The Glenn Beck Program - 11⧸29⧸17 - Another One Bites the Dust？

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00:00:13.960 Glenn Beck.

00:00:14.760 Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Show.

00:00:19.760 888-727-BECK. Glenn's just a little under the weather.

00:00:23.800 Actually, been losing his voice for the last few days

00:00:26.440 and pretty much completely went out yesterday.

00:00:28.840 So the big news of the morning, if you've not heard it yet,

00:00:34.420 the Today Show's Matt Lauer has been fired for inappropriate sexual behavior.

00:00:41.640 Just like that, he's gone.

00:00:43.340 Yeah, no suspension.

00:00:44.400 No suspension. We're not going to look into it.

00:00:46.140 We're going to investigate. Nope, he's gone.

00:00:48.560 They heard about it late Monday night, they said.

00:00:51.660 And by this morning, he's not even on the air.

00:00:54.760 Not even on the air, like never coming back.

00:00:56.940 He's been terminated by NBC.

00:01:00.580 This is a guy whose show that he's hosted for 20 years has been number one for, what, 15 of that, maybe?

00:01:09.420 And he makes $26 million a year.

00:01:12.240 And you just summarily fire him on the accusation.

00:01:16.640 In fact, on the statement, it's interesting because they said,

00:01:20.920 in 20 years, this is the first accusation that anybody's come to management with.

00:01:28.160 And it's just one at this point.

00:01:29.580 Just one.

00:01:30.060 They said there's evidence or there's reason to believe it's not isolated.

00:01:34.460 We should listen to the first moments here of Today Show.

00:01:37.020 What is it, Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb was on there.

00:01:41.920 Because this is a sad morning here at Today and at NBC News.

00:01:45.320 Just moments ago, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack sent the following note to our organization.

00:01:50.340 Dear colleagues, on Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague

00:01:54.200 about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer.

00:01:58.520 It represented, after serious review, a clear violation of our company's standards.

00:02:03.080 As a result, we have decided to terminate his employment.

00:02:06.840 While it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over 20 years he has been at NBC News,

00:02:12.200 we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident.

00:02:17.320 Our highest priority is to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected.

00:02:22.660 Except be accused.

00:02:23.380 And to ensure that any actions that run counter to our core values are met with consequences,

00:02:28.380 no matter who the offender.

00:02:29.460 We want everybody to feel safe except the men who work here.

00:02:33.960 Right?

00:02:34.260 I mean, there's one of two ways to go with this.

00:02:37.740 Either NBC had really hard evidence or they had an admission of his.

00:02:43.220 Right?

00:02:43.540 They went to him and he said, yeah, okay, I did that.

00:02:47.940 I do that.

00:02:49.020 I thought maybe, are there texts?

00:02:51.380 Are there photos?

00:02:52.920 Is there video?

00:02:54.100 Is there an audio recording of some sort?

00:02:56.560 Maybe.

00:02:56.920 Something where...

00:02:57.800 Some hard evidence.

00:02:58.640 Right.

00:02:59.120 Because, I mean, in one day, it would almost be difficult to put together the questioning process in one day to get someone fired.

00:03:07.220 It's not enough time.

00:03:08.200 Right.

00:03:08.420 So it's either hard evidence or he admitted, or we've arrived at a very frightening un-American place. 0.91

00:03:16.660 And I don't know which it is.

00:03:18.440 Very well might be both.

00:03:19.440 It might be.

00:03:20.200 Yeah.

00:03:20.440 And it was interesting to hear Savannah Guthrie, who has worked with him for 15 years, try to handle this.

00:03:30.060 And I think she did, generally speaking, a good job.

00:03:32.760 She did.

00:03:33.520 Listen to her navigate this.

00:03:34.680 You know, for the moment, all we can say is that we are heartbroken.

00:03:38.800 I'm heartbroken for Matt.

00:03:40.320 He is my dear, dear friend and my partner.

00:03:42.120 And he is beloved by many, many people here.

00:03:44.980 And I'm heartbroken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story and any other women who have their own stories to tell.

00:03:52.780 And we are grappling with a dilemma that so many people have faced these past few weeks.

00:03:59.380 How do you reconcile your love for someone with the revelation that they have behaved badly?

00:04:05.120 And I don't know the answer to that.

00:04:07.420 But I do know that this reckoning that so many organizations have been going through is important.

00:04:13.400 It's long overdue.

00:04:14.860 And it must result in workplaces where all women, all people feel safe and respected. 0.81

00:04:20.700 As painful as it is, this moment in our culture and this change had to happen.

00:04:27.340 Yeah, it did.

00:04:28.020 This is a very tough morning for both of us.

00:04:30.880 I've known Matt for 15 years.

00:04:32.760 And I've loved him as a friend and as a colleague.

00:04:35.800 And again, just like you were saying, Savannah, it's hard to reconcile what we are hearing with the man who we know who walks in this building every single day.

00:04:45.000 We were both woken up with the news kind of pre-dawn.

00:04:47.960 And we're trying to process it and trying to make sense of it.

00:04:50.640 And it'll take some time.

00:04:51.560 So as good, good friends who are dear, dear friends, I mean, don't you kind of owe it to that friendship to initially believe him?

00:05:03.580 To withhold judgment at least until you've seen hard evidence that he's doing this.

00:05:10.720 At least until you know what he's even been accused of, as they say in there, that they don't even know further details other than what's been released in the statement.

00:05:19.440 They just know that, you know, he was accused of something and they said it was a detailed accusation.

00:05:25.400 And look, maybe he called them and they're not saying that.

00:05:29.020 We don't know all the details here.

00:05:30.400 But it's like, if you have a piece of information such as someone's continued behavior over 15 years and you don't see any sign of that, it doesn't mean that it's not true.

00:05:46.460 Right?

00:05:46.560 Like, you know, the BTK killer was very active in his church, right? 0.98

00:05:52.060 He was loved by his community because he was constantly helping.

00:05:56.040 How many times have we seen people in the church, for example, who have gone down very dark roads in their personal lives while being very helpful in their communities?

00:06:05.140 It's not impossible, but doesn't that do you still owe this person you might not even know the right of believing their accusation against someone, you know, for a decade and a half?

00:06:17.740 That is a I don't think that's the right way this is supposed to be handled.

00:06:21.700 I'm not saying you say, well, that woman's immediately lying because I have a friend.

00:06:24.640 No, but I need to see the details of this because I can't believe he would do something like that.

00:06:30.340 That whole step is gone.

00:06:31.840 Apparently now we're just to they're fired and wow, I'm glad this this reckoning is happening.

00:06:37.260 It's hard to question this dirt bag that I was, you know, I was friends with, but hey, you know, she he's been accused.

00:06:43.380 Yeah, it's hard to reconcile the guy I knew with the dirt bag.

00:06:46.080 He obviously is.

00:06:47.060 Well, they haven't proven that it hasn't been proven to anybody yet.

00:06:50.220 You don't even know the details you just admitted.

00:06:52.340 I don't know.

00:06:53.340 I think the innocent until proven guilty theory in this in this country is completely out the window.

00:07:00.780 Now we're not abiding by that at all.

00:07:03.360 And, you know, that's a system of the of the justice system to the innocent until proven guilty.

00:07:10.400 You can you can go ahead and convict somebody in the court of public perception.

00:07:16.280 It's just not it's not right to do.

00:07:18.380 It's just not right.

00:07:19.640 Yeah.

00:07:20.240 And, you know, look, maybe they know more.

00:07:23.240 Maybe they have more evidence.

00:07:24.700 That's not what they're saying.

00:07:25.520 Right.

00:07:25.700 That's not what they're saying publicly yet.

00:07:27.660 So but maybe they're saying something behind closed doors.

00:07:30.580 The New York Post has a report that has come out that is saying the firing of Matt Lauer, in case you're just joining us, was based on a an assault that happened during the Rio Olympics of a staffer.

00:07:44.520 So we don't know the details of it yet.

00:07:47.760 But they also say that there will be they do expect and they they certainly hinted to this in the statement.

00:07:53.460 They do expect more accusations to come.

00:07:55.420 They think this might not be the only thing.

00:07:56.980 And look, they may have enough information to say, OK, we definitely know this is really bad.

00:08:02.080 But it's amazing to see how Matt Lauer has handled these other accusations over the years.

00:08:07.400 Yeah.

00:08:08.040 If this was a real problem for him.

00:08:10.620 Yeah.

00:08:11.300 When he talked to Bill O'Reilly, listen to this.

00:08:15.040 Listen to it in the light of everything we know now when he was interviewing O'Reilly just a few months ago.

00:08:21.140 So did you provide Fox News any evidence, any information that you think could have changed their mind as to what you were guilty or not guilty of?

00:08:30.300 My legal team was very aggressive in putting forth our point of view.

00:08:34.440 And that's all I'm going to say about it.

00:08:36.100 You I want to put this in perspective.

00:08:37.920 Timing wise, you were fired about 10 months after Roger Ailes was let go by the network over allegations of sexual harassment.

00:08:45.120 So the network understood the subject matter.

00:08:47.660 You were probably the last guy in the world that they wanted to fire because you were the guy that the ratings and the revenues all placed on.

00:08:56.740 You carried that network on your shoulders for a lot of years.

00:09:00.800 So doesn't it seem safe to assume that the people at Fox News were given a piece of information or given some evidence that simply made it impossible for you to stay on at Fox News?

00:09:12.620 That's a false assumption.

00:09:14.400 There were a lot of other business things in play at that time and still today that 21st Century was involved with.

00:09:21.160 And it was a business decision that they made.

00:09:23.900 But there isn't any.

00:09:25.720 But you don't let your number one guy go unless you have information that you think makes him.

00:09:31.100 That's not true.

00:09:32.240 You don't let your number one guy go unless you have information that that's a pretty bold statement for a guy who might have a guilty conscience.

00:09:42.440 Right.

00:09:42.940 Isn't it?

00:09:43.360 It makes you think maybe maybe he doesn't believe these things happen.

00:09:47.520 Right.

00:09:47.880 I mean, yeah.

00:09:49.460 And it's also not true.

00:09:51.140 It's also an unfair question.

00:09:52.320 That does happen.

00:09:53.380 It does happen.

00:09:54.560 You know, like a lot of these organizations will get to a point even when they don't even when they don't believe the accusations, they will do things like this because they feel they are getting pressured into it.

00:10:02.380 People do this stuff all the time because it's about public perception.

00:10:07.540 It's not necessarily always about some factual thing.

00:10:10.360 I mean, you know, we we have a society in which we, you know, if we had if we changed the standard with crimes like this, you know, the Soviet Union. 0.91

00:10:20.220 Right.

00:10:20.600 And we said guilty until proven innocent.

00:10:23.880 Right.

00:10:25.040 The Soviet Union probably got a lot of criminals behind bars like they probably were right on a lot of cases. 0.96

00:10:31.820 There probably were a lot of times they put people in jail and they were guilty.

00:10:36.220 Right.

00:10:36.920 And they just assume they were guilty and they put them in jail.

00:10:39.560 They didn't give them a trial or anything.

00:10:40.560 And they were probably right.

00:10:41.720 A lot of times we built the society the other way for a reason.

00:10:46.320 If we're going to err, we're supposed to err on the side of someone who is guilty getting no punishment at all.

00:10:55.040 Yeah, that is our strategy here in the United States, like it or not.

00:10:58.840 And we have now developed a new function of society in which accusation equals destruction.

00:11:06.020 You get accused once and it is over.

00:11:09.520 And this again, we've said this with Moore.

00:11:11.980 We've said this with Weinstein.

00:11:13.340 We said this.

00:11:13.940 I'll say it again with Lauer.

00:11:14.820 This very well may be a great case of so much information and he was this bad of a guy and he should be fired.

00:11:21.680 We don't have enough information on it yet.

00:11:24.200 But it's just amazing to see how fast these things are coming.

00:11:26.820 This isn't even Weinstein.

00:11:28.240 Weinstein had these accusations come out and it was like it was weeks.

00:11:32.620 Matt Lauer, is Lauer worse than Weinstein?

00:11:35.300 Or are we just on a down, you know, rolling down the hill?

00:11:39.700 You know, we talk about a slippery slope.

00:11:41.580 This slope, it's slip and slides covering the mountain right now.

00:11:46.060 It's almost as if we've adopted the Hillary Clinton justice system that these women have a right to be believed. 1.00

00:11:55.880 Yeah.

00:11:56.320 So any accusation that they throw out there just must be believed.

00:12:00.840 Okay, well, women don't lie. 1.00

00:12:02.180 Yeah, we should really get into this because there's a there is a story.

00:12:06.940 There's multiple stories now written by women who are saying, hey, guys, this might not be the right road to go down.

00:12:13.660 We might be going the right and in publications like The New York Times and The New Yorker.

00:12:21.300 Not, you know, some evil conservative organizations that's trying to defend Roy Moore.

00:12:25.920 I'm talking about real.

00:12:27.560 I mean, The New Yorker is not even a it's a left wing organization.

00:12:30.740 Yeah.

00:12:31.300 And The New York Times is obviously a mainstream publication that leans to the left as well.

00:12:35.800 But I mean, these are big, big organizations coming out and saying, guys, what are we doing here?

00:12:42.480 Well, we got to make sure we're doing the right thing because we all know this.

00:12:45.380 We all want women who have actually been sexually assaulted and harassed at war constantly and been pushed down and not been able to get jobs because of we all want that to be destroyed.

00:12:56.160 That culture is completely wrong.

00:12:57.640 We don't want mad men here in the United States.

00:12:59.660 That's not what we want.

00:13:00.940 But we have to understand what we're doing here.

00:13:04.080 Accusations do not mean guilt.

00:13:06.400 Not necessarily.

00:13:07.720 They may be.

00:13:08.740 Yeah, they might be.

00:13:09.860 They might all be right.

00:13:11.720 They might.

00:13:12.420 Or many of them may be wrong.

00:13:14.360 Yeah.

00:13:14.460 And unless they got just a flat out admission from Matt Lauer, this has gone really fast.

00:13:21.220 Really amazingly fast.

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00:14:33.100 Glenn Beck.

00:14:35.540 Glenn Beck.

00:14:42.840 Pat Gray, Stubergeer for Glenn, who's lost his voice today, so hopefully Dave Rest will have him back tomorrow.

00:14:51.020 888-727-BECK.

00:14:53.140 Interesting that some of these left-wing publications are starting to sound the alarm that, hey, maybe we're a little too hasty on some of these sexual harassment charges.

00:15:03.840 Yeah, I mean, there's been several we've highlighted over the past couple weeks, but this one comes from the New York Times.

00:15:08.820 The title is The Limits of Believe All Women. 0.99

00:15:13.120 Right?

00:15:13.320 Again, this comes from a left-wing source.

00:15:16.660 You know, talking about the reckoning that has happened recently, wouldn't have happened without Gretchen Carlson, and then they go through a bunch of the people who, you know, they say deserve praise and gratitude.

00:15:27.040 And hasn't the hunt been exhilarating?

00:15:28.780 Again, this is a woman writing this.

00:15:30.300 There's no small chance that by the time you finish this article, another mammoth beast of prey, maybe multiple, will be stalked and felled.

00:15:37.060 Again, now loud, right?

00:15:38.560 That's certainly true.

00:15:39.820 The huntress's war cry, Believe All Women, has felt like a bracing corrective to historic injustice.

00:15:44.300 It has felt like a justifiable response to a system in which the crimes perpetrated against women, so intimate, so humiliating, and so unlike any other, are very difficult to prove.

00:15:53.260 But I also can't shake the feeling that this mantra creates terrible new problems in addition to solving old ones.

00:15:59.240 In less than two months, we've moved from uncovering accusations of criminal behavior, Harvey Weinstein,

00:16:03.600 to criminalizing behavior that we previously regarded as presumptuous and boorish, like Glenn Thrush, the New York Times reporter.

