The Glenn Beck Program - 12⧸15⧸17 - Leave it alone, it works! (Bill O'Reilly & Stephen Kent join Glenn)

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand.

00:00:09.340 Love. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck.

00:00:14.660 Please stay in your home. Please do not leave your house.

00:00:18.480 The apocalypse is here.

00:00:20.820 Earth and all of its inhabitants will soon be consumed in flames.

00:00:25.420 Flames that will burn forever and yet never consume.

00:00:28.660 Because Obama's net neutrality regulations are dead.

00:00:33.140 Yes, I said it. They are dead.

00:00:35.680 Please do not panic.

00:00:41.280 Now, if you've read anything from the press or if you've read anything from the left,

00:00:45.220 that's exactly how they're treating this.

00:00:47.480 They took the news that the FCC voted 3-2 to get rid of net neutrality really, really hard.

00:00:56.000 And they are now writing their wills, their last testament.

00:01:06.440 And they're writing to everyone that will listen to them,

00:01:10.100 their dramatic and misinformed posts on stone tablets,

00:01:14.540 so they can be buried and found in years to come.

00:01:19.440 The hyperbolic statements from the left about the vote on net neutrality would make you think

00:01:26.220 that the internet has been tortured and killed,

00:01:28.660 that we'll never be able to communicate with each other.

00:01:31.780 Here's the reality.

00:01:33.480 The repeal of these regulations will not affect your life or their life whatsoever.

00:01:40.700 And yet, we're all going to die.

00:01:47.980 The vote was briefly delayed yesterday after security had to clear the room

00:01:52.120 and conduct a search for a possible bomb threat.

00:01:55.220 Oh yeah, no, the left is not violent.

00:01:57.580 It begs the question, why are some people so,

00:02:01.800 why are they emotional train wrecks over net neutrality?

00:02:05.960 By the way, do you know who wrote net neutrality?

00:02:09.500 Yeah, because this is going to protect a little guy.

00:02:12.520 Google wrote net neutrality.

00:02:16.880 Rescinding the Obama era regulations are going to return us to the stone age of 2015.

00:02:23.900 Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.

00:02:25.340 Do you remember how bad the internet was in 2015?

00:02:30.020 We're going to go back there.

00:02:32.440 People are going to starve to death.

00:02:34.600 People will die of cancer.

00:02:36.440 There will be bodies in the streets and you won't have.

00:02:39.360 You're all going back to dial up.

00:02:41.240 We're all going back to baby.

00:02:43.920 It's going to happen.

00:02:47.280 May I ask, have you seen a difference in the internet in a bad way or anything?

00:02:54.440 In the last two years, good way, bad way, anything?

00:02:56.960 The imagined hell of living without the internet.

00:03:05.500 Can you imagine it?

00:03:07.840 It's supposed to bring us to the edge of despair.

00:03:10.820 And it goes to show us that we are all closer to chaos than we think.

00:03:18.520 The only reason people think they want net neutrality is because it sounds nice.

00:03:24.600 The internet can only remain truly neutral if no one can get their grubby hands on it.

00:03:41.440 If the government keeps its hands off of it.

00:03:45.520 And that, in reality, is what the FCC voted to do yesterday.

00:03:53.280 It's Friday, December 15th.

00:04:07.000 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:04:08.760 I don't know if you can even hear us today, if you could even log on the internet today

00:04:15.960 because of the defeat of net neutrality.

00:04:18.580 I don't know what we're going to do.

00:04:20.480 I mean, the internet was horrible in 2015.

00:04:23.640 Horrible?

00:04:24.120 Horrible.

00:04:24.460 What had happened between, say, 1994 and 2015 on the internet?

00:04:27.840 Anything positive?

00:04:28.500 No.

00:04:29.200 Nothing.

00:04:29.920 It didn't grow.

00:04:31.460 No, it didn't grow.

00:04:32.320 It didn't get any better.

00:04:33.660 And now it's going to revert back to those old days.

00:04:36.120 I mean, if you have anything other than a dial-up modem today, you're within the wealthiest 1%.

00:04:42.000 Because you're back to 2,600, Bob.

00:04:45.680 2,600?

00:04:46.260 I only have 6,400.

00:04:47.860 That's more, isn't it?

00:04:48.740 Oh, is it more?

00:04:49.320 Did you say 2,600?

00:04:50.420 Oh, 2,600.

00:04:51.400 Yeah.

00:04:51.700 Well, I'm one of the ones.

00:04:53.100 You are?

00:04:53.640 Yeah, that's you.

00:04:55.420 It's funny.

00:04:56.080 There's a big viral tweet that was 162,000 retweets, 208,000 likes.

00:05:05.120 Here's what it says.

00:05:06.680 Twitter, $14.99 a month.

00:05:09.140 Snapchat, $9.99 a month.

00:05:11.480 YouTube, $19.99 a month.

00:05:13.780 Netflix, $9.99 per movie.

00:05:16.860 Google.

00:05:17.140 Per movie!

00:05:18.620 Google, $1.99 per search.

00:05:21.840 If you don't want to pay extra for your favorite sites, you need to be supporting net neutrality.

00:05:25.720 Do you really think?

00:05:27.680 Do you really think that's possible?

00:05:30.620 Well, I mean, no one would do it.

00:05:34.260 I mean, if that was, if that really was the reality, I have faith in the people in Silicon

00:05:41.280 Valley that they will come up with something new.

00:05:44.700 Right.

00:05:45.120 Because somebody will say, you know what?

00:05:47.640 $9.99 a month was a lot of money for Netflix.

00:05:51.300 They're now charging $9.99 per movie.

00:05:55.900 They pissed off a lot of people.

00:05:57.940 I think I can do it for a little cheaper.

00:05:59.700 There's so much here, though, to pick apart.

00:06:02.240 First of all, under net neutrality, all of these things could happen.

00:06:06.980 Yes.

00:06:07.340 Twitter absolutely can charge $14.99 a month on their own.

00:06:10.800 And notice how they're not asking for regulations on Twitter to keep Twitter free.

00:06:15.560 They're asking only on the ISP side, which is such a strange thing.

00:06:19.380 This is a battle between giant, multi-billion dollar corporations and giant, multi-billion

00:06:26.560 dollar corporations for control, for their money, and people are acting as if they should

00:06:31.740 be involved in it.

00:06:32.400 People don't know history.

00:06:35.600 We are going through the same history that we went through in the 1800s with the trains.

00:06:41.340 We went through in the 1940s with the auto industry.

00:06:45.680 We're going through it again.

00:06:47.260 And here's what's happening.

00:06:49.700 Those with gobs and gobs of money are going to the government and saying, pass this legislation

00:06:57.180 because it protects the autoworker.

00:07:02.700 Does it GM?

00:07:04.260 Or does it put the innovator out?

00:07:08.500 Does it put the cord out?

00:07:10.660 Does it put the Auburn out of business?

00:07:15.260 Does it put the cheaper tire, the better tire out of business because BF Goodrich and Goodyear

00:07:25.620 Tire were the ones who came together and wrote the legislation and said, yeah, here, government

00:07:31.560 protect the worker.

00:07:33.520 And it put everybody who was competing out of business.

00:07:38.640 That's what's happening.

00:07:39.980 Google wrote net neutrality.

00:07:43.900 They like it.

00:07:45.340 Unless you want to get giant companies more wealthy, then you will support net neutrality.

00:07:51.340 What do you think Google is supporting it for?

00:07:53.520 Why do you think these companies are supporting it?

00:07:55.560 Because they think it's better for them.

00:07:57.120 I don't know how everybody hates Walmart, but just has no problem with Google.

00:08:03.880 Netflix is they're in their basement creating life.

00:08:09.840 OK, so, yeah, there's we lost some jobs in Milwaukee and I hate those guys.

00:08:17.340 By the way, have you seen Google?

00:08:18.920 I love these guys.

00:08:20.040 They're they're playing Frankenstein in their basement and they're probably creating a monster

00:08:24.360 that's going to kill and enslave all of us.

00:08:26.300 But, man, they're great, aren't they?

00:08:28.840 Look, they put like little lefty things up above their box.

00:08:32.620 It's I love it.

00:08:33.820 It's wonderful.

00:08:34.920 And then they have the idea that a lot of people there are a few conservatives who who

00:08:40.260 like this, a few people in our audience that actually like net neutrality.

00:08:43.740 And one of their complaints is, hey, look, you know, hey, you guys, if anybody should

00:08:47.680 be in support of net neutrality, because let's say, you know, you know, some big ISP Verizon

00:08:52.940 decides they don't like the blaze and they could block customers access to the blaze.

00:08:58.760 Um, who's how are people getting on the Internet?

00:09:03.460 Is it our is it our job?

00:09:05.360 No.

00:09:06.220 Verizon has invested multiple billions of dollars in infrastructure to get you on the Internet.

00:09:13.180 If they want to block all conservative sites, they should be allowed to do it.

00:09:18.400 Now, that is a terrible business model for them.

00:09:21.100 They'll lose half the country and people will go to other companies that will support the

00:09:25.040 material that they want.

00:09:25.900 However, that is not something the government needs to be involved.

00:09:30.580 Here's the here's the thing.

00:09:31.800 This happened.

00:09:33.360 This happened with the with the phone systems and with electricity.

00:09:39.400 They're getting so big.

00:09:40.680 Everybody needs it.

00:09:41.940 Everybody needs it.

00:09:43.000 We should we should make it a utility.

00:09:49.440 Yes, let's make it utility.

00:09:51.500 That way, the government can regulate absolutely everything.

00:09:57.020 Now, let me tell you what we're what we're up against.

00:09:59.180 First of all, if if the utilities were not utilities, if we could actually just get power

00:10:07.580 and we had, you know, competitors on power, it would be a completely different world if we

00:10:15.980 could compete.

00:10:16.660 But no, no, no, it's a utility.

00:10:18.440 So we cannot compete that way.

00:10:20.580 Let me tell you what's coming.

00:10:22.360 This is the this is the first year that solar power is parity with.

00:10:30.680 I want to say natural gas, but I'm not sure in price.

00:10:34.800 It is it is it's still not reasonable to have everybody go to solar power, but in the next

00:10:42.280 10 years, it will be.

00:10:44.600 And the people who are most concerned about it are the utilities.

00:10:49.000 And here's what the utilities are warning against.

00:10:51.800 It is going to become so cheap that in probably a 10 year period that you will start to have

00:11:00.120 a line growing up where people are saying, you know what?

00:11:02.600 I want to do solar panels and because so many people will disconnect and cut the cord from

00:11:08.680 the utility and be independent, that you won't be able to maintain the utilities for the rest

00:11:15.480 of the country.

00:11:16.380 You won't be able to keep the power lines going.

00:11:18.580 It hits 30 percent of off grid and you can't afford to upkeep on just the telephone poles

00:11:26.240 or the, you know, the wiring.

00:11:27.580 So what are they going to do?

00:11:30.520 Well, you got to regulate it.

00:11:32.900 No, you know, there are times that you have these big crashes because new technology is

00:11:41.560 coming in.

00:11:42.460 You don't protect the horse and buggy.

00:11:45.660 You don't have the government come in and say, that's too important to get rid of these

00:11:49.860 cars.

00:11:50.400 We got to regulate these cars.

00:11:51.800 No, let the market work.

00:11:54.720 How do we not understand that living in this age where the Internet has never been regulated?

00:12:02.780 It's completely free.

00:12:04.880 Tell me how horrible the Internet is.

00:12:08.200 It is made many people very wealthy.

00:12:11.860 It is made access to entertainment and information unlike the world has ever seen.

00:12:18.380 There has never been a more clear and active real world experiment in the in the idea of

00:12:26.280 limited government than the Internet.

00:12:27.720 And look how well it has turned out.

00:12:30.540 And listen, what they're saying is the little people won't be represented.

00:12:36.260 Look at Egypt for the first time because there is an unregulated Internet.

00:12:44.040 Everyone has a voice.

00:12:46.260 You know, the guy that stood in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square, we don't know who

00:12:50.320 that guy is.

00:12:51.800 They scooped him up.

00:12:53.040 He's gone.

00:12:54.040 We have no idea who he is.

00:12:56.800 If the Internet would have been as free and as big as it is right now, everyone would know

00:13:03.000 his name.

00:13:05.580 What are we doing?

00:13:07.940 Government get the hell away from something that works. 0.72

00:13:13.460 Okay, coming up in a minute.

00:13:32.140 We saw two movies last night.

00:13:34.740 Stu did the Star Wars duty because who wants to do that?

00:13:38.420 And I sat almost alone in a in a movie theater watching Darkest Hour.

00:13:46.300 The Winston Churchill movie.

00:13:47.160 Oh, my gosh.

00:13:48.120 It's good on the Star Wars release date.

00:13:50.160 I know you went.

00:13:51.160 I couldn't get tickets.

00:13:52.860 I have tickets for Monday because we were going to take the entire family.

00:13:56.360 And so we all want to go.

00:13:57.600 So there's like 10 of us.

00:13:58.580 We all wanted to go together.

00:13:59.780 Couldn't get them until Monday.

00:14:01.360 And now I want to just cheat.

00:14:03.040 And I'm in the front row.

00:14:04.220 So I'm not going to sit in the front row.

00:14:05.480 So anyway, no spoilers at all.

00:14:12.340 Well, okay.

00:14:12.900 There is this.

00:14:13.900 Britain wins.

00:14:15.300 Oh, my gosh.

00:14:16.980 Oh, my gosh.

00:14:17.720 I'm sorry.

00:14:18.220 Are you serious?

00:14:19.320 You just blurted that out?

00:14:21.020 And I think there were more British actors in Star Wars than there were in the Churchill 0.92

00:14:24.880 movie.

00:14:25.340 Probably true.

00:14:25.960 The holidays are here.

00:14:27.460 And everybody's running around trying to get everything done.

00:14:30.420 Here's an easy gift.

00:14:31.820 It is Say Anything.

00:14:33.540 It's a game called Say Anything.

00:14:35.860 You can get it for yourself.

00:14:37.000 You can get it for your family.

00:14:38.540 You can get it for somebody that you love.

00:14:40.280 It's one of these games where there is no stress.

00:14:43.200 There's no timer.

00:14:44.360 There's no rush.

00:14:45.960 And it's really fun.

00:14:47.680 You gather around the table.

00:14:48.960 And really, all you do is you start talking.

00:14:51.200 It's a conversation starter, really.

00:14:53.040 It takes 30 minutes to play.

00:14:54.360 But in those 30 minutes, you are going to learn a ton about your family and your kids.

00:15:00.100 You really will.

00:15:01.020 I mean, we have sat around.

00:15:05.900 And after we play, Tanya and I have looked at each other and went, did you?

00:15:09.500 I mean, did you know that?

00:15:11.880 You will discover your children.

00:15:14.120 And your children will discover you.

00:15:16.020 It's not just for kids and families.

00:15:18.880 It's for anybody.

00:15:20.360 Everybody can play.

