Expanding Our Thanks？ ｜ 11⧸21⧸18
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Summary
Pat and Stu are back on the show talking about Thanksgiving and how to eat right through the end of the year. Plus, they talk about their New Year's resolutions and how they plan to eat through the holidays.
Transcript
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You know, because like Wednesday, it's on Wednesday before Thanksgiving,
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I'm trying not to eat in that mode today because I feel like...
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And after Thanksgiving, you think, okay, then now I'll cut back.
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And then there's food everywhere again because you're preparing for Christmas.
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Well, Thanksgiving is a day in which you eat a lot of food.
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Now, over the years, I've expanded that from one day...
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Yeah, you beat me to the punch there a little bit, I guess.
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I do feel the expansion happening because I started with one and then you get to four.
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I feel like four is the right stew amount in a sensible world, right?
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You don't eat really badly until you get to Thanksgiving.
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Now, what always happens there, of course, is Wednesday...
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And then what happens is you come back Monday and you eat okay.
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And then Tuesday happens and you fall off the bandwagon.
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And then you're like, ah, it's basically the week of Thanksgiving.
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So, then it goes from the previous Wednesday to not the next Monday, but the Monday after that.
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But then the week between Christmas and New Year's...
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You're going to be back eating on New Year's anyway.
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And then that's when you get the New Year's resolution.
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Now, you're not going to start on the second most of the time.
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Because a lot of times, the second isn't a work day yet.
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You're not going to start your diet on a Wednesday.
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Now, the problem here is, this is when NFL playoffs kick in.
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What are you going to watch them without pizza?
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So, then you're February 6th or 7th in that range.
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You're going to disrespect your own relationship?
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So, then you're eating up until Valentine's Day.
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Well, you've got to have cake for Glenn's birthday.
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Because he's not going to eat it because he's on some weird diet, probably.
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You know, where he only eats 80 different things in the world.
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He can only eat 80 things on the face of the earth.
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And six of them are different types of squid, which is a weird...
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So, for him, on his behalf, we have to have cake.
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And then, once you're in February, it's basically July 4th.
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So, you've got to ramp it up to get ready for those picnics.
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What, are you not going to eat on the 4th of July?
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What, are you some sort of traitor to this nation?
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If I'm on a diet on the 4th of July, the terrorists win.
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This is only a slight exaggeration, by the way.
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By the way, we do have some terrorism breaking news.
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Today, maybe, Pat, we can come up with things we're thankful for.
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Now, I know it's a very, you know, standard thing, right?
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Like, where people would do that on the day before Thanksgiving.
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But I thought maybe instead of doing, like, the, I'm thankful for my family and I'm thankful
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for, you know, that's stuff that's just boring and everyone knows you're thankful for it.
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I don't know if they're thankful for me, but, you know, I'm thankful for them.
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Now, the news stories that I'm actually thankful for, there's actually good news out there.
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The U.S. Department of Treasury's Office for Foreign Assets Control has designated nine
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targets in an international network through which the Iranian regime, working with Russian
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companies, provided millions of barrels of oil to the Syrian government.
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The Assad regime, in turn, facilitates the movement of hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars
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to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard for onward transfer to Hamas and Hezbollah.
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U.S. sanctions prohibit materials of support to the government of Syria, including shipments
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of oil to Syrian government-controlled ports, as well as material support to designated terrorist
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He says, today we are acting against a complex scheme of Iran and Russia they've used to bolster
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the Assad regime and generate funds for Iranian malign activity.
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Central Bank of Iran officials continue to exploit the international financial system,
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and in this case even used a company whose name suggests a trade in humanitarian goods
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as a tool to facilitate financial transfers supporting the oil scheme.
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We are issuing an advisory today, identifying the grave risks to the community if they participate
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The United States is committed to imposing a financial toll on Iran, Russia, and others for
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their efforts to solidify Assad's authoritarian rule, as well as disrupt the Iranian regime's
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Goes on and on, but basically we're taking major steps to break up.
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Iran, Russia, Syria, to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, who transferred to Hamas and Hezbollah,
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and we're shutting down a major network of financial support for all of those groups.
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You give the people around him a lot of credit here for identifying this and taking steps.
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You know, we've mentioned this a thousand times probably by now, but, you know, a lot of
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times you hear Donald Trump say things that aren't so hawkish on Russia, but man, his actions,
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I don't know if it's the people, you know, some people will say, oh, it's the people around
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Some people will say, well, he's trying to put a different face on the public negotiations,
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but in reality, he believes these things, that Russia's a really bad actor.
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He's, he is, he is, he's taken really good steps here.
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And how long have we ignored, Pat, Hamas and Hezbollah?
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The Assad regime, Russia, Iran, these are really positive steps.
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And again, they are trying to starve Iran from, from their money.
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These are a lot of good steps and steps that, you know, the president would have to sign off
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Which is pretty amazing for a guy who is apparently in love with Putin or what, whatever the allegation
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There's just not a, I, I, there's not a lot there, is there?
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And we realize that, um, you know, Russia has done a lot of bad things.
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And at times I have not liked the way Trump's spoken about Russia.
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But again, I think honestly, when you come down to it, if you ignore the back and forth
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of the everyday and ignore the, the words and the tweets and, you know, I don't think any
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And what's he, he's doing, he's being really hard on what he's doing is, and, and they've
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Uh, they've, they've, uh, they've been pretty tough on them even behind the scenes.
