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

On today's show, we have a special guest on the show, Jason Whitlock, to talk about the dangers of "green cars" and why we should be worried about them. We also talk about cancel culture, and how it's getting real with the banks. And we share a personal story of how the banks are getting REAL with us.


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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00:01:26.240 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