The Glenn Beck Program - Best of Program ｜ Guests： Bill O'Reilly & Chad Prather ｜ 12⧸21⧸18

00:00:00.000 Well hello and welcome to the podcast. Merry Christmas. Merry, exactly. Unless of course you don't celebrate Christmas, then I'm very, I'm very sorry that I said that. And maybe we just go with Cardi B and just say brap. Brap, brap, brap, brap. Brap. You'll find out what that means on today's podcast, unfortunately for you. But also we can tell you, you can watch the podcast anytime if you want to listen. That's cool. But if you want to sign up and be part of Blaze TV, go to blazetv.com slash Beck. Use the code BeckChristmas. You get $20 off your subscription.

00:00:30.000 And you get Glenn and the News and White Matters, which we're both on as well. And Pat and dozens of other new shows. Mark Levin, Stephen Crowder. I mean, the lineup is really awesome.

00:00:39.420 On today's podcast, we're going to give you a little smorgasbord of a little, a little bit of everything. We have Bill O'Reilly. He'll, he'll run down the news events and we'll give you the, some of the highlights of the thing. Cause honestly, Bill O'Reilly listening to him for an hour. Holy mother. And then Chad Prather joins us.

00:00:57.240 He's got some really interesting things to say about how we should view things. We talked about Mattis. We actually start the program with Mattis, but I thought that the podcast should begin with a little something that if you're feeling down,

00:01:16.040 if you're feeling like you just can't make it and the world's against you, realize that out there somewhere is a guy who's working as a DJ at one of these really bad Christmas song stations.

00:01:33.100 And he's much more suicidal than anyone else right now. And let's begin our podcast with his life.

00:01:50.100 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:54.600 It's Friday, December 21st.

00:01:59.280 I'm not sure.

00:02:00.360 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:01.580 You know, there are times that I kind of wish, and, and, you know, Mattis, his resignation.

00:02:05.920 There are times that I think, you know what, it might've been better if, um, you know, I was working and, you know, just, I would have stayed in music radio.

00:02:13.360 I could have been happier, but then I realize I wasn't that good.

00:02:18.400 Uh, and so I'd probably be working at that station that every market has.

00:02:25.560 And I, I want you to know DJs.

00:02:29.440 I know, I know who you are and I, I know what you're going through.

00:02:33.840 And if you're at one of those stations, our prayers are with you this holiday season.

00:02:40.780 Glenn Beck, TV, radio, everyone dancing merrily in the new old fashion world.

00:02:53.600 Oh, yeah.

00:02:59.180 Santa, 1099 FM, your home for the holidays, playing all of your favorite holiday music, like that one from Brenda Lee.

00:03:08.820 I don't know about you, but I just can't hear that one often enough.

00:03:14.400 Now, here's Mariah Carey on Santa 1099. 0.72

00:03:19.520 Oh, oh, oh, yeah, oh, oh, oh, yeah, oh, oh, yeah, oh, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.

00:03:35.100 Christmas, the snow's coming down, Christmas, I'm watching it fall, Christmas, lots of people around, Christmas, baby, please come home, Christmas, the church bells in town, Christmas, I'm reading a song, Christmas, for the happiest sound.

00:04:01.560 Oh, baby, please come home, Christmas, I'm reading a song.

00:04:07.140 Oh, there it is.

00:04:09.240 Santa 1099 FM, your home for the holidays.

00:04:12.940 Hi, I'm Chris Kringle.

00:04:15.660 And we've been playing all of your favorite holiday hits since October 28th.

00:04:23.860 I don't know about you, but two days before, you know, Halloween, I'm still, I'm just ready for the holiday tunes to start jamming on Santa 1099.

00:04:34.740 But don't forget, after the new year, sometime probably around mid-January, we'll be back to playing your favorite work music mix.

00:04:45.720 Well, we'll play all of your favorites from Barry Manilow, Barry Manilow, and Elton Job, and Neil Diamond, and who could forget Michael Bolton.

00:04:56.240 But now, it's nothing but Christmas music, wall to wall, like, like this one, from Kenny G, on Santa 1099.

00:05:15.460 I think I'm going to kill myself.

00:05:24.560 Hotline. 0.98

00:05:25.280 Chris.

00:05:26.480 Okay, man, I mean, you don't call me Chris.

00:05:31.780 You know I'm not Chris.

00:05:33.320 Your name's Chris.

00:05:34.600 Are you on Santa 1099? 1.00

00:05:36.380 It is for this time, because you're making all of us take stupid names for Christmas. 1.00

00:05:44.340 Do you want Rudolph Red-Nosed Ringer? 1.00

00:05:47.760 No.

00:05:48.880 That's what you'll get.

00:05:50.820 What, are you going to fire the morning guy?

00:05:52.620 Isn't that his name?

00:05:53.400 No, I changed him to, uh, missile, tow.

00:05:58.620 What do you want?

00:05:59.820 Uh, first of all, your mic was on.

00:06:02.140 What? 0.99

00:06:02.940 Your mic was on when you said you wanted to kill yourself.

00:06:05.060 I'm sorry, I'll turn the mic off.

00:06:08.240 That's minor.

00:06:08.720 I just wanted to tell you about your last break with the Kenny G intro.

00:06:12.060 Yeah.

00:06:12.320 Um, I mean, I, I don't understand.

00:06:15.980 Uh, you're talking about the G-Man, and there's no enthusiasm whatsoever.

00:06:20.940 For the G-Man?

00:06:23.560 Yeah, Kenny G.

00:06:24.160 How could you possibly be enthusiastic about the G-Man?

00:06:27.480 Kenny G does make me want to kill myself.

00:06:30.180 Well, I understand.

00:06:30.600 And I've had to put up, but I've had to play this since October 28th.

00:06:34.060 We're playing every cut of Kenny G's album.

00:06:38.320 That's another thing, by the way.

00:06:39.320 You said we're going to stop in mid-January?

00:06:42.340 Yeah.

00:06:42.680 Uh, didn't you get the memo?

00:06:46.040 No.

00:06:46.640 April 15th.

00:06:48.580 We're playing Christmas music until April 15th?

00:06:51.300 Until tax day.

00:06:54.380 Why?

00:06:54.940 Nobody wants to hear it.

00:06:56.840 I mean, I think people actually would want to hear the Michael...

00:06:59.560 Did you know that our ratings go from a 0.3 to a 19.4 for one month?

00:07:05.180 Yeah, yeah, okay.

00:07:05.880 What is it...

00:07:06.560 Why are you calling me?

00:07:08.000 You need to get a little more enthusiasm.

00:07:09.700 Think of a male Delilah. 1.00

00:07:13.600 Okay.

00:07:14.240 A male Delilah? 0.98

00:07:15.380 She's enthusiastic?

00:07:16.880 Don't think Delino.

00:07:18.520 A male Delilah, okay? 1.00

00:07:20.520 But then think of Delilah if she had married an Osmond.

00:07:24.320 So you're really down, but you're really excited.

00:07:28.320 All right, my song is about that.

00:07:30.540 Yeah.

00:07:31.100 1-0-9-9.

00:07:33.100 All right.

00:07:33.620 Think of that.

