The Glenn Beck Program - February 24, 2021


Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Bjorn Lomborg & Jason Whitlock ｜ 2⧸24⧸21


Episode Stats

Length

34 minutes

Words per Minute

152.37097

Word Count

5,183

Sentence Count

7

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 oh my gosh stew great show great podcast the best you bet it's uh all on today's podcast we have
00:00:08.160 jason whitlock uh bjorn lumberg on with us to talk about green cars you may not like all the
00:00:15.200 things he says uh because he actually believes that you know we are all gonna die some point
00:00:20.840 uh just that's not what he says no no uh he's what i really like about bjorn lumberg is that
00:00:26.220 he goes he plays on their battlefields right like he looks at it and says okay uh here's all the
00:00:32.020 science that you say is really important we need to know i'm gonna actually read it all
00:00:35.320 and uh put it in perspective and he does a great job doing that today on the program
00:00:40.780 and we also talk a little bit about uh cancel culture it is getting real with the banks and
00:00:46.000 i'll share a personal story on today's podcast don't forget to subscribe to blaze tv you know
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00:00:57.440 convince you that a place like blaze tv is really important but just for your own entertainment and
00:01:03.180 enlightenment uh we have the studios america program starting at 8 p.m eastern on blaze tv
00:01:08.040 followed by a brand new glenn beck episode tonight glenn tv don't miss that uh blaze tv.com
00:01:13.640 slash glenn promo code is glenn for 30 bucks off you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
00:01:26.240 matt taiby uh is a journalist who has written for rolling stone he's kind of a glenn greenwald kind
00:01:38.320 of guy a guy that i don't agree with you know very often um but he seems to be a classic liberal
00:01:45.540 um and in some regards would you agree with that uh yeah maybe i don't know how i would i mean he's
00:01:53.900 he's i've always thought of him on the left and every once in a while he writes things that you're
00:01:57.620 like oh yeah yeah like absolutely like he's right on that and he's so he and like glenn greenwald has
00:02:03.620 been pretty active in smacking down the sort of cancel culture woke wing of the democratic movement
00:02:10.800 these days two and a half years ago he writes when alex jones of info wars was kicked off a series of
00:02:17.440 tech platforms and a clearly coordinated decision i knew this was not going to be an isolated thing
00:02:22.680 given that people like connecticut senator chris murphy said on the ouster of jones it was just a good
00:02:29.600 first step it seemed obvious the tactic was not going to be confined to a few actors but corporate
00:02:35.900 media critics insisted the precedent would not be applied more broadly uh cnn's so-and-so said i don't
00:02:43.980 think that we're going to be seeing big tech take action against fox news anytime soon uh well that guy was
00:02:52.840 wrong just a few years ago a few years later calls to ban fox are not only common they're intensifying
00:03:00.640 with media voices from cnn to msnbc and former media matters critic uh to the washington post
00:03:09.720 columnists yada yada all on board the movement crested this week with a letter from california house
00:03:17.660 democrats anna eshu and jerry mcnernie written to the ceos of cable providers like comcast at&t verizon
00:03:27.020 cox and dish they demanded to know if these providers are planning to continue to continue to carry fox
00:03:34.160 news newsmax and oan i want to read point number seven from this congressional letter are you planning
00:03:42.300 to continue carrying fox news newsmax and oan on u-verse direct tv and at&t tv both now and beyond
00:03:53.760 any contract renewal date have you or have you ever been a member of a company that is carrying oan
00:04:00.980 if so why this is terrifying should it should chill every journalist to the bone uh this sequence of
00:04:16.840 events is ominous because a similar match set of hearings and interrogations back in 2017 when senators
00:04:23.000 like maizey rono and judiciary committee hearing demanded that platforms like google and facebook come up
00:04:29.540 with a mission statement to prevent the foment of discord accelerated the content moderation movement
00:04:37.980 that we now see on platforms uh sequences like this the government requests of speech reduction made to
00:04:45.160 companies subject to federal regulation make the content moderation decisions of private firms a serious
00:04:52.220 first amendment issue these things are happening this is not a figment of anyone's imagination this is
00:05:03.360 coming and we just have to be prepared and quite honestly please read martin luther king why are those
00:05:16.420 troops still in washington because they want you to react violently they need you to react violently it is
00:05:28.960 it tucker carlson talked about it i think it was last night the night before uh where he was saying
00:05:35.920 look you couldn't write this script better you couldn't be more um inflammatory than what congress
