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00:00:08.440 Welcome to the podcast. It's Pat and Stu in for Glenn today, who's on Thanksgiving break.

00:00:14.420 We'll be here all week. By the way, I want to remind you after that to when we come back next week,

00:00:20.020 the whole show with Glenn will be here and we're going to be in Florida.

00:00:25.440 So if you're going to go on tour, we're doing a stage show on go to glenbeck.com slash tour.

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00:00:35.300 What is it? November 30th and December 1st. Is that it?

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00:00:42.160 Today on the podcast, we we did a bunch of things.

00:00:44.700 We talked about the Chipotle controversy where a group of African-Americans came in,

00:00:50.500 said that they were being they were victims of racism.

00:00:52.620 and the real story behind that one is a little more complicated.

00:00:58.140 And Chipotle is now fighting off a major controversy as it relates to that.

00:01:02.300 We went on as well to talk about the presidential candidates for 2020.

00:01:06.800 Who is exciting the base? Who's exciting the left as far as the Democratic primary goes?

00:01:13.580 I'm ready for this primary, aren't you? I'm excited about it.

00:01:16.240 Yeah, it's going to be fun.

00:01:16.940 They're just going to be beating the hell out of each other every day.

00:01:18.660 Yes, that's going to be fun.

00:01:19.780 I think they're going to have more than 17 candidates like the Republicans did in 2016.

00:01:25.040 I think you're right. I think they're going to go for it because this is your time.

00:01:27.780 It's going to be 25 or 30 at first.

00:01:29.520 They all are convinced that Trump is easy to beat.

00:01:31.720 Yep.

00:01:31.960 And they're all convinced that Hillary just blew it.

00:01:34.420 So it'll be interesting to see how many you get because I think you will get in the area of that.

00:01:39.960 And we went through all their odds, the betting odds of who's going to win.

00:01:43.500 It's pretty interesting.

00:01:45.240 Also, the Obamas, though, are becoming billionaires, Pat.

00:01:47.400 Yeah, they're well on the way with massive book deals and the Netflix deal that they have,

00:01:53.540 which some people have said it's $100 million.

00:01:56.960 And then they've got their speeches where they're making hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece at each event.

00:02:03.920 Incredible.

00:02:04.380 Yeah, they're doing okay.

00:02:05.540 Doing okay.

00:02:06.000 That and a lot more on today's podcast.

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00:03:08.740 So there's a viral video in which a fine group of African-American gentlemen decided to go into Chipotle.

00:03:16.320 And they tagged their video with a – with this quote.

00:03:22.400 Can a group of young, well-established African-Americans get a bite to eat after a long workout session, Chipotle? 0.82

00:03:28.880 I'm going to say the answer is yes.

00:03:30.300 I'm going to say yes, too.

00:03:31.300 Yeah, you probably can.

00:03:32.660 Fairly common, I would say, for people of every race to go to Chipotle.

00:03:36.200 I've seen African-Americans in a Chipotle being served as I was there.

00:03:41.400 Is that possible?

00:03:42.080 It is possible.

00:03:42.640 It's happened.

00:03:43.700 I've seen it.

00:03:44.420 I'm a skeptic of your claim.

00:03:45.300 Are you?

00:03:45.500 I am a skeptic of your claim.

00:03:46.720 It is pretty outrageous.

00:03:48.340 Now, Chipotle, or as Al Sharpton calls it, Chipotle, is a restaurant that serves everybody.

00:03:58.720 Because, you know, pretty much every restaurant in America will do this.

00:04:02.100 But Chipotle really does it, right?

00:04:04.260 Like, they've got thousands of locations.

00:04:06.800 The idea that they would not serve African-Americans would be a questionable policy choice.

00:04:10.560 Seems like a bad business model.

00:04:12.820 We'll serve everybody but black people. 1.00

00:04:15.320 Yeah, we're not going to serve 14% of the population.

00:04:17.980 We just don't want that money.

00:04:19.380 We don't want it.

00:04:20.340 So, what they said, and it's on the video, several black people saying to the white manager,

00:04:27.180 hey, we want our food.

00:04:28.400 Why won't you give us our food?

00:04:29.240 And she says, look, if you guys want your food, you're going to have to pay first.

00:04:32.380 Okay?

00:04:33.160 Because you know how when you go through a Chipotle line, you order the food,

00:04:35.440 and you go through the whole process, and then at the end, you usually pay.

00:04:38.820 Yeah.

00:04:40.420 And in the video, she says something like, look, we've seen you guys here before.

00:04:45.400 Okay?

00:04:46.580 Again, like, look at this racist.

00:04:48.020 This racist manager.

00:04:49.320 What, have you seen their kind here before?

00:04:51.580 Is that what you're saying?

00:04:52.520 So, this goes viral.

00:04:54.020 Or is she talking about these specific people she's actually seen?

00:04:56.400 That's an interesting question you ask there, Pat.

00:04:58.300 Yeah.

00:04:58.820 It's one you'd think almost everyone would ask immediately, right?

00:05:02.740 But no, it was all about because she didn't like black people.

00:05:05.900 So, this goes through the process where it goes viral, and Chipotle picks it up.

00:05:11.720 They tweet, oh, we would like to say that this is not the way we should treat people.

00:05:16.180 Of course.

00:05:16.660 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:05:18.020 They call her up.

00:05:19.780 They call the, they get in touch with the African-American customers, and they say, hey, you know, what happened?

00:05:26.300 They tell them what happened.

00:05:27.320 They didn't serve us because we were black.

00:05:29.500 And they fire the manager.

00:05:31.240 Of course.

00:05:32.140 Sure.

00:05:32.380 Now, why look into it in any meaningful way?

00:05:36.360 No.

00:05:36.860 Of course not.

00:05:37.020 You just accept the story at face value, right?

00:05:39.660 Right.

00:05:39.960 Because every single time, we believe survivors, and they're obviously survivors of intense discrimination.

00:05:47.540 Well, they did have a statement that came out, Pat.

00:05:49.420 Okay.

00:05:50.120 Regarding what happened at the St. Paul restaurant, the manager thought these gentlemen were the same customers from Tuesday night who weren't able to pay for their meal.

00:05:57.040 Wait a minute.

00:05:59.140 So, they asked the manager, and the manager said, those guys were here before and didn't pay last time.

00:06:05.620 That's why we need their money up front. 0.98

00:06:07.500 Okay.

00:06:08.100 Listen to, regardless, this is not how we treat our customers.

00:06:11.080 And as a result, the manager at the restaurant has been fired.

00:06:15.240 Wait, that's how they, they don't treat their customers as customers?

00:06:19.120 Right.

00:06:19.380 Is that what they're saying?

00:06:20.160 People who need to pay?

00:06:20.820 You don't have to pay.

00:06:21.800 Right.

00:06:22.800 Oh, that's interesting information for everybody going to Chipotle today.

