8⧸15⧸17 - Protect the words that make people angry
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Summary
Kim Jong-un blinked and backed down on North Korea's missile launch over Guam. Mainstream media won't give the President the accolades he deserves. Glenn Beck explains why the media is in full-fledged collapse and why we need to get out of our own way.
Transcript
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Hello America, here is what you need to know today.
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Despite all of his aggressive, crazy-sounding rhetoric,
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and right now, the press is not going to give the president the accolades he deserves.
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Apparently, he is not so crazy, Kim Jong-un, nor the president,
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This appears, at the moment, to be a big victory, I think, for Donald Trump.
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It is that China's stance and the pending UN sanctions
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But is there any doubt that the world gathered because Donald Trump's tough talk
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It kind of goes back to my twitchy eye want in a president.
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I don't want him to actually have a twitchy eye.
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I just want all of the enemies of the world to think he has a twitchy eye.
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This may be one of the biggest things this president has done,
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Mainstream media is not going to give the president credit,
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but we have to give the president credit where credit is due.
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For now, on this issue, President Trump won the peace.
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And if your media source is not telling you that,
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We're going to go back over the news out of North Korea.
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Now, let's talk about the peace that we're seemingly losing on the streets of America.
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Do not believe the things that the media is trying to tell you right now.
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Six years ago, I got the Disruptor of the Year Award, which killed Tribeca to give me.
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For breaking the back of the media and going out on our own.
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Six years ago, when I told Bill O'Reilly this, he said, Beck, what are you doing?
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Nobody's going to watch your show and watch TV on their desktop.
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We're all watching television now on our phones.
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I designed a company around trying to convince people to watch television on the Internet.
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I was just the first guy walking out into the darkness going, okay, hello.
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Now, imagine if you are a network and you have all the global resources.
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The numbers all across the board in advertising and ratings, they're all down on both sides.
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Well, the media has decided what they're going to do is they're just going to feed you more anger, more hate, more division.
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Because, after all, that's what drives the clicks.
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You either shout hatred from the rooftops or you're out of business.
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Before I left Fox, and only my close staff knows this, but every single day towards the end, every day, multiple times a day.
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What did I say, Stu, to our staff about leaving Fox and getting out of that?
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We got to get out of here before this whole thing burns down.
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And it's burning down from the sins of the past, but it's also burning down because of technology.
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But you, yourself, also have to say, am I in a new world or am I fighting to hold on to the old world?
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Are you going to go into the new world with your principles or are you going to leave them in the past?
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Are you going to abandon all of your principles to be able to hold on to something that is going to slip through your fingers?
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Everybody, the high and mighty, CNN, fair and balanced.
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I'm trying to remember what I read on a chyron or the lower third.
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And I was watching, I don't remember which network it was, MSNBC or CNN, and at the bottom of the screen, Donald Trump was talking.
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And it said something like, Donald Trump's divisive speech.
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Now, we could all think that it was very divisive.
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Except, if we all thought it was divisive, it wouldn't be divisive, now would it?
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It would be Donald Trump's most agreeable speech.
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Or, the speech Donald Trump gave that everyone disagrees with.
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The night before Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated, he gave a speech.
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That speech, part of that speech has been turned into song.
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There was one line that jumped out at me, reading it again over the last couple of days.
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Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
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Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
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Now, this is going to sound harsh, because nobody likes to hear it about themselves.
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We are increasingly inward-focused and isolated.
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We're isolating ourselves in little, teeny communities,
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where even our friends and our closest friends and our family
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is being kicked out of that community if they disagree with us.
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Information, entertainment, has become our teacher and our God.
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The more inward-focused a person becomes, the more susceptible he is to slip into the darkness.
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The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick.
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When a person is too inward-focused and slipping into darkness,
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technology and the media is there with the gasoline and the matches.
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Everything we're talking about right now is selfish.
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It's all about my problems, my pain, my needs, my cause, my rights, my vengeance.
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Now more than ever, we need to develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
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We need to stop asking what our country can do for me.
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James Field Jr.'s former high school history teacher in Kentucky,
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in not doing more about the warning signs he saw in last weekend's killer.
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a lot of boys get interested in the Germans and the Nazis
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It was obvious that he had this fascination with Nazism
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and you see one of your former students do this,
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because this stuff is tearing our country apart.
