The Glenn Beck Program - 3⧸8⧸17 - Full Show

00:00:00.840 This is the Blaze Radio On Demand.

00:00:04.880 Good morning.

00:00:06.360 Pat, Stu, and Jeffy in for Glenn today.

00:00:08.760 As you may or may not know, it's International Women's Day.

00:00:12.980 So women all over the country are striking and not going to work, not going to school, supposedly. 1.00

00:00:19.240 And of course, Glenn being 89% woman, he's taking the day off. 0.82

00:00:23.460 Fully supports.

00:00:24.160 Fully supports it, fully into it.

00:00:25.820 And, you know, again, he's mostly woman.

00:00:27.840 So it makes perfect sense.

00:00:30.000 And it's a shame because we've got all kinds of great stuff to get to today.

00:00:33.800 The American Health Care Act, pretty controversial, at least to us.

00:00:38.600 The CIA is hacking into your cell phones, your televisions, supposedly, according to WikiLeaks.

00:00:45.620 And we may touch on the actual agenda behind this International Women's Day.

00:00:51.360 We'll start there right now.

00:00:53.400 I will make a stand.

00:00:55.900 I will raise my voice.

00:00:58.000 I will hold your hand.

00:01:00.380 Because we are one.

00:01:02.380 I will beat my drum.

00:01:04.640 I have made my choice.

00:01:06.900 We will overcome.

00:01:09.160 Because we are one.

00:01:11.160 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:01:15.140 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:21.140 Welcome.

00:01:22.640 Already halfway through the week.

00:01:24.160 Man, it goes by fast, doesn't it?

00:01:25.800 Jeez.

00:01:27.920 International Women's Day.

00:01:28.980 I guess it's kind of like the day without an immigrant. 1.00

00:01:32.180 They're trying to give us a day without a woman to see how much we should appreciate. 1.00

00:01:35.300 I already appreciate women. 1.00

00:01:37.500 I love women. 1.00

00:01:38.700 I have one in my house who I'm pretty fond of.

00:01:44.360 In fact, there's four.

00:01:47.120 Two of them are out on their own and in their own houses now.

00:01:50.260 But, I mean, the day without immigrants should be renamed the day without illegal immigrants. 0.94

00:02:00.180 Because that's a great day.

00:02:02.200 We should do that every day.

00:02:04.120 Let's have every day be the day without illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:02:07.840 And then everything would be as it should be.

00:02:10.480 But the day without immigrants, nobody wants that. 1.00

00:02:12.860 No.

00:02:12.940 I mean, I don't know what the point of that.

00:02:15.400 I mean, almost everyone I know, literally everyone I know, is for legal immigration.

00:02:21.280 So, they leave off the illegal part.

00:02:23.800 But that's what it's really about.

00:02:26.520 With the day without an immigrant thing. 1.00

00:02:28.740 And actually, the day without an immigrant thing just means less traffic. 1.00

00:02:32.180 In the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

00:02:33.620 I will say, I did not notice any reduction in traffic.

00:02:36.420 You didn't?

00:02:36.680 Not today.

00:02:37.240 Oh, today.

00:02:38.580 Not today.

00:02:39.580 So, I don't know if there's no women that work in Texas. 1.00

00:02:42.120 Or maybe people in Texas think this is really dumb. 0.98

00:02:45.080 My guess is the second one. 0.99

00:02:46.740 I hope so.

00:02:47.500 But, yeah.

00:02:48.200 I did not notice.

00:02:49.600 In fact, it seemed like there was more traffic than usual today.

00:02:52.360 Maybe guys were like, you know what?

00:02:53.440 I'm going to go in.

00:02:54.500 Just because I don't think any of those women will be there. 0.78

00:02:56.880 I mean, that's what sexist men are like, right?

00:02:59.300 Yes.

00:02:59.620 That's what I heard.

00:03:00.460 Yes.

00:03:01.800 Yeah, no. 0.66

00:03:02.160 I mean, it's sort of a silly idea, right?

00:03:04.360 I mean, you know, again, no one, is there any, there are people, a lot of them, looking

00:03:10.540 to ban illegal immigration.

00:03:12.160 I know of no one who's looking to ban women.

00:03:15.260 I think there's a zero, there's a zero percent support level for banning women in America. 0.99

00:03:19.520 Well, maybe not ban women, Stu, but there's certainly a war on them. 1.00

00:03:24.160 Is there?

00:03:24.680 Yeah, there's a war.

00:03:25.520 And today, I guess, would be a ceasefire because there won't be a round to shoot at today.

00:03:29.960 Anyway, the perception is that they make, what, 78 cents or 87 cents on the dollar for

00:03:35.960 every man or whatever.

00:03:36.920 And we've, I don't know how many times that has to be debunked.

00:03:39.720 Even the Washington Post has debunked that nonsense every year since 2012, when this first

00:03:47.280 started to become such a big issue again.

00:03:50.220 And Obama used the war on women to try to bash Mitt Romney over the head with it. 1.00

00:03:55.660 And so, you know, when you compare apples to apples instead of apples to oranges, men 0.74

00:04:01.620 and women make about the same. 1.00

00:04:02.980 And in some fields, women make more than men. 0.86

00:04:05.460 But I think that's what this is about, the perception that they don't make as much, that

00:04:09.480 they don't have the equal rights, all of those things.

00:04:12.340 Is it?

00:04:13.140 I kind of get the sense that it's just Trump related.

00:04:16.640 I get the sense that because, you know, Donald Trump has said, you know, a couple of offensive

00:04:21.200 things about women and they just are taking, despite the fact that, again, he's offered

00:04:25.580 a $680 billion maternity leave plan.

00:04:28.600 Like, this is something, I mean, by the way, something that Barack Obama did not, at least

00:04:33.460 push hard.

00:04:34.520 He did just talk about it, I believe, a couple of times.

00:04:37.320 But he's doing a lot of things in that realm as well.

00:04:41.360 I mean, his daughter is obviously big on women's rights and likes these larger programs. 0.99

00:04:46.180 Um, so it seems as if at some point, um, some of that stuff could be reality if, if women 0.96

00:04:52.800 didn't constantly, constantly, seemingly try to antagonize Donald Trump.

00:04:57.180 I mean, like, I mean, you know, again, I, you know, I understand that we are just on teams

00:05:02.920 now.

00:05:03.620 I think that's just where this comes from.

00:05:05.800 They're not, they don't care what policies he's promoting.

00:05:08.340 They just say, well, he's evil.

00:05:10.360 Um, I, you know, the, the new healthcare plan, um, does look like it would defund Planned

00:05:15.860 Parenthood if passed, uh, as constructed at this point, um, which is, you mean a private

00:05:21.440 agency might have to raise their own funds and not take mine and your money.

00:05:27.340 What?

00:05:28.160 I know it's crazy.

00:05:29.820 It's crazy.

00:05:30.760 Uh, that, but that's, that could be part of it, I guess.

00:05:33.440 Uh, there's, you know, not, it probably is not going to like everything the guy does,

00:05:36.540 but I think it's more about his personality than anything else.

00:05:39.100 I mean, the, the, the women's, uh, pay thing, um, again, Democrats had, remember Democrats 0.91

00:05:45.820 had, uh, the house, the presidency and a, uh, a filibuster proof majority in the Senate

00:05:53.600 and did nothing about this issue.

00:05:55.400 Right.

00:05:56.000 They did a giant zilch.

00:05:57.280 What are they passed?

00:05:57.740 The Lily Ledbetter act or something.

00:05:59.440 Remember that thing?

00:06:00.240 And then they bragged about that for years.

00:06:03.320 We passed the Lily Ledbetter act.

00:06:06.320 Okay.

00:06:06.900 I don't know what that is, but nice job.

00:06:08.460 That's really good.

00:06:09.580 Yeah.

00:06:09.800 Is that a Pearl Jam song?

00:06:11.580 I think is okay.

00:06:13.400 Yes.

00:06:14.140 Uh, so, uh, you know, I, I get that, uh, that they're going to, you know, I think the standard

00:06:19.320 response to any Republican, uh, in the way that we have our politics right now is just

00:06:24.500 to protest anything that they do.

00:06:30.180 Remember that song?

00:06:31.800 It was really good.

00:06:32.400 Yeah.

00:06:32.860 I do.

00:06:33.740 Uh, uh, I'm, uh, I'm actually really, um, uh, I'm interested in the, uh, the new symbol

00:06:40.920 of international feminist protest that I hope you guys are on top of.

00:06:45.380 Um, it is, it's basically the diagram of a woman's lady parts. 0.99

00:06:50.560 Um, and then, and then it's flipping you off.

00:06:54.580 It's the actual, yes.

00:06:57.200 I don't know how to describe it.

00:06:58.300 Now, Jeffy, I, how would you describe?

00:07:00.020 Oh, that's great.

00:07:00.900 Um, how would you describe this exactly?

00:07:02.880 Yes.

00:07:03.100 Uh, the hoo-ha, the hoo-ha and, uh, part of the flip-off, the fallopian tube comes up and

00:07:08.100 flips you off and just flips you off.

00:07:09.500 And so that's been, first of all, it's for this, there's a site.

00:07:12.700 That's very classy.

00:07:13.540 There's a site writing about this.

00:07:14.960 It says how Jezebel, the website unknowingly created an international symbol of feminist protest.

00:07:20.100 The author of the article, uh, Jezebel.

00:07:22.080 Um, so they've now said that they created, uh, this and it's an international symbol.

00:07:27.380 But I love this because the way, the reason they created it is because they wanted women 0.95

00:07:31.940 to take a stand, I guess.

00:07:33.340 And they were discussing how women were taking a strong feminist stand by saying F you to

00:07:40.540 the CDC about drinking while pregnant.

00:07:44.520 They will not live under your guidelines about staying away from alcohol while pregnant. 1.00

00:07:50.900 Darn you. 1.00

00:07:52.080 And, you know, if you try to squash a woman's rights by not allowing her to just get plastered 1.00

00:07:58.600 in the eighth month or the third month or the fifth month, whatever month, whatever 0.65

00:08:03.200 month, then you are a monster and a, a, a, a, a horrible, horrible violation of women's 1.00

00:08:12.120 rights. 0.98

00:08:12.560 What a great story to launch a movement on.

00:08:15.360 We want the right to be able to get sloshed when we got a kid inside, which by the way,

00:08:20.020 they have.

00:08:20.520 Uh, it's just that most women care about their babies, uh, inside the womb and don't. 1.00

00:08:25.800 Yeah.

00:08:26.020 I mean, you know, there's no law that says you can't drink when you're pregnant, right?

00:08:28.860 That's why you have the signs everywhere.

00:08:29.980 Uh, guys, uh, we would have request that if you're pregnant, you don't have nine shots 1.00

00:08:34.320 of tequila this evening in every restaurant because I go to classy restaurants, obviously.

00:08:39.140 Uh, but, uh, they do have that all the time.

00:08:41.260 Like, you know, the warning for alcohol, one of the main ones that they would post or put

00:08:44.960 on a bottle of alcohol is pregnant women should not consume this product because of, you know, 1.00

00:08:50.440 some side effects.

00:08:52.020 It's, uh, it's not necessarily a good thing for the baby.

00:08:54.080 Uh, now, you know, there are obviously parts of, there's lines to that, uh, but it's still

00:09:01.120 an amazing thing that you launch an international symbol of women's protest on the back of an

00:09:07.500 article about how you should be able to say F you to the CDC for trying to stop you to drink

00:09:12.460 while pregnant.

00:09:14.420 I, I, I don't even recognize our dimension anymore.

00:09:21.700 We've slipped into a new dimension.

00:09:24.240 It must be one of the 28 different dimensions that Neil Patrick Warren matches people on.

00:09:32.640 I don't recognize it.

00:09:36.280 I really don't.

00:09:37.500 It's, it's unbelievable. 0.63

00:09:38.640 I, you know, what we should do is organize an international day without white men and 1.00

00:09:44.900 everybody, every white man just stay home. 0.51

00:09:46.940 Let's get some appreciation there. 0.99

00:09:48.660 I don't want to hear about your white privilege nonsense anymore. 0.97

00:09:51.580 I don't want to hear any of it. 0.96

00:09:53.220 Let's see how you deal with us being gone for a day.

00:09:55.400 How would that work out?

00:09:56.860 I know how I deal with it.

00:09:58.160 Sleeping.

00:09:58.800 Yep.

00:09:59.540 Me too.

00:10:00.740 A lot of eating.

00:10:01.680 So they're not even, they're encouraging women not to even purchase anything in stores

00:10:05.140 or online to show just how critical a role.

00:10:08.100 Yeah, they're closing schools.

00:10:09.660 Some schools in Virginia are closing because so many people are off.

00:10:12.720 According to UNESCO, 87% of U.S. elementary school teachers are women.

00:10:19.340 And I mean, I pretty much believe that.

00:10:21.200 Oh yeah.

00:10:22.380 I believe that too, but where is the equality?

00:10:24.800 Why, why don't men get some of those jobs? 1.00

00:10:27.140 I mean, here we are.

00:10:28.380 That we, I thought we were in an equal society.

00:10:30.340 I thought it was the year 2017, not 1825.

00:10:32.660 You know what that means?

00:10:33.340 It means likely about 87% of the money that goes to kindergarten teachers or elementary

00:10:37.620 school teachers go to women. 1.00

00:10:39.900 Right.

00:10:40.660 I mean, that is, where's the equality?

00:10:43.260 It's unconscionable.

00:10:45.000 It's unconscionable.

00:10:46.360 It's funny because they said, first of all, who are you screwing if you are out of nowhere

00:10:52.780 taking a day off as an elementary school teacher so the school has to close down? 0.95

00:10:57.800 You're screwing families and mothers. 0.99

00:10:59.620 You're screwing other women. 0.99

00:11:01.040 Yeah. 1.00

00:11:01.280 Right?

00:11:01.600 Because they have things.

00:11:02.300 Families are scrambling.

00:11:02.900 They were supposed to do.

00:11:04.160 Because if they're working, then they've got to rearrange your whole schedule.

00:11:07.300 Yeah.

00:11:07.580 Or if they have other things planned, you know, or, you know, who knows what they're doing

00:11:10.960 on that particular day.

00:11:11.760 But what you're doing is making them scramble.

00:11:13.040 Well, you're also screwing the kids out of a day of learning, right?

00:11:15.380 You're screwing a kid, yeah, out of a day of learning. 0.96

00:11:17.720 But, I mean, it's funny that the women's protest winds up screwing women. 0.97

00:11:21.300 I don't know why that would, why they'd want to do that. 0.93

00:11:24.200 It's just bizarre. 0.99

00:11:25.300 The whole thing is bizarre and ridiculous. 0.53

00:11:28.500 And I do give Glenn some credit, though, for stepping up and taking a stand on this today. 0.67

00:11:33.140 Yeah, he did.

00:11:33.560 I mean, a hardcore.

00:11:35.380 Good for him.

00:11:35.900 He's like, look, you know, I need to stand with my kind.

00:11:39.900 Right.

00:11:40.080 And everyone knows.

00:11:41.260 And everyone knows.

00:11:41.800 He's a mostly woman all my life.

00:11:45.120 And I like, he likes musicals.

00:11:48.680 Broadway show tunes.

00:11:49.940 Oh, my gosh.

00:11:51.240 Barry Manilow.

00:11:52.300 Yeah.

00:11:53.080 You know, so.

00:11:53.860 People think we're kidding when we've discussed it in the past.

00:11:56.800 We're not.

00:11:57.360 This is proof.

00:11:58.540 This is.

00:11:59.280 I came into the studio and Glenn was sitting alone in the room before, you know, people

00:12:04.820 had walked out and everything.

00:12:05.840 He was in the, you know, just prepping and reading emails and going through stories while

00:12:09.940 blasting lucky by Britney Spears by himself in a room by himself.

00:12:17.280 A man.

00:12:18.200 I mean, that's just embarrassing.

00:12:19.280 I got video of it to make sure that everyone was able to.

00:12:22.900 I could.

00:12:23.440 You need to post that.

00:12:23.960 Oh, yeah.

00:12:24.540 You know what?

00:12:25.000 I'm going to repost it because.

00:12:26.180 That's great.

00:12:26.720 It's it was and it was real.

00:12:28.320 And, you know, this is so he so he heard this Women's Day thing was coming up and was just

00:12:33.300 like, you know, I can't I have to show solidarity.

