The Glenn Beck Program - Expanding Our Thanks？｜ 11⧸21⧸18

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00:01:04.840 Glenn, back.

00:01:06.560 We've Pat and Stu and one more day of that.

00:01:11.640 You sound like...

00:01:13.240 What kind of intro is that?

00:01:15.980 You did not sound pleased.

00:01:18.480 No, I am.

00:01:19.360 I actually am.

00:01:21.720 Just a little, you know, a little...

00:01:23.820 I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving.

00:01:26.240 Yeah.

00:01:26.340 You know, because like Wednesday, it's on Wednesday before Thanksgiving,

00:01:29.680 you're already in that mode.

00:01:32.380 Yes.

00:01:32.660 I'm just...

00:01:33.060 I'm trying not to eat in that mode today because I feel like...

00:01:36.280 I'm trying not to as well.

00:01:37.300 It's hard, man.

00:01:38.260 It's hard.

00:01:38.720 It's almost impossible.

00:01:39.820 It's almost impossible.

00:01:40.780 There's food everywhere.

00:01:41.800 Everywhere.

00:01:42.680 And after Thanksgiving, you think, okay, then now I'll cut back.

00:01:46.860 And then there's food everywhere again because you're preparing for Christmas.

00:01:50.840 And it's almost impossible.

00:01:54.020 Well, Thanksgiving is a day in which you eat a lot of food.

00:01:58.260 And you kind of don't care.

00:01:59.920 And that's okay.

00:02:00.660 Everyone kind of says, it's all right.

00:02:02.280 You know, you have your one day.

00:02:03.500 Now, over the years, I've expanded that from one day...

00:02:07.380 To 365 for me.

00:02:11.240 Yeah, one day becomes every day.

00:02:14.040 Yeah, you beat me to the punch there a little bit, I guess.

00:02:17.040 I do feel the expansion happening because I started with one and then you get to four.

00:02:21.440 I feel like four is the right stew amount in a sensible world, right?

00:02:26.880 Like, you have...

00:02:27.760 You don't eat really badly until you get to Thanksgiving.

00:02:30.960 You have the Thanksgiving.

00:02:31.860 And then you live out.

00:02:32.580 You party the weekend, right?

00:02:33.660 You party the weekend away.

00:02:34.660 You come back Monday.

00:02:35.460 You're eating like a human being again.

00:02:37.680 Now, what always happens there, of course, is Wednesday...

00:02:41.160 I mean, come on.

00:02:41.920 It's Wednesday.

00:02:42.600 It doesn't matter.

00:02:43.300 You're basically at Thanksgiving.

00:02:44.380 You might as well eat on Wednesday.

00:02:45.780 So, then it goes Wednesday to Monday.

00:02:47.860 And then what happens is you come back Monday and you eat okay.

00:02:52.700 And then Tuesday happens and you fall off the bandwagon.

00:02:55.580 And then you're like, ah, it's basically the week of Thanksgiving.

00:02:57.740 So, then it goes from the previous Wednesday to not the next Monday, but the Monday after that.

00:03:03.600 And then you're almost to Christmas.

00:03:06.800 Yeah.

00:03:07.120 Right?

00:03:07.520 Yeah.

00:03:07.760 So, then...

00:03:08.340 And there's parties.

00:03:09.340 There's parties.

00:03:10.080 You got the church party.

00:03:11.320 You got the work party.

00:03:12.400 Yep.

00:03:12.760 You got friends parties.

00:03:13.940 And we've got stuff like the kids.

00:03:15.340 They've got breakfast with Santa.

00:03:17.160 You've got all the little events.

00:03:18.740 So, then you're going through that.

00:03:19.520 So, you might as well eat up until Christmas.

00:03:21.980 Well, just until Christmas.

00:03:23.140 Just until Christmas.

00:03:23.940 And then it's, you know...

00:03:24.540 But then the week between Christmas and New Year's...

00:03:27.600 It's a waste.

00:03:28.700 You're not even going to get back to work.

00:03:29.660 You're going to be back eating on New Year's anyway.

00:03:31.840 So, you might as well eat that week.

00:03:33.140 Right.

00:03:33.360 So, then you go New Year's.

00:03:34.200 And then that's when you get the New Year's resolution.

00:03:35.800 It kicks in.

00:03:36.880 And you're like, okay, we're going to start.

00:03:38.200 Now, you're not going to start on the second most of the time.

00:03:40.220 Because a lot of times, the second isn't a work day yet.

00:03:42.200 It's too depressing a day.

00:03:42.940 You need some ice cream that day.

00:03:44.300 This year, it is a work day.

00:03:46.000 So, you could come back on the second.

00:03:47.360 Yeah.

00:03:47.680 But, again, it's like a Wednesday, I think.

00:03:49.800 You're not going to start your diet on a Wednesday.

00:03:52.240 So, you go Wednesday.

00:03:53.320 And then we wait for that next Monday.

00:03:55.280 Okay.

00:03:55.840 And then you get on the scale that Monday.

00:03:57.620 And you're 35 pounds heavier than...

00:03:59.060 Yeah, you've gained about 35 at that point.

00:04:00.440 Yeah.

00:04:00.780 Now, the problem here is, this is when NFL playoffs kick in.

00:04:04.700 So, every Sunday and Saturday, there's games.

00:04:07.640 You've got to watch them.

00:04:08.640 What are you going to watch them without pizza?

00:04:10.340 Well, no.

00:04:11.000 That's silly.

00:04:11.620 That's stupid.

00:04:12.620 And then, obviously, Super Bowl.

00:04:14.380 So, then you're February 6th or 7th in that range.

00:04:18.420 Well, then it's Valentine's.

00:04:19.320 And then Valentine's Day, right?

00:04:20.500 Yeah.

00:04:20.720 I mean, what are you going to...

00:04:22.200 Not eat on Valentine's Day?

00:04:23.640 You're going to disrespect your own relationship?

00:04:25.440 No.

00:04:25.660 Your own marriage?

00:04:26.420 Better not.

00:04:26.940 You're not going to do that.

00:04:28.160 So, then you're eating up until Valentine's Day.

00:04:30.820 And my birthday, by the way, is February 9th.

00:04:33.280 So, in there, I've got to...

00:04:35.140 What am I going to do?

00:04:35.660 Not have the cake with my kids?

00:04:37.500 Right.

00:04:38.140 My daughter's birthday is also February 9th.

00:04:40.220 So, we have two birthdays on that day.

00:04:41.700 You can't...

00:04:42.320 What do you get?

00:04:42.500 Well, next day's Glenn's birthday.

00:04:44.000 Well, you've got to have cake for Glenn's birthday.

00:04:45.780 Oh, yeah.

00:04:46.280 Because he's not going to eat it because he's on some weird diet, probably.

00:04:49.160 Probably.

00:04:49.720 You know, where he only eats 80 different things in the world.

00:04:53.780 He can only eat 80 things on the face of the earth.

00:04:56.220 And six of them are different types of squid, which is a weird...

00:05:00.420 Weird.

00:05:00.580 It's a strange diet.

00:05:01.580 It's a strange diet.

00:05:02.680 So, for him, on his behalf, we have to have cake.

00:05:07.280 And so, we do.

00:05:08.940 And then...

00:05:09.340 And then, once you're in February, it's basically July 4th.

00:05:12.360 So, you've got to ramp it up to get ready for those picnics.

00:05:16.820 What, are you not going to eat on the 4th of July?

00:05:19.300 You're not going to celebrate?

00:05:20.280 What, are you some sort of traitor to this nation?

00:05:22.340 Right.

00:05:22.800 I hope not.

00:05:23.500 I hope not.

00:05:24.420 Okay, ISIS, go ahead. 0.99

00:05:26.240 Go on a diet.

00:05:27.740 If I'm on a diet on the 4th of July, the terrorists win.

00:05:31.820 I won't do it.

00:05:33.260 I will not do it.

00:05:34.980 This is only a slight exaggeration, by the way.

00:05:37.360 Only a slight one.

00:05:38.460 It's not even an exaggeration for me.

00:05:41.460 This is how it happened.

00:05:42.380 This is how it happens.

00:05:43.320 Yeah.

00:05:44.060 You try, but you fail.

00:05:45.800 That's the whole point of that.

00:05:47.820 By the way, we do have some terrorism breaking news.

00:05:50.200 Today, maybe, Pat, we can come up with things we're thankful for.

00:05:53.600 Now, I know it's a very, you know, standard thing, right?

00:05:57.620 Like, where people would do that on the day before Thanksgiving.

00:05:59.880 But I thought maybe instead of doing, like, the, I'm thankful for my family and I'm thankful

00:06:07.360 for, you know, that's stuff that's just boring and everyone knows you're thankful for it.

00:06:11.680 Of course, I'm thankful for my family.

00:06:12.840 I don't know if they're thankful for me, but, you know, I'm thankful for them.

00:06:15.920 Now, the news stories that I'm actually thankful for, there's actually good news out there.

00:06:21.620 There are things that are positive.

00:06:23.680 For example, let me give you this.

00:06:25.180 Breaking overnight.

00:06:25.880 The U.S. Department of Treasury's Office for Foreign Assets Control has designated nine

00:06:30.760 targets in an international network through which the Iranian regime, working with Russian

00:06:35.460 companies, provided millions of barrels of oil to the Syrian government.

00:06:40.180 The Assad regime, in turn, facilitates the movement of hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars 0.88

00:06:44.340 to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard for onward transfer to Hamas and Hezbollah.

00:06:51.860 U.S. sanctions prohibit materials of support to the government of Syria, including shipments

00:06:55.680 of oil to Syrian government-controlled ports, as well as material support to designated terrorist

00:07:00.660 groups.

00:07:02.100 So, this is Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

00:07:06.180 He says, today we are acting against a complex scheme of Iran and Russia they've used to bolster 0.57

00:07:10.640 the Assad regime and generate funds for Iranian malign activity.

00:07:15.040 Central Bank of Iran officials continue to exploit the international financial system,

00:07:19.120 and in this case even used a company whose name suggests a trade in humanitarian goods

00:07:23.500 as a tool to facilitate financial transfers supporting the oil scheme.

00:07:27.400 We are issuing an advisory today, identifying the grave risks to the community if they participate

00:07:32.900 in shipping oil to the government of Syria.

00:07:35.360 The United States is committed to imposing a financial toll on Iran, Russia, and others for

00:07:40.320 their efforts to solidify Assad's authoritarian rule, as well as disrupt the Iranian regime's

00:07:44.760 funding of terrorist organizations.

00:07:46.360 Goes on and on, but basically we're taking major steps to break up.

00:07:50.520 Listen again to this network.

00:07:52.260 Iran, Russia, Syria, to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, who transferred to Hamas and Hezbollah,

00:08:00.840 and we're shutting down a major network of financial support for all of those groups.

00:08:08.880 That is a real positive.

00:08:11.040 That is action.

00:08:12.000 You give Trump a lot of credit here.

00:08:13.900 You give the people around him a lot of credit here for identifying this and taking steps.

00:08:18.520 You know, we've mentioned this a thousand times probably by now, but, you know, a lot of

00:08:24.500 times you hear Donald Trump say things that aren't so hawkish on Russia, but man, his actions,

00:08:30.720 his actions are very hawkish on Russia.

00:08:33.880 I don't know if it's the people, you know, some people will say, oh, it's the people around

00:08:36.280 him who are hawkish.

00:08:37.240 Some people will say, well, he's trying to put a different face on the public negotiations,

00:08:42.660 but in reality, he believes these things, that Russia's a really bad actor.

00:08:46.660 Whatever the truth is, good.

00:08:49.540 He's, he is, he is, he's taken really good steps here.

00:08:53.880 And how long have we ignored, Pat, Hamas and Hezbollah? 1.00

00:08:58.100 I mean, we act as if they're allies sometimes.

00:09:01.140 And they are a terrorist organization.

00:09:03.400 The Assad regime, Russia, Iran, these are really positive steps. 1.00

00:09:08.340 And again, they are trying to starve Iran from, from their money. 0.94

00:09:12.660 Uh, from being able to sell oil.

00:09:14.700 They're trying to starve the Syrian regime.

00:09:17.580 These are a lot of good steps and steps that, you know, the president would have to sign off

00:09:21.880 on.

00:09:22.120 These are not minor things.

00:09:23.620 Yeah.

00:09:23.720 Which is pretty amazing for a guy who is apparently in love with Putin or what, whatever the allegation

00:09:29.980 is.

00:09:30.420 There's just not a, I, I, there's not a lot there, is there?

00:09:33.440 No.

00:09:33.660 The media says this all the time.

00:09:35.900 And we realize that, um, you know, Russia has done a lot of bad things.

00:09:41.400 And at times I have not liked the way Trump's spoken about Russia.

00:09:44.440 But again, I think honestly, when you come down to it, if you ignore the back and forth

00:09:48.920 of the everyday and ignore the, the words and the tweets and, you know, I don't think any

00:09:53.400 of that's important.

00:09:54.060 What's happening?

00:09:55.060 What's he doing?

00:09:55.960 Yeah.

00:09:56.260 And what's he, he's doing, he's being really hard on what he's doing is, and, and they've

00:09:59.500 been doing this for a long time.

00:10:00.580 They've got sanctions in place.

00:10:02.320 Uh, they've, they've, uh, they've been pretty tough on them even behind the scenes.

00:10:08.220 And now this, I, I mean, what other substantive measures would you want him to take?

00:10:13.800 I think he's done pretty much everything you would want him to do in his actions with Russia.

00:10:19.480 Yeah.

00:10:19.760 The only thing lacking maybe was the, you know, the press conference when he was with Putin

00:10:24.880 and it seemed like he sort of gave him a pass there.

00:10:28.120 Again, the words, right?

00:10:29.600 Right.

00:10:30.240 Yes.

00:10:30.620 You know, I, I don't like, it's the same thing.

00:10:32.400 But his actions were really, have been good.

00:10:34.480 They've been, I mean, this has been a much tougher regime on Russia than the Obama regime.

00:10:39.480 Oh, by far.

00:10:40.820 By far.

00:10:42.180 It's such a weird thing that the Russia situation has been such a focus.

00:10:46.340 And look, I mean, they did, they will see, right?

00:10:48.800 Well, when the Mueller investigation comes out, we'll see if they have anything.

00:10:51.260 I mean, so far they have, they've had stuff on Russians, right?

00:10:55.240 They've been able to go after that.

00:10:56.440 They've had some stuff on lower level sort of campaign people, more for lying to the

00:11:01.080 FBI than anything else.

00:11:02.200 But still, there's been a couple of things there.

00:11:04.300 You know, the, you know, there's been a couple of, of relatively high ranking officials in

00:11:09.840 the, in the Trump campaign, not really the government, but the campaign.

00:11:14.680 And they have, they've gone after that.

00:11:17.300 But I mean, his actions against Russia have been as strong as you'd want them to be.

00:11:21.800 So I'm thankful for that today.

00:11:23.960 I am too.

00:11:25.120 I mean, that's something freaking good.

00:11:27.100 Yes.

00:11:28.020 And, you know, we've always said from day one, when he was elected, we're, we're going to,

00:11:35.380 you know, give him the benefit of the doubt.

00:11:36.840 And he's the president now.

00:11:38.160 So let's, let's see what his actions are.

00:11:40.960 And, you know, his actions are often pretty good.

00:11:43.560 Yeah.

00:11:43.720 I mean, the bottom line is pretty good.

00:11:44.900 When they're good, what should you say?

00:11:46.800 They're good.

00:11:47.680 Yes.

00:11:48.040 When they're bad, what should you say?

00:11:49.880 They're bad.

00:11:50.780 I, this is not a complicated world we live in here.

00:11:53.720 Yeah.

00:11:54.160 Well, it is for some.

00:11:55.480 It is for some.

00:11:56.380 There's, because some have changed their minds on Russia completely.

00:12:00.160 Russia's like a friend now, a really good, close, personal, wonderful friend that you

00:12:04.900 don't have to worry about.

00:12:05.920 Well, wait, what?

00:12:07.740 Um, and now, uh, all of a sudden Saudi Arabia, uh, is a good, close, personal friend of ours

00:12:15.940 as well.

00:12:17.140 And, you know, I, I don't remember during the Obama administration or even the George Bush

00:12:24.280 administration, Republicans as a rule thinking that Saudi Arabia was a good, close, personal

00:12:29.060 friend when, um, they had a lot of issues.

00:12:32.480 We've, we've got a lot of issues with Saudi Arabia for one, um, 18, uh, hijackers from 1.00

00:12:38.580 2001.

00:12:40.620 Um, that's a pretty big issue.

00:12:42.100 I'm not thankful for them.

00:12:43.460 No, no, no, not at all.

00:12:45.220 This holiday season, I am not thankful for Muhammad Atta and his friends. 1.00

00:12:49.120 And then there's, you know, people who actually believe that, you know, losing the house was

00:12:54.020 no big deal just because the president is in office when that happened.

00:12:58.560 I mean, it is a big deal.

00:13:00.200 It's bad.

00:13:00.900 It's very bad.

00:13:02.720 Yeah.

00:13:02.920 It would have been much, much better to keep the house and the Senate and the presidency

00:13:09.100 and then, you know, get some things done.

00:13:11.260 Yeah.

00:13:11.520 But that's not going to happen now.

00:13:12.580 Yeah.

00:13:12.820 I, I, I don't understand either side of that.

00:13:14.960 I don't know.

00:13:15.320 You've noticed that there's a bunch of Republicans who were, uh, critical of Trump.

00:13:20.580 And I, you know, certainly I would put myself in that group many, many times over the years.

00:13:24.780 Um, but, uh, some of them cannot find their way to seeing anything the man does as positive.

00:13:31.800 You know, I, I just don't understand that world just as much as I don't understand the

00:13:36.460 people who are like, I can't say he does anything bad.

00:13:39.180 Right.

00:13:39.600 Like he's a human being.

00:13:41.820 The media is completely obsessed with him as if he's a God.

00:13:45.520 And there are his fans of his that are obsessed of him with him as if he's a God.

00:13:49.820 And luckily I'm thankful that we live in a country in which, you know, the vast majority

00:13:54.620 of people want to call balls and strikes.

00:13:56.320 They want to say, Hey, this is a good thing.

00:13:57.920 This is a bad thing.

00:13:58.740 Judge the guy on his actions.

00:13:59.780 It's all you can do.

00:14:00.680 Yeah.

00:14:01.040 You know, be honest with what you believe and, and keep to your principles.

00:14:04.380 And these are not, these are not hard choices.

00:14:08.180 You know, I, I, I mean, unless you're going to be, you know, if, unless you're like, you

00:14:12.220 know, if you're Sarah Huckabee Sanders, right.

