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Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court, and the rest is downhill from there. Glenn and J.P. Sears and Andrew McCarthy join us to talk about the latest on the confirmation process, and why we should be worried about Brett's confirmation.
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We start with Planned Parenthood in the Supreme Court.
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Oh, I'm so glad we had that knife fight over the summer.
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It really all turned out to be true, didn't it?
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Or that Kavanaugh is just going to just really take the world by storm when it comes to Planned Parenthood and abortions.
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There's reasons to worry about Kavanaugh early.
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And we talked about him before all this went down.
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He tells us a little bit about what is really happening in Washington with the president.
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He says, as a big supporter of Trump, that they are going to indict him.
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And J.P. Sears and Baby It's Cold Outside is now sexist.
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Do you remember the wailing, the doomsday scenarios forecasted by the left during the Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Circus?
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Do you remember the protesters that were dressed like women from The Handmaid's Tale?
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The left was scared out of its collective mind that Brett Kavanaugh would somehow single-handedly overturn Roe vs. Wade and force women into the dark ages and bootleg abortions.
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This monster was going to destroy all women's rights.
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And then, a little something of interest to the pro-abortion crowd came down from the Supreme Court yesterday.
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Seems like we should have been the ones freaking out.
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Now, there were several conservatives, us included, that said, wait a minute, this guy was not on the list.
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But, we are all like, oh, we gotta have him now.
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You know, the list that got Donald Trump elected did not have Brett Kavanaugh's name on it.
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There are still 20 names on the original list that are not Supreme Court justices.
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There were real reasons why Kavanaugh was not on that first list.
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And the Obamacare decision he was involved in was a big part of that.
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The second unrelated issue here is, Brett Kavanaugh is absolutely a qualified justice.
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And the attacks against him were absolutely unfair.
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So, I mean, it was completely fine, I think, for once he was nominated, to say he is qualified.
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There's 20 people still on the original list that were never named to be nominated as a Supreme Court justice.
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The list is the big reason why Donald Trump was elected.
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We get hundreds of calls over the election of people saying, look, I, you know, I don't like X, Y, and Z about Donald Trump.
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And we're going to have Supreme Court justices.
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But why the fact that no one paid any attention?
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So the conservatives were hoping to challenge the individual state funding of Planned Parenthood.
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Court decided not to review the lower court decisions that blocked the states of Kansas and Louisiana from preventing Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funding.
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To accept the case, the court needed four justices to vote in favor.
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Now, to be clear, Medicaid funding in question does not directly involve abortions.
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Federal law already prohibits using Medicaid to fund abortions.
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Predictably, the court's four progressive justices voted against hearing the appeals.
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I think also somewhat predictably, the court's chameleon conservative John Roberts voted with the progressives.
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The sixth vote against hearing the case came from Brett Kavanaugh.
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In his dissent, Justice Thomas wrote that the cases in question were not about abortion rights.
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What explains the court's refusal to do its job here?
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I suppose it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named Planned Parenthood.
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Some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue does not justify abdicating our judicial duty, end quote.
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Justice Roberts, I'm sure, did this because he just wants everybody to get along.
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He just wants to save the integrity of the Supreme Court while what, destroying it?
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The point is not that Brett Kavanaugh is suddenly pro-abortion or Planned Parenthood supporter.
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It's that he's already showing himself to be the kind of justice some of us thought he would be.
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Someone who, like John Roberts, might lean conservative sometimes, but won't always side with the usual conservative block,
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In other words, the left, the left was positive, the sky was falling, that women are just going to be abused.
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And this is the linchpin on Planned Parenthood and abortion.
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I was thrilled to see how many people have been writing in and tweeting and Facebook posting how they are, how they're joining.
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You know, it was Tyler Perry and Chris Rock and Kid Rock and me that went out and we did our local Walmart and took care of all of the layaways.
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And I still challenge people in my position to go out and do something amazing because it's really,
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what's great is it's not only good for you, but it's spreading.
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I had so much mail yesterday from people who said, I went and did this with my family and I just, we only had, you know, $50 or we had $100 or we had $25.
