The Glenn Beck Program - 10⧸22⧸18 - Best of the Program⧸ Guests, Ben Sasse & Larry Sharpe

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00:00:08.300 Coming up on the podcast today, we had, we're only a couple weeks away from the election,

00:00:12.440 Glenn, and...

00:00:14.140 Well, I don't, I'm busy working on the comedy for the tour.

00:00:19.380 Yeah, that's coming up, and really soon, actually, go to glenbeck.com slash tour for tickets.

00:00:24.920 What a shock, it's right before the election and just right after.

00:00:28.240 It's like we're going to have nothing to talk about.

00:00:31.260 Nothing at all.

00:00:31.720 Nothing at all, but comedy.

00:00:33.880 Lots and lots of comedy.

00:00:35.820 And we're going to have election night coverage on The Blaze.

00:00:38.460 I'm here.

00:00:39.940 Yeah, I'm intending on that.

00:00:42.060 I believe I'm the designated driver.

00:00:44.380 Oh, really?

00:00:44.960 Yeah, it's election night coverage, and I haven't figured out exactly how you're going to have to,

00:00:52.080 how I'm going to be administering the shots.

00:00:53.860 But it may be for every house seat that is lost, you know?

00:01:01.940 We're going to be dead, potentially.

00:01:04.240 I'm really going to be rooting for Republicans more than ever.

00:01:07.440 So anyway.

00:01:08.000 So we'll get into that.

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00:01:15.920 Okay, today, we start with election by the numbers.

00:01:19.800 Looking at the latest polls and the changes that are going on there, there's some really interesting things happening.

00:01:25.200 Some of them really good for Republicans.

00:01:27.220 We'll get into the details on that.

00:01:28.980 Ben Sasse joins us as well.

00:01:31.040 He's kind of in some hot water for taking on, I guess, the right.

00:01:38.420 Yeah, although there's so much more in the book.

00:01:40.180 I don't know why that's been the focus.

00:01:41.480 I think the flashpoint is about Sean Hannity.

00:01:45.320 We didn't get into that.

00:01:46.380 We just got into what is it that you really think is going on?

00:01:50.560 He was fascinating.

00:01:51.900 Yeah.

00:01:52.160 And Larry Sharp, he's running for governor in New York as a libertarian.

00:01:56.320 And imagine New York's economy unleashed under a libertarian.

00:02:00.260 I mean, that would be...

00:02:00.640 I don't understand why the conservatives, why Republicans, just don't go, look, Cuomo's going to win.

00:02:07.880 Let's vote for Larry Sharp.

00:02:09.040 Let's just all go for a vote for Larry Sharp, because we know Cuomo's going to win.

00:02:15.060 He's going to beat the Republican.

00:02:17.720 Let's send a message.

00:02:19.380 Yeah.

00:02:20.060 It would be powerful.

00:02:21.480 It would be.

00:02:22.120 We talked to him as well on today's podcast.

00:02:30.280 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:36.160 It's Monday, October 22nd.

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00:02:40.700 It's Monday, October 22nd.

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00:02:45.820 All right.

00:02:46.840 Hello, America.

00:02:48.360 Welcome to the program.

00:02:50.420 Election just a few weeks away.

00:02:53.880 And I'm afraid that both sides could become complacent.

00:02:59.700 Because both sides now are revved up, unlike we've ever seen before.

00:03:05.760 It's all going to be about turnout.

00:03:09.180 Who actually, when the day comes, says, yeah, I'm going to go vote.

00:03:14.600 And how many are just revved up now for, you know, valid reasons, but then say, eh, I, you know, speaking out is enough and not going out to vote.

00:03:29.520 It's interesting because we've seen these turnout numbers.

00:03:33.560 Generally, they've been applying lately to presidential elections.

00:03:38.240 Since 2000, we've seen a massive jump in the amount of people who are super passionate and paying attention at high levels to presidential campaigns.

00:03:48.660 That's certainly what happened with Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

00:03:53.180 And it's also, one of the things we've noticed is in the off years, that doesn't happen all that much.

00:04:00.200 Midterm elections do not seem to inspire, particularly among Democrats recently, the amount of passion that has been coming from the right.

00:04:09.800 You remember 2010, the Tea Party wave, the biggest wave election in a century, basically.

00:04:15.720 2014 was also a little mini, you know, sort of Tea Party-related wave, where the candidates weren't maybe as much Tea Party, but they were still a pretty strong year for Republicans in 2014.

00:04:26.600 In 2006, you saw the opposite.

00:04:28.600 You saw Democrats in the last years of the Bush administration have a really strong midterm in 2006.

00:04:34.800 But, you know, generally speaking, people aren't as passionate.

00:04:37.400 The numbers, however, for this midterm election are off the charts.

00:04:41.840 And it's interesting, Glenn was pointing out before the show, that when Barack Obama was a sort of celebrity presidential candidate, and he would have these huge rallies in 2008, and you remember the one in Denver.

00:04:55.040 I mean, he was the first one.

00:04:56.060 He was a god.

00:04:56.500 He was a rock.

00:04:57.200 It was like watching U2.

00:04:59.880 Right.

00:05:00.380 It's like, remember the Roman pillars?

00:05:01.860 Yeah, yeah.

00:05:02.420 It was literally like a rock star.

00:05:05.080 Yeah.

00:05:05.220 And then it just disappeared.

00:05:07.060 And if you remember, by midterms, you had these huge turnouts in the street, but no one was going to see the president in those stadiums and arenas.

00:05:18.920 They still would book the arena.

00:05:20.740 But I remember distinctly covering them, saying, turn the camera around.

00:05:27.240 And they were half-empty rooms.

00:05:29.560 Yeah.

00:05:30.000 The passion was gone.

00:05:31.020 Gone.

00:05:31.760 We are not seeing that with Trump.

00:05:33.340 I mean, these rallies seem to be as well attended as they were during the campaign.

00:05:36.740 If not more so.

00:05:37.720 Sometimes more so, right?

00:05:39.120 There's supposed to be a huge one here, I think, for Ted Cruz tonight in Texas.

00:05:43.040 They've already camped out overnight.

00:05:45.700 The line to the stadium is blocks long.

00:05:49.740 Yeah.

00:05:50.040 And people have camped out overnight.

00:05:52.020 So there's no drop in the passion seemingly among Republicans.

00:05:56.320 And the same thing seems to be happening with Democrats as much as it is a positive for Republicans to keep those crowds.

00:06:05.820 One of the reasons why people are passionate is because the other side is so passionate.

00:06:10.120 And we're going to go through some of that mob stuff that's going on right now with Republicans.

00:06:13.960 But the numbers are interesting on this.

00:06:16.040 If you look at the passion among Republicans and Democrats, you kind of can see what happened in the election.

00:06:24.580 Again, we talked about 2006, big win for Democrats.

00:06:27.620 Well, when we went into that election, 69% of Democrats said they had the highest levels of interest in the election.

00:06:35.000 69%.

00:06:35.520 Republicans, it was only 56%.

00:06:37.200 And Republicans got smoked.

00:06:39.340 2010, you had a 66% Republican percentage of people who were really interested in the election.

00:06:46.980 Only 49% of Democrats, Democrats got smoked.

00:06:50.920 You said the same thing, 2014.

00:06:52.860 Remember, Democrats got smoked again there.

00:06:54.960 Republicans, 59% said they were really interested.

00:06:58.580 Only 48% of Democrats said that.

00:07:01.240 And what's interesting is, leading up to, I would say, Brett Kavanaugh, you had the same type of thing playing out again, this time in favor of the Democrats.

00:07:14.240 It started to look a lot like 2006.

00:07:17.000 So, up until Kavanaugh, you had 63% of Democrats, highest levels of interest in the election.

00:07:24.160 Republicans was only 53%.

00:07:25.020 53%.

00:07:25.740 So, that is, you know, a big, it's the type of gap that leads you to lose the Senate and lose the House.

00:07:32.840 Or at least makes it possible.

00:07:35.000 Since Kavanaugh, that has changed.

00:07:37.600 Democrats have gone up from 63% to 72%.

00:07:41.880 Holy cow. 0.89

00:07:42.700 72% is the highest number for any party in all of these elections.

00:07:47.140 However, Republicans have jumped a higher percentage point basis from 53% to 68%.

00:07:53.700 So, now we have basically a balance, a very close, within the margin of error, separation.

00:08:01.080 And both of those numbers, 68, would be the second highest level of interest of all of these elections.

00:08:07.240 So, the Democrats are at 72.

00:08:08.860 Republicans are at 68.

00:08:10.400 Both of those numbers are the highest of any of these elections going back to 2006 midterms.

00:08:16.820 And, I mean, which is crazy.

00:08:19.240 It is a, there's a level here that we don't know what's going to happen.

00:08:25.500 This is like, you know, this is territory that has not been seen before.

00:08:30.760 And, you know, while you can look at the polls and you can see the polls, as we've talked about over the past couple weeks, relatively, you know, are relatively pointing towards a Republican victory in the Senate, where they maybe pick up a couple of seats.

00:08:45.120 And a Republican loss in the House, where they would lose a couple of seats.

00:08:49.560 There is a, you know, if you want to look at the kind of the optimistic way of looking at the House right now, to show you how close this is.

00:08:55.160 If Republicans were to sweep the races they are favored in, okay?

00:09:00.220 That's not going to happen.

00:09:01.380 It never happens.

00:09:02.040 But just kind of generally for understanding.

00:09:03.820 If they were to be able to sweep all of the races they're favored in, and they were to be able to win all of the races that they trail by one point.

00:09:13.520 So all of these races are either victories or toss-ups, right?

00:09:17.840 I mean, they could go either way.

00:09:19.100 But if they were to sweep all of those, Republicans still hold the House at 220 to 215.

00:09:24.640 Now, the problem is, the idea that they're going to sweep all those races is, we know that's not going to happen.

00:09:31.500 It never happens.

00:09:32.600 The other thing is, they will win some races where they're underdogs by more than one point.

00:09:36.080 They will win some, you know, when they're down by five in the polls, they'll wind up winning some of those races.

00:09:40.200 So the split is going to be important here.

00:09:42.280 But just that gets them only to 220 to 215, which is a, I think they lose, that's them losing 10 seats from where they are now.

00:09:50.220 But also a very narrow majority to the point where some conservative things could be derailed by just, you know, your generic moderate House member that you've never heard their name before when they decide they're going to vote against the president.