00:07:34.240 Santa.

00:07:36.780 Anything else I'm supposed to talk about?

00:07:38.680 Yeah, get jolly.

00:07:41.580 Get jolly.

00:07:43.080 Yes.

00:07:43.880 Stop trying to be different.

00:07:45.680 Remember, different's bad. 0.82

00:07:48.060 All right.

00:07:49.120 And you're being different now.

00:07:50.920 They're being good.

00:07:51.660 All right, all right, all right.

00:07:52.080 You're being bad. 1.00

00:07:52.920 Shut up for a second. 1.00

00:07:53.660 Hang on. 1.00

00:07:53.980 I have to...

00:07:54.460 Oh, it's great.

00:08:03.280 It's Santa.

00:08:04.800 1-0-9-9.

00:08:06.500 I'm Chris Kringle, and that's Kenny G.

00:08:09.680 Hey, you know how you go Christmas shopping at the mall during the holidays, and it's crowded

00:08:16.660 and stuff?

00:08:18.440 Do you know that?

00:08:20.560 And then it's hard to find a parking space and things?

00:08:23.680 I hate that.

00:08:26.000 You probably hate that, too, right?

00:08:29.160 Okay, let's get jolly with Sleigh Ride on Santa 1-0-9-9. 0.99

00:08:36.640 That was ridiculous. 0.94

00:08:42.180 Yes, it was. 1.00

00:08:43.380 Your delivery was ridiculous. 0.96

00:08:45.740 I know I sent you an email about talking about the parking lot. 0.96

00:08:49.040 That doesn't mean you just walk through the... 1.00

00:08:51.140 Because it's stupid. 0.99

00:08:52.940 Every bad DJ is talking about parking lots. 1.00

00:08:56.360 You need to sell it.

00:08:57.480 You need to think about what it's like for you to be in a crowding parking lot.

00:09:00.980 Put yourself there, okay?

00:09:02.840 You need to relate and be enthusiastic, but calm and soft, but louder, but kind of in the

00:09:08.920 middle.

00:09:10.880 Was I jolly enough?

00:09:13.440 Hold on one second.

00:09:14.060 Our research is showing you're 42% less jolly than you should be.

00:09:21.520 What do you...

00:09:21.920 Research?

00:09:22.640 What do you...

00:09:23.280 Yeah, just did a likability focus group on you, and they hate you.

00:09:29.940 Well, you know, not feeling really jolly now.

00:09:32.960 I mean, you know, I used to be somebody, and now I'm working at this crappy station, and

00:09:38.340 you call me every break, and you tell me what to do?

00:09:40.340 That's right, because you can't grasp it for yourself.

00:09:42.340 I'm the boss, and I know what we need to do to own the angry people in parking lot at

00:09:47.260 malls, at Christmas shopping, demographic.

00:09:50.380 We need to have these people coming back after the holidays.

00:09:53.860 They're only going to do that if you're both calm and happy.

00:09:59.220 Okay, nobody's going to come back after Christmas because we start playing all this crappy music,

00:10:04.480 and nobody cares about the crappy music.

00:10:06.160 Look, look at it this way.

00:10:07.460 I'm Santa, okay?

00:10:09.580 You are Santa's little helper.

00:10:11.640 Get it?

00:10:12.340 Santa has a lot of kids and stockholders to make happy.

00:10:16.260 Don't ruin Christmas!

00:10:17.260 All right, hold on, hold on just a second.

00:10:18.380 There it is on Santa 1099, your home for the holidays.

00:10:33.640 Hi, I'm Chris Kringle, and don't forget about the rest of the year here on Santa 1099, when

00:10:42.880 we're called Easy Variety 1099.

00:10:47.140 You're going to love it.

00:10:48.460 We play only the best music from the Dave Clark Five and Yanni, and only the biggest hits from Men Without Hats.

00:11:03.340 But now, more Christmas favorites with the Beach Boys.

00:11:08.840 You better watch out.

00:11:12.120 You better not cry.

00:11:13.960 Only the best music from Men Without Hats and Yanni.

00:11:19.120 And the Dave Clark Five.

00:11:20.380 Is there a good song?

00:11:23.380 And who thinks of the Beach Boys when they're thinking about Christmas music?

00:11:28.200 It's Christmas music, man.

00:11:30.060 Nobody's thinking about the Beach Boys.

00:11:31.980 I think about kicking back on a nice beach chair with a towel.

00:11:34.360 Do you know anybody who has the Beach Boys Christmas album?

00:11:38.920 Do you ever, ever walked into somebody's house and they're playing the Beach Boys Christmas album?

00:11:43.420 People have said in the past that they like the Beach Boys and they like Christmas.

00:11:49.100 We've combined the two.

00:11:51.280 And then we go, and then we take them from the Beach Boys and we tell them, hey, make sure you stick around

00:11:55.760 because Ann Murray is going to be happening after the Christmas music?

00:12:00.000 I mean, nobody listens to that stuff.

00:12:02.200 That's why we have to talk about it.

00:12:03.760 Do you realize we are the number one station during the holidays because of this, what is it, Christmas?

00:12:09.220 Yeah, and?

00:12:11.180 Well, you know, the rest of the year we average 14 listeners a day.

00:12:14.920 14 listeners in an entire day.

00:12:17.580 I mean, and those are the ones that are stuck in an elevator at work or on drugs in a dentist's chair.

00:12:22.000 No one listens.

00:12:22.480 All right, so you think maybe there's a possibility that's because we're playing the Dave Clark Five?

00:12:28.300 No, our research shows that people aren't familiar with our product. 0.61

00:12:31.240 That's because we change slogans every freaking holiday.

00:12:33.720 We're Santa 1099, Thanksgiving 1099, Easter Bunny 1099. 0.66

00:12:38.380 I mean, who listens to Easter music?

00:12:39.860 Is there even such a thing as Easter music?

00:12:42.520 Our research shows that Peter Cottontail tests well with our women's 7 to 12 years old audience.

00:12:47.740 Let me ask you, how about Kwanza 1099?

00:12:49.760 How do you explain that?

00:12:50.780 We're the whitest radio...

00:12:52.140 Dave Clark Five.

00:12:53.980 And you put Kwanza music on?

00:12:56.100 Have you ever heard Dave Clark Five's version of Happy Kwanza?

00:12:59.400 No, I...

00:13:00.100 You haven't.

00:13:00.520 I have.

00:13:00.840 It's all about diversity, Chris Kringle.

00:13:03.220 Research shows that diversity is one of the public's favorite words.

00:13:06.140 Okay, all right. 0.99

00:13:07.340 Shut up. 0.99

00:13:07.760 Hold on, this song's over. 1.00

00:13:08.780 Okay, remember, jolly.

00:13:09.880 Throw in a ho-ho-ho. 1.00

00:13:10.940 Relate to the parking lot, people.

00:13:12.700 What?

00:13:13.540 Make it jolly.

00:13:14.500 Santa Claus is coming.

00:13:17.340 Whole full of jelly.

00:13:20.080 Hold on.

00:13:20.320 This is a toe.

00:13:21.080 Hold on.

00:13:21.700 Stocking toe.

