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00:00:00.100 Welcome to the podcast. We have quite the show here for you today as we get you into the Memorial Day weekend.

00:00:05.900 John Walker Lind, the American Taliban, he was released.

00:00:10.100 We go through the New York Times case that he should have been released.

00:00:13.340 In fact, he wasn't that bad of a guy at all.

00:00:15.880 Shockingly, the Times brought that.

00:00:17.380 And we talked to Jason Buttrell, who was there, who actually was in Afghanistan as the interrogation of John Walker Lind was going on.

00:00:25.100 He saw him in person. He was in the room.

00:00:27.700 And we get his telling of that story as well.

00:00:29.240 In our two, we talk about some of the Democrat candidates, Beto and his gun ban that he wants to bring about.

00:00:37.900 Or does he? We talked about the Biden hype a little bit.

00:00:41.040 And we get into Buttigieg and his take on Donald Trump and Trump's lack of military service.

00:00:49.580 And we talk about Chernobyl.

00:00:52.020 If you don't know this HBO series, it's one of your times.

00:00:55.420 Was it 17 million who died in that?

00:00:57.460 No, it was about 18 million.

00:00:59.540 No, that was Three Mile Island.

00:01:00.580 56 million?

00:01:01.640 No, 56 people.

00:01:02.920 Three Mile Island is where they all died.

00:01:04.440 Oh, that's right.

00:01:05.160 And they were all workers who were actually standing next to the corp.

00:01:09.680 But the series on HBO is amazing.

00:01:11.580 And there's a really great lesson.

00:01:12.920 If you have a voter that you know is thinking about Bernie Sanders, let him watch Chernobyl a little bit.

00:01:18.280 See how socialism really works out.

00:01:19.640 We go into that and Stephen Colbert.

00:01:23.780 Stephen Colbert and ESPN were competing evidence.

00:01:26.620 Does going all Trump all the time work?

00:01:29.680 You know, the story is pretty varied, honestly, around the media.

00:01:32.340 And we go into that as well.

00:01:33.180 It's all on today's podcast.

00:01:34.040 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:50.760 Pat and Stu for Glenn and Jeffy joins us as well.

00:01:54.000 Finally happened in the UK.

00:01:56.140 Theresa May resigned.

00:01:57.480 Oh, no.

00:01:58.360 And frankly, I don't understand.

00:02:00.500 I'm so glad you said that.

00:02:02.580 I don't get how it works.

00:02:04.060 I don't get it.

00:02:05.060 How do you not serve out your terms?

00:02:06.700 And like 95% of the prime ministers in Britain don't serve out their term.

00:02:12.320 It's like, okay, we pissed us off this week and it's windy.

00:02:15.540 He's got to go.

00:02:16.840 How does that happen?

00:02:17.660 Right, because Brexit was also responsible for Cameron leaving, wasn't it?

00:02:20.720 Yes.

00:02:21.220 Yeah, when the vote happened, Cameron said, okay, I'm resigning.

00:02:25.480 Like, wait, what?

00:02:27.500 And then Theresa has screwed it up so much that she has to go now. 0.98

00:02:30.540 And I don't even know, I don't know that she had a win.

00:02:33.020 I don't know that there was any way to win this because, you know, she has to get something

00:02:37.040 passed.

00:02:37.940 So as much as it, to me, it seems like, look, the people voted on it.

00:02:43.000 You have a system where people can vote on these things.

00:02:45.360 Yeah.

00:02:45.540 They voted for Brexit.

00:02:46.800 Do it.

00:02:47.860 You know, it's a lot more complicated than that.

00:02:49.620 And there's not really a simple, simple solution there.

00:02:53.280 We've talked to Daniel Hannon about this, who's really the only person to go to when

00:02:57.780 it comes to Brexit.

00:02:58.700 He's the only person that understands it, I think.

00:03:00.840 Yeah.

00:03:01.040 And he was really the guy who, he was the guy who basically pushed for this.

00:03:04.900 A lot of other people have had press on this over the years.

00:03:07.520 But Daniel Hannon was the guy who really talked about this.

00:03:10.300 I mean, the first time he was on with us, probably in 2010 or 2011, he talked about

00:03:14.860 how it was his priority.

00:03:17.240 He worked in the, he was in the European Union, he was in the government, and he wanted to

00:03:21.080 dissolve it.

00:03:21.900 He wanted to get Britain out of it.

00:03:24.120 He actually succeeded.

00:03:25.360 And then here we are, years and years later, they're still fighting about it.

00:03:28.360 Yeah.

00:03:28.740 But it's one of those things where I just don't understand.

00:03:31.520 Like, it seems like every time something that's a priority to a prime minister doesn't go

00:03:36.080 their way, they're like, all right, I'm out.

00:03:37.720 Yeah.

00:03:38.720 I mean, I tried.

00:03:39.900 I tried for like a year, and you guys don't want to do the thing I want you to do.

00:03:43.800 So see ya.

00:03:44.660 These coalition governments are really confusing.

00:03:47.000 Because if you, I guess if you don't have enough members of your party voted into parliament,

00:03:52.560 you can't govern.

00:03:53.920 And you realize that.

00:03:54.940 Right.

00:03:55.320 And then you strike some deal with some other party, and they take over.

00:03:58.740 Then like the 14 parties all get together.

00:04:01.480 And that's another thing.

00:04:02.280 I don't understand the parties.

00:04:03.680 The Tory party.

00:04:04.200 I knew what the Tories were in the Revolutionary War.

00:04:06.920 Right.

00:04:07.080 I don't know what they are today.

00:04:08.860 She's the leader of the Tory party now.

00:04:10.480 Right.

00:04:10.840 Right.

00:04:11.140 And so, and her resignation is effective June 7th, but she's not really leaving until

00:04:17.540 maybe they find some replacement in July.

00:04:20.540 And I just can't understand.

00:04:22.200 I can't either.

00:04:23.060 And are you going to vote on somebody, or you just put them in there?

00:04:25.080 I think they vote.

00:04:25.760 I think they vote.

00:04:26.280 They don't have to have another election, which they can do elections at any time.

00:04:30.260 That must be, that must cost them a fortune.

00:04:32.840 Yeah.

00:04:33.040 Because they're just like, I love when there was like, you'll get this story, like, Theresa

00:04:36.720 May decided she was going to call for a new election. 0.84

00:04:38.920 You're like, wait, what?

00:04:40.160 Like, wait, they didn't schedule these things in advance?

00:04:42.720 It's so weird.

00:04:43.760 They're like, you know what?

00:04:44.340 Two weeks, we're doing it.

00:04:45.460 Like, it seems like what happens is whenever the prime minister thinks they've consolidated

00:04:49.500 power or are doing well in the polls, they just call for another election to try to get

00:04:52.680 more power, which is a bizarre way of running things. 1.00

00:04:57.240 That's why we left that stupid country in the first place. 1.00

00:04:59.720 And we're the minority still. 1.00

00:05:00.920 I mean, the parliamentary democracy has spread around the world, and a lot of times we talk

00:05:05.680 about that essentially being how democracy has spread.

00:05:08.720 I mean, like, a lot of countries have this type of system.

00:05:11.400 It's less like our type of system, which has proven to be vastly superior.

00:05:16.360 Let's be honest about it.

00:05:17.700 Let's do.

00:05:18.540 I mean, it's just better.

00:05:20.640 I mean, again, there are a lot of problems here.

00:05:23.000 I'm not going to sit here and say that there's no problems in this country.

00:05:25.760 But the idea that, like, can you imagine if, like, Donald Trump had a good day, and then

00:05:30.160 he would just call for a new election and get, like, 80 senators, and then he's like, you

00:05:34.780 know what?

00:05:34.920 I want to pass the wall, and he couldn't get enough of his bill.

00:05:36.900 He's like, all right, I'm stepping down.

00:05:38.640 Wait, wait, we elected you for...

00:05:40.880 It's like we signed you to a four-year contract.

00:05:43.840 Yes.

00:05:44.120 You know?

00:05:44.500 And it was like, it would be as if, it's like everyone in Great Britain and all these

00:05:49.060 other countries are like Le'Veon Bell.

00:05:50.580 Like, they get signed, they get offered these deals, and it's like, no, I'm not showing up

00:05:53.360 this year.

00:05:53.920 And they're like, wait, no, we signed you.

00:05:56.140 I'm going to sit out the parliament this year.

00:05:57.680 I'm sitting it out.

00:05:58.560 Yeah.

00:06:00.280 Wait, you can?

00:06:01.380 Really?

00:06:01.900 It really is weird.

00:06:03.340 Very strange.

00:06:04.020 And to me, so I don't know what the Tories are all about.

00:06:07.280 The Labor Party seems to be like the liberals here.

00:06:10.160 Yes.

00:06:10.620 And the Tories are...

00:06:11.420 Very close to socialists.

00:06:12.520 Then there's a conservative party that I don't think they're like Americans conservatives.

00:06:17.200 None of them are.

00:06:18.120 And then there's a Brexit party now.

00:06:20.020 And the Brexit party has vastly increased their numbers over the last couple of years.

00:06:26.140 And they just did a poll where if the election would have been held when they did the poll,

00:06:31.180 apparently the Brexit party was maybe in the lead, I think.

00:06:35.000 Wow.

00:06:35.420 It had more support than the Labor and Tories combined.

00:06:38.540 And that may be who takes over in July.

00:06:40.400 Maybe.

00:06:41.080 Can you imagine the frustration, though?

00:06:43.000 But you go through this whole thing where they put this up to a big vote.

00:06:47.100 You've got a situation where your entire nation steps up and does something that was thought

00:06:53.620 to be unthinkable by the entire world.

00:06:56.820 Yeah.

00:06:57.020 We are pulling out of the European Union.

00:06:58.620 We didn't like this experiment.

00:06:59.840 We're out.

00:07:00.340 And I thought it was a great decision.

00:07:02.180 Oh, I do too.

00:07:02.960 I'm fully behind, you know, the Daniel Hannon view of this.

00:07:05.880 But the elites, you know, a lot of the elites didn't think it was.