00:10:03.520 So it's an interesting way of looking at it, and it shows that this really could go either way.

00:10:09.680 I mean, when they say that there's about a 20% chance the Republicans lose the Senate and about a 20% chance the Republicans win the House,

00:10:17.420 that's the way that these models are all kind of looking at it, 20% is one in five, right?

00:10:23.480 So it is very possible that one of these things could happen.

00:10:27.220 But right now, it looks like those are going to wind up getting split.

00:10:30.480 And then, of course, even though you're not going to be able to pass Democratic bills because they would either get vetoed or overturned in the House,

00:10:36.040 you're still going to have investigative power, you're going to have subpoena power, you're going to have impeachment talks.

00:10:39.300 Oh, it's a nightmare.

00:10:40.080 It's a nightmare if they get the House.

00:10:43.360 It's a nightmare.

00:10:43.980 Okay, so here's what I found interesting.

00:10:48.120 In watching the news and watching just the flow of it, have you noticed that, you know,

00:10:58.500 places like the Atlantic and the Times and the Post are now starting to publish stories about, you know,

00:11:06.580 it's an uphill battle to win some of these races in the House.

00:11:10.400 It's an uphill battle.

00:11:11.520 So they have changed their tone from, you know, an absolute positive, oh, we're on a blue wave,

00:11:20.500 to now almost laying the foundation of, yeah, we lost.

00:11:27.260 But it was, you know, it was really kind of a long shot anyway.

00:11:30.860 Yeah.

00:11:31.100 I mean, that's how badly I think the Kavanaugh thing has backfired on them.

00:11:35.700 I mean, it's made the Senate basically, I mean, again, I just said it's one out of five chance.

00:11:40.560 But, I mean, they had a better chance of this two months ago.

00:11:44.300 I mean, they had a legitimate path to victory.

00:11:47.080 When Cruz was only up by three points, all of these races that looked like leaning Republican were all toss-up,

00:11:53.340 and some of them looked like they might be leaning Democrat.

00:11:55.680 They had a chance to win the Senate before the Kavanaugh thing.

00:11:58.060 Now, I mean, I think it's a real, real uphill battle.

00:12:01.140 It's really going to come to the independents.

00:12:04.480 How are the independents feeling?

00:12:06.860 They're an interesting group because they are not as passionate as you would expect in this environment.

00:12:12.660 So independents in 2006 and 2010 were at 50%.

00:12:17.460 Now, independents are almost always going to be lower in high interest than partisans because partisans engage more, like typically.

00:12:25.800 That's not, of course, a blanket rule, but it's typical. 0.96

00:12:29.100 In 2014, it was down to 40%.

00:12:31.160 In 2018, up until Kavanaugh, was 42%.

00:12:34.960 And then the jump now to 46%.

00:12:39.040 So still, that's not as high as some of the earlier elections among independents.

00:12:42.860 And that may just be because they're overwhelmed with it, and they don't like either side,

00:12:47.380 and it just makes them want to withdraw from politics.

00:12:50.220 Yeah, but I wonder, because I would consider myself an independent.

00:12:53.540 Yeah.

00:12:53.720 And there's no way you're going to keep me away from the polls.

00:12:56.920 And so I'm wondering, you know, with that 4% jump, was it a 4% jump or 2%?

00:13:01.940 A 4% jump.

00:13:04.200 I wonder how much of that are people like me who are going to vote for the Republican just because the left has gone insane.

00:13:14.880 Right.

00:13:15.160 And there's a lot of independents that I, I mean, I certainly would fall into this category as well.

00:13:19.300 Like, I am not a registered member of any party, nor will I ever be in my entire life.

00:13:23.580 Likewise.

00:13:23.800 That being said, you know, I vote Republican.

00:13:27.440 I mean, I, you know, I don't vote for Democrats.

00:13:29.780 Right.

00:13:30.300 So I vote for Republicans, independents.

00:13:32.780 And libertarians.

00:13:33.340 And libertarians.

00:13:34.180 I don't vote for Democrats.

00:13:35.380 But yeah, I mean, so that's never going to happen.

00:13:37.040 And so the fact that I'm independent, you can't look at that line as these are people who could go either way at any time between these two parties.

00:13:43.040 That's not what that is.

00:13:43.980 Right.

00:13:44.300 It's people who identify that way.

00:13:45.540 It's a group that's, that's growing and has been growing for quite some time.

00:13:48.960 Yes.

00:13:49.280 People are bailing out of the parties.

00:13:52.080 But the parties themselves are becoming more rigid and more.

00:13:56.780 This one could come down to the independents.

00:14:00.020 This one could come down to, because you can understand the Republicans going up.

00:14:07.720 You can understand if you're on the Democratic side, Kavanaugh driving all those people.

00:14:12.140 But what's driving the independent?

00:14:15.040 Yeah.

00:14:16.300 I mean, I would think they're disgust with what's going on.

00:14:20.200 Right.

00:14:20.540 If anything, they don't like the overall system.

00:14:24.280 There's one other interesting stat in here, Glenn, if we could.

00:14:26.480 Yeah.

00:14:26.720 As we're talking about the caravan of immigrants coming, migrants, whatever, which will be illegal immigrants if they get it all the way here. 0.55

00:14:37.240 By the way, who said that was coming?

00:14:40.080 Oh, yeah, this program.

00:14:41.320 Yeah.

00:14:42.020 Definitely.

00:14:42.600 We talked a lot about that.

00:14:43.740 A lot about this.

00:14:44.800 Interesting to see the numbers among Latino voters.

00:14:47.480 So in 2006, we're coming off of the attempt at comprehensive immigration reform that fails.

00:14:54.520 Republicans very upset about that.

00:14:56.080 Democrats win that election relatively easily.

00:14:59.740 Latinos at 62% high interest in the election.

00:15:03.720 That number in midterm elections has been dismal since.

00:15:07.640 In 2010, it was only 48%.

00:15:09.720 2014, it was 41%.

00:15:11.840 Very low.

00:15:13.400 In 2018, up until very recently, it was at 47%.

00:15:18.480 That number has now jumped in October of 2018 to 71%.

00:15:23.280 From 47% to 71% this year.

00:15:26.740 So this is whatever the reason.

00:15:29.940 Wow.

00:15:30.680 It's much higher than 2006 for Latino voters.

00:15:33.940 Wow.

00:15:34.340 And again, that was a wave election for Democrats.

00:15:39.060 It's, I mean, these numbers are-

00:15:40.380 The only thing I can think of is the Guatemalan refugees.

00:15:46.080 What else has happened?

00:15:47.240 I mean, you did have also fairly recently the unaccompanied minors situation where they were being, quote unquote, held in cages.

00:15:54.920 Yeah, but that was in July or August.

00:15:57.980 Yeah, but still relatively recently.

00:16:00.540 Yeah.

00:16:00.960 You know, the 2018 polls were taken January to September.

00:16:05.180 So some of those polls were before that, some after.

00:16:08.620 Okay.

00:16:08.800 All the October ones, obviously, after, and then include the migrant caravan situation, and that might explain the jump.

00:16:16.160 But it's high everywhere.

00:16:18.020 I mean, the only place it's low, and it's not low relative to normal, which is our younger voters, 18 to 34.

00:16:26.060 They're at 51%, which is the lowest number on most of these demographic groups that you can find.

00:16:31.440 However, it's also a lot higher than any other time in all of these elections.

00:16:35.720 The highest they had been before that was 39% in 2006.

00:16:39.580 This is our whole lives now.

00:16:41.780 This is going to be interesting.

00:16:43.940 It is.

00:16:44.540 It's like, you know, back in the 90s, the opening of Star Wars.

00:16:49.140 Yeah.

00:16:49.760 This is now what people care about, and they care about it in almost a cultural entertainment sort of way.

00:16:55.440 Yeah.

00:16:56.000 Which is, I think, fascinating and not necessarily healthy.

00:16:59.080 It's good that people care about these things, but, you know, I don't think that people, a lot of people don't seem to care about them.

00:17:05.060 They care about the issues as much as they do about just the passionate disagreement with whoever they're on Facebook with.

00:17:13.980 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:17:16.760 I want to talk a little bit about this back and forth with Saudi Arabia, because it is important that we get this right, and we don't make this about American politics.

00:17:33.740 We should make this about American interests, but not American politics.

00:17:38.340 Right now, people are saying, I can't believe Donald Trump would.

00:17:43.660 Well, you know what?

00:17:46.100 George Bush, Bill Clinton, the second George Bush, all the way back, all the way back to FDR, we have been in bed with the Saudis. 0.99

00:17:57.080 I don't like this. 0.82

00:18:00.400 I think we're in bed with really bad people.

00:18:03.920 Is a rattlesnake a bad pet?

00:18:08.280 I was asked of me once, and I love this.

00:18:11.280 Is a rattlesnake, is it a bad pet?

00:18:14.480 The answer is no, it's a perfectly fine pet, as long as you always remember it as a rattlesnake or a snake and not a little puppy dog.

00:18:29.120 It's a rattlesnake.

00:18:31.500 It's not a bad pet.

00:18:33.480 Just don't pet it, and don't try to fashion a leash around its neck.

00:18:41.100 Take it for a walk.

00:18:42.040 It ain't going to do it.

00:18:45.100 So, how do we handle Saudi Arabia?

00:18:48.720 Well, it should be the same way we handle Turkey. 0.76

00:18:51.500 But we're not.

00:18:52.820 Because we're looking at Turkey and Saudi Arabia with American eyes.

00:18:58.760 Stop it.

00:19:00.000 These are both Islamic states.

00:19:02.920 Now, they're warring with each other.

00:19:05.000 Why?

00:19:06.060 Because one is Muslim Brotherhood, and one is a Wahhabist. 1.00

00:19:10.600 They don't like each other. 0.98

00:19:12.580 They want death for everybody in the other state. 0.72

00:19:18.000 They want the regime of Saudi Arabia. 0.88

00:19:20.560 Saudi Arabia stopped Turkey because they're Muslim Brotherhood. 1.00

00:19:26.060 And Saudi Arabia wants Turkey stopped because they're Wahhabists. 1.00

00:19:33.760 We're being put in the middle of a fight between two Islamicists.

00:19:39.960 Both of them want the caliphate.

00:19:42.480 Both of them want Islamic rule.

00:19:44.840 Both of them want to rule with jihad, and they also want to rule with Sharia law. 0.66

00:19:51.900 We don't.

