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00:01:30.400 So today on the podcast, we had a lot of, there's a lot of bizarre things happening in the world.

00:01:34.000 Yeah. I mean, it's good to see that Amazon went way out on a limb and came up with, you know, where they're going to put the heart of their company.

00:01:41.920 And they finally picked where they're going to put their second headquarters. But they found out that they also need a second, second headquarter.

00:01:48.740 And we reveal that news to you in a little bit, you know, beyond that. Why?

00:01:54.560 Also, animal news.

00:01:56.600 Yes. There's some very dangerous monkeys in Florida. If you're in Florida, look out for them.

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00:02:08.960 We also have polar bears that are out of control now.

00:02:11.720 Yeah. I thought global warming was killing them. Apparently not according to the people who live around them.

00:02:16.340 Yeah. Also a new meat tax, a robot brothel in Finland. And we go to the ground with Joy Villo. 0.98

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00:02:54.280 It's Wednesday, November 14th.

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00:03:56.400 First it's a France, then it is the Germans. 0.91

00:04:00.820 The Europeans are finally starting to get it. 0.58

00:04:04.100 Last week, the French president mentioned the idea of creating a European army.

00:04:09.580 Yay! 0.99

00:04:10.860 Because Europe with arms has never caused any problems.

00:04:16.520 Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed him up saying, quote,

00:04:20.740 We have to work on the vision of one day creating a real European army.

00:04:25.480 Really?

00:04:26.400 One day?

00:04:27.860 You know, it's been 70 years since the end of World War II,

00:04:30.900 and I'm glad that you're finally getting around to it.

00:04:33.720 But Trump called her remarks insulting and told them instead to agree to meet their NATO commitments.

00:04:40.860 Wait, hold it just a sec.

00:04:41.960 Wait a minute.

00:04:42.580 Weren't you the one?

00:04:43.600 Wait, I thought you didn't like NATO.

00:04:45.460 Hold it just a second.

00:04:47.040 You just got me there.

00:04:48.780 You had me at Bring the Troops Home.

00:04:52.040 We are subsidizing half the planet's defense budgets.

00:04:57.480 In fact, we're paying for almost all of it.

00:05:00.440 World War II ended 73 years ago.

00:05:02.660 The Cold War ended two decades ago.

00:05:04.780 Why do we have to hold up Western Europe's deal anymore?

00:05:09.980 I mean, I like having, you know, a bargain with these people.

00:05:14.240 But we're not getting a bargain. 0.97

00:05:15.840 We're getting screwed. 0.70

00:05:16.780 They have the intellectual, honest conversation about NATO? 0.99

00:05:21.840 No.

00:05:22.380 Uh-uh.

00:05:23.060 NATO did an outstanding job.

00:05:25.180 It really did.

00:05:26.360 Without it, people in France would be speaking probably German or Russian.

00:05:30.700 NATO was established to combat one enemy.

00:05:34.380 All of its members had one goal, to protect themselves against the Soviet Union.

00:05:39.500 Well, guess what doesn't exist anymore?

00:05:41.780 Now, Russia does, and Russia has its eyes set on Europe.

00:05:45.940 But unless we're actually going to talk about that, and unless Germany isn't saying,

00:05:50.660 well, we've got to protect ourselves against, you know, evil Russia, 0.96

00:05:54.660 and by the way, we want to buy all their gas so we can be on their heroin, 0.54

00:05:58.940 I'm not interested.

00:06:02.320 So why are we continuing to do this?

00:06:05.500 Why are the NATO members still subsidizing, being subsidized by us?

00:06:12.380 We don't have identifying interests and unifying interests anymore.

00:06:18.720 Do we?

00:06:19.920 Do we?

00:06:21.500 Because I don't know who's for Russia and who's against Russia.

00:06:24.340 I don't know who's for national socialism and who's against national socialism.

00:06:29.560 I don't know how many, for instance, the UK.

00:06:32.080 Are you convinced that the UK can stand against the Islamic Sharia law courts 0.99

00:06:38.960 that are already in its country?

00:06:41.220 Because I'm not.

00:06:43.860 As far as policy goes, there hasn't been much to criticize President Trump on

00:06:48.300 with the tariffs, except for the tariffs, I would say.

00:06:53.180 I understand what he's doing here.

00:06:55.680 First, he rocked the world by criticizing NATO during the first year of his administration.

00:06:59.520 Now it looks like he's perpetuating the continued use of the U.S. military

00:07:04.580 as European security blanket that I don't want to provide anymore.

00:07:10.180 Our global helicopter parenting really has to stop.

00:07:13.780 Is there a reason why Japan still hasn't rebuilt their military

00:07:16.580 and relies on us for security?

00:07:19.300 Yeah, they're broke.

00:07:21.060 But so are we.

00:07:22.000 Enough is enough.

00:07:23.680 China is a very big problem. 1.00

00:07:25.560 But why not let Japan take their natural place 0.99

00:07:28.520 and take the brunt of containing China?

00:07:31.200 Let them foot the bill.

00:07:33.540 How much of the deficit and national debt could we cut

00:07:37.160 by empowering Europe and Japan to take responsibility for themselves?

00:07:42.980 I think it's time to reexamine and think outside of the box.

00:07:46.340 Because our debt situation is unsustainable.

00:07:49.420 And quite honestly, I want our troops to come home.

00:07:52.300 I want our troops to concentrate on the problems that we have here.

00:07:55.660 And I don't mean as troops.

00:07:57.580 I mean as good, solid citizens.

00:08:01.380 Europe and Japan, it's time to leave mommy and daddy's basement. 0.99

00:08:05.780 I know, I know, it's scary.

00:08:07.600 But even in America, at 26, you're considered adults.

00:08:12.560 You're what, 73?

00:08:14.620 Don't worry.

00:08:16.200 You'll screw it up and we'll be here.

00:08:18.760 We might give you some limited funds on a credit card to help wean you off.

00:08:25.140 But as far as I'm concerned, it's time for mommy and daddy

00:08:27.840 to kick them out of the house.

00:08:29.900 The free ride is over.

00:08:33.760 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:08:42.080 You know, it doesn't take anything huge to help.

00:08:45.560 You know, people feel right now, people feel like I can't do anything.

00:08:50.600 And yet you can, unlike ever before.

00:08:54.120 And sometimes the ability to help comes from the strangest places.

00:09:01.380 If you just don't close your eyes.

00:09:05.220 If you decide to pursue, sometimes where you thought you were going

00:09:11.400 turns out to be a completely different destination.

00:09:15.560 A mysterious typo-ridden email or message appears in your inbox

00:09:25.540 purportedly from a Nigerian prince or a down-on-his-luck businessman.

00:09:30.800 Now, most people respond one of two ways.

00:09:34.060 You either ignore it, cynical yet amused,

00:09:37.340 or you just fall for it and you lose thousands of dollars to an obvious scam.

00:09:41.480 But something else happened in early 2017.

00:09:47.280 Ben Taylor, he got that message on Facebook.

00:09:50.920 He got it from a man in Monrovia, Liberia.

00:09:54.120 His name was Joel Willey.

00:09:56.580 In the post, it read,

00:09:58.680 My name is Joel.

00:09:59.980 I'm from Liberia, West Africa.

00:10:02.340 I need some assistance from you.

00:10:04.260 Business or financial assistance that will help empower me.

00:10:07.920 Well, Ben knew full well that most likely he was being scammed.

00:10:13.800 He was skeptical.

00:10:15.500 But he responded anyway, and he said,

00:10:17.200 How can I help?

00:10:18.860 Joel asked him to mail Primo Electronics,

00:10:23.140 cameras, computers, printers, to a shabby building in New Jersey

00:10:26.760 so that he could sell those on the Liberian market

00:10:30.580 and split the profits with Ben.

00:10:32.780 Now, I figured that this was just one of those African internet scams, 1.00

00:10:36.260 but I decided to play along and see where it led me.

00:10:39.020 I figured the more time of his that I could waste,

00:10:41.400 the less time that he'd have to spend ripping other people off.

00:10:44.520 So I told him that I didn't have any electronics to send,

00:10:47.620 but I did have a business proposition if he was interested.

00:10:50.920 I told him that I was in the photography business,

00:10:52.940 and that if he'd be willing to take pictures of where he lived

00:10:55.240 and send them to me,

00:10:56.520 I'd pay him for the ones that I liked.

00:10:58.700 He agreed, and the next morning, he sent a few over.

00:11:01.100 They were just terrible.

00:11:04.440 So the resultant photos that Joel sent

00:11:07.300 were two out-of-focus, blurred canopy of trees

00:11:11.160 half-lit by sunlight,

00:11:13.000 clearly shot with a 15-year-old flip phone.

