The Glenn Beck Program - November 08, 2018


11⧸8⧸18 - Best of Program - Guest, Andrew Heaton


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48 minutes

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8,339

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809

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15

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On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by Alyssa Milano and Melissa Milano to discuss CNN's handling of the Jim Acosta situation. They also discuss the shooting of a reporter in California, and Andrew Heaton's new podcast.

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00:00:08.200 Hello and welcome to the podcast.
00:00:12.220 Today, as we sit by the fireside, a very intellectual chat about things like Alyssa Milano's opinion.
00:00:21.680 That's right, Cletus. We will be doing that coming up.
00:00:26.860 Yeah, no, Alyssa Milano, very important, of course.
00:00:29.200 And Melissa Milano.
00:00:30.720 Yes, we find out that Glenn doesn't know what her name is.
00:00:32.700 That's one of the things we discovered.
00:00:34.100 Also, he doesn't know who Jim Acosta's name is.
00:00:36.040 That's another thing.
00:00:37.120 He was calling him Jim Acostas yesterday.
00:00:39.020 Today, he called him Jim Acosta several times.
00:00:40.920 Did I really?
00:00:41.500 Oh, yeah.
00:00:42.100 I don't really care.
00:00:43.600 I mean, that's the point.
00:00:44.640 I don't really care.
00:00:45.840 These people play such a small role in all of our lives.
00:00:49.840 But the Jim Acosta story is important to take apart bit by bit.
00:00:55.580 Because when you actually take it apart and you really look at what happened, it's very, very, it's very clear what CNN should be talking about today.
00:01:08.140 That is definitely true.
00:01:09.860 We go through that.
00:01:10.700 We talk about the shooting that happened in California today.
00:01:13.620 We'll get into that as well.
00:01:15.020 And we hit on a new podcast that's coming out from The Blaze starring Andrew Heaton.
00:01:23.520 Something's off with Andrew Heaton.
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00:01:27.180 And that also happens to be the new name of his podcast.
00:01:30.160 It's true.
00:01:30.840 Something's off with Andrew Heaton.
00:01:32.260 It begins on Monday, but we talk to him.
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00:04:04.020 Stop this stuff before it starts.
00:04:06.140 Glenn Beck.
00:04:08.380 Where do we start?
00:04:10.760 Where do we start?
00:04:11.880 The migrant caravan.
00:04:14.860 Why not?
00:04:16.300 It's crawling towards the U.S.-Mexico border.
00:04:18.960 Did not have the overwhelming effect that Democrats hoped it would in Tuesday's midterm elections.
00:04:24.800 And it doesn't didn't have the effect that I think maybe some in the Republican Party hoped it would have.
00:04:32.440 But it doesn't mean that it wasn't a factor.
00:04:34.540 Exit polling from Tuesday indicates that immigration was the second most important issue to voters right behind health care.
00:04:44.080 Twenty three percent of voters said immigration was their top issue.
00:04:48.020 All the media attention heaped on the caravan.
00:04:50.640 President Trump's reaction to it did have an impact.
00:04:53.540 Though the election is over, the caravan is not turning back.
00:04:57.260 Confrontation at the border is inevitable.
00:04:59.740 Which means more chances for the left to demonize the president.
00:05:03.540 And believe me.
00:05:05.940 If you stand with the president, you are going to look like an Israeli. 0.99
00:05:11.820 Because that is exactly how this is going to be spun.
00:05:15.280 The big bad Israelis against the poor innocent Palestinians. 0.99
00:05:19.860 If you've been wondering exactly why a large immigrant garavan is headed our way in the first place. 1.00
00:05:26.680 Assuming for a moment that is not just a political stunt.
00:05:30.060 The story in the Washington Post has finally solved the mystery.
00:05:34.120 You want to know why?
00:05:37.740 The Washington Post reports it's climate change.
00:05:42.240 Of course it's climate change.
00:05:44.140 How did we even see this?
00:05:45.680 Still, shame on you for not seeing that this was climate change.
00:05:49.140 A lot of thousands of migrants move all over the world when 0.9 degrees Celsius changes over a century. 0.76
00:05:55.100 It's common.
00:05:55.620 Well, you've got to march out of Honduras.
00:05:57.260 This is according to the Washington Post.
00:05:59.440 Climate change is wreaking havoc on rural Honduras and pushing people north.
00:06:06.980 The story claims an unpredictable climate has ruined crops and created environmental challenges
00:06:12.820 for millions of Honduran farmers.
00:06:15.640 To survive the bad harvests, people are fleeing to cities and even north to the U.S.
00:06:22.420 According to the story, Honduras is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change.
00:06:28.920 Wow.
00:06:30.280 All of that climate change just focused right there on Honduras.
00:06:35.200 Oh, it must be so horrible.
00:06:37.200 Farmers dealing with drought, unpredictable weather.
00:06:43.760 Wait a minute.
00:06:44.540 The Post says that that's what it is?
00:06:46.960 Unpredictable weather and drought?
00:06:49.960 Yeah, that's totally new in world history, isn't it?
00:06:53.420 Humans have never had to deal with an area that has drought.
00:06:56.980 Climate change cause and effect angle definitely feels like just another way to toss some more fuel
00:07:04.400 on this progressive bonfire.
00:07:06.840 But they've got some experts.
00:07:10.360 One of the left's favorite fundraising causes, along with the experts, it's genius.
00:07:17.820 I mean, when you think about it, combining two hotbed leftist issues, migrant caravans and climate change.
00:07:25.920 Oh, this is, this is going to be fun to watch.
00:07:33.560 How do you fight against nonsense?
00:07:40.240 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:07:42.540 Talking about Jim Acosta, and we're taking Glenn Beck's parenting class 101.
00:07:55.200 Because let's just say that I have experience in things like this.
00:07:58.660 Let's just imagine for a second that I have two younger children's makeup names.
00:08:03.680 One is Rafe and one is Cheyenne.
00:08:06.100 And Cheyenne is constantly needling Rafe. 1.00
00:08:12.480 Constantly.
00:08:13.540 And does everything she can just to get under his skin.
00:08:19.080 Knowing that he has a temper.
00:08:21.440 And he's going to lash out.
00:08:24.120 Rafe, knowing that he is far from a saint on this.
00:08:29.960 He also needles his sister.
00:08:32.520 I break this up all the time.
00:08:35.760 I don't care.
00:08:36.460 I don't care who started it.
00:08:38.080 You both are at fault.
00:08:39.740 Get along with each other.
00:08:42.120 Okay.
00:08:43.420 Now, let's look at Jim Acosta and Donald Trump.
00:08:46.680 I don't know what that story of Rafe and Cheyenne have to do with these two.
00:08:51.000 We're hearing now one of them, let's say the Rafe, Donald Trump, who has a temper and who is not an angel by any stretch of the imagination and has his own issues.
