The Glenn Beck Program - Everybody But You？

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00:00:54.600 Glenn Beck.

00:00:56.740 Actually, Pat and Stu for Glenn today, who's taking some time for Thanksgiving this week.

00:01:02.920 888-727-BECK.

00:01:05.400 And we are thankful for him taking some time.

00:01:09.880 Aren't we, though?

00:01:10.380 You know, every time Glenn is away, I think to myself, I'm thankful.

00:01:14.040 And it just happens to be Thanksgiving week this time.

00:01:16.400 Really? That's kind of weird.

00:01:16.860 Which is kind of great.

00:01:18.220 That's kind of weird.

00:01:19.700 Hey, and by the way, speaking of things, thank you for contributing, if you did, to our big fundraiser over the weekend, which was really successful and a lot of fun.

00:01:30.160 Did you ever make it?

00:01:31.400 Yeah, I was there.

00:01:31.940 Yeah, you were there?

00:01:32.440 Yeah, I saw Glenn's whole thing.

00:01:33.640 I just didn't.

00:01:35.460 They plan the thing on a week, a night every year that I have a family thing.

00:01:39.720 So every year, I come like two hours late.

00:01:41.400 And I come two hours late, and I know I'm two hours late because everyone else has already left.

00:01:45.980 Uh-huh.

00:01:46.300 Like you.

00:01:47.460 Yes.

00:01:48.300 Yes.

00:01:48.800 I rarely ever see Pat at these events because usually he comes early.

00:01:52.300 I come early and he leaves early.

00:01:53.560 And don't stay late.

00:01:54.460 And I come late and leave late.

00:01:55.780 Mm-hmm.

00:01:56.320 But at least that means one of us is there.

00:01:58.000 Yes.

00:01:58.200 And that's the important thing.

00:01:58.700 At all times.

00:01:59.880 That is.

00:02:00.660 We met a lot of great people.

00:02:02.100 It was really a lot of fun.

00:02:03.760 And thank you for your contributions, whether it be through the raffle.

00:02:07.620 Um, just saw the Mercedes sitting outside our studios this morning and looks great.

00:02:15.300 Somebody won that for a hundred bucks, which is pretty cool.

00:02:18.620 It's a good value.

00:02:19.260 Yeah.

00:02:19.840 It is on a car that's, you know, tens of thousands of dollars.

00:02:23.560 Um, and as we said, a Mercedes, which does mean something.

00:02:28.440 Not exactly a Yugo, you know?

00:02:32.160 No, it's a little bit better than that.

00:02:33.460 It's a nice car.

00:02:34.100 But anyway, appreciate it.

00:02:35.640 And, uh, and, and that, that event allows Mercury One to use every dollar they get during

00:02:41.860 the rest of the year, uh, to help people.

00:02:44.340 And so.

00:02:45.160 Another person who was not there was Jody Coley.

00:02:47.220 Uh, she's a volunteer at the Corning Community Food Pantry.

00:02:50.600 She entered a contest for an organization known as Mercury One, uh, with a radio station

00:02:54.940 our affiliate, WWLZ820.

00:02:57.120 Now, Glenn Beck, as you may know, founder of Mercury One, humanitarian aid and education

00:03:01.240 organization geared to help those in crisis around the world.

00:03:04.460 Mm-hmm.

00:03:04.640 Uh, I, the radio, uh, contest contested, contested, it's too early, consisted of tickets for to

00:03:11.360 Mercury One's annual fundraiser in Texas.

00:03:13.340 Uh, she said, I had this voice in my head saying, buy a ticket, you're going to win.

00:03:16.880 Buy a ticket, you're going to win.

00:03:18.040 And so she did.

00:03:20.020 When she got the phone call that she actually had won, the trip to the fundraiser, she said,

00:03:25.760 I could not go.

00:03:27.460 And he asked why.

00:03:28.560 And I said, because I have to pack turkey dinners for our clients here at the food pantry.

00:03:32.620 Those dinners were packed Friday afternoon for over 300 families.

00:03:36.060 That's really cool.

00:03:36.700 Really cool.

00:03:37.560 Uh, the meals, uh, had been scheduled to be delivered on Saturday.

00:03:40.420 Uh, he, he was so impressed that somebody would turn down his trip to Dallas.

00:03:45.340 I mean, I think a lot of people would have turned it down.

00:03:48.100 I mean, come hang with us.

00:03:50.200 Yeah.

00:03:50.640 Like, I want to be like...

00:03:51.480 Or stay at home and enjoy yourself.

00:03:53.080 There's a contest for a trip to go to Dallas.

00:03:55.600 I want to donate to the charity, but how can I do it without entering?

00:03:58.700 Uh, was, I think the question on a lot of people's mind.

00:04:01.160 Uh, he was so impressed that somebody would turn down the trip, uh, to stay here and give food out.

00:04:05.400 Uh, in turn, Glenn offered Jody $5,000 to the Corning Community Food Pantry.

00:04:11.400 Uh, if you missed this moment, it was really cool because, you know, it would cost, you know,

00:04:14.880 several thousand dollars to fly him down here and put him up and all the things that she won in the prize.

00:04:18.980 Instead of getting all that, it all went to her food pantry.

00:04:22.100 Nice.

00:04:22.640 And because every $5 donation can turn into $28 worth of food, which again, I need to figure out how to do this.

00:04:28.140 I don't know how charities do that.

00:04:29.160 What do you mean $5 gets to turn into $28?

00:04:31.640 I need that investment.

00:04:32.860 It's magic.

00:04:33.420 Really?

00:04:33.780 Mm-hmm.

00:04:34.400 Uh, it's going to be up to $28,000, uh, for, uh, for the food pantry.

00:04:37.600 So very cool.

00:04:38.340 Very cool story.

00:04:39.420 Yeah.

00:04:39.600 And I hope they don't spend that $28,000 at Chipotle.

00:04:43.580 Because did you see this story, uh, from Chipotle over the weekend?

00:04:48.640 I don't think so.

00:04:49.640 So there's a viral video in which, um, a fine group of African-American gentlemen decided to go into Chipotle.

00:04:56.340 And they tagged their, uh, video with, uh, a, with this quote.

00:05:03.160 Can a group of young, well-established African-Americans get a bite to eat after a long workout session?

00:05:08.700 Chipotle?

00:05:09.640 I'm going to say the answer is yes.

00:05:11.060 I'm going to say yes, too.

00:05:12.060 Yeah.

00:05:12.300 You probably can.

00:05:13.440 Fairly common, I would say, for people of every race to go to Chipotle.

00:05:16.960 I've seen African-Americans in a Chipotle being served as I was there.

00:05:22.160 Is that possible?

00:05:22.820 It is possible.

00:05:23.360 It's happened.

00:05:24.460 I've seen it.

00:05:25.180 I'm a skeptic of your claim.

00:05:26.000 Are you?

00:05:26.320 I'm a skeptic of your claim.

00:05:27.480 Oh, it is pretty outrageous.

00:05:29.060 Now, uh, Chipotle, or as, uh, uh, Al Sharpton calls it, Chipotle, uh, is a, uh, um, a restaurant that serves everybody.

00:05:39.180 Yeah.

00:05:39.600 Because, you know, pretty much every restaurant in America will do this.

00:05:42.720 Mm-hmm.

00:05:42.960 Um, but Chipotle really does it, right?

00:05:44.960 Like, they're, they've got thousands of locations.

00:05:47.140 The idea that they would not serve African-Americans would be a questionable policy choice.

00:05:51.340 Seems like a bad business model.

00:05:52.840 Yes.

00:05:53.560 We'll serve everybody but black people.

00:05:56.080 Yeah, we're not going to save 14% of the population.

00:05:58.720 We just don't want that money.

00:06:00.120 Yeah.

00:06:00.220 We don't want it.

00:06:00.720 So, what they said, and it's on the video, uh, uh, several, uh, black people saying to the white manager, hey, you know, we want our food.

00:06:09.160 Why won't you give us our food?

00:06:10.000 And she says, look, if you guys want your food, you're going to have to pay first.

00:06:13.000 Okay?

00:06:13.840 Because you know how when you go through a Chipotle line, you order the food and, and you go through the whole process.

00:06:17.860 And then at the end, you usually pay.

00:06:19.780 Yeah.

00:06:20.820 Uh, and in the video, she says something like, uh, look, we've seen you guys here before.

00:06:26.060 Okay?

00:06:27.380 Again, like, look at this racist, this racist manager.

00:06:29.780 What, have you seen their kind here before?

00:06:32.340 Is that what you're saying?

00:06:33.260 So, this goes viral.

00:06:34.780 Or is she talking about these specific people she's actually seen?

00:06:37.400 That's an interesting question you ask there, Pat.

00:06:39.040 Yeah.

00:06:39.540 It's one you'd think almost everyone would ask immediately, right?

00:06:43.480 But no, it was all about because she didn't like black people.

00:06:46.760 So, this goes through the process where it goes viral, and Chipotle picks it up.

00:06:52.480 They tweet, oh, we would like to say that this is not the way we should treat people in our course.

00:06:57.380 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:06:58.340 They call her up, uh, and they call the, uh, they get in touch with the African American

00:07:03.700 customers, and they say, hey, uh, you know, what happened?

00:07:07.040 They tell them what happened.

00:07:08.060 They didn't serve us because we were black.

00:07:10.220 And they fire the manager.

00:07:11.980 Oh, of course.

00:07:12.880 Sure.

00:07:13.580 Now, why look into it in any meaningful way?

00:07:16.960 No.

00:07:17.640 Of course not.

00:07:17.780 You just accept the story at face value, right?

00:07:20.400 Right.

00:07:20.580 Because every single time, we believe survivors, and they're obviously survivors of intense

00:07:26.980 discrimination.

00:07:28.300 Well, they did have a statement that came out, Pat.

00:07:30.160 Okay.

00:07:30.860 Regarding what happened at the St. Paul restaurant, the manager thought these gentlemen were the

00:07:34.600 same customers from Tuesday night who weren't able to pay for their meal.

00:07:37.800 Wait a minute.

00:07:39.900 So, they asked the manager, and the manager said, those guys were here before and didn't

00:07:44.860 pay last time.

00:07:46.380 That's why we need their money up front.

00:07:48.260 Okay.

00:07:48.860 Listen, regardless, this is not how we treat our customers.

00:07:51.840 And as a result, the manager at the restaurant has been, uh, has been fired.

00:07:56.060 That's how they, they don't treat their customers as customers?

00:07:59.860 Right.

00:08:00.120 Is that what they're saying?

00:08:00.900 People who need to pay?

00:08:01.760 You don't have to pay.

00:08:02.480 Right.

00:08:03.460 Oh, that's interesting information for everybody going to Chipotle today.

00:08:07.600 It's an easy way to get a free meal, apparently.

00:08:09.980 The manager has been fired.

00:08:12.020 Uh, we, uh, they did say, um, because the Daily Caller said, you know, we should look

00:08:16.560 at this, uh, this guy's social media feed.

00:08:19.320 See what he's been tweeting about.

00:08:20.740 Okay.

00:08:21.260 Here are some, uh, you want some select, uh, select quotes?

00:08:25.780 It's not a dine and dash.

00:08:27.400 We're just borrowing the food for a couple of hours.

00:08:29.660 Oh my gosh.

00:08:30.380 Uh, we never have money.

00:08:34.200 You know me.

00:08:34.800 I'm here every day.

00:08:36.840 Uh, they, is what they were saying here.

00:08:39.380 They said they were all being stereotyped.

00:08:41.020 However, the quotes, um, from the Twitter feed of, uh, oh God, let's see.

00:08:50.960 They're all over the fact, in fact, several, three, four times they tweeted about going one

00:08:57.360 time, even going to the restaurant saying they are going to dine and dash and then saying

00:09:05.160 on social media, if they didn't allow it, they would say it was racism, which they did,

00:09:11.000 which they did.

00:09:11.720 And it cost somebody their job and it worked.

00:09:13.940 Wow.

00:09:14.300 Apparently they, and they were aware of these.

00:09:17.160 They, they, they said they were aware of the tweets and they fired the manager anyway.

00:09:20.920 They said they had no choice, but to take his word for it.

00:09:24.780 Now, after this already blew up, cause now they've gone through one wave of, of negativity

00:09:28.820 on social media.

00:09:29.940 Yeah.

00:09:30.200 Then they decided to fire the manager.

00:09:32.360 Now the reverse of course has happened where everyone's saying, Hey, what the hell?

00:09:36.520 This makes no sense.

00:09:37.980 You fired this poor woman because she was obviously doing something, uh, that was protecting the

00:09:43.700 company and not trashing it by any means.

00:09:45.600 Yeah.

00:09:46.320 Um, she, uh, she has now been re or she was offered her job back.

00:09:51.580 Oh, okay.

00:09:52.480 Well, there's some sanity prevailing.

00:09:54.580 Kind of.

00:09:54.920 Would you take it?

00:09:55.480 Sort of.

00:09:55.740 No.

00:09:56.040 I wouldn't.

00:09:56.440 But unless I, you know, deeply needed a job and didn't have confidence, I could get another

00:10:01.000 one somewhere, you know, then I guess you go back, right?

00:10:05.000 I guess, you know, and I wonder because people will, will, will Google her name and what will

00:10:09.240 they see her as a racist stopping, uh, black people from eating at Chipotle.

00:10:13.560 Another tweet from, uh, from the person here who, uh, who did the scam.

00:10:18.180 Um, I man, I think Chipotle is catching up to us.

00:10:21.700 Should we change locations?

00:10:23.260 He actually was publicly admitting that they were going there to steal food and they still

00:10:30.180 fired the manager.

00:10:31.160 It's just unbelievable.

00:10:32.540 I, you know, Pat, we've been through this for so long and I, you know, conservative media,

00:10:36.160 I think was the first in this firing line, right?

00:10:38.920 Where, uh, where three or four activists would come up with a little scam to email a company

00:10:46.400 a couple hundred times and act like different people.

00:10:48.800 And then the company would freak out because they don't get complaint calls typically, you

00:10:54.700 know, it's just an invention of the social media email world where all of a sudden it

00:10:57.820 was a lot easier to do that.

00:10:58.760 People didn't want to take the time to write 500 letters, but when you can just kind of

00:11:02.080 change wording and, you know, get some interns to send stuff out, it was easy.

00:11:05.660 And these companies would get intimidated and they'd freak out and they pull off of their,

00:11:09.200 pull their advertising.

00:11:09.980 It would, you know, theoretically hurt these companies.

00:11:11.920 Um, and now it's just all the time.

00:11:15.420 This is, I, and I remember when it first started, look, it sucks right now because these companies,

00:11:20.060 it's something new to them, getting all these complaint letters, getting all this attention.

00:11:24.000 And eventually they're going to figure out that this is not new anymore.

00:11:27.080 It's not, it's not new anymore.

00:11:29.140 And they still haven't figured it out.

00:11:30.920 These companies never enter these things with a skeptical eye.

00:11:34.820 Every single time there's someone who writes, uh, I don't like being waited on by a Croatian

00:11:41.100 on their receipt.

00:11:42.920 Like, oh, well, we do not stand for anti-Croatian bias here at a Bob's diner and sausage, uh,

00:11:50.380 pig in a blanket factory.

00:11:52.520 That place will, will fire everybody on staff until like three days later, they realize that

00:11:58.040 the person wasn't Croatian or the guy wrote it on his own receipt or whatever the heck

00:12:02.060 the situation is.

00:12:03.280 How many times have we seen these hoaxes?

00:12:04.640 It's always the same thing.

00:12:06.100 People don't write negative messages on receipts.

00:12:08.600 Can we just accept that as part of life?

00:12:11.100 Like, like, it's just not something you do.

00:12:12.840 They'll always be found out.

00:12:13.940 And they know, I mean, even if they were, even if they had the propensity to do that,

00:12:18.300 they probably wouldn't because you know, you're going to be seen.

00:12:21.620 You've got, they've got information of your, of your, uh, of your credit card for one thing.

00:12:26.840 And I, I don't want them screwing with that.

00:12:30.080 Uh, you're going to have negative publicity about you.

00:12:32.820 You're probably going to get fired from your job.

00:12:34.840 If you actually do it, it doesn't, it doesn't work out for anybody.

00:12:39.280 And here's another thing.

00:12:41.160 Almost nobody feels that way.

00:12:43.180 Like, Oh, I'm not going to give you a tip because you're a person of color.

00:12:47.380 That doesn't happen as a rule in America.

00:12:50.440 No, it doesn't.

00:12:51.740 And we've seen that over and over and over and over again, where these are hoaxes.

00:12:55.980 We just had a story last week.

00:12:58.700 I think we talked about it when, when Glenn was here and I was, uh, you know, doing my

00:13:03.160 little, um, promotion thing that, uh, there was a, there was a person at a university who

00:13:11.660 wrote a hate message on their door.

00:13:13.180 Like, Hey, there, this is where a black person lives.

00:13:16.960 Don't knock on the door or whatever.

