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00:01:17.880 So, do you remember the hand-wringing?

00:01:20.940 Do you remember the wailing?

00:01:22.640 The doomsday scenarios forecasted by the left during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation circus?

00:01:27.980 He is going to end women's rights. 1.00

00:01:30.620 In fact, he might end up killing all women. 0.98

00:01:34.020 Do you remember the protesters that were dressed like women from The Handmaid's Tale?

00:01:38.380 Well, the hysteria.

00:01:40.620 It all came down to one issue.

00:01:42.440 The left was scared out of its collective mind that Brett Kavanaugh would somehow single-handedly overturn Roe vs. Wade

00:01:51.200 and force women into the dark ages and bootleg abortions. 1.00

00:01:56.500 This monster was going to destroy all women's rights. 1.00

00:02:02.760 And then, a little something of interest to the pro-abortion crowd came down from the Supreme Court yesterday.

00:02:10.440 Arrgh! 0.98

00:02:11.720 We begin there, right now.

00:02:17.200 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:04:19.120 So, um, so the abortion thing yesterday, Supreme Court, the court dealt a blow to conservatives.

00:04:42.480 Wait a minute.

00:04:44.180 I thought Kavanaugh was the Antichrist.

00:04:47.240 Seems like we should have been the ones freaking out.

00:04:50.800 Now, there were several conservatives, us included, that said, wait a minute.

00:04:55.680 This guy was not on the list.

00:04:57.540 Wait a minute.

00:04:58.420 This guy could be another Justice Thomas.

00:05:00.400 Uh, uh, uh, uh, or, uh, um, not Thomas, but, um, no, the other guy that overturned Roberts.

00:05:08.660 Um, he could be another Justice Roberts.

00:05:12.260 And why is he added all of a sudden?

00:05:14.680 He wasn't on anybody's list.

00:05:16.860 They're freaking out.

00:05:18.860 We are all like, oh, we gotta have him now.

00:05:21.620 So, I, well, I'm not sure he, I mean, he teaches with Jesuits.

00:05:26.500 I'm not sure he's a real conservative.

00:05:28.440 Well, the two part, there's two parts to this.

00:05:31.080 One is, you're right.

00:05:33.200 You know, the list that got Donald Trump elected did not have Brett Kavanaugh's name on it.

00:05:38.120 It was added after he was in office.

00:05:40.200 There are still 20 names on the original list that are not Supreme Court justices.

00:05:44.640 Why did the list need to be expanded?

00:05:46.800 I don't understand it.

00:05:47.920 There were real reasons why Kavanaugh was not on that first list.

00:05:50.980 And the Obamacare decision he was involved in was a big part of that.

00:05:54.620 The second unrelated issue here is Brett Kavanaugh is absolutely a qualified justice.

00:06:00.840 And the attacks against him were absolutely unfair.

00:06:03.840 So, I mean, it was completely fine, I think, for once he was nominated to say he is qualified

00:06:09.680 and it is the president's decision.

00:06:11.320 And I understand all that, but he should not have been on the list.

00:06:14.360 There's 20 people still on the original list that were never named to be nominated as a Supreme Court justice.

00:06:20.060 There was no reason to go off that list.

00:06:22.160 The list is the big reason why Donald Trump was elected.

00:06:24.960 We get hundreds of calls over the election of people saying, look, I, you know, I don't

00:06:29.680 like X, Y, and Z about Donald Trump, but you know what?

00:06:31.880 That Supreme Court list makes me confident and we're going to have Supreme Court justices.

00:06:35.280 We have to get good ones.

00:06:35.940 And it's a logical argument.

00:06:37.280 But why the fact that no one paid any attention because Gorsuch was on the first list and he's

00:06:41.620 been great and he was right in this case.

00:06:43.500 So, here we go.

00:06:45.900 So, the conservatives were hoping to challenge the individual state funding of Planned Parenthood.

00:06:53.080 Six to three vote.

00:06:54.800 Court decided not to review the lower court decisions that blocked the states of Kansas

00:06:59.400 and Louisiana from preventing Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funding.

00:07:04.100 To accept the case, the court needed four justices to vote in favor.

00:07:07.960 Now, to be clear, Medicaid funding in question does not directly involve abortions.

00:07:14.200 Federal law already prohibits using Medicaid to fund abortions, but it's going to Planned

00:07:18.880 Parenthood.

00:07:20.560 Predictably, the court's four progressive justices voted against hearing the appeals.

00:07:26.920 Let the money go to Planned Parenthood.

00:07:29.820 I think also somewhat predictably, the court's chameleon conservative John Roberts voted with

00:07:35.680 the progressives.

00:07:36.500 But wouldn't you know it, the sixth vote against hearing the case came from Brett Kavanaugh.

00:07:43.580 In his dissent, Justice Thomas wrote that the cases in question were not about abortion

00:07:49.060 rights.

00:07:49.520 He said, what explains the court's refusal to do its job here?

00:07:54.100 I suppose it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are

00:08:00.620 named Planned Parenthood.

00:08:02.760 Some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue does not justify abdicating our judicial

00:08:11.220 duty, end quote.

00:08:13.280 Justice Roberts, I'm sure, did this because he just wants everybody to get along.

00:08:18.780 He just wants to save the integrity of the Supreme Court while what?

00:08:24.000 Destroying it?

00:08:24.720 The point is not that Brett Kavanaugh is suddenly pro-abortion or Planned Parenthood supporter.

00:08:30.900 It's that he's already showing himself to be kind, the kind of justice some of us thought

00:08:35.740 he would be.

00:08:37.440 Someone who, like John Roberts, might lean conservative sometimes, but won't always side with the usual

00:08:43.260 conservative block, especially when it comes to things like life.

00:08:47.160 In other words, the left, the left was positive, the sky was falling, that women are just going 1.00

00:08:56.620 to be abused.

00:08:58.160 And this is the linchpin on Planned Parenthood and abortion.

00:09:06.060 Yeah, the sky wasn't falling.

00:09:08.440 It appears it was an acorn.

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00:10:51.260 So hello, Stu.

00:10:53.080 How are you?

00:10:53.720 Pretty well, Glenn.

00:10:54.380 How are you?

00:10:55.080 Good.

00:10:55.340 I was thrilled to see how many people have been writing in and tweeting and Facebook posting how they are, how they're joining.

00:11:05.260 You know, it was Tyler Perry and Chris Rock and Kid Rock and me that went out and we did our local Walmart and took care of all of the layaways.

00:11:19.760 And it was such a cool thing.

00:11:21.940 And I still challenge people in my position to go out and do something amazing because it's really what's great is it's not only good for you, but it's spreading.

00:11:35.060 I had so much mail yesterday from people who said, I went and did this with my family and I just we only had, you know, $50 or we had $100 or we had $25 and it was so cool to do.

00:11:48.480 So.

00:11:49.000 So engage in that.

00:11:52.760 Now, there's there's also a couple of things that I don't know if I don't even know where to begin.

00:11:58.960 Uh, we have 13% of Americans will boycott Christmas spending 13% still boycott Christmas spending.

00:12:07.880 Yeah.

00:12:07.980 They say that they do not want to be a part of this, this whole commercialization.

00:12:13.940 So they're not going to spend any money for the holiday season.

00:12:17.720 13% that's pretty high.

00:12:19.540 Allow me to roll my eyes a little harder at that one.

00:12:22.280 Uh, because you know what?

00:12:23.420 First of all, it's not going to be 13%.

00:12:25.560 13% of people are not, uh, that's just not true.

00:12:29.120 Secondly, we, why do we vilify commercialism so much?

00:12:32.680 What's so raw?

00:12:33.380 What's so bad about it?

00:12:34.580 What's so bad about having cool toys and fun parts?

00:12:37.360 It's not, it can't be the whole holiday.

00:12:39.180 And if it's the whole holiday, then you're right.

00:12:40.880 You're doing it wrong.

00:12:41.640 But it was a great part of my childhood.

00:12:43.620 I loved getting cool things for Christmas.

00:12:45.740 My kids like doing it too.

00:12:47.740 Uh, you know, there's nothing wrong with materialism.

00:12:49.800 It's, it's like, it's, it's like this weird, like, and I know this isn't the way you're thinking about it,

00:12:54.440 but I feel like a lot of conservatives have adopted what is essentially an anti-capitalism liberal argument,

00:13:01.500 which is like, oh, well, we can, you know, buying things makes it nasty and, and, and dirty.

00:13:07.380 And you're sullying, uh, this, this season by getting involved in commercialism.

00:13:13.040 Commercialism is fine.

00:13:14.440 There's nothing wrong with capitalism and conservatism and commerce.

00:13:18.880 They're all pretty darn great.

00:13:20.500 And, you know, the fact is, if you let it become all about gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts.

00:13:27.200 Yeah, you're, you're doing it wrong.

00:13:28.700 That's not the whole thing, but it's part of it and that's okay.

00:13:30.740 So I agree with you.

00:13:31.960 I agree with you.

00:13:32.900 I didn't think you would.

00:13:35.360 Yeah, because I don't, it is not about the gifts.

00:13:38.500 It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's how you embrace that.

00:13:42.620 But it's, uh, if you're making, for instance, I have grown to really not like the month of December,

00:13:52.900 um, because it has become about, I have to go do this.

00:13:58.740 We have to go do that.

00:14:00.080 We have to do this.

00:14:01.380 We have to do this.

00:14:02.360 Did you get the cards out?

00:14:04.240 Everybody's expecting this.

00:14:05.640 Did you get the presents for the people that you really don't even know?

00:14:09.060 And you, and you, have you sent those out and don't forget all the parties, gotta do this

00:14:15.300 and the parties and all of this crap.

00:14:19.320 That's not what this holiday is about.

00:14:21.600 We've, we've made this the most stressful month ever instead of just making this the coolest

00:14:27.840 month ever.

00:14:28.760 Just go and just be with people and help people and, and give people presents.

00:14:34.880 There's nothing wrong with that.

00:14:37.400 Right.

00:14:37.580 And I think you're arguing against being overscheduled, which I find also, and also just making it

00:14:45.540 about stuff.

00:14:47.320 Right.

00:14:47.520 But like a card is not about stuff, right?

00:14:49.780 A card is an acknowledgement to someone else.

00:14:51.720 Hey, I'm thinking about you in this time of year, right?

00:14:54.300 Like that's, but that is a task.

00:14:55.860 It winds up being a task because you want to make sure you get it to everybody.

00:14:58.920 And it doesn't feel like it's supposed to.

00:15:01.800 That's supposed to be a nice gesture, right?

00:15:04.200 That's not about like, oh, here's something they're going to, they're getting some cool

00:15:07.880 commercial gift.

00:15:09.100 Yes.

00:15:09.220 You're buying the card and you could theoretically make the card, but that's all about a message,

00:15:13.120 right?

00:15:13.280 To someone that you supposedly like.

00:15:14.720 But how many times are you getting cards from people?

00:15:17.420 Like for instance, I get a Christmas card.

00:15:20.160 Last few years, I've gotten a Christmas card from Vince Vaughn.

00:15:24.240 Vince Vaughn doesn't think of me in the holidays.

00:15:27.160 He's not thinking of me.

00:15:29.140 You know what I mean?

00:15:29.880 I don't know how I got on his Christmas card list.

00:15:32.340 When I got onto his Christmas card list and I get a Christmas card from him.

00:15:36.080 First of all, it's pretty cool.

00:15:37.100 No, it's cool.

00:15:37.840 It is cool.

00:15:38.840 But it's like, he's not thinking about me.

00:15:42.200 He's like, you know, you know, pal, it's been another year.

00:15:45.680 No, that, and that's what I mean.

00:15:46.840 It becomes a task.

00:15:48.280 Correct.

00:15:48.440 You know, my wife is a classic, she loves Christmas and she's a classic overscheduler, 0.97

00:15:54.560 I would say, in Christmas.

00:15:55.900 Like, so she signs up for every Christmas tradition and she signs up for every, you know, the kids

00:16:01.660 are in every, you know, little Christmas thing.

00:16:03.860 And then every year we get here and she's like, next year we're not doing X, Y, and Z

00:16:07.160 because it's too much.

00:16:08.140 And it's true. 0.56

00:16:08.800 We run around like crazy.

00:16:10.040 Though I do love those things.

00:16:11.720 I do like going to those little traditional events and I like, you know, a lot of it's

00:16:16.080 just like going to see people and doing things that you wouldn't normally do the rest of

00:16:19.320 the year.

00:16:19.800 And, you know, we have two little kids, so they're in like 9,475 Christmas specials that

00:16:24.400 we go to.

00:16:25.520 And then there's multiple showings of those, so we're about 15, 20,000 of those.

00:16:29.580 But I mean, again, like, you don't trade those things.

00:16:32.140 Like, you want to go do them.

00:16:33.740 I feel like...

00:16:34.220 I don't know.

00:16:34.780 I'm kind of glad that Cheyenne's not in ballet this year.

00:16:37.900 They don't have to sit through the damn nutcracker twice.

00:16:42.720 I just...

00:16:43.620 I think because it gets stressful, because you're just adding it on to work, right?

00:16:48.740 And at times it feels like a job.

00:16:50.000 Like, I was on vacation last week, and I feel like I was running around more than any normal

00:16:56.640 work week.

00:16:57.580 You're running around to events and picking kids up, and you're shuttling to the other

00:17:01.560 thing, and then you got to make sure you get there on time, because if you're late,

00:17:04.680 you know, you'll miss it.

00:17:06.480 And then you just feel like you've just adopted a new full-time job for the month.

00:17:11.420 But that's not capitalism's fault.

00:17:13.860 That is not capitalism's fault.

00:17:16.320 Commercialism is a part of Christmas, and I don't...

00:17:19.640 I really don't think it's a bad part of Christmas.

00:17:22.400 I think it's great.

00:17:23.880 I like going to...

00:17:25.260 I like going and doing the shopping and giving people gifts that they don't...

00:17:28.500 You know, that you got to come up with and pick out, and especially with your kids, like

00:17:32.820 the stuff that you're able to get them.

