The Glenn Beck Program - September 13, 2018


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Glenn Beck and Stu discuss the impact of Hurricane Florence on the North Carolina coast and the impact it could have on the financial system. Plus, a new report from the Financial Stability Oversight Council raises concerns about cyber warfare and the possibility of a global financial crash.

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00:00:00.160 The Blaze Radio Network. On Demand.
00:00:06.160 It is Stu along with Glenn Beck. Welcome to the podcast.
00:00:09.080 Yes.
00:00:09.560 Today we look at a brand new financial crisis.
00:00:12.360 Yes.
00:00:12.620 Potentially around the corner.
00:00:14.000 No, not just one.
00:00:15.300 Two.
00:00:16.360 Not just two.
00:00:17.660 Three.
00:00:18.100 What would you say if I could give you four giant crashes in the economy?
00:00:23.220 Yes.
00:00:23.780 It's just amazing.
00:00:25.360 And we'll give you the details on that.
00:00:27.060 Hopefully that does not hit us.
00:00:28.300 It looks like Hurricane Florence is about to hit North Carolina.
00:00:32.580 We'll get into some of the details and how you can help.
00:00:34.940 MercuryOne.org, please make a donation.
00:00:37.060 Do that, please.
00:00:38.540 Aaron Watson is going to come on.
00:00:40.160 He's talking a little bit about the hurricane as well.
00:00:42.460 He's, of course, a country music superstar.
00:00:44.960 We also go into, we have Mike Rowe on today, which is pretty cool.
00:00:50.040 Great.
00:00:51.200 He had a hugely viral response to the Colin Kaepernick ad.
00:00:56.300 And also, his mom is basically besting him in life, and we discuss how he deals with that.
00:01:03.820 I don't know how we're going to contain all of the good stuff in one hour, because we had Andrew Heaton talking about Norm MacDonald and what happened with Jimmy Fallon.
00:01:14.640 And we also had Pat Boone just popped in.
00:01:18.680 Yeah.
00:01:20.720 Talking about, at the time, he was the competition against Elvis.
00:01:24.980 He was bigger than Elvis for a while.
00:01:25.640 And bigger than Elvis in the 50s.
00:01:27.440 He explains that.
00:01:28.360 Yeah.
00:01:28.580 It's an amazing walkthrough history on today's podcast.
00:01:30.880 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:43.060 It's Thursday, September 13th.
00:01:45.980 Glenn Beck.
00:01:47.720 Exactly 10 years ago this week, all of our lives changed.
00:01:51.020 On Tuesday, our attention, rightly so, was focused on what happened 17 years ago, the week of 9-11. 0.96
00:01:59.940 But seven years later, on September 15th, Lehman Brothers collapsed, kicking off the 2008 financial crisis.
00:02:08.440 New York City, again, ground zero for another tragedy.
00:02:12.440 The shockwave reverberated across all of the globe.
00:02:15.620 We were told, and I believe, that the entire financial system of the Western world was on the ropes.
00:02:23.920 The question that we should be asking ourselves this week.
00:02:28.720 One, when it comes to Islamic extremism, are we better or worse than we were 17 years ago? 0.99
00:02:38.760 Are we even addressing the problem?
00:02:42.740 Can we even talk about the problem?
00:02:45.620 Two, after a decade of trying to fix the banking system, could this happen again?
00:02:53.680 Have we fixed things or made it worse?
00:02:56.720 Are we even talking about it?
00:03:00.120 Some people say the record amounts of global and corporate debt will trigger the next crash.
00:03:05.700 Some say a global currency crisis is about to explode.
00:03:09.680 And that will be the cause.
00:03:11.880 Others fear that it's protectionism and tariffs.
00:03:14.740 To be honest, all of these things could trigger a next crash.
00:03:19.280 Each scenario has the potential to make what happened in 2008 seem like a slight road bump.
00:03:26.020 Imagine if all of these scenarios happened one domino at a time.
00:03:30.440 It would be a catastrophe beyond anything the world has ever experienced.
00:03:36.180 But I haven't even mentioned the biggest scenario.
00:03:40.780 The most likely scenario.
00:03:43.720 A collapse of the bond market.
00:03:46.580 A collapse of everyone's retirement fund.
00:03:50.180 There are so many scenarios out there and experts are even more worried about something that I really didn't take seriously.
00:04:00.540 I didn't think anyone else was taking seriously.
00:04:05.020 The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation.
00:04:09.280 They provide clearing and settlement for financial markets here in the U.S.
00:04:14.440 They released a report outlining their number one fear.
00:04:21.680 Their number one fear?
00:04:24.820 Cyber warfare.
00:04:26.180 All of the scenarios I've just laid out are all likely.
00:04:33.440 And on the last one, there are not just a few people worried.
00:04:36.480 A few months ago, the government published a similar report drawing the same conclusions.
00:04:41.660 The number one fear is cyber warfare.
00:04:45.300 These findings came from the Financial Stability Oversight Council, which is chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury.
00:04:51.200 This isn't some kooky, you know, harebrained conspiracy theory.
00:04:56.740 Both the government and private business thinks a cyber attack will be the root cause of a global crash.
00:05:03.200 This is kind of big news.
00:05:05.700 How is this information not being reported all over the country this week?
00:05:10.840 Oh, because Bob Woodward's book is out.
00:05:13.300 The report details how a nation-state cyber attack will begin by targeting what's called systematically important financial institutions.
00:05:23.080 These are banks like the Bank of America, J.P. Morgan, or the bank formerly known as Lehman Brothers.
00:05:29.560 But they can also be giant hedge funds or insurance companies like AIG.
00:05:34.900 The Lehman Brothers collapse was the first shot of the 2008 crash.
00:05:39.200 And experts are now saying something similar will happen during the next one.
00:05:44.420 The big one, as they're now calling it.
00:05:47.120 A hostile country like China, Russia, or even North Korea would trigger a run on one or multiple systematically important institutions.
00:05:56.860 From there, the global system would begin to unravel just as it did before.
00:06:01.080 But this time, it would happen as a global and corporate debt scheme is at record levels.
00:06:09.200 As global currency crisis brewing, with a trade war escalating, all between the two largest economies in the world.
00:06:20.300 We should probably take a moment and talk about things that are real.
00:06:27.300 Technology is changing.
00:06:30.300 It's changing the world like never before.
00:06:32.440 We are on the cusp of something profound.
00:06:37.120 And it will be profoundly devastating and or profoundly marvelous.
00:06:48.720 Some of it's going to be spectacular.
00:06:52.280 Some of it is going to be horrifying and extraordinarily destructive.
00:06:57.500 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:07:08.600 So some good news for South Carolina, kind of, and North Carolina.
00:07:13.140 The hurricane has been downgraded from yesterday.
00:07:20.260 We were thinking yesterday at this time it might be a Category 5.
00:07:25.280 However, the storm surge is what they're worried about now.
00:07:29.380 Not necessarily the winds.
00:07:31.880 But this thing is coming onshore.
00:07:33.820 And it's a storm surge of anywhere from, what is it, 6 to 16 feet, something like that.
00:07:41.100 And that will cause flooding everywhere.
