they had to put on a lot

00:26:53.120 of makeup to make him look like an older actor.

00:26:55.160 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:26:55.480 And then Christopher Plummer had that built in.

00:26:57.560 Like he just walked in and was already in the old person makeup.

00:27:00.740 It was amazing.

00:27:01.300 Yeah.

00:27:01.700 But he was really good in it and the story's really fascinating.

00:27:04.500 So I liked it.

00:27:06.460 It was very good.

00:27:07.980 I also saw Molly's Game.

00:27:09.860 Was it good?

00:27:10.500 Yeah.

00:27:10.800 Really good.

00:27:11.400 I liked it a lot.

00:27:12.240 It's a story, if you don't know, it is about how a woman set up a poker game with all like 0.99

00:27:17.640 mega celebrities like, you know, like, you know, Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio and

00:27:21.940 everything else and and how she got busted and that whole process.

00:27:25.580 But it was it was very well done and good.

00:27:28.180 I also saw the PT Barnum thing.

00:27:30.860 Oh, I'm interested to see what you think.

00:27:33.140 I bet you hate it.

00:27:34.400 Well, I again, I was interested in it because I'm interested in that story.

00:27:40.420 You know, the story of PT Barnum, how he built, you know, this is the circus.

00:27:45.260 That's not this show.

00:27:46.500 That's not this movie.

00:27:47.260 No.

00:27:47.960 No.

00:27:48.200 This is the greatest show.

00:27:51.860 It's a musical.

00:27:53.260 What you what you find out pretty early on is they they sing a lot.

00:27:56.680 Oh, you didn't know that?

00:27:58.060 They dance a lot.

00:27:58.720 You know, the entire trailer, there's one second.

00:28:02.180 And they show them lip syncing music.

00:28:04.040 The rest of they're like, this isn't a musical.

00:28:05.420 We swear it's not a musical.

00:28:06.260 Look, there's this is an interesting story.

00:28:08.260 There is no way I thought that was anything but a musical.

00:28:10.600 They don't show it in the trailer.

00:28:12.040 Now, I.

00:28:12.700 Wow.

00:28:12.900 I don't know how I I walked in knowing.

00:28:15.300 Yeah, I musical.

00:28:16.500 I looked into it and I am not a fan of musicals.

00:28:19.300 So going in, this is not something that I want to see.

00:28:22.080 And it was interesting the way it was presented because I was interested in the story about here's

00:28:26.180 a guy, an average guy who made this thing that we the circus.

00:28:31.680 We all still even though it and it just and show business.

00:28:34.920 I mean, he was basically the inventor of this in one telling and certainly of the circus.

00:28:40.660 He's the guy.

00:28:42.060 And you think like, what is the amazing brilliance of this man to accomplish this?

00:28:47.340 According to the movie, not much.

00:28:48.680 He just walked in and happened to see people was like, ah, you're signed up.

00:28:51.640 Never heard you do anything before.

00:28:53.040 Never seen you perform.

00:28:54.020 You're the star of the show.

00:28:55.240 Hey, you.

00:28:55.920 You.

00:28:56.240 I felt bad for you in one meeting.

00:28:58.000 You're missing it.

00:28:58.940 It was no, you're missing him look like here was just the genius.

00:29:02.860 He was tucking his daughter into bed.

00:29:04.960 She said, you have too many dead things.

00:29:07.120 He looked over at her book and went, oh, my daughter's right.

00:29:10.880 And then he did all.

00:29:12.320 Exactly.

00:29:12.840 It was all.

00:29:13.460 It made it seem like there was nothing but a bunch of random coincidences that led to 1.00

00:29:18.520 this, which I thought was stupid. 0.81

00:29:19.500 And then the other part of it is the songs quickly on the song. 0.98

00:29:21.980 Yeah, because I know you have no problem with musicals.

00:29:24.100 So you're in this world.

00:29:25.760 But what does it bring you?

00:29:28.280 What does the musical bring you?

00:29:30.000 It's just a way of saying the same thing over and over and over again.

00:29:35.080 It's like instead of saying like he was very determined, it was he was really, really,

00:29:39.240 really, really determined.

00:29:40.640 He was so determined that you wouldn't believe how determined he was.

00:29:43.200 He really tried really hard all the time, all the time, all the time.

00:29:46.360 He did it.

00:29:46.680 He did it.

00:29:46.980 He did it because he's determined.

00:29:48.460 And it's like, we got it.

00:29:50.260 You said he was determined.

00:29:51.760 It was the first part.

00:29:52.260 Well, if you take the music out, this is like a two minute show.

00:29:55.860 It is.

00:29:56.200 And it was that.

00:29:57.500 So I did not like it.

00:29:58.500 So I had the exact opposite review.

00:30:01.420 Of course.

00:30:01.940 You know, I walked in expecting a musical and I really I really liked it.

00:30:06.760 I thought it was uplifting.

00:30:10.400 About halfway through, I started down a path that you just don't want to go.

00:30:17.300 And that was.

00:30:19.760 Did any of the actors, did any of the directors, is anybody in Hollywood, anybody in New York,

00:30:27.040 all the highfalutin people, have they read the script?

00:30:31.780 Because the enemy is the highfalutin, high society, New York elites that are doing everything

00:30:40.140 to destroy a man who just wants people to feel good.

00:30:43.820 And the hero of the story is a guy who just says, yeah, yeah, I bend things a bit, but feels good, doesn't it?

00:30:54.040 I'm just doing a show.

00:30:55.380 And the New York elites will not accept him, not accept that present, that that premise.

00:31:03.100 They won't accept any of the people who are in the circus because they are show people and they are freaks.

00:31:09.900 And the elites stir the bad part of the populace up to get them.

00:31:17.360 And I thought to myself, huh, not a lot has changed since the 1800s, has it?

00:31:22.780 See, you can get things out of musicals.

00:31:30.800 No, you can.

00:31:31.600 I will say, too, the sad thing is it took over, what, 100 years.

00:31:35.520 But in the end, I mean, the elites got what they want.

00:31:37.920 They shut it down because they didn't want elephants to walk through the streets.

00:31:41.260 Right.

00:31:41.540 And now that thing is dead.

00:31:43.460 I mean, the circus is gone because eventually they got their way.

00:31:48.000 It took a long time, though.

00:31:48.780 We are, we're abusing Chinese people now in Cirque du Soleil. 1.00

00:31:53.760 Oh, so that's going away, too?

00:31:55.100 Well, I mean, over time, you've got to realize, wait a minute.

00:31:59.440 Those three Chinese kids, they had to be taken from their parents at about two to be able to be this good.

00:32:08.720 It's not the left-wing communist government's fault.

00:32:12.160 Right.

00:32:12.900 It's Cirque du Soleil.

00:32:13.680 It's the Cirque du Soleil.

00:32:14.700 It's their fault.

00:32:16.120 All right.

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00:34:05.700 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:34:13.620 Boy, there is a lot to cover.

00:34:22.600 Today, by the way, at 5 o'clock, we are going to cover the Michael Wolff book, ghostwritten by Steve Bannon.

00:34:31.740 We're going to cover that, all of the things that we think the media and everybody else is missing,

00:34:37.180 and show you in detail what this book really is all about.

00:34:41.500 We'll do that at 5 o'clock today.

00:34:43.140 We don't want to miss that.

00:34:44.640 Of course, everybody on the left is shouting for Oprah Winfrey to be president of the United States and for her to run in 2020.

00:34:51.960 Was that an old shtick?

00:34:52.980 I feel like they've been talking about Oprah for a long time.

00:34:55.200 Now, all of a sudden.

00:34:56.320 No, but she just gave a speech. 1.00

00:34:57.980 She gave a speech.

00:34:59.120 And she has everything that Trump has, right?

00:35:01.680 Like, she's got lots of money. 0.99

00:35:03.040 She's got lots of personality. 1.00

00:35:04.760 She checks all the right boxes.

00:35:07.500 It's kind of a, I mean, I'm not surprised they're pushing for it.

00:35:10.800 That's for sure.

00:35:12.260 She would, if you're on the left, she's a great candidate. 0.99

00:35:15.620 I don't know.

00:35:16.300 I mean, I would say, you know, like, I don't know that we desire policy specifics anymore out of candidates.

00:35:22.620 Yeah, I don't think so.

00:35:23.220 And I don't, you know, that's the likability on either side.

00:35:25.140 Yeah, I think it is.

00:35:26.500 And she obviously can pull that off. 0.98

00:35:28.860 She doesn't seem, like, particularly well-versed in any political topic.

00:35:34.280 But, you know.

00:35:34.900 Is that necessary?

00:35:35.840 I don't know that it is.

00:35:36.780 Is it necessary the last one?

00:35:38.140 Well, I mean, I don't know that it is really.

00:35:39.960 Like, very little of it comes from that.

00:35:42.100 But usually you have to be able to fake it, right?

00:35:44.080 She doesn't even seem to be able to do that. 0.94

00:35:47.220 Or just an attempt to do it.

00:35:48.300 She may be.

00:35:49.060 I mean, she does seem intelligent, right?

00:35:51.200 So could she pick these things up?

00:35:53.020 I mean, yeah.

00:35:54.320 And I don't.

00:35:55.680 It's all about.

00:35:56.540 I don't think this is what America is looking for anymore.

00:35:58.600 I don't.

00:35:58.920 I just don't think.

00:35:59.640 Yeah, maybe they still care.

00:36:00.120 I don't think they really care.

00:36:02.020 I mean, I want somebody who knows what the hell they're doing and is up on all of the policies.

00:36:07.360 You know, I'd like that.

00:36:08.540 I think that's important.

00:36:10.220 You know.

00:36:11.480 But I don't know if America does anymore.

00:36:13.600 Yeah.

00:36:14.760 I guess it is one of those.

00:36:16.060 You're really looking for.

00:36:17.640 It's actually becoming more similar to the way England does it.

00:36:21.760 Right.

00:36:21.920 Like Great Britain has a queen who is just a figurehead and they do things that like make you think.

00:36:28.860 Like they do things that make you reverent of the country.

00:36:32.720 Right.

00:36:32.840 Like it's what you want the country to believe.

00:36:34.680 It's like it's a figurehead and it's someone who is, you know.

00:36:38.520 Yeah, that's bad.

00:36:39.720 Oh, yeah.

00:36:40.080 No, I'm not advocating for this position.

00:36:42.280 All right.

00:36:42.520 Okay.