00:17:34.920 I mean, yeah.

00:17:35.940 No, you're right.

00:17:36.920 It can't be your only priority, I think, is a better way of staying in it.

00:17:39.500 I tell this story, I've told this story before, so I apologize, but there was one year that

00:17:44.260 we hit it, the first year that we really hit it, and I grew up in a family that, I mean,

00:17:48.980 I got one present one year, and, you know, we struggled as a family, and I always wanted

00:17:55.600 to do Christmas for my kids big, you know?

00:17:59.060 Oh, yeah.

00:17:59.540 And so I did.

00:18:00.800 We hit it big one year.

00:18:01.980 I can't remember this.

00:18:02.920 I remember this year.

00:18:03.680 Yeah, the presents, I mean, I really, honest to God, I went out and I bought everything

00:18:09.140 I've ever wanted to get my kids and my wife for Christmas.

00:18:12.180 I mean, everything.

00:18:13.300 The presents, the presents were like...

00:18:17.100 You couldn't even see the tree, basically.

00:18:18.240 You couldn't see the tree.

00:18:19.220 You really couldn't see half of the tree, and it was the most empty and hollow Christmas

00:18:24.860 we've ever had.

00:18:26.240 None of us recall that as a good Christmas.

00:18:28.200 And we got everything we wanted.

00:18:30.000 Yeah.

00:18:30.460 It's not about that.

00:18:32.660 It's a priority setting issue.

00:18:33.980 Yeah.

00:18:34.220 Right?

00:18:34.640 I mean, you have to have the more important things or it's not, you're not doing it right.

00:18:39.300 But the fact that you get the little...

00:18:40.500 It's like, you know, someone who is in shape might tell you, you know, eating nonstop ice

00:18:46.940 cream buffets is not the proper diet.

00:18:49.360 Shut up. 0.95

00:18:49.760 But a little ice cream at the end of a meal can be great.

00:18:54.100 Yeah.

00:18:54.320 It's balance in everything.

00:18:56.380 That's all it is.

00:18:57.100 It's just balance.

00:18:58.200 We swing from one side to the other, and we swing so far.

00:19:04.100 It's...

00:19:04.580 The pendulum when it's in the middle is usually the right thing.

00:19:08.660 You know, an all ice cream diet is not good.

00:19:12.160 Ice cream occasionally is good.

00:19:14.740 You know, let's just say a lifestyle where you've never worked out a day in your life,

00:19:21.440 in the end is not good.

00:19:25.200 This was a weird...

00:19:26.440 I don't understand this part of it.

00:19:26.740 I'm still working on that and convincing myself, and I can't really pull it off.

00:19:30.840 A little heroin.

00:19:31.900 A little heroin is okay, but if you're doing it all the time, I mean, it just shakes up

00:19:38.540 your holiday season.

00:19:39.540 That's exactly right.

00:19:40.600 So last night, we finished the tree.

00:19:43.500 If you were listening yesterday, I was abandoned at the tree, okay, on Sunday, because I was

00:19:53.120 decorating it the way my mother...

00:19:56.480 You know, you kind of...

00:19:57.480 You are just who you grew up as, and you don't really realize it, and pretty soon, I found

00:20:03.380 myself as the only one decorating the tree, and I was like, hey, what happened?

00:20:10.200 How come...

00:20:11.000 Is it me?

00:20:12.020 And my wife from the kitchen said, yep, it's you, and it was because I'm really OCD.

00:20:19.520 I'm just so OCD on things and the tree, and so I was doing it like my mother used to,

00:20:27.100 which was, you know, okay, kids, you put the big things to block the hollow parts of

00:20:32.300 the tree, and you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:20:34.560 A real planning process you had.

00:20:35.520 Planning, and it was not fun, and so last night, we decorated the tree, and I let it go, and

00:20:45.560 it was fun.

00:20:49.160 It was fun.

00:20:50.220 I actually did enjoy it.

00:20:52.200 It was very difficult once I sat down, because I couldn't stop, and then I realized what I

00:21:00.040 think it is.

00:21:01.520 We have a fake tree, and fake trees, because we have...

00:21:08.000 When we got a...

00:21:08.900 When we spent our Christmas up at the ranch in the mountains, we get a real tree.

00:21:13.580 In Texas, you don't want a real tree.

00:21:16.220 First of all, you have to mortgage your house to get a real tree, and second of all, it's

00:21:23.940 like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.

00:21:26.300 All the needles just fall off the minute the clock strikes 12, all the needles fall off.

00:21:32.720 They've been dead for so long.

00:21:34.420 Anyway, so we have a real tree when we celebrate Christmas up at the ranch, because we could

00:21:41.360 just go out and cut one.

00:21:42.360 I'm not like that at the ranch.

00:21:46.020 I'm not like that at the ranch, because the tree is imperfect.

00:21:51.460 The tree is just like...

00:21:52.960 I sat down on the couch, and I looked at this damn tree, and I thought, how did I ever like

00:21:56.320 this tree?

00:21:56.900 It's like a perfect cone.

00:22:01.000 And I realized it was...

00:22:03.360 That's not what a Christmas tree is supposed to look like.

00:22:06.300 It is supposed to just be like, you know, the handmade stuff, and the stuff, and it's

00:22:11.720 just kind of imperfect.

00:22:13.160 I mean, so much of it is tradition, right?

00:22:14.440 Did you grow up with all real trees?

00:22:16.840 I didn't.

00:22:17.760 You had fake trees?

00:22:18.800 We had fake trees.

00:22:19.940 Really?

00:22:20.600 Fake trees.

00:22:21.100 That's surprising coming from you.

00:22:22.540 I know.

00:22:23.140 Because I love the fake trees, man.

00:22:24.640 They're so much easier.

00:22:25.780 They are, and that's where I got...

00:22:27.300 But I don't know.

00:22:28.220 It just doesn't seem as authentic, maybe.

00:22:31.840 I don't know.

00:22:32.240 No, it's true.

00:22:33.000 You're trading convenience for authenticity.

00:22:34.300 Yes, you are.

00:22:35.160 Yes, you are.

00:22:36.000 You are.

00:22:36.800 I'm not always opposed to that trade, however.

00:22:40.180 Neither am I.

00:22:41.140 Not always.

00:22:42.000 Not always.

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00:23:50.800 Coming up, the sound of music.

00:23:54.160 The sound of music is, well, has Nazis in it, and people are offended.

00:24:05.220 All right.

00:24:05.920 So, welcome to the program.

00:24:08.040 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:24:09.340 I'm Glenn Beck.

00:24:10.280 Stu is with us.

00:24:11.300 And also, we welcome Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed, a podcast that you can download

00:24:16.980 wherever you download your podcast every day, and also listen to it live every morning on

00:24:21.140 the Blaze Radio Network.

00:24:23.040 What time would that be?

00:24:24.320 Like, when would I tune in for that?

00:24:25.880 Don't have any idea.

00:24:26.720 I've never listened to it.

00:24:27.420 No?

00:24:27.480 Okay.

00:24:28.360 So, Pat, try this on for size.

00:24:32.080 And then I want to hear what you have to talk about.

00:24:34.780 But I just, what is the sound of music about?

00:24:39.740 It's about fleeing the Nazis.

00:24:41.080 It's about fleeing the Nazis.

00:24:42.300 Okay.

00:24:42.480 So, listen to this.

00:24:43.340 LaGuardia High School's most recent production of The Sound of Music was missing some notable

00:24:48.920 and pertinent props.

00:24:53.160 Nazi paraphernalia.

00:24:58.020 The Daily News has reported that all of the Nazi stuff sparked furor among the students

00:25:07.320 and the parents.

00:25:08.320 And so, the school opted to tweak the musical to cut the Nazi parts out.

00:25:16.680 Hmm.

00:25:17.680 So, what is it?

00:25:18.380 About a singing family?

00:25:19.380 Yeah.

00:25:20.200 Right.

00:25:21.380 Singing, fleeing family.

00:25:23.080 Yeah.

00:25:23.420 They're just running from something.

00:25:25.000 Maybe themselves.

00:25:26.300 Maybe Christmas commercialism.

00:25:27.340 Oh, my gosh.

00:25:28.060 That's probably it.

00:25:29.160 Christmas itself, because it's so oppressive.

00:25:31.340 Right.

00:25:31.440 I mean, what do you have left?

00:25:35.080 What do you have left?

00:25:35.760 Nothing.

00:25:36.020 Yeah, nothing.

00:25:36.160 And this is a historic tale.

00:25:38.900 How can you possibly be offended?

00:25:41.560 Yeah, it's a somewhat true story.

00:25:42.900 It's based on a true story.

00:25:43.940 Yeah, based on a true story.

00:25:45.180 Um, also, may I just, uh, point out that the Nazis are the bad guys and they lose. 0.88

00:25:52.640 I mean, how is this a bad thing?

00:25:55.360 How can you possibly be offended?

00:25:58.160 It's so weird.

00:25:59.140 It's almost like you're a Nazi.

00:26:01.320 I don't like this.

00:26:02.180 They escaped.

00:26:03.920 What is the problem?

00:26:06.140 It's all upside down.

00:26:06.860 Yeah, there's no, there is no recognition of truth at all anymore.

00:26:12.380 None.

00:26:13.140 That's exactly what, uh, what I've been talking about this morning, too, with this, uh, Stephen

00:26:17.160 Curry thing. 0.95

00:26:17.860 You know, you probably don't know who he is, but he's, uh, one of the best players in the

00:26:21.440 world, uh, NBA superstar.

00:26:24.840 Um, he was on a podcast the other day with a group of five other people, four or five others.

00:26:31.520 And, uh, it came up, the question came up there.

00:26:34.760 They were just talking about conspiracies and, and things that they believe.

00:26:38.740 And, uh, somebody asked in the room, we ever been to the moon?

00:26:42.900 Everyone in the room said no, including Curry, who said, I don't think so either.

00:26:49.900 Um, no, but were they joking?

00:26:51.860 No, they were not joking.

00:26:53.360 He was asked, are you, now, are you serious?

00:26:55.780 So, yeah, he's, he's serious.

00:26:57.560 I mean, here's a successful college educated 30 year old man.

00:27:03.480 Um, who makes 37 million dollars a year and he doesn't believe we went to the moon.

00:27:11.440 The moon landing was fake.

00:27:12.700 So here is, I invite him to go to NASA, um, in Houston.

00:27:17.280 Uh, here is the, here's the interesting thing.

00:27:19.720 Um, do you remember in 2006, I was on CNN and I said, the current number of people that believe we went to the moon is 8%.

00:27:33.540 I thought it was 6%, but was it 6%, might be 6%, might be 6%, might be 6%, didn't go to the moon.

00:27:38.680 6% was 6%.

00:27:40.380 And I said, that number is going, and I, cause I was talking about conspiracy theories and how, for instance, George Bush blew up the levees.

00:27:49.000 I don't even know if that was the right timeframe, but they were talking about, you know, the 9-11 conspiracy and everything else.

00:27:53.700 And I said, if we don't, if the government and people involved don't state the facts and become very, very transparent, we are going to start to lose all of it.

00:28:07.480 And you will see in the next 10 years, this number double.

00:28:10.600 Well, I think it's at 13%.

00:28:12.340 The last number I saw was at 13%.

00:28:14.440 I'll bet it's higher than that now.

00:28:15.940 I bet it is.

00:28:16.980 I bet it is.

00:28:18.100 There's a lot of people who don't believe it.

00:28:20.220 You know, if you want to suspend reason for a second and just think, okay, well, let's go with that theory.

00:28:25.340 What would have to happen in order for the moon landing to be faked?

00:28:30.240 You really would have had to kill every one of the astronauts, right?

00:28:32.940 Cause you can't trust them for the next 50 years.

00:28:34.900 They're going to keep it to themselves.

00:28:37.680 Hundreds of people in the production.

00:28:39.980 In the production.

00:28:40.700 Hundreds.

00:28:41.560 Cameramen, support people.

00:28:43.520 Set designers.

00:28:44.460 Set designers.

00:28:45.280 Everybody.

00:28:45.640 The idea people, the people at NASA, they'd all have to go.

00:28:50.720 They'd all have to go.

00:28:51.660 Government officials who were in on it.

00:28:53.280 The president.

00:28:53.900 I mean, you're talking to hundreds, maybe thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people

00:28:58.200 would have to be killed to keep that a secret.

00:29:00.580 Then the other thing you're also assuming is that the Soviet Union was in on it.

00:29:05.320 Okay.

00:29:05.500 Hang on just a second.

00:29:06.180 You also, you also have to say that all of the people that watched the launches in person.

00:29:15.680 Yeah.

00:29:17.280 Unless they're saying we just launched empty rockets into space and then we picked it up

00:29:22.500 on a, on the, you know, floor of a, of a stage someplace.

00:29:27.040 Right.

00:29:28.240 Right.

00:29:28.540 But I mean, it just doesn't make any sense.

00:29:30.460 It's crazy.

00:29:31.300 All these things are nuts.

00:29:32.740 But you know, it's, it's about the internet, right?

00:29:34.620 I mean, the internet now has plausible looking documentaries and things that seem smart.

00:29:40.500 And you know, this is how these conspiracy theories grow.

00:29:42.780 To your point here, Glenn, the poll, I think we were referring to back in the day, it was

00:29:46.060 a Gallup poll in 1999 and was taken.

00:29:48.380 Six percent of Americans doubted the Apollo 11 moon landing happened.

00:29:52.040 And now, a, this is amazing, 2009, a poll held by the United Kingdom's Engineering and

00:30:01.440 Technology Magazine found that 25% of those surveyed did not believe that men played on

00:30:07.140 the moon.

00:30:07.780 Now that's in the UK.

00:30:08.820 Okay.

00:30:09.580 But still, that's unreal.

00:30:12.480 That is unreal.

00:30:13.000 I'm telling you, I'm telling you, if you had, think, think of this, think of this, just

00:30:19.340 write a fiction book with me here for just a second.