00:13:19.860 And, uh, it happened at the same university where just a few months ago, somebody spray

00:13:24.500 painted the N word all over their car.

00:13:26.480 In both cases, it was the person, uh, who claimed to be the victim that wrote the note

00:13:33.380 or spray painted their car.

00:13:35.220 And that, that happens all the time.

00:13:37.240 All the time.

00:13:38.120 This is something, I mean, we, we can be helpful here, Pat, when you're trying to do a

00:13:42.780 hate crime hoax on yourself, writing it on a, uh, a receipt is not a good way to go.

00:13:48.720 No.

00:13:48.860 Because the person knows that you have their information with a credit card.

00:13:51.800 Um, you know, so they wouldn't do that.

00:13:54.180 They might, they might be like, there are people who are racist, right?

00:13:58.040 They just don't do that.

00:13:59.260 Just don't do that.

00:14:00.160 Like David doesn't show up.

00:14:02.280 He's not showing up at restaurants being like, by the way, I was not appreciative of the

00:14:05.540 African-American server.

00:14:07.900 That's not what they do.

00:14:09.220 No.

00:14:09.680 They, they march with torches.

00:14:11.680 That's what they do.

00:14:12.520 They march with torches in Charlottesville.

00:14:14.620 That's their role.

00:14:15.560 Mm-hmm.

00:14:16.060 And they say, Jews will not replace us.

00:14:17.880 Many times in case you didn't hear it, they just keep repeating it.

00:14:21.300 That, that's the approach.

00:14:23.560 Well, that's, and don't pretend like that's not something you're worried about too.

00:14:27.160 How many times have you said that Jews will not replace you here?

00:14:30.720 Did, I mean, if I've heard that once from you.

00:14:33.040 I'm very concerned about Jews replacing us, Pat.

00:14:35.620 We've said this many times.

00:14:36.780 It's so weird.

00:14:37.420 What a weird chant that was too.

00:14:39.300 Jews will not replace us.

00:14:40.800 Well, what do you, like where, when, are you at your job?

00:14:45.560 In the country?

00:14:46.660 I like what Jews are probably like, well, we see you marching with torches.

00:14:49.640 We will not replace you there.

00:14:50.680 That's all you.

00:14:52.460 So no, we will not replace you in the racist march.

00:14:55.400 That won't happen.

00:14:57.140 It's a strange way to go.

00:14:58.760 It really is.

00:14:59.760 Pat and Stu for Glenn.

00:15:00.920 And 888-727-BECK.

00:15:06.560 With Pat and Stu today, 888-727-BECK.

00:15:11.120 The Obamas, you'll be pleased to know, I think, that the Obamas are well on their way to becoming a billionaire brand.

00:15:19.360 Oh, good.

00:15:19.940 Isn't that wonderful?

00:15:20.740 Yes, finally.

00:15:21.780 It's so gratifying that their public service can lead to massive untold wealth.

00:15:27.560 That is so great that they've parlayed a senator role and a presidential role into a billion dollar business.

00:15:37.520 Fantastic.

00:15:38.840 This is how it's supposed to work.

00:15:40.200 Our founders decided how it's supposed to work.

00:15:42.360 You're supposed to go.

00:15:43.260 You serve for a few years.

00:15:45.220 Yes.

00:15:45.480 Then you get out.

00:15:46.040 You become a billionaire.

00:15:46.980 Right.

00:15:47.640 Because you deserve it.

00:15:49.720 By golly.

00:15:51.060 The launch of Michelle Obama's cross-country book tour for her memoir, Becoming.

00:15:55.180 Now, you've been to one of these rallies, right, for Michelle?

00:15:58.180 For Michelle Obama and her new book, Becoming?

00:16:00.480 Uh-huh.

00:16:00.760 Oh, yes.

00:16:01.680 I've flown to several locations where she's been just so I could be there in person.

00:16:06.000 I'm a Michelle head myself.

00:16:07.340 So wherever she goes, I will fly into the city.

00:16:10.360 Or sometimes I rent a bus and just follow around the country.

00:16:13.980 Have you seen her arms?

00:16:15.700 Oh, my gosh.

00:16:16.180 Her arms are magnificent.

00:16:16.520 That's the main reason I do it.

00:16:17.800 They're fabulous.

00:16:19.060 Magnificent arms.

00:16:19.700 You ever see them live?

00:16:20.660 I mean, her arms live.

00:16:22.700 Oh.

00:16:22.940 If you've never experienced it, folks, it's worth the front row ticket.

00:16:26.260 It is.

00:16:26.720 I mean, yeah, you're going to pay $35,000 to sit in that front row.

00:16:30.060 But you'll get to see those arms.

00:16:31.720 Yeah.

00:16:32.020 It's worth it.

00:16:32.520 Her arms are that good.

00:16:33.800 In addition to, get this, she got a $65 million book advance.

00:16:37.880 Now, how many books would you have to sell in order for the company to even break even on that?

00:16:46.380 $65 million?

00:16:47.300 $65 million.

00:16:48.540 Wow.

00:16:48.720 I mean, you're probably in the area of 10 to 15 million books.

00:16:52.920 And there's no way she's going to sell.

00:16:54.060 Is there any way?

00:16:55.220 I mean, she might sell a tenth of that.

00:16:57.780 I don't know.

00:16:58.680 But books just don't sell that well anymore, which is why you don't see books a million anymore.

00:17:06.300 Books a million.

00:17:07.000 Are they?

00:17:08.340 I thought they went completely out of business.

00:17:10.040 No.

00:17:10.800 I think you're thinking of Borders.

00:17:11.560 Borders did.

00:17:12.420 Yeah.

00:17:12.580 Borders did.

00:17:13.180 Yeah.

00:17:13.960 So in addition to the $65 million advance and an estimated $50 million deal with Netflix,

00:17:19.720 which I actually read a few weeks ago was more like $100 million.

00:17:23.800 Why on earth would you want Michelle Obama designing content for Netflix?

00:17:27.760 Seriously.

00:17:28.720 They've got no experience in that.

00:17:31.440 I guess just lending their name to it.

00:17:33.980 Yeah.

00:17:34.260 And their relationships probably, right?

00:17:36.120 Because they'll probably be able to pull on all their celebrity friends.

00:17:38.420 But I mean, this is a great example of exactly what the founders didn't see public service as.

00:17:43.720 This isn't even related to what they're doing.

00:17:46.120 Yeah.

00:17:46.320 It's one thing to be able to go and raise money for something that you've worked on or you have expertise in.

00:17:51.720 They have no expertise in programming content for Netflix.

00:17:55.000 None.

00:17:55.120 And it's a huge deal.

00:17:57.840 And plus, you know, that's not even to mention the amount of money they're getting for their appearances.

00:18:04.720 Just Michelle.

00:18:06.180 You know, just.

00:18:06.820 She was first lady.

00:18:07.900 But she's getting $225,000 per appearance.

00:18:12.260 Barack Obama is getting $400,000 per appearance.

00:18:15.800 Oh, my gosh.

00:18:16.460 I mean, I do think.

00:18:18.020 I do think at a certain point, you've made enough money.

00:18:20.480 Right?

00:18:21.340 Wait, what was that?

00:18:22.820 It was.

00:18:23.560 I mean, I do think at a certain point, you've made enough money.

00:18:26.180 Oh, but not this much.

00:18:26.880 Not this.

00:18:27.720 No, no.

00:18:28.080 They're not at that point yet.

00:18:29.760 And I don't.

00:18:31.040 It's going to be interesting to see if he ever decides they are at that point.

00:18:34.440 Where I've made enough money.

00:18:35.600 And every dollar I receive now will go directly to charities.

00:18:41.440 I'd like to see that happen.

00:18:42.740 Or to the U.S. government.

00:18:44.080 Because, you know, he doesn't pay enough in taxes.

00:18:46.800 Well, it's the only charity that does any good, as far as I'm concerned, is the U.S. government.

00:18:50.580 The U.S. government is.

00:18:51.720 This is what we all think.

00:18:54.020 Send your money there.

00:18:55.000 Let them deal with it.

00:18:55.760 Because they do a great job.

00:18:56.580 They're already worth, estimated by Forbes, over $135 million since they left office.

00:19:02.860 $135 million.

00:19:04.280 Unreal.

00:19:04.760 And they're on the way to becoming a billion-dollar brand.

00:19:07.180 I mean, the hypocrisy of this income inequality, which they clearly don't believe in.

00:19:13.040 They don't care how much more money they make than anybody else.

00:19:16.600 And they're not.

00:19:17.180 Do you think they're going to turn over the proceeds of their fabulous paychecks to anybody but themselves?

00:19:24.380 No.

00:19:25.200 No, they're not.

00:19:26.100 No, they're not.

00:19:27.680 So.

00:19:28.320 Well, you know, they'll give a certain amount out to Democratic candidates.

00:19:31.920 Sure.

00:19:32.460 Do you think there's any chance Michelle runs?

00:19:34.440 I do think there's a chance.

00:19:35.800 There's a chance.

00:19:36.160 It's not a non-zero situation.

00:19:39.460 No, it's not.

00:19:39.580 I think there's a possibility.

00:19:40.920 And I think if she ran, I think she'd have a great chance of winning it.

00:19:43.960 She might do some damage.

00:19:44.780 Of that nomination.

00:19:45.660 Yeah.

00:19:46.060 Yeah.

00:19:46.740 All right.

00:19:47.040 888-727-BECK.

00:19:52.220 I think you'll be happy to note that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is getting back to her workout

00:19:57.740 regiment this week.

00:19:59.220 So she had the broken ribs last week or the week before, but her personal trainer claims

00:20:05.440 she's right back in the gym starting today.

00:20:09.220 And I'm very excited about that.

00:20:11.480 I hope they keep us continually abreast of every move RBG makes.

00:20:17.860 Now, I had Thursday in the pool where she would get back to the gym, so I did not win.

00:20:21.860 She's too incredible for that.

00:20:23.280 She is.

00:20:23.740 I was a stupid pick on my own.

00:20:25.080 Dude, you really underestimated her.

00:20:26.560 I did.

00:20:28.020 I don't understand this reference for Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the left.

00:20:31.160 It's really interesting because she's all of a sudden out of the blue.

00:20:34.480 She's like this huge superstar, superhero.

00:20:38.000 She's like a rock star to him now.

00:20:39.700 Or a rap star.

00:20:40.740 Or a rap star.

00:20:41.380 Did you see the SNL skit?

00:20:42.620 I didn't.

00:20:43.580 Now, SNL, I actually watched SNL this week because, largely because Steve Carell was hosting

00:20:48.660 it and being an Office fan, you know, I had to check it out.

00:20:53.200 He's so good in that.

00:20:53.880 He's so freaking good.

00:20:54.880 The show is so good.

00:20:55.860 And they did a little mini Office reunion type of thing in there, which was the reason

00:21:01.480 I wanted to watch it.

00:21:02.240 But, you know, I was like, I'll just keep kind of flipping through the sketches.

00:21:04.860 I haven't watched this in a while.

00:21:05.540 Now, first of all, I know it's a really bad cliche at this point that Saturday Night Live

00:21:12.220 is not funny, but it's incredible the lengths they go to to prove it true on a weekly basis.

00:21:18.720 I am amazed.

00:21:20.000 I mean, these people are not, I don't think it's lack of talent on the staff.

00:21:25.380 I don't think it's, I don't know what they do.

00:21:27.800 And they have a whole week to prepare something good.

00:21:31.680 And they can't.

00:21:32.540 And if you look at their schedule, if you look at some of the historian, because there's

00:21:35.540 like big books about the history of Saturday Night Live, their schedule is so insane.

00:21:39.960 Like they don't do anything in advance.

00:21:42.160 And so they try to jam it all in like on overnights on like Tuesday and Wednesday night.

00:21:47.620 And they get all the writers together and try to rework it.

00:21:50.380 And then the person doesn't know what it, you know, how you always see like the host never

00:21:53.280 really knows what's coming.

00:21:54.280 It seems like as they're saying their own lines and, oh, it's just awful.

00:21:57.820 And there's just no laughs.

00:21:59.640 It's incredible.

00:22:00.500 I mean, I watched the entire show and maybe there were two or three funny lines in the whole

00:22:05.300 thing.

00:22:05.740 Wow.

00:22:06.060 It was incredible.

00:22:07.340 Wow.

00:22:07.440 I mean, even the part where you have four members from the office getting back together

00:22:11.520 to talk about the office, which is the easiest thing in the world.

00:22:16.140 I mean, your whole audience loves it.

00:22:17.960 Like, of course, it's going to be hilarious.

00:22:19.660 No.

00:22:20.040 Even that, they didn't get any laughs out of it.

00:22:21.600 It was incredible.

00:22:22.560 So, but what I was, what I wanted to bring up on this is this Ruth Bader Ginsburg bit they

00:22:26.300 did.

00:22:26.520 Now, you remember like the, the old school Andy Samberg things that he would do about

00:22:31.220 like Magnolia Bakery and they would do like the, you know, the, the fake rap videos and

00:22:36.780 Yeah.

00:22:37.180 And he, those were actually really quality.

00:22:40.260 Some of them were brilliant.

00:22:41.120 Yeah, they were.

00:22:42.080 So they did one of those this week and it was about Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

00:22:46.380 Now, again, what is the point of Saturday Night Live?

00:22:50.920 What is it?

00:22:51.760 Isn't it a show where they're supposed to put jokes and things?

00:22:54.580 Seems like it.

00:22:55.140 Yeah.

00:22:55.280 So I watched this, this video and it was like two minutes and we'll have, we have a

00:22:59.880 clip of it here where they're talking about Ruth Bader Ginsburg in like a gangster rap

00:23:04.560 sort of way, right?

00:23:05.420 Like this hardcore rap and they're saying, they're talking about RBG, but at no point

00:23:11.580 does it seem that they put any jokes in it.

00:23:13.840 It's just them saying really positive things in rap form about Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

00:23:18.480 Well, isn't that enough?

00:23:19.600 Isn't, isn't that what you're looking for?

00:23:21.140 No, that's not what you're looking for.

00:23:22.640 No.

00:23:22.860 And I understand there's a level of absurdity where a, you know, a rapper would be rapping

00:23:27.860 about a Supreme Court justice and one that's particularly old.

00:23:33.140 Yeah.

00:23:33.740 And, but like, listen to this and tell, is there any joke being made here?

00:23:38.580 Listen.

00:23:39.080 Listen.

00:23:41.180 Come on!

00:23:41.660 This is the sense that throws shit.

00:23:44.160 Tell Trump, stay out her way.

00:23:45.840 Don't let my Roe be way.

00:23:47.780 Supreme Court's a boy's club.

00:23:49.300 She holds it down.

00:23:50.140 No cares given.

00:23:51.040 Who else?

00:23:51.660 Got six movies about them.

00:23:53.360 It's still living.

00:23:54.640 She's brass knuckles tough.

00:23:56.140 Her skin, I gotta be kidding me.

00:23:58.080 Born out for my retired homie, Anthony Kennedy.

00:24:01.540 Survived a depression and Twitter attacks from Trump.

00:24:04.740 Broken ribs.

00:24:05.640 Can't stop her boy.

00:24:06.620 She eats that a** a lot.

00:24:08.140 I said, now you know who I am.

00:24:11.560 I just snapped on these balls.

00:24:13.160 Act against at a bar exam.

00:24:14.940 You're putts.

00:24:16.620 And I rap with peace, buddy.

00:24:18.860 And I rap with peace, buddy.

00:24:22.720 Okay.

00:24:23.400 Do you hear?

00:24:23.740 The audience is not laughing at any of you.

00:24:25.520 Right.

00:24:26.060 There's not a single funny thing about it.

00:24:27.840 Stay away from my Roe versus Wade.

00:24:29.620 And, you know, she, like, it's just a gigantic propaganda piece for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

00:24:35.300 And I don't understand the fascination here.

00:24:37.200 My theory is that it's essentially a Betty White.

00:24:39.700 It's the Betty White syndrome.

00:24:41.240 She's old and small and cute.

00:24:43.480 And so they like her more.

00:24:45.080 But, like, you guys realize you had eight years of Barack Obama.

00:24:50.260 In that eight years, Ruth Bader Ginsburg went from, what, 76 to 84 years old?

00:24:57.160 Mm-hmm.

00:24:57.420 At any point in there, including a point, by the way, where they had 60 senators, she could

00:25:05.800 have retired and you could have replaced her with anybody.

00:25:08.680 She decided to stay in past her 85th birthday.

00:25:12.780 So now you have this risk of her having to retire when Donald Trump is in office.

00:25:18.340 Like, if anything, you'd think the left would be annoyed at her for not leaving during Barack

00:25:23.380 Obama.

00:25:24.120 After, she could have easily left in 2013.

00:25:26.760 Because if she leaves any time during the next two years, she's going to be replaced

00:25:31.620 by somebody much, much more conservative.

00:25:33.580 Much, much more conservative.

00:25:34.780 And, you know, there's 52 or 53 Republican senators.

00:25:37.900 They will get that person through.