00:09:04.160 He's talking to Jim Acosta.
00:09:06.560 Let's say he's Cheyenne, who is constantly needling just to get under his skin.
00:09:13.220 The Rafe character, Donald Trump, is answering the Cheyenne character, Jim Acosta, and is trying just to, okay, all right, yes, I know, I know, and I know, I got it, I got it, I got it.
00:09:28.760 And trying to answer properly, trying to answer nicely.
00:09:32.060 But Jim Acosta just wants to be an advocate, not a journalist.
00:09:38.180 So let's pick it up where he started to say, you accused everybody of, you know, you're a racist because you were just throwing these poor migrant workers under the bus with a video.
00:09:49.980 Here it is.
00:09:50.540 I want them, I want them to come into the country, but they have to come in legally. 1.00
00:09:53.860 You know, they have to come in, Jim, through a process.
00:09:55.840 Process.
00:09:56.220 I want it to be a process.
00:09:57.900 And I want people to come in and lead the people.
00:09:59.900 Without the process?
00:10:00.960 Wait, wait.
00:10:02.000 You know why we need the people, don't you?
00:10:03.740 Because we have hundreds of companies moving in.
00:10:06.160 We need the people.
00:10:07.280 Your campaign had an ad showing migrants climbing over walls and so on.
00:10:11.520 Well, that's true.
00:10:12.260 But they weren't actors.
00:10:13.280 They're not going to be doing that.
00:10:14.080 They weren't actors.
00:10:14.720 Stop just a second.
00:10:15.680 Now, Jim, how is it, I mean, other than you're an activist, how is it that they're not going to be doing that?
00:10:21.480 Because it wasn't just a video of migrants.
00:10:23.800 It was a video of these, quote, unquote, migrants doing that to get into Guatemala and Mexico.
00:10:31.460 So what evidence do you have that they will not be doing this to America?
00:10:38.920 This is not just some, you know, random tape.
00:10:43.440 This is this, quote, migrant caravan.
00:10:48.960 Go ahead.
00:10:49.600 Well, no, it's true.
00:10:50.500 Do you think they were actors?
00:10:51.820 They weren't actors.
00:10:52.640 They didn't come from Hollywood.
00:10:54.400 These were people.
00:10:56.120 This was an actual.
00:10:57.000 So he's got to come up with something new.
00:10:58.720 It happened a few days ago.
00:11:00.480 And they're hundreds of miles away.
00:11:02.200 They're hundreds and hundreds of miles away.
00:11:04.260 Stop just a second.
00:11:04.940 They're hundreds and hundreds of miles away.
00:11:06.600 Just like, I guess, Jim, we could say the pipe bomber was hundreds and hundreds of miles away from you.
00:11:12.440 The Soviet Union was thousands and thousands of miles away.
00:11:16.700 You know, there is such a thing as spotting trouble before it is on your doorstep.
00:11:22.580 The Nazis were hundreds and thousands of miles away.
00:11:26.420 They were on the other side of the earth.
00:11:28.400 We ignored them.
00:11:29.560 Not probably the best idea.
00:11:32.220 Because when you do, you're out of options.
00:11:36.380 Now, listen to the rest.
00:11:37.820 It's not an invasion.
00:11:38.820 Honestly, I think they should let me run the country.
00:11:41.500 You run CNN.
00:11:42.700 And if you did it well, your ratings would be much better.
00:11:45.280 Now, he says, he's about to say, what is the first thing you say?
00:11:49.700 If you want to have two questions with the president, when you stand up, what is the first thing you say?
00:11:56.020 Mr. President, I have two questions.
00:11:57.560 Mr. President, I have two questions.
00:11:59.440 Mr. President, I have a question and a follow-up.
00:12:02.180 Okay?
00:12:02.740 Always.
00:12:03.600 He didn't say that.
00:12:04.880 You get one question.
00:12:06.960 There are hundreds of people in the room.
00:12:10.400 Jim wants another question.
00:12:12.040 Go ahead.
00:12:12.480 Mr. President, if I may ask one other question, are you worried?
00:12:16.040 That's enough.
00:12:16.760 That's enough.
00:12:17.540 That's enough.
00:12:18.080 That's enough.
00:12:18.180 I was going to ask one of the other folks.
00:12:19.340 That's enough.
00:12:20.140 Pardon me, ma'am.
00:12:21.200 Excuse me.
00:12:21.960 That's enough.
00:12:22.560 Mr. President, I have one other question, if I may ask on the Russian investigation.
00:12:26.580 Now, this is when the White House made its mistake later with Sarah Sanders.
00:12:32.000 They are trying to say that Jim Acosta accosted this woman.
00:12:37.420 No, he didn't.
00:12:38.760 No, he didn't.
00:12:39.780 Period.
00:12:40.180 There was no violence.
00:12:43.040 They didn't accost.
00:12:44.380 Was he rude to her?
00:12:45.940 Yes.
00:12:46.480 Because all he cares about is grandstanding.
00:12:49.480 That's all he cares about.
00:12:50.800 Yes.
00:12:50.900 Let me ask you.
00:12:51.860 What happens?
00:12:53.040 You know, people in the press say all the time now, oh, you know, he's got a right.
00:12:57.820 No, he doesn't.
00:12:58.760 No, he doesn't.
00:12:59.480 He was called on.
00:13:00.460 The president asked and answered his questions.
00:13:03.300 He called on him.
00:13:04.580 So now he wants to grandstand.
00:13:07.240 Now he's not going to surrender the microphone.
00:13:09.160 Let me ask you, what happens when you are at a lecture series and they take questions from the audience and somebody won't sit down?
00:13:15.840 Eventually, the crowd says, shut up and sit down.
00:13:19.440 But not here because the crowd is against the Rafe character.
00:13:24.380 They're all in bed with Cheyenne.
00:13:27.200 They want to prove how violent Rafe is.
00:13:30.260 So what happens?
00:13:31.620 The president says, enough, enough, enough.
00:13:35.300 His temper is getting the best of him.
00:13:37.540 He walks away from the microphone.
00:13:40.240 So he doesn't say anything stupid.
00:13:42.940 He walks away from the microphone, hoping that someone will say, come on, Jim, knock it off.
00:13:49.020 We all have questions here.
00:13:50.240 But nobody does.
00:13:52.200 He sends in the person to take the microphone to be able to pass it to the next journalist.
00:13:57.340 Jim Acosta won't do it.
00:13:58.540 When you're at a comedy club, do you want some decorum?
00:14:02.380 You're at a lecture, comedy club, press conference, college classes, and they say, mic check, mic check, mic check, mic check, and everybody starts chanting something.
00:14:15.040 You don't have a civilization anymore.
00:14:18.020 If you don't have some sort of decorum, if you don't have some sort of rule, then you have anarchy.