00:14:14.180 Every day you got to go out there and you got to find something positive to say about the

00:14:17.740 president because it's your legitimately your job, right?

00:14:20.640 Like your job, that's what PR people do.

00:14:23.000 They come out and they say positive things when, when, uh, you know, PR big tobacco is going

00:14:28.860 on and they did, they're like, Hey, they have emails and say, you know what, what we should

00:14:32.700 do is give cancer to children.

00:14:34.420 And they've got to come out and say, well, you know, look, a lot of, you know, cancer

00:14:38.280 can be a positive for a lot of people.

00:14:40.760 Uh, and you know, a lot of people get donations.

00:14:43.080 Uh, they, they, they, they get the money out of the jar, but next to the cash register and

00:14:47.020 say, there's a lot of things you're overlooking here when you're being negative on cancer.

00:14:50.500 You have to do that.

00:14:52.220 That's your gig.

00:14:53.060 Uh, you know, it's not a gig I want.

00:14:54.800 No.

00:14:55.160 Um, but I understand why you have to, why you have to do it.

00:14:58.280 The, the same thing seems to be true with just like journalists in the media on the

00:15:03.340 other side of this, where there it's their job every day to figure out the story of the

00:15:08.020 day, how to spin it badly against Donald Trump.

00:15:10.940 And I don't see any value job now, 24 seven, at least like 22 seven.

00:15:16.720 I mean, there's some shows that still, I think take a fair line.

00:15:19.280 I've seen in some people, Tapper.

00:15:21.080 Yeah, certainly I would put Tapper in that category and there's a few others, but it's

00:15:24.380 limited.

00:15:24.860 It's too limited for a journalistic organization.

00:15:27.340 Your job is not to be, you know, uh, a Boston Red Sox fan against the New York Yankees.

00:15:33.200 Right.

00:15:33.660 It's not supposed to be your gig.

00:15:34.940 You're supposed to be looking, Hey, that Yankee player is pretty good.

00:15:37.580 That one sucks.

00:15:38.820 That's supposed to be your job.

00:15:40.080 Uh, some sort of, uh, impartial observer.

00:15:43.500 And if you can't find anything positive to say about the president, then I think you're not

00:15:48.220 doing that.

00:15:48.720 He should be able to find both positive and negative things.

00:15:52.220 Uh, you know, and I don't, I don't want to listen to a show or, or, or an organization

00:15:56.640 that can't do both of those things, find things that are positive and find things that are

00:16:00.200 negative.

00:16:00.460 They both exist as it does for every human being on earth.

00:16:04.780 Unless you know, unless you're covering Barack Obama, then there's not a good thing you can

00:16:09.240 find about him.

00:16:09.960 Uh, well, he did that song once.

00:16:11.460 Yeah.

00:16:11.660 You like that song.

00:16:12.180 I did like the song.

00:16:13.280 I'd like the song.

00:16:14.080 He was personally responsible with his bare hands of killing Osama bin Laden. 0.56

00:16:16.880 I thought that was pretty good.

00:16:18.480 Remember that?

00:16:19.200 He strangled him if I'm not mistaken, right?

00:16:21.060 Well, he strangled him at first, but he, then he let him, uh, he released him at the

00:16:25.600 last second, let him get one more breath in and then started bashing his head against

00:16:28.440 the wall.

00:16:28.840 Oh, wow.

00:16:29.380 Yeah.

00:16:29.580 It was pretty impressive.

00:16:30.720 Yeah.

00:16:30.820 That is impressive for a president to do that.

00:16:32.980 That's unusual too.

00:16:34.260 It was, I would say ill-advised.

00:16:35.980 You should not send a terrorist, a president into a terrorist organization's hideout like

00:16:40.280 that.

00:16:40.620 But I mean, he was so fantastic that it was okay to send him.

00:16:43.800 And what are you going to do?

00:16:44.380 You could say, oh, well, we're not going to schedule the plane.

00:16:46.260 He'll fly with his arms.

00:16:47.360 He'll flap his wings and he'll fly across the oceans and do it himself.

00:16:51.100 And there's nothing you can do to stop that.

00:16:52.540 Yeah.

00:16:52.760 And I mean, the man made the most difficult decision in 500 years.

00:16:56.160 So, I mean, yeah.

00:16:57.640 Since Charlemagne, was it?

00:16:59.040 Yeah, it was.

00:16:59.580 Since our Charlemagne.

00:17:01.180 888-727-BECK.

00:17:03.900 More Pat and Stu for Glenn coming up.

00:17:09.420 With Pat and Stu.

00:17:11.460 888-727-BECK.

00:17:13.840 Hey, it's wonderful that Barack Obama is back in our faces.

00:17:17.900 I just, why can't this guy take the hint, take the cue from every other president, well,

00:17:24.680 other than Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, of course.

00:17:28.380 But every right-thinking president who's ever left office, stay out of things.

00:17:34.560 Move on.

00:17:35.840 You know, go do your dumb lectures or whatever you're going to do and make your $400,000

00:17:39.700 per speech and leave us alone. 1.00

00:17:42.000 Oh, that's what he's kind of doing here, right?

00:17:43.840 In this particular clip.

00:17:44.720 I guess this particular thing is.

00:17:46.880 Although, usually the presidents don't do political stuff.

00:17:51.400 Yeah.

00:17:51.780 I mean, you see it occasionally around the election, right?

00:17:54.400 Like a presidential candidate or some former president will go out and campaign for a couple

00:17:58.320 of people he likes.

00:17:59.100 You see that occasionally.

00:18:00.060 But that's about the extent of it.

00:18:01.500 You know?

00:18:01.700 Yeah.

00:18:01.880 Certainly, and the Bushes have been the most restrained of anybody.

00:18:05.460 Oh, my gosh.

00:18:06.320 George W. Bush.

00:18:07.460 Say what you will about him, and I have.

00:18:09.140 You know, not my favorite president.

00:18:10.840 Mm-hmm.

00:18:12.200 But how restrained was he when every day they tore him limb from limb?

00:18:20.500 Every day they tore George W. Bush apart.

00:18:23.260 They blamed everything they could on him.

00:18:25.060 Mm-hmm.

00:18:25.760 They laid everything at his doorstep, and what did he say about Obama?

00:18:30.120 Nothing.

00:18:31.080 He didn't say anything about Obama.

00:18:32.500 Nope.

00:18:33.380 He kept his mouth shut.

00:18:34.680 He lived his life in Dallas and Crawford and went about his business, and the only time

00:18:40.120 he really spoke out, he spoke out against Trump.

00:18:42.940 Yeah.

00:18:43.300 It's just bizarre.

00:18:43.680 I know.

00:18:44.280 It's bizarre.

00:18:44.500 It's bizarre.

00:18:45.360 I will say that's true.

00:18:46.300 He was very restrained until 2016.

00:18:49.160 Until Donald Trump.

00:18:49.940 Yeah, which is-

00:18:50.480 Which kind of pissed me off.

00:18:51.520 An odd choice.

00:18:52.320 Yeah.

00:18:52.460 I was watching, I went to see Creed 2 last night.

00:18:56.140 We're going to talk about that here in a couple of minutes.

00:18:57.980 So we'll give you the review without Glenn Beck spoilers in it.

00:19:01.400 And then we'll do the Obama thing.

00:19:03.320 We got to share that with you.

00:19:04.520 That's coming up in a second.

00:19:05.380 Yeah.

00:19:06.140 But they had a preview for a movie called Vice, which is coming out.

00:19:10.460 Yeah.

00:19:10.940 Which is a, apparently like Dick Cheney as Darth Vader movie.

00:19:15.020 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:19:15.780 With, what's his face who played Batman?

00:19:20.840 Christian Bale?

00:19:21.460 Christian Bale.

00:19:22.000 Yeah.

00:19:22.660 The cast looks pretty good.

00:19:24.860 And, you know, you'd expect it to be-

00:19:25.680 Apparently he plays him like a raving lunatic.

00:19:28.200 Yeah.

00:19:28.520 Is how he portrays Cheney.

00:19:29.640 The movie just looks like they're just blaming Dick Cheney for everything.

00:19:33.520 It's like, didn't you guys give up on this a while ago?

00:19:35.840 Unbelievable.

00:19:36.020 Are you still on the Dick Cheney thing?

00:19:38.140 It's bizarre.

00:19:38.700 Really?

00:19:39.240 It's really amazing.

00:19:40.000 We've got to sit through Dick Cheney previews?

00:19:43.000 You're-

00:19:43.420 I mean, honestly, like they're just, it's never ending with this, with progressives.

00:19:48.560 It's never ending.

00:19:49.720 Yeah.

00:19:49.940 Did it, yeah, it's exactly right.

00:19:52.020 Oh, jeez.

00:19:53.020 All right.

00:19:53.340 So we'll hear about Creed next, huh?

00:19:54.780 Yeah.

00:19:55.220 And Barack Obama.

00:19:56.080 Okay.

00:19:56.280 Oh, it's wonderful to see Barack Hussein Obama back in the limelight.

00:20:04.720 Gosh, I have, well, I can't say I've missed him, but man, well, and I can't say it's good

00:20:11.740 to have him back either, but I can say he is kind of back and omnipresent now again.

00:20:18.520 And he's doing a lot of speeches because he's making somewhat of a living, you could say,

00:20:25.120 from doing these speeches.

00:20:26.600 Every time he shows up for an hour, he makes $400,000.

00:20:30.980 Now, $400,000 an hour is kind of a decent wage.

00:20:35.320 I don't know if you're aware of that.

00:20:36.920 Would you call it a living wage?

00:20:37.840 I'd call it a living wage.

00:20:39.260 Yes.

00:20:39.920 Yes, I would.

00:20:40.680 And then when Michelle shows up at a place, she makes $225,000, which is income inequality, 1.00

00:20:47.120 it seems to me.

00:20:48.020 And that...

00:20:49.360 That's unbelievable.

00:20:50.140 Isn't that unbelievable?

00:20:51.100 She is making $175,000 less per hour than he is. 0.99

00:20:55.640 You know what it is, too?

00:20:57.440 Racism.

00:20:57.920 Racism.

00:20:58.320 You know why?

00:20:59.100 Because he's half white. 0.69

00:21:00.560 They're paying the white half more. 0.76

00:21:02.380 Yes!

00:21:03.440 Thank you.

00:21:04.140 That's unbelievable.

00:21:04.980 It is unbelievable.

00:21:06.920 Unbelievable.

00:21:07.620 Here's his latest thing.

00:21:09.240 And this is...

00:21:09.880 I mean, people say he's talking about Trump.

00:21:12.880 He's really talking about all of us here.

00:21:14.580 This isn't just about Trump.

00:21:16.060 Listen to how he phrases this.

00:21:17.820 Right now, I could take off-the-shelf existing technologies.

00:21:21.300 We could reduce carbon emissions by, let's say, 30%.

00:21:25.440 Say that.

00:21:26.740 Without any...

00:21:27.880 Yeah, it's not like we'd all have to go back to caves and, you know, live off, you know, fire.

00:21:34.880 We could have electricity and smartphones and all that stuff,

00:21:38.920 which would buy us probably another 20, 30 years for that technological breakthrough that's necessary.

00:21:44.860 The reason we don't do it is because...

00:21:47.860 It's because...

00:21:48.860 We are still...

00:21:51.860 Still...

00:21:52.860 Confused, blind...

00:21:55.660 Blind, confused.

00:21:56.960 Shrouded with...

00:21:58.220 With...

00:21:59.200 Hate, anger.

00:22:00.640 Anger, I see.

00:22:02.300 Racism.

00:22:03.080 What?

00:22:03.540 Racism?

00:22:04.200 Is stopping green technology...

00:22:05.960 Mommy issues.

00:22:07.200 Mommy issues.

00:22:08.660 I mean...

00:22:09.960 What?

00:22:10.720 What?

00:22:11.960 We are...

00:22:13.760 We are fraught...

00:22:15.520 Fraught.

00:22:16.220 ...with...

00:22:16.960 Stuff.

00:22:18.040 Now, I have to say, I dislike this guy.

00:22:25.380 I don't hate him.

00:22:26.580 I want to make that clear.

00:22:27.560 I don't hate him.

00:22:28.120 I don't hate anybody.

00:22:28.580 No, of course not.

00:22:29.380 I just dislike him with all the intensity of a billion white-hot burning suns.

00:22:35.340 Okay.

00:22:35.980 But that's just...

00:22:36.820 But not hate.

00:22:36.840 It's not hate.

00:22:37.660 Okay.

00:22:37.800 It's just extreme...

00:22:40.140 Extremely intense dislike.

00:22:43.680 We should also focus on the idea that this is an incredibly bad point.

00:22:48.340 Right?

00:22:48.500 Like...

00:22:48.820 Yes!

00:22:49.440 First of all, yes, we have the technology to lower emissions by 30%.

00:22:52.300 At what cost?

00:22:53.280 Right.

00:22:53.500 That's the conversation here.

00:22:54.900 And whether it's worth doing at that cost.

00:22:56.580 But the reason we don't do it is we're fraught with hate, anger, and mommy issues?

00:23:01.400 Race and racism?

00:23:02.220 What the hell are you talking about?

00:23:03.800 Are we racist against green?

00:23:05.700 Like, is that the case?

00:23:07.480 It's green technology?

00:23:09.120 Weird.

00:23:09.680 That's so, so strange.

00:23:11.860 And it's such an easy explanation for every issue that progressives don't get what they

00:23:16.180 want.

00:23:16.900 Yeah.

00:23:17.180 It's racism.

00:23:17.760 It's hate.

00:23:18.300 It's mommy issues. 0.94

00:23:19.500 It's, you know, it's the...

00:23:21.480 That's pathetic.

00:23:21.960 ...clinging to God and guns.

00:23:23.640 It's the same explanation he uses all the time.

00:23:25.800 Typical white people. 0.76

00:23:26.680 Typical white people. 0.76

00:23:27.640 Who have a certain reaction to black people bred into them. 0.71

00:23:31.920 You talk about racist issues.

00:23:33.480 This guy's got them.

00:23:34.420 He's got them to, like, the 10th power.

00:23:37.260 Yes.

00:23:38.420 He's got them.

00:23:39.140 He does.

00:23:39.880 I mean, look, it's constant focus on race.

00:23:42.680 We've made this point back in the day with Glenn, right?

00:23:44.620 Like, it's not, you know, racism is a weird thing to throw around.

00:23:48.980 And, you know, the left has no problem doing it all the time.

00:23:51.400 When someone on the right says something is racist, it's the biggest controversy on earth.

00:23:55.420 But, I mean, the bottom line is he's constantly viewing everything through a racial prism.

00:23:59.580 The man just told you the reason we don't use solar panels is because of racism.

00:24:03.700 How can you deny this?

00:24:05.060 That's unreal.

00:24:06.040 This is exactly how he looks through about every issue.

00:24:07.940 And it's completely all over the left.

00:24:11.400 You know, you look at...

00:24:11.980 Watch a Chris Matthews show.

00:24:13.640 A guy can't go five minutes without calling somebody racist.

00:24:16.080 It's just the way these things happen.

00:24:18.220 And I don't mean to, on a holiday weekend, tell you to watch Chris Matthews.

00:24:21.300 That's not a good idea.

00:24:22.000 I take that back.

00:24:23.120 I take that back.

00:24:24.340 That's a bad one, though.

00:24:25.280 That's a bad one.

00:24:26.080 Oh, that's agonizing.

00:24:27.660 You know, it makes me think, you know, we've been talking a little bit about Michelle Obama

00:24:30.260 and his potential run.

00:24:32.940 I don't know.

00:24:33.720 I don't think they can stay away from this stuff.

00:24:35.640 Oh, they can't.

00:24:36.220 They can't.

00:24:36.600 They can't avoid it.

00:24:37.560 I don't know if that would work.

00:24:39.620 So, I don't know.

00:24:40.320 We'll see.

00:24:40.860 We'll see.

00:24:41.260 Especially, it's disturbing on the week where both sides of the racial divide have come

00:24:46.580 together in a fantastic movie called Creed II.

00:24:49.800 And Jason Buttrell is here with us now.

00:24:51.980 Jason, welcome to the program.

00:24:52.940 Just to make him feel at home, we should call him Jason Buttrell.

00:24:55.520 Oh, yeah.

00:24:56.500 Now, it seems like everything's right in the world.

00:24:58.600 Right.

00:24:59.000 Back to Buttrell.

00:24:59.960 Creed II comes out this weekend.

00:25:01.840 Actually, it comes out tonight.

00:25:03.760 Last night, they had preview screenings and some actually on Monday.

00:25:07.840 Jason and I both went to one of these preview screenings.

00:25:11.120 And I cannot say enough great things about this.

00:25:12.880 Did you go together holding hands?

00:25:15.060 I would have liked that.

00:25:16.320 That would have been better.

00:25:17.200 No.

00:25:17.700 Unfortunately, we did not test our diversity in that way.

00:25:20.440 All right.

00:25:20.700 But you-

00:25:22.200 Not that there'd be nothing wrong with it.

00:25:24.340 Oh, we didn't say that.

00:25:24.820 I mean, obviously.

00:25:25.520 Who would suggest that?

00:25:26.100 Right.

00:25:26.360 No one.

00:25:26.600 What are you, against solar panels?

00:25:27.720 No.

00:25:28.180 Is your opposition to solar panels driving your hatred?

00:25:31.080 I'm curious.

00:25:31.740 So, Creed II is, of course, the eighth movie in the Rocky series, if you want to put it

00:25:38.500 that way.

00:25:39.160 They had five original Rocky fives.

00:25:41.180 Yeah.

00:25:41.500 1976.

00:25:42.380 1976.

00:25:42.780 When it started.

00:25:43.480 Best picture, if you might remember.

00:25:46.420 People forget that part.

00:25:47.460 People forget that it was best picture.

00:25:48.900 And, you know, there's, to me, there are two different paths of Rocky movies.

00:25:55.160 There are the story-leaning ones and the action-leaning ones.

00:25:59.140 Mm-hmm.

00:25:59.340 And so, you think of Rocky I, Rocky II, and then the last two, which is, you know, Creed

00:26:04.760 and the previous movie, which was the sixth one, Rocky Balboa, it was called.

00:26:08.340 Those two, those four movies, I think, were at leaning story.

00:26:11.340 And Rocky III, IV, and V were leaning action, right?

00:26:14.460 Like, there's a lot of fight scenes, a lot of musical interludes.

00:26:17.440 I mean, Rocky III through V were essentially one large music video and in training sequence.

00:26:22.800 But I love those movies.

00:26:23.840 They're, like, my favorite movies.

00:26:25.400 This one, I thought, was a great, great movie.

00:26:29.400 I cannot oversell how much I loved it.

00:26:32.560 Wow.

