7⧸20⧸17 - What Americans want most right now
Episode Stats
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1 hour and 52 minutes
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166.38155
Summary
11-month-old Charlie Gard is now in a critical condition in a British hospital. His parents have been given until midnight to decide whether or not to turn off his ventilator, and they are counting down the seconds to make a decision.
Transcript
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Congress has granted Charlie Gard and his parents full citizenship and residency here in the United States,
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which may allow him to move or them to move or remove Charlie Gard,
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the 11-month-old baby from the hospital in England.
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They were supposed to decide whether or not to turn the life support off about eight hours ago in England.
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We're waiting to see what they're going to do now that America is involved.
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We'll give you the latest and just a heartbreaking interview with his parents
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and a warning to us here in the United States and the rest of the world.
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We'll begin with that. Let's do that right now.
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I will make a stand. I will raise my voice. I will hold your hand.
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Because we are one. I will beat my drum. I have made my choice.
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Hello, America. We have to get to another story today that is pretty important,
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and that is the supreme leaders in Iran have just announced earlier this week
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that the promised one, the 12th Amman, is alive and walking among the people of Iran
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If you know anything about the 12th Amman and the prophecy, that's really not good news.
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We'll tell you about that coming up in a second.
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Also, do you remember the caller from Southern Maryland, Alan?
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He was calling a local station, WMAL, and he said,
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I'm the forgotten man, and all of this stuff with the media has got to stop.
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I'm going to play the audio for you, and then Alan is going to be joining us next hour.
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He's a fan of the show, and we found him, and I'm quite anxious to talk to him
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and see how he's feeling, see what's been happening in his life
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and where he's coming from, the forgotten man, coming up in just a little while.
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Also, a Toronto man has built a set of stairs in a park.
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He got a homeless guy to help him build the stairs, and he built it for $550.
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We'll give you that story, because the city is really upset.
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You have until midnight on Wednesday, Thursday morning.
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And if we don't have any more good news, we're going to turn the ventilator off of Charlie Gard.
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So far, we don't have any news of anything that has happened at the hospital.
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But we do have an interview that aired on the BBC last night with Charlie Gard's parents as the clock was counting down.
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One of the hardest things for me was when we actually got the appeal papers, it says, Connie Yates and Chris Gard versus Great Ormond Street Hospital and Charlie Gard.
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And that broke my heart, because we're not his mum and dad anymore.
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If he didn't need a piece of apparatus that was helping him breathe, I could go back to that hospital, pick my son up and take him out of that hospital.
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But because he's got something blowing air into his lungs, we don't have a chance.
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Even though there is another expert in the world that is willing to take him and willing to treat him, they've got to say, they've got so much power, it's unbelievable.
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You know, he's Charlie Gard, he's our son, and we've got no power over him.
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And I think people need to know that, that you've got to be aware that if you take your child into the hospital, they're not yours anymore.
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We know that here in America, and we are headed down.
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Yeah, darker road here in America if we can't free the free market and get health care away from the government.
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There's a great story on how we can help and how the free market and how we can actually band together and start doing some things ourselves to get these high prices down without the government.
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And we'll share them here in the next few days.
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And make sure you're watching glennbeck.com because we're really starting to look at some stories in different ways.
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And that is the same with the Blaze, but they will start spilling out here as we chart new courses on trying to figure out ways to help and ways to move forward without the government.
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But there's some really interesting things going on around the country as we're looking into it about ways to bring the price of medicine down and ways to bring the price of insurance down with people who are looking at an astronomically high deductible, five, six, $10,000 deductibles and $1,500 a month.
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I mean, most people don't spend $6,000 a month or a year on medical care unless there's a problem.
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So you're spending $1,500 just for catastrophic.
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So Congress and the person in Congress who is what?
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This is a U.S. Congressperson who had a baby just a few years ago from Washington state.
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And when their baby was born, they were told, the parents were told, that she had Potter's syndrome.
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It's rare and usually fatal, and it affects the development of the kidneys.
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Well, lo and behold, she and her husband recalled the doctor advising them to have an abortion, but she's pro-life, and she decided to contend.
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Well, Potter syndrome carried to term usually means stillborn or they die soon after death because you obviously have to have the kidneys, and that's just for development in the womb.
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They usually die from respiratory failure because they haven't developed their lungs.
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They managed to convince a doctor to give Abigail saline injections in utero to fight the condition.
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Other doctors were reluctant to even consider this.
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Miracle child received a kidney from her father's last year, turned four last year, believed to be the first baby to have survived birth with no kidneys.
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Whenever there's a chance for life, how do we not take that chance for life?
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I mean, especially when people are saying, oh my gosh, if we could just save one child.
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And we may not, but the parents have the money.
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Because they, have you noticed they don't comfort each other, which is odd.
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I also, I'm not sure if they're together, are they?
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No, but I mean, I don't know for a fact that they're still together.
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But I know that they are, I mean, you know, they're there 24 hours a day and haven't left the baby's bedside.
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And they just want to spend more time with the baby.
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Can you imagine what he said at the very beginning of that was looking at the legal documents that it was the parents versus the hospital and the baby?
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That's what happens when you have a government that gets, you know, so big and so powerful.
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And that's that's socialism that we just heard from those college kids yesterday.
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They think is great because they don't understand it.
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They really feel bad for those social, those, those students.
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And they've just been they've just grown up in this world where where you don't question.
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In a world where you where where questions can be answered so easily.
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How people don't do their own homework now is just astounding.
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But already formed ideas can be reinforced so easily as well with Google and the Internet.
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So also when you're in college and, you know, people are spending 40 and 50 thousand dollars a year for your education,
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maybe it's time for you to take a little responsibility to actually understand the things and look into them a little bit.
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I mean, I know we can say we feel bad for them.
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And, you know, I don't like the way the education system works.
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But at some point it becomes your responsibility.
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Did you see you remember the Pew study that just came out that showed that I don't remember what it was.
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80 percent of conservatives believe that universities are bad for society.
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And then it was a really high number on the other side that, you know, disagreed and showed how we were split.
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Did you notice that there was on each of those questions the I don't know was between 21 and 17 percent on each side?
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So while we are while you look at it and say, oh, my gosh, people really believe that they're bad.
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I just I just Facebook post something that we can't really share on radio.
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It's this new technology that they're trying to protect, trying to perfect where you can take the audio of somebody and then a picture of them and you can make it look just like they're saying it.
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So if you can get somebody and you can recreate the voice, which we've already shown that there's they're struggling with this now trying to perfect the human voice, a voice synthesizer that they don't have it right yet.
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But holy cow, with the way that things travel now, the speed at which new technology travels, they'll have it in a couple of years because it's remarkable.
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It sounds synthetic now, but it it's only because of the inflection and the pacing.
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There is something to it that you listen to it.
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You're like, my gosh, that sounds just like the person you can tell it's not, but it's got something to it that sounds exactly like the person.
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Once they can perfect that and type in whatever you want.
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And then you can take a picture of the person and create it so it looks as though that person is saying that.
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How are you going to tell what's real and what's not?
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Like the voice isn't what they did is they took the voice from like his radio speeches and just put it into a different and they put, they made a synthetic visual of Barack Obama.
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I mean, eventually those things just have less value, right?
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I mean, you just get to a point where some, you see someone saying something and it's just like on, on, in movies, right?
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I mean, back in the day you'd think, oh wow, what an amazing stunt that was.
