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00:00:04.760 Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:00:07.480 We want to talk a little bit about health care.

00:00:09.140 Stu is trying to convince us that maybe, maybe we should lower our standards a bit.

00:00:16.160 This is not the pitch that I made.

00:00:18.180 He's going progressive.

00:00:18.560 He's all 100% progressive.

00:00:21.200 We'll get into that here in a second.

00:00:22.600 Also, day 47 of Stu being held hostage.

00:00:26.040 George Soros yesterday gave $246 million to give the Day Without Women protest a little lift.

00:00:37.120 $246 million to the organizers of that particular event.

00:00:42.440 Who are all men, by the way.

00:00:44.040 Who are all men. 0.97

00:00:45.280 Every one of them was a man.

00:00:47.060 What has happened to men?

00:00:48.480 Seriously, what has happened to men?

00:00:50.200 And why are women allowing men to dictate what they're doing? 1.00

00:00:53.460 Well, I thought that was the whole point of this thing.

00:00:55.460 Women are now taking on the CDC and saying, I mean, out of all the things that women 1.00

00:01:01.060 can take on, this is the one you take on the CDC and you say, you're not going to tell

00:01:08.800 me not to drink when I'm pregnant.

00:01:11.040 Got it?

00:01:11.860 What?

00:01:12.840 What a strong stance.

00:01:13.420 Lots to talk about.

00:01:14.260 Let's get started right now.

00:01:15.380 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:01:37.120 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:42.720 May I share something with you?

00:01:43.920 I believe, I believe, I have found the biggest flip-flop that any of us ever do, and we've

00:01:52.540 all done it, and I can't think of something that is a bigger switch in your mind than this,

00:02:02.600 where you will literally pray for something, and 30 seconds later, you are literally praying

00:02:08.320 for the exact opposite, and you meant them both times.

00:02:13.140 Okay.

00:02:14.020 Wow.

00:02:14.540 That's quite the sell.

00:02:16.540 But it's absolutely true.

00:02:18.020 Think of that.

00:02:18.940 That where you are so committed, you are literally begging the Lord for something.

00:02:24.560 30 seconds later, you are begging him for the exact opposite.

00:02:28.180 Can you think?

00:02:28.660 Other than an episode of Law and Order, no.

00:02:33.760 I mean, I have a pretty good idea.

00:02:35.500 I have a pretty good idea.

00:02:36.440 Yeah.

00:02:36.780 What is it?

00:02:37.520 Because some people in this building were and have been pretty sick the last few days.

00:02:45.620 You're on your knees praying, Lord, just get this over with.

00:02:50.100 Please just let me throw up.

00:02:52.360 Please just let me throw up.

00:02:54.020 And then when it starts, you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:02:57.280 Please, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:02:59.200 There is nothing.

00:03:01.380 I had the stomach flu.

00:03:03.500 Five of us in the family had it all at once.

00:03:07.220 Every adult except for Tanya.

00:03:10.060 So Tanya was left with the kids, the grandkids.

00:03:13.520 I mean, she was.

00:03:14.760 But she's fine.

00:03:15.540 She's fine.

00:03:16.740 What?

00:03:17.000 That's what she does. 1.00

00:03:18.160 What?

00:03:18.600 No big deal.

00:03:19.620 She was Florence Nightingale for the last two days with a house full of. 0.90

00:03:24.140 And a visitor.

00:03:25.160 Somebody who came to visit us.

00:03:27.600 Barfing as well.

00:03:28.760 It was a nightmare.

00:03:30.400 Hey, come on down. 0.90

00:03:31.440 Visit.

00:03:31.700 How was your weekend with the backs?

00:03:33.060 It was great.

00:03:33.720 I spent the weekend barfing.

00:03:35.580 It was wonderful.

00:03:36.740 Anyway, so I'm sitting.

00:03:38.520 I'm kneeling there.

00:03:40.140 And I realize I've just flip flopped.

00:03:42.580 And I can't think of a stronger prayer either way. 0.99

00:03:48.760 So it was, please kill me. 0.93

00:03:51.060 It was, please, just let me get this out of my system now. 0.99

00:03:53.920 Just let me barf, please.

00:03:55.420 Why drag this on for an hour?

00:03:57.540 I know.

00:03:58.040 Stop building towards it.

00:03:59.120 Let's just get it done.

00:04:00.220 I'll feel so much better.

00:04:01.440 And then the minute you start, the minute you feel like your mouth starts to water, you're

00:04:06.440 like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:04:08.560 Stop, stop, stop.

00:04:09.340 And then when it's over, it's back to, thank God it's over.

00:04:12.000 Thank God.

00:04:12.200 Thank God it's over.

00:04:13.100 Thank you for that.

00:04:13.760 It's really a double flip flop.

00:04:15.020 Yeah.

00:04:15.560 I mean, it's crazy.

00:04:18.480 And there is nothing that the body does that is more amazing than that.

00:04:23.140 Completely reversing your system.

00:04:25.540 Yeah.

00:04:26.620 It's an awful process.

00:04:28.220 Awful.

00:04:29.480 There's few things in life that are less pleasant than throwing up.

00:04:34.340 I haven't thrown up in 32 years.

00:04:36.760 It's the first time I've had the stomach fluid.

00:04:40.020 I don't know how long.

00:04:41.180 But I remember it like it was yesterday because it's so horrifying.

00:04:46.200 Pat and I, we worked in Baltimore and we had a boss.

00:04:50.720 We had a boss who.

00:04:52.020 Oh, no, you're not going to tell the story.

00:04:53.540 Oh, this is a great story.

00:04:55.040 This is a great story.

00:04:56.180 This is a classic.

00:04:57.480 It is a classic.

00:04:57.800 We would have been legend had we done it, but our wives stopped us from doing it. 0.91

00:05:03.400 I was happy.

00:05:03.960 You would have done it if it wasn't for your wife.

00:05:05.760 Yeah.

00:05:05.940 Oh, yeah.

00:05:06.340 I would have, too.

00:05:07.360 And our wives were like, no, that's not right. 0.91

00:05:09.060 Don't do that.

00:05:09.640 We would have been legends had we not listened to her.

00:05:12.180 And instead, you back down to your wives. 0.98

00:05:14.840 You're the opposite of legends.

00:05:17.080 Yes.

00:05:18.280 Exactly.

00:05:19.280 So anyway, so we had this boss and he was fastidious on everything.

00:05:23.660 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.

00:05:33.140 He was always meticulously groomed and $2,000 suits back in 1990.

00:05:37.560 Yeah, I mean, he would make sure that his ink blotter was just everything was just so and he was calling us in.

00:05:44.940 He was going to fire us and we knew we were going to be fired and it was after our vacation.

00:05:48.900 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.

00:05:58.200 We know you're going to fire us, just fire us before Glenn, Pat, stop it.

00:06:02.540 Come on.

00:06:02.920 There's nothing to be.

00:06:04.800 No, we're not going to do that.

00:06:06.800 Go and relax.

00:06:08.320 You're being paranoid.

00:06:09.900 Relax.

00:06:10.540 Go on vacation.

00:06:11.540 We get back from vacation the night before we start on that Sunday night.

00:06:16.600 Hey, why don't you guys take another day or two and come in on Wednesday and talk to me in the morning?

00:06:22.220 Right.

00:06:22.740 When we're supposed to be doing a radio show.

00:06:25.300 Oh, okay, but we're not going to get fired.

00:06:28.080 So Pat and I had three days to think about it.

00:06:31.180 We knew we were going to be fired.

00:06:33.000 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.

00:06:41.580 And it is the best chili, Cincinnati chili you've ever had.

00:06:45.220 It has a five way, five way stuff.

00:06:46.900 Comes with spaghetti and cheese.

00:06:49.300 And the cheese on top.

00:06:50.100 Chili and chili and everything else.

00:06:51.840 Really good.

00:06:52.040 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.

00:06:59.540 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.

00:07:06.960 And we were going to take some ICAPAC and then go into his office.

00:07:10.740 We're going to take it like four minutes before we went in.

00:07:13.440 And then just take a punch of that ICAPAC.

00:07:16.820 And then vomit all over his desk. 0.93

00:07:18.760 Vomit.

00:07:19.660 Vomit his chili all over his desk.

00:07:22.400 All over his office.

00:07:24.040 All the way to the bathroom.

00:07:25.660 Jim, sorry.

00:07:27.980 The fire made us ill.

00:07:29.660 I'm sorry.

00:07:30.420 Oh, my God.

00:07:32.080 That would have been so fantastic.

00:07:33.940 Oh, legendary.

00:07:35.120 It would have been great.

00:07:36.440 Legendary.

00:07:37.080 Kids, live your dreams.

00:07:39.480 Don't listen.

00:07:41.080 Don't listen to somebody who will stop you from doing legendary things.

00:07:46.180 Don't do it.

00:07:47.340 Don't do it.

00:07:47.560 Pat and I have been crushed ever since.

00:07:49.800 It was our one chance.

00:07:52.360 We were emasculated.

00:07:53.980 At being decent people.

00:07:56.100 It was.

00:07:58.000 Our opportunity to do something great.

00:08:01.460 And instead we're doing this.

00:08:03.660 It's gone.

00:08:05.340 We would have gotten awards for that.

00:08:07.520 Oh, yeah.

00:08:08.040 You might ask, how did we get on Vomit Talk so early in the morning?

00:08:10.960 Well, we were talking about the health care plan.

00:08:15.980 That is an amazing story, though.

00:08:17.500 And you guys, at that point in your lives, probably would have actually pulled the trigger.

00:08:21.140 Oh, yeah.

00:08:21.620 Oh, yeah.

00:08:21.900 Oh, yeah.

00:08:22.840 We absolutely would have.

00:08:24.260 They started in on the, hey, the pack stuff is dangerous, blah, blah, blah.

00:08:27.780 We give it to kids.

00:08:28.840 It makes you vomit.

00:08:29.560 How could it possibly be dangerous?

00:08:31.800 Well, it probably is.

00:08:32.760 I mean, you know, it's a last resort to get poison out of your system.

00:08:35.920 It probably is less dangerous than the poison.

00:08:37.620 And that doesn't mean it's not dangerous.

00:08:40.080 You only live once.

00:08:41.000 You only live once.

00:08:42.500 Only live once.

00:08:44.060 Better than your plan of living with health care.

00:08:48.260 Hey, let's just all throw in with this bad health care bill. 0.91

00:08:52.520 Maybe it's not so bad.

00:08:53.420 Let's take the turd sandwich.

00:08:54.800 Why not?

00:08:55.260 Why not? 1.00

00:08:55.760 Let's eat crap. 1.00

00:08:56.820 As we talked about the other day. 1.00

00:08:58.320 It's more like a normal hamburger bun with a turd burger, but it's a slider.

00:09:05.800 Yeah, yeah.

00:09:06.280 So there is room around the edges to eat.

00:09:09.200 Now, you might not want to do that, but there is a little room outside the turd.

00:09:13.200 Literally, I'm going to go out, and you like good wheat toast?

00:09:18.020 Yeah, sure.

00:09:18.720 You like good wheat toast?

00:09:19.520 Yeah, sure.

00:09:20.220 I'm going to go have Matthew make the greatest piece of toast you've ever had, and I'm going

00:09:24.880 to have him go out to the lawn.

00:09:26.080 I'm going to have him find some turd of something out in the lawn.

00:09:30.720 He's going to put it right in the center of that.

00:09:33.160 He's not going to touch the edges at all.

00:09:35.720 You can even watch him.

00:09:36.740 He's just going to put it right in the center.

00:09:38.320 Then he's going to put another piece of toast on top.

00:09:40.400 You go ahead and eat around the edges.

00:09:42.640 When you do that, I'll listen to you about your let's eat around the edges of this turd

00:09:47.760 burger.

00:09:48.200 Well, I mean, that's, of course, he's saying if the turd burger you just described does

00:09:52.940 not occur, you will then eat a piece of bread, a toast sandwich with turd all the way around.

