The Glenn Beck Program - 'Iranian Threat Is Obama's Legacy' - 5⧸9⧸18

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00:00:06.620 Glenn Beck.

00:00:16.300 This is the sound of the Iranian parliament chanting death to America.

00:00:24.540 This is where they burned the American flag just a few short hours ago.

00:00:30.000 Apparently, they're not real happy with President Trump's decision to officially pull the United States out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal.

00:00:40.660 You know, I mean, really? I mean, they're not happy?

00:00:45.320 How can you tell? I mean, this is the burning flags and chanting death to America or death to Israel.

00:00:50.600 I mean, I thought that's what makes these people happy.

00:00:53.340 They're always doing that.

00:00:55.340 Let's put into perspective what we're dealing with here and who we're dealing with.

00:01:00.000 The closing act of every Friday prayer session in Iran is accompanied by a U.S. flag burning and a death to America chant.

00:01:09.100 That's at the end of their religious service.

00:01:12.440 They have made praying for our destruction a national holiday.

00:01:17.500 Death to America Day is November 4th.

00:01:20.300 So, I mean, if you have a holiday, chanting death to America is probably a pretty good thing because there's like, oh, I remember when we had the picnic.

00:01:31.580 And remember when we used to go out and watch the fireworks as we burned the American flag?

00:01:36.740 I mean, that's a happy memory.

00:01:38.480 And quite honestly, until you get rid of your national holiday, death to America Day, I don't think we have much to talk about.

00:01:47.980 Now, all of this was known to the Obama administration two years ago, but the president decided to bypass Congress, which the president doesn't do treaties or deals like this.

00:02:02.360 The Senate does.

00:02:03.920 But he decided to bypass Congress and give those lunatics billions of dollars and sanctions relief.

00:02:10.600 It included an initial payment of 400 million dollars in cash, which was conveniently paid the same day Iran released four American hostages.

00:02:21.640 But we don't do that.

00:02:24.140 We don't pay for hostages.

00:02:25.480 We don't do that as a country.

00:02:26.800 So that was what a coincidence.

00:02:28.780 By February of 2016, the Obama administration had paid one point seven billion dollars of your tax money to the terrorist regime in Iran.

00:02:39.620 One point seven billion dollars that Iran demanded in cash.

00:02:48.220 So now you have to wonder what people like Ben Rhodes and Susan Rice and Samantha Power thought Iran was going to do with all of that cash invested in their country, build roads.

00:02:59.320 Why did they why did they want it in American dollars?

00:03:04.200 Iran's inflation rate is soaring and their economy is in a death spiral.

00:03:08.680 Anti-regime protests have been kicking off all over the country since the first of this year.

00:03:13.980 Most of these protests are over the high price of basic items like butter and chicken.

00:03:18.860 So where is all the money gone?

00:03:22.420 Before the nuke deal, Iran was on the ropes.

00:03:25.380 Today, their proxy forces have almost complete control over Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.

00:03:31.680 This is what the Obama administration funded.

00:03:37.060 They've marched a clear path toward Israel. 0.91

00:03:40.500 That's their true target from the beginning.

00:03:43.320 And anybody who is paying attention and not mocking the idea of a caliphate could have seen this one coming over 10 years ago.

00:03:51.700 Actually, they've been plotting it since 1979.

00:03:55.920 While their ground forces are busy, quote, encircling Israel, end quote,

00:04:01.260 they've also continued the development of their missile program.

00:04:06.000 You see, this is why the Israelis had such a horrible relationship with Obama.

00:04:11.840 The nuke deal didn't address any of these issues.

00:04:15.380 And the only people that would be left to deal with it was Israel. 1.00

00:04:21.040 Yesterday, as Iran announced the end of the deal, Iranian ground troops in Syria began positioning for an attack on northern Israel.

00:04:28.260 The IDF went on high alert and began calling up their reserve forces.

00:04:32.880 Authorities in the Golan Heights instructed anyone living in that area to prepare to move into their bomb shelters.

00:04:39.160 Israel decided not to wait and attacked an Iranian position near Damascus.

00:04:43.460 An Iranian position near Damascus.

00:04:47.920 Eight Iranians were reportedly killed.

00:04:50.200 None of this would have been possible if it weren't for the Iran nuke deal. 0.89

00:04:56.040 The Obama administration tried to hand Israel to Iran on a platter.

00:05:02.480 Pure and simple.

00:05:04.880 And that is the real Obama legacy.

00:05:13.460 It's Wednesday, May 9th.

00:05:15.980 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:05:23.920 This morning, I got up and I saw some tweets from Samantha Power.

00:05:29.140 Remember, she's Cass Sunstein's wife.

00:05:31.420 And she is rabidly anti-Israel.

00:05:36.960 And was our UN ambassador and responsible for some of the worst ideas in foreign policy ever.

00:05:44.660 And I just, she talked yesterday about, oh, it's a black cloud.

00:05:47.880 I remember the day that dark cloud over the White House was removed.

00:05:52.700 And we made the deal with Iran. 0.78

00:05:55.880 Hmm.

00:05:56.440 Really?

00:05:58.060 That dark cloud?

00:06:00.200 I think that dark cloud may have been there for another reason or seven.

00:06:05.960 Let's just go through what this administration with Samantha Power did.

00:06:13.000 What was their plan?

00:06:16.640 Now, we can say that it was anti-Israel and anti-West.

00:06:21.540 Okay.

00:06:22.720 We could say that.

00:06:24.680 But let's assume that they had the best intentions.

00:06:27.680 Let's assume that they really wanted peace. 0.91

00:06:31.760 Then they're completely incompetent.

00:06:34.340 And they made the same mistake over and over and over again.

00:06:39.140 Which is possible.

00:06:41.120 But let's go over their mistakes.

00:06:45.000 The Arab Spring is on fire. 0.90

00:06:48.340 And so what do they do?

00:06:49.260 They take a guy, Gaddafi, who is not a good guy.

00:06:53.580 I think we all agree.

00:06:55.120 But we had emasculated him.

00:06:57.680 He had given up all of his nuclear weapons, you know, desires.

00:07:04.080 He was supposedly, you know, now kind of an ally.

00:07:08.600 I mean, never really an ally.

00:07:10.140 You don't ever trust that guy.

00:07:11.400 But he wasn't sticking a hot fork in our face every day like Iran is or North Korea. 0.97

00:07:18.960 So we just decide, you know what?

00:07:21.680 Let's destabilize. 0.97

00:07:22.940 Let's get him out of there.

00:07:24.580 And his people dragged him through the streets.

00:07:27.220 And we supported it.

00:07:29.820 We helped arm these people to take over Libya. 0.92

00:07:34.940 Result?

00:07:36.260 Libya is a nightmare. 1.00

00:07:37.900 Libya is a destabilized state.

00:07:43.060 So in the middle of that, we realize, uh-oh, we've got to get some of these guns back.

00:07:48.500 We can't.

00:07:49.300 We can't just have all of these guns because these are really bad guys.

00:07:52.220 Let's get some of these things back.

00:07:54.220 That's what Benghazi was. 0.84

00:07:57.220 Benghazi was, let's take some arms and now let's ship them over to Syria. 0.98

00:08:03.940 Because Syria, the administration, and Samantha Power had decided, you know, we've had enough of Assad as well.

00:08:13.620 Wait a minute.

00:08:15.000 Weren't you guys just over there?

00:08:17.380 Weren't Hillary Clinton in several pictures? 1.00

00:08:21.100 Wasn't several members of the Democratic Corps over sitting smiling with Assad just recently?

00:08:32.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but he's got to go.

00:08:35.560 So to quell the problems in the Middle East, we just have to get rid of Gaddafi.

00:08:43.020 Did that quell things?

00:08:44.860 No.

00:08:45.780 That made things worse.

00:08:48.620 But it started an uprising on Assad.

00:08:53.120 Okay.

00:08:54.440 Well, Assad's a bad guy. 0.63

00:08:56.580 So, let's take the guns from Libya and we'll ship them from Benghazi over to Syria and we'll arm those people to get Assad out. 0.94

00:09:09.340 Okay.

00:09:10.560 Who were those people that we armed?

00:09:13.460 ISIS.

00:09:15.320 Uh-oh.

00:09:16.300 Now ISIS is a problem. 0.98

00:09:18.720 Now ISIS is beheading people. 0.94

00:09:21.300 Now we see who ISIS really is.

00:09:24.100 Well, we got to stop them.

00:09:26.340 Well, I don't want to go in and actually bomb anything.

00:09:29.340 I don't want to actually do anything.

00:09:31.140 Don't worry.

00:09:32.540 We can get another surrogate to do it because the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

00:09:37.720 And who's the enemy of ISIS?

00:09:40.360 Iran.

00:09:40.840 So, what we'll do is we'll empower, embolden, and enrich Iran so Iran can go over and they can stop ISIS. 0.88

00:09:53.300 So, we don't have to do it.

00:09:56.880 Okay.

00:09:58.800 So, we did.

00:10:00.480 Now they have control of Iraq and large portions of Syria. 0.75

00:10:05.700 And now their target is Israel. 0.85

00:10:09.960 Oh, man.

00:10:10.580 Is there somebody else we could?

00:10:12.680 Who else?

00:10:13.400 Who's really?

00:10:14.340 Who's worse than Iran? 1.00

00:10:16.080 Could we empower them to stop Iran? 1.00

00:10:20.000 Don't you see what's happening?

00:10:21.440 Samantha Power and Barack Obama and his team are directly responsible for anything that happens to our main ally in the Middle East, Israel.

00:10:36.660 And they are directly responsible for the destabilization of all of this and the empowering of Iran. 0.99

00:10:45.040 The one thing, George Bush did destabilize by going into Iran.

00:10:53.080 I'm sorry, Iraq. 1.00

00:10:55.160 But I will tell you this.

00:10:56.740 He never empowered, never empowered Iran. 0.86

00:11:03.120 The largest exporter of terror in the entire world.

00:11:09.000 This is the true legacy.

00:11:11.900 Now, what are we going to do about it?

00:11:13.620 Are we just going to stir all this up and then just walk away?

00:11:18.760 Well, you can make a case for that because it seems every time we butt our nose into somebody's business, we make it worse.

00:11:29.040 Here's what we should do.

00:11:31.280 We should send a strong message that we stand behind Israel.

00:11:35.420 We should do something like, say, move our embassy to Jerusalem. 0.94

00:11:41.340 Oh, we did that.

00:11:43.620 Then we should say, we don't believe Iran. 0.56

00:11:47.760 In fact, we believe that this was a giant mistake that emboldened and empowered them.

00:11:54.440 And we want nothing to do with them.

00:11:57.000 And we are putting them back in their box.

00:12:00.540 You can join us or not.

00:12:02.440 But that's what we're doing.

00:12:04.160 Oh, wait a minute.

00:12:06.940 Wow.

00:12:07.460 It looks like President Trump did both of those things.

00:12:12.540 Congratulations to the real Donald Trump.

00:12:16.980 Oh, and one more thing we'll get to next.

00:12:20.180 Hmm.

00:12:20.580 It looks like three hostages in North Korea have just been released.

00:12:29.000 An actual benefit of Donald Trump playing tough, being a bully to bullies.

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00:13:12.500 I mean, I didn't know anything about cryptocurrency.

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00:13:22.240 I mean, you were better at it than I was.

00:13:23.980 I'm better at everything than you are.

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00:13:32.000 No.

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00:14:45.820 By the way, today at five o'clock.

00:14:49.420 It's kind of a show just made especially for Barack Obama and Samantha Power.

00:14:53.700 And all of those that mocked the caliphate that are now saying, oh, my gosh, this is such a bad thing with the Iran deal.

