The Glenn Beck Program - 12⧸18⧸17 - Reflection, Peace & Family？ (Dr. Jordan Peterson joins Glenn)

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00:00:14.800 All the Democrats want for Christmas is impeachment.

00:00:18.880 It doesn't really work that way, does it? But that's really all they want for Christmas is impeachment.

00:00:23.740 Their best hope for seeing President Trump removed from office is a special counsel into the collusion investigation.

00:00:34.680 Now, they're terrified that Trump might fire Mueller while the investigation is still underway.

00:00:39.600 Last week, the Department of Justice provided Congress with a large batch of text messages from former members of the special counsel's team.

00:00:49.060 Many of the text messages were hostile towards Trump.

00:00:52.440 Several Republican congressmen are criticizing the integrity now of the special counsel, adding fuel to Trump's claim that the investigation is nothing more than a witch hunt.

00:01:03.420 As if things aren't dicey enough already over the weekend, a lawyer for Trump's transition team suggested Mueller inappropriately gained access to thousands of transition team emails from government servers.

00:01:16.740 Legal analysts say Mueller didn't break any rules, but the debate is giving Republican critics more reason to cry foul.

00:01:24.140 So now Democrats say the right is trying to shut down the whole investigation.

00:01:31.060 Democrats have never been so concerned about the rule of law until now.

00:01:36.300 Yesterday, the former attorney general, Eric Holder weighed in.

00:01:41.060 Oh, was easy because he is what he knows the law.

00:01:45.540 It's so important and helpful.

00:01:48.020 When a former attorney general weighs in, he tweeted that firing Mueller was an absolute red line.

00:01:54.940 All in caps.

00:01:56.660 Holder also spoke on behalf of the vast majority of American people.

00:02:01.860 In warning Republicans that any attempt to remove Mueller will not be tolerated.

00:02:07.220 Don't you love it the way progressives always speak on behalf of the vast majority of people, even though they usually don't represent the vast majority of people?

00:02:21.060 Meanwhile, President Trump told reporters Sunday night he is not going to fire Mueller.

00:02:26.620 Democrats just want to get to the truth of the investigation.

00:02:30.340 And that's true, as long as the truth leads to the outcome, you know, that they desire, which is Trump's impeachment.

00:02:39.380 Democrats want this so desperately to be Watergate, which is saying something because they worship Watergate like it was a sacred holiday.

00:02:50.480 Why?

00:02:51.500 Well, because it was a golden era for them.

00:02:54.480 Three months after Nixon resigned from office, Democrats gained 53 seats in Congress in the 1974 midterm election.

00:03:02.760 Republicans wouldn't gain control of both houses again for 20 years.

00:03:08.740 Boy, Republicans and Democrats should learn something from this.

00:03:13.040 The 1974 midterm marked the most magical liberal transformation of Congress in history.

00:03:18.800 And that is why they worship Watergate.

00:03:22.080 And it's the same reason that the biggest wish on their Christmas list this year is an airtight indictment of Trump from the special counsel.

00:03:31.580 It's Monday, December 18th.

00:03:42.900 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:03:45.300 Unfortunately for the left, when Christmas comes, you have to behave well to get what you want for Christmas.

00:03:50.020 And they have not behaved well.

00:03:52.220 A lump of coal in their stockings.

00:03:54.120 I think perhaps maybe I can speak, not for the vast majority of Americans, I'm sure, but for a lot of Americans. 1.00

00:04:04.560 Shut up, both of you. 0.98

00:04:06.880 Just do your job. 1.00

00:04:08.380 I've never felt more like a parent to the country than I do right now. 1.00

00:04:13.080 Shut up, both of you. 1.00

00:04:15.480 Both of you go to your rooms. 1.00

00:04:17.600 I'll deal with each of you separately.

00:04:19.700 Right now, I just want you to do exactly what I told you to do.

00:04:26.760 And I think that's the way every voter feels.

00:04:29.940 Just get the stuff done that you said you were going to do.

00:04:36.360 Knock everything else off.

00:04:38.480 I need you to get down to the very bottom layer of what the hell is Russia doing in our country. 0.96

00:04:46.660 You notice nobody's really talking about that.

00:04:48.620 Nobody is actually saying that we're in trouble because Russia has infiltrated both sides.

00:04:58.060 Both sides.

00:04:59.600 Look at what look at what Russia did. 0.73

00:05:02.240 Russia went and they went after the DNC.

00:05:05.480 Right.

00:05:06.820 See, they were trying to help Trump.

00:05:08.580 No, no.

00:05:09.620 They went after the DNC.

00:05:11.080 And what did they do?

00:05:12.180 They released information that caused the Democrats to turn on themselves.

00:05:21.200 It caused the Democrats to say, wait a minute, you're this whole thing is dirty. 0.92

00:05:27.120 You just screwed Bernie Sanders and you knew exactly what you were doing. 0.94

00:05:32.340 So the Democrats turned on themselves.

00:05:37.000 Now, what did they do to the Republicans?

00:05:39.120 Yeah, they helped Trump win.

00:05:40.680 No, actually, they didn't.

00:05:42.260 No, they didn't.

00:05:43.360 But I believe they set Trump up.

00:05:48.020 So and Trump, his people played right into their hands.

00:05:51.860 Both sides did.

00:05:53.040 Both parties played right into Vladimir Putin's hands.

00:05:57.060 And so what happened?

00:06:00.020 We now have an investigation on Trump, which has caused people to lose faith in what?

00:06:07.440 The Republicans, the media, Donald Trump, the system.

00:06:13.880 And on the other side, you've got the Democrats beating each other up, splitting the party.

00:06:27.380 You don't they don't believe in America.

00:06:30.660 They don't believe in the system.

00:06:32.940 They don't believe in their fellow Americans anymore.

00:06:35.920 We don't believe in each other.

00:06:37.920 We don't believe in anything anymore.

00:06:40.420 Gee, if I went back and I looked at what the FBI was saying that Vladimir Putin was trying to do, or if I really wanted to know for sure, go back to the people around Vladimir Putin and see where they set it on record, what they were trying to do.

00:07:00.740 And that is to cause the American people to lose trust in the democratic system.

00:07:08.840 And that's what's happening.

00:07:10.020 And why is nobody talking about that?

00:07:13.400 Because too much power is at stake.

00:07:16.580 And so we'll just we'll just sit here and and argue over who's going to get power instead of actually diagnosing the problem and then saying, hey, why don't we cure this disease?

00:07:40.020 Yesterday, yesterday, yesterday, yesterday I was driving into going to church and I wanted to put some Christmas music on.

00:07:54.060 So I I just went to iTunes and I went to the browse section.

00:08:00.940 I looked at the playlist and I went to essential Christmas music and turn it on.

00:08:06.220 First one is all I want for Christmas is you.

00:08:08.760 Then happy Christmas.

00:08:11.280 The war is over.

00:08:12.880 Then Santa baby.

00:08:15.720 Then have yourself a merry little Christmas.

00:08:19.460 Then last Christmas by Wham.

00:08:21.980 Then white Christmas.

00:08:23.800 Then jingle bell rock.

00:08:25.140 Then Christmas.

00:08:26.360 Please baby.

00:08:27.200 Come home.

00:08:28.500 Then what rocking around the Christmas tree.

00:08:31.040 Feliz Navidad.

00:08:32.040 I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus.

00:08:34.100 Please come home for Christmas.

00:08:35.740 I didn't find anything about Christmas actually about Christmas, you know, Christmas.

00:08:48.820 So I tried another playlist.

00:08:51.260 Celebrate the holidays.

00:08:52.700 Santa baby.

00:08:53.400 Can't get enough of that one.

00:08:55.180 Mistletoe.

00:08:56.140 Christmas time is here, but you're not.

00:08:58.660 Santa's coming for us this year.

00:09:01.240 Christmas.

00:09:01.800 Baby, please come home.

00:09:03.200 Frosty the snowman.

00:09:04.380 All my Christmases.

00:09:09.740 Winter Wonderland.

00:09:11.000 Let it snow.

00:09:12.240 Okay.

00:09:12.380 Okay.

00:09:12.680 So I, I, I tried to find a, well, maybe, maybe R and B for the holidays.

00:09:20.060 No, it starts with little drummer girl.

00:09:25.260 Then girls can be drummers too. 1.00

00:09:27.280 Yeah, I know.

00:09:27.860 It's 2017.

00:09:28.500 Yeah, I know.

00:09:29.980 Then winter wonderland.

00:09:31.440 And all I want for Christmas is you.

00:09:33.640 The Christmas song.

00:09:35.260 Sleigh ride.

00:09:36.380 Christmas time is here.

00:09:38.060 Okay.

00:09:38.740 The closest I could get was little drummer girl.

00:09:46.020 That's as close as I could get.

00:09:48.100 As I'm looking through all these and letting one of the playlists play, an Andy Williams song comes on.

00:10:02.300 It's the most wonderful time of the year.

00:10:04.140 It's the most wonderful time of the year with the kids jingle belling.

00:10:12.960 Okay.

00:10:13.400 My kids aren't jingle belling.

00:10:14.800 Your kids jingle belling.

00:10:15.760 I don't even know what jingle belling is, but are your kids jingle belling?

00:10:20.100 No.

00:10:20.440 And everyone telling you be of good cheer.

00:10:26.220 Hmm.

00:10:27.780 No.

00:10:28.620 I think I'm probably the one in life going, you know, let's just try to, you know, be a good cheer.

00:10:36.700 I mean, just get through it.

00:10:38.440 It's the most wonderful time of the year.

00:10:40.500 No, I don't think it is anymore.

00:10:42.560 I'm not sure. 0.75

00:10:43.560 With those holiday greetings, maybe holiday, happy holiday, and the gay happy meetings. 1.00

00:10:55.420 I don't even want to address that one.

00:10:58.020 It's the happiest season of all.

00:11:00.340 There'll be parties for hosting.

00:11:02.860 No, we've taken the party thing so far that we feel guilty when we don't go to somebody's cookie party.

00:11:10.580 We don't go to some Christmas party.

00:11:12.620 We don't go to somebody's house.

00:11:14.720 We haven't called them.

00:11:15.720 We haven't brought in the right wine.

00:11:17.280 We haven't done something that we were supposed to do.

00:11:20.560 There'll be parties for hosting.

00:11:22.000 That makes it a wonderful time of the year.

00:11:23.920 Marshmallows for toasting.

00:11:25.280 I don't know anybody who toast marshmallows at Christmas time.

00:11:28.740 That's a summer thing.

00:11:30.340 And caroling out in the snow.

00:11:33.320 If you're lucky, you have time to do that.

00:11:37.900 There'll be scary ghost stories.

00:11:39.400 I immediately thought of my son trying to get him and my children to actually read or watch a Christmas carol.

00:11:48.500 We've got to watch Scrooged.

00:11:50.240 And Christmases long, long ago, the tales of Christmases long, long ago, that is probably the only thing left.

00:12:03.140 Where we can talk about what Christmas was like growing up with our grandparents.

00:12:10.980 But we do that right on the holiday or right before the holiday.

00:12:16.160 We have taken Christmas and we have, there's no war on Christmas.

00:12:24.260 The war is over.

00:12:27.400 Look at the songs.

00:12:30.160 We're not talking about Jesus.

00:12:32.720 We're not talking about the manger.

00:12:34.580 We're not talking.

00:12:35.160 That's the point of this holiday.

00:12:38.120 And it really isn't even, it's not even about the birth of the child.

00:12:45.560 Okay, wow, great.

00:12:47.160 Another child was born.

00:12:49.180 Yeah, this one was promised.

00:12:52.820 But this one had a choice.

00:12:54.540 It's what he did at the end of his life that makes all the difference.

00:12:58.840 That makes the child special.

00:13:01.100 It's amazing to me that we miss the point of Christmas.

00:13:12.480 And yet, a few days later, we swear it's going to be a new year.

00:13:19.920 We swear we're going to change.

00:13:22.860 If you miss the point of Christmas, how could you possibly change?

