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Summary
Glenn Beck explains the constitutional argument for pro-life in light of the latest controversy surrounding pro-choice pundit Tommy Lahren and her controversial appearance on The View on Friday. Glenn also explains why it's important to remember that the Constitution protects the rights of all unborn children.
Transcript
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Well, seemingly, the big topic over the weekend was Tommy Lahren's appearance on The View on Friday,
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where she announced that she is pro-choice, which is a massive change for her.
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She said that she couldn't consider herself a conservative who believes in the Constitution
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She couldn't see the truth of the Constitution.
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Well, I'm going to do my best to shed some light on that, beginning right now.
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Hello, America. There are two things to discuss on this Tommy Lahren dust-up with The View.
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And one of them is her employment at The Blaze.
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The other is the constitutionality or the constitutional argument for conservatives on pro-life.
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First of all, we have a whole bunch of different kinds of people that work here.
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We started The Blaze with a show called The Real News.
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And it was hosted by Amy Holmes, who was openly pro-choice.
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So if you're pro-choice, you can have a job at The Blaze.
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I don't hire people who are sycophants or who have my opinion.
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I try to hire people who have a different opinion, because I believe in being intellectually rigorous.
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I want people to make a real argument on the other side,
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so we can learn from each other and we can grow.
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So let's learn from each other and grow, shall we?
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What is the constitutional argument for conservatives on life?
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A lot of people will think that this is a new argument.
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That their founders never really, they never discussed this, you know.
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And if it's not abortion, women's rights is a new idea.
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Well, I want you to put women's rights into context here.
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However, they're not the only thing to consider when another person's life is at stake.
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We have to consider the other person's life when it is at stake.
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The preamble of the Constitution clearly states,
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Well, who are our posterity, if not our unborn children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren?
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That's who the Constitution is securing the blessings of liberty for.
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The founders wrote endlessly about things that they wanted to change about British common law.
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Comparatively, they didn't talk about abortion often, but they did talk about it.
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And that's because abortion was already illegal under British common law.
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The context of the comments made in the era shows this really clearly.
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James Wilson, one of the only six people who signed both the Declaration and the Constitution,
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he was also an original judge on the Supreme Court.
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Human life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by common law.
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Life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb.
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In other words, as soon as people knew they were pregnant, you couldn't do anything.
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Signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Witherspoon, said,
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Quote, Some nations have given parents the power of life and death over their children.
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But here in America, we have denied the power of life and death to parents.
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State law of Virginia at the time, of Jefferson and Madison, laid it out pretty well.
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Quote, But if a woman be with child, and any gives her a potion to destroy the child within her,
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This is murder, for it was not given to her to cure a disease, but unlawfully to destroy the child within her.
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So I would disagree that you're a hypocrite if you want limited government,
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and yet you want the government to protect life of the unborn.
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and it takes a willingness to actually think these things through,
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and to do more than just read Twitter or Facebook,
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You actually have to study these things out in your mind,
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First, being intellectually honest and intellectually curious.
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It comes with another cost, and usually to the other people at the other end of your argument.
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The pen is mightier than the sword, and it can destroy people if your aim is clicks, views, and ratings.
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For Tommy, this seems to be a relatively recent change.
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The pro-choicers are supposed to be about rare and safe abortions.
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That's how they avoid sounding like straight-up baby killers,
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by acknowledging abortion is not a positive thing and a difficult choice.
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Then we have Lena freaking Dunham out there wishing she could have murdered a fetus,
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Doesn't exactly say much about the cause, her character, or the pro-choice movement.
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I am a constitutional, you know, someone that loves the Constitution.
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and so I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for a limited government,
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but I think that the government should decide what women do with their bodies.
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I can sit here and say that as a Republican, and I can say, you know what,
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I'm for a limited government, so stay out of my guns,
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This was mocking a progressive video that came out where the women were saying,
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I choose, I choose, I choose to do with my body what I will.
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You asked Tommy to make the opposite point and make it pretty harshly.
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I have a choice the first year when they can't sleep through the night.
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I definitely have a choice during the terrible twos.
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I have a choice when I get sick of little league and soccer practice.
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I have a choice when they hit those awkward teen years.
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I have two choices when I become a grandmother.
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And every mother has a right to choose their child's expiration date.
