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00:00:00.000 welcome to the podcast it's pat and stew in for glenn he is back tomorrow today we go into the

00:00:05.020 supreme court pick what's coming up for biden how are the republicans going to play it um what is

00:00:10.740 the what are the ramifications of this we get into all that today and how dumb the decision making

00:00:15.100 process was from uh joe biden that's today what's going on with covet we're seeing a real lifting of

00:00:21.600 restrictions in european countries and hopefully we're finally getting to this point where this

00:00:26.740 craziness is going to end we'll see we get into that as well um and we talk about the controversy

00:00:32.520 with neil young and spotify and joe rogan a decision was made by spotify not exactly shocking in my view

00:00:39.180 but how could this go wrong could it get uglier for spotify and joe rogan we'll get into that as well

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00:01:15.460 glenn is out today it is pat and stew for glenn uh 888-727-BECK uh so the big

00:01:25.600 announcement yesterday was that uh stephen breyer is going to step down as supreme court justice

00:01:30.040 which means there would be an opening at the end of the session and i think the session ends

00:01:35.000 you know after they make all their pronouncements in uh in the summer so uh could it be kamala harris 0.96

00:01:42.080 no some are speculating it might be that would get her out of the way at least of the administration

00:01:49.980 administration and they could uh try to find somebody who might help the administration and

00:01:55.140 the administration's likability and she's not she's not helping and i think they know that

00:02:00.580 but i don't know that she goes to the supreme court yeah i would say that one does not this 0.99

00:02:05.580 does not seem likely to me didn't he say though uh he will appoint a woman and in and in fact a black 0.98

00:02:12.320 woman to the supreme court and that's how we know right away that no one can make the argument that 1.00

00:02:20.000 the best candidate will get this job because he's eliminated almost every person in the country yes i

00:02:26.660 mean if you look that's right again the a black woman may very well be the most qualified person 1.00

00:02:32.260 for the job but there's no way to argue that you went through a process where you could determine

00:02:36.860 that and that's the problem here think about how stunning that is you're talking about the most

00:02:43.040 important judgeships in this nation's history and you just said i'm good i'm just going for

00:02:51.820 essentially aesthetics yes i'm going to i'm going to base this decision on skin color and the way they

00:02:58.020 look yep yep gender and skin color are going to be my two first decisions it's crazy on the supreme

00:03:04.220 court justice not who the person is not what their legal background is just the fact that they are

00:03:08.740 black and a woman i mean it is so it's offensive and so anti-american full full stop you don't it 0.99

00:03:18.360 would it would be anti-american to say i am going to select the best white male to be on the supreme

00:03:23.360 court that would be anti-american yeah it would be anti-american i mean think about what it is what

00:03:27.460 it means to an asian american right now no chance you're eliminated you're right if you're a hispanic 0.99

00:03:32.280 american no chance you're eliminated if you're a black man no chance you're eliminated what if you

00:03:38.040 are one of the other 927 genders and are also black what if you happen to be a white person a white

00:03:44.680 male that identifies as a black woman you're you're well i guess that one could maybe slide through but

00:03:49.700 if you were if you're um non-binary you have no chance let me ask you this how many hermaphrodites 1.00

00:03:55.760 currently serve on or have ever served on the u.s supreme court just the one just there's the one

00:04:02.160 and that was no i just want people to guess at who it is as of right now i think the number is zero i

00:04:09.380 think the number is zero so think about this pat african americans make up 12 of the population

00:04:15.480 you've eliminated 88 of the population with decision one then approximately half of african americans

00:04:22.280 are men so now you're down to six percent of the population of course in that six percent of the

00:04:27.740 population approximately one-third is too young and approximately one-third is too old so now you're

00:04:33.560 down to two percent of the population and honestly like that's just a wide range but you've eliminated

00:04:40.400 98 of the available candidates for this job well and then how many of those how many of that two

00:04:48.280 percent have been to law school right how many of them are judges and they don't have to be but i

00:04:54.020 think you know the precedent is that that's who we appoint and you're supposed to be trained in the

00:04:58.380 law i guess it's the standard um so but that could mean a lot of different things but the bottom line

00:05:03.740 is even if you just take out obviously in every population all those things apply right a lot of

00:05:08.120 you know white males have not gone to law school too yeah but if you look at the population

00:05:12.120 overall you're eliminating at least 98 of the legal legally available options to you which means

00:05:19.860 that even if and it may very well be true whoever they name is the best liberal uh justice to go to