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Now there's, there's also a couple of things that I, I don't know if I, I don't even know where to begin.
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Uh, we have 13% of Americans will boycott Christmas spending 13% still boycott Christmas spending.
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They say that they do not want to be a part of this, this whole commercialization.
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So they're not going to spend any money for the holiday season.
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Allow me to roll my eyes a little harder at that one.
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13% of people are not, uh, that's just not true.
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Secondly, we, why do we vilify commercialism so much?
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What's so bad about having cool toys and fun parts?
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And if it's the whole holiday, then you're right, you're doing it wrong.
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Uh, you know, there's nothing wrong with materialism.
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It's, it's like, it's, it's like this weird, like,
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and I know this isn't the way you're thinking about it,
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but I feel like a lot of conservatives have adopted what is essentially an anti-capitalism
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liberal argument, which is like, oh, well, we can, you know, buying things makes it nasty
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And you're sullying, uh, this, this season by getting involved in commercialism.
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There's nothing wrong with capitalism and conservatism and commerce.
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And, you know, the fact is, if you let it become all about gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts,
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gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts, yeah, you're, you're doing it wrong.
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That's not the whole thing, but it's part of it.
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Yeah, because I don't, it is not about the gifts.
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It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's how you embrace that.
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But it's, uh, if you're making, for instance, I have grown to really not like the month
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of December, um, because it has become about, I have to go do this.
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Did you get the presents for the people that you really don't even know?
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And you, and you, have you sent those out and don't forget all the parties to do this
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We've, we've made this the most stressful month ever instead of just making this the
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Just go and just be with people and help people and, and give people presents.
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And I think you're arguing against being overscheduled, which I find.
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No, and also, and also just making it about stuff.
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Hey, I'm thinking about you in this time of year, right?
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It winds up being a task because you want to make sure you get it to everybody.
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That's not about like, oh, here's something they're going to, they're getting some cool
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You're buying the card and you could theoretically make the card, but that's all about a message,
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But how many times are you getting cards from people?
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Last few years, I've gotten a Christmas card from Vince Vaughn.
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Vince Vaughn doesn't think of me in the holidays.
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I don't know how I got on his Christmas card list.
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When I got onto his Christmas card list and I get a Christmas card from him.
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He's like, you know, you know, pal, it's been another year.
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You know, my wife is a classic, she loves Christmas and she's a classic overscheduler,
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Like, so she signs up for every Christmas tradition and she signs up for every, you know, the kids
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are in every, you know, little Christmas thing.
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And then every year we get here and she's like, next year we're not doing X, Y, and Z
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I do like going to those little traditional events and I like, you know, a lot of it's
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just like going to see people and doing things that you wouldn't normally do the rest of
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And, you know, we have two little kids, so they're in like 9,475 Christmas specials that
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And then there's multiple showings of those, so we're about 15, 20,000 of those.
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But I mean, again, like, you don't trade those things.
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I'm kind of glad that Cheyenne's not in ballet this year.
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They don't have to sit through the damn nutcracker twice.
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I think because it gets stressful, because you're just adding it on to work, right?
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Like, I was on vacation last week, and I feel like I was running around more than any normal
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You're running around to events and picking kids up, and you're shuttling to the other
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thing, and then you got to make sure you get there on time, because if you're late,
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And then you just feel like you've just adopted a new full-time job for the month.
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Commercialism is a part of Christmas, and I don't...
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I really don't think it's a bad part of Christmas.
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I like going and doing the shopping and giving people gifts that they don't...
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You know, that you got to come up with and pick out, and especially with your kids, like
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It can't be your only priority, I think, is a better way of stating it.
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I tell this story, I've told this story before, so I apologize, but there was one year that
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we hit it, the first year that we really hit it, and I grew up in a family that, I mean,
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I got one present one year, and, you know, we struggled as a family, and I always wanted
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Yeah, the presents, I mean, I really, honest to God, I went out and I bought everything
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I've ever wanted to get my kids and my wife for Christmas.
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And it was the most empty and hollow Christmas we've ever had.
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I mean, you have to have the more important things or it's not, you're not doing it right.