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Suffer through a day where their child is alive.
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And that's especially funny when you know the style of the liberal spot.
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The problem here is, the problem here is with all of society.
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It's no secret that Tommy and I don't agree on quite a lot.
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And if you cannot defend the idea, no matter which side you're on, if you can't defend the idea,
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that leads to the second part of the discussion, which is the people calling for Tommy to be fired.
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That's not appropriate to be discussed on the radio.
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That's in the privacy of the office of the blaze.
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Because instead of being about people or events, I'd rather be about the big ideas.
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Do women have the right to abort their children in the terrible twos?
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I mean, do other women have the rights to abort women that whine too much?
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I mean, that's probably the question that we should ask.
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Actually, I'm going to be doing some tactical training, so I'm going to go blow some stuff
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You are more macho than we are, that's for sure.
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She's blowing stuff up, and you're watching the nose and not a butterfly.
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Anyway, Dana, let's talk about the underpinnings of the Constitution for life.
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And I know Tommy, you know, didn't call people hypocrites.
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Well, I don't want to get into what other people say and where other people stand, because
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And the position that I've always held as a limited government conservative is that
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it's completely not hypocritical, because you cannot, you simply cannot enjoy the right
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to liberty and the pursuit of happiness without first having the right to life, because everything
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Yeah, you don't have the right to have the pursuit of anything if you can't live first.
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When people say that it's a purity test, you know what?
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And I think it's a cowardly position for people who lack the courage of their own convictions,
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We are, I mean, you know, I was talking off air this morning.
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And the founders knew the moment it stirs, so the moment you know you're pregnant, the
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moment it stirs, I believe they used to call that the quickening, then it was a child.
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We are trying to go, scientifically, in this scientific age, we're trying to deny it's
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a child by denying people the right to an ultrasound.
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It's really crazy to think how anti-science we have become.
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But you have to decide whether that's a child or not.
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Once you decide, yes, it is a child, there is no right that anyone would have to take
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We should be the people, the party, the tent of science.
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I don't want to give anybody a talk, but we all know how conception takes place.
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If we want to talk about choice, that occurs before conception.
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It should be always, that should be our mantra, choice before conception.
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And choice is just a fancy word that people use to hide the fact that it is murder.
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You know, that's what I've always felt, too, Dana.
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But from that standpoint, in order to be consistent, you'd almost have to say that you're conceding
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when a woman is raped, then, that abortion would be legal in the case of rape and incest.
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Because her choice was taken away in that case.
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Well, but even then, to use that as a universal measurement, I mean, according to Planned Parenthood's
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own statistics, and that's from the Guttmacher Institute, it's fewer than 1% of all cases.
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And if people want to have a discussion about the fewer than the 1% of all cases, to stop
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the 99% that's being used, elective abortions that's being used as birth control, I think
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But to use it when it's fewer than 1% as the universal rule in arguing for legalized infanticides,
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How do you feel, Dana, about what's happening to the conservative movement, becoming this
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populist, really, in some ways, non-intellectual kind of movement?
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I think there's industry conservatism, and then there's the actual movement of conservatism.
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I think that the industry attracts people who think that, and rightfully, they're capitalists.
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I'm always going to trust the capitalists, because you know what motivates them.
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But I think that it looks like an opportunity for people to seize upon in an era of new media.
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It's great to put out content, and it's great to get views for it.
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But at the same time, it's still a real movement.
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I don't like a whole lot of populism, because I think then it tends to obscure the truth, and
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people look for personalities instead of principle.
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And you always have to fall back on principle, because everything else is going to be a
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flash in its hand, but principle is always going to stay.
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And that's something that we should be focusing on as a movement.
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But I look at it, and I think that the right, it's a big tent.
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And these are the conversations that we're going to have when you have a big tent.
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Here's the big problem that I have, Glenn, and I know that I've spoken with you about
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People use the words like Republican, and Independent, and Conservative.
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They use these terms interchangeably, because they think incorrectly that they all mean the
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And you're going to have pro-choice Republicans, and atheist Republicans, and you're going to
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But one of the things that I cannot see, and that I do not define conservatism as, is as
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Because the basis of conservatism is conserving the liberty of the individual, conserving the
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And it all goes back to the right to life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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So you cannot, and I'm not being a bouncer of conservatism.
