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Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly discuss the latest in the Trump impeachment saga, the latest on John Crist and Joy Behar and Blackface, and why The Blaze is leaving cable. Glenn and Bill also discuss why they left cable and why they are leaving The Blaze.
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Hello, America. It's Friday. We got a great show for you. Bill O'Reilly joins us as he does every
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Friday. We also talk about what the president should be saying every day, like a cuckoo clock.
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We talk about John Crist, the comedian, the Christian comedian that is having,
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you know, having some issues of his own. Also, an announcement from The Blaze this week that
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we're leaving cable, but we want you to hear why. And our Joy Behar update and her with blackface.
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Nobody seems to care about. We have all that and more on today's podcast.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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So I got up and I did what you pay me for in your time. And remember, time is money. So you pay me
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to read the New York Times so you don't have to. You pay me to watch all of the really nasty things
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and stand here and look at this, this cancer that is spreading through the body of America
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America and report back to you. So this morning, I did my duty. And I read the New York Times and
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their version of the impeachment process that is coming next week. Now, today, the New York Times,
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The Daily, focused on, what's his name? Sonderland?
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Sondland. He is the European Union ambassador from the United States. He's a guy who gave Donald
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Trump a billion dollars, sorry, a billion, a million dollars for his inauguration. And lo and
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behold, he found himself the ambassador of the European Union. A miracle.
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Yeah. Just don't know how that happens. In every administration, it's weird. Just real coincidence
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going down. So he's not a guy. He's not political or anything else. He just wanted to be the ambassador
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of the EU. So he goes to the EU and he's there. Now, this is the guy that the Republicans have been
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saying, no, he said there's no quid pro quo. Remember, he's the he's the ambassador who is
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is trying to fight and say, no, all the way along. There's no quid pro quo. Well, apparently
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in his first secret testimony, that's what he said. Now he's amended it earlier this week.
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He amended his testimony with three extra pages. And he's like, oh, oh, well, now that I've been
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reading the other people's testimony, I do kind of remember. But he didn't say he said,
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Donald Trump never said that. He said, but I felt that that's kind of what he was saying. So
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I delivered the quid pro quo message. Now, how he was reading other people's testimony and oh my
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gosh, I forgot I was the guy who delivered that. I mean, that's ridiculous. So do we believe him now
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or do we believe him then? The guy's entire credibility is is up for grabs. But so is the
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ambassador who said, absolutely, there was quid pro quo. She's now discredited herself because
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Tucker Carlson released last night some documents that show that she was in touch with the DNC and
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Schiff's office. And she said under under oath, I never responded to any of those emails. I don't
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even know what emails. Yeah. Well, unfortunately, through the FOIA act. Yeah, it looks like she did
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respond. She was like, great. What time do you want to get on the phone? So so both of them have
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problems. Now, here's the real story. The real story is, is they are still talking about quid pro
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quo, period. That's all they're talking about. And the way the New York Times is spinning this is
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and the president, you know, the president wanted the State Department to look into the corruption
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and they wouldn't look into the corruption. But those are all just conspiracy theories.
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This is Rudy Giuliani's conspiracy theory. And so the ambassadors just thought the president is
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crazy. And we're not going to look into these conspiracy theories. It's a it's an embarrassment
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to look into those conspiracy theories. And so they just were like, I don't know what to do. It's quid pro
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quo. I got to ring the bell because this is crazy. That's the way they're spinning this.
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And they are all of the things that we presented on the chalkboard now are conspiracies. They're not
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conspiracies. In fact, I talked to I talked to somebody who is a a multi-show producer for major
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network news shows and talking to her yesterday. And I said, um, I have these things. I have these
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things. And she said, Yeah, I know that you said you're going to do a special next Wednesday.
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And she said, What is it you have? And I said, Well, I'm going to send it to you on Monday.
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Because I just want to make sure we're really buttoned up on this. And she said, Well, what do
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you have? And I told her one of the things and she said, Wait, you wait, what? And I said, Yeah,
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she said, But you'd you can't go on the air with that unless you have documents to prove. And I said,
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Yeah, we do. She said, You have documents proving this? And I said, Yeah. And she said,
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And then I said to her, We also have videotape of them actually doing it. You have videotape of this?
