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00:03:43.620 So, Stu, this whole idea of Hillary Clinton yesterday coming out and saying, you know,

00:03:57.380 I have to tell you, the reason why I lost is because Michigan, they didn't want to vote for a woman.

00:04:07.300 Oh, that's the...

00:04:07.980 It was the...

00:04:08.600 Don't we...

00:04:09.380 The collection of excuses is, you know, it really does grow by the week.

00:04:13.280 Yeah.

00:04:13.620 Because I had heard, just heard, she voted, she blamed it on the Supreme Court for the

00:04:17.340 Voting Rights Act.

00:04:18.800 Oh, I didn't...

00:04:19.480 That's why she lost.

00:04:20.680 Yeah.

00:04:20.920 And that was her latest one that I saw.

00:04:22.360 Well, she was saying yesterday that it was the color of her skin and what she has in her

00:04:27.880 pants.

00:04:28.420 Wait, the color of her...

00:04:29.480 So, she lost because she was white?

00:04:32.100 Yeah.

00:04:32.760 And Trump was pink?

00:04:36.980 Orange?

00:04:38.420 I don't know the difference there, but it's got to be a different color.

00:04:43.080 Anyway, she has come out and she has finally said, no matter how many people scream and yell

00:04:47.520 for me, no matter how many, no matter what the people say, I just can't do it.

00:04:54.740 I can't run one more time.

00:04:57.220 I just can't do it.

00:04:58.480 So, she has officially said she will not put her hat or her pantsuit into the ring.

00:05:06.300 It's devastating for the three or four people who would want that to occur.

00:05:12.800 Oh, my God.

00:05:13.460 Those people are very upset today.

00:05:15.580 Yeah.

00:05:15.600 We talked to Helen, Helen's the Hillary Clinton supporter that wanted her to run, and she said

00:05:22.420 she's very upset.

00:05:24.640 No one else in the household or anywhere around her or in the club, which only consists of

00:05:29.800 Helen, is upset by that.

00:05:33.320 Oh, and also, Bernie Sanders is hedging his bet.

00:05:36.640 He's also running for the Senate.

00:05:40.920 The Bernie and Hillary people are still having their issues, by the way, because they were

00:05:44.660 never really friendly.

00:05:46.240 And now, the Hillary people who were upset that Bernie gave Hillary such a hard time in

00:05:52.800 2016 are out planting stories against Bernie's run in 2020.

00:05:59.080 I wish I could say this made me sad.

00:06:01.380 Oh, it's fun.

00:06:02.140 This is, again, a giant bowl of candy.

00:06:05.640 If you ever walk into, like, your grandpa's house, and they just had a giant bowl of, like,

00:06:09.900 M&Ms, and every time you walk by, you take another handful.

00:06:13.020 That's what this primary is for us.

00:06:14.720 That's what it is.

00:06:15.340 It is.

00:06:15.620 It's amazing.

00:06:16.260 Every day, there's a new story about someone who isn't socialist enough, little digs at

00:06:22.580 the campaign, little fights.

00:06:24.880 I mean, one of the things they're concerned about with Bernie Sanders is that he raised

00:06:29.000 a bunch of money from small donors in 2016, which allowed him to continue his campaign

00:06:34.800 well past the time he had any chance of winning it.

00:06:37.560 And that was something that Hillary's people complained about.

00:06:40.980 Well, now he's got all those small donors back, because he obviously has all those lists

00:06:44.540 again.

00:06:44.960 He's added more small donors.

00:06:46.900 They think that he can ride this thing out whether he's winning or not again, which is

00:06:50.560 just going to make this socialist go on stage with a bunch of other socialists and have

00:06:55.300 to out-socialize the other socialists, and that is going to be delectable.

00:07:00.900 Yeah, it is.

00:07:01.260 It's like if you had a bunch of bowls of candy, and one of them is M&M, and then there's a

00:07:04.200 peanut M&M, and then they have the peanut butter M&M.

00:07:06.600 And you're like, which one?

00:07:07.640 Which one?

00:07:08.000 No.

00:07:08.500 I'm going to eat all of them.

00:07:09.560 And there's the mint M&Ms, and there's the crispy ones, and there's the caramel ones,

00:07:12.300 which are delicious.

00:07:13.120 Yeah.

00:07:13.580 So we'll have that.

00:07:15.480 We'll have more on socialism and which candy jar you need to grab from in a second.

00:07:21.740 But I do want to report this from CNN.

00:07:26.320 There is no politician, not one, who has risen further, faster than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:07:33.180 That's an interesting statement, and I don't know that I could disagree with it.

00:07:37.380 I mean, maybe you could say Trump, but Trump was so well-known anyway.

00:07:43.260 I mean, he's been in the public eye for decades and decades.

00:07:45.760 She is as known as anybody else, and maybe more so, with an exception of Donald Trump,

00:07:54.760 but she came from nowhere.

00:07:56.360 Right.

00:07:56.640 A year ago, we had no idea who she was.

00:07:58.860 Legitimately, last summer, I was in New York City and walked by the restaurant.

00:08:01.940 She had just quit to start campaigning.

00:08:04.600 It's a Mexican, or it's a tequila restaurant.

00:08:07.160 Oh, my gosh.

00:08:08.480 What a racist.

00:08:10.280 It's a Mexican restaurant.

00:08:11.200 Oh, really?

00:08:11.600 Is it?

00:08:12.080 Yeah, it's called like Tijuana something.

00:08:13.700 Oh, yeah.

00:08:14.940 Okay, racist.

00:08:15.860 No, I'm pretty sure that's the location of that.

00:08:17.600 All right, whatever.

00:08:18.680 Particular place.

00:08:19.320 Two years ago, at this time, she was bartending and waitressing in New York.

00:08:23.200 Now, the New York Congresswoman is the face of the liberal left in the Democratic Party nationally.

00:08:28.140 Really, the face of the party.

00:08:29.840 I mean, she's basically running the party at this point.

00:08:33.820 At least she's trying to.

00:08:35.300 She's running it in the media.

00:08:36.340 Yeah, I think, who else would be the face of the party?

00:08:38.740 You mean Pelosi?

00:08:39.880 No, she's the face of the old party.

00:08:41.560 Right, the face of the hip Democrats versus the hip replacement Democrats.

00:08:45.260 Correct, correct.

00:08:46.300 Yeah, she does seem to be the center of all the energy in the party, for sure.

00:08:51.560 When a politician, or really anyone, becomes a star overnight, there's an inevitable backlash that grows in opposition to the rise.

00:08:58.860 And less than three months into her first term in Congress, the AOC backlash has begun in earnest.

00:09:03.900 Now, listen to that.

00:09:04.680 Listen to that.

00:09:05.060 Do you remember what they used to say about the Tea Party candidates, that they were gaining power, and they were all crazy and too extreme, and there was this big battle going on?

00:09:17.940 Listen to this.

00:09:18.480 When a politician, or really anyone, becomes a star overnight, there is inevitable backlash that grows in opposition to the rise.

00:09:26.880 So they're not saying that she's crazy to extreme or anything else.

00:09:30.780 She's a star, and of course, these old people, they don't want her to take the light.

00:09:35.920 The spark came last week in a closed-door meeting of House Democrats.

00:09:40.160 Ocasio-Cortez warned colleagues that if they continued to vote with Republicans on procedural motions in the chamber, they could wind up on a list of incumbents ripe for liberal primary challenges.

00:09:51.460 Speaker Pelosi, who has found herself on the side of AOC a few times during the early months of Congress, was making the same case to members.

00:10:00.040 Members, especially those holding swing districts that look nothing like AOC's solidly Democrat Bronx queen seat, took umbrage.

00:10:08.220 Umbrage.

00:10:09.180 There is, without a doubt, a myth that Ocasio-Cortez somehow represents the narrative of the Democratic Party in the country.

00:10:16.600 Alabama-based Democratic pollster John Alazone, who polled for Barack Obama 2012, his re-election race, told the Washington Post.

00:10:26.380 Over half of them identify themselves as moderate or conservatives.

00:10:30.740 Once again, another example of people identifying themselves as something they are not.

00:10:35.080 Yes.

00:10:36.000 That data showed that 51% of Democrats identified themselves as liberal last year, 47% call themselves moderate,

00:10:43.680 and 13% conservative.

00:10:47.520 Um, here's the problem for the likes of, uh, and, and Zaloney or whatever.

00:10:53.540 And 2020 years, 2020, 2020 years, like former Colorado governor, John Hickenlooper, who's running as a pragmatic problem solver.

00:11:03.280 The energy, the activism, yes, the money is all coming in from the mad as hell and not going to take it any more liberal base at the moment.

00:11:09.820 That reality incentivizes candidates, particularly in the presidential race, to run as far left as possible,

00:11:16.960 because it's way over there on the left where they will get what they want in terms of political outcomes.

00:11:23.940 This is interesting.

00:11:25.060 I mean, it's a parallel example that you will not understand, Glenn.

00:11:28.420 Uh, Sean McVay, coach of the Los Angeles Rams, as, of course, you know.

00:11:33.080 Right, right, right.

00:11:33.520 Uh, one of the youngest coaches in the league.

00:11:35.320 In the league, I saw him.

00:11:36.260 Got to the Super Bowl last year.

00:11:37.500 Yes.

00:11:37.780 Innovative coach.

00:11:38.720 He was crazy.

00:11:39.380 He's the, he is the, the media darling.

00:11:42.220 Right.

00:11:42.800 Because of him, tons of other coaches are now being hired that are young and innovative on offense and everything else.

00:11:49.940 Right.

00:11:50.320 Right.

00:11:50.580 Because of, of Sean.

00:11:52.500 Right.

00:11:53.520 And, uh, you know who hated that?

00:11:56.840 Coaches who have been working their butts off as coordinators and linebacker coaches and quarterback coaches who wanted head coaching jobs.

00:12:04.280 Right.

00:12:04.620 And they see McVay is cutting the line.

00:12:07.720 Mm-hmm.

00:12:08.020 And there was nobody happier, uh, than those coaches when the Rams lost the Super Bowl and McVay got outcoached by Bill Belichick.

00:12:15.780 Now, I could take us out of the sports analogy that you're just nodding and acting like you understand for a moment.

00:12:20.600 I saw the Super Bowl commercials.

00:12:22.260 The point, the point being, though, that is a real thing.

00:12:26.220 No, it is.

00:12:26.600 When someone comes up and is, is the phenomenon, the people who have been there and see themselves as, I've been working here.

00:12:32.820 I've been slaving away and, and, and pushing for these changes my whole life.

00:12:36.300 And now this 28-year-old comes in here and is going to tell me how to run this party?

00:12:43.260 Ocasio-Cortez, some waitress from the Bronx, is going to come tell me how to run this party?

00:12:49.240 I've been doing this for 20 years.

00:12:50.940 Ocasio-Cortez, that is a, that's just a whole nother layer of candy.

00:12:54.780 Now, we've got like Mars bars.

00:12:57.680 We've got Nessu section.

00:12:58.880 No, we have the fun size.

00:12:59.860 We have the share size.

00:13:03.220 Oh.

00:13:03.580 Have you seen that yet from M&M's?

00:13:05.920 No one ever shares.

00:13:07.380 No one's ever going to share that.

00:13:09.220 It's a, it's a giant bag with like a Ziploc top.

00:13:12.780 And why would you have the Ziploc?

00:13:14.680 Stop wasting the money.

00:13:15.820 We're going to eat it in one sitting.

00:13:17.940 Going to eat it in one sitting.

00:13:19.400 My mother-in-law brought this to me and she put it on the counter and it says share size.

00:13:24.360 I've never seen that.

00:13:25.460 And I'm like, share size?

00:13:28.440 That kicks king size and fun size to the curb permanently.

00:13:34.160 That's fantastic.

00:13:35.240 Now, that's, that's a lot of M&M's.

00:13:37.560 Notice, by the way, you're a lot more passionate than the sports analogy.

00:13:40.020 Yes.

00:13:41.020 Yes, I am.

00:13:42.520 All right, the, the five myths of socialism that the Washington Post would like to correct.

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00:15:32.460 So the Washington Post has come out with five myths about socialism.

00:15:38.660 Yeah.

00:15:39.260 And then this is important for you to understand.

00:15:41.040 A lot of people in the audience are conservatives.

00:15:43.020 They're not going to get this.

00:15:44.420 They've been told all these lies.

00:15:47.040 And now they need to know the truth.

00:15:49.020 Myth number one.

00:15:50.900 Socialism is a single coherent ideology.

00:15:53.920 Now, at no point did I ever consider socialism to be coherent.

00:15:56.960 That's important.

00:15:57.960 Right.

00:15:58.100 That was the word I focused on, too.

00:16:01.340 Very strange.

00:16:02.280 But they talk about, they give examples of people who are saying crazy things like, you

00:16:06.900 know, Democratic Socialists, columnist Jenna Ellis wrote in the Washington Examiner, all

00:16:11.580 are precursors to full-blown Marxist Leninist communism.

00:16:14.860 An editorial of Investor's Business Daily.

00:16:17.980 All forms of socialism are the same.

00:16:20.340 Many attacks on socialism as well.

00:16:22.160 Polls gauging its surprising popularity take for granted that it's a unified philosophy.

00:16:27.960 You know, again, not coherent, but unified.

00:16:30.680 Yet socialism, this is from the Washington Post, has multiple meanings and interpretations,

00:16:34.700 which have to be disentangled before a discussion about its merits can begin.

00:16:39.040 You can't just judge it, Glenn.

00:16:40.320 No, no, no.

00:16:40.960 One distinction centers on whether socialism is a system that must supplant capitalism or

00:16:46.060 one that can harness the market's immense productive capacity for progressive ends.

00:16:51.180 Really?

00:16:51.860 Socialism is about how you can take capitalism and make it work better.

00:16:56.840 Really?

00:16:57.880 That would be interesting to a lot of socialists.

00:17:00.400 Karl Marx, who predicted that historical forces would inevitably lead to capitalism's demise

00:17:05.440 into government's control of industry, was the most famous proponent of the first type of socialism.

00:17:10.320 So that's just like, all right, the history, forces of history, going to change this.

00:17:14.800 Capitalism can't last long enough.

00:17:16.180 That's the Marx one.

00:17:17.300 Then you've got Vladimir Lenin, who said he wanted a revolutionary vanguard to destroy capitalism.