00:13:26.960 It's the most wonderful time of the year because we did used to be kinder to each other.

00:13:41.060 Because it was about our families and it was about what the season meant.

00:13:50.480 You know, the first time Santa really came to America was in Harper's Bazaar.

00:13:55.020 And it was during, I think it was 1960 or 1862.

00:13:59.980 And it was a way to try to bring America back together.

00:14:07.820 Santa was on the front lines.

00:14:11.860 That was the first time he appeared. 0.99

00:14:14.320 We didn't celebrate by buying each other a whole bunch of crap. 0.78

00:14:19.880 In fact, we didn't even take the day off as a holiday. 0.99

00:14:22.860 America was Scrooge. 0.65

00:14:25.960 No.

00:14:27.060 We felt it was too sacred of a day to make it garish by taking the day off.

00:14:34.300 You went and you did your work.

00:14:36.900 And then, quietly at home, you reflected on the meaning.

00:14:43.200 We thought it would be too garish.

00:14:45.740 Do you know why Thanksgiving is always the, what is it, the last, the second, no, the last Thursday before December?

00:15:03.680 Do you know why it's positioned there?

00:15:05.060 Because it used to float.

00:15:06.080 But FDR, during the Second World War, I'm sorry, before the Second World War, in the 1930s, during the Depression, locked it in to jumpstart the economy.

00:15:20.100 Encouraging people, like George Bush did after September 11th, do your patriotic duty and go shopping.

00:15:28.780 I want the most wonderful time of the year back again.

00:15:41.060 And the only way that happens is if we just remember it in our own personal life.

00:15:46.240 Don't force anybody else.

00:15:49.660 Stop talking about the war on Christmas.

00:15:53.060 It's over.

00:15:54.380 Let's rebuild the holiday.

00:16:00.760 And let's just start in our own personal lives.

00:16:05.280 Just recognizing that a week from today, we don't celebrate.

00:16:11.960 We commemorate what that child that was born grew up to do.

00:16:24.380 Say it, Stu.

00:16:34.640 You're looking at me like...

00:16:36.480 You, uh, you hate Christmas, don't you?

00:16:39.060 I love Christmas.

00:16:39.760 I don't think you do.

00:16:40.880 You seem to hate everything about it.

00:16:42.680 I mean, I...

00:16:43.760 You don't like, you don't like the Christmas songs.

00:16:47.220 You don't like presents.

00:16:48.820 That is one of my favorite Christmas songs.

00:16:51.600 And you just went through line by line and dissected it like you were...

00:16:54.520 And said that none of that is happening anymore.

00:16:56.500 I believe those things used to happen.

00:16:58.660 They don't happen anymore.

00:16:59.960 No, I don't think I want scary ghost stories in the middle of Christmas.

00:17:03.060 It's not scary.

00:17:03.760 It's Scrooge.

00:17:05.140 That's what they mean by that.

00:17:06.620 It's not a scary...

00:17:07.200 That's not a scary ghost story.

00:17:08.500 It was back then.

00:17:10.960 That's what it was.

00:17:12.020 That's what it meant.

00:17:13.260 You've ruined the holiday.

00:17:14.740 You've ruined it.

00:17:16.080 Scrooge.

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00:18:27.140 Glenn Beck.

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00:18:35.240 Let's quickly go to John in Indiana.

00:18:37.100 Hello, John.

00:18:37.520 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

00:18:39.440 Hi, Glenn.

00:18:40.280 Hi.

00:18:40.520 I just wanted to make an overall observation.

00:18:44.120 If you jump back and take the long view of the entire history of Christmas, it has never

00:18:50.380 had anything to do with Christ whatsoever.

00:18:54.040 The Roman government, when they adapted Christianity, forced... 0.98

00:18:58.400 No, I know that.

00:19:01.400 I know that, John.

00:19:02.400 I mean...

00:19:03.240 But the interesting part is we forced Christ into it, and then it takes 2,000 years for

00:19:09.600 them to pry him out of it, so we've come back full circle to a method of totally pagan 0.87

00:19:15.620 worship.

00:19:16.860 Yeah.

00:19:17.320 John, I appreciate your point of view, and you're right in some ways.

00:19:20.780 This has happened before.

00:19:23.060 This happened right around the Dark Ages, and when the churches split and there was a

00:19:31.780 reformation, they wanted to get rid of Santa and everything else, and the churches ended

00:19:37.680 up actually having little children deliver presents dressed as Christ, which was weird.

00:19:44.160 You know, they kind of went back to Santa.

00:19:45.480 Um, I'm not talking about the actual, you know, pagan rituals, and you're right. 0.99

00:19:51.460 I mean, why is it December 25th?

00:19:54.380 Um, and we know all of that.

00:19:56.760 What I'm talking about is Americans used to keep Christmas as a holy day and a holy time,

00:20:06.220 and it was, it had more reverence to it.

00:20:09.500 It's really now about parties and shopping, and quite honestly, it's getting tiring.

00:20:14.660 It's wearing people out.

00:20:18.320 It's supposed to be a time of reflection and peace and family.

00:20:22.440 Is it?

00:20:24.440 Glenn Beck.

00:20:30.720 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:33.700 It's not that I'm negative on the holiday.

00:20:36.220 Yes, it is.

00:20:37.000 No, it's really.

00:20:37.860 Yes, it is.

00:20:38.280 You hate it.

00:20:38.920 No, I don't.

00:20:39.580 You hate it.

00:20:40.060 I love this holiday.

00:20:42.300 I just don't.

00:20:43.240 You know what?

00:20:43.660 I mean, Stu, are you a little overscheduled?

00:20:48.620 You know, a little bit.

00:20:50.100 Yeah.

00:20:50.500 We, you know.

00:20:51.140 That's the thing.

00:20:52.000 Right.

00:20:52.560 Because it's like, you know, we, we were talking about this this week, and we had a, I've never

00:20:56.620 had more Christmas parties I've gone to.

00:20:58.300 And not just like Christmas parties for kids, but like the, you know, Christmas parties with

00:21:02.860 your friends that are adults where like there's drinking and there's, I mean, no, this is not

00:21:06.680 you, but saying for other, potentially other fun people or more degenerate people, whatever

00:21:13.060 you want.

00:21:13.560 I'm fine with that description.

00:21:14.740 Um, but there, we had, we had so many of them and every one of them has been individually

00:21:19.060 fun.

00:21:19.700 Like I've had good times at all of them, but there's so many of them.

00:21:23.980 And I feel like you get to that point where you're just scheduling yourself as if it's

00:21:28.620 like a full-time job.

00:21:29.840 It is.

00:21:30.280 You just, it becomes, Oh geez, what do we have to do tonight?

00:21:33.060 Yeah.

00:21:33.460 Where are we going tonight?

00:21:34.520 What?

00:21:35.200 And by themselves, they would be great.

00:21:37.600 Yes.

00:21:37.840 But it's just becoming this, this, this list of things you have to do.

00:21:44.680 Yeah.

00:21:44.780 This is one thing we're very guilty of is we have a bunch of Christmas traditions that

00:21:50.120 we do.

00:21:50.600 Like some of them are things going back to me and my wife when we were together before

00:21:54.500 kids.

00:21:55.000 And then as we've had two kids, each time we've had the holiday come around, we've had

00:21:59.180 new traditions with them and all of them are great.

00:22:01.400 But, but you wind up every year adding like two more traditions to the point of all you're

00:22:06.040 doing is scheduling how the hell are you going to get from one tradition to the next

00:22:09.600 tradition?

00:22:10.340 I'm just going to say something here and I'm going to, I'm just going to leave it alone. 1.00

00:22:13.540 But everybody who knows knows that damn elf is going to be the death of me. 0.99

00:22:21.480 We'll leave it at that. 1.00

00:22:22.940 That's it.

00:22:23.460 Leave it at that.

00:22:24.180 That's exactly where it should be left.

00:22:25.640 And I do understand that. 0.99

00:22:27.340 Damn elf. 0.99

00:22:27.760 If I could meet the person that brought that into our life. 1.00

00:22:32.060 Right.

00:22:32.780 The point here is the same thing with like, I love doing Christmas things.

00:22:37.480 I love doing Christmas things with my family.

00:22:39.260 It's a great time of year.

00:22:40.320 I also love sports and I love sports with my kids.

00:22:45.460 You know, I remember growing, some of my best memories are, you know, playing sports with

00:22:48.860 my dad and now playing sports with my kids.

00:22:52.260 It's fantastic.

00:22:53.100 But you can get to a point where all you're doing is you're a human shuttle and you're going

00:22:56.660 from sporting event to sporting event.

00:22:57.980 Exactly right.

00:22:58.420 And that's what the holiday is.

00:23:00.100 And you know what?

00:23:00.920 That's also what the holiday meal has become, because the more people that marry in, you

00:23:06.540 have to have your traditional food.

00:23:08.220 Then they have to have theirs.

00:23:09.360 And so is by the time you get, you know, your children married, you've got like 40 side

00:23:14.480 dishes and everybody just eats one.

00:23:18.400 And you're like, hey, Merry Christmas.

00:23:20.040 Did we make the right side dish?

00:23:21.720 Did we get it exactly right?

00:23:23.320 Oh, my gosh.

00:23:24.120 It's so true. 0.84

00:23:24.980 It is.

00:23:25.500 We're just, we're just, we feel such a load of responsibility that it has to be perfect.

00:23:32.560 It's why I hate New Year's Eve.

00:23:36.400 Tanya and I stay home on New Year's Eve.

00:23:38.040 Too much pressure.

00:23:39.340 Too much.

00:23:40.440 Pressure for what?

00:23:41.260 Pressure.

00:23:41.700 For it to be like a great party or a great something or other.

00:23:45.500 And no.

00:23:47.380 It's too much pressure.

00:23:49.320 It's too much.

00:23:50.200 Wait, but I mean, when you go to a party, it's not, the pressure's not on you for the

00:23:54.840 party to be great.

00:23:55.580 It's only if you're hosting the party, right?

00:23:57.800 I mean, what is it?

00:23:58.240 What do you care if you go to a party?

00:23:59.440 If it's not that great, you can just leave.

00:24:02.220 No party I go to is good.

00:24:04.540 Right.

00:24:04.860 And that's what people want you to just leave.

00:24:06.420 Right.

00:24:06.640 I'm there.

00:24:07.680 So no party is good.

00:24:08.700 Yeah.

00:24:08.900 It's not that I get invited to parties, but you know, you just, that's Valentine's

00:24:13.220 Day.

00:24:14.460 Valentine's Day.

00:24:15.160 No pressure there, Stu.

00:24:17.100 Well, I mean, there's some pressure on Valentine's Day.

00:24:19.960 And then there's those big things.

00:24:21.440 Today's my first date anniversary, which I still celebrate.

00:24:24.540 Another tradition.

00:24:25.780 Right.

00:24:26.580 Congratulations.

00:24:27.080 Thank you.

00:24:27.420 Right before the holiday. 0.99

00:24:28.180 Right before the holiday, which is really stupid. 0.99

00:24:29.940 I should have waited to date her until January. 0.98

00:24:31.880 My anniversary is January 8th. 1.00

00:24:36.060 Stupid. 1.00

00:24:36.580 Right. 1.00

00:24:37.040 It's like, what are you going to do?

00:24:38.840 It's literally one week before Christmas.

00:24:41.800 Yeah.

00:24:41.960 So now I have to come up with a good, like, I don't know, something, dinner, night, present,

00:24:48.480 whatever it is.

00:24:49.800 And it's one week before Christmas, which we will take our bank account and bring it down

00:24:54.200 to zero to make sure the kids have, I don't know, whatever toy they're supposed to have.

00:25:00.520 I don't even know.

00:25:01.980 I'm at that point now where Lisa, the other day, my wife, she says, we're all done with

00:25:07.580 the Christmas shopping.

00:25:09.100 And I'm like, oh, that's cool.

00:25:11.260 And I stopped to think about it.

00:25:12.020 It's like, we have two kids of four and six.