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And now we're all trained to think, oh, it's CGI, nothing happened, right?
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And that just, I think what eventually happens to our society, how you make decisions in that environment is going to be really interesting.
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Well, we already, I went to my doctor the other day and I love this doctor because he has absolutely no idea who I am.
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And I walk into the, I walk into the reception and I, you know, give her my insurance card and, and driver's license.
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And the receptionist looks up and she says, oh my gosh, you know, there's a really famous, um, like reporter guy named Glenn Beck.
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And she's looking at me and I'm like, yeah, I've heard that.
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And I said, no, no, I hear that all the time though.
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And she said, okay, yeah, cause he's really famous.
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And I'm like, ah, yeah, I, I, I, I, yep, I've heard that.
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So, um, I walk into the doctor and the doctor also doesn't know who I am.
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And I love it because I can have a normal conversation with him.
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And, you know, we, when I see him, we talk about, you know, the usual stuff that doctors try to say when you first meet them.
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If you know, so play any golf lately, you know, that kind of stuff.
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Um, I said, uh, I said, so what's been happening with you, doc?
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And, um, he said, oh, just, you know, just trying to figure out the world.
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And, um, I said, uh, yeah, it's, it's kind of, it's kind of upside down right now.
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And he said, when did we just accept lying from all sides and all sources?
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When, when did, when was it okay that presidents and Congress and the media just make stuff up?
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And we all not only just accept it, we cheer if it agrees with us.
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He said, I don't know where we're, I don't know where we're headed.
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We started talking about his, you know, his medical career.
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And he said, uh, that he has his, uh, um, uh, I think a bachelor's in American history.
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He said, I really wanted to take history, um, as well.
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And I said, who's your, who's your two favorite people in, in all of American history?
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And he said, because they wouldn't have put up with this.
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And they just, they just self-sacrificed and did the right thing.
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They knew the difference between right and wrong and did it.
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Let me tell you about the Toronto man who was a little upset
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because the Toronto Community Park had taken an estimate
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Now, that's just to put, you know, some stairs down.
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I thought they were talking about an escalator.
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So, what he did was he hired a homeless person to help him and he built,
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now, remember, we're talking about a huge flight of stairs.
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We're talking about going down a hill and, oh, no, we're talking about eight stairs.
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He built it with a homeless guy in a matter of hours for $550,000.
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and they may just have to pull those up and now start all over again.
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I bet they could do that for under $250,000, though.
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I want to talk a little bit about some poll numbers here.
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I saw a poll that, you know, Barack, I mean, sorry,
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And they're saying that's horrible and awful, and it is.
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Okay, so I saw one that was Donald Trump 43, Hillary Clinton 39.
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So, have you guys, has anybody heard anybody mention that Hillary Clinton is polling around the same as Donald Trump?
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Yeah, Bush's approval rating, he left with around 30%, and it's up over 50 now.
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And, and she was, she was, she, her whole campaign strategy was shut her up, don't let her talk, and she won't hurt herself.
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And her approval rating was supposed to go up just by making her go away.
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So, for the high and mighty Democrats, we're both screwed, guys.
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Who does America have that you can pull out and say, here's the next president?
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I will tell you, somebody who's playing it really, really brilliantly, who is acting like a president, and who is not plastic.
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In fact, I've read his book, and it's the first book that I've read from a politician where he actually wrote it.
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And it's not about policy, it's about family and everything else.
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I mean, that guy is positioning himself to be a guy that could be trusted for both sides.
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Now, whether anybody wants a nice guy, I don't know.
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And I think, obviously, you know, Donald Trump is likely, unless he decides to leave office himself, is going to be there for 2020.
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Yeah, I mean, he's young, he seems to engage well on social media, he's funny.
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You remember when he was on The Daily Show, and he hit it out of the park?
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And I believe when he left, they were talking on The Daily Show going, that is the most dangerous conservative out there.
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So, Chris Hemsworth, when asked who is going to play the next James Bond, he said that he believes that it should be a woman.
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Well, I mean, are you trying to just tempt me into an Atomic Blonde conversation?
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And so I saw, I haven't seen Atomic Blonde, but I saw the trailer over and over and over and over again.
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Was there a particular show that maybe has aired it 25 times in the last week that you know of?
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Well, the Pat and Stu show has aired that over and over again.
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My iPad just plays it over and over and over again.
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It just plays the Atomic Blonde trailer over and over and over again.
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Her and James Spader since Two Days in the Valley.
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And I thought, if this is as good as the trailer, this is going to be a continual character.
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Unless she dies at the end, which I can't believe any movie studio would kill off a character like this.
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He believes the next James Bond should be a woman.
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Well, maybe he would make some changes in his life and identify in a different way.
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But if you were just watching the BBC, you would think that the homosexuality and bi and questioning population was about 89%.
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Because it's just like every single show has that.
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And so I think it's just, England is just going nuts with political correctness that, you know what, maybe James Bond should be a woman.
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We need a tolerance towel to come in and dry you off from the hatred dripping off of you.
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You know, in Atomic Blonde, this is something that people are not aware of, Charlize Theron has an open mind about such issues as far as sexuality is concerned.
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I think that it's an interesting part of the plot that may be investigated by some viewers who have already bought tickets.
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I'm just saying that they're available in advance now.
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I was thinking of a Watergate-type break-in to the studio, just to kind of cure a copy.
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It's been a long time since I've wanted to see a movie as bad as Atomic Blonde.
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I mean, obviously, Charlize Theron is attractive.
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Like, the idea of her just kicking everybody's butt just looks great.
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I love the scene where it just opens up and she says, you know, I knew the risks of this job and, you know, it was going to eventually kill me.
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And she reaches it in the champagne bucket and she kills eight people.
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Like, I am at the point now where if it's not the greatest movie of all time, I'm going to be incredibly disappointed.
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Number one greatest movie of all time or nothing.
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This thing is going to have a hard time living up to the trailer.
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Ever gone to those movies where the trailer was great?
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And then you go to the movie and you're like, that is a different movie.
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It happens a lot with comedies where they put, like, six funny jokes in there and then you realize there's only six funny jokes in the movie.
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This one, however, it highlights what appears to be at least ten different amazing action sequences outside of whatever else happens in the movie.
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It reminds me of how excited I was to see Taken.
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When you have daughters that age, that movie freaked you out.
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I went right to their house and, like, you are never leaving your house.
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Taken, which was amazing, despite Glenn's understandable opposition to that particular point.
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And then you're removing Liam Neeson and putting Charlize Theron in it.
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Like, ah, do we want an old white guy or Charlize Theron in there?
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Which makes Chris Hemsworth's proclamation all the more stupid.
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Why do you need to also put her in the old role?
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And the funny thing is, if you asked him that straight out, he would say yes.
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And I would be willing to step out of my $500 million role to do it, too.
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That is Liam Neeson, when he's playing Aslan, going, hey, could be Mohammed.
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By the way, did you see the latest on Kermit the Frog, this scandal that Kermit the Frog
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So now there's a new story out from Henson, from the daughter of Jim Henson, who said,
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And the way he's been playing Kermit the last few years, Kermit has become an angry, bitter,
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I have to go back and look at some of the new Muppet movies.
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It's probably time after being treated like by Miss Piggy, getting beaten by Miss Piggy
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I just see Kermit with a cigarette hanging from his mouth, you know, flipping bacon in
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a pan, you know, that bitch will never talk to me like that again.
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John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer.
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He went in and had a cancerous brain tumor removed right behind his eye.
