The Glenn Beck Program - April 09, 2024


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Glenn Beck and Pat Gray talk about the total eclipse of the Sun and the impact it had on our eyes and the science behind why we should never look directly at the sun again. Plus, a new invention that could help cool us down.

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00:00:00.000 Pat Gray joins me for the, I don't know, the, what excuse is he going to give this time?
00:00:06.800 I mean, he like takes off more time than anybody I know.
00:00:11.880 And he's like, oh, I'm working for the company doing a documentary.
00:00:15.420 No, he's not.
00:00:15.900 No, I think it's Eclipse Week.
00:00:18.480 Is that what it is?
00:00:18.980 Yeah.
00:00:19.360 That's where we start.
00:00:20.900 Yeah.
00:00:21.280 And you cannot believe the madness, the madness of the first part of today's show.
00:00:28.020 You're going to enjoy the whole podcast.
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00:01:30.920 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:01:45.780 Pat Gray is sitting in for Stu Vergeer, who is off on assignment for the next couple of
00:01:52.400 days.
00:01:53.060 Hello, Pat.
00:01:53.760 How are you?
00:01:54.200 Hello.
00:01:54.720 Good.
00:01:55.160 Did you see the eclipse yesterday?
00:01:57.000 I sure did.
00:01:57.820 You did?
00:01:58.260 Yeah.
00:01:58.440 Can you see?
00:01:59.320 Are your eyes affected?
00:02:00.920 Yes, I'm completely blind.
00:02:02.520 Completely blind now.
00:02:03.680 Wow.
00:02:04.200 That is, you shouldn't have looked right at the sun.
00:02:06.080 No, I should not have.
00:02:06.880 No, uh-uh.
00:02:07.600 I guess the warnings were accurate.
00:02:09.520 Were accurate. 0.54
00:02:10.180 You shouldn't do that.
00:02:10.840 You should follow the science.
00:02:12.180 Yeah.
00:02:12.420 Yeah, every time.
00:02:13.420 Don't stare directly at the sun for an hour and a half.
00:02:15.440 Yeah.
00:02:15.660 Don't do it.
00:02:16.380 Nuh-uh.
00:02:17.200 So I was actually shocked that I enjoyed it.
00:02:22.000 So was I.
00:02:22.760 Yeah.
00:02:23.280 It's weird, because I figured, okay, I've seen this before.
00:02:27.120 1977 or 79, something like that.
00:02:29.440 Yeah.
00:02:29.640 Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, it was actually, I think it happened on a sunny day.
00:02:35.500 I remember seeing it, and I was not that impressed.
00:02:38.280 No.
00:02:39.200 And this one.
00:02:40.900 But I think what the difference is, I've never seen a total eclipse.
00:02:45.360 Yeah, maybe I haven't either.
00:02:46.720 It seemed like I did.
00:02:48.000 Yeah.
00:02:48.260 But this was different to me.
00:02:49.840 This was amazing.
00:02:51.060 It was impressive.
00:02:51.980 It was really cool.
00:02:52.900 It really was.
00:02:53.440 I mean, it got dark like night.
00:02:55.760 Dropped 10 degrees?
00:02:57.220 Easily.
00:02:57.660 10.
00:02:58.060 Yeah.
00:02:58.500 Maybe more.
00:02:59.000 10, maybe 15.
00:02:59.840 Yeah.
00:03:00.240 I mean, it was bizarre.
00:03:01.620 That sun's powerful.
00:03:03.120 Yeah.
00:03:03.280 You know what I mean?
00:03:03.860 It's got a lot of heat in it.
00:03:05.140 And when something gets in its way, it's a big change.
00:03:08.260 Yeah.
00:03:08.700 The other side of the moon has been scorched.
00:03:10.940 We wouldn't do well if there was something between us and the sun like that.
00:03:14.780 No.
00:03:14.960 On a permanent basis.
00:03:16.060 Well, we're not sure.
00:03:18.220 It could be really, really good for us scientists in the show prep today.
00:03:23.060 If you get our daily show prep at glenbeck.com, you'll see that scientists are now just, we're
00:03:28.880 playing with the clouds, playing with the clouds, trying to come up with something that
00:03:32.860 we can put up in the sky.
00:03:34.880 Oh, yeah.
00:03:35.440 To cool us down.
00:03:36.840 Like a screen or something to keep the global warming down.
00:03:39.280 I think that's going to be good.
00:03:40.020 Yeah.
00:03:40.220 I think that's going to be good.
00:03:41.100 That'll work out fine.