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It's like, you know, someone who is in shape might tell you, you know, eating nonstop ice
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But a little ice cream at the end of a meal can be great.
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We swing from one side to the other and we swing so far.
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The pendulum when it's in the middle is usually the right thing.
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You know, let's just say a lifestyle where you've never worked out a day in your life
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I, this was a weird, I don't understand this part of it.
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I'm still working on that and convincing myself and I can't really pull it off.
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A little heroin is not, it's okay, but if you're doing it all the time, I mean, it just shakes
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If you were listening yesterday, I was, I was abandoned at the tree.
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On Sunday, uh, because, uh, I was, I was decorating it the way my mother deck, you know, you kind
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of, you are just who you grew up as and, uh, you don't really realize it.
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And pretty soon I found myself as the only one decorating the tree.
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And my wife from the kitchen said, yep, it's you.
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And so I was doing it like my mother used to, which was, you know, okay, kids, you put
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the big things to block the hollow parts of the tree and, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And so last night we decorated the tree and I, I let it go.
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It was very difficult once I sat down because I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't stop.
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Cause we, we have, uh, when we got a, when we spent our Christmas up at the ranch in
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the mountains, we get a real tree in Texas, you know, on a real tree, you know, first of
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all, you have to mortgage your house to get a real tree.
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Uh, and, uh, and second of all, it's like a, you know, it's like a Charlie Brown Christmas
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All the needles just fall off the minute, the minute the clock strikes 12, all the needles
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Uh, so we have a real tree when we celebrate Christmas up at the, up at the ranch.
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The tree is just like, I sat down on the couch and I looked at this damn tree and I thought,
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And I realized it was, that's not what a Christmas tree is supposed to look like.
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It is supposed to just be like, you know, the handmade stuff and the stuff.
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And that's where I got, but I don't, I don't know.
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All right, we have Andrew McCarthy on with us, contributing editor of the National Review.
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Andy, you are one of the only voices that have penetrated my world when it comes to what's happening with the Trump investigation because you have credibility.
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And I know that you're a Trump supporter, so you don't have an ax to grind.
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And so when you say, I think he's going to be indicted because this is the way this is being written, it carried some weight, and I wanted to talk to you about it.
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I've been, and I don't know if other people feel this way, but I've been really confused with all that's going on because it's all leaks or speculation.
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And, you know, I'm just waiting for the thing to, just when the shoes drop, then we'll talk about it.
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But you are a federal, a former New York federal investigator, sorry, prosecutor.
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And so you used to write the things like you just read from Cohen's, what do you call it?
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So you used to write it, those things, and you say, this is very telling.
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I think, Glenn, you're right to be suspicious when you hear the leaked information because obviously the people who leak are telling you the, they're sort of mining the parts of the story they want you to hear and holding back other stuff.
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Whereas when they do these court filings, this is a 40-page document that is customarily filed about a week or two in advance of the imposition of sentence by the court.
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You get a full flavor of what the government's theory about the case is and where they're going with the investigation.
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And it seemed to me that this sentencing memo is more directed at President Trump than it is at Cohen.
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Sentencing memos are interesting in terms of legal filings because they're not kind of dry legal issue oriented submissions.
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They're almost like jury arguments except they're meant to persuade the sentencing judge.
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So they tend to be more forceful and colorful and sort of filled with their prosecution theory.
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And here this one reads in the part of it that deals with the campaign finance laws as a testimonial to the importance of those laws to the integrity of the system and how they are meant to make sure that the rich and the powerful don't usurp all of the power in the system and designed to fight against public cynicism about money in politics.
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I mean, it almost seemed to me like it was it was drafted with the president in mind more than Cohen.
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And then I look at the other attendance situations or attendance circumstances that you have here.
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Number one, they didn't really need these campaign finance counts on Cohen.
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His sentence is really driven by the bank fraud and the tax fraud counts.
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These add negligibly at most to his case, but they're obviously critical, critical in connection with Trump at the guilty plea allocution.
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They gratuitously had him say that he was directed by Trump.
