11⧸8⧸18 - Best of Program - Guest, Andrew Heaton
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Summary
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.
Transcript
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Today, as we sit by the fireside, a very intellectual chat about things like Alyssa Milano's opinion.
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That's right, Cletus. We will be doing that coming up.
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Yeah, no, Alyssa Milano, very important, of course.
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Yes, we find out that Glenn doesn't know what her name is.
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Also, he doesn't know who Jim Acosta's name is.
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These people play such a small role in all of our lives.
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But the Jim Acosta story is important to take apart bit by bit.
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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.
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We talk about the shooting that happened in California today.
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And we hit on a new podcast that's coming out from The Blaze starring Andrew Heaton.
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And that also happens to be the new name of his podcast.
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Did not have the overwhelming effect that Democrats hoped it would in Tuesday's midterm elections.
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And it doesn't didn't have the effect that I think maybe some in the Republican Party hoped it would have.
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Exit polling from Tuesday indicates that immigration was the second most important issue to voters right behind health care.
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Twenty three percent of voters said immigration was their top issue.
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President Trump's reaction to it did have an impact.
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Though the election is over, the caravan is not turning back.
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Which means more chances for the left to demonize the president.
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If you stand with the president, you are going to look like an Israeli.
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Because that is exactly how this is going to be spun.
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The big bad Israelis against the poor innocent Palestinians.
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If you've been wondering exactly why a large immigrant garavan is headed our way in the first place.
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Assuming for a moment that is not just a political stunt.
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The story in the Washington Post has finally solved the mystery.
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The Washington Post reports it's climate change.
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Still, shame on you for not seeing that this was climate change.
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A lot of thousands of migrants move all over the world when 0.9 degrees Celsius changes over a century.
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Climate change is wreaking havoc on rural Honduras and pushing people north.
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The story claims an unpredictable climate has ruined crops and created environmental challenges
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To survive the bad harvests, people are fleeing to cities and even north to the U.S.
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According to the story, Honduras is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change.
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All of that climate change just focused right there on Honduras.
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Farmers dealing with drought, unpredictable weather.
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Yeah, that's totally new in world history, isn't it?
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Humans have never had to deal with an area that has drought.
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Climate change cause and effect angle definitely feels like just another way to toss some more fuel
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One of the left's favorite fundraising causes, along with the experts, it's genius.
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I mean, when you think about it, combining two hotbed leftist issues, migrant caravans and climate change.
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Talking about Jim Acosta, and we're taking Glenn Beck's parenting class 101.
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Because let's just say that I have experience in things like this.
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Let's just imagine for a second that I have two younger children's makeup names.
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And does everything she can just to get under his skin.
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Rafe, knowing that he is far from a saint on this.
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Now, let's look at Jim Acosta and Donald Trump.
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I don't know what that story of Rafe and Cheyenne have to do with these two.
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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.
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Let's say he's Cheyenne, who is constantly needling just to get under his skin.
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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.
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And trying to answer properly, trying to answer nicely.
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But Jim Acosta just wants to be an advocate, not a journalist.
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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.
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I want them, I want them to come into the country, but they have to come in legally.
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You know, they have to come in, Jim, through a process.
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And I want people to come in and lead the people.
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Because we have hundreds of companies moving in.
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Your campaign had an ad showing migrants climbing over walls and so on.
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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?
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It was a video of these, quote, unquote, migrants doing that to get into Guatemala and Mexico.
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So what evidence do you have that they will not be doing this to America?
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Just like, I guess, Jim, we could say the pipe bomber was hundreds and hundreds of miles away from you.
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The Soviet Union was thousands and thousands of miles away.
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You know, there is such a thing as spotting trouble before it is on your doorstep.
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The Nazis were hundreds and thousands of miles away.
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Honestly, I think they should let me run the country.
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And if you did it well, your ratings would be much better.
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Now, he says, he's about to say, what is the first thing you say?
