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00:00:08.540 Hello, America. Wow.

00:00:11.740 It didn't work out well for the Democrats in Georgia.

00:00:18.020 Again.

00:00:18.420 Again.

00:00:18.880 This is their fourth or fifth.

00:00:20.240 Yeah, it's a fourth.

00:00:21.700 I think it's four that they have...

00:00:24.600 Oh, they were all salivating over it, too.

00:00:26.440 Yeah.

00:00:26.760 This is going to be the real Trump test.

00:00:30.220 Yeah, they're going to take and just spend a few dollars to make sure that they can show America what's coming.

00:00:39.160 I think they showed America last night that possibly the only person more unpopular than Donald Trump is, so I don't know, anyone in the Democratic Party.

00:00:53.200 Where do they go from here and what happened?

00:00:56.460 We begin there right now.

00:00:58.920 I will make a stand.

00:01:01.300 I will raise my voice.

00:01:03.540 I will hold your hand.

00:01:05.940 Because we are one.

00:01:07.780 I will beat my drum.

00:01:10.000 I have made my choice.

00:01:12.280 We will overcome.

00:01:14.600 Because we are one.

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00:01:24.020 Kansas, Montana, South Carolina, and now Georgia.

00:01:32.780 The Democrats are going to go one of two ways.

00:01:39.000 They're either going to get away from the Nancy Pelosi's of the world, and they're going to get away from the Bernie Sanders of the world, and they're going to see that America does not want that.

00:01:49.860 Or they are going to go hard core to the Bernie Sanders of the world, and that's what I think they probably will do.

00:01:58.540 The Democrats were going for a moderate approach, if you will.

00:02:06.600 That's kind of what they were trying to sell.

00:02:08.640 Hey, we're just like you, and we're moderate, and we just think some of these things are crazy, but we're going to fix all of these things.

00:02:17.180 And the Republicans just held up a sign with Nancy Pelosi's face.

00:02:22.600 I remember her.

00:02:23.780 It's what they did in Montana, too.

00:02:25.880 If you would have been there during that time period, they made it seem like Jim Forte was running against Nancy Pelosi.

00:02:35.400 Yeah.

00:02:35.980 Well, Nancy Pelosi is, it's not a personal thing for Nancy Pelosi.

00:02:41.180 I mean, it's what the Republicans did, or what the Democrats did with Newt Gingrich after Newt Gingrich became unpopular.

00:02:50.220 For a while, Newt Gingrich was very popular because he made the contract with America, and America was saying at the time, I want some things done.

00:02:58.880 And he went in, and he got those things done.

00:03:03.020 He did the opposite of what the Republicans are doing now.

00:03:05.760 They just, what is it that you want us to do?

00:03:11.360 Okay, good.

00:03:12.560 Let me write these down.

00:03:14.080 Is this it?

00:03:15.220 Yes.

00:03:15.780 Okay, I contract with you.

00:03:17.180 We're going to do these things, and then actually do them.

00:03:20.780 That's not done in America anymore.

00:03:22.860 What they, what, what happened to Newt Gingrich was they started to see Newt Gingrich, the country started to see Newt Gingrich as kind of this slimy guy that's just in there and kind of, you know, back of the room, fixing deals, et cetera, et cetera.

00:03:43.220 And so then they were, then America was prepared to see Newt Gingrich in a different light.

00:03:51.520 Well, that's how people see Nancy Pelosi, not as a fighter, but somebody who said, we're going to pole vault, we're going to do whatever we have to do to get this done.

00:03:59.300 Well, I warn the Republicans, the way they're doing health care right now is worse, and this is saying something, is worse than the way Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama did the health care bill.

00:04:16.280 You think?

00:04:16.720 I don't know.

00:04:17.420 That's quite a statement.

00:04:18.540 They were asked yesterday to do a soft vote, and none of them, he had even, not only just read the bill, the bill hadn't even been finished.

00:04:30.200 I mean, how are you going to say yes or no?

00:04:32.980 You haven't even written it yet.

00:04:35.280 It's not like, well, I haven't read it.

00:04:37.880 You haven't written it.

00:04:40.240 How am I expected to say yes or no?

00:04:44.960 Yeah.

00:04:45.440 Yes.

00:04:45.860 You can't, but you could bet, I think though, you could say, I think pretty fairly, like, here's the general way we're going.

00:04:52.820 Are you even, would you even consider this?

00:04:54.740 That's an okay conversation to have at this point.

00:04:56.860 Yes, you could do that.

00:04:57.720 You know, here's the basic things we're going to put in the bill.

00:05:00.160 What do you guys think?

00:05:01.060 I think that's a fair temperature taking at this point.

00:05:03.340 But we were also saying at the time, we're the group of people who said, look, it's not right to say American people are going to have to pass the bill to see what's in the bill.

00:05:13.600 No.

00:05:13.960 No, that was wrong.

00:05:15.400 Right.

00:05:15.780 And they promised the debate on that, too.

00:05:17.520 Right.

00:05:18.020 And we're not going to get a debate either.

00:05:20.260 I think the line here on the health care thing, which is, by the way, I think the most probably if you if you want to take one thing out of this Georgia election, probably it protects the health care process and the tax reform process.

00:05:35.980 Because if they were to have lost this election, Republicans, they would have all been running from every single bill.

00:05:42.320 Oh, yeah.

00:05:42.440 So this probably protects them.

00:05:43.920 I don't know that it does anything for 2018 or 2020.

00:05:46.140 No, I don't think so either.

00:05:47.140 It's just it's an indication, I suppose.

00:05:49.260 I think it will actually do something for 2018 in this regard.

00:05:54.360 It will show them that no matter how much money they spent, it's not going to matter if your message is wrong.

00:06:01.400 And their message is wrong.

00:06:04.440 And, you know, I don't trust their divining rod.

00:06:07.760 I don't think they they don't have any idea why their message is wrong.

00:06:12.440 Yeah, it's and I think that's I think that's definitely part of it.

00:06:16.520 It's there's an argument to be made, too, that they put so much attention on this.

00:06:19.980 It actually inspired the Republicans.

00:06:21.800 They put so much money and focus this and made such a big deal about this election that there were that more Republicans showed up.

00:06:28.480 For example, they were much more heavily favored and there was no real conversation about South Carolina, which wound up being closer yesterday.

00:06:36.020 So, you know, it's partially that.

00:06:39.080 But I think with the health care bill, if they if they're now going to continue to pursue it, which would be interesting.

00:06:45.000 I mean, I want it to be repealed.

00:06:47.180 I don't like the way they've gone so far, but they have to have some level of conversation to form something.

00:06:52.360 So it's not just being picked apart in the press every single step.

00:06:56.020 Oh, I agree.

00:06:56.740 I don't think that initial negotiation needs to be like you need to come up with something to talk about a debate.

00:07:01.680 I agree.

00:07:02.640 But what they're what they're saying they're going to do now is keep it under wraps until they pass it.

00:07:09.380 Because they don't want anybody picking it apart.

00:07:11.620 Well, yeah, that's not good.

00:07:13.400 You can't do that. 0.97

00:07:14.340 And if they try to do that, that's ridiculous. 0.90

00:07:16.080 That is what the Democrats did. 0.95

00:07:17.560 Right.

00:07:17.760 I mean, you have to have a debate publicly.

00:07:20.340 But you can look at these results in two ways.

00:07:22.360 I mean, I think you could look at it and you say, hey, they're four.

00:07:24.080 No, that's great.

00:07:25.660 You know, hey, this, you know, they're not having negative effects.

00:07:27.880 And in every case, they made it about Trump, not the person who was really running.

00:07:32.180 So they make it out to be like, OK, this is another big Trump test.

00:07:35.320 And you're going to see just how unpopular this guy is.

00:07:37.640 America hates him.

00:07:38.440 And the Republicans have won every single time.

00:07:41.100 So you could look at it that way.

00:07:41.940 And I think that's really backfiring big time on him.

00:07:44.800 Although I think you could look at the data a couple of different ways here.

00:07:47.920 Listen to this.

00:07:48.300 This is the last two.

00:07:49.360 This is how these these four have gone.

00:07:50.920 2012 president in Kansas.

00:07:54.040 They won by 29 points.

00:07:55.760 Republicans in 2016 won by 29 points.

00:07:59.380 The special election, they won by seven.

00:08:01.580 So 29, 29, seven.

00:08:04.260 It's still impressive, though, when you when you take into account what's happening, just how negative they've been.

00:08:10.160 And just how low, just how low Donald Trump's numbers are as well.

00:08:16.700 Yeah.

00:08:17.020 Beating he's taken in the press.

00:08:18.960 Huge beating.

00:08:19.480 The the lackluster, you know, performance by the GOP itself, the the the the problems the president has created and the problems that have been created by the press.

00:08:37.940 When you couple all of those things together, we would have all said, you know, two years ago, if any other president, let me put it this way.

00:08:47.640 If any other president would be going through right or wrong, what this president is going through.

00:08:54.140 I think only Ronald Reagan could have weathered it.

00:08:57.220 Everybody else would have been dead. 0.88

00:08:59.920 Republicans dead.

00:09:02.780 But I think the point of this, though, is these are heavily favored GOP districts that are getting kind of close.

00:09:10.660 Yes. Yes. Yes.

00:09:11.220 That's not necessarily a gigantic positive.

00:09:14.140 But it's also not 2016, 2014, 2012.

00:09:19.960 Right. But I mean, that's that's kind of the point here, though.

00:09:22.160 Right. I mean, the fact you're right.

00:09:23.960 But like if you're answering the like, well, hey, you know, it was really Republican and now it's not quite as Republican.

00:09:30.180 But the reason for that is because things aren't so great for the president or things aren't so great in today.

00:09:34.840 Well, that's the point.

00:09:35.860 You know, the point of that, that's the that's that's what the point people are making on this.

00:09:39.860 But you could read it. I'm trying to read also.

00:09:42.620 I agree with you that the GOP is in trouble if the DNC gets their act together, which I don't see happening.

00:09:54.560 They could beat the GOP in in GOP districts.

00:10:01.800 But I believe they have to.

00:10:03.100 I believe they are in worse shape now themselves.

00:10:07.100 They don't have the youth.

00:10:10.080 The youth sees them as far.

00:10:11.920 They don't even have the socialists.

00:10:14.540 The Democrats are frauds to people who actually believe in Bernie Sanders.

00:10:21.320 So that that that that coalition that the Democrats tried to build is as weak as the coalition in the GOP as real, true, diehard, small government constitutionalists.

00:10:37.100 Constitutional, conservative libertarians, the people who lean there, they don't look at the GOP as their savior.

00:10:43.500 They don't look.

00:10:44.180 They'll take it if they have to.

00:10:46.300 But they're not taking it really anymore.

00:10:49.160 They'll really be selective.

00:10:51.020 Well, that's the way the DNC is.

00:10:53.480 We're just not hearing that highlighted all the time on television because they don't want to talk about that.

00:10:58.140 Oh, well, Bernie is a part of our.

00:10:59.580 No, he's not.

00:11:00.540 No, he's not.

00:11:00.980 And his supporters don't like you guys.

00:11:04.580 So if they get their act together.

00:11:07.960 Yes, they could make a dent.

00:11:10.760 If the GOP gets his act, whichever one gets their act together.

00:11:14.720 Otherwise, may I suggest the winning strategy in 18 is is more like what they did in France.

00:11:30.480 And it may be the winning strategy in 2020 if it's not just a clear cut win for Donald Trump.

00:11:36.660 Which is which is what?

00:11:37.500 What happened in France and I hope we're smarter than this, but maybe not.

00:11:43.500 Somebody left the party.

00:11:46.020 OK, Macron was was he was you know, he was like a Democrat.

00:11:51.000 He left the party.

00:11:52.720 A Republican could do this to leave the party.

00:11:55.220 I've had enough of it.

00:11:56.820 And I'm not I'm not that party.

00:11:59.500 I'm not this party.

00:12:00.420 I'm my own independent because they're part of the party he won with has only been around for like a year.

00:12:05.200 Right.

00:12:05.700 It's incredible.

00:12:06.280 Right. And what happened was he convinced people that both sides were ridiculous, even though he was in the party. 0.82

00:12:16.660 He was you know what it is.

00:12:18.240 It's who's the guy from Utah that we considered voting for.

00:12:22.560 Oh, Evan McMullin, Evan McMullin.

00:12:23.980 Yeah.

00:12:24.460 The guy that's exactly what Macron did.

00:12:27.560 He was a big part of the party. 0.98

00:12:30.740 And then he left and said, this is ridiculous. 0.90

00:12:32.800 And you were like, but you were just in the party. 0.92

00:12:35.940 And I'm not sure.

00:12:37.260 I mean, you're saying a lot of good things, but I'm not sure you're not still part of the party.

00:12:42.280 You're just kind of hedging your bet for the party's sake.

00:12:46.320 You know what I mean?

00:12:46.900 And I don't mean to describe, you know, such nefarious principles to McMullin because I like him.

00:12:54.540 But that's what that's really what happened in France.

00:12:57.640 And then they started to build a coalition in the center.