00:11:16.680 So Ben responded, still warmly,

00:11:19.660 and much to Joel's surprise,

00:11:21.700 mailed him a rose-red Vivitar camera,

00:11:24.920 instructing him to send more photos.

00:11:27.800 Joel, overjoyed, replied,

00:11:29.780 I've decided to really commit and devote myself

00:11:33.180 to D-I-S, dis-business,

00:11:36.520 and whatever picture you want me to take.

00:11:40.280 Still skeptical, Ben told Joel

00:11:42.520 that his photography needed some work.

00:11:45.120 Well, the pictures were a little better quality, 0.98

00:11:47.260 but they still suck. 0.82

00:11:48.820 So I said to him that if he wanted to make money 0.99

00:11:50.960 taking pictures, he needed to practice.

00:11:53.340 He needed to hold the camera still

00:11:54.860 and make sure his subject had plenty of likes.

00:11:56.840 So Ben was genuinely surprised

00:11:58.940 when he received a batch full

00:12:00.740 of really good, stunning photos.

00:12:05.080 Eventually, Joel did get better.

00:12:07.480 Yeah, these are actually pretty good.

00:12:09.140 Which posed a big problem.

00:12:11.620 When he put in the work,

00:12:12.880 I thought, oh no,

00:12:14.360 now I've got to figure out a way

00:12:15.300 to compensate Joel for these pictures,

00:12:17.740 or I'm going to be the scammer.

00:12:19.200 Scammer.

00:12:19.620 That was Ben in an interview on CBS News.

00:12:24.340 But Ben decided to design a small book

00:12:26.960 with the photos,

00:12:27.720 entitled it By Degrace of God.

00:12:31.440 Now Ben thought that, you know,

00:12:32.860 they'd sell a few copies and move on,

00:12:34.480 but the sales kind of exceeded

00:12:37.320 everybody's expectations.

00:12:39.180 And soon, Ben had $1,000 in profits.

00:12:43.080 I made a promise to Joel

00:12:44.400 that we'd split the profits 50-50

00:12:46.140 and that my half would go to charity.

00:12:47.640 So I wrote to Joel and said

00:12:49.380 that I wanted to give my portion

00:12:50.540 to the people of Liberia

00:12:51.740 and asked if there was anything

00:12:52.800 in his community that I could help with.

00:12:55.200 He said that there were a lot of children

00:12:56.760 that were in need

00:12:57.440 because their parents were so poor.

00:12:59.760 So I asked, how can we help the children?

00:13:01.980 And he said, school materials,

00:13:03.580 stationery, book bags, chairs.

00:13:05.820 These are the things

00:13:06.580 that children suffer for the most.

00:13:09.120 He said that we should start

00:13:10.020 by targeting the youngest 100 kids

00:13:11.900 and that it would cost me about $500.

00:13:14.640 I thought, this is where we're really

00:13:15.760 going to find out what Joel's made out of.

00:13:17.640 Either he's going to use that money

00:13:18.640 for the kids

00:13:19.340 or he's going to keep it for himself.

00:13:21.680 But I still owe him money,

00:13:23.080 so I decided to move forward

00:13:24.400 and see what happens.

00:13:27.200 Joel agreed.

00:13:28.580 Ben just shrugged.

00:13:30.380 He walked the cash to Western Union

00:13:32.240 and sent it off

00:13:33.000 into what he assumed would,

00:13:34.100 you know, be the abyss

00:13:35.240 never to be seen or heard from again.

00:13:38.020 But after a few weeks,

00:13:39.800 he received another package of photos.

00:13:42.180 These photos were colorful,

00:13:45.760 filled with life,

00:13:46.940 poignant, enlivening.

00:13:48.960 In them were school children praying.

00:13:52.580 They were saying a thankful prayer

00:13:54.280 for their new book bags and notebooks

00:13:56.240 and their sharp new outfits.

00:13:59.060 All smiling.

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00:15:17.960 Pat, what's on your plate today?

00:15:19.700 Oh, so much.

00:15:21.360 For one thing,

00:15:23.100 did you know there's a CEO

00:15:24.380 of the Democratic National Committee?

00:15:27.380 There's a CEO,

00:15:28.160 not just the head,

00:15:29.140 who is Perez.

00:15:31.140 There's a CEO

00:15:32.040 of the Democrat National Committee.

00:15:34.240 And her name is Seema Nanda.

00:15:37.760 I didn't know Seema,

00:15:39.360 and I didn't know about Hernanda.

00:15:41.380 And I didn't know

00:15:42.820 she was the CEO

00:15:43.580 of the Democratic Party.

00:15:44.500 Right, there's a lot here

00:15:45.360 you didn't know so far.

00:15:46.340 A lot here I didn't know.

00:15:46.900 But I have a feeling

00:15:47.920 there's more to the story.

00:15:49.440 Well, she was asked

00:15:50.680 by Yahoo News

00:15:52.400 about who's welcome

00:15:54.540 in the Democrat Party.

00:15:55.860 Uh-huh.

00:15:56.160 And here's what she said.

00:15:58.120 Is there room for socialists

00:16:00.780 in the Democratic Party?

00:16:02.240 Oh, sure.

00:16:02.620 You know, I think we can

00:16:04.380 get involved in

00:16:07.120 what we all call ourselves.

00:16:09.260 I think there's room

00:16:10.200 for all sorts of Democrats

00:16:12.240 in the Democratic Party.

00:16:13.740 What does that mean?

00:16:14.540 I think we can get involved

00:16:15.900 in what we call ourselves.

00:16:17.340 What does that mean?

00:16:18.140 I don't know,

00:16:18.760 especially from the party

00:16:20.840 that is doing,

00:16:21.980 is only slicing

00:16:23.140 and dicing everybody

00:16:24.020 into groups.

00:16:24.860 Right.

00:16:25.400 You know what I mean?

00:16:26.000 You know, I think

00:16:26.820 we can talk about

00:16:27.720 what we call ourselves.

00:16:29.700 We call each other.

00:16:30.960 It's a great point.

00:16:32.860 They're going to say

00:16:33.560 no labels now?

00:16:34.660 This is all they talk about

00:16:35.780 all the time.

00:16:36.640 I know.

00:16:36.660 These are the people

00:16:37.280 that brought us LGBT,

00:16:38.920 IQ,

00:16:40.360 identity politicians.

00:16:42.220 That's what they're all about.

00:16:43.360 That's all they're all about.

00:16:44.560 Plus,

00:16:45.080 the better question

00:16:45.840 for the Democrat Party is,

00:16:47.480 are there Democrats

00:16:48.340 allowed in the social?

00:16:49.500 Is there room for Democrats

00:16:50.700 anymore in the Socialist Party?

00:16:52.960 Right.

00:16:53.620 Because the Socialists

00:16:54.320 have taken over that party.

00:16:55.700 I mean,

00:16:56.340 is there any doubt

00:16:57.400 in anybody's mind

00:16:58.400 that it's become

00:16:59.420 a party of socialists now?

00:17:01.000 Yes.

00:17:01.540 In a lot of people

00:17:02.340 in the press,

00:17:03.080 their mind,

00:17:03.520 I saw an article today

00:17:04.560 that Cinema is a,

00:17:07.760 she won because

00:17:08.940 she's such a centrist.

00:17:10.420 Oh my gosh.

00:17:11.940 Oh, good golly.

00:17:13.300 Really?

00:17:13.660 I mean,

00:17:13.780 she definitely tried

00:17:14.620 to play herself

00:17:15.560 as a centrist.

00:17:16.220 She is not a centrist.

00:17:17.120 She's not a centrist.

00:17:18.240 She's no more centrist

00:17:19.120 than Beto was.

00:17:20.100 Hang on just a second.

00:17:21.020 Just because she was

00:17:21.920 a member of Code Pink

00:17:23.160 doesn't make her

00:17:23.920 extreme.

00:17:24.300 Yeah, I know.

00:17:25.380 And that's another thing.

00:17:27.020 They are so extreme

00:17:28.440 in that party.

00:17:29.960 I think we could learn

00:17:30.920 some interesting lessons

00:17:32.580 from the Democrats

00:17:34.260 and how they've won

00:17:35.260 so many battles.

00:17:36.540 I mean,

00:17:36.780 they've just Overton

00:17:37.720 windowed us

00:17:38.400 on absolutely everything.

00:17:40.500 We need to start

00:17:41.540 doing that

00:17:42.120 on the right.

00:17:43.480 We need to start

00:17:44.280 insisting on...

00:17:45.840 We won't.

00:17:46.380 I know we won't.

00:17:47.220 Yeah, and you know why?

00:17:47.880 We need to.

00:17:48.600 I really am convinced

00:17:49.680 because people like Paul Ryan

00:17:51.200 don't believe in the stuff

00:17:53.020 that we believe.