00:05:26.740 the supreme court the most qualified they can't possibly claim it because everyone else was already

00:05:32.080 eliminated when they had without any standard other than this color of their skin and what they have 1.00

00:05:38.440 underneath their robe it's a it's a we used to have this thing pat and and i some might argue this

00:05:48.800 isn't better but i will argue that it is the old way we did these things was behind closed doors someone

00:05:56.540 like joe biden will say i want a black woman for this role and then we would fake it and we would act as 0.99

00:06:04.640 if we considered everyone and at the end of the day the most qualified person was a was a black woman 0.99

00:06:10.920 okay now again may very well be the case i'm not saying it couldn't be but a person in politics would

00:06:18.920 make a political decision based on some dumb immutable characteristic and we would all they would bring

00:06:26.940 in just like the nfl does right now right the nfl like if you want to pick a a a coach you have to

00:06:32.700 you have to interview african-american candidates right now even if you know exactly who you want

00:06:38.160 to hire you come in and you still have to hire african-american candidates i think that's again

00:06:44.020 a bad idea because it's based you're making decisions based on skin color here with the

00:06:48.240 supreme court a politician may very well say i would like to attract black voters and we know this

00:06:55.740 from all of the post-election writing that james cliburn went to joe biden this is a true story

00:07:03.640 went to joe biden and said if you want my endorsement which we all know is the reason he's

00:07:08.360 president of the united states james cliburn getting him over the hump in south carolina because he had

00:07:12.960 been beaten badly in the first two states and he was almost written off almost written off uh if you

00:07:18.360 want my endorsement you will put a black woman on the supreme court and there is there are multiple 1.00

00:07:23.020 reports that in the middle of a debate in a commercial break james cliburn went to joe biden

00:07:31.360 and said you need to announce this on stage and joe biden did that is how pathetic this is 0.63

00:07:38.180 it is completely politics now and he's apparently locked in from that time till the actual nomination

00:07:46.360 yeah so okay so cliburn puts political pressure on him to name a black woman he says he will he comes

00:07:53.320 out he announces uh that that intention and the old way would be you know this would happen behind

00:08:01.360 closed doors right he would not say it on stage he would come out and he would go through a bunch

00:08:06.440 of candidates he'd bring in some white candidates he knew he wasn't gonna hire he'd bring in a hispanic 0.94

00:08:11.440 candidate that he knew he wasn't gonna hire and then he would pick the black woman and say she was 1.00

00:08:17.400 the most qualified and like we all know stuff like that happens but at least there is a possibility of

00:08:23.680 a claim that she was the most qualified you can't claim it with this process because you've eliminated

00:08:29.660 all the other candidates i mean it's completely crazy if you started out at the beginning by saying

00:08:37.560 i want the most qualified candidate and and we already know that's a black woman that would be 1.00

00:08:45.240 different right like because then you've you've at least considered everybody but what you found out

00:08:50.160 was the best candidate is a black woman and that's why i'm going to nominate a black woman sure like that 1.00

00:08:56.300 would be a process right yeah if you named a specific person and said like i've really put a lot of thought

00:09:01.200 into this and this particular black woman is the best most qualified candidate that's who i'm going to put 1.00

00:09:05.660 on the the list of this and then at least it dissuades some of the some of the concern we have

00:09:11.680 yeah about just basing some something like this this important on the race of the person and the

00:09:16.880 gender of the person right you shouldn't make decisions based on the color of somebody's skin

00:09:20.360 or their gender that used to be the thing and it's the opposite now frankly i don't even know why

00:09:25.880 we celebrate mlk junior day anymore because they've gone the opposite of everything he said

00:09:32.440 every principle he laid down they are the exact opposite of it it's become a conservative holiday

00:09:39.200 it's like it's like july 4th it's like july 4th there's only one side of the art of the aisle that

00:09:44.560 actually supports it that celebrates the history of this country yeah and mlk day is becoming the

00:09:51.000 same i i'm telling you like they we are not that far away from people on the left tearing down statues

00:09:57.220 of martin luther king we are not that far away from it they've already done it with abraham lincoln

00:10:01.320 yeah how far could we possibly be not far at all they've done it with ben franklin in fact wasn't

00:10:07.220 one of the mlk junior uh statues defaced i wouldn't be surprised probably i don't think it was on mlk day

00:10:15.020 but it was a few months ago they they actually spray painted and defaced it and you will see uh

00:10:20.700 they might not know it but the same groups that marched in charlottesville will be doing the same

00:10:26.380 stuff uh that that the left wants to do and look at the policies they're not that different you'll