00:14:28.220 Maybe that's why CNN doesn't have a problem with Antifa, because they are creating anarchy everywhere they go. 0.92
00:14:37.580 Now, I am not saying that Donald Trump isn't a spoiled little brat at times, but I'll deal with him later.
00:14:52.080 We're talking about you.
00:14:54.060 I'd like CNN to know, and Jim Acosta, I would just like to know, do you have a process, or can anybody just get on the air?
00:15:03.580 Because if this is the way it is, I'm going to just stand by your live broadcast, and don't you dare stop me.
00:15:11.620 Don't you dare try to push me out of the way.
00:15:14.080 I'm going to have airtime.
00:15:16.140 This isn't the way a civil society works.
00:15:22.000 White House, no one was hurt.
00:15:24.020 There was no assault, period.
00:15:27.380 Did the president go on, and did he lose his temper?
00:15:31.100 Yes, but I was shocked that he held it this long.
00:15:36.260 CNN is the real villain here.
00:15:38.740 CNN, not Jim Acosta.
00:15:41.260 That's what he does.
00:15:42.540 Not Donald Trump.
00:15:45.120 That's what he does.
00:15:47.320 The real problem here is CNN.
00:15:51.440 You should have fired him or disciplined him.
00:15:56.420 Don't behave this way.
00:15:59.400 Because, I don't know about you, but I can't find a good guy or a bad guy in yesterday's press conference.
00:16:05.960 I think the advantage goes to the president, because the president tried to be civil.
00:16:13.440 At what point, what options does he have left?
00:16:18.960 Is he just going to let Jim Acosta take the press conference and hijack it every time Jim Acosta wants to hijack it?
00:16:27.960 No, CNN.
00:16:30.080 No.
00:16:30.880 CNN is the one at fault.
00:16:35.460 They should fire him, or they should have at least suspended him and say, we do not treat any president.
00:16:41.860 And let me ask you this, press corps.
00:16:44.200 You're whining about freedom of speech.
00:16:46.960 Are you really?
00:16:48.040 Would you have accepted anyone, anyone, from standing up and saying these kinds of things to President Obama's press conference, or President Obama himself?
00:17:01.740 Anyone?
00:17:02.620 If he would have said, enough, enough, enough, sit down.
00:17:07.520 Mr. President, you are lying.
00:17:09.820 You are lying about $2,500 coming back to every family.
00:17:13.780 You are lying, sir.
00:17:15.060 No, we just have a difference of opinion.
00:17:16.940 No, sir.
00:17:17.640 That is not a difference of opinion.
00:17:19.500 You are lying.
00:17:20.320 Are you telling me you would have accepted a Fox reporter in the press pool saying that to the president of the United States?
00:17:28.380 And you would have said, oh, no, you've got to stand up.
00:17:32.440 We all have to stand up behind that Fox reporter.
00:17:35.180 You wouldn't have done it.
00:17:36.540 You know you wouldn't have done it.
00:17:38.700 Shame on you, CNN.
00:17:40.380 Shame on you.
00:17:41.340 Well, we remember what happened when someone who was not restrained by journalistic rules, just another congressman, said, you lie.
00:17:49.500 Do you remember the reaction from the media?
00:17:52.060 All I did was say, you lie.
00:17:53.500 And by the way, that claim wound up being in part of Hillary Clinton's platform when she was running for president.
00:17:58.020 The claim that Barack Obama supposedly was what he was lying about there.
00:18:03.620 But I mean, remember that reaction?
00:18:05.320 It was a story for weeks.
00:18:06.400 It was a story about how racist this congressman was.
00:18:08.600 I mean, look, I don't I'm with you and I don't think either either one of them handles it well.
00:18:15.240 I don't know why the president elevates Jim Acosta.
00:18:18.900 All it does is help his ego.
00:18:20.580 When you when you ban him, he's just going to turn into a martyr.
00:18:23.360 I don't think any of this is worthwhile.
00:18:25.420 President wins this one, though, I think.
00:18:27.480 Yeah, I think he actually was.
00:18:29.400 I thought he was restrained for who he was.
00:18:31.800 Here's here's the only part that I didn't like is when he said he said, you're a you're a rude you're a rude little man or something like that.
00:18:41.100 He said you're a rude and terrible person, terrible person.
00:18:44.460 And I happen to agree with him.
00:18:47.000 Yeah, it seems like good analysis of Acosta.
00:18:48.720 Yeah, yeah.
00:18:49.140 I happen to agree with him.
00:18:50.820 However, that's that started to border in.
00:18:53.740 And here's where he went wrong.
00:18:55.140 You shouldn't treat people like that.
00:18:56.740 Well, Mr. President, don't go there because you don't have a good record of that yourself.
00:19:02.960 Let's not forget, Trump doesn't have to call on him.
00:19:06.500 He doesn't.
00:19:06.960 He did.
00:19:07.500 He extended the courtesy because he's a well-known guy.
00:19:10.320 Go ahead.
00:19:10.920 Start badgering me.
00:19:11.900 He shouldn't probably.
00:19:12.980 I would much rather have that be the outcome.
00:19:15.000 He was like four questions in.
00:19:18.200 He already asked either three or four questions when he still wanted another one.
00:19:24.040 And then they finally tried to take the microphone from him.
00:19:27.080 But you're going to do one.
00:19:29.520 What are you going to do?
00:19:30.260 What are you going to do?
00:19:30.800 This is honestly somebody standing up in a comedy club and trying to hijack the show.
00:19:36.880 That's not what we're here for.
00:19:38.540 We're not here for you, Jim Acosta.
00:19:40.620 We are here for President Trump.
00:19:42.640 That's what we're here for.
00:19:43.900 He is the star of this show.
00:19:45.580 You've asked your questions.
00:19:46.740 Sit down.
00:19:49.180 What did the president, what option did the president have?
00:19:54.780 Well, he could have not called on him, right?
00:19:56.740 Yes.
00:19:57.260 And probably the smartest thing to do.
00:19:59.060 However, CNN would have said, oh, they're not calling on us.
00:20:01.720 They're not calling on us.
00:20:03.100 And that's fine with me.
00:20:04.840 But OK, so there's that option.
00:20:06.180 Probably the best option.
00:20:07.600 Once he called on him, what is the president supposed to do?
00:20:11.600 I mean, he cut the mic.
00:20:12.960 What happens all the time with Sarah Huckabee Sanders, right?
00:20:15.400 She deals with this every single day.
00:20:16.880 And she just, she talks over them.
00:20:18.460 And she points to another reporter.
00:20:19.680 And then she comes back.
00:20:20.620 He did all that.
00:20:21.080 And they keep talking.
00:20:21.580 And he just keep doing it.
00:20:23.120 Yeah.
00:20:23.320 And by the way, he didn't do.
00:20:25.200 There's nothing in that interaction.
00:20:26.480 Yeah, he was insulting to him.
00:20:28.260 But that's who Donald Trump is.
00:20:29.780 It's something we've all priced into who he is.
