Glenn Beck and Stu Brodsky review their predictions for 2019 and give their grades on where they got it wrong and right in 2018 and look forward to what they think is going to happen in the next 12 months.
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00:00:34.040I'm just a man on the street, but who could I watch?
00:00:37.140Oh my gosh, there's such a good list. There's Steven Crowder and Mark Levin.
00:05:15.920Trump has called himself a nationalist, which I don't think is the same thing as what I mean by nationalist.
00:05:20.880I don't think he thinks of it that way, but we've seen the neo-nationalist movement, the rise of neo-nationalists in Italy, in France, in Belgium, in Germany, in India.
00:06:46.620You know, like, a lot of people like to compare this.
00:06:49.120People who like cryptocurrencies like to compare this to the tech bubble.
00:06:54.100People, and there are, you want to look at charting, you want to look at all sorts of, you can definitely make those ties.
00:07:00.320However, Pets.com, right, blew up into this big thing and then crashed and disappeared.
00:07:04.400But, we all understand that Pets.com, generally speaking, was a useful utility to people, right?
00:07:10.620Buying your pet food online, we're all buying, you know, not everybody, but, I mean, I know we order a lot of our stuff from Amazon or whatever online.
00:07:17.340I mean, Pets.com didn't wind up being the one who did it, but at least there was a kernel there of something useful to people.
00:07:22.500Well, as of right now, like, there's, it does not seem to be, it's all like, well, we can build exchanges.
00:07:29.900But see, here's the problem, and then we get into blockchain a little bit more, but we should kind of move on.
00:07:35.040But the thing is, is that blockchain, it hasn't gone to zero.
00:07:43.740Yeah, it's still very valuable, and all of these major companies are making major moves.
00:07:50.360They just haven't put them into place yet.
00:07:52.720They just haven't cut the ribbon on them yet.
00:07:55.260And so, when they cut the ribbon, but they're all moving.
00:07:58.340All of the big institutional investors and everybody else is moving and spending millions of dollars on, you know, cryptocurrency desks and trades.
00:08:11.000And some of it's been announced, some of it is still speculation, but it's not, it's not capturing because everybody thinks.
00:08:21.260Because, because cryptocurrency or Bitcoin looks to the average person like it's a tulip bulb, it's not a tulip bulb.
00:08:33.960These bulbs you plant because they will grow.
00:20:57.460And what you're talking about, I think, too, when it comes to the election part is there is these guys are totally incentivized to make this worse.
00:21:05.300When you are sitting there and you're Elizabeth Warren and you're going against Kamala Harris and Cory Booker and Beto O'Rourke and all of these guys who have to get left-wing activists to vote for them and donate money to them.
00:21:21.740They are just going to be a constant contest to flop over themselves and move left.
00:21:27.640It's going to get crazier and this is going to be a fun year in that in that if you'd like if you like watching the nonsense, it's going to be a fun year for it.
00:21:36.160The effects on the nation are a whole nother story, but it's going to be it's going to be wildly entertaining.
00:21:41.020So here's let me give you kind of some predictions, a foreshadowing of what I see coming and we're going to deal with actual predictions here in the next few days.
00:21:51.980But one of the things that, again, you get from Kavanaugh and you get even from the border wall thing is that politics is nothing more than a game, period.
00:22:03.580And it is it is devolved into a game whose object is to piss the most amount of Americans off at the other side.
00:22:14.700Now, you saw this with Kavanaugh, but you're seeing this with the border wall, the government shutdown.
00:22:45.340Are you talking about talking about the the Republicans are charging?
00:22:50.400The Democrats are charging that their race, the Republicans are racist and the Republicans are saying, look at Nancy Pelosi as on her list of things to do.
00:22:59.040And she's wanted she wants to shove this through, but she won't touch the border wall.
00:23:57.340What you can do if you don't if you're if you don't think like a politician is you could say, all right, well, every area has to set their own.
00:24:06.040And I'm not suggesting this, I'm just saying so you don't ever have to deal with it again if we're going to have minimum wages area, every area and every state has to set their own.
00:24:15.440And it is just fixed to the cost of living.
00:24:40.800They want to keep it on the table as an art as a hammer, essentially, to hit the other side with.
00:24:44.320So it is it's a political game just to piss you off and nothing actually happens until the run up of the election and who benefits both parties do.
00:25:27.760His argument was essentially if we introduce a flag burning amendment, then we can get people out to the polls because they'll care about the flag burning amendment and they'll they'll they'll come vote for our candidates.
00:25:37.160It was it was like using that to get people out to vote for the candidates.
00:25:40.540It wasn't a real belief in flag burning stuff.
00:25:43.940It was just a tool to get people to go out and vote.
00:27:01.740In fact, we found out later that the doctor said that, what is it, like 90 percent of the people that have this massive of a heart attack don't make it.
00:27:23.140I came down from the mountain because I heard.
00:27:25.560And so I can't I don't have phone service up in the mountains.
00:27:28.080And so I came down from the mountains and I called Stu right away.
00:27:32.040And we kind of just talked about, you know, what was happening with Jeffy and and what to do and kind of ended the conversation with Stu saying we're getting too old to do this to our bodies anymore.
00:30:15.120Fundamental global transformation is on the other side of the bridge.
00:30:19.680And on this path we just walked is the post-Cold War world.
00:30:26.740And it all began to change in 2008, a year that saw both a Russian invasion of a potential NATO country and the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
00:30:38.100In fact, they happened within a few weeks of one another.
00:30:42.540In a span of just a few weeks, it was not a coincidence.
00:30:46.000We've been on this path for quite some while.
00:30:51.220We are now entering the bridge over troubled water.
00:30:56.620I'll explain the Billboard Top Four Songs of Christmas 1991.
00:31:04.760It's going to be a blast from the past.
00:31:06.720Brian Adams, Color Me Bad, C&C Music Factory.
00:39:00.840Russia cannot pay their bills with oil at $50 a barrel.
00:39:06.120They need it, I think, to be about $80 a barrel.
00:39:08.640It's never going back to $80 a barrel.
00:39:12.480Saudi Arabia, I think, needs $90 a barrel just to pay their bills.
00:39:17.700You remember when we talked about the Saudi prince and how the Saudi prince was actually rounding up all of the big rich princes from Saudi Arabia and taking airplanes?
00:45:06.300And you could get into your Volkswagen and you could drive to the sea and you're going to be able to have a guaranteed Volkswagen vacation.
00:45:39.960And that is, you know, certainly don't put anything past the Chinese government or what they're doing with the money.
00:45:45.480But right now, we kind of believe that they're just propping up the economy with it and trying to develop things like AI and all of the other things that they believe are the next generation of warfare that we don't seem to be all that concerned about.
00:46:01.640I know that's one of the things you're going to be talking about this week on the TV show and looking that sort of forward looking posture rather than what we're doing now.
00:46:11.260I mean, you know, what we're doing now is so irrelevant.
00:47:53.140And it's just like, what am I doing with my life?
00:47:55.420I feel like if I could eliminate that, I would have like real opportunities to do things that I find to be important can never get to.
00:48:01.160I mean, that seems like it would be beneficial to be able to cut that down, even if it's in half, you know, from what you from what you're doing.
00:48:09.440Obviously, there's things at work and there's GPS and there's lots of things that it's really valuable for.
00:48:14.480It's obviously great in a lot of ways, but there's so much just time wasting and nothingness on it.
00:48:19.140Maybe the Kindle is a good idea because at least you're reading long form stuff that helps you understand things deep in a deeper way.