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If you want to have two questions with the president, when you stand up, what is the first thing you say?
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Mr. President, I have a question and a follow-up.
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Mr. President, if I may ask one other question, are you worried?
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Mr. President, I have one other question, if I may ask on the Russian investigation.
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Now, this is when the White House made its mistake later with Sarah Sanders.
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They are trying to say that Jim Acosta accosted this woman.
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You know, people in the press say all the time now, oh, you know, he's got a right.
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The president asked and answered his questions.
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Now he's not going to surrender the microphone.
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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?
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Eventually, the crowd says, shut up and sit down.
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But not here because the crowd is against the Rafe character.
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He walks away from the microphone, hoping that someone will say, come on, Jim, knock it off.
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He sends in the person to take the microphone to be able to pass it to the next journalist.
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When you're at a comedy club, do you want some decorum?
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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.
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If you don't have some sort of decorum, if you don't have some sort of rule, then you have anarchy.
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Maybe that's why CNN doesn't have a problem with Antifa, because they are creating anarchy everywhere they go.
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Now, I am not saying that Donald Trump isn't a spoiled little brat at times, but I'll deal with him later.
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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?
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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.
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Did the president go on, and did he lose his temper?
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Yes, but I was shocked that he held it this long.
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Because, I don't know about you, but I can't find a good guy or a bad guy in yesterday's press conference.
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I think the advantage goes to the president, because the president tried to be civil.
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Is he just going to let Jim Acosta take the press conference and hijack it every time Jim Acosta wants to hijack it?
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They should fire him, or they should have at least suspended him and say, we do not treat any president.
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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?
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If he would have said, enough, enough, enough, sit down.
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You are lying about $2,500 coming back to every family.
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Are you telling me you would have accepted a Fox reporter in the press pool saying that to the president of the United States?
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And you would have said, oh, no, you've got to stand up.
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We all have to stand up behind that Fox reporter.
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Well, we remember what happened when someone who was not restrained by journalistic rules, just another congressman, said, you lie.
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And by the way, that claim wound up being in part of Hillary Clinton's platform when she was running for president.
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The claim that Barack Obama supposedly was what he was lying about there.
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It was a story about how racist this congressman was.
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I mean, look, I don't I'm with you and I don't think either either one of them handles it well.
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I don't know why the president elevates Jim Acosta.
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When you when you ban him, he's just going to turn into a martyr.
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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.
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He said you're a rude and terrible person, terrible person.
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Well, Mr. President, don't go there because you don't have a good record of that yourself.
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Let's not forget, Trump doesn't have to call on him.
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He extended the courtesy because he's a well-known guy.
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He already asked either three or four questions when he still wanted another one.
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And then they finally tried to take the microphone from him.
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This is honestly somebody standing up in a comedy club and trying to hijack the show.
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What did the president, what option did the president have?
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However, CNN would have said, oh, they're not calling on us.
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Once he called on him, what is the president supposed to do?
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What happens all the time with Sarah Huckabee Sanders, right?
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It's something we've all priced into who he is.
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And I think we've all priced in that Jim Acosta is a ridiculous grandstander.
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He's out there trying to make a name for himself.
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He takes pictures of himself in the mirror every other day.
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Now, all the reporters have each other's backs, which is also bad, by the way.
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Just like you complain about when the president, you know, and all the president's supporters support him no matter what.
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You should also be critical occasionally of reporters when they do something wrong.
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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.
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Everybody else seems to be able to handle this interaction.
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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.
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And, by the way, CNN didn't really have anything to say about the reporter that called him a racist pig on the air.
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Do you go and say you can no longer come into the White House?
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That's what they did to Acosta after this transaction.
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To me, I just feel like I'm kind of okay with it.
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Give me another reporter, CNN, if you want another reporter.
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I can understand why CNN would be like, look, we choose our reporters.
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You don't get to tell us who our reporters are.