00:06:26.820 It's an easy way to get a free meal, apparently.

00:06:29.200 The manager has been fired.

00:06:31.680 They did say, because the Daily Caller said, you know, we should look at this guy's social media feed.

00:06:38.840 See what he's been tweeting about.

00:06:40.000 Okay.

00:06:40.700 Here are some, you want some select quotes?

00:06:45.000 It's not a dine and dash.

00:06:46.620 We're just borrowing the food for a couple of hours.

00:06:48.660 Oh, my gosh.

00:06:52.000 We never have money.

00:06:53.460 You know me.

00:06:54.040 I'm here every day.

00:06:56.460 They, is what they were saying here.

00:06:58.640 They said they were all being stereotyped.

00:07:00.280 However, the quotes from the Twitter feed of, oh, God.

00:07:08.380 Let's see.

00:07:08.840 They're all over the fact, in fact, several, three, four times they tweeted about going, one time even, going to the restaurant, saying they are going to dine and dash, and then saying on social media, if they didn't allow it, they would say it was racism.

00:07:29.300 Which they did.

00:07:30.200 Which they did.

00:07:30.960 And it cost somebody their job.

00:07:32.160 And it worked.

00:07:33.200 Wow.

00:07:33.540 And apparently, and they were aware of these.

00:07:36.500 They said they had.

00:07:37.480 They were aware of the tweets?

00:07:38.380 Yes.

00:07:38.720 And they fired the manager anyway?

00:07:40.140 They said they had no choice but to take his word for it.

00:07:42.520 Oh, God.

00:07:44.060 Now, after this already blew up.

00:07:45.640 Wow.

00:07:45.660 Because now they've gone through one wave of negativity on social media.

00:07:49.200 Yeah.

00:07:49.640 Then they decided to fire the manager.

00:07:51.560 Now, the reverse, of course, has happened, where everyone's saying, hey, what the hell?

00:07:55.720 This makes no sense.

00:07:57.180 You fired this poor woman? 1.00

00:07:58.420 Because she was obviously doing something that was protecting the company, not trashing it by any means.

00:08:04.840 Yeah.

00:08:05.060 Um, she, uh, she has now been re- or she was offered her job back.

00:08:10.960 Oh, okay.

00:08:11.720 Well, there's some sanity prevailing.

00:08:13.800 Kind of.

00:08:14.160 Would you take it?

00:08:14.700 Sort of.

00:08:14.980 No.

00:08:15.280 I wouldn't.

00:08:15.680 But, unless I, you know, deeply needed a job and didn't have confidence, I could get another one somewhere.

00:08:21.620 You know?

00:08:22.240 Then I guess you'd go back, right?

00:08:24.260 I guess, you know, and I wonder, because people will Google her name, and what will they see?

00:08:29.240 Her as a racist stopping black people from eating at Chipotle. 0.62

00:08:32.700 Another tweet from, uh, from the person here who, uh, who did this scam.

00:08:37.620 Um, I, man, I think Chipotle is catching up to us.

00:08:41.120 Should we change locations?

00:08:43.760 He actually was publicly admitting that they were going there to steal food, and they still fired the manager.

00:08:50.400 It's just unbelievable.

00:08:51.780 You know, Pat, we've been through this for so long, and, you know, conservative media, I think, was the first in this firing line, right?

00:08:58.060 Where, uh, where three or four activists would come up with a little scam to email a company a couple hundred times and act like different people.

00:09:08.860 And then the company would freak out because they don't get complaint calls, typically.

00:09:13.820 You know, it's just an invention of the social media email world where all of a sudden it was a lot easier to do that.

00:09:18.020 People didn't want to take the time to write 500 letters.

00:09:20.060 But when you can just kind of change wording and, you know, get some interns to send stuff out, it was easy.

00:09:24.980 And these companies would get intimidated, and they'd freak out, and they'd pull off of their advertising.

00:09:29.280 It would, you know, theoretically hurt these companies.

00:09:31.940 Um, and now it's just all the time.

00:09:34.720 This is, and I remember when it first started, look, it sucks right now because these companies, it's something new to them.

00:09:40.800 Getting all these complaint letters.

00:09:42.320 Getting all this attention.

00:09:43.420 And eventually they're going to figure out that this is the same 12 people.

00:09:46.440 It's not.

00:09:47.040 It's not new anymore, and they still haven't figured it out.

00:09:50.340 These companies never enter these things with a skeptical eye.

00:09:54.040 Every single time there's someone who writes, uh, I don't like being waited on by a Croatian on their receipt. 0.94

00:10:02.100 Like, oh, well, we do not stand for anti-Croatian bias here at a Bob's Diner and sausage pig in a blanket factory.

00:10:11.480 That place will fire everybody on staff until, like, three days later they realize that the person wasn't Croatian, or the guy wrote it on his own receipt, or whatever the heck the situation is.

00:10:22.520 How many times have we seen these hoaxes?

00:10:23.900 It's always the same thing.

00:10:25.360 People don't write negative messages on receipts.

00:10:28.040 Can we just accept that as part of life?

00:10:30.700 Like, it's just not something you do.

00:10:32.080 They'll always be found out.

00:10:33.000 And they know, I mean, even if they were, even if they had the propensity to do that, they probably wouldn't, because you know you're going to be seen.

00:10:40.860 You've got, they've got information of your, of your, uh, of your credit card.

00:10:45.340 Yeah.

00:10:45.560 For one thing, and I, I don't want them screwing with that.

00:10:49.320 Uh, you're going to have negative publicity about you.

00:10:52.080 You're probably going to get fired from your job if you actually do it.

00:10:55.640 And it doesn't, it doesn't work out for anybody.

00:10:58.560 And here's another thing.

00:11:00.420 Almost nobody feels that way.

00:11:02.460 Like, oh, I'm not going to give you a tip because you're a person of color. 1.00

00:11:06.640 That doesn't happen as a rule in America.

00:11:09.960 No, it doesn't.

00:11:10.980 And we've seen that over and over and over and over again where these are hoaxes.

00:11:15.220 We just had a story last week.

00:11:17.900 I think we talked about it when, when Glenn was here and I was, uh, you know, doing my little, um, promotion thing.

00:11:24.600 Like, that, uh, there was a, there was a person at a university who wrote a hate message on their door.

00:11:32.880 Like, hey, there, this is where a black person lives.

00:11:36.200 Don't knock on the door or whatever.

00:11:39.080 And, uh, it happened at the same university where just a few months ago, somebody spray painted the N word all over their car.

00:11:45.680 In both cases, it was the person, uh, who claimed to be the victim that wrote the note.

00:11:52.680 Of course.

00:11:53.020 Or spray painted their car.

00:11:54.600 And that, that happens all the time.

00:11:56.480 All the time.

00:11:57.400 This is something, I mean, we, we can be helpful here, Pat.

00:11:59.960 When you're trying to do a hate crime hoax on yourself, writing it on a, uh, a receipt is not a good way to go.