00:13:00.140 Now, I don't think that's going to work.

00:13:03.760 I hope we're smarter than that.

00:13:06.420 And I don't think it's going to work in France, you know, long term.

00:13:09.360 It's not going to actually solve anything in France.

00:13:12.840 But I think that is the best winning strategy.

00:13:18.000 If you're looking to be if you're looking to play politics, the real winning strategy is actually stand for something.

00:13:25.700 What a concept.

00:13:27.160 Actually be a Marxist and run on a Marxist socialist platform or actually be a constitutionalist and run as a constitutionalist.

00:13:36.900 Nobody has the gut.

00:13:38.080 Nobody has the guts to do either of those.

00:13:40.140 Yeah.

00:13:40.540 Yeah.

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00:15:44.340 Here is the, was this the acceptance speech or was this the losing speech?

00:15:50.480 I'm not really, it's hard to hear it.

00:15:53.180 Here's what happened in Georgia last night with the Democrat who lost.

00:15:57.300 For people across the country.

00:16:03.600 And for people around the world.

00:16:05.420 This small community in Georgia, which has become the epicenter of politics, sometimes

00:16:16.380 to my chagrin, for months now, and it's had nothing to do with me.

00:16:24.680 It never has.

00:16:26.180 It's an easy thing to say when you're lost.

00:16:28.880 It has nothing to do with me.

00:16:30.820 It's about you.

00:16:31.600 It's about, it's about an extraordinary community at an extraordinary moment in history.

00:16:40.460 The first opportunity in this country to make a statement about values that can still unite

00:16:49.700 people.

00:16:50.100 Wait, wait, wait, wait, did you win or did you lose?

00:16:59.060 At a time when politics has been dominated by fear and hatred and scapegoating and division,

00:17:10.840 this community stood up, women in this community stood up, women in this community stood up.

00:17:19.800 She did.

00:17:20.580 Like the GOP elected a woman.

00:17:22.540 Is that what she did? 0.92

00:17:23.800 It did.

00:17:24.440 And you picked this campaign up and you picked me up and you picked Alicia up and you carried

00:17:30.280 us on your shoulders.

00:17:31.480 And you took us all the way to a humiliating defeat.

00:17:34.660 In the most expensive house race in history.

00:17:39.060 Yay! 0.99

00:17:40.400 Wow.

00:17:40.960 It's, it's, it's really weird.

00:17:43.460 It's weird.

00:17:44.440 It's really weird.

00:17:45.560 And it's funny because, I mean, it does say something about this tactic because, you know,

00:17:49.060 we could go through all the races, but it's the only race they did not improve on dramatically

00:17:54.440 from the presidential campaign.

00:17:56.040 The Democrats out of the four.

00:17:57.900 Only this one is the only one they didn't actually gain any ground.

00:18:01.100 After spending all that money.

00:18:01.920 It's amazing, they spent, what, tens of millions of dollars to win this one race.

00:18:06.580 Because I don't think money matters anymore.

00:18:10.940 I really don't.

00:18:12.140 I think we are so aware of the games that are played.

00:18:17.100 We just don't believe it anymore.

00:18:19.660 Well, I mean, look at the presidential race, right?

00:18:21.420 I mean, obviously Trump got a lot of free media, but I mean, he spent nothing even close

00:18:25.660 to what Hillary spent. 0.99

00:18:26.540 He spent like $1.97.

00:18:27.720 $1.97.

00:18:29.080 They went to the dollar store twice.

00:18:30.900 Brilliant.

00:18:31.100 And they got a slight discount on one of the trips for $1.97.

00:18:35.020 He said, we'll let you have this for $0.97.

00:18:37.840 That was really nice.

00:18:38.860 It was a big supporter.

00:18:39.940 That's why.

00:18:40.340 A big Trump supporter.

00:18:41.500 I mean, it's remarkable.

00:18:44.540 There is a fundamental shift in America.

00:18:49.100 And, you know, I want to spend some time.

00:18:50.740 There's a great article today in National Review about we need to go back and listen to some

00:19:00.520 farewell addresses.

00:19:01.300 And there are three farewell addresses that I personally, and I was so happy to see the National Review pick the same three.

00:19:10.540 Three farewell addresses from presidents that if we would have heeded just these three, we wouldn't be in the trouble we're in now.

00:19:20.940 The first one is George Washington.

00:19:22.840 And George Washington warned us about these two parties and becoming patriotic and having loyalty to the parties.

00:19:37.020 He said that will kill us in the end as long as well as foreign entanglements, which we've done. 1.00

00:19:44.160 The second one was Eisenhower.

00:19:47.940 His farewell address was the military-industrial complex.

00:19:51.920 If we don't watch what's happening with the Pentagon and the military, they are going to get us involved in everything and will spend us into oblivion and cause all kinds of foreign entanglements.

00:20:05.680 And then the third one, I'll give that one to you and play a bit of it next.

00:20:10.620 We are one.

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00:20:26.020 Hello, America.

00:20:27.180 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:28.360 We're so glad that you are here.

00:20:30.660 Coming up in about a half an hour, I am going to share something with you.

00:20:34.760 I asked some people in the House and the Senate.

00:20:39.840 I asked a couple of fiction writers.

00:20:41.900 I asked some business leaders.

00:20:45.400 What do you think would have happened to the economy if a week ago everybody on that baseball diamond had been shot and killed?

00:20:58.400 If we were a nation in mourning today and we were just finishing up the last funeral, the last flag-draped coffin, what would America look like today, a week later?

00:21:15.360 So I've put all of them together.

00:21:18.120 Now, they've all said, don't use my name.

00:21:21.440 I think except for Brad Thor, who was really like, I don't care.

00:21:25.080 So I'm not going to tell you who said what, and this is pure fiction, pure speculation.

00:21:36.300 The reason why I'm doing it is because I don't think that we have any idea how fragile, how close to the edge we really are, and how one big event can change everything.

00:21:54.140 Now, I didn't tell these guys what my speculation was.

00:21:58.640 I just asked them a series of questions.

00:22:04.200 What would the Fed do?

00:22:07.160 What would DHS do?

00:22:09.880 What would the President do?

00:22:11.360 What would Congress do?

00:22:12.540 What would the Senate do?

00:22:14.020 What would happen on Wall Street?

00:22:15.820 What would North Korea do?

00:22:17.440 Russia? 0.61

00:22:18.500 What would happen over in Europe and the Middle East?

00:22:20.800 I just asked a series of questions and let them fill in the blanks.

00:22:27.380 I'm going to give you their scenario, the composite scenario of what we would be looking at at America today had we spent the last week burying congressmen and senators.

00:22:43.120 It's coming up in about a half an hour.

00:22:44.900 It is truly remarkable.

00:22:47.440 Truly remarkable.

00:22:48.260 There is also another story today that I want to hit from National Review.

00:22:56.020 There's a couple of stories.

00:22:58.900 But one of them is on the advice of presidents.

00:23:06.460 When they give a farewell address, George Washington was obviously the first to give one.

00:23:15.000 And he never delivered it.

00:23:16.720 He wrote it.

00:23:18.880 And then instead of delivering it in a speech, he just sent it to the newspapers.

00:23:23.700 And the newspapers covered it.

00:23:26.300 And it used to be that you used to have to study his farewell address.

00:23:34.760 There were three documents that you had to study.

00:23:36.800 One of them was his farewell address, Constitution, Declaration of Independence.

00:23:42.120 And up until about 1920, his farewell address was studied by every generation.

00:23:48.960 You couldn't pass the eighth grade unless you knew it.

00:23:53.520 Most people have never even read it, let alone heard of it.

00:23:57.320 It's one of the best documents in American history because it is alive today.

00:24:04.960 It shows you where we have gone wrong.

00:24:07.400 The other one that I think is really, really important and National Review agrees,

00:24:14.100 that is the address that I think is the last risky yet totally honest warning any president has ever given us.

00:24:29.120 And that is Eisenhower.

00:24:32.280 Eisenhower's farewell address is where we get the term the vast military-industrial complex.

00:24:40.400 Here's a guy who was the winning general of World War II.

00:24:46.320 Here is the commander of all Allied forces in World War II.

00:24:52.920 He grew up in the military.

00:24:55.300 He's a military fan.

00:24:58.300 And he saw a change in the 1950s because of the Cold War.

00:25:03.520 And he realized we're not going to descale or de-escalate.

00:25:08.800 Up until World War II and then Korea in the 1950s, we would call an army together and we would go fight.

00:25:19.680 But our army before World War II, they were literally training with broomsticks.

00:25:25.420 We didn't even have enough guns.

00:25:27.440 People would bring their own guns from home to train with.

00:25:33.540 That's a civilian army.

00:25:36.460 That's the way we always were.

00:25:37.720 And so we would call people together and say, hey, there's a war coming.

00:25:42.420 Let's all get together.

00:25:43.740 And we would train.

00:25:44.920 In the 1950s, the world changed because of nuclear war.

00:25:48.660 And we realized we could all be dead in 12 minutes.

00:25:52.000 We have to have a standing army.

00:25:53.780 We have to now have nuclear weapons at the ready.

00:25:58.120 So if we have that, we have to have a standing military.

00:26:00.920 We have to have a military-industrial complex that is building and researching the latest technology to be able to do things.

00:26:13.440 In his farewell address, he said, warning, America.

00:26:19.020 Warning.

00:26:19.960 We no longer are going to send these people home to the private sector. 0.60

00:26:25.020 They are now here.

00:26:26.800 And as everything, unless you keep your eye on them, they are going to grow in power.

00:26:35.700 And before you know it, they could be leading us around on a leash.

00:26:39.840 Now, here's a general saying, beware of a military-industrial complex.

00:26:47.240 Beware of the collusion between the military and the capitalist companies that are going to get rich off of those military sales.

00:26:56.840 Extraordinarily brave and one that only kooks have listened to.

00:27:05.100 Have you noticed that the vast military-industrial complex was a joke for most of our life?

00:27:10.660 It was a conspiracy theory?

00:27:12.400 I don't think that that is by happenstance.

00:27:16.620 I think that is people in the military-industrial complex helping that in to be a joke.

00:27:21.900 Oh, I know you've got to be careful of the black helicopters.

00:27:24.540 Well, yeah, you kind of do.

00:27:26.840 You kind of do.

00:27:28.080 It could get out of control.

00:27:30.300 As George Washington said, only those with a healthy respect for fire and what it is and what it does and how out of control it can be should be tending the fire.

00:27:41.920 And that's all that Eisenhower was saying.

00:27:44.140 If you don't have a healthy respect for what capitalism and the military can do, you shouldn't be tending to it.

00:27:51.600 Because it can go bad.

00:27:54.720 Then there was one other speech.

00:27:56.840 One other speech that I think was misunderstood.

00:28:01.620 And we were so fat and sassy at the time that I don't think anybody really listened to it.

00:28:10.840 Finally, there is a great tradition of warnings in presidential farewells.

00:28:23.980 And I've got one that's been on my mind for some time.

00:28:28.260 But oddly enough, it starts with one of the things I'm proudest of in the past eight years.

00:28:33.360 The resurgence of national pride that I called the new patriotism.

00:28:38.960 This national feeling is good, but it won't count for much and it won't last unless it's grounded in thoughtfulness and knowledge.

00:28:47.160 Stop.

00:28:47.980 You hear that?

00:28:50.820 National pride is good, but it doesn't count for anything unless it is grounded in kindness and knowledge.

00:29:03.180 I contend we have neither of those right now on any side.

00:29:11.840 That our national dialogue is not grounded in knowledge.

00:29:16.020 Who are you hearing talk about the real issues, the ones that face you, and talk about real solutions?

00:29:26.300 Who are you hearing talk about real solution with kindness and with knowledge?

00:29:33.240 How many of us are responding back with knowledge or kindness?

00:29:42.280 Ronald Reagan said it won't account for much unless it's coupled with those two.

00:29:47.960 An informed patriotism is what we want.

00:29:51.360 And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world?

00:29:57.960 Stop.

00:29:58.920 That's a question.

00:29:59.900 That's a question.

00:30:00.520 And you can answer that question now.

00:30:04.040 You couldn't answer it then.

00:30:05.960 Are we doing a good enough job of teaching our children the history of America?

00:30:13.020 That was a question back then.

00:30:14.920 And I believe my parents probably said yes.

00:30:18.940 And if I were a parent back then, I'd say yes.

00:30:21.940 And if I were a parent in 2000, I'd say, well, kind of, pretty much.

00:30:26.100 If I were a parent in 2008, I would say, well, it's kind of bad.

00:30:31.260 If I'm a parent in 2017, I'm like, look at the failure.

00:30:36.780 We didn't even see how rotted this system is.

00:30:43.080 You can get your doctorate in history.

00:30:46.920 In, what is it, 90% of colleges nationwide and not be required to take any American history.

00:30:58.520 Now, how can you be a doctor in world history?

00:31:03.340 How can you have your degree in world history and not have to take any American history?

00:31:10.500 That doesn't make sense.

00:31:11.760 That's like studying world history.

00:31:13.560 Well, I'm an expert on world history.