00:05:45.540 and the left is doing right now the the steps they're taking is fomenting real deep feelings in a lot in half the country
00:05:58.680 they need you to be violent because that way they can come in and they can take arms they can stop banking
00:06:08.800 they can become dictators and it is you know it was one thing to say uh barack obama was you know he wanted to be a dictator
00:06:22.100 and there's another thing to say or donald trump he wanted to be a dictator and it's a completely other thing to say
00:06:29.400 they are taking the steps to ensure an authoritarian regime and that is happening now steps are being taken
00:06:40.980 to silence those who disagree who are not in lock step and it's not just being taken by the government
00:06:51.000 it's being taken by large firms as well
00:06:55.320 i'm going to give you one more piece of news quickly um amazon has decided that it's going to
00:07:05.000 quietly end sales of books that it labels hate speech
00:07:11.780 guys this is book burning when we had physical stores they would have to go take the books off the
00:07:23.980 shelf and destroy them now you just digitally remove them and it's like it never happened
00:07:32.920 if they were actually dumping these books if they were actually destroying or burning these books
00:07:41.280 you would have the image in your mind
00:07:44.440 remember we live in a time no longer of words we live in a time of images
00:07:53.720 there was a guy who set himself on fire in tunisia months before the other guy did that is credited
00:08:01.680 in a way of starting the um the tunisian riots which led to the arab spring another guy had done that
00:08:11.100 same exact reasons he was also a push cart vendor why one and not the other because there was
00:08:20.700 no images of him setting himself on fire it's the image images have real power
00:08:29.560 why is it we can we are not all up in arms with our local school boards and our teachers and the teachers unions
00:08:42.140 just based on the number of suicides that we've had from kids
00:08:47.240 you don't ever see those pictures you don't ever hear those stories msnbc right now is running almost
00:08:58.040 as a backdrop look at they're doing it right now of the january 6th attack on the capital okay
00:09:06.880 they're running those pictures almost 24 7 they're running that videotape
00:09:12.440 because they know that's what their audience wants and they are trying to stir their audience
00:09:19.900 into hatred that's what's happening
00:09:24.560 you know what you're not seeing you're not seeing pictures of the kids who have died
00:09:30.400 you know emmett till his mother was really really smart
00:09:34.440 emmett till if you don't know who emmett till was look him up today and you're gonna see when you
00:09:41.900 look him up you're gonna see a picture of him in his coffin horribly horribly disfigured
00:09:48.720 he was a black man who's in the south but he was from chicago
00:09:53.540 he was killed brutally killed
00:09:57.380 when he was returned to his mother in chicago in the coffin she insisted
00:10:04.260 on having an open coffin because she said she wanted everyone to see
00:10:10.160 what they had done to her boy and she was right
00:10:13.860 we know emmett till's name because once you see that picture you can't unsee it
00:10:20.620 and it stirred people into action
00:10:26.440 where are the pictures on tv of people who have lost their jobs
00:10:34.660 why did we are the world and michael jackson and all these people why did that happen
00:10:41.600 why did that happen
00:10:43.620 for ethiopia ethiopia is probably starving still today i don't even know
00:10:50.040 why all of a sudden because we if you lived at that time you'll never forget the news reports
00:11:00.340 of these terribly malnourished children with the bloated stomachs sitting just dying
00:11:08.860 for just any rice you'll never forget those pictures
00:11:14.500 you are being fed pictures
00:11:18.980 of hatred
00:11:21.680 you are not seeing the pictures of suffering
00:11:26.620 right now millions of americans are suffering
00:11:32.580 are they showing the pictures
00:11:35.680 of those people in texas that are suffering
00:11:39.740 that lost everything
00:11:41.360 that that didn't have any power
00:11:44.660 how about the people who froze to death here in texas
00:11:47.960 you're not seeing those
00:11:49.360 what you are seeing
00:11:50.460 are pictures of
00:11:52.300 of ted cruz
00:11:54.440 leaving the state
00:11:56.900 to keep his family warm
00:11:58.960 you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
00:12:06.180 bjorn lomborg
00:12:15.700 he is the author of false alarm
00:12:19.100 president of the copenhagen consensus center
00:12:22.560 and visiting fellow of the hoover institute
00:12:25.220 uh welcome bjorn how are you
00:12:27.340 hey glenn it's good to be back
00:12:29.760 i'm good how are you
00:12:30.660 i'm i'm good i'm i'm a little concerned
00:12:33.080 uh you know how uh
00:12:34.980 uh things are starting to be censored
00:12:37.260 here in america and things are uh
00:12:39.660 you know you're you're
00:12:41.140 they're starting to call people with a different point of view
00:12:44.120 um you know dangerous radicals and uh terrorists
