3⧸9⧸17 - Full Show
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 52 minutes
Summary
Glenn Beck tells the story of the biggest flip-flop he has ever done in his life. Also, day 47 of Stu being held hostage, George Soros gives the Day Without Women protest a lift, $246 million to the organizers of that particular event who are all men.
Transcript
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Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
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We want to talk a little bit about health care.
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Stu is trying to convince us that maybe, maybe we should lower our standards a bit.
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George Soros yesterday gave $246 million to give the Day Without Women protest a little lift.
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$246 million to the organizers of that particular event.
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And why are women allowing men to dictate what they're doing?
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Well, I thought that was the whole point of this thing.
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Women are now taking on the CDC and saying, I mean, out of all the things that women
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can take on, this is the one you take on the CDC and you say, you're not going to tell
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I believe, I believe, I have found the biggest flip-flop that any of us ever do, and we've
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all done it, and I can't think of something that is a bigger switch in your mind than this,
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where you will literally pray for something, and 30 seconds later, you are literally praying
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for the exact opposite, and you meant them both times.
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That where you are so committed, you are literally begging the Lord for something.
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30 seconds later, you are begging him for the exact opposite.
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Because some people in this building were and have been pretty sick the last few days.
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You're on your knees praying, Lord, just get this over with.
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And then when it starts, you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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So Tanya was left with the kids, the grandkids.
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She was Florence Nightingale for the last two days with a house full of.
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And I can't think of a stronger prayer either way.
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It was, please, just let me get this out of my system now.
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And then the minute you start, the minute you feel like your mouth starts to water, you're
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like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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And then when it's over, it's back to, thank God it's over.
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And there is nothing that the body does that is more amazing than that.
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There's few things in life that are less pleasant than throwing up.
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It's the first time I've had the stomach fluid.
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But I remember it like it was yesterday because it's so horrifying.
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Pat and I, we worked in Baltimore and we had a boss.
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We would have been legend had we done it, but our wives stopped us from doing it.
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You would have done it if it wasn't for your wife.
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We would have been legends had we not listened to her.
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So anyway, so we had this boss and he was fastidious on everything.
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He would you would you would sit at his he would sit at his desk and you'd be sitting there and and he would adjust his pens and his pencils and he'd make sure and he had a beautiful office.
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He was always meticulously groomed and $2,000 suits back in 1990.
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Yeah, I mean, he would make sure that his ink blotter was just everything was just so and he was calling us in.
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He was going to fire us and we knew we were going to be fired and it was after our vacation.
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Yeah, he said to us, they told you they told you they told you if you're going to fire us, please fire us before vacation, before we go spend all this money on vacation.
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We know you're going to fire us, just fire us before Glenn, Pat, stop it.
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We get back from vacation the night before we start on that Sunday night.
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Hey, why don't you guys take another day or two and come in on Wednesday and talk to me in the morning?
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So we used to go to this place called the Hard Times Cafe, which I first found in old town Alexandria when I lived there, just outside of Washington.
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And it is the best chili, Cincinnati chili you've ever had.
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So we were going to go to get a whole, eat as much of that as we possibly could, like at eight o'clock in the morning.
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Then we were going to take ICAPAC and we were going to, you know, that's the stuff that makes you throw up, you know, for kids.
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And we were going to take some ICAPAC and then go into his office.
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We're going to take it like four minutes before we went in.
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Don't listen to somebody who will stop you from doing legendary things.
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You might ask, how did we get on Vomit Talk so early in the morning?
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Well, we were talking about the health care plan.
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And you guys, at that point in your lives, probably would have actually pulled the trigger.
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They started in on the, hey, the pack stuff is dangerous, blah, blah, blah.
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I mean, you know, it's a last resort to get poison out of your system.
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Better than your plan of living with health care.
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Hey, let's just all throw in with this bad health care bill.
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It's more like a normal hamburger bun with a turd burger, but it's a slider.
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Now, you might not want to do that, but there is a little room outside the turd.
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Literally, I'm going to go out, and you like good wheat toast?
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I'm going to go have Matthew make the greatest piece of toast you've ever had, and I'm going
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I'm going to have him find some turd of something out in the lawn.
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He's going to put it right in the center of that.
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Then he's going to put another piece of toast on top.
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When you do that, I'll listen to you about your let's eat around the edges of this turd
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Well, I mean, that's, of course, he's saying if the turd burger you just described does
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not occur, you will then eat a piece of bread, a toast sandwich with turd all the way around.
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You'll be happy to swallow that instead of the slightly improved turd burger.
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However, if I were to choose between the two, I might choose the turd slider.
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I should also state that this is actually not my opinion.
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We should find a guy and elect a guy who's just not going to sit down, who will do the
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right thing and knows what is going on with the American people and hears our cry for once
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and will stand up for us for once and won't let the party ram it down our throat.
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Right, an outsider who's not already so tainted that he's just starts playing the Washington
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However, this outsider who's going to push everything through promised something considerably
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So if he does decide to push through what he actually wants, it's going to be considerably
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He's not pushing that through because he knows he can't get away with it.
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I'm convinced that he, he, he is, I'm not convinced of anything.
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And that's where I, when it comes to Trump, we, I know nothing.
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So, and that's where I, cause I, I, this was a moment of weakness as I described it as
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I was coming in today and I was listening to the plans.
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The reporting today is that, uh, behind the scenes, Trump is saying, well, if they don't
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want this plan, if we can't get this past conservatives, can't get it passed, uh, in the,
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in the house and the Senate, then I'll just do nothing and let Obamacare fail on its
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And then we'll blame the Democrats and we'll move on.
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The Democrats will blame us and we will get that because it was a do nothing Congress.
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And, but I mean, it will still be Obamacare and maybe he can make the case.
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Because I mean, again, he ran on a government paying for health care.
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How about we pass this and it fails anyway and makes things worse?
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I mean, however, you might get a deal and this was my, my moment of weakness.
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What you might get out of that is a few years of lower taxes, less regulation, um, bigger
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You might get a short reprieve from the terrible, uh, some of the terrible effects of Obamacare
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and maybe at this point when you can get two years of, okay, you take it realizing that
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Yeah, but we just elected a guy who's not going to give us two years.
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I mean, seriously, I know you're being, uh, you're, you're being sarcastic.
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No, I'm, I'm, I'm saying the things that everyone told me that they cared about two
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But his stated goal on healthcare was not, no, but we don't believe him on that.
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That's either, you know, but again, I, you know, to be fair to Donald Trump, this is what
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So again, if you have, but let's remember also that when he was running on something
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much worse, we weren't supposed to listen to him because what we wanted to do is get
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What we wanted to do is get a guy who would not listen to Paul Ryan because Paul Ryan's
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Um, so you have, what you have in there is you have Donald Trump and Donald Trump, a
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guy who ran on, Hey, government's going to pay for all the healthcare.
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Um, and this plan is not that it's not, is it Obamacare light?
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It's a turd sandwich with the slider in the middle, but it's still going to collapse.
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That's going to, that's the other opportunities.
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We stick with Obamacare and it collapses on itself.
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So again, I, I'm not saying I actually believe this position.
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I'm making the devil's, uh, devil's, uh, devil's advocate.