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Oh man, every time I walked by his apartment door,
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black in the streets of Berkeley or etc etc they
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your back taxes for pennies on the dollar these
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with the communists because remember the communists
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the only reason why you don't have this kind of
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gigantic in the northeast gigantic in California there
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are 25,000 Nazis and I don't even remember where they
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were living but there was a group of Nazis about
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25,000 in California because nationalist national
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but I want you to listen to this and I want you to hear
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that this is a film made in 1943 it sounds like a government
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propaganda film it's kind of like you know and that's why
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kids you'll go blind if you okay it's ridiculous in its
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presentation but listen to the message and the message of
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the speaker listen I see Negroes holding jobs that belong to me and
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you now I ask you if we allow this thing to go on what's going to
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become of us real Americans I've heard this kind of talk before but I
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what are we real Americans going to do about it you'll find it right here in
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this little pamphlet the truth about Negroes and foreigners the truth about
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the Catholic Church do you believe in that kind of talk oh makes pretty good
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sense to me and I tell you friends we'll never be able to call this country our
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own until it's a country without without what yeah without what without
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Negroes without alien foreigners without Catholics without Freemasons
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what's wrong with the Masons I'm a Mason hey that fellow's talking about me
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and that makes a difference doesn't it these are your enemies these are the
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people who are trying to take over our country now you know them you know what
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they stand for and it's up to you and me to fight them fight them and destroy them
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before he said Mason you were ready to agree with him oh yes but he was
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talking about what about those other people but in this country we have no
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other people we are American people what about you you aren't American I I was
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born in Hungary but now I am an American citizen and I have seen what this kind
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of talk can do I saw it in Berlin what were you doing there I was a professor at the
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University I heard the same words we have heard today but I was a fool then I
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thought Nazis were crazy people stupid fanatics but unfortunately it was not so
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you see they knew that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country so they
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split Germany into small groups they used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple
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the nation of course that was not easy to do they had to work hard to do it you see we human beings are
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not born with prejudices always they are made for us made by someone who wants something remember that
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when you hear this kind of talk somebody is going to get something out of it and it isn't going to be
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you I have to tell you while it is left Masons he's talking about Masons should have
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included the Moose Lodge I know while it seems ridiculous in its presentation it is
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absolutely 100% timeless in its truth timeless in its truth timeless in its truth they know they
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cannot they cannot defeat a united people so you have to divide it we know this from the words of the
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advisors of Vladimir Putin we know that's what he's trying to do we know that that's what
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the alt-right is doing all around the world they are finding their little niches we know that the
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new left described this in their manifestos including the manifesto of the weather underground in the
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1960s we know that in in 1959 there was a gathering of communists and the communists said we've got to go
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in to the universities we have to go into the universities and and show them and show the people that they are
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oppressed they don't know they're oppressed everybody is oppressed and in their oppression they are finding
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happiness we have to remind them that they are oppressed and show them who their oppressors are to divide and
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conquer when we conquer when we're watching the media and it's a choice between the nazis or antifa reject both of them and when you see
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people groups of people being called nazis or communists we need to begin to reject that we are dividing ourselves
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uh hey we have an update yesterday we received an email from a request to priority one and their media
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relations uh department remember priority one is a is a health insurer uh that a couple of our listeners
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uh have up in michigan and they have a son who was diagnosed with the same disease that charlie guard had over
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in england and we were um not excited but we were relieved to find out that another patient with charlie
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guard's disease was not born in england but born here in america where a free market system could
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actually give him the care that he needs and maybe this story will end differently well we were talking
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to the family and we found out last week that all of a sudden their insurance company is doing exactly
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the same thing that the nationalized health service over in england did and that is deny coverage say you