00:30:22.700 AI comes in, takes over the world.

00:30:25.240 The only thing that you can do to save the world, save humanity, if you can get away with

00:30:31.360 it, is to put a universal EMP.

00:30:34.420 So it fries every circuit.

00:30:37.360 Okay.

00:30:37.680 But the getting there has been so traumatic.

00:30:41.760 And you also lose, if you did a global EMP, you will probably lose anywhere from 50 to 90

00:30:49.820 percent of the world's population in the first year.

00:30:52.380 In any industrialized nation, it'll be 90 percent.

00:30:55.700 Okay.

00:30:55.960 So the traumatic experience would just be forever lasting.

00:31:01.600 You lose all of that information.

00:31:04.480 You lose all of the digital records of everything.

00:31:08.680 You lose all machinery because everything is, there's not a plane that is even flying.

00:31:14.640 If you don't restart it right away, you fall into a time of darkness that in 50 years, 50

00:31:22.720 years, maybe, no one believes man could even fly.

00:31:27.780 Nobody believes in modern medicine.

00:31:29.780 Nobody believes in an x-ray machine.

00:31:31.960 Nobody believes in any of this stuff.

00:31:34.120 Those are all fairy tales.

00:31:35.720 Especially if somebody who was trying to control the collective and was an anti-capitalist took

00:31:43.080 over, they would discredit everything and they would teach it in schools.

00:31:47.400 You are 50 years away from all of this being denied.

00:31:53.400 Easily.

00:31:54.060 Easily.

00:31:54.620 And maybe less than that because look, all of that stuff still exists.

00:31:58.680 We have all the technology available to us and you still got these kinds of inroads being

00:32:03.640 made with the disbelief.

00:32:04.860 So let me ask you this.

00:32:07.720 The, um, uh, the NSA said that they believe by 2020 deep fakes are going to start playing

00:32:15.840 a significant role in our society, meaning the, the, the next presidential campaign, you're

00:32:25.160 going to see actual video that looks like Donald Trump or some other candidate doing something

00:32:33.420 wrong and you will, you, your eyes will not be able to tell you the truth.

00:32:39.760 Okay.

00:32:41.060 That's only going to get worse.

00:32:43.400 You start taking video and you make video.

00:32:47.880 So it looks real.

00:32:49.740 You can convince that we never went to the moon in a year, in a year, because there is

00:32:58.400 nothing credible anymore.

00:33:00.220 The president is incredible.

00:33:02.060 Congress is in credit, uh, credible.

00:33:04.400 Academia is incredible.

00:33:05.940 The press is incredible.

00:33:07.680 None of nobody is credible anymore.

00:33:09.860 Nobody, and no matter how hard you try to be credible, you're, you're not going to be

00:33:15.080 credible.

00:33:15.800 I mean, it's really shows you've got to be very careful with your credibility, but tell

00:33:23.800 me the institution.

00:33:24.860 The people have faith in, yeah, I mean, military, military, probably the most solid in society,

00:33:34.880 certainly elements that don't have faith in that, but, uh, you know, there's police still

00:33:39.900 do okay on these polls, but they're not, you know, it's maybe your church, but all of those

00:33:46.840 things, all of those things are coming undone.

00:33:50.200 I mean, you just don't have a civilization with that.

00:33:54.120 It's why, you know, I just read another story.

00:33:56.780 Uh, the headline today on Brexit said, uh, Teresa May, uh, non-ending chaos for Britain.

00:34:08.480 Chaos, chaos.

00:34:11.240 We can't do anything to add to chaos.

00:34:15.400 Yes, we have to really concentrate on doing the things that bring people together that

00:34:22.160 are real, tangible, simple, you know, just simple truths.

00:34:29.380 And unfortunately we're going the opposite direction.

00:34:30.900 Going the opposite way.

00:34:31.560 When you look at what's going on in Europe, when you look at what's going on with Brexit

00:34:35.000 and England and France, now spreading to Belgium and the Netherlands and here.

00:34:41.060 Wouldn't you be infuriated if you were in, in Great Britain and you voted for Brexit

00:34:45.040 and they're playing with it like this?

00:34:45.960 Oh my gosh.

00:34:46.480 I would be crazy.

00:34:47.680 I'm surprised it's not, I mean, I'm surprised it doesn't look like Paris.

00:34:50.220 Oh yeah.

00:34:50.340 I am too.

00:34:50.900 I am too.

00:34:51.440 It may.

00:34:52.060 If this, if this falls through, if it falls through, it may, it may.

00:34:55.600 I would be, I would be beside, well, no, hang on just a second.

00:35:00.360 Why aren't we out on the streets about the border wall?

00:35:03.060 Yeah.

00:35:03.440 Well, I mean, I never believed the border.

00:35:05.460 I mean, Pat and I said we would eat our underwear if we ate 90% of the border wall.

00:35:08.560 Why aren't we out on the street because of Obamacare?

00:35:11.580 Repeal of Obamacare.

00:35:12.640 Right.

00:35:13.260 Yeah.

00:35:13.600 I mean, look at how many times we have spoken clearly.

00:35:17.620 And did you see the Senate just proposed, now that they can't pass it, a $25 billion bill

00:35:22.420 for the wall, to build the wall in its entirety.

00:35:24.720 It's like, okay, why didn't you do that last year?

00:35:27.260 Right.

00:35:27.840 No, wait, what do you mean why they can't pass it?

00:35:30.100 Well, they can't pass it now with the House going to the Democrats.

00:35:32.860 There's no way.

00:35:33.620 And I think they know that.

00:35:34.860 And that's why they've now proposed it.

00:35:36.540 Yes, but if you want any credibility, you have to pass it in the House and then get

00:35:41.420 it to the Senate before the end of the year.

00:35:43.580 I know you won't.

00:35:45.000 They won't.

00:35:45.620 But that's what you do.

00:35:47.640 We're done with these games of, oh, well, we did it.

00:35:51.480 No, you didn't.

00:35:52.660 Well, we need the majority in order to pass this kind of.

00:35:56.040 Yeah, you had that.

00:35:56.880 You had it.

00:35:57.360 It's not going to work on us.

00:35:58.460 You have no credibility.

00:36:00.000 They're trying to claim now, oh, we've repaired some of the existing wall.

00:36:03.820 Shut up. 0.95

00:36:04.300 That's pretty good.

00:36:05.620 Shut up. 0.95

00:36:06.340 But I mean, go to, you know, Brexit, though.

00:36:09.840 It wasn't like Obamacare repeal.

00:36:11.700 Obamacare repeal was a proposal that one party offered.

00:36:14.660 Right.

00:36:15.040 Yes.

00:36:15.340 This was something that passed.

00:36:16.720 The people voted on it.

00:36:17.820 This happened.

00:36:18.840 Yeah.

00:36:19.040 Right.

00:36:19.320 It's like if they passed.

00:36:20.100 That was direct democracy.

00:36:21.420 And it won.

00:36:22.440 And it won.

00:36:23.160 And now I'd be pissed.

00:36:23.620 And they're just like, yeah, I don't know if we're really going to do that.

00:36:26.180 You guys aren't that smart.

00:36:27.700 We don't think you really want it.

00:36:28.880 We're going to do something else.

00:36:29.840 That would be.

00:36:30.700 We know better than you do.

00:36:31.740 Yeah.

00:36:32.100 That won't be good for us.

00:36:33.120 So we're going to do something else.

00:36:34.620 That's really.

00:36:35.500 It's bad.

00:36:36.140 It's bad.

00:36:36.840 It is really, really bad.

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00:38:29.000 You know, we're talking about who has any credibility.

00:38:34.320 You know, with the stuff going back and forth with Trump, are you paying attention to that

00:38:39.640 as much as you would have in the past, Stu?

00:38:43.840 I mean, I just feel like there's so many rumors and leaks.

00:38:46.540 I'm just going to wait for the freaking reports to come out and we'll judge it then.

00:38:49.320 Right.

00:38:49.680 You know, I mean, I really, especially when Michael Cohen's involved.

00:38:52.780 I mean, he was completely, he had no credibility long before he started turning on Trump.

00:38:57.480 He's never in his life had any credibility.

00:38:59.660 So when he's making an accusation, I'm immediately dismissive of it.

00:39:03.900 I was dismissive of it back in the day when he was saying Trump had the greatest golf courses

00:39:08.280 in the universe.

00:39:09.080 And I'm dismissive of it now because he has zero credibility.

00:39:12.460 And the media all knew this until he turned against Trump.

00:39:14.920 And now they all love him.

00:39:15.800 And I am dismissive of the media because it's always the worst thing ever.

00:39:21.640 I am dismissive of Donald Trump because I didn't have anything to do with paying those

00:39:26.120 women off. 1.00

00:39:26.520 I didn't even know about it.

00:39:27.640 Now, of course I knew about it, but it wasn't illegal.

00:39:30.060 Come on, man.

00:39:31.300 I need some credibility.

00:39:32.300 So there's nobody with any credibility on this.

00:39:34.980 So I was interested to see Andy McCarthy's take on this, where he says that Trump is

00:39:40.760 going to be indicted.

00:39:41.840 Now, Andrew McCarthy is big supporter, big supporter of Trump.

00:39:45.840 And he says, this is the the indictment of Cohen, he said, speaks volumes.

00:39:52.820 And he said, I think he's going to be indicted for a felony.

00:39:56.860 He comes from the background of investigating.

00:39:58.920 And he's seen a million of these indictments.

00:40:01.080 And he he's a federal.

00:40:02.240 He's a federal prosecutor.

00:40:04.580 Yeah.

00:40:05.020 And was big on all the terrorism in New York.

00:40:07.060 Yeah.

00:40:07.300 You know, you know, this guy.

00:40:08.540 And he he's saying a lot of it because of the way it's worded, the way they're structuring

00:40:13.980 it.

00:40:14.600 They're signaling what they're going to do.

00:40:16.720 And it's it's interesting.

00:40:17.720 It doesn't mean that Donald Trump did anything wrong or not.

00:40:20.300 And it's just the fact that what they're actually the way they design the document says they're

00:40:25.920 coming after him.

00:40:26.860 Right.

00:40:27.260 So Andrew McCarthy, I think, has some credibility and a and an opinion worth listening to.

00:40:34.080 And he is coming up next.

00:40:35.940 What what is what are those who are after Donald Trump actually planning to do this coming year?

00:40:45.680 Andrew McCarthy next.

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00:42:03.240 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:42:05.160 So I don't know about anybody else.

00:42:07.400 And it's partly the holidays.

00:42:09.060 It's also partly because who has credibility on anything anymore?

00:42:13.340 This this Trump Mueller debacle.

00:42:19.680 Who do you trust?

00:42:21.100 Cohen?

00:42:22.660 Who do you trust?

00:42:24.040 Mueller?

00:42:25.180 Trump?

00:42:27.340 What's really happening?

00:42:30.160 Well, there is one guy that I trust.

00:42:32.200 Andy McCarthy.

00:42:33.260 He is a contributing editor of the National Review.

00:42:36.720 And he is a former federal prosecutor in New York.

00:42:41.020 And he came out and he's a Trump supporter.

00:42:44.160 And he said, yes, reading what they're putting out.

00:42:47.680 And I worked in those offices.

00:42:49.340 I wrote those kinds of things.

00:42:52.300 And I'm telling you, they're going to indict the president.

00:42:55.860 And it's a felony.

00:42:59.480 But it also there's more to this story.

00:43:02.300 And so we are going to talk to Andy McCarthy in a minute.

00:43:07.540 This is the Glenn Beck program.

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00:45:10.140 We have Andrew McCarthy on with us, contributing editor of the National Review.

00:45:14.460 Andrew, Andy, I was you are one of the only voices that have penetrated my world when it comes to what's happening with the Trump investigation,

00:45:26.720 because you have credibility and I know that you're a Trump supporter, so you don't have an axe to grind.

00:45:33.900 And so when you say, I think he's going to be indicted because this is the way this is being written.

00:45:40.200 It carried some weight and I wanted to talk to you about it.

00:45:42.580 How are you, Andrew?

00:45:43.820 I'm doing I'm doing just great, Blinds. 1.00

00:45:46.060 How are you?

00:45:46.900 I'm I'm I'm great.

00:45:48.280 I've been I don't know if other people feel this way, but I've been really confused with all that's going on because it's all leaks or speculation.

00:45:55.960 And, you know, I'm just waiting for the thing to just when the shoes drop, then we'll talk about it.

00:46:02.740 But you are a federal a former New York federal investor.

00:46:08.020 Sorry, prosecutor.

00:46:09.160 And so you used to write the the things like you just read from Cohen's.

00:46:16.080 Right.

00:46:17.980 What do you call it?

00:46:19.700 What was the sentencing memorandum sentencing memorandum?

00:46:22.180 So you used to write it and those things and you say this is very telling.

00:46:28.140 Can you explain?

00:46:30.100 Sure.

00:46:30.460 I think, Glenn, you're right to be suspicious when you hear the leaked information, because obviously the people who leak are telling you the they're sort of mining the parts of the story they want you to hear and holding back other stuff.

00:46:45.000 Whereas when they do these court filings, this is a 40 page document that is customarily filed about a week or two in advance of the imposition of sentence by the court.

00:46:57.380 You get a full flavor of what the government's theory about the cases and where they're going with the investigation.

00:47:06.060 And it seemed to me that this sentencing memo is more directed at President Trump than it is at Cohen.

00:47:15.840 Sentencing memos are interesting in terms of legal filings because they're not kind of dry legal issue oriented submissions.

00:47:25.520 They're almost like jury arguments, except they're meant to persuade the sentencing judge.

00:47:29.860 So they tend to be more forceful and colorful and sort of filled with their prosecution theory.

00:47:37.720 And here, this one reads in the part of it that deals with the campaign finance laws as a testimonial to the importance of those laws to the integrity of the system and how they are meant to make sure that the rich and the powerful don't usurp all of the power in the system and designed to fight against public cynicism about money in politics.

00:48:05.740 I mean, it almost seemed to me like it was it was it was drafted with the president in mind more than Cohen.

