The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ 6⧸12⧸19

00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to the Wednesday podcast. We've got a great one for you. We have a we have a we start the podcast with how America is really split in two cities and and then everywhere else and how we don't understand in the land of everywhere else.

00:00:16.920 And even things like avocado toast, we kind of boil it down to what we need to choose. It is, as Reagan said in 1964, a time of choosing. But what is that choice now? Also, we look at Stu's numbers, his power rankings, which are quite different in some ways than just the poll numbers.

00:00:40.560 Stu. Yeah, I mean, we try to look at more factors than just polls. Polls are a part of the package for sure. But, you know, the earlier you are in a in an election season, the less they actually matter. It's about bigger things, you know, campaign infrastructure and all this other stuff that we look at and come up with final rankings.

00:00:59.100 And I will tell you that his rankings are different than the poll numbers. And I think he's right on it. And he also will predict on today's podcast who the candidate is of significance that will be the first to drop out. And I think he's right on that. You don't want to miss it. Today's podcast.

00:01:21.340 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:29.100 243 years, you know, in 2026, we're going to have our 250th birthday. I remember what it was like in 1976.

00:01:44.920 Now it's our 250th birthday. And for 243 years, we have been the hope for freedom.

00:01:54.440 We have been the place that people who feel oppressed have come and we have welcomed them.

00:02:04.620 They they've come here because they know their system doesn't work.

00:02:09.400 They know the system that they've been living under has oppressed them, has has stopped them from pursuing their own happiness.

00:02:16.800 And now that promise is fading.

00:02:25.160 We may not make it to our 250th birthday.

00:02:34.860 America.

00:02:37.980 Is a melting pot.

00:02:40.260 Now, what does that mean?

00:02:41.540 We don't talk about that anymore, that all these people have come together from different places with different backgrounds and different languages and cultures and and and traditions.

00:02:54.480 And they come here because they want to be a part of it, not the place.

00:03:00.140 The idea.

00:03:02.140 The idea.

00:03:04.520 And they melt into each other.

00:03:06.560 They don't lose their distinctiveness because we're all equal, but we're all different.

00:03:14.420 For society.

00:03:16.840 For society to survive.

00:03:20.100 It has to come to that understanding that we are all equal.

00:03:25.240 Yet we are all different.

00:03:27.380 As I was driving to Idaho with my son over the weekend, I drove from Texas.

00:03:38.180 The first thing I learned was, geez, Texas just doesn't end.

00:03:42.760 It was a full day of driving just to get out of Texas.

00:03:47.500 And even Texas is different.

00:03:53.600 Dallas is different than Amarillo.

00:04:01.020 And New Mexico is different than Colorado.

00:04:08.420 And Boulder is different than some of the small towns along the way.

00:04:21.420 We're all different.

00:04:23.220 And and what's happened is many people don't understand the people in the cities.

00:04:29.160 They don't understand.

00:04:31.160 And I know this to be true because I have here in my in my house, I have these three lights.

00:04:39.960 And I bought them in Dallas and they're they were expensive in Dallas, but they're all beat up old lights.

00:04:49.160 And I was hanging them in my kitchen.

00:04:51.440 And the guy from town that helps on the ranch, he he came in and he said, you're putting those where?

00:05:00.500 And I said, I'm putting them in the kitchen.

00:05:02.200 Aren't they great?

00:05:03.000 And he said, uh-huh.

00:05:06.820 And I said, why?

00:05:10.480 He said, were those that I mean, how much do you pay for those?

00:05:13.180 And I told him and he said, huh, you know, we could have just gone to one of the dairy farms and pulled those out of the barn.

00:05:24.420 I swear to you, it was a revelation to me that we could make a lot of money.

00:05:29.720 Come on, guys, let's get together. 0.98

00:05:31.520 Let's go out to the farms and just say, hey, what's the old crap? 0.67

00:05:35.380 We'll give you brand new lights. 0.99

00:05:36.700 What's the old crap that the people in the cities are going to want? 0.95

00:05:39.740 And why do they want it? 0.99

00:05:41.400 Why do you want it?

00:05:43.660 You want it because you want something that feels authentic, feels authentic, may not be authentic.

00:05:51.500 I've never been to Dick's Bar and Grill in Florida or in Cancun, but I can damn well bet you I can buy a T-shirt that says that.

00:05:59.780 And one that looks like I've worn it for years.

00:06:03.700 We want something authentic.

00:06:07.100 We want something, we want to show that we've lived.

00:06:11.400 What we want is we want the simple life without actually having to do all the work that is required for the simple life.

00:06:23.620 So the cities don't understand the people who go to church, the people who milk cows every day.

00:06:35.080 They haven't had, had to help a neighbor.

00:06:38.160 They don't understand why, why we'll park the old tractor or the old truck behind or beside the barn.

00:06:47.640 They don't understand that.

00:06:49.360 Why don't they clean that up?

00:06:50.780 They don't understand that we're actually very happy, positive people in our own lives.

00:06:58.160 But then again, remember those people who live out in the country do not understand avocado toast.

00:07:05.640 We don't get it.

00:07:07.220 What are you doing?

00:07:08.380 How is this suddenly popular?

00:07:10.580 I swear to you, you want to cripple California? 0.99

00:07:15.600 Ban avocados.

00:07:16.980 They'll go crazy.

00:07:21.060 We're headed for something and I don't know what it is.

00:07:24.000 But as I was driving the country, I realized there's no way these people are going to give up their guns.

00:07:29.620 And there's no way these people in the cities understand that, that, that, that idea.

00:07:40.020 The reason why we're headed for something is because we no longer have a center.

00:07:44.220 There is no center anymore.

00:07:46.320 What was our center really?

00:07:49.420 I want you to think about this.

00:07:51.420 Our center used to be summed up in the phrase, truth, justice, and the American way.

