'Dig In and Endure'? - 05⧸02⧸18
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 55 minutes
Words per Minute
159.43013
Summary
Glenn Beck on Apple and the end of the world is near. Apple announces a record-breaking buyback program and a new mega-campus in California, and the rest of the U.S. economy is in free fall.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, love, courage, truth, Glenn Beck.
00:00:16.200
Nancy Pelosi, please report to your bomb shelter.
00:00:19.140
I repeat, Nancy Pelosi, please report to your bomb shelter.
00:00:31.400
You know, we were mocking last week that, you know, the rapture was coming.
00:00:35.380
We're already minus five days past the rapture.
00:00:44.660
One of the four horsemen of the apocalypse known as Apple.
00:00:49.920
Brings this this message of our demise and listen, if you dare, but you have been.
00:01:00.560
Those are the hoof beats of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
00:01:04.860
Apple yesterday announced a record shattering buyback program.
00:01:09.100
When it's all said and done, they will have paid over one hundred billion dollars to their shareholders in the first quarter of this year alone.
00:01:18.540
Apple has paid shareholders twenty three point five billion dollars.
00:01:23.660
That exceeds the value of the majority of the companies in the S&P 500 index.
00:01:30.340
As as as if all of that death and destruction weren't enough, there is more throughout the March quarter.
00:01:40.200
Apple has paid over three point two billion dollars in dividends.
00:01:52.620
They also have plans to boost those payments up another 16 percent going forward.
00:02:04.480
If you have stock in in Apple, this is too much to bear.
00:02:12.140
And if it would help, I will be the sacrificial lamb and take those evil capitalist shares off your hands.
00:02:22.880
Are you willing to take if somebody decides to donate, you know, or they just can't bear the thought that capitalism is helping people and they just have to spit themselves out of that evil capitalist system.
00:02:38.260
Please let them know you are willing to take on the burden of their Apple shares.
00:02:50.980
Apple yesterday also announced the construction of a new mega campus.
00:02:59.100
They're just building stuff all over the world.
00:03:03.240
Well, here in the United States, they're looking at adding over 20,000 new jobs.
00:03:10.460
Over the next five years, they're predicting now that they will add three hundred and fifty billion dollars to the year.
00:03:29.960
How did we get to a place to where a company can add 20,000 jobs in the next couple of years, build campus after campus, build campus, build, make money off the backs of people who are so stupid that when they built an Apple store in California and the city government told them not to do it.
00:03:59.780
We'll just make this big round glass building like all of our other Apple stores.
00:04:09.480
They're going to just they're going to think they're outside.
00:04:13.920
People are getting injured day and night because they are just walking into that glass.
00:04:18.800
They don't see they just assume that they're in a park and that cash register is just sitting out there in the park with all of these devices out in the forest.
00:04:34.760
What was that final act that caused the waves to come crashing and raining down on us like flaming meteorites of destruction?
00:04:55.300
You want to know what the low tax apocalypse looks like?
00:04:59.820
Allow me to quote Tim Cook in an interview he gave talking about the recent tax cuts.
00:05:05.480
But I have to warn you, it is so scary that it sounds as if it was pulled right straight out of the book of Revelation.
00:05:17.580
There's a corporate piece and an individual piece.
00:05:20.440
I do believe the corporate tax side will result in job creation and a faster growing economy.
00:05:29.360
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:05:36.340
Look, we've been the ones that have been left behind.
00:05:45.340
I don't know what we're going to do to fight back this beast, but fear not.
00:05:53.300
I, pray tell, New York Times, will you run yet another piece about how Karl Marx was right, please?
00:06:06.080
Do you realize you're going to have to go to the bank more?
00:06:09.420
You're going to, if you get a raise in your salary, you're going to have to, like, figure out what to do with that.
00:06:23.660
But let's dig in, because we're Americans, and we will endure.
00:06:28.560
And don't forget, I'm willing to take a hit, you know, for the good part of this.
00:06:34.200
I'll post instructions on how you can transfer your Apple shares over to me, Nancy Pelosi.
00:06:56.640
I have to tell you that I'm getting more and more optimistic, which is scaring the hell out of me.
00:07:03.220
Usually when you're optimistic, everything's about to suck.
00:07:05.320
Yeah, I am the guy, and Stu can verify, he's been with me for, you know, 20 years.
00:07:12.040
Pat goes white, because he's been with me for 30 or so years.
00:07:17.620
He's like, well, he's already the whitest white man in my life.
00:07:24.240
And I'm the guy that you do not want at the coronation and the first sailing of the Titanic.
00:07:31.880
You don't want me there, because halfway across the ocean, you just, you're saying to the captain, can you shut this guy up?
00:07:38.280
Because I'm the guy going, this thing's going to sink.
00:07:40.460
I'm telling you, it doesn't have enough lifeboats.
00:07:47.860
And everybody on board is like, shut the hell up.
00:07:50.400
The minute we hit the iceberg, I'm the guy who's up on the deck going, you, play some music.
00:08:01.160
So when I become optimistic, we're approaching an iceberg.
00:08:05.760
I'm just saying, because I'm wrong on everything.
00:08:19.540
Because that means everyone's rooting for you to be sad.
00:08:24.420
And I've lived most of my life that way, so I'm happy to do it.
00:08:28.100
I'm actually starting to be freaked out because I'm feeling good.
00:08:40.160
And I don't even mean that the economy is healthy because the economy is not healthy.
00:08:52.520
However, there are so many optimistic signs that point now to the truth that this works.
00:09:01.100
And it's actually, when Apple, when Apple comes out and says, no, it's the tax cuts.
00:09:10.640
You really, I mean, it's here, I guess it's, if it was just Apple, but Kanye, and I know
00:09:22.140
He's the guy who George Bush hates black people.
00:09:32.340
He's, he's, he's just as likely next week to say, you know what?
00:09:41.040
He's just as likely to say that as we never went to the moon.
00:09:47.220
And I'm not jumping on the Kanye bandwagon with everybody else going, he's one of us.
00:09:54.220
What is happening is a discussion about freedom of thought.
00:10:06.420
That is the movement that I have been looking for.
00:10:09.480
I've been wanting somebody who says, you notice what he's saying?
00:10:16.740
I'm sorry that I hurt your feelings, but I'm just telling you, this is what I think.
00:10:22.100
And maybe we should think, maybe we should start thinking out of the box.
00:10:28.180
And if he makes that cool, not that he makes conservatives cool or anything else.
00:10:43.020
So I'm optimistic because I also just got back from California.
00:10:49.320
There's I'm telling you there's something happening in California.
00:10:54.700
Death, destruction, high taxes, earthquakes, the floods.
00:11:00.620
I just want if you're in California, you're all going to die.
00:11:13.640
But there is also something else happening there.
00:11:23.760
I talked to a friend of mine who lives there and he said we were talking about Kanye West.
00:11:38.300
So anyway, he said, I think he lives down there.
00:11:44.780
But he said he said to me the other day, I said, what about this Kanye thing?
00:11:50.140
I think this is, you know, he looked at me and went, he's nuts, you know.
00:11:56.580
But he's having a conversation that America hasn't had.
00:12:04.420
It's happening in the pop culture world that nobody crosses that barrier.
00:12:11.080
And he said, actually, I am starting to hear this from my friends.
00:12:15.800
He said, I've always been the token conservative.
00:12:18.800
He's like, you know, every time something happens, my friends will call.
00:12:24.340
And he said, they come over and they're like, so you explain what's going on because I don't
00:12:33.060
OK, so and he said, they don't really want me to explain.
00:12:36.800
They just want to vent on somebody that they know is not going to hit them back.
00:12:43.260
But for the last six months or so, he said, I'm having different conversations with my
00:12:50.380
He said, my friends are saying, OK, I didn't understand this.
00:12:54.440
And he said, you know, so I went online and I watched, you know, a Prager University on
00:13:01.260
this, which led me to this, which led me to this.
00:13:05.360
So help me out, because I can't make the jump from here to here.
00:13:09.620
And he's like, what the hell is happening here?
00:13:14.300
Hang on, I got to get the book of Revelation because I think this is a sign.
00:13:20.340
Dave Rubin said to me, he said he was walking to the studios to do an interview with me just
00:13:26.600
And he said he was walking down Ventura Boulevard and a guy reached up and put his hand up in
00:13:35.500
And Dave was like, he's going to hit me, slap me.
00:13:41.220
And he said, I didn't think this guy would be somebody that would be, you know, going,
00:13:46.920
hey, Dave, I sure appreciate what you're doing right now and looking into different
00:13:52.920
And he said he put his hand up and gave him a high five and said, free thought, brother,
00:14:03.060
And if it can happen in the cultural world, we should be optimistic.
