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00:00:00.000 Hey, podcasters, it's Glenn Beck, Stuber here, and we're here with our podcast, which is why you're here, and it's a good one.

00:00:08.360 For Tuesday, we had the sad story of a man's struggle to travel.

00:00:13.180 Now, he's a travel guide guy, but he feels very guilty, very guilty of traveling the world with his family.

00:00:20.600 Can you imagine living this guy's life? The tortured existence.

00:00:23.700 It's amazing.

00:00:24.560 Hell. Also, Camilla's wink that she gave to the press yesterday behind the back of Donald Trump and the Washington Post.

00:00:33.840 What does it mean? I think I know, and we'll talk about that.

00:00:39.260 Also, we have Stephen Crowder's apology tour, a little bit on that, and Venezuela and the U.S.

00:00:46.520 Yes, Venezuela has collapsed in a spectacular fashion, but did you know that in some places in America, it's worse than in Venezuela?

00:00:57.920 Well, we get to all that and so much more here on the podcast.

00:01:02.000 And we talked a little bit about Stephen Crowder's apology for the just horrible things he's done to people over the years.

00:01:07.980 Very sincere.

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00:02:46.020 If seeing the world helps ruin it, shouldn't we stay home?

00:02:53.800 The glaciers are melting.

00:02:56.980 Coral reefs are dying.

00:02:59.440 Miami Beach is slowly going under.

00:03:03.040 Quick, says the voice in your head.

00:03:05.380 Go see them before they disappear. 0.99

00:03:07.140 You are evil, says another voice. 0.99

00:03:10.440 For you are hastening its destruction.

00:03:15.300 To a lot of people who like to travel, these are morally bewildering times.

00:03:20.860 Something that seemed like pure escape and adventure has become a double-edged, harmful epitome of selfish consumption.

00:03:28.880 Going someplace far away, we now know, is the biggest single action a private citizen can take to worsen climate change.

00:03:39.580 One seat on a flight from New York to Los Angeles effectively adds months' worth of human-generated carbon emissions to the atmosphere.

00:03:49.100 And yet, we fly.

00:03:50.860 We fly more and more.

00:03:53.720 Still, we wonder,

00:03:55.840 how much is that one vacation really hurting anyone or anything?

00:04:00.360 But it turns out that there are ways to quantify your impact on the planet, at least roughly.

00:04:08.140 In 2016, two climatologists published a paper in the prestigious Journal of Science showing a direct relationship between carbon emissions and the melting of the Arctic Icy.

00:04:19.160 A square feet of Arctic summer sea ice cover that one passenger's share of emission melts on a 2,500-mile flight.

00:04:30.520 Each additional metric ton of carbon dioxide, or its equivalent,

00:04:35.460 your share of the emissions on a cross-country flight one way from New York to Los Angeles,

00:04:40.660 shrinks the summer sea ice cover by three square meters.

00:04:44.740 And in February,

00:04:50.320 my family,

00:04:51.580 my family of three,

00:04:53.200 flew from New York to Miami for what seemed like a,

00:04:55.660 like a pretty modest winter vacation.

00:04:59.180 But the online carbon calculator tells me that our seats generated

00:05:03.800 the equivalent of 2.4 metric tons of carbon dioxide.

00:05:08.540 Throw in another quarter ton for the 600 miles of driving we squeezed in,

00:05:13.180 and a bit of the snorkeling trip,

00:05:15.540 and a heated pool at the funky trailer park Airbnb,

00:05:20.180 and the bill comes up to be about 90 square feet of Arctic ice.

00:05:25.200 An area about the size of a pickup truck.

00:05:28.840 Oh, when I did this calculation,

00:05:32.540 I pictured myself standing on a pickup truck-sized sheet of ice

00:05:35.660 as it broke apart and plunged me into frigid waters.

00:05:39.800 And there,

00:05:41.200 the last thing I saw,

00:05:43.880 a polar bear glaring hungrily at me.

00:05:47.660 You know,

00:05:49.860 the average American causes his or her greenhouse gas emissions

00:05:53.980 to create serious suffering and or deaths of two future people.

00:06:01.760 In other words,

00:06:03.360 going for that Sunday drive has the expected effect of ruining someone's afternoon.

00:06:10.340 Multiply that joyride by a three-person Florida vacation,

00:06:15.620 and you've ruined somebody's month.

00:06:18.380 Something to ponder while soaking up the UV-drenched rays

00:06:22.980 on some distant tropical beach.

00:06:27.320 Oh,

00:06:28.460 this poor man.

00:06:30.080 I just don't know what he's...

00:06:32.340 what he's supposed to do.

00:06:36.040 It's sad.

00:06:37.220 Did you catch the end of that story as well?

00:06:41.980 I was just going to say,

00:06:43.820 I'd like to be able to tell you that knowing what I've learned

00:06:47.360 reporting in this piece,

00:06:48.680 I've sworn off long-distance travel.

00:06:51.420 But actually,

00:06:52.300 this summer,

00:06:52.740 we're going to Greece with a stopover in Paris.

00:06:55.500 Carbon footprint of the plane tickets,

00:06:57.560 10.6 metric tons,

00:06:59.800 enough to melt a small apartment-sized piece of the Arctic.

00:07:04.140 The increase in airline passengers worldwide

00:07:06.600 since 2013.

00:07:08.620 We've,

00:07:08.960 you know,

00:07:09.920 we've committed to go months ago.

00:07:12.260 But I suspect we'd make the same choice today.

00:07:15.340 We're going because

00:07:16.180 last year,

00:07:17.580 we canceled a vacation to come home and watch our dog die.

00:07:20.800 That was just the capper to the whole thing.

00:07:24.140 This poor guy,

00:07:24.960 he's torturing himself over whether he's going to go travel somewhere 0.95

00:07:28.160 and kill the planet, 0.92

00:07:29.160 and then his vacation gets canceled

00:07:31.180 because he has to watch his dog die.

00:07:32.940 What a life this guy has.

00:07:36.000 Well,

00:07:36.280 he did say before they go,

00:07:38.520 they're going to buy enough offsets to capture the annual methane emissions

00:07:44.600 from a dozen cows.

00:07:46.180 So that will offset.

00:07:49.920 I think they're putting,

00:07:51.260 let's,

00:07:51.900 those are cow farts in a jar,

00:07:54.620 right?

00:07:55.540 That is,

00:07:55.920 yeah,

00:07:56.120 cow farts in a jar.

00:07:56.900 Dot com.

00:07:57.400 You take a mason jar

00:08:00.020 and you kind of screw it into the back end of a cow.

00:08:03.360 And when they fart,

00:08:04.760 you just pull it out quickly and put the cap on.

00:08:07.620 That's pretty much it.

00:08:08.460 Yeah.

00:08:08.580 So I'm selling those at the Standing Rock Ranch.

00:08:11.620 You can get the Standing Rock Ranch

00:08:13.840 cow fart mason jars 0.85

00:08:17.000 available soon at glenbeck.com

00:08:19.660 where we will capture all of that methane gas for you

00:08:22.780 for a low,

00:08:24.520 low price of $50 a jar.

00:08:27.740 Yeah.

00:08:28.300 That's a lot of carbon.

00:08:29.300 You won't have a problem,

00:08:30.440 you know,

00:08:30.700 going,

00:08:31.520 you know,

00:08:31.800 for instance,

00:08:32.360 on our cruise,

00:08:33.340 I wonder what 3,000 people flying from America.