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Um, but there's a case to be made that maybe you just, I don't know, take it and get a
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couple of years and, and you lose a 4% tax, uh, from Medicaid and you lose the, you lose
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You get to open up potentially if they release this in a future plan, let me play, let me
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state lines, let me play devil's advocate to me.
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What you're saying is you're not going to get what you want.
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So, um, stop with your highfalutin principles and just take what you can get because your
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And this is why I don't actually believe this, but I will say, uh, you know, I can understand
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like, you know, there's a difference between what you, what you advocate for and what you
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Like I, if I, I am advocating a hundred percent for a much better health plan.
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I mean, I don't think we're getting the plan I want.
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This is just a smaller version of the same conversation we had over the last, you know,
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Well, I'm, I'm just not going to jump in the bandwagon for either of them.
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However, right now we have a bill out there that has been advertised as a negotiation point.
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So right now I actually really like the way Cruz is dealing with this and that Cruz went
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and said, uh, he did not say come out against the bill.
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What he said was there are some issues, but this is, I'm, I'm really excited to negotiate
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So let's push for the best possible bill and see if we can move it to a point where it's
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I am totally good with negotiating to see if we can get this to a workable bill.
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I am not for supporting anything like this bill.
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Well, and I'm with you on that, but still let's at least try.
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Jeffy said in the break, you know, that, and it's Ipecac.
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But we were talking and Jeffy said, you know, that just, that would have made you legends.
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The other, and then he brings up, oh, but you know what?
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The other legend is the Clear Channel stock thing.
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Pat and I were poor and we were negotiating our first deal with Clear Channel when they
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Yeah, this was before Clear Channel was Clear Channel.
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The president of the corporation was negotiating our contract.
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And he said to me, look, how about we pay you this and then we'll give you half the rest
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And I looked at Pat, I covered the phone and I looked at Pat and I said, ooh, they're
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We did the figuring, that stock between us was worth like $6 million.
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Because Clear Channel stock at the time was, I don't know, $10 or $8 or something.
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It went up to $90 and split and then it went back up to $80 and split and then.
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So the, the end of the story is 10 years later, I'm still working for Clear Channel.
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And I said, I'm talking to the guy who was on the phone who we had never spoken about
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that moment ever again, 10 years, maybe 15 years later, never spoken to that moment.
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And he looked at me and he put his hand around the shoulder and my shoulder and he said,
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It's about a husband and wife in quotation marks and their family here in America who are
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And if you are my age, this is like zero set right in your coming of age time.
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And they live across the street from an FBI agent who is looking for undercover KGB guys.
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And he moves in and they're like, hey, neighbor, they bring over a cake.
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I mean, he's looking for literally looking for them.
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For, again, people who are my age, in one episode I saw in one of the seasons, they're in the kitchen.
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The camera is where, like, the refrigerator is.
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And then it shoots down the aisle, you know, the island, and sees the TV at the other end of the living room.
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But in that pause, you're seeing something on TV.
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And I don't remember if it was, I think it was a commercial for a, like, you know, the Monday night movie or the Sunday night movie.
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Something that was, like, so ingrained in your head.
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You're like, oh, my gosh, I haven't thought of that forever.
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And it's just really cool, this time tunnel that you're in.
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All of the things, all Reagan, I mean, you want to have Reagan as president.
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Because they're constantly watching the speeches from Reagan and what he's doing.
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It just brings you back to a time when all we had to worry about was being vaporized by the Russians.
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And it really does kind of show, because you have this, you have this remembrance of those times being so good.
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And if you're that age, you will watch this and go, oh, man, I long for those simpler days.
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But it was still, it reminds you, boy, those were scary times.
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But to see them without, to see them without the cell phones, to see them with the gigantic computers, with the gigantic floppy disks, is pretty amazing to see.
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All the things that we have forgotten is, it's pretty amazing.
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Yeah, because I was just, the ratings are the lowest season premiere this week that they've ever had.
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Well, I mean, season five, five seasons is a good run for anything.
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Because FX split their channels into about 60 different places, you know, as well.
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I think FX is making stuff mainly for Netflix now.
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It's always sunny in Philadelphia, which is a show I've loved for many years.
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It is, according to an article I read this week, the longest running.
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Longest running live action comedy series of all time.
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Like, MASH had those a lot in almost every episode.
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Now, I'm sure there's some little, you know, they're doing some.
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DeVito joined in season two, and he's been there the whole time.
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He was not there for season one, and the rest of them are all the same.
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We think of Danny DeVito, again, because of Cheers.
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I mean, you think of him as either Taxi or Cheers, and then he kind of dropped off the map.
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For some people, our viewing habits, our culture is so split that Danny DeVito could walk into a room and a 20-something might say, oh my gosh, it's Danny DeVito.
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And be a huge fan, and he'd be like, how the hell do you know about Danny DeVito, and you're a rabid fan?
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I will also say Danny DeVito didn't exactly drop off the map.
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Because it's always sunny in Philadelphia is, you know, huge.
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But you could know him from Taxi, and it's always sunny in Philadelphia.
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A long, long span, especially when both of those shows at the time were cutting edge.
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I mean, that's where Christopher Lloyd came with his Back to the Future character.
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Because we've, you know, obviously we discovered recently that Bill Hicks, the former comedian,
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who supposedly passed away, is actually Alex Jones.
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I'm thinking of somebody else that just passed away.
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Didn't the guy who played the president in Independence Day just die, too?
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Because there hasn't been celebrity deaths for a while.
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So, all the ratings for all of those shows went down.
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Because they brushed them out over multiple networks.
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Like, flagship shows like It's Always Sunny from FX to FXX.
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They have a lot of good programming on those networks.
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And that was our number one complaint back then.
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I remember when I said to you someday, Stu, people would just wait for the download and
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Thursday night must-see TV will be a thing of the past.
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I'm excited about Americans because I've been watching for it on Netflix.
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I mean, I'm just waiting for the download times.
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It won't put the season on Netflix until the new one starts.
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So they'll put the entire season on right around the same time the new season starts.
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If you buy the season, it's like $45 or something if you buy a season.
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Yeah, but you don't have to put up with commercials either.
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That, remember, TiVo used to be like, this is fantastic.
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Now you're just like, oh, I can't believe I actually have to push this button to skip the commercials.
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And I said, honey, I don't know where to begin.
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Within a couple of minutes, we got a guy who wrote us right back and said, do you have time today to do it?
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I found out later that he is the guy that they would have assigned to us if I would have called, like, you know, because I'm glad back.
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I just got him because he's just in the regular, you know, roll it, the run on, you know, whoever calls in.
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So, I have to tell you, I saw this picture today.
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And I will describe it if you're watching on The Blaze or watching online.
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It is a picture of John F. Kennedy standing like on an old kitchen chair.
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They're right by the President of the United States.
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And what's incredible is, imagine having your picture.
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I mean, there's no bigger icon in the 20th century.
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You know, having these kids down here that were in this picture.
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And unless you do this and you see the whole picture with this kid with a gun in his mouth.
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Remember we had those revolvers that were squirt guns.
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Or the Secret Service knew it was a squirt gun and weren't concerned.
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I mean, they would see that and they'd be like, whatever.
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Kennedy might have taken a drink from it before he stood up on the chair.
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Because we all, as kids, we all had those guns.
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We used to all put the barrel of our gun in our mouth and squirt water into our mouth.
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If that was today, that kid would be shot dead.