00:07:58.380 And people started making fun of that.

00:08:01.780 Now think of this, who started making fun of that?

00:08:05.500 It's the same people who are leading us down this road today.

00:08:09.020 And what did they first come for?

00:08:13.700 With a tip of the hat to Niemöller, first they came for the American way. 0.98

00:08:19.120 And I didn't say anything because I don't know.

00:08:22.640 Who cares?

00:08:23.580 But we no longer know what the American way even means anymore.

00:08:30.040 What did the American way mean?

00:08:34.920 Never perfect, but always striving.

00:08:39.960 Never giving up.

00:08:42.260 Helping your neighbor.

00:08:44.060 Being good to one another.

00:08:45.740 Trying to be better.

00:08:47.240 Never perfect.

00:08:49.460 Sometimes not even close to perfect.

00:08:53.080 But learning from the lessons of the past and trying to be better.

00:08:58.460 That's really what the American way was.

00:09:01.660 But they took that away.

00:09:03.660 Let's just focus on truth and justice.

00:09:06.100 Really?

00:09:06.720 What came next?

00:09:08.260 What truth?

00:09:09.360 What is truth?

00:09:10.700 Whose truth?

00:09:12.220 There is no truth.

00:09:13.680 And now we're here at a place where there is no truth.

00:09:18.100 You can't say that there's only two genders. 1.00

00:09:21.220 How dare you?

00:09:23.180 There is an unlimited number of genders.

00:09:26.100 I could be a purple feathered chicken right now if I decide to be.

00:09:30.560 And that's my truth.

00:09:33.960 So we got rid of the American way. 0.93

00:09:37.380 We got rid of truth.

00:09:39.420 And now we're quickly getting rid of justice.

00:09:42.760 Justice doesn't exist.

00:09:45.460 Blind justice.

00:09:46.460 The idea behind justice is don't look at who I am.

00:09:51.820 Don't look at I'm white.

00:09:53.820 I'm black.

00:09:54.640 Don't look at my wealth or my poverty. 0.88

00:09:58.660 Look at the facts.

00:10:02.480 Judge me by the content of my character and the facts of the case.

00:10:08.020 If blind justice is truly blind, there has to be many times that a judge will say, I don't want to rule this way.

00:10:17.020 I don't want to.

00:10:18.200 Doesn't make me happy.

00:10:19.680 I think you're a perfectly wonderful guy.

00:10:22.280 But here's what happened.

00:10:23.720 You screwed up, dude. 0.91

00:10:26.080 You screwed up. 0.99

00:10:28.840 Over and over you've screwed up. 0.99

00:10:30.840 I don't know what's going to stop you.

00:10:35.260 But until you figure that out, I've got to keep you off the streets.

00:10:38.920 But now we're ruling on feelings.

00:10:45.060 Justice without any rules.

00:10:47.520 Justice without any jury.

00:10:49.720 Justice without a trial.

00:10:52.020 Justice without even a hearing.

00:10:54.300 That's not justice.

00:10:55.280 We play by the rules.

00:10:59.720 And they change the game.

00:11:03.260 We play by the rules.

00:11:05.120 And they say, well, you didn't violate any of those rules.

00:11:08.120 But we have this feeling that you're upsetting the community.

00:11:14.380 A feeling?

00:11:16.140 Yeah, it just doesn't feel good what you're doing.

00:11:19.460 Well, can I just get the name of the people I need to make feel good then?

00:11:22.980 Because if you're not going to judge by the rules, I need some measuring stick.

00:11:28.700 Give me the names of the people I need to make feel good.

00:11:32.820 Now that seems really wrong.

00:11:38.040 But at least it would be something.

00:11:41.040 Do we dare ask who needs to feel good?

00:11:43.920 Because the guidelines, the rules, the language changes all the time.

00:11:59.420 We can't have a conversation.

00:12:02.400 I was listening to the Daily, the New York Times this morning.

00:12:06.580 And they've done a series on Europe.

00:12:08.360 And I swear to you, it is fun just to listen to.

00:12:10.760 You have to listen to it because they're shocked at what they find.

00:12:15.440 People in Italy, they didn't like all these migrants just showing up in the middle of the night.

00:12:21.560 And now I feel like we're surrounded by these people.

00:12:25.500 Oh, racism is alive.

00:12:27.560 No, no, say the Italians.

00:12:29.340 We just wanted to know who they are, where they came from.

00:12:35.500 Are they interested in being Italian?

00:12:38.140 Because we feel like we're losing our way of life.

00:12:42.540 Oh, says the New York Times.

00:12:46.120 So they're cloaking their racism.

00:12:48.980 Oh, dear God.

00:12:50.520 It's hysterical.

00:12:51.800 If it wasn't so tragically sad and so tragically obviously leading to another war in Europe, it would be amazing. 0.99

00:13:02.180 It would be amazing.

00:13:03.420 It would be a comedy show.

00:13:06.440 But we can't talk about it because they don't understand it.

00:13:09.680 They don't have any interest in understanding it.

00:13:12.720 Right now, the media will not even admit that there's a problem on our border that doesn't start with Donald and end with Trump.

00:13:35.020 They won't talk about any of it, let alone the radicals and the communists who are now masquerading as democratic socialists, as if that's any better.

00:13:46.120 Who are actually planning, facilitating, and funding groups from all over the world to storm our border.

00:13:53.900 Did you know that just a few weeks ago, a large group of men from the Congo spoke neither English nor Spanish, suddenly got over here from the Congo, went to Mexico, and somehow or another were smuggled into our country, and now are living on the streets in San Antonio.

00:14:13.720 They speak French.

00:14:15.820 San Antonio government is saying, does anybody speak French?

00:14:18.560 Because we have to understand these guys.

00:14:20.000 They only spoke French, and somehow or another, from the Congo, they got there.

00:14:27.680 Now, just so you know, the Congo is the number one spot in the world.