00:17:22.700 That's type number two, according to the Post.

00:17:24.800 And by the way, he was a democratic socialist.

00:17:27.220 Socialist, just because people were afraid of communists, he said, we are too.

00:17:32.400 That's why we're a democratic socialist movement.

00:17:35.340 Totally different.

00:17:36.300 Totally different.

00:17:36.840 As we saw with the multiple decades afterwards.

00:17:39.920 Other socialists, however, did not accept the violent, undemocratic nature of that course.

00:17:44.340 Those were called progressives.

00:17:46.260 Although they agree that capitalism was unjust and unstable.

00:17:49.200 The left's role, in the view of these democratic socialists, the Czech-Austrian theorist Karl Kotsky, for instance,

00:17:56.760 was to remind citizens of capitalism's defects and rally popular support for an alternative economic system

00:18:03.480 that would end private ownership and assert popular control over the means of production.

00:18:09.280 I would say, once again, Glenn, these first three categories, there is no distinction as to what they are.

00:18:14.520 It's just the means of how to get there.

00:18:16.220 How fast do we go?

00:18:17.400 Right.

00:18:17.700 Marx says it'll happen over a bunch of years with history, because capitalism will fail.

00:18:22.260 Lenin says it's got to be a revolution.

00:18:24.140 Kotsky says, ah, well, you know what?

00:18:25.680 We'll have a, we'll tell everybody how bad capitalism is.

00:18:29.540 They'll realize it and then come to our way.

00:18:31.520 It all ends in the end of production, as far as private ownership.

00:18:34.080 Could I just go to the Webster's Dictionary?

00:18:36.660 Now, I honestly search for this thinking, well, it's not going to say that.

00:18:40.280 They've changed everything.

00:18:41.640 Right.

00:18:41.820 So here is the current online Merriam-Webster's Dictionary definition of socialism.

00:18:48.200 socialism, any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental

00:18:56.660 ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods to a system

00:19:03.760 of society or group living in which there is no private property to be a system or condition

00:19:10.740 of society in which the means of production are owned or controlled by the state.

00:19:15.520 Oh, well, I can't see the last one because, uh, I just won a new iPad.

00:19:20.120 Oh, congratulations.

00:19:21.880 That's fantastic.

00:19:23.680 I don't need to, I don't need to win iPads, though, because I keep getting these wonderful

00:19:27.300 inheritances from princes in Nigeria.

00:19:29.740 Do you really?

00:19:30.580 Yeah.

00:19:30.900 And I just can buy as many as I want as soon as the cash comes in.

00:19:33.120 Sure.

00:19:33.600 Sure.

00:19:34.200 Well, I can't read the last one.

00:19:35.260 Okay, but you get, to get the point there, uh, here, here's how, again, you see all those

00:19:39.860 would be what everyone thinks is social, socialism, right?

00:19:42.980 So they need to come up with a way to make Ocasio-Cortez seem okay and her approach.

00:19:47.540 So although Sanders, Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez embrace the term democratic socialist, the policies

00:19:52.980 they advocate place them much closer to yet another socialist tradition, social democracy.

00:19:58.140 Now, these are totally different because democratic socialists and social democracy have the same

00:20:03.280 words in different orders.

00:20:04.960 Yes.

00:20:05.400 Which is totally different.

00:20:06.700 Totally different when it's social democracy or democratic socialism.

00:20:13.800 Socialism.

00:20:14.160 Just like national socialism is totally different than social nationalism.

00:20:19.220 If the Nazis came back today and said they were social nationalists, we'd all embrace them.

00:20:23.200 Yes.

00:20:23.720 Surely.

00:20:24.460 Yes, we would.

00:20:25.500 Okay.

00:20:25.740 So, um, uh, social democrats say it's possible and desirable to reform capitalism.

00:20:32.580 This tradition.

00:20:33.860 No, hang on.

00:20:34.340 Hold on just a second.

00:20:35.900 That does not say that in the actual bills that they are now trying to pass.

00:20:41.300 No.

00:20:41.580 It says an end of capitalism.

00:20:44.400 Right.

00:20:44.860 We've seen, we've read, we've read you column after column from actual democratic socialists

00:20:49.660 who say very clearly what they want to do is end capitalism.

00:20:51.920 New green, the new green, the new green deal says they're going to reform.

00:20:54.940 The actual bill.

00:20:55.400 Not the, not the thing that it caused you according to, the actual bill.

00:20:59.360 It was ridiculous.

00:20:59.880 This tradition dominated the post world war two European left and influenced the American

00:21:04.740 democratic party.

00:21:05.680 Most notably during the progressive era and the new deal, inspiring social security, unemployment

00:21:12.080 insurance, and the eight hour work day.

00:21:14.200 This is exactly what, uh, the democratic socialists don't want you to think they are.

00:21:20.840 They've told us specifically that this is not, they're not just new deal Democrats.

00:21:25.460 They're much further than that.

00:21:27.080 And they are in their own words trying to like put a little shine on there and say, you

00:21:32.240 know what?

00:21:32.600 They're saying they're socialists, but in reality, they just want Switzerland or Sweden.

00:21:38.040 That's all they want.

00:21:39.100 They wanted some big programs.

00:21:40.500 They love capitalism.

00:21:41.460 Everything's fine.

00:21:42.380 They're just using, you got to understand Bernie Sanders, an ideologue for 50 years pushing

00:21:47.960 for this cause just doesn't understand the terms he's using.

00:21:52.020 That is legitimately their case.

00:21:53.820 Now you could certainly make a case like that over Ocasio-Cortez, who doesn't seem to understand

00:21:58.680 the words that she's speaking on numerous occasions per day, but Bernie Sanders doesn't

00:22:03.820 understand socialism.

00:22:05.040 I mean, that is, it's insulting to the 947 year old Bernie Sanders.

00:22:10.260 And that's just myth.

00:22:11.240 Number one, myth.

00:22:12.720 Number two is socialism and democracy are incompatible.

00:22:16.720 Uh, in a speech last month, a crisis in Venezuela, Trump argued socialism must always

00:22:21.000 give rise to tyranny.

00:22:21.960 Socialism is pseudoscience enforced by political tyranny.

00:22:25.000 I wrote the Heritage Foundation, blah, blah, blah.

00:22:27.220 Communists reject democracy, of course, but other socialists have strongly supported it.

00:22:31.780 Look, it always starts as democratic.

00:22:35.580 Unless it's a revolution, it is always starts as democratic.

00:22:40.540 In fact, Maduro was a democratically elected president of Venezuela.

00:22:47.740 Normal guy, a bus driver.

00:22:48.860 He was democratically elected.

00:22:51.800 Then he decided, you know what?

00:22:54.080 I don't like this democratic election thing.

00:22:57.040 I'm going to fix it.

00:22:58.680 Now he's a dictator.

00:23:00.060 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

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00:25:15.020 So last night I finished watching the documentary about Finding Neverland.

00:25:34.440 And yesterday at this time, I said, I believe them, but it was weird.

00:25:40.740 And I wanted an answer from the parents.

00:25:43.140 I couldn't, how did the parents not know, et cetera, et cetera.

00:25:47.160 Then I watched part two on HBO's documentary.

00:25:52.020 And there is no doubt in my mind that these guys at least 100% believe it.

00:26:03.740 And the families believe it.

00:26:06.640 I happen to believe them that this happened, but, you know, a documentary, you're only seeing one side.

00:26:13.400 However, they completely rang true.

00:26:17.580 And it's not just these guys.

00:26:19.640 It is their families as well.

00:26:22.360 And the way it has disrupted these families and torn these families apart, they're just not that good of actors.

00:26:30.040 You couldn't fake this interview.

00:26:32.700 Do you agree?

00:26:33.620 Yeah.

00:26:33.800 And I don't know why you would.

00:26:35.060 I mean, I guess if there was money involved, but for them, you're not getting any money.

00:26:39.520 They're not getting money from it.

00:26:40.380 The statute of limitations is already up, especially not after this.

00:26:43.820 Like you could theoretically go to the family and try to harass them to give you a giant check.

00:26:47.920 But I mean, after you're on TV and the documentary is over, they're not going to give you any money.

00:26:51.400 And I think they kind of tried that.

00:26:52.600 I think Robson went after the Jackson estate in 2013 or 14 and failed.

00:26:59.200 And it was thrown out of court because of the statute of limitations.

00:27:02.440 And so from that standpoint, there's not much to gain.

00:27:07.760 And you've sort of then created this thing that I don't think you'd want that on your reputation.

00:27:16.360 When you were watching...

00:27:17.980 They didn't enjoy saying any of this.

00:27:21.480 No, you could feel it.

00:27:24.740 I mean, when he was talking yesterday, Robson, the guy who was, you know, he did all of the choreography for Britney Spears and NSYNC and everybody.

00:27:34.680 He's actually, he's turned into somebody.

00:27:37.120 Yeah.

00:27:37.600 And I watched it and in the first episode, he's talking about, you know, how much he, Michael and he loved each other at the time.

00:27:47.000 And it was very bizarre.

00:27:49.280 Spoke about that last night, too.

00:27:50.940 Yeah, he did.

00:27:51.820 And the reason why he said, I testified in his behalf was first, the first time, because Michael had asked him and they loved each other.

00:28:02.580 And Michael had gotten out of his life and then he was suddenly back in and he wanted the attention from Michael.

00:28:10.280 And Michael was like, had told him from day one, since he was seven, you know, we'll both go to jail.

00:28:16.460 We can't let them divide us.

00:28:18.960 And and then the second time he testified later, he tried not to.

00:28:25.280 He said to Michael, I'm done.

00:28:27.520 I'm out.

00:28:28.480 I don't want to be involved in this anymore.

00:28:31.240 And Michael's team actually subpoenaed him.

00:28:35.360 And once he was his sister said, Michael can't go to jail.

00:28:38.680 He won't he won't survive in jail.

00:28:40.460 And that resonated with him.

00:28:41.980 Yeah.

00:28:42.200 He said he that that they went to Michael's house for dinner.

00:28:46.460 The whole family before.

00:28:48.680 And he said, I saw Michael.

00:28:50.940 And he said he was a shell of a person.

00:28:53.520 And he's like, my sister was right.

00:28:55.500 He'd die in prison within days.

00:28:57.500 And I just didn't want him to go to prison and die in prison.

00:29:00.960 He also does a really good job, I think, of explaining that the first trial when he was 11, he didn't consider it abuse.

00:29:09.580 He considered it an expression of, you know, as sick as it is, an expression of love from Michael, a 35 year old man to an 11 year old boy.

00:29:20.240 I mean, it's sad, but that's what his mind made of it all.

00:29:25.360 Yeah.

00:29:25.560 I mean, he was basically in a alternate universe, right?

00:29:29.860 I mean, where rules are completely different.

00:29:31.880 He's not going to understand.

00:29:33.220 Right.

00:29:33.520 As a kid.

00:29:34.120 It's the most powerful celebrity on the planet.

00:29:38.120 And he loves you.

00:29:39.380 And he said, I looked at him like a dad.

00:29:41.460 And your mom keeps letting you go over there.

00:29:43.580 Right.

00:29:43.980 Right.

00:29:44.120 So, I mean, like it all kind of aligns in your mind as this might be something that other people don't understand.

00:29:49.120 And the pain that they expressed in last night's episode was truly genuine.

00:29:58.360 They both had nervous breakdowns.

00:30:00.420 Right.

00:30:01.160 Yeah.

00:30:01.500 In fact, too, for Robson and James Safechuck was kind of in a perpetual state of breakdown.

00:30:07.420 Yeah.

00:30:07.800 I felt bad for him in his adult years.

00:30:09.940 He is really messed up from this.

00:30:12.320 And there was no, remember, he didn't come out and try to sue the Michael Jackson estate for anything.

00:30:20.100 He never came out.

00:30:21.480 He only came out after Robson came out.

00:30:25.720 Right.

00:30:25.960 And he came out and said, okay, I have to talk to you because this happened to me, too.

00:30:32.700 And he couldn't figure out why he was so depressed and screwed up.

00:30:38.520 And why he hated himself.

00:30:40.460 Right.

00:30:40.720 And he and he couldn't put it together and he couldn't make sense of what had happened to him with Jackson.

00:30:47.400 And and then the Robson came out and then they started to communicate.

00:30:53.260 And it was the same story.

00:30:54.960 I mean, it's amazing how exactly the same those stories were.

00:30:58.880 Yeah.

00:30:59.560 You know, what else was amazing to me is after the first trial in 93, whenever that was, 93, 94, and they had both been ignored mostly by Jackson for months or years at a time.

00:31:14.360 And then after they both testified, he was back in both their lives and big time and calling him every day again and having him come over again.

00:31:23.180 And he picked up right where he left off with the sexual abuse, even after the first trial.

00:31:30.700 Unbelievable.

00:31:31.540 I mean, that's incredible.

00:31:32.860 It really is bizarre.

00:31:33.540 I mean, if you can't trust a millionaire musician to care for your child when he's sleeping over at his amusement park for a few months.

00:31:39.240 Right.

00:31:39.780 Who can you trust?

00:31:40.820 Well, that was the thing that I found interesting.

00:31:43.200 The mother from Australia, Robson's mother, is she's I mean, this added so much credibility because she's been ostracized from her son.

00:31:53.500 Now she's taking on all of the guilt.

00:31:56.640 The daughter is mad at the mother.

00:31:59.000 The other brother is mad at all of it.

00:32:03.740 And it just destroyed this family.

00:32:06.660 And then there's another family.

00:32:07.860 The dad committed suicide.

00:32:09.160 Yeah.

00:32:09.400 And then there's another family who's who lived in California that they bought him.

00:32:16.800 You know, Michael Jackson bought him a house and everything else.

00:32:19.340 And they really considered them family.

00:32:21.980 If you watch how they how they set up the story in the first episode, they just thought Michael Jackson was part of the family.

00:32:30.140 And mom, when mom found out that this was happening, she went nuts.

00:32:36.140 She went nuts.

00:32:37.720 She said she danced when she found out he he was dead.

00:32:43.680 She she really she took it, I think, appropriately.

00:32:47.660 She blamed herself for not seeing it as well.

00:32:52.400 She should as an and she blamed Michael Jackson.

00:32:55.940 Yeah.

00:32:56.520 As well.

00:32:56.940 She should.

00:32:57.600 Right.

00:32:57.780 It's a part one was one of the creepiest, most disturbing things I've ever seen.