00:17:53.600 They don't believe in...

00:17:55.160 They don't believe

00:17:55.540 in real conservatism.

00:17:56.680 Yeah, they don't believe

00:17:57.640 in strict adherence

00:17:58.980 to the Constitution.

00:18:00.260 They don't believe that.

00:18:01.580 And you know,

00:18:01.900 that's a cute little thing,

00:18:02.860 but we got to do

00:18:03.420 what we got to do.

00:18:04.200 So they won't

00:18:04.860 Overton window.

00:18:05.700 I would love

00:18:06.580 to Overton window

00:18:07.520 and say,

00:18:08.000 you know what?

00:18:08.600 Let's reset this

00:18:09.400 to 1791's

00:18:11.640 kind of style

00:18:12.420 of government.

00:18:13.120 Oh my gosh.

00:18:13.140 Can you imagine?

00:18:14.100 They would go crazy.

00:18:15.360 Crazy.

00:18:15.980 And then,

00:18:16.960 if you were like,

00:18:17.880 okay, well,

00:18:18.540 we just want to get rid

00:18:19.460 of the Department of Education.

00:18:21.220 They would be,

00:18:21.800 oh, okay.

00:18:22.640 All right.

00:18:23.020 Finally,

00:18:23.580 some sane people around.

00:18:25.740 Yeah.

00:18:26.040 Yeah.

00:18:26.280 Start with,

00:18:26.740 how about zero abortions 1.00

00:18:28.000 for any reason ever?

00:18:29.460 Let's start there.

00:18:30.420 And when babies

00:18:31.760 come out of the birth canal,

00:18:33.200 they're given an AR-15

00:18:34.980 at birth.

00:18:36.400 Okay?

00:18:37.160 Right.

00:18:37.480 Let's start there.

00:18:38.580 Start there.

00:18:39.080 Okay?

00:18:39.740 On abortions

00:18:40.960 and gun control,

00:18:41.840 that's where we begin.

00:18:43.020 Yeah.

00:18:43.180 I think,

00:18:43.500 and what we do

00:18:43.980 is we start with

00:18:44.720 the AK-47

00:18:45.700 is fully loaded,

00:18:47.120 and then we compromise

00:18:48.420 to they have to load it

00:18:49.780 themselves when they learn.

00:18:51.060 Right.

00:18:51.660 Right.

00:18:52.380 Then it's a bipartisan solution,

00:18:54.600 I think,

00:18:54.840 at that point.

00:18:55.420 Right.

00:18:55.900 Exactly.

00:18:56.500 And then we start arguing

00:18:57.620 with them when they have

00:18:58.700 a problem with some

00:18:59.480 of our solutions.

00:19:00.220 You know,

00:19:00.480 I think this really

00:19:02.440 is what they've done.

00:19:03.500 It is what they've done.

00:19:04.540 Tell me,

00:19:05.380 they have unveiled plans

00:19:07.820 for guaranteed jobs,

00:19:11.580 guaranteed housing.

00:19:13.700 Yeah.

00:19:13.980 That is,

00:19:14.500 Yes.

00:19:14.880 That is directly

00:19:15.980 from the Soviets.

00:19:17.100 It is a communist.

00:19:17.560 Yeah,

00:19:17.740 it's from the Soviet

00:19:18.740 constitution.

00:19:19.920 Remember when they

00:19:20.640 started saying

00:19:21.240 $15 minimum wage 0.86

00:19:22.820 and how ridiculous

00:19:23.560 it sounded? 0.89

00:19:24.500 And then I was watching

00:19:25.660 something Stossel

00:19:26.580 did for a reason

00:19:27.700 yesterday,

00:19:28.220 and it's all about

00:19:29.280 how Amazon

00:19:30.000 came out

00:19:31.300 and they were

00:19:32.320 getting criticized

00:19:32.900 and everyone wanted

00:19:33.840 a $15 minimum wage

00:19:34.880 and they fought back

00:19:35.720 for a little while

00:19:36.380 and then they said,

00:19:37.000 oh,

00:19:37.720 all right,

00:19:38.280 $15 minimum wage.

00:19:39.860 Then they started

00:19:40.520 harassing other companies

00:19:41.760 to match.

00:19:42.840 Then they said

00:19:43.340 they're going to

00:19:43.820 lobby Congress

00:19:44.800 to raise the minimum

00:19:45.800 wage to $15.

00:19:47.140 And of course,

00:19:48.100 Stossel,

00:19:48.460 completely right on this

00:19:49.400 point is,

00:19:50.120 this is just good

00:19:51.000 for Amazon.

00:19:51.880 If every other company

00:19:53.200 has to raise

00:19:54.180 theirs to $15,

00:19:55.660 they're already paying

00:19:56.080 $15 an hour.

00:19:57.180 Everyone else gets

00:19:57.780 forced to raise it.

00:19:58.460 It's just going to

00:19:58.800 give an advantage

00:19:59.400 to Amazon.

00:20:00.080 And now,

00:20:00.340 exactly what they did

00:20:01.280 with the progressives

00:20:02.060 in World War II.

00:20:02.980 They put out

00:20:03.920 great car companies,

00:20:05.940 great tire companies,

00:20:07.620 great manufacturers

00:20:08.700 because GM,

00:20:10.140 Chrysler,

00:20:11.140 and Ford

00:20:12.500 all got together

00:20:13.320 and said,

00:20:14.260 this is what we think

00:20:15.080 the country

00:20:16.940 should mandate

00:20:17.760 for manufacturing.

00:20:20.860 And so,

00:20:21.380 it was good

00:20:21.940 for the big three

00:20:22.760 because they could

00:20:23.300 afford it.

00:20:24.060 And they put

00:20:24.580 everyone else

00:20:25.480 out of business.

00:20:26.280 That's what's

00:20:26.660 happening again.

00:20:28.140 Alex Epstein

00:20:28.900 has made this case

00:20:29.500 before.

00:20:29.920 He wrote the

00:20:30.500 moral case for

00:20:31.240 fossil fuels.

00:20:32.020 We've had him

00:20:32.300 on the show before.

00:20:33.300 And his point is

00:20:34.180 we constantly,

00:20:35.520 as people who

00:20:36.220 are conservatives

00:20:36.740 and small government,

00:20:37.720 are arguing just

00:20:38.640 for a less worse

00:20:39.600 version of what

00:20:40.540 the left is asking

00:20:41.460 for.

00:20:42.320 Right now,

00:20:43.620 Obamacare is a

00:20:44.400 great example of this.

00:20:45.760 We are like,

00:20:46.400 free market solutions,

00:20:47.400 free market solutions,

00:20:48.200 free market solutions.

00:20:48.940 They're like,

00:20:49.320 oh, we want

00:20:49.760 government,

00:20:50.180 government,

00:20:50.520 government,

00:20:50.860 government.

00:20:51.360 So they come in 0.82

00:20:52.040 and they pass

00:20:52.500 Obamacare and

00:20:53.260 it's all going

00:20:54.640 through.

00:20:55.320 And now,

00:20:56.060 literally,

00:20:56.540 every single

00:20:57.460 member of the

00:20:58.240 Republican Party

00:20:59.180 with,

00:21:00.140 I don't know,

00:21:01.020 a couple of

00:21:01.900 exceptions,

00:21:02.860 have now taken

00:21:03.540 large swaths of

00:21:04.780 Obamacare and

00:21:05.360 embraced it.

00:21:06.080 Three states

00:21:06.860 voted to get

00:21:07.820 the Medicare

00:21:08.340 expansion that

00:21:09.340 initially conservative

00:21:10.220 states opposed.

00:21:11.580 The pre-existing

00:21:13.080 conditions thing

00:21:13.840 is part of the

00:21:14.800 platform,

00:21:15.360 basically,

00:21:15.680 for the Republican

00:21:16.400 Party now.

00:21:17.240 It's because the

00:21:17.860 Republican Party

00:21:18.660 continues to

00:21:19.400 hire people and

00:21:20.320 elect people like

00:21:20.920 Mitt Romney,

00:21:22.000 who is for all

00:21:23.700 of these programs.

00:21:24.500 But Donald Trump's

00:21:25.360 for that too.

00:21:25.880 Oh, I know that.

00:21:26.400 Well, they're

00:21:27.980 like-minded,

00:21:28.680 more like-minded

00:21:29.320 than people would

00:21:30.260 believe.

00:21:31.180 Certainly different

00:21:31.740 approaches.

00:21:32.560 Different approaches.

00:21:33.700 Absolutely.

00:21:34.260 But similar in

00:21:35.420 policies.

00:21:36.140 They're both really

00:21:36.840 moderate Republicans.

00:21:38.040 Correct.

