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00:00:34.980 Hello.

00:00:36.200 Hello, America, and welcome to the program.

00:00:41.600 Last night, we came close to something that I was hoping we would get in the election.

00:00:47.780 I really wanted to get beyond border walls, get beyond trade deals.

00:00:55.380 I wanted to get to the real debate that America should be having, and that is, look, are we

00:01:01.800 going to follow Marxism and authoritarianism, or are we going to follow the Constitution?

00:01:06.940 Do we believe in capitalism, or do we believe in a planned society, in a planned economy?

00:01:12.840 Which one?

00:01:14.100 Let's don't have straw man arguments.

00:01:16.320 Let's actually hash it out.

00:01:20.500 The closest we came to that was last night with Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz.

00:01:30.300 It was on Obamacare.

00:01:32.880 Which direction do we go?

00:01:34.740 We start there, right now.

00:01:36.320 I will make a stand.

00:01:39.740 I will raise my voice.

00:01:41.920 I will hold your hand.

00:01:44.360 Because we are one.

00:01:46.140 I will be my drum.

00:01:48.400 I have made my choice.

00:01:50.660 We will overcome.

00:01:52.940 Because we are one.

00:01:54.720 I have to tell you, there's something going on in Texas that is nasty.

00:02:09.820 We've all been hit by it.

00:02:11.160 Last week, I think there were like seven people out of the company last week.

00:02:17.820 Pat took a couple of days off, which I've never seen him do.

00:02:20.700 I've known him since 1989.

00:02:22.100 I've never seen him take a day off, unless it was surgery.

00:02:27.160 And he took two days off.

00:02:29.380 I got sick like four weeks ago, and I still can't shake this thing.

00:02:33.860 I don't know what it is that's going around.

00:02:35.720 I don't know if it's going around the rest of the country.

00:02:37.320 But Texas has been hit by something that is nasty.

00:02:41.440 Really nasty.

00:02:42.300 I know there's a school in Arlington, Texas right now that's struggling with dirty sock syndrome.

00:02:48.100 So perhaps this building has that.

00:02:50.100 What is dirty sock syndrome?

00:02:51.540 It's a foul, moldy odor that comes from AC vents.

00:02:56.480 So, I mean, it's possible this building could have dirty sock syndrome.

00:03:02.220 Yikes.

00:03:02.640 Okay.

00:03:03.320 Thank you for that.

00:03:04.620 Hey, everybody.

00:03:05.440 Let's get going on the dirty socks. 0.98

00:03:07.800 All right.

00:03:08.300 We want to talk a little bit about what happened yesterday with Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders.

00:03:15.240 Now, I really want to have a debate.

00:03:19.860 And, you know, I think we need to get into the area now where it's no straw men.

00:03:25.680 We all know why, you know, Hannity and Combs. 1.00

00:03:29.540 We know why Combs was put in, right?

00:03:32.320 I mean, literally, Roger Ailes said, I'm looking for the ugliest damn bastard that can go on television.

00:03:40.500 And, you know, so you win every time just by the looks of Combs.

00:03:46.080 No, no offense.

00:03:48.180 I think Alan knows that.

00:03:49.920 I think I've even heard Alan joke that way.

00:03:53.640 But it's true.

00:03:57.600 We all know.

00:03:58.400 So we know it because it's making Stu very uncomfortable.

00:04:03.540 I don't know.

00:04:05.020 I heard you say it.

00:04:07.520 I've never heard anyone else.

00:04:08.720 Right.

00:04:09.100 So anyway, the idea, and we've gone into this knowingly that we build straw men and it allows us to not talk about the real issue by building the straw man of, you know, so and so is just evil.

00:04:37.520 And we personalize it and make it about them.

00:04:41.240 It allows you to not have to talk about the idea.

00:04:46.300 And that's where we need to be.

00:04:48.100 And we should be uncomfortable in that.

00:04:50.360 I don't want to know the outcome before we start to have the debate.

00:04:55.840 I want to be challenged.

00:04:57.480 I want somebody to come in and make a case for Marxism that makes me go, huh?

00:05:04.680 Oh, wait a minute.

00:05:05.960 Well, that's a good point.

00:05:08.080 Now, I don't know if you can do that.

00:05:09.540 If you've ever read Das Kapital, has anybody ever read Das Kapital?

00:05:13.280 No.

00:05:13.760 Oh, you have to.

00:05:14.700 You have to.

00:05:15.140 Just download it.

00:05:15.760 I think it's for free.

00:05:16.560 You have to read it.

00:05:17.640 Isn't it really poorly written?

00:05:18.780 Oh, my gosh.

00:05:19.400 You read it and so many times I read it and was like, how can anybody believe this?

00:05:27.220 This is just insanity.

00:05:29.180 It doesn't make any sense.

00:05:31.180 So I'd like somebody to be able to defend Marxism where you look at that and those reasons and you're like, OK, now let me hear the defense of capitalism.

00:05:45.020 And let's really decide.

00:05:47.020 They decide.

00:05:49.040 Yesterday, they ate again around the edges and it was about Obamacare.

00:05:53.580 But what is the Obamacare debate?

00:05:56.140 Are we going to have a planned economy where central planners in the government sit around an office and say, look, we know better than the free market.

00:06:10.760 And so this is how we're going to fix this.

00:06:14.400 Or do we believe in the free market that somebody somewhere is going to have a better idea and it might start in their garage.

00:06:24.380 But when there's pain, there is always somebody thinking of a way to get out of that pain.

00:06:32.300 And even sometimes it comes just from a financial motivation.

00:06:37.160 You know, if we can solve this problem, we'll be rich.

00:06:39.280 I don't care if that's what somebody's intention is on curing cancer.

00:06:45.700 I want the people who want to cure cancer because they're driven by it.

00:06:49.840 But I don't mind people who are driven by the money saying, if I can come up with a cure for cancer, I'll be the richest man in the world because everybody will buy the cure for me.

00:06:59.700 I'm OK with that, too, as long as it's clean and not corrupt.

00:07:06.240 So that's what they're really discussing here.

00:07:09.280 Plan society, central planning, Marxism versus capitalism.

00:07:16.700 Let's give you a couple of the highlights.

00:07:18.560 Insurance company profits have doubled under Obamacare.

00:07:22.540 That was the result.

00:07:23.480 This thing isn't working.

00:07:24.600 I find myself in agreement with Ted.

00:07:27.900 He's right.

00:07:28.620 Let's work together on a Medicare for all single payer program so we're finally going to get insurance companies, private insurance companies out of our lives.

00:07:39.340 When government takes over health care, every example on Earth, the result is rationing and waiting periods and you, the citizens, being told, no, you can't have the health care you want and deserve.

00:07:50.120 And in America, we do rationing in a different way.

00:07:53.320 The way we do rationing is if you are very rich, you can get the best health care in the world, I believe.

00:07:59.000 But if you are working class, you're going to be having a very difficult time affording the outrageous cost.

00:08:06.180 So maybe you and I could agree on a common sense reform of allowing LaRonda to purchase health insurance of any of the 50 states.

00:08:14.080 That creates a 50 state national marketplace.

00:08:17.260 It drives down costs.

00:08:18.700 It increases choices.

00:08:20.280 Ted, let me ask you a question.

00:08:21.740 Sure.

00:08:21.860 Is every American entitled, and I underlined that word, to health care as a right?

00:08:28.420 So what is a right?

00:08:29.340 No.

00:08:30.020 Is access to health care.

00:08:31.480 What is a right is choosing your own doctor.

00:08:33.780 Access to what?

00:08:34.840 You want to buy one of Donald Trump's mansions?

00:08:37.060 You have access to do that as well.

00:08:39.060 Access doesn't mean a damn thing.

00:08:41.940 Did you bark that last one?

00:08:44.860 Yeah, so that was the debate in 90 seconds.

00:08:47.700 They also have a, it's an interesting thing because obviously they're going to go back and that's, I believe, the CNN version of that.

00:08:54.020 So they're giving each other little points here and there.

00:08:57.060 The reaction, it seemed to be, that Cruz did very well in this particular debate.

00:09:02.820 Of course, right?

00:09:04.400 I mean, this is not a surprise.

00:09:05.840 You know, that's like, you know, putting, you know, Leonardo da Vinci in a painting contest with me.

00:09:14.900 Of course, of course, Ted Cruz is going to win.

00:09:20.620 Do we have the next clip?

00:09:21.760 Yep.

00:09:22.360 I don't know if the cameras can see this, but in 70% of the counties in America, on Obamacare exchanges, you have a choice of one or two health insurance plans.

00:09:30.900 That's it.

00:09:31.760 70% of the counties in America.

00:09:33.720 It's interesting.

00:09:34.260 You look at this map.

00:09:35.160 This also very much looks like the electoral map that elected Donald Trump.

00:09:38.380 It's really quite striking that the communities that have been hammered by this disaster of a law said enough already.

00:09:47.080 Now, Bernie likes talking about a public option.

00:09:50.100 That's another way of saying government control of your health care.

00:09:53.100 It's socialized medicine.

00:09:54.420 And what does it mean?

00:09:55.380 Every country where it's been applied, you've seen rationing, you've seen government deciding, especially seniors.

00:10:01.840 Seniors, you don't get the health care you need. 1.00

00:10:04.120 Now, Bernie mentions Canada quite a bit.

00:10:05.700 But I know quite a bit about Canadian health care.

00:10:07.840 I was born there.

00:10:10.100 You know, Bernie, that may be the best argument against your position.

00:10:12.760 You know, look what it produced.

00:10:14.460 Look at the results.

00:10:15.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:10:19.240 It's a good line.

00:10:20.480 I will tell you, I don't think we've ever talked about this with Michael Buble and his son, who is very, very sick.

00:10:31.120 Do you know this?

00:10:32.200 I've seen the stories about it.

00:10:33.940 So his son is very, very sick.

00:10:35.360 He's Canadian, obviously.

00:10:37.720 And they were at home in Canada and they thought his son had the mumps.

00:10:45.060 He takes his son to America and says, is this the mumps?

00:10:50.220 And they haven't revealed what kind of cancer it is, but it's not the mumps.

00:10:54.860 And so his firstborn child, Michael has stopped all touring, all recording, everything.

00:11:02.460 And he and his wife are just super serving their son right now.

00:11:06.200 Don't know how things are going, but it's apparently pretty significant and pretty severe.

00:11:12.580 And I my family, because we know Michael and we're we have been watching this story.

00:11:18.940 But the reason why I bring it up is they were in Canada.

00:11:23.300 They thought he had the mumps.

00:11:27.400 They bring him across the border to go see an American hospital and an American doctor.

00:11:33.860 Yes.

00:11:36.220 Can everybody do that?

00:11:37.920 No.

00:11:38.400 But it is exactly the same thing as can everybody afford Pat's 4K 900 foot television?

00:11:47.600 No.

00:11:49.660 When I first got a high definition television, Pat and everybody came over.

00:11:55.080 It was my 40th birthday.

00:11:56.520 That was 13 years ago.

00:11:58.280 It was my 40th birthday.

00:11:59.960 And my wife got me a flat screen, which was brand new, high definition Sony, which was still the best.

00:12:09.940 I don't even know how big that is.

00:12:11.400 50 inches.

00:12:13.240 Something like that.

00:12:13.980 It was $10,000.

00:12:17.600 I still have it.

00:12:19.820 $10,000.

00:12:21.920 It wasn't a smart TV.

00:12:23.880 It was just a flat panel, high definition.

00:12:26.780 There's no apps on that, right?

00:12:28.840 You can't get Netflix or any of that stuff on there.

00:12:31.080 It is such an outdated television now.

00:12:33.140 It cost me $10,000.

00:12:35.040 Today, you could go get that television for about $400 at Costco.

00:12:40.300 That's the idea.

00:12:42.160 And that's what's happening.

00:12:43.140 That exact procedure is happening with the United States and health care and the rest of the world.

00:12:50.560 The United States is you with the $10,000 TV.

00:12:53.420 Yes.

00:12:53.600 And the rest of the world is all of us schlubs who wait a little while while people like you are buying the $10,000 TV.

00:13:01.720 And now we get $198 TVs that are better than your TV at Walmart.

00:13:05.420 Because what happened?

00:13:07.700 We're financing.

00:13:09.520 Yeah.

00:13:09.960 We're financing.

00:13:11.220 That's why our health care costs more.

00:13:12.560 That's why our drugs cost more.

00:13:14.380 Right.

00:13:14.640 Because the rich, and you have to remember, we're the top 10% of the world.

00:13:20.360 Can't have it both ways.

00:13:22.100 The poorest among us are still part of the wealthiest in the world.

00:13:26.560 And so we are financing all of the research, all of everything, to be able to drive the costs lower so they can go in and buy a television for $400 that nobody had 10 years ago, except the very wealthy.

00:13:45.520 That's the way capitalism works.

00:13:48.020 Now, for the first time, I have seen somebody change this model, and it works, but it still is working through capitalism, and that's Google.

00:14:00.180 Google decided they wanted to do some stuff, and so they decided they want to design and be the leader in artificial intelligence.

00:14:12.640 So what did they do?

00:14:13.580 Capitalism, when it is at its best, is charitable.

00:14:21.000 Capitalism, it doesn't have to be their point, but when capitalism is at its best, it's when somebody is saying, how can I serve people?

00:14:30.500 How can I make their life better?

00:14:32.960 How can I make their life easier?

00:14:34.520 How can I help them do the things they want to do in different ways, cheaply?

00:14:43.760 Google knew we needed a way to search for facts and for Internet.

00:14:49.040 We needed to be able to find things quickly and find answers quickly.

00:14:53.740 You'll notice, you know, you've never paid.

00:14:57.080 The rich have never paid for Google, or did they?

00:15:01.600 The rich got together, and they said, and listened to the guys at Google and said, we can do AI.

00:15:10.200 We can make artificial intelligence, build robots, build self-driving cars.

00:15:17.280 We can do all those things, but we need you to invest in us.

00:15:23.880 Well, how are you going to do it?

00:15:25.480 We're going to provide people with what they want, and what they are going to need is information.

00:15:31.500 So we're just going to map the human brain by being a search engine, and we'll know everything.