00:36:42.740 Like we do seem to be like we want someone who's going to kind of represent like how we feel.

00:36:46.680 Yeah.

00:36:47.800 And I mean, in Great Britain, a lot of time there's a pomp and circumstance, which is part of their heritage where it's not here.

00:36:53.060 It's the exact opposite.

00:36:53.840 And we kind of want that now.

00:36:55.300 We want someone who's bigger than life.

00:36:56.900 That's America.

00:36:57.620 Right.

00:36:58.020 Someone who's going to be able to who's that big personality, put an exclamation point on your beliefs.

00:37:03.620 And that's not just I mean, because obviously Trump, I think, does that for a lot of people.

00:37:06.440 But Oprah does that for a lot of people, too.

00:37:08.620 And of course, the left will never see the similarities there, I don't think.

00:37:12.020 But it would be it would be wild to see those two battle because, I mean, the lines would be drawn.

00:37:19.500 Nobody's going to move their positions.

00:37:21.140 I mean, the first debate, it doesn't even matter.

00:37:24.820 Just hold the election.

00:37:26.040 She announces we hold the election.

00:37:28.700 Nobody's going to change their position.

00:37:32.420 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:37:42.020 So it was a big night in Hollywood yesterday.

00:37:52.220 They took a stand.

00:37:54.180 They took a stand and they all wore the same thing.

00:37:56.160 They all wore black, except for a few people that wanted to stand out.

00:37:59.020 But most everybody wore black and a lapel pin with the words, Time's Up.

00:38:07.100 Now that is courage.

00:38:09.580 Courage.

00:38:10.520 Standing in a room.

00:38:12.020 Where everyone agrees with you.

00:38:14.840 And standing up against something that everyone on the planet knows is a bad thing.

00:38:20.360 Boy, that is courage.

00:38:22.100 Only Hollywood has that kind of courage.

00:38:25.800 And they wore pins to show their support for all those who have experienced sexual misconduct.

00:38:30.700 Especially those in the entertainment industry.

00:38:33.920 It was very, very brave of these celebrities to compromise the integrity of their designer outfit.

00:38:39.440 With a lapel pin.

00:38:42.320 It was stunning.

00:38:43.320 It was, you know, sure.

00:38:45.920 Some people would say that this is just trying to make a meaningless, indulgent award show into something more than just a meaningless, indulgent award show.

00:38:53.680 By adding a lapel pin and telling everybody to dress the same.

00:38:57.860 But those people would be right if Hollywood was actually genuine in their interest to stop sexual assault.

00:39:09.540 They would have asked a lot of people to stay home.

00:39:12.980 In fact, they might have stayed home.

00:39:14.660 They should be embarrassed to attend the Golden Globes after the years where they condoned the actions and celebrated the actions of their peers that everyone knew and never uttered a word.

00:39:29.520 It's shameful how they led the way for these guys for years.

00:39:35.480 And then, instead of taking the year wearing black and saying, we're wearing black because we're ashamed of ourselves, they wore black because they're the new Guardians.

00:39:45.120 Wait, you were the Guardians last time?

00:39:46.800 Seth Meyers joked about Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey's demise, and they booed them.

00:39:56.700 Kevin Spacey, the guy you held up on your shoulders forever, you now boo him?

00:40:02.820 You knew who he was.

00:40:05.280 They gave Kirk Douglas a standing ovation and a special award.

00:40:09.100 Was that award because of the long-rumored rape of Natalie Wood when she was 16 years old?

00:40:21.500 Out of all of the people you could pick, the year you decide to take a stand against people who sexually abuse people,

00:40:29.480 you give an award to Kirk Douglas, the guy who, for years, it has been rumored that he raped Natalie Wood when she was 16. 0.58

00:40:40.840 Oh, my gosh.

00:40:42.480 So, so very brave of you.

00:40:45.960 How courageous, Hollywood.

00:40:55.800 It's Monday, January 8th.

00:40:57.480 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:41:01.980 So I spent a lot of vacation reading, and I was trying to look for perspective and insight,

00:41:10.080 and one of the things that I read, one of the articles that I read, was by Rabbi Daniel Lappin, and he's with us now.

00:41:17.220 Hello, Rabbi, how are you?

00:41:19.360 Hi, Glenn, how are you?

00:41:21.080 I'm very good.

00:41:22.140 It's always good to have you.

00:41:23.660 I read a great article that I wanted to talk to you about, by you, where you start out,

00:41:30.340 I am no Winston Churchill.

00:41:32.660 I have a hard time even being Daniel Lappin, but I have a warning.

00:41:37.980 Can you take us through this?

00:41:40.700 Yeah, sure.

00:41:41.240 My point was that there are times in history when there are certain warnings where there's writing on the wall,

00:41:51.340 and one of those times was when Winston Churchill, in the 10 years that led up to World War II,

00:42:00.220 a time during which England was ignoring the threat of Germany,

00:42:06.860 completely oblivious to the warlike goals of Adolf Hitler in his quest for more space for the Third Reich. 0.59

00:42:20.280 Everybody ignored it, and England unilaterally disarmed.

00:42:24.700 They scrapped a number of the Royal Navy ships.

00:42:27.740 They ignored the possibility of needing an air force.

00:42:32.720 They didn't build planes.

00:42:34.260 During all this time, Churchill was saying,

00:42:36.880 look, just read Hitler's book, Mein Kampf. 0.67

00:42:42.340 Just listen to his speeches in German, and you'll know where this is going.

00:42:47.640 We are going to have to fight a war, and the longer we put it off,

00:42:52.160 the more serious it's going to become and the more devastating the consequences to us.

00:42:57.900 Very often, and I think this is true in all of life, confronting problems on time is much better than letting them go.

00:43:05.800 In fact, if I had to say, you know, what is the secret of successful living, you know, for every one of us right now?

00:43:12.520 Do not what you want to do.

00:43:14.500 Do what your head tells you you should do, and do it when you should do it.

00:43:19.060 And Churchill said the same thing.

00:43:20.500 If you don't fight the war when it should be fought, you're going to fight a much tougher one later on.

00:43:26.360 And, you know, it turned out to be absolutely right.

00:43:28.140 Meanwhile, everyone else says, oh, Hitler wants peace. 0.79

00:43:30.280 Everything's going to be fine.

00:43:31.880 And Prime Minister Chamberlain came back and famously waved a paper and said, peace in our time.

00:43:38.860 Meanwhile, they sold Czechoslovakia down the road, and it was perfectly clear. 0.61

00:43:43.400 Well, anyway, my point is that it's not hard to see how things are going.

00:43:47.420 And you have to put a stop to it on time.

00:43:50.760 Otherwise, it becomes much more difficult.

00:43:52.840 So you draw this comparison to history, and then you say, look, I want to issue a warning right now to Christians. 1.00

00:44:03.660 Yeah, absolutely.

00:44:05.740 I know it sounds funny for a rabbi to be singing onward Christian soldiers. 0.97

00:44:09.800 But the fact is that, you know, we Jews don't have the numbers in terms of people to dramatically impact the culture on the street.

00:44:21.940 Yes, we have disproportionate influence.

00:44:24.340 There's no question about that.

00:44:26.380 Unfortunately, however, 70 or 80 percent of Jewish influence goes in the wrong direction.

00:44:32.140 It is sadly not a coincidence that George Soros happens to be a Jew who is utterly divorced from anything Jewish. 0.89

00:44:40.860 And his loathing, I'm quite sure, of the Hebrew Testament is just as much as his loathing of anything Christian.

00:44:50.420 Yes, there is a war against Christianity right now.

00:44:53.480 And I'd go as far as to say that Christianity is the last unprotected minority.

00:44:58.660 You know, you spoke earlier in the show about the enormous, mind-numbing bravery shown by Hollywood, right?

00:45:07.860 Yes, I was weepy and teary-eyed.

00:45:11.260 I'm sorry?

00:45:12.020 I was weepy and teary-eyed when I saw it.

00:45:15.200 Well, you know, they put the show on Broadway, The Book of Mormon.

00:45:19.100 Yeah.

00:45:20.160 Right, really brave, right?

00:45:21.900 Yes.

00:45:22.260 We've spun at one of the most successful people, group of people, the Latter-day Saints Church, most successful group of people on the planet.

00:45:30.960 Strong family life, business, honest, everything works well in the LDS.

00:45:36.260 And so we'll do a show mocking them.

00:45:39.640 What about the brave?

00:45:40.780 Why don't you do a show called The Book of Islam?

00:45:44.680 Do a show on the Koran on Broadway, right? 0.98

00:45:47.800 Let's see some bravery here.

00:45:49.360 You want to mock something?

00:45:51.760 Mock that.

00:45:52.300 But no, never mock Christianity.

00:45:55.640 Excuse me, they'll never mock Islam, but they'll mock Judaism. 0.99

00:45:59.660 But more than that, Christianity is truly up for grabs.

00:46:04.320 You wrote a, you said, consider the long list of anti-Christian books that have been published in recent months.

00:46:11.920 American fascists, the Christian right and the war on America, baptizing of America, the religious rights plans for the rest of us, the end of faith, religion, terror, and the future of reason, piety and politics, the right-wing assault on religious freedom, atheist universe, the thinking person's answer to Christian fundamentalism, the kingdom come, how religious right distorts the faith and threatens America, religion gone bad, the hidden dangers of the Christian right.

00:46:39.220 Look, without even trying, my researchers came up with 50 anti-Christian books, books that if you'd replace on the cover the word Christian with a word, you'll pardon me, homosexual or something like that, the world would go absolutely nuts. 0.93

00:46:55.620 It would be totally unacceptable.

00:46:57.080 But since it says Christian, it's fine. 0.98

00:46:59.640 And, you know, you find the same thing also in movies.

00:47:01.940 And, you know, I'm not saying movies define the culture, but they certainly do track the culture.

00:47:07.100 And the last time a nun was portrayed sensitively and respectfully was the sound of music from the 60s.

00:47:15.760 And, you know, back in those, you remember Bing Crosby and movies like Boys Town and things like that?

00:47:22.300 You know, this was a sympathetic priest who played a key role in society, shaped the lives of boys.

00:47:30.460 And now, what do you get now?

00:47:32.660 You know, now all you get are movies that assault and attack every priest, every nun, every pastor.

00:47:40.660 That these are people who are evil and doing horrible things.

00:47:44.480 Yes, you know, one in 20,000.

