The Glenn Beck Program - October 16, 2019


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Nick Di Paolo & Mike Rowe ｜ 10⧸16⧸19


Episode Stats

Length

45 minutes

Words per Minute

174.81203

Word Count

8,029

Sentence Count

750

Misogynist Sentences

25

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

The moderates took the stage last night. We go over the winners and losers of the Democratic Debates. Also, we give you some technological updates on why you should never make the peace sign. And Nick DiPaolo joins us to talk about the NBA.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, America. We've got a lot going on. The moderates took the stage last night. We couldn't find them. Did you? We looked.
00:00:07.980 Yeah.
00:00:08.440 Have you? We've got researchers on that.
00:00:10.140 My television, I think, was broken. I kept seeing really hardcore radicals.
00:00:12.940 Right. But the moderates. The moderates. We go over the winners and losers of the Democratic, what do you call it? Debate.
00:00:22.100 I don't really care that much. The debate. We go over the winners and losers.
00:00:26.920 Also, we give you some some technological updates on why you shouldn't ever put your hands up in a selfie, why you should never make the peace sign, why you should never give someone the finger.
00:00:40.140 And it has nothing to do with political correctness. Also, Nick DiPaolo is here.
00:00:44.700 We talk a little bit about the NBA. Got a really interesting email from somebody that really says, why are we doing this?
00:00:52.780 Why are you even fighting? It's a lost cause.
00:00:55.500 I, I bring you back to Columbus and the pilgrims and answer that letter.
00:01:02.840 Also, whistleblower audio that has never been heard before.
00:01:06.460 And Mike Rowe joins us. So don't miss a second of today's podcast.
00:01:10.260 We had an amazing interview last night with a whistleblower.
00:01:30.900 It's a whistleblower on the other side. It's a whistleblower that worked at the United, I'm sorry, at the UK, sorry, the Ukrainian embassy in Washington, D.C.
00:01:44.000 And met the Democratic operative, Chalupa, gave us some information last night that we had no idea.
00:01:54.060 We recorded something last night. You saw the first 20 minutes of it live on the TV show.
00:01:59.140 And the entire 90 minute interview is going to be released this Saturday on a podcast.
00:02:05.120 But this guy is a Ukrainian who knows all of the players worked for Shokin and then left because he didn't like the priorities of Shokin.
00:02:15.820 So there's no love lost for Shokin. He has no reason to defend him.
00:02:21.340 There's no, there's no, there's, there doesn't seem to be an agenda here with this guy other than he would like the United States out of the business of Ukraine.
00:02:31.100 We're going to tell you all about that and show you some of the things that we learned just on last night's broadcast in just a couple of seconds.
00:02:39.720 First, I want to start with the, quote, moderates taking back and standing up to the extremists.
00:02:49.880 Now, they didn't call Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders an extremist.
00:02:57.840 Didn't call either of them.
00:02:59.900 What they did say is that the moderates came out and Stu, I don't know about you, but I've been trying to find the moderate ones in the debate.
00:03:07.480 Uh, I haven't found them.
00:03:09.980 Uh, that's because there are none, Glenn.
00:03:12.240 Uh, they are only moderate in comparison, uh, to each other in approach.
00:03:19.340 In speed.
00:03:20.420 In speed towards the same destination.
00:03:22.840 In speed.
00:03:23.280 You see this over and over and over again.
00:03:25.380 For example, um, when it comes to, uh, I thought the most clear example of it was the wealth tax.
00:03:31.440 Yes, me too.
00:03:32.020 The wealth tax is not your typical, like, oh, well, God, we should make sure we restrict, uh, guns for crazy people.
00:03:37.840 This is a, uh, a plan that most constitutional scholars say is unconstitutional.
00:03:44.660 It was specifically debated by the founders.
00:03:47.440 They specifically ruled it out.
00:03:49.200 So it's like, you'd absolutely have to go against what they talked about during the founding.
00:03:55.140 It's been tested in the courts already and rejected.
00:03:58.180 They'd have to just, you know, it would have to be an activist court that would say it's a living document and now it means something else to justify the policy.
00:04:06.160 At its very base, whether it would work or not is a totally different situation.
00:04:08.920 So what the wealth tax is, in case you don't understand, it's, it's goes beyond, uh, taxing people's, you know, income.
00:04:16.140 That's an income tax.
00:04:17.140 This is a wealth tax.
00:04:18.460 So let's say you have, um, let's say you have a hundred thousand dollars in the bank or a million dollars in the bank.
00:04:25.800 Um, and you not only have a million dollars in the bank, but you also have some paintings.
00:04:31.460 You own a house worth a million dollars.
00:04:34.740 Uh, you've got some jewelry.
00:04:36.260 So let's say you're in the end, you're worth $3 million.
00:04:39.260 Well, you'd fall into the wealth tax.
00:04:41.640 Now that's not your income tax.
00:04:44.180 That is an accounting of everything that you own.
00:04:48.280 So you own jewelry, you own a house.
00:04:51.620 This is why those homes in England, besides the fact that they were so huge, you couldn't run them anymore.
00:04:58.340 It took too many people to run them.
00:04:59.540 But this is why people, um, have gone broke in, in England, uh, and have lost all of those houses.
00:05:08.700 One of the reasons is because you have to pay the property tax and the property tax is so high.
00:05:15.380 Well, we understand that when it comes to property for a home, but we don't take that into consideration when it comes to, well, how many cars do you have?
00:05:26.100 Do you have any jewelry?
00:05:27.100 Do you have any art?
00:05:28.420 How much say, how much money do you have in savings?
00:05:30.600 That's property.
00:05:32.040 And so the wealth tax takes away 2% of whatever it is that you own, 2% you have to pay on the things that you've already bought, you already have.
00:05:43.860 And by the way, you were already taxed on the money that you paid for it.
00:05:46.580 So it would be a double tax.
00:05:48.080 It's actually a triple tax because you paid it when you earned it, then you paid the tax when you bought it.
00:05:54.180 Now, just to keep it, you have to pay a tax.
00:05:56.740 Right, and the reason why it's relatively popular in polling, particularly among Democrats, is it's just a punitive class warfare tactic.
00:06:07.420 It's just saying, hey, like, these people are really rich.
00:06:10.180 They don't need it.
00:06:10.760 You do.
00:06:11.260 So you should take their stuff.
00:06:12.700 And look, I, you know, people don't feel bad for millionaires, right?
00:06:15.880 So, you know, and it's understandable.
00:06:18.020 However, there's so many problems with it.
00:06:20.100 Number one, being it's not constitutionally possible.