00:33:04.060 I don't watch a lot of disturbing shows, but this one was maybe the most disturbing I've ever seen.

00:33:14.000 I didn't I didn't I didn't see Schindler Schindler Schindler Schindler's list.

00:33:18.420 So I don't know.

00:33:19.640 That was a little more disturbing.

00:33:21.740 Yeah.

00:33:22.280 Considerably more disturbing.

00:33:23.500 Yes.

00:33:23.780 But I haven't seen that.

00:33:24.820 So this was one of the I mean, you just feel icky after it.

00:33:28.560 Yeah.

00:33:29.160 Jackie couldn't do it for part two, but part two wasn't as bad.

00:33:32.280 Part two wasn't as bad.

00:33:33.560 Part two was.

00:33:34.200 You could probably watch part two and get the gist of everything.

00:33:39.760 Yeah, probably.

00:33:41.140 But without watching all of the graphic details that you hear in the first part, which is so bad because these little kids.

00:33:48.540 Yeah.

00:33:48.640 When you're seeing pictures of these kids, this kid was six, six when he was first introduced to Michael Jackson.

00:33:55.560 And you see him.

00:33:57.840 You see the videotape of him going back to Australia and being on like good morning, Australia.

00:34:03.740 And, you know, Michael gave me this hat and everything else.

00:34:07.040 And, you know, that Michael had abused that kid.

00:34:11.160 You know, he talks about what had happened on that trip to see Michael and then he's abused.

00:34:16.100 Then he goes back and you see this little teeny kid on television.

00:34:20.500 You're like, oh, my gosh.

00:34:22.440 Yeah.

00:34:23.080 So it's phenomenal.

00:34:24.860 Curious.

00:34:25.480 I did not see any of it.

00:34:28.080 What happens now?

00:34:29.540 Our system of justice is a documentary is made and then we figure out whether they're guilty or not.

00:34:35.980 And then we make judgments like, for example, like, you know, Bill Cosby or R. Kelly.

00:34:41.480 And we pull all their music and their shows off the air never to be seen again.

00:34:44.920 That's happening.

00:34:45.500 Is that happening with Michael Jackson, you think?

00:34:46.840 Yes.

00:34:47.160 Supposedly BBC Two banned his music, but they say they didn't.

00:34:50.540 Uh, but it hasn't been played, um, since I don't think we should do anything because of this documentary, uh, except learn, except learn.

00:35:02.760 But I mean, so Michael Jackson and his, you know, his state estate doesn't get punished now that we have extensive evidence that he committed horrific crimes.

00:35:12.560 They're just going to keep playing, like, you know, we're going to be playing PYT like it's no big deal.

00:35:17.760 And, like, we don't know what's going on.

00:35:19.560 There's no defense.

00:35:20.560 He's not here to defend himself.

00:35:22.380 Or he's in the closet.

00:35:22.960 He's just going to keep running, uh, you know, with the lyrics.

00:35:26.860 That's amazing.

00:35:27.240 The lyrics of that are incredible.

00:35:29.180 Oh, man.

00:35:29.940 Uh, but, like, I mean, is that what happens?

00:35:32.040 Because, I mean, it's one thing to ban R. Kelly's music, right?

00:35:34.880 Right.

00:35:35.280 It's not that big of a deal.

00:35:37.220 No.

00:35:37.560 In a cultural way.

00:35:38.640 I mean, I guess it is maybe with some.

00:35:40.060 But Michael Jackson, that's...

00:35:40.980 Michael Jackson's, you know...

00:35:42.020 That's a lot of music to ban.

00:35:43.580 It's an entire era of music.

00:35:45.640 And not to mention, it influenced the next era of music.

00:35:48.960 I mean, he was...

00:35:50.260 What do you do with that?

00:35:51.200 I mean, they sample his song.

00:35:52.680 And how many other songs do you...

00:35:54.260 Do those get, you know, excised as well?

00:35:56.520 I mean, I think you still listen to his music.

00:36:00.560 I think his music is good.

00:36:03.960 He's dead.

00:36:04.840 So he's not hurting anybody anymore.

00:36:07.260 He's dead.

00:36:07.800 I'm not glorifying him by listening to his music.

00:36:10.700 I am listening to his music because his music was good.

00:36:15.320 And it was part of our culture for so long.

00:36:18.420 I still watch the Cosby show with my kids.

00:36:21.040 You know, I didn't tell them until it was all over.

00:36:23.360 You know, hey, by the way.

00:36:25.140 You know, dad, he's not such a good rapist.

00:36:28.100 Yeah.

00:36:28.440 He went to prison.

00:36:30.480 But the Cosby show is still really good.

00:36:35.480 I mean, what's crazy about that is that entire decade.

00:36:39.260 I mean, the two things you would use to define that decade culturally would be Michael Jackson and the Cosby show.

00:36:45.660 Yeah.

00:36:45.780 Right?

00:36:45.980 Like those two things.

00:36:47.400 Number one show and the number one artist.

00:36:48.540 Yeah.

00:36:48.760 And they're both completely destroyed now.

00:36:51.380 Crazy.

00:36:51.940 It's amazing.

00:36:52.300 I mean, that whole, that whole era is just gone.

00:36:56.760 Yeah.

00:36:58.140 Not Reagan.

00:36:59.580 No, I mean, that's what I mean.

00:37:00.680 Not Marty McFly.

00:37:03.660 Yeah.

00:37:04.340 No, that's true.

00:37:04.880 No, we'll always have Marty McFly.

00:37:07.000 Yeah.

00:37:07.520 We will have that.

00:37:08.140 We will.

00:37:08.420 We will always have Marty McFly.

00:37:10.320 That's a good thing.

00:37:10.600 If I see Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back.

00:37:13.560 Yeah, Star Wars would certainly mean that.

00:37:14.760 I don't know.

00:37:15.140 I love Back to the Future.

00:37:16.360 But I don't know if I would put Back to the Future as the lead of that decade culturally.

00:37:21.220 No, not the lead.

00:37:22.220 Not as big as Michael Jackson.

00:37:23.660 But still.

00:37:24.200 Star Wars, though, obviously, would be there.

00:37:26.060 I would say in the 80s, Back to the Future was huge.

00:37:31.820 It's pretty defining.

00:37:32.980 It's iconic.

00:37:34.080 It's not Star Wars, though.

00:37:35.540 No.

00:37:35.860 No.

00:37:36.060 I mean, Cosby's show was like the Star Wars of television of that era.

00:37:39.980 Was it not?

00:37:40.780 I mean, it was the biggest show.

00:37:42.460 Yeah, I think that's safe to say.

00:37:43.260 Yeah, I think that's safe.

00:37:44.120 And that is like, and that's gone.

00:37:45.560 And Michael Jackson was the Star Wars of music.

00:37:47.920 And now that's gone.

00:37:49.500 I mean, Madonna was huge, too.

00:37:50.920 But I mean, Michael Jackson was, I would say, the peak of that.

00:37:53.180 And like they said multiple times during the special, there's no one like that today.

00:37:59.080 And we may never.

00:37:59.820 Well, I don't think we'll ever have a star.

00:38:01.520 No, because everything's so big.

00:38:02.840 It's too fragmented.

00:38:03.700 Everything's too fragmented.

00:38:04.680 You know, you can be a huge star in a little pool over off to the side that's not even little.

00:38:09.340 But you can be a huge star and half the country have no idea who you are, where even I think we were the last generation, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity.

00:38:20.560 We were the last of the people on cable news that were big across the whole country.

00:38:28.900 It's not like that anymore.

00:38:30.620 No, I mean, doing Christmas shopping this past year, you go down the toy aisle of Target or whatever toy store is open and still selling toys in a place.

00:38:40.180 Every freaking other toy has the face of some kid that your kid watches on YouTube on it.

00:38:47.060 These are all just like kids who open up presents and their whole thing is they review toys or whatever.

00:38:53.120 Those are the stars of today.

00:38:54.620 And their faces are all over the place.

00:38:55.920 And 90% of this audience has never seen them at all.

00:38:59.500 But if you have little kids, that's what they watch.

00:39:01.780 And those are the celebrities right now.

00:39:03.160 It's an entirely parallel culture that is built.

00:39:06.940 And they all have deals with, like, Mattel.

00:39:10.120 Like, all of the – their faces are on every toy in the aisle.

00:39:13.260 You know who they also have deals with?

00:39:15.640 You know who represents them in most cases?

00:39:19.260 Ellen.

00:39:20.560 Oh, really?

00:39:21.420 Ellen goes out.

00:39:22.180 I thought you were going to say Satan.

00:39:22.900 No, Ellen.

00:39:24.300 Ellen goes out and her team looks for the next big little kid stars and reps them and gets them these deals.

00:39:34.940 And then brings them on the show, probably.

00:39:36.180 Brings them on the show, introduces to the parents.

00:39:38.900 Yeah, and then makes money off of the kids.

00:39:41.400 She's too smart.

00:39:42.200 That's annoying.

00:39:43.140 She's annoyingly smart.

00:39:44.560 Yeah.

00:39:49.040 Just like Pat Gray on Pat Gray Unleashed, annoyingly smart.

00:39:53.020 You can get him on YouTube – or can we get you on YouTube, Pat?

00:39:56.720 You can get him on YouTube reviewing toys, but also on his podcast.

00:40:00.760 All right.

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00:41:31.160 We have some more crazy news from Washington.

00:41:37.240 You know, Ocasio-Cortez refusing to denounce Maduro.

00:41:41.800 But we also have a great story of yet another hate crime victim.

00:41:49.220 Oh, no.

00:41:49.680 And I...

00:41:50.620 This is everywhere, Glenn.

00:41:51.600 Everywhere.

00:41:52.600 It's everywhere.

00:41:53.580 Chicago.

00:41:54.900 Wait until you hear the latest from the mayor of Lamar, South Carolina.

00:42:01.700 Oh, no.

00:42:02.160 It was...

00:42:03.300 This is a hate crime that will go down in the history books of hate crimes.

00:42:07.460 Oh, no.

00:42:08.020 It's pretty tragic.

00:42:10.880 And it speaks volumes.

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00:44:02.720 I know this doesn't sound like fun, but it actually is.

00:44:07.140 I have a hate crime from North Carolina.

00:44:12.560 That is just, I mean, it's, you're going to enjoy, you're going to enjoy this story.

00:44:18.840 Emphasis on story.

00:44:20.680 And we'll do that in one minute.

00:44:22.860 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:46:15.220 This is ugly.

00:46:16.460 I warn you.

00:46:17.620 Very ugly.

00:46:19.680 Hate crime patrol.

00:46:23.040 Darnell Byrd McPherson.

00:46:25.700 She's the mayor of Lamar, South Carolina.

00:46:29.540 She's the volunteer mayor.

00:46:31.760 I don't know what that means.

00:46:33.960 Do you just...

00:46:34.600 I think that means she calls herself the mayor, but isn't actually the mayor.

00:46:37.860 I have a feeling that could be it.

00:46:40.300 Or everybody just stands around and is like, anybody want to do this job?

00:46:44.220 I do.

00:46:45.420 All right.

00:46:46.260 Anyway, she says she was a victim of a hate crime after she found yellow sticky substance

00:46:53.900 that had been sprayed on her car early last month.

00:46:58.920 McPherson had returned to her home February 7th and told Newsweek magazine that her husband

00:47:04.700 went out to get some things out of the garage and the car.

00:47:08.700 They had both left their car outside of the garage the night before, and he came in and

00:47:14.960 said, somebody has painted our cars.

00:47:18.240 She went out.

00:47:19.540 She said it was a grainy substance like an industrial spray foam used to patch concrete.

00:47:26.980 It was in like a swastika.

00:47:30.980 Newsweek said it looked like little pebbles, and the stuff was also on her husband's car.

00:47:36.580 McPherson told Newsweek, she said it was a hate crime because, number one, there is a

00:47:42.140 history of racism in our little town of Lamar, which I think you want the mayor of Lamar going

00:47:50.180 out and saying, oh, you know, when you think of Lamar, think hate crimes.

00:47:54.400 I think you move it right over to the tourism bureau.

00:47:56.300 Right.

00:47:56.640 Because that's really nice.

00:47:57.680 By the way, that's not how our justice system works.

00:48:00.040 I don't know if anyone understands that.

00:48:01.660 You know what?

00:48:02.440 Well, there was a crime in this town 50 years ago, so that must mean this is a hate crime

00:48:08.840 today.

00:48:09.420 So she says it's a hate crime because, number one, history, during the 70s, crosses were

00:48:13.960 burned in the yards of our home when my mother was involved with the civil rights movement.

00:48:19.120 It's the very same corner in this very same front yard.

00:48:22.860 So it happened in the 1970s.

00:48:25.100 And it was on the same location.

00:48:26.620 So I think if it's only a few decades and it's the same corner, you automatically assume

00:48:31.400 it's a hate crime.

00:48:32.220 Her statement noted the incident happened last night.

00:48:35.600 My husband and I and our neighbor noticed that the cars looked like someone had spray

00:48:43.360 painted both of our vehicles, which were parked right in our front yard.

00:48:47.640 She said it ignited the same fear in my spirit.

00:48:51.180 My God, who would do that?

00:48:52.680 I thought it was it was something it was it was unnerving to me.

00:48:57.140 And while no words or symbols were drawn with the substance, she told the magazine to me.

00:49:05.340 Hate was the message.

00:49:08.120 Newsweek said McPherson had no possible motives for a person or people targeting her.

00:49:12.860 She said, I really have a good reputation.

00:49:14.760 I've never been subjected to something like this.

00:49:21.600 Now, she called the sheriff.

00:49:24.980 The sheriff came.

00:49:28.700 Sheriff Sheriff's Office Lieutenant Robbie Kilgo told Newsweek.

00:49:34.700 That when they call were called out.

00:49:41.920 There wasn't a reason for us to collect a sample because it was.

00:49:47.260 Pollen.

00:49:49.020 It wasn't even paint.

00:49:50.640 She had left her car, which was normally in the garage.

00:49:54.700 Ah, outside.

00:49:57.040 And it was pollen.

00:49:58.860 Now, so she got pollen on her car and reported a hate crime.

00:50:06.220 Yeah.

00:50:06.440 Well, who would do that?

00:50:07.600 It was a sticky yellow substance that was covering both her and her husband's car.

00:50:11.740 Right.