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And now this, I, I mean, what other substantive measures would you want him to take?
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I think he's done pretty much everything you would want him to do in his actions with Russia.
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The only thing lacking maybe was the, you know, the press conference when he was with Putin
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and it seemed like he sort of gave him a pass there.
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You know, I, I don't like, it's the same thing.
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They've been, I mean, this has been a much tougher regime on Russia than the Obama regime.
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It's such a weird thing that the Russia situation has been such a focus.
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And look, I mean, they did, they will see, right?
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Well, when the Mueller investigation comes out, we'll see if they have anything.
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I mean, so far they have, they've had stuff on Russians, right?
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They've had some stuff on lower level sort of campaign people, more for lying to the
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But still, there's been a couple of things there.
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You know, the, you know, there's been a couple of, of relatively high ranking officials in
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the, in the Trump campaign, not really the government, but the campaign.
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But I mean, his actions against Russia have been as strong as you'd want them to be.
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And, you know, we've always said from day one, when he was elected, we're, we're going to,
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And, you know, his actions are often pretty good.
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I, this is not a complicated world we live in here.
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There's, because some have changed their minds on Russia completely.
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Russia's like a friend now, a really good, close, personal, wonderful friend that you
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Um, and now, uh, all of a sudden Saudi Arabia, uh, is a good, close, personal friend of ours
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And, you know, I, I don't remember during the Obama administration or even the George Bush
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administration, Republicans as a rule thinking that Saudi Arabia was a good, close, personal
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We've, we've got a lot of issues with Saudi Arabia for one, um, 18, uh, hijackers from
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This holiday season, I am not thankful for Muhammad Atta and his friends.
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And then there's, you know, people who actually believe that, you know, losing the house was
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no big deal just because the president is in office when that happened.
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It would have been much, much better to keep the house and the Senate and the presidency
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You've noticed that there's a bunch of Republicans who were, uh, critical of Trump.
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And I, you know, certainly I would put myself in that group many, many times over the years.
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Um, but, uh, some of them cannot find their way to seeing anything the man does as positive.
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You know, I, I just don't understand that world just as much as I don't understand the
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people who are like, I can't say he does anything bad.
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The media is completely obsessed with him as if he's a God.
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And there are his fans of his that are obsessed of him with him as if he's a God.
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And luckily I'm thankful that we live in a country in which, you know, the vast majority
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You know, be honest with what you believe and, and keep to your principles.
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You know, I, I, I mean, unless you're going to be, you know, if, unless you're like, you
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Every day you got to go out there and you got to find something positive to say about the
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president because it's your legitimately your job, right?
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They come out and they say positive things when, when, uh, you know, PR big tobacco is going
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on and they did, they're like, Hey, they have emails and say, you know what, what we should
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And they've got to come out and say, well, you know, look, a lot of, you know, cancer
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Uh, and you know, a lot of people get donations.
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Uh, they, they, they, they get the money out of the jar, but next to the cash register and
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say, there's a lot of things you're overlooking here when you're being negative on cancer.
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Um, but I understand why you have to, why you have to do it.
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The, the same thing seems to be true with just like journalists in the media on the
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other side of this, where there it's their job every day to figure out the story of the
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day, how to spin it badly against Donald Trump.
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And I don't see any value job now, 24 seven, at least like 22 seven.
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I mean, there's some shows that still, I think take a fair line.
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Yeah, certainly I would put Tapper in that category and there's a few others, but it's
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It's too limited for a journalistic organization.
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Your job is not to be, you know, uh, a Boston Red Sox fan against the New York Yankees.
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You're supposed to be looking, Hey, that Yankee player is pretty good.
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And if you can't find anything positive to say about the president, then I think you're not
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He should be able to find both positive and negative things.
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Uh, you know, and I don't, I don't want to listen to a show or, or, or an organization
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that can't do both of those things, find things that are positive and find things that are
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They both exist as it does for every human being on earth.
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Unless you know, unless you're covering Barack Obama, then there's not a good thing you can
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He was personally responsible with his bare hands of killing Osama bin Laden.
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Well, he strangled him at first, but he, then he let him, uh, he released him at the
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last second, let him get one more breath in and then started bashing his head against
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You should not send a terrorist, a president into a terrorist organization's hideout like
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But I mean, he was so fantastic that it was okay to send him.
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You could say, oh, well, we're not going to schedule the plane.
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He'll flap his wings and he'll fly across the oceans and do it himself.
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And I mean, the man made the most difficult decision in 500 years.
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Hey, it's wonderful that Barack Obama is back in our faces.
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I just, why can't this guy take the hint, take the cue from every other president, well,
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other than Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, of course.
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But every right-thinking president who's ever left office, stay out of things.
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You know, go do your dumb lectures or whatever you're going to do and make your $400,000
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Oh, that's what he's kind of doing here, right?
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Although, usually the presidents don't do political stuff.
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I mean, you see it occasionally around the election, right?
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Like a presidential candidate or some former president will go out and campaign for a couple
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Certainly, and the Bushes have been the most restrained of anybody.
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But how restrained was he when every day they tore him limb from limb?
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They laid everything at his doorstep, and what did he say about Obama?