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Not only would that kid be shot dead, can you imagine how many people would say,
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Oh my gosh, look at that culture teaching that kid to blow his own head off.
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We used to drink from squirt guns all the time.
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We would put real looking guns into our mouth and drink our water.
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Instead of having a water bottle, we had squirt guns.
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They're going to look back now and say, the number one thing our children or our children's
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children will say, number one thing, they let you drive?
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And I'm telling you, they will sit by, because I have the old chief from the 1950s, that old
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My grandfather, I know why my grandmother never drove.
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And you are just, you're driving those cars from the 50s?
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I'm five pounds away from just ripped abs right here.
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Just burning about five pounds of fat between them.
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Even social media savvy teens cannot fake a news story.
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Also, there's a woman from the Westboro Baptist Church that has left the Westboro Baptist Church.
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And the reason why she left is fascinating and can be totally applied to your life today.
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I want to get to the media bias and American kids.
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She grew up in, or it might be grandchild of Fred.
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I don't keep up with every iteration of what goes on in the Westboro Baptist Church.
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But I do find it a fascinating topic in that it's, they're just such, they're so crazy.
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And to see that, you know, the people, if you don't know who they are, the people that go and they protest military funerals.
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They say God hates Jews and gays and all kinds of stuff.
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You know, they're the worst part of every news story.
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Basically, they come out and they're like, oh God, this is a tragedy.
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Like, they are able to do it every single time.
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So, she grew up, and I don't, you know, I know we had someone who left the Westboro Baptist Church on a long time ago, and I can't remember if it was her or if it was someone else, because a couple people have left.
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But almost everybody at the Westboro Baptist Church is from the Phelps family.
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So, she left the church a while ago and recently did a TED Talk on why she left and how it happened.
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And it's fascinating because, I mean, there are parts of it that sound like she's just lifting lines from Glenn Beck about how to deal with the world.
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Now, you might not want to be associated with someone who's in the Westboro Baptist Church.
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And for everybody who says, oh, you know, the left won't listen.
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Um, let's listen to how the woman, do you think the left is less extreme than the Westboro Baptist Church?
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If you could communicate with someone like that and break down those walls, you could do it with anybody.
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Initially, the people I encountered on the platform were just as hostile as I expected.
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They were the digital version of the screaming hordes I'd been seeing at protests since I was a kid.
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But in the midst of that digital brawl, a strange pattern developed.
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Someone would arrive at my profile with the usual rage and scorn.
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I would respond with a custom mix of Bible verses, pop culture references, and smiley faces.
00:41:13.360
They would be understandably confused and caught off guard.
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And it was civil, full of genuine curiosity on both sides.
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How had the other come to such outrageous conclusions about the world?
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Sometimes the conversation even bled into real life.
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People I'd sparred with on Twitter would come out to the picket line to see me when I protested in their city.
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And after several months of heated but friendly arguments online, he came out to see me at a picket in New Orleans.
00:41:50.840
He brought me a Middle Eastern dessert from Jerusalem where he lives.
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And I brought him kosher chocolate and held a God hates Jews sign.
00:42:00.940
There was no confusion about our positions, but the line between friend and foe was becoming blurred.
00:42:06.080
We'd started to see each other as human beings, and it changed the way we spoke to one another.
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It took time, but eventually these conversations planted seeds of doubt in me.
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Now imagine how many Jewish friends this guy had who said,
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How many people she had in her life saying the same thing.
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If you can win over the Westboro Baptist Church.
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And one of the things she mentioned quickly in there,
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and she went on later, is something you've said a million times.
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She said the conversations always started, and neither of us changed our positions.
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It was listening and communicating like you're a friend.
00:43:11.420
And then start talking about families and things you have in common.
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Yeah, and it helped win over a Westboro Baptist church member.
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because you think of these people, I mean, they're obviously crazy.
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I mean, you can't think of people who are more off the rocker than these guys.
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Yeah, and to talk about how indoctrinated she was,
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she was five years old protesting gays somewhere.
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And through Twitter, we think of all these good people being turned bad through Twitter.
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Here's someone who went through Twitter and turned her life from pure evil to something else.
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My friends on Twitter took the time to understand Westboro's doctrines.
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And in doing so, they were able to find inconsistencies I'd missed my entire life.
00:44:07.740
Why did we advocate the death penalty for gays when Jesus said,
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Let he who is without sin cast the first stone?
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How could we claim to love our neighbor while at the same time praying for God to destroy them?
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The truth is that the care shown to me by these strangers on the Internet was itself a contradiction.
00:44:28.880
It was growing evidence that people on the other side were not the demons I'd been led to believe.
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Once I saw that we were not the ultimate arbiters of divine truth, but flawed human beings,
00:44:47.620
especially our cruel practice of protesting funerals and celebrating human tragedy.
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Both sides, in one way or another, are the Westboro Baptist Church, both left and right.
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But think of, let's just think of, for this audience, let's just think of the right or the left thinks they're the arbiter of everything that is true.
00:45:24.020
They believe that everything intellectually is on their side, right?
00:45:30.960
They don't see the, the disconnect between saying, let's march for women.
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And yesterday, while this was going on, they were advocating, the left was advocating and going against the CDC saying,
00:45:50.380
women are protesting the CDC because you men can't tell us not to drink during our pregnancy.
00:45:59.060
Well, I agree that we can't tell you what to do.
00:46:04.040
But that doesn't seem like something you'll later in life will be proud of standing and marching for.
00:46:11.420
It doesn't seem logical to me that when all is said and done, you'll be proud that you marched, marched for abortion, for the killing of children.
00:46:23.600
That at some point in your life, you or most, I believe, will come to the determination that, you know, that is a child.
00:46:33.400
Because there's no way, because of science is going to force you.
00:46:39.640
You're the one that says, I don't want, I don't want a scan.
00:46:43.500
I don't want an ultrasound to happen and give the women a chance to say, oh my gosh, it is a child.
00:46:50.740
If they have that scan and they say, I don't care, well, that's a different subject.
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Otherwise, why would you say no to ultrasounds?
00:47:06.800
Now, I'm only using this because both sides are in a bubble.
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But anybody who says that they cannot reach the left, listen to what she just said.
00:47:23.860
Because the left does see the right as a monster.
00:47:27.140
Just like many on the right see the left as a monster.
00:47:35.000
And we ratchet it up because we're screaming at each other.
00:47:38.640
But if we'll just start talking and, better yet, listening, listening first to one another, you will find what I have found.
00:47:50.400
Now, it's not going to change anything overnight.
00:47:53.140
People say to me all the time, yeah, well, who have you changed?
00:47:57.420
But I will tell you, look how many people from the left have been on this show.
00:48:02.160
Just two days ago, we had somebody on the left who said, you know what, I've changed my mind.
00:48:15.880
So while I haven't personally done it, I think it is happening.
00:48:21.180
And if you want to make it happen, she's giving you the recipe.
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And unfortunately, most of our society is siding with Malcolm X.
00:48:39.460
But we're all being led to be convinced that nothing will ever change with the other side.
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I mean, if this isn't a proof of concept, I don't know what is.
00:49:02.240
Now this, let me talk to you a little bit about what I think is coming in the economy.
00:49:13.160
And I got, you know, I'm working on something where I'm going to try to put a grand unified
00:49:18.940
theory down because it's important that you understand how I view the world.