00:13:22.400 There it is on Santa 1099, your home for the holidays.

00:13:30.920 Hi, I'm Chris Kringle.

00:13:32.960 Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.

00:13:35.340 Hey, and remember parking lots.

00:13:37.360 And this time of year, remember cars.

00:13:39.720 We're just having a conversation here at the Glenn Beck program about James Mattis walking away and resigning yesterday.

00:14:04.440 Because the president just announced, oh, we're going to leave Syria.

00:14:09.000 And one of the reasons, supposedly, one of the reasons is because Turkey told the president, we're going to go in and get the Kurds.

00:14:16.280 And now that would make me say, no, no, you're not, as the Kurds are always abandoned. 1.00

00:14:25.020 They will be dead.

00:14:26.140 How many times have we turned our back on the Kurds? 0.99

00:14:28.080 Would this be a hundred?

00:14:30.180 It's a lot.

00:14:31.480 Every time.

00:14:32.080 A lot of times.

00:14:32.600 Every time.

00:14:33.440 And it's wrong.

00:14:35.260 And there will be genocide with the Kurds. 0.95

00:14:38.300 And any Christian that was hoping things were going to get better, forget about that. 1.00

00:14:44.600 We have just handed the region over to Iran, Turkey, and Russia.

00:14:50.200 Very bad.

00:14:51.240 Very bad.

00:14:52.500 Pat said when he came in, I don't really care about the Mattis thing.

00:14:55.600 I can't find a way to care about this.

00:14:57.920 Why?

00:14:59.240 Because I don't know that anybody, I don't know that Trump listens to anybody anyway.

00:15:06.380 I don't know if it matters who's in there.

00:15:07.980 I don't, I think he's doing what he wants to do.

00:15:10.540 And I think this is a really good indication of that.

00:15:13.320 Because Mattis certainly doesn't want to pull out of Syria.

00:15:16.360 It's always been said that he respects his generals.

00:15:19.360 Now, maybe not anymore with Kelly and Mattis.

00:15:23.080 They're all gone.

00:15:23.880 There's no more generals left.

00:15:25.160 But those two, I really, truly believe.

00:15:28.200 I don't know if they voted for Donald Trump or believed Donald Trump.

00:15:31.440 They might have.

00:15:32.280 They might not have.

00:15:33.180 I think those two served out of duty and responsibility to the Constitution and to the America that they understand and love.

00:15:43.060 And I could see Mattis looking and saying, look, I don't necessarily agree with this guy on everything, but someone has to be a stable rod.

00:15:53.280 And I will be that guy.

00:15:56.160 And he can't do it anymore.

00:15:57.880 That's not good.

00:15:59.240 Can't do it.

00:15:59.560 That's really not good.

00:16:01.360 But I think that's where, I think that's where people are with what's going on now.

00:16:06.560 And when they can't convince him not to pull out of Syria because it's way too soon and there's way too much to be done.

00:16:11.980 But you can look at what's happening now with the border wall.

00:16:16.200 All of a sudden, he's talking about he's back on the border wall.

00:16:19.920 Yeah, it's back on.

00:16:20.420 Why?

00:16:20.780 Because he does listen to the voice of the people and his supporters.

00:16:26.960 Well, yeah, I think when Fox News turns on him and starts saying negative things about him because they never do, I think that he took notice of that.

00:16:36.460 I think he took notice.

00:16:37.340 Because you even had Brian Kilmeade criticizing him openly this week.

00:16:42.780 And that kind of doesn't happen.

00:16:44.760 No.

00:16:45.140 And Rush had criticized him.

00:16:47.040 Yeah.

00:16:47.680 In a gentle way.

00:16:49.080 Mark Levin was critical of the Syria move.

00:16:52.020 He got some really harsh.

00:16:53.480 I mean, his supporters were really, really harsh on him about that.

00:16:57.880 Well, the wall thing was, I mean, come on. 0.98

00:17:00.300 It's ridiculous.

00:17:01.360 I mean, you can't go back. 0.90

00:17:03.540 No.

00:17:04.020 Who was it that said, I thought this was a great quote.

00:17:06.840 Oh, Ben Shapiro.

00:17:08.360 This is read my lips.

00:17:09.960 No new taxes.

00:17:11.460 That's what that is.

00:17:12.400 You cave on that.

00:17:13.480 But I think this one has possibly even more significant ramifications.

00:17:19.940 Going forward, straight up, strategically, this is a nightmare.

00:17:23.240 A straight up nightmare.

00:17:24.080 If you don't like the United States to be the policeman of the world, then you want these 2,000 U.S. troops still there.

00:17:30.240 And that sounds weird.

00:17:31.300 But the moment we pull out of there, you are almost guaranteeing that a much larger U.S. force will have to go back in the very near future.

00:17:40.940 You're almost guaranteeing it.

00:17:42.080 Because you just handed the region over to Iran. 0.83

00:17:44.980 Now, if you don't even think about what happened to the Kurds, if that doesn't bother you at all, that there are all about thousands and thousands of people are just about to die.

00:17:52.300 A whole race of people, a whole culture is going to be wiped off the map. 1.00

00:18:00.020 And then the Christians are next. 1.00

00:18:02.800 I mean, this is not good.

00:18:06.600 What is Netanyahu saying today?

00:18:08.060 I haven't really seen, but they've got to be livid over this.

00:18:11.580 Got to be like, you would not make this decision.

00:18:13.480 Not only would you not make this decision without, you know, talking to General Mattis in the Pentagon, which it sounds like he didn't at all.

00:18:19.560 But you also wouldn't make this decision without consulting your other allies.

00:18:22.300 When Mattis says, you know, our allies are important, he's also talking about them.

00:18:26.500 He's talking about everyone in the region who is now like, oh, my gosh, Iran is now back in play. 0.99

00:18:32.400 Like they were getting beaten back, but they're now back in play.

00:18:35.240 Look at Saudi Arabia.

00:18:36.920 I'm convinced the Khashoggi thing is is was only really a story, not because he was a member of the press, but because those forces that were for the Iranian deal and are not necessarily on our side.

00:18:51.760 You know, they were for the Arab Spring and they were for, oh, let's go topple Libya and and let's go arm what now is ISIS. 0.91

00:19:02.920 You know, let's go topple Syria. 0.99

00:19:04.820 Those people are the same people that were all upset about Khashoggi.

00:19:09.400 Well, what is Khashoggi done?

00:19:10.700 Khashoggi has seriously damaged Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, also the whole world, obviously, but the Middle East and and has led to us making sure that we're not helping them in Yemen. 0.85

00:19:27.700 I mean, Saudi Arabia is on the ropes in the last in the last month because of their mistake with Khashoggi.

00:19:36.980 But the way it was portrayed by the press on you can now have nothing to do with Saudi Arabia.

00:19:44.240 This is just snowballed for Saudi Arabia.

00:19:47.560 Saudi Arabia will join with Russia if they don't have the United States.

00:19:53.640 They will join with Russia on oil. 0.64

00:19:56.680 They will join with China. 0.95

00:19:58.600 They will join with somebody who will help them because they are about out of money, believe it or not.

00:20:04.760 And what's Brent crude at right now?