00:10:32.440 note the alt-right is pro-abortion the alt-right is pro-universal health care among other policies

00:10:38.300 that are very similar because of course they are right you know we don't need to go back into european

00:10:44.700 history to find out what these groups tend to believe they tend to be socialists and by the way

00:10:50.500 when you look at the policies of people like richard spencer you find all sorts of overlap

00:10:55.280 not with our philosophy of limited government you can't have limited government if you want to

00:11:00.680 enforce racial quotas and and all sorts of terrible racial identitarian policies you need a big government 0.53

00:11:06.540 to do that you know it's not said enough by us on the right that uh the alt-right that we're

00:11:13.840 that's continually thrown in the face of conservatives in this country yeah and trump supporters in this

00:11:19.680 country it they are the antithesis of virtually everything we believe yeah like they they're big

00:11:26.700 government people i mean totally robert is spencer is it robert richard richard spencer yep uh it blew me

00:11:34.380 away when he was talking about his uh political ideology it's nothing like what we believe in right i mean

00:11:41.240 the way the way alt-right has been explained is an alternative version of the right in reality what it is

00:11:48.460 is the alternative to the right yes it is not it's not part of the right it doesn't make any sense that

00:11:53.840 it would be part of the right um but you know these political lines are aren't always drawn on policy i

00:11:59.340 know and that's part of that's part of the reason why that sort of thing happens but still it is a

00:12:05.760 a a way to vilify your average person who just wants lower taxes i mean that's what this comes down to

00:12:14.500 uh but with the supreme court it's just an embarrassing you know everything joe biden does

00:12:20.320 is a giant embarrassment it's hard to not be embarrassed by this person he's just terrible at

00:12:25.880 all of these things and again like i don't it's not any better dangerously terrible yeah he is well

00:12:31.900 we may be launching us into multiple wars yeah so uh that's even worse but we all understand these

00:12:38.060 things happen behind the scenes they shouldn't happen though and to when he's doing it overtly like

00:12:42.380 this it is acknowledging it's codifying this terrible identity identity politics standard

00:12:49.320 where we just pick people based on the color of their skin i mean you could have done what trump did

00:12:53.320 right release a list of 20 supreme court justices right on there are several people of color probably

00:13:00.420 you know who you're picking before you walk in day one but at least it gives the uh the appearance

00:13:06.020 appearance to the public that it's not okay to pick on color of skin right at the very least you're

00:13:12.140 sending the message that you that you don't want to do that even if you do and biden was like i'm so

00:13:19.820 desperate i'm just gonna say it i mean he was so desperate at that point in the campaign he just

00:13:24.080 blurted it out we forget sometimes that he lost iowa and new hampshire yeah badly and nevada

00:13:29.340 and nevada yeah so there were three losses piling up and he was being written off and then all of a

00:13:36.060 sudden the south carolina comeback brought him right back into it i had people coming on studios america

00:13:39.800 telling me they're you know bernie sanders said won the nomination it was over oh wow and it wasn't

00:13:44.780 over no uh things turned around quite quickly i mean and you know honestly you'd say normally thank god

00:13:51.380 it wasn't bernie sanders but what would you notice would you notice a difference here no if the only

00:13:55.780 thing i think would be different is i don't think bernie sanders would say i'm definitely picking a

00:13:58.960 black woman if it'd be the supreme court justice the spending levels would be similar yeah and the 1.00

00:14:05.080 loss of freedom would be similar yeah

00:14:06.840 this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank you for listening

00:14:14.100 it is pat and stew for glenn triple eight seven two seven b e c k

00:14:26.200 cut i love the fact that an ultimatum was laid down for spotify uh you got to make a choice here

00:14:35.340 you got two artists on on your site and one of them has to go uh tough call a tough call what do you

00:14:44.420 do well you choose the other guy uh neil young i don't know if he thinks this is 1969 still 1970

00:14:53.580 even then i'm saying okay bye bye bye neil uh neil young demands that they that spotify drop joe

00:15:03.720 rogan first of all you should be able to noodle this out they just signed a 100 million dollar

00:15:11.220 deal yeah with joe rogan think you're not going to win this fight uh but he he told me you can

00:15:17.300 either have my music on your site or joe rogan you can't have both and they summarily dismissed

00:15:22.720 his music they agreed they can't have both yeah right and we will not have you darn it we're

00:15:26.840 gonna miss old man look at my life i'm a lot like you were what are we gonna do without that song