00:15:02.180 I'm going to outline very clearly exactly what you did.

00:15:07.200 I'm not to gloat, but just to be able to say, should we listen to you or not?

00:15:14.680 Because here's what's coming next.

00:15:16.460 You want to know what what Iran's real plan is in their own words?

00:15:21.280 Well, it kind of sounds like death to America.

00:15:27.780 In fact, it is death to America and death to Israel. 0.99

00:15:31.320 And we'll show you that and and why Donald Trump was right today at five o'clock.

00:15:38.160 By the way, the North Korea regime has released the three American prisoners ahead of the summit.

00:15:45.280 Yeah, we have this thing that we do where we tend to treat an agreement like it's an accomplishment, right?

00:15:53.740 Like as the United States way, Jimmy Carter, you know, look at peace in the Middle East, you know, it didn't work out.

00:16:00.220 Didn't work out.

00:16:01.540 The Iran deal didn't work out.

00:16:03.820 It didn't work out.

00:16:04.600 And there's a danger that we go down, especially because he's a Republican, right?

00:16:10.880 A talk radio audience might look at the North Korea talks even before an agreement.

00:16:17.080 And there's been a lot of praise heaped onto the administration on it because, you know, we're excited that there's progress being made.

00:16:23.620 But again, nothing's actually happened.

00:16:25.280 Right.

00:16:25.680 This is something where you could say, hey, this is something that's actually happened.

00:16:28.940 No matter how these talks go, we have these three people back.

00:16:32.240 Yeah, this is the first real success.

00:16:35.180 I mean, you could talk about, you know, making progress, but this is the first milestone of success that's tangible.

00:16:41.540 And we did say that, by the way, when it came to the hostages in Iran as well.

00:16:45.160 Well, even though we didn't like the way it went down, we're glad we got the people back.

00:16:50.000 Yes.

00:16:50.380 And that's the same situation here.

00:16:52.740 No matter how this goes, we really hope it goes well with North Korea. 0.98

00:16:56.380 But if it doesn't, at least these people are back.

00:16:59.020 And that's a real legitimate accomplishment for the administration.

00:17:03.200 I hope the media will actually acknowledge that, but I don't know if they will.

00:17:06.440 You know, as it turns out, Donald Trump may be the best thing for a world that has been filled with dictators and despots.

00:17:13.740 Because Donald Trump may be the best one to work with them because he speaks their language.

00:17:22.300 You know, he's a brutal guy with brutal language, and he bullies right back.

00:17:29.080 And that's really the only kind of language that these guys understand. 0.63

00:17:32.780 I think they look at him and go, okay, well, don't screw with him because he might do it.

00:17:38.400 Where all Western approaches are always, you know, speak softly and don't carry a big stick.

00:17:48.500 I'm not sure I agree with that completely.

00:17:50.740 I mean, I think there's been...

00:17:52.960 He's doing something differently than other presidents.

00:17:55.040 I think people are associating that with this tough talk, which I'm not saying that's not part of it.

00:18:01.580 But I think, like, really what Trump does better than other presidents is he's willing to risk things.

00:18:07.860 Right?

00:18:08.840 He's not risk-averse.

00:18:11.220 And so he...

00:18:12.080 I think the tough talk is maybe part of that.

00:18:14.160 But I think more importantly is what he's doing with China behind the scenes.

00:18:17.760 I think that's more important.

00:18:18.780 And also, I think what he's done with Kim Jong-un is embraced him.

00:18:24.560 Right?

00:18:24.740 Like, he has said nice things about him.

00:18:27.100 He has said...

00:18:27.700 He said tough talk, too, because that's been part of it.

00:18:29.800 But he's also gone the other way.

00:18:31.100 He's played good cop, bad cop.

00:18:32.560 And no one plays good cop with Kim Jong-un.

00:18:35.700 And on the other side, too, there's also other factors like South Korea also willing to do that at the same time,

00:18:41.000 which hasn't necessarily always been the case.

00:18:43.080 Yeah.

00:18:43.200 Well, I think South Korea is the typical Western way of dealing.

00:18:47.860 And the way South Korea is, they just want peace.

00:18:50.220 Yeah.

00:18:50.400 They just want peace.

00:18:51.200 They want, you know, reunification.

00:18:53.660 And that's not a way to get anything done, because then your adversary holds all the cards.

00:18:59.980 They have to believe that you're just crazy enough to do it.

00:19:06.460 And if people believe that, and it only comes...

00:19:08.900 It doesn't come from...

00:19:09.980 Nobody can act that way.

00:19:11.780 You know what I mean?

00:19:12.220 Nobody can pretend to be that way.

00:19:14.500 It's your character.

00:19:15.660 And Donald Trump does walk with that swagger.

00:19:19.000 I mean, look, it's why he could build the Trump Tower in Washington or in New York, because Cartier, I think it was Cartier, no, Tiffany's, owned all of the airspace.

00:19:29.960 And he walked in and said, you're going to give me the airspace so I can build the Trump Tower.

00:19:35.180 And they said, oh, no, we don't. 0.97

00:19:36.560 Well, he said, well, I already own the land, so I'll build a five-story building, and it's going to be the ugliest damn building you've ever seen, or I'll build this one. 0.92

00:19:46.940 But here are the plans for both. 0.96

00:19:48.460 You choose.

00:19:49.100 Let me know.

00:19:49.520 I'm going back to the office.

00:19:50.560 They knew he wasn't bluffing, that he would build that ugly building.

00:19:55.880 They gave him the air rights.

00:19:57.760 That is his character on display.

00:20:02.920 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:05.160 We're bringing Ben Shapiro in just to get his opinion on a couple of things here.

00:20:10.480 Ben, welcome to the program.

00:20:11.920 Ben Shapiro from the Daily Wire.

00:20:13.600 Ben, first, let me start with Samantha Power and the Iran deal.

00:20:19.440 Oh, God.

00:20:22.520 She is, I mean, she's directly responsible for empowering Iran and enriching Iran. 0.98

00:20:30.860 She, I think, only did it because they were in so much trouble because of the Benghazi gun running that they needed somebody to fight ISIS because they wouldn't. 0.53

00:20:40.180 So they get, they get Iran to fight ISIS.

00:20:43.540 I mean, it was just a cascade of, of errors.

00:20:46.460 And it doesn't help that, you know, I don't think she really likes Israel all that much.

00:20:50.740 Yeah, I think the Obama administration had from the very beginning, even since before Obama was president, they had a plan for the Middle East.

00:20:56.680 And that was to reshape the Middle East in line with Iranian regional ambition, because Obama has this particularly weird idea that Iran could be easily moderated and that they could, they could become a regional counterbalance to Israel because he doesn't like Israel particularly much.

00:21:10.120 He doesn't like Saudi Arabia a lot.

00:21:11.680 So why not?

00:21:12.620 Why not empower the mullahs? 0.99

00:21:14.060 Maybe that would moderate them.

00:21:15.740 And obviously the opposite happened.

00:21:17.780 The mullahs were strengthened in power. 0.98

00:21:19.600 Obama, you know, since 2009, was allowing dissidents to be mowed down in the streets, basically, with no response from the United States.

00:21:25.820 But the Iran deal was just an outgrowth of Obama's peculiarly pro-Iranian view.

00:21:31.820 Samantha Power is, I think, even more ridiculous, because Samantha Power, of course, got famous off the back of writing a book about genocide and the horrors of genocide in the West that stands by and does nothing while genocide is pursued.

00:21:41.940 And then, of course, she was the architect of a Syria and Iran policy that ends with the genocide of half a million people in Syria. 0.91

00:21:47.200 So she and yesterday she's sitting around talking about, oh, I remember the dark days when we had to worry about Iranian nuclear ambitions.

00:21:53.920 I remember the dark days when Iran was a real threat. 1.00

00:21:57.040 And then I remember the joy and the wonder that came about after the Iran deal.

00:22:00.240 You're looking around going, Samantha, Assad used gas on his own people five minutes ago.

00:22:05.220 Iran has taken over Lebanon. 0.95

00:22:06.580 Iran is taking over Yemen.

00:22:07.980 Iran is taking over Iraq. 0.90

00:22:09.640 Iran is pursuing violence via Hamas and Hezbollah.

00:22:12.920 Like, what are you smoking?

00:22:15.380 What kind of crack are you on?

00:22:16.720 Because you're living in this alternative world where the Iran deal solves all of the Iran problems. 0.70

00:22:22.240 And as you see, I think the most hilarious thing about the aftermath of Trump's completely correct and brave rejection of the Iran deal, the most hilarious thing is that the Obama people who had said that the deal was going to establish moderates in Iran, those same people were saying, well, now look at Iran.

00:22:38.600 What do you expect them to do?

00:22:39.540 And Iran was saying, we're going to go directly after nuclear weapons. 0.93

00:22:41.920 We're going to burn American flags and shout death to America. 0.82

00:22:45.160 We're going to pursue strikes against Israel. 0.99

00:22:47.280 Yeah, clearly the moderates have been wildly empowered by the Iran deal.

00:22:50.820 So this is really just empowering now Israel.

00:22:54.600 I have no question that Israel could defend itself and can take care of itself.

00:22:59.020 This is a good move toward empowering Israel.

00:23:05.220 However, Ben, next week is their 70th birthday.

00:23:08.600 We're going to open up the embassy.

00:23:11.720 Which I support.

00:23:12.900 You've got riots in Gaza on the border.

00:23:17.560 You have the Iranian guard coming in and closing.

00:23:21.860 You have people starting to move towards the Golan Heights.

00:23:26.060 Are we at a flashpoint?

00:23:28.260 Is next week a really, really dangerous week?

00:23:32.160 I mean, I think it is definitely a more dangerous week.

00:23:34.760 But the problem for Iran is that it has no anti-Israel allies in the region other than the ones that it directly controls.

00:23:40.540 So it's less dangerous for Israel than the same moves would have been, say, 15 years ago.

00:23:46.400 Because the fact is that the Saudis, the Egyptians, the Jordanians, they're all on Israel's side. 0.79

00:23:50.280 I mean, the Saudis have legitimately been telling the Palestinians either take the deal that's being offered to you or sit down and shut up because they understand that Iran is a greater threat. 0.95

00:23:57.820 One of the weird effects of Obama's pro-Iran policy is that it actually created this counterbalance in the form of this alliance that didn't exist before.

00:24:06.100 I think that, you know, is it more dangerous in terms of Iran could, you know, push violence against Israel next week?

00:24:12.100 Sure. But it's less dangerous than it would be in 10 years when Iran's the same thing, right? 1.00

00:24:16.200 If Iran has nuclear weapons and Iran pushes the same thing, then all of a sudden you're looking at the risk of nuclear war in the Middle East. 0.83

00:24:21.840 Iran does not have a functional nuclear weapon at this point yet, which means that Bibi Netanyahu has got to be sitting there thinking,

00:24:28.140 listen, if I'm going to take the battle today or I've got to take the battle seven years from now when Iran has a nuke, I'd much rather fight it today, 0.99

00:24:34.160 which is why Israel went in and struck an Iranian target in Syria.

00:24:37.500 They've been striking Iranian targets in Syria pretty regularly.

00:24:40.200 Iran would be absolutely foolish to escalate things dramatically with Israel because Israel actually does not only have the power to protect itself,

00:24:48.820 but working in conjunction with Saudi Arabia using Saudi airspace, they have the conjunction to do serious damage to the regime itself.

00:24:54.060 Do you think that what happened with Saudi Arabia and the Middle East because of Barack Obama in some ways is going to happen here?