00:16:12.180 In a climate in which sexual escapades are transforming so rapidly, many men are asking,

00:16:18.800 if I were wrongly accused, who would believe me?

00:16:21.960 This is a question I would love to see someone ask a media member who is really aggressive on this.

00:16:27.760 Just, we know you didn't do it, right?

00:16:31.140 Wolf Blitzer, okay?

00:16:32.400 Wolf Blitzer, who's the guy that you'd think is the least likely person in America?

00:16:35.440 Let's say Wolf Blitzer.

00:16:36.460 That's the person who pops into my head.

00:16:37.720 There's no way Wolf Blitzer did anything like this.

00:16:40.360 Wolf Blitzer.

00:16:41.680 How, let's just say some person who didn't like you from your past,

00:16:46.220 or two or three people who were interns and thought they should have been promoted and you didn't promote them,

00:16:50.120 and they just accused you completely falsely.

00:16:52.680 What could you say?

00:16:55.580 What would anyone believe?

00:16:58.000 If you were completely innocent, just craft for me the response that makes it even plausible for you to hold your job for more than a week.

00:17:08.880 And I think the answer, everything turns out to be, well, you're blaming the victims.

00:17:12.360 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:17:13.040 There wouldn't be three women doing this. 1.00

00:17:14.660 There's no way.

00:17:15.340 What do they have to gain?

00:17:16.440 Like, no matter what you say, there's that pushback.

00:17:20.740 And I don't think that's right.

00:17:22.140 The New York Times goes on.

00:17:23.340 I know the answer, if I were wrongly accused, who would believe me?

00:17:27.400 I know the answer many women would give and are giving is good. 0.99

00:17:31.300 Be scared.

00:17:32.380 We've been scared forever.

00:17:33.420 It's your turn for some sleepless nights.

00:17:35.040 They'll say, if some innocent men go down in an effort to tear down the patriarchy, so be it.

00:17:39.940 Emily Linden, I think you talked about this, Pat, columnist at Team Vogue, summed up this view concisely last week on Twitter.

00:17:45.240 I'm actually not at all concerned about innocent men losing their jobs over false accusations of sexual assault.

00:17:52.420 If some innocent men's reputations have to take a hit in the process of undoing the patriarchy, that is the price I am absolutely willing to pay.

00:17:59.920 Ms. Linden was widely criticized, but say this much for her.

00:18:02.660 At least she had the guts to publicly articulate a view that so many women are sharing with one another in private. 1.00

00:18:09.720 Countless innocent women have been robbed of justice, friends of mine insists.

00:18:13.180 So why are we agonizing about the possibility of a few good men going down?

00:18:17.940 This is, again, the New York Times.

00:18:21.080 I believe that the believe-all-women vision of feminism unintentionally fetishizes women.

00:18:26.340 Women are no longer human and flawed. 1.00

00:18:28.300 They are truth personified.

00:18:29.640 They are above reproach.

00:18:31.700 I believe that this is an amazing perspective and brave for the author to do this.

00:18:36.120 I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.

00:18:43.560 I believe that facts serve feminists far better than faith.

00:18:47.020 That due process is better than mob rule.

00:18:50.440 Maybe it will happen tomorrow.

00:18:51.540 Maybe next week.

00:18:52.220 Maybe next month.

00:18:52.880 But the Duke Lacrosse moment, the Rolling Stone moment, will come.

00:18:56.200 A woman's accusation will turn out to be grossly exaggerated or flatly untrue.

00:19:00.020 And if the governing principle of this movement is still an article of faith, many people will lose their religion.

00:19:06.660 It's interesting, too.

00:19:07.620 They go on to say, we know women. 1.00

00:19:11.200 It's not that women can't lie. 1.00

00:19:12.520 Of course they can.

00:19:13.500 And the example they give is the Project Veritas thing from yesterday with James O'Keefe.

00:19:20.580 Yes, that was a conservative thing to try to get the media and try to catch them.

00:19:24.420 But what it was was a woman lying. 1.00

00:19:26.360 The woman went up and told a false story to try to trap someone who they wanted to make into a bad guy. 1.00

00:19:33.260 It's the same story that could happen to any person in the media, any person who is accused of these things.

00:19:39.960 And we have to, as a society, set some sort of lines of due process and skepticism.

00:19:46.460 Women can handle it. 1.00

00:19:48.560 Women absolutely can handle it. 1.00

00:19:50.900 They're not these, you know, we're treating women like children. 1.00

00:19:54.220 And that is, it's not fair to women. 1.00

00:19:57.660 They deserve, equality is one thing, and it's right.

00:20:02.480 But equality means the same skepticism that everybody gets.

00:20:06.600 The same critical look at their claims that everybody receives.

00:20:12.120 Yeah, and again, I don't know, Matt Lauer.

00:20:13.980 This could be completely true.

00:20:15.300 Totally.

00:20:16.100 But you can't make that determination, I don't think, unless you have video in 12 hours.

00:20:21.340 Glenn Beck.

00:20:31.600 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:35.560 If you haven't heard, Matt Lauer fired at NBC.

00:20:41.080 He didn't even show up for this morning's Today Show.

00:20:46.000 And he was accused Monday night, the NBC brass got word from some woman that she had been assaulted.

00:20:52.880 We don't know the details of the assault in Rio during the Olympics.

00:20:56.840 What was that, two years, almost two years ago?

00:20:59.020 A year and a half ago.

00:21:00.180 Again, you know, you can't help but wonder, why didn't you say something then?

00:21:09.140 And a lot of women have called into my show on The Blaze and said... 0.89

00:21:13.100 Which show is that, Pat?

00:21:14.160 It's Pat Gray Unleashed.

00:21:15.760 Is it findable?

00:21:17.700 Is it just something for a private, small group?

00:21:19.940 No, actually...

00:21:20.380 Does anyone have access to it?

00:21:21.420 It's for everyone.

00:21:22.280 Really?

00:21:22.680 Yeah, isn't that amazing?

00:21:23.420 How would they access something like that?

00:21:24.620 They'd go to TheBlaze.com and...

00:21:26.700 TV or radio?

00:21:27.580 TV or radio.

00:21:28.320 Wow, what an incredible offer.

00:21:29.700 Yeah, and just listen right after immediately following this show.

00:21:31.980 Today included.

00:21:32.920 But a lot of people are calling that show that you can access whatever you want.

00:21:35.600 Yes, and they're saying to me, I understand.

00:21:38.880 Women are calling and saying, I understand because I was harassed and I was afraid of losing my job.

00:21:44.880 Or I was embarrassed or I was ashamed or I thought I did something wrong.

00:21:49.020 And that's all understandable too.

00:21:50.780 But on the other hand, you wonder, well, couldn't you have saved others from this same situation had you spoken out?

00:22:00.000 There are other jobs to have maybe that you go to.

00:22:03.820 Right, and of course, obviously, a woman should not be forced into another job. 1.00

00:22:06.940 She should not.

00:22:07.520 Because of one of these situations.

00:22:09.200 Right.

00:22:09.280 But it's an impossible decision and should not be one they need to make, right?

00:22:13.600 Like, they shouldn't have to make a priority decision as to what is worse.

00:22:17.440 You shouldn't have to, but sometimes you do.

00:22:19.040 Right.

00:22:19.380 And it does, unfortunately, happen.

00:22:21.880 And hopefully, that wouldn't be the outcome.

00:22:24.120 And look, if we get to a point here where this settles into a comfortable place where if women are actually harassed, they can come out and say something. 1.00

00:22:31.560 And people who are guilty pay the price.

00:22:33.740 That's a great outcome.

00:22:34.540 Like, that would be a fantastic place for this thing to land.

00:22:37.980 We just have to make sure we don't go the other way too far.

00:22:41.440 And the fact that even the left-wing organizations are coming out and saying, are we going too far?

00:22:49.760 Yeah.

00:22:50.360 We crossed a line.

00:22:51.400 Maybe we've crossed a line.

00:22:52.980 The New Yorker has a really interesting piece today talking about multiple accusations.

00:23:04.540 It's saying, we need to separate a little bit.

00:23:07.020 We need to find the difference between Harvey Weinstein and, you know, someone else, right?

00:23:13.440 Like Louis C.K., for example.

00:23:14.600 We brought that one up before.

00:23:16.160 Yeah.

00:23:16.540 Because what he did was icky.

00:23:18.520 Really icky.

00:23:19.300 If you don't know, he was...

00:23:22.600 He pleasured himself in front of women.

00:23:24.100 But ask them first if it was okay to do that.

00:23:26.320 Yes.

00:23:26.560 And as far as we know, never did anything that was against the consent of the woman.

00:23:32.460 So if the women said no, he wouldn't do it.

00:23:35.220 He wouldn't do it.

00:23:36.200 And if they said yes, he would do it.

00:23:39.240 And many of the women reported afterwards feeling like, oh, man.

00:23:42.960 I shouldn't have watched him do that.

00:23:44.320 I shouldn't have watched that.

00:23:44.500 That was gross.

00:23:45.040 And now they're upset about it.

00:23:45.900 And now they're upset about it.

00:23:46.720 And he lost...

00:23:47.460 He's basically lost his career now because of it.

00:23:50.040 Yeah.

00:23:50.160 As a result.

00:23:51.760 It's true.

00:23:52.680 I was watching Family Guy last night, which was one of the first episodes of this season.

00:24:00.120 Because I hadn't watched any of them.

00:24:01.640 And I like that show.

00:24:02.400 I think it's funny.

00:24:03.180 Is that Seth MacFarlane?

00:24:04.200 Seth MacFarlane show.

00:24:04.940 He does it, right?

00:24:05.420 And he's the one who made jokes about Kevin Spacey in the past and made jokes about...

00:24:10.520 Guy seems to know about everybody's sexual harassment situation.

00:24:13.140 Exactly.

00:24:13.440 Right.

00:24:13.660 And that's what I thought.

00:24:14.440 Because he made the Oscars joke about...

00:24:17.080 It wasn't Spacey.

00:24:18.300 It was Weinstein.

00:24:18.680 And he had made a Kevin Spacey joke inside of Family Guy.

00:24:21.820 And people were bringing these things up.

00:24:22.840 And I was like, wow.

00:24:23.400 Yeah.

00:24:23.560 He does seem to know everything.

00:24:24.700 Who was in the first episode of Family Guy this season?

00:24:29.460 Louis C.K.

00:24:30.560 Wow.

00:24:31.320 And it's like...

00:24:32.060 Wow.

00:24:32.240 That had been a rumor...

00:24:33.360 That rumor I had actually heard in the past that he liked to do this.

00:24:36.700 He had referenced it on his own show that he liked to do this in front of women.

00:24:41.520 And now he's apparently gone.

00:24:45.580 Mm-hmm.

00:24:45.840 And, you know, it's like one of those things.

00:24:48.040 One of the accusations was that one of the women was on a phone call with Louis C.K.

00:24:54.320 and believed that he was pleasuring himself while they were on the phone.

00:24:59.820 She didn't know for sure.

00:25:01.180 My understanding...

00:25:01.720 And he didn't say?

00:25:02.760 My understanding...

00:25:03.560 Hang up the phone! 1.00

00:25:04.640 First of all, hang up the phone.

00:25:06.420 Number two, it's my understanding that telephones are not a visual medium.

00:25:12.340 That's my understanding as well.

00:25:13.120 That's my understanding.

00:25:14.140 Well, there can be.

00:25:15.060 Now we have FaceTime, we've got Skype, but it was not one of those calls.

00:25:19.080 It was just a normal phone call.

00:25:21.240 So we're at the point now where if a woman believes a guy is doing something while they're 0.60

00:25:26.600 on the phone with them...

00:25:27.800 Well, that's because she has a right to have a phone conversation with Louis C.K.

00:25:32.200 and shouldn't be made to feel as though he's pleasuring himself while they're talking.

00:25:36.840 Really?

00:25:37.260 Yes.

00:25:37.540 Is that a right to a phone call with Louis C.K.?

00:25:39.440 I guess.

00:25:40.020 And again, it wasn't even the...

00:25:41.340 Like, it was just that he was powerful was the excuse.

00:25:43.900 And his explanation of this, and he was widely praised for it because he kind of came out

00:25:47.560 and was like, look, yeah, I did these things and I shouldn't have done them and I realize

00:25:50.860 now...

00:25:51.340 He's like, even though I always asked for consent and I always got in and I never did anything

00:25:55.140 like this with them saying no, I know now that I was wrong.

00:25:59.460 And it's like, his construct of this was, I was admired.

00:26:05.480 I was a powerful comedian and people in the industry admired me.

00:26:09.400 Therefore, even me asking to have sexual contact with these women was inappropriate because

00:26:17.360 they, I guess, weren't adults enough to say no.

00:26:21.940 That's unbelievable to me.

00:26:22.900 That is...

00:26:23.400 Unbelievable to me.

00:26:24.340 It's totally wrong against women, right? 1.00

00:26:26.280 Think of your wife in that context.

00:26:27.500 I know my wife, if Louis C.K. had asked her, hey, do you mind if I pleasure myself in front 0.93

00:26:34.060 of you?

00:26:34.420 She would absolutely say no and leave because women are capable of doing that. 1.00

00:26:40.620 Yeah.

00:26:41.100 Now, if there is a step beyond that where a guy says, no, get back in here or forces

00:26:46.160 her... 1.00

00:26:46.760 But that's different.

00:26:47.580 Totally different world.

00:26:48.660 Yeah.

00:26:49.020 But if you ask for consent and receive it, that is essentially your responsibility in the

00:26:55.560 situation, right?

00:26:56.460 Like, I mean, there's other moral questions around these sorts of behaviors, but not when

00:27:00.740 it comes to sexual assault, right?

00:27:02.480 So they go through...

00:27:03.020 The New Yorker goes through the story of Ralph Shorty, who was a state senator in Oklahoma,

00:27:10.180 and he was caught having sex with a 17-year-old or about to have sex with a 17-year-old prostitute

00:27:16.920 and a male.

00:27:19.620 And so he is now going to jail for at least, I think it's 10 years.

00:27:26.580 And even though this person is above the age of consent, but not for prostitution.

00:27:32.540 So he committed what seems to be pretty clearly a crime, but he was facing life in prison because

00:27:37.680 of these things, because of pictures he had been sent from other 17-year-olds.

00:27:43.840 Apparently, really twisted case.

00:27:46.220 And I only bring it up because I don't think that's a particularly good example of this,

00:27:50.600 but I bring it up just because the New Yorker was also talking about someone on the right.

00:27:54.120 So let me give you the example of Glenn Thrush.

00:27:55.860 Glenn Thrush, if you don't know who he is, he's the New York Times reporter who is wearing

00:28:00.180 the hat all the time.

00:28:00.940 He's portrayed on Saturday Night Live.

00:28:03.720 You know, he's kind of like one of those reporters you kind of know, right?

00:28:06.080 A big, big political reporter.

00:28:08.040 Glenn Thrush, White House reporter for the New York Times, suspended in advance of the

00:28:11.800 publication of a story by Vox that described multiple instances in which Thrush made sexual

00:28:16.080 advances towards younger women.

00:28:17.940 In one, he kissed a woman on the ear.

00:28:20.980 At the time, the woman seemed to have shrugged it off. 0.83

00:28:23.540 That's accusation one.

00:28:24.420 Okay, kissed a woman on the ear. 0.73

00:28:26.880 The woman shrugged it off. 1.00

00:28:27.600 So at the time, she wasn't upset, but she is now years later.

00:28:31.060 I guess doesn't like it now.

00:28:32.180 Okay.

00:28:32.460 But the extent of it was a kiss on the ear.

00:28:34.680 On the ear.

00:28:35.420 Okay.

00:28:36.080 Uh-huh.

00:28:36.720 In another, there was a consensual but aborted sexual encounter.