00:07:08.120 No.

00:07:08.260 They were not fully behind.

00:07:09.260 That's what Theresa May tried to do is, you know, pull out what we're going to leave, 1.00

00:07:12.540 but we're not really going to leave.

00:07:13.860 Well, and too, I mean, May gets, you know, just destroyed by everybody here because she 0.99

00:07:18.420 has no allies left really anymore.

00:07:20.040 But I mean, the bottom line is she had to get something passed.

00:07:22.840 So she can't just say, well, pure Brexit, you know, Daniel Hannon, you design it because

00:07:27.800 then none of the other people are going to vote for it.

00:07:29.680 So like she has to actually come up with something that everyone votes on, which is, you know,

00:07:33.960 near impossible.

00:07:34.620 So the closer we get to this sort of deadline, they have this hard pullout thing, which I

00:07:39.500 think is, you know, probably where this winds up, honestly, at this point.

00:07:42.940 And I don't think it's going to be nearly as disastrous as everyone else is saying.

00:07:46.840 But I mean, think about this.

00:07:48.180 When we had Obamacare going on in this country and Obamacare is, they're going back and forth

00:07:54.160 about it, trying to figure out what, you know, whether this thing is going to pass.

00:07:57.560 Barack Obama's got 60 senators.

00:07:59.660 He can pass anything he wants, you know, with the just filibuster proof majority here.

00:08:05.380 He can pass anything he wants.

00:08:06.980 So the Senate passes this bill and as they're negotiating it, a special election happens

00:08:13.160 in, of all places, Massachusetts in the middle of this.

00:08:17.740 And Scott Brown, a Republican, somehow wins in Massachusetts almost entirely to stop Obamacare.

00:08:26.020 And then the House just abandons the whole negotiation and takes basically takes a cork

00:08:34.940 of the rules and passes the thing that was already passed that they never planned on actually

00:08:40.260 making into Obamacare.

00:08:41.480 They just passed the old thing because they couldn't vote on it again because Scott Brown

00:08:46.500 would have made it so they could not have passed it.

00:08:49.100 And remember how we felt?

00:08:51.220 Remember how half the country felt?

00:08:52.420 It was the whole Nancy Pelosi.

00:08:53.500 We're going to poll vault over this.

00:08:54.940 We're going to get it done.

00:08:55.720 You'll see what's in it afterwards.

00:08:56.920 Don't worry about it.

00:08:57.900 Yeah.

00:08:58.060 That whole thing.

00:08:59.020 That pissed off the entire country.

00:09:00.960 It started, you know, the Tea Party was largely, you know, right in tune with that.

00:09:05.000 We're talking one of the largest wave elections in the last century.

00:09:08.000 I mean, it was a massive change in our country because of that.

00:09:11.240 That's nothing compared to what's happened with Brexit.

00:09:13.540 The people actually all came out and voted for it and they're like, yeah, we're not going

00:09:16.680 to do it.

00:09:18.860 So thanks for your input.

00:09:21.140 Yeah.

00:09:21.820 But no.

00:09:22.720 Yeah.

00:09:22.960 And now it's been, you know, dragging on for so long.

00:09:25.720 And it's not like that was a non-binding referendum.

00:09:28.440 It was a big deal.

00:09:29.840 It was a big deal.

00:09:31.020 And they were like, you want to get out of Brexit, we'll get out of Brexit.

00:09:34.160 And then, nope, we don't want to.

00:09:36.180 The elites, we don't want to.

00:09:37.700 No, we don't want to.

00:09:38.040 And the government called for it thinking it would be defeated and we could finally be

00:09:42.200 done with this whole leaving the EU thing because we'll just destroy it.

00:09:45.480 Stay will win and leave will lose.

00:09:47.740 And then, you know, or remain will win and leave will lose.

00:09:51.500 And it's one of those things where now they're like, well, yeah, we didn't really like what

00:09:55.020 you guys said, though.

00:09:56.140 Well, I know we asked your opinion.

00:09:57.880 It's like when you go to.

00:09:58.840 We didn't really want it.

00:09:59.340 Right.

00:09:59.920 It's like when you go to your wife and she says, oh, what do you want?

00:10:03.340 What do you want to?

00:10:04.580 Where do you want to go to dinner?

00:10:05.280 And she says, oh, I don't care.

00:10:06.600 And then you're like, all right, Taco Bell.

00:10:07.740 No, not Taco Bell.

00:10:08.940 Well, why didn't you say something then?

00:10:10.940 We're now in the drive-thru line.

00:10:13.340 That's basically what they do.

00:10:14.780 Yeah.

00:10:15.180 And that is a weird way to run a country.

00:10:17.460 So confusing.

00:10:18.300 It might just be time to send American troops and force issue.

00:10:22.260 Make them adopt our system.

00:10:24.580 You know?

00:10:25.220 It's just time.

00:10:26.100 It is weird that.

00:10:27.120 It's just time.

00:10:28.160 There's not more of a rush to adopt the American system.

00:10:32.920 I know.

00:10:33.400 You know, like a lot of people will go towards democracy, towards capitalism.

00:10:37.740 But because I think America is the big bad boy on the block and they're vilified over

00:10:41.520 everything, there's very few countries who are just like, you know what?

00:10:45.020 We were kind of watching this whole America thing develop the last couple hundred years

00:10:48.000 and it's pretty nice.

00:10:49.660 Let's do that.

00:10:50.380 It's got some issues, but like I think we should get in that boat.

00:10:52.680 We have Supreme Court justices saying, you know, an African nation is better than ours.

00:10:57.320 Yeah.

00:10:57.480 So, I mean, nobody wants to be us.

00:11:00.380 And I guess because, my guess is because it does not allow for enough government control.

00:11:05.720 If you're starting a new country and you've got the power to design it, well, you're going

00:11:09.320 to put yourself into a position of power.

00:11:11.340 That's why the founders were so freaking great.

00:11:13.560 So extraordinary.

00:11:14.640 Yeah.

00:11:14.880 They were just like, you know what?

00:11:15.900 We have the opportunity to do whatever we want.

00:11:17.680 We could all be kings.

00:11:18.340 We could all rule this place forever.

00:11:20.540 Instead, let's give the power to the people.

00:11:22.200 Well, it's something that almost no one to this day really tries to do.

00:11:26.720 To the extent where when Washington was asked to be a king, he said, don't ever bring that

00:11:30.980 up again.

00:11:31.420 Yeah.

00:11:31.800 Ever.

00:11:32.320 That's what we left.

00:11:33.560 And that's what we're trying to avoid.

00:11:35.400 And I don't want to hear that kind of talk because it might spread.

00:11:38.480 Yeah.

00:11:38.660 So that takes a pretty amazing person to shut that down.

00:11:42.840 And in the new, you know, these countries, as they design their systems, they don't necessarily

00:11:46.980 get, you know, they make themselves kings anymore.

00:11:49.560 They just, well, we're going to take control of health care, banking, and energy.

00:11:56.680 Because we know better.

00:11:57.360 Because we know better.

00:11:58.220 So that's like, you know, 75% of the economy will just run.

00:12:00.860 And then we'll put heavy regulations on everything else.

00:12:02.880 And we'll tell you exactly what you can and can't do.

00:12:05.000 But you guys get to vote for the next person to tell you what you can and cannot do.

00:12:08.380 That's the democracy of today.

00:12:10.100 It's bizarre.

00:12:10.940 It is.

00:12:11.480 And again, you do have that moment as much as we complain about it.

00:12:16.360 Remembering when you watch, you know, the whole situation going on in Britain, which is

00:12:19.440 one of the best countries.

00:12:20.820 They're like a good example of how things are run.

00:12:23.380 You see how things are going there, and you step back and you say, okay, maybe we do have

00:12:27.240 it pretty sweet here.

00:12:28.280 I mean, maybe it's not so bad.

00:12:29.720 888-727-BECK.

00:12:31.600 We'll be back in 60 seconds.

00:12:37.660 Pat and Stu and Jeffy for Glenn.

00:12:40.140 He'll be back on Tuesday morning.

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00:12:43.300 So yesterday, the American Taliban, John Walker-Lind, was released early.

00:12:48.760 Amazing.

00:12:49.240 After 17 of his 20-year sentence, they just let him go, I guess, because of good behavior.

00:12:55.080 And people are, including us, we're a little perplexed by that.

00:12:59.240 But the New York Times apparently has a little different spin on it.

00:13:02.700 Yeah, which you would expect, of course.

00:13:04.620 The Times has an op-ed talking about the release of John Walker-Lind, and they're basically

00:13:11.000 making, they're his defense attorneys here.

00:13:14.520 They say, hard to imagine now, after everything that's happened in the brutal decades since,

00:13:18.100 but there was a time when we were fairly cozy with the Taliban.

00:13:20.720 Now, of course, we know this.

00:13:22.740 Famously, there's pictures of Donald Rumsfeld, and these were trotted out constantly during

00:13:27.780 the administration.

00:13:28.400 For much of the 1990s, when an earnest, bookish California teenager named John Walker-Lind

00:13:34.320 first felt himself drawn to the study of Islam.

00:13:38.800 That's a nice spin right there.

00:13:40.460 You love this.

00:13:41.040 You love this.

00:13:41.500 That's a friendly telling.

00:13:42.800 The United States lent its support to plans by an American-led group of businesses to develop

00:13:46.680 an oil pipeline that would run through Afghanistan.

00:13:48.860 This would require negotiations with the Taliban, the world's most oppressive Muslim regime. 1.00

00:13:53.300 Government officials who had misgivings about human rights abuses in Afghanistan largely

00:13:56.740 kept their reservations to themselves.

00:13:58.920 Not long before, in the Reagan era, the term Mujahideen had a heroic ring to it.

00:14:04.200 These were fierce and noble Afghan warriors, our president assured us, fighting with limited

00:14:08.960 resources to liberate their country from Soviet oppression.

00:14:12.640 Now, of course, you get the tone of this, which is, Lind is just a teenager, no big deal.

00:14:18.840 And it was really these Republicans that we were friendly, the reason why we were friendly

00:14:22.860 with these oppressive regimes.

