The Glenn Beck Program - 3⧸20⧸17 - Full Show

00:00:00.420 This is the Blaze Radio On Demand.

00:00:05.080 Well, seemingly, the big topic over the weekend was Tommy Lahren's appearance on The View on Friday,

00:00:14.040 where she announced that she is pro-choice, which is a massive change for her.

00:00:24.160 She said that she couldn't consider herself a conservative who believes in the Constitution

00:00:31.060 and be pro-life without being a hypocrite.

00:00:35.420 She couldn't see the truth of the Constitution.

00:00:41.860 Well, I'm going to do my best to shed some light on that, beginning right now.

00:00:47.360 I will make a stand. I will raise my voice.

00:00:52.080 I will hold your hand, because we are one.

00:00:56.440 I will be my drum. I have made my choice.

00:01:00.980 We will overcome, because we are one.

00:01:05.340 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:01:09.160 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:12.720 Hello, America. There are two things to discuss on this Tommy Lahren dust-up with The View.

00:01:22.220 And one of them is her employment at The Blaze.

00:01:26.480 The other is the constitutionality or the constitutional argument for conservatives on pro-life.

00:01:34.120 And let's start there.

00:01:35.780 First of all, we have a whole bunch of different kinds of people that work here.

00:01:41.020 We started The Blaze with a show called The Real News.

00:01:45.060 Real News was absolutely fantastic.

00:01:48.240 And it was hosted by Amy Holmes, who was openly pro-choice.

00:01:52.800 So if you're pro-choice, you can have a job at The Blaze.

00:01:56.580 I don't hire people who are sycophants or who have my opinion.

00:02:02.820 I try to hire people who have a different opinion, because I believe in being intellectually rigorous.

00:02:11.160 I don't want straw men.

00:02:13.260 I want people to make a real argument on the other side,

00:02:18.480 so we can learn from each other and we can grow.

00:02:21.560 So let's learn from each other and grow, shall we?

00:02:28.100 What is the constitutional argument for conservatives on life?

00:02:33.820 A lot of people will think that this is a new argument.

00:02:36.760 That their founders never really, they never discussed this, you know.

00:02:41.820 Abortion is a new idea. 0.90

00:02:44.820 And if it's not abortion, women's rights is a new idea. 1.00

00:02:48.540 Well, I want you to put women's rights into context here.

00:02:54.520 Women's rights are important. 0.99

00:02:57.180 However, they're not the only thing to consider when another person's life is at stake.

00:03:02.820 We have to consider the other person's life when it is at stake.

00:03:09.620 The founders were really, really clear.

00:03:12.340 The preamble of the Constitution clearly states,

00:03:14.960 Well, who are our posterity, if not our unborn children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren?

00:03:31.280 Our descendants and future generations.

00:03:34.600 That's who the Constitution is securing the blessings of liberty for.

00:03:40.700 Not just us.

00:03:41.540 The founders wrote endlessly about things that they wanted to change about British common law.

00:03:50.360 Comparatively, they didn't talk about abortion often, but they did talk about it.

00:03:55.380 And that's because abortion was already illegal under British common law.

00:04:00.260 The context of the comments made in the era shows this really clearly.

00:04:05.080 James Wilson, one of the only six people who signed both the Declaration and the Constitution,

00:04:11.800 he was also an original judge on the Supreme Court.

00:04:14.480 He said, and I quote,

00:04:16.140 Human life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by common law.

00:04:22.400 Life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb.

00:04:26.720 In other words, as soon as people knew they were pregnant, you couldn't do anything.

00:04:34.000 As soon as you knew.

00:04:34.860 When it stirred in the womb.

00:04:36.580 Now, that's something we know almost...

00:04:37.660 And that's when they knew back then.

00:04:38.320 Yeah, that's when they knew.

00:04:39.600 We know almost instantly now.

00:04:43.860 Signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Witherspoon, said,

00:04:46.620 Quote, Some nations have given parents the power of life and death over their children.

00:04:51.800 But here in America, we have denied the power of life and death to parents.

00:04:56.440 End quote.

00:04:57.800 State law of Virginia at the time, of Jefferson and Madison, laid it out pretty well.

00:05:02.460 Quote, But if a woman be with child, and any gives her a potion to destroy the child within her,

00:05:09.680 This is murder, for it was not given to her to cure a disease, but unlawfully to destroy the child within her.

00:05:19.720 End quote.

00:05:22.420 So I would disagree that you're a hypocrite if you want limited government,

00:05:29.920 and yet you want the government to protect life of the unborn.

00:05:37.300 It's very, very clear.

00:05:39.680 But it takes intellectual honesty,

00:05:44.580 and it takes a willingness to actually think these things through,

00:05:50.120 and to do more than just read Twitter or Facebook,

00:05:54.060 to get your news and your political opinions.

00:05:57.380 You actually have to study these things out in your mind,

00:06:02.360 especially at a time period like today.

00:06:04.980 Bomb-throwing in today's world is dangerous.

00:06:18.720 Freedom of speech, it's not free.

00:06:22.300 Speech isn't free.

00:06:23.720 It comes with a very high price tag.

00:06:25.740 First, being intellectually honest and intellectually curious.

00:06:34.640 Speech is not free.

00:06:36.640 It comes with another cost, and usually to the other people at the other end of your argument.

00:06:42.020 The pen is mightier than the sword, and it can destroy people if your aim is clicks, views, and ratings.

00:06:57.660 For Tommy, this seems to be a relatively recent change.

00:07:10.560 There was a clip done by the Reagan Brigade.

00:07:15.740 Listen to this.

00:07:16.380 The pro-choicers are supposed to be about rare and safe abortions.

00:07:20.780 That's how they avoid sounding like straight-up baby killers,

00:07:23.460 by acknowledging abortion is not a positive thing and a difficult choice.

00:07:27.480 Then we have Lena freaking Dunham out there wishing she could have murdered a fetus, 1.00

00:07:32.000 wishing for the option to kill your child.

00:07:33.860 Doesn't exactly say much about the cause, her character, or the pro-choice movement.

00:07:38.660 Now, I'm pro-choice, and here's why.

00:07:40.020 This is Friday.

00:07:40.740 I am a constitutional, you know, someone that loves the Constitution.

00:07:43.140 I am someone that's for a limited government,

00:07:44.860 and so I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for a limited government,

00:07:47.440 but I think that the government should decide what women do with their bodies. 1.00

00:07:49.580 I can sit here and say that as a Republican, and I can say, you know what,

00:07:52.700 I'm for a limited government, so stay out of my guns,

00:07:55.700 and you can stay out of my body as well.

00:07:59.180 She did a bit last year written by Stu.

00:08:02.260 Is this for the Wonderful World of Stu?

00:08:04.740 Yes.

00:08:05.340 Okay.

00:08:06.020 It was called Mommy's Choice.

00:08:08.220 This was mocking a progressive video that came out where the women were saying, 0.87

00:08:13.800 I choose, I choose, I choose to do with my body what I will.

00:08:17.860 And so this was...

00:08:18.860 You asked Tommy to make the opposite point and make it pretty harshly.

00:08:26.560 Here it is.

00:08:28.700 You have it?

00:08:29.800 Yeah.

00:08:32.060 It's not just Tommy.

00:08:33.600 It's several women, but Tommy's among them. 0.99

00:08:35.420 I...

00:08:35.800 I...

00:08:36.420 I...

00:08:36.440 I am...

00:08:38.040 I am...

00:08:38.800 I am a woman.

00:08:40.220 And I have a choice.

00:08:41.340 A choice.

00:08:42.480 A choice to work.

00:08:43.620 A choice to achieve.

00:08:45.680 A choice to succeed.

00:08:47.260 A choice to fly.

00:08:48.280 To fly.

00:08:49.140 To fly.

00:08:50.040 A choice to be anything.

00:08:51.420 A choice to be anything that I want to be.

00:08:53.400 I...

00:08:53.800 I...

00:08:54.220 I...

00:08:54.540 I am...

00:08:55.540 I...

00:08:56.040 I...

00:08:56.540 I am a woman.

00:08:57.840 And I have a choice.

00:08:58.880 I have a choice.

00:09:00.060 To be a mother.

00:09:00.800 I have a choice when it's the morning after.

00:09:03.060 I have a choice at one month.

00:09:04.580 I have a choice at three months.

00:09:06.180 I have a choice in the second trimester.

00:09:09.140 I have a choice three seconds before birth.

00:09:12.340 Or three seconds after birth.

00:09:14.680 I have a choice the first year when they can't sleep through the night.

00:09:17.820 When they can't sleep through the night.

00:09:19.900 I definitely have a choice during the terrible twos.

00:09:22.560 During the terrible twos.

00:09:23.920 I have a choice when I get sick of little league and soccer practice.

00:09:28.660 I hate soccer.

00:09:29.880 I have a choice.

00:09:30.840 I have a choice when they hit those awkward teen years.

00:09:33.640 I have a choice when they go off to college.

00:09:36.380 I have a choice on their wedding day.

00:09:37.940 Their wedding day.

00:09:38.860 I have two choices when I become a grandmother.

00:09:41.520 I'm a mother.

00:09:42.240 I am a mother.

00:09:43.100 I am a mother.

00:09:43.780 And every mother has a right to choose their child's expiration date. 0.78

00:09:48.340 No mother. 0.78

00:09:49.340 No mother should have to unwillingly suffer.

00:09:52.460 Suffer.

00:09:52.960 Suffer through a day where their child is alive.

00:09:55.940 Not one single day.

00:09:58.380 If I want them gone, they're gone.

00:10:00.620 They're gone.

00:10:01.260 It's all about women. 1.00

00:10:02.720 It's all about choice.

00:10:04.220 Choice.

00:10:04.900 Choice.

00:10:05.220 It's all about me.

00:10:06.620 It's all about me.

00:10:07.520 Me, me.

00:10:08.120 Me, me, me.

00:10:09.380 Me, me, me.

00:10:10.880 Me, me.

00:10:11.500 Me, me, me.

00:10:12.360 Me, me, me.

00:10:13.340 Join the movement.

00:10:14.700 Join the movement.

00:10:15.660 Join the movement.

00:10:16.840 Hashtag.

00:10:17.720 Hashtag.

00:10:18.880 Mommy's Choice.

00:10:20.300 And that's especially funny when you know the style of the liberal spot.

00:10:24.740 The problem here is, the problem here is with all of society.

00:10:28.940 Too much is about me, me, me, me, me, me, me.

00:10:34.280 The blaze cannot be about me, me, me, me, me.

00:10:43.200 Media should not be about me, me, me, me, me.

00:10:45.900 It's no secret that Tommy and I don't agree on quite a lot.

00:10:52.820 But that is about personalities.

00:10:57.720 The ideas are what are important.

00:11:01.500 And if you cannot defend the idea, no matter which side you're on, if you can't defend the idea,

00:11:13.500 that leads to the second part of the discussion, which is the people calling for Tommy to be fired.

00:11:25.980 That's not for you to call.

00:11:30.920 That's not appropriate to be discussed on the radio.

00:11:37.680 That's in the privacy of the office of the blaze.

00:11:44.420 The thing I wanted to do today is defend life.

00:11:53.240 Because instead of being about people or events, I'd rather be about the big ideas.

00:12:00.200 Dana Lash is going to join us next.

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00:13:15.420 Dana Lash joins us now.

00:13:16.920 Hello, Dana.

00:13:18.420 Hey, Glenn.

00:13:19.220 How are you?

00:13:19.380 Do women have the right to abort their children in the terrible twos? 1.00

00:13:23.320 I'm just...

00:13:24.000 I'm just throwing that out there.

00:13:27.180 I mean, do other women have the rights to abort women that whine too much? 1.00

00:13:30.760 I mean, that's probably the question that we should ask.

00:13:33.640 It goes all ages.

00:13:36.700 How are you doing, Dana?

00:13:38.680 I'm doing well.

00:13:39.440 Actually, I'm going to be doing some tactical training, so I'm going to go blow some stuff

00:13:42.780 up later, so I feel pretty good.

00:13:43.640 Oh, you are, man.

00:13:44.920 You are...

00:13:45.720 You are more macho than we are, that's for sure.

00:13:47.860 I mean, that's not saying very much, you know.

00:13:49.880 No.

00:13:50.620 But...

00:13:51.300 See last week's monologue about the opera.

00:13:53.920 If you'd like to investigate that one.

00:13:57.800 So, thank you.

00:13:59.180 She's blowing stuff up, and you're watching the nose and not a butterfly. 0.91

00:14:03.180 Anyway, Dana, let's talk about the underpinnings of the Constitution for life.

00:14:14.160 Are you...

00:14:15.280 Would you be a hypocrite?

00:14:17.400 And I know Tommy, you know, didn't call people hypocrites.

00:14:20.260 She said she would be a hypocrite if she. 1.00

00:14:23.260 Do you believe that?

00:14:25.340 Well, I don't want to get into what other people say and where other people stand, because

00:14:30.760 people are going to do them.

00:14:31.720 I'm going to keep doing me.

00:14:33.180 And the position that I've always held as a limited government conservative is that

00:14:37.100 it's completely not hypocritical, because you cannot, you simply cannot enjoy the right

00:14:43.820 to liberty and the pursuit of happiness without first having the right to life, because everything

00:14:49.100 else hinges on your right to exist.

00:14:51.900 And that's how it always is said.

00:14:53.420 Yeah, you don't have the right to have the pursuit of anything if you can't live first.

00:14:57.280 And it's not...

00:14:58.280 I think it's a cop-out.

00:14:59.240 When people say that it's a purity test, you know what?

00:15:02.340 Yes, life should be a purity test.

00:15:04.060 And I think it's a cowardly position for people who lack the courage of their own convictions,

00:15:08.200 and they won't publicly hold that position.

00:15:11.000 That's what I think it is.

00:15:11.880 We are, I mean, you know, I was talking off air this morning.

00:15:15.200 You have to start with, is it life?