00:28:40.960 So it was consensual.

00:28:42.320 I guess it started and then they were like, I don't know, let's not do this.

00:28:45.120 And it stopped.

00:28:45.840 He didn't force her to make it continue.

00:28:47.940 Why are we even hearing about that then?

00:28:49.820 It's like an interesting question.

00:28:51.160 It's consensual.

00:28:51.640 Consensual.

00:28:51.960 And then when it stopped being consensual, so did the action?

00:28:55.060 Mm-hmm.

00:28:56.000 All of the- 0.95

00:28:56.640 How is that a problem?

00:28:57.520 Yeah.

00:28:58.880 I don't know because I think that's your responsibility as a guy, right?

00:29:02.160 You have to make sure like these things are like you can't do so.

00:29:05.760 You get a form signed in triplicate?

00:29:07.020 We mocked that before, but I mean, I think yes.

00:29:11.700 I think the answer to this is yes.

00:29:12.880 I think so.

00:29:13.580 So all of the incidents appear to have-

00:29:15.480 This is again, the New Yorker reporting this.

00:29:17.820 All of the incidents appear to have involved in consumption of alcohol.

00:29:21.180 None occurred in the workplace.

00:29:23.980 None involved force.

00:29:25.840 None of the women reported to Thrush, who as a reporter, then a Politico, was-

00:29:30.540 He wasn't anybody's boss.

00:29:32.340 The Times announced that it was suspending Thrush because of accusations of inappropriate

00:29:35.500 sexual behavior.

00:29:36.840 This is an example of misplaced scale.

00:29:39.400 Employers do not normally appoint themselves arbiters of appropriate behavior outside the

00:29:45.620 workplace.

00:29:46.020 It is hard to imagine a non-sexual example of non-work-related behavior that would get

00:29:52.240 a reporter preemptively suspended in the absence of any crime or misdemeanor.

00:29:56.420 The only thing I can come up with other than this, and they don't include this, is something

00:30:01.980 where you say something offensive politically.

00:30:04.020 If you say something that's too conservative on your Twitter account, or you- we saw this

00:30:10.300 with Charlottesville in a more stark example where people were getting fired from their

00:30:14.740 hot dog making jobs because they went to the Nazi rally.

00:30:18.700 You know, there are some examples, but it's pretty rare.

00:30:21.640 The fact that you would kiss someone on the ear and they wouldn't make a big deal about

00:30:26.860 it until multiple years later, and that results in your termination, is probably completely

00:30:34.200 ridiculous, right?

00:30:35.600 Like, I can- how do you get to this point where you have an actual normal relationship?

00:30:43.820 We talked about this with polling, and I don't think you were here for this segment.

00:30:46.800 I think it was yesterday, where something like 25% of millennials today say, if a man,

00:30:54.480 other than my partner, asks me out for a drink, that is sexual harassment.

00:30:59.800 A quarter.

00:31:01.720 And it's like, how does someone become your partner if they can't ask you out for a drink?

00:31:08.020 It wasn't saying it was someone my boss.

00:31:10.060 It wasn't even saying it had anything to do with work.

00:31:11.720 It was just someone who is not my partner, asks me out for a drink that is sexual harassment.

00:31:17.420 So not even in the workplace?

00:31:18.860 No, not even in the workplace.

00:31:21.520 That is a society-

00:31:23.060 We're in a bad place.

00:31:24.300 That is a bizarre society that's being designed here, and it's going to have lots of repercussions

00:31:28.220 that I don't think that women are going to want. 1.00

00:31:31.080 We talked to a woman who wrote a column about sexual harassment, and someone who said, hey,

00:31:37.840 look, I don't want any, we don't understand, you don't understand this, men, I don't want 1.00

00:31:43.400 you ever complimenting me, or noticing what I wear, or talking to me about that, or asking

00:31:50.180 me out, ever at work, never.

00:31:52.780 And her point was like, actually, everybody I've ever dated, I met at work.

00:31:56.280 Yeah.

00:31:56.520 You know, like that is, I don't want that to happen.

00:31:58.600 Like, I want to be able to talk like a normal human being to other people at work.

00:32:02.840 And the thought seems to be now, we should just eliminate that completely.

00:32:08.360 And that's a weird thing.

00:32:09.380 It's a strange decision for a society to make, and it may have very good motivations, and

00:32:16.200 some very good outcomes, but we have to be careful, because these things, we've seen

00:32:21.240 this with, like, you know, we want to talk about the Patriot Act.

00:32:23.780 Really good, really good idea behind the Patriot Act, stop terrorism.

00:32:28.280 Yeah, it's been misapplied.

00:32:29.440 Has it been misapplied?

00:32:30.380 Yes.

00:32:30.740 And that is what we need to avoid.

00:32:32.840 Liberals seem to really understand that, you know, when it comes to things like that

00:32:37.020 that they don't like in the Bush administration.

00:32:39.260 But this is, you know, something here, and this is on both sides of the aisle.

00:32:42.400 It's not a political issue, as you see with these two being left-wing sources.

00:32:45.660 But we've got to get to some sort of balance here.

00:32:48.480 Yeah, we're in a dangerous place.

00:32:50.460 We want bad guys to go away.

00:32:52.060 We want them to be punished for their actions if they're horrible, right?

00:32:55.660 We want that.

00:32:56.160 Yes.

00:32:56.440 But you've got to have some sensible way of dealing with these things.

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00:34:16.240 Glenn Beck.

00:34:20.740 Glenn Beck.

00:34:31.380 Pat and Stu for Glenn.

00:34:32.400 He's lost his voice.

00:34:33.940 Hopefully a day of rest will get him back tomorrow.

00:34:37.700 888-727-BECK.

00:34:39.940 Let's go to Maya in Pennsylvania. 0.57

00:34:42.360 Hey, Maya. 1.00

00:34:42.920 Welcome.

00:34:44.740 Hi.

00:34:45.180 Thank you.

00:34:45.680 Mm-hmm.

00:34:46.100 Well, I woke up really early this morning, and I was thrilled to find out that Matt Lauer has been fired because I never liked the guy.

00:34:56.660 But I was not shocked.

00:34:58.620 I never liked him.

00:34:59.940 But I was shocked.

00:35:01.440 I was not shocked at all that it was because of sexual harassment.

00:35:05.540 He has been kind of, I would say, rumored as a ladies' man over the years.

00:35:11.360 Really?

00:35:12.060 And I saw one reporter talking about this of like, well, if anyone you've heard referred to as a ladies' man, because Charlie Rose was referred to this way, that basically means that they're probably a sexual harasser.

00:35:23.100 And it's like, is that true?

00:35:24.620 That's great.

00:35:25.200 I shouldn't be.

00:35:26.120 Luckily, no one's ever accused me of being a ladies' man.

00:35:29.160 That is never.

00:35:31.380 The exact opposite.

00:35:32.600 Everybody on this network is like, they're like, ugh.

00:35:34.520 Were you not shocked because you heard the rumors of ladies' man, Maya?

00:35:38.680 No, I was not shocked because there's always, there have been rumors about him, you know, over the years about him cheating on his wife.

00:35:46.660 And actually, Kathy Griffin, years and years ago, when I used to be a fan of hers, she did a joke about him, a bit about him and his flandering ways.

00:35:58.540 Really?

00:35:59.540 That's interesting.

00:36:00.280 Years ago, I remember this joke when I was a fan of her, but I called because you guys are saying how, you know, one little thing could be disastrous.

00:36:10.360 But I, and then I told my husband about it, and my husband said the same thing.

00:36:13.960 He said, oh, I'm not surprised at all.

00:36:16.380 But this is a problem.

00:36:17.680 This is a problem.

00:36:18.400 And I understand what you're saying here, but put it into a position of someone you do like.

00:36:23.440 Someone you really respect and love.

00:36:25.700 And now you know, like, for example, you know, we talked about this, we joked about it with Glenn the other day.

00:36:29.400 Glenn, right?

00:36:30.940 Someone, half the country despises Glenn, right?

00:36:34.880 So half of the country will say the same thing you just said, which is like, ah, well, I believe it from that guy.

00:36:41.160 He's a dirtbag.

00:36:42.180 I totally believe it.

00:36:43.280 And they will immediately pass due process and just let this accusation be true.

00:36:48.020 And just because we don't like Lauer or we don't like Weinstein or we don't like any of these people does not mean we should not apply the same standard to them.

00:36:55.560 Right.

00:36:55.920 Appreciate the call, Maya.

00:36:57.040 And the other thing is, there's a difference between cheating on your wife and what he's accused of.

00:37:02.240 Yes.

00:37:02.600 He's accused of sexual assault.

00:37:04.580 Yes.

00:37:05.300 And that is a big line.

00:37:06.420 Yeah.

00:37:06.620 Huge, huge line.

00:37:07.340 The same thing.

00:37:07.780 The cheating on his wife thing, you presumably would be consensual.

00:37:11.720 Right.

00:37:11.900 And that's one thing that's immoral in my opinion and not right.

00:37:17.140 In some other opinions.

00:37:17.940 But in some other opinions as well.

00:37:20.120 But that's a different issue and a different situation than sexual harassment and sexual assault.

00:37:35.420 Glenn Beck.

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00:37:50.980 Should be back tomorrow, hopefully after a day of rest.

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00:38:01.080 Bitcoin is now at over $11,000.

00:38:05.580 Now, yesterday I came in and talked to you guys.

00:38:08.160 And I think at the time, so it would have been 1030 yesterday morning.

00:38:12.380 It was at 9400 or 9500 or something.

00:38:17.220 Right around there, yeah.

00:38:18.040 97.

00:38:19.260 Now it's over $11,000.

00:38:21.320 It's done over $1,000 in a day.

00:38:24.400 Yeah.

00:38:24.740 Yesterday, it hit, for the first time, 10,000, which is obviously a big, inexplicably important

00:38:31.140 round number.

00:38:32.480 Like, there's no reason 10,000 means anything.

00:38:34.940 It's just a bunch of people saying, wow, that's a round number.

00:38:36.940 A lot of zeros on that one.

00:38:37.740 So, you know, and we're all guilty of that weird thing that we do with round numbers.

00:38:41.880 Because you've gone from four to five figures.

00:38:43.420 Yeah.

00:38:43.640 Like, it feels big.

00:38:45.760 It's not.

00:38:46.500 It doesn't necessarily mean anything.

00:38:47.760 It's the same as a dollar from, you know, from $8 to $9 is the same gain as, you know,

00:38:53.660 $9,999 to $10,000.

00:38:55.360 Like, it's, you know, except for percentage.

00:38:57.300 It's much more important from $8 to $9.

00:38:59.020 It's just happening so fast.

00:39:00.520 It's happening so fast.

00:39:01.420 And so, yesterday, approximately, I don't know, 6 o'clock yesterday, it crossed $10,000

00:39:08.220 for the first time, which is a huge deal.

00:39:11.520 I mean, people don't follow this stuff.

00:39:13.900 A lot of people in the audience, they think, oh, God, are they blabbing about Bitcoin again?

00:39:17.900 And I understand that.

00:39:19.360 But, like, just think of it as any investment.

00:39:22.200 If you bought a car for $800 in January and are selling it for $10,000, $11,000 today,

00:39:30.720 it doesn't make any sense.

00:39:32.820 Now, think if you bought multiple cars at $800.

00:39:35.360 Think of how much money some people are making.

00:39:37.080 You know, thousands and thousands and thousands of millionaires are being created right now.

00:39:42.480 Oh, yeah.

00:39:43.100 Yeah.

00:39:43.800 You know, it's an incredible time.

00:39:45.700 And when you think about where this thing started and how it began,

00:39:49.000 with the first purchase being a pizza that was purchased on the Internet for 10,000 Bitcoins.

00:39:58.760 10,000 Bitcoins bought you a pizza.

00:40:03.260 And so the person who sold his 10,000 or gave up his 10,000 Bitcoins for a stupid, you know, $40 worth of pizza.

00:40:15.740 It was Papa John's, too.

00:40:16.880 Yeah.

00:40:17.280 Papa John's Pizza.

00:40:18.120 And it wasn't even the store itself that took the Bitcoins because nobody did at that time.

00:40:24.260 It was some guy in England who was a Bitcoin collector.

00:40:27.360 And he's like, I'll give you $40 for a couple of pizzas for the 10,000 Bitcoins.

00:40:31.660 That guy is now worth billions.

00:40:35.860 Probably.

00:40:36.580 Because, I mean, just those...

00:40:37.900 A hundred million or something.

00:40:39.380 Right?

00:40:39.680 A hundred million just for those 10,000.

00:40:41.720 Just for those pizzas, $110 million currently.

00:40:44.920 Plus, it's actually more than that.

00:40:46.380 So the person who got the pizza has got to be kicking himself today if he's still alive.

00:40:53.940 Yeah, I think he's still alive.

00:40:55.880 I think he's known, too, who it is.

00:40:58.500 Because they don't know who started Bitcoin.

00:41:00.380 They don't know who the person was who actually started it.

00:41:03.380 But it's a fascinating thing.

00:41:05.800 I was talking to somebody who works here earlier today.

00:41:08.220 I knew a guy who got very early on the Bitcoin thing and was mining for them.

00:41:14.780 And there's no need to go into what the mining process is here.

00:41:17.780 But he was mining for them, which essentially means you get free Bitcoins if you run your computer.

00:41:21.540 Yeah.

00:41:21.780 To make it easy.

00:41:22.920 And so he was mining for them very early on, getting them at $0.30, $0.40.

00:41:27.200 You know what I mean?

00:41:27.640 Like, really early.

00:41:28.900 Like 2012, 2013, when no one knew what the hell this was.

00:41:32.200 And was able to, for basically nothing, make a huge profit.

00:41:38.180 And you think, now the guy's probably a billionaire, right?

00:41:40.560 No.

00:41:41.940 He was able to turn that nothing into a brand new Lincoln Navigator.

00:41:47.620 Now, that's an incredible day.

00:41:50.720 He got, I think, a $70,000 automobile out of this.

00:41:55.840 Because he sold at an incredible profit.

00:41:58.100 But if he had kept that, it would probably be worth $50,000, $80,000, $100,000,000.

00:42:06.700 What he got was a $70,000 car, which is a great story.

00:42:10.280 Still, that hurts.

00:42:11.460 That hurts.

00:42:11.820 It's one of those things where you got a car for nothing.

00:42:14.180 And it's the worst story of your life.

00:42:16.280 Mm-hmm.

00:42:16.900 You know?

00:42:18.060 And it's kind of a fascinating thing.

00:42:20.360 This guy could have been worth $110,000,000.

00:42:21.980 We told the story of the guy who, a kid who mined for Bitcoins a long time ago or bought

00:42:26.800 some Bitcoins because he thought it was cool, forgot about him, opened up his wallet and

00:42:30.460 realized he had $6,000,000 in his wallet out of nowhere.

00:42:34.400 I'd just forgotten he had even done it.

00:42:37.000 I mean, these, the people are gaining incredible power and wealth off of this thing.

00:42:42.720 And it's not the normal people.

00:42:44.220 Like, it's not the big financial institutions.

00:42:46.440 It's not the powerful who have been in on this the whole time.

00:42:49.040 You know, honestly, myself included, you know, and I'm not making anything like this, but

00:42:53.980 I did, you know, get in fairly early.

00:42:55.600 It's a bunch of weirdos.

00:42:57.120 I mean, it's a bunch of weirdos like us who, you know, were interested in this and believed

00:43:01.460 in decentralized banking and believed in that inflation was a problem and believed in libertarian

00:43:08.500 principles and got in on this early.

00:43:11.040 And a bunch of weirdos like us are making a lot of money.

00:43:13.780 I wish I was weirder because then I can making $110 million for two pizzas.

00:43:19.040 But it's still, it's an interesting thing to watch.

00:43:22.380 And it is turning everything upside down.