00:12:36.500 I cannot go in there today.

00:12:38.580 So it's a brave stand by Glenn.

00:12:40.200 And I think he'll get some.

00:12:41.140 I applaud it.

00:12:41.920 You know, wow.

00:12:42.640 I applaud it.

00:12:43.760 All right.

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00:14:55.980 Glenn's out today for International Women's Day.

00:14:58.400 Being 89% woman himself.

00:15:00.560 Pat Stuhl and Jeffy in for Glenn.

00:15:04.180 I love the fact that conservatives in Congress aren't lying down with this Trumpcare thing.

00:15:11.840 In fact, Rand Paul is calling it Obamacare light.

00:15:14.380 It's beyond Trumpcare.

00:15:15.540 It's just essentially Obamacare light, as he says.

00:15:19.880 Yeah, Justin Amash called it, I think, Obamacare 2.0.

00:15:23.320 You know, and that's what it is.

00:15:25.020 I mean, we broke it down yesterday, all the details, if you want to go back and listen to the show.

00:15:29.620 But we summarized it as, if Obamacare is an F, maybe this is a D+.

00:15:34.580 There are some things that are better than Obamacare in there.

00:15:38.360 And the thing is, shouldn't we strive for at least above average?

00:15:41.280 Yeah.

00:15:41.640 I mean, at least a B?

00:15:43.320 I mean, we've got the executive office, the Senate, and the House.

00:15:47.080 There's no reason to settle for this.

00:15:49.180 There's no reason.

00:15:49.640 Why?

00:15:50.420 I mean, and if you think about it, it's like, if there were 51, 52 Democrats in the Senate,

00:15:56.460 and, you know, you're trying to get a gang of eight bill passed, this is the type of thing you might accept in that scenario.

00:16:03.520 Yes.

00:16:03.860 You might say, you know what, I mean, look, the Democrats have control of the presidency, they have control of the House,

00:16:08.640 they have control of the Senate, you know, but with a small majority, they can't get the filibuster through.

00:16:14.620 So maybe what we do here is work with them and get some of this stuff done.

00:16:18.420 It's not where we are, though.

00:16:18.940 It's not where we are.

00:16:20.100 You can do whatever you want.

00:16:21.700 Why not shoot for something you actually want?

00:16:23.380 If you have to negotiate from that point and relinquish a couple of good things, you know,

00:16:29.200 probably conservatives will, you know, plug their nose and go along with it. 0.99

00:16:32.460 If you don't believe us, listen to Rand Paul.

00:16:34.140 This is Obamacare light.

00:16:35.520 It will not pass.

00:16:36.920 Conservatives aren't going to take it. 0.98

00:16:38.640 Premiums and prices will continue to spiral out of control.

00:16:41.440 They do nothing to help the consumer join associations to bring prices down.

00:16:45.720 I like the president's statement that it's up for negotiation, and I think those have begun.

00:16:49.680 I spoke with the president yesterday, and I think he's open-minded on this.

00:16:53.560 He wants Obamacare repealed like all conservatives do, but he realizes that conservatives have a lot of objections.

00:16:59.900 I mean, that's somewhat, he sounds somewhat hopeful there that, you know, maybe we can make it better through the negotiation instead of worse through the negotiation.

00:17:10.020 But you usually don't start with really bad.

00:17:12.760 Like, if you need to make $100,000 a year, you don't go to your employer and say, I demand $20,000.

00:17:19.800 That's my starting point.

00:17:21.300 Right.

00:17:21.760 Well, he'll say, okay, I'll give you $20,000.

00:17:24.820 Well, it's interesting.

00:17:25.620 Or he might say, I'll give you $10,000, and we'll meet at $15,000.

00:17:28.140 You start at $500,000, and then you work your way backward.

00:17:34.740 You don't start at this crappy point.

00:17:36.840 Yeah, it's interesting because, I mean, when I heard, because Trump, when he first tweeted his support for this bill, said it was a, he mentioned negotiation in there.

00:17:46.860 My mind as a Republican president thought, he's thinking this is the point where I will negotiate, and hopefully, you know, there's going to be some negotiation with the left, right?

00:17:56.840 But maybe he's thinking he's negotiating with the right.

00:17:58.820 Yeah, maybe.

00:17:59.320 Maybe he's entering this and saying, hey, I'm going to negotiate with the Rand Pauls and Ted Cruz's, and it's going to move more conservative.

00:18:04.700 I guess we'll see that process.

00:18:05.520 I mean, he tweeted this morning, I have to be reporting on the Donald Trump tweets every day, but I feel sure that my friend at Rand Paul will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster.

00:18:21.620 Yeah, and this is, this is too.

00:18:25.500 So, this won't help.

00:18:28.040 As Rand said, it's not going to bring down costs, which we were promised.

00:18:31.400 And ever since Obamacare came out and the prices went up, instead of saying, well, you're right, the prices didn't go down by $2,500 per family, what they say now is, well, they didn't go up as much as they would have.

00:18:45.540 Well, that wasn't your promise in the beginning.

00:18:47.160 And also, you don't know what they would have gone up.

00:18:47.860 And you don't know what would have happened.

00:18:49.840 You have no idea.

00:18:50.380 Yeah.

00:18:51.380 That's just a BS argument, especially when you promise something specific.

00:18:55.180 You promise $2,500 decrease per family.

00:18:57.800 Over and over and over again.

00:18:59.120 So, you don't get to now say, well, what we meant was it wasn't a million dollars more per family.

00:19:05.320 That's just like when the unemployment rate was 10%, Obama's line was, well, at least it's not 15 or 20.

00:19:13.340 Yeah, that's.

00:19:14.440 Well, yeah.

00:19:14.900 I mean, I guess you're right, but it could be maybe better than 10.

00:19:18.780 Yeah, maybe.

00:19:19.420 Is that possible?

00:19:20.000 You're just, you know, when you go through this line by line, you see way, way too much of Obamacare still in it.

00:19:28.760 And, you know, the technical way they're doing this is they're repealing the whole thing and then just adding back all the parts of Obamacare that they like and calling it a full repeal.

00:19:36.420 That's not a full repeal.

00:19:37.280 When you have the same things in there, they're repealing half of it and they're putting in some things that are good, some things that are not so good to replace it.

00:19:47.700 And they're going to have all sorts of problems and then it's going to be their problem.

00:19:51.460 It's going to be the Republicans' problem after this.

00:19:53.400 And in some ways, I think the Democrats really like this because obviously they don't care about anyone's health care.

00:19:59.580 Yeah.

00:19:59.800 That's been established. 0.97

00:20:01.360 So, you know, they like the fact that now Republicans will take the blame for their crap that they've built up over the past 10 years. 0.96

00:20:08.720 It's really a sad situation. 0.98

00:20:12.620 We are watching the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:20:29.900 This Obamacare repeal so far has been pretty disappointing.

00:20:38.080 First of all, they haven't repealed it.

00:20:40.320 They're not really traveling that route.

00:20:43.360 They're just trying.

00:20:43.980 It looks to me like they're just patching Obamacare.

00:20:47.720 It's not what they're doing.

00:20:48.660 They're putting some Band-Aids on this thing.

00:20:51.980 Yeah.

00:20:52.560 I mean, they're acting as if their tax credit system is different than the subsidy system that exists.

00:20:57.520 Really, it's not.

00:20:58.400 I mean, you know, the old way that you would go to the Obamacare exchange and you'd get a subsidy and a $1,000 policy looks like it cost you $150.

00:21:07.800 It's basically what would happen again.

00:21:09.100 But they'd be dumping a bunch of tax credits and then, and it's not just tax credits.

00:21:14.300 It's refunds in excess of what you pay in taxes.

00:21:17.760 So if you pay $3,000 of taxes a year and the tax credit is for $10,000, they're going to give you a check for $7,000 to go buy health insurance.

00:21:28.520 I mean, that's just a government.

00:21:30.340 How is that different than a big government liberal program?

00:21:33.100 Well, it's a handout.

00:21:33.960 Yeah, it's just acting as if, when you call it tax credits, conservatives were supposed to be like, oh, well, that's totally different.

00:21:39.840 I'm so much happier about that.

00:21:41.440 I'm not.

00:21:42.460 And all during Obama, everybody screamed about the fact that we're going to repeal this thing and we're going to put together a bill and we're going to pass it.

00:21:49.140 And they did.

00:21:49.560 They passed the bill in the House.

00:21:51.140 They passed the bill in the Senate.

00:21:52.580 And Obama, of course, didn't sign it.

00:21:54.200 He vetoed it.

00:21:54.520 He vetoed them.

00:21:55.400 But, I mean, look at what that reveals about Republicans.

00:21:58.960 When they knew, when they knew there was no chance of getting it through, they passed a clean Obamacare repeal.

00:22:07.420 When they knew the guy who has the name before care in Obamacare was president, they had no problem passing this because they knew it wouldn't do anything.

00:22:17.980 Now, the second they have a chance, all they have to do is pass this and they have control of everything.

00:22:24.720 And what happens?

00:22:26.840 Nothing.

00:22:27.980 I mean, something crappy.

00:22:30.260 Yeah.

00:22:30.620 They go to, they have a replacement that embraces and entrenches large portions of Obamacare.

00:22:40.300 Many of the biggest portions that were problematic.

00:22:43.720 It just shows how worthless they are.

00:22:45.440 This is why we're not high on the Republican Party.

00:22:48.380 This is exactly the reason we're not.

00:22:51.600 Congressman Jason Chaffetz said something that's a little controversial in this room.

00:22:55.600 I took this to mean one thing.

00:22:57.760 Stu takes it to mean another.

00:22:59.360 See what you think about the way Jason Chaffetz describes health care and young people and their spending on health care.

00:23:07.040 And you know what?

00:23:07.600 Americans have choices.

00:23:09.040 And they've got to make a choice.

00:23:10.020 And so maybe rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest it in their own health care.

00:23:17.040 They've got to make those decisions themselves.

00:23:19.280 So in other words, for lower income Americans, you're saying that this is going to require some sacrifice on that.

00:23:23.640 Well, we've got to be able to actually lower the cost of health care.

00:23:27.160 See, to me, he seems to be saying that's why we're allowing the fine from the insurance companies or the extra 30 percent from the insurance companies if they don't choose the right thing that we want them to choose.

00:23:41.560 It's a lot like what Obama was saying a few years ago.

00:23:45.780 I guess what I would say is if you looked at that person's budget and you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things that they're spending on, it may turn out that it's just they haven't prioritized health care because right now everybody's healthy.

00:24:01.500 Right.

00:24:01.700 Nobody actually wants to spend money on health insurance.

00:24:04.940 But we're going to make sure they do.

00:24:06.980 We're going to force them into it because we know better because we're the government.

00:24:11.440 We're big brother.

00:24:12.840 We know better than you.

00:24:14.340 We're progressives.

00:24:15.400 We're going to be your parent and you're going to do the right thing.

00:24:17.960 Isn't that the same message from both Obama and Chaffetz?

00:24:20.980 I think it's the exact same observation differently, though.

00:24:23.640 A little bit.

00:24:24.400 I'm not maybe not that much, though, because I think it's the exact same observation.

00:24:28.240 So the fact that the Chaffetz comment is controversial today, which it seems to be, is another example of hypocrisy.

00:24:36.280 Where no one thought the Barack Obama thing was was controversial on the left, at least.

00:24:41.760 So Chaffetz is, I guess, in hot water over that comment.

00:24:44.700 But it's exact same observation.

00:24:45.940 And look, it's plainly true.

00:24:47.440 We went back.

00:24:48.160 It was, you know, there was millions, millions and millions of people who made over 50,000, over $75,000 a year, over $100,000 a year who did not have health insurance under the old system.

00:24:58.280 And because Obamacare was going to force people into it, those people theoretically would become covered.

00:25:03.920 That was Barack Obama's point.

00:25:05.640 I think the observation is exactly the same.

00:25:10.020 However, I think what they're doing here, I think Obama is saying people are spending money on phones instead of health care.

00:25:17.940 So we need to require them to buy health care. 0.99

00:25:20.620 Right.

00:25:20.760 I think Chaffetz is saying people are spending money on phones instead of health care.

00:25:26.460 And they need to prioritize what they're doing there.

00:25:29.560 We're not going to force them to make that choice.

00:25:31.840 But maybe if they didn't choose expensive electronics all the time, they'd have money for the health care that they say they don't have money for.

00:25:37.580 That's true.

00:25:38.340 But I get the impression that he is they're trying to backdoor force them.

00:25:43.720 That they're that's this is how he's justifying allowing the fine or the extra payment from the insurance companies if you don't have health care insurance.

00:25:53.520 Yeah. And this goes back to that weird clause.

00:25:56.520 And it is a weird clause in the Republican replacement.

00:25:59.480 And the way it works is if let's say you have health care from January to March and then you get fired, OK, you lose your health care, you're you have no health care.

00:26:09.560 April, May, June, you come back in July and pick up the health care again.

00:26:13.580 The this the GOP plan allows a 30 percent fine or surcharge, whatever you want to call it from the insurance companies onto you as you get reinsured.

00:26:23.780 And the reason for that and you lost, by the way, you lost your insurance through no fault of your own.

00:26:28.760 Well, I mean, I don't know how you got fired, but the fact is, once you're unemployed, have maintaining insurance through that period is almost impossible for most people.

00:26:38.800 It's it's cost prohibitive. Right.

00:26:41.140 So the issue here is you have a couple of months off and you come back on your insurance.

00:26:46.020 You get an extra 30 percent on top of your your current fees.

00:26:50.880 And the idea is, well, you know, we want to keeping having people keep consistent coverage throughout the year is important for insurance companies.

00:26:58.680 To be able to figure out how much everything costs.

00:27:00.580 So if you go off the insurance, you come back on, they're going to give you a fine.

00:27:03.760 This is works in a similar way as the individual mandate does.

00:27:08.420 If you don't have insurance, they will find you.

00:27:11.940 And it's and so, I mean, you know, you could see how that would be similar.

00:27:15.680 Sean Spicer was asked about this yesterday and he denied that it was a backdoor mandate.

00:27:19.240 But, I mean, you can pretty clearly say it is oddly, though, if you have insurance for a couple of months, lose it and come back on, you get fined.

00:27:27.120 If you don't have it at all for any months, you don't get fined.

00:27:31.900 So weird.

00:27:33.080 It's a very weird, quirky part of this law.

00:27:37.560 And, you know, whether it stays or not, who knows?

00:27:40.520 But you're saying that you think Chaffetz is saying this is why we put this in here, because people will avoid insurance.

00:27:46.820 And I will say it's a pretty it's a pretty compelling case.

00:27:48.900 Let's say you're 22 years old.

00:27:50.100 You don't have you know, you're off of insurance for a couple of months.

00:27:53.440 Would you come back on?

00:27:55.260 Would you bother getting insurance again?

00:27:57.240 No.

00:27:57.520 I mean, I guess I mean, so if you get sick and you need the insurance and it's a desperate situation, you got to pay a 30 percent surcharge.

00:28:05.640 Is that really a huge is that going to dissuade you really from your decision?

00:28:11.180 I think for me, I'm going to say I'm just going to keep right.

00:28:14.040 You know, I'm not going to get it.

00:28:15.400 You know, I'm not going to get it.

00:28:16.440 And if I get the money when I was 23, I would have.

00:28:18.940 And if I was single.

00:28:20.080 Oh, absolutely.

00:28:21.740 I wouldn't I wouldn't buy health insurance.

00:28:23.780 Yeah, I'm going to prioritize other things.

00:28:25.680 Sorry, because I'm just going to roll the dice.

00:28:27.520 That I don't need your health insurance.

00:28:28.940 And if I have to go to the doctor, I'll just pay for it out of my pocket.

00:28:32.540 Because the chances are great that nothing catastrophic is going to happen to you.

00:28:36.820 You know, hopefully at 23, you're not going to get cancer or have a heart attack or a stroke or any of those things.

00:28:43.160 And you kind of gamble with that.

00:28:45.460 And I would really resent somebody trying to tell me, well, you should have spread the money not on that cell phone in that nice apartment.

00:28:51.820 You get a health insurance like we try to make you do.

00:28:54.580 Well, I did what I wanted to do.

00:28:57.020 Yeah.

00:28:57.660 None of your business.

00:28:58.580 Now, you have to accept the consequences that go along with that.

00:29:01.060 Right.

00:29:01.360 And it doesn't seem like anyone wants to do that.