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And if people want to accuse me of having a purity test, hell yes, by all means, I will
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And if anyone else doesn't, I pity those people.
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But yes, conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism.
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And if anybody who knows anything about Politics 101, if they know this, this should not be a
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This is why political theory in class is important.
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This is why learning what these terms mean is important.
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Did you see Jimmy Kimmel and Tim Allen on Friday, I think it was?
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I saw the interview and a clip and it was, he is funny, just straight out funny.
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It was really funny because he's one of the ones that, you know, he gets away with it.
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You went to the presidential inauguration, right?
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I was invited by, we did a VIP thing for the vets and went to the veterans ball and so
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I went to go see the Democrats and Republicans.
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If you don't believe what everybody believes, this is like 30s Germany.
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If you're not part of the group, you know what we believe is right.
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And listen to the way he answered that question right off the bat.
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Oh, he's, I, yeah, well, I, I was going there for both Democrats and Republicans.
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And that show is Last Man Standing, which is his show.
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It's, it's amazing because we had a lot of people in the audience, you know, call us
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up and email us and tweet us and say, hey, you guys got to watch this show.
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It's, and I remember, you know, you hear a lot of people were, you know, people will
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say the same thing about the most boring movie that came from some church that is awful.
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So I didn't necessarily take it immediately seriously.
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And one day I happened to flip on the show and it's Tim Allen.
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And it was as if I was like on vacation in another country and didn't understand the traditions.
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Like it's, it's, it's actually funny and conservative in America on network television.
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What's amazing is it doesn't, you don't hear everybody talking about it.
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We cry and scream and say, there's nothing conservative.
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And, and you don't, you don't really hear people, everybody buzzing about it.
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It is like the episode that I watched was about 10, it seemed like 10 minutes of jokes
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about Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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I, you watch it and you cannot believe it's on network television.
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It could be one of those shows like the way Tim answers on, on Kimmel is like, do you
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So, play, can you play the rest of his, play the rest of his rant on, and Jimmy Kimmel?
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If you think for the, the vets, they went to the veterans ball.
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Because we're seeing, you'll find it at theblaze.com.
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He made the point about Nazi Germany there in the 30s, Germany.
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And it's funny because that's a point when you make that, you usually get in trouble.
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I would not be surprised to see him get his, his, his wrist slapped for making some comparison
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I thought this was interesting though, because this has happened to this program and maybe
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a couple hundred thousand times or so, which, you know, you make a comment about Nazi Germany
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or make that comparison or say, here's the worst example of going down this road or worst
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I'm still the only one that will make it for both sides.
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I'm still, you know, a fair use of Nazi analogies.
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So, and it's interesting because we always, we've gotten in trouble for so many times.
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And I thought this was an interesting story from the Seattle Times that talks about the
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Now the border wall is going into effect right now, or, you know, they're talking about, they're
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taking solicitations for people who want to be involved building it.
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So, you know, if you're a contractor and you want to be involved, yeah, they're getting
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bids and people, I would like to be involved in this.
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One of the, one of the companies they got, it's a Canadian company called Trump wall solutions.
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Um, the, the head of this company, uh, Albert Speer, uh, is, uh, is, is an interesting character
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Um, so the whole story is about, and I would say a very positive, uh, look at the comedians
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who decided to do this and say, wow, what a great idea.
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Like it's that feel where it's like, wow, these guys are satire making a Nazi joke, right?
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And the symbol for their company looks very much like, uh, you know, uh, like a Nazi dollar
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You've seen the one that's looks like a dollar sign.
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It has like the German writing, like the German font that you, I mean, it looks like Nazi
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Um, Nazi font, Nazi font, uh, which, which I love.
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And it's like, it's interesting in that, like they go through this entire article and
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it's almost all positive, essentially comparing Donald Trump to Hitler.
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Now, are they saying he's going to execute millions of Jews?
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No, what they're saying is they think they, their vision of this is that it's overtly down
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However, not as far down the fascist road as Avoth Hitler, obviously.
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And they ended it with this, which I thought was, this is going to be my answer to every
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Every time this pops up, I'm going to, I'm going to give this answer asked whether it's
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offensive to compare Trump's because they waited to the last paragraph to put this in.
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Is it offensive to compare Trump's wall with the genocidal acts of Hitler?