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have a geneticist uh here in michigan that's good enough no the expert in this field is in boston and
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we have to go and get an appointment in boston so yesterday on this program we offered uh a chance for
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priority one to come on and tell us how great they are and tell us all the things that they're doing and uh
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and and explain you know to the parents uh why they felt they knew better than the gen the geneticist
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in michigan who they want the child to go see why the health insurance company thinks they need they
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know more than that geneticist who says i don't have the skill they must go to boston so we reached out
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and we gave them the opportunity and they said keith our producer keith malineck thank you for
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reaching out but we have to decline this interview in the interest of confidentiality it's our policy
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to keep concerns about coverage and care between ourselves and our members so i bet it is please
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know that we have dedicated doctors nurses and clinicians on staff who work closely with our
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members to ensure that they have access to the care and treatment they need our members health and
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safety is always our first priority of course it is at priority health dot com that's right
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though again are we no hang on just a second i we have another email this one came in to the dad of the
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baby um this is from the father hey guys want to let you know priority health called me today after
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the program and they've approved our first visit in boston they said every other visit will have to
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get prior authorization but it would be coordinated with our in-state geneticist they just don't want
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to pay for us to have labs done or other tests done in boston if we can have them done close to home
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and the results can be sent to boston thanks so much for the help we're forever grateful that's totally
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reasonable right that's so this is a good happy ending for the moment yes for the moment this is
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great priority health seems to be doing something that is very reasonable and and we're happy uh that
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priority health is is uh at this time um giving the cruzan child the treatment um that he needs with
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the doctors that he needs in this free market system where we try to do the right thing
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uh okay let's look at um some other things that we haven't had a chance to talk about first of all
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can we spend a few minutes on north korea backing down as i said at the beginning of the program
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we have to give donald trump credit where credit is due uh i was extraordinarily uh concerned about his
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rhetoric with north korea however i have been telling you in the last couple of weeks
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this is either going to be a disaster or he could be remembered as ronald reagan because calling evil
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by its name and not flinching sometimes when you're not dealing with a madman like i think we are in
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uh iran that's a different situation sometimes it just might work well he coordinated with
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nikki haley to get the un to put tough sanctions on he pulled off uh a a miracle with china where china
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said yep we're backing you uh and they're going for the tough sanctions and yesterday north korea coming
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under all of this pressure said okay we're not going to fire a test missile towards guam
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now we still have a long way to go but that's a win that's a huge win and i believe the credit needs
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to go to donald trump um everybody else can say well it goes to the un security council that that's not
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true if it wasn't that the security council and the rest of the world was freaked out beyond belief
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that this guy just might do it yeah he brought them all to the table and i'm sorry but the president
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of the united states needs to be somebody who says we're going to do something and have our enemies
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going i don't know guys he just might do it he's serious that's real diplomacy that is coming into a
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room and not making threats making promises you do this and we're going to leave you alone you don't
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threaten us or shoot at us we're not going to shoot at you how about that and that's what the president
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did in terms that north korea's leadership could understand and apparently there's some adults in north
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korea's leadership because they understand you know they they can't win a war with us they can't i mean
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could they strike a blow somewhere maybe but they couldn't win a war with us here's the here's the
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problem that nobody's really talked about is north korea is about to enter a massive famine they had one
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of the worst summers that they've had in decades for crops and uh they have no food and they're not
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being allowed to export anything and they have no food it's it's somebody said to me
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who was it was it on the air was it uh the guy we had on last that wasn't somebody was saying that
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they were talking about um you know why didn't people you know you were cold and freezing to death
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why didn't you just go get some some wood and build a fire because everything had been stripped
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clean everybody in the country is looking for firewood there's no trees left around you because
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everyone has done it and that's kind of the situation that north korea is going into when
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your people are starving to death leaders need distractions and they need to blame it on somebody
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else so we're we're not out of the woods on this one but perhaps it will humble them enough to maybe