00:12:07.860 No.

00:12:08.100 Because the person knows that you have their information with a credit card.

00:12:11.040 Mm-hmm.

00:12:11.400 Um, you know, so they wouldn't do that.

00:12:13.240 Mm-hmm.

00:12:13.560 They might, they might be, like, there are people who are racist, right?

00:12:17.280 They just don't do that.

00:12:18.340 But even racists just don't do that. 0.60

00:12:19.400 Right, like David doesn't show up.

00:12:20.780 He, what, he's not showing up at restaurants being like, by the way, I was not appreciative of the African-American server. 0.99

00:12:27.140 Like, that's not what they do.

00:12:28.440 No.

00:12:28.620 They, they march with torches.

00:12:30.860 That's what they do.

00:12:31.840 They march with torches in Charlottesville.

00:12:33.880 That's their role.

00:12:34.840 Mm-hmm.

00:12:35.320 And they say Jews will not replace us.

00:12:37.140 Many times, in case you didn't hear it, they just keep repeating it.

00:12:40.540 That, that's the approach.

00:12:42.820 Well, that's, and don't pretend like that's not something you're worried about, too.

00:12:46.400 How many times have you said that Jews will not replace you here?

00:12:49.960 I mean, if I've heard that once from you.

00:12:52.280 I'm very concerned about Jews replacing us, Pat. 1.00

00:12:54.960 We've said this many times.

00:12:55.920 Weird, what a weird chant that was, too.

00:12:58.560 Jews will not replace us. 0.97

00:13:00.460 Well, what do you, like, where, when?

00:13:03.240 Are you, at your job?

00:13:04.620 Right.

00:13:05.060 In the country?

00:13:05.880 I like what Jews are probably like, well, we see you marching with torches. 1.00

00:13:08.880 We will not replace you there.

00:13:09.920 That's all you.

00:13:11.740 So, no, we will not replace you in the racist march.

00:13:14.640 That won't happen.

00:13:15.520 Ugh.

00:13:16.420 It's a strange way to go.

00:13:18.020 It really is.

00:13:18.660 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:13:29.520 The Obamas, you'll be pleased to know, I think, that the Obamas are well on their way to becoming a billionaire brand.

00:13:37.940 Oh, good.

00:13:38.540 Isn't that wonderful?

00:13:39.340 Yes, finally.

00:13:40.380 It's so gratifying that their public service can lead to massive, untold wealth.

00:13:46.140 That is so great that they've parlayed a senator role and a presidential role into a billion-dollar business.

00:13:56.120 Fantastic.

00:13:57.360 This is how it's supposed to work.

00:13:58.800 Our founders decided.

00:13:59.380 This is exactly how it's supposed to work.

00:14:00.960 You're supposed to go.

00:14:01.840 You serve for a few years.

00:14:03.800 Yes.

00:14:04.080 Then you get out.

00:14:04.640 You become a billionaire.

00:14:05.560 Right.

00:14:05.920 Because you deserve it, by golly.

00:14:09.660 The launch of Michelle Obama's cross-country book tour for her memoir, Becoming.

00:14:13.780 Now, you've been to one of these rallies, right, for Michelle?

00:14:16.780 For Michelle Obama and her new book, Becoming?

00:14:19.080 Uh-huh.

00:14:19.360 Oh, yes.

00:14:20.280 I've flown to several locations where she's been just so I could be there in person.

00:14:24.600 I'm a Michelle head myself.

00:14:25.920 So, wherever she goes, I will fly into the city.

00:14:29.140 Or sometimes I rent a bus and just follow around the country.

00:14:32.620 Have you seen her arms?

00:14:34.280 Oh, my gosh.

00:14:34.780 Her arms are magnificent.

00:14:35.600 That's the reason I do it.

00:14:36.380 They're fabulous.

00:14:37.700 Magnificent arms.

00:14:38.300 You ever see them live?

00:14:39.240 I mean, her arms live. 1.00

00:14:41.300 Oh.

00:14:41.540 If you've never experienced it, folks, it's worth the front row ticket.

00:14:44.860 It is.

00:14:45.300 I mean, yeah, you're going to pay $35,000 to sit in that front row. 0.67

00:14:48.680 But you'll get to see those arms.

00:14:50.300 Yeah.

00:14:50.600 It's worth it.

00:14:51.120 Her arms are that good.

00:14:52.400 In addition to, get this, she got a $65 million book advance.

00:14:56.860 Now, how many books would you have to sell in order for the company to even break even on that?

00:15:04.860 $65 million?

00:15:05.980 $65 million.

00:15:07.120 Wow.

00:15:07.300 I mean, you're probably in the area of 10 to 15 million books.

00:15:11.480 And there's no way she's going to sell.

00:15:12.640 Is there any way?

00:15:13.800 I mean, she might sell a tenth of that? 0.88

00:15:16.300 I don't know.

00:15:17.020 But books just don't sell that well anymore, which is why you don't see books a million anymore or...

00:15:24.420 Books a million.

00:15:25.840 There's some.

00:15:26.460 I mean...

00:15:26.640 Are they?

00:15:26.900 I thought they went completely out of business.

00:15:28.660 No.

00:15:29.400 I think you're thinking of Borders.

00:15:30.180 Borders did.

00:15:30.980 Yeah.

00:15:31.180 Borders did.

00:15:31.760 Yeah.

00:15:31.940 So, in addition to the $65 million advance and an estimated $50 million deal with Netflix,

00:15:38.340 which I actually read a few weeks ago was more like $100 million.

00:15:42.400 Why on earth would you want Michelle Obama designing content for Netflix? 1.00

00:15:46.260 Seriously.

00:15:47.320 They've got no experience in that.

00:15:50.060 I guess just lending their name to it?

00:15:52.580 Yeah.

00:15:52.880 And their relationships probably, right?

00:15:54.720 Yeah.

00:15:54.880 Because they'll probably be able to pull on all their celebrity friends.

00:15:56.940 But, I mean, this is a great example of exactly what the founders didn't see public service as.

00:16:01.840 This isn't even related to what they're doing.

00:16:04.720 Yeah.

00:16:04.900 It's one thing to, like, be able to go and raise money for something that you've worked on or you have expertise in.

00:16:10.320 They have no expertise in programming content for Netflix.

00:16:13.600 None.

00:16:14.120 And it's a huge deal.

00:16:16.440 And plus, you know, that's not even to mention the amount of money they're getting for their appearances.

00:16:23.380 Just Michelle.

00:16:24.780 You know, just.

00:16:25.400 She was first lady. 0.97

00:16:26.220 But she's getting $225,000 per appearance. 1.00

00:16:30.720 Barack Obama is getting $400,000 per appearance.

00:16:34.400 Oh, my gosh.

00:16:35.180 I mean, I do think.

00:16:36.600 I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

00:16:39.080 Right?