00:50:12.220 But again, like, why would you there wasn't a swastika, obviously.

00:50:15.740 What was the 1970 they were burning crosses on that corner?

00:50:20.100 You're saying that they're not going to put a pollen like substance on her car.

00:50:26.080 Look, she knew.

00:50:27.300 She knew it was hate.

00:50:29.200 Although, who knows?

00:50:30.520 Mother Nature might be wearing a hood.

00:50:32.740 You don't.

00:50:33.400 You don't know.

00:50:33.880 We don't know.

00:50:34.460 You don't know.

00:50:36.600 McPherson has said she does have another possible suspect in mind.

00:50:41.660 Wait, she's still sticking with us?

00:50:43.040 After the pollen thing?

00:50:44.420 You don't know the rest of the story.

00:50:46.620 There was a police officer, unnamed.

00:50:49.000 There was a police officer who came to me and said,

00:50:52.140 Quote, there are rumors out there that someone's trying to assassinate you.

00:50:58.800 So she has asked local law enforcement to file a complaint about the death threat,

00:51:05.500 as well as the yellow sticky stuff that the police strangely didn't want to take a sample of.

00:51:14.300 She says she thinks the police are doing this to her.

00:51:19.280 No, they just are turning their eyes away from somebody who is spraying pollen all over her car.

00:51:28.600 She said, I don't care about my car anymore.

00:51:30.860 What I want is my life.

00:51:33.140 So there's your volunteer mayor from North Carolina.

00:51:39.040 She is, after the pollen analysis, is sticking by the hate crime thing.

00:51:43.760 Well, because it wasn't an analysis.

00:51:46.000 The police came and they ran their fingers on the car.

00:51:49.300 And her husband even says, yeah, it looks like it was pollen.

00:51:54.100 They ran the fingers on the car.

00:51:56.240 The other neighbors also have reported a strange yellow sticky substance on their cars when they leave it out at night.

00:52:03.660 But she is, well, I should say, I mean, she thinks it was something else and she thinks she knows who did it.

00:52:12.520 But there's this rumor out that somebody's trying to assassinate her and she doesn't care anymore about the car.

00:52:17.320 She wants to know who's trying to assassinate her.

00:52:20.840 So we have a rumored assassination of a volunteer mayor.

00:52:25.680 Okay.

00:52:26.420 Yes.

00:52:26.960 Uh-huh.

00:52:27.360 Yes.

00:52:27.700 Now, you might think that that has gone too far, that our society has gone over the deep end.

00:52:36.240 But then I bring you this story.

00:52:39.860 Jareth Nebula, 33, has shunned human genders and now wants to be accepted as something else.

00:52:50.420 A 33-year-old who was born a woman but transitioned to become a man when she was 29 and then became a he now believes he doesn't fit into either gender.

00:53:10.080 And in fact, he has had his nipples removed because he...

00:53:16.160 Always a good move, by the way.

00:53:17.340 You just don't need them.

00:53:18.840 People don't understand this.

00:53:19.980 You just don't need them.

00:53:21.900 They're like the tonsil.

00:53:25.020 Just remove it whenever you're first chance.

00:53:27.420 Your first chance is to just take those things off.

00:53:29.980 You just don't need them.

00:53:31.340 I mean, no Barbie or Ken doll has them.

00:53:34.460 I mean, how do they live?

00:53:35.360 Right?

00:53:35.960 You know, I mean, like, oh, this is magically they're the only people who don't need nipples.

00:53:39.320 No, no one needs them.

00:53:40.120 Amen, brothers.

00:53:41.080 Amen.

00:53:41.340 So he has taken his nipples off and shaves his eyebrows because those things make him feel human.

00:53:50.300 He claims now that he belongs to another planet.

00:53:54.060 I tend to agree.

00:53:56.520 I tend to agree as well.

00:54:00.820 He's now living alone and wants people to...

00:54:05.580 Wait, what?

00:54:07.480 That's a stunning development.

00:54:09.400 Yeah, no.

00:54:10.360 He's...

00:54:10.940 Well, there's nobody else like him.

00:54:13.360 You know, on this planet.

00:54:14.780 On this planet, right.

00:54:15.220 Yeah, there are many like him in the universe, but not a lot like him.

00:54:22.400 So anyway, he just wants people to accept who he is, and he would prefer if everybody called him a thing or it rather than he or she.

00:54:34.920 Now he...

00:54:35.320 That's the least we can do for this nipple-less it.

00:54:37.900 He or it has legally changed its name four years ago after coming out as transgender.

00:54:45.740 He said...

00:54:46.900 It said, I firmly believe at that time that I finally found myself, but then I was wrong.

00:54:55.340 I wasn't male.

00:54:56.640 I wasn't female.

00:54:57.980 I wasn't even human.

00:55:00.540 I don't think or feel like humans.

00:55:03.340 I can't really explain it to others because I'm simply otherworldly, but I didn't feel comfortable as either gender or anything in between.

00:55:15.680 I know I'm stuck in a human form, and that's how I'm perceived by others, but I am an alien without a gender.

00:55:24.400 Uh, Jareth says he didn't fit in when he was diagnosed with EDS, which is a lifelong condition affecting connective tissue and resulting in stretchy skin and an increased range of joint mobility.

00:55:40.680 Uh, he was born with this condition, but not diagnosed until he was 26.

00:55:45.460 He has been nicknamed Mr. Elastic, which has got to hurt.

00:55:51.180 I'm just, I'm upset they're calling him Mr.

00:55:53.180 That's what I mean.

00:55:54.140 I mean, geez.

00:55:55.140 You can call it It Elastic.

00:55:57.400 It Elastic.

00:55:58.460 Um, uh, he was nicknamed Mr. Elastic by his doctors due to his stretchy skin, a condition that causes him chronic pain.

00:56:10.320 Um, he said it's, it's one benefit that he has as an alien because his skin is wrinkle free and it makes him appear younger than he really is.

00:56:19.840 Now, I don't know, no word yet on how old he really is.

00:56:24.560 He may be thousands of years old.

00:56:27.480 Fair point.

00:56:28.260 Um, uh, Jareth does not want to disclose his birth name.

00:56:31.860 He said the kid, it's birth name.

00:56:33.860 It's sorry.

00:56:34.860 It's birth name.

00:56:36.700 Uh, now I realize it says why I could pop my joints out on purpose.

00:56:42.960 It was a fun party trick as a kid.

00:56:45.320 Uh, but that happens to me, not because of EDS, but because I'm an alien.

00:56:52.620 If you are any Democratic presidential candidate running in 2020, why, what other reaction is there to this than, well, that's just wonderful.

00:57:09.140 And I accept him for what he says he, it, sorry, what, what it says it is, an alien with stretchy skin and the ability to disconnect all joints at any time because he's thousands of years old.

00:57:22.860 And I mean that seriously, it really is what their stance would have to be.

00:57:28.980 Why on earth would you accept a man transitioning to a woman and just by a feeling in their head, as I believe Ellen described it, gender is just a feeling that you have in your head.

00:57:42.800 If this person has a feeling in its head that it is an alien, why wouldn't you accept it?

00:57:52.420 No, you'd have to.

00:57:53.180 You have to.

00:57:53.720 To be consistent, you have to accept that that is what it says it is.

00:57:58.560 Now, here's the question.

00:58:00.280 Is it, is it more compassionate to just to go along and call her who transitioned to him and is now it.

00:58:12.660 So call her it.

00:58:16.680 Is it more compassionate to go, you know what?

00:58:19.580 Yep.

00:58:19.840 You're from outer space.

00:58:21.240 You're in it.

00:58:22.200 And you should have your nipples removed and you should do all of these crazy things to your body.

00:58:26.820 You should, you should do that.

00:58:27.900 Is that more compassionate or is it more compassionate?

00:58:30.980 Say you, you, there, there, there is need help.

00:58:36.640 You need help.

00:58:37.540 You need help.

00:58:38.820 And, and, and there is therapy that can possibly help you.

00:58:43.680 I, I can understand that you really feel this way because I really, I really understand.

00:58:51.540 I've had clinical depression and I know the power of the mind and what the mind can do.

00:58:58.120 But the more you think you're an, an otherworldly alien, the more you will believe you're an otherworldly alien.

00:59:08.340 And that's not healthy.

00:59:09.500 So your question is, is hate more compassionate?

00:59:12.000 Is what you just did, which was hate, more compassionate?

00:59:15.400 Right.

00:59:15.520 I'm more.

00:59:16.140 Well, the next thing you know, I'm going to say that on the radio.

00:59:18.280 The next thing you know, I'm going to be taking pollen and spraying it all over his car.

00:59:22.740 That's true.

00:59:23.400 Can we dispatch with the, uh, hateful language too of alien?

00:59:28.360 I mean, undocumented traveler, maybe.

00:59:30.200 Thank you.

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01:01:27.840 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:01:30.040 As we've had a conversation about IT, the undocumented space traveler who is here, formerly a man and previous to that, a woman, but really the entire time, an IT.

01:01:41.660 Uh, let me run this one by you.

01:01:44.480 This is a story about Brendan Johnson.

01:01:47.400 Brendan Johnson is a 18-year-old senior wrestler from the Classical Academy in Colorado.

01:01:52.320 He was going for the state championship in wrestling, uh, and he was, had a good shot at winning the actual state championship.

01:02:00.680 Got to, I think, to the final four.

01:02:02.940 And his matchup in the final four was a girl.

01:02:08.280 And so he decided to forfeit the match rather than, than wrestle a girl.

01:02:16.340 And he said it was because of his, his faith.

01:02:18.580 He said he's never wrestled a girl since he picked up the sport in seventh grade.

01:02:22.580 And he said the physical aggression required in wrestling isn't something he's comfortable showing toward a girl, on or off the mat.

01:02:29.560 Wow.

01:02:30.860 Wow.

01:02:31.460 What does a, what does a social justice warrior do?

01:02:34.680 I know.

01:02:35.320 Because, I mean, we're told that men are so, I mean, basically, the Me Too movement has proved one thing, that all men abuse all women at all times.

01:02:43.800 And, and, all women cannot protect themselves because they just do not have the power and the stamina against a man.

01:02:51.120 But they can do anything a man can do.

01:02:52.960 Of course.

01:02:53.620 Of course.

01:02:54.000 Like wrestle.

01:02:54.460 Right.

01:02:54.980 So, uh, now, you kind of feel, it's a weird one because it's not the opposite.

01:03:00.480 The opposite is, I think, really problematic where a male is, quote unquote, transitioning to being a female and then beating up on women.

01:03:10.780 Yes.

01:03:11.020 In the women's wrestling circuit.

01:03:12.900 Correct.

01:03:13.060 Which is happening.

01:03:13.840 Which is happening.

01:03:14.620 And that is something that's happening around the country.

01:03:16.500 They don't have a women's wrestling division here.

01:03:18.920 So she has decided she wants to just go play in the men's and, and compete naturally in the men's division.

01:03:25.840 Or the boys' division.

01:03:27.720 So she, it's not, it's not one of those things where a guy is trying to take advantage of some transgender thing to win or to go beat up on women.

01:03:36.020 Which is, for some reason, acceptable.

01:03:38.040 Um, and the other way, though, it is, she's trying to compete.

01:03:42.680 And she, you know, her point is, the whole time I've wrestled, it's just me trying to prove her point that I'm just a wrestler.

01:03:47.420 I'm not a male or female wrestler.

01:03:49.340 And so the fact that my gender is something that kind of holds me back is still a little nerve wracking.

01:03:53.040 But I respect his decision.

01:03:55.500 It's fine.

01:03:56.960 So I can, you know, you almost, like if a, if a, I feel like in a physical sport like this, the lines are a little bit different.

01:04:03.200 But if a woman wanted to go play in men's tennis and, uh, the, there was no female tennis division.

01:04:10.120 I mean, I don't think a guy would have any problem, uh, you know, beating her handily as, as by the way, I mean, has happened in the pros.

01:04:18.600 Yeah.

01:04:18.740 Hasn't that happened with, uh, Serena?

01:04:20.720 Venus and Serena Williams played, I think the guy was ranked like 215th in the world.

01:04:24.860 This is when they were at their peak.

01:04:26.140 Right.

01:04:26.420 And he dispatched with both of them very easily.

01:04:30.680 And he also said he went out drinking the night before.

01:04:34.020 Just to prove a point.

01:04:35.720 Wow.

01:04:35.880 The whole, because we have this romanticized idea of Billie Jean King playing a guy who I think was, you know, I mean, he was like 70 at the time.

01:04:44.360 You know, like this idea that women can compete in men's tennis.

01:04:47.840 I mean, it's been thoroughly at this point, uh, at least at this time.

01:04:52.680 Debunked.

01:04:53.500 Um, however, this is a, this is an interesting situation.

01:04:55.760 She's trying to compete.

01:04:56.680 She made it pretty far in the tournament.

01:04:58.840 I, I mean, if I, if I was the father of this boy, I would be so proud of the way he was looking at this.

01:05:06.160 The fact that he just is so against showing any aggression towards a woman, he's going to give up.

01:05:10.700 And that's what he did.

01:05:11.260 He lost.

01:05:12.040 He forfeited the match.

01:05:13.140 He gave up his chance at a state championship, something he had worked for years and years and years to try to achieve.

01:05:17.460 Just because he didn't want to show aggression to a woman, I would be incredibly proud.

01:05:22.000 Where's the justice in that?

01:05:23.220 But where's the justice?

01:05:23.860 Where is the justice in that?

01:05:25.760 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

01:05:34.500 All right.

01:05:34.960 I want to talk to you a little bit about filter by, um, uh, it's going to come as a surprise, but I'm not really handy.

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01:05:43.540 Give me a minute.

01:05:44.220 I need to take a minute.

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01:06:53.900 Well, it's a sad day here on the Glenn Beck program.

01:06:56.180 Uh, Hillary Clinton has, uh, said she's not running for president in 2020.

01:07:01.260 And, um, that's something that actually probably the Trump administration is legitimately sad about.

01:07:06.180 They really are.

01:07:07.100 They really are.

01:07:07.780 Please run.

01:07:08.540 Oh, please.

01:07:09.180 Hillary.

01:07:09.560 I mean, I just, she is just so out of touch.

01:07:16.080 But then again, all of them are, all of them are.

01:07:19.100 And the media is out of touch.

01:07:21.600 Listen to this.