00:21:38.500 He's a nice guy

00:21:39.560 that believes in

00:21:40.240 big government

00:21:40.780 and Donald Trump

00:21:43.160 believes a hammer

00:21:44.520 to get things done.

00:21:45.980 Right.

00:21:46.520 But he believes in

00:21:47.780 big government.

00:21:48.360 Yeah.

00:21:48.840 And, you know,

00:21:49.680 can we talk a little

00:21:50.400 bit about the tariffs?

00:21:52.400 Because there was a

00:21:53.180 new study that came

00:21:55.580 out that showed

00:21:56.460 where Trump lost

00:21:58.200 is the parts of

00:21:59.980 the country where

00:22:00.940 the tariffs hit

00:22:02.480 people the hardest.

00:22:04.040 Yeah, it's an

00:22:04.800 interesting analysis

00:22:05.520 and it's not a

00:22:06.980 huge surprise.

00:22:08.160 You know, the

00:22:08.460 economy is such

00:22:09.140 an important issue

00:22:09.840 and Trump rightly

00:22:11.060 gets some credit

00:22:11.940 for it and it's

00:22:12.840 been, we've been

00:22:13.620 on a great run

00:22:14.240 here for a while.

00:22:15.600 But the issues

00:22:16.900 of when we set

00:22:18.000 these tariffs on

00:22:18.720 China, China

00:22:19.400 responded and

00:22:20.440 they targeted,

00:22:21.100 remember this?

00:22:21.700 They were like,

00:22:22.040 oh, they targeted

00:22:22.580 these regions

00:22:23.680 and they have

00:22:24.400 political importance

00:22:25.640 to the president

00:22:26.580 and they targeted

00:22:27.160 all of those

00:22:27.760 and they have now,

00:22:29.980 so a lot of these

00:22:30.440 farmers in like

00:22:31.220 Iowa, for example,

00:22:32.020 where the Republicans

00:22:32.680 lost a couple seats

00:22:33.620 in somewhat surprising

00:22:34.600 circumstances,

00:22:35.840 were regions

00:22:37.100 where they were

00:22:37.900 exporting tons

00:22:39.440 of material to

00:22:40.340 China and now

00:22:41.100 are no longer

00:22:41.780 doing it.

00:22:42.220 There was one

00:22:42.580 analysis that had

00:22:43.480 soybean exports,

00:22:45.240 which has got to

00:22:45.760 be the most boring

00:22:46.700 lead into a story

00:22:48.020 in history,

00:22:48.620 but they were down

00:22:49.240 97% to China.

00:22:51.180 97%

00:22:51.920 it's wiping out

00:22:52.400 your whole business.

00:22:53.120 From 1.1 billion

00:22:54.140 a month,

00:22:54.840 okay, from about

00:22:55.500 a billion dollars

00:22:56.440 a month to

00:22:57.740 24 million

00:22:59.020 exports in soybeans

00:23:01.860 to China.

00:23:02.720 This destroys your

00:23:03.520 business if this is

00:23:04.200 your business.

00:23:04.780 1 billion to

00:23:05.380 24 million.

00:23:06.600 You can't do

00:23:07.880 business that way.

00:23:08.780 Yeah, we can.

00:23:09.400 We can do it like

00:23:09.960 FDR and we can

00:23:10.760 subsidize the farming.

00:23:12.200 Well, you're going

00:23:12.560 to have to.

00:23:13.060 Yeah, you're going

00:23:13.460 to have to.

00:23:14.140 You're going to

00:23:14.460 have to.

00:23:15.140 And this is why

00:23:16.140 tariffs are so bad.

00:23:18.000 They're just so bad.

00:23:19.240 And it's really

00:23:20.000 kicking in now.

00:23:20.940 Anybody.

00:23:21.920 Yeah.

00:23:22.460 Anybody who supports

00:23:23.980 the president has

00:23:25.300 needs to in the

00:23:27.300 nicest of ways

00:23:28.860 recommend urge

00:23:31.600 the president has

00:23:32.620 won.

00:23:33.260 You've won, Mr.

00:23:34.420 President.

00:23:34.960 You've won.

00:23:36.020 Now let's get rid

00:23:37.380 of these tariffs.

00:23:39.060 And again,

00:23:39.560 tariffs.

00:23:39.760 Before they ruin

00:23:40.340 the economy,

00:23:40.840 because if you lose

00:23:41.920 the economy,

00:23:42.340 you're going to lose

00:23:42.840 in 2020.

00:23:43.660 He's done.

00:23:44.060 He's done.

00:23:44.080 This is the

00:23:47.500 best of the

00:23:48.060 Glenn Beck

00:23:48.480 program.

00:23:59.140 So my staff

00:24:00.760 of millennials

00:24:01.840 are talking

00:24:03.660 about adulting.

00:24:05.360 I don't even

00:24:05.820 know what adulting

00:24:06.620 is.

00:24:07.220 And a quarter

00:24:07.980 life crisis. 0.58

00:24:08.980 What the heck

00:24:09.820 is a quarter

00:24:10.380 life crisis?

00:24:11.200 Well, we're

00:24:12.820 about to find

00:24:13.440 out.

00:24:14.060 J.P.

00:24:15.120 Pokluta is an 0.99

00:24:17.240 author of a book

00:24:18.620 called Welcome to

00:24:19.420 Adulting.

00:24:20.780 And it is taking

00:24:22.680 millennials by storm.

00:24:25.000 Welcome, J.P.

00:24:25.620 How are you?

00:24:26.780 Hey, I'm doing so

00:24:27.540 great.

00:24:27.840 Thanks for having

00:24:28.260 me on, Glenn.

00:24:28.820 Appreciate you.

00:24:29.520 You bet.

00:24:29.860 Okay, so J.P.,

00:24:31.660 adulting.

00:24:33.600 What exactly is

00:24:34.560 adulting?

00:24:35.200 Well, it is the

00:24:36.720 practice of behaving

00:24:38.120 in a way characteristic

00:24:39.320 of a responsible

00:24:40.640 adult, especially

00:24:41.920 the accomplishment

00:24:43.100 of a mundane

00:24:43.900 but necessary

00:24:44.780 task.

00:24:45.680 If that sounds

00:24:46.240 like I read that

00:24:47.060 from the dictionary,

00:24:47.840 it's because I did.

00:24:48.600 It's a new word.

00:24:49.720 We just put that

00:24:50.480 in the dictionary

00:24:51.020 last year, and so

00:24:52.160 it is official.

00:24:53.640 So this is something

00:24:54.280 that we used to

00:24:55.960 just do naturally.

00:24:56.980 When you were 18,

00:24:58.320 you were, at least

00:24:59.240 in my household,

00:25:00.480 you were kind of

00:25:01.000 expected to go out

00:25:02.060 and earn your own

00:25:02.660 way, and you're an

00:25:04.260 adult now.

00:25:04.980 Get out.

00:25:05.680 And why the

00:25:10.780 breakdown of this

00:25:11.760 thing that has

00:25:12.300 always been natural?

00:25:14.100 Well, I don't know

00:25:14.920 that it's always

00:25:15.380 been natural.

00:25:16.080 I mean, I think

00:25:16.460 hindsight is always

00:25:18.080 20-20 when we

00:25:19.360 look back on, you

00:25:20.420 know, our own

00:25:20.980 development and how

00:25:21.800 we've grown up, and

00:25:22.600 I know what they're

00:25:24.240 saying about

00:25:25.120 millennials and

00:25:25.660 young adults today,

00:25:26.660 the delayed

00:25:27.120 adolescence, they're 1.00

00:25:28.140 lazy, narcissistic. 0.92

00:25:29.520 I don't think 0.97

00:25:30.040 that's entirely true

00:25:31.320 at all.

00:25:32.180 Yeah, entitled and

00:25:33.460 all of those things.

00:25:34.560 And I appreciate,

00:25:37.080 you know, it sounds

00:25:37.760 like we may have a

00:25:38.440 shared perspective on

00:25:39.460 that, because I, you

00:25:41.200 know, it seems like

00:25:42.440 we've all, we all

00:25:43.460 need help growing up

00:25:44.520 and exist in different

00:25:45.320 times and whatnot, and

00:25:46.380 when I look at the

00:25:48.720 future, I'm hopeful.

00:25:51.200 I think these guys,

00:25:52.280 they need leaders, they

00:25:54.480 need people to inspire

00:25:55.800 them, but I think

00:25:56.960 they want to do

00:25:59.520 something great, they

00:26:00.180 want to change the

00:26:00.740 world, they want to do

00:26:01.480 something bigger than

00:26:02.140 themselves, and I hope

00:26:03.120 this is a resource that

00:26:04.020 helps them do that.