00:06:23.220 Number two, it also has been tried, and I give credit to Andrew Yang, who is the only person who seemed to even have the knowledge that it's been tried in multiple countries and has been repealed by multiple European...
00:06:37.220 These socialist countries they say they want to be like, which, you know, if you ask these socialist countries, they will tell you they are not socialist.
00:06:44.660 But the Bernie Sanders type of countries, Sweden and such, have tried wealth taxes and repealed them because they don't work and they don't raise the amount of money that they thought they were going to raise.
00:06:56.400 So with that being set up, when you go, they went down the, they asked Elizabeth Warren about her wealth tax.
00:07:03.140 And of course, she said how it's not going to hurt anybody and it's going to raise enough money to give child care to every child in America, plus free college.
00:07:12.420 And I mean, she went through this litany of things that there's absolutely no way this wealth tax would pay for.
00:07:17.360 And then they went around the, the, the 47 people who were up there.
00:07:23.160 Now, here's what was really interesting, because they say the, the moderates took her on.
00:07:28.040 No, they didn't take her on.
00:07:30.200 No.
00:07:30.480 What they, what they said, and I wrote them down.
00:07:33.020 They said things like, I support it, but I endorse that idea.
00:07:39.280 But that has to be part of the solution.
00:07:42.480 But so there, nobody was arguing this.
00:07:45.680 Yeah, with the exception of Yang, who was a notable exception here, but they will say, sure, that's a great thing we should do.
00:07:54.800 However, we might not be able to get that done, or we need to do my idea too, or we need to do my idea first, or whatever it is, which, which all those other ideas were all raised taxes as well, just on different things.
00:08:04.920 And you realize that, like, here's an, here's an, you know, an issue that is outwardly unconstitutional.
00:08:12.920 And it's not just, you know, Republican people saying that.
00:08:16.240 It is something that was specifically debated by the founders.
00:08:18.680 There's different types of taxation.
00:08:20.160 It's why we needed the 16th Amendment in the first place to get the income tax, because that was specifically debated and prohibited by the founders.
00:08:28.180 And we needed to amend the Constitution.
00:08:30.520 Good job, guys, to take a chunk of your income every week.
00:08:35.360 With this is, there is no amendment.
00:08:37.320 They just want to do it.
00:08:38.980 And if you want to do it, you have to change the Constitution.
00:08:43.080 Right.
00:08:43.280 And they're not, but they have no interest in actually proposing an amendment.
00:08:46.460 Right.
00:08:46.760 They know it won't pass.
00:08:47.680 And they think now they've, they've abandoned the idea they need to change the Constitution.
00:08:53.480 Now it's just, we just do what we want to do, because we really want it.
00:08:56.220 It's, we don't really like millionaires, so we want to punish them.
00:08:58.840 We want to take money away from them.
00:09:00.080 And you can think that this is a good idea or a bad idea, but either way, it's not allowed under our system.
00:09:04.420 No matter what you feel, if you feel really passionate that we got to take 2% of everybody, every millionaire's savings.
00:09:11.540 Every year.
00:09:12.060 That's great.
00:09:12.400 Every year.
00:09:13.240 Right.
00:09:14.420 That's wonderful.
00:09:15.680 However, you can't do it.
00:09:16.960 So, we can't even find someone who would even say that.
00:09:20.740 Look, the wealth tax is an interesting idea, and, you know, millionaires do have too much money.
00:09:25.400 However, it's, you know, been shown in the courts to be unconstitutional.
00:09:29.140 It's not something that we could get past.
00:09:30.440 We should do these things.
00:09:31.800 I don't think, you didn't even get that.
00:09:33.900 It was all that, yes, that's great, but I don't think we can get it done politically.
00:09:38.360 Well, here's the interesting thing.
00:09:40.020 To show you how extreme things are, this is the New York Times.
00:09:44.340 Now, remember, we were extremists in the Tea Party because we were calling for a revolution.
00:09:50.340 Remember that?
00:09:50.980 We were calling for a revolution.
00:09:52.900 We were anti-government people because we wanted to change the government.
00:09:58.120 Okay?
00:09:58.340 That's how they said everybody who was for the Constitution, just live with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
00:10:08.040 Just enforce that.
00:10:10.640 That was politically radical.
00:10:13.520 That was a revolution.
00:10:15.200 That was dangerous.
00:10:17.900 That was crazy, people thought.
00:10:20.160 Here's the New York Times.
00:10:21.840 They said that while Bernie Sanders, on one side, is calling for, and I'm quoting, a political revolution,
00:10:32.600 on the other side of Biden, Warren is calling for massive structural changes in our country.
00:10:41.080 Okay, wow, those are probably pretty big.
00:10:47.980 Just, you're admitting now that this is a political revolution.
00:10:53.180 And they said, and Biden is stuck between the two of them, and his argument is, look, I'm the only one that's gotten big things done.
00:11:03.380 Okay, so he's the moderate, and according to the Times, his argument is, look, you guys can't get it done.
00:11:13.480 I'm the only one that can get it done because I've gotten big things done before.
00:11:19.120 What you're talking about, Bernie, is political revolution.
00:11:22.920 And you, Elizabeth, don't have enough information in your so-called plans to be able to make anything happen.
00:11:31.280 You have to tell people the truth.
00:11:33.380 And I'm the guy who can tell the truth.
00:11:37.200 Well, Joe Biden, I'm the guy who can tell the truth because I've gotten things done, like health care,
00:11:43.220 when we told everybody that there would be no increase of their premiums, and it would actually help them and save them all $2,500.
00:11:51.760 I'm the guy to tell them the truth.
00:11:53.480 Yeah, the argument really is, I'm the guy who can lie convincingly.
00:11:56.580 I'm the guy who can say, we're not really going for the thing at the end of the road.
00:11:59.920 We're only going for the thing halfway down the road.
00:12:01.540 Even though we all know we're going for the end of the road eventually.
00:12:04.900 Anyway.
00:12:05.640 Did you see the real spat between the two of them, between Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden, where Joe Biden said, basically, I'm the only one.
00:12:14.960 In fact, Elizabeth, I'm the one who got people to vote for your cute little idea.
00:12:20.440 I'm the one who did it.
00:12:22.500 And she, there was a big, awkward silence.
00:12:26.800 Yeah, there's a lot of accusations of sexism in this moment.
00:12:30.400 Oh, jeez.
00:12:31.020 That's the big thing everyone ran to.
00:12:32.840 You've got to be kidding.
00:12:33.440 Oh, yeah.
00:12:33.840 Because he was talking down to a woman.