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In connection with these payments, that is not something that was necessary to the factual basis for Cohen's own plea.
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And ordinarily, prosecutors in public proceedings do not go out of their way to implicate uncharged people in felonies.
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So it seemed to me they were sort of reaching to do that.
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And it doesn't I don't see that they have any other purpose of doing that, except that they want to lock Cohen in on this version of events.
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And then the other thing I would point to is they have given immunity, I believe, to four different people in this campaign finance investigation.
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Campaign finance is not a very serious felony in the greater scheme of things.
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They've given immunity to two people connected to the National Enquirer.
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And I believe two people connected with the with the Trump organization, which relates to the structuring of the reimbursement payment to Cohen.
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I don't think they gave four people immunity to tighten up the case on Cohen that they didn't need.
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OK, so so what does that tell you they're going to do with Trump?
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Well, it seems to be they're going to indict him.
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One of the things, Glenn, that I should have said was that I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about what these two campaign finance counts allege.
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Most people, I think, believe that because Cohen had a twenty seven hundred dollar limit as a normal contributor, that these payments were way above that limit.
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But very interestingly, the first of the counts is not that Cohen made an illegal payment.
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It's that he caused a third party, namely the the business entity that controls the National Enquirer to make a to make a payment that was illegal for the National Enquirer to make.
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And the point here is it's the theory is even if a transaction would be legal as to you, if you did it yourself, it is still illegal to cause a third party to do something that would be unlawful as to that third party.
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And it seems to me that that answers directly what Trump's lawyers have been saying about this, which is that the president, because he was the candidate, did not have a limit on what he could spend on his own campaign.
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Now, I've always thought that was a kind of a flawed explanation because there's there's two parts that are important to campaign finance.
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One is the limits, but the probably the more important one is reporting.
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So even a candidate has to report what he spends.
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But for for our narrow purpose here, if if Cone is being directed by Trump and they have Cone plead guilty to causing a third party entity to make an illegal contribution, it seems obvious to me that Trump also has to be guilty of that.
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All right. All right. Let me give you a couple of things here, Stu.
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You can choose the news because I'm just not going to be able to get through everything.
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Facebook has filed a patent to calculate your future location.
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Because it's that time of year where I every time I pass a plate of cookies, there's no more cookies on the plate when I walk by it.
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And and what the trade war in China is really all about.
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Well, tell me that you got to tell me the exercise.
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OK, for the first time in 10 years, new rules on exercising.
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I think we're at butter is OK again, aren't we?
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But for the first time in 10 years, they've come up with new exercise guidelines.
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I would have had to read the story a little bit more deeper to know who they are.
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But I think we all know that's what they want you to believe.
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I do think that's the problem with so much of this reporting on especially on health and
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food and stuff is that it's not necessarily that the study is bad or has no value.
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It's that the media is so horrible at reporting it where they just take like there's a study
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on four mice that indicated something slightly change the way you eat.
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Like that's not what any of those things are supposed to do.
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OK, the new exercise guidelines aren't increasing the recommended amount of exercise for teens
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That does, but they're not decreasing them either.
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However, they do change the definition of exercise a bit.
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This comes from the Journal of American Medical Association and the Department of Health and
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And if you're not if you're not hitting the guidelines that were released in 2008, don't
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Eight in 10 people are like, I don't give a flying crap what they say.
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But but here's the subtle but important change.
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They no longer define exercise as an activity that lasts at least 10 minutes.
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No, it doesn't just any kind of any kind of heart rate increase.
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You can count that time for any length of time.
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So now if that's true, sex counts for most people.
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You know, you can I will say, too, I'm I'm not going to start exercising more, but I am
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going to be closer to the minimum amount of exercise.
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I need to do correct because zero is closer to whatever they're saying now than 10.
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You know, from from your office, that counts now as exercise.
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And that's a good thing to do if there are no spots that are closer than the one that
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They say you don't have to go to the gym for 10, 15 or 30 minutes, which I don't have
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Because I'm not doing it now, although that will lower your exercise.
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They say it's still two to 2.5 to five hours of moderate intensity exercise or 1.25.