00:20:31.740 And I think we've all priced in that Jim Acosta is a ridiculous grandstander.
00:20:36.040 He's not a reporter.
00:20:37.160 He's out there trying to make a name for himself.
00:20:38.940 He's out of graphs.
00:20:39.600 He's ridiculous.
00:20:40.300 He takes pictures of himself in the mirror every other day.
00:20:42.680 He's ridiculous.
00:20:43.820 He's not a reporter at all.
00:20:45.200 There's plenty of people in that press corps.
00:20:47.060 And we obviously were critical.
00:20:48.420 Jake Tapper would never behave this way.
00:20:50.820 Now, all the reporters have each other's backs, which is also bad, by the way.
00:20:55.220 Just like you complain about when the president, you know, and all the president's supporters support him no matter what.
00:21:00.880 You should also be critical occasionally of reporters when they do something wrong.
00:21:04.520 But, I mean, again, we are critical of a lot of the reporters that cover the White House and do, you know, people who cover everything.
00:21:14.500 Everybody else seems to be able to handle this interaction.
00:21:17.840 Every other reporter seems to be able to ask their questions and not try to puff their chest up and make themselves into the most important person in America.
00:21:25.300 Only Jim Acosta has this issue.
00:21:27.060 CNN likes it because it's ratings, period.
00:21:29.440 And, by the way, CNN didn't really have anything to say about the reporter that called him a racist pig on the air.
00:21:38.020 I mean, you know, it's ridiculous.
00:21:41.180 CNN is just a joke.
00:21:42.820 Let me take your temperature on this, though.
00:21:44.540 Do you suspend his pass?
00:21:48.320 Do you go and say you can no longer come into the White House?
00:21:50.740 That's what they did to Acosta after this transaction.
00:21:53.500 To me, I just feel like I'm kind of okay with it.
00:21:56.260 I'm okay with it, but I wouldn't do it.
00:21:58.240 I don't care.
00:21:58.860 Yeah.
00:21:59.280 I don't care.
00:21:59.840 I don't care about his right to go.
00:22:01.440 Yeah, I don't care.
00:22:02.260 Because, honestly, it's not.
00:22:02.980 Give me another reporter, CNN, if you want another reporter.
00:22:05.480 I can understand why CNN would be like, look, we choose our reporters.
00:22:08.660 You don't get to tell us who our reporters are.
00:22:10.360 Okay, well, then you can't come in.
00:22:11.720 I mean, maybe.
00:22:12.580 To me, I just think you're puffing up his ego.
00:22:14.960 Yeah.
00:22:15.120 I feel like you're doing him a service.
00:22:16.700 You're elevating him to the same level as the freaking president of the United States.
00:22:19.980 Here's the thing.
00:22:20.980 Here's what he should have done.
00:22:23.160 He should have just said, CNN, I'm not going to take away his credentials.
00:22:31.720 He's more than welcome.
00:22:33.400 I'm not calling on him.
00:22:34.680 I'm not calling on him.
00:22:35.780 Until you tell me he is going to abide, he doesn't have to agree with me, but he has
00:22:44.200 to abide by simple standards of decorum.
00:22:49.360 If he'll do that, he can come in.
00:22:51.780 But you send whoever you want.
00:22:53.720 I don't have to pick them.
00:23:00.460 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:23:05.780 And if you count 22 Grammys and 63 Grammy nominations, it's fair to say that she is
00:23:35.480 considered pretty darn good.
00:23:38.340 Although, who's to say how much she actually writes or performs, besides singing and occasionally
00:23:46.080 rapping.
00:23:47.180 But Beyonce wants you to know she's more than just a mega singing, dancing superstar. 0.99
00:23:54.160 Beyonce can also be an academic. 0.98
00:23:57.420 That's right.
00:23:58.620 No PhD or prior research needed.
00:24:01.540 If she wants to be an academic, voila, she is done.
00:24:06.600 A few years ago, around the time that she appeared on an award show in Gilded Lingerie, in front
00:24:13.520 of a sign that said, feminist, Beyonce wrote an academic paper titled, gender equality is 0.99
00:24:22.180 a myth.
00:24:23.180 And yes, she used an exclamation point after the word myth.
00:24:30.600 It must be science, and it must be important.
00:24:35.560 Now know that Beyonce happens to be one of the most privileged people on the face of the earth, 0.99
00:24:40.460 but she never has to check that privilege at the door. 0.99
00:24:44.340 Which brings me to our point.
00:24:47.580 One of the many roles that Beyonce has awarded herself is political activist, and she's one
00:24:55.600 of the best.
00:24:56.700 She prances around the world spouting off what some lower citizens might say is nonsense, 1.00
00:25:05.040 because she's a professor of political science. 0.99
00:25:08.460 How do I know?
00:25:09.960 She wants to be.
00:25:11.620 So she is.
00:25:12.860 She might even say that she's a long-time politician with all kinds of experience, and if she says
00:25:20.560 it, she is.
00:25:22.300 Believe me, her opinions matter more than yours.
00:25:26.740 See, that's what you really need to understand, America.
00:25:32.200 You need to understand these people are better than you.
00:25:35.660 They're smarter than you.
00:25:37.600 Now, this, I suppose, little misunderstanding with you, the little people in the country, 0.99
00:25:46.860 is why she has now been named the most divisive celebrity in the country. 1.00
00:25:52.920 You know, to this American broadcaster, she's not divisive.
00:25:59.360 You know why?
00:26:00.900 Because I don't know a damn thing she says.
00:26:05.300 You know why?
00:26:07.080 Because I don't give a flying crap about Beyonce.
00:26:11.620 I don't listen to her music.
00:26:13.740 I don't listen to her rap.
00:26:15.660 I don't watch the Grammy Awards.
00:26:18.320 If she's on something, I don't avoid it.
00:26:21.620 But she's generally not on any program that I would be interested in.
00:26:25.980 I don't follow her on Twitter.
00:26:28.440 I don't follow her in tweets.
00:26:31.140 I don't follow anyone that generally would be all wrapped up in what Beyonce says.
00:26:37.980 But actors and musicians have always, always done this weird thing where they interpret
00:26:54.360 their fame to be a malleable, godlike expertise because, well, of course I'm not a race car
00:27:03.760 driver, but I've played a race car driver.
00:27:07.440 Of course I'm not a president in the nuclear bunker, but I've played one.
00:27:13.060 People in their minds worship them for their abilities as an actor or musician.
00:27:18.660 They assume that they possess unlimited knowledge and that their opinions matter more than,
00:27:25.040 oh, I don't know, someone with actual knowledge.
00:27:28.440 We're all quite familiar with this Beyonce act.
00:27:31.960 Leading up to the midterms, Comedy Central poked fun at this.
00:27:36.380 All Americans are asking themselves the same questions.
00:27:39.480 Should I vote?