01:07:22.460 This is from Ocasio-Cortez.

01:07:23.800 She was asked to denounce Maduro.

01:07:26.820 Now listen to what she said.

01:07:28.660 What are your thoughts on the Venezuelan crisis that's happening right now?

01:07:32.160 And if you would denounce the Maduro regime?

01:07:35.000 Yeah.

01:07:35.320 So I think that, that this is absolutely a complex issue.

01:07:38.940 I think it's important that, uh, that we approach this very carefully.

01:07:42.660 One, I am, um, I'm, uh, myself, just like anyone else, is absolutely concerned with the humanitarian

01:07:50.520 crisis that's happening.

01:07:51.820 And I think it's important that any solution that we have centers the Venezuelan people and

01:07:56.780 centers the democracy of, of Venezuelan people first.

01:07:59.280 I am very concerned about U.S. interventionism in Venezuela, and I oppose it, especially when

01:08:05.160 we talk about, um, a figure like U.S. Special Envoy, Elliot Abrams, here.

01:08:11.360 Um, I think it's, he's pled guilty, uh, to several crimes related to Iran-Contra, and I

01:08:18.620 don't think that we should be, you know, I am generally opposed to U.S. interventionism

01:08:23.320 as a principle, but particularly under this administration and under his leadership, I think it's a profound

01:08:28.600 mistake.

01:08:29.720 Hmm.

01:08:30.680 So it's a profound, profound mistake.

01:08:32.660 I bet, I bet the, uh, people who are living under that socialist utopia, uh, love you for

01:08:39.460 that.

01:08:40.200 I bet the people in Venezuela love that, you know, the, the socialists, they all told us

01:08:47.580 that Venezuela was the model.

01:08:50.500 Now they're claiming it's not really socialism.

01:08:53.260 That's one of my favorite things about this one, because they all, you know, you can, it's

01:08:56.340 easy to go back and say, well, the Soviet Union did it wrong.

01:08:59.660 It's easy to say that.

01:09:00.540 They were all on record saying Venezuela was doing it right.

01:09:03.800 They were going to visit Venezuela and say what a, what a, what a wonderful example it

01:09:08.760 was for us to follow.

01:09:10.860 And now that it's collapsing, now they're saying, well, they see, you don't understand the distinction.

01:09:16.880 And we went over some of the myths about socialism, where one of them is, it's myth number four

01:09:21.780 on the list is when socialism is, is tried, it collapses.

01:09:25.760 And they say, communism certainly failed, but social democracy, which is different than

01:09:31.020 democratic socialism, because the words are in different orders.

01:09:34.760 Just so you know, the difference between a social democracy or a democratic socialist

01:09:41.460 country is that the leadership hasn't backed themselves into a corner far enough to where

01:09:48.800 they have to suspend voting.

01:09:50.600 And that's what happens with Maduro, right?

01:09:52.980 He was, he was, as you point out, democratically elected bus driver guy who pulled himself up

01:09:57.980 from his bootstraps and, and the socialists loved him.

01:10:00.860 Oh yeah.

01:10:01.300 All the socialists loved him.

01:10:02.660 The Chavez people loved him.

01:10:04.060 He was, he was very, very popular.

01:10:07.140 He was the guy.

01:10:08.340 And then when it all started to come crumbling down, what happens?

01:10:13.420 Oh, he suspends elections or in his case, he just buys the elections.

01:10:20.240 One of his, uh, one of his, uh, slogans in the poor areas was roughly translated into you

01:10:29.220 give, I give, meaning you vote for me.

01:10:32.420 I'll give you food.

01:10:34.160 Okay.

01:10:35.100 This was an absolute corrupt election.

01:10:38.660 And now everybody is using that to say, oh, well, this isn't socialism.

01:10:42.560 This isn't democratic socialism.

01:10:44.340 No, this is the way democratic socialism always ends.

01:10:47.700 And again, Marx was very clear that socialism was just a pit stop on the way to communism

01:10:53.520 and democratic socialism is just a pit stop on the way to socialism.

01:10:58.500 And social democracy is just a pit stop on the way to democratic socialism.

01:11:02.440 And the democratic party of today is just a pit stop on the way to social democracy.

01:11:07.120 It's progressivism.

01:11:08.360 They're just moving this and they're going towards that goal.

01:11:11.420 And eventually if they get their way, they will get all the way there.

01:11:15.540 Let me ask you this, let me ask you this, are the democratic socialists happy?

01:11:20.680 Are they done in England?

01:11:23.760 No.

01:11:24.360 Okay.

01:11:24.760 The, the, the democratic socialists say we want the national health service like we have

01:11:30.340 in England.

01:11:31.480 Well, they're not happy about it in England because it hasn't gone far enough.

01:11:35.720 Are the democratic socialists happy in France?

01:11:39.920 No, no, they're not happy anywhere.

01:11:41.860 They're not happy anywhere because they haven't gone far enough.

01:11:45.720 Right.

01:11:46.000 And this is the thing when, uh, cause they mock this in, I think even in this piece, you

01:11:50.740 know, they, they mock about how people, you know, back in the day, people said Medicare

01:11:54.700 was socialism.

01:11:56.320 Well, guess what?

01:11:57.500 Medicare was a step towards Obamacare and Obamacare is a step towards Medicare for all

01:12:02.640 and Medicare for all is a step towards Canada's health system and Canada's health system is

01:12:08.000 a step towards Britain and on and on and on and on.

01:12:11.240 These are all just little incremental steps, progressive steps towards an end.

01:12:17.120 And they, every single play, I mean, it's so, it's so laughable now, Glenn, because these

01:12:22.920 things are happening so quickly.

01:12:24.460 The current system that every single 2020 Democrat is, is saying is, uh, is, is, is a must, is a

01:12:33.680 must for our society.

01:12:34.780 Medicare for all is to replace a system.

01:12:37.900 They told us eight years ago was the solution.

01:12:41.880 They told us Obamacare was going to fix these issues.

01:12:46.060 And one president later, they are telling us we must go to single payer healthcare.

01:12:52.700 When we said at the beginning, this is just a Trojan horse for single payer.

01:12:57.940 And then the Tides Foundation was, was, was kind enough to point out it's not a Trojan

01:13:02.760 hoist horse for single payer.

01:13:04.420 I'm just telling you it's right there and we will get there.

01:13:07.620 And we were called conspiracy theorists for saying that and playing that audio.

01:13:12.920 Now they're calling us a conspiracy theorist for saying, wait a minute, you have democratic

01:13:18.660 socialists.

01:13:19.520 You have a Casio Cortez saying capitalism's not going to be around forever.

01:13:24.560 You have democratic socialists saying their goal is to stop all capitalism.

01:13:31.900 And now we're supposed to believe, but just so you guys know, you're a conspiracy theorist.

01:13:35.180 If you ever think they're going to go one half of a pace past this position, we just saw

01:13:41.180 they changed our entire healthcare system, told us it was the solution.

01:13:47.660 The next president in his first term, by the way, they're telling us we have to scrap that

01:13:54.800 system to give you another system, Medicare for all, which not one of them would even co-sponsor

01:14:00.700 in 2013.

01:14:02.820 Not one of the only Bernie Sanders would do it in 2013.

01:14:06.460 Now they're all on board.

01:14:07.980 All of them.

01:14:08.800 All of them claimed that it was racist to say someone was socialist.

01:14:13.480 Now they're all claiming that they're socialist.

01:14:16.800 But when we say, yes, finally, what do they say?

01:14:21.420 Well, you misunderstand what socialist means, right?

01:14:23.700 This is this is no, we don't.

01:14:25.520 We don't.

01:14:26.060 The Democratic Socialists of America themselves have come out and said they are not looking

01:14:31.060 to be Sweden.

01:14:32.740 Sweden itself has come up.

01:14:35.520 The prime minister of Sweden flew to America to hold a press conference to say, by the way,

01:14:42.660 we're not a socialist nation.

01:14:44.620 We have a giant welfare state on top, but we are a free market economy.

01:14:50.420 OK, now, if anybody wants to live like Sweden, you should probably look into it.

01:14:56.940 In Sweden, you don't get to do what you want.

01:14:59.860 You don't got to you don't get to live where you want.

01:15:01.940 Everybody is not.

01:15:02.780 Nobody's living in a 5000 square foot home.

01:15:06.560 You're not living like that.

01:15:07.940 You're living in a little teeny apartment.

01:15:09.900 It's a it's a country of about what?

01:15:11.760 10 million people up until recently, all white.

01:15:16.180 But there's no diversity in in Sweden until recently, as soon as they started taking immigration

01:15:23.840 in now, they say, well, there's no unemployment problems in Sweden.

01:15:28.740 No, there there wasn't any unemployment problems.

01:15:32.400 It's down to, I think, point four to four percent unemployment for white people, 20 percent for

01:15:41.080 immigrants.

01:15:41.580 Well, it doesn't seem like your socialist utopia is working, does it?

01:15:47.280 Why?

01:15:47.780 Because there are people that do not want to be Swedish.

01:15:51.860 They don't want to join in and be part of the club.

01:15:56.900 Well, that's the problem with America.

01:15:59.040 America starts to fall apart when people say, I want to celebrate our differences only.

01:16:06.000 And I don't want to rely on what's bringing us together.

01:16:10.120 This idea of America, there has never been a country like America ever.

01:16:16.020 If you think that this country is screwed up, go to a country where they're all from there, always been there.

01:16:24.180 It's always been like this.

01:16:26.420 Everybody thinks alike.

01:16:28.540 Nobody's really speaking another language because their parents and their grandparents

01:16:33.480 and their great-great-grandparents and everybody's parents and great-great-great-great-great-great-great.

01:16:38.040 You can trace them all back from Germany and then Garden of Eden.

01:16:42.180 You look at those places.

01:16:44.980 They are just as screwed up, if not more.

01:16:48.380 And yet we have taken all of the immigrants.

01:16:51.880 No country is as diverse as the United States of America.

01:16:56.380 And it has worked.

01:16:58.480 You can't replicate Sweden's successes here, whatever they are.

01:17:02.900 And again, what are they?

01:17:04.140 The average new living arrangement for someone in Sweden, they live in 902 square feet.

01:17:13.300 902 square feet is the average new home, quote-unquote, home in Sweden.

01:17:18.400 Now, I lived in a 900-square-foot apartment in Tampa, Florida, when we lived down there in Brandon, Florida.

01:17:24.780 At the time, I was making $32,000 a year.

01:17:27.800 And you know what?

01:17:28.480 It was a nice apartment, and I liked it, and it was not a bad life.

01:17:33.020 However, the average new home in the United States right now is 2,687 square feet.

01:17:39.460 So if you want a Swedish-style country, because everyone's being taxed at 70%, you can have a country in which everyone lives in a moderate-sized apartment.

01:17:51.000 Even when you've come to the peak of your earnings life, you can have that world.

01:17:56.300 It does exist throughout Europe.

01:17:58.220 You know, the Washington Post describes it as the single most successful modern ideology or political movement, social democracy, or democratic socialism.

01:18:10.520 They say communism certainly failed, but social democracy has arguably been the single most successful modern ideology or political movement.

01:18:17.440 Where?

01:18:18.000 Wait, wait, Europe?

01:18:18.900 They say Europe, post-World War II, fast growth rates, and they go over some of that stuff.

01:18:23.380 Excuse me.

01:18:24.220 Yeah.

01:18:24.860 They, we rebuilt Europe.

01:18:29.500 Yes.

01:18:30.420 With what money?

01:18:31.340 Theirs?

01:18:31.740 Our money.

01:18:32.560 Oh, okay.

01:18:32.980 And they didn't have to pay for a military.

01:18:36.160 Can you imagine if the United States didn't have to pay for its own military how fast we could have grown?

01:18:43.200 Oh, my gosh.

01:18:43.800 We still outpaced them while we rebuilt them, and we provided their military.

01:18:51.480 Yeah.

01:18:51.680 And let's not also ignore the fact that the United States wins basically every Nobel Prize for invention.

01:19:01.240 Except for Israel.

01:19:02.700 Israel is up there with us.

01:19:03.780 Israel does well as well, especially per capita.

01:19:05.920 But we win, we make, we innovate everything with our capitalist system.

01:19:10.180 Yes.

01:19:10.440 Then those inventions with American companies get spread around the world.

01:19:14.380 Those countries aren't doing the research on those things.

01:19:17.460 Those countries aren't developing these things.

01:19:19.900 They take advantage of what we've created, and good for, I want that to be the system.

01:19:25.620 I want them to take advantage of the things that we've created.

01:19:28.420 It's a great system, and it's why billions of people have been pulled out of poverty.

01:19:31.600 But let's not ignore where that came from.

01:19:33.920 It came from here, not social democracy.

01:19:37.040 Social democracy lives on the back of us.

01:19:39.840 Without us, it collapses.

01:19:43.040 It is, it is, we, they are a parasite on us in a lot of ways.

01:19:47.780 In a good way, by the way.

01:19:49.100 I'm glad that this occurs.

01:19:51.480 Yeah.

01:19:52.320 Symbiotic parasite.

01:19:53.400 How's that?

01:19:53.860 Yeah.

01:19:54.000 I don't think that's a bad thing.

01:19:55.200 Parasite has a bad connotation.

01:19:57.440 Yeah.

01:19:57.600 A lot of people, a lot of species survive this way.

01:19:59.680 Yes.

01:19:59.820 It's not a bad thing.

01:20:00.800 It's not hurting us.

01:20:01.720 I think it's improving us.

01:20:03.060 The fact that we have to do all these things, and these innovations wind up being carried

01:20:07.420 around the globe, ripping, again, billions of people out of poverty.

01:20:12.160 We've solved so many things that seemed completely unsolvable just a couple decades ago.

01:20:16.780 If America disappeared overnight, so does social democracy.

01:20:22.580 You know what it turns into?

01:20:23.960 Democratic socialism, and then socialism, and then communism.

01:20:27.260 Because they will, without us, without the success that they have, which again is largely

01:20:33.820 based on innovations that we have created in the United States.

01:20:38.860 And these countries are, they pay for them, but they don't have to pay for the entire research

01:20:43.140 phase.

01:20:43.740 When they're created, they say, oh, we should buy those things.

01:20:46.340 In fact, they don't pay for a lot of the research.

01:20:49.880 We still pay the highest price for our own products, our own prescriptions.

01:20:54.080 We are the wealthiest 1%.