00:26:32.740 I loved it.

00:26:34.220 Wow.

00:26:34.620 Good.

00:26:34.740 It was fantastic.

00:26:36.280 And I would say leaned a little bit towards the action side of it, which is harder to

00:26:41.060 pull off.

00:26:41.460 You know, you can get cheesy with nine million boxing scenes and a bunch of, you know, training

00:26:45.880 sequences, right?

00:26:46.680 Like, that can happen.

00:26:48.020 There's a lot of, you know, story in it as well.

00:26:50.180 It's a really well done movie, but the action scenes are fantastic.

00:26:53.740 I really like the guy who plays Creed.

00:26:56.020 Oh, Michael B. Jordan?

00:26:57.020 Yeah, he's really good.

00:26:57.880 You know who else likes him?

00:26:58.600 Every woman in America.

00:27:00.000 Really?

00:27:00.440 Including my wife.

00:27:01.920 Which I, she, I was, she was very willing to go to a boxing movie with me.

00:27:07.340 And at first I was like, oh, wow, this is cool.

00:27:08.700 Like, you know, hey, we're going to, and then I realized, you know,

00:27:11.460 it's Michael B. Jordan, like with his shirt off for 80% of it.

00:27:15.860 It's got nothing.

00:27:16.960 This is just a fantasy.

00:27:18.500 It's interesting.

00:27:19.240 You thought you leaned more action because I almost leaned more like story driven on

00:27:23.800 this one.

00:27:24.080 Really?

00:27:24.400 Like there was a lot of action, but I mean, like, and I, the one hit that I've seen other

00:27:28.520 like reviewers of this movie talk about was they said, well, it was kind of predictable.

00:27:32.240 It's a Rocky movie.

00:27:33.500 You know exactly what's going to happen.

00:27:34.960 But I, but they took, they took twists and turns.

00:27:37.380 And by the way, we've implemented a, since Glenn is out, no spoiler policy on the movie

00:27:42.120 reviews.

00:27:42.260 This is going to be tough.

00:27:42.740 We're not going to tell you the entire movie during this review.

00:27:45.600 I don't know.

00:27:46.420 I don't know.

00:27:47.100 Jason is risky.

00:27:50.180 But yeah, no, I, I mean, look, Rocky is Rocky and, and, and you kind of understand the

00:27:55.880 basic premise of the movie, but really well done.

00:27:59.280 The story was great.

00:28:00.280 I don't want to say that there wasn't, but the action was awesome too.

00:28:02.580 Oh man.

00:28:03.000 Like a great job with the fight scenes.

00:28:04.340 If you were like part of this, the new generation of, of just being like, just introduced to

00:28:08.660 Rocky movies, like you'll like Creed is probably the one you like for, I mean, I guess for

00:28:12.620 like the new newer generation, you'll be like, Oh, this is a sequel to Creed.

00:28:15.440 But to me, once I saw that they were introducing Drago into this movie, this was instantly what

00:28:20.100 I've been wanting to see since I was a kid, which was a sequel just to Rocky four.

00:28:24.760 Like I wanted them to continue that.

00:28:26.380 Just, let's just branch off and do spinoffs of Rocky four.

00:28:29.560 This to me felt like a sequel to Rocky four.

00:28:32.280 And I was like, and have you guys seen, um, uh, the Cobra Kai, like remake of the Karate

00:28:37.680 Kid on YouTube?

00:28:38.820 Yeah, they did.

00:28:39.580 This is with the real actors, like Daniel LaRusso and like the old, uh, the old school

00:28:43.720 Karate Kid guys are back for.

00:28:45.340 Have you not seen this back?

00:28:46.080 Yeah.

00:28:46.240 No, I've seen it.

00:28:47.060 Oh, it's so dope.

00:28:47.920 It is like, I cannot believe that's actually good.

00:28:49.540 I saw the preview of it.

00:28:50.420 It's good.

00:28:50.800 It just didn't seem like it could be good.

00:28:52.380 So what it does is there was like this, there was like this internet like theory on, yeah,

00:28:56.380 like, you know, the main bad guy, the, what's his name?

00:28:58.940 I don't remember his name.

00:28:59.760 Blonde haired, blonde haired kid.

00:29:00.980 Right.

00:29:01.200 Yeah.

00:29:01.380 Um, that he was like actually the good guy and Daniel LaRusso was the bad guy.

00:29:04.880 And so they really go into the story of the bad guy.

00:29:07.320 So anyway, so that's what this reminded me of this new Rocky movie.

00:29:09.800 They would kind of go into the backstory of Drago and I won't, I won't tell, this is going

00:29:14.620 to be rough, but I won't give anything away, but you actually kind of get into like why he

00:29:18.800 is the way he is in this movie.

00:29:19.860 You find out what happened to him afterwards and it explains a lot.

00:29:23.260 So like, like bad guys and like, you know, like Mr. T, you know what I mean?

00:29:26.460 Like he was just like the typical action movie bad guy in Rocky three.

00:29:29.900 So like, okay, whatever.

00:29:30.980 But this guy like, there was some depth to both like Drago and his son.

00:29:35.000 Yeah.

00:29:35.360 Cause I mean, you know, Rocky three and four, they were just killing machines, right?

00:29:40.020 Like he's going up against an impossible opponent.

00:29:43.320 Um, and this one, there's definitely more depth to it.

00:29:46.060 I mean, it's really well done.

00:29:47.300 It's really well, my watching my wife, this would, this movie is hilarious.

00:29:51.060 Cause first of all, she loves Michael B.

00:29:52.640 Jordan that you can tell that that's a, that's a real thing.

00:29:55.020 Uh, but, uh, second, like she, every crying, every thing time you hear the sad piano, come

00:30:01.800 on, she's crying every time.

00:30:04.340 Uh, every time there's a fight in the ring, it's as if she's in there, the way she's moving 0.98

00:30:10.100 her head around and closing her eyes and like reacting, get out of the way, get out of the 0.73

00:30:13.880 way.

00:30:14.040 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:30:14.860 It's like, she's, it's hilarious.

00:30:16.840 It's one of those movies that could bring every emotion out.

00:30:19.140 It's so well done.

00:30:20.260 I cannot praise it highly enough.

00:30:21.900 And I, you know, look, I'm a big Rocky fan anyway.

00:30:24.340 Um, so I would have probably liked the movie no matter what, but man, it's, it's, it's better

00:30:28.380 than Creed, which was really good.

00:30:30.460 I mean, Creed was a really good movie.

00:30:32.380 Um, this one is better.

00:30:33.820 I, I, I freaking really loved it.

00:30:35.400 And there's, you know, you got the villain who basically is going to haunt your dreams

00:30:38.340 for most of it.

00:30:38.980 I mean, he's like a great villain in it.

00:30:40.460 I mean, it's, it's really, really well done.

00:30:42.600 Yeah.

00:30:42.840 And I don't like watch this when you go to watch and there's always like that one Thanksgiving

00:30:46.320 movie that you just have to watch.

00:30:47.720 You can't miss Creed two is that movie this year.

00:30:50.300 You have to go see it, but when you go see it, forget about the predictability because

00:30:54.540 that's just going to happen in any, any Rocky movie.

00:30:56.280 And I've seen a couple of reviews that said, well, it was predictable.

00:30:58.080 Well, of course it's a Rocky movie.

00:30:59.260 You know, what's going to happen towards the end.

00:31:00.800 It's, it builds to that point.

00:31:02.860 But when you watch this movie, don't just think about like the action or whatever.

00:31:06.180 This could easily be a movie, not really about boxing.

00:31:08.980 It could easily be a movie just about like a relationship between a father and a child,

00:31:12.860 father and a son, father that easily could, there's, there's three separate stories running

00:31:17.840 parallel all about parenting.

00:31:19.760 Really?

00:31:20.220 Yeah.

00:31:20.660 And that was one of the biggest things I took towards the end.

00:31:23.300 I was like, oh wow.

00:31:24.120 You know, like I, and I, you don't expect to see that from a Rocky movie.

00:31:27.140 It's kind of like Rocky one.

00:31:27.920 You didn't expect it to come out of nowhere and win best picture.

00:31:30.000 You also didn't expect to get kind of a lesson in like relationship between a father and

00:31:33.700 a child in this movie.

00:31:34.640 I was like, that, that blew me away towards the end.

00:31:36.680 Yeah.

00:31:36.840 And it's, uh, it's, it's worthy of, of the, that conversation of, of, you know, award-winning

00:31:42.720 type of, it's that good.

00:31:43.900 I mean, it's really, really well done.

00:31:46.460 And I don't, you know, because of Rocky and there's, it's the eighth movie in the series,

00:31:50.800 like you don't, you wouldn't consider them, you know, you probably think they're not going

00:31:53.940 to get all of the awards and everything, but it's, it's worthy of that to sort of consideration.

00:31:57.400 It was really, it was really, really well done.

00:31:59.080 Um, so, uh, Creed two, uh, in theaters tonight, uh, Jason, you, uh, do you, do you come up

00:32:05.680 with a scale?

00:32:06.460 Do you have like, is there a Jason scale?

00:32:07.800 Is there a butt drill scale that you work on?

00:32:10.140 The butt drill scale, if it goes to, I don't know, thumbs, two thumbs up.

00:32:14.320 Okay.

00:32:14.620 There you go.

00:32:15.040 There you go.

00:32:16.080 Two butt drills, uh, apparently, uh, no butt drills, two butt drills is the official ranking

00:32:20.900 from Jason.

00:32:21.400 Jason, thanks for coming on.

00:32:22.200 Thanks.

00:32:22.420 Uh, that's, I, you know, Pat, you saw the, and you saw the Harry Potter thing too, right?

00:32:26.100 Uh, recommending it.

00:32:27.100 Yeah.

00:32:27.260 I liked it a lot.

00:32:28.540 And my, my wife's a big Harry Potter fan and loved it too.

00:32:32.220 I kind of assume Harry Potter will get number one again, uh, just because that's what happens

00:32:35.880 with Harry Potter, but still, I probably won two with, uh, with that and Rocky.

00:32:39.680 So, um, or Creed two.

00:32:41.680 So, uh, worthwhile movies this weekend.

00:32:43.900 Yeah.

00:32:44.160 That'll be fun.

00:32:44.760 Yeah.

00:32:45.100 All right.

00:32:45.540 Some things you could actually, you know, tolerate in the theater, which is nice.

00:32:49.360 When football's off, you go to the theater.

00:32:51.260 Exactly.

00:32:52.460 888-727-BECK is the number.

00:32:53.540 Back in a second.

00:32:58.620 Welcome.

00:33:00.860 Pat Gray and, uh, Stu Bergeer for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

00:33:04.180 You know, we were just talking about movies a second ago.

00:33:07.160 The other movie that you need to see, if you haven't yet, is Bohemian Rhapsody.

00:33:12.240 Yes.

00:33:12.440 Gotta see that.

00:33:13.000 So good.

00:33:13.700 That's the story of Queen. 1.00

00:33:14.860 Yeah.

00:33:15.260 The band.

00:33:15.600 So good.

00:33:16.220 And particularly, uh, Freddie Mercury, who had a super interesting life.

00:33:21.060 I mean, the guy was just, you know, flat out musical genius.

00:33:23.820 Uh, but the whole band were, they're really smart guys.

00:33:28.480 Um, Brian May, the guitarist was like a, um, almost a rocket scientist kind of person.

00:33:34.740 Really?

00:33:35.280 Yeah.

00:33:35.520 And then, you know, pretty decent guitar player as well.

00:33:38.980 So yeah, he did.

00:33:39.700 He did a decent job.

00:33:40.440 Yeah, he did.

00:33:41.280 Uh, he built his own guitars and created a, a queen guitar sound.

00:33:45.780 You know, there, not a lot of bands have done that.

00:33:47.740 Boston did that.

00:33:48.700 Queen did that. 1.00

00:33:50.000 And then, and those bands seem to really endure.

00:33:52.860 But anyway, it's, it's a great movie.

00:33:54.560 Um, if you haven't seen it yet, that's, that's definitely worth your time, uh, on this holiday

00:33:58.400 weekend.

00:33:59.020 By the way, we, we, we were talking about the whole Rocky thing.

00:34:01.640 The guy who played Ivan Drago, Dolph Lundgren.

00:34:04.240 We kind of.

00:34:05.040 Yeah.

00:34:05.260 Speaking of smart guys.

00:34:06.260 Yeah.

00:34:06.420 We've mentioned this the other day, but we actually found the details, uh, in between

00:34:09.140 the shows.

00:34:09.900 Dolph Lundgren was on a Fulbright scholarship at MIT when he was cast as, as Ivan Drago.

00:34:16.620 Wow.

00:34:17.040 Now in the movie, he basically just says, I will break you.

00:34:20.380 Like that's pretty much his only, you will lose.

00:34:24.120 That's pretty much the only two things he says in the entire movie.

00:34:26.260 I think it is right.

00:34:27.080 He says two sentences.

00:34:28.260 Yeah.

00:34:28.880 I will break you.

00:34:29.720 I will break you and you will lose.

00:34:30.620 And you will lose.

00:34:31.960 That's pretty much it.

00:34:32.980 Yeah.

00:34:33.280 And he's, you know, he's not sharing quadratic equations in the movie.

00:34:36.200 He talks more in the new one and he's good.

00:34:38.000 He's, he's good.

00:34:39.020 Yeah.

00:34:39.200 I mean, he was really, really smart.

00:34:41.760 I saw him in an interview and you, uh, recently and you could tell.

00:34:45.900 He's, he's very, very smart.

00:34:47.380 He, when you, when he starts to talk, it kind of, that whole, this is a big dumb guy

00:34:52.100 thing dissipates.

00:34:53.640 Yeah.

00:34:54.680 Doesn't work so well.

00:34:56.000 It's like the opposite.

00:34:56.980 Like you, you have these endearing people who you watch the movies and they come out and

00:34:59.680 they're like protesting at code pink rallies and throwing like, you know, uh, you know,

00:35:04.680 throwing things at Republican congressmen.

00:35:06.620 You're like, ah, it ruins them.

00:35:07.600 This is, this one ruins them the other way.

00:35:09.220 You think he's a big dumb guy that just wanted him to be a big, dumb guy.

00:35:12.640 It's not, he's too smart for that.

00:35:13.720 And he's not.

00:35:13.920 No.

00:35:14.160 So it kind of sucks.

00:35:15.260 It kind of blew my whole thing around, uh, Dolph Lundgren.

00:35:20.720 The Punisher will never be the same after this.

00:35:24.500 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, B-E-C-K.

00:35:30.700 Uh, so let's talk about, um, Relief Factor for a moment, if we should, Pat.

00:35:34.560 All right.

00:35:34.820 Pat, uh, Relief Factor is a, uh, I mean, it's something that's changed Glenn's life, uh, for

00:35:40.400 the better, uh, for over four years, Relief Factor has been helping, uh, people here at

00:35:44.480 the blaze, uh, with pain.

00:35:46.340 You know, if you have that kind of consistent nagging sort of pain, a lot of that's caused

00:35:50.500 by inflammation and Relief Factor is a great way to fight against that.

00:35:55.640 If you're one of the people who lay, if you've got little kids, you're chasing them around

00:35:58.620 all the time.

00:35:59.160 You've got little grandkids you're chasing around all the time. 1.00

00:36:01.200 You want to play tennis or golf or whatever, and you keep having pain.

00:36:05.420 Relief Factor is a great thing to try.

00:36:06.900 They've got a three week quick start that makes it really easy.

00:36:09.220 So for $19.95, they'll send you three weeks of it.

00:36:12.180 This is when you're going to start feeling the difference.

00:36:14.300 And if it works for you, you can continue with it.

00:36:17.160 70% of people, it's over 70% actually, uh, wind up buying more, uh, once they get the

00:36:23.020 three week quick start, it's working for them.

00:36:24.920 Let's see if it will work for you.

00:36:26.060 If you want a drug free and natural way to ease your pain, go to Relief Factor.com.

00:36:30.560 Relief Factor.com is the place to go.

00:36:33.400 Uh, Glenn uses it.

00:36:35.020 A lot of people here at the blaze do as well.

00:36:36.680 Relief Factor.com.

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00:36:44.340 Courage.

00:36:46.080 Truth.

00:36:47.800 Glenn Beck.

00:36:49.680 Pat Gray and Stubergear, uh, for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

00:36:53.940 888-727-BECK.

00:36:55.500 By the way, you can join me for my show, uh, Pat Gray Unleashed.

00:36:58.200 Immediately preceding this show, uh, we'll do it again Monday, uh, and all next week.

00:37:03.500 Um, and then every week after, um, till they tell me to stop.

00:37:08.300 Right.

00:37:08.660 That's kind of, that's why whenever, when they tell me to stop, I'll walk out.

00:37:11.900 You know, my, if my key doesn't work in the door anymore, then, then it will not happen

00:37:15.660 anymore.

00:37:16.080 That's how it works.

00:37:16.740 That's how it works in this industry.

00:37:17.940 It does.

00:37:18.200 Um, we've been talking a little bit about the things we're thankful for that are actually

00:37:22.720 positive, some positive news in the world.

00:37:24.900 Mm-hmm.

00:37:25.340 Uh, we've pointed out a few of them already.

00:37:27.320 Certainly, Creed II would be one of those things I'm thankful for.

00:37:29.940 Um, but there's, uh, let me give you this.

00:37:32.080 This is from the Wall Street Journal.

00:37:33.080 Matt Ridley wrote, wrote this.

00:37:34.660 Uh, he, uh, this is an amazing thing.

00:37:37.120 And I know you know the answer to this, but I think the second part of it is, is fascinating.

00:37:41.580 Uh, a Swedish statistician, public health, the health expert began asking people the

00:37:45.500 question, has the percentage of the world population that lives in extreme poverty, has

00:37:51.680 it almost doubled or almost halved or stayed the same over the past 20 years?

00:37:56.320 Now, I think you know the answer there, Pat, and I think some people in the audience might

00:37:59.500 know the answer, um, which is it's almost halved in, in the past 20 years.

00:38:04.320 Again, in our lifetime.

00:38:05.280 And you gotta believe the perception among, especially young people, I'm guessing, is

00:38:09.480 that it's doubled.

00:38:11.000 Right?

00:38:11.540 Poverty is doubled.

00:38:12.360 It's doubled.

00:38:12.860 And I think the vast majority of people might think that, but the percentage is amazing.

00:38:16.900 Only 5% got the answer right.

00:38:19.920 Wow.

00:38:21.020 5%.

00:38:21.500 Wow.

00:38:22.120 Now, think of the achievement that this is.

00:38:24.340 It's one of the greatest achievements in human history.

00:38:28.300 Okay?

00:38:28.500 Oh, definitely.