00:20:06.340 Fifty four, fifty six.

00:20:07.600 Yes.

00:20:07.940 Something like and dropping further.

00:20:09.760 Right.

00:20:10.380 I mean, it is.

00:20:11.380 This is really not good.

00:20:13.920 This is all great news for Iran. 1.00

00:20:17.320 This is if I were in Iran and I were in the ruling party, I'd be celebrating.

00:20:21.980 We are about to take the Middle East. 0.98

00:20:24.320 And it's not like Trump has been light on Iran, right?

00:20:26.300 He canceled the Iran deal.

00:20:27.320 Correct.

00:20:27.740 I mean, he's done a lot of good things, I think, on that front.

00:20:29.840 It's Russia. 0.81

00:20:31.260 There's not a consistency here.

00:20:32.900 I think there's not a it doesn't seem like there's an overall picture.

00:20:35.560 Right.

00:20:35.740 Like Trump is a guy who did very much run on.

00:20:39.200 We shouldn't be in these wars.

00:20:40.760 I mean, he is much more the way you think of a Democrat thinking on war.

00:20:46.240 Right.

00:20:46.340 Like he's always been against the wars.

00:20:48.160 And and that's, you know, look, that's I keep hearing people on the news saying, well, he wants he's doing what his base wants. 0.99

00:20:52.740 Pull the troops home like his base doesn't want to kick ISIS's ass. 0.99

00:20:55.740 Like, when did that start? 1.00

00:20:56.760 Well, they think that.

00:20:57.820 See, this is the problem.

00:20:59.480 It is. 1.00

00:21:01.000 It is been spun to the American people by everybody that we have kicked ISIS's ass. 1.00

00:21:06.980 And we have. 1.00

00:21:08.400 But we've pushed them into the shadows.

00:21:10.460 They're still there.

00:21:11.320 They have 20,000 active ISIS members.

00:21:15.900 And I'd like to point out that this has happened to ISIS before when they were in Iraq during the 2007 surge.

00:21:21.460 We did the exact same thing to them.

00:21:23.180 We pushed them underground.

00:21:24.460 They went underground.

00:21:25.140 They had less fighters than they do now.

00:21:27.120 So they have 20 to 30,000.

00:21:28.760 They had less than that.

00:21:29.720 It was only 700 at the time.

00:21:31.360 It was tiny.

00:21:31.940 They went underground.

00:21:33.000 They regrouped.

00:21:34.100 What happened?

00:21:34.720 We did the same thing.

00:21:35.900 But it was with Obama.

00:21:36.940 Obama pulled the troops out early.

00:21:38.660 That allowed them to rise back up.

00:21:40.580 And then we had ISIS and a caliphate.

00:21:42.560 See, I think that I feel differently, and I'd love your opinion on this, Jason, but I feel differently about Afghanistan.

00:21:51.800 Afghanistan is not going to change. 1.00

00:21:53.480 You're not going to democratize.

00:21:55.140 They don't want it.

00:21:56.000 They don't understand it.

00:21:57.420 And it's not their culture.

00:21:59.540 So that's fine.

00:22:00.780 We went in.

00:22:01.480 We got the bad guys.

00:22:03.120 Keep them contained with the bad guys and keep your eye on them.

00:22:06.480 But we can bring the troops home from Afghanistan, but that's totally different than Syria with Turkey and Iran and Israel.

00:22:19.720 Would you agree with that?

00:22:20.760 Yeah, I would definitely agree.

00:22:21.780 Afghanistan is very personal for me because I've actually fought there, and I've had friends die there.

00:22:26.080 So it hurts me to give it back to the people that will eventually take the country back over the Taliban. 0.99

00:22:32.760 Right, and it's a problem.

00:22:33.560 But just to agree with you is that strategically it's less important.

00:22:38.240 It's been called the place where empires go to die for a reason.

00:22:43.740 And, yeah, the people will not change.

00:22:44.940 Because it's happened every single time.

00:22:45.500 Every single time.

00:22:46.240 Every time.

00:22:46.920 Soviet Union, everyone.

00:22:48.560 So get out of Afghanistan. 1.00

00:22:49.780 I'm totally fine, and I celebrate him saying, okay, you know what, in a strategic way, we're going to call an end to Afghanistan. 0.96

00:22:56.460 We're going to bring all our troops home.

00:22:57.680 But leave the 2,000 in Syria.

00:23:01.900 Leave them there.

00:23:03.220 Please.

00:23:03.820 They're not there to – everyone needs to understand this.

00:23:06.000 They're not there as a large fighting force.

00:23:09.340 They're there literally just to make sure that Turkey or Russia or whoever else does not touch them. 0.62

00:23:15.840 That's really the only reason.

00:23:16.840 It's why when you're playing chess, we're not playing – those 2,000 guys, they're not the queen or the king.

00:23:23.840 They're like the bishop or the rook, and you leave it there for a reason.

00:23:28.500 Because if you move it, the other side can all of a sudden move around that board in ways that will kill you quickly.

00:23:37.260 That's all they are.

00:23:38.280 They're a rook.

00:23:39.840 Mark my words, the Kurds will – they've made an alliance with someone that we really don't want, 1.00

00:23:44.360 or they will be dead, and within months to maybe the very couple years,

00:23:50.900 we're going to be having the same conversation about moving an extremely large U.S. force back in

00:23:56.260 because Iran is now setting up shop on Israel's back door.

00:23:59.740 It'll happen.

00:24:00.960 And Lindsey Graham kind of said the same thing yesterday.

00:24:03.480 And again, Lindsey Graham's a big Trump ally on – certainly recently.

00:24:07.360 There is the – the reporting, however, is that Trump – and this is Trump – Trump wanted this, right, for a long time.

00:24:14.280 He wanted to pull the troops out.

00:24:15.740 And I think this has happened with other issues as well.

00:24:17.680 Tariffs are another example.

00:24:18.740 He had advisors around him saying this would not be a good thing for the economy.

00:24:21.800 I mean, I think they've shown to be right so far.

00:24:24.380 But, you know, they kept saying no, no, no, no, no.

00:24:26.520 And eventually it got to the point where I said I wanted it.

00:24:28.540 You're not even trying to do what I'm saying.

00:24:30.660 Get out.

00:24:31.460 And that seems what's happened here with Syria potentially.

00:24:34.580 However, the added part of this is reportedly he was on a call with Erdogan from Turkey.

00:24:41.840 And Erdogan said basically, look, why are you – these guys are terrorists. 0.99

00:24:45.760 The Kurds are terrorists. 1.00

00:24:46.740 You're siding with them over your NATO ally. 0.89

00:24:49.020 Why are you doing that? 0.99

00:24:50.920 These people are terrorists. 0.98

00:24:52.280 They're separatists. 0.99

00:24:53.260 And we should be able to go in there and get them.

00:24:55.240 And why are you siding with them instead of us?

00:24:56.940 And he won Trump over with, of course, the baseline if he wanted to pull the troops out anyway.

00:25:01.580 And, you know, I don't know.

00:25:02.900 Erdogan does not seem like a positive actor.

00:25:05.100 To me, and siding with his analysis of that situation seems like a terrible idea.