00:15:39.060 In 15 years, we'll have all of the information we need to be able to see how people think.

00:15:46.780 That's why you have the free service of Google.

00:15:49.640 Now, they just did it again.

00:15:52.620 For the first time in my life, you can have what only the wealthy has,

00:16:00.960 and that is somebody who is around you all the time taking notes,

00:16:05.500 somebody who is doing your shopping for you,

00:16:08.160 somebody who is taking care of things,

00:16:10.500 would somebody turn the TV on,

00:16:12.820 would somebody find that, what was that song that I wanted to hear,

00:16:17.920 would you just find that and play that for me?

00:16:20.700 It's called Google Home.

00:16:23.120 The average person, it's not starting out at $1,000,

00:16:29.120 it's starting out at $100.

00:16:33.100 For $100, you can have an assistant.

00:16:38.160 Now, how did that happen?

00:16:39.920 Through Marxism or capitalism?

00:16:43.080 By hating the rich or going and selling to the rich,

00:16:47.260 we have an idea.

00:16:48.780 And it's going to make you even richer.

00:16:50.480 But it's going to change people's lives.

00:16:55.900 That's how it works.

00:17:00.040 Why is it we can't get people to understand that?

00:17:03.080 And it answers the question why they work so hard to get you to hate the rich.

00:17:11.780 Look at Tom Brady.

00:17:14.180 I have never heard America hate a guy for seemingly no reason as much as Tom Brady.

00:17:25.260 I mean, if you take out the cheating aspect.

00:17:28.220 Take out the cheating aspect.

00:17:29.420 If you take out the fact that he cheated at the thing he's known for.

00:17:32.260 But you know what?

00:17:32.960 But wait, wait, wait.

00:17:34.000 But wait.

00:17:34.660 They hated him before that.

00:17:36.220 Yeah, they did.

00:17:36.860 Here's a guy who's successful, who has a model wife, is good looking, has a good family.

00:17:43.520 Again, I'm not against Tom Brady.

00:17:44.700 I think he's the best quarterback of all time.

00:17:46.120 But also his model wife came out of him leaving his last wife while she was pregnant, right? 0.62

00:17:53.260 Okay, that part I don't remember.

00:17:55.980 Tom is not a crystal clear here.

00:17:57.500 Is that the reason why people hate him?

00:18:00.460 Or do they hate him because?

00:18:01.540 I think they hate his success.

00:18:02.400 I think they hate his success.

00:18:03.880 They get tired of the fact that he's won five Super Bowls and he's got a model wife.

00:18:06.640 And one of them was against the Philadelphia Eagles.

00:18:09.100 And he deserves every bit of it.

00:18:10.920 And how many times do you hear people say, I'm just tired of him winning?

00:18:14.980 All the time.

00:18:15.520 Oh, yeah.

00:18:16.100 All the time.

00:18:16.640 I'm just tired of him winning.

00:18:18.040 Yeah.

00:18:18.780 Since when?

00:18:19.940 As long as it's fair.

00:18:21.580 That's the problem.

00:18:22.580 There's a question whether it's fair.

00:18:24.560 Multiple times.

00:18:25.560 Right.

00:18:25.800 I know that.

00:18:26.360 I know that.

00:18:27.560 But that's not what they mean when they say, I'm tired of him winning.

00:18:32.700 It's a different argument to say, I think the guy's a cheat.

00:18:36.020 Yeah.

00:18:36.820 But that's not what people are saying.

00:18:38.540 Well.

00:18:38.960 I'm tired of this guy winning.

00:18:40.320 I want somebody else to win.

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00:18:43.000 I mean, it gets boring.

00:18:43.800 You watch this every year.

00:18:45.680 Were we bored by Babe Ruth?

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00:20:54.860 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:59.120 Hello and welcome to the program.

00:21:00.660 So glad that you're here.

00:21:01.580 I have a lot to talk to you about today.

00:21:06.240 There's a lot of stuff.

00:21:07.700 I really want to spend some time on generating the ideas that we want to talk about.

00:21:18.040 For instance, I really want to find the two best people, no straw men, no politicians,

00:21:24.300 the two best people in the country that can defend Marxism and defend capitalism and let

00:21:34.440 them, let them go.

00:21:35.880 Let's, let's listen.

00:21:37.540 I want to find those things that, you know, I want the best atheist and the best Christian

00:21:45.000 to debate.

00:21:45.600 Let's go back to the Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders debate, which was a debate about healthcare.

00:22:02.380 I really want the debate on capitalism or socialism because that's what they're eating around the

00:22:09.860 edges.

00:22:10.660 And that's the real question.

00:22:12.560 Do we believe in the free market anymore?

00:22:15.940 Do we even have the free market anymore?

00:22:19.000 Do we want to go further down this road of Marxism?

00:22:24.160 Does it work?

00:22:25.320 Can it work?

00:22:27.200 We're seeing the results of Obamacare.

00:22:29.820 And of course, the Marxists are saying just because we didn't do enough, we didn't do it

00:22:33.820 right.

00:22:34.240 That's always the excuse.

00:22:37.440 We just didn't do enough.

00:22:39.360 So last night they had the debate and you're looking at the fact check.

00:22:42.600 Anything big come out of the fact check that one of them was wrong on?

00:22:46.440 You know, there's, there's, there's a ton of the stuff that, you know, that you can nitpick.

00:22:50.480 One of the things I did like was one thing that Cruz said that was rated true was Cruz's,

00:22:56.180 Rand Paul said this as well.

00:22:58.020 About 14 point, most of the Obamacare people are actually covered by Medicaid.

00:23:03.100 14.5 million of the 20 million who gained coverage were under Medicaid or CHIP, which is the

00:23:08.320 children's health care version of it.

00:23:10.260 But somewhere between a quarter and a half of that 14.5 million were already eligible

00:23:14.700 for Medicaid even before Obamacare took effect.

00:23:18.500 So these numbers that they're taking credit for, first of all, a lot of it's Medicaid and

00:23:21.780 not the standard Obamacare that we always talk about.

00:23:24.320 And secondly, a decent amount of those people were already eligible for programs that already

00:23:28.560 existed, just weren't on them.

00:23:30.540 That's a, that's a pretty significant thing.

00:23:32.740 That's huge.

00:23:33.300 Yeah.

00:23:33.580 I mean, you know.

00:23:34.240 So that number of 20 million goes down to about 3 million very quickly.

00:23:38.120 And so everybody, you lost your doctor for 3 million people.

00:23:44.420 Yeah.

00:23:45.000 Why didn't we just design something for those 3 million people?

00:23:49.100 Right.

00:23:49.320 And that's a lot of the Republican plans we're trying to do now.

00:23:51.640 And 5 to 7 million people did lose their health care that they liked.

00:23:55.940 That was another one they fact checked.

00:23:57.160 So they said, Cruz said 6 million people had their insurance policy canceled because of

00:24:01.240 Obamacare.

00:24:01.780 They're CNN, or excuse me, PolitiFact is the one doing this.

00:24:06.760 They are saying that independent researchers estimate it was only 2.6 million.

00:24:11.180 It's a lie.

00:24:12.300 And then only 1 million ended up with no coverage at all.

00:24:15.540 Of course, that wasn't the standard at all.

00:24:17.420 The standard was, would you lose your coverage?

00:24:19.380 Right.

00:24:19.520 So they're saying, but even like the fact check on it is saying only, only 3 million

00:24:24.840 people were actually told they were going to lose their insurance.

00:24:27.880 I went to the doctor yesterday for the first time.

00:24:30.520 I had to pay a $45 copay.

00:24:33.540 Our copays used to be free.

00:24:35.880 Then they were $10.

00:24:37.360 Then it was 20.

00:24:38.280 Then it was 20.

00:24:39.020 Then now it's $45.

00:24:41.120 Yeah.

00:24:41.300 Why?

00:24:42.820 Sometimes more than that, depending on where you go.

00:24:44.500 Right.

00:24:44.920 Because of Obamacare.

00:24:47.540 Because they changed this, and the insurance companies no longer even provide the insurance

00:24:54.420 that I want to provide for the staff.

00:24:56.780 And we went from no deductible to deductibles.

00:24:59.340 Right.

00:24:59.720 So don't tell me that it was only 7 million or 3 million that lost their coverage.

00:25:06.520 We are all covered, but we're all covered in ways that are much more expensive and not

00:25:14.080 as good.

00:25:15.040 Yeah.

00:25:15.340 And premiums have risen by, and this is in the fact check, Cruz said they're skyrocketing.

00:25:20.220 Premiums have risen by an average, an average of 25% across the states that use the federal

00:25:25.860 exchange.

00:25:26.580 Imagine.

00:25:27.120 Highest increases in Arizona, 116%.

00:25:30.440 Oh my gosh.

00:25:31.080 Oklahoma, 69%.

00:25:32.500 But like, I love this little disclaimer they put at the end.

00:25:35.440 But it's important to note that 81% of consumers qualified for subsidies to help blunt the cost

00:25:40.160 of their care.

00:25:41.120 I don't want a subsidy.

00:25:41.980 The rest of us are paying for it.

00:25:43.000 The rest of us are paying for it.

00:25:44.140 It still costs a lot more.

00:25:46.100 It's just that now you have other people who are footing the bill for it.

00:25:49.380 That doesn't mean you've saved money.

00:25:50.920 It costs a lot more, and your taxes will have to go up, or our debt goes up because somebody

00:25:58.000 has to pay for that.

00:25:59.600 That's crazy.

00:26:01.060 It's absolutely crazy.

00:26:02.540 And this is one of the things I'm always stunned by when we get to the Obamacare debate

00:26:06.860 and this debate is the typical Republican thing that they always say is, and Cruz said it

00:26:12.260 in one of the clips we played earlier.

00:26:13.900 Well, look, it's a, just make it open so we can have a national competition.

00:26:19.420 Cruz said in the debate, 70% of the countries in America, 70%, excuse me, of the counties in

00:26:24.000 America on Obamacare exchanges, you have a choice of only one or two in health insurance

00:26:29.600 plans.

00:26:30.180 One or two.

00:26:30.780 So basically, either no competition purely or almost no competition to lower cost.

00:26:38.820 The liberals always fight this because obviously the goal is something like a single payer health

00:26:45.060 care program.

00:26:46.040 But it's like, this is so obvious and basic.

00:26:50.220 To be able to buy a health insurance plan from some other state is so, like the fact that

00:26:56.160 that is prevented.

00:26:56.960 What is the argument?

00:26:57.820 Right.

00:26:58.140 What is the argument?

00:26:59.060 It's the argument is you think it might work and then you don't need all of your magical

00:27:02.980 solutions.

00:27:03.700 I know that.

00:27:04.260 But what is the, what is the real argument?

00:27:07.000 I contend that there are so many Democrats who are no longer listening, just like us.

00:27:15.940 We're not listening to certain things.

00:27:18.560 We've made up our mind.

00:27:19.960 We don't want to listen to anybody.

00:27:21.500 And, you know, it's this old trap.

00:27:24.260 It was, it's amazing to me.

00:27:26.060 This is why that Thomas Jefferson quote, question with boldness, even the very existence of God

00:27:30.180 changed my life so much because I had grown up in a world where if you questioned, that

00:27:36.580 was Satan making you question.

00:27:39.180 God must surely rather honest questioning over blindfolded fear.

00:27:43.160 However, this is the same thing.

00:27:46.240 If you question anything, well, you're just on the other side.

00:27:50.520 You're trying to help the other side.

00:27:52.100 You're, you're being sucked in by, no, it's, this is what the church did in the dark ages.

00:27:59.680 We're doing it to ourself.

00:28:01.260 And I think there's a ton of people.

00:28:03.000 I had lunch with a guy, very, very smart, but a guy who says, you know what?

00:28:09.360 I should just run.

00:28:10.400 I should just run.

00:28:11.960 So we're having lunch.

00:28:13.380 And he said, you know, they're just simple things, Glenn, that I don't understand why we

00:28:18.060 can't get past.

00:28:19.540 Okay.

00:28:20.160 Like what?

00:28:21.500 I mean, voter ID.

00:28:25.220 Okay.

00:28:26.440 I'm anxious to hear your perspective, Mr. Democrat liberal on voter ID.

00:28:33.000 I mean, why can't we just have a driver's license?

00:28:38.020 Excuse me?

00:28:39.900 He had no idea.

00:28:43.080 He had just heard voter ID, voter ID, voter ID.

00:28:46.420 He thought we were the ones that stood against a driver's license, that we wanted something

00:28:52.580 extra, some extra hurdle.

00:28:55.480 The last thing we want is an extra freaking ID card.

00:28:58.080 And I said, yeah.

00:28:59.380 And I said, of course we don't want more national IDs. 0.99

00:29:02.400 We just think a driver's license, something with your picture on it.

00:29:07.120 He said, well, that's crazy.

00:29:08.680 We're the ones fighting against that.

00:29:10.720 Yeah.

00:29:11.440 Yes.

00:29:12.220 And, but the thing is, almost all Democrats agree with us on that issue.

00:29:15.900 I know.

00:29:16.500 It's like 80%.

00:29:17.400 I am convinced that they think their side is on the right side.

00:29:22.720 I think that's true.

00:29:23.680 They don't have any ID or any idea.

00:29:27.160 And I think that's, that's what happens when you say, go across state lines.

00:29:32.400 Nobody has a good answer against that, that I've ever heard.

00:29:36.880 What is the answer?

00:29:38.240 What's the argument?

00:29:39.480 Why wouldn't you open it up?

00:29:40.960 Right.

00:29:41.320 It's a competition.

00:29:41.920 Why wouldn't you?

00:29:42.480 Notice, nobody's really ever talking about that.

00:29:45.620 You don't ever debate that.

00:29:47.900 It's an electric fence because they, I believe they know that the average person would say,

00:29:52.820 of course, open it up to everybody.

00:29:54.960 Everybody should have that.

00:29:56.660 Right.

00:29:57.300 At least that's, that's, I mean, that's the, that's where I'm going.

00:30:00.180 I just don't think that they know.

00:30:03.340 I mean, this, their poll came out today.

00:30:05.060 There's a story on the blaze about it.

00:30:07.540 35% of all people that were polled, 35%, not just like one group or some, 35% said they

00:30:16.820 didn't know that Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act were the same thing.

