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00:00:37.740 So here's the podcast for today. We talk about the Electoral College.

00:00:40.800 Democrats immediately coming after it. They're pissed off.

00:00:43.140 They've lost two elections because they think we won the popular vote and we lost the Electoral College.

00:00:48.620 Now they've introduced legislation to get rid of the Electoral College.

00:00:52.320 Kevin Hart may be back on as the Oscars host.

00:00:56.660 He got cleansed kind of yesterday by Ellen DeGeneres.

00:01:00.820 He did, which is amazing.

00:01:02.960 We have a lot of stuff on the border.

00:01:04.380 We have environmentalists as movie villains.

00:01:08.460 This is a new trend going on in Hollywood, bizarrely.

00:01:11.820 We'll give you some examples of that, which are pretty cool as well.

00:01:14.360 It's all on today's podcast.

00:01:15.180 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:31.520 Kevin Hart had some tweets that haunted him from the past.

00:01:36.460 In fact, these, it was a long past too.

00:01:38.840 I think it was nine years ago.

00:01:40.740 Were they nine or 10 year old tweets?

00:01:45.240 I think they were around that area.

00:01:46.880 Yeah, I think they were from 2009 to 2012 or something like that.

00:01:51.320 And he was scheduled to do the Oscars.

00:01:53.380 And then these tweets, homophobic tweets, appeared.

00:01:57.780 And he'd already apologized for them.

00:02:00.960 He'd already explained them, but they resurfaced.

00:02:03.820 And there was a big deal about it.

00:02:05.900 And so he stepped down as host of the Oscars.

00:02:09.260 Well, yesterday he showed up on Ellen.

00:02:12.340 And Ellen DeGeneres, I think, is kind of washing him clean of his tweets. 1.00

00:02:19.040 And this is really smart to do because, obviously, she's homosexual. 1.00

00:02:23.120 She's a lesbian. 1.00

00:02:25.140 She's the authority, too, on the topic.

00:02:27.380 Yeah, pretty much.

00:02:28.300 It seems like if you want to get an okay from someone that you're not a homophobe,

00:02:32.560 if you can get Ellen to say it, then you're clear.

00:02:35.640 I feel like that is the position our society is in.

00:02:38.100 It's really smart.

00:02:38.800 Like if, yeah, there's certain people.

00:02:42.280 I mean, Ellen is just such a high-profile person. 0.99

00:02:45.480 And she seems.

00:02:46.940 Well-liked.

00:02:47.360 She's well-liked.

00:02:48.120 She seems rational.

00:02:49.420 She can.

00:02:50.460 She doesn't seem like someone who would just give anyone an excuse, right?

00:02:58.480 Like if she believed you and she gave you an excuse and said, look, I know you did this a while ago.

00:03:04.120 You're saying it's wrong now.

00:03:05.140 I believe you.

00:03:05.740 You should be reinstated or whatever.

00:03:08.540 That's your clearance process.

00:03:09.800 I feel in the United States in 2018, where we have like probably our next president is going to be Kanye West.

00:03:15.620 Let's be honest about it.

00:03:16.720 It's probably another four years of Trump and then Kanye.

00:03:19.260 So in a society like that, I mean, Kanye might be running against Khloe Kardashian.

00:03:24.180 That might be the matchup.

00:03:25.540 So in that society, I feel like Ellen is the authority that can come in and say, look, you are clean. 0.58

00:03:33.980 You are not.

00:03:34.820 You're a homophobe.

00:03:35.720 You are not.

00:03:36.340 Just the judge, jury, and executioner on this topic.

00:03:38.720 And if you can get a clearance from Ellen, like you get a hall pass from Ellen, you're back in the game on homophobic tweets.

00:03:47.240 I think this is that hall pass.

00:03:49.520 And here she is begging Kevin Hart to host the Oscars.

00:03:54.000 So I called the Academy today because I really want you to host the Oscars.

00:03:58.700 I think that I was so excited when I heard that they asked you.

00:04:02.120 I thought it was an amazing thing.

00:04:03.500 I knew how important it was and how it was a dream.

00:04:06.020 So I called them.

00:04:07.500 I said, Kevin's on.

00:04:08.340 I have no idea if he wants to come back and host.

00:04:11.220 But what are your thoughts?

00:04:12.760 And they were like, oh, my God, we want him to host.

00:04:15.080 We feel like that maybe he misunderstood or it was handled wrong or maybe we said the wrong thing.

00:04:20.600 But we want him to host.

00:04:22.180 Whatever we can do, we would be thrilled.

00:04:24.740 And he should host the Oscars.

00:04:27.600 So I hope he gets his salary doubled for it, too.

00:04:35.480 Oh, man.

00:04:36.120 You know this is happening.

00:04:38.160 This is why they haven't selected another host.

00:04:40.560 It's as you suspected and were saying on my show earlier that they knew this was coming.

00:04:47.800 They knew this appearance was going to happen on Ellen.

00:04:49.980 And so they've been holding out for this to happen.

00:04:52.720 And now he's been washed clean and they'll invite him back and he'll, okay, reluctantly agree.

00:05:01.760 And when he does his open, somewhere in there, he will first make a couple of jokes about himself.

00:05:06.420 Right.

00:05:06.700 And then he will have some heartfelt, you know what is great?

00:05:10.400 Gays sort of monologue. 1.00

00:05:12.320 Yes.

00:05:13.080 Yes.

00:05:13.460 And maybe it'll even feature Ellen.

00:05:15.520 Yeah.

00:05:15.760 Ellen might come out. 0.97

00:05:16.800 Yeah.

00:05:17.420 And then there will be some special award to represent gays in entertainment.

00:05:25.000 And right.

00:05:25.940 Like this is what we get.

00:05:27.380 Then a singer who is a well-known gay person will come out and sing and dance or whatever they do.

00:05:33.160 And they will give hugs to Kevin Hart and tell him they understand.

00:05:37.460 And we will all need to accept it now.

00:05:39.780 Then Kevin Hart will announce that he is in fact gay.

00:05:44.420 God, that would be a great ending.

00:05:46.220 That's an Oscars to watch right there.

00:05:48.120 That I would watch.

00:05:48.820 That I would watch.

00:05:49.600 Yes, I would watch that.

00:05:50.520 Kevin did respond or at least attempt to kind of respond to the Oscars offer, which is amazing.

00:05:55.480 First of all, before we play that, now we're at the point where the Oscars are asking him to host again.

00:06:01.220 Right.

00:06:01.480 Like how did, one call from Ellen DeGeneres goes from you're fired to please let him host. 1.00

00:06:08.540 Crazy.

00:06:09.100 Please come back, sir.

00:06:10.320 Please.

00:06:11.180 That's a lot of power.

00:06:13.020 That's a lot of power.

00:06:13.600 It really is.

00:06:14.220 Here is Kevin Hart's response.

00:06:16.140 I think that you have said a lot of amazing things.

00:06:19.760 You have put a lot of things on my mind.

00:06:22.620 And I know where our relationship stands.

00:06:25.340 So leaving here, I'm promising you, I'm evaluating this conversation.

00:06:30.980 This is a conversation I needed to have.

00:06:33.260 I'm glad that I had it here.

00:06:34.700 And I'm glad that it was as authentic and real as I could have hoped that it would be.

00:06:39.500 Oh, it's real.

00:06:40.320 Oh, he's coming back.

00:06:40.940 We assess.

00:06:41.800 Oh, he's coming back.

00:06:42.480 Just to sit in the space and really think.

00:06:46.060 And you and I will talk before anything else.

00:06:48.660 Okay.

00:06:49.040 Okay?

00:06:49.420 Okay.

00:06:49.740 That's my call.

00:06:52.200 He's hosting the Oscars.

00:06:53.600 He does it and he gets a raise.

00:06:55.380 Yep.

00:06:56.300 He's hosting the Oscars.

00:06:57.240 That's amazing.

00:06:58.360 So a couple things here.

00:06:59.300 First of all, Ellen is a comedian.