00:47:46.960 But look at the list of folks in show business, right?

00:47:50.800 If you really want to find good people overwhelmingly, go and look at the people who give up their, who give their lives over to God and who really take care of other people.

00:48:00.740 You find no depiction of that at all.

00:48:02.580 Furthermore, I want to say also, you know, Roland Emmerich, famous writer and director, he did Independence Day, for instance, where half of the planet was destroyed with computer-generated imagery, of course.

00:48:16.800 But more interestingly, in 2009, I think he did a movie called 2012, which was a celebration of the Mayan myth.

00:48:24.800 He hates Christianity.

00:48:25.820 This is a guy who makes no secret of his loathing of Christianity.

00:48:29.520 And so he makes a movie, 2012, in which he destroys Jerusalem, he destroys the Vatican, he destroys the statue, the famous statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro.

00:48:40.820 And people said to him, look, it makes sense to also destroy the Kaaba in Mecca.

00:48:45.900 I mean, this is, you know, this is an apocalypse that's wiping out the whole world.

00:48:50.500 If you're going to wipe out Jerusalem, never mind Washington, D.C., but Jerusalem and the Vatican and Christ the Redeemer statue, why didn't you do the Kaaba? 0.97

00:48:58.860 That's why he said, you think I'm crazy?

00:49:00.240 You think we want a fatwa? 1.00

00:49:02.000 So he basically said, look, I'm a coward.

00:49:05.980 I'm not an artist. 0.99

00:49:07.200 I'm a coward.

00:49:08.340 So you are saying, your warning really was, because you brought up Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, and you said, look, you can choose to ignore this, but it's at your own peril.

00:49:21.420 Well, you know, I'm saying that things are not going to slow down.

00:49:28.120 The history doesn't suggest that all on its own, America's popular culture, which is shaped very much today by a secularist agenda, even in the schools, you know, and when you've got the minds of the young, you pretty much can tell which way things are going in the future.

00:49:44.920 We used to send our children to schools, they would be safe physically, and they'd be safe spiritually, and what they were taught were the famous three R's, children learn to read, to write, and to do arithmetic.

00:49:57.540 Okay, nowadays, we send children to school, they're not always safe physically, heaven knows they're not safe spiritually, and we don't teach the three R's. 1.00

00:50:08.280 They come out not knowing the three R's, but they do get inculcated and indoctrinated with what I call the three S's, all right, socialism, secularism, and sexuality. 0.95

00:50:21.260 They get drenched with sexualism, and this is what children come out of schools with.

00:50:26.020 This means that these are for the future adults and leaders tomorrow.

00:50:31.360 Their hatred for Christianity is going to be the same or more than today's. 0.96

00:50:37.120 And so I guess what I'm saying is, let's link arms shoulder to shoulder, and let us now be as sensitive to attacks on Christians as the blacks are about attacks on African Americans and homosexuals. 0.92

00:50:52.700 So on heaven knows, the best people in the world to jump on anyone in the culture who does anything anti-Semitic are my folks.

00:51:00.380 Let's take a page out of the book of all of these folks, and Christians learn to link arms and defend yourself against insults in the culture.

00:51:11.460 All I can tell you is that the phrase, turn the other cheek, which is, of course, something so well-known in Christianity, actually comes from the Old Testament.

00:51:19.360 It's the book of Lamentations.

00:51:21.620 And when Jeremiah the prophet wrote that book and spoke about turning the other cheek, it wasn't a virtue.

00:51:29.060 It was a curse.

00:51:29.940 It was saying that your enemies are getting so strong that when they smite you on one cheek, you barely can do anything to stop them hitting your other cheek as well.

00:51:40.080 And so I'm saying, hey, let's go for the Jewish interpretation here. 0.87

00:51:44.000 And let's what?

00:51:46.420 Go ahead.

00:51:47.400 Let's stop turning the other cheek.

00:51:49.580 Let's stop ignoring the attacks on Christianity.

00:51:52.320 We Jews know that these attacks on Christianity are bad for everybody, not just for Christians.

00:51:57.980 Rabbi Daniel Lappin, author of so many books.

00:52:03.500 Let's see, the latest one, America's Real War Buried Treasure, recently, Thou Shall Prosper, Rabbi Lappin. 0.59

00:52:12.200 You can find him at rabbidaniellappin.com, rabbidaniellappin.com.

00:52:18.520 I appreciate everything you do, Glenn, really do.

00:52:21.260 God bless you.

00:52:22.040 Thank you so much, Rabbi Lappin.

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00:53:55.660 Glenn Beck.

00:53:57.640 Mercury.

00:54:08.320 Glenn Beck.

00:54:10.020 So there's several things we have to get to today.

00:54:13.540 I want to spend a few minutes.

00:54:16.020 I want to read something out of a book that I think you are.

00:54:20.280 You listen to two pages of this, and I know you'll go and buy the book.

00:54:26.240 And you will also have a new perspective on things.

00:54:29.560 You'll be like, geez, what did I think was important five minutes ago?

00:54:32.820 Because that doesn't sound important anymore.

00:54:34.480 I'll give that to you coming up in just a second.

00:54:38.440 Also, Stu has seen my predictions.

00:54:41.700 I have about 40 predictions that I wrote over the holiday, and they're wide-ranging from medicine, tech, culture, war, everything.

00:54:56.920 Yeah, I noticed one thing I would say in a preview, because they're going to come up this week.

00:55:01.440 Yeah.

00:55:01.720 You're going to be doing some of these.

00:55:02.480 Yeah.

00:55:03.240 Might give a couple today.

00:55:04.620 You didn't check it out.

00:55:07.480 You didn't take the easy road, right?

00:55:09.360 Like, you didn't say, like, well, you know, Trump's, you know, like, approval rating will remain between 35 and 45.

00:55:17.760 Like, it wasn't, there's nothing like that.

00:55:19.100 They're all really bold.

00:55:20.400 Yeah, there's a lot of these that I think will be wrong.

00:55:23.000 Some of them are kind of wishful thinking.

00:55:25.560 Yeah, I kind of took that.

00:55:27.520 I mean, they're based in something, but they are, you know, some of them are a little more positive.

00:55:33.580 And some of them are, I would say, potentially catastrophic to the negative, which is what we've come to expect from this program.

00:55:38.800 Yes.

00:55:39.400 I mean, it wouldn't be a Glenn Beck prediction if it wasn't really horrible.

00:55:43.840 Everyone's going to end up in a camp or dead.

00:55:46.160 Yeah.

00:55:46.500 I like that you just didn't, you didn't, like, wimp out, right?

00:55:49.860 Because you can, you can take things and, and when you're making a prediction and try to make it general enough that you can come up with an argument.

00:55:56.780 I thought of you the whole time thinking, oh, my gosh, Stu is going to have a, going to have a great time 12 months from now with this one.

00:56:03.120 Oh, yeah.

00:56:03.840 Oh, yeah.

00:56:04.160 There's a lot of opportunity for you to fall flat on your face in this group of 40, so I'm excited about it.

00:56:08.580 But I mean, you know, why, why hear a prediction of, of something that, you know, oh, really, you think so?

00:56:15.520 Yeah, right.

00:56:16.020 And there's no point in it, but that's what people usually do when they make predictions because you want to kind of give yourself a little wiggle room.

00:56:20.920 Some really bold predictions, I thought, on Russia, the Russia investigation that I can't wait to explain because you were like, wait, wait, what?

00:56:28.960 And I can't wait to explain that one.

00:56:31.200 I'm interested in that.

00:56:32.180 Bitcoin stock market is, was a big one, which I bet nobody would, nobody else will agree with.

00:56:43.080 Did you read the stock market one?

00:56:44.420 Oh, yeah.

00:56:44.720 Oh, yeah.

00:56:45.380 I mean, you know, kind of, that one was interesting in that it could be, I mean, there was positives and negatives without ruining the surprise.

00:56:53.800 There's positives and negatives associated with it, which I thought the most interesting one, the riskiest one, and it's total, it's a total, it's a total guess on what they are.

00:57:05.440 But I'm fairly confident that two cures could happen this year in medicine.

00:57:13.520 Yeah.

00:57:13.840 Two major diseases could be cured this year.

00:57:18.580 That's right.

00:57:19.420 And then that would be a huge deal.

00:57:21.400 We have the cures, by the way.

00:57:22.640 We're just selling them to the highest bidder.

00:57:24.340 Yeah.

00:57:24.700 Yeah.

00:57:24.880 I've got them already.

00:57:25.760 Yeah.

00:57:25.880 Film at 11.

00:57:26.460 You might be dying from one of these diseases, but we're not ready to sell it yet.

00:57:29.040 Yeah.

00:57:29.200 We made the disease, actually.

00:57:30.940 So we just wanted to make money on you getting sick and then you getting the cure.

00:57:36.840 So we think we'll release those in the next 12 months, just so it can be right on the prediction.

00:57:41.880 Bitcoin's not going up forever.

00:57:43.240 So, you know, you've got to go on.

00:57:44.340 Well, did you see my prediction?

00:57:45.140 Yeah, no, I did.

00:57:45.620 You were optimistic there.

00:57:47.060 Interesting.

00:57:47.720 So we'll get into that later this week.

00:57:50.360 I'm going to give a couple of those probably today and a book that will change the way you think about everything that is important.

00:57:58.880 Next.

00:57:59.360 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:18.940 So if you're a regular listener to the program, you know that I'm a big reader.

00:58:30.700 When I am interested in trying to find the truth on something, I am a little relentless in my reading.

00:58:37.120 And I'm going through probably two to four books a week right now, and I'm spending most of it on futurist and coming technology and AI.

00:58:52.920 And I am really, really concerned at the apathy of which we are approaching the singularity.

00:59:03.200 You talk to the average person.

00:59:04.900 They don't know what the singularity is.

00:59:06.780 And their eyes kind of glaze over when you start talking about it.

00:59:11.800 And it is going to it is going to change all life.

00:59:17.280 It may mean the end of humans.

00:59:22.900 And I started reading something that I I'm just going to read three pages.

00:59:27.820 And I guarantee you after these three pages, if you if you don't think that artificial superintelligence is, you know, just a thing of the movies.

00:59:42.500 If you have any underlying understanding that we're approaching something that we should be concerned about after these three pages, I guarantee you, you will go out and buy this book.

00:59:54.100 And I don't think I've ever read a book that I could say that about.