00:25:14.780 This is a cool time.

00:25:15.780 Like, I kind of want to be involved in the Christmas shopping.

00:25:18.300 Right.

00:25:18.420 Like, this is the best.

00:25:19.240 Like, why else do you do this?

00:25:20.700 Right.

00:25:20.920 This is the time where it's really fun.

00:25:23.040 And I'm like, they all, she's like, don't get them anything else.

00:25:25.840 They already have too much stuff.

00:25:27.460 So now I'm at the point, what do I have?

00:25:29.220 It's either me saying, look, it's Christmas. 0.99

00:25:31.020 Screw you, honey. 0.98

00:25:31.700 I'm getting them what I want. 0.99

00:25:33.440 Or I'm just completely priced.

00:25:36.820 I'm like, here's what you do.

00:25:37.900 Here's what you do.

00:25:38.440 All I did was pay for all the Christmas presents.

00:25:41.080 Now, it's not going to work as well as it does with grandparents.

00:25:43.540 Because now as a grandparent, I have this over my children's heads all the time.

00:25:49.260 Okay.

00:25:49.540 You know, Christmas is coming.

00:25:53.420 And I have noticed as a grandfather that there are really noisy toys that just don't end.

00:26:06.120 And so what you do is you tell, if Lisa's staying at home with the kids, then what you do is you just say, you know, this season we're going to pass it.

00:26:17.560 But if you shop for the kids without me next year, I'm going to find the loudest, noisiest toy that the kids will love.

00:26:29.680 No parent wants that.

00:26:30.800 No parent wants that.

00:26:31.320 No parent wants that.

00:26:32.340 It doesn't work as well for you because you actually have to live in the home too.

00:26:35.320 Right.

00:26:35.680 That's true.

00:26:36.200 So you'll have that.

00:26:37.360 It's a minor problem.

00:26:38.280 Yeah.

00:26:38.520 But with grandparents, it's fantastic.

00:26:40.600 Yeah.

00:26:41.360 Because you could deal with a loud toy, you know, every few days or weeks when you pop in.

00:26:46.740 Yeah.

00:26:47.000 Right.

00:26:47.900 Yeah.

00:26:48.340 No, I could see that.

00:26:49.420 I don't understand.

00:26:50.740 We're trying to get a particular present and this present I went to Toys R Us for because

00:26:59.500 I had heard that they were in stock.

00:27:01.280 They're called fingerlings.

00:27:04.260 Now, first of all, that's a potato.

00:27:06.060 That's the name of a potato.

00:27:08.020 They've taken a toy name and they've named it after a small potato.

00:27:12.520 It's not even a large potato.

00:27:13.700 It's not even Mr. Potato Head.

00:27:14.900 No, it's just a fingerling.

00:27:16.580 And what are they?

00:27:17.600 I guess they're like little like toys that you put on your fingers and then they like

00:27:21.580 attach to your fingers and then you could talk to them.

00:27:24.600 Like they're little like little creatures, I guess.

00:27:26.400 Kind of like a puppet, right?

00:27:28.260 But I guess they're the new, the hot toy. 0.54

00:27:30.060 So I went in there and asked for them and the guy looked at me like, like, are you crazy?

00:27:35.480 Like, yeah, it was like almost he was insulted that I brought it up.

00:27:39.020 The idea that I could just walk into Toys R Us at like 7 p.m. on a particular day and buy

00:27:44.440 a fingerling, which, by the way, is available in the next door over because that's a grocery

00:27:48.280 store because that's a potato. 0.94

00:27:50.180 Okay.

00:27:51.140 But he looked at his strategy was, look, what you can do to get one of these is call every

00:27:57.300 day to Toys R Us before the store opens.

00:28:01.920 Okay.

00:28:02.300 So call them previous to the actual opening time.

00:28:06.400 Hope to get someone on the phone and then they will tell you if overnight they received

00:28:11.300 a shipment and if so, be there at opening because if you're not there within the first

00:28:17.480 20 minutes, they'll all be sold out.

00:28:19.900 That's like, I, you know what?

00:28:21.880 I'm sure I can pay triple on eBay and get this and get this delivered to my house.

00:28:26.580 Or you can do this for free.

00:28:29.440 Kids, you know, when we watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and he was back in Santa's

00:28:35.720 good graces, there's been an accident.

00:28:42.100 If you go back and you look at that footage, that's an old Christmas bulb in his nose and

00:28:50.420 they got really caught.

00:28:52.480 And he was laying down asleep in the hay in the barn and it caught fire.

00:28:57.540 And all the reindeer are dead.

00:29:01.760 And so Santa can't bring your fingerlings.

00:29:08.040 But here's a, here's a bucket of potatoes for you. 0.89

00:29:11.380 Feel free to attach them to your fingers. 1.00

00:29:13.140 Shut up and eat your potatoes. 0.99

00:29:14.120 We have 40 side dishes. 0.99

00:29:16.440 You know what they would have done in Ireland for these things years ago?

00:29:20.780 There are people in China now telling, telling their kids, there are kids in America that

00:29:25.680 don't have fingerlings.

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00:30:39.660 Glenn Beck.

00:30:50.280 Glenn Beck.

00:30:53.320 Glad you're here.

00:30:54.760 We have a guest on that I hope to have on more than once.

00:31:00.120 This guy is amazing.

00:31:01.720 A friend of mine turned me on to him here recently.

00:31:04.660 And you might have heard about him through another story.

00:31:07.800 Remember the professor or the student teacher at a college up in Canada, it happened a few

00:31:17.280 months ago, that was trying to teach, you know, how to think critical thinking.

00:31:25.900 Um, and they were talking about, um, gender issues.

00:31:30.720 And so she presented the, you know, one side, and then she said, now let me play a video and,

00:31:36.660 and play the other side and think about it.

00:31:40.160 Let's talk about it.

00:31:41.360 Well, somebody was offended, uh, that this person on the video was saying, you know, this is pretty

00:31:49.020 silly, you know, to, to, to come up with new names and, and everything else.

00:31:53.560 And gender is not fluid. 0.96

00:31:55.780 And, um, she was called in and, uh, the, uh, college reprimanded her and suspended her and

00:32:03.920 said that, uh, playing that video was akin to playing a speech by Adolf Hitler.

00:32:08.920 Pretty strong.

00:32:11.860 So we looked up the speech and it was Dr. Jordan Peterson, and it wasn't a Hitler speech.

00:32:18.120 He is really, really well thought out and, uh, well respected by those people who don't

00:32:24.200 believe in political correctness, uh, in Canada.

00:32:27.440 And I thought you should meet him.

00:32:29.320 He's going to be coming on.

00:32:30.260 Here's, here's just a little taste of, of how he thinks this is the difference.

00:32:35.020 What is it?

00:32:35.700 Friendship and kindness and truth.

00:32:37.740 Listen to this.

00:32:38.920 Yeah, well, kindness is the excuse that social justice warriors use when they want to exercise

00:32:43.240 control over what other people think and say.

00:32:45.920 So, you know, if we're bandying back and forth, uh, our, our differences in values, you know,

00:32:51.660 um, I, I would say that the highest possible value is truth and that, uh, one of the concomitants

00:32:57.000 is that, is that, is that we need stringent protection for freedom of speech so that we can

00:33:01.360 utter the truths that we see fit.

00:33:03.240 And I think that that's a value that's much higher than, than kindness, for example.

00:33:07.480 I mean, there's lots of situations in life where, where kindness in the immediate present

00:33:12.760 is not the appropriate way to, to react at all.

00:33:15.860 But so, for example, when you discipline children, you often hurt their feelings in the short term

00:33:20.740 so that they can learn to behave properly, um, in the medium to long term so that their

00:33:26.200 lives go well. And so this automatic assumption that the people on the social justice warrior

00:33:30.720 side of the equation are motivated only by kindness when they're also clearly motivated

00:33:34.880 by power is something I find completely untenable. And I don't think that Pete's solution to program

00:33:39.960 my cell phone so that I can remember what names people need to be called is a reasonable solution

00:33:44.760 at all. We're, we're actually supposed to now use electronic devices to bolster our ability

00:33:49.820 to speak freely. It's going to be a, an interesting hour, uh, coming up Jordan Peterson. And he's got a

00:33:59.520 new book coming out next month called 12 rules for life. The antidote to chaos. I find it fascinating

00:34:07.920 that that's what he says we're going through right now. Chaos. And he's right. And, uh, it's what we've

00:34:18.220 been talking about on this program for a long time. So how do we get rid of the chaos? He says,

00:34:23.100 he's got 12 rules that will help you do it. Uh, we'll talk to him and, and talk to him about

00:34:27.680 political correctness and, uh, freedom of speech. And, you know, what does it mean anymore? Freedom

00:34:34.340 of speech. Do we have it anymore? He's coming up in a second. Do you see, um, Ted Cruz, uh, go after

00:34:45.000 Mark Hamill? Was he going, was it going? No, no, no. Well, Mark Hamill was going after Ted Cruz.

00:34:51.000 Yeah. Yeah. Uh, it's, uh, it's, it's, it's, it's pretty remarkable. If you read anything from the

00:34:57.600 right, the headline is Ted Cruz crushes Mark Hamill. You go over to Huffington post.

00:35:03.880 They say the Mark Hamill crushes Ted Cruz. Yeah. Yeah. Um, that's the internet. Yeah, I know.

00:35:10.220 Listen to this. So, uh, to Hamill look, uh, Luke, I know Hollywood can be confusing,

00:35:16.640 but, uh, it was Vader who supported government power over everything and said and done on the

00:35:22.940 internet. That's why giant corporations, Google, Facebook, next net Netflix supported the FCC power

00:35:28.720 of, uh, of net neutrality, reject, reject the dark side, free the net Ted Cruz. Now listen,

00:35:36.660 this is, this is the response. Thanks for the smarm spaining it to me, Ted Cruz. I know politics

00:35:44.000 can be confusing, but you'd have more credibility if you stayed, if you spelled my name correctly. I

00:35:49.540 mean, it's right there in front of you. Maybe you're just distracted from watching porn at the

00:35:54.540 office again. Of course. Uh, and, and this, this is because Hamill was the first one, right? That 0.81

00:36:01.020 went to him, went at him because he posted a picture of some star Wars thing. So I mean, it's just

00:36:06.160 Cruz responded rather than insults. Try a civil discussion of facts. Fact one until 2015,

00:36:13.620 the FCC had no authority over the internet. The net grew free and unregulated fact to with

00:36:19.480 net neutrality. The FCC declared power to regulate everything said and done on the internet. That's

00:36:24.980 bad for freedom. Ted Cruz. Luke is not pulling out his, uh, his, uh, his, his little lightsaber

00:36:34.760 anymore to go against Ted Cruz. I highly recommend that you don't try to go after Ted Cruz because

00:36:40.420 he'll slice you to ribbons. Yeah. He's a little smarter than he's. What was, what did Dershowitz

00:36:45.140 say about him? Uh, the smartest student he'd ever had in his entire time teaching. Yeah. You might

00:36:51.220 want to stay away from that. You probably don't want to mess with him. If you, well, if you're the

00:36:54.560 guy who, who plays Luke Skywalker and if you've had one, then you had a minor, you know, three

00:37:00.000 decade absence and then played Luke Skywalker again. I mean, you've had one job. He actually

00:37:06.180 has had a lot of voice work and stuff, which everyone points out. But, uh, you know, I

00:37:09.860 honestly thought that they, the reason why he, you know, I thought they were going to try

00:37:14.000 to hide him quite a bit in these movies. He actually does a pretty good job in this.