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Yeah. She then said to me, and I quote, I'm sick to my stomach.
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This is really happening. I'm sick to my stomach. I said, Yeah, you've only heard one of these things.
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So I just Mr. President, you know, let's clip this, please, and put it in my Twitter feed.
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And please, everyone send this to the president, please retweet what I'm about to what I'm about
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to say. Because the Republicans are honest to goodness. They're like nursery school kids.
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Let's do a play. I can write a play. It's going to be about a tree.
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Hey, here's a tree. What the hell are you doing? Who is writing this stuff? Who is thinking about the
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The Democrats are making this all about quid pro quo. Republicans, people who actually are
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paying attention, and I don't know if I can include all the Republicans on this, the people
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who are actually paying attention to this and care. Your strategy is all wrong. It's all wrong.
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Here's what you and the president need to say every single day. Like a cuckoo clock. Every 15 minutes,
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somebody should be on a microphone saying this, and just saying this over and over and over again.
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Here it is. Listen, you and the media, and let me just speak directly to Americans. If you define
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quid pro quo as, hey, you get dirt on my opponents or else, the president's right. There is no quid
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pro quo. And that's what the Democrats are saying this is. You get the dirt on my opponent or else.
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However, if you define quid pro quo as, hey, this, you know, Mr. Ukrainian president, you're brand new, looks good.
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But I want you to know your country lost $7 billion from our taxpayers. Your country convicted two
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Ukrainian officials, one of which was the head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau for interfering in the U.S.
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election in collusion with the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign. Two of your investigator generals
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have been blocked for some reason by our U.S. State Department for giving the DOJ evidence of this
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and deep corruption surrounding oil and gas contracts that involved our former vice president.
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And as I said on the phone call, we have a reason to believe the same people that were doing all of that
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and made this corruption possible are still in your inner circle. So as a matter of national interests,
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I can't give you any more money unless you step to the plate and demonstrate that you're not part of
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this corruption. And what's more, you're dedicated to cleaning it up. If that's the way you define
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quid pro quo, yes, that's all on the tape. That's all there in the transcript. That's what the president
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did. But I don't and I don't think the president defines that as quid pro quo. He defines that as
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the job of the president. And I believe any honest American, Republican, Democrat, independent,
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would not only agree with that, they would do exactly the same thing. Because what's at stake
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is not just this presidency. But it's the integrity of investigations, the integrity of our elections,
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the power of the president to chart our foreign policy and not some shadow group,
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our foreign policy itself, along with the credibility of our ambassadors, and the integrity of the U.S.
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aid program. And of course, the $7 billion that went missing. That's what this is about. So you can
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make it about Joe Biden and the election if you'd like. But that's like making New York City all about
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its toll tunnels. We're going to be adults here? We're going to talk about the truth? Or are we just
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going to go get them? That is what they should say every 15 minutes like a cuckoo clock? Yeah, it's not
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about quid pro quo. If you define that as go get my go get my opponents. There's none. There's none.
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But when you read the whole context of what that phone call was about was, you're missing $7 billion.
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There's all kinds of rumors about collusion with the Democrats, some of them credible, some of them
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maybe not so credible. We don't know. And we don't trust you yet, Mr. President, we hear you're a good
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guy. But there and this is what he said on the call. But I believe some of the people that were
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involved in this corruption are still around you. You have to show us that you're not part of this
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corruption. Isn't that the job of the president? We were all so excited about about making sure that
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the Russians didn't collude. We have two people that were sentenced to prison for colluding with the
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DNC and Hillary Clinton, two anti-corruption bureau officials that were bragging about it on tape and
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were convicted in a Ukrainian court for colluding with the DNC and Hillary Clinton to
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throw our election. And we don't care. Doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense if you're looking
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for truth, if you're looking for truth. And by the way, if you're looking for truth, I highly recommend
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that you watch the video of my special, the first one and the second one, because it's about to
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get ugly next week. Next week, next Thursday, we are going to be streaming live on YouTube,
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on the Blaze TV next Wednesday, the Blaze TV, YouTube, and Facebook. And we're going to tell you what's
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really happening with Ukraine and what they're really afraid of. This is the Democrats' hydra.