00:10:00.420 Right?

00:10:00.680 You'll be happy to swallow that instead of the slightly improved turd burger.

00:10:05.340 No.

00:10:05.600 You don't want that either.

00:10:06.460 Well, I don't want either of them.

00:10:07.740 However, if I were to choose between the two, I might choose the turd slider.

00:10:11.440 Here's what I would do.

00:10:11.960 I should also state that this is actually not my opinion.

00:10:14.340 I just, I'm playing this out mentally.

00:10:16.880 Here's, here's, here's what we should do.

00:10:19.120 We should find a guy and elect a guy who's just not going to sit down, who will do the

00:10:25.380 right thing and knows what is going on with the American people and hears our cry for once

00:10:32.260 and will stand up for us for once and won't let the party ram it down our throat.

00:10:37.680 Right, an outsider who's not already so tainted that he's just starts playing the Washington 0.92

00:10:42.900 game immediately.

00:10:43.960 Exactly.

00:10:44.580 However, this outsider who's going to push everything through promised something considerably

00:10:49.860 more liberal than what this plan is.

00:10:52.380 That is true.

00:10:52.680 So if he does decide to push through what he actually wants, it's going to be considerably

00:10:56.300 worse.

00:10:57.900 He's not pushing that through because he knows he can't get away with it.

00:11:01.720 I'm convinced of it.

00:11:03.480 Maybe.

00:11:04.020 I'm convinced.

00:11:04.400 That doesn't stop him on anything else.

00:11:06.160 I mean.

00:11:06.440 I'm convinced that he, he, he is, I'm not convinced of anything.

00:11:12.620 Nevermind.

00:11:13.460 Because I mean, I know nothing.

00:11:14.920 I know nothing.

00:11:15.940 And that's where I, when it comes to Trump, we, I know nothing.

00:11:19.340 So, and that's where I, cause I, I, this was a moment of weakness as I described it as

00:11:23.260 I was coming in today and I was listening to the plans.

00:11:24.880 The reporting today is that, uh, behind the scenes, Trump is saying, well, if they don't

00:11:30.060 want this plan, if we can't get this past conservatives, can't get it passed, uh, in the,

00:11:33.740 in the house and the Senate, then I'll just do nothing and let Obamacare fail on its

00:11:37.440 own.

00:11:38.020 And then we'll blame the Democrats and we'll move on.

00:11:39.780 You won't blame the Democrats.

00:11:40.940 The Democrats will blame us and we will get that because it was a do nothing Congress.

00:11:46.040 Right.

00:11:46.340 And, but I mean, it will still be Obamacare and maybe he can make the case.

00:11:48.960 It might work.

00:11:49.480 Right.

00:11:50.060 Um, I don't know what happens after that.

00:11:51.860 Who knows?

00:11:52.380 Because I mean, again, he ran on a government paying for health care.

00:11:55.280 How about this?

00:11:55.860 How about we pass this and it fails anyway and makes things worse?

00:11:59.820 I mean, however, you might get a deal and this was my, my moment of weakness.

00:12:03.740 What you might get out of that is a few years of lower taxes, less regulation, um, bigger

00:12:10.880 health savings accounts to put money away.

00:12:12.940 You might get a short reprieve from the terrible, uh, some of the terrible effects of Obamacare

00:12:19.340 and maybe at this point when you can get two years of, okay, you take it realizing that 0.99

00:12:26.160 the crap is coming anyway. 0.95

00:12:27.320 Yeah, but we just elected a guy who's not going to give us two years. 0.99

00:12:29.900 He's going to smash the system.

00:12:31.900 He's going to be able to take care.

00:12:33.720 I mean, seriously, I know you're being, uh, you're, you're being sarcastic.

00:12:36.860 No, I'm, I'm, I'm saying the things that everyone told me that they cared about two

00:12:43.080 things, the border and healthcare.

00:12:44.920 But his stated goal on healthcare was not, no, but we don't believe him on that.

00:12:49.020 That's either, you know, but again, I, you know, to be fair to Donald Trump, this is what

00:12:54.680 he ran on.

00:12:55.240 Oh, I know he ran on a, no, he didn't.

00:12:57.240 He ran on something much worse, much worse.

00:12:59.340 So again, if you have, but let's remember also that when he was running on something

00:13:04.080 much worse, we weren't supposed to listen to him because what we wanted to do is get

00:13:08.820 a guy.

00:13:09.280 What we wanted to do is get a guy who would not listen to Paul Ryan because Paul Ryan's

00:13:14.060 plan was incomprehensible.

00:13:16.860 Right.

00:13:17.140 So, okay.

00:13:18.440 Yes.

00:13:18.980 I agree with you.

00:13:19.980 I would have rather had Ted Cruz as well.

00:13:22.060 Right.

00:13:22.420 Um, what we don't have him.

00:13:23.540 Um, so you have, what you have in there is you have Donald Trump and Donald Trump, a

00:13:27.000 guy who ran on, Hey, government's going to pay for all the healthcare. 0.84

00:13:30.580 Um, and this plan is not that it's not, is it Obamacare light?

00:13:34.680 Yes, it is.

00:13:35.740 It's a turd sandwich with the slider in the middle, but it's still going to collapse.

00:13:39.280 Probably, but you know, it's going to happen.

00:13:42.140 That's going to, that's the other opportunities.

00:13:44.380 We stick with Obamacare and it collapses on itself.

00:13:47.440 So again, I, I'm not saying I actually believe this position.

00:13:50.460 It's important to note.

00:13:51.260 I'm making the devil's, uh, devil's, uh, devil's advocate.

00:13:55.040 You're playing devil's advocate.

00:13:56.160 I'm playing devil's advocate.

00:13:56.920 I'm making that argument.

00:13:57.700 Um, but there's a case to be made that maybe you just, I don't know, take it and get a

00:14:03.420 couple of years and, and you lose a 4% tax, uh, from Medicaid and you lose the, you lose

00:14:09.400 the med, the, um, uh, the medical devices tax.

00:14:12.520 You get a health savings account.

00:14:14.280 It's largely expanded.

00:14:15.140 You get to open up potentially if they release this in a future plan, let me play, let me

00:14:19.700 state lines, let me play devil's advocate to me.

00:14:22.420 What you're saying is you're not going to get what you want.

00:14:26.680 So, um, stop with your highfalutin principles and just take what you can get because your

00:14:35.280 principles are going to get you nowhere.

00:14:37.000 Right.

00:14:37.180 And this is why I don't actually believe this, but I will say, uh, you know, I can understand

00:14:42.100 like, you know, there's a difference between what you, what you advocate for and what you

00:14:45.960 root for.

00:14:46.940 Right.

00:14:47.660 So what you, what do you advocate for?

00:14:49.180 Like I, if I, I am advocating a hundred percent for a much better health plan.

00:14:55.300 What do you root for?

00:14:56.260 Well, I don't know.

00:14:57.180 I mean, I don't think we're getting the plan I want.

00:14:59.220 Yeah.

00:14:59.680 So this is the same.

00:15:00.940 This is just a smaller version of the same conversation we had over the last, you know,

00:15:05.560 two years is, you know, so what do you do?

00:15:08.600 Well, I'm, I'm just not going to jump in the bandwagon for either of them.

00:15:11.140 But what, and I think that's the right thing.

00:15:13.520 However, right now we have a bill out there that has been advertised as a negotiation point.

00:15:20.380 So right now I actually really like the way Cruz is dealing with this and that Cruz went

00:15:25.300 and said, uh, he did not say come out against the bill.

00:15:28.300 What he said was there are some issues, but this is, I'm, I'm really excited to negotiate

00:15:32.060 it.

00:15:32.360 So let's push for the best possible bill and see if we can move it to a point where it's

00:15:36.520 acceptable.

00:15:36.880 I am totally good with negotiating to see if we can get this to a workable bill.

00:15:42.320 I am not for supporting anything like this bill.

00:15:46.140 No.

00:15:46.440 Well, and I'm with you on that, but still let's at least try.

00:15:49.240 Yeah.

00:15:49.400 Oh yeah.

00:15:49.680 Yeah.

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00:17:59.600 Shut up. Shut up. 1.00

00:18:00.680 Jeffy said in the break, you know, that, and it's Ipecac. 0.99

00:18:07.180 Yes.

00:18:08.140 I just get that wrong.

00:18:09.520 But we were talking and Jeffy said, you know, that just, that would have made you legends.

00:18:14.360 Yes, I know it would have.

00:18:15.480 And we missed the boat.

00:18:16.620 Kids, don't let a woman crush your dreams. 1.00

00:18:19.860 The other, and then he brings up, oh, but you know what?

00:18:22.460 The other legend is the Clear Channel stock thing.

00:18:26.400 Pat and I were poor and we were negotiating our first deal with Clear Channel when they

00:18:32.980 had like 12 radio stations.

00:18:34.640 Yeah, this was before Clear Channel was Clear Channel.

00:18:36.780 Yeah, they had nothing.

00:18:38.100 Yeah.

00:18:38.580 And the, the, the president.

00:18:41.260 They were a joke to us at the time.

00:18:43.160 The president of the corporation was negotiating our contract.

00:18:46.360 And he said to me, look, how about we pay you this and then we'll give you half the rest

00:18:52.360 of the salary in Clear Channel stock.

00:18:55.760 No.

00:18:56.760 And I looked at Pat, I covered the phone and I looked at Pat and I said, ooh, they're

00:18:59.980 offering Clear Channel stock.

00:19:02.580 Want some?

00:19:03.760 No, thank you.

00:19:05.480 Okay.

00:19:05.780 We did the figuring, that stock between us was worth like $6 million.

00:19:09.800 Yeah.

00:19:10.320 Okay.

00:19:11.000 Because Clear Channel stock at the time was, I don't know, $10 or $8 or something.

00:19:15.720 It went up to $90 and split and then it went back up to $80 and split and then.

00:19:20.820 It was worth a lot of money.

00:19:22.880 So the, the end of the story is 10 years later, I'm still working for Clear Channel.

00:19:28.580 Okay.

00:19:29.380 And I said, I'm talking to the guy who was on the phone who we had never spoken about

00:19:34.560 that moment ever again, 10 years, maybe 15 years later, never spoken to that moment.

00:19:40.200 And he said, I was just in Louisville.

00:19:42.060 And I said, oh yeah, you guys own WHAS, right?

00:19:45.140 And he said, yeah.

00:19:45.820 And I said, is Wayne Perky there still?

00:19:48.360 And he looked at me and he put his hand around the shoulder and my shoulder and he said,

00:19:51.440 no, Glenn, he took the stock.

00:19:53.900 Oh, man.

00:19:57.600 Oh, that hurts.

00:19:59.600 Oh, that hurts.

00:20:00.420 That still hurts to this day.

00:20:01.880 Look at the sword.

00:20:03.240 It hurts you.

00:20:04.220 Some of us are still working today.

00:20:06.440 Thank you for that.

00:20:08.300 Back in a minute.

00:20:08.960 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:18.340 Mercury.

00:20:22.020 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:26.960 Hello, America.

00:20:29.000 Glad you're here.

00:20:30.640 I am so excited.

00:20:32.980 The Americans is back on television.

00:20:34.840 Season five of The Americans.

00:20:36.100 Anybody watch that?

00:20:36.740 I've watched a little bit of it.

00:20:38.000 It's about a spy, right?

00:20:40.500 Spy, Russian spies.

00:20:41.760 Yeah.

00:20:41.960 It's about a husband and wife in quotation marks and their family here in America who are

00:20:47.040 deep cover KGB agents in the 1980s.

00:20:51.360 And if you are my age, this is like zero set right in your coming of age time.

00:20:58.880 And it's so well done.

00:21:02.500 And the storyline is so good.

00:21:06.720 And they live across the street.

00:21:10.460 They're in, I think, Alexandria, Virginia.

00:21:14.240 And they live across the street from an FBI agent who is looking for undercover KGB guys.