00:12:48.020 um uh and i i i wonder how far this is going to go
00:12:54.140 uh we just saw amazon
00:12:56.760 ban another book yesterday
00:12:59.400 they said they're going to start deleting all books
00:13:01.760 they consider hate speech
00:13:03.080 i don't know if that's to gill a mockingbird
00:13:05.020 you know or or mein kampf or what
00:13:08.560 i just i've never lived in a country where we ban books
00:13:11.200 and i wonder if you've thought of
00:13:13.040 i mean this is not what i had you on for
00:13:14.720 but i wonder if you've ever thought of
00:13:16.180 you're you're an extremist
00:13:18.400 you don't buy into
00:13:20.020 the answers and the solutions for climate change
00:13:24.360 yeah there's a lot so look
00:13:27.820 uh my basic point is global warming is a real problem
00:13:31.300 uh but it's often vastly exaggerated in impact
00:13:34.600 and may you know a lot of the rhetoric around it
00:13:38.080 make people panicky and it makes us make bad decisions
00:13:41.940 and that's what i'm really challenging
00:13:43.560 i i've had a lot of people tell me
00:13:45.900 they would love to see me de-platformed
00:13:48.220 they'd love to not see my uh or hear my arguments
00:13:52.460 being uh voiced uh clearly
00:13:54.640 uh but but i also think that most people recognize
00:13:58.500 that's not the way to run a democracy
00:14:01.680 uh actually uh i think john stewart mill already
00:14:05.160 you know like almost 200 years ago
00:14:07.020 uh pointed out that
00:14:09.180 listening to people whom you don't agree with
00:14:12.780 is a good idea
00:14:14.520 partway if you're right
00:14:16.400 they'll prove you right
00:14:18.060 and they'll show you why you're right
00:14:19.780 and if you're wrong of course
00:14:21.160 you actually want to find out that you're wrong
00:14:23.340 so listening to dissenting voices
00:14:25.760 is a really good thing
00:14:27.300 it makes democracy stronger
00:14:28.660 and it's also likely it'll make your decision better
00:14:31.880 only if we are rooted in
00:14:34.300 you know the the scientific theory
00:14:37.000 the the you know show me the evidence
00:14:39.180 and i'll respond to the evidence
00:14:41.480 we we we're no longer doing that
00:14:45.400 there's we're just going off of
00:14:47.860 what people you know want everybody to believe
00:14:51.220 i believe in global warming
00:14:53.640 i can read a thermometer
00:14:55.100 what i don't believe in
00:14:57.300 is a lot of the things that they say
00:14:59.520 for instance the green new deal
00:15:01.080 or let's just take this first
00:15:03.120 electric cars
00:15:04.580 well that's wonderful
00:15:06.140 they're all electric
00:15:06.960 but where are we getting the power
00:15:09.100 to charge them
00:15:10.520 am i wrong on thinking that way
00:15:14.760 well well you're certainly right in your intuition
00:15:19.040 that we need a lot more than just getting
00:15:21.580 cars to be electric
00:15:23.180 because let's face it
00:15:24.540 uh as long as they're still power by coal power
00:15:26.900 uh they will emit almost as much
00:15:29.260 uh remember uh electric cars use a lot of energy
00:15:33.000 typically in china or elsewhere
00:15:34.680 mostly produced with with coal
00:15:37.500 to produce their batteries
00:15:39.380 correct and so once they get to you
00:15:41.740 you can feel all virtues and green
00:15:43.680 and drive around and feel really
00:15:45.160 you know like i'm doing something for global warming
00:15:47.480 but the reality is
00:15:48.740 you've just emitted a lot of co2
00:15:50.780 in china
00:15:51.900 uh and and so you have to drive your car
00:15:54.720 you know 40 60 000 miles
00:15:57.480 before it's actually free
00:15:59.240 and you can actually start saving
00:16:00.660 now that depends a lot on how much
00:16:03.100 of the power that you use
00:16:05.060 come from fossil fuels
00:16:06.460 but you also need
00:16:07.880 to decarbonize
00:16:09.260 the whole electricity grid
00:16:11.520 and that turns out to be
00:16:13.140 really really hard
00:16:14.420 and so again
00:16:15.460 we need to recognize
00:16:16.920 that sure electric cars
00:16:19.080 are you know
00:16:19.860 great for some purposes
00:16:21.580 if you
00:16:22.140 i i have a friend who has a tesla
00:16:24.060 and i've been driving
00:16:25.320 i love it
00:16:26.080 you know it's fun
00:16:26.840 but first of all
00:16:28.120 it's incredibly expensive
00:16:29.220 so it's mostly fun
00:16:30.300 for the upper classes
00:16:31.580 and secondly
00:16:33.100 it doesn't cut
00:16:34.620 all that much co2
00:16:36.080 uh so you know
00:16:37.520 when when biden
00:16:38.480 and many others
00:16:39.100 are suggesting
00:16:39.660 we should give subsidies
00:16:41.040 in the tune of
00:16:42.160 seven and a half thousand dollars
00:16:43.820 maybe ten thousand dollars
00:16:45.660 you are basically paying
00:16:47.540 an extraordinarily high price
00:16:49.800 to cut a little bit of co2
00:16:51.840 you could have spent that money
00:16:54.020 much much better either
00:16:55.380 cutting carbon emissions
00:16:56.420 or remember
00:16:57.520 there's a lot of other problems
00:16:59.080 that you want to fix
00:17:00.140 both in the u.s.