00:26:04.560 Okay, so this is part

00:26:06.360 of the, this is part

00:26:07.600 of the problem, I

00:26:08.240 think, with suicides

00:26:10.060 that are rising in

00:26:11.520 millennials, and it is

00:26:13.120 that people just aren't

00:26:14.820 convinced that they can

00:26:15.700 make a difference, that

00:26:17.400 their life has no

00:26:18.560 meaning, that there is

00:26:19.800 no purpose to anything,

00:26:21.880 and is this what the

00:26:24.100 quarter-life crisis is

00:26:25.520 about?

00:26:26.680 Yeah, I think that's

00:26:27.220 absolutely right, Glenn.

00:26:28.240 I think people are

00:26:29.600 looking for purpose, and I

00:26:31.140 think they're looking in

00:26:31.820 the wrong places.

00:26:32.580 I think they have a

00:26:33.960 thousand friends on

00:26:34.900 social media, you know,

00:26:36.160 a thousand Twitter

00:26:36.920 followers, you know,

00:26:37.680 whatever, but no real

00:26:39.340 relationships, no depth,

00:26:41.760 no meaningful conversations,

00:26:44.260 they're not looking for hope

00:26:45.840 in the right places, and so

00:26:47.760 they despair, you know, they

00:26:49.080 want to be, their number

00:26:50.340 one and number two goals of

00:26:51.620 millennials are to be rich and

00:26:52.980 to be famous, and when they

00:26:55.700 hit the wall of pursuing

00:26:58.760 riches and pursuing stardom,

00:27:00.400 they're left despairing, and

00:27:02.340 they're looking for more.

00:27:04.360 I will tell you that wealth

00:27:07.540 and fame are gigantic

00:27:10.420 imposters, and what really

00:27:13.760 led me to my awakening in my

00:27:17.100 30s was I, you know, I had

00:27:19.260 accomplished a little bit of

00:27:20.700 both and realized that's

00:27:22.640 completely empty, and then had

00:27:24.680 no idea where to go and where

00:27:28.100 to find it.

00:27:28.680 Brad Pitt says the same

00:27:30.760 thing, Tom Brady says the

00:27:32.040 same thing, Jim Carrey says

00:27:33.320 the same thing, Russell Brand

00:27:34.700 just came out with a statement

00:27:36.520 saying the same thing, you

00:27:38.120 know, they say, my friend

00:27:39.640 Todd says, the rich are

00:27:42.260 infinitely better off than the

00:27:43.600 poor, because while the poor

00:27:45.720 think riches will bring

00:27:47.300 happiness, the wealthy know

00:27:49.680 better, and I think that's a

00:27:52.660 true statement, the same is

00:27:54.240 with fame, and you know, these

00:27:56.100 millennials, young adults and

00:27:57.100 whatnot, they want to do

00:27:58.420 something bigger than

00:27:59.340 themselves, they just don't

00:28:00.320 know how, and so there's this

00:28:02.180 cry of their heart, the

00:28:03.780 scripture says that God has

00:28:05.040 set eternity in our hearts, I

00:28:06.960 think they're trying to fill

00:28:08.000 that eternal void with all the

00:28:09.420 things of this world, and

00:28:10.440 they're just coming up empty,

00:28:12.540 and so I think the generation,

00:28:14.560 your listeners, the generation

00:28:15.760 that has gone before them, needs

00:28:17.920 to be patient, and take time, sit

00:28:19.960 down with them, continue to tell

00:28:21.800 the war stories of old, tell us

00:28:24.720 about the times, you know, of you

00:28:27.420 growing up, the hardships that

00:28:28.620 you faced, try to do so without

00:28:30.860 judgment, and ask lots of

00:28:33.080 questions, seek to understand,

00:28:34.480 become a student of your children

00:28:36.300 and grandchildren, and know that

00:28:38.240 they really, there is a desire in

00:28:40.280 them, it may be hidden behind some

00:28:41.620 arrogance and pride, but there is a

00:28:43.500 desire in them to learn from you.

00:28:45.380 I will tell you that I don't think

00:28:46.720 there was this spread of

00:28:49.260 misunderstanding between

00:28:50.980 generations when I was a kid,

00:28:53.960 maybe between my grandparents and

00:28:57.000 me, because they grew up in the

00:28:59.500 Great Depression, but not my 0.68

00:29:00.700 parents and me, I mean there was a

00:29:03.540 misunderstanding, but things in the

00:29:05.940 world have changed so much that

00:29:09.760 when you talk to millennials now,

00:29:11.760 and I'm, you know, 54, you talk to

00:29:13.920 millennials, and it is a different

00:29:15.780 world, they see the world

00:29:17.040 differently, they speak a

00:29:18.960 different language, they understand

00:29:20.840 technology and the world as

00:29:22.980 it's going to be much

00:29:24.940 better, and, you know, I think they

00:29:27.440 have a reason to be a little

00:29:31.180 concerned if they don't have

00:29:32.800 somebody in their life that's, you

00:29:34.840 know, an older generation going,

00:29:36.180 it's okay, it's okay, it's really

00:29:38.480 exciting, what you guys are facing

00:29:39.960 is really exciting, and you're going

00:29:41.520 to be able to change the world if

00:29:42.740 you keep your head on your

00:29:43.560 shoulders.

00:29:44.740 Yeah, I think you're right, you

00:29:46.500 have to have someone to talk to.

00:29:47.880 I also think you're pointing to the

00:29:49.460 right challenges with the

00:29:51.900 information age, the boom of

00:29:53.760 technology, you know, carrying a

00:29:56.100 mega computer in our pockets

00:29:58.140 everywhere we go, that does change a

00:30:01.040 person, and so it's interesting what

00:30:02.380 you say about the gap between you and

00:30:04.360 your parents being smaller.

00:30:07.020 I think that that's probably, I would

00:30:10.160 share your perspective, and at the

00:30:12.000 same time, I think that we all go

00:30:15.140 through something I like to call kind

00:30:16.920 of the younger brother, older brother

00:30:19.020 syndrome, which comes, I picked that 1.00

00:30:22.080 up from the biblical story of the

00:30:23.580 prodigal son, where I think we're all

00:30:25.520 kind of the older, I mean the younger

00:30:27.620 brother at some point, and someone is

00:30:29.800 patient with us, and, you know, embraces

00:30:32.420 us, and extends grace to us, and then

00:30:35.940 we're with the father, and all is right,

00:30:41.100 and we grow up, and we overnight become

00:30:42.880 the older brother, and then we just

00:30:44.100 look back with judgment, and we don't

00:30:46.060 want to be patient with anyone else,

00:30:47.780 and so I try to, you know, when I sit

00:30:51.120 with someone, you know, who's young and

00:30:53.420 naive, and just like I was, and I'm sure

00:30:55.680 am in ways I can't see right now, just to

00:30:58.540 be patient with them, seek to understand

00:31:00.020 their world, where they're coming from,

00:31:01.400 what is their worldview, and, you know,

00:31:04.220 point them to truth.

00:31:05.000 So you're working now at Waterfront, or

00:31:09.000 Watermark Church, which is a great,

00:31:11.800 great organization here in Dallas, Texas,

00:31:16.200 which I don't even know how, what's the

00:31:18.380 youth population there?

00:31:21.240 I don't know the, you know, the youth, so

00:31:23.200 I spend all my time with young adults, so

00:31:25.560 you know, 20 to 35 is the portion, I say

00:31:28.500 all my time, I teach on the weekends as

00:31:30.820 well, services, I share that with Todd,

00:31:33.340 our senior pastor, but we have, at the

00:31:37.160 porch on a Tuesday night, we have about

00:31:40.100 4,000 young adults here in Dallas, and

00:31:42.480 then we have another 10 campuses around

00:31:45.020 the country, and then another, you know,

00:31:47.440 50,000 or so streaming online, and so

00:31:49.980 it's become, by God's grace, the largest

00:31:54.060 young adult gathering in the country.

00:31:56.100 So what is the number one thing that

00:31:57.980 they are concerned about, and how can

00:32:02.600 people who are listening help them?

00:32:06.000 Yeah, I appreciate you saying that.

00:32:07.920 I think, well, dating, right, at that

00:32:11.440 point in your life, you've graduated

00:32:12.700 college, and you're trying to figure out

00:32:14.860 how you can convince someone of the

00:32:16.340 opposite sex to spend the rest of their 1.00

00:32:18.300 life with you.

00:32:20.320 Anxiety is a huge felt need right now,

00:32:22.420 as you talk about just growing suicide

00:32:24.240 rates and depression rates.