00:07:44.100 So lots of damage.
00:07:45.980 If you can help, yesterday we sent out a couple hundred semi-tractor trailers.
00:07:53.360 I think we had about 250 of them on the road yesterday.
00:07:56.340 They had supplies, water, you know, chainsaws, heavy equipment, everything that you would need
00:08:01.620 to be able to start to dig out of something like this.
00:08:06.100 Those trucks are already parked and out of the way of danger, but ready to go in as soon as things settle down.
00:08:14.420 We also have, we have Operation Barbecue, which is this great charity that we've done all kinds of work.
00:08:20.680 They just got out of California for the wildfires.
00:08:23.480 And now they're headed over for the opposite, for too much water.
00:08:28.400 They feed about 30,000 meals every single day.
00:08:33.440 And we are supporting them.
00:08:35.320 We need your help.
00:08:37.160 If you would like to help, please make a donation to mercuryone.org.
00:08:42.720 Mercuryone.org.
00:08:44.040 We are always, you know, the first in and the last to leave.
00:08:48.660 And we could really use your help.
00:08:51.000 Mercuryone.org.
00:08:52.280 Make a donation.
00:08:53.780 We have Aaron Watson on the phone because he's doing something for still the hurricane victims in Texas
00:09:01.060 because everybody has kind of moved on.
00:09:03.720 But a lot of people in Texas have not been able to move on yet.
00:09:07.280 Aaron Watson, country music superstar.
00:09:09.240 How are you, Aaron?
00:09:10.340 I'm good.
00:09:11.000 It's great to hear your voice.
00:09:12.440 Yeah, good to hear you.
00:09:13.640 Well, good.
00:09:14.280 I hear your voice all the time because I listen to your music.
00:09:16.580 But, you know, you could listen to the show and you could hear my voice.
00:09:19.620 Well, I was just trying to be friendly, you know.
00:09:22.540 You know, I'm a big fan.
00:09:24.860 Yeah, no.
00:09:25.540 Good to hear from you, brother.
00:09:26.860 Yeah, good to hear from you.
00:09:27.660 Now, what are you doing?
00:09:28.800 Because you just put out a new CD, if you even call them that now.
00:09:33.920 Um, and it's your, uh, it's your rodeo CD, right?
00:09:39.560 Yeah.
00:09:39.860 So we recorded our performance at the Houston Rodeo, uh, back in 2017.
00:09:45.520 And we were planning on putting it out.
00:09:47.780 Yeah.
00:09:48.260 Uh, about the time that the hurricane hit, uh, the, the, the Texas coast.
00:09:54.780 And we just kind of put it on the back burner.
00:09:57.200 We just didn't feel like promoting an album while, you know, such a large part of the state
00:10:02.700 was going through, uh, such a tough time.
00:10:05.640 So we, we really just kind of put it on the back shelf.
00:10:08.360 And at some point I thought we would never even put the album out.
00:10:12.140 Like it just kind of missed its opportunity.
00:10:13.820 But then we thought, you know what, we could put this album out on the one year anniversary
00:10:18.740 of when hurricane Harvey hit Houston and all along the South, uh, Texas coast.
00:10:25.040 And, uh, we could use that to raise some money for those 41 counties that were affected.
00:10:30.280 You know, when there's billions of dollars of damage and millions of people affected 12
00:10:35.000 months later, you know, the mess isn't cleaned up.
00:10:38.120 So we just thought it'd be a great opportunity for us to, uh, to give back.
00:10:42.800 All right.
00:10:42.920 So what are you doing here for every, for every download sold?
00:10:46.560 What, how much goes?
00:10:48.260 It's a dollar 41.
00:10:49.680 And we, we did the dollar 41 just to let people know that there's, there's 41 counties that
00:10:56.000 were affected.
00:10:56.560 I mean, I don't think people understand just how big Texas is, but those 41 counties are
00:11:00.860 probably larger than a lot of states.
00:11:04.140 And, um, so, you know, we were, we did a show down in Houston, um, a couple of weeks
00:11:10.660 back when we released the album and just, it's crazy.
00:11:13.640 There's still people who have not got to move back into their homes.
00:11:16.540 So we're trying to raise some money and also raise awareness and, uh, let people know there's
00:11:21.640 still folks out there that need some help.
00:11:23.340 Yeah.
00:11:23.740 So Aaron Watson, if you, if you don't know who Aaron Watson is and you're a country music
00:11:27.440 fan, you are missing something great.
00:11:30.160 He is a great, great, uh, entertainer.
00:11:34.120 Uh, and his music is, I mean, right from the heart.
00:11:37.240 It's just really good stuff.
00:11:38.900 My, I was going to say, I want to make sure I'm accurate on that.
00:11:43.180 Yes.
00:11:43.440 My favorite country music artist is Aaron Watson.
00:11:46.560 I love it.
00:11:47.700 And, uh, and this is a great, um, uh, recording of, of, I mean, if you're in country, you know,
00:11:54.900 the Houston rodeo is the best and we applaud you for doing this, uh, Aaron.
00:11:59.560 Well, man, I tell you what, you know, when, when I got to play your, your Mercury one event,
00:12:04.520 it's very inspiring.
00:12:06.240 I mean, it can be overwhelming that the world has so much need out there, but, uh, you guys,
00:12:12.220 uh, you guys, uh, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know,
00:12:13.440 you never flinch, you just keep on giving back and you keep on finding ways to help people out.
00:12:18.060 So I just want to commend you guys for the example that you're setting for all of us.
00:12:22.280 So thank you very much.
00:12:23.380 Thank you.
00:12:24.320 Aaron, well, aaronwatson.com, aaronwatson.com.
00:12:27.720 You can buy it on, I assume you can buy it on, you know, iTunes or wherever else.
00:12:31.360 iTunes, Amazon, you know, it's got, uh, it's got 14, uh, tracks.
00:12:36.320 And I'll tell you this, I recorded one.
00:12:38.300 There's one song on there, Glenn, that's not live.
00:12:41.100 Uh, during the hurricane, um, I wrote a song called Higher Ground because while there was
00:12:46.920 all this, you know, controversy a year ago and there still is of, you know, whether it's
00:12:53.060 politics or whatever, there's all, you turn on the news and it's bad news and bad news
00:12:57.260 and bad news.
00:12:57.940 I wrote this song Higher Ground because I was, I was really inspired by the way people
00:13:04.520 were coming together down in along the South Texas coast and helping each other out different
00:13:10.160 colors, races, religions, you know, they, they were showing each other kindness and it really
00:13:15.840 set a great example for all of us to like, you know what, we're all on the same team here.
00:13:20.360 So let's, let's show each other love.
00:13:22.880 So that's, I wrote that song just kind of in honor of everyone who's been through these
00:13:26.980 tough times.
00:13:27.980 Yeah.
00:13:28.060 Thank you very much, Aaron.
00:13:28.960 I appreciate it.
00:13:30.060 Um, Aaron Watson.com.
00:13:32.500 Um, Aaron, thanks for your help.
00:13:34.440 You know, it's amazing that it was a, a year ago, isn't it?
00:13:38.360 Isn't that, isn't that wild?