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Now that would be the only part of this story that even existed if it was someone from our
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The offense should be moderated by the fact that we are pointing to a slippery slope.
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Excessive uses of power lead to tyrannical regimes.
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They're not saying he's going to execute 6 million Jews.
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Just like we're not saying they're going to kill 6 million Jews when we compare Barack
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Obama's overreach in government to another tyrannical government that overreached.
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Well, except for Bill Ayers, who the Weather Underground said they would kill 25 million
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My point here is that satire should have that in car.
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If he does get heat on it, he should just quote that.
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Because everyone knows he's not comparing Hollywood to Adolf Hitler.
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They all know it, yet they look for the outrage anyway.
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There's a great comparison, though, actually, to the 1950s, right?
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And the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
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There's a big time comparison to be made there.
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And I'm pretty comfortable with just stating that because that's what they're doing.
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They're doing the same thing that happened to the left in the 50s to the right today.
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But the right is also doing it to the right today.
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The alt-right is trying to silence the alt-right.
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There's a four-way breakup in the alt-right that is happening right now.
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What's amazing is we're watching happen to the GOP what happened to the Democrats back in the 90s.
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Remember when finally all the blue dogs just left and said, you know, there's no place for me in this party anymore.
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What was happening to the Democrats then is what's happening to the GOP now.
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It's deciding whether or not it's going to be a radical party one way or another.
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Is it going to be a nationalist, a populist party?
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Is it going to be a conservative constitutional party?
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And it didn't happen with the Democrats at the time of them being out of power.
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When Donald Trump is in power, it's starting to look at the look at how we were united for eight years.
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And now it's fragment, fragment, fragment, fragment, fragment, fragment.
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I'm just, I'm not sure which pieces are coming.
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He goes on to talk about privacy and your security in that interview with Jimmy Kimmel, too.
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We'll see if we can get it on the other side of the break.
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What's really interesting about that is how he phrases it.
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He phrases it in such a way as, you know, I got this crazy friend.
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And, you know, it sounds to me like your crazy friend you agree with.
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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.
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It's like black Cadillac after black Cadillac and then a tractor.
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I used to like parades, which is a funny off story.
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We went to see the Santa Monica parade down on Santa Monica Boulevard.
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I thought when it was a gay, I thought when there would be floats and stuff.
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You don't want to take a five-year-old to that parade.
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Well, there's no gay pride parades have a different tone than Disney.
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You're talking about, you know, well, you do stand-up.
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Do you, well, like, what are you worried about?
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I'm worried about, I have buddies that are in the security business.
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So I have a guy that's got no, he always has battery, like cell phones, that batteries come
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He says, you put an iPhone down for a week, you shut it off.
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I get paranoid just from being around this cat.
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But one day I was thinking, if a government drove by down the street with like a gray sedan
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with a camera on it, you'd be rioting going to Washington.
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But if it's white with emojis and Google on it, yeah, hey, you're waving at him.
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I mean, remember, he went to prison for cocaine, right?
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I mean, really, obviously, Home Improvement's really a legendary sitcom.
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He is just such a, I mean, he has tapped into the psyche of being a guy.
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Obviously, he's had a lot of voice work as well.
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It cost them $160 million to make this weekend.
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And it's definitely, there's definitely gay stuff in it.
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Well, here, at the very end, I mean, all the way through, your kids aren't going to notice
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But all the way through, I'm like, this gay thing is so overblown.
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I mean, you could read it that way if you're really looking.
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And I don't think the one that they say is gay is the gay character.
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Um, why am I, am I supposed to, am I supposed to assume he's gay?
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The way he talks or, uh, maybe the way he moves or that he likes Broadway shows.
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I mean, I, I, I was told my whole life that's stereotyping.
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But then when, um, and I think it happens in the movie, the dresser, um, you know, explodes
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at one point when they're fighting and the three guys are wearing women's clothing.
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So the only thing is, is the two of them turn and run and the other one's like, oh my gosh,
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Or, you know, has that kind of appearance of finally I can come out wearing a woman's dress.
00:36:19.220
Um, like we have to have this discussion with our kids.
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
00:36:54.380
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.
00:37:08.140
And it is, it is that, but I don't think your kids are going to, uh, notice it, but really
00:37:26.660
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.