01:20:56.540 And so we pay the highest rate because we're the ones paying for all of the invention.

01:21:02.620 The rest of the world gets it discounted.

01:21:05.740 And they're the most successful.

01:21:08.600 It just shows how blind and stupid the people are in the press.

01:21:16.340 That write these things or how much of an agenda that they are a part of.

01:21:22.300 I mean, it's one of the two.

01:21:24.360 You're either stupid and blind or you are a useful idiot and you know exactly what you're

01:21:30.000 doing.

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01:22:44.700 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:22:46.640 We're still, we're having this, the debate.

01:23:01.680 I just read another story.

01:23:03.360 Um, a former Trump white house advisor, Sebastian Gorka warmed, uh, warned attendees at CPAC that

01:23:09.600 backers of the new green deal want to take away your hamburgers.

01:23:12.780 Such ominous rhetoric isn't exactly new.

01:23:16.640 I want to, I want to take this story and share this with you because they make our point

01:23:24.100 exactly.

01:23:26.020 And for some reason you, you have to live in this delusional world to not see that you're,

01:23:33.740 you're engaged in new speak and double speak.

01:23:37.520 But first we want to stop at a happy place.

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01:25:05.720 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:25:09.340 Hey, what do you say?

01:25:10.420 We take a break from the world that we're supposed to be in the, the world that we, where

01:25:17.860 we have to worry about every tweet and every, every remark and, and judge, whether it's

01:25:23.560 racist or homophobic or whatever, what, what do you say?

01:25:27.580 We just be people for a minute.

01:25:31.540 If you have a hard time in your own family coming together, if you have friends that you

01:25:36.420 miss and you want to come back together, we're going to share a story of two people

01:25:42.380 who did just that, and we'll do it in one minute.

01:25:47.860 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:25:51.780 All right.

01:25:52.280 Let me tell you about field of greens.

01:25:55.040 It's inappropriate for you to tell people about greens because you're one of America's

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01:26:01.740 You're the, you're the guy that when you, when you think about nutrition, you think

01:26:04.980 Glenn Beck, it's almost people probably think it is literally your middle name, Glenn nutrition.

01:26:11.260 Yes.

01:26:12.200 Uh, but no, you're too young to remember Jack LaLanne, but anybody, Jack LaLanne, that's

01:26:17.320 me.

01:26:17.920 That's you.

01:26:18.640 Yeah.

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01:26:22.880 Really?

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01:26:52.240 You have, I mean, this is not their pitch, by the way.

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01:27:34.640 So you can try it.

01:27:35.480 It's brick house, Glenn.

01:27:36.760 So Dave, I say is a friend of the program and, uh, he is the founder and president of story

01:27:55.480 core.

01:27:55.880 And story core is, uh, this amazing thing that usually runs on NPR.

01:28:02.500 And it's, it's, to me, it's tragically sad because it tells an American story and like

01:28:10.620 everything else, the word, the country is divided.

01:28:13.600 And so we have these, we have these American stories and they become the stories of the

01:28:19.020 left or American stories become the stories of the right.

01:28:22.180 No, they're American stories.

01:28:25.300 And, uh, Dave has, uh, been strong enough, uh, to make an appointment with me.

01:28:33.740 I don't know, about six months ago and say, Glenn, we're, we're starting something new

01:28:37.680 and we really want to invite your audience to participate in this.

01:28:42.780 So it's, it is an, a truly an American story because we have to start listening to each other.

01:28:48.140 And I welcome, uh, Dave, I say to the program, Dave, Glenn, great to be back.

01:28:53.340 Yeah.

01:28:53.540 Thanks.

01:28:54.060 What story are you going to share with us today?

01:28:56.860 Uh, I, I think we're, we're sharing today the, um, as you said, story core has been around

01:29:02.700 for 15 years and for, um, half a million people who know and love each other have, have come

01:29:08.640 and recorded an interview with one another.

01:29:10.760 And we have, we started, uh, very recently what I came to talk to you about this project,

01:29:15.960 one small step, where we're bringing people across the political divides into a story core

01:29:20.280 booth where these interviews go to the library of Congress.

01:29:22.640 So your great, great, great grandkids can get to know you through your voice and story,

01:29:26.660 building people, bringing people across the divides to the booth, um, just to remember

01:29:31.540 that, uh, that we're people, we're just people.

01:29:34.580 So, um, and I think Dave, the, the, the secret to this is perhaps that it is being recorded

01:29:41.440 for the library of Congress and nobody wants to be remembered as being a jerk 150 years

01:29:47.180 from now.

01:29:48.400 That's exactly right.

01:29:49.100 I mean, I think part of the secret, secret sauce here is that it's in so many ways the

01:29:52.720 opposite of Twitter, um, because you realize that, that, you know, this is how your great

01:29:57.440 grandchildren are going to hear you.

01:29:58.780 So you want to be your best self and that's who, you know, that's, that's who we are.

01:30:03.740 We're born, you know, we're, we're, one of the lessons of story core is the basic, you

01:30:08.520 know, goodness of people and how similar we all are to one another.

01:30:11.440 So this is, I, I thought I'd play a very early one small step test interview, uh, uh, today.

01:30:17.420 And this is, um, this is, uh, from Boston.

01:30:21.000 Um, and it's a 29 year old woman named Jen Stanley, who's a writer and her father, Peter,

01:30:27.040 who works in construction, uh, who's conservative.

01:30:29.820 And, uh, they came together.

01:30:31.760 We're focusing now on strangers in one small step, but this was a family interview just

01:30:35.680 to see what would happen, uh, what could happen when we put family members together

01:30:39.720 in this safe space to feel free to have a thoughtful and honest conversation.

01:30:44.740 Here it is.

01:30:46.160 I try to not bring up politics, but you always watch five o'clock news.

01:30:51.560 And the minute any politician steps on, it doesn't matter who it is.

01:30:55.480 I just cringe.

01:30:56.880 Me too.

01:30:57.580 Yeah.

01:30:57.880 But you have to say something, whereas I would like to just pretend it's not happening.

01:31:02.420 But maybe the answer is we don't watch the news when you're there.

01:31:05.100 Maybe.

01:31:05.800 But now I feel like we've gotten to this point where we're together and we're fighting about

01:31:09.940 politics.

01:31:10.760 And those would be the times when I hear you say, I can't even talk to you, dad.

01:31:14.100 And if you're going to get so angry and flip out about it, then you know what?

01:31:17.380 I'd rather you didn't talk to me.

01:31:18.960 But see, this is what drives me crazy though.

01:31:20.960 You start these conversations.

01:31:23.200 Well, I ask questions.

01:31:24.680 What do you think about this?

01:31:25.820 And what do you think about that?

01:31:27.180 It's me trying to glean information from somebody who is significantly more educated than I am

01:31:33.760 and whose opinions I trust.

01:31:37.040 I'm really surprised to hear you say that.

01:31:40.620 I had no idea that you were genuinely interested in what I had to say.

01:31:44.060 I thought that you wanted to tell me how I was wrong and also make a joke about how I was silly.

01:31:49.240 Well, I would never feel that way about you.

01:31:52.300 I have nothing but respect for you.

01:31:54.600 I don't agree with you all the time.

01:31:56.260 I don't agree with you most of the time.

01:31:57.900 But that's okay.

01:31:59.260 We have a lot of things in common.

01:32:00.840 And I do know that everything you did when you were a little kid was because you wanted

01:32:04.300 to be like me.

01:32:05.820 You even played softball, which you hated because I love baseball.

01:32:09.720 I did really hate it.

01:32:10.620 I mean, I just really worshipped you, Dad.

01:32:14.480 I just thought that like everything that you thought and said was right.

01:32:18.720 And you were just my best friend.

01:32:21.700 But I think as I got older, I realized that you were really wrong about a lot of things.

01:32:27.820 Well, you're probably right, Jen.

01:32:29.220 I never professed to be right about everything.

01:32:32.220 The important thing in our relationship is that you have your own beliefs and that I

01:32:38.540 respect you for your beliefs.

01:32:40.960 You were raised to be a sensitive, caring person.

01:32:44.400 And that's exactly who you are.

01:32:46.480 You say that and I feel loved.

01:32:49.380 But I will say, I think you used to like me and I don't necessarily know that you like

01:32:55.520 me anymore.

01:32:56.360 Oh, yeah.

01:32:57.000 I like you a lot.

01:32:57.780 But it doesn't make me feel good that you say that.

01:33:01.580 I don't agree with everything you say you do.

01:33:04.700 But do I like you?

01:33:06.060 Yeah, you bet I do.

01:33:07.900 And I'm extremely proud of you.

01:33:10.740 You know, when my time comes to say, yeah, my father was a good man.

01:33:16.760 We didn't agree politically, but he was a good man.

01:33:20.520 And if you can say that, then I'll be happy.

01:33:24.920 I don't think that you're right all the time.

01:33:27.340 But I think you're the best man.

01:33:29.620 Well, thanks.

01:33:30.720 And you're the best dad.

01:33:33.580 I bet there's a lot of people that are suffering with this and wish they could heal the divide.

01:33:41.780 Let me ask you this, Dave.

01:33:44.420 I noticed that their language was very different.

01:33:47.960 He never said she was wrong.

01:33:50.140 He said over and over again, I don't agree with you on everything.

01:33:53.500 But she said several times, and it struck me, you know, I found out that you're very wrong on things.

01:34:05.000 Did you notice that?

01:34:08.920 And is there is there something to learn from that language?

01:34:14.220 You know, I didn't notice that.

01:34:16.240 You know, I think what's happening is that it's two people who are having a conversation that they haven't had before.

01:34:25.060 And, you know, it could flip.

01:34:26.700 You could have the conservative person using that language and the liberal person not.

01:34:33.580 But I think it just happens to be the dynamic in their ages.

01:34:37.580 But what's striking to me is—

01:34:40.360 Do you know which one is which?

01:34:42.540 Oh, yeah.

01:34:43.240 Okay.

01:34:44.100 Yeah, so the dad is conservative and the daughter is liberal.

01:34:47.840 But one of the cool things about these one-small-step interviews, actually, is that they're—when you listen in on these—and we ask people not to talk about politics, you know.

01:34:56.960 That what all this is about is that Mother Teresa line, we've forgotten that we belong to each other, just seeing the humanity in people who we disagree with.

01:35:05.240 And I actually think of the culture of—you know, you got to this, you know, a minute ago in the intro with Stu.

01:35:11.760 The culture of fear and disgust and division represents—and I don't know if you agree with me on this, but I've come to think, especially in the last couple of months, it's potentially an extinction-level threat to our democracy.

01:35:22.700 Oh, I think so. Oh, I agree with you.

01:35:24.120 And I think that, you know, it's our job, like with smoking.

01:35:28.000 You know, smoking at one point was thought of as cool and sexy.

01:35:32.460 And now being, you know, kind of being at each other's throats is considered cool and hip.

01:35:38.160 And I think that in the same way, we have to start looking at the way we're treating each other in this country as less than human, as extremely dangerous and not okay.

01:35:48.880 But if you listen in to many of these conversations, you will have no idea who's on what side.

01:35:55.300 They're just people talking to each other in a way that you never hear anymore, which is just being human with each other.

01:36:01.940 How do people get involved in this?

01:36:03.160 So we are still—we're still testing.

01:36:06.580 We're hopefully going to go and really start scaling this thing over the next six months.

01:36:10.800 But come to StoryCorps, which is S-T-O-R-Y-C-O-R-P-S dot org backslash onesmallstep, which is one word, storycorps.org backslash onesmallstep to sign up.

01:36:23.220 And you'll be on a mailing list, and as we start to roll this out across the country and hopefully, you know, spreading this idea that it's our patriotic duty to see the humanity in people we disagree with, you will be a part of it.

01:36:37.460 And you'll be on the—you know, you'll be on the front lines as we take this to the country and, you know, again, just try and take one small step towards one another again.

01:36:46.660 Dave, thank you so much.

01:36:48.080 Glenn, thank you for having me on.

01:36:49.240 You bet.

01:36:49.660 Dave, I say—

01:36:50.140 I'll talk to you next month.

01:36:50.960 You got it.

01:36:52.020 He's the founder and president of StoryCorps, and you can follow it at storycorps.org.

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01:38:31.260 Boy, the people in Alabama, this is just such a devastating tornado.

01:38:52.400 Isn't this really late for a tornado or early?

01:38:56.160 Are tornadoes usually in the summer?

01:38:57.860 I mean, I didn't grow up around tornadoes, so I don't know.

01:39:01.200 But usually, tornadoes are because of hot and cold hitting each other, right?

01:39:05.500 No, they're saying now they're a, what was it, a mile wide?

01:39:09.580 They're saying the devastation was a mile wide for this thing.

01:39:12.720 170-some-odd miles an hour wind.

01:39:16.260 You know, I mean, it's killed.

01:39:18.200 23.

01:39:18.800 Yeah, it's a couple dozen people.

01:39:20.300 And I think it's, you know, they still think it's probably going to go a little higher.

01:39:23.460 They say all 23 victims now have been identified, and they're hoping that it's not going to go anymore.

01:39:30.400 But the youngest victim was six years old.

01:39:32.740 I mean, brutal.

01:39:33.700 You just look at this, it's just an entire town's just completely wiped out.

01:39:36.860 It's crazy.

01:39:37.460 It's crazy.

01:39:38.680 Tornadoes are, you know, I've lived all over the country.

01:39:41.780 I lived in the Seattle area when Mount St. Helens went off.

01:39:45.860 Eh, you know, as long as you're not living on the mountain or where a lava, lava can flow.

01:39:54.560 I've not lived in California, earthquakes and mudslides.

01:39:58.600 I've lived, I've lived through an earthquake before, scare the hell out of you.

01:40:04.480 But I think tornadoes are the worst.

01:40:06.400 You never know when they're coming, right?

01:40:07.760 They, there's not, you know, because like hurricanes are a big thing.

01:40:10.860 You know, we lived in Florida and, you know, hurricanes were a threat.

01:40:14.180 You have time, Jeff, you at least have a warning and it can be very devastating, but at least

01:40:19.140 you have a warning to get out of the way.

01:40:20.100 There's, especially when they come at night, a tornado coming at night.

01:40:24.200 I mean, you don't even have anywhere close to an opportunity to do anything about it.

01:40:28.180 You just hunker down and hope and pray.