00:13:40.340 I mean, in some ways it seems like yesterday, in other ways, it seems like 1400 years ago.
00:13:45.920 It really does.
00:13:47.020 It's, you know, and you know, one, the next, next week there's another hurricane or another,
00:13:53.900 another something.
00:13:55.260 So man, thanks for all you do, brother.
00:13:56.980 Got it.
00:13:57.300 Thanks, Aaron.
00:13:58.300 Um, if you also would like to donate, we could really use your help at mercuryone.org.
00:14:05.240 We are so deep in so many things right now.
00:14:10.080 Uh, and, uh, it's all because of you, mercuryone.org.
00:14:13.680 Oh, really?
00:14:14.240 What?
00:14:14.800 It's all because of you.
00:14:15.920 It's all because of global warming.
00:14:17.780 That's what it's because of.
00:14:19.340 You know, thank you for saying it.
00:14:21.040 Global warming.
00:14:21.420 Well, no, it's not.
00:14:22.380 No, no, no.
00:14:23.880 It's not because of global warming.
00:14:26.260 May I?
00:14:27.060 Pardon me?
00:14:27.580 No.
00:14:27.940 May I?
00:14:28.620 Denier?
00:14:29.040 No.
00:14:29.680 No, no.
00:14:30.600 Listen to me.
00:14:31.460 Okay.
00:14:32.440 It's because of Donald Trump.
00:14:34.880 Yes.
00:14:35.340 Okay.
00:14:35.780 Now you're speaking some sense.
00:14:36.980 He's not doing enough about global warming.
00:14:39.820 Yes.
00:14:40.160 Uh, you know, man, if he just would, if California would have banned straws a couple weeks earlier,
00:14:46.300 North Carolina would be fine.
00:14:48.280 Man.
00:14:48.860 I was, uh, I decided to go over to the New York Times, see how their coverage was going
00:14:52.640 for the hurricane today.
00:14:53.760 And they had a three, three updates.
00:14:55.440 Two of them were about global warming.
00:14:57.020 Now, every time a snowstorm comes in, they say, you can't, it's no storm in a time where
00:15:02.620 it's not supposed to be snowy.
00:15:03.680 They say, well, of course you can't blame any individual storm on global warming.
00:15:08.160 That's crazy.
00:15:08.900 But every hurricane.
00:15:09.220 But every time there's a hurricane, there are stories blaming that individual storm on
00:15:13.100 global warming.
00:15:13.680 Even though hurricanes are down.
00:15:15.800 Yeah.
00:15:16.020 Down overall.
00:15:16.880 Obviously we went through what?
00:15:18.200 15 years without hitting any major hurricanes really hitting the United States.
00:15:22.320 Uh, but now that, you know, we've had a couple of years now with, with big ones, we're going
00:15:27.540 to, uh, get this pushy.
00:15:29.360 And by the way, this is going to hit ground likely as a category too.
00:15:32.100 Right.
00:15:32.500 So a big one.
00:15:33.900 Right.
00:15:34.200 No, you know why this is big?
00:15:35.500 You know why this is causing so much damage is because the federal government said that they
00:15:41.000 would start to cover insurance for homes on the water.
00:15:47.320 Before then you couldn't have, you couldn't get sure insurance.
00:15:50.520 So people didn't build stuff by the water.
00:15:54.320 If you were really, really wealthy and you were like, ah, if I, my home is destroyed, I'll
00:15:59.760 just build another one.
00:16:01.460 You'd build your house there.
00:16:03.340 But as soon as we said as taxpayers, I'm sorry, as soon as the government said as taxpayers,
00:16:10.260 we will just take the money from them and give it to the people who are building their
00:16:15.720 homes right on the water, all kinds of communities sprung up and we're on the hook for it every
00:16:23.580 single year.
00:16:24.720 Now we have to be there to help people, but please don't tell me that when a category two
00:16:31.420 comes ashore that this is because of global warming.
00:16:35.960 No, it's not.
00:16:37.680 Category twos are not uncommon.
00:16:40.540 Category fours aren't uncommon. 0.88
00:16:42.440 And in the last 117 years, since 1900, okay, from 1900 to 2017, the trend of both hurricanes
00:16:50.820 hitting the continental United States and major hurricanes, because the concept, both
00:16:55.620 of those, the trend is down, down.
00:16:58.900 It's about, it's not a huge, huge decrease, but it is a decrease.
00:17:02.860 And even if it's flat, right?
00:17:04.320 The concept is, of course, that it's not that at first they said they were going to be larger
00:17:08.480 and more frequent.
00:17:10.000 Then when they realized the science didn't support the more frequent thing at all, they
00:17:14.320 said larger.
00:17:14.920 And this is what they were doing with Florence.
00:17:16.700 They were saying, look, the water's warmer.
00:17:18.580 And the water is warmer.
00:17:19.800 And the reason, you know, that means it's going to get strengthened all the way to the coast
00:17:22.840 and it's going to be this gigantic hurricane.
00:17:24.680 Now we're seeing the opposite happening where it's actually breaking apart and it's going
00:17:27.740 down to a category two.
00:17:28.760 There's still going to be some major problems.
00:17:30.640 Major problems.
00:17:31.260 This does not mean, hey, okay, I guess I'll stay at home on the coast in the Outer Banks.
00:17:35.620 It's still not a good idea.
00:17:37.100 But the point is when it comes to global warming is now they're saying, well, now it's the extra
00:17:41.020 rainfall.
00:17:41.820 They just keep picking up these different arguments when the last one fails.
00:17:45.880 Well, even major hurricanes are down since 1900.
00:17:48.900 Major hurricanes.
00:17:50.040 If they were getting stronger, then they would not have that as true.
00:17:55.460 But yet it is what is actually happening.
00:17:57.980 And of course, the cost is solely because, as you point out, people are building on the
00:18:02.480 shore a lot more.
00:18:03.240 They're not only building on the shore, they're building on the shore in large homes that are
00:18:07.820 obviously waterfront property, so very expensive.
00:18:11.120 And then when those things come in and they do have problems, the cost is astronomical compared
00:18:16.780 to what it used to be.
00:18:18.280 There's a graphic that's been floating around social media, which is amazing, just showing
00:18:25.740 the difference in development of North Carolina.
00:18:27.820 Oh, it's unbelievable.
00:18:28.340 From when 1954, the hurricane hit and what it is today.
00:18:31.480 I mean, it's a...
00:18:32.300 And you think about it.
00:18:33.120 When people used to have things on the beach or, you know, on the waterfront, they used
00:18:38.100 to be like cabins.
00:18:39.560 They would be like a little summer cabin.
00:18:41.920 Now they're these giant, you know, multi-million dollar structures.
00:18:46.700 And even, yeah.
00:18:47.520 And they're really expensive and they're bigger and there's more stuff in them.
00:18:51.280 For example, since the 1970s, the average home, not just the ones on the water, but the
00:18:55.760 average home in the United States has increased by 1,000 square feet.
00:19:00.580 Now, back in the day, the home I grew up in was about 1,000 square feet total.
00:19:05.280 Yeah.
00:19:05.500 The average house now is over 2,500 square feet.
00:19:09.500 And what they're...