00:03:41.920 Yeah, sure.
00:03:43.400 Anyway.
00:03:44.380 Stars came out.
00:03:45.800 Yeah.
00:03:46.440 The lights came out.
00:03:47.620 Really amazing.
00:03:48.440 If you, I kept putting myself back in time where you didn't know anything about, you know.
00:03:54.280 We talked about that a lot, too.
00:03:55.480 That would have been.
00:03:56.300 Scary.
00:03:57.280 Scary as hell.
00:03:58.540 Something just ate the sun.
00:03:59.740 Yeah.
00:04:00.220 You would be worried about that.
00:04:01.140 I mean, just for a little while.
00:04:02.300 And then you'd be like, did we make God mad or something?
00:04:05.700 What are we going to do?
00:04:06.760 We got to sacrifice the children.
00:04:09.100 And then, you know, hopefully you were slow because in four minutes it starts to go away and
00:04:13.040 you're like, okay, I didn't kill all the children because it only lasted four minutes.
00:04:19.560 So you couldn't have been that mad.
00:04:22.160 Anyway, people flew Delta yesterday, special flights.
00:04:26.380 There were two of them to be able to follow the solar eclipse path.
00:04:32.480 Left from Dallas and ended up, I think, in Detroit.
00:04:36.700 And they were saying, you know, there's going to be a special flight if you want to see.
00:04:40.780 I don't know if people understood that unless you have a window seat, you're not going to see the solar eclipse.
00:04:49.660 A lot of people were a little disappointed, little disappointed.
00:04:52.560 And, you know, the people on one side of the plane could see it if you had a window seat.
00:05:01.080 But everybody else kind of left out.
00:05:03.180 And so they had to share pictures with everybody else on the plane that paid for that special flight.
00:05:10.500 I heard the pictures on the plane were a little disappointing.
00:05:13.200 Yeah.
00:05:14.060 Yeah.
00:05:14.540 Yeah.
00:05:14.760 They said it was not.
00:05:16.520 Not exactly what they hoped.
00:05:17.760 Yeah.
00:05:18.020 I love this.
00:05:19.300 Unlike the ground, the plane was never fully dark.
00:05:21.800 It fell more into a shadow.
00:05:24.060 People started asking, do you see it yet?
00:05:26.360 And the truth began to dawn on us.
00:05:30.140 Maybe a plane isn't the best viewing spot for an eclipse.
00:05:35.680 With glasses or without, it was kind of hard to see the eclipse.
00:05:39.900 So, well, you know, you learn something.
00:05:42.660 You learn something new every day.
00:05:43.720 But the good thing is it probably only paid hundreds and hundreds of dollars for it.
00:05:47.140 Right.
00:05:47.280 So that's a lesson well learned very cheaply.
00:05:50.840 Yeah.
00:05:51.280 You know, I saw the people that were people on the top of the Empire State Building yesterday.
00:05:57.340 And I thought to myself, do they know the view is just as good on the sidewalk?
00:06:02.660 I don't know.
00:06:03.820 Yeah.
00:06:04.400 I hate to point that out to them.
00:06:06.140 But wherever you are, high or low, you can pretty much see that.
00:06:12.780 Yeah.
00:06:13.040 If you're in the path of totality, you can watch it from your backyard.
00:06:17.160 Yeah.
00:06:17.720 And that's just as good a perch as a mountaintop.
00:06:20.460 Yeah.
00:06:20.840 So.
00:06:21.680 Okay.
00:06:22.180 So the London papers today, I honestly don't know why the London papers are doing it.
00:06:29.660 You couldn't see it from London.
00:06:32.260 But anyway, Americans are reporting today, according to the Daily Mail, bizarre physical and mental ailments.
00:06:43.660 Um, and they say it's because of the solar eclipse, uh, called eclipse sickness.
00:06:50.320 The symptoms have included headaches, fatigue, changes in menstrual cycles.
00:06:55.800 Did yours change?
00:06:56.940 A great deal.
00:06:57.980 Yeah.
00:06:58.360 I stopped having it.
00:06:59.720 I did a-
00:07:00.480 Yesterday.
00:07:00.900 Really?
00:07:01.320 Yeah.
00:07:01.660 It was weird.
00:07:02.500 I did five miles on my menstrual cycle yesterday.
00:07:06.100 Yeah.
00:07:06.500 Okay.
00:07:06.660 It was good.
00:07:07.280 So anyway, um.
00:07:08.960 Is that more than usual?
00:07:10.420 It's a lot more than usual.