00:19:53.820 We don't want either of those.

00:19:57.180 So, now let's put this into perspective.

00:20:00.220 Saudi Arabia, horrible place. 1.00

00:20:02.880 Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible place. 1.00

00:20:05.380 They execute kids.

00:20:07.740 As long as you've shown any kind of signs of puberty, you're tried as an adult. 0.99

00:20:12.720 They execute through beheading. 0.98

00:20:15.780 There was a woman who was raped, gang-raped, by seven men. 0.97

00:20:19.860 Not sure if one of them was Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh yet. 0.98

00:20:24.380 But a Saudi woman was gang-raped by seven men.

00:20:29.380 They each got, you know, between two and nine years in prison.

00:20:34.280 However, she received six months in prison and 200 lashings with a whip.

00:20:41.500 Okay.

00:20:42.720 Because she was in the car without her husband.

00:20:46.880 And then, she dared to take her story to the media.

00:20:51.560 This is the kind of people that we are dealing with.

00:20:56.120 The crown prince.

00:20:59.940 You and I are not going to like this guy.

00:21:02.360 You can say, oh, look at what he's doing.

00:21:04.500 He's making it easier for women to drive without their husbands.

00:21:07.880 Yeah, okay.

00:21:08.680 Yeah, sure, sure, sure.

00:21:10.980 He's still a Wahhabist. 1.00

00:21:12.720 Let's look at what both sides in this country have done.

00:21:21.900 We are currently fighting a proxy war with Saudi Arabia.

00:21:27.440 We are involved in their war in Yemen.

00:21:29.660 Did you even know that?

00:21:30.520 President Trump announced a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia last year.

00:21:37.680 It was President Obama that vetoed a bill that allowed families of 9-11 victims to sue the Saudi government.

00:21:46.780 So, both sides.

00:21:48.280 So, both sides.

00:21:49.400 Everybody is in protecting these guys.

00:21:51.960 When the crown prince came here to America, he met with Donald Trump.

00:21:58.500 Oh, my gosh.

00:21:59.500 Oh, my gosh.

00:22:00.440 But he also met with Oprah Winfrey, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Dwayne the Rock Johnson, for some unknown reason.

00:22:08.700 Barack Obama, John Kerry, Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Michael Bloomberg, Thomas Friedman from the New York Times, Bill Gates, Madeline Albright, Rupert Murdoch, Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Alan Garber from Harvard, Bob Iger, and Jeff Bezos.

00:22:29.780 So, they're all meeting with him.

00:22:32.860 They're all meeting.

00:22:33.700 Let's not pretend we don't know who this guy is.

00:22:38.180 Now, the guy who went missing, he's a reporter for the Washington Post.

00:22:45.860 Is he?

00:22:46.860 Is he?

00:22:48.560 Or does he have a point of view that Washington happens to like about Saudi Arabia?

00:22:57.200 And that is the Muslim Brotherhood perspective.

00:23:00.980 So, you remember the Muslim Brotherhood founded in the 1920s in Egypt.

00:23:06.920 The only reason for being was to reject the West and establish global Sharia law. 0.99

00:23:14.120 They exported this organization all over the Middle East. 0.98

00:23:18.660 Anti-Semitism towards Jews, their biggest and most effective tool at harnessing the Arab rage. 1.00

00:23:25.660 Muslim Brotherhood, they're the ones who invented modern-day jihadism. 1.00

00:23:31.200 They are the ones who inspired Osama bin Laden and the other founding members of Al-Qaeda. 0.99

00:23:36.780 To any administration member from the Obama administration.

00:23:46.160 You cannot call them a largely secular organization.

00:23:51.860 When you read just their motto, Allah is our goal, the prophet our model, the Quran our constitution, jihad our plan, and death for the sake of Allah, the loftiest of our wishes. 0.94

00:24:03.980 They are not primarily a secular organization.

00:24:07.420 The Muslim Brotherhood calls jihad the industry of death.

00:24:12.460 And they mean that in a good way, in their own words, to a nation that protects the industry of death, and which knows how to die nobly, God gives proud life in this world.

00:24:25.960 Okay, that doesn't sound secular.

00:24:27.760 It doesn't sound like somebody we should be in bed with.

00:24:29.620 But the Muslim Brotherhood ran up against a problem.

00:24:34.940 And that was, one of them, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

00:24:40.580 Because it was backed by the West.

00:24:42.920 Any of these kingdoms in the Middle East that have been backed by the West, Jordan will be next. 1.00

00:24:50.020 Anybody who stands in their way, they had to destroy.

00:24:55.260 But these were democracies.

00:24:57.100 So how are we going to do it?

00:24:58.780 Well, the Muslim Brotherhood decided to switch tactics and weaponize democracy. 0.98

00:25:05.660 Enter the Arab Spring.

00:25:08.540 The Arab Spring praised by everyone.

00:25:11.920 We told you their goal is a caliphate.

00:25:15.480 Well, it never materialized, did it?

00:25:18.740 No.

00:25:20.520 No, not there.

00:25:22.700 It materialized from the chain of events with ISIS.

00:25:25.880 What, you were talking about the Muslim Brotherhood?

00:25:29.700 Right.

00:25:30.060 And what happened to the Muslim Brotherhood?

00:25:32.900 Did they just choose not to do a caliphate?

00:25:35.900 Oh, no, no.

00:25:37.260 They were overthrown.

00:25:38.660 Oh, the Muslim Brotherhood still wants their caliphate. 1.00

00:25:46.000 So now you have two of our allies, Turkey, Muslim Brotherhood, the Saudis, Wahhabists, who are both chasing the same exact dream, a Middle East and a world dominated by Sharia law. 0.99

00:26:02.300 Both of them using jihadism as a means to their ends.

00:26:09.700 So, Khashoggi or Khashoggi or whatever you're calling him today, now we look at him.

00:26:22.020 He is a guy who is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:26:26.680 I want to say this. 0.99

00:26:28.300 No one deserves this kind of death. 0.71

00:26:30.380 This is not to excuse the Saudis. 1.00

00:26:32.380 They're bad guys. 0.79

00:26:33.460 But so is Turkey. 0.93

00:26:37.140 And so was he.

00:26:40.160 Everybody here, oh, it's a Saudi progressive fighting for democracy.

00:26:44.980 No, no, no.

00:26:47.780 No.

00:26:48.980 He was fighting for the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:26:52.060 In the 1980s and 90s, he was one of the king's main allies.

00:26:55.780 He edited several Saudi newspapers, which he was basically Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984, sitting in the Saudi version of the Ministry of Truth, editing out all thought crime.

00:27:10.180 Make sure that there was never anything hostile said about Wahhabism or the king.

00:27:16.180 During this time, he cozied up to Osama bin Laden.

00:27:19.320 He scored several interviews while al-Qaeda was fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.

00:27:24.740 Saudi intelligence employed him to be the middleman between bin Laden and the Saudi royal family.

00:27:31.540 Well, in 2003, he fell out of favor with the Saudi royals when he allowed to be published an article critical to the Wahhabist movement.

00:27:42.860 Why did he do that?

00:27:44.420 Because he's a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and they were at odds with the Wahhabists. 0.94

00:27:56.180 Khashoggi or Khashoggi was cast aside, and that's when the Western media fell in love with him. 0.90

00:28:04.680 An active member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:28:07.900 Not a smear or conspiracy theory.

00:28:10.220 In his own words, yes, I joined the Muslim Brotherhood organization, and I was not alone.

00:28:16.140 End quote.

00:28:18.080 His Muslim Brotherhood friends and clerics were all imprisoned in Saudi Arabia during the Arab Spring.

00:28:23.840 He got out.

00:28:25.640 He came to the U.S.

00:28:27.920 He established a political party while in exile called Democracy for the Arab World Now Party.

00:28:34.380 The liberals, the progressives, the press, loved him because they heard the word democracy.

00:28:43.520 It's the Muslim Brotherhood plan to subvert democracy by turning it against itself. 1.00

00:28:53.620 He once wanted to establish Sharia law in the region. 0.92

00:28:59.720 He was also a wicked anti-Semite who wrote, 0.98

00:29:05.480 Outside the context of history and logic, the Jews will have to die by force. 1.00

00:29:13.860 Oh.

00:29:15.800 Israel's outside the context of history and logic? 1.00

00:29:19.860 So we're going to have to kill all of them. 1.00

00:29:21.840 This is not a smear campaign. 1.00

00:29:26.140 When you hear somebody say that, you make sure you ask them,

00:29:30.320 Where are you doing your homework?

00:29:31.720 Where are you getting that?

00:29:32.940 Why is that a smear campaign?

00:29:34.640 To say that he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, he clearly was in his own words.

00:29:39.760 So why is that a smear campaign?

00:29:41.340 Because I thought the Muslim Brotherhood was largely secular.

00:29:47.380 Ask people,

00:29:48.360 How much do you know about the caliphate?

00:29:49.840 How much do you know about the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood?

00:29:53.460 How much do you really know about what this man wrote?

00:29:58.020 This man wrote that he,

00:30:01.300 It was a mistake to think that you could have any kind of state in the Middle East

00:30:08.840 without some form of Islamicists. 0.57

00:30:14.900 Now, that's different, remember, than Islam. 1.00

00:30:17.960 An Islamicist believes you have to use Sharia law.

00:30:24.920 That's the constant.

00:30:26.280 Wow, it sounds like the Muslim Brotherhood. 0.83

00:30:29.260 That's our constitution.

00:30:31.280 That is our law.

00:30:33.860 Sharia law.

00:30:36.240 So, let's just begin to tell each other the truth.

00:30:40.480 And here's the truth.

00:30:41.680 Turkey is not a friend of ours. 1.00

00:30:43.560 Turkey is in with the Muslim Brotherhood. 0.93

00:30:45.760 Turkey would like to have a caliphate run by them. 0.98

00:30:50.520 Saudi Arabia, not good people. 1.00

00:30:53.080 Saudi Arabia, huge exporter of Wahhabism, 1.00

00:30:56.160 and has done it here in the United States,

00:30:58.880 has spent money building mosques that are very dangerous here in the United States. 0.98

00:31:04.540 It's true.

00:31:05.140 They kill him?

00:31:08.200 Could be. 1.00

00:31:09.740 Probably.

00:31:10.760 Seems like it.

00:31:12.400 I don't trust the Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey, 1.00

00:31:15.360 but I also don't trust those guys. 0.88

00:31:17.360 One of them killed him.