00:30:20.920 Well, and how many times have we seen that on Jimmy Kimmel?

00:30:23.340 And that's where, yeah, kind of the source of that.

00:30:24.900 Would you rather have, would you rather have Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act?

00:30:28.540 And they don't know.

00:30:29.020 Yeah, they don't know.

00:30:30.180 Uh, and, uh, now 72% of Republicans said they knew Obama and A.

00:30:35.320 Okay.

00:30:36.080 So go ahead.

00:30:37.140 Go ahead.

00:30:37.380 We're the same.

00:30:38.180 They, they, 72% of Republicans.

00:30:39.840 Okay.

00:30:40.440 So now I go back to people saying they'll never change.

00:30:46.020 They'll never change.

00:30:47.420 We got to destroy them, hit them back twice as hard.

00:30:51.540 Mm-hmm.

00:30:52.060 Okay.

00:30:52.500 We could do that.

00:30:53.640 But isn't that why, isn't that why we're not making any quote progress?

00:31:01.180 Because we're only attacking on both sides.

00:31:05.920 We're attacking the people.

00:31:08.340 We're isolating and polarizing, like Saul Alinsky said.

00:31:12.640 And I've heard people on our own side say, well, maybe it's time we play Saul Alinsky.

00:31:18.100 Saul Alinsky's tactics stop you from talking to one another.

00:31:22.360 If I wasn't having lunch with this guy last week and had opened myself, I've known him for two years.

00:31:31.300 Because we don't talk politics.

00:31:33.680 But because I've seen vulnerable to him now and I seem like, okay, well, I could have a real conversation with him.

00:31:43.260 Maybe he will understand.

00:31:45.080 He'll listen to my side of my point of view.

00:31:48.000 That's why he said, okay, so let me ask you this.

00:31:54.500 Because I had said to him, I understand your concern, right?

00:31:58.360 The world's gone crazy.

00:32:00.140 I don't understand how people on my side are supporting fascists and people on your side are supporting the Occupy Wall Street people.

00:32:09.880 He said, well, that's not true.

00:32:12.080 We're not.

00:32:12.620 And I said, great.

00:32:13.420 I'll recognize that.

00:32:14.820 Will you recognize that all the people that you think are fascist are not fascists?

00:32:19.280 That there is a small group?

00:32:22.500 Because I'll say that about Democrats if you'll say that about Republicans.

00:32:26.620 Yeah, I'll say that.

00:32:28.260 But let me ask you, Glenn.

00:32:29.860 I mean, you guys stand for crazy things.

00:32:32.260 I mean, easy stuff.

00:32:33.300 Voter ID.

00:32:34.660 Yeah.

00:32:35.040 That's how we got there.

00:32:36.980 And you told him that we want blacks to have to have. 1.00

00:32:38.980 Oh, my gosh.

00:32:39.320 To have three different forms of ID?

00:32:41.200 Yes, yeah.

00:32:41.660 I said, we need.

00:32:43.200 And a full tax.

00:32:43.600 And a full tax.

00:32:44.480 I said, I don't mind it as long as we can actually take your iris out and scan it on a fax machine.

00:32:52.100 That's reasonable, though, right?

00:32:53.600 Totally reasonable.

00:32:54.300 That's reasonable.

00:32:55.160 His whole world was upside down.

00:32:57.980 Wow.

00:32:58.280 Now, giving the Republicans the benefit of the doubt, which I don't think they deserve, listen to K-Ham.

00:33:09.920 Because we're just calling him K-Ham on the air. 0.92

00:33:12.680 No, it's K.

00:33:13.880 Charles Krauthammer.

00:33:14.940 Charles Krauthammer.

00:33:15.820 I like to call him K-Ham. 1.00

00:33:17.000 I do like the name K-Ham. 1.00

00:33:18.180 It's pretty solid.

00:33:18.740 So, Charles Krauthammer is saying the biggest betrayal of the conservative voter could happen.

00:33:27.640 Listen.

00:33:28.180 Not getting it done is a catastrophe because you ran against it for seven years.

00:33:32.780 Obamacare.

00:33:33.280 And you promised you would do it.

00:33:35.160 And that would be the ultimate betrayal of the electorate.

00:33:38.200 One of the reasons of the rise of Donald Trump is because so many conservatives, so many Republicans,

00:33:44.040 said that they had been betrayed by their leaders.

00:33:46.440 This would be the ultimate one.

00:33:48.040 So, it has to get done.

00:33:49.240 The problem is that if you get it done, you own the entire system of American medicine.

00:33:55.040 Obamacare is 2,000 pages.

00:33:58.020 It's not one reform.

00:33:59.560 It's 1,000 reforms whose interactions are complex, contradictory, and unpredictable.

00:34:05.040 And that's what we're stuck with now.

00:34:06.960 And it's collapsing.

00:34:08.540 But if you replace, you are going to have to redo all of American medicine all over again.

00:34:14.820 And then you become responsible.

00:34:16.880 And politically, the danger is that you own the system.

00:34:21.020 So, if something goes wrong in anybody's life, denied coverage, lousy coverage, no available doctor, etc.,

00:34:29.100 premiums increasing, whatever it is, whether or not it's the cause of the replacement bill,

00:34:35.700 you will be responsible for it and blamed.

00:34:38.580 I mean, he's totally right there, but you have to take that chance, right?

00:34:41.160 I mean, yes, they're always going to be able to dig up somebody that didn't get coverage and everything's terrible.

00:34:46.960 Or, or, you just make it a single pair, and you lock it in,

00:34:53.080 because who's held responsible for what happens to the vets?

00:34:56.160 Nobody.

00:34:56.700 Nobody.

00:34:57.500 Nobody.

00:34:57.820 It's just the way the system is.

00:35:00.480 And that's why, when they started saying seven years ago, they said, repeal.

00:35:05.900 I'm going to repeal it.

00:35:07.200 After that first election, they said, repeal and replace.

00:35:11.000 And we were like, replace with what?

00:35:14.080 We're talking about replace.

00:35:15.800 Repeal it.

00:35:17.180 Repeal and replace.

00:35:19.560 I knew at that point there's no way they're going to get rid of this thing.

00:35:23.720 They're just not.

00:35:24.360 I mean, even their replacement plans, many of them keep large chunks of Obamacare in place.

00:35:30.900 And some of the biggest problems for the insurance companies, which is guaranteed X, Y, and Z.

00:35:36.360 And that no longer makes it insurance.

00:35:38.880 That's why some of those things maybe should be covered by the government if you want that safety net.

00:35:45.040 And you have to make a compromise like that, but free absolutely everything else up.

00:35:50.940 But that, so you know, that means that you, the taxpayer, are going to be holding the bag.

00:35:56.400 And it's so much easier to say, well, I want the insurance company, those evil rich insurance companies to do it.

00:36:03.460 Well, okay, well then you're going to be paying it on that side then.

00:36:07.340 You're going to pay it one way or another.

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00:37:08.360 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:37:11.920 Mercury.

00:37:13.560 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:37:15.140 But that doesn't make it true.

00:37:16.980 There's a really amazing conversation we want to have with you at the top of the hour with Katie Couric and Ellen DeGeneres

00:37:26.140 that opens up a can of worms on so many things that the left doesn't see coming.

00:37:36.800 Katie is doing something called, is it the Gender Revolution? 1.00

00:37:41.200 Yeah, her documentary is Gender Revolution. 1.00

00:37:43.920 Gender Revolution. 1.00

00:37:44.760 So this is in preparation for the documentary she's doing.

00:37:48.820 And in the context of that, she's talking to Ellen DeGeneres about how a female fetus feels a certain way.

00:37:57.200 It's really astounding stuff.

00:37:59.480 It is astounding.

00:38:01.020 And really good.

00:38:01.960 Great conversation to have.

00:38:03.520 Really great conversation to have.

00:38:04.800 Also, if I hear one more person on the left say, wow, we're headed for economic collapse.

00:38:13.140 Wow, maybe I should get food storage.

00:38:15.740 Or the latest on DeVos, where she is now our Secretary of Education.

00:38:22.260 Many are now saying, wow, maybe we should have homeschooling.

00:38:25.800 Yeah, we better get out of the public school system.

00:38:27.220 We got to get out of the public school system.

00:38:29.100 It's all working.

00:38:30.420 It's all working.

00:38:31.700 It's a trap.

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00:39:24.460 Well, the press is right about one thing.

00:39:28.300 America is way out of step with the rest of the world.

00:39:32.600 When it comes to this, quote, Muslim ban that is not a ban, it's a pause.

00:39:38.240 When it comes to that, we are way out of step with the rest of the world.

00:39:41.720 We are more accepting of refugees from terror-prone nations by far than all of Europe. 0.98

00:39:56.600 We've been told forever we need to be more like Europe.

00:39:59.740 We need to be more like Europe. 0.89

00:40:00.920 Europe is saying we need to be more like America.

00:40:06.060 An amazing couple of polls that have just come out that you're not going to see in the

00:40:10.560 mainstream media coming up in just a second.

00:40:13.520 Also, a conversation between Ellen DeGeneres and Katie Couric that is truly fascinating,

00:40:21.760 especially if you are somebody who is for abortion rights to be able to abort your kids.

00:40:29.080 How is the left going to thread this needle?

00:40:33.940 We begin there right now.

00:40:35.340 I will make a stand.

00:40:38.760 I will raise my voice.

00:40:41.020 I will hold your hand.

00:40:43.440 Because we are one.

00:40:45.240 I will beat my drum.

00:40:47.500 I have made my choice.

00:40:49.740 We will overcome.

00:40:52.040 Because we are one.

00:40:54.140 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:40:57.020 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:41:03.740 Hello, America.

00:41:04.940 Welcome to the program.

00:41:05.780 Glad you're here.

00:41:07.320 Let's start with Katie Couric.

00:41:09.100 Katie Couric is doing a documentary on gender and the gender revolution that is happening right now.

00:41:17.660 And she was speaking to Ellen DeGeneres.

00:41:20.760 And I want you to listen to what she's saying.

00:41:23.460 And forget about gender. 0.99

00:41:24.760 Let's talk about abortion. 0.95

00:41:28.120 Listen to this.

00:41:28.800 Operate on a child and tell that child you're a certain gender. 0.97

00:41:32.620 That doesn't necessarily coincide with who that person feels he or she actually is.

00:41:38.120 It doesn't correlate with what is in your head.

00:41:40.740 Right.

00:41:40.980 In the later stages of development, it's when your brain is wired.

00:41:44.400 And sometimes a surge of testosterone can make a male, a female fetus feel as if that baby is male or that person is male.

00:41:53.880 And the opposite, if there's not enough testosterone.

00:41:56.680 Huh.

00:41:57.020 Excuse me?

00:41:57.940 Interesting.

00:41:59.040 On many levels.

00:42:00.280 What was that?

00:42:00.760 Fascinating.

00:42:01.440 That's Katie Couric saying that a, first of all, a female fetus baby, which goes a little beyond the whole tissue thing, doesn't it?

00:42:13.520 Yes.

00:42:13.900 And it's like, okay, that's not Brussels sprouts growing inside the woman.

00:42:17.460 That's a baby growing inside a woman. 1.00

00:42:19.280 Secondly, if the baby is to the point where the baby can feel either male or female, what are you doing aborting it?

00:42:31.940 If that's the case, haven't you stumbled onto something there?

00:42:38.720 Then maybe you shouldn't be destroying this female, this transgendered baby? 1.00

00:42:44.600 I don't, I mean, maybe that's how we attack this now, from a transgendered point of view.

00:42:52.040 How many transgendered people are you going to abort?

00:42:58.040 You look at that, I mean, what is it?

00:43:00.100 It's got to be, I mean, between, in the LGBTQIA community?

00:43:06.060 Seriously, is IA a new, two new letters?

00:43:08.440 Yeah, Jeffy, Jeffy knows.

00:43:09.520 No, I don't trust Jeffy.

00:43:11.220 Oh, I wouldn't trust Jeffy either, but on this topic, he's an expert.

00:43:13.840 Seriously, they've added two new, intersex, and asexual. 0.95

00:43:19.620 Asexual.

00:43:20.060 Oh my gosh, it's the lesbian. 1.00

00:43:21.500 I thought you were making that up.

00:43:22.600 No.

00:43:23.100 They've added IA to it?

00:43:24.920 It's the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual.

00:43:32.900 What is inter...

00:43:33.780 I mean, are we going to include the entire alphabet?

00:43:36.940 That's what I said last week, I thought you were joking.

00:43:39.560 Wow.

00:43:39.880 Why don't we just say ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTU?

00:43:43.840 I mean, why don't I just repeat the alphabet?

00:43:45.860 What is intersexual?

00:43:47.760 Intersex is a general term used for a variety of conditions, which I am not comfortable with

00:43:52.460 this language.

00:43:53.000 I want to make sure I'm reading this from the Intersex Society of North America.

00:43:59.180 Apparently, those hate mongers are comfortable calling it a condition.

00:44:03.360 I am not.

00:44:04.060 I want to make sure that is clear right now.

00:44:05.720 So, intersex is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which the person

00:44:10.320 is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't seem to fit the typical definitions

00:44:15.040 of male or female.

00:44:16.760 Okay.

00:44:17.080 So, that would be like a maphrodite?

00:44:19.020 Yeah.

00:44:19.260 Well, that's an outdated and inaccurate term that's been used to describe intersex people

00:44:24.680 in the past.

00:44:25.420 Thank you.

00:44:26.280 Thank you.

00:44:27.100 But, honestly, how many people are affected by that?

00:44:32.640 300 million.

00:44:34.160 I'm guessing.

00:44:35.500 Am I the only one that suffers from the condition of heterosexuality?

00:44:41.260 Outdated term.

00:44:42.180 Cisgender? 0.95

00:44:42.720 Is that what you're looking for?

00:44:43.960 No, I'm looking for heterosexual.

00:44:46.260 There's no such thing as that.

00:44:47.580 There's no such thing, though.

00:44:48.800 And what was the other one?

00:44:50.300 Asexual?

00:44:50.800 Asexual.

00:44:51.240 Okay.

00:44:51.780 Let's see.