00:08:38.400 Oh,

00:08:38.560 they go into that in the article that if you think a cruise is better than the

00:08:41.920 plane,

00:08:42.640 you've got another thing coming.

00:08:43.780 No,

00:08:43.940 but we're taking a plane to Europe.

00:08:46.080 Yeah.

00:08:46.320 And then we're cruising onto a cruise.

00:08:48.160 And then we're taking a plane back.

00:08:49.440 Right.

00:08:49.880 And we're doing that with 3,000 people.

00:08:53.120 We have to calculate our carbon footprint.

00:08:55.220 They do calculate it for big cruise ships in there.

00:08:57.620 And they say,

00:08:58.060 I think I want to say it's three or four times as much.

00:09:00.820 And the cruise ship company is like,

00:09:01.900 uh,

00:09:02.260 guys,

00:09:02.880 there's a difference between a plane and a ship.

00:09:04.880 Like that's just a transportation device.

00:09:06.940 This is an entire,

00:09:07.740 like,

00:09:08.640 you know,

00:09:09.140 amusement park and,

00:09:10.940 you know,

00:09:11.460 basically city floating around.

00:09:14.600 So you can't really say they're equal,

00:09:16.740 which I think is a fair point.

00:09:18.540 So it's,

00:09:19.080 uh,

00:09:19.540 it's three to four times the amount.

00:09:22.220 Sad.

00:09:22.600 So can we calculate that?

00:09:25.020 If you would like to help increase our carbon footprint,

00:09:27.860 we would love for you to go on our cruise.

00:09:30.780 We're going to Italy,

00:09:32.020 but then we're going to fire those engines up and we're going to sail to

00:09:36.520 Greece.

00:09:37.080 There's nothing like sailing every great,

00:09:39.880 every great story of ancient world had just sailing into Greece,

00:09:44.700 but we're going to do it under,

00:09:46.980 I don't even know,

00:09:47.680 diesel power,

00:09:49.560 heavy oil.

00:09:50.460 I believe heavy oil.

00:09:51.320 Yeah.

00:09:51.600 Yeah.

00:09:51.800 Dirty oil power.

00:09:53.040 And we're just going to be growing.

00:09:54.600 And then as if that's not a big enough carbon footprint,

00:09:58.460 we're going to Jerusalem where we'll be meeting Bill O'Reilly and we're

00:10:02.980 going to be doing a show there,

00:10:04.200 but we got,

00:10:04.740 we're going to get off the cruise ship,

00:10:06.900 get into buses,

00:10:09.060 all 3000 of us.

00:10:10.200 And we're going to head to a big outdoor theater.

00:10:14.180 So,

00:10:14.780 I mean,

00:10:16.540 it'll be outdoors though.

00:10:17.860 So your hot air will go directly into the atmosphere.

00:10:21.620 Yeah.

00:10:21.860 Well,

00:10:22.380 Bill's carbon footprint of just him talking is enormous.

00:10:27.300 They had a,

00:10:27.800 uh,

00:10:28.060 they have a description in there about how these cruise ships decided to put

00:10:31.500 scrubbers on the ends of their scrubbing bubbles.

00:10:34.420 Yeah.

00:10:34.740 Scrubbing bubbles.

00:10:35.400 Basically,

00:10:35.680 if you've seen the scrubbing bubbles cartoons,

00:10:37.280 they have those basically.

00:10:39.040 Yeah.

00:10:39.300 And they make everything better with the exhaust.

00:10:41.640 And then now they found out that those are also creating problems

00:10:46.520 stunningly.

00:10:47.620 And environmentalists are banning those all around the world,

00:10:50.220 which is a shocking development.

00:10:52.040 I didn't see it coming because they asked for these things and then they

00:10:55.040 always later turn on them and tell you,

00:10:57.180 you can't use them anymore.

00:10:58.160 Yeah.

00:10:58.560 Because remember,

00:10:59.260 like everybody quick build giant windmills.

00:11:03.680 You've got to build them.

00:11:05.120 We can put them in the sea.

00:11:06.720 No,

00:11:07.220 they're killing all of the birds.

00:11:08.840 And of course they're reckoning the Kennedy's view of the sound.

00:11:12.120 Yes.

00:11:12.640 Which is more important.

00:11:14.340 More important.

00:11:14.800 More important.

00:11:15.280 Yeah.

00:11:15.560 The same thing with plastic bags.

00:11:17.620 Remember,

00:11:18.000 plastic bags were supposed to be the solution.

00:11:19.760 Right.

00:11:20.140 It was because paper bags were killing all the trees.

00:11:22.580 So,

00:11:23.000 somebody I know went to Shake Shack last night.

00:11:27.140 Someone you know?

00:11:28.020 Yeah.

00:11:28.900 Well,

00:11:29.120 definitely not me.

00:11:31.080 Definitely not me.

00:11:32.060 Not you.

00:11:32.480 But no.

00:11:33.740 But somebody I know went to Shake Shack last night and noticed that on

00:11:39.340 the straws,

00:11:40.320 it says compostable.

00:11:45.060 Mm-hmm.

00:11:46.480 And this person who is just evil thought to himself,

00:11:55.040 how do you,

00:11:56.320 how do you,

00:11:56.880 I mean,

00:11:57.320 why wouldn't you just take plastic straws and just write that on the

00:12:01.280 label of the straw cover anyway and then say,

00:12:04.640 oh,

00:12:04.860 really?

00:12:05.560 Yeah,

00:12:05.820 we'll put it in the ground and it,

00:12:07.180 it,

00:12:07.460 it disintegrates in a hundred years.

00:12:10.180 So.

00:12:10.960 It's compostable or whatever.

00:12:12.240 Do you know what?

00:12:12.640 If it doesn't come check with me in a hundred years.

00:12:14.480 Come check with me in a hundred years.

00:12:15.500 Because I will fix that problem in about a century.

00:12:17.300 I'm going to fix that right away.

00:12:18.300 Yeah.

00:12:18.520 I'm right away.

00:12:19.220 That is,

00:12:19.560 and of course,

00:12:20.060 if we have the ability to have compostable plastic,

00:12:23.900 then why do I ever get a paper straw,

00:12:27.400 which is birthed directly from Satan?

00:12:29.600 And why do I get any paper straws?

00:12:32.400 The devil's just creation because it's just to,

00:12:36.280 just to help you back to the cave.

00:12:39.740 Yeah.

00:12:40.260 It's like you're frustrated with the paper straw.

00:12:43.200 Yeah.

00:12:44.120 Yeah.

00:12:44.440 But it helps you back to the cave where you won't have any electricity at

00:12:48.720 all.

00:12:49.120 You won't have any modern conveniences,

00:12:51.760 no medicine,

00:12:52.900 no phones,

00:12:53.640 no connections,

00:12:54.940 nothing.

00:12:55.680 I went,

00:12:55.940 I went out to breakfast with my kids this weekend.

00:12:57.620 You know what?

00:12:57.880 I ate the breakfast off of wooden,

00:13:01.280 wooden silverware,

00:13:04.640 wooden.

00:13:06.320 Did they throw it away?

00:13:08.100 I mean,

00:13:08.640 I just,

00:13:09.140 I certainly what I did with it.

00:13:10.280 I don't know what they do with it,

00:13:11.420 but it's what it's made.