00:15:18.560 And the founders knew the moment it stirs, so the moment you know you're pregnant, the 0.79

00:15:25.100 moment it stirs, I believe they used to call that the quickening, then it was a child.

00:15:33.220 We are trying to go, scientifically, in this scientific age, we're trying to deny it's

00:15:40.760 a child by denying people the right to an ultrasound.

00:15:46.160 It's really crazy to think how anti-science we have become.

00:15:52.180 But you have to decide whether that's a child or not.

00:15:54.920 Once you decide, yes, it is a child, there is no right that anyone would have to take

00:16:02.420 another's life.

00:16:04.260 No, I agree with that.

00:16:05.440 It's science.

00:16:06.260 We should be the people, the party, the tent of science.

00:16:09.760 And we all know how virgin it is.

00:16:12.880 I don't want to give anybody a talk, but we all know how conception takes place.

00:16:15.900 It's a life.

00:16:16.640 I mean, it's a life once a conception of life.

00:16:19.700 That's the bottom line.

00:16:20.880 Choice occurs before conception.

00:16:22.320 If we want to talk about choice, that occurs before conception.

00:16:26.940 Afterwards, it's not choice.

00:16:28.100 It's pro-infanticide.

00:16:29.720 It should be always, that should be our mantra, choice before conception.

00:16:33.920 Afterwards, it's pro-infanticide.

00:16:36.420 And choice is just a fancy word that people use to hide the fact that it is murder.

00:16:41.460 You know, that's what I've always felt, too, Dana.

00:16:43.380 But from that standpoint, in order to be consistent, you'd almost have to say that you're conceding

00:16:50.300 when a woman is raped, then, that abortion would be legal in the case of rape and incest.

00:16:55.820 Aren't you?

00:16:56.840 Because her choice was taken away in that case.

00:16:59.700 Well, but even then, to use that as a universal measurement, I mean, according to Planned Parenthood's

00:17:03.760 own statistics, and that's from the Guttmacher Institute, it's fewer than 1% of all cases.

00:17:08.120 And if people want to have a discussion about the fewer than the 1% of all cases, to stop

00:17:13.080 the 99% that's being used, elective abortions that's being used as birth control, I think

00:17:17.740 it's a great argument to have.

00:17:19.380 But to use it when it's fewer than 1% as the universal rule in arguing for legalized infanticides,

00:17:27.200 I think it's a disingenuous argument.

00:17:29.000 How do you feel, Dana, about what's happening to the conservative movement, becoming this

00:17:37.680 populist, really, in some ways, non-intellectual kind of movement?

00:17:47.560 I think there's industry conservatism, and then there's the actual movement of conservatism.

00:17:53.000 I think that the industry attracts people who think that, and rightfully, they're capitalists.

00:17:58.520 I've got to give them credit.

00:17:59.400 I'm always going to trust the capitalists, because you know what motivates them.

00:18:02.540 But I think that it looks like an opportunity for people to seize upon in an era of new media.

00:18:07.740 It's great to put out content, and it's great to get views for it.

00:18:10.880 But at the same time, it's still a real movement.

00:18:13.160 I like populism in tiny amounts.

00:18:16.680 I don't like a whole lot of populism, because I think then it tends to obscure the truth, and

00:18:20.960 people look for personalities instead of principle.

00:18:23.680 And you always have to fall back on principle, because everything else is going to be a 0.91

00:18:28.480 flash in its hand, but principle is always going to stay.

00:18:31.820 And that's something that we should be focusing on as a movement.

00:18:34.940 But I look at it, and I think that the right, it's a big tent.

00:18:38.580 And these are the conversations that we're going to have when you have a big tent.

00:18:41.680 Here's the big problem that I have, Glenn, and I know that I've spoken with you about

00:18:44.560 this before.

00:18:45.580 People use the words like Republican, and Independent, and Conservative.

00:18:50.140 They use these terms interchangeably, because they think incorrectly that they all mean the

00:18:55.300 same thing when they do not.

00:18:57.140 And you're going to have pro-choice Republicans, and atheist Republicans, and you're going to

00:19:02.240 have pro-choice and atheist independence.

00:19:04.480 But one of the things that I cannot see, and that I do not define conservatism as, is as

00:19:11.020 a pro-choice conservative.

00:19:13.420 Because the basis of conservatism is conserving the liberty of the individual, conserving the

00:19:22.000 individual.

00:19:22.440 And it all goes back to the right to life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:19:28.760 So you cannot, and I'm not being a bouncer of conservatism.

00:19:32.160 I'm pointing to logic.

00:19:34.160 And if people want to accuse me of having a purity test, hell yes, by all means, I will

00:19:38.280 always use life as a purity test.

00:19:40.360 And if anyone else doesn't, I pity those people.

00:19:42.940 But yes, conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism.

00:19:48.400 It is classical Tocqueville liberalism.

00:19:51.600 And if anybody who knows anything about Politics 101, if they know this, this should not be a

00:19:56.800 surprise to them.

00:19:57.940 This is why political theory in class is important.

00:20:01.140 This is why history is important.

00:20:03.320 This is why learning what these terms mean is important.

00:20:06.660 They are not clickbait soundbites.

00:20:09.020 They mean something.

00:20:10.360 And so, yes, it is.

00:20:12.040 I got a run, David.

00:20:13.500 God bless you.

00:20:14.760 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:20:26.040 Hello, American.

00:20:27.080 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:28.120 Glad you're here.

00:20:29.480 Did you see Jimmy Kimmel and Tim Allen on Friday, I think it was?

00:20:37.160 I saw the interview and a clip and it was, he is funny, just straight out funny.

00:20:45.420 Did you see it?

00:20:46.000 Did you see the whole thing?

00:20:46.660 I did.

00:20:46.940 I watched it.

00:20:47.000 I watched the whole thing.

00:20:47.780 It was really funny because he's one of the ones that, you know, he gets away with it.

00:20:52.520 He does.

00:20:53.140 He gets away with it.

00:20:53.720 Sort of.

00:20:54.040 He's still very careful.

00:20:55.720 He's still very, very careful.

00:20:57.560 Because he explains that he has to be.

00:20:59.740 Here, play the short clip.

00:21:01.000 All right.

00:21:01.160 Here's the short clip.

00:21:01.840 Listen to this.

00:21:02.440 You went to the presidential inauguration, right?

00:21:04.260 I was invited by, we did a VIP thing for the vets and went to the veterans ball and so

00:21:09.600 I went to go see the Democrats and Republicans.

00:21:11.600 Yeah, I went to the inauguration.

00:21:12.840 I'm not, I'm not, I'm not attacking you.

00:21:14.420 You get in this town.

00:21:15.740 I'm not kidding.

00:21:17.040 You've got to be real careful around here.

00:21:18.940 You know, you get beat up.

00:21:19.940 If you don't believe what everybody believes, this is like 30s Germany. 0.71

00:21:23.800 I don't know what, I don't know what happened.

00:21:25.140 If you're not part of the group, you know what we believe is right.

00:21:29.860 I go, well, I might have a problem with that.

00:21:32.340 I'm a comedian.

00:21:33.340 I like going on both sides.

00:21:35.060 That's amazing.

00:21:36.400 First of all, I mean, he went there.

00:21:38.800 Yeah, he did.

00:21:39.980 And listen to the way he answered that question right off the bat.

00:21:44.500 Oh, he's, I, yeah, well, I, I was going there for both Democrats and Republicans.

00:21:48.700 It was research.

00:21:50.300 I was doing the research.

00:21:52.080 I'm studying a role.

00:21:53.440 I just, I was, okay, yes.

00:21:55.220 I went, okay.

00:21:56.400 Amazing.

00:21:56.980 And that show is Last Man Standing, which is his show.

00:21:59.340 It is so good.

00:22:00.340 It's, it's amazing because we had a lot of people in the audience, you know, call us

00:22:04.760 up and email us and tweet us and say, hey, you guys got to watch this show.

00:22:07.860 You're not going to believe it.

00:22:08.800 It's, it's, it's actually conservative.

00:22:10.980 It's funny.

00:22:11.920 It's, and I remember, you know, you hear a lot of people were, you know, people will

00:22:16.220 say the same thing about the most boring movie that came from some church that is awful. 0.67

00:22:21.040 So I didn't necessarily take it immediately seriously.

00:22:23.640 And one day I happened to flip on the show and it's Tim Allen.

00:22:27.160 So, you know, it's going to be at least funny.

00:22:28.920 And it was as if I was like on vacation in another country and didn't understand the traditions.

00:22:34.220 Right.

00:22:34.660 Like it's, it's, it's actually funny and conservative in America on network television.

00:22:43.140 I couldn't believe it.

00:22:43.860 It's incredible.

00:22:45.140 I couldn't believe it.

00:22:45.640 I mean, seriously.

00:22:46.100 What's amazing is it doesn't, you don't hear everybody talking about it.

00:22:52.080 We cry and scream and say, there's nothing conservative.

00:22:55.080 We can't watch.

00:22:55.900 Here's the show.

00:22:56.780 Now it's been number one for how long?

00:22:58.660 It was number one for a long, long time.

00:23:01.000 Was it not?

00:23:02.000 I don't know what the ratings were.

00:23:02.960 I don't know.

00:23:03.200 I think it was probably a number one.

00:23:04.980 Great ratings.

00:23:05.500 This is the sixth or seventh year.

00:23:08.600 So, I mean.

00:23:09.080 Yeah.

00:23:09.380 No, it's had a great run.

00:23:11.200 It's had a great run.

00:23:12.880 And, and you don't, you don't really hear people, everybody buzzing about it.

00:23:17.840 And it's shocking to watch.

00:23:19.760 It is like the episode that I watched was about 10, it seemed like 10 minutes of jokes

00:23:26.200 about Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency.

00:23:29.600 Oh, yeah.

00:23:30.060 And I'm like, what?

00:23:30.980 EPA jokes?

00:23:32.040 What is this show?

00:23:33.140 It doesn't, it honestly feels like.

00:23:34.600 So great.

00:23:35.180 Something.

00:23:35.660 I, you watch it and you cannot believe it's on network television.

00:23:38.260 It could be one of those shows like the way Tim answers on, on Kimmel is like, do you

00:23:41.840 watch Last Man Standing?

00:23:43.000 No.

00:23:43.880 Right.

00:23:44.380 No, I don't know what you're talking about.

00:23:46.100 So, play, can you play the rest of his, play the rest of his rant on, and Jimmy Kimmel?

00:23:54.240 Yeah.

00:23:54.780 If you think for the, the vets, they went to the veterans ball.

00:23:56.860 Hey, there's my car.

00:23:57.620 I know.

00:23:58.580 The African-American.

00:23:59.260 Was that playing twice?

00:24:00.720 Yeah.

00:24:00.980 Our privacy.

00:24:02.020 I'm not, I'm not.

00:24:04.360 We'll have to work that out.

00:24:05.620 Did you hear the story?

00:24:06.400 Because we're seeing, you'll find it at theblaze.com.

00:24:08.360 He made the point about Nazi Germany there in the 30s, Germany.

00:24:11.580 Yeah.

00:24:11.820 And it's funny because that's a point when you make that, you usually get in trouble.

00:24:15.040 I would not be surprised to see him get his, his, his wrist slapped for making some comparison

00:24:19.680 like that because these things happen.

00:24:21.140 I don't know.

00:24:21.780 It's Tim Allen.

00:24:22.320 Maybe Tim Allen gets away with it.

00:24:23.360 I don't know.

00:24:23.600 Maybe he gets away with it.

00:24:24.500 I thought this was interesting though, because this has happened to this program and maybe

00:24:28.040 a couple hundred thousand times or so, which, you know, you make a comment about Nazi Germany

00:24:33.480 or make that comparison or say, here's the worst example of going down this road or worst

00:24:38.880 case scenario, whatever you want to do.

00:24:40.200 But I'm the only one.

00:24:41.040 I don't want you to know.

00:24:41.680 I'm still the only one that will make it for both sides. 0.85

00:24:43.820 Yeah.

00:24:44.580 Right.

00:24:44.800 Exactly.

00:24:45.220 Yeah.

00:24:45.340 That's true.

00:24:46.000 I'm still, you know, a fair use of Nazi analogies. 0.89

00:24:50.300 I use them for both sides.

00:24:51.460 You do.

00:24:51.920 You are.

00:24:52.760 Republican, Democrat.

00:24:53.960 I'll do both.

00:24:54.540 Yeah, exactly.

00:24:55.560 So, and it's interesting because we always, we've gotten in trouble for so many times.

00:24:59.700 And I thought this was an interesting story from the Seattle Times that talks about the

00:25:03.800 border wall.

00:25:04.840 Now the border wall is going into effect right now, or, you know, they're talking about, they're

00:25:08.400 taking solicitations for people who want to be involved building it.

00:25:11.020 So, you know, if you're a contractor and you want to be involved, yeah, they're getting

00:25:14.000 bids and people, I would like to be involved in this.

00:25:16.120 One of the, one of the companies they got, it's a Canadian company called Trump wall solutions.

00:25:20.460 Um, the, the head of this company, uh, Albert Speer, uh, is, uh, is, is an interesting character

00:25:26.800 you might recognize from 1930s Germany.

00:25:29.220 It was, uh, Hitler's architect. 0.94

00:25:31.280 Um, so the whole story is about, and I would say a very positive, uh, look at the comedians

00:25:38.060 who decided to do this and say, wow, what a great idea.

00:25:41.480 Um, they really got Trump, right?

00:25:44.680 Like it's that feel where it's like, wow, these guys are satire making a Nazi joke, right?

00:25:50.920 And the symbol for their company looks very much like, uh, you know, uh, like a Nazi dollar 0.65

00:25:55.820 sign or something.

00:25:57.200 Yeah.

00:25:57.380 You've seen the one that's looks like a dollar sign.

00:25:59.900 Uh, no, uh, yeah, maybe that's it.

00:26:02.360 I can't remember.

00:26:02.900 I saw it.