00:49:25.720
What lens am I using to pull these things together?
00:49:29.980
Why hasn't my viewpoint changed on the economy, even though we have a Republican president,
00:49:41.780
Because I don't view the world through politics alone.
00:49:47.400
And if you look at what is happening to the banks right now, where the banks are pouring
00:49:55.320
So they're, they're borrowing money, cheap money from the Federal Reserve.
00:49:59.780
And they're pouring that money into the stock market.
00:50:07.700
Everyone became over leveraged, which means they borrowed too much money and they were paying
00:50:14.680
And when those margins were called, they couldn't pay them and everything collapsed.
00:50:19.120
That's what's happening now in the stock market.
00:50:26.320
Eventually this game, we had QE quantitative easing where the money was just being printed
00:50:36.320
But instead of shutting it off, Donald Trump is going to take a trillion dollars of printed
00:50:42.720
money and pump it into the system through a stimulus package.
00:50:52.860
Because the people at the Federal Reserve and the central banks around the world say, you
00:50:57.700
have to continue to spend money to be able to get out of this hole.
00:51:12.280
And looking at the things that are coming, we are going to pay the price.
00:51:19.000
With all the wealth that we have now, I believe we're going to move to a digital economy.
00:51:24.720
And with all of the wealth stored digitally, what happens?
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You can no longer go to the bank and withdraw your money.
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Also, we want to talk to you a little bit about Obamacare.
00:52:58.800
And Stu wants to give us the four steps that this woman from the Westboro Baptist Church said got me out of the church.
00:53:11.080
And that's something I like to use on social networks because it just makes your life better.
00:53:17.860
You know, if you're constantly getting in fights with people, it's just annoying.
00:53:26.880
You know, but I mean, that's how I look at everybody who calls me Hitler on the internet.
00:53:39.500
A lot of times, a lot of times I'll see people online.
00:53:41.460
They'll say something like, you know, you're so mean to Glenn and blah, blah, blah.
00:53:46.260
You know, a little blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:53:47.900
And they'll be like, no, I'm a big fan of the show.
00:53:52.920
So if you don't assume bad intent, it saves you a lot of angst.
00:53:57.760
Yeah, and it also means you never get pissed off at the internet.
00:54:01.900
So many people get obsessed in these little battles.
00:54:07.160
Because if you go with that principle, just don't assume it's bad.
00:54:14.120
And many times, by the way, you turn people around.
00:54:16.700
There's people who are fans of the show that didn't like one things that we said.
00:54:19.620
They came out, they call us all sorts of names.
00:54:24.120
Finding the rainbow in all of that during the election.
00:54:27.900
When they were saying things like eat crap and die, I didn't think that was necessarily good nature.
00:54:33.100
No, but I will tell you that I gave up because it was just overwhelming at the time.
00:54:36.740
But I will tell you that a lot of people will say, you know what?
00:54:59.980
It's not just like trying to come up with a point and just saying what you believe and pushing other people.
00:55:08.420
Don't ask the question that you know the answer to.
00:55:15.980
This one is very difficult for a lot of people.
00:55:18.800
But if you do the other two, you can do this one.
00:55:23.520
You know, the person who you're going up against in an argument, especially from the other side, are going to say terrible things about it.
00:55:33.820
You're making the choice to allow it to bother you.
00:55:36.160
If you stay calm and don't let it bother you, you're able to kind of reason your way through the argument.
00:55:41.000
How amazing is it that this is coming from Phelps, the granddaughter of Fred Phelps, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church.
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It might have been her sister Grace we talked to.
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But we should see if she'll come on too because it's great.
00:56:03.220
And then the last one is make the argument, which that one didn't strike me as obvious when I was listening to that list.
00:56:08.140
But when you're on the line, you're in a battle with someone on the left or you're in the battle with someone who's nuts and you're trying to actually persuade them.
00:56:16.580
A lot of times I think because we believe, for example, low taxes are the right thing to do or abortion is wrong or whatever the belief is.
00:56:28.980
And we don't bother to walk people through the step-by-step argument of how you actually get there.
00:56:34.380
So many people have – they start at their arrival point.
00:56:42.560
And there's not – the process very well may not have ever happened where they made that decision organically, where they walked through the steps in their head.
00:56:52.480
The survey shows that most people, and this includes teens, and I'll narrow it down to teens, but most people get their opinion from a friend or a blog, a commentator of some sort.
00:57:10.860
They get their opinion from someone else who may or may not have done all of the thinking themselves.
00:57:17.840
So take the time to actually make the argument when you're talking to someone calmly.
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If you follow those few steps, you're not going to win everybody over, nor should you care if you do.
00:57:52.740
No examination of crazy elections in America would be complete without mentioning the nation-altering election of 1912.
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Who would have guessed Woodrow Wilson will make an appearance?
00:58:04.740
That would be the year incumbent President Republican William Howard Taft, you know, the bathtub guy, battled for his party's nomination against former President Theodore Roosevelt.
00:58:16.160
Roosevelt was the celebrity candidate of the day, with the press and throngs of admirers following him wherever he went.
00:58:24.660
During the primaries, Roosevelt easily outdistanced the sitting President Taft in votes, roughly 1.2 million to 800,000.
00:58:33.600
History professor Margaret O'Meara shares how different the convention turned out to be from the primaries.
00:58:40.500
When the convention opened, there were so many contested delegates that no single candidate had enough for the nomination.
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So Roosevelt decides it's time for some bold moves, for some new politics.
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Usually the candidates don't even show up at the conventions during this era.
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He comes to Chicago, where the convention's happening, and has a, predictably, a rock star's reception.
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He doesn't go into the hall, but he's right outside, causing a big ruckus outside of it.
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Taft got nearly all the contested delegates, and he got the nomination.
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When the dust settled, President Taft had taken 566 delegates to Roosevelt's 466.
00:59:31.220
Progressive giant Robert LaFollette claimed just 36.
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On the Democratic side, Woodrow Wilson and House Speaker Champ Clark were locked in a virtual dead heat after the primary season,
00:59:49.160
However, heading into the Democratic convention in Baltimore, Clark actually had a significant lead in the delegate count.
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Even though he had the delegate lead, the conventional wisdom was that Clark was not up to the job of being president,
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Over the course of multiple rounds of balloting, day after day of the convention,
01:00:11.880
Wilson steadily chipped away at Clark's delegate count.
01:00:15.000
And on that 46th round of voting, Wilson got it.
01:00:19.160
Amazingly, it took 46 ballots for the worst president in American history to finally win his party's nomination.
01:00:27.880
So the stage was set for a major showdown in the general election between Republican President Taft and the Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson.
01:00:37.700
However, Teddy Roosevelt wasn't about to give up his progressive party dream so easily.
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Roosevelt left the GOP and started a new American party called the Bull Moose Party or the Progressive Party.
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Yes, for those who refuse to recognize it, it was the Republicans that started the Progressive Party.
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When you're running under the banner Bull Moose or Progressive Party, the name sounds every bit progressive,
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We propose, on the contrary, to extend governmental power in order to secure the liberty of the wage workers,
01:01:19.660
of the men and women who toil in industry, to save the liberty of the oppressed from the oppressor.
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Hiding his true leanings, as so many progressives do, Roosevelt set out a plan to put a positive spin on his new progressive politics.