00:13:12.460 Like,

00:13:12.660 you know,

00:13:12.800 you ever go to like a gelato shop and they always have the wooden

00:13:15.500 spoons,

00:13:15.880 which are like horrible.

00:13:17.420 No one would want to eat off a wooden spoon.

00:13:19.380 It's terrible.

00:13:20.340 Well,

00:13:20.460 they're very,

00:13:21.060 they're really,

00:13:21.680 I mean,

00:13:21.960 the wooden stuff that you have,

00:13:23.440 you know,

00:13:23.620 big wooden spoons in your,

00:13:24.940 in your house.

00:13:26.640 It's not like that filled with bacteria.

00:13:28.780 And also it's not like that,

00:13:30.140 right?

00:13:30.360 It's like that,

00:13:30.920 like wood that like holds onto your lips and tongue as you take it

00:13:34.500 out.

00:13:34.780 Like it's the worst.

00:13:35.840 That's how you had a knife,

00:13:37.660 a fork and a spoon and they were all wood.

00:13:40.120 It was the only choice.

00:13:41.120 How many trees did they kill?

00:13:42.880 And impossible to eat with them.

00:13:44.820 They don't do the things that forks are supposed to do.

00:13:47.500 They just don't,

00:13:48.260 they don't work.

00:13:49.240 Okay.

00:13:49.440 They're, 0.78

00:13:49.680 they're terrible,

00:13:50.520 terrible inventions.

00:13:51.240 And it's people like this guy,

00:13:52.500 this travel,

00:13:53.480 this travel guy who's going to go to that place and write about it and

00:13:56.320 say,

00:13:56.580 Oh,

00:13:57.100 the wonderful rustic nature of the wooden silverware.

00:14:00.780 And they're going to say it's good thing.

00:14:02.500 And then these people are going to continue to do it.

00:14:04.140 But then they will adopt the,

00:14:05.800 the wooden silverware until they then go,

00:14:08.460 do you know how many forests it takes to make this wooden silverware?

00:14:12.520 And then they will ban it.

00:14:14.080 And it's like,

00:14:14.820 stop.

00:14:15.940 You guys realize you're just going,

00:14:17.820 it's you're like a hamster and you just keep going around in a wheel.

00:14:22.060 You're not actually moving forward.

00:14:24.040 You realize that Mr.

00:14:25.200 Hamster.

00:14:28.160 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:14:36.820 Hi,

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00:14:49.220 So,

00:14:49.860 uh,

00:14:50.420 I noticed Camilla was being naughty. 0.99

00:14:53.800 Uh,

00:14:54.120 do you have any comments on,

00:14:55.600 on her naughtiness or anything?

00:14:57.560 I didn't even see Camilla's naughtiness.

00:14:59.740 Oh,

00:15:00.000 you didn't?

00:15:00.480 She winked.

00:15:00.960 I didn't even see it.

00:15:01.700 She winked.

00:15:02.540 And the Washington Post said,

00:15:04.140 what did she mean?

00:15:05.400 What was the purpose of a wink?

00:15:07.560 Do we know what the purpose was?

00:15:09.220 Nope.

00:15:09.680 And when you watch it, 1.00

00:15:11.520 it's so stupid. 1.00

00:15:14.600 She just turned around from the pool of reporters and just winked at them. 1.00

00:15:19.300 I was actually,

00:15:19.960 I'm surprised that Charles was there.

00:15:23.040 I'm surprised that Harry was there because those people,

00:15:27.140 you know,

00:15:27.400 they hate Trump.

00:15:28.500 I mean,

00:15:29.120 they're as left wing as you can get.

00:15:31.660 Oh yeah.

00:15:31.940 They're,

00:15:32.200 they,

00:15:32.400 they are.

00:15:33.020 I mean,

00:15:33.320 what's his name?

00:15:34.140 What,

00:15:34.380 who's married to the queen?

00:15:35.980 What's his name?

00:15:36.800 Uh,

00:15:37.280 who's married to the queen.

00:15:38.920 Yeah.

00:15:39.660 Uh,

00:15:40.020 Philip,

00:15:40.540 Philip Duke.

00:15:42.000 Phil,

00:15:42.160 what is he?

00:15:42.740 He's the,

00:15:44.600 I don't know.

00:15:46.140 Uh,

00:15:46.420 whatever.

00:15:46.900 So,

00:15:47.220 uh,

00:15:47.840 the guy who's,

00:15:48.700 the guy who's not King,

00:15:50.220 uh,

00:15:51.260 Philip,

00:15:52.180 he,

00:15:52.680 I mean,

00:15:52.920 he has said on record that people are a virus and that he wishes that he could come

00:15:59.740 back.

00:16:00.960 Uh,

00:16:02.580 is it?

00:16:03.100 Yeah.

00:16:03.260 It's Philip.

00:16:04.460 I know.

00:16:05.180 I know.

00:16:05.400 I remember this environment.

00:16:06.480 We had this in one of the books,

00:16:07.640 an inconvenient book,

00:16:08.640 I believe.

00:16:09.720 Um,

00:16:10.080 right.

00:16:10.340 His quote about it being humans are a virus and he wanted to,

00:16:12.920 he wanted to come back and end the virus or something like that.

00:16:15.460 Something.

00:16:15.980 I'll find it.

00:16:17.420 It's a,

00:16:17.980 it's a bizarre.

00:16:18.980 I mean,

00:16:19.260 they are just, 0.99

00:16:19.920 they are so crazy. 1.00

00:16:22.700 They are. 1.00

00:16:23.260 They're really nuts on the global warming thing, 0.91

00:16:25.720 the whole family.

00:16:27.000 And,

00:16:27.460 uh,

00:16:28.300 uh,

00:16:28.780 so they,

00:16:29.580 they're not Trump fans.

00:16:31.120 You know that.

00:16:32.000 You know that.

00:16:33.620 They're not fans.

00:16:34.580 I loved it.

00:16:36.200 I love,

00:16:37.060 I,

00:16:37.300 I absolutely do love Queen Elizabeth.

00:16:40.020 I think she's great.

00:16:41.580 Do you love her because you watch the crown?

00:16:43.620 Yes.

00:16:44.160 Yeah.

00:16:44.360 I think that's,

00:16:45.140 I have a little affinity for her now too.

00:16:47.540 Cause I,

00:16:48.360 because of that.

00:16:48.860 Yeah.

00:16:49.140 The crown,

00:16:49.720 you see what sacrifices this woman has made in her life.

00:16:53.100 And unbelievable,

00:16:54.360 unbelievable sacrifice.

00:16:55.820 And you hate her family even more.

00:16:58.560 You,

00:16:58.740 I mean,

00:16:59.300 Philip is,

00:17:00.380 Oh,

00:17:00.920 you,

00:17:01.160 not a great guy.

00:17:01.920 No,

00:17:02.220 you,

00:17:02.480 you just end up hating them all except for her.

00:17:05.240 And I really,

00:17:06.560 I really,

00:17:07.780 really like,

00:17:08.800 uh,

00:17:09.720 I really like her.

00:17:11.240 Um,

00:17:11.680 and I,

00:17:12.140 and I like her because she's never,

00:17:15.300 she's never entered politics ever.

00:17:18.800 Right.

00:17:19.020 And the,

00:17:19.860 the temptation to do that must have at times been extraordinary.