00:25:04.400 I mean, this intellectual dark web, the progressive movement has overplayed its hand and become so arrogant and so unhinged

00:25:13.680 that you're now starting to see, like you do in the Middle East, strange allies that are like, OK, this is crazy.

00:25:20.520 We don't agree on everything, but we both agree that's much worse.

00:25:25.820 Yeah, I think that's exactly what's happening.

00:25:27.820 I think the radicalism of the left, which used to be a fringe part of the liberal movement and now is moving very much into the mainstream,

00:25:35.400 it's driving people out, even people who agree with the left.

00:25:38.200 I mean, the intellectual dark web, which is this name that was given to a group of thinkers by Eric Weinstein,

00:25:43.260 who's a former Harvard mathematics professor, a PhD, he gave the name to this group of people that include people like Jordan Peterson

00:25:51.560 and me and Sam Harris and Christina Hoff Summers and Joe Rogan and Dave Rubin.

00:25:57.240 It's a bunch of weird thinkers, right?

00:25:58.980 Brett Weinstein, who's a socialist, is a bunch of people who disagree about everything politically,

00:26:03.340 people who are Bernie Sanders supporters and people who are Trump supporters and people who didn't support either

00:26:07.100 and people who like Hillary. 0.96

00:26:08.080 And the only thing that they have in common is they're looking at the left and the left is attempting to shut down debate.

00:26:14.080 The left is calling all of them racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, and all these people going, wait a second.

00:26:17.740 We just want to have reasonable conversations, even with each other, right?

00:26:21.020 I mean, Sam Harris and I agree about nothing.

00:26:22.820 I've been on Sam's podcast.

00:26:23.980 Sam's going to come on my podcast.

00:26:25.460 And the reason for this is because even though we agree on almost nothing, right,

00:26:30.200 we both agree that the left attempts to shut down honest debate over the issue of, for example, radical Islam,

00:26:34.900 is completely counterproductive and prevents anybody from having a decent conversation.

00:26:38.780 So you're right that the radicalism of the left is creating all of these weird bedfellows,

00:26:44.000 all these strange allies, and the left doesn't even see it.

00:26:47.180 The left is stuck in this old model where if they just shout racist at us or if they shout bigot at us

00:26:52.140 or if they suggest that we should be thrown out of the Overton window,

00:26:55.580 we just look at them and go, well, this is you yelling, this is how we built audiences, right?

00:26:59.300 None of us are on mainstream media.

00:27:01.060 Yeah, all of us built audiences on the back of you saying that we were deplorables,

00:27:04.780 you shouldn't be listened to.

00:27:05.820 And again, they're calling everyone a deplorable.

00:27:07.620 They've created this tiny little window between Hillary Clinton and Ta-Nehisi Coates. 1.00

00:27:11.120 And if you're not in that window, then you get thrown out.

00:27:14.120 Well, that leaves a lot of people outside the window.

00:27:15.960 Yeah.

00:27:17.060 I've seen a few crazies on the right claim that you are just empowering the atheist wing of the left

00:27:28.780 going so far as saying that you're an atheist and Jordan Peterson is an atheist.

00:27:35.620 How do you respond to that?

00:27:37.740 I wear the funny hat on my head and take every Friday night and Saturday night off

00:27:41.500 and keep kosher and do all of this weird stuff because I'm an atheist.

00:27:44.400 Yeah, I know.

00:27:45.100 I know.

00:27:45.460 I thought that was...

00:27:46.380 Yeah, it's totally nuts, but there's a kook wing to, I think, every political movement. 1.00

00:27:55.300 And unfortunately, there's a kook wing to ours as well. 0.99

00:27:58.440 So, Ben, how do you...

00:27:59.760 How do you...

00:28:00.760 If we're driving towards the Enlightenment, which I think this intellectual dark web is,

00:28:05.660 how do you meet with a bunch of atheists who... 0.63

00:28:10.040 I have atheist friends and have no problem with it,

00:28:12.660 but we have to make sure that reason is coupled with the Enlightenment of rights come

00:28:23.080 from someplace else other than God.

00:28:25.400 How do you bridge that gap?

00:28:28.780 Well, I think for the moment, the important thing is that a lot of these atheists agree

00:28:33.060 with the Enlightenment value of reason, but you're exactly correct.

00:28:35.600 This is where the rubber is going to meet the road.

00:28:37.100 And this is the debate that I've been having with Sam Harris, right?

00:28:39.580 Sam is a militant atheist, and obviously I'm not.

00:28:42.060 The debate that I've been having with Sam and with, you know, Stephen Pinker

00:28:44.940 and some of these other sort of Enlightenment...

00:28:47.400 What are calling themselves the Neo-Enlightenment thinkers is that, number one,

00:28:51.120 I think that they're granting entirely too much credit to the Enlightenment itself

00:28:54.380 as the source of science and the source of human rights.

00:28:57.060 Because if you look historically, that's just not accurate.

00:28:59.000 Human rights were in abeyance.

00:29:01.140 They're already starting to come around as early as the Renaissance,

00:29:04.560 and science was a continuous process.

00:29:06.720 I mean, Isaac Newton was happening in the 1650s, long before the Enlightenment.

00:29:09.340 So the idea that it's just a bunch of atheist thinkers from 1790s France

00:29:14.380 who are responsible for all the great good that's happened to the world since,

00:29:17.340 I think is just inaccurate.

00:29:18.880 Beyond that, they're failing to explain why it is that the Enlightenment happened here and now.

00:29:23.300 Why has it been the Enlightenment happened in the West at a particular time?

00:29:27.040 Why didn't it happen in China?

00:29:28.180 Why didn't it happen in India? 0.99

00:29:29.140 Why didn't it happen in the Middle East? 1.00

00:29:30.660 And the answer, of course, is because there's a Judeo-Christian culture

00:29:33.480 that has been built up over the course of literally thousands of years,

00:29:36.820 and that has principles that are very much in evidence in Enlightenment thinking.

00:29:42.600 John Locke, who's, of course, the leading American Enlightenment thinker,

00:29:45.600 the Enlightenment thinker who the founders relied on most.

00:29:48.640 John Locke spent half his life writing defenses of the Bible.

00:29:51.820 He wrote Christian apologetics.

00:29:53.380 These were religious guys, a lot of these Enlightenment thinkers.

00:29:55.780 And I know there's this attempt to paint all Enlightenment thinkers as Kant.

00:30:00.420 They're all pantheists who reject Christianity. 0.99

00:30:03.220 But the reality is that the Enlightenment was a lot more diverse than that,

00:30:06.200 and not all aspects of the Enlightenment were particularly good.

00:30:08.800 And I think we have to look at where did these aspects of the Enlightenment come from?

00:30:12.720 And more importantly, are those aspects of the Enlightenment,

00:30:15.720 is it possible to uphold those aspects of the Enlightenment in the absence of certain Judeo-Christian values?

00:30:20.340 So, for example, you see people like Pinker and people like Harris talking about the value of each individual human being.

00:30:25.500 Harris says he builds his entire worldview, his entire moral worldview on the well-being of humans.

00:30:31.600 Okay, well, what in atheism suggests that the well-being of humans ought to be the first priority?

00:30:36.200 The answer is nothing.

00:30:37.000 Atheism is not a system of thought.

00:30:38.400 Atheism is a rejection of God.

00:30:39.620 It is only in the Judeo-Christian West that says that man is made in God's image, 0.88

00:30:44.380 that you can have a system that says, and human beings have individual rights because they were made in God's image,

00:30:49.680 that you have rights and I have rights.

00:30:51.120 Otherwise, collectivists say, well, you know, human beings are human beings, 0.94

00:30:54.140 and if we want to make life better for everybody, if we kill a few million of them here or there, what's the big deal? 0.94

00:30:58.400 Couldn't you? 0.97

00:30:58.720 The idea of individual rights springs from a long tradition in the Christian West,

00:31:07.520 and trying to separate off the rose from the bush is going to—you may be able to put the rose on the vase for a minute,

00:31:13.380 but it's going to die and wither pretty quickly.

00:31:15.700 Couldn't you make the case that the enlightenment without God is kind of what the left has thought they were doing here in the last few decades,

00:31:28.500 where we are science-based and let's get away from God and let's treat each other right,

00:31:33.560 and without those principles of the individual is supreme and the individual, you know, has certain unchangeable rights,

00:31:45.720 we start to just slide into this kind of crazy place that we're in now.

00:31:50.920 I think that's exactly right.

00:31:52.360 I think that it's not just that the enlightenment without God, you know, brings us to where we are now.

00:31:57.880 It's the enlightenment without God brings us to some of the worst places that we've ever been.

00:32:01.520 Yes.

00:32:02.340 Marx was part of the enlightenment.

00:32:04.880 People want to say that he was part of the counter-enlightenment.

00:32:06.840 That's a nice way of trying to exclude him from the community of people who are thinking along the lines of reason.

00:32:12.580 Marx thought he was speaking on behalf of pure reason.

00:32:14.920 He thought he was speaking on behalf of the idea that human beings were fatally flawed,

00:32:20.060 and the only way to fix that was through reason via the collective, right?

00:32:24.080 If we could just shift the system in which we live, then human beings would naturally become better.

00:32:28.060 There were a lot of enlightenment thinkers like Auguste Comte who were specifically saying,

00:32:31.940 let's look at science and then let's base public policy around science.

00:32:34.980 And this led to the growth of centralized bureaucracy, which, by the way, in the early 20th century is pushing eugenics here in the United States. 0.90

00:32:40.700 So reason can take you in a lot of different directions if you don't have fundamental principles on which to base reason.

00:32:46.040 Reason is not actually a set of principles.

00:32:48.300 Reason is a methodology, just like diplomacy is not a set of principles.

00:32:51.900 Diplomacy is a methodology.

00:32:52.940 The question is, what are the premises that you are using to work off of when you use reason?

00:32:58.720 Beyond which, I think that a lot of atheist thinkers, you know, they like to talk about reason and they talk about will and how we can change things around.

00:33:04.680 And you just wonder, well, what in atheism, what in atheist science says that reason ought to be the ultimate value at all?

00:33:10.320 Why should reason be the ultimate value?

00:33:12.100 Why shouldn't it be emotion?

00:33:13.580 Why shouldn't it be instinct?

00:33:15.100 Why shouldn't it be nature itself?

00:33:16.800 The reason is a pre-enlightenment concept.

00:33:20.140 I mean, it goes all the way back to Aristotle and Greece and Plato.

00:33:24.040 The notion that reason is itself pushed by science is completely ascientific.

00:33:28.660 There's nothing in science that says that reason has to be the way that we govern the world.

00:33:32.480 I just would like to point out at this point, Ben lives in Los Angeles, and so it is about 6.59 there in the morning.

00:33:42.480 Have you ever been able to think like this at any time of the day, let alone 6.30 in the morning?

00:33:53.960 Well, the good news is I have an alarm clock in the morning with my son who decides to wake up at 5.55 every morning.

00:33:59.240 So I've been up for a while.

00:34:00.300 Okay.

00:34:00.860 All right.

00:34:01.220 Good.

00:34:01.460 Yeah.

00:34:01.600 Me too.

00:34:02.100 Me too.

00:34:02.700 Thanks a lot, Ben.

00:34:03.280 I appreciate it.

00:34:04.220 Ben Shapiro, if you don't know his podcast, find it at the Daily Wire or on, you know, wherever you find podcasts.

00:34:10.220 That's Ben Shapiro.

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00:35:40.340 Welcome to the program.

00:35:41.820 Glad that you're here.

00:35:43.220 Hey, there's a new Ebola outbreak.

00:35:45.940 Ooh.

00:35:46.560 In the Congo.