00:27:40.160 How will I know that I should vote?
00:27:41.240 If celebrities don't tell me to.
00:27:42.760 Does Emma Stone think I should vote? 0.71
00:27:44.080 What about John Krasinski?
00:27:45.220 Have you guys seen A Quiet Place?
00:27:47.380 Yes, but that isn't what this is about right now.
00:27:49.440 It's about celebrities.
00:27:50.200 Telling regular Americans that they have to vote.
00:27:52.300 Many normal Americans like us don't know what we should do until celebrities tell us what to do.
00:27:57.480 That's right.
00:27:58.220 And as a quasi-celebrity myself, I can tell you that that joke is funny.
00:28:06.420 And you should follow the advice of quasi-celebrities.
00:28:11.620 The justice now is that people have come to see through the cloud of smugness coming from celebrities.
00:28:19.020 And yes, even the quasi-celebrities.
00:28:22.380 This week's elections proved people no longer are swayed by celebrity endorsements.
00:28:28.940 Sure, Taylor Swift can sing a sweet love song. 1.00
00:28:34.320 And all of her fawning over Democratic Governor Phil What's-His-Face just wasn't enough to win him the spot.
00:28:41.900 But maybe she'll write another sad song.
00:28:45.900 The same thing happened with candidates endorsed by Dave Chappelle, who is really funny.
00:28:52.420 But I don't need to have Dave Chappelle tell me what to do.
00:28:57.060 Oprah Winfrey, who everyone says, you've got to run Oprah Winfrey because she's the ultimate goddess celebrity. 1.00
00:29:05.680 Everybody loves Oprah, except she couldn't get the job done. 1.00
00:29:10.900 Will Ferrell, most famous probably for dressing as an elf, tried to get everybody to, you know, vote his way.
00:29:22.280 Didn't work.
00:29:23.220 Rihanna, Puff Daddy, and scores of other Hollywood elite who championed Beto.
00:29:30.420 Didn't work out.
00:29:31.880 Little odd that so many Hollywood actors were fawning over a candidate in a Texas election, but they were.
00:29:39.380 Conservative strategist Chris Barron told Fox News, quote,
00:29:43.860 Last night, the American voters once again told Hollywood that they simply do not care what they think.
00:29:51.240 All across the country, Hollywood darlings were rejected by the voters.
00:29:56.340 Hollywood, can you hear us?
00:29:58.840 Act and shut up.
00:30:01.300 Your opinion is no more valuable than anyone else's.
00:30:05.000 We all have armpits, just like we all have opinions.
00:30:09.960 Most of us have two armpits.
00:30:13.140 But I don't think anybody wants to smell mine.
00:30:17.600 Even one of them.
00:30:19.800 And I certainly don't want to smell yours.
00:30:23.120 Keep your armpits and your opinions to yourself.
00:30:26.700 Unless you're a quasi-celebrity that makes his money, and it is his primary job, to spout political opinions.
00:30:40.100 You see, it seems, strangely, because my opinion really is not worth any more than anyone else's,
00:30:49.660 people come here to hear that opinion.
00:30:52.720 I know it's weird and strange, but it makes me feel, hmm, just a little superior to the Hollywood celebrity.
00:31:07.680 And for that, too, I fall to my knees and thank God.
00:31:14.720 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:31:26.680 I have something really exciting to announce.
00:31:29.760 And I wanted to announce this a couple of weeks ago, but Andrew just wouldn't get off his butt and actually sign anything.
00:31:37.120 So I'm really excited to announce that we are adding a new podcast, a new show, to the Blaze lineup, and it is Andrew Heaton.
00:31:47.400 And you say to yourself, finally, a guy I've never heard of.
00:31:52.020 That's what America wants.
00:31:53.260 That's what America wants.
00:31:53.980 A guy I've never heard of.
00:31:54.680 This guy is really, really funny.
00:31:57.400 Very intelligent.
00:31:58.860 Very intelligent.
00:31:59.720 intelligent, does not play the political game at all, and is a classic liberal, if you will, a libertarian, and doesn't have a horse in the race.
00:32:10.920 And so he comes at things at a really refreshing place.
00:32:17.660 And we were just talking off the air.
00:32:20.120 It is a pleasure.
00:32:21.040 I've worked with him now for the last, what, three weeks here?
00:32:23.060 And it's a pleasure to be around him because he is so grateful.
00:32:27.900 He's, I mean, didn't you just move from New York?
00:32:30.580 I did.
00:32:31.220 I moved, well, I moved from New York by way of Austin.
00:32:34.140 So I was in Austin, Texas, which is, Austin's kind of like if Brooklyn had a kid in Texas.
00:32:38.040 Right.
00:32:38.440 So I had like an intermediate state.
00:32:40.240 But yeah, I basically came from New York.
00:32:41.000 How did you escape New York and have this attitude?
00:32:44.120 I, you know, part of it was, I knew, and like, I still, some of my best friends live in New York.
00:32:50.400 There's really good people in New York, specifically 12.
00:32:53.300 There are 12 really good people in New York.
00:32:54.440 They may be the same 12.
00:32:55.620 I know.
00:32:56.100 Eight of them are my friends.
00:32:57.200 All right.
00:32:57.460 I, you know, I'm from Oklahoma originally, which is the Canada of Texas.
00:33:01.100 So I never really, I never really fit in in New York.
00:33:04.820 And I, I, I mean, I think what I finally figured out is there's actually a different etiquette model
00:33:09.740 that's working there.
00:33:10.600 Like in Oklahoma, you show respect by engaging people.
00:33:12.960 You say good morning.
00:33:13.820 You say like, you know, hi.
00:33:14.840 And you just, you just make conversations.
00:33:16.320 It's fine.
00:33:16.780 In New York, you give, you show respect by giving people space.
00:33:19.260 And it took me a couple of years to figure out that I was a very, very rude person by
00:33:23.700 New York standards.
00:33:24.520 And I, I think the aha moment was I, I would, I was visiting Austin for a comedy festival
00:33:28.340 and I was on the boardwalk and some teenagers saw me.
00:33:31.380 I was on a bike.
00:33:32.200 Some teenagers saw me and ran up and I started tensing and they just went, yeah, and high
00:33:36.200 five me and ran away.
00:33:37.560 And I went, that's Texas.
00:33:39.600 It's just a bunch of happy people running around high fiving.
00:33:42.460 And then I went back to New York that weekend.
00:33:44.240 And I saw people who I presume are neighbors because they were, they were unloading their car near
00:33:48.800 me.
00:33:48.920 They were unloading camping equipment.
00:33:50.320 And, um, the, the lady had on a fedora and I stopped and went, that is a really sharp 0.72
00:33:54.380 hat.
00:33:54.660 And they both turned to me and their heads swiveled at the slow, slow degree.
00:33:58.180 And they went, yeah.
00:34:00.220 And I went, okay, I don't belong here.
