The Glenn Beck Program - January 07, 2019


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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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00:00:00.000 Hello, podcasters. It is the first show of 2019 for the Glenn Beck Program, and what a wild ride it is.
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00:00:59.660 All right, so what did we learn from the stories of 2018 that we should apply to 2019, and what predictions did we get right and wrong?
00:01:09.900 Last January, I made a buttload of predictions.
00:01:13.260 Some of them I got really wrong.
00:01:16.500 Like Stu points out, China landing on the dark side of the moon.
00:01:21.060 Didn't happen until January 2nd, 2019, so we gave you an F on that one.
00:01:24.840 But there's a lot in there.
00:01:25.780 Actually, Politico called one of yours one of the worst predictions of the year.
00:01:28.940 We get into that.
00:01:29.820 Yeah, yeah.
00:01:30.020 No, I made a couple of bad ones.
00:01:32.140 Yes.
00:01:32.340 That was on cryptocurrency, not what they pointed out.
00:01:35.440 And the meaning of politics and where we're headed for 2019, a bridge over troubled water, all on today's podcast.
00:01:49.380 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:01:58.080 This is the Glenn Beck Program.
00:02:02.340 Well, hello, America.
00:02:05.520 It's good to be back.
00:02:06.780 It's 2019.
00:02:08.320 So a review of the 2018 predictions that this program made, that I made.
00:02:14.660 Where were we right?
00:02:15.780 Where were we wrong?
00:02:17.260 It's important because we have new predictions to make.
00:02:20.740 And I believe this is a critical year, a bridge over troubled water.
00:02:27.280 And I'll explain that coming up.
00:02:29.040 Also, what did we learn in 2018 that can be applied in 2019?
00:02:34.960 The seven things that I'm going to pay attention to, and I need you to pay attention to in the next 12 months.
00:02:42.700 And a personal goal.
00:02:45.440 I'd like to see anybody join me on.
00:02:51.100 All begins right now.
00:02:53.700 So I learned a lot in 2018.
00:02:57.660 And I started making notes while I was gone on vacation.
00:03:02.520 Started thinking about the things that I have learned in 2018 that we need to apply to our thinking in 2019.
00:03:13.480 2019, I think, is a bridge.
00:03:16.000 This is a bridge from the old world to the new world.
00:03:22.040 I think it will be remembered in history as that year that people started.
00:03:27.420 It started to dawn on people.
00:03:29.120 Oh, wow.
00:03:31.380 Everything will change.
00:03:33.120 I think by 2025, you will be printing new maps.
00:03:37.840 I think there will be new borders by 2025.
00:03:41.180 Everything's about to change.
00:03:42.460 But who am I to say?
00:03:45.980 Let's look at the predictions that we made in 2018 to see if any of them happened.
00:03:52.600 We got some right.
00:03:53.580 We got some wrong.
00:03:54.860 Let's go through, Stu.
00:03:56.560 And maybe we can come up with grades of these as we kind of go through them.
00:03:59.180 Let's see how right or wrong they were.
00:04:01.640 All right.
00:04:02.020 All right.
00:04:02.260 You predicted 2018.
00:04:03.880 The Dow will melt up and then crash.
00:04:06.640 So Dow did hit a high in October.
00:04:09.040 And then since October, it's, I mean, is crash the right word?
00:04:13.940 It's definitely come down quite a bit.
00:04:15.640 12% of its value.
00:04:16.920 I don't give myself points on this one because I don't think this is what I meant.
00:04:26.660 Well, I know this isn't what I meant.
00:04:28.580 A melt up was not 26,000.
00:04:31.900 A melt up was over 30,000.
00:04:34.280 And a crash was more significant.
00:04:36.500 So I would say, I mean, directionally, it was pretty much right.
00:04:42.500 Yeah.
00:04:42.560 So I'd give it maybe a C, C plus.
00:04:44.720 Okay.
00:04:45.040 Maybe.
00:04:45.480 Do you think?
00:04:46.200 Do you think that's fair?
00:04:47.100 I think you could go.
00:04:47.960 I mean, the difference between 26 and 30,000 isn't all that dramatic.
00:04:52.140 I mean, you could probably go a B minus maybe.
00:04:54.820 All right.
00:04:55.160 I'll give you a B minus on that one.
00:04:56.960 Economic instability will bring with it powerful and dangerous nationalist and socialist movements.
00:05:02.140 Yellow.
00:05:03.060 I mean, that's.
00:05:04.400 I think I get an A on that one.
00:05:06.100 I would say yes.
00:05:07.040 I mean, that's even if you like some of the elements of some of those movements.
00:05:11.020 I mean, certainly some people love the socialism as we're seeing in Congress these days.
00:05:15.460 Yeah.
00:05:15.920 Trump has called himself a nationalist, which I don't think is the same thing as what I mean by nationalist.
00:05:20.880 I 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.
00:05:33.920 The areas of South America.
00:05:35.240 Yeah.
00:05:35.580 There's definitely a lot there on that one.
00:05:37.400 Governments will crack down on blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
00:05:40.140 There were some countries that sort of outright ban cryptocurrencies.
00:05:46.100 And certainly China, there's a big effect.
00:05:48.040 India.
00:05:51.060 Colombia, I think, had something.
00:05:52.580 There's a few of them that cracked down on it.
00:05:54.460 I mean, the United States didn't really.
00:05:57.440 They seem to be open still to these things.
00:06:00.400 I mean, that's a.
00:06:01.600 There's some.
00:06:02.280 There's some.
00:06:02.540 They did begin investigations.
00:06:04.860 I don't know.
00:06:08.100 I.
00:06:08.520 Still, that was still a question mark to me.
00:06:10.000 I think that's a B.
00:06:11.240 Yeah.
00:06:11.500 Because, I mean, some of it definitely happened.
00:06:12.980 Yeah.
00:06:13.240 Right.
00:06:13.540 But, I mean, and obviously it was a terrible year for cryptocurrencies as well.