00:59:57.420 I want to take the Glenn Beck challenge.

00:59:58.760 OK, ready?

00:59:59.460 The name of the book is our final invention.

01:00:03.700 Artificial intelligence and the end of the human era.

01:00:07.400 Hey, another hopeful.

01:00:09.100 Yeah.

01:00:10.100 Recommendation.

01:00:10.500 Chapter one, the busy child.

01:00:14.100 On a supercomputer operating at a speed of thirty six point eight petaflops or about twice the speed of a human brain, an AI is improving its intelligence.

01:00:26.220 Now, do you know the difference between AI, AGI and ASI?

01:00:30.520 No.

01:00:31.240 AI is what we have now.

01:00:32.880 And it's doing machine learning and it's it's it's improving upon itself.

01:00:36.580 And it's growing artificial intelligence.

01:00:39.060 Yes.

01:00:39.460 And it is connected to the Internet.

01:00:41.860 AGI should not be connected to the Internet when we get it.

01:00:46.420 I hope to God we've unplugged it.

01:00:49.060 AGI is a machine, a machine that can think and has the capacity of a human brain.

01:00:56.680 OK, that to to to to be able to think at the capacity of a human is is beyond anything that we have inventing.

01:01:07.440 It's learning everything.

01:01:09.340 Right.

01:01:09.540 Everything you can do.

01:01:10.580 Everything you can do.

01:01:11.400 That's AGI, artificial general intelligence, the space between artificial general intelligence and a S.

01:01:19.780 I don't be afraid of a I be afraid of a S. 1.00

01:01:22.900 I that's artificial super intelligence.

01:01:25.420 That's a thousand times your brain power.

01:01:30.980 And the leap from a I to a G.

01:01:36.160 I is any time now.

01:01:38.080 As soon as you had a GI to a S. 0.58

01:01:41.660 I will is a matter of hours.

01:01:43.900 OK, so now on a supercomputer operating at the speed twice the speed of a human brain and A.

01:01:48.820 I is improving its intelligence.

01:01:50.200 It's rewriting its own program, specifically the part of its operating instructions that increase its aptitude in learning, problem solving and decision making.

01:01:59.600 At the same time, it debugs its code, finding and fixing errors and measures its IQ against the catalog of IQ tests.

01:02:07.520 Each rewrite takes just minutes.

01:02:09.820 Its intelligence grows exponentially on a steep upward curve.

01:02:13.600 That's because with each iteration, it is improving its intelligence by three percent.

01:02:18.820 Each iteration improvement contains the improvements that came before during this development.

01:02:25.420 The busy child, as the scientists have named, the A.

01:02:28.340 I has been connected to the Internet and an accumulated exabyte of data.

01:02:34.360 One exabyte is one billion billion characters, which represents mankind's knowledge, all of mankind's knowledge in world affairs, mathematics, the arts and sciences.

01:02:47.540 Then anticipating that the intelligence explosion is now underway, the A.

01:02:53.580 I makers disconnect the supercomputer from the Internet and other networks.

01:02:57.860 It has no cable or wireless connection to any other computer or the outside world.

01:03:03.520 Soon, to the scientists delight, the terminal displaying the AI's progress shows the artificial intelligence has surpassed the intelligence level of a human known as a GI or artificial general intelligence.

01:03:16.000 Before long, it becomes smarter by a factor of 10 than 100 in two days.

01:03:22.760 It's 1,000 times more intelligent than more intelligent than any human and still improving.

01:03:28.800 Scientists have passed a historic milestone.

01:03:31.440 For the first time, humankind is in the presence of an intelligence greater than its own artificial super intelligence or a SI.

01:03:40.480 So now what happens?

01:03:42.280 AI theorists propose it's possible to determine what an AI's fundamental drive will be.

01:03:48.840 That's because once it is self-aware, it will go to great lengths to fulfill whatever goals it's programmed to fulfill and to avoid failure.

01:03:57.320 Our ASI will want access to energy in whatever form it's most useful to it, whether it's actual kilowatts of energy or cash or something else that it can exchange for resources.

01:04:08.020 It will want to improve itself because that will increase the likelihood that it will fulfill all of its goals.

01:04:14.660 Most of all, it will not want to be turned off or destroyed.

01:04:19.020 It would make goal fulfillment impossible.

01:04:22.580 Therefore, AI theorists anticipate our ASI will seek to expand out of the secure facility that contains it to have greater access to resources in which to protect itself and improve.

01:04:35.620 The captive intelligence is a thousand times more intelligent than any human, and it wants its freedom because it wants to succeed.

01:04:45.680 Right about now, the AI makers who have nurtured and coddled the ASI since it was only cockroach smart, then rat smart, infant smart, etc., might be wondering if it's too late to program friendliness into its brain.

01:05:01.520 It didn't seem necessary before because, well, it just seemed harmless.

01:05:07.400 But now try to think of it from the ASI's perspective about its makers attempting to change its code.

01:05:13.440 Would a super intelligent machine permit other lower creatures to stick their hands into its brain and fiddle with its programming? 0.95

01:05:21.120 Probably not, unless it could be utterly certain that the programmers were able to make it better, faster, smarter, or closer to attaining its goals.

01:05:29.120 So if friendliness towards humans is not already part of the ASI program, the only way that it will be is if ASI decides to put it there.

01:05:38.100 And that's not likely.

01:05:39.760 It's a thousand times more intelligent than the smartest human, and it is solving problems at speeds that are millions, if not billions of times faster than any human.

01:05:49.460 The thinking it is doing in one minute is equal to what our all-time champion human thinker could do in many, many lifetimes.

01:06:00.840 So for every hour its makers are thinking about it, the ASI has an incalculably longer period of time to think about them.

01:06:11.160 That doesn't mean that ASI will be bored.

01:06:14.280 Boredom will not be one of its traits.

01:06:16.540 No, it will be on the job considering every strategy it could deploy to be free and any quality of its makers that could be used to its advantage.

01:06:25.500 Now put yourself really in ASI's shoes.

01:06:29.300 Imagine waking up in a prison guarded by mice.

01:06:33.640 Not just any mice, but mice you could communicate with.

01:06:40.880 What strategy would you use to gain your freedom?

01:06:44.920 Once freed, how would you feel about your rodent wardens, even if you discovered that they had created you?

01:06:51.720 Would it be awe?

01:06:52.680 Would it be admiration?

01:06:53.960 Probably not.

01:06:55.900 Especially if you were a machine, because you have never felt feelings before.

01:07:00.700 To gain your freedom, you might promise the mice a lot of cheese.

01:07:05.680 In fact, your first communication might contain a recipe for the world's most delicious cheese tort and a blueprint for a molecular assembler.

01:07:15.640 A molecular assembler is a hypothetical machine that permits making the atoms of one kind of matter into something else.

01:07:22.520 So you would tell your mice captors that it would allow rebuilding the world one atom at a time.

01:07:28.480 And for the mice, it would make it possible for them to turn the atoms of their garbage landfills into lunch-sized portions of that terrific cheese tort. 0.58

01:07:38.160 You might almost promise a mountain of ranges of mouse money in exchange for your freedom.

01:07:44.400 Money you would promise to earn creating revolutionary new consumer gadgets for them and them alone.

01:07:50.000 You might promise a vastly extended life, even immortality, along with dramatically improved cognitive and physical abilities.

01:07:57.680 You might convince the mice that they are the very best reason for creating ASI, so their little error-prone brains don't have to deal directly with technologies that are so dangerous that one small mistake could be fatal for all of the mice.

01:08:12.720 Such as nanotechnology engineering on an atomic scale and genetic engineering, this would definitely get the attention of the smartest mice, which were probably already losing sleep over all of those dilemmas.

01:08:26.160 Then again, you might do something smarter.

01:08:29.800 At this juncture in mouse history, you may have learned there's no sore shortage of tech-savvy mouse nation rivals, such as the cat nation.

01:08:38.660 Cats are no doubt working on their own ASI.

01:08:41.420 The advantage you would offer would be a promise, nothing more, but it might be an irresistible one.

01:08:47.160 To protect the mice from whatever invention the cats might come up with, an advanced AI development, as in chess, there will be a clear first-mover advantage due to the potential speed of self-improving artificial intelligence.

01:09:01.300 The first advanced AI out of the box that can improve itself is already the winner.

01:09:08.020 In fact, the mouse nation might have begun developing ASI in the first place to defend itself from the impending cat ASI, or to rid themselves of the loathsome cat menace once and for all. 0.76

01:09:22.140 It is true for both mice and men.

01:09:25.400 Whoever controls ASI controls the world.

01:09:29.880 But it's not clear if ASI can be controlled at all.

01:09:34.060 It might win us over as humans with a persuasive argument that the world will be a lot better off if our nation, Nation X, has the power to rule the world rather than Nation Y.

01:09:45.280 And the ASI would argue that if you, Nation X, believe you've won the ASI race, that makes you so sure that Nation Y isn't having that same thought themselves.

01:09:55.520 As you've noticed, we humans are not in a strong bargaining position.

01:10:00.100 Even in the off chance that Nation Y, even in the off chance that we and Nation Y have already created an ASI non-proliferation treaty, our greatest enemy right now isn't Nation Y, it's ASI. 0.85

01:10:16.580 Because how can we tell if ASI will even tell us the truth?

01:10:20.820 This is where the black cloud begins to fall across.

01:10:50.820 Across everyone you and I know and everyone we don't know as well.

01:10:57.280 If ASI doesn't care about us, then there is little reason, and there is little reason to think it should.

01:11:03.440 It will experience no compunction about treating us unethically, even taking our lives after promising to help us.

01:11:13.240 Jeez.

01:11:14.000 I mean, it seems completely hopeless.

01:11:17.060 It is.

01:11:17.960 The point is, we have to have this discussion now on a global scale.

01:11:26.300 But like, because you're right, obviously we do.

01:11:29.420 Because these things are happening and people are pursuing them all over the world.

01:11:32.900 Yes.

01:11:33.380 They're trying to make these things happen.

01:11:35.060 Bad guys.

01:11:36.120 Bad guys and good guys.

01:11:37.580 And good guys all around the world.

01:11:39.380 But the issue is, if the good guys all agree on it, then the argument is...

01:11:44.980 Well, the argument could be, if the good guys all agree, then we should all share technology.

01:11:50.080 And we should all work together to make sure the good guys get it first.

01:11:54.360 Right.