00:34:02.400 This is just weird.
00:34:03.240 Like I'm never going to fit in.
00:34:04.300 You guys are always going to find me irritating.
00:34:06.160 I'm always going to find you aloof.
00:34:07.780 And like, so I wanted to move back to the middle of the country.
00:34:10.240 Yeah.
00:34:10.780 So, uh, we convinced him to move to Dallas and, uh, come do a podcast with him.
00:34:15.660 And I, I want to play, I, I heard a rehearsal podcast.
00:34:19.160 I hope you don't mind.
00:34:20.500 We've taken it and I've taken a couple of parts of it.
00:34:23.400 Uh, this is just a rehearsal podcast.
00:34:25.100 It begins on Monday, but, uh, something's off with Andrew Heaton.
00:34:29.020 Uh, that's a statement and the name of the podcast.
00:34:32.480 And, uh, here it is.
00:34:34.060 Listen, hello and welcome to something's off with Andrew Heaton.
00:34:37.620 And proudly brought to you by Snuffy's off Route 44.
00:34:42.000 Snuffy's is a great American diner where, as you know, all of the waiters take your order
00:34:46.840 and deliver your food to you from a horse.
00:34:49.820 Yes, you'll be at one of the great, great places in the United States in terms of eating
00:34:53.920 and in terms of low prices.
00:34:55.580 And you and your family will have a joyous day having all of your food you serve by horseback.
00:35:00.760 If you've ever been to Sonic and you've seen a high schooler on rollerblades delivering meals
00:35:04.680 and you thought, that's very impressive.
00:35:05.680 You will be angry at what a gullible yokel you were for being impressed by such a paltry feat
00:35:12.040 of locomotive skills when compared to the grandeur and majesty of a waiter delivering your food
00:35:18.900 to you on horseback through a diner.
00:35:20.980 Snuffy's off Route 44 because everything tastes better from a horse.
00:35:28.140 A new iPhone's coming out.
00:35:29.720 And I put my head together with some friends for apps that we'd like to see in this next generation.
00:35:36.360 One, I think this would be of tremendous benefit to the United States at large.
00:35:40.060 A social hookup app that makes people uglier on the phone.
00:35:43.740 So when you meet them in person, it's a relief.
00:35:45.760 I think that would help.
00:35:46.900 That would be good for America. 0.72
00:35:48.080 I've come up with this app before.
00:35:49.500 It's called Rebound, which you can...
00:35:51.960 Why is that not a thing?
00:35:53.460 Like TM Rebound.
00:35:54.860 That's my intellectual property now.
00:35:56.240 You can't use that.
00:35:57.080 You can contact me if you've got a good idea.
00:36:00.340 An app that can shoot a lightsaber out of your iPhone jack.
00:36:03.360 That sounds cool.
00:36:04.340 And then finally, I think this one would be super cool.
00:36:06.620 I'm actually in development deals on this one.
00:36:08.240 An app that reads NPR stories in the voice of Alex Jones.
00:36:13.020 I think that that would be a really interesting crossover.
00:36:15.700 I would love that.
00:36:16.000 Well, in Saskatchewan, a certain tribe is making wind chimes out of used air brakes. 0.80
00:36:22.340 I don't know what they...
00:36:23.360 You know, you can fill in the NPR story.
00:36:24.880 But I think it would be really interesting to hear it in Alex Jones' angry, hoarse voice.
00:36:30.500 Okay.
00:36:31.600 Then you went in...
00:36:32.680 Then you'd start talking about...
00:36:34.740 Those are brilliant ideas.
00:36:35.180 I forgot I came up with all this.
00:36:36.400 Then you went into a deal about Russia.
00:36:40.200 Yeah.
00:36:40.640 And I think the Russian spy, the hot Russian spy had just been deported.
00:36:46.180 I forget her name off the top of my head.
00:36:47.520 But there was somebody that had come in like a few years ago.
00:36:50.380 And she'd been the head of like a gun organization.
00:36:53.160 And she'd kind of been a honeypot.
00:36:54.140 Yeah, right.
00:36:54.460 Okay.
00:36:54.700 So everybody is talking about, you know, whether this is fake or whether this is real.
00:36:59.480 And I stop in the hallway to listen to his test podcast.
00:37:04.600 And here's how Andrew Heaton was dealing with it.
00:37:08.740 So I would like to thank Russia for sending us hot lady spies. 0.96
00:37:13.440 I think that is a gesture of respect to our country.
00:37:15.840 And that makes me like them more.
00:37:17.060 I have lots of problems with the Russian regime.
00:37:19.080 I don't like authoritarianism.
00:37:20.560 I think Putin is a sociopathic psychopath.
00:37:24.040 And they, you know, they tried to interfere in our election and perhaps did.
00:37:26.780 So those are all issues that I'm concerned with.
00:37:28.500 However, they are taking the actual James Bond gentleman's agreement that we have with Russia,
00:37:34.820 which is you send over your hot people, hot men and women, both, and you have them sleep
00:37:40.580 with our people.
00:37:41.140 And that's how, that's how gentlemen conduct espionage.
00:37:43.820 I'm not going to point any fingers at any other large nations that we're, we're periodically
00:37:49.700 in trouble with and or in a trade war with.
00:37:51.760 But as I understand it, nations that we're currently in a trade war with are mostly just
00:37:55.340 hacking us from a computer somewhere in China or from wherever, whatever country I'm not
00:38:01.200 talking about.
00:38:01.720 Like, no one's, no one's getting sex out of that.
00:38:05.020 We're not getting any hot people.
00:38:06.880 So, uh, he's got a very different look at things and I don't know about you, but I just
00:38:12.700 want to laugh.
00:38:13.360 They didn't even talk about that on NPR, the whole sex angle.
00:38:15.880 That wasn't even there.
00:38:16.740 No.
00:38:16.960 Maybe if they had it in Alex Jones's voice, they wouldn't.
00:38:18.840 That's true.
00:38:19.480 Yeah.
00:38:19.660 See?
00:38:20.080 Yeah.
00:38:20.320 Yeah.
00:38:20.760 I'm, I'm with you.
00:38:21.660 I think like right now is so tense and it's so angry.
00:38:24.700 Uh, and like, I'm, I'm really grateful for the opportunity to have a podcast with you
00:38:28.520 guys and to, and to, to, I, I, I want to have a place where people can hang out and
00:38:33.800 we'll, we'll be thoughtful, but we're, we're going to have fun.
00:38:35.760 I don't want people to leave like needing statins.
00:38:38.540 Uh, I, I want people to leave feeling better.
00:38:41.280 Uh, you, uh, came, I mean, one of the things, the first thing I think I saw you on was, uh,
00:38:46.300 your stuff for reason.
00:38:47.320 Yeah.
00:38:47.600 You did, uh, mostly weekly with Andrew, which I freaking loved.
00:38:51.560 Thank you very much.