00:38:29.140 The people who are in extreme poverty, cut it by half in two decades?

00:38:33.940 That's insane.

00:38:35.740 That should not be possible.

00:38:37.160 And almost every, I don't think it was believed to be possible 20 years ago.

00:38:41.780 And here we are 20 years later.

00:38:43.140 It's happened and nobody notices.

00:38:44.420 Only 5% of Americans are aware of it, which is fascinating.

00:38:49.120 And, you know, his story is about how people are drawn to negative news.

00:38:57.040 People are drawn to think the worst.

00:38:59.340 But, you know, it's kind of the fight or flight thing, I think, at some level.

00:39:01.540 Like, you're concerned about something.

00:39:04.140 They ran tests on, you know, experiments on, psychologists ran them on people in sort of

00:39:09.100 random tests and they would get people who said they wanted good news.

00:39:13.520 They wanted the good news.

00:39:15.280 And then when they had the opportunity, always gravitated to the negative news.

00:39:20.480 And maybe that's, you know, like it's a survival instinct at some level.

00:39:23.040 Like, you want to try to survive and so you're worried about whatever threat might be out there.

00:39:30.640 So you're looking at negative stories more routinely.

00:39:35.140 But it is strange that we are like that.

00:39:38.360 I don't, it's hard to enjoy life when you're like that.

00:39:41.120 And you look at the numbers that go through and if you have a copy of, give me a copy.

00:39:45.800 You got a copy of Addicted to Outrage over there.

00:39:48.080 If you have a copy of Addicted to Outrage, you'll see this in the book.

00:39:51.780 The stats in here are quite amazing.

00:39:55.780 This is a, to see how far we've come, to see how far the globe has come, but also the United States,

00:40:03.440 is really amazing.

00:40:04.780 People who are considered poor in the United States, the number is, I mean, we're talking about major,

00:40:10.500 major things that weren't even available.

00:40:13.920 Matt Ridley talks about this in his book, The Rational Optimist, which is a book I really like.

00:40:19.040 And he talks about King Louis.

00:40:21.560 And, you know, King Louis back in the day, what would he do?

00:40:25.300 He could have anything he wanted.

00:40:27.200 So what he would do is every night when it was time for dinner, he would order his servants.

00:40:32.760 You're talking about the orangutan in Jungle Book?

00:40:35.860 Yes.

00:40:36.320 King Louis, that one?

00:40:37.520 Yeah.

00:40:37.680 Okay.

00:40:38.140 And so he would have his big, like, king-like medieval table, right?

00:40:42.760 And it would be that, you know, your long rectangular table.

00:40:46.060 Mm-hmm.

00:40:46.320 And people would, he would direct his servants every night to bring him every kind of food

00:40:54.440 available.

00:40:55.520 So it was every, they would make all the different kinds of foods, they would bring all the different

00:41:00.380 kinds of fruits and vegetables that were available, all the foods that he could possibly want.

00:41:05.840 And he was the king, he could do whatever he wanted.

00:41:08.860 Mm-hmm.

00:41:08.980 And so he brought everything.

00:41:10.220 And, you know, he would eat, obviously he couldn't eat all of the foods, he would eat

00:41:12.980 a little bit of it and the rest would be, you know, either thrown away or given to the

00:41:16.580 staff or whatever.

00:41:17.320 But he got to choose whatever he wanted first.

00:41:19.620 Because he was the freaking king.

00:41:21.380 We now have that at Golden Corral.

00:41:24.340 Yeah.

00:41:24.580 Any person who wants to spend $8 can go to Golden Corral and eat as much as they want.

00:41:28.980 Every grocery store you walk into has thousands and thousands more choices than King Louis

00:41:34.320 could have ever had.

00:41:35.700 Oh my gosh.

00:41:36.560 And not to mention the quality of it.

00:41:38.060 Yeah.

00:41:38.720 Right.

00:41:39.240 You know?

00:41:39.820 I mean, King Louis didn't have red velvet Oreos.

00:41:43.880 Really?

00:41:44.540 Yeah.

00:41:44.920 Are you sure?

00:41:45.640 They didn't, no wonder all those people died.

00:41:47.620 Oh my gosh.

00:41:48.600 Was it the plague or was it suicide?

00:41:50.340 I don't know.

00:41:51.320 You were just like, ah, screw it, where are the Oreos?

00:41:52.920 But I mean, seriously, like you have more choices now and it can be afforded by almost

00:41:57.400 everybody in the United States to go eat almost anything you want all the time.

00:42:03.080 We have this giant problem now with obesity rather than starvation.

00:42:08.420 That is not something that has been common in the world's history.

00:42:12.200 Yeah.

00:42:12.380 And it's, you know what?

00:42:13.400 It's still not as common in the rest of the world as it is here.

00:42:16.700 No.

00:42:17.140 I mean, go to Bulgaria and see if you have the choices that the United States of America

00:42:20.820 does.

00:42:21.240 No.

00:42:21.380 With the constitution we have in the form of, and the kind of economy we have here.

00:42:28.160 Yeah.

00:42:28.300 With capitalism, with the free market.

00:42:30.240 That's true.

00:42:30.800 It's all, it's, all of these things are better here, right?

00:42:33.640 Yes.

00:42:33.740 I mean, even in Bulgaria, you can go to a restaurant in which quote unquote servants

00:42:38.020 Yes.

00:42:38.640 will come and serve, servers instead of servants, but they'll come and they'll bring you food

00:42:42.560 that has been prepared and you get to order anything you want off a menu.

00:42:45.880 And you don't have to do the dishes afterwards.

00:42:47.340 Right.

00:42:48.280 I mean, yes, you have to.

00:42:48.980 That's a pretty good deal.

00:42:49.440 But that's a pretty good deal.

00:42:50.640 This is from Addicted to Outrage.

00:42:52.220 For all of eternity, man was able to stay alive without a refrigerator, electricity, radio,

00:42:57.680 microwave, or color television.

00:42:59.600 It might have been hot, sticky, and a lot less entertaining, but survival was possible.

00:43:03.100 Today, each of these self-evident luxury items, when measured against all of human history,

00:43:07.220 are owned between, by between 96.3% and 99.3% of all households.

00:43:14.960 I mean, these are, that's amazing.

00:43:18.520 The computer, when Bill Clinton was elected, this is not that long ago.

00:43:21.860 I mean, it is, it's a while.

00:43:23.820 I mean, if you watch the Lewinsky thing, you realize it, I mean, just by the quality of the

00:43:27.720 video back then, before HD, you realize how it feels a lot longer ago than it was.

00:43:31.860 But when Bill Clinton was elected, only 20% of American households had a computer.

00:43:38.940 20%.

00:43:39.420 When Barack Obama left office, more than 80% had a computer.

00:43:43.600 And the 20% that didn't have one, it wasn't largely because, well, they couldn't afford

00:43:48.540 a computer or the computers weren't available enough.

00:43:50.700 It was because more than half had a tablet.

00:43:53.340 Oh, yeah.

00:43:53.780 Almost everyone had a smartphone far more powerful than any computer even available during the

00:43:59.920 Clinton years.

00:44:00.900 You think King Louis had computers?

00:44:03.140 No.

00:44:03.740 No, he didn't.

00:44:04.360 But this is just back in the Clinton years.

00:44:06.360 People didn't have them.

00:44:07.620 The average price of land that produces, or excuse me, the average piece of land that produces

00:44:11.700 corn now yields 8.6 times as much corn as it did during World War II.

00:44:17.520 8.6 times as much.

00:44:19.640 Wow.

00:44:19.880 To think about all the people we had to feed, think about all the environmentalists who've

00:44:23.940 warned us over the years that massive people were going to starve because we wouldn't be

00:44:27.940 able to produce as much food.

00:44:29.680 Well, now that piece of land is doing 8.6 times as much, which is only positive if you

00:44:34.080 like corn.

00:44:34.780 I understand that.

00:44:35.800 You might not like it.

00:44:37.040 But I mean, feeding people is pretty freaking important.

00:44:39.900 And we're able to do that like we've never been able to do it before.

00:44:43.520 The portion of the U.S. population that is homeless and unsheltered.

00:44:48.060 Around the world, it's 20%.

00:44:49.740 In the U.S., 0.1%.

00:44:53.380 That is a stunning statistic.

00:44:58.100 200 times worse around the world.

00:45:00.220 Wow.

00:45:00.720 And we question capitalism.

00:45:02.580 We question the free market.

00:45:04.740 It's 200 times worse.

00:45:07.500 That's amazing.

00:45:08.280 Amazing.

00:45:08.800 That's amazing.

00:45:09.640 The homicide rate in the United States has dropped by about half from the levels of the

00:45:14.180 70s, 80s, and 90s.

00:45:16.520 While the media constantly warns of the epidemic of rape culture, the rate of forcible rape

00:45:21.120 has dropped by over 30% since the 90s.

00:45:23.680 Even in Hollywood, apparently.

00:45:25.160 As we talk about the caravan that's in Tijuana now, you know what the murder rate in, you know

00:45:29.720 what the murder number in Tijuana so far this year is?

00:45:33.580 It's over 2,200 people murdered in a town of 1.6 million.

00:45:37.680 Oh, my.

00:45:38.080 2,200.

00:45:39.020 You know what the number is in 8 million resident New York City this year?

00:45:43.220 No.

00:45:44.260 147.

00:45:45.800 147 compared to over 2,200 in Tijuana.

00:45:50.460 But we definitely shouldn't have a border wall.

00:45:52.080 I want to make sure that's clear.

00:45:53.100 We don't want to keep that separate from us.

00:45:54.840 I mean, it's unbelievable.

00:45:56.220 And the strides that we've made in reducing crime like that in this country are unbelievable.

00:46:02.460 And yes, it's still too high.

00:46:04.260 You don't want 147 people to be murdered in New York or anywhere else.

00:46:08.020 Of course.

00:46:08.660 But that's an amazing achievement because the number used to be over 2,000 in New York.

00:46:14.000 It was basically Tijuana.

00:46:15.340 It was.

00:46:16.000 Except more people.

00:46:17.220 So the ratio wasn't as bad.

00:46:18.280 But still, it was the same amount of murder.

00:46:19.780 It was bad for us back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

00:46:24.520 And we've made unbelievable strides since then.

00:46:28.580 Incredible.

00:46:29.980 Perhaps the most surprising, and I know this as a parent of two small kids going to school.

00:46:35.860 You know, one of these school shootings happened.

00:46:37.280 And, you know, you can't help but freak out a little bit.

00:46:39.960 You can't help but, you know, you just don't want that to happen to your kid.

00:46:43.020 And it seems like it's just like this foreign thing that has come out of nowhere. 0.98

00:46:46.200 And while, obviously, I'm not for the gun restrictions and the kind of silliness that the left suggests for such a thing.

00:46:53.180 I mean, how ridiculous is this?

00:46:54.540 You're going to ban, let's say you ban AR-15s, right? 1.00

00:46:56.820 So then people with $1,200 to spend on guns instead buy, what, three or four different guns, you know, with the same amount of money.

00:47:04.880 Yes.

00:47:05.140 So there's, at the end of the day, more guns on the street.

00:47:07.520 This is what happened in the 90s when they tried an assault weapons ban.

00:47:09.920 More guns on the street after it than before it.

00:47:12.160 And, by the way, the kind of guns that are responsible for most murders in this country.

00:47:15.960 Yeah.

00:47:16.140 Most murders are from handguns.

00:47:19.120 Overwhelmingly handguns.

00:47:20.000 They're not from rifles?

00:47:21.380 Right.

00:47:21.760 Which is, it's just so, it's so stupid.

00:47:24.880 It's such a, I mean, like, but it's stupid with a understandable emotional backing.

00:47:31.580 Yeah.

00:47:31.880 Right?

00:47:32.080 Like, I get it.

00:47:33.120 When I see these things, I feel the same way.

00:47:34.940 I have kids.

00:47:35.960 I want this to stop.

00:47:37.740 It's heart-wrenching.

00:47:38.920 It's terrible.

00:47:39.780 Mm-hmm.

00:47:40.400 But this is, this number, I will say, shocked me more than any number that we had talked about as going through and putting this book together.

00:47:49.120 Uh, the number of school shootings has dropped dramatically.

00:47:53.940 Has dropped dramatically.

00:47:56.000 The rate of students killed per million in fatal school shootings has dropped by over 75%.

00:48:02.860 That's really something.

00:48:04.420 That is shocking to me.

00:48:05.920 And hard to believe because you would think it's triple what it used to be.

00:48:09.900 Yeah.

00:48:10.440 The way the media handles this, the stories.

00:48:12.980 Yeah.

00:48:13.320 And we start buying into it.

00:48:15.360 I mean, you know.

00:48:16.160 You do.

00:48:16.300 It's hard not to.

00:48:17.580 Yeah.

00:48:17.740 Beat over the head by it all the time.

00:48:19.240 Yeah.

00:48:19.520 And the emotion is certainly there.

00:48:22.060 But I mean, because have you heard that stat on CNN or even Fox?

00:48:25.140 No.

00:48:25.520 No.

00:48:25.640 I mean, I haven't.

00:48:26.980 You don't.

00:48:28.180 Now, this is, researchers at Northeastern, the ones that put this together, said that this means, quote,

00:48:32.700 four times the number of children were killed in schools in the early 90s as today.

00:48:37.040 Wow.

00:48:37.520 Four times.

00:48:38.420 And this is what was fascinating to me.

00:48:41.100 I was in high school in the 90s.

00:48:42.940 That's when I was there.

00:48:44.380 When I was in school.

00:48:45.720 Yeah, you too.

00:48:46.220 Me too.

00:48:46.720 When we were in school, Pat.

00:48:47.760 Late 90s, though.

00:48:48.340 I, you know, because I think you were.

00:48:49.740 Oh, I was early 90s.

00:48:50.640 Yeah.

00:48:50.740 Yeah.

00:48:50.760 Okay.

00:48:51.380 But the point is, I was, when I was in school with absolutely no fear of a school shooting

00:48:59.980 ever.

00:49:00.640 Oh, I know.

00:49:01.160 Ever.

00:49:01.780 I was four times as likely to be killed in a school shooting than the kids are today.

00:49:06.160 Absolutely amazing.

00:49:07.160 That is incredible.

00:49:08.140 It's an amazing statistic.

00:49:09.140 That's something to be thankful for.

00:49:10.560 Yes.

00:49:10.900 That's an incredible improvement.

00:49:14.020 There, and as they, as they summarize it, quote, there is not an epidemic of school

00:49:20.100 shootings, end quote.

00:49:21.720 This is not a conservative, this is Northeastern University.

00:49:24.280 Yeah, that's not done by the Republican Party.

00:49:26.300 No.

00:49:26.920 Not at all.

00:49:28.400 And that is, I mean, that is really, truly amazing.

00:49:31.420 And what we've seen, I think, and part of what explains that, is we've seen a rise in

00:49:35.880 the large number of, like, the mass incident event, right?

00:49:41.040 Where someone goes in and shoots 10 people.

00:49:43.000 Yeah.

00:49:43.160 And a lot of it was more spread out, but in a way, that's more dangerous, right?

00:49:46.780 Like, if you happen to be the incredibly unlucky person who happens to be at a school where

00:49:52.480 a mass school shooting goes off, I mean, it's, I mean, the odds against it are incredible.

00:49:57.680 So the mass shootings are up?

00:49:59.500 Mass shootings are, I, this is, I don't have a stats in here.

00:50:02.160 But the smaller shootings in more places are way, way, way down.

00:50:06.380 Way, way, way, way, way down.

00:50:08.220 And so you are probably, you know, you're going to be more likely for your school to be involved

00:50:12.120 in a death back then by a ton of times.

00:50:15.720 Now, mass shootings overall, the peak was actually in the late 20s when you talk about mass shootings

00:50:21.640 in general.

00:50:22.900 But, you know, there are different varieties of this statistic and you can find it.

00:50:27.940 But again, they're down since the 90s, all of them.

00:50:31.160 And, you know, because we've had a great amount of improvement.

00:50:34.360 How about this?

00:50:34.800 If you're of a certain age, you may remember being terrified of polio, right?

00:50:39.740 In 1952, there were 57,879 cases of polio in the United States.

00:50:45.160 In 2017, there were zero.

00:50:49.360 It's amazing.

00:50:50.280 Zero.

00:50:50.920 Completely wiped out in this country.

00:50:52.380 And that's because of the vaccine that you took as a sugar cube when I was a kid.

00:50:56.140 That's amazing.

00:50:56.960 Yeah.

00:50:57.920 Among men in the United States, if you're a dude, you're going to be happy about some of

00:51:01.980 this.

00:51:02.500 Death rates from colon cancer have dropped by 30%.

00:51:05.260 Oh, that's another thing I would think was way up.

00:51:07.340 Yeah, right?

00:51:07.960 Because that's now all you hear.

00:51:08.940 You hear about having to get checked every six minutes, apparently.

00:51:13.020 Lung cancer has dropped by 40%.

00:51:15.600 Prostate cancer, again, another one of those that you'd think was up, has dropped by 45%.

00:51:20.980 Wow.

00:51:21.600 Death from stomach cancer has dropped by 50%.

00:51:24.380 All since 1990.

00:51:27.500 How about breast cancer?

00:51:28.520 We wear a lot of pink socks on the football field.

00:51:31.020 You got pink socks and pink pants and that's going on and that's great.

00:51:34.680 I don't like the pink uniforms in football, but I mean, the donations are great.

00:51:40.760 Among women, the death rate from breast cancer has dropped by 35%.

00:51:44.260 Wow.

00:51:45.500 Wow.

00:51:46.280 That's all really, really freaking good news that we never, ever contemplate anymore.

00:51:52.820 Definitely stuff to be thankful for.

00:51:55.040 And you would never guess it.

00:51:56.460 And I think part of that, though, is the 24-hour news cycle.

00:51:59.420 I think part of that is there's so much news that's disseminated and you hear about it all the time.

00:52:06.840 Everything that happens, you hear about it nonstop.

00:52:10.340 888-727-BECK.

00:52:12.040 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:52:16.880 With Pat and Stu this week, Glenn's back on Monday.

00:52:19.560 888-727-BECK.

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00:52:48.020 Oh, nice.

00:52:48.680 I've seen those before.

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00:52:49.820 You can get the Blaze mugs, which are really cool.

00:52:52.440 Very cool.

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00:52:54.500 There's a special limited edition of a Glenn and Pat t-shirt with, I think it's our very first promotional photo that we ever took together in Baltimore.

00:53:02.460 You're 12 and 10 years old, I believe, at the time.

00:53:05.660 Yes.

00:53:06.020 You are very young.

00:53:07.020 And we look pretty young at the time, especially Glenn.