00:14:31.280 It's a hot spot for Ebola.

00:14:35.420 Now, completely unrelated, ISIS recently was in the Congo, recruiting or doing something in the Congo.

00:14:44.520 We don't know what.

00:14:46.360 They're just working on a new project.

00:14:48.300 I'm sure it's going to be great.

00:14:50.980 Now, God forbid a truly sinister group like ISIS decided to weaponize people and Ebola while we sit here and still fail to recognize that there's even a problem on the border.

00:15:09.240 That's a real possibility.

00:15:11.080 Nobody seems to care.

00:15:14.760 Nobody wants to talk about it.

00:15:17.760 We can't talk about it.

00:15:21.760 Yesterday, they banned live action.

00:15:25.040 Live action is Lila Rose's group for pro-life.

00:15:30.820 They banned her on Pinterest. 0.91

00:15:34.520 On Pinterest.

00:15:35.320 Pinterest now says, can't talk about abortion here.

00:15:40.840 Oh, but I could share any kind of picture I want.

00:15:43.140 Just not pictures of babies that haven't been born yet.

00:15:48.060 How'd that happen?

00:15:50.480 How is David Duke and Richard Spencer still on YouTube if they really care about their community?

00:15:58.080 And meanwhile, here we sit in an election year, and we have Joe Biden ripping off Evanetti's slogan.

00:16:12.840 Now, you'll remember who he is.

00:16:15.880 He's the discredited attorney that everyone on the left loved because he was representing a porn star.

00:16:23.620 But I want you to hear Mr. Plagiarism himself, Joe Biden, use the same slogan that Evanetti did.

00:16:32.360 Listen.

00:16:32.600 I think it's time to, you know, he says, let's make America great again.

00:16:38.400 Let's make America America again.

00:16:43.740 Let's make America America again.

00:16:46.460 Who's America?

00:16:47.620 What America?

00:16:49.380 Was America even ever America?

00:16:52.380 Was America great at some time?

00:16:55.460 How dare you say that, Joe Biden?

00:16:59.640 No one even knows what that is anymore.

00:17:03.040 Let's make America America again.

00:17:05.980 What is America?

00:17:08.160 The America that I knew growing up died sometime in 2002.

00:17:15.060 Those who were born on September 11, 2001 are now in college and ready to vote for the first time.

00:17:21.900 They don't know what America was.

00:17:24.820 They don't know what America is.

00:17:26.820 That promise is long gone.

00:17:28.840 We've replaced equal justice with social justice.

00:17:33.380 We have abolished truth.

00:17:36.580 And God only knows what the American way is.

00:17:38.960 But America is not a place.

00:17:45.320 America is an idea. 0.89

00:17:48.660 And this is what should give us hope.

00:17:53.220 America, the idea.

00:17:57.340 Never finished, never perfect, but always striving.

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00:18:18.100 I think it's time to, you know, he says, let's make America great again.

00:18:23.480 Let's make America America again.

00:18:25.940 Like anybody knows what that means anymore.

00:18:31.400 What does that mean anymore?

00:18:34.280 To make America America again doesn't require a new president, a different president.

00:18:41.840 It doesn't require a single new law.

00:18:45.100 It doesn't require a dime of new spending.

00:18:47.700 No new programs, nor socialism, is going to make America America again.

00:18:55.620 You don't even have to vote this way or that way.

00:18:58.180 Here's what making America America again requires.

00:19:03.020 That you begin to believe and understand and find self-evident that all men are created equal.

00:19:11.560 And they have a right, a group of rights that nobody can take away.

00:19:16.800 And they have a right to live the way they wish.

00:19:20.540 Follow God or not follow God.

00:19:23.040 Raise their children by the dictates of their conscience and their spirit.

00:19:29.620 They get to keep the fruits of their own labor.

00:19:34.840 They live by the document that provides for the common defense.

00:19:41.020 That's all you have to do, is live by this document that provides for the common defense.

00:19:46.440 Promotes, not provides general welfare, but promotes general welfare and domestic tranquility.

00:19:55.720 Establishes justice, not social justice, blind justice.

00:20:00.500 All we have to do is start protecting our rights as human beings.

00:20:06.480 All of our rights.

00:20:07.400 Not the guy that we like.

00:20:09.620 And forget about the guy we don't like.

00:20:11.420 All of our rights.

00:20:12.440 And, you know, not even one group, when they have control and they have power.

00:20:21.800 And then the opposite group, when the opposite group has power.

00:20:25.280 That doesn't promote the general welfare. 0.97

00:20:28.880 It doesn't promote domestic tranquility.

00:20:32.260 It's in the belief of the idea of America.

00:20:39.860 And this is a pretty grand idea.

00:20:42.680 Nobody had ever tried it before.

00:20:44.340 And no one, including us, has ever perfected it.

00:20:48.080 Nobody's ever reached it.

00:20:49.700 So should we just give up?

00:20:51.080 Because this is what we have to say to ourselves.

00:20:53.300 I give up.

00:20:54.440 We cannot do that.

00:20:55.700 The country that put a man on the moon has to say, that's a bridge too far.

00:21:02.000 We can't live and self-govern ourselves.

00:21:05.660 We can't live side by side with people we disagree with.

00:21:08.940 That's a bridge too far.

00:21:10.800 We can't do it.

00:21:12.540 Now let's stop and lower our goals.

00:21:15.540 See, it's always a race to the bottom.

00:21:18.160 It's always a race to the bottom.

00:21:19.260 Our founders said, let's reach beyond what we are now.

00:21:26.460 What we're being taught is to reach lower.

00:21:30.660 Forget about that idea that all men are created equal. 1.00

00:21:33.480 And each one of them have unchangeable rights.

00:21:39.260 And that they can govern themselves through a document that explains exactly what the government can and cannot ever do.