00:14:24.220 Um, the official stance, uh, of course, changed after September 11th.

00:14:29.100 And this is one thing I didn't know, or didn't remember, at least about this case.

00:14:32.900 Um, all these events of September 11th were all but unimaginable in mid-2000 when Lind,

00:14:39.000 age 19, decided to travel to the Middle East to study the Quran.

00:14:42.600 So, they are making the case, and not explicitly saying, but insinuating at least, that Lind joined

00:14:50.660 the Taliban before 9-11 by a good year or so.

00:14:55.080 So, and at this point, while certainly Osama bin Laden was known, uh, in, you know, circles

00:15:01.440 of terrorism, um, he, you know, it wasn't like the main headline of the United States that

00:15:07.640 the Taliban were, you know, was, was, was a, was a bad group of people. 1.00

00:15:10.420 And someone who's a teenager could easily think that it's not necessarily the worst thing

00:15:13.860 in the world.

00:15:14.900 Now, of course, you have September 11th happens, and we should talk about maybe, uh, I don't

00:15:19.400 know if Jason's in today.

00:15:20.400 I think he is, because he was doing, uh, he was doing, uh, your show, right?

00:15:23.500 Yes, yes, that great unleashed Jason Buttrell, who was actually there when he was there,

00:15:28.480 when John Walker Lind was at, when they captured him, he was, oh, wow, he was there, uh, like

00:15:34.000 when he was waterboarded, he was there, like he was, he's a, you know, former military guy

00:15:38.700 and was, was he the one waterboarding him?

00:15:41.580 I asked him that, um, and I, I said, you know, I was like, if it's true, he won't tell

00:15:45.580 me, but he did say no, uh, but he said he was like, I don't know if he was in the room,

00:15:50.660 but he was like right there, he saw the guy, he, he had, he is, we got to talk to him

00:15:54.860 about this.

00:15:55.300 Oh, wouldn't you like to work with the guy who, uh, waterboarded?

00:15:57.800 Oh, totally.

00:15:58.380 John Walker Lind?

00:15:59.100 I think that'd be interesting.

00:16:01.380 I'd like to work with someone who waterboarded Jeffy.

00:16:03.120 Yes.

00:16:03.560 Uh, that would, I would really respect.

00:16:04.900 That would not be fun.

00:16:05.960 Now, we all work with people who waterboarded Stubergear.

00:16:09.240 Thank you.

00:16:09.840 Uh, well, and sure boarded.

00:16:11.000 And sure boarded.

00:16:11.880 Yes, that's right, it wasn't water.

00:16:13.200 I was waterboarded with a chocolatey, um, shake, which was far too chocolatey for that treatment.

00:16:19.240 And, uh, that's one to go back on YouTube and find today.

00:16:22.960 Yeah.

00:16:23.160 Um, the consequences of the decision, of course, uh, John Walker Lind are a matter of public

00:16:27.820 record.

00:16:28.620 Uh, two months after the Twin Towers had fallen, six weeks after the United States dropped its

00:16:32.220 first bomb on Afghanistan, a few hundred Taliban soldiers held as prisoners of war in, uh, and,

00:16:37.600 uh, fortress, a stage and uprising over the next eight days, all but 86 of those prisoners

00:16:42.480 would die as well as a great number of their jailers and a man, man named John Spann, uh, Michael

00:16:47.520 Spann, Johnny Michael Spann was his actual name, uh, who was serving as CIA advisor.

00:16:51.400 He's the first person who died in, in that war.

00:16:53.700 Um, and of course they found that one of the people was an American, John Walker Lind.

00:16:58.180 Now this is their take on the whole prison riot thing, which is one of the big issues with

00:17:03.120 Lind.

00:17:03.460 How is this guy getting out of prison?

00:17:04.680 He was responsible for the death of a, of a CIA agent, the first death in the Afghanistan

00:17:08.920 war.

00:17:09.460 They say there was no evidence that this young American had taken an active part in the violence.

00:17:14.260 In fact, it was later determined that he had been hiding in the basement for the bulk

00:17:19.120 of the conflict, which I don't know, kind of, I've never heard that makes me laugh a little

00:17:23.060 bit.

00:17:23.200 Yeah.

00:17:23.380 Um, the Taliban and sheltered Osama bin Laden after all, and therefore, uh, every better 1.00

00:17:28.180 of his regime, no matter how inconsequential was a terrorist at well, as well.

00:17:31.760 They go on and say that basically Lind was a, a teenager.

00:17:35.900 Didn't even know the Taliban was bad when he joined, had no role in this at all.

00:17:40.620 Well, gets 20 years unfairly is their case.

00:17:43.480 Like shouldn't even have had that.

00:17:45.040 So he gets 20 years, which was a plea agreement.

00:17:47.700 And then he's released and people are going to give him a hard time on it.

00:17:50.540 And he should be out of prison.

00:17:51.980 Um, that is the case of the New York times.

00:17:54.000 Now I, to me, it's interesting because, and I think, I think this is a positive for our

00:17:59.900 country and our system.

00:18:01.440 And it's the type of thing that I, as much as I don't like when it goes wrong like this,

00:18:06.040 it's something I'm proud of when it comes to the United States, which is the guy served

00:18:11.000 his term.

00:18:12.000 He served his time.

00:18:13.200 He got 20 years.

00:18:13.980 Now this, he did get 17 years, um, because of good behavior, but that was part of his sentencing,

00:18:18.640 uh, from the beginning.

00:18:20.100 If he had good behavior, he would be out.

00:18:22.460 They are saying it doesn't matter if he's reformed or not.

00:18:25.200 There's nothing he can do.

00:18:26.240 Trump yesterday came out and said, look, I went, I asked, is there anything I can do about

00:18:30.040 this?

00:18:30.300 And they said, no, there's nothing I can do about this.

00:18:33.500 Um, so you do kind of like the fact that the president doesn't necessarily have that

00:18:37.440 kind of power.

00:18:38.100 Yeah.

00:18:38.420 And shouldn't.

00:18:39.080 And you can, you can do that to any of your enemies as president, right?

00:18:43.900 You could say, oh, well, I think he's a real risk and then keep him in prison forever.

00:18:46.860 Yeah.

00:18:47.240 That would not be a good development.

00:18:48.680 So the fact that we're letting him out while I think in this case is really bad, because

00:18:52.820 it does seem like he's not reformed.

00:18:54.980 Yeah.

00:18:55.140 I mean, even the media is not trying to make the case that he's reformed.

00:18:57.780 Yeah.

00:18:58.060 I mean, his dad is dad.

00:18:59.240 Yeah.

00:18:59.420 It's about it.

00:19:00.380 But if you look at his statements in the past few years, they're pretty G-odd friendly. 0.99

00:19:06.420 Yeah.

00:19:07.760 They're like, yeah, I'm going to get back to being radical as soon as I get out of this

00:19:12.160 dump.

00:19:12.580 Yeah.

00:19:13.080 Oh, okay.

00:19:14.840 And what do you think?

00:19:15.500 I wonder what his first thing was.

00:19:16.900 I feel like, you know, where does he go first?

00:19:19.220 It's like Wendy's or something.

00:19:20.360 Like there's something he wants to do really badly.

00:19:22.260 I don't know if it's Wendy's for John Walker Lynn.

00:19:24.020 Might be for us.

00:19:25.520 But what's the first thing he does?

00:19:27.280 And then, can't this guy get a job?

00:19:30.040 Like, what's he doing for the rest of his life?

00:19:31.400 Yeah, who's going to hire him?

00:19:31.900 Who's going to hire John Walker Lynn?

00:19:34.000 Probably the New York Times, actually.

00:19:35.340 He'll probably be an op-ed contributor.

00:19:36.640 Yeah.

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00:20:17.000 Yesterday was a big day.

00:20:19.300 Nancy Pelosi bashing President Trump.

00:20:22.280 President Trump responding, of course, because that's what he does.

00:20:25.460 He has to.

00:20:26.100 He has to.

00:20:26.920 It's a must.

00:20:27.780 And then, of course, there's this big controversy over the posting of Nancy Pelosi videos

00:20:32.560 where somebody, I don't know who, but Rudy Giuliani tweeted it out and said,

00:20:38.760 what's wrong with Nancy Pelosi? 0.99

00:20:39.900 They slowed down the video so it sounds like she's drunk when she's talking.

00:20:45.660 It is a fun trick to do on anybody.

00:20:47.720 It is.

00:20:48.400 Anytime you slow down just a little bit, the audio, it just is hilarious.

00:20:53.040 The first one is her slowed down and then it quickly goes into the actual sound.

00:20:58.100 We want to give this president the opportunity.

00:21:01.760 opportunity to do something historic for our country.

00:21:08.840 Okay, so it sounds like she had a nip or two.

00:21:13.300 Just a little nip, this party.

00:21:15.740 And then here's the actual video.

00:21:17.260 We want to give this president the opportunity to do something historic for our country.

00:21:24.340 Okay, so clearly somebody's trying to make her look bad.

00:21:26.720 I don't know who it was, but because somebody in the Trump administration or the Trump team

00:21:31.500 tweeted it out, now they're blaming President Trump for it.

00:21:35.960 Right.

00:21:36.320 I don't think he's sitting at an edit bay right now slowing up her audio and video clips.

00:21:42.060 I think he probably has a little too much on his plate to be doing that.

00:21:46.140 And he would tell you, I don't need to do that.

00:21:49.580 Right.

00:21:50.320 I don't need to do that.

00:21:51.560 I mean, was it Giuliani that shared it?

00:21:54.640 Giuliani shared it, right.

00:21:56.020 And he thought that it was real and thought that there was something wrong with her, which

00:22:00.960 he realized it was and he took it down.

00:22:02.360 Yeah, and he took it down.

00:22:02.840 Well, because we've played many Nancy Pelosi clips that weren't edited or altered in any

00:22:08.840 way.

00:22:09.220 And she does this.

00:22:10.160 She slurs and she sounds like something's wrong with it.

00:22:13.120 Yes.