00:26:03.380 It has like the German writing, like the German font that you, I mean, it looks like Nazi 1.00

00:26:07.260 font, right?

00:26:08.440 Um, Nazi font, Nazi font, uh, which, which I love.

00:26:11.660 And it's like, it's interesting in that, like they go through this entire article and

00:26:16.940 it's almost all positive, essentially comparing Donald Trump to Hitler.

00:26:21.280 That's what they're doing.

00:26:22.020 Right.

00:26:22.400 Good.

00:26:22.680 Now, are they saying he's going to execute millions of Jews?

00:26:26.640 No, what they're saying is they think they, their vision of this is that it's overtly down

00:26:31.240 this fascist road.

00:26:32.380 However, not as far down the fascist road as Avoth Hitler, obviously.

00:26:35.500 And they ended it with this, which I thought was, this is going to be my answer to every

00:26:39.480 one of these things.

00:26:40.740 Every time this pops up, I'm going to, I'm going to give this answer asked whether it's

00:26:44.180 offensive to compare Trump's because they waited to the last paragraph to put this in.

00:26:48.320 Is it offensive to compare Trump's wall with the genocidal acts of Hitler?

00:26:52.760 Now that would be the only part of this story that even existed if it was someone from our

00:26:57.860 side, but here it is the last paragraph.

00:27:00.040 And they answer it this way.

00:27:01.580 Satire by nature is an extreme statement.

00:27:04.700 The offense should be moderated by the fact that we are pointing to a slippery slope.

00:27:09.860 Excessive uses of power lead to tyrannical regimes.

00:27:13.260 Oh, okay.

00:27:14.340 How come that doesn't work for us?

00:27:16.020 It should.

00:27:16.680 It sure should.

00:27:17.280 Because it's true.

00:27:18.040 They're not saying he's going to execute 6 million Jews.

00:27:21.140 Let's be fair about it.

00:27:22.000 They're not saying that.

00:27:23.400 Just like we're not saying they're going to kill 6 million Jews when we compare Barack

00:27:27.600 Obama's overreach in government to another tyrannical government that overreached.

00:27:32.600 Well, except for Bill Ayers, who the Weather Underground said they would kill 25 million

00:27:38.420 Americans.

00:27:38.720 That's a totally different point.

00:27:39.940 My point here is that satire should have that in car.

00:27:42.940 You're right.

00:27:42.960 I didn't say 6 million.

00:27:44.040 I said 25 because that's what Bill Ayers said.

00:27:46.360 Exactly.

00:27:46.940 But just like that should cover Tim Allen.

00:27:48.680 If he does get heat on it, he should just quote that.

00:27:50.900 Because he says it.

00:27:52.340 And Kimmel laughs.

00:27:53.660 Because everyone knows he's not comparing Hollywood to Adolf Hitler.

00:27:58.280 They all know it, yet they look for the outrage anyway.

00:28:01.940 There's a great comparison, though, actually, to the 1950s, right?

00:28:05.840 And the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

00:28:08.360 Oh, big time.

00:28:08.760 There's a big time comparison to be made there.

00:28:11.360 And I'm pretty comfortable with just stating that because that's what they're doing.

00:28:15.380 That's what they're doing.

00:28:16.360 They're doing the same thing that happened to the left in the 50s to the right today.

00:28:21.680 And more of the internal.

00:28:22.580 But the right is also doing it to the right today.

00:28:25.340 Yeah.

00:28:25.840 Yeah.

00:28:26.020 The right is trying to silence the right.

00:28:27.860 You know, I was thinking about this.

00:28:29.100 The alt-right is trying to silence the alt-right.

00:28:31.580 There's a four-way breakup in the alt-right that is happening right now.

00:28:34.600 Just fascinating in and of itself.

00:28:36.280 What's amazing is we're watching happen to the GOP what happened to the Democrats back in the 90s.

00:28:46.400 Remember when finally all the blue dogs just left and said, you know, there's no place for me in this party anymore.

00:28:51.500 And Joe Lieberman went independent.

00:28:54.620 Okay.

00:28:54.780 What was happening to the Democrats then is what's happening to the GOP now.

00:29:01.940 It's deciding whether or not it's going to be a radical party one way or another.

00:29:07.960 Is it going to be alt-right?

00:29:10.820 Is it going to be a nationalist, a populist party?

00:29:14.600 Is it going to be a conservative constitutional party?

00:29:17.140 What is it going to be?

00:29:18.280 And it didn't happen with the Democrats at the time of them being out of power.

00:29:28.240 It happened when Bill Clinton was in power.

00:29:31.040 And the same thing is happening now.

00:29:36.300 When Donald Trump is in power, it's starting to look at the look at how we were united for eight years.

00:29:44.620 And now it's fragment, fragment, fragment, fragment, fragment, fragment.

00:29:50.860 Everything is fragmenting.

00:29:54.720 It's going to decide.

00:29:56.480 It's going to settle at some point.

00:29:57.860 It's going to decide where its real root is.

00:30:01.560 And then pieces will come back together.

00:30:06.140 I'm just, I'm not sure which pieces are coming.

00:30:10.840 Mm-hmm.

00:30:11.180 He goes on to talk about privacy and your security in that interview with Jimmy Kimmel, too.

00:30:18.440 It's really good.

00:30:18.900 Yeah, you know, it's really interesting.

00:30:20.400 We'll see if we can get it on the other side of the break.

00:30:22.740 What's really interesting about that is how he phrases it.

00:30:26.040 He phrases it in such a way as, you know, I got this crazy friend.

00:30:30.020 Yeah.

00:30:30.880 And, you know, it sounds to me like your crazy friend you agree with.

00:30:37.540 That's actually me.

00:30:38.840 But he's not willing to say it.

00:30:40.140 I see him in the mirror every day.

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00:31:42.940 You're listening to The Glenn Beck Program.

00:31:49.020 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:31:56.060 This government does stuff big.

00:31:59.240 I've never been to anything like that.

00:32:00.760 Was it a big deal?

00:32:01.420 It was, I mean, just so many people.

00:32:02.860 And when they show up, you know, the ex-president gets in a helicopter and there's jets and Marines taking him this way and other, and there's parades.

00:32:09.780 But it looks like a Cadillac parade.

00:32:11.280 Everything was just rows of Cadillacs.

00:32:13.380 And my kids were going, is this the parade?

00:32:15.760 It's like black Cadillac after black Cadillac and then a tractor.

00:32:18.620 I don't know what was.

00:32:19.980 There's no, like, marching bands.

00:32:21.900 There's nothing.

00:32:22.800 I like parades.

00:32:23.640 I used to like parades, which is a funny off story.

00:32:25.680 I took my little ones.

00:32:27.360 I'm not ignorant, but sometimes I play it.

00:32:29.860 We went to see the Santa Monica parade down on Santa Monica Boulevard.

00:32:34.080 Okay.

00:32:34.340 The gay parade.

00:32:35.340 Oh, okay.

00:32:35.700 I thought when it was a gay, I thought when there would be floats and stuff. 1.00

00:32:39.260 You don't want to take a five-year-old to that parade.

00:32:41.400 You don't want to.

00:32:42.780 I'm standing on it.

00:32:43.940 Look at the music.

00:32:45.040 Look, it's a fire truck with naked men on it. 0.99

00:32:49.620 There's no bullwinkle.

00:32:50.700 Well, there's no gay pride parades have a different tone than Disney.

00:32:56.520 Disney on ice parade.

00:32:59.660 There's no ice for one thing.

00:33:01.180 There's no ice.

00:33:01.680 It's a lot of nude guys on vehicles.

00:33:03.660 It's hard to.

00:33:04.560 You're talking about, you know, well, you do stand-up.

00:33:07.420 You go around.

00:33:08.160 The country is very divided.

00:33:10.080 Do you, well, like, what are you worried about?

00:33:12.460 I'm worried about, I have buddies that are in the security business.

00:33:15.180 I'm a tech freak.

00:33:15.940 So I have a guy that's got no, he always has battery, like cell phones, that batteries come

00:33:20.880 out.

00:33:21.040 Because he tells me this weird story.

00:33:22.780 He says, you put an iPhone down for a week, you shut it off.

00:33:25.040 In a week, it's dead, right?

00:33:26.060 And I go, oh, God, it's not really ever off.

00:33:28.580 He goes, no, it's never off.

00:33:29.660 They always know where you are.

00:33:30.600 And I go, oh, God.

00:33:31.940 I get paranoid just from being around this cat.

00:33:34.460 But one day I was thinking, if a government drove by down the street with like a gray sedan

00:33:39.760 with a camera on it, you'd be rioting going to Washington.

00:33:42.440 But if it's white with emojis and Google on it, yeah, hey, you're waving at him.

00:33:47.860 You're taking pictures of your ass.

00:33:50.140 Tim Allen.

00:33:51.000 Tim Allen is so funny.

00:33:52.760 He is funny.

00:33:53.640 So funny.

00:33:55.540 He's had quite a career.

00:33:57.360 He has.

00:33:57.840 I mean, to think that the guy started in jail.

00:34:01.160 Yeah.

00:34:01.700 Yeah.

00:34:02.020 I mean, remember, he went to prison for cocaine, right?

00:34:04.300 Yeah.

00:34:04.720 Back in the 80s.

00:34:05.800 Yeah.

00:34:06.660 Yeah.

00:34:07.120 And he's made an incredible career.

00:34:08.760 I mean, really, obviously, Home Improvement's really a legendary sitcom.

00:34:10.840 One of my favorite TV shows of all time.

00:34:12.740 Home Improvement?

00:34:13.500 Yeah.

00:34:13.660 He is just such a, I mean, he has tapped into the psyche of being a guy.

00:34:20.680 Yeah, he has.

00:34:21.580 He's just, he just, he has it.

00:34:24.240 He has it.

00:34:24.860 And Last Man Standing is a big hit.

00:34:26.740 Yeah.

00:34:27.020 Obviously, he's had a lot of voice work as well.

00:34:28.700 Funny stuff.

00:34:29.420 Throughout the years.

00:34:30.420 Voice work.

00:34:30.920 What did he do?

00:34:31.640 Oh, he did Toy Story.

00:34:33.180 Toy Story, yeah.

00:34:33.980 You might remember that movie.

00:34:36.420 People saw that.

00:34:37.480 Yeah.

00:34:37.840 Did that make any money, though?

00:34:38.960 That wasn't profitable, was it?

00:34:40.260 You see what Disney made on doing the thesis?

00:34:41.880 I don't know if the first weekend.

00:34:42.580 Oh, my gosh.

00:34:43.880 It cost them $160 million to make this weekend.

00:34:46.660 It made $170 million.

00:34:48.300 Did it really?

00:34:49.120 Yeah.

00:34:49.320 And $350 million worldwide?

00:34:50.940 Yeah.

00:34:51.200 First weekend?

00:34:51.920 First weekend.

00:34:52.320 Oh, I heard it was fantastic.

00:34:53.240 That's a good week.

00:34:53.840 It is fantastic.

00:34:54.780 It is fantastic.

00:34:55.640 Did you see it?

00:34:55.940 Oh, you saw it?

00:34:56.560 Yeah, I saw it this weekend.

00:34:57.380 And it's definitely, there's definitely gay stuff in it.

00:35:00.000 Yeah.

00:35:00.600 From what I understand.

00:35:01.340 You know, here.

00:35:02.740 They announce it, right?

00:35:03.980 Well, here, at the very end, I mean, all the way through, your kids aren't going to notice

00:35:08.980 it, I'm pretty sure.

00:35:10.680 But all the way through, I'm like, this gay thing is so overblown. 0.74

00:35:15.780 It's not a gay character.

00:35:17.360 I mean, you could read it that way if you're really looking.

00:35:19.620 It's just, stop it.

00:35:21.540 And I don't think the one that they say is gay is the gay character.

00:35:27.640 I didn't get that impression at all.

00:35:29.840 Um, why am I, am I supposed to, am I supposed to assume he's gay?

00:35:36.680 Because why?

00:35:38.600 Why?

00:35:38.860 The way he talks or, uh, maybe the way he moves or that he likes Broadway shows.

00:35:44.180 I mean, I, I, I was told my whole life that's stereotyping.

00:35:46.840 You're stereotyping someone.

00:35:49.020 So all the way through, no.

00:35:50.400 But then when, um, and I think it happens in the movie, the dresser, um, you know, explodes

00:35:57.700 at one point when they're fighting and the three guys are wearing women's clothing.

00:36:02.720 Remember?

00:36:03.300 Right.

00:36:03.880 Okay.

00:36:04.160 So the only thing is, is the two of them turn and run and the other one's like, oh my gosh,

00:36:10.000 thank you.

00:36:10.480 Or, you know, has that kind of appearance of finally I can come out wearing a woman's dress.

00:36:15.260 So that, that's a cross dresser.

00:36:16.720 That's not gay. 0.87

00:36:17.580 That's a cross dresser.

00:36:19.220 Um, like we have to have this discussion with our kids.

00:36:21.900 He's not gay, uh, son. 0.97

00:36:23.760 He's a cross dresser.

00:36:25.200 Um, and then at the very, very end while they're all dancing, he, the, the ballroom kind of,

00:36:32.080 um, shifts and you see him dressed as a woman and he grabs LeFou's, uh, hand, like let's

00:36:41.140 dance and LeFou kind of looks.

00:36:42.380 By the way.

00:36:44.000 Spoiler alert.

00:36:44.720 You've seen the movie.

00:36:46.040 You've seen the cartoon.

00:36:47.460 It's exactly the same.

00:36:49.400 Uh, but I thought it was really good.

00:36:51.660 I thought it was really good.

00:36:52.740 That's what I heard.

00:36:53.420 Yeah.

00:36:53.940 Really good.

00:36:54.380 It is a, it is a statement by Disney on, um, you know, gay rights.

00:37:01.840 And so it should be recognized as that, no matter which side you stand on the aisle.

00:37:06.940 Just know that going in with your kids.