00:21:47.860 That's our hope.

00:21:48.960 That's our answer.

00:21:50.700 Quite honestly, that's our war. 0.83

00:21:53.700 That's our World War II.

00:21:56.540 It's our duty.

00:22:01.340 And for the sake of our children, it's not only our duty, but it should be our sacred honor as well.

00:22:13.340 All right.

00:22:21.080 Pat Gray joins us now from the Pat Gray Radio Roundup, which is heard on The Blaze and also on iTunes, wherever you get your podcasts.

00:22:32.800 Hello, Pat.

00:22:33.900 Hi, Glenn.

00:22:34.800 Let's make America America again.

00:22:37.200 Can we do that?

00:22:37.960 Let's do that.

00:22:38.640 Let's do that by starting with a socialized medicine program and constitutional right to continue the slaughter of children. 0.99

00:22:45.720 That's what America is all about.

00:22:47.260 That's what we're trying to create here.

00:22:49.400 That's what our founders wanted.

00:22:50.780 I hate it when he gets into that whisper voice.

00:22:53.460 Oh, that drives me out of my mind.

00:22:55.120 Although I love the exchange yesterday.

00:22:57.280 You know, a couple of years ago, we started talking about this.

00:23:01.400 Wouldn't it be fun to see a Donald Trump, Joe Biden matchup in the general election?

00:23:09.680 Did we not predict how fun that was going to be?

00:23:12.360 It would be fun.

00:23:12.840 Yesterday, we got a little taste of how fun that's going to be.

00:23:15.640 We're a year and a half away from the general election. 0.99

00:23:20.180 And already in one day, President Trump called Biden a dummy, a loser, and mentally weak. 0.99

00:23:29.400 You know, bless his heart. 1.00

00:23:31.440 I love it.

00:23:32.120 I mean, I shouldn't.

00:23:33.400 I know that's bad of me.

00:23:34.580 I'm probably a bad person, but I loved it. 0.97

00:23:37.120 I can't imagine Ronald Reagan saying, well, you know, that Joe Biden is a dummy. 0.93

00:23:46.420 This is the only person in the world who is president of the United States would call somebody a dummy. 0.96

00:23:52.240 Now, it's only fun if Joe Biden swipes back with something just as ridiculously unpresidential. 0.84

00:24:00.080 Yes.

00:24:00.360 And, well, we have some of that.

00:24:01.840 Here's a little exchange back and forth yesterday.

00:24:04.840 Tonight, a split-screen moment and a possible preview of the general election.

00:24:10.640 You know, he says, let's make America great again.

00:24:13.860 Let's make America America again.

00:24:16.120 Sleepy Joe.

00:24:16.960 Beautiful.

00:24:18.040 He's a sleepy guy.

00:24:19.380 Former Vice President Joe Biden courting voters in the country's first caucus state,

00:24:24.040 looking past his more than 20 Democratic opponents

00:24:26.780 and setting his sights squarely on the current commander-in-chief.

00:24:30.460 I believe that the president is literally an existential threat to America.

00:24:36.520 Today, the president taking shots just before leaving on his own trip to Iowa, a state he won in 2016.

00:24:43.260 When a man has to mention my name 76 times in his speech, that means he's in trouble.

00:24:48.740 Are you elevating Joe Biden by continually attacking him?

00:24:52.460 No, I'd rather run against, I think, Biden than anybody. 0.84

00:24:55.500 I think he's the weakest mentally. 0.96

00:24:58.000 And I like running against people that are weak mentally. 0.96

00:25:02.000 Oh, I love this.

00:25:03.360 That's just some fun right there.

00:25:05.100 Isn't that great?

00:25:05.760 I think Biden, I think he's got something with the sleepy.

00:25:09.280 It's going to turn into something.

00:25:10.300 Yeah, he does.

00:25:10.660 Because Biden, Biden is making Donald Trump look like he's 20 years old.

00:25:16.980 Yeah, he is.

00:25:18.220 Yeah.

00:25:18.640 And Biden is kind of taking advantage of the fact that, I mean, Trump is taking advantage of the fact that Biden is so old,

00:25:26.540 even though he's only four years younger.

00:25:28.780 And, but I think it's working.

00:25:31.300 I think it's working.

00:25:32.140 It is.

00:25:32.480 Because he is, he is, and I've never noticed this before about Joe,

00:25:38.100 but I think, you know, when you start to slip, it can go fast.

00:25:41.980 And I think he's starting to be like, well, you remember when, when Ronald Reagan first got into office,

00:25:50.120 he wasn't like that.

00:25:51.440 Yeah.

00:25:51.560 By the time he got out of office, you could see the toll it had taken and his age had started to, to kick in.

00:25:59.460 And it wasn't that he was senile.

00:26:01.700 It, it was just that it was a little uncomfortable at times.

00:26:04.560 He'd go, well, and then he would have a great line, but you could see that he was aging.

00:26:12.120 Joe Biden is, to me, it looks like he's just starting to fall apart.

00:26:15.620 I think too.

00:26:15.980 I mean, Biden has always done this quiet voice thing, no matter how much energy he's had.

00:26:20.620 It's always been like one of his schticks where he'll just get really quiet as if he's saying something really profound when it's really not much of anything.

00:26:27.980 Yeah.

00:26:28.100 Um, and I think he's doing it even, may I just, may I just interject that nothing is ever profound when it's followed by man.

00:26:36.500 Right.

00:26:37.660 That is the, that's his plain talking sort of.

00:26:42.060 It's middle class Joe.

00:26:43.440 He's middle class, middle class people use the word man all the time.

00:26:46.940 And he thinks that if he says it.

00:26:48.180 He, he's middle class, like if he just stepped out of the Scooby-Doo mystery van, I mean, he's like 1972 middle class, man.

00:26:58.320 But it's a, he's doing it more, I think, because he, he wants to contrast himself.