00:31:19.840 Probably Saudi Arabia.

00:31:21.700 Did he deserve it?

00:31:22.860 No.

00:31:23.600 Does he deserve to be called a freedom fighter?

00:31:26.500 Only by either really uneducated progressives 0.98

00:31:34.700 or just liars. 0.92

00:31:39.880 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:31:46.240 Hi, it's Glenn.

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00:32:09.020 This is going to be a fascinating half hour.

00:32:12.020 I could spend many hours with him,

00:32:15.300 and I think that's part of the problem.

00:32:17.820 You'll see him on television,

00:32:20.040 and no one is taking the time to actually listen

00:32:23.340 to everything he has to say,

00:32:25.400 and he has a lot to say about things

00:32:28.220 that have been very concerning to me,

00:32:30.460 including deep fakes, which I hope to get into.

00:32:34.940 But I want to start with his book

00:32:38.020 and the thing that everybody is talking about

00:32:41.180 them, why we hate each other,

00:32:44.040 and how to heal.

00:32:45.320 Ben Sasse.

00:32:47.680 Welcome to the program,

00:32:49.540 Senator from Nebraska.

00:32:50.780 How are you, sir?

00:32:51.780 I'm doing well.

00:32:52.860 Nebraska's got a winning streak going again,

00:32:54.620 so we're happy in the heartland.

00:32:56.500 Ben, I want to talk to you,

00:32:57.900 and I want to ask you the questions

00:32:59.640 basically that everyone asks me,

00:33:02.580 because we are on some things

00:33:05.760 in the same pocket,

00:33:07.220 and I just want to hear your response

00:33:11.220 to this,

00:33:12.900 you know,

00:33:14.340 some line of questioning

00:33:15.820 that usually comes my way.

00:33:17.720 We have a situation

00:33:20.540 to where people have felt

00:33:22.060 they have tried to do the right thing.

00:33:24.480 They have tried to do the Tea Party,

00:33:26.360 and they were accused of being racist,

00:33:28.540 and they were accused of being violent,

00:33:30.200 which they weren't.

00:33:30.800 Meanwhile, the press and politicians

00:33:34.020 excuse people like Antifa,

00:33:36.680 and it's getting worse and worse.

00:33:38.500 No, we're not anti-capitalist.

00:33:40.460 We're not anti-American.

00:33:42.080 And then Hillary Clinton says 0.99

00:33:43.500 one of the reasons she lost

00:33:44.960 was because she was for capitalism.

00:33:47.400 You have Cortez coming out,

00:33:49.000 and Bernie Sanders stating

00:33:51.400 with the DSA

00:33:53.180 that they are against capitalism.

00:33:55.800 You have Antifa taking over the streets. 0.53

00:33:58.680 You have Republicans being shot

00:34:00.880 on the ball field.

00:34:03.700 The press is still ignoring all of this,

00:34:07.040 blaming everything on the right.

00:34:09.780 Then Kavanaugh.

00:34:11.100 They're willing to take all the way to, 1.00

00:34:14.480 yep, he's a gang rapist, 1.00

00:34:16.000 and destroy people. 1.00

00:34:18.400 When is enough enough?

00:34:19.740 Well, so first of all,

00:34:24.360 the way we consume politics

00:34:26.260 is a mess,

00:34:27.540 and lots of our political discussion

00:34:29.820 itself is a mess,

00:34:31.240 but I think it's really important

00:34:32.840 to distinguish between two dimensions.

00:34:35.000 One dimension is a continuum

00:34:36.760 from right to left,

00:34:38.280 and on those issues,

00:34:39.560 I'm as conservative as they come.

00:34:41.020 On anybody's scorecard,

00:34:42.620 I'm the second or third

00:34:43.520 most conservative senator

00:34:44.800 in the United States Senate.

00:34:47.100 But the second dimension

00:34:48.400 is about the intensification

00:34:50.100 of politics

00:34:51.220 and how centrally

00:34:52.900 should politics sit

00:34:54.200 in your worldview.

00:34:55.580 And there,

00:34:56.360 I'm a big skeptic

00:34:57.540 because I'm a traditional American

00:34:59.040 of the idea that politics

00:35:01.020 can be near the center

00:35:02.380 of your worldview

00:35:03.120 and you end up very happy.

00:35:04.980 So I think there's a lot of data now

00:35:06.640 that shows more and more Americans

00:35:08.740 are actually tuning out

00:35:10.000 politics altogether,

00:35:11.100 but the people who are involved

00:35:13.220 in politics,

00:35:14.420 some of the national media

00:35:15.540 sort of...

00:35:16.620 purporting to cover it,

00:35:18.700 some of the...

00:35:19.440 many of the politicians

00:35:20.680 that sort of run for office

00:35:22.340 and get to Washington, D.C.

00:35:23.640 and never plan to leave again

00:35:25.080 because they really think

00:35:26.180 politics and power

00:35:27.260 and D.C. are the center

00:35:28.560 of the world,

00:35:29.620 and some subset

00:35:31.020 of the consumers

00:35:31.780 of our political news.

00:35:33.360 It's about 8% on the left

00:35:35.080 that are truly politically addicted,

00:35:37.260 and we have a growing share

00:35:38.640 on the right,

00:35:39.280 now up to about 6% on the right

00:35:41.240 that are politically addicted.

00:35:42.580 These kinds of people

00:35:43.620 are really taking

00:35:45.120 political tribalism

00:35:46.300 to a new and deeper place

00:35:48.020 and more intense place

00:35:49.460 where it's crowding out

00:35:50.740 more and more of the things

00:35:52.180 that actually give people's lives

00:35:53.880 meaning and happiness.

00:35:55.220 And so I think it's very important

00:35:56.220 to...

00:35:56.720 I'm as far right as they come

00:35:58.160 on the right versus left continuum,

00:35:59.740 but it's very important

00:36:00.600 to remember

00:36:00.980 that the purpose of politics

00:36:02.220 is to maintain a framework

00:36:03.820 for ordered liberty

00:36:04.840 so that you can go live

00:36:06.360 in the communities of love

00:36:07.820 where you're actually

00:36:08.620 raising your kids

00:36:09.380 and building a better

00:36:10.140 mousetrapper app

00:36:11.180 or where you're worshiping

00:36:12.400 because those are the communities

00:36:13.680 that are going to make you happy.

00:36:15.060 Politics is a means to an end.

00:36:16.560 Politics isn't the end.

00:36:17.500 So, I completely agree with you.

00:36:20.260 However, our politicians

00:36:21.960 are becoming more and more extreme,

00:36:25.160 especially on the left.

00:36:27.900 They are anti-capitalist.

00:36:31.840 They are anti-constitution.

00:36:35.720 So, on one hand,

00:36:38.240 I agree with you.

00:36:39.140 We can't be all about politics.

00:36:42.520 But at what point

00:36:43.880 do you see good people say,

00:36:46.920 enough is enough

00:36:48.340 and I can't take this anymore?

00:36:50.600 Yeah, but then to what end?

00:36:52.160 What do we do next?

00:36:53.340 Because what we don't want to do next

00:36:54.860 is what the weirdos did

00:36:56.520 to Nancy Pelosi in California

00:36:58.380 on Friday

00:36:58.940 and what the weirdos did

00:37:00.320 to Mitch McConnell

00:37:01.040 and Elaine Chao in Kentucky

00:37:02.380 on Saturday.

00:37:03.700 Because there is no second

00:37:04.700 or third chess move from there

00:37:06.300 that doesn't just end up at violence.

00:37:08.300 And this is not saying, by the way,

00:37:09.760 that people don't have

00:37:10.740 a First Amendment right to protest.

00:37:12.260 They clearly do.

00:37:13.280 But screaming someone down,

00:37:15.320 taking Mitch and Elaine's food

00:37:16.720 off their table

00:37:17.520 and throwing it on the floor

00:37:18.820 and saying, 0.94

00:37:19.380 you don't belong in our country,

00:37:21.160 to Leader McConnell

00:37:22.540 or to Secretary Chao

00:37:24.000 who serves in President Trump's cabinet,

00:37:25.740 that kind of stuff

00:37:26.720 doesn't actually have persuasion

00:37:29.000 as any goal.

00:37:29.920 The only thing there

00:37:31.740 is just sort of symbolic politics

00:37:33.920 as rant,

00:37:35.040 which heads to a pretty dark place,

00:37:36.880 I think.

00:37:37.260 So I agree with you again.

00:37:39.220 But where is the leadership?

00:37:40.960 I've written a book.

00:37:41.820 You've written a book.

00:37:43.220 It's different than actually going out

00:37:45.780 and leading

00:37:47.180 and standing,

00:37:50.240 you know,

00:37:50.580 Martin Luther King

00:37:51.620 marching through Antifa

00:37:53.380 and taking the beating.

00:37:56.800 Yes,

00:37:57.420 but I think we should also recognize

00:37:59.380 that the Antifa phenomenon

00:38:01.460 is really built

00:38:03.100 for short-term media clips.

00:38:04.980 That is what they're doing.

00:38:06.740 I'm in the middle

00:38:08.040 of a little downtown,

00:38:09.380 a sort of restored downtown

00:38:10.840 in Omaha right now,

00:38:12.320 and there's no Antifa here.

00:38:14.140 And yet we've got

00:38:14.780 a whole bunch of people

00:38:15.860 who might be obsessed

00:38:17.420 with thinking about Antifa today

00:38:19.240 when I think we need to be aware

00:38:21.460 of the sort of media ecology

00:38:22.780 in which we live.

00:38:23.760 So in the 1950s,

00:38:25.440 68% of Americans

00:38:27.060 any given week

00:38:28.100 were watching I Love Lucy.

00:38:29.920 So that meant,

00:38:30.360 68% of households,

00:38:31.780 that meant basically

00:38:32.680 99% of households

00:38:34.040 knew what Lucy and Desi

00:38:35.240 had done that week.

00:38:36.260 It wasn't important content,

00:38:37.900 but it was shared content.

00:38:39.700 There was an American we.

00:38:41.100 When you fought with somebody

00:38:41.940 about some project at work

00:38:43.100 or if you disagreed with them

00:38:44.140 about politics,

00:38:45.320 you could still talk about things

00:38:47.080 that we had in common.

00:38:48.360 What's happening now

00:38:49.320 and why I wrote this book,

00:38:50.540 them,

00:38:51.040 is because there is no we right now.