00:25:40.600 And it would be that, you know, where the Kennedy to Kavanaugh thing is, it might basically be

00:25:46.640 a wash, probably at its worst, and might be a little bit better for conservatives at its

00:25:51.100 best.

00:25:51.920 Where, you know, Ginsburg to anybody, even moderate, is a huge difference.

00:25:56.140 Huge.

00:25:57.760 And it's fascinating to me that they would just get so excited.

00:26:00.400 This, she could have left.

00:26:01.320 She could have hooked you up.

00:26:02.240 If she would have left in 2013 at 80 years old or whatever it would have been, they would

00:26:06.460 have had, it wouldn't have been like it is now where, you know, Merrick Garland didn't

00:26:10.180 get through.

00:26:10.540 They wouldn't be able to block it for four years.

00:26:12.120 So, they would have been able to put a Democratic choice in that was 48 years old, and we would

00:26:21.220 have been dealing with it to the end of time.

00:26:22.740 Yeah.

00:26:23.080 You know, you could have put a Sonia Sotomayor in there.

00:26:25.460 You could have put somebody on there who'd be on the bench for 40 years.

00:26:27.960 Yeah.

00:26:28.100 And hates the Constitution just as much as Ruth Bader Ginsburg does.

00:26:32.120 Now, does she really hate the Constitution?

00:26:34.300 Well, she certainly doesn't love it.

00:26:35.900 No.

00:26:36.320 You ever heard her speak about the U.S. Constitution?

00:26:38.320 This is a Supreme Court justice whose sole purpose is to defend the Constitution.

00:26:44.960 And here's what she thinks of it instead.

00:26:47.600 You should certainly be aided by all the Constitution writing that has gone on.

00:26:53.200 She's speaking of, I think this was around the time when Egypt was contemplating a new

00:26:58.700 Constitution, and they're asking her about that.

00:27:00.640 Since the end of World War II.

00:27:03.580 Oh.

00:27:04.540 I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012.

00:27:11.980 Think of that.

00:27:12.500 Here is a Supreme Court justice.

00:27:15.040 Again, their only job is to defend the Constitution and rule on the constitutionality of many different

00:27:21.360 issues.

00:27:22.780 She wouldn't even look to the U.S. Constitution for help in creating a Constitution.

00:27:28.280 That is amazing.

00:27:29.440 I might look at the Constitution of South Africa.

00:27:32.300 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:27:33.080 That was a deliberate attempt.

00:27:35.180 Deliberate.

00:27:35.580 To have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights.

00:27:42.140 Right.

00:27:42.840 Yeah.

00:27:43.280 Had an independent judiciary.

00:27:45.660 An independent judiciary.

00:27:47.360 That's a good idea, though.

00:27:48.100 Why didn't our founders think of that?

00:27:49.900 They should have thought of that.

00:27:50.760 An independent judiciary where you had, I don't know, three separate but equal branches of

00:27:56.940 government.

00:27:57.380 One of them is judiciary.

00:27:58.640 They probably came up with like a, you know, a higher court, one that was like supremo there

00:28:04.720 over other.

00:28:05.400 Right.

00:28:06.040 Courts.

00:28:06.580 Yeah.

00:28:06.900 Like a, you know, one that could employ someone named Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

00:28:11.160 Maybe.

00:28:11.660 Maybe.

00:28:12.160 Maybe.

00:28:12.300 Something like that.

00:28:12.840 One that wasn't affected by necessarily Congress didn't have control over them and the executive

00:28:18.880 branch didn't have control over them.

00:28:21.100 They're independent in a way.

00:28:23.760 I mean, that's outrageous that she thought that would be a good thing.

00:28:26.780 You should certainly be.

00:28:27.580 So, uh, and then she finished it off by.

00:28:31.000 Well, I can't speak about what the Egyptian experience should be because I'm operating under

00:28:39.200 a rather old constitution.

00:28:41.780 An old.

00:28:42.320 It's old.

00:28:42.960 Old and tired.

00:28:43.780 It's old.

00:28:44.600 In comparison to Egypt is a very new nation.

00:28:47.580 New, but.

00:28:48.720 And yet we have the.

00:28:49.900 Yeah.

00:28:50.440 The old.

00:28:51.360 Dusty.

00:28:51.880 Hardest written constitution still in force in the world.

00:28:56.020 Which is despicable.

00:28:57.560 I mean.

00:28:58.240 I hate that about us.

00:29:00.200 Isn't that the whole point?

00:29:01.660 Your constitution is supposed to be able to hang around for a while.

00:29:04.720 It's endured for, uh, that reason that it's, it was such a great document that it's been

00:29:11.460 able to stand up to the last 240 years.

00:29:14.260 And it's also given you a way to change it when it's, you know, you think it needs to

00:29:19.300 change.

00:29:19.680 I mean, there's an amendment process and it's been amendment 27, amended 27 times.

00:29:25.160 And that process has worked out pretty well.

00:29:27.860 We've, we've righted, I think a lot of the wrongs.

00:29:29.960 We've clarified a lot of the things that were left open.

00:29:32.540 There's been a lot of good things.

00:29:34.240 Couple bad ones.

00:29:35.340 16th pops into mind.

00:29:36.860 Uh, the income tax, uh, really terrible amendment.

00:29:39.820 Um, but there's, you know, the, the whole prohibition thing didn't work out all that well,

00:29:43.220 but we reversed that one with another amendment after that.

00:29:46.180 Um, you know, there's a lot of things, uh, that we're able to do.

00:29:49.400 And that's by the way, still open for all these people who are so upset about the second

00:29:54.060 amendment.

00:29:54.440 I mean, you can go in there and try to repeal that puppy.

00:29:56.420 I, good luck with it.

00:29:57.500 Of course, as she's going to point out in her upcoming movie, this is just one of six that

00:30:02.040 we heard about, right?

00:30:02.740 There's six, uh, RBG movies.

00:30:05.620 They've already released one of them.

00:30:07.240 Um, it was called RBG.

00:30:08.600 It was a documentary about her, uh, and her life.

00:30:11.060 And then being released on Christmas day is, uh, what's it called on the basis of sex?

00:30:17.900 I think.

00:30:18.560 Yeah.

00:30:19.180 On the basis of sex where she's talking about women and she points out a really serious

00:30:25.340 flaw in the U S constitution in one part of this upcoming movie.

00:30:30.060 The word woman does not appear even once in the U S constitution.

00:30:35.400 Nor does the word freedom, your honor, nor does the word freedom, your honor, such a powerful

00:30:47.100 pause.

00:30:48.060 So dramatic, except for the fact that the word freedom does appear in the U S constitution,

00:30:54.560 but you have to go all the way down to like the first amendment to find it.

00:30:59.880 I mean, that far, nobody gets that far in it.

00:31:02.300 So it's not surprising a Supreme court justice didn't know.

00:31:05.120 Of course she wasn't Supreme court justice at the time that this is being portrayed, but

00:31:08.780 is that a real, is there a really a guy who's like, Oh, the word woman isn't in there.

00:31:14.300 They don't get rights.

00:31:15.380 I have not been able to find that out, but I want to.

00:31:17.640 That was, uh, I think it was a circuit court judge telling her that the word woman doesn't

00:31:24.560 appear once in the guts.

00:31:26.220 So why should we give any rights to women?

00:31:29.420 We all hate women.

00:31:31.660 The reason I'm so disgusted by you is that your voice isn't coming from a kitchen right

00:31:37.920 now.

00:31:39.520 I mean, so crazy, but I want to make a case to the left that they should stop worrying

00:31:46.980 about Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

00:31:48.920 Again, she could have left.

00:31:50.120 She could have saved you a lot of hassle, uh, by naming, you know, getting someone named

00:31:54.980 who you actually liked.

00:31:56.080 You could have had your Merrick Garland if Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have stepped down

00:32:00.000 all those years ago, but why not?

00:32:02.360 Why not Sotomayor?

00:32:04.500 Sonia Sotomayor is by most measures, slightly more liberal than Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which

00:32:10.960 shows you how awful she is as a Supreme court justice.

00:32:14.720 And by the way, there's several Republicans voted for her to get her in.

00:32:19.000 And it was not, it was, I think she had 61 votes or 60 or 61.

00:32:23.960 Yeah.

00:32:24.120 It was 61, 34 or something.

00:32:26.080 Yeah.

00:32:26.500 And there were some abstentions or people who weren't there at the time.

00:32:29.440 Yeah.

00:32:29.540 The Kavanaugh thing is not the norm.

00:32:32.400 No.

00:32:32.660 You know, we keep thinking about like, oh, these things are so contentious.

00:32:35.340 Well, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg was 97 to three.

00:32:38.000 97 to three.

00:32:38.560 You know, really, it only, it's only happens to Republicans, Bork, Clarence Thomas, and

00:32:46.320 Brett Kavanaugh being the three you'd think off right off the, right off the top of your

00:32:49.640 head.

00:32:50.060 Not to mention, you know, Harriet Myers didn't even get to that point.

00:32:53.220 Bush had like a month of Harriet Myers talk and then it was gone.

00:32:56.680 You know, with Democrats, typically what happens is a bunch of Republicans cross the aisle and

00:33:00.460 they get through pretty easily.

00:33:02.120 Uh, you know, now Merrick Garland, they keep bringing up as, as an exception to that, which

00:33:07.240 is, uh, you know, it's, I can understand them being frustrated about that process.

00:33:10.300 We talked about it at the time, but it's not the norm where this is usually going to be

00:33:14.960 as contentious as Kavanaugh, but Sotomayor came out with a, in an interview this weekend

00:33:19.340 talking about Brett Kavanaugh.

00:33:21.260 And actually it kind of gives you, I don't know, a little bit of hope.

00:33:24.260 I mean, Sotomayor has not been a disappointment when it comes to liberals, but listen to this

00:33:27.840 as, as far as his, her relationship and acceptance of Brett Kavanaugh.

00:33:32.120 I just wanted to spend a couple of minutes on the moment that you think the court is

00:33:38.840 in now.

00:33:39.560 I know you guys are sort of cloistered, but you're not cocooned.

00:33:42.580 We, we came through this sort of acrimonious, uh, process of, of confirmation.

00:33:48.800 You didn't relate to alcohol.

00:33:50.400 I like beer.

00:33:50.980 You haven't asked for that.

00:33:51.420 I like beer.

00:33:52.020 I don't know if you do.

00:33:52.560 Okay.

00:33:52.760 Do you like beer, Senator, or not?

00:33:54.000 Um, what do you like to drink?

00:33:55.260 Next.

00:33:55.660 What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open.

00:34:00.240 How do you view it from the inside?

00:34:01.940 I mean, how does the court and family community adjust to those moments?

00:34:07.120 I'm going to steal a, a line from one of my colleagues, a story actually, not a line.

00:34:13.460 And it was justice Thomas who tells me that when he first came to the court, another justice

00:34:20.500 approached him and said, I judge you by what you do here.

00:34:28.480 Welcome.

00:34:29.460 And I repeated that story to justice Kavanaugh when I first greeted him here.

00:34:36.160 Now I've known him, I've known of his work, but when you're charged with working together

00:34:42.680 for most of the remainder of your life, you have to create a relationship.

00:34:49.400 The nine of us are now a family and we're a family with each of us, our own burdens and

00:34:57.180 our own obligations to others.

00:34:59.020 But this is our work family.

00:35:02.340 And it's just as important as our personal family.

00:35:05.840 We probably spend more time with each other than most justices spend who have spouses with

00:35:11.400 their spouses.

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00:36:58.420 The caravan has made its way now, which seems like conspiracy talk, because I was told there

00:37:04.420 are thousands of miles from here, and it was ridiculous to even worry about it.

00:37:09.220 Ah, stop it.

00:37:10.200 First of all, it's dispersed.

00:37:12.300 Secondly, the ones that are still coming are thousands of miles.

00:37:15.960 We don't even know they're going to be there.

00:37:17.420 Well, they're here, and they got here last week, and then there's another group that's

00:37:21.480 also here, and they're having some problems in Mexico, if you can believe it.

00:37:25.820 Apparently, the Mexicans in Mexico don't want the Central Americans to stay there.

00:37:32.760 Like, they're telling them, with love, I'm sure, get out, go home, and calling them troublemakers

00:37:41.820 and calling it an illegal invasion.

00:37:46.120 Wow, that is hateful and racist.

00:37:49.940 Well, I remember the former Mexican president, when asked about what happens when someone

00:37:53.860 comes into their country from another country, they had a specific policy they had kind of

00:38:00.380 arranged, and it seemed similar to what things, like things like Donald Trump says.

00:38:05.120 Huh.

00:38:05.420 He said, if somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America

00:38:09.300 through the southern border of Mexico, they wind up in Mexico, they can go get a job,

00:38:14.500 they can work.

00:38:15.140 If somebody do that without permissions, we send back them.

00:38:20.240 We send back them.

00:38:21.080 We send back them.

00:38:22.060 If they do that without permissions, we send back them.

00:38:25.460 I love that clip.

00:38:26.480 Because he is almost like perplexed at Wolf Blitzer for the question.

00:38:30.580 It's almost like he doesn't understand what Wolf is really saying there.

00:38:34.120 Like, hey, so your policy is such that you send everybody back, but you want our policy

00:38:39.960 to be that we accept everyone, and you don't have any problem with the answer like that.

00:38:47.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:38:47.920 I will say that's one of those situations where you get lulled to sleep by thinking you

00:38:52.640 have an easy interview.

00:38:53.680 And Wolf asks a great question there.

00:38:55.200 I mean, the way he phrases it, the way he delivers that question is actually really effective

00:38:59.680 because I think he's like, no, no, no, of course, I'm on CNN, right?

00:39:04.100 Like, so he thinks to himself, like, this is an easy question.

00:39:06.800 I must be misunderstanding it.

00:39:07.860 No, of course, we send him back that you're not here without permission, of course, we're

00:39:10.220 sending him back.

00:39:10.820 He just doesn't pick it up at all that that's what we're talking about.

00:39:13.900 And it's obvious, right?

00:39:15.380 Any country, all countries on earth do this, right?

00:39:19.180 Now, look, we take in a lot of asylum seekers from all over the world, and we've been doing

00:39:24.080 it for a long time.

00:39:24.760 By the way, the people leading the charge on that have been Christian charities.

00:39:27.960 I don't know if anyone's noticed that.

00:39:29.420 And that, you know, I don't know how many Code Pink has taken in over the years.

00:39:32.840 Probably a lot, I'm sure.

00:39:34.320 But I mean, this has been largely done by Christian charities over the years.

00:39:37.220 And it's been a big, a big focus.

00:39:40.040 If you've ever been to, you know, church in America, clearly, you've probably heard many

00:39:44.860 times the church saying, hey, you know, your donations went to bring X, Y, and Z here from

00:39:50.020 this war-torn region across the world.

00:39:51.740 Like, that's something we're all very familiar with.

00:39:54.360 And it's very positive that that's different than tens of thousands of people rushing towards

00:39:59.260 the border saying, we're going to climb walls if you don't let us in.

00:40:02.560 You know, we're going to, we're going to, and they did it.

00:40:04.960 They did it in Mexico.

00:40:06.660 They are starting to do it here.

00:40:08.400 There's video of it already happening in the United States.

00:40:11.960 And it's the idea that we're just supposed to take that and anybody who says, send back

00:40:18.220 them is a hate monger.

00:40:19.460 Yeah.

00:40:20.040 Or anybody who even raises a concern about it is a fear monger and a racist.

00:40:24.220 And it's ludicrous.

00:40:26.620 The people in Tijuana were actually singing the Mexican national anthem, telling these

00:40:34.100 migrants to go home, telling them they're not welcome there, waving Mexican flags.

00:40:40.060 Now, if, think about that, if that were citizens of this country on our side of the border doing

00:40:46.820 something similar, singing the Star Spangled Banner, waving the American flag, can you imagine,

00:40:52.020 that would lead every single newscast?

00:40:54.960 We would be, there would be an outcry at the UN.

00:40:59.000 We'd probably be censured.

00:41:00.880 Who knows?

00:41:01.720 I mean, but it's fine for people in Tijuana to say that to the Central Americans.

00:41:08.260 It's just really amazing.

00:41:10.040 We're not supposed to have any thought for ourselves at all.

00:41:15.000 Just, okay, if you need something, then just come and take it.

00:41:19.060 I don't get it.

00:41:20.180 We've got to consider our own well-being, or we're not going to be of service to anybody

00:41:26.300 on this planet.

00:41:27.480 If you just allow everybody who's not doing well in the world, you know, there's what,

00:41:33.380 2 billion people, according to the last report, living on less than $2 a day.

00:41:38.220 Well, send them all here.

00:41:39.500 Right?

00:41:40.040 We just accept everybody and take care of everybody.

00:41:42.660 It doesn't work because you can't.

00:41:44.740 You can't accept all the world's poor.

00:41:46.980 No, you can't.

00:41:48.600 And look, the reason there's 2 billion people or, you know, and falling every day that are

00:41:55.040 in extreme poverty, and I think the number has actually fallen below that now.