00:43:24.920 Again, as we give this disclaimer every time we talk about this, if it's zero tomorrow,

00:43:29.020 I will not be surprised.

00:43:30.740 I mean, I mean, it's who knows what happens with this stuff.

00:43:33.700 Well, like the, I think the CEO of Zappa, wasn't it?

00:43:37.120 The CEO that was with us months ago.

00:43:38.920 And he said, it's irresponsible to go in and buy a whole bunch of Bitcoins.

00:43:44.200 He runs a Bitcoin company when he's saying that.

00:43:46.480 But he said, it's equally irresponsible not to have any.

00:43:49.020 So he said, buy one, because this could go to zero.

00:43:51.680 Yes, it's possible.

00:43:52.800 It could go to zero and you lose everything.

00:43:56.480 Or it could go to a million dollars of Bitcoin.

00:43:59.940 I mean, that's his theory.

00:44:01.100 Yeah.

00:44:01.300 He thinks it's about 50-50 chance, right?

00:44:03.940 Yeah.

00:44:04.320 Of zero or a million.

00:44:05.800 Now, he runs a Bitcoin company, right?

00:44:07.220 Yeah.

00:44:07.500 Maybe he's going to be super optimistic.

00:44:08.920 And he's been in this world for a long time.

00:44:11.000 There's a guy who did a, on CNBC yesterday, who thinks by the end of next year, it's going

00:44:15.580 to be 40,000.

00:44:17.560 Now, that's four times what it is now.

00:44:19.400 It would be a disappointment in comparison to what happened this past year.

00:44:23.500 It's like, oh, it's only gone up four times per year?

00:44:25.680 What a disappointment.

00:44:26.400 Who knows what's going to happen, but I thought this was an interesting point.

00:44:30.340 If it does go to 40,000, if it goes to 40,000, cryptocurrencies, right?

00:44:35.780 All of these, you know, Bitcoin and all these other things will be valued at about 1% of

00:44:41.140 all financial assets, right?

00:44:43.420 So it's not as if, if it goes to 40,000, it's going to be the biggest thing in the world.

00:44:47.480 It's going to be much smaller than many of these other investments that you go to.

00:44:51.500 It's only going to be a small sliver still at that point.

00:44:54.720 Yeah.

00:44:55.260 And still we're at the point where only a few million people worldwide have any Bitcoin,

00:45:00.720 amount of Bitcoin of note, like, you know, within a few hundred dollars, right?

00:45:05.840 We're very much at the beginning of this and it's a really interesting thing to watch.

00:45:09.640 Is it a bubble?

00:45:10.960 Eh, probably.

00:45:11.640 I kind of expect it to drop off by 25, 30% at some point soon.

00:45:14.800 Is there a point where you sell or are you just in it for the long-term ride?

00:45:20.000 Are you just in it to see if it gets to a million?

00:45:22.240 Again, I like this because it's interesting.

00:45:25.240 I'm not a big money player in these things, so it's not particularly, you know, that's

00:45:29.980 not, that's not where I am with it, unfortunately, you know?

00:45:33.380 Yeah.

00:45:33.780 So, but I think it's one of those things that I, if it drops off a little bit, I'll

00:45:37.800 sell a little bit, but you know, you want to kick, take your profits off the table,

00:45:42.320 you know, but it's still a, you know, I don't know.

00:45:46.320 I, I, I don't know.

00:45:47.500 It's, you don't want to miss out on the, on the upside.

00:45:50.140 Like, I think legitimately we, you know, you could have sold at 5,000 and been really happy.

00:45:54.460 That's what happened with a guy.

00:45:55.320 He bought a freaking Lincoln Navigator and he was really happy.

00:45:57.840 He got a free Latin Navigator.

00:45:59.340 He's not happy today.

00:46:00.680 He's not happy now.

00:46:02.740 The Navigator has depreciated in value.

00:46:04.940 Yeah.

00:46:05.460 Bitcoin did not.

00:46:06.560 Yeah.

00:46:07.060 No.

00:46:07.420 So I, it's, it's, it's kind of, it's impossible to know what happens with this.

00:46:12.000 It's been interesting to go on this ride with the audience.

00:46:14.020 We had so many people on Twitter.

00:46:15.760 I'm at world of stew.

00:46:16.800 We're getting in now.

00:46:17.620 Yeah.

00:46:17.960 Who are, who are saying a lot of people are getting in now and look, I, this will probably

00:46:21.260 who knows what's going to happen with it.

00:46:23.320 You know, I, I'm not trying to tell you that you should dump a bunch of money into it.

00:46:26.520 I think it's, it's an interesting, fun thing to watch, but so many people are like,

00:46:30.340 listen to you guys six months ago, listen to you guys eight months ago, listen to you guys a

00:46:33.980 year ago, put money in one person said they put a thousand dollars in, uh, when we talked

00:46:38.940 about it about a year ago and they paid off a year of law school with it while paying off

00:46:45.980 a year of law school with the investment.

00:46:47.900 That's nice.

00:46:48.440 That's awesome.

00:46:49.120 That's now, of course, when it goes to 40,000 and a million, they're going to be like, why

00:46:52.200 did I even go to law school?

00:46:53.980 Right.

00:46:54.300 You know?

00:46:54.720 Yeah.

00:46:55.020 So, you know, but that's a great thing.

00:46:57.420 And it, there's been a lot of that, that has happened.

00:47:00.100 You never know when, when a market like this dies and, and it's, but

00:47:03.100 thinking about it from a larger perspective.

00:47:06.160 And I think that what's interesting to the audience is, you know, an investment going

00:47:09.160 up or down.

00:47:09.520 We're not CNBC.

00:47:10.880 We're not, that's not what we do here.

00:47:13.040 Right.

00:47:13.260 Like, so, I mean, that's, it's mildly interesting from that point, just because it's, it's

00:47:16.960 fun to see people get a lot of money and become wealthy.

00:47:20.440 But more than that, it is taking the government out of incredibly important transactions in

00:47:30.300 our society forever, forever.

00:47:32.820 When you wanted to, you want to send money to someone, there is always a quote unquote

00:47:38.920 trusted third party there to navigate that transaction, whether it's the government coming

00:47:44.820 up with a currency and giving it to you so you can mark, well, that's what that means.

00:47:48.460 But they could always inflate it, right?

00:47:50.520 They could always do something to it, to destroy it.

00:47:52.300 And they have the same thing with, with banks, right?

00:47:55.640 How many times have we said we don't trust the banks?

00:47:57.360 I don't, you know, look at what they're doing with the financial collapse and all these things

00:48:00.760 that have happened for the first time ever.

00:48:03.540 That is eliminated.

00:48:06.380 That trusted third party is no longer there.

00:48:09.180 It's now this program that runs, that has rules and can't be changed.

00:48:14.640 Yeah.

00:48:14.800 And best of all, I've not invested.

00:48:16.700 So you don't have to worry about it collapsing yet.

00:48:19.300 That is the, it's not a thing until I invest when you, and then, yeah, you know, then it's

00:48:23.780 over.

00:48:24.140 You said, is there a point that I sell?

00:48:25.740 Yes.

00:48:25.980 It's the day you tell me somebody, uh, a listener a couple of weeks ago, we were talking

00:48:32.740 about how, what bad luck I have with investing and how I, I, you know, we've talked before

00:48:38.440 about when, when Glenn and I were together the first time and we were offered clear, clear

00:48:42.780 channel stock in lieu of just 10.

00:48:45.500 Yes.

00:48:45.700 In lieu of $10,000 worth of salary, an extra 10,000.

00:48:49.620 Hey, instead of going up to, to, to that level, how about we give you that in clear

00:48:54.380 channel stock?

00:48:55.100 Well, at the time clear channel was, you know, $5 a share and it wasn't the company at once

00:49:00.200 it, it then became, and we, we didn't foresee that obviously.

00:49:03.700 Cause we said, no, no, I just $10,000 worth of salary.

00:49:08.600 So had we taken the $10,000 worth of stock and ridden out the splits and then going back

00:49:14.960 up to 95 and then splitting again and sold at the right time.

00:49:19.600 We both would have made two and a half million dollars on that.

00:49:22.460 Then.

00:49:23.020 And that's, yeah.

00:49:23.720 I mean, then this wonderful listener just to make me feel better about myself.

00:49:29.020 Right.

00:49:29.280 And then Pat, what if you had taken that two and a half million and invested in Bitcoin

00:49:33.900 when it was 300?

00:49:35.860 Now you'd have $50 million.

00:49:38.400 Thank you.

00:49:39.220 Your listeners hate you apparently.

00:49:41.360 Okay.

00:49:41.520 Good.

00:49:42.240 Obviously they do.

00:49:43.780 All right.

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00:51:20.040 Glenn Beck.

00:51:27.320 Glenn Beck.

00:51:30.520 Pat Gray and Stupor Gear for Glenn, who lost his voice for some reason.

00:51:35.740 And, you know, sometimes it just, he's got to rest his vocal cords if that's what he's

00:51:38.800 doing today.

00:51:39.280 So he should be returning tomorrow.

00:51:41.900 888-727-BEC.

00:51:43.580 We were talking about the Bitcoin experience, which has been an amazing one because it started

00:51:48.380 at what, 0.07 cents or something.

00:51:51.240 It was like seven hundredths of a cent when it first started.

00:51:54.760 If that.

00:51:55.380 And then it went, you know, it's, it's, it was on a slow, gradual climb for a long time.

00:52:02.800 Yeah.

00:52:02.960 And it had, it had a big spike and then died.

00:52:06.040 Yeah.

00:52:06.680 And went down to nothing.

00:52:08.700 I mean, but we've said this before, like when Donald Trump came down the escalator in 2015

00:52:13.080 to announce his candidacy, it was something like $500 and now it's 11,000.

00:52:20.260 I can't think of another stock that has, has done that.

00:52:23.640 I can't, can you think of another, not certainly not that fast.

00:52:26.360 Right.

00:52:26.780 Yeah.

00:52:27.040 The crazy thing is, uh, the guy who created Bitcoin, no one knows who it is.

00:52:31.420 Some.

00:52:31.980 Which is a strange thing.

00:52:33.080 Very strange thing.

00:52:33.980 It kind of adds to the coolness of Bitcoin.

00:52:35.760 I think that is true.

00:52:36.800 And maybe that's why he does it.

00:52:38.640 Yeah.

00:52:39.080 Maybe that's why he's just a genius marketer.

00:52:41.300 And he knows that, that, that mystery sort of adds to the mystique of Bitcoin.

00:52:46.020 Yeah, it may be.

00:52:47.140 And apparently he's very secretive.

00:52:48.860 He was.

00:52:49.320 People think it's Elon Musk.

00:52:50.840 Yeah.

00:52:51.280 And I don't know that there's a lot to that.

00:52:53.200 Yeah.

00:52:53.400 But, uh, you know, um, they, when they were creating this and designing how it was going

00:52:58.640 to work, he interact, the guy who created it, interacted with a lot of people, but in an

00:53:02.960 anonymous forums and stuff like that.

00:53:04.880 Like he had email relationships and then one day just dropped off the face of the earth

00:53:08.300 and no one knows what happened.

00:53:09.560 Um, I mean, who knows?

00:53:10.480 He may have died.

00:53:11.700 No one knows.

00:53:12.560 Possibly.

00:53:13.040 But in, in there, because he was doing this experiment, he left himself a little, uh,

00:53:20.180 little bonus.

00:53:21.200 The way I created this bonus of 1 million Bitcoins, which today are worth $11 billion.

00:53:32.860 Okay.

00:53:33.340 Uh, which is, it's a nice haul.

00:53:35.960 It's, it's a nice haul.

00:53:37.060 Making you one of the richest people in the world.

00:53:39.700 I think, yeah.

00:53:40.140 I think yesterday Glenn said, uh, richer than Charles Schwab, right?

00:53:43.880 Like you're, you're, it's pretty good.

00:53:44.960 It's pretty good.

00:53:45.580 It's pretty good.

00:53:46.080 Uh, you're on the list, right?

00:53:47.300 And if this thing keeps going up, you might be the richest person in the world and we won't

00:53:51.220 know who he is.

00:53:52.320 Yeah.

00:53:52.500 If it goes to 40,000 and he's got a million, what is, uh, is it the Amazon guy is Bezos number

00:53:58.440 one now?

00:53:59.480 Uh, or is it Gates?

00:54:00.220 He's close to it.

00:54:00.680 It's, they're around 50, 60 billion.

00:54:02.820 As well as that, that Mexican, uh, Carlos Slim tele telecommunications guy.

00:54:07.580 Yeah.

00:54:07.820 So you have those people around 50 to 70 million or billion.

00:54:11.340 Uh, you know, if there's a possibility that this guy becomes the richest person in the

00:54:15.980 world when we have no idea who he is.

00:54:17.260 The other part we should note is none of those million Bitcoins have ever been moved or touched.

00:54:22.160 They are all sitting there in their, you know, pure original state and have never been touched

00:54:29.300 because you can tell when transactions happen out of that wallet.

00:54:32.580 You can, you can see everything that happens.

00:54:34.100 You just don't know who the people associated with them are.

00:54:35.820 Are there actual hard copies of Bitcoin?

00:54:38.040 Do they actually print any coins?

00:54:40.300 They did start that way.

00:54:41.480 I think, um, when very early on, just for people to kind of understand that it was a currency,

00:54:46.560 they tried to do, they actually made physical coins.

00:54:49.120 But now it's just digital, right?

00:54:50.500 Yeah.

00:54:50.920 I mean, and it's funny because, you know, I was talking to somebody yesterday, like, well,

00:54:53.880 you know, I was like, well, you know, they, they limited this to 21 million Bitcoins.

00:54:57.040 There could never be more.

00:54:57.700 And that's what I think a lot of the audience likes is the idea that the government can't inflate this currency

00:55:02.820 because there are 21 million and there can never be more.

00:55:05.240 Pretty big deal.

00:55:06.280 Yeah.

00:55:06.780 Um, and, uh, he's like, well, how is that different from 21 million unicorns?

00:55:11.000 Like, what does that mean?

00:55:12.020 Who cares that there's 21 million Bitcoins?

00:55:14.120 But it's like, think of what you're doing every day.

00:55:16.940 Every day you're using a card or a piece of paper that suppose, just because you can hold a card in your hand.

00:55:24.980 What, how is that any different?

00:55:26.620 Uh, it's still a digital currency that you're passing along.

00:55:30.440 You know, a dollar just represents this idea that it's worth something.

00:55:34.700 Just like, you know, at one time it was, it was backed by gold.

00:55:39.000 But again, why does gold have value?

00:55:40.540 You know, we love gold.

00:55:41.360 I have gold.

00:55:42.100 We love gold line here.

00:55:43.820 Um, you know, but gold is, has value because our civilization has determined it has value.

00:55:50.780 Yeah.

00:55:51.020 That's why.

00:55:51.660 Yeah.

00:55:51.840 It's not because like oil has value in the way that you can burn it and it has, it can,

00:55:56.060 it can do things, right?

00:55:57.740 But you know, gold largely has value because we've determined it has value.

00:56:01.020 That's nothing wrong with gold.

00:56:02.120 It's the same thing with Bitcoin.

00:56:03.020 It's the same thing with fiat currency and the dollars that you have in your pocket.

00:56:06.100 It's the same thing with the credit cards that you have, the investments that you have.

00:56:08.740 It's all determined on market value.

00:56:10.320 It's all determined because society has, you know, believes there's value to it.

00:56:14.100 And it's the same way with Bitcoin.

00:56:16.060 I mean, I, I understand why it's such a weird concept to people.

00:56:19.560 Um, and I, I, I still am a very limited understanding of what we had experts on that.

00:56:24.700 Every time we have one on teaches you something, you're just like, wow, really?

00:56:28.160 But it's an incredible thing.