00:27:02.580 He wants to see everybody in that race is trying to show themselves as this, with the exception of maybe Sanders, is trying to show themselves as this super balanced, calm, intellectual, because they think it, you know, it just is a good contrast with Trump.

00:27:15.240 And where Biden, I think probably his strength is to be more like Trump, right?

00:27:20.560 Like he's the type of person that will come out and he can maybe throw some insults at you.

00:27:25.320 And he does that stuff a lot.

00:27:27.660 He's supposed to be the likable guy, right?

00:27:29.980 I don't know that he is, but that's supposed to be a shtick.

00:27:32.300 And he's trying to do this other weird, dramatic thing.

00:27:36.180 And you're right so far.

00:27:37.060 I don't think it's working at all.

00:27:38.180 And how dare you, when you're part of the team that started the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.

00:27:45.240 How dare you say we're going to make America, America again.

00:27:48.320 You're the ones, you're the, you're part of the team that started tearing that apart.

00:27:52.900 Yeah.

00:27:53.400 I mean, there's a new story out today that Biden is saying that Trump wants to rewrite the limits of the presidency.

00:27:58.700 Who are you?

00:27:59.700 You just spent eight years doing that.

00:28:02.180 Joe Biden is going to tell, he's going to lecture us on too much presidential power.

00:28:05.960 Are you kidding me?

00:28:07.360 And then he also said he was going to cure cancer, which is, I mean, if he gets elected.

00:28:11.800 That is a bizarre one, isn't it?

00:28:13.440 Yeah.

00:28:13.720 If he gets elected, Joe Biden is, we're going to cure cancer.

00:28:16.520 That's going to be the big takeaway of his presidency.

00:28:18.960 Which I would say.

00:28:19.940 That's a good promise.

00:28:20.940 Yeah.

00:28:21.640 We used to do that as a joke.

00:28:23.240 Remember, we run fake candidates like Ernie Velveeta and Harold Flamlowski.

00:28:27.620 And they would all promise to cure cancer.

00:28:29.220 Now Joe Biden's really doing it.

00:28:31.540 I mean, it's like they'll never, Donald Trump will never build that wall.

00:28:36.020 I don't know.

00:28:36.500 Well, that's pretty simple compared to curing cancer.

00:28:40.300 I think he can get that one done.

00:28:42.520 I'm not so sure.

00:28:43.780 Joe Biden.

00:28:44.420 And what is Joe?

00:28:45.160 He's got a new chemistry set he's going to set up on the Resolute desk.

00:28:49.640 Quiet, quiet.

00:28:50.460 I'm close.

00:28:51.280 I'm close.

00:28:51.900 I just have to pour this beaker into this other beaker.

00:28:55.220 It's like basically what it is.

00:28:59.260 I mean, we really did.

00:29:00.020 I want to say we have to go back and find this now.

00:29:02.320 One of those guys, whether it was Harold Flamlowski or Ernie Velveeta, said if you elect him, he will cure cancer.

00:29:09.000 But he won't tell you how until you elect him, which was his big strategy.

00:29:13.080 I think Biden's trying to say he hasn't been cured yet.

00:29:16.040 We need to start doing that.

00:29:18.620 That Joe Biden is going to cure cancer.

00:29:22.100 He's already cured it, really.

00:29:23.880 You just have to elect him before he'll tell you how he's going to cure you.

00:29:27.340 That's fantastic.

00:29:28.720 We used to joke about it.

00:29:29.820 He's now doing speeches.

00:29:31.180 This is the front runner in the race is doing speeches about if you elect him, he'll cure cancer.

00:29:36.440 That's a real thing happening right now.

00:29:38.740 That's amazing.

00:29:39.700 Do you think that's does he have some information from scientists that they're a year away?

00:29:45.140 But that wouldn't have anything to do with him being elected.

00:29:46.840 Scientists are like, I'm not working unless Biden wins.

00:29:50.040 That's not a thing scientists do, to my knowledge.

00:29:52.740 I don't think so.

00:29:53.760 I think he's probably saying I'm going to dump a bunch of money into the research, right?

00:29:57.520 I guess that's what he's promising.

00:29:58.780 Maybe.

00:29:59.480 That's what actors say they're going to do.

00:30:02.060 I'm not working unless you change this law.

00:30:05.060 I mean, are actors and scientists any different?

00:30:08.420 I mean, I certainly hope so, but I'm not so sure.

00:30:11.900 I'm not so sure.

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00:30:40.780 So the one thing I really like about Stu, and there is only one, is that he's a stat geek.

00:30:47.280 He is a guy who is really numbers minded and can always tell you everything about every poll and which polls to dismiss and which ones not to dismiss.

00:30:58.440 And he's usually right.

00:30:59.500 He was pretty close on the election last time, if I'm not mistaken, and this time he has really put about a year's worth of work into developing a system that takes into consideration 30 different metrics.

00:31:14.100 Can you go through any of those, Stu, so we understand?

00:31:17.340 Sure.

00:31:17.660 Like, I mean, you think everything from polling, we use even some prediction market stuff.

00:31:22.580 We go through endorsements and the organization the campaigns are building, you know, the debates, the media coverage, you know, fundraising.

00:31:34.640 I mean, really, you know, it's a couple, it's a few dozen, and they actually grow.

00:31:38.020 We change the formula as it goes on.

00:31:40.700 So, for example, now polling is going to be less important than something, than, you know, a lot of these that indicate potential, right?

00:31:48.460 Like, potential is going to be more important now than a week before an election when, you know, the polling is going to take into account all of those things.

00:31:56.060 There's a lot of these candidates that people don't even know, so you have to, there's a little bit of art inside of there.

00:32:00.860 But overall, it's a good way of, like, looking at the entire field and seeing who's going up, who's going down, who, you know, over a long period of time, you can kind of follow the race and make sense out of it because it's freaking chaotic.