00:16:39.960 Wait, what was that?

00:16:41.200 It was.

00:16:42.160 I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

00:16:44.780 Oh, but not this much.

00:16:45.460 Not this.

00:16:46.320 No, no.

00:16:46.680 They're not at that point yet.

00:16:48.320 And I don't.

00:16:49.640 It's going to be interesting to see if he ever decides they are at that point.

00:16:52.840 Where I've made enough money and every dollar I receive now will go directly to charities.

00:16:59.980 I'd like to see that happen.

00:17:01.300 Or to the U.S.

00:17:02.140 government.

00:17:02.680 Because, you know, he doesn't pay enough in taxes.

00:17:05.340 Well, it's the only charity that does any good, as far as I'm concerned, is the U.S.

00:17:08.820 government.

00:17:09.060 The U.S.

00:17:09.560 government is, this is what we all think.

00:17:12.540 Send your money there.

00:17:13.600 Let them deal with it because they do a great job.

00:17:15.560 They're already worth, estimated by Forbes, over $135 million since they left office.

00:17:21.940 $135 million.

00:17:22.880 Unreal.

00:17:23.360 And they're on the way to becoming a billion-dollar brand.

00:17:26.060 I mean, the hypocrisy of this income inequality, which they clearly don't believe in.

00:17:31.620 They don't care how much more money they make than anybody else.

00:17:34.560 And they're not, do you think they're going to turn over the proceeds of their fabulous

00:17:40.620 paychecks to anybody but themselves?

00:17:42.980 No.

00:17:43.780 No, they're not.

00:17:44.700 No, they're not.

00:17:46.320 So.

00:17:46.920 Well, you know, they'll give their, they'll give a certain amount out to Democratic candidates.

00:17:50.520 Sure.

00:17:51.060 Do you think there's any chance Michelle runs?

00:17:53.060 I do think there's a chance.

00:17:54.400 There's a chance.

00:17:54.800 It's not, it's not, it's not a non-zero situation.

00:17:58.040 No, it's not.

00:17:58.180 I think there's a possibility because, and I think if she ran, I think she'd have a great chance

00:18:02.100 of winning it.

00:18:02.520 She might do some damage. 0.99

00:18:03.300 Of that nomination.

00:18:04.300 Yeah.

00:18:04.560 Yeah.

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00:18:23.680 Relief factor.

00:18:24.440 Relief factor, of course, is something that is, I know Glenn has had a great experience

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00:18:32.480 I'm in pain.

00:18:32.580 She's like, suck it up. 1.00

00:18:33.420 Get over it.

00:18:33.960 But we don't care.

00:18:35.280 We want to make it worse.

00:18:36.240 We'd say things like that to him.

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00:19:25.620 I want to make a case to the left that they should stop worrying about Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

00:19:31.200 Again, she could have left. 0.91

00:19:32.480 She could have saved you a lot of hassle by naming, you know, getting someone named who you actually liked.

00:19:38.700 You could have had your Merrick Garland if Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have stepped down all those years ago. 0.99

00:19:43.080 But why not Sotomayor?

00:19:46.780 Sonia Sotomayor is, by most measures, slightly more liberal than Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which shows you how awful she is as a Supreme Court justice. 0.70

00:19:56.980 And by the way, there's several Republicans voted for her to get her in. 1.00

00:20:01.920 Many.

00:20:02.540 I think she got 61 votes or 60 or 61.

00:20:06.180 Yeah, it was 61-34 or something.

00:20:08.360 Yeah.

00:20:08.760 And there were some abstentions of people who weren't there at the time.

00:20:11.660 Yeah, the Kavanaugh thing is not the norm.

00:20:14.780 No.

00:20:14.940 You know, we keep thinking about, like, oh, these things are so contentious.

00:20:17.620 Well, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg was 97-3. 0.78

00:20:20.220 97-3.

00:20:21.140 You know, really, it only happens to Republicans.

00:20:25.060 Bork, Clarence Thomas, and Brett Kavanaugh being the three you'd think of right off the top of your head.

00:20:32.400 Not to mention, you know, Harriet Meyers didn't even get to that point.

00:20:35.500 Bush had, like, a month of Harriet Meyers talk, and then it was gone.

00:20:38.400 You know, with Democrats, typically what happens is a bunch of Republicans cross the aisle, and they get through pretty easily.

00:20:45.280 You know, now Merrick Garland they keep bringing up as an exception to that, which is, you know, I can understand them being frustrated about that process.

00:20:52.580 We talked about it at the time.

00:20:53.520 But it's not the norm where this is usually going to be as contentious as Kavanaugh.

00:20:58.700 But Sotomayor came out in an interview this weekend talking about Brett Kavanaugh.

00:21:03.560 And actually, it kind of gives you, I don't know, a little bit of hope.

00:21:06.600 I mean, Sotomayor has not been a disappointment when it comes to liberals.

00:21:09.400 But listen to this as far as her relationship and acceptance of Brett Kavanaugh.

00:21:14.240 I just wanted to spend a couple of minutes on the moment that you think the court is in now.

00:21:21.840 I know you guys are sort of cloistered, but you're not cocooned.

00:21:24.860 We came through this sort of acrimonious process of confirmation.

00:21:31.080 You're going to relate to alcohol.

00:21:32.660 I like beer.

00:21:33.640 I like beer.

00:21:34.280 I don't know if you do.

00:21:34.840 Do you like beer, Senator, or not?

00:21:36.580 What do you like to drink?

00:21:37.540 What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open.

00:21:42.640 How do you view it from the inside?

00:21:44.360 I mean, how does the court and family, community adjust to those moments?

00:21:49.220 I'm going to steal a line from one of my colleagues.

00:21:53.660 A story, actually, not a line.

00:21:55.360 And it was Justice Thomas who tells me that when he first came to the court,

00:22:01.800 another justice approached him and said,

00:22:04.200 I judge you by what you do here.

00:22:10.520 Welcome.

00:22:11.740 And I repeated that story to Justice Kavanaugh when I first greeted him here.

00:22:18.720 Now, I've known him.

00:22:20.020 I've known of his work.

00:22:21.600 But when you're charged with working together for most of the remainder of your life,

00:22:29.220 you have to create a relationship.

00:22:31.680 The nine of us are now a family.

00:22:35.860 And we're a family with each of us, our own burdens and our own obligations to others.

00:22:41.520 But this is our work family.

00:22:44.680 And it's just as important as our personal family.

00:22:48.160 We probably spend more time with each other than most justices spend who have spouses with their spouses.

00:22:54.260 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:24:20.500 There's this Harvard professor, archaeologist and historian who just did a study on what was the worst year in human history.

00:24:31.180 I like this.

00:24:32.500 Now, many people would probably think, that's 2018.

00:24:35.780 Of course.

00:24:36.240 Right?

00:24:36.460 It's the year, it's any year in which Trump had anything to say about what goes on in a country or the world.