00:32:25.740 I think you have a generation despairing,

00:32:28.420 out of control, and so that's a huge

00:32:31.320 felt need. But the biggest one you also

00:32:33.340 touched on keenly is just searching for

00:32:36.160 purpose. I think they're trying to figure

00:32:37.940 out, hey, you know, is there a God, first

00:32:41.180 of all, and if there is, what is His

00:32:44.280 desire for me, and how do I find my

00:32:46.480 purpose in this world? And so that is, I

00:32:49.440 don't know that that's the felt need. I

00:32:51.500 think the felt need can be more of the

00:32:53.240 dating and anxiety, but the real need, the

00:32:55.980 underlying need is, hey, what were you

00:32:58.140 created for? And that's where I think

00:33:00.960 this book, you know, the chapter two is

00:33:03.340 all about purpose and finding your

00:33:05.260 identity.

00:33:05.980 I will tell you, the name of the book is

00:33:08.200 Welcome to Adulting, by the way, and I'll

00:33:10.640 tell you, JP, that if it, you know, I

00:33:14.100 searched for answers for a long time, and

00:33:15.820 in my 30s I had a complete crash, and I

00:33:18.820 lost absolutely everything. And it was

00:33:21.880 only then that I was willing to look at

00:33:25.280 the real answer, which is God. And, you

00:33:29.500 know, he had been just this distant kind

00:33:31.940 of thing that I believed in, but it

00:33:34.320 wasn't really a real relationship, et

00:33:36.520 cetera, et cetera. And I, you know, I, it's

00:33:40.600 not something that is being encouraged at

00:33:42.980 all in a large portion of our society now,

00:33:46.240 and, and, you know, churches seem so out

00:33:50.780 of touch to so many millennials. I mean,

00:33:52.900 it's different here in, in the South, but

00:33:55.200 seem completely distant, and God is kind

00:33:58.280 of this distant idea. And I, we were just

00:34:01.100 listening to some audio from, from the

00:34:03.300 wildfires in California. I don't think

00:34:05.500 I've heard so many Californians talk about

00:34:07.320 God ever. You know, when you're, when you

00:34:10.480 are really stripped down, that's when you

00:34:13.660 start to find answers. That's when you, you

00:34:16.980 know, in the midst of human suffering, that's

00:34:19.000 where you find him.

00:34:19.700 And they say there's no atheist in the

00:34:21.920 foxhole. And I, I, you, we've seen that. We

00:34:25.080 almost saw a great awakening happen with,

00:34:26.980 uh, when 9-11 occurred, uh, whenever

00:34:29.760 there's, whenever tragic hits, we, we turn

00:34:31.920 to the creator. I've seen the same thing in

00:34:34.020 Haiti when the earthquake hit in 2010. Um,

00:34:38.200 you had the whole country coming around

00:34:40.480 saying, okay, now, you know, turning from

00:34:42.460 Satanism to, okay, we think there's a

00:34:44.740 creator, a God. And that's, that's similar

00:34:47.260 to my story, Glenn. I mean, 16 years ago, I

00:34:50.320 was at a bar on a Saturday night and was

00:34:53.280 kind of everything wrong with Dallas and a

00:34:55.120 person was pretentious. I wanted to be a

00:34:56.980 millionaire before I was 30, had the Jaguar

00:34:58.740 in the penthouse condo and, and was, you

00:35:00.960 know, a girlfriend and another, you know,

00:35:02.820 several girls and all, all of that just in 1.00

00:35:05.260 one person. And, uh, I was at a bar and

00:35:07.820 someone invited me to church and I, I came

00:35:09.600 to Watermark and I sat in the back row and

00:35:12.040 I was hung over. I smelled like smoke for the

00:35:14.200 night before, you know, at the club and I 0.97

00:35:16.480 was addicted to sex, addicted to porn. And, um, 0.93

00:35:19.960 I just began to wrestle with who, you

00:35:21.500 know, who is God and, and really seeking

00:35:24.640 that out. And I looked at all of the world

00:35:26.400 religions because I thought, what are the

00:35:27.720 odds I'd be born to the right country? You

00:35:29.840 know, if I was born in China, I'd be

00:35:31.420 Buddhist or India, I'd be Hindu and Iran, I

00:35:35.140 might be Muslim. And so I just started

00:35:36.640 studying, started from scratch. I grew up

00:35:38.500 in the church, but I was just like, really

00:35:39.920 had a bias against Christianity. And as I

00:35:42.800 continued to explore that, I was

00:35:44.360 overwhelmed by the evidence that pointed

00:35:46.900 me to Jesus Christ. And, uh, when I

00:35:49.960 surrendered my life to him, just as that,

00:35:52.100 that person that I described earlier,

00:35:53.720 everything changed. What I did for fun

00:35:56.580 changed, who I hung out with changed, uh,

00:35:59.060 the way I thought changed, the way I talk

00:36:00.720 changed, and ultimately, you know, my

00:36:02.500 profession changed. And so I'm so

00:36:04.600 passionate about helping the next

00:36:07.040 generation reach this generation, call

00:36:09.820 it Gen Y or Gen Z, millennials, young

00:36:12.620 adults. Um, I, I want to see that gap you

00:36:16.040 addressed earlier become narrower and

00:36:18.580 smaller so that, you know, we can raise

00:36:20.860 it up because, because all of us, we

00:36:22.060 have to, we know we're going to leave

00:36:23.260 this place and you want to leave a

00:36:25.200 legacy. You want to leave people behind

00:36:26.580 you that are, are seeking to, you know,

00:36:30.200 live out their purpose in this world.

00:36:32.100 JP, I'm, I'm, I'm thrilled to have you

00:36:33.960 on. It sounds like we have a lot of, uh,

00:36:35.940 shared experiences and shared belief in, uh,

00:36:38.900 the younger generation. I think they get a

00:36:40.500 very bad rap. The, uh, uh, you know, I've

00:36:43.540 met good and bad, but I've met good and

00:36:45.000 bad in all generations. Uh, this, this

00:36:47.400 generation is looking, they just don't 1.00

00:36:50.380 have anyone encouraging and anyone who

00:36:52.960 is telling them truth. You know, they've,

00:36:55.560 they've been lied to, I think their whole,

00:36:58.140 their whole life. Uh, and, uh, and I have

00:37:01.400 great confidence in them. So thank you so

00:37:04.000 much for what you're doing. And the name

00:37:04.980 of the book is welcome to adulting. Welcome

00:37:07.480 to adulting. Uh, Jonathan JP, uh,

00:37:10.700 Pocluta. Uh, thanks for being on. We'll

00:37:12.800 talk again. Thanks JP. Thank you so much.

00:37:15.220 Appreciate you.

00:37:19.320 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:37:27.200 Now we bring in, uh, Andrew Heaton, uh, to, uh,

00:37:31.820 to join us. Uh, he's, uh, from, uh, what is

00:37:35.520 it? Uh, something's off. Something's off

00:37:37.900 with Andrew Heaton. Yeah. I just, I keep,

00:37:40.000 and it's, I've just never heard of a name

00:37:42.540 of a show that is, is more accurate than

00:37:44.720 that one. Thank you. It's top of the charts

00:37:46.040 with the Heaton family right now. Yeah. It's

00:37:47.540 doing really well. It's doing really well. It's

00:37:49.180 hitting Alva, Oklahoma. Yeah. Okay. So

00:37:51.000 anyway, uh, something's off with Andrew

00:37:52.660 Heaton and it's a, it's a look at the news

00:37:54.520 and kind of an enjoyable look at the

00:37:56.680 news. Thank you. Yeah. Cause you don't

00:37:57.960 really get into all of the, uh, tit for

00:38:00.300 tat kind of stuff. I, I think that the

00:38:02.460 news has so much bile in it right now and

00:38:05.600 so much, it's as if everybody sits down

00:38:08.320 at the beginning of the day and goes, let's

00:38:09.520 talk about which team is the good team,

00:38:11.440 which team is the bad team. And I don't

00:38:12.700 think that's helpful. And I'd rather just

00:38:13.860 kind of be a release valve for everybody. Yeah.

00:38:15.560 We'll talk about substantive stuff. We had

00:38:17.100 a good chat yesterday about like, you know,

00:38:18.620 kind of the, the way the parties break

00:38:20.180 down and everything, but, but I kick it 0.86

00:38:22.080 off with, with, you know, some, something

00:38:23.580 that's a little bit more enjoyable. Well, I, I, I,

00:38:25.320 I didn't think that it was the best

00:38:26.980 thing to start the show with animal news. No, no, no.