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No, this is per week or 1.25 to 2.5 hours of vigorous intensity exercise per week.
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I know I could watch five hours of television or Netflix, but I can't walk for five hours.
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That's just, they do keep, I feel like, I don't know if these studies are actually showing
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Like there was a study that came out a few years ago that said it's as effective to do
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10 minutes of high intensity exercise as it is to do like 45 minutes to an hour of lower
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And I don't, I mean, I, that's kind of makes some sense to me like, cause it's high intensity.
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But the other part of me just thinks they're just like, well, let's get them to do one
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Can we at least, you're not all Santa Claus guys.
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We just don't want to look like the cartoon Wally.
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You know, you don't want to look, cause I think that's what we're all going to turn into.
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So when you're, when you're, when you're looking at the high intensity exercise, do you remember
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He is, he takes, there's like 600 tablets of, of different minerals and everything else
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He's like, I mean, you'd be swallowing pills all day.
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I feel like he wouldn't want to eat anything else.
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So he's taking all of these supplements, uh, every single day and he really watches everything.
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And he invented this exercise machine that is a total body workout.
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And, and I remember looking at it and cause he said, you do use it for five days or five
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And when I met him in 06, uh, he had just started looking at his, about five years before
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started checking his, uh, his actual physical age, uh, of his tissue.
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Uh, but he had gone back eight years in physical age when I had seen him the next time.
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Uh, this is the thing that's not like the SkyMall magazine, isn't it?
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It might've been one of those, but he, but I think he came up with it and he uses it
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every day and everybody then said, Oh no, that's nothing.
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Cause you can't do it for five minutes and that's, that won't help you at all.
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And he was a guy going, yeah, no, it helps a lot.
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So I'm only fat because the government said I couldn't not be fat in five minutes.
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I, and that was too late show to blame the government for stuff.
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As the, uh, program continues, we look at what Facebook is now doing to predict where
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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So you have, uh, the, uh, Google, uh, CEO today testifying, uh, before the house judiciary
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committee and, um, they said, well, you know, you know, we don't have a political agenda.
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Did you watch your, your meeting the day after the election when you all got together and
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said, you know, Hey, we think the world's going in a different direction, but there's
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In some ways I almost feel like they actually believe it and that it's not a political agenda.
00:36:51.620
It's like, you know, it's global warming is a good example of this, right?
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Like it's, it's not a political agenda to say that when you just spend $500 trillion
00:36:57.880
to stop global warming, it's just, we have to, or we're all going to die.
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Well, you know what you're not seeing there is there is a political agenda that you're
00:37:07.160
Well, yeah, but you, what you're saying your solution is, there's a lot of debate on that.
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It's the same thing with like, when they're talking about de-platforming people, right?
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And they're taking, well, you said something that was bad about Sharia law, or you said
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something that was bad about, uh, transgenderism.
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Well, they don't see politics in that because it's so obvious what's right and what's wrong
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They're in a bubble where a hundred percent of the people around them agree.
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That's why Jack can go to, uh, to Burma and they're, they're killing Muslims.
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They're just, they're erasing the whole populations and he's fine.
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And I'm here for meditation because, uh, it's a perfect place to meditate and, and figure
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Go to Burma and speak out about the atrocities that are happening.
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I mean, I don't need even to meditate on those ones.
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Um, today, uh, we have Google testifying in front of the house judiciary committee, uh,
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They're going to bring up today that Google employees sought to block Breitbart from Google
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AdSense less than a month after president, uh, Donald Trump took office.
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Now this is, this according to leaked emails, uh, internal emails where they were just saying,
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And that is, that's goes right in line with what, you know, they were talking about in
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that Google meeting, you know, that big corporate meeting, they were very open about it and it
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And, you know, in, in a room that just says, Hey, turn this down, turn that down, change
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I mean, you know, we saw that with, what was it?
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Didn't they ban Donald Trump one person on their way out of the building?
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They were able to turn it around pretty quickly, but of course those people exist.