00:29:03.360 But yes, you're right.

00:29:04.320 I mean, look, you would you could make a legitimate argument that no person in the United States who does not have health insurance should have cable, cell phones.

00:29:18.420 Right.

00:29:18.680 Any of these things by their own choice.

00:29:21.440 Right.

00:29:21.900 Like you should probably prioritize health insurance over all of those things.

00:29:27.440 Now, if you have health insurance and you get those things, too, that's great.

00:29:29.700 But if you don't have health insurance and your reason is because I don't have enough money to pay for it, you probably should get health insurance before you pay for those things.

00:29:38.260 Now, no one wants to hear that in our society.

00:29:40.900 Although although although I hearken back to the words of one Barack Obama back in 2000, early 2008, when he said that the mandate makes no sense, because if if that's what we were going to do, we should make cure homelessness by mandating that everybody buy a house.

00:30:00.100 Right.

00:30:00.220 That was the Barack Obama 2008 plan by a house doesn't make any sense.

00:30:04.940 It doesn't.

00:30:05.580 It doesn't.

00:30:06.280 But and that's why you don't have the government mandated people make their own choices.

00:30:09.480 Right.

00:30:09.740 And so if they want to make a choice where they prioritize electronics over health care, they should be able to make that choice.

00:30:15.560 However, they also should live with those consequences.

00:30:17.760 And Chaffetz tried to walk it back a little bit later yesterday, too, because he said maybe I didn't say it as smoothly as possibly that I should have.

00:30:26.100 But people need to make a conscious choice.

00:30:28.680 And I believe in self-reliance and they're going to have to make those decisions.

00:30:34.060 Right.

00:30:34.560 So I think he is.

00:30:35.680 I think he's saying it as maybe.

00:30:37.560 But apparently a lot of people took it the way they sure did.

00:30:40.280 And what's what's amazing about that is that shouldn't be particularly controversial.

00:30:45.080 And you want a way for people to never learn to to to prioritize health care over electronics is if you enforce it by law that they have to have insurance.

00:30:53.760 That way they never make that choice.

00:30:55.260 They're never prioritizing.

00:30:57.840 They're just simply taking a government program.

00:31:00.220 And so then it becomes an entitlement.

00:31:02.880 Right.

00:31:03.280 And now they should get the entitlement plus their electronics.

00:31:06.900 I mean, I understand that that's going to be a controversial thing.

00:31:11.500 And we can all pretend as if that's the meanest thing in the world.

00:31:14.320 But electronics are not a God-given right.

00:31:16.460 Neither is health care, by the way.

00:31:19.160 But it's not an American right.

00:31:20.900 It's not your human right to have an iPhone.

00:31:23.740 And if you have a lot of electronics.

00:31:25.260 And look, this is the case.

00:31:26.920 Not necessarily among the poor.

00:31:28.960 It's a case more among the young.

00:31:31.580 The young who might have plenty of money to buy lots of things that they want and enjoy.

00:31:36.640 But don't prioritize health care because they don't believe they need it.

00:31:39.920 And isn't that their choice?

00:31:41.420 These people are adults.

00:31:42.320 Well, under Obamacare, it's not their choice.

00:31:44.460 Because Obamacare was set up for the young to pay for the old.

00:31:48.340 Yeah.

00:31:48.560 That's how it's set up.

00:31:49.620 How's that working out?

00:31:50.540 Not very well.

00:31:51.700 Not very well.

00:31:52.700 Because then cost went up for everybody.

00:31:54.300 It's a hell of a sales job, though.

00:31:55.740 Yeah.

00:31:55.880 Because the people who supported it more than anybody were the young people.

00:31:58.540 And they were the ones putting the bill.

00:31:59.800 Yep.

00:32:00.660 It's just a bizarre thing.

00:32:02.060 All it is.

00:32:02.780 I mean, look.

00:32:03.460 Insurance is never a good investment by the numbers.

00:32:06.520 If it were a good investment by the numbers, then insurance companies wouldn't exist.

00:32:11.480 They are on the side of the numbers.

00:32:14.180 The people collecting money for your policy are winning this bet.

00:32:18.440 But for an individual, it might screw your life up if you lose the bet, right?

00:32:23.600 I mean, everyone knows this.

00:32:25.580 Insurance companies wouldn't operate if they were on the wrong side of this bet.

00:32:30.040 So every 22-year-old making the decision to not be on health care is statistically making the right choice.

00:32:36.580 The problem is that when a bad thing happens to that individual, it winds up burning them and can create huge problems and drains on the health care system.

00:32:46.080 But, I mean, you know, we have to be honest about this.

00:32:48.480 You have to prioritize these things.

00:32:49.840 That is what life is.

00:32:50.860 And human beings are supposed to be able to make these choices for themselves.

00:32:54.440 You know, that's their role.

00:32:56.220 Their role in their life is controlling what happens to them.

00:32:58.960 And we constantly are going down this road where the government gets to decide what happens to you.

00:33:04.460 They are the ones that are the only ones who can understand your priority system.

00:33:07.460 And that's not the right way to go.

00:33:08.700 No.

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00:33:22.080 And I always am plugging them into those, you know, the community.

00:33:26.660 The public ports.

00:33:27.340 The public ports.

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00:33:31.160 I mean, it's a.

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00:33:34.420 It's just juice coming in.

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00:34:41.540 Pat, Stu, and Jeffy for Glenn.

00:34:43.240 I love the liberals who are trying to support Nordstrom now because Nordstrom dropped Ivanka Trump's line.

00:34:52.040 And so some Republicans and Trump supporters were saying, well, we're not going to shop at Nordstrom anymore.

00:34:57.940 So Hollywood is rallying behind Nordstrom now.

00:35:01.920 Of course.

00:35:02.060 Like they need it.

00:35:02.860 But all these big Hollywood celebrities are tweeting out and bragging about the fact that they're shopping at Nordstrom more than ever and spending thousands of dollars on shoes and whatever. 0.97

00:35:13.180 It's so pathetic because Ivanka Trump thinks just like they do. 0.89

00:35:18.760 What are they trying to make a point against Ivanka Trump for? 1.00

00:35:23.540 She's a liberal.

00:35:24.920 She's as liberal as they are.

00:35:26.980 It's bizarre.

00:35:27.840 First of all, that's bizarre.

00:35:29.480 Secondly, I mean, and you think on the day without women, you wouldn't make a point to hold the daughter responsible for what you think the father believes.

00:35:37.020 I mean, what a weird stance to take for liberals.

00:35:39.640 Really weird.

00:35:40.460 Right?

00:35:40.960 I guess because she supported her dad, they're going to take it out on her.

00:35:44.340 Of course she's going to.

00:35:46.440 It's madness.

00:35:47.260 It's madness.

00:35:47.840 But sure hasn't hurt her because she's just released that her clothing line is posting record sales in the midst of all this.

00:35:54.840 Up by hundreds of percent, right?

00:35:56.820 300 percent or something like that?

00:35:59.300 Is she pulling her dad, though?

00:36:04.040 I mean, do we know for sure that her sales are that high?

00:36:08.480 Is she pulling a Donald by saying, oh, the number one?

00:36:11.860 They're selling better than anybody.

00:36:13.160 We don't know that.

00:36:14.120 However, I would say that, like, the target of Ivanka Trump clothing before this election was not a bunch of Republicans.

00:36:20.140 No, it was not.

00:36:20.920 It was every day.

00:36:21.600 So now you have a huge new audience that's brought into looking at these clothes who probably never was looking at them before.

00:36:27.520 I mean, you know, the target of Ivanka Trump at Nordstrom clothing is probably not, you know, the average Republican, although some obviously buy it.

00:36:35.900 But, I mean, this business was probably constructed as the registered Democrats, right?

00:36:40.600 I mean, and they probably were targeting more, you know, high style fashion type people that, you know, maybe weren't all, you know, percentage wise Democrats or Republicans.

00:36:51.000 And now Republicans are like, screw it.

00:36:52.360 I don't care what it looks like. 0.95

00:36:53.120 I'm buying it.

00:36:53.700 Is her clothing line expensive? 0.89

00:36:54.920 Do you know?

00:36:55.160 Is it, like, elite stuff?

00:36:56.800 Because her dad's line is not.

00:36:59.000 No.

00:36:59.520 It's not at all.

00:36:59.940 She tried to keep it down.

00:37:01.060 Yeah.

00:37:01.620 I think they've both done, you know, fairly affordable stuff.

00:37:04.480 Yeah.

00:37:04.620 But kind of interesting.

00:37:05.860 And I love the in-your-face to the Hollywood crowd.

00:37:08.420 It's just so despicable.

00:37:10.000 Could happen to those people.

00:37:10.820 Yeah.

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00:37:41.500 He is, of course, celebrating a day without women staying home. 0.99

00:37:47.040 We're never going to.

00:37:48.060 Being 89% woman himself.

00:37:49.800 Yes.

00:37:50.020 We're not going to tell you any other information about why he's out today.

00:37:54.060 He's actually.

00:37:55.140 This is why, I thought.

00:37:56.680 No, he's actually out because of International Women's Day.

00:37:59.280 Yes.

00:38:00.060 Because he's mostly woman. 0.89

00:38:01.980 We need to get to the WikiLeaks claim, too, that the CIA hacking into your phones and televisions

00:38:06.960 is happening.

00:38:08.400 So, like, if you have a Samsung TV, supposedly, even if it's not on, they can watch you.

00:38:13.480 That's been reported for a long time, yeah.

00:38:15.380 Oh, that's crazy.

00:38:17.260 Plus, another list of the best countries in the world is coming out.

00:38:21.780 We'll get to all that and more, starting right now.

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00:38:53.200 All right.

00:38:56.440 Jake Tapper yesterday talking about this latest report about the CIA and what they're doing

00:39:03.980 with their spy efforts.

00:39:05.440 And our nationally today, a stunning look inside the CIA's hacking capability, seemingly straight

00:39:10.060 out of a Jason Bourne film.

00:39:11.780 WikiLeaks calls it the, quote, largest ever publication of confidential documents from

00:39:16.160 the CIA.

00:39:16.760 Documents they claim are from the CIA Center for Cyber Intelligence that reveal the methods

00:39:21.320 the spy agency uses to gather information on targets without them knowing.

00:39:24.880 Among them, turning household items such as computers or smartphones or a Samsung smart TV

00:39:30.440 into surveillance tools, turning your own electronics into spy devices, even when they're powered

00:39:35.360 off.

00:39:35.860 The CIA hackers are apparently able to bypass encryption on popular communication applications

00:39:41.780 such as WhatsApp or Signal or Confide by hacking the smartphones the apps run on and collecting

00:39:47.940 the data before the encryption is applied.

00:39:51.400 Now, CNN cannot independently verify the information contained in these 8,761 documents and files,

00:39:56.800 which WikiLeaks is calling Vault 7.

00:39:59.320 In a statement, a CIA spokesman said, quote, we do not comment on the authenticity or content

00:40:03.880 of purported intelligence documents, unquote.

00:40:06.980 Well, that is true. 0.69

00:40:07.760 How have we not killed every terrorist there is in the world? 0.93

00:40:10.860 That's a great point.

00:40:13.040 If that if that is if all of if they're capable of all of that, we should have no issues anymore.

00:40:20.280 That's that's amazing stuff.

00:40:22.160 Unless they're just directing it toward American citizens.

00:40:24.940 Right.

00:40:25.260 And you think they'd actually have lines against Americans that they wouldn't have against

00:40:29.420 terrorists. 0.53

00:40:30.000 They can do kind of whatever they want.

00:40:32.020 They don't have to worry about the Constitution necessarily when they're when they're going

00:40:35.900 against terrorists in Afghanistan somewhere.

00:40:38.340 That is amazing.

00:40:39.460 I mean, you know, obviously, their their answer to this is a we need a warrant to do any of this

00:40:44.560 stuff and easily obtainable through FISA.

00:40:48.080 Yeah, I mean, right.

00:40:50.960 But I mean, because you're saying because most of them don't get the overwhelming majority

00:40:55.620 get approved.

00:40:56.720 But there's a process to get to one last year.

00:40:58.700 Right.

00:40:58.880 But there's a process to get to that point.

00:41:00.280 They don't bring I mean, they don't bring, you know, 12 million of those a year.

00:41:04.260 Right.

00:41:04.400 I think it was sixteen hundred and eighty nine last year and sixteen hundred eighty eight

00:41:10.500 were approved.

00:41:11.420 Right.

00:41:12.100 And which, you know, look, if the number was actually if they were spying on ten hundred

00:41:15.720 and eighty eight households because they believe terrorism was involved, that actually

00:41:20.400 seems pretty rational.

00:41:22.140 Right.

00:41:22.380 Like that's probably a totally normal number.

00:41:25.000 I think the the the conversations that have been problematic around this are the mass gathering

00:41:31.820 of data of every citizen making phone calls and everything that we've learned from these

00:41:37.120 past things.

00:41:38.140 But the just the ability, the fact that they are able to use your smart TV to somehow monitor

00:41:45.180 you is kind of, I guess, what's coming out of this.

00:41:48.360 That's more noteworthy.

00:41:49.840 We've talked about these possibilities before.

00:41:51.480 We've had experts on saying that they could do these things.

00:41:53.580 But I guess this would be the deepest evidence to confirm that.

00:41:57.580 And, you know, the idea that they can do it with you with the power off is interesting

00:42:01.980 as well.

00:42:03.120 They're talking about how obviously while your power of your TV might be off, it has

00:42:08.240 to be on at some level because the remote know like it's detecting the remote.

00:42:13.180 Right.

00:42:13.640 If it was completely off and there was no power going to it, it would not be able to detect

00:42:17.600 the remote.

00:42:18.100 It's in essentially a sleep mode.

00:42:19.580 And it's like, you know, Google now and Alexa, because if you OK, the voice command on the

00:42:27.140 TV, if you say, yes, I want to use it, then it's always listening.

00:42:32.780 Always.

00:42:33.400 I mean, it has to be able to hear what you say.

00:42:36.580 Now, you do you have these devices in your home, Pat?

00:42:39.160 The, you know, the Alexa or Google Play or whatever.

00:42:42.760 We have an Alexa.

00:42:43.820 It's not currently plugged into anything, though, because I found it kind of worthless.

00:42:47.320 Oh, really?

00:42:47.680 Yeah.

00:42:48.020 I like that the Google Home seems more, you know, viable.

00:42:54.820 The Alexa didn't do anything I really care about.

00:42:58.620 I mean, it would give you the weather, but I can get that from my iPad.

00:43:03.780 So, but I do have a Samsung TV.

00:43:06.180 I have more than one Samsung.

00:43:06.980 Several Samsung TVs that they could be watching me through.

00:43:09.400 No, but have you OK to use the, I think the big thing was in the beginning was that if

00:43:14.000 you said OK to the voice command, then they were able to listen and take the information

00:43:19.540 because they've already used, they've already been, I think they were sued at one point for

00:43:24.020 using information about what people were watching without their knowledge as, you know, for they

00:43:30.820 were using that, obviously, for, you know, our safety and, you know, to help us purchase products better for

00:43:37.220 our families, of course.

00:43:39.260 Yeah, right.

00:43:39.940 Uh-huh.

00:43:40.380 But they were, you know, I think they were already sued for that once or twice because

00:43:44.020 they were using that information without our knowledge.

00:43:46.560 So why wouldn't they?

00:43:47.780 And, you know, we talked about this yesterday.

00:43:50.120 The principle of this is to elevate it to a conversation about whether these things should

00:43:55.300 be allowed anyway.

00:43:56.060 Yeah, because, and it's also to elevate it to a point where people care about it because

00:44:00.980 a lot of Americans think, well, I'm not doing anything wrong anyway.

00:44:05.160 What do I care if they're watching me?

00:44:06.940 Well, because you don't know what they consider wrong.

00:44:10.700 At any given point, what you're doing might be wrong or they might construe it as wrong or

00:44:16.040 we might not always have the benevolence in power that we have today.

00:44:20.660 So you don't ever want the government to have this kind of power and use it against us.

00:44:24.940 Because that's why, whether you're doing anything wrong or not, isn't the point.

00:44:29.580 It's should they be doing this at all.

00:44:31.640 That's the point.

00:44:32.920 Because the fact that they can do it means if anything ever turns kind of ugly, then we're

00:44:38.320 in real trouble.