00:53:09.840 He looks like he's five.

00:53:11.200 Mm-hmm.

00:53:12.060 In these photos.

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00:53:19.680 Why would you do that?

00:53:20.500 Why would you have that?

00:53:22.520 I mean.

00:53:23.880 I can't think of a reason.

00:53:25.420 I mean, if you're going to make something, I would think a Jeffy plate would be something interesting to buy.

00:53:29.740 Because if you're thinking about what you think about when you think of Jeffy, you're not going to think of food.

00:53:33.820 Maybe a plate like the size of a typical kitchen table would be something that interesting merchandise-wise they could make.

00:53:39.940 Plus, there's the cool Don't California My T-Shirt T-Shirts.

00:53:44.940 Don't California My Texas T-Shirt?

00:53:47.540 Is that what it's supposed to be?

00:53:48.780 I think it's supposed to be Don't California My Texas.

00:53:50.300 Oh, yes.

00:53:50.580 I think you're right.

00:53:51.160 Don't California My Texas T-Shirts.

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00:53:57.680 It's all at shop.theblaze.com for Black Friday 20.

00:54:03.780 Yeah, I'll also point out, too, if you're thinking of an early Christmas gift for someone, you want to get it out of the way early so you don't have to think about anything for Christmas.

00:54:09.940 And you're going to see that relative this weekend.

00:54:13.040 And they happen to be in Florida.

00:54:14.460 It's a good time to select tour tickets.

00:54:17.640 We're going to be in Tampa and Orlando in a couple of weeks.

00:54:21.340 Go to glenbeck.com slash tour.

00:54:23.420 It's a really fun show.

00:54:24.560 I would love to see the show.

00:54:25.900 I don't live in Tampa or Florida.

00:54:27.740 No.

00:54:28.060 So I probably won't see this show, but I would love to.

00:54:31.120 Well, you have that condo in Syria.

00:54:32.680 We might do an appearance there if you want to.

00:54:34.140 Oh, really?

00:54:34.440 Are you thinking about that?

00:54:35.040 If you're going to be visiting that condo at any point.

00:54:36.800 I usually only go in the summer for my summer break.

00:54:42.080 But I could make an exception if you guys are going there this winter.

00:54:44.600 It's so nice in Syria.

00:54:46.160 This time of year?

00:54:46.600 Oh, my gosh.

00:54:47.220 It's beautiful.

00:54:48.400 It's beautiful.

00:54:50.340 Yeah.

00:54:51.060 Yeah.

00:54:51.420 You don't want necessarily, not necessarily the place you want to visit right now, but

00:54:55.100 Tampa and Orlando are pretty nice.

00:54:56.460 So check it out, especially this time of year, by the way.

00:54:58.460 You guys going to get any time to go to Disney World?

00:55:01.220 I don't think so.

00:55:02.660 We're getting to that point with my kids, though, where I'm going to have to make these

00:55:05.360 sorts of decisions.

00:55:06.580 Yes.

00:55:07.540 I'm very intimidated by them.

00:55:09.660 There's like a whole process if you're going to Disney with your kids.

00:55:12.220 You got to know all the stuff in advance.

00:55:13.940 You got to buy like the fast passes in advance.

00:55:17.420 You have to get like, there's all these tricks of the trade.

00:55:19.760 I have a couple of friends who go there.

00:55:22.100 One has kids.

00:55:23.120 The other one just oddly seems to go as like a mid-20s person all the time.

00:55:28.180 Very strange development.

00:55:30.360 But between those two people, I have a lot of inside information on how to get this stuff.

00:55:34.840 So I'm like, I'm looking at this as like, you know, it's a puzzle.

00:55:38.560 Yeah.

00:55:38.720 Your kids are getting to that perfect age to take them.

00:55:40.680 Oh, yeah.

00:55:41.220 Yeah.

00:55:41.420 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn, 888-727-BECK.

00:55:49.680 Let's go to Jason in Florida.

00:55:52.020 Hey, Jason, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

00:55:54.940 Good.

00:55:55.240 I have to set you all straight on Dolph Lundgren.

00:55:57.640 He's actually not a dumb man by any means, as he found out.

00:56:00.600 But he is a very good actor and a very good martial artist.

00:56:02.900 He did a movie with Brandon Lee prior to the Rocky series called Showdown, Little Tokyo.

00:56:08.340 Or it might have been right afterwards.

00:56:09.960 But it's a very good movie.

00:56:11.500 He's a great martial artist.

00:56:13.200 But, yeah, I've always loved him as an action star.

00:56:16.040 That guy doing martial arts has got to be pretty impressive because he's massive.

00:56:21.260 He really is.

00:56:23.060 And you also see him, he was in the Expendables.

00:56:27.240 Yeah.

00:56:27.480 The Salone movie where him and Jet Li beat each other up, which was quite humorous, watching

00:56:33.280 Jet Li go against him. 1.00

00:56:35.240 So, yeah, he's a good guy.

00:56:36.940 I like him.

00:56:37.360 Now, can I win tickets to the Tampa Glenn Beck show?

00:56:41.200 First of all, I love the fact that you've tried to hide this behind a point.

00:56:44.680 So, yes, you can have tickets to the Tampa Glenn Beck show.

00:56:47.140 That's awesome.

00:56:47.680 What's your name again?

00:56:49.420 Jason.

00:56:49.920 Jason.

00:56:50.260 All right, Jason, we're going to put you on hold.

00:56:51.360 And we would love to see you out there.

00:56:53.880 That was all a ruse.

00:56:54.360 I love that.

00:56:54.780 He didn't care at all about Ivan Drago or Dolph Lundgren.

00:56:58.100 No.

00:56:59.140 Wow.

00:56:59.340 He just wanted to take us to the Tampa show.

00:57:02.520 That was completely insincere.

00:57:04.420 I'm a little bit hurt now.

00:57:05.540 I'm kind of honored by it.

00:57:06.620 I like the fact that he took the effort to make a rocky point.

00:57:09.580 Yes, he did.

00:57:10.340 The next call we're going to have is, by the way, I just wanted to say the Philadelphia

00:57:12.840 Eagles Super Bowl was wonderful.

00:57:14.980 Can I have tickets to the Orlando show?

00:57:15.620 One of the high points of my life.

00:57:16.980 By the way, do you have any tickets left?

00:57:19.500 Let's go to Craig in Kentucky.

00:57:20.680 Hey, Craig, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

00:57:23.400 Hey, how you guys doing?

00:57:24.260 I wanted to make a quick analogy and propose a question.

00:57:29.060 I always look at Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, almost like a household

00:57:34.500 that runs our country, right?

00:57:36.200 Yep.

00:57:36.780 So if I compare it to my household, my wife and I try to not bicker, try to not put negative

00:57:42.420 things out against each other, especially in front of the kids, right?

00:57:44.940 Because the kids got to know it's going good.

00:57:46.540 We got to keep the house together.

00:57:47.980 Right.

00:57:49.420 Anymore, seems like the gloves are off for the divorced parents that, hey, we're just trying 0.99

00:57:56.560 to bash each other to the kids and get favoritism among the kids.

00:57:59.820 There's no common ground.

00:58:01.060 There's no, hey, this is going to be better for the country in the long run.

00:58:05.280 So, because nobody can even find anything nice about Donald Trump, right?

00:58:08.700 Love him or hate him.

00:58:09.540 He's got to be doing something right that you could at least go, you know what?

00:58:13.240 I don't agree with him on this.

00:58:14.240 I agree with him on that.

00:58:15.680 Now, if my wife and I split up, we each get a separate house. 0.93

00:58:18.620 We run our house how we want to.

00:58:19.880 So, my question is, what does the country do when you got Fox, CNN, who clearly have

00:58:25.800 their biases, you got Democrats, Republicans, who want to take the country completely different

00:58:30.800 ways?

00:58:31.280 Well, we can't just split the country up and you run the west side, we'll run the east

00:58:35.560 side and, you know, agree to part ways.

00:58:37.340 The marriage didn't work.

00:58:38.220 So, what do we do?

00:58:38.980 Where do we go?

00:58:40.420 That's my question.

00:58:42.060 I mean, it's a tough question.

00:58:43.140 And I think, you know, there are, I always feel like, you can look at like a debate like

00:58:48.740 the gun situation.

00:58:50.940 What always happens after a mass shooting, right?

00:58:52.900 You have this situation where the Republicans, say, come up with their solutions, Democrats

00:58:57.600 say they don't want guns, right?

00:58:58.900 Like, that's basically what happens every single time.

00:59:01.340 And, you know, we go back and forth on whether the Democrats' solution of taking away our

00:59:05.380 Second Amendment rights is a good one or not. 0.74

00:59:08.380 Obviously, we believe it's a bad one and nothing happens.

00:59:11.760 But there's a lot of low-hanging fruit outside of the gun debate.

00:59:15.820 Like, you know, like we talk about security in schools.

00:59:18.160 Like, there are very few, I think there are very few Democrats who would disagree that

00:59:23.100 there should be some level of security in schools, right?

00:59:27.160 Like, kids have, Democrats have kids too.

00:59:29.500 They want them to be protected.

00:59:30.760 They don't want them necessarily to be protected by teachers.

00:59:33.220 They might not like that, right?

00:59:34.380 Like, if Republicans say, well, teachers, let's arm the teachers.

00:59:36.360 And the Democrats say, let's take away all these guns. 0.99

00:59:38.180 Neither one of those are possible solutions because the other side is automatically going

00:59:43.160 to disagree with them.

00:59:44.300 But there are lower-hanging fruit.

00:59:46.040 Things like mental health is another one.

00:59:47.760 Like, I think everybody on both sides agree that people who have massive mental health problems

00:59:52.700 should not be owning firearms.

00:59:53.860 And also, curing that situation, because just making it so they don't own them or can't

01:00:00.680 buy them doesn't solve the solution at all.

01:00:02.220 It doesn't solve the problem at all.

01:00:03.440 I mean, Adam, whatever his name was in, I was going to say his name because I do remember

01:00:08.220 it, but I don't want to give these people any freaking recognition anymore.

01:00:11.620 But the guy in Newtown, he had real problems, mental health.

01:00:16.760 But he didn't own guns.

01:00:18.160 His mom owned guns.

01:00:18.980 His mom had no mental problems, but he went and stole all of her guns and shot her and 0.99

01:00:24.080 killed her and then went and killed all those kids. 0.83

01:00:25.860 How do you solve that with a restriction on mental health?

01:00:30.360 It's not about that.

01:00:30.980 It's about trying to help those people so they don't do those things, right?

01:00:34.260 Yeah.

01:00:34.700 And so, I think, like, I do think that there's an argument to be made where you can look

01:00:40.040 more commonly for low-hanging fruit in a lot of these debates.

01:00:43.660 A lot of these issues, there are elements of them that will do some, they'll give some

01:00:50.260 improvement without having to go down the road of helping, of violating a principle.

01:00:59.220 Like, you take away my Second Amendment rights, you're violating a principle.

01:01:02.120 It's a non-starter for me.

01:01:04.320 So, you go down those roads and it doesn't work.

01:01:06.680 Addicted to Outrage has a lot of ways to, it's, the whole book is about addressing exactly

01:01:12.240 what you're talking about and trying to find a way to, to not only exist with, with people

01:01:20.140 who, let's be honest about it, a lot of times you think are completely insane.

01:01:23.400 I mean, a lot of the views that I hear from Democrats I think are completely insane and

01:01:26.380 I, I, I find it difficult to even acknowledge them without ridiculing them or just getting

01:01:32.920 incredibly frustrated.

01:01:34.620 But, A, you're going to live with these people, so you got to figure something out.

01:01:38.480 And, B, our goal used to be persuasion.

01:01:42.780 Ronald Reagan's goal was persuasion, right?

01:01:44.920 Like, Ronald Reagan's goal...

01:01:46.380 He had dinner every single night of the week with Tip O'Neill.

01:01:50.280 He had breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

01:01:52.460 I don't think that's true.

01:01:53.460 Every day with Tip O'Neill, seven days a week.

01:01:55.580 I don't think that's true.

01:01:56.660 That's how the, and they fought like cats and dogs during the day.

01:02:00.640 And then they went and ate every meal together.

01:02:02.860 I don't, I don't think that's accurate.

01:02:04.440 I think he ate with his wife a lot.

01:02:06.600 No.

01:02:07.320 Never?

01:02:07.600 No, he always ate with Tip O'Neill.

01:02:08.920 He never had dinner with Tip O'Neill?

01:02:09.360 Oh, no.

01:02:10.420 Ask Chris Matthews.

01:02:11.660 He never had dinner with anybody but Tip O'Neill.

01:02:15.520 And I, I, like the Tip O'Neill thing, because Chris Matthews brings this up all the time.

01:02:18.720 All the time.

01:02:18.960 And in his context of bringing it up is, they would work together and then, you know, that

01:02:25.020 would be a way to get to bipartisan solutions, right?

01:02:27.440 Like, or something like that.

01:02:28.480 Yeah.

01:02:29.040 And look at your hero, Ronald Reagan.

01:02:31.440 Your hero got along with the left.

01:02:33.960 Why can't you?

01:02:34.520 I think that's the ultimate point, right?

01:02:36.680 I don't necessarily, bipartisanship to me is, generally speaking, overrated.

01:02:45.040 Bipartisanship is not something to praise in and of itself.

01:02:49.260 Now, if you have, like, there's a lot of things that get voted on in the Senate that

01:02:52.260 were voted on 98 to nothing, right?

01:02:54.080 And, you know, so that sort of bipartisanship is fine, right?

01:02:57.260 Like, if it's something that everybody agrees with and it's good.

01:02:59.480 But if you're compromising your principles.

01:03:01.060 Then it's not good.

01:03:01.660 It's not good.

01:03:02.160 And that all too often happens.

01:03:04.400 Right.

01:03:04.680 And if you have something, an argument that's correct, trying to convince someone rather

01:03:09.860 than just shouting at them is really a good idea.

01:03:15.920 You know, that is something that I don't think we attempt enough anymore.

01:03:18.980 Like, I, and I'm guilty of this as well.

01:03:20.940 A lot of times I'll be talking about something I'm passionate about and it just makes me feel

01:03:25.020 good that I know what I'm talking about and I'm right.

01:03:27.180 You know, I mean, I think everybody does that at some level.

01:03:30.800 You try to avoid it because you're a jerk, basically, if you do it, but you're always

01:03:34.580 convinced of something.

01:03:35.540 When you, when the, when the Kavanaugh thing's going down, people are heated and, you know,

01:03:39.040 our side is saying like, you can't just throw this guy, you can't ruin this guy's life over

01:03:43.040 nothing.

01:03:43.720 And their side is saying, you can't put a rapist in this, on the Supreme Court.

01:03:47.800 Now, look, they're one, one of those two arguments is right.

01:03:51.240 Okay.

01:03:51.740 One of them, not two of them.

01:03:53.300 One of them is right.

01:03:54.840 And it's hard to, um, to even give oxygen to the other side.

01:04:01.180 In my mind, that one is so blatantly horrible as a precedent to set down that we should just,

01:04:07.220 Oh, one accusation from 30 years ago.

01:04:08.800 Oh yeah.

01:04:09.180 God obviously ruined the guy's life.

01:04:10.440 Like it's completely bonkers to me.

01:04:12.860 However, when you talk to people and you say, Hey, you know, you have a son, right?

01:04:18.320 Like, is this a standard you want to embrace for the rest of your son's life?

01:04:23.400 You know, is this something that where any woman could accuse him of anything and he's

01:04:28.360 just done in his career as a result of it without looking into it any further?

01:04:32.800 Yeah.

01:04:33.020 Well, if there's no evidence and there's no corroboration, are you willing to have your

01:04:36.720 son just lose his job and his livelihood over it?

01:04:39.540 Yeah.

01:04:39.740 Let me ask you another question.

01:04:40.660 You remember growing up as, and this, this is an interesting conversation I had with several

01:04:45.160 women when this, when the me too stuff was going on around the holidays last year, you

01:04:49.600 go into these Christmas parties.

01:04:50.800 Of course, we're, you know, we're in the business of talking about news and politics.

01:04:54.920 So you, you wind up having a lot of conversations about that.

01:04:58.260 And it was the women all the time, all the time that would come up and say, uh, I had about 1.00

01:05:04.740 20 friends who did things just like that.

01:05:07.600 I had friends who came up and made false accusations against guys they liked and hated constantly

01:05:13.420 because they, now this is not me saying this, this is not the guy saying this.

01:05:18.120 These are the women who were friends with other women who did this.

01:05:22.220 And we all inherently know when we stop and think about it for a moment that women, this 1.00

01:05:30.340 is a technicality here.

01:05:31.400 Women are people. 1.00

01:05:33.180 So people do terrible things all the time.

01:05:35.700 Wait, you're, you're saying women are not perfect beings. 0.92

01:05:39.060 I am saying that women are not perfect beings, period. 1.00

01:05:43.120 Wow.

01:05:43.820 Why the misogyny?

01:05:46.100 Full stop.

01:05:46.780 Why the sexism?

01:05:49.260 Let me give you an example of this.

01:05:50.420 Huh.

01:05:51.320 Uh, guy, morning of September 22nd of last year, Christopher Procopia went to work at his

01:05:57.600 lumber yard in, uh, in Georgetown.

01:06:00.240 Um, he had, uh, someone stopped by to see him.

01:06:03.200 Um, that person happened to be a police officer.

01:06:07.520 That police officer charged him with burglary and the intent to commit other crimes, uh, likely

01:06:15.260 sexual assault or rape.

01:06:17.320 Um, the person accusing him.

01:06:19.220 The intent to commit other crimes.

01:06:21.100 Yes.

01:06:21.360 So they knew what was in his head.

01:06:23.160 Well, I guess he didn't actually do it.

01:06:26.520 Right.

01:06:26.860 But he broke in with the intent to do it.

01:06:29.060 All right.

01:06:29.400 Okay.

01:06:29.560 That was the charge.

01:06:30.240 And they had some evidence.

01:06:31.160 They had a witness, the woman, former high school girlfriend, uh, and they had dated for

01:06:36.440 a long time.

01:06:38.040 She, uh, had not only the story of what had happened, but also an X on her chest that was

01:06:45.420 carved into her, her chest via box cutter and, uh, by him, by him, she was, she said he did

01:06:53.160 it.

01:06:53.980 Um, he had pretty ugly, no freaking idea what was going on.

01:06:57.660 However, uh, because he was nowhere near her at the time that she said that this happened.

01:07:03.260 Now, remember during the Kavanaugh thing.

01:07:04.880 Oh, the time, what does that time matter?

01:07:06.620 What does a day matter?

01:07:07.800 What does it matter?

01:07:08.500 What time this happened?