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You cut off one head and two more appear, which is strange because I believe that's what the
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whistleblower's attorney said in 2017. Don't worry, we cut off one and two more will show up.
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The Democrats' hydra are special on Ukraine next Wednesday. Make sure you join us at
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blazetv.com slash Glenn, blazetv.com slash Glenn. And thank you to all of our subscribers. You are
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making all of this research possible. So thank you for doing that.
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Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program. If you like what you're hearing on
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your favorite podcasts. Hello, America. It's Friday. And that means Mr. Bill O'Reilly is joining us.
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Hello, Bill. How are you? I'm a little agitated this week. A little overworked.
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A little overworked. Yeah. Oh, America is weeping for the work you're doing. I know. I mean,
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I got a lot going on here, Beck. And I'm way ahead of all the stories. I know you're not paying
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attention, so I'm happy to be here to enlighten you. So let's start with the whistleblower. Let's
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start with his attorney, okay, who apparently has been plotting a coup against the president since
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2017. I'm shocked. Aren't you? No, yeah, no, I'm totally shocked. So this is exactly the same
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playbook, exactly the same, that was used with Brett Kavanaugh. There is no difference. So,
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take me through it. Take it through me. Take it through for us. A woman named Christine Ford
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surfaced with terrible allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. She brought them to Senator Feinstein
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in California, who took in the information, did not say anything to anyone for months, and directed
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Ms. Ford to the most radical left attorney in the country, a woman named Melinda Katz in Washington,
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D.C., whereupon they dropped the bomb on Kavanaugh. Okay, everybody remember that. Whistleblower
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takes his complaint to Adam Schiff. Which does not include quid pro quo at the time. Okay. Whatever
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the complaint was, instead of filing or holding a press conference or going to superiors or wherever,
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he goes to Adam Schiff, who sits on the complaint deck, as Senator Feinstein did, and then directs the
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whistleblower to the most radical attorney, political guy, Mark Zade in Washington, D.C.,
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a close friend of Melinda Katz. Do you see it? Is it starting to unfold in front of your eyes?
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It's like you're Doug Henning, the Canadian magician. It's so magical.
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And I'm going to break out of a suitcase in a moment.
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Okay, now, this is directed, and I can't say the group on the air, but I know who the group is because
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the group did it to me. Both Blasey Ford and the whistleblower. All of this was contrived,
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and it was well executed in the way I just laid out to you. There is no denying any of it.
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So the whistleblower really isn't a whistleblower. He, and I have named him and unmasked him on
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BillOReilly.com. I have taken my audience through who he is. He is a political activist working for
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the CIA. That's who he is. All right. And he knows all of the activist groups in Washington, D.C.,
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knows them all because they all coordinate. All right. And that's how he got into the picture.
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And I'm going to show you next week, just a side note, I'm going to show you next week
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why the CIA coordinates with all of the political active groups and why they know all of these
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things, especially why the State Department knows this. Wait until you see the deeper connections
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All right. Well, there's a cadre of people within the CIA, within the State Department,
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within national intelligence that are sympathetic to the liberal democratic agenda. And that's what
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the Justice Department is going to unmask with the John Durham investigation. We've already seen it
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in the FBI. We already know it exists. But the whistleblower is part of that. Now, if you are a
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federal whistleblower, or masquerading as one, but you're really a political activist working to
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destroy a presidency, you are not entitled to any protections, Beck. No protections, which is why
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on my news service, I named the man. Now, why Fox News and the networks and everybody else doesn't do
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it is beyond my comprehension. They all know because I told them exactly what this is. This is activism.