00:31:16.480 Of course, I didn't study England or Rome.

00:31:18.780 What?

00:31:21.560 How's that possible?

00:31:23.300 Well, then you're not a world historian.

00:31:24.800 You might be a historian on Asia and the Middle East, but that's only part of the world.

00:31:32.060 He goes on.

00:31:33.860 Of us who are over 35 or so years of age grew up in a different America.

00:31:39.400 We were taught very directly what it means to be an American.

00:31:43.020 And we absorbed almost in the air a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions.

00:31:48.780 If you didn't get these things from your family, you got them from the neighborhood,

00:31:53.740 from the father down the street who fought in Korea, or the family who lost someone at Anzio.

00:31:59.620 Or you can get a sense of patriotism from school.

00:32:03.280 And if all else failed, you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture.

00:32:08.640 Stop.

00:32:09.080 The movies.

00:32:11.280 He's talking in, what, 1989?

00:32:15.480 He's getting ready to leave office in 1989.

00:32:18.740 And he's saying, we used to have this in popular culture.

00:32:23.180 Go back in popular culture in 1989, and it's practically Uncle Sam.

00:32:29.000 Everybody's almost in Uncle Sam pants compared to now.

00:32:32.160 Oh, my God.

00:32:32.700 Watch things like Ghostbusters.

00:32:34.540 It's like a tribute to capitalism.

00:32:37.060 Yes.

00:32:37.340 When you go back and watch it, you can't believe how excited they are.

00:32:40.000 We were talking about this the other day of, like, when they're saying, wait a minute, you don't want to go into the private sector.

00:32:44.680 They actually expect results there.

00:32:46.520 Right.

00:32:46.960 I mean, throughout that entire era.

00:32:50.320 So now you think about what culture is doing.

00:32:55.900 Remember, entertainment creates culture, but culture creates values.

00:33:04.620 Our culture was creating values that were good, kind, gentle, strong, American.

00:33:16.620 Our entertainment is none of those.

00:33:21.760 So our entertainment is creating this culture.

00:33:25.380 What are the values that are being mined and minted right now in our culture?

00:33:30.460 They are not what we grew up with, and he was my president when I was a teenager.

00:33:39.100 ...obrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special.

00:33:45.540 TV was like that, too, through the mid-60s.

00:33:48.820 But now we're about to enter the 90s, and some things have changed.

00:33:53.800 Younger parents aren't sure that an unambivalent appreciation of America

00:33:58.220 is the right thing to teach modern children.

00:34:01.520 And as for those who create the popular culture,

00:34:04.620 well-grounded patriotism is no longer the style.

00:34:08.240 Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it.

00:34:13.000 We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom.

00:34:17.580 Freedom of speech.

00:34:19.320 Freedom of religion.

00:34:20.880 Freedom of enterprise.

00:34:22.560 And freedom is special and rare.

00:34:25.460 It's fragile.

00:34:26.660 It needs production.

00:34:28.520 So we've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

00:34:34.780 Why the pilgrims came here.

00:34:36.540 Who Jimmy Doolittle was.

00:34:38.140 And what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant.

00:34:41.500 You know, four years ago, on the 40th anniversary of D-Day,

00:34:45.360 I read a letter from a young woman writing to her late father,

00:34:49.360 who had fought on Omaha Beach.

00:34:51.640 Her name was Lisa Zanatta Hen.

00:34:53.620 And she said, we will always remember, we will never forget what the boys of Normandy did.

00:35:00.280 Well, let's help her keep her word. 0.89

00:35:03.980 And it's an amazing call to arms and one that needs to be heard again and one to be answered.

00:35:12.080 And I want to bring you along for a ride that we're going to take because we are going to answer that call in a different way.

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00:36:25.360 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:36:29.220 Mercury.

00:36:33.320 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:36:35.500 It's really amazing how fast the world is moving now.

00:36:39.740 What is happening with Uber and the CEO?

00:36:42.940 Stu, are you familiar with this?

00:36:44.740 He's now taking a leave of absence.

00:36:48.080 Uber is, you know.

00:36:50.360 He's out now, right?

00:36:51.340 Yeah, he's out.

00:36:53.200 And, you know, real problems at Uber.

00:36:56.800 Here's a company that has changed the world

00:37:00.320 and is in complete disarray.

00:37:05.040 How fast you can fall in today's world is truly remarkable.

00:37:14.220 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:37:41.360 Hello, America.

00:37:43.060 Welcome to the program.

00:37:45.020 Glad you're here.

00:37:45.960 We had another brush with a Russian jet yesterday.

00:37:49.900 Um, the Brussels bomb suspect was Moroccan and known to police.

00:37:56.880 It looks like the, uh, shooter in Washington, according to police breaking now, uh, acted alone

00:38:03.960 and was not a terrorist.

00:38:06.420 Well, well, hang on.

00:38:08.120 Yes.

00:38:08.940 Yes, he was.

00:38:09.760 His idea was to terrorize, uh, intimidate, cause a revolution, uh, and, um, oh, I don't

00:38:18.300 know, assassinate people.

00:38:20.200 So, I don't know how we say he wasn't a, uh, part of a terrorist operation.

00:38:24.800 Yes, he wasn't in Al-Qaeda.

00:38:26.540 He was the sole member of his group.

00:38:28.240 But this was a terroristic act and an act of assassination and an act that could have

00:38:35.580 changed the country and the world possibly forever.

00:38:42.840 Now, that's quite an amazing statement to make.

00:38:46.120 But as the country begins to discuss who he is and here's the information the police have,

00:38:52.180 I want to take a look back seven days ago today and look at what happened on the baseball diamond

00:39:01.780 with new eyes.

00:39:03.520 We begin there right now.

00:39:22.180 It was exactly one week ago that James T. Hodgkinson opened fire on 30 Republican congressmen

00:39:42.400 as they practice for a charity baseball game in Virginia.

00:39:45.820 Witnesses say, and police now confirm, 50 to 100 shots were fired.

00:39:54.400 It took nine minutes for the police to officially respond, after which they engaged Hodgkinson in

00:40:02.940 a five-minute shootout.

00:40:05.480 That means the assassin had 14 total minutes to get off as many shots as possible.

00:40:14.000 And anyone could see the Republicans were sitting ducks.

00:40:20.720 In the end, after between 50 and 100 shots, 14 minutes and 30 targets, only five people were

00:40:32.320 injured.

00:40:33.500 Only one of them was injured critically and is recovering.

00:40:39.180 We know that the majority house whip, Steve Calise, went under the knife several times, had multiple

00:40:51.340 surgeries over the weekend, but his condition has now been upgraded from critical to severe.

00:40:56.680 And if it wasn't for the truly heroic actions of two Capitol Police officers who were there in

00:41:07.280 the security detail, all of this would have been much, much worse.

00:41:13.680 In fact, I'm going to go beyond that.

00:41:16.220 In fact, we spent a week talking about, wow, how lucky these congressmen were, how lucky they

00:41:27.400 all were to have the security there, to be able to minimize the damage that was received.

00:41:42.580 How do you explain how a shooter with two guns, who fired 50 to 100 rounds, firing 14 minutes

00:41:54.500 into a crowd of 30 people, not only didn't kill anyone, but only managed to injure five people.

00:42:02.360 How do you explain that?

00:42:03.460 We know now that the act was premeditated a week ago.

00:42:09.180 We didn't know if this guy just walked up and said to a congressman, hey, are these Republicans

00:42:14.240 or Democrats?

00:42:15.680 And then just happened to have a gun with him.

00:42:17.920 No, no, no.

00:42:18.380 We know now that this was premeditated.

00:42:21.720 We know that he was an assassin because he had a list of all of the Republicans he was planning

00:42:27.500 on killing, the planning alone, the level of planning that was involved.

00:42:33.700 He had the means.

00:42:34.640 He had the motivation.

00:42:35.880 He had the will. 1.00

00:42:38.280 He was willing to give his life to kill as many Republican congressmen as he could. 0.67

00:42:44.660 How did this guy fail?

00:42:46.760 Now, to answer this, I wanted to come up with a way to show you what I think we need to imagine here.

00:43:05.480 We need to see in our mind's eye what the world would be like today, a week later, as we were

00:43:13.920 finally putting the last coffin in the ground.

00:43:17.900 What would our country look like during the next hours, the next few days, and the next weeks?

00:43:26.380 What would be happening today if he would have been successful in taking out 30 Republican congressmen?

00:43:35.120 So here's what I did.

00:43:36.400 Over the weekend, I reached out to security experts.

00:43:38.980 I wrote out to a few fiction writers, a few business people, some actual lawmakers, some

00:43:46.060 senators, some congressmen, and I said, look, I'm not asking you to tell me exactly.

00:43:53.500 I'm asking you to tell me what your gut says.

00:43:56.620 Knowing the situation and your area of expertise, what do you think would have happened

00:44:03.840 in a realistic scenario?

00:44:07.360 I have taken them and folded them all into one cohesive storyline to show you what these

00:44:16.280 many experts all believe in their area of expertise would have happened.

00:44:21.220 The next day, a week from tomorrow, the opening bell, or a week last Thursday, the opening bell

00:44:37.860 for the New York Stock Exchange would be set to ring.

00:44:40.460 But the futures would be down so far that we probably would have closed it and waited until

00:44:52.580 the following Monday.

00:44:56.000 So the stock exchange, just like it did on 9-11, we hold it until the following Monday

00:45:01.780 until we can get our sea legs.

00:45:03.240 When we rang the bell Monday morning, we needed to have a rally in the stock market.

00:45:13.260 The president probably would have said, go spend money.

00:45:18.240 The futures would be way down, leading into the open as the rest of the world would believe

00:45:24.820 America had finally cracked.

00:45:27.220 Within five minutes, experts tell me they think the New York Stock Exchange, the circuit

00:45:33.200 breakers would have been tripped, and the markets would have been shut down.

00:45:37.240 They would have tried to open those circuit breakers two more times to open the markets, 0.89

00:45:41.640 only to have even bigger drops as people all rushed in to get out of the stock market.

00:45:47.320 They would have then announced some Orwellian week of mourning that was going to be announced,

00:45:53.680 would give the markets a chance to remain closed until the following week.

00:45:58.100 Behind the scenes, the Federal Reserve would enact massive, highly secretive futures manipulation

00:46:05.040 to help inject stability.

00:46:07.580 This is what happened after 9-11.

00:46:09.700 This is what has happened before the Great Depression.

00:46:12.060 They closed the market.

00:46:13.620 They get everybody who has big money and say, you have to get in on these futures.

00:46:18.660 As the markets remained closed, the dollar would go into a free fall.

00:46:23.940 Countries owning large amounts of U.S. debt would begin to contemplate dumping their sovereign funds

00:46:30.780 and their dollar reserves.

00:46:33.000 In the end, we believe they would decide to wait and see if things would worsen for the United States

00:46:39.180 in the next few weeks.

00:46:41.040 Partisan media would begin to stir the pot.

00:46:43.280 In response, the violent leftists, such as Antifa, would take their movements to an entirely new level.

00:46:50.580 Far-right counter-protests would engage them in the streets.

00:46:54.900 And this would happen in most major metropolitan areas of the country.

00:46:59.560 But the rest of the country would be frightened watching it and not know what to do.

00:47:05.020 Then copycat attacks would begin on more local and federal lawmakers.

00:47:10.800 Possibly on the media as well.

00:47:13.280 Congress would then go into action to decide we need to update the Patriot Act,

00:47:19.520 a new Patriot Act-style law that would enable the NSA to go after Americans planning riots and attacks.

00:47:27.300 Hate speech laws would crack down on Facebook and Twitter.

00:47:31.240 The American president would make a speech calling for quick action.

00:47:36.080 We need to act right now on health care reform, tax reform, and the balance of the Trump agenda.

00:47:42.060 We need to send a message to the country and to those who oppose that the Donald J.

00:47:48.300 Trump administration will not be deterred.

00:47:51.220 We also need to provide security detail for every member of Congress and or a concealed carry permit for every member of Congress.

00:47:59.620 Special elections would be called to replace the 30 congressmen that were killed so all the legislation could be fast-tracked.

00:48:09.260 Rioting would intensify.

00:48:11.400 Polling areas would be threatened with firebombing if they opened as scheduled.

00:48:15.220 Martial law would be declared to ensure peaceful elections.

00:48:19.420 Countries such as China, Brazil, and India, all the BRICS nations, would see their chance and begin dumping U.S. sovereign funds.

00:48:28.440 Worst case scenario, the dollar would nosedive.

00:48:32.620 Martial law would stay in effect until the economy would stabilize.

00:48:36.640 Our enemies abroad would look to capitalize on our weakness and the preoccupation with our internal problems.

00:48:43.260 Iran would close the Straits of Hormuz. 0.83

00:48:45.940 China mobilizing on the North Korean border.

00:48:48.880 Russia would finally fully invade the Ukraine. 0.50

00:48:54.000 This, the experts that I went to, all agreed would happen in the first month.

00:49:02.800 Some have said that if Hodgkin's would have been successful, it would have created the largest social and political shift in modern history.