01:07:09.700 It was she, of course she can't remember exactly, but it doesn't matter.

01:07:12.520 Well, here's a reason why it does matter.

01:07:15.140 Um, at the time this was going on, he happened to be at a, uh, Northwest Austin, Texas hotel,

01:07:22.400 about 65 miles away from the accuser's home.

01:07:26.640 And of course you can certainly say that all you want, but he happened to have a selfie

01:07:31.920 at the time with his family that was posted and dug up.

01:07:36.160 And that is what got him off.

01:07:38.520 He was, he went through the arrest process.

01:07:40.480 He was accused of rape.

01:07:42.880 This woman apparently did not like him and wanted to, uh, had a vendetta against him 0.99

01:07:48.540 and made a false charge.

01:07:50.220 He's now walking free and everything's fine because she was lying about him, according

01:07:55.560 to the court.

01:07:56.980 And so we believe survivors doesn't really apply in that particular case.

01:08:01.780 It would not be a good policy.

01:08:03.060 Not a good policy.

01:08:04.240 Or how about the woman, Anna Ayers, who was a journalism major and a member of the student

01:08:09.880 senate at Ohio university.

01:08:11.660 She found some threatening notes, Pat.

01:08:14.060 Uh, she was, they were harassing her. 0.97

01:08:16.660 They said, uh, they said that she should, uh, should not be allowed in the, in the student 0.93

01:08:21.420 senate.

01:08:21.860 They said that, uh, that she was, I think it's because of her sexual orientation. 0.69

01:08:30.680 And, uh, the only minor issue was this, uh, and this is, uh, uh, just a minor issue.

01:08:36.820 Um, she wrote the notes herself, which is, you know, always what happens in this situation.

01:08:42.880 I mean, we could go through these all day.

01:08:45.100 Yeah.

01:08:45.280 People do these things to each other all freaking day.

01:08:47.760 All the time.

01:08:48.140 And I think everybody knows this.

01:08:49.740 So if you can talk to someone and say, Hey, this is, you, you, you know, this, you know

01:08:53.800 what this is, and not go after him and scream at them about Brett Kavanaugh, but try to

01:08:57.020 bring it into another place.

01:08:58.020 So they think about it differently.

01:09:00.200 You wind up having a lot more success and only, only changing people's minds are going

01:09:05.900 to get us back to the constitutional principles.

01:09:07.660 We don't have enough.

01:09:08.400 You saw this in the Senate, you know, the democratic Senate popular or house popular vote

01:09:12.040 as they're still calculating it with all the last votes.

01:09:14.000 Looks like it will be the largest in history.

01:09:16.660 Ooh.

01:09:17.020 The worst electoral defeat in history when it comes to popular vote in the house.

01:09:22.360 Wow.

01:09:22.780 That is a big deal.

01:09:24.360 Yeah.

01:09:25.220 And it's, so you can't just have your base.

01:09:27.380 You got to be able to convince people who will listen and we need to get better at that.

01:09:32.200 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, B E C K.

01:09:36.620 With Pat and Stu today, um, PETA is upset with the president right now because, uh, turkeys don't 1.00

01:09:42.900 need to be pardoned and, uh, uh, president Trump did in fact, pardon, uh, a turkey yesterday,

01:09:50.680 right?

01:09:50.920 The 39 pound white wonder named peas, the turkey.

01:09:55.060 Uh, but, uh, PETA's comment was turkeys don't need to be pardoned. 1.00

01:10:01.500 They aren't serving five to 10 for armed robbery.

01:10:05.500 No, but they are going to wind up on a plate somewhere.

01:10:08.680 Or if the president doesn't pardon one of them, like the one he didn't pardon.

01:10:12.820 Is that really?

01:10:13.300 Does the one that doesn't get pardoned actually eat it?

01:10:15.560 Yeah.

01:10:15.900 I think they kill it and eat it.

01:10:17.620 Very strange.

01:10:19.460 It's a weird tradition.

01:10:20.740 Yeah.

01:10:21.180 Cause I think most people just would like, if you're eating meat, you want to basically

01:10:25.560 avoid the idea of how it got there.

01:10:27.200 I don't like thinking about it's living years.

01:10:30.280 I don't like that.

01:10:31.380 Uh, maybe other people don't care, but I, you know, like even if I have steak, I don't

01:10:35.660 want to think of the cow walking around eating grass.

01:10:38.360 No, I don't think most people do.

01:10:39.820 I don't think that's a, that's a pleasant.

01:10:42.000 And that is not one of the things that kind of sort of turned you off.

01:10:44.880 Yeah.

01:10:45.320 I don't, I didn't like the idea that I say, cause I felt that way the same way as, as

01:10:49.760 you, I, I just didn't like the idea that I was essentially just ignoring it.

01:10:53.180 Like I, I was just like, Oh, well, if I don't think about it, right.

01:10:56.660 Yes.

01:10:56.960 I didn't feel consistent.

01:10:57.740 You went a step further and actually did something about it.

01:11:00.400 It just didn't feel like if this is bothering me, why am I continuing to do it?

01:11:05.380 See, I don't dig into it that deeply.

01:11:07.900 That's, I think, I don't think most Americans are probably on that path, which I, you know,

01:11:13.520 I certainly understand.

01:11:14.560 It's, it's not something you want to think about, you know?

01:11:16.480 So tomorrow you'll eat, I got some Tofurky?

01:11:20.340 Not Tofurky. 1.00

01:11:21.080 I've got a, I've got a craft thing from Minneapolis I got sent in.

01:11:26.280 Okay.

01:11:26.960 It's a long story.

01:11:27.740 All right.

01:11:27.940 Len, back.

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01:12:30.920 Beck ran in stupor gear today.

01:12:32.580 Hey, good news America.

01:12:33.860 It looks like Beto O'Rourke will be back in the nation's consciousness very, very soon.

01:12:40.740 He's probably going to run for president, but his backers are begging him.

01:12:45.980 If you don't run for president, at least run for another Senate seat in Texas.

01:12:51.000 And John Cornyn is up for a re-election in 2020, so he might be running.

01:12:55.540 I kind of think he might beat Cornyn.

01:12:58.540 You know, with Ted Cruz, Ted's ideology and Beto's ideology, it's a big gap.

01:13:05.880 Right.

01:13:06.460 Yes, definitely.

01:13:07.240 With Cornyn, it narrows.

01:13:09.680 Yeah, it's still a gap.

01:13:11.060 It's still a gap.

01:13:11.700 It's not as big.

01:13:12.560 But nowhere near as big.

01:13:14.720 And so I think he had like $10 or $15 million left over from his campaign, so he's already

01:13:20.140 got, you know, some pretty good seed money for whatever office he runs for.

01:13:25.260 It's interesting, too.

01:13:26.160 This is something, as we've looked back at the election results that we were talking

01:13:29.420 about a little bit earlier off the air, in that, you know, Democrats did really well

01:13:34.380 in this election.

01:13:34.940 I mean, this was not only just, every single time you have a president in power, the opposing

01:13:41.400 party usually gains seats.

01:13:42.660 That's well known.

01:13:43.680 This is still one of the, it was one of the, it was a top-tier performance over the past

01:13:47.060 century.

01:13:47.600 Wasn't as good as the Tea Party wave.

01:13:49.100 Wasn't as good as 1994 for the Republicans.

01:13:51.380 But it was one of the best that they have done in the last century.

01:13:57.340 Either party.

01:13:58.080 It's a, depending on how you look at it, it's about third or fourth best in the past, you

01:14:03.200 know, between 60 and 100 years.

01:14:05.680 Wow.

01:14:06.080 And so it is a, they did very well in the house.

01:14:11.040 I mean, they gained, it looks like it's going to be about 40 seats in the house they're going

01:14:13.760 to pick up.

01:14:14.200 The only thing they didn't get were the high profile positions.

01:14:17.020 And that was interesting.

01:14:18.080 And I think.

01:14:18.520 Florida, Georgia, and Texas.

01:14:19.540 Right.

01:14:19.760 And so the ones they focused on in big ways did not come through, right?

01:14:25.180 Which is great.

01:14:26.380 Great.

01:14:26.840 Florida in both the Senate and governor, Georgia governor, Texas Senate, you know, a couple

01:14:33.700 of others you might throw in there, Indiana Senate, Missouri Senate.

01:14:38.120 But really everything else popped for them.

01:14:39.800 Right.

01:14:40.180 Everything else they got.

01:14:41.260 And it was interesting because the way the election night unfolds, I've said this before,

01:14:45.720 when you have early results, a lot of times they tell the story of the night.

01:14:49.240 Where you will say, okay, Republicans doing worse in these three places.

01:14:55.080 Therefore, you can kind of set the climate of what the election is and say, it looks like

01:15:00.180 this might be a good night for Democrats.

01:15:02.140 Oddly, what happened last night is three of the exceptions to the rule were the first ones

01:15:06.760 that came out.

01:15:07.760 The Florida results.

01:15:09.400 You know, Republicans started doing well in Florida.

01:15:11.980 Um, I would also throw in, uh, the, um, Indiana Senate where Republicans far outperformed

01:15:18.300 expectations, uh, as compared to polling, it was supposed to be basically a toss up race

01:15:24.260 and they want it fairly relatively easily.

01:15:26.700 Yeah.

01:15:27.280 That started came, uh, come out, came out first in Kentucky.

01:15:29.580 There was a house race that was supposed to be 50, 50 race that the Republicans did well

01:15:33.120 in.

01:15:33.280 And when those races all came out as the first thing, I think it really gave me the impression

01:15:37.420 that the Republicans were going to do pretty well.

01:15:39.640 And they did defend the Senate.

01:15:40.900 There were some good stories, some individual stories, but actually the Democrats did worse

01:15:45.120 in the high profile races.

01:15:47.020 And that brings me back to the Texas Senate thing.

01:15:48.880 If it's Beto Cruz, that's super high profile race. 0.88

01:15:52.340 And people have strong feelings about both Beto and Cruz.

01:15:57.300 I don't know that people have strong feelings about John Cornyn.

01:15:59.960 I, I, he's just kind of like a, you know, he's just there, he's just there, you know,

01:16:04.240 he, he's not the worst, he's not the worst Republican in the Senate, but he's, he's nowhere

01:16:08.140 near the best.

01:16:09.260 Yeah.

01:16:09.840 But he's not the worst, you know, he's not Susan Collins, right?

01:16:12.820 And he's not like someone who, you know, he's just very establishment and kind of just

01:16:20.260 dull that may actually help him because he doesn't, you know, there's not as much passion

01:16:26.760 maybe against John Cornyn as there was against Ted Cruz.

01:16:30.340 Also, by the way, a lot of passion for Ted Cruz and not a lot of passion for John Cornyn.

01:16:34.960 So that would be kind of an interesting one.

01:16:37.200 It would.

01:16:37.560 That was one of the interesting stories of the election is that Republicans did not do

01:16:41.780 well overall, but did do well in the high profile races, which is a strange combination

01:16:48.060 of factors.

01:16:48.680 And what it did was kind of create the mindset in even the mainstream media, which is allied

01:16:54.780 with the Democrat party, that there was no blue wave because they didn't get the ones

01:17:00.520 they really wanted, like Beto and the Florida seats.

01:17:05.720 And so they started saying, nah, this didn't really turn out to be a blue wave when it kind

01:17:10.440 of did.

01:17:12.060 It sort of did turn out that way.

01:17:14.340 What's what?

01:17:14.780 45 seat different now?

01:17:16.620 40, yeah.

01:17:17.100 About 40 seats different.

01:17:18.920 Wow.

01:17:19.840 That's a big advantage from how far ahead were Republicans before it?

01:17:25.700 30 some?

01:17:26.620 Yeah.

01:17:26.820 So they're going to be up.

01:17:27.420 It looks like about 235 seats for Democrats in the House.

01:17:31.420 Wow.

01:17:32.080 When all of this stuff settles.

01:17:33.460 Because some of these California races, there's a recount going on in Georgia right now for

01:17:37.660 one House seat.

01:17:38.460 They're, you know, Mia Love did, it looks like, lose.

01:17:41.600 AP has called that race now that Mia Love did lose it after coming back, taking the lead 0.99

01:17:46.100 and then losing it afterwards.

01:17:47.140 But it's, you know, there's been a bottom, California, there's a couple races out there that are still open.

01:17:52.320 There's a couple technically in New York that are still open.

01:17:54.800 But generally speaking, it looks like it's going to be 234, 235 seats, maybe an outside shot at 236.

01:18:00.260 But it's going to be in that general vicinity.

01:18:01.820 Remember, you only need 218 to have the majority.

01:18:04.420 So it went, I mean, if you look at it, if you want to go back and make the case it is a blue wave, you can make it.

01:18:12.000 I mean, it's there.

01:18:12.760 They did very well in the House popular vote, one of the best in history.

01:18:16.800 They, of the last, I think it's 14 midterm elections, Democrats did better in the House than 11 of them.

01:18:24.340 So they were like second or third, I think it was, out of 14, of the last 14 races as far as House seats picked up.

01:18:30.500 Now, my definition of a blue wave, I don't think it rises to that definition solely because they had winnable races in the Senate to take it over. 0.76

01:18:41.980 In the environment they got, which is a Democrat plus, they think, almost nine points.

01:18:47.220 This is one of the largest popular vote advantages for a party in any midterm.

01:18:51.140 Almost nine points.

01:18:51.880 That's an environment where there's no excuse for losing dramatically with incumbents in Missouri and with Heitkamp and with Donnelly in Indiana and Nelson in Florida.

01:19:10.300 Democrats should not lose four incumbent races that were supposed to be toss-ups by, with the exception of Florida, relatively large margins.

01:19:19.240 I mean, those, those three races weren't competitive, Heitkamp, McCaskill, and Donnelly.

01:19:24.720 They weren't even competitive, really.

01:19:26.920 They were, they were, they were pretty large margins.

01:19:29.320 And you look at that and you put it against Beto coming within three points in Texas.

01:19:33.140 Those two results, those results don't really make much sense.

01:19:36.000 You know, remember Rick Scott was a, most of the polling was down three or four points going into that election, wound up winning.

01:19:41.400 Yeah.

01:19:41.900 You know.

01:19:42.540 Yeah, Gillum was up by.

01:19:44.280 Even more.

01:19:44.980 Six, I think, toward the end.

01:19:46.280 That one is.

01:19:46.800 Six.

01:19:47.160 I was more.

01:19:48.160 And lost.

01:19:48.700 Good.

01:19:49.240 The, the, the, the Scott race was very close to a toss-up with Nelson, but the Gillum DeSantis thing did not look like a toss-up.

01:19:56.880 It looked like a lean Democrat and he wound up winning it.

01:19:59.420 Actually wound up, winning it, you know, handily.

01:20:03.580 So it is a, it's a weird one.

01:20:06.280 You know, it was a, it was a strange election.

01:20:08.240 I don't, to me, a lot of analysts do believe that it was a blue wave.

01:20:12.740 Certainly a lot of the media likes to make that case.

01:20:15.200 It was a convincing win for Democrats.

01:20:17.180 I don't think it was a blue wave.

01:20:18.620 That was a missed opportunity for them.

01:20:20.360 In that environment, for the Republicans to likely end this with 53 seats is a, is not, it's not a good result.

01:20:30.900 And that's a game in the Senate.

01:20:31.420 So.

01:20:31.780 It's a game.

01:20:32.280 Did better in the Senate.

01:20:33.200 Now that is, to, to walk that back a little bit, that was a lot of structural stuff, right?

01:20:38.060 I mean, cause you had, there were 35 seats up for election in the Senate race, uh, for the election.

01:20:43.740 And they, Democrats won 24 of the 35.

01:20:47.220 So that's a really good result for Democrats.

01:20:50.220 Wow.

01:20:50.560 The issue.

01:20:51.120 And by the way, in addition to that, the majority of those seats were in red states.

01:20:57.240 So they went 24 of 35 with the majority of the playing field being in red states.

01:21:01.500 That's not a bad result for them, but they missed out on key races that easily could have swung the Senate.

01:21:07.640 They could have had the Senate in the house relatively easily if they just didn't massively underperform in three or four races with incumbents.

01:21:15.720 So that is a, I don't think you can put it in a blue wave category when you blew that opportunity, but it was a convincing, it hurt.

01:21:23.720 It was a convincing win.

01:21:24.560 Yeah.

01:21:24.800 And it hurt.

01:21:25.340 And it's going to matter in the next two years because, you know, there's not going to be a tax cut, certainly.

01:21:31.220 No.

01:21:31.640 Uh, and some of the rest of, of Trump's agenda will probably be derailed at this point.

01:21:38.300 And although Republicans had the majority in both the house and the Senate, and they have had the, the, the executive branch, they still don't get anything done.

01:21:51.260 No, not really.

01:21:52.580 I don't know why they're not using this time right now.

01:21:54.960 I don't know why either.

01:21:55.640 I mean, the one thing I've heard, and Mike Lee is a big proponent of this, uh, bill, and it looks like it has bipartisan support is the, uh, the, the, the incarceration changes, the sentencing changes for criminals,

01:22:07.440 where they'll change a lot of that.

01:22:08.800 And there are some real problems with that system.

01:22:11.560 I, you know, I think it's something, that's something you can get done with a Democrat Congress, right?

01:22:15.560 Like, I don't know why we're rushing through.

01:22:17.920 It's great.

01:22:18.580 If it's, if it's a good bill, it's a good bill and you pass it.

01:22:20.680 But like, why aren't you going for the things that you're not going to have a chance to get done next Congress?

01:22:27.000 You know, houses passed a hundred bills plus many of them are really good.

01:22:31.760 Why isn't the Senate voting on every single one of these before the end of their term?

01:22:36.460 You've got two months.

01:22:38.560 Every single one of these should come up for a vote.

01:22:41.760 And if it's a good bill, they should pass it.

01:22:44.480 That's why there's not the passion for the Republican Party that there probably could be.

01:22:49.180 Because they, they just, they leave us cold every time and they don't fulfill the promises.

01:22:54.560 You know, the things like, uh, you know, getting rid of Obamacare and replacing it, repeal and replace, which they didn't do.

01:23:00.940 Uh, a large permanent tax cut, which they didn't do.

01:23:05.140 You know, there's just too many things that they, they leave undone when they could have done it.

01:23:09.600 And they could have, could have done something substantial with the border.

01:23:13.680 They could have gotten the wall built.

01:23:15.880 They didn't do that.

01:23:16.980 Yeah.

01:23:17.460 There's an interesting, uh, story I was reading the other day from Jim Garrity at National Review.

01:23:23.100 Um, the wall continues to be built.

01:23:27.020 Oh, really?

01:23:28.220 Slowly.

01:23:29.140 Okay.