00:44:52.400 Asexual is somebody who doesn't claim to have any desire to be anything and have sex. 0.95

00:44:58.920 Welcome to 1950.

00:45:00.040 Thank you for that definition.

00:45:02.280 Without...

00:45:02.900 No, I don't think that's right.

00:45:04.480 I don't know.

00:45:06.240 Not involved...

00:45:07.320 Let's see.

00:45:08.220 That's what I thought Michael Jackson was.

00:45:10.200 Asexual.

00:45:10.920 Yeah.

00:45:11.520 Yeah.

00:45:11.680 It's the deliberate abstention from sexual activity.

00:45:15.280 Yes.

00:45:15.580 Mm-hmm.

00:45:16.320 Which, again, I thought it was about...

00:45:19.140 I get very confused with these things.

00:45:20.840 Because the last one was talking seemingly about body parts.

00:45:23.840 Asexual.

00:45:24.420 Or intersex. 0.72

00:45:25.860 Correct.

00:45:26.200 Right?

00:45:26.640 Mm-hmm.

00:45:27.160 However, the other things were sexual preferences.

00:45:30.180 Mm-hmm.

00:45:30.600 Right?

00:45:30.920 So why would I...

00:45:31.880 Well, but no, they're not sexual preferences.

00:45:34.080 Because we were taught that you were born a certain way.

00:45:36.900 That's right.

00:45:37.240 So you can't have a preference.

00:45:38.400 That's a good term, too.

00:45:38.640 You don't have a preference.

00:45:40.300 That's who you are.

00:45:41.780 Which kind of makes me wonder about questioning.

00:45:45.280 Or bisexual. 0.85

00:45:49.360 Questioning maybe because you're, like, growing up in this horrible system that is teaching you that you're either a male or a female.

00:45:56.780 So you're questioning whether or not you are.

00:45:58.800 But that's not how you're born.

00:46:00.220 You're not born questioning.

00:46:02.060 Some doctor called me a...

00:46:03.500 You're questioning now.

00:46:04.560 You're born with all the answers.

00:46:06.060 Right?

00:46:06.500 You're born with every answer.

00:46:08.620 Well, kids know things that their parents don't know.

00:46:11.500 That's right.

00:46:12.520 So I don't know.

00:46:13.320 Right.

00:46:13.740 So anyway...

00:46:14.160 But again, that is an interesting thing.

00:46:15.920 How many...

00:46:16.520 If you go through the LGBTQIA, that entire group, combine them together, how many in that group has been aborted?

00:46:25.420 Millions, probably.

00:46:26.580 Right?

00:46:26.680 I mean, we're at 52 million overall.

00:46:30.080 We are headed towards a very spooky place.

00:46:34.560 And nobody is willing to go there.

00:46:36.360 Except, apparently, the right, when the right doesn't have power.

00:46:40.480 And the left, when the left doesn't have power.

00:46:42.840 I would think that the left would be the first to agree right now that we could absolutely head towards a totalitarian state where your sexual preference or your anything that makes you a liberal can be deleted.

00:47:01.020 And we can change that gene.

00:47:02.900 We can abort you. 1.00

00:47:03.960 That there could come a time when we have a fascist dictator that says, hey, here's the map of the gene.

00:47:11.540 Delete those.

00:47:13.200 And that could get out of control.

00:47:14.860 Especially with somebody like Donald Trump.

00:47:16.600 And the right would say, especially with somebody like Barack Obama.

00:47:21.380 But they won't agree that, you know, when you take politics out of it, or their guy is in control, they will never agree that that's even a possibility.

00:47:33.020 But that's what I'm afraid of.

00:47:36.780 That's what I, I shouldn't say afraid.

00:47:38.420 That's what I'm concerned about.

00:47:40.040 This is so easy to fix.

00:47:42.480 But when you have somebody on top that is saying, you will live a certain way.

00:47:48.180 That's why, that's, that's why the, the founders went and testified on behalf of people that were being persecuted that were not them.

00:48:00.860 They would go and testify in states where their own faith, their own church were persecuting people for not being a part of that church.

00:48:13.780 And so they would say, which one of you guys is, I don't know, you know, let's just make it neutral.

00:48:23.620 Which one of you guys is a Mormon?

00:48:25.500 Because that future state of, of Utah is going to persecute all the people who aren't Mormons. 0.78

00:48:31.680 They would find the Mormon guy and he would go out and testify and say, Mormons, this is wrong. 0.94

00:48:37.960 That's why we have to say, I stand up for the most vile speech.

00:48:45.480 I don't stand up for violence, but I will stand up for the most vile speech.

00:48:50.500 I will stand up for the person most unlike me.

00:48:55.000 And if we lose that, we are in grave danger.

00:48:59.560 Because why can't I weed somebody out?

00:49:03.840 If you could, I mean, you know, everybody, everybody says, well, you can't find that homosexual gene.

00:49:09.020 You notice we've, we mapped the entire DNA.

00:49:11.780 Can't find the gay gene now, can you? 1.00

00:49:14.860 I'm glad we can't.

00:49:17.040 I'm really glad we can't.

00:49:19.680 Because I really, truly believe in some parts of the world and God forbid here in America,

00:49:25.100 we would start deleting that gay gene. 1.00

00:49:29.380 I'm concerned that everybody is so convinced that every bit of struggle and strife is, is bad and should be eliminated.

00:49:40.020 That we're just going to start eliminating those people or those things that make you who you are.

00:49:48.560 There's, that, that's an abomination.

00:49:51.640 Look, I don't want to have cancer and I want to eliminate cancer.

00:49:57.240 But there are some things that, you know, are in your DNA and we have to have that discussion.

00:50:04.040 If you could take out the cancer gene in every baby, would you do it?

00:50:10.640 Yes.

00:50:11.060 So would I.

00:50:11.600 If you could go in and take that out, but you couldn't take that out, but you knew 100% that person will get cancer,

00:50:21.980 but we can't take it out of their gene sequence.

00:50:25.500 Would you abort that child?

00:50:27.320 No.

00:50:28.340 There will be those that will make a very strong case.

00:50:32.560 We can't afford that.

00:50:34.480 We can't let them procreate.

00:50:36.280 Well, they already do it with, you know, with certain.

00:50:39.000 Down syndrome.

00:50:39.600 Down syndrome, for instance.

00:50:41.020 Right.

00:50:41.520 So if we have cancer and we want to eradicate cancer, I can't cure cancer, but I can identify the gene.

00:50:48.800 And the way to get rid of it is don't let those people with that gene procreate.

00:50:53.660 Would you sterilize people?

00:50:55.940 No.

00:50:56.380 No.

00:50:58.180 I will.

00:50:59.360 I will guarantee you.

00:51:00.740 This argument's being made in country after country.

00:51:02.640 It's already.

00:51:03.760 It's coming.

00:51:04.360 And that was without the information.

00:51:05.820 I mean, that was when it was real pseudoscience, where they had no idea if these things were real, eugenics and things like that.

00:51:12.100 This will happen.

00:51:13.340 The only difference between us and the Nazi doctors, us in the future, is the fact that it will not be messy. 0.82

00:51:23.520 That we're not injecting blue dye in to see if we can change people's eyes blue.

00:51:27.500 We just know we can do it.

00:51:29.680 Oh, you want a blue-eyed baby? 0.97

00:51:30.800 Okay, yeah, I can just flip that switch and now you have a blue-eyed baby. 0.99

00:51:34.480 So do we have a problem with eugenics because it was messy or because it was wrong? 0.93

00:51:40.780 I had a problem with it because it was wrong.

00:51:46.200 I don't think we're having that discussion.

00:51:49.640 We don't recognize that we're in the eugenics business right now.

00:51:55.980 Do we have a problem with abortions because we don't know who that kid would be? 0.96

00:52:02.760 I contend that's, yes, a lot of people do.

00:52:06.340 Because a lot of people will say, look, when my daughter was pregnant, she was told something by a doctor that wasn't true.

00:52:16.240 You know, hey, here's some problems that may happen that turned out it wasn't true.

00:52:20.380 So for three days, she had the worry that her child was going to be, you know, have some grand complication.

00:52:27.380 And I said to her, so what do you do?

00:52:31.220 She said, what do you mean?

00:52:32.940 And I said, do you have the baby?

00:52:34.880 She started crying.

00:52:35.720 She's like, of course.

00:52:39.360 How many people don't?

00:52:42.060 It's your daughter?

00:52:43.740 Huh?

00:52:44.120 Did you say it was your daughter?

00:52:45.320 Yeah.

00:52:45.680 Oh, how many times have you made her?

00:52:47.260 You make her cry a lot.

00:52:48.180 A lot.

00:52:48.340 All your stories end in her crying.

00:52:49.600 I didn't make her cry.

00:52:50.240 She was concerned.

00:52:51.140 I mean, how many women go through this when they're pregnant? 1.00

00:52:54.420 That they're told by their doctor, hey, we have to have this test because there's a chance it could be this.

00:52:59.000 Well, and I think so many people struggle with whether they want the test at all.

00:53:03.060 Correct.

00:53:03.480 Because, I mean, I don't want to know.

00:53:04.820 Right.

00:53:05.120 Type of thing.

00:53:05.880 Right.

00:53:06.060 And then if it does, you know, in that period where you have the test and you're waiting for the results, people are tortured by that.

00:53:11.820 Right.

00:53:11.960 Because they think, because they know it would be difficult and there would be strains on themselves and they would be tempted to do something horrific.

00:53:19.560 Correct.

00:53:20.040 Right.

00:53:20.220 And they don't want to be tempted by that.

00:53:22.780 And if the result comes back.

00:53:23.900 But isn't that interesting?

00:53:24.820 I don't want to be tempted by something you know is murder.

00:53:29.760 I don't want to be tempted by it.

00:53:32.180 Murder.

00:53:32.980 Rather not have the information, which, of course, there's plenty of benefit of having the information.

00:53:37.440 How many times have you had a really bad argument where you just want the person on the other end just to go away?

00:53:47.660 You could kill them.

00:53:50.220 Have you ever thought to yourself, it's a good thing I don't have a gun on me because I don't have the temptation?

00:53:56.900 All right.

00:53:57.460 Think of that.

00:53:58.040 I've had many conversations with Jeffy.

00:53:59.440 Yes.

00:54:00.400 Think about, Pat, think about what you went through with your mother, your mother-in-law.

00:54:06.780 And the compassion, just a little push of a little too much would kill her.

00:54:13.780 And the compassion, you weren't tempted to do that.

00:54:18.140 You had the medicine, there's killer.

00:54:20.900 You didn't.

00:54:22.640 Right.

00:54:23.540 But it's because we can't see the baby.

00:54:27.640 That's it.

00:54:28.820 We can't see the baby.

00:54:30.160 And so you're told that it might have this.

00:54:34.940 Okay.

00:54:35.480 And that's why we've seen a recent left-wing push against ultrasounds. 0.95

00:54:40.840 They are now targeting ultrasounds as this bad thing that women don't need. 1.00

00:54:46.220 And it's just a tool of the patriarchy to try to convince you to have this kid that you shouldn't have.

00:54:53.060 I mean, again, more information is the enemy in this situation.

00:54:57.680 And that's very strange.

00:54:58.840 And more information is never the enemy.

00:55:02.700 More information is never wrong.

00:55:05.580 Your argument for sterilization, that might come soon, too.

00:55:09.820 Because I read an article not long ago where they're advancing toward motherless babies.

00:55:14.500 So there's your science, baby.

00:55:16.220 You don't need to be sterile.

00:55:17.900 We'll just make you one.

00:55:18.860 Correct.

00:55:19.160 You want a kid?

00:55:19.760 Yeah.

00:55:20.440 Yeah.

00:55:20.740 We'll build you the perfect baby.

00:55:22.140 And it won't have any of these diseases.

00:55:24.100 And it'll help.

00:55:25.260 And they'll make the case.

00:55:26.960 Look, we're not going to be able to drive our car in 10 to 15 years.

00:55:31.160 You will not be allowed to drive your car.

00:55:32.960 In fact, if you have a child today, when your child is 17, they will look at you and say,

00:55:39.000 they allowed you to drive that car?

00:55:41.860 They allowed you to drive one of these things?

00:55:45.140 That must have been crazy.

00:55:47.360 That'll happen in our lifetime.

00:55:49.360 And why they'll do it is because we spend too much money, too many lives are lost,

00:55:54.060 too much pain, too much suffering, can't afford it.

00:55:57.420 What happens here with the baby?

00:55:58.980 You can go ahead and procreate, but that baby is going to be riddled with disease.

00:56:04.200 We'll mix one up for you.

00:56:06.400 We'll gene splice.

00:56:08.560 We'll make sure that that baby isn't messy at all.

00:56:12.720 They just let you guys have sex with each other, and that's how you made babies? 1.00

00:56:20.180 It's Russian roulette.

00:56:22.440 Really, the documentary Demolition Man covered some of this.

00:56:25.580 Yeah, I believe so.

00:56:26.500 Yeah, it was really interesting.

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00:58:46.460 You're the problem.

00:58:47.280 We're just going down the road here that I really think people need to consider.

00:58:56.140 I mean, I want you to remember this.

00:58:59.320 You remember when I first said, everything's going to be turned upside down.

00:59:02.920 You won't recognize your country 10 years from now.

00:59:07.060 Well, that was about 10, 12 years ago that I said that, maybe a little longer.

00:59:11.380 And do you?

00:59:14.100 Is this the same?

00:59:14.880 If I described what's happening in the world today to you back in 2005, would you have said,

00:59:22.300 oh, yeah, okay, I can see that happening?

00:59:23.920 You would have said I was insane.

00:59:25.700 Oh, yeah.

00:59:26.060 Everybody did.

00:59:28.280 Let me say this to you.

00:59:30.000 By 2030, you won't recognize humanity.

00:59:33.620 We are crossing into territory that no one is willing to talk about the possible dark side of.

00:59:44.900 Why would anyone, and I want you to think of this in future terms.

00:59:51.660 Virtual reality is going to let you feel the hot breath on the back of your neck.

00:59:57.300 You'll feel every touch.

00:59:59.560 You will feel like you're in whatever scene you're in.

01:00:02.540 Now, let's play this out.