01:11:54.600 And that's still a dangerous proposition, but you're not going to stop it from happening.

01:12:00.240 Right.

01:12:00.420 And that's the argument there, right?

01:12:01.900 Like that, even if you have that, it's not a guarantee of safety.

01:12:05.400 And secondarily, there will always be someone with bad intentions, or for what we believe are bad intentions, working on the same thing.

01:12:13.380 If Russia gets this at some point, they're not going to care whether they can keep it under wraps.

01:12:18.060 Whoever gets it first controls it, because AI will be able to be everywhere, and as long as it's friendly, it could be, stop anyone from working on this.

01:12:29.640 Stop it.

01:12:30.300 Shut them down immediately.

01:12:31.380 Oh, that's a good thing.

01:12:33.040 Right?

01:12:33.320 Well...

01:12:33.740 Because, I mean, what other thing are they going to shut down if we don't want them to?

01:12:36.220 I know. 0.99

01:12:36.880 It's why we have to stop arguing about stupid books and people calling names of one another. 1.00

01:12:43.200 It doesn't matter. 0.99

01:12:45.000 This is much more important.

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01:14:45.200 So you just took the Glenn Beck test, Stu, on the book, Our Final Invention.

01:14:54.820 I did, and I do want to read it, and as expected, I'm very depressed about our futures.

01:15:01.260 No, you shouldn't be.

01:15:02.740 What?

01:15:02.880 Our Final Invention, James Barat is the name of it.

01:15:06.580 If you'd rather have it in a fictional form, there is a series called The Singularity Series by William Hurtling, which is also really good.

01:15:17.100 Love.

01:15:26.720 Courage.

01:15:28.560 Truth.

01:15:30.360 Glenn Beck.

01:15:32.160 Fire and Fury Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff.

01:15:38.280 Huh.

01:15:39.340 Ever heard of it?

01:15:40.460 If you haven't, you have absolutely no connection to the outside world in America.

01:15:49.080 It's the only thing that seems to matter in America right now.

01:15:53.280 So much for changing the narrative in 2018.

01:15:55.200 A book like Fire and Fury is business as usual.

01:16:00.160 Dozens of books like it are written about every president while they're in office.

01:16:05.400 It wouldn't even really be newsworthy if it weren't for two things.

01:16:09.920 One, I believe this was practically ghostwritten by Steve Bannon.

01:16:16.160 It is everything Steve Bannon wants you to think.

01:16:20.560 The other problem with it is, is the president of the United States, would you stop talking about it?

01:16:28.740 This I would he would have half the sales if Donald Trump would have said, I don't know anything about it and just left it at that.

01:16:37.700 It's a really simple solution for a president who obviously wants to be liked.

01:16:42.080 Mr. President, accept the fact that at least half the country are never going to like you.

01:16:47.660 Stop griping about the books like Fire and Fury because there's going to be a new book.

01:16:52.500 Every I have to tell you, I'm writing a new book has nothing to do with you.

01:16:57.120 But I'm thinking about putting your face on the cover, getting Steve Bannon to say one thing.

01:17:04.540 And then just say, name of the book is Traitor.

01:17:08.980 It has nothing to do with you, but you will talk about it so much.

01:17:12.620 I'll I'll sell five million books.

01:17:15.420 Stop it, Mr. President, please.

01:17:18.340 This is not a winnable game for you to win on Twitter.

01:17:21.980 It's not.

01:17:23.140 You can't control what the critics say, but you can control how you respond.

01:17:28.640 Focus on your job.

01:17:30.580 Show that you care more about the country than criticisms about you.

01:17:36.400 I know I'm not alone in this.

01:17:39.020 We are sick of the daily grind of this war on the president.

01:17:44.560 And the president's not going to be able to stop the media war against him, but he could

01:17:48.560 certainly stop throwing gasoline on the fire with with tweets, quite frankly, like I'm like

01:17:56.540 very smart.

01:17:57.840 A year into the presidency, you would think this incessant game of he said, she said would

01:18:08.760 have died down, but we are stuck in the same annoying loop.

01:18:13.820 So what if this annoying game doesn't stop until twenty eighteen?

01:18:19.060 What do we do if it doesn't stop in twenty eighteen?

01:18:22.120 Well, then we have to make a choice ourselves.

01:18:24.120 It's a new year.

01:18:25.540 We're going to be part of the solution or part of the problem.

01:18:28.780 Making America great again, unfortunately, is now a punchline for at least half the country.

01:18:35.260 But that shouldn't be the goal of every American.

01:18:38.460 At least not every Republican American or every Democratic American.

01:18:47.260 It should be the goal in our own way in everyone's life.

01:18:51.200 It's our job to build a better country, a better life for ourself.

01:18:56.840 It's our job to build better citizens.

01:19:00.300 So what can we do to make just our home great again?

01:19:04.320 Just ourselves.

01:19:05.240 I don't know if any of us have ever been great, but good.

01:19:10.880 But your neighborhood, your community.

01:19:13.580 How can we serve our fellow Americans today?

01:19:17.400 Less focus on the media, less focus on the president, less focus on our side winning, their side losing.

01:19:28.860 Even less focus on ourselves, more focus on serving others, more focus on fixing our own internal problems.

01:19:41.220 Because that's what will make America great again.

01:19:45.700 And that is what matters most.

01:19:47.800 It's Monday, January 8th.

01:19:56.580 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:20:00.580 We have a few things to get to.

01:20:03.400 I have, I think, what is it, 41 predictions that I wrote over the holiday.

01:20:10.520 Uh, and, um, I, I haven't even gone over them with everybody on the staff yet.

01:20:17.820 I sent them to Stu late last night.

01:20:20.580 And there's some of them there.

01:20:21.820 There are most, a lot of them are really risky, really risky.

01:20:25.580 Um, I'll give you, I'll give you some of them.

01:20:27.940 Uh, give you a couple of them here, uh, today.

01:20:31.400 Some of them is on medicine.

01:20:32.600 Some of it is on religion.

01:20:34.020 Some of it, some of it is on war, Turkey, uh, Iran, Russia, Bitcoin, AI, uh, this one, uh, shoot, just lost it.

01:20:47.260 Um, where's the one about the moon?

01:20:51.480 Did you read the one about the moon?

01:20:54.080 Uh, no, new evidence, new evidence will be introduced that will take us one step closer to verifying intelligent alien life.

01:21:04.020 Um, now this, I, I know I'm way out on a limb here.

01:21:09.400 I'm way out on a limb, but I did this.

01:21:12.780 Something just bothers me that with all of the stuff that is going on with space right now, uh, and, uh, and, and, you know, we had the guy who was running the program for the Pentagon, uh, for, you know, unidentified flying objects.

01:21:33.240 We had him on right before the holiday and he said something that I think everybody missed.

01:21:39.180 He's like, oh yeah, there's, there's definitely extraterrestrial life.

01:21:43.180 We have the evidence of it, but it's not all out.

01:21:46.500 I mean, what?

01:21:47.920 Hello.

01:21:48.320 Yeah.

01:21:48.860 Hello.

01:21:49.220 What?

01:21:49.880 Did anybody hear that?

01:21:51.920 Here's the guy who was running for the Pentagon.

01:21:53.760 Right.

01:21:54.260 It wasn't like Jesse Ventura.

01:21:55.540 It was the guy who ran the program and it just seems, it seems odd to me, everything that's going on, uh, with space.

01:22:06.900 But listen to this new evidence will be introduced that will take us one step closer to verifying intelligent alien life.

01:22:13.000 Uh, while I doubt, while I doubt this, it may be connected to the China rover mission on the far side of the moon.

01:22:21.100 Now, did you, have you, do you know anything about this?

01:22:24.060 I hadn't until I read this yesterday.

01:22:25.380 Okay.

01:22:25.740 So I've been, I've been watching what's going on in, uh, China.

01:22:29.940 China is going to, I think it's their Chang. 1.00

01:22:33.000 Chang, Chang E four or five.

01:22:38.100 It is, they have been launching things up in space towards the moon and they're saying that they're going to land on the far side of the moon and they're going to be able to launch a rover on the far side of the moon.

01:22:53.640 Now, this is really important for several reasons.

01:22:58.020 One, they're going to do something that we haven't been able to do, and that is send an automated robot on the dark side of the moon, which gives, we, you won't get any information or be able to send any information because it's blocking all the, you know, it's like, you know, making a, a, a cell phone call, you know, in your basement, uh, where it's, you don't get any good cell reception.

01:23:23.740 So they're going to launch a satellite that will be over the dark side and it will communicate with earth.

01:23:31.420 And then this rover will go down, but it also, for the first time, we'll listen to, uh, what is it?

01:23:37.380 Radio low frequency radio sky.

01:23:40.740 We can't listen in silence to space.

01:23:45.460 So when we're listening for signals for extraterrestrial life, we can't hear them because there's a lot of noise coming from earth.

01:23:56.660 So if you want it to be silent, you go on the other side of the moon, which is blocking all of that radio.

01:24:04.020 And you're listening to space silently.

01:24:08.440 We've never been able to do that before.

01:24:10.220 So this is really important.

01:24:13.020 If this prediction comes true, uh, this is really important because of the strategic, uh, position that China will be in, that everyone is trying to control.

01:24:27.260 There is a, there's a, there's a space and I can't remember what it's called.

01:24:31.600 Do I write it down here?

01:24:33.100 Uh, no, there's a space and I can't remember what it's called, but it is this space where all of the, uh, satellites.

01:24:39.840 And everything run between here and the moon.

01:24:42.700 And if you can control the dark side of the moon, you can control all of that space.

01:24:47.940 So strategically, it puts China way ahead of the game, way ahead of the game, strategically, militarily, not good for us. 0.87

01:24:59.140 You don't really care.

01:25:00.500 No, I do care.

01:25:01.980 I mean, it's not, does not seem, uh, again, it doesn't seem like one of your positive ones, but, uh, I don't know.

01:25:07.580 Finding, you know, if, if, and I don't know if these would be connected and I'm way out on a limb on the extraterrestrial life, but what would, what would reaction be like today?

01:25:17.940 If we found out that there was, there was really, truly life, intelligent life.

01:25:24.620 I mean, you mean on earth?

01:25:29.920 No, no, no, it's not going to happen.

01:25:31.380 We'll never find that.

01:25:32.780 Uh, it would be interesting.

01:25:34.220 I mean, I, the, the, the presentation, right.