01:23:29.960 And it's amazing.

01:23:31.180 You know, we've had a lot of fights about the border wall.

01:23:34.400 However, uh, there are some, an 18 foot, uh, high steel wall is being constructed in areas, um, uh, across the border.

01:23:45.920 18 feet.

01:23:46.900 18 feet.

01:23:47.520 Now this is not.

01:23:47.960 I thought we were going 40.

01:23:48.800 I thought we were 30 or 40 is what I thought.

01:23:50.120 And it wasn't, it was a beautiful wall.

01:23:52.440 It was not this wall.

01:23:53.300 Yes.

01:23:53.640 And the reason for that is it's not the Trump wall.

01:23:55.960 Oh, this was passed in previous legislation that is continuing to be, uh, being built under previously passed legislation.

01:24:05.280 U S customs and border protection continues to pay contractors to replace sections of spotty or insufficient fencing with 18 foot tall walls.

01:24:12.400 Okay.

01:24:12.720 The tall steel bars with the gaps.

01:24:14.560 So you can kind of see through, uh, and what's going on on the other side.

01:24:17.340 And so they are in the middle of doing that.

01:24:20.260 And there is some improvement.

01:24:22.360 Now taking a chain link fence, for example, and turning it into an 18 foot steel wall is an improvement.

01:24:26.420 Like that's, I'm happy with that change, but it has nothing to do with, you know, what people voted for in 2016.

01:24:32.880 It is all stuff that was actually passed previously.

01:24:36.080 And it's not in addition to what they're just fixing portions.

01:24:39.960 They're improving it.

01:24:40.780 Yeah.

01:24:41.120 Which is, I mean, not insignificant.

01:24:42.720 It's just not what we asked them to do and what they said they were going to do.

01:24:47.840 That was another, uh, eat our underwear moment where we said if they got a wall over 90% of the border, we would eat our underwear.

01:24:54.240 Yes.

01:24:54.620 Um, so far we're pretty safe on this one.

01:24:56.380 Really?

01:24:56.740 They're not close to 90.

01:24:57.900 No.

01:24:58.240 Okay.

01:24:59.080 Not even.

01:24:59.480 What are they like 85?

01:25:01.220 No.

01:25:02.200 Now they're.

01:25:02.840 75 or 76, 77%.

01:25:05.580 Previously there was 705 miles.

01:25:08.040 Okay.

01:25:08.580 Okay.

01:25:08.940 Of, with a 1,954 mile total border.

01:25:12.660 Okay.

01:25:12.820 So this is obviously not, we were talking about whether they can close that to 90% or it was 95%, I think, but we'll say 90 for the, for the, I feel confident in this one. 1.00

01:25:22.620 Yeah.

01:25:23.160 Uh, but, uh, it was 705 miles.

01:25:26.180 And as of now it's a 705 miles, which is an incredible.

01:25:32.100 Wait, that sounds like the same number just said a different way.

01:25:35.940 I said 705 miles.

01:25:36.960 Right.

01:25:37.260 And then now it's.

01:25:38.400 Previously it was 705 miles, but now it is 705 miles.

01:25:43.820 So that's pretty impressive.

01:25:44.780 Yeah.

01:25:44.900 That's still the same, same amount.

01:25:47.640 Yeah.

01:25:47.880 I mean, and this is, you know, there's blame to, uh, to be shared on this one, but again, you're not getting one mile of that fence come January.

01:25:56.880 Oh, right.

01:25:57.960 Yeah, that's right.

01:25:58.740 You're not getting one.

01:25:59.500 That is not going to happen.

01:26:01.360 Now's the time.

01:26:02.900 Wow.

01:26:03.300 To push this thing through.

01:26:06.000 And again, we're not seeing any of it.

01:26:08.460 I mean, they've made no effort to do that.

01:26:10.220 No.

01:26:10.620 That I know of.

01:26:11.380 The only time they made an effort to do it was, Hey, we'll give a bunch of people, millions of people amnesty and give us some wall funding.

01:26:17.740 And everybody was on board for that for a little while.

01:26:19.720 And then the deal fell through.

01:26:20.720 I don't like that deal either.

01:26:21.960 No, not at all.

01:26:23.060 I mean, that's not what, that's certainly not what people voted for.

01:26:26.200 You can't take nine steps back to take one step forward.

01:26:29.560 That doesn't help.

01:26:30.520 I mean, it's not, that would not be a good deal.

01:26:33.000 And that one, there has not been a lot of, uh, there's not been a lot of improvement on that front.

01:26:37.140 I will say.

01:26:38.360 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, B E C K with your thoughts.

01:26:41.100 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

01:26:44.680 Glenn Beck.

01:26:47.080 Apparently it's going to be pretty cold tomorrow on Thanksgiving day for the, uh, Macy's Thanksgiving day parade.

01:26:54.840 Could be one of the coldest ever, maybe the coldest parade ever.

01:26:58.420 They're expecting a high tomorrow of 26 degrees in New York.

01:27:06.140 Now the coldest Thanksgiving day ever was 1901.

01:27:13.900 The parade in 1901 where the high was 26 degrees.

01:27:17.780 So that would tie the record if, if it doesn't get any hot, any warmer than that.

01:27:23.040 Plus they said the wind is blowing so hard that the, some of the balloons may not be able to fly like they usually do.

01:27:29.160 And, uh, the, the, the chill temperature is going to feel like it's five degrees.

01:27:35.600 That's just not pleasant.

01:27:37.200 That's not, uh, no, no, no, thank you.

01:27:40.320 Um, plus I get to enjoy the hassle of the traffic.

01:27:43.720 Oh, wow.

01:27:44.800 Now, how much would you pay to go?

01:27:47.280 I went to, uh, as you may remember, Pat, uh, the Superbowl last year in which the Philadelphia Eagles defeated, uh, the New England Patriots.

01:27:55.960 It's surprising you haven't mentioned that much.

01:27:57.200 Yeah.

01:27:57.320 41 to 33 in a little city called Minneapolis.

01:28:01.100 Mm-hmm.

01:28:01.620 And was it chilly there?

01:28:03.220 Wow.

01:28:03.660 Perhaps.

01:28:04.380 I, it's amazing to me that they put a civilization in this location.

01:28:10.300 This seems to me to be like one of those things that you, you, I don't know, you take a saw and you saw around Minneapolis and then you get a big plane and you lift it up and you bring it down somewhere near Florida.

01:28:19.920 Mm-hmm.

01:28:20.320 Because holy crap.

01:28:21.500 In fact, it's so, like, you can even say, well, Stu, you're just a wuss.

01:28:24.640 And the answer, of course.

01:28:25.760 Yes, of course.

01:28:26.780 It is true.

01:28:27.400 I am a complete wuss.

01:28:28.280 Even though I grew up in the Northeast, I hate the cold weather so much.

01:28:31.440 But, like, Minneapolis has, has admitted this.

01:28:34.640 Okay?

01:28:35.120 They have basically just turned the whole city into a mall.

01:28:39.460 First of all, Mall of America, right?

01:28:41.140 Everyone knows Mall of America, which is a giant city that's inside.

01:28:44.680 Largest in the country.

01:28:45.500 Right?

01:28:45.720 Like, it's just, they have an entire amusement park inside of a mall.

01:28:49.960 Right.

01:28:50.120 This is, uh, because people would rather die than walk outside to shop.

01:28:54.860 So, they put all the shopping indoors.

01:28:56.940 Mm-hmm.

01:28:57.080 But even the city itself, and I, I had never been there before, uh, this past year when

01:29:00.900 the Eagles beat the Patriots 41 to 33 in the Super Bowl.

01:29:04.300 Uh, there are bridges basically everywhere.

01:29:07.520 So, like, when you're walking from one, when I'm leaving the game, walking back to where

01:29:11.300 I parked, which it was near Target Field, which is where the Twins play.

01:29:14.940 So, from, from where the Vikings play to where the Twins play.

01:29:18.160 You walk inside the entire time.

01:29:21.080 Oh.

01:29:21.480 And you're walking through these bridges that connect the buildings.

01:29:24.300 And you're walking through, like, hotel lobbies and, like, office building lobbies.

01:29:28.260 Like, they're so aware of how cold it is.

01:29:32.400 Oh, it is.

01:29:33.060 They're like, just screw it.

01:29:34.460 Make everything indoors.

01:29:36.040 The whole city's now indoors.

01:29:37.500 Yeah.

01:29:37.720 Unless you're in a car.

01:29:38.640 Yeah.

01:29:39.300 I mean, it really is an amazing thing to see.

01:29:41.940 And I don't know how people do it.

01:29:43.800 I don't know.

01:29:45.300 Like, people will say the same thing about Texas because it gets to be hot.

01:29:49.280 And I do not understand.

01:29:50.820 Like, I can deal with the heat.

01:29:52.060 I cannot deal with that cold, man.

01:29:53.380 That is hell.

01:29:54.660 And standing outside for a stupid parade for that long.

01:29:57.300 No, thank you.

01:29:58.000 No, thank you.

01:29:59.060 I can't even get my kids interested in the parade.

01:30:00.720 We put the parade on every year in the background when you're getting ready for, you know, to leave for Thanksgiving dinner.

01:30:05.800 And then point out really cool balloons.

01:30:07.160 Oh, look at that.

01:30:07.680 Where's your favorite character?

01:30:08.660 Giant balloon.

01:30:09.440 Uh-huh.

01:30:09.920 Three seconds of interest.

01:30:11.880 I don't know if that's because it's 2018 and everyone, you know, they have YouTube videos and things that are more exciting.

01:30:17.920 There's some more impressive things.

01:30:19.660 Yeah.

01:30:20.080 Yeah.

01:30:20.340 Yeah, in 1940, there wasn't a lot of other really super cool things.

01:30:24.420 And so you're like, wow, look at the size of that Snoopy balloon.

01:30:29.800 It's larger than you would picture Snoopy in other circumstances.

01:30:33.960 Bigger than normal.

01:30:35.680 That particular Snoopy is not only large but floating.

01:30:40.740 And it seems like some people on the ground are dragging it along.

01:30:45.260 That is really something.

01:30:46.340 Yeah, we don't have that kind of awe anymore.

01:30:50.340 A little bit jaded now by technology, I think.

01:30:54.700 But still, you know what?

01:30:56.160 Two million people every year show up for the parade.

01:30:58.660 Maybe that won't be the case this time because it's going to be so stinking cold.

01:31:02.160 But it's all global warming, just so you know that.

01:31:05.920 Oh, it is?

01:31:06.280 It's because of global warming.

01:31:07.260 Wait, the cold is?

01:31:08.620 It got, it's circular.

01:31:10.820 It got so hot, it went all the way back around to cold.

01:31:14.920 Oh, wow.

01:31:15.300 And that's where we are now.

01:31:16.400 I didn't know the temperature was.

01:31:17.400 Well, I guess a lot of times the thermometers are circular.

01:31:20.040 Exactly.

01:31:20.580 That's what happened?

01:31:21.220 Yes.

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01:32:11.940 Jeffy, we have a special edition of Spoons.

01:32:14.920 Now, if you're not a long-term fan of the program or the network, you might not know

01:32:19.180 Spoons, but Spoons was a segment we did and gained about 50 pounds doing during the Pat

01:32:24.720 and Stu show.

01:32:25.420 We've all lost weight since we stopped doing Spoons.

01:32:27.720 It's weird.

01:32:28.200 It's amazing.

01:32:28.840 It's weird.

01:32:29.420 Oddly surprising.

01:32:30.120 It started as, you know, we should try some strange different foods just for, you know,

01:32:33.720 a cute little segment.

01:32:35.280 And then it went from, you know, let's just eat every day.

01:32:37.800 And it was named Spoons because it was the only word Jeffy could say.

01:32:43.080 At the time.

01:32:44.460 Spoons.

01:32:45.140 Yes.

01:32:45.620 So, we named it that.

01:32:47.600 We did.

01:32:48.620 So, we have a Thanksgiving-themed spoon.

01:32:51.120 Should we start there, Jeffy, before we get to your stories of the day?

01:32:53.320 Okay.

01:32:53.700 All right.

01:32:54.020 So, we have a full Thanksgiving dinner in potato chip form.

01:33:00.100 Wow.

01:33:00.700 We start with turkey and gravy-flavored potato chips.

01:33:03.520 Nice.

01:33:04.440 Limited time only at 7-Eleven.

01:33:07.400 Oh, that's disappointing.

01:33:08.280 I can only get this far.

01:33:09.660 You can't get this far.

01:33:10.520 The Thanksgiving season?

01:33:11.740 What about Christmas?

01:33:12.600 This one that I'm not going to partake in.

01:33:14.380 What?

01:33:14.600 Oh, you're not?

01:33:15.100 No, this is not going to go down my-

01:33:16.380 Why not?

01:33:17.120 It's just flavored.

01:33:18.140 It's not actual meat.

01:33:18.960 It's just shit.

01:33:20.080 You know.

01:33:20.720 Okay.

01:33:21.080 So, this is Thanksgiving and gravy.

01:33:23.000 Yes.

01:33:23.560 So, this is your main meal.

01:33:24.460 And potato.

01:33:25.020 I would say mashed potato is in there, too.

01:33:26.240 Turkey is great.

01:33:27.600 Because, you know, it's potato.

01:33:30.320 How's that land?

01:33:31.100 The face of Pat does not look particularly pleased with these potato chips.

01:33:34.500 I mean, it's not bad, but I'm not really getting turkey and gravy from it.

01:33:38.360 What are you getting?

01:33:39.060 Can you describe?

01:33:40.240 Potato chip, salty, and-

01:33:42.280 Kind of blech.

01:33:44.200 Yeah, it doesn't-

01:33:45.360 I mean, it's certainly not screaming turkey and gravy.

01:33:48.620 Is it to you, Jeffy?

01:33:49.600 No.

01:33:50.480 No.

01:33:52.140 They had a sausage and peppers chip for a while at 7-Eleven.

01:33:55.260 7-Eleven is like, they're becoming like food laboratories over there.

01:33:58.100 They're just constantly coming out with new crazy flavors of chips and stuff.

01:34:00.960 So, if you're near one, it's worth stopping by every once in a while just to check what

01:34:04.020 crazy thing they've come up with.

01:34:05.820 Turkey and gravy, eh?

01:34:06.940 What do you think?

01:34:07.240 It almost just tastes like a normal potato chip to me.

01:34:11.140 I'm not kidding.

01:34:11.760 I don't get turkey and gravy.

01:34:13.080 Okay.

01:34:13.480 So, what's your-

01:34:14.140 You have a-

01:34:14.600 Our scale is 1 to 18.

01:34:16.120 What is your scale?

01:34:16.680 Look at that.

01:34:16.860 9.

01:34:20.780 9.

01:34:21.360 9.

01:34:22.220 And then for dessert, we have pumpkin pie-flavored potato chips.

01:34:26.020 I love this.

01:34:26.540 Okay.

01:34:26.860 I kind of want this to be good, too.

01:34:27.940 Sweet potato chips are not something you dive into that often, but I'm kind of excited about

01:34:30.940 them.

01:34:32.440 Mmm.

01:34:33.380 I'm definitely getting pumpkin from this.

01:34:35.040 Oh, yeah.

01:34:36.820 Oh, yeah.

01:34:38.260 That's pretty good.

01:34:39.520 That is pumpkin-flavored potato chip.

01:34:43.160 As advertised.

01:34:43.820 Are you a pumpkin pie guy, Jeffy?

01:34:44.920 You like pumpkin pie?

01:34:45.620 Um, I've had a couple slices over the years.

01:34:49.220 Have you?

01:34:49.780 Yeah.

01:34:50.080 Just a couple?

01:34:50.860 Just a while.

01:34:51.300 Over the holidays.

01:34:52.120 You know.

01:34:52.740 Yeah.

01:34:53.360 I mean, look, am I diving into this bag, you know, twice a week with lunch?

01:34:58.300 No.

01:34:59.000 But at one time-

01:35:00.620 It's not bad.

01:35:01.080 If I were to have, like, a Thanksgiving party, and you put out a bowl of these things, I think

01:35:04.900 it would work pretty well.

01:35:05.900 I actually like them.

01:35:07.020 Yeah.

01:35:07.200 I don't know.

01:35:07.780 That's good.

01:35:08.360 And it is pumpkin pie.

01:35:09.660 Much more so than the turkey and gravy thing.

01:35:11.940 Much more so.

01:35:12.520 Oh, yeah.

01:35:12.600 Um, so yeah, that's, I, you know-

01:35:15.920 This I would eat.

01:35:16.780 Yeah, I'd give this a 14 on a scale of 1 to 18.

01:35:19.520 Yeah, I'll give it about a 14 sounds about right.

01:35:23.380 All right.

01:35:24.080 Uh, we have a couple more things here before we get to the Jeffy stories of the day.

01:35:26.700 Uh, brand new soda from Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola California Raspberry.

01:35:32.220 Okay.

01:35:33.160 Now, this is much different than a-

01:35:34.760 Is this brand new?

01:35:35.620 An Arizona Raspberry Soda.

01:35:37.680 They do have a raspberry in the, um, the machines where you can have all the crazy flavors,

01:35:42.080 the freestyle machines.

01:35:43.240 Oh.

01:35:43.380 There's a raspberry variety, but I've never seen it in a bottle of water.

01:35:45.260 But it's not California Raspberry, is it?

01:35:46.520 Right.

01:35:46.660 It's like Arizona Raspberry or something.

01:35:48.580 Or Nevada Raspberry, which doesn't even count.

01:35:51.620 It's for a dollar.

01:35:51.880 Is it too soon to make a-

01:35:53.480 Nah, never mind.

01:35:54.060 I won't make the California joke.

01:35:55.200 Go ahead, California Raspberry.

01:35:56.840 Yeah, please don't.

01:35:57.480 Okay, here we go.

01:36:01.860 Oh, yeah.

01:36:03.640 Definitely a high raspberry taste.

01:36:06.020 Yeah.

01:36:06.420 It's an absolute raspberry feel to it.

01:36:08.840 Good.

01:36:09.400 A penetrating raspberry flavor.

01:36:11.200 Mm-hmm.

01:36:11.840 That's good.

01:36:12.960 That's pretty good.

01:36:15.600 It's, yeah, it's very sweet.

01:36:18.000 Again, it's a regular Coke, and I don't, I'm a big artificial sweetener fan, if you don't

01:36:24.560 know that.

01:36:25.520 So it's a very-

01:36:26.200 This is definitely not Coke Zero.

01:36:27.660 Very sweet.

01:36:28.360 Very sweet.

01:36:28.920 Very sweet.

01:36:29.080 But the flavor's pretty good.

01:36:30.840 Yeah, I'd give it a, you know, 12.