01:01:36.720
Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare, they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them impartially to serve their selfish liberty.
01:01:46.160
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
01:01:55.700
To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics,
01:02:02.620
is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
01:02:07.860
Unhampered by tradition, uncorrupted by power, undismayed for the magnitude of the task,
01:02:14.500
the new body offers itself as the instrument of the people to sweep away old abuses to build a new and nobler commonwealth.
01:02:23.840
Taft did his part to counter the popular unrest and division being created by Roosevelt,
01:02:28.600
but perhaps not in the most electric or exciting ways.
01:02:33.340
But insofar as the propaganda for the satisfaction of unrest involves the promise of a millennium,
01:02:40.400
a condition in which the rich are to be made reasonably poor, and the poor reasonably rich by law,
01:02:49.160
We are holding out to those whose unrest we fear, a prospect and a dream, a vision of the impossible.
01:02:55.940
After we have changed all the governmental machinery so as to permit instantaneous expression of the people
01:03:04.020
in constitutional amendments, in statutes, and in recall of public agents, what's the end?
01:03:23.580
Initiatives do not supply employment or relieve inequalities of condition or of opportunity.
01:03:30.340
We still ought to have set before us the definite plan to bring on complete equality of opportunity
01:03:41.520
Seemingly splitting the difference between the two and presenting himself as the reasonable alternative
01:03:49.580
There is a new party which it is difficult to characterize.
01:03:56.860
As I see it, it is made up of three elements in particular.
01:04:00.800
The first consists of those republicans whose consciences and whose stomachs
01:04:05.300
did not stand what the regular republicans were doing.
01:04:09.200
Added to this element are a great many men and women of noble character
01:04:13.080
and of elevated purpose who believe that this combination of forces may in the future
01:04:18.540
bring them out on a plane where they can accomplish those things which their hearts have so long desired.
01:04:27.400
Then there is a third element in the new party of which the less said the better.
01:04:33.360
To discuss it would be interesting only if I could mention names and I have forbidden myself that indulge it.
01:04:40.400
We have in this party two things, a political party and a body of social reformers.
01:04:45.400
Wilson continued making it seem like there was no way the presidency could ever accomplish the reforms he sought.
01:04:52.740
Never mind that years later Wilson wouldn't let that stop him when he was the chief executive.
01:04:58.800
Mr. Rossell puts forth an admirable platform of what he would like to do for the people.
01:05:07.200
He proposes in his platform not to abolish monopoly,
01:05:11.560
but to take it under the legal protection of the government and the regulating.
01:05:15.460
In other words, to take the very men into partnership
01:05:18.000
who have been making it impossible to carry out these great programs
01:05:24.460
It is perfectly idle the talk of doing things when your hands are tied for you
01:05:30.100
so long as the men who now control the industry of the country continue to control it.
01:05:34.940
As the election drew near just three weeks prior while campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
01:05:40.940
he was about to deliver a speech when Roosevelt was shot.
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The bullet passed through the ex-president's spectacles case
01:05:54.860
and the folded 50-page speech behind it smashed through his chest wall
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and lodged in a splintered rib less than a quarter of an inch from his heart.
01:06:06.140
Roosevelt dabbed at his mouth, found no blood, and concluded his lungs were undamaged.
01:06:12.660
Roosevelt informed the crowd that he had been shot,
01:06:16.020
asked them to keep the noise level down as he was unable to project too loudly,
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he showed his glasses case to his audience, the bullet hole that remained,
01:06:24.200
and displayed his bloody shirt beneath his jacket.
01:06:27.480
He insisted on delivering his speech despite his wound.
01:06:32.400
What we progressives are trying to do is to enroll rich and poor,
01:06:37.340
to stand together for the most elementary rights of good citizenship.
01:06:45.100
to the old flintlock, muzzle-loaded doctrine of states' rights.
01:06:59.260
before his aides could get him to stop and agree to go to the hospital.
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because they may have heard a word that triggered a negative feeling,
01:07:11.880
it's nearly impossible to believe that a man who was severely wounded
01:07:16.320
after being shot in the chest and bleeding profusely
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could deliver a 90-minute speech before agreeing to any kind of medical care.
01:07:28.340
especially if you were standing anywhere around Theodore Roosevelt.
01:07:32.520
What is almost as hard to believe was the Marxist rhetoric
01:07:36.840
coming from the formerly fairly conservative Republican war hero,
01:07:46.580
Roosevelt and Taft would split the Republican vote,
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Together, Roosevelt and Taft cornered 50% of the American people's vote.
01:08:13.460
Socialist Eugene Debs finished a distant fourth at 6%.
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to begin the fundamental transformation of the United States of America,
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reinstating segregation in the military and civil service,
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in Chapter 4 of the Craziest Elections in History,
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you'll learn about the elections of Harry S. Truman,
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Listen live or online at glennbeck.com slash serials.
01:09:12.120
Yeah, he's one of the founders of progressivism.
01:09:24.240
And Eugene Debs, with Woodrow Wilson on the left.
01:10:17.040
Tell me that in the time of social media and television,
01:10:43.040
The other thing is, the Republican Party at this time
01:10:46.060
was trying to co-opt Coolidge into all of that, too.
01:11:00.240
Yeah, we're reaching out to all of the greatest scholars on Coolidge.
01:11:03.040
He's always ranked low by scholars and historians.
01:11:11.240
I think he was the best president of the 20th century.
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Reagan was very, very good and ended the Cold War.
01:11:24.520
But Coolidge took progressivism and sucked it out of society.
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That's the most important thing, is he lived it.
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And if you want to, you know, listen to any or watch the serials online, they're free.
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Please take them, spread them, and share them with a friend.
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You can find them online at glennbeck.com slash serials.
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I can't believe how much I hated history when I was a kid.
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You just have to know how to tell them and where they are.
01:13:46.840
Yeah, and you find out so many things that are just like unbelievable to us at this time.
01:13:54.460
There's no politician on earth who would be shot in the chest and just stand there and speak for an hour and say,
01:14:02.280
Hey, look, if you guys could keep it down a little bit, I can't project much because I have a bullet in my lung.
01:14:11.560
He went 90 minutes before he went to the hospital.
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Hey, if you get a hangnail on the way up the stairs, you're going home.
01:14:21.080
And beyond that, all the conservatives that say, I love Theodore Roosevelt, but they don't know that he was in many ways more radical than Woodrow Wilson.
01:14:31.720
What he was proposing was more radical than Woodrow Wilson.
01:15:04.620
So in talking to my liberal friends, they all say the same thing about immigration.
01:15:22.820
The ones that are most at risk are the Christians and the Yazidis.
01:15:30.300
My audience has saved 6,000 Christians and Yazidis.
01:15:46.560
How many have you personally reached in and saved?
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When it comes to the Christians and the Yazidis, I will open my house to them.
01:16:04.560
And I have millions of Americans that would do the same thing.
01:16:08.460
But when you say that about the Muslims, will you shelter the Muslims?
01:16:21.680
There is a difference between the Muslim that is under attack and the Islamist.
01:16:29.920
And that is something that we need to talk about.
01:16:32.020
Now, how do we approach our friends who just don't get it?
01:16:36.000
Michael Yosef has a new book out called The Barbarians Are Here.