00:21:23.020 And they have no idea.

00:21:25.220 He moves in after they live there.

00:21:26.720 And he moves in and they're like, hey, neighbor, they bring over a cake.

00:21:30.840 So what do you do?

00:21:31.940 Well, Bill's an FBI agent.

00:21:33.840 And they just go white.

00:21:35.920 Yeah, really?

00:21:37.080 Yeah.

00:21:37.540 I'm looking for the commies that are here.

00:21:39.800 Oh, great.

00:21:40.760 And so it's this tension between them.

00:21:44.880 And they become friends.

00:21:47.660 And he's always on the verge.

00:21:50.300 I mean, he's looking for literally looking for them.

00:21:53.660 And, you know, he will say a rough day, man.

00:21:59.220 I was trying to catch.

00:22:00.700 Well, never mind.

00:22:02.220 And they know he's looking for them.

00:22:05.780 And it's just, it's great.

00:22:07.200 And they do things all the way through it.

00:22:09.620 Like, I just thought this was brilliant.

00:22:11.000 For, again, people who are my age, in one episode I saw in one of the seasons, they're in the kitchen.

00:22:17.720 They're talking.

00:22:18.180 The TV's like on.

00:22:19.320 It's always on, radio or TV.

00:22:21.280 And they start talking in the kitchen.

00:22:23.400 The camera is where, like, the refrigerator is.

00:22:26.660 It's open concept.

00:22:27.600 And then it shoots down the aisle, you know, the island, and sees the TV at the other end of the living room.

00:22:36.880 And they're all standing at the counter.

00:22:38.440 And they're arguing about something.

00:22:39.700 And they're like, he's like, just stop.

00:22:44.040 I mean, okay, look.

00:22:48.920 But in that pause, you're seeing something on TV.

00:22:53.020 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.

00:23:00.020 Something that was, like, so ingrained in your head.

00:23:03.300 You're like, oh, my gosh, I haven't thought of that forever.

00:23:06.660 And it's just really cool, this time tunnel that you're in.

00:23:10.980 All of the things, all Reagan, I mean, you want to have Reagan as president.

00:23:14.240 Watch this.

00:23:15.200 Because they're constantly watching the speeches from Reagan and what he's doing.

00:23:20.360 It just brings you back to a time when all we had to worry about was being vaporized by the Russians. 0.84

00:23:27.000 Good times.

00:23:27.940 Good times.

00:23:28.260 Those were good times.

00:23:29.580 And it really does kind of show, because you have this, you have this remembrance of those times being so good.

00:23:36.640 And if you're that age, you will watch this and go, oh, man, I long for those simpler days.

00:23:44.240 But it was still, it reminds you, boy, those were scary times.

00:23:48.280 It was really frightening times.

00:23:51.000 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.

00:24:03.200 Oh, my gosh, they had to stop at a payphone.

00:24:06.280 Yeah.

00:24:06.480 Right.

00:24:06.900 All the things that we have forgotten is, it's pretty amazing.

00:24:10.620 Wow.

00:24:10.840 So this is like season five?

00:24:12.700 Season five?

00:24:13.040 Yeah, because I was just, the ratings are the lowest season premiere this week that they've ever had.

00:24:19.680 Oh, that's too bad.

00:24:20.300 So season five might be it.

00:24:22.400 Well, I mean, season five, five seasons is a good run for anything.

00:24:26.140 Yeah.

00:24:26.600 And Netflix will finish it.

00:24:28.820 That's FX, right?

00:24:29.740 Yeah.

00:24:30.020 Because FX split their channels into about 60 different places, you know, as well.

00:24:34.320 Like, I mean, it's always.

00:24:35.020 I think FX is making stuff mainly for Netflix now.

00:24:38.680 So, I mean, I've never watched it on FX.

00:24:41.280 It feels that way.

00:24:42.380 I've never watched it on FX.

00:24:43.360 It's always sunny in Philadelphia, which is a show I've loved for many years.

00:24:47.320 That's still on?

00:24:48.460 Season 13, 12, 13, 14.

00:24:50.680 Wow.

00:24:51.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:24:51.980 It is, according to an article I read this week, the longest running.

00:24:56.880 Sitcom?

00:24:58.080 Longest running live action comedy series of all time.

00:25:02.020 What?

00:25:03.220 Wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:25:04.460 Live action comedy.

00:25:06.120 No, live action.

00:25:07.080 So they do it in front of an audience?

00:25:08.520 What do you mean live action?

00:25:09.580 Like, not a cartoon.

00:25:10.520 Not the Simpsons.

00:25:11.460 Okay.

00:25:11.920 Okay.

00:25:12.140 But, I mean, MASH wasn't a comedy series.

00:25:14.120 Yeah, it was.

00:25:14.660 It was a dramedy.

00:25:15.760 Yes.

00:25:16.460 So maybe that's.

00:25:17.380 It's mostly comedy.

00:25:18.680 No.

00:25:19.040 I don't know.

00:25:19.460 It wasn't a sitcom.

00:25:21.040 No, it's not a sitcom.

00:25:22.620 Yeah.

00:25:22.740 It was a comedy.

00:25:24.860 That was a dramedy.

00:25:26.060 I put that in a different category.

00:25:27.660 That had real serious.

00:25:28.780 I mean, like.

00:25:29.940 But look at the end of that.

00:25:30.620 How long did Cheers run?

00:25:31.540 Yeah, but Cheers didn't have.

00:25:32.900 Like, MASH had those a lot in almost every episode.

00:25:36.500 A poignant moment.

00:25:37.440 Cheers didn't.

00:25:38.060 Now, I'm sure there's some little, you know, they're doing some.

00:25:41.420 1982 to 1993 for Cheers.

00:25:44.040 So right on that.

00:25:44.920 11 years.

00:25:45.660 11 years.

00:25:46.620 This is 13 years?

00:25:48.060 I think it's.

00:25:48.780 Yeah.

00:25:49.200 Same cast?

00:25:50.220 Because wasn't Danny DeVito in that?

00:25:51.680 Yeah.

00:25:51.960 DeVito joined in season two, and he's been there the whole time.

00:25:54.480 He was not there for season one, and the rest of them are all the same.

00:25:56.800 Isn't it weird how people can be stars?

00:25:58.620 Like, Danny DeVito will be.

00:26:00.420 We think of Danny DeVito, again, because of Cheers.

00:26:03.440 Is that where we first saw him?

00:26:04.680 Danny DeVito?

00:26:05.700 Taxi, right?

00:26:06.580 Taxi.

00:26:07.060 Taxi.

00:26:07.520 Taxi.

00:26:07.920 I mean, you think of him as either Taxi or Cheers, and then he kind of dropped off the map.

00:26:13.300 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.

00:26:25.560 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?

00:26:31.900 Yeah.

00:26:32.280 Always sunny in Philadelphia.

00:26:35.060 And, I mean, so it's been a. . .

00:26:37.560 But my point on that was that fact.

00:26:38.960 Is it still funny?

00:26:39.560 Oh, yeah.

00:26:40.040 It's still great.

00:26:40.860 I will also say Danny DeVito didn't exactly drop off the map.

00:26:44.120 No.

00:26:44.260 No, he did not.

00:26:44.820 Thank you.

00:26:45.960 He did Romancing the Stone.

00:26:47.700 But you could be a fan of him.

00:26:49.240 I mean, there were some big movies.

00:26:50.460 Okay, but again, after that.

00:26:52.480 No, but after that.

00:26:53.540 Well, after that.

00:26:54.360 Yeah, when have you seen him?

00:26:56.440 The Lorax.

00:26:57.760 Yes, Balanced of the Lorax.

00:26:59.440 Yeah, stop it.

00:27:00.120 But, I mean, that's. . .

00:27:00.720 Somebody has IMDb open.

00:27:02.760 I see.

00:27:03.660 Yeah.

00:27:04.600 Was it really nothing until. . .

00:27:06.120 Because it's always sunny in Philadelphia is, you know, huge.

00:27:08.380 But you could know him from Taxi, and it's always sunny in Philadelphia.

00:27:12.020 That is a long freaking run.

00:27:13.640 A long span of comedy.

00:27:14.200 A long, long span, especially when both of those shows at the time were cutting edge.

00:27:18.440 Yeah.

00:27:18.740 I mean, that's where Christopher Lloyd came with his Back to the Future character.

00:27:23.660 Darn close.

00:27:25.840 Right? 0.93

00:27:26.540 Didn't Christopher Lloyd. . .

00:27:27.620 Yep.

00:27:27.640 Didn't he play in that kind of like a. . .

00:27:29.740 Jim Ignatowski?

00:27:30.800 Yeah.

00:27:31.100 Yeah.

00:27:31.240 He was playing that same kind of character.

00:27:33.040 We were just talking about the comedian.

00:27:35.120 Andy Kaufman.

00:27:35.520 Andy Kaufman.

00:27:36.620 Yeah.

00:27:36.800 Oh, my gosh.

00:27:37.340 Because we've, you know, obviously we discovered recently that Bill Hicks, the former comedian,

00:27:41.780 who supposedly passed away, is actually Alex Jones.

00:27:44.600 So, we didn't. . .

00:27:47.600 Oh, is that Bill Hicks?

00:27:49.300 So, Bill Hicks died, supposedly.

00:27:51.980 And then, right at that exact same time. . .

00:27:54.040 Okay, no.

00:27:54.340 I'm thinking. . .

00:27:54.640 Alex Jones came around.

00:27:55.320 I'm thinking of somebody else that just passed away.

00:27:57.020 Didn't the guy who played the president in Independence Day just die, too?

00:28:02.220 Bill Paxton.

00:28:02.500 Oh, Bill Paxton.

00:28:02.980 Bill Paxton.

00:28:03.220 Yes.

00:28:03.520 Didn't he just die?

00:28:04.280 Yes.

00:28:04.780 He did.

00:28:05.800 Was he number one, two, or three of the. . .

00:28:08.960 Yes.

00:28:09.080 Who's died recently?

00:28:09.820 Yes.

00:28:10.080 He was all of them.

00:28:11.400 No, I think he was number one of. . .

00:28:13.720 Of the new three?

00:28:14.660 Of the new three.

00:28:15.680 Because there hasn't been celebrity deaths for a while.

00:28:19.440 In that span, there was.

00:28:22.060 Because it was right at the. . .

00:28:23.560 Are we really going to. . .

00:28:24.960 So, my point on this, however. . .

00:28:27.060 That's true.

00:28:27.700 They die in threes.

00:28:28.800 Was that FX. . .

00:28:28.820 FX split into FX. . .

00:28:31.820 FXX. . .

00:28:34.620 FX. . .

00:28:35.660 Triple X. 0.64

00:28:36.840 Maybe. . .

00:28:37.500 FXXX. 0.86

00:28:37.780 Yeah.

00:28:38.340 Like three or four.

00:28:39.400 And they're all FX something.

00:28:41.240 In a really weird split.

00:28:42.240 So, all the ratings for all of those shows went down.

00:28:44.560 Because they brushed them out over multiple networks.

00:28:47.260 So, like. . .

00:28:47.560 You know. . .

00:28:47.880 Like. .

00:28:48.040 It's all of a sudden. . .

00:28:48.460 Why would they do that?

00:28:49.260 I guess to build the other brands.

00:28:50.620 I mean. . .

00:28:51.320 So, they moved. . . .

00:28:51.940 Like, flagship shows like It's Always Sunny from FX to FXX.

00:28:54.920 And Archer. . .

00:28:56.360 And some of their other. . .

00:28:57.360 I mean. . .

00:28:57.540 They have a lot of good programming on those networks.

00:29:00.320 But. . .

00:29:01.100 I don't even know where they are.

00:29:02.760 I am so. . .

00:29:04.540 It's so weird.

00:29:06.280 Remember. . .

00:29:07.420 Five. . .

00:29:07.980 Six years ago.

00:29:08.760 We started The Blaze.

00:29:10.340 We were the ones. . .