00:07:01.480 Everyone thinks she's a talk show host and she's been a talk show host for a million years. 1.00

00:07:05.220 But her training is in stand-up comedy.

00:07:07.880 She just did, I think it was a Netflix special.

00:07:10.400 She's trying to get back in that world. 1.00

00:07:12.660 And she's probably, probably, I don't know this for a fact, but probably on the right side

00:07:17.480 when it comes to the burning at the stake of comedians every time they make a joke people

00:07:22.460 don't like.

00:07:23.180 She's probably on the right side of that.

00:07:24.760 Comedians, even liberal comedians who will boycott you for, if a conservative commentator

00:07:30.080 says something, they'll be on the front lines of the boycott.

00:07:32.440 But when it comes to comedians, they're very forgiving.

00:07:36.820 And so that's probably part of this here.

00:07:39.580 And I think that she's probably on the right side of that genuinely.

00:07:45.220 Separately from the issues of, you know, gay issues and all that other stuff.

00:07:49.640 When it comes to a free speech issue, I'd be surprised if Ellen was on the wrong side 1.00

00:07:53.820 of it.

00:07:54.200 Yeah, I would too.

00:07:55.040 So I think that's part of it.

00:07:57.020 And I think it's interesting to watch this sort of happen because you, it really, we are

00:08:02.400 in that, in that world in which the, we have completely abandoned free due process when

00:08:11.420 it comes to things like this.

00:08:12.840 We don't even, it's just an automatic outrage machine and we go after everybody all the time.

00:08:17.060 Um, and we've abandoned that due process for this due process, which is, will Ellen say

00:08:22.800 it's okay?

00:08:23.960 Like if Ellen says it's okay, then the guy comes back and no one cares.

00:08:27.660 Like he will not even be a controversial figure.

00:08:30.280 And that just happened.

00:08:31.180 Right.

00:08:31.740 And I don't think this, he won't have any lingering side effects from this now.

00:08:36.660 I think that's how clean she just washed him.

00:08:39.160 Yeah.

00:08:39.420 That's amazing.

00:08:40.320 Yeah, it is.

00:08:40.900 And again, the Oscars last year, we're dealing with Oscars.

00:08:44.000 So white, right?

00:08:45.500 Remember that?

00:08:46.000 Right.

00:08:46.160 Oscars were so white.

00:08:46.880 So they brought in a black host.

00:08:48.660 Yep.

00:08:49.140 Then they fired him because he wasn't friendly enough to gaze.

00:08:52.080 These people are lost.

00:08:53.700 It's amazing.

00:08:54.280 In their, in their intersectionality.

00:08:56.220 They don't know what to do.

00:08:58.120 They have absolutely no idea how to keep up with their constantly changing standards

00:09:02.780 of what's okay to say and what's not okay to say.

00:09:05.100 Yeah.

00:09:05.780 And it is.

00:09:06.360 Or who's okay to host and who's not okay to host.

00:09:08.820 It is fun to watch.

00:09:10.480 It, well, when liberals are eating their own, it is fun to, it is fun.

00:09:14.420 And, and I, I think that's part of the problem here.

00:09:18.200 But, but this is pretty interesting because I, I think that was, I think this was all sort

00:09:25.360 of decided not on the show, but pre the show, before the show.

00:09:29.960 And this was part of the plan to get him on Ellen.

00:09:33.180 And, uh, I feel like I'm watching theater a little bit here.

00:09:35.420 Yeah.

00:09:35.740 Right.

00:09:35.960 Like, Oh, he's been fired.

00:09:36.840 Oh, wait a minute.

00:09:37.780 What if we have gold?

00:09:38.640 You go on Ellen and you get an okay from Ellen.

00:09:40.800 We'll bring you back.

00:09:41.540 And she goes on.

00:09:43.180 He gets, and he doesn't accept it right away.

00:09:44.800 He's going to make it.

00:09:45.480 It's dramatic.

00:09:46.620 I'm going to think about it in my space for a while.

00:09:48.920 I'll tell you this.

00:09:49.520 If you get a, if the Oscars announce a special, like a, who wants to be a host special with

00:09:54.160 like all the reality TV trappings.

00:09:56.820 I think they bring back Trump to host it.

00:09:59.460 And Trump gets the final approval to Kevin Hart.

00:10:03.200 That's the way this needs to end.

00:10:04.520 Yes.

00:10:07.400 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:10:11.540 I think the closest thing you could come to right now is Louis C.K.

00:10:19.020 And Louis C.K. is not a conservative, but he occasionally makes points that are friendly

00:10:23.280 to conservatives.

00:10:24.320 Right.

00:10:24.540 And when he does that, uh, he gets abandoned.

00:10:28.120 They didn't, they, they would have let him back into the world if he was Mr. Liberal, uh,

00:10:32.940 spokesperson, but he's come out and said, you know, some of the identity politics stuff

00:10:37.000 is dumb.

00:10:37.880 And, you know, that thing that we've played before about, you know,

00:10:41.540 without abortion is absolutely amazing from him.

00:10:44.320 Yeah.

00:10:44.400 And it's too conservative, I think, for people's, for, for the left.

00:10:49.320 I mean, they certainly.

00:10:49.800 It forces them into a tough spot.

00:10:51.240 Yeah.

00:10:51.480 To admit, essentially, yes, this is a baby or.

00:10:54.280 Yeah.

00:10:54.520 It's a baby and it's killing babies. 1.00

00:10:56.660 And then he goes through that whole routine.

00:10:58.840 Well, it's not really killing, but it's kind of, yes, it's completely killing babies.

00:11:02.760 It's amazing.

00:11:05.480 It's an amazing thing to admit.

00:11:06.780 And I think, I think he even says in there somewhere that he's pro-choice.

00:11:09.620 If I remember correctly, I don't even think, I don't, I don't even think he's a pro-life

00:11:13.820 person.

00:11:15.060 Um, he's just saying that if you want to be honest about it, admit the fact that this

00:11:19.660 is what you're doing and then justify it.

00:11:21.240 Yeah.

00:11:21.340 We should play that.

00:11:22.220 Uh, yeah.

00:11:23.140 We, here's Louis CK on abortion.

00:11:24.980 People hate abortion protesters.

00:11:26.440 They're so shrill and awful.

00:11:28.200 They think babies are being murdered.

00:11:32.100 What are they supposed to be like?

00:11:33.720 Uh, I don't know.

00:11:34.540 It's not cool.

00:11:36.520 I don't want to be a about it, though.

00:11:39.460 I don't want to ruin their day as they murder several babies all the time. 0.99

00:11:45.980 I don't think it's killing a baby.

00:11:47.480 I don't.

00:11:48.000 See?

00:11:48.220 I mean, it is, it's a, it's a little bit.

00:11:50.220 Uh-oh.

00:11:50.880 It's a little bit killing a baby.

00:11:52.380 It's a little bit.

00:11:55.000 It's 100% killing a baby.

00:11:56.300 It is, it's totally killing a whole baby. 0.53

00:12:00.280 A whole baby.

00:12:03.980 But, I think that women should be allowed to kill babies. 1.00

00:12:08.620 That's what I think.

00:12:09.900 They should be allowed to kill babies. 1.00

00:12:12.540 Yeah.

00:12:13.200 And they cheer.

00:12:14.260 Yeah.

00:12:14.820 And they cheer.

00:12:15.260 Amazing.

00:12:15.800 Woo! 0.99

00:12:17.200 And he mocks that.

00:12:18.120 We get to kill babies! 1.00

00:12:20.740 That's brilliant.

00:12:22.100 Do some shots and kill some babies. 1.00

00:12:24.340 I killed, like, four babies last night.

00:12:29.220 It was f***ing retarded. 1.00

00:12:33.640 I just think it has to be one or the other.

00:12:35.360 You know, like, when people say abortion should be legal, safe, and rare.

00:12:40.480 Why rare if it should be legal?

00:12:43.400 If it should be legal, it's, it's s***ing.

00:12:46.280 If it should be rare, it's murdering babies! 1.00

00:12:50.640 And see, that's...

00:12:52.160 100% true.