00:12:35.640 He was mansplaining how he, you know, he was able to accomplish this, and it was her little idea.
00:12:40.700 Well, but it's true.
00:12:43.440 She went on and she said, I want to thank President Obama for helping rally the votes for this, basically leaving him out.
00:12:53.660 He got very, very testy.
00:12:55.720 To me, he showed the Hillary face last night.
00:13:01.220 What are you doing?
00:13:02.460 Don't you know that I'm the selected candidate?
00:13:05.540 Hmm.
00:13:06.100 That's interesting.
00:13:06.820 I mean, look, Biden did work the Senate hard on a lot of these big initiatives.
00:13:11.920 And is there some credit, though, for that particular bill?
00:13:14.840 I don't know how involved.
00:13:15.800 I've read reporting that he was not all that involved in that particular bill.
00:13:19.680 What I took away from this is he is, he is, while she's getting the rap on stage as, you know, Elizabeth plans are the only ones that work.
00:13:31.580 My plan is the only plan that works.
00:13:33.400 Because I've got a plan for everything.
00:13:35.420 Okay.
00:13:36.420 His, his overall message, to me at least, I felt was, don't you understand, it's my turn.
00:13:46.280 Don't you understand, I'm the only one that can win with you guys.
00:13:50.660 Yeah.
00:13:50.940 And you have to have me.
00:13:53.180 That's amazing because you have to be, I mean, if you're being honest with yourself and you're a Democrat and you're thinking to yourself, we need to get Donald Trump out of office.
00:14:02.660 We need one of these people to beat them.
00:14:03.880 No wonder they're so passionate about impeachment.
00:14:05.880 I mean, this is not a good field.
00:14:07.420 Biden can barely get through a sentence.
00:14:10.660 Yeah, he's bad.
00:14:11.820 He has, he has, he has real, real problems.
00:14:14.660 Warren, though, is so tailor made for Donald Trump.
00:14:19.540 It's incredible.
00:14:20.940 She is stilted.
00:14:22.380 She's stiff.
00:14:23.400 She's robotic.
00:14:24.720 She's repetitive.
00:14:26.380 She has a deer in headlights.
00:14:28.020 Look, every single time she's pushed.
00:14:31.140 What do you think Donald Trump's going to do to her on a debate stage?
00:14:33.980 It's going to be devastating.
00:14:35.700 I have to tell you, Joe Biden is going to be just, his clock will be cleaned by Trump if he was the candidate.
00:14:45.120 Bernie Sanders, clean his clock.
00:14:49.280 Elizabeth Warren, cleaner clock.
00:14:51.660 I mean, I just don't see anyone in the top three that could actually withstand Donald Trump.
00:14:58.160 See, I think Bernie can, but his ideas are so radical that he would go, he would admit them, right?
00:15:04.240 Yeah.
00:15:04.460 And that's the problem with Bernie.
00:15:05.700 But Bernie can roll in those, in those circumstances.
00:15:08.140 Biden also is a fighter and I think has shown himself in, in particular one-on-one debate moments.
00:15:14.360 He's had, he's had moments.
00:15:16.000 I have to tell you, last night he just couldn't string sentences.
00:15:19.140 When he talked about Syria.
00:15:20.660 Or the tax thing.
00:15:21.840 Oh, it was not good.
00:15:22.780 He said he was going to repeal the, the, the tax and then he was going to double it.
00:15:26.600 And then, I mean, he came up with like three ideas in one sentence.
00:15:29.720 Let's go.
00:15:30.100 But the last, but the last on this, I think those two are in a different league than Warren.
00:15:34.500 Warren is, is the type of candidate that Donald Trump can own.
00:15:39.120 If Donald Trump can't beat Elizabeth Warren, he can beat no one in that field.
00:15:42.840 No one.
00:15:44.020 If he can't beat Elizabeth Warren and they're going to run her out there as the candidate
00:15:47.640 and give him the absolute best chance possible to win this election.
00:15:52.480 It's amazing.
00:15:53.120 They, they took her on last night.
00:15:55.680 It's going to be a fight now for Elizabeth Warren.
00:15:57.920 They were not fighting Joe Biden.
00:15:59.360 I think they all, they all wanted his supporters to come over to them.
00:16:04.320 And so they left him alone because he's just sinking in the polls.
00:16:07.580 It is Warren now who's under attack.
00:16:11.720 The best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:16:13.580 Hey, it's Glenn.
00:16:21.100 And you're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
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00:16:31.640 All right.
00:16:31.920 We wanted to check in with Nick DiPaolo today.
00:16:33.960 And, uh, I really wanted to get his, uh, view on China and the NBA and LeBron James.
00:16:41.520 I mean, it just seems, it just seems ripe for him to pick that out of the tree.
00:16:46.720 Welcome to the program, Mr. Nick DiPaolo, where you can find him at nickdip.com.
00:16:51.580 Hi, Nick.
00:16:54.520 I don't, I, we don't have any audio from Nick.
00:16:56.940 I don't know why.
00:16:58.200 Are you there, Nick?
00:17:00.740 Must not be hearing you.
00:17:02.100 It appears.
00:17:02.520 You're not hearing me.
00:17:03.200 Okay.
00:17:03.660 This is why you test these things before and they work before and then you get on the air
00:17:06.620 and they don't work.
00:17:06.900 It's like when you go to the doctor, you know, except it's in reverse.
00:17:10.220 Yeah.
00:17:10.700 You know, everybody is seeing it not work.
00:17:12.760 We went to the doctor and it was like, it's fine.
00:17:15.020 It's fine.
00:17:15.660 Now?
00:17:16.800 No.
00:17:17.260 Oh, would you get your car fixed and you bring it in and you're like, this is rattling
00:17:20.440 when I take a left-hand turn and then they go drive around with you and just,
00:17:23.900 just look at you like you're insane.
00:17:25.500 I just did this with my, just did with this with my wife the other day.
00:17:28.360 I was like, my car is making this sound.
00:17:30.040 What, what sound is this?
00:17:31.140 And it was making it the whole time while I'm saying it to her.
00:17:33.660 And she's like, what sound?
00:17:34.360 And I said, listen.
00:17:35.840 And then nothing.
00:17:37.020 Anyway, Nick, Nick DiPaolo.
00:17:38.640 How are you, sir?
00:17:40.680 Tremendous.
00:17:41.160 Glenn, you look like a professor at Berkeley teaching women's studies.
00:17:44.660 I don't think, I don't know why.
00:17:46.860 I don't know why.
00:17:47.520 What's with a turtleneck?
00:17:48.280 I'm sweating just looking at you.