00:17:01.100 or around the world
00:17:01.740 so again
00:17:02.620 this is a question
00:17:03.760 about getting our priorities right
00:17:05.560 it's a question
00:17:06.300 of getting a sense of
00:17:07.180 what is the impact
00:17:09.200 of what you try to do
00:17:10.260 not just feeling virtuous
00:17:11.820 but actually doing good
00:17:13.100 so bjorn i i
00:17:14.440 i put my trust
00:17:17.280 in the free
00:17:18.760 not the corrupt capitalism
00:17:21.040 that we have now
00:17:22.020 but in the actual free market
00:17:24.200 to solve these things
00:17:26.500 and we're just not there yet
00:17:28.940 we are going to solve these things
00:17:31.220 but look at what happened to texas
00:17:33.660 now it's not entirely
00:17:35.320 because of you know
00:17:37.180 we're cutting back
00:17:38.080 and and and cutting back on
00:17:39.880 uh you know fuels
00:17:41.200 that we have grown to trust
00:17:44.300 uh you know
00:17:45.520 and gone all to windmills
00:17:46.760 but it's partially because of that
00:17:49.900 and i have no problem
00:17:51.560 i i own a farm
00:17:53.020 it's completely green energy
00:17:55.220 it's completely off the grid
00:17:56.860 it's solar
00:17:57.420 and it's wind power
00:17:58.580 and it's backed up by natural gas
00:18:01.640 if we have to
00:18:02.640 um i'm all for it
00:18:05.280 but a only the rich can afford it
00:18:08.140 and b
00:18:09.240 in i've spent
00:18:11.660 i can't tell you how much money
00:18:13.600 getting this to be stable
00:18:15.160 it's not ready yet
00:18:17.620 for prime time
00:18:18.760 no and and and certainly most people
00:18:22.420 i was actually very curious to hear
00:18:24.180 that you have backup from from gas
00:18:26.060 because most people of course
00:18:27.420 just get the backup
00:18:28.500 from the electricity grid
00:18:30.500 uh which of course
00:18:31.700 simply means that they get all the subsidies
00:18:33.920 and they push on all the cost
00:18:36.540 of uh of still driving the the rest
00:18:39.220 of the electricity system
00:18:40.300 to typically the poor rate pairs
00:18:42.880 uh so so in some sense
00:18:44.700 you're you're absolutely right
00:18:46.080 most of this
00:18:46.780 is something that supports
00:18:48.380 rich people a lot
00:18:49.860 and and supports a lot of uh
00:18:51.780 of uh virtue signaling
00:18:52.900 but actually does fairly little
00:18:54.840 to cut carbon emissions
00:18:56.140 and you're right about the idea
00:18:57.800 that what what the texas
00:18:59.540 uh uh uh uh the terrible incident
00:19:02.700 in texas last week
00:19:03.860 i think shows most clearly
00:19:05.420 not you know was it windmills fault
00:19:07.620 or was it the gas
00:19:08.480 or the cold power fire plants
00:19:10.640 or or even the nuclear plant
00:19:12.120 that that dropped off for a while
00:19:13.680 it's much more a question saying
00:19:15.540 without stable power
00:19:17.720 you're really up creek
00:19:19.480 yes society you need stable power
00:19:22.820 that's what makes us rich
00:19:24.500 if you go to many developing countries
00:19:26.360 one of the things you see
00:19:27.680 is they all have a diesel generator
00:19:29.300 because they know they can't
00:19:30.640 trust the power system
00:19:31.780 and that is one of the reasons
00:19:33.620 why they're trapped in poverty
00:19:35.100 because you don't want to invest
00:19:36.560 in a place where you don't
00:19:37.720 have sustainable power
00:19:38.880 that's why we cannot imagine
00:19:41.760 ourselves run just off of wind
00:19:44.400 and solar
00:19:44.780 although people love to say that
00:19:46.400 because what are you going to do
00:19:47.640 when the sun is not shining
00:19:48.900 and the wind is not blowing
00:19:49.860 and remember people then
00:19:52.060 you know sort of uh
00:19:53.280 facility i'm not sure
00:19:55.000 whether that's an affair
00:19:55.820 but but you know
00:19:56.860 they very easily say
00:19:58.080 oh we'll just have batteries
00:19:59.560 remember you need a lot of batteries
00:20:02.000 right now the u.s have batteries
00:20:03.540 enough to support 14 seconds
00:20:06.860 of u.s electricity consumption
00:20:08.900 oh my gosh
00:20:10.040 nowhere near being able to have that
00:20:12.040 for hours days or even season
00:20:13.880 and i will tell you
00:20:16.060 they're wildly expensive
00:20:17.800 uh they i mean you still have to
00:20:20.700 replace those batteries over time
00:20:22.760 uh and they don't hold as much
00:20:25.460 as anybody thinks they do
00:20:27.100 i mean it's you know i am on solar
00:20:29.440 and i put it all into batteries