00:07:11.980 Okay.
00:07:12.200 A lot more.
00:07:12.800 Heavy, heavy flow.
00:07:13.920 Heavy flow yesterday.
00:07:15.140 Anyway, um, so, uh, it includes headaches, fatigue, changes in menstrual cycles and insomnia.
00:07:22.820 Uh, and I just, I'm just here to let you know that it's absolutely true.
00:07:26.840 This don't, don't dismiss this.
00:07:28.580 Um, it's true.
00:07:29.660 Let's follow the science and men can have babies and women have penises and the economy is booming. 0.99
00:07:34.660 And the WNBA is a sport worth watching. 0.99
00:07:37.200 I'm just, I'm just saying eclipse sickness.
00:07:41.120 We are doomed, doomed.
00:07:44.380 While NASA has said there's no evidence linking human health and solar eclipse studies have found
00:07:50.560 that the celestial event can impact animals, specifically dogs that may appear anxious.
00:07:58.380 Yeah.
00:07:58.780 Dogs are anxious because the owners are nuts.
00:08:02.040 That's why on Monday,
00:08:03.960 the solar eclipse moved its way up.
00:08:05.800 Uh, the U S starting in Texas ended in May and in Maine and people reported strange side
00:08:11.520 effects, strange, uh, individuals flocked to social media to share their symptoms.
00:08:17.180 Anyone else suffering from weird insomnia, no appetite and other weird things that can't
00:08:24.200 be explained.
00:08:25.040 You know what?
00:08:25.540 I think insomnia is one of those things that can be explained, you know, I, I really think
00:08:30.500 it can, and I don't think it has anything to do with the solar eclipse.
00:08:34.380 Uh, you know, what is weird insomnia?
00:08:38.700 I'm not, I'm not sure what weird, gee, I, I gotta tell you, uh, I've heard the Hamas hostages 0.99
00:08:45.260 have weird insomnia, you know, they just can't, it's unexplainable.
00:08:51.120 Really?
00:08:51.480 It's very unexplainable.
00:08:53.520 We're talking about, we're talking about Americans here.
00:08:57.260 You know, you're 35, your boss doesn't want you to show up to a client meeting with your
00:09:02.840 blankie, you know, weird, weird, weird insomnia.
00:09:07.140 I can't sleep.
00:09:08.060 I can't go in with my blankie.
00:09:09.860 I just don't know what to do.
00:09:11.180 And I'm working now three whole days and they're expecting me not to take any mental
00:09:16.420 health days.
00:09:17.160 I don't, I don't, I don't know what to do.
00:09:20.160 I just don't know what to do.
00:09:21.480 Others said they felt mentally off in the last few days leading up to Monday.
00:09:28.260 Anyone feeling emotional with the upcoming solar eclipse reads a post on X.
00:09:34.560 No.
00:09:35.420 I mean, well, I cried all night.
00:09:37.300 Did you?
00:09:37.780 Yeah.
00:09:38.200 I've got weirdly emotional.
00:09:39.780 But that's no different, is it?
00:09:40.840 No, I cry myself to sleep every night.
00:09:43.180 Doctors call it eclipse sickness.
00:09:45.640 I just want you to know, no doctors actually call it that.
00:09:48.560 No real doctors.
00:09:49.780 I'm sure there are doctors out there, especially the new MDs that are just coming out of, you
00:09:54.760 know, out of school where they're like, yeah, we could, I mean, you're 50, you're depressed,
00:09:59.820 we can kill you. 0.98
00:10:01.000 Sure.
00:10:01.980 You know what?
00:10:02.780 I'm just going to write this down as eclipse sickness.
00:10:05.680 I had to put him out of his misery.
00:10:07.740 Some women shared that their menstrual cycle synced with April 8th event, but there's no scientific
00:10:17.280 evidence to support that connection.
00:10:19.900 So I think that the lesson here is let's follow science, except when it tells us just to suck
00:10:26.560 it up.
00:10:27.040 There's, it's no big deal.
00:10:28.480 Okay.
00:10:29.220 It was dark for four minutes.
00:10:33.480 Dark for four minutes.
00:10:36.460 Okay.
00:10:36.940 Uh, the healthcare communication network, which I believe is run by the same people who gave
00:10:42.900 us the psychic friends network, uh, said that, uh, such changes and weird feelings.
00:10:49.980 Okay.
00:10:50.640 Do you believe any healthcare network that talks about weird?
00:10:55.760 Are you experiencing weird, weird feelings?
00:10:59.580 Uh, they said it could be attributed to psychological factors.