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Especially when you're told all the time that here's a guy who wants to kill all immigrants
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and gay people and all the horrible things, you know, that Trump and every Republican
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If we had a site, I mean, if we had, if we had a Google or Twitter or Facebook, I imagine
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that there would be people that would want to do that as well to the other side.
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We got to stop, got to stop and shut down the Antifa voices because it's just the right
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So it's human nature and they just like all progressives.
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Now, Facebook has just filed for a patent to calculate your future location.
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They have several patent applications for technology.
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That uses your current location data to predict where you're going and when you're going to
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The Facebook spokesperson says that doesn't, just because we filed a patent doesn't mean
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that we have an, you know, an intent or is any indication that we want to follow you
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while you're not offline or predict where you're going.
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Might be a problem with our patent system, by the way, if that is a legitimate excuse.
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Like, we all know that they do have some use for it, but like you shouldn't be filing
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patents if you have no intention on ever using them.
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It's like, oh, well, I came up with an idea that theoretically could be possible.
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Let me patent it so that someone, when they actually come up with the idea in 20 years,
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has to pay me a bunch of money or can't use it at all.
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That's why so many, I mean, this is, that's just a separate issue, but it is a, it is a,
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So what it's going to do is it's, it's the, the application is called offline trajectories
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and it's a method to predict where you're going to go next based on your location data.
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Technology described in the patent would calculate the transition probability based at least in part
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on your previously logged location data associated with a plurality of users who were at the current
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location. It will also use the data of other people, you know, as well as that of strangers to make
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predictions. So it's going to be able to predict you based on what you've done before.
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It will also predict you because it will go out and look at your friends and what they've done.
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But also if I'm reading this right, it will look at your friends and where they are.
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So if your friends are gathering at some place and you're driving in the general area,
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Okay. You're still not convincing me. This is a good use of, uh, of technology.
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What do you mean? It's just going to make it easier.
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It's going to make our lives easier. So you get ads in places where you don't even have the internet.
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That sounds horrible. I don't like when I get them when I do have the internet.
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No, they just need to know where you are at all times.
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Do you, I mean, cause a lot of this stuff is, I've noticed this with like, you know,
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like Uber and Lyft type of apps and where they will, you know, you go a certain way,
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a certain amount of times they say, oh, this must be your house. This must be your work.
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The one that's really funny is the, uh, we have the GPS in my wife's car and it now draws new roads
00:43:09.640
on the map because if we go to a place where they don't have a, um, uh, a road mapped a certain
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amount of times, it realizes, oh, there must be a road there and then draws the road on the map.
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It's actually remapping kind of in real time, which was very funny because one time I was driving down
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the street and I looked over and I saw this circle on the side of the road and it kind of looks like
00:43:30.520
almost like a dirt road when they draw a new road on there. It was a circle. It was like a well-defined
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circle and there was lines all around it. I'm like, what the heck is that? And I pull up and I
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realized it was Krispy Kreme. It was where my, my, my wife had gone to Krispy Kreme with a kid so many
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times. It thought it was a road. It really, it really happened, which is probably not good for
00:43:49.020
the diabetes future of my children. No, but you know what? Seriously, if that happened, think of the,
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think of the implications. If that happened and you did have a problem with weight or something else
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and your health insurance would be alerted that you are going to Krispy Kreme a lot.
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Too many times. Yeah. That's a great point. And that is, that is all, that data is so valuable to
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them that they will do everything they can to give you things so that you will give that data to them.
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Right? Like, you know, there's a new, um, uh, Google phone service out. Um, and I, you know,
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this struck me as interesting as you've been so. Don't do it. Don't do anything. Google do not.
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Don't have an Android. Don't use Google Chrome. I gotta put you, I keep saying this. I gotta put
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it in my Google calendar or remind myself to get myself off of Google. I know. Um, but it's true.
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Like they have, um, the phone service and it had like a, uh, a cool feature to it. I think it was
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like, there's like thousands of like wifi hotspots that you automatically get access to if you sign up
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to their plan. And I was thinking to myself, well, you know, I use so much freaking data. It would be
00:44:54.200
great to have, just be able to hop on wifi when you're at some, you know, wherever these things
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are, it's kind of a cool, it's kind of a cool thing. And you don't have to learn all the passwords.