00:17:50.460 Really?
00:17:50.920 Well, you look like you're in some, I don't even know, Honeymooners episode.
00:17:57.320 Welcome to the program.
00:17:58.520 Let's talk about the NBA and the incredible statement from LeBron James.
00:18:04.420 First of all, I didn't know basketball was so big in China.
00:18:09.440 It makes no sense.
00:18:10.540 I looked it up.
00:18:11.060 The average Chinese person is five foot two.
00:18:15.120 They should be selling foot ladders and human growth hormones to these people, not shoes.
00:18:20.640 Right.
00:18:21.180 These guys couldn't dunk if you gave them a cup of coffee and a cruller.
00:18:24.020 Now, the NBA, Glenn, to put it mildly, is Nike's bitch.
00:18:30.120 Let's put it that way.
00:18:31.440 But the middle class in China is 400 million people.
00:18:34.520 That's 800 million feet.
00:18:37.520 And they sold 150 million pair of sneakers in China.
00:18:41.840 And here's the odd thing.
00:18:42.900 Not one of them was oversized three.
00:18:45.860 Right.
00:18:46.740 So, you know, we've been looking at the numbers.
00:18:50.120 And when you look at the numbers as a business person, if you just care about money, you're like, are you kidding me?
00:18:57.440 We could just do business in China and we will be much better off than we are doing business in the rest of the world.
00:19:04.080 But then there's that kind of thing like, yeah, but they are killing people for their organs.
00:19:11.340 Don't we do that over here?
00:19:13.840 No.
00:19:14.580 That's what I was told by Elizabeth Warren in the debates and everything last night.
00:19:17.800 Look, Nike should come up with a shoe next week called the LeBron and only charge people 50 percent because it will come without a soul.
00:19:29.800 LeBron James knows about as much about China as the guy that makes the Kung Pao chicken at Lean Cuisine.
00:19:37.100 And now we're going to power forwards in the NBA for geopolitical news.
00:19:42.240 And what next?
00:19:43.080 16-year-old girls on climate change?
00:19:44.820 Come on.
00:19:45.040 What is going on, Glenn?
00:19:45.920 So what do you think?
00:19:47.200 So what should the NBA do?
00:19:50.700 Should these companies?
00:19:51.680 I mean, I just read a story that Google is now doing a Manhattan project for AI with China.
00:20:00.020 And, you know, I'm not comfortable with that.
00:20:02.660 I don't think anybody who's maybe a lot of the people at Google are comfortable with that.
00:20:07.340 But you would think that you would look at China and go, that's really bad.
00:20:11.340 I think, as you just said, we've sold our soul to the devil for cash.
00:20:16.320 It's everything that the left says they hate and the right really does hate.
00:20:23.020 But nobody's doing anything.
00:20:25.000 Well, you know, Nike is evil.
00:20:27.600 First of all, somebody tell LeBron that, you know, the 10-year-old girl chained to a loom for 18 hours a day without a pee break making his sneakers.
00:20:35.940 And, you know, she's going to hang herself with his laces.
00:20:40.060 If you're that hard up, I mean, if it's all about money, move the NBA to China.
00:20:45.360 Do me a favor.
00:20:46.660 I hate the NBA.
00:20:47.900 It's the only pro sport I don't follow.
00:20:49.740 I can't follow a pro sport where what player on what team is determined by who's hanging out with who at the strip club in Atlanta on Friday night.
00:20:57.920 I just, I can't stand.
00:21:00.340 So, yeah, move the whole league to China.
00:21:02.240 Do me a favor.
00:21:03.580 And this is all because of Yao Ming.
00:21:06.900 Ming Yao.
00:21:07.560 I can't remember what I had last night or something like that.
00:21:09.560 Let me switch to Portland has become a leader now to show the rest of the world what we need to do with our bathrooms.
00:21:22.920 I would, well, first of all, Portland is a bathroom.
00:21:25.020 I wouldn't do, they keep asking me to do comedy there.
00:21:27.060 Why would I go there?
00:21:28.100 They're removing, Glenn, they're removing urinals in men's rooms.
00:21:31.140 And you know what the reason is?
00:21:32.180 Because women can't use them.
00:21:34.420 This is the textbook definition of emasculation, making guys sit down to pee.
00:21:39.560 Literally.
00:21:40.740 Okay?
00:21:41.180 If that's true, that's why we're removing urinals because women can't use them.
00:21:45.020 I don't want to see any more tampon dispensers in ladies' rooms.
00:21:48.100 I can't use those.
00:21:49.580 It's been 25 years since I got punched in the nose in a bar fight.
00:21:53.840 Right.
00:21:54.840 I mean, and while you're at it, get rid of the breastfeeding rooms, okay?
00:21:58.160 The closest I ever came to lactating was when I was trying to drink milk watching a Benny Hill rerun.
00:22:04.360 Get rid of those.
00:22:05.820 And the condom dispensers, I'm guessing condom dispensers are going to be gone.
00:22:11.120 What are single guys supposed to use for protection?
00:22:14.140 LifeLock?
00:22:15.040 Bad cologne?
00:22:15.800 Saran wrap?
00:22:18.180 I mean, this is ridiculous.
00:22:19.620 All because they can't, and by the way, women can pee standing up if you know anything about the Steele dossier.
00:22:25.540 But go ahead.
00:22:25.880 We have, by the way, we have a whistleblower regarding that coming up in just a few minutes.
00:22:35.100 Do you really?
00:22:36.140 Yeah, we have a guy from the Ukraine who was tasked by the Ukrainian embassy to help the DNC dig up information on Russia and Trump.
00:22:50.280 So everything that they said.
00:22:51.720 Wow.
00:22:52.120 Yeah, everything they said that was happening with Donald Trump, they were actually doing.
00:22:56.780 We have this guy.
00:22:57.720 I talked to him yesterday for about 90 minutes, maybe two hours.
00:23:00.980 And he has some amazing things to say.
00:23:03.580 We have that coming up in just a few minutes.
00:23:06.020 When you said whistleblower, I thought we were still on the urinal thing.
00:23:08.580 No.
00:23:09.000 You have contacts with a men's room attendant?
00:23:12.040 No.
00:23:12.660 At the tax department in Portland?
00:23:13.740 No, I don't.
00:23:16.220 Let me, did you watch the debate last night at all?
00:23:20.440 I did.
00:23:21.200 I, this is how you know I'm not a serious show.
00:23:23.740 I kept flipping back between that and the Yankees and Astros.
00:23:27.020 And, but let me say something.
00:23:28.480 I think Anderson Cooper may have been doing that.