00:14:23.100
Put all of your money in gold or, I don't know, balsa wood, something.
00:14:31.380
I want to talk to you a little bit about car shield.
00:14:36.480
You know, you got to take care of your car and it can be really expensive, especially
00:14:39.680
if you if you're, you know, somebody wants to drive it until the doors fall off.
00:14:46.680
I want to drive a car for a very, very long time.
00:14:49.520
And as soon as it goes out, as soon as the warranty stops, that's when the warning light
00:14:54.120
You know, we used to in the old days, we didn't have warning lights, so we didn't worry.
00:15:01.160
We had all of our worry in one experience, not, oh, geez, the check engine light.
00:15:08.100
And then for weeks until you break down, you're just thinking, oh, something bad's going to
00:15:16.660
Get the extended vehicle protection like I have on from car shield, car shield dot com.
00:15:30.900
And it's got, you know, a bazillion miles on it.
00:15:42.600
The thing I had five thousand dollar repair bill.
00:15:51.400
Sure enough, I paid for nothing but the oil change.
00:15:59.120
Just go to car shield dot com, car shield dot com.
00:16:03.980
Make sure you use the promo code back car shield dot com or call one eight hundred car
00:16:09.980
sixty one hundred one eight hundred car sixty one hundred.
00:16:12.880
Make sure you mention the promo code back, you'll get 10 percent off car shield dot com
00:16:44.900
In fact, everyone seemed to say it up until like, you know, a week ago.
00:16:52.320
You imagine how bad this what the reviews are going to be like on this this forthcoming
00:16:57.140
Can we guarantee that this is his worst reviewed musical effort of history?
00:17:11.820
Whatever it is, they are going to say it about this CD.
00:17:15.280
And I can tell you, too, if this guy has ever as much as looked at a female backstage in
00:17:21.440
the wrong way, you're going to be hearing about it real soon.
00:17:31.980
Kanye and we everyone used to at least have an element of understanding about that.
00:17:37.400
And we should that's why we should be a little bit cautious here.
00:17:40.120
I mean, even he's the type of person where it's like part of his genius is that he's nuts.
00:17:48.600
But I'm saying his people who believe he's a genius think because he's willing to put
00:17:53.520
himself through torture to come out on the other side as an artist.
00:17:58.720
And most of his controversies over the year have been mostly related to him believing he's
00:18:07.980
And this is hard to say at this point in human history, but he may have the biggest
00:18:15.080
And you know, honestly, the person you can compare him to is pre-presidency Donald Trump.
00:18:20.060
Like think of Donald Trump, not as the president of the United States, but the guy when he's
00:18:23.920
And he's out there talking about himself all the time and saying how he's the greatest
00:18:29.860
I mean, they have almost an identical media profile from two different worlds.
00:18:36.760
So, but if you look at Kanye, I mean, you know, he's always done a lot of that stuff.
00:18:41.280
He obviously ruined a really important moment for Taylor Swift.
00:18:44.860
Famously, George Bush doesn't believe, you know, doesn't like black people.
00:18:49.060
You know, he posed as Jesus Christ with a crown of thorns on his head on the cover of
00:18:56.100
All stuff that makes him a genius to the left, to the left stuff that makes him a genius.
00:19:00.180
And one interesting thing, and this is one of the reasons you may not want to sell yourself
00:19:09.240
I think a lot of people are excited about Kanye talking about this.
00:19:12.080
No, be excited that he's bringing free thought, the idea of free thought into the culture
00:19:21.040
Sometimes he's going to put Thomas Sowell up there, which is great.
00:19:24.040
Sometimes he's going to say Emma Gonzalez is his hero and you might not agree with it.
00:19:27.920
However, you probably really won't agree with his commentary on AIDS.
00:19:37.060
You know, a lot of people don't have commentary on AIDS.
00:19:46.780
Oh, we're all going to be very familiar with this.
00:19:48.640
And remember how you reacted last time you heard it.
00:19:51.660
AIDS is a man-made disease that was placed in Africa, just like crack was placed in the
00:19:56.780
black community to break up the Black Panthers.
00:20:08.920
That is, it's the exact philosophy of Jeremiah Wright.
00:20:12.520
I like it when he talks about Thomas Sowell and says to people who have never heard of Thomas
00:20:34.780
So I've been telling you about usewaxrx.com for a while now.
00:20:39.060
And I got to tell you, there's something about it that's freaking me out.
00:20:41.760
Like, I keep thinking about my ears all the time.
00:20:45.080
I'm spending too much time talking to you about this.
00:20:47.140
There's an easy solution that doesn't screw up my life.
00:21:03.860
We all know by now, if you've heard me talking about usewaxrx.com, you know that you need
00:21:09.040
to find a really efficient, safe way to clean your ears.
00:21:19.720
Get the things clean so they don't freak you out like they're freaking me out right now
00:21:48.780
So I, as I stated a few minutes ago, I'm becoming very optimistic and that's odd for me and quite
00:21:54.940
honestly disturbing to people like Stu and, and maybe it's just, is it just because you're
00:22:01.660
so used to me being pessimistic or catastrophist?
00:22:05.180
Uh, no, I mean, just the patterns of time, right?
00:22:09.180
And usually like when things are going great, you're like, we are all going to die.
00:22:19.080
And then the other thing is like when people are like, ah, you know what?
00:22:28.000
And then for when people are like, oh God, we are really screwed.
00:22:33.800
I gotta be optimistic, you know, because after the fallout leaves, there's going to be wonderful
00:22:42.620
Yes, we're all in a concentration camp now, but the state of Israel is going to be restored.
00:22:50.040
So, um, Stu and I have been talking about this since 2008.
00:22:54.580
That, uh, yeah, when I get optimistic, um, this next time could be bad.
00:23:03.640
And, and so we've been kind of looking for that.
00:23:06.880
And the good news is I haven't had any optimism for quite some time.
00:23:13.600
So what I did last night is I decided to look into the pole shift because I mean, I can't
00:23:21.520
get my arms around, uh, global warming, uh, and that we can do anything about it.
00:23:35.880
You know, cause if it is a pole shift coming, I probably should have heard a lot.
00:23:43.100
That we've, you know, turning on its axis, right?
00:23:45.860
That's the, the flipping upside down almost, right?
00:23:49.860
There's the, there's the, the, the mantle shift.
00:23:53.860
And then there's a, an elect, uh, electromagnetic pole shift.
00:23:57.220
So the, the electromagnetic field that is around the, the world that keeps us protected
00:24:04.240
So we're not all like walking outside and like all of a sudden we're John McCain.
00:24:07.800
No, all of that field, um, helps us get rid of a lot of the radiation and, and everything
00:24:24.500
I mean, the, the, the North pole, the magnetic North pole, I think has been as low as Ohio
00:24:33.080
And I mean, you know, long time ago, but we have a pole shift about every 200 to 300,000
00:24:41.200
And that would mean all it would really mean to you.
00:24:43.940
If we were living without any technology or anything else, all it would mean is you'd
00:24:47.760
look at your compass and you'd go, what the hell is that?
00:24:52.960
And all the birds would be flying into trees and every, everything would be screwed up.
00:24:57.920
Anything that is, is, has any kind of sense of North and South would all be screwed up.
00:25:04.500
So we, in a few days would realize, oh, wow, something has happened.
00:25:08.460
And now my compass is pointing to Antarctica instead of Arctic.
00:25:17.020
So it would be confusing for, you know, we'd have to take our globes apart and, and just
00:25:26.360
Um, so we're not living like the Neanderthals though.
00:25:30.260
And a pole shift, if it happens slowly, we are due.
00:25:34.900
In fact, scientists are saying now it can happen at any time, but you got to remember
00:25:38.380
any time is like, could be a hundred thousand years from now, could be today.
00:25:43.520
And they're seeing a real strong destabilization of the field now.
00:25:53.040
If it happens over the next hundred years, not a problem.
00:25:56.020
Um, if it happens tomorrow, we won't be, this will be our last broadcast.
00:26:03.300
And not because we're all going to die, but because all of the satellites, everything is
00:26:08.700
geared to a strong electromagnetic field, which we are losing now.
00:26:13.660
And scientists are working on, okay, what does that mean for all of our communication
00:26:21.440
It's like a giant EMP global and it will destroy all of, uh, electronics and communication and
00:26:30.640
So it'd be very, very bad, but there's also something happening.
00:26:34.400
And they're saying that these are disconnected, but did you know that, have you ever heard
00:26:40.740
This is something that's also known to happen and we're long overdue for it, apparently,
00:26:49.000
Uh, but the mantle, you know how the core of the earth and, and remember I'm a doctor.