00:20:31.160 but i'll tell you
00:20:32.220 we go a week without sunshine
00:20:34.660 we ain't using that
00:20:36.480 i mean we have these gigantic batteries
00:20:39.400 they're out
00:20:40.640 yeah
00:20:40.920 they're out
00:20:41.620 there's there was a wonderful um story
00:20:44.240 uh in uh in a little northeast
00:20:46.980 uh uh indian village
00:20:48.860 it was the first indian village
00:20:51.040 that went all uh solar
00:20:52.960 uh supported by greenpeace
00:20:54.880 uh and you know they got lots and lots of pr
00:20:58.080 uh and everybody was very excited
00:21:00.600 in this village
00:21:01.180 because they didn't have any electricity
00:21:02.740 uh so clearly uh getting some solar
00:21:05.740 electricity was better than nothing
00:21:07.340 uh but what happened when they turned it on
00:21:09.940 was of course after two hours at night
00:21:12.360 yep
00:21:12.580 everybody had depleted it
00:21:14.120 so they had to start telling people
00:21:15.860 oh you can't use this
00:21:16.840 you can't do that
00:21:17.660 oh god no not a refrigerator
00:21:19.340 uh and you know suddenly
00:21:20.960 there's a lot of things you can't do
00:21:22.860 and then when the uh when the minister
00:21:25.180 came to you know uh uh inaugurate
00:21:27.800 this whole project
00:21:28.660 uh the villagers was actually protesting
00:21:31.140 they said they didn't want fake electricity
00:21:33.900 they want real electricity
00:21:35.440 and you know because he was democratically voted in
00:21:38.160 uh they actually got a new power line
00:21:41.220 from the main grid
00:21:42.380 mostly powered by coal
00:21:43.560 uh in a couple weeks
00:21:44.840 uh and oh
00:21:46.020 and the prices dropped by two-thirds
00:21:48.080 uh and again you know
00:21:49.940 this is not to discourage
00:21:51.320 the fact that yes solar and wind have a space
00:21:54.000 and they are sometimes really good
00:21:55.940 you know in california
00:21:57.200 if you have little
00:21:58.880 if you have some solar
00:22:00.700 it can actually cut off the very top peak
00:22:03.080 uh usage uh around noon
00:22:05.600 when you need it for air conditioning
00:22:07.120 that's great
00:22:07.780 but don't believe that you can run an economy off of it
00:22:11.180 this is the best of the glenbeck program
00:22:17.880 jason whitlock
00:22:27.700 welcome to the program how are you
00:22:31.200 awesome thanks for having me
00:22:33.240 you bet i know that tiger woods was
00:22:35.440 uh kind of a big deal growing up
00:22:38.700 with you and your dad right
00:22:40.340 absolutely tiger is my favorite athlete of all time
00:22:44.520 me and my dad
00:22:46.440 you know just brought us closer together
00:22:48.620 talked about tiger more than any other athlete
00:22:51.360 tiger when i think of sports and just happy moments
00:22:55.360 it's it's tiger woods and magic johnson
00:22:57.820 when he was with the lakers
00:22:58.720 yeah uh tiger woods i think was that way for all of us
00:23:02.760 especially when his dad was alive
00:23:04.340 uh because of their relationship
00:23:06.660 and what they accomplished together
00:23:09.060 uh and uh you know i think his his spiral into trouble
00:23:14.900 it it appears to be i don't know
00:23:18.120 because i don't follow these guys at all
00:23:19.580 but it appears to be tied to
00:23:21.440 the death of his dad
00:23:23.380 and uh him making it kind of
00:23:25.640 on his own in an in a different way
00:23:28.080 is that accurate at all
00:23:29.640 yeah i think it's accurate
00:23:31.500 look and glenn i'm glad you started out
00:23:33.640 by letting me establish
00:23:35.100 i'm a huge tiger woods fan
00:23:38.220 right but i'm gonna be honest
00:23:40.440 you know when i look at tiger's life
00:23:44.260 i i say wow he was really super prepared
00:23:47.400 for golf
00:23:49.020 and nothing else
00:23:50.420 i'm not sure if he was super prepared for anything else
00:23:52.760 yeah
00:23:53.100 and that kind of fame and fortune too
00:23:56.220 is also uh really bad
00:23:58.600 especially if you lose the anchor of
00:24:00.880 of that's been guiding you the whole time
00:24:03.340 that steady hand
00:24:04.160 so do we know there was
00:24:06.580 there were no drugs or alcohol involved in this accident
00:24:09.480 do we know if he was asleep at the wheel
00:24:11.960 how did this happen
00:24:13.120 and what happened
00:24:14.220 i think i think we know
00:24:16.340 based on the police
00:24:17.360 that there was no alcohol involved
00:24:19.880 uh tiger recently had another back surgery
00:24:24.260 and so and we you know
00:24:27.060 it's been part of his history to