00:23:31.620 He is so handsome, isn't he?
00:23:33.480 I would love to see him in a Speedo.
00:23:35.020 That guy is delicious.
00:23:36.460 Please.
00:23:37.560 The debates, the debates, the Democratic debates should come with a trigger warning.
00:23:42.060 You know, watching this could induce vomiting.
00:23:44.180 I can't, the last time I saw that many losers on one stage was the Nuremberg trials.
00:23:49.180 And Liz Warren took a pounding last night.
00:23:53.500 She, she got hit so bad, she's changing her Indian name to Wounded Duck.
00:23:58.960 I haven't seen a woman, a woman didn't get roughed up like that.
00:24:01.560 Last time a woman got roughed up like that, Clinton was leaving a Motel 63 in the morning with Kathleen Willey.
00:24:06.760 You, you, you, you watched that last night and you saw, well, I mean, generally speaking, if you watched any of that last night, you saw Elizabeth Warren get mad.
00:24:20.740 You saw, and, and kind of act like Hillary Clinton.
00:24:23.280 You saw Joe Biden get mad and act like Hillary Clinton.
00:24:28.000 And meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is on the sidelines saying, you know, I, if, if this goes down with Joe Biden, maybe I should get back in.
00:24:35.600 I mean, who doesn't get the message?
00:24:38.620 We don't want Hillary Clinton.
00:24:42.580 I think, and I'm dead serious, but I've been saying none of those people are going to be the nominee.
00:24:48.020 It's, I really think Bloomberg's going to get in there.
00:24:50.260 But I mean, Joe Biden, he's still one of the front runners.
00:24:53.800 Did you see him last night?
00:24:55.020 He had the energy of a chemo patient.
00:24:56.940 He was, he was talking about Wall Street.
00:24:59.840 Wall Street is clipping coupons.
00:25:02.220 I've watched the movie Wall Street 10 times.
00:25:04.780 Not once did Gordon Gekko take a pair of scissors to the penny saver to pocket 50 cents on a roll of shaman.
00:25:11.160 What the hell is he talking about?
00:25:13.140 And then Bernie Sanders, I thought I had a miserable personality.
00:25:17.780 Somebody introduced this guy to a brand muffin.
00:25:20.260 This guy is the most unlikable.
00:25:23.280 I got to give him credit.
00:25:24.660 Last week he was in the hospital having a matzo ball removed from his aorta and he's out there still fighting.
00:25:29.300 So we'll give him some credit.
00:25:30.340 I was surprised.
00:25:30.760 I was surprised on how, how well he did last night after having a heart attack.
00:25:35.400 I mean, it's a clear sign that nobody in his life loves him because no, seriously, because anyone in my life, if I were running for president and, and I had a heart attack, everybody in my life would go, you're not going to the debate.
00:25:50.000 And I'd say, I'd have to, you're not going to the debate.
00:25:53.720 Nobody, everybody in his family is like, yeah, dad, you should go to the debate.
00:25:58.080 You're like, we don't want you.
00:25:59.260 We don't want you on Thanksgiving.
00:26:01.760 His wife's like pushing him out the door in a dolly.
00:26:04.260 Yeah, he said, he said, there should be no such things as billionaires too.
00:26:09.680 That was the other thing that really peed me off.
00:26:12.060 Oh yeah.
00:26:12.340 Billionaires have done such damage to this world.
00:26:14.420 Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Branson, Sam Walton.
00:26:19.560 He's just a, look, he's a hippie.
00:26:21.920 He's a guy who didn't get off his parents' couch until he's 65.
00:26:25.580 And he, he just, it's really all based in envy and it's kind of disgusting to me.
00:26:30.220 So where do you think this, where do you think this ends?
00:26:34.260 You think Bloomberg?
00:26:35.580 Because I don't think Bloomberg.
00:26:36.760 Bloomberg is now saying that he wants to get in again.
00:26:39.420 He might, he might step back in.
00:26:41.460 It's just not, nobody wants Bloomberg either.
00:26:44.960 I don't, if Biden falls on his, he, Bloomberg keeps saying if Biden falters, well, how much more can he falter?
00:26:52.040 He's bleeding from his eyes.
00:26:53.240 I know.
00:26:53.440 His teeth are falling out when he speaks.
00:26:56.060 I mean, you know, Bloomberg has to get in there because they might start selling, you know, 40 ounce Cokes again at the theater.
00:27:02.360 But he's a nanny.
00:27:03.660 He's kind of a swishy nanny.
00:27:05.540 But he's very smart.
00:27:06.760 And he took over, did all right with New York.
00:27:08.740 I was living there when he was mayor.
00:27:10.100 But again, Giuliani did most of the muscle work there.
00:27:12.380 But, you know, I don't particularly like him, but I can see him having appeal after what they're trying to do and what they've done to Trump for the last, they kept saying how unconcerned, what he's the most lawless president ever.
00:27:25.840 Didn't Obama put 160 billion on a wooden crate and send it to Tehran?
00:27:29.840 Didn't Obama create a deep state and spy on Trump while he was running for president?
00:27:34.520 And this guy's the most lawless?
00:27:35.980 What are they talking about?
00:27:37.040 Yeah, it's crazy.
00:27:38.560 I about have an aneurysm every time I hear them say that because the press just doesn't look in.
00:27:46.560 I mean, they're already excusing Joe Biden.
00:27:48.820 The question on Joe Biden's son last night was phrased.
00:27:52.820 You know, this has been completely debunked.
00:27:56.040 But what do you have to say about it?
00:27:57.680 Did you see how he pivoted on that?
00:28:00.680 He pivoted like a second baseman turning a double play.
00:28:04.200 It was beautiful.
00:28:05.660 He's like, we did, me and my son did nothing wrong, but let's stay on Trump.
00:28:09.200 He's the real Trump.
00:28:10.240 That's as good as he can do after 40 years in Washington.
00:28:13.140 Right.
00:28:13.420 And nobody jumped on him.
00:28:17.040 They all, they're all like, we just, we'd say something, but we want his supporters to be our supporters.
00:28:23.880 So we're going to keep our mouth shut and just let him just melt down.
00:28:27.080 No, you're exactly right.
00:28:28.540 They're watching a debate on CNN.
00:28:30.520 They're just tossing softballs.
00:28:32.260 Yeah.
00:28:32.640 And there's no follow ups and there's not just the tone compared to when, you know, and people make fun of Fox News.
00:28:38.540 But when they do a debate, they actually dig a little deeper.
00:28:41.040 But, you know, that shouldn't surprise us after what we found out about CNN this week.
00:28:45.280 I mean.