00:37:17.740 I hear this is the best he's ever been acting wise. Has to be, but I mean, the hurdle is

00:37:22.380 low. Glenn Beck. Love, courage, truth. Glenn Beck. Vulnerable. Entitlement. Diversity. Transgender. 1.00

00:37:45.960 Fetus. Evidence-based. Science-based. These are the seven words that the Trump administration 0.66

00:37:53.580 reportedly has banned the CDC from using in its 2019 budget proposals. If this is true,

00:38:01.380 it's a clear attempt to target progressive causes and an early Christmas present for those who are

00:38:06.320 hungry for red meat. After the report on the ban was published by the Washington Post, the CDC's

00:38:12.420 director insisted, there are no banned words at the CDC. And we're going to continue to talk about

00:38:16.560 all the important health programs for the public, but the damage was already done. Everyone on the

00:38:22.360 left is outraged by the supposed ban. Those on the left don't like it when words are banned.

00:38:32.460 Wow. I have to say, I understand your feeling. I'm never happy when any words are banned.

00:38:42.000 If this was the Trump administration's way of depoliticizing the CDC kind of backfired there, 0.99

00:38:48.800 just make Republicans look like they hate science and trans people and, you know, all of that garbage. 0.95

00:38:54.720 here's what I think the CDC, the center for disease control and prevention should stick to controlling 0.99

00:39:04.440 and preventing disease. That's it. Their budget of $7 billion should go all of it every dime to that

00:39:12.100 and nothing else. Another idea for you, just stick to the blueprint. There is no need to ban any more words.

00:39:24.720 It's Monday, December 18th. This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:39:34.860 So a couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine introduced me via YouTube to a guy named Jordan

00:39:42.400 Berndt Peterson. He is a clinical psychologist and cultural critic and professor of psychology at the

00:39:53.100 University of Toronto. He's a man that apparently makes a lot of people angry. At least those who are

00:40:01.540 progressives and diehards on the left. We're pleased to have him on with us now. Professor, how are you, sir?

00:40:12.260 I'm very well. How are you doing?

00:40:14.000 I'm good. I'm a new, I'm a new fan of yours. And quite honestly, one of the most remarkable things

00:40:24.460 I've, I've heard you say, at least on a YouTube clip, you were asked the question about whether

00:40:29.520 you believed in the resurrection. And I thought it was such a thoughtful answer and such a brave answer

00:40:37.800 that I became an immediate, immediate fan. Do you remember your answer?

00:40:44.960 I don't remember that. I don't remember the specific answer that you're referring to. So I'm afraid I can't

00:40:52.460 comment on it further, but I'm glad that you found it useful. I mean, it's a very difficult question,

00:40:57.240 obviously.

00:40:58.960 Can you answer it now? I'd like to see where you stand today, if it's the same place.

00:41:03.480 Well, most of what I've been doing, I've done a 15-part lecture series online on the Bible,

00:41:11.260 but I've been approaching it psychologically, which is not to say that it can't be approached

00:41:18.000 religiously or theologically or as literature in many different ways, but I've been approaching

00:41:22.360 it psychologically. And there's a deep psychological idea behind the symbol of the resurrection,

00:41:32.200 which is obviously an extraordinarily powerful idea. It's gripped billions of people for

00:41:37.280 thousands of years. It's an overwhelmingly powerful idea. And the psychological idea is that

00:41:44.080 in order for human beings to be redeemed, in order for our psyches to be renewed, we have to be willing

00:41:51.100 to let that part of us that's unworthy die so that a better part can come to life. And you experience this

00:41:58.740 every time you encounter a serious setback in life. You know, if you're betrayed by someone or if you

00:42:03.340 make a catastrophic error, you have to go and go through your past life with a fine-toothed comb and

00:42:10.200 your assumptions and your axioms, and you have to find out which ones have served you badly and which

00:42:15.500 need to be cast into the fire, so to speak. And that's very, very painful. It's something that's very

00:42:21.320 hard for people to do, because the part of you that's made a mistake is alive, and it doesn't want

00:42:26.060 to be destroyed and revivified. But it's something that you need to continually engage in as you move

00:42:33.600 through life in order to stay on top of the ever-changing environment. It's like, you know, a forest has

00:42:40.220 to be renewed by fire, and the fire strips out the old growth and the deadwood, but it lets new things

00:42:46.200 come to life. And at minimum, from a psychological perspective, the idea of the resurrection

00:42:51.100 portrays that fundamental reality. It's the reality of being willing to let your old self die so that

00:43:00.500 your new self, your new better self, can come into being, which is a particularly useful thing to think

00:43:05.020 about around New Year's, right? Because that's something we dramatize at New Year's, with the death

00:43:09.360 of the old year and the rebirth of the new year. That's associated as well, obviously, with the idea

00:43:16.640 of Christmas and the dawn of something new and redemptive. So I don't know if that was the same

00:43:24.520 answer. It wasn't. That was a good one. It wasn't. I'll let others find your talk on that. But it was a

00:43:33.060 great answer. That was a good answer as well. I really wanted to talk to you because you've led

00:43:42.700 an interesting life, and the path that you have taken after you finished school, you went over to

00:43:50.720 Europe for about a year, and you decided to—you were moved by the fear of the Cold War and World War II,

00:44:00.440 and how could people do these things to each other? A very similar journey in some ways that I have

00:44:08.020 made in the last 10 years, and I am seeing the seeds of really disturbing things happening in our

00:44:16.500 society all around the world. And I'm wondering if you have an answer to understand it or to diffuse

00:44:25.880 what we seem to be building now. Well, I can—see, when I—I wrote a book in 1999 called Maps of

00:44:34.680 Meaning, which took me about 15 years to write. So I wrote it between 1985 and 1999, and during that

00:44:40.580 time, I was obsessed with the issues that you just described. And the issue—the issues for me were,

00:44:46.980 number one, how—and this is in relationship to the Cold War—how is it that the world could be split

00:44:53.840 into two opposing, let's say, ideological camps, or at least two idea-based camps, and that that split

00:45:01.760 manifested itself with such intensity that people on both sides of the divide were willing to put

00:45:09.420 the entire—what would you say?—put being itself at risk. Yes.

00:45:15.680 To arm ourselves so heavily that we could destroy—plausibly destroy everything, and that we might be willing

00:45:21.860 to do that. Why was it that people were so wedded to their beliefs and their opposing beliefs that that

00:45:27.300 seemed—well, that that developed, let's say, even though no one necessarily thought it was a good

00:45:32.100 idea. It obviously developed. And then a secondary question was, how is it that in the service of

00:45:39.220 ideological possession, let's say, people could commit acts of unbelievable brutality, like those that

00:45:45.460 characterized the death camps in Nazi Germany and the Gulag archipelago in the Soviet Union and the

00:45:53.140 absolute mayhem that reigned in Maoist China. I was interested in individual motivation,

00:46:00.340 not the motivation of groups so much, but how and why people could find themselves as individuals in

00:46:06.020 situations where they would be called upon and then commit acts of unimaginable brutality,

00:46:14.500 even when apparently normal in their psychological makeup. So I was trying to delve into those two

00:46:25.380 ideas. The first—in Maps of Meaning—the first thing I wanted to figure out was, in this ideological

00:46:31.780 war between the West and the Soviet Union, let's say, was that merely just a difference of opinion,

00:46:39.060 let's say, as the postmodernists might have it, because postmodernists don't believe any—that there

00:46:45.300 are any belief systems that have any more fundamental utility or reality than any others. And so I was

00:46:51.940 curious, was it just a matter of opinion, with the Soviet Union taking the communitarian stance,

00:46:58.260 let's say, and the West taking the capitalist democratic stance? But there was no right or wrong

00:47:03.380 at the bottom of that. It was just a matter of arbitrary power. So I spent a lot of time

00:47:07.700 investigating the understructure of those belief systems, partly as a consequence of reading people like

00:47:15.060 Nietzsche and Carl Jung and Alexander Solzhenitsyn and a variety of others, some very great people. And what I

00:47:22.740 concluded was that this was not merely a matter of matter of opinion, that there was something about the way we

00:47:28.340 constituted our belief systems in the West, predicated as they are on the Judeo-Christian

00:47:33.940 tradition, and that being in turn predicated on something even deeper, something of even evolutionary

00:47:41.940 significance, I would say. It made it quite evident to me that the idea of the supremacy of the

00:47:50.420 individual that's emerged in the West is by no means merely another opinion. And the reason for that is

00:47:57.540 is twofold, I think, is the first is that the state cannot be the answer to our problems, because

00:48:03.860 the state is static, as indicated by its very name. The state is static, and it's composed of the

00:48:10.100 contributions of the dead in the past. And no matter how great the dead were, they're dead, and they cannot

00:48:17.220 respond in a vital way to the challenges of the present. The individual has to do that. So even though the

00:48:23.060 state and tradition is necessary, which every conservative would note in a moment, it's the

00:48:30.260 individual that has to serve as the eyes and the voice of the state, and revisify it when necessary,

00:48:36.420 and that's part of that rebirth process.

00:48:38.340 It's very much what you're saying is very similar to almost what Thomas Jefferson wrote about, that it is,

00:48:44.660 you know, we can write it down now, but this will change and should change, and every single generation has to

00:48:52.020 find it for themselves and has to defend it and live it for themselves. The dead should not rule beyond the grave.

00:49:00.260 Well, that's it. Well, and you know, you said that every generation has to rediscover it. There's a

00:49:05.620 motif that I've concentrated on quite extensively in Maps of Meaning, but also in my YouTube lectures,

00:49:11.140 which is the archetypal motif of rescuing the father from the belly of the beast. You see that,

00:49:18.420 for example, one of the popular manifestations of that was in the Pinocchio story that Disney did in

00:49:23.380 the 30s, right, where Pinocchio, to stop being a puppet, has to journey down to the darkest place there is.

00:49:30.260 And rescue his father. And that is the responsibility of the living to the past,

00:49:39.060 is that we have to go back, we have to go into chaos, and the chaos, let's say, right now,

00:49:44.420 being our current polarized political state, and find out what was wise and good and productive about

00:49:51.700 the past, and then lend it a new voice and new vision. And that makes the individual,

00:49:57.860 the individual who does that is then an optimal combination of that dynamic living vision and

00:50:03.620 voice that's also symbolized, by the way, by the Christian idea of the word and the traditions of

00:50:10.020 the past. And that's the solution. So you said, well, what's the solution to the to the polarization

00:50:16.740 that is is tearing us apart? Well, the polarization is a polarization of group identity,

00:50:22.260 right? It's the left pushes forward an identitarian perspective, where group identity is the paramount

00:50:31.860 feature of every individual. And then the right does the same thing. Now, they're doing it for

00:50:35.940 different reasons, but they're driven by the same belief that identification with the group is the

00:50:41.620 highest moral virtue. And that's, well, I would say that's wrong. You have to have respect for the

00:50:48.980 group, you have to have respect for your traditions and gratitude for them, rather than pride about them,

00:50:53.300 because you didn't produce them, which is another reason why I think racial pride and even pride in 0.78

00:50:58.420 tradition is a very bad idea. Pride is a sin, and it goes before a fall. You should be humble and

00:51:05.940 grateful for what the past has given to you, and you should strive to embody the best of it and to

00:51:11.460 revivify it, and you should act as an individual. And I do believe that the path of the divine

00:51:17.540 individual, let's say, is actually the proper redemptive path. And I believe that that's the

00:51:22.980 central message. Well, I think it's the central message of Judaism, especially with regards to the

00:51:27.620 prophetic tradition. But it's most definitely the central message of Christianity, because Christianity

00:51:34.340 puts forward the notion that the individual partakes of divinity. And one of the things I

00:51:41.300 pointed out in my biblical lectures is that there's an idea in Genesis, which I've studied in depth,

00:51:49.300 that at the beginning of time, God creates order out of chaos with the Word. And so the idea there,

00:51:55.380 the psychological idea there, is that there's something about communicative and productive,

00:52:01.860 honest speech that encounters chaos and the unknown. That's the tohu vabohu that exists

00:52:09.380 before the beginning of the universe. And that truthful and positive words spoken forth brings

00:52:17.940 order out of chaos, brings habitable order out of chaos. That's the creation story in Genesis. And

00:52:23.700 part of that creation story is the idea that human beings are made in the image of God.