00:15:35.760 what are we gonna do without it because i because i don't know i have this opinion i don't know how

00:15:40.680 mainstream it is uh-huh but that neil young sucks yes oh he's actually terrible young suck am i 0.93

00:15:47.140 what's the what's the classic rock opinion of neil young because i know crosby stills nash yeah

00:15:52.340 they like him you know as a songwriter and a singer yeah i don't know how you can like him as a singer

00:15:57.540 it's like the bob dylan experience to me it's uh bad there's a lot of people who love bob dylan

00:16:03.700 it's not my thing i don't get it i don't either the neil young thing falls in that category really

00:16:07.440 don't get i've had relatives who love neil young live and die with the guy even though he's obviously

00:16:13.300 you know no conservative and many of these people are conservatives but still love the guy

00:16:17.400 yeah because he was like you know i don't know speaking out against the man back in the day or

00:16:22.060 something sure was and that is a war guy big uh you know he was always bumping up against the

00:16:30.580 government but now uh i guess he's all in with the government which is kind of interesting you know

00:16:37.820 you get this 60s protest singer and that's really kind of what he was what he what you kind of

00:16:43.080 identify him with uh and he was sort of counterculture and now you're all about

00:16:50.460 this administration and everything they say yeah i remember back in interesting 2006 uh he with

00:16:57.280 crosby stills nash and young they they sang the song let's impeach the president and they were

00:17:02.760 talking about george w bush right against the man fighting right against the man now of course

00:17:08.120 the ironically named free speech tour that he was on at the time in 2006 he's kind of giving that

00:17:16.760 one up is ironic isn't it hey the free speech tour now turns into get joe rogan off of spotify

00:17:23.900 my gosh i mean what a pathetic group of people you can't hear a different opinion you can't

00:17:30.840 and you know what there's no way neil young is listening to this opinion he's not hearing joe

00:17:35.940 rogan's opinion that's right he's heard that joe rogan has said certain things that's what he's

00:17:40.360 doing he wants people to not be able to hear those things he doesn't want you or me or anyone in the

00:17:47.860 audience to hear that joe rogan likes some other treatment for a virus like that's how pathetic this

00:17:55.680 is and it worked for joe rogan right so how is it misinformation if he's just telling you here's

00:18:02.440 what worked for me oh i mean it's hard to tell what works and what doesn't especially with covid

00:18:06.260 when uh the overwhelming majority especially joe rogan who's in a guy who's in pretty good shape

00:18:11.620 relatively young you know doing absolutely nothing probably also works for joe rogan right um that's

00:18:17.860 not something that the left a lot of times wants you to hear but i mean most people are okay what i did

00:18:22.680 that you did i did mostly nothing i took some vitamins and and uh steroids that's what i took and you

00:18:28.000 felt sick for a little while and then got better it was miserable for a couple of days but i lived

00:18:32.080 exactly everybody on the show got it you know keith got it he he went with ivermectin uh rob producer

00:18:38.920 rob got it he went with ivermectin his wife got it she went up with finally in the end at first she

00:18:45.980 started with the merc pill which didn't do anything for her but give her bad side effects and then she

00:18:50.340 started on ivermectin that worked for her i mean how many times do you have to anecdotally hear about

00:18:55.260 it working for people before you say huh maybe we don't understand everything about this yeah it's

00:19:01.280 just it's just the bottom line is and i keep coming back to this with the covet thing and we don't

00:19:06.420 need to go deep into it but it's like we have a lot of tools now that we didn't have two years ago

00:19:11.220 this is not march 2020 anymore people have choices and you might say that choice is dumb a lot of people

00:19:17.780 think and that's that ivermectin is a dumb choice for covet a lot of people think that uh the vaccine

00:19:23.380 is a dumb choice for covet all right you know we are at least pat six months away from anyone being

00:19:31.280 persuaded on either side there has not been a single individual persuaded either way in six

00:19:36.560 months okay or more or more i mean i when you look at the um the vaccination data uh from uh in trump

00:19:44.680 counties and biden counties it's almost identical until may it's almost identical i mean they could rise at

00:19:52.420 all the same paths and then they diverge and more blue counties get uh have higher vaccination rates

00:19:57.000 though to be clear it's not that dramatically different i mean people make a big deal out of

00:20:02.700 these differences about the majority of both parties have been vaccinated at this point you know

00:20:08.720 there is a split so what let people make their own decisions there are a lot of things out there if

00:20:15.420 they believe it's ivermectin you know what it's not your responsibility to micromanage their health