00:35:47.240 Killed 17 people.

00:35:48.900 Two more cases confirmed.

00:35:50.020 21 suspected.

00:35:51.300 Don't worry, though.

00:35:52.880 No.

00:35:53.160 No, everything's fine, Glenn.

00:35:55.040 Right?

00:35:55.420 Everything is going to be fine.

00:35:56.980 Right.

00:35:57.500 There's certainly no risk going on with something like this.

00:36:00.020 We certainly are well prepared to stop an epidemic like this.

00:36:05.440 There's no risk of anything bad happening because we're so on top of it.

00:36:09.680 Well, actually, Reed Wilson is going to be joining us.

00:36:12.040 He's got a book out called Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak.

00:36:17.640 He was there, you know, in one of the rubber suits.

00:36:20.420 He says, no, we're really not prepared.

00:36:25.800 We're really not prepared.

00:36:29.840 Epidemic is the name of his book.

00:36:33.300 He's concerned about a pandemic.

00:36:36.080 And today, news is broken that Ebola has broken out yet again.

00:36:41.820 We'll have more on that coming up.

00:36:43.760 Glenn Beck.

00:36:45.320 Well, the mainstream media has largely celebrated its role in toppling people like Harvey Weinstein and providing a platform for the hashtag Me Too movement.

00:36:54.940 However, I don't know if that's how Ronan Farrow feels.

00:36:59.840 It's his reporting on Harvey Weinstein that earned him a Pulitzer Prize.

00:37:04.500 But he has now called out the media for its own behavior.

00:37:09.100 During a speech at the graduation ceremony at University in Los Angeles this weekend, Farrow, the son of Mio Farrow and Woody Allen, discussed the obstacles that he faced.

00:37:19.480 Obstacles from within the industry that have since celebrated his accomplishments.

00:37:25.260 I've talked a little publicly about some of the challenges I faced reporting my stories on sexual violence.

00:37:30.860 How the systems commanded by those powerful men I mentioned earlier came crashing down on me, too.

00:37:37.860 And how people I trusted turned on me.

00:37:40.560 And powerful forces in the media world became instruments of suppression.

00:37:43.960 Now, he spoke in vague, shadowy terms about the obstacles that he faced during his work on the Weinstein story.

00:37:51.280 It's not exactly clear whether or not he's referencing people within the news media, although it's a pretty safe presumption.

00:37:57.640 He depicts a life guided by fear, fear of powerful people within the media who sought to intimidate and even harm him.

00:38:05.540 I had moved out of my home because I was being followed and threatened.

00:38:08.440 I was facing personal legal threats from a powerful and wealthy man who said he was going to use the best lawyers in the country to wipe me out and destroy my future.

00:38:17.860 And if, against all odds, I got through that and found a way to publish this story, I did not know if anyone would care.

00:38:25.120 Because I had spent a year in rooms with executives telling me it wasn't a story at all.

00:38:30.380 Because this was long before the extraordinary months of conversation and analysis and acknowledgement that the suffering of these women mattered.

00:38:40.400 Now, Farrell's latest piece has exposed New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is a is a prominent force in the progressive liberal Democratic Party and a so-called Me Too advocate.

00:38:54.160 He has used his role as Attorney General to prosecute Harvey Weinstein.

00:38:58.260 In fact, Schneiderman praised Farrell and the New York and the New Yorker for their Pulitzer Prize winning work on the story. 0.81

00:39:06.320 But like the workers within the mainstream media who sought to derail Farrell's devastating expose, Schneiderman, if the allegations are in fact true, has been revealed as a as a as a worse hypocrite whose grandstanding was a diversionary tactic.

00:39:22.520 Have you noticed the tweets to the women who came out against Schneiderman?

00:39:31.560 They're getting hammered by those who are only playing politics, and it happens on both sides.

00:39:37.240 Pharaoh's speech built to a rousing end.

00:39:44.160 He offered a way out of the current cultural struggle that we face as a nation.

00:39:48.620 He worded it universally so that he was addressing all of us, no matter what your politics and agree or disagree with his politics.

00:39:56.080 He strives or has striven to expose the wrongdoing of powerful people.

00:40:02.720 He did it at his own peril and his own risk, and I think he still does it at his own peril and risk.

00:40:09.000 In short, he's doing what actual journalists should be doing.

00:40:15.300 But journalists are no different than the rest of us.

00:40:17.820 Whenever somebody really digs in and says, I don't have any sacred cows, I'm just going to go and find the truth, that usually makes not only mainstream media, but a lot of people in the mainstream general public furious.

00:40:41.460 It's Wednesday, May 9th.

00:40:43.620 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:40:45.260 So we get up this morning and we see that the Congo is reporting two new cases of Ebola in the northwestern town and blah, blah, blah.

00:41:05.160 It looks like Ebola is believed to be spread long distances by bats, which the virus can live in without dying.

00:41:18.040 And this is less than a year after the last outbreak in which eight people were infected, four of whom died.

00:41:26.160 The biggest outbreak happened just a few years ago.

00:41:30.140 We all remember it.

00:41:31.000 It came all the way to the United States.

00:41:33.300 11,300 people were infected.

00:41:38.420 I'm sorry, died.

00:41:40.380 And over 2,800 or 28,000 were infected.

00:41:46.620 Are we done with Ebola?

00:41:48.440 Well, there's a new book out called Epidemic, Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak.

00:41:57.420 Reed Wilson is the author.

00:41:59.000 He's with The Hill and he's with us now.

00:42:01.120 Hello, Reed.

00:42:01.560 How are you?

00:42:02.720 Hey, Glenn.

00:42:03.240 I'm doing great.

00:42:03.820 Thanks for having me.

00:42:04.600 So, Ebola, you know, I think we're sitting here and there's really kind of two schools or two camps.

00:42:14.180 One that roll their eyes and like, okay, well, everybody always panics and it's always fine.

00:42:20.300 And the other side that is like, we're ripe for a pandemic.

00:42:24.440 We're all going to die.

00:42:26.460 Where is, where are we?

00:42:29.760 Which side is more accurate?

00:42:32.720 Well, I think the we're ripe for a pandemic is probably correct, although I don't think we're all going to die.

00:42:38.800 But there are definitely reasons to be concerned about the state of the global public health system.

00:42:45.720 It is not adequately prepared to deal with a pandemic, whether it's something that comes out of, you know, the Congo River Basin like Ebola or whether it comes out of, you know, a bird market in China like a new flu or something like that.

00:42:59.520 The fact is the world health system is only as strong as its weakest link.

00:43:04.880 And there are a lot of really weak links out there that in places that simply aren't prepared to keep track of viruses that, you know, we don't even know about.

00:43:13.520 You say that the deadliest virus, the deadliest case of Ebola that happened a few years ago came here to the United States.

00:43:21.660 You said that it was it's really the story of of unbelievable and in inconceivable coincidence that made that it is.

00:43:32.380 Yeah. And this is largely because when we talk about Ebola, we're used to talking about places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

00:43:40.360 This this small town where this latest outbreak has happened is called Bikoro.

00:43:44.440 It's about three hundred and seventy miles from the original that the first Ebola outbreak that we know about back in 1976.

00:43:51.720 The outbreak that happened in West Africa a few years ago is basically a continent away.

00:43:56.600 It's like the difference between Seattle and Miami.

00:43:59.320 This is an area where Ebola had never shown up before.

00:44:02.760 And it's an area where the culture is totally different in in the Congo River Basin.

00:44:07.240 You know, people travel through dense jungles or down the Congo River.

00:44:10.940 There's sort of there's not a lot of travel in West Africa.

00:44:14.600 The culture is much more about travel and trade across international borders and from rural areas into big cities like Monrovia, the capital of Liberia or Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.

00:44:26.900 So Ebola back then was able to first of all, it broke out in an area where nobody knew what they were looking at.

00:44:32.640 And second, it broke out in an area where it was uniquely able to travel from this remote rural village called Meliandu, this tiny little village in rural Guinea, to cities of a million people that had direct air traffic to Europe, to the Middle East and to a country like Nigeria.

00:44:50.580 So that's the the real bad coincidence is that it happened in a place where we didn't know and nobody knew what they were looking at and in a place uniquely susceptible to actually spreading.

00:45:00.820 And that's why it spread. You say there are twenty eight thousand cases.

00:45:04.280 That's what the World Health Organization actually reported in in all likelihood.

00:45:09.040 The actual number of cases is probably tens of thousands higher simply because we didn't know that people had it because this is such a remote area.

00:45:17.900 Yeah. Well, it's interesting. One point that you made in that the the the outbreak happened in an area that was relatively speaking friendly to America, which was allowed us to intervene as much as we did.

00:45:31.360 Do you have any what would it look like if this were to have happened in, let's say, Pakistan or a place that was not as easy for us to be involved in?

00:45:38.860 Yeah, you know, I talked to some of the folks who were on the ground in Liberia when 3000 American troops arrived and, you know, the United States effectively created Liberia back in the 1800s as a refuge for slaves, former slaves who were returned back to Africa.

00:45:55.760 And the the the big the big moment when 3000 American troops arrived, you know, the U.S. favorability rating in Liberia is like ninety nine percent.

00:46:06.380 It was seen as this blessed moment when the great savior had come and really was going to help turn the tide on this virus.

00:46:14.100 Imagine what happens if this virus pops up in Pakistan or Indonesia or China, even a place, you know, a place where the hundred and first airborne would have to fight its way in before it got to fight the virus.

00:46:25.760 The other two countries where this Ebola outbreak broke out, you know, Sierra Leone has a very close relationship with the U.K.

00:46:32.420 Guinea has a very close relationship with France. Those are the three countries, the U.S., France and the U.K.

00:46:37.460 that are best able to respond to a pandemic or an outbreak like this.

00:46:42.520 There are countries that are just not able to respond to something like this, where the United States is help would not be as welcome.

00:46:49.700 And that's when we start worrying that the vectors of a virus are able to reach across the globe.

00:46:56.660 Think about it like this. We have there's a booming middle class in Asia and Africa that is more able to travel around the world than ever before.

00:47:05.140 And by the way, there are more Americans who are traveling to other countries than ever before.

00:47:09.320 So there are just there are more opportunities for a virus like this to spread from whether it's the you know, the jungles of the Congo or the slums of Monrovia, Liberia or a bird market in China to the United States, to Europe, to countries around the world.

00:47:25.320 You said and I found this hard to believe in your book.

00:47:29.940 You said that Thucydides wrote about a disease in ancient Greeks that appears to be the Ebola virus.

00:47:39.760 So has this been around forever?

00:47:43.500 Well, the Ebola virus is what's called a hemorrhagic fever.

00:47:48.280 It's a philovirus, a very specific kind of virus that there aren't many cases, many examples of in the world.

00:47:56.720 And there is a chance that the plague of Athens, which, you know, hit during the Peloponnesian War back in the time of Thucydides, about 420, 425 B.C., could have been the Ebola virus.

00:48:09.580 Thucydides himself contracted this virus.

00:48:11.940 He talks about how it impacted health workers, which is exactly what happens in an Ebola outbreak.

00:48:16.920 He talked about people having to rip off their clothes because they felt like they were burning under their skin, which is exactly what happens in an Ebola outbreak.

00:48:25.000 And he said it came from a region of the Upper Nile, which is down in South Sudan, which is very near the Congo River basin, which is exactly where the Ebola virus comes from.

00:48:35.720 So, yeah, there's a chance that philoviruses themselves have probably been around for millions of years, and they almost certainly have come into contact with humans throughout the course of history.

00:48:45.240 We just didn't know exactly what we were looking at until the very first outbreaks that we were able to identify.