00:28:45.440 So I assume that you're talking about Project Veritas.
00:28:48.940 And when you said what we found out about CNN, tell me, tell me your view on this.
00:28:54.160 Well, first of all, James O'Keefe is doing God's work.
00:28:56.540 This guy's the greatest journalist ever.
00:28:58.380 But, you know, did we really have to send somebody undercover to CNN to find out they were anti-Trump?
00:29:05.300 What are we going to do?
00:29:06.340 What are we going to do next?
00:29:07.480 Infiltrate the WWE to find out if wrestling's fake?
00:29:11.280 Right.
00:29:12.100 Right.
00:29:12.440 You don't have to.
00:29:13.600 You don't have to do a sting operation to find out if CNN is crooked.
00:29:16.620 Just go to any Delta terminal and any airport in the country and watch people throwing their Egg McMuffins at the TV monitor.
00:29:22.420 I mean, it's really that easy.
00:29:24.940 That's one of my biggest fears, Glenn, by the way, because I fly a lot, that I'm going to die in a plane crash.
00:29:30.060 And the last voice I'm going to hear is Wolf Blitzer in my head.
00:29:34.140 Or see the face of Jeannie Most.
00:29:37.880 That's my worst fear.
00:29:40.900 I can't believe Jeannie Most has been on TV forever.
00:29:44.400 And most people will have no idea who she is until you see her and they're like, oh, yeah, her.
00:29:50.080 Well, she does those real hard-hitting pieces.
00:29:52.720 Panera is using frozen mac and cheese.
00:29:55.780 You know, something like that.
00:29:56.920 So bad.
00:29:57.520 But how do we not know CNN's corrupt?
00:30:00.280 You know who the voice of CNN is for the last 30 years?
00:30:03.420 Darth Vader.
00:30:05.140 Darth Vader.
00:30:08.100 And don't trust it.
00:30:09.700 You never trust a news organization whose star anchorman is named Wolf.
00:30:14.000 But he's German and they're great at propaganda.
00:30:16.680 Wolf Blitzer is really is Zucker's Gerbel.
00:30:19.660 Joseph Gerbel's.
00:30:20.920 And he's he's he's as crooked as a rattlesnake with scoliosis.
00:30:24.900 And but he he keeps failing upward.
00:30:27.020 This guy.
00:30:27.840 I mean, he trashed CNN, NBC.
00:30:30.740 Then he goes to CNN and their ratings are lower than AOC's IQ.
00:30:34.880 But probably got to step in and run for president.
00:30:37.880 Speaking of AOC, did you see that all of all of the the squads coming out to stand behind
00:30:44.560 Ringo?
00:30:45.120 Ringo's not coming.
00:30:46.980 Which one's Ringo?
00:30:47.760 Uh, Presley is is the Ringo.
00:30:50.560 Oh, she's the one that no one knows.
00:30:52.420 And so she's the Ringo.
00:30:53.620 She's like, I'm in the squad, too.
00:30:55.460 And you're like, I don't even know who you are.
00:30:57.160 She'll be crying racism about this.
00:30:59.100 She's the one who's actually wants to decriminalize shoplifting in Boston.
00:31:03.420 She's quite a piece of work.
00:31:04.600 Yeah.
00:31:04.780 These people make me want to puke.
00:31:07.180 So.
00:31:08.940 But how do you really feel?
00:31:10.280 So they are all getting together today.
00:31:12.160 They're making a big announcement that they are all going to be supporting Bernie Sanders.
00:31:16.880 So it's no surprise.
00:31:18.960 But.
00:31:19.400 Well, it is when you think about it.
00:31:21.260 The communists are supporting the socialists.
00:31:23.200 So that's a it's actually a positive.
00:31:28.220 Are they really all these women of color are going to support the the 90?
00:31:32.660 I was looking at Biden and he's right next to Bernie Sanders during the debate.
00:31:37.180 They look like a couple of statues that like the Antifa kids would want to pull down.
00:31:41.040 No, they're you know what they are.
00:31:42.420 They're the two Muppets up in the balcony.
00:31:44.840 Yes.
00:31:45.920 Two angry Muppets.
00:31:48.320 I hate all of this.
00:31:50.940 You know, we can improve this theater.
00:31:52.340 Turn this.
00:31:53.120 Turn the seats around.
00:31:54.660 Yeah.
00:31:55.620 Yeah.
00:31:56.280 They are.
00:31:56.940 That's exactly who they are.
00:31:58.120 At least the Muppets were funny.
00:31:59.380 These people, the most humorless I have ever.
00:32:02.160 Well, let me ask you this.
00:32:03.140 Did you see what Buddha judge said about what's his name?
00:32:07.680 Dave Chappelle.
00:32:08.240 Well, he wants to date him.
00:32:11.480 No, let me play this.
00:32:12.860 Listen to this.
00:32:13.720 Part of Dave Chappelle's shtick in the last couple of comedy specials he did was deliberately
00:32:17.500 making fun of transgender people.
00:32:19.560 I don't want to write these jokes, but I just can't stop.
00:32:23.040 So should that just be turned off?
00:32:24.320 Should he not have a Netflix deal?
00:32:25.900 So I didn't I haven't seen the special.
00:32:28.500 I will say that there comes a point where you're just straight up hurting people.
00:32:32.120 And I don't know what goal you're hoping to achieve.
00:32:35.880 But as much as there's been a lot of political correctness, there's also this weird way in
00:32:41.180 which it's become fashionable to attack political correctness that I think has become its own
00:32:46.400 weird correctness out there.
00:32:48.740 Yeah.
00:32:48.960 Nick, that's you.
00:32:50.020 He's talking about you.
00:32:51.500 He's a he's talking about anybody with a sense of humor.
00:32:54.280 He's an idiot.
00:32:55.120 First of all, he's standing on six phone books during that interview.
00:33:00.260 It's fashionable to go after people who are trying to silence us.
00:33:04.240 Yes.
00:33:05.100 This is the United States.
00:33:06.360 It's something called the First Amendment.
00:33:08.340 I can't believe this guy was in the military.
00:33:10.480 I really can't.
00:33:11.560 Probably just wanted to take showers with fellas.
00:33:13.380 But I can't believe it's a joke.
00:33:16.040 Relax, Glenn.
00:33:16.720 People are open minded.
00:33:18.500 But I can't.
00:33:19.560 He's more radical than Obama.
00:33:20.960 He hides it with his little boy's regular haircut and his three dollar clip on tie.
00:33:25.780 But he you know what, though?
00:33:27.240 Can I just say this?
00:33:28.120 I think he's the most intelligent one of the people that are on stage.