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Blossie Ford is an activist. Her own attorney admitted it about a month ago. He said, oh,
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it's anti-abortion. That's why we want to get Kavanaugh out of there. He's not sympathetic to
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abortion. She slipped and said it. So, enter Don Jr. going on The View. A huge mistake, even though I
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know why he did it, because I did it. I don't know. Have you ever been on The View, Beck?
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I have, once. Okay. Oh, it was memorable, Bill. You would have loved this one. Yeah, you would have.
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Glenn was, like, dying of sickness this day, and then he got yelled at by, what was it,
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Whoopi? Was it Whoopi over a train? No, it was, yeah, it was Whoopi. Remember, I did the whole thing
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about Barbara Walters being like a bat and swooping in, and she was very offended. So, I had to go up
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against Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, and Joy Behar, and they all lied about something
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I had the goods on. In fact, I had, remember, it was that they were holding a train in New York
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with their seats, and they said, how dare you say that? And I said, I was there. I saw you. I tried
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to sit in those seats, because I got there before you, and Amtrak wouldn't let me. I even got Amtrak to
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go on record saying, yeah, that's what we did. That's right. I remember that. Yeah, it was crazy.
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Yeah, I remember. All right, so you remember when I, I was on air a number of times. Yeah,
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oh, yeah. And the big walk-off, when Behar and Goldberg walked off the set, which I wanted,
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which I applauded. Yeah, I know. I know. All right. Now, the only reason that I went on that show
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is because of Barbara Walters, and Barbara Walters was fair to me, and I knew,
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going on The View, that those people watching The View aren't going to buy my books, but
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it would get onto the internet, and then that's why Donald Jr. did it. So he got a book out. He
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wants people to buy the book. He knows nobody's going to buy the book watching The View, but
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all of this stuff that's going to happen, and he knew what was going to happen, but he wasn't
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prepared. He wasn't well-prepared, unfortunately. Don Jr., if he had Colby, I could have gotten him
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through it, but he wasn't well-prepared. So anyway, he goes on there, and the first thing that
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happens is Abby Huntsman, who used to work for Fox News, starts lacing him about the
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whistleblower because Don Jr. said his name in a tweet. Now, all Don Jr. had to say was
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what I just told you and Stu. He's not a whistleblower. He's an activist. All right?
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That's who he is. He's got the title of any protections, and I'm a private citizen. If I
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want to out him, I can out him. There's no law that says I can't, even though that editor
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idiot, Hostin would go, oh, you broke the law. No, he didn't. The law only applies to
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federal agencies, not individuals. Okay? So this whole thing, The View, I mean, that's
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like going into an opium den in Taiwan. That's what it's like. Well, if the opium den had...
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Your rationality is going to be uttered. You're not going to get any rationality there, any
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truth, any anything. You basically go in, and they throw Jell-O at you.
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Yes. Well, and Joy Behar also is like a little chihuahua that's just yipe, yipe, yipe, yipe,
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You know, but you can't euthanize her like you could.
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But no, you would not want to talk about that, for sure.
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No, hang on just a second. I just, I want to play, because Joy Behar, I said this about
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her yesterday, and she actually has made a statement. Sarah, could you play the Joy Behar
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So all of this stuff has now made the impeachment for next week. And by the way, I think I'm going
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to talk to you guys on Thursday, right after the impeachment. I hope we can work that out
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next week, okay, so I can, you know, weigh in with my perspicacity on it. But it has made
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this a carnival. Now it's a carnival. It's not a serious political hearing. It's not something
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that would improve the nation, a stellar exposition of democracy. It is a carnival.
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Okay, so let me take a one-minute break and come back and ask you about the timing of this
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carnival. So it will go to really, why are they doing this? They don't really have a case. Why
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are they doing it? Why are they doing it right before the holidays when everybody's going to tune
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So I talked to somebody on Capitol Hill yesterday, talked to a couple of people and I asked them,
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I said, so what are the Democrats doing? What do they have? And he said, they don't have anything.
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Glenn, there's nothing new here. It's really nothing for the president to worry about at this point.