00:52:28.660 And what that means is that we have the capacity and the moral obligation to speak truth to the

00:52:36.660 to orient ourselves to the good and speak truth and to bring habitable order out of chaos. And that's

00:52:43.220 if we don't do that, then then then what and chaos? Well, then chaos reigns and things deteriorate into hell.

00:52:51.620 And I think that's where we're headed back in just a minute with Dr. Jordan Peterson.

00:52:57.700 You say that we're headed to chaos. I mean, we are, I mean, we are seeing it grow every single day.

00:53:03.220 And it's because we're stifling speech. Dr. Jordan Peterson, psychology professor,

00:53:09.700 University of Toronto. You can find him on YouTube and watch, watch the Pinocchio, uh, YouTube. It's

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00:54:32.660 Glenn back. Glenn back. We are thrilled to have Jordan Peterson on. He is a professor at the

00:54:45.060 University of Toronto and a fearless, uh, defender of the truth. Um, you get into a lot of trouble for

00:54:53.460 the things that you say, uh, because you don't agree with political correctness at all. And, um,

00:54:58.580 uh, you know, we're struggling now with a way to tell the truth, um, uh, and not be destroyed by it.

00:55:10.420 Any tips?

00:55:12.340 Well, the first thing is, is that, you know, from one perspective, I've gotten a lot of trouble, but

00:55:18.260 I would say the net consequence has been overwhelmingly positive in all sorts of ways,

00:55:23.220 both personal and social. But I would also say a lot of it, Glenn,

00:55:27.300 as a matter of having your fears in order, like there's no doubt that telling the truth is a

00:55:32.660 risky enterprise, but it's, it's not even, it's no, it's not even, even in the same category

00:55:40.500 of risky as not telling the truth. Like the thing is, is the consequences of telling the truth might

00:55:47.060 be immediate and, and self-evident and, and the consequences of failing to speak the truth,

00:55:53.620 hiding, say, or lying are deferred and medium to long-term, but they're much more grotesque and

00:56:00.180 terrible. I mean, deceit and, and sins of omission, like failing to say what you really think to be

00:56:06.260 the case, it warps your character and it, and it, it sets you up for a terrible fall in the future.

00:56:11.780 And so, you know, people have been commending me on my bravery over the last year. And I think in some

00:56:16.740 sense, it's misguided because I'm not so much brave, I think, as terrified of the right thing.

00:56:22.660 And the last thing that I want to do, and this is, I think, partly because of what I realized

00:56:27.620 by analyzing what happened in Nazi Germany and in the Soviet Union and so forth, is the last thing

00:56:33.380 I'm willing to do is to sacrifice my voice, let's say. Like I'm way more terrified of that than of

00:56:40.000 anything else. And I, and I, and I, I just think that I don't think of that as a metaphysical

00:56:44.480 statement. I think, although it is, I think of it as a practical statement. If you lose your character

00:56:50.240 because you lose your voice, then well, as, as the Pinocchio movie puts it, you become a brain 1.00

00:56:57.200 jackass, a puppet, you stay a puppet and become a brain jackass. And, and that's a really bad idea. 0.99

00:57:04.320 You end up sold to the salt mines when that happens. It's not a good thing.

00:57:09.540 Jordan Peterson, he is coming out with a new book in January, and I'd love to have him back,

00:57:15.180 12 Rules for Life, An Antidote to Chaos. We're going to continue our conversation with him in,

00:57:22.800 in just a second. You can find him online and YouTube, just, just Google search Jordan Peterson,

00:57:31.040 Dr. Jordan Peterson. And, uh, I think you will, you will spend the day really hearing the truth,

00:57:38.820 I think, refreshingly, uh, for the first time.

00:57:49.380 Glenn Beck.

00:57:50.540 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

00:57:59.320 The guy I want you to, uh, get to know, his name is Jordan

00:58:02.900 B. Peterson. Jordan B. Peterson, uh, dot com is his web address. You can just, uh, find him. He is,

00:58:10.840 um, on YouTube. Uh, he's written several books. He's got a new one coming out in January, 12 Rules for

00:58:17.140 Life, An Antidote to Chaos. I actually have an advanced copy. I'm going to be reading it over

00:58:20.900 the holiday. Um, uh, professor, I'm, I'm glad to have you, uh, glad to have you on. Um, and maybe

00:58:27.640 you can help us find some, um, some meaning or, uh, or a direction to go here. Both sides here in

00:58:35.020 America. I'm, I'm sure you're aware of what's happening here in America. It's gotten a little

00:58:39.760 nuts. Um, it's the same in Canada. Is it? Oh yes. It's very bad. Um, we're, we're, we're sitting

00:58:47.500 here now arguing over fake news and, and it's amazing if you are, if you're somebody who just

00:58:53.320 doesn't have a side, your side is the truth. You're looking at both sides saying you're both lying

00:59:00.380 and you're both telling the truth. It just depends on when and where, uh, and most people don't have

00:59:07.980 a way to find the truth or at least they're just, they're, they're willing just to, uh, go with

00:59:16.940 whatever is on their side. And so the truth is, uh, kind of everywhere and yet nowhere in America.

00:59:26.340 How do you find the truth? How do you know what truth is? Well, the first thing I would say is that

00:59:33.220 you have to be very careful if when making a claim that you can find the truth or that you know what

00:59:40.440 the truth is, but, but this question can still be answered. And I would say that the way to start

00:59:46.120 allying yourself with the truth, which is a good idea, by the way, because the truth reflects reality

00:59:52.160 and it's good to have reality on your side since there's a lot of it and not very much of you.

00:59:56.980 The first thing you do is restrict falsehood. And so I would say that if people are interested in

01:00:03.960 telling the truth and abiding by the truth, which is the most practical thing you can do,

01:00:08.440 that the first thing you do is to stop lying. And you can tell when you're lying, you can do that by

01:00:13.980 omission, you know, by failing to say something you believe to be true or by commission, by actually

01:00:18.680 being deceitful. You can tell if you're doing that because it makes you weak. It makes you feel

01:00:24.120 physically weak and ashamed. And everyone knows that. That's the voice of conscience.

01:00:29.520 And we, we, because we're imaginative and because we can distort and manipulate our perceptions and

01:00:35.280 our language, we're very tempted to live out falsehoods and to perceive falsehoods. You start,

01:00:41.160 you have to, you have to start humbly sort of in your own, well, there's this advice I've been

01:00:47.600 giving to people that's become somewhat of an internet meme, which is, I think someone just sent me 50

01:00:52.840 bumper stickers with this on it. I've been telling people to clean their rooms, you know, because

01:00:56.900 one of the things I've noticed with the college type activists is that there are very frequently

01:01:03.320 young people who have no control whatsoever over their own personal life. Everything about them is 1.00

01:01:08.900 in disarray. And yet they're possessed by the idea that they can critique the general social structure

01:01:16.040 and that they have the wisdom to put it right. It's like you should attend to your own mistruths to

01:01:22.920 begin with in your own personal life, in your own family, and, and, and get that straight. It's very

01:01:29.460 difficult. That's why it says in the New Testament that you should remove the beam of wood from your

01:01:36.680 eye before you worry about the dust moat in your neighbor's eye. That's a very wise statement. And it's not

01:01:43.060 one that people like to hear because, you know, when we want to come out for the truth, we want to

01:01:47.720 do it in a grand gesture so that everyone notices. But to come out for the truth is something that you

01:01:52.860 do humbly and privately. And even with a certain degree of embarrassment and shame, because you

01:01:58.100 become aware very rapidly of how many petty and terrible ways you're distorting your relationship

01:02:04.740 with reality. And it's embarrassing. But I don't know if people are embarrassed by, I mean,

01:02:09.880 there are people who, you know, you know, you've gotten in trouble with them that will look you

01:02:15.080 straight in the eye and say, there is no biological difference between a man and a woman. Well, that 1.00

01:02:20.360 is just, I don't know. I don't know if they'll look me straight in the eye and say that, you know

01:02:24.880 what I mean? And, and, and, and, and I don't, my, my experience has been in situations like that,

01:02:30.980 that words, like words of that form are not put forward with any strength. And one of the things

01:02:36.440 that's happened to me, Glenn, in the last year, that's been extraordinarily interesting, and I'm

01:02:40.820 unbelievably fortunate that it's occurred, is that every time I've been attacked by people who are

01:02:47.100 putting forward the kind of ideology that you've been describing, it has backfired unbelievably

01:02:52.300 spectacularly. And so these, these untruths, let's say, they reveal themselves in people's gestures and

01:03:00.260 attitudes. They make people resentful and vengeful. That's, that's the worst of it. But they also

01:03:05.640 deprive their words of any real strength, which is partly why they have to be put forward

01:03:10.300 with such vehemence and force and, and ideological exactitude, because there's nothing really

01:03:16.420 behind them. And, and, well, that becomes quite evident, well, that becomes quite evident in

01:03:22.080 the course of a genuine public discussion.

01:03:25.420 Um, what does it mean to be a Christian anymore?

01:03:29.700 A lot of, a lot of us have...

01:03:34.360 What it should mean, what it should mean is, and I'm speaking psychologically again here,

01:03:39.020 let's say, I mean, Christ is the archetypal perfect man, whatever that means. It's a concept

01:03:45.640 that's really beyond understanding, because we don't know our full extension, we don't know our

01:03:50.680 full possibility or potentiality. I mean, Christ himself said that people, the people that he left

01:03:56.140 behind could do works greater than his if they were willing to undertake the arduous pathway necessary

01:04:02.640 to make that occur. So there's no underestimating the potential power and grandeur and nobility of

01:04:09.020 the individual. But the problem is that it requires, it requires the adoption of, of infinite

01:04:16.520 responsibility, let's say. You know, one of the things that characterizes Christ, technically

01:04:21.380 speaking, is that he took the sins of the world unto himself. And that can be interpreted

01:04:27.400 psychologically as well. Like when I was reading about Auschwitz, and about the behavior of the 0.86

01:04:32.280 camp guards in Auschwitz, I wasn't reading about some evil Nazi who wasn't me doing these things. 0.66

01:04:43.060 I was reading about me doing them.

01:04:45.580 And that's a terrible thing to apprehend. And to be a Christian, say in any real sense, is to 1.00

01:04:55.420 understand first that you bear the moral burden of the 20th century. And that it's up to you to do

01:05:03.120 something about it. And not to change other people, but to put yourself together so that if

01:05:08.940 the political situation warped and twisted around and you were called on to do something

01:05:14.760 reprehensible, that you would have the strength of character to refuse to do it.

01:05:20.560 But to even develop that, you have to understand first that you're the person in the

01:05:24.800 concentration camp who's having the, you know, the person who's just been hauled off the

01:05:31.300 rail cars, crammed in there like cattle, lined up and then sentenced to carry a wet sack of salt

01:05:40.080 that weighs 100 pounds from one side of the compound to another and back. And that you're

01:05:45.500 the person who would enjoy doing that to someone in such a terrible situation. Well, that's what it

01:05:51.540 means, at least in part, to be Christian. It means to, first of all, come to terms with the fact that

01:05:56.720 the terrible corruption and malevolence of human beings is something that characterizes you and that

01:06:03.280 you have an obligation to understand that and to work, to rectify it. Because the consequence of not

01:06:12.080 doing it is dreadful beyond imagining. And so it's very difficult for people to do that. You know, in

01:06:20.240 Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, there's a little story called The Grand Inquisitor, where Christ comes back to

01:06:26.280 birth in Seville during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. And he's raising the dead and performing

01:06:33.140 miracles and being a generally good guy and causing a lot of trouble. And the Inquisitor has him arrested

01:06:39.420 and thrown into prison and to be executed. And the Inquisitor tells him that the burden that he's placed

01:06:47.060 on human beings is just too great and that the Church has spent centuries trying to modify his

01:06:51.940 demand so that normal people could tolerate it. And there's really something to that. The burden, the moral

01:07:00.060 burden that's placed on someone who claims to be a Christian is fundamentally unbearable. But the alternative

01:07:06.440 is worse. So that's where we're at. You need to bear the burden and the responsibility of constraining evil in your

01:07:14.500 own heart and then trying to work to make the world a better place. Or you exist in the hell that you produce for

01:07:20.460 not doing so. I am struck by the fact that courage really is a muscle and misunderstood.