00:29:11.540 I got the Disruptor of the Year Award.

00:29:13.780 For disrupting television.

00:29:16.280 I remember that.

00:29:17.360 Yeah, right?

00:29:17.940 From the. . .

00:29:19.080 The Tribeca Film Festival.

00:29:21.000 So, I get that. . .

00:29:22.200 That's. . .

00:29:22.660 What? . .

00:29:22.920 Six years ago.

00:29:23.780 I get that award.

00:29:25.400 For disrupting and breaking television.

00:29:28.700 And breaking out and starting something new.

00:29:31.540 And our biggest problem. . .

00:29:32.940 If you remember. . .

00:29:33.520 Six years ago. . .

00:29:34.200 Was. . .

00:29:34.560 People won't stream it.

00:29:35.820 It. . .

00:29:36.240 It's not fast enough.

00:29:37.540 It's true.

00:29:38.160 That was our big struggle at the beginning.

00:29:39.600 Right.

00:29:39.900 Is that no one. . .

00:29:41.160 You know. . .

00:29:41.360 Had fast enough internet to be able to stream.

00:29:44.320 Yeah.

00:29:44.760 And. . .

00:29:45.220 And people would get on their Roku.

00:29:46.600 And they'd be like. . .

00:29:47.080 I tried to watch it.

00:29:48.180 But it would just stop.

00:29:49.440 Yeah.

00:29:49.800 And. . .

00:29:50.220 Remember. . .

00:29:50.480 Netflix used to have that problem.

00:29:51.820 Yeah.

00:29:51.980 It would stop and buffer.

00:29:53.440 And you'd be like. . . . .

00:29:53.780 And you'd be like. . .

00:29:54.260 I can't. . .

00:29:54.660 I just not. . .

00:29:55.160 And that was our number one complaint back then.

00:29:57.320 Yeah.

00:29:58.060 Now it's just that. . .

00:29:58.840 You know. . .

00:29:59.080 You guys stink. 0.99

00:30:00.540 But the number one complaint back then. . . 0.99

00:30:02.700 Mm-hmm.

00:30:03.080 Was that. . .

00:30:04.180 It wouldn't buffer.

00:30:05.260 Mm-hmm.

00:30:05.420 Now look at it.

00:30:06.720 I. . .

00:30:07.260 I remember when I said to you someday, Stu, people would just wait for the download and

00:30:11.660 Thursday night must-see TV will be a thing of the past.

00:30:14.500 Yeah.

00:30:14.820 That was back in the, what, mid-90s?

00:30:16.520 Yeah.

00:30:17.180 I'm excited about Americans because I've been watching for it on Netflix.

00:30:21.900 When is it going to download?

00:30:22.860 When is it going to start?

00:30:23.540 When are they going to start again?

00:30:24.360 It's like. . .

00:30:25.320 What's the TV show with the kids from the 80s?

00:30:28.740 The. . .

00:30:28.920 Strangers.

00:30:29.460 Stranger Things.

00:30:30.440 Yeah.

00:30:30.520 That's Halloween, by the way.

00:30:31.820 New season.

00:30:32.100 Yeah.

00:30:32.320 I mean, I'm just waiting for the download times.

00:30:35.920 It really. . .

00:30:36.340 We are really there.

00:30:37.020 And the whole season, too, by the way.

00:30:38.360 Whole season.

00:30:38.980 Yeah.

00:30:39.220 I mean. . .

00:30:39.540 This one's not the whole season.

00:30:40.540 I hate when they're slaved to a network.

00:30:42.500 Right.

00:30:42.680 Because that's what they do with FX.

00:30:44.080 Like, it's always sunny in Philadelphia.

00:30:45.420 It won't put the season on Netflix until the new one starts.

00:30:49.180 Right.

00:30:49.500 So they'll put the entire season on right around the same time the new season starts.

00:30:54.620 Walking Dead does that, too, on Netflix.

00:30:56.520 Yeah.

00:30:56.660 But that's not a bad way to go.

00:30:57.660 You can buy them.

00:30:58.380 I think you can buy them on Amazon.

00:30:59.500 Yes, you can.

00:30:59.880 On Amazon.

00:31:00.080 Yes, you can.

00:31:00.480 You can buy them.

00:31:00.980 So, I mean. . .

00:31:02.500 Okay.

00:31:03.060 I mean, okay, Mr. Richie Rich over here.

00:31:06.640 I'm going to spend $1.99 per episode.

00:31:08.900 I mean. . .

00:31:09.660 There's $2 an episode.

00:31:10.940 If you get HD, it's $3 an episode.

00:31:13.800 What?

00:31:14.020 If you buy the season, it's like $45 or something if you buy a season.

00:31:17.520 Oh, wow.

00:31:17.880 You think you could just DVR.

00:31:19.300 And you can't watch it live.

00:31:20.700 But you don't have to put up with commercials.

00:31:22.720 So. . .

00:31:23.260 Yeah, but you don't have to put up with commercials either.

00:31:25.700 Although. . .

00:31:26.000 Well, you do have to. . .

00:31:26.740 How lazy and how spoiled are we? 0.90

00:31:28.980 Very.

00:31:29.180 That, remember, TiVo used to be like, this is fantastic.

00:31:33.940 Now you're like, oh.

00:31:35.660 Blop, blop, blop.

00:31:37.420 Now you're just like, oh, I can't believe I actually have to push this button to skip the commercials.

00:31:43.180 We are really spoiled.

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00:33:30.200 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:33:36.960 Mercury.

00:33:40.600 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:33:42.340 So, I have to tell you, I saw this picture today.

00:33:46.160 And I will describe it if you're watching on The Blaze or watching online.

00:33:50.260 You'll see it here in a second.

00:33:51.960 But let me describe it for radio.

00:33:53.560 It is a picture of John F. Kennedy standing like on an old kitchen chair.

00:33:56.860 This is like 1960.

00:33:58.700 He's standing.

00:33:59.420 It looks like maybe West Virginia.

00:34:01.820 He's standing out in the country someplace.

00:34:03.860 And he's giving a speech.

00:34:05.760 And all of these people are standing around.

00:34:08.720 And they are.

00:34:09.800 Nobody's cordoned off.

00:34:11.020 Nobody's cordoned off.

00:34:11.800 They're right by the President of the United States.

00:34:14.020 Right by him.

00:34:14.420 That's amazing.

00:34:14.880 And what's incredible is, imagine having your picture.

00:34:17.760 And you're in a picture with John F. Kennedy.

00:34:19.420 I mean, there's no bigger icon in the 20th century.

00:34:22.200 You know, having these kids down here that were in this picture.

00:34:25.180 You'd be like, wow, look at me.

00:34:27.080 And unless you do this and you see the whole picture with this kid with a gun in his mouth.

00:34:36.100 Now, it looks like a real gun.

00:34:38.660 He's right at the calf of the President.

00:34:41.660 It looks just like a real revolver.

00:34:44.440 But it made me remember when we were kids.

00:34:46.880 Remember we had those revolvers that were squirt guns.

00:34:49.660 And they looked absolutely like a real gun.

00:34:53.000 They were great.

00:34:53.480 So either that's photoshopped or...

00:34:56.320 I doubt it is.

00:34:57.140 Or the Secret Service knew it was a squirt gun and weren't concerned.

00:35:00.800 I don't even think they looked at those.

00:35:02.160 I mean, they would see that and they'd be like, whatever.

00:35:04.260 I don't know.

00:35:05.160 Kennedy might have taken a drink from it before he stood up on the chair.

00:35:09.400 Because we all, as kids, we all had those guns.

00:35:11.600 And we used to do that.

00:35:12.820 Think of that.

00:35:13.220 We used to all put the barrel of our gun in our mouth and squirt water into our mouth. 0.96

00:35:18.280 If that was today, that kid would be shot dead. 0.82

00:35:20.680 Not only would that kid be shot dead, can you imagine how many people would say, 0.99

00:35:24.020 Oh my gosh, look at that culture teaching that kid to blow his own head off. 0.94

00:35:28.200 Yeah.

00:35:29.540 It was just a way to deliver water.

00:35:31.480 We used to drink from squirt guns all the time.

00:35:34.160 All the time.

00:35:34.900 We would put real looking guns into our mouth and drink our water.

00:35:39.560 Instead of having a water bottle, we had squirt guns.

00:35:42.240 And it did not simulate suicide either.

00:35:43.820 It did not.

00:35:44.300 No, it did not.

00:35:44.600 And we were just drinking the water.

00:35:46.040 And our parents never said that.

00:35:47.940 Don't put a gun in your mouth.

00:35:49.900 They would have never said that. 1.00

00:35:51.280 We weren't that stupid. 1.00

00:35:52.400 No, it was don't use it to squirt your sister. 1.00

00:35:54.840 Exactly right.

00:35:55.760 Uh-huh.

00:35:56.600 Exactly right.

00:35:58.600 Things have changed ever so slightly.

00:36:00.400 Ever so slightly.

00:36:01.340 Ever so slightly.

00:36:03.240 What are our kids?

00:36:04.120 Our kids are going to look back now.

00:36:05.560 No, no, they're not.

00:36:06.900 They're going to look back now and say, the number one thing our children or our children's

00:36:12.340 children will say, number one thing, they let you drive?

00:36:17.180 Yeah.

00:36:17.900 Yeah.

00:36:18.300 You used to drive?

00:36:21.380 In a car?

00:36:22.480 In a car.

00:36:23.080 And I'm telling you, they will sit by, because I have the old chief from the 1950s, that old

00:36:28.840 truck.

00:36:32.300 Just, really?

00:36:34.240 My grandfather, I know why my grandmother never drove.

00:36:38.160 That thing is a beast. 1.00

00:36:40.420 That is hard.

00:36:42.020 No power, anything.

00:36:44.340 And you are just, you're driving those cars from the 50s?

00:36:47.500 Oh my gosh.

00:36:48.760 Difficult.

00:36:49.460 Yeah.

00:36:49.760 They let you drive that?

00:36:51.340 How?

00:36:52.580 Well, people had muscle tone back then. 0.86

00:36:55.400 Oh, they hated women. 1.00

00:36:56.020 Look at some of the pictures from that era. 0.97

00:36:57.160 They hated women. 1.00

00:36:58.560 But it was. 0.96

00:36:58.880 Yeah.

00:36:59.240 They had a lot of muscle tone.

00:37:00.440 Yeah.

00:37:01.680 Well, it was.

00:37:02.980 It was just under a lot of fat.

00:37:04.000 Like mine.

00:37:04.940 My muscle tone is great.

00:37:06.320 I'm five pounds away from just ripped abs right here.

00:37:09.800 Oh, really?

00:37:10.360 Just burning about five pounds of fat between them.

00:37:12.760 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:37:16.780 Mercury.

00:37:17.260 This is the Blaze Radio On Demand.

00:37:35.620 It's an amazing story.

00:37:38.780 Even social media savvy teens cannot fake a news story.

00:37:43.620 A fake news story.

00:37:45.400 We'll give you that coming up in a second.

00:37:47.100 Also, there's a woman from the Westboro Baptist Church that has left the Westboro Baptist Church.

00:37:55.460 And the reason why she left is fascinating and can be totally applied to your life today.

00:38:03.520 We begin there right now.

00:38:04.840 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:38:26.580 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:38:31.040 I want to get to the media bias and American kids.

00:38:35.620 Can they spot fake news stories?

00:38:37.680 Can they spot bias?

00:38:39.780 We'll give that to you here in just a second.

00:38:42.580 So, Megan Phelps Roper.

00:38:45.240 She was in the Westboro Baptist Church.

00:38:47.580 Phelps.

00:38:47.780 So, she is.

00:38:48.440 So, Phelps is the name.

00:38:50.140 Fred Phelps was the head guy.

00:38:52.800 Is she adopted or is she a child of?

00:38:54.760 No, I don't think so.

00:38:55.580 Child of?

00:38:55.840 I think she's married.

00:38:56.880 Okay.