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A, do you agree with that? What do your sources tell you? And if that is the case,
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why are they moving forward with it? And if it's not the case, why would they move forward with
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impeachment now when you're approaching the holidays and so everybody's interest is going
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to be elsewhere? Bill O'Reilly. And I don't have an astute assistant like Stu sitting next to me with
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the, you know, that's me, the astute assistant. Right. Okay. So there isn't anything that would
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rise to the removal of a president. Everybody knows that unless something else comes out right now.
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It's not even going to be close in the Senate. McConnell already has his game plan. He's not
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going to tell anybody, but it's a quick strike dismissal. Don't even know if they'll vote.
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They're just going to get rid of it. Okay. Stop, stop, stop. Yep. Doesn't that hurt the
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Republicans? No, because the American, the American public is tuning out of this. All right. Now cable
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news will get decent ratings next week for the first hearing, but they've had enough. If you look at
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the polls, uh, people aren't buying this only the zealots are buying it because they want them out.
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All right. Isn't it, but isn't it worth the Senate putting an end to this by bringing those people up
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to testify? They know what they're going to say. Listen to me. They don't want to do that. They
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don't want to do it. They would already have done it back. They would already have had many hearings
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and subpoenas. If they want to do that, they just want to get rid of it. Then it's a mistake
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because you're letting the DNC, you're letting the DNC use a foreign government to be able to
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influence our elections. We don't care about collusion anymore. Then back back. God, you just
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do try to get them back. I'll get them back. I will astutely do that. Okay. The Republicans know
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this is bull and they want to get rid of it as fast as possible. And here's how they know the
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reason this is happening at all is because the Democrats have no one to run against Trump next
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year. They have no one. So to mask that disaster, to keep the unbelievably incompetent candidates
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away from the public, they have launched this impeachment with the very slender hope that maybe
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they could get something, which is not happening. That's why they're doing it. Because Kamala Harris and
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Beto O'Rourke and Castro and Klobuchar, nobody likes them. Beck. All right. They have nobody.
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Every time Joe Biden opens his mouth, we find out that his cousin or niece got a million dollars from
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Tanzania. All right. They can't put them out. So they want to mask it. And that's why this is
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correct. So why not a teach them a lesson that you cannot do this to a political system? You can't do this to a
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country. You can't you can't come out with hang on. Let me speak. Bill. Why not? Why not also expose what they were
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really doing? And taking all of these lousy candidates, Bernie Sanders, Warren and everybody
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else. And if you have the impeachment hearing in the Senate, they must be there. So you take them off
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the campaign trail. You discredit all of the DNC. You discredit and you end once and for all
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this nonsense of of of Donald Trump colluding because, number one, the press would never report
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it honestly. Number two, it would take all the oxygen out of the room for what, five months,
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six months before all of this is done. They just want to get rid of it because they think
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that Trump can take it on his own and ram it down their throats, which he will. And that the Justice
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Department in the spring, Durham, is going to show all this and indict people. Well, if that is if
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that is doing it, if that is department's going to do it, if that's true, then then I then I would
00:29:58.300
agree with it. I don't. That's the track back. That's that's why Pompeo goes to I'm sorry. That's
00:30:05.120
why the Attorney General Barr goes to Italy. We talked about this last week. Do you not remember
00:30:09.940
what we said last week? Oh, my gosh, Bill O'Reilly, don't play this game with me. Don't play this game
00:30:14.480
with me. You know, I have been I have been waiting for IG reports. We've been waiting for anyone that I
00:30:25.480
talk to people on Capitol Hill. And the stuff that they don't know is going on is remarkable. And
00:30:33.280
these are very well informed people. So I'll believe it when I see it. It's going to be the
00:30:40.240
Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Horowitz will eke out whatever he wants. He's just he's a deep stater.
00:30:46.360
But I have some confidence in Barr and Durham that they are. And I think that'll happen.
00:30:52.080
What do you think? I could be wrong on that. I could be wrong. But that's what the
00:30:56.260
Senate Republicans are banking on. Bill, do you buy the reports that Barr was asked to
00:31:01.340
come out and say publicly that Trump did not break any laws and decided to refuse that request?
00:31:07.120
Was that in The Washington Post? It was in one of your favorite sources.