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maybe uh allow us to say you know what you're going to give up some of that stuff and we'll send you
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some food yeah i think it's guarded optimism is the right way right like i you know saying it's a win
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i think is not it's a win for now it's a win for now that's a win today it's a win for now it may end
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tomorrow but today it's a win the way he backed off was taking a picture in front of the map of the
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american air base in guam right like i mean this is don't care the threat is still there face but
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yeah you know whatever right but we'll see if he actually i mean if he doesn't launch anything for
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a while i think we could say there's a win however this is how and this is why i'm a little skeptical
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on this story generally is that this is how they've done this every time right they pushed the american
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people and the american government to the wall and they've gone as far as they can and then they
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stop and then they back off for a little while and then two months two years later we're back in the
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same exact thing so hopefully this is a weird situation china says no we're not going to get
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involved look and then in the end they could they give us some help right and it's over look you you've
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kicked the can down the road yeah we have but at this point there is no better option other than
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saying let's go to war which is i believe not a wise winnable situation if we were the first to
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strike china has said they're against us uh russia would be against us and it would bankrupt us let
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alone the millions that could die no one believes no one in the pentagon believes this is a yeah we
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lob a couple of you know missiles off of our ships and we call it a day this is actual war unlike
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anybody has ever seen since world war ii so this isn't this isn't pakistan right this is totally
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different and it would be really bad too you don't know but they also have nuclear weapons and a lot
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more of them in the better i don't mean pakistan i mean afghanistan oh yeah plus next week we've got a
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joint military operation planned with south korea which could ratchet things right back up
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and would you say that's why they said that they were going to fire it at guam because they wanted
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these exercises to stop we do it every year we do these exercises every year now should we this year
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might be prudent not to maybe maybe i'd hate to i mean i i uh you know i i don't want to be so
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prideful that we say well i'm not going to give them a win i'm not going to let them see
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you know what if that's what it takes yeah that's what it takes we don't we don't need to
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win we know who we are we know who we are and we know what we're doing um as long as the rest of
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the world knows you know we don't mind we'll we can kick his ass without the exercise yes yes we can
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so we're capable of doing that if that's what it takes this time or to delay it well i don't have
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necessarily a problem with that no and we've been trained you know we've been training along for all
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these years and south korea obviously is better than we're giving them credit for uh overall right
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i mean that was some of the articles we saw coming out last week that south korea was saying
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hey uh you know we're not really that bad yeah and they're one of the biggest and you know what
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the fourth largest army in the world they're well trained and you know what then then that is the
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best news ever let's come home yeah that's let's come home why are we still on the border
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if they are saying we're the fourth largest army in the world and we got this could thank you
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i'm all for that why don't we come home then there's no reason for us if they're strong
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we've given them 50 years to strengthen themselves good good yes i it's hard not to feel that way it
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honestly is let's you know let's just mind our own business bring our troops back we did our job there
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60 years ago the end do we do we have to continue to pump billions of dollars into their economy with
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37 000 troops over there you know i don't think so yeah you know we're we're we're still running
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things um and i don't want to say ibm like compact computers yeah in 2017 we're we're we're this company
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that is so far out of date with the way the world behaves and the way i mean all of our treaties all of
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the everything we do all of the bases everything we do is was built for the the world of 1950 to
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maybe 1980 the world's changed and if you have the fourth largest army good luck yeah godspeed
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i'm going to give you just a few headlines this is from uh just the last 24 hours
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uh autonomous cars could impact nearly 16 million jobs in the u.s this according to the commerce department
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the u.s restaurant industry is stuck now in the worst collapse since 2009 there is a a used car
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glut going on now think about this one this is the lowest price for used cars since 2009 now is it
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perhaps because the united states encouraged everybody by giving them big rebates and tax dollars
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to go out and buy cars to prop up the industry that now we have the glut of all these used cars coming
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on and the new car market is also way down and all of these all of these cars and trucks are starting
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to sit on the lot and begin to rot because they're just continuing to push cars out and people aren't
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buying them right now and one more there's a money laundering scandal in australia at their largest bank