00:24:29.540 uh take painkillers
00:24:31.960 because he's had so many different surgeries
00:24:34.180 and he's he struggled with that problem
00:24:36.240 i'm not sure
00:24:38.100 if we'll ever know
00:24:40.060 what was in his system
00:24:41.960 at the time of this accident
00:24:43.220 maybe they took his blood
00:24:44.860 and we'll examine it
00:24:45.880 maybe they won't
00:24:47.140 i mean tiger's a huge brand for nike
00:24:49.520 and i'm sure
00:24:51.620 uh they're going to try to protect his privacy
00:24:54.880 as much as they can
00:24:56.500 sure and if they were prescription drugs
00:24:58.280 and he wasn't abusing them
00:24:59.720 i mean you know you take
00:25:01.600 you take some of these drugs for pain now
00:25:04.440 at night
00:25:05.080 this happened at seven o'clock in the morning
00:25:06.740 you're groggy still at seven o'clock in the morning
00:25:09.580 i mean you could easily fall back to sleep
00:25:11.580 and and not because of the drug
00:25:13.780 but because of the after effects of the drug
00:25:15.680 here's what i'll say glenn
00:25:18.360 and i'm a huge tiger woods fan
00:25:21.140 i mean tiger woods
00:25:22.420 can make me cry
00:25:24.260 uh but what what i would say is where
00:25:28.060 i would somewhat disagree with you is like
00:25:30.960 if i'm taking prescription drugs
00:25:33.900 and i'm worth
00:25:35.540 a half billion dollars or more
00:25:38.100 yeah i have a driver
00:25:39.460 yes true
00:25:40.300 i i i take that precaution of like
00:25:43.200 hey because of my injuries
00:25:44.780 because of my surgery
00:25:45.920 i take these prescription drugs
00:25:48.560 maybe it's best for me
00:25:50.940 not to drive
00:25:51.940 i i'm not worth nearly the money
00:25:55.040 that tiger woods is
00:25:56.300 but i basically gave up driving
00:25:59.460 four years ago
00:26:01.060 i take uber
00:26:02.300 yeah i went three straight years
00:26:04.660 without ever getting behind my car
00:26:06.300 i moved to nashville
00:26:08.040 drove you know here
00:26:09.620 drove my car here
00:26:10.760 and did some driving
00:26:11.960 and now i haven't driven
00:26:13.400 for three months i don't think
00:26:15.280 and and why is that
00:26:17.140 because of all the drugs you're taking
00:26:19.540 no it's literally
00:26:23.240 it started in la
00:26:24.720 just because i wanted to walk more
00:26:26.800 and i wanted
00:26:27.880 you know i had a
00:26:28.940 the drug
00:26:30.440 my drug of choice
00:26:31.600 is like potato chips
00:26:33.520 and payday candy bars
00:26:36.020 and i had a really bad habit
00:26:38.660 of eating those
00:26:40.040 while driving in a car
00:26:41.680 and so i just wanted to give all that up
00:26:44.980 and walk more
00:26:46.000 and just i i just felt like i had bad habits
00:26:48.620 driving a car
00:26:49.780 that i don't have
00:26:50.960 you know uber
00:26:51.660 they don't want you to eat or drink in there
00:26:53.520 and just
00:26:54.500 i just i just don't like
00:26:56.320 driving that much
00:26:57.800 and in like in 2002
00:26:59.900 i was i was doing radio
00:27:02.260 i was writing for the newspaper
00:27:03.700 i was doing tv
00:27:04.920 and i fell asleep
00:27:06.680 at the wheel of my car
00:27:08.340 and a friend of mine
00:27:10.000 was a passenger in the car
00:27:11.300 and he was a dad
00:27:12.340 and we were going to some press conference
00:27:15.300 and i was overworked
00:27:16.400 i was doing morning radio
00:27:17.560 and i fell asleep at the car
00:27:19.760 just very briefly
00:27:20.700 maybe five ten seconds
00:27:22.480 woke up
00:27:23.580 and you know
00:27:25.400 saved us
00:27:26.420 or you know
00:27:27.140 got control of the car
00:27:29.020 and blah blah blah
00:27:29.680 but that kind of changed
00:27:31.160 my point of view on driving
00:27:32.780 i i you know
00:27:34.760 fell out of love
00:27:35.920 with driving
00:27:36.820 i just
00:27:37.220 just not a responsibility
00:27:38.540 i i want to take
00:27:40.200 so what is
00:27:41.420 what have you heard
00:27:42.400 about the surgery
00:27:43.340 and i know they put a rod in
00:27:45.580 is is
00:27:46.500 he gonna walk again
00:27:48.260 and do you
00:27:49.560 have any idea
00:27:50.540 on the
00:27:51.020 based on what happened
00:27:52.640 uh in sports
00:27:54.580 do you come back
00:27:55.600 and play golf
00:27:56.420 i don't think
00:27:58.320 he comes back
00:27:59.320 i mean
00:27:59.880 this total speculation
00:28:01.160 on my part
00:28:01.780 i think the guys had like
00:28:03.020 five back surgeries
00:28:04.100 and was just recovering
00:28:05.580 from
00:28:05.960 one just now
00:28:07.880 so i would imagine