00:20:19.740 you're not their dads okay let them make their own choices if you think uh as it was stated in the

00:20:27.740 new york times recently that the that covid for a vaccinated person is less dangerous less dangerous

00:20:35.580 than the flu right now this is not something in the future this is right now this is it doesn't matter

00:20:41.420 if you as a conservative or you as maybe a covid skeptic believe that statement the the important

00:20:47.420 thing is that they believe it they believe their sources are telling them a vaccinated person has

00:20:54.300 less risk than the normal flu that is what their science tells them who cares what your science tells

00:20:59.980 you who cares what the the opinions of all these other people are the bottom line is the only people

00:21:05.980 who want restrictions are people on the left and that's what they believe they don't act like they

00:21:11.500 believe it man i'll tell you that but that is what their science tells them so this is over the point

00:21:19.020 the fact that joe rogan talks to an audience of mainly younger people who are incredibly likely to have

00:21:29.340 no problems with covid anyway and tells them to take let's just say it was a completely bs solution to this

00:21:37.900 problem let's say it's tree bark he was like you know what you gotta chew tree bark if you go out

00:21:42.780 to your yard and you start biting on the nearest tree and pull off a good chunk of bark and you chew

00:21:48.140 it up into little pieces and swallow it that'll cure covid who cares if you're going to joe rogan for

00:21:54.300 your health advice that's the thing you you know he's not a doctor he's a guy trying to figure the world

00:21:59.420 out and everybody who listens to him knows that they know he's just a guy talking on a podcast about his

00:22:04.780 opinions and you know look that doesn't mean i'm gonna run out and do everything he said he did

00:22:09.740 yes do you know joe were the first and one of the first interviews i heard about covid was on joe rogan

00:22:15.020 show and it was with michael osterholm who is one of was was an advisor to joe biden okay and he came

00:22:22.860 on and said hey you know this actually could be bad like this is this one this one is not like some

00:22:27.180 of these other ones that have come and gone this one we could have real problems with and he went

00:22:31.420 through the whole situation and he said in that interview we should point out that that it's not

00:22:35.980 at all obvious we should close schools in that interview was in like january or february of 2020

00:22:41.580 so before any of this stuff even hit it he just hit his ear yeah he said schools that's probably not

00:22:47.180 a wise choice but in addition to that joe rogan during the interview asked him asked a virologist

00:22:55.180 if one of the cures could be saunas what if you went into a sauna and breathed in the really hot air

00:23:04.700 would that kill covid in your lungs that was one of his questions huh now but now that he said no

00:23:10.940 no that's not how the body works and rogan was like oh okay i just heard it online but that's joe

00:23:15.660 rogan's approach like he's he's looking around he's asking questions he doesn't and there's nothing

00:23:19.900 wrong with that there's nothing wrong with it it's it can be very entertaining it can be very informative

00:23:24.060 a lot of people probably heard that same rumor at the same time and had it disproved on joe rogan show

00:23:30.700 because he brought it up because he brought it up and was willing to you know to ask a question that

00:23:34.620 some journalists might feel like oh this is a silly question he doesn't care he's a regular guy he reads

00:23:39.420 something he wants to know more about it and he's not he's not embarrassed to say sometimes i don't have

00:23:44.060 all the knowledge right and instead of treating him as a really you know this will be an important

00:23:51.100 thing like what's his face sanjay gupta went on his show on rogan's rogan show and talked to him for

00:23:57.580 an hour and uh you know there were times in which he was i would think i thought was evasive to what

00:24:04.700 rogan was talking about but there were times he brought up things that maybe that audience hadn't

00:24:09.500 heard and maybe it convinced some people that uh of of different solutions the bottom line is just have

00:24:16.060 the guts to go on and talk to the guy instead of silencing him yeah if you think he's wrong then

00:24:20.860 go on the show and say that he's wrong or disprove him with some science and joe rogan himself has said

00:24:26.620 he's not a covet expert he's not a doctor in fact he said i'm an effing idiot who does a podcast right 0.89

00:24:33.900 he's not claiming to be a scientist yeah so you know everybody listening doesn't just run out and do

00:24:41.580 what joe rogan said yeah you're looking madness as joe rogan would tell you if you go out and

00:24:47.900 listen to every piece of joe rogan's health advice like man's talking about doing drugs like 80 of

00:24:52.300 his shows like he's not it's not necessarily musk smoked pot on his show does that mean every every

00:24:58.220 american listening is gonna run out and buy pot and smoke it now no no no it does not no it does not