00:44:39.660 I mean, you're really talking about a seriously oppressive government if they can do all of

00:44:45.340 this stuff.

00:44:46.260 It's kind of scary.

00:44:48.360 It's chilling.

00:44:50.040 So an interesting report.

00:44:51.580 Now, again, I don't know if it's true.

00:44:53.580 I don't know if they can actually do this stuff or if they are doing this stuff.

00:44:57.620 And if they are, again, there should be a lot more dead terrorists than there are today.

00:45:03.540 Because those guys are using cell phones.

00:45:06.280 And if you can get it before the encryption process, which I didn't think was possible.

00:45:10.820 What good is encryption?

00:45:12.680 If the CIA can take the data before it's encrypted.

00:45:16.320 Yeah.

00:45:16.500 So the way, like, for example, those encrypted messaging apps like Confide, it's like a basically

00:45:24.120 like covers all your messages that you would.

00:45:26.460 So if you send a message and confide, the person who receives it gets a message that's

00:45:29.640 covered.

00:45:30.040 And only when they touch it can they see what's going on.

00:45:32.760 So it's a way to so you can't really screenshot a message, which is a way that you can get

00:45:38.500 around some other messaging things, services.

00:45:43.760 So the idea, though, is that they're hacking in before it's encrypted.

00:45:47.560 So like the way that it helps if you want to keep send a secret message is I send a message

00:45:52.220 to Pat and I'm stopping the people in between Pat and I from intercepting it on the Internet.

00:45:57.580 Right.

00:45:58.600 The way they're talking about with the CIA is as I'm typing it, they're able to see

00:46:03.500 it before I send it.

00:46:06.400 So it's actually, you know, getting around that whole system.

00:46:11.920 And, you know, I got to I don't know, maybe terrorists are thinking, you know what, we're

00:46:16.780 going to get away with this because we're going to send it through a commercially available

00:46:20.460 messaging system. 0.97

00:46:22.240 I mean, like, I don't think that dumb. 0.99

00:46:24.200 I mean, they probably are. 0.98

00:46:25.180 I don't know.

00:46:25.840 Some of them are.

00:46:27.580 But you'd think that you're right.

00:46:28.740 Like, I get I go back and forth with this and it's like watching watching a Law and

00:46:32.760 Order episode.

00:46:33.580 You're watching Law and Order.

00:46:35.000 If you're like me, you believe every attorney and every argument they make.

00:46:39.460 So, like, it's the greatest defense of all time.

00:46:42.520 And you're like, this guy is so innocent.

00:46:44.920 And then there's a prosecution comes on like this guy's got a fry.

00:46:48.420 It's like back and forth.

00:46:49.980 And that's why it's a great show.

00:46:51.240 I mean, I'm constantly convinced.

00:46:53.700 It's the same thing with this.

00:46:54.380 I go back and forth with, do we have this incredible ability to monitor everything everywhere?

00:47:02.120 On days like this, I feel that way.

00:47:04.060 Like, they're coming through our TVs and they're able to do this. 0.97

00:47:07.160 And then the other part of me is like, so much crap gets by them. 0.56

00:47:11.060 So many things, so many obvious things, so many things they should have caught so many 0.98

00:47:18.500 times.

00:47:19.020 Do we have people who they have they talk to the FBI brings into the room and then they

00:47:24.400 let go and then they wind up doing something terrible.

00:47:26.680 We're told things like this all the time.

00:47:28.360 Well, the CIA can monitor you through a Lego system.

00:47:31.160 Through my Legos?

00:47:32.840 What?

00:47:33.680 They're watching your child play right now.

00:47:36.560 He's building a little pirate ship.

00:47:39.280 Well, why didn't it take 11 years to get Osama bin Laden then? 0.95

00:47:45.040 That's their deal though, right?

00:47:46.320 They say, isn't that what the CIA guy told us on our For the Record is that they get all

00:47:53.060 the information.

00:47:53.660 There's just, it's a matter of obviously disseminating, sifting, going through it.

00:47:57.300 So unless someone comes to them and says, Stubra gear, and then they go to you and then

00:48:03.720 they're able to, you know, knock out everything that you're doing, then the information's there.

00:48:08.340 It's just, there's no way that they can cover it all.

00:48:10.220 But like, do you think, I do not think that they somewhere have a hard drive or multiple

00:48:16.940 hard drives, multiple thousands of hard drives with every word spoken in a room with

00:48:21.900 the Samsung TV that has voice recognition on?

00:48:25.280 Like, that's not a thing.

00:48:26.560 Right.

00:48:26.920 Yeah.

00:48:27.420 However, can they go on a specific case and say, you know what, Pat Gray, we think Pat

00:48:32.040 Gray, or actually a better example, Jeff Fisher, we think Jeff Fisher's a criminal.

00:48:35.780 And we want to listen to his Samsung to see, you know, how he's ordering his adult films. 1.00

00:48:41.460 That is a stupid example, Stu. 1.00

00:48:43.080 Why are you using me? 1.00

00:48:44.600 The point is like, can they do that?

00:48:45.940 That is, I guess, the news today.

00:48:47.820 Which is, they seemingly can, if you believe WikiLeaks in these documents.

00:48:53.200 So, you know, that's a pretty impressive technological advancement.

00:48:57.440 But again, when you don't have these rules, there's nothing saying to them that they can't

00:49:01.660 have the data from some terrorist who lives in Yemen.

00:49:05.900 Right?

00:49:06.220 Like, there's no constitutional requirement necessarily of them saying, well, we have to

00:49:10.020 respect the privacy rights of the people in Yemen.

00:49:13.220 Yeah, I don't think they worry about that.

00:49:14.460 No.

00:49:14.940 So, if they can get that information, and it's available.

00:49:18.480 Now, I understand there might not be that many Samsung smart TVs in Yemen.

00:49:21.720 Right.

00:49:22.260 But I mean, that's a thing.

00:49:23.560 But they have cell phones, probably.

00:49:25.460 You know, chances are pretty good they've got smartphones.

00:49:28.360 But the other chilling part of this, again, is if the government is ever not as benevolent

00:49:34.080 as it is today, we don't have a chance if this technology exists.

00:49:37.360 You don't have a chance.

00:49:38.420 Doomed.

00:49:39.260 I mean...

00:49:40.100 You're so dependent on it.

00:49:42.100 Wow.

00:49:42.440 It's so dependent on it.

00:49:43.960 It's incredible.

00:49:44.980 I mean, there is never a time when you're alone without the government beside you.

00:49:50.700 There's never a time.

00:49:52.220 Everywhere you go, whatever you do, they know about it.

00:49:55.380 Right.

00:49:55.720 They're watching you.

00:49:56.720 Well, I mean, they could be.

00:49:57.780 You talk about every breath you take, I'll be watching you.

00:50:00.440 That was creepy enough from Sting.

00:50:01.940 It's a lot creepier from the government.

00:50:03.780 Though, I will say, I looked in my backyard yesterday, and Sting was there looking in.

00:50:07.540 I will say that.

00:50:08.280 Sting was there.

00:50:09.100 He was watching you.

00:50:10.000 I love Sting. 0.65

00:50:10.860 I would have invited him in.

00:50:13.400 Well, that's not a surprise.

00:50:14.640 That's not a surprise.

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00:51:53.120 on this international day without a woman or whatever.

00:51:56.700 It's bizarre.

00:51:58.220 I've seen several, by the way, so they're here.

00:52:00.160 So have I.

00:52:00.580 They're still here.

00:52:01.120 They're still alive and moving around and doing their thing.

00:52:04.820 Yeah.

00:52:05.040 I guess some of them aren't showing up to work, which is apparently a big thing to show.

00:52:08.340 Women are an important part of the workforce. 0.97

00:52:10.280 They're going to show you what it's like to get through a day without women in the workforce, 1.00

00:52:14.620 which so far seems fine.

00:52:15.920 I don't know.

00:52:16.460 I haven't seen a big adjustment so far, though. 0.76

00:52:19.080 Maybe it's because in Texas they're all just showing up for freaking work. 0.69

00:52:22.860 Could be. 0.94

00:52:23.380 But so far it seems pretty fine.

00:52:24.840 Could be.

00:52:25.080 So we were talking yesterday about Ben Carson and his really weird comment about slaves and immigrants.

00:52:35.040 Here's what he said.

00:52:35.820 That's what America is about.

00:52:39.840 A land of dreams and opportunity.

00:52:43.200 There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less.

00:52:48.420 Yikes.

00:52:50.080 Yeah, a lot less.

00:52:50.600 But they, too, had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great-grandsons, so weird, great-granddaughters might pursue prosperity.

00:53:04.880 Yeah.

00:53:05.820 That's what they were thinking.

00:53:07.700 That's what they were thinking.

00:53:10.760 When they were stolen from their land, thrown in the bottom of a nasty slave ship, and sailed 3,000 miles across the sea against their will.

00:53:19.700 That's what they were thinking.

00:53:20.800 You know, one day my granddaughters and grandsons, they're going to be rich in this country.

00:53:25.320 They will prosper.

00:53:26.820 I can't wait to get there.

00:53:29.280 Part of the...

00:53:30.020 I can't wait to get there.

00:53:33.020 That is just bizarre.

00:53:34.620 Part of the strangeness of that moment is the 65 ambient delivery of Ben Carson, which is just odd.

00:53:42.360 But, you know, apparently this commentary, not all that rare.

00:53:45.720 I know, he's getting a lot of flack, and I think rightly so. 0.89

00:53:48.200 But, well, he phrased things a little weird.

00:53:52.020 However, he's not the first person to compare immigrants and slaves like this.

00:53:58.580 In fact, a federalist...

00:53:59.200 Some other Republican has done this, too, right?

00:54:00.920 Yes, of course.

00:54:01.240 Some other...

00:54:01.800 Well, the federalists put together a list.

00:54:03.340 We've had to have run that person out of the country.

00:54:05.800 Yeah, we have.

00:54:06.440 We have.

00:54:07.180 Naturalization in a ceremony in 2015, President Barack Obama referred to slaves as immigrants.

00:54:14.420 Did he really?

00:54:15.200 Yeah, how about this one?

00:54:16.340 A naturalization ceremony in 2012.

00:54:20.560 Obama said this, unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, we are all descended from folks who came from someplace else, whether they arrived on the Mayflower or a slave ship, whether they came through the Ellis Island or crossed the Rio Grande.

00:54:33.180 And nobody.

00:54:35.880 Nobody made a peep about that.

00:54:38.440 While addressing a crowd hosted by the DNC on April 28th, no matter where ancestors landed on Ellis Island or came here on a slave ship or crossed the Rio Grande, we are all connected to one another.

00:54:47.420 We rise and fall together.

00:54:48.820 April 29th, 2011.

00:54:50.120 We didn't raise the Statue of Liberty with its back to the world.

00:54:52.400 We raised it with its light to the world.

00:54:54.020 Whether your ancestors came here on the Mayflower or a slave ship, whether they signed in at Ellis Island or crossed the Rio Grande, we are one people.

00:55:00.640 Now, he's...

00:55:01.280 The difference here, though, is he's comparing them to immigrants, but he's not actually saying they were immigrants.

00:55:07.000 So, listen to this one.

00:55:07.900 Yeah, so you're right.

00:55:08.900 Listen to this one.

00:55:10.000 Whether your forebears landed at Ellis Island or they came here on a slave ship or they crossed the Rio Grande, it was nothing if not repetitive.

00:55:15.040 And by the way, my forebears didn't land on Ellis Island.

00:55:17.820 Ellis Island landed on me.

00:55:19.500 Okay.

00:55:19.800 Thank you.

00:55:20.420 Thank you for that.

00:55:21.360 Thank you.

00:55:22.140 Or however they got here, they typically had a commitment to hard work.

00:55:26.500 Well, yeah, I guess you could say that about slaves.

00:55:28.760 Sure.

00:55:29.360 They did have a commitment to hard work.

00:55:31.400 They did, because the whip really helped strengthen that commitment.

00:55:35.240 Are you sure it wasn't the thought that their grandkids would prosper?

00:55:38.240 Wow, that's bizarre.

00:55:39.340 So, they typically had a commitment to hard work and a commitment to community and a commitment to family and a willingness to dream big dreams.

00:55:47.600 I mean, that's pretty similar.

00:55:49.560 That's close to what Carson said.

00:55:50.500 That's close to what Carson said and a patriotism that was not rooted in ethnicity, but was rooted in a creed and a set of ideals and beliefs that in America, anything was possible.

00:56:01.120 There's no way slaves were thinking that.

00:56:03.360 Where are you getting that?

00:56:04.500 I mean, maybe after they were freed, they believed that.

00:56:07.100 Nobody loves this country more than I do.

00:56:09.460 But there is no way, when you had slaves in a cotton field being whipped, their women being raped, being tortured and killed in some cases, sold to other people.

00:56:21.160 I mean, there is no way they had patriotism for the country.

00:56:24.960 If they did, wow, they were far, far, far better people than I am.

00:56:28.960 And the other thing is, how do you dream big when that's your lot in life?

00:56:35.100 I mean, you couldn't fathom such a thing in those days if you were a slave.

00:56:41.320 Could you?

00:56:41.840 I mean, we did some stories, right?

00:56:43.920 We did some stories in our serials about some of the, during Black History Month, of some of the men that fought for this country.

00:56:51.580 There were examples.

00:56:52.620 That's true.

00:56:53.200 There were examples.

00:56:53.760 But I mean, there were some former, yes, among the black founders.

00:56:57.240 There were former slaves who fought hard for the country and loved it.

00:57:00.520 When you're talking, however, as a general point, I don't think it applies.

00:57:04.020 No, yes.

00:57:05.080 I mean, look, everyone has a dream for their world to get better, whatever that world is.

00:57:09.640 So, yes, they were all hoping that someday they would be free to be able to pursue their lives the way they wanted to.

00:57:17.260 However, I don't know if they would categorize that as patriotism at the time.

00:57:20.080 I know, that's crazy.

00:57:20.420 There's 11 of these, by the way, and many of them are similar, but kind of amazing.

00:57:23.860 Coming up next, we're getting to our second segment in our serial of the craziest elections.

00:57:29.700 This one features the election of 1860, which is fascinating.

00:57:33.040 Hang on.

00:57:33.580 It's coming up next on the Glenn Beck Program with Pat, Stu, and Jeffy for Glenn.

00:57:41.940 We are what?

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00:57:57.800 In this series, we're talking about crazy elections.

00:58:00.820 And one of the more crazy elections happened in the 1800s.

00:58:04.220 They were turbulent.

00:58:05.460 It was an amazing century for the United States.

00:58:07.820 The nation was discovering who it was, what it was.

00:58:11.420 It was growing exponentially.

00:58:12.760 It was assimilating tens of millions of new immigrants.

00:58:17.580 And it was expanding.

00:58:18.680 It was discovering, flexing its muscle.

00:58:21.060 It had captured the imagination of the entire world.

00:58:25.140 But it was also the time when it was finally forced to confront the evil that it didn't end on its inception.

00:58:32.640 The founders had laid the groundwork.

00:58:35.040 They stopped the importation of slaves.

00:58:37.800 But the ending of slavery itself had to wait for the right leader at the right time in order to see the country safely through to the other side.

00:58:48.380 That is why the election of 1860 was so critically important.

00:58:52.280 The two-party system at the time was just comprised of the Democrats and the Whigs.

00:58:56.360 And the sitting Democratic president, James Buchanan, was so unpopular that he wasn't even brought up by his party to be nominated to run for re-election.

00:59:05.460 They made the frontrunner Democratic Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas.

00:59:10.100 John Breckinridge, the vice president from Kentucky.

00:59:13.160 He was representing the Southern Democratic Party.

00:59:15.700 John Bell from Tennessee was the constitutional Union Whig Party candidate.

00:59:19.860 And then representing a new four-year-old Republican Party was an awkward, lanky Abraham Lincoln.

00:59:28.640 Here's the question I asked.

00:59:30.340 Were there Americans in 1860 that were saying, you know, if you vote for Abraham Lincoln, you're just wasting your vote?

00:59:36.780 Or that a vote for Lincoln is actually a vote for Breckinridge?

00:59:41.020 Because Lincoln was the third-party candidate in 1860.

00:59:45.460 And the country was a mess.

00:59:46.980 Many Southern states were already threatening to secede in the lead-up to the election.

00:59:52.160 And one of the things that was well-known in the South about Lincoln was that he hated slavery.