00:28:08.960 his back
00:28:10.420 won't
00:28:12.140 allow him to compete
00:28:13.380 at the highest level
00:28:14.320 i think that
00:28:15.200 his ankle getting crushed
00:28:17.100 and you know
00:28:18.240 having to be rebuilt
00:28:19.160 they said they put a rod
00:28:20.460 in his
00:28:20.860 leg
00:28:21.780 i can't imagine
00:28:23.320 let's say the recovery
00:28:25.180 is a year
00:28:26.100 or two
00:28:26.940 you know
00:28:28.060 tiger will be 47
00:28:29.300 at that time
00:28:30.500 47
00:28:31.580 when did that happen
00:28:33.680 yeah he's 45 now
00:28:35.520 so i just can't see him
00:28:37.080 competing at the level
00:28:39.060 that he wants to compete at
00:28:40.800 which is at the highest level
00:28:42.280 and so i i think
00:28:44.560 you know if i were guessing
00:28:46.300 you know
00:28:47.000 his career is over
00:28:48.300 that's a huge blow
00:28:50.680 yeah that that's
00:28:52.680 look even
00:28:53.600 at tiger
00:28:54.620 you know
00:28:55.520 half of his powers
00:28:56.820 he's still the most
00:28:58.320 compelling
00:28:58.760 television
00:28:59.680 yeah
00:29:00.100 maybe in sports
00:29:01.260 but certainly
00:29:01.820 in the world of golf
00:29:03.240 uh
00:29:04.300 you know
00:29:04.720 he's the only thing
00:29:06.140 that would
00:29:06.680 you know
00:29:07.100 he trumps everything
00:29:08.540 for me
00:29:08.960 football's my favorite sport
00:29:10.320 but if tiger
00:29:11.380 were in contention
00:29:12.820 at a major
00:29:13.540 or
00:29:13.920 hell maybe
00:29:14.620 just any golf tournament
00:29:15.760 i'd watch tiger
00:29:17.140 over football
00:29:18.000 uh
00:29:19.180 and i think a lot of people
00:29:20.320 were that way
00:29:20.860 because we thought
00:29:21.260 we were witnessing
00:29:21.940 history
00:29:22.600 and even with tiger's
00:29:24.620 personal problems
00:29:25.800 i think most people
00:29:27.060 just kind of like tiger
00:29:28.420 yeah
00:29:28.920 uh
00:29:29.480 and and just
00:29:30.480 he's hard not to like
00:29:31.900 i mean i went through
00:29:33.060 a period where
00:29:33.700 i mean again
00:29:34.240 i don't follow this stuff
00:29:35.160 but you know
00:29:35.760 the the golf club
00:29:37.300 and the car
00:29:37.780 and the wife
00:29:38.380 was a really
00:29:39.100 horrible scene
00:29:39.960 um
00:29:40.680 but it's hard
00:29:41.860 not to like him
00:29:42.840 yeah i think that
00:29:45.040 again i
00:29:46.500 good looking guy
00:29:47.880 i think people can
00:29:49.940 relate to his
00:29:51.980 he was competing
00:29:53.780 in a sport
00:29:54.480 where no one
00:29:55.220 that looked like him
00:29:56.080 had ever had
00:29:56.940 that kind of success
00:29:58.180 and i think
00:29:59.680 everybody in america
00:30:01.620 love what tiger's
00:30:04.100 success in golf
00:30:05.160 represented
00:30:06.060 and said about america
00:30:07.720 and
00:30:08.860 you know
00:30:09.860 he didn't take
00:30:10.740 big huge
00:30:11.700 political positions
00:30:13.000 and so everybody
00:30:14.340 could kind of
00:30:15.000 wrap their arms
00:30:15.680 around tiger woods
00:30:16.940 and we did
00:30:18.400 and you know
00:30:19.260 that's
00:30:19.940 i have so many
00:30:21.560 maybe you did
00:30:22.380 maybe you did
00:30:23.300 because you're
00:30:23.760 you're black
00:30:24.460 but all the white
00:30:25.400 people in america
00:30:26.320 of course are racist
00:30:27.360 and uh
00:30:28.460 we secretly
00:30:29.320 hated him
00:30:30.320 and somehow
00:30:32.720 all of you
00:30:33.600 that hated tiger
00:30:34.600 never went to
00:30:35.680 the golf course
00:30:36.420 that he was
00:30:36.860 playing at
00:30:37.460 because it would
00:30:38.440 be a sea
00:30:39.400 of white humanity
00:30:40.820 yeah
00:30:41.360 uh cheering
00:30:42.900 this guy on
00:30:43.940 and celebrating
00:30:44.640 every moment
00:30:45.420 and
00:30:46.180 so you know
00:30:47.420 let me
00:30:48.360 let me ask you
00:30:49.440 one more question
00:30:49.980 on this
00:30:50.420 do you know
00:30:51.880 enough about
00:30:52.660 tiger woods
00:30:53.820 uh
00:30:54.980 to know
00:30:55.780 how a guy
00:30:56.880 who was
00:30:57.800 built from
00:30:59.020 the beginning
00:30:59.780 of his childhood
00:31:00.960 to compete
00:31:02.400 and to play
00:31:03.420 golf
00:31:03.940 and to
00:31:04.840 and then
00:31:05.800 become
00:31:06.580 such an icon
00:31:08.400 at 47
00:31:10.340 years old
00:31:11.280 45 years old
00:31:12.180 just to kind of
00:31:13.240 not be able
00:31:14.540 to do that
00:31:15.240 anymore
00:31:15.600 not command
00:31:16.380 that spotlight
00:31:17.320 for his