00:22:13.460 We've talked about that in the past.

00:22:15.620 So it's kind of logical to think that that was a real, that was a real audio or video.

00:22:20.520 Yeah.

00:22:20.980 I just thought it wasn't this time.

00:22:22.280 Yeah.

00:22:22.600 So I don't think it's a, again, these things turn into international incidents all the time.

00:22:26.760 Yes, they do.

00:22:27.180 Because of the media.

00:22:28.180 Right.

00:22:28.340 Not because they're real, because they see it as an opportunity to bash the president

00:22:33.840 and the administration and say how evil Republicans are.

00:22:37.020 Well, of course, you're telling me, you go online, you just tell me Democrats aren't

00:22:41.160 sharing fake stuff all the time.

00:22:42.400 Of course they are.

00:22:43.580 Of course they are.

00:22:45.360 But, you know, this is a, you know, you do open yourself up to it.

00:22:50.040 If you're, especially if you're Rudy Giuliani and an attorney, you probably should be a little

00:22:54.480 careful online with what you're doing.

00:22:56.400 I mean, you're representing the president of the United States in personal matters.

00:23:00.080 You probably don't want to be sharing fake videos.

00:23:02.380 I mean, you probably want to, before you hit send, you probably want to look at it one

00:23:05.520 more time.

00:23:06.080 Yeah.

00:23:06.460 That's all.

00:23:06.860 Take a break.

00:23:07.300 That's all.

00:23:07.680 You know, but I mean, this is the world we live in now.

00:23:10.000 This is, this is, this, this would have been interesting commentary in 2008.

00:23:14.020 All right.

00:23:14.200 Like it's 2019, you know, celebrities are doing this all the time.

00:23:18.540 Politicians are doing it all the time. 0.74

00:23:20.660 We've just entered that world where people aren't careful anymore.

00:23:23.460 I remember when Glenn was doing the TV show and we started out, uh, was it, I can't remember

00:23:27.140 if it was CNN days or Fox days.

00:23:29.140 And he was in the middle of, uh, writing something on the chalkboard and like the chalkboard is

00:23:35.020 like a difficult thing as, as it doesn't seem like it would be difficult to do, but you're

00:23:39.520 like, you're, he, Glenn's in the middle of doing a TV show.

00:23:41.920 He has to look at all the elements that are coming up, like what video is next and what

00:23:45.860 order are these things going on?

00:23:47.140 Like he's doing a monologue and he's writing on the board and I can't remember what word

00:23:52.200 it was, but he misspelled a word on the board and there was a reason, I can't remember what

00:23:57.140 it was at this point, but it was something like it was either misspelled in the script

00:24:01.220 or like he did like a Ron Burgundy and just wrote it the way he saw it.

00:24:04.020 I can't remember what the, what the situation was.

00:24:05.980 It was not a word he didn't know how to spell, but he just screwed it up on the air and that

00:24:09.680 haunted him for like years.

00:24:11.560 Like I, I miss, I mean, you know, it was like Dan Quayle misspelling potato back in the

00:24:16.240 day.

00:24:16.480 It was like a big deal.

00:24:17.620 Everyone was like, Oh, I, can you believe this guy can't spell words?

00:24:20.520 That's why he's still a little sensitive.

00:24:22.460 Oh, he's very, very hesitant to spell writing things.

00:24:25.280 Every time he does a chalkboard, he makes sure someone checks it to make sure, you know,

00:24:29.220 and when you can't blame them.

00:24:30.720 Yeah, I know.

00:24:31.300 And that's something that should happen.

00:24:32.800 Apologist like you, Stu, but you know, I can't blame him.

00:24:36.180 Right.

00:24:36.480 And, and so, but now, I mean, it doesn't feel like people make mistakes that are much worse

00:24:42.340 than anything that from the old days and no one cares.

00:24:44.860 Oh yeah.

00:24:45.460 I mean, because it's constant, you're constantly berated.

00:24:47.960 Like there was a time where you thought maybe celebrities had some level of intelligence. 1.00

00:24:50.980 Then you see them tweet and it's like, okay, well, we know they're idiots. 1.00

00:24:54.560 Like we, we thought we were wondering if they're, yeah, they're idiots. 1.00

00:24:57.700 That is acting when they act like when they're playing the role of a doctor, they're not really 1.00

00:25:01.380 a doctor.

00:25:02.620 You kind of, you kind of gets the sense of that pretty quickly when you see them spell.

00:25:06.480 Yes, you do.

00:25:07.240 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, B E C K.

00:25:09.520 More coming up in 60 seconds.

00:25:11.160 More vitriol, of course, uh, from the left directed at president Trump, uh, Nancy Pelosi

00:25:20.140 wants an intervention for him.

00:25:23.200 Uh, which I mean, I guess that's okay to say about the president when you're the speaker

00:25:28.540 of the house.

00:25:28.940 Now, uh, if that had happened during the Obama years, as with every single story, yes, uh,

00:25:37.320 all hell would have broken loose by now, uh, the speaker of the house would have been vilified

00:25:42.460 if they would have said an intervention is necessary with Obama and make him sound like, 0.94

00:25:46.460 you know, he's, he's crazy or he's, uh, insane, uh, or just completely out of control. 0.98

00:25:55.300 Uh, you'd, you'd be a racist. 0.95

00:25:57.540 They used to throw that label out at us when we, when we criticized him for anything.

00:26:03.580 And our criticism was never anything approaching what the Democrats do to Trump now.

00:26:08.360 It's unbelievable, the hatred.

00:26:10.080 That's really the main use, I think, of identity politics at this point.

00:26:13.100 A lot of people talk about it in terms of like, well, they will try to give money to minority

00:26:19.160 groups so they get minority groups votes or they'll try to give, uh, you know, benefits 0.52

00:26:22.940 to a certain minority group or they'll talk, you know, nicely about them to try to get

00:26:27.060 their votes.

00:26:27.620 And that's of course part of it.

00:26:29.020 But the other side of it is, I think more the real use of today, which is if you have

00:26:35.080 someone who's in a protected group there, you always have the defense of saying no matter

00:26:41.780 what the accusation is, it's based on race or it's based on, right?

00:26:45.340 Like whatever the group is, if Pete Buttigieg, right, becomes president of the United States

00:26:48.960 and he has a crappy tax policy, when you say he has a crappy tax policy, they'll say you 0.97

00:26:53.260 don't hate, you don't like gays. 0.98

00:26:54.440 So they don't actually have to defend the policy.

00:26:56.300 They'll just say you are a hater of gays or you're a hater of women or you're a hater

00:26:59.840 of African-Americans, whatever the group is.

00:27:03.600 And so that becomes the catch-all for every single defense of every single thing that

00:27:09.420 someone does that is in this protected class.

00:27:12.500 It's like the main reason why you don't want Joe Biden to be the nominee because he's basically

00:27:17.740 the only one in the field that has a chance to win, um, that isn't in some protected

00:27:22.680 group, right?

00:27:23.860 I mean, I pretty much can go through the entire list.

00:27:26.300 I mean, you have obviously, you know, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, uh, Klobuchar, she's

00:27:32.060 a woman, Cory Booker, and then Elizabeth Warren, of course, is Native American.

00:27:35.720 So she's in a protected group as well.

00:27:38.560 One 1024th protected.

00:27:40.720 Uh-huh.

00:27:41.100 Right.

00:27:41.460 So I think that there is a, it works on both sides.

00:27:45.200 This is why the left loves to embrace it.

00:27:47.620 They don't have to make arguments about their points.

00:27:49.660 They just say you're a racist and it's a catch-all for every single argument.

00:27:54.080 And Buttigieg had something interesting to say about the president, which I don't know

00:27:58.440 that this is true, but he said it as if it's proven fact.

00:28:02.520 Do you think he should have served in Vietnam?

00:28:05.040 Well, I have a pretty dim view of his decision to use his privileged status to fake a disability 0.96

00:28:12.540 in order to avoid serving in Vietnam.

00:28:14.900 Hmm.

00:28:15.040 You believe he faked a disability?

00:28:17.580 Do you believe he has a disability?

00:28:19.160 Yeah.

00:28:19.840 Yeah.

00:28:21.240 Yeah.

00:28:21.800 At least not that one.

00:28:22.660 He, he, he, um...

00:28:24.880 Chris, that's making fun of other people, which is okay.

00:28:27.520 Uh-huh.

00:28:28.160 No, he jumps in.

00:28:29.080 This is actually really important because I don't mean to trivialize disability, but I

00:28:32.680 think that's exactly what he did.

00:28:34.640 Wow.

00:28:35.260 But I mean, there's no...

00:28:36.280 Is there any...

00:28:37.400 Has anybody stated a fact that he didn't have bone spurs when he claimed to have bone spurs?

00:28:45.040 Uh, back in, what was it, the late 60s or early 70s when it was time for Vietnam service?

00:28:52.500 I think that's why he wasn't drafted, but, uh, I, I'm not, I'm not aware that he faked

00:28:58.840 that.

00:28:59.100 I think that's, I think, I would say that's generally thought to have been the case, but

00:29:04.040 I don't know that there's evidence of it, right?

00:29:05.960 Like he, he, there was something else, I can't remember what the, there was another thing

00:29:10.200 right around there where he was, he, he did, he passed some physical or something like

00:29:15.580 that around the time where then he, then he went for another one and got bone spurs

00:29:18.800 after, like, it was something like that.

00:29:20.320 Like, I can't remember what, do you remember what it was, Jeffy?

00:29:22.140 No, I was trying, I was trying, as you mentioned it, there, in that story, because that was

00:29:25.600 with his father.

00:29:26.920 Right.

00:29:27.340 Was still around making some choices for a son, Donald, at that time to...

00:29:32.260 Yeah, they were, but I mean, again, first of all, it's ancient history, right?

00:29:37.700 Second of all, there was a lot of that that went on in that era.

00:29:40.580 Uh, you know, the draft to me is a, is a terrible, terrible thing and should not be, it's, it's 0.85

00:29:45.680 ridiculous to me.