00:15:21.940 It is Say Anything.

00:15:24.220 While everybody is worried about how am I going to talk to my relatives, Say Anything.

00:15:30.160 Only a few days left before Christmas.

00:15:31.840 Make sure you get a gift that can bring everybody together.

00:15:33.980 It's Say Anything.

00:15:34.760 Available at Target now.

00:15:36.660 Available at Target.

00:15:37.760 The name of the game, Say Anything.

00:15:42.360 Glenn Beck.

00:15:48.880 You know, it's amazing to me, this net neutrality argument, when you look and say,

00:16:00.980 ah, Netflix, they're going to charge more money.

00:16:02.960 Well, okay, maybe, maybe not.

00:16:05.960 But let's just think this one through.

00:16:08.400 They're responsible for how much bandwidth?

00:16:11.860 A third.

00:16:12.680 A third of all the data.

00:16:14.920 A third of all data on the internet.

00:16:18.380 One website.

00:16:19.320 One.

00:16:20.080 A third.

00:16:21.520 Now, if they're taking a third, why shouldn't they have to pay people like Comcast more

00:16:28.300 money for that amount?

00:16:31.180 That's craziness.

00:16:32.300 It's not magic.

00:16:33.100 Right.

00:16:33.880 Because Comcast will have to build bigger structure to handle all of that data.

00:16:41.140 So, all right.

00:16:42.220 So, Netflix doesn't pay Comcast for it.

00:16:44.880 But Comcast has to do it because otherwise it can't handle the load of Netflix.

00:16:51.700 So, where are they going to get the money?

00:16:52.880 They're going to charge you more.

00:16:55.140 You're going to pay for it.

00:16:56.160 Right.

00:16:56.320 You'll pay it at Comcast or you'll pay it at Netflix.

00:17:00.300 But you will pay it.

00:17:02.120 Here's what happens.

00:17:03.060 If they can't charge more for it, then what?

00:17:08.240 They don't update it.

00:17:10.260 It's not magic.

00:17:11.660 People think that, well, this is all just free.

00:17:13.900 Well, those big companies, they should pay for it.

00:17:15.540 It doesn't work that way.

00:17:17.060 And there's an ideological argument that says, it's not your right to be on the internet.

00:17:21.360 The government should not be involved in these things.

00:17:22.780 And we can go through that all we want.

00:17:24.160 But everyone likes to make the pragmatic argument of what's going to happen to my Netflix.

00:17:28.200 This has happened one time.

00:17:29.880 And what happened in the one time where Comcast went to Netflix and said, you know what?

00:17:33.800 You're going to have to pay us a bunch of money because you're using all of the bandwidth.

00:17:37.380 And, you know, you're one website.

00:17:40.060 So, you've got to pay us.

00:17:41.200 I think it was $25 million or something like that.

00:17:43.540 You know what happened as a result?

00:17:45.120 The speeds on Netflix got better, not worse.

00:17:49.920 They didn't have to deal with that.

00:17:50.840 They got better.

00:17:52.500 And the net neutrality regulations would allow companies to do this to Netflix hundreds of times

00:17:59.900 before it came to the same cost as what net neutrality will cost you.

00:18:03.700 Because there's a lot of cost built into that as well that no one likes to talk about.

00:18:08.080 Beyond all of this, of course, it's not your freaking right to watch BoJack Horseman.

00:18:14.020 That is not what the government is.

00:18:16.100 The government is not designed to step in to make sure you can get a house of cards whenever you want it.

00:18:20.620 That is not their job.

00:18:21.740 It is not their job to be involved in a business transaction between companies.

00:18:27.040 It's only supposed to be only in the most extreme circumstances where the government would be involved

00:18:32.540 in things that are absolutely vital to your life.

00:18:35.740 I'm sorry.

00:18:36.800 I mean, I know orange is the new black is wonderful, but it's not life and death.

00:18:41.740 Yeah, it's not.

00:18:42.620 The crown is.

00:18:43.860 Oh, the crown.

00:18:44.540 The crown is.

00:18:46.140 By the way, do you watch the crown?

00:18:47.260 No, I've never seen it.

00:18:47.920 I know you're high on it, though.

00:18:49.080 Gosh, it's good.

00:18:50.280 It is such a good.

00:18:51.680 Do you watch shows that aren't about British leaders?

00:18:56.560 No.

00:18:56.940 No.

00:18:57.160 Okay.

00:18:57.440 No, I really don't.

00:18:58.480 No.

00:18:58.800 I'm fascinated by I'm fascinated by history.

00:19:01.740 I just love history.

00:19:02.720 And the crown, every episode you watch, especially in the second season, you will Google and you'll be like, that can't be true.

00:19:10.440 Holy cow, it is.

00:19:12.640 I mean, you're learning.

00:19:14.260 At least I am.

00:19:15.100 I'm learning so much about England and history.

00:19:19.620 I just I absolutely love it.

00:19:21.360 I love it.

00:19:21.800 And to polish off the net neutrality conversation, yes, we should point out that Ajit Pai is a quiet star of this administration.

00:19:31.120 Ajit Pai is the greatest.

00:19:33.120 He's the FCC chairman.

00:19:35.040 Chairman.

00:19:35.500 And he has been fantastic.

00:19:37.900 There's been you know, we've praised several of the appointments of Trump.

00:19:41.320 He's one of those that doesn't get a lot of the publicity, but he has been fantastic, you know, actually doing the things that have been promised to conservatives that conservatives and libertarians want.

00:19:53.740 They want the government out of these things.

00:19:55.720 And he's done a lot to move that in the right direction.

00:19:58.260 This is not an easy move for them.

00:19:59.600 You know, it's easy to say net neutrality because ninety nine percent of people on the Internet who don't know what the hell they're talking about are praising it and saying it's the most wonderful thing in the world.

00:20:09.160 And what a crisis this will be to go back to the Obama era of the Internet.

00:20:14.320 But it's not you know, he's done a great job.

00:20:16.300 We have one of the most disturbing things and important things to share with you coming up in a minute.

00:20:20.160 And also Bill O'Reilly joins us and a little bit of your weekend next.

00:20:25.940 Glenn back.

00:20:29.600 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:35.480 I want to ask you to help change somebody's life.

00:20:43.240 Brian Lukens, he is an Iraq War veteran.

00:20:46.560 He's a county sheriff's deputy.

00:20:49.800 He's a guy who served us his whole life.

00:20:55.080 Wednesday morning, early in the morning.

00:20:59.600 Fire crews were called because at five thirty in the morning.

00:21:06.380 House caught fire was an electrical fire of an extension cord plugged into a space heater.

00:21:11.200 This happens all the time in the in the northeast.

00:21:14.760 People will plug in a space heater and then it'll either be too close to something and it'll catch on fire.

00:21:19.480 This was actually an electrical problem.

00:21:22.560 Now, this is the home of Brian, the Iraqi war veteran.

00:21:26.580 He and his wife escaped.

00:21:31.460 Along with their nine year old daughter.

00:21:34.760 But their eleven year old and six year old son did not make it out.

00:21:38.920 They were found inside the bedroom that they both shared.

00:21:41.920 The daughter has been airlifted and mom was rushed to the hospital.

00:21:49.080 Brian is in the hospital injuries in the burn unit at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Pennsylvania.

00:21:56.460 His wife and his daughter have been released.

00:21:59.300 Dad is still in the hospital.

00:22:00.600 This family has been devastated and they don't have a home.

00:22:04.100 There's a GoFundMe page that has been set up.

00:22:09.240 It's GoFundMe.com Lukens Family Fund.

00:22:14.600 L-U-K-E-N-S Family Fund.

00:22:18.400 I'll tweet this out.

00:22:19.620 We'll put this on along with the story at Glenn Beck.com.

00:22:23.300 But if you can even five dollars, they have a goal of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

00:22:31.280 They have already raised two hundred and forty three.

00:22:34.640 But if we could make this happen before Christmas, it would.

00:22:39.520 It would sure be a great Christmas present for a family that has just been devastated.

00:22:45.200 GoFundMe.com Lukens Family Fund.

00:22:49.320 Find out more about it at Glenn Beck.com.

00:22:51.440 We'll post it soon.

00:22:53.160 All right.

00:22:54.500 Last night I went.

00:22:56.860 We did a double movie duty.

00:22:59.500 Stu went to Star Wars and I went to see the new movie about Winston Churchill, Darkest Hour, which you must see.

00:23:07.820 Tanya and I went.

00:23:09.280 She went kind of begrudgingly.

00:23:10.920 She's like, what movie is this?

00:23:12.260 I don't remember this.

00:23:12.960 I'm like, every time we see the trailer, we're like, that looks great.

00:23:16.420 And she's like, I don't think I was listening to you.

00:23:18.840 Um, so she went and it is fantastic.

00:23:24.900 Again, she went with no expectations or anything else.

00:23:27.860 And she's not like the history buff that I am.

00:23:30.380 And, um, uh, she loved it.

00:23:33.640 I loved it.

00:23:34.840 You will fall in love with Churchill.

00:23:37.500 He's already kind of a fan.

00:23:39.120 Yeah, no, no, no.

00:23:39.940 I am a huge fan of Churchill.

00:23:41.500 I think Churchill is probably one of the greatest men of the 20th century, if not the greatest man of the 20th century.

00:23:48.960 Um, he saved freedom, uh, and it's his darkest hour and it is phenomenal.

00:23:55.460 You will love it.

00:23:56.520 I would love to use this segment to make fun of you for going to the Churchill movie when Star Wars is out.

00:24:02.800 But I really want to see it too.

00:24:04.200 Yeah, it looks awesome.

00:24:05.920 It is.

00:24:06.420 It is everything you would hope that it would be.

00:24:09.300 It is awesome.

00:24:10.220 It is a must see.

00:24:12.320 Must see.

00:24:13.180 Wow.

00:24:13.560 Okay.

00:24:14.000 Okay.

00:24:14.580 So we should start this next segment with a disclaimer.

00:24:18.600 And this is important.

00:24:19.660 First of all, you need to know that Glenn has not seen Star Wars.

00:24:23.360 Therefore, he cannot ruin this movie for you during this segment.

00:24:26.620 And I'm, I am insisting that I don't want to know anything about it.

00:24:30.860 I don't want to know.

00:24:32.320 I don't, if you loved it, don't tell me, oh, it's the greatest movie because then my expectations will be too high.

00:24:38.100 Don't tell me anything that is, you know, surprising or shocking.

00:24:42.240 And don't even tell me I've seen these online and it's going to wreck the movie for me.

00:24:47.000 Oh, gosh, I was shocked when I saw.

00:24:51.300 Well, I'm not going to tell you, but I was shocked.

00:24:53.060 I don't want to know that.

00:24:53.860 You got to stay off the Internet really right now.

00:24:55.540 If you want to see this movie and not have it ruined.

00:24:57.380 Right.

00:24:57.500 What I really just want to know is, is it better than the first three?

00:25:03.820 The first three?

00:25:04.760 No, no, no, no, no.

00:25:05.220 I mean, the prequels, the, you know, episode one, two and three.

00:25:08.440 My opinion is, yes, it is better than episode four.

00:25:11.760 Is there a Jar Jar Binks?

00:25:14.020 He is.

00:25:14.540 Well, I mean, I can't, I can't talk.

00:25:16.880 I don't want to give anything away.

00:25:19.640 Sarah, do you have your hand on the dump button?

00:25:22.320 If I ask the wrong question, because we have Stephen Kent, he is the host of the podcast

00:25:30.020 Beltway Banthas.

00:25:31.520 He's been on before.

00:25:32.800 Huge Star Wars fan.

00:25:35.220 Also, you know, a political geek.

00:25:37.320 And Stephen, the same thing goes to you.

00:25:39.240 You cannot spoil this movie.

00:25:42.400 And I will not, Glenn.

00:25:43.840 Good morning.

00:25:44.320 Good morning.

00:25:44.900 Okay.

00:25:45.420 So Sarah has her hand on the dump button in case something is being

00:25:52.240 said, Stu, I know you don't like spoilers.

00:25:55.460 I am a big anti-spoiler guy.

00:25:57.620 So we will delete anything live.

00:26:01.320 If so, this conversation at some point may not make sense because we've just edited something

00:26:06.140 out live.

00:26:06.940 Okay.

00:26:07.520 But no spoilers.

00:26:10.640 Does Luke die in the end?

00:26:15.300 It's so let me give you general broad strokes and and Stephen, I'd love to get your opinion.

00:26:20.520 You saw it last night, did you not, Stephen?

00:26:23.280 I sure did.

00:26:24.160 Yeah.

00:26:24.340 With my daughter and my brother.

00:26:25.740 Okay.

00:26:26.140 I assumed you were like one of the people waiting.

00:26:28.060 I assume like my picture of you is that you're waiting in line for this.

00:26:31.100 Does that happen anymore, Stephen?

00:26:33.620 You know, it really doesn't.

00:26:35.960 Folks, you know, do assigned seating these days.

00:26:38.180 They don't have to worry about waiting in line.

00:26:40.860 Thank God.

00:26:41.460 And yeah, it's very strange.

00:26:43.400 It's a weird experience.

00:26:44.500 But yeah, you just show up when you're supposed to show up now.

00:26:46.700 Again, good for the Internet.

00:26:48.620 Thank you.

00:26:49.600 Thank you, capitalism.

00:26:50.580 Yes.

00:26:50.800 Thank you, Internet.

00:26:51.540 And by the way, I would say with all even with all the 3D stuff and, you know, all the

00:26:56.140 improvements they've made at movie theaters, the assigned seating might be the best thing

00:27:00.580 that they've done.

00:27:01.800 Although the food in the theater is really good, too.

00:27:03.720 No.

00:27:04.060 Can I tell you something?

00:27:05.280 I had to go to an art house theater to see this movie with Churchill.

00:27:09.020 No, the seats.

00:27:12.040 When you sit in an old seat that doesn't move back at all, you're like, what?

00:27:16.300 How did it?

00:27:17.080 Why don't we just put folding chairs or a bench?

00:27:21.100 There's a lot of been a lot of great improvements.

00:27:23.260 Okay.

00:27:24.000 Stephen, tell me your thoughts.

00:27:28.340 Sure.

00:27:28.780 So my top line thought is that if your reaction to The Force Awakens was like, is this it?

00:27:35.560 Is this all that there is for Star Wars?

00:27:38.920 Reliving old thrills and cheap nostalgia?

00:27:41.340 The answer is now definitively no.

00:27:43.820 There is more to Star Wars that you have never seen or thought of.

00:27:49.540 I would be comfortable saying you've never seen a Star Wars movie like this before.

00:27:54.040 Okay.

00:27:54.400 So let me.

00:27:55.720 Will you agree with that, Stu?

00:27:56.620 I think, yeah.

00:27:57.280 Yes, I would agree with that.

00:27:57.980 Okay.

00:27:58.400 So don't tell us anything.

00:28:00.560 Okay?

00:28:01.260 That's on the border of too much information.