00:25:03.180 there's this weird thing the left wants to do silencing speech and it's not about them hearing

00:25:09.100 and it's about others hearing it because god forbid they might be convinced to an opinion

00:25:13.500 that's different than what neil young believes and look at neil young does he look like the

00:25:17.020 picture of health to you guy looks like he could keel over at any second but he's 117 he's 117 but

00:25:23.340 when he was 40 he looked like he could also keel over at any second he's never looked like the picture

00:25:28.140 of health so you shouldn't listen to neil young's advice and you shouldn't listen to joe rogan's advice

00:25:32.620 either or mine or yours or do your own research how many times has glenn said it for you know 20

00:25:39.820 years he's been saying do your own research i will say you might you might get the wrong answer if you

00:25:44.780 do your own research sometimes that might happen but first of all it will be your decision and

00:25:48.940 second of all you don't have to do this alone you have a doctor of your own go to them and ask them

00:25:55.260 what you should do that you don't need to listen to anthony fauci who might be an infectious disease

00:26:00.780 expert but has no idea what your your individual situation is he doesn't even know who you are

00:26:06.540 go to your doctor talk to your doctor that's a great way of handling these situations and anthony

00:26:11.580 fauci hasn't hasn't actually had any patients for over 40 years come on he doesn't treat people

00:26:20.140 anymore it's not what he does it's not his role and so you shouldn't take specific like you know he

00:26:25.260 can say as a as a public health expert what he believes should be done and those those suggestions

00:26:32.380 can be processed by politicians who are supposed to be experts in political science and and care about

00:26:39.580 their their uh constituents not just go blindly along with every expert that passes by that's not how

00:26:47.820 this is supposed to work that's a different country that's a different alignment that's a

00:26:50.780 techno technocracy there's a bunch of technocrats running the country there you go there you go

00:26:55.740 yeah it's that that's not what we have and not what you want

00:27:01.580 this is the best of the glenn beck program

00:27:12.700 this is the glenn beck program with pat and stew today glenn's back tomorrow uh we've been talking

00:27:17.980 about the neil young spotify situation where i bet they really had to think long and hard now it's

00:27:24.540 either neil young or it's joe rogan joe rogan i think it took that long i do oh i don't think so

00:27:31.260 you don't think it was that i think it was more like is neil joe rogan i don't think they got through

00:27:35.740 the full neil but what we take for granted now is spotify itself incredible that is the most incredible

00:27:42.780 thing uh that 20 years ago 15 years ago really you couldn't have imagined such a thing i guess

00:27:49.980 it was just starting to be a thing with um what was the initial oh napster napster my gosh

00:27:57.980 napster napster was the thing yeah yeah and you could illegally download and then itunes uh apple

00:28:03.980 said hey you know what maybe we can make that legal and actually let people stream stuff

00:28:07.500 and then it just exploded into pandora and spotify and you know a million different outlets

00:28:14.700 but the ability to think of a song and think wow i haven't heard that in a long time and five

00:28:21.260 seconds later you're listening to it yeah i have this happened to me last night where my wife just 0.61

00:28:25.580 said a random word that reminded me of a band and then 10 seconds later i was listening to that band

00:28:30.220 that was you know totally obscure but i was trying to think about how to explain to my kids

00:28:35.180 what my younger life was like listening to music oh they totally can't relate to that yeah i i remember

00:28:42.460 i used to go i used to drive around the state with my friends who are who are you know we were largely

00:28:47.660 fans of like the same bands and we would go and like look for rare releases and like b-sides and remixes

00:28:53.180 and like for you know overseas releases of albums that had an extra track right and like you hunt these

00:28:59.100 things down like you're searching you know you're you were in a river looking for gold back in the 1800s

00:29:05.420 and it was so difficult and you you'd you'd luck out and find you'd find one copy of it it would be

00:29:10.620 like 38 you'd be like screw it get it anyway you know like you didn't care because you wanted to get

00:29:14.860 your hands on this now they have everything they could ever want immediately a hundred different

00:29:19.820 versions you know we we miss how good things are in so many ways these days i think often because of

00:29:28.140 the obvious and important bad things they are going on we miss a lot of the good things yeah

00:29:34.380 and it's changed things to the extent where there are certain things that just don't exist anymore

00:29:40.940 like calling 411 or uh you know going to a music store or you know trying to find sheet music you don't

00:29:49.580 need to do any of that and i wonder we haven't worked in music radio for a really long time do they

00:29:55.740 even take requests anymore does anybody make a request you don't need to i don't need to be