00:17:28.120 What an English extraordinary.

00:17:31.700 Um,

00:17:32.180 and she's never done it.

00:17:33.760 And I love that.

00:17:34.580 She,

00:17:34.920 she was delightful to,

00:17:36.880 uh,

00:17:37.320 Donald Trump yesterday.

00:17:38.620 Yeah,

00:17:39.540 she was,

00:17:40.160 yeah,

00:17:40.400 she went out of her way. 1.00

00:17:41.360 You would have no idea how she, 0.83

00:17:43.920 and I don't know how she feels.

00:17:44.980 Maybe she likes him and the rest of the family doesn't,

00:17:47.800 but maybe she hates him,

00:17:48.960 but you don't have any idea.

00:17:51.120 And I love that about her.

00:17:52.840 She's always taken her role pretty seriously,

00:17:55.440 you know?

00:17:55.780 Yeah.

00:17:56.360 And,

00:17:56.880 and it shows,

00:17:58.300 and she's,

00:17:59.500 you know,

00:17:59.820 and if,

00:18:00.660 if the crown is,

00:18:02.340 is accurate,

00:18:03.780 uh,

00:18:04.280 she is a pretty amazing,

00:18:05.940 uh,

00:18:06.740 person because she's been through a lot and she's what?

00:18:10.400 A hundred and 64 years old.

00:18:13.240 She dies,

00:18:14.200 man.

00:18:14.360 That family is,

00:18:15.380 that family's on the run.

00:18:16.640 Oh,

00:18:16.800 the torches are coming for that family.

00:18:18.960 You know,

00:18:19.640 she's like,

00:18:20.300 somehow another Lord,

00:18:22.280 please let me outlive my children,

00:18:25.800 please.

00:18:27.780 And how long do they put up with a monarchy that just costs them money and doesn't really do anything?

00:18:34.820 How,

00:18:35.040 how long?

00:18:35.960 It's so weird.

00:18:37.060 How long do they do that?

00:18:38.100 They just keep it,

00:18:38.740 like,

00:18:38.960 just out of tradition purely?

00:18:40.800 I mean,

00:18:41.240 that is.

00:18:41.480 And tourism.

00:18:43.300 I think they do do a lot for tourism.

00:18:47.080 Possibly.

00:18:47.680 Weird.

00:18:48.080 I mean,

00:18:48.260 that transition seems like it would have been difficult to convince the king and queen of,

00:18:52.560 you know what?

00:18:52.980 You just,

00:18:53.380 you're going to still be king and queen.

00:18:54.440 You're just not going to do anything anymore.

00:18:55.800 You're going to be just a tourist trap.

00:18:58.060 I don't think they said that at the time.

00:19:00.340 It's not like,

00:19:01.300 get in the wagons, 0.95

00:19:02.620 you witches. 0.99

00:19:03.380 We're going to see the queen and king. 0.97

00:19:06.300 That's kind of what happened though.

00:19:07.500 I'm not sure of that.

00:19:08.260 How long of a period did that happen over?

00:19:10.380 Because I will be honest,

00:19:11.360 and I said this earlier,

00:19:12.100 I do not care about these people at all.

00:19:14.480 In any way.

00:19:15.040 I don't care either.

00:19:16.300 How did it happen?

00:19:17.300 Now,

00:19:17.400 you feel like it should be,

00:19:19.100 it had to be over like,

00:19:19.900 what,

00:19:19.980 a century or two?

00:19:20.840 I don't know.

00:19:21.200 Wasn't queen Victoria kind of powerful? 0.89

00:19:25.420 She was,

00:19:26.040 I think they still had some.

00:19:27.480 Yeah,

00:19:27.660 I think they did.

00:19:28.620 Yeah,

00:19:28.920 I think so.

00:19:30.720 But I'm not positive.

00:19:31.980 And I got to say that transition was made.

00:19:33.900 Cause I don't understand their parliamentary system either.

00:19:36.440 Thank you.

00:19:36.900 I don't think it's an improvement.

00:19:38.320 There's no way to tell what's going on over there.

00:19:40.120 At least you can understand.

00:19:41.120 There's no way to tell.

00:19:41.560 And they always are having elections.

00:19:43.380 It's like.

00:19:43.720 Always.

00:19:44.540 Always.

00:19:45.320 They're almost going to do that in,

00:19:46.560 they're going to do that again in Israel.

00:19:48.120 They had one two months ago.

00:19:50.520 And because he couldn't form a government,

00:19:52.420 they're having another one.

00:19:53.400 Why don't you just leave the ballots in the boxes?

00:19:57.100 And then just every two months,

00:19:58.200 count them again.

00:19:59.060 Yeah.

00:19:59.660 Something is irritating.

00:20:01.360 I think honestly,

00:20:01.920 the king and queen thing might be better.

00:20:03.660 Just go back to it.

00:20:04.560 At least you know who you're going to.

00:20:05.660 It might be.

00:20:06.100 Just go back to it.

00:20:07.140 Just ask the person.

00:20:08.160 They'll just tell you,

00:20:08.800 you know,

00:20:08.980 you can eat cake or whatever.

00:20:10.340 And then it's over.

00:20:11.060 I don't think that's.

00:20:12.200 None of that's even true.

00:20:13.060 But still.

00:20:13.760 That's true.

00:20:14.180 But at least it's an understandable system.

00:20:17.300 Yeah.

00:20:17.480 These poor people are out there.

00:20:18.820 They probably work more hours going to vote 0.99

00:20:21.240 than they do at their actual jobs.

00:20:22.920 And how much does that cost them?

00:20:24.460 Every.

00:20:25.020 What do you expect from a group of people

00:20:26.660 who think cookies are biscuits?

00:20:29.200 Come on.

00:20:30.140 Yeah.

00:20:30.600 It's fair.

00:20:31.100 It's a really good,

00:20:32.120 fair observation.

00:20:33.100 That's some biscuits.

00:20:33.680 Might be the definitive point.

00:20:34.460 No, thank you.

00:20:35.140 I'll have some cookies.

00:20:36.820 Thank you.

00:20:37.220 Haven't we showed them the way?

00:20:38.680 We showed you how to do this.

00:20:40.020 It's not that hard.

00:20:41.080 Okay.

00:20:41.600 Yeah.

00:20:41.820 It's worked pretty well for 243 years.

00:20:45.900 And you see that.

00:20:47.020 You see our shining example up on the hill.

00:20:49.320 Oh, is it shiny?

00:20:50.020 Do this.

00:20:50.480 Yes.

00:20:50.580 Is it so shiny?

00:20:51.460 Well, it used to be.

00:20:53.080 It's still a hell of a lot better than everywhere else.

00:20:55.260 It is.

00:20:55.400 No, it is.

00:20:55.740 And you see this over and over.

00:20:56.860 At least we've got a four-year definitive term

00:20:59.720 for our president.

00:21:01.620 We're not.

00:21:01.800 Well, we are in the middle of impeachment proceedings,

00:21:03.940 but still.

00:21:04.620 Still.

00:21:05.500 We're not.

00:21:06.240 It's not going to happen.

00:21:07.200 It's not going to happen.

00:21:07.960 Right.

00:21:08.160 He's not going to be removed from office.

00:21:09.500 That would be amazing.

00:21:11.340 No, but I mean, there are processes to make that shorter,

00:21:15.600 obviously, but still, I mean, it doesn't happen, right?