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They went in to remove a brain clot and they at least announced yesterday that he's recovering
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amazingly well and his underlying health is excellent with an exception of brain cancer.
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And this is actually what Pat's mother-in-law just died from.
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The doctors at Mayo Clinic said this is a very aggressive form of cancer.
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And we have had our differences with shit Senator John McCain over the years, obviously.
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But the one thing that you can never take away from him is his heroic service in Vietnam.
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I mean, he is a man that you can use to teach your son or daughter about what a real man is like and what an honorable man is like.
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When he was over in Vietnam that he could have been released and he refused to be released from the Hanoi Hilton because he wasn't going to leave the rest of his teammates there.
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And, you know, the man's never been able to lift his arms over his head since then because they would pull him out of the sockets all the time.
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But our thoughts and prayers are with Senator John McCain.
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So who would who could take over for him if he were to retire?
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Let's just hope we don't have to think about that.
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You know, I mean, at some point that will, you know, he may retire or not run again or God only knows.
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But I would imagine if you get this, I mean, wouldn't you?
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Wouldn't you want to just spend it with your family?
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But, you know, he's been there for I don't think, you know, I think you have to have a certain certain way of going about things to want to stay in Washington as long as he has.
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But so, I mean, I think I'm sure he sees that as his calling at this point and was going to want to try to stay as long as he can.
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This is the same thing that I think Teddy Kennedy had as well.
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That's they believe they're supposed to be there.
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So here's an interesting new fact out from the PPP polling.
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New survey from the Democratic polling firm PPP.
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They are a little, they're definitely left leaning and a little quirky with their questioning.
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Like they'll ask questions that kind of set up premises that they think will play well in social media, which is a little.
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Only 45% of Trump supporters believe that Donald Trump Jr. met in that meeting with that Russian lawyer.
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Even though Trump himself admitted it, only 45% believe it never happened.
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Last Friday, I played some audio from WMAL Radio from a guy who is the forgotten man that has affected so many people in our audience.
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I want to, I want to start the hour with, with that audio again and then introduce you.
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We have found him and he's on the phone and I can't wait to talk to him.
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Alan from Southern Maryland is all we knew him as last week.
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We'll know him a little bit more beginning right now.
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Last week, a guy calls in to WMAL and says this.
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I'm sick of the Donald Trump stuff, all the Trump stuff.
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I consider myself one of the forgotten men and women.
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I mean, I'm cutting back on my medicine, my groceries.
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Do you feel like the president, Alan, do you think, do you feel like the president is,
00:39:35.920
is keeping his head down and doing what he promised to do to try to help you and other
00:39:46.820
We've been struggling for years under Obama, and he had the right message.
00:39:54.500
I need a couple extra dollars on my paycheck every week.
00:40:00.200
We need Trump and these liberal press and all this.
00:40:05.580
I sat here putting our boots on every day, getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning, going
00:40:09.200
to work, and trying to provide for our families.
00:40:42.820
I wish the press would think about us, those who are putting our boots on and getting
00:41:00.140
And who was it that is supporting Donald Trump now?
00:41:05.200
It's people like this, who I don't think it really is about Donald Trump.
00:41:12.020
I think it's about the pain that people are going through.
00:41:17.180
And somebody had better start listening to them and helping them.
00:41:32.140
Tell me about the day you called in to WMAL and what you were feeling.
00:41:42.380
I feel like, I don't know, I just feel like there's a whole lot of us out here.
00:41:49.820
But everything is centered around other concerns.
00:41:57.140
And we just need some extra money in our paycheck.
00:42:01.040
I mean, we're back to eating noodles and noodles.
00:42:04.160
Where I live at, it's like two hours to get to work for a six-hour day and then two hours to go home.
00:42:09.480
And my girl, finally, she just has a job interview an hour and a half up the road for two days a week.
00:42:18.020
But they just don't understand that we're the ones out here paying the taxes.
00:42:21.940
And we're the ones, they're just, they're about everything but the right thing.
00:42:26.740
And that's just, how do you help your fellow man?
00:42:45.280
Were there good times in your past with your job?
00:42:53.920
I'm on a 120-degree roof fixing an air conditioner for a customer because they're complaining it's hot, hot, hot.
00:43:00.420
I don't know what these people would have did back in the 1800s when they didn't have no air conditioner, electricity, or heater.
00:43:13.680
I mean, I make pretty decent money, but I just can't get enough hours in unless I do overtime.
00:43:18.900
I had to request it and work my day off just to try to make extra money.
00:43:27.420
I'm just out here doing – I mean, I hate kind of what I do.
00:43:32.220
I mean, I'm pretty good at what I do, but I really got to suffer sometimes.
00:43:35.960
I mean, sometimes I'm on a roof for eight hours, and I'm in the blistering sun.
00:43:39.620
You know, it's taking a toll on me, and I'm going to have much longer I can do this
00:43:45.160
and throw a 32-foot ladder up against a building to climb up there and stay outside all day,
00:43:48.980
fixing comfort for everybody else when I'm out here hurting.
00:43:52.960
And I keep my thermostat at the house at 78 degrees just to keep back on the bill.
00:44:04.360
I'm just out here trying to maintain, and I just don't have the funds.
00:44:11.980
We just, like, pretty much we're cabin fevered in.
00:44:14.300
I go to work, come home, stay in, and she's trying to find a job.
00:44:19.880
She's on the Internet every day just applying for this and applying for that,
00:44:22.940
and hopefully this two-day-a-week job will pan out for her
00:44:26.480
because I can use the extra little bit of money every week.
00:44:31.860
When did things get tough for you, under Obama, under Bush?
00:44:37.700
Well, I really think it was under the Obama administration with the taxes.
00:44:44.300
I've seen more money coming out of my paycheck every week.
00:44:50.280
I get paid biweekly, and it's like $400-some I have to pay in taxes.
00:44:55.280
It's state, federal, my Social Security, all that.
00:45:00.220
If I can just keep $200 of that, I'm, like, I'm, like, stretching out my credit cards now,
00:45:10.440
I've got to budget money around and flip things around to where, you know,
00:45:13.840
I'm keeping everybody happy without, you know, having to come after me,
00:45:17.140
repossess my vehicles or foreclose on my house.
00:45:24.620
Have you, just trying to get a sense of who you are,
00:45:38.180
I grew up in Baltimore City, and there was a lot of, it was all Democrats down there,
00:45:42.760
and back in the day, you had to know somebody to get a job.
00:45:46.120
A lot of the guys, the fathers of my friends were, like, in the union representatives.
00:45:52.140
So if you wanted a decent job, you had a pretty much, I remember Mr. Joe,
00:45:57.860
you were walking this house at Christmastime, and all the Christmas cards were all the way around
00:46:01.720
his whole living room, stretched on a wall from all the people that sent him in Christmas cards.
00:46:05.600
And I think most of the Christmas cards he got was just people kind of, like, kissing his butt
00:46:09.200
because he was the union representative for the steamfitters.
00:46:14.460
And I was, like, amazed to see all the Christmas cards hanging on his wall,
00:46:17.460
but it was all people that was just looking for favors.
00:46:22.360
It wasn't what I wanted to be part of because it was, like, a little cult,
00:46:25.560
and I didn't like the way, you know, it was, the union, it wasn't for me.