01:16:41.920
He was raised in a Coptic Orthodox church in Egypt.
01:16:47.680
He now runs a huge evangelical church in Atlanta and may have the answer for us.
01:17:27.020
He is the author of the new book, The Barbarians Are Here.
01:17:30.720
And, doctor, I want to talk to you from the perspective of somebody who says they really care, as do I, about the refugees and getting the right refugees out of a war-torn country.
01:17:52.260
I want you to know, I mean, and I want all the audience to know that I love everybody, and I have no hatred in my heart toward anybody.
01:18:01.960
Having said that, that is part of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
01:18:05.820
As a matter of fact, we, as a ministry, we have a television station 24-7 going into $160 million, 160 million homes in the Middle East and the Arab world, preaching the gospel, call Kingdom Sat.
01:18:19.340
So we are there doing everything we can to reach them with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
01:18:26.240
Let me first talk about, as an immigrant myself, you see, I immigrated to this country many years ago, but I had to provide all kinds of information.
01:18:37.100
I had to provide tax information that I don't owe the government tax, that I have good police records.
01:18:49.500
Every single morning, I'm thankful to God that I live in this country.
01:18:56.580
But when you say we want to take the refugees without any vetting, without any interviews, except by blinded United Nations officials who are really very biased.
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We've seen it firsthand on the Jordanian side, on the Lebanese side.
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And so what we're saying is we're going to let the terrorists come in.
01:19:21.620
Islamists always somehow got in cohort with the leftists in order to accomplish their purpose.
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They, in a sense, consider them to be useful idiots.
01:19:32.760
And sadly, if we've seen recently the feminist movement that is being protesting as recently as yesterday and then the day after the inauguration, who was leading it?
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Linda Sarsour is a woman who wants to bring the Sharia law to America.
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I want to scream and say to these women, do you know what Sharia law says about women?
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You inherit half of what your brother would inherit.
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In the court of law, you consider it to be half of a man.
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You can be beaten by your husband or your father.
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She'll say that's not what Sharia law means to her.
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You look at Saudi Arabia and you see the way they apply the Sharia, literally chopping the hands of somebody who might be a petty thief, and left hand first, then the right hand.
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You see people maimed everywhere in Saudi Arabia.
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And so, I mean, she can't really pick and choose.
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That's what all these teachers on the satellite channels, the Muslim Islamist satellite channels, they're actually showing the young men the length of the stick by which they can beat their wives and their daughters.
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I actually screamed it to my congregation to just wake them up to the fact that we, this is, these people mean business.
01:21:07.300
And their ultimate goal is to dominate the West and take over.
01:21:13.220
They feel that they failed twice back in the 700s, then the 1400s to take over Europe.
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Now this is their final third jihad, and they're going to do it by birthright, and they're going to do it by financial investments.
01:21:26.740
Now, you say in Chapter 3 you talk about Germany and New Year's Eve, and you say the barbarians are already here.
01:21:37.300
You can see what the migration of undocumented or at least poorly screened immigrants are doing to Europe, and yet still the media over in Europe still is not awake.
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I know this is a blindness of biblical proportion.
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I mean, almost they've got a blinder, iconic picture that I saw that really told the whole story.
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These young, bearded men from the Middle East in a German train coming out of the station shouting Allahu Akbar means Allah greater, which is the cry of jihad, the cry of war.
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And these sweet German ladies holding this placard that says, welcome refugees.
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Now, we're not really shooting ourselves in the foot.
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We're so blind as to who you are and what your ideology is, and it doesn't matter.
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I often wonder sometimes if these folks really just hate America.
01:22:52.760
I mean, I think if people like SARS and so forth, I mean, I just wonder, you know, I don't want to accuse anybody of anything, but they just, it makes me wonder, why would that allow the government to vet people before they come into this country?
01:23:09.100
Why do I don't give them time in order to, it took me two years to go, what, actually more than that.
01:23:17.760
I think every country has the right to determine the criterion by which they accept people to come in.
01:23:25.440
You talk about some solutions and some things that we have to do, but about halfway through the book, you talk about the pattern of Babylon and that we have been saved over and over again.
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But you, if I may quote, again and again, God has defended Western civilization from attack from barbarian slave merchants, totalitarianism, genocidal racist, segregationist.
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But instead of thanking God for his mercy and protection, we have now taken all the credit for those victories.
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Instead of giving God glory, we give credit to secularism, materialism, multiculturalism, pluralism, political correctness, feminism, the welfare state, moral relativism, progressivism, environmentalism, atheism, humanism.
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That is exactly what, in fact, I refer to these Christians who turned their back on the Christian faith or had Christian heritage and turned their back on the Christian faith.
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They're equally barbarians, too, because it was turning away from the Christian faith first in Europe, now it's happening here, is the very thing that has created that vacuum in society.
01:24:32.780
And the vacuum has got to be filled, and it is filled by the Islamists who are coming in with pure ideology, it's very simple, Allah spoken, and therefore he must be obeyed.
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And we have to do it if we kill or impose jizya, which is a form of high taxation on Christians and Jews, in order to make Islam dominant.
01:24:55.740
You see, that is, and that happens every time, and you see it in Israel, when they, the prophet Jeremiah, who literally pleaded with them and pleaded with them and pleaded with them, turned back to God, turned back, stop worshiping Baal, stop worshiping false God.
01:25:13.000
They wouldn't do it, Father God said, okay, God is not capricious, he's going to go, so I'm going to sock it to you.
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He said, no, I'm just going to take my hand of protection off and leave you to the consequences of your choices.
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And so the Babylonians, the terrorists of their day, came over and ransacked Jerusalem and took hostages for 70 years.
01:25:39.920
Rome fell because of similar things that are happening for our day, but what happened, the pagans blamed the Christians for it.
01:25:46.080
And so St. Augustine sat down and wrote a book, and that's really the book that influenced me the most, The City of God.
01:25:51.320
And I began to see things from that perspective where he literally maps out biblical history to the point when Rome fell.
01:26:00.440
And I'm seeing that pattern almost repeated, and that's what I talk about in the book.
01:26:07.780
And the only answer, the only solution, the only hope is for God's people to stop being compromisers and stand up for the truth and stand up for their faith and stop watering it down and preaching a false gospel.
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Well, what St. Augustine did, and again, I say that in the book, he influenced me greatly, so I'm, you know, this is not all original with me.
01:26:40.520
He begins back in the Garden of Eden, and he starts from there, and then he shows, historically, two strain, if you like, of humanities.
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One who are pursuing what he calls the city of man, that is secular humanism to the core, and the other who are pursuing the city of God.
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The Bible said Abraham looked forward to that city which is built by God, whose architect is God and built by God.
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Even back then, he was looking forward to the city of God.
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So there is a godly line from Enoch all the way to Abraham and down to even Lot.
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Even though he lived in such a miserable place, Peter said that he was literally torturing himself by living in that kind of a sinful environment.
01:27:34.400
But you go all the way down through, and then God remembers his people when they were in slavery in Egypt, and he sends them a deliverer.
01:27:42.440
And Moses comes in, and he delivers them from the horrors of the whips of the Egyptians.
01:27:48.420
And he takes them out, and there in the book of Deuteronomy, toward the end of it, he says,
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I promised that land to your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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You're going to face the temptation to turn against me and worship other gods.