00:41:58.940 And the reason for that is, you know, us.

00:42:01.360 Yeah.

00:42:01.980 And the principles put in by, you know, this country.

00:42:07.200 This experiment has led to that success.

00:42:10.700 We've talked about these numbers before, but they really are incredible.

00:42:13.420 I mean, it's gone.

00:42:14.360 The number of kids dying before age 5 has fallen in half since 1990.

00:42:19.960 In half by, since 90?

00:42:21.260 Since 1990.

00:42:23.480 Think about that.

00:42:24.640 Wow.

00:42:24.960 This is all in our lifetime.

00:42:26.180 This is all in a time where, like, it doesn't feel, you know, like ancient history.

00:42:32.100 You know, this isn't since 1900.

00:42:35.060 Since 1990.

00:42:36.480 This is when, you know, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are going back and forth in a presidential

00:42:41.420 election.

00:42:42.420 And if you watch the Monica Lewinsky thing last night, which started airing this weekend,

00:42:48.320 it's, first of all, very well done.

00:42:50.120 If you're into this and you like history and you kind of want to go back and revisit that

00:42:53.940 period a little bit, it's pretty interesting.

00:42:55.100 Lots of really classic Rush Limbaugh clips included, by the way.

00:42:58.380 Because, you know, this is when Rush Limbaugh is really rising to prominence.

00:43:01.700 And, you know, that whole, I mean, he was already very prominent at that point.

00:43:06.380 But, I mean, you know, they have a lot of clips of him talking about it.

00:43:09.100 They really go back and dive into it.

00:43:10.980 It's pretty good.

00:43:11.680 But, I mean, that period is, you know, yeah, that's history.

00:43:14.560 It's old.

00:43:15.180 You know, it's not, it doesn't feel like it was right behind us.

00:43:17.340 But, you know, when they started, some, it was a professor who started asking his question

00:43:22.720 of all of his students who came in.

00:43:24.540 And he asked them a question, since 1990, has extreme poverty doubled or halved?

00:43:30.020 The only two choices.

00:43:31.520 I'll bet most people said doubled.

00:43:33.000 95% said doubled.

00:43:34.260 95%.

00:43:34.860 Now, these are college students in a class of his.

00:43:36.920 Wow.

00:43:37.200 So, they're obviously already looking at these things, these issues.

00:43:40.160 People have absolutely no idea that has happened.

00:43:42.720 And it's because of the free market.

00:43:44.440 It's because of free trade.

00:43:45.980 It's because of capitalism.

00:43:47.740 It's because of specialization.

00:43:49.260 These are things that are miracles.

00:43:52.500 I mean, you would have never, in 1990, if someone said to you, by the way, we think we

00:43:56.060 can cut poverty by half by 2015 or 16, whatever those numbers are from.

00:44:01.420 First of all, everyone on earth would have taken the deal.

00:44:04.020 And secondly, the only way anyone would have believed it was possible was if the UN started

00:44:08.600 giving out free food.

00:44:10.220 Right?

00:44:10.720 The only way anyone would have believed that.

00:44:12.940 Instead, it was done in a much different way with places like China and India getting the

00:44:17.100 benefits of capitalism, you know, all that stuff where they talk about where, well, you

00:44:22.060 know, these sweatshops and all these companies are building these, you know, slave labor camps

00:44:28.020 over in these countries.

00:44:29.220 That's a good part of the reason why this has happened.

00:44:32.260 Right.

00:44:32.660 Because those jobs that seem like slave labor to you are well-paying jobs to them.

00:44:37.460 And they've been able to raise the standard of living.

00:44:39.440 And you know what?

00:44:40.020 Like, it doesn't all happen at once.

00:44:41.800 And we'd all love everyone to have everyone to have the flat screen TVs that we have.

00:44:46.220 And everyone has central air like we have.

00:44:48.300 And everyone would love for that to happen all at once.

00:44:50.800 But it actually is happening.

00:44:52.460 And we don't ever bother noticing it.

00:44:55.380 Glenn has a stat that he does on the on the stage tour, which, by the way, we're going to

00:44:58.720 be in Tampa and Orlando.

00:45:00.660 This is not this coming Friday, but the week after, I believe it is December 1st, 2nd or 3rd,

00:45:06.180 whatever that Friday and Saturday are.

00:45:07.980 So come out and see the show.

00:45:10.340 But one of the he goes through a bunch of stats kind of like this.

00:45:12.560 And one of the stats, which is amazing, and it gets a gasp every single time, is the improvements

00:45:17.800 that we were just talking about.

00:45:19.020 You know, these taking, you know, taking these kids who were dying of starvation and other

00:45:24.620 terrible things and cutting that in half over that period.

00:45:27.960 It's really impressive.

00:45:29.320 And that's every day.

00:45:30.320 It's something like 17,000 kids a day that used to die now live a day.

00:45:35.480 Wow.

00:45:35.960 I mean, it's like, it's incredible.

00:45:37.620 But think about every shooting that happens.

00:45:40.100 We have had, you know, mass shootings recently.

00:45:42.160 And, you know, we get a few of them here every single year.

00:45:44.380 It's obviously terrible.

00:45:46.260 But they'll focus on that for months.

00:45:48.100 I mean, it's the top story for months, how bad guns are and everything.

00:45:51.180 Just the improvements that we've been talking about here is the equivalent of wiping out

00:45:55.400 630 years of gun murders.

00:45:58.960 All gun murders, not mass shootings.

00:46:00.480 All gun murders, 630 years worth.

00:46:03.260 I, you know, and does that ever get mentioned?

00:46:06.720 No.

00:46:06.980 Does the news ever focus on that?

00:46:09.220 No.

00:46:09.880 These are absolute miracles.

00:46:12.180 And, you know, the fact that it's all happened in our lifetime and we still ignore it is fascinating.

00:46:17.200 It tells us a lot about the way, you know, our minds work.

00:46:19.740 Yeah, we forget a lot of times because of our lives are pretty easy compared to what, first of all, they are in other parts of the world who don't have capitalism and the U.S. Constitution.

00:46:32.860 And secondly, other times in history that were, there's this Harvard professor, archaeologist and historian who just did a study on what was the worst year in human history.

00:46:47.260 I like this.

00:46:48.580 Now, many people would probably think that's 2018.

00:46:51.940 Of course.

00:46:52.380 Right?

00:46:52.560 It's the year, it's any year in which Trump had anything to say about what goes on in a country or the world.

00:47:00.260 It was actually the year 536 A.D. where he found bubonic plague, widespread famine, war, flu pandemics, and a year and a half long fog that they couldn't explain that kept the Northern Hemisphere in darkness for 18 months.

00:47:25.480 It was like dusk, day and night.

00:47:27.720 They couldn't see the sun for a year and a half.

00:47:33.800 And meanwhile, on the surface of the planet, people are dying from plagues, from famine, from drought.

00:47:41.980 There was snowfall in China.

00:47:45.420 Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia plunged into that year and a half of solid darkness by this.

00:47:51.260 And at the time, they didn't have any idea what was going on.

00:47:54.000 Why is this happening to us?

00:47:55.660 And then you find out, first of all, they also had a continental scale crop failure.

00:48:02.720 So, all of Europe had crop failure and so did Asia.

00:48:05.960 And then the disease kicked in.

00:48:08.720 And apparently, a lot of it was triggered by a cataclysmic Icelandic eruption.

00:48:12.980 So, there's your global warming that caused the volcano, and then the drought, and the severe famine, and the weird, mysterious weirding of the weather that included a dense fog that put them in darkness.

00:48:29.380 And, you know, millions of people died.

00:48:31.140 And they said that they didn't recover.

00:48:33.460 The earth didn't recover from this disaster for 100 years.

00:48:38.920 Not until 636 AD did they start to get back to where they once were.

00:48:45.380 And your life expectancy at this point is, what, 20?

00:48:47.700 Probably.

00:48:48.260 22, which is probably about 21 years more than you wanted it to be.

00:48:51.040 Probably.

00:48:53.320 Living through these times, can you imagine?

00:48:55.880 So, there was no capitalism then.

00:48:57.840 There was no America then.

00:48:59.260 And there was no help or hope for these people.

00:49:01.840 No way of turning it around.

00:49:02.840 Yeah.

00:49:03.200 That's amazing.

00:49:04.120 And, you know, how would you?

00:49:06.060 And you're talking about, what, 10% of your life?

00:49:08.080 Right.

00:49:08.340 Probably at this point, you're just living in a fog.

00:49:10.800 That's a real rough one.

00:49:12.960 It's interesting.

00:49:13.620 They had another study that came out.

00:49:15.560 And we talk about this all the time because the left loves to say this.

00:49:18.120 And you know what?

00:49:18.500 I will say the right likes to say it a lot, too, which is that wages have stagnated.

00:49:22.320 Oh, jeez.

00:49:22.800 And, you know, you look at this, and there's a lot of reasons why it's not true.

00:49:26.600 Um, wages haven't really stagnated.

00:49:29.820 Um, there is a, there are different things that have happened as far as, like, you know,

00:49:34.160 more employers now spend more on healthcare.

00:49:36.300 And so, like, the money coming to you has gone up quite a bit.

00:49:39.060 It's just that progressives have pushed for policies in which your employer makes your

00:49:44.060 decisions for what you spend your money on instead of you.

00:49:46.600 You know, like, oh, well, you should have all these things covered because you're too

00:49:50.020 dumb and might not buy those things if, if the, if you're not forced to.

00:49:54.120 And that's what progressives do.

00:49:55.560 So, on both sides, because Republicans love that stat, too.

00:49:58.920 They say, look, you know, it's a good way of saying when someone else is in control,

00:50:01.860 well, look, yeah, you know, things might seem like it's good now, but, like, wages have

00:50:05.060 stagnated since 1989.

00:50:06.340 Yeah, all the jobs that are being created are bad ones.

00:50:09.140 Right, exactly.

00:50:09.980 Now, of course, none of, there's not, it's not true for a bunch of reasons, but why would

00:50:13.340 it even matter, right?

00:50:14.600 Like, let's just say this world happens where all wages stagnate and you make the same amount

00:50:20.180 of money for the rest of your life, but everything continually gets cheaper.

00:50:23.500 So, you have more money to spend on other things in, in a, that's a good world, right?

00:50:28.260 It doesn't, what, what does the number matter?

00:50:30.520 The number doesn't matter.

00:50:31.260 It's what can you do with a number?

00:50:32.680 Right.

00:50:32.760 So, there's a new study out about consumption poverty.

00:50:35.200 Now, this is different than income, right?

00:50:36.680 So, income is how much money do you have when you start, you know, there's a scale of how

00:50:39.880 much is, it leads to poverty.

00:50:41.040 But what about things that are actually important?

00:50:42.640 What are you spending money on?

00:50:43.540 All of these are down by 20% to 80%, between 20% and 80% since 1989.

00:50:50.920 Now, where wages are relatively, they, you know, they go up and down a little bit, but

00:50:53.780 they haven't gone up per se for people in the poverty regions, the poorest 20% of Americans.

00:51:02.440 But do you have a dishwasher in your house?

00:51:07.540 That's dropped by between 20% and 80%.

00:51:09.540 A clothes dryer.

00:51:11.400 Again, this is people who don't have one.

00:51:13.100 So, more people have one.

00:51:14.780 So, the amount of people who don't have them has dropped.

00:51:16.800 Yes.

00:51:17.300 Sorry for I missed this thing with that.

00:51:18.520 Yes.

00:51:18.980 Do you not have a clothes washer?

00:51:21.520 That has dropped between 20% and 80% if you don't have one.

00:51:24.540 Do you have no air conditioning?

00:51:26.000 Those houses, again, this is among the 20% poorest families in America.

00:51:31.120 Yeah.

00:51:32.080 No air conditioning has dropped.

00:51:33.580 A large section of peeling paint on their home has dropped.

00:51:38.520 How about a water leak from outside the house?

00:51:41.560 Dropped.

00:51:42.140 Water leak from inside the house?

00:51:43.840 Dropped.

00:51:44.200 All of them, between 20% and 80%, again, since about 1990.

00:51:47.960 So, even poor, and we've gone through the stats before of, you know, air conditioning, TV,

00:51:53.220 microwave.

00:51:54.000 Phones, even mobile phones, cell phones.

00:51:55.620 Multiple cars, cell phones, tablets.

00:51:58.040 These are all things that now hit 50, 60, 90, almost 100% of our poor.

00:52:03.620 Things that will be luxury items to the rest of the world.

00:52:06.680 Items that you couldn't even buy if you were the richest person in the world 30 years ago.

00:52:12.160 A tablet, you couldn't buy it if you were Bill Gates.

00:52:16.080 Right?

00:52:16.260 Bill Gates had to go through a whole thing of building an entire company, get that rich,

00:52:20.640 and then even after that, he couldn't invent one better than somebody else.

00:52:24.700 I mean, that is incredible.

00:52:26.620 It is.

00:52:26.980 We never look at it that way, though.

00:52:28.800 We never do.

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00:53:10.540 Amazing devastation from the fires that have swept California.

00:53:14.700 Really, just absolutely incredible.

00:53:16.660 What is it?

00:53:17.020 80 confirmed dead so far.

00:53:20.100 And still 1,000 people missing.

00:53:23.220 That's terrifying.

00:53:24.180 I mean, that number of 1,000 is really...

00:53:26.180 Unbelievable.

00:53:26.800 I mean, I guess it could be, too.

00:53:28.040 People are harder to reach.

00:53:29.320 And people that left might be...

00:53:31.120 Hopefully.

00:53:31.980 ...difficult to reach.

00:53:32.680 But still, it's scary.

00:53:34.500 There's a new story in the Federalist today.

00:53:37.440 Talking about what happened here.

00:53:38.960 Pretty amazing.

00:53:39.500 For decades, environmental protection schemes have usurped common sense.

00:53:42.960 For example, most fire ecologists say the surest way of preventing massive forest fires is to use prescribed burns.

00:53:48.760 We've talked about this before.

00:53:49.480 Prescribed burns keep forests healthy by burning the underbrush that accumulates on the forest floor and by thinning trees.

00:53:54.720 Yet, for decades, the Forest Service has suppressed most fires.

00:53:57.140 According to a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection executive summary, land and fire management have, in many cases, increased fire hazard.

00:54:04.160 Increased.

00:54:05.240 In some shrub types, fire suppression appears to have shifted the fire regime away from more, smaller fires towards fewer, larger fires.

00:54:13.300 Despite scientific evidence, the federal government continues spending more money on fire suppression than prescribed burns.

00:54:19.560 This comes out to the Forest Service only performing prescribed burns on 11.3% of the land they manage.

00:54:27.140 While explaining to Mother Jones why the California wine country fires were so bad last October, fire ecologist Sasha Berliman said,

00:54:33.840 We have 100 years of fire suppression that has led to this huge accumulation of fuel loads.

00:54:38.660 The policy of fire suppression has created what insurance companies call mega catastrophes.

00:54:44.020 Which has got to be a new series on history or something.

00:54:47.080 We've got to be seeing that soon.

00:54:48.360 A term that describes disasters that result in insured losses of more than a billion dollars.

00:54:52.980 Mega catastrophes are becoming the norm in California.

00:54:55.220 In 2017, there were 5,906 fires on state and private land.

00:55:01.520 And extreme fire behavior has become more commonplace, as they're saying.

00:55:05.220 The laws of the last 45 years have not only failed to protect the forest environment, they have done immeasurable harm to our forests.

00:55:12.080 Says Tom McClintock.

00:55:13.420 Time and time again, we see vivid boundaries between the young, healthy, growing forests managed by state, local, and private landholders.

00:55:19.500 And the choked, dying, or burned federal forests.

00:55:21.840 Every time you bring that up, though, you get shouted down.

00:55:24.040 Yeah.

00:55:24.420 Every single time.

00:55:25.140 Trump tried to bring it up, and you got beat up by it.

00:55:27.020 But it does seem to be true.

00:55:28.220 I think tomorrow night is an official holiday in the Bergeer family, is it not?

00:55:36.880 It is.

00:55:37.240 Since Creed 2 is being released.

00:55:38.720 Yes.

00:55:39.220 Anytime a Rocky movie comes out, it's an official holiday in my family.

00:55:42.560 And actually, I bought tickets multiple weeks ago.

00:55:45.660 Multiple weeks ago.

00:55:46.340 Creed 2.

00:55:46.720 Very excited about it.

00:55:47.500 In fact, the return of Ivan Drago to our lives.

00:55:49.860 That's amazing.

00:55:51.180 Yes.

00:55:51.780 Very exciting.

00:55:52.440 Because Creed is fighting his son, right?

00:55:56.160 And now, if you remember, of course.

00:55:57.220 Which is super likely to happen.

00:55:59.360 Oh, this is, the whole series is very likely to happen.

00:56:01.560 Unfortunately, as you remember, of course, Apollo Creed.

00:56:04.380 Died.

00:56:04.720 Died in the ring.

00:56:05.540 At the hands of Dolph Lundgren, right?