00:37:07.980 Yeah.

00:37:08.140 And it is, it is that, but I don't think your kids are going to, uh, notice it, but really

00:37:13.380 good, really good.

00:37:14.720 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:37:20.380 Mercury.

00:37:21.080 This is the blaze radio on demand.

00:37:26.660 Kelly Shackelford is the, um, uh, president and CEO of first Liberty.org.

00:37:44.880 He is probably the guest that everybody wants to have on this week, um, talking about the

00:37:52.820 new Supreme court nominee and the hearings that are going on this week, because this is what

00:37:58.620 he does for a living is look at the courts in regards to religious freedom, especially,

00:38:04.080 freedom and the, um, the, um, the, um, the constitutionalist view of the Supreme court nominee.

00:38:12.160 This is what he does.

00:38:13.880 He looks for the case to be made.

00:38:16.900 Do the Democrats have a case to be made that this guy is out of control?

00:38:22.700 Do we have, can we take real solace in the fact that this guy won't turn out to be John

00:38:29.780 Roberts?

00:38:30.240 We go to Kelly beginning right now.

00:38:33.900 I will make a stand.

00:38:36.300 I will raise my voice.

00:38:38.660 I will hold your hand.

00:38:40.900 Cause we are one.

00:38:42.860 I will be my drum.

00:38:45.100 I have made my choice.

00:38:47.380 We will overcome.

00:38:49.660 Cause we are one.

00:38:51.400 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:38:55.340 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:39:00.220 Welcome to the program.

00:39:01.320 Kelly Shackelford.

00:39:01.940 How are you, sir?

00:39:02.720 Great.

00:39:03.260 Good to have you here.

00:39:04.180 Good to be here.

00:39:04.960 Um, you have been looking at all of the Supreme court nominees when they had a list of 20 and,

00:39:11.760 um, and I believe he was on your short list, uh, Gorsuch, um, of somebody that you, you felt

00:39:19.240 pretty comfortable with going into this.

00:39:22.620 How comfortable are you that he's not John Roberts or any of the other conservatives that

00:39:29.560 we always nominate and then they always turn out to be a huge progressive?

00:39:35.060 Well, there's a few things that are different, uh, about him and what Republicans were doing

00:39:39.700 in the past.

00:39:40.720 Uh, in the past, there was this Republican thing of picking people without a record.

00:39:45.100 Yeah.

00:39:45.920 And John Roberts, for instance, I mean.

00:39:48.160 And that was Ted Cruz's argument against him.

00:39:50.940 And, and that's what people did.

00:39:52.680 Now, John Roberts has been really solid on most cases on Obamacare twice inexplicably.

00:40:00.080 He rewrote the law.

00:40:01.780 Exactly.

00:40:02.760 So that I will point out that while a lot of people were really disappointed in him, it's

00:40:07.580 those two cases that they're disappointed in, not what he did on the same sex marriage

00:40:12.080 case or the, the live cases.

00:40:14.460 Yeah.

00:40:14.760 Pretty big.

00:40:15.240 Pretty big.

00:40:15.800 I agree with you.

00:40:16.480 Yeah.

00:40:16.640 I agree with you.

00:40:17.260 But John Roberts was a guy who had no, uh, no record.

00:40:20.740 Now that, that usually says one of two things.

00:40:23.420 If you're 50 years old and you have no conservative record, you're either conservative, you're either

00:40:28.900 not a conservative or you're hiding.

00:40:31.360 And if you're hiding, then how much courage are you going to have when the heat's on?

00:40:36.180 So that's why I think that was a really bad approach that the Republicans had.

00:40:40.920 That is not their approach anymore.

00:40:42.540 Really, it changed with Alito.

00:40:45.040 Um, you had Harriet Myers being appointed by, uh, President Bush.

00:40:48.740 That didn't work.

00:40:49.800 They went back and he said, okay, I'm just going to pick a full-fledged conservative with

00:40:53.620 a long record.

00:40:54.680 And guess what?

00:40:55.880 Alito got through.

00:40:57.340 Uh, they tried a filibuster.

00:40:58.940 It got 25 votes.

00:41:00.920 Um, and I think since then, now it's changed.

00:41:03.840 So when you look at Gorsuch, there are, he had 3,000 opinions that his name is connected

00:41:09.900 to.

00:41:10.420 Either he wrote or he was on those opinions, joined those opinions.

00:41:13.920 And so you see a long swath of where his philosophy has been, what he believes, where he stands.

00:41:20.740 And so that's a little different.

00:41:21.800 Chuck Schumer said, you know, there are many reasons to fear him, but the one that it looks

00:41:26.040 like they're really going after is that he's a corporatist, that he is, he's always for

00:41:32.300 the corporation and, uh, is just going to sink us all because smokestacks will be everywhere.

00:41:38.900 It really silly.

00:41:41.060 Um, what you find with Gorsuch is he doesn't really care who the plaintiff and the defendant

00:41:45.820 are.

00:41:46.660 He's just going to go, what, what does the law say?

00:41:49.480 And that's the result.

00:41:51.020 And the funny thing is when you ask him, okay, if he's this person that you're saying he is,

00:41:55.360 then what are the opinions?

00:41:56.900 And then they'll pull out two or three opinions and you'll go, wait, those are unanimous.

00:42:00.880 And you have a liberal Democrat joining him on those opinions.

00:42:03.420 So I've never seen such a weak set of attacks on anybody.

00:42:07.580 Uh, they really don't have anything on him.

00:42:09.980 And so I think their only hope is to create something in the hearing to hope that he says

00:42:14.720 something or, or does something, because I think right now they're in serious trouble

00:42:19.020 at trying to stop.

00:42:19.940 It seems like, I mean, it was a really big deal.

00:42:21.880 A lot of people, a lot of people voted for Trump because of this.

00:42:27.500 I mean, in fact, I would, I would say perhaps a majority of people voted for Trump because

00:42:33.960 of this. Um, and, and yet here we are in the hearings and it doesn't seem like it's going

00:42:42.060 to be a big deal. It doesn't seem like when we were building up to Bork, um, we knew that

00:42:46.860 was going to be a big deal and a big fight. Is it because we're replacing Scalia that it's

00:42:53.800 not that big of a deal or, or what's happening?

00:42:56.520 I think that's part of it. Uh, I think part of it is most people for whatever reason

00:43:00.200 don't even know it's occurring. Uh, there, you know, we, we put a website up, trumpnominee.com

00:43:06.880 where people can like watch the hearing, get the information, you know, where does he stand?

00:43:12.220 What are his past opinions? What does the NRA say about him? What, what are the right

00:43:15.900 to life say about him? What, what are the different groups that are out there say?

00:43:18.660 But I think most people had no idea that the hearings are starting this week, uh, starting

00:43:23.700 today. Now he, we won't hear from him until late this afternoon, right? It's, it's something

00:43:29.080 that they don't know. And the media I think is probably not playing this up because I think

00:43:33.160 they realized that as far as the left wing, that this is not going to work out well for

00:43:38.340 them most likely. So they're not highlighting this. Um, I do think you're right though.

00:43:43.480 I think if we had the next nominee and, and the next one's going to be big, the rumors

00:43:48.300 are it's happening soon, uh, like within the next year. And let's say if a Kennedy did

00:43:53.660 step down, now you're talking about the control of the court because you essentially have four

00:43:59.080 when you had Scalia, you had four conservatives, four liberals, and one who kind of moves back

00:44:03.300 and forth. Kennedy was a, was a conservative appointment though, wasn't he? He was, but he's

00:44:07.540 been, he votes, he's been voting on, on different sides depending upon the issues. Never trust a 0.99

00:44:12.400 Kennedy. So, but then you would have, now you would have, I mean, theoretically you would

00:44:18.160 have, if you replace Kennedy, you're talking about overruling Roe v. Wade. You're talking

00:44:22.920 about, you know, a lot of huge issues now that if you had five conservatives that, and

00:44:28.200 by overruling, I mean, they would say, this is goes to the States. This is an issue to be

00:44:32.140 about. So you're talking about big issues. So you can see the other side would really

00:44:35.600 come out for that next seat. Uh, where this, I mean, really the conservatives, the best they

00:44:40.500 can do is stay even with replacing Scalia. Correct. Now I think they're probably going to do

00:44:46.720 that. In fact, many people think Gorsuch might be a little bit more conservative

00:44:50.400 than Scalia was. Holy cow. Uh, but not, not as conservative as Thomas, but more conservative

00:44:56.780 than Scalia. And so, and he's. How close are these guys? I know that Scalia and Ginsburg

00:45:02.500 were really close and good friends. And I, I really wish Ginsburg would have spoken at his

00:45:08.300 funeral. Cause I just, I would have liked to show America that you can be on complete opposite

00:45:14.480 ends of the spectrum and still be good friends. But how close, how close is Thomas with, with

00:45:20.680 Roberts? Do they influence each other at this point? I don't know how much they influence

00:45:25.160 them, but they are friends. Uh, but the uniqueness of the Scalia Ginsburg relationship, I mean, that

00:45:31.440 they grew up in New York. I mean, they, they, there was a real connection there. Um, and, uh, and

00:45:37.800 you, you know, they're, they're friends with one another. They're in a very small, special

00:45:41.400 group, obviously. But guys like Thomas aren't really influenced by, uh, by what other people,

00:45:48.140 uh, say or do to. Do you think, I mean, um, Calvin Coolidge, um, nominated a good friend

00:45:55.480 of his who is a staunch, he thought conservative. He gets onto the court and he's so bad. He becomes

00:46:01.720 progressive that even FDR makes him the chief justice. Um, really crazy. Do they get in to

00:46:11.100 the court? Do you think some of them get into the court and think, well, now I have such an

00:46:15.080 important position and I, I can't, I want a legacy. Does that happen? Well, yeah, I think

00:46:21.160 the, the old cocktail circles in DC wanting to fit in, wanting to, uh, to be accepted. I mean,

00:46:27.220 that's always what people really worry about. Um, I think that's one of the unique things that

00:46:32.180 Gorsuch has going for him that a lot of others didn't. And that is his mom, uh, was the head of

00:46:37.860 the EPA under Reagan and was savagely attacked by the Democrats. And he, he felt that sting.

00:46:46.240 Uh, it's well known. I think he knows who his friends are and who aren't. And so I don't think

00:46:51.720 he would fall into that trap. Uh, but I think that's the best case I've heard yet. When you have,

00:46:57.320 and when you have somebody though, who has, doesn't have a lot of record and they go in there and then

00:47:03.060 they get this social pressure, you can see that kind of thing happening. Again, Gorsuch has 3,000

00:47:08.200 opinions, uh, connected with him. He, he has a pretty strong, deep philosophy that's been expressed

00:47:15.000 for many years. Anybody can surprise us, right? I mean, people are people, but you know, this is

00:47:21.380 about as good of a record. I mean, we're a group that focuses on religious liberty. We've never seen

00:47:25.660 anybody with this many solid religious liberty opinions. I mean, he wrote the lower court. I mean,

00:47:31.040 he was involved on the right side on Hobby Lobby, on Little Sisters of the Poor, uh, on just a number

00:47:38.060 of these cases where you've heard about him later. Uh, and maybe he was in the dissent depending upon

00:47:43.300 which one it was, but he always did the right thing, wrote an excellent opinion, stood for

00:47:47.260 religious freedom. So I think he's going to be good on a lot of the constitutional issues that your

00:47:51.640 listeners really care about really solid because he's an originalist and he's just going to follow

00:47:55.880 what the text says. And he doesn't think it evolves to mean whatever he wants it to mean,

00:48:00.440 which is unfortunately a common approach today. I've heard the argument that he's made, Gorsuch has

00:48:05.240 made a lot of, uh, decisions that would indicate he would be on the pro-life side of Roe versus Wade.

00:48:12.980 However, there's never been a specific ruling by him on abortion. What is your level of concern on

00:48:19.940 that? I don't really have any. Um, again, he's, he's really solid about what does the constitution say?

00:48:28.060 What, what does the text say? I, I, he's not going to create things that aren't there. He's,

00:48:32.860 he criticized, there's an article where he actually criticized the LGBT community for trying to use

00:48:38.560 the courts instead of the legislative process and, uh, and opinion. So he, even if he would agree with

00:48:45.120 something, he would never think to use the courts. Do you think there is a constitutional case for,

00:48:49.940 uh, pro-life? Um, I think he is more likely to say this is something left to the legislative process.

00:48:56.740 I'm asking you, is there a, there's an argument. People can argue under the 14th amendment,

00:49:01.760 uh, you know, that there's a, there's a right to life. Um, I think, uh, what about the, what about

00:49:07.540 the, just what about the preamble? Yeah. I mean, there are people that look at that and say,

00:49:13.380 I think he would, he would, he would look at the original intent of what the founders were doing

00:49:17.620 with those things, whether they were trying to create a substantive right. Um, again, I think you're,

00:49:22.300 you're going to find that a lot of the more conservative judges are more, if it's not clearly

00:49:26.640 there, then let's leave it to the legislative process. Why is that when, you know, I quoted

00:49:32.500 several of the signers of the constitution and declaration today that took a stand. I mean,

00:49:38.440 this was not unheard of in the day. Abortion was a thing and they all came out as that's murder. 0.85

00:49:45.360 Why is that not in the constitution or did they just think it was so plain that murder

00:49:51.840 is murder? I think that's it. I think they, there are a lot of things they couldn't conceive

00:49:55.940 that we would have to deal with. I mean, same sex marriage, right? Uh, a lot of these things 1.00

00:50:00.420 we're seeing now they didn't even think of, so they didn't address them necessarily in the

00:50:04.420 constitution in a direct way. I do think Gorsuch, you've got a little more on where he stands,

00:50:09.800 at least personally. Um, he wrote a book, uh, uh, on euthanasia. Uh, his editor of the book

00:50:18.200 was professor Robert George, probably one of the most well-respected. He's great.