00:31:11.060
Yeah. If it was in The Washington Post, I don't believe it. It might be true. But I don't believe
00:31:17.840
anything in that newspaper. They also reported the Nationals won the World Series. Do you believe
00:31:21.960
that? I saw that with my own eyes, though. All right. All right. So that reportage didn't
00:31:27.280
even have to happen. I you know, and believe me, Stu, that wasn't an anonymous source about
00:31:33.120
the Nats. All right. We saw it. That's true. Whenever you see anonymous sources in The
00:31:38.300
Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, don't believe it. All right. Back with more from Bill
00:31:46.420
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00:32:23.000
I want to talk to you a little bit about a story that came out yesterday, day before,
00:32:27.520
that you might have read. Probably not of great interest to anyone, but I wanted to address it.
00:32:34.060
There was a story that came out in The Hollywood Reporter and Variety and others that Glenn Beck's
00:32:40.420
The Blaze is going to end on linear TV. Digital properties will continue. If you remember,
00:32:47.040
and you've been listening to me for a long time, about 2010, or at least Fox 2010, early 2011,
00:32:54.360
we started The Blaze in 2010. And the idea was, the first idea was just to pay for all the research
00:33:04.460
that we were doing for my show. And so we started The Blaze just as a offshoot of, you know,
00:33:13.440
just a news gathering place. Then, when we saw the state of the control of cable and the horizon
00:33:25.680
of what was coming, we knew that cable was not the place to be. In fact, I said to Stu every day,
00:33:32.580
and verify this, Stu, every day from like 2009 until the day we left Fox, I said,
00:33:38.380
we have to get out of here. This whole industry is going to burn to the ground. Yeah, you were never
00:33:42.120
a fan of the cable sort of thing. And, you know, you made that clear on the air even when we were,
00:33:48.860
you know, doing it. Right. So we were doing it, and we did it because in 2010 and 11 and 12,
00:33:56.120
that was still the major force. It was still a time where, you know, every time you tried to play
00:34:01.340
a video on your phone, it would buffer for minutes. You know, you couldn't, no one knew
00:34:06.420
how to get things on their TV that were streaming. It was really early. Remember, it was still at the
00:34:11.200
time when people would go, oh, you do an internet show? Yeah. I mean, it was, it was not, it was just
00:34:17.780
not anything that anybody believed in at the time. Well, technology has changed a great deal.
00:34:24.820
And when it comes to cable contracts, if you look at, you know, what is it, Fox Nation,
00:34:30.940
which I'm sure is a fine service. If you look at Fox Nation, they don't have any other major talent
00:34:35.720
on Fox Nation. And the reason why is because they have cable contracts. We have those same kind of
00:34:40.920
cable contracts. And it's why we haven't had a YouTube page. I haven't had a Glenn Beck YouTube
00:34:47.040
page until this year. We started a few months ago. You know, everybody else has, you know,
00:34:54.120
500,000, a million people. Some people have 5 million people on YouTube. Well, we didn't have
00:35:01.260
one because I couldn't post any of my material on YouTube because of our cable contracts.
00:35:08.400
We now have, we now have Dave Rubin as part of our team. We have Mark Levin. You'll notice Mark
00:35:17.620
Levin doesn't have a show on the Blaze Linear channel, if you're watching cable, because
00:35:23.980
of contracts. The straw that broke the camel back, I mean, we have been doing this, we've been going
00:35:31.200
here for a very long time. And we had made the decision and we knew what we were going to do and
00:35:36.080
go all 100% digital for a long time. But let me just give you one story that really, I think,
00:35:44.480
really, truly says it all. AT&T loses a whopping, this is from Variety, AT&T loses whopping 1.4
00:35:57.360
million TV customers in third quarter. People are cutting the cable in numbers that are a death
00:36:08.580
spiral. We can't, and I love the cable people that have carried our show and I am grateful
00:36:16.220
for everything that they have done and I hope that they feel we have been good partners to them.
