The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Todd Herman & Bill O'Reilly ｜ 1⧸11⧸19

00:00:00.000 Hello, podcasters. Today on the podcast, great, great program. We got a little lost with Jim Acosta.

00:00:09.860 We did. We did. A little lost.

00:00:11.340 I mean, well, Jim is a really good reporter and is always factually reporting on everything.

00:00:15.260 Well.

00:00:15.440 And never making an idiot of himself publicly.

00:00:17.720 Well.

00:00:18.740 Except for some notable exceptions like today.

00:00:21.020 Well, we took we took his grand reporting down at the border and where he was during the day in sunglasses, broad daylight, standing by a border wall and saying, the president says there's a problem.

00:00:34.400 There's no problem here.

00:00:35.640 Well, first of all, you're at a border wall and that's not where the problems are.

00:00:40.960 No.

00:00:41.800 So we had some fun with that today.

00:00:43.340 I did some reporting on the street that I think reflected the quality of Jim Acosta.

00:00:48.560 I think it was very important.

00:00:49.600 I also had Bill O'Reilly on and gave his perspective on all the stories of the week.

00:00:53.660 Had him on for an hour.

00:00:54.820 In fact, this is the only place you can you can hear Bill every week.

00:00:58.300 And he's always entertaining.

00:01:01.980 Yeah, that entertaining is the right.

00:01:03.920 He's the right.

00:01:05.200 The more he like you hear him just off the cuff, you realize he's quite the character.

00:01:11.260 I don't know exactly what that means, but perhaps you will figure it out as you listen to today's podcast.

00:01:19.600 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:28.580 There is, there are a couple of stories today that show the press completely exposed.

00:01:43.220 Jim Acosta naked on the border.

00:01:46.360 I can't wait to share my thoughts on Jim Acosta.

00:01:51.160 Also, there was a first yesterday.

00:01:55.840 And while it's, it's not the best use of it, it I think is a shot across the bow with deep fakes.

00:02:04.460 There's a story that was released yesterday about how a television station changed the feed of the president and made him look just nuts.

00:02:17.600 It's, it's a deep fake, but is this the first real deep fake of the election in 2020?

00:02:27.000 I think it is.

00:02:28.520 If you've been listening to this program, you know what a deep fake is.

00:02:32.360 We've been talking about them for years and we told you this is going to change things.

00:02:37.900 This one didn't, thank goodness.

00:02:40.440 But the story, there's something wrong with the story and we'll get into that and Bill O'Reilly all on today's program.

00:02:50.540 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:52.480 So Jim Acosta has a real problem with the president saying this is a humanitarian crisis.

00:03:00.080 Oh my gosh.

00:03:00.940 He was, he was out yesterday in the blazing sun.

00:03:05.540 He was down at the border where there is a border fence, a border wall.

00:03:13.080 One of those big, uh, iron slatted, uh, uh, iron walls where, you know, the ones where they're like, look, you could just cut right through this.

00:03:22.940 Well, there hasn't been anybody who's cut through one of them, you know, unless you were there with a blow torch and you were doing an example on TV.

00:03:31.340 Uh, but Jim Acosta was there and, uh, it was about one o'clock in the afternoon.

00:03:36.680 And he's walking around in his sunglasses by this wall and says, look, I see, I see the vets here and there, there isn't any humanitarian crisis.

00:03:47.260 There isn't any problem.

00:03:48.440 In fact, here's the audio.

00:03:50.320 Listen to this arrogant fool.

00:03:52.620 And here are some of the steel slats that the president's been talking about right here.

00:03:56.740 Uh, as you can see, yes, you can see through these slats to the other side of the U S Mexico border.

00:04:02.260 Uh, but as we're walking along here, we're not seeing any kind of imminent danger.

00:04:06.480 There are no migrants trying to, uh, rush toward this fence, uh, here in the McAllen, Texas area.

00:04:11.760 As a matter of fact, there are some other businesses behind me along this highway.

00:04:15.280 There's a gas station, Burger King and so on.

00:04:17.920 Uh, but no sign of the national emergency that the president has been talking about.

00:04:22.640 Uh, as a matter of fact, it's pretty tranquil down here.

00:04:25.420 Yeah, it's pretty tranquil.

00:04:27.040 Um, you know, where were you, Jim?

00:04:28.880 Uh, in, in McAllen, Texas, when I was in McAllen, Texas, you know, because there was a humanitarian crisis.

00:04:35.760 In fact, could we play the audio please, please, the montage between President Obama and President Trump on the humanitarian crisis at the border?

00:04:48.560 We now have an actual humanitarian crisis on the border that only underscores the need to drop the politics and fix our immigration system once and for all.

00:04:56.580 This is a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul.

00:05:04.340 In recent weeks, we've seen a surge of unaccompanied children arrive at the border, brought here and to other countries by smugglers and traffickers.

00:05:11.980 The journey is unbelievably dangerous for these kids.

00:05:17.860 Child smugglers exploit the loopholes and they gain illegal entry into the United States, putting countless children in danger on the perilous trek to the United States.

00:05:31.940 They come up through Mexico.

00:05:34.080 Protecting public safety and deporting dangerous criminals has been and will remain the top priority.

00:05:38.560 We will begin removing the more than two million criminal illegal immigrants from the country.

00:05:44.600 But we are going to refocus our efforts where we can to make sure we do what it takes to keep our border secure.

00:05:50.360 We want to secure our border.

00:05:52.660 Thank you, Mike Broomhead, who happens to live in a border state, Arizona, and our affiliate in Phoenix for putting that montage together.

00:06:00.340 It wasn't real difficult because both of them have been talking about humanitarian crisis and everybody in America knows it except for the, quote, journalists like Jim Acosta, who was, again, down at the border.

00:06:17.740 You know, and if you if you look at when border crosses happen, they usually happen around lunchtime right there by the Burger King and the giant wall.

00:06:28.560 Either that or they happen in the middle of the night under the cover of darkness.

00:06:33.140 Now, Jim Acosta is going to Jim Acosta is going to be on a couple of other assignments this week.

00:06:38.040 So, you know, because there's some other real tragedies that are going on, some other things that he has uncovered.

00:06:45.440 For instance, people say, you know, Broadway is doing well.

00:06:49.260 You know, hey, theater, this is a great time for the theater in New York.

00:06:52.860 Well, Jim Acosta will be down on Broadway on Monday night to show you not a single theater is open.

00:07:00.520 Not a play is happening on Broadway on Monday night.

00:07:05.480 Then on Tuesday, he's going to be around 11 o'clock going around the country at some of our biggest churches.

00:07:11.940 And he will 11 o'clock Tuesday morning.

00:07:14.920 Don't miss the Jim Acosta expose on how most of American churches are empty.

00:07:21.500 The fact that Americans attend weekly service is a lie. 0.99

00:07:27.000 And Jim Acosta will be exposing that.

00:07:30.520 Oh, my gosh, this guy is so crazy.

00:07:33.900 He is the worst, man.

00:07:35.360 It's all about Jim Acosta.

00:07:36.840 None of this means anything.

00:07:38.120 Yes, he hates the president.

00:07:39.960 But that is secondary to his love for himself.

00:07:42.720 And that is what is so disturbing about Jim Acosta.

00:07:45.200 I mean, again, you're making the point, right?

00:07:47.540 If there's a wall there, if there were people rushing to the border in the middle of the day,

00:07:51.280 which that's not when they do it typically.

00:07:53.200 But if that's when they were doing it, they would pick a different spot to do it.

00:07:56.140 They wouldn't do it right there because of the wall you're standing next to.

00:07:59.420 Well, look, I think, Jim, your station may have had some footage at some point,

00:08:05.960 or you may have seen it on another network where they were charging the border in the middle of the day at a fence.

00:08:12.860 But that was in San Diego.

00:08:15.040 That's where the humanitarian crisis is happening that we've been talking about for the last few months.

00:08:22.680 You happen to be in the place where the humanitarian crisis was happening under Obama.

00:08:29.940 That's why I was there.

00:08:32.120 That's why I called CNN and said,

00:08:34.900 Hey, do you know that they're putting kids in cages?

00:08:39.600 But you weren't there.

00:08:41.660 You were probably at the zoo doing the expose.

00:08:45.880 Glenn Beck says they're putting children in cages.

00:08:48.740 Well, I'm here at the San Diego Zoo, and I don't see any children in these cages.

00:08:54.940 Come on.

00:08:55.960 He is just the worst.

00:09:02.100 He is the worst.

00:09:03.980 The best thing is, though, the best thing is they're just so discrediting themselves.

00:09:10.180 Even liberals had to watch that and went,

00:09:15.140 Oh, dear God.

00:09:15.820 Jim, what are you doing?

00:09:16.880 Well, it's amazing he didn't realize that he was making the opposite point,

00:09:20.640 and that's why people jumped on it and are making fun of the report,

00:09:24.260 but it separates it from every other report Jim Acosta does.

00:09:27.940 And I think we missed the larger issue here,

00:09:31.120 is that his point there, let's just say he made it in front of a small wall

00:09:34.660 or a place where there was no wall, and it was at night, right?

00:09:37.740 It would be disingenuous to go there and find one place at one moment

00:09:41.980 and act as if you're disproving the president

00:09:44.100 because at that one moment, no one was crossing.

00:09:46.620 Not true.

00:09:46.920 Not true.

00:09:47.280 It is true.

00:09:48.100 No, it's not.

00:09:48.620 And I've proved it.

00:09:49.820 I proved it.

00:09:51.080 Last night, I went to the so-called Mayo Clinic,

00:09:55.140 and I was there at the nurse's station the whole night,

00:09:59.060 and I didn't see – I was surrounded by healthy people.

00:10:02.840 So this thing, oh, cancer, and the Mayo Clinic is just riddled with sick people.

00:10:08.880 I was there at the nurse's station the entire night.

00:10:13.100 So please, don't start with that.

00:10:15.500 Can I say what my favorite part of this entire rant was, by the way?

00:10:18.780 Yeah.

00:10:18.880 Because you made very funny points.

00:10:20.820 But my favorite part about it is you're so in the world of Broadway

00:10:24.340 that it was completely obvious to you that plays don't happen on Monday nights.

00:10:28.180 Like, to me, I was like, why Monday night?

00:10:29.980 Why wouldn't there be plays?

00:10:31.460 And to you, it was so – you're so in Broadway.

00:10:34.200 No, no, no, no, I did think it's dark on that night.

00:10:37.580 No, no, no.

00:10:37.660 I know – the only reason why I used it is because I know that everybody with Jim Acosta

00:10:43.500 and CNN know exactly when.

00:10:46.980 That's why I followed it with churches on Tuesday.

00:10:49.800 From the Todd Herman Show, it is Todd Herman in Seattle.

00:11:04.260 Todd, I wanted to get you on because of a story that broke yesterday,

00:11:09.040 and you were at the center of it, you and one of your listeners.

00:11:13.740 Can you tell me exactly what happened?

00:11:16.940 Because either something is missing in the story or something is wrong.

00:11:21.820 Okay.

00:11:22.720 Glenn, I appreciate you having me on.

00:11:24.140 It's a real honor.

00:11:25.800 Yeah, a lesser name, Jeff, forwarded me a video he took on his smartphone

00:11:31.260 of a promo that had been running on Q13 here locally.

00:11:36.340 They actually generally do a very good job.

00:11:38.640 But the promo looked weird because the president looked very, very strange,

00:11:42.960 and they were promoting their analysis of the president's Oval Office speech.

00:11:47.200 And Jeff noticed that the president looked distorted.

00:11:49.380 So he sent us a copy.

00:11:51.000 We gave it to our video team at KTTH, and they ran through it, looked at it,

00:11:56.220 and said, yeah, this looks really doctored.

00:11:57.520 So we broke the story, contacted Q13 and their news director, Erica Hill,

00:12:02.800 and said, look, we're going to be fair here and say this appears to be a doctored footage.

00:12:09.400 In all of one day, they did an investigation and came back and said, yeah,

00:12:14.500 apparently this, you know, they didn't say it was doctored, but they let the editor go.

00:12:19.260 And, Glenn, you've seen the video.

00:12:20.520 It's pretty bizarre what they appear to have done to the president and photoshopped him to look 15 shades,

00:12:27.200 extra orangey, also made him look like he was manically licking his lips, all kind of lizard style.

00:12:33.220 So it's a bizarre presentation.

00:12:34.580 So here's the here's the problem with this.

00:12:37.320 And look, I grew up in Seattle.

00:12:39.780 This is KCPQ, isn't it?

00:12:43.100 Yeah.

00:12:43.500 The station.

00:12:44.740 When I was there, KCPQ was, you know, just like an also ran awful station.

00:12:50.280 It's not like that anymore.

00:12:51.400 It's a it's a decent it's a decent station.

00:12:54.960 And you say you talk to Erica Hill and she was the news director.

00:13:00.700 Why did it take someone who listens to you to capture it on their smartphone, call you?

00:13:10.560 Then you call the station.

00:13:12.700 Does no one at KCPQ watch their station?

00:13:16.660 Is no one at KCPQ seeing their promos is is is everyone at KCPQ blind?

00:13:25.560 Because this was the most obvious when he stops towards the end and he's licking his lips.

00:13:30.460 It is so clear that either the president is mentally unstable and should be removed from office or this is a deep fake.

00:13:43.040 Yeah, well, Glenn, I'll tell you, to be clear, Erica sent us a statement.

00:13:47.080 So I haven't spoken personally with her.

00:13:48.780 I don't want to commit any any fake news on your show.

00:13:52.520 So she sent a statement, a series of statements.

00:13:55.140 I had the same question.

00:13:56.160 I have a friend of mine who's a videographer and he said, look, a promo like this would go through layers of supervision.

00:14:02.260 Absolutely.

00:14:03.140 And so I'm trying to err on the side of not judging people.

00:14:08.860 I don't know.

00:14:09.780 It's egregious.

00:14:10.920 What you described, the promo is ridiculous.

00:14:13.500 In fact, it's it's to me, it frightened me to look at it.

00:14:17.100 I was praying.

00:14:18.120 I was praying this was doctored.

00:14:20.780 So we've done a follow up to ask, were there layers of supervision missed on this?

00:14:25.300 Maybe you were busy, et cetera.

00:14:27.240 But someone somewhere should have approved this.

00:14:29.500 And I want to be clear again, I use their stuff, Q13 on the air, because they are actually, I think, doing good work and trying hard.

00:14:38.220 At least they fired the person the next day. 0.97

00:14:40.680 And I'm not all jumping up and down.

00:14:42.160 That's someone's career ended.

00:14:43.760 I hope they'll take it as a learning experience that, you know, maybe go ask Nike for an endorsement.

00:14:48.280 Now you risked everything.

00:14:49.180 Yeah, here's the here's the part of the story that doesn't make sense to me, that it made it on air in the first place.

00:15:02.340 And and how long did it run?

00:15:04.500 At least it ran several times.

00:15:07.340 And your listener, a conservative, was the only one.

00:15:12.140 Did anyone call KCPQ and say, hey, what is this?

00:15:17.860 The president looks weird.

00:15:19.620 Nobody.

00:15:20.440 Now, I know it's Seattle, but nobody called.

00:15:24.840 Nobody watched it from KCPQ.

00:15:27.040 This receptionist wasn't sitting there in the the empty reception area and just going, I hate my job so much.

00:15:33.560 And looking up at the television because they had nothing else to do and notice that the president looked like a monkey.

00:15:39.920 Nobody noticed that.

00:15:41.300 The fact is, in Seattle, it's really difficult to pick up the phone when you're, you know, shooting a parent in one arm.

00:15:49.000 So you've got that challenge as well.

00:15:51.480 And I think probably in Seattle, there's a lot of people saying, thank God someone has unfiltered the president.

00:15:56.020 We knew he did this.

00:15:57.320 It's crazy.

00:15:58.340 I know you're not a stranger to the area, and it's gotten very, very bizarre out here, you guys.

00:16:04.640 Very, very bizarre.

00:16:05.880 Todd, it's amazing because you're kind of in the middle of what I think is a real milestone.

00:16:08.800 I mean, this technology is going to come, and it's not going to come from some editor at Q13.

00:16:13.300 It's going to come from the Chinese government, right, manipulating footage and really changing people's opinions.

00:16:19.420 You're kind of like in the middle of the first time this has ever, as far as I know, ever happened on a news station like this.

00:16:24.420 Yeah, I think this is, I've been talking about deep fakes for how many years now?

00:16:29.560 Three years.

00:16:30.960 And talking about how 2020 is going to be a really bad year for deep fakes, and you're going to start to not believe your eyes. 0.99

00:16:41.020 And when I saw this story, I thought, this is history.

00:16:45.080 This one, Todd, you're going to go in history books, I really believe.

00:16:48.540 In the end, this story will end up in any important history about deep fakes, because this is the first time that I've seen a news station try to manipulate something and use deep fake technology to skew an opinion or an election.

00:17:10.000 Well, and I hope, Glenn, that I truly hope the editor takes this as a sign that maybe you've gone too far.

00:17:16.960 But on the other side of me, the cynical side of me thinks, how many media companies are sending him now, him or her, invitations to go to work there?

00:17:25.320 I'll tell you, another local flavor to this that might interest you both is that the Seattle Times, who accidentally for a little while pretended they broke this story, and then they were kind enough to point out that we actually did.

00:17:35.980 They went to great pains after they ran this to show a whole bunch of circumstances where conservatives have doctored pictures, et cetera.

00:17:44.540 And they kept adding to it, and I was screaming at them, well, wait, this is very, very different.

00:17:49.240 This is a news station not just manipulating this, but they could easily have put words in the president's mouth.

00:17:55.140 And I think that's what you guys are pointing to, is the technology that you could have the president say something he's not saying at all.

00:18:01.820 It's bad enough, you know, the way the media twists things now.

00:18:05.580 But I absolutely agree that this had better be a wake-up call, and I'm really pleased you guys point that out.

00:18:11.180 Todd, thank you so much, and I appreciate your good work.

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00:18:41.320 For cable news, Donald Trump is no longer the gift that keeps on giving.

00:18:46.220 At first, he was, but now big change is in the air, and it's all because of this president, Bill O'Reilly, in the cable news war.

00:18:55.780 Hello, Bill.

00:18:56.280 How are you?

00:18:57.600 I'm the same, Beck, but happy new year.

00:18:59.840 And I have a question before we get underway.

00:19:02.740 Yes.

00:19:03.120 So the Glenn Beck Program is a fusion between enlightenment and entertainment.

00:19:08.840 Yes, yes.

00:19:09.920 Okay, where am I in that fusion?

00:19:12.140 You are, unfortunately, not involved in any of that.

00:19:16.960 You're kind of the anomaly.

00:19:19.040 At first, I thought I was in a restaurant.

00:19:21.100 Some fusion, not that fusion thing, whatever that is.

00:19:24.280 All right, so tell me about the cable news war and how it's changing.

00:19:27.760 All right, call him on BillO'Reilly.com.

00:19:30.120 Open everybody to read it.

00:19:31.440 But you are seeing, not this week, because this week is with the president's address on the border and all that.

00:19:40.420 It is a different situation.

00:19:42.500 But over the past couple of months, a decline in viewership on Fox News.

00:19:47.240 And MSNBC now some nights winning in prime time, which never, ever happened.

00:19:59.120 And the audience for cable news on a consistent basis is dropping.

00:20:06.420 And it's because it's all Trump all the time.

00:20:10.260 And, you know, if you go and you want other news, you're not going to get it.

00:20:14.660 And it's not really – you're not getting the news anyway.

00:20:18.340 You're either getting we hate Trump or we love Trump.

00:20:22.420 Business decisions were made.

00:20:24.540 In the beginning, they paid off.

00:20:26.640 And now, I believe, once Donald Trump leaves the stage, the cable news is in serious, serious trouble.

00:20:33.580 I think they're in serious trouble, perhaps even before he leaves the stage.

00:20:37.460 I just don't –

00:20:38.760 But you're always going to get that hit, see?

00:20:40.680 What MSNBC has done is they've created a reality broadcast network. 0.96

00:20:45.960 And the reality theme is, when will we get President Trump?

00:20:52.580 So every night, that's where they're going.

00:20:55.300 When are we going to get him?

00:20:57.240 Here's what happened today, and we're getting closer, and this could happen.

00:21:02.960 CNN does that on a lesser extent.

00:21:05.380 CNN is number three because they can't hate as much as MSNBC.

00:21:09.680 They're trying.

00:21:11.000 They're sending their personnel to loathing classes.

00:21:15.120 But they're just not at the hate level that MSNBC is.

00:21:19.260 So let me ask you a question here, Bill, an honest question that you probably –

00:21:26.840 no other host in America would ask this question.

00:21:29.100 What's the difference between what MSNBC is doing now and what, let's say, I was doing

00:21:34.600 when I was at Fox?

00:21:36.840 Well, I never saw you as a hater.

00:21:40.180 I mean, you weren't gleefully trying to destroy anyone.

00:21:45.760 I watched your show, and you were on my show.

00:21:48.220 You appeared on The Factor.

00:21:49.180 And I don't remember you sitting there rubbing your hands together going, oh, I got him now.

00:21:55.700 No, we were – I did actively hate Woodrow Wilson, but he's been dead for a very long time.

00:22:01.620 Yeah, it wasn't cable then, Beck.

00:22:03.020 I just want to remind you.

00:22:04.240 Right.

00:22:04.700 You know, you weren't alive then, but I don't know where you were actually hating him.

00:22:08.780 I know, I know.

00:22:09.780 Well, I was hating a few years too late.

00:22:13.040 And Teddy Roosevelt also loathed him, so you have that in common with Teddy.

00:22:17.520 Yeah, and I don't really like Teddy Roosevelt either, but that's a different story.

00:22:20.780 So tell me about – before we leave cable news, is there anything just really good and entertaining

00:22:26.380 you can say about Jim Acosta and his border trip?

00:22:30.020 Did you see this?

00:22:30.820 Well, Acosta epitomizes what's happened.

00:22:33.040 So he's CNN's White House correspondent.

00:22:35.680 So it used to be on the news agencies that you would get news from the White House correspondent,

00:22:42.880 right?

00:22:43.380 Mm-hmm.

00:22:43.860 It's what happened today, and it's what they're doing, and no, no.

00:22:48.560 Now, Jim Acosta, he's basically guiding you through hate-Trump-land, and he's not really

00:22:58.160 interested in reporting facts or seeking the truth about anything.

00:23:01.460 He's interested in demeaning Donald Trump.

00:23:06.100 So his whole job is really a facade.

00:23:10.320 Why don't they just say, here's Jim Acosta, our hate-Trump correspondent, reporting from

00:23:16.560 wherever?

00:23:17.700 That would be honest.

00:23:19.380 Could I ask you something?

00:23:20.920 You know, the White House correspondents used to be like Jake Tapper, who I think is a good

00:23:27.400 journalist.

00:23:27.840 It's like they've replaced Jake Tapper in the White House with Rick Sanchez, who is just

00:23:35.360 this awful clown of a reporter.

00:23:38.900 Well, I disagree with you on Mr. Tapper.

00:23:41.700 I have no respect for him whatsoever.

00:23:44.440 Really?

00:23:45.060 I think that he is much better at presenting himself as a, you know, somebody who does seek

00:23:52.980 the truth, but he certainly does not, in my opinion, my humble opinion.

00:23:58.160 If you look back at the White House correspondents, it is not a crew, generally speaking, that you

00:24:06.900 would admire.

00:24:07.700 I mean, Dan Rather, Sam Donaldson.

00:24:10.500 I mean, these people had agendas all day long, but they were forced by their masters, their

00:24:15.920 corporate masters, to hide it.

00:24:18.920 They had to hide it.

00:24:20.480 Now, I work with both Rather and Donaldson.

00:24:22.880 I saw it with my eyes.

00:24:25.480 They loathed.

00:24:27.460 Donaldson loathed Reagan.

00:24:30.440 Rather loathed Nixon.

00:24:32.720 Hated them.

00:24:33.140 But they couldn't come right out and say it, as Acosta does, and some of the others.

00:24:40.920 So that was the difference.

00:24:43.780 Where do you stand on the president this week and his address to the nation on the border?

00:24:51.380 What did you think people missed?

00:24:52.940 I think Trump won that Tuesday night wrestling match because Pelosi and Schumer came across

00:25:04.520 as, let's say, doddering.

00:25:08.580 I think that might be the word, doddering, D-O-D-D-E-R-I-N-G. 1.00

00:25:13.640 They, well, he's mean, he's mean, and the government shut down, and he's so mean.

00:25:21.820 That's what it came across.

00:25:22.820 That was their presentation.

00:25:24.580 It wasn't like, we have a better idea to secure the nation's border.

00:25:27.820 We really understand there's a problem down there and want to fix it.

00:25:31.040 No, no, no.

00:25:31.960 That's not what they did.

00:25:33.300 So Trump got eight minutes to put his view across to many Americans who were stunned

00:25:40.360 that they actually had to watch some kind of news program.

00:25:44.940 I mean, they were looking for the family guy, and all of a sudden, here's the non-family

00:25:49.580 guy, Donald Trump.

00:25:51.600 Trump, because all the networks are forced to take it.

00:25:54.560 Now, I understand there were a lot of broken dishes and angst, but they, a lot of people

00:25:59.140 who never consume news were forced to watch this.

00:26:02.560 And Trump got his message across using facts in eight minutes.

00:26:06.680 So I thought he did himself some good.

00:26:09.000 What do you think about his, the possibility of him using the emergency, an emergency order

00:26:17.600 to say we've...

00:26:19.180 It's not a good thing because it diverts the story away from the seriousness of the problems

00:26:25.920 at the southern border and makes it all about Donald Trump.

00:26:29.320 So that's what the left wants.

00:26:30.920 The left wants him.

00:26:32.460 They're goading him.

00:26:33.440 They're hoping that he does say, national emergency, I'm taking money from this fund

00:26:38.940 and I'm building a wall and blank you.

00:26:41.460 That's what Pelosi, Schumer, CNN, MSNBC want.

00:26:44.620 All right.

00:26:45.640 And then they go, oh, this is a dictator.

00:26:48.340 Look at him.

00:26:49.200 Look at him.

00:26:50.960 Okay.

00:26:51.540 He's a baby.

00:26:52.580 He's throwing a tantrum.

00:26:54.080 And then that becomes the story for a week.

00:26:57.160 And then the real seriousness of tons of narcotics coming here, millions of people coming here

00:27:04.340 and we don't know who they are, that goes by the wayside, which is what the left wants.

00:27:08.940 They don't want, talk about drugs and people smuggling and all that.

00:27:13.500 They never mention the Amnesty International study that says 60% of migrant women on their

00:27:19.880 way to the border are assaulted, raped, whatever.

00:27:23.640 They never even report it.

00:27:26.080 That's not a crisis.

00:27:27.800 A hundred thousand people dying of drugs every year in this country is not a crisis.

00:27:32.660 The Mexican drug cartels running that nation, literally running it is not a crisis.

00:27:39.880 You're not going to get that reportage.

00:27:42.140 You're never going to get it.

00:27:43.640 It's all that job.

00:27:44.780 Look at him.

00:27:45.240 He's Hitler again. 0.95

00:27:46.560 So how does this end?

00:27:49.480 Who do you think is going to have to break first, the president or Pelosi and Schumer?

00:27:55.920 Well, Trump's not going to break.

00:28:00.100 That's not going to, because that's, if he did, that's the end of his administration.

00:28:03.980 He'll never be reelected.

00:28:05.820 So Trump will either string it out or declare a national emergency.

00:28:12.320 Those are all his only two options.

00:28:15.500 Could we, could we, could we, if the polling next week comes in, as I think it might, and

00:28:21.000 said most people want this border solved, they might have to go back and compromise a little

00:28:26.720 bit.

00:28:26.940 And then put a happy face on the, where are the adults in the room?

00:28:30.940 Where are the ones where, you know, and we, so we'll compromise, get that government open

00:28:38.400 again.

00:28:38.800 So I think that the odds, if you had to bet, would be that the Democrats would probably,

00:28:44.840 as you put it, break first, because Trump simply cannot if he expects to be reelected.

00:28:51.280 Bill, tell me what you think about this potential idea.

00:28:53.300 I think it would be great for the State of the Union.

00:28:54.920 We're coming out of this whole border thing.

00:28:56.660 Let's say it gets solved or it doesn't.

00:28:58.500 Either way, we've learned a big lesson here yet again, that Congress is completely terrible

00:29:02.400 and the people there just don't do their jobs.

00:29:05.440 So if we're going to have a bold new proposal that I think can actually help unite the country

00:29:10.200 and is incredibly popular, Ted Cruz just announced a new constitutional amendment for term limits.

00:29:18.840 This has been around for a long time.

00:29:20.660 It is, this is the polling on it, 76% of Democrats agree with term limits, 83% of independents

00:29:27.040 and 89% of Republicans.

00:29:29.640 It's actually more popular among Republicans than the wall is.

00:29:34.440 And Donald Trump has said he ran on the fact that he would do it.

00:29:37.700 He supported it as recently as just a few months ago.

00:29:40.540 The last time there was a push for it, Mick Mulvaney, who is now chief of staff, was the guy behind it.

00:29:45.720 This is something that I think could take it out of this sort of, you know, partisan divide,

00:29:49.800 give us something that we could actually do.

00:29:51.440 And I would love to see these Democratic Senate candidates that are going to be running for president

00:29:55.380 try to tell the American people that they need to be there for the next 60 years.

00:29:59.120 instead of having limited terms.

00:30:01.340 What do you think?

00:30:02.680 Well, nobody would do that, though.

00:30:04.280 Everybody's going to say, oh, we're for term limits.

00:30:06.680 But then when it comes down to voting for it, many of them won't.

00:30:11.700 I don't see how that is going to immediately impact the hatred of the two parties right now.

00:30:17.880 You know, when you have a president who has alienated the opposition to the extent that Trump has,

00:30:30.120 the opposition is basically, we're going to get him out at all costs.

00:30:35.900 So that's what we have.

00:30:37.420 And so it's like there isn't anything we're not going to do to get him out.

00:30:42.020 And that includes we're not going to be reasonable.

00:30:45.360 We're not going to compromise.

00:30:47.360 We're not going to do anything that he wants.

00:30:50.280 But that is.

00:30:51.100 But that is why we are.

00:30:52.940 But I think that's why with independence, this term limit thing, we could be perfect timing,

00:30:59.480 because let's say he didn't get to your your hang on.

00:31:02.480 Hang on.

00:31:02.800 It's a little.

00:31:03.400 It's not cause and effect because it.

00:31:05.820 Yes, it is.

00:31:08.100 These guys were going to be two year, two term limits for senators, 12 years and probably five or six for the House.

00:31:16.840 I guess my argument is they're still going to serve a long period of time.

00:31:20.160 Yeah, I think I think I believe it's a good long term thing that we need separate from a political thing.

00:31:25.500 But it's not going to.

00:31:26.700 But it's also the nation now.

00:31:28.300 Short term, it's good politics.

00:31:30.020 I think short term, it's good politics.

00:31:31.440 It's something that everybody wants to be on the top of the radar screen.

00:31:35.120 And but Trump can put anything on the top of the radar screen.

00:31:37.460 He just has to say it a bunch of times and everyone will start, you know, attacking him and going after him.

00:31:42.120 And I think that's a good thing.

00:31:43.480 I mean, let them come after him for something that 80 percent of the people actually want.

00:31:47.420 Play offense, not defense.

00:31:48.620 But I don't think anybody will.

00:31:50.100 I think they'll all mouth platitudes that yes, are fine.

00:31:54.280 Then let's vote it in.

00:31:55.400 And then when you didn't when you voted against it, let's make sure that Donald Trump can talk to every single senator that is running and every single congressman that is running and say,

00:32:05.120 oh, yeah, but where did you vote on that?

00:32:07.380 Where did you vote on that?

00:32:08.240 Where did your party stand on that?

00:32:09.920 You said you were for it, but you voted as a block against it.

00:32:14.120 That's that's exactly what the American people hate is people say one thing and do the other.

00:32:21.100 Yeah.

00:32:21.500 I don't know if that legislation would ever even get in because Mitch McConnell would have to get it in.

00:32:27.140 And he's Mr.

00:32:28.460 Non-term limits, isn't he?

00:32:30.220 Yes, he is.

00:32:31.000 He would be he would be a problem.

00:32:32.400 He would be a problem.

00:32:33.420 But I'd love to see him mistry it.

00:32:35.220 What was that bill again?

00:32:36.320 I didn't quite understand.

00:32:37.560 You're going to have to go back and rewrite it again.

00:32:41.240 So what happens to the shutdown?

00:32:44.480 You know, we're at another payday today.

00:32:46.720 Yeah, nothing.

00:32:48.600 I mean, they'll get they being the government workers will get reimbursed when the government finally opens.

00:32:55.500 They'll get back pay.

00:32:57.460 So nothing will happen.

00:32:58.840 It'll just be, you know, if you go to Yellowstone, it's going to be tough to use the head.

00:33:03.680 I mean, that's the way it's going to be.

00:33:05.580 Right.

00:33:05.760 So if you if you have let's say you're a government worker, you're going to get all of this money.

00:33:12.060 You could go to a bank or a credit union and just say, hey, here's my pay stub.

00:33:16.480 I'm part of the government shutdown.

00:33:18.660 I'm going to get it.

00:33:19.600 So I just need this every two weeks until this is done.

00:33:22.740 And I'll sign it over to you.

00:33:24.000 And everybody would give you that loan.

00:33:26.280 I hope so.

00:33:27.420 I mean, and if you didn't, then they should tell the press who might even report that locally.

00:33:33.260 Yeah.

00:33:33.460 I mean, there should be.

00:33:35.020 I mean, a bank, you know, maybe not because it's so political now, but some banks should stand up and just say, hey, by the way, federal workers.

00:33:42.400 We've got a program for you.

00:33:44.520 We'll help you out.

00:33:45.880 You know, you just when you get it, you bring it back to us and we'll we'll give you the salary.

00:33:50.320 A bank could look really good by solving by solving that.

00:33:54.760 Absolutely.

00:33:55.600 That's a good idea.

00:33:56.580 Back.

00:33:56.820 That's part of the enlightenment.

00:33:58.640 Yes, it is.

00:34:00.000 Now, part of the entertainment and comedy, your thoughts on how it's going to how it's going to actually play out this this thing about, you know, the American people are being hurt and and and security is is being weakened.

00:34:17.960 Do you believe that this can last very long and Trump come out victorious with this?

00:34:26.060 I think that there'll be some resolution in the next couple of weeks.

00:34:32.460 I think that if the Trump administration believes that the Democrats are not going to compromise, that they will do the emergency thing, because, again, this strengthens Trump in front of his core.

00:34:47.300 It looks like he's a man of action standing up to the villainous Democrats.

00:34:53.640 And I think they'll take the calculation that, look, we'll do this.

00:34:57.980 We'll open a government.

00:34:59.140 We'll fund the wall and our people will like it and and reelect him.

00:35:03.680 So that's what I see happening at the compromise.

00:35:06.600 It doesn't come.

00:35:07.740 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:35:18.180 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:35:20.120 Now, Jim Acosta did some unbelievable reporting.

00:35:24.300 He was out on the border yesterday wearing sunglasses in the middle of the day, trying to prove that there is no problem on the border in Texas.

00:35:34.480 Did he go to San Diego where it's happening?

00:35:38.040 No, he went to McAllen, Texas, where it was happening a few years back and he wasn't there.

00:35:44.000 He's standing in front of a giant border wall.

00:35:47.600 And here's his cute little report.

00:35:50.180 And here are some of the steel slats that the president's been talking about right here.

00:35:54.820 As you can see, yes, you can see through these slats to the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border.

00:36:00.260 But as we're walking along here, we're not seeing any kind of imminent danger.

00:36:04.660 There are no migrants trying to rush toward this fence here in the McAllen, Texas area.

00:36:10.280 As a matter of fact, there are some other businesses behind me along this highway.

00:36:13.480 There's a gas station, Burger King and so on.

00:36:16.060 But no sign of the national emergency that the president has been talking about.

00:36:20.600 Well, I have to tell you, when I saw this, when I saw this from Jim Acosta yesterday, I thought, wow, that kind of proves the point of, you know, a fence.

00:36:28.740 And people aren't usually coming over during the day unless it's a mob, like is happening in San Diego.

00:36:37.020 But then we started thinking, you know, he's making a good point here.

00:36:41.640 Let's go to Stu, who is out on location.

00:36:44.460 Stu, where are you right now?

00:36:47.640 Stu, are you there?

00:36:49.660 Yes, Stu, go ahead.

00:36:50.820 On the road again or broken down on the side of the road?

00:36:55.740 Hi, I'm Supergear reporting live right now from the Long Island Expressway, one of the busiest roads in the United States of America.

00:37:05.580 And you're not going to believe what I am seeing out here right now, Glenn.

00:37:08.880 It's it's incredible.

00:37:10.640 We are told we are told America loves they love their cars.

00:37:16.200 We are told that the economy is raging right now.

00:37:21.040 And this is one of the best economies we've had in decades.

00:37:24.100 But yet here I am on the Long Island Expressway.

00:37:28.940 And there is almost no one on the road.

00:37:33.100 This president is a fraud.

00:37:35.160 Hold on just a second.

00:37:35.960 Wait a minute.

00:37:37.100 It's not rush hour.

00:37:39.500 What?

00:37:40.240 It's not rush hour.

00:37:41.320 Of course, it's it's not rush hour.

00:37:43.680 The Long Island Expressway is usually open during.

00:37:46.560 Hello.

00:37:47.900 I don't.

00:37:50.160 My.

00:37:51.940 It's not breaking up.

00:37:53.340 I can still hear the car engine.

00:37:56.280 Radishes.

00:37:57.680 All right.

00:37:58.780 We'll try to check in with Stu and we get a better connection.

00:38:03.020 Maybe we can get one from CNN.

00:38:05.660 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:38:07.860 Do we have do we have Stu still on the line?

00:38:10.100 Can we go back to him?

00:38:10.800 We have Stu back on the line.

00:38:14.220 Are you still on the Long Island Expressway, Stu?

00:38:17.440 Hello, Stu.

00:38:18.140 No, I'm not.

00:38:19.620 No, I'm not.

00:38:20.640 Glenn.

00:38:22.320 Aquaman.

00:38:23.040 Number one or underwater.

00:38:25.900 Hi, I'm super.

00:38:26.840 Oh, I am super here.

00:38:29.360 I'm reporting live from a showing of Aquaman that is going on right now at a local theater.

00:38:34.600 We are told by this administration that Aquaman is the number one movie in America.

00:38:39.760 But is it?

00:38:41.100 Well, I'm here right now and I see only four other people in this entire theater.

00:38:46.220 This man is a fraud.

00:38:48.120 He is a liar.

00:38:49.180 He's lying to us.

00:38:50.400 It's a work day in the middle of the day.

00:38:52.860 It's a work day in the middle of the day.

00:38:55.520 Of course, there's only four people in the movie theater.

00:38:59.420 You started breaking up there, but let me just finish this true statistical, factual information that I have.

00:39:06.000 I'm watching this film right now.

00:39:08.520 And what we're seeing is that man and fish have merged.

00:39:12.080 Man and fish have now merged because of global warming.

00:39:15.260 This president continues to deny it.

00:39:17.820 But I am sitting here right now watching four other people watch a man-fish combination on the big screen.

00:39:26.580 This is shocking.

00:39:28.280 And this president is a liar.

00:39:30.220 And I hope people understand it and watch my Instagram channel.

00:39:33.980 All right.

00:39:34.200 Thank you very much, Stubergeer.

00:39:37.040 Doing some Jim Acosta reporting now on the road.

00:39:41.520 All right.

00:39:41.660 And I want to talk to you a little bit about how important it is for the president to pay attention to the economy and to stay right lockstep with a good economy and doing everything he can to make sure that we don't go into a recession.

00:40:00.940 Now, there is speculation that we are headed for a recession.

00:40:04.520 In fact, most people believe now that we are headed for something really, really bad.

00:40:08.900 I think we are, too.

00:40:10.080 The numbers just show it as far as debt, spending, personal debt, personal credit, all of these things all around the world.

00:40:19.660 We're just on the brink of something really, really bad because Europe did not come back after 2008.

00:40:27.600 China only recovered 20% of what they had lost in 2008.

00:40:32.480 We've done well, but the rest of the world hasn't.

00:40:35.080 But there are some things here in the United States that should be noted on the positive side.

00:40:41.220 I just got this from the Palm Beach Daily.

00:40:43.300 They were talking about the labor statistics from the Bureau of Labor.

00:40:48.000 They said that the U.S. economy added 312,000 jobs in December.

00:40:56.440 Now, that far exceeds the expectations of 184,000.

00:41:01.600 And the average hourly earnings also rose 0.4% over last month.

00:41:09.420 Okay, 0.4%, that doesn't mean that much, does it?

00:41:14.360 But that means it has risen hourly wages 3.2% over last year.

00:41:20.480 So, let me translate this from econ bullcrap to English.

00:41:26.180 U.S. companies hired 70% more workers than they anticipated during the holiday season.

00:41:33.020 You hire more workers because things are better than everybody is telling you it is.

00:41:38.520 The workers that they hired got 3.2% more this last December than they did the December before.

00:41:46.560 Why is that important?

00:41:49.660 3.2% doesn't sound like that much of an increase.

00:41:52.900 But it is the biggest increase in hourly wages since 2014 and one percentage point higher than the inflation rate.

00:42:03.280 So, on the whole, Americans got an actual real inflation-adjusted pay raise last year.

00:42:12.300 We haven't had that in I don't know how long.

00:42:15.020 So, now, that's the good news.

00:42:19.340 Now, I want to show you why it is so in...

00:42:23.020 Hang on just a second.

00:42:24.320 We have...

00:42:25.020 Is he still at the movie theater?

00:42:28.340 Stu, I think you're taking the Jim Acosta thing too far.

00:42:33.780 It didn't work for him.

00:42:35.460 I don't know what you're doing.

00:42:38.440 America's pastime or America's pastime of the past?

00:42:42.980 Hi, I'm Stu Bergeer reporting live from Yankee Stadium in New York City.

00:42:48.300 And as you can probably hear, there are tons of people here.

00:42:51.940 They're walking around.

00:42:53.120 The streets are hustling and bustling as you'd expect.

00:42:56.260 However, Yankee Stadium is empty.

00:43:00.680 No one who's passing by is even bothering to go in.

00:43:04.620 Do people care about baseball anymore?

00:43:06.980 I don't think so.

00:43:08.340 Hang on, it's January.

00:43:11.380 We don't...

00:43:11.960 The season is over.

00:43:13.820 Nobody should be going in to watch baseball at Yankee Stadium.

00:43:17.040 And it's in the middle of the day.

00:43:18.620 And it's Friday.

00:43:20.200 Outside of baseball season.

00:43:23.620 Okay, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

00:43:25.720 The truth, of course, is that your lies about what happens here at Yankee Stadium are well documented.

00:43:33.480 First of all, yes, sure, there are fences and walls keeping people out of Yankee Stadium.

00:43:39.100 But that's not the reason.

00:43:40.500 Walls don't work.

00:43:42.780 And I want to make one more thing clear.

00:43:44.720 All of the things that I talk about in these incredible award-winning reports are not about the actual topics.

00:43:51.820 They're about me.

00:43:53.960 I want you to think about me.

00:43:56.620 I...

00:43:57.140 The news is about myself.

00:44:00.060 I am the most important story here.

00:44:02.000 I want you to look about me.

00:44:03.520 I want you to think about me.

00:44:04.800 I want you to dream about me.

00:44:07.180 Shibakai Stuber here.

00:44:08.880 Think about me every waking moment.

00:44:10.900 Because that's all I care about.

00:44:12.540 Live from New York.

00:44:13.660 It's Stuber here.

00:44:14.280 Thanks, bud.

00:44:17.360 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:44:30.060 Maybe I'm...

00:44:30.860 Maybe I'm alone.

00:44:31.440 Maybe I'm just a really dull knife in the drawer.

00:44:34.200 How would you describe artificial intelligence?

00:44:36.520 What is it?

00:44:39.160 I mean, it's the process of computers, machines learning.

00:44:44.020 Instead of just giving it...

00:44:45.540 Being given a task and executing it over and over again like computers do.

00:44:49.620 It is instead learning new ways to do it.

00:44:52.240 The best ways to solve the problems.

00:44:54.400 It's essentially the idea of a machine learning.

00:44:57.960 Now, that's what I would have said.

00:45:01.840 Okay.

00:45:02.300 But AI is actually nothing more than a prediction machine.

00:45:07.640 Now, when you think of this, I want you to think about how frightening this is if you are living in China or you would live in a 1984 state. 0.70

00:45:17.120 It's a prediction machine.

00:45:18.280 And the more information you give it, the better its predictions become.

00:45:24.400 Okay?

00:45:25.160 Okay.

00:45:25.380 So, let's say you're living in China.

00:45:27.000 Without any information, you go missing.

00:45:30.700 Now, the government's looking for you and it doesn't have any information.

00:45:34.160 Well, it's predicting, okay, maybe they're at work.

00:45:38.280 All right?

00:45:38.980 That's us without all the information.

00:45:42.800 The more information you give, the better the prediction is.

00:45:46.620 So, when you have access to all information, I can now monitor your emails.

00:45:52.040 I can now monitor your friends.

00:45:53.880 I can now monitor your energy usage.

00:45:57.520 I can monitor your credit cards.

00:45:59.440 I can monitor what you've purchased, who your friends are, has their hot water heater added more water, used more water than they usually use, like there's a guest staying at the house.

00:46:12.500 Now, with all that, I can say, you know what?

00:46:14.920 He's been talking to this person an awful lot lately.

00:46:18.460 He just bought a ticket to this part of town.

00:46:22.220 And this friend who lives in that part of town, their water usage and electricity usage went up this morning and their electricity was on, their lights were on late, late, late last night after he disappeared.

00:46:36.060 I think he's there.

00:46:38.020 That's all AI is.

00:46:40.100 It's predicting what's happening next.

00:46:44.000 Right.

00:46:44.220 Okay.

00:46:44.540 I mean, that makes sense, right?

00:46:45.880 Like, you'd say the same thing with, like, a purchase on Amazon, right?

00:46:48.620 Like, this person has purchased these 10 things that would lead me to believe I'm going to suggest this 11th thing because it seems like the pattern they would be.

00:46:56.900 It's going to predict what I want to purchase.

00:46:58.920 So they are getting now, speaking specifically of Amazon, the predictions are getting so good that with just a little more information, because it needs two pieces of information.

00:47:10.280 It needs, on general, when people buy this product, what else do they buy?

00:47:15.860 Then it needs your buying habits.

00:47:20.200 Do you have that what else people normally buy?

00:47:24.560 Are you like the average person?

00:47:28.240 What makes you different?

00:47:30.080 They now believe that they can get the prediction of the things that you also want.

00:47:35.540 So when you go, if you, let's say you start to do Amazon grocery service, okay, and you go in and you start using Amazon grocery service and you still have to order, what will happen is you will go on and you say, I need bread.

00:47:51.360 Then it'll say, people who bought this also bought, and you'll be like, yes, I need milk too.

00:47:56.340 Okay, yes, and I need cheese.

00:47:57.840 Yeah, I need the breakfast cereal.

00:47:59.360 And it will know what normal people do, but as it gathers more information on you, you're not really going to have to do a grocery list.

00:48:08.700 Because it will know your buying habits, how often you buy them, when you have to have new Froot Loops, you buy that every other time or twice a week or whatever it is, it will know.

00:48:22.960 You buy milk, but every other time you buy milk, you also buy Froot Loops.

00:48:28.380 And so it will start packaging.

00:48:30.940 And so Amazon is going to be the first company that is going to be able to predict you so well that they are going to, right now, the way everything is done is shopping and shipping.

00:48:46.780 You shop, it ships.

00:48:49.500 But prediction is going to become so good because they have gathered so much information on you.

00:48:55.080 This is why Alexa is in your home. 1.00

00:48:57.240 It's shopping.

00:48:58.800 Alexa is in your home to listen to you because they're about to switch from shopping and shipping to shipping and shopping. 0.92

00:49:11.100 They believe that they can predict you so well soon that they're just going to send you the groceries.

00:49:18.660 They're just going to send you the things that they know you need, the things that they know, oh, this just came out.

00:49:25.240 They are going to love this.

00:49:26.740 And they will send it to you.

00:49:29.180 And they feel they can handle about 4% to 5% of returns.

00:49:34.200 That means they're going to be able to predict your shopping habits 95% of the time.

00:49:41.700 And they're correct.

00:49:42.260 So, this is a prediction machine.

00:49:48.120 That's all it is.

00:49:49.740 And it's getting so good.

00:49:52.100 And it's changing so fast.

00:49:54.480 For instance, have you ever used translation services from Google?

00:49:59.740 Yes.

00:50:00.200 A few times when there's something, you know, that's the only place I know how to translate anything.

00:50:03.640 Okay.

00:50:03.900 So, translation services from Google used to be horrible.

00:50:08.200 Used to be horrible.

00:50:09.040 And it's kind of like, you know, they put those little suggestions up in your email box.

00:50:15.160 And it's not just to help you learn to write a better email or make it easier on your fingers to write an email.

00:50:23.120 They're also, you're teaching it to predict you.

00:50:27.720 So, it goes in and you might be doing a work email and it might say, I love you.

00:50:33.760 And you're like, why would I?

00:50:35.100 No.

00:50:36.340 But it's learning now you, this person, you never say I love you to.

00:50:42.880 This category, that doesn't belong.

00:50:46.240 Okay.

00:50:46.560 And so, more it learns.

00:50:48.500 And deep learning, deep machine learning is really starting to take off now.

00:50:53.440 Let me show you how much it changes.

00:50:54.960 So, in 2000, I think it was 16, the snows of Kilimanjaro from Ernest Hemingway started like this.

00:51:06.900 The actual original translation.

00:51:09.960 Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain, 19,710 feet high.

00:51:15.380 It's said to be the highest mountain in Africa.

00:51:18.260 That's how it starts.

00:51:19.700 November 2016 was like a Tuesday.

00:51:22.580 Somebody went in, tried to translate that to Japanese.

00:51:28.220 And it read this way.

00:51:31.080 Kilimanjaro is 19,700 feet of the mountain, covered in snow.

00:51:37.320 And it is said to be the highest in Africa.

00:51:42.020 Not a very good translation.

00:51:43.800 No.

00:51:44.080 And is it only 19,000 that is covered in snow?

00:51:47.760 Or what is that, right?

00:51:50.240 The very next day, after putting in machine learning, translating it into Japanese, it went from that to Kilimanjaro is a mountain of 19,710 feet, covered with snow.

00:52:04.280 And said to be the highest mountain in Africa.

00:52:07.080 That's the right way, right?

00:52:08.420 Hello.

00:52:08.880 Yeah.

00:52:09.300 Yeah.

00:52:09.760 In one day, it changed.

00:52:12.940 And it's only because it added so much information about the words and predictive words in Japanese that Google didn't have access to.

00:52:25.040 It's changing so rapidly.

00:52:29.740 The reason why I bring this up is because, A, it shows you how your habits are going to be.

00:52:39.080 And it's fascinating to me.

00:52:40.940 Your body only gets stronger if you change your exercise routine, right?

00:52:48.560 You go in and you do the same thing day after day after day after day, it eventually stops being effective.

00:52:55.760 You have to change it up.

00:52:57.280 You have to confuse your body.

00:52:59.340 If you're eating and you're eating the same thing day after day after day, you have a harder time losing weight because you have to confuse your body.

00:53:08.300 Your body gets used to things, right?

00:53:10.920 The mind, it goes stale when you're not learning new things and you're not pushing the boundaries, right?

00:53:21.400 We are so easily tracked because we're so predictable.

00:53:27.180 The other reason why this is interesting to me is we're going to be asked in my lifetime, we're going to be asked to define life.

00:53:38.400 We can't define it now even inside the womb of a woman. 0.97

00:53:44.680 When AI passes the Turing test and you cannot tell the difference, is that because it has intelligence or just because it can predict what your next question is going to be and predict the answer that will satisfy you?

00:54:04.180 There's no reason to it.

00:54:06.160 It's not reasoning.

00:54:08.400 It's just doing what it was trained to do.

00:54:11.940 Predict you.

00:54:14.520 It's saying the perfect thing that will make you think it has intelligence, essentially.

00:54:18.260 Right.

00:54:18.520 Because that's its goal, to predict you, to be able to model you, to be able to think like you.

00:54:27.300 So what does that mean?

00:54:27.840 It means we should have, A, deep discussions on AI because it's just a predictive model.

00:54:39.660 And so if it is tasked with, well, remember that game where they said, where it had to find the AIs played characters and they had to create fuel?

00:54:56.880 Oh yeah, that was the, that was, it was a life, artificial life simulation and survival in the game required energy.

00:55:05.480 But childbirth didn't. 1.00

00:55:07.480 So the AI, to try to make this society work, evolved into a sedentary lifestyle that consisted mostly of mating in order to produce new children, which could be eaten.

00:55:20.400 And they solved the problem.

00:55:23.300 You said we needed energy and you said it didn't cost any energy to give birth to something.

00:55:27.620 So nice and easy.

00:55:29.260 They solved the problem.

00:55:30.260 This is why you have to be aware of it.

00:55:32.440 You have to be aware of it because it's not reasoning.

00:55:37.180 It's not reasoning.

00:55:38.360 It's just pursuing a goal.

00:55:40.680 Yeah.

00:55:40.900 It said like another one was, you can't be killed on level two.

00:55:44.480 That was the goal to the computer.

00:55:46.060 So to AI.

00:55:47.340 And so AI, what they did is they got to the end of level one and just paused the game or crash the entire game.

00:55:52.440 They found ways to crash the game because they didn't want to lose on level two.

00:55:55.460 You told me not to lose on level two.

00:55:57.360 So I'll pause it on level one or crash it on level one.

00:55:59.680 I'll never lose on level two.

00:56:01.200 We just found there was a story out today that I think it was Google Maps found that they were taking they were taking the the satellite photography and they were having to they task AI with making these maps quickly and translate this into like a Google map.

00:56:20.360 Well, it did, but it was leaving things out of the map like skylights.

00:56:25.660 So if there was a building with a bunch of skylights or a bunch of things on top of a roof, it didn't have the time to complete the map.

00:56:33.340 It was not told delete or take any shortcuts.

00:56:37.640 It was told do this.

00:56:39.140 It decided it cannot.

00:56:41.720 I can't complete that task and do everything.

00:56:44.080 So I don't think this is important.

00:56:45.940 And so it cheated.

00:56:47.600 It started doing something itself and leaving things off.

00:56:52.720 We just have to be extraordinarily careful as we get into AI.

The Glenn Beck Program - January 11, 2019

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