00:48:13.600 And then I look at the other attendance situations or attendance circumstances that you have here.

00:48:21.380 Number one, they didn't really need these campaign finance counts on Cohen.

00:48:26.140 His sentence is really driven by the bank fraud and the tax fraud counts.

00:48:29.740 These add negligibly negligibly at most to his case, but they're obviously critical, critical in connection with Trump at the guilty plea allocution.

00:48:42.020 They gratuitously had him say that he was directed by Trump.

00:48:48.520 In connection with these payments, that is not something that was necessary to the factual basis for Cohen's own plea.

00:48:57.100 And ordinarily, prosecutors in public proceedings do not go out of their way to implicate uncharged people in felonies.

00:49:07.540 So it seemed to me they were sort of reaching to do that.

00:49:11.320 And it doesn't I don't see that they have any other purpose of doing that, except that they want to lock Cohen in on this version of events.

00:49:20.580 And this is their chance of doing it.

00:49:22.900 And then the other thing I would point to is they have given immunity, I believe, to four different people in this campaign finance investigation.

00:49:33.260 Campaign finance is not a very serious felony in the greater scheme of things.

00:49:38.480 They've given immunity to two people connected to the National Enquirer.

00:49:43.800 And I believe two people connected with the with the Trump organization, which relates to the structuring of the reimbursement payment to Cohen.

00:49:53.940 I don't think they gave four people immunity to tighten up the case on Cohen that they didn't need.

00:50:00.080 So all right.

00:50:02.080 OK, so so what does that tell you they're going to do with Trump?

00:50:08.340 Well, it seems to be they're going to indict him.

00:50:12.340 One of the things, Glenn, that I should have said was that I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about what these two campaign finance counts allege.

00:50:23.340 Most people, I think, believe that because Cohen had a twenty seven hundred dollar limit as a normal contributor, that these payments were way above that limit.

00:50:36.660 And that's why he had to plead guilty.

00:50:38.360 But very interestingly, the first of the counts is not that Cohen made an illegal payment.

00:50:48.040 It's that he caused a third party, namely the the business entity that controls the National Enquirer, to make a to make a payment that was illegal for the National Enquirer to make.

00:51:03.960 And the point here is it's the theory is even if a transaction would be legal as to you, if you did it yourself, it is still illegal to cause a third party to do something that would be unlawful as to that third party.

00:51:24.120 And it seems to me that that answers directly what Trump's lawyers have been saying about this, which is that the president, because he was the candidate, did not have a limit on what he could spend on his own campaign.

00:51:42.020 Now, I've always thought that was a kind of a flawed explanation because there's there's two parts that are important to campaign finance.

00:51:48.380 One is the limits, but the probably the more important one is reporting.

00:51:52.700 So even a candidate has to report what he spends.

00:51:56.700 But for for our narrow purpose here, if if Cone is being directed by Trump and they have Cone plead guilty to causing a third party entity to make an illegal contribution,

00:52:11.500 it seems obvious to me that Trump also has to be guilty of that.

00:52:16.520 So it seems it at least looks to me like that is the case they're trying to make.

00:52:22.860 Right. OK, so let's pursue this a bit more.

00:52:26.480 Let me just take a quick one minute break.

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00:54:02.340 So contributing editor.

00:54:04.420 Contributing editor of the National Review is Andy McCarthy, and we're talking about what what the Democrats or I should say what the prosecution in New York is planning on doing with Cohen and Donald Trump.

00:54:31.680 Andy, I never for one moment in my entire life have I found Michael Cohen to be credible about anything he's ever said.

00:54:38.440 This goes long before he was turned on Trump, and now the media seems to find him very credible.

00:54:43.180 Is there more to this than just Cohen saying Trump told him to do these things, or is there do they have additional evidence that makes you believe they know this really happened?

00:54:55.920 Stu, I think you're entirely right to be suspicious of anything this guy says, and the prosecutors know that.

00:55:06.300 I should point out that the guy who's running the investigation in the Southern District is Rob Kusami, who was my partner or one of my two partners on the blind shake case.

00:55:17.880 You know, he's a whip smart lawyer, and he's handled plenty of cases where you have people who are not exactly upstanding members of the community who are our main witnesses.

00:55:32.540 And what you generally do with those cases is you look the jury in the eye at the beginning and say, you know, look, we're not going to trust this guy any more than you should.

00:55:40.620 And if if somebody tells you that, you know, that we're asking you to rely on his word, nothing else, then you should just not believe that you should reject it.

00:55:51.140 But look at where he's corroborated and see how his testimony stacks up with the stuff that that you know is true.

00:55:59.080 And I think what they're doing here to try to tighten up the case with respect to to him is twofold.

00:56:07.440 One, they have given immunity to these guys from the National Enquirer, which would help them corroborate him on the agreement that they apparently had to try to purchase and bury stories that would be unfavorable to Trump.

00:56:25.100 And then I think on the back end, Stu, what they would do is prove up how Cohen was paid.

00:56:33.980 And this is where the Trump organization comes into the equation.

00:56:39.360 After he did these payments, what happened in I think the payments were in mid to late October of 2016.

00:56:48.900 And he only paid one.

00:56:52.800 The National Enquirer does one.

00:56:54.500 He does the Stormy Daniels one, which is one hundred and thirty grand.

00:56:58.160 And what they do with that is he ends up being reimbursed by the Trump organization, which is odd because they don't seemingly have anything to do with this.

00:57:08.220 Right. And what the Trump organization does is they tell him we're going to do this as part of a retainer agreement and they double the amount that he paid.

00:57:20.280 So so so that for tax purposes, it looks like it's, you know, two hundred and sixty thousand so that he gets reimbursed for the full hundred and thirty thousand.

00:57:32.200 And then they on top of that gave him a sixty thousand dollar bonus.

00:57:36.540 And what they told him to do was we're going to have this look like a retainer agreement.

00:57:42.460 And then every month you give us an invoice for 12 months and we will pay you thirty five thousand a month, I think, was the was the amount they settled on.

00:57:52.300 So that it looks like he signed a retainer to do legal work for them beginning in January of twenty seventeen.

00:58:01.180 And then he bills them once a month for thirty five thousand.

00:58:04.680 So it looks like a forward going legal contract when, in fact, it's reimbursement for something that happened in October.

00:58:12.020 So I think from the prosecutor's standpoint, what they would say is if Trump hadn't known about this and Trump wasn't controlling it and it wasn't exactly the way that Cohen said,

00:58:23.420 first of all, why on earth would Cohen be shelling out his own money to cover up Trump's affairs, but also look at the way this was paid.

00:58:32.960 It was paid by the Trump organization and they did it in a way that was designed to conceal what it was actually about.

00:58:41.560 OK, so we're talking to Andrew McCarthy.

00:58:43.840 He is contributing editor of the National Review.

00:58:46.700 He also was a former federal prosecutor in New York.

00:58:50.580 So can you compare this, Andrew, to anything else?

00:58:56.120 I mean, is is I mean, I find this a big deal because the president looked at us in the face and said, I know nothing about it.

00:59:05.680 I had nothing to do with it.

00:59:07.180 And it's clear that, well, you can't say he did.

00:59:11.340 I think he's actually admitted that he did now at this point, didn't he?

00:59:14.100 So it's clear that he did know about it and it looks like there was some level to make it go away and kind of a cover up.

00:59:23.140 Can you compare this to anything?

00:59:25.220 How big of a deal is this if you take politics out of it?

00:59:30.540 Yeah, I think, Glenn, it's all about politics, actually.

00:59:33.480 Legally, I must tell you now and now I kind of feel with this thing like I'm the I'm the weatherman.

00:59:41.660 Right. I'm here to tell you it's going to rain.

00:59:43.820 Don't blame me for the rain.

00:59:45.300 Right. I don't think I don't think this is a I don't think this is a good case legally.

00:59:50.660 I don't think that this is an in kind campaign contribution.

00:59:57.340 The one thing, the one case that we have that's close to it is the John Edwards case, which had a very ambiguous result.

01:00:05.680 I mean, basically, it's similar facts.

01:00:08.360 The Justice Department charged it as felonies.

01:00:11.180 The court let it go to the jury.

01:00:13.080 When a court lets a case go to the jury, that means the court has found that a rational juror could convict.

01:00:18.220 But in the end, the jury acquitted on the counts that were decided.

01:00:24.080 And then the Justice Department thought the case was so weak that they they decided not to retry the counts that the jury hung on.

01:00:31.040 So we have a very ambiguous situation as far as, you know, what the law is here.

01:00:38.760 I always think these regulatory things, they're not really meant for the criminal law.

01:00:43.380 That's why they're usually handled as administrative fines with the with the Federal Election Commission.

01:00:50.020 And the thing I I don't like the aspect of this where I think they could get you coming or going.

01:00:57.380 So what I mean by that is let's say Trump agreed with them and that these were campaign expenditures.

01:01:05.240 Right. If the campaign expenditures, what if he had taken campaign funds?

01:01:11.000 People contribute to his campaign and he had used campaign funds to pay hush money payments.

01:01:18.420 I think the same people who are screaming felony now would be saying if that was what he had done, that he had diverted campaign funds for his personal use.

01:01:29.060 So I just think this is one of these things where no matter what he did, they were going to say that it was a violation of the campaign laws one way or the other.

01:01:40.040 And if that's the situation you're in, that to me underscores that this is not appropriate for the criminal law.

01:01:46.260 We want our criminal statutes to be very clear so that the average person can understand what the law is.

01:01:51.980 I mean, you said that one of the things that they want to do is restore public trust, but it's trust is getting worse and worse and worse and worse because Rosie O'Donnell didn't pay a price for doing something much worse than Dinesh D'Souza did.

01:02:07.380 Barack Obama had two million dollars in campaign finance irregularities, which is much bigger than than this one.

01:02:14.960 And yet they just told him to pay a fine. So it's not really clearing things up.

01:02:21.340 If if we were going to apply the law equally, it would. Right. But I don't think we do.

01:02:27.100 Yeah, I think that's a great point. Prosecutorial discretion is something that's necessary for the system to function, you know, as an overarching matter.

01:02:36.740 But I think if you have prosecutorial discretion that's so elastic that the prosecutor can arbitrarily say, based on politics or whatever else, that the same conduct is handled in one case as an administrative fine and in another case as a felony prosecution.

01:02:56.060 I mean, what they did with Dinesh D'Souza was a disgrace because that was not only a trivial violation, they actually charged it not as one felony, but two because they tried to lop on to that case, a false statements case that you can't.

01:03:12.220 If you're going to commit the campaign finance violation that causes the filing to be inaccurate.

01:03:18.000 So you have to make a false statement. OK, they turn something that Congress made a two year crime into a seven year crime.

01:03:24.920 Andrew McCarthy, thank you so much. Contributing editor, National Review. We'll check in again as things progress.

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01:06:05.540 Shut up. 0.95

01:06:07.300 Anybody who is actually upset at that story and that and and, you know, that whole Christmas special.

01:06:16.100 Shut up. 0.95

01:06:17.060 Do you have no life?

01:06:19.060 First of all, do you know the story?

01:06:21.080 Do you know how the story of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer happened?

01:06:24.040 You know how it was created?

01:06:26.840 It was created by a guy.

01:06:28.540 I think it was in the 1950s.

01:06:31.500 Sears was having a great, you know, Sears had Santa and Sears had, you know, had all of the, you know, Christmas cheer.

01:06:41.060 And so Montgomery Ward needed something different.

01:06:44.860 And so they went to one of the guys in the in their ad room and said, we need we need something.

01:06:50.940 And he said, OK.

01:06:52.280 And so he wrote the story of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

01:06:54.740 It was written as an ad piece because they made it into a little paperback book that you could only get at Montgomery Ward.

01:07:03.400 OK, later, the song came out and everything else.

01:07:06.240 But it was written as an ad piece.

01:07:07.920 What's great about this story is it shows you how corporate America is different.

01:07:13.200 Back in the 1950s, when he wrote this, it was worth a lot of money, not like it is now, but worth a lot of money.

01:07:20.120 His wife got cancer and, you know, back then it was a death sentence, but also just, you know, horribly, horribly expensive.

01:07:33.720 And he was really struggling.

01:07:37.300 And so Montgomery Ward came to him and said, you know what?

01:07:40.840 We're going to sign this over to you.

01:07:43.560 Remember, everything that you create inside a company belongs to the company.

01:07:46.820 So it belonged to Montgomery Ward.

01:07:48.800 They said, we're going to give you your story and exploit it all you can, and that will help you get back on your feet, et cetera, et cetera.

01:07:57.540 Can you imagine?

01:07:58.520 Wow.

01:07:58.760 That's stuff that that does not happen often.

01:08:00.480 No, it doesn't.

01:08:01.200 When does that happen?

01:08:02.520 That is that's fantastic.

01:08:04.460 That's a great story.

01:08:06.300 And the story was to show that.

01:08:08.900 Remember, we're coming out of a time where the progressive president wouldn't even show himself in a wheelchair because he he thought that that was a sign of weakness.

01:08:18.800 And he didn't want to ever be seen weak.

01:08:21.980 So the guy couldn't stand.

01:08:23.700 The guy couldn't walk.

01:08:25.660 At all.

01:08:27.060 Anytime you see him standing or walking, it's usually with his son next to him.

01:08:31.280 And his son is the one who is holding him up, not FDR's legs.

01:08:36.040 So we come out of a time where you're you're a freak.

01:08:40.180 You're weak if you're in a wheelchair. 0.99

01:08:42.020 I personally look at that from FDR and think that is the strongest guy.

01:08:46.800 Right.

01:08:47.300 Here's a guy who did all that he did agree or disagree, did all that he did in a wheelchair at a time when everybody thought, oh, look at the little cripple. 0.99

01:08:55.720 I think this is a fantastic story, but that's not the way it was viewed.

01:09:00.560 So what is Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer do?

01:09:02.860 It's to try to correct that in society.

01:09:06.700 All right.

01:09:07.600 So now Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is made into a special and it's made into a special, I think, in 64 or 62.