01:40:31.480 And, you know, that's all you can do.

01:40:33.800 They're so scary.

01:40:34.540 My kids are so afraid of, because the tornado sirens will go off probably once a year near our house.

01:40:41.520 Uh, sometimes they've gone off, I think three times in a season and scares the hell out of the kids.

01:40:48.980 Just scares the hell out of them.

01:40:50.380 Do you have a like separate shelter type of situation?

01:40:53.480 We have one, we have one in the house.

01:40:56.240 Um, but it's not a, you know, it's not like a bomb shelter, but we, we can go underneath the house,

01:41:01.900 which is where you're supposed to go.

01:41:03.840 Um, but it's, it's terrifying.

01:41:06.860 It's terrifying.

01:41:07.960 People who have built shelters that, cause I looked into a shelter and I was like, you know,

01:41:11.840 we'll build one right outside the house.

01:41:13.180 They said, don't build it outside of the house.

01:41:15.820 Because if you build it outside of the house, you will go in one time and then you'll sit there

01:41:21.740 and you'll wait maybe two times, but you're going to get wet going out of the house,

01:41:26.280 going into the shelter.

01:41:27.140 And then what you eventually do is you're like, well, you know what?

01:41:30.360 We'll wait until it gets really bad.

01:41:32.220 Yeah.

01:41:32.680 And then it's too late.

01:41:34.520 Um, you know, it's interesting.

01:41:35.720 The documentary twister, um, that many people know this, you know, it shows, um, the idea

01:41:42.500 that you could just hold onto a pipe in the middle of a field as you're getting hit by

01:41:46.020 an F5 tornado.

01:41:47.380 Sure.

01:41:48.060 Not actually the case.

01:41:50.160 Not actually the case.

01:41:51.420 Now I know you saw it.

01:41:53.180 What if you're following it with ping pong balls?

01:41:54.940 Well, that's okay.

01:41:55.540 You can definitely do that.

01:41:56.320 That is definitely how they study it.

01:41:57.640 Okay, good.

01:41:58.440 And Philip Seymour Hoffman is somehow still always there.

01:42:01.540 Yeah.

01:42:01.980 Uh, but it just doesn't seem like it's one of those things, uh, that necessarily is a

01:42:06.800 good idea.

01:42:07.320 They were talking to a couple, um, who was hit by a tornado like this several years ago,

01:42:13.200 survived it.

01:42:14.620 And they were saying that we, that's what we did.

01:42:17.340 We just tried to hold onto something and it doesn't matter how hard you hold onto it.

01:42:21.580 It just takes you and throws you across.

01:42:23.380 And they actually were thrown like in the air and survived it.

01:42:26.320 Which is incredible.

01:42:27.640 I mean, when you think about it, you think of that, I mean, that's the thing about tornadoes

01:42:30.780 that are so difficult.

01:42:31.460 We had those tornadoes a couple of years ago that were really devastating that we talked

01:42:35.020 about.

01:42:35.640 And for those out there, uh, chanting global warming at their radios, there is no trend.

01:42:40.220 In fact, there's a slight decrease in the trend and the amount of hurricane or tornadoes

01:42:44.300 that are hitting our country over the past hundred years.

01:42:46.600 So that's a BS talking point in case you happen to be interested in that.

01:42:50.740 Um, but you, you, you look at a town that is completely devastated and dozens of people

01:42:56.660 die and then they show drone footage.

01:42:59.800 They zoom out and the streets right next door are completely fine.

01:43:05.320 Oh, it's crazy.

01:43:06.200 It is insane how localized it can be.

01:43:09.500 Yeah.

01:43:09.920 And honestly, you're, you know, you're the number one defense against tornadoes is, uh,

01:43:14.400 statistics because it's unlikely you're going to get hit by one.

01:43:18.520 But if you do.

01:43:19.460 Unless you live in Moore, Oklahoma.

01:43:20.740 But even if you live in Moore, Oklahoma, I mean, you know, your chances are low that

01:43:24.320 you're going to get hit.

01:43:25.180 But it seems to always get hit.

01:43:26.960 Why?

01:43:27.300 It's a little teeny town.

01:43:28.540 Why it always forms over Moore, Oklahoma.

01:43:32.060 I, when I went to see Moore, when it was really devastated the last time, um, we went

01:43:38.200 out and did you go with me still?

01:43:40.300 No, I did not.

01:43:41.180 So, uh, I went out and we drove all night to get there, to get supplies and water and,

01:43:46.560 you know, everything else.

01:43:47.720 And, uh, we got there and on one side of the street, complete and total devastation.

01:43:55.140 Nothing was left.

01:43:56.280 And my grandfather used to talk, he grew up in, uh, Iowa, I think.

01:44:02.260 And he said tornadoes used to come through and he said they would, the winds were so strong

01:44:08.020 that they would drive straw and drive them into the telephone poles and sides of barns

01:44:15.380 would have straw sticking out of it.

01:44:17.960 And I found that so hard to believe and understand growing up.

01:44:21.980 And when I went to Moore, it had taken the house across the street and made it into a

01:44:28.840 pulp and sprayed right across the street, sprayed this whole side of this movie theater with

01:44:36.480 this pulp that was somebody's life just a few minutes before.

01:44:40.900 And everything on that side of the street was fine, except it was covered in this two inches

01:44:46.600 of pulp that was a house.

01:44:49.540 I mean, it's incredible to see the power of these things.

01:44:53.840 Yeah.

01:44:53.900 More Oklahoma has been hit by, uh, I mean, depends on how you calculate major, right?

01:44:59.760 But since 1999, they had one in 1999 that killed 36 people, injured 583.

01:45:06.120 Then 2003 had a tornado that, uh, injured 134.

01:45:12.180 2010 had a tornado that killed two, injured 49.

01:45:16.320 2013 had a tornado that killed 24 and injured 212.

01:45:20.500 I think that's the one I was at.

01:45:21.500 Yeah.

01:45:21.600 That's probably the one you were at.

01:45:22.660 That was, I mean, I remember that one, but I mean, that's since 1999, four major, you

01:45:28.380 know, tornadoes, why, why, why, if the insurance company is giving you money, why, why live

01:45:34.660 in more Oklahoma?

01:45:36.500 Why?

01:45:36.920 But again, like, look at this.

01:45:37.940 You're talking how many, I mean, I don't know the population of more off the top of my head,

01:45:41.080 but you're talking about, uh, 62 people in 20 years that died from tornadoes.

01:45:49.360 Still, but you have a tornado coming through.

01:45:51.920 I mean, how many tornadoes have you had?

01:45:53.780 I've never had a tornado come anywhere in my town since we've lived here.

01:45:58.800 I don't think that's, I mean, they've been, maybe not in your town, but in our area, they

01:46:01.800 have been.

01:46:02.340 We're talking about town, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

01:46:06.640 There've been eight since 1999.

01:46:08.840 And I will say one, two, three, three of them were very minor.

01:46:14.460 F zero or F ones.

01:46:16.520 There was an AF two as well.

01:46:17.700 So, I mean, really they've had, I prefer to live in a town.

01:46:20.060 I'd like to live in a town with zero.

01:46:22.480 Well, yes, zero is the right number.

01:46:26.100 I get it, but if you love your town.

01:46:27.840 How about one?

01:46:29.820 How about two?

01:46:31.080 How about not as much as more Oklahoma?

01:46:38.480 It's not a crazy point.

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01:46:47.160 They'll help you sell your home for the most amount of money, but you have to do it when

01:46:51.600 everybody's kind of lulled into this false sense of hurricanes, tornadoes.

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01:47:48.000 So Stu and I are having an argument now about, uh, the safest place to live.

01:48:05.300 And, uh, I say it's, uh, you know, my town, Mount Vernon, Washington or Bellingham, Washington,

01:48:10.520 where I grew up.

01:48:12.100 And, uh, and he's like, wrong, completely wrong.

01:48:15.080 Um, it's third, third best in the country.

01:48:19.280 Cause you were like, well, come on.

01:48:20.380 It has extreme weather.

01:48:21.620 Every place has something.

01:48:23.240 No, there's no extreme weather in Washington state.

01:48:26.820 There's no extreme weather.

01:48:28.260 It's just always rainy.

01:48:31.100 Always.

01:48:32.540 Always.

01:48:33.340 Some snow.

01:48:33.880 It gets cold.

01:48:34.480 It gets below 32 degrees in Washington.

01:48:36.420 So it gets four inches of snow once in a while.

01:48:38.740 Once in a blue moon, you get 12, 12 inches of snow.

01:48:41.660 That's a lot.

01:48:42.440 It's very slippery.

01:48:42.940 Everybody just stays at home.

01:48:45.080 Then it melts.

01:48:46.140 We even get snow here.

01:48:47.400 And we're in Texas.

01:48:48.940 Yeah.

01:48:49.020 Actually, they list Dallas as the worst in the nation.

01:48:52.540 The what?

01:48:53.320 Yeah.

01:48:53.540 They say lots of every, uh, lots of almost everything, but quakes.

01:48:56.920 They have twisters, hurricane remnants, hail, wind, drought, and floods.

01:49:02.160 Yeah.

01:49:02.680 No mudslides.

01:49:03.900 You know what, guys?

01:49:04.580 You shouldn't move to Texas.

01:49:05.560 I guess that's the, uh, that's the answer.

01:49:07.820 Um, yeah.

01:49:08.500 Especially if you're from California.

01:49:10.740 But yeah, no, it's the Southeast.

01:49:12.020 That's just really the biggest problem.

01:49:13.560 Um, well, I mean, I remember, you know, look, I moved here for the weather, uh, mainly,

01:49:17.900 uh, forget you and your stupid show.

01:49:19.860 I came here because of the weather.

01:49:21.040 We, we, we did not do our research on weather.

01:49:23.920 Oh, I just listen to God.

01:49:25.780 Where should we move?

01:49:27.840 Oh, I did plenty of research about weather before coming here.

01:49:31.160 Uh, and I love it.

01:49:32.360 I hate it.

01:49:32.720 I love the weather here.

01:49:33.640 I hate the weather here.

01:49:34.980 Why?

01:49:35.820 It's either cold or hot.

01:49:39.440 It has like one day.

01:49:41.900 We're, we're, we'll have it in probably April or May where it's like, oh my gosh, open the

01:49:47.740 windows.

01:49:48.160 It's beautiful.

01:49:49.180 This Friday, the high is 79.

01:49:52.140 79.

01:49:53.040 This Friday.

01:49:53.420 And then tomorrow, the next day, it could be 40.

01:49:56.760 It could be.

01:49:57.760 Yeah.

01:49:57.980 It could be a lot of things, Glenn.

01:49:59.620 But it usually is.

01:50:01.080 It's very cold here now.

01:50:02.260 It's like in the thirties right now.

01:50:03.540 Yeah.

01:50:03.980 And then it, and then it gets, so it goes from cold without really snow or anything.

01:50:09.080 You know, if you have anything extreme, it's ice.

01:50:11.520 That's not fun.

01:50:13.160 Without any, there's no sanding for the roads.

01:50:16.500 They don't have a salt truck.

01:50:17.520 They have nothing.

01:50:18.440 If it has ice on the road, stay home or you're dead until the sun comes out.

01:50:24.140 And it could be 80 the next day.

01:50:26.960 It still could be 12.

01:50:29.320 And then in the summer, it's like a hundred and, you know, 102, 103 with humidity.

01:50:36.480 This is a mass misstatement of fact here.

01:50:40.140 No, it's not.

01:50:40.740 If he's this accurate on, I might, I might vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for president

01:50:45.140 if this is your level of analysis, because, you know, you know, look, it's much better

01:50:51.940 here in the winters than it was up north.

01:50:54.100 You don't get, you don't get the, the cold you get, I mean, you have a few days a year

01:50:58.920 where it gets around 30, 30 degrees, but that was like the best day of the freaking

01:51:03.140 year.

01:51:03.700 I know that.

01:51:04.360 I know that.

01:51:04.980 So I'm not comparing it to New York or to the Northeast.

01:51:07.700 That sucks.

01:51:08.640 Everybody knows that.

01:51:09.580 Well, that's where we moved from.

01:51:10.720 Why wouldn't you be comparing it?

01:51:11.980 Well, you're going to move someplace.

01:51:13.180 Why don't you move to someplace like Arizona where it's nice?

01:51:16.660 Oh, because Arizona doesn't get hot.

01:51:17.820 That's true.

01:51:18.300 No, Arizona gets hot.

01:51:19.440 But the other six months out of the year, it's paradise.

01:51:22.700 No, it's very nice.

01:51:23.640 It's paradise.

01:51:24.180 As long as it's warm, I could deal with it.

01:51:26.040 I mean, you do get.

01:51:26.640 Because I'm not moving to California and that's perfect.

01:51:29.060 I disagree.

01:51:29.560 It doesn't get warm enough in California.

01:51:31.140 We went out in California.

01:51:32.480 I took a vacation, a summer vacation to San Diego, which San Diego is awesome.

01:51:35.820 I like San Diego.

01:51:36.440 It was too cold to even go in the pool.

01:51:38.140 It was like 70.

01:51:38.760 Oh, what a do-do-do-do-do-do-do.

01:51:42.200 You just don't like the wind.

01:51:43.940 And you probably don't like it.

01:51:45.420 It was cold.

01:51:46.240 At night?

01:51:46.440 When it's 70 degrees outside as a high temperature, it's not swimming weather.

01:51:50.600 Not to me.

01:51:51.640 I'm a wuss.

01:51:53.000 I want it to be 95 degrees.

01:51:55.460 Oh.

01:51:56.080 I could just hop in the pool.

01:51:57.480 It's beautiful.

01:51:58.180 You get out.

01:51:58.760 You go inside of the air conditioning.

01:52:00.000 The average temperature in San Diego is 77 degrees and it is perfect.

01:52:05.820 Perfect.

01:52:06.880 It's got a nice breeze.

01:52:07.940 It's not summer, though.

01:52:08.240 It's a great day.

01:52:09.160 It's not summer.

01:52:09.480 I like the Pacific Northwest.

01:52:10.840 I like the West Coast where there's no humidity.

01:52:14.180 You got a nice breeze going all the time.

01:52:16.920 And at night, even if it's blistering hot during the day, it's not at night.

01:52:22.000 The sun goes away and it somehow or another cools down.

01:52:25.160 And here in Texas, the sun goes away and it's still 100 degrees at night.