00:06:17.420 Still on that front, we've got blockchain technology will be embraced by companies for hundreds of uses and utilities.
00:06:24.200 I think I give this a B as well.
00:06:26.500 Still, 15% of companies surveyed by MarketWatch have a blockchain initiative that is live.
00:06:38.120 So, adoption is coming soon, but it is not adopted yet.
00:06:41.400 I will say, too, at some point, someone has to use this stuff for something useful.
00:06:46.240 Yes.
00:06:46.620 You know, like, a lot of people like to compare this.
00:06:49.120 People who like cryptocurrencies like to compare this to the tech bubble.
00:06:54.100 People, and there are, you want to look at charting, you want to look at all sorts of, you can definitely make those ties.
00:07:00.320 However, Pets.com, right, blew up into this big thing and then crashed and disappeared.
00:07:04.400 But, we all understand that Pets.com, generally speaking, was a useful utility to people, right?
00:07:10.620 Buying 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.
00:07:17.340 I 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.
00:07:22.500 Well, as of right now, like, there's, it does not seem to be, it's all like, well, we can build exchanges.
00:07:29.900 But see, here's the problem, and then we get into blockchain a little bit more, but we should kind of move on.
00:07:35.040 But the thing is, is that blockchain, it hasn't gone to zero.
00:07:41.200 No.
00:07:41.680 By any stretch.
00:07:42.540 No, no, no.
00:07:42.980 It's still very valuable.
00:07:43.740 Yeah, it's still very valuable, and all of these major companies are making major moves.
00:07:50.360 They just haven't put them into place yet.
00:07:52.720 They just haven't cut the ribbon on them yet.
00:07:55.260 And so, when they cut the ribbon, but they're all moving.
00:07:58.340 All of the big institutional investors and everybody else is moving and spending millions of dollars on, you know, cryptocurrency desks and trades.
00:08:11.000 And some of it's been announced, some of it is still speculation, but it's not, it's not capturing because everybody thinks.
00:08:21.260 Because, because cryptocurrency or Bitcoin looks to the average person like it's a tulip bulb, it's not a tulip bulb.
00:08:33.960 These bulbs you plant because they will grow.
00:08:38.820 This is not just a tulip bulb.
00:08:40.760 There is something more to this than just tulips.
00:08:43.640 If I remember right, the tulip bulb thing was, tulips were not worth four times what they were two years earlier after the crash.
00:08:50.500 Correct.
00:08:50.760 Right?
00:08:50.920 Like, that's still there.
00:08:52.080 Correct.
00:08:52.200 So, there's still an advantage there.
00:08:54.920 Companies will adopt cryptocurrencies and blockchain.
00:08:57.560 Yeah.
00:08:57.720 That's kind of the same.
00:08:58.480 Kodak, Overstock, Chase Bank.
00:09:00.600 Yeah.
00:09:00.800 Give it a B.
00:09:01.600 Yeah.
00:09:01.720 Now, this one is worth doing this entire segment just for this prediction.
00:09:05.880 If you put $1,000 in the top 10 cryptocurrencies in January 2018, it will be worth $200,000 by January 2019.
00:09:13.520 No.
00:09:13.840 I'm going to go ahead and say that one was an F.
00:09:15.840 Yeah, I think that's an F.
00:09:16.960 I think that's an F.
00:09:18.120 I think that's an F.
00:09:19.060 But you know what?
00:09:19.940 At some point, I believe that's going to happen.
00:09:23.460 I'm with Tika on this one.
00:09:25.500 It makes no sense other than our over-pessimistic view because of what happened last year.
00:09:35.000 There's too many good things that have happened with this to have this fall and not move.
00:09:40.300 It's going to move.
00:09:41.600 It's going to go up.
00:09:42.880 And when it does, it will be because of all the things that have already happened.
00:09:47.700 Right.
00:09:47.860 I mean, it's hard to believe these big companies are wasting their millions of dollars.
00:09:51.720 There's some reason they're putting their cash into that.
00:09:56.020 Let's go up next here.
00:09:57.720 Market.
00:09:58.140 Well, I mean, we've got that.
00:09:59.400 Cryptocurrencies.
00:10:00.160 That's an F.
00:10:00.700 We've got enough.
00:10:01.080 Market cap is an F.
00:10:03.320 All right.
00:10:03.620 Let's go to international geopolitics.
00:10:05.500 Turkey will continue to run towards religious fascism and will continue to make hard turns
00:10:11.480 towards Sharia law.
00:10:14.060 He just jailed Erdogan, just jailed a mother and son who insulted him.
00:10:20.280 He also announced that he is going to remove the ethnic Kurdish militia over the border
00:10:27.060 of Syria.
00:10:28.240 He is well on the way.
00:10:30.140 I say that today.
00:10:31.180 Yeah, that's definitely the way that's moving.
00:10:33.580 Cultural clashes between immigrants and natives will cause backlash from the public across
00:10:37.640 Western Europe.
00:10:39.380 Do I need to say anything about that?
00:10:40.960 That was widely covered, I think.
00:10:43.700 Persecution of Christians, homosexuals, non-Muslim, religious minorities, and those Muslims not deemed
00:10:48.480 Muslim enough will reach new lows for humanity in the Middle East and Asia. 1.00
00:10:53.140 Didn't do it in the Middle East, per se.
00:10:57.080 They were already at lows.
00:10:58.340 I mean, they're at the same size lows.
00:11:01.800 The limbo can only go so low.
00:11:03.340 I don't know how much lower you can get on that one.
00:11:04.800 Because of Asia and what's happening in China, I think that's an A+. 1.00
00:11:10.360 A million Muslims, and it's just growing in concentration camps, essentially.
00:11:15.120 Yeah, and China is bad, too. 0.97
00:11:16.660 Do you hear that Amazon is making Amazon Air, and it is going to be headquartered at Alliance
00:11:36.380 Airport here in Dallas?
00:11:38.940 No.
00:11:39.600 It is?
00:11:40.220 They're flying...
00:11:40.980 Amazon Air.