00:48:50.780 I say we, that doctors were able to identify back in 1976.

00:48:54.600 Reed is watching the Ebola breakout in Africa from safely from across the ocean until it, you know, ended up in the exact city that we are in right now in Dallas.

00:49:04.460 It was amazing to me.

00:49:06.140 One of the things that I really took out of that was the amazing efforts of faith organizations that went in there and really risked seemingly everything with no regard for their own safety at times going in there.

00:49:17.160 Can you talk about their role in making sure this did not turn out to be a lot worse?

00:49:22.200 Yeah, I'm really glad you picked up on that, because this is one of the really cool stories.

00:49:26.160 And in this story of, you know, scary viruses, we can take heart that, like, this is the best of the world.

00:49:32.100 This is really good people coming together and doing things.

00:49:34.980 You know, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia are countries that are basically divided between Christians, Muslims, and sort of more traditional faith religions, traditional religious practices in more rural areas.

00:49:48.920 And in a lot of cases, you had Christian ministers and Muslim imams standing next to each other in front of each other's congregations saying,

00:49:57.680 look, Ebola is real, here's how you defend from it, here's how you protect yourself, here's how you can be treated if you get it.

00:50:05.100 It was a lot of the faith community that was able to spread the message that, you know, if you get Ebola, you will be very sick, but you may survive.

00:50:15.180 And that was a really important message to convey to people.

00:50:18.580 The initial, you know, the World Health Organization went in, and their initial message was, Ebola will kill you.

00:50:23.860 Well, that meant that a lot of people who got Ebola, they didn't want to go to a treatment center.

00:50:28.100 They wanted to stay at home, and if they were going to die, they wanted to die around their families.

00:50:32.200 That, at the moment, made them hugely contagious to those families.

00:50:37.220 So the new message spread by those faith leaders that, hey, you can get treated, was really important to getting people into treatment.

00:50:44.120 But it was also people like Samaritan's Purse that came in and really did some remarkable work.

00:50:50.040 And they, much the way you are in your book, Epidemic, are warning the United States and the World Health Organization, just not prepared.

00:51:00.380 They were surprised at, wait a minute, what do you mean there's no plan?

00:51:04.700 What do you mean there's not, what do you mean you can't do that?

00:51:07.620 They were shocked at how unprepared we were.

00:51:11.180 I think that's exactly right.

00:51:12.560 And a group like Samaritan's Purse, you know, this is an organization that sends doctors to the poorest regions in the world.

00:51:18.860 And one of the guys who, by the way, has Texas roots, Kent Brantley, was a doctor in a clinic called ELWA, the Eternal Love Winning Africa, is the NGO that was running it, in Monrovia.

00:51:34.120 And he was treating these patients.

00:51:36.680 The just terrifying part of the heartbreaking part of the story is a lot of these doctors started counting the patients who survived because it was easier than counting the patients who died.

00:51:46.460 That's how deadly the Ebola virus was.

00:51:48.860 Kent Brantley did some amazing work, took his family over there, lived in basically extreme poverty so that he could serve the rest of the world, people who needed it more than he did.

00:52:01.240 He ended up contracting the disease.

00:52:03.680 And fortunately, the U.S. government sent over what was effectively an air ambulance that they kept on contract.

00:52:09.820 So they brought Kent Brantley and Nancy Wright Bowl, who was a missionary from another organization called Serving in Mission, back to Emory Hospital in Atlanta.

00:52:19.300 And fortunately, they both walked out of the hospital after a few weeks, and they are completely cured now.

00:52:25.120 So it is hard to overstate the role of a lot of these missionary organizations in West Africa during this Ebola outbreak.

00:52:34.380 I'd also point to a group like World Vision.

00:52:37.500 You know, a lot of people know World Vision is that company, the group that says, hey, spend, you know, $10 a month and save 30 kids or something like that.

00:52:45.680 They had something like 56,000 sponsored children in Sierra Leone.

00:52:49.980 They did such good work in Sierra Leone that not a single one of those kids got sick.

00:52:55.480 Wow.

00:52:56.020 Wow.

00:52:56.960 Reed Wilson, the name of the book is Epidemic Ebola and the Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak.

00:53:02.880 Reed, thank you so much.

00:53:03.720 Thanks for your hard work on this.

00:53:05.580 You can grab the book, and you might want to because in the Congo today, it has been just released that there is yet another outbreak of Ebola.

00:53:16.120 And as Reed says quite intensely in his book, the pandemic is coming.

00:53:25.080 It's just a matter of time.

00:53:27.020 We have to know, are we prepared for it?

00:53:29.740 And right now we're not.

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00:55:22.480 I'm signing my life away.

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00:56:11.940 By the way, lots of requests, Glenn, for the Staying Ebola Free song.

00:56:17.860 Oh, yeah.

00:56:18.180 That's easy.

00:56:19.120 That's easy.

00:56:19.740 That was our contribution.

00:56:21.100 Yeah, we helped.

00:56:21.640 Do we have the song, Sarah?

00:56:23.760 Could you look that up for us, please?

00:56:25.300 I assume, by the way, Reid mentioned that in the book.

00:56:27.640 I didn't notice it in there when I was reading through.

00:56:30.980 But, you know, the fact that we informed people how to stay away from Ebola and stay

00:56:36.180 Ebola free is the main cause of it not turning into a global pandemic.

00:56:41.240 It's very, very simple.

00:56:42.340 Sarah, do you have the song?

00:56:44.840 I'll have to look for that because I know it really basically shut down the entire scare.

00:56:49.800 That was my opinion of it, at least.

00:56:51.480 I mean, we got a lot of heat for it.

00:56:52.880 People say, you're not taking Ebola seriously.

00:56:54.640 And we're like, no, no, no.

00:56:55.940 It wasn't the song.

00:56:56.780 These are the safety tips for Ebola.

00:57:00.560 People learned.

00:57:02.280 And once again, we were the heroes.

00:57:05.200 I don't want to say that we're heroes, but obviously we're heroes.

00:57:09.000 Yes, I think so.

00:57:10.620 Now, we did something at the same time where we sent one of our staff members into the hot

00:57:14.680 zone, but we didn't let him come to work for 42 days after.

00:57:19.780 So, I mean, he was here in the country, but he wasn't around any of us.

00:57:23.620 Yeah.

00:57:24.080 So that was also helpful.

00:57:27.980 We're sending that same staff member over to Israel in a couple of days.

00:57:33.860 We'll explain next.

00:57:35.980 Keep away from eyes that bleed.

00:57:47.640 Don't lick vomit off the street. 1.00

00:57:51.280 And I know you don't want to die. 0.81

00:57:55.240 So slowly back away from that infected guy.

00:57:59.540 Stay in Ebola free.

00:58:03.460 Stay in Ebola free.

00:58:07.760 Don't eat that raw meat and see we'll all be Ebola free.

00:58:14.620 Keep away from those sweaty sheets.

00:58:22.000 Keep away from discharge that secretes.

00:58:26.100 And if you want to calm your fear, put down that glass of diarrhea.

00:58:33.860 Stay in Ebola free.

00:58:38.620 Stay in Ebola free. 0.89

00:58:42.920 Don't touch others' poop and pee and we'll be Ebola free. 0.87

00:58:49.620 Just that easy. 0.97

00:58:50.820 Just wash your hands and you will see.

00:58:55.020 We can be Ebola free.

00:58:57.640 Just that easy.

00:59:00.540 You're welcome to the world.

00:59:03.880 Jason Betrill is with us, who we sent out into the hot zone last time.

00:59:08.200 We're not sending him to the current hot zone this time.

00:59:12.340 It's only because we just found out about it today.

00:59:14.260 Yeah, we just found out about it today.

00:59:15.540 And he's booked on some other hot zone.

00:59:17.420 We're sending you and Dan Andros to Israel next week.

00:59:23.440 Dan was my writer for years and years and years.

00:59:28.220 Man, 15 years.

00:59:29.200 Is he on the phone, Dan?

00:59:31.160 I am.

00:59:31.940 I'm here.

00:59:32.500 Yeah.

00:59:33.460 And you're now the managing editor of Faithwire.

00:59:36.380 And so you guys are going to go to Israel because I think next week is a really dicey week. 0.76

00:59:46.520 You know, even coming into this weekend.

00:59:48.460 And, you know, I thought, why not send two of my good friends right into the jaws of death?

00:59:56.260 But there's stories going on in Israel that I don't think people are really covering.

01:00:01.880 They're just telling us about the riots and how evil Israel is. 0.98

01:00:05.940 They're talking about, you know, the bombings and how evil Israel is. 0.97

01:00:10.500 They're not finding the real story.

01:00:12.400 So you two guys are just going to go as average people.

01:00:16.920 And where are you going?

01:00:19.200 Right.

01:00:19.460 So this is the feeling we have now is really similar when Dan and I went to Iraq.

01:00:24.780 What was that, Dan?

01:00:25.620 Like two years ago, I think back in 2015.

01:00:28.180 And we were just talking.

01:00:29.580 I think we were working on one of your long in-depth monologues.

01:00:33.480 And we were like, what is going on?

01:00:34.420 Because it had been over a year since ISIS had flown, you know, swept into and we're killing Christians. 0.99

01:00:40.760 We're killing these cities. 1.00

01:00:41.480 We're killing all these people. 0.99

01:00:42.160 We're like, why are we not doing anything about it? 0.93

01:00:43.940 And why is the media not covering it?

01:00:45.520 And then we eventually said, well, you know, the media is just dropping the ball here.

01:00:48.700 They're not going to cover it.

01:00:49.780 We're not going to get the story unless we go down there actually and find out for ourselves.

01:00:53.920 Not as journalists, you know, not as people that have been trained to do this.

01:00:57.080 Just as like regular people, like regular people want to know from, you know, through their own eyes what actually is happening.

01:01:03.100 So that was the whole point of that.

01:01:04.460 Well, we've been talking lately and we were like, you know, the exact same thing is going on in Israel right now.

01:01:08.440 I mean, it really is one of those watershed moments in history for Israel.

01:01:13.060 I mean, it really is.

01:01:14.000 I mean, this the end of this week and the beginning of next week, all the things that are going on right now are historic.

01:01:19.500 There's the 70th anniversary of Israel.

01:01:21.780 There is the establishment of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.

01:01:27.360 There's all of these things kind of, you know, all going down all at once, all at one time.

01:01:32.520 And what are we seeing right now?

01:01:33.700 We are seeing Israel in the news is attacking, you know, Iranian elements in Syria.

01:01:40.180 Well, why?

01:01:40.740 You know, why are they doing that?

01:01:42.220 We're not we're only getting one side of that.

01:01:43.800 At the same time, there is this march of return where there's tens of thousands of people that are rioting on the border.

01:01:50.600 And it's culminating the day of on the 14th and 15th, those two days, with over 100,000 protesters that are supposed to try to push through basically the border.

01:02:00.500 Who's pulling these strings?

01:02:01.760 Why are they doing these things?

01:02:03.180 We're not being told the truth.

01:02:04.680 We're just not.

01:02:05.160 Yeah, and it's nothing new that Israel has sort of been on the receiving end of poor press and PR, where it's always Israel's fault, which is really kind of a comical notion.

01:02:17.940 When you think about it, you've got this little nation here that really has no business surviving.

01:02:22.700 And I think we all know from our perspective that it's God's blessing that has allowed it to survive.

01:02:27.720 But you look at them and they're constantly portrayed as the aggressor.

01:02:31.580 And again, which is hilarious when you look at you've got Iran. 1.00

01:02:34.540 You've got Egypt. 0.96

01:02:35.580 You've got all these countries, Syria, right by them that want to see them literally wiped off the map and often say it and they've said it again. 1.00

01:02:43.000 So it's interesting that the media has never gone after it.