00:38:57.920 So, she was a child of Fred.

00:39:00.880 Yeah.

00:39:01.280 She grew up in, or it might be grandchild of Fred.

00:39:05.060 Fred's a, I could, I'm not sure.

00:39:07.160 Have we lost him?

00:39:08.580 He's very old.

00:39:09.480 I don't know if we've lost him.

00:39:10.320 I don't keep up with every iteration of what goes on in the Westboro Baptist Church. 0.97

00:39:14.420 But I do find it a fascinating topic in that it's, they're just such, they're so crazy.

00:39:19.080 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. 0.97

00:39:23.980 They say God hates Jews and gays and all kinds of stuff. 0.92

00:39:28.380 Really bad. 0.97

00:39:29.180 You know, they're the worst part of every news story.

00:39:32.940 Basically, they come out and they're like, oh God, this is a tragedy.

00:39:35.640 Now it's worse.

00:39:36.460 Like, they are able to do it every single time.

00:39:39.240 Right.

00:39:39.360 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.

00:39:50.040 But almost everybody at the Westboro Baptist Church is from the Phelps family.

00:39:53.360 It's like 80% Phelps family members.

00:39:56.660 So, she left the church a while ago and recently did a TED Talk on why she left and how it happened.

00:40:05.880 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.

00:40:14.540 Now, you might not want to be associated with someone who's in the Westboro Baptist Church.

00:40:17.620 And she's out of the Westboro Baptist Church.

00:40:18.860 She's out, and she's really.

00:40:19.720 She's talking about how she, why she left.

00:40:23.420 And for everybody who says, oh, you know, the left won't listen.

00:40:27.960 Um, let's listen to how the woman, do you think the left is less extreme than the Westboro Baptist Church? 0.68

00:40:38.120 If you could communicate with someone like that and break down those walls, you could do it with anybody.

00:40:41.420 And listen to what she said, how it was done.

00:40:44.120 Listen to this.

00:40:44.380 In 2009, that zeal brought me to Twitter.

00:40:47.860 Initially, the people I encountered on the platform were just as hostile as I expected.

00:40:52.420 They were the digital version of the screaming hordes I'd been seeing at protests since I was a kid.

00:40:56.740 But in the midst of that digital brawl, a strange pattern developed.

00:41:02.520 Someone would arrive at my profile with the usual rage and scorn.

00:41:06.980 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.

00:41:17.500 But then a conversation would ensue.

00:41:20.240 And it was civil, full of genuine curiosity on both sides.

00:41:23.800 How had the other come to such outrageous conclusions about the world?

00:41:29.280 Sometimes the conversation even bled into real life.

00:41:32.360 People I'd sparred with on Twitter would come out to the picket line to see me when I protested in their city.

00:41:38.840 A man named David was one such person.

00:41:41.580 He ran a blog called Jewlicious.

00:41:44.020 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.

00:41:54.820 And I brought him kosher chocolate and held a God hates Jews sign. 1.00

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.

00:42:12.280 It took time, but eventually these conversations planted seeds of doubt in me.

00:42:16.980 Now imagine how many Jewish friends this guy had who said,

00:42:22.360 What are you, selling out?

00:42:23.440 Don't you know she's using you?

00:42:24.840 Don't you know you're being pulled in? 0.99

00:42:26.780 You're a sellout.

00:42:27.680 You've got to stand against.

00:42:28.840 How many people she had in her life saying the same thing.

00:42:35.900 But they both were being civil to each other.

00:42:39.760 And probably everyone in their life said,

00:42:43.920 It's not going to change anything.

00:42:46.360 And look what happened.

00:42:47.880 You have another cut from her?

00:42:48.720 If you can win over the Westboro Baptist Church.

00:42:50.660 And one of the things she mentioned quickly in there,

00:42:52.120 and she went on later, is something you've said a million times.

00:42:54.980 She said the conversations always started, and neither of us changed our positions.

00:43:00.980 Neither of us changed our principles.

00:43:03.380 It was just listening.

00:43:05.880 You don't have to change your ideas.

00:43:07.640 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.

00:43:16.220 Yeah, and it helped win over a Westboro Baptist church member.

00:43:20.200 And to the extent of how crazy that would be, 0.96

00:43:22.240 because you think of these people, I mean, they're obviously crazy. 1.00

00:43:25.320 God hates Jews. 1.00

00:43:26.300 God hates, you know, gays. 1.00

00:43:27.880 I mean, you can't think of people who are more off the rocker than these guys. 0.99

00:43:32.180 She goes into that.

00:43:33.060 Yeah, and to talk about how indoctrinated she was,

00:43:36.180 she talks about at the very beginning of this,

00:43:37.960 that the first protest she went to,

00:43:40.060 she was five years old protesting gays somewhere.

00:43:43.480 Wow.

00:43:43.880 Holding a sign she couldn't even read.

00:43:46.240 That's how deeply she was in this.

00:43:48.620 And she goes through this entire process.

00:43:50.000 And through Twitter, we think of all these good people being turned bad through Twitter.

00:43:54.920 Here's someone who went through Twitter and turned her life from pure evil to something else.

00:43:59.640 My friends on Twitter took the time to understand Westboro's doctrines.

00:44:03.460 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, 0.95

00:44:13.060 Let he who is without sin cast the first stone? 0.99

00:44:15.940 How could we claim to love our neighbor while at the same time praying for God to destroy them?

00:44:22.360 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.

00:44:33.200 These realizations were life-altering.

00:44:38.040 Once I saw that we were not the ultimate arbiters of divine truth, but flawed human beings,

00:44:43.000 I couldn't pretend otherwise.

00:44:45.000 I couldn't justify our actions,

00:44:47.620 especially our cruel practice of protesting funerals and celebrating human tragedy.

00:44:52.660 Okay, stop here for a second.

00:44:54.220 Let's just put this together.

00:44:55.940 Both sides have this problem.

00:44:57.580 Both sides, in one way or another, are the Westboro Baptist Church, both left and right.

00:45:01.420 We have extremists on both sides.

00:45:04.560 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.

00:45:15.020 They're the, we're not the science deniers.

00:45:17.500 We're not that way.

00:45:18.640 You're the science denier.

00:45:20.160 Well, you aren't educated.

00:45:21.700 We're educated.

00:45:22.780 We have all the universities.

00:45:24.020 They believe that everything intellectually is on their side, right?

00:45:28.140 So they're morally superior.

00:45:30.960 They don't see the, the disconnect between saying, let's march for women.

00:45:40.020 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.

00:46:02.740 That's your decision.

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. 0.56

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.

00:46:38.160 I'm not the science denier.

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. 1.00

00:46:50.740 If they have that scan and they say, I don't care, well, that's a different subject.

00:46:57.940 But you have to admit that that is a child.

00:47:00.780 Otherwise, why would you say no to ultrasounds?

00:47:04.480 Which one of us is in this bubble?

00:47:06.800 Now, I'm only using this because both sides are in a bubble.

00:47:10.700 But anybody who says that they cannot reach the left, listen to what she just said.

00:47:17.340 It was by kindness on the internet first.

00:47:21.280 Kindness of not slamming back.

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.

00:47:29.920 They're not.

00:47:31.360 We're not.

00:47:32.900 We disagree on things.

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.

00:47:47.580 Wow, we have a ton in common.

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?

00:47:56.040 Well, nobody.

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.

00:48:07.780 I'm actually not on the left.

00:48:09.460 I'm on the right.

00:48:11.620 And I was diehard on the right or on the left.

00:48:14.420 And now I've changed.

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.

00:48:25.700 And it's Martin Luther King's recipe.

00:48:27.280 And unfortunately, most of our society is siding with Malcolm X.

00:48:33.000 Most of us want the anger and hate and rage.

00:48:36.520 We all want it to stop.

00:48:39.460 But we're all being led to be convinced that nothing will ever change with the other side. 0.94

00:48:44.640 And so it's of no use.

00:48:47.060 That's a lie.

00:48:48.800 And she's proof positive of that lie.

00:48:52.960 At least I think so.

00:48:53.740 At the most extreme level possible.

00:48:55.620 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,

00:49:37.480 Congress, and Senate?

00:49:39.120 Why haven't I changed on the economy?

00:49:41.780 Because I don't view the world through politics alone.

00:49:45.020 That's only one lens.

00:49:47.400 And if you look at what is happening to the banks right now, where the banks are pouring

00:49:53.300 their money into the stock market.

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.

00:50:03.460 This is exactly what happened in 1929.

00:50:07.700 Everyone became over leveraged, which means they borrowed too much money and they were paying

00:50:13.640 on margin.

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.

00:50:23.300 And eventually that's going to collapse.

00:50:26.320 Eventually this game, we had QE quantitative easing where the money was just being printed

00:50:31.720 and then given to the banks.

00:50:33.580 We all now say, no, that won't work.

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. 0.93

00:50:47.300 It's the same thing, just a different faucet.

00:50:50.740 And why is that happening?

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.

00:51:02.780 It didn't work in Japan.

00:51:04.920 It's not going to work here.

00:51:06.540 It won't work.

00:51:07.600 It's never worked anywhere.

00:51:09.500 At some point, we have to pay the price.

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?

00:51:30.140 What happens when there is a myriad of things?

00:51:36.300 One, all of our wealth is stored digitally.

00:51:38.500 You can no longer go to the bank and withdraw your money.

00:51:41.100 Do they care about what you say about a bail-in where the bank just gives everybody a haircut,

00:51:47.940 which they've already done in Europe?

00:51:50.240 Do they care?

00:51:51.080 Because you can't take your money out of the bank.

00:51:53.240 How about cybercrime?

00:51:55.260 Hacking?

00:51:55.820 Identity theft?

00:51:56.660 When all of the money is digital.

00:51:59.480 And it will go there.

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00:52:52.500 Craziest elections.

00:52:53.460 Our series continues just in a few minutes.

00:52:56.020 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.

00:53:06.140 Yeah, she identified these.

00:53:07.240 Which I thought were interesting.

00:53:08.940 One, don't assume bad intent.

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.

00:53:20.800 And I've gone up like a...

00:53:21.800 Because people will insult you.

00:53:23.340 Like, I insult Jeffy all the time.

00:53:25.000 And he knows it comes from a good place.

00:53:26.880 You know, but I mean, that's how I look at everybody who calls me Hitler on the internet.

00:53:32.700 Like, it's somebody that's saying...

00:53:34.420 They mean it in a nice way?

00:53:35.640 They mean it in a joking way.

00:53:36.940 And I just treat it that way.

00:53:37.960 All right.

00:53:38.220 And I don't care.

00:53:38.860 It makes me feel better.

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.

00:53:45.020 You know, the one defender.

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.

00:53:51.100 I was joking.

00:53:52.580 Right, yeah.

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.

00:54:00.860 Yes.

00:54:01.160 I mean, I know a lot.

00:54:01.900 So many people get obsessed in these little battles.

00:54:03.780 They never bother me.

00:54:05.280 I never care what you say about me.

00:54:07.160 Because if you go with that principle, just don't assume it's bad.

00:54:12.220 All these interactions wind up being better.

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.

00:54:21.060 If you respond nicely.

00:54:21.760 Yeah, I was having a hard time.

00:54:22.920 Typically, they'll just turn around.

00:54:24.120 Finding the rainbow in all of that during the election. 0.99

00:54:27.900 When they were saying things like eat crap and die, I didn't think that was necessarily good nature. 0.91

00:54:33.100 No, but I will tell you that I gave up because it was just overwhelming at the time. 0.97

00:54:36.740 But I will tell you that a lot of people will say, you know what?

00:54:40.720 You're right.

00:54:41.580 I'm sorry.

00:54:42.540 I flew off the handle.

00:54:43.180 Yeah, I flew off the handle.

00:54:43.800 I don't agree with you, but I appreciate it.

00:54:46.520 Step two, ask questions.

00:54:48.680 So that's a great thing to do.

00:54:50.000 Even the very existence of God.