00:25:09.020 And they're not separatists.

00:25:09.840 This is a man-made border that we imposed on the region to keep everybody fighting with each other.

00:25:18.100 I can't say we did, but the British did. 0.99

00:25:21.040 To keep everybody at odds with each other.

00:25:23.600 It's why strongmen work in the Middle East. 0.99

00:25:26.440 Because they have to defend their tribe.

00:25:29.300 This is a tribal thing.

00:25:31.000 This is not like the West.

00:25:32.740 This is a tribal thing.

00:25:34.580 And you're going to wipe out that entire tribe.

00:25:38.060 It will be genocide. 1.00

00:25:39.560 And then the Christians will be slaughtered yet again. 1.00

00:25:43.940 And I'm telling you, this time, they will be on the border of Israel. 0.91

00:25:48.640 And it's, I mean, this is, this is biblical.

00:25:54.060 This is damn near biblical.

00:25:56.120 We are setting up the end of times war. 0.78

00:26:01.100 If we don't, if we don't, if we're not smart, this is Gog and Magog. 0.99

00:26:05.900 This is Russia and Iran working together, trying to get Israel. 0.74

00:26:12.480 This is, this is, this is not going to end well.

00:26:16.860 And, uh, and, and losing somebody like Mattis is very bad.

00:26:21.380 Very bad.

00:26:21.960 If you, if you support the president, please, please, Afghanistan, fine, leave. 0.99

00:26:29.680 Not there, please, Mr. President, not Syria.

00:26:34.660 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:26:53.640 You know, they say that inflation isn't happening.

00:26:56.280 It is happening.

00:26:57.520 It just all went into wall street.

00:26:59.980 Um, this year, the company buying, the companies buying back their own stock because they had

00:27:05.860 that big tax break and they could repatriate their dollars.

00:27:09.340 They poured $1 trillion into the stock market, buying back their own stock.

00:27:17.140 That's where inflation is happening.

00:27:20.760 $1 trillion of cash was poured into the system.

00:27:25.120 It went directly to wall street for a trillion dollars to be poured into the stock market.

00:27:32.000 And for us to be struggling the way we are, there's trouble because what you're seeing in,

00:27:40.080 in, on wall street is inflation, inflation that is out of control.

00:27:48.060 And we'll talk about that and, uh, help you prepare for what's coming next.

00:27:52.800 I have assembled a team, uh, and we are going to be very, very serious.

00:27:59.220 Unlike we have ever been ever before, even when we were on Fox connecting the dots and

00:28:05.220 showing you what's coming and what to avoid and how to prepare.

00:28:09.660 Um, that's all coming next year.

00:28:12.100 The horrible, terrible, no good, very bad couple of weeks for Donald Trump.

00:28:28.920 Bill O'Reilly.

00:28:29.520 Hello, Merry Christmas.

00:28:34.020 Merry Christmas.

00:28:34.620 I am Father Christmas, as you described me a couple of weeks ago.

00:28:37.880 Right, right.

00:28:38.740 Speaking to the nation.

00:28:39.860 Yeah.

00:28:40.220 You're like, you know what you are?

00:28:41.480 You're like, you're like Bing Crosby, who we later found out beat his children.

00:28:46.640 Thank you.

00:28:47.440 Very nice.

00:28:47.920 But, uh, Bing, uh, may he rest in peace.

00:28:51.400 Yes.

00:28:51.680 Um, maybe he should have been nicknamed Bang.

00:28:54.980 Bang Crosby.

00:28:56.080 Bang Crosby.

00:28:57.100 Uh, anyway.

00:28:58.600 Yes.

00:28:58.980 Um, I would like to speak to start this off with Nervous Nellie. 0.98

00:29:02.900 Is she in the studio there?

00:29:04.200 Yes, she is.

00:29:04.980 She is.

00:29:05.580 So let, let me just go through this list with you one by one.

00:29:08.600 And they're the things that have happened.

00:29:09.960 And I would like your perspective and your opinion on what's real, what really matters,

00:29:14.920 what doesn't, um, for Christmas is standing by.

00:29:17.980 Okay.

00:29:18.300 Hang on just a second.

00:29:19.180 I want it in two different categories.

00:29:21.120 I want what's real and matters in geopolitical or, or, um, uh, in real terms.

00:29:29.380 And then one politically.

00:29:31.100 Okay.

00:29:31.700 So something may not make a difference at all geopolitically, but politically it makes

00:29:36.640 a lot of difference.

00:29:37.500 Okay.

00:29:37.880 All right.

00:29:38.400 I'm ready.

00:29:39.020 All right.

00:29:39.380 Let's start with the resignation of James Mattis.

00:29:42.540 Uh, last night, the president, uh, or yesterday, he said, we're pulling out of Syria.

00:29:47.120 Uh, that is basically going to be an extermination order for the Kurds. 1.00

00:29:51.580 Uh, and James Mattis was upset that he didn't know about it.

00:29:56.280 According to his letter, there's some light between the two of them, uh, on, uh, how we

00:30:01.760 treat our allies.

00:30:03.100 He's very respected.

00:30:04.640 Does it matter?

00:30:05.440 Bill O'Reilly.

00:30:06.620 Yeah, it matters.

00:30:07.620 Sure.

00:30:08.480 And by the way, I was in the white house, uh, for an extensive period of time on Wednesday.

00:30:13.220 So I saw a picture of that, you know that.

00:30:14.680 And I had a pretty good inside view of a lot of things.

00:30:18.120 So Mattis is a very successful defense secretary.

00:30:22.160 Um, I think he had had enough of the chaos.

00:30:26.240 That's a key word in this discussion today.

00:30:28.960 C-H-A-O-S, chaos. 1.00

00:30:31.180 Uh, and there is.

00:30:33.180 So Mattis, very disciplined, four-star Marine general.

00:30:36.880 Um, I think that he differed, uh, on policy with president Trump, but I think those differences

00:30:43.640 could have been, uh, dealt with, but I, I don't think that, uh, Mattis wanted to be

00:30:51.040 told, you know, what was going to happen.

00:30:54.020 And that was that.

00:30:55.920 So I think that's why he left.

00:30:57.800 And he was an excellent defense secretary, um, dissembling ISIS, huge victory. 0.55

00:31:05.800 I hope he, I hope he writes a book about that and explains exactly how that happened.

00:31:11.340 Very important.

00:31:12.460 So we'll miss James Mattis.

00:31:14.440 The country will.

00:31:15.060 Um, does it make our allies nervous?

00:31:19.160 No, because our allies don't really, um, file into effective foreign policy for America.

00:31:29.820 There's really nobody right now, um, that's helping us, you know, to the, to the point

00:31:37.700 that Tony Blair did, uh, with Britain in the Iraq war, that kind of a thing.

00:31:42.020 Australia, very loyal to us, but the allies are basically looking for their own stuff.

00:31:48.720 And I don't really, I'm not really concerned about them.

00:31:51.120 Okay.

00:31:51.420 When it comes to, can we get an importance level, but, uh, bill high, medium or low?

00:31:56.060 Hi, Mattis is, uh, going to be hard to replace.

00:31:59.080 Okay.