00:28:04.220 And feel free to say, no, we're not answering this question.

00:28:08.920 Because I don't want to know.

00:28:10.560 I want to know, do we get more information?

00:28:17.660 Don't tell me if it's been solved.

00:28:18.860 Is there an I am your father moment on any of the storylines?

00:28:28.080 I'm sorry, Congressman.

00:28:29.380 I'm not at liberty to answer that question at this time.

00:28:33.120 It's a good answer.

00:28:34.360 I do feel like we're sitting at some sort of congressional hearing and the lights are blaring in our eyes.

00:28:40.800 And we have to make sure we say, we have to make sure that we don't give any classified information up.

00:28:45.780 I'll be Mueller, you'll be Rosenstein.

00:28:47.580 Okay.

00:28:48.400 So, Mr. Kent, answer this.

00:28:53.980 Is there a reason for that stupid little character beside Disney saying we can sell a lot of plush toys? 0.79

00:29:04.260 Well, I think you need to have a little respect for that character.

00:29:06.640 It's called a porg.

00:29:07.480 We talked about that.

00:29:08.860 I know, we did.

00:29:09.640 It's a porg, all right?

00:29:10.900 Yeah.

00:29:11.760 It serves a nice, cute, comedic function.

00:29:14.900 One thing that I thought was actually clever about that was, you know, they filmed this movie out on an island and there were actually penguins interrupting the shoot of the movie and coming on and just sort of like disrupting all the scenes that they're doing because they were so tiny and cute.

00:29:29.500 And they're like, you know, if we do this on this island and there are penguins in here, like, why not try to create like a Star Wars version of these actual creatures?

00:29:37.120 You know, they were sparse, in my opinion.

00:29:41.040 They served like, they jumped into the movie at key moments, not key moments, that would actually be horrible, at really frivolous moments.

00:29:49.000 And it was fun.

00:29:50.100 I thought it worked.

00:29:50.760 The kids who are in the audience enjoyed that.

00:29:53.220 So, nothing to worry about there, in my opinion.

00:29:56.040 Are they wrapping this up?

00:29:57.580 This has nothing to do with this movie.

00:29:59.060 Are they wrapping the Luke and Leia thing up in nine?

00:30:06.780 So, not this one, but the next one.

00:30:09.080 No, I object.

00:30:10.420 You can't ask that question.

00:30:11.800 Sorry, Congressman.

00:30:12.380 We're not answering that question.

00:30:13.720 We're not answering questions about whether storylines are wrapped up in what movie.

00:30:16.440 No, no, no.

00:30:16.900 I'm not saying in this movie.

00:30:17.980 I'm saying, I asked this question yesterday of you, and you said you weren't sure you thought that it wasn't happening.

00:30:24.420 This is not about the movie, specifically.

00:30:26.400 I just wanted to know, is this going to be a set of three sets of three?

00:30:33.620 That's what I'm asking.

00:30:34.300 The original plan, right?

00:30:35.500 It was supposed to be nine movies initially, supposedly.

00:30:38.240 Is it going to end at nine?

00:30:39.400 My guess is no way, right?

00:30:41.000 Like, they're not going to just stop making these things.

00:30:42.580 They're going to go on forever.

00:30:43.700 And good.

00:30:44.380 I like them.

00:30:45.520 Well, I would say, yes, they are.

00:30:47.980 Ending this story, the Skywalker tale after nine, they have tasked Rian Johnson, the director of this movie, with his own original trilogy that is disconnected from these nine movies that we have gotten from George Lucas's mind.

00:31:01.920 So, Rian Johnson apparently performed so well in this movie, they thought it was appropriate to give him something original to go and do that has never been done.

00:31:10.360 So, this story is wrapping up after nine.

00:31:13.260 So, is this, I mean, wasn't this the movie where they fired the director early on?

00:31:20.880 That actually is for the, that's actually for the movie they haven't even started yet.

00:31:24.140 Oh, okay.

00:31:24.700 Episode nine.

00:31:25.480 They had Colin Trevorrow, who helmed Jurassic World, directing that movie.

00:31:29.860 And, uh, a lot of bad press and sort of some stinker movies from him led to him being ousted.

00:31:35.400 Okay.

00:31:36.000 All right.

00:31:36.660 So, can you place this one, and I'd love to hear this from all of you, and don't know hyperbole, um, place this in rank, in rankings.

00:31:48.260 Like best to worst Star Wars movies, where does this fall?

00:31:50.780 Yeah.

00:31:51.300 I don't think, I don't think I can do that, because that reveals whether or not I like this movie, which you said you didn't want to know.

00:31:57.660 So, what I, what I would say is.

00:32:01.120 I mean, I'm trying to have a reason to put you on, Stephen.

00:32:03.440 I mean, right now, I'm regretting having this whole segment.

00:32:06.820 I mean.

00:32:07.720 I don't think it's okay.

00:32:08.700 I don't think there's anything wrong.

00:32:09.720 You can, you can say whether you like the movie, right?

00:32:11.600 You like it.

00:32:11.620 Just don't say, oh my gosh, I love this movie.

00:32:14.920 Don't give your honest opinion if your opinion is what, it's something he doesn't want to hear.

00:32:18.360 That's all.

00:32:18.820 That's the only standard.

00:32:19.340 I'll tell you if your opinion is.

00:32:20.680 Oh, this, you give your opinion, and if Glenn thinks it's too much, we'll dump it.

00:32:25.820 So, this movie actually gives you an opportunity to follow Yoda's advice from Dagobah, where he says to Luke, you must unlearn what you have learned.

00:32:36.280 And I think that that's the most appropriate way to look at this movie, because we now have a Star Wars and a force that is bigger than ever.

00:32:44.120 I say we dump this.

00:32:45.000 Dump this?

00:32:45.440 Okay.

00:32:45.580 I say dump this.

00:32:46.400 Sarah, dump this. 1.00

00:32:47.240 So, if we've, if you've lost, yeah, you should not have, you should, you shouldn't have said that.

00:32:52.920 You shouldn't have said that.

00:32:53.680 I mean, I understand where he's going.

00:32:55.800 But it's good, and I didn't understand it, but I don't want to even think about that.

00:32:59.180 Right.

00:32:59.420 I would say, like, here's my generic, I think it's, I don't think it's the best Star Wars of all time.

00:33:04.920 I think it, I don't think it's the worst Star Wars of all time.

00:33:07.540 I put it in the middle.

00:33:09.080 I think seeing it a couple of times would let me sort out exactly where I put it.

00:33:13.840 Oh, so is it one that you do want to go see more than once?

00:33:16.520 I definitely want to see it again.

00:33:17.640 Because it has stuff in it that you missed?

00:33:19.580 Yes.

00:33:20.300 To me, yes.

00:33:21.200 I would like to see it again and see how I feel about it.

00:33:23.280 Sometimes with these Star Wars movies, I see it the first time, and I have a different impression than I do later.

00:33:27.980 Yeah, when you walk into a Star Wars movie, like, you have your expectations set, and when it doesn't meet your expectations, you're kind of disappointed.

00:33:35.420 Yeah, like, when I saw episode one, I walked out disappointed, and then I saw it again, and I hated it.

00:33:44.440 So it's kind of like that.

00:33:46.200 Right.

00:33:46.700 Where you're not really sure how deep the hatred for George Lucas goes.

00:33:53.280 I mean, you either see a Star Wars movie, and, you know, you're offended because it doesn't match what you think of Star Wars as, and then you kind of ease into it.

00:34:03.960 And I was that way with Rogue One.

00:34:05.580 I walked out of Rogue One not knowing what I had just seen.

00:34:08.760 But I walked out of The Force Awakens in love with it, and that faded over time.

00:34:13.660 So Star Wars has a tough balancing act that it has to achieve with all of its legacy.

00:34:18.980 Yeah, I mean, it's not a, you know, I will say it's not like a huge thing.

00:34:23.280 Huge disappointment.

00:34:24.520 I didn't feel like it was the greatest thing of all time, but it wasn't, it was, I think it did its job.

00:34:28.700 One last question.

00:34:29.780 Carrie Fisher.

00:34:30.780 Is she, is there CG, is there CGI of her, or was this all her?

00:34:38.420 I'm sorry, Congressman.

00:34:39.640 We cannot answer that question.

00:34:40.940 It speaks, it speaks too much.

00:34:43.160 All right.

00:34:43.780 All right.

00:34:44.360 About what we know.

00:34:45.520 Okay.

00:34:46.100 All right.

00:34:46.780 Man, we should put you in the FBI.

00:34:51.620 Thank you very much, Stephen.

00:34:52.640 I appreciate it.

00:34:53.940 God bless.

00:34:54.440 Have a good day.

00:34:55.000 May the Force be with you.

00:34:57.840 That was the weirdest movie review of all time.

00:35:00.220 Well, that's, I think it's.

00:35:01.340 But I think it was good.

00:35:02.200 Yeah.

00:35:02.300 I think it's the only kind of movie review I want.

00:35:03.900 Yeah.

00:35:04.100 I feel like the most dangerous place in the world is when you're showing up to see Star

00:35:08.520 Wars and everyone else is walking out because everyone else is talking about what they just

00:35:11.740 saw.

00:35:12.320 Yeah.

00:35:12.460 You have to like plug your ears and go in.

00:35:15.760 Stephen Kent, you can get him at BeltwayBanthas.com.

00:35:19.560 What he does is he does a podcast about how Star Wars and politics intertwine in like real

00:35:26.340 world Washington, D.C. politics with Star Wars.

00:35:28.700 It's a really cool thing that he does.

00:35:30.380 And he knows he's a total Star Wars geek.

00:35:33.160 He knows everything about it.

00:35:34.160 So it's kind of interesting.

00:35:35.600 When you book your next business trip, make sure you use Upside.com.

00:35:39.700 And here's why.

00:35:40.420 They're going to give you two of the best gifts anybody could give you.

00:35:42.520 First one, free pair of Bose SoundLink wireless headphones so you can have some peace and quiet

00:35:47.280 on your business trip.

00:35:48.660 And the second one is a concierge, somebody who is almost with you the entire trip, somebody

00:35:54.800 who's going to give you the best travel experience you've ever had.

00:35:57.480 Upside is the only service that has specialists that look out every step of the way on your

00:36:03.920 business trip, handling any problem that might pop up.

00:36:07.340 Their team is hard at work 24-7 to make sure your flight, your hotel, your rental car all

00:36:12.300 go off without a hitch.

00:36:13.480 They're available by demand, by chat, phone, email, whenever you need them.

00:36:18.820 They also monitor your business trip around the clock, proactively keeping you posted.

00:36:24.340 So if there's a weather problem or a delay, they let you know.

00:36:27.640 They want to get you to your meeting and then to home as efficiently as possible.

00:36:34.040 I mean, I've never had experience like that before.

00:36:37.480 I mean, you know, if you have a black card, you don't get that kind of experience.

00:36:41.800 And that's what they promise.

00:36:42.980 Upside delivers.

00:36:45.460 Upside has great prices for flights, hotel, and rental cars.

00:36:48.860 You're not going to beat their price anywhere.

00:36:50.720 Book your first business trip at Upside.com and use the promo.

00:36:54.500 Sorry, it's Upside.com slash back.

00:36:57.700 And you'll get the Bose wireless headphones and all of the great stuff.

00:37:02.940 Minimum purchase is required.

00:37:04.620 See site for complete details.

00:37:06.160 Do it right now.

00:37:07.000 Upside.com slash back.

00:37:11.720 Glenn Beck.

00:37:12.980 Glenn Beck.

00:37:19.040 The week in review with the one and only Bill O'Reilly.

00:37:24.800 A lot has happened this week and he'll comment on it next.

00:37:33.280 Glenn Beck.

00:37:39.500 Love.

00:37:41.320 Courage.

00:37:41.800 True.

00:37:43.760 Glenn Beck.

00:37:44.860 If you Googled the name Rodney Anderson before yesterday, you might think the star running

00:37:51.100 back from the Oklahoma University was a rapist.

00:37:55.000 Anderson's accuser claimed he had raped her on November 16th.

00:37:58.680 And after a few weeks, a friend of hers convinced her to come forward.

00:38:02.340 The story alleged that on the evening of November 16th, Anderson and the accuser had met at a bar later that night.

00:38:10.020 She decided to go home with him.

00:38:11.320 It was then that she claimed he raped and bit her Anderson categorically denied he said that's not true.

00:38:19.920 The media exposure, however, just ripped him apart.

00:38:23.700 They piled on.

00:38:24.940 The story seemed yet another domino in the post-Weinstein era.

00:38:30.060 Hollywood, corporations, Washington, giants are falling.

00:38:33.840 It seemed only too obvious that the sporting world was next.

00:38:38.380 That's the mentality we live in.

00:38:41.760 That's what we're dealing with.

00:38:43.340 With 40-plus accusations of sexual misconduct in under two months, with everyone falling,

00:38:52.280 we're all waiting with bated breath to find out which industry and which person will be next to fall.

00:38:58.500 Now, up until this point, over the past couple of months, most companies have responded to similar accusations

00:39:04.340 with immediate suspension and termination.

00:39:07.200 And nobody's allowed to even defend themselves.

00:39:10.800 In this new age of instant information and social media, accusation is equal to guilt.

00:39:18.700 One sports analysis summed it up perfectly when he called for Anderson's suspension on an Oklahoma City talk radio station.

00:39:27.400 He said, quote, it's business, right?

00:39:30.640 I mean, we're talking about a billion-dollar athletic department.

00:39:33.500 It's not the best thing for Rodney Anderson, and I understand that, but it's the best thing for the brand, end quote.

00:39:40.800 This kind of thinking is exactly what's enabling and fueling this witch, or I like to call it a warlock hunt.

00:39:48.340 We can't have bad press.

00:39:50.500 Label him a racist and let's just be done with it.

00:39:53.400 While Anderson's story was already trending all over the country, taglines included the words,

00:39:58.760 Anderson, star running back, and rape.

00:40:01.280 Can you imagine what would have happened if the University of Oklahoma prematurely suspended him for rape?

00:40:08.040 He would have been finished.

00:40:09.460 But we've seen it handled that way literally dozens of times over the last two months.

00:40:15.120 The DA's office announced yesterday they're not going to file charges.

00:40:20.680 What?

00:40:21.140 What an outrage.

00:40:22.480 Is it?

00:40:23.420 Text messages were found showing that the accuser was lying.

00:40:27.980 No, no, no.

00:40:29.120 No, the accuser must be believed.

00:40:33.020 No.

00:40:35.000 Witness interviews reported that the accuser thought Anderson was, quote,

00:40:40.920 a nice guy for not going all the way with her that night.

00:40:44.900 It was only after Anderson stopped responding to her advances that she decided to accuse him of rape.

00:40:51.440 This is a story that is a perfect example of a couple of things.

00:40:57.660 First of all, never predetermine someone's fate based off an accusation.

00:41:02.360 The accuser should be treated seriously and fairly, but so should the accused.