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and australians are now calling and saying you know what enough is enough it's time for no cash in australia
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this is really where we're at the things that are going on forget about nuclear war with north korea
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look at the price of housing it's bigger than it was or a bigger bubble than it was in 2008 look at the debt
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it's the biggest personal debt the world has ever seen for americans look at the debt of our countries
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we now have more in cdo's and all of those things that caused the problem by far much bigger problem
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than it was in 2008 and our banks are bigger than they were when they were too big to fail
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so how are you prepared well i will tell you you can do a lot of things but
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well here's what's happening that you need to know about first of all restaurant sales are at the
01:18:18.320
at the lowest slump they've been at since 2009 same thing uh with car sales we want to talk about that
01:18:27.380
and talk to you a little bit about what does this mean for the economy what is this saying about america
01:18:33.560
and and i'd like to take it someplace else what does this say about the future um there are changes
01:18:39.480
that are happening that you need to be aware of and there are the kinds of structural cultural changes
01:18:45.600
that we've been talking about uh for the last few years the future is here the things and i just
01:18:53.520
really kind of realized uh this over the last couple of weeks but especially in the you know the last
01:19:00.740
probably last five days it's really come become clear to me that the media is in full-fledged collapse
01:19:09.380
and it's not the only industry we want to talk about that also let me bring up speed on this one thing
01:19:18.520
because this should be a bellwether for you it's been out now for 17 days and al gore's movie has only
01:19:26.540
brought in two million dollars why his claims have been disproven for the most part and most i think
01:19:37.000
most people or most americans believe that the earth has warmed but they don't believe
01:19:44.420
in a the solution and they certainly no longer believe in the naked hysteria
01:19:50.640
that al gore is trying to create people are dismissing al gore and if your news source
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isn't telling you this or reflecting that truth it's time to find a new one
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i will make a stand i will raise my voice i will hold your hand because we are one i will beat my drum
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i have made my choice we will overcome because we are one the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment
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this is the glenn beck program the restaurant industry hasn't reported a positive month since
01:20:38.140
february of 2016 let me say that again the restaurant industry hasn't posted a positive month since february
01:20:48.100
2016 this is a stretch now to 17 consecutive months of being down sales have risen in 12 markets
01:21:00.460
declined in 183 with the missed midwest the worst region in the u.s suffering a 3.6 to 5.2 decline
01:21:11.600
in sales and traffic even the best region california had a decline in sales of 0.7 and traffic down
01:21:24.960
3.6 so let me let me tell you a couple of things first of all let me tell you about culturally what's
01:21:30.600
happening talking to a friend of mine who owns a big chain of restaurants here in texas and i said so
01:21:37.660
house business and he said in store or out of store and i said what do you mean he said in store it sucks
01:21:45.060
he said the traffic is down he said sales are up he said if i had to rebuild any of our stores he said
01:21:57.700
i would build them with a very small eat-in section and a very small parking lot for customers to stay
01:22:05.340
and i would build a huge takeout section where you just come and pick it up and go on your way
01:22:11.280
he said restaurants are changing now this is a guy who runs these great family restaurants really great
01:22:17.740
fun family restaurants um and they're really good people are changing and and it's all the way to
01:22:25.480
things like blue apron that stew does advertising for you you are not going out you you want something
01:22:32.940
easy quick and you may want to eat it at home but you don't want to hassle with it you don't want to
01:22:39.940
cook it if you don't have to you just want to grab and go because everybody's lifestyle is is fast and
01:22:47.120
you don't want to sit necessarily in just certainly not a fridays or an applebee the applebee's of the
01:22:55.860
world are over oh yeah those old style restaurants those are all going to be gone
01:23:02.100
it's interesting too with it with the takeout part of this is if you remember when we were in new york
01:23:07.600
city this is now going back six years there was a company called seamless yes that we would always
01:23:11.860
order from and it was amazing it was in new york you'd order it they would bring the food to you
01:23:15.340
and they still exist i think they merged with an with another competitor grubhub right so there
01:23:19.780
it started off with seamless and grubhub that's what they did now you have uh uber eats so uber
01:23:25.720
with all their infrastructure has gotten into that game there's companies like doordash who do a
01:23:30.760
similar uh thing as well but does um uber make the food no they you'll pick it up for you at a
01:23:36.160
restaurant and bring out so it's takeout food right the but the one i got i got something in
01:23:40.460
the mail the other day um that was mail what is that uh well go ahead well i'll look that up later
01:23:47.480
it's in the constitution check it out um but it was called um it was amazon.com slash restaurants
01:23:53.160
nice amazon.com slash restaurants my prime membership because i'm good with that you know
01:23:59.040
what it does uh shockingly all right is there anything amazon is not going to take over i know
01:24:04.900
yes wow google yeah and apple and apple facebook and facebook right look here's the here's the thing
01:24:12.940
that we all need to be aware of there are four companies that we're all going to be working for
01:24:19.380
no matter what you do the united states of america and the world is becoming more of a of a corporate
01:24:29.020
nation than ever before when all the dystopian lefties said oh you're just working for a corporate
01:24:37.080
america it's never been more true and and we're giving it to them because they provide great services
01:24:47.820
amazon is changing our life apple changed our life google changed our life netflix to some extent is
01:25:02.220
changed our life if you look at just amazon prime now how long has amazon prime been out for video
01:25:11.420
uh well video was something they added later yeah amazon prime was before okay so video so amazon prime
01:25:19.960
with video has been out probably five years and it's been i've been aware of it maybe for two three
01:25:25.620
okay yeah um amazon prime now has more subscribers than every cable company combined but isn't that a
01:25:35.940
little distorted though because that's all of the prime members not i mean with uh-huh right it's not
01:25:41.240
just however yeah it's not just video however if google is laying the fiber so everybody has great fiber
01:25:49.440
and great access all across the country you're not going to get you won't have a cable company right
01:25:55.420
and i think netflix actually now is is uh i think they just beat out cable i think the last poll the