00:32:00.000 Um, let's go to Syria, pulling the troops out of Syria.

00:32:04.460 Uh, here's what Lindsey Graham said as a big supporter of Donald Trump. 0.56

00:32:10.360 It's Obama.

00:32:12.020 Had done this, we would be all over him as Republicans.

00:32:15.200 We made a good record that the decision to withdraw from Iraq was, um, not based on sound

00:32:22.000 military advice in spite of it.

00:32:24.200 He did it himself, which he has every right to do, but he needs to own it.

00:32:29.380 And, uh, I don't think general Trump is going to be any better than, uh, general Obama.

00:32:35.460 This is, uh, the bill O'Reilly.com man of the year.

00:32:39.020 Uh, Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham, your thoughts on Syria.

00:32:44.040 Yeah.

00:32:44.180 My view is 2000, uh, special forces in Syria were effective there and protecting many

00:32:51.420 innocent people from harm.

00:32:53.680 Um, that's pretty much what their role was.

00:32:57.460 So, uh, the president made it clear he doesn't want U S troops on foreign soil unless, you

00:33:05.420 know, it's a national security situation with, this is not, I am not that upset or worried

00:33:12.280 about 2000 troops coming out of Syria.

00:33:14.600 Is, is, is Iran a national security concern?

00:33:18.800 Yes.

00:33:19.960 You just had, you've just handed the region.

00:33:22.080 No, no Beck.

00:33:23.500 Yes, you did.

00:33:24.420 Just, just relax.

00:33:26.000 All right.

00:33:26.480 This is nervous.

00:33:27.200 Now we're back in there in 16 hours.

00:33:30.200 We have bases around the area where, uh, American forces are stationed.

00:33:36.020 We have air power that can hit that place very hard and very quick.

00:33:40.340 So if Iran were to do something, um, that was dangerous, we could, uh, very quickly affect 0.63

00:33:49.580 that Trump just didn't want these guys sitting there.

00:33:54.520 They're not moving them around.

00:33:56.960 We're not pulling out of the region as somebody who has helped move tens of thousands of Christians

00:34:04.640 to safety.

00:34:05.420 This is the most reckless thing I've ever seen a president do, uh, possibly only beaten

00:34:14.620 by Obama.

00:34:15.480 All right.

00:34:16.360 We have a little bit of a disagreement there. 0.83

00:34:19.200 I think that if anybody started to slaughter Christians, that we would be right back in there 1.00

00:34:25.400 very quickly.

00:34:26.420 Uh, so, uh, importance level would be low there still or medium moderate moderate moderate because

00:34:31.600 it's a ripple effect.

00:34:33.960 Um, it did have something to do with Mattis resigning.

00:34:37.720 I think the department of defense is, uh, not happy with president Trump.

00:34:44.000 That's not a good thing.

00:34:45.800 So, whereas I don't see it as a strategic move that's going to harm the country directly.

00:34:52.380 Um, the fact that it was done this way is not good for the USA.

00:34:57.400 So I'm going to give, I'm going to, let me give mine as well, um, Mattis, I agree with

00:35:01.620 Bill high Syria couldn't disagree more with bill high, very high.

00:35:07.220 This should be interesting border and giving $5 billion to Mexico.

00:35:12.780 He folded and now he listened to his, his, his tribe and he is trying to reverse that.

00:35:20.000 Tell me your thoughts on the border and the 5 billion in Mexico.

00:35:22.760 All right.

00:35:23.480 What's the 5 billion in Mexico 5 billion?

00:35:26.780 And what, what, what it was is, uh, we said we're going to give $10 billion, no border wall,

00:35:31.740 and we're going to give $10 billion in aid about giving them economic aid.

00:35:36.460 Yes.

00:35:36.860 Yes.

00:35:37.580 Okay.

00:35:38.340 All right.

00:35:39.020 So there's a new president in Mexico and Trump apparently has a pretty good relationship with

00:35:45.420 him and the NAFTA deal helps the United States economically.

00:35:51.180 So he wants the guy to do us favors.

00:35:56.140 The new president of Mexico wants him to do his favors.

00:35:59.820 So he's, he's basically backing away from the punitive aspect of, uh, U S Mexico relations

00:36:07.840 unbeknownst to the public, Mexico helped with this migrant caravan a lot, a lot.

00:36:15.580 And that has not been out there.

00:36:18.040 It's not been put out there.

00:36:19.140 So very few of these caravan people got into the United States, very few.

00:36:24.500 And Mexico is paying for them to sit down in Tijuana, um, for the rest of their lives,

00:36:29.940 I guess.

00:36:30.920 So there's a lot of extenuating circumstances.

00:36:33.560 Now, the bigger question is the PR debacle of the president waffling on the wall.

00:36:41.520 And, you know, that's a political thing.

00:36:43.700 I would have said to the American people, I need two months to solidify this wall and

00:36:51.400 get, um, a marketing campaign so that you understand why this wall is absolutely necessary.

00:36:58.380 So I'm going to extend the spending until February 8th.

00:37:01.420 But if February 8th, I don't get my wall, then the government's going to shut down forever

00:37:06.540 because we're not going to do it.

00:37:07.880 That's how I would have done it because of the stock market.

00:37:11.120 And then I, so I would have delayed it a little bit instead of just one day saying, ah, yeah,

00:37:17.920 all right, all right, I'll accept no money for the wall.

00:37:20.080 And then the next day after Ann Coulter ran around the White House on fire saying, oh,

00:37:24.660 nope, I'm reversing because that makes President Trump look weak.

00:37:28.440 So importance level, high, moderate or low?

00:37:30.540 Very high.

00:37:31.340 Okay.

00:37:31.800 Hang on just a second.

00:37:32.700 Because of the stock market.

00:37:34.600 The stock market is the big story.

00:37:36.480 Okay.

00:37:37.300 That's the big, big story.

00:37:39.000 Let's take a quick break and we'll come back.

00:37:40.420 And I, and I also want to know, is this a big story on the border because of political

00:37:47.620 or, or actual effect to all of our lives or a combination of both?

00:37:55.980 All right.

00:38:01.640 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:38:04.260 Chad Prather, a comedian, a kind of the, the Will Rogers of the conservative side, if

00:38:24.640 you will, um, who has been doing comedy tours and, and quite honestly, uh, has, has pinned

00:38:30.420 and sung one of the greatest songs ever, uh, ever made.

00:38:34.060 Uh, I've got friends in safe spaces, uh, which give me the, just give me the hook of that.

00:38:40.440 I love that.

00:38:41.280 I've got friends in safe spaces.

00:38:42.740 If you don't go with us, you must be racist.

00:38:44.620 Let's come on, uh, let's see, come on in. 0.86

00:38:48.000 Let's get cozy.

00:38:49.000 Showing off participation trophies.

00:38:51.360 It's a great song.

00:38:52.340 Watching CNN in safe spaces.

00:38:54.260 Yeah.

00:38:54.460 That's great.

00:38:55.140 How are you, Chad?

00:38:56.060 I'm doing great.

00:38:56.760 I'm doing wonderful.

00:38:57.440 Yeah.