00:49:12.300 I believe that's true.

00:49:14.040 But in 14 minutes, with two guns, 50 to 100 shots, a plan, rehearsal in the woods, a kill list, how was it he was only able to shoot and hit five people and not kill any of them?

00:49:38.560 We were at the doorstep to what could have been the largest flashpoint in our nation's history.

00:49:51.360 What happened a week ago?

00:49:56.860 Most of us don't even care a week later.

00:50:01.460 Most of us now look at this as old news.

00:50:04.480 What we were all talking about last week, and we were all saying we have to have more tolerance for one each other.

00:50:12.900 That's long forgotten.

00:50:15.120 That happened before last weekend.

00:50:20.220 I believe this was divine providence.

00:50:23.520 I fully believe that God intervened in this.

00:50:26.080 Perhaps those Capitol Police officers, this was the day they were born to live.

00:50:40.760 Perhaps the flight paths of the bullets were changed.

00:50:45.360 More likely, vision and fear was intensified in him as he squeezed the trigger.

00:50:52.900 But I believe, just as much as I did in the American Revolution, it was God that made that happen.

00:51:03.100 I believe in many ways, as Thomas Jefferson said,

00:51:08.400 when I realized that God is just, I tremble for my country because we wouldn't stop slavery.

00:51:13.920 We were not worthy of his divine protection while we were enslaving people.

00:51:23.760 We're not really worthy of his divine providence and protection now.

00:51:29.400 But for some reason, I am very grateful that he gave it to us last week

00:51:37.060 after looking at what could have been happening today.

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00:53:38.620 I'm just looking at Danielle DiMartino Booth.

00:53:42.780 She's a former financial columnist at the Dallas Morning News.

00:53:47.680 She was nine years as the advisor to the Fed chief here

00:53:53.260 in the Federal Reserve in Dallas, Richard Fisher,

00:53:57.200 who I have a lot of respect for.

00:53:58.380 He was one of the only real guys fighting people like Janet Yellen.

00:54:03.920 She now runs Money Strong, an economic advising firm.

00:54:09.720 And she's coming back on with us here next hour.

00:54:12.820 She's going to talk a little bit about, you know, the Fed raised the interest rate.

00:54:18.620 And she told us last time she was here, she said, you know,

00:54:21.940 the thing that I'm really watching are auto sales and the defaults on auto loans.

00:54:30.440 And she said, we're very close to defaults on auto loans.

00:54:34.760 And she said, that's the real test because that's where people are the closest.

00:54:41.820 When you, you know, you're fighting to make ends meet, you got to have your car.

00:54:46.520 Got to have your car.

00:54:47.120 Yeah.

00:54:47.400 And you start to default.

00:54:48.500 If you start to see a lot of defaults on auto loans and a decrease in sales,

00:54:53.460 what's going to happen is now you're starting to throw GM and all the car makers

00:54:59.220 and the banking sector into crisis again.

00:55:04.240 And she said that to her, that is the tip of the iceberg that she's been watching.

00:55:10.580 She said auto sales are down now by 5%.

00:55:16.540 She also said there's a new survey out that shows Americans think that this is the worst time

00:55:22.760 in seven years to buy homes, to buy a home.

00:55:26.280 Well, not everyone.

00:55:28.180 Like who?

00:55:29.120 I don't know.

00:55:29.740 I'm just saying that.

00:55:30.360 Everyone thinks it's a bad time to buy a house.

00:55:31.620 Well, you're not buying a house, are you?

00:55:33.100 No, not me.

00:55:34.180 Pat, you're not buying a house, are you?

00:55:35.940 No.

00:55:36.540 No, I'm not.

00:55:36.900 You're not buying a house.

00:55:37.500 No, I'm not buying a house.

00:55:39.020 Who else could be?

00:55:40.080 That's an interesting conversation we're having.

00:55:41.480 Oh my gosh, Stu, you're buying a house.

00:55:43.440 Yeah, I'm here too.

00:55:44.380 Yeah, yeah.

00:55:45.120 Yeah, I'm buying a house.

00:55:46.060 Yeah, I'm really thrilled about it.

00:55:47.500 This is a great story.

00:55:48.360 I'm glad you're bringing it to me today.

00:55:49.760 No, what Americans are saying now, now think of this, because Americans are always, we

00:55:54.580 are always behind the curve.

00:55:55.900 When things get hot, that's when Americans say, I got to buy a house.

00:56:00.600 Okay?

00:56:01.020 When they're at the bottom, that's not what Americans say to buy a house.

00:56:04.580 We're at the top now.

00:56:06.020 And this is only the second time that Americans have ever said, no, you don't want to buy a

00:56:12.900 house right now.

00:56:13.540 Oh, you look at the housing indexes, which is one of the things you used a lot.

00:56:18.000 Yeah, the Case-Shiller.

00:56:18.600 The Case-Shiller and others that you used a lot when you were predicting the first housing

00:56:22.880 collapse.

00:56:23.580 And you'll see that actually they're quite a bit higher than they were, you know, when

00:56:28.960 we had the actual collapse.

00:56:30.300 Yeah.

00:56:30.600 Meaning that maybe we're even more inflated than that time, because that's why I'm buying

00:56:35.420 now.

00:56:36.380 You know, you get in there, guys, how many times have you heard it?

00:56:39.060 Buy high, sell low.

00:56:40.100 That's what you want to do.

00:56:41.360 That's what most Americans are now saying, this is the time to sell, not the time to buy.

00:56:46.720 Yeah.

00:56:47.320 So I don't, I actually, my particular opinion is never is the time to buy.

00:56:53.520 Yeah, but why?

00:56:54.440 So now you've lived this this whole time.

00:56:57.500 Yes.

00:56:57.840 And you've been right for most of that time.

00:57:00.680 I've been like, I can't tell you how many times I thought, you know, perhaps Stu is

00:57:04.320 right.

00:57:04.760 He should not own a house.

00:57:06.220 Yes.

00:57:06.660 Yeah.

00:57:06.940 That is definitely my opinion.

00:57:08.040 Yeah.

00:57:08.180 I mean, you know, look, circumstances push you into things that you don't want to do

00:57:10.820 sometimes.

00:57:11.280 I mean, I still work here.

00:57:12.940 So, you know, hang on just a second.

00:57:15.540 One example.

00:57:17.220 Also, the minimum hourly wage now that you would need to make just to pay for your apartment

00:57:25.460 in Georgia, it's $11 and 46 cents an hour.

00:57:29.440 In San Francisco, the $15 an hour.

00:57:32.980 Now I got to help you.

00:57:33.740 No, no.

00:57:34.560 San Francisco, the minimum hourly wage required just to afford housing is $58 and four cents. 0.98

00:57:42.300 Holy crap, man. 0.97

00:57:44.220 You want to talk about people hurting? 0.99

00:57:46.340 There it is.

00:57:46.940 She joins us next hour.

00:57:48.720 We are one.

00:57:52.520 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:57:55.440 Mercury.

00:57:59.260 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:02.200 First day of summer.

00:58:05.060 Illinois careens into a financial meltdown.

00:58:08.720 And not even the lottery is safe.

00:58:10.780 What a surprise.

00:58:11.800 What?

00:58:13.300 They don't have all that money in the lottery sitting there? 1.00

00:58:17.860 Shut up. 0.99

00:58:20.100 I thought for sure that they had that all. 0.99

00:58:22.240 That's why I wouldn't have ever taken it in a lump sum.

00:58:26.100 Always take the lump sum.

00:58:27.980 Always take the lump sum.

00:58:32.500 And there's also a new trend called try parenting.

00:58:36.520 And I just want to give you this part.

00:58:40.240 Try parenting is now legal in California.

00:58:45.140 And it's gaining traction in other states.

00:58:51.160 Bonner Bianchi, who's now 17, said her parents are just like anybody else.

00:58:55.260 I just happen to have three of them.

00:58:57.540 The big picture is you just have more people there to support you.

00:59:01.920 And there's more love for you no matter what.

00:59:04.800 You can look up to all of them.

00:59:07.080 Shumway likes how try parenting has worked out so far.

00:59:09.580 He wants to do it again.

00:59:10.820 This time with his husband and female friend.

00:59:14.480 Oh, good.

00:59:14.800 This is a story that could never have been written in any other time period in the history of the world except right now.

00:59:23.940 We'll give you that probably tomorrow.

00:59:26.640 A little on try parenting.

00:59:27.860 You know, something we didn't hit yesterday that I wish we would have is the sad news about Carrie Fisher and her autopsy.

00:59:38.760 Yep.

00:59:39.160 She passed away from sleep apnea.

00:59:41.920 Sad.

00:59:42.320 Yeah.

00:59:42.680 Very true.

00:59:43.660 When you see the description of what she had in her system, it doesn't seem like sleep apnea.

00:59:49.160 I mean, you know, I hate to go out on a limb there.

00:59:51.760 That's the primary cause of death, Pat.

00:59:53.000 That's what the coroner says.

00:59:53.940 Sleep apnea.

00:59:54.980 Now, it could have been.

00:59:55.560 So she died from snoring?

00:59:57.080 It could have been effective.

00:59:58.260 No, sleep apnea is really dangerous.

00:59:59.960 No, it is.

01:00:00.940 Pat, you have it really bad.

01:00:03.900 Unfortunately, Pat has claustrophobia also really bad that he can't wear any of the masks or anything else, which they have changed a lot, by the way.

01:00:15.260 If you were to have a little heroin in your system, that might affect your sleep apnea as well.

01:00:21.700 Yeah, it affects.

01:00:22.400 So she had heroin in her system.

01:00:23.780 It slows down your breathing a little bit.

01:00:25.020 She had a little heroin.

01:00:25.820 She had a little heroin.

01:00:26.580 A little heroin.

01:00:27.080 A little cocaine.

01:00:28.140 A little cocaine and heroin.

01:00:29.900 Some methadone.

01:00:31.440 Methadone as well.

01:00:32.280 Some ecstasy.

01:00:33.400 Ecstasy.

01:00:34.180 Ecstasy?

01:00:35.020 That was it.

01:00:36.080 She is like walking into a street version of Walgreens.

01:00:41.600 She had some Prozac.

01:00:42.780 She had a prescription for Prozac, so she had a little bit of that in her.

01:00:46.140 Okay.

01:00:46.420 She had a little bit of Ablify and Laminical. 0.97

01:00:50.960 Both.

01:00:51.840 Those are all prescriptions.

01:00:52.820 It might be easier to list the drugs that were not.

01:00:55.780 She also had a little oxycodone.

01:00:57.580 Oh, okay.

01:00:57.920 She didn't have a prescription for those, so she just, you know, friend gave her some of those.

01:01:00.780 Did she have a prescription for the heroin and cocaine?

01:01:03.700 No, you don't need a prescription for those.

01:01:04.700 Oh, my God.

01:01:05.340 Oh, really?

01:01:05.960 That's over the counter.

01:01:07.180 Kind of.

01:01:07.880 You're kind of over the counter, yeah.

01:01:09.040 More over the windowsill of the door.

01:01:11.520 Same counter as you get the ecstasy from.

01:01:13.420 You get the heroin and the cocaine from.

01:01:14.340 Holy cow. 0.89

01:01:15.320 What a cocktail. 0.89

01:01:16.540 Really sad.

01:01:17.280 Very, very sad.

01:01:18.140 You know, I don't know what happened.

01:01:20.540 And some alcohol.

01:01:21.140 Oh, and some alcohol.

01:01:22.160 I mean, we're supposed to take it without drinking.

01:01:24.140 Well, I don't know if the heroin was marked.

01:01:25.940 You're supposed to take it without drinking something?

01:01:26.560 You shouldn't drink alcohol with the heroin, the cocaine, the ecstasy.

01:01:31.700 But let's not forget she died of sleep apnea.

01:01:33.520 Thank you.

01:01:34.380 Well, that was the primary cause.

01:01:36.340 I'm sure.

01:01:36.680 That's really sad.

01:01:37.860 It sure is.

01:01:38.720 Yeah, it is.

01:01:39.500 Really sad.

01:01:40.400 What was happening in her life that.

01:01:42.580 I don't know, but I mean, that cocktail is like, that's what was getting her through

01:01:48.040 the day, right?

01:01:49.120 All the prescription drugs and the other little drugs.

01:01:52.060 I mean, she wasn't, if that's in her system and the heroin was, they couldn't tell how much

01:01:56.760 was in because the family had, didn't want them to get a full toxicology report.

01:02:02.060 So this is just a partial.

01:02:03.880 Yeah.

01:02:04.200 I mean, this is what they could get.

01:02:05.360 So, you know, some of the drugs were, they were saying maybe three days old or something,

01:02:10.200 you know, in her system, had been in her system for three days.

01:02:12.760 So that was just what was getting her through the day.

01:02:15.960 My understanding too is that she, there's a lot of stress in her life because she was

01:02:19.580 leaving the whole Star Wars thing to go sell facial cream.

01:02:22.900 There's a new facial cream on the market.

01:02:24.920 Yeah.

01:02:25.040 She was going to leave.

01:02:25.740 With Joanna Gaines?