00:26:56.540
So, so if you happen to know more about this, if I get too, if I have a word of criticism,
00:26:59.860
yes, if I get too technical, Oh, it's that just keep it to yourself.
00:27:03.640
So the, the mantle, uh, the, or the, um, uh, the core of the earth is a hundred percent
00:27:11.320
marshmallow fluff and just outside of this core, but it's at extreme temperatures because
00:27:18.720
And so it's, it's really liquefied marshmallow fluff.
00:27:21.920
And just on the outside of that is liquid metal.
00:27:26.480
And the, the, the, what the metals on the outside of the fluff is your, is your, do I
00:27:32.940
talk to you about when you put chocolate in your peanut butter?
00:27:35.980
Don't talk to me about my metal and my marshmallow fluff.
00:27:39.560
So, so we're really kind of like the, the world is kind of ice skating on this liquid
00:27:47.600
If you, if you had a very long time to look and you were watching us from space, you would
00:27:57.520
However, the continents spin slightly differently because they're moving.
00:28:06.520
We're actually sliding and we slide about the same speed that your fingernails grow.
00:28:13.000
Now in a, you know, in your short lifetime, that's no big deal.
00:28:19.160
You just, you know, you're, you're Howard Hughes and you've got really long fingernails
00:28:22.500
or you're in the Guinness book of world records.
00:28:24.400
That's not a long way for a continent to slide.
00:28:26.980
You know, I mean, if you straighten them out, it can't be the curly kind of fingernails.
00:28:33.980
If you're, you know, if you're the United States of America, we slide a little bit.
00:28:37.760
However, over a long period of time, that's dramatic.
00:28:44.580
If you're in the United States, we slide a little bit, no big deal.
00:28:47.520
But over a long period of time, you might not recognize where you are.
00:28:53.980
So we kind of figured this out when we went down and we were exploring down in Antarctica
00:29:07.460
And they believe there's a theory, probably wrong, but there is a theory that that was the legendary lost city of Atlantis.
00:29:16.280
And a pole shift happened, and that was more towards the equator, and the continents slid, and now Atlantis is, you know, Antarctica.
00:29:28.200
Again, speculation probably wrong, but we do know that the continents have shifted and they have all moved into the positions that they're in.
00:29:37.840
So if we have a magnetic pole shift, it means an end of communications, and it will also mean we have, if it's rapid,
00:29:49.540
and we'll also have a hard time growing food, et cetera, et cetera, it'll be really bad.
00:29:57.140
If you have both of them coincide, you have basically the scientific explanation for the book of Revelation.
00:30:09.000
You're standing on firm ground at night, and we know when we read the book of Revelation, it says,
00:30:15.900
and the stars will fall, and the earth and the water and the land will be poisoned.
00:30:24.060
We know the stars aren't going to fall, but if you're standing on the earth, and all of a sudden you have a continental shift,
00:30:34.860
If that shift happens with the magnetic pole, that could poison all of the water and the land and just be apocalyptic in its nature.
00:30:45.900
I don't believe that this is going to, it could happen in our lifetime, if your lifetime is 100,000 years.
00:30:52.140
Scientists are now saying it could happen at any time, and they are noticing a thinning and a destabilization of the electromagnetic field.
00:31:01.100
And the poles are shifting, but we don't know what's going to happen.
00:31:05.080
It's just interesting, especially if you're looking for something that says, no, don't be optimistic, Glenn.
00:31:14.280
So, I spent my time last night trying to find something else to worry about.
00:31:21.400
I got up yesterday, and I'm like, I don't know.
00:31:24.880
Is there anything out there that could cause a catastrophe?
00:31:33.360
Although, I will say, the evidence, you know, if Kanye West is a conservative hero, the poles may be shifting.
00:31:52.280
I don't know if you've noticed that the Federal Reserve has shifted tons and tons and tons of reserve gold back over to Europe and all around the world.
00:32:07.000
The countries are all calling their gold back from the Federal Reserve, which, just remember this word, rehypothecation.
00:32:26.100
When you hear that word used by somebody other than me that is credible, and they're like, well, what we're really dealing with here is rehypothecation.
00:32:37.000
OK, anyway, they're pulling all the gold and everything else.
00:32:42.540
Have you noticed that you have lost a lot of money in your savings account just because the dollar is depreciating?
00:32:51.480
A lot of people are talking about a bit of Bitcoin.
00:32:57.140
It's also crazy not to have like a hundred bucks in this market, but it's so hard to understand.
00:33:18.600
I look at him all the time and I'm like, can you fix the TV?
00:33:25.480
I just want to buy some Bitcoin or I'm looking at this coin.
00:33:35.500
So we when we looked for somebody that could teach this on what it is, how to invest, what to possibly invest in.
00:33:57.380
And if you want to invest, you can invest, you know, just do your own homework.
00:34:05.700
I needed an education on what it was, how it worked and how to invest and how to sell.
00:34:12.700
They make it really easier to buy than they do to sell.
00:34:40.500
Hey, would you just take a second and say a prayer for a good friend, Pat Gray?
00:34:47.120
Pat was was in the hospital a couple of weeks ago and his kidneys shut down.
00:34:58.360
He had a scarring in his kidneys and they had to put stints in the in the kidneys.
00:35:06.880
So, you know, they could get him to start functioning again.
00:35:10.220
I don't know something with the fallopian tubes in the ovaries.
00:35:18.620
I'm a doctor of humanities, which means I can talk about anything with the human condition
00:35:22.180
and diagnose anything, even without examining the patient.
00:35:29.760
It's not really what that is, but I think it is.
00:35:31.620
And we're not going to ask any more questions anyway.
00:35:40.840
So if you wouldn't mind just saying a prayer for him, we sure would appreciate it.
00:35:49.800
And this is, you know what, if none of it is to make him look better, which is kind
00:35:56.880
And as, you know, as he would tell you, that's the positive side effect of all this.
00:36:03.000
I'm telling you, really, honestly, pain, surgery, you got it.
00:36:07.700
If I can lose 35 pounds, you know, in a couple of weeks, I'm there.
00:36:11.280
But here's my, because as you know, I'm not a doctor, but I want to be one someday.
00:36:27.080
Therefore, no, my point is, him getting healthier was the reason he's having these health problems.
00:36:42.100
Because Taco Bell nacho cheese sauce is basically antibiotics.
00:36:46.460
It's the nacho cheese, I think, that kept those fallopian tubes, you know, well greased.
00:36:54.980
I don't know why you're so focused on fallopian tubes.
00:36:56.720
You're the only tubes I know that you have inside of you.
00:37:07.700
At what point do you say, I want to go into that as a doctor?
00:37:17.800
And I didn't have to study much for it, which was great.
00:37:21.460
They just called me and said, hey, we want to make you a doctor.
00:37:24.980
So anyway, but at what point are you narrowing things down and you say, I want to study people's
00:37:34.040
I want to crawl up in there where it's really gooey and icky and stinky.
00:37:37.500
And I really want to, that's where, that's where I want to dedicate my life.
00:37:49.780
Look, Mrs. Johansson, you may have cancer, but it's in the nether regions and I'm not going
00:37:56.940
Well, just like being Cleveland Browns quarterback, somebody's got to do it, you know?
00:38:00.640
And I think that might be, but that's not the way they act.
00:38:03.700
It's not like you go to one of those doctors and they're like, I'm the guy.
00:38:10.840
Like, I'm one of the best butt doctors in the area.
00:38:13.860
Well, you probably want one that's good, I would assume, right?
00:38:17.480
You do, but I mean, did you hear what you just said?
00:38:30.700
I just don't think I'm even shaking hands with the butt doctors.
00:38:43.940
Keep him in your prayers the next week or so, please.
00:39:05.260
So, do you remember when, oh, I don't even know how many years ago, when the world was
00:39:10.520
very, very young, sometime in the 90s, when Bart Simpson said, eat my shorts!
00:39:18.420
And people went crazy and said, oh my gosh, eat my shorts.
00:39:22.320
You can't have a young gentleman on television saying, eat my shorts.
00:39:33.320
And remember, we were told by Hollywood to shut up.
00:39:39.220
Well, I would just like to say, I don't think it's Simpsons related, but have you noticed
00:39:50.340
I mean, that is, that is like if Ronald Reagan came back and ran in the next, and his big
00:39:57.620
put down was, eat my shorts, it would be like, my gosh, he is like George Washington.
00:40:03.480
So, for everybody in Hollywood who said, shut up, let me just give you a story here that
00:40:13.040
maybe the rest of America might have something to say back to you.