00:56:30.640 And it's the technology behind it is going to be a, an, an amazing internet level change

00:56:39.240 in the way things occur, whether Bitcoin goes up or down, I don't know, but the technology

00:56:44.380 behind that is going to handle huge financial transactions.

00:56:50.620 The way we do banking, the way we do voting, the way we do all of these things, it's the,

00:56:54.820 it's the foundation under it is coming.

00:56:57.360 And they say it's unhackable.

00:57:01.160 That is what they say.

00:57:02.180 That's the claim.

00:57:03.020 Yep.

00:57:03.780 And I don't know if people actually believe that because in order to really be a major

00:57:09.000 investor in it, you would, I think you would have to believe that.

00:57:12.000 Yeah.

00:57:12.480 And I think because if you hack in, I mean, that destroys the whole thing.

00:57:16.780 I'm, you know, of course, kept more skeptical of things than the average person.

00:57:20.640 I think you wait, what?

00:57:23.000 Let me see if I can process that.

00:57:26.120 Tad.

00:57:26.600 When did that start?

00:57:28.220 Yeah, I know.

00:57:28.800 I know.

00:57:29.140 It's a weird thing.

00:57:31.320 Maybe a little bit, but you know, the technology behind it's pretty, pretty secure.

00:57:37.980 I mean, and the idea that basically it's spread out into a hundred thousand different places,

00:57:41.720 you can hack one of them.

00:57:43.220 You can hack 10,000 of them and still not do anything to the system.

00:57:47.920 And that's what's amazing about it.

00:57:57.960 Glenn Beck.

00:57:59.000 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:58:11.520 Pat and Stu.

00:58:12.480 The Pat and Stu band is back together for today, at least.

00:58:16.400 Glenn lost his voice.

00:58:17.480 Should recover tomorrow, hopefully, and be back then.

00:58:20.620 In the meantime, 888-727-BECK.

00:58:25.700 The big news, if you've missed it, is that Matt Lauer was fired summarily from NBC overnight.

00:58:33.740 Didn't even do his show today.

00:58:35.520 So it's, of course, an allegation of sexual assault from his time when he was doing broadcasting the Rio games in 2016.

00:58:46.100 They're saying they think there's going to be a lot more.

00:58:48.880 One reporter who has broken a lot of these types of stories over the past few months says he, they think he was one of the worst.

00:59:02.140 Like it's going to come out.

00:59:03.780 Really?

00:59:04.460 Yeah.

00:59:04.680 Says Lauer is among the worst I've heard about, not in terms of the kind of misconduct, but the way he manipulated these women into silence.

00:59:12.140 It's evil, frightening stuff.

00:59:14.040 Oh, wow.

00:59:14.820 Wow.

00:59:15.440 So we'll see.

00:59:16.440 Yeah.

00:59:17.060 Again.

00:59:17.460 I mean, I'm not a huge Lauer fan.

00:59:19.060 No, no, no.

00:59:19.340 But that, I mean, if I had to guess somebody that was evil, I wouldn't say Matt Lauer.

00:59:25.920 Would you?

00:59:26.860 Yeah, no.

00:59:27.440 He wouldn't be the first one that came to mind.

00:59:28.960 Like Harvey Weinstein was such a jerk.

00:59:31.100 That's not a surprise.

00:59:31.980 And known for being a jerk for other reasons.

00:59:34.500 Yeah.

00:59:34.780 You know, he was a known sort of womanizer, but also, you know, abusive to his employees.

00:59:40.380 And everybody said that.

00:59:41.000 In a non-sexual way, right?

00:59:42.340 Like, you know, he yelled at everyone.

00:59:43.860 He went after them in the media.

00:59:45.400 He was known to be a real jerk.

00:59:47.040 Yes.

00:59:47.540 So it wasn't a huge, huge shocker.

00:59:50.120 But Matt Lauer, I mean, I'd heard, you know, you hear the rumors of him maybe being kind of a ladies' man.

00:59:56.120 I'd never even heard, because I know he's married.

00:59:58.680 He's been married for, what, 15 years or so.

01:00:01.360 And so I don't know that I've ever heard the rumors he was a ladies' man.

01:00:04.940 Yeah.

01:00:05.680 I mean, I don't know.

01:00:06.080 Interesting.

01:00:06.660 I also don't really care about rumors about Matt Lauer.

01:00:09.740 That's the thing.

01:00:10.140 But it is interesting.

01:00:11.520 It's a cultural observation.

01:00:13.140 It's not about Matt Lauer.

01:00:14.700 I mean, for him it is.

01:00:15.980 And for whoever the woman is, you know, it's a personal story.

01:00:19.580 But for us as a show and as a society, it's about looking at these stories and seeing what precedent we're setting.

01:00:26.580 And seeing the breathtaking speed with which somebody's career is completely destroyed.

01:00:32.580 Just boom.

01:00:33.740 Overnight, it's gone.

01:00:34.560 Now, the left cheered this on when it happened to talk show host about their speech.

01:00:40.320 You know, when Don Imus makes a joke and he's fired in the middle of a charity fundraiser for SIDS victims.

01:00:54.480 MSNBC takes him off the air before he can raise millions of dollars for children with SIDS.

01:01:01.220 Yeah.

01:01:01.460 Or it's SIDS research, I guess, is probably the better way of saying that.

01:01:06.580 I mean, incomprehensible for making a joke.

01:01:11.480 And the media cheered that on.

01:01:13.100 They cheered it on for Imus.

01:01:14.380 They've cheered it on for when Glenn was being threatened with these things.

01:01:17.460 They've cheered it on when Rush was being threatened, Hannity's being threatened with these things.

01:01:20.800 They like that.

01:01:21.640 I mean, they all cheered on and how it should be.

01:01:23.500 We should all do that.

01:01:24.440 Now they're seeing some of their own and some of the people on their side who some of them have done really bad things and everybody agrees they should have done.

01:01:32.900 But now they're being burned by the fire they ignited.

01:01:36.580 Yes.

01:01:37.040 And some of it is people who have done somewhat questionable things and are being treated as if they are, you know, a genocidal maniac.

01:01:46.160 You know, a dictator and and being like, you know, when the Libyan dictator was dragged through the streets, everyone Gaddafi was everyone was, you know, well, that's a you know, when Saddam Hussein's pulled out of a hole, everyone cheers. 0.65

01:02:02.060 And as he gets hanged a few days later, everyone's like, yes, we did it.

01:02:06.140 That's kind of like there's an appetite for it right now.

01:02:08.560 There's a salaciousness.

01:02:09.720 There's a thirst to find these people who are doing these things and put them away.

01:02:14.320 And look, if they did them, we should all have that thirst.

01:02:16.800 That thirst is just justice, right?

01:02:18.500 I mean, if someone did something like Harvey Weinstein's been accused of and seemingly is kind of half admitted to, although he still hasn't admitted to the worst parts.

01:02:26.560 But, I mean, he's probably the most, the most evidence or the most accusations against him.

01:02:33.360 You know, somebody like that, you know, we all are really happy that is going away and shouldn't be, you know, part of what we're doing.

01:02:40.660 You know, like when you commit crimes, these are crimes.

01:02:43.220 But when you're talking about people who are like, ah, well, they had a relationship with someone who was younger than with them that they used to work with.

01:02:49.940 Like that means you get fired.

01:02:52.840 Right.

01:02:53.300 I don't understand.

01:02:54.620 You deserve to be vilified.

01:02:55.900 Yeah.

01:02:56.020 And you're life destroyed.

01:02:58.060 I don't think so.

01:02:59.020 Also, Black Lives Matter is organizing something really wonderful.

01:03:03.320 You might not have the best opinion of Black Lives Matter, but I think when you hear this, it's going to change your mind.

01:03:10.040 Black Lives Matter is organizing Black Christmas.

01:03:14.240 Oh.

01:03:14.500 Where black people only buy from other black people and ignore white businesses or places that are run by white people. 0.90

01:03:23.800 So it's like they're trying to divest from white corporations and white capitalism.

01:03:28.180 Oh, thank God.

01:03:28.880 But that's, that's, yeah.

01:03:30.120 And that's not racism.

01:03:31.400 I don't want you to start your right wing kookery and start jumping to racism because they're not capable of racism.

01:03:38.280 I did have a thought, Pat, and I must admit this, that it does seem like, how do they call it, segregation?

01:03:46.380 Like if you were to buy only from people in your own race and only deal with people in your own race, that seems like you might be segregating yourselves.

01:03:56.160 Yes, but again, it's fine because it's Black Lives Matter doing it.

01:04:01.200 So if black people segregate themselves, that's only because they want to. 0.99

01:04:04.460 If white people start segregating themselves, that's because they're evil and racist and hateful.

01:04:10.280 Wouldn't it be better, though, to try to advance a society where you don't care about skin color and you wouldn't, you wouldn't make your decisions based on skin color either way?

01:04:18.220 That's cute.

01:04:20.200 That's so quaint.

01:04:21.240 But it was something that Martin Luther King kind of argued for.

01:04:24.080 Yeah, when he said that you should pay attention to the color of people's skin, not the content of the character.

01:04:29.480 When he said that, I kind of cheered.

01:04:32.160 He did because I think he said the opposite.

01:04:34.340 I'm pretty sure.

01:04:35.560 You would think it was the opposite of what he actually said because these people are being applauded for supporting black businesses.

01:04:47.440 But if a white person had started this, they'd be a white supremacist, they'd be a racist, they'd be a member of the KKK.

01:04:53.580 They're neo-Nazis.

01:04:54.360 And people would attack them.

01:04:55.280 And you know what?

01:04:55.960 And they'd be attacked.

01:04:56.160 And drummed down a business.

01:04:57.380 And they should be.

01:04:58.160 And they should be right.

01:04:58.800 Yeah.

01:04:59.240 They would be right.

01:05:00.120 They would be right to do that.

01:05:01.660 You know, I wouldn't go to a business.

01:05:03.540 I would not deal with it.

01:05:04.860 You know, I would not.

01:05:06.420 If I knew a restaurant I went to every day and a bunch of white supremacists were behind it, I wouldn't go.

01:05:12.680 Right?

01:05:13.160 Right.

01:05:13.360 I mean, you wouldn't want, I wouldn't want to be part of that if, you know, we've said this before.

01:05:18.640 If a bakery really was saying, you know what, I don't want any gays in here. 1.00

01:05:23.120 As they have, as several have been caught saying doing this about Trump supporters and other groups on the conservative side, Christians, that's happened. 0.63

01:05:32.680 But any group, if any big, if a bakery, you know, we're like, you know what, we don't want, we don't want to serve gay people here. 1.00

01:05:37.880 No, I would never go to that bakery.

01:05:40.540 Never.

01:05:41.300 Right.

01:05:41.900 Never.

01:05:42.220 Despite if they had, like, really delicious, like, moist red velvet.

01:05:46.120 Even if they had that, I still wouldn't go.

01:05:49.300 What if they had Diet Coke?

01:05:50.960 I do like Diet Coke.

01:05:52.080 And that was the last place you could, you could buy Diet Coke.

01:05:54.880 Well, then, my rights are being violated.

01:05:57.560 I have a right, a constitutional right to aspartame that is protected by the aspartame clause.

01:06:03.040 Is that the 29th Amendment?

01:06:03.440 Yeah, the 29th Amendment.

01:06:04.360 Yeah.

01:06:04.640 But, you know, but it's true.

01:06:06.020 Like, I would, absolutely.

01:06:07.600 We all, if someone said, if a bakery was like, you know what, we're not serving Jews.

01:06:10.580 You know, you would be like, oh, get out.

01:06:14.100 I'm never going to that place.

01:06:16.100 And they would likely go out of business if they had a stance like that.

01:06:19.520 But the idea that you would go and only support someone of your own race is a terrible idea.

01:06:25.920 It's a terrible idea.

01:06:26.960 But one of the Black Lives leaders, and she's also a professor at Cal State University, Malina Abdullah, said,

01:06:34.260 we say white capitalism because it's important that we understand that the economic system and the racial structures are connected.

01:06:42.780 We have to not only disrupt the systems of policing that literally kill our people,

01:06:48.500 but we have to disrupt the white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal, heteronormative system that is really the root cause of these police killings.

01:06:58.860 Because it's, I think it's important to realize that Black Lives Matter has gone so far beyond the black people who have been killed by police.

01:07:08.380 I mean, now it's to the very economic system of the United States of America.

01:07:13.360 Wow.

01:07:14.060 Yeah.

01:07:14.300 And now it's about heteronormative standards and it's about patriarchy.

01:07:21.440 What is that?

01:07:22.300 These things change, right?

01:07:23.200 Like you, we've talked to people who are in Black Lives Matter who don't believe those things, you know?

01:07:28.540 But the leadership certainly does.

01:07:29.560 But the leadership does, whatever that leadership is.

01:07:32.080 And many of them, as is typical with movements on the left, it always comes back to the same three or four things.

01:07:40.600 Sure does.

01:07:41.120 Socialism, communism.

01:07:42.000 Socialism, communism, aborting children.

01:07:44.700 There's three or four things it always comes back to.

01:07:47.400 And all of this, even like you might say, well, it always comes back to something like global warming.

01:07:51.180 Now, global warming is the other way.

01:07:52.220 Global warming is a cause to get to the end.

01:07:54.040 It's a means.

01:07:55.280 And it is, well, that global warming thing gets back to, you know, the same thing of government control and taking money from people to do what the government seems to do right.

01:08:06.340 It's progressivism.

01:08:07.180 That doesn't mean everybody who believes in global warming or is environmentalist is like that.

01:08:10.260 It's certainly not true.

01:08:11.660 But it's a big part of it.

01:08:13.640 And it needs to be called out because you can't act as if just because the initial motivation, right or wrong, was a positive thing.

01:08:25.220 We want to protect black people from being shot unfairly.

01:08:27.640 That is an absolutely positive initial ideal.

01:08:34.400 That everybody's on board with.

01:08:36.140 Yes, everybody is.

01:08:37.040 Black, white, Hispanic.

01:08:37.780 It doesn't matter.

01:08:38.460 We're all on board with that.

01:08:39.500 Then it blows into some that maybe are justified shootings that we were going to protest.

01:08:43.940 Then it turns into every cop is really bad.

01:08:46.080 And then it turns into Colin Kaepernick, who's kneeling during the anthem with his with his pig socks and his J shirt.

01:08:51.620 And like, wait a minute, where do we get to?

01:08:54.020 They try to make you if you oppose what Colin Kaepernick does as a protest.

01:08:58.400 And you think it's a dumb protest, even though he would have the right to do it if he could stay on the actual field and keep a job.

01:09:04.880 You know, they make it seem like you're against that initial cause.

01:09:07.820 Well, we all don't want it's nothing to do even with black people. 1.00

01:09:10.920 I don't want anyone shot when they're not supposed to be shot.

01:09:13.200 Right.

01:09:13.720 Ever.

01:09:14.000 It should never happen.

01:09:16.080 It will happen occasionally.

01:09:17.900 And when it does, there needs to be justice behind that.

01:09:21.400 But, you know, this is this is kind of where these things go.

01:09:25.800 You know, the NFL players are like, well, what are you talking about?

01:09:28.520 We have this all we're saying we're standing up for injustice.

01:09:31.180 That's why we're kneeling to the anthem.

01:09:32.320 That's nothing to do with protesting the anthem or the country, the military.

01:09:35.600 Then do it at any other minute of the day.

01:09:39.080 Right.

01:09:39.480 Then kneel at any during any one of the other 23 hours and 59 minutes that the anthem isn't playing.

01:09:48.020 And you know who is going to have a problem with that?

01:09:51.260 Pretty much nobody.

01:09:53.660 Pretty much nobody.

01:09:55.880 Very true.

01:09:56.740 And they keep saying it's not about the anthem and it's not about the country.

01:10:00.100 Well, that runs contrary to what Colin Kaepernick, the founder of this movement, said.