00:41:09.720 Second, this rush to save face and protect the brand is creating a lynch mob mentality that must stop.

00:41:18.540 The University of Oklahoma, congratulations.

00:41:23.100 You handled this the right way.

00:41:25.900 Maybe, maybe you're a trailblazer that the rest of the country can follow.

00:41:31.380 Bill O'Reilly is joining us.

00:41:47.580 Bill O'Reilly from BillOReilly.com.

00:41:49.320 His latest book, Kill England, is, Killing England is perfect for the holidays.

00:41:54.300 Bill, as I was as I was thinking about all of this stuff yesterday with Tavis Smiley now, which I don't know if he's guilty or innocent, but he came out and said, I didn't do it.

00:42:05.220 And if a, you know, a former relationship with somebody is going to be, you know, terms for dismissal, we're really in trouble.

00:42:13.700 And I want to defend myself and we're starting to see now a pushback.

00:42:19.860 And as I was thinking about this, Bill, it reminds me of Emmett Till.

00:42:23.800 Emmett Till was killed.

00:42:25.880 And everybody knows because a woman said he whistled at her, made a cat call.

00:42:31.120 And he was killed in horrific ways.

00:42:36.400 Sixty years later, that woman says, OK, well, he didn't really whistle at me.

00:42:40.580 She was lying.

00:42:41.340 Sure.

00:42:43.540 You know, it's interesting because I did my commentary yesterday on BillOReilly.com, almost the same as you did it two seconds ago.

00:42:53.560 It's almost the same.

00:42:55.380 It is the same.

00:42:56.500 We just are right.

00:42:57.420 We don't have writers.

00:42:58.160 We just listen to you and we just transcribe.

00:43:00.720 That's good.

00:43:01.480 I'm very flat.

00:43:02.640 But I took it a step further in the sense that every person in this country is now going to be affected by this warlock business, as you put it, because it's coming after the president of the United States.

00:43:17.360 And now that the Russian thing is falling apart, then it cannot put that back together again. 0.98

00:43:24.240 That's done.

00:43:25.520 That the anti-Trump, hate Trump people are saying, all right, we're going to get them with the women.

00:43:30.000 Now, I understand that there is going to be a story breaking today along the lines of what you just laid out with Oklahoma.

00:43:40.640 But this story is going to be women coming forward saying, we were offered money to say that Donald Trump molested us. 0.56

00:43:52.040 I understand it's going to break today.

00:43:54.180 Is this the tape that you have been talking about?

00:44:00.020 Yeah, this has to do with the tape.

00:44:02.300 But I understand the tape is not going to be put out today.

00:44:05.880 The women will come forth today. 1.00

00:44:08.340 But it's the same scenario that I've been saying since last April when you were the only one to have me on after they did this to me.

00:44:18.660 All right.

00:44:19.220 And I said back then, this is a fraud.

00:44:24.100 Now, that is my case.

00:44:27.540 I don't know what happened in the other cases.

00:44:30.600 And as you said, all accused are guilty by headline.

00:44:36.620 It's guilt by headline.

00:44:38.960 And Americans have got to turn against that.

00:44:42.260 Or we're going to lose the entire country.

00:44:44.320 Because this is not going to stop.

00:44:45.700 You know, consensual, whatever it may be, is lumped in with the most horrendous crimes.

00:44:54.040 And it's not going to stop.

00:44:56.020 Because the lawyers know that they can now make these accusations, ruin people's lives, get money, lots of money, just for the accusations.

00:45:08.660 And this is run and wild.

00:45:11.940 And if people don't understand how serious this is, when it goes to the President of the United States, again, I do not know what Donald Trump did or did not do.

00:45:20.900 All right.

00:45:21.360 But there are women who are going to say they were offered significant money.

00:45:26.080 All right.

00:45:27.800 In one case, $200,000 to say that Trump did something.

00:45:34.400 Okay.

00:45:34.480 First of all, I don't know whether you're using like a 1960s phone.

00:45:39.700 I feel like I'm calling the past and Ted Kennedy because it's Jack Kennedy because it's fading in and out on me.

00:45:46.420 I'm in Nevada.

00:45:47.500 I'm in Nevada, and extraterrestrials have surrounded me.

00:45:52.020 Yeah, I have a feeling that's true.

00:45:53.580 Is there a landline?

00:45:55.260 Can you go to an old-fashioned landline anywhere there, Bill?

00:45:59.120 Yeah, on the break.

00:46:01.780 Okay, on the break, redial up.

00:46:03.260 Okay.

00:46:03.820 So let me first give you credit.

00:46:06.820 You said, I think two weeks ago, that the sex thing would be the angle for 2018 on the President.

00:46:19.400 And you're exactly right.

00:46:21.220 That is exactly what they're doing.

00:46:23.580 However, the problem with the President is, you know, he is doing what Roy Moore did.

00:46:31.640 He's changing his story.

00:46:33.060 Okay, I said that on the bus, and it was horrible, and it was locker room talk.

00:46:36.140 Now, it's, you know, I didn't say that.

00:46:39.640 That's fake news.

00:46:40.980 Come on.

00:46:41.540 Wait a minute.

00:46:41.920 Wait a minute, though.

00:46:42.860 He didn't come out and say that.

00:46:45.400 That was a report, Ben.

00:46:48.500 That was a report.

00:46:50.720 So you've got, you know, it wasn't like Trump held a press conference and said that.

00:46:54.440 He didn't.

00:46:55.320 It was reported.

00:46:58.120 So you don't believe.

00:46:59.460 Anonymous source.

00:47:00.580 You don't believe that either.

00:47:02.500 I don't.

00:47:03.060 Look, I don't believe any anonymous source.

00:47:05.280 I want to make that quite clear.

00:47:07.900 Once the word anonymous source or sources say, or we can't tell you who they are, I don't believe it.

00:47:16.660 Because it has proven time and time and time again that these papers primarily use this crap.

00:47:24.440 So wait, so wait, wait, wait.

00:47:26.440 So then we shouldn't have, the post should not have run Watergate with Deep Throat?

00:47:34.980 Well, wait a minute now.

00:47:36.720 It's a whole different ballgame because what's his name?

00:47:40.360 Bradley wouldn't allow the stories to go on just Deep Throat.

00:47:46.880 They had to be corroborated by somebody else.

00:47:51.700 Now, sometimes those people were named and sometimes they weren't.

00:47:54.960 But in this climate now, all right, where anonymous sources are being used to destroy all the time,

00:48:02.740 and we've already seen how many stories back in the last two weeks, there have been 10 major stories from CNN

00:48:10.640 and all of the others that have been too bogus, all of them were on anonymous sources.

00:48:17.200 All of them.

00:48:18.120 Right.

00:48:18.780 Now, do you give...

00:48:19.640 How many do we need?

00:48:20.800 So do you give...

00:48:22.640 Is there a difference to you between shoddy journalism that comes back and says correction and fake news?

00:48:38.880 Sometimes there's a difference because journalists can make mistakes.

00:48:43.640 But I'm telling you that whenever you see anonymous sources used and no corroboration, you cannot believe that.

00:48:54.160 It is...

00:48:54.640 Look, in my own...

00:48:55.740 So if we have...

00:48:56.820 If you had three sources that remain anonymous, but they...

00:49:01.080 All three sources corroborated this.

00:49:03.600 I mean, that's really what happened in the Washington Post.

00:49:06.440 They would not have their name used, but they did verify.

00:49:11.560 It depends.

00:49:14.940 It depends who it is, who's doing it.

00:49:18.760 Look, the Watergate story turned out to be correct, but not all of the reportage was correct.

00:49:25.800 Correct.

00:49:26.300 All right?

00:49:26.620 And there was a crisis in the Washington Post.

00:49:29.580 Some of the stories that Woodward and Bernstein put forth weren't true.

00:49:32.940 Yes.

00:49:33.640 But now you have an industry, and the industry is, hey, Trump, get Trump out of office.

00:49:38.600 Yes.

00:49:38.800 It's an industry.

00:49:39.860 Right.

00:49:40.780 All right?

00:49:41.180 So it's a whole different climate now in this country.

00:49:45.740 And I know, I mean, look, every time I see a story coming out of CNN or the New York Times,

00:49:54.800 I know that the purpose of that story is to injure Trump or anybody who supports Trump.

00:50:02.920 91% of all of the nightly news stories on Trump for the last six months, 91% of the negative.

00:50:14.380 I know.

00:50:14.540 This is a scandal.

00:50:15.160 I know.

00:50:15.720 I know.

00:50:17.860 This is a scandal.

00:50:19.480 This is a scandal.

00:50:20.040 This is a scandal.

00:50:20.320 It's a journalist scandal that now ties into the warlock business that you mentioned.

00:50:26.940 And I'm telling everybody on BillOReilly.com and your program and other programs that I go on is going to damage the United States of America in a way that I don't know if we're going to recover from in the next 10 years if it doesn't stop.

00:50:43.340 I agree.

00:50:43.840 I agree.

00:50:44.540 I agree.

00:50:45.160 And I went further on my show last night.

00:50:47.760 I did about 10 minutes on what's coming in 2018 and 2019 technologically.

00:50:56.580 And if we don't solve this problem now and start rooting ourselves in a rule of law and fairness and a chance to defend yourself, it's chaos.

00:51:10.840 It's absolute chaos coming soon.

00:51:12.500 Where do you see next year's midterms?

00:51:15.660 Where do you see what happens?

00:51:19.500 Because right now all of the ops are going into, okay, let's talk to every girlfriend the guy I ever had on both sides and find out if he ever acted untoward.

00:51:32.380 It doesn't matter whether it was 40 years ago.

00:51:34.720 It doesn't matter.

00:51:35.520 If we can get a headline on a grudge or if we can sell it to the Washington Post and they'll come into town and we can win.

00:51:47.360 All right?

00:51:47.720 It's not about issues anymore.

00:51:49.720 It's about who can destroy the other first.

00:51:52.620 And I don't know.

00:51:55.060 We're going to take a break and come back and talk to you about Roy Moore because I'm not sure that that is going to win every time.

00:52:02.160 More with Bill O'Reilly from BillO'Reilly.com in a second.

00:52:06.860 If you've been thinking about your home security, no better time than get it right now.

00:52:12.460 Simplisafe.com is tremendous.

00:52:15.420 They have put together a massive security arsenal for your home.

00:52:18.740 It's a special package that is at a special price.

00:52:22.520 It has entry sensors, glass break sensors, motion sensors, everything you need to stop somebody from getting into your home.

00:52:31.760 Simplisafe.

00:52:32.460 Now for the holidays, they are giving you an incredible offer.

00:52:35.960 $200 off this hand-picked security package.

00:52:39.500 It is complete protection for your home.

00:52:42.020 Check it out yourself at simplisafebeck.com.

00:52:44.560 Best value in the business.

00:52:46.920 And the 24-7 monitoring is only $14.95 a month.

00:52:51.380 There are no contracts, so you can stop paying that at any time and, you know, just have the alarm go off without the police called if you'd like.

00:53:00.120 And you own the system.

00:53:02.120 It's simplisafebeck.com.

00:53:04.920 Update your security.

00:53:06.440 No wires.

00:53:07.220 Nothing.

00:53:07.760 Hello.

00:53:08.120 Welcome to the 21st century.

00:53:10.000 It's simplisafebeck.com.

00:53:13.260 $200 discount on the Simplisafe home security pick.

00:53:16.740 It is simplisafebeck.com.

00:53:21.380 Glenn Beck.

00:53:28.120 Glenn Beck.

00:53:29.680 Welcome back to the program from Bill O'Reilly.com and the author of Killing England, a great Christmas gift.

00:53:36.740 It's Mr. Bill O'Reilly.

00:53:39.200 Bill.

00:53:40.320 Yo.

00:53:40.820 I don't think that – I think we learned a lot from Roy Moore's, you know, self-destruction this week, which continues, by the way.

00:53:54.120 He still hasn't conceded.

00:53:56.800 Tell me what you learned from the Roy Moore thing.

00:54:01.660 Bad candidates usually lose.

00:54:05.180 That's what I learned.

00:54:05.980 Okay, good.

00:54:09.240 He needs to be a really bad candidate to lose.

00:54:11.240 He's been a 50-back. 1.00

00:54:11.700 You know me.

00:54:12.840 He wasn't a good – he was not a good candidate.

00:54:15.820 He did not defend himself to the level where people were believing him.

00:54:22.700 He was saying crazy stuff.

00:54:25.100 I think this is actually a really good sign.

00:54:30.720 You know, I think the left just expected – the right just to, you know, rally behind him.

00:54:35.180 And quite honestly, I did too because I thought the candidate against him was so bad that I –

00:54:40.280 Yeah, he was bad.

00:54:41.020 You know, that I thought that they might.

00:54:42.720 But it showed that, no, you can't just run anyone.

00:54:49.040 Well, you know what?

00:54:49.840 I swung that election because I said to, you know, millions of people I wouldn't vote for either of them.

00:54:56.880 And I think that's what happened.

00:54:58.880 You did it.

00:54:59.980 You did it.

00:55:00.700 You know, O'Reilly's right.

00:55:01.860 I just can't get down and vote for either of these people.

00:55:04.660 You know, what I really – what I enjoy about you is your humility.

00:55:08.540 It's awesome.

00:55:09.100 You know, I have to work at that, Beck.

00:55:11.540 It's not something that comes easy.

00:55:13.700 You might want to try a little harder.

00:55:17.400 So what do you think of him not conceding?

00:55:21.920 Well, what else does this guy have to do besides ride the horse around Alabama?

00:55:26.280 I mean, he has nothing else to do.

00:55:27.880 So, you know, that's what these people are.

00:55:30.620 They – you know, after this, Roy Moore disappears forever.

00:55:35.060 And Steve Bannon, can you say the same?

00:55:37.700 You know, Bannon, I never bought into the fact that when somebody shows up at a political campaign, no matter who it is,

00:55:47.800 Charles Barkley, Bannon, anybody, that any American voter is going to – oh, I'm voting for him because Charles Barkley told me to.

00:55:56.620 Yes.

00:55:57.060 I mean, nobody does that.

00:55:58.640 Correct.

00:55:59.020 You just said you swung the election.

00:56:00.620 What are you talking about?

00:56:01.520 Well, nobody but him.

00:56:02.240 They swung the election in a way that was not endorsing anyone.

00:56:06.640 Oh, okay.

00:56:08.200 Followed – if you followed my reasoning.

00:56:09.800 All right.

00:56:10.160 Okay.

00:56:10.580 Okay.

00:56:10.880 I got it.

00:56:11.440 I got it.

00:56:12.120 We're so far beneath you, Bill, that we can't follow over.

00:56:15.900 No, no.

00:56:16.120 I think that's unfair to both you and Stu.

00:56:18.540 Oh, thank you.

00:56:19.520 You guys aren't beneath me.

00:56:21.160 Right.

00:56:21.680 You're not.

00:56:22.460 I mean, you keep up pretty well.

00:56:25.220 Thank you for that.