00:24:44.140 It was actually the year 536 AD, where he found bubonic plague, widespread famine, war, flu pandemics,

00:24:57.140 and a year and a half long fog that they couldn't explain that kept the northern hemisphere in darkness for 18 months.

00:25:09.000 It was like dusk, day and night.

00:25:11.600 And that sun, they couldn't see the sun for a year and a half.

00:25:16.880 And meanwhile, on the surface of the planet, people are dying from plagues, from famine, from drought.

00:25:25.840 There was snowfall in China.

00:25:29.280 Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia plunged into that year and a half of solid darkness by this.

00:25:35.160 And at the time, they didn't have any idea what was going on.

00:25:37.900 Why is this happening to us?

00:25:39.540 And then you find out, first of all, they also had a continental-scale crop failure.

00:25:46.500 So all of Europe had crop failure and so did Asia.

00:25:49.900 And then the disease kicked in.

00:25:52.540 And apparently, a lot of it was triggered by a cataclysmic Icelandic eruption.

00:25:56.860 So there's your global warming that caused the volcano, and then the drought, and the severe famine,

00:26:05.540 and the weird, mysterious weirding of the weather that included a dense fog that put them in darkness.

00:26:13.280 And, you know, millions of people died.

00:26:15.400 And they said that they didn't recover.

00:26:17.340 The Earth didn't recover from this disaster for 100 years.

00:26:22.820 But not until 636 A.D. did they start to get back to where they once were.

00:26:29.300 And your life expectancy at this point is, what, 20?

00:26:31.580 Probably.

00:26:32.160 22, which is probably about 21 years more than you wanted it to be.

00:26:34.980 Probably.

00:26:35.300 I was very like, I get this, I get, who the, living through these times, can you imagine?

00:26:39.780 But, I mean, 18 months of fog.

00:26:40.280 There was no capitalism then.

00:26:41.720 There was no America then. 0.80

00:26:43.100 And there was no help or hope for these people.

00:26:45.720 No way of turning it around.

00:26:46.720 Yeah.

00:26:47.060 That's amazing.

00:26:47.980 And, you know, how would you?

00:26:49.840 And you're talking about, what, 10% of your life probably at this point.

00:26:53.020 You're just living in a fog.

00:26:54.700 That's a real rough one.

00:26:56.860 It's interesting.

00:26:57.500 They had another study that came out.

00:26:59.460 And we talk about this all the time because the left loves to say this.

00:27:02.020 And you know what?

00:27:02.400 I will say the right likes to say it a lot, too, which is that wages have stagnated.

00:27:06.220 Ah, jeez.

00:27:06.840 And, you know, you look at this and there's a lot of reasons why it's not true.

00:27:11.220 Wages haven't really stagnated.

00:27:13.280 There are different things that have happened as far as, like, you know, more employers now spend more on health care.

00:27:20.400 And so, like, the money coming to you has gone up quite a bit.

00:27:23.120 It's just that progressives have pushed for policies in which your employer makes your decisions for what you spend your money on instead of you.

00:27:30.760 You know, like, oh, well, you should have all these things covered because you're too dumb and might not buy those things if you're not forced to.

00:27:37.600 And that's what progressives do on both sides because Republicans love that stat, too.

00:27:42.800 They say, look, you know, it's a good way of saying when someone else is in control, well, look, yeah, things might seem like it's good now.

00:27:48.240 But, like, wages have stagnated since 1989.

00:27:50.240 Yeah, all the jobs that are being created are bad ones.

00:27:53.020 Right, exactly.

00:27:53.900 Now, of course, it's not true for a bunch of reasons.

00:27:56.580 But why would it even matter, right?

00:27:58.480 Like, let's just say this world happens where all wages stagnate and you make the same amount of money for the rest of your life.

00:28:05.400 But everything continually gets cheaper.

00:28:07.540 So you have more money to spend on other things.

00:28:10.580 That's a good world, right?

00:28:12.400 What does the number matter?

00:28:14.400 The number doesn't matter.

00:28:15.160 It's what can you do with the number?

00:28:16.600 So there's a new study out about consumption poverty.

00:28:19.140 Now, this is different than income, right?

00:28:20.600 So income is how much money do you have and you start, you know, there's a scale of how much leads to poverty.

00:28:25.020 But what about things that are actually important?

00:28:26.540 What are you spending money on?

00:28:27.920 All of these are down by 20% to 80%, between 20% and 80% since 1989.

00:28:34.200 Now, where wages are relatively, you know, they go up and down a little bit.

00:28:37.600 But they haven't gone up, per se, for people in the poverty regions, the poorest 20% of Americans.

00:28:46.340 But do you have a dishwasher in your house?

00:28:51.480 That's dropped by between 20% and 80%.

00:28:53.420 A clothes dryer.

00:28:55.260 Again, this is people who don't have one.

00:28:57.000 So more people have one before.

00:28:58.380 So the amount of people who don't have them has dropped.

00:29:00.680 Yes.

00:29:01.200 Sorry for I misstay with that.

00:29:02.320 Yes.

00:29:02.880 Do you not have a clothes washer?

00:29:05.400 That has dropped between 20% and 80% if you don't have one.

00:29:08.440 Do you have no air conditioning?

00:29:09.860 Those houses.

00:29:10.740 Again, this is among the 20% poorest families in America.

00:29:15.040 Yeah.

00:29:15.900 No air conditioning has dropped.

00:29:18.260 Large section of peeling paint on their home has dropped.

00:29:22.460 How about a water leak from outside the house?

00:29:25.460 Dropped.

00:29:25.900 Water leak from inside the house?

00:29:27.720 Dropped.

00:29:28.100 All of them, between 20% and 80%, again, since about 1990.

00:29:31.060 So even poor, and we've gone through the stats before of air conditioning, TV, microwave.

00:29:37.920 Phones, even mobile phones, cell phones.

00:29:39.520 Multiple cars, cell phones, tablets.

00:29:42.320 These are all things that now have 50, 60, 90, almost 100% of our poor.

00:29:47.540 Things that will be luxury items to the rest of the world.

00:29:50.600 Items that you couldn't even buy if you were the richest person in the world 30 years ago.

00:29:55.800 A tablet, you couldn't buy it if you were Bill Gates.

00:29:59.960 Bill Gates had to go through a whole thing of building an entire company, get that rich,

00:30:04.540 and then even after that, he couldn't invent one better than somebody else.

00:30:08.620 I mean, that is incredible.

00:30:10.440 It is.

00:30:10.900 We never look at it that way, though.

00:30:12.660 We never do.

00:30:13.040 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:30:21.840 I think tomorrow night is an official holiday in the Bergeer family, is it not?

00:30:37.080 It is.

00:30:37.440 Since Creed 2 is being released.

00:30:38.920 Yes.

00:30:39.420 Anytime a Rocky movie comes out, it's an official holiday in my family.