00:38:52.320 We were, we were the two that watched it.
00:38:53.860 Yeah.
00:38:54.180 Oh, well that, that means my mom wasn't watching it.
00:38:56.960 No, it's a really two people watching it.
00:38:58.460 I will tell you that this is the first question I asked in the, in the job interview.
00:39:02.920 Well, were you going to take it there?
00:39:04.640 No, I was not going to know.
00:39:06.280 Oh, I was going to say, cause we watched it and we loved it.
00:39:09.840 And I said, I said to enter, were you in there?
00:39:12.600 Cause I said to him, okay, so.
00:39:15.700 I mean, maybe we're completely wrong about you.
00:39:18.720 Cause we cannot figure out why that wasn't a huge success.
00:39:21.980 Cause it was really funny.
00:39:24.060 I remember that.
00:39:24.700 That was bad.
00:39:25.320 Like you were like, I don't, I don't mean this offensively.
00:39:27.100 I don't mean this really, but how are you not more successful?
00:39:31.300 And that was, that was like the weirdest, uh, like mind question.
00:39:35.600 Like for days I would just stare at the sea lake.
00:39:37.900 What happened to me?
00:39:40.800 I agree.
00:39:41.540 I should be a big deal.
00:39:43.560 I apparently think so.
00:39:45.700 Why am I not a big deal?
00:39:47.300 Yeah.
00:39:47.940 Yeah.
00:39:48.360 Uh, yeah.
00:39:48.880 Uh, mostly weekly was a lot of fun.
00:39:50.460 I mean, the, I mean the, the premise to that for, uh, the, you know, I mean, probably 5%
00:39:54.200 of your viewers haven't watched it.
00:39:55.440 95% probably go to sleep to it.
00:39:57.520 Um, the, the premise to that was, it was basically a Craigslist version of John Oliver from a libertarian
00:40:02.520 perspective.
00:40:03.020 Uh, it was on reason, which is kind of the flagship libertarian publication.
00:40:05.880 Um, and I just, I wanted to, I wanted to tackle, um, a lot of the issues that I didn't think
00:40:12.260 were either getting represented or were getting represented poorly.
00:40:14.800 Like the, the one that got the most views I think was on net neutrality because I was
00:40:18.660 the only humorist, the only one that was like, wait a minute.
00:40:22.380 So you guys hate Donald Trump.
00:40:24.620 Who's the head of the government and you want to give the government control of the internet.
00:40:30.300 I just don't see the logic train there.
00:40:33.600 You know that he appoints the FCC, like the guy you hate, Ajit Pai.
00:40:37.680 Trump appointed that guy.
00:40:38.980 So like, I like that.
00:40:40.240 I won't, I won't go off my rant about net neutrality.
00:40:42.760 And I thought that one was going to do so poorly because it's so wonky, but it became like,
00:40:46.740 it became this huge kind of psychological proxy battle.
00:40:50.960 I think people are, are actually hungry to think.
00:40:55.000 Yeah.
00:40:55.240 I really do.
00:40:56.060 We're, we're in a really interesting place right now where.
00:40:58.140 Very bizarre.
00:40:58.900 Uh, where attention span is like, come back.
00:41:00.980 You know, you can, we could like.
00:41:02.160 For some.
00:41:02.780 Yeah.
00:41:03.460 But, but like with podcasts and things, you can actually have like, like a long conversation
00:41:07.740 and not thinking and soundbites.
00:41:09.220 And people are saying, thank you.
00:41:11.560 Oh my gosh.
00:41:12.540 Thank you.
00:41:13.060 I can't believe there was an actual conversation that happened.
00:41:16.740 Yeah.
00:41:17.140 It's like, there's always a back and forth with that, right?
00:41:18.820 I think there's that idea that for years, I mean, Twitter is certainly a great example
00:41:22.900 of it, but everyone, you know, going to, you know, pivoting to video on the web and everyone
00:41:26.920 had shorter and shorter and shorter articles and, and there's just no substance.
00:41:30.100 And I think the podcast world gives you a chance to laugh a lot and, and, and really
00:41:34.100 go into depth on a topic.
00:41:35.220 And I think it's, it is a, it's a pushback against this short attention span.
00:41:39.900 I think it's much, much wanted.
00:41:41.840 Opposite of Twitter.
00:41:42.600 And I like Twitter, Twitter scares me.
00:41:44.600 I, they might've released this, but, um, I, I used, I used to work in Congress.
00:41:47.760 I was, I worked for a couple of members of the house.
00:41:49.540 And while I was there, the library of Congress purchased all tweets in perpetuity.
00:41:53.840 Yeah.
00:41:54.460 Uh, and I like my, I was an undergraduate as a history major.
00:41:57.380 And I looked at that and thought, uh, all of history comes from about three different
00:42:02.100 sources.
00:42:02.400 It comes from, um, junk people left behind, uh, from propaganda and from the letters of
00:42:07.800 Benjamin Franklin.
00:42:08.340 That accounts for all of history.
00:42:09.460 And, uh, but the big ones junk, like almost everything we know is literally just broken
00:42:13.500 pottery shards.
00:42:14.080 And I, I looked at the Twitter feed and was like, in the 25th century, that's how we are
00:42:19.020 going to be remembered is through the asinine junk we put on Twitter and Facebook.
00:42:22.840 They're going to go in the 21st century.
00:42:25.320 I hated Mondays.
00:42:26.600 And that'll be, and they loathed whatever political party they weren't, but they loved
00:42:31.120 cats wearing costumes.
00:42:32.260 Like that'll be our contribution to the zeitgeist.
00:42:35.600 I will tell you that it is, we are going to be looked at by historians as morons.
00:42:42.260 I, can I tell you to get deep for a second, I'll tell you what I think how they're going
00:42:45.820 to look back on us.
00:42:46.480 I think we live in an, like an absolutely amazing time.
00:42:48.780 I think that this is, this is very much like the same thing as the invention of the printing
00:42:53.820 press or the invention of the agricultural revolution.
00:42:56.000 I think this is a pivot point for the entire species.
00:42:58.780 I agree.
00:42:59.280 But I think at the same time, historians are going to look back and go, wow, they must
00:43:03.760 have been so lonely.
00:43:05.400 I think this is the loneliest period in all of human history.
00:43:08.300 And I think that's why, um, in politics right now, people are so thirsty to be a part of a
00:43:13.740 political party because it gives them the sense of belonging.
00:43:16.300 And it, and I think that's why tribalism is on the rise because everybody's so alienated.
00:43:20.460 They're desperate for something to plug into.
00:43:22.340 Why do you think, what do you mean lonely?
00:43:24.120 I, so, uh, I think for one thing, um, just from, from an evolutionary perspective, um,
00:43:31.080 you know, we've been around about 300,000 years and for most of that, we've been camping.
00:43:34.760 6,000.
00:43:37.900 Just saying it just to get, just to get the argument started.