01:10:06.020 It was about the anthem and it is about the country.

01:10:08.740 Yeah.

01:10:08.880 To Colin Kaepernick, it was.

01:10:10.820 Yep.

01:10:11.420 And but we're supposed to take all of their best intentions, all the best way you can take anything that Black Lives Matter does. 0.67

01:10:18.180 For example, they want to only buy from black businesses and they want to essentially racially segregate themselves to only do business with their own race.

01:10:25.760 And what we're supposed to take from that is, well, you know, they're they're good people and they just want to help other blacks.

01:10:30.440 And, you know, look, they've had some they've been they've been oppressed in the past.

01:10:34.500 And and, you know, we should support their efforts to only buy buy from people with the same skin color as them. 0.85

01:10:39.820 Yeah.

01:10:40.340 No, you should never make a decision based on skin color that comes from racism.

01:10:46.160 That comes from what we're talking about with Black Lives Matter.

01:10:48.200 And it comes from giving free money at college to a black person over a white person because they're black.

01:10:54.600 It should never, ever be part of your decision making process.

01:10:58.360 That is the absence of racism.

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01:12:54.100 Well, the collapse of Bitcoin has already begun.

01:12:56.900 It was at 11.3 when we were talking about it 45 minutes ago.

01:12:59.880 What is it now?

01:13:00.960 10,800.

01:13:03.400 769.

01:13:03.920 Wow.

01:13:04.420 Yeah.

01:13:05.120 10.8.

01:13:05.660 And it was 11.3.

01:13:06.940 Some app sent out a...

01:13:09.160 The Economist, I guess, sent out an app or an alert to everyone that said...

01:13:13.960 It was trying to say that Bitcoin has hit 10,000.

01:13:16.000 Its rapid appreciation should worry all who hold it.

01:13:19.140 But what they did is they left out the 10.

01:13:21.540 So it just said Bitcoin has hit zero.

01:13:23.320 Oh, wow.

01:13:24.680 Which is...

01:13:25.600 That's not encouraging.

01:13:26.520 No.

01:13:26.760 I don't think it's true.

01:13:27.900 It does not seem to be true.

01:13:29.040 That would create a little panic, too, I would think.

01:13:31.660 Brian in Oklahoma.

01:13:33.420 Hi.

01:13:35.260 I think the word that Glenn likes to use is paradigm shift as far as the cryptocurrency market.

01:13:42.380 There's two things.

01:13:43.800 You guys always encourage people to buy gold and silver in case of hard times and people in the government.

01:13:49.580 Well, two weeks ago, Zimbabwe overthrew Mugabe.

01:13:53.000 And their economy started to tank.

01:13:54.640 Well, they started trading in Bitcoin.

01:13:58.640 Well, the thing was that their Bitcoin went to like 15,000.

01:14:01.640 But that wasn't U.S. Bitcoin, which means there's more than one Bitcoin market out there in the world.

01:14:06.100 There's lots of them, yeah.

01:14:07.200 Now, yeah, there's lots of them.

01:14:08.660 I invested in four major ones.

01:14:10.740 And I've done really well just in the last month.

01:14:12.600 I've doubled my money.

01:14:13.900 Nice.

01:14:14.280 But one thing you said that everybody needs to understand, what backs Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies?

01:14:21.920 Air.

01:14:22.460 What's it backed by?

01:14:23.200 Unicorns?

01:14:23.640 It's backed by the U.S. dollar.

01:14:26.920 So if people say you got rich and you got $100 billion worth of Bitcoin, you go to cash it in for what?

01:14:34.720 Right.

01:14:35.340 Well, it depends.

01:14:36.300 I mean, you know, there's two ways that goes, right?

01:14:38.160 You cash out for, you know, normal currency and you can spend it as you normally do.

01:14:42.140 So if that were to collapse, obviously, is kind of what you're talking about.

01:14:45.840 But I mean, at that point, you don't need to transfer it to anything.

01:14:49.340 If you still have Bitcoin is a spendable currency.

01:14:52.140 Yeah.

01:14:52.420 You know, it doesn't it's not everywhere yet, but it's it is growing quickly.

01:14:56.100 Yeah, you can get more than a pizza for it now.

01:14:59.640 Yeah.

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01:16:19.200 Another day, another 335 people accused of sexual harassment.

01:16:25.080 It might be on the low side.

01:16:27.260 I'm just kind of guesstimating.

01:16:28.720 It was 335 when you said it, but now it's 542.

01:16:31.760 It's going about that fast.

01:16:33.600 It is.

01:16:34.080 Obviously, Matt Lauer fired today from the Today Show for sexual assault of some sort.

01:16:41.080 Apparently, this stems from an incident in Rio when they were covering the Olympics and is just coming to light now.

01:16:47.380 Also, John Conyers has more accusers.

01:16:50.420 And Cokie Roberts, who is she is a reporter.

01:16:54.820 She says it's pretty much common knowledge among reporters that he he does this, that he's just a sexual or a serial sexual harasser.

01:17:03.620 Fascinating.

01:17:04.140 And another staffer, another female staffer of his said that, yeah, pretty much everybody's seen him in his underwear.

01:17:12.880 A guy always strips down to his underwear, invites women in, walks around the office.

01:17:19.040 Strange stuff.

01:17:20.260 Yeah.

01:17:20.700 He's 88 years old.

01:17:23.560 I don't even want to think about him having, like, underwear.

01:17:28.360 No.

01:17:28.740 I think, you know, I just kind of would rather just think of him.

01:17:31.360 You don't want John Conyers in underwear in the same sentence.

01:17:33.120 No.

01:17:33.640 Just think of him fully clothed if you're going to think of him at all.

01:17:37.140 So, wow.

01:17:38.820 I mean, that snowball continues to roll down the hill and gather steam.

01:17:43.300 And who knows where that's going to end.

01:17:45.240 But also, a sort of mysterious incident that we've, it's been kind of on the back burner for about a month now is the Rand Paul attack.

01:17:53.340 The guy, his next door neighbor, attacked him while he was getting off his riding lawnmower.

01:17:58.260 He had earmuffs on to protect his hearing from the noise.

01:18:01.940 And the neighbor came racing across his lawn and apparently slammed him into the tractor or the ground hard enough to break six of his ribs.

01:18:13.120 Now, here's Rand Paul's description of the attack from yesterday.

01:18:19.400 I was working in my yard with my earmuffs on, you know, to protect my hearing from the mower.

01:18:24.860 And I'd gotten off the mower facing downhill.

01:18:28.460 And the attacker came running full.

01:18:30.220 But I never saw.

01:18:31.020 I've never had a conversation.

01:18:32.180 In fact, the weird thing is I haven't talked to him in 10 years.

01:18:35.460 That's just amazing.

01:18:36.960 What?

01:18:37.600 So, he's got his headphones on.

01:18:38.820 I haven't talked to him in 10 years.

01:18:39.300 He's facing the other way.

01:18:40.460 And there's a hill in front of him.

01:18:41.920 And this guy runs and levels him at full speed without him even knowing it's coming.

01:18:48.520 And he hasn't talked to the guy in 10 years?

01:18:50.440 So bizarre.

01:18:51.940 So bizarre.

01:18:53.980 He also talked about the motive behind the attack.

01:18:56.680 Sort of.

01:18:57.380 Listen to this.

01:18:58.500 Do you have any idea what was in his head?

01:18:59.960 Well, I didn't before the attack because we'd had no conversation.

01:19:04.920 After my ribs were broken, then he said things to me to try to indicate we was unhappy.

01:19:10.820 But I think the, I guess to me, the bottom line is it isn't so important.

01:19:15.800 If someone mugs you, is it really justified for any reason?

01:19:19.980 And so I think the more people belabored, oh, well, was it about yard clipping?

01:19:24.840 Was it because he hates Donald Trump?

01:19:26.620 Does he, he hates you because you oppose Obamacare?

01:19:30.120 You don't really know what's in someone's mind.

01:19:32.380 And so it may have some relevance, but for the most part, the real question should be, are you allowed to attack someone from behind in their yard when they're out mowing their grass?

01:19:42.840 That isn't the question because everybody knows the answer to it.

01:19:45.460 Right.

01:19:45.680 No, of course not.

01:19:46.800 That's not what we're saying.

01:19:48.220 On the one hand, he says you can't know what's in somebody's mind.

01:19:51.980 Well, yeah, you do because he told you.

01:19:54.360 And you said he told you.

01:19:55.940 So why don't you tell us?

01:19:57.100 So why not tell us?

01:19:58.640 Something really strange about that.

01:20:00.460 I don't understand.

01:20:01.500 Yeah, I don't understand it either.

01:20:02.820 I mean, you know, is it potentially that he is going to enter into legal action against this guy and doesn't want to talk about it publicly?

01:20:11.800 I mean, it certainly seems like he should.

01:20:13.920 Yeah, he does seem like it's a worthwhile lawsuit.

01:20:17.280 The idea that this guy would just come attack you for no reason in the middle of the yard, though, because he keeps he keeps he won't just say it.

01:20:25.360 Right.

01:20:25.860 Just tell us what what it is.

01:20:27.600 What did he say to you?

01:20:28.880 Because he did explain it to him, obviously.

01:20:30.540 Yeah, because he said he tried to explain to me why he was unhappy.

01:20:34.720 Well, why was he unhappy?

01:20:38.120 And what could be the reason for not telling other than the lawsuit?

01:20:41.300 But then maybe it's something embarrassing to Rand.

01:20:43.960 I don't know.

01:20:44.520 I don't know.

01:20:45.060 I mean, fundamentally, of course, he's right.

01:20:47.180 You can't just no matter what your complaint is, you can't just come and attack somebody in their yard when they're not looking.

01:20:52.000 That's true.

01:20:52.640 We all know that's true.

01:20:53.720 Yes, it's not.

01:20:54.360 It's not the fundamental question because it's too obvious.

01:20:57.220 There's no intrigue to that question.

01:20:59.060 We all get it.

01:20:59.860 Yes, he should like his explanation here, whether it's politics, whether it is, you know, lawn clippings, whether it's something else, isn't all that important as he should probably receive the same penalty either way.

01:21:14.400 That is, of course, not how our legal system is designed because our legal system says if it's about politics and he's attacking a senator about politics, it may be a federal crime, which may be much larger in the penalty.

01:21:28.020 You know, a normal brawl with your neighbor might get you some prison time, depending how severe it is.

01:21:32.800 But when you are attacking a senator over political purposes, that has a totally different scale.

01:21:38.480 And that's why I think it really matters for this guy, because if that was his motivation, it might wind up being a much bigger deal for him.

01:21:49.040 And maybe he's maybe he doesn't want to make it a much bigger deal for him.

01:21:52.500 Maybe it was politically motivated and he just doesn't want to say.

01:21:55.260 But weird, though, I don't know.

01:21:57.380 We all have a tendency to start filling in the blanks when the blanks aren't filled in for us because you just want to make sense of it.

01:22:05.020 And we've we've had two situations lately that that the blanks haven't been filled in for us.

01:22:12.940 The shooting in Las Vegas and now this Rand Paul thing.

01:22:15.820 And so people are filling in the blanks.

01:22:17.920 I'm glad you brought up the Vegas thing, because what the hell is going on with that?

01:22:22.580 I don't know.

01:22:24.320 Five hundred people were shot or more.

01:22:27.380 Yeah.

01:22:28.240 And many died, obviously.

01:22:31.240 And we still don't know the timeline.

01:22:34.680 We don't know why you stop shooting or when you've got the hotel version and then you have the security guard version and then you have the police version.

01:22:42.080 There's still nothing about this guy's motivation.

01:22:44.500 No.

01:22:44.940 Very little from the people around him.

01:22:47.860 Which contributes to a bunch of conspiracy theories.

01:22:50.500 Yeah, which is dumb.

01:22:51.360 I mean, you know, like you're right that human beings tend to try to fill in the blanks that are blank.

01:22:57.140 Right.

01:22:57.360 That's not necessarily a good instinct, though.

01:22:59.120 Human beings tend to do a lot of crazy things.

01:23:00.740 So the kooks are filling in the blanks of the Vegas shooting that these are crisis actors and the shooting actually didn't happen.

01:23:06.480 It's so absurd.

01:23:07.340 It's really obvious.

01:23:08.300 And obviously it's so absurd.

01:23:09.560 Insulting.

01:23:09.800 So because we don't have the answer with Rand Paul, was that a crisis actor on Senator Paul's lawnmower?

01:23:18.800 This didn't actually happen to him.

01:23:20.600 My belief is it was not a real lawnmower.

01:23:23.440 Not a real lawnmower.

01:23:24.380 Okay.

01:23:24.860 Not a real lawnmower.

01:23:25.400 It was just not a real lawnmower.

01:23:26.320 And that's what Senator Paul is trying to cover up.

01:23:28.700 I don't have a real riding mower.

01:23:31.140 Here's the thing.

01:23:32.040 It's just for show.

01:23:33.160 Trying to get out of the house, act like he was working.

01:23:35.760 In reality, he just had.

01:23:37.220 I've done that before.

01:23:37.900 It's just like a go-kart.

01:23:39.920 It's not actually cutting the lawn.

01:23:41.260 He just wanted to be out of the house.

01:23:42.380 Since he didn't get it finished, he had to tell his wife something.

01:23:45.600 And he can't say it's about lawn clippings because there were no lawn clippings.

01:23:48.500 He wasn't mowing the lawn.

01:23:50.240 That's what I believe happened.

01:23:51.460 I think you need to call InfoWars.

01:23:55.800 Oh, yeah.

01:23:56.320 Because I think that's probably accurate.

01:23:58.660 Yeah.

01:23:59.100 We just stumbled on the truth right there.

01:24:01.460 He wasn't actually mowing his lawn.

01:24:03.920 Because, I mean, if you can get away with just going outside, turning on the mower, letting

01:24:09.280 it run, and sitting on the other side, they hear the mower inside.

01:24:13.800 They assume the grass is being cut.

01:24:16.500 And in reality, you're just chilling and watching Netflix on your phone.

01:24:19.520 Yeah.

01:24:20.280 That's not a bad approach to housework.

01:24:24.880 Yeah, no, it's a weird thing.

01:24:27.120 That is a strange story in that, both of them.

01:24:31.200 Yeah.

01:24:31.820 How do we not have more information?

01:24:34.100 I guess with Rand Paul, it's one person.

01:24:35.860 It's a bad attack.

01:24:37.020 And he's a sitting U.S. senator.

01:24:38.300 It's a big deal.

01:24:39.000 But it's not hundreds of people being shot and murdered for seemingly no apparent reason.

01:24:44.300 I still think the problem with the security guard is that he's maybe a dreamer.

01:24:54.700 You know, he's here illegally. 0.88

01:24:55.800 Because he's been here, I think, most all of his life.

01:24:59.420 But I'll bet he's an illegal alien and nobody wants to say it. 1.00

01:25:04.340 And that's probably why he wasn't registered as a security guard.

01:25:08.080 And Mandalay Bay doesn't want to say anything about hiring illegals and skipping the process 1.00

01:25:14.440 and breaking the law because they had to be registered.

01:25:17.180 Because he was one of the...

01:25:17.860 And he did do one interview, right?

01:25:19.440 He did one interview with Ellen.

01:25:20.740 Ellen.

01:25:21.120 Which was a softball interview and she never got to the bottom of anything we wanted to 1.00

01:25:24.460 know about.

01:25:25.180 And then now he never wants to talk again.

01:25:27.020 Yeah.

01:25:27.140 I mean, at some point, you would assume there's going to be an investigation where he's talking

01:25:30.760 to authorities and we'll eventually probably find that out.

01:25:33.860 But it's amazing that how the media...

01:25:36.700 This is not a minor thing.

01:25:37.620 It's the worst mass shooting in history.

01:25:39.120 Yeah.