00:46:35.340
I'm kind of like, you know, I make as much as a union person,
00:46:38.020
but when I was in a union, they just took my money every month,
00:46:44.220
But, yeah, I grew up in Baltimore City, and it's like, it was the pay-to-play type thing
00:46:50.580
And now, you know, Baltimore City has went to hell in a handbasket,
00:46:53.760
and when I grew up down there, it was a beautiful thing.
00:46:57.680
Everybody got out every weekend and scrubbed their steps and swept the sidewalks.
00:47:01.760
My job was to scrub out the trash cans in the backyard and squirt down the alley.
00:47:05.060
But now you go up to Baltimore, it's trash six inches deep on the sidewalks.
00:47:11.640
But my pain actually started when Obama got elected.
00:47:19.240
I raised him from my wife I lost a couple of years back to cancer.
00:47:24.680
It was, you know, her child from another relationship.
00:47:26.660
But it really, like, all started on the Obama administration
00:47:33.020
when he started changing things, and I've just seen the skyrocket.
00:47:49.920
I couldn't wait to get home to tune in with you.
00:47:52.560
Especially with the big chalkboard and all the pictures of this guy linked to that guy.
00:47:57.880
And I think at that point I started really coming around.
00:48:00.220
I was listening to CNN, and then a friend of me told me Fox is fair and balanced.
00:48:04.020
So I changed my political perspective on things just by being educated by people like you.
00:48:10.500
So, but I kind of, I listened to, like, MSNBC and CNN just to see their slant of the topic.
00:48:18.720
And, like, Rachel Maddow, she's, wow, man, she's something else.
00:48:22.440
But I listened to them, and then I turned to the truth, and I listened for voices like you out there
00:48:27.140
so I can really know the truth, and then I can make a judgment.
00:48:29.980
Is it affecting me the way it is, or is it what they're describing, which I know is a false narrative.
00:48:35.580
Because we put Trump in the office because we believe what he was saying.
00:48:47.940
And I got calluses on my hands, and real men have calluses.
00:48:55.200
It's just everyday people that go to work, and we work hard.
00:48:58.420
But we don't really have enough to show for it.
00:49:01.640
We just have to live paycheck to paycheck because we're not bringing enough money in.
00:49:07.900
And, I mean, I make decent, fairly decent money, but it's not enough for my bills.
00:49:13.660
And it drives me to point sometimes, I've got suicidal sometimes just thinking about all the crap that's going on in my life.
00:49:21.580
And it's not because of me not willing to work.
00:49:40.400
I think he's really putting the best foot forward.
00:49:48.460
They're just blocking everything he's trying to accomplish.
00:49:50.900
I mean, even all his successes is not even being reported.
00:49:54.860
I understand that the border crossings are down because of him.
00:50:03.140
And he's really wanting to do what he promised, but they're just blocking him.
00:50:07.900
The whole shmere with the Democrats and the media is just to paint him with a broad brush that he is some kind of demon,
00:50:15.980
some kind of guy that's not, you know, he wasn't worth being elected for,
00:50:21.040
And all they do is report all the bad, negative stuff, and they don't really highlight any of the good stuff.
00:50:27.320
So what could the media, what does the media need to learn, Alan?
00:50:34.200
What do they, they always question, you know, who is supporting Donald Trump and how come we're not trusted?
00:50:49.480
Get up at 4 o'clock, put your boots on, get in my truck, and go with me every day when I go to work.
00:50:54.220
Be on a 120-degree roof, giving people their comfort back.
00:51:01.060
Share my lunch with me, which is a baloney sandwich, because I can't afford chip tan.
00:51:06.820
Just come to work with me and see what we're dealing with out here, and just let, one day working with me,
00:51:15.400
you'll realize that how hard things are, and then they're speaking all this other stuff that's really not important to people like us.
00:51:26.460
I mean, if I can get an extra $100 in my paycheck every week, I would love that.
00:51:30.280
That would help me so much to get by a little bit further.
00:51:32.840
But all they want to do is talk about Donald Trump Jr., Donald Trump, Russia, this and that.
00:51:40.580
We're worried about how are we going to survive one day at a time, and how do we put food on our tables?
00:51:45.580
How do we afford to go out to dinner, and how do we afford to, you know, have a good weekend and maybe go to the ocean?
00:51:53.300
Or we can't afford none of that, because every day our money that we earn has to dedicate it to something else.
00:52:00.300
And there's nothing left over by the time you pay all your bills.
00:52:04.800
What's the most important thing to you, the tax relief, insurance, border?
00:52:21.300
I know you've got to give and take, but I really need relief in my paycheck.
00:52:25.240
I just need to bring home a little bit more to what I'm allowed to bring home, because they're taking it all for me.
00:52:34.260
My 17-year-old son worked last year, a part-time job.
00:52:37.700
And when I filed taxes, I claimed him on my earned income tax credit.
00:52:46.480
Now that's grew up my taxes, I've got the federal and the state after me now, wanting $2,600 back, saying I had to pay them back because he claimed himself.
00:52:58.680
But the taxes, I mean, why can't it be a simple one little form, and why do they have to take so much?
00:53:05.420
I mean, they taxed me right up front, and then everything I buy and everything I use, I had to pay more taxes on that.
00:53:11.720
I wish it was like a fair tax or something like that.
00:53:14.380
I mean, they're just, oh, my God, my paycheck is like $400-some comes out every two weeks just taxes alone, and I can really use that money.
00:53:24.140
You know, I was just thinking, I'm just going to write you a check for the $2,600, but you better check because if I give you the $2,600, they're going to charge you for that $2,600 that I give you, and then you'll be even in more trouble.
00:53:35.660
But let me take care of your tax bill of $2,600.
00:53:45.660
Please just call me, Glenn, and if you'll hold on, we'll get some information, and we'll send you a check.
00:53:53.020
But know that this damn government's going to charge you.
00:53:57.740
You're totally screwed because they're going to, next year, you'll have to claim the $2,600.
00:54:04.360
And so it's, you know, save your money if you can because they're going to charge you for it next year.
00:54:09.740
Well, I got, I had a file of appeals and stuff, and I got a file of special thing, and it was amazing how I got the federal and the state comptroller's letter at the same time.
00:54:35.520
If you hold on for just a second, and if the producers can get his address and some information.
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00:56:18.620
You know what's really remarkable is what some people heard last week, they were listening to the words, and they heard, we need help, we need help, we need help.
00:56:28.880
And some conservatives thought, you know, well, that's not the government's job.
00:56:36.080
The help he's talking about is really being left alone.
00:56:47.300
Just stop taking so much of my money and help create jobs.
00:56:52.900
Get out of the way so jobs can be created so I can go out and work.
00:56:57.660
Look, he's talking about his girl going out and trying to find a job.
00:57:04.080
I mean, a guy who's not taking welfare, who's working on a roof.
00:57:08.820
I mean, I see these guys in the summer all the time.
00:57:15.580
You know, the people who are working outside on the streets now, how are you doing it?
00:57:22.160
But being up on a roof 120 degrees and not saying, I don't want to, saying, I can't do this much longer.
00:57:31.520
I need more of my own money and I need to work more now.
00:57:40.920
And that's who the media and the government are missing.
00:58:13.860
Yeah, I just wanted to comment on that story you just had.
00:58:16.400
I can really identify with what that guy's saying, you know.
00:58:25.260
And if I want health insurance, I'll go out and get it.
00:58:27.980
You know, for me, it's just, I shouldn't be forced to have to do all that stuff.