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You're elevating him to the same level as the freaking president of the United States.
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He should have just said, CNN, I'm not going to take away his credentials.
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Until you tell me he is going to abide, he doesn't have to agree with me, but he has
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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
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And if you count 22 Grammys and 63 Grammy nominations, it's fair to say that she is
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Although, who's to say how much she actually writes or performs, besides singing and occasionally
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But Beyonce wants you to know she's more than just a mega singing, dancing superstar.
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If she wants to be an academic, voila, she is done.
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A few years ago, around the time that she appeared on an award show in Gilded Lingerie, in front
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of a sign that said, feminist, Beyonce wrote an academic paper titled, gender equality is
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And yes, she used an exclamation point after the word myth.
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Now know that Beyonce happens to be one of the most privileged people on the face of the earth,
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but she never has to check that privilege at the door.
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One of the many roles that Beyonce has awarded herself is political activist, and she's one
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She prances around the world spouting off what some lower citizens might say is nonsense,
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because she's a professor of political science.
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She might even say that she's a long-time politician with all kinds of experience, and if she says
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Believe me, her opinions matter more than yours.
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See, that's what you really need to understand, America.
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You need to understand these people are better than you.
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Now, this, I suppose, little misunderstanding with you, the little people in the country,
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is why she has now been named the most divisive celebrity in the country.
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You know, to this American broadcaster, she's not divisive.
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Because I don't give a flying crap about Beyonce.
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But she's generally not on any program that I would be interested in.
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I don't follow anyone that generally would be all wrapped up in what Beyonce says.
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But actors and musicians have always, always done this weird thing where they interpret
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their fame to be a malleable, godlike expertise because, well, of course I'm not a race car
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Of course I'm not a president in the nuclear bunker, but I've played one.
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People in their minds worship them for their abilities as an actor or musician.
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They assume that they possess unlimited knowledge and that their opinions matter more than,
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oh, I don't know, someone with actual knowledge.
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We're all quite familiar with this Beyonce act.
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Leading up to the midterms, Comedy Central poked fun at this.
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All Americans are asking themselves the same questions.
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Yes, but that isn't what this is about right now.
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Telling regular Americans that they have to vote.
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Many normal Americans like us don't know what we should do until celebrities tell us what to do.
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And as a quasi-celebrity myself, I can tell you that that joke is funny.
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And you should follow the advice of quasi-celebrities.
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The justice now is that people have come to see through the cloud of smugness coming from celebrities.
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This week's elections proved people no longer are swayed by celebrity endorsements.
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And all of her fawning over Democratic Governor Phil What's-His-Face just wasn't enough to win him the spot.
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The same thing happened with candidates endorsed by Dave Chappelle, who is really funny.
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But I don't need to have Dave Chappelle tell me what to do.
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Oprah Winfrey, who everyone says, you've got to run Oprah Winfrey because she's the ultimate goddess celebrity.
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Everybody loves Oprah, except she couldn't get the job done.
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Will Ferrell, most famous probably for dressing as an elf, tried to get everybody to, you know, vote his way.
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Rihanna, Puff Daddy, and scores of other Hollywood elite who championed Beto.
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Little odd that so many Hollywood actors were fawning over a candidate in a Texas election, but they were.
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Conservative strategist Chris Barron told Fox News, quote,
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Last night, the American voters once again told Hollywood that they simply do not care what they think.
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All across the country, Hollywood darlings were rejected by the voters.
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Your opinion is no more valuable than anyone else's.
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We all have armpits, just like we all have opinions.
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Keep your armpits and your opinions to yourself.
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Unless you're a quasi-celebrity that makes his money, and it is his primary job, to spout political opinions.
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You see, it seems, strangely, because my opinion really is not worth any more than anyone else's,
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I know it's weird and strange, but it makes me feel, hmm, just a little superior to the Hollywood celebrity.