00:30:42.760 And actually, I bought tickets.

00:30:43.680 You have tickets?

00:30:44.200 I bought tickets multiple weeks ago, yes.

00:30:45.880 Multiple weeks ago.

00:30:46.540 Creed 2, very excited about it.

00:30:47.700 In fact, the return of Ivan Drago to our lives.

00:30:49.840 That's amazing.

00:30:51.440 Yes.

00:30:52.000 Very exciting.

00:30:52.920 Because Creed is fighting his son, right?

00:30:55.660 Yes.

00:30:56.380 And now, if you remember, of course...

00:30:57.420 Which is super likely to happen.

00:30:59.520 Oh, this is...

00:31:00.100 The whole series is very likely to happen.

00:31:01.760 Unfortunately, as you remember, of course, Apollo Creed...

00:31:04.580 Died.

00:31:04.920 Died in the ring.

00:31:05.760 At the hands of Dolph Lundgren, right?

00:31:08.880 Well, Ivan Drago.

00:31:10.440 Right, Ivan Drago.

00:31:11.100 The Soviet fighter.

00:31:12.140 Yes.

00:31:12.560 Who was...

00:31:13.240 There were rumors of steroid abuse in that particular story, but...

00:31:16.560 Yes, there were strong rumors.

00:31:17.540 Strong rumors, including footage.

00:31:19.940 But it also...

00:31:21.180 That movie, if you remember, of course, ended the Cold War.

00:31:23.540 People don't, of course, remember that.

00:31:25.560 No, they don't.

00:31:25.960 They now give credit to Reagan and Thatcher, whatever.

00:31:28.780 It was all Sly Stallone.

00:31:30.640 It was Rocky IV.

00:31:31.420 It was.

00:31:31.860 And so they're bringing this one back, which I'm pretty excited about.

00:31:33.900 Hopefully, it doesn't start a new Cold War.

00:31:35.880 But maybe this is what happens that brings us and Russia back together. 0.92

00:31:39.220 I don't know.

00:31:39.780 But Dolph Lundgren, the original Ivan Drago, is actually in this movie, right?

00:31:43.340 He's in this one.

00:31:43.780 I heard something the other day, and I thought, that can't be true.

00:31:47.460 It's got to be one of those urban legends.

00:31:49.180 They said Dolph Lundgren has an IQ of 160.

00:31:54.400 He's like super smart.

00:31:55.800 160!

00:31:56.300 That's by far genius category.

00:31:58.920 That's 140, I think, or 143 or something is genius.

00:32:03.220 160 is...

00:32:04.420 That's like Einstein smart.

00:32:06.620 He's very, very smart.

00:32:07.640 And it was weird because his role as Ivan Drago was obviously a big, strong guy who punches a lot and says very little.

00:32:13.960 Yeah, and he's dumb.

00:32:14.460 Don't be.

00:32:14.920 Yeah, kind of like a...

00:32:15.780 Just a killing machine, really.

00:32:17.180 Right.

00:32:18.220 And, you know, it's interesting, too, because he was not...

00:32:20.460 As you might have detected from the movie, he had not done a lot of acting previous to this role.

00:32:26.300 Did detect that.

00:32:26.960 But if you see in the movie, Rocky IV, when he comes out of the floor in Vegas and it's James Brown singing, living in America and all that, like, his reaction, he says, like, it was completely legitimate.

00:32:38.360 I was like, I had no idea.

00:32:40.360 He's just standing in the middle of the ring, not moving, because he was terrified.

00:32:43.680 I've never seen anything like this.

00:32:45.480 It's pretty amazing.

00:32:46.360 And now he's back for this one.

00:32:47.820 I'm pretty excited about it.

00:32:49.120 That's kind of fun.

00:32:49.980 Yeah.

00:32:50.500 So that's going to be a big one.

00:32:52.140 You saw...

00:32:52.700 Did you see the new Harry Potter thing?

00:32:53.860 Yeah, Fantastic Beasts, Crimes of Grindelwald.

00:32:56.240 It was good.

00:32:57.160 I liked it.

00:32:57.760 Is it just related, or is it part of the same story?

00:32:59.980 No, it's the same story.

00:33:01.000 It's part of...

00:33:01.520 It's like a prequel to the Harry Potter stuff.

00:33:04.320 So they went through this whole Harry Potter thing.

00:33:05.680 This is the last book ever, we promise.

00:33:07.140 Yep.

00:33:07.260 And then...

00:33:07.800 And then she just started back over on the series.

00:33:10.040 How could you resist?

00:33:10.860 Because you can't.

00:33:11.680 It's a money printing machine.

00:33:12.740 Well, she sold 450 to 500 million copies of the books.

00:33:19.000 And then the movies did, I don't know, a billion and a half or two billion.

00:33:23.620 So why would you stop that money printing machine?

00:33:26.500 It just sounds dumb.

00:33:28.020 Doesn't it?

00:33:28.660 Yeah, it does.

00:33:29.420 Do you think someone came to her and said, just so you're aware, this is dumb.

00:33:33.080 Don't stop writing them.

00:33:34.260 Keep doing it.

00:33:34.900 People like it.

00:33:35.620 Yeah, people like it.

00:33:36.660 So that means 62 million over the weekend.

00:33:38.680 But it costs 200 million to make, so...

00:33:41.660 Yeah, but you have the whole...

00:33:42.560 First of all, one of the biggest weeks of movie viewing is coming up, right?

00:33:46.240 And this one and Christmas are huge weeks.

00:33:48.160 And this whole season...

00:33:49.540 I mean, it'll do well.

00:33:50.280 That'll do well.

00:33:50.900 Have you seen the...

00:33:51.540 Have you taken the kids to The Grinch, the new one?

00:33:53.220 They went yesterday while I was watching the Eagles lose by 611 points.

00:33:56.960 Oh, wow.

00:33:57.440 Yes, but they did like it a lot.

00:33:59.460 They did like it quite a bit.

00:34:00.700 And then Bohemian Rhapsody, still third.

00:34:02.840 And that's made 127 million so far.

00:34:06.420 And it only costs 52 million to make.

00:34:08.480 Queen is...

00:34:09.160 I don't know.

00:34:10.240 There's something interesting and unique about their music.

00:34:15.060 Because, you know, people like me who grew up with it love it.

00:34:19.040 But people who, like my kids, love it too.

00:34:23.140 Queen just seems like universally loved musically.

00:34:27.060 And it's interesting that Bohemian Rhapsody continues to be so popular among virtually all age groups.

00:34:34.600 They were talking about the 2020 president.

00:35:04.580 And some potential Democrat candidates are being thrown out there to oppose Trump.

00:35:14.880 Yeah.

00:35:15.480 And kind of gauging the audience reaction to each of them.

00:35:18.640 So this is kind of interesting.

00:35:19.720 You know, because you can look at it and you say a lot of people are passionate about this candidate or this candidate.