00:32:11.940 I mean, there's 24 people in here, and how do you even understand the entire field?

00:32:16.760 So, I'm not really interested in the 24 people.

00:32:20.120 I'm interested in the ones that actually have a chance.

00:32:22.860 So, can you tell me, you know, give me the ones that are really the movers and shakers?

00:32:28.440 Okay, a few things from this one, which I thought were pretty interesting.

00:32:31.860 One was the biggest drop of any candidate since we started doing this.

00:32:36.180 And you may instinctively know that was Beto O'Rourke, who fell 7.4 points.

00:32:43.720 The way we do this is this giant formula basically spits out a number 0 to 100.

00:32:47.660 So, 100 would be, in theory, the perfect candidate that couldn't lose.

00:32:51.540 Zero would be the worst candidate.

00:32:53.440 He is still kind of in, oddly, still in the top tier of the race.

00:32:58.540 I mean, people look at O'Rourke and say, this guy's failed.

00:33:00.980 However, he's still beating about 18 candidates in polls.

00:33:04.920 I mean, a lot of these candidates, I think the answer, I think it's 17 candidates are at 0 or 1% of the 24.

00:33:12.800 So, to your point, like, you're right.

00:33:14.240 A lot of these guys really seem to have no chance to act.

00:33:18.240 Well, de Blasio says he's just getting started.

00:33:20.560 He is.

00:33:21.280 He's at 0, but he's just getting started.

00:33:23.120 He should start just getting finished.

00:33:25.220 But as of right now, he is just getting started.

00:33:27.800 But, I mean, there are examples of this.

00:33:28.900 For example, I mean, Pete Buttigieg is one who was at 0 and 1% for months and now is not.

00:33:35.520 You know, people, these things do change over time.

00:33:37.560 Elizabeth Warren looked done at one point during this campaign.

00:33:40.760 And she's another big story in this.

00:33:42.660 She had a big rise.

00:33:44.080 And she's having a little bit of a moment.

00:33:46.000 I mean, she's polling better and better.

00:33:48.260 And her approach seems to oddly be working with people,

00:33:51.800 which is essentially going out and churning out a new policy proposal every week or so.

00:33:59.100 That's going to get the government involved in another aspect of your life.

00:34:02.600 I want to get into this possibly at the bottom of the hour,

00:34:04.560 that she seems to have an answer for everything.

00:34:06.500 Now, not cancer.

00:34:08.580 No.

00:34:08.820 Joe Biden is the answer for cancer.

00:34:11.240 Literally.

00:34:11.920 Play that audio just in case you missed it.

00:34:13.960 It's amazing.

00:34:15.480 I promise you, if I'm elected president,

00:34:18.680 you're going to see the single most important thing that changes in America

00:34:22.020 is we're going to cure cancer.

00:34:24.840 That's incredible.

00:34:26.860 Incredible.

00:34:27.800 So she doesn't have that answer,

00:34:29.620 but she does seem to have an answer for everything else.

00:34:33.220 That is her.

00:34:33.980 That's her shtick. 1.00

00:34:34.740 And it's what people really want.

00:34:35.920 We can get into her a little bit more.

00:34:37.280 But, I mean, she was the biggest riser in the entire, you know,

00:34:41.840 this edition of the power rankings that we do.

00:34:44.420 And we rank them all from 1 to 24.

00:34:46.520 And it just takes too long because there's two dozen freaking people

00:34:50.620 and you have to find something interesting about all of them.

00:34:52.440 That's not easy.

00:34:54.000 But Buttigieg is another guy who I find really interesting here.

00:34:57.500 And that, like, I kind of thought, you know, I don't know,

00:35:00.220 the bump had kind of faded a little bit.

00:35:02.160 And I think that's somewhat true.

00:35:04.060 You see in the polling that Buttigieg has sort of fallen back.

00:35:07.060 He had a really good poll in Iowa this week, which that was before,

00:35:11.800 or this was after we did all these calculations.

00:35:15.120 But that, you know, he's, that's where he's focused most of his attention.

00:35:18.600 It's where he's polling best.

00:35:19.940 Obviously, if anyone who wins Iowa is a real factor in the race,

00:35:24.240 sort of automatically.

00:35:25.720 So the fact that he's right in there, you know,

00:35:27.820 this is Biden's probably weakest early state.

00:35:31.400 You know, Sanders does okay there.

00:35:32.840 Warren does pretty well there, and so does Buttigieg right now.

00:35:35.280 But what does that mean?

00:35:35.900 I mean, if Biden loses, it'll mean something.

00:35:40.380 But if he's five, eight, ten points ahead,

00:35:44.060 it's not going to mean any of this.

00:35:45.640 The number two will mean something because the media doesn't,

00:35:49.740 I don't think the media really wants Joe Biden to win.

00:35:53.320 But you still, I mean, the chances of anybody else beating a ten-point lead

00:35:58.860 coming out of Iowa.

00:36:00.060 Well, I mean, we have to step back here, though.

00:36:01.820 It's very early.

00:36:02.440 We haven't had one debate yet.

00:36:04.420 I mean, Joe Biden yesterday came out and promised that if he was elected,

00:36:08.400 he would cure cancer.

00:36:09.400 We all realize that Joe Biden is going to have 20 to 30 complete foot-in-mouth,

00:36:15.020 you know, face-to-rake sort of moments in this campaign.

00:36:19.440 The idea that he's going to win by 20 points, I mean, it's possible he's winning.

00:36:25.080 I love the fact that with Joe Biden, it should be rake-to-face.

00:36:32.140 But with Joe Biden, he's so incompetent, it's face-to-rake.

00:36:37.480 That's a good point. 0.71

00:36:39.100 The rake is still laying on the ground.

00:36:40.340 He just falls down and smashes his face into it.