00:21:17.600 There's almost always a peaceful transition where, you know.

00:21:20.840 He never steps down because people disagree with him on things.

00:21:24.040 Oh, they voted in Wyoming on that bill,

00:21:27.440 and now you've got to step down.

00:21:29.140 That never happens here.

00:21:30.700 Thank goodness.

00:21:31.440 And I feel like it's one of those things where America has led the world

00:21:34.860 out of, you know, tyranny, basically, in most cases.

00:21:39.680 No, literally.

00:21:40.020 Yeah, but it's not everywhere.

00:21:41.960 But, I mean, he's done a good job at basically leading the world out of

00:21:45.320 tyranny, and then everyone gets past that level where they get rid of the

00:21:48.400 worst stuff, and then they look at us, and they're like,

00:21:50.200 we're not going to go all the way there.

00:21:51.280 We're going to go, like, half the way there.

00:21:52.740 Let's do Britain's weird system.

00:21:53.820 Yeah, let's do the Britain thing because that's probably better. 0.99

00:21:55.880 Do you guys remember Revolutionary War, British Empire, like,

00:21:59.040 all that stuff?

00:21:59.560 Like, remember, we kind of won that one.

00:22:01.120 We won the Russia thing.

00:22:02.220 We won all of these.

00:22:03.560 Maybe you should just copy what we're doing.

00:22:05.160 Like, we are, it's not, we didn't copyright it.

00:22:07.700 We want you to, we want you to take it on.

00:22:09.960 We beg people, practically.

00:22:11.300 Yeah.

00:22:11.680 I mean, because maybe.

00:22:12.260 We try to force people.

00:22:13.480 I know.

00:22:14.220 You will do this system.

00:22:16.260 I don't want to.

00:22:17.300 I don't want to.

00:22:18.180 No, you will.

00:22:20.020 We don't like it, though.

00:22:21.160 That's problem.

00:22:21.620 We don't understand it.

00:22:23.180 You can't.

00:22:24.060 How do you not understand it?

00:22:25.360 Nobody resigns when they make a mistake.

00:22:27.860 Right.

00:22:28.460 That is so weird.

00:22:30.040 Really weird.

00:22:30.820 You get elected for a term.

00:22:33.980 You stay that term.

00:22:35.340 Right.

00:22:35.480 You do your best during that term.

00:22:37.000 You don't put together the government.

00:22:38.500 No.

00:22:38.740 The people elect the government.

00:22:39.880 People just elect it.

00:22:40.760 And you know what?

00:22:41.180 You don't have to have a coalition.

00:22:42.440 How about this?

00:22:43.160 When a vote comes up, you vote how you believe.

00:22:46.100 How about that?

00:22:47.220 How about that?

00:22:47.520 So, like, some bills, you might vote one way.

00:22:50.100 Some bills, you might vote the other.

00:22:51.460 Yeah, that's not happening.

00:22:53.620 At the moment.

00:22:54.320 At the moment.

00:22:54.620 It's not happening very often.

00:22:55.820 However.

00:22:56.000 You may have to go to some sort of a coalition government at some point.

00:23:00.320 If anybody stops this nonsense of, it's only two parties, then change one of the parties, please.

00:23:08.180 Everybody who likes the two-party system, can you just get into one party?

00:23:13.500 And then we'll have another party that believes in freedom.

00:23:16.440 How about that one?

00:23:17.420 Because right now we've got a two-party system, and they pretty much believe the same thing.

00:23:20.920 One's just like, this one will kill you in ten minutes, and this one will take about five years.

00:23:28.880 Okay, well, I guess I want to take the five-year one.

00:23:33.980 I would just like to see everybody who's for, you know, the death of the republic.

00:23:38.840 You guys go all in the Democrats.

00:23:40.500 Go ahead.

00:23:40.940 Go in the Democrats. 0.80

00:23:41.660 Let's have something that's like, hey, we want to live.

00:23:44.080 We think there's some fundamental principles here that maybe we should go back to.

00:23:50.380 I think we should just go back to this idea where the new elections thing is interesting,

00:23:54.340 and we just instead schedule them for like every 60 minutes.

00:23:57.420 So just every 60 minutes, a thing goes off on your phone, you vote for a new president.

00:24:01.000 And we'll just keep constantly rotating these people in and out, because it seems like that's about as effective.

00:24:05.780 We'll try a socialist for a while, and then he'll have to step down.

00:24:08.860 Imagine the damage Bernie Sanders could do in 60 seconds.

00:24:11.080 Well, Bernie could blow this whole thing up in 60 seconds.

00:24:14.500 Did you see the show we did last night on Bernie?

00:24:16.960 I did not.

00:24:17.980 Oh, thanks a lot, Pat.

00:24:18.700 I did not.

00:24:19.040 Thanks.

00:24:21.380 That's really awkward.

00:24:22.700 Was there something I should have?

00:24:24.580 You just wanted to know if you just have known about it?

00:24:26.560 No, yeah, you should have known about it.

00:24:28.100 I should have told you.

00:24:29.200 It was part two of the Bernie Sanders expose on Who's on His Team.

00:24:32.700 Yeah.

00:24:33.520 Oh, that.

00:24:34.800 Oh, my gosh, Pat.

00:24:36.560 I wish I would have seen that.

00:24:37.560 Yeah.

00:24:37.940 Well, that's on demand.

00:24:38.880 You watch it at Blaze TV.

00:24:40.020 Wow.

00:24:40.320 That's a good point.

00:24:41.420 You a subscriber?

00:24:42.040 Yeah, sure.

00:24:42.620 Okay, good.

00:24:43.940 So I'll check it out.

00:24:46.300 You're not paying for your subscription, are you?

00:24:48.300 No, I'm not.

00:24:49.620 Oh, my gosh.

00:24:50.160 I'm not paying for my subscriptions.

00:24:51.920 There's no support here whatsoever from you.

00:24:54.540 Are you paying for your subscription, Glenn? 0.99

00:24:57.300 Oh, I probably paid more than anyone else for their damn subscription. 1.00

00:25:02.140 Probably. 0.99

00:25:02.440 So anyway, but last night we covered who the radicals are.

00:25:07.140 You would not believe who these people are.

00:25:10.420 By the way, I think we know now who the leader or one of the founding members of Occupy Wall Street is.

00:25:17.300 Because, you know, she's just as, he has on his campaign roster all these people who have zero experience.

00:25:30.800 But some of them have experience in, you know, coalitions and bringing people together to riot in the streets.

00:25:40.480 But then there's this one woman who is, she's just a Fordham University sociology professor. 0.99

00:25:47.160 That's all she is.

00:25:48.360 And she can't speak for Occupy Wall Street.

00:25:52.020 She's done a couple of interviews and it's completely leaderless.

00:25:55.620 But she explained exactly how all of it worked and the hand signals and everything else.

00:26:01.860 It was almost like it was something like of her design.

00:26:04.540 And then she, around 2010, went over for a big conference on the American Awakening at the University of Tehran.

00:26:17.280 And she spoke as a spokesperson for Occupy Wall Street and talked about how bad America is and how important the Occupy Wall Street thing was.

00:26:30.940 I mean, that's who's consulting with Bernie Sanders.

00:26:35.080 They are the most radical of the radicals.

00:26:38.960 You have a problem with that?

00:26:42.200 Yes, I do.