00:38:53.540 And the most watched

00:38:55.080 cable news programming,

00:38:57.020 Sean Hannity is number one

00:38:58.460 and Rachel Maddow

00:38:59.200 is often number two.

00:39:00.200 There's still really only

00:39:01.520 1.1%

00:39:03.100 and nine-tenths

00:39:04.180 of 1%

00:39:04.940 of the public.

00:39:06.240 And so our world

00:39:07.180 is so fragmented

00:39:08.460 and fractured

00:39:09.380 that I think it's really important

00:39:10.740 to not consume our media

00:39:12.460 as if the people

00:39:14.160 like Antifa

00:39:14.800 who are doing this

00:39:15.920 to hope for viral clips.

00:39:17.500 I think part of what

00:39:18.560 healthy Americans should do

00:39:19.680 is ignore them.

00:39:20.320 So what is our we?

00:39:26.840 I mean, I've spent

00:39:27.680 the last two years

00:39:29.600 and the things

00:39:30.380 that I continually come back to

00:39:33.640 every single time

00:39:34.780 is the Bill of Rights.

00:39:36.960 It's why people came here

00:39:39.100 because they were protected.

00:39:40.880 They knew that they had

00:39:42.240 the right to dream

00:39:43.400 and create

00:39:44.120 and be left alone.

00:39:46.640 Yeah.

00:39:47.120 Is that our we or unum?

00:39:50.320 So yes, unum,

00:39:52.860 e pluribus unum,

00:39:53.780 out of the many, one, right?

00:39:54.960 We don't have a whole bunch

00:39:55.920 of one right now.

00:39:56.800 We don't have a shared sense

00:39:57.940 of what you've just said.

00:39:59.320 The First Amendment

00:40:00.240 is the beating heart

00:40:01.540 of the American experiment.

00:40:03.040 Freedom of religion,

00:40:04.500 freedom of the press,

00:40:05.440 freedom of assembly,

00:40:06.480 freedom of speech,

00:40:07.680 right of protest.

00:40:08.660 All of those things

00:40:09.900 flow from a fundamental assumption

00:40:12.000 about the dignity

00:40:12.980 of 320 million Americans,

00:40:15.240 which is we believe

00:40:16.720 imago Dei.

00:40:17.560 We believe that our citizens

00:40:19.340 are created in the image of God

00:40:21.000 with eternal souls

00:40:22.540 and with dignity

00:40:23.800 that's way bigger

00:40:25.100 than their policy preferences.

00:40:27.100 And so what's unique

00:40:28.000 in our moment,

00:40:28.720 I think the grand tension

00:40:29.880 that we as a people

00:40:30.920 are not really wrestling through

00:40:32.180 that is so far upstream

00:40:33.280 from politics

00:40:34.080 is this tension

00:40:35.600 between rootedness

00:40:36.740 and rootlessness.

00:40:38.520 Almost all of the happiness

00:40:40.480 literature, if you will,

00:40:41.960 out there

00:40:42.460 is confirming stuff

00:40:43.760 that wise people,

00:40:45.020 people who've had grandparents

00:40:46.240 have known for millennia,

00:40:47.960 which is that happiness

00:40:48.740 is actually a relatively

00:40:49.840 simple equation.

00:40:50.820 Do you have a nuclear family?

00:40:52.220 Do you have a couple

00:40:52.780 of deep friendships?

00:40:54.100 Do you have a local

00:40:55.060 worshiping community?

00:40:56.020 Do you have a theological framework

00:40:57.280 to make sense of death

00:40:58.240 and suffering?

00:40:58.880 And fourth,

00:40:59.620 and statistically,

00:41:00.520 the number one driver

00:41:01.340 of happiness

00:41:01.820 is do you have

00:41:02.900 meaningful vocation?

00:41:04.180 Do you have shared work?

00:41:05.340 Do you have coworkers?

00:41:06.520 Do you think when you leave home

00:41:07.760 on Monday morning,

00:41:08.700 when you go to do something,

00:41:09.900 not do you make a lot of money

00:41:10.980 or do you have a lot of status,

00:41:11.960 but is there some neighbor

00:41:13.700 who benefits from what I do?

00:41:15.440 If those four things are true

00:41:17.260 or even if three

00:41:18.080 of the four are true,

00:41:19.120 you're pretty likely

00:41:20.080 to be happy.

00:41:21.340 And those things

00:41:22.160 are all tied to rootedness,

00:41:24.020 but we're living

00:41:24.800 through a technological revolution

00:41:26.360 that's tempting us

00:41:27.360 to believe

00:41:27.940 that we can be rootless,

00:41:29.520 we can be placeless.

00:41:30.920 And so a lot of what's happening

00:41:32.180 is the undermining

00:41:33.160 of local community

00:41:34.100 and the undermining

00:41:35.280 of thick relationships

00:41:36.280 and the undermining

00:41:37.500 of vocation

00:41:38.220 or long work

00:41:39.200 ends up in a world

00:41:40.660 where a lot of people

00:41:41.320 are using political tribalism

00:41:43.040 to fill a void

00:41:44.300 of the loneliness

00:41:45.160 that's actually happening

00:41:46.380 in their local community.

00:41:47.400 And I think we need

00:41:47.920 to reflect more deeply

00:41:48.900 on that challenge

00:41:49.660 of our time.

00:41:54.640 You're listening

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00:42:25.580 that's with an E,

00:42:26.640 LarrySharp.com.

00:42:29.040 Larry, welcome to the program.

00:42:30.580 Thanks for having me again.

00:42:31.340 I appreciate it.

00:42:31.980 So you were on with us

00:42:33.900 for a few minutes

00:42:35.200 a couple of weeks ago

00:42:36.240 over the phone

00:42:36.960 and I was fascinated

00:42:40.240 by you

00:42:41.180 because you think

00:42:43.200 completely out of the box.

00:42:44.860 Yes.

00:42:45.340 You're not thinking

00:42:46.380 like a politician

00:42:47.440 which is exactly

00:42:49.020 what I think

00:42:50.300 what we need.

00:42:51.060 100%.

00:42:51.460 You are not being heard

00:42:54.380 because,

00:42:55.940 for instance,

00:42:56.480 tomorrow they're having

00:42:57.360 a debate

00:42:57.900 and you're not invited.

00:42:59.680 That's correct.

00:43:00.340 Right.

00:43:01.020 They don't like me.

00:43:01.960 I don't know why.

00:43:02.840 I don't get it.

00:43:03.400 Nobody likes you.

00:43:04.520 Oh my God.

00:43:04.900 Yeah, right.

00:43:06.260 So how does somebody

00:43:08.460 like you get elected?

00:43:09.480 Look, it's establishment

00:43:10.980 with establishment, right?

00:43:13.620 The establishment media

00:43:15.940 stays with the establishment candidates,

00:43:18.640 right?

00:43:18.840 So that's what winds up happening

00:43:19.780 when it comes to debates.

00:43:20.540 They do that.

00:43:21.720 So, look,

00:43:22.640 you mentioned the idea

00:43:23.680 that I have Ocasio-Cortez,

00:43:25.360 right?

00:43:25.740 Literally,

00:43:26.300 she's going to be

00:43:26.860 my congressperson.

00:43:28.000 She's my district,

00:43:29.080 yes, in Queens. 0.50

00:43:30.180 Absolutely.

00:43:30.840 And I said

00:43:31.580 this is a good thing

00:43:32.360 and this is a good thing

00:43:33.300 because it shows one thing.

00:43:34.900 It shows this is

00:43:35.780 an anti-establishment world

00:43:37.320 right now.

00:43:38.360 She didn't win

00:43:38.880 because she was amazing

00:43:39.920 and smart 0.77

00:43:40.380 and knew everything.

00:43:41.100 She won because she said,

00:43:42.300 I'm not the establishment

00:43:43.680 and people ran to her.

00:43:45.360 That's one of the reasons

00:43:46.100 why Trump won.

00:43:46.920 It's one of the reasons

00:43:47.380 why even Obama won in 2008.

00:43:49.000 I mean,

00:43:49.220 anti-establishment

00:43:50.160 is a thing

00:43:51.100 that people tend to like now.

00:43:52.920 The advantage I have

00:43:53.820 is I'm anti-establishment.

00:43:55.340 You're saying,

00:43:55.860 how am I going to win

00:43:56.320 if I can't get

00:43:56.940 the mainstream media?

00:43:58.080 By doing what I'm doing now,

00:43:59.260 doing podcasts,

00:44:00.340 doing Facebook.

00:44:01.180 Look,

00:44:01.520 Trump,

00:44:02.080 one of the reasons

00:44:02.580 why Trump won was Twitter,

00:44:04.600 right?

00:44:04.740 That wasn't the reason

00:44:05.460 but it was one of the reasons.

00:44:06.400 He used that tool

00:44:07.580 and they didn't see him coming.

00:44:09.020 I use the same tools,

00:44:10.320 right?

00:44:10.460 I use Twitter,

00:44:11.240 I use Facebook,

00:44:12.140 I use podcasts,

00:44:13.240 I use the same tools.

00:44:14.740 They don't like it.

00:44:15.400 It makes them angry

00:44:15.940 but it's what I'm using.

00:44:18.040 They didn't see them coming.

00:44:19.860 They didn't see Cortez coming either

00:44:21.560 and they won't see me coming either.

00:44:22.800 However,

00:44:24.340 with Cortez,

00:44:25.580 she was,

00:44:27.640 she's been embraced

00:44:29.700 by the establishment

00:44:30.680 on the left.

00:44:31.600 The Democrats have become

00:44:33.240 Democratic socialists

00:44:34.900 which is,

00:44:36.320 just because you put

00:44:37.420 the word Democrat,

00:44:39.280 Democratic in front of it

00:44:40.820 doesn't mean that it's

00:44:42.140 a really wonderful thing.

00:44:44.180 Yeah,

00:44:44.340 but there's a thing

00:44:44.840 you need to notice now here.

00:44:45.900 Even though Cortez won,

00:44:48.040 Nixon didn't.

00:44:49.380 And Nixon actually

00:44:50.080 called herself a socialist.

00:44:51.460 What happened?

00:44:53.000 Once they said,

00:44:53.920 oh,

00:44:54.260 this Cortez person

00:44:55.780 is a different person,

00:44:56.560 great,

00:44:56.800 let's vote for her. 0.97

00:44:57.860 Then they heard

00:44:58.460 what she had to say.