01:02:26.680 Yes.

01:02:27.160 Yes.

01:02:27.480 You heard about this?

01:02:28.060 Yes, I have.

01:02:29.000 They were going into business together in the facial cream industry.

01:02:31.620 I did not know that.

01:02:33.340 That is really interesting.

01:02:34.340 The big turn of events.

01:02:35.180 Yeah, yeah.

01:02:36.280 You know, let me, let me let you in on the joke here that Stu just, Stu just told.

01:02:45.200 What was it?

01:02:46.120 Sunday, I click onto the blaze and I'm reading a story and it's a story where it says, these

01:02:51.220 are the undisputed facts.

01:02:52.940 And then these are the contested facts.

01:02:55.580 And, and I'm reading this story and I'm like, oh, wow, that's great.

01:02:58.200 I got to click on that.

01:02:58.920 I got to click on that.

01:02:59.740 Okay, good.

01:03:00.380 Yeah.

01:03:00.600 Wow.

01:03:00.920 I didn't know that.

01:03:01.780 That's interesting.

01:03:02.400 And then right in between it says, uh, like, uh, uh, breaking or something like that.

01:03:08.700 Joanna Gaines leaves, uh, uh, uh, HGTV.

01:03:13.320 I think it was the real reason she's leaving.

01:03:16.220 Yeah.

01:03:16.520 That's what it was.

01:03:17.520 And I realized the real reason she's leaving.

01:03:19.080 And I thought, what?

01:03:20.000 Yeah.

01:03:20.220 She's not leaving this show.

01:03:21.620 I didn't know she was leaving that show. 0.82

01:03:23.240 And so it said, yeah, it says sponsored content.

01:03:27.540 Uh, well, um, uh, let's just say that, um, uh, as the owner, uh, of the blaze and somebody

01:03:34.720 who is now getting more involved with the blaze, uh, I wasn't happy to see that sponsor content.

01:03:40.820 Why?

01:03:41.180 I mean, that's an important story.

01:03:42.220 You don't care about the Joanna Gaines thing.

01:03:44.040 I mean, I, uh, first of all, I could not believe it was true.

01:03:47.940 If you don't, if you don't know Joanna Gaines, she's, uh, part of fixer upper on HGTV. 0.80

01:03:53.240 It's a huge, huge, huge show.

01:03:55.280 And she's this couple, uh, chip and Joanna Gaines, you know?

01:03:59.020 Yeah.

01:03:59.220 And it said, you know, the story was, the story was written in such a way that chip was

01:04:02.960 fine with her moving on, you know, because she really has found herself.

01:04:06.720 And I'm like, what is that's not possible.

01:04:09.160 Yeah.

01:04:09.580 How's the show going on with just chip and without Joanna?

01:04:12.280 They're great together.

01:04:13.520 No, that doesn't make any sense at all.

01:04:15.440 And when you looked into it, as we both did the same day independently of, uh, I didn't

01:04:19.640 even, I didn't know you'd been looking into it and you find out there is zero truth to

01:04:26.560 any of it.

01:04:27.520 Zero.

01:04:28.160 And you go to her like, like zero, zero, not like kind of, or maybe rumor.

01:04:33.980 Zero.

01:04:34.500 And, and this story is so prevalent on so many websites, the sponsored content from this

01:04:38.940 facial cream company, uh, that they have addressed it on their website.

01:04:43.440 And there've been numerous stories about her denial of it.

01:04:46.700 Uh, she was on the today show or someplace and said, it's absolutely a lie.

01:04:51.480 Right.

01:04:51.720 Absolutely.

01:04:52.120 No truth.

01:04:53.140 So, so here's the amazing thing.

01:04:55.240 So I see this and then I go to their website and I'm like, she's not leaving.

01:04:59.440 Right.

01:04:59.880 Cause it says she's leaving to sell this facial cream, which I think.

01:05:03.940 Okay.

01:05:04.340 So that part I didn't believe.

01:05:06.040 Which makes sense.

01:05:06.460 I mean, you would jump right into the facial cream industry if you're only making five or

01:05:10.500 10 million dollars.

01:05:11.020 See, I didn't believe that, but I thought there was a possibility that she was leaving

01:05:15.420 and maybe she's going to help promote this, but that's not why she's leaving.

01:05:21.760 Right.

01:05:21.980 You know, I thought there was a spin on it.

01:05:23.680 No, it's all absolutely 100% provably false.

01:05:28.860 But other than that.

01:05:29.860 But other than that, it's absolutely accurate.

01:05:31.940 Um, and so, so, um, when I get in on Monday, I call up cause it was actually on the blaze

01:05:39.400 it was on the blaze content and it was unbelievable.

01:05:42.340 And so I, uh, I went to our sales department and, uh, I said, Omar, who is great.

01:05:50.420 I said, Omar, uh, and he said, chip and Joanna Gaines.

01:05:55.400 And I said, yeah, what's the deal?

01:05:57.980 And as it turns out, you buy, um, uh, this, this, there's like this ad agency.

01:06:04.660 I don't remember what it was called.

01:06:05.840 Um, uh, but this is, it's an ad service that all they do is they buy a place in mass on

01:06:13.980 all of these websites.

01:06:15.460 Oh, a lot of digital ads are purchased.

01:06:17.280 They're not like actually being approved individually by the website.

01:06:19.600 Right.

01:06:19.980 And so they just fill that ad when it becomes available.

01:06:23.600 They fill that ad with whatever.

01:06:25.220 And so we apparently have gone to this place several times going, uh, no, not to run.

01:06:32.880 And what they do is they just take that one out and then they just replace it with another

01:06:35.960 bad ad.

01:06:37.060 Okay.

01:06:37.600 Yeah.

01:06:37.880 There's another one.

01:06:38.800 And I think it's somewhat related that says, uh, LeBron James and Michael Jordan have this,

01:06:43.340 uh, sort of war going on with each other.

01:06:45.880 There's some war of words with Michael Jordan.

01:06:47.820 There was one also completely false.

01:06:49.420 There was one about Anderson Cooper and Stephen Hawking taking this drug that enhances your

01:06:56.700 concentration and everything else.

01:06:58.500 And I'm like, and male vitality.

01:07:00.040 Yeah.

01:07:00.220 Right.

01:07:00.540 Tom Brady has that one.

01:07:01.520 I think.

01:07:01.720 Okay.

01:07:02.420 So none of these are true.

01:07:04.820 And so this ad company just, just, so we called and, and, and Omar said, okay, um, we

01:07:13.500 can drop it, but they're just going to replace it with another one.

01:07:15.640 And I'm like, well, no, I mean, you talk to them, right?

01:07:19.100 I mean, you told them that that was absolutely not true.

01:07:22.460 And they're like, yeah, yeah.

01:07:24.960 They're very well aware.

01:07:26.080 That's absolutely not true.

01:07:27.300 And I'm like, how the hell?

01:07:29.180 And they don't care. 0.92

01:07:29.940 They don't care.

01:07:31.100 They don't care.

01:07:32.860 I don't know how you can do that.

01:07:33.900 How can you get away with that?

01:07:35.240 So Omar, so he calls me up later in the afternoon.

01:07:37.680 I said, call them back. 0.95

01:07:38.900 That's, that's the crazy who doesn't care. 0.93

01:07:41.980 And he said, I'll call them back. 0.56

01:07:43.400 So, um, called them back and, and, uh, he wrote to me later in the afternoon and he

01:07:49.740 said, they're off.

01:07:51.040 We've canceled.

01:07:52.020 We're not using them.

01:07:53.420 We're not allowing them to buy anything ever again.

01:07:56.160 And I said, thank you. 0.99

01:07:58.460 Um, and then I was stupid enough to say, how, how, how, how, how, how much did that just 0.98

01:08:04.300 cost? 0.98

01:08:05.780 It was $200,000 a month.

01:08:09.500 Oh my God, $200,000 a month.

01:08:13.940 Oh, that's $2.4 million a year.

01:08:16.020 Thank you.

01:08:16.700 Thank you for reminding me.

01:08:17.840 I appreciate that.

01:08:19.040 I appreciate that.

01:08:19.900 I'm just giving you a different perspective.

01:08:21.000 Yeah, well you would have given the full picture.

01:08:22.680 Now, here's what I tell you that Carrie Fisher was selling face cream. 1.00

01:08:26.640 So here's the, so here's the thing.

01:08:30.200 That's why people don't care.

01:08:31.660 That's why those ads last.

01:08:32.960 Right.

01:08:33.960 Because it's a lot of money to lose.

01:08:35.340 No one is willing to lose that kind of money.

01:08:39.460 And it answered the question when I said they don't care.

01:08:44.000 Well, no, because most companies don't care either.

01:08:48.460 They'll just take the ad.

01:08:49.540 And I said, how can we possibly have any credibility if we're taking ads that we ourselves know

01:08:56.260 are 100% false?

01:08:58.820 You can't.

01:08:59.360 You can't.

01:09:00.580 You can't.

01:09:01.380 My credibility, even though I don't approve all the ads and everything else and we try to

01:09:05.940 do our best, but this kind of stuff, there are ads that are filled just automatically.

01:09:10.240 You leave that on the website, you're not even trying.

01:09:12.080 You're not even trying.

01:09:12.960 Because that's a bald face lie.

01:09:15.200 Right.

01:09:15.500 They know it.

01:09:16.120 They don't care about it.

01:09:17.020 You have put money over integrity.

01:09:20.940 And I have news for you.

01:09:22.640 I don't know how.

01:09:23.940 I mean, Omar, I have to share this email from him.

01:09:27.340 I said, that's $2.4 million.

01:09:29.580 That's a lot of money.

01:09:32.080 You're going to replace that, right?

01:09:34.040 And he wrote this great email.

01:09:36.640 He's like, onward and upward, brother.

01:09:38.640 Yeah, that helps our credibility.

01:09:40.160 That's the right thing to do.

01:09:41.900 We're going to be okay.

01:09:43.660 Thank God.

01:09:44.700 Thank God.

01:09:46.220 But he's right, I think.

01:09:47.960 That's why I want you to know our sponsors, the ones that we, especially the ones we endorse,

01:09:54.420 but the ones that we know, like this radio show, there are ads that we sell and know.

01:10:00.340 And then the network just puts other ads, and then the local stations put other ads.

01:10:06.000 But our local stations and our network, you know, we know the credibility of our local stations.

01:10:12.080 So when somebody is selling an ad locally, you can trust that that ad is true.

01:10:18.900 Because we all know, me at this level, the stations at their level, the network at their level,

01:10:24.820 we may not know what each other are doing, but we're all trying to do the right thing.

01:10:29.920 So when you see an ad or you hear an ad, frequent those people.

01:10:34.860 Because this is one of the problems that conservatives have.

01:10:40.140 Because they have blocked us every step of the way from getting the American Airlines of the world,

01:10:46.460 because the left has boycotted and put us on no-buy lists,

01:10:50.080 we have fewer and fewer options available to us.

01:10:53.860 And because of that, many people, and we did for a while too, take ads like that.

01:11:02.740 And you just can't do it.

01:11:05.280 But then you're left in the position of, well, what do you take?

01:11:10.700 That's why I think Bill O'Reilly is going into business for himself.

01:11:16.380 And that's why we appreciate your subscription at The Blaze.

01:11:20.580 Because your subscription helps us, you may never even watch the TV.

01:11:26.620 It helps us write stories and keep the doors open.

01:11:29.920 Sounds like there might be a little extra ad space too for somebody with legitimate products.

01:11:35.160 To advertise on The Blaze.

01:11:37.980 To me, Glenn, just sounds like someone who does not want the world to know about the true benefits of that facial cream.

01:11:42.600 That's what it sounds like to me.

01:11:43.620 Sounds like someone working for big beauty, big pharmaceuticals that wants to push down the truth.

01:11:49.940 That's what it sounds like to me.

01:11:51.580 Let me tell you something.

01:11:52.740 Next hour, I wasn't going to say this now, but I'm going to just tease the announcement.

01:11:57.160 Next hour, I have a major announcement.

01:11:58.620 I'm leaving the industry for foot cream.

01:12:00.980 Oh, wow.

01:12:01.580 And that will happen tomorrow.

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01:13:19.340 Glenn Beck Program.

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01:13:29.520 I mean, we're just talking about this facial cream scam that is absolutely unbelievable.

01:13:35.300 I have breaking news.

01:13:36.120 Yeah, breaking news?

01:13:36.900 This is going to shock the nation.

01:13:37.760 Oh, no.

01:13:38.160 What?

01:13:38.700 What?

01:13:38.960 Donald Trump is resigning from the presidency. 0.99

01:13:42.660 No, shut up. 1.00

01:13:43.800 No, he's getting into the facial cream industry. 1.00

01:13:46.600 I knew it!

01:13:47.260 No, wait, wait.

01:13:47.920 Are you making that up or is that an ad they're running?

01:13:50.100 They're not running it yet, but I'm sure they will.

01:13:57.180 The number of people that they have done this to, and honestly, I wrote because a friend

01:14:04.000 of mine was involved in one of these facial cream things, and I wrote and I'm like, how

01:14:10.080 are you not suing them?