00:30:00.940 listening to my favorite radio station and call them and say hey would you please play the new

00:30:05.740 song by olivia rodrigo you you go to spotify and you're listening to olivia rodrigo immediately

00:30:12.860 we should we should know you have called stations i have called the latest olivia rodrigo many times

00:30:18.140 with that voice because you want them to think you're 14

00:30:20.220 hey would you please play what's the name of the song where it's good for somebody or whatever

00:30:29.100 see the fact that you know that much is is already too much really it is it's too much

00:30:33.820 knowledge about olivia rodrigo yeah that's are you the person i always hear blasting olivia rodrigo

00:30:38.380 when when you pull into the parking lot i thought so yeah i thought so uh but it is amazing and

00:30:43.020 i look there have there are always ups and downs for this if you owned a music store you probably

00:30:47.180 don't think this is as wonderful as many of the consumers do but it is incredible what you can

00:30:51.900 get and it is you can with a few commercials get it for free i mean you know i subscribe to that i

00:30:58.300 think i think spotify is the one i subscribe to um and it's you know this is as much music as i could

00:31:04.140 ever want always available yeah it's incredible a similar thing a similar thing has happened with

00:31:10.140 movies at home yep anything we want last week we we have a little tradition at my house where the

00:31:15.340 kids come over and we we do movie night steak and movie night every friday and and we lost access

00:31:20.620 to the internet now i'm like oh my gosh what are we gonna do we i can't we can't watch anything

00:31:26.620 tonight i don't know what and i you know we've got a little room that has about 500 movies in it

00:31:33.980 that are on dvd but i forgot that that's even an option the thing i mean dvds are pretty much

00:31:41.500 archaic now oh you don't even even though blue rays never use them yeah you can i mean there's

00:31:48.460 just it's too much of a hassle it's like yeah you're thinking about actually going in and putting

00:31:53.500 it's unbelievable how fast that stuff happens too you know really fast back in the day you had the

00:31:57.900 iphone where you just type in the the code and then it was the fingerprint and i remember thinking

00:32:02.940 why why the heck would i need to just do a fingerprint it's so it's like it's what is it one

00:32:07.100 second you're saving and within a week it was irreplaceable in my life and then wait i have to

00:32:13.980 type in four yeah numbers yeah i can't do that it seemed completely insane within a week and then

00:32:20.220 they came out with a face id thing and i'm thinking to myself wow they're scanning my face all this

00:32:24.780 information they have within a week it was irreplaceable in my life i can't imagine putting

00:32:30.300 my finger on the phone now it just seems insulting they shouldn't even ask you to do that no don't ask

00:32:37.420 me to do that like every once in a while i don't know i mean i don't know the mechanics of it but

00:32:41.180 like you you maybe you turn your phone off and when you turn it back on you have to type the code

00:32:45.340 instead of the face id one time oh my gosh yeah i want to burn apple to the ground when it happens i think

00:32:53.100 i think about trying to hire arsonists in china to burn their factories down every time they ask me to do 0.97

00:32:59.260 it that's how insane you get you're thinking about a killing spree aren't you it went it's like why

00:33:05.580 should not have to do that be that way but it is it's so it's it it's just incredible how far

00:33:11.100 for granted they're amazing yeah and you know i mean like even in times like this where you know

00:33:15.820 we've had obviously not only the battles that we often discuss on you know talk radio with the

00:33:22.700 restrictions for covet and all the terrible side effects they have had on our children and all of

00:33:28.460 that not to mention the actual health effects that have gone on and you know all the people

00:33:32.700 who have suffered and lost loved ones and all the terrible things that have happened over the past

00:33:36.380 couple of years you know you go back and look at death rates from 10 or 20 years ago and we're still

00:33:40.460 doing better than them i mean we're doing worse than we were a couple of years ago but still much

00:33:46.060 better than we were doing in the 90s you know what i mean yeah we've all this stuff is improving all

00:33:51.180 the time and we always miss it you know so that is an important thing i mean we often talk about how

00:33:56.460 uh the example i think is the most pressing is you know since you know we were younger and then you

00:34:03.420 can go back to the 90s for example this show started uh let's see i started working with glenn back in

00:34:08.460 1998 so that's a long time ago you go back obviously even further than that with glenn and you know just

00:34:15.660 since those times in our lifetime we have taken billions of people out of poverty we capital global

00:34:23.900 capitalism spreading has saved billions of lives the number is so remarkable just in the difference