00:44:59.820 And you found a lot

00:45:00.720 of New Yorkers went,

00:45:01.460 you know what,

00:45:02.200 maybe this isn't right.

00:45:04.000 And people who voted

00:45:05.100 for Cortez

00:45:05.860 shifted and voted

00:45:06.920 for our current governor,

00:45:08.760 His Majesty King

00:45:09.520 Andrew Cuomo II.

00:45:11.120 So,

00:45:11.800 they voted for him again.

00:45:13.000 So,

00:45:13.220 they went back

00:45:13.740 to establishment

00:45:14.380 after her.

00:45:15.280 So,

00:45:15.460 I think there was

00:45:16.300 a little bit

00:45:16.640 of buyer's remorse there.

00:45:17.840 There was,

00:45:18.180 I'll get you establishment.

00:45:19.740 Oh,

00:45:20.020 wait a minute,

00:45:20.380 no,

00:45:20.520 not that much.

00:45:21.420 And I think

00:45:21.660 they came back.

00:45:22.420 I think there was

00:45:22.960 some buyer's remorse there

00:45:23.920 and I think you are

00:45:24.420 seeing that sometimes,

00:45:25.540 right?

00:45:26.120 The average youngster,

00:45:27.400 and it's usually

00:45:27.760 youngsters who like socialism,

00:45:28.880 right?

00:45:29.400 Doesn't know what it means.

00:45:31.000 There,

00:45:32.040 I'll give you an example.

00:45:33.180 You find in upstate New York,

00:45:34.980 you find often

00:45:36.020 the rebel flag.

00:45:37.740 And some people say,

00:45:38.560 well,

00:45:38.620 that's the Confederate flag.

00:45:39.520 And I say,

00:45:39.840 no,

00:45:39.960 it isn't.

00:45:40.240 It's a symbol of rebellion,

00:45:41.380 right?

00:45:42.320 And it's often a symbol

00:45:43.300 of rebellion,

00:45:44.000 usually on the right.

00:45:44.940 It's a symbol of rebellion.

00:45:45.640 It isn't like the people

00:45:46.240 in upstate New York

00:45:46.760 going,

00:45:47.320 the South will rise again.

00:45:48.640 They're not saying that,

00:45:49.760 right?

00:45:49.960 That's not what they're saying.

00:45:51.200 Right.

00:45:51.420 But they are saying

00:45:52.080 this is a rebellion.

00:45:53.020 It's a flag of rebellion.

00:45:54.720 And Alexander Cortez is,

00:45:56.120 she is a rebellion

00:45:57.540 on the left.

00:45:58.340 Socialism is a rebellion

00:45:59.300 on the left.

00:46:00.040 They don't know what it means.

00:46:01.140 They have no idea

00:46:01.860 what it means.

00:46:02.360 They just know it's,

00:46:03.000 it's not the establishment.

00:46:04.300 The establishment's not working.

00:46:05.600 That's why Che is important.

00:46:08.240 He becomes amazing.

00:46:09.200 They have no idea

00:46:09.700 what he did.

00:46:10.460 They have no idea

00:46:10.860 who he is.

00:46:11.660 But he's the rebellion guy.

00:46:13.140 So he becomes a symbol

00:46:14.260 of rebellion on the left.

00:46:15.460 Don't get me wrong.

00:46:16.360 Are there people on the left

00:46:17.240 who are exactly

00:46:17.940 who these people are?

00:46:18.700 Of course there are.

00:46:19.940 But that's often

00:46:20.500 the leadership.

00:46:21.300 I'm talking the average

00:46:22.360 everyday person who votes.

00:46:23.880 They just know

00:46:24.520 what's happening now

00:46:25.840 isn't working.

00:46:26.680 That's why people

00:46:27.200 listen to me.

00:46:27.800 When I actually talk,

00:46:28.580 I talk about ways

00:46:29.300 of making people better.

00:46:31.300 I focus on something

00:46:32.420 which will sound crazy.

00:46:33.820 I focus on happiness.

00:46:35.600 Because our nation

00:46:36.500 was built on life,

00:46:38.020 liberty,

00:46:38.780 pursuit of happiness.

00:46:40.400 And no one talks

00:46:41.420 about this.

00:46:42.040 I do all the time.

00:46:43.080 Everything I'm talking about

00:46:44.280 is to try to make people

00:46:45.200 more happy

00:46:45.760 or to at least allow them

00:46:47.480 to pursue happiness.

00:46:49.140 All right.

00:46:49.320 So tell me about that.

00:46:50.320 Let's start there.

00:46:51.220 Sure.

00:46:51.660 We talk,

00:46:52.240 I talk about,

00:46:52.820 for example,

00:46:53.340 there are many

00:46:53.960 controversial things

00:46:54.580 that I talk about.

00:46:56.220 Education.

00:46:57.600 I have a complete

00:46:58.940 revamp of the education system.

00:47:00.520 And people just want

00:47:01.260 to keep funding

00:47:01.920 the same system.

00:47:02.720 making hemp

00:47:05.280 and cannabis legal.

00:47:07.120 Okay, hang on.

00:47:07.580 Wait, before we...

00:47:08.260 Sure.

00:47:08.820 Let's start with education.

00:47:10.900 Go with education first.

00:47:11.940 Absolutely.

00:47:12.580 I'm the one talking about

00:47:13.740 getting rid of all

00:47:14.640 standardized testing

00:47:15.460 prior to high school.

00:47:17.140 I'm the one talking about

00:47:18.060 doing that because

00:47:18.740 standardized testing

00:47:19.620 is an unfair way

00:47:20.640 of grading teachers.

00:47:21.600 It's an unfair way

00:47:22.840 of rewarding schools.

00:47:24.460 And it makes kids

00:47:25.440 who are 10, 11,

00:47:26.080 and 12 years old 0.99

00:47:26.920 feel stupid 1.00

00:47:27.700 because they can't test well. 1.00

00:47:28.920 And it's no indication

00:47:29.780 of success.

00:47:30.600 And what are we finding?

00:47:31.300 We're finding literally kids...

00:47:32.980 We have a 30% rise

00:47:34.720 in suicide

00:47:35.560 across this entire nation

00:47:36.920 to include children.

00:47:39.240 One of those reasons

00:47:40.320 is family court

00:47:41.100 and how broken that is.

00:47:42.140 But another reason is

00:47:43.100 they're pressured

00:47:43.840 to take tests 1.00

00:47:44.440 and to feel stupid 0.99

00:47:45.040 and to become successful 0.98

00:47:46.080 at 10, 11, 12 years old.

00:47:48.560 Why?

00:47:49.460 Standardized testing

00:47:50.220 is very good

00:47:50.920 when you're in high school

00:47:51.640 and showing where you should go,

00:47:53.060 where your proclivities are.

00:47:54.260 Not a bad idea.

00:47:55.200 But 10 years old?

00:47:56.360 Why?

00:47:57.020 It's to keep control

00:47:58.120 of what's happening

00:47:59.160 in the schools.

00:48:00.520 I'm not okay

00:48:01.100 with that.

00:48:01.700 Now, you have a bit

00:48:02.420 of gray hair as I do.

00:48:03.620 So that means

00:48:04.480 you were in school

00:48:05.200 prior to 1980.

00:48:06.460 So was I.

00:48:07.640 Prior to 1980,

00:48:08.780 there really was

00:48:09.380 no Department of Education.

00:48:10.380 I mean, it existed

00:48:11.060 but it was basically

00:48:11.840 a repository

00:48:12.660 for information

00:48:13.420 is all it really was.

00:48:14.380 It didn't really do anything.

00:48:15.760 Somehow, everyone

00:48:16.540 in the United States

00:48:18.060 somehow learned

00:48:18.880 how to read,

00:48:19.960 write,

00:48:20.820 survive in the world

00:48:21.940 without a Department of Education.

00:48:25.120 Somehow that worked.

00:48:26.020 Somehow, local school districts

00:48:27.160 did a good job.

00:48:28.260 Somehow that worked.

00:48:29.460 Now, you add the internet,

00:48:30.240 you add our technology,

00:48:32.460 you think the odds are worse.

00:48:34.020 I'm going to give you

00:48:34.500 a quick rundown

00:48:35.360 of every single time

00:48:36.520 centralized control

00:48:37.980 has made things better.

00:48:39.420 Finished.

00:48:41.120 Right.

00:48:41.880 Yeah.

00:48:42.280 Right.

00:48:42.600 So that's not really

00:48:43.580 what I want.

00:48:44.260 I want to make sure

00:48:45.320 that we have some

00:48:45.940 localized control.

00:48:46.660 I'm the only guy saying

00:48:47.820 let teachers teach,

00:48:49.380 then I don't add administrators.

00:48:51.060 Because here's the problem

00:48:52.080 with getting re-centeredized testing.

00:48:53.620 You will lose about,

00:48:54.580 we will lose in New York State,

00:48:55.920 we will lose about

00:48:56.520 $4 billion in federal funding.

00:48:58.480 That's a lot of money.

00:48:59.020 But isn't that much for us?

00:49:00.240 Our budget is $60 billion.

00:49:02.320 So losing $4 billion,

00:49:03.400 not the end of the world.

00:49:04.060 However, we can still fix that.

00:49:05.360 Here's the issue here.

00:49:06.400 When we lose that $4 billion,

00:49:07.400 we also lose something else.

00:49:08.480 We lose all those strings

00:49:09.720 attached to that $4 billion.

00:49:10.860 And there's lots of strings.

00:49:12.780 Which means administrators,

00:49:14.080 go away. 0.82

00:49:14.960 Administrators who are writing grants,

00:49:16.220 administrators who are

00:49:16.720 checking boxes,

00:49:17.640 all those things.

00:49:18.620 We have massive teacher burnout

00:49:19.840 in New York State.

00:49:20.980 Massive.

00:49:21.660 Why?

00:49:22.680 Regulations,

00:49:23.360 rules,

00:49:23.920 checking boxes.

00:49:24.900 I'm the only one

00:49:25.900 saying these things

00:49:26.660 because I crossed the entire state.

00:49:28.320 My state has 62 counties.

00:49:29.540 I crossed all 62.

00:49:31.440 I'm calling it the full sharp,

00:49:32.500 by the way.

00:49:33.780 So now I want teachers

00:49:35.720 to actually want to teach.

00:49:36.620 We actually have districts

00:49:37.840 that have more administrators

00:49:38.960 than teachers.