00:19:10.660 I mean, think about how much more.
00:19:13.020 It's newer stuff.
00:19:13.900 It's more expensive.
00:19:14.640 It's by the water and it's double the size.
00:19:18.020 So all of these things combined to, of course, when these things hit, there's a lot more
00:19:22.280 damage.
00:19:23.140 The insurance shouldn't be as cheap and subsidized by the government.
00:19:27.060 It should be more difficult to acquire because if that were true, people would take more risk
00:19:33.340 assessment into their decision to move to the water.
00:19:36.520 And look, I think it's totally your right to go to the water.
00:19:38.820 But, you know, the idea that the government should be subsidizing people's multi-million
00:19:42.560 dollar beach homes is a little crazy.
00:19:44.100 It's not even that.
00:19:45.280 It's not even that the government is doing.
00:19:47.060 It's that I am.
00:19:48.280 I don't have a waterfront property.
00:19:50.660 Yeah.
00:19:51.400 That's a good point.
00:19:52.340 And I could afford one.
00:19:53.800 I don't.
00:19:55.300 Why?
00:19:56.060 Why not?
00:19:57.000 Well, I mean, I know somebody who bought something down in Galveston a year before the storm came
00:20:03.160 in.
00:20:04.180 Okay.
00:20:04.540 I mean, they were flooded a couple of weeks ago.
00:20:07.900 They were hit by a hurricane.
00:20:09.680 I don't want the hassle.
00:20:11.280 But the government should not be bailing out.
00:20:13.260 I shouldn't be taking money from your paycheck for you to pay for my insurance.
00:20:18.180 No.
00:20:18.960 No.
00:20:19.460 It's a bad policy.
00:20:24.260 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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00:20:49.400 Cake bakers, quarterbacks, dresses, statues.
00:20:52.620 Much of America is getting outraged for outrage's sake.
00:20:56.740 And with all of the nonstop outrage coverage, we're actually missing out on the stuff we should
00:21:01.860 be outraged about.
00:21:03.000 It's time to put the bottle down and end our bender.
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00:21:18.360 Right now we have Cal Turner Jr. on.
00:21:20.560 He is the author of the book, My Father's Business.
00:21:23.180 And his father's business is the Dollar General stores.
00:21:28.400 And Cal, welcome to the program.
00:21:31.460 I want to start right here on page, I think it's 38.
00:21:34.840 I was 15 when my dad took the step that changed everything.
00:21:38.660 It involved the kind of creative leap that comes all along too rarely and ultimately left
00:21:44.340 a huge mark on American businesses.
00:21:47.340 Tell me about your dad and his idea.
00:21:49.300 My dad was amazing, Glenn.
00:21:53.880 And he, being from the country, thought he should stay on top of what was going on in
00:22:00.060 the city.
00:22:00.520 And he noticed that in Nashville and Louisville, a lot of expensive newspaper advertising was
00:22:07.840 done monthly to promote dollar days and everything priced at a dollar.
00:22:15.160 And he thought, wow, wouldn't that be a wonderful opportunity for us in our stores in the country
00:22:24.280 to have dollar stores and it would be a way to give real value to people at prices they could
00:22:35.200 keep up with in the store.
00:22:36.960 So you, because you write in the book that, you know, he saw what he saw was the expense
00:22:44.800 of a full page ad.
00:22:46.060 So if you've got dollar days going on, they must be pulling in a ton of business to pay
00:22:51.480 for just that ad, uh, let alone to make money.
00:22:55.260 Um, and when he went to his staff, they said, tell you, the unanimous Glenn, they were unanimous.
00:23:02.560 It won't work.
00:23:04.680 That's crazy.
00:23:06.460 You know, it's, you know, it's crazy.
00:23:07.780 When I read your book, I love this.
00:23:09.100 I just love this line.
00:23:10.780 Uh, your father said, uh, we have to sell everything in the store for a dollar.
00:23:15.260 I know in some cases now I'm thinking, you know, you're how, what are you going to get
00:23:20.600 for a dollar in some cases?
00:23:22.200 It has to be multiples like three plates or two pairs of socks for a dollar, but nothing
00:23:28.560 would cost more.
00:23:30.040 Well, he had some things that were actually 20 for a dollar, but I can't remember the
00:23:35.260 idea.
00:23:35.580 Now you need, now you need $20 for one item.
00:23:39.400 I mean, 20 for $1.
00:23:41.360 I know.
00:23:41.940 I know it's, it's crazy.
00:23:44.360 It's crazy.
00:23:45.600 Yeah.
00:23:46.040 So they didn't want to do it.
00:23:48.460 Uh, and so he said, let's just take our worst store, right?
00:23:52.200 Absolutely.
00:23:52.980 Take our loser. 1.00
00:23:54.120 And if it becomes a winner under this new format, we've had something to build on.
00:24:00.440 So what, what was it about your dad?
00:24:02.980 I mean, your grandfather sounds a lot like my grandfather.
00:24:05.920 He was just a dirt farmer, third grade education.
00:24:08.820 Um, you know, uh, came up all through the depression.
00:24:14.520 Your grandfather became a, uh, an entrepreneur.
00:24:17.520 Mine became a machinist for Boeing, but, uh, I mean, they came from simple people.
00:24:22.380 What was, what was it that made your dad different?
00:24:25.360 Well, what I celebrate is what was the same in those, in the wonderful grounding of my grandfather
00:24:37.060 and of my father, which translated, uh, to my generation.
00:24:43.840 Also, there is something there to build on.
00:24:48.740 There is a hardworking ethic.
00:24:51.720 I think it is a believing in other people and the opportunity to build something with
00:25:00.260 other people who can become your partners.
00:25:03.180 Do you think that spirit exists now, Cal?
00:25:05.760 I think the spirit exists.
00:25:08.380 Yes.
00:25:08.760 I think the, um, the discourse at large is, is largely negative, but that spirit exists
00:25:22.660 out there, certainly in the heartland of America, where those Dollar General stores are.
00:25:30.940 The, um, uh, tell me about the mission statement of, uh, Dollar General.
00:25:35.600 Well, we came up with a mission statement that really got the company going, and it was only
00:25:45.000 two words, Glenn.
00:25:47.420 Serving others.
00:25:48.980 Life is about others.
00:25:50.980 It's not about me.
00:25:52.600 It's not about us.
00:25:54.420 What can we do to make a difference in the lives of others?
00:25:59.460 What do these small stores in these rural areas afford us as an opportunity to serve struggling
00:26:09.400 people?
00:26:10.900 And, uh, we do have salt of the earth people who shop in the Dollar General stores, and we
00:26:18.640 have learned so much from them, Glenn.
00:26:22.320 Genius is, is not in the cities, it's out there in the countries, and it's in, in the heart
00:26:28.240 of good people.
00:26:29.460 You know, the, the number one, um, I, I've talked to people who teach at Wharton, and
00:26:38.400 they have said, they're having a hard time teaching ethics, because they will lay out
00:26:43.800 these case studies, and they'll say, this company made this, and they made this decision,
00:26:47.620 and, um, and they're, they're trying to teach ethics, and they'll say, they'll turn it over
00:26:53.660 to the students.