00:38:57.680 I'm ready for Christmas and I thought we were going to take a little break, but no, it's

00:39:01.480 been, but you know what?

00:39:02.340 It's been fun.

00:39:02.860 You guys have had me in, had me on the shows this week and I've enjoyed coming over.

00:39:05.940 So yeah.

00:39:06.360 Appreciate that.

00:39:06.980 You have, you're, you're a guy, what were you doing before YouTube?

00:39:11.700 I was depressed.

00:39:13.360 I was miserable.

00:39:14.300 I was, I was in, I had gone, I used to travel all over the world and I was a motivational

00:39:19.600 speaker and I, and I was all over the place and, and you know, I, then I went through kind

00:39:24.940 of a breaking point in my life and I climbed into that proverbial cave for about five years.

00:39:29.000 And I said, you know, instead of being entrepreneurial and stepping online landmines everywhere I go,

00:39:33.440 I'm just going to go do what everybody else does.

00:39:35.280 And I'm going to join the corporate world and get a paycheck.

00:39:37.040 And I was miserable with that.

00:39:39.540 And so one day I was at the gym, I was not in the gym.

00:39:42.080 I was at the gym.

00:39:42.720 It was a huge difference.

00:39:44.040 I love you for that.

00:39:45.200 I love you.

00:39:45.760 Cause I, I'll go to the gym.

00:39:47.120 I'll go to the gym.

00:39:47.560 I'm not going to go in.

00:39:48.360 Yeah.

00:39:48.580 And I was sitting under a shade tree making phone calls.

00:39:50.420 I called my wife on the phone and I said, I said, I'm quitting my job.

00:39:53.860 I'm miserable.

00:39:54.300 And she said, if that'll make you happy.

00:39:55.640 I said, thank you, because I've already quit.

00:39:57.720 And she said, what are you going to do?

00:39:58.860 And I said, and it sounded so articulate in my head.

00:40:00.820 And I said, I'm going to go make a living just being myself.

00:40:03.520 And she said, Chad, what's the street value on your personality?

00:40:07.540 And me being equally quick.

00:40:08.960 I said, it's about the same as president Obama giving a keynote speech at the NRA convention.

00:40:13.200 She said, that's hands down worthless.

00:40:15.300 So, you know, we had no idea.

00:40:17.040 I just knew that I had, I felt like one of those things I felt like years ago, God said

00:40:21.600 to me, one day you'll speak to thousands of people.

00:40:24.000 I just had no idea I'd be sitting alone in my truck when I did it.

00:40:26.940 Yeah.

00:40:27.080 You know what I mean?

00:40:28.460 God has interesting different plans and strategies for our lives because I was, I was on a bigger

00:40:33.860 and bigger platform back in the day when I was working with ministries and organizations

00:40:36.960 and going around the world.

00:40:38.380 And I thought, well, I'm on the, I'm on the road.

00:40:40.380 I'm headed up on the pedestal and you get knocked off.

00:40:43.820 It is so strange because it's almost the same experience.

00:40:46.360 When I was eight, um, I, I felt, um, a prompting that, uh, someday what you do will be a turning

00:40:55.560 point.

00:40:56.100 Uh, and I, I remember it and it, it, in, in some ways it screwed me up, uh, because later

00:41:03.360 as I got further from it, I thought I knew what that was going to be.

00:41:08.060 And so I became a little more arrogant and I know that I'm right. 0.99

00:41:10.620 I, and it wasn't until I gave up on all of it and just said, well, that was a stupid 0.98

00:41:17.680 little thing that I don't even know if that happened. 0.98

00:41:20.440 And what am I doing?

00:41:21.620 I'm screwing up my whole life and I wasn't even me anymore.

00:41:24.680 Yeah.

00:41:25.240 And I started to risk.

00:41:26.680 I mean, Stu knows he was there the day I looked at him on the air and said, I turned off my

00:41:30.980 mic and said, write this down in your calendar.

00:41:33.000 Do you remember this?

00:41:33.640 Oh yeah.

00:41:34.000 Write this down in your calendar.

00:41:35.100 This is the day Glenn Beck ended his career because I started being me really me.

00:41:40.620 And then the whole world changed.

00:41:43.280 I mean, it's, it's this weird thing.

00:41:45.460 We are so concerned that I'm not good enough.

00:41:48.700 I'm not this.

00:41:49.520 I'm not that.

00:41:50.380 If, if people only knew, uh, you know, who I really was and that's what they want to know.

00:41:56.540 Yeah.

00:41:57.020 There's a psychological term and I can't remember it right now, but most celebrities have that

00:42:01.580 sense of the curtain is going to be pulled back and they're going to expose the wizard and

00:42:05.520 they're going to be seen for the talentless hacks that they all are.

00:42:08.340 And they all have that fear of that.

00:42:09.880 You know, Frederick Nietzsche said that you can only wear two faces to the world for so

00:42:14.100 long before you forget which one's the real one.

00:42:16.060 And that was kind of where I was living.

00:42:17.840 I didn't know who I was.

00:42:18.840 And so it's funny.

00:42:19.860 Me too.

00:42:20.500 You know, I look at when I, when I just said, I'm going to be me because I was, you know,

00:42:24.980 the Bible says John the Baptist was a voice crying out in the wilderness.

00:42:28.280 He wasn't an echo.

00:42:29.120 He was a true voice.

00:42:30.100 And I said, I'm going to go find my voice and I'm going to be me.

00:42:33.680 I'm going to be comfortable.

00:42:34.700 I put on this cowboy hat and that's the world I came out of.

00:42:37.980 And I said, you know, I'm just going to enjoy being myself.

00:42:40.700 And so that's the biggest response I get back from YouTube and Facebook videos.

00:42:44.380 And that is they say, we love the genuineness.

00:42:46.760 You say the things we want to say and we're afraid to say you articulate it in a way that

00:42:50.620 we've never thought about saying it.

00:42:51.920 And you make a smile when you do it.

00:42:53.460 So, you know, I'm a little bit tongue in cheek with everything I do.

00:42:56.660 I'm self-deprecating in my humor and it's okay.

00:42:59.060 I don't, I believe if you can't laugh at yourself, you know, I mean, my friend Gary Chapman,

00:43:03.360 he said to me years ago, he said, he said, you know, when you hit rock bottom, look around,

00:43:07.800 you'll see my name carved on the wall in a couple of places, three or four times.

00:43:11.680 And I said, you know, I think life is really interpreted by the breaking points.

00:43:15.500 I think when you look back at the journey of your life, how many times were you broken? 0.97

00:43:19.280 How many times did you say, damn, I was on the wrong.

00:43:22.580 I mean, this is, and I had to get broken down to a bare essential of humanity so that you become 0.98

00:43:27.460 a dependent human being again on, on something stronger and more powerful than you.

00:43:31.720 And it makes you real hurts.

00:43:34.460 It hurts.

00:43:35.400 You know, I can remember going through a real hard time several years ago.

00:43:38.080 And I called my mentor on the phone and I said, you know, I don't know how to deal with

00:43:42.240 the situation.

00:43:42.800 I don't know how to come out of this.

00:43:44.380 This cave is dark.

00:43:45.460 And he said, just get back on the cross and finish the job.