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And for that, too, I fall to my knees and thank God.
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And I wanted to announce this a couple of weeks ago, but Andrew just wouldn't get off his butt and actually sign anything.
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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.
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And you say to yourself, finally, a guy I've never heard of.
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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.
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And so he comes at things at a really refreshing place.
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I've worked with him now for the last, what, three weeks here?
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And it's a pleasure to be around him because he is so grateful.
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He's, I mean, didn't you just move from New York?
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I moved, well, I moved from New York by way of Austin.
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So I was in Austin, Texas, which is, Austin's kind of like if Brooklyn had a kid in Texas.
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How did you escape New York and have this attitude?
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I, you know, part of it was, I knew, and like, I still, some of my best friends live in New York.
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There's really good people in New York, specifically 12.
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I, you know, I'm from Oklahoma originally, which is the Canada of Texas.
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So I never really, I never really fit in in New York.
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And I, I, I mean, I think what I finally figured out is there's actually a different etiquette model
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Like in Oklahoma, you show respect by engaging people.
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In New York, you give, you show respect by giving people space.
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And it took me a couple of years to figure out that I was a very, very rude person by
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And I, I think the aha moment was I, I would, I was visiting Austin for a comedy festival
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and I was on the boardwalk and some teenagers saw me.
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Some teenagers saw me and ran up and I started tensing and they just went, yeah, and high
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It's just a bunch of happy people running around high fiving.
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And I saw people who I presume are neighbors because they were, they were unloading their car near
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And, um, the, the lady had on a fedora and I stopped and went, that is a really sharp
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And they both turned to me and their heads swiveled at the slow, slow degree.
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You guys are always going to find me irritating.
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And like, so I wanted to move back to the middle of the country.
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So, uh, we convinced him to move to Dallas and, uh, come do a podcast with him.
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And I, I want to play, I, I heard a rehearsal podcast.
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We've taken it and I've taken a couple of parts of it.
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It begins on Monday, but, uh, something's off with Andrew Heaton.
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Uh, that's a statement and the name of the podcast.
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Listen, hello and welcome to something's off with Andrew Heaton.
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And proudly brought to you by Snuffy's off Route 44.
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Snuffy's is a great American diner where, as you know, all of the waiters take your order
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Yes, you'll be at one of the great, great places in the United States in terms of eating
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If you've ever been to Sonic and you've seen a high schooler on rollerblades delivering meals
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You will be angry at what a gullible yokel you were for being impressed by such a paltry feat
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of locomotive skills when compared to the grandeur and majesty of a waiter delivering your food
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Snuffy's off Route 44 because everything tastes better from a horse.
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And I put my head together with some friends for apps that we'd like to see in this next generation.
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One, I think this would be of tremendous benefit to the United States at large.
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A social hookup app that makes people uglier on the phone.
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So when you meet them in person, it's a relief.
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An app that can shoot a lightsaber out of your iPhone jack.
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And then finally, I think this one would be super cool.
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An app that reads NPR stories in the voice of Alex Jones.
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I think that that would be a really interesting crossover.
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Well, in Saskatchewan, a certain tribe is making wind chimes out of used air brakes.
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But I think it would be really interesting to hear it in Alex Jones' angry, hoarse voice.
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And I think the Russian spy, the hot Russian spy had just been deported.
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But there was somebody that had come in like a few years ago.
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And she'd been the head of like a gun organization.
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So everybody is talking about, you know, whether this is fake or whether this is real.
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And I stop in the hallway to listen to his test podcast.
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And here's how Andrew Heaton was dealing with it.
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So I would like to thank Russia for sending us hot lady spies.
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I think that is a gesture of respect to our country.
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I have lots of problems with the Russian regime.
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And they, you know, they tried to interfere in our election and perhaps did.
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So those are all issues that I'm concerned with.