00:26:54.660 All right, so where do we begin?
00:26:56.660 And invariably, the first question is, well, did they make money?
00:27:02.600 And the professors are starting to, are starting to be a little frustrated because they're like,
00:27:09.060 no, no, no, no, no, we're talking about ethics.
00:27:11.100 Ethically, whether they made money or lost money, ethically, is this right?
00:27:15.900 And it's being tied now to success or failure.
00:27:19.160 Yeah, well, I don't think you teach ethics.
00:27:25.840 I think you learn it from life and from others.
00:27:29.580 And when we adopted that two-word mission statement, Glenn, serving others, we had the basis of
00:27:40.260 applied ethics in retailing.
00:27:45.980 So, why, why, what, why now?
00:27:49.760 What, what has inspired you to write this book about your dad now?
00:27:52.860 Well, it, it took me two years to be convinced to do it, and then doing it took six years.
00:28:04.620 But, um, it, it has dawned on me as I do my retrospective on life that there are very few CEOs
00:28:15.780 who have over 30 years in that job in the same company.
00:28:22.860 And, and perhaps sharing the lessons learned from all of that can help others.
00:28:31.780 And it, we went through so many different cycles in the company.
00:28:37.380 We went through ups and downs.
00:28:39.800 What's the biggest, what's the biggest thing, Cal, that you learned in all of the ups and downs,
00:28:45.580 everything that you have seen from your dad and from you,
00:28:49.120 what is the biggest thing that an entrepreneur, an entrepreneur needs to learn first?
00:28:55.480 Well, an entrepreneur needs to understand his own core values.
00:29:03.180 And, and, and what, what his greatest opportunity in life is to serve others.
00:29:14.740 You're not here for yourself.
00:29:17.240 You're here for others.
00:29:19.140 Your greatest opportunity is in serving others and partnering with others in doing that.
00:29:27.380 And my, my dad, as an entrepreneur was of the old school gland.
00:29:33.620 And it, it was more retailing was more of a dog eat dog world back then.
00:29:39.400 And his belief was that he should only expect the competition to do just everything to him
00:29:48.900 that the competition could do.
00:29:50.580 It's, it's, it's a, it's a fight out there.
00:29:53.000 And I came into the business, um, pursuing my calling and, um, excuse me.
00:30:07.360 There's nothing worse than somebody coming into the, into the room, distracting you in your middle of a point.
00:30:13.260 Go ahead, Cal.
00:30:16.680 Well, is that your wife?
00:30:18.280 Yes, that was, that was, that was, that was Margaret.
00:30:21.860 Yes.
00:30:22.480 Say, say hi to Margaret.
00:30:24.760 I, I, I came, okay.
00:30:26.420 All right.
00:30:27.460 I came into the business gland, um, pursuing my calling because I wrestled with whether to go into the ministry.
00:30:37.480 And I, I discerned that the greatest ministry opportunities in the real world, perhaps not in the church, at least for me.
00:30:46.560 And it was in that business where we could help struggling people to have a better life.
00:30:52.620 And, um, I, I was very moved by the customers that came into a dollar general store.
00:31:00.060 Um, I waited on, uh, an old, smelly, dirty farmer who was making a sacrificial purchase of a pair of 39 cent panties for the old lady. 1.00
00:31:14.500 And, and, and I, I got a real message, uh, from that farmer that, um, there are a lot of people out there who are having a hard time making hens meat and they could use help.
00:31:31.980 Cal.
00:31:32.300 And they come in and they come into our store.
00:31:34.460 I, uh, I, I, I just, I love you.
00:31:36.840 You remind me so much of my, uh, my grandfather and my family.
00:31:39.900 I just, I just love it.
00:31:41.460 Uh, Cal Turner.
00:31:42.760 That's, that's a compliment.
00:31:44.520 It is, sir.
00:31:45.120 Uh, Cal Turner Jr., author of My Father's Business.
00:31:48.840 You can find it at, uh, Amazon or wherever.
00:31:50.780 Myfathersbusinessbook.com.
00:31:52.840 Uh, Cal Jr.
00:31:54.260 From the, uh, the, uh, Dollar General Store.
00:31:59.800 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:32:01.600 I'm, I'm a little confused because my phone screen says that it's Michael Rowe that is on the phone.
00:32:14.880 Uh, I've, I, I've never had to call him Michael before, but I don't know if he, that's, it is his assistant.
00:32:21.980 So, uh, insistence.
00:32:23.240 So, so Mr. Michael Rowe, how are you, sir?
00:32:26.580 Indeed, Mr.
00:32:27.800 You know what?
00:32:28.320 Let's go with Mr.
00:32:29.220 Mike Rowe.
00:32:30.120 Glenn.
00:32:30.320 Mr.
00:32:30.700 Mike Rowe.
00:32:31.040 Okay.
00:32:31.320 Mr.
00:32:31.660 Mike Rowe.
00:32:32.900 How are you, Mike?
00:32:34.980 I'm great, man.
00:32:35.860 How are you?
00:32:36.300 I'm great.
00:32:36.960 I'm just thinking of the times, you know, uh, early on in our relationship when you were sitting in my studio and you said this Facebook thing, should I have a Facebook page?
00:32:45.840 I'm like, yes.
00:32:47.580 Yes, you should.
00:32:48.320 Actually, you, you, you literally leaned in and kind of looked over your shoulder just to make sure nobody was listening and said, I would if I were you.
00:32:58.600 So, uh, you just on Tuesday had, I think it was like 280,000 likes on a posting where, you know, I guess it could be portrayed as, uh, your takedown of Kaepernick, but that's not what it was at all.
00:33:18.940 Um, it was, it was, it was instead a look at a hero.
00:33:24.800 You want to explain how this happened and, and what you did?
00:33:27.540 Well, as you know, you, you get a sort of a critical mass of people at some point and the tail starts to wag the dog vis-a-vis social media.
00:33:37.800 And, uh, you got 5 million people there and they look at the headlines and a lot of them assume that I'm sort of standing by to weigh in on anything that's remotely controversial.
00:33:46.860 And of course you can't really run a foundation and be that guy, right?
00:33:51.360 So I'm not, but you also have to say something at some point, uh, if the thing really bubbles up.
00:33:59.020 So the thing with Kaepernick and Nike was what it was, but of course everything sort of landed on 9-11 and people were saying, you know, say something about this already.
00:34:10.800 And I looked at the ad, really looked at it for the first time.
00:34:13.920 And look, I don't, I, Colin Kaepernick is free to protest whatever he wants, however he wants.
00:34:19.620 And Nike is certainly free to elevate any opinion they feel like.
00:34:24.120 It's, it's still America, but, uh, it was the, it was the words on the ad.
00:34:29.280 It was, it was the sacrifice everything part.
00:34:31.800 And I just thought, hmm, landing on 9-11 is that's, that's a hell of a thing.
00:34:36.840 And, uh, and the question that I answered wasn't, you know, what do you think about the underlying protests or anything else?
00:34:43.680 It was from a marketing standpoint, what do you think of the ad?
00:34:47.760 You know, is it a, is it a good idea from a marketing standpoint?