01:07:39.580 You're not going to be able to rise to the occasion in horrific situations like in the past in the 20th

01:07:49.460 century. If you don't rise to the occasion now, if you don't...

01:07:54.920 Yes, that's exactly right. Well, which also shows you that what you do right now, day to day, the way

01:08:00.060 you conduct yourself with your husband or wife and at work and with your family, despite the fact that

01:08:06.080 those things are day to day, they're not mundane or trivial. They're vitally important because you put

01:08:12.540 your finger on it precisely. It's that if you can manifest a good character under normal circumstances,

01:08:19.080 then perhaps you'll have developed the sort of character that will enable you to stand up properly

01:08:26.120 in the midst of a catastrophe. And one of the things that I've been telling the people who've

01:08:31.000 been watching my videos, say, who are overwhelmingly young men, by the way, is that they should strive to

01:08:37.640 be the person who's the most reliable, who they should strive to be the most reliable person at

01:08:43.800 their father's funeral. That's a good goal. That's a goal that it's indicative of the development of

01:08:52.000 some tragic, of a proper tragic, tragic sensibility with regards to life and, and the formulation of

01:08:58.360 some real character in the face of that tragedy. Now, and young people now are fed such a diet of

01:09:03.740 pablum, you know, they're told to develop their self-esteem and to be happy and, and to be free and

01:09:08.940 to, to, to follow their impulses wherever they might lead. And it's, it's, it's not nourishing.

01:09:15.240 Young men in particular are dying. I mean, literally, they're dying because of that. They're dying

01:09:19.660 spiritually and they're dying. Well, they're, they're dying in actuality as well, because

01:09:23.900 being, being human requires a noble mode of being. You can't tolerate yourself if you, if you're weak and,

01:09:32.820 and deceitful and arrogant and resentful. You just hate yourself. And that's, and then you do harm to 1.00

01:09:39.660 yourself and to others. It's much better to be called forward to do something noble and courageous.

01:09:44.360 And I've been absolutely struck, Glenn, that the thing that's been most surprising in the last year,

01:09:49.420 I would say, is when I'm doing my public talks. And this is especially evident in this biblical

01:09:53.700 series, which has been packed, by the way, it's sold out every day, every time we, we, we've hosted one,

01:09:59.680 which is completely bizarre. But anyways, every time in those public forum, where I talk about

01:10:06.300 responsibility and truth to these audiences, mostly of young men, they're on the edge of their

01:10:11.940 seats, man, you can hear a pin drop. It's every time. It's intense. And I think it's because since

01:10:19.060 the mid 60s, no one's taken young people and young men in particular and shook them and said, look,

01:10:25.040 you know, you're not who you could be, get your act together, just stand up, tell the truth,

01:10:32.200 take your place in the world and, and, and, and fortify our culture instead of being whiny and 0.98

01:10:39.480 resentful and weak and nihilistic and cowardly and ideologically possessed, immature. 0.99

01:10:45.540 Sure. Dr. Jordan Peterson. Um, I don't even feel comfortable anymore calling you by your first 0.99

01:10:53.900 name, Dr. Peterson. I have to tell you, I get an opportunity to talk to a lot of amazing people and

01:11:00.540 I have met, uh, some truly great people. This has been, uh, the last 15 minutes has been, um,

01:11:09.280 one of the more remarkable, uh, times of my life. You are a, uh, you are a man for this time.

01:11:19.640 And, uh, I, I hope to be able to, uh, uh, meet you in person sometime, but we will be watching

01:11:26.600 from afar. I thank you for everything that you're doing. Well, thanks for the invitation,

01:11:32.240 and Merry Christmas to, to you and all your audience. Merry Christmas.

01:11:37.840 Yeah. I have to go back and find what he said about the, uh, resurrection, um, uh, and play it for

01:11:54.320 you because it was just so honest and so raw and so personal. Uh, and, uh, it's, it's amazing

01:12:05.260 because he, he said, I, I'm, I don't know what to think. I don't know what to think. You know,

01:12:11.380 my logic tells me no. Um, but everything in me says yes. And, uh, uh, and obviously a man who,

01:12:21.640 whether he's a Christian or not, boy, seems to exemplify Christianity.

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01:13:49.240 Glenn Beck.

01:13:52.280 Glenn Beck.

01:13:58.920 Jordan Peterson, uh, 12 rules for life is his book. I haven't read it yet, but we're just looking

01:14:03.620 through it in the, uh, uh, in the break. And it's, I mean, it's a lot of the stuff that we've

01:14:08.800 talked about here. I mean, maybe that's why I like him is, uh, I don't know, maybe he's

01:14:13.120 reinforcing my worldview and I don't know, maybe I'm falling into that trap. It's 2017. That's what

01:14:17.580 we all want out of the world. I know. I know. People that reinforce your worldview. But I mean,

01:14:20.760 this list of 12 things is fantastic. I mean, compare yourself to who you were yesterday,

01:14:24.720 not to some, not to who someone else is today. Just that, just that change the world. Oh my

01:14:30.720 gosh. Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world. Fantastic. Uh, pursue what

01:14:35.720 is meaningful, not what is expedient. Hard. And then I like this one. Do not bother children while

01:14:40.340 they are skateboarding, but yeah, maybe we shouldn't hover as much as we do. I guess

01:14:45.320 is the point of that. I like maybe just a little bit. Glenn back. Love courage. True. Glenn

01:15:02.340 back. This half hour is going to be eye opening. Let's start here. Do you remember the scene

01:15:08.780 in saving private Ryan where fear, uh, grab that soldier? He was watching his buddy get

01:15:14.880 killed with a knife wielding Nazi, probably the most gut wrenching and fast forwarded scene

01:15:21.040 in, in the movie. I, because I just feel like, uh, would that be me? It's hard to watch being

01:15:28.740 paralyzed by fear and enabling evil are two things that are things that we just can't, we can't

01:15:36.260 wrap our arms around. Politico published an article yesterday alleging the Obama administration

01:15:43.260 was living and playing out that scene over and over and over again for the sake of the

01:15:49.640 Iranian deal. Fear and ambition caused them to look the other way while evil grew at unprecedented 0.79

01:15:57.180 levels. Project Cassandra. It was launched by the DEA in 2008. And over the following years,

01:16:04.520 they would be successful in mapping out an intricate web of global Hezbollah financing 0.84

01:16:10.740 operations that included drug trafficking from South America, money laundering here in the

01:16:16.880 United States and weapons procurement in both Syria and Iraq. Hezbollah was being run like 0.97

01:16:23.300 the Corleone family and the DEA had them dead to rights. Their criminal financing networks

01:16:30.220 were mapped out and their agents were identified. There wasn't a power on earth strong enough to

01:16:38.020 stop Hezbollah from going down after all of this evidence. That's what the DEA thought.

01:16:47.020 Turns out they didn't imagine the power of Obama's ambition. Reconciliation with Iran and a nuclear deal

01:16:55.980 that would catapult his legacy to new unreachable heights was the only thing his administration was

01:17:01.940 interested in. Former members of Project Cassandra alleged that their agents were purposely stonewalled

01:17:08.720 in order to keep Iran happy while Iran and Hezbollah were carving up the Middle East while they were 1.00

01:17:16.160 planning terrorist attacks and raking in billions in drug money. The Obama administration was looking the

01:17:22.400 other way with visions of sugarplum nuclear deals dancing in their heads. If this political story is

01:17:31.660 accurate, this is Obama's legacy. His blind ambition, not only enabling Iran and Hezbollah to become a 0.77

01:17:41.840 major power in the Middle East, but they did it by corrupting our values and flooding our streets with drugs. 1.00

01:17:49.820 Now here's a really interesting part of the story. They used our own businesses to launder the money

01:18:01.980 back to the Middle East. They used our own businesses? Back to that in a second. All of this for a nuclear deal 0.73

01:18:13.760 that could have been nothing more than a smokescreen, a distraction that a legacy-crazed U.S. president

01:18:21.260 would easily jump at to quench his unbridled thirst for ambition. And so, like that scene from Saving Private

01:18:28.160 Ryan, we may one day see this moment in our history as the most gut-wrenching and the most fast-forward

01:18:36.600 moment in modern history.

01:18:48.600 It's Monday, December 18th. This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:18:52.760 Do you remember the curious case of Amman Aron? Amman Aron. I can't even say it. Amman Aron.

01:19:06.760 You have to sing it. Amman Aron. Amman Aron. Amman Aron. I can't. Yeah, it can only sing it. Okay.

01:19:14.040 This is the congressional aide to Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Not only Debbie Wasserman Schultz, but a whole

01:19:21.160 fleet of high-level Democrats. This story has been buried. And then we saw the Politico story.

01:19:32.600 If there's one thing that we're good at on this program is connecting dots. This dot must be connected.

01:19:44.040 So here's this guy. He comes out of nowhere. He becomes the congressional aide to Debbie Wasserman

01:19:52.440 Schultz and everybody else. I mean, a whole list of very high-level Democrats. He was caught attempting

01:20:00.840 to flee to Pakistan after the U.S. Capitol Police suspected that his family was complicit in a massive

01:20:07.320 security breach. The further you delve into this case, the weirder it gets.

01:20:16.740 It looks like he is guilty of bank fraud, criminal misuse of house computer systems,

01:20:22.320 and a laundry list of shady connections and business dealings.

01:20:25.480 Now, Debbie Wasserman Schultz really didn't answer any of the charges. We haven't heard anything

01:20:39.540 about this story. This guy is hired to be a computer expert, an IT guy. Well, he's not

01:20:46.660 an IT guy. He has no IT experience. But he's an IT guy. So he goes to work for Debbie.

01:20:55.200 She then convinces other Democrats, you should use my IT guy.

01:21:01.500 Her IT guy is making like $150,000 a year. Congressional IT people make about $75,000. 0.99

01:21:07.940 Why was he paid twice? He must be really good. Well, he had a great staff. His family came to work.

01:21:15.000 They were making exorbitant salaries. They had no IT experience either. So here are these people

01:21:25.260 running computers and running, you know, all of the servers for several high-level Democrats

01:21:32.480 on Capitol Hill. And they didn't have any experience. And they were getting rich. In fact, so rich

01:21:40.240 that they started buying houses and then they wanted to, you know, do some banking fraud to make

01:21:48.800 even more money. They sold each other houses at the top of the market. So I would buy my brother's

01:21:55.880 house and my brother would buy my house. Then they bought a car dealership.

01:22:03.280 No one could understand why they bought a car dealership. In fact, when this first story first

01:22:13.100 broke, I was at the chalkboard and I said, car dealership, what would you do? What is up with

01:22:18.920 that? This story has not been seen completely put in the back of everyone's mind until the political

01:22:29.780 story came out yesterday that detailed Hezbollah's criminal financing network.

01:22:38.060 Hezbollah was engaged in narcotics trafficking from South America. The Obama administration

01:22:43.780 looked the other way. The drugs were being sold here in the U.S. and the money was being laundered

01:22:50.640 through used car dealerships. Billions of dollars were being moved in this manner to finance Iranian

01:23:00.720 and Hezbollah actions in the Middle East. This puts the one story in an in an interesting new

01:23:10.920 context. Context. Because one of his shady businesses was a used car dealership.

01:23:18.200 His brother managed the dealership's daily operation in addition to running computers

01:23:25.240 for the Democratic representatives. Shady doesn't even give justice to how strange this operation was.

01:23:33.300 Customers at the car dealership were often shown cars borrowed from a dealership next door.

01:23:40.960 A former employee said the business records were so bad that it was, quote, close to impossible

01:23:46.120 to make any sense out of all of the transactions that happened, end quote. Oh, but wait, it gets even

01:23:51.520 stranger. Records show that this family took a hundred thousand dollar loan out for the dealership

01:23:58.600 from Dr. Ali Al-Attar. Now, who is Mr. Attar? He's an Iraqi politician with links to Hezbollah.