00:59:58.080 And many in the South, especially the Deep South, hated him for it.

01:00:02.640 At the time, Lincoln had no intention of going to war with the South if elected, which, in part, won him the Republican nomination.

01:00:10.620 But those in the South, they didn't believe him.

01:00:12.180 Lincoln had an interesting strategy for the campaign, which was very different from the plan that Douglass had.

01:00:19.740 Photographs played a vital role in the election of Abraham Lincoln as the 16th U.S. president.

01:00:25.120 In the final weeks of the campaign, instead of giving speeches, Lincoln took every available opportunity to pose for photographers and sculptors.

01:00:33.720 Simultaneously, his old rival, Stephen Douglas, made the critical mistake of hitting the campaign trail.

01:00:39.540 In the 1800s, a presidential nominee who actively campaigned was ridiculed for seeming so desperate.

01:00:46.760 And this is exactly how the public reacted to the Douglas whirlwind tour.

01:00:51.160 Lincoln was campaigning just as hard, but not by making visits and giving speeches.

01:00:56.160 Instead, by having his photograph show up everywhere in his place.

01:01:00.120 Actively campaigning was seen as desperate in the 1800s.

01:01:06.040 Oh, if we could only get that desperate part of our country back.

01:01:10.640 A lot of secession talk from the South.

01:01:13.020 Rumors were swirling and scare tactic rhetoric was abundant that if Lincoln won, there'd be secession and war.

01:01:19.820 But Lincoln and his team ignored that.

01:01:22.500 He carried the North and did well enough elsewhere to win the presidency by a significant margin,

01:01:27.420 taking the popular vote 39.8% to 29.5% for Douglas and the electoral vote 180 to 72 over Breckinridge.

01:01:38.560 But by the time Lincoln was inaugurated, six states had already seceded from the Union.

01:01:44.360 Nine more would follow, as well as the bloodiest war in American history.

01:01:48.780 Abraham Lincoln was perhaps the man born to see America through its most perilous period.

01:01:55.140 In 1875, Ulysses S. Grant, the two-term president of the United States,

01:01:59.660 about to attempt to become America's first three-term president,

01:02:03.500 ignoring the tradition set by George Washington to self-limit to two.

01:02:08.640 Grant himself, despite the terrible economy, in fact,

01:02:11.980 a three-year depression that had left three million Americans unemployed and being bogged down in corruption and scandals,

01:02:19.780 Grant was ready to go for the presidency again, as were his advisers.

01:02:25.360 But then, Congress passed a resolution by a vote of 233 to 18,

01:02:30.200 stating that Washington started the two-term tradition to avoid a dictatorship.

01:02:34.620 And apparently, that helped sway the American public as it turned the tide in the thinking and the plans of Ulysses S. Grant.

01:02:43.280 In the end, he finally decided against running for a third term.

01:02:47.820 That left the election to the eventual Republican nominee,

01:02:51.540 Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes,

01:02:53.920 and the Democratic nominee Samuel Tilden, the governor of New York.

01:02:57.880 After winning the Republican nomination on the seventh ballot,

01:03:02.300 political writer Roy Morris Jr. explained that Hayes...

01:03:05.720 In his acceptance letter to the Republican convention,

01:03:10.120 nominees didn't appear at the convention in those days.

01:03:14.040 He promised a return to good, honest government,

01:03:17.780 a reform of the civil service system,

01:03:20.180 and an elimination of bribery and corruption in Washington.

01:03:23.760 Compared to the other Republican candidates, such as Blaine and Conkling,

01:03:29.120 he was squeaky clean.

01:03:31.500 So was his wife, a tireless temperance crusader known as Lemonade Lucy,

01:03:37.300 for her refusal to serve alcoholic beverages at official state functions.

01:03:43.040 Tilden, on the other hand, presented by newspapermen at the time in a rather unusual way.

01:03:49.220 He was a lifelong bachelor,

01:03:50.720 and during the ensuing campaign,

01:03:53.880 there were several cartoons

01:03:55.020 showing him wearing a dress,

01:03:58.860 which was a not-so-subtle suggestion that he was gay.

01:04:03.400 Even with the insinuation of Tilden being gay,

01:04:06.640 keeping in mind this is 1876 and a very different mindset,

01:04:11.040 still, Samuel Tilden won the popular vote for presidency, 51 to 48.

01:04:16.500 Oh, we were such haters.

01:04:17.500 He also won the Electoral College vote, 184-165,

01:04:22.480 with 20 electoral votes unresolved.

01:04:25.300 Wait a minute, wait a minute.

01:04:27.440 Yeah, you heard me right.

01:04:29.180 I did just say that.

01:04:30.440 Sam Tilden won both the popular and electoral vote.

01:04:34.980 But we don't have President Sam Tilden anywhere.

01:04:39.160 What happened?

01:04:40.280 Well, two days before Inauguration Day, March 2nd, 1877,

01:04:45.940 facing a constitutional crisis the likes of which the nation had never experienced,

01:04:50.720 Congress created a temporary group called the Electoral Commission,

01:04:55.000 which superseded the Electoral College.

01:04:57.940 You want to talk about election being stolen.

01:04:59.540 They wanted to determine what to do with the 20 unresolved, uncommitted electoral votes.

01:05:06.860 The Democrats threatened to filibuster through Inauguration Day

01:05:09.540 in order just to get their nominee the necessary votes.

01:05:12.940 But instead, a deal was struck with the Democrats by the Electoral Commission.

01:05:18.080 They would accept Republican Rutherford Hayes as president.

01:05:21.440 And in exchange, they would withdraw the Northern occupation troops from the South.

01:05:27.820 This turned out to be a really bad thing because it ended Reconstruction, 0.89

01:05:32.920 enabled the South to reenact all the laws that were discriminatory towards Blacks.

01:05:38.020 So yes, once again, the Democrats and all the weaselly politicians in Washington

01:05:44.000 made a deal that somehow worked out for them, but not so much for the American people.

01:05:49.740 The 20 unresolved votes all went to Hayes,

01:05:53.200 giving him the closest margin of victory in American history, 185 to 184 electoral votes.

01:06:01.040 It was also the election with the highest percentage of voter turnout in American history, 82%.

01:06:07.820 It was also the only time in American history when a candidate received more than 50% of the popular vote,

01:06:15.000 but was denied the presidency.

01:06:17.040 It kind of puts the whole election mess of 2000 into perspective, doesn't it?

01:06:24.760 The elections of 1912, progressive versus progressive for the first time in American history

01:06:32.500 and the election of 1948 in the next episode.

01:06:37.860 Tomorrow on the Glenn Beck Program, in Chapter 3 of the Craziest Elections in History,

01:06:44.740 you'll learn how Woodrow Wilson was elected.

01:06:47.560 Listen live or online at glennbeck.com slash serials.

01:06:51.900 Is that crazy?

01:06:53.280 I mean, when you say crazy elections, you have no idea.

01:06:56.320 It's unbelievable.

01:06:56.860 How crazy our elections have been in the past.

01:06:59.020 The guy won the popular, Tilden won the popular vote in 1876.

01:07:04.120 Popular vote and the electoral vote, but was denied the presidency.

01:07:09.200 And it was because there was 20 votes that were uncommitted.

01:07:11.980 Right.

01:07:12.500 And so to decide those 20, they put together an electoral commission.

01:07:18.100 And Hayes, Rutherford B. Hayes' camp, promised them to remove the troops,

01:07:24.120 the occupying troops from the South, if everybody would throw the votes his way.

01:07:27.920 It worked.

01:07:29.520 And he won.

01:07:30.520 Despite the fact that he lost both the actual votes.

01:07:34.200 You should have seen the tweets from Tilden after that.

01:07:36.100 Oh, man.

01:07:36.480 Oh, my God.

01:07:37.040 I mean, he was ripping them.

01:07:39.340 I imagine that happened today.

01:07:40.600 There's like, yeah.

01:07:41.440 Sad!

01:07:42.220 Stolen election!

01:07:45.340 And he'd be right on that one, probably.

01:07:47.560 I mean, it's hard to argue that that wasn't stolen.

01:07:51.540 It's impossible to argue it.

01:07:52.860 It was stolen.

01:07:54.120 And I don't see how that was constitutional.

01:07:56.700 I mean, I clearly think that was unconstitutional.

01:08:00.500 And I think Hayes was a, you talk about selected, not elected.

01:08:05.620 He was the selected, not elected president.

01:08:07.980 He was not elected.

01:08:09.480 Tilden did a raw deal through that whole thing.

01:08:11.280 I mean, his tweets, when they started publishing pictures of him in a dress,

01:08:16.760 he was mad.

01:08:20.440 Wow.

01:08:20.860 It's hard to believe that kind of stuff happened, isn't it?

01:08:23.000 Yeah.

01:08:23.260 I believe.

01:08:23.600 I like it.

01:08:24.980 And the reason why we decided to do this particular serial was because we were going through the

01:08:29.920 last election and everyone was just saying how unprecedented everything was.

01:08:33.540 And when you look back at history, you realize none of this is unprecedented.

01:08:37.700 Not unprecedented.

01:08:38.460 It really isn't.

01:08:39.220 I mean, some of these elections are insane.

01:08:42.640 Yeah.

01:08:43.080 And it's honestly amazing the union made it through some of them.

01:08:46.600 I mean, the fact that the union made it through that election is incredible.

01:08:51.020 Shows how strong it is.

01:08:52.420 And we can get through anything, I guess, if we can get through that.

01:08:55.080 And the election of 1824 that we talked about yesterday went through 35 votes in the House

01:09:01.540 of Representatives.

01:09:02.260 Just the 35.

01:09:03.180 Right.

01:09:03.680 35 before they finally came up with John Quincy Adams.

01:09:08.260 I mean, some just staggering, unbelievable stuff that we'd have a conniption over today.

01:09:13.160 I mean, if it was too...

01:09:14.540 Remember how controversial it was going to be if the primary on the Republican side went to the delegates?

01:09:23.140 Yeah.

01:09:23.360 Remember how, like, they were talking about that being, like, the biggest controversy?

01:09:27.280 This is 35 votes in the Electoral College.

01:09:30.720 Amazing.

01:09:31.580 It's absolutely amazing.

01:09:32.540 Amazing.

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01:11:03.280 I just came out with another best countries in the world ranking.

01:11:08.560 And, of course, Uganda is number one, best place in the world to live.

01:11:14.420 It's beautiful this time of year.

01:11:15.400 Really?

01:11:15.700 Beautiful, especially this time of year.

01:11:17.520 You know?

01:11:17.800 Uganda?

01:11:18.500 Spring in Uganda.

01:11:19.880 There's nothing like it.

01:11:21.300 Actually, the number one country in the world, what would you expect it to be?

01:11:25.660 Well, certainly not the United States of America.

01:11:27.740 Not in these surveys.

01:11:29.180 It's got to be something like Norway or something.

01:11:31.660 Very close.

01:11:32.180 Switzerland.

01:11:33.060 Oh, yeah.

01:11:33.640 Switzerland has some things they do better than us when it comes to free markets, honestly.

01:11:40.580 But that's probably not why they're rating them that high.

01:11:42.980 They rank it on categories they call adventure, citizenship, cultural influence, entrepreneurship,

01:11:49.980 heritage, movers, open for business, power, and quality of life.

01:11:53.940 None of those the United States should rank anything above 25 or 30.

01:11:58.260 Not one of those.

01:12:00.680 Number two is Canada.

01:12:02.920 That's why everybody's flocking across the Canadian border to get there, because it's

01:12:06.800 the second greatest place in the world to live.

01:12:11.720 That's why 35 million people live in a country that's like 20 times the size of ours.

01:12:19.820 United Kingdom is number three.

01:12:21.660 Come on now.

01:12:22.720 Stop it.

01:12:23.960 At fourth is Germany. 0.61

01:12:25.140 Germany's always in the top five of these.

01:12:27.660 Well, there are certain decades there.

01:12:29.320 Yeah, maybe not in the 30s and 40s.

01:12:31.120 In certain decades, maybe that was an exception.

01:12:33.540 Same thing with Japan.

01:12:34.800 They're number five.

01:12:36.040 And maybe in the 40s and the 30s, they weren't quite as high.

01:12:39.820 At number six, you might be thinking, okay, are we there?

01:12:42.500 No.

01:12:43.000 Sweden.

01:12:43.920 Sweden, number six.

01:12:44.760 And they're having some issues right now.

01:12:46.220 Yes, they are.

01:12:47.060 I've heard that.

01:12:47.720 Number seven, the United States of America.

01:12:50.080 And we went from fourth to seventh.

01:12:51.600 They rank us 35th in adventure.

01:12:55.260 Come on.

01:12:56.020 I don't really know what that means.

01:12:57.460 We should look at the criteria and see how.

01:12:59.740 What do you mean by adventure?

01:13:01.140 Adventure.

01:13:01.600 Great places to go.

01:13:02.980 Things to do, I would think.

01:13:04.700 There's a lot here.

01:13:05.280 And there's a lot here.

01:13:07.300 Citizenship.

01:13:07.720 I don't really know what that means.

01:13:09.780 Citizenship.

01:13:10.200 Like how many citizens there are?

01:13:11.800 It could be like how easy is it to get citizenship?

01:13:13.600 How easy is it to get?

01:13:14.500 Or the value of citizenship?

01:13:16.360 Cultural influence, they ranked us third.

01:13:19.560 How do you rank the United States of America third in influence?

01:13:24.840 Who's more influential than we are?

01:13:26.820 And culture.

01:13:27.740 I mean, with Hollywood and how.

01:13:29.380 Come on.

01:13:30.680 I mean.

01:13:31.240 Maybe because we're not as high.

01:13:32.200 Every country in the world has been Americanized.

01:13:34.820 How do you give us third in that?

01:13:36.000 Yeah, that's crazy.

01:13:38.080 Entrepreneurship, number three.

01:13:39.420 And that's something we should be number one in.

01:13:41.080 Yes.

01:13:42.080 Heritage, 22.

01:13:43.640 Movers, whatever that means, 24.

01:13:45.200 We're open for business.

01:13:46.520 We're 35th.

01:13:47.020 It's weird, but there's like three men in a truck in the middle of this countdown.

01:13:50.260 It's kind of a strange.

01:13:52.140 Look, it's just hard to book them.

01:13:53.780 I'll just be honest about it.

01:13:54.760 That's why they're number 22.

01:13:56.220 We are number one in power.

01:13:58.640 So obviously the most powerful nation on earth.

01:14:00.600 They actually did cede that to us.

01:14:02.580 Thank you.

01:14:03.100 Thank you.

01:14:03.480 But that's evil to them.

01:14:04.540 Yeah, of course.

01:14:05.080 Yes, it is.

01:14:05.680 And quality of life.

01:14:06.760 We're only 18th.

01:14:08.280 What?

01:14:09.600 Probably things like crime factor into that.

01:14:11.520 I don't know.

01:14:12.040 Sure.

01:14:12.400 And I'm sure.

01:14:13.360 Income inequality or something.

01:14:14.700 Income inequality.

01:14:15.800 And probably health care.

01:14:17.260 Does the government pay for everybody's health care?

01:14:19.760 That's why the United States will never do as well as we should in these things because

01:14:24.660 of the criteria involved.

01:14:26.040 I'm a 7th.

01:14:26.640 I'm actually impressed with.

01:14:27.720 Yeah, 7th is better than I thought it would be.

01:14:29.760 They're like right behind North Korea is where we have them this year. 1.00

01:14:33.280 That's usually the way these things go.

01:14:35.600 Australia, France, and Norway, of course, round off the top 10.

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01:15:06.220 Halfway through the week with Pat, Stu, and Jeffy in for Glenn today who's still celebrating

01:15:12.040 a day without women.

01:15:13.840 And you might be thinking, well, Glenn's not a woman.

01:15:16.180 And you'd be wrong.

01:15:17.440 He's about 89%.

01:15:18.760 In fact, not about.

01:15:19.980 He is 89% woman.

01:15:22.020 We've done studies.

01:15:23.080 There's been DNA testing.

01:15:24.520 And it's confirmed.

01:15:26.760 The Brookings Institute, Susan Hennessy, she should stay home every day.

01:15:32.260 Not just today.

01:15:33.760 We'll get into that coming up.

01:15:35.220 As well as new regulations at the TSA that you're going to love.

01:15:38.920 Well, Jeffy's going to love them.

01:15:40.360 We'll tell you what those are and so much more.