00:34:51.780 And I said, well, I, it's a confusing idea from a marketing standpoint because you've chosen a guy that half the people in the country, uh, don't really relate to in terms of what a hero could be or ought to be.
00:35:05.340 And, uh, especially this time of year, you know, that ad came out early in September and here we are at September 11th.
00:35:12.360 And I just thought of Tom Burnett, you know, I, the guy that was on flight 93, who was instrumental in, uh, in leading that, that revolt.
00:35:22.700 And I remembered the transcripts I had read years ago between he and his wife and I Googled them and there they were.
00:35:29.400 So I posted his final conversation and just politely said that if it were me, I might've gone another way.
00:35:37.920 And, uh, for whatever reason, you know, I went out, I went to work, I came home and yeah, uh, 10 million people had seen the thing.
00:35:46.100 And we were having ourselves a conversation.
00:35:48.020 Yeah, it was.
00:35:48.880 And, and, you know, I, I'd read that years ago, but I had forgotten how intense, uh, that conversation was and how his wife said, no, please don't, no, sit down.
00:36:00.000 Don't, don't draw attention to yourself.
00:36:02.360 And he said, he was a flight attendant.
00:36:04.220 Yeah.
00:36:04.560 Yeah.
00:36:04.880 For Delta.
00:36:05.500 Yeah.
00:36:05.880 Yeah.
00:36:06.360 And, uh, he said, honey, I've, uh, we've got to do something.
00:36:10.000 Uh, and we're just waiting for a, an open space and we're going to rush.
00:36:15.080 It's, it's.
00:36:15.880 Well, that's the ultimate irony, Glenn.
00:36:18.200 I mean, you know, you're, you're talking about a Nike campaign that's built on a slogan that says, just do it.
00:36:23.960 His last words to his wife, we're, we're going to do something.
00:36:28.780 And that's what hit me.
00:36:31.260 It's like, good grief.
00:36:32.500 I mean, that's, that's not a slogan.
00:36:34.720 That's not marketing.
00:36:36.160 That's the thing.
00:36:37.520 Look, I felt the same thing a few years ago.
00:36:40.060 Remember when the guys on the train took down the terrorists unarmed, they charged a man with an automatic weapon.
00:36:47.160 And the thing about these moments is it's, it's, it's not the enormity, uh, of the tragedy.
00:36:53.560 It's the, it's the, it's the micro element of it.
00:36:56.940 It's the, it's the smallness of it.
00:36:58.640 What would you do?
00:37:00.080 Glenn Beck, aisle seat, halfway back.
00:37:02.800 You know, what would you do?
00:37:04.800 And anybody who's ever been on a plane or a train, uh, needs to think about that question because it's the ultimate personal question and it's horribly relatable.
00:37:16.320 We've all been in that.
00:37:17.880 We've all been in that circumstance, if not that exact situation.
00:37:21.960 And we should ask, especially on nine 11, you know, who are we?
00:37:27.760 What would we have done?
00:37:29.620 Uh, it's a gut check.
00:37:31.080 Mike, let me, let me ask you something else.
00:37:33.600 Um, I just think this is fantastic.
00:37:36.300 Bob Woodward has now, uh, broken all kinds of sales records, uh, biggest, uh, fastest selling book, I think in 93 year history of the publishing company.
00:37:47.200 Um, uh, and, uh, but there has been a, there has been a slight glitch on the radar screen.
00:37:55.180 Your mother, there was, it was your mother was actually beating. 1.00
00:38:01.080 Him in sales for a few hours, uh, for the better part of a day.
00:38:06.400 That's great.
00:38:06.860 My mother, what happened is I, I, my, my mother's been writing these stories for years.
00:38:11.660 And a couple of years ago, I started reading them on Facebook.
00:38:14.940 And one of those stories reached 128 million people.
00:38:19.880 Publishers obviously called and said, look, if your mom writes a story about raising the dirty jobs guy, it's a guaranteed bestseller. 0.92
00:38:27.160 I said, mom, you want to write a book?
00:38:28.760 She says, what's it about?
00:38:29.960 I told her, she said, you know, I have two other sons.
00:38:32.660 Doesn't seem right.
00:38:33.540 I'm like, mom, write the book, write the book.
00:38:37.300 She's like, well, let, let, let me noodle on it. 1.00
00:38:40.500 She goes away.
00:38:41.980 Six months later, she comes back.
00:38:43.760 She's written 14 terrific stories.
00:38:46.320 I'm not in any of them.
00:38:47.780 They're all about her mother and they're delightful, but it's not what a publisher would want.
00:38:54.120 Right.
00:38:54.240 So I print the things.
00:38:56.340 I print 10,000 copies.
00:38:58.080 They sell out in a week and a half.
00:39:00.000 Now the publishers come back.
00:39:01.360 I make a deal with Simon and Schuster.
00:39:02.980 My mom's book is going to hit the stands in November.
00:39:06.380 That's the backstory.
00:39:07.840 I announced this a couple of days ago over the weekend and the Amazon site crashes.
00:39:14.900 She went from number 2 million to number 25 and then they couldn't take any more orders.
00:39:21.760 So the Barnes and Noble site was still working.
00:39:25.220 And so everybody went there who wanted her book and her book, which is fundamentally about hope.
00:39:32.000 It's called about my mother beat a book called fear.
00:39:36.160 I'm not sure what it's about, but I'm pretty sure I can.
00:39:41.420 So I just, I couldn't help myself.
00:39:44.080 Glenn, I, I, I took a picture of it and I sent it to my mom and then I called her on
00:39:48.440 the way to church and I filmed our conversation in the car.
00:39:52.420 I'm like, mom, you're, you're beating fear.
00:39:55.760 Hope is beating fear on a Sunday afternoon.
00:39:58.240 And I put that up on the Facebooks and then off we go.
00:40:01.600 Crazy world.
00:40:02.740 That is great.
00:40:03.500 Well, I just wrote a book and it's all about you.
00:40:05.440 Uh, it's called addicted to outrage.
00:40:07.460 Um, and you have to read between the lines to find the parts about you, but it's all
00:40:12.460 really about you, Mike.
00:40:13.680 So you can mention that at any time.
00:40:15.680 Uh, I appreciate it.
00:40:18.180 I'm going to post it immediately.
00:40:20.080 Give Amazon a heads up.
00:40:21.920 Yeah.
00:40:22.300 Yeah.
00:40:22.820 It's crazy.
00:40:23.500 It's crazy.
00:40:24.140 You live in a, you live in, you walk a tightrope every day because things, everything now is
00:40:33.160 political and you have done with micro works.
00:40:37.380 You have done such great stuff way ahead of, of the news cycle where we're all looking at
00:40:44.420 universities and go, we don't need that debt.
00:40:46.860 The, you know, if Apple, uh, even Google now saying we don't need a, uh, we don't need
00:40:53.440 a university diploma, uh, to, to work here.
00:40:56.980 We're just going to see what you're doing.
00:40:58.840 Uh, and you were on this and called a madman for so long on top of that, everything now is
00:41:07.180 about politics and you just refuse to get involved, which I, I commend you.
00:41:11.700 How do you do it?
00:41:13.800 Um, you know, I'm not, I'm not sure.