01:26:03.600
last chat i saw where they were just they just beat out and may i say this they're not um
01:26:10.540
all of these companies are much more interested in things that can sell globally netflix yeah america
01:26:21.200
now is a secondary market for netflix as long as they create good content i don't care i don't care
01:26:27.900
right we're all that way but i but i want you to know think of this you see you see a company like
01:26:35.560
blue apron you see grubhub let's use that one you see grubhub amazon says well we provide that better
01:26:43.820
we got drones okay they just start doing it because they have all of the money and all of
01:26:50.880
the resources and they can do it right and they just get bigger and they gobble everybody's idea up
01:26:58.340
i mean it's almost almost a return to serfs and lords because the reason why the world stopped
01:27:08.260
innovating was because there was no such thing as a copyright or a patent you had an idea the king
01:27:16.540
could just swoop in claim it to be his make it better sell it all around the world he got rich
01:27:21.920
you got nothing now in this version it's a little bit better for the person who created it because of
01:27:27.220
american law because of america the american constitution and patent and copyrights because
01:27:33.360
of that if that's ever weakened you become a serf to the lords and it's happening in in everything
01:27:42.180
now there's so there's there's one thing that's happening with restaurants that is cultural
01:27:46.780
and that is we just so we don't necessarily want to go out our houses have movie theaters in them
01:27:54.280
some of them now our houses are becoming i mean even the the you know the average you can go to
01:27:59.980
walmart and get a 50 inch screen tv for 250 and you can get the first run movies what two months after
01:28:07.540
they've hit the theaters if that sometimes a lot earlier than that there's a there's a lot of incentive
01:28:12.360
to just stay home right so you can stay home and you can have everything delivered to you
01:28:18.860
um that's changing us culturally so that means that our restaurant experience is going to change
01:28:27.500
and and i don't think people really have a handle
01:28:31.800
i don't know if i've said this on the air so stop me if i have
01:28:39.660
the tribeca film festival awarded us the disruptor of the year award how many years ago five six years
01:28:50.160
ago five or six five or six years ago for disrupting television for being the person who said i think
01:28:58.680
people are going to watch me or tv my kind of tv on the internet nobody believed that nobody believed
01:29:10.740
that i bought the movie studios in las colinas and we spent the kind of money we did for these
01:29:16.420
sweeping shots and beautiful sets because we had to convince people that it wasn't a cable you know
01:29:24.820
access kind of thing that it was a good quality broadcast okay you don't have to do that anymore
01:29:33.180
six years ago bill o'reilly said to me glenn people are not going to watch they're not going to watch
01:29:39.100
television on their desktop you're right nobody even has a desktop anymore okay there were no they're
01:29:47.020
not why he was right they're not watching it on the desktop they're watching it on their phone
01:29:51.100
and even smaller screen and we're watching television and movies and networks on our phones and our ipads
01:30:00.120
the world has completely changed and it dawned on me you know over the last few months that
01:30:08.740
the world that i said you're going to live in a world where if you can't reinvent yourself about every
01:30:20.340
five years you will go out of business and you won't have one career you're going to have multiple
01:30:28.440
careers because you're going to do something and the in the entire industry is going to change and
01:30:35.120
you're going to have to start all over again so that's going to cause extreme tension in people's
01:30:42.940
lives because they don't like that kind of upheaval let me give you an analogy from the 1800s
01:30:50.700
why do we have the federal reserve system how did we get that past the american people
01:30:58.720
a centralized bank a group of shadow banks run by jp morgan and and astor and all of these shady
01:31:11.380
figures how did that happen people wanted stability why did they want stability what do you mean by that
01:31:19.320
what did the fed the fed how does the fed stability well because the the economy was up and down a lot
01:31:25.680
before that and the the value of your dollar was so up and down 20 inflation three years later be 20
01:31:31.460
deflation they could obviously control that yeah yeah they were going to smooth that out a little
01:31:35.780
so in a way that we don't understand a hundred years ago before the fed we would have literal
01:31:45.280
depressions as deep as 1929 as deep as 19 19 1920 we would have deep depressions but they would last
01:31:56.320
between anywhere from six months to 18 months but the average person could be wiped out overnight and they
01:32:05.520
would have to start their whole life over again people were tired of that that's why we had the argument of
01:32:12.600
let's go to silver instead of gold it's the people's money but all kinds of things in the late 1800s
01:32:19.160
there was a depression that was so bad the united states government had to go to astor and jp morgan
01:32:26.200
and say we're out we either borrow money from you guys and you back the united states treasury
01:32:34.020
or we're done as a country or we're done as a country and so jp morgan went to the other billionaires
01:32:41.220
at the time and said guys we have to pool our money together otherwise the country is over and it
01:32:50.980
when that got out and then coupled with another quick but sharp depression
01:33:00.500
the politics were easy you just have to tell people i'm going to stop your pain
01:33:10.420
we're entering that kind of period of pain except it's not going to be just our dollar
01:33:18.420
because that's going to be the that's going to be the last card to fall i think is the stability of
01:33:23.780
our money that will be the one where it where it is massive change to try to create something stable
01:33:32.740
but what's coming right now part of the tension that we're feeling that no one is talking about in
01:33:38.500
the media is this underlying feeling that you know this can't last and it has not it doesn't have
01:33:45.940
everything to do with the constitution or the political uh climate it has everything to do with
01:33:51.700
these systems of google facebook amazon etc it's all it's all disrupting to the very core
01:34:01.940
of traditional business it's disrupting and destroying them and in a good way it should be what's coming is better stuff
01:34:12.580
but businesses are going to find themselves in business and heroes and out of business and nothing
01:34:20.020
five years later to only to pick themselves back up again and start something new and then it will
01:34:25.780
be adopted somebody will rush in how do you compete against google how do you compete facebook just found
01:34:36.020
a company in israel that had an app that could track the most used apps they bought this company and
01:34:45.380
nobody understood why they bought this company for just that tracking ability that they could track the
01:34:52.100
apps so they bought this whole company for that and then took that information which was public and made
01:34:58.980
it private that way they can see what is everybody doing that one seems to be catching speed go out and buy it
01:35:09.940
right now it's not going to be good for the average person let me back up after this we're going to take a
01:35:19.060
quick break and then we're going to come back and i want to talk to you about the other side of that
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so there's there's a couple of things um that there's the positive side culturally