01:00:05.660 And let's play this out for the next generation.

01:00:13.340 Where does it end?

01:00:15.220 What does the world look like 2030, 2035?

01:00:20.240 That's right around the corner.

01:00:22.620 We're closer to that than we are to September 11th.

01:00:27.040 So what does that look like in 2030?

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01:00:45.220 Here's one of the reasons why I am so intent now on talking about bigger ideas than making them so small about a person, the president.

01:00:55.680 Look how much energy and time we wasted talking about Barack Obama.

01:01:05.320 And would we be better off if we had just solely spent our time talking about the Constitution and balance of power?

01:01:15.920 However, if that was our target and we were consistent over George Bush and Barack Obama and we got here, I think we would be right now.

01:01:27.900 Now, the entire country would be saying, time for the Constitutional Convention.

01:01:33.460 It's time to rebalance this power.

01:01:35.820 But because we made it about people or events, we lost that opportunity.

01:01:43.180 And that's one of the reasons why I want to ratchet this down and not make this about people.

01:01:49.180 If there's one thing I could take back from the last 18 months, it'd be the Cheeto moment.

01:01:56.960 Only because that's just a stupid roadblock in front of...

01:02:01.380 There's no bad moment that exists with Cheetos.

01:02:03.540 I know.

01:02:03.780 They're too delicious.

01:02:05.280 But anyway, just not funny.

01:02:06.620 But anyway, I know we've done a million things.

01:02:09.680 Some of them are funny.

01:02:10.480 Some of them are not.

01:02:11.400 That just wasn't.

01:02:12.440 And unfortunately, that has just been used as a roadblock.

01:02:14.740 You don't get to be the arbiter of that, but thank you for your video.

01:02:16.920 Okay.

01:02:17.380 So anyway, I am so intent on trying to disarm because there are much bigger problems that we have to face.

01:02:31.520 Now, let me give you a scenario.

01:02:32.820 We were just talking about what Ellen DeGeneres and Katie Couric are talking about in this new gender revolution documentary.

01:02:39.740 That the babies can feel in utero, in the womb, a shot of testosterone, and that can confuse them on their gender.

01:02:51.880 How do you know that, for one thing?

01:02:53.820 Right.

01:02:54.600 How do you know that that female baby is now feeling like a male baby because they had a surge of testosterone?

01:03:02.280 They don't even know what it means, but I don't think that's how they mean feel.

01:03:06.500 Bizarre.

01:03:06.980 Yeah, I mean, but why argue feelings?

01:03:11.340 You can't argue feelings.

01:03:12.720 You can only argue facts.

01:03:13.980 For instance, there are people who've lost their limb in the war, and they have what's called phantom limb syndrome.

01:03:20.680 They believe they have, their arm is still there.

01:03:24.700 They can feel the fingers.

01:03:26.000 They can describe it.

01:03:27.280 They feel like it's moving while they're talking.

01:03:29.960 So we should treat them as if they have two arms.

01:03:32.460 No.

01:03:33.540 We should say.

01:03:34.180 We should say, hey, pick it up.

01:03:35.760 You've got another arm there.

01:03:37.040 I understand how you feel, but you don't have another arm.

01:03:41.680 But I understand how you feel, and I am not diminishing what you're feeling.

01:03:47.720 Yeah, but we don't treat it that way with this gender thing. 1.00

01:03:51.120 We don't treat.

01:03:52.220 At all.

01:03:52.760 We don't treat any fact that way.

01:03:55.100 Not anymore.

01:03:55.460 We don't treat any fact that way.

01:03:57.440 So let me just play out a scenario, because we're making progress, and this is why, and everything I'm about to tell you didn't come from me.

01:04:06.820 This is not some Glenn Beck dystopian.

01:04:08.900 This is from people in Silicon Valley.

01:04:11.400 This is from people like Stephen Hawking.

01:04:13.180 We are entering a time in the next 15 years where you're not going to be able to drive your car.

01:04:21.820 Telling you, you're not.

01:04:23.040 That seems crazy now.

01:04:24.920 But self-driving cars are going to take off like nobody's business.

01:04:29.980 And less and less crazy by the day.

01:04:31.680 By the day.

01:04:32.380 I mean, when you first said that, I mean, there was zero cars really even capable of doing this.

01:04:37.180 I said that before anybody even had the auto-assist drive.

01:04:43.960 Yeah.

01:04:44.160 Not the self-driving, just the auto-assist.

01:04:45.680 Oh, yeah.

01:04:46.100 And I said by 2030, and I remember feeling like, that's crazy.

01:04:51.920 That's going to happen.

01:04:53.160 It's going to happen.

01:04:53.820 I mean, it's going to, yeah.

01:04:54.740 It's going to happen.

01:04:55.780 Because you're not only going to get the technology to get there and people spending the money on it,

01:04:59.700 you're also going to get governments stepping in and saying you can no longer do the old thing.

01:05:03.840 Correct, yeah.

01:05:04.420 And the insurance companies will say the same thing.

01:05:07.120 I don't want people driving.

01:05:08.260 It's much safer.

01:05:09.660 You're going to have everybody saying it.

01:05:11.140 And you're going to be incentivized because you'll be able to make money with your car because it will be an Uber.

01:05:21.480 You know, as we talked the other day, the number one job in most states is truck driver.

01:05:29.700 That truck driving job is gone.

01:05:32.880 This is the last generation of truck drivers.

01:05:36.420 Now, let's take this about the babies.

01:05:40.440 And be careful what you wish for.

01:05:43.000 Because if you couple this with big government and authoritarianism, they will tell you what the right mix is.

01:05:50.300 But let me just take you 10 years in the future, 15 years in the future, which is closer, by the way, than 9-11.

01:05:58.260 When people aren't really having sex because it's messy, just put the suit on, put the visor on.

01:06:08.440 That person that you're engaging in sex, it will feel like the greatest sex ever.

01:06:13.740 It will, you will be able to design it the way you want it to be.

01:06:18.620 It'll never be a mistake.

01:06:20.200 You'll never have to worry about her.

01:06:22.300 Be no embarrassment.

01:06:23.100 Yeah, you don't have to please her.

01:06:24.900 She's there to please you.

01:06:26.240 Great.

01:06:28.280 Turn her off.

01:06:29.440 Afterwards, bink, you're off. 1.00

01:06:31.480 The ball game is on.

01:06:32.980 All right?

01:06:35.460 You're making a pretty good case, Glenn.

01:06:37.160 90% of the people, 90% of the people, men and women, when this becomes reality, they will want it.

01:06:44.660 Okay?

01:06:45.260 Which then makes your drive more like the Japanese sex drive.

01:06:49.960 Not interested.

01:06:51.200 But we have to procreate.

01:06:53.760 At the same time we're doing this, we're also knowing how to get rid of disease, how to get rid of defects,

01:07:00.280 how to boost your intelligence.

01:07:02.440 We can map this all out.

01:07:04.920 We can make sure your baby is perfect.

01:07:08.500 Oh, you want blonde hair, blue eyes? 1.00

01:07:10.360 Oh, you don't like blonde hair, blue eyes?

01:07:11.900 That's fine.

01:07:12.400 Whatever.

01:07:14.280 Beautiful, intelligent, healthy children.

01:07:18.540 Now, you can go ahead and do it the old way.

01:07:20.060 But if you do, I mean, I can't get you insurance.

01:07:23.380 That's the way this will happen.

01:07:24.960 You won't be able to get health insurance.

01:07:27.200 Then, the argument will also be, you're going to create a baby who's not genetically enhanced?

01:07:36.100 Are you kidding me?

01:07:37.080 They'll never be able to compete.

01:07:39.920 You can't live in this building either.

01:07:41.500 We don't want your kids hanging around with us.

01:07:43.980 When I talk to Ray Kurzweil about this, because he's saying you're going to be able to upload,

01:07:49.120 read about it in Al Gore's book, Transhumanism.

01:07:54.240 They tout this as a good thing.

01:07:56.480 Transhumanism is when man begins to merge with machine.

01:08:02.600 Ray Kurzweil says by 2030, at the latest, 2030, you'll be able to upload.

01:08:08.320 You need to speak Italian because you're going on a business trip or a vacation?

01:08:12.020 Great, just upload it.

01:08:12.980 Now I can speak Italian.

01:08:15.420 I don't have to actually learn anything.

01:08:16.760 That'd be awesome.

01:08:17.580 It sure would.

01:08:18.400 That'd be awesome.

01:08:19.000 It sure would, except you won't really retain anything.

01:08:24.200 Well, you can retain it all.

01:08:25.760 Right.

01:08:26.040 Yes, you can.

01:08:27.040 It's not real, right?

01:08:28.180 It's not real.

01:08:28.900 But you'll be able to do the thing you want to do.

01:08:31.000 Correct.

01:08:31.560 So now, I want to be me, though.

01:08:35.160 I don't want that upgrade.

01:08:36.460 Okay, well, that's fine.

01:08:37.220 You don't have to have it.

01:08:39.360 But everyone at the table is going to have it.

01:08:42.840 You're going to look like a dummy drooling in your cup.

01:08:45.600 Yeah, you'll feel like the town Jeffy.

01:08:47.340 So now you have two separate classes.

01:08:52.800 You have two classes of people.

01:08:55.060 The natural people, who are going to look like they're Amish and dumb, and those people 1.00

01:09:01.560 who are willing to go through all of this.

01:09:03.560 And why wouldn't you just have the baby people come and just mix up a baby for you? 1.00

01:09:11.080 Because I don't want to have sex with her.

01:09:14.240 You know, it's like, oh my gosh.

01:09:17.340 What happens to our human relationships?

01:09:21.740 What happens when babies are products? 1.00

01:09:25.700 This used to be, when Gattaca first came out, when all of these shows, when 1984 was written,

01:09:34.200 you didn't have the telescreen.

01:09:35.640 You do now.

01:09:37.460 You carry it in your pocket.

01:09:40.120 Okay?

01:09:40.920 Whenever you heard, you know, if you've ever watched 1984, the telescreen goes off and there's

01:09:46.080 an alert.

01:09:46.700 Boop, boop, boop. 1.00

01:09:49.100 And then Big Brother talks to you.

01:09:51.660 Attention.

01:09:52.860 This is happening.

01:09:54.280 We've just had this.

01:09:55.760 Be aware of this.

01:09:56.860 Well, gosh, the first time I saw everybody's phone go off for an Amber Alert while we were

01:10:02.780 at a party, you're at a gathering, and all of a sudden, boop, boop, boop.

01:10:07.260 It's good.

01:10:08.900 But they can control everybody's phone?

01:10:11.420 Yeah.

01:10:11.720 And I mean, even, it's a little bit different, but I mean, you're talking about at 7.03 a.m.

01:10:16.480 This morning, the president set the news agenda when he decided to tweet.

01:10:20.480 Tweet, first one.

01:10:21.400 Right?

01:10:21.860 And so, I mean, while obviously presidents have always done things at 7.03 in the morning,

01:10:25.960 it's never been like this.

01:10:26.960 This is a totally different thing.

01:10:28.740 Every day, he wakes up and sets the agenda for the news.

01:10:31.120 Every day.

01:10:31.880 On Twitter.

01:10:32.740 Every day.

01:10:33.380 Him.

01:10:34.040 Personally.

01:10:34.460 Yeah, by himself.

01:10:35.560 So it is truly amazing, truly, truly amazing, that we are talking about such little things

01:10:44.500 like who the president of the United States is, when everything, this is the last generation

01:10:51.320 of it, guys.

01:10:52.880 I'm convinced the next effective president is either going to be an authoritarian, or he's

01:11:00.080 going to be a young guy who just understands all this technology, understands everything,

01:11:05.540 and can explain it to the American people and say, look, guys, this is what we're dealing

01:11:09.120 with.

01:11:09.520 And it's all good, but you need to understand this is where we're headed.

01:11:13.060 And it goes fast, too.

01:11:13.820 I remember, you're talking about going back to Gattaca.

01:11:15.960 I remember doing a show with you many years ago, but not that many.

01:11:19.460 I mean, it seems like the mid-2000s, maybe late-2000s, where we were talking about the

01:11:24.500 possibility of you would walk into a grocery store, and you just pick up all the stuff

01:11:29.660 you want and just walk out.

01:11:30.980 And it would know what you bought.

01:11:32.820 Yesterday, on Pat and Stu, we played the video of the place in Seattle, run by Amazon,

01:11:37.140 where that's exactly what happens.

01:11:38.780 You walk in, you use your phone to just get through the door.

01:11:41.220 Once you're in the door, you do nothing.

01:11:43.420 You drop products into your bag or your cart, and you just walk out the store.

01:11:49.320 It knows everything you bought, just charges it to your Amazon account.

01:11:51.020 It brings it all up right on your phone.

01:11:52.560 You see the total at the end, and that's what it charges to your account.

01:11:54.160 Now, who is going to be against that?

01:11:55.880 It's fantastic.

01:11:56.320 Oh, it's awesome.

01:11:57.440 Why would you be against that?

01:11:58.880 Labor unions.

01:12:00.020 Right?

01:12:00.460 Right.

01:12:00.740 Yeah, because two people work at the store.

01:12:03.000 Yeah, two people.

01:12:05.000 Now, imagine those trucks are self-driving.

01:12:09.480 Those trucks then have, they're already skewed, and so everything comes on a pallet, and it's

01:12:15.720 already skewed.

01:12:16.660 And an unautomated truck or forklift comes in, takes it off, reads the skew, puts it there.

01:12:26.440 Automation takes it, puts it on the shelf.

01:12:29.180 There's nobody around.

01:12:31.000 Right.

01:12:31.440 Now, that leads you, again, and this is something that we have to talk about.

01:12:36.620 We have to understand, we have to get to a place to where we can be on the air and talk

01:12:42.240 about things that we vehemently disagree with, but we explore.

01:12:47.960 For instance, I am not for minimum income.

01:12:53.120 Mincome?

01:12:53.820 Mincome.

01:12:54.260 I am not for it.

01:12:56.120 I think it is the death of the human spirit.

01:13:03.220 But when you start having stores that you don't need humans to work at, what are people

01:13:06.980 going to do?