00:11:04.500 No.
00:11:05.840 Such as excitement, anxiety, the influence of social cues.
00:11:11.280 No.
00:11:12.400 You mean like you'd go online and you'd hear a bunch of people saying things and you're like,
00:11:16.920 I feel weird, strangely weird.
00:11:19.920 Uh, anyway, uh, Leanne Poston, MD, a physician writer and researcher at the InVigor medical,
00:11:30.060 uh, clinic, InVigor, uh, let me just translate the erectile dysfunction hut, uh, told MX links
00:11:39.300 or MD links that, uh, while she has not seen a link between the eclipse and the changes in
00:11:46.120 physiology and disease, she notes that when an event occurs, it's outside the norm and it
00:11:52.220 feels difficult to explain.
00:11:53.840 It can cut the solar eclipse is not difficult to explain.
00:12:02.660 Uh, she said it can have a physical and psychological effects on people.
00:12:07.740 Okay.
00:12:08.360 I just want to sum up yesterday.
00:12:09.900 Okay.
00:12:10.340 Just want to sum it up.
00:12:11.240 It was dark for four minutes and people are still freaking out today.
00:12:18.700 The greatest generation weeps right now.
00:12:21.920 They're weeping.
00:12:22.820 These would be the people that, you know, I can't, we're going to go to Normandy.
00:12:27.580 I need a beach ball umbrella.
00:12:29.620 I want some timeouts, some do-overs.
00:12:32.380 I mean, we can't just storm those beaches.
00:12:34.640 My gosh, are we doomed?
00:12:37.320 We're doomed.
00:12:38.360 I mean, if you have dots in your eyes today, because you were staring at the sun without
00:12:46.100 glasses yesterday, I understand that particular health effect.
00:12:51.160 Uh, that might be understandable.
00:12:53.060 The rest of this is garbage.
00:12:55.020 The garbage.
00:12:55.720 I love this one.
00:12:56.680 This comes from the New York Post.
00:12:58.640 Solar eclipse, uh, solar eclipse 2024 signs of eye damage from looking at the sun.
00:13:05.100 Now, I would think that that should be printed in bigger font, uh, you know, having difficulty
00:13:13.760 reading this story, you know, there's a big blue dot that just kind of is, yeah, it might
00:13:19.880 be a problem, it might be a problem, might be a problem.
00:13:21.900 Uh, honestly, that's one of the signs that you have a round dot in the middle of your vision.
00:13:30.540 In the middle of your vision.
00:13:31.580 Yeah.
00:13:31.900 Yeah.
00:13:32.480 It's kind of like a, uh, a black, you know, and can go red, can go yellow, can go blue, 0.97
00:13:39.460 you know, is, but it's always there.
00:13:41.900 It's like the negative of the sun is in your vision.
00:13:47.520 Huh?
00:13:48.060 Yeah.
00:13:48.400 Hadn't thought of that.
00:13:49.200 Yeah.
00:13:49.720 Yeah.
00:13:50.320 Weird.
00:13:51.020 Yeah.
00:13:51.680 Increased sensitivity to light and a headache.
00:13:55.060 Wait a minute.
00:13:58.440 Wasn't that one of those psychological, uh, signs?
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00:15:29.200 So I can't take it every time that Joe Biden says, well, we've created 15 million new jobs
00:15:35.380 since January, 2021.
00:15:37.420 Can't take it.
00:15:38.660 Cannot take it.
00:15:39.740 Why, Pat?
00:15:41.080 Why did you roll your eyes?
00:15:43.140 Well, he didn't create 15 million new jobs.
00:15:45.980 Nowhere near.
00:15:46.700 Those jobs came back after the COVID situation was over and people went back to work.
00:15:52.540 Okay.
00:15:53.240 It's much worse than that.
00:15:55.760 It's much worse than that.
00:15:56.980 I want to give you just the facts.
00:15:58.720 These are compiled in a great story on Blaze Media.
00:16:01.580 Just go to blaze.com, theblaze.com.
00:16:04.360 Daniel Horowitz writes an unbelievable, this should be sent to everyone you know.
00:16:12.080 He says, he says, the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes two jobs reports, the Establishment
00:16:18.440 Survey and the Household Survey.
00:16:20.600 The Establishment Survey samples actual employers and shows the growth in non-farm payroll jobs
00:16:27.680 as well as a breakdown by specific industry, while the Household Survey samples individual
00:16:34.800 households and measures broad census data, such as total number of employment age population,
00:16:41.100 size of the labor force, the U3 unemployment rate, and total number of employed and unemployed.