00:33:31.100 I just I I can't stand what he stands for.
00:33:33.640 But I but I actually think he is the most intelligent one up there.
00:33:37.180 He could be the guy who rockets to the top if everybody else.
00:33:42.700 Bloomberg.
00:33:43.420 You're sticking with Bloomberg.
00:33:45.320 Glenn, can I plug two gigs real quick?
00:33:47.200 Yeah, quickly.
00:33:47.780 Yeah, go ahead.
00:33:48.220 But November 8th and 9th, Kansas City Comedy Club, November 22nd, the Historic Ritz there
00:33:53.460 in Brunswick, Georgia, and November 23rd, the Tiff Theater in Tiffin, Georgia.
00:33:57.900 And I love you, Glenn.
00:33:58.900 Turtleneck or not, you love him.
00:34:00.360 God bless you.
00:34:01.840 NickDip.com.
00:34:02.960 Follow him.
00:34:03.620 NickDip.com.
00:34:04.700 Nick DiPaolo.
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00:35:18.360 Most people, I think, know him for his opera and opera singing.
00:35:24.040 He also did some television, I hear.
00:35:26.280 It's Mike Rowe.
00:35:27.760 Welcome to the program, Mike.
00:35:29.140 How are you?
00:35:30.600 Glad I'm swell.
00:35:31.740 You're swell.
00:35:32.200 But not swollen.
00:35:33.000 Yeah, that's good.
00:35:33.940 Yeah.
00:35:34.160 I'm a little puffy.
00:35:35.380 I'm a little puffy.
00:35:36.300 Are you?
00:35:36.760 Yeah.
00:35:37.360 Ran into a beehive.
00:35:38.940 And either that or I just eat too much.
00:35:41.700 You have a new book called The Way I Heard It.
00:35:45.300 And I want to talk to you about that.
00:35:47.680 But first of all, just good to see you again.
00:35:49.660 Good to hear from you.
00:35:51.040 How's life going?
00:35:53.160 Life is good.
00:35:54.400 You know, it's a bit like falling down the stairs, making all kinds of progress, taking
00:35:59.300 some bumps and bruises on the way.
00:36:01.040 But overall, I'd be a fool to complain.
00:36:03.980 Yeah.
00:36:04.140 How's your mom?
00:36:05.600 She's great.
00:36:06.520 Thank you.
00:36:07.000 She just finished her second book.
00:36:08.780 She's now officially insufferable.
00:36:10.720 Getting an agent.
00:36:11.920 You know, all of it.
00:36:13.420 It's all of it.
00:36:14.820 Mike Rowe in our New York Blaze studios.
00:36:18.600 This book is, you're actually living in many ways the life I would love to live, Mike.
00:36:24.860 And that is paying homage to Paul Harvey, who is a hero of mine.
00:36:31.700 And I understand he was a hero of yours.
00:36:34.680 The book's dedicated to him.
00:36:36.920 It wouldn't have happened without him.
00:36:38.920 And I know we've talked about this before.
00:36:41.300 But, you know, I was trying to figure out the right intro for the book.
00:36:44.600 And I was thinking about a true story that happened to me back in the 80s where I was
00:36:50.540 late for a flight and I had driven to BWI airport and I knew I could make it to the gate.
00:36:56.880 You know, this is before TSA went crazy and 9-11 and everything else.
00:37:01.160 I had about 35 minutes.
00:37:02.760 But I couldn't get out of the car because I was stuck to my seat.
00:37:07.500 And I was stuck to my seat because Paul Harvey was in the middle of the rest of the story.
00:37:11.860 And I truly, I had to sit there until I heard the magic words, you know.
00:37:17.120 And now you know the rest of the story.
00:37:20.380 So the way I heard it is the same basic format.
00:37:25.120 It started as an attempt to compress time on planes.
00:37:29.960 So I wrote most of these on planes and in diners here and there.
00:37:34.460 And that's how it started.
00:37:36.580 It was a hobby that got a little out of hand.
00:37:38.860 And now it's a book.
00:37:40.580 So who does your research?
00:37:41.660 You know, Paul Harvey, most people don't know this, but he would come in in Chicago.
00:37:45.420 He would come in in the dark.
00:37:47.260 He had to do about 20 minutes of broadcast, 25 minutes of broadcast a day.
00:37:52.560 But he would come in early in the morning in the dark.
00:37:55.460 And he wouldn't leave until at least 6 o'clock at night every day of his life.
00:38:02.180 He struggled for every word that he pounded out himself on the typewriter.
00:38:08.200 No, it's extraordinary.
00:38:10.620 But it was the suit and tie part that killed me.
00:38:13.740 You know, the guy's on radio.
00:38:15.420 And he dressed like a news anchor.
00:38:18.160 Right.
00:38:18.360 And he took, you know, he took his opinion and commentary really, really seriously.
00:38:23.960 And that kind of storytelling combined with that kind of a voice.
00:38:27.560 Look, I could never hope to fill his shoes, but following in his footsteps has really been an honor.
00:38:34.420 And this podcast has found an audience.
00:38:38.040 And I'm, you know, I'm tickled to death by that.
00:38:41.040 And, you know, I don't think I told you this before, but not long after the podcast started,
00:38:45.600 I got a letter from his son, Paul Harvey Jr., who wrote a lot of the rest of the story.
00:38:51.620 And I thought, oh, no, you know, he's listened to it.
00:38:55.180 There's going to be a cease and desist.
00:38:56.820 There's going to be an injunction.
00:38:58.720 He wrote and he told me that his father was no doubt looking down and giving two enthusiastic thumbs up.
00:39:07.080 And he included a really generous check to my foundation.
00:39:12.660 And as compliments go, Glenn, you know, I know you've been paid similar compliments,
00:39:16.480 but that's about as high as the cotton gets.
00:39:19.180 Yeah.
00:39:20.500 I'm never going to be in the Radio Hall of Fame because of Paul Harvey.
00:39:26.720 I was hosting the national broadcast for the induction ceremony for Radio Hall of Fame.
00:39:32.220 I've never told this story on the air.
00:39:33.700 Stu's looking at me like, don't tell the story.
00:39:35.640 I don't care anymore.
00:39:36.500 Don't do it.
00:39:37.580 But I was asked to do the broadcast for the induction ceremony.
00:39:43.080 It's a national nationwide broadcast.
00:39:45.360 And so I agreed to it.
00:39:47.600 And the guy from the museum came up to me with like four minutes to go.
00:39:55.520 And he said, we're running early.
00:39:58.040 You're going to need to fill for like three minutes.