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However, they are taking the actual James Bond gentleman's agreement that we have with Russia,
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which is you send over your hot people, hot men and women, both, and you have them sleep
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And that's how, that's how gentlemen conduct espionage.
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I'm not going to point any fingers at any other large nations that we're, we're periodically
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But as I understand it, nations that we're currently in a trade war with are mostly just
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hacking us from a computer somewhere in China or from wherever, whatever country I'm not
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Like, no one's, no one's getting sex out of that.
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So, uh, he's got a very different look at things and I don't know about you, but I just
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They didn't even talk about that on NPR, the whole sex angle.
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Maybe if they had it in Alex Jones's voice, they wouldn't.
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I think like right now is so tense and it's so angry.
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Uh, and like, I'm, I'm really grateful for the opportunity to have a podcast with you
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guys and to, and to, to, I, I, I want to have a place where people can hang out and
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we'll, we'll be thoughtful, but we're, we're going to have fun.
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I don't want people to leave like needing statins.
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Uh, you, uh, came, I mean, one of the things, the first thing I think I saw you on was, uh,
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You did, uh, mostly weekly with Andrew, which I freaking loved.
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Oh, well that, that means my mom wasn't watching it.
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I will tell you that this is the first question I asked in the, in the job interview.
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Oh, I was going to say, cause we watched it and we loved it.
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And I said, I said to enter, were you in there?
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I mean, maybe we're completely wrong about you.
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Cause we cannot figure out why that wasn't a huge success.
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Like you were like, I don't, I don't mean this offensively.
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I don't mean this really, but how are you not more successful?
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And that was, that was like the weirdest, uh, like mind question.
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Like for days I would just stare at the sea lake.
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I mean, the, I mean the, the premise to that for, uh, the, you know, I mean, probably 5%
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Um, the, the premise to that was, it was basically a Craigslist version of John Oliver from a libertarian
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Uh, it was on reason, which is kind of the flagship libertarian publication.
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Um, and I just, I wanted to, I wanted to tackle, um, a lot of the issues that I didn't think
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were either getting represented or were getting represented poorly.
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Like the, the one that got the most views I think was on net neutrality because I was
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the only humorist, the only one that was like, wait a minute.
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Who's the head of the government and you want to give the government control of the internet.
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You know that he appoints the FCC, like the guy you hate, Ajit Pai.
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I won't, I won't go off my rant about net neutrality.
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And I thought that one was going to do so poorly because it's so wonky, but it became like,
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it became this huge kind of psychological proxy battle.
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I think people are, are actually hungry to think.
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We're, we're in a really interesting place right now where.
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But, but like with podcasts and things, you can actually have like, like a long conversation
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I can't believe there was an actual conversation that happened.
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It's like, there's always a back and forth with that, right?
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I think there's that idea that for years, I mean, Twitter is certainly a great example
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of it, but everyone, you know, going to, you know, pivoting to video on the web and everyone
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had shorter and shorter and shorter articles and, and there's just no substance.
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And I think the podcast world gives you a chance to laugh a lot and, and, and really
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And I think it's, it is a, it's a pushback against this short attention span.
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I, they might've released this, but, um, I, I used, I used to work in Congress.
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I was, I worked for a couple of members of the house.
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And while I was there, the library of Congress purchased all tweets in perpetuity.
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Uh, and I like my, I was an undergraduate as a history major.
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And I looked at that and thought, uh, all of history comes from about three different
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It comes from, um, junk people left behind, uh, from propaganda and from the letters of
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And, uh, but the big ones junk, like almost everything we know is literally just broken
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And I, I looked at the Twitter feed and was like, in the 25th century, that's how we are
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going to be remembered is through the asinine junk we put on Twitter and Facebook.
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And that'll be, and they loathed whatever political party they weren't, but they loved
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Like that'll be our contribution to the zeitgeist.
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I will tell you that it is, we are going to be looked at by historians as morons.