00:16:46.720 So, he always has this talking point where he says, oh, I created 15 million jobs.
00:16:53.340 Daniel Horowitz starts with, his talking point about job creation is the ultimate self-indictment.
00:16:59.820 Listen to this.
00:17:01.040 Getting a precise picture of the U.S. unemployment or employment requires conflating data from both
00:17:07.440 of those surveys.
00:17:08.980 Typically, the data complement each other.
00:17:12.220 But in the last couple of years, the numbers have diverged.
00:17:16.120 For example, the Establishment Survey shows 3 million additional people employed since
00:17:22.320 January 2021.
00:17:24.700 This may be due in part because the Employer-Based Survey picks up more illegal aliens than the
00:17:31.620 Survey of Households.
00:17:33.520 The White House obviously prefers to tout the Establishment Survey's figure. 0.53
00:17:37.340 In any event, the reality is Biden has a much worse record on job creation than Donald Trump.
00:17:43.960 And that's before we delve into the nature of these jobs.
00:17:48.960 When COVID-19 shut down the world in March 2020, employment cratered.
00:17:54.560 It took well over a year to come back from the lockdowns and merely get back to par with the
00:18:01.240 pre-COVID baseline in February 2020.
00:18:03.820 As such, the only fair comparison for Biden to make is to measure the number of employed individuals
00:18:11.380 today compared to February 2020.
00:18:15.300 I think that's fair, right?
00:18:16.620 Yeah.
00:18:16.880 And not even all jobs.
00:18:18.260 I think that's being generous.
00:18:19.780 Not everybody's job was back by February 2020.
00:18:23.060 Right.
00:18:23.640 Viewed that way, we don't have 15 million new jobs.
00:18:26.440 We have 5.5 million jobs created between January 21 and February of this year, according to
00:18:34.760 the Establishment Survey, and just 2.3 million, according to the Household Survey.
00:18:40.860 Let's go with the more impressive 5.5 million figure, even though the Philadelphia Fed believes
00:18:46.940 that's overstated.
00:18:48.180 Although 5.5 million still sounds meaningful.
00:18:51.900 Remember, the country is constantly growing.
00:18:55.460 Since February 2020, the civilian non-institutional population of working-age residents grew by
00:19:02.640 8.1.
00:19:04.240 I wonder if this is even counting the illegals.
00:19:08.620 So job growth has not kept pace with population growth, especially judging from the Household Survey.
00:19:15.180 This is why the civilian labor force participation rate is down from 63.3% ahead of the lockdowns
00:19:23.040 to 62.5%.
00:19:24.980 When factoring in population growth, the fact is we find an additional 729,000 unemployed
00:19:34.100 individuals today.
00:19:35.840 Put another way, 611 out of every 1,000 Americans of unemployment age were working before COVID
00:19:45.640 compared to 601 today.
00:19:49.440 Also, an additional 5 million people are no longer in the labor force, but of working age,
00:19:57.880 which means that for whatever reason, they gave up on the job market.
00:20:02.560 Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell explains these missing workers are the result of excess
00:20:09.840 retirements.
00:20:10.800 In short, we have a much larger population without jobs than before COVID.
00:20:24.780 Compared to the same period under Trump, the current labor market today is terrible.
00:20:29.920 After 37 months into Trump's tenure, the establishment survey showed 6.7 million jobs created.
00:20:35.900 But here's the kicker.
00:20:38.380 The population only grew by 5.6 million, which means the job growth under Trump outpaced population
00:20:46.200 growth by 20%.
00:20:47.400 Under Biden, population growth has outpaced job growth by 47%, or 252% going by the household
00:20:58.560 survey.
00:20:59.920 Wow.
00:21:00.740 Okay?
00:21:01.620 Hence, by virtue of population growth alone, we have gone backward in job creation since COVID.
00:21:08.260 But it gets worse.
00:21:11.580 As Daniel Horowitz noted before, we have been losing full-time jobs.
00:21:17.560 All the net job growth has come from part-time employment.
00:21:22.460 In total, 3.4 million part-time jobs have been added since January 21, with 1.7 million just
00:21:31.280 over the past nine months.
00:21:33.400 This isn't a story of growing economy, of go-getters seeking upward mobility.
00:21:39.300 These are people taking second and third jobs just to afford the basic standards of living.
00:21:45.300 In fact, the number of those holding multiple jobs has surged by 1.6 million since Biden took
00:21:52.120 office.