00:50:23.160 Probably George is fantastic. And, and he went, you know, a lot of people look at his education

00:50:27.120 and see what, how incredible it was where he goes to Columbia undergrad, Harvard law school,

00:50:31.300 all this. And then he goes to Oxford. What a lot of people don't know is why he went to Oxford.

00:50:34.740 He went to Oxford to get his PhD, to study under the top brain in the world on natural law.

00:50:42.640 A guy by the name of John Finnis, the same guy who trained Robbie George. So it tells you a lot

00:50:47.860 about the philosophy and, and, and, and longstanding philosophy. Let me ask you this final question.

00:50:53.960 Um, nobody is really thinking about this, but he's young enough to be dealing with this in the next 10

00:50:59.160 to 20 years. Is he going to be able to handle or is anybody looking into, um, the definition of life

00:51:08.460 when it comes to AI? I mean, we're, we're moving into the realm of transhumanism and that is going

00:51:15.180 to be an issue is, is, have you seen anything from him on that? Well, I mean, I, I, I don't know how

00:51:20.760 he would do, uh, you had to look at what legal, you know, case or circumstance, but I think he's

00:51:27.280 probably got the most extensive background to prepare him for that than any justice. Because

00:51:32.760 again, he studied, uh, his PhD in understanding of natural law of life. What do you write his book

00:51:41.380 on? Euthanasia. He, that he is steeped in that philosophy and that whole line of thinking. So he

00:51:48.980 would probably be much more thoughtful than probably anybody we have on the court.

00:51:52.980 I wonder which way he would go on that. Two quick things. One, uh, is this the first question

00:51:58.380 you've had about transhumanism in your Gorsuch interviews so far? I guess it's going to be yes. 0.88

00:52:03.040 Is that true? Yes. Yes. We're just ahead of the curve. I'm telling you that will come.

00:52:07.940 Secondly, I was a big Trump skeptic on him making a good pick for the Supreme court.

00:52:13.260 And that should be stated because we were out about it and I did not think it would be this good. In fact,

00:52:17.320 if it came from the list, I thought it would be on the bottom of the list. I feel like Gorsuch is

00:52:20.820 towards the top of that list and looking at it from my perspective, I think he did a great job

00:52:26.100 with this pick. Um, if let's say name the constitutionalist, your favorite guy, you want

00:52:31.720 to be president. We were going for Ted Cruz, but Rand Paul, Mike Lee, whoever, any of those guys are

00:52:36.500 president of the United States and they pick Gorsuch. Is that a good pick for them too?

00:52:39.560 Cause I think it is. Yeah. It's a, he's a good, he's an excellent pick. I mean, very brilliant. Yeah.

00:52:44.680 I mean, there are some other people out there that, uh, like that weren't even on the list that people go,

00:52:49.900 why didn't they pick them? Uh, but I'm not saying they're better than Gorsuch. Uh, you know, I, I

00:52:55.300 think, uh, we're going to have to wait and see after he gets on the court, but everything we see,

00:53:00.420 we've got so many opinions. We've got this steeped training background. We've got this situation that

00:53:06.940 happened in his own family where, you know, his mother was really unfairly treated by the Democrats.

00:53:12.240 So I don't think he's going to go to DC and cozy up to the cocktail crowd. So I, there's a lot of

00:53:17.180 things in his favor that again, his manner is mild and, and humble. And again, I think that's why

00:53:24.060 they can't attack him. They can't make him a Bork or a, he's just, that's not his personality.

00:53:28.740 And so I think they're really desperate during these hearings to, to get him to make a mistake

00:53:34.000 somehow, which I, I just don't see him do. If you really want to know where everybody stands from,

00:53:39.220 you know, NRA on down the line, go to Trump nominee.com. That's Trump nominee.com. You'll be able to

00:53:46.500 watch the hearings, get the analysis there. And Kelly, we'd love to have you back just to give

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00:55:03.860 Glenn Beck Program. 888-727-BECK. Mercury.

00:55:12.220 The Glenn Beck Program. No, we're just, you know what, I just asked Kelly to stay just for a couple

00:55:17.280 of extra minutes. How is he, how is he on privacy and the Commerce Clause? Well, he's great on the

00:55:24.980 Commerce Clause on, on privacy. I would have to know what the issue, what you're going to find

00:55:29.820 with him is he's one of those boring guys that's going to say, what does the statute say? What does

00:55:34.280 the constitution stay, say? What, what did it mean? For instance, the NSA gathering information on

00:55:41.000 everyone. I mean, to me that the constitution is very, very clear. No, unless you have a warrant.

00:55:50.140 Yeah. I think he'll be solid on any sort of constitutional violations that violate the words of the

00:55:54.860 constitution. But see, privacy has been converted into all kinds of other things. It was the basis

00:55:59.800 for Roe v. Wade. It was, you know, so you can stretch it and turn it into something else. What

00:56:05.360 you're going to find with him though is he's, he's all about what does it say? And now I do think one

00:56:11.500 of the things that's really important, the Chevron deference, I don't want to get people's eyes glazed

00:56:15.540 over, but there's this, this approach that the courts have taken that I think the conservatives now

00:56:20.500 realize was a big mistake where they essentially show deference to bureaucrats. So Congress passes

00:56:26.520 a law and they say, well, let the bureaucrats figure out how to apply the law. And then they 1.00

00:56:32.100 massively violate people's rights. They make the regulations. Yeah. They make regulations,

00:56:37.780 including criminal type things. And then the court says, well, we have Chevron, we defer,

00:56:42.380 we have Chevron deference. He has been really strong in the other direction on that and saying,

00:56:47.540 oh no, that's not, no, we protect our constitution against. Well, that's where Scalia on that

00:56:52.940 issue. Better than Scalia. And that's where, that's where people like Mike Lee are going in

00:56:56.720 Congress. Exactly. The other thing you were mentioning off the air is that there may be

00:57:01.760 another justice opening, uh, this year. He said Kennedy. Yeah. But are we, we pretty sure on

00:57:07.080 that? We have a pretty good idea. The rumors, I mean, the rumors are there's going to be another

00:57:11.000 because I've heard, I've heard as soon as like 10 months. That's very, very possible. I think we,

00:57:16.540 we very well might have another one of these before a year from now. So Kennedy may be stepping

00:57:22.120 down then. He could be. Yeah. I mean, he, he probably wants to step down under a Republican.

00:57:27.100 He's reported under, under a Republican. If you wait too late towards the end, then it gets stalled

00:57:32.540 up. Right. So as every liberal in the audience is saying right now with Merrick Garland, that's

00:57:36.520 exactly. If you get too close to the end, you might not even get a vote. So, so that's now,

00:57:40.040 and of course that's talking about people voluntarily stepping down. If, if, you know,

00:57:45.000 there's others who are, there's health issues. So that could be even more.

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00:58:03.080 We're going to be following, uh, the Supreme Court, the hearings, and we're going to be following

00:58:07.840 them closely. Special reports at glennbeck.com. You don't want to miss that. Um, did you see Angela

00:58:13.440 Merkel's, uh, visit to the white house? Wow. Was that frosty? Angela? Angela. Angela. Is it

00:58:20.180 Angela, Angela? No, it's Angela. It's Angela Merkel. Angela. Angela. The handshake scene was. Oh my.

00:58:27.620 But they did shake hands at another point, right? That was, uh, yeah, but she leaned over and 0.99

00:58:31.700 she's like, we have a handshake. And he didn't even turn and respond. He didn't react to her.

00:58:36.240 It was awkward. It was like, I've never seen that. I have. Remember when Obama was sitting

00:58:43.740 there with Benjamin Netanyahu and you could tell they didn't want to sit there with Trump.

00:58:51.560 Angela was kind of happy. She was bubbly. She was fine. But Trump looked pissed. I don't

00:58:57.580 know what happened in the meeting. You know, there was a, um, you know, he said that, uh,

00:59:02.660 Germany hasn't been paying their fair share with NATO. And then he went off on this, this

00:59:07.500 thing about, you know, trying to negotiate a better deal with Germany. Well, Germany doesn't

00:59:14.200 make the trade agreement. It's the EU. And she said to him, apparently several times, um, you,

00:59:21.820 you're, you're under the false understanding that we negotiate our trade deals. We don't.

00:59:28.620 It's the EU that negotiates the trade deal. And he's like, yeah, well, we never need a

00:59:33.340 better deal with you. And, you know, with Germany again, it's not us. It's the EU. And, um,

00:59:41.540 you know, apparently that didn't sit well with her and it didn't sit well with him. But even

00:59:47.100 the, even the photographers at the, you know, handshake, we need the handshake shot. They're

00:59:50.740 all looking for the, the regular handshake jacket. He was heaven. None of it. Can we not

00:59:55.280 piss off Germany? That never goes well. Just never goes well. All of it's moved. Cause we've 1.00

01:00:01.760 already pissed off North Korea and, uh, they've vowed to reduce us to ashes. Oh no. Yeah. Korean 1.00

01:00:08.720 people's army. This is her statement will reduce the basis of aggression and provocation to ashes

01:00:13.420 with its invincible rockets tipped with nuclear warheads and reliably defend the security of the

01:00:18.660 country and its people's happiness. Because as you know, the people in North Korea are exceedingly 0.99

01:00:24.680 happy. Well, they've never been happier. No, they've never been happier in those, I mean,

01:00:28.820 labor camps. They love the labor camp. They would sometimes 100% full employment in those labor

01:00:36.840 camps. That's right. And okay. So I'm sorry. I'm asking you to concentrate in your camp for a little

01:00:42.040 while. We all know it's jobs, jobs, jobs. Right. And, uh, that's right. It's what it's all about.

01:00:46.760 Um, I will tell you this. I mean, we make fun of North Korea. I, I, uh, this guy is just nuts

01:00:52.820 enough. Well, he killed his own brother, right? For, for no reason, for no, for no reason. And

01:00:57.720 it's funny and openly, right? Openly. Yeah. He's killed his uncle, but he went, I mean that, that

01:01:03.560 thing in the airport, there's no reason to do that in the airport unless you wanted everybody to see

01:01:08.780 no reason to do it. Period. Anywhere for any time. The guy wasn't seeking power. Yeah. He lived

01:01:14.440 somewhere else. He was like the playboy brother. Yeah. Because he was, he's a brother, a step

01:01:18.920 brother, first of all. And he, uh, had no designs on the, you know, throne of North Korea. He did

01:01:25.580 not want to go back. He did not want to become the leader. He just wanted to go gamble in his,

01:01:31.260 and, and drink in his, in his peace. Like that's sick. He had, he was not interested and they killed

01:01:36.260 him anyway. I mean, and you know, think about this very rarely, I think in, in our history, do we have

01:01:43.280 a foreign government overtly and constantly threatening nuclear annihilation of the world's 1.00

01:01:51.480 superpower, uh, really with very little repercussion and really a little, very little fear. It's a

01:01:58.520 nuclear power. I mean, I've talked to somebody who was over in North Korea and, you know, you go

01:02:03.240 through, you know, their history of North Korean U S relations. And we are absolutely the aggressor 0.95

01:02:12.180 they're, they're people. I mean, you read that, read that statement again and, and read it in a

01:02:16.680 cartoon voice, Pat. I mean, you, you listen to this statement and it sounds like something from

01:02:22.900 a superhero movie. The Korean people's army will reduce the basis of aggression and provocation to

01:02:28.640 ashes with its invincible rockets tipped with nuclear warheads. Right. With its invincible rockets

01:02:35.980 next time on North Korea. And we will reliably defend the security of the country and its people's

01:02:42.900 happiness. I mean, it's, it's crazy. It sounds like an episode of Batman. Yeah, it does. Um, and you

01:02:48.120 know, how do you get people to believe that you shut off all information? I would love to go to North

01:02:54.440 Korea. I think you said this last week just because it is like going to the moon. Yeah. They have no 1.00

01:03:00.240 idea what is happening in the rest of the world. None. And so he does this because he's made us into

01:03:08.260 the chief bad guy and it gives his people, you know, something to think about. Oh man, if we could

01:03:15.380 just stop the oppression, we'd be good. It's not about him. It's about us oppressing. Yeah. I mean,

01:03:22.580 and it would be incredible to see because it's like, you know, uh, it is really like going to

01:03:26.540 another planet. I mean, the, the architecture and the, everything, the way the people act and,

01:03:32.000 and how they're terrified. I mean, there was a documentary that happened, uh, this is a few

01:03:35.800 years going back now where they went, uh, they snuck cameras into North Korea, um, with doctors.

01:03:41.640 And so the doctors go over there and they have these charities that go over there to repair,

01:03:46.040 I think it's cataracts. It's something that every other nation on earth, we pronounce it here.

01:03:51.120 Cadillacs. Cadillacs. Um, every other nation on earth has a minor surgery and you're fine.