01:13:07.620 I was at this thing last week where it was all venture capitalists.

01:13:14.800 I saw wireless electricity happen.

01:13:17.540 For the first time ever, I saw wireless electricity.

01:13:21.260 The guy who got up and spoke, he's one of the biggest venture capitalists in the world.

01:13:29.440 And he talked about the future and everything else.

01:13:31.960 And he said, look, we have to have serious discussions about the men, about men come.

01:13:38.980 He said, because very soon, the majority of people will not work, nor will they have to work.

01:13:48.020 And the biggest problem will not be how do we provide things for them.

01:13:56.100 Robotics and artificial intelligence is going to be able to drive you everywhere, take care

01:14:02.460 of everything, deliver it to your front door.

01:14:05.400 You're going to be able to communicate with anybody in the world.

01:14:08.240 It's all that stuff that took care of your life is over.

01:14:11.120 But all those jobs are over, too.

01:14:15.300 So the problem is not men come.

01:14:17.800 In his head, men come was a done deal.

01:14:20.320 He said, but once that happens, what gives people a feeling of accomplishment and being alive?

01:14:29.140 We have to have those conversations.

01:14:31.980 Twitter's going to be really annoying when that happens.

01:14:33.900 Well, I mean, it'll be protesters.

01:14:37.500 Just have a just have a robot read it.

01:14:39.800 OK, you don't have to worry about it.

01:14:41.220 That'll be helpful.

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01:16:02.340 Welcome to the program.

01:16:04.860 Glad you're here.

01:16:05.980 Simon Sinek, a friend of mine, is in.

01:16:08.580 He is the why guy finding your purpose for life.

01:16:12.140 I want to talk to him a little bit about technology and kind of the things that we were talking about here on.

01:16:17.200 How do you find your purpose?

01:16:18.600 If we would go to a country or a world where artificial intelligence is providing everything, what is your purpose in life?

01:16:28.080 How do you find that?

01:16:29.660 We'll do that coming up.

01:16:30.680 Also, I have to share this incredible new poll out from the EU on the quote Muslim ban, which I contend is not a Muslim ban.

01:16:41.360 Are we in step or out of step with the rest of the world?

01:16:47.080 We are massively out of step with the other side of the world or the rest of the world, except not in the way the media would have you believe.

01:16:57.080 We disagree with a Muslim ban. 0.89

01:16:59.840 The rest of the world says yes.

01:17:04.120 We'll get into that coming up in just a few minutes.

01:17:07.200 Stand by.

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01:18:06.660 Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:18:11.640 Today, I want to have a deeper conversation.

01:18:16.240 I know my motto, my personal motto for the show this year is small minds talk about people.

01:18:25.220 Average minds talk about events.

01:18:28.480 Great minds talk about ideas.

01:18:30.200 So, this hour, let's talk about the idea.

01:18:37.020 What is the idea of America?

01:18:39.460 What is the idea about you?

01:18:42.600 What rules your life?

01:18:44.920 Who are you really?

01:18:46.080 Simon Sinek joins us right now.

01:18:48.920 I will make a stand.

01:18:52.820 I will raise my voice.

01:18:55.140 I will hold your hand.

01:18:57.500 Because we are one.

01:18:59.380 I will beat my drum.

01:19:01.620 I have made my choice.

01:19:03.880 We will overcome.

01:19:06.160 Because we are one.

01:19:07.900 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:19:11.840 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:19:21.880 Welcome to the program.

01:19:24.800 Glad you're here.

01:19:25.760 Simon Sinek is joining us.

01:19:27.420 He's got a new book out called Together is Better.

01:19:30.400 He's the only author who has ever said to me, not did you read my book, did you smell my book?

01:19:36.700 And strangely, the answer was yes.

01:19:39.540 It smells like success.

01:19:41.700 Well, it smells like optimism.

01:19:43.160 Yeah, that's right.

01:19:44.180 Optimism.

01:19:47.660 You are a huge optimist.

01:19:52.700 I am.

01:19:53.140 And right now, half of the country, well, the entire country has switched chairs in this bizarre game of musical chairs.

01:20:06.240 Now, I'm hearing from the left, you know, the economy, we could, the entire global economy could go down.

01:20:15.380 Maybe I should have a fallout shelter.

01:20:17.180 We were just talking today with DeVos getting in.

01:20:21.380 People are actually saying on the left now, maybe we should start homeschooling.

01:20:26.040 Maybe we should pull our kids out of the system. 1.00

01:20:28.220 They've, everybody has switched chairs except for a very few.

01:20:32.600 You were optimistic over the last eight years.

01:20:35.920 Are you optimistic today?

01:20:38.080 I am.

01:20:38.620 And the reason is, is I try and, and it's not been easy.

01:20:44.260 I mean, it's only been like less than three weeks.

01:20:46.860 And look what's already, I mean, the country is, seems to be in upheaval with everything.

01:20:51.160 But I try and focus on the future.

01:20:54.420 I try and focus on the very distant future to see what happens.

01:20:56.480 And our country has gone through very difficult things before.

01:20:59.160 And the thing that I love about this nation is we have a thing, and you and I have talked about this multiple times,

01:21:03.640 we have a thing called the Declaration of Independence, which grounds us.

01:21:06.700 And just like people go to their origin story, people go to church, people go to what grounds them.

01:21:11.820 They go to that place where it's all sort of written down for them.

01:21:17.440 For me, it's the Declaration of Independence that reminds us.

01:21:19.920 But not a lot of people even care about the Declaration of Independence right now.

01:21:23.720 But what you see is, what you see, so when we hear something like a travel ban be announced,

01:21:31.040 and the way it was announced, and he didn't consult with DHS before the executive order was,

01:21:37.640 you know, whether you're for or against the executive order,

01:21:39.260 where no one can argue the way it was implemented could have been a lot better.

01:21:43.840 Yeah, the, you know, even the administration is now saying, yes, we wish we had done it differently.

01:21:48.360 Like, let's consult with the guy who has to enforce it before we maybe sign the thing.

01:21:51.100 Right.

01:21:51.700 And it's, I mean, what's crazy is, he called it a ban, but it's not even a ban.

01:21:57.160 It's like it wasn't even, maybe he thinks it's going to turn into a ban,

01:22:01.840 which we would be strongly against, but this is a pause, let's look into it.

01:22:06.760 He calls it a ban.

01:22:07.940 The media jumps on that, that it is a ban.

01:22:12.040 And so it's not only how it was rolled out, it was the argument that we're having now isn't even real.

01:22:19.360 So, but the thing that you, so about the optimism, the thing that sort of inspires me is when this thing is announced and it goes into effect,

01:22:26.340 the number of people who are left and right and Republicans and Democrats and black and white and Asian and Muslim and Jewish and Christian,

01:22:36.620 they're watching the news and their instinct was to get in a taxi, get in their car and go to the airport.

01:22:41.940 And, and to stand in solidarity with the, the people who, for example, the first guy who couldn't get in, who was an Iraqi translator,

01:22:50.540 who stood with our soldiers and our Marines, airmen and sailors, who risked his life on a daily basis,

01:22:56.380 who is now given the opportunity to come and start a new life in America.

01:22:58.860 So, and they went to support him.

01:23:00.400 That to me is what America is about.

01:23:01.960 It's that we stand with each other for each other.

01:23:03.840 And I love that.

01:23:04.540 I absolutely love that.

01:23:05.220 So I agree with you because our, we are dead set against a ban.

01:23:10.080 This is not a ban, but it could turn into one.

01:23:13.660 But we're dead set.

01:23:14.860 When he said this on the campaign trail, we were like, that's absolutely on America.

01:23:17.920 We just, you don't do that.

01:23:19.040 Um, and we'll stand with anybody who is, is, is, um, having a problem with that.

01:23:25.880 Um, but let's, let's go back a ways because we've known each other for a long time.

01:23:33.440 Yep.

01:23:33.920 When we first met each other, you didn't really understand the tea party because you really hadn't

01:23:37.780 been around necessarily at the time, a lot of tea party people.

01:23:42.000 And, you know, the impression was that, you know, you guys are kind of blowing some things

01:23:48.980 out of proportion, et cetera, et cetera.

01:23:50.660 And this is towards the end of it, where it was starting to mutate and become part of

01:23:56.540 the Republican machine and everything else.

01:23:59.380 Um, but people felt like they weren't being listened to.

01:24:02.620 And then it did kind of turn into a party politic kind of thing.

01:24:07.960 Just knowing what, you know, that what caused Donald Trump, I think is an administration that,

01:24:15.700 and not necessarily just the administration, but all of the culture, government, started

01:24:21.500 to mock and not listen and reject.

01:24:25.260 Okay.

01:24:25.740 And then co-opt.

01:24:29.600 I am so concerned that we have switched roles on both sides and there are people that are going

01:24:39.000 to mock and reject and not listen to, but there's also, you know, that those, some of those things

01:24:47.520 were not as spontaneous as you would like to believe.

01:24:51.740 Um, what, how does that play out, Simon, where, where it's a repeat of the last four or eight years?

01:25:00.560 I think the criticism for the left is the same criticism for the right.

01:25:04.200 Like, you know, like you said, everything's flopped and so the criticisms are even the

01:25:07.440 same too.

01:25:08.400 Um, which is to, to the, the, the election of Donald Trump is not an election for the

01:25:14.020 Republicans.

01:25:14.400 It was an election, you know, it was election anti everything else is like, is against the

01:25:19.700 system that had left a lot of people out.

01:25:22.100 You know, if you were left, it left out, um, minorities and, and gays.

01:25:26.380 If you were right, it left out your average working American. 0.61

01:25:28.760 Like that, that was, you know, it's a, it's a, it's a vote against incumbency, which also

01:25:34.200 explains the rise of Bernie Sanders.

01:25:36.040 You know, it's a vote against incumbency.

01:25:37.560 That's what this is.

01:25:38.940 And the, the, my fear is, is that for the past eight years, Republicans were completely

01:25:44.600 focused against Obama.

01:25:47.480 Yet it was hard to discern what the, what the party stood for over the course of 50 or 100

01:25:52.340 years.

01:25:52.800 It was about two, four and six year cycles.

01:25:54.960 And nobody was talking about why we need a Republican party, right?

01:25:59.800 Now it's flopped.

01:26:01.120 And by the way, that still stands, but, but now it flops where the Democrats are starting

01:26:05.600 to organize against Trump.

01:26:07.860 And yet the question still that I would ask is what does the party stand for?

01:26:12.500 Not in two, four, six year cycles, but for 50 or a hundred years.

01:26:16.100 And I think both parties need to answer that question.

01:26:19.000 Um, they, when they defend themselves or explain themselves, they talk in policy.

01:26:23.300 They tell you their opinion on this, that, or the other, um, uh, which is like trying

01:26:28.660 to discern the difference between an Apple and a micro and a, and a, and a, and a Dell

01:26:32.920 by talking about memory or screen size.

01:26:35.600 It's features and benefits.

01:26:36.720 Some of it I like, some of it I don't, some of it I agree with and some of it I don't

01:26:39.100 agree with.

01:26:39.400 And by the way, all that stuff changes anyway, you know, but I want to know why the parties

01:26:44.120 exist in the first place.

01:26:45.180 But do they, should they even be that philosophically should they be that though?

01:26:50.880 I mean, look how much time we have wasted in politics, but the politics should be the

01:27:00.040 government, according to the declaration of independent is instituted among men just to

01:27:05.020 protect rights.

01:27:06.020 So we have the time to go out and do the things that we believe in.

01:27:10.020 And we've, we've reversed that.

01:27:12.140 It's almost like men have been instituted by government.

01:27:16.560 Well, you're talking about something that we probably both agree on, and probably everybody

01:27:19.940 in Congress disagrees with us, Republican or Democrat, which is, I do not believe our

01:27:23.900 founding fathers ever intend intended that we would have professional politicians.

01:27:28.460 You'd work on your farm, you'd work in your law firm, you'd come serve the government

01:27:31.540 for a few years and you'd go back to your farm or your law firm.

01:27:34.060 That fact that we have, you know, people in office for 30, 35, 40 years, and they're literally

01:27:38.960 professional politicians.

01:27:40.000 That's what they do.

01:27:40.660 What is your profession?

01:27:41.420 I am a politician.

01:27:43.160 I don't think was the intention.

01:27:45.740 Let's get into a couple of things, because you just gave a really good assessment of the

01:27:52.260 problem of millennials, the problem with millennials and how, I shouldn't say it that way.

01:27:57.040 That's how it was, that's how it's phrased to me.

01:27:59.180 Yeah.

01:27:59.360 I had an answer because every time I spoke anywhere, someone would invariably raise their hand and

01:28:04.020 say, so we're having problems leading our millennials, or can you address the millennial

01:28:08.120 problem?

01:28:08.660 Right.

01:28:08.940 And you and I, you and I, in fact, everybody in this room, we totally agree with you.

01:28:14.720 There's not a problem with millennials.

01:28:16.480 There's not a problem with millennials.

01:28:17.660 Right.

01:28:18.020 You want to explain?

01:28:18.840 Yeah.

01:28:19.160 So I got the question all the time, so I had to fashion an answer.

01:28:22.320 So as is my nature, I sort of talked to a lot of people and made some observations and

01:28:26.080 tried to share what I observed.

01:28:28.400 And broke it down into four basic observations, parenting, technology, impatience, and environment.

01:28:39.480 And really quickly, I won't do the whole thing, but basically, parents themselves, this is not

01:28:44.560 like me judging parents.

01:28:46.040 But if you go look at the data, it's not psychologists.

01:28:48.780 It's parents themselves who, as their kids got older, looked back and said, I think we did

01:28:52.500 some things wrong.

01:28:53.140 You know, we screwed this up a little bit.

01:28:56.460 And there's an excessive amount of coddling, you know, purelling the heck out of anything,

01:29:01.120 you know, figuratively and literally.

01:29:03.840 And what happens is a generation grows up overly coddled with a lack of independence.

01:29:10.580 So you can argue that, to some degree, parents bear some responsibility, which I think is not

01:29:16.240 unfair.

01:29:16.620 The other one is technology, which is a hard one, because no one can argue against the fact

01:29:23.760 that technology has been a huge benefit to us in our lives and made certain things a lot

01:29:28.000 easier.