00:21:53.040 That's why the establishment survey shows greater job creation.
00:21:57.060 It is double-counting the increasing number of employed people with more than one job.
00:22:05.200 Also, many of the new jobs are classified as self-employed.
00:22:09.480 Thanks to tax law changes, it now includes a number of Uber and Lyft drivers.
00:22:17.280 Are record numbers of people starting their own businesses?
00:22:19.960 No.
00:22:20.800 These are unemployed and underemployed people taking nebulous jobs or struggling workers forced
00:22:25.600 to take a second gig just to tread water.
00:22:29.060 Meanwhile, thanks to the endless revisions of the unemployment data, full-time jobs are now
00:22:36.020 down 1.8 million since June of last year.
00:22:41.740 A large share of the remaining lethargic full-time job creation has been fueled by government itself.
00:22:48.760 Over the past year, government employment has doubled the growth rate of the private sector work.
00:23:00.180 Government jobs have comprised between 21% and 58% of all job creation in the past six employment surveys.
00:23:10.620 It takes no skill or ingenuity to print trillions of dollars and create phantom jobs while saddling consumers with the consequences.
00:23:28.820 This is perhaps one reason why all the job creation has been concentrated in 15% of U.S. counties.
00:23:35.400 All of the job growth over the last year came from just 59 out of 389 metro areas across America.
00:23:56.400 They were part-time, they went to foreigners, and 15% of the country. 0.99
00:24:01.940 Perhaps the most shocking data point, I mean, I'm already spinning, perhaps the most shocking data point
00:24:09.820 that nukes the Biden administration's entire job growth narrative is the drop in since October 2019 native-born U.S. workers.
00:24:22.000 They have actually lost 1.4 million jobs.
00:24:26.680 Over the same period, foreign-born U.S. have gained 3 million jobs.
00:24:34.020 In fact, there has not been a month of net job creation for native-born U.S. since July 2018.
00:24:46.640 Wow.
00:24:49.560 So, where do they even get the 15 million figure?
00:24:54.160 Because it's not even from COVID jobs coming back.
00:24:58.500 No, no, the 15 million is, with COVID, 10 million in COVID, 5.5, they say.
00:25:08.240 So, you add when the jobs come back, and then the 5.5 million that they created, that's where they get the 15 million.
00:25:14.400 So, if you stop after February 2020, or 2021, I can't remember, when they say, okay, jobs were coming back, now people were going back to work.
00:25:25.020 So, if you take all those jobs that people were going back to work in, okay, then you start from there, you only have 5.5.
00:25:35.220 But we've had over 8 million new people.
00:25:38.340 Correct, and I don't believe, we should call Daniel, I don't believe that counts for the illegals. 0.96
00:25:45.340 That's another 10 million.
00:25:48.260 And, the natural-born citizen, not the foreigner, but the natural-born citizen here has actually lost employment.
00:25:58.920 Well, that employment number is going down.
00:26:02.380 So, all of the jobs created are from foreign workers, part-time jobs, or government jobs.
00:26:11.780 That's not good.
00:26:12.900 No.
00:26:13.380 That is not good.
00:26:16.380 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Podcast.
00:26:20.380 Bhatia, welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
00:26:22.440 How are you?
00:26:23.780 Oh, man, thank you so much for having me back, Glenn.
00:26:26.800 It's such a pleasure to be here with you.
00:26:29.160 You bet, you bet.
00:26:30.400 So, I have been saying for a while now, as I'm looking at what the Western world, the elites, are doing to their own countries and our own civilization,
00:26:42.580 they are impoverishing people.
00:26:45.700 They are giving our stuff away to other people.
00:26:49.680 And, I mean, that in Europe and here, where illegals are just permeating the country and the jobs are going there, they're disarming us. 0.99
00:27:04.120 They're selling us bound and gag to our foe, it feels like.
00:27:10.340 Is that what's happening?
00:27:12.220 Yeah.
00:27:12.660 Yeah, 100%.
00:27:13.620 Glenn, you've been on this for such a long time because you're so clear-eyed about this.
00:27:18.560 There has been a massive plunder of the middle class by the elites.
00:27:24.160 First, they shipped good manufacturing jobs overseas to build up China and Mexico's middle class.
00:27:30.540 Then they said they're not coming back, right?
00:27:33.220 We're never going to get those jobs back.
00:27:34.660 If you want the American dream, you have to go to college where you'll become, you know, a card-carrying Democrat, right?