00:58:32.040
And, you know, I was telling the guy that screened me that I don't believe the Republicans give a crap anymore about us than the Democrats do.
00:58:39.420
I just think that it's one big club and we're not invited to it.
00:58:45.460
And we can see that the Republicans are really not interested in reforming this health care thing.
00:58:53.680
What evidence do you have on that except for every other example?
00:59:03.380
And it's kind of been our point for a while that the Republicans are, I mean, it's the same game.
00:59:11.060
And they keep coming to us and trying to convince us that we're different.
00:59:17.400
And it's they're just playing this game and they're not interested in repealing Obamacare or actually fixing the problem.
00:59:26.520
Because even their fix did nothing to actually relieve the cost of health care to the average American.
00:59:48.280
I wish you had your own separate thing about just talking about history.
00:59:54.340
I mean, nobody has ever really been interested in helping people.
01:00:01.560
And I think that everything in this world now is just about money.
01:00:06.080
What can we take out of your pocket and put into ours?
01:00:11.000
There isn't anything we're going through that's not about money.
01:00:19.840
And you know why it's not going to change, Glenn.
01:00:27.080
But we can't because it's the same story over and over again.
01:00:37.520
Once we accept that we cannot change it, then we don't.
01:00:48.720
I do believe that enough people, because we have evidence of it.
01:00:54.220
There are times when kings and dictators rule the world.
01:00:58.120
And they take up the treasures of the world, and they buy armies and navies, and they rule with terror all around the world.
01:01:10.040
And somehow or another, the little guy does win from time to time.
01:01:16.840
But it takes a group of us knowing who we are and what is true and what we will take and what we won't to stand up and say enough is enough and not be duped.
01:01:29.880
And it's getting harder and harder not to be duped.
01:01:35.260
Did you see Eric Erickson's piece on Fox News the other day where he said, it's time to call the bluff on Mitch McConnell?
01:01:47.960
Now, for the last eight months, Mitch McConnell has been, for some reason, the GOP darling again.
01:01:54.500
And everybody believed that he was really going to be the guy who would help.
01:02:02.820
The reason is one named Neil Gorsuch, which he held the line on in 2016.
01:02:08.160
And, I mean, that is why I think he's back in the good graces or has been.
01:02:16.980
There is no reason that the GOP, House and Senate, should not be passing tax reform right now.
01:02:35.480
And sometimes, you know, I have to turn you off sometimes, too, because I just can't listen to it anymore.
01:02:42.320
And I don't think that we should just say, oh, we can't beat it and therefore surrender.
01:02:47.220
It's just, I mean, what I mean by that is I have to accept the fact that these guys are in for it for personal gain.
01:03:01.620
It's his ego, I believe, that he's trying to bolster.
01:03:07.820
And I just think that right now, at this point in time, this is the party and we're not allowed to go.
01:03:20.960
That's what I mean by, you know, I have to accept that this isn't the time that anybody wants to do anything.
01:03:35.060
I just don't think I can help in Washington, D.C. because it's just corrupt.
01:03:43.860
How can I not be a source of friction and problem in your life to where you just, you know, I got to turn it off?
01:03:51.700
Because I know that's happening because I do it.
01:03:53.740
I don't personally look to you to say, how can Glenn help me?
01:04:01.760
I like listening to the information that you provide.
01:04:04.800
I like the fact that you're, you know, not afraid to put that information out there.
01:04:08.780
Like I said, I love to listen to your history stuff and listen to the stuff that we don't get in the classrooms.
01:04:18.320
Fortunately, I can do that here at work because nobody else is around.
01:04:23.740
It's great to be able to plug that stuff in and listen to it and learn.
01:04:27.120
And therefore, when the time comes and my decision, you know, to punch a card or to circle out a name when voting time comes, you know, I've got some information in my corner.
01:04:39.300
And I can, you know, investigate the people that are campaigning and choose the one that I think is best.
01:04:47.520
And I was, I was not a Trump supporter, but I at least see that Trump is trying to do something here where other people just conformed and followed the party rules.
01:05:00.000
And it's kind of, it's kind of sad, but I mean, I think for me, you're doing what you need to do for me.
01:05:05.200
If I had to look to you for support, you're doing what you need to do.
01:05:08.580
You're putting up the information and trying to teach me something that I don't know.
01:05:17.400
Glenn, I think the reason that I'm frustrated is because these politicians will not even attempt to work together.
01:05:27.220
An example of this is when Trump went and pulled out of the Paris Accord, Elizabeth Warren immediately tweeted out how horrible it was.
01:05:37.940
My tweet to her was the president has just said he is going to try and rework this deal and see if we can become involved.
01:05:45.240
The Democrats won't even go to him and say, here's my idea, and maybe even be shot down or to maybe work together.
01:05:52.840
The problem is that we are all out here working our butts off.
01:05:56.260
I happen to play golf with a union pressman for the Boston Globe who couldn't be any further politically for me than if possible.
01:06:03.460
We sit down a little bit of beer after playing golf.
01:06:05.480
We agree on so much more than we disagree on, but these politicians won't allow us to give our input.
01:06:14.740
I don't think the media really, in many cases on both sides, want us to be able to talk to each other.
01:06:22.500
Because that is true when we actually sit down with each other and you're not talking to the people who are in the throes of knighting kings or princes or feeling like they can appoint the next person.
01:06:41.040
When you really get to the people who are looking at the problems, I mean, there is absolutely no reason we cannot solve this health care thing.
01:06:57.260
To actually take care of the people who don't have health care, knowing that no one's going to die because no hospital can turn somebody away.
01:07:12.940
We want to find a way that we can care for people who need the help.
01:07:20.480
Now, because that wasn't the real intention, that was the stated goal, but not the real intention under the Obama administration, what we've done is we've created a second problem.
01:07:32.640
And that is now no one who had a doctor that they liked, had insurance that they liked, can go to that doctor or pay for that insurance.
01:07:43.340
They now have a $5,000 deductible and $1,500 a month to pay for insurance.
01:07:54.520
The other will involve the government getting out of the way.
01:07:58.980
Now, there's no way that reasonable people who don't have to raise money for a campaign, don't have to worry about their poll numbers.
01:08:11.340
There's no reason that reasonable people can't get together and figure that out.
01:08:18.220
You know, today is the anniversary of the day we went to the moon.
01:08:22.360
I mean, geez, we put a man on the moon after John F. Kennedy says, what was it, in 62?
01:08:31.200
I want to put a man on the moon and bring him home safely because we're Americans, not because it's easy, but because it's hard.
01:08:37.460
We put a man on the moon with the computing power of your iPhone.
01:08:52.940
Looks like we have more trouble in North Korea.
01:08:58.260
U.S. intelligence is telling us today that it looks like they are making preparations for a next possible missile test.
01:09:07.220
Now, this is kind of good because when they launch a missile, they have these missiles that can travel all around the country.
01:09:18.620
So, for us, our satellites now detecting new imagery and satellite-based radar emissions, indicating that they may be testing components and missile control facilities for another ICBM intermediate launch.
01:09:33.760
For us to be able to pick that up, that's good news to be able to destroy them.
01:09:37.700
The bad news is, you know, this comes on the heels yesterday.
01:09:42.760
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says a preemptive strike is on the table.
01:09:53.340
In today's world, we can't predict what's going to happen next.
01:09:56.300
Just when you think the insane is going to happen.
01:09:58.680
Last hour, we were talking about Christopher, what's his name?
01:10:08.320
He just said, you know, that Bond should be played by a woman.