01:03:57.400 Like it is there. These people just go blind because they have no ability to ever correct

01:04:04.320 this very easy problem. So doctors go, I think maybe doctors without borders go in and just do

01:04:11.560 eye surgeries and then leave. And they brought in the cameras and it was so bizarre to watch these

01:04:16.740 people as they will sit there every time they would get the surgery. They would see these people

01:04:22.840 were blind and now could see. I mean, that is a moment that, you know, historically has some

01:04:27.260 significance. I think there's a song. I was once blind and now I can see. It's a pretty overwhelming

01:04:32.080 experience. In fact, it's the, the example of the most overwhelming experience you can have as a human

01:04:37.760 being. And these people would, uh, would have the surgery, see for the first time. The first thing

01:04:43.080 they would do would walk, walk up to the giant paintings of at that time. I think it was Kim

01:04:46.960 Jong-il and thank the painting of Kim Jong-il. The only reason they couldn't see is because of 0.56

01:04:54.100 Kim Jong-il, but they walked up and thanked and bowed before the painting to thank him for healing

01:04:59.540 them. That's how crazy it is. Bizarre. Bizarre. I mean, he's the reason it was happening. If they had

01:05:07.820 any, any connection with the rest of the world and allowed capitalist inventions and innovation

01:05:13.720 to be there, every one of those people would have seen years ago. And yet here we are. These

01:05:19.220 people, it's such a bizarre thing. So am I taking it too seriously? Because I really, I'm very

01:05:24.460 frustrated with the press because nobody's really paying attention to North Korea. I think

01:05:28.900 this is a big deal. The EMP thing is really frightening. They, they, the CIA believes them to

01:05:33.360 have 20 nuclear warheads, 20. I mean, I doubt that they can even reach mainland America with

01:05:41.420 those, but you know, you can launch an EMP attack from a boat, from a submarine, from pretty

01:05:48.160 much anywhere near the coast and do serious, serious damage. The EMP thing is a legitimate 1.00

01:05:54.860 concern. And I don't know why we, we don't guard against it. And it goes back and forth to

01:06:00.460 how scared you are on that is kind of based on where you fall in the debate between the

01:06:04.840 government is incredibly efficient. And as Tim Allen points out, they know the location

01:06:10.660 of your iPhone after it's been turned off for two weeks, or are they the people who let

01:06:15.100 a guy jump the fence and walk around the white house property for 16 minutes before discovering

01:06:21.460 he's there? I don't know which one they are. I'm, uh, you know, when they came out that

01:06:26.400 they are 16 minutes, just astounding. Incredible. How on earth is that possible? How inept did

01:06:35.200 you see the secret? Did you see though? They announced yesterday, there are going to be

01:06:38.780 some changes at the white house secret service. You think, Oh, you think how many times do

01:06:42.720 we have to have somebody break in? Well, good. I mean, they were breaking in all during the

01:06:46.600 last president now breaking in and just what setting up a tea party for 16 minutes. How is

01:06:52.400 that possible? I don't know. I have to tell you if somebody brought, I mean that I don't

01:06:58.120 have secret service protection. If someone climbed my fence and was walking around my

01:07:05.520 house for 16 minutes, other than Jeffy, other than Jeffy, um, if, if somebody did that, I

01:07:14.940 would, I would get a new security company and I would, I would expect, you know, I'd be

01:07:21.920 like, okay, well, I don't have secret service. We're talking about the secret service. They

01:07:27.940 have the, the problem with the secret service is all they think about are ways to spend money.

01:07:34.260 They don't, they don't, they'll solve every problem. More men, more cameras, more this,

01:07:40.260 more that they don't think things through at all. They just solve it because they have

01:07:45.240 lots of money. No one is ever saying, Hey, Hey, Hey, slow down on the secret service spending

01:07:51.260 there at the white house. Spend what, what is it spend away? What is happening? Well,

01:07:56.860 we said this before too. I mean, look in reality, in a, in a actual security environment, there

01:08:01.860 would be people all over that lawn all the time. And the only reason we don't do that is

01:08:06.800 because we don't want it to look like a police. Not true. Not true. You can, there is no

01:08:12.260 way you could have trip wires with lasers that could set off. What would that happen? What

01:08:18.920 would happen if they set off an alarm? Yeah. People would come. Right, right, right. But

01:08:22.340 you don't have to have actual physical people on the lawn. We're talking about the president

01:08:26.760 of the United States here. If you do what you have to do to secure that environment, the

01:08:31.740 best way that you can, we don't do all of those things because understandably, I'm not even

01:08:36.160 criticizing this, but like, understandably, you don't want, you don't want like a million

01:08:39.140 agents out of the lawn all the time because it just doesn't look right. It doesn't look

01:08:43.680 like. No, but look what happened after 2001. I mean, you, you didn't have access to Pennsylvania

01:08:48.360 Avenue, that portion of it at all. I mean, you couldn't go anywhere near the white house 0.90

01:08:52.640 and now it's so bad that people can walk around for 16 minutes. We have no, we have, we don't

01:08:57.660 have laser technology. We don't have, we don't have ground sensing technology. And apparently

01:09:02.860 they don't, we don't have motion detectors. I mean, that's crazy. And the scary thing

01:09:07.340 about this is look, this person just seems to be a disturbed person who jumped the fence

01:09:10.760 and was not a serious danger. However, how many times can we teach the lesson that people

01:09:17.200 can get up to this freaking building? Yeah. How many times this goes for Obama, it goes

01:09:21.380 for Trump. At least how many times are we teaching these really bad people that we know exist

01:09:27.080 and we know want to do things that are terrible. How many times can we tell them just walk

01:09:31.940 on up? Yeah. I mean, I honestly been a terrorist. God, the guy was there for 16 minutes with

01:09:37.400 a backpack and Trump was home. He was there. It's, it's terrifying. I mean, honestly, like

01:09:41.980 I am much more of the opinion, like you jumped that fence, whether you're disturbed or not,

01:09:45.440 you're shot 10 feet. You may take three steps and you're dead. And I would, I would sit here

01:09:49.940 on the air the next day when they say, wait a minute, this person was just disturbed and

01:09:53.040 they were still 200 feet away from the white house. So what? Don't go near the fence. 0.56

01:09:56.960 Yeah. Honestly, I would sit here and defend secret service for doing those types of things

01:10:02.320 because it's that important. This is the president of the United States. We cannot afford something

01:10:07.320 terrible happening. And the fact is we have taught terrible lessons to our real enemies and

01:10:14.820 we need to take care of that. Hopefully that's what Trump's doing.

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01:11:30.000 Simply safe back.com. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. Mercury.

01:11:40.600 This is the Glenn Beck program. It's, um, quite fascinating what is happening on the Hill today.

01:11:51.320 It is, uh, it is, it's a lot of really important stuff going on. Uh, James Comey, who, if you remember

01:12:00.740 right, was a hero of the left, then a hero of the right, then a hero of the left again, I believe.

01:12:08.200 And now we're not sure what's going to happen today, but he goes from good guy to bad guy

01:12:13.760 on, on each side, depending on what day of the week it is. Um, he just testified that there is

01:12:21.420 an investigation, an ongoing investigation of Russian ties to any campaign in the last, uh, election.

01:12:30.940 So this is the first time the FBI has admitted this, but they are looking into, uh, ties to

01:12:37.700 the Trump campaign and apparently the Clinton campaign as well. Yeah. I think they were trying

01:12:42.680 to keep it broad and saying any campaign, but yeah, they, they did say the Trump campaign part as

01:12:47.480 well. Um, other side of that too, is they also said there is no evidence that the Russians were

01:12:53.000 hacked any votes. Now you might say, well, obviously we know that. Um, but this is a big thing.

01:12:59.460 We've talked about how the kind of echo chambers talk to themselves. The left hears this stuff all

01:13:03.200 the time that the, the election was hacked. And to that, to any normal person, the election was

01:13:08.180 hacked. That means you changed the vote totals. So the wrong person won, right? They are saying

01:13:12.120 that did not happen. Um, no evidence of that happening, which I knew, but I, I think that might

01:13:17.220 be big news to half the country. Um, um, he also, uh, said that there was, there is,

01:13:24.280 there was no investigation that included wire tapping in the traditional sense, but Trump

01:13:30.620 would say that he used wire tapping in quotation marks. And so he didn't mean that literally.

01:13:36.880 Um, but Comey did say that there was no wire tapping, uh, involved with Trump, um, at the

01:13:46.120 Trump tower. However, he did also go on to say, but there, we don't have the answer if

01:13:54.940 there were other non-conventional wire tapping, um, means being used. Yep. Left it open to

01:14:02.240 potentially there could be something else, but there was not. I mean, if you want to take

01:14:06.220 again, the Trump tweet, literally, they are saying that did not happen. Um, now since the

01:14:10.560 Trump tweet came out, it's been brought it in quotation marks. Exactly. So, okay. If

01:14:16.380 you don't, but I, but I actually, I believe I totally think I do too. I think it's ridiculous

01:14:20.480 to hold him to like, he was talking about a conventional wild chat wire tap at only this

01:14:23.800 building. I mean, I think the bigger part of that, however, is Obama ordered it, which

01:14:28.200 we still have zero evidence over and they all say that that can't be done anyway. Um, whether

01:14:33.300 you believe that or not is a whole other story, but still, that's a real big thing. And the

01:14:37.480 other big thing to me on the whole wire tapping is our ally, England, you know, but the English

01:14:43.700 did it and immediately the ink, the English come out and say, no, no, no, no, don't, don't

01:14:48.300 involve us in this. We did not do that. The Glenn Beck program. Mercury.

01:15:07.480 This is the blaze radio on demand.

01:15:13.900 Hello America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. What a surprise. 50% of Canadians are hate mongers.

01:15:19.300 Did you know that 50% of Canadians say, uh, illegal immigrants are, are making us less safe.

01:15:27.380 It's okay for them though. That they're a different country. We were the, we're the ones who can't

01:15:31.900 say that we can't. You're right, Pat. It's only, only all come free in America. You're right. You're

01:15:36.200 right. We'll talk about that. Also, FBI has arrested a Twitter user who sent a, uh, a seizure in, uh,

01:15:44.560 inducing gift. Did you read about this? A guy who sent somebody, sent somebody on Twitter,

01:15:56.260 a gift that caused him to have an epileptic seizure. We'll talk about that right now.

01:16:06.200 I will make a stand. I will raise my voice. I will hold your hand. Cause we are one.

01:16:14.620 I will beat my drum. I have made my choice. We will overcome. Cause we are one.

01:16:23.200 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:16:30.960 So this, this is a really amazing, uh, story. Kurt Eichenwald. He's a journalist who writes for

01:16:39.280 Vanity Fair and Newsweek. He tweeted on Friday, the FBI had arrested a man suspected of purposefully

01:16:46.180 sending him a gift that triggered an epileptic seizure. Um, the department of justice confirmed

01:16:53.620 the statement that John Rain Ravello, 29 of Maryland was arrested Friday on federal charges of cyber

01:17:00.640 stalking a Dallas victim. That victim presumably is Eichenwald though. He wasn't in, uh, his identity

01:17:08.400 wasn't released in the statement. Eichenwald has written openly about his epilepsy in the years past

01:17:14.340 in December, 2016, Twitter user with the handle, uh, at Jew Goldstein, send him a strobing, uh, gift,

01:17:23.140 which induced a seizure. According to Eichenwald, the tweet came with the message, you deserve a seizure.

01:17:30.340 So he opens it up and it has, um, several pictures with the flash before it and a strobe like Mary can

01:17:41.480 never go to a concert. Um, and she really wants to go to concerts and sometimes, you know, we'll go to

01:17:47.600 a, one of these mega churches or something and they'll, they'll have all the flashing lights and

01:17:51.640 she'll have to put her head down. Otherwise she could go into a seizure. So this guy knew what he

01:17:56.140 was doing and apparently he was doing it because he was a Donald Trump supporter and didn't like what

01:18:03.520 this guy was writing. Wow. And this is a, I mean, I always just, these stories you don't know,

01:18:11.520 is it, would, this is confirmed that it actually happened this way or is it, um, this is, what's

01:18:17.840 his case? I assume whose case? The guy who sent the tweet, uh, nothing, nothing. The complaint

01:18:23.640 was unsealed today. Um, following his initial appearance, according to the affidavit,

01:18:29.620 Ravello's Twitter account contained direct messages from Ravello's account. Other Twitter

01:18:34.440 users concerning the victim, the justice department said those direct messages included statements by

01:18:39.880 Ravello, including, I hope this sends him into a seizure. Um, that's pretty clear. That's pretty

01:18:45.220 clear. Uh, you know, uh, I know he has epilepsy. Let's see if he dies. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay.

01:18:53.060 So I don't know why that's pretty solid. That's pretty solid. That's pretty solid. That's pretty

01:18:58.120 solid. Um, let's go to Canada because we're not allowed to say these things, but the peace

01:19:04.700 loving, uh, cheese eating population of Canada, I don't know why they're eating cheese. Cause

01:19:11.000 they're near Wisconsin. At least part of the country. Do they eat a lot of cheese? Do they

01:19:16.080 make cheese in Canada? I don't know why they're called cheese. I don't know. That's, that's

01:19:20.220 Wisconsinites, but no, it has nothing to do with Canadians. No, it does. They're called cheese 0.79

01:19:24.880 heads. And where I came from, they were called cheese heads. Really? Yeah. No, that's Wisconsin.

01:19:29.100 I've never, I grew up in Washington state, you know, and, uh, we called Canadians cheese

01:19:34.820 heads. I don't know if people still do. I don't know why we called them cheese. I don't

01:19:38.440 either. That's kind of weird. It was wrong. It was wrong of us, but we did it. Okay. Urban

01:19:42.120 dictionary says cheese head is in this, in your usage, a Canadian who, because of the significantly

01:19:49.440 higher price of cheese in Canada than the U S makes periodic trips into border towns

01:19:54.580 to buy large quantities of cheese. Oh my gosh. No wonder. Okay. So, so like on border

01:19:59.460 towns, cause I lived up by the border that I knew that you could, there were places where

01:20:07.380 they just couldn't keep milk in stock. It's still like this. You can't keep milk in stock.

01:20:12.460 They'll have, you know, the, the older gallons and gallons and gallons of milk, and they still

01:20:19.820 can't keep them in stock because the Canadians come down because it's so much cheaper and

01:20:23.800 they just buy the milk. It's an interesting commentary on the tariffs and taxes. Isn't

01:20:28.060 it though? Yeah. I wonder what, what you'd learn from, but what's also happening in Canada

01:20:32.620 is that because some of the illegals here have been scared off by Donald Trump, they've crossed 0.93

01:20:37.980 the border into Canada and the Canadians surprisingly aren't liking that. And so 48%, almost 50%

01:20:46.060 of Canadians say, yeah, we need to step up deportation. Let's, let's get the illegals out 1.00

01:20:51.180 of our country. Now, if we do that, we're the worst people alive. We're the worst living human

01:20:56.620 beings. Uh, how dare you try to get rid of people who shouldn't be in your country in the first place? 1.00

01:21:02.260 How dare you? Just once they break into your house, they're there and you need to take care

01:21:07.960 of them. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's the, I, how can you, you can protect the white house. You put a

01:21:16.280 fence around that and rightly so. Right. But, but the rest of the country can be completely

01:21:21.480 unprotected. Doesn't make any sense. Completely unprotected. I started to do Brian Lilly, uh,

01:21:26.580 up in Canada with rebel media up there. And, uh, he was saying that, you know, they're noticing a big

01:21:33.880 change up there because, you know, Trump has obviously been outwardly, Hey, don't come here

01:21:38.660 if you're illegal, where to contrast that and look wonderful to the world. Trudeau, I said the

01:21:44.260 opposite. Hey, come on, we want you here. Come on in. So they're getting the, those problems are

01:21:49.820 starting to go that direction. Um, what problems are those racist? What's that? Huh? What problem?