01:14:13.460 It's not worth it.

01:14:15.260 It's not worth it.

01:14:16.120 It'll cost you so much money to lawyer up.

01:14:19.060 Yeah.

01:14:19.260 And they make this company so they can just shut it down, start something else, shut

01:14:23.640 it down, start something else, and think of the credibility that they are burning through.

01:14:29.200 They're burning through all of these people, these faces that you like or trust, they're

01:14:33.600 just burning them and their credibility, and people look at them and say, it's got to

01:14:37.580 be true.

01:14:38.660 They would sue.

01:14:39.280 They couldn't get away with that.

01:14:40.500 Right.

01:14:40.920 Yes, they can in today's crazy world.

01:14:44.240 And they are.

01:14:44.560 And they are getting away with it, unless more people say, I'm not running those ads.

01:14:50.480 It's not worth it at any cost.

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01:15:19.280 Hello, America.

01:15:20.680 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:15:22.300 You have so much to worry about, trying to hang on to your job, trying to educate your

01:15:27.480 kids, just trying to make it through.

01:15:29.560 I don't know about you, but there are days that I just go, I get up in the morning, I'm

01:15:32.880 just like, my goal for today is just to make it back here to go back to bed.

01:15:39.180 Maybe that's just me, but life is tough.

01:15:45.620 We want to arm you with information so you can prepare yourself for what's coming, both

01:15:51.580 good and bad.

01:15:52.620 A lot of great things happening in the world of technology, a lot of great things on the

01:15:56.620 horizon.

01:15:57.420 But there's also some really big bumps in the road as well.

01:16:00.540 We are thrilled to have back with us Danielle DiMartino Booth.

01:16:04.480 She is the author of Fed Up.

01:16:05.920 She's a woman who worked on Wall Street and then said, this is sickening, got out, started 0.99

01:16:12.340 to expose it for the Dallas Morning News.

01:16:14.540 Because the Fed here in Dallas, run by Richard Fisher, or was run by Richard Fisher at the

01:16:19.360 time, he was, I think, brilliant and one of the really good guys in the Fed.

01:16:25.540 And he saw her work and said, hey, she should come to work for here. 0.99

01:16:30.180 She was working for the Fed kind of in a lower position.

01:16:33.280 She was ringing the bell about 2008 and the collapse.

01:16:36.960 Most people made fun of her for that.

01:16:39.120 And the collapse happened and Richard Fisher said, you need to be my right hand man on

01:16:44.700 information and what is coming.

01:16:46.940 So that's what she did.

01:16:48.740 He left the Fed.

01:16:49.660 She left the Fed.

01:16:51.120 She is now ringing the bell on what's next.

01:16:55.680 What's coming.

01:16:57.000 Another 2008.

01:16:59.140 She'll describe what she's seeing in the last few weeks and last couple of months since we

01:17:04.840 saw her last.

01:17:05.600 We begin there right now.

01:17:07.120 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:17:29.500 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:17:35.560 Welcome to the program.

01:17:38.080 Let's get your circulation going.

01:17:39.760 Yes.

01:17:40.220 Welcome to the program, Daniel DiMartino Booth.

01:17:42.540 How are you?

01:17:43.440 I'm doing great.

01:17:44.180 How are you doing?

01:17:44.720 Very good.

01:17:45.400 A lot has happened since we last talked.

01:17:47.780 The world is in a crazy place that we are just, we are, I mean, literally last week,

01:17:55.200 dodging bullets that could change the world.

01:17:58.040 We have Syria and Russia this week with a downed Syrian jet that we took down.

01:18:05.520 And Russia said, oh yeah, by the way, we were, we're canceling our hotline.

01:18:10.980 And if you cross the Euphrates, we'll shoot you down.

01:18:13.860 So we have that on the horizon.

01:18:15.840 We have North Korea with now three aircraft carriers.

01:18:19.420 And they just dumped basically this poor kid out of Cincinnati.

01:18:23.240 They just dumped a practically dead body on our doorstep.

01:18:28.360 Well, he is now.

01:18:29.280 Yeah.

01:18:29.720 Like a, you know, almost like a Don Corleone move, just saying, hey, here's, here's your 0.98

01:18:34.840 trash. 0.97

01:18:35.460 Um, the aftermath of years of doing nothing. 0.99

01:18:39.040 Yes.

01:18:39.940 Yes.

01:18:40.980 And, uh, and then last week, a shooting that could have changed the world.

01:18:45.360 I don't know if you heard last hour, but I presented a scenario.

01:18:48.960 Um, any thoughts on that scenario?

01:18:51.820 How crazy did that scenario sound to you?

01:18:55.460 It didn't sound so crazy.

01:18:57.340 I mean, there is something called the plunge protection team, uh, and it's dragged out

01:19:02.720 in times of extreme market duress.

01:19:06.700 And, uh, you know, was that, was that a round or was one of the first times we did it in the

01:19:11.040 thirties?

01:19:11.420 Cause I know the Rockefellers of the world, uh, the asters of the world kind of stepped to 1.00

01:19:16.680 the plate and said, I'm going to dump money in and, uh, we're, you're going to do it too.

01:19:22.400 Well, bear in mind before 1913 with the establishment of the federal reserve, when

01:19:27.260 there were economic calamities, somebody like JP Morgan would bring people together in his

01:19:32.540 parlor room and say, okay guys, we've got to write some checks here.

01:19:35.300 We've got to save the world.

01:19:36.420 Right.

01:19:36.660 And that's why it was his realization that he was mortal that brought about the fed after

01:19:41.460 the panic of 1907 really.

01:19:44.220 Um, but even if you go to modern history, uh, you know, Hank Paulson, others, they, they,

01:19:51.660 they brought the biggest banks into a room and they said, we've got trouble.

01:19:56.320 You're all going to have to pony up.

01:19:57.860 And a lot of the, a lot of the banks were saying, no, I know.

01:20:01.160 And Uncle Sam looks down and says, no is not an option.

01:20:04.460 I know.

01:20:04.780 What's really crazy is I have a friend who was in that room that night, that Sunday

01:20:08.560 night.

01:20:09.460 And, um, he and his bank said, no, we're not doing it.

01:20:14.500 Don't need the money.

01:20:15.340 Right.

01:20:15.600 We don't need the money.

01:20:16.360 We're not doing it.

01:20:17.060 And the banks get blamed.

01:20:18.560 And I think the banks deserve a lot of blame.

01:20:20.520 Um, but the banks get blamed for this when it really was the United States government,

01:20:26.980 the treasury, uh, that said, no, you are taking it.

01:20:32.480 In fact, the exact quote from Paulson was you are, no one is leaving this room until

01:20:38.280 you sign until you brandish your scarlet letter.

01:20:40.860 Yes.

01:20:41.180 Put it on.

01:20:42.300 Take the blame.

01:20:42.960 Yes.

01:20:44.420 Okay.

01:20:44.820 So you said a few, um, uh, weeks ago when you were here that the one thing you were

01:20:51.680 looking for, I asked you for signs of the economy.

01:20:55.700 Um, what do we look for as a sign that things are not going well?

01:21:00.760 If you pay attention at all to the fed as I do, and I think this, I'm a little more than

01:21:07.520 the, the average person to where I'll actually just read what Yellen has done, but I'm not

01:21:13.780 going to read deeply.

01:21:15.120 Um, the story that I heard last week was, or was it this week?

01:21:21.080 Things are going so well.

01:21:22.940 Oh, things are great.

01:21:23.960 Right.

01:21:24.360 The economy is doing so well.

01:21:26.580 Smoking hot.

01:21:27.040 Right.

01:21:27.300 That they have to raise the interest rate again.

01:21:30.920 Uh, I'm sorry.

01:21:31.900 Who's in the white house?

01:21:33.520 Oh, wait, I'm just, you digress.

01:21:36.020 I'm just trying to figure out what has changed to make things so great that we're raising

01:21:42.320 interest rates.

01:21:43.240 Well, things have gotten worse.

01:21:44.900 So we should tighten so that we don't have to tighten weight.

01:21:49.140 There's no logic there.

01:21:50.860 Right.

01:21:51.060 The head of the New York fed gave a speech a few days ago, Bill Dudley, bear in mind,

01:21:55.920 this is the vice chairman of the federal open market committee that sets interest rates.

01:22:01.120 If Janet Yellen, if something happens to her and she's got the flu and she can't make the

01:22:06.580 FOMC meeting, he's the guy in charge.

01:22:09.080 People do not realize that the guy in charge of the New York fed is really the number two

01:22:12.780 in command at the fed.

01:22:13.800 Okay.

01:22:14.200 He made a speech that said the economy is doing so well that we're afraid the unemployment

01:22:19.580 rate is going to crash.

01:22:21.160 Crash, his words, crash.

01:22:23.960 And therefore, we're going to have to get out in front of this and tighten more so we

01:22:28.740 don't have to tighten so much more down the road that we put the economy into recession.

01:22:33.840 Wait, wait, wait.

01:22:34.820 Why?

01:22:35.340 Exactly.

01:22:36.480 Wait, exactly.

01:22:37.380 A, why would we be afraid of the of the unemployment rate crashing?

01:22:43.140 That would be, oh, my gosh, panic.

01:22:45.020 We have a zero percent unemployment rate.

01:22:47.500 Right.

01:22:47.680 Well, that makes sense.

01:22:49.020 So, you know, the last time the unemployment rate is was where it was.

01:22:53.260 Wages were growing about at four percent today with the same unemployment rate.

01:22:59.080 Wages are running at two and a half percent.

01:23:02.540 Yawn.

01:23:03.160 We wonder why there's a shadow economy.

01:23:04.980 We wonder why people are driving Uber at night.

01:23:07.160 There's a reason their wages aren't growing.

01:23:09.680 Their paycheck has barely moved and not kept up with inflation.

01:23:13.920 And Bill Dudley is worried that the unemployment rate is going to crash and make wage inflation run away.

01:23:20.440 Sorry.

01:23:21.120 The average working Joe wants their paycheck to go up.

01:23:25.080 It's there's nothing intuitive about the reasoning right now.

01:23:28.260 The Fed.

01:23:28.900 Nothing.

01:23:29.300 See, this is the problem.

01:23:30.540 They are.

01:23:31.000 They're trying to convince the American people that there is no inflation.

01:23:35.600 And on some things.

01:23:37.460 Well, there's very little wage inflation.

01:23:39.140 Yes.

01:23:39.600 That doesn't take much convincing.

01:23:41.240 Correct.

01:23:41.840 And on some things there there isn't inflation.

01:23:46.080 But on on other things, there is gigantic inflation.

01:23:53.180 Look at home prices.

01:23:54.240 Yes.

01:23:54.500 Today we had a report that came out that showed that home prices are growing at five point eight percent.

01:23:59.440 They're at record high prices right now.

01:24:02.680 No wonder the average working Joe can't afford to buy a house and it's finally begun to push back.

01:24:07.620 Look at college tuition.

01:24:09.220 I buy a gallon of milk every day to feed my four gigantic growing children.

01:24:14.860 I can tell you that gallon of milk keeps getting more expensive.

01:24:17.760 It does.

01:24:18.820 It does.

01:24:19.660 These are not figments of our collective imagination.

01:24:22.040 My retired mother tells me about what her co-pay is and what her her farm what what her drugs cost at the pharmacy. 1.00

01:24:31.520 These are real things.

01:24:32.960 OK, so you said one of the things to look for.

01:24:36.860 So wait, wait, before we get on that, what does this what why are they raising the rate then?

01:24:44.880 Well, the gallows humor is that they wanted to make sure that they kept Trump in place.

01:24:51.200 So if you slam the economy into a recession by tightening financial conditions, thus forcing a recession, then you've got Trump's attention.

01:25:01.300 And he and he doesn't put independent people, independent thinkers, dissenters in at the Fed who ruffle the doves feathers.

01:25:10.040 Now, let me give me two seconds.

01:25:12.480 Last Wednesday, the day the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, there was a story strategically placed on the front page of the Wall Street Journal that said Gary Cohn is looking for replacements for the Fed.

01:25:25.620 And by the way, before you even had to open the page to get to the rest of the story, Janet Yellen's name was thrown out there as being a potential contender.

01:25:34.180 Do you think the administration has folded to the pressure because something's got to make the Fed back off tightening interest rates?

01:25:44.040 The rumor is, and I don't know if this is true or not, but this is what happened to Ronald Reagan, that Ronald Reagan Volcker got in and Ronald Reagan said, oh, you don't like the Fed?

01:25:55.680 Oh, OK. And that's when. Try me. Interest rates went through the roof.

01:26:02.560 And he had a recession 18 months into office. Correct. Correct.

01:26:07.160 Trust me, somebody has read Trump this playbook. Did I say that? Yes, you did.

01:26:12.080 I'm sure he read it himself. So what should the president do?

01:26:16.740 I would like for him to stand firm. I wrote a whole book about it.

01:26:19.680 I mean, we need independent thinkers. We need people at the Fed who are on the receiving end of their own policies, not bureaucrats who've been their entire lives in academics, who don't even understand the applications of the decisions they make.