00:26:45.140 But now, watch me wink.

00:26:48.720 Like Camilla. 0.94

00:26:50.200 I'm so nasty.

00:26:55.740 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:27:00.940 Stephen Crowder, who is on the Blaze TV, and I have been a fan of Stephen's for, I don't know how long.

00:27:16.340 We gave him, didn't we give him one of his first real big breaks, Stu?

00:27:20.640 I think it was on GBTV at the time, wasn't it?

00:27:23.400 Yeah, he was at, I don't remember, I don't know.

00:27:26.260 I mean, I know he was doing a lot of stuff.

00:27:27.520 It was like the Minolta Theater in New York City.

00:27:29.300 New York City, yeah.

00:27:30.340 That's right.

00:27:30.980 He did like a, he was there for that first event we did.

00:27:33.940 And remember what happened right before?

00:27:36.420 Of course I do.

00:27:37.240 I mean, it was a big moment.

00:27:38.580 It was a big moment.

00:27:39.500 You may not have, I think you knew, the FBI tried to shut that show down because we had death threats

00:27:48.300 and they believed somebody in the audience had a gun and was going to kill me.

00:27:52.980 And then they caught me.

00:27:55.020 That was a sad ending.

00:27:56.920 And so they came and I said, I'm not shutting the show down.

00:28:00.620 And they're like, Mr. Beck, we don't know who this is.

00:28:04.020 Very well.

00:28:04.660 And I said, but they very well may not be in the audience too, right?

00:28:09.580 And they said, no.

00:28:10.620 And I said, you're going to be able to tell who's in my audience and who is not, who's

00:28:14.340 there for, you know, ill purposes.

00:28:17.940 Yeah, you look for the man bun first. 0.96

00:28:19.900 Right.

00:28:20.480 That way you know.

00:28:21.060 See the man bun, you know, take him down. 0.83

00:28:23.580 So anyway, I'll never forget, Stephen, we were having to delay the show because they

00:28:31.960 were, I was getting a bulletproof vest on and being briefed by the FBI right before we

00:28:38.040 went on.

00:28:39.040 And so we called Stephen in and said, hey, Stephen, you may have to stall for a few minutes.

00:28:44.180 Can you go out now?

00:28:45.520 And he went, he looked at me in the bulletproof vest and went, what's going on?

00:28:49.600 And I said, nothing, most likely.

00:28:53.060 He's like, what do you mean most likely?

00:28:55.080 And I said, don't worry, they're not here to kill you. 1.00

00:28:57.820 I said, go out and kill them. 1.00

00:28:59.760 Go out and slay them. 1.00

00:29:01.180 And he did. 0.98

00:29:02.400 And I think that was, that was the first time, at least, I think that we had him do something

00:29:08.220 for us at the very beginning.

00:29:10.320 And now he's on Blaze TV and he is, he's taken, he has taken the internet by storm.

00:29:16.340 Uh, and it's because he's politically incorrect, but he's not a hater.

00:29:21.680 If there's anything about Stephen, if you know him, he doesn't hate anybody.

00:29:26.460 Um, or if he does, he hates them for good reasons, not for race reasons or anything else.

00:29:31.160 You know, people sometimes can make you hate them.

00:29:33.460 Um, but, uh, he has been in this argument now with this, this Vox reporter who identifies 0.94

00:29:43.480 himself as, what is it, gay wonk? 0.96

00:29:47.300 Yep. 0.99

00:29:47.740 Okay. 1.00

00:29:48.620 The gay wonk. 0.99

00:29:49.860 And, uh, so he, he has been doing, you know, uh, these, um, these anti-Steven Crowder things 0.96

00:29:59.160 and Steven has responded with anti-gay wonk things and he has been mercilessly, um, uh,

00:30:06.680 going after him in a comedic form to debunk what he's saying.

00:30:10.840 Well, the gay wonk, who is actually not just with Vox, it's NBC universal, uh, wrote to 0.95

00:30:19.120 YouTube and said, you have to ban him. 0.99

00:30:21.920 Look at this hate.

00:30:23.140 Now I've done that.

00:30:25.380 Uh, I've had, you know, Steven has done that.

00:30:28.060 We've had several coworkers reach out to, uh, YouTube and say, Hey, you know, we're getting

00:30:33.700 death threats here.

00:30:35.460 They don't care.

00:30:36.780 We've never received a personal email.

00:30:39.520 He receives a personal email from, uh, YouTube saying, thank you so much for alerting.

00:30:46.680 We're going to investigate.

00:30:48.040 And this has no place here.

00:30:50.080 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:30:52.020 Right.

00:30:52.660 So the advice has been to apologize.

00:30:57.820 And in, in Steven Crowder's, uh, well, it's the reason why we like Steven Crowder.

00:31:05.080 He did apologize.

00:31:07.180 Here's a bit of it.

00:31:08.100 I, along with everyone here at Ladder with Crowder, I'm not above recognizing my mistakes

00:31:12.300 and attempting to rectify them.

00:31:14.120 So I'd like to take this opportunity to formally apologize to all parties involved.

00:31:17.780 Firstly, my heartfelt apologies to practicing socialists offended by the Che Guevara socialism

00:31:23.460 is for figs t-shirt.

00:31:24.760 I know that we should fight bad ideas with good ideas and respectfully debate the merits,

00:31:28.820 virtues, and shortcomings of socialism, as opposed to merely mocking it with a hysterical

00:31:32.840 t-shirt available at ladderwithcreddershop.com.

00:31:35.180 And my dear friend and esteemed colleague, Ben Shapiro, I sincerely apologize for implying

00:31:39.460 that you're a greedy shekel hoarder. 0.76

00:31:41.920 Words matter.

00:31:42.480 And while I swear I meant greedy in a good way, I see now how it might have been misconstrued.

00:31:47.560 I'd like to formally apologize to Vice President Joe Biden for stating that he is, quote,

00:31:51.760 the kind of guy who would have his bachelor party hosted at a Chuck E. Cheese.

00:31:55.800 To my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman, I would like to apologize for the insinuation that

00:31:59.840 his billable hours exceed those actually worked, as well as accusing him of covering hopper

00:32:03.820 and dry rub in preparation for a Mongolian fusion barbecue.

00:32:07.020 Half-Asian Bill, I'm sorry. 1.00

00:32:10.300 He went on and on, and there's much that we can't actually air, but you can see Ladder

00:32:18.480 with Crowder on Blaze TV at blazetv.com slash Glenn, and use the promo code Glenn and save

00:32:25.360 10%.

00:32:25.760 By the way, if you missed last night's show, in fact, we're going to have to do a recap

00:32:30.620 of it.

00:32:31.340 If you missed last night's show on Joe Biden, you've got to go back and see it and share

00:32:39.160 it with your friends.

00:32:40.780 This is really, really amazing.

00:32:44.120 When I said on Fox that we're going to face a time where the socialists, the anarchists,

00:32:52.600 the communists, and the Islamists will work together to destroy Israel, 0.96

00:32:59.100 destabilize Europe and the Western world.

00:33:05.420 I said at the time, they're not going to be working together like calling each other

00:33:09.780 up and working in the same office, just a different cubicle, but they are going to see

00:33:15.100 that their purposes match, and they will coordinate without talking to each other.

00:33:22.920 They'll just follow each other's lead.

00:33:24.560 Well, I had to apologize myself last night, because I was wrong.