01:25:39.740 Worst mass shooting, and I should say in U.S. history, because go look at some communist 1.00

01:25:43.400 regimes and see if there's been worse mass shootings than that.

01:25:46.440 There have been a lot of them.

01:25:49.000 Most of the worst mass shootings in history have all been done by governments.

01:25:52.840 We should point out something that the left, when they talk about how the government should

01:25:56.720 be controlling weapons, should maybe learn that lesson.

01:25:59.360 But yeah, I mean, this is a really, really bad one.

01:26:02.520 An incredibly horrific story with immense amounts of video, too.

01:26:08.560 It's, you know, there's one thing to have a mass shooting and we all hear those terrible

01:26:12.560 stories.

01:26:13.080 It's another thing.

01:26:13.520 We all kind of feel like we experienced that one.

01:26:15.660 I mean, you feel like you were standing there in the crowd watching Jason Aldean sing

01:26:20.300 and all of a sudden people are being slaughtered all around you.

01:26:23.320 And there doesn't seem to be even an update.

01:26:27.160 We're not even on a weekly basis.

01:26:29.400 We're getting nothing out of that story.

01:26:31.860 It's very strange.

01:26:32.780 And it's almost two months now because it happened October 1st, right?

01:26:36.360 So it's November 29th now.

01:26:40.040 Two days.

01:26:41.060 It's December 1st.

01:26:42.000 Two months from the event.

01:26:44.380 And they filled in no blanks for us.

01:26:46.380 Yeah.

01:26:46.680 I mean, I would encourage you to, if you are feeling the same way about this, to get a

01:26:51.380 baseline, the New York Times put together an amazing piece of video and timeline about

01:26:58.260 when things happen and where things happen with video.

01:27:00.860 Some video I had never seen before of like cab drivers that were pulling up to the Mandalay

01:27:06.360 Bay, not knowing what was going on, just hearing the noises.

01:27:08.840 Yeah.

01:27:09.020 I mean, and showing you where it was, what happened at exactly what they think is the

01:27:13.460 right time.

01:27:13.840 But as you point out, there are some disagreements in the timeline.

01:27:17.120 But at least gives you a general sense of what was happening, where it was happening.

01:27:19.820 And some of that has been fleshed out, but still motivation, nothing, really giant zilch.

01:27:26.980 I mean, could this person have lived his entire life with no indication that he was going to

01:27:30.760 do this and just do it?

01:27:31.840 I guess it's possible.

01:27:33.140 But that's almost scarier in some ways.

01:27:35.840 Like, you know, an Islamic extremist that does something like this, we all know there 0.96

01:27:38.960 are millions of Islamic extremists around the world, many of which have answered to pollsters 0.79

01:27:44.800 that they want to kill innocent Americans.

01:27:46.500 Like, I mean, it's one thing to be dedicated to killing innocent Americans. 0.95

01:27:50.320 It's another thing to say, you know what, I'm going to tell the pollster who just called

01:27:53.060 me and you know what, yes, I would like to kill them.

01:27:54.960 That's quite another, it's quite another line across the world.

01:28:00.100 And luckily, the problem isn't as bad here, obviously.

01:28:03.220 But, you know, there are extremists all over the place that want to kill people.

01:28:07.560 And while it's terrible and dying is dying, you at least understand, there's something

01:28:13.920 understandable about that.

01:28:15.740 The one, I think it was Adam Lanza was the guy with the school in Sandy Hook.

01:28:22.380 I think that was Adam Lanza.

01:28:23.700 Sometimes I get these things confused.

01:28:25.300 But one of the most terrible things about that, despite it being one of the worst crimes

01:28:30.800 ever committed in American history, probably.

01:28:32.680 I mean, these are little children, nothing to do with any of this, with anything.

01:28:38.100 But he seemingly kind of didn't really have a story.

01:28:43.220 You know, he's kind of, he had some mental issues and, you know, he played, you know,

01:28:49.940 he was obsessed with these shootings, kind of.

01:28:52.320 And that's kind of all we know.

01:28:53.860 And there really wasn't a, not that there's ever a satisfying answer to something like

01:28:57.840 that, but at least when there's an ideology behind it, you understand what occurred.

01:29:01.160 And this one is even, I mean, makes that one look like we have tons of information on it.

01:29:05.660 It's even more obscure.

01:29:06.620 More obscure?

01:29:07.300 There doesn't seem to be anything.

01:29:08.480 Yeah.

01:29:09.060 Just this guy had a bunch of weapons and is long, meticulously planned over a long period

01:29:14.560 of time.

01:29:15.120 And a guy with access to $2 million?

01:29:17.780 Yeah.

01:29:17.960 A wealthy guy?

01:29:20.280 So strange.

01:29:21.200 Yeah, so strange.

01:29:21.800 So strange.

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01:31:23.340 Radio and TV Network.

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01:31:25.240 Also, we're going to talk to Jeffy in a few minutes.

01:31:28.360 And is that confirmed?

01:31:29.960 It is confirmed.

01:31:30.960 Must we, I guess, is the way I would...

01:31:32.500 I mean, maybe there's a way out.

01:31:35.260 Maybe we tell him that the show's been moved to New York and it's not here anymore.

01:31:43.980 Or Zimbabwe. 0.51

01:31:44.760 Or Zimbabwe. 0.51

01:31:45.800 We can try that.

01:31:46.540 Maybe we just tell him, sorry, we've retired to go sell facial cream.

01:31:52.560 Is that where Glenn really is today?

01:31:54.120 You say he lost his voice.

01:31:55.920 That sounds very suspicious.

01:31:57.240 Doesn't it, though?

01:31:57.700 Especially with his face looking so soft and smooth lately.

01:32:01.380 Something's going on there.

01:32:05.760 888-727-BECK.

01:32:07.600 Senate Republicans, considering an automatic tax increase.

01:32:10.600 This is what I love.

01:32:11.440 If the revenue falls short of projections, when they give the tax cut, they're thinking

01:32:16.920 about instituting an automatic tax increase that just kicks in.

01:32:24.760 They wouldn't have to go back and debate it or tell the American people about it.

01:32:29.580 They just put it in there.

01:32:30.500 And if revenue falls below a certain level, we all get a tax increase.

01:32:34.420 With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?

01:32:39.340 I don't know how they even look themselves in the mirror every night.

01:32:45.200 It's basically their way to try to say, we care about the debt.

01:32:49.460 We swear.

01:32:50.220 And look, it's not going to hurt our debt problems.

01:32:53.100 Cut the budget.

01:32:53.780 Cut the budget would be great.

01:32:55.460 Cut spending.

01:32:56.160 Stop spending so much.

01:32:57.420 That's the fallacy of being revenue neutral.

01:33:00.140 I don't want it to be revenue neutral.

01:33:02.700 Stop caring if it's revenue neutral.

01:33:05.300 I don't want the government to have the same amount of money that they currently have.

01:33:09.060 They get too much.

01:33:10.560 That's the point of a tax cut.

01:33:12.220 And to say that, yes, their point is, well, what will happen is the economy will grow and

01:33:17.060 we'll get the same amount of money anyway.

01:33:18.940 That's great in theory.

01:33:21.160 I understand why.

01:33:22.660 It's great in theory if you believe the government is currently the correct size.

01:33:27.440 Right?

01:33:27.960 The only way that's just, it's their way of saying, we're going to cut taxes for people

01:33:32.260 and you'll still get all the great stuff the government does.

01:33:35.100 Well, I don't think the government does a lot of great stuff.

01:33:37.120 They do a couple of good things.

01:33:38.920 It's about it.

01:33:39.760 Yeah.

01:33:39.900 And in fact, there's this, you probably wouldn't know this, Pat, but there's this document

01:33:45.080 that kind of outlined what the government should do.

01:33:47.700 So it's actually a series of documents written by these people that are really old.

01:33:53.000 They wear these weird wigs.

01:33:54.740 Were they all white?

01:33:55.640 They were all white.

01:33:57.160 I mean, white.

01:33:58.340 I hate that.

01:33:59.280 And we're talking whiteys here. 0.63

01:34:01.440 Old?

01:34:01.760 Were they old?

01:34:02.660 Like way past their prime?

01:34:03.980 In fact, if they were alive today, they'd be super old, like hundreds of years old.

01:34:07.880 Probably be in a nursing home by now. 0.90

01:34:09.380 And you know what happens with a document when it gets old?

01:34:11.560 It gets dusty.

01:34:12.400 Yeah, it's old.

01:34:12.980 And you can't read it anymore.

01:34:14.540 It starts to yellow.

01:34:16.000 It yellows.

01:34:16.580 And it doesn't mean anything, right?

01:34:18.060 Right.

01:34:18.340 I mean, you can't trust the things that are in there.

01:34:19.980 I mean, you can't pay attention to a document that was written, what, 240 years ago?

01:34:25.660 Oh, that's stupid.

01:34:26.180 That's ridiculous.

01:34:26.760 And like, what is an enumerated power?

01:34:29.360 What does that even mean?

01:34:30.820 What?

01:34:31.240 I mean, it's way too long.

01:34:32.960 Think of all those syllables and letters.

01:34:34.560 There's way too many vowels in there.

01:34:36.100 It's way better if you don't have to pay attention to any.

01:34:37.940 Yeah.

01:34:38.200 What if you just do the things you want to do and take as much as you want to do it?

01:34:41.900 That's, I think, the right way a society should run.

01:34:43.760 It would seem to me these people you're describing, the white, old, powdered wig people, they had 0.99

01:34:52.820 no conception of what life today would be like.

01:34:56.220 No.

01:34:56.640 Did they know?

01:34:57.480 Did they know about cars?

01:34:58.600 No.

01:34:58.820 Or a trip to the moon?

01:34:59.920 No.

01:35:00.320 No.

01:35:00.440 They couldn't conceive of such a thing.

01:35:02.160 No.

01:35:02.500 So why should we live by their rules?

01:35:04.100 We shouldn't.

01:35:04.760 We shouldn't.

01:35:05.420 We should not.

01:35:05.700 That's why we're just going to ignore pretty much everything they put in the documents.

01:35:10.740 It's funny because that's a problem, and you've made this point a million times, and

01:35:15.600 I love it, which is the Republicans who claim to be conservative say they believe certain

01:35:23.560 things but are unwilling to articulate them to the society.

01:35:29.600 Unwilling or incapable.

01:35:31.080 Yeah.

01:35:31.280 They come up with justifications.

01:35:32.260 Well, what we'll do?

01:35:33.080 No.

01:35:33.500 We don't.

01:35:33.760 We don't want you to have.

01:35:34.620 We don't want the government to shrink at all.

01:35:35.840 We don't want to have any less money.

01:35:36.880 So what we'll do is we'll just guarantee you get the same amount of money.

01:35:40.560 And if it doesn't happen, we'll raise taxes, we promise.

01:35:44.120 Like, that is such a defensive position.

01:35:46.320 You have control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency.

01:35:50.300 Yeah.

01:35:50.540 Do something bold.

01:35:51.880 Oh, they can't.

01:35:53.420 And that we're not getting.

01:35:54.180 They won't.

01:35:55.000 And, you know, I don't know what's going to happen with this.

01:35:56.620 Like, there's been a couple different breakdowns of what this tax plan will do to even people

01:36:00.460 like the middle class.

01:36:01.300 Nobody should have their taxes raised.

01:36:03.720 In any circumstance, everyone should have more of their own money.

01:36:07.520 In a Republican-dominated Congress?

01:36:09.320 Everybody.

01:36:09.520 Yeah.

01:36:09.780 Especially when you're talking about an opening negotiating position or a first bill before

01:36:14.160 it goes to reconciliation.

01:36:16.160 I mean, you can't even imagine.

01:36:19.400 But, you know, the breakdowns are questionable.

01:36:21.900 Who's going to save?

01:36:22.800 Will some people pay more?

01:36:24.440 I don't know.

01:36:25.100 We don't know yet.

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01:36:46.080 Hi.

01:36:46.880 Jeffy.

01:36:47.920 Good to see you.

01:36:48.680 I wish I could say the same.

01:36:52.060 I just want to stop by and say hi.

01:36:54.140 Yeah.

01:36:54.380 We were not really particularly interested in that.

01:36:57.380 We.

01:36:57.500 In fact, we moved.

01:37:00.100 Yeah.

01:37:00.600 So you're not really here?

01:37:01.620 No.

01:37:02.200 No.

01:37:02.580 So you might as well go back to your office.

01:37:07.960 Welcome to the program, Jeffy.

01:37:09.460 Thank you.

01:37:09.860 It's very good to see you.

01:37:10.660 It's good to see you, too.

01:37:11.800 As always.

01:37:12.360 Anyways, you stunningly have not been accused of any crime recently, which is maybe we shouldn't

01:37:22.260 mention.

01:37:23.740 It's really amazing.

01:37:24.820 I watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this past Thanksgiving, and there's Matt Lauer

01:37:30.900 with Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker.

01:37:32.960 And I remember sitting there this year, days ago, thinking, wow, Matt Lauer has made it

01:37:39.120 through the.

01:37:40.320 That is so weird.

01:37:41.600 That's so weird.

01:37:42.160 Pat said the same exact thing.

01:37:43.880 I said it's almost exactly the same thing.

01:37:44.960 He's made it through the fire.

01:37:46.220 Because my thought was, because I was just thinking about Charlie Rose having been summarily

01:37:51.860 fired from all of his jobs.

01:37:54.360 And I thought, well, here's another morning show.

01:37:56.040 I know.

01:37:56.200 I wonder if he's got skeletons in the closet.

01:37:58.420 Been there forever.

01:37:59.120 He's hanged tough.

01:38:00.080 Five days later, he's gone.

01:38:01.520 I mean, gone.

01:38:02.540 I'm just happy that for the first time since my mother passed away, I'm happy that she

01:38:06.060 passed away.

01:38:06.500 Because she loved Matt Lauer.

01:38:07.820 Oh, did she?

01:38:08.140 Oh, really?

01:38:08.480 So I'm happy she didn't have to see this day of reckoning horror.

01:38:13.100 What did he do again?

01:38:14.260 I will say.

01:38:15.180 I don't know what he did, but they seem like they have a lot on this guy.

01:38:19.500 Because the way they're acting, first of all, they dropped him.

01:38:21.600 And that's the same thing that happened with Spacey, too, right?

01:38:23.260 It was amazing.

01:38:24.000 It was like, everybody cut ties.

01:38:25.840 So it was like, what do they know?

01:38:27.700 Yeah.

01:38:28.300 I don't know.

01:38:28.660 And that's the thing with Spacey.

01:38:29.840 We haven't heard a lot since he kind of went away.

01:38:32.640 He had that burst of accusations.

01:38:35.300 And then we haven't heard a lot.

01:38:36.680 I think largely because a lot of other people have been accused in the interim.

01:38:39.940 But I mean, that might be their strategy here.

01:38:41.480 Because there was no investigation.

01:38:43.220 There was no suspension.

01:38:44.840 There was no, we need to talk to him about this.

01:38:46.880 There was no, we heard something.

01:38:48.060 And we're really worried about it.

01:38:49.180 It was just, hey, by the way, bye.

01:38:51.660 Remember that guy who used to be here for 20 years?

01:38:53.640 Gone.

01:38:53.820 Not anymore.

01:38:54.360 Gone.

01:38:54.840 Gone.

01:38:55.600 Gone.

01:38:56.300 Pretty weird.

01:38:57.160 It certainly is.

01:38:58.640 Will Al Roker be next?

01:39:00.380 I think he is.

01:39:01.080 You think?

01:39:01.320 I think Al might be next.

01:39:02.440 Because I saw him making his little ha-ha jokes. 0.92

01:39:05.440 His funny, funny jokes on the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

01:39:07.860 His only out, though, if accused.

01:39:10.740 Well, it's that this.

01:39:11.860 You pooped in your pants.