00:36:42.760 Yeah. 0.84

00:36:43.160 It's just like the rake is just like, I got to hit that guy.

00:36:45.560 Right. 0.96

00:36:45.880 I got to hit that guy. 0.80

00:36:46.860 It's fascinating. 0.77

00:36:48.900 I mean, because look, it would be ridiculous to say that Biden is not only the leader in

00:36:54.400 this race, but really in a tier by himself.

00:36:56.440 I mean, you cannot even put Sanders in his tier right now.

00:36:59.280 I mean, Biden, absolutely, this is his race to lose.

00:37:04.480 But he's really good at losing races.

00:37:07.160 I mean, he's done this his entire career.

00:37:10.100 He's run for president like 107 times and he's won approximately zero times.

00:37:15.560 So, you know, I mean, look.

00:37:17.540 108th is the jar.

00:37:18.820 Yeah.

00:37:19.420 I will say this, though, for Biden.

00:37:22.260 Number one, he is running a different campaign than almost everybody else in this race.

00:37:26.920 Yes, he's hanging back from the cameras, which is obviously smart considering he's a gaffe 1.00

00:37:30.940 machine.

00:37:31.580 But in addition to that, he is the one of the only candidates in the race and the only one

00:37:36.520 I can think of that's above, you know, eighth or 10th in this race that is not folding to

00:37:44.800 the sort of hardcore socialist messaging.

00:37:47.900 You know, he's a guy who's come out and said, I'm not giving everybody free college.

00:37:52.100 We're going to have free community college.

00:37:54.420 We don't really want Medicare for all.

00:37:55.880 That's not going to work.

00:37:57.020 You know what?

00:37:57.460 We sure we want abortion to be progressive, but the Hyde Amendment should stay.

00:38:01.260 These are things he's the only one doing it.

00:38:03.620 And there's a reason why he's winning with a field that is not entirely socialist.

00:38:08.200 The Democratic voter, the average person living in Iowa, the average person living, you know,

00:38:13.640 in these states that is going to vote for a Democrat is not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:38:19.340 And every other candidate is trying to be her. 0.90

00:38:22.320 She seems to he seems to be the only one who's recognized that there's there's a day

00:38:26.060 after the first primary.

00:38:28.400 There's a day after you win.

00:38:30.200 You have to go up against Donald Trump and try to win voters from the Midwest who don't

00:38:34.120 want Medicare for all, who don't want socialism.

00:38:36.060 So there's a there's a difference here, too, a similarity and a difference with 2016.

00:38:43.380 In 2016, you had the same thing.

00:38:47.020 Donald Trump was not towing the line of the traditional Republican.

00:38:52.180 Right.

00:38:52.540 He's not saying all those things.

00:38:54.400 He said, I'm I'm you know, now it's all he just answers to anybody who is.

00:38:59.540 No, he doesn't.

00:39:00.800 He doesn't.

00:39:01.560 He carved his own path and he held that.

00:39:04.800 But he is his own man.

00:39:07.080 I'm not sure Biden is his own man.

00:39:10.300 Maybe he is.

00:39:11.520 I'm not sure he'll hold this path for very long, at least after an election, if he became

00:39:17.020 president of the United States.

00:39:18.520 So he is he is sensing that these parties are not reflective of America as a whole because

00:39:27.060 it leaves out the independent.

00:39:28.580 And I think there's a lot of people in America that are tired of the hard line of the hard

00:39:35.460 party line because they don't see the parties is doing anything.

00:39:39.860 Yeah.

00:39:40.300 And so if somebody is an independent thinker or appears to be an independent thinker,

00:39:45.280 Americans, I think, are attracted by that.

00:39:48.500 I totally agree.

00:39:49.280 And it's really important to point out.

00:39:50.880 Joe Biden is not a moderate.

00:39:53.520 Not at all.

00:39:54.080 He was one of the most I mean, the one he was either him or Obama was the number one

00:39:58.580 most liberal senator when Obama ran for president.

00:40:00.780 I believe it was Biden one and Obama two as the most progressive senator.

00:40:04.740 The guy is no moderate.

00:40:06.100 He but he's messaging it that way, which is smart because no one's addressing those people.

00:40:10.600 But he's not a revolutionary.

00:40:13.600 No.

00:40:14.140 See, I think that's the difference.

00:40:15.260 Now, we have we have Ocasio-Cortez and all of these people who are truly revolutionaries

00:40:21.800 and they want to burn the whole system down.

00:40:25.060 That's not Joe Biden.

00:40:26.640 He wants to carve out a nice little comfortable place for him and his cronies in the world

00:40:32.540 that has already been created.

00:40:34.100 He's he's the kind of guy he's the kind of progressive that never delivers to the left.

00:40:42.200 You know what I mean?

00:40:43.160 Not not enough, even though they I mean, like Obama, even he passed, you know, biggest massive

00:40:48.260 expansions of government.

00:40:49.720 We've probably ever seen in my lifetime.

00:40:51.540 Yet he's still seen as a disappointment somehow to progressives.

00:40:55.020 You know, I think that's true.

00:40:56.120 I mean, Sanders, I think, is a real revolutionary like that.

00:40:58.860 He is.

00:40:59.320 He has lived this.

00:41:00.040 I mean, a guy went to the Soviet Union on his honeymoon famously.

00:41:02.680 Really, this guy is is someone who is a real revolutionary.

00:41:05.560 I think it's some to some extent Warren really is, too.

00:41:08.520 There's a lot of them that are playing the role.

00:41:10.440 And I don't know how revolutionary they are.

00:41:12.540 But Biden is I think you're right.

00:41:14.600 A Democrat, a far left Democrat, a guy who represented the state of Delaware.

00:41:20.760 Remember, for all of those years, this is not a guy who he likes to say he was from,

00:41:25.960 you know, Pennsylvania and he likes to kind of portray that those Midwest values.