00:27:40.920 And now they opened the border and brought in 15 million illegal migrants from failed socialist states to undercut the wages in the jobs that remained here. 0.71
00:27:52.240 And it's because fundamentally to the elites, there's no difference between being working class and being poor.
00:27:58.380 They want everybody to be poor because they control the college educated and the poor.
00:28:03.640 That is why they're trying to get everybody out of the middle class and either into the college credentialed, you know, leftist elites or to make them poor because that's how the Democrats win.
00:28:16.220 So, wow, I've never heard that opinion before, I think, where they are intentionally doing it because they can control the poor.
00:28:26.620 Yeah, absolutely.
00:28:27.860 I mean, otherwise it makes no sense, right?
00:28:29.620 I mean, where does the contempt for the working class come from?
00:28:32.080 Where does this plunder come from?
00:28:34.140 Why would they have sold out labor, right?
00:28:36.680 Remember, the Democrats used to represent labor.
00:28:39.480 Why would they now be so committed to making working class people poor with these policies that you talk about all the time, Glenn?
00:28:46.540 Opening the border, bringing in massive, massive amounts of competition for the working class. 1.00
00:28:52.000 Like, who would do such a thing, right?
00:28:54.080 And it's not an accident, Glenn.
00:28:55.800 Of course, this was all intentional.
00:28:57.280 Joe Biden showed up and on day one undid the three executive Trump orders, which secured the border.
00:29:04.000 Why would somebody do that on purpose, right, if they didn't want people to be poor?
00:29:08.340 It's amazing to me also that the labor unions are part of it.
00:29:13.560 I mean, the Democrats were always for labor, you say.
00:29:16.140 They were always, they did seem to represent the working class much more, but it was their love of the labor unions.
00:29:24.060 The labor unions are still with them as they are helping them dismantle American jobs.
00:29:32.000 A hundred percent.
00:29:33.440 And I think that's why you see only six percent of the private sector is unionized.
00:29:39.080 Working class Americans, they may want the wages and the protections that unions can get their members,
00:29:45.000 but they see the unions actively supporting the party and the policy of importing their competition.
00:29:53.440 And so they don't see a future for themselves in the labor unions.
00:29:57.200 And, you know, Joe Biden likes to say he's the most pro-union president to ever rule.
00:30:02.440 Maybe that's true, but the unions themselves are no longer able to represent their actual members.
00:30:08.300 Although I have to say, I thought it was great that Trump went and met with the Teamsters and that he, you know,
00:30:13.740 he got a donation for the RNC from the Teamsters because it shows that the Teamsters are listening to rank and file,
00:30:19.440 who, of course, prefer Trump.
00:30:21.180 So you say that the working class in America is super diverse,
00:30:27.240 but united on the policies that they think would make their lives better.
00:30:31.700 And you say that is true, whether you're a Republican or Democrat.
00:30:35.660 Where is that unity on policy?
00:30:38.240 What are those policies?
00:30:40.700 Right.
00:30:41.300 So for this, for my book, Second Class, How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women, 0.94
00:30:45.900 I traveled around the country for a year interviewing working class Americans of all races,
00:30:50.760 of all backgrounds and religions and many, many, many different industries totally across the country.
00:30:57.140 And what I found was so much more unites them than divides them.
00:31:01.380 First of all, polarization, a totally elite phenomenon.
00:31:05.920 And I know your listeners know this because I know you have a strong working class listenership.
00:31:10.540 They know that they would never hate their neighbor just because they happen to vote for another party.
00:31:16.000 They hate both parties, by the way.
00:31:18.120 You know, there's a lot of contempt for the elites in the political class who love to go to Washington and fight with each other,
00:31:24.320 or pretend they're fighting with each other while both parties, you know, have turned their backs on labor.
00:31:28.580 Here's what I found was the most common views.
00:31:31.660 So I met a lot of people, including a lot of Christians, who had a gay person in their life who they wanted to be treated with respect,
00:31:39.220 but they were extremely worried about the transgender agenda.
00:31:43.700 I met a lot of people who were really unhappy about how much welfare there is and knew people who were scamming the system.
00:31:50.760 And they were very frustrated by that.
00:31:52.620 But they also really didn't like that corporations seemed to them to be, you know, against their interests
00:31:59.520 and that there was so much support for corporations and not for them.
00:32:03.600 They were very against immigration.
00:32:06.960 Most of the people I interviewed, including the Democrats,
00:32:09.620 wanted something like a total moratorium on immigration, 0.80
00:32:12.740 but they also felt like there should be some sort of government-backed, catastrophic health care.