01:10:19.620
Before we turned the microphones off, people were tweeting going, guys, in the comic books, Thor is a woman now.
01:10:30.300
Just when you think the world can't go more insane, it has.
01:10:56.220
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, fruits, veggies.
01:11:28.100
I mean, we keep talking about how insurance and how Social Security is always in trouble and we're always paying as much.
01:11:36.080
If the Constitution says that they pass no laws, that they won't abide, then why aren't they using the same insurance?
01:11:53.180
We have given them so many perks and so many excuses and so many ways for them to get rich.
01:12:00.620
These guys come into Congress and suddenly they're multimillionaires.
01:12:07.660
Well, because they don't have to apply by rules like insider trading.
01:12:13.520
They can pass laws and before it's passed, they know it's going to happen.
01:12:20.260
I mean, when that came out, they had to change a lot of those rules.
01:12:22.460
But, I mean, that really opened everybody's eyes to that whole process.
01:12:25.400
I mean, you look at a guy like Mike Lee, Senator Mike Lee, I think he's the poorest guy in the Senate.
01:12:38.880
And when you can find real servants like that, those are the guys that we need to keep in.
01:12:47.860
Who knows what's going to happen to him after the cloning process.
01:12:52.100
I've introduced a bill to clone Mike Lee so that we get 100 Mike Lees in the Senate and then 435 Mike Lees in the House.
01:13:02.180
Imagine if Mike Lee were the, instead of, what's his name, Turtle Face.
01:13:15.700
The fact that they came up with such a bad solution is their fault.
01:13:20.240
And, you know, Trump was saying, look, I'm sitting, I've got pen in hand.
01:13:24.000
As you know, we've been critical of Trump over many, many things.
01:13:27.440
I 100% believe that he would sign a better health care.
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And this is why it really is on Congress for this.
01:13:40.740
Right now, Donald Trump has the best position in the world.
01:13:45.060
I mean, not that he thinks this, not that I really believe it's good for the country.
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But he mentioned the Jeff Sessions thing and how he shouldn't have hired him.
01:14:35.420
Because they're not going to be focusing on it when Donald Trump gives an interview.
01:14:39.020
Every day of a vote, he should start the day with a New York Times interview.
01:15:30.060
He says, older people need to die before we can do anything about global warming.
01:15:37.640
The Albuquerque Tea Party has been granted tax exempt status.
01:15:46.080
But now that the Tea Party is officially really kind of over, the government has said they can start to raise money.
01:15:56.580
Something that Stu is skeptical of, which may, I may actually be able to give him some more reason to be skeptical of this because of what happened in Russia yesterday.
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Blue Whale, the Suicide Challenge, if you have not heard about it, it's really terrifying of what's being reported.
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Let's start here with the Blue Whale Suicide Challenge.
01:16:57.500
A 22-year-old guy named Philip Lease, or Fox, sentenced yesterday by a Siberian court in a closed-door proceeding.
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He's going to serve his sentence, not in a high-security facility, but in an open jail.
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Now, remember, this is a guy who has confessed that he has been responsible for the suicide of 17 people and having another 20 linked to the challenge itself.
01:17:32.720
But he was only sentenced for two attempted suicides, one of a 15-year-old and one of a 16-year-old, who failed to carry out or survive their attempts.
01:17:43.480
He has denied reports that as many as 130 teens had followed through with the challenge, but alleged that another 28 teens were ready to do so.
01:17:59.640
And he said, I can make you commit suicide in 50 days.
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So, the teenager selects him as a master, and the master assigns them various tasks over the course of 50 days.
01:18:27.400
Some tasks are mundane, others are more intense, such as watching horror films or waking up at 4.20 in the morning.
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But as the game goes on, they grow in intensity, and one of them, which is the turning point in the game, is you have to kill an animal.
01:18:47.540
Go shoot a neighbor's dog or kill a neighbor's dog or whatever.
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However, the turning point is to try to get the kids in a depressive state and to keep them scattered and sleepless as much as possible.
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On the 50th day, the player is tasked with committing suicide.
01:19:10.080
They say that those who killed the animal kill themselves.
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Stu says that he just, he's been following this story, and he thinks something is wrong with this story.
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And I do, too, and it might just be that it's Russia, because he's been investigated for 16 deaths.
01:19:37.280
He's confessed to provoking 17, having another 20 linked to the challenge.
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Why is he an open prison, not maximum security prison?
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And they say that he is still carrying it out via mail, just not on the Internet.
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And I think my general skepticism on the story is the scale that's been reported.
01:20:12.060
Some reports are saying over 100 different girls had been killed through this process.
01:20:17.560
It feels like it's going to be one of those shark attack stories where everyone freaks out about shark attacks.
01:20:22.080
And then, you know, the next year we find out, oh, actually, they were down 25 percent from last year.
01:20:26.320
It says here, and we're from Texas, and I have not heard this.
01:20:30.620
Last week, two suicides in the United States were linked to this challenge.
01:20:35.920
15-year-old from Texas and a 16-year-old from Atlanta.
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I mean, it's not to say, look, we live in a country of billions of people.
01:20:53.000
But, you know, you have examples of almost everything.
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I mean, you can always find a story or a couple of stories.
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And these things, I think, clearly do exist on the Internet.
01:21:01.860
The question is, is this a widespread problem where a lot of people are participating and then going through with it?
01:21:09.300
Is it something that people are kind of gawking at because they have dark parts of them that want entertainment,
01:21:19.020
It feels like we're going to wind up finding out.
01:21:22.480
You read enough of these stories and you kind of see the patterns in them.
01:21:27.920
There's not a lot of legitimate sources that have actually sort of picked them up.
01:21:31.700
They're all kind of depending on one shady source from a long time ago.
01:21:41.560
I would say I'm kind of a skeptic, too, because there aren't a lot of names.
01:21:53.700
It's like that, that there's two teenagers in the United States, one from Texas.
01:22:03.120
And I don't think I've ever seen a Fox News Health page before.
01:22:08.440
But this looks like, oops, it looks like, you know that fake facial cream site?
01:22:16.260
That tries to make it look like People Magazine?
01:22:20.600
But Sinister Blue Whale Challenge blamed for Texas teens' death.
01:22:27.260
Are you having it on Fox News Health, or are you having it on something else?
01:22:37.540
But again, this is, and again, I don't, I'm not doubting that this, first of all, this
01:22:43.860
Number two, if it is accurate, I'm not saying there hasn't been one case of it.
01:23:05.440
It was a big media phenomenon for like two weeks.
01:23:07.680
And everyone was like, oh, my God, everyone's going to start killing because of Slenderman.
01:23:11.340
You can't even wear the t-shirt of the Slenderman anymore.
01:23:13.760
Remember they were banning it at schools and everything.
01:23:20.140
You don't remember the Beetlejuice killings back in the late 80s?
01:23:24.420
Do not say his name one more time or it happened.
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I think you have to be in a mirror and say Beetlejuice three times.
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See, we're trying to have a real adult conversation here.
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There were two kids, two girls that killed another girl.
01:24:12.020
Dragged them in to feed her to Slenderman nicer to death.
01:24:17.200
But to Stu's point, the aftershock of that was that everything was dealt with Slenderman.
01:24:21.680
Look, they've got 500 million views on YouTube.
01:24:26.220
By the way, the parents, we should point out, are saying they think he was doing it as a joke that went wrong.