01:09:13.500 I can't remember.

01:09:14.880 But that's I mean, that's look at me.

01:09:17.140 That was the year I was born, 1964.

01:09:19.820 I haven't aged that well either.

01:09:21.220 And for people to be upset about this in a serious way, shut up.

01:09:27.920 We've been saying it forever.

01:09:29.420 Santa's a jerk in that.

01:09:31.540 The reindeer coach, Rudolph's dad, a jerk, the elf leader, a jerk.

01:09:39.840 We got it.

01:09:40.940 We got it.

01:09:42.780 At least know the facts of what the story is really all about.

01:09:46.840 And that goes with baby, it's cold outside.

01:09:49.360 Now everybody is upset stations.

01:09:52.620 Any radio station that bans baby, it's cold outside because you think it's part of the rape culture. 0.90

01:09:59.180 You deserve to you deserve to go out of business.

01:10:04.300 Are you really that stupid that for 70 years this has been a wink, wink, nudge, nudge?

01:10:12.680 Hey, let's rape girls at Christmas. 1.00

01:10:15.380 Right.

01:10:15.660 And because it's been a we've made fun of that before.

01:10:18.600 It's like the thing they'll jump to eventually that this is actually a date rape song.

01:10:22.860 Yes.

01:10:23.080 And, you know, mocking the idea that, you know, I mean, it does.

01:10:26.960 There are elements of it that kind of sound that way if you want it.

01:10:29.280 If you want to intentionally take it the wrong way.

01:10:31.940 Can I tell you how far we've come?

01:10:33.560 Do you know what this song is really about?

01:10:34.720 Yeah, it's kind of the opposite, right?

01:10:36.820 Exactly the opposite.

01:10:38.640 This song was written to empower women because women weren't allowed to be sexy back then. 0.99

01:10:46.280 They weren't allowed to be like, oh, I don't know.

01:10:50.000 I don't know.

01:10:50.500 It is kind of cold.

01:10:51.760 It is.

01:10:52.600 They were not allowed to make those decisions.

01:10:55.500 They were not allowed to be sexy.

01:10:57.260 You were not allowed to say, well, maybe I will stay.

01:11:00.620 This was a song that was empowering for women.

01:11:06.840 This is how far women have come. 1.00

01:11:10.460 And yet you don't even recognize it.

01:11:13.180 Instead of celebrating this song and saying, yeah, it's a little outdated, but here's the real story behind it.

01:11:18.700 Instead, you don't even remember the real story, the real reason why it was written, what it really stands for.

01:11:24.960 You just immediately go, see, this is what's wrong with America.

01:11:28.200 It's about rape. 0.99

01:11:29.220 Oh, shut up. 0.99

01:11:31.280 I can't take the stupidity anymore.

01:11:33.720 That's really my biggest problem right now is I cannot take the stupidity.

01:11:38.780 And it's not stupidity.

01:11:40.260 It is self-imposed ignorance.

01:11:42.820 Yeah, that's a good way of putting it because it's not real, I don't think.

01:11:46.440 It's not.

01:11:46.940 Now, you talk about this in Addicted to Outrage, the postmodernism stuff.

01:11:50.200 And I feel like it's so much on that path.

01:11:52.780 There's the internet comedian JP Sears who did a piece on this.

01:11:56.540 And one of the points he makes is, you know, because he's basically known for mocking vegetarians and people who are gluten free and like just like annoying diet trends and stuff like that.

01:12:05.720 And he kind of takes this one on in his latest thing, which is really funny.

01:12:09.040 But he points out something that has become true, which is I don't care what the original intent of the song was.

01:12:16.760 We now know the real intent and it's date rape. 1.00

01:12:19.560 And it's like, well, that's what the same argument that's being made with the Washington Redskins, for example.

01:12:23.480 Right.

01:12:23.620 Like we don't care that it was meant to honor Native Americans back then.

01:12:27.920 We now know that they were wrong and it's hateful.

01:12:29.880 And it's so many things like that go on where people now create a new offense to something that was not offensive when it was created.

01:12:39.380 And you just assume you know the answer.

01:12:41.080 Yeah.

01:12:41.380 You just assume you're right.

01:12:42.700 And you're a bad person if you don't agree with me.

01:12:44.120 Right.

01:12:45.000 That's incredible.

01:12:46.460 It's nuts.

01:12:47.880 Play the JP Sears cut, will you?

01:12:50.580 So here's the deal.

01:12:51.720 I was just minding my own business, looking for people to crucify in my witch hunt instead of dealing with my own pain.

01:12:56.920 And I discovered something terrible.

01:12:59.660 The classic Christmas song, Baby It's Cold Outside, is about date rape.

01:13:06.260 Yeah.

01:13:07.040 It's either I'm wrong or the song's always been about date rape.

01:13:10.960 And it's just taken 74 years for someone as intelligent as me to finally come along and discover it.

01:13:17.440 And it's not that I'm wrong.

01:13:18.880 The intended meaning of the song in 1944 has nothing to do with the true meaning of the song,

01:13:24.320 which was just discovered in 2018 by people who are not the writer of the song.

01:13:29.560 And get this.

01:13:30.380 The writer's own daughter says the song was about flirtatiousness in the 1940s and that it wasn't about date rape.

01:13:36.840 Sounds like she didn't even know her own father.

01:13:39.080 And I think it's terribly offensive that she could even think it's not about date rape.

01:13:43.320 I'd also like to request that no one refer to Christmas music as Christmas music anymore.

01:13:48.400 You should be more sensitive and call it holiday music.

01:13:50.820 And I'd also like to demand that no one listen to any holiday music anymore because it's all just reinforcing the white male type 2 diabetic patriarchy.

01:13:59.940 The world's got enough problems and luckily I'm here to find more problems instead of solving any of them.

01:14:06.180 I love that line.

01:14:08.220 I love that line.

01:14:09.700 How true that is.

01:14:11.420 How true that is.

01:14:13.460 Okay.

01:14:13.860 Well, one thing that will make you feel better.

01:14:15.920 I have never watched what is the real world with Kim Kardashian or the Kardashians or whatever the hell.

01:14:23.160 What is it?

01:14:24.560 Keeping up with the Kardashians.

01:14:26.360 You have not been keeping up with the Kardashians.

01:14:28.180 I have not.

01:14:29.540 I don't see any reason to keep up.

01:14:32.160 Oh, there's some gold in there that what their trip to Cuba was one of the greatest things I've ever seen on TV.

01:14:36.260 No, I agree.

01:14:37.040 Oh, my God.

01:14:37.880 It's so retro.

01:14:39.060 I like how they kept it so quaint.

01:14:42.360 No, that's not what they did.

01:14:43.640 I like the way they still drive the old cars to keep it like it was back in the 50s.

01:14:48.800 No, that's not intentional.

01:14:50.980 That's not their only choice.

01:14:53.320 It's their only choice.

01:14:54.780 You don't.

01:14:56.000 So anyway, now I've said that.

01:14:58.340 Let me say something nice about the Kardashians.

01:15:00.080 This is an episode that I think I'll actually look up to remember the woman that Kim Kardashian was trying to get her.

01:15:09.060 This woman who I think had a life sentence, right? 0.99

01:15:13.780 She's 50 years old.

01:15:15.000 She was a grandma.

01:15:15.880 She was selling pot, but she got a life. 1.00

01:15:18.780 She was actually not.

01:15:19.820 She was transporting all multiple kinds of drugs, I believe, to someone who was selling it. 0.96

01:15:25.860 So she was kind of acting as she was a mule.

01:15:27.680 The mule, because why would you arrest the grandma, right?

01:15:30.880 Like she didn't look like she would be transporting drugs. 0.98

01:15:34.060 I mean, there's a case to be made that this was a more serious situation than it was initially sort of talked about.

01:15:41.220 However, you know, the odds of her going back out and becoming a drug mule again seemingly pretty low. 0.99

01:15:48.640 I think so.

01:15:49.280 And the punishment was very harsh.

01:15:51.100 And so this had become a little bit of a cause, particularly for the Kardashians, to get her out, get her pardoned or at least have her time diminished.

01:16:00.700 And so they did.

01:16:01.540 Donald Trump signed the paper.

01:16:02.840 Well, Kim Kardashian calls this woman, Alice, and says, what do you think?

01:16:08.360 Now, they're taping the show during this.

01:16:10.300 But she thinks that the woman knows that she's getting out of prison. 0.95

01:16:15.640 Listen to this.

01:16:16.860 I cannot believe it.

01:16:19.360 We did it.

01:16:21.140 We did it.

01:16:24.040 What happened?

01:16:25.460 We did it.

01:16:26.260 You don't know?

01:16:27.780 No, she doesn't know.

01:16:28.580 You're telling her the news.

01:16:29.440 Oh, my gosh, Alice, you're out.

01:16:31.740 Yes.

01:16:36.340 You're coming out.

01:16:37.660 I'm sorry.

01:16:38.340 I thought you knew.

01:16:39.140 Oh, my God.

01:16:39.720 The news just broke.

01:16:40.480 The president just called me and he told me that that you are out.

01:16:46.360 He signed the papers.

01:16:47.720 It's been released to the press.

01:16:49.460 Everything.

01:16:51.480 I don't know.

01:16:52.180 Maybe it's just that.

01:16:53.140 Is there something about this time of year that makes those things just so much better?

01:16:56.840 I know.

01:16:57.280 I kind of like that moment.

01:16:58.560 I do, too.

01:16:59.320 And again, like to see the video, she's standing there in a bathrobe with a zillion dollar earrings 0.99

01:17:04.900 on and all the makeup and everything in the middle of a taping.

01:17:09.160 And is this woman who thought she was going to be in jail for the rest of her life is now 0.99

01:17:13.680 going free.

01:17:15.040 So it is really a nice moment.

01:17:16.680 You could tell she's legitimately surprised.

01:17:18.580 Yeah, she thought she knew.

01:17:19.780 I mean, one wouldn't blame her for not necessarily having faith in the Kardashian process to secure

01:17:26.260 this change in our legal system.

01:17:28.980 But I mean, look, it was a pretty amazing thing.

01:17:31.260 I'm honestly shocked that Trump has not done more of this because it gave him.

01:17:36.980 I mean, I don't think he's had better press in his entire presidency than when he did that

01:17:41.480 with the Kardashians.

01:17:43.640 And you know that there are people that he could pardon that are legitimate.

01:17:46.920 Oh, yeah, there's tons of them.

01:17:48.060 I mean, there's obviously lots of areas where people have sentences that are too long or

01:17:53.860 people who may be, you know, questionable.

01:17:56.140 I mean, he's done it with some people who have been deceased.

01:18:00.280 He's, you know, posthumously pardoned them.

01:18:02.880 But honestly, I'm surprised because I think it helps his publicity so much that he hasn't

01:18:08.680 gone down this road more.

01:18:09.780 Plus, Jared is a legitimate, like, backer.

01:18:13.860 Jared Kushner is of criminal.

01:18:15.840 Justice reform.

01:18:17.120 Justice reform.

01:18:17.940 And each one of these pardons is just another great news cycle for him until someone gets

01:18:23.240 out and does something terrible.

01:18:24.480 But until then.

01:18:25.440 Yeah, then it'll be Michael Dukakis.

01:18:26.840 And then you're Michael Dukakis.

01:18:28.080 So I can understand the risk there.

01:18:29.380 I'm not saying there isn't any.

01:18:30.820 But, you know, there are certainly people you could go through and find that are in these

01:18:34.760 situations.

01:18:35.820 And, you know, it's helped him.

01:18:37.480 I think it's helped him in the African-American community quite a bit where he's gone and he's

01:18:41.160 found several African-Americans who seemingly had a rough deal with it with the legal system

01:18:46.040 and has pardoned them.

01:18:48.380 That's, you know, it's helpful politically for sure.

01:18:51.000 I just want to I just want to go here.

01:18:53.220 I just wanted to play that because I don't know.

01:18:57.200 There's so many things that just make you feel like crap.

01:19:00.500 Whether you agree with that or not, that was just a nice, spontaneous moment.

01:19:07.420 And I think we need more of them.

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01:20:36.860 So personally, I think the Tyler Perry Club is too small.

01:20:41.580 It's right now, we've got three members.

01:20:44.040 Me, Chris Rock, Tyler Perry.

01:20:45.840 And there's some random unknown person who's done it in a few places.

01:20:49.200 Oh, I haven't seen that.

01:20:49.900 This is, I think, even predates, I don't know if it predates Tyler Perry as well, but I think

01:20:53.660 it predates you.

01:20:55.140 But it was someone who just decided, just a random guy.

01:20:58.040 They don't know who it was.

01:20:58.800 That's fantastic.

01:20:59.720 Who's just doing it in a big way, too.

01:21:01.600 Marissa, see if you can find that story for me.

01:21:03.240 That's fantastic.

01:21:04.440 Yeah, really cool.

01:21:05.360 Really cool.

01:21:05.720 So there's four members.

01:21:06.820 At least.

01:21:07.360 At least four.

01:21:08.080 It's much more than that.

01:21:09.060 We had a bunch of people.

01:21:10.280 No, I mean, in that category of taking over the whole store, there is a ton of people who

01:21:16.100 are doing it on their scale, which I think is fantastic.

01:21:20.020 The cool mail that I got from people who just went into stores and they were like, I had

01:21:26.060 $50 and I paid off somebody's layaway.

01:21:29.080 I just think that is so cool.

01:21:30.620 And all of them said the same thing.

01:21:32.620 One guy, I retweeted this morning and he said, I haven't felt this excited about the holiday

01:21:42.760 since I was a kid because he did it.

01:21:46.140 It's just great.

01:21:47.040 Really cool.

01:21:47.500 Just great.

01:21:47.860 Yeah, so that's going on now and you know, the Christmas season comes with a lot of gifts

01:21:51.480 just like MSNBC's Al Sharpton, who is always good enough to give us something.

01:21:56.560 He gave you a beautiful gift.

01:21:58.080 Yeah, he sure did.