00:12:53.320 It's 100% true.

00:12:55.000 And it's a way he just covered both sides, really.

00:12:59.160 And did that brilliantly.

00:13:01.420 Just, but I don't know if the left considers that brilliant.

00:13:05.800 It's a real loss losing him as an entertainer.

00:13:07.900 Again, if he did some...

00:13:09.220 Even his explanation, and the explanations and accusations against him and the scandal,

00:13:14.080 we've gone over this before, are not anywhere remotely close to stuff we're talking about

00:13:19.000 with Harvey Weinstein.

00:13:20.020 He just seemed like he was a creepy guy at one point in his life that did things that

00:13:24.180 were very creepy that were also consented to.

00:13:27.480 Uh, so, you know, I don't, I don't know, uh, that whole situation, if there's more to

00:13:33.600 it, maybe there is, I don't know.

00:13:35.120 But, as it stands now, it's a real loss, I mean, as far as, he's able to do that.

00:13:40.760 I mean, this is a guy who was a liberal icon.

00:13:44.120 Yeah, oh yeah.

00:13:44.600 They loved this guy, he was, you know, and he was able to do that.

00:13:47.800 I mean, that, that's the type of monologue that honestly can change opinions.

00:13:51.560 When you approach it like that, you take someone who you've heard talk rationally and interestingly

00:13:56.160 on a million different topics and you break it down like that, that is true.

00:14:00.300 You, you basically have to say it's nothing.

00:14:02.880 It's just removing some cells.

00:14:04.240 It's removing some flesh.

00:14:05.440 You know, I always think of it as, it's equivalent of plastic surgery, right?

00:14:08.620 You're removing a, you're, maybe you're, you're enhancing a breast, you're lifting a nose.

00:14:12.820 There's no conservative who opposes that.

00:14:15.060 You're removing fat cells.

00:14:16.260 Right.

00:14:16.540 From your stomach.

00:14:17.300 Liposuction.

00:14:17.880 Same thing.

00:14:18.400 Exactly.

00:14:18.860 And there's no conservative that opposes that.

00:14:20.660 Right.

00:14:20.860 Because it's not hurting another person.

00:14:22.140 It's, it's you doing something to yourself.

00:14:24.460 If you, it's the other thing.

00:14:26.160 Other life, that's what, what is important.

00:14:28.500 And that's what he gets across there.

00:14:29.820 He does.

00:14:30.520 And he puts, he puts you.

00:14:31.300 In a really effective way.

00:14:32.500 And he does this all the time.

00:14:33.660 He puts you in a position where you have to sort of honestly question what you're doing.

00:14:42.060 He puts that so, it's such a black and white and obvious truth that, you know what, you

00:14:46.900 can, you can, he's, he's even saying, you can take the position of, uh, you know, uh, it's

00:14:53.400 just a, it's just a, uh, cells or fat or poop as he kind of puts it.

00:14:58.320 You can say that, but admit it, admit that's what you're saying.

00:15:02.340 And also admit how ridiculous that is.

00:15:05.700 I mean, the lines you have to go to, to get to this position are, they're impossible to

00:15:10.700 navigate.

00:15:11.140 You can't, you, no gymnast is flexible enough to achieve it.

00:15:15.080 The problem here is what we do as a society is we say, well, it's uncomfortable.

00:15:19.940 Don't talk about it.

00:15:20.840 And if we don't talk about it, you never have to think about it.

00:15:22.860 And therefore you can just kind of say women's rights and move on with your day. 0.90

00:15:26.500 And it's not, this is not about women's rights.

00:15:29.300 If it was about women's rights, then conservatives would be like, you cannot have that liposuction. 1.00

00:15:34.820 You cannot remove that, that, that clump of cells from your body.

00:15:38.480 You can't have breast augmentation. 1.00

00:15:39.860 You can't do that.

00:15:40.300 No.

00:15:41.280 We would say that, you know, the government needs to crack down on women having liposuction. 1.00

00:15:45.480 We don't do that because there's not another life involved.

00:15:48.000 You're not affecting someone else's rights.

00:15:49.940 Yes, you are affecting someone else's rights when they don't have the right for their heart

00:15:53.980 to beat any longer.

00:15:55.300 That is a major issue and it's uncomfortable to talk about.

00:15:58.860 So people don't want to do it, but then no one has that conversation.

00:16:01.860 No one's forced into admitting that decision.

00:16:04.880 I'm making the decision that yes, it's okay to kill the baby because women's choice takes 1.00

00:16:08.920 priority over it.

00:16:10.100 That's a position you can take.

00:16:11.460 I don't know how it's consistent with the constitution, but you can take it if you want.

00:16:15.000 At least make the argument logically.

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00:16:34.240 Congress people have been sworn in now.

00:16:36.640 And some of them have made quite a splash already.

00:16:40.540 Of course, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been making a splash for months now. 1.00

00:16:44.260 But there's another congressperson who is willing to go out on a limb and do some things that

00:16:55.780 haven't been done maybe ever, like call the president an MF-er.

00:17:02.620 Her name is Rashida Tlaib.

00:17:05.420 And here's what she had to say about President Trump.

00:17:09.680 People love you and you win.

00:17:12.620 And when your son looks at you and says, Mama, look, you won.

00:17:16.200 Bullies don't win. 1.00

00:17:17.280 And I said, baby, they don't.

00:17:18.740 Because we're going to go in there.

00:17:20.000 We're going to impeach the mother. 0.55

00:17:26.280 That's a great thing to say to your little young son, too.

00:17:29.360 That's awesome.

00:17:30.140 Somehow has been overlooked in this.

00:17:31.600 And that, like, yes, she swore about the president, but she, at least to her word, swore to her

00:17:36.500 kid, too.

00:17:37.420 I said to my son, we're going to impeach the MF-er. 1.00

00:17:40.100 Wow, that's a great thing to say to your 10-year-old son.

00:17:42.580 What an awesome mother you are. 0.92

00:17:45.300 That is wonderful.

00:17:46.200 That is a mommy of the year situation.

00:17:47.880 Yeah.

00:17:48.140 It also highlights what the Democrats are facing.

00:17:50.620 Like, a Nancy Pelosi, does she want Donald Trump impeached? 1.00

00:17:54.980 Of course she does.

00:17:56.060 Does she want him removed?

00:17:57.040 Absolutely.

00:17:57.820 But she is going to deal with the political realities of that and realize that

00:18:01.260 if they do it for no reason, like, for example, nothing comes out really in the Mueller report

00:18:06.220 and they try to force an impeachment anyway.

00:18:08.800 It's going to backfire on them.

00:18:09.460 It's going to backfire on them.

00:18:10.320 That's why she's slow playing it.

00:18:11.460 The first thing she said when she was asked about this is, well, we have to wait for that

00:18:15.540 the Mueller report to come out.

00:18:17.160 We don't even know what's in it yet.

00:18:18.820 Now, they're going to say all of it's a big deal, but if Nancy Pelosi is playing politics, 1.00

00:18:23.740 which she will, she will likely try to slow play this to, because that is a real,

00:18:30.380 what you just heard, is a real passion in the party.

00:18:34.060 That is a lot.

00:18:34.780 There's a lot of these new Congress people coming in who ran on, I'm going to go impeach

00:18:38.500 the president.

00:18:39.340 There's a lot of activists who really care about that going into this campaign.

00:18:43.480 Whoever says it the most is going to get the most points with these activists and these

00:18:46.780 Democratic primary voters.

00:18:49.100 So Nancy Pelosi is in the middle there trying to say, look, I think if we do this, it's going 0.98

00:18:54.520 to be bad for us in the long term.

00:18:55.740 Um, but I have to make it seem like we're very interested in doing it to make people

00:19:01.400 like, uh, what's her name?

00:19:03.340 Rashida Tlaib.

00:19:03.960 Rashida Tlaib feel like she's, you know, cared about and wanted.

00:19:07.940 They're going to slow, they're going to slow play them like the Republicans slow play us.

00:19:12.960 Yeah.

00:19:13.380 Right.