00:56:08.720 Well, Ivan Drago.

00:56:10.240 Right, Ivan Drago.

00:56:11.080 The Soviet fighter.

00:56:11.960 Yes.

00:56:12.360 Who was, there were rumors of steroid abuse in that particular story.

00:56:16.280 Yes, there were strong rumors.

00:56:17.320 Strong rumors, including footage.

00:56:19.340 But, it also, that movie, if you remember, of course, ended the Cold War.

00:56:23.340 People don't, of course, remember that.

00:56:25.360 No, they don't.

00:56:25.760 They now give credit to, oh, Reagan and Thatcher, whatever.

00:56:28.580 It was all Sly Stallone.

00:56:30.440 It was Rocky IV.

00:56:31.220 It was.

00:56:31.680 And so, they're bringing this one back, which I'm pretty excited about.

00:56:33.700 Hopefully, it doesn't start a new Cold War.

00:56:35.700 But maybe this is what happens, like, brings us and Russia back together.

00:56:39.000 I don't know.

00:56:39.580 But Dolph Lundgren, the original Ivan Drago, is actually in this movie, right?

00:56:43.140 He's in this one.

00:56:43.960 I heard something the other day, and I thought, that can't be true.

00:56:47.180 It's got to be one of those urban legends.

00:56:49.000 They said Dolph Lundgren has an IQ of 160.

00:56:54.260 He's, like, super smart.

00:56:55.620 160.

00:56:56.100 That's, by far, genius category.

00:56:58.720 That's 140, I think, or 143 or something is genius.

00:57:02.920 160 is, that's, like, Einstein smart.

00:57:06.440 He's very, very smart.

00:57:07.760 And it was weird, because his role as Ivan Drago was obviously a big, strong guy who punches a lot and says very little.

00:57:13.740 And he's dumb.

00:57:14.060 Yeah, kind of like a killing machine, really.

00:57:17.100 Right.

00:57:18.000 And, you know, it's interesting, too, because he was not, as you might have detected from the movie, he had not done a lot of acting previous to this role.

00:57:26.260 Did detect that.

00:57:26.760 But if you see, in the movie, Rocky IV, when he comes out of the floor in Vegas and it's James Brown singing Living in America and all that, like, his reaction, he says, like, it was completely legitimate.

00:57:38.160 I was, like, I had no idea.

00:57:40.160 He's just standing in the middle of the ring not moving, because he was terrified.

00:57:43.460 He'd never seen anything like this.

00:57:45.240 It's pretty amazing.

00:57:46.160 And now he's back for this one.

00:57:47.600 I'm pretty excited about it.

00:57:48.900 That's kind of fun.

00:57:49.820 Yeah.

00:57:50.300 So that's going to be a big one.

00:57:51.940 You saw, did you see the new Harry Potter thing?

00:57:53.720 Yeah.

00:57:53.940 Fantastic Beasts, Crimes of Grindelwald.

00:57:56.260 It was good.

00:57:56.980 I liked it.

00:57:57.560 Is it just related, or is it part of the same story?

00:57:59.700 No, it's the same story.

00:58:00.780 It's part of, it's like a prequel to the Harry Potter stuff.

00:58:04.120 So they went through this whole Harry Potter thing.

00:58:05.480 This is the last book ever, we promise.

00:58:06.920 Yep.

00:58:07.060 And then she just started back over on the series.

00:58:09.860 How could you resist?

00:58:10.680 Because you can't.

00:58:11.480 It's a money printing machine.

00:58:12.540 Well, she sold 450 to 500 million copies of the books.

00:58:18.820 And then the movies did, I don't know, a billion and a half or two billion.

00:58:23.420 So why would you stop that money printing machine?

00:58:26.280 It just sounds dumb.

00:58:27.780 Doesn't it?

00:58:28.460 Yeah, it does.

00:58:29.220 Do you think someone came to her and said, just so you're aware, this is dumb.

00:58:32.860 Don't stop writing them.

00:58:34.060 Keep doing it.

00:58:34.700 People like it.

00:58:35.420 Yeah, people like it.

00:58:36.200 So that made 62 million over the weekend.

00:58:38.460 But it cost 200 million to make, so.

00:58:41.640 Yeah, but you have the whole, first of all, one of the biggest weeks of movie viewing is coming up.

00:58:45.520 This week, yeah.

00:58:45.680 Right?

00:58:45.980 And this one and Christmas are huge weeks.

00:58:48.180 And this whole season, I mean, it'll do well.

00:58:50.080 That'll do well.

00:58:50.640 Have you seen the, have you taken the kids to the Grinch, the new one?

00:58:53.060 They went yesterday while I was watching the Eagles lose by 611 points.

00:58:56.920 Oh, wow.

00:58:57.280 Yes, but they did like it a lot.

00:58:59.280 They did like it quite a bit.

00:59:00.500 And then Bohemian Rhapsody, still third.

00:59:02.380 And that's made 127 million so far.

00:59:06.200 And it only cost 52 million to make.

00:59:08.300 Queen is, I don't know, there's something interesting and, and unique about their music.

00:59:14.660 Because, you know, people like me who grew up with it, love it.

00:59:18.260 But people who, like my kids, love it too.

00:59:22.880 Queen just seems like universally loved musically.

00:59:26.960 And it's interesting that Bohemian Rhapsody continues to be so popular among virtually all age groups.

00:59:34.440 888-933-93.

00:59:37.040 Now, they were talking about the 2020 presidential election and some potential Democrat candidates are being thrown out there to, to oppose Trump.

00:59:52.780 Yeah.

00:59:53.180 And kind of gauging the audience reaction to each of them.

00:59:56.320 So this is kind of interesting, you know, because you can look at it and you say a lot of people are passionate about this candidate or this candidate.

01:00:02.520 I found this to be really interesting.

01:00:04.320 538 did a podcast in front of a live audience as a review of the election.

01:00:08.900 And as you're listening to it, you find very, this is definitely a Democratic audience, which is not a huge surprise.

01:00:14.980 I think they did it in New York.

01:00:16.840 So it's definitely a Democratic audience.

01:00:18.560 And you could say someone so engaged in politics that they're thinking about this and wanting to go see a 538 podcast about the midterms.

01:00:25.560 You're going to be pretty, you're going to be an activist, right?

01:00:27.700 Like this is where the energy is probably in the Democratic Party.

01:00:30.760 This is a non-scientific study, by the way.

01:00:33.560 But I was fascinated at the reactions to the candidates.

01:00:36.920 They do a 2020 draft.

01:00:41.560 So these three experts, Claire Malone, Nate Silver, and Micah Cohen, do a draft where they, like it's like a fantasy football draft where they draft candidates.

01:00:49.640 You're trying to pick the one who actually gets the nomination.

01:00:52.200 So they go through and they're doing their picks.

01:00:54.400 Let me give you this one first.

01:00:55.420 This one was, I thought, pretty surprising.

01:00:57.700 The first pick overall in the draft.

01:01:00.260 And just, the main thing here is just to listen to the crowd reactions as their names are said.

01:01:04.800 Listen, let's go with, this is the first one.

01:01:08.400 First pick in the overall draft, by the way, was Claire Malone picking Elizabeth Warren.

01:01:14.920 Okay, we're going to have this clip here in a second for you.

01:01:17.620 It is, you know, I don't know.

01:01:20.200 First of all, you know, I don't know.

01:01:21.720 Claire Malone, she may be very smart, but you don't pick Elizabeth Warren first in the draft.

01:01:25.240 I mean, that's a terrible pick.

01:01:26.280 No, you don't.

01:01:26.960 But I wouldn't say it was out of the mainstream of thought, right?

01:01:30.360 I think a lot of people would put her, we have the odds on this, the percentage chance of winning.

01:01:37.720 She's in the top three or four.

01:01:39.680 Right now, Kamala Harris is the number one.

01:01:41.960 You've got to be kidding me.

01:01:42.700 Yeah, number one, Kamala Harris.

01:01:43.960 Number two, Joe Biden.

01:01:45.220 Number three, Bernie Sanders.

01:01:47.020 Is Hillary listed in this?

01:01:48.260 Four, Elizabeth Warren.

01:01:49.540 What's that?

01:01:50.040 Is Hillary listed?

01:01:51.240 Hillary, that's a good question.

01:01:53.180 Is Hillary even listed?

01:01:54.400 I don't see Hillary.

01:01:55.180 There are many who think she's definitely running in 2020.

01:01:59.160 I just can't believe it.

01:02:00.360 All right, here's the first pick of the draft.

01:02:01.720 Listen to this.

01:02:02.360 So, Claire, who is the number one overall choice in our 2020 Democratic primary draft?

01:02:07.460 I am sticking with my last first round choice of Elizabeth Warren.

01:02:11.740 Elizabeth Warren.

01:02:12.860 Okay, there it is.

01:02:14.360 They don't like that pick.

01:02:17.240 Boy, they sure didn't.

01:02:18.260 They did not like that.

01:02:20.420 That's all you got.

01:02:21.440 Yeah, that's it.

01:02:22.040 I didn't hear a single applause.

01:02:23.500 Right?

01:02:23.860 Now, Elizabeth Warren was the energy.

01:02:26.100 Yeah.

01:02:26.420 Remember?

01:02:26.700 I really think she was the big, you know, a cool, hip pick in 2016 to run.

01:02:32.360 And she, of course, never ran.

01:02:34.860 Yeah.

01:02:35.040 But everybody seemingly wanted her to.

01:02:37.020 Everyone wanted her.

01:02:37.820 She was the pick, right?

01:02:38.920 Yeah.

01:02:39.320 And what's interesting is I think this whole Native American thing really backfired on her

01:02:44.520 in a huge way.

01:02:46.240 Yeah.

01:02:46.460 And I think it was very bad for Elizabeth Warren's future in politics, but very good

01:02:53.760 for the Democratic Party that she did that because they saw how she handles these tough

01:02:57.940 moments and she can't handle these tough moments.

01:03:00.400 Right.

01:03:00.760 She's not good at this.

01:03:02.180 She's going.

01:03:02.720 I mean, if there was one candidate, if you wanted Donald Trump to win and one of these

01:03:06.540 top candidates to go against, I would pick Elizabeth Warren.

01:03:09.820 Trump can would she would not be able to keep up with the certain people who can deal with

01:03:14.160 the pressure of a Donald Trump.

01:03:15.620 Yeah.

01:03:15.740 She's not one.

01:03:16.360 I keep saying Joe Biden is actually would actually be a good counterweight to Trump because he's

01:03:22.340 he can get in there.

01:03:23.160 He can fight.

01:03:24.160 He's good at that sort of thing.

01:03:25.780 I'm not saying he's a good he'd be a good president.

01:03:27.240 He wouldn't.

01:03:27.840 But he'd be he'd be a much tougher matchup for Trump than an Elizabeth Warren.

01:03:31.760 Definitely.

01:03:32.740 So listen.

01:03:33.440 So next up is is Nate Silver.

01:03:35.220 He's picking his second pick is Joe Biden.

01:03:37.780 And listen to the reaction.

01:03:38.680 Nate Silver, your choice.

01:03:40.340 Trying to figure out if I should be tactical or not here, but I'm going to be the honest

01:03:44.480 pick and I'm going to go with Joe Biden.

01:03:46.460 Joe Biden.

01:03:48.940 Tactical would have been thinking that Biden is going to fall to the second round.

01:03:51.460 That Micah having said that he wouldn't pick Biden, get him at five.

01:03:54.700 OK, so.

01:03:56.060 And do you remember?

01:03:57.200 I don't know the historical trends here, but you've been.

01:03:59.920 And there seems to be more kind of laughter than applause or cheering there.

01:04:05.720 Not much of anything, right?

01:04:07.040 Like a little laughter.

01:04:07.820 And it's kind of just acknowledging everyone knows he's one of the front runners.

01:04:10.880 Yeah.

01:04:11.100 Now, the next one here is the third pick of the draft.

01:04:14.040 Listen.

01:04:14.600 My first pick is going to be.

01:04:16.740 His first round pick.

01:04:18.220 Kamala Harris.

01:04:19.360 OK.

01:04:22.760 Pretty strong.

01:04:23.500 Pretty strong.

01:04:24.300 Pretty strong.

01:04:25.000 Reaction two in a row here.

01:04:25.940 Amy Klobuchar.

01:04:26.620 There you go.

01:04:27.880 Amy Klobuchar.

01:04:28.560 So those two in a row.

01:04:30.000 Where are they doing this?

01:04:30.940 This is in a.

01:04:31.900 It's one of.

01:04:32.380 It's a recording of their podcast, but very Democratic audience.

01:04:34.940 But do you know what city there?

01:04:36.280 I think it's New York.

01:04:36.800 Did you say New York?

01:04:37.200 Yeah, I think it's New York.

01:04:38.320 How did they even.

01:04:39.620 Most people don't even know who Amy Klobuchar is.

01:04:41.980 Well, that's why, though.

01:04:43.040 Again, these are political nerds, right?

01:04:45.080 Yeah.

01:04:45.280 The type of people who would pick candidates.

01:04:48.060 When we came out with 17 candidates at the beginning of the Republican convention, most

01:04:53.880 of America had no idea who half of them were.

01:04:55.880 We all knew who all of them were.

01:04:57.320 Yeah.

01:04:57.500 And we'd already gone through all their policies and talked about it a million times.

01:05:01.500 So that is.

01:05:02.400 So those two there, Kamala Harris and Klobuchar, back to back with really strong reactions.

01:05:06.000 And they both had strong reactions.

01:05:07.120 Yeah.

01:05:07.560 Next up is Nate Silver's pick.

01:05:09.680 A member newly elevated to the top tier is Beto O'Rourke.

01:05:13.120 Oh, my God.

01:05:15.820 Bad pick.

01:05:16.700 Why?

01:05:17.000 I mean, right there you see another big reaction.

01:05:20.600 They go back and forth and argue about that one a little bit.

01:05:22.420 That's probably the biggest reaction so far.

01:05:24.000 Yeah, I would say one is there.

01:05:25.240 Two is probably Klobuchar, I would say.

01:05:27.280 Yep.

01:05:27.600 Three, Kamala Harris.

01:05:28.920 Biden and Warren.

01:05:29.780 I mean, Warren was not just nothing, but really negative.

01:05:33.120 I mean, it was a negative.

01:05:34.100 Oh, gosh.

01:05:34.760 It was almost a groan from the crowd.

01:05:37.060 Next pick was Claire Malone's next one.

01:05:40.080 Claire, you're up.

01:05:41.380 So I think there's only a couple people left at the top tier, and I'm going to go with

01:05:44.620 Kirsten Gillibrand.

01:05:45.480 Okay.

01:05:45.640 Yeah.

01:05:48.080 Moderate.

01:05:48.520 Yeah.

01:05:49.160 Okay, you can stop.

01:05:49.980 But moderate.

01:05:50.640 Yeah, but better than Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden, probably.

01:05:53.500 Right.

01:05:53.760 Probably the fourth best out of there so far.

01:05:56.040 Now, here's one I would have expected to have a huge reaction.

01:05:59.680 Nate Silver's next pick.

01:06:02.320 Bernie Sanders.

01:06:02.880 Bernie Sanders.

01:06:03.520 There he is.

01:06:04.580 Okay.

01:06:05.020 So, not much.

01:06:07.860 That's underwhelming.

01:06:09.360 Very underwhelming.

01:06:10.580 Underwhelming.

01:06:10.740 Right?

01:06:11.160 I mean, you know, you would think Bernie Sanders, again, was the energy, not necessarily from

01:06:16.380 the political class, right?

01:06:18.020 Where you'd say, this person can win.

01:06:20.940 But the energy of the activist, the energy of, this is who I want to win, is this guy

01:06:24.420 who's admitting he's a socialist.

01:06:25.440 It reminds me of the way I felt about Rick Santorum the first time compared to Rick Santorum

01:06:31.500 the second time.

01:06:32.440 I was really excited about him, and then not so much the second time.

01:06:36.780 Maybe that's how they feel about Sanders.

01:06:38.220 That's an interesting point.

01:06:39.460 Like, he's already been there.

01:06:40.900 Been there, done that, didn't work.

01:06:41.060 Because you can get the same policies from Kamala Harris.

01:06:44.180 Yeah.

01:06:44.620 And she's new, and she's female, and young.

01:06:47.220 Beto O'Rourke, who's younger, you know, a good campaigner.

01:06:50.900 You can get those things out of other candidates.

01:06:53.480 Yes.

01:06:53.660 And no longer do you need that first run to justify a second run, right?

01:06:57.900 Like, we've seen this with Barack Obama.

01:06:58.960 I mean, Donald Trump obviously had it, you know, kind of flirted with a run for a long

01:07:02.600 time, but, you know, he didn't, you don't have to lose.

01:07:06.580 Like, I would think the same thing would happen to Cruz in 2024, right?

01:07:10.340 Like, if Cruz tries to run again in 2024, people are going to find somebody else who has a similar

01:07:15.320 policy set and rather pick him.

01:07:17.580 We've already done this with Cruz.