00:38:16.900
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
00:39:04.960
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
00:39:22.620
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
00:39:40.720
Uh, in the past, there was this Republican thing of picking people without a record.
00:39:52.680
Now, John Roberts has been really solid on most cases on Obamacare twice inexplicably.
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
00:40:17.260
But John Roberts was a guy who had no, uh, no record.
00:40:23.420
If you're 50 years old and you have no conservative record, you're either conservative, you're either
00:40:31.360
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.
00:40:45.040
Um, you had Harriet Myers being appointed by, uh, President Bush.
00:40:49.800
They went back and he said, okay, I'm just going to pick a full-fledged conservative with
00:41:03.840
So when you look at Gorsuch, there are, he had 3,000 opinions that his name is connected
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.
00:41:21.800
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.
00:41:41.060
Um, what you find with Gorsuch is he doesn't really care who the plaintiff and the defendant
00:41:46.660
He's just going to go, what, what does the law say?
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,
00:41:56.900
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.
00:42:09.980
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
00:42:19.940
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
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.
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
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.
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
00:53:51.280
us a highlight of what we saw, you know, uh, starting, starting tomorrow. Cause the hearings
00:53:57.920
kind of start today with opening statements. Thank you so much, Kelly. Appreciate it.
00:54:01.880
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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
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.
00:57:58.960
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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
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
01:00:01.760
already pissed off North Korea and, uh, they've vowed to reduce us to ashes. Oh no. Yeah. Korean
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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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this very easy problem. So doctors go, I think maybe doctors without borders go in and just do
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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.
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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Simply safe back.com. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. Mercury.
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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.
01:15:13.900
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.
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I will make a stand. I will raise my voice. I will hold your hand. Cause we are one.
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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
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
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
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?
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
01:24:43.080
on immigration. Everybody else can ask something of the immigrants. Like what do you bring to
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
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
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
01:29:00.520
women to make the cameras run? What does that mean? Now you're getting, now you're starting
01:29:03.960
to interest me. No, either, uh, no mute movie fueled at this level by females of all ages
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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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.
01:35:38.620
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.
01:36:03.220
Why? There's no code words in that. No code words at all.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
01:46:56.500
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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.
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
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the way is hateful. I don't know if they know this right off the bat. Well, you're assigning a gender
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to them. How can you possibly know at three months what their gender is? There's no way to know.
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No. Um, but so they call them boy or girl for like three months or longer. And then when
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you come up with a name, if it's not on the normal name list, you have to submit the name,
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uh, to, uh, Sven. I think that one's on there. Uh, Sven Wilhelm's son. You have to send the
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request to the Icelandic naming committee before being allowed to name your child. For example,
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uh, cause it has to fit the Icelandic, uh, alphabet. Um, and they rejected, for example,
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Pedro because no Icelandic word ends in O, which I mean, we're hateful here. We're the
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hateful. They rejected all Pedros and we're the hate bongers. Wow. Incredible. Maybe that's
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why they're happy. They have no Pedros there. Well, I would say doing the work that the,
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all the Icelanders won't do. I don't know the answer to that. There is no work. The Icelanders
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won't do. Yeah. That's what I mean. Cause the only work is fishing and they do that.
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Right. Okay. So now, now we are number 14 on the list of happy places. So I went of course,
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right to HuffPo to find out the 45 things we can do to be happier instantly. Oh, good. Oh,
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um, Oh, I got a few of them. Number 45, uh, look at the bright side. Right. Wow. That's really deep.
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Deep deep. I like this one. You want to be happier? Lower your expectations. That's number
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44. I actually fully agree with that one. I'll tell you what, I actually really do agree with it.
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Want to be happy? Take a selfie. Oh God. I've seen my selfies. No. That does not make me happier.
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Yeah. Yeah. Uh, want to be happy? I like this one. Recite a positive mantra. Like the only thing I
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have to do is follow my bliss. Oh, you made me angry by reciting it. Skip the small talk and go
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deep. Think of happy memories. Celebrate little victories. Uh, try to cut back on work is my
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favorite. Number 32. Just try. I mean, really try to be happy. Wow. It's really profound. I never
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thought of that. It is. I'm immediately happier. Well, I'm instantly happier. Now, right now. Faster
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than immediately. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Mercury.