00:19:13.560 Like when they say to us, oh, we really want that flat tax.

00:19:16.000 I tell you, oh, we want to lower those taxes.

00:19:18.300 Oh, the tax bill you proposed is just lowering it by like one point.

00:19:21.900 Really?

00:19:22.620 I thought you were all excited about like a 10% flat tax.

00:19:25.200 What happened to that?

00:19:25.880 Well, we are, but we can't get that passed right now.

00:19:27.460 We can't get that right there.

00:19:28.060 Well, we're going to get that right.

00:19:28.800 If you keep electing us, oh my gosh, it's going to happen for sure.

00:19:31.880 And so they're doing this.

00:19:32.780 They're going through that same dance right now with their super left wing, you know,

00:19:36.140 socialist voters.

00:19:36.980 They have some real radicals in office right now.

00:19:38.560 And she's one of them.

00:19:39.400 I mean, can you imagine if, if a Republican freshman congressman had called Barack Obama an MF-er?

00:19:47.780 They had a cow when Joe Wilson screamed, you lie.

00:19:50.740 Oh, yeah.

00:19:50.980 They went into a conniption fit over that.

00:19:53.900 That was the biggest story in America for how long?

00:19:57.480 Months.

00:19:58.520 I mean, they still talk about it from time to time.

00:20:00.900 It still comes up on CNN.

00:20:02.660 And they were saying you lie.

00:20:03.800 You lie.

00:20:04.940 So what?

00:20:06.280 If you called Barack Obama a socialist, which is a description of some of his policies,

00:20:12.760 which is a description of some of the things that he believed in,

00:20:18.540 like wealth redistribution, you were a racist if you called him a socialist.

00:20:24.720 But they can call, they can call Donald Trump an MF-er.

00:20:28.540 And it's not a problem.

00:20:30.100 Yeah.

00:20:30.240 And it's fine.

00:20:30.840 And we should point out, by the way.

00:20:31.720 And people cheer.

00:20:32.420 For Joe Wilson, because this does not get pointed out enough.

00:20:37.020 Yes, he said you lie in the middle of an Obama speech.

00:20:39.040 Here's the CNN coverage of it at the time.

00:20:41.220 Joe Wilson shouted, you lie, after President Obama denied the health care plan would cover illegal immigrants.

00:20:47.380 Here is, I kid you not, again, the next election, you know, the next president was Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump.

00:20:55.980 On Hillary Clinton's website, she has, in her platform, 112 reasons Hillary Clinton should be our next president.

00:21:02.680 Number 70, quote, she believes we should let families buy into the Affordable Health Care Act care exchanges regardless of immigration status.

00:21:11.260 It went from a controversial thing to say he was lying about it to in the platform of the next candidate.

00:21:19.580 That's how fast that happened.

00:21:21.240 Joe Wilson was totally redeemed on that one.

00:21:25.460 And I don't know that I've ever seen anyone other than us give him credit for that.

00:21:30.560 Oh, I haven't.

00:21:31.360 I've never seen that.

00:21:32.160 The other thing about Rashida Tlaib, she's a Palestinian-American who ran on a two-state solution for and continued foreign aid to Israel. 1.00

00:21:45.560 And then as soon as she won her primary, she decided she's for a one-state solution and no aid to Israel, which is...

00:21:55.160 Wait, so the one state is not Israel?

00:21:57.360 No.

00:21:59.380 No.

00:21:59.860 It's a leap.

00:22:02.160 Wait a minute.

00:22:02.760 Yeah.

00:22:03.380 You've got U.S. Congress people advocating a one-state solution?

00:22:08.860 I don't know how that works, really.

00:22:13.640 And she's not getting any feedback from that that I can tell.

00:22:19.940 And, you know, she's from Michigan in an area where I'm sure people are fine with her stance on a one-state solution.

00:22:26.340 But I don't know how that works in the U.S. Congress.

00:22:29.420 I don't know how that works with Democratic leadership.

00:22:32.380 I don't know how that works in the mainstream Democrat Party.

00:22:35.920 Yeah, I mean, it's true.

00:22:37.040 I mean, Ilhan Omar, who is one of the new incoming Congress people, this is a tweet from her from 2012.

00:22:45.320 Israel has hypnotized the world. 1.00

00:22:47.960 May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. 1.00

00:22:52.520 My gosh.

00:22:53.720 And she's now a congresswoman. 1.00

00:22:56.340 So...

00:22:56.940 That is unbelievable what's happening in the Democrat Party.

00:23:00.720 It's unbelievable.

00:23:02.160 But what we're told all the time is that it's Republicans who are so extreme.

00:23:08.620 It's Republicans who are completely out of the mainstream.

00:23:12.360 No...

00:23:13.000 Take a look at what the Democrats are electing right now.

00:23:16.600 Take a look at some of these new people that are going into office.

00:23:19.120 They're socialists.

00:23:20.120 They're anti-Israel zealots.

00:23:22.360 They're completely out of the mainstream of the United States of America.

00:23:26.340 Who...

00:23:26.800 What American wants a one-state solution?

00:23:30.100 A Palestine in the Middle East. 0.87

00:23:32.840 And the elimination of Israel. 0.89

00:23:35.320 I don't know anybody.

00:23:38.420 And I'm sure they exist, but they're not in the mainstream, that's for sure.

00:23:42.860 And they're certainly not getting elected outside of Michigan.

00:23:48.260 Yeah.

00:23:48.880 And this is the thing.

00:23:50.140 I think when, let's say, Barack Obama's in power, there's something...

00:23:55.320 Even though I agree with Joe Wilson's point, right?

00:23:58.920 There's something appealing to a conservative to say,

00:24:02.660 you shouldn't just yell something in a speech.

00:24:05.040 So people are like, even at the time, you're like,

00:24:07.920 all right, well, I mean, I agree with this point completely,

00:24:09.900 but that probably isn't the way to do it.

00:24:12.020 And so liberals make these points when Barack Obama's president.

00:24:16.360 And they say, okay, look, you know, that's decorum.

00:24:21.180 This is not the thing that you do.

00:24:22.900 And there's something that appeals to conservatives generally on that point.

00:24:25.820 We've talked about the Jonathan Haidt book of talking about how

00:24:28.720 conservatives care about those types of things.

00:24:30.940 They care about traditions, right?

00:24:32.920 But the left doesn't.

00:24:34.820 And so when a Republican becomes president,

00:24:37.480 all those things go out the window,

00:24:38.540 and they act as if they never made those arguments.

00:24:40.760 I mean, you know, we have a congressperson saying,

00:24:44.380 we're going to impeach the MFR today.

00:24:45.980 We have another one yesterday who made a three-minute speech

00:24:49.320 about the equivalency between the president and Adolf Hitler.

00:24:52.500 Another congressperson.

00:24:53.920 Right.

00:24:54.020 A long-time congressperson, too.

00:24:57.640 They call him liar all the time.

00:25:01.620 Now, look, every politician is a liar as far as I know.

00:25:05.780 But that was off-limits with Barack Obama.

00:25:07.880 That was off-limits with Barack Obama.

00:25:08.680 And Barack Obama lied all the time.

00:25:10.800 In fact, he—

00:25:11.140 Every day.

00:25:11.740 Even the left-wing organization, PolitiFact,

00:25:14.400 gave him the lie of the year one year.

00:25:16.320 I mean, this is a guy who lied all the time

00:25:18.700 and just was never called out on it.

00:25:21.680 So I don't—

00:25:22.380 You can't take their criticism seriously.

00:25:24.400 You can only try to hold your own foundations steady.

00:25:29.240 If you believe X, Y, or Z is wrong for one person,

00:25:32.820 you have to hold yourself to it

00:25:34.620 because society in general is not going to make you do that anymore.

00:25:39.540 There's no longer—

00:25:40.900 The inertia of society no longer forces you to be consistent over things.

00:25:46.660 Everyone just kind of, you know, forgives you.

00:25:49.200 You know, the one example I keep going back to is how fast this has changed.