00:56:26.260 Thank you.

00:56:26.660 You're welcome.

00:56:27.360 It's Christmas.

00:56:28.040 All right.

00:56:28.680 So has the idea of Trumpism been discredited?

00:56:35.060 And I mean it this way.

00:56:36.460 What works for Donald Trump doesn't work for other people.

00:56:41.500 I mean, he is – it's not an ideology.

00:56:44.420 It is a guy.

00:56:47.360 Sure.

00:56:48.360 But he's got to change.

00:56:50.920 You know, in the next segment, maybe we can get into that because I know you're up against a break.

00:56:55.020 And by the way, I need you two to do me a favor and think about this when we come back.

00:57:01.240 I need to order breakfast soon, and I don't know what to have.

00:57:04.580 Can you guys make some suggestions?

00:57:06.060 I'm three hours behind you in Nevada here, so I need some suggestions.

00:57:10.720 We'll do a web poll on that one, Bill.

00:57:12.220 Hang on.

00:57:12.500 I just got a tweet in.

00:57:14.180 Somebody said arsenic. 0.84

00:57:17.340 How cruel.

00:57:18.580 Yeah.

00:57:19.140 You know, the first thing we hear when your program goes on to air is love.

00:57:23.600 Yeah.

00:57:23.960 Remind that listener, please.

00:57:28.560 All right.

00:57:29.920 When we come back, I want to talk to you about what you said about Russia a few minutes ago.

00:57:38.360 You thought that was over.

00:57:39.940 Also, tax reform.

00:57:41.360 What the heck is Marco Rubio doing?

00:57:45.560 And also, maybe we'll get a little into Star Wars and Churchill.

00:57:50.800 Coming up.

00:57:51.040 Oh, I hope so.

00:57:51.640 Glenn Beck.

00:58:06.380 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:08.180 Before we get into things, I want to ask you, and I also want to alert Bill O'Reilly to this story.

00:58:15.400 I want you to go to glennbeck.com right now.

00:58:17.980 I'm going to do a monologue next hour that you need to hear.

00:58:22.220 It is based on a video that you will find on the front page of glennbeck.com.

00:58:26.240 It is from Sweden, and it is the most disturbing video I think I have seen because it takes us right back to the 1930s. 0.53

00:58:44.440 It is the Netherlands doing a study on how much is a life worth, and it's a TV report with a Down syndrome guy who is just standing there with some other reporter and a guy from the government saying, look, this is how much this guy is costing all of us.

00:59:08.020 And they're talking about the Down syndrome guy, and he's following it, but he doesn't understand the ramifications of what they're saying is, you know, we should eliminate people like this.

00:59:20.180 It is horrifying video, and you need to stand for life right now.

00:59:27.980 We are going down the same path that we did in the 1930s, except this time we have the technology to do it.

00:59:35.120 So please go to glennbeck.com and share it with a friend, and we'll talk about it coming up in a half an hour or so.

00:59:42.600 Bill O'Reilly, Donald Trump, you just said, needs to change.

00:59:46.960 How do you mean?

00:59:47.540 Well, you know, we were talking about the anonymous sources situation and how that's being used to diminish everything that President Trump does.

00:59:58.340 And by the way, you know, a guy like Brian Ross, who I've known for years, who got suspended at ABC for doing a report that wasn't true based on anonymous sources.

01:00:08.440 Ross has the right, once the source misleads him, to tell the world who the source was.

01:00:14.680 And he should.

01:00:15.380 And ABC should have ordered him to do that.

01:00:18.000 Yes.

01:00:18.620 Okay.

01:00:19.140 So that tells you that there's an investment by these networks in diminishing Trump.

01:00:27.240 So it's beyond any reasonable doubt.

01:00:29.940 So that Trump's got to understand that what's coming now is a series of personal attacks.

01:00:35.620 They'll try to find more women to come out and say whatever they say. 1.00

01:00:39.720 Now, this report today, if it comes out, that five women are going to say they were offered money to besmirch Donald Trump, not when he, after he was president, but before.

01:00:49.700 If this comes out, this will do a long way to providing some defense for Trump.

01:00:56.060 But he's got to have a SWAT team up there just to basically, every time something comes out, to say it's a lie, it's not true, and here are the facts.

01:01:04.780 He's got to meet it head on.

01:01:06.500 And if he doesn't, the snowball's already rolling down, and the strategy's already out, and Schumer and Pelosi are going to just ram it down and hope that he can't survive, and that's what's going to happen.

01:01:18.760 Let me go to, let me go to this.

01:01:22.280 He also has to be based in reality, and I know you don't think there's anything with the Russia thing.

01:01:29.660 I think there is with the FBI.

01:01:32.460 I think there's something with Russia with Trump's people, and I think there was with the Clintons.

01:01:39.100 Where it is, how much it is, how damning it is, but there's been an infiltration campaign going on by Putin, and they don't care.

01:01:47.240 They're doing it to all of us, all of America, and all of the politicians that have power.

01:01:53.820 And there's a new report out that shows that Donald Trump will not recognize this campaign of disinformation or influence operations because he's taking it that it's personal, and that didn't win the election, and he's not paying attention.

01:02:14.080 That's dangerous, Bill.

01:02:15.200 Okay, but that's two different things.

01:02:17.000 I know it is, but he doesn't.

01:02:19.340 I agree that Putin will do everything he can to undermine the United States, and anybody that knows that is a fool.

01:02:27.200 That's Donald Trump.

01:02:29.180 No, Putin.

01:02:30.000 Putin will, well, okay.

01:02:31.240 Yeah, Donald Trump will not recognize that.

01:02:33.880 Separate it right now, because we don't know.

01:02:36.980 We're not talking to Trump.

01:02:37.840 We don't know.

01:02:38.420 If I could interview him, I would find out.

01:02:41.300 But, all right, so you start with Putin is trying to undermine the country.

01:02:44.760 Okay, we all know that.

01:02:46.600 All right, now, is Trump refusing to look at data that would prove that?

01:02:53.780 If that's true, and again, we have anonymous source reporting here, that's bad.

01:02:59.640 All right, if that's true.

01:03:02.160 But if it's collusion with his campaign, and he already is on the record saying it wasn't any, and I didn't do anything, he doesn't want to hear that over his grapefruit every morning over and over, and I understand that.

01:03:16.620 So there's two different things in play here.

01:03:19.420 I agree, and I've been trying to separate them, and the American people are having a hard time separating them, because we're all playing politics.

01:03:27.200 Right.

01:03:27.380 And, of course, the FBI and the press are not separating them, because they're playing politics.

01:03:32.300 But it is vital to America that we separate them.

01:03:37.520 This is going on, and somebody must address it, and the only one who can is the president.

01:03:44.100 Well, look, I mean, you've got to basically have some confidence in the national security apparatus, and General Kelly is the chief of staff, that they're not fools, and Mattis and the Defense Department, that they know Russia's an adversary.

01:04:03.140 I mean, these are pretty smart, good men.

01:04:06.220 So I'm not in a hopeless situation.

01:04:09.140 I think they know what's happening, but they just have to articulate it a little bit better.

01:04:13.000 Okay. Let me switch to tax.

01:04:15.760 It looked like yesterday that it was all going to go through, and we were going to have this for Christmas, and now Rubio is coming out and saying, no, no, no, I won't vote for this.

01:04:24.620 All right. You know, Rubio wants to run and challenge Trump in 2020.

01:04:29.820 All right, so that's number one.

01:04:31.300 Everybody should know that the senator from Florida is thinking about mounting a primary challenge.

01:04:37.540 So, number two, Rubio wants to get out that he is protecting the families.

01:04:42.380 He wants a higher deduction for child care.

01:04:48.240 So this puts him on the side of all the families.

01:04:51.040 Number three, I believe that Rubio will compromise and vote for the bill.

01:04:56.600 Yeah, if he's the guy holding it up, it's not going to sit well with people.

01:04:59.700 And he doesn't want to kill his chances.

01:05:01.840 No.

01:05:02.660 By killing, you know, and that would.

01:05:05.020 So I think it's politics as usual.

01:05:07.200 Any comment on the Disney-Fox situation?

01:05:12.020 It's all about content.

01:05:14.160 It's all about Disney wanting to rule the world and, you know, bringing in a number of things that give them programs that they can stream for money.

01:05:27.260 And on the other side, they just wanted the money.

01:05:32.160 And they got it.

01:05:33.180 Disney is going to come up with its own kind of Netflix scenario.

01:05:37.600 Hulu.

01:05:38.320 Yeah, yeah.

01:05:39.040 Like the Hulu hoop.

01:05:40.260 Yes.

01:05:40.540 Remember the Hulu hoop?

01:05:41.620 Yes.

01:05:42.080 I think we have pictures of Beck in the Hulu hoop.

01:05:44.520 I think there are.

01:05:46.520 No, I don't believe there are.

01:05:49.260 No.

01:05:50.040 And last question for you.

01:05:53.560 Churchill, the movie Darkest Hour, I saw it last night.

01:05:58.680 Tremendous.

01:05:59.860 Tremendous, Bill.

01:06:01.780 You will love it.

01:06:02.720 It's an absolute must-see.

01:06:04.620 Gary Oldham, he deserves an Oscar.

01:06:07.740 I will never watch him accept it, but he deserves it.

01:06:11.940 It was, he brings Churchill absolutely to life.

01:06:15.900 It is so well done.

01:06:17.280 It is so well researched.

01:06:20.660 I mean, it nails it.

01:06:22.960 It taught me stuff, and I've read a lot about Churchill.

01:06:25.600 It taught me stuff I didn't know about Churchill.

01:06:28.360 And brings World War II and what they were really facing when he was just in office for like 10 days.

01:06:37.920 It really brings it to light in a whole new way.

01:06:40.680 It's great.

01:06:41.360 Wow.

01:06:41.560 Well, I know you love my book, Killing Patton, where we talk about Churchill extensively.

01:06:46.780 And you keep calling me, and I will make time to talk to you about Killing Patton and Killing England. 0.60

01:06:51.200 Yeah, well, that's nice.

01:06:52.420 Because I know you want more.

01:06:54.160 Well, no, I actually just want to show you the toe tag that I have of General Patton's that shows that your book is inaccurate.

01:07:05.020 Yeah, sure.

01:07:05.640 I do have it.

01:07:06.360 I do have it.

01:07:07.240 I've told you this before.

01:07:08.500 We got into, you know what, the real, and this is not in the movie, but the real interesting thing about Churchill was how Stalin humiliated him.

01:07:18.600 And how Churchill, a man of tremendous pride, had to deal not only with Hitler, but with Stalin.

01:07:27.160 And Roosevelt.

01:07:28.120 And Roosevelt.

01:07:28.840 And Roosevelt.

01:07:29.840 But Roosevelt wasn't in business to humiliate Churchill.

01:07:32.140 No.

01:07:32.880 The other two were.

01:07:33.960 Yeah.

01:07:34.880 So, good.

01:07:35.680 I'm glad you liked the movie.

01:07:36.720 I will go to see it on your recommendation.

01:07:38.760 Are you going to see Churchill first or Star Wars?

01:07:41.220 Do you go to a Star Wars movie?

01:07:42.680 No, you know, Star Wars, I'm not a big kind of extraterrestrial guy.

01:07:47.480 Yeah, I couldn't imagine seeing you in the, I can't imagine seeing you.

01:07:51.260 Do you ever go to movies where people kind of turn around and they're like, and you can hear them saying, that's freaking Bill O'Reilly behind me?

01:07:57.360 Yeah, I usually kind of slip in just after the movie starts, so I don't, you know, frighten anyone.

01:08:05.000 What's your favorite?

01:08:05.280 I really don't want to frighten anybody.

01:08:07.020 It is like going to a movie and seeing Bela Lugosi.

01:08:09.440 Yeah.

01:08:10.140 What is?

01:08:11.360 I can't, I can't, let's get out.

01:08:13.140 It's like the blob.

01:08:14.180 Remember the blob attack the movie theater and everybody had to run out?

01:08:16.960 No.

01:08:17.680 When I go in, that's what happens.

01:08:18.940 So, what's your favorite, you know, just kind of movie, just a movie, not a film.

01:08:24.980 What's your favorite movie?

01:08:25.940 The Godfather 1 and 2 are my favorite of all time.

01:08:30.960 They're just amazing movies.

01:08:32.720 You can watch them over and over again and learn every time you watch them.

01:08:37.480 And I like the Bonds, the early James Bonds were just so stylish and, you know, now they're blowing up everything.

01:08:45.440 Oh my gosh, Daniel Craig is the best Bond yet.

01:08:48.300 You like him?

01:08:48.980 Oh, I love him.

01:08:50.200 But he never smiles back and he doesn't have any humor.

01:08:53.960 He just blows things up.

01:08:57.380 He's a very, he's a hurt man inside.

01:09:00.640 Bill, Killing England is available.

01:09:04.200 Tell us about the Christmas stuff you've got going.

01:09:05.820 Okay, if you go to BillOReilly.com, I would like you to do that for my essay of yesterday about Donald Trump and how he's going to be attacked and what he has to do about it.

01:09:16.820 If you go in there and you buy three premium membership gift certificates, you get four free O'Reilly books, any four of you want.

01:09:25.140 All right, so that's seven gifts, Beck, that you can spread out all over the place for a very reasonable price.

01:09:30.640 And we have the We Say Merry Christmas floor mats, which are flying out of here because everybody wants to say Merry Christmas, sends a nice message.

01:09:39.280 So we've got lots of good stuff on BillOReilly.com, and I appreciate you letting me promote it.

01:09:45.040 It's very kind of you to do that.

01:09:46.480 Thank you very much, Bill.

01:09:48.020 Will, I think we're going to try to have you on Tuesday of next week.

01:09:52.220 I don't know if our producers have talked to you about that, but we'd like to have you on.

01:09:54.540 Yes, they have, and I'm delighted, as they say.

01:09:57.920 Delighted.

01:09:58.380 In Monaco, France.

01:09:59.560 All right, well, it will be quite a bash on Tuesday.

01:10:04.060 Thank you, Bill.

01:10:05.360 Bill O'Reilly.

01:10:05.940 All right, guys, thanks for having me in.

01:10:07.100 Bye.

01:10:11.420 BillOReilly.com is the place for all the Christmas specials he's running right now, as well as the book Killing England.

01:10:17.260 One quick update to what we were talking about, and I agree with Bill on his Marco Rubio analysis.

01:10:22.940 The issue he was worried about was $1,100 per child was the tax credit.

01:10:28.480 They're just coming out now.

01:10:29.860 It looks like it's been increased to $1,400 per child, which is about a 27% increase.

01:10:34.680 Will that be enough to win Rubio over?

01:10:37.780 We don't know, but that is believed to be the intent as to why that's gone up.

01:10:42.560 We don't know what else has changed in the bill yet, but they are going to chase that vote,

01:10:46.720 and I cannot believe that Rubio is going to be the one who stands up and stops it.