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He lived his life in Dallas and Crawford and went about his business, and the only time
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he really spoke out, he spoke out against Trump.
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I was watching, I went to see Creed 2 last night.
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We're going to talk about that here in a couple of minutes.
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So we'll give you the review without Glenn Beck spoilers in it.
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But they had a preview for a movie called Vice, which is coming out.
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Which is a, apparently like Dick Cheney as Darth Vader movie.
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The movie just looks like they're just blaming Dick Cheney for everything.
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It's like, didn't you guys give up on this a while ago?
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I mean, honestly, like they're just, it's never ending with this, with progressives.
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Oh, it's wonderful to see Barack Hussein Obama back in the limelight.
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Gosh, I have, well, I can't say I've missed him, but man, well, and I can't say it's good
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to have him back either, but I can say he is kind of back and omnipresent now again.
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And he's doing a lot of speeches because he's making somewhat of a living, you could say,
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Every time he shows up for an hour, he makes $400,000.
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Now, $400,000 an hour is kind of a decent wage.
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And then when Michelle shows up at a place, she makes $225,000, which is income inequality,
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She is making $175,000 less per hour than he is.
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Right now, I could take off-the-shelf existing technologies.
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We could reduce carbon emissions by, let's say, 30%.
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Yeah, it's not like we'd all have to go back to caves and, you know, live off, you know, fire.
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We could have electricity and smartphones and all that stuff,
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which would buy us probably another 20, 30 years for that technological breakthrough that's necessary.
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I just dislike him with all the intensity of a billion white-hot burning suns.
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We should also focus on the idea that this is an incredibly bad point.
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First of all, yes, we have the technology to lower emissions by 30%.
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But the reason we don't do it is we're fraught with hate, anger, and mommy issues?
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And it's such an easy explanation for every issue that progressives don't get what they
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It's the same explanation he uses all the time.
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Who have a certain reaction to black people bred into them.
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We've made this point back in the day with Glenn, right?
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Like, it's not, you know, racism is a weird thing to throw around.
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And, you know, the left has no problem doing it all the time.
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When someone on the right says something is racist, it's the biggest controversy on earth.
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But, I mean, the bottom line is he's constantly viewing everything through a racial prism.
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The man just told you the reason we don't use solar panels is because of racism.
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This is exactly how he looks through about every issue.
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A guy can't go five minutes without calling somebody racist.
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And I don't mean to, on a holiday weekend, tell you to watch Chris Matthews.
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You know, it makes me think, you know, we've been talking a little bit about Michelle Obama
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I don't think they can stay away from this stuff.
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Especially, it's disturbing on the week where both sides of the racial divide have come
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Just to make him feel at home, we should call him Jason Buttrell.
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Now, it seems like everything's right in the world.
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Last night, they had preview screenings and some actually on Monday.
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Jason and I both went to one of these preview screenings.
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And I cannot say enough great things about this.
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Unfortunately, we did not test our diversity in that way.
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Is your opposition to solar panels driving your hatred?
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So, Creed II is, of course, the eighth movie in the Rocky series, if you want to put it
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And, you know, there's, to me, there are two different paths of Rocky movies.
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There are the story-leaning ones and the action-leaning ones.
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And so, you think of Rocky I, Rocky II, and then the last two, which is, you know, Creed
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and the previous movie, which was the sixth one, Rocky Balboa, it was called.
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Those two, those four movies, I think, were at leaning story.
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And Rocky III, IV, and V were leaning action, right?
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Like, there's a lot of fight scenes, a lot of musical interludes.
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I mean, Rocky III through V were essentially one large music video and in training sequence.
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And I would say leaned a little bit towards the action side of it, which is harder to
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You know, you can get cheesy with nine million boxing scenes and a bunch of, you know, training
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There's a lot of, you know, story in it as well.
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It's a really well done movie, but the action scenes are fantastic.
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Which I, she, I was, she was very willing to go to a boxing movie with me.
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And at first I was like, oh, wow, this is cool.
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Like, you know, hey, we're going to, and then I realized, you know,
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it's Michael B. Jordan, like with his shirt off for 80% of it.
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You thought you leaned more action because I almost leaned more like story driven on
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Like there was a lot of action, but I mean, like, and I, the one hit that I've seen other
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like reviewers of this movie talk about was they said, well, it was kind of predictable.
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But I, but they took, they took twists and turns.
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And by the way, we've implemented a, since Glenn is out, no spoiler policy on the movie
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We're not going to tell you the entire movie during this review.
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But yeah, no, I, I mean, look, Rocky is Rocky and, and, and you kind of understand the
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basic premise of the movie, but really well done.
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I don't want to say that there wasn't, but the action was awesome too.
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If you were like part of this, the new generation of, of just being like, just introduced to
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Rocky movies, like you'll like Creed is probably the one you like for, I mean, I guess for
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like the new newer generation, you'll be like, Oh, this is a sequel to Creed.
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But to me, once I saw that they were introducing Drago into this movie, this was instantly what
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I've been wanting to see since I was a kid, which was a sequel just to Rocky four.
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Just, let's just branch off and do spinoffs of Rocky four.
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And I was like, and have you guys seen, um, uh, the Cobra Kai, like remake of the Karate
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This is with the real actors, like Daniel LaRusso and like the old, uh, the old school
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It is like, I cannot believe that's actually good.