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I, can I tell you to get deep for a second, I'll tell you what I think how they're going
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I think we live in an, like an absolutely amazing time.
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I think that this is, this is very much like the same thing as the invention of the printing
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press or the invention of the agricultural revolution.
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I think this is a pivot point for the entire species.
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But I think at the same time, historians are going to look back and go, wow, they must
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I think this is the loneliest period in all of human history.
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And I think that's why, um, in politics right now, people are so thirsty to be a part of a
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political party because it gives them the sense of belonging.
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And it, and I think that's why tribalism is on the rise because everybody's so alienated.
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I, so, uh, I think for one thing, um, just from, from an evolutionary perspective, um,
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you know, we've been around about 300,000 years and for most of that, we've been camping.
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Just saying it just to get, just to get the argument started.
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Well, but even then, even then let's go with 6,000, right?
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Um, you're mostly living with, uh, your best friends.
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You, I mean, unless you're in the army, the bulk of human history never goes more than,
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And so I, I was talking to friends about this because I went to several, uh, weddings
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That feeling you get when you're at a wedding and you're like, oh, my uncle, that's normal.
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That's the normal human state that when you, you're surrounded by people, what we've done
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is we went, or, or I could live in a box by myself.
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I'm going to, I'm going to further remove myself from people.
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I'm not going to go to the bowling league or the improv team.
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I'm just going to connect through Facebook and, and it doesn't, it doesn't hit it.
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And I think as a result, we've become so distant from one another.
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Well, there's, there's, for instance, companies are very, very hard to run over.
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It just, it just starts to fall apart because it's completely different.
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Um, because there's a, something about culture at about 120 people.
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Um, and the, the human experience, I think it's, I think we're supposed to, we, we are
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geared to have about 50 friends, 50 people in our lives that we kind of really know.
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And, and, and we can handle that after, I think I can't remember the number exactly,
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but it's a very low number, like 50 after that, it all starts to fall apart on us.
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We are not used to having all these relationships and being, you know, involved in this, this
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gigantic conversation with people all over the world.
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We're, I mean, we're, we're, yeah, there's, there's a fascinating study by a guy named Robert
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Dunbar and he came up with Dunbar's number, which is, I think the, the 120 you're citing.
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And it's, I mean, basically, I think the easiest way to explain it is after 150 people, you need
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name tags and that, that changes the whole dynamic of the group.
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Uh, and when you've got 150 people, you think about like, um, being able to arbitrate disputes
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If you know, if you're in a neighborhood of 150 people, you can deal with that as a
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group, you get above that, you start needing some kind of external authority, um, to come
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If, if you don't know the other person, it becomes harder.
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It's really interesting that you say this because this is, um, uh, this is the one thing
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that Jefferson and Adams argued right before they died.
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They said, you know, that one of them said to the other, this is going to fall apart.
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And the other said, no, I will, but then they will remember what we were trying to do.
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We didn't do enough Deuteronomy, which what the, you know, we're dealing, I know what
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that means, but for, for listeners that aren't familiar with Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy is,
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And it's the, it's kind of the law part of the Bible.
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And they, the, in there, they talk about how society needs to be broken up and it needs
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So what they wanted to do was divide the country into what are called stakes.
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So you'd have 150 people or 150 families, whatever it is.
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And then when it hit a hundred and, you know, 70, it would break in half and it would be now
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And when that, and it would just keep breaking up to keep that number.
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So you would know your neighbor and they didn't put that in our constitution.
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And that's why we have this gerrymandering where you don't really know who to talk to.
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And this is important, probably a good time to note that you are limiting the amount of
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And I don't even know if you can subscribe yet, but it'll be up on the blaze and you'll
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But I've come up with a selection of my favorite, mostly weekly episodes.
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And I'm going to be tweeting them out all day today.
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And we're thrilled to have you a part of the team.
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Andrew Heaton, we'll crush his soul within six months.
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So get him while he's still, you know, spirited.