00:36:21.280
And I appreciate everybody who's watched us on cable. But we are now being, because of our contracts
00:36:27.840
and we live up to our contracts, we have to make a choice. We either put these things on Facebook,
00:36:35.260
YouTube, and our own digital platform, or they go on cable and that's it. It's, that's, that's the
00:36:44.620
losing proposition. So we are, we are exciting, very excited about the future. And we really,
00:36:55.940
truly want to thank our, our cable companies that have been with us. And we wish them the best,
00:37:01.880
we really do. But just in the last 90 days alone, on my YouTube channel, which by the way,
00:37:10.600
didn't have any subscribers because we didn't have one really, didn't have anything just a few months
00:37:16.340
ago. In the last 90 days, 141 million minutes have been watched of content. Over the last 90 days on
00:37:25.820
the Blaze TV YouTube channel, which couldn't post anything, you know, in the, in the days gone by,
00:37:32.820
we now had in the last 90 days, 156 million minutes. And on Blaze TV, 260 million minutes have been
00:37:43.620
consumed. That's all online. We had to make the decision, where are we going? And where is the
00:37:52.660
world going? And the world is going digital. And our goal is to be with you wherever you are.
00:38:01.120
And companies like Amazon, Netflix, Disney Plus, that's the future. That is the future. And we hope
00:38:10.040
to be the news and conservative commentary and the libertarian commentary, the common sense.
00:38:17.060
We want everyone here who loves the Bill of Rights and loves, loves America. If you agree with the
00:38:23.080
Bill of Rights, and you love America, and that doesn't mean you're blindly loving America, you can
00:38:28.720
point out its flaws, but you don't want to see her destroyed. This is the place for you. And we are
00:38:35.380
growing at exponential growth, growth, not only in subscriptions and and everything else, our subscriber
00:38:43.580
list. When everybody said, Oh, Glenn Beck's a genius. And I was like, No, no, we're really not.
00:38:50.140
It's just common sense. Glenn Beck's a genius. Everybody, everybody, when I was winning awards
00:38:54.820
for being a genius, the blaze is bigger in subscribers now than then. It's bigger now than
00:39:02.280
it's ever been. And so anybody who was counting us out, don't bet against people who have nothing to
00:39:10.040
lose and don't care. So we're bigger than we've ever been. And we plan on being here for a very long
00:39:19.980
time and leading the way. We do also have to announce, however, the closing of our eight track
00:39:26.180
tape division. We will no longer be producing Glenn shows on eight track tapes. Are we failing?
00:39:32.700
Well, we have failed. And we haven't sold one in about 20 years. Wow. So we really probably should
00:39:38.200
have closed it a while ago. Yeah. But I just, you know, I just kept thinking it was going to make a
00:39:42.580
comeback. And well, but the good news is I am doing this show in AM stereo quad. Oh, so. So we got that
00:39:51.340
going. Quad. Yeah. Nice. When you get to quad, you know, you're doing well. Yeah. Did you see, by the way,
00:39:56.220
the, you mentioned Disney plus the, the amount of money they are spending on like on some of these
00:40:02.740
shows. Over a hundred million dollars for one series. There's one, and it's, it's tied into
00:40:08.640
Marvel. You know me with the superhero movies. I don't understand any of it, but they're one of the
00:40:13.680
Marvel series they're apparently doing. And, and listen, I mean, how much money are they going to
00:40:18.600
make off of this? They're saying, if you don't see this TV series, you're not probably going to
00:40:23.080
understand the Marvel movies anymore. Like, Oh my God. I mean, this is unbelievable. They're
00:40:27.940
going to make so much money, but they're spending, I think it's $24 million an episode. Oh my gosh.