00:31:18.140 athletic
00:31:19.120 abilities
00:31:20.420 how is that
00:31:21.660 going to affect
00:31:22.320 him mentally
00:31:23.080 do you have
00:31:23.540 any idea
00:31:24.180 i think he's
00:31:25.820 been prepared
00:31:27.480 for that
00:31:28.200 over the last
00:31:29.060 few years
00:31:29.700 because he's
00:31:30.460 had so many
00:31:31.140 injuries
00:31:31.640 and missed
00:31:32.500 large chunks
00:31:33.920 of time
00:31:34.580 a year off
00:31:35.560 year and a half
00:31:36.640 off
00:31:37.020 for this injury
00:31:38.040 or that injury
00:31:38.760 i think that
00:31:40.040 tiger has
00:31:41.040 authentically
00:31:42.560 transitioned
00:31:43.380 into being
00:31:45.000 really into
00:31:45.760 his kids
00:31:46.580 and i think
00:31:48.540 you would think
00:31:49.860 he's sitting
00:31:50.400 in the hospital
00:31:51.020 bed like
00:31:51.700 oh my god
00:31:52.520 if i can just
00:31:53.640 walk again
00:31:54.300 and play with
00:31:54.860 my kids
00:31:55.540 and help my
00:31:56.120 son with his
00:31:56.940 golf game
00:31:57.560 and my daughter
00:31:58.180 with her golf
00:31:58.960 game
00:31:59.240 that will be
00:32:00.860 fulfilling
00:32:01.420 enough for
00:32:03.120 tiger
00:32:03.520 i want to add
00:32:04.700 one thing
00:32:05.580 glenn before
00:32:06.280 we transition
00:32:07.100 to something
00:32:07.520 else but
00:32:08.020 the other
00:32:09.040 thought i've
00:32:09.580 had about
00:32:10.060 tiger and
00:32:10.940 this just
00:32:11.820 the way
00:32:12.440 the last
00:32:13.040 10 years
00:32:13.460 of his
00:32:13.700 life has
00:32:14.100 gone
00:32:14.360 it's kind
00:32:15.360 of starting
00:32:15.700 to remind
00:32:16.180 me of
00:32:16.540 like michael
00:32:17.100 jackson
00:32:17.560 michael jackson
00:32:18.280 was a big
00:32:19.020 part of my
00:32:19.800 childhood
00:32:20.340 and memories
00:32:21.220 and i was
00:32:21.620 just big
00:32:22.340 michael jackson
00:32:23.140 jackson 5 fan
00:32:24.220 and then he
00:32:25.420 got involved
00:32:26.200 in controversies
00:32:27.700 and identity
00:32:29.900 issues and
00:32:31.200 skin you know
00:32:32.440 all of that
00:32:34.160 children
00:32:34.660 yeah
00:32:35.640 and i just
00:32:36.900 it's like
00:32:38.020 my memories
00:32:39.100 of michael
00:32:39.760 are blurred
00:32:40.440 i remember him
00:32:41.480 as much for
00:32:42.360 the tragedies
00:32:43.260 and controversies
00:32:44.360 as i do
00:32:45.500 for his
00:32:45.960 singing career
00:32:46.880 and and i
00:32:48.100 just think
00:32:49.440 michael's
00:32:50.380 weirdness or
00:32:51.300 whatever it
00:32:52.040 was that was
00:32:52.580 going on with
00:32:53.100 michael i
00:32:54.500 just he was
00:32:55.140 a prodigy
00:32:55.920 like tiger
00:32:57.400 whose dad
00:32:58.400 drove him
00:32:59.480 correct
00:32:59.900 whose dad
00:33:00.700 you know
00:33:01.460 made him
00:33:02.560 music music
00:33:03.440 and you're
00:33:03.960 going to be
00:33:04.260 and and
00:33:05.500 i just it
00:33:06.860 makes me
00:33:07.260 like wow
00:33:08.180 as much as
00:33:09.140 i love tiger
00:33:10.740 and what
00:33:11.520 he was
00:33:11.780 accomplished
00:33:12.200 i don't
00:33:12.800 think i
00:33:13.100 would want
00:33:13.480 his life
00:33:14.100 and as
00:33:14.640 much as
00:33:15.000 i love
00:33:15.360 michael jackson's
00:33:16.260 music i
00:33:16.780 certainly wouldn't
00:33:17.380 want his
00:33:17.940 life
00:33:18.300 yeah i
00:33:19.120 wouldn't want
00:33:19.560 to be a
00:33:19.940 prodigy
00:33:21.080 well you get
00:33:21.640 all the jesus
00:33:22.220 juice you want
00:33:22.940 if you were
00:33:23.440 michael jackson
00:33:24.040 but i you know
00:33:24.940 what i think
00:33:25.540 you're exactly
00:33:26.140 right and i
00:33:27.140 think that's
00:33:27.620 why people
00:33:28.200 are paid
00:33:29.160 so much
00:33:30.740 money in
00:33:31.580 the end
00:33:32.160 is you
00:33:33.260 give up
00:33:34.100 an awful
00:33:35.120 lot i mean
00:33:35.940 it's one
00:33:36.400 thing to
00:33:36.940 be a
00:33:37.460 star
00:33:37.740 especially
00:33:38.180 at their
00:33:38.800 level
00:33:39.240 but if
00:33:41.040 you're at
00:33:41.460 their level
00:33:42.200 from childhood
00:33:43.580 you you do
00:33:45.320 not have a
00:33:46.820 normal life
00:33:47.680 at all
00:33:48.400 and uh
00:33:49.800 you kind of
00:33:50.940 demanded in a
00:33:52.220 you know pound
00:33:52.980 of flesh or
00:33:53.600 you know a
00:33:54.600 pound of gold
00:33:55.340 uh but it
00:33:56.780 doesn't buy back
00:33:57.800 all the things
00:33:58.400 that you lost
00:33:58.940 na na na na