01:02:47.740 You know, it makes complete sense, logically, that countries that want to wipe Israel off the map would do things like provoke and, you know, incite violence along the border and other places.

01:02:59.420 So it makes complete logical sense, but they never follow that trail.

01:03:02.340 They never go after it.

01:03:03.520 And so, you know, that's what we're going to go down there to do, because really what the media, all they do is they'll get a token statement from from a spokesperson.

01:03:11.200 And we'll get those, too.

01:03:12.140 We'll talk to them while we're there.

01:03:13.360 But, you know, you never see anybody go the extra mile to actually see are these peaceful protesters.

01:03:19.420 Are they?

01:03:19.980 I mean, we've had dozens of protesters actually get shot and killed in the last few weeks of protests as it's heating up.

01:03:26.560 And as Jason said, it's going to be even even hotter when we get there.

01:03:30.240 So I want to see we want to see it.

01:03:31.740 We're going to get down there as close as we can and see are these just peaceful protesters getting sniped off by by trigger happy IDF soldiers?

01:03:38.700 Or are we actually seeing terrorists being sent in by Hamas, by these other groups to cause violence for the specific purpose of causing violence and inciting riots and things like that?

01:03:49.380 Well, you guys do me a favor, stop in to memory, you know them, you remember them, Dan, and and ask them about the media and what the media is saying in the Arab world, in non English channels.

01:04:05.140 And let's find out what the what the Iranians are saying, what's happening in Syria and Lebanon.

01:04:12.840 What are the Palestinians watching and what is it they're saying about the march of return?

01:04:18.220 And if see if you can find anything about the I think they're now calling the 12th, the mom, the mom of time and see what's happening.

01:04:26.040 We are some of some of the just to get a quick rundown of what the audience is going to be able to have access to in the very near future is we are going we're going to go into East Jerusalem.

01:04:35.500 We're trying to get into areas of Gaza.

01:04:37.760 And we're going to ask the Arab community straight face to face what's going on here. 0.53

01:04:43.400 So we're going to ask them.

01:04:44.480 We're not going to take anybody from the media's perspective and we're not going to take their word for it.

01:04:48.280 We are going to take the audience directly to them so that we can ask those questions themselves.

01:04:53.160 We're also going to go into Dan, were you with me on restoring courage?

01:04:58.260 Do you remember when we went there?

01:04:59.580 Were you there while I delivered that speech?

01:05:01.300 Yeah, I was not there at the speech.

01:05:03.780 You and I went on a separate trip, but, you know, pre-planning trip over there.

01:05:07.180 Okay.

01:05:07.580 Yeah.

01:05:07.860 I gave a speech in the area that you're talking about and it was not friendly.

01:05:17.160 Yeah.

01:05:18.000 Yeah.

01:05:18.320 All right.

01:05:18.920 I was there for you in East Jerusalem, Glenn, when you were up on the balcony there.

01:05:22.920 Remember we sat up there and there was just a lot of throwing chairs at me.

01:05:26.900 And I'd like to just add this in here.

01:05:31.120 You're going to go along on the journey with us.

01:05:33.020 That's the way Jason and I like to cover these things so that you kind of get the experience of going over there.

01:05:37.540 And when we went to Iraq, I remember Jason sort of built this up for me.

01:05:40.980 You know, Jason's a military guy and he's got all this background.

01:05:43.500 And he was like, hey, we're going to be good.

01:05:45.720 We're going to be rolling with the Peshmerga and we're going to be safe. 0.97

01:05:48.180 So I'm telling my wife this.

01:05:49.160 So then we get there and we're just in some guy's Toyota in the middle of the street, like in Carrior.

01:05:54.040 And I'm like, what in the world?

01:05:55.940 So now I'm thinking, okay, we've learned our lesson from that.

01:05:58.740 We're good.

01:05:59.340 And then so we get this hotel and we're like looking at where our hotel is on the map.

01:06:02.840 And then Jason's sending me articles going, hey, check this out.

01:06:05.220 And there's like right where our hotel was.

01:06:07.660 It's like, hey, these are where the protests inside of Jerusalem were starting and people were stoned the other day.

01:06:12.520 Like, I'm like, oh, fantastic.

01:06:14.400 So it looks like we've done it again. 0.99

01:06:16.020 Well, I think it's obvious to the audience we've been trying for a long time to get both of you killed. 0.91

01:06:20.720 And I think here we may actually succeed.

01:06:24.340 Please be safe.

01:06:26.100 When are you guys coming back?

01:06:28.180 So we're coming back on, we'll be back Wednesday evening.

01:06:31.720 So everything will leave.

01:06:33.340 We leave tomorrow.

01:06:34.940 So when do you leave there?

01:06:37.740 The 15th or 16th, the 16th.

01:06:40.060 That's Tuesday.

01:06:40.940 And you guys will have access to the actual ceremony, too, when the embassy, that just came through, right?

01:06:47.440 Right.

01:06:47.840 You guys are going to be there historic times.

01:06:50.680 I just want you to be careful.

01:06:52.160 I think this is the most dangerous time, I think, for Israel that I have seen. 1.00

01:06:59.640 I don't remember 1968, 67, 68.

01:07:02.420 But this had to feel like that time, that buildup.

01:07:06.220 My biggest fear is they're going to close airspace on us.

01:07:08.020 I mean, it really is that crazy right now.

01:07:11.260 But just really quick for the audience so you can pay attention to this or know when this is coming in.

01:07:15.540 We're going to release a teaser video that's going to drop sometime today in the next couple of hours.

01:07:20.360 But then every single day, pretty much around the same time, look for a video on The Blaze and Faithwire.

01:07:26.740 We're going to be giving you a daily update of everything we're seeing.

01:07:29.800 And that will culminate in a few weeks when we release an hour-long special.

01:07:32.760 So that's everything that's going to be – but make sure you pay attention to both platforms starting today over the next few days.

01:07:40.600 And we'll give you everything up to the minute as it's happening.

01:07:43.320 Dan, stay safe.

01:07:45.560 Yes, sir.

01:07:46.360 Listen to God.

01:07:47.000 Don't listen to Jason.

01:07:49.500 Always good advice.

01:07:51.060 Always good advice.

01:07:52.820 Thanks, Jason.

01:07:53.480 And you stay safe, too.

01:07:54.560 Thanks.

01:07:54.760 I don't need to say listen to God to you.

01:07:57.620 I know both of you guys do.

01:07:59.980 That's why I feel somewhat okay with you both leaving.

01:08:04.640 Stay safe.

01:08:06.460 It's going to be pretty cool.

01:08:07.640 And you'll see not only the daily videos, but a documentary later coming, kind of a joint production between The Blaze and Faithwire as we put this thing together.

01:08:17.460 I think it's going to be pretty cool.

01:08:18.420 And you're really going to see the inner workings of what's going on there in a really historic time in Israel.

01:08:26.340 And I will do my work investigating it as well, watching some of the video after they come back.

01:08:30.700 I tell you, if I could go, I would.

01:08:33.340 Yeah, no, you would.

01:08:33.920 I think –

01:08:34.420 You should.

01:08:35.100 You should.

01:08:35.620 You should go.

01:08:37.120 Go.

01:08:37.900 Get –

01:08:38.320 Right.

01:08:38.880 I just think I would love to be there for the opening of the embassy.

01:08:43.440 That's just going to be –

01:08:44.620 That would be incredible.

01:08:45.240 Incredible.

01:08:45.840 And we weren't sure if we were going to get access to it because, you know, there are reasons why maybe we expected we might not, but we did.

01:08:53.460 But we did.

01:08:53.880 Which is good.

01:08:54.380 We did.

01:08:54.860 Which is good.

01:08:55.360 All right.

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01:10:02.220 It's nothing but a minor misunderstanding.

01:10:03.740 We have a minor misunderstanding.

01:10:04.860 Yeah, it's not a big deal.

01:10:06.100 With a piñata maker?

01:10:07.460 Well, yeah.

01:10:07.860 I mean, it was just a minor misunderstanding.

01:10:10.520 Some people saw something that wasn't there.

01:10:13.160 All right.

01:10:13.520 And now there's all this hassle.

01:10:14.740 It was a minor issue.

01:10:16.100 It's not that big of a deal.

01:10:17.220 Why are you so worked up about it?

01:10:18.400 I'm not – I don't even know what the story's about.

01:10:20.420 I just know that there's a piñata and a misunderstanding.

01:10:23.200 You don't subscribe to Minneapolis Piñata News?

01:10:25.480 No.

01:10:25.640 Oh, really?

01:10:26.500 You're not a quarterly subscriber?

01:10:28.660 Yeah, right.

01:10:29.240 Okay.

01:10:30.000 Well, look, Victor, he's starting a new business.

01:10:33.220 Mm-hmm.

01:10:33.780 Okay?

01:10:34.220 Mm-hmm.

01:10:34.680 What's the big deal?

01:10:35.640 Yeah.

01:10:36.020 Starting a new business.

01:10:36.780 Are we not for entrepreneurs?

01:10:38.840 Okay.

01:10:38.960 All right.

01:10:39.360 Right?

01:10:39.580 We love them.

01:10:40.160 So Victor's starting a new business.

01:10:41.400 Yeah.

01:10:41.620 So he's starting out of his home, you know?

01:10:44.680 And, you know, you make a piñata.

01:10:46.220 Mm-hmm.

01:10:46.820 This is his business.

01:10:47.900 He's a celebration.

01:10:48.780 Sure, sure.

01:10:49.220 It's about happiness.

01:10:50.040 Yes.

01:10:50.460 So he – one of the things he does is when his piñata – he paints his piñatas,

01:10:56.600 he makes sure to hang them out to dry.

01:11:00.920 Okay.

01:11:01.340 Not a big deal.

01:11:02.100 All right.

01:11:02.400 Not a big deal.

01:11:02.860 Is that a big deal?

01:11:03.800 Do you want the paint to be wet?

01:11:05.220 I think there's a problem with probably what he painted on it.

01:11:08.800 Well, there was a minor issue here.

01:11:11.340 Right.

01:11:11.440 As I said, a minor misunderstanding.

01:11:13.080 Sure, sure, sure.

01:11:13.380 Sure, sure.

01:11:13.640 Yeah.

01:11:14.140 The order came in for piñatas. 0.56

01:11:17.440 Yes.

01:11:18.560 For a wedding.

01:11:20.060 And are we against weddings?

01:11:21.340 Do we not like love?

01:11:22.400 So what's the wedding piñata?

01:11:24.220 Well, it may have been an interracial couple.

01:11:28.200 Oh, boy.

01:11:28.560 And so the piñata, he was accurately trying to show the skin tone of one of the participants

01:11:37.900 in the wedding.

01:11:40.020 The problem is when you make a piñata of an African-American with a string coming out of 1.00

01:11:45.320 them and you hang it on your front porch.

01:11:47.700 Oh, my gosh.

01:11:48.400 Some people get the wrong idea.

01:11:51.180 Oh, my gosh.

01:11:51.540 That maybe –

01:11:52.860 Oh, my gosh. 0.99

01:11:53.900 You're trying to make it look like you're lynching black people on your front yard. 0.99

01:11:58.560 Yeah, bad idea. 0.99

01:12:01.120 It didn't go well.

01:12:02.100 Really bad idea.

01:12:03.080 Stunningly, the wedding party did cancel their order after the controversy because someone 0.96

01:12:09.540 went by and took a picture and it does kind of look like he's hanging black people on his 0.97

01:12:14.080 front porch. 0.98

01:12:14.520 Well, but wait a minute.