01:21:59.940 Do we have this audio?

01:22:01.080 Let's play it real quick.

01:22:02.080 Her mission now, help law enforcement focus less on nonviolent crimes and more on violent

01:22:09.400 crimes and solving homicides.

01:22:12.120 Who?

01:22:12.320 You have talked about how you want to see law enforcement to refocus.

01:22:17.680 He's made a mistake.

01:22:18.300 He's focused on violent crimes, solving homicides, and not as much on nonviolent crimes.

01:22:23.280 He is the only broadcaster worse than me.

01:22:25.540 He really is.

01:22:26.960 That's a very, it's a very, very low bar.

01:22:31.380 But he doesn't make it over that low bar.

01:22:34.100 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:22:42.440 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:22:45.020 So today, Google is in front of Congress.

01:22:48.600 As Ricky Ricardo used to say, you've got some splainin' to do because of some of the things

01:22:54.160 they're doing online.

01:22:55.500 Also, Facebook has just filed a patent to calculate your future location.

01:23:00.860 That sounds great.

01:23:02.080 But the really zen-like Twitter, Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, he's got very high

01:23:09.180 moral standards for his platform.

01:23:11.780 And it's totally a free speech platform for most people, as long as you agree with Jack.

01:23:16.080 If you don't agree with Jack, well, then it's not free speech.

01:23:18.300 But you don't really deserve free speech because he's better than you are.

01:23:21.380 I mean, you know, there are some exceptions in life, and it seems to be the exceptions

01:23:26.960 that free speech for all of his friends and people who believe what he believes.

01:23:31.760 Some people just don't have the right views.

01:23:33.820 Therefore, they don't belong on Twitter.

01:23:36.000 And it's understandable.

01:23:37.860 Just like, I guess, some minorities don't belong in certain countries.

01:23:42.280 Did I say that?

01:23:44.460 Yes.

01:23:45.320 Why?

01:23:46.040 Because Jack Dorsey is all about virtue signaling.

01:23:50.360 And he's on a prayer mission, a meditation mission, where he's going to become one with

01:23:58.580 the universe.

01:24:00.080 But where is he doing this meditation?

01:24:03.220 Oh, I can't wait to tell you.

01:24:05.500 Next.

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01:25:17.540 So Jack Dorsey has decided to take a dream vacation and and just get in touch with his

01:25:31.340 inner self.

01:25:33.600 And so he's decided to go to Burma, Burma.

01:25:38.900 Now, Mr. Dorsey knows a ton about virtue signaling by banning certain users who don't adhere to

01:25:45.360 his progressive tenants, but when it comes to real life virtue, he may be the Beethoven

01:25:52.420 to tone deafness.

01:25:54.780 Dorsey, very proud of his recent 10 day meditation vacation.

01:26:00.520 And last week, he let the world know how virtuous it really was.

01:26:03.920 He tweeted that his meditation was all about understanding the inner nature as we as as a

01:26:09.900 way to understand everything.

01:26:11.700 It's this form of meditation that has been rediscovered by the Buddha 2,500 years ago through

01:26:21.160 rigorous, rigorous scientific self-experimentation to answer the question, how do I stop suffering?

01:26:28.980 So you go to Burma and you're wondering how to stop suffering?

01:26:33.320 Well, I mean, it sounds really cool, except the multi-billionaire went on that silent medic

01:26:39.300 meditation vacation to look inside himself to figure out where he could stop the suffering.

01:26:47.300 And all you had to do is open your eyes because you're already there.

01:26:50.200 The place where you're vacationing, you know, you tweet all those beautiful, precious moments

01:26:54.940 in a place called Burma, a recent unprecedented UN report concludes that Burma's military regime

01:27:03.060 has pursued a campaign of genocide against the Muslim minority for the past year and a half.

01:27:10.160 The Muslim or the regime is accused of mass rape and mass murder of over 720,000 people.

01:27:18.060 Oh, yes, but I'm I'm getting in touch with my inner self because all of the screams, they're

01:27:25.720 all in the jungles.

01:27:26.480 And so I can't really hear them from my hotel room.

01:27:29.880 These people have fled their homeland for Bangladesh, creating the largest refugee camp

01:27:34.920 in the world.

01:27:37.120 But hey, the food in Burma, I mean, you know, it's great.

01:27:40.300 According to Dorsey, he's tweeting pictures of his food.

01:27:42.900 And he also mentioned the swell time he had listening to the music of Kendrick Lamar.

01:27:48.180 You know, once the silent part of his retreat was over, he tweeted.

01:27:52.420 Myanmar is absolutely a beautiful country.

01:27:54.780 The people are full of joy and the food is amazing.

01:27:58.420 Yeah, so is the genocide.

01:27:59.920 They're pretty good at that, too.

01:28:02.240 Some of the people are full of joy.

01:28:03.740 Some of the other people are full of bullets.

01:28:06.420 It's hard to understand why a seemingly intelligent billionaire CEO would choose to vacation in an

01:28:12.420 oppressive regime like Burma. 0.77

01:28:15.660 But then again, I mean, it's kind of what he does to people, too.

01:28:20.500 Doesn't he chase people out of the square?

01:28:23.520 Doesn't he just try to silence his foes?

01:28:27.780 You know, Jack, maybe you feel right at home in Burma.

01:28:35.480 Okay, we have something really exciting to share with you.

01:28:37.820 So when we were in Florida, a gentleman came up to me and he said, Glenn, I just won a car.

01:28:53.680 His name is Rick Rudolph.

01:28:55.280 And he told me the greatest story ever.

01:29:00.440 He entered into the Mercury One raffle for a brand new Mercedes.

01:29:04.320 How are you doing, sir?

01:29:05.120 Good.

01:29:05.540 Thank you.

01:29:05.940 I'm so glad to see you here.

01:29:07.180 It's great being here.

01:29:08.160 Okay, so, Rick, first of all, what do you do for a living?

01:29:11.080 I have a twin brother.

01:29:12.220 We run a chemical distribution business.

01:29:14.480 Okay, so you're a drug dealer.

01:29:15.840 I'm a drug dealer.

01:29:17.080 Okay, good.

01:29:17.660 All right.

01:29:18.560 I have a brother.

01:29:19.520 We're in chemical distribution.

01:29:21.720 Okay.

01:29:22.140 All right.

01:29:23.320 And you brought your daughter with you.

01:29:24.920 Yeah.

01:29:25.360 Okay.

01:29:26.020 Hi, Paige.

01:29:26.700 How are you?

01:29:27.140 Good.

01:29:27.420 Thank you.

01:29:27.700 How are you today?

01:29:28.320 Very good.

01:29:29.700 So, Rick, tell me the story that you told me in line.

01:29:33.380 When you came out and said, I'm the one who won the car for Mercury One.

01:29:37.640 Well, every year I've entered the raffle.

01:29:41.660 I don't know how many years it's been now, but several.

01:29:44.560 And my daughter was in a bad car accident and pretty much messed up her car.

01:29:51.960 And I called her a couple weeks before I sent the money in for the tickets and said,

01:29:57.180 I'm going to win you a new car.

01:29:59.740 I was going to win the year in good fashion.

01:30:03.080 Right, right, right.

01:30:03.720 And we were traveling and I was somewhere and the phone rang and I looked at us at two

01:30:09.720 on four.

01:30:10.160 I don't know.

01:30:12.800 But Liz left me a long message and said, I got great news.

01:30:18.320 And I just held the phone up in the kitchen and went, I want the car.

01:30:26.340 So, you call your daughter right away?

01:30:28.360 I called my daughter.

01:30:29.180 I said, got you a new car.

01:30:31.900 She said, no.

01:30:33.080 So, Paige, are you giving her the car now?

01:30:37.540 It's in her name.

01:30:38.320 We picked it up last night.

01:30:39.760 That's fantastic.

01:30:40.100 Because you totally could have backed out of that.

01:30:41.600 I mean, it was a joke.

01:30:42.020 I could have.

01:30:42.260 It was totally a joke.

01:30:43.440 I totally needed to join the Mercedes family.

01:30:46.680 I wasn't going to say no.

01:30:48.680 Right.

01:30:48.980 He's one of the most kindest and generous people.

01:30:51.220 That is so cool.

01:30:52.820 So cool.

01:30:53.460 So, first of all, how are you after the accident?

01:30:55.620 Were you okay?

01:30:56.600 Yeah.

01:30:57.040 Earlier in the year, my right lung had collapsed and the car accident re-collapsed it.

01:31:02.440 But they did lung surgery.

01:31:04.120 So, after, I don't know, five days in ICU, I'm healed.

01:31:08.700 I ran an awesome half marathon at Joshua Tree in the desert.

01:31:12.780 Wow.

01:31:12.960 So, yeah, I'm feeling good and strong.

01:31:14.640 Wow.

01:31:15.060 Why did your lung collapse in the first place?

01:31:17.300 It was a spontaneous pneumothorax.

01:31:19.600 So, it just spontaneously collapsed the first time from coughing too hard.

01:31:24.140 I thought I had an upper respiratory infection.

01:31:26.580 But my lung had actually collapsed.

01:31:28.300 Wow.

01:31:28.560 And so, then you get, you're fine.

01:31:30.560 And then you get.

01:31:31.560 And then, yeah, I heal from that.

01:31:33.660 And then the accident in March kind of exacerbated it.

01:31:37.220 And then it collapsed again.

01:31:38.860 Totals your car.

01:31:40.120 It didn't total my car, but I'm pretty sure Geico should have.

01:31:43.520 Yeah.

01:31:43.820 Okay.

01:31:44.480 Yeah.

01:31:44.780 Okay.

01:31:45.300 All right.

01:31:46.460 Yeah.

01:31:47.000 But the collapsed lung didn't have anything to do with her MMA fighting. 0.53

01:31:52.800 No, it wasn't.

01:31:53.420 It had nothing to do with that.

01:31:54.860 Are you an MMA fighter?

01:31:56.280 No, I would kickbox.

01:31:58.680 I had a couple of kickboxing fights, but no MMA for me.

01:32:02.140 I'm too old for that.

01:32:02.720 I have a feeling dad doesn't like the kickboxing.

01:32:06.260 Um, I, well, no.

01:32:09.540 Why is that, dad?

01:32:11.740 Have you seen that?

01:32:13.120 Yes, I have.

01:32:14.380 Do you have a collapsed lung?

01:32:15.400 Well, when the foot comes in here about 40 miles an hour.

01:32:18.840 Yeah.

01:32:19.280 Yeah, that might do it.

01:32:20.120 Yeah.

01:32:20.780 Yeah.

01:32:21.100 That, uh, that sucks.

01:32:22.480 Although your daughter can defend herself.

01:32:24.780 Oh, don't mess with her. 0.99

01:32:26.560 Yeah.

01:32:27.080 Don't mess with her.

01:32:28.200 So congratulations on the car.

01:32:29.880 Thank you so much.

01:32:30.780 I'm really excited.

01:32:31.740 Are you guys flew in?

01:32:33.300 Flew in, uh, last night.

01:32:34.800 On the way on the airplane, I, I, uh, emailed the, the dealer and I said, you know what?

01:32:40.160 I think we better pick that up tonight because we're going over to the studio tomorrow to

01:32:45.420 see Liza and I, I don't think we'll have time.

01:32:49.220 And of course we weren't expecting this.

01:32:51.700 Yeah.

01:32:51.860 And so you guys are going, you guys get in the car driving home today.

01:32:54.960 Yeah.

01:32:55.240 What a great Christmas.

01:32:56.360 Yeah.

01:32:56.940 Absolutely.

01:32:57.880 So thank you.

01:32:58.880 Congratulations.

01:32:59.400 Thank you very much.

01:33:00.260 You're welcome to be here.

01:33:01.480 And thank you for supporting Mercury one.

01:33:04.140 And I'm so glad you won.

01:33:05.080 Love what you guys are doing.

01:33:06.420 Thank you.

01:33:07.400 It's great.

01:33:08.020 God bless you.

01:33:08.540 Thank you.

01:33:09.020 All right.

01:33:10.160 Um, let me tell you, uh, about gold line.

01:33:19.440 Uh, there's a, there's, I had a stack of stuff, uh, here to, to talk to you about.

01:33:24.880 Um, but next, next year is not necessarily looking, you know, all that, uh, all that bright,

01:33:31.340 uh, especially in Australia.

01:33:34.380 Australians have been warned to prepare for a severe housing collapse and a banking crisis.

01:33:39.020 That is the same kind of thing that we went through in 08.

01:33:43.520 Uh, I think Europe is preparing for this.

01:33:45.900 I don't, Stu just keeps throwing me stories.

01:33:48.520 Uh, this one's about the trade war.

01:33:50.140 Did you read this one?

01:33:50.940 What the trade war is really all about really about, it's not about what we think it is.

01:33:56.260 If this is true, I actually am, I'm kind of glad I'm glad.

01:34:02.660 I'm kind of glad this is a story about what it's really all about.

01:34:07.460 Um, and they are just stealing.

01:34:09.460 Would you stop throwing papers at me?

01:34:10.960 You said you had a stack and you didn't have a stack.

01:34:12.340 Why don't you just, I'm throwing a stack at you.

01:34:14.120 Why don't you just talk about it?

01:34:15.760 She's throwing papers at me.

01:34:17.320 Anyway, um, uh, we'll get into the China thing.

01:34:19.380 Also, economic catastrophe, uh, yellow vest protests, cripple the French businesses.

01:34:24.780 France is in trouble.

01:34:26.100 Uh, the headline today was Brexit, uh, chaos for England.

01:34:31.580 What happens if this doesn't go through?

01:34:33.560 What are they going to do?

01:34:34.540 You're going to see more and more yellow vests over in England too.

01:34:37.360 Yeah.

01:34:37.980 That's saying it could go into an entire, uh, European movement here.

01:34:42.120 Okay.

01:34:42.560 Can I don't, that's not even a story for you to do.

01:34:44.520 I just wanted to throw this paper at you.

01:34:46.060 Yeah.

01:34:46.320 Okay.