00:43:48.300 He said, you know, just go ahead and get it over with. 1.00

00:43:50.700 Just go ahead and die. 0.63

00:43:52.120 That's back when I realized that there's some things that God doesn't want to take to heaven. 1.00

00:43:55.580 That's in you.

00:43:56.260 Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

00:43:56.780 He's going to get some of it out.

00:43:57.880 Yeah.

00:43:59.260 And now, and here you are now, you started YouTube, what, 2012?

00:44:03.380 Yeah, a little bit after that.

00:44:04.560 You know, I was doing, I had started doing a television show, which no one was watching

00:44:08.180 on cable.

00:44:08.880 And it was a travel television show.

00:44:10.580 It was an equestrian lifestyle, humor show, anyway.

00:44:14.180 And so I had a production assistant who said, you know, you're always putting these videos

00:44:17.020 out on social media.

00:44:18.180 And I say that tongue in cheek, but I really was a depressed person.

00:44:21.580 I was medically depressed.

00:44:23.800 And for me, it was therapy.

00:44:26.620 Because my wife used to say all the time, she said, Chad, go talk to somebody.

00:44:29.180 Go talk to, I said, I don't want to do that, you know.

00:44:31.740 And there's no shame against it.

00:44:33.140 I said, I just feel weird being a dude that's going to go sit on a leather couch with a strange

00:44:36.720 dude that every 15 seconds says, how does that make you feel?

00:44:40.280 It makes me feel creepy.

00:44:41.600 So I just didn't want to do it.

00:44:43.560 And I said, I got an idea.

00:44:45.420 So I started putting little observational humor vignettes on Facebook.

00:44:49.940 And she said, you know, you can make money off of that.

00:44:52.140 And I said, I have no idea.

00:44:53.640 So she kind of told me about YouTube and things like that.

00:44:57.240 And for me, people think that I made all this money off of doing social media videos.

00:45:02.080 Really, it was the doors that had opened up for me on the backside.

00:45:05.520 I didn't do it to make money.

00:45:06.640 For me, it was therapy.

00:45:07.400 And I had no idea when I put a camera phone on the dashboard of my truck while I was sitting

00:45:11.480 in traffic that millions of people were going to be watching to the tune.

00:45:14.320 We crossed it over a billion and a half views on Facebook alone in just two years.

00:45:19.840 And it's just been outrageous.

00:45:21.820 So we translated that into speaking tours and comedy tours.

00:45:26.060 And I still don't see myself necessarily as a comedian, although I don't think many

00:45:29.580 people really know the difference.

00:45:31.060 You're one of these guys that a lot of people will walk up and they'll see this huge auditorium

00:45:36.460 and traffic is snarled.

00:45:38.800 And they'll say, who's who's why here?

00:45:42.280 Is it Michael Jackson back from the dead?

00:45:45.000 Who's here?

00:45:45.960 Yeah.

00:45:46.240 And they'll say some guy named Chad.

00:45:48.500 And they'll both stand around.

00:45:49.500 Go who?

00:45:50.440 Exactly.

00:45:50.800 It's it's weird how huge an audience can be now without people knowing it, unless you're

00:46:00.020 connected to them through YouTube.

00:46:02.540 Yeah.

00:46:02.780 You know, and a good friend of mine.

00:46:03.900 And I'll tell you what I think that is, Glenn.

00:46:05.600 I, I, because a lot of people say, well, I don't know who you are.

00:46:08.380 And then somebody will show, I was sitting on a plane a couple of years ago on my way

00:46:11.780 to Phoenix and I could hear my voice like three rows behind me.

00:46:15.800 And someone was watching one of my videos.

00:46:17.780 And then, and then I've had people who walk up to me at the airport and they're like,

00:46:20.460 oh my God, do you know who this is?

00:46:21.540 And the person with them says, I don't have a clue.

00:46:23.140 And then they'll say, it's this guy.

00:46:24.120 And they show him in the context of me with the hat in the truck.

00:46:26.980 And they're like, oh, okay, we know who that is.

00:46:29.120 But what I think is, and I've got a good friend, Rob Long out in Hollywood.

00:46:31.960 He's a, you know, Yale graduate.

00:46:33.500 He was executive producer of Cheers.

00:46:35.260 And, you know, this guy, he's, he's written so many shows out in Hollywood and he's conservative

00:46:39.440 guys.

00:46:40.000 He's consistently on conservative talk.

00:46:41.720 And, um, he just did a poll study recently that revealed that 65% of the people in America

00:46:47.400 feel like that they're being underserved by the entertainment that's coming out of Hollywood.

00:46:51.160 We say, duh, we know that.

00:46:53.540 But Hollywood and that bubble of New York and Hollywood and those places, they don't realize

00:46:57.580 there's the rest of America out here.

00:46:58.960 And so what I said, and I didn't want to come out as a political flamethrower, although

00:47:03.100 I do delve into politics because I love it.

00:47:05.200 I love the concept of leadership.

00:47:07.160 And I think I like to look at politics because I like to make fun of the fact that we're void

00:47:11.580 of so much true leadership in a world today, but I don't want to be a flamethrower with 1.00

00:47:16.660 it.

00:47:16.760 I want to poke fun at it.

00:47:17.860 And as long as Washington's writing the jokes for us, I'm going to try to tell them.

00:47:21.080 And, and I said, there's this audience out there.

00:47:24.000 There's 65 million people who voted for Donald Trump and they feel neglected.

00:47:28.880 They've been called deplorables and all these things.

00:47:30.860 Let's go out there and entertain them.

00:47:32.460 And so that's the response that we got.

00:47:34.620 And it's amazing to see the people who turn out.

00:47:36.480 You can tell our fan base when they show up, you know, we can recognize them coming.

00:47:41.540 And those people, they drive for hours.

00:47:43.360 We've sold out in cities like Seattle as in your birthplace, Everett, Washington.

00:47:47.580 We sold out in Everett, Washington.

00:47:48.940 I don't know how I ran across that, but I remember seeing that somewhere.

00:47:55.160 And I was like, yeah, we did a show in Everett a year and a half ago, something like that.

00:47:59.320 And, uh, Portland and San Jose and New York, we sell out.

00:48:04.600 Yeah.

00:48:05.020 And I keep telling my agents and these guys who booked for me in LA, I'm like, stop putting

00:48:08.360 me in these big cities.

00:48:09.160 Cause all my guys are having to drive in for two hours.

00:48:11.660 Yeah.

00:48:14.100 We've had tour stops like that too, where you're just like, they, no one in this theater has

00:48:17.700 ever been within five miles of this place.

00:48:19.760 You know, what's really weird is when we did San Francisco, we did the Shrine auditorium

00:48:23.480 auditorium in San Francisco, big, beautiful 3000 seat theater.

00:48:27.880 We thought no one would come packed to the rafters and everybody in there.

00:48:33.760 I even said it, you could feel it.

00:48:35.920 Everyone in there all of a sudden kind of felt like, Oh my God, I'm, I'm safe in here.

00:48:41.960 I'm not alone in my everyday life.

00:48:44.080 It was, it's so bizarre when that happened, the blaze radio network on demand.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 21, 2018

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