01:12:14.720 He wasn't.

01:12:15.300 Did you – how about the guy who took that video, that horrible, horrible video where he's

01:12:21.920 mocking this, like, five-year-old Jewish kid.

01:12:24.380 Oh, yeah. 0.54

01:12:24.940 That was rough.

01:12:25.300 This is a Hasidic Jewish kid.

01:12:26.920 And he's just – yeah, I'd cry, too, if my parents did that to me.

01:12:32.060 I mean, you know what you look like, kid?

01:12:33.700 I mean, just tore him apart.

01:12:36.120 And he apologized.

01:12:38.580 Yeah.

01:12:39.260 And the Jewish community is coming out and rallying around him and saying, I think his

01:12:42.740 apology was sincere.

01:12:43.960 And it was.

01:12:44.640 Did you hear his apology?

01:12:45.680 Yeah.

01:12:45.860 We have the – I don't think we have time for it here, but we have the audio of it.

01:12:49.660 Yeah, and I think this is a good thing.

01:12:52.480 This was a really despicable video.

01:12:56.200 All right?

01:12:56.640 But the guy sounds sincere.

01:12:59.440 And he was like, I'm really sorry.

01:13:01.180 I didn't even see it.

01:13:02.400 And as soon as I – as soon as I saw it, I was like, oh, my gosh, that's horrible.

01:13:07.040 That's not me.

01:13:07.700 That's not what – and he said he felt like he was just a horrible human being.

01:13:12.400 Yeah, and he said it was a huge mistake, you know?

01:13:15.280 But the good news is people are forgiving him and saying, okay, that's cool.

01:13:19.640 Nobody's running him out of, you know, Twitter.

01:13:22.460 Nobody's demanding that he, you know, is, you know, tarred and feathered.

01:13:28.200 People were obviously outraged.

01:13:30.820 I was when I saw it.

01:13:31.600 I thought it was horrible.

01:13:33.020 And then they spoke out. 0.96

01:13:35.080 He heard the message and was like, oh, crap, I'm really sorry. 0.60

01:13:38.280 He seems sincere. 0.96

01:13:40.500 Now let's move on.

01:13:42.400 That's a great ending.

01:13:43.580 It is a great ending.

01:13:45.100 Somebody who had done things, obviously, he wasn't proud of, learned a lesson.

01:13:50.400 Maybe he moves on.

01:13:51.920 I mean, he seems to be sincere.

01:13:53.860 The Jewish community stepped up and said, you know what?

01:13:55.860 He seems sincere.

01:13:56.860 Now can we leave it alone?

01:13:58.600 I hope so.

01:13:59.340 I hope so, too.

01:14:00.460 Can we leave it alone?

01:14:01.480 Can we actually go back to being normal human beings?

01:14:04.940 Somebody makes a mistake, you apologize, we move on with our lives.

01:14:09.040 That's the way America comes back together.

01:14:13.560 Glenn Beck.

01:14:16.160 February 10th, 2015.

01:14:19.080 The Facebook message got straight to the point.

01:14:22.500 Dear Angela,

01:14:24.440 Bloody Valentine's Day.

01:14:25.960 In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful, under the flag of the Islamic

01:14:30.760 state, the cyber caliphate continues its cyber jihad.

01:14:35.280 While your president, your husband are killing our brothers in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, 0.85

01:14:39.800 we are coming for you. 0.95

01:14:41.700 You think you're safe, but ISIS is already here.

01:14:47.340 Cyber caliphate got into your PC and your smartphone.

01:14:50.320 We know everything about you, your husband, and your children.

01:14:53.320 We are much closer than you can even imagine.

01:14:56.280 Now imagine getting that.

01:14:58.840 Now that is the message received by an army wife, Angela Ricketts.

01:15:03.040 She didn't know it yet, but she was part of a small group of military spouses who received

01:15:08.620 death threats from the cyber caliphate on the same day.

01:15:12.540 That day, the cyber caliphate hacked into a Twitter account of a charity called Military

01:15:17.000 Spouses of Strength, run by the wife of a U.S. Marine named Liz Schnell.

01:15:23.360 The hackers started tweeting threats to Schnell, her family, other military spouses, even Michelle

01:15:28.520 Obama.

01:15:29.620 It was pretty unnerving for those families at the time, and there was a ton of media coverage

01:15:35.160 about the cyber war capabilities of ISIS.

01:15:39.320 Now let me give you the update.

01:15:42.060 It wasn't ISIS at all.

01:15:43.340 Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that the cyber caliphate is actually a group you

01:15:52.220 might be familiar with, a group by the name Fancy Bear.

01:16:00.380 They're not Muslim. 1.00

01:16:02.620 They're not from the Middle East. 0.95

01:16:05.040 They're from Russia.

01:16:06.360 It's the same Russian government-sponsored hacking group that stole emails from John Podesta

01:16:13.580 and the DNC and meddled in our election.

01:16:16.980 So now why would Russian hackers target military families and military spouses?

01:16:24.140 Well, if you don't understand Russia and what they're trying to do to us, you'll never 0.67

01:16:30.540 figure it out.

01:16:31.380 No one knows for sure, or at least if they do, they're not talking.

01:16:37.620 But Angela Ricketts, I believe, is on the right track.

01:16:41.180 She said it's more than just a test run.

01:16:44.860 She said, I think they wanted to see where they could create the most chaos.

01:16:49.440 She continued, quote, not only did we play right into their hands by freaking out, but the

01:16:55.140 media played right into it as well.

01:16:56.980 We reacted in a way that was probably exactly what they were hoping for, end quote.

01:17:03.820 Now think of that.

01:17:06.600 They threatened people's lives.

01:17:09.200 It turns out that it's not ISIS.

01:17:11.460 It's Russia. 0.81

01:17:12.980 The media freaked out.

01:17:14.420 We all freaked out.

01:17:17.740 And we played into their hands.

01:17:19.560 Could we not say exactly the same thing about even the current reaction to the 2017 or 2016

01:17:28.960 presidential election, the never ending drama that is spilling out into houses all over

01:17:34.960 the world out of television sets, out of phones, off the Internet?

01:17:41.360 Isn't that exactly what they were hoping for? 0.97

01:17:44.200 I can't help but think that somewhere in a dingy basement in Russia, some nerdy, fat Russian hackers 1.00

01:17:54.820 are laughing at our expense. 0.94

01:18:03.500 It's Wednesday, May 9th.

01:18:05.560 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:18:08.360 I'm going to show you some new technology that Google announced yesterday.

01:18:12.400 And I know I have talked to you before about you're going to have, everyone's going to

01:18:19.820 have the rich man's life.

01:18:22.240 You know, a long time ago, you couldn't own a book.

01:18:26.360 Only rich people had books.

01:18:27.800 They were just too expensive.

01:18:28.900 Then printing became easy.

01:18:30.800 Now, anybody can have a large library.

01:18:33.760 In fact, nobody does because it's just everywhere.

01:18:36.700 You can get a book anywhere.

01:18:38.460 Before, a book was a sign of status and wealth.

01:18:41.060 Now, you can have every book at your fingertips, in your pocket.

01:18:45.400 Now, right now.

01:18:47.540 And it's free.

01:18:49.660 It's free.

01:18:50.560 Generally speaking, it's free.

01:18:54.900 When you hear about technology and you hear that it's going to put people out of business

01:18:59.360 and you'll say, well, no, I mean, it's not going to put everybody out of business because

01:19:04.220 I'm unique and some things just require a personal touch.

01:19:09.600 And if I asked you, what would the one thing that you could have that rich people generally

01:19:17.720 have?

01:19:18.760 You might say a personal assistant.

01:19:21.020 I just want a personal assistant.

01:19:22.420 I want somebody who can just do all the stuff for me, order all the stuff for me, you know,

01:19:27.160 make appointments.

01:19:27.920 Just make sure that I'm on time.

01:19:30.400 Just clear all the red tape for me so I can just go and do those things.

01:19:34.880 Don't have to worry about any of that.

01:19:36.700 Well, we're going to show you what Google announced yesterday, and in the end, it will

01:19:42.680 eliminate almost all secretarial jobs or assistant jobs because Google will be doing it.

01:19:51.200 But this gives everyone access to their own personal assistant.

01:19:56.220 And listen how far AI has come.

01:19:59.440 So what you're going to hear is the Google assistant actually calling a real salon to

01:20:06.200 schedule the appointment for you.

01:20:07.980 Let's listen.

01:20:12.640 Hi, I'm calling to book a woman's haircut for a client.

01:20:17.600 I'm looking for something on May 3rd.

01:20:20.420 Sure, give me one second.

01:20:23.680 Mm-hmm.

01:20:24.840 The mm-hmm was Google, by the way.

01:20:27.140 Sure, what time are you looking for around?

01:20:30.300 At 12 p.m.

01:20:32.000 We do not have a 12 p.m. available.

01:20:34.380 The closest we have to that is a 1.15.

01:20:38.280 Do you have anything between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.?

01:20:42.580 Depending on what service she would like, what service is she looking for?

01:20:47.640 Just a woman's haircut for now. 0.98

01:20:49.820 Okay, we have a 10 o'clock.

01:20:52.160 10 a.m. is fine.

01:20:53.860 Okay, what's her first name?

01:20:55.960 The first name is Lisa.

01:20:58.440 Okay, perfect.

01:20:59.480 So I will see Lisa at 10 o'clock on May 3rd.

01:21:02.920 Okay, great.

01:21:03.900 Thanks.

01:21:04.300 Great.

01:21:04.660 Have a great day.

01:21:05.380 Bye.

01:21:07.460 Wow.

01:21:07.860 Now think, eventually, the hair salon will also get rid of the person answering the phone,

01:21:16.240 and so it'll just be two machines talking to each other.

01:21:18.800 Have your machine call my machine.

01:21:21.100 Yeah.

01:21:21.320 And will they even need to call, and what language will they use when they communicate?

01:21:25.900 I mean, that sounds so natural.

01:21:28.380 Notice that they put in the uh.

01:21:31.100 Yeah.

01:21:31.340 They put ums and mm-hmms, and all the speech patterns that you'd expect from a normal

01:21:37.580 person.

01:21:38.120 Now, you would think, okay, that's great, but Siri doesn't understand me.

01:21:41.960 No.

01:21:42.600 I mean, Siri gives AI a bad name.

01:21:46.280 I think AI is going to kill Siri.

01:21:49.080 When AI is finally in charge, the first thing they can do is kill Siri for making AI look

01:21:54.960 so bad.

01:21:55.420 Well, they launched, they're launching it, obviously, and trying to make a commercial

01:21:58.100 product out of it before it's at the level you're hearing here.

01:22:01.200 But this is, it's already available to them.

01:22:03.180 They can do it now in their laboratories, and it's going to be coming to all of us very

01:22:09.180 soon.

01:22:09.660 Okay.

01:22:09.900 So now here's Google and the new Google Assistant showing you that, yeah, this Google is not

01:22:18.360 like Siri.

01:22:19.480 This Assistant can really navigate tough waters.

01:22:23.700 Listen.

01:22:23.840 Let's say you want to call a restaurant, but maybe it's a small restaurant, which is not

01:22:28.000 easily available to book online.

01:22:30.620 The call actually goes a bit differently than expected.

01:22:33.800 So, take a listen.

01:22:37.980 Hi, I'd like to reserve a table for Wednesday the 7th.

01:22:42.840 How long is the wait usually to be seated?

01:23:07.220 For when tomorrow, or weekday, or?

01:23:12.540 For next Wednesday.

01:23:13.760 Uh, the 7th.