00:41:16.080 I, I've done it as successfully as you're saying.
00:41:18.520 I think I, I get a little on me because you can't talk about education and you can't talk
00:41:23.840 about work, uh, without being completely immune, right?
00:41:27.600 I mean, work leads to labor, labor is unions, unions is, is politics.
00:41:32.640 So that, that, that's a pretty quick trip, but, but in a very general way, it cuts the
00:41:38.100 other way to, um, everyone understands work because work is one of the few truly relatable
00:41:44.600 things we all need to experience.
00:41:46.360 How we define it is completely up to us.
00:41:49.520 And the value we assign to various forms of education is completely within our control.
00:41:55.700 So micro works turned 10 this, uh, I swear, Glenn, I remember talking to you about it.
00:42:02.420 Not long after we launched.
00:42:04.460 I know it was brand new.
00:42:05.340 And, um, and it's still modest by foundation standards.
00:42:09.260 We've done about 5 million in work ethic scholarships, but the, uh, the opportunity to use social
00:42:16.020 and the opportunity to keep the conversation moving.
00:42:19.500 I get a kind of tired of hearing people saying, you know, we need to have a conversation.
00:42:23.880 Well, true.
00:42:25.100 Uh, in this case though, we have to talk about debt.
00:42:28.960 We, we have to talk about 1.5 trillion in college loans.
00:42:32.940 We have to talk about 6.6 million jobs still open, 75% of which don't require a degree.
00:42:39.400 And we have to stop with this idea that following your passion is the only way to wind up passionate
00:42:46.060 and doing something you love.
00:42:48.000 It's nonsense.
00:42:49.280 And, uh, look, the millennials are a fun target, right? 0.98
00:42:53.020 I mean, the, the, the crying closets and the safe spaces and all these other things, but
00:42:57.600 we're the, uh, like the whole snowflake mentality.
00:43:01.100 I said to somebody the other day, we're the, we're the clouds from which these snowflakes fell.
00:43:06.940 And it's kinda, it's kinda on us, you know, we're putting pressure on 18 year old kids
00:43:14.560 to borrow money that we don't even have to lend them, but we give it to them anyway, knowing
00:43:19.240 they're never going to be able to pay it back, educating them for jobs that don't really
00:43:23.580 exist anymore.
00:43:24.960 So yeah, we better have a conversation.
00:43:27.020 Yeah.
00:43:27.660 Mike, I'd love to have you back sometime, uh, and, uh, spend just a, you're free tomorrow.
00:43:32.960 I'm not, I'm not, but, uh, maybe your mom is, maybe your mom is something you're, you're,
00:43:39.400 your listeners would love her.
00:43:41.340 She's, oh, I bet she's sassy and highly caffeinated. 1.00
00:43:44.500 How would she, and highly caffeinated, is she, is she, how is she as an, as an interviewer?
00:43:48.900 Has anybody interviewed her yet?
00:43:51.400 She's terrific, Glenn.
00:43:52.500 She's been upstaging me my whole career.
00:43:54.480 I put her in every show I'm in.
00:43:56.180 She's on returning the favor. 1.00
00:43:57.600 She's in, somebody's got to do it.
00:43:58.800 She's on old episodes, a dirty job. 1.00
00:44:00.320 We, we, we, we might, we might, we might ask her to come on.
00:44:03.560 Is that a good thing or that'd be too shameful for you?
00:44:05.900 Because if it is, we're definitely doing it.
00:44:08.700 Well, it would be deeply humiliating for, I think, all of us.
00:44:11.940 Then it's done.
00:44:13.540 Let, let me run it up the flagpole.
00:44:16.500 No, she's got, she's got a publicist now, Glenn. 1.00
00:44:19.120 Oh, she does?
00:44:20.180 Okay.
00:44:20.560 She's talking to an agent, so. 0.57
00:44:21.640 All right.
00:44:22.180 Okay.
00:44:22.620 There may be some, there may be some maneuvering.
00:44:24.920 Well, if my people can talk to your people who can talk to her people, we can maybe work
00:44:30.060 that out.
00:44:30.780 Mike, thank you so much.
00:44:31.620 You know, if somebody writes a book about your book, send it to her.
00:44:34.080 I'll read that book to her.
00:44:35.360 Send her book to you.
00:44:36.660 Okay.
00:44:37.160 And then we'll, it'll be great.
00:44:38.500 It'll be fantastic.
00:44:39.820 Mike, as always, good to talk to you.
00:44:41.200 Thank you so much.
00:44:42.660 Adios.
00:44:44.040 Mike Rowe from Mike Rowe Works.
00:44:46.180 We should totally talk to the real talent in the Rowe family at some point.
00:44:49.040 Oh, I would love.
00:44:50.420 That would be great.
00:44:51.060 You get Mike Rowe's mom on.
00:44:52.840 Oh, yeah.
00:44:53.400 And we should just keep him on on hold while that's going on.
00:44:56.120 Hey, how are things going there?
00:44:57.380 Mike, enjoying this?
00:44:58.880 Can you imagine having your mom on national radio?
00:45:01.160 Oh, my God.
00:45:05.980 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:45:13.860 I'm going to move this forward with Andrew Heaton, who is with us now, who's from Reason.com.
00:45:19.960 And I think one of the funniest guys on the internet.
00:45:24.100 You just did something.
00:45:26.260 Was it this week?
00:45:27.080 It was last Friday.
00:45:28.340 We did one of the Kavanaugh hearings.
00:45:29.720 Gosh, that's funny.
00:45:30.740 Thank you.
00:45:31.300 You took all of the quotes from that madness.
00:45:36.320 You set in as Kavanaugh.
00:45:38.440 And who's your partner on this?
00:45:39.760 It'll be Austin.
00:45:40.380 Well, there's two.
00:45:40.960 There's Austin Bragg, who's on camera.
00:45:42.520 And there's Meredith Bragg, who's off camera.
00:45:44.060 But Austin is this wonderful human that sort of embodies smoldering anger.
00:45:51.220 And so we do well working together because I've got this almost like I'm going to sell you life insurance optimism thing going for me.
00:45:58.400 And he's got that.
00:45:59.360 And we took – I mean, I think the operative word in that particular episode was grandstanding.
00:46:03.860 As I mentioned to you guys earlier, when I am Senate Judiciary Chairman, I think two or three years from now,
00:46:08.000 I'm going to call on people in the order they're not running for president.
00:46:10.780 I'm going to scrap seniority because it was very apparent to me who was running for president and who wasn't.
00:46:15.740 It's agonizing.
00:46:17.180 Do you think that they have – I mean, this is not the role of the Senate.
00:46:20.600 It's advise and consent.
00:46:22.840 And elections have consequences.
00:46:25.500 We got Elena Kagan.
00:46:28.380 We're getting this guy who I honestly think if they throw him out, Trump's the kind of guy who's like, oh, yeah?
00:46:34.520 Well, here's Andrew Napolitano.
00:46:36.900 Well, I would –
00:46:37.760 And I'd like that.
00:46:38.580 If that were the actual gamble, I would be in favor of him.
00:46:41.000 Right.
00:46:41.320 That would be pretty good.
00:46:41.820 They wouldn't like it.