00:43:41.280 Yeah.
00:43:41.300 Yeah.
00:43:41.400 Well, but even then, even then let's go with 6,000, right?
00:43:44.080 All right.
00:43:44.520 Um, for, for most of those 6,000 years.
00:43:46.540 Could be 12.
00:43:47.420 Could be 12.
00:43:47.820 Why do you settle on 6?
00:43:48.640 Let's do 6.
00:43:49.200 Well, I'll, I'll lowball it.
00:43:50.560 All right.
00:43:50.860 Go ahead.
00:43:50.960 For 6,000 years.
00:43:52.260 Um, you're mostly living with, uh, your best friends.
00:43:55.940 You're, you're living in a village.
00:43:56.940 You, I mean, unless you're in the army, the bulk of human history never goes more than,
00:44:00.640 you know, 30 miles from where they grew up.
00:44:02.360 Right.
00:44:02.720 And so I, I was talking to friends about this because I went to several, uh, weddings
00:44:06.400 this summer.
00:44:06.840 That feeling you get when you're at a wedding and you're like, oh, my uncle, that's normal.
00:44:10.200 That's the normal human state that when you, you're surrounded by people, what we've done
00:44:13.720 is we went, or, or I could live in a box by myself.
00:44:18.160 And then we added to that.
00:44:19.420 I'm going to, I'm going to further remove myself from people.
00:44:23.020 I'm not going to go to the Elks Lodge.
00:44:24.160 I'm not going to go to church.
00:44:24.960 I'm not going to go to the bowling league or the improv team.
00:44:26.660 I'm just going to connect through Facebook and, and it doesn't, it doesn't hit it.
00:44:29.940 And I think as a result, we've become so distant from one another.
00:44:33.340 And that sense of community is broken down.
00:44:35.060 Well, there's, there's, for instance, companies are very, very hard to run over.
00:44:40.320 I think it's 120 people.
00:44:42.580 Dunbar's number.
00:44:43.240 Yeah.
00:44:43.460 It just, it just starts to fall apart because it's completely different.
00:44:47.220 Yeah.
00:44:47.620 Um, because there's a, something about culture at about 120 people.
00:44:52.440 Um, and the, the human experience, I think it's, I think we're supposed to, we, we are
00:44:59.840 geared to have about 50 friends, 50 people in our lives that we kind of really know.
00:45:06.520 And, and, and we can handle that after, I think I can't remember the number exactly,
00:45:11.840 but it's a very low number, like 50 after that, it all starts to fall apart on us.
00:45:16.680 We are not used to having all these relationships and being, you know, involved in this, this
00:45:25.300 gigantic conversation with people all over the world.
00:45:29.200 We just don't, we're not geared that way.
00:45:31.360 Yeah.
00:45:31.680 We're, I mean, we're, we're, yeah, there's, there's a fascinating study by a guy named Robert
00:45:35.080 Dunbar and he came up with Dunbar's number, which is, I think the, the 120 you're citing.
00:45:38.660 And it's, I mean, basically, I think the easiest way to explain it is after 150 people, you need
00:45:43.020 name tags and that, that changes the whole dynamic of the group.
00:45:46.360 Yeah.
00:45:46.720 Uh, and when you've got 150 people, you think about like, um, being able to arbitrate disputes
00:45:51.040 with neighbors.
00:45:51.480 If you know, if you're in a neighborhood of 150 people, you can deal with that as a
00:45:54.980 group, you get above that, you start needing some kind of external authority, um, to come
00:45:58.980 in.
00:45:59.180 If, if you don't know the other person, it becomes harder.
00:46:01.400 It's really interesting that you say this because this is, um, uh, this is the one thing
00:46:05.480 that Jefferson and Adams argued right before they died.
00:46:08.780 They said, you know, that one of them said to the other, this is going to fall apart.
00:46:11.520 And the other said, no, I will, but then they will remember what we were trying to do.
00:46:16.160 And they'll go back to Deuteronomy.
00:46:17.400 And the other said, that's the problem.
00:46:19.440 We didn't do enough Deuteronomy, which what the, you know, we're dealing, I know what
00:46:25.040 that means, but for, for listeners that aren't familiar with Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy is,
00:46:28.620 uh, is the Bible.
00:46:30.080 And it's the, it's kind of the law part of the Bible.
00:46:33.140 Okay.
00:46:33.540 And they, the, in there, they talk about how society needs to be broken up and it needs
00:46:38.840 to be broken up into what are called stakes.
00:46:41.460 And I think it's about 150 people.
00:46:43.900 And so what they wanted to, yeah.
00:46:45.940 This is in Deuteronomy?
00:46:46.960 They're like organizing 150 people?
00:46:48.600 Yeah.
00:46:48.780 So what they wanted to do was divide the country into what are called stakes.
00:46:53.580 So you'd have 150 people or 150 families, whatever it is.
00:46:57.160 And then when it hit a hundred and, you know, 70, it would break in half and it would be now
00:47:04.560 two squares.
00:47:05.700 And when that, and it would just keep breaking up to keep that number.
00:47:09.900 So you would know your neighbor and they didn't put that in our constitution.
00:47:14.780 And that's why we have this gerrymandering where you don't really know who to talk to.
00:47:20.060 And this is important, probably a good time to note that you are limiting the amount of
00:47:23.340 listeners to your podcast to 150.
00:47:25.300 That's right.
00:47:25.480 You got to get, you got to get in fast guys.
00:47:27.340 We're capping it off at 150 people.
00:47:29.260 So it starts on Monday.
00:47:30.460 Starts on Monday.
00:47:30.980 Yeah.
00:47:31.100 Starts on Monday.
00:47:31.980 Something's off with Andrew Heaton.
00:47:33.100 Yeah.
00:47:33.660 And I don't even know if you can subscribe yet, but it'll be up on the blaze and you'll
00:47:38.200 get it wherever podcasts you find podcasts.
00:47:41.180 But I've come up with a selection of my favorite, mostly weekly episodes.
00:47:44.860 Oh, really?
00:47:45.260 And I'm going to be tweeting them out all day today.
00:47:47.840 Thank you very much.
00:47:48.820 So at World Stew, go there.
00:47:49.560 He's at Mighty Heaton.
00:47:50.760 Please.
00:47:51.220 He's really, really, really, really funny.
00:47:53.600 And we're thrilled to have you a part of the team.
00:47:55.040 Thank you.
00:47:55.360 I am happy to be here, guys.
00:47:56.880 I think it's going to be a lot of fun.
00:47:57.700 Okay.
00:47:58.460 Andrew Heaton, we'll crush his soul within six months.
00:48:01.780 Oh, yeah.
00:48:02.160 So he'll be a broken man soon.
00:48:04.680 So get him while he's still, you know, spirited.
00:48:08.100 Thank you so much, Andrew.
00:48:09.500 I appreciate it.
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