01:07:18.980 People get bored too fast now.

01:07:20.840 It's not like the days, I mean, what would have happened with Reagan?

01:07:23.660 If Reagan had lost that election, like he did back in 76, would he have been able to

01:07:28.620 come back in 80?

01:07:30.340 I don't know.

01:07:31.160 I don't know.

01:07:31.520 I think a lot of people would have been like, ah, we're bored with him.

01:07:33.640 He's old and we've already dealt with that.

01:07:36.100 Yeah.

01:07:36.340 I think people get sick of things too fast now.

01:07:38.520 I think so.

01:07:39.880 Next up, and the rest of these are, there's a couple funny ones.

01:07:43.260 Can we skip to Claire Malone's next pick?

01:07:46.180 Because Claire Malone picks Cory Booker.

01:07:48.940 It's the last of the top tier, which is Cory Booker.

01:07:52.720 Okay.

01:07:53.920 And completing your name.

01:07:57.420 Nope.

01:07:58.900 Nope.

01:07:59.420 We're not interested.

01:08:00.440 Thank you.

01:08:01.000 I don't know how much analysis we kept of that one, but their analysis was very much

01:08:04.720 like trying to justify a way to think that he's in the top tier.

01:08:09.660 He's not in the top tier.

01:08:10.800 He's not.

01:08:11.000 He is terrible.

01:08:12.400 Right.

01:08:13.100 He's terrible.

01:08:13.800 He's a terrible candidate.

01:08:14.860 It's not going to work for Cory, unfortunately.

01:08:16.580 No.

01:08:17.080 No.

01:08:17.340 But fortunately for all of us.

01:08:18.940 So there you go.

01:08:19.800 Some of the picks coming up for 2020.

01:08:22.160 888-727-BECK is the phone number.

01:08:23.840 It's Pat and Stu in for Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck program.

01:08:31.820 Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

01:08:33.800 888-727-BECK.

01:08:36.420 So it's finally been decided in Georgia and Florida.

01:08:40.220 The race for the governor of both states is over.

01:08:43.020 Went to the Republicans.

01:08:44.580 And the Senate race has been decided in favor of Rick Scott, the Republican.

01:08:48.920 I gotta say, Rick Scott's the man.

01:08:50.920 This guy has knocked off a bunch of really well-known politicians and people who've been

01:08:56.640 around forever in Florida.

01:08:58.060 Yeah.

01:08:58.280 This guy is, he's pulled off a lot of tough races.

01:09:01.460 Who did he beat before?

01:09:02.340 Bill Nelson?

01:09:03.520 Charlie Crist he beat once.

01:09:04.720 That's right, Crist, yeah.

01:09:05.400 And he beat somebody else, too, before that in an upset.

01:09:08.380 All of his races have been, at least at some point, considered long shots.

01:09:12.640 It's impressive.

01:09:13.180 Yeah.

01:09:13.480 He's done a, he's, that's pretty amazing.

01:09:15.720 Everybody kind of gave him up for dead in this campaign, too.

01:09:17.940 They just, they thought that he was not going to make it.

01:09:21.120 And he did.

01:09:21.920 So that worked out really well.

01:09:24.340 Also, on the congressional side, there's another battle that's been going on and I

01:09:28.540 thought was decided, but apparently not.

01:09:31.220 Mia Love in Utah.

01:09:32.480 And you would think, okay, Utah's not going to elect a Republican, no matter, I mean,

01:09:35.940 a Democrat, no matter what.

01:09:37.860 Well, it looked like they did.

01:09:40.180 Well, and that race had, there had been close races there before.

01:09:42.720 I mean, her, her previous elections were pretty close.

01:09:45.500 There are some close ones there.

01:09:46.540 Yeah, because it is, I mean, it's probably the most Democrat area of the state of Utah

01:09:51.440 that exists.

01:09:54.300 But the president gave her up for lost and was kind of gloating about it because she

01:09:59.960 didn't want him to campaign for her.

01:10:02.020 And so he said, Mia Love showed me no love and she lost.

01:10:06.140 But now it does not look like she lost.

01:10:07.100 Now it doesn't look like she lost.

01:10:08.100 She actually pulled ahead by 419 votes in 250 to 300,000 cast.

01:10:12.920 She's ahead by 419.

01:10:15.500 But she was down by several thousand at one point and chipped away for this entire time.

01:10:21.540 Now there's still a lot of provisional ballots.

01:10:23.860 Thousands of them.

01:10:24.540 I think it's, I want to say it's tens of thousands of provisional ballots.

01:10:28.200 No one knows what's in them.

01:10:29.580 I mean, it's really, she could still lose.

01:10:31.840 She could.

01:10:32.420 Yes.

01:10:32.780 But it's good to see that she came back.

01:10:34.380 It is.

01:10:34.840 So she has a shot there and that would be nice not to lose yet another seat that should

01:10:40.060 be pretty solid.

01:10:41.140 You would think Republican, although, you know, a lot of Californians moved into that

01:10:46.000 area, just ruined every election.

01:10:49.820 So we'll see.

01:10:50.600 We'll keep an eye on that.

01:10:52.820 But it may not be as bleak in the Congress as we once thought.

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01:12:33.180 Looks like Eric Swalwell, who is a Democrat representative from California.

01:12:39.360 Huge name.

01:12:39.980 Huge name.

01:12:40.680 He's just trying to get his name out there now, I think, because is he considering?

01:12:45.160 Is he actually considering a run for the presidency?

01:12:47.440 Yes.

01:12:47.860 Nobody knows who this guy is, right?

01:12:50.040 No, but I mean, this is the way you solve that, right?

01:12:53.860 Yes.

01:12:54.160 Like, you go and you run for president, and you're one of the first ones out there, so

01:12:58.240 there's no one yet to discuss.

01:13:00.880 Like, Kamala Harris hasn't announced yet.

01:13:02.720 Beto O'Rourke hasn't announced yet.

01:13:04.280 So, instead, you take Eric Swalwell as the only guy who you can get on TV who's running

01:13:10.400 for president in 2020, and he'll have that, like, until January, he probably has that pretty

01:13:15.220 much locked up.

01:13:16.380 So, people will talk about him, and of course...

01:13:18.580 And they'll especially talk about him now, because he's talking gun control.

01:13:21.600 In a way that few ever have, which is kind of amazing, he was advocating for gun control

01:13:27.900 confiscation, confiscation policies.

01:13:32.480 So, Dana Lash, Dana tweeted out that high-ranking Democrat Eric Swalwell calls for confiscation

01:13:39.960 of semi-automatic rifles using $15 billion of taxpayer dollars to do it, and proposes criminally

01:13:47.220 prosecuting those who don't participate.

01:13:48.940 Swalwell tweeted out, she's not lying.

01:13:54.020 So, he confirmed it.

01:13:55.440 We should ban assault weapons by buying them back or restricting them to gun ranges and

01:14:04.640 gun clubs.

01:14:06.180 So, then, a Second Amendment advocate, Joe Biggs, responded, saying that gun confiscation

01:14:14.420 just wouldn't be good policy, because it, I don't know, might spark an insurrection.

01:14:18.940 Yeah.

01:14:19.740 He said, so basically, Representative Swalwell wants a war, because that's what you would

01:14:24.020 get.

01:14:24.400 You're out of your effing mind if you think I'll give up my rights and give the government

01:14:27.520 all the power.

01:14:29.260 Swalwell then tweeted out, and it would be a short war, my friend.

01:14:34.340 The government has nukes.

01:14:36.240 Ugh.

01:14:36.940 Too many of them, but they're legit.

01:14:38.520 This is like his way of trying.

01:14:42.320 I want activists to like me, so I will say I'm for confiscation of guns, and then I'll

01:14:48.060 say all the dumb liberal talking points, and throw in an anti-nuclear weapon commentary

01:14:52.320 in the middle of it.

01:14:53.660 Like, I'm against them, but obviously we would use them against Second Amendment advocates

01:14:57.300 if they try to keep their guns.

01:14:58.380 It's hard, too.

01:14:59.880 You know, in this country, it's kind of hard to separate killing the gun rights advocates,

01:15:05.520 but at the same time not killing your constituents who agree with you and don't have the same policies

01:15:12.260 as the gun rights people.

01:15:14.080 You know, maybe you've got a lot of, if you're going to start nuking places, nukes are kind

01:15:19.020 of indiscriminate.

01:15:19.860 They just, they kill everybody in the area.

01:15:21.700 This is the, uh, we're walking around the single dumbest point in the gun debate, and

01:15:28.780 it's not, he's not alone making it.

01:15:30.220 A lot of left-wing people say these sorts of things, because the first thing you get

01:15:34.040 is, well, what about, like, do they have tanks?

01:15:38.260 They usually say tanks is usually where they go.

01:15:40.100 Now, nukes is an interesting one, because just on its face.

01:15:44.120 Nuking American cities.

01:15:45.320 Right.

01:15:45.640 Like, nuke, first of all, as you point out, Pat, you would kill a lot of people who are

01:15:49.100 your allies, right?

01:15:50.200 Because they all, we all live with each other, like, there are gun owners in every

01:15:53.960 community.

01:15:54.460 Yeah, we don't have separate areas for gun owners as opposed to not.

01:15:57.880 No, that's not the way it works.

01:15:59.380 No.

01:15:59.760 Um, so nuking an area would be, would be difficult and, and kind of silly.

01:16:04.260 And counterproductive, because then you kind of lose access to that area for a while.

01:16:08.220 Well, that's the point.

01:16:08.660 If you're in this scenario where the government is rebelling against, uh, you know, against all

01:16:14.000 constitutional principle.

01:16:15.500 And making war against its people.

01:16:17.120 And making war against its own people.

01:16:17.920 Mm-hmm.

01:16:18.200 The, the goal there is to be able to rule the country, right?

01:16:21.800 Yeah.

01:16:22.200 So you want to rule a nuclear wasteland?

01:16:24.340 Like, what's the point?

01:16:25.480 What is your incentive here?

01:16:27.000 Right?

01:16:27.800 Uh, stupid.

01:16:28.580 I mean, you, you, you don't, that's not the way people handle it.

01:16:31.300 I mean, think of how, go to the worst.

01:16:33.320 I mean, every single terrible time where, you know, mostly communists or fascist regimes

01:16:38.480 have rounded up people or wanting to eliminate a group of people.

01:16:41.700 There's never a point in which they drop their largest weapon on a city.

01:16:44.980 No.

01:16:45.340 Like, that's not a thing.

01:16:46.240 Not their own cities.

01:16:46.960 No.

01:16:47.140 Because you always have people, and you want to protect the infrastructure.

01:16:50.320 And you, like, nukes is, is a, is a really dumb argument.

01:16:53.620 But it's a germ of this, of another dumb argument that doesn't get the stupidity it, it, it deserves.

01:16:59.960 Because the idea that people will say, well, um, you have, uh, an AR-15.

01:17:06.520 And the government has tanks and bazookas and cannons and all the, you know, anti-aircraft

01:17:11.060 weapons and all the important things that they have.

01:17:13.360 Artillery from, they can shoot you from hundreds of miles away.

01:17:16.340 And it's the idea that, like, if you picture, I always, every time I hear this argument,

01:17:20.460 I picture the same thing, which is, I think it's, what, Mel Gibson, is it the Patriot?

01:17:23.800 One of the Mel Gibson movie, and, you know, the troops are rolling up to his house.

01:17:27.860 And, like, what's he going to do?

01:17:28.740 They got, like, nine million, got people with guns.

01:17:30.800 He, he has to protect his kid, uh, you know, and his kid is, like, doing really stupid

01:17:34.980 things and gets himself shot.

01:17:36.480 Spoiler alert.

01:17:37.580 Um, and, you know, and you're thinking to yourself, well, how would this guy defend himself?

01:17:41.160 If I just had my AR-15, they came, the government comes down the driveway with 20 tanks, I'm not

01:17:45.380 going to win.

01:17:45.900 Well, no, and that's, that's why they make that point like that.

01:17:49.380 Because they want you to think of that scenario, which is not how it works.

01:17:53.260 In reality, I'll give you an example that liberals can completely understand, because they

01:17:58.080 complain about it constantly.

01:17:59.980 Why do giant, incredibly well, uh, um, uh, equipped militaries get in quagmires around

01:18:08.520 the world?

01:18:09.920 We always hear this from, uh, the left.

01:18:12.700 You know, Iraq's a quagmire, and Afghanistan is a quagmire.

01:18:15.040 Afghanistan, it doesn't have nuclear weapons.

01:18:17.780 They don't have the things that could fight back against a real military like ours.

01:18:22.460 Not a lot of tanks, not a lot.

01:18:24.700 They, they have some small arms, right?

01:18:27.600 And the problem is going door to door to try to overturn a country where there's hundreds

01:18:33.220 of millions of guns is impossible.

01:18:36.420 Yeah.

01:18:37.060 You would just be in constant war.

01:18:39.380 It is.

01:18:39.540 For eternity.

01:18:40.960 Right.

01:18:41.340 You can't, like, it's hard for us, the U.S. military, to go into a bunch of farmers and,

01:18:47.860 and, and, you know, opioid farmers in the middle of, uh, in the middle of Afghanistan, and the

01:18:53.040 same thing happened to the Soviet Union.

01:18:54.820 We all know from the Princess Bride, the second dumbest thing is a land war in Asia, but only

01:19:00.340 slightly, or that's the dumbest thing, and it's only slightly behind that is, uh, you know,

01:19:03.720 a battle of wits with a Sicilian when death is at hand or whatever.

01:19:07.040 We know that the dumbest thing on that list was a land war in Asia.

01:19:10.580 Yeah.

01:19:10.840 And it's not because we don't have nukes.

01:19:12.860 We could just nuke Afghanistan, right?

01:19:16.440 We could drop nukes all over it.

01:19:18.220 We don't even have to live there, and we still don't do it.

01:19:21.440 We would not do that here.

01:19:23.360 And the Second Amendment is an incredible defense against the incentive to want to do this to

01:19:29.680 your people.

01:19:30.340 You don't want to go after and round up your people because it's impossible.

01:19:34.760 All your soldiers are going to get shot.

01:19:36.580 If you are the Nazi regime and you take over the United States of America, you're going

01:19:40.620 to have to deal with 400 million guns.

01:19:43.540 Well, yeah, that's the other element is not our government, but some other government trying

01:19:48.040 in a U.S. invasion.

01:19:49.600 Well, if you've got 350 million guns out there, that invasion is not going to go very well

01:19:56.360 because people are going to defend themselves.

01:19:58.500 Yep.

01:19:58.640 And you're going to be in a continual guerrilla war, continual, with the citizens of this

01:20:04.960 country fighting against, you know, a foreign power that was here.

01:20:08.640 Yeah.

01:20:09.040 I mean, people are like, well, that's never going to happen here.

01:20:11.480 Probably not.

01:20:12.320 You know why?

01:20:12.960 Because of the Second Amendment.

01:20:14.340 Yes, exactly.

01:20:15.140 Because there's no reason the government would ever make the decision to do it here.

01:20:18.240 So it's not just defense against our government.

01:20:20.340 It's a defense against anybody's government trying to oppress us, trying to usurp our rights.

01:20:26.280 Anyone who would want access to the land.

01:20:27.860 Yeah.

01:20:28.060 If you're the Soviet Union, you can fire nuclear weapons around the world and blow things up

01:20:32.560 here.

01:20:32.840 In theory, if somehow we were not going to respond to that, maybe that would seem like

01:20:37.900 a good idea to you to take out a threat.

01:20:40.300 But if you want any access to the land, there's no reason to do that.

01:20:42.960 You're going to ruin it.

01:20:43.620 You're going to make it so it's uninhabitable and you're not going to get anything out of

01:20:47.380 it.

01:20:48.180 The point is, you know, the Second Amendment is a great defense against the tyrannical

01:20:52.180 government for that reason.

01:20:53.260 It's impossible to go door to door.

01:20:55.300 How would you do it?

01:20:56.600 You go to places people would have things hidden.

01:20:59.500 You'd never be able to do it.

01:21:02.200 And you would, of course, in this scenario, this, you know, long shot scenario, you would

01:21:10.060 never be incentivized to attempt to do it because of these reasons.

01:21:13.620 Because the guns are in the people's hands.

01:21:15.900 Glenn's talked many times about the I think it was the Soviet Union's plans for a possible

01:21:21.240 invasion of the United States and where they would launch from where they would launch that.

01:21:26.840 And I think it involved Canada and involved California, Arizona, New Mexico, going through

01:21:34.520 the southern border and going that way or the Canadian border.

01:21:37.500 And the one place it didn't involve going into was Texas.

01:21:42.020 Right.

01:21:42.540 Why?

01:21:43.080 Because Texas have guns.

01:21:44.500 Yeah.

01:21:45.140 And that wouldn't be advisable.

01:21:46.720 It would not.

01:21:47.440 They would use them.

01:21:48.640 And by the way, confiscation.

01:21:50.040 I mean, I'm quite dumb.