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i don't know if this is positive or negative but culturally we are changing we are becoming uh less
01:38:26.500
willing to go to the brick and mortar place to get whatever it is we want because it's so easy and this
01:38:34.500
is why things bode well for amazon um they are so frictionless i don't have to put in my credit
01:38:42.740
card number i don't have to tell them my address every time um i don't even have to go to the
01:38:48.580
website i can now say amazon echo i need fill in the blank and it will be there it's at your door
01:38:55.780
it's at your door that is becoming the norm that is going to be the future should economic trends
01:39:04.020
continue to be survivable that is the future but there's the other side that directly revolves around
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you and directly affects you today and we'll get into that next
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this is the glenn beck program all right so i want to go i want to take this um the restaurant
01:39:36.020
industry stuck in the worst collapse since 2009 now this can't include irving texas where we are
01:39:42.020
there's some there's so yeah there's some and i want to get into i want to get into this okay so
01:39:46.820
what we're talking about calculated on a two-year basis sales in july 2017 down 4.2 compared with july
01:39:56.020
of 2015 in other words there's been no growth for two years same store traffic but this is in chains
01:40:04.100
right yes yeah i'll get to that same store traffic is down 8.7 percent for the same period
01:40:12.500
these are the this is the weakest two-year growth rates in over three years additional evidence that
01:40:17.700
the industry has not reversed the downward trend that began in 2015 this is according to black box
01:40:23.700
intelligence the economy keeps growing at a moderate pace and job gains remain strong
01:40:30.900
but the consumer seems to be on vacation literally and figuratively okay so let's let's look at this
01:40:39.060
there's a couple of things that i think are happening first of all let's look at who this is measuring
01:40:49.140
the ones that are really getting hit are the chain restaurants fine dining is up
01:40:55.620
um uh independent restaurants are up yeah casual dining is just slightly up almost flat
01:41:07.540
it is the casual chain and fast that is down now there's a couple of reasons for this um if you want
01:41:17.540
to look uh you now have new independent restaurants people coming online new independent local stuff
01:41:25.620
um grab and go at every grocery store now that that was i mean and that's so convenient it's so good
01:41:32.340
it's good food okay um the meal replacement kits like blue apron that's really taking off all across
01:41:40.340
the country and convenience stores and food trucks that are not crappy i mean it used to be like i
01:41:47.540
couldn't tell the difference between the actual meat and cheese and the plastic container it's in
01:41:54.340
you know it's not that way anymore it's not the case usually yeah so you know remember we grew up in
01:42:00.340
the time when tang was considered a yummy alternative drink well well if it was good for good enough for
01:42:08.260
astronauts it was good enough thank you it was good enough for me okay thank you so there is something to
01:42:13.300
be said on why that is declining those kinds of restaurants they're outdated the you know the
01:42:20.260
idea of a tgi fridays where you have to have the like office space the certain number of you have to
01:42:25.300
have 15 pins on your apron those days of flare glenn sorry pieces of flare those days are so far in our
01:42:34.020
rearview mirror yeah and you just don't go there anymore it's just not the place that you go to however
01:42:41.380
in the center of the country a lot of people go to applebee's a lot of people go to these
01:42:48.900
restaurants that where you're in a metropolitan area that's just not it always killed me in time
01:42:55.300
square there is an applebee's and fridays of fridays yeah and a sabaro's you can have the best
01:43:02.420
italian food you've ever had in your life and there's a sabaro's there right across the street right
01:43:08.900
i understand i understand i understand that in the mall food court i understand that in places you
01:43:14.980
know in the middle of the country where you don't have a great italian restaurant literally three doors
01:43:22.580
down that's just as cheap as sabaro that's what's happening there those chains that you can get better
01:43:32.660
food easier there's a burger and fries place in times square too okay all right i don't think
01:43:39.300
fantastic okay so i know so there are those there are those reasons but there's some more to this that
01:43:45.060
i think is really intriguing one of the clearest indications that households are spending cautiously
01:43:52.020
is the softening of the big ticket purchase in july for the 11th month out of the last 12 vehicle
01:43:57.860
sales were below the rate posted the year before home sales are still trending up but now expanding
01:44:04.340
at a decelerating pace the americans seem to be on vacation literally and figuratively well that's not
01:44:13.140
the entire picture you have to remember that our personal savings rate we talked about this what last
01:44:22.260
week that our personal savings rate is at the lowest it's been since 2008
01:44:32.100
the u.s personal savings rate um the revision of this has now wiped out 250 billion dollars
01:44:43.540
from what the department of commerce calculated as a healthy personal savings backdrop 250 billion
01:44:50.820
dollars has just been wiped out of our banking accounts because we are not saving it we're spending it
01:44:58.020
so we are now spending and we are not saving households are currently maintaining their lifestyles
01:45:05.620
by reducing their savings rate and they are also restraining spending on discretionary goods
01:45:13.860
they are waiting for the wage increase to come for the 80 percent of america that hasn't seen it yet
01:45:24.900
and those are the people that are eating at applebee's they're waiting for that wage increase now let me tie
01:45:34.100
these two things together started at the beginning of the hour with restaurants this is what's happening
01:45:41.140
people are eating different culturally we're changing google apple amazon they're starting to pick things up
01:45:47.540
you have things like blue aprons so those things are changing and those things are are good
01:45:56.660
however they're going to displace a lot of people now to this half 80 percent has not seen the wage increase
01:46:06.420
they're not seeing prosperity in america and they are now spending their savings just to tread water if
01:46:15.940
they're lucky enough to have savings just to tread water and keep their lifestyle they are now spending
01:46:22.340
themselves into the highest debt we've ever seen and to the lowest savings we've had since 2008 the last time
01:46:30.420
we saw this was right before the crash of 2008 this is why anyone who says
01:46:40.580
it's them i'm going to stop them whoever that is from the mexicans to silicon valley because that one i'm
01:46:48.740
promising you will come when your job is replaced by ai your your truck driving jobs are replaced by
01:46:57.060
by drive self-driving trucks someone in washington will say it's them it's what they're saying now
01:47:05.220
about manufacturing it's why that argument works with a lot of people even though economically it
01:47:10.500
doesn't seem at all feasible to bring back these jobs it's just the idea not going to so the idea that
01:47:15.380
someone will say it right works because the average person doesn't have time to see the future they don't
01:47:24.660
they don't have the conversations would you write this down stew we have to start concentrating on those
01:47:31.220