00:11:42.380 Is that for the drones?
00:11:43.760 What is that?
00:11:44.500 I don't know.
00:11:45.500 I don't know.
00:11:46.740 Amazon Air?
00:11:47.680 Yeah.
00:11:48.380 I think they're...
00:11:48.820 I got it.
00:11:49.060 I think that's the drone program.
00:11:50.580 I don't think so.
00:11:51.460 I think it is.
00:11:52.340 An airline?
00:11:52.420 I think it's their shipping.
00:11:54.100 I can't imagine that it's an airline, but they're calling it Amazon Air, so maybe it
00:11:59.760 is.
00:12:00.000 Right.
00:12:00.220 Given them my entire salary, I might as well fly with them, get on the frequent flyer program.
00:12:03.320 I think it's a combination of the shipping and the drones, but I could be wrong.
00:12:06.580 I haven't spent any time on it, but...
00:12:08.340 Well, Dallas lost out on the headquarters of the HQ2 thing.
00:12:11.580 Right.
00:12:11.860 And that went to...
00:12:13.220 Who did that go to?
00:12:14.360 New York and Manhattan.
00:12:15.800 Oh, no.
00:12:16.140 Sorry.
00:12:16.440 Manhattan and Washington.
00:12:18.840 They really...
00:12:19.720 I mean, they needed a couple years to figure that one out.
00:12:22.440 Go to the biggest city in America and the place where all the politicians are.
00:12:26.900 That was a tough one.
00:12:28.160 How did Amazon come up with that?
00:12:29.680 I mean, wow.
00:12:31.180 There was an article that came out about what a scam that was, how they scammed so many cities,
00:12:35.800 because that was apparently...
00:12:38.540 At least the thought was in the article that that was their plan all along.
00:12:41.780 Of course it was.
00:12:43.080 Yeah.
00:12:43.100 Of course it was.
00:12:45.260 All of these companies are looking to be political now.
00:12:48.760 They've got to be in the media center and the political center, which is laughable, because
00:12:55.080 I tell you, I took a...
00:12:56.860 I took a 24-hour drive with my kids over the holiday and the dog.
00:13:05.500 How'd that go?
00:13:07.240 Oh, my gosh.
00:13:08.200 Fun.
00:13:08.400 Is it great?
00:13:08.940 Fun.
00:13:09.240 Fun.
00:13:09.660 I'm seeing by your expression that that was fun.
00:13:12.200 You bet.
00:13:12.880 With a capital F.
00:13:13.820 Actually, I had a blast.
00:13:15.300 The kids did not, but I had a blast.
00:13:17.720 I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
00:13:20.300 I thought it was fun.
00:13:22.060 But the one thing that I noticed driving the country is that nothing's really changed.
00:13:29.040 Nothing's really changed.
00:13:30.780 Politics are changing.
00:13:32.000 The media is changing dramatically.
00:13:34.960 The people are just the same.
00:13:36.640 The towns are just the same.
00:13:38.740 Everybody...
00:13:39.380 No, I didn't stop anywhere where everyone was freaking out about Donald Trump or freaking
00:13:45.760 out about the media or freaking out about any...
00:13:49.080 In either direction.
00:13:51.100 In either direction.
00:13:52.840 Everybody was just going on with their life.
00:13:56.320 Do you think it's...
00:13:57.220 I mean, I think because to know that you actually have to talk to people, which none of us want
00:14:03.480 to do, and increasingly don't, right?
00:14:05.780 Like, you're texting, you're seeing people post horrible things online, but actually talking
00:14:10.500 to people outside of your inner circle gets more and more rare every day.
00:14:15.180 And so you don't recognize that people are just normal and living normal lives.
00:14:18.540 You just see their, like, online profiles freaking out.
00:14:21.200 I stopped, you know, not like we were going to stop because we were going to do a total blackout.
00:14:28.860 But what I did is I just, if I tweeted or if I Facebook post something, I didn't go back
00:14:36.600 and look at stuff.
00:14:38.500 No comments.
00:14:39.260 Yeah, I didn't, you know, after the holidays or just stayed away and I didn't look at any
00:14:43.820 news.
00:14:44.700 I feel so good.
00:14:46.480 Yeah.
00:14:46.800 I feel so good.
00:14:47.580 When you're not looking at the comments, it makes a world of difference.
00:14:50.100 Yeah.
00:14:50.280 The comments inevitably, whether you're on everything, whether you're looking at a sports
00:14:55.580 story or a political story, the comments are just bludgeoning people.
00:15:01.440 Yeah.
00:15:01.780 For no reason.
00:15:03.260 And I didn't look at, I didn't look at any news.
00:15:06.000 Like yesterday, you know, I started looking at the news and I'm like, huh, government's
00:15:12.100 been shut down for three weeks.
00:15:14.380 That's amazing.
00:15:14.960 I can't imagine what the media has been saying and how horrible it is to, oh my gosh, the
00:15:22.040 government is shut down.
00:15:23.360 I didn't notice any different things in anybody's life.
00:15:26.060 I think the people that are noticing it are the actual employees who aren't getting paid.
00:15:29.420 And that's mainly it.
00:15:30.200 And that's it.
00:15:30.820 And that's a big thing.
00:15:31.740 And I feel for them, but it hasn't affected my life at all.
00:15:35.960 No.
00:15:36.320 I went through a TSA line and the guy, someone asked, how's your holiday going?
00:15:40.020 It would be better if I was getting paid.
00:15:41.820 Like, you know, like that's real, right?
00:15:43.320 Like you're, I mean, that is a real thing for these people and it's an important thing.
00:15:46.360 No, the T, I mean, beyond, um, you know, security should be taken care of.
00:15:51.400 The military should be taken care of.
00:15:53.360 Those guys should be, those are not non-essential employees.
00:15:58.060 And that's why they're forced to come, right?
00:15:59.920 Like a lot of these other people are get to stay home and don't get paid, which still,
00:16:03.000 if you need your money, you need your money.
00:16:04.740 Sure.