01:24:10.600 He was actually seen meeting with a Hezbollah official in Lebanon shortly after Awan's acceptance of the

01:24:19.000 hundred thousand dollars. Dr. Attar was indicted in 2012 for tax fraud and fled to Iraq. Prior to that

01:24:27.080 indictment, he was a co-owner of the dealership with Awan. He had access to bank accounts.

01:24:34.420 Now, wait a minute. Doesn't this sound like exactly what was described in the recent political story

01:24:43.660 yesterday? The Awan family was operating a shady used car dealership and money from a guy with links

01:24:52.020 to Hezbollah was part of it. I wonder if what if what Iran and his family were caught doing 0.72

01:25:04.660 criminally misusing their access to house computer systems isn't the real reason why Democrats have

01:25:11.680 appeared to be protecting them. Democrats want this to go away. Why? Why? 0.88

01:25:19.660 What's really going on here? Was this one of the cogs in Hezbollah's international financing scheme

01:25:27.940 that Politico has just blown the lid on? Were they part of it? Was Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the

01:25:34.980 Democrats on Capitol Hill knowingly or unknowingly involved in money laundering for Hezbollah?

01:25:45.080 Because if that's not what's happening, this is one hell of a coincidence.

01:25:52.720 The circumstances between what Politico has described, what Hezbollah was doing, and what

01:26:00.320 this family in Capitol Hill were caught up in sound identical.

01:26:04.820 Everyone's been trying to find out why Debbie Wasserman Schultz has protected this family.

01:26:13.360 Did he have information on her? Or was there something bigger?

01:26:18.120 Were Democrats keeping this quiet as part of a larger plan to hide this type of activity

01:26:23.040 in the same way they were stonewalling the DEA in an effort to appease Iran?

01:26:27.620 I don't know what to say to you.

01:26:41.460 Because if we weren't in the upside down, I would say we need a hearing.

01:26:47.220 But I don't trust any of the investigators on either side. Do you?

01:26:51.320 Do you really think anybody in Washington is really looking to get to the bottom of anything?

01:26:59.960 Do you think anybody in the media is really wanting to get to the bottom of anything?

01:27:05.100 How is it that an alcoholic former DJ can put these two stories together and say,

01:27:15.920 wait a minute, what's happening here?

01:27:19.860 But no one in the news media can do it?

01:27:23.540 No one in Capitol Hill can do this?

01:27:27.800 Huh.

01:27:30.840 Huh.

01:27:32.060 That seems weird.

01:27:33.200 There's one more branch on this tree

01:27:49.800 that maybe Stu will take us through here in a minute.

01:27:55.900 I'm interested in this past thing with Imran Awan.

01:27:58.360 Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.

01:28:00.940 In that, it's so bizarre, the coincidence between those two things,

01:28:06.460 that it would actually, it almost seems more odd if it was not connected.

01:28:11.900 And believe me, I think as you pointed out in there,

01:28:14.360 you're looking at this and asking questions.

01:28:17.000 You don't know that this has happened.

01:28:18.460 Okay, so hang on.

01:28:18.940 But it would be very strange, the whole car dealership angle.

01:28:22.720 He goes, he is losing money for some reason.

01:28:25.240 He's making all this money.

01:28:26.420 Somehow or another, he just can't make ends meet.

01:28:28.100 He goes over for a meeting in the Middle East.

01:28:30.000 He meets with a guy who's tied to Hezbollah.

01:28:32.840 The guy says, hey, you know what?

01:28:34.780 I hear you want to open a car dealership.

01:28:38.120 And he says, sure.

01:28:39.460 He's an IT guy on Capitol Hill.

01:28:43.560 The guy who he supposedly doesn't really know

01:28:46.700 gives him $100,000 to open up his car dealership.

01:28:50.720 Happens all the time.

01:28:51.240 He opens up his car dealership and he's selling cars that he has borrowed from the lot next door.

01:29:00.160 It's a strange business model, I grant you.

01:29:02.720 Yeah, really odd.

01:29:04.380 I mean, the whole one thing is already crazy.

01:29:07.660 But then you when I mean, this is a lot of political has just they have just scratched the surface of this.

01:29:16.080 Because I'm sending, you know, I'm sending the connection to my friends on Capitol Hill today and say, hey, guys, maybe you should notice the Politico story and the Debbie Wasserman Schultz story from a few months ago.

01:29:31.060 That all of you pinheads apparently have forgotten about because they seem to fit together.

01:29:37.000 Let's see what happens.

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01:30:50.580 Glenn Beck.

01:30:57.580 Glenn Beck.

01:30:59.140 So, the left doesn't want you to understand that their movement is fake.

01:31:05.680 But I thank God for millennials because I think they get that internally.

01:31:12.220 They just know.

01:31:13.600 The operatives are fake.

01:31:15.640 And embodied in this recent quote by the left's new superstar, Linda Sarsour, you will see, quote,

01:31:24.340 When I wasn't wearing a hijab, I was just some ordinary white girl from New York City.

01:31:29.240 But wearing the hijab made you know that I was a Muslim.

01:31:34.560 Oh.

01:31:35.780 Okay.

01:31:36.160 So, who is she?

01:31:38.920 The White House designated her as a champion of change.

01:31:44.660 New York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio sought out her endorsement.

01:31:48.080 Bernie Sanders used her as a surrogate during his presidential campaign.

01:31:51.560 And most recently, she has made news as one of the lead organizers of the Women's March.

01:31:57.480 She was also the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against President Trump's immigration order.

01:32:02.340 So, who is she actually?

01:32:03.980 Well, she came out of nowhere around 2003.

01:32:06.200 She's a Palestinian-American community activist who served as the executive director of the Arab American Association of New York.

01:32:16.860 She's been there since 2005.

01:32:18.500 She's also a board member of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York and a member of the New York City.

01:32:24.760 I'm not making this up.

01:32:25.800 They actually have one.

01:32:27.320 The New York City Justice League.

01:32:30.740 Good God.

01:32:31.280 Now, she claims to be a champion of Muslims, but in 2003, she said this about Saddam Hussein after he was captured by the U.S. troops.

01:32:41.600 I don't know.

01:32:42.140 I think he's done a lot of things that he shouldn't have done, but I was hurt.

01:32:45.920 My Arab pride was hurt.

01:32:47.720 Palestinians are under so much oppression, and no other Arab country ever helped them. 1.00

01:32:53.700 Oh.

01:32:55.020 Oh, okay. 0.92

01:32:55.760 Well, how many thousands of Muslims did Saddam Hussein kill and torture? 0.91

01:32:59.880 I mean, you know, they were his primary target.

01:33:03.380 They suffered the worst.

01:33:05.280 We're still discovering the genocidal mass graves from the Saddam era. 0.99

01:33:09.820 You were a champion of the Muslim people?

01:33:12.640 Really?

01:33:13.400 The Arab world? 0.98

01:33:15.500 She claims also to be a champion of human rights, but she has boasted that she has family members and a group of friends in the terror group Hamas.

01:33:24.340 In 2004, she said, and this was in the Journal of Columbia Graduate School Journalism.

01:33:36.920 She acknowledged that a friend of hers, as well as her cousin, are both serving long sentences, 99 years and 25 years, in Israeli jails because of their efforts to recruit jihadis to murder Israeli Jews.

01:33:51.100 Moreover, she revealed that her brother-in-law was serving a 12-year sentence in Israel because of his affiliation with Hamas.

01:33:59.720 Later, she was added to the women's rights activist list.

01:34:04.000 She wants to be, you know, right there.

01:34:05.780 I'm right there for women's rights. 0.98

01:34:07.620 But what does she actually believe?

01:34:09.100 Well, she once condemned the prominent anti-Islamist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who was an amazing woman. 0.97

01:34:19.160 She was raised as a Muslim and then subjected to female genital mutilation. 1.00

01:34:24.420 She said, quote, I wish I could take her vagina away. 1.00

01:34:28.460 She doesn't deserve to be a woman. 1.00

01:34:30.900 Oh. 0.71

01:34:32.640 She then later defended Saudi Arabia's treatment of women.

01:34:37.140 She said they're way ahead of the United States.

01:34:42.860 In fact, Saudi women, you know, receive 10 weeks of paid maternity leave, and that puts us to shame. 1.00

01:34:48.620 Really?

01:34:49.960 Saudi Arabia, a place where women aren't even allowed in public without a male escort, they put us to shame? 1.00

01:34:57.960 But now she's in a scandal. 0.99

01:35:00.860 And we come back to that, because this is where the rubber meets the road for the left.

01:35:10.140 Glenn Beck.

01:35:17.220 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:35:19.240 So I just want to make sure that we have this all covered to see if I've missed anything yet.

01:35:22.460 Linda Sarsour, she is, you know, a champion of change, and she is a champion of Muslims, but she liked Saddam Hussein because he cared about the oppression of the Palestinians, even though he was torturing and killing Muslims.

01:35:39.180 A champion of human rights, even though her cousin and a friend of hers are also serving 99 years in Israeli jails because they wanted to, you know, murder the Jews. 0.64

01:35:56.940 Women's rights, right? 1.00

01:35:58.700 She's really big on women's rights. 1.00

01:36:00.500 Unless you're Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and then she would like to, quote, take her vagina away. 1.00

01:36:07.840 She doesn't deserve to be a woman. 1.00

01:36:10.620 She's also added Black Lives Matter to her list. 0.95

01:36:14.260 She's also a Black Lives Matter person, except she said, quote, the sacrifice of black Muslim slaves that went through this country is nothing compared to the Islamophobia of today.

01:36:26.780 So Islamophobia is worse than the slave trade in America.

01:36:34.980 But the left loves her.

01:36:37.280 Let's see if they'll continue to love her. 0.68

01:36:39.640 My guess is yes.

01:36:41.300 She has now been accused of enabling sexual assault and body shaming while she was the executive director for the Arab American Association.

01:36:49.820 One of the victims swore out, said she oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women. 1.00

01:36:57.880 Witnesses have corroborated the story that a female staffer working for Sarsour was sexually assaulted by a man multiple times.

01:37:06.880 And Sarsour dismissed the allegations because the accused was, quote, a good Muslim and always at the mosque, end quote.

01:37:15.060 She said there was no way any man would want to do such a thing to her because she was fat. 1.00

01:37:23.920 The accuser claims Sarsour threatened legal and professional damage.

01:37:27.700 If any of this information ever came out, just wait until more people start to talk.

01:37:32.280 She said Sarsour is no champion of woman of women.

01:37:35.800 She is an abuser of them.

01:37:39.740 Does she go away, Stu? 0.93

01:37:41.160 No, no, of course not.

01:37:44.860 I don't think so either.

01:37:45.440 It's all about what you can use for your own purposes at any given moment, right?

01:37:49.520 I mean, we're seeing this with the Al Franken thing.

01:37:51.580 When Roy Moore was up for election, they were all very tough on Al Franken.

01:37:56.840 Today, they are out saying, maybe we acted hastily.

01:38:02.140 Maybe Al should stay for a while because, you know, I mean, it's really hypocritical for us to throw him out like this. 0.86

01:38:09.280 Unbelievable.

01:38:09.640 You know, this is what happened.

01:38:11.600 They only wanted him out because of Roy Moore.

01:38:14.980 And they promised him.

01:38:16.440 I can guarantee you they promised him, look, you're going to be taken care of.

01:38:19.880 You're going to be a big wig. 0.99

01:38:20.940 You're going to be a you're going to be, you know, a grandfather of the progressive movement.

01:38:25.060 You're a martyr for the cause.

01:38:26.140 You're a martyr for the cause.

01:38:27.800 Take one for the team.

01:38:29.040 He did.

01:38:30.240 Roy Moore lost.

01:38:31.660 Now they're like, wait, we could keep him here.

01:38:34.160 We didn't need to get rid of him.

01:38:35.500 Right.