00:40:01.640 And he said, can you do it?
00:40:02.900 And I said, yeah.
00:40:04.260 And then they went five, four, three.
00:40:06.620 And I walked out and I had to fill for three minutes.
00:40:10.540 And in the time that he said, do you, can you fill?
00:40:12.920 And me saying, yeah.
00:40:14.100 I remember that Paul Harvey was in the front row.
00:40:16.820 And oh, boy.
00:40:18.460 And I said, let me just say this on a personal note.
00:40:23.200 It's a dream come true.
00:40:24.520 I'm standing here on stage in Chicago in front of Mr. Paul Harvey.
00:40:27.840 And, sir, it is you that introduced me to the magic of radio.
00:40:33.740 It was you.
00:40:34.920 When I was eight years old, I heard your voice say, Chicago O'Hare, 288 dead.
00:40:41.840 And I said I could smell the smoke of the plane.
00:40:45.580 I could hear the sirens.
00:40:47.240 And it's that that convinced me that the power of storytelling and radio is unlike any other from Chicago.
00:40:56.020 Good night.
00:40:57.300 Okay.
00:40:57.880 That's how I did it.
00:40:58.900 I walk off stage and the guy comes up to me and he says, you son of a bitch.
00:41:03.380 And I said, what?
00:41:05.740 He said, you will never be in the Hall of Fame, never for what you just did.
00:41:11.860 And I said, what did I do?
00:41:13.740 He said, you knew sitting at the table is the head guy who was the CEO of Eastern Airlines on that crash.
00:41:20.760 And I said, how the hell would I even know that?
00:41:24.200 And so this guy who was the CEO of that ad, that wound opened up.
00:41:28.820 And all I'm trying to do is, A, fill and say something nice about Paul Harvey.
00:41:33.780 So thanks, Paul.
00:41:36.440 Wow.
00:41:37.400 That is a terrific story.
00:41:40.500 By way of comparison, I can only offer this.
00:41:43.600 As I sat in the long-term parking at BWI in 1985 listening to Paul Harvey,
00:41:53.620 I finally got to hear the magic words and the rest of the story,
00:41:57.100 ran to the gate, and missed my flight by 90 seconds.
00:42:00.600 Was it Eastern Airlines?
00:42:04.420 What is wrong with you, man?
00:42:07.700 No, it wasn't.
00:42:09.800 It was, in fact, United.
00:42:12.500 And the plane was still there, Glenn.
00:42:15.760 I could see it, but they had closed the gate.
00:42:18.460 And it was one of the first arguments I ever had in public that I felt like I needed to apologize for
00:42:23.560 because I kind of lost it.
00:42:25.000 They literally pointed to the plane and said, no, it's gone.
00:42:28.000 And I pointed to the plane and said, but I see it.
00:42:30.400 And they said, no, it's gone.
00:42:31.420 No, it's gone.
00:42:32.520 It's gone.
00:42:33.220 Yeah.
00:42:33.900 So the book, tell me your favorite story in the book.
00:42:38.500 Well, it started as a collection of 50 of these Harvey-esque tales.
00:42:43.740 But what happened was we cut it down to 35 because my mother, having read it, said, look,
00:42:49.300 these are all terrific, Michael.
00:42:50.740 But, you know, it's a very lazy way to write a book, just putting stories together that you've
00:42:55.760 already read on your podcast.
00:42:57.720 And I said, well, thanks, mother.
00:42:58.880 What are you suggesting?
00:42:59.800 She said, well, how about a little connective tissue in between these biographies?
00:43:06.360 So I started trying to answer the question, why did I write about whoever it was I just
00:43:12.600 wrote about?
00:43:13.920 And I tried to make that answer somehow rhyme with an event from my own misspent youth.
00:43:20.340 And what came out was kind of an accidental memoir.
00:43:25.580 So the book itself goes back and forth between autobiography and biography, mystery and memoir.
00:43:32.420 So you get the rest of the story kind of thing tempered with my own take on why it is I think
00:43:39.300 I might have written about a famous person who I've never met.
00:43:43.620 Mike, how has your life changed since you left a regular TV show?
00:43:49.280 I mean, you had lots of money in the bank and you didn't even, I think you owned a toothbrush,
00:43:56.460 but really nothing else.
00:43:57.660 You were always traveling.
00:43:59.360 Have you settled down?
00:44:00.540 What is your life like now?
00:44:03.040 Well, I still have access to literally hundreds of dollars, Glenn.
00:44:07.600 Wow.
00:44:08.440 And I still travel.
00:44:10.580 I was on the road last year about 220 days.
00:44:14.020 The Microworks Foundation happily has exploded.
00:44:18.020 We're 11 years old now.
00:44:19.720 We've given over $5 million in work ethic scholarships to kids who are willing to learn a skill and
00:44:26.080 master a trade.
00:44:26.840 As legacies go from dirty jobs, I'm awfully proud of that.
00:44:31.300 There's a show on Facebook called Returning the Favor that's a straight up unapologetic celebration
00:44:38.000 of bloody do-gooderism that now has 400 million views.
00:44:41.480 Proud of that.
00:44:42.100 Somebody's got to do it, which followed dirty jobs, found a home for a couple of years inexplicably
00:44:48.480 on CNN, and then against what I'm sure you'll agree are impossible broadcast odds, wound up
00:44:56.180 becoming the number one show on the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
00:44:59.640 That's amazing.
00:45:00.360 So it's simply not possible.
00:45:04.280 And now this podcast has 120 million downloads, and it's become a book that I'm told is going
00:45:11.460 to do well.
00:45:12.400 And so, look, I'm embarrassingly fortunate and still busy, still brushing my teeth, and still
00:45:21.840 earning more than I spend happily.
00:45:23.820 Good, good, good.
00:45:24.940 All right.
00:45:25.180 Sounds great.
00:45:26.040 Mike, great talking to you.
00:45:27.120 Thank you so much.
00:45:28.540 Hey, and I haven't ruined my career yet in the National Broadcasting Hall of Fame, so
00:45:32.980 there's still time for that, too.
00:45:35.300 Okay.
00:45:35.960 All right.
00:45:36.560 I'm going to play that one.
00:45:36.700 Because you're an inspiration.
00:45:37.920 Because you are an inspiration.
00:45:38.840 Oh, that's right.
00:45:39.580 I'm an inspiration.
00:45:40.600 Okay.
00:45:41.340 Mike, thank you so much.
00:45:42.820 Mike Rowe, the Glenn.
00:45:43.580 Thanks a lot.
00:45:44.040 You bet.
00:45:44.260 The name of the book is The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe.
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