00:16:05.160 But to actually be forced, and they're suing over this.
00:16:07.280 And I think they're right.
00:16:08.220 How can the government force you to go to work without paying you?
00:16:11.300 How can they do that?
00:16:11.880 Because it's the government.
00:16:12.660 Right.
00:16:13.040 But that's completely, I mean, that's completely, it's everything this country stands for.
00:16:17.280 I know.
00:16:17.820 And yet they're doing it anyway.
00:16:19.100 I know.
00:16:20.320 But quite honestly, with an exception of those employees that are showing up and should be
00:16:27.420 paid, those, if you're having to show up, you should be paid.
00:16:31.360 Non-essential employees on that.
00:16:35.020 I don't, I mean, I think we should kind of concentrate on non-essential employees being non-essential.
00:16:40.840 Pat, other than BYU winning the football NCAA championship next year, do you have a 2019
00:16:47.820 prediction on the Pat Gray Unleashed program that you can, you can bless us with?
00:16:54.940 I, you know, the, the insanity will continue.
00:17:00.180 Yeah.
00:17:00.740 That's my big prediction.
00:17:01.740 Just generally?
00:17:02.220 Just generally.
00:17:03.220 The insanity will, and get worse.
00:17:05.340 Oh, okay.
00:17:05.780 And get worse.
00:17:06.720 Yeah.
00:17:07.240 There you go.
00:17:07.880 Thank you, Pat.
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00:17:25.260 I, I, I want to break out some stories that happened last year and say what happened and
00:17:31.920 is there something that we can find useful to be able to decode the stories that are coming
00:17:39.180 our way or to see what's happening politically?
00:17:42.360 So let's start with Kavanaugh.
00:17:44.160 I think that, uh, the Kavanaugh story taught us many things, but most of them revolve around
00:17:52.180 2019 is an election year and it doesn't, it doesn't matter what happens, what anyone
00:18:00.060 says, it's all positioning now for 2020.
00:18:04.060 That's all this is.
00:18:05.600 And that was really the start of the election year.
00:18:07.620 It was.
00:18:08.060 It really was.
00:18:08.560 Because you saw people, I mean, the easiest examples are people like, uh, Cory Booker.
00:18:13.540 I am Spartacus.
00:18:14.940 Right.
00:18:15.240 And the ridiculous Kamala Harris stuff. 0.91
00:18:16.900 They're all trying to position themselves as I, I am so against Donald Trump and the
00:18:22.520 things he's doing that I will even break the law to do it.
00:18:25.780 Remember Cory Booker?
00:18:26.800 Yes.
00:18:27.080 I'll break the law.
00:18:28.040 I'm basically, this is my Spartacus moment.
00:18:30.180 Which brings me to one of the things specifically that we should learn from last year.
00:18:35.020 And that is that Democrats have no stop on taxes.
00:18:40.180 I mean, sorry, on tactics.
00:18:41.680 No stops.
00:18:42.620 No.
00:18:43.340 They, they, it does not matter anymore.
00:18:47.660 They accused a guy of gang rape with no evidence.
00:18:50.920 I don't know.
00:18:51.240 Where do you go from there?
00:18:51.960 Outside of actual physical violence, where do you go outside of that?
00:18:54.720 But if you look at one of the other big stories of the year, it was school shootings.
00:18:58.780 Also, no stop.
00:19:01.320 They had no stop on that.
00:19:04.380 So what do we take from that?
00:19:06.400 Well, we take that it's an election year, that the Democrats will say or do anything to get elected.
00:19:16.300 They will use any emergency at all.
00:19:19.500 And they will actually stand and claim to be Spartacus when it makes no sense.
00:19:25.380 Which is, leads me to what we should learn.
00:19:28.880 And that is, they don't work anymore.
00:19:33.340 That doesn't really work anymore.
00:19:35.740 And for a couple of reasons.
00:19:37.880 We have so unhinged from reality that people think of those tactics as a joke.
00:19:46.480 When, when you're shutting down the, the government, we know that the government's not going to default.
00:19:55.440 We know that the government is still, the airplanes are still going to fly.
00:19:59.380 We know all those things.
00:20:00.920 The scare tactics don't work anymore.
00:20:03.420 And people are at the end of their tolerance level for this kind of stuff.
00:20:09.560 The Cory Booker is standing up.
00:20:11.600 I am Spartacus doesn't work.
00:20:13.420 The making charges and allegations without any evidence to back it up, it doesn't work.
00:20:20.420 For a couple of reasons.
00:20:22.160 One, the Democrats have no stops.
00:20:24.840 And so they overplay their hand.
00:20:26.960 That will continue.
00:20:28.380 And two, the media isn't as powerful as it once was.
00:20:33.000 Yeah, I think there's a time in which if you made a completely unsubstantiated argument and said,
00:20:38.640 Brett Kavanaugh is a gang rapist.
00:20:40.860 There was a time in which that probably does work because it's so far out.
00:20:45.780 Like you wouldn't say that if it wasn't true or if you didn't have evidence.
00:20:49.020 And now I think the American people are at the point where, well, yes, they will say that if there's no evidence.
00:20:53.580 We've seen them do it 500 times.
00:20:56.040 So I'm not going to believe it.
00:20:57.460 And 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.
00:21:05.300 When 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.
00:21:21.740 They are just going to be a constant contest to flop over themselves and move left.
00:21:27.640 It'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.
00:21:36.160 The effects on the nation are a whole nother story, but it's going to be it's going to be wildly entertaining.
00:21:41.020 So 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.
00:21:51.980 But 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.
00:22:03.580 And it is it is devolved into a game whose object is to piss the most amount of Americans off at the other side.
00:22:14.700 Now, you saw this with Kavanaugh, but you're seeing this with the border wall, the government shutdown.
00:22:21.180 What does this become about?
00:22:23.700 What does this become about?
00:22:24.620 Donald Trump is evil and wants to stop Mexicans from coming in the country.
00:22:29.660 Right.
00:22:30.260 And is now torturing federal employees to get to this evil goal.