01:34:46.760 Oh, this, you know, it's funny is this one is a expert warrens against losing jobs over

01:34:52.640 thoughts.

01:34:54.060 So I think I, I think I, it's like, okay, I got it.

01:34:57.160 Now I'm just, now you're just throwing things at me.

01:34:59.540 Uh, I think I, I know what your thoughts are and you could lose your job according to an AI 1.00

01:35:03.500 expert.

01:35:03.960 Right.

01:35:04.220 Uh, anyway, gold line is there to, to,

01:35:07.360 um, be the hedge against inflation.

01:35:10.900 I've talked to a lot of, uh, economic experts here recently.

01:35:14.860 I've been kind of having a, kind of a little economic forum, uh, off air as we're getting

01:35:20.580 ready for the next year.

01:35:21.700 Cause I'm really going to concentrate on just about eight things next year, um, that you

01:35:26.700 need to follow and know about.

01:35:29.100 It's kind of, it's kind of like that chalkboard that I did at Fox where I said, you know,

01:35:34.000 the, uh, the riots on the streets, they're going to destabilize the middle East.

01:35:39.540 It'll lead to a caliphate.

01:35:41.060 It will spread up into Europe. 0.78

01:35:42.880 It will destabilize Europe.

01:35:44.460 The left and right will start working together, not coordinated, but it will, they'll have the

01:35:48.560 same purpose of destabilizing Europe and it will spread all across Europe and then spread

01:35:54.140 here to the United States.

01:35:55.240 We now could check all of those as done and what comes next, not fun stuff, not fun stuff.

01:36:04.960 And we're going to concentrate that on that next, uh, next year, but you need to be aware

01:36:09.980 that your personal finances, um, are going to be put into jeopardy and you need to find

01:36:17.800 a way to hedge against inflation, hedge against collapse and chaos.

01:36:23.360 I do it with gold and I highly recommend that you look into gold or silver as a hedge against

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01:36:40.000 It is for my family and a special, especially in times when the world goes mad.

01:36:45.340 And if you think the world has backed off the madness factor, uh, you're dreaming goldline.com

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01:37:07.960 All right.

01:37:08.620 All right.

01:37:08.940 Let me give you a couple of things here.

01:37:10.580 Uh, Stu, you can choose the news cause I'm just not going to be able to get through everything.

01:37:14.580 Um, Facebook has filed a patent to calculate your future location.

01:37:18.320 That one is fascinating.

01:37:19.960 Yes, it is.

01:37:20.400 The new exercise guidelines, not bad news.

01:37:23.820 If you don't, if you're like me, um, let's see here, right?

01:37:29.720 Because it's that time of year where I have, every time I pass a plate of cookies, there's

01:37:34.340 no more cookies on the plate.

01:37:35.260 When I walked by it, it's really, it's amazing.

01:37:38.760 Right.

01:37:39.380 How can it be so hard to not eat a cookie, but it is that hard.

01:37:43.420 Uh, and, uh, uh, and what the trade war in China is really all about.

01:37:48.920 Where do you want to, what do you want to do?

01:37:50.700 And definitely not the boring trade war thing.

01:37:52.660 Uh, I want, well, tell me that you got to tell me the exercise.

01:37:55.360 Okay.

01:37:55.500 So here's the exercise thing.

01:37:56.860 Okay.

01:37:57.280 For the first time in 10 years, new rules on exercising.

01:38:00.200 Remember, I think we're in butter is okay.

01:38:03.120 Again, aren't we?

01:38:04.740 Butter was okay.

01:38:05.540 Then it was bad.

01:38:06.420 It was really bad.

01:38:07.420 Then it was okay.

01:38:08.240 Then it was bad again.

01:38:09.160 And I think we're back to butter is okay.

01:38:10.960 I think you're right.

01:38:11.680 Okay.

01:38:12.040 So it's a little slower.

01:38:13.580 Uh, but, uh, for the first time in 10 years, they've come up with new exercise guidelines.

01:38:18.320 And when I say they, I would have had to read the story a little bit more deeper to know

01:38:23.160 who they are, but I think we all know that's what they want you to believe.

01:38:27.620 I do think that's the problem with so much of this reporting on, especially on health and

01:38:31.440 food and stuff is that it's not necessarily that the study is bad or has no value.

01:38:37.420 It's that the media is so horrible at reporting it where they just take like, there's a study

01:38:43.300 on four mice that indicated something slightly change the way you eat.

01:38:47.120 Like that's not what any of those things are supposed to do.

01:38:49.720 Right.

01:38:50.520 Okay.

01:38:50.760 And I, and this is all framed as good news.

01:38:53.160 Okay.

01:38:54.120 Uh, the new exercise, uh, guidelines, uh, aren't increasing the recommended amount of exercise

01:39:00.280 for teens and adults.

01:39:01.560 Okay.

01:39:03.520 That sounds like good news.

01:39:05.000 That does sound like they're not decreasing them either.

01:39:07.420 Wow.

01:39:08.260 So that sucks.

01:39:09.840 However, they do change the definition of exercise a bit.

01:39:13.160 So it is easier to hit.

01:39:15.080 Uh, this comes from the journal of American medical association and the department of health

01:39:19.020 and human services.

01:39:20.500 Uh, and if you're not, if you're not hitting the guidelines that were released in 2008, don't

01:39:25.660 feel bad.

01:39:26.160 Eight in 10 people are like, man, I don't give a flying crap what they say.

01:39:30.000 Um, but, but here's the subtle, but important change.

01:39:34.280 They no longer define exercise as an activity that lasts at least 10 minutes.

01:39:41.140 So now what, how many minutes is it?

01:39:44.520 No, it doesn't just any kind of, any kind of heart rate increase.

01:39:48.520 You can count that time for any length of time.

01:39:51.560 So now if that's true, sex counts for most people.

01:39:55.320 There you go.

01:39:56.820 You know, you can, I will say too, I'm, I'm not going to start exercising more, but I

01:40:00.880 am going to be closer to the minimum amount of exercise I need to do.

01:40:05.480 Correct.

01:40:06.080 Cause zero is closer to whatever they're saying now than 10.

01:40:09.440 Yes.

01:40:10.540 Um, so if you just park a little bit further away, you know, from, from your office, that

01:40:18.780 counts now as exercise.

01:40:19.940 And that's a good thing to do if there are no spots that are closer than the one that

01:40:24.920 you're going to, that's right.

01:40:26.420 Uh, they say you don't have to go to the gym for 10, 15 or 30 minutes, which I don't have

01:40:32.300 to worry about crossing that off my calendar.

01:40:35.120 Cause I'm not doing it now.

01:40:36.480 Although that will lower your exercise.

01:40:38.020 Now they're swiping the calendar event off.

01:40:40.860 You're right.

01:40:41.700 I, so I am exercising.

01:40:43.540 I'm well, no, I can't cross it off.

01:40:45.300 I could put it in and then cross it off.

01:40:47.020 I'm doing double the exercise.

01:40:48.860 They say it's still two to 2.5 to five hours of moderate intensity exercise or 1.25.

01:40:58.120 No, this is per week or 1.25 to 2.5 hours of vigorous intensity exercise per week.

01:41:07.220 Five hours.

01:41:07.900 Week is the seven day one, right?

01:41:09.460 I know.

01:41:09.960 I could watch five hours of television or Netflix, but I can't walk for five hours.

01:41:15.420 That's just, they do keep, I feel like, I don't know if these studies are actually showing

01:41:19.860 this or they're just dumbing it down.

01:41:21.200 Like there was a study that came out a few years ago that said, uh, it's as effective

01:41:25.900 to do 10 minutes of high intensity exercise, um, as it is to do like 45 minutes to an hour

01:41:32.620 of lower intensity exercise.

01:41:34.360 And that seems like, wow, 10 minutes.

01:41:36.920 Of course I can do 10 minutes.

01:41:38.480 And I don't, I mean, I, that's kind of makes some sense to me like, cause it's high intensity.

01:41:42.860 But the other part of me is just thinks they're just like, well, let's get them to do one

01:41:46.080 minute.

01:41:46.480 If we say 10, maybe they'll do one.

01:41:48.360 So do you, they're just so round and, and blubbery.

01:41:54.000 Can we at least, you're not all Santa Claus guys.

01:41:57.260 We just don't want to look like the cartoon Wally, you know, you don't want to look, cause

01:42:01.500 I think that's what we're all going to turn into.

01:42:03.500 Um, so when you're, when you're, when you're looking at the high intensity exercise, do you

01:42:09.080 remember when we first met Ray Kurzweil in 2006?

01:42:12.440 Yes.

01:42:12.920 Ray Kurzweil is a, you know, futurist.

01:42:16.220 Um, he's a transhumanist.

01:42:18.040 He is, he takes, there's like 600, uh, tablets of, of different minerals and everything else

01:42:25.200 a day.

01:42:25.760 Yeah.

01:42:26.200 Yeah.

01:42:26.420 He's like, I mean, you'd be swallowing pills all day, all day.

01:42:29.560 Would you get full by that?

01:42:30.680 I don't know.

01:42:31.420 I feel like he wouldn't want to eat anything else.

01:42:32.780 You'd just be filled with pills.

01:42:34.140 So he's taking all of these supplements, uh, every single day and he really watches everything.

01:42:40.180 And he invented this exercise machine that is a total body workout.

01:42:45.340 And, and I remember looking at it and cause he said, you do use it for five days or five

01:42:50.640 minutes a day.

01:42:51.380 And you got everything you need and the guy's in really good shape.

01:42:55.040 And when I met him in 06, uh, he had just started looking at his five years before started

01:43:02.380 checking his, uh, his actual physical age, uh, of his tissue.

01:43:09.340 I don't even know how you do this.

01:43:10.380 Uh, but he had gone back eight years in physical age when I had seen him the next time.

01:43:18.720 This is the thing that's not like the SkyMall magazine, isn't it?

01:43:21.040 It was like one of those devices where you're probably might've been one of those, but he,

01:43:24.360 but I think he came up with it and he uses it every day.

01:43:26.760 And everybody then said, oh no, that's nothing.

01:43:29.020 Cause you can't do it for five minutes and that's, that won't help you at all.

01:43:31.780 And he was a guy going, yeah, no, it helps a lot.

01:43:34.100 Do it.

01:43:34.460 So I'm only fat because the government said I couldn't not be fat in five minutes.

01:43:43.520 I, and that was a good show to blame the government for stuff.

01:43:45.880 So I'm with you on this one.

01:43:46.940 Amen, brother.

01:43:47.600 Thank you very much.

01:43:48.640 Okay.

01:43:49.920 Back in, uh, just a second.

01:43:51.720 As the, uh, program continues, we look at what Facebook is now doing to predict where

01:43:59.960 you're going next.

01:44:02.520 Oh, this sounds like fun.

01:44:04.460 Hello, China and George Orwell's 1984.

01:44:12.540 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

01:44:16.640 Okay.

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01:45:19.500 All right.

01:45:20.420 When, when we come back, what is Facebook doing to follow you?

01:45:26.500 So you have, uh, the, uh, Google, uh, CEO today testifying, uh, before the house judiciary

01:45:38.960 committee and, um, they said, well, you know, you know, we don't have a political agenda.

01:45:47.700 You don't have a political agenda.

01:45:49.520 Really?

01:45:50.500 Did you watch your, your meeting the day after the election?

01:45:55.220 When you all got together and said, you know, Hey, we think the world's going in a different

01:46:00.660 direction, but there's more we can do.

01:46:02.500 What are you, what are you talking about?

01:46:04.220 In some ways, I almost feel like they actually believe it and that it's not a political agenda.

01:46:08.420 It's just right and wrong.

01:46:10.040 Yeah.

01:46:10.300 It's a religion, right?

01:46:11.480 It's like, you know, it's global warming is a good example of this, right?

01:46:13.660 Like it's, it's not a political agenda to say that when you spend $500 trillion to stop

01:46:18.420 global warming, it's just, we have to, or we're all going to die.

01:46:20.520 Well, you know what you're not seeing there is there is a political agenda that you're not

01:46:25.080 no, it's science and we're right.

01:46:27.000 Well, yeah, but you, what you're saying your solution is, is there's a lot of debate on

01:46:31.280 that and, uh, but they don't see it that way.

01:46:34.440 It's the same thing with like, when they're talking about de-platforming people, right?

01:46:37.620 And they're taking, well, you said something that was bad about Sharia law, or you said

01:46:42.420 something that was bad about, uh, transgenderism.

01:46:45.900 Well, they don't see politics in that because it's so obvious what's right and what's wrong

01:46:49.740 to them.

01:46:50.900 They're in a bubble where a hundred percent of the people around them agree.

01:46:54.320 So this is not a political issue.

01:46:56.180 That's why Jack can go to, uh, to Burma. 0.72

01:47:00.100 They're killing Muslims. 1.00

01:47:01.740 They're killing Christians. 1.00

01:47:03.700 They're just, they're erasing the whole populations and he's fine. 1.00

01:47:08.020 He's fine.

01:47:08.440 No, it's beautiful.

01:47:09.020 And I'm here for meditation because, uh, it's a perfect place to meditate and, and figure

01:47:13.620 out what the next good thing is we can do.

01:47:15.920 Well, here, here's an idea.

01:47:17.420 Don't, don't, uh, don't, don't go to Burma.

01:47:20.320 Um, here's an idea.

01:47:21.500 Go to Burma and speak out about the atrocities that are happening.

01:47:24.580 How's that one, Jack?

01:47:26.120 I mean, I don't need even to meditate on those ones.

01:47:28.200 I got them pretty quickly.

01:47:29.760 Ooh, that one just came to me.

01:47:31.160 Wow.

01:47:31.600 And I'm still not meditating.

01:47:33.940 Um, today, uh, we have Google testifying in front of the house judiciary committee, uh,

01:47:41.400 about what do they do?

01:47:43.660 What is it they do?

01:47:44.780 What are you, are you tracking people?

01:47:47.280 Are you banning people?

01:47:48.260 Are you blocking people?