00:40:24.360
He was in an interview with USA Today, and he's responded now to the recent backlash surrounding
00:40:37.340
He, he's the Indian character whom social justice types claim perpetuates an evil stereotype.
00:40:44.900
In the interview, he said of the accusations, I'm proud what we do on the show.
00:40:49.420
And I think it's time in our culture where people, it's just a time in our culture where
00:41:06.080
The best approach is to shrug off the outrage and let all of those people who are like,
00:41:11.520
why you little, just stew in their anger and their self-importance like spoiled children
00:41:17.040
who throw a tantrum when they don't get ice cream for dinner.
00:41:20.500
And when dad says no, they're like, why, why eat my shorts?
00:41:42.940
Universities throughout the country have done the same.
00:41:48.140
Apu has been the mainstay on the show for decades.
00:41:50.820
His identity has only become a problem after a documentary filmmaker, whose name I'm not
00:41:55.780
going to try to pronounce because I believe that that would be cultural appropriation,
00:42:00.000
made an entire film accusing the show of racial stereotyping.
00:42:05.300
As to be expected, the social justice warrior types, who have been most offended, know very
00:42:12.540
Otherwise, they would see the cultural richness that the character Apu has given over the years.
00:42:18.040
Wouldn't you say, Stu, as you watch it from your armchair and you study it, it's cultural
00:42:29.160
He's by far one of the most nuanced characters on the show.
00:42:32.380
And that's saying something for a cartoon character.
00:42:37.600
But that's not good enough for social justice warriors.
00:42:41.140
They're arguing that it's a cultural appropriation to use a white actor to voice Apu.
00:42:47.200
Now, this is Hank Azaria, one of the most impressive voice actors of our time.
00:43:03.200
Once an Indian actor would replace Azaria, they would argue that Apu character needs a name
00:43:15.100
Notice that all these notions themselves are premised on stereotypes.
00:43:22.040
Once again, the progressives are signaling virtue for the community rather than their
00:43:26.420
It's funny that they don't have a problem with the character Cletus, who is based on
00:43:30.600
the stereotype of a white, poor redneck with a litter of toothless children, most of
00:43:35.180
whom run around the trailer park with shotguns.
00:43:46.960
How about the Scottish stereotype used with groundskeeper Willie or the stereotypes of the
00:43:54.400
You know, the oversized donut eating chief Wiggum or politicians like the corrupt womanizing
00:44:04.440
Are you saying all corrupt politicians sound like the Kennedys?
00:44:16.380
Grandma Simpson or Grandpa Simpson is an ageist.
00:44:20.240
Marge Simpson status as a housewife perpetuates outdated general roles.
00:44:28.540
Better yet, where are all the vegan, atheist, Latino, pixie, kin, non-gender, binary, Costa
00:44:33.860
Rican pansexuals who teach feminism as they make your coffee?
00:44:41.960
By the way, anybody notice that the only real progressive and non-funny one on the show
00:44:55.040
I can't wait to watch the Simpsons when it's just Lisa lecturing us on how we have to live.
00:45:01.880
I'll get rid of all those other nonsensical characters.
00:45:13.800
Buckling to demands and outrage only increase the demands and intensifies the outrage.
00:45:18.400
What we've learned is that social justice warriors never get enough.
00:45:22.320
And Matt Groening did the right thing by not bowing to their bullying.
00:45:26.340
If they got in their way with Apu, they would have gutted every cartoon they could ever get
00:45:35.680
We've got to we've got to stop all smoking and guns in movies.
00:45:40.660
I mean, unless it's, you know, making us lots of money, then we'll keep those guns in the
00:45:47.940
But have you noticed all of the kids that are dropping safes on little bunny rabbits?
00:45:56.400
They've largely succeeded in condemning certain books.
00:45:59.560
I mean, when's the next book burning left and condemning movies and they're doing it
00:46:07.860
He's hard to stick up for, but doesn't he have a right to his opinion?
00:46:13.440
By the way, burning books, banning movies, destroying people, that kind of sounds familiar
00:46:39.580
The Boy Scouts have just announced check on this.
00:46:44.020
I'm reading it from Boy Scouts are now changing their name to Scouts.
00:46:51.220
Because the Boy Scouts have now let girls into the Boy Scouts.
00:47:10.760
Well, just Scouts colon BSA is what their new name is.
00:47:24.980
No, but the BS together in Scouts works better than it ever has, I think.
00:47:31.280
It's like when Kentucky Fried Chicken wanted to deny, essentially, that they're making fried
00:47:35.360
chicken, and they're just like, no, we're just KFC now.
00:47:39.860
No, I think these, I think BSA makes even more sense than it did.
00:48:00.240
An Israeli airstrike on the Western Syrian city of Hamas, which is like Hamas without the S.
00:48:05.500
On Sunday, killed two dozen Iranian soldiers and targeted arms recently delivered from
00:48:12.320
And this is the latest sign that Israel and Iran are moving closer to open warfare.
00:48:17.220
Quote, on the list of potentials for most likely live hostility around the world, the
00:48:22.420
battle between Israel and Iran and Syria is at the top of the list right now.
00:48:26.740
I'm kind of okay with that, as long as we stay out of it.
00:48:33.740
I don't think that a highly inflamed Middle East isn't necessarily in our interest.
00:48:44.220
I want to tell you that we have been airing a show, and it's available now on demand right
00:48:51.860
It's called Faith Keepers at TheBlaze.com slash TV, and it was done by The Clarion Project.
00:48:57.900
And the founder and the CEO is Rabbi Shore, and he is on with us.
00:49:08.060
I have to tell you, you guys are responsible for some of the best stuff and the bravest stuff
00:49:16.180
I think I've seen on radicalized Islam and the Middle East.
00:49:21.000
You are the ones that were responsible for Obsession, which we based a documentary special
00:49:29.800
We based it on Obsession, and you were the first to really take the leap and tell that
00:49:36.860
story in a compelling way for Americans to hear it.
00:49:39.820
And now, with Faith Keepers, here you are, a rabbi, and you are holding up the Christians
00:50:00.660
Well, I think it's actually perhaps a sensitivity that's now pretty solidly embedded in our genetics.
00:50:10.340
The Jewish people have suffered their own genocide just less than 100 years ago.
00:50:15.720
And we also, in addition to the genocide, almost a million Jews were kicked out of the Middle East
00:50:24.460
And now we're seeing it happen to the Christians in the Middle East.
00:50:27.680
And I guess because we've experienced it, we're sensitive to it.
00:50:30.900
And I see what's happening, and I view it not just as a threat to those minority groups in the Middle East,
00:50:37.820
but it's a threat to Americans, because this is a movement of radical Islam that is global.
00:50:44.460
And so I feel that it's necessary to alert Christians, as well as every good American,
00:50:53.620
As we are seeing this movement spread, it is incredible to me that, you know,
00:51:01.480
people have a hard time, you know, understanding the enemy when the enemy seems to them to be crazy.
00:51:09.260
It's why people didn't stand up right away when they heard about the Holocaust,
00:51:12.700
even some of the German people, because some of the German people even said,
00:51:22.880
When you have an enemy like radicalized Islam in particular here with ISIS and Iran,
00:51:31.440
their ideology is that, you know, the imam of time is coming and going to wash the world in blood.
00:51:42.000
They just think that, oh, they're just really bad guys.
00:51:50.080
And what's astonishing is that people do tend to think that this threat is just about a few crazy terrorists
00:51:58.340
But the fact is that there is approaching one and a half billion Muslims.
00:52:02.860
Now, even if the great majority are are moderate, the there is a solid minority,
00:52:08.640
and it could be five or 10 percent that really carry this ideal ideology that you're talking about of the desire to see a victory of Islam over every other religion and every other civilization on the planet.
00:52:21.200
And they're determined to do it with terror and with many other vehicles as well.
00:52:27.620
And we're talking about, therefore, 100 million plus people.
00:52:32.140
And so this is kind of the greatest threat to civilization and Western civilization that we have facing us today.
00:52:39.960
And yet people tend to marginalize it and think, oh, it's just some terror attacks or just some brown people far away that are getting hurt.
00:52:52.600
There are several references to the Armenian genocide that happened with Turkey that no one will admit to still in Turkey.
00:53:05.280
I bet you've heard some backlash on saying that it's like the Armenian genocide.
00:53:13.780
Well, I think that the Armenian genocide is just exactly the topic that we're dealing with.
00:53:19.080
That in between 1914 and 1922, there was three and a half million Armenian Christians that were killed in the Ottoman Empire.
00:53:38.600
And then, as I said, the Jewish communities of the entire Middle East were dispelled and persecuted and left to the tune of almost a million around the late 40s.