00:22:35.460 Right.
00:22:35.880 And what are the Democrats talking about what they want to do with money?
00:22:42.840 With the same five billion dollars?
00:22:45.340 Are you talking about talking about the the Republicans are charging?
00:22:50.400 The 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.
00:22:59.040 And she's wanted she wants to shove this through, but she won't touch the border wall.
00:23:04.240 I mean, there's endless stuff.
00:23:05.680 I mean, abortion, Planned Parenthood, abortion money overseas.
00:23:10.280 OK, those are two hot buttons.
00:23:14.120 The border and abortion.
00:23:16.480 That's all this is.
00:23:17.860 This is to piss each side off, period.
00:23:22.680 It's not about actually doing anything.
00:23:25.980 I go back to minimum wage.
00:23:29.480 I don't believe in a national minimum wage.
00:23:33.440 It's it's ridiculous.
00:23:35.580 The minimum wage to live in New York.
00:23:38.420 I don't even know what that should be.
00:23:40.120 Fifty dollars an hour.
00:23:41.640 What should it be?
00:23:42.520 The minimum wage in, you know, Weston, Idaho is probably seven bucks an hour.
00:23:52.940 They're vastly different.
00:23:55.320 You can't do this.
00:23:57.340 What 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.
00:24:06.040 And 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.
00:24:15.440 And it is just fixed to the cost of living.
00:24:20.120 So the cost of living goes up.
00:24:21.740 The minimum wage goes up.
00:24:22.780 We don't have to have this argument every five years, every three years, every two years, whatever it is.
00:24:29.120 They like having it on the menu, though.
00:24:30.640 Correct.
00:24:31.560 Why?
00:24:32.340 Oh, it's it's they can fundraise off of it.
00:24:34.900 They can get people angry.
00:24:35.960 They can say how evil the other side is because they don't want their wage increase.
00:24:40.340 Exactly.
00:24:40.800 They want to keep it on the table as an art as a hammer, essentially, to hit the other side with.
00:24:44.320 So 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.
00:24:59.440 I've seen this before.
00:25:02.100 And it is the Orrin Hatch flag burning amendment conversation that we had with him years ago in the Tea Party movement.
00:25:11.460 He said, I can get these people to calm down.
00:25:13.940 All I have to do is introduce a flag burning amendment and everybody will fall back in line. 0.99
00:25:19.280 And I remember, do you remember you were sitting there?
00:25:21.860 Oh, yeah, I was there.
00:25:22.620 Sitting there going, this is insane.
00:25:25.720 He really doesn't get it.
00:25:27.760 His 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.
00:25:37.160 It was it was like using that to get people out to vote for the candidates.
00:25:40.540 It wasn't a real belief in flag burning stuff.
00:25:43.940 It was just a tool to get people to go out and vote.
00:25:47.580 And I think those days are over.
00:25:50.240 And I don't think the Democrats or the Republicans, but especially the Democrats have learned that lesson.
00:25:58.580 And what does that mean for the Democratic Party in the next 18 months will tell you.
00:26:06.100 And also, what what did we learn from Donald Trump this year?
00:26:11.740 That is important to apply in 2019.
00:26:15.060 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:26:20.100 Do you make New Year's resolutions, Stu?
00:26:34.700 I do occasionally.
00:26:36.300 Yeah, I'm usually I don't do like a formal list or anything, but there's usually a couple of things I want to try to fix it.
00:26:42.440 My screwed up life.
00:26:43.280 Did you do one this year?
00:26:45.760 That's still the new year.
00:26:46.860 I have.
00:26:47.340 Yes, I have a couple.
00:26:48.460 We had kind of a scare over the holiday.
00:26:53.140 Jeffy had a heart attack and a pretty massive heart attack.
00:26:59.200 Real, real close call.
00:27:00.840 A very close call.
00:27:01.740 In 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.
00:27:11.440 Yeah.
00:27:11.620 Jeffy said they call it the widow maker for a reason, I guess.
00:27:16.700 Yes.
00:27:17.320 Thank you, Jeffy.
00:27:19.820 And I called Stu.
00:27:23.140 I came down from the mountain because I heard.
00:27:25.560 And so I can't I don't have phone service up in the mountains.
00:27:28.080 And so I came down from the mountains and I called Stu right away.
00:27:32.040 And 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.
00:27:46.980 It really is true, isn't it?
00:27:49.140 You because it's something there's something about having my dad died of a heart attack.
00:27:53.740 There's a there's, you know, people around you do it.
00:27:55.840 And for some reason, it seems like, oh, that's distant people.
00:27:59.920 Right.
00:28:00.040 Like, yeah, it's distant or something different.
00:28:01.760 Like we're like, Jeffy's like now Jeffy's probably the oldest person I've ever met in my life.
00:28:05.760 But still, as a I mean, he's a peer.
00:28:08.800 Right.
00:28:08.960 He's like someone we have worked with for a million years.
00:28:11.580 He's been with us this entire time.
00:28:13.980 And, you know, he's our friend.
00:28:15.180 And as much as I hate admitting things like that.
00:28:17.620 And, you know, to see it happen to him is pretty scary.
00:28:20.640 Did you get beat up to Tanya, maybe give you a little refocusing of life?
00:28:25.800 No, she actually didn't.
00:28:27.180 Really?
00:28:28.140 No, because I had already been there on, you know, I'm going to eat ice cream every night during the holidays.
00:28:35.120 But I've got to I've got to lose 50 pounds, got to lose 50 pounds, 50 pounds, 50 pounds, a big goal.
00:28:44.040 Is that the actual goal?
00:28:45.500 That is the actual goal.
00:28:47.240 Hmm.
00:28:47.840 I mean, how do we exploit this for the air?
00:28:49.400 I mean, can we have an ongoing weight measurement that's just posted on the website all the time?
00:28:54.160 That doesn't make me happy.
00:28:55.420 I that's why I'm suggesting it.
00:28:57.360 Yeah, of course.
00:28:58.480 This is why this is the only way you can get these things can happen is if you get shamed into them.