00:41:31.320 That's not what this guy ran on.

00:41:33.440 And the only reason people get confused with Biden and they think, well, maybe he's sort

00:41:38.220 of moderate is because he's old.

00:41:40.780 He was taking liberal positions in 1978 that seem conservative today because the country

00:41:46.880 has massively moved to the left.

00:41:49.240 And so they go back and like, well, you said this in 1980.

00:41:51.700 Well, in 1980, it was like basically socialism what he was recommending.

00:41:55.600 Right.

00:41:55.860 Right.

00:41:56.100 And so he's constantly been on the progressive edge this entire time.

00:42:00.340 And if he becomes president, he will be at least Obama.

00:42:04.780 And who knows, may go even further.

00:42:06.960 But he'll be he will be a very liberal president that will try to change things up.

00:42:11.400 He might not be Sanders.

00:42:12.440 He might not be Warren.

00:42:14.020 But he's going to be don't don't let him fool you.

00:42:16.460 There's this idea that and there's several candidates that are attempting this in the race,

00:42:19.840 which is moderation with a wink.

00:42:22.640 Right.

00:42:22.860 Like basically they're saying, I'm a moderate.

00:42:24.920 Wink, wink.

00:42:26.000 Hey, Democrats, I want you to know I'm not a moderate.

00:42:28.640 And, you know, that is something that Biden is attempting.

00:42:31.480 There's a bunch of candidates at the bottom of the field who are attempting it as well

00:42:34.620 and successfully.

00:42:35.540 But that's largely because Biden so far has been successful.

00:42:38.120 You have to imagine there's some lane for people who want a normal Biden sort of Democrat

00:42:44.180 here as they see it.

00:42:46.940 And that lane is not going to be taken by Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders.

00:42:50.780 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:42:52.840 We're looking at the power rankings that Stu puts out once a week.

00:42:55.680 Stu, what is the where are the strengths and the weaknesses of Biden?

00:43:02.600 Well, I mean, Biden, look, is is that the name recognition is is is very, very high.

00:43:08.120 I mean, as much as we talk about how there's so much power with the socialists out there,

00:43:12.680 people really, generally speaking, remember Biden fondly as Democrats.

00:43:17.860 Again, I'm not talking about him going up against Donald Trump.

00:43:20.700 It's this is just a Democratic contest and people like him.

00:43:24.340 I mean, you know, he's got, you know, a favorability rating of 77 percent.

00:43:30.020 77 to 15 is his favorite in the Democrats.

00:43:33.740 In the Democratic Party.

00:43:34.700 So that's I mean, that is a you know, that's a nice thing to run on.

00:43:37.600 I mean, Bernie Sanders has a high one as well.

00:43:39.100 Of course, every Democratic candidate, with the exception of Bill de Blasio, is is viewed relatively fairly.

00:43:46.600 Bill de Blasio is has the worst approval ratings in the entire field.

00:43:50.120 And he just got into the field.

00:43:52.220 Like if you just said he you know, the whole field is rated fairly.

00:43:55.800 I think they're rating him fairly, too.

00:43:57.580 Oh, yeah, that's true.

00:43:59.200 It's not not well, I would say.

00:44:00.880 But you look at certain candidates on here and a couple that I would highlight would be Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg, who have still massive gaps in their familiarity.

00:44:11.480 I mean, like about a third of Democrats have never heard the name Pete Buttigieg before.

00:44:17.660 I mean, that is like we you know, we talk about this stuff every day.

00:44:20.100 So to to us, this guy's been, you know, invading our lives for several months.

00:44:25.180 But I mean, he is basically, as far as candidates go, pretty unknown.

00:44:30.000 I mean, he's in the area of, you know, Julian Castro, as far as name recognition.

00:44:34.620 And he performs much better than Castro does, as far as favorability.

00:44:38.300 When I was in music radio, I used to pick the music for radio.

00:44:45.040 And I remember I'd look at research and you would look at the familiarity and there was a tipping point.

00:44:52.420 But if you had a song that was very, very popular and people loved it, but it it was unknown to the mass, you had a pretty good shot that once it was exposed, it was going to it would take off.

00:45:10.560 So that's the thing with Buttigieg.

00:45:12.260 Buttigieg, once people know who he is, if his numbers, how what are his his likes and hates and and really, really love kind of numbers?

00:45:21.200 Do you look into that at all?

00:45:22.300 Yeah, that's that's part of this.

00:45:23.720 You know, he's at forty to eleven right now.

00:45:26.900 One important thing to understand, though, is basically every candidate in this race has about 10 percent of people who will say they don't like them.

00:45:33.800 And it goes up from there, like, you know, Bernie Sanders is almost 20.

00:45:37.380 But, you know, Buttigieg is at that floor.

00:45:39.440 Basically, it's 11 percent and he has 42 percent, so a four to one ratio.

00:45:44.580 Plus, he has a third of the audience that has not even heard of him yet.

00:45:47.960 So if he can continue those sorts of ratios, he's in a really nice position.

00:45:52.360 And that's the thing about Buttigieg and why he performs so well on the power rankings is because he's got tons of room to grow.

00:45:58.480 Right. And if he has deep passion, not people who are like, I like that Pete guy, but deep passion and that much room to grow.

00:46:08.780 He is a real contender.

00:46:10.260 Yeah, I think the thing that his big concern, I would say, just watching him as a candidate is he needs to he's one of these people.

00:46:18.440 And there's a few in this race.

00:46:20.320 I would say Cory Booker's kind of in this position.

00:46:23.320 I would say Chris Cuomo on CNN is this type of person who thinks they're a lot smarter than everyone else on Earth.

00:46:32.300 And he definitely shows that from time to time.

00:46:35.580 He thinks an awful lot of himself and it comes through in his speeches.

00:46:40.160 And that will hurt him.

00:46:42.020 That will sink him.

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