00:33:29.520 They are working together, and they're all working together in the same office.

00:33:33.500 In fact, they're all working for one campaign.

00:33:38.200 And I showed you the people that are running Bernie Sanders' campaign, and strangely, none

00:33:44.920 of them are Swedish.

00:33:45.620 None of them really like Swedish socialism, which isn't socialism.

00:33:51.540 That's a capitalist system that has a big social network.

00:33:56.400 I think you're mistaken because Bernie Sanders' campaign released a video yesterday that

00:34:01.240 described that what they want is not collectivization of government holding of the means of production.

00:34:07.820 You know what?

00:34:08.160 We're going to take a break, and then we'll come back, and we'll just kind of share with

00:34:11.700 you some of the people on the Bernie Sanders campaign, the campaign manager, the person

00:34:17.540 that does the grassroots outreach, the people who are writing the speeches and the messaging.

00:34:24.260 And it's strange that that would be the messaging coming from these people, because we showed

00:34:29.920 you last night on television, that's nothing, nothing like what they believe.

00:34:38.160 Hey, it's Glenn, and I want to tell you about something that you should either end your day

00:34:59.040 with or start your morning with, and that is the news and why it matters.

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00:35:19.240 There's a disturbing story about a couple in Idaho, a family that had to take their HOA

00:35:27.280 to court over being discriminated against because of their faith.

00:35:31.780 And the jury awarded them compensation and everything else.

00:35:37.920 And the judge came back and overturned everything.

00:35:42.780 And I don't know the last time that a judge came in and overturned the jury on a verdict.

00:35:50.120 We have Jeremy Dice on with us.

00:35:52.860 He is the deputy general counsel for First Liberty, and he is fighting this case for this family.

00:35:58.800 First of all, Jeremy, tell me about what happened to the family.

00:36:03.000 Yeah, well, Jeremy and Christy Morris had this celebration every year.

00:36:07.120 They're one of these people that really like to decorate and celebrate Christmas, right?

00:36:12.600 Think Clark Griswold, and you're pretty close to Jeremy Morris, right?

00:36:16.860 So he decorated his house.

00:36:18.240 And when I say decorated his house, I mean like every inch of the exterior has a light on it somewhere,

00:36:23.080 or at least every foot or so.

00:36:24.740 And this became sort of a thing.

00:36:26.000 And when people would stop by, they would invite them onto the driveway.

00:36:29.260 They would share the gospel with them.

00:36:30.740 They would give them a cup of hot chocolate.

00:36:32.680 And they would invite them to make a donation for children that were either homeless or were ill.

00:36:39.620 And they actually ended up raising a lot of money for this.

00:36:42.580 Well, they moved houses.

00:36:44.020 And then when they did, they alerted their HOA that they had read their covenants and said,

00:36:48.600 it looks like we can just keep on doing this, want you to know we're going to go ahead and do that.

00:36:52.380 But the HOA didn't like that.

00:36:53.900 And instead of just saying, no, you're not allowed to have any lights on the walls,

00:36:57.720 they wrote back, and I'm going to quote from it.

00:36:59.440 It says, this is from the president of the HOA.

00:37:02.540 She says, I'm somewhat hesitant in bringing this up, the fact that some of our residents are non-Christians 1.00

00:37:07.720 or of another faith, and I don't want to even think of the problems that that could bring up.

00:37:12.260 And so they went on for years of litigation over this issue.

00:37:15.300 And you're exactly right.

00:37:16.380 The jury found in his favor, in Jeremy and Christie's favor, and said this was clear religious discrimination under the Fair Housing Act.

00:37:24.740 But then a few months later, the judge was convinced to overturn and throw out that entire jury decision.

00:37:31.140 And so we're appealing the case to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals because no one should be punished for trying to spread a little Christmas cheer

00:37:37.640 and raise money for abused or neglected children at Christmastime.

00:37:40.600 So, Jeremy, how often does a judge do this?

00:37:47.720 Well, it's fairly rare.

00:37:49.580 It's fairly rare.

00:37:50.600 And the reason for that is that when the judge gives the facts over to the jury, number one, don't forget our judicial system,

00:37:59.760 our system of justice is based upon trial by jury.

00:38:03.360 And so we respect the decisions of juries because that's what our system depends upon.

00:38:07.800 But when the judge gives that over to the trier of fact, this case being the jury,

00:38:13.700 unless there's like clearly erroneous or some significant problem that has arisen here,

00:38:19.220 that they just simply could not arrive to a reasonable decision on things,

00:38:23.680 the judge should leave that trier of facts decision completely alone and not remove it.

00:38:28.020 Now, what we know is that in a motion before this hearing or before the trial went to take place,

00:38:34.560 the judge looked at the arguments of both sides and says, look, this can clearly go to a jury.

00:38:41.140 He says that just that letter itself from the HOA is enough for a reasonable jury to make a decision in favor of Mr.

00:38:48.340 and Mrs. Morris.

00:38:49.700 But then several months later, when he removed it from the jury, he said something completely different from that position.

00:38:56.120 And that just is simply inconsistent for one thing, but I think it's very dangerous to our system of law.

00:39:02.960 What do you think happened?

00:39:04.960 I wish I knew.

00:39:06.240 I really do.

00:39:07.080 I don't know exactly.

00:39:08.800 But we're going to bring this case entirely to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and ask them to look at this.

00:39:14.300 Because, look, the jury recognized that there was a clear religious hostility by this HOA against their family.

00:39:21.360 There was no good reason for a judge to overrule them.

00:39:24.100 And that's the fact that he recognized in the motion leading up to the trial.

00:39:29.060 So the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is the most overturned in the country.

00:39:37.200 We're not expecting the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to actually do anything right here, are we?

00:39:44.300 Well, there's always hope.

00:39:46.160 Let's put it that way.

00:39:47.160 Number one, don't forget that, thankfully, President Trump has been doing a lot of good work,

00:39:51.920 and a lot of the work on judges has taken place in the Ninth Circuit.

00:39:54.500 So you never know what panel of judges you're going to receive up there at the Ninth Circuit.

00:39:58.540 But at the very least, I think regardless of what you may think about the Ninth Circuit, and much of that could be true,

00:40:04.300 but at the very least, I think there's still a respect for the jury system in our country here, even in the Ninth Circuit,

00:40:11.580 because it's so important.

00:40:13.140 And when the judge himself recognizes that a reasonable jury could find a reasonable decision to support Mr. and Mrs. Morris...

00:40:20.920 How do you overturn it?

00:40:21.900 And then he overturns it.

00:40:23.300 I mean, there's at least that obvious consistency there that I think even the Ninth Circuit can pay attention to

00:40:27.920 and recognize that there was religious hostility at play here,

00:40:31.820 and the jury should have been left alone to make that decision.

00:40:35.080 Jeremy, tell me about the Equality Act.

00:40:37.600 Do you know much about this?

00:40:39.180 Well, I know a little bit about it.

00:40:40.540 Can you tell me, it seems very concerning on the surface.

00:40:46.520 Well, I think the biggest problem that I see with the Equality Act right now

00:40:50.700 is that there has been an active effort to ensure that there would be no accommodation for religious belief, behavior, or organizations within it.

00:41:00.480 In other words, everyone would have to comply with it all, regardless of your religious convictions or your scruples that you may have.

00:41:07.280 Whatever that may be, there's no way to exempt yourself from its requirements.