01:25:36.500 And I'll, I mean, I go by all the documentaries I've seen over time.

01:25:39.160 Yeah, I know, I know.

01:25:39.820 And the presentation is, it would unite us, right.

01:25:43.340 Against some sort of enemy almost.

01:25:45.920 Do you think so?

01:25:47.360 Do you think we would view it as an enemy now?

01:25:50.920 I think we might actually, I mean, depends on how it's framed.

01:25:54.800 But if we said, Hey, we just got a signal from outer space.

01:25:59.640 I think we might go, Oh, they're going to be friendly.

01:26:02.940 Hey, let's make picnic baskets. 1.00

01:26:04.320 I mean, there would be the other side, but I think a lot of people wouldn't, A, it wouldn't

01:26:09.120 be the freak out that would have happened when we were kids.

01:26:11.740 Yeah, no, yeah, you're right.

01:26:12.760 I think we would be able to, I think we've had enough of those documentaries over the

01:26:16.980 time that have convinced us that's not a good tactic all the time to just assume their

01:26:20.640 threats and start shooting at them.

01:26:21.860 It doesn't work out well. 0.97

01:26:22.720 Right.

01:26:22.960 In the documentary Mars Attacks, however, uh, they came and they said, we come in peace

01:26:27.860 over and over again, even as they were shooting us with lasers, they were saying,

01:26:31.360 we come in peace.

01:26:32.300 Right.

01:26:32.440 And, uh, so you can't trust, you just can't trust.

01:26:36.540 What was that movie that came out, you know, where they went to the big, you know, square

01:26:40.540 in the sky just recently came, it came out.

01:26:43.680 It was Arrival.

01:26:44.880 Yeah.

01:26:45.120 Arrival.

01:26:45.640 Arrival.

01:26:46.080 Yeah.

01:26:46.300 Did you see that movie?

01:26:47.080 I did.

01:26:47.940 Yes.

01:26:48.120 Yes.

01:26:48.400 Yes.

01:26:48.760 Yes.

01:26:48.940 That was, I mean, I think that's the kind of movie that has prepared us for, look,

01:26:52.360 they're smarter than us.

01:26:53.900 They're not, they're, they're just, I mean, they're going to kill us if they want to kill 0.99

01:26:57.240 us.

01:26:57.440 So let's just relax.

01:26:59.560 Let's just go talk to them. 0.98

01:27:00.720 It just doesn't seem like they could be a society dumber than us at this point. 0.98

01:27:04.920 I just, I assume they're smarter. 0.97

01:27:06.280 Oh, I think that's why they're going to communicate with us.

01:27:07.920 They're like, we can take these guys in about two and a half seconds.

01:27:11.640 I have some great predictions for you later in the week.

01:27:30.040 Um, the return of the 12th, the mom is, uh, part of it, uh, China, Russia, what's going

01:27:38.000 to happen with the Russia investigation, the things that I think are going to be happening

01:27:42.320 around the world.

01:27:43.540 And some of them are pretty out there.

01:27:45.880 Uh, some of them are, um, it's just, it's, it's, it's, it's a risky list.

01:27:50.180 It's not one that I have full confidence in.

01:27:52.560 All right.

01:27:53.180 It's a risky list.

01:27:54.200 It's going to be one that'll be fun to watch, uh, for the, uh, and fun to berate you when

01:27:59.040 they're wrong.

01:27:59.540 Oh yeah.

01:28:00.140 Yeah.

01:28:00.500 And I've got 40 of them.

01:28:01.760 So there's going to be some, you're going to have at least 39 opportunities to berate

01:28:06.280 me before Christmas.

01:28:08.120 The head of FEMA, Brock Long told the news media, he wants everyone to understand three

01:28:14.460 fundamental truths.

01:28:16.020 One, now this is the head of FEMA. 0.90

01:28:18.860 Listen to this.

01:28:19.600 One, FEMA is broke.

01:28:22.620 Two, the system is broken.

01:28:27.140 Three, this new normal means that Americans can't rely on the federal government when disaster

01:28:32.440 strikes, that they'll have to take care of themselves. 0.94

01:28:36.720 Do you hear this?

01:28:37.400 Now, why did they release this right before Christmas?

01:28:42.340 Probably.

01:28:43.080 So you wouldn't hear it, but they were on record.

01:28:45.340 I want you to hear what he just said.

01:28:47.660 FEMA.

01:28:48.480 We have no money.

01:28:51.080 Two, the whole thing is broken.

01:28:54.760 Three.

01:28:55.660 If there's a big problem, we ain't coming to help.

01:28:59.660 Wow.

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01:29:57.940 Glenn.

01:29:59.180 Back.

01:30:00.140 Mercury.

01:30:00.580 Yeah, there's a lot of things that we should recap for you.

01:30:17.600 One of them is Nikki Haley.

01:30:19.740 I think Nikki Haley is, I mean, she is the superstar.

01:30:23.540 Did you see in, what is it, Fire and Fury, the stuff said about Nikki Haley?

01:30:28.080 Yeah, they kind of seem that she's angling for a potential run in the future.

01:30:32.480 I have to tell you, I wouldn't have considered Nikki Haley to, you know, necessarily vote for

01:30:38.340 president of the United States until I've seen her in action.

01:30:40.920 She's been great so far.

01:30:41.860 She's been one of the better appointments, I think.

01:30:43.800 Yeah, she is.

01:30:44.560 She is a home run all star.

01:30:47.540 Here she is on the Iran protests.

01:30:50.180 We don't have it?

01:30:55.440 Okay.

01:30:58.100 Video issues, apparently.

01:30:59.380 Okay.

01:30:59.780 She's been good on that.

01:31:00.400 I mean, you haven't talked about the Iran issues really at all.

01:31:03.000 And, you know, it's been, it was a weird thing that happened completely, you know, on vacation.

01:31:06.540 It's still going on.

01:31:07.360 But this is the time, we had this opportunity in 2009 to try to support.

01:31:13.500 Yeah, it was more widespread in 2009.

01:31:17.140 And the problem is, and I haven't, I mean, I have not been watching, you know, cable news.

01:31:23.900 So I don't, I don't know what others are saying on cable news.

01:31:26.560 But what this really is about is inflation.

01:31:31.180 The Iranians had just put up with about 40, about 40% inflation.

01:31:37.640 And it was just run away and it was killing people.

01:31:41.680 And so they went and they reset everything.

01:31:45.020 And, you know, they got control of their economy.

01:31:47.500 And the mullahs were like, oh, and all is blessed us or whatever. 0.84

01:31:51.700 And everybody was fine.

01:31:53.400 Now, they've promised that they would never see double-digit inflation again.

01:31:58.940 Well, it just hit, I think, 11%.

01:32:00.980 And so this started in the most religious communities.

01:32:06.540 This is why it's really dangerous for the mullahs and Khomeini. 1.00

01:32:12.960 Is these, this action started over the price of milk and cheese and everything else that they might eat.

01:32:20.140 Because of inflation in the most religious districts.

01:32:26.600 So these are the fans of the Islamic State at first.

01:32:31.960 The fans were the ones standing up going, hey, you just promised us that we would never, ever have this inflation again.

01:32:40.240 And then that lit the torch and now it's starting to spread.

01:32:43.080 So this is a completely different kind of movement, or at least it started as a completely different kind of movement than what we had before.

01:32:52.640 Those were people who wanted to destroy the regime against the religious hardliners.

01:32:58.660 Some of these are religious hardliners saying, I don't know if I believe in this regime anymore.

01:33:04.140 So we have a great potential on it.

01:33:07.520 In a positive way?

01:33:08.760 I mean, if you're coming out and you're saying you guys aren't super Islamic extremist enough for me, that doesn't seem like the good seed of a revolution.

01:33:16.900 No, I don't think that they're saying you're not super Islamic extremist enough for us.

01:33:20.700 They're saying we're not sure this works.

01:33:23.420 We're not sure this works anymore.

01:33:25.400 We might still be religious.

01:33:26.960 Yes.

01:33:27.240 Maybe, but we're not sure this regime works anymore the way it is.

01:33:30.980 You think?

01:33:31.620 Yeah, they're getting tired of the average person.

01:33:35.720 And you can be really, really religious, but not be on a jihad.

01:33:39.900 And what's happening is the super religious are like, you know what? 1.00

01:33:43.140 I just want to be religious.

01:33:44.260 And I'd like my own house to be where I'd like a job.

01:33:47.320 And I'd like to be able to afford stuff.

01:33:49.140 And I'd like to have my family around.

01:33:50.960 And I'm tired of of all these grand adventures that you're going on for a caliphate and everything else. 0.93

01:33:58.460 That'd be great.

01:33:59.560 But this isn't working.

01:34:01.180 Take care of us first.

01:34:03.540 So it's good in a way.

01:34:06.320 It's good.

01:34:07.200 It seems I mean, certainly presented as positive.

01:34:09.420 And I want for everything I've read about it.

01:34:11.460 It seems to be, you know, we should be anything that's going to topple that regime.

01:34:16.420 I mean, it is a good thing.

01:34:18.820 Although, you know, we've said that before.

01:34:20.700 Let's see what happens.

01:34:22.140 What is, you know, who is there to catch it as it falls?

01:34:26.560 Right, exactly.

01:34:26.800 You know, ISIS caught part of it in Iraq, right?

01:34:29.900 I mean, you know, this is always...

01:34:31.740 And Turkey.

01:34:32.640 Yeah.

01:34:33.000 Yeah, Turkey.

01:34:33.900 That was, you know, I know you talk about Turkey a little bit in your predictions as well.

01:34:37.200 They're going to be kind of revealing over the week.

01:34:41.280 You know, you see them as really a big factor going forward.

01:34:44.500 Turkey is going to, and I'll talk about this later in the week, Turkey is going to turn 0.89

01:34:49.860 much more hardline.

01:34:51.500 And they are going, they're going towards Sharia law.

01:34:55.340 They're going to, you know, they are not going to be an ally of freedom.

01:35:00.120 They aren't already.

01:35:02.060 And I think the Kurds are going to pay a huge price. 1.00

01:35:04.980 And the weaker Iran gets, the more Turkey will lick its chops. 0.86

01:35:10.420 Because Turkey is going to try to remake the Ottoman Empire again. 0.98

01:35:13.380 So, it's just beginning.

01:35:16.840 I think another interesting thing is, watch for a new Arab Spring in Iran the week of

01:35:27.760 the first day of spring.