00:54:52.900 Should there be a God?

00:54:54.800 But I mean, asking questions.

00:54:56.000 He must surely rather. 1.00

00:54:56.480 Shut up. 1.00

00:54:57.560 Is important. 0.99

00:54:58.900 And honest ones, right?

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.

00:55:06.720 And then asking questions that aren't honest.

00:55:08.420 Don't ask the question that you know the answer to.

00:55:13.020 And you're just trying to trap them into it.

00:55:15.340 Yeah.

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.

00:55:21.620 Which is stay calm.

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.

00:55:27.920 Why let it bother you?

00:55:29.120 That's you.

00:55:29.820 That's not them.

00:55:30.900 That's you letting it bother you.

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.

00:55:49.400 This is astounding.

00:55:50.460 And because it worked on her to get her out. 0.62

00:55:52.880 That's really amazing.

00:55:54.260 She and her sister both got out.

00:55:56.340 Yeah.

00:55:56.740 Yeah.

00:55:57.040 It might have been her sister we talked to.

00:55:58.060 It might have been her sister Grace we talked to.

00:55:59.800 Yeah, I think so.

00:56:00.480 I think it was.

00:56:01.200 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.

00:56:24.860 It's so apparent to us.

00:56:26.300 We treat it as if it's doctrine to everybody.

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.

00:56:37.720 I'm young.

00:56:38.720 I'm in college.

00:56:39.500 I'm a liberal.

00:56:40.280 I'm a leftist.

00:56:41.120 I love abortion. 0.66

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.

00:56:49.720 But, you know, I've got to get to the survey.

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.

00:57:09.680 They haven't done the thinking.

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.

00:57:21.680 Don't assume their bad intent.

00:57:23.500 If you follow those few steps, you're not going to win everybody over, nor should you care if you do.

00:57:28.680 Isn't it interesting?

00:57:29.580 But you're on the bandwagon.

00:57:32.320 I've been on the bandwagon.

00:57:34.440 I brought these clips to the show.

00:57:36.080 Listen to them now.

00:57:36.900 Stay calm.

00:57:37.640 That's all I'm saying.

00:57:38.360 Stay calm.

00:57:38.900 Listen to them now.

00:57:40.260 I'm assuming bad intent.

00:57:42.940 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:57:46.080 Mercury.

00:57:50.040 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:57:52.740 No examination of crazy elections in America would be complete without mentioning the nation-altering election of 1912.

00:58:01.060 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.

00:58:46.940 It was open.

00:58:47.980 Open season.

00:58:49.380 So Roosevelt decides it's time for some bold moves, for some new politics.

00:58:53.040 So he bucks tradition.

00:58:54.660 Usually the candidates don't even show up at the conventions during this era.

00:58:59.160 He comes to Chicago, where the convention's happening, and has a, predictably, a rock star's reception.

00:59:05.080 He doesn't go into the hall, but he's right outside, causing a big ruckus outside of it.

00:59:09.940 But inside the hall, it's politics as usual.

00:59:14.100 Taft's party machinery swings into action.

00:59:17.780 And the result?

00:59:19.820 Taft got nearly all the contested delegates, and he got the nomination.

00:59:23.060 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.

00:59:36.320 On the Democratic side, Woodrow Wilson and House Speaker Champ Clark were locked in a virtual dead heat after the primary season,

00:59:44.700 each having won five states.

00:59:47.480 Wilson had a slight edge in votes.

00:59:49.160 However, heading into the Democratic convention in Baltimore, Clark actually had a significant lead in the delegate count.

00:59:57.340 Professor O'Mara explains.

00:59:59.520 Even though he had the delegate lead, the conventional wisdom was that Clark was not up to the job of being president,

01:00:05.380 and Wilson took advantage of that.

01:00:07.460 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.

01:00:43.920 Roosevelt left the GOP and started a new American party called the Bull Moose Party or the Progressive Party.

01:00:52.640 Yes, for those who refuse to recognize it, it was the Republicans that started the Progressive Party.

01:01:00.160 When you're running under the banner Bull Moose or Progressive Party, the name sounds every bit progressive,

01:01:05.960 but so did the words of Theodore Roosevelt.

01:01:08.960 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.

01:01:26.960 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,

01:02:47.120 we are chasing a phantom.

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?

01:03:10.360 Almost sounding desperate, Taft bellowed on.

01:03:13.680 Votes are not bred.

01:03:15.540 Constitutional amendments are not worth.

01:03:18.260 Referendums do not pay rent or furnish houses. 1.00

01:03:21.680 Recalls do not furnish clothing.

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

01:03:37.140 and to abolish hardship and evil for humanity.

01:03:41.520 Seemingly splitting the difference between the two and presenting himself as the reasonable alternative

01:03:47.120 was Woodrow Wilson.

01:03:49.580 There is a new party which it is difficult to characterize.

01:03:53.580 Because it is made up of several elements.

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.

01:04:25.260 I have no word of criticism for them.

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.

01:05:04.900 But how is he going to do it?

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

01:05:21.700 by which all of us wish to help the people.

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.

01:05:47.160 From the Roosevelt's, an intimate portrait.

01:05:49.900 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

01:06:00.420 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,

01:06:19.580 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.

01:06:42.060 Mr. Wilson has distinctly committed himself

01:06:45.100 to the old flintlock, muzzle-loaded doctrine of states' rights.

01:06:50.580 We are for the people's rights.

01:06:54.380 Pale and sometimes swaying at the podium,

01:06:57.520 he went on for more than an hour

01:06:59.260 before his aides could get him to stop and agree to go to the hospital.

01:07:04.040 In an age of people seeking medical treatment

01:07:06.900 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

01:07:19.720 could deliver a 90-minute speech before agreeing to any kind of medical care.

01:07:24.520 But that was the world of 1912,

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,

01:07:42.100 President Roosevelt.

01:07:43.520 As it turned out, it was probably inevitable

01:07:46.580 Roosevelt and Taft would split the Republican vote,

01:07:50.000 ensuring a Woodrow Wilson victory. 0.87

01:07:52.700 Yes, we all have the fat bathtub president 0.98

01:07:57.400 to thank for Woodrow Wilson. 0.79

01:08:00.320 That's exactly what happened.

01:08:02.460 Wilson received 42% of the vote,

01:08:04.760 Roosevelt was second, and Taft was third.

01:08:07.720 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%.

01:08:18.380 Woodrow Wilson used his victory

01:08:21.440 to begin the fundamental transformation of the United States of America,

01:08:26.120 reinstating segregation in the military and civil service,

01:08:29.760 and giving life to the KKK in the process.

01:08:33.860 Yet, despite all of that and more,

01:08:36.960 historians continue to place him

01:08:39.200 among the top five presidents in U.S. history.

01:08:42.220 Next time, the crazy election of 1948.

01:08:46.700 Tomorrow on the Glenn Beck Program,

01:08:49.800 in Chapter 4 of the Craziest Elections in History,

01:08:52.480 you'll learn about the elections of Harry S. Truman,

01:08:54.800 JFK, and George W. Bush.

01:08:56.880 Listen live or online at glennbeck.com slash serials.

01:09:00.340 Like, no.

01:09:00.920 That's crazy.

01:09:02.000 That is...

01:09:02.520 Is that amazing?

01:09:03.060 I mean, what's amazing?

01:09:03.820 There's so many points there that are amazing.

01:09:05.580 I know.

01:09:06.220 La Follette, who is one...

01:09:08.920 I mean, Wisconsin's governor.

01:09:10.740 Home of progressivism.

01:09:12.120 Yeah, he's one of the founders of progressivism.

01:09:13.820 Right.

01:09:14.320 On the right, on the Republican side.

01:09:16.960 Yeah.

01:09:17.360 Theodore Roosevelt, speaking about Marxism.

01:09:21.260 Woodrow Wilson, the king of progressives.

01:09:24.240 And Eugene Debs, with Woodrow Wilson on the left.

01:09:28.040 That was an unbelievably bad election.

01:09:29.900 There was only one guy, Constitutional.

01:09:32.360 And it was Taft.

01:09:33.180 It was Taft.

01:09:33.880 And because Roosevelt had such an ego

01:09:36.480 and desperately wanted to be president again,

01:09:39.240 he split the vote and we wound up with Wilson. 0.88

01:09:41.460 Yeah, don't be blaming the fat man.

01:09:43.320 Yeah, it was Roosevelt's fault.

01:09:45.400 It was absolutely Roosevelt.

01:09:47.300 It was.

01:09:48.220 It was.

01:09:48.780 It was him.

01:09:49.480 And let me tell you something else. 0.70

01:09:51.320 Imagine any candidate today being shot

01:09:55.360 as they're walking in to give a speech. 0.87

01:09:58.240 In the chest.

01:09:59.200 Okay.

01:09:59.660 In the chest.

01:10:00.440 Standing there for 90 minutes.

01:10:02.440 With blood coming out on their shirt.

01:10:04.480 So it's seeping out on their shirt.

01:10:05.960 Uh-huh.

01:10:06.380 Going on stage, doing that,

01:10:08.480 giving a rip-roaring speech.

01:10:10.380 It was a great speech.

01:10:11.680 Yeah.

01:10:12.000 A rip-roaring speech.

01:10:14.000 Then he's finally, because he's so weak,

01:10:15.780 he's taken off stage.

01:10:17.040 Tell me that in the time of social media and television,

01:10:21.960 that that guy wouldn't have won with...

01:10:23.480 He'd be president.

01:10:24.140 Yeah, he'd be president.

01:10:24.700 He would win with 90%.

01:10:26.480 Uh-huh. 1.00

01:10:27.220 I want the guy with a bullet in his chest. 1.00

01:10:29.220 You see him? 1.00

01:10:30.920 I concluded there's no blood in my lungs.

01:10:33.260 I'm going to continue.

01:10:34.420 Yeah.

01:10:35.320 It's amazing.

01:10:35.900 That's the way he was, though.

01:10:37.560 Amazing story.

01:10:37.940 I mean, he was just...

01:10:39.820 Bull Moose, you know, really is the...

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.

01:10:48.620 Into the progressive wing.

01:10:50.400 And he refused.

01:10:51.640 Fortunately.

01:10:52.420 Yeah, we have a series on Coolidge coming.

01:10:54.380 You will, Jeffy just said,

01:10:55.300 because he's doing a lot of the interviews.

01:10:57.060 I've become a fan.

01:10:58.880 He's great.

01:10:59.300 He was unbelievable.

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.

01:11:06.340 He's one of my favorites.

01:11:07.400 Yeah, he is.

01:11:08.020 He's top five.

01:11:08.480 He's probably the...

01:11:09.520 He's top five.

01:11:10.040 He is...

01:11:11.240 I think he was the best president of the 20th century.

01:11:15.460 Reagan was very, very good.

01:11:17.080 And Reagan was a fan.

01:11:18.300 Right.

01:11:18.680 That was his favorite president.

01:11:20.100 Yeah.

01:11:20.960 Reagan was very, very good and ended the Cold War.

01:11:24.520 But Coolidge took progressivism and sucked it out of society.

01:11:29.500 Sure did.

01:11:29.700 He sure did.

01:11:30.440 I mean, he really...

01:11:31.520 He lived it, too.

01:11:32.200 That's the most important thing, is he lived it.

01:11:34.540 His childhood says a lot.

01:11:35.900 Yes, it does.

01:11:36.560 That's a serial that is coming soon.

01:11:38.560 And if you want to, you know, listen to any or watch the serials online, they're free.

01:11:44.300 Please take them, spread them, and share them with a friend.

01:11:48.420 You can find them online at glennbeck.com slash serials.

01:11:51.660 Now this.

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01:11:57.000 I had no idea.

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01:12:10.180 So if you're sitting in an airport and you plug it in, that's an antenna.

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01:13:05.500 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:13:11.540 Mercury.

01:13:15.460 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:13:19.200 I am just...

01:13:20.500 I can't believe how much I hated history when I was a kid.