01:21:51.140 I mean, the buyback thing is just it's just confiscation and compensation.

01:21:54.900 Yeah.

01:21:55.060 Like, that's all it is.

01:21:55.740 Like, they're just paying you to confiscate.

01:21:57.060 Because it's mandatory.

01:21:58.280 Right.

01:21:58.420 It's mandatory.

01:21:59.000 It's confiscation.

01:21:59.120 But I mean, they tried this in Australia and it did not do anything.

01:22:03.560 They did this after a mass shooting in Australia.

01:22:06.640 And you get a little cash, but you lose, of course, your fundamental right to protect

01:22:10.580 yourself, which I'm not willing to give up.

01:22:13.080 2008 study about this.

01:22:15.340 The University of Melbourne concluded that, quote, there is little evidence to suggest

01:22:18.780 that the Australian mandatory gun buyback program had any significant effects on firearm

01:22:23.700 homicide.

01:22:24.380 Another study said, quote, the gun buyback and restrictive legislative changes had no influence

01:22:30.080 on firearm homicide in Australia.

01:22:33.100 They went and bought up.

01:22:34.360 Now, remember, this would be.

01:22:35.500 It's unbelievable.

01:22:36.580 This would be.

01:22:37.340 They would have had, you know, in Australia, they did about.

01:22:40.300 It was between 20 and 35 percent of all guns on the streets.

01:22:43.940 Now, in Australia, that was 650,000 guns.

01:22:46.640 Here, you're talking about 100 million guns or more.

01:22:51.040 You know that you're not getting 100 million guns.

01:22:54.880 What did he say?

01:22:55.340 Fifteen billion dollars.

01:22:56.700 Yeah.

01:22:57.000 You're not getting that sort of level.

01:22:58.360 And you would still leave 300 million guns on the streets.

01:23:02.160 And again, and it doesn't work.

01:23:03.660 This doesn't work.

01:23:04.200 The policy doesn't work to the end that you're looking for.

01:23:07.200 You don't get the result that you want, which is no gun violence.

01:23:10.260 That happened in Australia and it happened in the UK.

01:23:13.520 Yep.

01:23:13.720 In fact, the gun violence went up 300 percent in the initial years after the confiscation.

01:23:21.040 And then it kind of leveled out and it's gone up and down since.

01:23:25.020 But it's about the same as it was now.

01:23:27.600 It's now about the same as it was before the confiscation.

01:23:30.700 So it did nothing.

01:23:31.360 It does nothing.

01:23:32.160 It does nothing.

01:23:33.120 It doesn't.

01:23:33.660 And, you know, this idea that you're going to stop these situations by getting rid of

01:23:39.460 quote unquote assault weapons and all these like BS terms that don't actually mean anything.

01:23:44.180 I mean, assault weapons are relatively expensive.

01:23:46.800 Right.

01:23:47.280 So if you go and you go buy, you bought an AR-15, right?

01:23:50.820 Yeah.

01:23:51.060 What was it?

01:23:51.560 Like $1,200, $1,300, $1,500?

01:23:53.960 I mean, they're pretty expensive weapons.

01:23:54.980 Yeah.

01:23:55.080 $1,500 or $1,600, I think.

01:23:56.160 Yeah.

01:23:56.720 At the time I bought it.

01:23:57.820 At the time you bought it.

01:23:58.680 Because there was kind of panic at the time.

01:24:00.280 Yes.

01:24:01.280 But, you know, that's a relatively normal price, I think.

01:24:03.620 You know, you're talking about over $1,000 for an AR-15, right?

01:24:06.680 Mm-hmm.

01:24:06.960 If you stopped selling AR-15s and people had $1,000 to spend on guns, what they would probably

01:24:12.600 do is buy two or three other guns, right?

01:24:15.120 Like you're going to go and buy two or three handguns or whatever it is, and you're going

01:24:19.500 to wind up as what the same thing that happened, by the way, last time they tried this in the

01:24:23.600 United States, an assault weapon ban.

01:24:24.960 There were more guns at the end of it than at the beginning of it because people just go

01:24:29.360 in and buy more guns.

01:24:30.600 It's silly.

01:24:31.500 It really is.

01:24:32.000 By the way, just for your own edification and information, I don't have that AR-15 anymore.

01:24:38.220 I don't even know what happened to it.

01:24:40.260 It's gone.

01:24:41.000 It's weird.

01:24:41.580 It's gone?

01:24:42.320 It's gone.

01:24:42.780 Yeah.

01:24:43.000 I don't know if somebody took it or what.

01:24:45.640 I don't have it anymore.

01:24:46.800 I don't have any weapons.

01:24:47.920 Oh, really?

01:24:48.320 They're completely gone from my home now.

01:24:49.960 Yeah.

01:24:50.520 Really weird.

01:24:51.140 Is it anything to do with us being on national radio?

01:24:53.720 No, I'm sure not.

01:24:55.460 They'd be gone regardless, I'm pretty sure.

01:24:57.620 Okay.

01:24:58.320 Yeah.

01:24:58.680 But if anybody were to come and try to confiscate them, there's no guns there to confiscate.

01:25:03.760 That's the issue.

01:25:04.740 So no need to stop by your place.

01:25:05.840 No need to stop by my house.

01:25:07.020 Oh, that's good.

01:25:07.540 I don't have any guns.

01:25:08.440 You saved the government a lot of time here.

01:25:10.080 Yeah, that's what I wanted to do because they've only got $15 billion for confiscation,

01:25:13.860 so.

01:25:14.520 $15 billion.

01:25:15.420 That wouldn't last a week.

01:25:17.000 It wouldn't.

01:25:17.360 No, it wouldn't.

01:25:18.020 Of trying to do this.

01:25:19.640 Oh, plus the.

01:25:21.460 Unreal.

01:25:21.900 The chaos it would cause would be.

01:25:26.360 Here it would be.

01:25:27.300 I mean.

01:25:27.520 It'd be ugly.

01:25:28.680 Not to mention, too, the funny thing about this is the people that would give up their

01:25:32.560 guns for money are not the people that you have to worry about if you start trying to

01:25:38.420 confiscate guns.

01:25:39.360 And also, they're not the people who are going to do mass shootings, right?

01:25:43.820 Like a person who's like, ah, I don't need this gun.

01:25:46.020 They're going to give me $200 for it.

01:25:47.560 Ah, I'll turn that in and take the $200.

01:25:49.280 That's not a person who's like going to do a mass shooting, right?

01:25:51.860 No.

01:25:52.280 You're not taking away weapons from people who might use them in a bad way.

01:25:55.460 The person who is going to do a mass shooting like this, you know, this terrible situation

01:26:01.140 we recently had in the in the bar, the country bar in California.

01:26:05.460 That person was willing to give his life to make that statement.

01:26:10.460 Again, $200 buyback.

01:26:12.880 You know, he wasn't like, ah, should I turn this in or should I go shoot 15 people in a

01:26:16.280 restaurant?

01:26:17.020 Like there wasn't a debate, an internal debate on that one.

01:26:20.040 You're going to take guns away from people who might use them in a good way.

01:26:22.720 And, uh, and then the people who might use them in a bad way have no, no pushback.

01:26:28.640 None of this makes sense.

01:26:30.360 None of it.

01:26:31.040 No, it doesn't.

01:26:32.160 888-727-BECK.

01:26:33.980 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

01:26:38.780 Pat and Stu for Glenn.

01:26:40.120 888-727-BECK.

01:26:42.360 You know, I've been waiting for somebody in the press, someone in the media to say anything

01:26:50.380 negative about Jim Acosta because Jim Acosta just soaked up all the oxygen in the room and,

01:26:58.660 uh, for his own benefit, stole the limelight, wouldn't let anybody else speak at the press

01:27:06.380 conference in question, continued to, uh, ask question after question, even though the

01:27:11.700 president of the United States told him to sit down, we're going to somebody else, refused to

01:27:16.000 yield, wouldn't allow his colleagues to ask questions.

01:27:20.000 And the rest of the press just seemed to fall in line.

01:27:24.460 Yeah.

01:27:24.660 Jim's a great guy.

01:27:25.660 It's a great thing to do.

01:27:26.700 He's great.

01:27:27.900 He's just really great.

01:27:28.980 And, uh, I stand with Jim because it's just impressive to take away his press.

01:27:32.880 And by the way, they took away his hard pass.

01:27:35.140 Well, just go apply for the daily pass.

01:27:37.600 Just get the daily pass, which they would have given you.

01:27:39.660 Most organizations have to do, by the way.

01:27:41.700 I mean, you know, when, you know, the blaze had, uh, had someone there, that's what they

01:27:45.240 had to do.

01:27:45.820 You have to apply to go every day and get one.

01:27:48.680 And then did he ever get called on?

01:27:50.740 No, I don't think, I don't think even once.

01:27:53.060 I don't think even once, certainly not by the president, maybe, maybe by the press secretary

01:27:56.860 once.

01:27:57.440 I don't, I don't know.

01:27:58.460 But not the, yeah, the president never once called on him.

01:28:01.380 No.

01:28:02.280 Um, so Acosta gets called on all the time and then he dominates, uh, the questions.

01:28:07.280 You're supposed to get one question, maybe a followup.

01:28:09.900 This guy asked, I don't know, three or four or five questions.

01:28:13.380 Yeah.

01:28:13.680 And I, you know, look, I kind of don't like the taking away the pass because it's just,

01:28:17.880 it's just elevated him to this martyr status, which is kind of annoying me because it's

01:28:21.940 what he wants.

01:28:22.740 Yeah, it is.

01:28:23.320 Uh, but I, you know, if I'm the president, I'm just never, never, never calling on him

01:28:27.320 again.

01:28:27.620 It'd be awesome.

01:28:28.120 Just ignoring him.

01:28:28.520 Although I will say I was listening to a show called Pat Gray Unleashed this morning.

01:28:31.040 And Keith, uh, was on with you and I kind of like his suggestion too, which was calling

01:28:35.640 him every time.

01:28:37.020 He take it, just keep asking until he runs out of questions and do it every single time.

01:28:41.280 So no one else in the press corps gets another question.

01:28:43.900 Just keep going back to Jim Acosta.

01:28:45.560 And then see how they like it.

01:28:46.240 And then see how they like it.

01:28:47.180 Yeah.

01:28:47.460 Because that's why I'm.

01:28:48.560 You still support him?

01:28:49.340 I'm surprised they aren't pushing back on that front because Jim Acosta is just trying

01:28:53.440 to monopolize the time for his own ego.

01:28:55.820 And all these other reporters who are somehow able to play within the rules, get no benefit

01:29:01.360 out of it.

01:29:01.760 And they're backing Acosta because they all hate the president too.

01:29:04.560 Well, uh, major Garrett at CBS didn't play that game.

01:29:09.140 Rough and tumble there.

01:29:10.240 It can be rough and tumble at times at the white house, but it is a place of institutional

01:29:14.280 heft and commands, institutional respect.

01:29:17.360 And I will say on my behalf, the previous press conference we had with president Trump in

01:29:23.660 the Rose Garden, the president looked at me.

01:29:26.360 I thought he called on me.

01:29:27.560 I stood up, the white house aide handed me the microphone.

01:29:31.280 I began to speak to the president of the United States, president Trump looking at me and said,

01:29:34.620 no, behind you, Caitlin, Caitlin with, uh, CNN, Caitlin Collins, CNN, by the way.

01:29:40.540 So I, so I, I said, Oh, and what did I do?

01:29:43.800 I handed back the microphone.

01:29:45.120 Right.

01:29:45.840 Now, some of my colleagues might say, what'd you do that for?

01:29:48.820 You, you had the microphone, you have a voice, you can speak.

01:29:51.140 The president of the United States said, not you.

01:29:54.700 To my way of thinking, that's enough.

01:29:58.480 The president said, I didn't call on you.

01:29:59.880 I called on somebody else.

01:30:01.560 All right, then.

01:30:02.580 And I didn't get a press, I didn't get a question in that press conference.

01:30:05.620 Some might say, well, you laid down and you were too deferential.

01:30:09.160 I don't, I don't feel that way.

01:30:10.740 I stood up, the president of the United States said, no, I don't mean you.

01:30:13.680 I mean somebody else, another one of your colleagues.

01:30:15.840 So I deferred.

01:30:17.520 Yeah.

01:30:17.920 Hoping he might call on me again.

01:30:19.240 He didn't.

01:30:19.740 But that's how I orient myself to the institution.

01:30:23.480 That's great.

01:30:23.840 And the person who occupies that institution is chosen by the country.

01:30:27.940 And I respect the institution.

01:30:29.780 Interesting.

01:30:30.120 And the country's choice.

01:30:31.520 Yep.

01:30:31.940 And I'm there to, on behalf of everyone, ask questions and most importantly, Larry, get answers.

01:30:37.880 Yeah.

01:30:38.180 So that, that shows respect for not just the president, but his, his colleagues as well.

01:30:44.840 It's a great point of view, I think.

01:30:46.920 I'm amazed here.

01:30:47.820 Someone actually said that.

01:30:49.020 Me too.

01:30:49.740 That seems pretty obvious, I think.

01:30:51.520 Yeah.

01:30:52.420 Nobody else had the giblets to do it though.

01:30:54.600 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, B-E-C-K.

01:30:59.360 With Pat and Stu for Glenn.

01:31:01.780 Big article in the Politico today about Beto O'Rourke, who has just captured the imagination of Democrats everywhere.

01:31:10.600 They just, they love this guy.

01:31:12.440 I don't really know why.

01:31:14.300 I don't, I mean, I know he raised a lot of money and he ran a campaign that came close.

01:31:20.100 They brought a Democrat close to the Republican in Texas and that can't happen.

01:31:26.320 But he made it happen.

01:31:28.420 And, you know, he's a former punk rock performer.

01:31:32.540 By the way, by the way, it was terrible.

01:31:35.020 I mean, if you've ever seen or heard any of his music or watched them on, on TV, they did a, a, they did an appearance on El Paso television in the 90s.

01:31:46.680 Oh my gosh, it was awful.

01:31:48.860 Horrible.

01:31:49.780 And he was, his name was Bob.

01:31:51.580 Yeah.

01:31:52.040 It was Bob.

01:31:53.180 Yeah.

01:31:53.740 Cause his actual name is Bob or Robert Francis O'Rourke.

01:31:59.060 Anyway, he, uh, has captured the imagination that everybody thinks that he's the guy for 2020.

01:32:06.560 Um, they think that if he, if he runs, he could beat Donald Trump.

01:32:12.560 Uh, he did raise over 70 million for a Senate run in Texas is the largest sum ever raised in a Senate campaign.

01:32:21.580 Uh, he did come close to Ted Cruz.

01:32:24.100 He, he only lost 51 to 48%.

01:32:26.220 And they think that maybe that was better than him actually winning.

01:32:29.460 Cause you don't have to turn around and run for president again really soon.

01:32:32.340 Right.

01:32:32.480 Cause if he won Senator, he, he would have to six months after his first, you know, Senate, his Senate seat, you know, he'd have to announce right away this way.

01:32:40.460 He's already been in, he's been in Congress for a while.

01:32:42.320 A lot of people think he's an outsider.

01:32:43.520 He's not.

01:32:44.620 Um, but, uh, he, he is one of those guys who, if he had won the Senate seat, he would have to at least fake that he wanted to be Senator for a couple of days.

01:32:54.400 Right.

01:32:54.820 Right.

01:32:55.040 I mean, cause even Barack Obama, his speech was 2004.

01:32:57.920 Right.

01:32:58.520 And when he won.

01:33:00.440 Yes.

01:33:01.000 Was it 2004, 2006?

01:33:02.500 Well, he did the, he did the democratic national convention in 2004.

01:33:06.460 Four.

01:33:06.860 Right.

01:33:07.040 That was kind of his coming out party.

01:33:08.280 His coming out party.

01:33:08.900 And then, so in 2007, uh, seven, he announced, so he had done two, he had two years of being a Senator before he announced running for president.

01:33:16.340 Yeah.

01:33:16.740 And then in 2008, he obviously won the presidency where here you'd be doing it six months after you took the job.

01:33:23.640 Now it's not out of the question that he could still win, but that's a tough sell here with, he's already been a congressman for a long time.

01:33:30.280 He's not coming from no experience.

01:33:31.680 He's been, he's just a government guy.

01:33:33.280 He's just, you didn't know about him before.

01:33:35.480 So there's a, there's a clearer path there.

01:33:38.480 Um, and, uh, and we talked about the, um, about the Cruz campaign quite a bit as that was going on.

01:33:46.580 Uh, did you see the comments by, uh, Jeff Rowe, who was the, who was the campaign manager for Ted Cruz?

01:33:54.840 No.

01:33:55.460 He was, uh, after that election said, this guy's incredibly dangerous.

01:34:01.240 Like he is going to be hard to beat.

01:34:03.400 I don't, we, we had to kill ourselves to beat him by three points in Texas.

01:34:06.680 Like this guy is serious.

01:34:08.000 This is going to be really hard if he runs.