01:26:36.540 They don't understand what they've done to a generation of baby boomers trying to save for retirement around the president that can tell him this.

01:26:43.620 Steve Cohen and Steve Mnuchin.

01:26:45.520 And do you think he stopped listening to them now?

01:26:49.680 No, I don't. In that same Wall Street Journal story, Steve Cohen was was quoted as saying, basically, I have faith in the Fed.

01:26:58.920 The Fed knows what it's doing. They need to be left alone.

01:27:03.960 I mean, these are the things that just stand up the hair on the back of my head. They really do.

01:27:08.800 So what should we watch for or be wanting the president to do?

01:27:14.120 What would be a sign that he's pushing back on them?

01:27:17.500 If he comes out with a nominee to replace one of the three current open vacancies that does not comply with what the media has been suggesting those individuals should be.

01:27:29.320 When will he make those decisions?

01:27:31.620 He's going to have to make them pretty soon.

01:27:33.960 I mean, he's the fact that he's been in office for, what, 150 days or so?

01:27:37.680 Yeah.

01:27:37.900 And has not taken the opportunity to name a single individual to put up to the Senate is questionable.

01:27:46.860 How will they fare in the Senate?

01:27:49.900 Last I checked, the Republicans still have.

01:27:53.100 Yeah, but I don't know what that means.

01:27:54.480 Well.

01:27:54.920 I don't know what that means anymore.

01:27:56.140 Okay, so it's undefined.

01:27:57.560 Yeah.

01:27:57.720 But I think that given, especially the representatives from Texas, Hensarling, Brady, they've been pushing for reform at the Fed.

01:28:08.200 I think they thought that we would have seen some independence reintroduced at the Fed by now.

01:28:16.260 I dare say in private, they're probably a little frustrated that they haven't because there are leaders inside the Senate.

01:28:24.060 There are people on the Hill who will push through truly independent nominees.

01:28:29.860 Okay.

01:28:30.560 Now let's go to the next thing that you said we should watch for, and that is automobiles.

01:28:36.200 Five months of weakness in a row.

01:28:38.080 What does that mean to you?

01:28:40.240 What should that tell the average person?

01:28:43.680 Yesterday, a report came out.

01:28:45.020 We know that automobile defaults, delinquencies are rising.

01:28:48.880 We know that payments are beginning to cripple households.

01:28:52.420 We know that, especially in places where people are commuting, they have to have their car to get to work.

01:28:59.480 So it's the last thing they want to stop making a payment on.

01:29:02.360 And the repo man can swoop in really quickly and just hit a kill switch.

01:29:06.760 And you're not turning your car on anymore, and he's going to come and repossess it.

01:29:10.140 But we've seen reports come out in the last few weeks that show that the 2015 vintage of car loans made is going to be, that subprime car loans made in 2015 will reset, become the worst performing ones on record.

01:29:28.720 Holy cow. 0.89

01:29:29.480 We know that.

01:29:30.800 And yesterday, Experian came out with a report that showed that credit card delinquencies have started to tick up as well.

01:29:38.360 So you're seeing a trickle down in terms of household stresses rising.

01:29:43.020 And anything on the horizon in the next few that you are looking at and say, this could be the real big trip wire?

01:29:55.100 Anything that you're waiting for?

01:29:56.340 The Cheesecake Factory came out last week with a report that said things are really worse than we were anticipating they would be.

01:30:08.160 If restaurants, which employ 10.6 million Americans, if the restaurant industry begins to follow brick and mortar retail into the abyss, we are in the soup.

01:30:21.520 They employ lots of people.

01:30:23.680 A lot of these big restaurant chains, their footprints are too big, and they're going to have to start following the JCPenney's, the Macy's of the world, down the path of downsizing.

01:30:33.820 This is not good news for people whose skills are not transferable.

01:30:38.400 That's why I'm going to Cheesecake Factory today to support the cause.

01:30:40.820 Me too.

01:30:41.680 I was thinking about that myself.

01:30:42.780 I could go for some turtle cheesecake.

01:30:45.660 Bring it.

01:30:46.560 The name of the book, Daniel DiMartino Booth, the name of the book is Fed Up, an insider's take on why the Federal Reserve is bad for America.

01:30:54.120 A lot of people have been saying, you know, we want to disband the Federal Reserve.

01:30:58.760 We want to have checks and balances on the Federal Reserve.

01:31:02.000 Great.

01:31:02.360 Read your book to actually educate yourself on what the Federal Reserve is, what they do, how it works, where they have gone wrong.

01:31:12.320 Fed Up.

01:31:13.440 Thank you so much.

01:31:14.500 Appreciate it.

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01:33:29.900 We have Daniel DiMartino on with us for a few more minutes because we started talking during the break about Illinois.

01:33:37.100 Illinois is in financial meltdown, and I want you to listen to this line.

01:33:40.560 We talked about this earlier.

01:33:41.800 Top financial official just warned 100% of the state's monthly revenue will be eaten up by court-ordered payments.

01:33:49.720 Now, what that is, is when we were at Fox, remember I used Illinois and said, these pensions, these unions, it's a sham.

01:33:56.840 And when the chicken comes home to roost, there's no money left.

01:34:00.160 It's now happening in Illinois.

01:34:02.680 And you said that there is a...

01:34:06.120 There's an op-ed out there today, look it up, that said we should potentially jettison Illinois.

01:34:12.780 It's as bad as Venezuela. 0.99

01:34:14.260 Let's get rid of it.

01:34:15.060 Let's break the state up into many little pieces and have the neighboring states absorb it because they cannot...

01:34:20.520 This is year three with no budget.

01:34:21.760 But Moody's came out last week, and they were downgraded to one notch above junk, a junk bond state.

01:34:29.700 Illinois is the fifth largest economy in this country, and it is in a state of shambles because the chickens, as you say, have come home to roost.

01:34:39.320 How many states are approaching this?

01:34:41.580 Well, I mean, you can talk about New Jersey.

01:34:44.080 You can talk about Rhode Island.

01:34:46.240 I mean, it's a really small state with a really bad problem.

01:34:49.060 So, what do you think the geniuses are going to do?

01:34:56.040 As in?

01:34:57.020 You know, what do the geniuses come up with to get us out of this?

01:35:01.440 It remains to be seen.

01:35:02.700 These are issues that are popping up with the stock market at record highs.

01:35:06.240 Think about that.

01:35:07.020 Holy cow. 0.89

01:35:08.700 Holy cow. 0.89

01:35:09.360 Danielle, we appreciate your look at things.

01:35:15.420 We'd love to have you back.

01:35:17.080 The name of the book is Fed.

01:35:19.120 Insider's take on why the Federal Reserve is bad for America.

01:35:23.540 More in a second.

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01:35:37.220 Man, we have so many stories that we have promised all day that we were going to get to.

01:35:43.360 And she just scared the hell out of me.

01:35:47.560 I don't know if I want her on as a guest did again.

01:35:49.800 She's scared the hell out of me.

01:35:51.620 You're not the only one that she's scared.

01:35:52.900 You know, I read this story, but it didn't really come home to me.

01:35:56.760 I read this story earlier.

01:35:59.260 Illinois careens into financial meltdown.

01:36:01.760 Not even the lottery is safe.

01:36:04.300 Okay.

01:36:05.300 That probably should not be the headline.

01:36:08.200 Here's the meat of the story.

01:36:12.000 Top of financial official just warned 100% of the state of Illinois' monthly revenue.

01:36:18.900 So that means every single tax dollar they bring in will be eaten up by court-ordered payments.

01:36:27.500 Now, what is that?

01:36:29.000 The court in Illinois has said payments to pensioners cannot be cut.

01:36:35.740 They must be paid.

01:36:37.200 So the state has over-promised people for their pensions like crazy.

01:36:45.780 They have over-promised the firemen.

01:36:48.080 Remember when I was on Fox and I did that little pyramid and I showed and I said,

01:36:52.260 when this thing starts to unravel, you need like 500 firemen for every one that is retired?

01:37:00.080 Well, we're here now.

01:37:01.520 And if you think of this, that means no roads, no schools, no teachers, no one is being paid for anything.

01:37:11.980 Nothing can be painted.

01:37:14.240 There is zero amount of cash because 100% of the budget is going to pay the court-ordered pensions.

01:37:25.960 So now, what do you do?

01:37:28.500 I love this quote.

01:37:29.560 This quote.

01:37:30.720 We're like a banana republic.

01:37:32.860 No, you're not like a banana republic.

01:37:35.380 You are a banana republic. 0.98

01:37:38.500 This is from the Illinois House Speaker.

01:37:41.980 Nobody in Illinois is considering bankruptcy because, first of all, it's not allowed.

01:37:46.780 Oh, okay, okay.

01:37:48.620 And second of all, it would damage the reputation of the state.

01:37:53.020 Right.

01:37:53.660 Yeah, it probably would.

01:37:54.200 It probably would.

01:37:55.200 Having all of your money go to pensions that you shouldn't have promised and can't afford is also hurting the reputation of the state.

01:38:04.720 And they have such a fine reputation.

01:38:06.040 I hope he tagged all the politicians in jail to that email.

01:38:09.220 Yeah.

01:38:09.540 Now, here's what she said that scared the life out of me.

01:38:12.680 Okay.

01:38:13.020 We know that.

01:38:13.680 We knew that was coming.

01:38:15.340 It's a little scary that you know now it's here.

01:38:17.920 But did you hear the last thing?

01:38:19.340 What's the last thing she said?

01:38:21.480 We just had Daniel DiMartino Booth, former from the Fed, trying to explain, don't listen to the Fed.

01:38:29.080 Don't listen to the Fed.

01:38:30.540 What did she say last thing?

01:38:31.600 She talked about how great the stock market was.

01:38:33.140 She said, this is happening with the stock market at an all-time high.

01:38:39.780 Why is that important?

01:38:41.500 That's important because these pension funds, like the California Teachers Association, that fund is, you know, probably billions and billions of dollars.

01:38:52.680 You should be flush with money with the stock market.

01:38:54.600 The stock market, you need an X percentage, what is it, a minimum of like 6% or 7% of return to be able to afford the pensions all the way in the future.

01:39:05.960 Well, if you left your money in in 2008, look at the percentage of returns that you have now.

01:39:14.980 That shouldn't be a problem.

01:39:17.220 And they're out of money at the top of the stock market.

01:39:20.240 What happens if the stock market just resets to $15,000 as opposed to $21,000?

01:39:28.160 What happens then?

01:39:31.120 There's no way these states make it.

01:39:33.560 Well, we'll all have to get into the facial cream industry.

01:39:36.140 That's a good point.

01:39:38.160 Join Joanna Gaines in the facial cream industry.

01:39:40.700 Somebody take me off on this on something that we have promised that we were going to talk about today.

01:39:44.580 Somebody take me away from this.

01:39:45.900 Take, please, because that's terrifying.

01:39:48.320 The Han Solo directors got fired.

01:39:50.940 This is big.

01:39:51.840 Yeah.

01:39:52.280 On the new Star Wars spinoff on Han Solo.

01:39:56.720 But did you see why they were arguing with each other?

01:39:59.620 I mean, I don't know who hired these two guys.

01:40:02.100 Creative differences, right?

01:40:03.380 Yeah, but you know what the creative differences were.

01:40:05.340 Yeah, they're doing a comedic spin, apparently, and more improv.

01:40:09.500 Okay, so here's the deal.

01:40:12.020 One director, and I think he's the guy, I think from the Lego movie.

01:40:15.820 I don't remember which one's written in the Lego movie.

01:40:17.240 Yeah.

01:40:17.700 Okay, so one of them is very sarcastic and wants to be funny and thinks that Han Solo should be very sarcastic and funny.

01:40:26.760 The other director, and these guys get along, but they just couldn't in this because you can't bat, they don't, they couldn't reconcile their differences here. 1.00

01:40:36.460 The other director said, no, Han Solo is not sarcastic. 0.99

01:40:40.200 He's an ass. 0.99

01:40:43.220 I mean, he's definitely sarcastic, right? 1.00

01:40:45.100 But he's not, he's not funny.

01:40:46.560 He's not funny.

01:40:47.500 The other one said, no, I want to make sure everybody knows he's selfish and quite honestly, a little mean.

01:40:54.320 Yeah, and here's the quote, according to an insider, people need to understand that Han Solo is not a comedic personality.

01:41:00.740 He's sarcastic and selfish.

01:41:02.360 Yes.

01:41:02.860 So the other thing is, is one believes in just this, hey, we're just going to catch it on the fly.

01:41:09.020 Let's just improvise.

01:41:10.280 The other guy is, no, no, no.

01:41:12.320 Every word, I want action tied to it.

01:41:15.180 Every word on the page, I want to know where the camera is going to be on the page.

01:41:20.540 And the other guy's like, no, we don't need to go through all that.

01:41:23.220 Let's just shoot it. 0.55

01:41:24.320 Well, these guys are not compatible.

01:41:27.260 I think the two directors were on the same page.

01:41:30.420 They were clashing with Lawrence Kasdan, who's the writer of the original.