01:13:24.600 I know.

01:13:25.520 I think all of us did.

01:13:27.360 They have destroyed...

01:13:28.060 Progressives have destroyed history.

01:13:30.740 I didn't.

01:13:31.280 You didn't?

01:13:32.100 You liked history?

01:13:32.700 No, I loved it.

01:13:32.880 I've always loved it.

01:13:33.480 Oh, man.

01:13:34.040 They are the greatest stories.

01:13:38.260 They just have to know...

01:13:39.240 You just have to know how to tell them and where they are.

01:13:43.520 But they're just the greatest stories.

01:13:46.840 Yeah, and you find out so many things that are just like unbelievable to us at this time.

01:13:51.780 You know, like the Teddy Roosevelt thing.

01:13:53.460 That could have never happened.

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.

01:14:09.240 And then go for an hour and a half.

01:14:11.560 He went 90 minutes before he went to the hospital.

01:14:14.380 Nobody would do that now.

01:14:15.520 Nobody would do that now.

01:14:16.600 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.

01:14:34.620 And nobody knows that in the Republican Party.

01:14:38.780 They all love Theodore Roosevelt.

01:14:41.620 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:14:44.780 Mercury.

01:14:59.500 This is the Blaze Radio On Demand.

01:15:04.620 So in talking to my liberal friends, they all say the same thing about immigration.

01:15:12.520 We have to care about refugees.

01:15:15.340 Yes, we absolutely do.

01:15:17.260 I completely agree with you.

01:15:20.000 So who are the ones that are most at risk?

01:15:22.820 The ones that are most at risk are the Christians and the Yazidis. 1.00

01:15:26.660 Okay.

01:15:28.340 You say you really care.

01:15:30.300 My audience has saved 6,000 Christians and Yazidis.

01:15:35.620 How many have you saved?

01:15:37.580 Well, no, I care about the ones from Syria. 0.94

01:15:40.260 Yes, they were from Syria.

01:15:42.900 Well, okay.

01:15:43.820 Well, but I mean the Muslims. 0.99

01:15:45.480 Okay.

01:15:46.560 How many have you personally reached in and saved?

01:15:50.360 When it comes to the Christians and the Yazidis, I will open my house to them. 1.00

01:15:56.700 The government won't allow me to do it.

01:15:58.580 I will shelter the Christians and the Yazidis. 0.81

01:16:02.220 I would do it and it's not a bluff.

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?

01:16:14.360 Christians, will you do it? 1.00

01:16:16.040 Well, don't be ridiculous. 1.00

01:16:18.620 Well, wait a minute. 0.99

01:16:20.040 Why not?

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.

01:16:54.340 We begin there right now.

01:16:55.720 I will make a stand.

01:16:58.960 I will raise my voice.

01:17:01.300 I will hold your hand.

01:17:03.700 Because we are one.

01:17:05.320 I will beat my drum.

01:17:07.720 I have made my choice.

01:17:10.020 We will overcome.

01:17:12.320 Because we are one.

01:17:14.360 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:17:18.180 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:17:21.760 Hello, America.

01:17:24.080 And welcome to Dr. Michael Yosef.

01:17:27.020 He is the author of the new book, The Barbarians Are Here. 0.64

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.

01:17:48.100 Sure, Glenn.

01:17:49.740 Thank you so much for having me.

01:17:51.100 I really appreciate that.

01:17:52.160 Sure.

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.

01:18:23.960 We've seen a lot of people come to 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.

01:18:34.520 I had to be examined by the embassy doctor.

01:18:37.100 I had to provide tax information that I don't owe the government tax, that I have good police records.

01:18:45.900 And I came here, and I love this country.

01:18:48.420 I am grateful.

01:18:49.500 Every single morning, I'm thankful to God that I live in this country.

01:18:53.060 So there's nothing wrong.

01:18:54.200 This country has always loved immigrants.

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.

01:19:10.840 They're biased against Christians.

01:19:12.140 We've seen it firsthand on the Jordanian side, on the Lebanese side. 0.98

01:19:16.720 And so what we're saying is we're going to let the terrorists come in.

01:19:20.560 And here's the problem.

01:19:21.620 Islamists always somehow got in cohort with the leftists in order to accomplish their purpose. 1.00

01:19:29.220 They, in a sense, consider them to be useful idiots. 0.99

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? 1.00

01:19:47.960 Linda Sarsour.

01:19:48.940 Linda Sarsour is a woman who wants to bring the Sharia law to America. 0.99

01:19:53.280 And just think about this.

01:19:54.760 I want to scream and say to these women, do you know what Sharia law says about women? 1.00

01:19:59.760 You're half of a man.

01:20:01.180 You inherit half of what your brother would inherit.

01:20:04.100 In the court of law, you consider it to be half of a man.

01:20:06.760 You can be beaten by your husband or your father.

01:20:09.380 She'll say she doesn't want any of that.

01:20:12.760 Pardon?

01:20:13.340 She'll say that's not what Sharia law means to her.

01:20:16.640 She doesn't want any of that.

01:20:17.740 Well, I mean, she can't pick and choose. 0.99

01:20:20.860 That's what the Sharia is. 0.83

01:20:22.400 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. 0.83

01:20:33.760 You see people maimed everywhere in Saudi Arabia.

01:20:36.780 And so, I mean, she can't really pick and choose.

01:20:39.280 That's what Sharia is. 0.66

01:20:40.760 That's what the Koran says.

01:20:42.080 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. 0.97

01:20:58.460 I mean, I've seen it.

01:20:59.720 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.

01:21:19.520 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. 0.95

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.

01:21:59.680 I know this is a blindness of biblical proportion.

01:22:03.360 I mean, almost they've got a blinder, iconic picture that I saw that really told the whole story.

01:22:10.060 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. 1.00

01:22:23.000 And these sweet German ladies holding this placard that says, welcome refugees. 0.86

01:22:29.660 I mean, I said, this said it all.

01:22:31.200 Now, we're not really shooting ourselves in the foot.

01:22:34.960 We're shooting ourselves in the head.

01:22:37.260 And we're saying, hey, come on in. 1.00

01:22:39.440 Destroy us. 0.99

01:22:40.840 Take over. 0.51

01:22:42.580 We're so blind as to who you are and what your ideology is, and it doesn't matter.

01:22:49.420 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.

01:23:15.860 So what?

01:23:16.620 That's fine.

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.

01:23:37.740 But you, if I may quote, again and again, God has defended Western civilization from attack from barbarian slave merchants, totalitarianism, genocidal racist, segregationist. 0.91

01:23:48.480 But instead of thanking God for his mercy and protection, we have now taken all the credit for those victories.

01:23:53.280 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.

01:24:08.220 Yeah.

01:24:09.280 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. 0.84

01:24:20.640 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. 0.97

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. 0.98

01:24:45.420 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. 1.00

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. 0.94

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.

01:25:18.940 He said, no, I'm just going to take my hand of protection off and leave you to the consequences of your choices.

01:25:25.480 And so the Babylonians, the terrorists of their day, came over and ransacked Jerusalem and took hostages for 70 years. 0.99

01:25:34.140 It happened again in Rome, when Rome fell.

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.

01:26:25.440 Give me the pattern.

01:26:26.940 Give me the pattern from City of God.

01:26:28.820 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.

01:26:40.300 Right.

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.

01:26:52.260 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.

01:27:03.080 For example, Abraham.

01:27:04.640 The Bible said Abraham looked forward to that city which is built by God, whose architect is God and built by God.

01:27:12.960 Even back then, he was looking forward to the city of God.

01:27:16.420 So there is a godly line from Enoch all the way to Abraham and down to even Lot.

01:27:25.280 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. 1.00

01:27:48.420 And he takes them out, and there in the book of Deuteronomy, toward the end of it, he says,

01:27:52.720 Look, I'm sending you to the promised land.

01:27:54.360 I promised that land to your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

01:27:58.260 And I'm going to send you there.

01:27:59.600 But here's the temptation.

01:28:01.020 You're going to be facing it.

01:28:02.180 You're going to face the temptation to turn against me and worship other gods.

01:28:06.740 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.

01:28:20.400 And God says, Okay, I'm going to take my hand.

01:28:23.000 So I just saw a study from Barna, who does research on...

01:28:28.140 Yes, I know George very well.

01:28:29.340 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,

01:28:45.700 through the truths in the Bible.

01:28:47.520 It's only 49%.

01:28:48.820 However, he did something new, and he attached morals and principles to it.

01:28:53.640 So he asked, Do you believe in Noah?

01:28:56.840 Do you believe in Moses?

01:28:58.060 Do you believe in the Ten Commandments?

01:28:59.340 Instead of just that, the other half was, Hey, do you think it's okay to steal?

01:29:05.300 Do you think...

01:29:06.020 And he found that actually that number is 15% biblical worldview.

01:29:12.380 So how do you save it if that's true?

01:29:14.460 Well, here's the core of the problem.

01:29:19.140 So many evangelical pastors who started well, because and for the sake of popularity, they

01:29:26.080 started kind of watering down the message.

01:29:29.640 One pastor said, Well, I believe in the virgin birth, but you don't have to.

01:29:33.120 I believe in Noah, but you don't have to.

01:29:35.700 I believe in Jonah, but you don't have to.

01:29:38.500 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.

01:30:13.000 He cannot take away our sin.

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,

01:30:23.340 return to God.

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,

01:30:44.280 that they believe there are many ways to God.

01:30:47.980 Give me a break.

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,

01:30:55.500 I am the way, the truth, and the life.

01:30:57.360 No one comes to the Father but by me.

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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01:33:00.160 Welcome to the program.

01:33:01.760 So glad that you are tuning in today.

01:33:04.500 A lot of things going on.

01:33:07.820 Let's play Mike Lee on universal health care.

01:33:12.860 Okay, so just to be clear, are you for repeal, but not yet replaced?

01:33:16.300 Where are you on that?

01:33:17.700 I'm for repeal.

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.

01:33:56.460 So, how do you feel about this, Stu?

01:34:02.360 Because you brought up today that maybe we should consider going for what we have,

01:34:10.580 because this is better than Obamacare.

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+.

01:34:20.300 So, that does not mean that it's good.

01:34:22.360 However, there's negotiation here.

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,

01:34:56.520 even if it's not perfect, you know.

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.

01:35:05.920 Back in a minute.

01:35:13.200 The Glenn Beck Program.

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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,

01:35:40.200 and you don't realize what it leads to.

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,

01:36:06.560 a very militaristic Christian sect.

01:36:09.700 Then it was later used by the Druids and everybody else.

01:36:12.740 But look at this.

01:36:13.240 Wow, that is really cool.

01:36:15.440 That is incredible, isn't it?

01:36:16.340 It is this gigantic cave, all carved out of stone.

01:36:23.660 It has lighting.

01:36:25.220 Well, no, I think those are just candles.

01:36:27.520 I don't think they actually...

01:36:28.680 They actually plumbed it for electricity.

01:36:30.620 That's fantastic.

01:36:32.100 Some really nice uplighting there, yeah.

01:36:35.820 But isn't that amazing?

01:36:36.960 Yeah, that's really cool.

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.

01:36:52.840 Oh, wow.

01:36:53.240 That's incredible.

01:36:54.360 And just little holes in the ground.

01:36:56.660 Why would anyone look into the rabbit hole in the first place?

01:36:59.520 I don't know.

01:37:00.420 It's not part of the story.

01:37:02.380 But it says, it's a seven-year-old underground hideout.

01:37:07.900 And, you know, it's Alice in Wonderland.

01:37:09.940 Go down the rabbit hole and look what you find.

01:37:12.180 Seven years old.

01:37:13.460 700, I'm sorry.

01:37:14.380 Oh, okay.

01:37:14.700 700-year-old.

01:37:15.520 I was going to say, seven years.

01:37:17.360 That threw me, too.

01:37:18.120 Yeah, they just got a caterpillar.

01:37:19.660 I don't know why you guys were so excited about this.