00:53:48.060
And then today, in the last few decades, the Christian community, which at the turn of the century in the Middle East was around 20 percent, is now only 3 to 5 percent.
00:53:58.340
So, this is going on for over 100 years in quite some intensity.
00:54:04.500
And the Armenian genocide was just the beginning of it.
00:54:06.940
Hitler was clear when he said, nobody paid attention to the Armenian Christians.
00:54:12.340
And if that happens, we can do whatever we want with the Jews.
00:54:15.480
Are you concerned if we don't pay attention to this now in the Middle East that somebody's learning a lesson that the world doesn't care?
00:54:24.380
There are many theories that Hitler at the beginning would have been satisfied.
00:54:32.620
And he probably would have been satisfied with just getting the Jews out of Germany or possibly out of all of Europe if the world would have just accepted them.
00:54:41.960
Or if the British had allowed them to go to Israel at that time.
00:54:48.380
And as a result, he said, what am I supposed to do?
00:54:51.920
And so he drew the conclusion that the world does not care and does not like the Jews.
00:54:59.520
And I definitely think that that is something that turns around in history.
00:55:05.580
And when evil people see that the rest of the world does not care, they are empowered and emboldened.
00:55:11.420
And I think that's what's going on with the Iranians and the radicalized Muslims all over the planet today.
00:55:17.900
Rabbi Schor from the Clarion Project, the founder and CEO, thank you so much.
00:55:26.200
And right now, if you go to the clarionproject.org, you can get Obsession for free.
00:55:35.020
You can get that for free and the film Faith Keepers discounted for $5.99 for both of them.
00:55:45.300
First 5,000 people who sign up for our newsletter will get the shipping.
00:55:53.500
You can also see Faith Keepers, the movie, on demand now at The Blaze.
00:56:02.580
Listen to last hour if you were thinking about, oh, I don't know if I need to prepare.
00:56:08.580
The things that are going on in the world, and we were just talking about it with Israel, that can change everything.
00:56:13.980
I'm very concerned about the 70th anniversary that is coming up with Israel, and Donald Trump is going to be there opening the U.S. Embassy.
00:56:23.260
I mean, if that isn't an important date, I don't know what is.
00:56:27.160
Israel is now preparing to go to war with Iran.
00:56:34.000
This whole thing is a house of cards, and one day you're going to wake up, and you're going to realize, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:56:42.140
I can't get my money out of the bank, or I can only get this, or it's going to happen.
00:56:50.760
May I suggest that you have some food, you have some, you know, the basic stuff, and you have some gold.
00:57:00.100
Gold is the hedge against insanity and against inflation, and God forbid, hyperinflation.
00:57:09.020
The world always returns to common sense and always returns to gold.
00:57:15.820
Read the important risk information and find out if gold or silver is right for you.
00:57:41.660
You know, we don't always do themed programs here, but today we have a goal in mind.
00:57:47.520
Yes, the entire goal of the program is to take you, Glenn, from optimism to pessimism.
00:57:53.400
Because when you're optimistic, that means usually the future is dark.
00:58:04.820
Well, I've already given you the fact that there might be a war in the Middle East.
00:58:07.400
I have given you that the Boy Scouts are no longer going to be called the Boy Scouts.
00:58:21.540
I want a t-shirt that says, keeping the BS in the BS of A.
00:58:26.180
When you buy your kids cartoon DVDs, like Bugs Bunny and Foghorn Leghorn, you get this.
00:58:34.520
Some of the cartoons you're about to see are a product of their time.
00:58:38.120
They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society.
00:58:44.240
These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.
00:58:47.280
While the following does not represent the Warner Brothers view of today's society,
00:58:51.820
some of these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created
00:58:55.560
because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.
00:59:09.740
Where the Chinese have just adopted a new exciting artificial intelligence technology.
00:59:47.240
Anyway, we have some really good history on a guy named John Kasser that we're going to get to that Kanye kind of stumbled into yesterday.
00:59:57.680
He didn't really know it, but it's worth discussing.
01:00:00.940
So you can talk on social media with your friends and introduce them to some.
01:00:04.620
Oh, I seem like you're a little optimistic there.
01:00:08.860
You know, Kanye is actually making me optimistic because not because of, you know, he's coming to our side or whatever.
01:00:16.720
I mean, he's got a long, long, long list of saying crazy things.
01:00:22.960
So he's just as likely to say, you know what, that moon landing was a movie next week, as he does to say, and I learned something else from Thomas Sowell.
01:00:35.520
So but I'm optimistic because he's bringing this conversation of free thought into the mainstream.
01:00:41.260
And I think we are, there's a possibility that there's a dam break here.
01:00:50.740
Because, I mean, I've been around you a long time.
01:00:52.860
I remember in 1999, you being very pessimistic, particularly about Osama bin Laden.
01:01:13.280
And then when it comes, I'm like, yeah, but don't worry about it.
01:01:23.960
So it is a little concerning that I am optimistic now.
01:01:26.580
The lesson I learned is to try to make you pessimistic.
01:01:47.620
Really rose to incredible heights in his industry.
01:02:13.120
We have someone that you've never spoken to before, to my knowledge.
01:02:22.760
Now, I don't know that this person necessarily explains this career arc the same way.
01:02:30.480
And this is how you should also be looking at it.
01:02:38.140
You want to look at your phone in a whole new way.
01:02:40.680
Instead of like, wow, this is the greatest device.
01:02:43.980
And not when you get mad and you're like, why isn't this thing...
01:02:55.120
China announced yesterday that they have begun monitoring employees' brainwaves
01:03:09.700
And it has boosted one of the company's profits by $315 million.
01:03:19.300
Quoting, employees' brainwaves are reportedly being monitored in factories,
01:03:24.700
state-owned enterprises, and the military across China.
01:03:27.860
The technology works by placing wireless sensors in employees' caps or their hats,
01:03:34.000
which combined with artificial intelligence algorithms spot incidents of workplace rage,
01:03:42.560
Quoting, employers use this emotional surveillance technology by then tweaking workflows,
01:03:50.220
including employee placement and breaks, to increase productivity and profits.
01:03:58.920
A dozen businesses and Chinese military are now using this program.
01:04:05.300
They thought we could read their mind, speaking of the employees.
01:04:10.680
This caused some discomfort and resistance in the beginning.
01:04:16.960
But after a while, they all got used to the device, and they wear it all day at work now.
01:04:24.380
When the system issues a warning, the manager asks that worker to take the day off
01:04:32.160
Some jobs require high concentration, and there is no room for mistake.
01:04:36.740
Widespread use of emotion monitoring may mark a new stage in China's surveillance state.
01:04:43.920
They have generally been focused on facial recognition and increased internet censorship.
01:04:51.100
Now, you say to yourself, what could possibly happen?
01:04:57.720
This is actually, just to help you out, this is actually not the first step.
01:05:03.360
The first step we found out about four weeks ago, and it is China imposing a social credit system.
01:05:20.260
The Chinese state is setting up a vast ranking system that will monitor the behavior of its enormous population
01:05:29.120
The social credit system, first announced in 2014, aims to reinforce the idea that keeping trust is glorious
01:05:40.500
The program will be fully optimized, and I'm quoting, fully operational.
01:05:48.140
You shouldn't use Death Star lingo in your giant government programs.
01:05:55.680
By 2020, it's being piloted now for millions of people already.
01:06:07.480
Private credit scores, people will now have a social score, and it will move up and down depending on your behavior.
01:06:15.860
What the methodology is, is still secret, a little like the New York Times bestseller list.
01:06:23.400
Examples of infractions include bad driving, smoking in non-smoking zones, playing too many video games, or posting fake news online.
01:06:36.320
9 million people already with low scores have been blocked from buying tickets for domestic airplane flights.
01:06:49.320
3 million people are now barred from getting business class train tickets.
01:06:53.700
The eventual system will punish bad passengers specifically.
01:06:57.020
Potential misdeeds include trying to ride with no ticket, loitering in front of a boarding gate, or smoking in non-smoking areas.
01:07:08.560
They also are going to monitor whether you pay your bills on time.
01:07:12.640
Other offenses here, too long playing video games, wasting money on what the state says is frivolous purchases, and posting on social media.
01:07:24.680
Spreading fake news specifically about terrorist attacks, airport security, or anything about the government is also punishable.
01:07:33.420
17 people who refused to carry out military service last year were barred from enrolling in higher education, applying for high school, or continuing their studies.
01:07:42.640
Citizens with a low socials credit will also be prohibited from enrolling their children at high-paying private schools.
01:07:50.200
Trust-breaking individuals will be banned from doing any kind of management jobs in state-owned firms and big banks.