01:47:50.680 They're going to bring up today that Google employees sought to block Breitbart from Google

01:47:56.160 AdSense less than a month after president, uh, Donald Trump took office.

01:48:01.780 Now this is, this according to leaked emails, uh, internal emails where they were just saying,

01:48:07.620 we got to stop Breitbart.

01:48:08.700 And that is, that's goes right in line with what, you know, they were talking about.

01:48:15.520 In that Google meeting, you know, that big corporate meeting, they were very open about

01:48:20.300 it and it doesn't have to come from the top.

01:48:23.020 It can come from just a group of people.

01:48:25.060 And, you know, in, in a room that just says, Hey, turn this down, turn that down, change

01:48:29.100 the algorithm a little bit.

01:48:30.300 Nobody up in the upper end even needs to know.

01:48:32.460 Not right.

01:48:32.800 Even if it's only one person, right?

01:48:34.680 I mean, you know, we saw that with, what was it?

01:48:36.660 It was on Twitter.

01:48:37.400 Didn't they ban Donald Trump one person on their way out of the building because they

01:48:41.420 were leaving?

01:48:41.980 Yes.

01:48:42.240 And that's a minor example.

01:48:43.260 They were able to turn it around pretty quickly.

01:48:44.820 But of course those people exist.

01:48:46.360 They exist in every organization.

01:48:47.960 Both sides.

01:48:48.520 Yeah.

01:48:48.720 Especially when you're told all the time that here's a guy who wants to kill all immigrants

01:48:52.880 and gay people and all the horrible things, you know, that Trump and every Republican

01:48:57.440 is accused of.

01:48:58.760 Well, of course you have to stop them.

01:48:59.840 It's the only right thing to do.

01:49:00.900 Right.

01:49:01.260 And it would happen on both sides if we had a side.

01:49:05.500 I mean, if we had, if we had a Google or Twitter or Facebook, I imagine that there would be

01:49:11.420 people that would want to do that as well.

01:49:14.180 To the other side, we got to stop, got to stop and shut down the Antifa voices because

01:49:19.380 it's just the right thing to do.

01:49:21.340 Right.

01:49:22.980 So it's human nature and they just like all progressives, they just deny human nature.

01:49:30.820 It's in pretty critical places.

01:49:35.100 Now, Facebook has just filed for a patent to calculate your future location.

01:49:41.860 They have several patent applications for technology that uses your current location data to predict

01:49:54.700 where you're going and when you're going to be offline.

01:49:58.280 The Facebook spokesperson says that doesn't just because we filed a patent doesn't mean that we have an, you know, an intent or is

01:50:09.320 any indication that we want to follow you while you're not offline or predict where you're going.

01:50:14.880 Might be a problem with our patent system, by the way, if that is a legitimate excuse.

01:50:18.540 We all know that they do have some use for it, but like you shouldn't be filing patents if you have no intention on ever using them.

01:50:26.340 It's like, oh, well, I came up with an idea that theoretically could be possible.

01:50:29.400 Let me patent it so that someone, when they actually come up with the idea in 20 years, has to pay me a bunch of money or can't use it at all.

01:50:35.200 Right.

01:50:35.320 That's why so many, I mean, this is, that's just a separate issue, but it is a, it is a, it's a bad one in the United States right now.

01:50:42.300 So what it's going to do is it's, it's the, the application is called offline trajectories and it's a method to predict where you're going to go next based on your location data.

01:50:54.560 The technology described in the patent would calculate the transition probability based at least in part on your previously logged location data associated with a plural, plural, plural, plurality, plurality of users who were at the current location.

01:51:14.720 It will also use the data of other people, you know, as well as that of strangers to make predictions.

01:51:22.060 So it's going to be able to predict you based on what you've done before.

01:51:28.500 It will also predict you because it will go out and look at your friends and what they've done.

01:51:35.220 But also, if I'm reading this right, it will look at your friends and where they are.

01:51:42.540 So if your friends are gathering at some place and you're driving in the general area, likely you're going there.

01:51:50.080 Okay. You're still not convincing me this is a good use of, uh, of technology.

01:51:56.820 What do you mean? It's just going to make it easier.

01:51:58.800 It's going to make our lives easier. So you get ads in places where you don't even have the internet. That sounds horrible.

01:52:03.520 I don't like when I get them when I do have the internet.

01:52:05.440 No, they just need to know where you are at all times.

01:52:07.900 Oh, that's it.

01:52:08.880 That's it. They just, it's it.

01:52:10.920 Do you, I mean, cause a lot of this stuff is, I've noticed this with like, you know, like Uber and Lyft type of apps and where they will, you know, you go a certain way, a certain amount of times they say, oh, this must be your house.

01:52:21.760 This must be your work.

01:52:22.560 The one that's really funny is the, uh, we have the GPS in my, my wife's car and it now draws new roads on the map.

01:52:30.880 Because if we go to a place where they don't have a, um, uh, a road mapped a certain amount of times, it realizes, oh, there must be a road there and then draws the road on the map.

01:52:41.700 It's actually remapping kind of in real time, which was very funny because one time I was driving down the street and I looked over and I saw this circle on the side of the road and it kind of looks like almost like a dirt road when they draw a new road on there.

01:52:52.780 It was a circle. It was like a well-defined circle and there was lines all around it.

01:52:56.000 And I'm like, what the heck is that? And I pull up and I realized it was Krispy Kreme.

01:52:59.740 It was where my, my, my wife had gotten a Krispy Kreme with a kid so many times it thought it was a road.

01:53:04.720 Oh my gosh.

01:53:05.800 It really, it really happened, which is, I don't think, probably not good for the diabetes future of my children.

01:53:11.480 No, but you know what? Seriously, if that happened, think of the, think of the implications.

01:53:16.380 If that happened and you did have a problem with weight or something else and your health insurance would be alerted that you are going to Krispy Kreme a lot.

01:53:27.820 Too many times, yeah.

01:53:28.480 Yeah, that's a great point. And that is, that is all, that data is so valuable to them that they will do everything they can to give you things so that you will give that data to them.

01:53:40.540 Right. Like, you know, there's a new, um, uh, Google phone service out. Um, and I, you know, this struck me as interesting as you've been so.

01:53:49.300 Don't do it. Don't do anything. Google do not. Don't have an Android. Don't use Google Chrome.

01:53:55.920 I gotta, I keep saying this. I gotta put it in my Google calendar or remind myself to get myself off of Google.

01:54:00.100 Yeah, I know.

01:54:00.480 Um, but it's true. Like they have, um, the phone service and it had like a, uh, a cool feature to it. I think it was like, there's like thousands of like Wi-Fi hotspots that you automatically get access to if you sign up to their plan.

01:54:10.880 And I was thinking to myself, well, you know, I use so much freaking data. It would be great to have, just be able to hop on Wi-Fi when you're at some, you know, wherever these things are.

01:54:18.640 It's kind of a cool, it's kind of a cool thing. And you don't have to learn all the passwords. It just automatically does it.

01:54:23.700 And you know, what's great about that is Google pays for all of those access for your data. So they're just paying it out of the goodness of their heart.

01:54:32.160 They just want your life to be easier. And so this giant corporation is just paying those billions of dollars to give you all of those free Wi-Fi hotspots all over the world for everybody because they're just those, they're good.

01:54:45.820 They're good people. Or they found a way to make more money off of you because your information, you'll, they'll have greater access to your information.

01:55:01.000 Hmm. When you think it's the second one, Stu. Hmm. And you're, you're, you're just negative. I just being negative. I know. And it's true. I mean, like, I, I think these things a lot of times do actually make your life better.

01:55:14.000 They do. And because of that, we are losing. It's Brave New World. Yeah. You said this before you said this when we were on, we were doing our stage tour, you know, China is doing 1984 and we're doing Brave New World.

01:55:25.760 Um, and it's true. We're doing this completely willingly. We're giving them all the technology. We're giving, we're giving them all the information so they can use with their technology.

01:55:34.180 And, you know, it improves your life by like one 87th of a percent. And we're like, eh, all right. So they know where I am all the time.

01:55:41.080 Right. And, and, and now predictive technology. Remember I told you was yesterday, there was a new thing out now that shows that they can predict there's this new scan that can predict.

01:55:53.240 They've only tried it on animals where an animal is going to move next. And they, it's a, it's an incredible thing. Just, just look it up through brainwaves, right?

01:56:00.900 Brainwaves. And so they're shooting this thing at an animal and it can see their brain and the way it sees it, it distorts the animal.

01:56:10.740 It actually like sees the movement of the animal before the animal moves. Okay. And they can predict all kinds of behavior on this.

01:56:18.600 Well, this is here, there, here's Google saying, Hey, we're going to have predictive technology to just based on what we know about you and your friends, et cetera, et cetera, on where you're going.

01:56:30.900 Just look at France. What's happening in France. This is the closest to a revolution that France has had for a long, long, long time.

01:56:39.880 This could end in actual revolution in France. You think with all this technology that the governments are not going to say, Hey, we need to know where these people are.

01:56:51.180 Of course they will. Of course they will. I mean, China's already way down that road. 0.98

01:56:55.600 If you tried to have a revolution in China right now, especially in a major city, you'd have no chance of being able to pull it off. 0.71

01:57:00.360 Now, again, like revolutions are a lot of times not so positive, but most times, most times, there's one, just one example I can think of.

01:57:09.340 That was pretty good. Yes. Uh, here in America. Yeah. American revolution. I think it's the only one that, that ended this way.

01:57:16.020 Well, ends with the people who started, right? I mean, it's one thing to end with the original goal and the original people.

01:57:20.960 A lot of times we saw this in, with the, uh, in Egypt and, and throughout the, the Arab awakening, um, where it was, it winds up being some other powerful group.

01:57:31.040 That's not the first powerful group, but not the kids. The teenagers don't wind up taking over and they're like, Oh, we're really passionate about this this week.

01:57:36.960 And then now we're being crushed by the new government next week. We talked about this yesterday on the news and why it matters that this is what's happening in France could very well be what happened in Hungary.

01:57:47.940 You know, it was, uh, top down, bottom up inside out. And you want that, you want that, that, that core of protesters to rise, cause chaos in the streets to make everybody say to the government, you got to stop this.

01:58:04.060 And so the government does little, do they know the government is not necessarily on their side and it comes down, clamps down and you have communist Hungary. 0.71

01:58:14.000 So it had, that's exactly how it happened in the 1950s. They did not want to be a Soviet satellite, but there were riots in the streets and enough people in high places that, uh, said, you know, we've got to do this.

01:58:27.540 We have to do that. And next thing you know, the Soviet tanks are rolling in and they're a communist Soviet satellite.

01:58:33.600 We could see this except this time they have the technology to stop anybody who is, um, even literally even thinking that that's a good idea.

01:58:48.160 All right. So as things, you know, spiral out of control, thank goodness. They haven't yet really in America. Hopefully they never will, but, uh, you know, times get tough and people get desperate and they do stupid things.

01:59:04.120 Um, so far crime has gone down, uh, and that's a great thing, but you know, things change quickly.

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02:00:17.540 So are we going to get a, are we going to get a government shutdown for Christmas?

02:00:21.000 Oh, we can only hope we can only hope for such a wonderful president.

02:00:25.980 I know. I mean, it would, I'd love it to shut down between now and all of, uh, the rest of my life.

02:00:32.880 I mean, at least what they classify as a government shutdown, which is all non-essential employees don't go to work.

02:00:41.200 There's no, no company, no organization should have a non-essential employee.

02:00:46.240 What, what is it? It's a perk. What, what, what is a non-essential employee?

02:00:51.200 It should be, it should be essential.

02:00:53.240 If you're paying someone a salary, they should, their services should be essential in some way.

02:00:57.960 Well, it's why the blaze was in trouble for a while because we hired people like Jeffy.

02:01:01.720 Right, exactly. I mean, that's a great point.

02:01:04.060 You know, just no, there's no reason. It's not even these non-essential.

02:01:07.320 There's just no reason.

02:01:09.160 No one knows how it happened or why it happened, obviously.

02:01:12.120 And it shouldn't matter.

02:01:13.060 And he'd be the type of person who'd be furloughed.

02:01:15.380 Why, why point fingers?

02:01:17.560 Let's say, it's such a, it's such an amazing thing too.

02:01:20.900 It's like you take a bunch of employees and you give them a few weeks off at a government shutdown

02:01:27.460 because you're saying basically your jobs are not important enough.

02:01:29.740 We can run this whole thing without you, but it's nice when you're here.

02:01:32.060 And then when they come back, they get paid for all the time they were gone.

02:01:34.920 So they still wind up getting the back pay anyway.

02:01:37.220 They just didn't actually go to work, which shows how non-essential they are.

02:01:40.040 I mean, again, the government should shrink by such a massive amount that the people that they are,

02:01:45.340 they don't have, there's always somebody who gets affected by this.

02:01:48.300 And this is what the debate winds up being.

02:01:49.600 Well, this military person didn't get their pay, something like that.

02:01:52.200 Obviously, those, those things are essential to me.

02:01:54.720 Their definition of what is essential and what isn't might differ from mine.

02:01:58.360 But still, if you are finding yourself in a place in which you're calling it non-essential,

02:02:02.640 they should never, ever come back to work.

02:02:04.620 Because you don't have a future.

02:02:06.720 In the real world, you don't have a future.

02:02:09.700 If you're government, if you're not your government, but your office said,

02:02:12.700 hey, you're a non-essential employee, I would beat it, man.

02:02:15.980 I would beat it because trouble comes, you ain't gonna be around.

02:02:21.480 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

02:02:23.860 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

02:02:25.080 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

02:02:27.960 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

02:02:29.960 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 11, 2018

Decorating While OCD？｜ Guest： Andrew McCarthy ｜ 12⧸11⧸18

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 11, 2018

Decorating While OCD？ ｜ Guest： Andrew McCarthy ｜ 12⧸11⧸18

Episode Stats

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Decorating While OCD？｜ Guest： Andrew McCarthy ｜ 12⧸11⧸18