01:24:35.920
When you get gay, I mean, it's just like, that's funny.
01:24:40.180
But like they think he wasn't actually trying to commit suicide.
01:24:43.000
He was trying to post pictures of him doing these things to participate in this challenge.
01:24:50.220
I thought I meant the guy in jail was doing it as a joke.
01:24:55.880
He was 15 and he tried to make the picture, I guess, too realistic.
01:25:00.660
Yeah, that's what their parents are saying, at least.
01:25:03.520
I don't want to get into gruesome stuff, but did he hang himself?
01:25:09.900
Especially because on something so nonsensical.
01:25:13.200
The same thing we saw with this couple in Minnesota, 19 years old, trying to be YouTube stars.
01:25:20.220
To put a big encyclopedia in front of his chest and have his girlfriend shoot him.
01:25:25.520
Because, of course, the encyclopedia would stop the bullet.
01:25:33.260
Well, I think, Jeffy, you had mentioned after the case.
01:25:36.000
There was at least a story that said that they did attempt it.
01:25:44.740
And the .50 cal is what they used when he really held it up.
01:25:54.020
But that's how he talked her into doing it, though, right?
01:25:56.000
It's because he showed the encyclopedia with the attempt from the other weapon saying,
01:26:02.540
And so he put his girlfriend and mother of his child in a position where she has now
01:26:09.420
And the kid was there watching, apparently three years old.
01:26:15.240
But, I mean, it's easy to, I think, go and say, like, look, these kids are terrible and
01:26:18.980
they're doing these things on the internet and these are going to happen.
01:26:20.680
Like, there are always stories like this going on all the time.
01:26:25.460
And, you know, that does not mean there's going to be a mass, you know, set of examples of
01:26:30.940
But, I mean, it's just so terrible when one of these things happen.
01:26:35.320
I mean, you know, because these things come and go in the media.
01:26:38.120
We talk about them for one day and then the next day we don't talk about them at all.
01:26:42.120
These families have to live with their children dying in the dumbest possible circumstance
01:27:02.340
And in the case of the YouTube couple, that's what they were going for.
01:27:10.100
And they were saying, wouldn't it be incredible to have 300,000?
01:27:12.700
And so they got more and more ridiculous with every stunt they did until he got killed.
01:27:21.980
What is the difference, honestly, between that and people who are online just saying outrageous
01:27:33.140
And I mean, even some of the people, you know, in the media that will just say outrageous things,
01:27:41.980
But, yeah, saying the things leads tacking it out, right?
01:27:54.880
And so they'll say things and they'll just ramp it up.
01:28:00.440
But they think it's okay because they're going to get their slice in the sun.
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I mean, I really wanted a weird mortgage, not to get into all the details, but it was a
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And I was like, I'll just ask them, see what they think.
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I got to say, this particular offer, most banks will not do that.
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They actually directed me to take my business to another place.
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You're like, I'm going to roll the dice on this one.
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01:31:22.660
So here is something that, you know, you think it's funny when you're, you know, 20 years
01:31:29.580
Nick Lutz, he read a handwritten letter of apology from his ex-girlfriend earlier this year.
01:31:41.320
He took photos of the four-page mea culpa and sent them to his friends.
01:31:45.820
They said you should grade the letter and send it back to her.
01:31:52.740
He jotted down critiques in the margins with a red pen like a professor.
01:31:58.680
Some of the critiques were actually kind of funny.
01:32:06.300
If you want to be believed, back it up with proof.
01:32:08.620
Need to stop contradicting your own story and pick a side.
01:32:21.580
He said it basically had a lack of thematic strength and useless filling sentences and
01:32:37.480
Probably if she doesn't have a sense of humor at this point.
01:32:42.140
I mean, you want to talk about taking somebody's apology letter.
01:32:48.660
She was apologizing kind of for the way they broke up or something.
01:33:00.360
However, that is not, niceness is not required in our society.
01:33:12.160
Oh, I think it's a, it's a douchey move for my son.
01:33:25.060
Now here's, here's why he's suspended from school.
01:33:31.700
She said this was cyber bullying because he posted her personal letter to, to Twitter
01:33:42.920
Twitter had a hundred and, a hundred and twenty-one retweets.
01:33:48.480
121,000 retweets and was liked 340,000 times as of Wednesday.
01:33:54.460
She should have been, she should have been proud.
01:33:58.560
I mean, again, let me just say, this is your daughter.
01:34:06.540
So when, when, when, and how do we get empathy to kick in?
01:34:17.780
And the daughter, if it was your daughter, you'd be pissed.
01:34:23.140
But since it's not your daughter and not your son, it's funny.
01:34:31.160
I mean, look, I, I, the empathy is there for her.
01:34:33.560
I think, you know, especially like she's trying to make a move, right.
01:34:39.080
And he just kind of piles on and is a jerk about it.
01:34:41.920
That being said, the issue I have is not whether it's a good move or not.
01:34:46.180
It's whether he should be suspended when the answer to that is clearly no.
01:34:57.220
I don't think, um, I, I don't think the, the school had anything to do with it.
01:35:03.260
I'm tired of the schools trying to, uh, police, everything, police, everything.
01:35:09.720
Including in some cases, rape, which is not their purview either, by the way.
01:35:13.700
No, if it's rape, you call the police and the people go to jail.
01:35:17.780
That's what, but colleges have been handling that too.
01:35:43.280
Um, let's just talk a little bit about, uh, uh, Bill Nye the Science Guy.
01:35:57.260
No, he's already here in the Douche Hall of Fame.
01:36:05.120
He's currently serving in the Douche Hall of Fame.
01:36:10.960
Once that honor is bestowed, it stays with you.
01:36:27.640
Bill Nye, by the way, has just won an Emmy for.
01:36:34.200
Just want to go down to all my bipeds to identify as ladies.
01:37:03.020
I was doing better bits than that when I was 17 years old in Helena, Montana.
01:37:10.560
I did better work on Fox News and never got an Emmy.
01:37:17.820
Although I think, to be clear, I don't think it's that exact performance that got the Emmy.
01:37:30.520
Well, yeah, he did the talking ones, you know, with the girl.
01:37:33.240
First of all, she claimed she was a girl, right?
01:37:37.720
And then the later thing that he's doing now where there's a million different choices.
01:37:46.860
But Bill Nye the science guy has changed from what he used to be teaching our kids to
01:37:51.360
now what he's teaching on Netflix, which is craziness.
01:37:55.680
And I know that there was an episode we watched a little bit of on the Pat and Stew program
01:38:10.680
There's another name we're going to have to change, though, right?
01:38:13.840
But, Glenn, they projected images on these mannequins.
01:38:21.240
It was like these, you know, all these things were going on behind him on these mannequins.
01:38:25.240
And I think to myself, how much money did they spend on this show?
01:38:36.080
You listen to that song, which is the easiest example, to see how bad it is.
01:38:47.360
I mean, it is not a good show outside of the viewpoint.
01:38:54.660
He is brave enough to say what liberals apparently want to say.
01:39:02.560
He has now specifically targeted the elderly this week as he has spoken out against climate change deniers,
01:39:10.520
saying that climate science will start to advance when old people start to, quote, age out.
01:39:17.120
In other words, as soon as the old people die, we'll be able to get this through.
01:39:25.240
Because they have indoctrinated the kids to such an extent that they just buy into this.
01:39:32.460
Remember, Al Gore said the same thing about global warming in 2008.