00:49:40.460 The average teacher,

00:49:41.480 and that's shameful,

00:49:42.100 by the way,

00:49:42.780 the average teacher

00:49:43.300 makes about $80,000 a year

00:49:44.880 in New York State,

00:49:45.720 and the average administrator

00:49:46.760 makes over $150,000.

00:49:48.460 You dump a couple administrators,

00:49:50.220 you've hired more teachers,

00:49:51.260 you've given raises,

00:49:52.140 you've bought computers,

00:49:52.880 all these things.

00:49:54.240 But I'm still not done.

00:49:55.720 Why in the world

00:49:56.420 would we have K-12?

00:49:57.820 We need K-10.

00:49:59.360 The last two years

00:50:00.260 of high school

00:50:00.720 for too many kids

00:50:01.580 is gym,

00:50:03.140 study hall,

00:50:04.040 video games,

00:50:04.740 and probably smoking weed.

00:50:05.860 That's all they're doing.

00:50:06.840 How do we know this?

00:50:07.740 Because the first year

00:50:08.580 of college for most kids

00:50:09.840 is 13th grade.

00:50:11.180 It's a reboot

00:50:11.820 because they're not ready for it.

00:50:13.000 Correct.

00:50:13.420 So now it takes

00:50:14.080 at least six years

00:50:15.040 for the average kid

00:50:15.840 to graduate college.

00:50:17.200 Well, that's terrible.

00:50:18.160 Now we've got a 24-year-old kid

00:50:19.620 who's never had a job,

00:50:20.800 and we say,

00:50:21.380 I wonder why he has no work ethic.

00:50:23.840 Well, he's never had a job. 0.95

00:50:25.400 He's been screwing around 0.87

00:50:27.120 for eight years literally. 0.65

00:50:28.760 Now I have people

00:50:29.400 who will tell me literally,

00:50:30.300 Larry,

00:50:30.560 I will hire anybody 1.00

00:50:31.740 with a work ethic.

00:50:33.320 I had one entrepreneur

00:50:34.340 who told me,

00:50:34.740 he said,

00:50:34.880 Larry,

00:50:35.440 my interview process

00:50:36.760 is very simple.

00:50:37.620 I tell them to show up

00:50:38.460 at eight o'clock.

00:50:39.320 I open the door.

00:50:40.280 If they're there,

00:50:41.080 they're hired.

00:50:42.160 That's how bad it is

00:50:43.520 for people to show up

00:50:44.140 at eight o'clock in the morning.

00:50:44.900 It is.

00:50:45.460 So we need to break that system.

00:50:47.560 Now I can't change parenting

00:50:48.740 that I can't do,

00:50:49.520 but can I change the environment?

00:50:51.380 Of course.

00:50:52.400 At 16 now instead,

00:50:54.260 kids should have five choices.

00:50:55.740 They take a test,

00:50:57.140 they get a high school diploma.

00:50:58.200 Number one,

00:50:58.880 if college is right for you,

00:51:00.340 that's amazing,

00:51:01.100 go to college.

00:51:01.960 The problem is

00:51:02.500 we've been told a lie.

00:51:03.620 And the lie is,

00:51:04.900 the only way to have success

00:51:06.080 in this country

00:51:06.540 is to get a great high school diploma

00:51:08.180 and then go to a great college

00:51:09.640 and then sit behind a desk

00:51:11.100 and a computer all day.

00:51:13.020 That's a way to success.

00:51:14.720 Not even close

00:51:15.820 to the only way to success.

00:51:17.120 Lots of people are happy

00:51:18.160 doing all types of things

00:51:19.480 and we should embrace that.

00:51:21.480 So at 16,

00:51:22.120 let's start making some decisions.

00:51:23.460 If I think college is right for me,

00:51:24.900 I go to a two-year prep school.

00:51:26.460 Two-year prep school

00:51:27.160 is that biology,

00:51:28.500 chemistry,

00:51:28.880 history,

00:51:29.140 whatever.

00:51:29.720 Great,

00:51:30.060 off to college I go.

00:51:31.080 Two years

00:51:31.600 and I make sure

00:51:32.100 it's working right

00:51:32.980 so by the time

00:51:33.620 I get into college,

00:51:34.300 I'm ready.

00:51:34.640 I can graduate

00:51:35.040 in three or four years.

00:51:36.340 I can take advantage

00:51:36.860 of internships,

00:51:38.080 incubators,

00:51:38.840 life is good.

00:51:39.780 I don't like that.

00:51:40.480 No worries.

00:51:41.020 I'm the super smart kid,

00:51:42.360 the kid who,

00:51:43.240 you know,

00:51:43.580 loves Doctor Who.

00:51:44.280 I'm teasing my Doctor Who fans.

00:51:46.140 I'm a Doctor Who fan.

00:51:47.060 There we go,

00:51:47.440 exactly.

00:51:48.180 So the geek kid.

00:51:49.400 I'm not sure

00:51:50.040 about the new doctor,

00:51:51.240 you know,

00:51:51.540 being a female 0.95

00:51:52.000 but that's a different story.

00:51:52.960 Go ahead.

00:51:53.120 That's okay,

00:51:53.440 yes.

00:51:53.880 So that kid

00:51:55.740 who's really smart,

00:51:56.760 that kid takes the SAT

00:51:57.640 right away

00:51:58.060 and goes off

00:51:58.540 and gets a two-year degree.

00:51:59.560 Why should they be bored

00:52:00.420 in school?

00:52:01.040 They shouldn't be bored

00:52:01.660 in school.

00:52:02.580 Next,

00:52:02.880 you don't want any

00:52:03.240 of those things?

00:52:03.780 No worries.

00:52:06.860 A carpenter,

00:52:07.420 whatever you want to be,

00:52:08.200 a mechanic,

00:52:08.900 an HVAC guy.

00:52:09.960 In New York State particularly,

00:52:11.120 we need that desperately.

00:52:13.000 The average tradesman

00:52:14.040 in New York State

00:52:14.580 is over 50.

00:52:15.860 That's a problem.

00:52:16.680 I love my 50-year-olds.

00:52:17.400 I'm 50.

00:52:17.940 I love my 50-year-olds.

00:52:18.980 My problem is

00:52:19.680 they should not be the average.

00:52:21.040 They should not be

00:52:21.640 doing all the work.

00:52:22.540 They should be training

00:52:23.080 the youngsters

00:52:23.540 and you can't find enough

00:52:24.980 in New York City to do it.

00:52:25.820 It's a problem.

00:52:27.240 So do that. 0.56

00:52:27.940 If you don't like that,

00:52:28.500 go get a job.

00:52:29.740 Why not go learn

00:52:30.360 a work ethic

00:52:31.360 now at 16?

00:52:32.320 I worked at 16.

00:52:33.300 I know lots of people

00:52:34.000 in my generation

00:52:34.400 worked at 16.

00:52:35.220 Yes.

00:52:35.920 Go work.

00:52:36.780 Learn what it means

00:52:37.420 to have a boss.

00:52:38.660 Learn what it means

00:52:39.280 when your boss says

00:52:40.040 show up at 8.

00:52:40.800 That doesn't mean 9.30.

00:52:42.400 That actually means 7.45.

00:52:44.280 Learn that now

00:52:45.140 at 16, 17, 18.

00:52:46.760 Get some experience.

00:52:48.300 The lottery sounds great.

00:52:49.380 How do you pay for it?

00:52:50.640 New York State Constitution

00:52:51.440 tells me I have to pay

00:52:52.340 for grades 1 through 12.

00:52:53.620 Great.

00:52:54.100 I'll pay for the last

00:52:54.680 two years too.

00:52:55.160 I'll still pay for them.

00:52:56.120 Here's how I do it.

00:52:57.040 I'm a Marine.

00:52:57.860 When I got out of Marine Corps,

00:52:58.860 I had a GI Bill.

00:53:00.080 They gave me X dollars

00:53:01.060 and Y years to use it.

00:53:02.820 Same thing here.

00:53:03.480 You're 16.

00:53:03.840 You got $20,000,

00:53:05.740 seven years to use it.

00:53:06.840 Good luck.

00:53:07.800 Here's what I promise

00:53:08.940 is going to happen.

00:53:09.820 A bunch of cool prep schools

00:53:11.140 will pop up.

00:53:12.020 A bunch of great trade schools

00:53:13.520 will pop up.

00:53:14.380 Guess how much they'll cost

00:53:15.320 for two years?

00:53:16.260 Yeah.

00:53:16.700 $20,000.

00:53:17.480 Of course they will.

00:53:18.580 How do I know they'll pop up?

00:53:19.800 Because it's guaranteed

00:53:20.520 government money.

00:53:21.440 What do banks love most?

00:53:23.280 Guaranteed government money.

00:53:24.540 Yes, they do.

00:53:25.240 So they will absolutely give loans

00:53:26.580 to make these schools pop up.

00:53:27.520 It'll be amazing.

00:53:28.100 But here's the best part.

00:53:29.800 When these schools pop up,

00:53:31.100 now we're spending $10,000

00:53:32.580 per kid per year

00:53:33.720 for these last two years.

00:53:35.080 New York State spends

00:53:36.460 $22,000 per year per kid.

00:53:39.260 So we're saving $12,000 each.

00:53:41.560 $12,000 times the 400,000

00:53:43.700 11th and 12th graders

00:53:44.360 is more than $4 billion.

00:53:46.620 We've saved all of the federal funds.

00:53:48.960 We've removed tons

00:53:50.020 of administrators.

00:53:51.200 We've given teachers

00:53:52.040 a better chance

00:53:53.300 to actually teach.

00:53:54.140 We've given teachers freedom

00:53:55.520 to do what they feel

00:53:56.180 is appropriate.

00:53:56.620 We've got rid of Common Core.

00:53:59.260 We've made teenagers

00:54:00.860 who are unhappy happier.

00:54:02.200 And this goes to the next level,

00:54:03.280 which is school safety.

00:54:05.520 If you look at all

00:54:06.480 the school shootings we've had,

00:54:07.960 while they are murders,

00:54:09.940 at their core,

00:54:11.280 they're public suicides.

00:54:12.760 They're unhappy kids.

00:54:14.260 That's their core.

00:54:14.960 They're unhappy kids.

00:54:16.240 Now think about this.

00:54:17.140 11th and 12th grade.

00:54:18.220 You're an 11th or 12th grader.