01:10:49.240 He will not be John McCain on this.

01:10:51.100 McCain will stop it.

01:10:52.500 The other issue is McCain and Cochran are both in the hospital,

01:10:55.980 so whether they can actually vote is a whole other situation that's going to be problematic for multiple reasons outside of the tax bill.

01:11:04.380 Believe it or not, 2018 is right around the corner.

01:11:07.580 That means come January 1st, your car is going to be another year older and cost you more to fix,

01:11:12.460 and if you are out of the warranty that you got when you bought the car, here's good news.

01:11:17.780 Getting an extended vehicle protection from CarShield can save you thousands.

01:11:22.860 I have a 2008 truck, a F-250 diesel, and I love that thing, and I just love the diesels,

01:11:34.200 and I buy a diesel because it runs forever, and if you use your truck like I use my truck,

01:11:40.240 I want it to run forever until the doors fall off.

01:11:43.020 I want to pass it on to my kids, but when you have to have, let's say, the transmission goes on that thing,

01:11:49.440 it's going to cost a fortune if, you know, the chips start to go on it.

01:11:56.240 Those can be, they could cost you $1,000.

01:11:58.800 Get the peace of mind that comes with being covered by CarShield.

01:12:02.160 It's what I've done with my trucks.

01:12:04.660 Ultimate and extended coverage, affordable protection that can save you hundreds,

01:12:08.400 even thousands of dollars in covered repair.

01:12:10.160 They even have plans to cover your car's computer, the GPS, the electronics, and everything.

01:12:14.940 So if your car is 3 to 12 years old, it doesn't mean you have to pay the high repair bills.

01:12:18.640 You can have your favorite mechanic or dealership do all the work,

01:12:21.660 and CarShield gets them paid directly so you don't have to wait around for a check.

01:12:25.360 Sign up today.

01:12:26.520 They get a special welcome bonus, 24-7 roadside assistance, a rental car.

01:12:30.660 When yours is in the shop, it's CarShield.

01:12:33.120 Go there right now.

01:12:34.760 CarShield.

01:12:35.340 The ultimate protection at 800-CAR-6100.

01:12:38.160 Mention the promo code BECK, or you can just go to CarShield.com.

01:12:43.320 Use the promo code BECK, and you're going to save 10%.

01:12:46.140 That's CarShield.com, promo code BECK.

01:12:49.840 Deductible may apply.

01:12:53.880 Glenn Beck.

01:13:02.860 Glenn Beck.

01:13:03.980 Have you heard Straight No Chaser, the group Straight No Chaser?

01:13:09.840 I have not.

01:13:10.520 Found them yesterday because I heard a song about the Christmas Can-Can, which I thought was hysterical.

01:13:17.460 So I just pull them up on iTunes.

01:13:19.780 I think it is a great Christmas album.

01:13:23.020 The one I heard was, let's see, I'll have another Christmas album.

01:13:27.960 It doesn't have the Christmas Can-Can on it, but it's all acapella, kind of pentatonics kind of thing.

01:13:32.400 But all guys, really, really good.

01:13:34.920 If you're looking for a new Christmas.

01:13:36.440 And at least what you were playing in the break, kind of jokey?

01:13:38.860 No, some of it.

01:13:39.860 The Can-Can was jokey, and the mean one Mr. Grinch is.

01:13:43.460 Kind of making fun of the holiday songs and such.

01:13:47.000 But not all of it.

01:13:47.900 But not all of it.

01:13:48.620 No, no, no.

01:13:49.040 There's like one on each album like that.

01:13:51.900 But I just thought they were great.

01:13:55.940 We also want to remind you, if you are trying to get into the Christmas spirit with your family, join my family.

01:14:02.700 We are reading The Immortal Nicholas, and you can either get a copy of it or just listen along.

01:14:08.460 And we're getting some rave reviews on it.

01:14:12.660 And some people were like, I thought this was all going to be produced like a TV show.

01:14:16.180 No, it's me and my son, sometimes in the bedroom, reading like we always do.

01:14:22.020 We just brought you into the house, and we're just reading.

01:14:27.920 And the reviews are, I thought it was going to be produced.

01:14:31.720 And I really strangely like this, because it's just like we're hanging out together.

01:14:36.920 That's what it is.

01:14:37.820 Every night, we're up to Chapter 5.

01:14:39.500 You can binge on them if you are a subscriber to The Blaze TV.

01:14:44.600 You just go and find them for, I think it's under Glenn's story time or something.

01:14:50.200 And join us every night.

01:14:51.280 It happens every night at 7 o'clock.

01:14:52.740 And we're going to be reading until Christmas Eve.

01:14:55.160 And invite you and your family to join us for The Immortal Nicholas.

01:14:59.180 Glenn, back.

01:15:06.120 Love.

01:15:06.480 We can't have Dwayne.

01:15:12.860 A Dwayne as president?

01:15:14.500 That's not right.

01:15:16.380 President Rock?

01:15:18.500 That's not really right either, but there's part of me that kind of likes it.

01:15:22.600 President Johnson?

01:15:26.820 Yesterday, Variety reported something that we all knew was coming.

01:15:31.060 Dwayne, the Rock Johnson.

01:15:33.280 Seriously thinking about running for president in 2024.

01:15:37.300 By the way, that would be for the president of the United States, in case you missed that.

01:15:42.360 If you have been living under a rock, Dwayne Johnson, former pro wrestler turned movie star.

01:15:48.680 He's known for, you know, his comedies in, you know, like Baywatch.

01:15:54.200 Unintentional comedies like Hercules.

01:15:57.860 But running for president doesn't seem to be a joke.

01:16:01.080 He told Variety he would 100% consider running for office.

01:16:05.080 However, Johnson's fans will have to try to contain themselves because the actor producer has a huge slate of movie and TV projects that will keep him booked for the next few years.

01:16:16.760 So he's not going to be coincidentally, it's it does nothing to do with, you know, Donald Trump, you know, running for a second term and somebody getting that.

01:16:26.360 And he just happens to know it's he happens to be available in 2024.

01:16:31.000 That's as soon as he could do it.

01:16:33.560 Donald Trump ushered in a new era of celebrities that now think, I mean, he can be president.

01:16:38.740 I could be president.

01:16:39.600 But this seems to be more than just celebrity talk from a guy who's, you know, wrestler was was was named the rock.

01:16:49.300 You know, there's that their side's probably going to have Tom Hanks and and and and will and and will have the rock.

01:16:57.020 Anyway, Washington Post article in 2016 about Johnson's political ambition got people talking.

01:17:03.740 He says he's entertaining the idea purely out of loyalty to the American people.

01:17:07.740 So what are his political credentials?

01:17:10.860 Well, besides none, he says the best thing I can do is continue to listen and learn as much as I can, which is more than you could say for most politicians.

01:17:22.520 So maybe the rock is on to something there.

01:17:25.780 He used to be a registered Republican.

01:17:27.700 He's now an independent.

01:17:29.240 He lives in Florida, which is an important state for presidential elections.

01:17:32.760 He also has one hundred and seventy five million followers on social media in just one third.

01:17:40.680 If one third of those showed up to vote for him, he'd have nearly as many popular votes as Trump got in 2016.

01:17:47.880 So maybe it's not so far fetched.

01:17:51.180 Then again, there are questions, serious questions about his judgment.

01:17:55.320 May I just say two words, tooth fairy judgment, by the way, fun fact, if Dwayne Johnson is elected president 2024, he would be the third Johnson to occupy the White House.

01:18:12.140 But he also would be the very first rock.

01:18:24.500 Bye, Glenn.

01:18:26.980 It's Friday, December 15th.

01:18:29.040 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:18:30.760 I posted something at Glenn Beck dot com that I seriously, I mean, unless you're driving, I want you to stop everything you're doing and go to Glenn Beck dot com right now and watch.

01:18:43.700 Then I want you to tweet it or Facebook it and ask everyone, you know, to do the same.

01:18:50.520 The Mesopotamians didn't believe that they didn't believe in good and evil. 0.94

01:19:03.200 They didn't they didn't they didn't think that there was a force of evil.

01:19:10.240 And there's a lot of Americans that don't believe that there is a force of evil.

01:19:13.960 I happen to.

01:19:14.760 But the Mesopotamians believed their concept of good and evil was health and illness and that you wanted to stay away from things because you could catch that illness.

01:19:32.820 You could catch that evil and you would be in a state of decay.

01:19:40.860 We.

01:19:42.900 We.

01:19:46.080 We have caught a bad case of evil.

01:19:50.720 And it is spreading like a virus, like a plague.

01:19:57.480 And.

01:19:59.900 It is it is happening the same way the world caught the last bad case of evil in the 1930s.

01:20:07.700 I want you to go.

01:20:10.720 This is so important, please, especially if you have anyone in your family who is handicapped at all.

01:20:21.620 I've posted a video.

01:20:26.600 With the Dutch National Institute for Public Health.

01:20:30.400 And what they have done is they have.

01:20:35.160 Put together a little video with a guy who has Down syndrome.

01:20:40.220 Now, right now, we are talking about early testing to abort every child with Down syndrome.

01:20:49.700 In Iceland, Reykjavik is the first place on Earth to have a zero birth rate of Down syndrome, and it's all because of abortions. 0.90

01:21:01.840 They do early testing and then they abort any child with Down syndrome.

01:21:06.220 I do not wish anyone to be born with a deformity or born with Down syndrome.

01:21:14.020 However, if you have ever spent any time around anyone with Down syndrome, I'm telling you right now and excuse the expression, but it is appropriate.

01:21:23.660 If you have been around people with Down syndrome, you will recognize quickly, you are retarded, not them. 1.00

01:21:33.180 They have their spirit and their joy and what they bring to humanity is beyond anything that any of us will ever bring to humanity.

01:21:45.740 So there is this push now to eradicate.

01:21:54.620 And the Dutch National Institute for Public Health, in this video, they have one of their scholars, their number crunchers.

01:22:04.520 And they have another gentleman like a reporter who is standing there with a man with Down syndrome.

01:22:09.900 And he is listening to this, but I don't believe he fully understands what is happening here.

01:22:20.920 He is seeing that he costs a lot of money, that it costs the National Institute of Health.

01:22:26.980 It costs the average taxpayer a lot to keep him going.

01:22:31.480 And he realizes, wow, I'm pretty special.

01:22:37.040 I'm I'm I'm I'm expensive.

01:22:39.560 That's not the case they're making.

01:22:41.840 They're making the case that people like him should be eliminated.

01:22:47.920 Stu, can you translate a little bit, read the I'm going to play this video and just read the back and forth on the screen.

01:22:56.500 Go ahead and roll this video, please.

01:22:58.040 40,000 euro per year, approximately, per downer.

01:23:03.300 You're calling them downers.

01:23:04.640 Ah, yes, per person.

01:23:06.960 So they cost us as a society 48,000 euros per year.

01:23:12.680 And then the downer person says, wow, that's a considerable amount, but is it high compared to normal persons?

01:23:17.880 Well, you can calculate that by taking the big number, 90 billion dollars, and divide this amount by the number of citizens in the Netherlands.

01:23:31.780 And there are approximately 17 million, and that will give you approximately a amount of 5,000 euros per year per person.

01:23:37.560 So you could say that the down syndrome person is 10 times as expensive than we are.

01:23:44.460 Those expenses are indeed 10 times as high.

01:23:47.560 Are you a valuable man?

01:23:49.380 And he said, yes, I had not expected that.

01:23:51.120 The down syndrome person in the video says, yes, I had not expected that.

01:23:55.520 So they're sitting there telling him he's way too expensive to support.

01:23:59.440 And he's smiling back.

01:24:01.420 This is, God, that is, I mean, it is revolting.

01:24:11.420 Mankind has caught the same disease it caught in the early 20th century, and it is the same kind of mentality that we can make, you know, the uber man.

01:24:28.160 That we can get rid of all of man's flaws through technology.

01:24:36.240 Back then, we couldn't do it.

01:24:38.700 We can now.

01:24:40.620 But it still involves killing.

01:24:43.000 It still involves killing those with down syndrome while they're in the womb.

01:24:49.320 How do you put a price tag on a human being?

01:25:01.080 How do you not see the value?

01:25:05.320 We are in this time, once again, where it's all about the collective.

01:25:10.560 We have to think alike.

01:25:11.960 We have to act alike.

01:25:15.280 We have to agree on everything.

01:25:19.320 No, that's not what made the world the world.

01:25:27.080 What made the world is we all think differently.

01:25:30.160 We all have different talents.

01:25:31.620 We all have different points of view.

01:25:33.400 It's the grind that sharpens us.

01:25:39.440 If you're not being ground, people are trying to take all pain away.

01:25:47.840 And I understand.

01:25:50.160 I understand.

01:25:51.380 I really understand.

01:25:52.660 I don't want to.

01:25:54.220 I have a child of special needs.

01:25:56.600 The pain of your heart as a parent is beyond understanding.

01:26:04.640 Only a parent of special needs can truly understand the pain of the parent that never, ever goes away.

01:26:16.100 But the joy is greater.

01:26:29.580 We've been down this road before.

01:26:31.540 And it was the Dutch.

01:26:37.300 It was the Dutch that were really on the cutting edge of euthanasia and killing the handicapped. 1.00

01:26:48.780 He goes on in this to say the only other class that cost us anywhere near this are the old that, you know, once they have to be taken care of all the time, they can't just go to the doctor and get a pill. 1.00

01:27:02.220 Then they really start to grind on the finances of the of the country and start costing the taxpayers.

01:27:10.500 Well, what did Germany first do? 0.72

01:27:12.460 They killed the handicapped. 1.00

01:27:14.500 And then they killed the incurables.

01:27:17.000 They killed the elderly. 0.98

01:27:19.220 Anybody who was costing too much money.

01:27:22.920 We are not in a financial panic yet.

01:27:26.000 But I warn you, we are coming to one.

01:27:30.340 And when we do, if we don't know what is true, if we don't know what life means, we are creating artificial life, super intelligent, artificial life right now.

01:27:49.800 And they're debating on how to somehow or another keep it in a cage so it doesn't end up killing all of us.

01:27:58.100 How could we possibly teach artificial life, the meaning of life, and that they should protect humans and never turn against humans when we don't value all life ourselves?

01:28:11.440 Oh, that I had the voice of an angel.

01:28:20.240 If I could shake the earth to wake people up.

01:28:26.200 But it doesn't work that way.

01:28:28.140 My job is to warn you.

01:28:36.220 My job is to show you what's happening and bring you perspective from my point of view.

01:28:45.900 I've taken my job seriously, perhaps too seriously at times for a long time.

01:28:55.780 And I am warning you with everything in you, with everything in me.

01:29:00.340 Please, please, please.

01:29:06.060 Get all of the lies out of your own life.

01:29:08.640 Please, do not just listen to the things that reconfirm your worldview.

01:29:23.060 Please, do the things that make you uncomfortable so you can learn the other side and you can understand the other side.

01:29:33.280 Because the only way you can defeat the other side is if you know it.