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And if that happens, my judgment is going to follow.
01:28:12.000
And sure enough, they go to the promised land, and what happens?
01:28:15.580
They start worshiping Ashtar and Baal and Ashtaroth and so forth.
01:28:23.000
So I just saw a study from Barna, who does research on...
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Okay, so you know, if you saw his latest, that we say that America now has a 49% biblical worldview,
01:28:39.880
meaning that 49% of the people view truth and right and wrong, and how they just view the world,
01:28:48.820
However, he did something new, and he attached morals and principles to it.
01:28:59.340
Instead of just that, the other half was, Hey, do you think it's okay to steal?
01:29:06.020
And he found that actually that number is 15% biblical worldview.
01:29:19.140
So many evangelical pastors who started well, because and for the sake of popularity, they
01:29:29.640
One pastor said, Well, I believe in the virgin birth, but you don't have to.
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Okay, what you've done, you just basically disintegrated or you destroyed the integrity of Jesus.
01:29:44.500
If you believe that he is a triune God, was there before the foundation of the world,
01:29:51.720
and together with the Father and the Son created the world, and so therefore he was there.
01:29:57.220
And then in his earthly life, he talked about Jonah, and he talked about Noah.
01:30:01.420
And, of course, we know about his virgin birth that has to be in order for him to be divine.
01:30:06.960
Otherwise, if he was born of a seed of a man, just like all of us, then he cannot be the sin bearer.
01:30:15.280
So all of that, and my appeal to these preachers who have sold out the birthright for a pot of soup,
01:30:24.720
Return to God now, because you're misleading a lot of people.
01:30:28.780
And in misleading them, you have created this 15%, and that is one of the saddest things, I think, that I've seen.
01:30:37.640
In fact, Bono also said 64% of those who call themselves born-again evangelicals,
01:30:48.800
The word evangelical comes from the Greek word oangelion,
01:30:52.440
which means the gospel, namely that Jesus said,
01:30:59.640
That is the very core of what they call themselves,
01:31:02.360
and yet they are denying by their very practice what they claim to be entitled.
01:31:10.060
Dr. Michael Yosef, thank you so much for being on the program.
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Okay, so just to be clear, are you for repeal, but not yet replaced?
01:33:18.680
Look, we've been waiting for seven years for the opportunity to repeal Obamacare.
01:33:22.820
We waited for the election in 2010, where we got the majority in the House.
01:33:26.020
In 2014, where we got the majority in the Senate.
01:33:28.180
In 2016, where we've now got a Republican in the White House as a result of that election.
01:33:33.640
This is not the repeal bill that we've been waiting for for all these years.
01:33:37.520
This is a huge opportunity that's been missed, and it's a step in the wrong direction.
01:33:41.760
What we need to do is repeal the bill and then bring about an iterative, step-by-step process.
01:33:46.700
One in which we can put the American consumer, the patients and doctors, back in charge of their own health care decisions,
01:33:53.840
rather than having them made by government bureaucrats in Washington.
01:34:02.360
Because you brought up today that maybe we should consider going for what we have,
01:34:13.000
Yeah, and I do think, even as it is right now, it's better than Obamacare.
01:34:17.180
I think, you know, if Obamacare is an F, this is a D+.
01:34:24.100
I do support the idea to try to improve it, you know, without necessarily coming out and saying,
01:34:32.240
hey, there's no way I'll vote for anything, even in the realm of this possibility.
01:34:36.260
I'd rather see how good they can get it and then make that decision.
01:34:39.600
You've got to push hard right now because they're negotiating the bill.
01:34:42.260
You know, I'd hate to have, I'd hate to let this go by and Obamacare lives,
01:34:47.820
but I mean, this is obviously not the right bill, so you need dramatic improvement to it.
01:34:52.080
But if you can get dramatic improvement, you know, maybe you do pull the trigger on it,
01:34:58.440
You want Obamacare gone, I want those taxes gone, I want a lot of that regulation gone.
01:35:03.260
If you can get most of it gone, maybe you do it, I don't know.
01:35:22.600
Okay, in England, at glennbeck.com, there is this great story I found today about a series of rabbit holes.
01:35:33.660
Look at this, a series of rabbit holes in England.
01:35:37.140
And you walk by them and you think, oh, it's just, you know, little rabbit holes,
01:35:43.420
Somebody found this recently, and this photographer went in and took some photographs of it.
01:35:47.900
And the rabbit holes lead to a cave, and they say it's like an indoor underground temple.
01:35:57.600
And it was originally used for the Christians who were fighting,
01:36:03.220
there were notorious Christians that were fighting during the Crusades,
01:36:09.700
Then it was later used by the Druids and everybody else.
01:36:16.340
It is this gigantic cave, all carved out of stone.
01:36:37.960
And the guy said, you could walk by in this place in England,
01:36:41.320
and if you don't know it's there, you would have no idea.
01:36:46.440
And it was a hiding place for whichever Christian sect was not popular at the time.
01:36:56.660
Why would anyone look into the rabbit hole in the first place?
01:37:02.380
But it says, it's a seven-year-old underground hideout.
01:37:09.940
Go down the rabbit hole and look what you find.
01:37:19.660
I don't know why you guys were so excited about this.
01:37:34.420
A couple quick stories that we haven't hit yet today.
01:37:37.860
The reporting now is that DACA, which is the Deferred Action for Children.
01:37:48.960
And it was sort of the thing that Barack Obama wanted out of comprehensive immigration reform.
01:37:56.020
And because they couldn't pass it, he just did it.
01:37:57.940
I mean, I think blatantly unconstitutionally just decided we're not going to do it.
01:38:03.080
We're not going to enforce the law on these people.
01:38:06.600
Which I thought equal treatment under the law was a pretty foundational principle of this country.
01:38:19.260
Every Republican said they were going to repeal that.
01:38:27.020
I mean, you are literally saying these laws we're not paying attention to.
01:38:30.540
So, everyone expected him to do that before some of these other bigger scale immigration reforms he wanted to do.
01:38:40.180
And everyone's like, well, maybe he's just waiting a little while.
01:38:42.320
Reporting now is that it's concrete, not going to be repealed.
01:38:46.480
And the reason is, I guess, Steve Bannon is for keeping it.
01:39:04.540
That doesn't fit into his, everything else that he says he believes in.
01:39:08.780
You're going to have, and plus you're going to have, you know, you'll have children crying on the news.
01:39:17.320
And then the other part of that is, you know, a trillion dollar stimulus.
01:39:20.720
We've talked about this and, you know, complained about the idea of a trillion dollar stimulus.
01:39:26.600
And if you're wondering why Trump supports it, here's your evidence.
01:39:30.080
Do you support or oppose increasing federal spending for roads, bridges, mass transit, or another infrastructure?
01:39:39.120
I'm a little skeptical of this poll because the one trillion dollar number was not included.
01:39:44.460
You know, but remember, Republicans viciously opposed $787 billion with the same pitch when Barack Obama did it.
01:39:54.940
The number, however, not included in this poll, but listen to this.
01:40:09.240
You wondering why they're pushing a trillion dollar stimulus right now?
01:40:13.740
If you're complaining about it, you are in the vast minority.
01:40:19.460
Now that was certainly not the polling when Barack Obama was trying to do the same thing.