00:29:02.700 I know.
00:29:03.360 You know, I know the only way I'll eat a leaf, a leaf of lettuce.
00:29:06.020 I know.
00:29:07.020 But I I have to do it.
00:29:09.640 So I'm I haven't started yet, but I'm I'm going to start in the next few days.
00:29:14.580 And I wanted to know if you wanted to join me on some sort of a challenge if the audience wants to join.
00:29:19.660 Oh, I love that.
00:29:20.840 You know, I'd like to lose 50 pounds in two weeks.
00:29:24.160 No, I'm kidding.
00:29:25.720 You're going to be cutting body parts off.
00:29:27.380 Right.
00:29:27.900 I'm fine with that.
00:29:28.820 I'm fine with it.
00:29:29.340 Yeah, but doctor, my weight went down.
00:29:31.760 There you go.
00:29:32.460 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:29:52.500 This is the Glenn Beck program.
00:29:54.700 In 1970, Simon and Garfunkel released a song Bridge Over Troubled Water.
00:29:59.540 It's a great song title, legendary song, but maybe more importantly, it is a fitting label for this year.
00:30:07.520 A bridge over troubled water.
00:30:10.380 2019 is, I believe, the bridge year.
00:30:15.120 Fundamental global transformation is on the other side of the bridge.
00:30:19.680 And on this path we just walked is the post-Cold War world.
00:30:26.740 And 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.
00:30:38.100 In fact, they happened within a few weeks of one another.
00:30:42.540 In a span of just a few weeks, it was not a coincidence.
00:30:46.000 We've been on this path for quite some while.
00:30:51.220 We are now entering the bridge over troubled water.
00:30:56.620 I'll explain the Billboard Top Four Songs of Christmas 1991.
00:31:04.760 It's going to be a blast from the past.
00:31:06.720 Brian Adams, Color Me Bad, C&C Music Factory.
00:31:13.700 Great factory.
00:31:14.740 And Paula Abdul.
00:31:17.220 1991, Paula Abdul was still around?
00:31:19.560 Jeez.
00:31:20.680 C&C Music Factory.
00:31:23.140 Nothing.
00:31:24.040 I mean...
00:31:24.560 Nothing.
00:31:25.280 There was only, what, they had two or three hits?
00:31:27.600 I don't even remember.
00:31:29.260 I remember things that make you go, hmm.
00:31:31.880 Yeah.
00:31:32.380 No, I tried to block out all of these.
00:31:34.300 Make You Sweat, I believe, was one of the others, which gets easier as you get older.
00:31:39.680 So that was the beginning of the journey that we are on now.
00:31:44.060 That was the soundtrack of our life.
00:31:45.960 Because on the other side of the globe, the Soviet Union was disintegrating at the time.
00:31:51.720 Those were the hits while everything else was falling apart.
00:31:54.880 Is it possible they knew those were the hits that just gave up on their country?
00:31:57.840 They're like, screw it.
00:31:58.680 No, they were joining the West.
00:32:00.580 They were like, the wall was coming down.
00:32:02.520 They're like, no, wait, maybe we should put the wall back up.
00:32:06.080 What would the world look like?
00:32:07.860 In 1991, many in the West just saw this as great.
00:32:13.820 Capitalism has won against communism and everybody's going to be capitalist and we're going to be, things are going to be great in Russia.
00:32:22.060 Uh, no, no.
00:32:25.840 But we had spent decades preparing for something that now didn't exist.
00:32:32.920 Cold War, nuclear war, Soviet Union.
00:32:37.200 And Western Europe united to guarantee, quote, peace and prosperity, right?
00:32:46.040 And you remember late, I think it was, was it Putin that wanted to come into NATO?
00:32:53.020 I know Russia wanted to come in and become a NATO power.
00:32:57.600 China and the United States had come together to eradicate this communist menace of the Soviet Union. 0.67
00:33:07.200 And everyone had direction.
00:33:10.780 But now that the Soviet Union was gone, what was everybody coming to the dinner table for?
00:33:18.380 Well, we went on pretending for over two decades.
00:33:22.800 And the signs of that change hit us in 2008, that the world was different.
00:33:30.600 2001 and then again, 2008.
00:33:33.180 We now find ourselves on a bridge to a world that will be as different as the world was between 1914 and 1946.
00:33:47.120 But it's going to be the difference between the world of 19, or sorry, 2018 and 2025.
00:33:56.560 We are now at that bridge.
00:34:00.440 We stand looking at a new direction.
00:34:05.300 But no politician and no media source is telling you there is a horizon forward.
00:34:12.920 They're trying to get you to continue to look backward.
00:34:17.420 They're trying to get you to look at what is America today.
00:34:23.140 What is the world today?
00:34:24.840 This is all going to unravel, whether you like it or not.
00:34:29.100 It's just not going to be the same.
00:34:33.300 NATO, NATO and Europe will begin to dissolve.
00:34:39.360 And new alliances will emerge.
00:34:41.720 I think we're going to talk about a little of this tonight.
00:34:46.980 Is tonight, is tonight, what are the two topics on tonight's show, 5 o'clock?
00:34:54.280 Civility and unrest.
00:34:55.720 And then the other one is, I think it's...
00:34:58.760 The complete discography of C&C Music Factory will be the other topic.
00:35:02.160 Really?
00:35:02.460 Yeah, well, we don't have a lot of time, so it'll be perfect for that.
00:35:07.160 Politics of meaning.
00:35:08.080 So we are going to be talking about this.
00:35:10.340 I'm laying out the seven categories that I'm going to focus on in the next 12 to 18 months.
00:35:18.540 Because I believe that we have to stop playing the stupid political games and getting wrapped up in the media.
00:35:27.000 And start looking ahead across this bridge.
00:35:32.380 The way things used to work will seem like a distant memory.
00:35:38.180 And it will all begin to become clear this year.
00:35:43.260 I think this time next year, we will be able to have a conversation.
00:35:48.860 In fact, we should play this break next year at this time.