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So what it does is there was like this, there was like this internet like theory on, yeah,
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like, you know, the main bad guy, the, what's his name?
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Um, that he was like actually the good guy and Daniel LaRusso was the bad guy.
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And so they really go into the story of the bad guy.
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So anyway, so that's what this reminded me of this new Rocky movie.
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They would kind of go into the backstory of Drago and I won't, I won't tell, this is going
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to be rough, but I won't give anything away, but you actually kind of get into like why he
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You find out what happened to him afterwards and it explains a lot.
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So like, like bad guys and like, you know, like Mr. T, you know what I mean?
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Like he was just like the typical action movie bad guy in Rocky three.
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But this guy like, there was some depth to both like Drago and his son.
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Cause I mean, you know, Rocky three and four, they were just killing machines, right?
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Like he's going up against an impossible opponent.
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Um, and this one, there's definitely more depth to it.
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It's really well, my watching my wife, this would, this movie is hilarious.
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Jordan that you can tell that that's a, that's a real thing.
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Uh, but, uh, second, like she, every crying, every thing time you hear the sad piano, come
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Uh, every time there's a fight in the ring, it's as if she's in there, the way she's moving
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her head around and closing her eyes and like reacting, get out of the way, get out of the
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It's one of those movies that could bring every emotion out.
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And I, you know, look, I'm a big Rocky fan anyway.
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Um, so I would have probably liked the movie no matter what, but man, it's, it's, it's better
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And there's, you know, you got the villain who basically is going to haunt your dreams
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And I don't like watch this when you go to watch and there's always like that one Thanksgiving
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You can't miss Creed two is that movie this year.
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You have to go see it, but when you go see it, forget about the predictability because
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that's just going to happen in any, any Rocky movie.
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And I've seen a couple of reviews that said, well, it was predictable.
00:30:59.260
You know, what's going to happen towards the end.
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
00:31:20.660
And that was one of the biggest things I took towards the end.
00:31:24.120
You know, like I, and I, you don't expect to see that from a Rocky movie.
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
00:31:34.640
I was like, that, that blew me away towards the end.
00:31:36.840
And it's, uh, it's, it's worthy of, of the, that conversation of, of, you know, award-winning
00:31:46.460
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
00:32:10.140
The butt drill scale, if it goes to, I don't know, thumbs, two thumbs up.
00:32:16.080
Two butt drills, uh, apparently, uh, no butt drills, two butt drills is the official ranking
00:32:22.420
Uh, that's, I, you know, Pat, you saw the, and you saw the Harry Potter thing too, right?
00:32:28.540
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.
00:32:45.540
Some things you could actually, you know, tolerate in the theater, which is nice.
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.
00:33:16.220
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.
00:33:35.520
And then, you know, pretty decent guitar player as well.
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.
00:33:50.000
And then, and those bands seem to really endure.
00:33:54.560
Um, if you haven't seen it yet, that's, that's definitely worth your time, uh, on this holiday
00:33:59.020
By the way, we, we, we were talking about the whole Rocky thing.
00:34:06.420
We've mentioned this the other day, but we actually found the details, uh, in between
00:34:09.900
Dolph Lundgren was on a Fulbright scholarship at MIT when he was cast as, as Ivan Drago.
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.
00:34:33.280
And he's, you know, he's not sharing quadratic equations in the movie.
00:34:41.760
I saw him in an interview and you, uh, recently and you could tell.
00:34:47.380
He, when you, when he starts to talk, it kind of, that whole, this is a big dumb guy
00:34:56.980
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,
00:35:09.220
You think he's a big dumb guy that just wanted him to be a big, dumb guy.
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.
00:35:30.700
Uh, so let's talk about, um, Relief Factor for a moment, if we should, Pat.
00:35:34.820
Pat, uh, Relief Factor is a, uh, I mean, it's something that's changed Glenn's life, uh, for
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the better, uh, for over four years, Relief Factor has been helping, uh, people here at
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You know, if you have that kind of consistent nagging sort of pain, a lot of that's caused
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by inflammation and Relief Factor is a great way to fight against that.
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If you're one of the people who lay, if you've got little kids, you're chasing them around
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You want to play tennis or golf or whatever, and you keep having pain.
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If you want a drug free and natural way to ease your pain, go to Relief Factor.com.
00:36:49.680
Pat Gray and Stubergear, uh, for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
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.
00:37:08.660
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
00:37:18.200
Um, we've been talking a little bit about the things we're thankful for that are actually
00:37:27.320
Certainly, Creed II would be one of those things I'm thankful for.
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.
00:38:05.280
And you gotta believe the perception among, especially young people, I'm guessing, is
00:38:12.860
And I think the vast majority of people might think that, but the percentage is amazing.
00:38:24.340
It's one of the greatest achievements in human history.
00:38:29.140
The people who are in extreme poverty, cut it by half in two decades?
00:38:37.160
And almost every, I don't think it was believed to be possible 20 years ago.
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.
00:38:59.340
But, you know, it's kind of the fight or flight thing, I think, at some level.
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.
00:39:15.280
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.
00:39:38.360
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.
00:39:55.780
This is a, to see how far we've come, to see how far the globe has come, but also the United States,
00:40:04.780
People who are considered poor in the United States, the number is, I mean, we're talking about major,
00:40:13.920
Matt Ridley talks about this in his book, The Rational Optimist, which is a book I really like.