00:29:46.580 Shouldn't ever come back. 0.99

00:29:46.960 Shouldn't ever come back.

00:29:47.960 And I hope it doesn't, um, you know, there were plenty of people on the left and, and honestly,

00:29:54.260 I mean, at that point, Donald Trump is probably a Democrat, right?

00:29:57.140 I mean, he's probably at that point in his life, not even a Republican.

00:30:00.460 Um, but yeah, a lot of people did that.

00:30:03.040 And especially a lot of people with, with lives that were privileged did that.

00:30:06.720 There was, you know, that, that did occur.

00:30:08.500 It wasn't a good thing, but a bigger story there is that we should not be taking people 0.88

00:30:13.020 unwilling to join the military and throw them in the middle of our battles.

00:30:17.320 That's not a good idea.

00:30:18.520 That's not something, I mean, that, you want to talk about last resort area.

00:30:22.920 Uh, that's where the draft should live. 0.96

00:30:24.940 I mean, you know, maybe if you're in, you know, maybe if the Nazis are currently bombing

00:30:29.380 Kansas, uh, maybe that's something you may, and I will say at that point, you're not going

00:30:34.340 to need to draft anyone.

00:30:35.340 There's going to be plenty of people willing to fight there.

00:30:37.800 Um, but yeah, I mean, that is part of the situation with war, right?

00:30:40.620 Like that's part of the, when you're going to send the military of war, this is why you

00:30:45.400 actually make sure you make a good case of it.

00:30:47.120 And you make sure that you're convinced the American people that it's the right thing

00:30:50.700 to do, because if you don't, then you have situations like this where, you know, people

00:30:55.320 aren't volunteering enough and you feel like you need to institute draft.

00:30:58.060 The draft should not be something that happens though.

00:30:59.980 But I would think that that's one of those things.

00:31:01.740 If you're in the military, do you really want to be fighting next to someone who is like,

00:31:07.120 eh, I'd rather not be here.

00:31:08.940 I don't believe in this cause.

00:31:10.620 That does not seem like the type of person you'd want next to.

00:31:14.000 You know, a lot of people who were drafted fought valiantly and many, uh, went and died,

00:31:18.920 um, you know, during the draft and their service should be honored.

00:31:22.880 I mean, they really should, but I mean, I don't think that's a good generalized policy

00:31:26.180 for a military.

00:31:27.560 You want people to be really into it.

00:31:30.720 You know, you want people who are going.

00:31:31.760 Yeah.

00:31:31.940 Who have chosen to do it.

00:31:33.560 Exactly.

00:31:34.440 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, B E C K back in about 60 seconds.

00:31:40.720 Pat Stewart, Jeffy for Glenn.

00:31:42.020 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, B E C K.

00:31:45.000 Uh, things are, are kind of heating up on the Democrat side.

00:31:49.440 Apparently in Iowa, there's a dead heat now between Biden and, uh, Bernie Sanders.

00:31:55.140 Wow.

00:31:55.840 As far as the town hall halls that all these cable channels are doing, here's how badly

00:32:00.560 Beto O'Rourke is doing right now.

00:32:02.960 First of all, he's doing so badly.

00:32:05.140 I think we mentioned this briefly yesterday that no other candidates are doing any opposition

00:32:11.820 research on him anymore.

00:32:13.780 Wow.

00:32:14.380 It just all stopped it.

00:32:15.740 It went from, uh, dozens to zero.

00:32:19.180 There are no research projects right now on Beto O'Rourke.

00:32:23.580 And like, as inexplicable as the rise of Beto O'Rourke is, to me, the same can be said about

00:32:30.100 the fall.

00:32:30.740 About the collapse.

00:32:31.180 Yeah.

00:32:31.420 There's no real reason.

00:32:32.640 He didn't do anything horrifically wrong.

00:32:35.360 He didn't have a major scandal.

00:32:37.160 He didn't have a giant gaffe.

00:32:38.840 People were just like, yeah, we really like you.

00:32:40.560 And they look like they're toying with him to get him into the race.

00:32:43.000 And as soon as he got in the race, like, yeah, we actually ate your guts.

00:32:45.700 You know what I think it was?

00:32:46.400 I think it was that little, I'm getting in my car by myself and I'm driving around the

00:32:52.620 country, stopping in at weird places and, and I'm going to find myself.

00:32:57.120 Yeah.

00:32:57.360 I'm going to find.

00:32:57.940 But that was before he got in.

00:32:59.520 Yes.

00:32:59.900 And he got in and immediately was at what, you know, 12 and 15%.

00:33:03.980 Yeah.

00:33:04.500 I mean, he was, he was second or third place when he got into the race and just every day

00:33:09.000 another poll comes out where he's one point lower and there's only so many days that you

00:33:12.980 can pull that one off.

00:33:13.860 I mean, eventually you get to zero.

00:33:15.320 And I'm not sure it's about his policies because he doesn't have any.

00:33:18.560 Right.

00:33:18.760 Well, he has one.

00:33:19.560 He wants to bring about gun control.

00:33:21.440 Here's what he said the other day about eliminating guns.

00:33:25.560 That weapons of war designed for use on the battlefield are no longer sold into our communities

00:33:30.840 so they don't end up in our schools or our synagogues, in our churches.

00:33:34.420 We can save even more lives.

00:33:36.400 Two more steps that I want to take.

00:33:38.060 Red flag laws. 0.70

00:33:39.240 And not just do it town by town or state by state, but do it nationally so that anyone

00:33:44.120 who exhibits a tendency to harm themselves or to harm somebody else can be stopped before

00:33:49.780 they do that.

00:33:50.820 And then the last part, let's make sure that we invest in the counseling and the mental

00:33:55.220 health and the therapy necessary for people to get the care that they need.

00:33:59.480 Do you support mandatory federal licensing for guns, gun owners rather, in the United States,

00:34:05.560 similar to what you hear from Cory Booker?

00:34:08.040 I think that's something that we need to look at.

00:34:11.220 And I'm grateful to Senator Booker for taking a bold approach to a very urgent problem that

00:34:17.740 we have right now.

00:34:18.740 But I would start with those four steps that I just outlined.

00:34:22.400 There's consensus there.

00:34:23.760 There's agreement.

00:34:24.520 We're going to be able to make progress.

00:34:26.100 But yes, I think this is something that should be debated.

00:34:28.660 We should have a full hearing on that.

00:34:30.300 And if it makes sense to the American public, then let's move forward.

00:34:33.000 Oh, OK.

00:34:33.820 Yeah, we'll do some polls.

00:34:35.120 And if it turns out people like it, if they're popular, then I'll be for them.

00:34:39.740 If they're not popular, I'll be against them.

00:34:42.220 Yeah, that is, I guess, if you were going to say the one big problem right now, it's

00:34:45.700 that.

00:34:46.100 He keeps saying things like that.

00:34:47.560 He does.

00:34:47.940 You know, like if the American people like it, we'll move forward.

00:34:50.660 It's not what the Democrats want to hear right now.

00:34:52.840 Not at all.

00:34:53.460 They want to hear like, I want socialism, whether people want it or not.

00:34:56.460 Like, that's what they want to hear.

00:34:57.720 And you're going to get it.

00:34:58.380 You're going to get it with me.

00:34:59.580 Yeah, exactly.

00:35:00.220 They want someone who's going to, you know, the way they see Trump, right?

00:35:04.140 They see Trump doing whatever he wants to do, which is, of course, not true.

00:35:06.960 But that's what they that's their vision of him.

00:35:08.900 And they want that action on their side.

00:35:10.940 You know, Beto, one of the big things you could say about him is he does not have an

00:35:15.660 extensive amount of policy plans.

00:35:18.000 No, he doesn't.

00:35:18.660 And that's one of the reasons why he's fallen.

00:35:21.320 I mean, if you see if there's one candidate who I would say is in the middle of a, I mean,

00:35:25.220 Biden, obviously, he's in a category of his own right now.

00:35:27.720 I mean, it's his to lose.

00:35:29.040 But if there's another one of these lower candidates that's having a bit of a moment,

00:35:32.420 I would say it's probably Elizabeth Warren right now.

00:35:34.740 And the reason is because, I mean, she's got a policy for everything. 0.96

00:35:38.540 She's got a policy for everything. 0.98

00:35:39.480 And people like talking about that they care about that.

00:35:42.920 Now, in reality, of course, they don't.

00:35:44.400 None of these people have actually read any of the policies.

00:35:46.340 But her brand of being the person who comes up with a new policy for every issue is very

00:35:52.680 attractive to a Democrat who thinks the federal government should do everything for you.

00:35:58.240 I mean, you know, Beto talks about that.

00:35:59.680 I don't want to go state to state.

00:36:00.900 I don't go town by town for these rules.

00:36:02.500 I want it to be federal.

00:36:03.420 Well, of course you do.

00:36:04.540 That's the entire definition of your philosophy.

00:36:06.680 It's the exact opposition of what the country was built on, federalism, which is where we

00:36:11.380 did go state to state and see what works.

00:36:13.040 And other states would pick that stuff up.

00:36:14.500 You want to do everything federally.

00:36:16.000 And you know what?

00:36:16.780 When it comes to the Second Amendment, you have no wiggle room.

00:36:20.780 I mean, you have no wiggle room.

00:36:22.020 You want to ban semi-automatic weapons, which includes handguns now.

00:36:26.720 Now, he did say, yeah, he didn't actually say that, did he, in that clip?

00:36:30.040 Did he want us to ban semi-automatic weapons? 0.98

00:36:31.920 He said weapons, we got to get these weapons of war on the street, which is an even dumber

00:36:35.800 thing to say, because everything is a weapon of war.

00:36:38.840 I mean, go watch, every time, watch the Arab Spring.

00:36:42.940 They're freaking throwing rocks in glass bottles.

00:36:44.900 Those are weapons of war.

00:36:45.880 When you need a weapon in war, you use anything as a weapon of war.

00:36:49.100 It's a meaningless description.

00:36:53.000 People are like, oh, well, that means weapons that were designed for war.

00:36:56.620 Every weapon can be used in war.