00:25:52.640 I mean, you could argue John Kerry lost the 2004 election

00:25:56.740 based on the fact that he said,

00:25:59.220 I did vote for it before I voted against it.

00:26:02.580 Oh, that wouldn't matter what iota now.

00:26:04.540 Doesn't matter at all.

00:26:05.280 Oh, that doesn't matter at all.

00:26:07.480 Nobody cares if you do that.

00:26:09.120 You can say something today and change your position tomorrow.

00:26:11.400 Tomorrow.

00:26:11.780 This will be elected.

00:26:13.060 In fact, you could say something right now

00:26:15.900 and then in 15 minutes say the complete opposite

00:26:18.500 and still be elected.

00:26:19.600 I mean, you said she ran on—

00:26:21.200 I didn't follow her campaign,

00:26:22.580 but she ran on funding to Israel.

00:26:25.100 Yes, and a two-state solution.

00:26:26.300 And day one.

00:26:26.920 And then switched it afterwards, after the primary.

00:26:29.820 After the primary.

00:26:30.540 I mean, that's incredible.

00:26:32.020 It's amazing.

00:26:32.420 And nobody cares.

00:26:33.200 Nope.

00:26:33.900 And nobody cares.

00:26:34.680 And, you know, you're going to get all these, you know—

00:26:36.260 I mean, Ocasio-Cortez is a good example

00:26:37.780 of the one getting all the attention.

00:26:40.040 I don't—you know, like there's some video

00:26:41.600 out of her dancing in, like, high school or something.

00:26:44.180 I was like, why do I care?

00:26:45.040 Which is a complete nothing.

00:26:46.300 Nothing.

00:26:46.660 It's an absolute nothing.

00:26:47.960 Everybody has a dumb—

00:26:49.180 I mean, anyone who grew up—

00:26:50.220 And they're like, oh, congratulations, New York.

00:26:52.860 Why?

00:26:53.340 Because the representative danced

00:26:55.040 when she was 20 years old at Boston University?

00:26:57.900 So what?

00:26:58.920 So what?

00:26:59.580 Come on.

00:27:00.380 But I did make a decision yesterday.

00:27:03.900 And I do not make these decisions lightly, Pat.

00:27:06.660 But I would encourage you to come along if you wish.

00:27:09.700 What you need to do is you go to your Twitter page

00:27:11.500 and you click on Settings, okay?

00:27:13.860 Right.

00:27:14.180 Then you go to—I think it's Content Preferences.

00:27:17.100 Then you click on Muted Words.

00:27:19.780 And then you type in the word Ocasio.

00:27:22.320 And then it asks you a time and you say Forever.

00:27:25.720 And then you press Enter.

00:27:27.320 And it improves your life quite a bit.

00:27:29.020 Does it?

00:27:29.400 It does.

00:27:30.060 I've come to the point now, like, I—

00:27:31.700 I don't care about her.

00:27:33.360 She, you know, she's a socialist congresswoman. 1.00

00:27:35.960 So then it just—you just don't see the feed on her.

00:27:37.980 I don't have to see every dumb dancing video that somebody releases

00:27:40.580 or some stupid—her little she-thinks-she-clever tweet back at somebody. 1.00

00:27:46.220 I just can't.

00:27:46.900 I can't.

00:27:47.480 I can't waste my time.

00:27:48.600 There's no way me reading some Ocasio-Cortez tweet

00:27:54.320 is a good use of my time.

00:27:58.080 I will read her new green jobs bill that we talked about yesterday,

00:28:02.840 the new deal for the environment, which would cost us in excess of $50 trillion

00:28:08.460 by many estimates, certainly over $30.

00:28:12.840 I'll read that because it's a real thing.

00:28:15.000 But do I really need to hear her snarky comebacks of somebody?

00:28:17.680 No.

00:28:17.960 Or, same thing, some dumb, you know, conservative site

00:28:22.440 that thinks it's, like, the most exposing video of all time

00:28:25.120 to see her dance on a roof for five seconds when she was 20?

00:28:28.960 Like, none of this makes any difference in my life at all.

00:28:32.080 And that's why I use the power of the mute.

00:28:35.700 I feel like I am, you know, I'm the emperor.

00:28:39.200 It's the power of the dark side.

00:28:40.720 I embrace the power of the dark side.

00:28:42.980 When I see this—when one of these little trends starts coming out

00:28:45.180 and it starts annoying me, I'm muted.

00:28:47.100 And I don't hear any of the crap anymore about it.

00:28:49.860 That's the way you've got to do it.

00:28:51.440 It's a good solution.

00:28:52.160 It is.

00:28:52.780 Just get it out of your life.

00:28:53.960 What is the point?

00:28:54.840 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:29:02.320 An amazing thing happened at a GameStop the other day

00:29:16.940 where a customer came in and the clerk behind the desk

00:29:21.100 said something about,

00:29:23.540 Hey, you guys need—and then that set off the customer

00:29:27.560 in an amazing way.

00:29:30.260 Listen to what happened in the GameStop.

00:29:33.500 Ma'am.

00:29:34.140 I said both of you.

00:29:35.340 No, you said sir.

00:29:36.680 Once again, it's ma'am.

00:29:38.200 I have to set both of you guys.

00:29:39.380 Oh.

00:29:39.980 Right beforehand, you f***ing said sir.

00:29:42.380 Sir?

00:29:43.740 F***ing.

00:29:44.680 Take it outside.

00:29:45.660 If you want to call me sir again,

00:29:46.920 I will show you a f***ing sir.

00:29:48.660 I apologize.

00:29:49.080 Oh, well, I thought you were a ma'am. 1.00

00:29:50.860 Wait, you're going to show me sir?

00:29:53.800 Hmm.

00:29:54.960 I need your corporate number

00:29:56.420 because I'm going to call them

00:29:58.200 and talk about how I was misgendered

00:29:59.600 several times in this store.

00:30:01.700 I need your corporate number now.

00:30:06.180 Sounds like a woman, right? 1.00

00:30:07.420 Oh, totally.

00:30:08.040 Yeah, it sounds like a woman. 1.00

00:30:10.960 Taylor Swift?

00:30:11.860 It almost sounds like Taylor Swift.

00:30:12.980 Well, I'm going to ask you for the fifth time

00:30:14.200 to stop calling me a man

00:30:15.540 because quite clearly I am not.

00:30:17.380 Quite clearly.

00:30:18.140 Oh, quite clearly.

00:30:19.080 I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a man

00:30:20.940 because quite clearly I'm not.

00:30:22.960 All right?

00:30:23.660 This is bizarre.

00:30:24.200 Over there.

00:30:25.000 You talking to me, huh?

00:30:27.420 First of all.

00:30:28.220 I'm sorry, I have ears and eyes.

00:30:30.160 Yes.

00:30:30.700 And I'm sorry, ma'am.

00:30:34.200 But quite clearly, no.

00:30:36.240 You can't use that phrase.

00:30:37.880 And that's a fascinating part of this

00:30:39.140 because the whole point, right,

00:30:42.100 of this gender thing, right, 1.00

00:30:44.940 is that you can't look at someone

00:30:46.680 and identify them by their looks.

00:30:48.540 Right.

00:30:49.220 Right?

00:30:49.500 Like, you have to know how they identify

00:30:51.400 to appropriately figure it out.

00:30:54.460 So even if she did look like a woman, 0.81

00:30:57.740 you probably shouldn't say ma'am, right?

00:31:01.260 Because what if she identifies as a man?

00:31:04.580 So the whole premise here is ridiculous.

00:31:07.480 I guess we have to refer to people in the plural now.

00:31:09.860 They and them.

00:31:10.720 They them.

00:31:11.120 And I think that's the preferred pronoun for some.

00:31:15.600 We should actually bring back

00:31:17.200 the controversial Louis C.K. thing from yesterday.

00:31:19.620 Oh, yeah.

00:31:19.960 Because this is the exact same thing

00:31:21.640 he's complaining about

00:31:23.140 in that controversial stand-up stuff.

00:31:26.580 But it's like, first of all,

00:31:28.980 no woman in history has ever reacted like that 1.00

00:31:33.460 to that situation.