conversations with the actual people so actual people who are making these i want to i want to
01:47:38.100
start talking to people who are thinking of ways that will affect
01:47:47.380
somebody who is working the the people who are working on things that will actually change our
01:47:53.860
lives those conversations need to be heard by the average american so they are not duped into
01:48:00.580
we're going to bring your job back because the job is not coming back it's just not this is not 1980
01:48:06.500
or 1990 or even 2005 it's not it's a world of 2025 being designed right now
01:48:19.860
when was the last time this worked in the world it worked when unemployment was out of control and
01:48:27.940
people had no money could we play what we played this is from 1943 and this was something produced by
01:48:35.940
the government because the german nazi movement was actually taking root here in america and i just
01:48:43.060
want you to hear now this is so wildly outdated in its production and presentation but the words remain true
01:48:55.220
into these fringe groups be them the communist anarchist on the left or the nazis on the right
01:49:01.140
they are dividing and they're using what we just explained
01:49:08.340
they're interpreting this and saying i'll protect you how listen i see negroes holding jobs that belong
01:49:15.780
to me and you now i ask you if we allow this thing to go on what's going to become of us real americans
01:49:22.740
you'll find it right here in this little pamphlet the truth about negroes and foreigners
01:49:40.260
the truth about the catholic church do you believe in that kind of stuff this whole thing you can replace
01:49:48.180
you know the truth about conservatives you know the truth about conservatives you'll read it right
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here in this pamphlet the truth about the free market you can just change out whoever you want the truth
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about whites the truth about blacks the truth about gays the truth about straight the truth about whatever
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this is what's happening right now because people who want something know that you are feeling oppressed
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they know that you can barely afford to go to applebee's and you need somebody to hear you you need
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somebody to recognize this you need somebody to tell you it's okay and quite honestly it is in human
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in this case blame progressives in the best meaning of that word not the political progressives but those
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who are building progress those who are changing the world through new ideas that's who's to blame but
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and it's going to become increasingly difficult
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it's called populism for a reason it becomes popular whatever is popular to say whoever it is
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and what will become more and more popular is a handout socialism government control make the pain stop
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that's going to become very popular and it's going to become popular in your own personal life
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amazon makes everything easy to buy everything i want to watch a movie oh and i want my dinner
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oh and i need to do my shopping oh gosh and i also got to get some school supplies for the kids
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i've just said that to amazon echo it didn't ask me anything like my address my credit card number
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and it will all be at my house between an hour and two days from now whenever i say amazon echo i need that in the next two hours
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everything that you do that isn't delivered like that
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that's who we're all in competition with no matter what you do
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than what they can deliver in an hour or they can deliver to you right now
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you don't have all day to look for the perfect job application you want to talk about friction
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i need i need somebody this we had this i don't know about six months ago i need an hr department
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why do i need an hr department well because i need to hire people
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i need somebody who's out looking for new talent new people i need somebody to help me manage this
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so how do i find how do i find that job without an hr department i mean i'm a busy guy i don't have
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time to do all of that stuff and i don't have an hr department you know small businesses don't have
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an hr department it's you it's you and most likely you saying to either your husband or your wife
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honey i would you please remind me we have to do this tonight we have to write that job description
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and get that done there's your hr department this is why i would like to recommend that you try
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your job description you put it in a zip recruiter and it posts to a hundred plus different job sites
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but then it's not done then it goes out and it looks at all of the resumes and all of the people
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and it matches people that are looking for a job with your resume that or with your job description
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that they may not have answered they may not have even seen it they go out and find those then that's
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in one stack then everybody beginning within 24 hours everybody who's responded directly to your ad
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that's in another stack and then you can go through them and say that went out that went in this one's
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let me look at it again and you put it on their dashboard now everything is in one place i don't
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right now ziprecruiter.com back this is the glenn beck program mercury
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the glenn beck program boy there is so much that we didn't get a chance to uh cover today i'm gonna
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take some of these things and bring it into the studio so when we meet at five o'clock we'll be able
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to cover some of the rest of the news that we didn't get a chance to talk about and more tomorrow
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that you don't want to miss five o'clock on the on the blaze tv that's the blaze.com
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slash tv we'll see you at the think tank uh tonight and then and then back here uh tomorrow where we're
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gonna have some not just the news of the day but some things that you can do
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to navigate and get ahead of the storms that are coming in to shore that'll be on tomorrow's
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broadcast in the meantime we will see you at five o'clock this afternoon thanks for listening