01:52:29.880 You're like, what's happening here?

01:52:31.280 Let me tell you why the sun goes away.

01:52:32.420 Because Kim Jong-un has just fired a nuclear weapon and it can hit you.

01:52:36.000 That's how it goes away.

01:52:37.120 It becomes nuclear winter.

01:52:38.540 You like that?

01:52:39.160 That's your option there.

01:52:40.080 We're in the middle.

01:52:40.540 Nobody can reach us.

01:52:41.940 Nobody can get to Dallas.

01:52:43.540 It's way too far for missiles.

01:52:46.620 It's exactly what I'm believing for the rest of my life.

01:52:49.440 You keep using the word safe.

01:52:50.400 I do not think it means what you think it means.

01:52:52.280 It is actually listed as the worst.

01:52:53.740 I mean, we do get tornado warnings sometimes.

01:52:56.320 Hail, for sure.

01:52:57.520 It's a big deal here.

01:52:58.920 Wind.

01:52:59.360 Oh, yeah.

01:52:59.720 It's really windy.

01:53:00.940 Drought.

01:53:01.560 Sure.

01:53:02.380 Floods.

01:53:03.260 Yeah.

01:53:03.880 I mean, yeah.

01:53:05.540 And hurricane remnants.

01:53:07.160 I mean, you're stretching with hurricane remnants.

01:53:09.480 It rains.

01:53:11.280 Houston gets hit really hard with a hurricane and then it rains and does.

01:53:14.660 Yeah, we're not affected by it.

01:53:15.920 Yes, we do get rain from hurricanes, but please.

01:53:19.440 It helps us with the drought.

01:53:22.060 What?

01:53:22.580 You're complaining about everything now.

01:53:24.620 I'm a little depressed.

01:53:25.300 That's why I'm taking uppers to get rid of the downers.

01:53:27.540 Right.

01:53:28.700 Right.

01:53:29.320 I mean, geez.

01:53:31.240 So, I don't know.

01:53:31.880 I guess you're right, though.

01:53:32.880 It does look like the Pacific Northwest is the place to avoid extreme weather.

01:53:37.820 But then you have to deal with all of the progressives and the socialists and the crazies

01:53:42.360 and the anarchists and the people who were rejected by California.

01:53:48.120 California told most of those people, get out.

01:53:51.180 You're too weird.

01:53:52.240 Is that true?

01:53:52.780 Oh.

01:53:53.260 I would think it would be the reverse.

01:53:54.400 No.

01:53:54.540 All the rejects.

01:53:55.560 All the rejects from California.

01:53:57.680 It went down.

01:53:58.100 Like, I am just going to, like, live.

01:54:00.460 And then they got down there and they're like, oh, my gosh, this is just so fake.

01:54:05.580 And so then they went up to Oregon and they were like, the people in Portland, they don't

01:54:13.420 mean it.

01:54:13.940 And so then they moved to Seattle and you can't go any farther north.

01:54:18.540 And that's when Canada built the wall.

01:54:19.920 Yeah.

01:54:20.300 That's when Canada built the peace arch.

01:54:22.240 That bull crap that's a peace arch.

01:54:24.240 That's keep your progressive hippies out of our country.

01:54:28.700 That's what that is.

01:54:29.500 I don't understand.

01:54:30.060 Those policies are working so well, Glenn.

01:54:32.140 Like, for example, the $15 minimum wage.

01:54:35.080 Huge success in Seattle.

01:54:36.700 Really?

01:54:37.140 Doing really well.

01:54:38.100 Now, every Democratic candidate has embraced it as part of their platform, except for Bernie

01:54:43.280 Sanders.

01:54:43.500 I will say Bernie Sanders said at least $15 minimum wage.

01:54:46.820 Yeah.

01:54:47.100 Because that's an old school proposal.

01:54:48.960 There is a new study out about New York City who got to $15 minimum wage.

01:54:53.800 And honestly, that's a city that needs one.

01:54:58.220 I disagree with that completely, but I do understand what your point is.

01:55:01.680 And that it's an expensive place.

01:55:02.680 I'm not saying that you need a minimum.

01:55:04.340 I don't believe in that.

01:55:06.040 Pay what the market bears.

01:55:09.020 But compared to Des Moines, it does not need a $15 wage.

01:55:16.240 New York, it is hard to live on $15.

01:55:19.480 There are places that are going to have a $15 minimum wage.

01:55:22.740 That that's a lot of money for that market.

01:55:25.960 Right.

01:55:26.160 I mean, there should not be a, we've made this point many times, should definitely not be

01:55:29.620 a federal minimum wage.

01:55:30.700 No.

01:55:30.900 I don't think minimum wages do anything for the economy or for people anyway.

01:55:34.560 But at least you can argue it if you're going to, if you're going to customize it to an

01:55:38.440 area.

01:55:38.780 Right.

01:55:39.280 The idea that you go to $15 minimum wage nationally is completely insane.

01:55:43.160 In Washington, excuse me, in New York, the $15 minimum wage has been implemented.

01:55:48.740 It's ramping up now.

01:55:49.760 And as it ramps up, the New York restaurant industry has only experienced the worst decline

01:55:56.760 in restaurant jobs since.

01:56:00.880 Recorded time.

01:56:02.420 You'd think.

01:56:03.460 The depression.

01:56:04.000 Well, I mean, most people would say 2008 depression, right?

01:56:07.300 Like we had a major recession in 2008.

01:56:10.520 All employment went down dramatically and it did go down in New York with the restaurant

01:56:13.900 situation.

01:56:14.800 But no, this goes back to 9-11 for New York.

01:56:18.320 So 9-11, if you remember, affected New York.

01:56:22.260 Half the island was closed.

01:56:23.620 Right.

01:56:24.200 That was pretty much it.

01:56:26.020 And in fact, the last two, 2008 and 2001 were the last two drops.

01:56:30.100 Both, of course, occurred in real recessions.

01:56:32.160 Now, as of right now, we don't think we're in a recession, although the possibility of

01:56:36.280 one seems to rise in probability kind of by the day.

01:56:40.180 However, this drop was more dramatic than even the 2008 financial collapse.

01:56:46.720 And that's just because, you know, hey, they wanted to give a little bit more money to the

01:56:51.720 average worker to make a living wage.

01:56:53.580 And it all felt so good.

01:56:55.260 Wait, how is that killing restaurants?

01:56:57.120 Well, restaurants have to pay these amounts.

01:56:59.560 Yeah, they just charge more.

01:57:00.960 Yeah.

01:57:01.300 No, apparently not.

01:57:02.320 Apparently, that's not working out.

01:57:03.440 They're just letting people go.

01:57:05.120 The people of New York don't want to pay more?

01:57:08.080 Yeah.

01:57:08.720 And I think, was it Cuomo that just came out and said, by the way, you know, here's the

01:57:11.820 other side of the fun millionaire taxes we've been having.

01:57:15.620 They've all left the state.

01:57:17.440 All the millionaires have left.

01:57:18.940 And now we're $2.4 billion short than where we thought we were going to be with tax revenue

01:57:23.140 because the millionaires are ditching us and going to other states where they don't get,

01:57:27.500 you know, attacked.

01:57:28.660 Remember, they're talking about a millionaire tax of 70%.

01:57:32.080 Wasn't that the exact percentage that France said that they were going to put on their million

01:57:37.200 millionaires?

01:57:38.680 Remember, they did this.

01:57:40.160 I think so, yeah.

01:57:40.820 And Gerard Depardieu and all these people left and went to Russia.

01:57:45.600 Went to Russia.

01:57:46.560 That's how bad it is.

01:57:48.200 And said, fine, you're going to do that?

01:57:49.780 I'm going to Russia.

01:57:51.240 And they left.

01:57:52.580 And it caused all kinds of misery in France.

01:57:56.760 And so they repealed it.

01:57:58.120 This is the problem when your policies aim to punish the most mobile and affluent people

01:58:08.260 around.

01:58:08.740 They can all go wherever the hell they want.

01:58:09.960 And when you tell them, we don't like what you do, there, there, quote unquote, shouldn't

01:58:15.820 be any billionaires.

01:58:17.700 Elizabeth Warren is proposing a wealth tax, which almost certainly is unconstitutional

01:58:23.380 as to basically every legal expert and constitutional expert, because, you know, the 16th Amendment

01:58:29.500 specifically made it so you could not go after these types of property.

01:58:34.040 But, you know, she's going to try it anyway.

01:58:35.840 Bottom line is, you keep targeting people like this.

01:58:39.880 They're going to want to leave.

01:58:41.620 And if you target, it's easy to target poor people, because where are they going to go?

01:58:46.020 Right?

01:58:46.220 Like, you could target them with a soda tax.

01:58:47.760 No problem.

01:58:48.440 That affects them.

01:58:49.360 Oh, sure.

01:58:49.740 You can collect all your money.

01:58:51.100 Now, of course, that's also going to destroy businesses as well.

01:58:54.140 But at least you can you can collect your cash from the poor who want to buy their soda

01:58:58.520 for cheaper prices.

01:58:59.940 That's a wonderful, a wonderful aspiration.

01:59:04.100 But when you go after millionaires, they just leave you.

01:59:07.820 They're like the hot girlfriend.

01:59:09.680 When you start treating them like that, crap, they just go to somebody else.

01:59:12.980 That's why you have to crack down on them.

01:59:14.660 That's why you have to force.

01:59:16.740 OK, Harvey Weinstein.

01:59:18.100 Yeah, the government is essentially Harvey Weinstein.

01:59:20.940 Exactly right.

01:59:21.720 In this particular case.

01:59:23.100 Well, otherwise, I mean, we got to do it.

01:59:25.260 We got to punish them.

01:59:26.080 We got to keep them here.

01:59:27.160 Otherwise, I mean, they just want to destroy everybody with their their selfish action.

01:59:32.780 I hate those bastards.

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02:01:11.700 This is the Glenn Beck program.

02:01:16.080 You know, we just have to start making a list of all the madness and just keep track of it.

02:01:28.180 I urge you to keep a diary of just the things that are just just how crazy life has gotten, because at some point the ship will write itself.

02:01:38.300 And we'll look back at these times ago.

02:01:40.120 I can't believe that.

02:01:41.600 For instance, right now they're making a Serena Williams movie.

02:01:49.380 Yeah.

02:01:49.760 Serena and Venus.

02:01:50.620 Yeah.

02:01:50.800 And they're going to do a sort of biopic of them.

02:01:54.200 The father.

02:01:55.540 They've looks like it's going to be Will Smith is going to get the role.

02:01:58.200 Well, does it?

02:01:58.900 Does it really?

02:02:00.260 Is he the right one to play in?

02:02:01.300 Well, there is some complaint about that from from people who say he's he's too light skinned to play Venus and Serena's father.

02:02:14.360 Now, he is black.

02:02:15.500 Yes.

02:02:15.680 He's just not black enough.

02:02:17.060 Not black enough.

02:02:18.060 And is that something that makeup could take care of?

02:02:20.640 Or is it actually even important for that?

02:02:24.080 No, it certainly wouldn't.

02:02:25.000 I mean, because see, this is what you don't understand.

02:02:27.180 We need to judge people by the color of their skin, not the content of their character.

02:02:31.640 Right.

02:02:31.880 And that is something that we're doing here.

02:02:34.100 Because as as as as the experts are pointing out, colorism matters.

02:02:39.480 Sorry.

02:02:40.140 Colorism matters.

02:02:41.520 Colorism.

02:02:42.100 Yeah.

02:02:42.740 Will Smith might be a great actor, but he's not the exact shade of skin color.

02:02:47.580 That is Venus Williams father.

02:02:50.120 But he is black.

02:02:51.120 He is black.

02:02:52.300 They didn't hire a white guy or an Asian guy to play.

02:02:55.240 Why not hire a white guy?

02:02:57.160 It's the same thing.

02:02:57.960 Same thing.

02:02:58.720 I mean, isn't Will Smith white?

02:03:00.840 I mean, getting jiggy with it was never a term anyone outside of a white out of a shopping

02:03:06.600 mall ever used.

02:03:07.700 Amen.

02:03:08.280 Will 2K.

02:03:09.740 I mean, he actually did a song with like Rock the Casbah in the background celebrating a

02:03:15.800 new year.

02:03:16.580 I mean, that is only something a white person.

02:03:18.640 You know, I think that all of the casting agencies, if they don't have the color, if they

02:03:22.620 don't have the Sherman Williams color wheel.

02:03:24.720 Yes.

02:03:25.120 Well, they could just open up and go, let me see which shade exactly.

02:03:29.940 That's me.

02:03:30.640 I need more of a taupe.

02:03:32.100 Yeah, exactly.

02:03:33.200 Let me give you this.

02:03:34.780 He was in The Legend of Bagger Vance, a movie about golf.

02:03:39.120 Oh, let me just be diverse enough to allow you on this country club.

02:03:46.380 Will Smith is a white guy playing a black guy in his personal life, but not able to play

02:03:52.920 a black guy who's black enough to be Venus and Serena Williams' father.

02:03:57.720 And I think we all know this.

02:03:59.520 This is colorism at its worst.

02:04:01.840 Or its best.

02:04:02.700 Or its best.

02:04:03.500 I choose to look at it as best, Stu.

02:04:06.560 If we're living in that postmodern world right now, this is, it's about time somebody

02:04:11.480 gets that color wheel out.

02:04:12.700 This is Martin Luther King's dream come true.

02:04:17.260 If he could just think of a future in which black people would hold up a color wheel to

02:04:22.120 other black people to see if they're black enough to play roles, that is what this man

02:04:26.120 dreamed about.

02:04:26.820 It's what he fought for.

02:04:27.960 It's why he walked on Washington.

02:04:29.880 I have a dream that my kids can play with other kids whose skin color is exactly the

02:04:36.420 right shade.

02:04:37.480 Yes.

02:04:37.880 That's what he said.

02:04:38.800 Yeah.

02:04:39.120 That's in one of his speeches.

02:04:40.560 Not too dark.

02:04:41.540 Not too dark.

02:04:42.340 It wasn't a highly publicized speech.

02:04:45.100 It was one of the lesser known chapters in the book of Martin Luther King's life.

02:04:49.620 Right.

02:04:50.240 But he would be thrilled, I think, that people are just looking to see, is that black actor

02:04:55.320 black enough to play a black person?

02:04:57.160 I don't know.

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