01:15:42.700 Beginning right now.

01:15:43.640 Nice.

01:15:43.880 I will make a stand.

01:15:47.000 I will raise my voice.

01:15:49.280 I will hold your hand.

01:15:51.680 Because we are one.

01:15:53.520 I will beat my drum.

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01:16:18.020 Susan Hennessy from the Brookings Institute was on with Chris Matthews about climate change.

01:16:23.920 Because as you know, the world is, it's burning up with a fever right now.

01:16:31.080 It's got a fever of 103.

01:16:34.340 So come on, baby. 1.00

01:16:35.520 Do you do more than dance?

01:16:37.460 It's hot blooded.

01:16:38.560 The earth is hot blooded.

01:16:40.640 But here's, they just keep repeating the same tired, untrue dogma every single time they talk about this stuff.

01:16:51.160 Look, for all of the Trump administration sort of focused on refugees, the single biggest national security threat is climate change.

01:16:57.660 We've seen the ways in which climate change has either sparked conflicts or has made existing conflicts worse again and again.

01:17:04.260 Okay, we see the ways in which climate change has sparked conflicts.

01:17:11.160 Can you name one for me?

01:17:13.760 What, is a Syrian thing over climate change? 0.91

01:17:16.860 It got 0.9 degrees hotter, so everybody tried to overthrow Bashir Assad?

01:17:22.400 Is that what happened?

01:17:23.380 Well, you just nailed it.

01:17:24.800 I mean, that's exactly what happened.

01:17:26.640 All right.

01:17:27.000 The one before that, I believe they titled it Desert Storm.

01:17:31.440 Wow, that's true.

01:17:32.100 That's a really good point.

01:17:33.200 They titled it.

01:17:35.520 They titled it Desert Storm.

01:17:38.300 Yeah, no, I mean, it's, this is a typical thing they pitch.

01:17:41.280 I mean, how do you even make that case?

01:17:43.420 How do you make that case?

01:17:45.360 What's the evidence that climate change is causing war or strife or even famine and hunger?

01:17:52.840 Is there, is there any evidence of that?

01:17:54.580 This has been a major DOD priority for years.

01:17:56.080 What did you think of the weather two weeks ago?

01:17:58.900 What did you think of the weather two weeks ago?

01:18:00.560 Okay, so now it's okay to talk about the weather because the weather is the climate.

01:18:04.060 It used to be every time you said, well, what, what about the snow?

01:18:06.360 You said it wasn't going to snow, now it's snowing.

01:18:07.960 Well, don't you confuse weather for climate?

01:18:10.920 Yep.

01:18:11.520 And now they do it every single time.

01:18:13.040 Every single time.

01:18:14.000 What about the weather two weeks ago?

01:18:16.200 I don't know.

01:18:16.980 Was there a warm front in winter?

01:18:18.700 That's never happened before, right?

01:18:20.920 Other than every single year in human history?

01:18:25.100 Right, so we've seen this.

01:18:26.360 What do you mean?

01:18:26.760 Do you think it has anything to do with the weather we've been having?

01:18:28.940 I don't think that that necessarily has sparked conflict.

01:18:31.480 How about the hottest year on record, years in a row now, the hottest years on record?

01:18:34.960 Right, so it-

01:18:35.420 It hasn't been the hottest years on record many years in a row now.

01:18:40.600 In fact, for no years in a row since 1998.

01:18:43.500 And I know they go back and they try to manipulate the data so that they can get rid of that fact.

01:18:48.340 But the fact is there's been a pause in the warming.

01:18:50.200 There's been a pause in the warming.

01:18:52.260 Ever since the sun activity went down, it's been paused.

01:18:57.740 Also, the El Nino messes with the weather.

01:19:00.580 We've had that coming and going.

01:19:02.260 Again and again, we're seeing a more intense sort of conflict for resources.

01:19:05.700 We're seeing more and more displaced people.

01:19:08.060 That causes, that has spillover effects with really dramatic security.

01:19:10.880 I think you're right about the Horn of Africa and Somalia, a place like that are just horrible what people are driven to. 1.00

01:19:16.180 By the way, there's no A in the word horrible.

01:19:18.380 It's not horrible?

01:19:19.200 No, it's not horrible.

01:19:20.160 It's H-A-R-R. 1.00

01:19:21.440 It's H-O-R-R. 1.00

01:19:22.800 Horrible.

01:19:23.500 There's no A in the word at all.

01:19:24.940 No, it's horrible.

01:19:25.840 It's not horrible.

01:19:26.460 It's horrible.

01:19:26.980 It is not.

01:19:27.920 I know many, many Easterners things.

01:19:30.620 There's two A's.

01:19:31.440 A-H-A-R-R-A-B-L-E. 1.00

01:19:32.700 See if you can find it in the dictionary.

01:19:33.880 Horrible.

01:19:34.420 I'm pretty sure there's no A in the word horrible.

01:19:37.740 But that, I mean, he knows horrible.

01:19:40.740 If there's anybody who knows horrible, it's Chris Matthews.

01:19:42.940 That whole segment was horrible.

01:19:46.800 It's just agonizing.

01:19:48.720 Is there, are they really saying that the climate has, that the temperature has gone up every single year?

01:19:55.520 Is that a new thing now?

01:19:56.540 Because for a while they were admitting, no, there's a pause.

01:19:59.220 Yeah.

01:19:59.360 We don't know why there's a pause, but there's a pause.

01:20:01.700 And now they're just ignoring that fact?

01:20:03.120 No.

01:20:03.440 Well, 2016, again, obviously these numbers have just come in the last month or two.

01:20:09.820 The 2016, I believe, was either equal or slightly above or slightly below to 1998.

01:20:16.080 Statistically even.

01:20:16.960 Is that unadjusted?

01:20:18.300 And is that surface or satellite?

01:20:21.300 Because all those are important details.

01:20:23.460 You're right.

01:20:24.080 In fact, the satellites have shown, which when you think,

01:20:26.460 if you want to come up with a more accurate way of measuring temperature,

01:20:30.000 you're going to go with satellites.

01:20:31.160 Of course, they show less warming.

01:20:32.800 So we ignore those and we go with the surface temperatures.

01:20:36.840 Right.

01:20:37.080 Which the surface can be manipulated.

01:20:38.860 You can put them in direct sun.

01:20:40.120 You can put them near an air conditioning unit.

01:20:42.980 Blacktop is a bit.

01:20:43.800 Blacktop, I mean, and that's what they do. 0.77

01:20:45.580 And they have standards for these in which they say,

01:20:47.260 okay, there's a five-tier system, if I remember right,

01:20:51.140 and basically the really bad ones.

01:20:54.480 Like if you put it next to a heater, for example,

01:20:56.400 and that sounds ridiculous, but there are examples,

01:20:59.040 there's photos of these surface stations that are next to heaters

01:21:04.660 and heating ducts that are in the middle of Blacktop

01:21:07.680 that obviously 100 years ago were not in the middle of Blacktop.

01:21:11.020 And they have a way of showing what the error is.

01:21:13.440 And the error is huge.

01:21:14.400 I mean, the error is more than the temperature rise on many of these stations.

01:21:19.920 Wow.

01:21:20.160 Now, they try to adjust for it.

01:21:21.300 They say they are adjusting for it.

01:21:22.440 They go back in the past, 60, 70 years ago,

01:21:25.280 and adjust the temperatures from the past.

01:21:28.060 How they do that today, I don't know.

01:21:29.940 I don't know how they do that today.

01:21:32.000 But, I mean, look, the argument is not about whether it is warmed.

01:21:36.520 Okay?

01:21:37.040 The argument is about, A, what has caused the warming.

01:21:39.960 What's causing it.

01:21:40.540 And, B, whether it will be catastrophic in the future.

01:21:42.600 And if you want to go to C, it's whether we can do anything about it.

01:21:45.300 And, as for, I think you were on B, which is how much is it hurting, right?

01:21:53.000 How catastrophic is it?

01:21:54.560 Or will it be?

01:21:55.360 Most, many of these so-called climate scientists admit that some of the warming is really good.

01:22:00.980 Because, I don't know, growing food.

01:22:03.600 Right, for decades and decades and decades.

01:22:05.120 It's helpful.

01:22:05.840 Now, eventually, it could get to the point where it really caused some negative effects.

01:22:08.980 It could burn up your crops, eventually.

01:22:10.460 But we're nowhere near that right now.

01:22:12.180 No.

01:22:13.440 And, you know, look, this is an easy thing to do, right? 0.97

01:22:17.760 Because you can come out and you can blame every, I mean, to blame a war on climate change is so ridiculous. 0.84

01:22:25.100 It's almost Alex Jones-ish.

01:22:26.920 Yeah.

01:22:27.380 Yeah.

01:22:27.780 It really is.

01:22:28.440 It really is on that level.

01:22:29.460 Yeah.

01:22:29.880 It really is on that level.

01:22:31.700 And they'll mock that because they'll mock Alex Jones, you know, every day of the week, which so will we.

01:22:39.180 Yes. 0.93

01:22:39.380 However, that is just as ridiculous, let's be honest about it.

01:22:43.300 You know, it's not to say, now, the way they're arguing that, you know, if you're not following their logic at all, which I would understand, is they'll say, look, if there's a huge drought caused by climate change,

01:22:56.200 and so one group of people loses access to water, they will get desperate, and maybe a war will start.

01:23:05.160 Like, that's how they sort of do these things.

01:23:07.100 And they'll look for every environmental factor to retroactively blame war on climate change.

01:23:10.800 Is there one single war that has begun that way, admittedly, on either side?

01:23:14.360 Well, I mean, I've never heard of it.

01:23:15.480 They'll always find a way to justify it.

01:23:17.500 I mean, it's the same way.

01:23:19.140 We were really hot, so we went to war with the Sudan because it was too hot in our country.

01:23:23.820 But they say exactly that, Pat.

01:23:25.120 And then we got to the Sudan, and we realized that was even hotter there, so we went to Ethiopia and attacked them. 0.95

01:23:30.180 That's how they justify a lot of the murders in Chicago during the summer, right?

01:23:33.340 I am not kidding about this.

01:23:34.300 Because they will say, when it's warmer in the summer, people get more irritable and will commit more crimes.

01:23:40.980 Therefore, as it warms from climate, those climate deaths will be included in our total.

01:23:48.900 That's exactly why I killed more people in Houston than I have in Dallas, because it's hotter there.

01:23:53.900 That's right.

01:23:54.440 I remember that.

01:23:55.080 You said you killed, what, 85 people in Houston and only 40 in Dallas.

01:23:57.820 It was 89 in Houston, and I think I'm up to 53 here in Dallas.

01:24:02.340 Oh, wow.

01:24:02.580 You've been active.

01:24:03.120 Does Fort Worth count?

01:24:03.880 Not even close, though.

01:24:04.440 Does Fort Worth count count?

01:24:05.320 Well, I mean, it is part of the Metroplex.

01:24:06.940 It is the Metroplex, yeah.

01:24:07.500 Yeah, 53 there.

01:24:08.260 Oh, okay.

01:24:09.240 I mean, this is more believable.

01:24:11.600 And to feel what the children are feeling.

01:24:14.420 Oh, yeah.

01:24:15.260 Got it, buddy.

01:24:16.060 Oh, yeah.

01:24:16.860 Well, this one's true.

01:24:18.360 This one is true.

01:24:29.020 Folks, we got to get good people to stand up against these people.

01:24:32.900 We got to get people, good people to stand up against these people.

01:24:37.480 Well, you have a bumper sticker on your car that says, we got to have people, good people

01:24:40.600 to stand up against these people.

01:24:41.480 And then I've got one, a companion bumper sticker that says, people, people who need

01:24:45.860 people are the luckiest people in the world.

01:24:48.860 Yeah, you do it.

01:24:49.400 Oh, he does.

01:24:49.860 Oh, he does.

01:24:56.900 Fabulous.

01:24:57.640 Oh, fabulous.

01:24:58.500 So good.

01:24:59.340 Greatest moment of broadcast here.

01:25:00.680 I probably shouldn't.

01:25:01.320 You just heard it right there.

01:25:02.340 I haven't even done this radio show today because I have this disgusted cover for how I just

01:25:07.260 hate the globalists, but it's more than that.

01:25:08.840 Globalists.

01:25:09.440 Globalists.

01:25:09.940 And I just get flippant and angry, but it's because deep down, folks, I can see what they're

01:25:14.860 doing.

01:25:15.380 And we have a responsibility to stop these globalists.

01:25:20.420 Where are the men in this country?

01:25:22.260 Where are the men in this world?

01:25:23.820 Well, what the hell have we become?

01:25:26.540 We just offer our children up to the system with the fluoride and the water and the GMO 0.98

01:25:31.380 hurting them, and we let fat perverts grab them at the airport to train them for the 1.00

01:25:35.560 pedophile government. 1.00

01:25:36.900 Train them for the pedophile government. 1.00

01:25:37.640 And we've just got such a sick society. 1.00

01:25:39.720 Sick. 1.00

01:25:40.080 But all that is truer than the global warming crap. 1.00

01:25:48.300 Or at least on par with the global warming crap. 0.98

01:25:51.740 More Pat, Stu, and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program coming up in a sec. 0.90

01:25:55.740 We discussed a lot with Glenn especially about the effects of the economy and where we're

01:26:01.340 going and the negative effects of a cashless society.

01:26:05.120 What could they have on your privacy?

01:26:07.260 We've talked a lot about privacy today.

01:26:09.120 What can they have on your savings?

01:26:11.580 Cybersecurity is a huge issue.

01:26:13.560 And all of our wealth is stored digitally.

01:26:15.820 And we don't seem to have a problem with that.

01:26:17.940 It's like we just have just kind of given up control.

01:26:20.580 It's so convenient.

01:26:21.280 It is.

01:26:21.980 It's so convenient.

01:26:22.420 That's how they get us with all this stuff.

01:26:23.740 It's so convenient.

01:26:24.520 All the stuff we were warned about, we don't care about anymore because it just became

01:26:29.260 convenience to us.

01:26:30.460 And we didn't realize the danger.

01:26:33.340 Right?

01:26:33.720 I mean, you don't think that anything's going to go wrong with it.

01:26:36.520 And you kind of assume because everyone's doing it, it's fine.

01:26:38.760 And look, a lot of it is fine.

01:26:40.960 It's not to say that you need to have all your money under your bed.

01:26:43.600 You don't need to.

01:26:44.100 You need to never go on the internet.

01:26:45.380 That's not the answer.

01:26:46.760 But the answer is maybe to have an insurance policy.

01:26:48.460 Or you could go the Jeffy way and just not have any money ever.

01:26:51.260 That's a good point, Jeffy.

01:26:52.040 How's that working out for you?

01:26:53.360 I mean, from an outsider's perspective, it looks like it's working well.

01:26:56.200 But how is it working for you?

01:26:58.040 I mean, you're fed well.

01:26:59.000 There's no question of that.

01:27:00.720 So what he's saying is you're overweight.

01:27:03.780 I understood what he was.

01:27:05.080 Hacking our identity theft could destroy your savings.

01:27:08.620 The cost of online data breaches is already expected to reach $2.1 trillion by 2019.

01:27:14.200 Is that a lot?

01:27:15.380 Yeah.

01:27:15.760 It's not a quadrillion.

01:27:16.640 It's like a major world economy, for sure.

01:27:18.820 It's not a quadrillion, though.

01:27:20.100 That's true.

01:27:20.520 It's not that high.

01:27:21.180 Barack Obama would say, at least it's not a quadrillion.

01:27:24.820 That's what he'd say.

01:27:26.240 That's exactly what he'd say.

01:27:28.140 How about having something that you can actually hold in your hand in case something like this happens,

01:27:31.740 in case we have a major failure in the systems that we've come to trust?

01:27:36.680 How about gold?

01:27:37.400 Gold is something that has been a long-term, I mean, since the beginning of time, has had incredible value.

01:27:43.600 And it's a hedge against some of the things that could happen in this world.

01:27:47.940 Do your homework.

01:27:48.700 Call Goldline today and ask for their updated free cashless society risk report.

01:27:53.620 Read Goldline's important risk information to see if buying gold is right for you.

01:27:57.240 But call them.

01:27:58.040 Check it out.

01:27:58.660 Do your own homework.

01:27:59.820 866-465-3546.

01:28:02.820 It's 1-866-GOLDLINE.