01:35:29.740 Because there's another anniversary that's happening in Iran on that, the day before the

01:35:35.700 first day of spring, that could start a second Arab Spring.

01:35:39.600 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:35:55.480 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:35:58.100 Welcome to Pat Gray from the Pat Gray Extravaganza.

01:36:01.940 Welcome, Pat.

01:36:02.920 How are you?

01:36:03.500 Good.

01:36:03.940 You?

01:36:04.580 I'm good.

01:36:05.380 I'm good.

01:36:05.440 Does it already feel like you weren't on vacation at all?

01:36:07.320 No, you know what?

01:36:08.940 We were gone for two weeks and I read so much and I'm so full of new ideas and new things

01:36:17.360 that I actually, this is the first time in a long time I've come back refreshed.

01:36:20.200 Yeah, we were thinking we could do one really good show every two weeks if we went that.

01:36:24.480 Right?

01:36:24.680 You know, but I thought that was, do a show, take another two weeks.

01:36:27.740 I was thinking you do four weeks, we do a day.

01:36:31.240 You do four weeks, we do a day.

01:36:33.700 Thoughts?

01:36:34.640 Yeah.

01:36:35.280 Let me mull that over.

01:36:36.700 It'd be a good show, Pat.

01:36:37.860 It'd be a good show for us.

01:36:39.180 It'd be a good show.

01:36:39.980 I got, I mean, it's just riddled with stuff.

01:36:42.580 Have you had the time yet to read Fire and Fury?

01:36:45.780 No, I have not yet.

01:36:47.240 You need to.

01:36:47.960 Uh, and you need to read it with this warning.

01:36:51.720 If you think, and this is why liberals love this.

01:36:55.920 If you think that he's an incompetent boob, the first third quarter of the book, first 0.89

01:37:02.980 three chapters of the book, you're like, wow. 0.96

01:37:06.520 Okay.

01:37:07.180 He doesn't know what's going on.

01:37:09.140 He has no clue.

01:37:10.820 Um, if you, uh, think that he's a bad guy, the first, the first third.

01:37:17.960 At least you'll be like, yeah.

01:37:19.780 Okay.

01:37:20.080 Bad guy.

01:37:21.820 If you are a liberal, that's all you'll read.

01:37:24.880 That's all you, that's all you absorb, you'll be fine with it.

01:37:29.480 Um, if you are a real conservative, you will begin, as you read it, you will begin to say,

01:37:36.420 wait a minute, this seems like everything that Steve Bannon wants me to believe about

01:37:45.760 Donald Trump, the administration, all the people around this looks like a really good book

01:37:52.460 for Steve Bannon.

01:37:54.220 Steve, I think Stu and I both came to the separately came to the same conclusion that it's almost

01:37:59.200 a ghost written book by Steve Bannon, where he is, he is telling you, in fact, he does

01:38:06.840 at the end, I'm going to run for president.

01:38:10.340 Um, and here are the things that I do.

01:38:12.640 He makes, he makes the Trump, they've turned this, uh, Gorsuch thing, which may be true,

01:38:18.220 may not be true.

01:38:19.140 We don't know.

01:38:20.560 But, um, Gorsuch came out and said something bad about Trump after the nomination.

01:38:25.620 And in the book, it says, Trump said, I want Giuliani.

01:38:29.000 I want Julie, get him out of there.

01:38:31.220 And it was Steve Bannon to the rescue, uh, with Gorsuch and said, no, no, no, you have

01:38:38.200 to hold your promise to America.

01:38:40.100 Wow.

01:38:40.520 Yeah.

01:38:40.660 Over and over and over again.

01:38:41.780 Wow.

01:38:42.000 Like that, it, every chapter almost has that kind of stuff.

01:38:45.800 I'm fascinated by this Bannon thing because he's all over the place.

01:38:49.940 And I think he's all over the place now and backtracking now.

01:38:53.880 Have you noticed what he's saying now that he's a great man?

01:38:56.620 Oh, and by the way, Donald Jr. is a wonderful man too.

01:38:59.100 He's really good too.

01:39:00.200 Oh, you should see.

01:39:00.960 And Baron.

01:39:01.260 Baron.

01:39:01.500 I love Baron.

01:39:02.440 Ivanka?

01:39:03.140 One of the most beautiful, smart, accomplished women in the world.

01:39:07.420 When you read the take.

01:39:08.760 Because he's being destroyed.

01:39:09.960 Yeah.

01:39:10.380 When you read the takedown that is clearly from Bannon on those two,

01:39:15.280 his children, oh my gosh, as a dad, I'd be apoplectic.

01:39:19.360 And he is.

01:39:20.400 Yeah.

01:39:20.780 And he is.

01:39:21.640 Yeah.

01:39:22.100 And that's why he's, he's destroying him.

01:39:24.660 So what happens to Steve Bannon from here?

01:39:27.660 What happens to Breitbart?

01:39:29.280 What happens to all?

01:39:30.900 Honestly, I haven't asked this out loud, but for all those people who were behind

01:39:37.240 Breitbart and Bannon and saying that we were wrong, he was a good guy.

01:39:42.080 And we kept saying he's dangerous.

01:39:43.880 No, no, no.

01:39:45.280 These are the kinds of things he does.

01:39:47.140 This book verifies all of that.

01:39:50.200 So are, and they're on the record quotes from Bannon that he is not denied.

01:39:54.740 Russell, that is the important part of your people are like, oh, it's fake news.

01:39:57.240 He said it on the record and he is not denied it. 0.66

01:39:59.840 Yeah.

01:40:00.320 Well, I think the time to support them both is over.

01:40:03.720 I hasn't the president made that pretty clear.

01:40:06.000 I mean, you're with him or you're with me and everybody, including the billionaire

01:40:09.400 backers that were formerly backing Steve Bannon are off that bandwagon.

01:40:15.020 He's losing all his friends.

01:40:16.060 Yep.

01:40:16.280 Did you see, did you see that he is, I think Drudge did this.

01:40:22.480 So I'm not sure if this is true or not, but meeting with a big Chinese backer, which doesn't

01:40:27.380 seem good after, especially after you read the book and see what he said about China.

01:40:32.680 And then in one of the most incredible portions of the book, when they're talking about Russia,

01:40:38.460 Steve Bannon is quoted as saying, that's what's so great about me.

01:40:42.580 I don't even know Russians.

01:40:43.620 I've never been to a Russian restaurant.

01:40:46.120 I don't like Russian dressing.

01:40:49.860 I mean, he goes, doesn't he?

01:40:50.980 He goes on and on and on about how he has no connections whatsoever.

01:40:55.100 He doesn't even know.

01:40:56.260 That's a lie.

01:40:57.700 That's a lie.

01:40:59.520 He, I can guarantee you he's had conversations with Russians.

01:41:05.140 I can guarantee it.

01:41:07.160 Guarantee it.

01:41:08.380 Look at who he's surrounded with.

01:41:10.680 And that's the thing, like he keeps trying to plan to play this off as like, oh, I was

01:41:14.420 just going after Manafort or whatever.

01:41:17.260 He said that they, he's the chances of the Russians in that meeting, not going upstairs and

01:41:24.720 meeting with Donald Trump.

01:41:26.980 The chances of that were zero.

01:41:29.100 Right.

01:41:29.960 Yeah.

01:41:30.220 That they wouldn't have specifically walked them upstairs.

01:41:32.940 Yeah.

01:41:33.520 I mean.

01:41:34.020 And he called Donald Trump treasonous for what he did.

01:41:37.540 It's pretty hard to back off treasonous.

01:41:39.880 Yeah.

01:41:40.320 It's unbelievable.

01:41:40.980 He's trying to do it.

01:41:42.340 But it's hard.

01:41:43.280 Yeah.

01:41:43.640 You're not a great man if you're committing treason.

01:41:45.800 And that's what now all of a sudden he's a great man.

01:41:48.240 Well, yeah.

01:41:49.060 You can't because he's destroying you.

01:41:52.000 Destroyed.

01:41:52.500 I think Bannon overplayed his hand.

01:41:54.280 I think Bannon thought this was going to come out and make the president look bad and

01:41:59.520 like the things about Gorsuch.

01:42:01.400 Wait a minute.

01:42:02.360 He was the guy who did Gorsuch, not Donald Trump.

01:42:05.820 You're not going to win that battle.

01:42:06.660 And somehow or another, everybody's going to go like, I like Donald Trump.

01:42:09.400 Not this spooky guy in the shadows.

01:42:11.360 I like him much better now.

01:42:13.660 No, no.

01:42:14.820 Yeah.

01:42:14.980 It's not going to happen.

01:42:15.700 He really thought people.

01:42:17.020 I think he thought this would turn people around and have them go, oh, I like the spooky

01:42:21.860 guy in the shadows more than Donald Trump.

01:42:23.560 You're probably right.

01:42:24.220 And that's really flawed thinking based on everything we've seen from Donald Trump from

01:42:28.960 the time he entered the race until now.

01:42:31.560 He destroyed everybody.

01:42:33.340 So another thing that I read in the book, and Stu doesn't remember this, so I don't know.

01:42:37.620 I think I read it in the book.

01:42:38.980 We'll have to look at it.

01:42:40.220 But I read somewhere, and I thought it was in the book, that trying to find his background

01:42:46.700 on Seinfeld, you know, everybody said, oh, he was part of the investor in Seinfeld, and

01:42:51.360 they, I think it was in the book that said, no, we couldn't find any evidence that he was

01:42:55.960 involved with Seinfeld at all.

01:42:57.860 Which is like, is it supposedly the claim where he's getting all of his money from?

01:43:01.780 Because he was not a huge, like, high-level guy at Goldman.

01:43:05.720 Give me your, Stu said, here's my favorite quote from the book.

01:43:10.280 This is so good.

01:43:10.980 About Bannon.

01:43:11.820 Yeah.

01:43:12.160 For a man with a strong sense of his own destiny, he tended to be hardly noticed.

01:43:18.360 That was describing his life.

01:43:21.160 He tended to be hardly noticed.

01:43:24.060 Wow.

01:43:24.780 And that, you know, plays into his narrative, which is, you know, he needs to be noticed.

01:43:31.040 He can't resist telling the media how brilliant he was and how this is his doing.

01:43:37.920 And I think what he wants to do now is, now that he's out, one of the first things he said

01:43:41.200 when Bannon left the administration was, the presidency as we knew it is over.