00:40:21.560
And, you know, King Louis back in the day, what would he do?
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?
00:40:38.140
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.
00:40:46.320
And people would, he would direct his servants every night to bring him every kind of food
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.
00:41:10.220
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
00:41:24.580
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
00:41:39.820
I mean, King Louis didn't have red velvet Oreos.
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.
00:42:13.400
It's still not as common in the rest of the world as it is here.
00:42:17.140
I mean, go to Bulgaria and see if you have the choices that the United States of America
00:42:21.380
With the constitution we have in the form of, and the kind of economy we have here.
00:42:30.800
It's all, it's, all of these things are better here, right?
00:42:33.740
I mean, even in Bulgaria, you can go to a restaurant in which quote unquote servants
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.
00:42:52.220
For all of eternity, man was able to stay alive without a refrigerator, electricity, radio,
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.
00:43:18.520
The computer, when Bill Clinton was elected, this is not that long ago.
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.
00:43:39.420
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.
00:43:53.780
Almost everyone had a smartphone far more powerful than any computer even available during the
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.
00:44:19.880
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
00:44:29.680
Well, now that piece of land is doing 8.6 times as much, which is only positive if you
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.
00:45:09.640
The homicide rate in the United States has dropped by about half from the levels of the
00:45:16.520
While the media constantly warns of the epidemic of rape culture, the rate of forcible rape
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.
00:45:39.020
You know what the number is in 8 million resident New York City this year?
00:45:50.460
But we definitely shouldn't have a border wall.
00:45:56.220
And the strides that we've made in reducing crime like that in this country are unbelievable.
00:46:04.260
You don't want 147 people to be murdered in New York or anywhere else.
00:46:08.660
But that's an amazing achievement because the number used to be over 2,000 in New York.
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.
00:46:29.980
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.
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.
00:46:54.540
You're going to ban, let's say you ban AR-15s, right?
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.
00:47:05.140
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.
00:47:24.880
It's such a, I mean, like, but it's stupid with a understandable emotional backing.
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.
00:47:56.000
The rate of students killed per million in fatal school shootings has dropped by over 75%.
00:48:05.920
And hard to believe because you would think it's triple what it used to be.
00:48:22.060
But I mean, because have you heard that stat on CNN or even Fox?
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.
00:48:51.380
But the point is, I was, when I was in school with absolutely no fear of a school shooting
00:49:01.780
I was four times as likely to be killed in a school shooting than the kids are today.
00:49:14.020
There, and as they, as they summarize it, quote, there is not an epidemic of school
00:49:21.720
This is not a conservative, this is Northeastern University.
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?
00:49:43.160
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.
00:49:59.500
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.
00:50:08.220
And so you are probably, you know, you're going to be more likely for your school to be involved
00:50:15.720
Now, mass shootings overall, the peak was actually in the late 20s when you talk about mass shootings
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.
00:50:34.800
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.
00:50:52.380
And that's because of the vaccine that you took as a sugar cube when I was a kid.
00:50:57.920
Among men in the United States, if you're a dude, you're going to be happy about some of
00:51:02.500
Death rates from colon cancer have dropped by 30%.
00:51:05.260
Oh, that's another thing I would think was way up.
00:51:08.940
You hear about having to get checked every six minutes, apparently.
00:51:15.600
Prostate cancer, again, another one of those that you'd think was up, has dropped by 45%.
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%.
00:51:46.280
That's all really, really freaking good news that we never, ever contemplate anymore.
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.
00:52:12.040
It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
00:52:16.880
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00:52:21.020
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And we look pretty young at the time, especially Glenn.
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.
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Because if you're thinking about what you think about when you think of Jeffy, you're not going to think of food.
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00:54:09.940
And you're going to see that relative this weekend.
00:54:17.640
We're going to be in Tampa and Orlando in a couple of weeks.
00:54:28.060
So I probably won't see this show, but I would love to.
00:54:32.680
We might do an appearance there if you want to.
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.
00:54:51.420
You don't want necessarily, not necessarily the place you want to visit right now, but
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?
00:55:02.660
We're getting to that point with my kids, though, where I'm going to have to make these
00:55:09.660
There's like a whole process if you're going to Disney with your kids.
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.
00:55:23.120
The other one just oddly seems to go as like a mid-20s person all the time.
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.
00:55:38.720
Your kids are getting to that perfect age to take them.
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.
00:56:13.200
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.
00:56:23.060
And you also see him, he was in the Expendables.
00:56:27.480
The Salone movie where him and Jet Li beat each other up, which was quite humorous, watching
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.
00:56:50.260
All right, Jason, we're going to put you on hold.
00:56:54.780
He didn't care at all about Ivan Drago or Dolph Lundgren.
00:57:06.620
I like the fact that he took the effort to make a rocky point.
00:57:10.340
The next call we're going to have is, by the way, I just wanted to say the Philadelphia
00:57:24.260
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
00:57:36.780
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?
00:57:49.420
Anymore, seems like the gloves are off for the divorced parents that, hey, we're just trying
00:57:56.560
to bash each other to the kids and get favoritism among the kids.
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?
00:58:09.540
He's got to be doing something right that you could at least go, you know what?
00:58:15.680
Now, if my wife and I split up, we each get a separate house.