01:07:58.180
Some crimes, like fraud and embezzlement, will also have big effects on social credit.
01:08:02.960
People who refuse the military service are banned from holidays and hotels.
01:08:17.400
The regime wards people as well as punishes them.
01:08:20.920
People with good scores speed up travel applications to places like Europe.
01:08:24.540
An unidentified woman in Beijing told the BBC she was able to book a hotel without having to pay a cash deposit because she had a good score.
01:08:35.560
The government put people on notice that companies need to consult the blacklist before hiring people or giving them contracts.
01:08:44.340
However, people will be notified by the courts before they are added to the list and are allowed to appeal the decision within 10 days.
01:08:52.780
You'll definitely get something overturned from the Chinese government.
01:08:56.620
If you saw the Black Mirror episode, that I am completely convinced was based on this program.
01:09:05.040
People are like, oh, well, this is just like that Black Mirror episode.
01:09:07.760
No, it's Black Mirror just made it Americanized and made it a fictional version of it where every interaction you have, you can rate the person that you've had this reaction with.
01:09:20.500
Now, this is more individuals, but the same thing happened with plane tickets.
01:09:27.080
And she couldn't because her social score had fallen below a certain point and she was not allowed to buy an airplane ticket.
01:09:35.260
And this happens and it gets cycles out of control for her in the episode.
01:09:39.200
It's worth watching if you've ever, never, never seen it.
01:09:46.260
I mean, like, you know, I guess the government system had been applied where this is more people rating you in individual interactions.
01:09:56.780
The Chinese people are very excited about it because they say people used to cross the street outside of crosswalks and they no longer do that.
01:10:02.760
Because if you're caught on camera crossing a street, not obeying the traffic laws, then you are automatically going to get to points deducted.
01:10:11.380
But if you go to the government website for dating and you have the government match you up with a spouse, you get extra points.
01:10:27.520
And bits and pieces of this are already coming.
01:10:29.440
I saw an ad the other day for a new car insurance company.
01:10:32.700
And the car insurance company has a new technology that monitors your phone.
01:10:43.040
It monitors everything you do while you're driving around.
01:10:46.020
And then it takes you if you're a safe driver, a safe driver, whatever that means.
01:10:50.780
So the idea is that you get better rates because they don't have to insure the crappy drivers.
01:10:54.900
They can only insure the good drivers because they're going to monitor you driving around to see if you exceed speed limits to see.
01:11:06.000
I mean, my first reaction was, oh, I should sign up for that.
01:11:09.500
And then I thought, they're not going to see me as a safe driver.
01:11:13.340
You know, but the other thing, the nice thing is, is, you know, as long as like Pat's had a couple of surgeries, we've had some people with cancer.
01:11:20.160
As long as we fire those people or don't hire them, our insurance rates will be a lot cheaper.
01:11:26.860
So when we have somebody who's sick, we should just get them off.
01:11:35.820
And China now is implementing brain scans to be able to read the workers' minds.
01:11:55.140
Do you think maybe we should try to maybe do a Manhattan project for AI?
01:12:00.540
Because whoever gets AI first is going to rule the world.
01:12:07.580
Uh, there, that's, wow, your future, your outlook on the future doesn't look too bright right now.
01:12:11.540
But then I remember that I have this happy surprise coming up in just a few minutes from you.
01:12:26.500
I don't know that he would say that, but he might not, you know, it's hard to examine yourself, you know.
01:12:32.720
But you would definitely, with 100% certitude, will know this guy's name.
01:12:55.860
There's something to live for in the next 20 minutes.
01:13:07.060
Now, somebody is hacking into all of those things.
01:13:20.560
I mean, I'm pretty sure that they have something kind of like all of those devices to make sure
01:13:39.700
And they hacked in and got all of the information in the database of high rollers from the thermometer.
01:13:46.540
You don't think somebody's going to get your stuff?
01:13:53.280
And if there is one tiny little space open where somebody can get in, they're going to get in.
01:13:59.720
That's why the new LifeLock Identity Theft Protection has added the power of Norton Security
01:14:04.620
to help you protect against threats to your identity and to your devices
01:14:10.940
And if you have a problem, they have agents who are going to work to fix it.
01:14:14.520
Now, nobody can stop all cyber threats, prevent all identity theft,
01:14:19.340
But with the new LifeLock with Norton Security,
01:14:22.300
they're able to uncover the threats you might otherwise miss.
01:15:19.760
Um, in Detroit, only 5% of 8th grade students are proficient in reading,
01:15:25.760
and only 7% are proficient or better in, uh, in math.
01:15:34.200
It's not really the right math, but I figured I'd...
01:15:39.920
Uh, in Cleveland public schools, only 11% of 8th graders were proficient or better
01:15:44.520
in math, and 10% were proficient or better in reading.
01:15:58.640
You just, you just need to be able to Google through your, your, your brain chip,
01:16:04.380
You can, well, you can't read anything, but eventually someone will read,
01:16:08.060
and you can't write, you know, you can't write what you were looking for into Google.
01:16:12.380
They just had the guy on 60 Minutes who did it without typing anything.
01:16:18.140
He, he, they heard the question, it Googled it for you, and it told you through your ear,
01:16:25.200
And if I could get a chip in my brain that monitors how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking,
01:16:30.500
gives me a score on where I can go and what I can do, and the government can read that?
01:17:02.880
Stu, have you heard Kanye West has a new album coming out?
01:17:08.940
He's in the news a lot lately, but I don't know.
01:17:12.400
He should be, you know, and coincidentally, while everyone is talking about him, he's got
01:17:19.840
Now, my guess is it's going to be the worst reviewed album he's ever done.
01:17:25.800
If Jesus is singing with him and God himself wrote the music, it's going to get bad reviews.
01:17:38.880
He throws, you know, he throws curveballs into the culture all the time.
01:17:43.240
And it is that whirling undertone of identity politics that, you know, Bush hates black
01:17:54.120
Now, I'm not saying he doesn't mean what he's saying, although some of it is doubtless
01:17:58.720
But what I am saying is that Kanye does this every time that he's about to release an album.
01:18:04.020
Last time he went on Kimball and appeared to lose his mind.
01:18:08.360
Before that, he was effectively banished to Hawaii after his Taylor Swift snafu.
01:18:15.540
Now, hopefully, you know, he's going to get some word out into the culture about free thinking.
01:18:23.680
But let's remember, Kanye is part of a family that found its way to make millions of dollars
01:18:27.820
for posting selfies on Instagram, which they literally get paid to use.
01:18:34.500
They've also found a way to monetize Americans emotional reactions.
01:18:38.940
Every time a pundit or a journalist does a piece about Kanye, cha-ching, he wins.
01:18:48.000
Now, the album is going to come out and he'll go on a massive tour and then he'll vanish again
01:18:56.080
It's part of his unique ability to sell himself as a brand, quite honestly, much like the president
01:19:07.380
They fight the power constantly, but they are the power.
01:19:13.000
They both love riling the feathers of the elite.
01:19:16.600
And right now, the elite happen to be a bunch of bratty, intolerable social justice warriors
01:19:23.260
For now, Kanye may be kind of on your side if you're a free thinker.
01:19:31.400
And whether you're just up to, you know, buying into the hype or not.
01:19:53.240
He's been trying to destroy my career, destroy my mood all day.
01:19:57.540
Because I'm positive and he doesn't like it when I'm positive.
01:20:02.040
And that's why we've brought to you, I think, a cool surprise today.
01:20:12.140
Well, I don't think he would describe it that way.
01:20:20.560
Because here's a guy who has had an incredible career for many, many decades.
01:20:25.400
And then around the early 2000s, something changes in that career.
01:20:43.380
We have never talked about him on the air before.
01:21:10.480
I have been a fan of yours since Space Odyssey.
01:21:14.420
All the way to your fine, fine work on Haters Back Off.
01:21:24.440
You were just in the movie we were talking about recently.
01:21:33.320
It was a very quick cameo, but had a great time with Catherine and Courtney.
01:21:38.640
So, speaking to Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck program, I apologize for anything that I have inflicted on your life.
01:21:51.600
What has it been like to be confused, to have the same name, same spelling?
01:21:56.280
Well, I found out some years ago that you were exactly the same spelling and everything.
01:22:09.960
But I guess I've gotten your way a little bit, and you've probably gotten my way a little bit.
01:22:18.720
Has anyone in Hollywood given you a hard time for having the name Glenn Beck in the last 10 years?
01:22:27.120
The only problem I had was a little story that the casting director called my agent and said,
01:22:38.780
And they mentioned the money and everything like that, and a quick verbal contract.
01:22:46.140
And then I found that they were actually looking for you.