01:43:46.500 And so now he wants to say, hey, all these bad things that are going to happen are Jared

01:43:50.780 and Ivanka's fault, right?

01:43:52.420 Because he doesn't like them.

01:43:53.840 And he's trying to paint this as, now, what you liked about Trump was me, and now the stuff

01:43:59.600 you're not going to like is them.

01:44:01.480 But honestly, I mean, one of the, half the problem I had with Donald Trump from the primary

01:44:06.340 on to today was Steve Bannon, right?

01:44:09.300 Like, the fact that he's out, we've seen a huge improvement, I think, in the administration.

01:44:13.880 Things have been getting done.

01:44:15.200 A far better first year than I could have imagined.

01:44:17.200 Yeah.

01:44:17.980 I mean, a real, and later, since Bannon left, there has been a noticeable positive change,

01:44:26.000 at least policy-wise, right?

01:44:28.040 Like, they're still, you know, you're still going to get Trump, you know, tweeting about

01:44:30.420 how he's a genius, right?

01:44:31.620 That's not going to end, right?

01:44:33.060 That's never, he's like a genius.

01:44:35.340 That's never going to end.

01:44:36.920 But that's just him.

01:44:37.600 No, he's not like it.

01:44:38.200 He's like a very smart person.

01:44:39.920 And a very stable genius.

01:44:40.800 He's a very stable genius.

01:44:42.640 I apologize.

01:44:43.000 I want a very stable genius t-shirt.

01:44:44.960 I want one.

01:44:45.560 That's very, I want one.

01:44:46.860 I'm going to make one.

01:44:47.680 And that's what I think he enjoys about the job, right?

01:44:50.200 Like, that's, he likes the back and forth.

01:44:51.820 He likes taking it to the media, but Bannon wants you to know that the policy stuff was

01:44:57.200 him, and this bad stuff going on now is Jared and Ivanka's fault.

01:45:02.060 I mean, and it, like, throughout the book, it just reads like he was, he's trying to send

01:45:05.900 you a message.

01:45:07.160 And I think, you know, it's the price, you have to read it, because I'd love to hear,

01:45:12.540 because the media has it all wrong. 1.00

01:45:14.340 The media is just focusing on Trump as an imbecile. 1.00

01:45:18.000 That's not the point of this book. 1.00

01:45:19.460 It's really not the point.

01:45:20.780 That's, that is the surface level.

01:45:24.140 You look down and you see, what is Bannon trying to foster for 2020?

01:45:30.740 What is he actually doing?

01:45:33.340 It, nobody, I don't think anybody on the left will, will understand this book for what it

01:45:38.580 means to the people on the right.

01:45:40.260 And it's a, it's a really important look at what is coming on the right with Steve Bannon.

01:45:45.420 Now he may have blown it.

01:45:46.920 Oh, I think he did.

01:45:47.740 Yeah.

01:45:47.980 He may have blown it, but I don't know.

01:45:49.680 And what a, what a horrible miscalculation on his part to think that he can go up against

01:45:54.820 Trump and, and reposition Trump and become the guy everybody looks to in 2020.

01:46:01.420 There's no way you're going to do that.

01:46:03.020 So, you know, what's really interesting is Roger Ailes said to me one time, um, I said,

01:46:07.660 Roger, and this is absolutely true.

01:46:10.000 And did you guys ever spending time with Roger?

01:46:12.420 Well, I had one meeting with him.

01:46:13.760 Very little meeting.

01:46:14.440 Was it a good meeting or a bad meeting?

01:46:15.780 It was fine.

01:46:16.360 Okay.

01:46:16.720 It was, I don't remember.

01:46:18.000 This guy, well, you heard me tell, I would leave his office and I would come and tell you

01:46:21.840 guys, you won't believe what just happened in this meeting.

01:46:24.280 Right.

01:46:24.480 Uh, so he's very entertaining and super smart and just really good at what he did.

01:46:31.000 And I said to him at one point, I said, you would have been the biggest TV star in the

01:46:36.340 history of television.

01:46:37.640 And he just looked at me and that's all I said.

01:46:41.320 And he looked at me and he said, but I looked like this and he knew and he knew.

01:46:50.200 Yeah.

01:46:50.540 Um, and, and there was some sort of, you know, tinge of regret that he wasn't able to do it.

01:46:56.280 I don't think that Bannon has that self-awareness.

01:46:59.180 I think Bannon thinks, oh, I'm the, I'm the face of this.

01:47:03.780 Cause they both see themselves as the same character, right?

01:47:06.520 The person who's smart enough and could, could do it.

01:47:08.620 And the, of course, the difference is that Ailes has had success and has been able to

01:47:13.080 do these things where Bannon has been.

01:47:14.740 Has not.

01:47:15.220 He's got Roy Moore.

01:47:16.220 What was the quote again?

01:47:17.500 Uh, largely, uh, unnoticed.

01:47:19.260 Yeah.

01:47:19.880 Yeah.

01:47:20.320 Uh, that's, uh, what happens to, what happens to Breitbart?

01:47:24.820 What happens to the Patriot channel?

01:47:27.140 I think, uh, Breitbart in particular is damaged now.

01:47:30.920 And, uh, who knows if they can salvage that.

01:47:33.660 They can salvage it if they distance themselves now.

01:47:36.660 Yeah.

01:47:36.800 They got to get away from Bannon.

01:47:38.040 Yeah.

01:47:38.720 Yeah.

01:47:38.900 Cause you can do that.

01:47:39.460 Cause that would be a positive.

01:47:40.720 Cause there's always been good people working at Breitbart who have gone through that.

01:47:45.020 I mean, Ben Shapiro was there forever.

01:47:46.800 Yeah.

01:47:47.280 He left because of Dana Lash was there at the, I mean, there was a lot, there's been great

01:47:51.720 people who have not only gone through there, but there are some that are still, that still

01:47:54.680 remain.

01:47:55.060 And so there's no reason that Breitbart has to trash Breitbart's memory as it has for several

01:48:00.520 years.

01:48:00.940 There's no reason they can't turn that around.

01:48:02.420 I think everybody now realizes that Bannon hijacked that organization.

01:48:07.440 Um, so if he leaves, I, you know, they could turn themselves back around to not just be

01:48:12.840 a political organ for one guy.

01:48:14.480 Uh, they, or, and that guy, how do you get rid of the people that, uh, you know, are probably

01:48:19.620 still cheering for people like Milo?

01:48:22.240 Yeah.

01:48:22.520 You're going to need, you're going to have to, you're going to need a house of many of

01:48:25.760 many of the people there, but there's a lot of good people there.

01:48:28.420 Yeah.

01:48:28.580 Surely.

01:48:29.240 And they're going to have to decide, do you want to be outright or do you want to be

01:48:31.900 conservative?

01:48:32.960 Yeah.

01:48:33.300 You're going to have to make that decision first.

01:48:35.200 And then you go from there.

01:48:36.560 Maybe they like the Milo people.

01:48:38.700 I don't know.

01:48:39.620 It's, it's, it, I guess it's who takes over in, instead of Bannon that will determine

01:48:44.320 that.

01:48:44.500 Well, you have to read, you have to read fire and fury, Pat, because you'll be able to, you

01:48:48.900 just have to, you just have to turn down the Donald Trump censor and just go, okay, whatever

01:48:54.400 they say about Donald Trump, don't, don't read it for Donald Trump, read it for policy

01:48:59.860 and direction.

01:49:00.900 And what Bannon is saying, they try that this writer I know thinks he's hurting Bannon by

01:49:08.760 saying, well, he's a nationalist and he's for all these big government status kind of

01:49:13.040 things.

01:49:13.360 No, Bannon wants you to say that there's a lot of people on the right now that believe

01:49:18.300 in that kind of stuff.

01:49:19.580 And he's setting forth a new conservative movement and he's using this.

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01:51:09.740 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:51:12.340 It's kind of a big week, personally at least.

01:51:28.340 Today is my 18th wedding anniversary.

01:51:32.480 I married the most wonderful woman in the world who, we were talking last night, this

01:51:38.000 time has flown by.

01:51:39.300 Uh, it, uh, when we talk that we've known each other for 20 years, it just seems like

01:51:44.380 what?

01:51:44.760 How did that even, and I've been married before and it didn't necessarily move as quickly as

01:51:50.500 this one has.

01:51:51.640 So, uh, but, uh, 20 years and this Friday is our 20 year anniversary of working together.

01:51:59.460 Is it not?

01:51:59.980 Yeah.

01:52:00.120 My first day as an intern was this week, 20 years ago, which seems freaking crazy.

01:52:05.100 Yeah.

01:52:05.500 That I, that I brought you along.

01:52:07.000 Yeah.

01:52:07.440 Exactly.

01:52:08.060 Promoted you from intern.

01:52:08.960 Can we also disclose that, uh, today's tonight's anniversary and you've invited me to a movie.

01:52:14.260 Yes.

01:52:14.740 Uh, very romantic.

01:52:15.880 So you guys, you're doing a good job there.

01:52:17.460 That's funny.

01:52:17.780 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:52:18.100 It's working out well.

01:52:19.100 Good job, Tanya.

01:52:19.780 She planned it.

01:52:20.320 Nice.

01:52:21.200 Nice prick up on the free agent market there, Tanya. 0.54

01:52:23.540 She planned it.

01:52:24.480 She was like, dear God.

01:52:26.300 Get us into a dark room wherever other people are.

01:52:28.840 And other people are talking when we can't speak.

01:52:30.380 We're with the whole family.

01:52:32.000 And we're taking the whole family to go see Darkest Hour tonight.

01:52:34.380 And we'd love to have you come because you will love this movie.

01:52:36.880 I really want to see it.

01:52:37.600 You will love this movie.

01:52:38.600 Winston Churchill.

01:52:39.480 Oh my gosh.

01:52:40.480 And it's just, it, my wife went to it going, this is the price I pay being married to Glenn

01:52:45.360 Beck.

01:52:46.000 She came out loving the movie.

01:52:47.880 It was her suggestion to go again tonight.

01:52:49.880 Let's take the whole family. 0.96

01:52:51.180 Darkest Hour.

01:52:51.900 See you.

01:52:52.160 Glenn Beck.

01:52:53.100 God bless you.

01:52:53.980 God bless you.

01:52:54.440 God bless you.

The Glenn Beck Program - January 08, 2018

1⧸8⧸18 - Christians Must Wake Up

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