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
00:58:31.280
Well, we can't just split the country up and you run the west side, we'll run the east
00:58:43.140
And I think, you know, there are, I always feel like, you can look at like a debate like
00:58:50.940
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
00:58:58.900
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
00:59:08.380
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?
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They don't want them necessarily to be protected by teachers.
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Like, if Republicans say, well, teachers, let's arm the teachers.
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And the Democrats say, let's take away all these guns.
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Neither one of those are possible solutions because the other side is automatically going
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Like, I think everybody on both sides agree that people who have massive mental health problems
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And also, curing that situation, because just making it so they don't own them or can't
01:00:03.440
I mean, Adam, whatever his name was in, I was going to say his name because I do remember
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it, but I don't want to give these people any freaking recognition anymore.
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But the guy in Newtown, he had real problems, mental health.
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His mom had no mental problems, but he went and stole all of her guns and shot her and
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killed her and then went and killed all those kids.
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How do you solve that with a restriction on mental health?
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It's about trying to help those people so they don't do those things, right?
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And so, I think, like, I do think that there's an argument to be made where you can look
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more commonly for low-hanging fruit in a lot of these debates.
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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.
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So, you go down those roads and it doesn't work.
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Addicted to Outrage has a lot of ways to, it's, the whole book is about addressing exactly
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what you're talking about and trying to find a way to, to not only exist with, with people
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who, let's be honest about it, a lot of times you think are completely insane.
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I mean, a lot of the views that I hear from Democrats I think are completely insane and
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I, I, I find it difficult to even acknowledge them without ridiculing them or just getting
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But, A, you're going to live with these people, so you got to figure something out.
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He had dinner every single night of the week with Tip O'Neill.
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That's how the, and they fought like cats and dogs during the day.
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And then they went and ate every meal together.
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He never had dinner with anybody but Tip O'Neill.
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And I, I, like the Tip O'Neill thing, because Chris Matthews brings this up all the time.
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And in his context of bringing it up is, they would work together and then, you know, that
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would be a way to get to bipartisan solutions, right?
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I don't necessarily, bipartisanship to me is, generally speaking, overrated.
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Bipartisanship is not something to praise in and of itself.
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Now, if you have, like, there's a lot of things that get voted on in the Senate that
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.
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And if you have something, an argument that's correct, trying to convince someone rather
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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.
01:03:20.940
A lot of times I'll be talking about something I'm passionate about and it just makes me feel
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good that I know what I'm talking about and I'm right.
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You know, I mean, I think everybody does that at some level.
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You try to avoid it because you're a jerk, basically, if you do it, but you're always
01:03:35.540
When you, when the, when the Kavanaugh thing's going down, people are heated and, you know,
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our side is saying like, you can't just throw this guy, you can't ruin this guy's life over
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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.
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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,
01:04:12.860
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
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just done in his career as a result of it without looking into it any further?
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Well, if there's no evidence and there's no corroboration, are you willing to have your
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son just lose his job and his livelihood over it?
01:04:40.660
You remember growing up as, and this, this is an interesting conversation I had with several
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women when this, when the me too stuff was going on around the holidays last year, you
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
01:05:07.600
I had friends who came up and made false accusations against guys they liked and hated constantly
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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.
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And we all inherently know when we stop and think about it for a moment that women, this
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Wait, you're, you're saying women are not perfect beings.
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I am saying that women are not perfect beings, period.
01:05:51.320
Uh, guy, morning of September 22nd of last year, Christopher Procopia went to work at his
01:06:03.200
Um, that person happened to be a police officer.
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That police officer charged him with burglary and the intent to commit other crimes, uh, likely
01:06:31.160
They had a witness, the woman, former high school girlfriend, uh, and they had dated for
01:06:38.040
She, uh, had not only the story of what had happened, but also an X on her chest that was
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carved into her, her chest via box cutter and, uh, by him, by him, she was, she said he did
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.
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It was she, of course she can't remember exactly, but it doesn't matter.
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Um, at the time this was going on, he happened to be at a, uh, Northwest Austin, Texas hotel,
01:07:26.640
And of course you can certainly say that all you want, but he happened to have a selfie
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at the time with his family that was posted and dug up.
01:07:42.880
This woman apparently did not like him and wanted to, uh, had a vendetta against him
01:07:50.220
He's now walking free and everything's fine because she was lying about him, according
01:07:56.980
And so we believe survivors doesn't really apply in that particular case.
01:08:04.240
Or how about the woman, Anna Ayers, who was a journalism major and a member of the student
01:08:16.660
They said, uh, they said that she should, uh, should not be allowed in the, in the student
01:08:21.860
They said that, uh, that she was, I think it's because of her sexual orientation.
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.
01:08:45.280
People do these things to each other all freaking day.
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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
01:09:00.200
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.
01:09:08.400
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.
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The worst electoral defeat in history when it comes to popular vote in the house.
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You got to be able to convince people who will listen and we need to get better at that.
01:09:36.620
With Pat and Stu today, um, PETA is upset with the president right now because, uh, turkeys don't
01:09:42.900
need to be pardoned and, uh, uh, president Trump did in fact, pardon, uh, a turkey yesterday,
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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.
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.
01:10:13.300
Does the one that doesn't get pardoned actually eat it?
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Cause I think most people just would like, if you're eating meat, you want to basically
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.