00:34:31.740 in the last like about 20 years the difference in the amount of children who die of hunger

00:34:37.980 right and malaria and various diseases around the globe that number has gone down considerably

00:34:45.820 the difference is something like 18 000 kids a day that used to die now live that's a staggering number

00:34:56.060 just our lifetime and if you ask people has poverty gotten better or worse in your lifetime it's like

00:35:01.580 80 percent think it's gotten worse yeah and the total opposite is true this has been i mean

00:35:07.900 i don't think it's even arguable it's the greatest accomplishment of humankind in the past

00:35:14.220 thousand years probably and it's still disparaged still and it's still happening too yeah you know

00:35:18.460 it's but it's totally disparaged and we see nations around the world turning against capitalism including

00:35:24.220 our own how remarkable is that especially our own yeah i mean it's the most it's the most uh symbolic one

00:35:31.100 right the country that brought global capitalism to the globe proved that it's the best system

00:35:37.180 became the global superpower now is hiring people who hate it right and want to change it completely

00:35:43.260 yeah i mean i don't know the difference of uh you know maybe china moving a little bit into the world

00:35:48.300 of capitalism and then now moving back the other way again i mean that's notable sure it's certainly

00:35:52.940 notable for the chinese people but it's not notable like the united states who you know brought this

00:35:57.900 system to the people who brought this people system to humanity and is now turning against it

00:36:02.940 which reminds me since we're talking to neil young you can go to the other side of the spectrum and

00:36:07.580 somebody who talked about capitalism and a rock star that you would not expect to uh sing the praises

00:36:14.780 of capitalism you remember what bono said about capitalism a few years imagine for a second this last

00:36:22.140 global recession but without the economic growth of china and india without the hundreds of millions

00:36:30.220 of newly minted middle-class folks who now buy american and european goods imagine that think about the

00:36:37.020 last five years

00:36:40.860 rockstar preaches capitalism wow sometimes i hear myself and i just can't believe it um

00:36:47.900 and i mean that's a really cool thing though that he he recognizes that and you know he's i don't

00:36:55.500 think certainly bono's not a conservative oh no but he understands what capitalism has done for this

00:37:01.500 planet and the hybrid even of capitalism in china has brought 400 million people out of poverty yeah

00:37:07.900 it helped them for a while i mean we have a author on i think it's next next week who's written a book

00:37:12.780 he's a wall street journal reporter who wrote a book i think it's called red carpet and it's basically

00:37:17.340 about how china has influenced hollywood and the other way around you know how and we hear these

00:37:22.540 stories where they edit things out there was a great one uh it actually happened uh today do i have

00:37:27.660 that i don't have the text in front of me of it but it was the end of fight club have you heard this

00:37:30.940 story oh i read a headline i didn't read the story it's amazing basically the end of fight club if you've

00:37:36.060 never seen the movie is you know the the main characters of the of the spoiler alert yeah spoiler alert

00:37:43.020 they're standing there looking out the window and they're which we could only describe as a

00:37:48.140 terrorist revolution is underway they are getting they're bombing the federal the financial buildings

00:37:54.060 and watching all the buildings collapse into the ground that's how the it's a wonderfully uplifting

00:37:58.540 movie uh and so that's basically the end of the movie in china right before the buildings blow up

00:38:05.180 they cut it off and they just put on the screen like uh i can't remember uh they're like uh thanks to

00:38:11.100 tyler's advice the tyler's tip the police uncovered the plot and arrested all the people and uh they

00:38:17.820 were put in jail and were eventually put into lunatic asylums and were released in 2012 it's like the

00:38:23.900 end the end like it's the exact not only the editing scenes out of the movie they're changing the plot

00:38:30.700 to the exact opposite uh because they want to show that they won and so anyway this book is about the

00:38:37.340 influence and what one of the interesting things that china did with this capitalist expansion that

00:38:43.820 wasn't never really capitalism by any means but it was access to markets is they came over they dumped

00:38:49.020 tons of money into places like hollywood learned how they did everything and then went back and just

00:38:54.780 started their own film companies that are now making as much money as hollywood is no longer is american

00:39:02.140 culture dominant around the world but now a lot of chinese culture is dominant in many areas of the

00:39:07.580 world and so they've totally changed that dynamic by basically coming over here and stealing our ideas

00:39:14.300 and going back and replicating them right this was obviously part of the plan for a long time and you

00:39:19.260 know president xi has made things much much worse but it's it's interesting to watch that play out

00:39:23.580 because it's it's gonna it's gonna have really long lasting implications

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