00:38:29.500 Animal news. Uh, yeah. And I, but I was

00:38:31.320 surprised because you know, what you told

00:38:34.240 me yesterday, uh, in your podcast actually

00:38:37.860 helps me make sense of what's happening

00:38:39.960 in Florida. Yes, it does. Thank you. That,

00:38:41.960 yeah. I, uh, so, you know, I, I, I do a

00:38:43.920 lot of research every day and I, and this

00:38:45.260 was from a credible publications from

00:38:46.680 National Geographic. Right. Uh, but it

00:38:48.680 was, there was a story that I read about

00:38:50.120 how Florida's worried about, um, uh,

00:38:53.500 uh, monkeys, uh, escaped

00:38:56.180 rhesus macaque monkeys with a deadly

00:38:58.960 herpes simplex B that can jump species

00:39:01.560 running amok through Florida. And I, I

00:39:04.080 looked into this, where did this, I mean,

00:39:06.100 first of all, standard headline for

00:39:07.720 Florida. This seems about right. Yeah.

00:39:09.480 Florida reads that. They don't even read

00:39:10.980 this story. They're like, of course,

00:39:12.060 it's Tuesday. We got it. Thank you.

00:39:14.840 Monkeys running losers. 0.99

00:39:15.960 We're going to root everybody. Yeah. Uh, in 1.00

00:39:17.680 1938, this guy wanted to start a Tarzan

00:39:21.160 themed Island in Florida. And so he

00:39:23.560 purchased six rhesus macaque monkeys

00:39:26.020 from, um, from a dealer in New York and

00:39:29.240 he dropped them off of this Island. Wait,

00:39:30.820 wait, wait. Yeah. When you go to New

00:39:32.860 York for your, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's

00:39:34.840 you know, you go to the macaque

00:39:35.660 district over, uh, on 34th street. Okay.

00:39:38.440 I wasn't aware of that. Redevelopment

00:39:41.040 zone. Right. There's lots of, lots of good

00:39:42.880 tax breaks for that. Right. Okay. Yeah. Get

00:39:45.060 your monkeys here. Okay. He bought these

00:39:46.920 monkeys and he released them on this

00:39:48.080 Island. And he didn't know that rhesus

00:39:49.300 macaque monkeys are apparently the

00:39:50.540 Michael Phelps of the monkey family. And

00:39:52.640 they, they were there 45 minutes before

00:39:54.600 they escaped into the woods of, or into

00:39:57.120 the, into the sweltering swampland of

00:40:00.340 Florida. And they've been breeding there

00:40:01.920 ever since they're up to like a, they're

00:40:03.760 up to several hundred or a few thousand

00:40:05.680 or something like that. And they're,

00:40:06.440 they're increasing at 11% per year. And

00:40:09.020 again, I want to get back to this deadly

00:40:11.100 herpes simplex V virus. It, cause I, this

00:40:14.180 is what I was like, well, I mean, are

00:40:16.060 you saying that? I mean, I don't

00:40:17.320 people are sleeping. No, it's not, it's

00:40:18.580 not that anybody's doing anything

00:40:19.900 untoward. I mean, again, it is Florida.

00:40:22.300 It's possible. It's one ugly woman, but 1.00

00:40:26.240 I, you know, but somebody did die from 0.99

00:40:28.020 it. It was, no, it, I'll say this. If

00:40:29.700 you're in Florida, I don't think you, I

00:40:31.000 think there's way more stuff to be

00:40:31.980 worried about if you're in Florida than

00:40:33.200 these deadly monkeys. I think they're 0.70

00:40:34.340 like number eight. I don't know. I don't

00:40:36.620 know, but I think you might be better

00:40:38.180 off if you worry about the deadly

00:40:39.780 monkey, your day will be more

00:40:41.060 unenjoyable. The monkeys are number 0.92

00:40:43.100 eight. Where, where is the Broward

00:40:44.240 County election board? I think I'd put

00:40:46.880 that at like number seven. I think the

00:40:49.580 actual systemic Florida problems far

00:40:51.900 outrank any flash in the pan elections

00:40:53.640 that are going right. Okay. Yeah. But

00:40:55.060 yeah, you can't. So this, if you catch

00:40:56.840 this, this herpes simplex B from the

00:40:58.900 rhesus monkeys, it'll, it'll, uh, it'll

00:41:01.520 give you, it does spinal inflammation and 0.80

00:41:04.380 it'll either kill you or give you brain

00:41:06.040 damage. And it's, it's very difficult 0.70

00:41:08.300 to get, but if you get a monkey, a

00:41:10.940 monkey body fluid in your eye or

00:41:12.740 something like that, like, like one

00:41:14.080 of them throw something at you or

00:41:15.240 you're performing open heart surgery

00:41:16.640 out of a van. Cause I heard you say

00:41:19.700 this last night that, you know, if you

00:41:21.520 get, cause one person who died from it,

00:41:23.680 she got, yeah, yeah, she got, she got

00:41:25.520 monkey body fluid. Yeah. They didn't say

00:41:27.680 what, but you know, yeah, I, I, I want

00:41:30.520 to know. I mean, monkeys, you know,

00:41:32.500 they could have thrown something they

00:41:33.680 could, there's any number of, we don't

00:41:35.240 know any number of situation, but it did

00:41:36.460 kill her. So it is, it is a concern. Right.

00:41:38.060 And they're, they're coming up with all

00:41:39.220 these solutions of like, well, we can

00:41:40.640 like, um, we can, we can, we can, we can

00:41:43.440 castrate every fourth monkey. Like that's

00:41:45.380 a solution is to try and like, we don't

00:41:46.940 want to ruin the population. Uh, and right.

00:41:49.320 The thing that I, I started thinking

00:41:50.820 about was Florida has 29 electoral

00:41:55.740 votes. It has deadly escaped swimming

00:41:59.600 racist macaque monkeys and it has 29 0.57

00:42:02.820 electoral votes. Right. Georgia, if 0.96

00:42:04.580 will zero electoral votes, George F.

00:42:07.800 Will, he lives in a library. He

00:42:09.340 basically lives in a library with a

00:42:11.080 mattress in the middle. He's a smart 0.77

00:42:12.500 educated guy, no electoral votes, only

00:42:15.320 guilty of like oblique baseball

00:42:17.820 metaphors, no electoral votes. You go

00:42:19.640 to Georgia F. Will and Florida gets

00:42:22.360 29. And that just doesn't seem fair to

00:42:23.760 me. Right. Right. I think I, I

00:42:26.600 didn't, I didn't get into this podcast,

00:42:27.860 but I think because there, there is all

00:42:29.580 this difficulty, the Broward counter and

00:42:30.640 everything else going on in Florida. I

00:42:31.960 think next election, Florida, if you're

00:42:33.560 in Florida, you should be allowed to

00:42:34.800 vote for another state, Canadian 0.56

00:42:36.600 province or astronaut. And that gets to

00:42:39.000 make your vote for you. That's, that's

00:42:40.480 my plan for Florida is kind of take

00:42:41.740 them, just remove the whole state a

00:42:43.740 little bit from the decision making

00:42:44.680 process. Have we thought about taking

00:42:45.620 the monkeys and putting them in charge

00:42:47.640 of the vote? I, I mean, I could see a

00:42:50.460 lot of elections going worse than having, 0.91

00:42:52.780 you know, these monkeys. I mean, cause

00:42:54.180 all of those that are only truly, I mean,

00:42:56.040 if you're being paid off or if you're

00:42:57.900 just like casting a fake ballot, you're

00:43:00.100 not going to do it. If you think the

00:43:01.200 supervisor is going to throw some, you

00:43:03.220 know, some feces at you and it might get 1.00

00:43:04.820 in your eye and kill you. Or you could, 1.00

00:43:06.320 you know, they, they make those

00:43:07.260 investing things about like a monkey

00:43:08.640 can, you know, throw, throw darts at a

00:43:10.160 dartboard. Maybe that's how you pick

00:43:11.580 propositions is you, you, uh, you just,

00:43:14.140 you put the monkeys in charge. I like

00:43:15.480 that. Uh, so, uh, so, uh, California is

00:43:19.940 an, is another state that I think may

00:43:22.260 have, uh, Reese's macaque monkeys running

00:43:25.640 rampant in it. Um, the, uh, uh, the San

00:43:29.540 Francisco, um, uh, voter population, uh,

00:43:33.300 went out to vote on proposition C. Um,

00:43:36.720 and, uh, it passed with 59.9% of the

00:43:40.140 vote. And, and this is this, let me, may

00:43:42.780 I quote over half the vote? Yeah. Pop

00:43:44.620 proposit. Wow. You are bright. You are

00:43:47.240 really, thank you very much. Did you just

00:43:48.640 do that on yourself? Magna cum laude. Um,

00:43:51.260 proposition C's victory. Now listen to

00:43:53.320 this. Proposition C's victory means the

00:43:55.780 homeless will have a home and the help

00:43:59.040 they truly need because the city has

00:44:01.880 come together in love. So is it, is it

00:44:05.400 just a resolution that we want to help

00:44:07.040 homeless people or does it have force of 1.00

00:44:08.400 law behind it? Uh, no, it, uh, it's the

00:44:10.300 largest, uh, tax increase in San

00:44:12.740 Francisco history. Oh, okay. But it was a

00:44:15.420 loving tax increase? It was just the

00:44:16.820 resolution. I was like, I always really

00:44:18.040 like it when Congress debates, like if

00:44:19.580 the Buffalo should be the national

00:44:20.840 mammal or something, I feel like

00:44:22.000 they're, they're not, they're not

00:44:22.800 messing with the economy. So maybe, but

00:44:24.380 okay, but they're actually, no, no,

00:44:25.560 they're doing this companies with more

00:44:28.340 than $50 million in gross revenue

00:44:30.140 receipts will now be taxed on any gross

00:44:32.700 annual receipt revenue in San Francisco.