00:31:34.300 You want me to take you outside

00:31:35.820 and show you I'm a man?

00:31:37.520 I'll show you a man.

00:31:38.620 Wait, I thought you were a woman. 1.00

00:31:39.940 Why are you going to show me a man?

00:31:41.340 How does that happen?

00:31:43.860 Oh, I'm really confused.

00:31:46.880 This one feels like a setup to me, Pat.

00:31:49.040 This one feels like the type of thing,

00:31:51.060 you know, I'm going to go in there

00:31:52.260 and they're going to call me sir

00:31:53.240 and then I'm going to overreact

00:31:54.380 and go crazy

00:31:55.000 and make a big deal out of it

00:31:56.080 and sue or whatever.

00:31:57.540 Because, you know,

00:31:58.180 like it doesn't make any sense.

00:31:59.580 You know, wouldn't you,

00:32:01.460 if you're in that situation,

00:32:02.620 if you're a transgender person,

00:32:03.980 and we've had plenty of transgender people

00:32:06.420 called us over the years

00:32:07.400 and explained basically this.

00:32:09.840 They understand that

00:32:11.140 what they're going through

00:32:12.000 is maybe not this thing

00:32:13.340 that everybody's used to dealing with.

00:32:15.820 And so if someone were to make

00:32:16.920 a mistake like that,

00:32:17.860 you might correct them.

00:32:19.200 You know, if they're not trying

00:32:20.240 to be a jerk to you, though, 0.66

00:32:21.300 like you're going to show grace to them.

00:32:23.040 Aren't you going to say,

00:32:23.700 oh, you know, actually,

00:32:24.740 just so you know,

00:32:25.500 I'm a dude

00:32:27.080 or I'm a woman.

00:32:29.760 And the person,

00:32:30.540 you know what the person

00:32:30.940 at GameStop says?

00:32:31.520 Oh my God, I'm so sorry.

00:32:33.320 That's how the incident

00:32:34.160 could totally go down.

00:32:35.160 There's no reason

00:32:37.100 to turn it into that.

00:32:38.660 Right.

00:32:39.140 And that's why it feels

00:32:40.220 to me like a setup.

00:32:41.420 The other thing here, Pat,

00:32:44.240 if you want the corporate number

00:32:45.760 of GameStop,

00:32:46.560 just Google it.

00:32:47.980 You don't need to wait in there

00:32:49.860 for them to give it to you.

00:32:52.080 Google the number.

00:32:53.980 Right.

00:32:54.380 You're going to be able

00:32:55.100 to find it.

00:32:56.460 And of course,

00:32:57.240 GameStop will probably be like,

00:32:58.540 what we've done is we've given him

00:33:00.060 free Xboxes every week for life.

00:33:02.640 We have given him free access

00:33:04.720 to any store to come in

00:33:06.260 and take a crap on the floor 0.93

00:33:07.600 at any time.

00:33:09.000 Oh, did I say he?

00:33:09.880 Oops.

00:33:10.380 I mean, she at any time

00:33:11.600 can come in and take a crap 0.83

00:33:12.560 at any one of our 475 stores

00:33:14.700 in the continental United States.

00:33:16.540 Because quite clearly,

00:33:17.400 we're talking about a woman.

00:33:18.920 Quite clearly.

00:33:19.720 Quite clearly.

00:33:20.600 As you can hear.

00:33:21.260 So, and I wonder,

00:33:23.860 we should do a little follow-up

00:33:25.200 and see if GameStop

00:33:26.020 fired the employee too.

00:33:27.320 I hope not.

00:33:27.860 Because clearly the employee

00:33:29.320 was just confused.

00:33:31.120 Didn't know.

00:33:31.760 Yeah.

00:33:33.120 I mean, guys is a term

00:33:35.040 that can cover anybody.

00:33:36.760 Yes.

00:33:37.200 I say guys to women all the time.

00:33:38.900 All the time.

00:33:39.660 I mean, it just...

00:33:40.300 Hey, you guys want to go...

00:33:41.260 Yeah.

00:33:41.980 It's a group.

00:33:42.740 It's a general term

00:33:43.680 meaning people to me

00:33:45.080 at this point.

00:33:45.660 We're not...

00:33:46.100 We no longer live

00:33:46.880 in the era of guys and dolls.

00:33:48.700 Right?

00:33:49.180 Do we?

00:33:49.460 Is that where we are?

00:33:51.040 I don't think so.

00:33:51.760 I don't think so.

00:33:52.440 No, I don't think so.

00:33:53.000 If you want to bring back

00:33:54.180 and make it okay for me

00:33:54.960 to call women dolls,

00:33:56.100 then I'll consider

00:33:56.840 your position on this.

00:33:58.240 But for the most part,

00:33:59.680 guys just means anybody.

00:34:01.180 Now, look,

00:34:01.740 I think probably

00:34:02.700 the employee

00:34:04.220 did think

00:34:05.540 it was a man.

00:34:06.540 One reason why

00:34:07.640 is it's a man.

00:34:10.140 Yes.

00:34:11.060 I mean,

00:34:11.480 quite...

00:34:11.720 Yes.

00:34:12.200 Again, quite clearly...

00:34:14.200 Biologically,

00:34:15.300 a man.

00:34:15.780 By any outward appearance

00:34:17.660 and or auditory evidence,

00:34:21.440 you would think

00:34:22.020 that that is a guy.

00:34:22.880 And aren't we supposed

00:34:23.560 to deny

00:34:24.280 all of that exists now?

00:34:26.560 We're supposed to deny, 0.90

00:34:27.700 I guess,

00:34:28.080 that there are actual

00:34:29.220 characteristics of a man

00:34:31.580 and there are

00:34:32.680 characteristics of a woman.

00:34:34.140 Right.

00:34:35.040 And...

00:34:35.480 Well, that's the thing.

00:34:36.520 He's...

00:34:37.640 She's... 1.00

00:34:39.440 She is claiming

00:34:40.660 it's obvious

00:34:42.240 based on her

00:34:43.380 physical characteristics

00:34:44.700 that she's a woman.

00:34:45.620 It tells you something else.

00:34:46.760 And when you see the video,

00:34:48.580 their characteristics

00:34:49.500 tell you something else.

00:34:52.080 What does it tell you?

00:34:53.100 I don't...

00:34:53.840 You'd have to look at it

00:34:55.160 and see what it tells you.

00:34:56.500 Right.

00:34:57.140 It tells you quite obviously

00:34:58.560 this looks like a guy.

00:34:59.540 Yeah, it does.

00:35:00.340 Yeah.

00:35:00.920 But it's such a strange thing.

00:35:02.640 It's like...

00:35:04.400 He is saying...

00:35:07.440 The employee,

00:35:08.880 he's looking at this person

00:35:09.900 and saying that's a guy.

00:35:10.860 That's what he believes instinctively.

00:35:12.640 Mm-hmm.

00:35:13.540 And he seems to be right

00:35:14.640 on that, by the way.

00:35:15.940 Then,

00:35:16.940 this transgendered person,

00:35:18.920 at least we're reported

00:35:19.840 transgendered person,

00:35:20.800 saying...

00:35:21.300 It says,

00:35:21.740 it's obvious based on

00:35:22.840 my physical characteristics

00:35:23.960 that I'm a woman.

00:35:25.100 Well, that's never the...

00:35:26.420 You are now telling this person

00:35:29.020 what they should take

00:35:30.080 from physical characteristics,

00:35:31.320 which is much bigger overstep

00:35:32.840 than getting a gender wrong. 0.99

00:35:34.500 You're now telling them

00:35:35.340 you should recognize

00:35:36.780 these things as female 1.00

00:35:39.620 when intuitively

00:35:41.660 he says it's a male.

00:35:42.760 And he's right.

00:35:45.060 Yes.

00:35:45.500 So, I mean,

00:35:46.180 this is just...

00:35:47.140 You know,

00:35:47.620 it's ridiculous

00:35:48.240 and I feel like

00:35:49.120 it feels to me

00:35:50.600 so outlandish...