00:36:58.600 A handgun, every single war that has ever been fought since the invention of a handgun

00:37:04.120 has utilized handguns.

00:37:06.420 Every single one of them.

00:37:07.920 Of course they have.

00:37:09.200 If you're just sitting there like, ah, you know what?

00:37:11.140 My big scary AR doesn't have any bullets left, but I'm not going to fire this because

00:37:15.000 it's not technically a weapon of war.

00:37:16.980 That's not something that occurs with a soldier.

00:37:18.900 No, it is not.

00:37:20.620 So it is a meaningless thing.

00:37:22.120 I mean, semi-automatic weapons bans, again, that's basically every gun people use.

00:37:26.820 Like, it sounds like a scary word to a lot of people.

00:37:30.180 And I know in this audience, most people are going to be familiar with the difference

00:37:33.740 between an automatic weapon and a semi-automatic weapon and, you know, a hunting modern sporting

00:37:39.040 rifle and all these things.

00:37:40.380 I could say that growing up in Connecticut, largely, like, I don't think I would have,

00:37:45.340 you know, if I wasn't in this business, I wouldn't have any interest or knowledge about

00:37:48.880 what a semi-automatic weapon was.

00:37:50.520 I would just think bad, scary.

00:37:51.980 That's what people in Connecticut think, which is why they were able to pass, you know,

00:37:56.060 a massive bill restricting gun rights in Connecticut.

00:37:59.660 You know, I think there's a, it's certainly not everybody in Connecticut, of course, but

00:38:04.380 I know, I mean, we were, I didn't come from a gun household.

00:38:07.000 My dad was in the military, but I didn't come from a household that knew anything.

00:38:10.340 We didn't have guns in the house.

00:38:11.880 It was not part of our culture at all.

00:38:13.920 And so, you know, people just don't know what these terms mean.

00:38:17.320 So you throw out banning semi-automatic weapons.

00:38:19.100 People think, good, we're going to get rid of those, those school shooting guns.

00:38:22.660 Yeah.

00:38:22.840 Well, no, this is basically every gun operationally that people have for self-defense, right?

00:38:28.740 I mean, you have shotguns, you know, which would fall out of that definition in most cases.

00:38:36.900 Revolvers?

00:38:37.560 Revolver.

00:38:38.000 I mean, do people, I mean, do people really use, I guess they do.

00:38:40.540 I mean, some, but I mean, most people are just going to have a semi-automatic weapon.

00:38:43.740 I haven't seen a revolver other than in a gun store.

00:38:47.580 Right, people like using them at the range.

00:38:49.360 They like using them to shoot.

00:38:50.760 But they're not, I mean, they're not the prototypical American self-defense firearm.

00:38:54.800 No.

00:38:55.560 That's going to be a semi-automatic handgun or, you know, maybe a shotgun.

00:38:58.780 But still, it's like, they're talking about banning.

00:39:02.800 They're going way beyond anything Australia did or anything the British did.

00:39:07.420 This is, you know, it's gun control to a level we haven't seen in a long time.

00:39:11.500 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:27.720 Welcome to it.

00:39:28.540 It is Pat Stu, Jeffy for Glenn, 888-727-BECK.

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00:39:40.400 We got an amazing story about a university that's been kicked out of their sports conference.

00:39:48.320 It's amazing.

00:39:49.080 Sure.

00:39:49.480 The reason, well, it might astound you.

00:39:53.380 And then again, maybe not.

00:39:55.380 As a matter of fact, we might as well just jump into it.

00:40:01.280 The University of St. Thomas, they're a Division III school.

00:40:07.160 They're being kicked out of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

00:40:11.120 because their teams are too dominant.

00:40:14.520 We're sorry, you're too good for us, and we're sick of it, so we can't beat you.

00:40:22.080 We want you out.

00:40:23.780 They're like, well, wait, we'd like to stay in the conference.

00:40:27.520 Nope.

00:40:28.060 If you stay in the conference, the conference is going to dissolve.

00:40:31.820 Wait.

00:40:32.440 What?

00:40:33.880 I mean, how dominant have they been?

00:40:36.860 Do we know?

00:40:37.740 Because I don't follow the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

00:40:41.700 I don't follow it as closely as I should.

00:40:43.720 Back in the day, I used to watch every game, but now it's more like no games.

00:40:48.880 Really?

00:40:49.400 Yeah, it's a slight change in approach.

00:40:51.880 Yeah, I'd say that seems like more than a slight change.

00:40:55.180 Really?

00:40:55.540 Yeah, it does.

00:40:57.300 ESPN said St. Thomas has won six MIAC football titles since 2010.

00:41:03.480 Okay, so they won six out of eight or maybe even nine now.

00:41:09.120 Right.

00:41:09.400 And they reached the title game in 2012 and 2015, but they also said the school's overall

00:41:16.140 athletic program has been on a winning streak.

00:41:18.220 St. Thomas finished 10th nationally in the Learfield Directors' Cup.

00:41:25.000 That's where they take all the sports and add up how you did in each sport, and then the

00:41:31.520 school that did the best in all of those sports wins the most points.

00:41:34.820 You're acting as if we don't know what the Learfield Directors' Cup is.

00:41:38.640 I didn't mean to insult your intelligence.

00:41:40.500 Oh, the audience.

00:41:41.240 There's millions of people going, we know, Pat.

00:41:43.340 We know what the Learfield Directors' Cup is.

00:41:47.980 Obviously.

00:41:48.380 Why don't you explain the Heisman Trophy to us now?

00:41:55.080 According to St. Thomas President Julie Sullivan, she said, the league's decision is extremely

00:41:59.940 disappointing.

00:42:01.220 But out of the school is committed to finding a new athletic conference.

00:42:04.200 Although our athletic conference will change, one thing will not, our commitment to continued

00:42:07.920 academic and athletic excellence.

00:42:10.460 I mean, according to this, they were one of the founding members of this conference.

00:42:15.220 That's crazy.

00:42:16.140 A founding member.

00:42:17.560 Since 1920.

00:42:18.700 And we're going to kick them out because...

00:42:19.740 1920?

00:42:20.920 I mean, they've been in this conference for that long and they're kicking them out because

00:42:23.980 they're too good?

00:42:24.920 They won 47% of all the MIAC championships, both team and individual sports.

00:42:30.580 Not even half?

00:42:31.600 From 2003 to 2018.

00:42:33.960 So not even half.

00:42:34.800 That's a successful program.

00:42:36.000 It's a successful program, but it's not.

00:42:37.560 But it'd be like the Big Ten kicking Ohio State out of the Big Ten.

00:42:42.280 Yeah.

00:42:42.620 I'm sorry.

00:42:43.100 We can't compete with you.

00:42:44.020 We don't want you here anymore.

00:42:44.300 SEC kicking out Alabama.

00:42:45.520 I'm okay with that.

00:42:46.080 Right!

00:42:46.280 You know what?

00:42:46.820 I'm all right.

00:42:46.900 You're okay with that?

00:42:47.560 Yeah, let's go.

00:42:47.920 Of course.

00:42:48.420 I would support Alabama getting kicked out of college football.

00:42:52.660 So maybe we should reevaluate our stand here.

00:42:54.840 Yeah.

00:42:55.440 Because it is annoying when that team constantly wins.

00:42:57.440 They have every right to get rid of this school.

00:42:59.620 Every right.

00:43:00.300 Thank you.

00:43:00.760 I mean, it is annoying when a team constantly wins, right?

00:43:05.220 I mean, the Golden State is again in the finals this year.

00:43:07.020 And people are, you know...

00:43:08.460 Tired of it.

00:43:08.720 They're tired of it.

00:43:09.380 They don't want to say...

00:43:10.160 New England Patriots.

00:43:11.160 Yes.

00:43:11.580 Tired of it.

00:43:12.080 I couldn't be more sick of the New England Patriots.

00:43:14.440 Thankfully, the Philadelphia Eagles were there to make sure they didn't win multiple

00:43:18.100 Super Bowls in a row.

00:43:19.360 As we all know, everyone thanks God for the Eagles, but...

00:43:22.880 Do they?

00:43:23.540 They do.

00:43:23.920 Do they?

00:43:24.500 But it is one of those things.

00:43:26.140 It is annoying.

00:43:27.280 And I'm sure as a college where you're losing all the time to the same colleges, I could

00:43:32.960 see it being irritating, but that really should just motivate you to be a better program.

00:43:37.000 Thank you.

00:43:37.560 Yes.

00:43:38.280 Or you drop out, right?

00:43:39.920 Like, if you're really that frustrated with it, you drop out and join a crappier conference.

00:43:43.300 Go to a weaker conference.

00:43:44.140 It goes back.

00:43:44.800 Now, according to this story, it goes back to one particular game.

00:43:48.720 Now, we talk all the time about teams shouldn't hold back.

00:43:51.100 You know how angry we are with coaches who reach 50 points, and they're winning 50 to

00:43:55.960 nothing, and then pull back.

00:43:57.100 Oh, I hate it.

00:43:57.880 I'm all for running up the score.

00:43:59.720 So, in 2017, St. Thomas played St. Olaf College, and when you bring those two teams together...

00:44:06.100 You can throw the record books right out the window.

00:44:08.140 And you have to, because St. Thomas beat them 97 to nothing.

00:44:11.920 And this is football?

00:44:13.160 Yes.

00:44:14.260 I mean, that's a defeat.

00:44:16.080 Yeah.

00:44:16.340 You know, you would say, we need to go back to the drawing board.

00:44:18.800 And that apparently was the catalyst.

00:44:20.260 Well, that should have been the catalyst for St. Olaf to maybe leave or get their football

00:44:27.760 team to be a little bit better.

00:44:29.620 Maybe you recruit better.

00:44:31.020 Maybe you work them harder.

00:44:32.320 Maybe, you know, you try harder then, right?

00:44:35.360 Well, we'd like to try harder only with St. Thomas out.

00:44:39.660 Because really, the whole point of sports, it's, you know, it's supposed to be something

00:44:45.020 where it's pure competition, pure merit, right?

00:44:48.120 Now, of course, we all know that that's not always the case anymore.