01:10:42.000
And that is not one of the things that kind of sort of turned you off.
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
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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.
01:10:57.740
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?
01:11:07.900
That's, I think, I don't think most Americans are probably on that path, which I, you know,
01:11:14.560
It's, it's not something you want to think about, you know?
01:11:21.080
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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.
01:12:58.540
You know, with Ted Cruz, Ted's ideology and Beto's ideology, it's a big gap.
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.
01:13:26.160
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
01:13:34.940
I mean, this was not only just, every single time you have a president in power, the opposing
01:13:43.680
This is still one of the, it was one of the, it was a top-tier performance over the past
01:13:51.380
But it was one of the best that they have done in the last century.
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
01:14:06.080
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
01:14:14.200
The only thing they didn't get were the high profile positions.
01:14:19.760
And so the ones they focused on in big ways did not come through, right?
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.
01:14:41.260
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
01:15:02.140
Oddly, what happened last night is three of the exceptions to the rule were the first ones
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
01:15:27.280
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
01:15:33.280
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.
01:15:40.900
There were some good stories, some individual stories, but actually the Democrats did worse
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.
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
01:16:09.840
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.
01:16:37.560
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
01:16:48.680
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
01:17:19.840
That's a big advantage from how far ahead were Republicans before it?
01:17:27.420
It looks like about 235 seats for Democrats in the House.
01:17:33.460
Because some of these California races, there's a recount going on in Georgia right now for
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
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.
01:18:01.820
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.
01:18:12.760
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.
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.
01:18:51.880
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.
01:19:26.920
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.
01:19:49.240
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.
01:20:08.240
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.
01:20:20.360
In that environment, for the Republicans to likely end this with 53 seats is a, is not, it's not a good result.
01:20:33.200
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.
01:20:51.120
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.
01:21:25.340
And it's going to matter in the next two years because, you know, there's not going to be a tax cut, certainly.
01:21:31.640
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.
01:21:52.580
I don't know why they're not using this time right now.
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,
01:22:08.800
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?
01:22:18.580
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?
01:22:38.560
Every single one of these should come up for a vote.
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.
01:23:17.460
There's an interesting, uh, story I was reading the other day from Jim Garrity at National Review.
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.
01:23:53.640
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.
01:24:14.560
So you can kind of see through, uh, and what's going on on the other side.
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.
01:24:42.720
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.
01:25:12.820
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.
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.
01:25:38.400
Previously it was 705 miles, but now it is 705 miles.
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.
01:26:11.380
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.
01:26:23.060
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.
01:26:30.520
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.
01:26:38.360
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.
01:26:47.080
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.
01:27:40.320
Um, plus I get to enjoy the hassle of the traffic.
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.
01:28:04.380
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.
01:28:21.500
In fact, it's so, like, you can even say, well, Stu, you're just a wuss.
01:28:28.280
Even though I grew up in the Northeast, I hate the cold weather so much.
01:28:35.120
They have basically just turned the whole city into a mall.
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Everyone knows Mall of America, which is a giant city that's inside.
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Like, it's just, they have an entire amusement park inside of a mall.
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This is, uh, because people would rather die than walk outside to shop.
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But even the city itself, and I, I had never been there before, uh, this past year when
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the Eagles beat the Patriots 41 to 33 in the Super Bowl.
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So, like, when you're walking from one, when I'm leaving the game, walking back to where
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I parked, which it was near Target Field, which is where the Twins play.
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So, from, from where the Vikings play to where the Twins play.
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And you're walking through these bridges that connect the buildings.
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And you're walking through, like, hotel lobbies and, like, office building lobbies.
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Like, people will say the same thing about Texas because it gets to be hot.
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And standing outside for a stupid parade for that long.
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I can't even get my kids interested in the parade.
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We put the parade on every year in the background when you're getting ready for, you know, to leave for Thanksgiving dinner.
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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.
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Yeah, in 1940, there wasn't a lot of other really super cool things.
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And so you're like, wow, look at the size of that Snoopy balloon.
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It's larger than you would picture Snoopy in other circumstances.
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That particular Snoopy is not only large but floating.
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And it seems like some people on the ground are dragging it along.
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Two million people every year show up for the parade.
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Maybe that won't be the case this time because it's going to be so stinking cold.
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But it's all global warming, just so you know that.
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It got so hot, it went all the way back around to cold.
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Well, I guess a lot of times the thermometers are circular.
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With Pat and Stu, you can join me, Pat Gray, for Pat Gray Unleashed every weekday, immediately
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And then you can check it out on the podcast at your leisure any time of the day.
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And if you have a significant mental issue, you can join Jeff Fisher on Chewing the Fat
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Hard to believe you'd want to, but you know, there's no accounting for taste.
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Not only do people want to, I mean, they really want to purchase the Chewing the Fat with Jeff
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We have a big Black Friday sale going on, too, so.
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Now, if you're not a long-term fan of the program or the network, you might not know
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Spoons, but Spoons was a segment we did and gained about 50 pounds doing during the Pat
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We've all lost weight since we stopped doing Spoons.
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It started as, you know, we should try some strange different foods just for, you know,
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And then it went from, you know, let's just eat every day.
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And it was named Spoons because it was the only word Jeffy could say.
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Should we start there, Jeffy, before we get to your stories of the day?
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So, we have a full Thanksgiving dinner in potato chip form.