00:35:51.540 Manufactured.

00:35:52.320 ...it feels manufactured.

00:35:53.780 Mm-hmm.

00:35:54.380 You know,

00:35:54.620 it feels like one of those things

00:35:55.700 where here's what's gonna happen.

00:35:57.060 You stand over there

00:35:57.660 with your phone

00:35:58.220 or I'll go in there

00:35:59.780 and I'll raise a ruckus

00:36:01.180 and then I'll go ask

00:36:02.200 the person for the video

00:36:03.240 and then we'll go to GameStop

00:36:04.960 and I get free Zelda for life.

00:36:08.100 Right?

00:36:08.400 Like, that's the play.

00:36:10.240 You know,

00:36:10.900 or it's a big lawsuit, right?

00:36:12.200 They pay him $100,000.

00:36:14.020 Yes.

00:36:14.620 And, you know,

00:36:16.140 in a week,

00:36:17.100 we all forget about this story.

00:36:18.660 We don't care.

00:36:19.320 But GameStop gives a person

00:36:20.780 $100,000 for nothing.

00:36:21.900 And it's just easier for them

00:36:23.160 to pay out a bunch of money

00:36:25.000 and then fight it in court.

00:36:26.900 And that's probably

00:36:27.780 what will happen.

00:36:29.440 That's probably what will happen.

00:36:30.500 That's sad, man.

00:36:31.380 Really sad.

00:36:31.860 You know,

00:36:32.180 I hate that it's...

00:36:33.920 But that's the reality now.

00:36:35.480 You have to make these decisions.

00:36:36.740 We've been in these situations, right?

00:36:37.980 I mean,

00:36:38.280 we've been in situations

00:36:39.080 many, many times

00:36:40.260 in which our instincts say,

00:36:43.160 look,

00:36:43.680 I just want to sit here

00:36:44.460 and just fight with this person

00:36:45.600 in a public forum verbally

00:36:48.280 and take down their arguments.

00:36:51.440 But you realize afterwards

00:36:52.480 you don't get anything out of it.

00:36:54.400 Like,

00:36:54.780 at the end of the day,

00:36:55.540 it might make you feel good

00:36:56.920 for a few moments.

00:36:58.640 But at the end of the day,

00:36:59.640 you get nothing out of it.

00:37:00.660 You spend more money

00:37:01.800 than you would have spent

00:37:02.660 by just brushing it off.

00:37:05.200 You don't convince anybody.

00:37:07.040 No one comes to your side

00:37:08.280 and is like,

00:37:08.620 oh, wow, you know what?

00:37:09.480 I first was with a transgender person,

00:37:11.160 but now I see GameStops,

00:37:12.940 this giant corporation.

00:37:14.300 I see their reasoning.

00:37:15.740 No one ever does that

00:37:17.220 because no one ever cares to.

00:37:19.360 You know,

00:37:19.700 we are...

00:37:20.660 I think,

00:37:21.140 you know,

00:37:21.400 like if you're a listener

00:37:22.220 to a talk radio show

00:37:23.280 and you're sitting here

00:37:24.720 listening to this stuff

00:37:25.500 15, 20 hours a week,

00:37:27.720 you know,

00:37:28.200 this is what you like.

00:37:29.400 You like to listen to these,

00:37:31.780 you know,

00:37:31.980 hopefully both sides

00:37:33.100 and determine

00:37:33.880 what's right and wrong.

00:37:35.840 I've had situations

00:37:36.560 where I've come out

00:37:37.400 at the beginning

00:37:38.280 and my initial impression

00:37:39.540 was one way

00:37:40.300 and when you really look

00:37:41.320 at the details,

00:37:41.860 you're like,

00:37:42.120 wait a minute.

00:37:42.580 No, this is the other way.

00:37:43.680 It happens a lot.

00:37:45.080 Now, it's our jobs.

00:37:46.940 So, you know,

00:37:48.160 we have to do it.

00:37:50.640 Most people actually

00:37:51.620 have real work to do

00:37:53.240 and things that actually

00:37:54.660 like help the country

00:37:55.520 and like move our economy forward

00:37:57.200 and things like that.

00:37:57.980 Important things.

00:37:59.520 Where we get to sit here

00:38:00.520 and blab all day.

00:38:01.580 So, we have that luxury

00:38:02.800 of being able to sit here

00:38:04.200 and look at all this stuff

00:38:05.300 all day long

00:38:06.220 and try to figure out

00:38:07.480 the nuance there.

00:38:09.080 Most people don't.

00:38:10.600 You know,

00:38:10.800 talk radio listeners

00:38:11.560 are an exception,

00:38:12.320 I think,

00:38:12.600 generally speaking,

00:38:13.120 because they're willing

00:38:13.900 to spend,

00:38:15.000 I mean,

00:38:15.220 if you're listening

00:38:15.660 to this show

00:38:16.300 and maybe a couple

00:38:17.260 of the other

00:38:17.540 big national shows,

00:38:18.760 you're in for a full-time job

00:38:20.360 listening to talk radio.

00:38:22.380 I mean,

00:38:22.640 we're doing 15,

00:38:23.460 Rush is doing 15,

00:38:24.300 Hannity's doing 15,

00:38:25.260 you're at 45 hours.

00:38:27.100 Right?

00:38:27.560 Like you've spent

00:38:28.340 a good chunk

00:38:29.460 of your week

00:38:30.040 listening to people

00:38:31.920 talk about these issues

00:38:33.760 and break them down

00:38:34.780 and give you

00:38:36.180 different perspectives

00:38:37.120 on it,

00:38:37.520 hopefully.

00:38:38.800 And at the end of the day,

00:38:39.900 you're going to be

00:38:40.360 a lot more informed

00:38:41.920 than the average person

00:38:43.300 who's just not,

00:38:43.860 he's not going to follow

00:38:44.580 these things that closely.

00:38:45.680 And you see how

00:38:46.600 this would react.

00:38:47.280 If you're flipping

00:38:48.180 through the headlines,

00:38:48.980 you don't look at the pictures,

00:38:49.880 you don't watch the video,

00:38:50.760 you see transgender person

00:38:51.900 harassed at GameStop,

00:38:52.880 you hate GameStop.

00:38:54.040 Yeah.

00:38:54.360 Right?

00:38:54.740 And when GameStop

00:38:55.460 did nothing wrong there.

00:38:57.180 Absolutely.

00:38:57.460 At least as far as

00:38:58.220 the information

00:38:58.720 we have at this point,

00:39:00.040 doesn't seem to have

00:39:00.600 done anything wrong,

00:39:02.040 was completely

00:39:02.740 the rational actor

00:39:03.680 in that situation,

00:39:05.160 the GameStop employee.

00:39:06.140 No question.

00:39:06.660 This is the best

00:39:11.640 of the Glenn Beck program.

00:39:18.000 If the wall

00:39:18.920 is the biggest issue,

00:39:20.600 you know,

00:39:20.780 I mean,

00:39:20.940 it was.

00:39:21.420 If the immigration 0.98

00:39:22.320 situation happened,

00:39:23.800 I don't think that

00:39:24.580 he's even president today.

00:39:26.060 I really don't.

00:39:27.140 I mean,

00:39:27.380 that was his crowning achievement,

00:39:29.480 his main torch-bearing issue

00:39:31.400 in the very beginning.

00:39:33.120 Yes.

00:39:33.420 So how much of his base

00:39:34.960 is going to vacate

00:39:35.720 if he loses this?

00:39:37.640 I would say a lot,

00:39:38.540 right?

00:39:38.860 I don't know.

00:39:39.100 I don't know.

00:39:39.480 I don't know.

00:39:40.060 I think they thought that

00:39:41.140 in the beginning that,

00:39:42.100 yeah,

00:39:42.300 if he changes on immigration

00:39:43.700 because that was the big issue.

00:39:45.420 I think that's changed now.

00:39:46.960 I don't know that there's anything.

00:39:48.760 Really?

00:39:48.860 I don't know if there is anything.