01:29:43.580 Please, if you don't believe in evil, at least treat it like a nasty virus like the Mesopotamians did. 1.00

01:29:53.800 Because the world is catching a killer flu.

01:30:03.900 It is a plague.

01:30:06.260 And it almost wiped decency and kindness and humanity.

01:30:14.940 It almost wiped it off the face of the earth.

01:30:18.400 But there was one group of people that stood, that had the resources and the power.

01:30:27.100 And that was the new world rushing over to save the old world.

01:30:31.360 That was us.

01:30:32.360 We don't have the power.

01:30:33.880 We don't have the money.

01:30:35.320 We are not together.

01:30:36.900 We don't even know what's true anymore.

01:30:39.580 We will throw ourselves in the arms of Putin if he reaffirms our worldview.

01:30:48.400 Please go to glennbeck.com today and watch this video and share it with as many people as you can.

01:30:58.500 Find ways to make this go viral.

01:31:03.240 Please wake people up to the road on which we are currently traveling.

01:31:18.400 All right.

01:31:20.860 I want to tell you about a gift that you can send to people or you can send to yourself.

01:31:26.700 It's Sherry's Berries.

01:31:27.800 And today only, you can double the berries for $5 more.

01:31:31.900 Five bucks more, you double the berries.

01:31:33.700 No matter who you are shopping for this holiday season, Sherry's Berries has the perfect gift for absolutely everyone on your list.

01:31:40.300 This is, I really think, you know, those people that you have to send something to, you know, that you want to send something to.

01:31:47.380 But whether they're business, you know, relations or friends or something, you're like, what are we going to send the so-and-sos? 0.99

01:31:53.160 Trust me on this, please.

01:31:54.460 Sherry's Berries.

01:31:55.260 They're going to love it.

01:31:56.540 It is so good.

01:31:58.700 The 1999 plus shipping and handling, and it's a bunch of really big, almost apple-sized berries dipped in white and milk and dark chocolate.

01:32:10.040 They are so good.

01:32:11.480 And they have more than just berries.

01:32:13.400 They have snowman brownie pops.

01:32:15.380 They have cheesecake Christmas trees and chocolate truffles, all to die for.

01:32:21.020 So if you want to send something this holiday season, now is the time to do it.

01:32:25.220 And by the way, $19.99 plus today only, you can double the berries for $5 more.

01:32:33.560 So go to berries, B-E-R-R-I-E-S.com, berries.com.

01:32:38.120 Use the promo code GLENN.

01:32:43.620 GLENN, BACK.

01:32:52.800 GLENN, BACK.

01:32:55.220 There are so many things that we can do to put the meaning back into the holidays.

01:33:03.680 I urge you to find something that you can do in your own neighborhood or locally.

01:33:11.300 We went up to the ranch and we were going to this, you know, this great restaurant that we love.

01:33:20.660 Um, and, uh, you know, it's just a burger joint.

01:33:24.640 We just love it.

01:33:25.380 And there was this Christmas tree, um, in the, in the foyer you walk in and, uh, and it had all these names on it for these kids.

01:33:35.280 And we saw one that, uh, was from, uh, I think a seven-year-old boy.

01:33:40.840 And all he wanted, uh, the wish was, um, a pair of pants and a nice shirt and tie that he could wear to church.

01:33:50.700 And a snow shovel.

01:33:55.260 And we thought, wow, look at the humility of this family, that that's what they're asking for.

01:34:05.120 Obviously, he did not want a snow shovel.

01:34:07.940 They needed a snow shovel.

01:34:09.280 And the thing that he was hoping to get, or maybe the parents were hoping to get, was, um, some decent clothes to go to church in.

01:34:20.780 And I pulled that off the tree.

01:34:23.180 And as we were sitting there in the restaurant, we were just eating our burgers.

01:34:26.680 Um, my family got up and, and they all went to pull names off the tree and we went shopping for them.

01:34:35.140 Um, and, um, I urge you to do that and get your kids to help you to do that.

01:34:43.740 Um, it helps you remind them that they're really pretty blessed.

01:34:50.260 When we come down to it, we're all really blessed.

01:34:53.740 When I was a kid, we were pretty poor.

01:34:55.800 We didn't know we were poor.

01:34:57.320 And that's the way most people are.

01:34:58.960 They grow up, they didn't have it.

01:35:00.720 And they didn't realize it because they didn't focus on it.

01:35:05.140 Focusing on others.

01:35:07.460 This holiday season.

01:35:10.340 Glenn Beck.

01:35:20.480 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:35:27.140 Welcome to it.

01:35:28.460 Welcome to the program.

01:35:29.380 So glad that you are here.

01:35:30.740 Let's just, it's been so heavy here for the last few minutes.

01:35:33.660 Let's just kind of, uh, let's kind of just chat for a while.

01:35:36.560 Yeah.

01:35:36.660 I was really surprised.

01:35:37.600 I expected the last one to end up in, you'll feel good.

01:35:41.460 They'll feel good.

01:35:42.680 And you'll get the best parking spot at the mall.

01:35:44.980 That's where I thought you were going.

01:35:46.620 I was saving that for next week, but now you've just blown that.

01:35:51.720 That's a tradition.

01:35:52.560 That's a traditional.

01:35:53.840 Yeah.

01:35:54.120 But we're not going to go there anyway.

01:35:55.720 All right.

01:35:56.080 Uh, so I went to Plano, Texas yesterday.

01:35:58.820 Love Plano.

01:35:59.840 I love Plano, Texas.

01:36:03.840 Great place.

01:36:04.420 It is unbelievable.

01:36:05.360 I don't know why we didn't end up on that side of the Metroplex.

01:36:09.020 Plano, McKinney, Frisco.

01:36:10.820 I don't know what it is.

01:36:11.100 Those are all great.

01:36:12.680 Great towns.

01:36:13.540 Not that our area sucks.

01:36:15.180 It's just that those are better.

01:36:16.940 Uh, maybe, you know, our part is, you know, it's so 2000, the thing about Texas, when

01:36:24.540 you come to Texas is it's all brand new.

01:36:26.320 Yeah.

01:36:26.640 Yeah.

01:36:26.880 It's all brand new.

01:36:27.920 You walk down, you walk down, uh, the street, main street of Plano, Texas.

01:36:33.360 I don't even know it's main street.

01:36:35.780 Like, I don't remember merchants Avenue, whatever it is, but it's like a brand new city.

01:36:41.760 There's like nothing old.

01:36:43.720 Uh, I mean, when I say old, nothing like past what, two years, maybe it's all really, I

01:36:49.220 mean, it's expanding so fast there.

01:36:50.680 I mean, how many people are moving here every year?

01:36:53.060 Uh, I mean, well, the city went, I mean, the state went from 20 to 28 million almost

01:36:58.180 overnight.

01:36:58.720 Yeah.

01:36:59.300 I mean, it's just, it's amazing.

01:37:00.680 The growth here.

01:37:01.800 It's amazing.

01:37:02.760 It's a weird combination.

01:37:04.040 Um, what they've tried to do is not screw up everything with the government.

01:37:08.000 Yeah.

01:37:08.520 Um, they've tried to run their state efficiently, uh, and it's worked really well.

01:37:12.540 Texas is a really good shining example of, it's unbelievable of largely speaking that

01:37:17.460 it's, they're not perfect, but largely speaking, letting limited government and get it, you

01:37:21.460 know, get out of the way of the businesses trying to do their thing.

01:37:23.980 And they, and they, and the economy has increased like crazy.

01:37:26.920 Tanya and I talked about it last night.

01:37:28.140 I would live in Plano, Texas.

01:37:29.640 If I didn't have kids, I'd live right downtown.

01:37:31.840 I'd live in, they've mixed the town.

01:37:34.660 So it's not like a mall.

01:37:37.240 It's, it's like an old town and the, and there are, you know, there are apartment complexes

01:37:43.500 and townhouses and everything right in the middle of the town.

01:37:47.000 And it, it's just great.

01:37:48.800 I just loved it.

01:37:49.900 Just loved it.

01:37:50.540 It's really nice over there.

01:37:51.600 Had a really weird experience.

01:37:53.380 I told Stu.

01:37:53.840 Is that where you went to the movie last night in Plano?

01:37:56.260 You have to go see Churchill.

01:37:57.840 It sounded really good.

01:37:58.940 Okay.

01:37:59.160 So it's darkest hour, Pat, you are going to.

01:38:02.460 Is that the one with Gary Oldman?

01:38:03.420 Yes.

01:38:03.820 I love him anyway.

01:38:05.020 And he brings, Oscar, he brings Churchill to life.

01:38:09.720 You will, you will, he's funny, powerful.

01:38:16.160 You learn stuff about Churchill you didn't know.

01:38:19.340 You see, it's not only Britain's darkest hour, it's called darkest hour.

01:38:23.160 Not only Britain's darkest hour, but his darkest hour.

01:38:25.260 And you just did, I didn't know.

01:38:30.060 I did not know about his darkest hour.

01:38:33.080 And you've studied quite a bit about him.

01:38:34.600 Yeah.

01:38:34.720 I love Churchill and it is so good.

01:38:37.840 It's a, it's a must see, you know, Tanya, she's not going to Churchill movies on her own.

01:38:42.020 She's not picking that.

01:38:43.700 And so she was like all the way there.

01:38:46.820 What?

01:38:47.040 Okay.

01:38:47.320 So this is about Churchill and what it's, didn't we just, didn't we just see the Normandy thing?

01:38:54.320 I'm like, okay.

01:38:56.400 And, you know, she was, you know, normal person, normal person.

01:39:00.980 She left and we talked all the way home, 35 minute drive about Churchill.

01:39:06.200 No, that's great.

01:39:07.280 I mean, she was like, you know, I didn't know this about him.

01:39:10.840 You know what, you know, what was true?

01:39:12.500 What wasn't it's, it's fantastic.

01:39:14.580 I'll tell you another great movie we just saw last week is the man who invented Christmas.

01:39:19.960 It's a, it's a story about how Charles Dickens wrote a Christmas Carol.

01:39:24.700 Tremendous.

01:39:25.180 Really?

01:39:25.580 Yeah.

01:39:25.760 I had never even heard of it.

01:39:26.700 It's mostly true. 0.75

01:39:27.420 And you know, some of it, they, where do you find it?

01:39:29.300 It's on Netflix or something?

01:39:30.380 No, no.

01:39:30.780 It's, it's at theaters.

01:39:32.580 Really?

01:39:33.140 Yeah.

01:39:33.480 Mm-hmm.

01:39:34.180 Yeah.

01:39:34.360 It's not at the good ones though.

01:39:35.660 It's like, you know, the, the old style with the regular chairs and no food.

01:39:40.220 Right.

01:39:40.520 That's what I went to last night.

01:39:41.920 I had to go to see this Churchill movie.

01:39:43.620 I had to go to an art house, but it was a brand new art house.

01:39:47.620 It was awful.

01:39:50.040 Yeah.

01:39:50.240 I, I, I, I never go anymore except I really wanted to see this movie.

01:39:53.960 So we, same with me.

01:39:54.960 I would have not seen it in one of those old theaters.

01:39:57.100 Yeah.

01:39:57.300 I went to this place and it was so weird because it wasn't a chain and the people were so nasty.

01:40:03.980 Oh, really?

01:40:04.700 Oh my gosh.

01:40:05.780 The people, they practically throw the, throw the, like we ordered, you know, it said, you

01:40:10.340 could, you know, it was a, uh, uh, uh, the film.

01:40:13.620 Center, film center and eatery.

01:40:16.100 And so we thought, okay, we were starving.

01:40:18.100 We're like, okay, we'll just eat at the theater.

01:40:19.700 So we go up and it's like, uh, we said, do you have food?

01:40:23.200 And they're like, yeah, right here.

01:40:24.140 And they're pointing to the candy counter.

01:40:25.420 And we're like, no, I, I thought you could have like real food.

01:40:28.800 Oh yeah, it's over there.

01:40:30.620 And so we went over there and we, we've ordered sandwiches and the guy said, okay, um, uh, chicken

01:40:37.700 pesto sandwich and a cheese, a grilled cheese sandwich, please.

01:40:41.100 And the guy looked at him and went, why me?

01:40:44.720 Why do I have to make it?

01:40:45.920 You gotta be kidding.

01:40:46.800 And I'm like, okay, okay.

01:40:48.100 This is not going to be good.

01:40:49.480 No.

01:40:49.780 I think I would have withdrawn my order.

01:40:51.460 Yeah.

01:40:51.980 Was it a delicious sandwich?

01:40:53.680 It was awful.

01:40:55.320 It was awful.

01:40:57.420 Strangely tasted like spit.

01:41:00.880 Probably with good reason.

01:41:02.020 Yeah.

01:41:02.480 Now you, and you saw star Wars last night, saw star Wars last night.

01:41:05.100 Did you love it or just like, we're not using any hyperbole glad is Mr.

01:41:11.500 Spoiler here is a concern.

01:41:13.720 I'm going to spoil it.

01:41:14.860 Cause I'm going to see it Monday.

01:41:15.740 Did you like it?

01:41:16.560 I did like it.

01:41:17.700 Uh, it is, it would, I would not put it as my favorite.

01:41:20.240 He, he actually gave a good review off air.

01:41:22.860 Give the same review off air.

01:41:24.300 Uh, I would say to me, it's better than his prequels.

01:41:27.420 Um, it's not as good as the original three.

01:41:29.600 Um, it's not, not, not to me, not even return of the Jedi, which you didn't really

01:41:33.660 like, yeah, no, I wouldn't put it there.

01:41:35.840 Wow.

01:41:36.380 My, my initial disappointing, but this is good.

01:41:39.520 This is good.

01:41:40.260 It's lowering your expectations a little bit.

01:41:42.100 I want to go in going out.

01:41:43.520 Yes.

01:41:44.040 Like I'll give you a couple again.

01:41:45.440 This is no spoilers.

01:41:46.240 I heard that were amazing surprises.

01:41:48.780 Um, you know, I mean, it was, it was an interesting movie.

01:41:51.860 It furthered the story.

01:41:53.140 I generally liked it.

01:41:55.320 Uh, you know, there's some, you know, there's certain things like there's some of the humor

01:41:58.820 that didn't land with me, um, which, you know, um, and some of like, you know,

01:42:03.200 it's weird because, uh, what's his face isn't involved in it anymore.

01:42:07.620 Usually.

01:42:08.060 Yeah.

01:42:08.780 Usually Lucas is like, you're like, what joke is that?

01:42:12.040 What is he even doing?

01:42:13.580 What are you doing?

01:42:14.080 Um, some of it did though.

01:42:15.120 I mean, it was, there were good moments of it.

01:42:16.580 It was, there wasn't, you know, anything that was like, oh my gosh, you'll hate it because

01:42:20.080 of X, Y, and Z.

01:42:21.040 There were a couple of interesting storylines that I think, uh, our audience would be interested

01:42:25.260 in.