01:29:28.340 However, everything comes at a cost.

01:29:30.980 And the cost of excessive amounts of technology are multiple and multifaceted.

01:29:35.400 One, there are addictive qualities to technology, social media and cell phones specifically.

01:29:41.520 There's a chemical called dopamine that's released.

01:29:43.360 When we, when our phones go, you know, bing or buzz or flash, that's the same chemical

01:29:49.800 that's released when we drink, when we smoke, when we gamble.

01:29:52.440 Almost all addictions are dopamine-based addictions.

01:29:54.900 In other words, it's addictive.

01:29:56.140 And like all addictions, in time you will waste time, waste resources, and most importantly,

01:30:01.900 destroy relationships.

01:30:04.500 And that's exactly what we seem to be seeing.

01:30:07.660 Um, I talked to a lot of young people and they freely admitted that their friendships

01:30:12.780 are superficial, that though they have fun with their friends, they wouldn't turn to

01:30:15.720 their friends in hard times.

01:30:17.000 Wow.

01:30:17.480 Um, they freely admitted, um, that there's a sense of loneliness and isolation that they

01:30:22.520 struggle with and, um, that they struggle to ask for help.

01:30:26.040 They all sound tough.

01:30:27.020 Like they, you know, this is a Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat world.

01:30:30.220 We're good at curating our lives, you know, filtering everything to show the world how we

01:30:34.820 want it to be seen.

01:30:35.980 Um, but there's a, there's a distinct lack of, um, social skills to literally ask for

01:30:39.780 help.

01:30:40.360 And, you know, millennials are often say we want feedback.

01:30:44.720 What they want is positive affirmation.

01:30:46.660 They're not very good with negative feedback.

01:30:48.940 That's so true.

01:30:49.960 Um, um, and I, I, and one of the big criticisms that was lodged against that, that answer was,

01:30:55.200 you know, how can I generalize and, and, and, and categorize an entire generation?

01:31:00.480 Because at some point you have to.

01:31:01.940 Well, the fact of the matter is one can make generalizations.

01:31:04.260 Otherwise you wouldn't have disciplines like psychology or sociology, right?

01:31:07.980 But also every generation is impacted by whatever's going on during their formative years.

01:31:13.120 If you grew up during the depression and, and the second world war during rations, probably

01:31:19.080 you're a little miserly, you know, we, we made fun of our grandparents.

01:31:22.740 Until our grandparents died, it made such an impact on them.

01:31:25.980 Our grandparents collected everything, wouldn't waste anything.

01:31:28.300 Right.

01:31:28.520 There's not nothing wrong with them.

01:31:29.900 It's just that they grew up, they came of age in a time where that's what they learned.

01:31:33.620 And so it lasted the rest of their life.

01:31:35.180 It's a generalization based on what they went through.

01:31:37.780 If you came of age during the 1960s and 70s, during the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon, you're

01:31:42.960 a little cynical about authority, authority and government.

01:31:46.880 It's not, it's, these are, these are fair generalizations.

01:31:49.000 So we have to consider that there are things that are happening in the formative years of

01:31:53.340 this generation, largely technological.

01:31:56.560 So how does this, how does this generation turn out?

01:32:00.640 Let me take a pause.

01:32:01.540 You think about that.

01:32:02.440 What does that mean now for the coming generation?

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01:32:44.280 Really?

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01:32:46.760 Because I thought part of that had to do with the $4 trillion that the Fed printed and then

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01:35:00.680 The Glenn Beck Program.

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01:35:04.840 Simon Sinek is with us.

01:35:07.720 He's the author of a new book, Together is Better, a little book of inspiration.

01:35:13.060 He is the author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last.

01:35:17.400 If you have not read those books, you need to read those books.

01:35:21.000 Truly a guy who can get down to your core on who you are and why you're driven to do the

01:35:30.440 things that you are.

01:35:31.640 The good things.

01:35:32.420 And when you find those things, you're going to be totally transformed and life becomes

01:35:37.260 so much easier.

01:35:39.240 Simon, we were talking about millennials and I guess we only got through half of the points

01:35:44.280 on what's affecting millennials.

01:35:46.820 It might be too long.

01:35:47.400 Maybe people should just go and check out the whole thing because it's worth it.

01:35:50.500 It's what is it?

01:35:50.980 15 minutes.

01:35:51.820 15 minutes.

01:35:52.100 It's really, really good.

01:35:53.920 Tell us where you think.

01:35:56.080 What does this mean?

01:35:57.080 What does the generation, the millennial generation look like in 20 years?

01:36:01.420 So the statistics, the trends are already kind of alarming and I think we need to take note

01:36:07.480 of the trends, which is we see suicide on the rise amongst this generation, addiction

01:36:12.260 to prescription drugs on the rise.

01:36:15.360 People who criticize this talk say, yes, suicides on the rise amongst other generations too.

01:36:20.200 Yes, but let's, you know, we want to see it decline in a younger generation, not increase.

01:36:28.300 I give you a perfect example.

01:36:29.840 A friend of mine, she's working with me over at my apartment.

01:36:33.060 She's 27, 28 years old and about three o'clock in the afternoon, she opens up her bag and

01:36:37.040 pops a pill.

01:36:37.920 So I say to her, what's up?

01:36:39.340 You know, she goes, I'm just taking an Adderall.

01:36:41.600 I said, why?

01:36:42.940 She goes, I'm having trouble concentrating.

01:36:44.920 I said, that's because it's three o'clock in the afternoon.

01:36:46.860 Like everybody has trouble concentrating at three o'clock in the afternoon.

01:36:50.580 But for some reason, the intense pressure that I think her generation has on her, both

01:36:54.140 to be individuals, but also to perform, there's a sense that the, like she literally believed

01:36:59.220 that a dip in her concentration in the afternoon, she was, there was something broken in her

01:37:03.400 brain.

01:37:03.780 And so she's medicating with these Adderall to keep her focus intense.

01:37:07.380 That's impossible.

01:37:08.400 Really bad.

01:37:08.980 It's really bad.

01:37:09.720 So my fear is that the trend data is alarming.

01:37:12.100 And if we don't intervene, it's only going to get worse.

01:37:15.160 School shootings is another one.

01:37:16.860 Um, there was one school shooting in the sixties, 27 in the, in the eighties, 58 in

01:37:21.520 the nineties, over 120 in the past decade, 70% of them perpetrated by kids born after

01:37:26.480 the 19, the year 1980, right?

01:37:28.560 The, the, the school shootings are done by kids.

01:37:30.800 Yeah.

01:37:31.120 Um, and it's an antisocial behavior like suicide.

01:37:34.040 Right.

01:37:34.400 Um, I know you're going to disagree with this, but it's not the gun.

01:37:37.600 It is a sign.

01:37:38.520 It's a cry for help.

01:37:39.400 There is something wrong.

01:37:41.440 There, there, there's, there's, and, and it's a, they're feeling lonely and isolated, which

01:37:46.620 is exaggerated by things like technology because you can have an entire friendship and social

01:37:52.260 life online without ever having to go outside and, you know, meet other people.

01:37:56.140 Um, and I'm hearing some of the struggles that, that parents are having a 14 year old, um, uh,

01:38:02.060 some people I met who have a 14 year old who struggles to answer the front door because

01:38:06.160 there's a person there.

01:38:06.960 Um, or I, I make a joke that, you know, this young generation, when they're using their

01:38:12.900 phones to, you know, Google maps to get from A to B, you know, walking through a city and

01:38:17.040 their phones die, that they will spend more time looking for a charger than simply asking

01:38:21.040 someone for directions.

01:38:21.960 Um, um, uh, and, uh, sort of a fear or, or a lack of skills to ask for help, you know, um,

01:38:30.920 or admit that they need help.

01:38:32.360 And so what that creates is isolation and, and loneliness is really not good.

01:38:36.760 Now here's a scary, scary statistic.

01:38:39.260 Guess which demographic has the highest rate increase for suicide in America right now?

01:38:44.720 Not absolute number, but highest rate of increase girls, 10 to 14.

01:38:49.280 It's doubled.

01:38:50.440 It has doubled amongst men.

01:38:53.140 It's baby boomers that have the highest rate of increase, but number two is boys 10 to 14.

01:38:56.960 Hold on.

01:38:57.580 Let's, so let's go there next.

01:38:59.840 Why?

01:39:09.840 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:39:12.820 Mercury.

01:39:14.600 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:39:17.640 Okay.

01:39:18.520 Girls.

01:39:19.740 Um.

01:39:20.360 Girls 10 to 14.

01:39:21.040 10 to 14.

01:39:21.980 Yeah.

01:39:22.180 Highest rate of suicide increase.

01:39:23.460 Why?

01:39:24.180 So, I mean, look, I wish I could, I wish I knew enough to say why.

01:39:28.780 I can only, uh, it's only conjecture, but, um, I think.

01:39:32.560 The suicide rate has doubled.

01:39:33.900 Doubled.

01:39:34.480 The suicide rate amongst 10 to 14 year old girls has doubled.

01:39:36.700 In what time period?

01:39:37.500 Uh, 10 years.

01:39:38.260 Okay.

01:39:38.580 So, um, so I think part of it is, um, is that, um, we talked about this in the break.

01:39:45.240 Part of it is when you and I were kids and we tripped over in the cafeteria and got covered

01:39:48.860 in food.

01:39:49.720 Everybody laughed at us.

01:39:50.500 We got very embarrassed.

01:39:51.300 And maybe they made fun of us for a week.

01:39:53.780 Now somebody records it on their cell phone and that is now kept permanently around on

01:39:59.500 YouTube.

01:40:00.040 There's no escaping humiliation.

01:40:02.820 Um, there is cyberbullying.

01:40:04.580 We, I mean, we, we don't have to go into it now.

01:40:06.220 I mean, we know it's an epidemic.

01:40:07.680 And, and quite honestly, one of the greatest gifts God gave man is the, the, uh, softening

01:40:15.360 of our memory of pain and, and mistakes mechanism and now we cannot cope, right?

01:40:21.640 We cannot cope because it never lets you forget, never lets you forget.

01:40:24.300 And I also think that the, the addictive qualities of cell phones and social media make

01:40:30.100 it more difficult for children and us.

01:40:33.000 I mean, this is, this is everybody, but these are children.

01:40:35.460 We're supposed to take responsibility for children.

01:40:37.360 Um, it makes it more difficult for them to build, uh, trusting, loving relationships where

01:40:43.260 they can learn during these formative years to rely on their friends in times of pain

01:40:47.780 and anguish.

01:40:48.320 It's really amazing that you, you, that stat you gave us that most millennials will say

01:40:54.020 I won't turn to my friends.

01:40:55.120 Well, I don't know about most, but I've talked to a bunch and I was surprised at the number.

01:40:58.280 Let's like, let's, I'm comfortable saying that.

01:41:00.600 Um, I was surprised at the number of people who said that they, so who do they turn to?

01:41:04.260 Uh, they either turn to no one or they, they Google something, um, online support groups.

01:41:09.840 Remember that kid who, um, they asked the question, ask for help on

01:41:13.220 Facebook.

01:41:13.780 Yeah.

01:41:13.880 I mean, that kid who, who shot up UC or they post things, they post their pain, you

01:41:18.320 know, uh, on, on, in these cathartic experiences on YouTube or Facebook, Instagram or whatever

01:41:22.640 it is.

01:41:23.360 And, uh, which is not the same as talking to a friend, you know?

01:41:27.720 Um, but there was that kid who shot up UC Santa Barbara, who was a 20 something year

01:41:31.300 old virgin and he was embarrassed and shamed by this and, um, sought solace on an online

01:41:37.320 support group for, for older virgins.

01:41:39.640 And you can't find solace on an online support group, right?

01:41:44.100 You have to like find it with friends, with real people who sit there and be like, I got

01:41:47.740 you, man.

01:41:47.980 You're awesome.

01:41:48.520 You know, it doesn't work.

01:41:49.880 And he ended up attacking the, the pretty sorority who he blamed for his feelings of,

01:41:54.400 of, of inadequacy.

01:41:55.640 Um, but I think the important thing is, is, is, is two parts is one, I think we have to

01:42:01.020 label these things as addictions.

01:42:02.600 There's nothing wrong with social media or cell phones, but we have age restrictions on,

01:42:07.380 on gambling, alcohol and nicotine, and we have no such age restrictions on social media

01:42:12.060 and cell phones.

01:42:12.740 So I think number one is we have to label it addictive and, and, and, and put some restriction

01:42:17.060 on it.

01:42:17.380 Now, government restriction is probably impossible to enforce and probably not necessary, but

01:42:22.140 I think parents need to take more control, um, in how these devices are used at home.

01:42:26.120 For example, here's some of the stories I've heard, um, uh, a family that was struggling

01:42:30.540 with their teenagers, um, and their excessive use of, they, they couldn't get the kids off

01:42:35.600 the phone.

01:42:35.900 I mean, they're, they're young teenagers, like 12, 13, 14.

01:42:38.600 And the parents are like, I don't know what to do.

01:42:39.960 I'm like, they're 12, 13, and 14, like take the phones away.

01:42:42.660 But anyway, so what they did was, here was their solution.

01:42:45.500 They went on a family vacation and they, every, the whole family, no one brought a phone except

01:42:50.480 one person.

01:42:51.080 One of the parents brought their phone in case of emergencies and normal usage.

01:42:55.280 They brought one phone for the first few days of the vacation.

01:42:58.240 It was awful.

01:42:59.480 They were at each other's throats.

01:43:00.780 They were grumpy.

01:43:01.600 They were angry.

01:43:02.980 And then after about three or four days, they started to bond and they said it was the best

01:43:07.040 vacation they ever had.

01:43:08.280 We do the same thing.

01:43:09.060 We have, you know, a, a cabin up in the woods.

01:43:12.440 We have a ranch and, um, you don't bring devices, people, the family, it's withdrawals.

01:43:19.240 You go for withdrawals.

01:43:19.900 You go through withdrawals.

01:43:21.000 You don't know what to do and you're constantly looking for something, but you don't know exactly

01:43:26.820 what you're looking for.

01:43:27.600 You're looking for your phone or your device.