01:28:07.400 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:28:11.980 Mercury.

01:28:16.760 888-727-BECK.

01:28:18.940 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:28:22.040 Indeed it is.

01:28:22.880 Pat Stewart, Jeffing for Glenn, hopefully back tomorrow.

01:28:24.860 888-727-BECK.

01:28:26.260 You know, Alex Jones reminded us here a moment or two ago about the situation at the airport

01:28:32.840 with the pedophile government training child abusers or whatever. 0.92

01:28:37.480 You know, they feed them toothpaste and then they go nuts and then they start abusing people. 0.95

01:28:41.960 And it's just not right.

01:28:43.380 And then you've got the fluoride in the water, which has killed, you know, 20s of millions of people.

01:28:49.560 Not just tens, but 20s of millions of people.

01:28:52.640 Yeah, the fluoride in the water.

01:28:53.660 But there's something else going on at the airport now that you're going to love, Jeffy.

01:28:57.100 You're going to love this a lot.

01:28:58.180 Pat-downs at the airport are becoming more intimate under a new national security guideline

01:29:04.400 to improve safety for travelers.

01:29:06.700 Well, that's awful nice of that.

01:29:07.860 Because since 9-11, we've had so many, so many air disasters that they've finally decided to really do something.

01:29:20.860 Now, up until now, there's been five different ways they can pat you down.

01:29:24.920 You know, there's the discreet, the way, there's the non-intrusive way.

01:29:28.860 And usually that's what they do for people who are, you know, just randomly selected,

01:29:33.360 which is no good to anybody anyway.

01:29:35.100 I'm sure I understand they're randomly selected, but I haven't gone.

01:29:37.440 There's no understanding it. 0.99

01:29:38.520 It's the dumbest thing of all time. 0.98

01:29:40.200 I do go through the scanner, though, you know, the electronic wizard machine. 0.99

01:29:45.560 And sometimes if you have something, they'll have to wand you after a couple times.

01:29:49.980 Because I always go through, you know, I got the knee replacement, go ahead, do the thing, give me the wand, we move on.

01:29:55.560 And then if something happens with the wand, that's when you get the pat-down.

01:29:58.020 Or if you're randomly selected, like every fifth person or whatever criteria they use.

01:30:03.020 But now everybody gets the more intrusive, abusive, sexual assault.

01:30:10.600 Well, I mean, you call it assault.

01:30:12.820 I call it assault.

01:30:14.300 You call it Friday night downtown.

01:30:17.620 I mean, they tell you where they're going to pat.

01:30:20.900 They put gloves on.

01:30:22.560 Okay, I'm going to feel your giblets now.

01:30:25.020 That makes it better when they do?

01:30:26.940 No.

01:30:27.680 Not to me. 0.98

01:30:28.280 So you're saying you would rather not have them touch your genitals when you go to the airport? 1.00

01:30:32.800 I'm picky that way. 0.99

01:30:34.120 I am picky that way.

01:30:34.840 That's an interesting stance.

01:30:35.660 I don't know if I've heard that articulated.

01:30:36.620 I don't want another man doing that to me.

01:30:37.840 The fact is, other than my wife, I don't want another woman doing it to me. 1.00

01:30:40.780 So just leave me alone.

01:30:43.160 Leave me alone at the airport.

01:30:46.620 And I see everybody putting up with this and the happy attitude.

01:30:50.240 No, they need to do this because it's for our safety.

01:30:53.660 I know.

01:30:54.620 And it pisses me off every time I go through the airport.

01:30:56.380 I want to say something so bad.

01:30:57.940 If I, it's like, this is not, first of all, this is not helping.

01:31:01.640 It's not helping anything.

01:31:05.560 If you do this in a random way, what are the odds that you actually randomly screen a terrorist?

01:31:12.360 Isn't your argument, though?

01:31:14.160 I mean, your argument is that we haven't had any attacks since 9-11.

01:31:17.680 That's the argument, right?

01:31:18.880 Because of this.

01:31:19.880 I believe it has nothing to do with this.

01:31:22.360 I believe it has nothing to do with this.

01:31:24.580 I think the next thing they do is going to be some other, they've gone a different direction now.

01:31:30.400 Now, we had a little discussion about this yesterday on the Pat and Sue show, which, by the way, airs on the blaze after the show every day.

01:31:36.140 And during that show, I said something that I've said many times, which is, this is a great commercial for TSA PreCheck, in which you walk through the line basically with almost no delay when you go to the airport.

01:31:48.420 Yeah.

01:31:48.600 You get it done once, and then it's over with, and then you just keep going.

01:31:51.660 And you said an interesting response, I'm going to do that today.

01:31:55.100 I did say that.

01:31:56.000 Which was yesterday.

01:31:57.200 Which I did not do.

01:31:58.380 Well, okay.

01:31:59.140 There's the update.

01:32:00.960 That's the update.

01:32:01.500 You just want to complain.

01:32:03.020 Maybe you like it.

01:32:04.640 Maybe you just want to go.

01:32:05.140 Maybe you like it.

01:32:06.220 I get caught up in stuff, and I forget.

01:32:07.960 I do not.

01:32:09.140 I would like it if at least they bought me dinner first.

01:32:11.720 Maybe a candle lit little thing, intimate, over on the side.

01:32:14.920 They've got a little table there.

01:32:16.360 They serve me some wine.

01:32:17.660 They get me liquored up, and then they seal me up.

01:32:20.580 So now what you're saying, though, is, hey, if you don't want to get felt up going through TSA and get on an airplane, which, you know, why not?

01:32:30.200 What else you got to do?

01:32:31.060 You're in the airport.

01:32:32.400 But if you're Pat and don't want to do that, now you want to go to the TSA Pre and give them every bit of information about you, everything, forever, to the end of time, just so you can get on a plane quicker.

01:32:44.680 We talk about things being easier.

01:32:45.840 That doesn't seem right either.

01:32:46.720 It doesn't, but I'm okay with it.

01:32:48.540 I mean, given the choice between the two, I'll take the TSA Pre.

01:32:51.540 Look, you talked about this with these transgendered bathroom issues. 0.95

01:32:55.960 We are doing news stories about people who are walking into bathrooms and are having conversations which they find offensive.

01:33:04.300 That's a news story today.

01:33:05.760 But my feelings don't matter in this feel-up.

01:33:08.020 When you're touched.

01:33:08.960 I'm really uncomfortable with it.

01:33:11.480 First of all, I'm a private person to begin with.

01:33:13.160 Secondly, I really don't want you touching my genitals. 1.00

01:33:16.540 I really don't. 0.98

01:33:17.800 And I'm super uncomfortable with that.

01:33:19.600 Does that matter to them?

01:33:20.520 Nope.

01:33:20.940 Not one iota. 0.98

01:33:22.100 They don't give a rat's butt about that. 0.95

01:33:24.520 I mean, they're giving us rectal exams almost at the airport now. 0.98

01:33:28.480 No, they're not.

01:33:28.920 They're not doing that.

01:33:30.880 Look, they're giving you cancer screenings.

01:33:32.820 They're feeling your rectum.

01:33:34.580 You're reaching up there in your colon. 0.97

01:33:37.180 I'd like to talk to you.

01:33:38.140 It's a little swollen, Mr. Fisher.

01:33:39.080 I'd like to give you an example of what airline is doing that.

01:33:43.040 Yes, you would like to.

01:33:43.660 Because you'll be there this afternoon.

01:33:44.840 He just booked a flight.

01:33:46.720 Orbitz to the rescue.

01:33:48.980 Let's go to Upside.

01:33:51.040 So it's interesting because, you know, it's not obviously that bad.

01:33:55.680 But it is really annoying.

01:33:57.500 Right?

01:33:57.820 What a world.

01:33:58.300 And TSA PreCheck is the service.

01:34:00.260 And there's also Clear, I think, is the other one, which is a separate service but is really good, I've heard.

01:34:05.320 But TSA PreCheck is the government solving a problem they created.

01:34:12.100 And it's frustrating because you're right, Jeffy.

01:34:14.420 You're giving them a lot of information.

01:34:15.980 You're going through a PreCheck.

01:34:16.860 You have to go down for an interview.

01:34:18.480 It's not the worst process in the world.

01:34:20.620 This doesn't include a lot of your time.

01:34:22.640 But it does include you hitting appointments and hitting deadlines.

01:34:24.840 And it's a little bit frustrating.

01:34:26.460 And you wouldn't need it.

01:34:27.680 And I'm uncomfortable with it.

01:34:28.540 I don't want it.

01:34:29.400 I don't want it.

01:34:30.220 Why are transgender people the only people we're worried about their comfort level?

01:34:34.460 Why?

01:34:35.040 Why is that?

01:34:35.840 Why is that the case?

01:34:37.300 But here's how bad it's going to be.

01:34:38.520 Due to this change, TSA asked the field secretary directors to contact airport law enforcement and brief them on the procedures in case the police are called on them.

01:34:49.760 So they're calling police departments and they're saying, okay, you're going to get a lot of complaints.

01:34:52.940 And they're talking to the airport security.

01:34:55.140 Okay, you're going to get a lot of complaints.

01:34:56.700 That's how bad this is going to be.

01:34:59.080 And you're welcome, America.

01:35:01.360 You're welcome.

01:35:02.260 Thank you, TSA.

01:35:08.520 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:35:17.760 Mercury.

01:35:21.560 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:35:23.360 Well, first we were concerned about fluoride in our water.

01:35:29.700 And then it was the toothpaste that's killing our children.

01:35:33.800 And then, you know, it's at the airports with the perverts training the sexual predators for the children or something.

01:35:40.840 I forget how that works with Alex Jones.

01:35:43.700 But now it's the pat down.

01:35:45.340 And the pat down is real.

01:35:46.420 And they used to do it five different ways.

01:35:48.780 And I don't know, depending on the risk, maybe, I don't know.

01:35:54.100 Now they're only doing it one way, and that's intensively.

01:35:57.060 They're calling it comprehensive.

01:35:59.800 And they're so convinced that it's going to be offensive to people, that they're alerting the authorities, that they're going to receive complaints from passengers.

01:36:09.240 Weird.

01:36:09.260 Let's go to Dale in Kansas.

01:36:12.860 Dale, you're on the Glenn Beck Program with Pat Stew and Jeffy.

01:36:15.360 Hi.

01:36:16.580 Hey, Jeffy.

01:36:17.340 I just wanted to make sure you understood that there is a massage parlor there in Dallas that will give you a TSA-inspired pat down.

01:36:25.840 Wow.

01:36:26.720 And you're guaranteed to reach your destination.

01:36:29.540 Are you actually calling me to remind me of something like that?

01:36:34.360 I mean, like, I wouldn't know that.

01:36:35.480 Like, he doesn't know that?

01:36:36.200 Yeah.

01:36:36.620 That's embarrassing.

01:36:37.640 He runs the business.

01:36:38.560 How would he not know about it?

01:36:40.480 Thanks, Dale.

01:36:41.220 Appreciate it.

01:36:42.680 What do you think about these?

01:36:44.720 This is off topic a little bit, but what about these massage chairs that are now just everywhere in common spaces?

01:36:52.700 They're at gyms.

01:36:53.940 They're at airports.

01:36:55.740 They're at grocery stores sometimes.

01:36:57.900 They must be making a fortune on them.

01:36:58.780 They must be.

01:36:59.300 You don't have to notice now, too.

01:37:00.400 You're right, Stu, now that I think about it, because they used to be where they'd just pop up where they'd be like four or five of them together.

01:37:05.320 And now they're branching out on their own when you walk places.

01:37:08.900 All of a sudden, they're just one by itself.

01:37:10.380 Yeah.

01:37:10.500 Yeah.

01:37:11.300 Malls?

01:37:11.980 Yeah, malls.

01:37:12.660 For sure.

01:37:13.240 You go through a mall, and there's just a bunch of people with their heads down towards the ground getting back massages from these people in the middle of the aisles.

01:37:19.920 Mm-hmm.

01:37:20.540 That seems like a new thing.

01:37:22.100 Isn't that a little weird?

01:37:23.400 It's been going on for a couple years, this massage thing.

01:37:24.820 Yeah, that's been going on, but the chairs breaking off on their own is new.

01:37:27.780 But my question is, isn't that, I don't know.

01:37:29.620 I mean, I've never had one at a massage chair like this.

01:37:33.460 It feels like it.

01:37:34.140 Oh, I've done a massage chair a lot of times.

01:37:35.100 You have?

01:37:35.600 Okay.

01:37:35.840 I like it.

01:37:36.420 Because it feels like a private moment.

01:37:38.480 I don't know why.

01:37:39.500 I mean, it's not sexual.

01:37:41.280 No, I didn't say it was sexual.

01:37:42.720 I said it was private.

01:37:44.060 Why?

01:37:44.540 I don't know.

01:37:45.140 Why?

01:37:45.420 You're fully clothed?

01:37:47.120 Yeah, I know.

01:37:47.840 Well, you're fully clothed, and the TSA is patting you down, too.

01:37:51.600 Yeah, but I'm being touched.

01:37:53.120 I'm not being touched by the chair in those areas.

01:37:56.380 It's my back that the chair is touching.

01:37:58.660 That's what I'm worried about.

01:38:00.240 If TSA wants to touch my back, I'm not...

01:38:02.280 Are you talking about automated massage chairs?

01:38:04.140 I'm talking about attended by masseuses.

01:38:07.240 Oh, you're talking about the actual masseuses.

01:38:09.200 Yes.

01:38:09.720 I thought you were talking about the electronic...

01:38:11.520 No, no, no.

01:38:12.420 Oh! 0.60

01:38:13.300 I'm talking about there is someone employed, and it's giving live massages...

01:38:17.500 It's like at Grapevine Mall.

01:38:18.480 They do that in the middle of the mall.

01:38:20.380 Yeah, that's been going on for a while, yeah.

01:38:21.800 They've got, like, two separate stations.

01:38:23.340 And the chairs.

01:38:24.700 Then they also have one that's inside a retail space, so you can get more extensive service

01:38:31.040 there.

01:38:31.540 That's the one I'm talking about.

01:38:32.180 So have you ever done that?

01:38:33.780 I've done all of that.

01:38:34.840 You've done live masseuses in the islands.

01:38:36.720 I've done every sort of massage you could possibly imagine.

01:38:39.120 I don't think you want to say that on the air.

01:38:40.720 I will say right now...

01:38:41.920 Well, okay, not every kind.

01:38:42.660 I can guarantee you I have done every kind.

01:38:45.060 Yes, we know.

01:38:45.820 Okay, you've received and given every kind of massage.

01:38:50.280 We got that, Jeffy.

01:38:51.740 There's no question.

01:38:52.900 It's never struck me as weird, though, the massage thing, you know, when they're rubbing

01:38:56.280 your back and shoulders.

01:38:57.360 I've never...

01:38:58.700 You're kind of...

01:38:59.920 Are you skeeved out?

01:39:00.720 You wouldn't do that?

01:39:02.200 It feels so nice.

01:39:03.920 It's good.

01:39:04.520 I like massage.

01:39:05.300 I'm a massage fan.

01:39:06.420 I do like...

01:39:07.080 I like the fact...

01:39:08.060 I like it in the mall, because as opposed to, like, when you go to a spa, you don't

01:39:11.820 have to be naked.

01:39:12.420 You're there fully clothed.

01:39:14.000 That really should be more odd to me, but it's like...

01:39:16.460 Don't like the naked massage thing.

01:39:18.260 I don't like that. 0.95

01:39:19.020 Will they actually stop you from getting naked at the mall? 0.65

01:39:22.280 Yeah, they might.

01:39:23.020 I thought that was you, Jeffy, when I saw all the police hanging out around here.

01:39:25.840 Can you imagine?

01:39:26.860 Jeffy's got his clothes on, his big whale body laying on the table.

01:39:32.160 Oh, whale body.

01:39:41.460 What the hell is that land mass over there?

01:39:44.880 Why would you throw it over?

01:39:47.680 As much as that might seem mean, it's true.

01:39:54.240 So...

01:39:54.640 And that's no offense to whales.

01:39:57.260 No, no, no offense to whales.

01:39:58.620 You know, obviously, we're just illustrating.

01:40:00.240 Whales have much lower body fat percentages.

01:40:03.840 Did not mean to insult an entire species.

01:40:07.660 That would be wrong.

01:40:09.060 Yeah.

01:40:09.360 So, we should clarify that.

01:40:13.160 888-727-BECK.