01:42:25.900 Um, but I, uh, they were like, you know, there was also like you had the quirky characters that

01:42:30.320 always pop up.

01:42:30.880 There's always a couple of new characters with the quirky characters.

01:42:34.680 No, it's Disney plush toys.

01:42:36.960 And some of them worked.

01:42:37.840 I thought, well, a couple of them where you're like, what did I just see?

01:42:41.620 You know, there were a couple of scenes and, and, and this is, again, I'm not going to give

01:42:44.960 you any details at all, but there were a couple of scenes where I had this reaction, which

01:42:48.020 was, wait a minute.

01:42:49.160 Why didn't they just do this?

01:42:50.780 Wait, why, why would this happen?

01:42:52.320 Wait, wait.

01:42:52.900 You had those moments where like, this doesn't make any sense.

01:42:55.280 Like how, why wouldn't X, Y, or Z just have happened there at the end because they explain

01:42:59.940 why they didn't do that or not?

01:43:01.480 Not in all cases.

01:43:02.500 Oh boy.

01:43:02.940 Um, but again, like it's not a perfect movie, uh, by any means, but I, you know, I did enjoy

01:43:08.780 it.

01:43:09.160 Well, I'll tell you, I've been underwhelmed by the first two efforts of the new series.

01:43:13.220 And I haven't.

01:43:13.920 I haven't.

01:43:14.560 I did not love, uh, the force awakens.

01:43:17.800 I liked it.

01:43:18.620 Okay.

01:43:18.760 So I have, I don't love these new characters.

01:43:21.520 I have not been, uh, overwhelmed by them.

01:43:24.560 It's not like I can't wait to watch them all in a series and you know what I mean?

01:43:28.760 They kind of set apart, but, uh, I guess because the first three or the second three, you know,

01:43:35.480 the one, two, and three episode.

01:43:37.940 Yeah.

01:43:38.180 Because those were so God awful that I actually look at the force awakens and I'm like, okay,

01:43:45.360 well, this is okay.

01:43:46.200 This is good.

01:43:47.020 Yeah.

01:43:47.140 Like I feel like I, in my head liked the force awakens better than, uh, the, uh, the new

01:43:52.640 one that just came out, uh, the last Jedi.

01:43:54.540 Um, but in my, the part of that one where Harrison Ford dies, uh, yes.

01:44:00.400 Yeah.

01:44:00.820 That's, uh, so hopefully somebody's, everybody's seen that already seen that.

01:44:03.720 Uh, I mean, there is a time.

01:44:05.740 Yeah.

01:44:05.880 It's two, it's been two years.

01:44:06.960 So I guess it's okay, but still, I don't know that I would blurt it out.

01:44:10.480 Uh, but anyway, okay.

01:44:11.920 Uh, force awakens.

01:44:12.740 I think like, I looked at the force awakens as a rescuing of the series.

01:44:17.240 Like I was so happy.

01:44:18.860 It wasn't horrible.

01:44:19.920 Yes.

01:44:20.100 True.

01:44:20.400 That like, it felt like an incredible win to me.

01:44:23.080 And I liked rogue one, even though it was okay.

01:44:25.700 I liked it.

01:44:26.960 Um, this one, you know, it's in that it's in the, it's in the, it's in the mold of the last

01:44:31.320 two that have come out here with rogue one and the force awakens.

01:44:33.840 It's in that vicinity.

01:44:34.600 I think a lot of people will like it more than those.

01:44:36.460 I just want to be blown away again by a star Wars movie.

01:44:39.160 That's all I want.

01:44:39.900 Here's what you have to remember.

01:44:41.840 Here's what you have to remember.

01:44:43.580 The middle one is the hardest.

01:44:45.860 If they are writing for an arc, the middle, think of it as a three act play.

01:44:51.000 Nobody wants to go see a three act play and just watch the middle.

01:44:54.680 Well, I don't know.

01:44:55.300 Uh, empire strikes back was the best of the whole series as far as for my money.

01:44:59.280 Absolutely.

01:44:59.780 By far the best of the series.

01:45:01.220 And that was a middle.

01:45:02.340 Yeah.

01:45:02.700 You're right.

01:45:03.360 Yeah.

01:45:03.640 I mean, people are saying hardest one.

01:45:05.420 Cause they're, what they're doing is they're arcing to the last.

01:45:08.460 The first one should be really good.

01:45:10.500 The last one should be good.

01:45:11.580 The middle has to have a lot of transitional movie.

01:45:14.320 Yeah.

01:45:14.420 It's a transitional movie.

01:45:15.740 I mean, I'm wrapping up.

01:45:16.960 They're creating, they're giving you a little bit more from the first, but they're setting

01:45:20.400 it all up to wrap up on the third.

01:45:22.540 And one of the things I think people like about empire strikes back is it's that it didn't

01:45:25.480 have a movie feel to it.

01:45:26.560 It wasn't about it at the end.

01:45:28.740 Like, you're like, holy crap, this is not going well, you know, that's the vibe of it.

01:45:33.280 I think you get out of empire.

01:45:34.680 Um, but you have to remember when empire and Pat, you'll be able to relate to this.

01:45:38.700 You won't Stu.

01:45:39.360 I don't think when we were growing up, when there was a Godfather to everybody was like,

01:45:45.680 what?

01:45:47.020 No, that will destroy it.

01:45:48.860 No, no movie ever had a sequel.

01:45:52.560 That was good.

01:45:53.600 Right.

01:45:53.780 Right.

01:45:53.980 It was such and such to, it was kiss of death.

01:45:57.560 It used to be like that.

01:45:58.380 Now, every big movie is a sequel or a remake or a prequel.

01:46:02.120 And sometimes they exceed the original.

01:46:04.420 Yeah.

01:46:04.620 Yeah.

01:46:05.000 It does happen sometimes.

01:46:06.600 Um, this one, you know, some people are saying it's the best star Wars movie since 1980,

01:46:11.320 um, which would be empire.

01:46:13.140 That's pretty good.

01:46:14.000 Which if that's, I mean, if that's true, that is not the impression I got.

01:46:17.160 I would put it in a, in the middle of the pack.

01:46:19.600 Um, but again, it's a great series.

01:46:21.480 Do you?

01:46:22.020 Yeah, he does.

01:46:22.700 I love star Wars.

01:46:23.400 Yeah.

01:46:23.580 I'm a, I'm a big star Trek.

01:46:25.060 He doesn't like, right?

01:46:26.560 Although you like the new movie.

01:46:28.200 I do like the new, the new series of movies on star Trek.

01:46:30.480 I don't dislike star Trek.

01:46:31.540 I'm not a big, uh, what is the one that you don't like?

01:46:34.060 Superhero movies, superhero, fantasy and super, like Harry Potter type movies.

01:46:37.560 No, I'm out.

01:46:39.020 Uh, you know, Lord of the Rings.

01:46:40.560 I don't like that at all.

01:46:41.500 Lord of the Rings is great.

01:46:43.040 And I'm out on most, almost all superhero movies.

01:46:46.680 So there are exceptions to it, but not many.

01:46:48.660 I've finally given up on superhero.

01:46:50.180 No, it's just not good.

01:46:51.200 No, no, wait, wait, wait, wait.

01:46:53.320 You cannot put DC in the same category as Marvel.

01:46:57.160 I can't.

01:46:57.580 You can't.

01:46:57.900 I do.

01:46:58.180 Well, you can't.

01:46:59.120 Well, I do.

01:46:59.940 DC is DC or is it Marvel?

01:47:02.660 Thor.

01:47:03.600 Uh, Thor is Marvel.

01:47:04.920 Ragnarok or whatever.

01:47:06.060 Marvel.

01:47:06.360 I didn't really like that.

01:47:07.560 So I, I liked it.

01:47:08.740 Um, but you, you look at, I mean, you know, any company that says, I don't know, Ben Affleck

01:47:14.460 would be a good Batman.

01:47:16.420 That's just, it's crazy.

01:47:18.100 You had the perfect Batman series with a, what's his name that did it?

01:47:24.640 Christopher Nolan.

01:47:25.100 Yeah.

01:47:25.600 Mike, that was, that is a masterpiece of Batman.

01:47:30.060 Leave it alone.

01:47:31.760 Don't come and revisit and reinvent and do it with Ben fricking Affleck.

01:47:36.800 Um, I have a six year old son and what happens sometimes in, in, uh, in our, where he'll,

01:47:42.260 they'll be playing and he'll be out with all of his like action figures or whatever.

01:47:45.580 And I'll be like, all right, we got to go.

01:47:46.540 We got to put them away.

01:47:47.220 And he'll take a big scoop of them, all of them together, all different characters.

01:47:50.960 And he'll just dump them into a box where they all stay.

01:47:53.840 That is what the preview of the new Avengers movie looks like.

01:47:58.440 They just took all the action figures they could find and threw them on the screen.

01:48:01.780 There's like 700 action figures on the screen, all blowing things up and making

01:48:06.340 sarcastic jokes at each other.

01:48:07.760 It looks so stupid to me.

01:48:10.260 I don't like it.

01:48:10.700 I liked it when they were separate.

01:48:13.000 You know, I liked it when they were separate and we were learning the storylines.

01:48:16.840 It's like you watch the flash, Pat.

01:48:19.040 No.

01:48:19.580 Okay.

01:48:20.060 Flash is great.

01:48:21.020 Rafe and I watch it every week.

01:48:23.360 Uh, and the flash is great, except when they bring the arrow and super girl and they

01:48:29.260 bring them all together and it's like, okay, we're not watching it.

01:48:32.120 I don't care what they're doing together.

01:48:34.100 I don't care.

01:48:34.960 I watched the arrow until everybody on that show became a superhero.

01:48:40.560 Literally everyone evolved into a superhero.

01:48:44.300 It's like, okay, I'm out.

01:48:45.400 The flash is kind of getting there too.

01:48:46.900 Really?

01:48:47.220 Yeah.

01:48:47.460 It's getting there.

01:48:48.320 I watched, I watched the arrow until everyone developed a case of syphilis because there's

01:48:54.020 that too.

01:48:54.800 I mean, wow.

01:48:55.960 My gosh, everybody was okay.

01:48:58.220 All right.

01:48:58.700 All right.

01:48:59.280 All right.

01:48:59.620 Can you do something superhero like?

01:49:01.700 I think it's one of those things where you had that original premise and the premise

01:49:05.180 sort of runs for a while and then you have to do exciting things to change it.

01:49:08.220 Like someone pointed out that that show last man on earth and you watch that right?

01:49:10.860 Glenn last man on earth.

01:49:11.700 It's like now last man on earth plus all the other people on earth because it's just like

01:49:17.020 he's, he's interacting with more people than I do in my real life.

01:49:19.720 I really liked the first season, even, yeah, the first season.

01:49:25.760 Cause you were raving about that for a while.

01:49:27.240 I loved that.

01:49:28.280 You know, I made it about three seasons in.

01:49:30.420 Oh.

01:49:31.000 I think it's up to five, but the first season is just, the first episode is epically funny.

01:49:38.620 Epic.

01:49:39.400 Yeah.

01:49:39.800 I just say got a, uh, uh, best audio clips of the year today and of all time today.

01:49:44.580 Yes.

01:49:45.160 Coming up immediately following the show on the blaze radio and TV network.

01:49:48.060 Oh, that's a big show.

01:49:49.200 Yeah.

01:49:49.440 That's a big show.

01:49:50.280 We're going to do that next week.

01:49:51.280 Are we not?

01:49:52.020 We can, I guess.

01:49:53.060 Oh, I thought we were.

01:49:53.740 All right.

01:49:53.880 Okay.

01:49:54.080 Didn't know anything about that, but if you'd like to introduce the concept.

01:49:56.980 Maybe we're copycatters.

01:49:57.760 Come up with your own thing.

01:49:58.580 Damn right.

01:49:59.000 All we have to do is take his show, his clips.

01:50:01.440 We don't have to work all day.

01:50:02.680 Let's just air it.

01:50:03.460 Well, here's an interesting clip from a show.

01:50:05.260 It's called Pat Gray Unleashed.

01:50:06.540 And then we just like play the whole show.

01:50:08.580 Just one clip, three hours long.

01:50:10.940 It begins today.

01:50:12.160 Yes.

01:50:12.380 With Pat Gray Unleashed.

01:50:13.980 On the blaze radio and TV networks.

01:50:15.120 Also, if you're on Facebook today, want to be appearing with Pat on a Facebook live,

01:50:19.720 go to the Pat Gray Unleashed Facebook page.

01:50:21.800 Obviously, sign up there and subscribe or friend, or as he would say, thumb up him on

01:50:26.260 Facebook.

01:50:26.980 Thumb up me.

01:50:27.660 And you can watch it there today.

01:50:30.020 All right.

01:50:31.060 Okay.

01:50:31.460 There's a special going on at Goldline.

01:50:33.400 I have never.

01:50:34.440 I've been in business with Goldline for 10 years.

01:50:36.440 I have never heard them say this.

01:50:38.820 They have a special going on right now.

01:50:41.460 The reason why they can do this, because gold is the price of gold, is because they have

01:50:45.940 just partnered with Amark.

01:50:47.700 And that's one of the largest publicly traded precious metal wholesalers.

01:50:50.620 And so, because they're so huge, they not only can buy a much bigger bulk, but they also

01:50:58.060 were able to stop doing some of the behind the house stuff that they could save money

01:51:05.280 on.

01:51:05.580 So, now they're passing the savings on to you.

01:51:08.480 They have slashed prices on its most popular products to prices I have never seen in 10

01:51:13.080 years.

01:51:13.700 If you are a gold person like I am, now is the time to call them. 0.67

01:51:17.780 866-GOLD-LINE.

01:51:19.100 Call them now, 1-866-GOLD-LINE.

01:51:21.800 Take advantage of this unbelievable special.

01:51:24.880 The price of gold is up, but the price at Goldline is down.

01:51:29.480 So, call 866-GOLD-LINE.

01:51:31.280 1-866-465-3546.

01:51:34.680 Read their important risk information, but call them or go to goldline.com now.

01:51:43.040 Glenn, back.

01:51:49.100 Glenn Beck.

01:51:51.580 This is huge news.

01:51:53.360 It just broke with the Hill.

01:51:55.000 It's what Bill O'Reilly was talking about today.

01:51:57.980 You need to read it.

01:51:59.260 I just Googled.

01:52:00.120 I'm sorry.

01:52:00.580 I just tweeted it out at Glenn Beck.

01:52:03.680 It's from the Hill.

01:52:05.180 It's an exclusive.

01:52:06.880 Big deal.

01:52:07.620 Lisa Bloom was paying off people that would say bad things about Donald Trump.

01:52:14.960 She's also the one who got Bill O'Reilly fired.

01:52:19.080 Huge, huge news.

01:52:21.960 Thanks for listening.

01:52:24.840 Thank you.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 15, 2017

12⧸15⧸17 - Leave it alone, it works! (Bill O'Reilly & Stephen Kent join Glenn)

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript