The Glenn Beck Program - September 17, 2018


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Christine Ford has come forward with a new accusation against Brett Kavanaugh. She claims that he sexually assaulted her at a party when they were in high school in the 1980s, but he denies it. Glenn and Stu react to the latest development. They also discuss Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and why we should abandon capitalism.

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00:00:00.140 The Blaze Radio Network, On Demand.
00:00:06.020 Hi, it's Stu and Glenn Beck here for the podcast today, where we start with a Me Too era of Supreme Court nominations.
00:00:14.060 Last time there was a controversy about the Supreme Court.
00:00:16.560 Of course, then there was another, it was Me Too before it was Me Too with Clarence Thomas.
00:00:20.940 And now here we are again with another accusation.
00:00:23.880 But when you hear the details of this accusation, as we knew them at the time of the recording of this podcast, it was ridiculous.
00:00:33.120 They've only gotten more ridiculous.
00:00:35.980 It really is. This is insane. But it's going to be the drama of the week, for sure.
00:00:41.320 It's also Constitution Day. We go over some of the stuff from the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence,
00:00:47.120 a little bit kind of in advance of Addicted to Outrage, which comes out on September 18th,
00:00:53.540 which is tomorrow, if you're listening to this on the day we did the show.
00:00:56.080 And also, you don't want to miss Jonathan Haidt.
00:01:00.600 He is, he's amazing talking about the coddling of the American mind and what's happening to our society.
00:01:08.940 He's great. And we'll also talk about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:01:14.260 We can't quite explain where she's going to get the $40 trillion for the program she wants. 1.00
00:01:19.680 The great thing is, we can explain why we shouldn't abandon capitalism.
00:01:27.600 Yes, in detail. And that's all today on the podcast.
00:01:30.980 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:44.360 It's Monday, September 17th.
00:01:47.220 Glenn Beck.
00:01:49.220 Oh, the games that the Democrats play.
00:01:52.700 Welcome to the Me Too era of the Supreme Court justice confirmation.
00:01:57.680 Last Thursday, Senator Dianne Feinstein disclosed the existence of a secret letter
00:02:03.580 written by an anonymous woman alleging that the Supreme Court nominee,
00:02:07.700 Brett Kavanaugh, sexually assaulted her when they were in high school back in the 1980s.
00:02:15.080 Now, yesterday, there was a major twist in this story
00:02:18.280 that everyone who follows leftist strategy should have seen coming.
00:02:22.540 The anonymous woman has revealed herself.
00:02:25.900 She is Christine Ford, a 51-year-old research psychologist at Palo Alto University in Northern
00:02:34.220 California.
00:02:35.860 She works at a university.
00:02:38.820 She's also a registered Democrat and has donated to political organizations.
00:02:44.340 But she pinky swears.
00:02:46.180 She swears this has nothing to do with her coming forward with this story,
00:02:50.800 just as the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on Kavanaugh.
00:02:54.920 Now, there were plenty of time for her to come out. 0.92
00:02:58.780 There was plenty of time for the Democrats to spill the beans.
00:03:04.180 They decided, no, no, no, it has to be the week of the vote.
00:03:09.660 Christine Ford, she spilled the exclusive beans to the Washington Post
00:03:13.960 because they believe that democracy dies in darkness.
00:03:17.480 And, of course, if there's anything that Kavanaugh hopes to accomplish on the Supreme Court,
00:03:24.360 it is murdering democracy, I believe.
00:03:27.500 I am so—I want Donald Trump.
00:03:30.240 I mean, there's so much—this is the time for him to have the twitchy eye and just go unstable.
00:03:36.460 This is the time.
00:03:37.500 Right now, I just want him to go, you know what?
00:03:40.180 You didn't like that one, huh?
00:03:41.280 Here's Judge Napolitano.
00:03:43.680 How do you like that one?
00:03:46.140 Ford told the Post that during a high school party,
00:03:49.620 a drunk Brett Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed,
00:03:53.080 groped her, and covered her mouth to keep her from screaming. 1.00
00:03:56.980 She says, quote,
00:03:58.020 Now, we have to take things like this seriously.
00:04:10.560 But at the last minute, you've had this for months.
00:04:16.340 She's had it, obviously, her whole life.
00:04:18.300 But they've had this for months.
00:04:20.540 The Democrats hold on to it and do nothing until Kavanaugh can no longer be asked any questions about it.
00:04:32.860 There is no indication that she reported such a harrowing attack to the police or her parents or anybody else at the time.
00:04:40.280 Kavanaugh unequivocally denies the accusations.
00:04:43.780 The White House released a letter signed by 65 women who say they went to high school with Kavanaugh.
00:04:52.580 They vouched for his character.
00:04:54.740 But that's not going to matter.
00:04:56.520 The Democrats will get their circus this week.
00:04:59.480 Kamala Harris and Corey Spartacus Booker will get their chance to remind everybody to vote for them for president in 2020
00:05:06.340 because only the Democrats like women. 1.00
00:05:09.200 Christine Ford might be telling the absolute truth about this incident with Kavanaugh.
00:05:16.800 And it is sad if she is telling the truth that no one will believe her.
00:05:23.060 But why will half the country reject this?
00:05:29.180 Because she might also be making this whole thing up for politics' sake. 0.99
00:05:33.520 And the fact that the politicians had this, that she filed it with the politicians and not the police,
00:05:43.300 and that they held on to it until after the hearings, make it a little suspicious.
00:05:52.720 The political timing of the story kind of drains all of the credibility out of it.
00:05:58.020 Kavanaugh was confirmed to the federal bench by the Senate in 2006.
00:06:04.280 Where was her dramatic story then?
00:06:07.500 Now, last year, this worked to derail Roy Moore's Senate campaign.
00:06:12.460 And that was a little dicey.
00:06:14.220 But I think we all looked at him and went,
00:06:16.360 Yeah, there's a little something-something going on there.
00:06:21.800 Kavanaugh?
00:06:22.280 This just perfectly serves the left's narrative that Kavanaugh is planning on destroying all of the rights of women. 0.99
00:06:33.260 Truth doesn't stand a chance when it's up against this kind of hysteria and a media that plays into its hands.
00:06:46.860 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:06:52.280 I'm glad you're here.
00:06:56.500 It is Constitution Day.
00:07:00.460 Anybody, anybody really know what the Constitution even is anymore?
00:07:05.580 Anybody, anybody, Bueller, Bueller?
00:07:10.620 Does anybody care?
00:07:11.720 Yeah.
00:07:12.280 July 9th, 1776.
00:07:14.260 Copy of the Declaration of Independence.
00:07:16.860 Reach New York City.
00:07:17.860 There were naval ships out in the harbor.
00:07:21.780 The British.
00:07:23.360 Revolutionary spirit.
00:07:24.740 Tension running high.
00:07:26.340 George Washington was the commander of the Continental Forces.
00:07:29.980 He stood in front of City Hall in Manhattan, just off wall.
00:07:35.800 And he read the Declaration of Independence.
00:07:40.900 The crowd cheered.
00:07:42.560 They tore down the statue of King George III.
00:07:47.140 Now, think of that.
00:07:49.460 How you see now statues coming down of tyrants all around the world.
00:07:54.880 They take the statue of King George and they actually melt the statue and make 42,000 musket balls, bullets, out of the statue of King George.
00:08:06.180 America's separation from Great Britain was officially now in writing.
00:08:12.720 So, I want to talk to you a little bit about, and this is a whole section in the book.
00:08:17.720 I come back to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution several times in the new book.
00:08:22.780 It's coming out tomorrow, Addicted to Outrage.
00:08:24.640 And I explain, I think, I actually, I like it very much, the Declaration of Independence as the greatest breakup letter of all time.
00:08:35.580 If you make that a Dear George letter, I translate it from, you know, old-timey English into, you know, a contemporary breakup letter.
00:08:47.900 And you understand it.
00:08:50.260 It's the greatest breakup letter of all time.
00:08:52.880 But that's what it is.
00:08:55.880 It's a breakup letter that says we have to separate because you're an abusive boyfriend and we don't want any of that.
00:09:06.000 But what's more is it starts with, hey, George, you know, we got to break up because there's a lot of things going on and things that you're doing.
00:09:17.540 And every time I try to bring things up, you only make it worse.
00:09:21.680 But I want to tell you who I am because you don't seem to get it.
00:09:29.160 This is who I am.
00:09:30.620 This is what I believe.
00:09:32.460 These are the things that we find self-evident.
00:09:35.780 That's the mission statement for the country.
00:09:39.080 The Declaration of Independence is so important because it's the mission statement.
00:09:44.440 It says we're going to break up because we are these people.
00:09:50.600 We believe in these things.
00:09:54.820 Forget about all of the things that the king did.
00:09:58.080 Just look at that part.
00:10:00.540 We hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:10:02.320 So, basically, this says we're going to break up and we're going to start our own country.
00:10:08.860 And it's going to be, it's going to revolve around this.
00:10:14.340 That all rights come from God, not from a king.
00:10:18.300 Nobody can change them.
00:10:20.740 Your individuals were not a collective under rule.
00:10:23.760 And you have a right to be heard and express yourself.
00:10:30.760 And nobody can scoop you up in the middle of the night.
00:10:33.020 And nobody can just level fake charges that I can't answer.
00:10:40.500 And we're going to develop a country that if it ever goes off the rails, the people can abolish it.
00:10:47.240 But, in fact, they have a right and responsibility to abolish that if it becomes a hindrance or opposed to any of these natural rights.
00:11:00.320 Because that's who we are.
00:11:01.800 That's what we believe.
00:11:03.280 That's the Declaration of Independence.
00:11:05.820 But then, in 1789, they get together and they say, okay, that's the mission statement.
00:11:13.580 How do we do it?
00:11:14.580 How do we build this?
00:11:19.040 There's a whole section or a whole chapter where I kind of talk about the Constitution as if it was written by, you know, a bunch of, you know, VW engineers that had to, you know, make the VW thing.
00:11:34.920 Remember that awful car?
00:11:37.180 Yeah.
00:11:37.620 And they were like, okay, we were making cool cars.
00:11:40.580 I mean, Porsche designed the first one.
00:11:42.860 Now we're building the thing?
00:11:45.420 No, I don't think so.
00:11:47.500 And so they break away.
00:11:50.220 They had to, if you want to do a new company, and that company is never going to make the VW thing, then you better state it in your mission statement.
00:12:04.160 And then you better build your company rules around the things that you saw lead to the VW thing.
00:12:13.300 And that's what the Constitution does.
00:12:16.140 The Constitution is, okay, how do we build this?
00:12:20.080 More importantly, how do we make sure that we don't start building a VW thing?
00:12:28.660 And in the government, that VW thing is tyranny, a tyrant, a king, a Hitler, a Stalin, a Mao.
00:12:38.940 How do we make sure that never happens?
00:12:41.100 Because that's why we broke away.
00:12:43.520 In our mission statement, it says men are individuals.
00:12:49.160 They are given certain rights.
00:12:52.240 No one can take those rights away.
00:12:55.400 They're life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness so they can be who they want to be.
00:13:00.760 Now, I'm not saying that's a mission statement.
00:13:03.020 I'm not saying that we haven't made mistakes.
00:13:04.680 I'm not saying that we haven't hit it every time.
00:13:06.860 Of course not.
00:13:08.160 Man's never going to be perfect.
00:13:10.080 Man will never be perfect.
00:13:12.040 Why do you expect a country to be perfect?
00:13:15.580 350 million people are going to get this right?
00:13:18.920 We can't get one person right.
00:13:23.000 How are we going to get 350 of us right?
00:13:27.460 Men are flawed.
00:13:29.760 Again, that's where the Constitution comes in.
00:13:33.000 Because men are flawed, you better check on them. 0.99
00:13:36.420 You better make sure that anybody who gets power is so compartmentalized and so many people are checking on them so it can never get out of control.
00:13:49.900 This system is so brilliant.
00:13:52.640 It has so many checks and balances.
00:13:55.020 But what Americans don't understand is we're at the last clause.
00:14:01.760 We are now at the last beachhead.
00:14:05.540 This thing was designed with checks and counterchecks and counterbalances to make sure nothing got out of control.
00:14:14.500 And at the very last minute, one of our founders said, yeah, but what happens if all of that fails?
00:14:20.600 Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle.
00:14:21.700 Oh, well, Americans will never let that happen.
00:14:24.920 They don't want tyranny.
00:14:26.240 There's so many checks and balances.
00:14:29.560 And somebody said, wait a minute.
00:14:31.640 But what if they do?
00:14:34.880 Because right now we have this thing written.
00:14:37.500 So all of the checks and balances are happening in the government.
00:14:42.680 They're happening at the federal level.
00:14:44.640 And the Senate is supposed to be a balance where this is the way it was originally written.
00:14:49.880 The Senate was not supposed to be elected by you.
00:14:52.960 You shouldn't care about Beto.
00:14:55.440 Only the people in Texas should care about Beto.
00:14:59.600 Not you.
00:15:01.420 I shouldn't care about Chuck Schumer.
00:15:05.180 Because Chuck Schumer should be making sure that the government doesn't do anything to stop New York from being New York.
00:15:14.320 You want to do all socialists up in New York?
00:15:17.040 Have at it, dude.
00:15:19.020 California, you want to drive the crazy train into the cliff?
00:15:22.800 Have at it.
00:15:23.760 But not Texas.
00:15:27.000 And that's what the Senate was supposed to do. 0.98
00:15:29.600 But the progressives took that away.
00:15:32.140 So you lose one check and balance.
00:15:35.560 And slowly but surely, people have either given away their check and balance power, or they have had it taken away.
00:15:43.540 And so we're down to the last one where the crazy founder said, yeah, but what happens if all of that, it'll never happen.
00:15:54.460 It has.
00:15:55.600 That's the constitutional convention.
00:15:59.940 That's where the people can say, you know what, they're out of control, and we need to go in and give them term limits, because they'll never do it themselves.
00:16:11.700 This is a brilliant document.
00:16:17.480 It has been slowly dismantled.
00:16:20.120 It's not perfect.
00:16:23.680 As Winston Churchill says, the greatest thing about a republic or democracy is that it's the worst system.
00:16:35.080 It's the worst system.
00:16:36.800 Absolutely the worst way to manage, except for all of the other ways.
00:16:42.500 Yes, it's flawed, but this is the best way to do it.
00:16:48.740 But we haven't lived it in a long time.
00:16:51.240 Well, and remember, too, I mean, the brilliance of the founders was recognizing human fallibility.
00:16:58.180 Right.
00:16:58.520 They realized that they weren't going to get it perfect, and that's why they created a process, which I think you could argue it is perfect because of this.
00:17:06.440 You can amend it.
00:17:07.780 If you find something wrong, you can amend it.
00:17:10.700 And there's a process to go through to amend it.
00:17:13.200 They never want to go through that process in Washington.
00:17:15.660 They just want to implement it.
00:17:17.200 When they say the founders never saw this happening, they know.
00:17:21.500 They knew that.
00:17:22.660 They knew that.
00:17:24.160 That's why they left the amendment process.
00:17:27.100 That's the only way this document is living and breathing.
00:17:31.000 You can open it up through the amendment process and say, you know what, that's not right.
00:17:37.900 The gun thing, that's not the way we feel now.
00:17:41.040 We've learned some things.
00:17:42.660 So you amend it.
00:17:44.280 You don't twist and take out of context the words to say, well, it's a living, breathing document.
00:17:52.200 No, it's not.
00:17:53.500 It's living and breathing when you open it up and say, we need to amend this because that's old timey.
00:18:00.100 They never saw it coming.
00:18:02.140 That's part of the genius.
00:18:05.340 That's part of the genius.
00:18:06.920 Well, it's too tough to do that.
00:18:08.680 Again, that's part of the genius.
00:18:12.760 Because it slows you down.
00:18:15.300 Do you know that the Patriot Act was written in the 1990s?
00:18:20.740 What?
00:18:21.300 The Patriot Act was written, for the most part, in the 1990s.
00:18:27.240 It went nowhere.
00:18:29.320 No one wanted the Patriot Act.
00:18:32.200 So it just sat on a shelf and waited until there was a disaster.
00:18:38.880 Because people will vote for security when they're freaked out.
00:18:43.860 And so they did.
00:18:45.460 Can you imagine?
00:18:46.080 How did that Patriot Act?
00:18:47.200 We didn't even ask that question.
00:18:49.420 How have you designed this elaborate system with Homeland Security and everything else?
00:18:56.480 How did you put this together so quickly?
00:19:00.600 Easy.
00:19:01.280 We did it years ago.
00:19:02.900 Right.
00:19:03.120 It was ready to go.
00:19:04.180 I mean, another good example of this is Medicare for All.
00:19:07.760 Bernie Sanders introduced Medicare for All in 2013 and got exactly zero co-sponsors.
00:19:14.200 We've got, let's say, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
00:19:23.900 When he really did it in 2017, he had 16 co-sponsors.
00:19:27.400 Mind you, by the way, the Democrats had solved this problem, if you remember right, with Obamacare already.
00:19:33.200 And now they want Medicare for All.
00:19:34.740 In 2013, it wasn't popular.
00:19:37.040 It didn't make sense.
00:19:37.780 No one wanted to jump on that bandwagon.
00:19:39.120 Now it's all Democratic Socialism.
00:19:41.120 And if you look through this name, you're going to see a lot of 2020 potential Democratic nominees.
00:19:46.780 Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris.
00:19:50.820 You know the names.
00:19:51.740 It's blatantly obvious that this stuff is going on.
00:19:55.180 That's the way it works.
00:19:56.500 That's progressivism.
00:19:58.300 The cure to progressivism is what progressivism deems the cancer.
00:20:07.600 The Constitution.
00:20:09.720 Today is Constitution Day.
00:20:11.540 If you don't, if you would like to learn more about this, and if any of this has made sense, that's in Addicted to Outrage.
00:20:18.780 New book.
00:20:19.440 It comes out tomorrow.
00:20:20.640 You can order it, have it delivered to you tomorrow, and begin to read it.
00:20:24.940 Addicted to Outrage.
00:20:27.080 How we can actually heal and solve the nation's problems.
00:20:32.700 But we can't do it while we're angry.
00:20:35.140 We have to use reason.
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00:22:02.500 One of the most influential writers, I think, in the last five years, at least in my life, is Jonathan Haidt.
00:22:14.780 He has written a couple of bestsellers.
00:22:18.720 One of them is The Unrighteous Mind or The Righteous Mind, which is, I know that language makes a difference, especially there.
00:22:26.620 But The Righteous Mind, you know, why we can't get along with people.
00:22:29.640 And it's a game changer.
00:22:33.260 The one thing I have found in common with people who are spitting themselves out of the system on both sides and are saying we're in trouble, they all have read Jonathan Haidt's books.
00:22:47.280 This is an exceptional book and, I believe, a must-read for everyone in this audience.
00:22:54.600 It's called The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt, and he joins us now.
00:22:59.280 Hello, Jonathan.
00:22:59.980 How are you, sir?
00:23:01.180 Very well, Glenn.
00:23:02.100 Pleasure to be back talking with you.
00:23:03.440 Yeah, so Jonathan, you have in this book, and I wish I could, I wish you were here so you could see, it is all, it's all highlighted.
00:23:13.280 I've highlighted, I could talk to you for days about this.
00:23:16.600 It is fascinating.
00:23:18.460 You outline three main problems that are happening in our society now.
00:23:24.940 What are they?
00:23:25.720 So the book is about this very strange change that happened on college campuses around 2015.
00:23:35.320 Many of your listeners will have heard of these strange events, the shouting down of speakers, the claiming that students need warnings before they read a Greek myth or a story that has violence or racism in it.
00:23:47.200 So strange things began to happen, and my co-author, Greg Lukianoff, he had this brilliant diagnosis.
00:23:56.000 He himself was subject, he'd had suicidal depressions, he's prone to depression, and he learned cognitive therapy, which is where you learn to question your assumptions and clean up your thinking.
00:24:06.440 And once he did that, he began to notice that the students were doing the exact same cognitive distortions that he had learned not to do.
00:24:14.620 They were catastrophizing.
00:24:16.080 Oh, if a student, if a speaker comes to campus, you know, people will die.
00:24:20.860 This is disordered thinking, and Greg noticed that students were doing this.
00:24:24.760 He runs the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and so he diagnosed that students, that colleges are somehow conveying these ideas that are really, really bad for students.
00:24:35.960 Students are taking them to heart and thinking themselves into a depression.
00:24:39.820 So that's sort of the back story to the book.
00:24:43.400 The three ideas that you refer to – sorry, I had to do that little background.
00:24:46.800 No, no, that's fine, that's fine.
00:24:48.420 So the three ideas, what we conclude in the book, as we've listened to students, as we've read a lot about what's going on – and I'm a professor at New York University, so I'm in the thick of things here – is that there are three really, really bad ideas.
00:25:00.640 And here they are.
00:25:02.300 What doesn't kill you makes you weaker.
00:25:06.140 Number two, always trust your feelings.
00:25:09.300 Number three, life is a battle between good people and evil people.
00:25:14.440 And if we can get students to believe all three, we can't guarantee that they will fail, but we really set them up for a life of weakness, complaint, grievance, and failure.
00:25:26.100 So, Jonathan, I have a book that is released tomorrow, and he wrote it, and I wish I could rewrite it again because I've learned so much as I'm writing.
00:25:40.440 I don't know if you've ever experienced that, but you get to the end and you're like –
00:25:43.800 What's your book?
00:25:44.280 What's it called?
00:25:45.460 It's called Addicted to Outrage.
00:25:48.500 Oh, my goodness.
00:25:49.220 I've got to read that.
00:25:50.520 Yeah, so it is – it talks about our addiction to this and how this is happening, but it also touches on postmodernism, which is coming out of our universities, which is kind of the root, is it not, of all three of these problems?
00:26:10.440 Because you just said if we can teach all – if we can get kids to believe all three of these things, we destroy them.
00:26:17.640 Why would anyone do that?
00:26:20.000 So nobody's trying to destroy students.
00:26:22.980 I think what's happening here, the best idea I can share with you and your listeners to understand the craziness that is broken out, not just on university campuses but across so many of our institutions, is that social media has put us all in a game in which the way we get prestige is by calling out others.
00:26:44.500 Or at least – let's just start with students, young people who grew up with social media.
00:26:51.960 Everybody's always trying to figure out, what can I do that will gain me respect?
00:26:55.220 We actually care about respect and prestige more than we care about money.
00:26:58.520 I'd even say many of us care about money once you're above a certain level.
00:27:02.380 People care about money primarily for the prestige it gives.
00:27:04.700 So social media changed the basic connectivity of society so that all you have to do is criticize someone online or join in with the criticism and you gain respect.
00:27:16.180 And so what you have to see is this is not about people trying to destroy students, certainly, but people are playing out their political battles.
00:27:27.080 They're using others as pawns in a way, and they're setting up a playing field in which kids just trying to get by and get by socially end up hurting each other.
00:27:37.360 Okay, so that is the – I think that's the addiction part.
00:27:39.940 That's the end of the dog, the tail of the dog in a way.
00:27:43.440 I think the – what you talk about is, you know, this helicopter parent madness that went on, that this is the first generation that – we're seeing the results now of children that could do no wrong, received, you know, praise no matter what they did.
00:28:02.660 We're seeing that generation now, and they can't handle the stress.
00:28:06.960 That's problem number one.
00:28:08.900 Children are too fragile to handle anything.
00:28:12.120 That's right.
00:28:12.860 So the – so why did things get so weird?
00:28:16.660 Why did they change beginning with the students who arrived on campus right around 2013, 2014?
00:28:22.560 It's a mystery.
00:28:23.500 In fact, our book, we really frame it as a social science detective story because this new morality emerges on campus right around 2014, 2015, the whole morality of safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions, all those things.
00:28:36.420 And so we think there are several causes, one of which is social media, which we just talked about, and I'm sure we'll come back to.
00:28:42.380 But the other big one is – but the other big one is, as you say, it's that we did this to our kids trying to protect them.
00:28:48.720 We try – we all want our kids to be safe.
00:28:51.960 We all want our kids to be successful.
00:28:53.540 So beginning in the 1980s and especially in the 1990s, we clamped down on kids' freedom.
00:29:09.760 We began overprotecting them.
00:29:12.600 We got this ridiculous idea that if we ever take our eyes off our kids, if our kids go around the corner to a park and there's no adult watching them, they will be kidnapped.
00:29:22.320 They will be snatched, abducted.
00:29:23.800 So there was a huge crime wave in the 1970s and 1980s.
00:29:28.440 And when you and I were growing up and any of your listeners who are over 40, when we were growing up, even though there was actually a lot of crime in America, you went out and played after school.
00:29:37.200 You went out with your friends.
00:29:38.100 You were in someone's backyard.
00:29:39.240 You walked around town.
00:29:40.480 We rode our bicycles from around the age of eight.
00:29:42.780 So that's the way childhood always was until the 1990s.
00:29:46.160 And even though the crime wave was actually ending in the 90s, things were getting safer and safer in the 90s, that's the decade in which the social norm changed.
00:29:55.320 Maybe not everywhere in America, but certainly in urban and suburban areas, it changed so that kids never got the right to practice being independent or self-supervising.
00:30:07.320 And then when they go off to college, are we surprised that they're having trouble being independent and self-supervising?
00:30:13.140 It's amazing.
00:30:14.100 You know, some of your recommendations, and one of the reasons I like this book so much is because you not only diagnosed the problem, the last, what, third of the book or quarter of the book is, okay, so here's what we do.
00:30:25.460 And your recommendations, it's crazy that you need someone like you to say, you know what, have your kids ride their bike unsupervised, you know, down the street.
00:30:37.720 Send them to the store for a gallon of milk.
00:30:40.160 Like, have them do things, you know, that are unsupervised.
00:30:45.160 My grandparents would have, they would have never, my parents wouldn't have even understood that advice.
00:30:50.300 Of course that's what you do.
00:30:51.960 But now, I said this on the air the other day, and I said, I remember being maybe six, seven, we had a little store, you know, about a block and a half away from our house.
00:31:01.340 And my mom would give me money, and she'd say, go get a gallon of milk. 0.98
00:31:04.680 Nobody thought twice of that.
00:31:06.300 I said this on the air, your advice.
00:31:08.940 And everybody's like, I don't know, man.
00:31:11.000 I mean, whoo, how that would be, I mean, could, you know what I mean?
00:31:14.680 Yep.
00:31:14.880 And we're people who know the stats on crime.
00:31:17.680 Yeah.
00:31:18.100 No, that's right.
00:31:19.020 And so one of the, so I, you know, I think the way to, the way to think about so much of what's going on in our society, and, you know, I can't wait to read your book, because it's so easy for us to think that there are good people and bad people.
00:31:29.300 It's so easy for us to think that someone did this, or people are hurting our kids.
00:31:32.880 But really, you know, I'm a social psychologist, and what we specialize in is understanding the way social forces act on people.
00:31:40.000 So it's not that they're necessarily good or bad.
00:31:42.100 It's that we're all really social creatures.
00:31:44.520 And many people have traced this back to the origin of cable TV in the 1980s.
00:31:50.480 You know, when you and I were growing up, there were only three networks.
00:31:53.040 The news was only on half an hour, an hour a day.
00:31:55.740 There wasn't the chance to be submerged in stories about, you know, several kids go missing every year in America.
00:32:01.920 I mean, more than that, but in terms of, like, true abductions by strangers, it's extremely rare.
00:32:06.520 But it's only in the 1980s that we could all be immersed in that story all the time.
00:32:11.700 And so it was the change in the media environment that was one of the reasons for the huge freakout.
00:32:16.780 Another was declining family size.
00:32:18.460 When you and I were kids, there were a lot of families in my neighborhood that had five kids.
00:32:22.760 And now, you know, I live in New York City.
00:32:24.820 I have two kids.
00:32:26.100 Most of my friend's children, most of my kids' friends are only children.
00:32:29.760 It's rare to have a sibling.
00:32:30.640 So when parents have just one kid and they're surrounded by news stories about kids being abducted, yeah, they don't let them walk to the corner store anymore.
00:32:39.020 We have Jonathan Height.
00:32:42.960 Anybody who I think is a game-changer individual, somebody who is really, who gets it and is actively engaged in trying to think differently and do things like save freedom of speech,
00:32:57.080 they are all fans or have read Jonathan Height's books.
00:33:03.460 Brilliant guy.
00:33:04.440 Comes at it very, very honestly.
00:33:06.620 Has changed as a person through writing his books.
00:33:10.500 And I just so respect him.
00:33:12.360 The Coddling of the American Mind is the book.
00:33:15.020 Jonathan, I'd like to get through the next two problems so then the next segment we can actually talk about some of the solutions that you have in your book.
00:33:21.900 Sure, sure, sure.
00:33:22.880 So you reveal the three bad ideas.
00:33:25.920 One, what doesn't kill you makes you weaker.
00:33:28.080 The second one is always trust your feelings.
00:33:31.460 Let's go into that one.
00:33:32.960 Sure.
00:33:33.420 So my first book was called The Happiness Hypothesis, Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom.
00:33:40.760 And I read the most psychologically rich works from the ancient world.
00:33:45.920 So the Stoics from Greece and Rome, the Bible, the Old Testament, New Testament, the works of Buddha and Hinduism.
00:33:53.780 And one thing that they all have in common in every wisdom tradition, you find people saying something like this.
00:34:01.120 Here's Marcus Aurelius.
00:34:02.600 The whole universe is change, and life itself is but what you deem it.
00:34:07.960 So we don't experience the world as it is.
00:34:09.580 We experience the world through our filters, our mental and emotional filters.
00:34:13.380 Here's Buddha saying essentially the same thing.
00:34:15.920 What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow.
00:34:21.340 Our life is the creation of our mind.
00:34:25.020 And this is the basis of most pop psychology, that if you're spending your life feeling angry, feeling cheated, it's up to you to change the filters.
00:34:36.600 Life is complicated, and you get to decide which filters you're going to use.
00:34:41.240 And instead, what's happening on college campuses, and it goes back much earlier, is because we're afraid of hurting kids' feelings, a goal is in part to be sensitive and caring, we think that if someone presents an idea that a student finds threatening or invalidating, if it invalidates a current idea, that can be painful.
00:35:02.240 Well, we don't want students to experience pain.
00:35:05.540 And so this whole idea of safe spaces, that if a speaker comes to campus, and one of the first cases was at Brown University, they were going to have a debate between two feminists, one of whom believed that America is a rape culture, one of whom believed that America is not a rape culture. 1.00
00:35:23.180 And that's a great thing to talk about at a college campus at Brown University.
00:35:28.740 And because some students at Brown thought, well, what if a student at Brown had been raped?
00:35:33.560 It would be too painful for her to hear someone say that America is not systemically a rapist kind of society.
00:35:42.180 And so she might be protected.
00:35:43.700 Or would it be healthy?
00:35:45.120 Of course not.
00:35:45.760 Or would it be healthy?
00:35:46.820 Exactly.
00:35:47.780 Exactly.
00:35:48.620 That's right.
00:35:49.260 So that's why the title of our book is The Coddling of the American Mind.
00:35:53.500 Coddling means overprotection.
00:35:55.600 And if educators get in their heads that students should be protected from uncomfortable moments, from having their most cherished ideas challenged, well, you might feel like you're being nice to them, but my God, you're crippling them.
00:36:07.720 You're denying them.
00:36:09.240 Isn't that what a university is supposed to do?
00:36:12.920 If I'm paying my money, I want someone who will take everything that I believe is true and throw me up against the wall and make me prove it, make me look at all of the different things so I know how to find truth.
00:36:33.980 And I've been awakened, so I know what's true to me.
00:36:40.260 Does that make sense?
00:36:41.320 My God, does it make sense to me?
00:36:43.960 Yes.
00:36:44.780 So the traditional idea of a university, I mean, we can trace it all the way back to Plato's Academy in ancient Greece.
00:36:52.520 If you have a community of people who argue and debate and discuss but are bound together by norms of friendship – so if you just get people yelling at each other in the public square, it doesn't do any good.
00:37:04.460 But if you have a community that retires, that steps outside of downtown Athens, and they have a place where they meet and they discuss love and justice and beauty, and they have these spirited debates that Plato wrote about, well, that's wonderful.
00:37:17.560 That's how you find truth.
00:37:18.560 And so that is our myth, or that is our origin story for Western universities.
00:37:23.020 Unfortunately, a new idea began creeping in in the 80s and 90s where the goal of educators should be to foster self-esteem, to protect people, to make them feel safe.
00:37:34.800 And again, this overprotection is really, really bad for students.
00:37:40.140 One of the clearest signs that we're messing things up is that depression, anxiety, suicide, and self-harm – that is teenagers cutting themselves to the point where they have to be admitted to the hospital – these things began climbing very rapidly after about 2012.
00:37:55.620 So we are messing things up, we're harming our kids in the name of protecting them, and we've got to stop.
00:38:01.460 But in your book, you talk about something that is absolutely incredible to me, that now at universities, if you have gone to the, you know, the, I don't know, the campus shrink or the doctor, and there's anything regarding mental health, you will get an email from the university that says – is this your book, or is this another one?
00:38:25.800 Yes, no, this is a story of the book, yes.
00:38:28.100 All right, go ahead and tell the story.
00:38:29.400 Yeah, so first let me make clear.
00:38:31.460 This was just at one university, this is –
00:38:33.900 Oh, I thought it was happening in –
00:38:34.780 Yeah, no, but we told the story, this is at Northern Michigan State University, in which it was routine that if anybody went in to talk about depression or anything like that, they got a letter telling them, you must not talk about this with your friends, or we might have to send you home.
00:38:53.100 Now, this is crazy to say – to tell people who are having emotional difficulties that they better not talk with anyone about it because –
00:39:01.220 Now, the university was afraid of liability.
00:39:03.660 The university was afraid, well, what if you tell someone, and then that contributes to their depression, and then they commit suicide.
00:39:09.920 I mean, it's bizarre reasoning.
00:39:11.560 But the point is that the bureaucracy at a university is working to protect the university from bad publicity and from lawsuits.
00:39:21.200 The therapeutic community is working to protect students from harms that they see that I think are not really harms in most cases.
00:39:30.380 Universities are complicated places, and what we try to do in the book is trace out how this weird, bad, bad culture is happening, all from people pursuing what they think are good motives.
00:39:42.500 Okay.
00:39:43.500 Okay.
00:39:44.500 We only have about 30 seconds.
00:39:46.500 I want to come back and talk to you a little bit about the solutions that you outline in the book, and it's the reason why I think every parent should read this book.
00:39:58.500 And we'll talk to Jonathan Haidt about that when we return, The Coddling of the American Mind, it is on the must-read list.
00:40:08.380 If you're a listener of this program, you must read this book, The Coddling of the American Mind, back in just a second.
00:40:14.540 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:40:32.000 Cake bakers, quarterbacks, dresses, statues.
00:40:35.760 Much of America is getting outraged for outrage's sake.
00:40:39.440 And with all of the nonstop outrage coverage, we're actually missing out on the stuff we should be outraged about.
00:40:46.560 It's time to put the bottle down and end our bender.
00:40:49.460 In my new book, Addicted to Outrage, I talk about how thinking like an addict or a recovering alcoholic can actually help heal the country.
00:40:58.140 Addicted to Outrage.
00:40:59.560 On sale tomorrow, wherever books are sold.
00:41:01.420 All right, let's talk about democratic socialism here for a second because they're, you know, they're big into the, it feels, feels, feels, feels.
00:41:09.040 You know, they've got a bad case of the feels.
00:41:11.940 Throw them some props for a second.
00:41:13.500 They're great at identifying their audience and hitting them with a message that suits straight to their heart because it feels.
00:41:19.080 Struggling with medical bills?
00:41:20.500 Oh my gosh, we feel for you.
00:41:21.960 Pre-universal medical health care.
00:41:23.860 Are you having a hard time paying for rent or mortgage?
00:41:25.940 We feel.
00:41:27.160 No worries.
00:41:28.260 Make way for a housing for, you know, being a federal right.
00:41:32.860 Are you a student looking at years of paying off school loans?
00:41:35.580 We feel for you.
00:41:36.320 We've got you.
00:41:36.820 We feel.
00:41:38.060 I'll promise to cancel all those pesky student loans for you.
00:41:40.620 It's great.
00:41:41.800 So you can see how this message resonates with people who are struggling.
00:41:45.820 And I guarantee you, we hit the next collapse, the next 2008, which will be worse.
00:41:51.500 A lot of your friends who are listening now, who are pointing to those people, are saying, no, no, that's crazy.
00:41:59.360 Yeah, we can't afford that.
00:42:00.720 Will be saying, we have to have it.
00:42:03.740 All right.
00:42:06.540 No one can explain how the social, the democratic socialists are going to pay for, what is it, Stu?
00:42:16.540 $32 million for Medicare for all.
00:42:19.440 No, a trillion.
00:42:20.280 Trillion, sorry.
00:42:20.920 $5.4 trillion for guaranteed jobs, $1.4 trillion on just the student loans that are out, $1.3 trillion on free college, paid family, medical leave, social security.
00:42:32.260 It's $40 trillion is the bill.
00:42:37.060 Nobody can get Cortez to answer the question.
00:42:40.360 Here she is with Jake Tapper.
00:42:42.600 How are you going to pay for that?
00:42:43.720 $40 trillion is quite a bit of money, and the taxes that you talked about raising to pay for this, to pay for your agenda, only count for two.
00:42:54.360 And we're going by left-leaning analysts.
00:42:57.660 Right.
00:42:57.780 Well, when you look again at, again, how our health care works, currently we pay, much of these costs go into the private sector.
00:43:05.820 So what we see is, for example, you know, a year ago I was working downtown in a restaurant.
00:43:11.280 I went around and I asked how many of you folks have health insurance.
00:43:15.140 Not a single person did because they would have had to have paid $200 a month for a payment for insurance that had an $8,000 deductible.
00:43:27.580 What these represent are lower costs overall for these programs.
00:43:31.560 And additionally, what this is is a broader agenda.
00:43:35.840 Okay.
00:43:36.780 She hasn't answered the question there.
00:43:38.920 Let me just start here.
00:43:40.400 She said, a year ago, I was working in a bar.
00:43:44.240 A year ago.
00:43:45.180 I just saw a photo shoot she did just last weekend where she's wearing a $5,000 outfit in the photo shoot. 0.64
00:43:51.800 A year ago, she was working in a bar.
00:43:55.260 Now look at her. 1.00
00:43:57.860 I'm really tired of, I'm really tired of how bad things are here in America.
00:44:03.740 There are 320 million of us that are lucky enough to call the United States of America our home.
00:44:13.520 That is 4.4% of the U.S. population.
00:44:17.780 4.4%.
00:44:20.060 Our fellow citizens.
00:44:23.720 Lucky enough to live here.
00:44:25.240 In my new book on chapter 30, let me just quote.
00:44:31.080 Of that 4.4%, we own 25% of the world's wealth.
00:44:37.880 Much more if you count the U.S. companies housing cash and assets in foreign countries.
00:44:42.640 We consume 33% of the world's energy production.
00:44:46.300 Now, I want you to know, all these things have been turned into horrible things.
00:44:49.220 We hold command on all seven seas.
00:44:53.060 We own 48% of all satellites in space.
00:44:57.360 We are the only nation that has sent a man to the moon and back.
00:45:03.500 By the way, we did that four times.
00:45:06.860 And strangely, I just had to throw this in.
00:45:09.960 We also consume 41% of the world's chewing gum.
00:45:14.060 But that's a different story.
00:45:15.040 In barely 120 years, we grew to become the world's most powerful nation.
00:45:24.640 And 100 years after that, we are the only superpower on Earth.
00:45:31.740 We're pretty set for the future as well, believe it or not.
00:45:34.980 We are, as far as resources go, more than 55% of the world's shale oil is here.
00:45:46.060 65% of the world's uranium is here.
00:45:50.040 We have enough energy to provide power to the entire planet, including projected population growth,
00:45:56.120 for the next 2,000 years.
00:45:58.580 And if you doubt that, Google TerraPower Wave Reactor.
00:46:04.160 What else?
00:46:05.960 The bottom, I know, she was working in a bar last year.
00:46:10.140 And people can't afford the $8,000 deductible.
00:46:17.620 Just trying to breathe.
00:46:20.120 We're trying to just remember all those Lamaze classes.
00:46:22.440 Because I think I'm going to give birth to something really ugly if I don't breathe.
00:46:27.220 Why is there an $8,000 deductible?
00:46:30.660 One might ask.
00:46:33.020 But not now.
00:46:35.860 The bottom 10% of our population.
00:46:40.520 The bottom 10% of our population, by way of wealth,
00:46:44.740 is still the top 10% compared to the world population.
00:46:52.200 We have 68% of the world's PhDs living among our population.
00:46:57.780 Many of them are foreign-born and educated.
00:47:00.440 But the money is better here.
00:47:03.580 In the Me Too era, 0.75
00:47:05.580 easy to focus on the very real and disgusting cases of violence against women that flood the media.
00:47:10.160 But it might be worth noting, I don't know, occasionally,
00:47:14.440 that violence against women is actually dropping.
00:47:18.780 Violence against wives and girlfriends has dropped by 75% since the 1990s.
00:47:26.060 While news cameras point at Charlottesville as, you know,
00:47:33.700 Richard Spencer and his band of tiki torch-touting buffoons
00:47:37.020 and the NFL players kneeling to protest police brutality and racism
00:47:40.740 in our police departments,
00:47:42.740 you should know this.
00:47:44.700 Hate crimes against blacks have dropped 50%.
00:47:48.880 Oh, it's so bad here, nobody can afford anything.
00:47:53.320 Because of capitalism and the Western way of life,
00:47:57.860 the amount of money that we now spend on necessities such as food,
00:48:02.940 transportation, our home, our clothing, our furniture, and our utilities and gas
00:48:08.000 has been cut in half in the last 90 years.
00:48:14.860 Think of that one.
00:48:17.460 What your grandparents were paying
00:48:19.900 in the Great Depression
00:48:22.580 has been cut in half.
00:48:27.860 The rate of children dying before the age of five
00:48:30.460 has dropped over half since 1990.
00:48:33.940 Now, that is a miracle that should be on the front page.
00:48:39.660 That is, according to researchers,
00:48:42.280 like averting 27 major plane crashes
00:48:47.100 filled only with children
00:48:49.740 every single day.
00:48:53.800 What do you think we take a moment and go,
00:48:57.380 damn, capitalism is great.
00:49:02.140 Some other improvements apparently nobody wants to be connected to.
00:49:06.960 Malaria is down 32%.
00:49:09.420 HIV is down 50%.
00:49:11.740 Neonatal preterm birth complications
00:49:14.220 down 55%.
00:49:15.980 Protein energy malnutrition
00:49:18.420 down 57%.
00:49:20.480 So much so that the
00:49:22.080 World Health Organization
00:49:24.160 has come out and said
00:49:25.000 malnutrition is no longer
00:49:27.640 a global problem.
00:49:29.380 The global problem now
00:49:31.100 is obesity.
00:49:36.100 Lower respiratory infections
00:49:37.740 down 66%.
00:49:38.420 Measles down 91%.
00:49:41.280 Arthur Brooks says
00:49:42.760 it's the greatest
00:49:43.780 anti-poverty
00:49:44.580 achievement
00:49:45.980 in the history of mankind
00:49:47.600 and it's happened
00:49:48.520 in our lifetime.
00:49:52.680 Why?
00:49:54.520 Because of everything
00:49:55.760 they're trying to dismantle.
00:49:57.500 I'm sorry,
00:49:58.060 but if you're anti-capitalist,
00:49:59.580 you don't know
00:50:00.220 your butt from your elbow. 0.76
00:50:02.440 You don't know
00:50:03.800 what capitalism has done
00:50:05.560 in your lifetime.
00:50:07.740 It's capitalism,
00:50:09.740 it's capitalism,
00:50:10.960 technological and medical
00:50:12.380 innovation,
00:50:13.600 free trade,
00:50:14.900 Donald Trump,
00:50:15.700 free trade.
00:50:19.680 Now let me just put
00:50:21.080 the miracle of
00:50:23.080 the life-saving things
00:50:25.060 that have happened
00:50:25.620 because of the United States
00:50:27.180 of America,
00:50:28.540 capitalism and free trade.
00:50:30.100 Let me put it
00:50:32.080 into perspective.
00:50:33.580 Give you some good news
00:50:34.740 for everybody.
00:50:36.840 If you happen
00:50:37.700 to be pro-life,
00:50:39.480 you've probably
00:50:40.560 fought hard
00:50:41.100 and you think
00:50:41.540 you want to stop
00:50:42.320 Planned Parenthood.
00:50:43.200 That's good.
00:50:44.480 You want the doors
00:50:45.560 shuttered immediately.
00:50:46.640 That's good.
00:50:47.860 But to put this
00:50:48.720 into perspective,
00:50:49.720 how many deaths
00:50:50.960 has Planned Parenthood
00:50:52.280 caused?
00:50:54.420 Let me give you
00:50:55.040 some perspective.
00:50:55.660 if you shut
00:50:58.660 the doors
00:50:59.100 of Planned Parenthood,
00:51:00.880 you would have
00:51:01.800 to eliminate
00:51:02.340 the number
00:51:02.840 of abortions
00:51:03.720 that occur annually
00:51:05.120 because of
00:51:05.680 Planned Parenthood
00:51:06.500 more than
00:51:07.560 19 times
00:51:09.320 to be able
00:51:11.060 to equal this.
00:51:13.660 Progressives,
00:51:14.340 you've been fighting
00:51:15.080 to repeal the
00:51:15.820 Second Amendment
00:51:16.280 with hopes of
00:51:16.900 stopping all
00:51:17.460 gun-related
00:51:18.040 homicide.
00:51:18.760 I've got more
00:51:19.320 good news for you.
00:51:20.140 the incredible
00:51:21.780 global
00:51:22.300 life-saving
00:51:23.000 achievement
00:51:23.560 that capitalism
00:51:25.120 and the United
00:51:25.920 States are
00:51:26.520 responsible for
00:51:27.560 equivalent to
00:51:28.980 more than
00:51:29.580 630
00:51:31.240 years
00:51:32.860 worth of
00:51:34.000 gun-related
00:51:34.580 murders.
00:51:39.500 I don't know.
00:51:41.580 I think I'm
00:51:42.400 going to go
00:51:42.620 with those facts.
00:51:44.460 I think I'm
00:51:45.300 going to keep
00:51:45.780 addicted to outrage.
00:51:47.900 Those facts
00:51:48.360 are in the
00:51:48.680 addicted to outrage.
00:51:49.140 I'm going to keep 0.77
00:51:49.540 that handy.
00:51:50.200 I'm going to
00:51:50.460 look at those
00:51:51.300 things more
00:51:53.220 than I look
00:51:53.660 at Twitter.
00:51:57.220 This is the
00:51:58.800 best of the
00:51:59.300 Glenn Beck
00:51:59.680 program.
00:52:06.500 Stu had,
00:52:07.420 you know,
00:52:07.900 his precious
00:52:09.380 Eagles lost.
00:52:10.620 They did.
00:52:11.180 And then the
00:52:11.980 Bucks, yes.
00:52:13.180 And then he
00:52:14.340 decides to fly
00:52:15.620 to Los Angeles
00:52:16.240 a little later
00:52:16.940 so he can
00:52:17.920 watch the
00:52:18.420 Eagles.
00:52:19.240 That's part of
00:52:19.860 the reason,
00:52:20.220 yes.
00:52:20.500 That's 100%
00:52:21.400 of the reason.
00:52:21.980 Your kids
00:52:22.360 could be dying.
00:52:23.300 100% is part.
00:52:24.800 I mean,
00:52:24.980 that's definitely
00:52:25.460 the whole part,
00:52:27.180 but it is part.
00:52:28.080 So anyway,
00:52:28.600 so you had a
00:52:30.620 great, great
00:52:31.740 flight.
00:52:32.020 Oh yeah,
00:52:32.240 great experience.
00:52:32.800 Got on the
00:52:33.140 flight.
00:52:33.500 I think it was
00:52:33.760 a 7 o'clock
00:52:34.500 takeoff.
00:52:35.280 Yeah.
00:52:35.440 And about 7.30
00:52:38.820 they gave us
00:52:39.220 our first
00:52:39.560 update,
00:52:40.060 which was
00:52:40.560 they loaded
00:52:41.960 the cargo
00:52:42.800 onto the
00:52:43.740 plane
00:52:44.200 incorrectly.
00:52:46.560 Okay.
00:52:47.020 So it's going
00:52:47.360 to fly crooked.
00:52:48.360 I guess it's
00:52:49.060 going to fly crooked.
00:52:49.500 We need all
00:52:49.880 the fat people
00:52:50.560 to get onto
00:52:51.040 the right side
00:52:51.740 of the plane.
00:52:52.480 Is that something
00:52:52.880 I've never heard
00:52:53.540 of that before?
00:52:54.680 You know,
00:52:55.000 I don't think
00:52:55.340 I ever have
00:52:55.920 either.
00:52:56.380 It's a balance
00:52:57.160 thing.
00:52:57.580 The plane
00:52:57.940 has to be
00:52:58.400 balanced.
00:52:58.960 But with a
00:52:59.700 plane that big
00:53:01.440 though,
00:53:01.740 I've never
00:53:02.740 run into that
00:53:03.400 problem on
00:53:03.980 a commercial
00:53:04.540 flight before.
00:53:05.680 And then about
00:53:06.160 a half an hour
00:53:06.620 later.
00:53:06.820 Because they
00:53:07.000 usually do it
00:53:07.360 right.
00:53:07.720 Right.
00:53:08.240 Yeah.
00:53:08.620 So a half hour
00:53:09.460 later they said,
00:53:10.380 well,
00:53:10.800 we're still
00:53:11.180 working on it
00:53:11.740 and we don't
00:53:11.940 have an update.
00:53:12.800 And another
00:53:13.160 half hour or so
00:53:13.940 goes by.
00:53:15.480 Same thing,
00:53:16.240 another update.
00:53:16.860 As soon as we
00:53:17.260 get this done.
00:53:18.080 Then it was,
00:53:18.840 they ran out
00:53:21.520 of fuel.
00:53:22.180 So they were
00:53:22.480 running too low
00:53:23.440 on fuel,
00:53:23.760 so they had to
00:53:24.100 refill the fuel.
00:53:24.880 So the fuel
00:53:25.280 truck came back
00:53:26.100 and filled it
00:53:26.480 back up to full.
00:53:28.160 Then they gave
00:53:28.980 an update of,
00:53:29.780 okay,
00:53:30.200 some good news.
00:53:31.880 We're not going
00:53:32.580 to have to leave
00:53:33.400 this plane.
00:53:34.320 So we're at
00:53:34.700 about two,
00:53:35.180 two and a half
00:53:36.060 hours at this
00:53:36.580 point.
00:53:36.840 I was sitting
00:53:37.240 on the tarmac.
00:53:38.160 And they said,
00:53:38.720 look,
00:53:38.940 the good news is
00:53:39.400 we're not going
00:53:39.700 to have to
00:53:39.920 actually change
00:53:40.620 planes.
00:53:41.000 We're going
00:53:41.240 to get this
00:53:41.540 one off the
00:53:41.880 ground.
00:53:42.260 About 45 minutes
00:53:43.300 after that,
00:53:44.120 they came up
00:53:44.480 with another
00:53:44.900 update,
00:53:45.300 which was,
00:53:45.840 we are now
00:53:46.200 going to get
00:53:46.560 off the plane
00:53:47.140 because we
00:53:47.700 don't have,
00:53:48.460 we can't stay
00:53:49.120 on this plane,
00:53:49.840 but we're going
00:53:50.380 to try to get
00:53:50.980 another plane.
00:53:52.200 And then it
00:53:52.580 went back into
00:53:53.680 the airport.
00:53:54.500 After two and a half
00:53:55.340 hours,
00:53:55.700 you're going to try
00:53:56.300 to get another
00:53:56.820 plane.
00:53:57.320 Okay.
00:53:57.660 Yeah,
00:53:57.800 we're over,
00:53:58.360 we're over three
00:53:59.140 now.
00:53:59.660 Did you say
00:54:00.060 in the airport?
00:54:01.000 No,
00:54:01.400 no,
00:54:01.940 try not.
00:54:03.000 Do or do not.
00:54:04.640 There is no
00:54:05.300 try.
00:54:06.180 Yes.
00:54:06.960 I almost went
00:54:07.860 full Yoda on
00:54:08.620 them,
00:54:08.860 but I decided
00:54:09.420 not to.
00:54:10.140 Don't do it.
00:54:11.320 Don't go full Yoda.
00:54:13.340 But by the,
00:54:13.920 by the,
00:54:14.240 we went back in
00:54:15.220 about three and a
00:54:16.620 half hours.
00:54:17.260 We finally got back
00:54:18.100 on the flight and
00:54:18.680 took off here.
00:54:19.300 So I'm on a good
00:54:20.320 solid two hours and
00:54:22.140 15 minutes or so
00:54:23.280 of sleep.
00:54:23.680 You're doing good.
00:54:24.160 Thank you.
00:54:24.680 You're doing really
00:54:25.240 well.
00:54:25.280 I feel almost coherent.
00:54:26.500 By the time the
00:54:27.220 News and Why It
00:54:27.720 Matters is on,
00:54:28.700 you're going to be
00:54:29.340 great.
00:54:30.220 You're going to be
00:54:30.880 great.
00:54:32.720 So this is,
00:54:34.300 this is a second
00:54:35.280 flight I have taken
00:54:36.440 in a row where
00:54:38.860 they've pulled the
00:54:40.320 plane back and
00:54:41.060 then said,
00:54:41.620 yeah,
00:54:42.640 we just have a
00:54:43.320 mechanical problem
00:54:44.600 with the plane.
00:54:45.740 I'm like,
00:54:46.360 geez.
00:54:46.960 Okay.
00:54:47.460 We,
00:54:47.780 we should probably
00:54:48.740 check the plane
00:54:50.600 before we come
00:54:52.440 back from the gate
00:54:53.940 on mechanical
00:54:54.820 problems.
00:54:55.380 Is it just me?
00:54:56.500 So you're sitting
00:54:57.680 there and
00:54:58.220 yesterday in
00:54:59.360 Dallas,
00:55:00.040 we were delayed
00:55:00.640 as well because
00:55:02.080 we had that
00:55:02.700 mechanical problem,
00:55:03.720 which they never
00:55:04.340 really identify and
00:55:06.120 was a little hairy
00:55:07.060 because when we
00:55:07.800 took off,
00:55:08.480 it sounded like
00:55:09.260 the landing gear
00:55:10.180 came off the
00:55:10.880 plane.
00:55:12.600 But as we're
00:55:14.100 sitting there and
00:55:15.360 I'm fortunate
00:55:16.140 enough to,
00:55:16.940 you know,
00:55:17.220 sit in,
00:55:17.880 in first class
00:55:18.780 and I'm there
00:55:19.260 and all I was
00:55:21.380 thinking because
00:55:21.860 I was reading,
00:55:22.640 you know,
00:55:23.020 some book on
00:55:23.800 communism,
00:55:24.520 believe it or
00:55:24.800 not,
00:55:25.280 and I'm reading
00:55:25.860 that and I'm
00:55:26.920 looking and I'm
00:55:27.480 like,
00:55:27.880 look at this,
00:55:29.340 look at this
00:55:30.040 system of
00:55:30.640 injustice.
00:55:31.620 They put the
00:55:32.420 people in the
00:55:33.120 front first.
00:55:33.940 They get to sit
00:55:34.520 down.
00:55:34.900 They're having
00:55:35.260 drinks and then
00:55:36.460 they march
00:55:37.340 everybody down
00:55:38.540 the aisle that
00:55:39.720 they can look
00:55:40.280 and go,
00:55:40.720 you're not
00:55:41.300 getting any of
00:55:42.280 this.
00:55:43.480 Then I thought,
00:55:44.740 serious,
00:55:45.140 and this is a
00:55:45.660 serious thought,
00:55:47.120 why do we have
00:55:48.160 the curtain?
00:55:49.540 Seriously.
00:55:50.940 It provides no
00:55:52.140 privacy.
00:55:52.860 It's not like
00:55:53.420 we're,
00:55:54.060 it's not like
00:55:54.540 we close the
00:55:55.380 curtain and then
00:55:55.940 we're all having
00:55:56.540 a party or
00:55:57.440 something.
00:55:58.180 Ah,
00:55:58.420 now we're really
00:55:59.180 going to party.
00:55:59.800 Why do you have
00:56:00.640 the curtain,
00:56:01.180 the first class
00:56:01.740 curtain?
00:56:02.200 I think it's to
00:56:02.820 add that certain
00:56:03.580 little element of
00:56:04.540 eliteness.
00:56:05.280 Yeah,
00:56:05.400 you guys aren't
00:56:05.840 with us and
00:56:06.320 we're not even
00:56:07.020 going to let you
00:56:07.420 look at us.
00:56:08.800 Right.
00:56:09.380 They slam that 0.82
00:56:10.300 curtain shut.
00:56:11.260 I don't.
00:56:11.740 Right.
00:56:12.020 Okay.
00:56:12.380 Okay.
00:56:12.700 I think you're
00:56:13.500 right.
00:56:13.940 I think it is
00:56:14.580 that little,
00:56:15.320 that little air of
00:56:17.000 mystery.
00:56:17.320 So then my
00:56:19.320 thinking again on
00:56:20.860 the tarmac waiting,
00:56:22.060 there wasn't a
00:56:22.720 mechanical problem.
00:56:23.560 I would have been
00:56:23.940 thinking of these
00:56:24.560 things.
00:56:25.700 If that's why we
00:56:26.900 do it,
00:56:27.580 why don't we have
00:56:28.660 a curtain that
00:56:29.860 goes up the
00:56:30.900 aisle so I
00:56:32.320 don't have to
00:56:33.020 look at them
00:56:33.820 and they don't
00:56:34.560 have to look at
00:56:35.280 me.
00:56:36.200 So we're in
00:56:37.260 these,
00:56:37.880 you're just walking
00:56:38.760 by first class.
00:56:39.800 All you see is the
00:56:40.620 carpet in the aisle.
00:56:41.620 There's curtains on
00:56:42.500 both sides.
00:56:43.920 You want to be
00:56:44.760 enclosed?
00:56:45.600 No, I don't.
00:56:46.480 But I mean,
00:56:46.940 if you're going to
00:56:47.800 go for it,
00:56:48.340 if it's like we
00:56:48.900 don't want you to
00:56:49.620 see any of this
00:56:50.380 special stuff,
00:56:51.660 why don't they
00:56:52.200 just go all the
00:56:52.960 way and curtain
00:56:53.580 everybody off?
00:56:54.860 And why aren't
00:56:55.460 the curtains gold?
00:56:56.540 That's another.
00:56:57.460 Exactly.
00:56:58.180 I always thought
00:56:58.700 that was more
00:56:59.300 bathroom guarding
00:57:00.860 because the peons,
00:57:03.200 us peons back in 0.68
00:57:04.580 coach may have to,
00:57:06.420 well, when we walk
00:57:07.140 up, we might be
00:57:08.340 tempted by that
00:57:09.360 front of the plane
00:57:10.080 bathroom, but no,
00:57:11.460 no, we walk to the
00:57:12.820 back because we can't
00:57:13.980 disturb the people
00:57:14.580 in the front because
00:57:15.180 we can't walk
00:57:15.720 through the curtain.
00:57:16.380 It's, you cannot
00:57:17.600 penetrate it.
00:57:18.900 It's a force field
00:57:21.260 against bathroom use.
00:57:22.960 It's really weird.
00:57:23.780 The lady said to me, 0.99
00:57:25.120 the stewardess, she 0.98
00:57:26.060 said, I said, I'm not
00:57:27.660 really hungry.
00:57:28.160 I don't want anything.
00:57:29.280 And she said, she
00:57:32.880 honestly said this
00:57:34.200 like it was
00:57:34.840 distasteful.
00:57:36.140 She said, would you
00:57:38.380 rather have something
00:57:39.220 from the back?
00:57:40.880 I'm like, all I
00:57:42.840 could think of was
00:57:43.460 like, you know, the
00:57:44.120 bathroom and the
00:57:44.820 back, what's in the
00:57:45.540 back?
00:57:45.940 I didn't realize she
00:57:46.580 was talking about,
00:57:47.900 you know, those
00:57:48.620 people.
00:57:49.140 She said, I was
00:57:49.800 like, would you
00:57:50.780 rather have something
00:57:51.380 from the back?
00:57:53.040 I'm like, what is in
00:57:54.300 the back?
00:57:54.820 And she said, you
00:57:55.560 know, cheese and
00:57:56.460 crackers and, you
00:57:58.800 know, little sandwich
00:58:00.080 wraps and boxes.
00:58:01.560 And I'm like, no,
00:58:03.180 I, no, I'm really
00:58:03.980 not hungry.
00:58:05.400 But that didn't
00:58:06.500 sound appetizing at
00:58:08.140 all.
00:58:08.660 Is it possible they
00:58:09.460 just couldn't
00:58:10.120 believe you
00:58:10.720 weren't hungry?
00:58:11.880 Like, she was
00:58:12.500 just shocked that
00:58:13.880 you would, like
00:58:15.700 it's a Jeffy 0.65
00:58:16.360 thing.
00:58:16.940 Like, come on.
00:58:17.980 I wish you were
00:58:18.420 still sitting on
00:58:19.080 the tarmac.
00:58:19.520 I wish you were
00:58:20.800 still sitting on
00:58:22.400 the tarmac right
00:58:23.440 now.
00:58:24.220 Just another 30
00:58:25.380 minutes and they're
00:58:25.960 going to have this
00:58:26.420 thing fixed.
00:58:27.360 Just another 30
00:58:28.420 minutes.
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