00:54:19.720 You're in a class

00:54:20.700 with everyone

00:54:21.740 who wants to be there.

00:54:23.680 The bully kid isn't there.

00:54:24.940 The bully kid's in something else. 0.99

00:54:26.120 The kid's a bully

00:54:27.000 because he doesn't want to be there. 0.98

00:54:28.520 That's why he's a bully.

00:54:29.800 But now he goes someplace else. 0.90

00:54:31.620 You're a teacher

00:54:32.180 in 11th and 12th grade.

00:54:33.340 Discipline problems

00:54:34.040 almost go away.

00:54:35.360 Why?

00:54:36.000 All the kids want to be there.

00:54:37.760 They've taught.

00:54:38.860 What's killing our children

00:54:39.680 isn't guns.

00:54:40.660 What's killing our children

00:54:41.240 is lack of community,

00:54:42.880 lack of purpose,

00:54:43.980 and loneliness.

00:54:45.220 That's killing our kids. 1.00

00:54:46.700 Put them in these worlds.

00:54:48.060 All that goes away.

00:54:49.760 I can't go shoot 0.63

00:54:50.480 my fellow friend.

00:54:51.620 The teacher's having me,

00:54:52.760 you know,

00:54:53.260 build a rocket with my class.

00:54:54.660 I can't go shoot anybody.

00:54:56.020 The farmer needs me

00:54:57.120 to fix a tractor.

00:54:58.260 I've got things to do.

00:54:59.260 I have purpose.

00:55:00.280 I have meaning.

00:55:01.200 I don't do things

00:55:02.140 like that anymore.

00:55:02.980 We are living in a world

00:55:04.740 of massive change.

00:55:06.900 Yes.

00:55:07.420 Massive change.

00:55:08.560 And when's the last time

00:55:10.800 you heard any politician

00:55:12.460 sound anything like this?

00:55:15.580 I don't know about you,

00:55:16.280 but I'm tired

00:55:17.060 of the same old politics.

00:55:19.020 And Larry Sharp

00:55:20.180 is joining us now.

00:55:21.880 He is running

00:55:22.460 for governor

00:55:23.400 in New York,

00:55:25.400 and I think his ideas

00:55:26.640 need to be heard,

00:55:27.700 and he needs to be

00:55:28.680 introduced

00:55:30.500 to a larger audience.

00:55:33.220 What is your organization like?

00:55:34.920 What's your ground game like?

00:55:36.020 Yeah, we have probably

00:55:37.560 the best libertarian ground game

00:55:39.500 I've seen in a long time,

00:55:40.720 if probably ever.

00:55:41.920 We have over seven

00:55:43.020 or eight directors,

00:55:44.200 campaign manager,

00:55:45.620 about 35 to 50 people

00:55:47.240 who are actively working

00:55:48.500 every day

00:55:49.060 on every aspect

00:55:50.020 of the campaign

00:55:50.900 to include things

00:55:51.920 like scheduling,

00:55:53.160 setting up events,

00:55:54.440 fixing our calendar,

00:55:56.100 making sure people

00:55:56.760 show up,

00:55:57.060 social media.

00:55:57.900 We have a team

00:55:58.780 on Twitter,

00:55:59.460 a team on Instagram,

00:56:00.820 a team on Facebook.

00:56:02.580 We have a team

00:56:03.440 on everything.

00:56:03.980 YouTube,

00:56:04.920 we do video production,

00:56:06.200 we do everything.

00:56:06.720 You don't have,

00:56:07.240 but you're lacking money.

00:56:09.220 You're up against people

00:56:10.120 who have tens of millions

00:56:11.860 of dollars.

00:56:12.040 Tens of millions

00:56:12.660 of dollars,

00:56:13.220 absolutely.

00:56:13.700 We've raised

00:56:14.100 almost half a million.

00:56:15.420 But to be clear,

00:56:16.400 if in these last

00:56:17.560 couple of weeks,

00:56:18.220 if we raise another

00:56:19.240 $50,000,

00:56:20.560 $100,000,

00:56:21.300 this becomes winnable.

00:56:22.740 I know it sounds crazy,

00:56:23.800 but it is.

00:56:24.300 And the reason is

00:56:25.020 name recognition

00:56:26.140 is my only issue.

00:56:27.400 The last poll we put out,

00:56:28.660 I was at about

00:56:29.280 one-third name recognition.

00:56:30.880 And with that,

00:56:31.640 I polled at 13%.

00:56:33.000 So you can do the math

00:56:34.500 on that one.

00:56:35.280 Three times

00:56:35.920 to get to 100%

00:56:36.860 equals 39%, right?

00:56:38.400 Three times 13,

00:56:39.340 39%.

00:56:39.920 This is a five-way race.

00:56:41.740 30% could win this thing.

00:56:43.660 So I'm nine points

00:56:44.880 above victory

00:56:45.700 assuming I can get

00:56:47.180 100%.

00:56:47.720 There's the hard part,

00:56:49.060 right?

00:56:49.160 It's a math equation.

00:56:49.960 Can I get to 100%?

00:56:51.540 And sadly,

00:56:52.280 that's not my message.

00:56:53.140 I've got that down.

00:56:54.320 It's the media.

00:56:55.020 Can I get my name

00:56:56.120 out to enough people

00:56:56.980 to where I cross

00:56:58.000 over that barrier

00:56:58.620 which gets me

00:56:59.080 over the 30%?

00:56:59.720 I can't believe

00:57:00.280 that there's,

00:57:00.800 I mean,

00:57:01.020 it's like libertarians

00:57:02.000 don't want to win.

00:57:03.080 Yes.

00:57:03.900 It really is.

00:57:05.760 Well, again,

00:57:06.120 you've got to remember,

00:57:06.680 as third party in general,

00:57:08.300 the system is stacked

00:57:09.240 against you.

00:57:10.320 And someone the other day

00:57:10.960 was telling me,

00:57:11.540 they said,

00:57:11.940 you know,

00:57:12.140 only someone who has

00:57:12.940 like a Marine mentality

00:57:14.580 could do this

00:57:15.460 because every day

00:57:16.720 I'm up against failure.

00:57:17.760 But the Marine Corps

00:57:18.420 taught me,

00:57:19.220 take the hill.

00:57:19.980 The captain shot.

00:57:21.220 Take the hill.

00:57:22.160 The machine gun's broken.

00:57:23.420 Take the hill.

00:57:24.620 The radios don't work.

00:57:25.900 Take the hill.

00:57:27.020 Stop giving me excuses.

00:57:28.420 Take the hill.

00:57:29.000 I get it.

00:57:29.760 And that's what I do.

00:57:31.020 I have to take the hill.

00:57:31.620 It doesn't matter.

00:57:32.740 I get,

00:57:33.220 I literally deal

00:57:34.000 with failure every day.

00:57:34.980 Disappointment every day.

00:57:36.000 And when I say that,

00:57:36.960 that's not an exaggeration.

00:57:38.560 That's every single day.

00:57:39.520 As I mentioned earlier,

00:57:40.360 there's going to be a debate

00:57:41.140 coming up here tomorrow

00:57:42.280 at WCBS,

00:57:43.340 and they're only going to include

00:57:44.740 the Democrat and Republican.

00:57:46.000 Even though I'm on the ballot,

00:57:47.820 even though 31,000 New Yorkers

00:57:50.260 signed a petition

00:57:51.180 to get me on that ballot,

00:57:53.560 WCBS,

00:57:54.660 I think a guy named Tim Schell,

00:57:55.860 I think is his name,

00:57:56.840 he there has decided,

00:57:57.920 nope,

00:57:58.440 Larry Sharp doesn't deserve

00:57:59.280 to be on there.

00:58:00.060 He's decided that

00:58:00.920 the establishment

00:58:01.520 is all that matters.

00:58:02.720 This is what I'm up against.

00:58:03.900 It's not going to stop me.

00:58:04.780 I'm still taking the hill,

00:58:06.580 but it's yet another obstacle

00:58:08.640 we have to get over.

00:58:09.580 So if you're a libertarian

00:58:11.420 or you're hearing something

00:58:12.360 that you think should be heard,

00:58:15.560 then you should probably

00:58:16.960 maybe tweet Storm.

00:58:20.040 What's his name again at CBS?

00:58:22.440 WCBS Radio,

00:58:23.500 880 Radio.

00:58:24.920 I think his name is Tim Schell.

00:58:26.160 So this is a radio debate.

00:58:27.620 Yes.

00:58:28.040 Well, it's going to be

00:58:28.500 televised also now.

00:58:29.360 Okay.

00:58:29.820 It'll be both televised

00:58:30.980 and radio.

00:58:31.620 It'll be both.

00:58:32.500 Okay.

00:58:32.760 So yeah, again,

00:58:33.580 and they're just deciding,

00:58:34.780 no,

00:58:35.380 we don't want,

00:58:36.160 don't get me wrong.

00:58:36.900 There are three other people.

00:58:37.900 It should be me.

00:58:38.520 It should also be the Green Party

00:58:39.640 and also the Sam Party.

00:58:40.640 They should all be there,

00:58:41.460 but this is the norm

00:58:42.440 and we put up against this.

00:58:43.700 We're up against this constantly

00:58:45.020 and here's the worst part.

00:58:46.960 With all of this,

00:58:48.340 we're still growing

00:58:49.200 and they're still going down.

00:58:51.220 That's the sad part.

00:58:52.280 They don't realize

00:58:54.460 they're on a sinking ship

00:58:55.400 or maybe they don't even care.

00:58:57.400 If people want to donate,

00:58:58.480 how do they donate?

00:58:59.300 LarrySharp.com slash donate.

00:59:01.060 And to be clear,

00:59:01.980 if some of you want to give $45,000,

00:59:04.460 you can't.

00:59:05.340 The maximum is $44,000

00:59:07.560 by New York state law.

00:59:09.400 So if you,

00:59:09.780 I know someone's going,

00:59:10.680 I want to give Larry $45,000.

00:59:12.200 Sorry, you can't do it.

00:59:13.420 $44,000.

00:59:14.000 You only can give $44,000.

00:59:15.520 That's all you can give.

00:59:16.160 Wow.

00:59:16.400 Okay.

00:59:16.540 Yes.

00:59:17.280 LarrySharp.com.

00:59:18.480 That's with an E at the end of sharp.

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The Glenn Beck Program - October 22, 2018

10⧸22⧸18 - Best of the Program⧸ Guests, Ben Sasse & Larry Sharpe

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