01:40:23.240
However, it's interesting to see that Republicans apparently are completely on board with this.
01:40:28.120
That's why I said, you know, I called Samantha Bee the other day and we were talking and I said,
01:40:33.620
I don't know what you guys are raising all hell about.
01:40:47.940
It's been a mixed bag, but they don't want Neil Gorsuch, right?
01:41:02.600
Universal health care, the way he rolled it out?
01:41:06.960
They don't get votes because it's worse for them than Obamacare.
01:41:09.820
But I mean, if they were to get a Republican plan, they would believe me.
01:41:12.700
They are sitting there going, OK, we got to oppose this, but that ain't so bad.
01:41:17.940
This is, again, the same type of question from CNN.
01:41:22.620
And again, the approval is not quite as universal among this poll.
01:41:29.700
But Democrats, 72 to 25, approve the stimulus spending.
01:41:39.900
Republicans have an eight point, believe in the stimulus spending, eight points more than Democrats.
01:41:54.400
Do you want to not be able to cross over a chasm?
01:42:09.240
I think we have some calls on this, Ivan, because that's fascinating.
01:42:15.000
I will say that's the one reason I'm skeptical.
01:42:17.380
I'm skeptical of both of these polls because I think a lot of people would say, like,
01:42:23.560
Obviously, these things are, we have already spent money on it and we have scheduled spending
01:42:28.140
The question is, do you want to increase that by a trillion dollars?
01:42:31.340
There's an important detail to ask for these polls.
01:42:33.520
You know, what's funny is, the people said no to this under the biggest socialist president.
01:42:42.460
One of the biggest socialist presidents we had, FDR.
01:42:48.920
So it wasn't phrased, hey, do you want better roads and bridges?
01:42:51.900
It was phrased, should the government put people to work building bridges and blah, blah,
01:43:02.280
When people are hungry, when people are worried about their own jobs, when people are freaked
01:43:08.820
out about everything that's going on in the world, you think the government should spend
01:43:16.000
another trillion dollars on something you know they wasted last time?
01:43:27.000
You know where the infrastructure is crumbling?
01:43:32.280
Where everybody raised their taxes so high that nobody wants to live anymore.
01:43:42.140
Now, do we have problems around the rest of the country?
01:43:47.560
Our problem is we're building too many roads and bridges right now.
01:43:51.360
Everywhere you go, there's construction on roads and bridges.
01:43:54.480
In Texas, I want that fence to be the northern border, not the southern border.
01:44:03.340
Mainly the western border to stop people from coming in from California.
01:44:07.520
The problem of building too many roads is a result of not doing the things we're talking about.
01:44:15.560
Texas has taken a conservative position on all these issues for so many years that they have the horrible problem of an exploding economy in which they need to build roads because so many people are moving here every year.
01:44:28.280
When you do the opposite of that, you don't need all the new roads.
01:44:31.560
I'm telling you, my campaign slogan as president, and I think any campaign person, anybody who wants to be president in the future needs to say this.
01:44:41.460
Now, this will never happen because nobody would ever actually be elected president that said this.
01:44:48.940
But this is, in a common sense world, this would be the winning campaign.
01:44:52.800
Hey, everybody in the Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland area, everybody who lives in that governmental space, I just want to show you a picture of all the cranes building all of the buildings all around you, all the high rises, all the stuff.
01:45:08.820
These are all filled with government employees that work for government agencies.
01:45:13.280
I want you to know that you should sell your home right now, right now, because when I get into office, your property rates are going to crash.
01:45:28.860
Your property rates in the greater Washington, D.C. area are going to be worthless very soon because I'm cutting all these jobs.
01:45:37.900
There is no reason why we're building it's grotesque, and Americans don't see it unless you travel to Washington, D.C.
01:45:48.900
There are buildings being built next to buildings being built next to buildings being built.
01:45:55.220
It looks like a giant ghost city of China being built there.
01:46:09.520
You go to any place else in the country, and it's not being built out like that.
01:46:15.500
Because all of the growth is in government jobs.
01:46:39.020
I mean, one of the pitches that libertarians make is just don't increase spending.
01:46:48.980
That would be the biggest, you know, it's like a nuclear holocaust in our budget.
01:46:57.940
Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace.
01:47:14.220
He was nominated by an American for his efforts to bring peace to the world via strength and
01:47:21.540
Okay, well, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
01:47:23.320
I haven't seen him do either of those things yet.
01:47:24.860
There's a difference between someone nominating you and actually getting it.
01:47:29.220
Well, he hasn't won it yet, but he's been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
01:47:32.620
So are you trying to downplay the nomination of Donald Trump?
01:47:38.040
And if you opposed Barack Obama's nomination and victory in the Nobel Peace Prize, you better
01:47:44.180
be proposing this to one month in, a month and a half in, before he's done anything.
01:47:54.920
Well, being consistent would be that he wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
01:47:59.600
Well, if you're the Nobel Peace Prize people, you're right.
01:48:03.820
The first year of any new president gets the prize.
01:48:06.080
Yeah, you automatically get to come in and collect your prize.
01:48:09.320
I'm actually not asking for consistency from the Norwegians, but rather us here in this
01:48:17.040
Well, I'm anxious to see the comedy writers on, you know.
01:48:29.600
Now this, the Consumer Electronics Show, trade show where all the big tech companies reveal
01:48:38.280
I mean, that's just the Consumer Electronics Show.
01:48:42.180
You remember when that was like, you know, just for geeks?
01:48:48.580
But, I mean, it's everything that affects your life now.
01:48:53.500
One of the big items was actually brought by a client of ours, SimpliSafe.
01:48:59.600
It connects wirelessly to the sensors in your alarm.
01:49:03.780
And if an intruder tries to break in, the camera automatically starts to record.
01:49:09.420
The lens cap comes off, opens up, because that way nobody can hack into it.
01:49:13.920
It's a really, it's a very cool device at a really inexpensive price.
01:49:18.540
The camera is, it sends to the alarm and the alarm calls police.
01:49:25.640
You have the picture of the guy who is trying to break into your house.
01:49:36.940
The systems are, I think they started, the best selling one is like 600 bucks.
01:49:49.940
That's 10% off your security system at SimpliSafeBeck.com.
01:50:14.600
They're out protesting and they're upset about something again.
01:50:21.400
So, it's, I guess they're pissed off about Planned Parenthood.
01:50:30.180
And I guess the defunding that the GOP is considering.
01:50:34.960
Now, the GOP said, hey, if you cut abortion out of what you do, then we'll fund you.
01:50:42.680
But if you don't, then we're going to defund you.
01:50:52.100
In fact, why should this organization be funded at all?
01:50:57.520
But what they'll claim is, well, it's all about women's health services.
01:51:05.840
When abortion rights are under attack, what do we do?
01:51:09.940
When abortion rights are under attack, what do we do?
01:51:14.360
When abortion rights are under attack, what do we do?
01:51:18.940
When trans lives are under attack, what do we do?
01:51:28.300
When trans lives are under attack, what do we do?
01:51:37.120
We're trying to save women's lives by stopping abortions.
01:51:42.360
and i how are trans lives under attack maybe abortion too because uh transgendered babies
01:51:48.820
get aborted as well when they may grow up to be transgendered and they they've probably been what
01:51:54.900
a million transgendered babies since roe versus wade have probably been aborted