00:44:34.880 So, uh, and they already have that. So

00:44:37.220 this is just a giant increase. It means

00:44:39.700 that, uh, uh, you know, a company

00:44:41.500 that's doing, uh, like, like they, they

00:44:44.420 say Salesforce here. Uh, I don't know

00:44:47.320 how much Salesforce is making in San

00:44:49.100 Francisco, but they say that it will,

00:44:51.280 um, it'll have to pay around $10

00:44:53.260 million per year. Uh, which is, uh,

00:44:57.340 you know, they, are they just, uh, this,

00:44:59.840 this is where I dropped the funny

00:45:01.020 thing. Are they giving out vouchers for,

00:45:02.440 for, uh, for rental apartments? Are they

00:45:04.760 building homeless shelters or where's

00:45:06.080 the money going to go? No. Did you

00:45:09.040 hear what I said? They're taking the

00:45:10.280 money. I heard that going to love

00:45:11.360 proposition. They're going to love

00:45:13.000 this victory. Now that they've done

00:45:14.840 this, this means the homeless will

00:45:16.420 have a home and the help they truly

00:45:17.820 need. And love. Wait, you didn't even

00:45:19.900 say the love part. Say the love part.

00:45:21.220 That's the best part. Because the city

00:45:22.220 came together for love for those who

00:45:24.060 need it. It might, it might to

00:45:25.560 understand that they just, they just

00:45:27.080 came up with a tax plan without a

00:45:28.540 spending plan. I mean, like I'm

00:45:30.320 actually, that never happens. I'm very

00:45:31.860 impressed if someone actually was just

00:45:33.320 like, Hey, you know what? We feel like

00:45:34.720 we might spend money in the future. So

00:45:36.140 we're going to tax you now. Like

00:45:37.140 usually we do it the other way

00:45:38.080 around. Well, no, they, I mean, they

00:45:39.320 have, they have, they have a plan.

00:45:41.260 They've, they've already, they've, you

00:45:42.620 know, they've, they've, they've, um,

00:45:44.220 they've, uh, doubled the money that

00:45:46.420 they're spending now on the homeless

00:45:47.480 problem to $300 million. But I want to

00:45:49.520 show you how effective it is. Um, the

00:45:52.140 overall rate of homelessness in San

00:45:54.380 Francisco in 2004 was, uh, 8,640. Now

00:45:59.640 I think I've been to San Francisco. I

00:46:02.020 go with a higher number now. They may be

00:46:03.500 using an abacus because I think

00:46:06.160 there's more than 8,000. Uh, but, uh,

00:46:09.320 in just that, uh, that short period of

00:46:12.020 time, just 13 years, uh, they've

00:46:13.940 dropped that down to 7,499. So, you

00:46:18.720 know, they've, they've gotten, you

00:46:20.160 know, so I just want to make sure I

00:46:21.820 understand their position is they've

00:46:23.560 lowered the homeless population in San

00:46:25.540 Francisco in the last 13 years. That's

00:46:26.920 their position. Okay. Yeah. That I

00:46:28.980 don't believe them at all. So just,

00:46:31.040 just so we're clear. Well, I mean, I

00:46:32.640 don't know if they're counting the

00:46:33.500 people who are living in tents as

00:46:34.760 homeless now. Uh, I mean, that's a,

00:46:37.180 that's a, that's a big one. So, uh,

00:46:39.380 you know, and that's, and that's one

00:46:40.700 of the things that they're doing,

00:46:41.700 uh, with the money is, uh, is, is

00:46:43.480 tents. What about love? Are they

00:46:45.040 doing love? Well, they, they are

00:46:46.100 sending in, I'm not making this up.

00:46:48.000 They are sending in maid service. Uh,

00:46:49.820 really? Yes. Yes. Well, to the

00:46:51.740 cities. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Because

00:46:53.760 the homeless can't, you know, be

00:46:55.700 expected to clean it up. So I'm

00:46:57.640 going to, I'm going to play devil's

00:46:59.160 advocate here for a minute. Okay, go

00:47:00.060 ahead. Yeah. Let's say, um, you're a,

00:47:02.280 you're a big city on the West

00:47:03.560 coast and you spend a ton of money

00:47:05.220 on dealing with homeless problems.

00:47:07.380 It might just attract more homeless

00:47:08.780 people. I mean, like it might suck 0.99

00:47:09.900 them out of other cities, right? I

00:47:11.100 don't think that's a devil's

00:47:11.980 advocate. That's, that's just, I

00:47:13.440 think that's the truth. Oh, okay.

00:47:15.200 In which case, like, you know, I

00:47:16.680 come, you know, they're, they're

00:47:17.660 being compassionate in this regard.

00:47:19.240 They like, there's a difference

00:47:20.260 between, um, uh, shifting the

00:47:23.040 problem versus creating the

00:47:24.100 problem, I guess is what I'm

00:47:24.920 saying. Right. Well, but they've

00:47:25.880 clearly already indicated this is

00:47:27.620 about love. So we know it's a good

00:47:29.080 motivation. And if there's one thing

00:47:30.560 the government's good at doing it,

00:47:31.940 it's giving love a large corporate

00:47:34.120 body of bureaucrats that you can't

00:47:36.020 meet or fire can love the hell out

00:47:38.660 of you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

00:47:40.280 That's why every year I get my

00:47:41.400 birthday card from the government

00:47:42.700 and I get my Christmas card from the

00:47:44.960 government. I just filled with love

00:47:46.360 unlike the sixties. This is not free

00:47:47.780 love. However, this is a, this is

00:47:49.460 very expensive love. Yeah. So now let

00:47:51.380 me ask you this. Uh, speaking of

00:47:52.800 love, uh, you are, you are, you're

00:47:54.680 looking for a love of your life. Yeah. Yeah.

00:47:57.540 Yeah. I'm, uh, I'm, I'm 34 and, uh,

00:48:01.160 ready to, you know, I, I thought

00:48:02.400 I'd be on my third wife by now. I'm

00:48:03.640 on zero. Yeah. Uh, I feel like I

00:48:05.760 need to step up my game. Yeah. Yeah.

00:48:07.340 And this is a serious deal. I mean,

00:48:09.320 don't you think that Andrew is kind

00:48:11.840 of like those guys. Everybody has a

00:48:13.460 friend like this that you're like,

00:48:14.660 he's really nice. He's really nice

00:48:16.720 guy. And, and I don't know why he,

00:48:18.880 I don't know why women are just 1.00

00:48:20.580 repelled by him. Yeah. Uh, but he can't

00:48:23.120 ever seem to find a date. You know, I

00:48:24.520 hear what you're saying. I think I'm

00:48:26.000 more like Prince Harry that I'm

00:48:29.140 just, I'm so unobtainably up there

00:48:33.080 that it scares people and they're

00:48:35.660 intimidated to, to, uh, date or make

00:48:39.800 out with like, you hear that from

00:48:40.880 like Victoria's secret models a lot

00:48:42.440 when I was in high school, that

00:48:43.960 might be the problem is I'm not, I

00:48:45.420 should hang on. Just a second. I'm

00:48:47.580 trying to imagine you in underpants

00:48:49.340 and wings. There you go. Nope. Don't

00:48:51.480 think that's the same problem. Like a

00:48:54.220 meerkat that can fly. Remember

00:48:57.400 government has led the way here. Uh,

00:48:58.780 they pay for love. Have you

00:49:00.080 considered this? I should go to San

00:49:01.940 Francisco, get one of those love

00:49:02.920 subsidies. Right. Okay. Thank you

00:49:04.840 very much. Andrew Heaton. There's,

00:49:06.160 uh, there's, uh, something off with

00:49:07.940 Andrew Heaton is the name of the

00:49:09.020 podcast. Uh, we invite you to listen

00:49:11.100 to it and subscribe. Last night was,

00:49:12.560 it was very funny. Thank you very

00:49:13.520 much. All right. Thank you, Andrew.

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The Glenn Beck Program - November 14, 2018

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