00:35:53.900 And see if you don't say, I do see things completely differently.
00:36:01.240 We are on a bridge and troubled waters beneath us.
00:36:05.600 And they are rising.
00:36:07.160 The waters of chaos are going to put us into uncharted territory.
00:36:12.160 In 2008, the United States was the catalyst.
00:36:18.100 And I don't know what the catalyst is going to be this time.
00:36:23.960 But recession is coming.
00:36:26.560 Since 1933, our economic cycle has a recession on average every four years.
00:36:32.840 It has now been over eight years since the last recession hit.
00:36:36.880 But it is going to happen.
00:36:39.760 And it has nothing to do with politics.
00:36:43.340 An economic uppercut is coming.
00:36:46.280 And it's coming at a time when global debt is at record numbers.
00:36:51.860 Consider this.
00:36:53.240 Consumer confidence began to decline back in November.
00:36:56.940 Oil prices are now bottoming out.
00:36:59.460 What do oil prices bottom out usually tell you?
00:37:02.580 That the world is on a slowdown.
00:37:04.900 Credit is beginning to crunch.
00:37:08.020 Asset prices are beginning to fall.
00:37:10.960 And for the first time in a decade, interest rates are rising.
00:37:15.080 All of that adds up to a recession.
00:37:18.420 And very soon.
00:37:20.300 Now when we stop buying, the entire world takes a hit.
00:37:25.040 It's the same thing that happened in 2008.
00:37:27.520 Except we caught a cold.
00:37:29.560 But the rest of the world caught pneumonia.
00:37:32.040 The rest of the world did not recover.
00:37:35.240 If you lost money in 2008, you not only recovered that money if you left it in the stock market.
00:37:41.920 You not only recovered that money.
00:37:43.700 But if you left it in the whole time, you've now gained 400% more than you had in 2008 before the crash.
00:37:54.260 That's incredible.
00:37:57.340 In 2008, we took a 50% bath.
00:38:02.180 The rest of the world and China took a 70% bath. 0.98
00:38:06.980 Like I said, you have 400% more money in your 401k if you had money in a 401k in 2008.
00:38:14.880 In China, they've only made up 20% of the 70% that they've lost.
00:38:21.760 So the rest of the world had pneumonia.
00:38:24.640 And it has never left the hospital.
00:38:28.000 And what's happening already is beginning to outline some things that the world has not seen for maybe 100 years.
00:38:40.500 The UK is exiting the European Union.
00:38:44.140 Italy and Greece are on the verge of default.
00:38:47.820 The French yellow vest protests are happening.
00:38:51.420 They resumed again just this last weekend.
00:38:57.060 Things are starting to add up.
00:39:00.840 Russia cannot pay their bills with oil at $50 a barrel.
00:39:06.120 They need it, I think, to be about $80 a barrel.
00:39:08.640 It's never going back to $80 a barrel.
00:39:12.480 Saudi Arabia, I think, needs $90 a barrel just to pay their bills.
00:39:17.700 You 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?
00:39:29.240 That's a wild story.
00:39:29.900 Right?
00:39:30.780 That's because they have no more money.
00:39:33.280 They are blowing through all of the Saudi money, that they are collecting it from the family members.
00:39:40.660 They are blowing through all of this money.
00:39:43.920 That is major destabilization.
00:39:46.720 China is dealing with a greater than anticipated GDP slowdown and a trade war.
00:39:51.980 And meanwhile, the war drums are beating with new military alliances forming and old ones dying.
00:40:01.160 I spent a day just looking at the global map and looking at alliances and an axis and allied powers.
00:40:15.680 And we're going to talk about this a bit tonight.
00:40:18.120 It's not going to be the way that we think.
00:40:24.580 You have to stop thinking like the Cold War and World War II.
00:40:30.380 Those days are behind us.
00:40:32.900 The world is changing.
00:40:35.480 And this is the year that I think we will all look back at and say,
00:40:40.240 Wow, that was the year that we stood on the bridge between those two worlds and we never saw it coming.
00:40:49.120 Unless you're with us.
00:40:52.000 Because you will see it coming.
00:40:54.080 We begin tonight at 5 o'clock, only on The Blaze TV.
00:41:01.940 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:41:18.120 I want to talk to you about the ghost cities in China.
00:41:28.660 If you don't know what ghost cities are in China, you need to look them up.
00:41:32.540 Just Google them.
00:41:33.760 Pure entertainment reasons.
00:41:35.120 You should watch YouTube videos.
00:41:36.620 You'll be in a wormhole all day long.
00:41:39.620 All day long.
00:41:40.660 Fascinating.
00:41:41.220 Never seen anything like it.
00:41:43.200 Whole entire cities.
00:41:45.700 Completely empty of people.
00:41:47.800 Completely built.
00:41:48.420 One of the largest malls in the world is a mall built in one of these ghost cities,
00:41:52.900 which has like one store in it.
00:41:54.760 And it's one of the largest malls in the world.
00:41:56.500 Everything else is completely empty.
00:41:58.500 Because there's no people there to buy anything.
00:42:00.640 They just build these cities with no people.
00:42:03.300 And they've been doing it for a long time.
00:42:05.260 It's helped prop up their economy.
00:42:07.680 And what they've done to try to finance it is amazing.
00:42:13.920 So nobody ever talked about how did they finance this?
00:42:19.060 What are they doing?
00:42:20.660 We've talked about just how it's bogus.
00:42:23.480 How it's just they are just stimulating the economy by dumping all of this money to pay workers to build these cities.
00:42:32.020 Because they needed, I think it was 8% growth.
00:42:35.280 If they didn't, if they have anything less than 8% growth, they're in trouble with their own people.
00:42:40.840 Well, they don't have 8% growth now.
00:42:43.080 I think they have 5%.
00:42:44.280 And that's what they say it is.
00:42:46.560 If they're saying it's 5% growth, there's no way it's 5% growth.
00:42:52.040 So they built these cities.
00:42:55.540 And here's what they've done.