01:22:56.260
You would have, if you would have gone to, if you would have gone to Romania, I guarantee you, it wasn't a movie role.
01:23:18.060
They were filming in Bulgaria, in Romania, and wanted me to go.
01:23:25.520
Well, funnily enough, I found lately that a verbal contract, if they mention the money and everything, is binding.
01:23:34.460
But when my agent pulled up and said, perhaps, you know, you could advance a little bit of cash,
01:23:44.620
I could have taken him to court for that, but unfortunately, it's the Canadian law, you know, all that stuff.
01:23:58.120
How old of a man are you now, do you mind me asking?
01:24:12.280
I mean, you've got to be one of the longest-running actors around.
01:24:19.740
I mean, I just worked with Chris Plummer, and he's 90-something, and he's just turned 90,
01:24:30.980
So tell me, like, who have you met, or who has taught you anything that's been instrumental in your life,
01:24:41.740
Tell me some of the behind-the-scenes of being, you know, a Glenn Beck that used his powers for good,
01:24:47.940
Well, yes, that's something that we must keep our good names together without fail.
01:25:01.480
Anyway, when I first started out, it was in Vancouver, where I am now,
01:25:07.120
and there's some absolutely wonderful people who taught me a great deal,
01:25:25.420
but when I got to England, it was absolutely wonderful,
01:25:29.940
because every actor that I worked with worked hard,
01:25:33.840
which is not the case in Vancouver at that time,
01:25:43.420
and people like Albert Finney I worked with in the West End,
01:25:53.500
He did Barnum on Broadway, and stuff like that.
01:25:58.580
There is a difference between an English actor and a North American actor,
01:26:23.380
because I did an enormous amount of stage as well.
01:26:30.120
first of all, the length and all the credits that you have.
01:26:33.960
there's incredible amounts of really well-known stuff
01:26:41.280
I'm looking at the credits of Little Pink House, the movie,
01:26:50.000
that we have talked about for years and years and years and years.
01:27:06.060
and TV stuff where you've appeared as yourself.
01:27:25.020
because I believed in what they were trying to fight
01:28:13.940
No, not when are you going to leave us with wisdom.
01:28:19.180
Yeah, that's probably a better way of saying it.
01:29:03.580
Glenn, it's just a pleasure to talk to you, sir.
01:29:37.140
And we will maybe run into each other another time.
01:30:47.260
That's why 1-800-Flowers is a good thing to have
01:31:12.660
That's the whole point of capitalism, though, isn't it?
01:31:23.700
Could Stu and I give you a little piece of advice as well?
01:31:30.280
no, honey, I, you know, we don't need anything.
01:31:49.880
That's not a good commercial for your marriage quality.
01:32:06.600
rainbow of colors, 24 multicolored roses for $24.
01:32:37.780
That's amazing to talk to that guy who's a Hollywood actor named Glenn Beck.
01:32:58.660
If you look at what he has done, he's, you know, Dr. Strangelove.
01:33:05.820
He worked with Anthony Hopkins, Clive Owen, Christopher Plummer.
01:33:15.460
I mean, the guy has just been, it's weird, you know, probably for him.
01:33:29.660
Last hour, we were talking about the cities in the urban districts that have the worst scores now in America,
01:33:42.340
and if you look at the top 30 scores, the percentage of eighth graders, here they are.
01:34:01.660
These are eighth graders who are proficient in math.
01:34:48.800
This, to me, is in some ways kind of along the lines of what Kanye was talking about.
01:34:57.540
Doesn't matter what color you are, but you are being enslaved.
01:35:00.620
If you only have 5% of the 8th graders that are proficient in math, they have no future.
01:35:09.960
The best one is Charlotte with 41%, which is really terrible.
01:35:14.740
Well, the only way to solve this is to lower the standards.
01:35:59.820
You think you're not going to be a slave to somebody?
01:36:05.280
If you can't read, and if you try to get your kids to read, old classics are not fast enough because they're used to things happening so fast, so rapidly, that you try to get your kids to read an old book and they're too slow.
01:36:22.980
I, look, I'm, you know, I can't read, largely, can't read nonfiction, or fiction.
01:36:33.920
We've had tons of great authors that write amazing stories.
01:36:37.560
And I just, you know, for fiction, I'm not willing to stick around.
01:36:41.620
For nonfiction, I'll stick around and read long books because I want to know the information.
01:36:48.720
But if you can't read, you don't have that choice.
01:36:53.820
How can you, how can anybody, you know, Kanye can say, hey, I just found Thomas Sowell.
01:37:01.000
He's talking to a group of people that are never going to read him.
01:37:03.580
And it's how you get sucked into arguments like AIDS was created by the government to kill off black people.
01:37:08.880
We are enslaving ourself and it has nothing to do with color.
01:37:18.720
So I remember several years ago, Glenn was selling his house.
01:37:23.960
When you're with Glenn every day, you actually have to deal with it.
01:37:27.360
Like he gets off the air and he still keeps blabbing about all the problems he's having with his house.
01:37:36.000
Luckily, he actually took a positive step to correct this issue because he was having issues with his real estate agent at the time.
01:37:42.120
And he decided to create the company realestateagentsitrust.com.
01:37:45.320
And the idea was, hey, there's got to be a better way to sell a house than just depending on this person you barely know and not getting updates.
01:38:00.100
And unless you have realestateagentsitrust.com, you might not be able to find the best one.
01:38:04.280
If you go there, they're going to give you a network of over 1,200 agents.
01:38:08.480
You can find the best one in your area really easily.
01:38:10.880
Go there if you're going to try to sell your house or buying a home.
01:38:30.520
All right, let me tell you, let me tell you, you know, we were just talking about, you know, how schools, we're passing kids and dumping them into society without the ability to read or write or to think at all.
01:38:48.540
When you have 40% of the kids in eighth grade tests not being able to do math or read, I'm sorry, only 40% being able to pass a test on math and reading, 60%, and that's a good number.
01:39:06.760
We try to argue about the, you know, the higher intellectual points of the Constitution.
01:39:14.520
Even people who do read and even like to read won't read the Constitution.
01:39:23.140
We've been saying, hey, you know, we got to read this stuff.
01:39:26.340
No, we have to teach our children how to read or they are all going to be slaves.
01:39:32.440
So we started something last year with Mercury One.
01:39:43.400
So at the end of this month, the second two-week session starts on June 11th.
01:39:49.500
If you or someone you know between the ages of 18 and 25 with a passion for discovering
01:39:55.140
the truth and a desire to become a stronger leader, please share this with them.
01:40:01.020
It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, a two-week journey of discovery, guest speakers, myself,
01:40:09.720
And you actually are engaged in projects and going through the actual documents and the
01:40:19.820
We just got a piece in from Thomas Paine that is unbelievable.
01:40:24.480
It is his handwritten letter to Benjamin Franklin saying, no, that's not what I meant.
01:40:36.580
Well, that turns history completely upside down.
01:40:40.980
One student that graduated last year, she wrote something.
01:40:51.080
It was either on the New Deal or something, slavery.
01:40:57.680
But she wrote a paper and the professor, she wrote it in college and she expected the professor
01:41:05.500
And the professor said, can I see you after class?
01:41:11.560
He gave her an A and said, can I meet with you?
01:41:20.140
And she very wisely didn't mention my name or David Barton.
01:41:23.300
She said, here's where you can find them online.
01:41:31.620
He didn't even know how to find these original documents.
01:41:34.340
So if you want to participate, there is a small charge and you have to pay for the hotel
01:41:48.420
You do have to apply and you will be interviewed for the position.
01:42:14.280
Meeting these kids last year and then seeing them after two weeks and they were totally transformed.
01:42:24.280
I mean, because if you're if you're educated to this point, you bring back to, you know,
01:42:28.140
five percent of people can actually read and do math in some of these cities.
01:42:37.760
We had people that were teachers that said, I wanted to go back because they they knew they
01:42:43.180
were missing American history and they didn't know they didn't even know where to start.
01:42:46.760
So we had teachers come and we've heard from them saying it's remarkable how it has changed their
01:42:54.360
My uncle is a history teacher and he visited here.
01:42:57.540
This is not part of the program, but just, you know, we gave him the sort of little whatever
01:43:01.840
private tour there is of just basically walking around where all your your are, you know,
01:43:09.320
And he was amazed, you know, I mean, just seeing some of the the just the artifacts that
01:43:14.660
that because it's one thing to learn about them.
01:43:16.980
It's one thing to for someone to tell you, hey, there was once a letter that Ben Franklin
01:43:21.520
that was written to Ben Franklin that explained X, Y and Z.
01:43:25.200
And when you read the actual words in their handwriting, it makes a real impact on you.