01:38:35.620 I mean, that was what the New York Times thing.

01:38:39.280 I think I read this to you last week, which basically said, this is how Al Franken is serving history.

01:38:47.520 His his alleged misdeeds were just the way he served history.

01:38:55.720 It's like, can you imagine someone on the right getting that treatment for what he was accused of?

01:39:00.740 I mean, that that doesn't occur.

01:39:03.180 How about this?

01:39:03.720 How about this?

01:39:04.860 How about Lisa Bloom?

01:39:07.140 Oh, do you know that not a word was printed in the Washington Post or the New York Times about that?

01:39:12.300 That's incredible.

01:39:14.080 Explain the story.

01:39:14.940 So Lisa Bloom is Gloria Allred's daughter.

01:39:18.500 OK, you would think so.

01:39:19.900 Rough said right off the bat.

01:39:22.440 She also was involved in with the Weinstein situation, but not on the side.

01:39:27.640 You'd think she was kind of defending him and tossing around ideas that maybe they should go after people in the media who are reporting on it and some of the victims and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:39:37.600 So she had already kind of had some criticism against her and it's sort of like I see if I can give you the exact details, but she is the also the known as the if you search for her name on the Internet, it'll tell you she's Gloria Allred's daughter and she's the lawyer that took down Bill O'Reilly.

01:39:56.880 It's like in her like Wikipedia page, like the first sentence, it's like every profile of her talks about how she was going to she took down Bill O'Reilly.

01:40:06.780 And this is kind of a big scalp.

01:40:08.280 Right.

01:40:09.040 So and Bill talked about this on his Friday appearance coming out later today.

01:40:13.820 There's going to be some evidence that, you know, somebody may have paid or was soliciting for funds to pay accusers of Donald Trump to take down Trump during the 2016 election.

01:40:26.880 Now, Bill's talked about this for months.

01:40:29.700 He's mentioned it on the air with us several times that there was a tape that exists and there's people they have evidence of actual accusers who may have been paid to go after Trump.

01:40:41.140 And honestly, like I heard him say it a bunch of times and, you know, I didn't know if he was ever going to be able to come out with it, you know, and without any evidence.

01:40:48.380 I knew what he had.

01:40:50.000 I I I know what he has now.

01:40:52.620 Uh, and I think you're going to have to wait for a court case for him to say more about it.

01:40:59.900 Um, but it is it's really damning.

01:41:03.700 And then it's really damning.

01:41:05.380 And you're like, OK, well, something's coming out today.

01:41:06.900 What's it going to be?

01:41:07.740 Is it going to be, you know, I mean, Bill's not going to just throw out info wars.

01:41:10.940 But I mean, is it some concern if it is it some concern is a Breitbart, some Breitbart investigation, uh, you know, which you could obviously dismiss on partisan grounds.

01:41:20.560 Uh, no, the story breaks in the hill, which is, if anything, a left leaning, uh, certainly a mainstream source of what's going on in Washington.

01:41:31.120 Um, and they, the claim is that Lisa Bloom offered to sell alleged victim stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser's mortgage and attempting to secure a six figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000.

01:41:54.800 That's what the clients told the hill women's accounts were chronicled in contemporaneous contractual documents, contractual documents. 0.98

01:42:03.360 Remember the whole thing with, uh, James Comey.

01:42:05.840 It was contemporaneous notes.

01:42:07.140 He went into meetings with Trump.

01:42:08.340 He took notes as he left.

01:42:09.660 And remember how, remember how much the left saw that as real evidence, like proof beyond a shadow of a doubt that this guy took notes as he walked out of the room.

01:42:19.060 And I think you can look at that and say, OK, it's, I don't know if I put it on that pedestal, but OK, that's an indication of,

01:42:24.800 what he believed at the time.

01:42:26.460 These are contemporaneous contractual documents, emails, and text messages reviewed by the hill, including an exchange of texts between one woman and Lisa Bloom that suggested political action committees supporting Hillary Clinton were contacted during the effort.

01:42:42.060 So she's trying to get all this money. 1.00

01:42:44.040 People want to take Trump down.

01:42:45.560 She goes to the Hillary donors and says, hey, give us a bunch of money and I'll produce these accusers. 1.00

01:42:51.400 So these accusers get to get their problems financially taken care of while we're taking down Trump.

01:42:57.760 I mean, this is, again, you'd never believe you'd get this sort of evidence about a story like this.

01:43:03.480 And it totally, to me, just, you know, it demeans anything.

01:43:07.160 If you can demean anything Gloria Allred and her daughter have done any further than they should already instantly be discounted because of who they are and what they've done in the past.

01:43:15.380 But this is a, I mean, this has got to cast a shadow on everything that they've produced.

01:43:19.620 And there is more than this.

01:43:21.220 And there's more than this.

01:43:22.180 There's more than this.

01:43:23.340 Because I know we've heard about a potential tape of this actually occurring, not even just a, you know, a contract or anything like that.

01:43:30.700 This is an actual tape, but there's even more.

01:43:33.560 I have a, I have a source that is a second source that has verified and I'm just going to leave it at this, at this point.

01:43:47.700 And it's curious that the one who has the goods is not coming forward.

01:44:00.260 Extraordinarily curious.

01:44:02.940 And, uh, if you don't soon, I don't think it's going to work out well for you because it's going to come out.

01:44:11.500 And if you don't come out with it soon, I just don't think it's going to work out for you.

01:44:21.200 Um, we are looking at, we're looking at, uh, Lisa Bloom.

01:44:34.000 Bribing people, bribing people.

01:44:36.680 And she, by the way, of course, is denying that was her intent.

01:44:39.540 Yeah, she said, no, no, no, I was just helping them pay for their house.

01:44:42.800 Well, did you do that for the Clinton accusers?

01:44:45.520 Oh, surely she did.

01:44:46.660 Of course she did.

01:44:47.620 I'm just trying to help them.

01:44:49.080 Uh-huh.

01:44:50.360 $750,000.

01:44:51.400 Boy, that's a lot of money just to help.

01:44:54.880 Um, so you have bribery.

01:44:59.520 Um, you have this investigation that has to be had.

01:45:02.940 New York Times, Washington Post, they're not even on it.

01:45:06.740 Same attorney that went after Bill O'Reilly.

01:45:08.900 Okay.

01:45:09.900 Bill charges.

01:45:10.920 Well, I won't, I'll let him say it sometime to you.

01:45:14.060 Um, you have this, you have the Russia thing on Donald Trump.

01:45:20.340 You know, what were the connections on Donald Trump?

01:45:23.640 Plus, you have Donald Trump looking at the FBI saying, what's going on with you guys?

01:45:29.800 Quite honestly, I think both sides are dirty, both the FBI and people in the Trump administration.

01:45:34.900 But that doesn't even mention the Hillary investigation. 0.77

01:45:39.920 Hillary Clinton dirty with, with, uh, with Russia.

01:45:44.520 Uh, she also was playing games with Russia, especially when it comes to, uh, uranium one.

01:45:53.180 And I don't believe that uranium one happened the way the press wants you to think, uh, I would believe that it happened.

01:46:03.260 I don't think Hillary Clinton necessarily said anything.

01:46:07.360 I think uranium one took care of all the people they needed to take care of.

01:46:13.700 She wouldn't have her fingers.

01:46:15.820 She's too smart for that. 0.99

01:46:16.920 I think it's more corrupt than just Hillary Clinton. 1.00

01:46:22.060 And you've got that going on.

01:46:24.060 Plus, you also need to look into Debbie Wasserman Schultz and President Obama for allegedly what Politico just said they were doing, which was turning a blind eye, basically the Iran-Contra affair.

01:46:39.780 But it looks like, at least to me, that it goes all the way to Capitol Hill and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, not just the president who's gone, but to people who are still currently in Congress.

01:46:55.220 Do you really think these people are going to find the answers to any of these questions?

01:46:59.540 These are the kinds of things I have said for a long time.

01:47:07.380 You know, you've got to look at what, you know, look what the founders went through before the Declaration of Independence.

01:47:13.220 I mean, it was not, hey, I disagree with your policies.

01:47:17.840 They were real problems.

01:47:20.160 You're entering real problems on both sides. 0.56

01:47:25.620 Both sides are corrupt.

01:47:27.340 Somebody in Washington better spit themselves out of the system and start telling the American people the truth or the pitchforks eventually will arrive.

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01:49:29.840 Glenn Beck.

01:49:36.760 Glenn Beck.

01:49:38.540 Really bad Amtrak crane trash up in Pierce County, Washington, which is just south and east of Tacoma, Washington.

01:49:48.780 And it's a bad one.

01:49:51.940 Came down, looks like, on the I-5 freeway.

01:49:55.720 And we'll keep everybody in Seattle in our prayers today.

01:50:00.120 Are you following the tax bill at all?

01:50:02.160 What's going on with that?

01:50:04.320 No.

01:50:05.180 So they have 52 votes, right?

01:50:07.300 Apparently John McCain is really in trouble.

01:50:10.020 Really bad, yeah.

01:50:10.860 And it does not look like he would even be able to.

01:50:13.320 Yeah, I read this morning that he's not going to be able to vote.

01:50:15.700 So that means you're down to 51 votes.

01:50:18.640 And, you know, anything can, again, that's a bigger issue than, you know, McCain's health, obviously.

01:50:25.140 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:50:25.840 Then you've got Cochran, who's also had health problems, though it looks like he'll be able to vote.

01:50:29.820 But that would get it to 50.

01:50:31.320 And, you know, any of these guys, you never know when one of them is going to just flake out and say that they don't want something.

01:50:35.200 When are they going to pull the trigger on it?

01:50:37.380 Supposedly they said a vote could come as early as tomorrow.

01:50:40.780 The interesting thing about it, though, is that I feel like people are totally treating it as a foregone conclusion.

01:50:46.120 That's trouble.

01:50:46.900 And, you know, if I, again, if I was a betting guy, which I am, but if I could find a place to wager on whether this thing would pass or not,

01:50:58.580 you'd get nice odds to say that it's not going to pass.

01:51:01.720 And Republicans screw these things up so often.

01:51:03.760 I could totally see it falling through.

01:51:06.420 But as of right now, I mean, there are some really good things in there.

01:51:08.940 We talked a little bit off the air about some of the education benefits.

01:51:11.800 There's some nice, if you're a school choice person, there's some nice stuff built into it for that.

01:51:16.620 You know, it's not a great bill.

01:51:18.700 There's a lot of problems with it.

01:51:20.140 I'll take it.

01:51:20.860 But it's better than what we have.

01:51:23.660 And there's some really good things in it.

01:51:25.260 Yeah, I'll take it.

01:51:26.100 So I'll take it.

01:51:26.900 And I'll give Donald Trump credit for it.

01:51:29.440 I mean, I'll take it.

01:51:30.100 Yeah, I mean, it's funny.

01:51:31.420 They had a situation where people are, like, saying, well, this is going to cost us trillions of dollars.

01:51:35.460 It's going to be a big deal.

01:51:36.420 Stop it.

01:51:36.760 No, it's not.

01:51:37.460 And then on the other side, they're saying, look, corporations already pay an effective 21% rate.

01:51:41.780 So this is not a big deal at all.

01:51:43.620 It's like, well, is it going to cost us trillions or is it not a big deal at all?

01:51:46.700 Because if it's not a big change in their rate, you know, I mean.

01:51:52.300 Then why not just make it official?

01:51:53.460 It's just every complaint, throw it against the wall, hope something sticks, you know.

01:51:59.260 So, I mean, it's better for the country if the thing passes.

01:52:02.640 It's just you wish they would have got a little bit more bold.

01:52:05.340 More on that tomorrow.

01:52:06.340 Also, has the government been hiding UFOs?

01:52:09.900 An amazing revelation over the weekend.

01:52:13.320 On tomorrow's program.

01:52:14.300 Glenn Beck.

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 18, 2017

12⧸18⧸17 - Reflection, Peace & Family？ (Dr. Jordan Peterson joins Glenn)

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