00:41:12.940 And so this is a way to kind of get back at the decision that the Supreme Court made a year or two ago in the Masterpiece Cake Shop decision,

00:41:19.940 where there was really clear hostility by the government.

00:41:22.680 I mean, they compared Jack Phillips to Nazis, for goodness sakes, in that decision.

00:41:27.120 But they're trying now, it seems, to force individuals to abide by an ideology that their religious beliefs simply don't support.

00:41:37.720 And what the left and progressives find so difficult to imagine and conceive of is that people would actually have a moral disagreement.

00:41:46.220 And here's the frightening thing, and that that would be okay, right?

00:41:50.180 I mean, our system of government is set up, our system of free speech and religious liberty is set upon a premise to say,

00:41:55.920 we're going to disagree with one another, and that's okay.

00:41:59.900 We're going to provide the space for you and I to have differences of opinion and to express those loudly and, if necessary, strongly with one another,

00:42:08.640 but still call each other neighbors.

00:42:10.040 This Equality Act seems to go completely counter to that idea, and I hope it dies in the Senate like it's projected to do.

00:42:17.080 Jeremy, are you concerned that you are on the other side of Taylor Swift on this particular argument?

00:42:23.800 Well, look, all I want to be is a wrecking ball to this particular act itself.

00:42:29.020 And if I'm against Taylor Swift, I guess, aside from the, what, 15 to 18 demographic, I'm doing okay.

00:42:35.940 Jeremy, one last thing.

00:42:37.000 I talked to a federal judge recently, and he's one of the good guys.

00:42:43.100 And I said, so Donald Trump's making some real impact in the lower courts.

00:42:49.080 And he said, yes, he said, but we are really, we're in trouble.

00:42:55.620 He said, I get stuff across my bench all the time where the judge had no rhyme, reason,

00:43:01.860 certainly nothing constitutional, not even law.

00:43:06.960 He said, it's just, this is what feels good.

00:43:10.320 This is what feels right.

00:43:11.780 And he said, that's starting to take a foothold in our judicial system.

00:43:17.100 Do you agree with him?

00:43:19.120 Well, look, you remember a couple years back, there was a big debate about outcomes-based education in this country,

00:43:23.800 kind of teaching to the test and trying to develop certain outcomes, not only just educationally,

00:43:28.400 but socially through that program, well, I think we're seeing the same basic thing arising now within the judicial system.

00:43:35.000 In fact, I heard just recently someone give an interview that is in favor of packing the Supreme Court of the United States

00:43:40.320 that we're not getting the right outcomes from the Supreme Court.

00:43:44.180 Well, maybe you're getting the right outcomes that you just simply disagree with.

00:43:47.540 But they're the right ones under the Constitution.

00:43:50.220 And so, you know, we used to be a nation of laws, not of men, as it was famously said years ago.

00:43:56.120 When has that changed?

00:43:57.280 I don't know.

00:43:58.020 But what I'm thankful for is despite the many vacancies that we have had and currently have in the judicial system throughout the country,

00:44:06.800 Senator McConnell and others and the president has to be commended that they are working through to get the right people there.

00:44:12.140 There's a lot to be countering to here, given the last administration's appointment and confirmations there.

00:44:19.060 But I think there's a there's a process that is developing itself that is going in the correct direction.

00:44:25.600 So I I'm I'm I'm looking at all of these things and seeing how the courts are are there's some good movement and some bad movement.

00:44:35.960 And I was talking to Mike Lee and asked him about what we what we know happened on Obamacare and John Roberts.

00:44:45.560 And I think there's a case for impeachment on John Roberts because John Roberts is making that into a political body.

00:44:52.420 It's not it's not a body that horse trades, is it?

00:44:55.360 Well, there is at least there's all the talk about we don't know what happens behind those closed doors.

00:45:02.080 And I suppose at some level, speaking colloquially, we may think that there is there is discussions and trying to convince each other.

00:45:08.020 And look, we know that from the history of the Supreme Court, that people are writing dissents to try to move things in a direction that later on become part of the majority opinion.

00:45:17.340 But that's different than horse trading, isn't it?

00:45:19.400 Well, perhaps. And I'll let others speculate about what should happen to the chief and to the rest of the Supreme Court up there.

00:45:26.880 What I know is that we've got enough cases either before the Supreme Court or below it to make good impacts on the law.

00:45:33.340 I mean, right now we're waiting for a case to come down from the Supreme Court to protect a hundred year old veterans memorial.

00:45:38.680 Number one, that shouldn't even be at the court.

00:45:40.340 That should be a no brainer that just because a memorial happens to share the same shape as the gravestones of Europe for the men who died in World War I, a cross shaped veterans memorial, that's perfectly acceptable to be on public property.

00:45:53.160 And yet we've got to go through the entire judicial system to get a final declaration to say it's OK for gold star mothers to erect a veterans memorial and honor their sons in the shape of a cross.

00:46:03.520 Those cases I'm more concerned about that we have activist lawyers that are trying to reshape how we look at the Constitution and especially the establishment clause to the point where we're getting absolutely silly over these things where where you can't pass out a candy cane in fifth grade at Christmas time because someone might think of that piece of peppermint and sugar in the shape of a shepherd's crook would violate the establishment clause.

00:46:28.860 If we're that scared of our own shadow, do we really have the religious liberty and the freedom of religion that the founding fathers wanted us to have in this country?

00:46:38.240 No.

00:46:38.500 That's a frightening spot to be at right now.

00:46:40.700 Jeremy Dice, he is from First Liberty. You can follow First Liberty at firstliberty.org. You can get involved and help them fight.

00:46:49.820 I don't think you guys don't charge your clients, do you?

00:46:54.600 That's right. No, if we get the privilege of representing individuals in this country that have suffered a wrong, we don't think they should have to pay an attorney. So we're glad to be able to defend them for free.

00:47:03.660 They did great work there. And also, you should know that Jeremy Dice is the nation's preeminent expert on Ernest Goes to Camp, which we learned the other day on News and Why It Matters.

00:47:12.340 So if you ever have a, you know, if there's a lawsuit you want to reference from Ernest Goes to Camp in it, you should definitely go Jeremy's way.

00:47:19.060 Absolutely. And don't forget, Ernest Day is coming up at Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee here in just a few short weeks, so there's still time for you to get out there and check it out.

00:47:26.220 It's really sad. It's really sad.

00:47:28.860 Totally legitimate.

00:47:29.740 Jeremy Dice, thank you so much from firstliberty.org.

00:47:33.820 He really brought that up in an argument and in a real case, Ernest Goes to Camp.

00:47:37.200 And he made his extended analogy about how it proved his point. It was amazing.

00:47:42.380 And then he's like, now, there's about five Ernest movies that are really good.

00:47:45.720 And then he goes through, he lists five, and he's like, now there's about 14 others.

00:47:48.900 I mean, this one, this one, this one, this one, those were terrible.

00:47:50.880 But the core three or four are really excellent movies.

00:47:54.140 I mean, he's like a legit Ernest fan.

00:47:55.040 Did he win the case?

00:47:56.980 I think he did win the case, yeah.

00:47:58.160 Okay.

00:47:58.760 They rarely lose at firstliberty.

00:48:00.300 Then he's brilliant.

00:48:00.740 I know.

00:48:01.080 They rarely lose.

00:48:01.640 I know.

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