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It just automatically does it. And you know, what's great about that is Google pays for all of those
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access for your data. So they're just paying it out of the goodness of their heart. They just want
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your life to be easier. And so this giant corporation is just paying those billions of dollars to give you
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all of those free, uh, wifi hotspots all over the world for everybody because they're just those,
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they're good. They're good people. Or they found a way to make more money off of you because your
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information you'll, they'll have greater access to your information. When you think it's the second
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one still, Hmm. And you're, you're, you're just negative. I just being negative. I know. And
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it's true. I mean, like, I, I think these things a lot of times do actually make your life better.
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And because of that, we are losing brave new world. Yeah. You said this before you said this
00:46:00.920
when we were on, we were doing our stage tour, you know, China is doing 1984 and we're doing brave
00:46:05.520
new world. Um, and it's true. We're doing this completely willingly. We're giving them all the
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technology. We're giving, we're giving them all the information so they can use with their technology
00:46:13.580
and you know, it improves your life by like one 87th of a percent. And we're like, eh, all right.
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So they know where I am all the time. Right. And, and, and now predictive technology. Remember I told
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you was yesterday, there was a new thing out now that shows that they can predict. There's this new
00:46:31.440
scan that can predict. They've only tried it on animals where an animal is going to move next.
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And they, it's a, it's an incredible thing. Just, just look it up through brainwaves,
00:46:40.920
right? Brainwaves. And so they're shooting this thing at an animal and it can see their brain and
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the way it sees it, it distorts the animal. It actually like sees the movement of the animal
00:46:54.020
before the animal moves. Okay. And they can predict all kinds of behavior on this. Well, this is here,
00:47:01.360
there, here's Google saying, Hey, we're going to have predictive, uh, technology to just
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based on what we know about you and your friends, et cetera, et cetera, on where you're going.
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Just look at France. What's happening in France. This is the closest to a revolution that France
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has had for a long, long, long time. Um, this could end in actual revolution in France.
00:47:24.520
You think with all this technology that the governments are not going to say, Hey, we need
00:47:29.660
to know where these people are. Of course they will. Of course they will. I mean, China's already
00:47:34.420
way down that road. If you tried to have a revolution in China right now, especially in a
00:47:38.400
major city, you'd have no chance of being able to pull it off. Now, again, like revolutions
00:47:42.220
are a lot of times not so positive, um, but most times, most times, there's one, there's
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one example I can think of that was pretty good. Yes. Uh, here in America. Yeah. American
00:47:52.980
revolution. I think it's the only one that, that ended this way. Well, ends with the people
00:47:57.020
who started, right? I mean, it's one thing to start with the original goal and the original
00:48:00.740
people. And why a lot of times we saw this in, with the, uh, in Egypt and, and throughout
00:48:04.860
the, the Arab awakening, um, where it was, it winds up being some other powerful group.
00:48:11.200
That's not the first powerful group, but not the kids, the teenagers don't wind up taking
00:48:14.720
over and they're like, Oh, we're really passionate about this this week. And then now we're being
00:48:18.120
crushed by the new government next week. We talked about this yesterday on the news and
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why it matters that this is what's happening in France could very well be what happened in
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Hungary. You know, it was, uh, top down, bottom up inside out. And you want that, you want
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that, that, that core of protesters to rise, cause chaos in the streets to make everybody
00:48:41.340
say to the government, you got to stop this. And so the government does little do they know
00:48:47.040
the government is not necessarily on their side and it comes down, clamps down and you have
00:48:53.240
communist Hungary. So it had, that's exactly how it happened in the 1950s. They did not
00:48:58.160
want to be a Soviet satellite, but there were riots in the streets and enough people in high
00:49:04.320
places that, uh, said, you know, we've got to do this. We have to do that. And next thing
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you know, the Soviet tanks are rolling in and they're a communist Soviet satellite. We could
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see this except this time they have the technology to stop anybody who is, um, even literally even
00:49:24.600
thinking that that's a good idea. The blaze radio network on demand.