01:41:34.440 Right.

01:41:35.380 I think the last to Return of the Jedi and Empire Strikes Back.

01:41:38.280 I read it as there was a three-way problem.

01:41:41.320 Yeah.

01:41:41.580 Between both of them and Kasdan.

01:41:45.280 And Kasdan is the one who's saying, no, we need to stick to the script.

01:41:50.000 And he needs to be sarcastic and selfish.

01:41:53.840 He's not a comedic figure.

01:41:55.340 And so they released a thing that, unfortunately, our vision and process weren't aligned with our partners on this project.

01:42:03.300 We normally aren't fans of the phrase creative differences, but for once, this cliche is true.

01:42:09.100 Did you see also who they're thinking about replacing him with?

01:42:13.180 Replacing the two with?

01:42:14.160 Maybe Ron Howard?

01:42:15.260 Oh, yeah.

01:42:15.520 Yeah.

01:42:16.100 That's pretty good.

01:42:17.060 Yeah.

01:42:17.640 He'd be good.

01:42:18.240 It'd be interesting.

01:42:18.940 That's the ultimate gig, right?

01:42:20.520 I mean, if you're getting to that Star Wars franchise, it's basically the best gig you can have.

01:42:23.620 Can you tell me, did Lucasfilm, is that what sold to Disney?

01:42:28.380 Yes.

01:42:28.880 Yeah.

01:42:29.160 $4 billion for that franchise, which was an incredible bargain.

01:42:33.100 They're still calling these, because, you know, I saw the last, you know, Rogue, and it said Lucasfilm.

01:42:37.800 Yeah.

01:42:38.020 But that is wholly owned subsidiary of Disney now.

01:42:41.500 I don't, the franchise was sold to Disney.

01:42:45.460 But, I mean, Lucasfilm is still involved in some ways.

01:42:49.220 But George Lucas isn't.

01:42:50.980 I mean, I think in some ways.

01:42:52.480 No, no, no.

01:42:53.020 He's not.

01:42:54.060 Maybe finance.

01:42:54.900 I don't know.

01:42:55.880 But remember when one of them.

01:42:58.040 He took the $4 billion payoff.

01:42:59.700 But I do.

01:43:00.820 And one of them said, I mean, he was kind of testy when the first big Star Wars film came out without him.

01:43:06.680 And he said, oh, no, Disney made it very clear they don't want my input, so I haven't seen anything.

01:43:10.460 I don't know any of it.

01:43:12.040 Smart, Disney.

01:43:13.180 Keep going down that road.

01:43:14.320 That is the first time I've looked at Disney in a while and went, yes.

01:43:17.640 Thank you.

01:43:18.400 Yes.

01:43:18.700 Thank you.

01:43:19.360 Good job.

01:43:19.680 Well, I mean, hopefully he's not making decisions like these new superhero movies are doing.

01:43:24.420 Like, for example, they only paid Gal Gadot, the Wonder Woman actress.

01:43:29.760 Pay her anything she wants.

01:43:31.500 They paid her $300,000 for her movie.

01:43:33.840 What?

01:43:34.020 And they paid the old Superman $14 million.

01:43:36.680 The guy who was like a nobody and then he made one movie and they paid him $14 million.

01:43:40.580 Do you believe that?

01:43:41.760 It's an outrage, isn't it?

01:43:43.180 No.

01:43:43.320 Is it true?

01:43:43.860 No.

01:43:44.040 No, of course not.

01:43:44.760 No, I didn't think so.

01:43:45.720 It's not, of course, true.

01:43:46.840 Gadot did earn $300,000 for Wonder Woman, which at first blush seems low.

01:43:51.460 Yeah.

01:43:51.580 It was always going to be one of their ten-pole movies, shouldn't she have received more?

01:43:54.760 But her relatively low paycheck is actually par for the industry. 0.99

01:43:57.880 The way the model works, especially with regards to superhero films, where the brand is more important than the actor,

01:44:02.620 is that the actor gets a salary around $300,000 for their early appearances,

01:44:06.840 and then they can negotiate for more when a film is a success and they're brought back for sequels.

01:44:10.920 As Vulture points out, $300,000 is what Chris Evans made for Captain America, the first Avenger.

01:44:16.240 He now makes a lot more than that.

01:44:17.780 $14 million for the Superman guy actually includes many bonuses for box office performance

01:44:22.620 and might include multiple films and, as such, is not a base salary.

01:44:26.060 So the left was going crazy, like, this is sexism!

01:44:29.300 They're paying her $300,000 and him $14 million.

01:44:33.360 Yeah, not apples to apples at all.

01:44:34.840 First of all, she was relative unknown.

01:44:38.660 Right, and so was he, but that's why they were comparing them.

01:44:41.460 I know that, but she was a relative unknown.

01:44:43.560 She also did not sign, it's my understanding, did not sign for multiple movies.

01:44:49.160 She signed for one.

01:44:50.500 She gets to now negotiate an eight-figure paycheck for the next one. 1.00

01:44:53.720 I would much rather negotiate after one hit movie where, I'm sorry, but she is now Wonder Woman. 0.99

01:45:01.680 Right.

01:45:02.260 And you change Wonder Woman. 0.98

01:45:04.060 It's like, I can't take Spider-Man anymore.

01:45:06.420 I just can't take Spider-Man.

01:45:09.500 And Batman is pissing me off. 1.00

01:45:11.600 You know, they're coming out with another stupid Ben Affleck thing. 1.00

01:45:14.820 Yeah. 1.00

01:45:15.560 Ben Affleck movie, that Batman movie was awful.

01:45:18.160 Why didn't you just take the Batman series that you had and build on that?

01:45:26.040 You had three great Batmans. 0.99

01:45:30.120 Why would you flush it down the toilet and totally change everything?

01:45:33.480 It's weird.

01:45:33.820 Doesn't make any sense.

01:45:34.820 It's weird.

01:45:35.120 Yeah.

01:45:35.400 They're going to have to change to Wonder Woman, though, because Gal Gadot just quit to join the facial cream industry. 1.00

01:45:39.600 Oh, my gosh!

01:45:40.320 Really?

01:45:40.840 She quit. 1.00

01:45:41.220 Wow, that must be good facial cream.

01:45:43.040 It's really good facial cream.

01:45:44.380 I guess it must work well.

01:45:45.260 She expects to make about 80 times what she made on it.

01:45:47.720 Wow.

01:45:48.240 Oh, wow.

01:45:49.360 Wow.

01:45:49.900 And the other thing you have to remember, the Man of Steel movie, which was released in 2013,

01:45:55.740 did make, it's thought of as a big bomb.

01:45:58.400 It did make $668 million worldwide.

01:46:01.100 Worldwide.

01:46:01.620 I mean, so it wasn't, you know, you're going to make some cash when your movie grosses $668 million in the box office.

01:46:11.860 The argument that they should have made a lot more, though, right?

01:46:14.340 Which one?

01:46:14.960 The Superman Batman.

01:46:16.480 Yeah, I think that's a fair argument, and obviously they believe that.

01:46:19.680 It should be a billion dollar price.

01:46:20.980 Considering what they've done since.

01:46:22.400 Oh, but it was an awful movie.

01:46:24.360 Right, that's one.

01:46:25.260 Yeah.

01:46:25.860 Are you talking Batman and Superman?

01:46:27.420 Yeah.

01:46:27.820 Or Man of Steel as well.

01:46:28.960 It was awful.

01:46:29.420 I mean, DC Comics, you know, I've never seen anybody with a bigger opportunity than DC Comics.

01:46:38.560 And it's, I mean, you should, whoever's running it, you should let children run your DC Comics.

01:46:48.240 I will say.

01:46:48.940 Because you're making deals and choices on things that children wouldn't even make.

01:46:55.260 I gotta say, I didn't want to do this.

01:46:56.960 Oh, boy.

01:46:57.420 I did not want to do this on the air.

01:46:58.720 I wanted to take you into a private meeting and do this, but we're right here, and I

01:47:02.500 can't resist.

01:47:05.720 Guardians of the Galaxy 2 was terrible.

01:47:08.460 It was a terrible, terrible film.

01:47:11.400 Thank you.

01:47:11.960 It was not even mediocre.

01:47:14.780 It was terrible.

01:47:15.580 And I loved the first one.

01:47:17.220 I did, too.

01:47:17.920 The sequel was, how did you think that was a perfect movie?

01:47:21.820 I thought it was great.

01:47:22.260 It was all, nothing but.

01:47:23.460 Somebody said it was a mess.

01:47:25.060 Yes, Pat Gray.

01:47:25.980 Oh, that's right.

01:47:26.460 Again, the battle between Pat Gray movie taste and Glenn Beck movie taste has been settled.

01:47:32.480 There's a consensus.

01:47:33.700 Science is done.

01:47:35.800 I agree with you, Glenn.

01:47:37.400 I think it was a great movie.

01:47:38.900 You didn't even see it.

01:47:39.500 Yeah, first of all, you didn't even see it.

01:47:40.460 Number one, all really canned, trying way too hard to be funny with their funny lines in

01:47:48.020 this one.

01:47:48.280 It was not natural at all.

01:47:49.940 Lots of stilted, terrible comedy.

01:47:51.880 Number two, how did you get past the nonstop, sentimental puffery?

01:47:59.460 All throughout the movie, every ten seconds was another like, oh, here's a nice sentimental

01:48:06.360 scene of these two characters that used to disagree coming together and having this nice

01:48:09.780 moment over and over and over again.

01:48:11.900 And third, I mean, if Transformers doesn't even set the standard, it's as if they had

01:48:17.960 every special effect possible on a keyboard and they just mashed their hands against it

01:48:22.580 the entire movie to see if something happened.

01:48:24.740 There's nothing to it.

01:48:25.820 It was just nonstop explosions and lasers with terrible writing.

01:48:30.260 Even the acting wasn't good.

01:48:31.840 And I liked the actors in it.

01:48:33.540 That was a disaster to me.

01:48:35.240 I was so excited about it after your review.

01:48:38.640 And then Pat was like, I don't know.

01:48:40.220 It was kind of a mess, I thought.

01:48:42.080 And I was like, well, I've got to go see it.

01:48:43.220 I'm so excited.

01:48:44.060 That was terrible.

01:48:46.280 How did you like that movie?

01:48:47.960 I'm flabbergasted you liked that.

01:48:49.640 I'll have to go watch it again.

01:48:50.720 I loved it.

01:48:51.300 And so here's the thing.

01:48:54.400 I went to see Wonder Woman based on your guys' review.

01:48:57.100 I have not seen this.

01:48:58.040 I have not seen Wonder Woman.

01:48:59.920 Well, of course you're not going to like it as much as I did because you've got terrible

01:49:02.600 taste in movies.

01:49:03.580 Oh my gosh.

01:49:04.920 How did you take the opening 14 hours of fake, horrible accents and fakey, oh, I couldn't

01:49:17.420 take it.

01:49:18.920 It didn't really bother me.

01:49:20.720 Yeah, because you were looking at Robin White and writing all the women.

01:49:23.320 Was anybody speaking?

01:49:24.720 Yeah, exactly right.

01:49:26.640 Exactly right.

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01:49:31.640 Holy cow. 0.89

01:49:33.480 I'm glad we took a break from...

01:49:35.320 I know.

01:49:35.940 Those were not the stories we were supposed to talk about, I guess.

01:49:38.440 But anything to stop us from the idea that Illinois is the first state to have 100% of

01:49:46.280 their budget going to pensions.

01:49:48.880 How on earth?

01:49:49.580 Pensions.

01:49:50.160 How do you survive that?

01:49:50.580 You can't cut those.

01:49:51.560 It's almost as if socialism doesn't work.

01:49:53.780 Yes.

01:49:54.020 That's the thought.

01:49:54.680 I don't know if that's...

01:49:55.500 Now you can't cut those because if you cut those pensions, now you have all of the people

01:50:01.860 who were promised their pensions.

01:50:03.740 Now they've planned for their life.

01:50:05.420 Now what are you going to do?

01:50:06.100 You're going to put them out on the street?

01:50:07.740 What are you going to do? 1.00

01:50:08.420 Boy, this is just stupid. 1.00

01:50:11.340 We are in the place with North Korea. 1.00

01:50:14.040 We're in the place with Russia. 1.00

01:50:15.560 We're in the place with the Middle East. 1.00

01:50:17.160 We're in the place now with the immigrant problem over in Europe. 0.94

01:50:23.420 We're in the place where you're starting to see the Bubba effect happen.

01:50:27.420 We're in these places because nobody wanted to recognize the truth.

01:50:32.040 Oh, maybe I liked Guardians of the Galaxy because it was an escape.

01:50:38.860 Yes, it was.

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01:52:09.380 I expect him to be on a speakerphone at some point.

01:52:12.260 Just like, oh, yeah.

01:52:13.900 Yeah, no, I'm really Iron Man.

01:52:15.380 And that's, you shouldn't put that mask on, kid.

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The Glenn Beck Program - June 21, 2017

6⧸21⧸17 - What would America look like if... (Danielle DiMartino-Booth Joins Glenn)

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