01:40:15.240 What about this Berkeley thing, where they had to remove...

01:40:18.240 Oh, this is fascinating.

01:40:19.400 We've been waiting to do this story all day.

01:40:20.980 At Berkeley, they're removing 20,000 free online videos to comply with some Justice Department ruling because of the hard of hearing.

01:40:34.420 Yeah, the Americans with Disability Act.

01:40:36.340 It's an incredible story.

01:40:37.480 And you know what?

01:40:38.000 This is really weird.

01:40:39.280 Think about this for a moment, though.

01:40:40.400 You reput yourself.

01:40:40.620 Berkeley is an expensive school, which is responsible for this sort of nonsense all over the country.

01:40:47.220 Yeah.

01:40:47.420 But they decide to give 20,000 lectures on YouTube for free.

01:40:52.700 What a great thing, right?

01:40:53.800 So, this is sort of like the TED Talks series, right?

01:40:57.500 Is that kind of along those lines?

01:40:59.600 It's an opportunity for you to go to Berkeley, sort of, for free.

01:41:04.280 Now, you might not be able to get the degree, but you can actually go through a lot of the learning that you would go through if you actually attended.

01:41:10.600 Which is really cool.

01:41:10.920 20,000 different lectures.

01:41:12.680 What a great thing.

01:41:13.220 So, a school across the country, I want to say it's a school for the deaf in Washington, D.C.,

01:41:22.280 filed a complaint with the DOJ alleging that Berkeley's online content was inaccessible to the hearing disabled community.

01:41:27.780 And after looking into the matter, the DOJ determined that Berkeley had indeed violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.

01:41:35.220 Berkeley had two choices.

01:41:36.860 Either spend a fortune adding closed captioning to 20,000 videos or remove them from public view.

01:41:43.320 They decided to just remove them.

01:41:44.580 We'll just pull the plug.

01:41:45.580 Available to no one now.

01:41:46.580 So, now no one gets them because they were not available to deaf people in closed captioning.

01:41:51.080 I mean, that is insanity.

01:41:54.900 Insanity. 1.00

01:41:55.380 How do you survive as a people this stupid? 1.00

01:41:59.400 How do you survive this? 1.00

01:42:01.340 You don't.

01:42:01.840 I mean, eventually you don't, right?

01:42:03.280 Eventually you don't.

01:42:04.160 But, I mean, this is exactly what government does all the time. 0.99

01:42:06.600 It's getting exponentially dumber, though. 0.99

01:42:09.300 Right? 1.00

01:42:09.760 I mean, we used to have stupid things during the Bush administration. 0.99

01:42:12.760 And we'd complain about it a little bit. 0.99

01:42:14.140 And we'd talk about it.

01:42:15.380 And it would make for fun radio talk.

01:42:17.620 And callers would sound off. 0.90

01:42:19.000 Now it's every day, all day, something that's just extraordinarily ridiculous in our face every day. 0.70

01:42:26.600 You're just like, what?

01:42:27.440 I mean, it's completely upside down now.

01:42:29.500 And I don't know.

01:42:30.200 I mean, this, I'm sure, is not top of the agenda for the Trump administration at the moment.

01:42:33.940 But this is the type of thing you think Donald Trump would be completely right and say, wait a minute. 0.98

01:42:39.540 This is ridiculous. 0.97

01:42:40.340 We need to stop this. 0.98

01:42:41.740 Because, I mean, that's ridiculous.

01:42:42.640 We've seen it with the same thing happen with net neutrality.

01:42:47.800 Because, look, how does it help the deaf people that it's been removed?

01:42:51.000 Right.

01:42:51.220 It doesn't.

01:42:51.820 Now they can't even see it.

01:42:53.320 So they're just happy that nobody can hear it if they can't?

01:42:57.040 I mean, that is essentially what the effect is.

01:42:58.440 Shouldn't we remove every television show then?

01:43:01.040 Are all TV shows closed captioned?

01:43:03.360 Many of them are.

01:43:04.280 Maybe they are.

01:43:05.000 Many of them are.

01:43:05.560 Maybe they are.

01:43:06.120 Maybe through even the cable systems.

01:43:08.420 You know, so it's not to say.

01:43:09.620 I hate the closed captioning button more than anything else in life.

01:43:12.940 Really?

01:43:13.360 Yeah.

01:43:14.000 Why?

01:43:14.680 Because the words that pop up at the bottom drive me nuts while I'm trying to watch a show.

01:43:19.280 I hate it.

01:43:20.000 And then I can't find out how to turn it off.

01:43:21.160 What do you do if you watch shows that have to be translated?

01:43:23.420 Where's the button for this?

01:43:25.040 You don't watch shows that need to be translated?

01:43:26.820 No, I don't want those.

01:43:28.220 Jeff, he watches a lot of foreign films.

01:43:29.940 So he's in that.

01:43:31.020 Yeah, and Telemundo.

01:43:32.540 Maria.

01:43:34.040 Telemundo.

01:43:34.980 That's not Telemundo.

01:43:35.920 I like the closed captioning.

01:43:36.840 You know where you get the closed captioning is helpful?

01:43:38.500 Telemundo is on flights when you're near the engine and it's really loud and you don't

01:43:44.060 have the right headphones.

01:43:45.040 You don't have the noise blocking headphones.

01:43:46.380 Sometimes you can't make out every word.

01:43:47.880 Pop that on.

01:43:48.640 It works well.

01:43:49.440 But we saw this with Net Neutrality in that I think it was T-Mobile and a couple of other

01:43:53.840 services decided to offer unlimited streaming to YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, all the video streaming

01:44:03.820 apps that most people use.

01:44:05.040 So you wouldn't waste your data by using any of those services.

01:44:09.760 Exactly.

01:44:10.240 It's a great idea.

01:44:10.600 It's a great idea.

01:44:11.600 A really nice service for their customers.

01:44:14.440 Right.

01:44:14.900 So, okay, you have that.

01:44:16.440 Well, people who believe in Net Neutrality, and luckily this is being pushed to the background

01:44:20.560 now with Ajit Pai, who's the new FCC guy.

01:44:23.940 He's the only guy who's sane at the FCC on Net Neutrality.

01:44:28.520 And now he's in control, which is nice.

01:44:30.400 But he, the idea from people who believe in Net Neutrality is, wait a minute, you can't

01:44:36.320 give free data to Netflix and Hulu and all of these other, unless you give free data for

01:44:43.300 everyone to stream.

01:44:44.700 Because we've got to treat all data as equal.

01:44:47.580 So, they would have to give free data to everyone, which means they'd give it to no

01:44:51.560 one.

01:44:52.000 They couldn't give it to everyone, so they would give it to no one.

01:44:55.220 Instead, they were able to give it to these companies where most people do their streaming.

01:45:02.420 And that's a huge advantage.

01:45:03.480 Again, you're taking away advantages to the consumer to hit these mysterious guidelines

01:45:09.920 you've built for yourself.

01:45:11.120 And the Berkeley situation is the same thing.

01:45:12.880 Obviously, the intent of the Americans with Disabilities Act is not to pull 20,000 lectures

01:45:19.780 that were given for free off of the internet because deaf people would not be able to consume 1.00

01:45:25.000 them. 0.99

01:45:25.480 That is a ridiculous standard. 0.97

01:45:27.100 And what it meant is people lose access to information.

01:45:31.660 They lose access to free content that the organization itself wanted to give away for nothing and now

01:45:39.420 can't.

01:45:40.560 Cutting off your nose to spite your face, that's what we're doing. 0.72

01:45:42.680 I guarantee you could ask, if you sampled deaf people around America, 99% of them would 1.00

01:45:50.580 say that that's ridiculous. 0.63

01:45:52.320 And yet, what does the law do? 0.75

01:45:54.740 It puts this into, you know, I mean, I guess at some point they might be able to find an

01:45:58.760 automated way, but it might not be accurate.

01:46:00.920 Who knows?

01:46:02.340 You know, why would they want to do this?

01:46:03.820 They're trying to do something nice for people, give away 20,000 lectures to make people a hell

01:46:07.960 of a lot more liberal.

01:46:08.800 They can't even do that.

01:46:09.500 All they want to do is indoctrinate people on YouTube for free and they can't even get

01:46:14.140 away with that.

01:46:14.880 How sad.

01:46:15.600 How are there any television shows that are broadcast visually when there are blind people 1.00

01:46:23.620 in this country?

01:46:25.120 It's a great point.

01:46:25.680 One of the problems is probably as though that Berkeley takes government money, right?

01:46:29.660 Well, I'm guessing, and I don't know.

01:46:31.000 I didn't read the story of the case.

01:46:34.200 Okay, well, then they have to abide by that.

01:46:35.960 That's why they have to do it then, right?

01:46:37.360 If they were private, they could say get banned. 0.99

01:46:39.120 But it's dumb, Jeffy. 0.95

01:46:40.320 Who cares the reason why they have to do it? 1.00

01:46:42.640 It's dumb. 0.98

01:46:43.640 And it has nothing to do with the intent of the law. 0.99

01:46:46.980 Nobody thinks, oh, you know, it would be a great idea if we can get rid of all the 0.88

01:46:49.820 free material that people can see and hear. 1.00

01:46:52.140 That's a stupid standard. 1.00

01:46:53.760 It makes no sense at all. 1.00

01:46:56.860 And it's not that, you know, I have a real problem with public funding of universities.

01:47:00.880 And so I, you know, I understand that.

01:47:03.060 But to me, that's a separate issue here.

01:47:04.400 Even if you want public funding for these universities, it just shows how bad government

01:47:10.660 is at these things.

01:47:11.500 There's no doubt.

01:47:12.320 You know, even when they try, everyone agrees that people with disabilities should not be 1.00

01:47:16.980 abandoned by our society.

01:47:18.580 We all freaking agree on that.

01:47:20.260 Yet the government is so bad at what it does on a daily basis that they can't even figure

01:47:27.020 out something like this, which is blatantly obvious.

01:47:30.380 You know, we used to talk about common sense all the time.

01:47:32.460 It was one of the first things that, I don't know, it seemed like one of Glenn's first catch

01:47:38.620 phrases or brands that sort of caught on in the early days of the show when you talk

01:47:42.360 about, you know, you just got to be common sense.

01:47:44.500 That's dead.

01:47:45.640 There is no common sense.

01:47:48.040 It doesn't exist.

01:47:49.360 It's not common.

01:47:51.060 It's why we don't talk about it anymore because it's extinct.

01:47:54.080 Yeah.

01:47:54.720 888-727-BECK.

01:47:55.920 More of the Glenn Beck program coming up.

01:47:57.080 It's just so infuriating.

01:47:58.760 This is why you need a good night's sleep.

01:48:00.380 This is why you need when you lay your head down on a pillow.

01:48:02.280 You know what?

01:48:02.780 Last night, I got almost too much sleep.

01:48:04.800 Oh, really?

01:48:05.420 Two and a half to three hours.

01:48:07.100 So now I'm just groggy.

01:48:08.500 Yeah.

01:48:08.860 I'm just, yeah.

01:48:09.360 I'm just worthless today.

01:48:10.440 It's important though.

01:48:11.400 I mean, you know, you think about this.

01:48:13.640 You have three thirds of your life, right?

01:48:15.700 You spend a third of your life working, most likely.

01:48:18.900 You've spent a third of your life sleeping and you spend a third of your life doing everything

01:48:21.980 else.

01:48:22.820 Most people spend all their time thinking about the everything else.

01:48:25.840 Yeah.

01:48:26.000 They spend no time trying to figure out if they're working at a job that they like.

01:48:28.520 Spend a ton of money on our cars.

01:48:30.740 Yeah, our cars.

01:48:31.400 Certainly our homes.

01:48:32.160 Yep.

01:48:32.800 Vacations.

01:48:33.120 But a bed is critical.

01:48:35.100 A bed is critical and it's a third of your life you're going to spend on this thing.

01:48:39.120 Yeah.

01:48:39.480 Why would you not focus and get the best one that you possibly could?

01:48:43.000 Casper mattress was invented with two high-tech foams that give you all the support you need

01:48:46.980 and guarantees you get the best night's sleep.

01:48:48.720 So comfortable.

01:48:49.340 Oh, yeah.

01:48:50.120 It ships for free in a box.

01:48:52.800 It's so small you don't even think that it could possibly fit a mattress in it.

01:48:56.920 Yeah.

01:48:57.100 But it does.

01:48:57.600 Lund's often said you should have it on the bed when you open it.

01:49:00.760 Yes.

01:49:01.480 It springs to life right there.

01:49:02.720 Don't open it in tight areas around breakables.

01:49:06.460 You need to open it on your bed.

01:49:08.840 But Casper mattress lets you try the mattress for 100 days.

01:49:11.640 The opposite of what the government does, right?

01:49:14.040 They're so confident that you're going to like this.

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01:49:18.460 And on the 100th day, you could say, you know what?

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01:49:59.280 With Pat, Stu, and Jeffy.

01:50:01.600 Today, it looks like the legislature is looking into the transgendered situation.

01:50:06.020 They're not voting on it today.

01:50:07.060 Is that right, Jeffy?

01:50:07.700 Yeah.

01:50:07.880 They're sort of...

01:50:09.740 They've been holding hearings and people are showing up and taking testimony on it.

01:50:12.980 Yeah.

01:50:13.160 People are showing up.

01:50:13.180 Yes.

01:50:13.240 And there's some heartbreaking stories.

01:50:15.180 And we'll have some of those for you tomorrow.

01:50:16.900 Oh, yeah?

01:50:17.700 Oh.

01:50:18.340 I don't know.

01:50:18.680 Wait until you hear some of the stories.

01:50:21.340 I hate to have that.

01:50:23.020 They'll make you really want to...

01:50:25.040 Now, yesterday, we played...

01:50:26.660 There was a little dust-up at Tarrant County Community College here in the Dallas-Fort Worth

01:50:32.060 area because a...

01:50:33.980 I think this is a high school student.

01:50:36.320 Correct.

01:50:36.580 But they were at a college class or something.

01:50:41.240 They went on a field trip to...

01:50:42.080 An event with a counselor.

01:50:42.760 Yeah.

01:50:42.980 Yeah.

01:50:43.160 Yeah.

01:50:43.740 And then, so, this person who actually has the physicality of a man went into the woman's

01:50:49.580 bathroom because she considers herself a man, a girl. 1.00

01:50:54.180 A girl.

01:50:54.640 Right.

01:50:55.040 Right, right, right.

01:50:55.420 And, but the teacher said, okay, I got an issue with that because, first of all, you're

01:51:00.280 not a girl.

01:51:03.280 And so, it'll be interesting to see...

01:51:05.380 That hater.

01:51:06.120 Because you know that they're going to go straight to Austin and they're going to testify about

01:51:09.400 this.

01:51:10.020 And it's going to be interesting to see how Texas handles this. 0.92

01:51:13.600 Will they cave in like everybody else is?

01:51:16.160 Look at the pressure brought to bear on, was it South Carolina?

01:51:19.360 North Carolina.

01:51:19.840 North Carolina.

01:51:20.180 Oh, my gosh.

01:51:21.300 And there was another state, too.

01:51:23.240 And...

01:51:23.640 Texas had it recently.

01:51:24.520 And they were talking about it because they were going to get no more Super Bowls.

01:51:26.820 Right.

01:51:27.240 And all of...

01:51:27.920 I mean, the other sports are coming out of them and businesses.

01:51:31.020 They brought in the North Carolina Lieutenant Governor, I think.

01:51:36.380 One of the leaders in North Carolina, to talk and say that they have not lost that much

01:51:41.720 business from this.

01:51:43.820 Oh, really?

01:51:44.180 Yeah.

01:51:44.640 And that the, you know, stand strong.

01:51:46.740 Good.

01:51:47.100 And that businesses have not left and they have not lost very much business at all.

01:51:51.160 So...

01:51:51.360 A few high profile examples, but really that's about it.

01:51:54.000 You know, I mean, that's...

01:51:55.060 So he was here saying stand strong.

01:51:56.820 Hopefully it'll be...

01:51:57.900 Whatever losses you incur will be offset by the gains you make from other people trying to

01:52:02.380 support you.

01:52:03.480 There you go.

01:52:04.140 You would hope it would be that way.

01:52:05.660 And it really has been for Ivanka Trump, by the way.

01:52:07.960 888-727-BECK.

01:52:09.440 See you tomorrow.

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