00:42:57.000 They've gone to the Chinese people. 1.00
00:43:00.800 Most of them are working in these factories and don't even have their own home.
00:43:07.240 Okay?
00:43:08.180 And they've shown them pictures of this utopian city that they've never been to.
00:43:14.180 And they've said, you can own one of these places.
00:43:18.620 You can own, you're going to retire, you're going to own one of these luxury apartments.
00:43:24.720 It's a gleaming city and it's waiting for you.
00:43:28.920 All you have to do is just give us X% of your salary and we'll just withhold it.
00:43:37.660 And we'll put it toward your apartment.
00:43:40.400 Your apartment in the sky.
00:43:44.380 Well, nobody has the money for this.
00:43:48.500 And by the time you would pay off that apartment in 20 years, nobody's there.
00:43:55.080 What is that apartment going to be like in 20 years?
00:44:00.600 Stu and I have been talking about this for the last couple of weeks.
00:44:03.280 And there is another government that did something very, very similar in a court case that was settled in the 1960s.
00:44:11.980 I mean, Nazi Germany did this with Volkswagen. 0.70
00:44:15.880 And they promised the people's car.
00:44:18.580 And they said, hey, here's, all you have to do is pay off these, your coupons, your stamps.
00:44:23.320 And if you paid off enough of your monthly payments, you would get the car.
00:44:27.620 So you didn't get the car up front, of course.
00:44:29.780 But they gave you this nice stamp booklet and you could pay them off as you went.
00:44:34.120 And what was really happening is they weren't planning on building the cars.
00:44:37.220 They were taking that money that was funding their war effort.
00:44:39.720 So they were essentially getting lots of payments from their own people for something that seemed too good to be true.
00:44:44.360 It was like a car at an incredible price, this amazing German car.
00:44:47.620 And they paid all of their money to the government while they were secretly building their own war machine.
00:44:53.820 Of course, the people didn't get the cars.
00:44:55.540 They did the same thing with vacation homes.
00:44:58.300 Yeah, it was this big, it was like a ghost city.
00:45:01.920 It was this big resort.
00:45:03.820 I can't remember where it was.
00:45:04.860 It was all built.
00:45:05.760 Yeah.
00:45:06.300 And 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.
00:45:15.960 And that never happened.
00:45:17.620 That place was built.
00:45:19.240 It's just now an empty ghost town.
00:45:21.320 But that place was built.
00:45:23.060 And it wasn't until the 1960s when the German people could finally sue.
00:45:28.660 I think they sued Volkswagen and said, we didn't get our car.
00:45:33.960 We never got our car.
00:45:35.200 And they got their money back.
00:45:36.860 At least part of their money back.
00:45:38.780 But that's a scary.
00:45:39.960 And that is, you know, certainly don't put anything past the Chinese government or what they're doing with the money.
00:45:45.480 But 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.
00:45:59.360 That's concerning.
00:46:00.560 I'm concerned about it.
00:46:01.640 I 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.
00:46:11.260 I mean, you know, what we're doing now is so irrelevant.
00:46:14.760 It really is so irrelevant.
00:46:20.300 This is the best of a Glenn Beck program.
00:46:29.380 So I guess the big Christmas present for me this year was a Kindle Oasis.
00:46:36.240 Oh, yeah.
00:46:37.220 Those Amazon.
00:46:38.460 Is that the new version of that?
00:46:40.160 Yeah.
00:46:40.740 Yeah.
00:46:41.060 And really, really small and because I read.
00:46:44.780 I hate it.
00:46:46.080 I hate reading digitally because you don't remember things the same way.
00:46:50.220 You can never find them again.
00:46:52.880 And so I try to I try to read something and then I'll buy the hardcover if it's important.
00:47:00.580 But I read so much and and I've been reading on my iPad or on my phone, which I hate because you get distracted easily.
00:47:09.080 So Kindle does nothing else, at least that I know of, does nothing else except the books.
00:47:17.360 Yeah, because I have a Kindle app on my phone and on my iPad and I can read there.
00:47:21.300 That's what I do, too.
00:47:22.080 But you think it's worth getting the the actual.
00:47:24.000 For me, it was because I want to get away from I want to get away from the iPad and all of the other.
00:47:30.040 Yeah.
00:47:30.860 Stuff.
00:47:31.360 I've been you mentioned New Year's resolutions.
00:47:33.360 I've been thinking about that one a lot.
00:47:34.780 I'm like trying to use that.
00:47:35.640 Use it less.
00:47:36.660 I just I want to get out of it.
00:47:38.180 I feel like at the end of the day, you just it's just empty calories.
00:47:40.920 It is.
00:47:41.220 You know, it is.
00:47:42.680 I don't feel like I'm better off because of it.
00:47:44.720 I don't feel like I've spent my time well.
00:47:46.400 No.
00:47:46.560 And then when you start, you know, I've installed one of those programs that tells you how long you're on it.
00:47:50.800 No, don't.
00:47:51.360 And how many times you pick it up.
00:47:52.420 Oh, my gosh.
00:47:53.140 And it's just like, what am I doing with my life?
00:47:55.420 I 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.
00:48:01.160 I 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.
00:48:09.440 Obviously, there's things at work and there's GPS and there's lots of things that it's really valuable for.
00:48:14.480 It's obviously great in a lot of ways, but there's so much just time wasting and nothingness on it.
00:48:19.140 Maybe 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.
00:48:24.760 Yeah, Rafe, Rafe got one.
00:48:27.180 He got a regular Kindle for Christmas.
00:48:29.980 He hated it.
00:48:31.380 He hates it.
00:48:32.520 He reads so much like I do, but he got a book also for Christmas and it was like 800 and some pages.
00:48:40.420 It was finished in four days.
00:48:42.720 And that's why I wanted him to have the Kindle so he could have the library with him all the time.
00:48:48.700 But he hates it like me.
00:48:51.020 It's better to read on paper.
00:48:53.140 It's just a different experience.
00:48:55.540 But I personally like the Kindle Oasis.
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