00:46:42.800 But they – yeah, they might put in – he might put in Gary Busey.
00:46:45.520 He might – if you're a Democrat, there was, what, four final contenders that he had up there?
00:46:50.580 He was the best one.
00:46:51.500 Yeah.
00:46:51.740 And one of them was a very socially conservative lady from, I think, Minnesota or something. 1.00
00:46:55.380 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:46:55.840 And, like, that one I think would be far – Kavanaugh, he's – you know, if you're trying to, you know, assess where he's at,
00:47:02.880 he appears to have a lot of respect for precedent, so I understand why you think Roe versus Wade might be overturned,
00:47:08.800 but that's not what he's blaring in with, although there were a couple other people that wanted to do that.
00:47:13.100 He's not great on privacy rights and things like that.
00:47:16.080 But otherwise, you know, he's a qualified jurist.
00:47:18.080 Yeah, he's not the guy I would pick.
00:47:20.080 I think he's a weenie.
00:47:20.900 Andrew Napolitano.
00:47:21.820 Yeah.
00:47:22.940 And that would scare the hell out of the left.
00:47:27.000 And, you know, I just keep thinking, I don't even understand your strategy other than I'm just trying to get elected.
00:47:34.760 Well, I think it's a couple of things.
00:47:36.320 I think there was a Hail Mary pass going on where, you know, if I were a Democrat,
00:47:41.960 I would be very worried about the swing seat going to, like, the hardcore conservatives or whatever.
00:47:45.940 So I get them trying to maintain that.
00:47:48.820 It's high stakes enough.
00:47:50.600 And I think that there was some idea of maybe we're going to get this postponed long enough
00:47:56.480 and then somehow we'll pick up 20 Senate seats and then we can postpone this for two years.
00:47:59.920 A real Hail Mary pass.
00:48:02.020 But I think the main thing, though, is I think that senators, not even Democrats or Republicans,
00:48:05.780 senators all want to live in the speech scene from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
00:48:09.780 They all believe that they are the righteous little guy fighting the good battle,
00:48:13.820 and they want to live in that moment, and they want to be surrounded by applause.
00:48:17.180 Cory Booker doesn't believe it, though.
00:48:18.840 Cory Booker is out there just saying.
00:48:21.060 Oh, he was trying to get it.
00:48:22.020 He said Spartacus things.
00:48:22.980 When Elizabeth Warren got that hashtag, he was like, oh, I want that so bad.
00:48:27.100 He lives it.
00:48:27.800 How do I get a hashtag?
00:48:28.500 And they all do.
00:48:29.700 I mean, you're so right.
00:48:31.520 It's like this is just an audition, right?
00:48:33.800 They all want to have that moment that they can later fundraise on for their presidential campaign,
00:48:38.220 which, by the way, they're all going to be announcing in like three or four months,
00:48:41.020 which is so depressing.
00:48:42.000 We're almost there.
00:48:42.800 We're almost in the middle of the 2020 election.
00:48:45.420 And they're all just auditioning, trying to get their little donor email.
00:48:48.580 I think he was hoping that he would be expelled from the Senate because what a great position to be.
00:48:54.100 Oh, he was trying.
00:48:55.580 I'm willing to.
00:48:56.140 You're fighting the secret crypto racist and an illegitimate process to get him in, 0.82
00:48:59.880 and you got kicked out from the Senate because you believe.
00:49:01.840 He was like, Senator, I'm also stealing copy paper at night.
00:49:06.420 I'm doing it.
00:49:08.540 You're wondering where all that paper is going to.
00:49:10.700 It's in the trunk of my car.
00:49:12.000 And I'm willing to walk.
00:49:13.320 I'm willing to have you fire me for that.
00:49:15.260 I mean, it was crazy.
00:49:16.520 Yeah, it was crazy.
00:49:17.840 So I want to turn it to Norm MacDonald and this chilling of speech.
00:49:24.640 You know, you said, you know, there could be a lot of, you know, really, you know, hardcore conservative appointed to the court.
00:49:32.800 I don't want a Republican.
00:49:34.720 I don't want a Democrat.
00:49:35.800 I don't want a liberal.
00:49:36.560 I don't want a conservative.
00:49:37.660 I want a hardcore constitutionalist.
00:49:41.320 All of our arguments would go away if we were just using a hardcore constitutionalist.
00:49:46.640 Somebody would stand up for freedom of speech, no matter who is saying it.
00:49:52.480 We're going into a world, and you have to feel it with comedy, where I don't know how this ends.
00:50:02.040 I don't know how this ends.
00:50:03.920 You concerned about it?
00:50:04.900 You know, I hope that eventually we kind of burn out, although I will say in the world of comedy, stand-up comedians almost to a person will back up the other stand-up comedians when somebody's getting, you know, railed for political correctness.
00:50:19.840 The attitude is stand-up comedy.
00:50:22.440 You have entered our sphere.
00:50:24.680 This is our home if we're in a comedy club, and we're allowed to kind of say whatever we want.
00:50:28.740 And it's very rare to find a stand-up comedian that will throw another stand-up comedian under the bus.
00:50:32.200 On a broader level, I'm worried that we seem to have this kind of Orwellian two-minutes hate thing in our culture where we have this deep need for catharsis to ruin someone every day.
00:50:45.740 And then I guess our goal is to get them to hang themselves or something, and that I find very disturbing.
00:50:48.940 Well, by the end of the day, we won't pay attention for two days.
00:50:51.760 We won't actually know what happens tomorrow because we will move on to somebody else.
00:50:56.040 That bothers me.
00:50:56.620 I'd say from my vantage point, you know, I want to live in both legally a country that has freedom of speech but also culturally has freedom of speech.
00:51:06.140 But if there's any two realms in it that I'm particularly concerned about, it's college campuses, which that's not a thing anymore, and comedy clubs.
00:51:16.520 I mean, like comedians tend to be the jesters that are allowed to really poke at the edges of things and go to whatever the sacred cow is.
00:51:22.660 And every group has different sacred cows, and comedians go in and slaughter them.
00:51:26.460 And we are important for that reason because we can actually shake things up.
00:51:30.480 So I'm going to take a break, and we'll come back.
00:51:32.300 And I want to ask you specifically about—
00:51:34.460 Octopus.
00:51:35.480 No.
00:51:36.460 Have you ever peed on it?
00:51:37.380 Have you ever desired to pee on it?
00:51:39.060 No, I'm a big fan of them.
00:51:39.820 And also, I'm kind of, you know, restricted to where I go to the bathroom.
00:51:43.620 Okay.
00:51:44.420 No, I want to talk to you about Norm MacDonald and our comedians rallying around him.
00:51:48.560 He wasn't saying anything—I didn't think—it's not the way I would have phrased it, but I didn't think he was saying anything controversial.
00:51:55.160 And he's basically saying, can we talk about things?
00:51:58.060 Can we talk about things?
00:51:59.080 Apparently, no is the answer.
00:52:01.720 Yeah, I mean, he did—the two things that I'm aware of is he used—he, on a follow-up to the first statement, said you'd have to have Down syndrome to something, something, something.
00:52:12.880 Yeah, probably not the best choice.
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