00:35:24.840 I found this to be really interesting.

00:35:26.480 FiveThirtyEight did a podcast in front of a live audience as a review of the election.

00:35:31.560 And as you're listening to it, you find very...

00:35:34.340 This is definitely a Democratic audience, which is not a huge surprise.

00:35:37.300 I think they did it in New York.

00:35:39.140 So it's definitely a Democratic audience.

00:35:40.860 And you could say someone so engaged in politics that they're thinking about this and wanting to go see a FiveThirtyEight podcast about the midterms.

00:35:47.860 You're going to be pretty...

00:35:48.820 You're going to be an activist, right?

00:35:50.000 Like this is where the energy is probably in the Democratic Party.

00:35:53.060 This is a non-scientific study, by the way.

00:35:55.080 But I was fascinated at the reactions to the candidates.

00:35:59.380 They do a 2020 draft.

00:36:03.820 So these three experts, Claire Malone, Nate Silver, and Micah Cohen, do a draft where they...

00:36:09.580 It's like a fantasy football draft where they draft candidates.

00:36:11.940 You're trying to pick the one who actually gets the nomination.

00:36:14.020 Okay.

00:36:14.500 So they go through and they're doing their picks.

00:36:16.700 Let me give you this one first.

00:36:17.720 This one was, I thought, pretty surprising.

00:36:20.000 The first pick overall in the draft, and just...

00:36:23.160 The main thing here is just to listen to the crowd reactions as their names are said.

00:36:27.240 Listen.

00:36:28.540 Let's go with...

00:36:29.360 This is the first one.

00:36:30.680 First pick in the overall draft, by the way, was Claire Malone picking Elizabeth Warren. 1.00

00:36:37.240 Okay.

00:36:37.680 We're going to have this clip here in a second for you.

00:36:39.920 It is...

00:36:41.080 You know, I don't know.

00:36:42.500 First of all, it's a...

00:36:43.440 You know, I don't know.

00:36:44.020 Claire Malone should maybe be very smart, but you don't pick Elizabeth Warren first in the draft. 1.00

00:36:47.540 I mean, it's a terrible pick.

00:36:48.580 No, you don't.

00:36:49.100 But I wouldn't say it was out of the mainstream of thought, right?

00:36:52.800 I think a lot of people would put her...

00:36:54.500 Yeah.

00:36:54.700 We have the odds on this percentage chance of winning.

00:37:00.020 She's in the top three or four.

00:37:02.000 Right now, Kamala Harris is the number one.

00:37:04.260 You've got to be kidding me.

00:37:05.000 Yeah.

00:37:05.260 Number one, Kamala Harris. 0.96

00:37:06.260 Number two, Joe Biden.

00:37:07.520 Number three, Bernie Sanders.

00:37:09.300 Is Hillary listed in this? 0.84

00:37:10.580 Four, Elizabeth Warren.

00:37:11.840 What's that?

00:37:12.340 Is Hillary listed?

00:37:13.580 Hillary... 1.00

00:37:14.460 That's a good question.

00:37:15.460 Is Hillary even listed? 1.00

00:37:16.680 I don't see Hillary.

00:37:17.480 There are many who think she's definitely running in 2020.

00:37:21.580 I just can't believe it.

00:37:22.620 All right.

00:37:22.800 Here's the first pick of the draft.

00:37:24.000 Listen to this.

00:37:24.380 So, Claire, who is the number one overall choice in our 2020 Democratic primary draft?

00:37:29.780 I am sticking with my last first round choice of Elizabeth Warren. 0.98

00:37:34.040 Elizabeth Warren.

00:37:35.160 Okay.

00:37:35.460 There it is.

00:37:36.620 They don't like that pick.

00:37:39.520 Boy, they sure didn't.

00:37:40.580 They did not like that.

00:37:41.560 That's all you got.

00:37:43.740 Yeah, that's it.

00:37:44.340 I didn't hear a single applause.

00:37:45.820 Right?

00:37:46.400 Now, Elizabeth Warren was the energy.

00:37:48.380 Yeah.

00:37:48.720 Remember?

00:37:49.160 I really think she...

00:37:49.960 Well, she was the big, you know, a cool, hip pick in 2016 to run. 1.00

00:37:54.660 And she, of course, never ran.

00:37:57.080 Yeah.

00:37:57.340 But everybody seemingly wanted her to.

00:37:59.300 Everyone wanted her.

00:38:00.100 She was the pick, right?

00:38:01.220 Yeah.

00:38:01.440 And what's interesting is, I think this whole Native American thing really backfired on her in a huge way. 0.95

00:38:08.980 And I think it was very bad for Elizabeth Warren's future in politics, but very good for the Democratic Party that she did that.

00:38:17.860 Because they saw how she handles these tough moments, and she can't handle these tough moments. 0.97

00:38:22.660 Right.

00:38:23.060 She's not good at this. 1.00

00:38:24.480 She's going...

00:38:25.040 I mean, if there was one candidate, if you wanted Donald Trump to win, and one of these top candidates to go against, I would pick Elizabeth Warren.

00:38:32.140 Trump can...

00:38:32.980 She would not be able to keep up with the...

00:38:35.080 No way.

00:38:35.400 There are certain people who can deal with the pressure of a Donald Trump.

00:38:37.880 Yeah, she's not one of them.

00:38:38.660 I keep saying Joe Biden would actually be a good counterweight to Trump.

00:38:44.080 Because he can get in there.

00:38:45.440 He can fight.

00:38:46.500 He's good at that sort of thing.

00:38:48.020 I'm not saying he'd be a good president.

00:38:49.540 He wouldn't.

00:38:50.360 But he'd be a much tougher matchup for Trump than an Elizabeth Warren.

00:38:54.080 Definitely.

00:38:55.040 So, listen.

00:38:55.740 So, next up is Nate Silver.

00:38:57.540 He's picking...

00:38:58.380 His second pick is Joe Biden.

00:39:00.040 And listen to the reaction.

00:39:00.800 Nate Silver, your choice.

00:39:02.640 I'm trying to figure out if I should be tactical or not here, but I'm going to be the honest pick, and I'm going to go with Joe Biden.

00:39:08.740 Joe Biden.

00:39:11.240 Tactical would have been thinking that Biden is going to fall to the second round.

00:39:13.740 That Mike, having said that he wouldn't pick Biden, I'd get him at five.

00:39:16.980 Okay.

00:39:17.460 So, and do you remember...

00:39:19.560 I don't know the historical trends here, but you've been...

00:39:22.460 There seems to be more kind of laughter than applause or cheering there.

00:39:28.020 Not much of anything, right?

00:39:29.320 Like a little laughter, and it's kind of just acknowledging everyone knows he's one of the frontrunners.

00:39:33.200 Yeah.

00:39:33.400 Now, the next one here is the third pick of the draft.

00:39:36.340 Listen.

00:39:36.900 My first pick is going to be...