00:39:50.580 We did a show.

00:39:51.220 Remember this, Pat?

00:39:51.680 We did show calls

00:39:52.660 from people who are

00:39:53.640 big Trump supporters

00:39:54.580 saying,

00:39:55.420 what's the one thing

00:39:56.200 that will change your mind?

00:39:57.020 And overwhelmingly,

00:39:57.880 it was the wall.

00:39:58.660 It was.

00:39:58.980 The only thing

00:39:59.640 that would change our mind

00:40:00.460 is the wall.

00:40:01.680 And now it's gone

00:40:02.820 from a full border wall

00:40:04.880 down to a thousand miles

00:40:06.260 of border wall

00:40:06.940 down to 500 miles

00:40:08.460 of border wall

00:40:09.200 down to it's not really a wall,

00:40:10.600 it's a fence

00:40:11.100 down to it's some fence,

00:40:12.520 some technology

00:40:13.440 and other things

00:40:14.740 where needed.

00:40:15.260 And we're making some repairs.

00:40:16.520 And we're making repairs.

00:40:17.420 Oh, and by the way,

00:40:17.940 we're paying for it

00:40:19.120 with a new trade deal

00:40:21.200 that's not even enforced yet.

00:40:22.720 And Lindsey Graham went 1.00

00:40:23.420 as far as to call it a metaphor.

00:40:24.900 Not really an actual

00:40:25.800 physical thing.

00:40:26.440 A metaphor, right.

00:40:26.800 So, I mean,

00:40:28.200 I don't know.

00:40:28.980 I think, you know,

00:40:30.300 if he were to,

00:40:31.440 I mean, he did get heat,

00:40:32.560 though, for abandoning this.

00:40:33.900 When it was reported.

00:40:35.080 That's what I was about to say.

00:40:35.440 Yeah, he did get heat for it.

00:40:36.120 And he came on Fox News,

00:40:37.060 which was great.

00:40:38.080 Fox News, Rush Limbaugh,

00:40:39.240 like a lot of his big supporters

00:40:40.460 were like, you know,

00:40:41.080 look, what are you doing here?

00:40:42.240 I mean, and let's not

00:40:43.300 sell that lightly.

00:40:44.240 He was backing down

00:40:45.880 from the wall.

00:40:47.240 Sarah Sanders said,

00:40:48.580 look, we'd rather have

00:40:49.400 the government, you know,

00:40:50.540 open than, you know,

00:40:51.940 than risk this.

00:40:53.900 So he backed down

00:40:54.820 and then everybody in mass

00:40:56.480 just went after him like crazy.

00:40:58.120 He flip-flopped back over.

00:40:59.960 So he's got to be scared

00:41:00.880 about that.

00:41:01.480 His pollers are definitely

00:41:02.560 scared about that

00:41:03.180 because I'm sure they're

00:41:03.800 the ones that convinced him

00:41:04.680 to, you know, reverse course.

00:41:06.140 Yeah.

00:41:06.560 And I think,

00:41:07.220 I do think, though,

00:41:07.940 the Democrats think,

00:41:09.400 I'm not saying they're right

00:41:10.140 because they miss on this

00:41:11.340 stuff all the time,

00:41:11.820 but I think they think

00:41:12.620 they're in a good position here

00:41:13.560 because, one,

00:41:15.160 Trump has already said

00:41:16.000 it's his shutdown

00:41:17.020 and it's about the wall.

00:41:18.480 Two, if it gets uglier,

00:41:20.440 they're going to be able

00:41:21.060 to heap more blame on him

00:41:22.460 and they can try to get

00:41:23.520 either a giant thing

00:41:24.900 that they want like a DACA

00:41:26.040 or they can just wait it out

00:41:29.000 and wait for him to fold

00:41:29.920 because, you know,

00:41:31.200 the other thing about the border

00:41:32.080 is it's very,

00:41:33.060 it's popular among

00:41:34.400 talk radio listeners.

00:41:35.680 It's popular among Republicans

00:41:37.160 in general.

00:41:37.860 It's, it polls at 76 to 19

00:41:39.860 among Republicans, right?

00:41:41.140 So it's a very popular proposal.

00:41:42.920 Currently, though,

00:41:43.780 it's 89 to 8

00:41:45.080 among Democrats against it

00:41:46.280 and it's posed 62,

00:41:48.440 34 among independents.

00:41:50.880 So overall polling

00:41:52.080 is 60 to 37

00:41:53.360 opposed to building

00:41:54.820 a wall right now.

00:41:56.220 Now, a lot of that's because

00:41:57.200 Trump isn't a particularly

00:41:58.460 popular president

00:41:59.540 overall in the country.

00:42:00.800 Like, he's,

00:42:01.180 he's popular among his base,

00:42:02.500 but that's about it.

00:42:03.680 So part of that,

00:42:05.160 as we talked about

00:42:05.860 with the Democrats

00:42:06.380 moving so far

00:42:07.160 on that issue

00:42:07.600 from 50-50 basically

00:42:08.920 to 89 to 8,

00:42:10.220 part of that's Trump related,

00:42:11.460 but it's not a,

00:42:12.460 it's not a,

00:42:13.140 an issue that

00:42:14.720 the majority of the country

00:42:16.760 is particularly passionate

00:42:18.660 about getting done.

00:42:19.500 They actually oppose it.

00:42:21.220 The funny thing about this

00:42:22.040 is there's no fiscal conservatives

00:42:23.560 left in the GOP,

00:42:25.460 pretty much.

00:42:26.380 I mean,

00:42:27.060 some are in the Freedom Caucus,

00:42:28.240 I guess,

00:42:28.840 but there's a few.

00:42:29.720 They're not very loud,

00:42:30.640 at least.

00:42:32.140 So you actually,

00:42:32.980 what's funny is you actually

00:42:33.780 have some Republicans

00:42:34.460 that are against this

00:42:35.300 because they don't care

00:42:35.880 about spending money.

00:42:36.840 And all the Democrats

00:42:37.480 have never cared about

00:42:38.820 spending billions and billions.

00:42:39.860 This is $5 billion.

00:42:40.840 That's nothing to them.

00:42:41.740 You know, like,

00:42:42.440 screw it.

00:42:42.820 You know, like $5 billion.

00:42:43.740 That's true.

00:42:44.240 Except now they're acting like,

00:42:46.460 oh my gosh,

00:42:47.360 no, we can't set the budget

00:42:48.260 on fire like that.

00:42:49.700 $5 billion?

00:42:50.540 That's wasteful spending.

00:42:52.020 I was like,

00:42:52.260 shut up. 0.95

00:42:53.700 He wouldn't say that

00:42:54.540 on anything else

00:42:55.280 that you would want to build.

00:42:56.220 Yeah, well,

00:42:56.800 and that's a great point.

00:42:58.120 And what they're trying to do

00:42:59.600 is use this, though,

00:43:00.280 to pressure those

00:43:01.380 vulnerable Republicans

00:43:03.000 in the Senate.

00:43:03.740 Cory Gardner is the big example.

00:43:04.940 Now, first of all,

00:43:05.460 Cory Gardner banned birth control.

00:43:06.860 And that must have been expensive.

00:43:07.900 It was very bad.

00:43:08.700 To do.

00:43:09.360 But he, you know,

00:43:10.300 he's already come out and said.

00:43:11.220 It's true, Sweet Pea.

00:43:11.340 He did.

00:43:11.880 Yeah.

00:43:12.320 And so.

00:43:13.180 He's already come out and said,

00:43:14.020 we've got to open the government.

00:43:14.880 We can't do this.

00:43:15.560 Did you try the gas station?

00:43:16.820 Come on.

00:43:17.400 All right.

00:43:18.580 That's how that memorized.

00:43:19.740 Yeah.

00:43:20.080 That's so good.

00:43:21.100 That's a great ad.

00:43:21.820 But they're already pressuring people

00:43:22.880 like that who are up for re-election soon

00:43:24.400 in purplish states.

00:43:26.460 You know, it's going to be

00:43:27.080 an interesting road.

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