01:39:43.280
He says, we're just going to have to wait for those old people to age out, as they say.
01:39:47.740
I know that age out is a euphemism for die, but it will happen.
01:40:04.660
As O.J. Simpson faces a parole board today, he served more than eight years in a Nevada prison.
01:40:13.280
And there are fresh calls to reopen the inquiry into the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman.
01:40:19.480
Apparently, there is a chance that he will not be paroled because he was caught pleasuring himself in jail.
01:40:54.780
Well, I think the issue is you want to control any sexually charged situation in that particular establishment.
01:41:01.580
And it's up to the guards to decide whether you were—the female guard, according to the story, came up to check on him at that very time.
01:41:12.820
So it's up to the guards to decide whether he was trying to plan that out.
01:41:19.060
So that the female guard would arrive at that moment.
01:41:23.040
I was watching an interview with his prison guard, apparently, his longtime prison guard.
01:41:37.620
And then he started saying, like, who was his first roommate?
01:41:47.940
I was like, this is not an argument on his behalf, just so you're aware.
01:41:51.940
But he said—he went through this whole thing praising him, basically, about how he should get out and get parole.
01:41:57.600
And at the end, he's like, so do you believe him on the Nicole Brown Simpson thing?
01:42:12.500
But he still believes that he actually was guilty.
01:42:23.900
Thirty-three years for—I mean, it's ridiculous.
01:42:34.060
Nobody would have been sentenced like that, though.
01:42:40.360
Could they take the other things that were in his record?
01:42:46.140
I don't think they could use the killing, right?
01:42:48.480
They cannot use the killing because he was acquitted.
01:42:51.600
However, he did have domestic abuse charges, however, we also share.
01:43:02.140
Like, you have a sentencing guideline, a range.
01:43:06.320
If it's your first time of trying to steal your Heisman trophies
01:43:11.260
and things like that back and holding people at gunpoint.
01:43:23.700
His is an interesting term in that he was supposed to give those things up,
01:43:28.300
and instead they magically remained in his possession,
01:43:31.560
even though he was supposed to be using that to pay off the Goldmans.
01:43:38.040
which, of course, is why he couldn't go to the police in the first place
01:43:40.740
Because he wasn't supposed to have them in the first place.
01:43:44.200
Even his victim is going to testify on his behalf during this parole hearing.
01:43:48.020
So, I mean, you know, do you want him to get out?
01:43:54.440
because he probably did kill Nicole and Ronald Goldman, right?
01:44:00.880
I don't think we have to even pause as long as Stu did.
01:44:22.060
That's why he may not be paroled today, by the way.
01:44:30.060
Glenn has no attachment to him as a sports athlete.
01:44:33.360
Because he doesn't even know he was a sports athlete.
01:44:39.300
Oh, and I also know that he was a sports analyst for, I think, NBC.
01:44:43.920
I also know that he was, you know, a movie star, you know, in the airplane movies.
01:44:53.980
You didn't have that attachment as a child watching this guy.
01:44:58.680
You saw him as a B-level celebrity later in life that was doing Hertz commercials.
01:45:02.920
And so, but again, I don't have that attachment.
01:45:06.380
Like, I don't say, oh, I want him to get out because I liked him as an athlete.
01:45:13.820
And, you know, if he was, if he got nine years minimum, he served that time.
01:45:22.960
Even though I think the outcome is terrible, this guy is a murderer and he should be in prison forever.
01:45:29.900
If he was a model citizen, if this is the minimum sentence that he could give,
01:45:36.140
and you can't take into account what the new judge thinks or the new parole board thinks about you
01:45:45.100
and what you did to Ronald and Nicole, because you can't use that.
01:45:50.360
If they're honestly going in there and they will do the same thing to OJ that they would do to somebody else
01:45:57.280
who was not OJ, who was a model, you should be treated exactly the same.
01:46:03.520
Even though he doesn't deserve it, he should be.
01:46:07.300
If you're a celebrity, it shouldn't preclude you from being prosecuted.
01:46:11.020
You should get the same treatment as everybody else.
01:46:13.100
But neither should you be treated more harshly than other people.
01:46:16.560
It's almost like justice is deaf, no, mute, no blind.
01:46:28.960
It's tough in a situation like this because, look, he killed two people.
01:46:32.800
He should be in prison for the rest of his life.
01:46:43.040
That's not what, I mean, just because he was found innocent by a court of law, that
01:46:49.320
means I don't, that he's not in jail and I don't go round him up and try to put him
01:46:55.960
But that doesn't mean I have to believe that the jury was right.
01:46:58.940
And the jury, by the way, even the jury is admitting now that they weren't right.
01:47:03.640
Even jurors are saying the reason why we let him off is because of the larger racial
01:47:11.960
And, you know, by the way, by the way, there was no racial component, except that.
01:47:18.740
However, you look at the polling over this, which is really, I think, encouraging in that,
01:47:23.680
yes, there was a real racial split for a long time where African-Americans reflexively
01:47:36.560
African-Americans have no longer believe OJ was innocent of those crimes in large numbers.
01:47:43.860
And the two races have come much closer together.
01:47:46.140
Who could you put in a room today that would be more, that was a celebrity-ish, who would
01:48:13.460
Because, I mean, that springs immediately to mind.
01:48:15.960
We have to stop dwelling on that part of it right now.
01:48:19.740
Can you think of anybody that would be more universally despised?
01:48:27.760
I was reading a book about Steve Bannon that just came out by Joshua Green.
01:48:32.240
And in there, they talk about Donald Trump's Q scores and positive reaction scores.
01:48:38.040
And one of the things that was great about Trump for advertisers is his ratings with African-Americans
01:48:42.700
and Hispanics were through the roof for a normal celebrity.
01:48:50.240
That's why he was so confident about winning the African-American vote, which obviously
01:48:54.360
But when he was making those claims, advertisers had told him forever, you want a way to target
01:49:04.900
And it wasn't until he turned on the birther stuff that they turned on him and his ratings
01:49:13.800
And at the time that they tested it, the last time they tested him before he went into politics,
01:49:17.480
his rating, Trump's rating among African-Americans and Hispanics was the lowest of anyone they
01:49:23.880
tested, with the exception of the situation, the Jersey Shore guy, who I guess I don't
01:49:34.880
He was one of the guys on the Jersey Shore, apparently.
01:49:37.760
But he was the only one that tested lower than Trump when he used to have some of the highest
01:49:42.920
But that was probably why he made all those claims about, like, I'm going to win 40%, 50%
01:49:48.540
There was a time that you could argue he may have been able to pull that off.
01:49:54.100
And I wonder if anyone ever told him that his numbers went through the floor.
01:50:02.380
So I wonder if anybody told it or if they told it to him and he just dismissed it as wrong.
01:50:22.200
I think the issue with OJ and Bill Cosby and some of these other celebrities is they've
01:50:33.220
Now this new survey shows investors are more comfortable holding cash than investing in traditional
01:50:40.260
They consider a crash of a global bond market and policy mistakes by the central banks to
01:50:53.860
You have how much of your life savings in bonds?
01:50:59.100
How much of your life savings do you have in stocks?
01:51:07.620
I'm telling you, there is a massive correction coming.
01:51:16.200
This is not the thing I do for a living is look at these things.
01:51:25.740
And they're actually kind of thinking that it might happen this fall.
01:51:33.220
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01:51:40.700
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01:52:08.520
OJ Simpson, Bill Cosby, and Gwyneth Paltrow in the same room.