00:39:39.060 His first round pick.

00:39:40.620 Kamala Harris.

00:39:41.600 Okay.

00:39:45.140 Pretty strong.

00:39:46.040 Pretty strong.

00:39:46.700 That's the reaction.

00:39:47.820 Two in a row here.

00:39:48.240 Amy Klobuchar.

00:39:50.240 Amy Klobuchar.

00:39:51.620 So those two in a row...

00:39:52.500 Where are they doing this?

00:39:53.220 This is in a...

00:39:54.200 It's one of...

00:39:54.680 It's a recording of their podcast, but very Democratic audience.

00:39:57.220 But do you know what city there?

00:39:58.500 I think it's New York.

00:39:59.020 Did you say New York?

00:39:59.520 Yeah, I think it's New York.

00:40:00.620 How did they even...

00:40:01.920 Most people don't even know who Amy Klobuchar is. 0.93

00:40:04.260 Well, that's why, though...

00:40:05.320 Again, these are political nerds, right?

00:40:07.380 The type of people who would pick candidates.

00:40:10.740 When we came out with 17 candidates at the beginning of the Republican convention, most

00:40:16.180 of America had no idea who half of them were.

00:40:18.160 We all knew who all of them were, and we'd already gone through all their policies and

00:40:21.720 talked about it a million times.

00:40:23.840 So that is...

00:40:24.680 So those two there, Kamala Harris and Klobuchar, back-to-back, with really strong reactions

00:40:28.220 in comparison.

00:40:28.560 And they both had strong reactions.

00:40:29.400 Yeah.

00:40:29.880 Next up is Nate Silver's pick.

00:40:31.720 A member newly elevated to the top tier is Beto O'Rourke.

00:40:35.400 Oh, my God.

00:40:38.120 Bad pick.

00:40:39.000 Why?

00:40:39.360 Why a bad pick?

00:40:40.280 I mean, right there, you see another big reaction.

00:40:42.900 They go back and forth and argue about that one a little bit.

00:40:44.720 That's probably the biggest reaction so far.

00:40:46.300 Yeah, I would say one is there.

00:40:47.520 Two is probably Klobuchar, I would say.

00:40:49.580 Yep.

00:40:49.840 Three, Kamala Harris.

00:40:51.200 Biden and Warren.

00:40:52.060 I mean, Warren was not just nothing, but really negative.

00:40:55.420 I mean, it was a negative...

00:40:56.380 Oh, gosh.

00:40:57.060 It was almost a groan from the crowd.

00:40:59.380 Next pick was Claire Malone's next one.

00:41:02.220 Claire, you're up.

00:41:03.320 So, I think there's only a couple people left at the top tier, and I'm going to go with

00:41:06.920 Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:41:07.800 Okay.

00:41:10.340 Moderate.

00:41:10.820 Yeah.

00:41:11.460 Okay, you can stop.

00:41:12.280 But moderate.

00:41:12.940 Yeah, but better than Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden, probably.

00:41:15.780 Right.

00:41:16.060 Probably the fourth best out of there so far.

00:41:18.340 Now, here's one I would have expected to have a huge reaction.

00:41:21.960 Nate Silver's next pick.

00:41:24.600 Bernie Sanders.

00:41:25.160 Bernie Sanders.

00:41:25.820 There he is.

00:41:26.840 Okay.

00:41:27.840 So, not much.

00:41:30.160 That's underwhelming.

00:41:31.700 Very underwhelming.

00:41:32.820 Underwhelming.

00:41:33.040 Right?

00:41:33.480 I mean, you know, you would think Bernie Sanders, again, was the energy, not necessarily from

00:41:38.680 the political class, right, where you'd say, this person can win, but the energy of the

00:41:44.340 activist, the energy of, this is who I want to win, is this guy who's admitting he's

00:41:47.400 a socialist.

00:41:47.780 It reminds me of the way I felt about Rick Santorum the first time compared to Rick Santorum

00:41:53.800 the second time.

00:41:55.260 I was really excited about him.

00:41:57.000 The first time.

00:41:57.360 And then, not so much the second time.

00:41:58.960 I mean, maybe that's how they feel about Sanders.

00:42:00.520 That's an interesting point.

00:42:01.740 Like, he's already been there.

00:42:03.220 Been there, done that.

00:42:03.420 Because you can get the same policies from Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:42:06.480 Yeah.

00:42:06.920 And she's new.

00:42:07.800 And Beto O'Rourke.

00:42:08.420 And she's female and young.

00:42:09.500 Beto O'Rourke, who's younger, you know, a good campaigner.

00:42:13.120 You can get those things out of other candidates.

00:42:15.780 Yes.

00:42:15.960 And no longer do you need that first run to justify a second run.

00:42:19.980 Right?

00:42:20.200 Like, we've seen this with Barack Obama.

00:42:21.640 I mean, Donald Trump obviously had it, you know, kind of flirted with a run for a long time.

00:42:25.220 But, you know, he didn't, you don't have to lose.

00:42:28.860 Like, I would think the same thing would happen to Cruz in 2024.

00:42:32.180 Right?

00:42:32.660 Like, if Cruz tries to run again in 2024, people are going to find somebody else who has a

00:42:37.380 similar policy set and rather pick him.

00:42:39.880 We've already done this with Cruz.

00:42:41.280 People get bored too fast now.

00:42:43.140 It's not like the days.

00:42:44.000 I mean, what would have happened with Reagan?

00:42:45.960 If Reagan had lost that election like he did back in 76, would he have been able to come back in 80?

00:42:52.540 I don't know.

00:42:53.440 I don't know.

00:42:53.900 I think a lot of people would have been like, ah, we're bored with him.

00:42:55.960 He's old and we've already dealt with that.

00:42:58.400 Yeah.

00:42:58.640 I think people get sick of things too fast now.

00:43:00.820 I think so.

00:43:02.140 Next up, and the rest of these are, there's a couple funny ones.

00:43:05.560 Can we skip to Claire Malone's next pick?

00:43:08.820 Because Claire Malone picks Cory Booker. 0.98

00:43:11.240 It's the last of the top tier, which is Cory Booker.

00:43:15.020 Okay.

00:43:16.260 And completing your next.

00:43:19.760 Nope.

00:43:21.160 Nope.

00:43:21.720 We're not interested.

00:43:22.720 Thank you.

00:43:23.300 I don't know how much analysis we kept to that one, but their analysis was very much like

00:43:27.300 trying to justify a way to think that he's in the top tier.

00:43:31.880 He's not in the top tier.

00:43:33.100 He is not.

00:43:33.300 He is terrible.

00:43:34.700 Right.

00:43:35.380 He's terrible.

00:43:36.100 He's a terrible candidate.

00:43:37.140 It's not going to work for Cory, unfortunately.

00:43:38.880 No.

00:43:39.380 But fortunately for all of us.

00:43:41.180 So there you go.

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