01:36:33.000 Yeah, I'm in that range.

01:36:33.460 I'll go 12.

01:36:33.900 I'll go 11.

01:36:34.900 11 on that one.

01:36:36.080 Jeffy?

01:36:36.640 You know, raspberry is good.

01:36:38.060 I used to get up in the morning and have raspberries in milk with my grandma, and that's where

01:36:44.400 I like raspberries, raspberry, and Coca-Cola.

01:36:46.680 What did you do?

01:36:48.000 You got up in the morning and had raspberries-

01:36:50.180 You got up in the morning and had raspberries.

01:36:50.640 Raspberries in milk.

01:36:52.040 And I don't really like it in Coke.

01:36:53.600 Well, first of all, you've drank almost the entire bottle, so you seem to like it.

01:36:57.820 I'm trying to wash away the turkey and gravy chips.

01:37:01.620 Raspberries and, is that a normal thing, raspberries and milk?

01:37:04.000 Oh, it's good.

01:37:04.440 I have never heard of it, but that's not surprising when it involves Jeffy.

01:37:08.060 All right.

01:37:08.360 It's so good.

01:37:09.160 We also have several flavors of M&M's.

01:37:10.860 You can get these as well at your local convenience stores.

01:37:13.660 Okay.

01:37:14.700 Some of them are not.

01:37:15.580 We're going to start with a, kind of a palate cleanser here.

01:37:18.600 The, the crispy M&M.

01:37:21.180 Here.

01:37:22.660 Crispy M&M's, if you don't know.

01:37:24.180 Kind of an M&M.

01:37:24.720 I've never had crispy M&M's.

01:37:26.460 Almost like a malted milk ball, almost in the middle.

01:37:28.680 It's not quite, it's that same consistency, like of a Whopper in the middle.

01:37:31.740 Oh, yeah.

01:37:32.840 I like them.

01:37:33.780 They're good.

01:37:34.100 They're light.

01:37:34.600 Oh, that's good.

01:37:35.440 They're crunchy.

01:37:35.940 They're pretty delicious.

01:37:37.940 We use that as mainly, because those have been around for a while.

01:37:39.940 We use that as a setup here for the winning flavor for M&M's.

01:37:44.620 Really good.

01:37:45.300 The crunchy mint.

01:37:46.640 I think these are 16.

01:37:47.820 16?

01:37:48.320 Mm-hmm.

01:37:48.600 Those are really good.

01:37:48.900 I like them.

01:37:49.860 Crunchy mint M&M's.

01:37:51.120 Ooh, these might be really good.

01:37:52.280 Now, I'm a big fan of the mint products.

01:37:55.080 Me too.

01:37:55.400 And as we're about to gorge ourself for a day, we've got to give you some new options.

01:38:01.340 Mint M&M's.

01:38:02.580 They used to have these.

01:38:03.640 These are the mint crunchies.

01:38:05.340 You know, they're kind of like a peppermint patty.

01:38:09.220 Yeah.

01:38:09.700 But only crunchy.

01:38:10.800 Yes.

01:38:11.980 Yeah, very similar.

01:38:13.100 But the taste is really similar.

01:38:15.000 Same kind of chocolate, same kind of minty flavor.

01:38:17.180 Good, though.

01:38:18.100 Good, yeah.

01:38:18.920 I like it.

01:38:19.500 I'm a fan.

01:38:20.360 These are like a 14.

01:38:22.440 Yeah, I'll give it a...

01:38:24.240 I'll give those a 15.

01:38:25.660 I like those.

01:38:27.100 But notice we're not getting any numbers from Jeffy, because he really can't do it.

01:38:29.920 We say that the highest number he knows is 18, but he really can't count all the numbers

01:38:33.840 in between.

01:38:34.340 So he doesn't really know.

01:38:35.280 I mean, good, not good.

01:38:36.320 That's good enough, right?

01:38:37.360 Good, not good.

01:38:38.080 It's actually not, but...

01:38:39.720 And these are what?

01:38:40.480 Final flavor.

01:38:41.440 Strawberry nut M&M's.

01:38:42.960 Oh.

01:38:43.840 Well, I don't like nuts, so...

01:38:45.660 You're not a peanut M&M guy?

01:38:46.820 No.

01:38:47.380 Ooh.

01:38:49.240 Trying these out here?

01:38:50.020 Have you had the caramels?

01:38:51.700 I know I'm jumping ahead to M&M's, but the M&M's...

01:38:55.020 I like the strawberry flavor.

01:38:56.780 It tastes like an ice cream sundae.

01:38:58.220 I'd rather have it without the peanut in it, but it's pretty good.

01:39:02.960 Mm-hmm.

01:39:03.380 Very good.

01:39:04.520 These are all good.

01:39:05.720 Mm-hmm.

01:39:06.480 Yeah.

01:39:06.940 I mean, M&M's...

01:39:07.880 I'll give that a 15.

01:39:08.860 Yeah.

01:39:09.460 I'll give it a 13.

01:39:11.000 Is there a bad M&M?

01:39:13.260 Well, I don't like pretzels.

01:39:14.900 A lot of people like the pretzel M&M's.

01:39:16.180 I do not.

01:39:16.900 I hate pretzels.

01:39:17.740 It's amazing how many flavors of M&M's there now are.

01:39:21.360 I would agree.

01:39:22.540 It's incredible.

01:39:23.360 You don't have to, like, look hard to find a bunch of crazy flavors of M&M's.

01:39:26.680 The caramels are great.

01:39:28.220 Yeah, they are.

01:39:28.880 Those are so addictive.

01:39:30.560 So good.

01:39:31.320 Those are dangerous.

01:39:32.240 Mm-hmm.

01:39:32.540 Those are dangerous to have around you.

01:39:34.500 Now, so overall, I would say I like the pumpkin pie ones.

01:39:38.520 Mm-hmm.

01:39:38.880 Absolutely.

01:39:39.960 And I like the...

01:39:41.000 I recommend all the flavors of the M&M's.

01:39:42.600 Yeah, they're all good.

01:39:43.620 The crunchy mint ones, I think, might have been my favorite out of those.

01:39:46.100 I like those a lot.

01:39:46.400 For sure, the crunchy were my favorite.

01:39:48.320 And then the California Raspberry Coke was not bad.

01:39:51.580 Decent.

01:39:52.020 Yeah.

01:39:52.380 Decent.

01:39:52.780 See, this is the sort of information you're getting from this program.

01:39:55.460 Powerful.

01:39:55.660 Turkey and gravy, though, bad.

01:39:57.360 Powerful information.

01:39:58.140 Don't waste your money on this.

01:39:59.240 No, the turkey and gravy is not worth it.

01:40:00.700 I mean, think about it.

01:40:01.260 This is Jeffy saying, don't eat a potato chip.

01:40:03.440 That's how it sounds.

01:40:04.200 Well, I mean, it's in front of you.

01:40:05.340 You have to eat it.

01:40:06.500 I opened the bag.

01:40:07.420 I'm going to finish it.

01:40:07.820 That's actually not a rule.

01:40:09.620 None of these are rules.

01:40:11.360 No, it is.

01:40:11.680 You don't have to finish them.

01:40:12.480 You don't have to eat them when you're in front of it.

01:40:13.680 This might be part of the issue with you.

01:40:15.560 You put it on your plate, you eat it.

01:40:17.540 That's the rule.

01:40:18.420 You don't have a plate.

01:40:19.500 You're eating it out of a bag.

01:40:20.120 You open the bag, you eat it.

01:40:21.540 That's the rule.

01:40:22.740 That's a law, I think.

01:40:23.880 I'm pretty sure that's a law.

01:40:25.540 This is the sort of insight you get on chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.

01:40:29.140 And it's no surprise that the word fat is in the title when you hear that sort of information.

01:40:35.460 Do you have some stories for us?

01:40:36.300 Just a couple.

01:40:36.880 You know, I'm kind of sad.

01:40:37.680 You know how big I am on.

01:40:39.360 We've got done trying these.

01:40:41.080 How big I am on salads.

01:40:43.000 Oh, on salads.

01:40:43.520 And I love salads.

01:40:44.660 And especially for Thanksgiving.

01:40:46.340 Especially for Thanksgiving.

01:40:47.480 I mean, nothing says Thanksgiving like a salad.

01:40:50.660 But.

01:40:51.260 What?

01:40:52.440 You know that.

01:40:53.520 But the Centers for Disease Control are telling you, look out.

01:40:56.680 Romaine lettuce.

01:40:57.860 All of it.

01:40:58.440 Throw it away.

01:40:59.760 They're making a big recall again.

01:41:01.400 No matter where it comes from.

01:41:02.500 Doesn't matter.

01:41:03.140 No matter where you live.

01:41:04.480 Doesn't.

01:41:05.000 Get rid of it.

01:41:06.060 Because we just ate romaine lettuce last night.

01:41:08.660 You did?

01:41:09.020 You're supposed to.

01:41:09.360 Big outbreak of E. coli.

01:41:11.480 I didn't know until after we ate it.

01:41:12.980 And then I saw the story.

01:41:14.400 They're telling people to throw away any romaine lettuce that they already have in their homes.

01:41:19.900 Don't buy it.

01:41:20.940 Pull it off the shelves.

01:41:21.980 32 people in 11 states have been infected.

01:41:24.920 13 people have been hospitalized.

01:41:27.300 One person developed a type of kidney failure.

01:41:30.160 Now, remember, they had the big breakout a few months ago.

01:41:33.960 And that actually killed people.

01:41:36.660 Five people lost their lives a few months ago.

01:41:39.160 I don't think I even heard that.

01:41:40.280 From romaine lettuce?

01:41:40.940 Yes.

01:41:41.780 For the E. coli breakout before.

01:41:43.520 Earlier this year.

01:41:44.420 So, if.

01:41:45.540 I don't know what they're doing to the romaine lettuce.

01:41:46.920 Iceberg lettuce is okay?

01:41:48.560 Yes.

01:41:49.280 That's all right.

01:41:49.860 Just romaine.

01:41:50.780 Just.

01:41:51.040 Wow.

01:41:51.260 Now, yeah.

01:41:51.780 This is.

01:41:52.260 The recall is just romaine.

01:41:53.640 Now, on the safe side, I would say don't eat any.

01:41:56.580 No salad at all.

01:41:57.740 No salad at all.

01:41:58.260 I would say all vegetables.

01:41:59.060 That's going to hurt my Thanksgiving dinner.

01:42:00.760 Oh, yeah.

01:42:00.960 Me too.

01:42:01.860 Me too.

01:42:02.320 Now, I say this warning about staying away from vegetables lasts for the next couple years,

01:42:08.600 right?

01:42:09.060 Yes.

01:42:09.200 So, if your wife is asking you to eat vegetables.

01:42:11.980 For me, this is extended to kale because that's also a leafy type of substance.

01:42:16.060 All vegetables, I think, are on the table here.

01:42:17.780 Spinach.

01:42:18.100 To remove from your life.

01:42:19.520 Yeah.

01:42:19.800 You can't eat that.

01:42:20.360 Brussel sprouts, broccoli, green beans.

01:42:22.320 Oh, yeah.

01:42:22.800 That extends to all of it.

01:42:24.160 By the way, there's a new.

01:42:25.120 There's a survey that came out about the most disproportionately common Thanksgiving sides

01:42:30.340 by region.

01:42:31.620 So, what are the sides on Thanksgiving that are regional in nature?

01:42:37.760 Some of the.

01:42:38.380 Like, this is a clear case for you might need to move, in my opinion.

01:42:43.680 Yeah.

01:42:44.180 You know, I saw this.

01:42:45.180 I don't know that I believe it.

01:42:46.360 Well, listen to this.

01:42:46.920 The whole western half of the United States, basically, is salad.

01:42:51.900 Yeah.

01:42:52.220 That's why I don't believe it.

01:42:53.100 What?

01:42:53.640 Salad.

01:42:54.160 Salad.

01:42:54.640 Now, that is the most.

01:42:56.460 Just generic salad?

01:42:57.740 Salad.

01:42:58.280 The main common side that you relate to Thanksgiving in that, but no.

01:43:02.680 Salad.

01:43:03.000 I've lived in the West most of my life.

01:43:05.340 That's untrue.

01:43:06.320 It is the most disproportionately common.

01:43:08.900 No to that.

01:43:09.600 So, like, everybody might have turkey.

01:43:10.980 Everybody might have mashed potatoes, right?

01:43:12.500 But the most disproportionately common is salad in the West.

01:43:15.800 Now, that just means that people in the East aren't eating any salad, which is, I think,

01:43:20.020 one point in the East's favor.

01:43:21.760 You know, no kidding.

01:43:22.760 So, the Northeast is squash.

01:43:28.140 Yeah.

01:43:28.620 Oh.

01:43:29.220 Now, I've seen that here or there, but that was not a popular one, and I grew up in the

01:43:32.460 Northeast.

01:43:32.860 No, thank you.

01:43:33.720 No squash.

01:43:34.380 You don't like that?

01:43:35.220 No.

01:43:35.360 Even just, like, butternut squash?

01:43:36.820 No.

01:43:37.340 Acorn squash?

01:43:38.280 No.

01:43:38.700 You know how you.

01:43:39.280 If it has the word squash after it, I don't eat it, Jeffy.

01:43:41.880 Do you know how you would like acorn squash, though?

01:43:42.620 No.

01:43:42.800 Acorn squash with brown sugar?

01:43:44.880 Nope.

01:43:45.360 Melted and butter?

01:43:46.520 Nope.

01:43:47.340 Well, I think because of the romaine issues, I'm going to stay away from squash.

01:43:50.960 Just to be safe.

01:43:52.260 It's a really good safety tip.

01:43:53.500 Thank you, Stu.

01:43:54.120 I'm going to follow your lead.

01:43:55.340 In the northern sort of central area, you know, Minnesota, 12 or 13 Dakotas, that area

01:44:02.160 is green bean casserole, which I, okay.

01:44:05.960 That's pretty much.

01:44:06.740 Green bean casserole.

01:44:07.140 That's pretty much.

01:44:07.200 That's, what?

01:44:08.340 Oh, I like green bean casserole.

01:44:09.200 So nasty.

01:44:09.820 Oh, no, that's the only way that the crunchy fried onion people make a living. 0.97

01:44:14.580 It's true.

01:44:15.480 I don't like onions, and I don't like green beans.

01:44:19.040 I'm not doing it.

01:44:19.960 From Ohio to sort of Michigan, Wisconsin.

01:44:22.320 There's a reason I eat, you know, the Brickhouse Nutrition Field of Greens.

01:44:27.080 Yes.

01:44:27.400 There's a reason.

01:44:28.400 There's a reason I eat.

01:44:29.360 You don't want to eat actual vegetables.

01:44:30.700 I don't eat actual vegetables.

01:44:32.220 You want to hide the taste of them.

01:44:33.160 In the Ohio, Michigan, sort of Wisconsin area is rolls and biscuits.

01:44:39.100 That's pretty good.

01:44:40.120 Yeah.

01:44:41.020 Texas is cornbread in our sort of region around Texas.

01:44:45.260 For Thanksgiving.

01:44:46.500 And it's surprising that it's not farther down south.

01:44:49.760 All the whole south is cornbread, because they're big fans.

01:44:51.740 To me, the southeast has this thing, one.

01:44:55.240 That's mac and cheese.

01:44:57.040 Oh, wow.

01:44:57.440 Mac and cheese on Thanksgiving is a wonderful addition to your Thanksgiving.

01:45:00.360 It is a good addition.

01:45:01.280 It would be.

01:45:01.940 You got to have it.

01:45:02.600 I think.

01:45:03.480 I lived in the south for quite a while, and I don't recall that as being a prominent side.

01:45:08.420 My friend, I hate to break this to you.

01:45:10.480 You live in the south right now and have for the last several years.

01:45:14.240 And I still don't recall that.

01:45:17.720 888-727-BECK.

01:45:22.780 Stu's got some statistics on world improvement, just to kind of make you feel good about things heading into Thanksgiving.

01:45:29.220 Be thankful.

01:45:29.800 One of the unbelievable improvements in the world is that you can make potato chips taste like pumpkin pie.

01:45:36.640 How is it possible?

01:45:37.860 They're pretty good.

01:45:38.620 How is it possible?

01:45:39.680 I don't know.

01:45:40.800 It tastes like salty pumpkin pie.

01:45:43.320 Is it magic?

01:45:44.080 What kind of magic is it worth here?

01:45:45.200 I don't know.

01:45:45.720 I don't know.

01:45:46.360 I don't know.

01:45:47.120 Unbelievable.

01:45:47.940 More world improvement, too, is Taco Bell.

01:45:50.120 Taco Bell now open in London as of Friday.

01:45:53.420 So if you travel in London.

01:45:54.600 I mean, Taco Bell is international now, man.

01:45:57.140 Well, London's known for their Mexican food.

01:45:58.980 That's true.

01:45:59.400 There's no question about that.

01:46:01.440 They will be now.

01:46:02.320 So in the era of capitalism, we have gone from 94% living in extreme poverty to 10%.

01:46:09.400 From 94 to 10.

01:46:11.540 Wow.

01:46:11.820 In the era of capitalism, we've gone from 17% having basic education to 86%.

01:46:18.000 Ooh.

01:46:19.320 Literacy.

01:46:19.940 We've gone from 12% to 85% globally.

01:46:23.140 Do you live in a democracy?

01:46:26.320 We have gone from basically 0% with the exception of the United States.

01:46:29.600 Again, democracy kind of a wide term there.

01:46:32.960 From 1% to 56%.

01:46:35.240 Okay.

01:46:36.340 Vaccinations from 0% to 86%.

01:46:39.040 Child mortality from 43% to 4%.

01:46:43.260 Wow.

01:46:45.240 Worldwide?

01:46:45.760 Worldwide.

01:46:46.280 That's amazing.

01:46:47.200 It's an incredible improvement.

01:46:48.740 Yeah.

01:46:49.180 And something to really be thankful for.

01:46:50.840 Something has to be done.

01:46:51.700 Yep.

01:46:51.860 And also pumpkin pie potato chips.

01:46:54.160 How do you make it taste?

01:46:55.340 I mean, it's a potato chip.

01:46:56.700 How does it possibly taste like pumpkin pie?

01:46:58.540 I don't know.

01:46:59.160 Unless you go to 7-Eleven, you won't know.

01:47:00.800 That's unbelievable.

01:47:01.840 It's unbelievable.

01:47:02.540 Happy Thanksgiving.

01:47:07.760 Glenn Beck.

01:47:09.000 Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - November 21, 2018

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The Glenn Beck Program - November 21, 2018

Expanding Our Thanks？ ｜ 11⧸21⧸18

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Expanding Our Thanks？｜ 11⧸21⧸18