00:32:19.840 They couldn't stand the idea that they work with their hands and their bodies and physical labor
00:32:24.040 and they can't afford good health care.
00:32:26.340 So you see how their views are sort of, they united the working class,
00:32:30.420 but neither party really aligns with those set of views.
00:32:34.600 So how come, because you would say, I mean, I don't want to make this into a partisan thing,
00:32:43.080 but let me, but I think I have to.
00:32:45.760 When you're looking at Donald Trump, that is, that describes him, respect for gay people.
00:32:52.360 You know, he is, he is, he's the first president to ever have gay people openly speak at the convention.
00:33:00.800 He's very open to that, but he is also, doesn't want to be harmful to transgender people,
00:33:08.080 but is against all of this craziness.
00:33:11.640 When it comes to the, they're very against immigration.
00:33:16.700 That is huge.
00:33:19.260 And that's, that's Donald Trump.
00:33:21.460 How, how, how is it that you don't see Democrats looking at some of these big, big items and say,
00:33:30.420 okay, well, clearly this side is totally against everything I really believe in.
00:33:39.940 How come the Democrats?
00:33:41.900 We're definitely seeing that.
00:33:43.700 Trump is now polling at 35% of black men.
00:33:46.800 He's going to get much more than that.
00:33:48.840 So in 2020, he got, he was polling at 8% of black men and he got 18%.
00:33:53.940 He's now polling at 35% of black men.
00:33:57.060 He's got the majority of Hispanics polling for him.
00:34:00.240 We're seeing a mass defection of working class people of color away from the Democrats
00:34:05.680 who are actively undermining them in their future towards Donald Trump.
00:34:08.820 I'll tell you something else, Glenn.
00:34:10.580 Donald Trump is the consensus candidate that Joe Biden pretended he was going to be.
00:34:15.420 Yeah.
00:34:15.560 You are so right.
00:34:16.640 His entire agenda is right at the 50 yard line.
00:34:20.160 It's where 70% of Americans are and 0% of the elites.
00:34:24.100 So we are seeing mass defection from the Democrats to Donald Trump in the working class.
00:34:29.400 And we're seeing the elite, you know, the Nikki Haley, GOP elites will probably vote for Joe Biden.
00:34:36.420 That's the political realignment that we're seeing.
00:34:39.260 The rich are moving towards the Democrats or have moved to the Democrats, including conservative rich people.
00:34:44.540 I bet you we know that Wall Street gave more money to Joe Biden than they did to Donald Trump.
00:34:50.260 That's not an accident.
00:34:51.640 So I think you're completely right about that.
00:34:54.380 Well, not all rich people support Joe Biden.
00:34:57.460 So the elites, at what point do you think we break through the ice on people realizing that it's not Donald Trump and Joe Biden,
00:35:13.100 that it is truly the elites against, you know, people who just say, hey, can you pay attention to us in America first?
00:35:23.820 Can you just, can you not continue to just put me under water?
00:35:28.540 When, when are we going to break through that and stop playing the left, right game game and realize it's these people who think they're better than us that are just trying to put their foot on our neck all the time?
00:35:44.800 I think that this election is going to come down to the working class.
00:35:48.300 And I think it's going to become totally unignorable after that.
00:35:52.220 But the question is, what happens after that?
00:35:54.560 These working class people are not voting for the Republicans.
00:35:57.240 They're voting for Donald Trump.
00:35:58.760 And if the GOP wants to keep these voters, they have to stop pushing tax cuts over everything else.
00:36:06.400 And they have to start listening to the working class.
00:36:09.200 I interviewed 100 people and 25 of them are quoted at great length in my book, Second Class.
00:36:15.320 You want to hear how working class people who agree with you about woke and agree with you about conservative values,
00:36:21.640 but very much need an economic agenda.
00:36:25.440 They need the GOP to stop pimping them out on the altar of the woke ideas that they agree with,
00:36:31.220 but that, you know, tickle the pickle of the conservative elites, right?
00:36:35.340 And start creating an economic agenda for the working class.
00:36:39.780 The first party that gets to that combination of health care plus controlling immigration is going to have a ruling majority. 0.82
00:36:47.540 Bhatia, thank you so much for being on.
00:36:53.800 The name of the book, again, is really all about everything that we're doing right now,
00:37:01.100 everything you're feeling right now.
00:37:02.820 It's called Second Class.
00:37:05.240 Bhatia, thank you so much.
00:37:07.280 Thank you.
00:37:07.980 God bless you.
00:37:08.740 God bless you.
00:37:09.280 Na-na-na-na-na.