01:37:21.420 It's no big deal.

01:37:22.140 They just got a cat.

01:37:22.960 No wonder it's got indoor lighting.

01:37:24.700 Yeah, right.

01:37:26.100 No, it's pretty amazing, though, isn't it?

01:37:27.360 Yeah.

01:37:27.560 And it looks like it's all made out of rock.

01:37:29.600 I mean, it's all dug into the rock.

01:37:31.900 Wow.

01:37:32.380 So, anyway.

01:37:33.160 Yeah, amazing.

01:37:34.420 A couple quick stories that we haven't hit yet today.

01:37:36.940 Yeah.

01:37:37.860 The reporting now is that DACA, which is the Deferred Action for Children.

01:37:44.180 It's the Dreamers.

01:37:45.260 It's the Dreamers thing.

01:37:46.060 Yeah.

01:37:46.320 So, you know, kids don't get deported.

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.

01:38:10.240 I thought so, too, but apparently not anymore.

01:38:11.640 So, Donald Trump ran on day one repeal.

01:38:16.820 And it was honestly the easiest.

01:38:18.280 It was an easy thing.

01:38:19.260 Every Republican said they were going to repeal that.

01:38:20.880 Yeah, because it's executive order.

01:38:23.900 Right.

01:38:24.140 It was an executive order.

01:38:24.800 He could do it.

01:38:25.260 Executive order.

01:38:25.940 And it's illegal.

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.

01:38:38.960 So, he didn't do it on day one.

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.

01:38:51.460 Other people, Sessions was against keeping it.

01:38:53.880 And Stephen Miller was against keeping it.

01:38:56.020 But Bannon wanted to keep it.

01:38:57.820 Why?

01:38:58.220 Again, I don't know.

01:38:59.460 I mean, I don't know if it's just popular or.

01:39:01.880 Politics.

01:39:02.320 Yeah.

01:39:02.640 I mean, they think, you know, well.

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.

01:39:12.440 That's why.

01:39:13.140 And that's why.

01:39:13.900 So, maybe they're thinking it's not worth it.

01:39:15.940 So, that is interesting.

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.

01:39:24.620 Some new polling is out on this.

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?

01:39:36.160 Yes.

01:39:36.800 Right.

01:39:37.180 And now it sounds so great.

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.

01:39:53.860 Now it's a trillion dollars.

01:39:54.940 The number, however, not included in this poll, but listen to this.

01:39:59.000 Democrats' favorite, 90 to 7.

01:40:02.900 Independents' favorite, 91 to 8.

01:40:06.440 Republicans' favorite, 90 to 7.

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.

01:40:16.940 90 to 7 among Republicans.

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.

01:40:37.900 Why are you doing that?

01:40:42.240 He's doing everything you want.

01:40:45.280 He's giving you everything you want.

01:40:47.940 It's been a mixed bag, but they don't want Neil Gorsuch, right?

01:40:50.020 They don't want Neil Gorsuch, yes.

01:40:51.600 But they, are you kidding me?

01:40:53.640 They do want DACA.

01:40:54.680 A trillion dollar stimulus package?

01:40:57.960 DACA?

01:40:59.040 You bet they do.

01:41:00.580 So Quinnipiac ran basically the same poll.

01:41:02.600 Universal health care, the way he rolled it out?

01:41:04.620 They love that.

01:41:05.660 Well, I mean, they're opposing it.

01:41:06.960 They don't get votes because it's worse for them than Obamacare. 0.96

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.

01:41:17.340 Listen to this.

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.

01:41:28.160 79 to 18 overall.

01:41:29.700 But Democrats, 72 to 25, approve the stimulus spending.

01:41:35.160 Independents, 79 to 19.

01:41:37.420 Republicans, 87 to 10.

01:41:39.900 Republicans have an eight point, believe in the stimulus spending, eight points more than Democrats.

01:41:47.960 Well, Stu, ask yourself this question.

01:41:49.840 Do you want roads to drive on?

01:41:52.440 Do you want our bridges to crumble?

01:41:54.400 Do you want to not be able to cross over a chasm?

01:41:56.580 I'm sorry, you don't like telephones now?

01:41:59.040 No, they're fine.

01:42:00.220 It's interesting.

01:42:01.080 It's interesting.

01:42:02.120 Do you want to go to an airport someday?

01:42:04.300 They're gone.

01:42:05.040 They're all gone.

01:42:05.780 They're all gone.

01:42:06.240 Or they're falling.

01:42:07.300 They're going.

01:42:08.060 They're either going or they're gone.

01:42:09.240 I think we have some calls on this, Ivan, because that's fascinating.

01:42:11.120 That's fascinating.

01:42:11.820 It's interesting.

01:42:12.500 Do we have anybody on the phone?

01:42:14.040 No, we don't.

01:42:14.400 Ivan?

01:42:15.000 I will say that's the one reason I'm skeptical.

01:42:16.440 Is there a number they can call?

01:42:17.380 I'm skeptical of both of these polls because I think a lot of people would say, like,

01:42:21.040 well, yeah, we've got to spend money on that.

01:42:22.660 And that's true.

01:42:23.560 Obviously, these things are, we have already spent money on it and we have scheduled spending

01:42:27.860 on it.

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.

01:42:41.440 Well, I can't say that.

01:42:42.460 One of the biggest socialist presidents we had, FDR.

01:42:46.400 But we had the Great Depression.

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,

01:42:58.720 blah, blah.

01:42:59.240 I can understand it then.

01:43:01.440 I'm sorry.

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?

01:43:20.960 That's hard to understand.

01:43:22.520 Yeah, because our infrastructure is crumbling.

01:43:24.500 Yeah, planes are going to fall out of the sky.

01:43:26.180 Right.

01:43:27.000 You know where the infrastructure is crumbling?

01:43:29.460 Where?

01:43:30.580 Roads, bridges.

01:43:31.420 Rust belt.

01:43:32.280 Where everybody raised their taxes so high that nobody wants to live anymore.

01:43:37.760 Yeah.

01:43:38.320 It's all crumbling up in the northeast.

01:43:42.140 Now, do we have problems around the rest of the country?

01:43:44.700 Yeah.

01:43:45.940 But the places that...

01:43:47.560 Our problem is we're building too many roads and bridges right now.

01:43:50.760 Yeah, we're probably...

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.

01:43:58.960 Yes.

01:43:59.680 And the eastern and western borders.

01:44:02.080 Yes.

01:44:02.780 Yeah.

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.

01:44:48.100 I'm convinced of it.

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.

01:45:46.980 It is grotesque.

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.

01:45:59.960 Everything is under construction there.

01:46:02.500 Expansion beyond your wildest dreams.

01:46:04.940 And then you go to a place like Rochester.

01:46:06.800 Then you go to a place like even Chicago.

01:46:09.520 You go to any place else in the country, and it's not being built out like that.

01:46:14.920 Why?

01:46:15.500 Because all of the growth is in government jobs.

01:46:20.260 Those should, all of those be reduced.

01:46:23.980 Calvin Coolidge was right.

01:46:25.920 Reduce it by half.

01:46:27.920 I'm going to cut 50% of these jobs.

01:46:31.920 High unemployment in Washington, D.C.

01:46:34.560 We can't cut 1% anymore.

01:46:36.400 No.

01:46:37.040 Can't even agree to that.

01:46:38.060 Nope.

01:46:38.420 No, we can't even.

01:46:39.020 I mean, one of the pitches that libertarians make is just don't increase spending.

01:46:44.100 Forget cutting.

01:46:45.140 Just keep it flat for the next five years.

01:46:47.880 They can't even come close to that.

01:46:48.980 That would be the biggest, you know, it's like a nuclear holocaust in our budget. 0.62

01:46:52.600 There is some really good news, though.

01:46:54.080 I think this is going to brighten your day.

01:46:56.420 Congratulations are in order.

01:46:57.300 Yes.

01:46:57.940 Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace.

01:47:02.720 The Nobel Peace Prize.

01:47:04.140 Same qualifications as Barack Obama.

01:47:06.080 So congratulations.

01:47:07.200 Wade.

01:47:07.720 Wade.

01:47:08.480 Uh-huh.

01:47:08.920 What?

01:47:09.540 Yes?

01:47:10.240 Wade.

01:47:10.760 You're excited?

01:47:12.260 It's a thrill.

01:47:12.660 Are you joking?

01:47:13.660 No, I'm not.

01:47:14.220 He was nominated by an American for his efforts to bring peace to the world via strength and

01:47:20.420 for combating terrorism.

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.

01:47:28.640 That's correct.

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?

01:47:35.380 Yes, I am.

01:47:35.880 Just as much as, just as much.

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.

01:47:49.960 Come on now.

01:47:50.320 Come on now.

01:47:50.840 Unbelievable.

01:47:51.620 Let's be consistent.

01:47:52.620 No.

01:47:53.560 No?

01:47:53.820 No, he deserves it.

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.

01:48:03.640 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.

01:48:08.640 He won.

01:48:09.320 I'm actually not asking for consistency from the Norwegians, but rather us here in this

01:48:15.660 country.

01:48:17.040 Well, I'm anxious to see the comedy writers on, you know.

01:48:21.400 Oh, yeah.

01:48:22.360 Oh, yeah.

01:48:22.700 Because they'll be something else.

01:48:23.800 They didn't mock Obama.

01:48:24.600 They didn't mock Obama at all.

01:48:26.020 But they will mock Trump, I'm sorry.

01:48:27.300 Just for the nomination, they will mock Trump.

01:48:29.600 Now this, the Consumer Electronics Show, trade show where all the big tech companies reveal

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01:48:35.000 I got to go next year.

01:48:36.100 I almost went this year.

01:48:37.380 I got to go.

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?

01:48:47.260 Okay.

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01:50:09.780 ACT UP is back.

01:50:10.620 I haven't heard from ACT UP in a while.

01:50:13.000 Have we heard from them?

01:50:14.120 No.

01:50:14.600 They're out protesting and they're upset about something again.

01:50:17.980 And they've developed another chant.

01:50:21.020 Oh, no.

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.

01:50:40.960 We'll keep funding you.

01:50:41.840 How dare you?

01:50:42.680 But if you don't, then we're going to defund you.

01:50:47.760 We don't want to fund the abortions. 1.00

01:50:49.480 Right.

01:50:49.680 Why should abortions be federally funded? 1.00

01:50:52.100 In fact, why should this organization be funded at all?

01:50:55.520 It doesn't need to be.

01:50:57.520 But what they'll claim is, well, it's all about women's health services.

01:51:01.400 It's all about cancer screenings.

01:51:03.620 Is it?

01:51:04.100 So, ACT UP was out screaming about it.

01:51:05.840 When abortion rights are under attack, what do we do?

01:51:08.740 ACT UP like that!

01:51:09.940 When abortion rights are under attack, what do we do?

01:51:13.280 ACT UP like that!

01:51:14.360 When abortion rights are under attack, what do we do?

01:51:17.900 ACT UP like that.

01:51:18.940 When trans lives are under attack, what do we do?

01:51:22.340 Act up like that!

01:51:23.660 I like that.

01:51:24.500 What do we do?

01:51:25.800 What do we do?

01:51:26.780 What do we do?

01:51:28.300 When trans lives are under attack, what do we do?

01:51:31.220 What was that last one?

01:51:32.440 Women's lives are under attack. 1.00

01:51:34.080 Oh, women's lives are under attack. 1.00

01:51:36.120 How are women's lives... 1.00

01:51:37.120 We're trying to save women's lives by stopping abortions. 0.97

01:51:40.660 ACT UP, fight back!

01:51:41.960 Jeez. 0.98

01:51:42.360 and i how are trans lives under attack maybe abortion too because uh transgendered babies 0.98

01:51:48.820 get aborted as well when they may grow up to be transgendered and they they've probably been what 0.74

01:51:54.900 a million transgendered babies since roe versus wade have probably been aborted

01:51:59.020 500 000 a lot a lot

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