01:34:09.560 He was, he was very, um, complimentary of Beto as a candidate because he, he, I mean, look,

01:34:17.700 he's got some kind of appeal.

01:34:19.020 Yeah.

01:34:19.220 Someone, you know, remember the whole Wendy Davis thing and Wendy Davis was a candidate.

01:34:23.180 Abortion Barbie.

01:34:23.660 Abortion Barbie.

01:34:24.460 She was known as in Texas and she just fought really hard for this like third term abortion.

01:34:28.700 She got killed.

01:34:29.760 Uh, and she got, she had 37% of the vote.

01:34:33.020 Something like that.

01:34:33.780 And Beto got 48.3.

01:34:36.200 Yeah.

01:34:36.960 I mean, that is in Texas.

01:34:38.480 It's a hard line.

01:34:39.140 I mean, he ran a good campaign.

01:34:40.420 Now, a lot of that had to do with raising money, but that's also a big part of it, right?

01:34:44.600 That is, uh, that is part of campaigning.

01:34:47.780 You need to have somebody who can do that.

01:34:49.500 And he did.

01:34:50.120 And he did that.

01:34:50.980 And he had enough money to where he bought every commercial, I think on Spotify.

01:34:56.840 My wife listens to Spotify a lot.

01:34:58.700 And, and every time there was a commercial break, it was him.

01:35:02.080 Really?

01:35:02.720 Virtually every time.

01:35:04.800 Again, I believe it's $9.95 a month, uh, unlimited.

01:35:07.420 You don't have to have any commercials on Spotify.

01:35:08.220 I know.

01:35:08.580 But she's just so, I'll say thrifty.

01:35:12.420 Thrifty.

01:35:12.900 Thrifty.

01:35:13.500 Yes.

01:35:13.960 I will say.

01:35:14.540 She's not willing to do that.

01:35:15.480 But I, even if you are thrifty, you don't want to turn off the, let me put it another

01:35:18.760 way.

01:35:18.920 $9.95 to get rid of Beto commercials.

01:35:20.660 I know.

01:35:20.820 I was willing to do it.

01:35:22.040 Let me, let's upgrade right now.

01:35:23.840 Right now.

01:35:24.320 And stop this madness.

01:35:25.640 She would do it.

01:35:26.420 Even if Beto wasn't running the ads, I think Spotify could get, get away with just doing

01:35:30.040 that to convert people to premium subscribers.

01:35:32.060 They probably, like every Republican in Texas.

01:35:34.560 Wow.

01:35:34.740 We have a real surge in Texas with subscribers.

01:35:37.240 It's amazing.

01:35:38.380 And then on local TV, he was everywhere.

01:35:40.620 He was, he was absolutely omnipresent.

01:35:43.900 You couldn't escape him.

01:35:45.140 I've, I've rarely saw a Ted Cruz commercial.

01:35:47.580 I always saw Beto commercials over and over and over.

01:35:52.900 So much money.

01:35:53.560 Yeah.

01:35:54.180 So, and I think he, he must've spent almost every dime.

01:35:57.520 And they asked him at one point along the way, after they, after everybody heard that

01:36:02.080 he raised $38 million just in the last quarter, which is more than even Obama raised in his

01:36:07.560 last quarter as a presidential candidate.

01:36:09.860 He said, they asked him, well, are you, you know, you got so much money.

01:36:13.720 You're going to share with other Democrats.

01:36:15.440 Nope.

01:36:16.740 Nope.

01:36:17.180 Nope.

01:36:17.420 Of course not.

01:36:18.060 This is all for me and all for Texas.

01:36:19.780 Oh, okay.

01:36:20.780 Well, well, it's all for Texas until he runs his national campaign.

01:36:23.540 Exactly.

01:36:23.860 Was he a 10 million left over?

01:36:25.000 He said, I think you said that the, yeah, I think it is $10 million that he can.

01:36:29.040 So he's got a nice little seat to start his campaign.

01:36:31.500 People really believe he's going to do it.

01:36:33.000 This is the best circumstance because he lost in a close election.

01:36:35.520 He said no, but he's going to, right?

01:36:38.300 I mean, I don't, you believe he's going to, I think so.

01:36:41.280 I mean, if nothing else, he's going to be absolutely on the top of the list for VP candidates.

01:36:46.620 At the very, like if Joe Biden, let's say wins the nomination, which is a possibility, as crazy as it seems, he's still probably leading most of the polls right now.

01:36:57.080 Joe freaking Biden.

01:36:59.380 You know, but in that world, Beto O'Rourke is the type of person you could totally see Biden taking, right?

01:37:04.400 Someone from the South who's younger, kind of gets you that next generation of, of, of Democrat.

01:37:11.120 Two white guys, though.

01:37:11.940 Yeah.

01:37:12.180 Well, that's a problem.

01:37:13.240 No diversity in that ticket.

01:37:14.400 There's an interesting battle on that one right now because usually like what Republicans or what Democrats want to do is find the most exotic candidate, right?

01:37:23.060 Like, and they, they want, this is what they're talking about with, you know, we've got, you want diversity, you want different genders, different races, different sexual preferences, whatever it is.

01:37:33.020 But there's an argument made and, and probably most famously by Michael Avenatti, who is obviously a, you know, persona non grata now.

01:37:40.960 I mean, he's, you know, they don't like him anymore, but he made the point.

01:37:44.300 And this is something that is really out there for, for Democrats and it's a real conversation happening in these circles, which is the reason we lost to Trump is because all we do is talk about diversity and all we do is put up candidates that look different.

01:38:00.960 And we can't, I'm going to say this in the more, in a more conservative friendly way, but essentially what they're saying is we can't fool the middle of the road independent with our socialism unless we give them someone they can relate to and be familiar to.

01:38:17.880 Like a Beto.

01:38:18.360 Like a Beto.

01:38:19.020 So you take some white dude, the white dude argument right now is strong because they think, now again, think, put yourself in the, in the argument of a progressive.

01:38:27.160 If you're putting your mindset of a progressive, we were saying, well, look, in our cities, we're all diverse and understanding, but then there's those dumb people, those dumb people in the middle of the country.

01:38:37.660 And unfortunately, yeah, the rednecks that are so racist.

01:38:40.560 Yeah.

01:38:40.860 Yeah.

01:38:41.060 Those people, they're racist and they hate women.

01:38:43.480 Yeah.

01:38:43.720 Right.

01:38:43.900 We can't win any of these votes.

01:38:45.300 That's how Trump won.

01:38:46.160 He was able to appeal to the, the, the, those people who policy wise probably don't care all that much, but they are, you know, they're racists and they're sexists and they don't want some woman running the country.

01:38:57.160 They want a white man.

01:38:59.220 And so the idea is to pick a white man with socialist policies, right?

01:39:03.880 Now, Bernie Sanders is, you know, 647 years old.

01:39:06.740 I don't think he really fits into there, but like a Joe Biden, where like you get a guy who's going to put mostly mainstream democratic policies in there or a Beto who's going to go even further to almost democratic socialist level policies.

01:39:20.300 Yeah.

01:39:20.420 You put it in there with the, a familiar package in progressives minds.

01:39:24.800 That's a good idea.

01:39:26.440 You know, again, they, they think very little of the Ohio voter, the Michigan voter.

01:39:31.880 Uh, they, they, they just think they're a bunch of racists who, the Texas voter, the Texas voter, they hate them.

01:39:36.200 Yeah.

01:39:36.340 So instead you get, put somebody in a package that can be accepted by evil racists, but throw the policies that we want in there.

01:39:43.360 That's a winning combination.

01:39:45.000 Yeah.

01:39:45.460 They think if, if you put a, let's say Kamala Harris or a Cory Booker in there, sure, all their policies are a hundred percent right, but all those evil white people will vote against Cory Booker because he's black.

01:39:57.620 Now this is a ridiculous understanding in the United States of America, but it is something that we're really discussing.

01:40:03.540 It is.

01:40:03.820 It is something, a real debate on the democratic side right now.

01:40:06.540 And it's, it's why Beto is so, is so, is so tempting to them because if he can get up there and, you know, put a nice face, a happy face on socialism as a white guy, people in Texas might vote for him.

01:40:17.160 And that's exactly what he did this campaign.

01:40:19.500 He never said, you know, I'm a democratic socialist.

01:40:22.000 He, he would deny that.

01:40:24.000 And, but all of his policies were, what were they?

01:40:27.620 They were universal healthcare, Medicare for all, they were universal college education, free for all.

01:40:35.860 And I don't know if he adopted, I never heard him talk about the guaranteed income that Ocasio-Cortez talks about.

01:40:44.020 I think even Gillibrand's on that now.

01:40:46.460 But they're, they're all jumping on that bandwagon.

01:40:49.060 You know, they keep saying, is there room for a socialist in the Democrat party?

01:40:54.340 What do you mean?

01:40:55.200 Is there room for Democrats in the Democrat party?

01:40:58.040 The socialists have taken it over.

01:41:00.000 It's true.

01:41:01.000 It really is.

01:41:01.760 I mean, that's really where the influence is.

01:41:03.300 I mean, listen, but like, again, we get down this road and sometimes this stuff happens where things change.

01:41:10.260 You know, Beto O'Rourke might rise above.

01:41:12.300 But listen, this is the most recent poll of 2020 candidates for the Democrats.

01:41:17.280 And do they include Beto?

01:41:18.460 He's in here, yes.

01:41:19.280 All right.

01:41:19.440 So, at 1%, Amy Klobuchar, Kirsten Gilderbrand, Michael Avenatti, 1%.

01:41:25.500 2%, Eric Garcetti.

01:41:27.140 Michael Avenatti?

01:41:28.520 Yeah.

01:41:28.740 Come on.

01:41:29.220 I know.

01:41:29.540 Oh my gosh.

01:41:30.060 2%, Eric Garcetti.

01:41:31.560 Wasn't he a former mayor, right?

01:41:33.860 Mm-hmm.

01:41:34.320 Of Los Angeles, maybe?

01:41:36.440 Right?

01:41:37.620 Wasn't he a former mayor?

01:41:39.120 Am I thinking of somebody else?

01:41:40.060 I don't know.

01:41:40.580 No, you might be right.

01:41:42.060 3%, Eric Holder.

01:41:43.780 There's another guy we haven't even talked about, right?

01:41:45.240 Oh, brother.

01:41:45.580 Now, think about this in the way, in the current environment of how much you've heard about

01:41:50.140 Beto.

01:41:50.580 4%, Beto.

01:41:52.600 He's at 4% now among Democrats.

01:41:55.360 Now, that look, it's early.

01:41:56.960 He doesn't have the, but I mean, he did have a big campaign.

01:41:59.220 People are pretty familiar with who he is.

01:42:00.920 Only 4% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independence.

01:42:06.520 Okay.

01:42:07.300 Also at 4%, Michael Bloomberg.

01:42:10.520 Now, listen to this one.

01:42:11.560 At 5%, Cory Booker, 5%, and John Kerry.

01:42:16.860 Can you imagine if they try Kerry out again?

01:42:19.600 That'll be fantastic.

01:42:21.180 Gosh.

01:42:21.860 Please.

01:42:22.520 Now, we get into the top tier.

01:42:24.120 Please nominate John Kerry.

01:42:25.320 Please, please do it.

01:42:26.040 Just do it.

01:42:26.420 Just for the fun.

01:42:27.040 We could reuse all of our jokes.

01:42:28.280 It'll be great.

01:42:29.840 8% Elizabeth Warren.

01:42:31.900 All right.

01:42:32.480 8?

01:42:33.040 8%.

01:42:33.440 Now, this is a poll that was taken in October, so it's not old.

01:42:36.060 8% Elizabeth Warren, 9% Kamala Harris, 13% Bernie Sanders, and in first place, Joe Biden,

01:42:46.380 33%.

01:42:47.640 Wow.

01:42:48.700 He is almost triple everyone else in the field in the polls.

01:42:52.580 Wow.

01:42:52.860 Now, the same thing.

01:42:53.600 That's not even close.

01:42:54.560 And we talked about this during the Trump thing.

01:42:56.320 Jeez.

01:42:56.720 We dismissed, and I'm first on the line, admitted this a million times, dismissed the good polling

01:43:01.500 of Donald Trump early, because, ah, it's name recognition.

01:43:04.200 Yeah.

01:43:04.460 You know, once we get into the middle of this, people are going to know who these candidates

01:43:07.960 are, and they're not going to like Donald Trump because of X, Y, and Z.

01:43:10.640 Well, I mean, we saw how that one turned out.

01:43:12.940 We can ask Don.

01:43:13.660 He's in the Oval Office right now.

01:43:15.840 So, I mean, a 20-point lead in early polling is not nothing.

01:43:20.440 That's incredible.

01:43:21.260 I mean, that's a big lead.

01:43:23.980 33-13 over Sanders, who, again, Sanders, I don't think there's any chance Bernie Sanders

01:43:29.460 is the nominee.

01:43:29.980 The energy has transferred from Sanders to Beto.

01:43:32.920 To Beto, and maybe one of those other female, like a Kamala Harris, perhaps.

01:43:36.940 Maybe, yeah.

01:43:37.440 You know, it does feel like.

01:43:38.920 I don't think that he has the energy anymore from the rank-and-file Democrats.

01:43:44.420 I think you're right.

01:43:45.340 And, again, like we said, well, they already had Bernie running, which is true, but Biden's

01:43:49.160 run like 19 times, and he's leading.

01:43:51.400 Biden, wow.

01:43:53.200 Now, again, things change.

01:43:54.460 He'd be formidable in debates, though.

01:43:56.220 He'd be formidable in debates.

01:43:57.840 He's the type of guy that can mix it up with Trump and not look terrified on stage, right?

01:44:03.700 Like, that was Hillary.

01:44:04.640 Right.

01:44:05.080 Hillary looked like, oh, I don't know what I can say next.

01:44:07.660 She did.

01:44:07.980 Let me give a stilted line.

01:44:09.260 Oh, Pokemon, go to the polls.

01:44:12.160 Like, that's what's her response.

01:44:15.180 That was powerful, though.

01:44:16.180 It was.

01:44:16.520 You got to admit, that was powerful.

01:44:22.100 Looks like there's a generational fight brewing with the House Democrats kind of shaping up

01:44:29.440 because the new kids on the block don't want the old guard, Nancy Pelosi, as their speaker.

01:44:36.160 Yeah.

01:44:36.460 I don't know if this is a real threat to Pelosi or not.

01:44:38.960 I mean, who is it?

01:44:40.000 Marsha Fudge, who wants to become House Speaker?

01:44:43.320 I don't know.

01:44:44.560 We'll see how that goes.

01:44:45.840 But it's interesting to see the comparison.

01:44:47.460 The Washington Post did an article about the generational gulf between House Democrats.

01:44:53.620 And so Democrats right now, their entire party is average age 59 years old, their entire Congress.

01:45:02.640 Okay.

01:45:03.020 Okay.

01:45:03.260 And then which has been going up since, you know, both sides have been going up because people are living longer.

01:45:08.220 They're staying longer, blah, blah, blah.

01:45:09.460 So it's gone up all the way up to 59.

01:45:12.740 It was actually 61.

01:45:13.600 It's slightly younger this year as they're adding all these new people.

01:45:16.240 However, their leadership is average age of 70.

01:45:20.200 And their real leaders, like Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, James Clyburn, the three top House Democrats are all 80 or very close to 80.

01:45:29.180 Yeah.

01:45:29.500 And then on the other side, Schumer's not exactly a spring chicken.

01:45:33.800 No, he's not.

01:45:34.340 The average age is 70 among leadership in the House.

01:45:38.080 Now, then you got the whippersnappers like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who's 28.

01:45:44.260 And they're, yeah, she's, yeah, she's coming in.

01:45:45.780 She's 28.

01:45:46.500 So, so right now it's 61 year old average member, 70 year old average leadership.

01:45:52.360 For the Republicans, the average member is 56.

01:45:55.940 So five years younger.

01:45:57.560 Wow.

01:45:57.900 Five years younger than the Democrats as a whole.

01:46:00.560 However, their average age of leadership with Republicans is 50.

01:46:05.240 50 as compared to 70.

01:46:08.320 Wow.

01:46:08.780 And Democrats are saying, hey, this, we're going the wrong way on this one.

01:46:12.900 How do we fix this?

01:46:14.700 And they want to try to put somebody younger in leadership.

01:46:18.240 And, you know, but there's, there's entrenched power there.

01:46:21.020 And I don't think Nancy's not giving that one up without a fight.

01:46:23.660 No, it's going to be interesting though, because there's a lot of people.

01:46:26.980 Well, 17 have come out and said, look, we want anybody but her.

01:46:30.440 We don't want her again.

01:46:31.920 And it's kind of surprising they're willing to challenge her openly like that.

01:46:36.140 So we'll see.

01:46:37.720 And we'll see you tomorrow.

01:46:39.360 Right here.

01:46:42.020 Glenn.

01:46:42.880 Back.

01:46:43.220 Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - November 19, 2018

Everybody But You？｜ 11⧸19⧸18

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