00:40:35.180
On tell on a television show. Oh my gosh. I mean, you could see, I read a, I read a story about
00:40:40.400
something that they're doing with the star Wars series and, um, the star Wars series, they're
00:40:46.840
spending a hundred thousand dollars or a hundred million dollars. And I think it's for an episode
00:40:52.780
and apparently the graphics are all way ahead. It is supposedly stunning. Uh, Bob Iger has watched
00:41:01.700
it now three times. The first one to see a rough cut, to make sure the story was right. The second
00:41:07.800
time to see if his notes had been implemented. And the third time, because he was just like,
00:41:12.720
I'm blown away. I'm just blown away. Just turning into a fan. Yeah. I mean, uh, this is the, is this
00:41:18.160
the, the bounty, the, I keep thinking about the Boba Fett show, but it's really not about Boba Fett,
00:41:22.680
but it's about a bounty hunter. It's like, uh, I keep, I don't know the name of it. I keep thinking
00:41:26.580
it's the Metachlorians, which is always like, I don't want to watch that. Mandalorian. Mandalorian.
00:41:31.660
Yeah. Mandalorian. Uh, that I was like Disney plus. I mean, I got, I got a couple of kids. I'm still,
00:41:37.720
I just went to Disneyland. I have no plans of getting Disney plus. I just ordered it this week. The second I saw
00:41:42.080
the star Wars thing. I'm like, crap. I just, you know what I did is I signed up. Uh, and then,
00:41:46.980
uh, I, uh, gave them God only knows how much money to buy like three years in advance. Cause it was
00:41:52.980
like less, it was like four bucks a month or something. If you do it in advance, I found a
00:41:57.180
special offer online. I'm a coupon cutter. I got a year because it was cheaper for a year. I didn't
00:42:03.740
see the four years. Yeah. It was three or four years or something. Um, and then right after that,
00:42:07.780
like all these phone companies started saying, by the way, you get a year free of a Disney plus.
00:42:12.080
With your subscription to your phone. I'm like, wait, what the hell? We're not dumb. No, they're
00:42:17.880
not dumb. And now here's where this problem, this is where it's going to turn into a problem
00:42:21.600
because all of these companies that own all this IP, they own all, you know, they own Disney on star
00:42:28.940
Wars, all of the Disney movies, all of the touchstone movies, uh, all of the Fox movies,
00:42:36.460
they own all of that stuff. So now what are they going to do with the license with Netflix?
00:42:45.420
They can't cancel the license because they have a contract with Netflix and Amazon, but are they
00:42:51.720
going to say to Netflix, when this contract is up, we're pulling all of our material.
00:42:58.180
They'll gut places like Netflix. Although by then Netflix has so much original stuff.
00:43:04.500
They're indispensable too, or you get to have a bunch of subscriptions for a while. I don't
00:43:10.240
know how this shakes out in the end. Uh, there's going to be a lot of, uh, you know, a lot of
00:43:14.460
options to, to get your entertainment. Well, you're going to, you're already starting to see
00:43:18.920
things like, you know, I don't know, Pluto and, and Hulu that will Hulu now is Comcast. Uh, so
00:43:26.620
that's Comcast universal, but an NBC, but you're seeing other things that are just saying, we're
00:43:32.920
just going to put a linear stream up of these channels. And so when you, when you start to
00:43:40.740
have a linear stream, that's free, and then you can go into an upgrade and say, I want the
00:43:48.160
whole Disney plus, not just what they're releasing every day in a linear stream. You know what I
00:43:53.700
mean? I mean, you're replacing cable with things like Pluto and Pluto doesn't, it's not, I mean,
00:44:00.000
it's like your cable company, but it's, you're not paying for it. You know, there's no cable
00:44:03.960
service there. I mean, you're, you're just going online and you're seeing all these shows.
00:44:09.100
What I need now is a way to ingest multiple shows at the same time, because right now,
00:44:16.500
all I can do is watch one show at a time and there's too many shows I want to watch. So
00:44:20.300
now I need like, I need a way to like matrix, like it plug in. Yes. So they just insert
00:44:25.400
all the shows as if I've enjoyed them. See, cause I'm, I'm kind of there. What I'm thinking
00:44:29.700
is I need a way to never go to work, kiss my wife, see my children, just be able to watch
00:44:38.380
all of the quality programming. And this is your wife and children approved, approved this
00:44:42.400
part. It was the kiss my wife part. Yeah. She's like, Oh, I gotta kiss him still. Let him plug