00:44:51.320 But, I mean, that is the idea of it.

00:44:52.980 It's one of the, it's the last bastion of any merit-based activity in the world.

00:44:58.580 And we're even losing this.

00:44:59.820 And we're losing that.

00:45:00.900 That's why I think, you know, a lot of times conservatives complain about the same sort

00:45:05.020 of thing, like the trophy, the free trophy culture, and everybody gets an award and all

00:45:09.360 of that, and it's not because we care all that much about, you know, who gets trophies.

00:45:16.680 It's about caring about the authenticity of competition.

00:45:21.400 You have to have competition that's merit-based and pure, or there's no reason to do it.

00:45:27.040 And, you know, a lot of these sports leagues, when it comes down to the way the salary cap

00:45:32.660 operates and people switching teams to go play with their friends and all of this craziness

00:45:37.160 that goes on in these leagues these days, it winds up, you know, it's putting a little

00:45:43.520 bit of pollution into that world.

00:45:45.440 And you don't want it there.

00:45:46.440 Yeah.

00:45:46.860 We're just, we're enabling whiners. 0.61

00:45:49.080 Yeah. 0.99

00:45:49.280 And losers, really, because if you keep losing in this conference to this school, as you 0.96

00:45:59.160 said, that should be motivation for you to work all that much harder in order to get 0.94

00:46:04.960 better so that you can come back and beat these guys the next year.

00:46:07.760 Or close the doors of your program.

00:46:09.780 If you're going to lose 97 to nothing to everybody in your conference, maybe it's time to just

00:46:12.720 close the doors and not do anything more.

00:46:13.980 It's like back in 19, I think it was 1920 or 22, somewhere in there, when Georgia Tech

00:46:19.040 beat Cumberland College, 222 to nothing.

00:46:22.440 And Cumberland College decided, okay, you know what?

00:46:24.800 We're not going to play football anymore.

00:46:26.140 Yeah.

00:46:26.480 And that's a good decision.

00:46:27.660 That was probably a good decision on their part.

00:46:28.520 It was a great decision.

00:46:29.420 If you don't want to be humiliated, you either strive to do better or you quit.

00:46:35.340 Good old fashioned quit.

00:46:36.740 Yeah.

00:46:36.980 You know what?

00:46:37.500 At 222 to nothing, it's hard to blame them on that one.

00:46:39.760 You know, if you lose 17-7, you should probably try harder.

00:46:43.800 You lose 222 to nothing.

00:46:45.660 You're probably not a very good program.

00:46:47.020 I will say, Pat.

00:46:47.840 I'm a little disappointed that you didn't remember.

00:46:49.660 It was 19-16.

00:46:51.120 It was 16?

00:46:51.840 Okay.

00:46:52.340 All right.

00:46:52.700 Was it 222 to nothing exactly?

00:46:54.520 Yes.

00:46:55.000 And I think this was a game where, I think it was this game where they, the team on offense,

00:47:02.120 one of the reasons why the score was so high, the team that was losing was angry about it.

00:47:06.880 So they were just not trying.

00:47:08.300 They stopped trying at one point.

00:47:09.660 I think it's this game.

00:47:10.420 It could be, there's another game that was the same similar type of blowout.

00:47:14.280 And they just stopped trying because they were just like trying to prove a point. 0.98

00:47:17.520 Like, go ahead, score another freaking touchdown.

00:47:19.460 And then they would just take the ball and not even try. 0.77

00:47:21.520 See, that might be the wrong attitude as well.

00:47:23.240 That might be too.

00:47:23.740 Yeah.

00:47:24.600 Yeah.

00:47:24.980 They should just get out of the league at that point.

00:47:26.900 Well, this attitude has become so prevalent that it's even entered the NFL where you got

00:47:31.040 people making five, 10, 15 million dollars a year on defense to stop an offense.

00:47:36.480 And then they still expect the offense not to try hard.

00:47:39.580 Why didn't you take a knee when it was 27 to nothing?

00:47:43.500 Hey, that wasn't nice that you threw a pass.

00:47:45.720 They kicked a field goal with a minute left in a 24-10 game.

00:47:50.140 Come on.

00:47:50.800 You're like, wait a minute.

00:47:51.380 That's like, they should be doing that.

00:47:53.020 I'm sorry.

00:47:53.480 Isn't your team payroll like 400 million dollars?

00:47:56.820 Stop them.

00:47:58.160 Stop them.

00:47:59.220 It's crazy.

00:47:59.940 I hate it.

00:48:00.660 It's crazy.

00:48:01.360 It's such a weird, I mean, and it gets folded into sportsmanship, and I think it's the exact

00:48:07.300 opposite of sportsmanship.

00:48:09.100 If you are taking, and I understand this when it comes to young kids.

00:48:16.060 A lot of times this is where this stuff begins, but it's like, what is more insulting to a

00:48:20.300 professional athlete?

00:48:22.180 Either kicking an extra field goal or literally giving up and saying, I'm so much better than

00:48:28.280 you.

00:48:28.520 If I try, it will be embarrassing for you.

00:48:30.480 That seems to be worse.

00:48:32.020 Much worse to me.

00:48:32.740 Yes, yes.

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00:48:45.160 Harvey Weinstein has apparently reached a settlement with some of the women he apparently abused.

00:48:50.200 Right?

00:48:50.520 Is that in lieu of trial?

00:48:53.040 Allegedly.

00:48:53.800 Allegedly.

00:48:54.360 Apparently.

00:48:55.100 I'm sorry.

00:48:56.360 Allegedly abused these 80 women.

00:48:58.420 It is a fact, though, that nothing's been proven against him.

00:49:01.760 It's true.

00:49:02.240 So far as I know.

00:49:02.860 And he denies it all.

00:49:04.800 He denies any wrongdoing.

00:49:06.280 Of the cases.

00:49:10.120 Those cases will still go to trial.

00:49:11.880 Two criminal cases.

00:49:12.940 Yeah, the criminal cases are still going.

00:49:14.420 One of them was a rape. 0.96

00:49:17.340 Alleged rape.

00:49:18.220 That one is problematic for him because there is audio of him kind of saying he did it.

00:49:24.100 So that's a bit of a problem.

00:49:26.280 Oh, wow.

00:49:26.800 Now, of course, he'll say, well, what I meant was and come up with some other excuse or explanation.

00:49:33.180 It did pretty much seem like he was going along with the fact that he did grab her several times at the very least.

00:49:38.160 But so the Weinstein thing is this is really the company, right?

00:49:43.280 The company is settling with these women. 0.95

00:49:45.200 There's 80 people who had allegedly alleged that he had done things to them.

00:49:52.120 And this this is basically becomes a pool of money that they can get claims from.

00:49:56.980 And it was paid from corporate insurance.

00:49:58.940 And so none of this money comes from Harvey Weinstein.

00:50:01.620 And of course, he's obviously paid already with the entire the entire company.

00:50:06.920 I mean, you know, what was it?

00:50:08.740 Four days after all this happened, he got fired.

00:50:10.720 And within a couple of months, the company was dissolved.

00:50:13.020 Gone.

00:50:13.380 Yeah.

00:50:13.720 So this is just kind of a fallout from that, which is a pretty big deal.

00:50:16.580 I mean, it's weird because people look at this and say, well, he's not getting the punishment he should get for these things.

00:50:23.380 And I can understand that, though.

00:50:25.960 It's not really your choice.

00:50:27.220 It's the woman's choice, right? 1.00

00:50:28.620 Like we like to take the woman's. 1.00

00:50:30.900 We say like this is all about me, too, and empowering women.

00:50:33.260 But don't let them choose to take a bunch of money.

00:50:35.260 Don't let them choose what they want to do.

00:50:38.220 If they want to take a bunch of money, they should be able to take a bunch of money.

00:50:41.020 Right?

00:50:41.320 Like, I mean, you know, a crime is a crime and there's a criminal process for that.

00:50:44.940 But this is not that situation.

00:50:47.320 No, it isn't.

00:50:47.760 But we've also seen in this Me Too movement that they want the bunch of money and then they want to go.

00:50:53.140 They will still be able to tell it later.

00:50:54.120 And I that is one thing that is has not been discussed as much when it comes to the whole Me Too movement, which is, look, humans are awful. 0.95

00:51:06.340 OK, they're really awful creatures. 0.80

00:51:08.960 Look at me when you say that.

00:51:10.060 I did look at you, didn't I?

00:51:10.980 That was almost instinctive.

00:51:12.720 They're really awful people and they do awful things to each other.

00:51:15.120 And this goes both ways.

00:51:16.680 I mean, you know, we were just talking about football.

00:51:18.600 Tyreek Hill, who's the star wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs, sort of.

00:51:24.380 At this moment, he still is.

00:51:25.880 He's been indefinitely suspended from the team because of these clips of audio where he seems to be being abusive to his wife and talking about potentially being abusive to their girlfriend.

00:51:37.120 It's his girlfriend.

00:51:37.840 I don't know if it's a girlfriend or his wife, but and also their child.

00:51:41.540 And, you know, it looks really bad.

00:51:43.420 And then they release a competing tape where she's basically admitting he did nothing wrong.

00:51:50.280 So, I mean, yeah, but like we don't know where this one turns out.

00:51:54.080 I don't know the ins and outs of it well enough.

00:51:55.820 But the bottom line is women are also humans and women are also awful at times. 1.00

00:51:59.700 And so are guys like everybody does, you know, terrible things.

00:52:03.700 There's examples of it all over the place.

00:52:05.900 And at times, the legal system of the United States and even the victims benefit from a system that they can go and say, look, I don't want to go through the court system.

00:52:20.420 I don't want to be dredged through the mud.

00:52:21.900 I don't want to go in front of everybody and tell everyone my deepest, darkest, most the worst moment of my life.

00:52:27.740 I don't want to explain it.

00:52:29.280 And they have these settlements for those reasons.

00:52:31.760 And now we're like, well, they shouldn't be able to have those settlements.

00:52:34.300 Right.

00:52:34.340 They shouldn't be able to choose that direction.