01:21:56.900 The problems associated with illegal immigration as, as if there were any racist, what kind of problems

01:22:03.160 with those? What are you talking about? Well, especially they're particularly bad when you're

01:22:07.280 a country like Canada hat that makes our welfare state look like nothing when you have, uh, everything

01:22:13.580 guaranteed. Um, I mean, cause we obviously have a problem and we're going in the wrong direction

01:22:17.960 when it comes to entitlements and paying for everything. They're already there, right? We're,

01:22:22.420 we are shooting towards them, but they're further down this road. So illegal immigration is more of an

01:22:27.580 issue in a, in a country that has those things built in. You know, we've made this point before

01:22:32.680 and libertarians will make this point at times because a lot of libertarians are pretty much

01:22:36.040 open borders and their point essentially is you can't be both. You can't, you can't be both.

01:22:42.000 That's cause I mean, if you have the libertarian state where, where you don't pay for anyone's

01:22:46.800 anything, then maybe you could argue, you know, some of these things are okay. I, I, I will tell

01:22:51.960 you if it wasn't for the danger that we face, if this was, you know, 40 years ago, I would

01:22:57.100 be, I would be fairly okay with that. Maybe, um, it would still be rule of law. I still would

01:23:04.760 be rule of law, but I would say, you know, you know, there's no danger necessarily coming

01:23:11.160 over the, I'm just trying to think out loud. Um, you know, you shouldn't, yeah, maybe 50

01:23:15.780 years ago. I'm not sure. Maybe you shouldn't think out the things that, the thing that really

01:23:20.380 puts, um, this on the front burner is still thinking out loud. He's still going. All right,

01:23:26.620 go ahead. The thing that puts this on the front burner is the danger that is, uh, that our

01:23:32.300 society is threatened with, with, with jihad and the gangs. Well, and drugs. Yeah. Right.

01:23:37.980 So if, if we, if we decriminalize drugs, we also said no free anything for anybody. There's

01:23:46.080 nothing free here. You got to work for all of it. Open borders isn't as bad as you would

01:23:53.640 think, uh, as it is now, except for the jihadists that want to come and kill us. So you take care

01:24:01.900 of the drug thing. You take care of the, uh, drain on our society. You just can't have both.

01:24:08.640 You can't, you can't say I am for open borders and free stuff for everything. Yeah. Free. Come

01:24:17.840 on in. You can use our hospitals. You can have our doctors. You can have free food. You can

01:24:21.200 have welfare. We'll give you a house. You can say that, but it doesn't work. It doesn't

01:24:24.560 work. Leads to total collapse and chaos. Correct. It just doesn't make any sense. And that's

01:24:29.220 the, and that's the problem. We have both of those. And again, we're the only country on

01:24:32.580 earth that is expected to just welcome all of it. Just yeah. Whoever wants to come into our

01:24:38.260 country illegally, come on in. We'll take care of you. Everybody else can have quotas 1.00

01:24:43.080 on immigration. Everybody else can ask something of the immigrants. Like what do you bring to 0.99

01:24:47.940 us? What skills do you have? Okay. If you have no skills and you have no reason to be here,

01:24:53.660 we're not going to allow you to be here. Everybody else does that, but we can't. I just don't

01:24:59.120 understand that. Let me change gears. Um, over the weekend, beauty and the beast broke five

01:25:07.060 records. Um, it was the top domestic opening of all time for a film rated PG. Wow. Wow.

01:25:21.060 That's amazing. Uh, 135 million was finding Dory in 2016. This one is a beauty score. The top

01:25:31.000 opening of all time for a PG film internationally, uh, 180 million led by China, one, uh, 44.8

01:25:39.280 million up next was the UK, uh, 22.8 million fifth biggest for any film and the biggest for a PG

01:25:48.660 title. Seventh number seven launch of all time for any movie. It barely beat out the final Harry

01:25:57.440 Potter movie, 169 ranked number seven. Um, I wonder what the, I wonder what the beauty could

01:26:06.400 even come in this weekend as high as 174 million, which it would then tie Iron Man. It wound up at

01:26:12.820 170, 170 million. And it only cost a hundred and only, but it cost 160 to make. So, so domestically

01:26:19.980 it's at 170, but worldwide it's already at 350 million. That's incredible. Look at the worldwide

01:26:26.840 openings, biggest worldwide openings. Am I, am I out of step here? Not at all being interested

01:26:34.940 to see this? No, you don't have kids the, this age yet. What's the right age for that? Cause

01:26:40.200 I would think for a Disney special, I would be thinking my kids are certainly went to Disney

01:26:44.840 on ice this weekend. So I think they would be five and four. Yeah. A little young, but this

01:26:50.760 is a PG movie. So which makes you think they're not going after this one, this one is, this one

01:26:55.640 is a little tough for, for little kids. Cause I mean, Cheyenne, uh, Cheyenne went and she 1.00

01:27:02.020 was okay. Um, she is what? 10 or 11 now. Um, and she is, uh, she's very sensitive, super

01:27:10.940 sensitive, super sensitive. And so she didn't, she barely made it into this one. Like she would

01:27:17.940 have never been able to see King Kong. King Kong would have, she would have never been

01:27:22.940 able to sleep again. Um, and she, you know, she can watch the regular, you know, beauty 1.00

01:27:28.120 and the beast. But this one is the, the wolves are scary. The beast is scary. This is, but

01:27:32.920 that's why I don't know why again, and this is, I do not run a movie studio. I don't know

01:27:36.760 if anyone knows that. Um, and this might be the reason, but like, it just doesn't seem

01:27:39.980 to me to be in a formulaic sense, something that would make a lot of sense to spend $160 million

01:27:45.940 on. Cause you're targeting it at a little bit older than you think the general target

01:27:49.900 would be. So this is for teenagers is the target for beauty and the beast. I think it's for

01:27:53.720 everybody. Cause everybody remembers the cartoon. You either went to it as a kid or you took

01:27:58.520 your kids to it. And so there's a huge audience. Whoever it was in Disney who said, let's open

01:28:03.760 the vault and make them all live action. I think it is the smartest thing I've ever seen

01:28:08.520 any entertainment company ever do. And they've done a bunch of these, right? Jungle book.

01:28:12.720 They did. Oh yeah. They're all, they're all brilliant. Yeah. They're all

01:28:15.160 Cinderella. They're all stunningly brilliant. I've seen none of these films. And this is

01:28:19.900 why I'm not the target. I watched it last night. I watched Passengers. You know, the

01:28:23.640 movie Passengers? Yeah. Do you remember what the girl's name was that woke up, that he

01:28:28.380 woke up? I don't know. Aurora. Right? Right. Yeah. Did you connect that? I didn't. I didn't

01:28:35.620 at the time. To what? Right. Sleeping Beauty. Sleeping Beauty. Her name is Aurora. And I was

01:28:41.780 watching it last night and I'm like, Aurora, that's Sleeping Beauty. I wonder if that was

01:28:45.880 intentional or not. Probably. I would imagine it was. Probably. Also broke the biggest debut

01:28:52.660 of all time for a female-fueled film. A female-fueled film? That's an actual category? Did they burn 1.00

01:29:00.520 women to make the cameras run? What does that mean? Now you're getting, now you're starting 1.00

01:29:03.960 to interest me. No, either, uh, no mute movie fueled at this level by females of all ages 0.95

01:29:10.960 has ever opened to such big numbers. Hunger Games, 158. Okay. Twilight, 142. And those

01:29:19.360 were the best, uh, series. Right. Wow. Well, I'm glad it passed up, uh, Twilight because what

01:29:26.600 a horrible, horrible movie, horrible series. That whole series is great. Horrible phenomenon.

01:29:30.580 Are you kidding me? Good God. That whole series is great. Am I kidding you? Yeah, are you kidding

01:29:34.760 me? That Twilight was horrible? No, I'm, I'm not kidding you. That was great. I don't even

01:29:39.840 want to hear it from you. You don't? No, I don't. It's too late. Who had to go sit through

01:29:48.200 that movie with their wife? Whose wife said, that's horrible, I'm not going to go. And whose

01:29:52.880 wife? Mine. Mine said that. And whose wife said, I love this. I want to go and I want

01:29:57.820 to see everyone on opening weekend. Yours. Right. So don't talk to me about how bad it

01:30:02.660 was. Just because you suffered through it doesn't mean it would take, that doesn't take

01:30:06.260 the horribleness out of it. Oh. Did you enjoy it at all? There wasn't a sliver of enjoyment.

01:30:10.220 Your horribleness though is different, isn't it? Yes. Because I didn't have to sit through

01:30:14.480 the horribleness. No. I didn't read the books. I didn't see the movies. Right. But your horribleness

01:30:18.220 was because of vampires, right? You don't like vampire movies. Yeah, that. And it's

01:30:22.400 just the whole theme of it. The whole thing. I just didn't like any of it. It feels like

01:30:27.340 it was like a vampire movie aimed at teenagers too. Do I have any perspective on any of these

01:30:31.540 movies? I feel like I'm talking to a totally different world. I don't understand any of

01:30:36.560 these trends. What's going on? Oh my gosh. He's turning. Get up my lawn. By the way, Beauty and

01:30:45.220 the Beast opening worldwide weekend, number 14 of all time. And I will say, none of the

01:30:50.580 ones ahead of it, with exception of number one, really interest me at all. Wait, wait,

01:30:53.940 wait. Say that stat again. 14 when it comes to all time worldwide opening weekends. Oh,

01:30:58.780 worldwide. So there have been bigger movies than 350? Yeah. Real quick. 14 Beauty and the

01:31:03.800 Beast, 13 Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides, 12 Iron Man 3, 11 Captain America Civil

01:31:10.640 War, 10 Spider-Man 3, 9 Transformers Dark of the Moon, 8 Avengers Age of Ultron, 7 Marvel's

01:31:19.020 the Avengers. Listen to this. Listen to this. Is Marvel one of the greatest ever? Yeah. Six

01:31:24.480 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 5 Furious 7, 397 million. I saw the preview of the

01:31:32.300 7. Why was 7 so great? That was the one after he died, right? Yeah. 7 was the latest one after

01:31:37.240 he died. Yeah, the doing looks really good, too. Number four, Batman versus Superman, Dawn of

01:31:43.220 Justice. That is an abomination. That makes me question America and the world. Number three,

01:31:50.600 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, $483 million opening. Wow. Number two, Jurassic

01:31:56.100 World, $524.9 million. Wow. Number one, shouldn't surprise you, Star Wars The Force Awakens, $529

01:32:04.040 million opening weekend worldwide. Was that number one? No, that's number seven. Number seven. So

01:32:08.900 that's the newest one of the latest relaunch. Do you remember how big Star Wars 1 was when

01:32:16.000 it opened? Now, I will say, I don't, these do not appear to be inflation adjusted. So that

01:32:22.320 could be a big part of that. It's why you're seeing a lot of recent ones. But, uh, it's

01:32:27.700 Twilight. Yeah. If you go to inflation adjusted, it's probably still gone with the wind. I was

01:32:31.780 going to say, yeah. Gone with the wind was like 26 cents a ticket. Yeah. And I don't remember

01:32:37.120 what it was, but like almost everybody in the movie, like almost everybody in the world

01:32:42.060 saw it. Yeah. Everyone in the United States had to see that like one and a half times. Yeah.

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01:34:49.580 Pat is very upset today. There's one thing that he, there's one thing that would really

01:34:54.780 hack him off. It's the happiest countries list. And, uh, we go to that when we come back.

01:35:03.560 This is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury.

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01:35:38.620 Just looking at the, uh, looking at the happy index. This is the, uh, the happiest countries

01:35:45.120 in the world. Now, if you had to guess before you even heard what this, what the survey says,

01:35:50.120 where would you guess the United States to be? Right behind North Korea. Yes. Yes, you would.

01:35:54.760 Especially when the report is produced by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

01:36:00.820 You know, we're not doing well in that. No.

01:36:03.220 Why? There's no code words in that. No code words at all.

01:36:06.360 No, no code words at all. No.

01:36:07.660 Uh, this is for, this is a report about how socialist your country is.

01:36:11.320 So, okay. So we're not going to do well. I, I actually agree with this. I actually agree

01:36:16.120 with some of this. For instance, on the, you know, on the scale of, of the saddest countries,

01:36:24.100 Rwanda is fifth from the bottom. Yeah. That's, you know, Syria. Not going to be the happiest 1.00

01:36:29.340 place on earth. Tanzania, 153. Uh, the Central African Republic. Oh, wow. No one has ever confused

01:36:37.200 the Central African Republic for Disney World. You know, South Sudan is 147. Yemen is 146. 0.73

01:36:44.680 It's pretty accurate on the bottom of the scale. So I personally think that it is fairly accurate

01:36:51.900 on the upper side of the scale as well. And hear me out, hear me out, hear me out.

01:36:57.940 Norway, Denmark, uh, Finland, maybe the Netherlands and Iceland, maybe, but definitely Norway, Denmark,

01:37:10.340 Netherlands. I can see because a, it's a very, it used to be a, a very homogenized society.