01:43:29.480 Yeah.

01:43:29.680 And, and everybody's on each other.

01:43:31.880 And then after that, you go back to somebody my age, the time you remember when you were

01:43:38.920 a kid where you're just out, the kids were out just playing with rocks.

01:43:42.960 Hiking and playing and be like, yeah, exactly.

01:43:44.280 Just playing with rocks.

01:43:45.060 Yeah.

01:43:45.900 Another, another, so for, for parents who are struggling with whether to buy their teenagers,

01:43:49.680 their young teenagers, a smartphone.

01:43:51.240 Um, uh, one thing, uh, Delaney Rustin was the one who taught, who told me about this, but

01:43:55.720 I've heard other people doing it, which I think is brilliant, which is, um, if you're

01:43:59.300 going to get a kid a smartphone that they sign a contract, you sit down and you do a

01:44:02.180 contract with your kids.

01:44:03.140 We say, here are the rules.

01:44:04.580 If you get a smartphone, you may never use it in your bedroom.

01:44:08.140 You may never had it, have it at a dinner table.

01:44:10.740 If your friends come over, all the friends, including you put your phones in a basket and

01:44:15.400 you may not access your phones until the friends leave.

01:44:18.280 Like your friends come over and play.

01:44:19.840 That's a cruddy contract.

01:44:20.580 And if you violate, if you violate this contract, we take your phone away for a week and both

01:44:25.020 parents and kid sign the contract.

01:44:28.440 And those are the conditions.

01:44:29.760 In other words, it's.

01:44:30.720 Those are the rules.

01:44:31.220 Those are the rules.

01:44:31.820 Those are, those are the conditions on you having a smartphone.

01:44:35.300 But some of the things I've read also, parents are a lot to blame.

01:44:39.020 There have been some schools that have attempted to ban cell phones in the classroom and it's

01:44:43.420 the parents who complained.

01:44:45.920 How am I going to get all of my kids?

01:44:47.020 How am I going to have them in case of emergency?

01:44:48.680 Like we're putting, nobody's using it in case of emergency.

01:44:50.920 I know.

01:44:51.380 We're putting our kids, um, into school.

01:44:55.680 They've been homeschooled.

01:44:56.460 We're putting them into schools.

01:44:57.800 We're going through schools.

01:44:58.460 Because not one school bans cell phones.

01:45:02.900 Not one.

01:45:03.480 And some have tried.

01:45:04.780 But it's the parents who resisted.

01:45:06.420 That was the excuse from the school, from the, from the administrators was, well, you

01:45:11.540 know, the kids have to be picked up after school.

01:45:14.380 And well, yeah, so was I.

01:45:16.200 I mean.

01:45:16.620 And my parents, before I left for school said, at three o'clock, I'll pick you up.

01:45:20.340 And if the parents desperately needed to get hold of the kid, they called the office and

01:45:24.400 someone came and gave the kid a note.

01:45:25.880 Like the system worked.

01:45:27.580 You know?

01:45:28.700 It's not like we're smoke signals.

01:45:30.360 Like I love technology.

01:45:31.480 Innovation is the application of an idea or a technology to solve a real human problem.

01:45:36.900 But what human problem were we solving here?

01:45:38.820 So last week I was out at a venture capitalist convention and it's called the Upfront Summit.

01:45:47.180 And the innovators that were there was phenomenal.

01:45:51.320 And one of the biggest venture capitalists in the world was there.

01:45:54.920 And he spoke and he said, you know, look, here are the things that are on the horizon.

01:45:58.680 Here's what's going to happen.

01:45:59.860 And at the end he said, we have to talk about a mincome. 1.00

01:46:02.060 We have to talk about basic minimum income, which I am in principle against.

01:46:08.520 And I'm against for a couple of reasons.

01:46:10.620 But the main reason he brought up, he said, look, there's such an upheaval of jobs that

01:46:17.320 are just no longer going to be done that the majority of people will not have to work anymore.

01:46:23.620 They won't have a job that they can do anymore.

01:46:26.660 And we're talking on a global scale.

01:46:28.420 He said, so, you know, we have to think about ways to have people have a minimum income that

01:46:34.320 they can live.

01:46:35.740 But, and this is what I want to address with you.

01:46:39.260 He said, the secret will be not how do we pay for it.

01:46:44.580 But if we do find a way to eliminate so many jobs and there's no work for people, what gives

01:46:54.260 them self-respect and self-esteem, it's a sense of accomplishment.

01:47:00.440 Have you delved into this thought at all?

01:47:03.800 So, I met a guy at IRS who, I met a guy at IRS who is saying to me, when we digitize taxes,

01:47:11.220 you know, like we don't have people who receive your tax returns anymore and sit there and

01:47:13.780 read them anymore.

01:47:14.220 We used to.

01:47:15.020 And we've digitized taxes.

01:47:16.220 He said, do not the net savings to the United States government is?

01:47:19.600 Net zero.

01:47:20.240 Because, yes, we did away with all the people and accountants who read your tax returns,

01:47:24.220 but we had to hire an entire IT department to make sure that the system works.

01:47:27.620 So, it's a net zero savings.

01:47:29.600 So, think about how many jobs that exist today that didn't exist 20 or 30 years ago.

01:47:33.680 They just didn't exist.

01:47:34.340 There was no such thing.

01:47:36.200 So, although I agree that robotics and technology will replace a lot of human jobs, it will also

01:47:43.800 create new jobs that we cannot imagine right now.

01:47:46.880 There are people, though.

01:47:47.900 But the question is, is it a net zero or is it not enough?

01:47:52.960 I mean, you look at the number one job in most states is truck drivers.

01:47:55.940 Those jobs are gone very soon.

01:47:58.000 Yeah.

01:47:58.820 And retraining truck drivers for something else in jobs that may not exist right now.

01:48:04.500 Yeah.

01:48:04.960 I mean, you do have transition years at least.

01:48:08.180 Yeah.

01:48:09.940 So, so.

01:48:12.560 Unfortunately, here's where my mind goes.

01:48:14.540 And I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

01:48:16.520 This is where my mind goes.

01:48:17.800 So, I went to Mumbai in India and I visited a slum called Daravi, which is one of the largest

01:48:23.260 slums in Mumbai.

01:48:24.120 Just to give you some sense of scale.

01:48:26.080 I live on the island of Manhattan and the island of Manhattan in New York City has 1.5 million

01:48:32.940 residents.

01:48:33.900 That's just the people who live on 26 square miles, right?

01:48:36.440 That island of 26 square miles.

01:48:38.420 Daravi is about one square mile and has 750,000 people.

01:48:42.560 Oh my gosh.

01:48:43.300 Okay, conservatively.

01:48:44.440 They can't, they don't really know how many people, but they think it's about 750,000

01:48:48.000 in one square mile.

01:48:48.680 It's really dense, right?

01:48:51.220 And it's filthy and it's, there's like live electricity wires hanging.

01:48:55.360 I mean, it's really a, it's a dangerous place.

01:48:57.020 You can understand why disease spreads like crazy.

01:48:58.780 But here's what I found absolutely fascinating about Daravi, right?

01:49:01.900 They have 0% unemployment.

01:49:04.040 Zero.

01:49:04.380 Because unlike in the United States, which is if you don't work or anywhere in the West,

01:49:08.240 we have sophisticated welfare systems that can pick you up or you have churches or families.

01:49:13.620 In other words, if you're out of work in America, you won't die.

01:49:17.400 You know, like death is not the immediate, where in India, because the country is so large

01:49:21.880 and you couldn't afford a welfare system, that if you don't have a job, you will actually

01:49:27.180 die.

01:49:27.620 And so what ends up happening is this huge influx of entrepreneurialism, entrepreneurship.

01:49:35.820 So for example, some guy without a job, who's come from a farm, who's come to the big city,

01:49:43.360 right?

01:49:44.000 He's got to figure out a job.

01:49:46.080 He's got, there are no jobs.

01:49:47.280 So he's got to figure something out.

01:49:48.240 So he goes into this, into downtown and dumps all the garbage out and takes all the plastic.

01:49:53.300 He brings the plastic back to Daravi and sells it to somebody who will sort the plastic,

01:49:59.480 who then sorts the plastic, who then sells it to somebody who will melt the plastic down

01:50:03.420 and turn it into pellets, who will then sell it to somebody who sells it back into industry.

01:50:08.960 So there's this unbelievably sophisticated recycling program.

01:50:13.320 It could never be central planned.

01:50:14.820 It could never be central planned.

01:50:16.160 It's all micro-entrepreneurship.

01:50:17.560 And the genius behind it, so the guy who works in the plastic sorting factory now has enough

01:50:25.200 scale he can hire a few people, okay?

01:50:27.440 So he hires a couple people.

01:50:29.000 Now, what does he do?

01:50:30.300 He lets them sleep upstairs in the factory.

01:50:32.520 So he never has problems with people showing up to work late.

01:50:35.940 They show up on time and they leave when they're done because they live upstairs.

01:50:38.700 He has no problems with people breaking in and stealing from him because he's got people

01:50:42.020 living upstairs.

01:50:42.920 This is the 1800s America.

01:50:44.640 And I was astonished, the quality of entrepreneurism in Darby.

01:50:52.020 So I guess, maybe, I can't believe I'm going to think I'm going to sound like you in a minute.

01:50:59.020 I mean, I heard this from the beginning.

01:51:01.940 You had me at hello and I'm like, this is going to end poorly for Simon.

01:51:06.880 Yes, go ahead.

01:51:07.920 Yes, yes.

01:51:09.000 But the problem is we live in the West.

01:51:10.500 And we're wealthy.

01:51:12.120 That's the difference.

01:51:12.800 The difference is in the West, we're wealthy.

01:51:15.820 And when you have wealth, and we're not...

01:51:19.460 Go ahead and say what you're going to say before you're excusing his thoughts.

01:51:23.320 I'm not excusing.

01:51:24.000 I'm simply thinking the argument through.

01:51:26.440 But the question is, why do we have wealth in the West?

01:51:29.480 That's what you've got to get to.

01:51:30.680 Because of the entrepreneurship.

01:51:31.460 Because of the freedom and the liberty and the opportunity here that's created because of the Declaration of Independence, which you love, and the U.S. Constitution.

01:51:41.240 And fewer mouths to feed.

01:51:42.080 It doesn't matter mouths to feed. 1.00

01:51:44.020 You give us a billion people, we'll feed them.

01:51:45.860 Right.

01:51:46.260 The question, though, is how do you...

01:51:47.560 We wouldn't ask.

01:51:48.860 We throw out enough food that we could feed a billion people.

01:51:52.080 That's true.

01:51:52.620 Because I contend...

01:51:54.340 Now, there is something to be said for the mixing of the two.

01:51:58.700 I don't like...

01:51:59.680 I mean, when we got past the point in the 1930s where you didn't have to live above the store.

01:52:12.140 You could go.

01:52:12.900 You could go for your own home.

01:52:13.800 But what we've done is we've created a system where living above the store, working like that, is...

01:52:21.880 How dare you?

01:52:22.440 That's beneath me.

01:52:23.820 So we threw the baby out with the bathwater.

01:52:26.200 Yes, we want to take care of some people that just can't do it themselves.

01:52:30.420 And we do want people to excel and not be trapped in squalor.

01:52:34.380 But there is something also to be said for that freedom, that responsibility that comes with freedom.

01:52:41.700 So this is an interesting thought, which is the quality of entrepreneurship, right?

01:52:44.780 Because if you look at so many entrepreneurial ventures today, it's an app or a software.

01:52:50.160 And the person who's developing it, although they say they're trying to save the world,

01:52:53.060 because that's sort of what you say when you work in Silicon Valley.

01:52:55.260 You know, really what they're trying to do is develop an exit strategy and be the next Mark Zuckerberg.

01:53:01.120 Right.

01:53:01.360 Right?

01:53:01.700 That's really what's going through their head.

01:53:03.780 What's my exit strategy?

01:53:05.460 And, you know, as we said before, you know, good entrepreneurship, good innovation is where you apply engineering, technology, and idea to solve a real human problem.

01:53:15.080 Yes.

01:53:15.160 And the question is, most of the apps being developed aren't solving any problems.

01:53:18.960 We have many, many problems to solve.

01:53:21.780 And yet the entrepreneurship seems to be a little bit indulgent.

01:53:26.060 So why not really good old-fashioned entrepreneurship where somebody's setting out to solve a problem that they or someone close to them has actually suffered?

01:53:33.000 Because that does happen.

01:53:34.600 Of course it does.

01:53:35.140 But it only happens in strife.

01:53:37.460 And we live, usually, and we live in a world right now where everyone is trying to take away strife.

01:53:44.720 Why do the parents baby their kids? 1.00

01:53:46.680 Because they don't want to hurt their kids.

01:53:49.200 Pain is not something to look forward to.

01:53:51.740 But the complete removal of pain allows you to put your hand on the stove and burn it over and over and over again because you never learned.

01:54:02.880 You know, one of the things that shared suffering produces is oxytocin.

01:54:06.100 And shared suffering makes us trust each other and come together and love each other.

01:54:09.060 Look at the greatest generation in World War II. 0.91

01:54:11.780 Simon Sinek, Together is Better.

01:54:14.480 He's going to be joining me on a Facebook live here in just a few minutes.

01:54:18.960 You can follow this on Facebook.

01:54:20.740 Together is Better.

01:54:21.800 Simon Sinek is the name of the book, A Little Book of Inspiration.

01:54:24.980 Check it out now.

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01:55:23.240 Simon and I are going to walk over to the other studio and continue our conversation on Facebook.

01:55:28.220 I just want to leave with this Benjamin Franklin quote, one of the most generous men ever.

01:55:33.420 I'm doing good to the poor, but I think the very best way of doing good to the poor is by not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

01:55:42.560 I've observed the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves and, of course, became poorer.

01:55:48.820 And on the contrary, the less that was done for them, the more they did for themselves and they became richer.

01:55:55.040 Benjamin Franklin.

01:55:56.240 It's human nature.

01:55:56.880 It absolutely is.

01:55:59.280 But we are so black and white, it's one or the other.

01:56:02.420 Hate or love, that's it.

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The Glenn Beck Program - February 08, 2017

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