00:52:36.460 Well, they should be able to choose it, you know.

00:52:38.520 And I think that part of it, if that goes away, you're going to wind up having every woman who has a legitimate claim be dragged through the courts by really wealthy people. 0.99

00:52:48.480 And it's going to be a terrible outcome at the end.

00:52:51.040 So, I mean, that's a whole other part of this.

00:52:53.380 But I think the Weinstein situation is going to play out in ugly fashion over the next year.

00:52:58.300 This settlement, I mean, this is like they're reporting $44 million is the pile.

00:53:03.820 That's what it's being reported.

00:53:05.480 You know, that's pretty good.

00:53:07.060 It's a lot of money.

00:53:08.140 That's a lot of money.

00:53:09.360 But it's still only part of what's going to happen to Harvey Weinstein here.

00:53:12.120 Oh, yeah.

00:53:12.520 888-727-BECK back in one minute.

00:53:21.040 Speaking of Harvey Weinstein, some new movies are released this weekend, including Aladdin.

00:53:29.520 Any interest in Aladdin?

00:53:30.560 Oh, the Will Smith thing?

00:53:31.820 Yeah.

00:53:32.120 Oh, good God.

00:53:33.160 That looks terrible.

00:53:33.740 Yeah, he's the genie, right?

00:53:34.360 Yeah, he's the genie.

00:53:34.940 I don't think I've even seen a trailer of it.

00:53:37.140 I have.

00:53:37.600 Oh, my goodness.

00:53:38.560 It looks bad?

00:53:39.300 This is one.

00:53:40.300 I feel like it's...

00:53:41.100 Like a disaster?

00:53:42.060 It looks to me, it's just like the end of the Will Smith career.

00:53:46.080 Wow, he looks that bad?

00:53:46.740 I'm sure that's not true.

00:53:48.240 I mean, like, I don't...

00:53:49.120 Wow.

00:53:49.340 It's designed for children.

00:53:50.820 But it's like him as a goofy blue genie.

00:53:53.260 I think he's trying to be Robin Williams, right?

00:53:54.980 I mean, that's the Robin Williams career.

00:53:56.360 That's a tough order when you're not Robin Williams.

00:53:59.260 And you're not a comedian.

00:54:01.580 Don't try that.

00:54:02.560 I mean, Will Smith could probably pull it.

00:54:04.420 He'll probably do fine.

00:54:05.740 He'll probably make a lot of money and he'll be fine.

00:54:07.180 But, like, it's going to be hard to take him seriously in the next role.

00:54:11.420 Like, I just...

00:54:12.140 I don't know.

00:54:12.660 It got 60% on Rotten Tomatoes.

00:54:16.020 I think that's the critics.

00:54:17.820 And then according to Google users, 92% liked it.

00:54:22.100 That's pretty high.

00:54:23.180 Yeah.

00:54:23.820 It's pretty high.

00:54:24.240 It just looks to me to be horrible.

00:54:25.740 But I have no interest in this genre.

00:54:28.260 Yeah, it's not a stew type of movie.

00:54:29.920 I mean, it's not an adult type of movie, right?

00:54:31.940 It's a movie for kids.

00:54:33.680 No, yeah.

00:54:34.300 Yeah, live action.

00:54:35.020 For me, you know, it's Pokemon, Detective Pikachu.

00:54:39.600 That's what I'm looking forward to.

00:54:40.640 Me too.

00:54:41.340 Now, my son is very into this.

00:54:43.240 Is he?

00:54:43.580 Now, he's seven.

00:54:44.460 Is it a Pikachu thing?

00:54:44.940 Yes.

00:54:45.560 He went through a big Pokemon phase.

00:54:47.960 And it saw the preview of this movie at another movie we were at.

00:54:50.680 And it was very excited to see it.

00:54:52.140 I am not as high on it.

00:54:54.080 I am so glad.

00:54:56.060 I don't have small children to have to take to this.

00:54:58.540 I am so glad.

00:55:00.700 Then there's something called...

00:55:01.800 This is, Pat, though, where the dine-in theater becomes a big thing.

00:55:04.560 Because I can go to any movie that's at a dine-in theater.

00:55:06.560 As long as there's food.

00:55:07.560 Just shovel food down my mouth the entire time.

00:55:09.480 You can pass it, I mean.

00:55:09.700 Yeah.

00:55:10.720 You know?

00:55:11.280 And not to mention, I mean, you know, this is not going to be necessarily your forte here, Pat.

00:55:16.360 But, of course, the full bar of being available makes Aladdin pretty good.

00:55:20.340 I got to believe there's a certain amount of drinks in which Will Smith's performance is excellent.

00:55:23.900 And I got to tell you, a couple of those movies, you put your feet up in those movies, you're sleeping gone.

00:55:30.220 I've fallen asleep before.

00:55:31.880 Especially at a movie with the kids.

00:55:33.580 Because if you're not, you know, some of them are good.

00:55:35.700 Daddy, daddy, watch.

00:55:36.540 Yeah, I am.

00:55:37.320 I am.

00:55:37.920 Yeah.

00:55:38.400 Yeah, my kids, like, wandered off into Hostel Part 2.

00:55:41.280 He's in another part of the theater.

00:55:42.640 I'm, like, having to sleep on a chair.

00:55:44.640 That happens.

00:55:44.960 Did you see the new theater?

00:55:46.280 They're opening up in, I think it was Switzerland.

00:55:49.420 And it's basically a bedroom.

00:55:51.620 You lay on a bed.

00:55:52.740 Bed, it looks like a bed anyway.

00:55:54.740 And they've got, they come in and they change it every single showing, apparently.

00:55:59.020 And, I mean, it literally reclines into a bed with, like, a bed stand.

00:56:04.140 I don't know how you stay awake with that.

00:56:06.460 No, you just fall asleep.

00:56:07.440 That kind of comfort is just, it gets too comfortable at some point.

00:56:11.440 They're doing all sorts of these weird things.

00:56:12.660 Have you heard the new, this is off topic, but I've been seeing commercials for this lately.

00:56:16.300 And I think it's actually a thing, which is the Capital One Cafe?

00:56:20.680 Yes.

00:56:20.980 Yes.

00:56:21.420 Why would you want a bank that's a cafe?

00:56:23.440 Right.

00:56:23.840 I don't understand it.

00:56:25.000 Because you don't want to just go into a bank and bank.

00:56:26.500 Right.

00:56:26.880 Because they're like, we're reinventing banking.

00:56:29.360 Right.

00:56:29.580 And what it means is, I guess you go and you get a coffee while you're opening an account?

00:56:32.820 Like, it seems to be the legitimate pitch.

00:56:34.180 That's so weird.

00:56:34.840 I will say I'm intrigued enough to walk into one of them, if I could find one.

00:56:39.100 Because I want to know what they're trying to do.

00:56:40.520 I think it every single time.

00:56:41.800 I think, do I want that in my bank?

00:56:43.880 Right.

00:56:44.060 I don't know that I'm looking for that.

00:56:46.420 And they don't seem to ever say they're serving anything.

00:56:48.700 It looks like a cafe.

00:56:49.660 And they say the word cafe.

00:56:51.420 But then they just talk about signing up online for bank accounts.

00:56:54.640 And I'm like, well, I can do that.

00:56:54.980 Well, you've reimagined a bank into a coffee shop.

00:56:58.580 Oh, well, I've already, I'm going to, why don't I just go to a coffee shop?

00:57:02.420 Because you're not going to be able to bank there.

00:57:04.020 I don't know if you can bank at the bank.

00:57:06.140 Like, this is like.

00:57:06.820 Because it's now a coffee shop.

00:57:08.600 And if you're going to combine two things, I'm not, I don't think bank and cafe are the

00:57:13.880 way I would go.

00:57:14.600 Like, there's a place near where I live.

00:57:16.660 And it's like one of these, like, strip malls.

00:57:18.640 And I don't know if it's a Robert Kraft establishment.

00:57:20.900 But there's a massage place in the strip mall. 0.96

00:57:23.740 And next to it is a donut shop.

00:57:25.800 But on the sign for the complex, it just says massage donuts.

00:57:29.880 And I'm like, donuts and massage is a solid combo.

00:57:32.240 You aren't lying, it is.

00:57:33.340 Well, like, I just want to be, you're getting a massage and people are just feeding you

00:57:35.760 donuts at the same time.

00:57:36.880 That's the sort of combination you want.

00:57:38.400 KFC, Taco Bell.

00:57:39.980 Right?

00:57:40.260 Like, they're all, they're in the same thing.

00:57:41.880 You go in there, you can order whatever fried chicken thing you want and you get a bunch

00:57:44.840 of tacos.

00:57:45.540 Like, that's a solid combination.

00:57:47.160 Yes, it is.

00:57:47.500 Yes.

00:57:47.720 I feel like bank and cafe is not the direction we need to be going.

00:57:50.560 What if you could go the other way on the bank cafe where it starts as a cafe, but

00:57:54.320 we also do banking now.

00:57:55.740 Like Starbucks.

00:57:56.420 Starbucks.

00:57:57.000 Just open up a bank.

00:57:57.620 We're just, we're reimagining a coffee shop and we're going to give you banking.

00:58:02.660 Thank you.

00:58:03.060 Yeah, and a banking experience here as well.

00:58:05.780 Yeah.

00:58:06.080 It'd be interesting to see if that worked out.

00:58:08.000 I know it's not a movie, but have you started watching Chernobyl yet?

00:58:11.800 No, I have not.

00:58:12.760 So good.

00:58:13.340 The first episode is really good.

00:58:14.420 I know there's three episodes released on HBO now.

00:58:17.740 I think I'm two in and they both are really good.

00:58:20.240 I really enjoyed it.

00:58:21.060 But I see where IMDb ranked it as its top rated show now.

00:58:25.900 Oh, wow.

00:58:26.160 9.5.

00:58:27.260 Nice.

00:58:27.640 And it also had, you know, it's like the top of the launch on Sky Atlantic now of like

00:58:33.180 1.7 million viewers.

00:58:34.840 Wow.

00:58:35.340 Huge.

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