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We start with turkey and gravy-flavored potato chips.
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The face of Pat does not look particularly pleased with these potato chips.
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I mean, it's not bad, but I'm not really getting turkey and gravy from it.
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I mean, it's certainly not screaming turkey and gravy.
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They had a sausage and peppers chip for a while at 7-Eleven.
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7-Eleven is like, they're becoming like food laboratories over there.
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They're just constantly coming out with new crazy flavors of chips and stuff.
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So, if you're near one, it's worth stopping by every once in a while just to check what
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It almost just tastes like a normal potato chip to me.
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And then for dessert, we have pumpkin pie-flavored potato chips.
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Sweet potato chips are not something you dive into that often, but I'm kind of excited about
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I mean, look, am I diving into this bag, you know, twice a week with lunch?
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If I were to have, like, a Thanksgiving party, and you put out a bowl of these things, I think
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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.
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Uh, we have a couple more things here before we get to the Jeffy stories of the day.
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Uh, brand new soda from Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola California Raspberry.
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They do have a raspberry in the, um, the machines where you can have all the crazy flavors,
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There's a raspberry variety, but I've never seen it in a bottle of water.
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Again, it's a regular Coke, and I don't, I'm a big artificial sweetener fan, if you don't
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I used to get up in the morning and have raspberries in milk with my grandma, and that's where
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Well, first of all, you've drank almost the entire bottle, so you seem to like it.
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I'm trying to wash away the turkey and gravy chips.
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Raspberries and, is that a normal thing, raspberries and milk?
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I have never heard of it, but that's not surprising when it involves Jeffy.
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You can get these as well at your local convenience stores.
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We're going to start with a, kind of a palate cleanser here.
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Almost like a malted milk ball, almost in the middle.
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It's not quite, it's that same consistency, like of a Whopper in the middle.
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We use that as mainly, because those have been around for a while.
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We use that as a setup here for the winning flavor for M&M's.
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And as we're about to gorge ourself for a day, we've got to give you some new options.
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You know, they're kind of like a peppermint patty.
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Same kind of chocolate, same kind of minty flavor.
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But notice we're not getting any numbers from Jeffy, because he really can't do it.
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We say that the highest number he knows is 18, but he really can't count all the numbers
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I know I'm jumping ahead to M&M's, but the M&M's...
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I'd rather have it without the peanut in it, but it's pretty good.
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It's amazing how many flavors of M&M's there now are.
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You don't have to, like, look hard to find a bunch of crazy flavors of M&M's.
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Now, so overall, I would say I like the pumpkin pie ones.
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The crunchy mint ones, I think, might have been my favorite out of those.
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And then the California Raspberry Coke was not bad.
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See, this is the sort of information you're getting from this program.
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You don't have to eat them when you're in front of it.
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This is the sort of insight you get on chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.
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And it's no surprise that the word fat is in the title when you hear that sort of information.
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I mean, nothing says Thanksgiving like a salad.
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But the Centers for Disease Control are telling you, look out.
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Because we just ate romaine lettuce last night.
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They're telling people to throw away any romaine lettuce that they already have in their homes.
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Now, remember, they had the big breakout a few months ago.
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I don't know what they're doing to the romaine lettuce.
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Now, on the safe side, I would say don't eat any.
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Now, I say this warning about staying away from vegetables lasts for the next couple years,
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So, if your wife is asking you to eat vegetables.
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For me, this is extended to kale because that's also a leafy type of substance.
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All vegetables, I think, are on the table here.
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There's a survey that came out about the most disproportionately common Thanksgiving sides
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So, what are the sides on Thanksgiving that are regional in nature?
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Like, this is a clear case for you might need to move, in my opinion.
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The whole western half of the United States, basically, is salad.
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The main common side that you relate to Thanksgiving in that, but no.
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But the most disproportionately common is salad in the West.
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Now, that just means that people in the East aren't eating any salad, which is, I think,
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Now, I've seen that here or there, but that was not a popular one, and I grew up in the
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If it has the word squash after it, I don't eat it, Jeffy.
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Do you know how you would like acorn squash, though?
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Well, I think because of the romaine issues, I'm going to stay away from squash.
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In the northern sort of central area, you know, Minnesota, 12 or 13 Dakotas, that area
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Oh, no, that's the only way that the crunchy fried onion people make a living.
01:44:15.480
I don't like onions, and I don't like green beans.
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There's a reason I eat, you know, the Brickhouse Nutrition Field of Greens.
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In the Ohio, Michigan, sort of Wisconsin area is rolls and biscuits.
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Texas is cornbread in our sort of region around Texas.
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And it's surprising that it's not farther down south.
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All the whole south is cornbread, because they're big fans.
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Mac and cheese on Thanksgiving is a wonderful addition to your Thanksgiving.
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I lived in the south for quite a while, and I don't recall that as being a prominent side.
01:45:10.480
You live in the south right now and have for the last several years.
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Stu's got some statistics on world improvement, just to kind of make you feel good about things heading into Thanksgiving.
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One of the unbelievable improvements in the world is that you can make potato chips taste like pumpkin pie.
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So in the era of capitalism, we have gone from 94% living in extreme poverty to 10%.
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In the era of capitalism, we've gone from 17% having basic education to 86%.
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We have gone from basically 0% with the exception of the United States.