01:43:30.540
Standing there, we have a big book now of just letters from early signers of the Declaration
01:43:34.940
of Independence and early presidents and to see Jefferson writing to Adams and be able
01:43:41.080
to, you know, we have it in a bound, a bound book now.
01:43:45.980
So it's you can't really actually touch it, but to actually read the letter in their handwriting
01:43:52.440
and then turn the page and it's a letter from George Washington and read what they're
01:43:59.840
By the way, we're doing that also the last class or the second class.
01:44:05.160
I think the second session, June 11th, I think they're actually helping prepare the museum
01:44:18.980
But we're doing a really great museum this year.
01:44:21.880
It's only open for three days and you'll be able to do what what Stu's relative did and
01:44:32.640
You can go to mercury one dot org and find out more.
01:44:35.760
It's the these rates of how people are reading and are proficient in math being so low is
01:44:42.160
part of the reason why something like a Prager University does really well.
01:44:45.920
And that's not because they're dumbed down at all.
01:44:47.660
They're very smart pieces, but they explain them easy.
01:44:50.200
They make them they explain them in an easy way.
01:44:52.020
And I also think it's part of the reason why the Kanye West thing is more important
01:44:57.040
than, you know, a bunch of album promotion from from the sky because it's communicating
01:45:03.100
to people who might not be in that five percent right there.
01:45:08.760
You know, certainly a lot of smart people like Kanye West, but a lot of dumb people like
01:45:13.680
Not a lot of dumb people are reading the Constitution.
01:45:15.920
So the fact that, you know, the ideas of Thomas Sowell could be introduced to an audience
01:45:21.420
that could be really receptive to them, you know, I mean, especially when you're talking
01:45:26.080
about communities that have been downtrodden for a long time, the ideas of Thomas Sowell
01:45:30.780
Just someone saying you don't have to be a Democrat.
01:45:36.340
I'm not saying I like the Republicans, but you don't have to be a Democrat.
01:45:44.940
Anybody who's like, I'm not talking about Kanye West, I understand that because it doesn't
01:45:51.400
have any meaning to the political movement, per se.
01:45:55.720
If you're like, I want more constitutional rule of law, but it does to the culture and
01:46:02.620
And here's a guy who can change the culture, even if it's just record promotion.
01:46:10.440
I mean, look at, you know, and that this stuff just needs to be said at that basic level.
01:46:14.400
You know, do you consider Russia under Vladimir Putin to be a healthy society?
01:46:23.520
Yet he's getting far lower percentage of the vote from the Russian people than African-Americans
01:46:32.300
Putin got something like 71 or 72 percent in that last election.
01:46:36.620
I mean, Al Gore, who is the whitest white guy in America, got 92 percent from African-Americans.
01:46:45.380
But I mean, at least you can kind of make an argument for that.
01:46:48.220
You know, this is the thing is like there has to be a breakout here.
01:46:50.800
And it's it's honestly why I think Kanye is right when he talks about slavery being a
01:47:00.320
No, but being a choice on freeing your mind today is Stephen A.
01:47:05.500
Smith made this point very well several years ago.
01:47:07.420
The sports commentator when he said, look there, they don't need you.
01:47:13.960
They don't care about you if you're African-American and you're the Democratic leadership because
01:47:20.560
All they have to do is show up and you give them their vote.
01:47:23.960
And if you don't at least challenge that and listen to the other side, at least listen to
01:47:29.300
what they're to what they're saying and consider a bit consider it seriously and then go back
01:47:38.760
If you don't make those cases, they're they're never going to do a thing for you.
01:47:42.480
And it's it's it's something that needs to be done.
01:47:46.220
Well, it's amazing to me how many people immediately just shouted Kanye down when he said, look,
01:48:00.300
The Republicans have sold their soul to the devil back and forth, and so has the Democratic
01:48:05.860
But if you want to look where real racism, institutional racism has been for a very long time,
01:48:19.240
I believe the Great Society, all of that stuff that he passed with the Civil Rights Act, he
01:48:25.100
Then he passes the Great Society tonight at five o'clock on the blaze.
01:48:28.960
I'm going to give you the stats on what happened to the African-American community because of
01:48:34.700
They were they had higher marriage rates than white people did.
01:48:39.380
They were higher as entrepreneurs than white people were.
01:48:49.240
And people don't want to talk about that because it makes them uncomfortable or they haven't thought
01:48:56.640
If you want to learn from the past, you have to look at all of the things that are uncomfortable.
01:49:01.040
There's a lot of things that are uncomfortable.
01:49:06.300
I can't tell you how many times you're going to how many stories you're going to have to
01:49:10.280
read through before you find the name John Kassar, C-A-S-O-R.
01:49:18.340
John Kassar was actually the first slave in America.
01:49:24.120
Indentured servitude was something that people did.
01:49:33.040
And what it means is, you know, I want to go to the new world.
01:49:36.820
I want to start a new life, but I don't have the money.
01:49:39.340
So I go to some big, you know, rich guy who I know has work over there.
01:49:45.940
And I say to him, look, if you pay my room and board to get over there, I'll work to pay
01:49:52.640
I'll be an indentured servant, which means he owns your work.
01:50:02.900
And you get your way over there to the new world.
01:50:20.300
Um, and, um, and then we started the, the, um, American slave trade, the English and
01:50:28.180
the Dutch did, and they started bringing people to the Caribbean.
01:50:32.280
And when they went to the Caribbean, you were made a slave.
01:50:35.900
But if you were dropped off here in America, you were an indentured servant.
01:50:41.220
So one of the guys, and he was a white guy, uh, I'm sorry.
01:50:46.100
He was an indentured servant and his name was John Kasser.
01:50:49.540
And he worked for, uh, uh, another guy who held his indentured servitude contract.
01:50:57.220
Uh, and John had worked for seven years, but I don't know how it worked out, but he didn't
01:51:06.440
So his owner of the contract took him to court and said, no, I own him, not the contract.
01:51:19.660
And it's not just the fact that that owner was a black man, but what happened after that
01:51:28.460
black man's death, after he started slavery in America, everything changed.
01:51:35.860
And I'll talk, talk about it tonight at five o'clock.
01:51:41.300
Last couple of weeks, simply safe won the editor's choice awards from CNET magazine and PC magazine
01:51:48.360
And, you know, they were thrilled and we're thrilled that they're finally getting the,
01:51:54.080
You know, they have, uh, they've gone and really changed people's lives.
01:52:01.360
I mean, it was really cutting edge stuff, uh, when they started and they're still way
01:52:05.240
ahead of everyone else, but they took a great leap.
01:52:08.200
You know, they were going up against, you know, people like Wells Fargo and we provide
01:52:11.620
all this, you know, we're going to bring in and we're wiring everything.
01:52:16.420
You don't need to pay 50 bucks a month and you don't need to have somebody traipsing through
01:52:29.740
You have the cameras, you have the, uh, the, um, uh, what do you call it?
01:52:34.980
The, the things that you put on the windows and the doors, you have the keypad, all of
01:52:38.860
it, but you can install it in like a half an hour and there's no contract.
01:52:43.740
So you're going to save a buttload of money and then it's $15 a month without a contract.
01:52:49.340
If you want the professional monitoring, nobody else is doing this.
01:52:57.460
That's why they're winning all the awards and they're now protecting 2 million homes
01:53:04.880
Go to simply safe Beck.com simply safe Beck.com.
01:53:21.060
You know, I found that things kind of make sense a little bit more when, uh, you know,
01:53:43.000
if you're drinking and I gave up all of those great blackouts, you know?
01:53:49.380
There's so many great positives to alcoholic consumption at levels that are inhuman.
01:53:54.960
That's, I think something we've overlooked on the program today.
01:54:05.580
If you read it this way, the, uh, boys house of America double down, uh, today on its quest
01:54:15.040
to become the scouting organization of choice for boys and girls, how they call the boy scouts,
01:54:25.300
but they're going to, they announced today that they're going to drop the boy from boy scouts.
01:54:32.040
They're going to drop the day boy from boy scouts from the, just, uh, their, uh, their, uh, signature program.
01:54:39.080
Um, so they won't use boys in this signature program.
01:54:43.980
And now the chief scout executive, uh, Mike Sutterbar also unveiled the new group.
01:54:51.660
The group's new scouting in marketing campaign program to include, uh, inclusiveness, inclusive, inclusive, inclusive togetherness.
01:55:03.000
Scout me in, scout me in, because we've entered a new era for our organization.
01:55:09.800
And it's important that all you can see themselves in scouting in every way possible possible.
01:55:20.600
I am here to tell you the scouting news that makes sense.