01:37:20.420 Everybody pretty much looked the same. Everybody, you know, they were just all the same. So it

01:37:26.140 didn't have that conflict that comes with a melting pot and, and they view themselves as a, uh, a, a home

01:37:37.780 for refugees because of World War II. They view themselves as a country that, uh, gets along and

01:37:48.420 they love everybody. And they, they, they, they don't get into people's faces and we share everything.

01:37:56.740 They have this mentality that we do not have. And they revel in that. They pride themselves on that

01:38:06.940 kind of a, of an attitude. So when you're coming to them and saying, Hey, do you trust your government?

01:38:12.420 They generally do. Um, does your government have that safety net in case you're in trouble?

01:38:18.840 And they definitely do. Absolutely do. Um, are you, are you happy with your surroundings and the

01:38:26.520 people around you? Yeah. I mean, that's who they are. Are you okay with living in 700 square feet of

01:38:35.340 living space? Yes, they generally are. Cause they don't know any better. Right. They generally are.

01:38:39.900 And are, do you consider you and your fellow citizens generous? Yes, they do. So I'm generous

01:38:48.420 because they pay high taxes, which is right. But they also look at generosity. I think they

01:38:53.120 also look at generosity as being the, the, I think they view themselves as the, uh, the humble

01:39:02.180 little America, bring your refuge, refuge, bring your wretched refuse to our shore. I think they 1.00

01:39:08.640 look at themselves as we take in all the undesirables and, and we love everybody. And

01:39:16.400 but that really wasn't the case until recently until this refugee crisis in, in the middle East,

01:39:22.280 they weren't, you know, they were like you said, homogenized. They're all the same. Right. How hard

01:39:26.940 is it to get along when you're all the same? No, it's not hard at all. It's not hard. That's why I

01:39:30.020 think it's pretty easy to be the happiest countries. Yeah. So I suppose, um, and, and it is also

01:39:36.200 looking for the Marxist kind of countries. Yeah. Cause here's the criteria. Uh, they have a healthy

01:39:42.560 balance of prosperity as conventionally measured. Whatever that means. I don't know what that means

01:39:47.400 either. Right. And social capital, meaning a high degree of trust in society, low inequality. And you

01:39:55.020 know, that's where they're going to, we're going to get dinged with that. Wait, wait, wait, wait,

01:39:57.980 wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, massive inequality. But they don't even have inequality a because

01:40:01.680 the government takes it all. Yes. Also because everyone's the same. Yes. Is there a trust in

01:40:07.640 your society? Yes. Because everyone's the same. Yeah, definitely. And they say we're falling

01:40:14.260 due to inequality, obviously, because that's what they like to harp on. Well, there's people who

01:40:21.080 make a billion dollars while others make seven dollars an hour. Yeah. But the people who make a

01:40:26.920 billion dollars employ the people who make seven dollars an hour. Otherwise they'd make zero dollars

01:40:31.340 an hour. Oh my God. So listen to the rhetoric. The United States can and should raise happiness by

01:40:38.280 addressing America's multifaceted social crisis. Well, why don't I just go live in Liberia or Togo?

01:40:45.620 Togo. Togo? Togo? I don't know. Yeah, I think it is. T-O-G-O. Togo? I think it is. Yeah. I'm so

01:40:54.340 fascinated about the Iceland thing. I mean, their entire economy collapsed. You think our economy

01:40:59.320 collapsed? Theirs, like, legitimately they lost their currency. And they're ahead of us. They

01:41:04.360 rewrote their constitution. On Twitter. On Twitter. Yeah. They were looking for suggestions on

01:41:09.940 Twitter. Hey, what should we put in our constitution? Remember when the founding fathers did that?

01:41:14.460 They wanted everybody to write something dumb, put it in a hat, and just drew stuff out.

01:41:18.360 Can I tell you? There? I mean. Unbelievable. What do you, I mean, you know, somebody said to me the

01:41:26.980 other day, they said, uh, it was George. I think it was George Lang. Somebody, yeah, I think it was

01:41:33.400 George Lang. Um, he came over. Who was a photographer, by the way. Yeah, a good friend of ours. And he came,

01:41:39.040 uh, he came over to the house last Sunday and he had, he went to church

01:41:43.100 with us and then he, um, uh, spent the afternoon. We had dinner together and he

01:41:47.960 stayed the night. And he was saying, um, how much he enjoyed the day with the

01:41:54.640 family. He said, it's just, it was just so great to be with the family. And he said

01:41:59.600 it was, uh, um, what did he call it? Uh, an immigrant philosophy, I think. And in some ways

01:42:10.200 it's true. America has lost its, its roots to the family and you'll see it with Mexican immigrants. 1.00

01:42:17.660 You will see it with the old Italian immigrants, Asians, Asians, where the family comes together

01:42:24.260 still. Yeah. And so, you know, a lot of these countries, they haven't lost that. We have,

01:42:29.100 we've replaced a lot of that. Yeah. But I don't think that's what they're basing this on.

01:42:33.900 Right. They're not basing it on family values. That's the last thing they care about.

01:42:39.200 Read the first one again. The first one, the first, the first, the first criteria. Yeah. First

01:42:44.040 criteria. I think the balance of prosperity as conventionally measured. Yeah. Social capital,

01:42:49.260 meaning a high degree of trust in a society, low inequality and confidence in government.

01:42:53.640 And of course the socialists have confidence in their socialist government. Not necessarily.

01:42:59.580 Venezuelans don't. No, but I mean the European socialism is different. Yeah. Well, I don't

01:43:06.380 know if it translates. See, I don't think so. Cause it doesn't translate into Spain. It doesn't

01:43:10.680 translate into Greece. It doesn't translate into Italy. It doesn't translate into Germany.

01:43:15.840 It translates into the Netherlands. That is one place where it seems to work until it doesn't. And

01:43:22.860 they're trying to get out of it now because of finances. The math doesn't work. Yeah. But in

01:43:27.500 that part of the world, it did kind of work, but it doesn't translate outside of that. I mean,

01:43:34.140 probably cause you're too cold to go out and pick it or March. You're just like, Oh, whatever.

01:43:38.660 It's cold outside. You know, a couple of things. First of all, dark, socialism can be nice for a

01:43:44.720 country for a very short period of time. I mean, a lot of people getting a lot of money. The

01:43:48.680 overwhelming majority of people aren't rich and aren't the ones paying for it. So until the entire

01:43:54.660 society breaks down, you have some positive moments in theory. Um, to me, you're fighting long term for

01:44:00.600 your country. So you don't want to do that. Secondarily, you're right. Like the, the, the sort of idea that

01:44:06.240 everyone is uniform, um, does, you know, uh, help in some ways as far as strife, but it's also not

01:44:14.060 worth the trade-off. I mean, I, I don't want that trade-off. I mean, and that's not, it's not a

01:44:18.560 legit, it's not something that I think is a good idea. Um, but, uh, it's amazing to see these countries,

01:44:23.500 um, that are up at the top of that list. And I keep going back to this, but think of how bad this

01:44:28.900 was. This is Iceland again. I'm fascinated by this. Now I'm going back and looking at all my notes on

01:44:33.140 this. Is this the meat thing where they could, they didn't even have meat in McDonald's? No,

01:44:37.360 this is just, just, just stock market. Remember that? They couldn't even afford meat at McDonald's

01:44:43.200 so that they could make hamburgers. They don't, they don't grow their own beef for McDonald's.

01:44:48.380 So they had no currency. Well, cows can't live in that kind of cold. Yeah. Cows can't live.

01:44:53.200 How do you send Jeffy there? You watch how long he lives. That's why you build up a house.

01:44:57.840 So they're just talking about cows. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. So, uh, cause they had this big thing

01:45:03.440 where they got in, they were, you know, they were just, they were fishermen. Everyone was a

01:45:07.000 fisherman basically there. Um, and so they wound up expanding into international finance in a big

01:45:12.020 way, which really helped their stock market for a while until, uh, people who were better at

01:45:16.480 international banking wind up, wound up, uh, beating them down with it. Um, but so our stock market

01:45:21.780 before the financial crisis was at about 14,000 and change and fell to about 6,600 at the bottom.

01:45:27.160 Okay. 14,000, 6,600. So you're talking a pretty big drop there. 60%. Their stock market in mid

01:45:34.100 2007 was about 9,100. It fell to 200. Wow. 9,100 to 200. Can you imagine yours? And I mean,

01:45:46.420 they blew up their entire currency. They had to rewrite their constitution. That is a financial

01:45:51.980 crisis. I mean, what we dealt with in the United States and the rest of the world dealt with was

01:45:56.140 nothing compared to Iceland, but I think they weren't, I mean, I've not been to Iceland,

01:46:01.240 but aren't they still pretty much fishermen? I think they've gone back to a lot of that. Yes.

01:46:05.020 Um, and I mean, it's apparently a great place to visit. Um, like it actually is pretty amazing to

01:46:10.140 visit and like, it's a really nice culture and, uh, it's an interesting place and welcoming and

01:46:15.380 there's a lot of great things about it. However, uh, you know, it depends on what, and the names of

01:46:19.460 their cities are all 26 letters long. Yeah. It's really cool. You know, it's, you know,

01:46:23.720 it's amazing. You know, so try this on for size. You're India. How do you feel? You're India.

01:46:29.900 You're 122 and Pakistan is 80. Wow. That's, I mean, I don't think of, I mean, if I had a choice of 0.99

01:46:41.580 which country I'm going to, I'm going to India. I read this. What were the two again? It was India.

01:46:47.320 Pakistan was 80. Oh wow. India, 122. Bangladesh is at 110. Wow. That's a commentary on India there. 1.00

01:46:56.500 Sri Lanka, 120. Bangladesh has a natural disaster about every 15 minutes. Two natural disasters have

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01:48:25.800 This is the Glenn Beck program. Mercury.

01:48:31.680 This is the Glenn Beck program. I mean, when we look into the happiness of Iceland, it's not

01:48:38.060 possible. It's just not seven or eight places ahead of us on the happiness scale. We were 14th. I

01:48:44.040 think they're sixth or seventh, whatever. And this is a backward country. I'm amazed by this story. 1.00

01:48:51.320 They should be taken over before they hurt themselves. So there, uh, the, the, the naming

01:48:58.540 thing is really fascinating. So no, you know, in this, in the United States, uh, Glenn Beck has a

01:49:04.040 daughter, Hannah, it's Hannah Beck. That's not how it works in Iceland at all. Well, they don't have

01:49:07.820 last names. They don't essentially don't have last names. They have last names, but the last name is

01:49:12.280 essentially a formation of the parents' first name. So Hannah Beck here would be in Iceland,

01:49:19.520 Hannah Beck daughter. So no, it'd be Hannah Glenn daughter. Hannah Glenn daughter. Sorry.

01:49:25.660 Hannah Glenn daughter. Their first name. Dad's first name. So Hannah Glenn daughter. He could also be,

01:49:29.600 uh, the wife's first name potentially, or you could do some of them are both first names,

01:49:33.980 which is a very strange. Hannah Glenn Tanya daughter. Right. Well, yeah, kind of. Then you

01:49:39.180 have, um, when you get married, you can't take the other person's name. Of course not. That can't

01:49:43.980 happen. That's not legal. And then thirdly, if you want to name your, you, so you go through this

01:49:49.940 process when your baby's born, you don't name the kid for multiple months. Okay. This is the

01:49:55.860 tradition is you have to get to know them first before you name them. Right. They, they come into

01:50:00.360 their name. They come into name. So they start out for the first few months as boy or girl, which by

01:50:05.020 the way is hateful. I don't know if they know this right off the bat. Well, you're assigning a gender 0.99

01:50:08.760 to them. How can you possibly know at three months what their gender is? There's no way to know.

01:50:13.160 No. Um, but so they call them boy or girl for like three months or longer. And then when

01:50:19.140 you come up with a name, if it's not on the normal name list, you have to submit the name,

01:50:24.420 uh, to, uh, Sven. I think that one's on there. Uh, Sven Wilhelm's son. You have to send the

01:50:33.220 request to the Icelandic naming committee before being allowed to name your child. For example,

01:50:40.300 uh, cause it has to fit the Icelandic, uh, alphabet. Um, and they rejected, for example,

01:50:46.420 Pedro because no Icelandic word ends in O, which I mean, we're hateful here. We're the

01:50:52.120 hateful. They rejected all Pedros and we're the hate bongers. Wow. Incredible. Maybe that's

01:50:57.320 why they're happy. They have no Pedros there. Well, I would say doing the work that the, 0.88

01:51:01.280 all the Icelanders won't do. I don't know the answer to that. There is no work. The Icelanders 1.00

01:51:06.000 won't do. Yeah. That's what I mean. Cause the only work is fishing and they do that.

01:51:10.080 Right. Okay. So now, now we are number 14 on the list of happy places. So I went of course,

01:51:16.500 right to HuffPo to find out the 45 things we can do to be happier instantly. Oh, good. Oh,

01:51:22.840 um, Oh, I got a few of them. Number 45, uh, look at the bright side. Right. Wow. That's really deep.

01:51:30.380 Deep deep. I like this one. You want to be happier? Lower your expectations. That's number

01:51:35.300 44. I actually fully agree with that one. I'll tell you what, I actually really do agree with it.

01:51:40.380 Want to be happy? Take a selfie. Oh God. I've seen my selfies. No. That does not make me happier.

01:51:47.520 Yeah. Yeah. Uh, want to be happy? I like this one. Recite a positive mantra. Like the only thing I

01:51:54.380 have to do is follow my bliss. Oh, you made me angry by reciting it. Skip the small talk and go

01:52:02.760 deep. Think of happy memories. Celebrate little victories. Uh, try to cut back on work is my

01:52:09.680 favorite. Number 32. Just try. I mean, really try to be happy. Wow. It's really profound. I never

01:52:16.680 thought of that. It is. I'm immediately happier. Well, I'm instantly happier. Now, right now. Faster

01:52:21.980 than immediately. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Mercury.

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