01:39:12.440 I pooped my pants.

01:39:13.700 I mean, he did poop his pants.

01:39:14.740 Yeah, so I mean, that's his out.

01:39:16.200 That's his out.

01:39:17.260 Yeah, well, I, you know, what happened to me,

01:39:19.180 he was.

01:39:19.980 You pooped in your pants.

01:39:20.740 I pooped my pants.

01:39:21.840 I pooped my pants.

01:39:23.340 So he's good.

01:39:24.140 That's kind of his excuse for everything, I feel like.

01:39:26.440 I've got to feel it works.

01:39:28.040 I think it does.

01:39:29.640 Al Roker sexually molested me.

01:39:32.260 Well, yeah, but he, you know.

01:39:34.020 You pooped in your pants.

01:39:34.460 I pooped my pants.

01:39:35.660 He pooped in his pants at the White House.

01:39:39.340 He's had punishment enough for whatever he's done, you know.

01:39:42.100 What are you going to do that hasn't already been done to him?

01:39:44.700 He had to throw his underwear in the trash can at the White House.

01:39:47.040 He did.

01:39:47.400 He did.

01:39:47.900 He did.

01:39:48.620 Because, and the reason was.

01:39:50.280 He pooped in your pants. 0.83

01:39:51.080 I pooped my pants.

01:39:52.260 And I feel like if you're a janitor at the White House, you're.

01:39:56.200 This is probably like.

01:39:57.520 I don't know.

01:39:57.960 I mean, I'm not.

01:39:58.460 I'm not myself a janitor.

01:39:59.740 But it is, I got to think that that's like the number one job you want.

01:40:04.740 Adult underwear in the garbage would be somewhat of a turn off in that job. 0.98

01:40:10.900 If you're going to work a job as a janitor, like the top of your profession, right, is probably

01:40:15.060 the White House.

01:40:16.340 And you're thinking like, here I am.

01:40:17.520 I'm with a bunch of very refined people.

01:40:20.380 Most powerful people in the world.

01:40:21.680 Most powerful people in the world.

01:40:23.000 And then you start taking the garbage out.

01:40:24.980 And then you realize that Al Roker.

01:40:26.880 I pooped in your pants. 0.95

01:40:27.740 I pooped my pants.

01:40:28.940 That's unfortunate.

01:40:30.240 It's not.

01:40:31.000 It's not the day you want.

01:40:32.180 This wasn't in my job description.

01:40:33.720 No.

01:40:34.820 It is.

01:40:35.540 I.

01:40:36.320 Are you at all uncomfortable, Jeff?

01:40:38.660 Yeah.

01:40:39.280 Because you follow these things closely.

01:40:41.280 Number one.

01:40:41.800 Have you heard these types of rumors about Matt Lauer before?

01:40:45.260 No.

01:40:45.760 You hadn't.

01:40:46.180 So you hadn't heard.

01:40:47.080 That's why I was saying.

01:40:47.700 I hadn't either.

01:40:48.100 When I was watching the parade, I thought, wow.

01:40:50.800 I mean, really, he's made it through the fire.

01:40:52.520 There's a guy.

01:40:53.080 There's one guy that's still holding strong.

01:40:55.220 That's still okay.

01:40:55.400 Right.

01:40:55.680 Yeah.

01:40:55.780 Yeah.

01:40:56.340 And two, are you.

01:40:58.360 Have we hit the point of saturation here where.

01:41:01.420 I don't think so.

01:41:02.620 You think there's still a lot more of this to come?

01:41:05.220 There has to be.

01:41:06.100 It feels like it's going to take a big news event.

01:41:08.620 Like North Korea actually like hits. 0.86

01:41:10.500 Like the next test missile lands in Tokyo for this to be knocked off of the news cycle.

01:41:17.360 And obviously you don't root for anything like that.

01:41:19.640 But I mean.

01:41:19.920 No, but that's going to have to be that.

01:41:21.480 And it's tough because.

01:41:24.720 Is there.

01:41:25.580 And let me ask this.

01:41:26.220 This is a good question for Jeffy.

01:41:28.060 I feel like that.

01:41:30.060 You are a personality.

01:41:32.320 I've never been accused of anything like this.

01:41:34.440 And as much as we bust on you, you're.

01:41:36.380 Some people have said you're a good guy or whatever.

01:41:38.220 Not that I believe it.

01:41:39.400 Not that I believe it.

01:41:40.380 But people have said that.

01:41:42.480 Let's say someone you had wronged in the past.

01:41:46.140 Multiple years ago.

01:41:47.360 Decided to come out and say.

01:41:49.440 You know what?

01:41:50.260 You didn't sexually harass them.

01:41:51.680 You didn't sexually assault them.

01:41:53.200 But you said.

01:41:53.860 But they accuse you of that.

01:41:55.320 Because you had done something they didn't like.

01:41:57.260 They didn't like you for some reason.

01:41:59.040 Whatever it was.

01:41:59.840 It's possible.

01:42:00.360 Completely false.

01:42:01.420 We all know that this has occurred.

01:42:03.160 I mean.

01:42:03.420 We can use Duke Lacrosse.

01:42:04.500 We can use Rolling Stone.

01:42:06.000 We can use Project Veritas from yesterday.

01:42:08.920 Who believed the Washington Post was wronging them.

01:42:11.320 And they sent someone to lie.

01:42:13.040 About a story to get them in trouble.

01:42:14.320 Right?

01:42:14.440 Good for the Washington Post though.

01:42:16.400 I mean.

01:42:16.780 They did their job.

01:42:18.380 So craft me the response.

01:42:21.400 Oh.

01:42:21.920 I don't know.

01:42:22.680 If you are completely innocent.

01:42:24.140 What do you say?

01:42:25.280 You can say.

01:42:25.920 If you say.

01:42:27.460 You know what?

01:42:28.160 I did not do that.

01:42:29.180 She's lying.

01:42:30.200 You're blaming the victim.

01:42:31.660 And you might say.

01:42:32.880 But there's not a victim.

01:42:33.740 If I didn't do anything.

01:42:34.800 Yes.

01:42:35.260 Oh.

01:42:35.640 I see.

01:42:36.080 Now these people are all lying about you.

01:42:37.960 Is that?

01:42:38.360 And then you say yes.

01:42:39.420 And then you say yes.

01:42:40.340 You have to.

01:42:40.860 Right?

01:42:41.060 But nobody does.

01:42:42.520 Nobody.

01:42:42.800 Well.

01:42:42.960 I'm not calling them a liar.

01:42:44.280 I'm just saying that's not accurate.

01:42:45.580 Yeah.

01:42:45.900 And then not only are you.

01:42:46.840 Well.

01:42:46.920 No.

01:42:47.100 Let it stand.

01:42:48.460 Call them a liar.

01:42:49.180 If they're lying.

01:42:50.320 Because then not only are you.

01:42:51.480 That's the problem.

01:42:52.020 The person who supposedly victimized this woman is terrible because they've done this

01:42:57.660 thing.

01:42:58.200 But then anyone who sides with them and says well he says he didn't do it.

01:43:02.920 They're in trouble too.

01:43:03.680 They're also a terrible human being because they're accusing that woman of lying in some

01:43:09.560 indirect way.

01:43:10.440 And Savannah Guthrie showed just how true that is this morning because she talked about

01:43:15.860 Matt Lauer being a dear dear friend.

01:43:18.660 Somebody she loves.

01:43:19.820 Go work or someone.

01:43:20.360 Somebody they've you know that's been her partner and now she's conflicted because of

01:43:25.540 the courageous employee fellow co-worker that came forward with this tough information.

01:43:32.320 Well so she's got to give the the victim the the appearance that she believes the victim

01:43:43.100 to even though she's known her dear dear friend for all these years.

01:43:47.440 She won't stick up for him like that.

01:43:48.780 And loves him.

01:43:49.340 She still can't defend him.

01:43:50.280 That's how bad this is because she knows she can't say anything good about any female 1.00

01:43:55.180 that comes out and says that you know some of these women we've got to be careful because 1.00

01:43:58.920 we've spent I mean Angela Lansbury surprised she's still alive came out the other day and

01:44:03.500 was talking about you know for years women have made themselves look beautiful and so we 1.00

01:44:08.180 have to take a little bit of that was a bad comment though.

01:44:11.280 I mean that was a 92 year old comment.

01:44:13.520 I know but I'm just saying it's an example of then she gets just piled on.

01:44:19.220 But she was saying that because women are beautiful men have an excuse kind of it was

01:44:25.120 almost that kind of thing.

01:44:26.860 I didn't hear that.

01:44:27.620 You know we've been working really hard to make ourselves desirable to men now they're

01:44:31.340 well yes but just because you're desirable doesn't mean we can act inappropriately to

01:44:36.500 you.

01:44:36.700 Yeah because there have been women who on record have said they have uh dressed a certain way

01:44:42.660 to entice a man to treat them better.

01:44:45.880 Yeah.

01:44:46.160 We have we have heard recently women who have said I chose to have sex with this man for

01:44:54.300 this job for this job yes I got the job and now it's sexual harassment and it's like is

01:45:02.380 that a good arrangement no no is it an appropriate arrangement no is this a sexual harassment no

01:45:08.780 I mean I don't negotiated a price and the price was the movie role and now so and this

01:45:16.340 is the thing because I think you could say fairly right like that you shouldn't have to

01:45:21.380 have sex with someone to get a movie role and you shouldn't no but let's just take the

01:45:25.380 other side of this for a second you know you're the backup quarterback in this situation you're

01:45:29.780 the woman that should have had that role but the other woman slept with Harvey Weinstein 1.00

01:45:35.300 to get it so now you didn't get a job because some other woman chose on her own volition by 1.00

01:45:41.800 her own word to have sex with Harvey Weinstein to get a job doesn't that other woman kind of 1.00

01:45:46.760 have a case here to be pissed off I mean well wait I mean forget the fact that the woman is 1.00

01:45:52.580 saying that she is a victim of Harvey Weinstein and obviously he was you know this way all accounts

01:45:57.560 of a predatory because they say that they felt they couldn't say no but you can no way whether

01:46:02.980 you felt that way or not you can say no and so you didn't get that acting like that yeah get

01:46:08.940 another one yeah well yeah but it's it's the Hollywood industry right she'll be blackballed 1.00

01:46:13.760 for a bit well then do something else do a different line of work and again that does

01:46:17.920 that I know because you said this off the air as well it's like that doesn't mean it's appropriate

01:46:23.100 it doesn't mean it's right you know it's a it's a it's an it's an impossible situation to be put in

01:46:29.240 and it's it's a price you're having to make a decision based on priorities you that you shouldn't

01:46:33.440 have to make you shouldn't have to decide well do I want this job or do I want to uh have sex 0.75

01:46:39.140 Harvey Weinstein or do I want to be harassed that's not a decision that should happen right so that

01:46:44.680 part of it is a real problem and shouldn't exist and it is seemingly with Weinstein and several

01:46:49.560 others it really does exist that complete seems to be completely a different case than Glenn Thrush

01:46:54.900 from the New York Times or even Louis CK uh who is it doesn't seem that way I mean Roy Moore

01:47:01.040 obviously we've talked about there there is a wide array of accusations against Roy Moore but the one

01:47:08.620 that really stands out is the 14 year old if the if the 14 year old thing is true then it's a really

01:47:14.560 big deal and he shouldn't be senator right if what if the accusation is true that it was from I think a

01:47:21.220 22 year old a 22 year old woman that he went to the mall and he asked out several times and she said

01:47:25.220 no and nothing happened that's not it's not a news story at all right it's not even something that you

01:47:30.860 probably might not even remember in your life right from both sides of that equation yeah someone asked

01:47:37.340 Roy Moore certainly can't be the first person who has uh put on the uh watch out for that guy at

01:47:42.380 the mall guy yeah I mean there's guys like that all the time yeah you know well I mean you gotta go

01:47:49.220 I've heard that it's not all just malls with you it's uh all areas but it needs to be said the mall

01:47:56.380 manager said that wasn't even true he was not banned from the mall well he was he was and he was a he was

01:48:02.500 in that area right like he was I think a little bit after these incidents but he was still he would still

01:48:07.000 theoretically be banned right yeah yeah and I don't you know who knows if that's true or not

01:48:11.240 there's a guy that said that's denied it right I mean he's the guy that's denied it down the line

01:48:15.340 I don't know you know yeah if you deny it you better be true be true to yourself but that's right

01:48:23.420 you can't fight it off yeah you can't fight it off no matter how many times you deny it no matter how

01:48:28.900 many times still gonna vilify they're still gonna vilify you're still gonna be guilty of it too

01:48:32.180 whatever portion of whatever portion of the audience previously didn't like you

01:48:36.620 is going to continue to not like you and say anyone who supports you is a terrible person for

01:48:42.240 supporting you it makes it it makes it impossible and we've said this with with claims of racism

01:48:47.700 before right if you call everything racism then the real claim of racism has no power and I think

01:48:56.320 that's true yeah I think it's true with sexual harassment as well there are women who are really 1.00

01:49:01.140 um uh you know have been assaulted and have been harassed and taken you know I mean there are

01:49:06.420 accusations in this mess of the past couple months they're accusations of rape right these are really

01:49:12.720 really serious things horrible to throw in in these same conversations people who have I you know

01:49:19.280 give you the the Glenn Thrush thing one more time I don't know if you heard this earlier Jeffy

01:49:23.280 uh he is the uh he's the the the writer the writer for the New York Times the White House

01:49:28.560 are amazing yeah this is this is what they accuse him of not not necessarily what he's admitted to

01:49:33.820 this is what he accuses of one accusation he kissed a woman on the ear at the time the woman shrugged it

01:49:39.400 off accusation one accusation two uh there was a consensual but aborted sexual encounter the other

01:49:46.440 ones that's not even a problem not even right like they started doing it and they decided both

01:49:50.240 decided and then she said no this isn't right and he didn't do anything then weird I mean that's

01:49:55.320 how is that an issue yeah how is that an issue all right triple eight triple eight seven beck

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01:51:40.420 glenn beck glenn beck glenn beck hello

01:51:58.820 hello back ray stuber gear uh jeffy's here as well uh in for glenn today who's uh who lost his

01:52:18.180 voice and so hopefully after a day of rest he'll he should be back uh tomorrow we've been talking about

01:52:23.480 uh several things today but uh probably the biggest story of the day is the firing of matt

01:52:28.200 lauer and how quickly that transpired that transpired we're probably going to hear a lot

01:52:32.320 of screwy things uh about matt lauer in the next couple of days does seem that way doesn't it yeah

01:52:38.920 i mean as fast as they got rid of him you've got to believe that some bad things are going to come

01:52:44.000 out yeah yeah he said an interesting thing we played it earlier we don't have time for it again but

01:52:48.480 he he was interviewing bill o'reilly shortly after o'reilly's demise and he told bill o'reilly

01:52:54.480 hey you don't just fire your number one guy without evidence he's laying the you figure he's laying

01:53:01.300 the groundwork wow that's that's ballsy if you knew that this was possible about yourself crap in

01:53:08.500 your past wow yeah we'll see if the how how how big it is right i mean over the next few days but the

01:53:14.280 fact that he got fired without any even investigation or suspension is big i know you'll probably talk about

01:53:18.080 this on pat uh grand leash today which is coming up in a little while i'm gonna be talking a little

01:53:21.340 radio and television network as well on tv tonight hosting for glenn okay what time does that happen

01:53:26.020 uh 5 p.m eastern okay we'll see you tomorrow then well and glenn will see you tomorrow hopefully

01:53:31.500 on his most of this show you know so glenn back

01:53:38.860 um

01:53:43.800 all right

01:53:48.120 all right

01:53:51.740 yeah

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01:53:54.180 yeah

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The Glenn Beck Program - November 29, 2017

11⧸29⧸17 - Another One Bites the Dust？

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