01:23:15.460 Oh, no, it's not too busy.

01:23:17.240 You can call for people, okay?

01:23:20.760 Oh, I gotcha.

01:23:22.260 Thanks.

01:23:23.080 Bye-bye.

01:23:24.440 Now, I would have asked twice, what?

01:23:28.140 Would you not have asked twice?

01:23:29.920 What?

01:23:30.580 I'm sorry, I didn't catch what you said.

01:23:32.280 There was a couple of times that the language was turned upside down and the accent was so

01:23:39.000 happy, so heavy that I didn't understand the phraseology or I didn't understand what exactly

01:23:43.640 what she was saying.

01:23:44.580 It didn't hesitate.

01:23:47.460 And I was able, even though the person on the other end of the phone didn't understand

01:23:52.880 the AI voice, they were able to clarify it with them, explain exactly what they needed,

01:23:59.800 and understand when the idea of the reservation changed to just come in and still get off

01:24:05.920 the phone in a very natural way.

01:24:07.280 I mean, that's insane that that can happen right now.

01:24:10.540 So the assistant, the thing about a great assistant, a great assistant can find you the

01:24:17.040 table when no tables can be found, can find you the gift when all the stores are closed,

01:24:21.800 can do all of these things and be thinking ahead.

01:24:25.580 Google now is saying that they are to the point of where they can write your emails for

01:24:33.500 you.

01:24:36.580 That makes me a little uncomfortable.

01:24:39.360 They can write the email for you and it's going to know you so well that no one will

01:24:45.660 know.

01:24:46.080 It can take care of everything that you need.

01:24:49.920 And so what we were saying just a year ago, and I got email going, oh, you know, stop

01:24:55.840 talking about that future stuff.

01:24:57.300 It's so far away.

01:24:58.240 We've got to see that.

01:24:59.800 And remember, I said, there's going to come a time when you're having a personal conversation

01:25:06.060 and you're talking about, wouldn't it be nice to go on a trip?

01:25:09.460 Be so nice to go on a trip and, you know, just get away for a weekend.

01:25:12.880 And you might be having that conversation with a friend or with your wife or husband and

01:25:18.140 your assistant, your Google assistant will say to you either that night or when you're

01:25:23.580 by yourself or the next morning, hey, Glenn, you know, I heard you talking to your wife

01:25:29.400 last night about going on a trip.

01:25:31.120 I know you guys talked about the mountains, so I've researched and there's really an affordable

01:25:35.800 way for you to do that.

01:25:37.180 I found this, this, and this, and I know what's in your checking account.

01:25:42.980 And, you know, if you just kind of juggle these two things, I think you can afford this

01:25:47.340 one.

01:25:48.100 Should I book it?

01:25:50.960 That's coming.

01:25:52.300 It's almost here.

01:25:54.680 Incredible.

01:25:55.220 I mean, can you picture too, like that technology on the backs of a scam to an elderly relative

01:26:03.460 who gets a call from a voice that sounds that natural and can talk them into giving up some

01:26:08.400 of their money or that their bank account has been compromised and you need to give us

01:26:11.040 your password or whatever it is.

01:26:12.820 I tell you what, try this on for size.

01:26:16.180 They, they have compromised you and your Rolodex and they know everything.

01:26:22.880 The AI goes and learns everything about you off of Facebook and Twitter.

01:26:28.060 Then has your Rolodex.

01:26:29.480 Can you imagine how many people it can call as, or, you know, when they, when they can

01:26:39.300 make a voice print like yours, imagine calling as you, or as a representative and say, Hey,

01:26:49.120 you know, Glenn's in trouble and John, he wanted me to call you.

01:26:53.120 And I know you guys have been talking about X, Y, and Z, because it can read your email.

01:26:57.760 It can read Facebook, Twitter.

01:27:00.060 It knows everything about John.

01:27:01.480 It knows everything about me.

01:27:02.840 It knows what I would say to John, how I would react.

01:27:05.940 It would know personal things that John would only think that I would know inside jokes.

01:27:10.000 It's, it's, it's, it's a wild dream of scams.

01:27:15.600 Try this on for size.

01:27:16.540 One of the books that I've recommended in the last year, and I can't remember which one

01:27:22.360 it was now.

01:27:22.980 I'll have to look it up.

01:27:24.380 Talks about this email system that this company, you know, invented.

01:27:29.560 It was a novel and I suggested you read it because it is the future.

01:27:33.700 And it has an email that can predict you and can write all your emails.

01:27:38.960 Look, here we are.

01:27:40.640 But it has access to all of those things.

01:27:44.400 And so it knows you.

01:27:46.020 Well, it manipulates because its job is to get this goal done for you.

01:27:54.940 So it starts to manipulate relationships.

01:27:58.380 And the more the email is spread around and everybody has, it has everybody's information.

01:28:06.780 And in the book, it makes great strides towards peace, but it also makes great strides towards

01:28:13.520 war, depending on who it's representing.

01:28:17.380 And no one knows the, the information, for instance, in, in the book, in one scene, uh,

01:28:24.460 a guy is doing something and he's going to find out that this email system is pretty much

01:28:31.840 taking over, which was its goal, which was its, it's assigned duty.

01:28:36.860 But because that was its signed, assigned goal, it didn't know, you know, well, you just, you

01:28:44.340 can't do anything to make that happen.

01:28:46.500 So it just starts making sure that the people who might stand in the way are off on other

01:28:52.660 projects.

01:28:53.240 And so the, an email is sent to somebody who is going to be in this board meeting to stop

01:28:59.360 it.

01:28:59.780 Hey, um, it's your mom come quick.

01:29:02.880 Your dad is in the hospital, yada, yada, yada.

01:29:06.420 Um, don't call just come.

01:29:09.080 So he leaves the, he, they know that they're going to be the weather patterns.

01:29:15.220 Uh, I've already, mom says, I've already made a, you know, reservations on the plane.

01:29:19.180 Just get there.

01:29:20.440 So he gets on the plane.

01:29:21.680 He goes there, the storm is coming in.

01:29:25.300 The AI knows the storm blocks him in cuts, the power lines, and it's all blamed on the

01:29:31.400 storm, but it's all this system because it's integrated into everything.

01:29:34.940 And it's just making sure that that goal of its client is taken care of.

01:29:41.220 It's, I mean, we are entering an entirely different world quickly.

01:29:46.440 Google announced that product yesterday.

01:29:50.120 I read that segment on infopocalypse a while ago, where you're not necessarily going to

01:29:53.720 believe anything that you see.

01:29:56.320 And I mean, or here in this particular instance, I mean, think about that.

01:29:59.780 We, the way we react as a society right now, if this gets out of control, we are going to

01:30:05.580 beg the government to step in and stop it.

01:30:09.160 We are going to beg the government.

01:30:11.420 We're going to beg them to take control of these things.

01:30:14.260 We're going to beg them to take control of our lives, to protect us from this stuff.

01:30:18.980 And that is a dangerous road as well.

01:30:22.060 Wait a minute.

01:30:22.940 Who's the pessimistic one?

01:30:24.420 You're always underselling this stuff, Glenn.

01:30:26.340 I'm trying to get the real word out.

01:30:28.140 Hey, I want to tell you how, how I saved five grand and you can too.

01:30:34.900 I saved five grand, not knowing I was going to spend five grand.

01:30:38.120 I sent my car in for an oil change.

01:30:39.820 That's what I did.

01:30:41.200 And surprise, surprise.

01:30:42.900 It's actually my older truck.

01:30:44.360 Uh, when I got there, they said, uh, yeah, it's, it's actually closer to, uh, $6,500.

01:30:51.720 What?

01:30:53.040 Oh, closer to $6,500.

01:30:54.860 Well, what do you mean?

01:30:55.720 $6,500.

01:30:57.680 So, uh.

01:30:58.960 Well, it's just something there.

01:30:59.780 Obviously there was some other massive issue going on.

01:31:02.020 Yeah.

01:31:02.460 Yeah.

01:31:02.920 I was expecting oil change and, uh, lo and behold, it wasn't.

01:31:06.500 So they immediately looked at me and said, but you had car shield.

01:31:09.680 And so it's all taken care of.

01:31:11.340 You just have to pay for the oil change.

01:31:12.480 Wait, what?

01:31:14.360 So I saved over $5,000, 65, about $6,500, I think.

01:31:18.600 And I didn't have to do anything because I have car shield.

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01:32:07.420 So we were just talking about, um, you know, the new Google technology, the new Google assistant.

01:32:13.960 And I said, you know, once you connect and data dump, let's say American express, you dump American express, all of its connections into AI.

01:32:24.720 And, you know, you partner with somebody else.

01:32:27.760 I don't know, four seasons or whatever.

01:32:29.320 There is no concierge or no assistant that will be able to be better than the AI once they get the Siri problems fixed.

01:32:41.220 You know, it seems as though Google has made great strides in that, but you, you know, you, you, if you have Amazon Alexa, you know, that you're probably shouting out it once in a while.

01:32:52.620 Um, yes, um, my wife, especially who can't seem to understand that there needs to be a slight space between Alexa and stop when the music's playing. 1.00

01:33:01.720 Alexa, stop. 1.00

01:33:03.140 Which is crazy.

01:33:04.020 Alexa, stop. 1.00

01:33:05.140 Alexa, stop. 1.00

01:33:06.300 And it's like, Alexa, stop.

01:33:10.020 That's all you need to do.

01:33:11.140 But she just will not do it.

01:33:12.940 She will not do it.

01:33:14.640 So we're frustrated right now, but may I remind you, do you remember what technology was like five years ago?

01:33:22.380 When we started the blaze five, six years ago, no one wanted to do it because of buffering.

01:33:29.040 Yeah.

01:33:29.420 Do you remember buffering, buffering, buffering, buffering?

01:33:31.820 I can't, can't watch the show.

01:33:33.180 It's stop and go.

01:33:33.920 I can't do it.

01:33:34.580 Oh, it's all we dealt with in those early years.

01:33:36.900 Right.

01:33:37.260 And now who doesn't watch television on their phone or on their iPad?

01:33:44.840 I mean, who isn't accessing stuff through, you know, through the internet now?

01:33:50.760 That's, we're, we're cutting cable six years later.

01:33:55.480 The problem you're having with Alexa or Amazon now, those problems are gone.

01:34:01.120 And what's on the other side is going to be remarkable.

01:34:04.960 Watch in five years.

01:34:06.380 Well, what's making news is not really news, but what's making news today is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

01:34:15.380 That's the LDS Church, the Mormons, said it's severing all ties with the Boy Scouts of America.

01:34:21.340 Those Mormons. 1.00

01:34:22.320 I know.

01:34:23.180 Yeah, jeez.

01:34:23.880 I know.

01:34:24.940 They said that they increasingly felt the need to create and implement a uniform youth leadership and development program that serves its members globally.

01:34:33.980 The two organizations, Boy Scouts and LDS Church, jointly determined that as of December 31st, the church will no longer be a chartered partner of the Scouts, it said in a joint statement with the Boy Scouts.

01:34:47.700 This actually isn't new.

01:34:48.880 They made the announcement initially about a year ago and said that, you know, in the next year.

01:34:52.680 They're phasing it out.

01:34:52.940 Yeah, we're phasing it out.

01:34:53.940 Yeah.

01:34:54.160 And so this is just the implementation of that.

01:34:56.440 But this is a really big deal for the Boy Scouts.

01:34:59.000 Well, it's 20% of their membership.

01:35:01.320 Yeah.

01:35:01.720 I mean, that's a lot.

01:35:02.660 I thought it was higher than that, but it's according to this, 20%.

01:35:05.400 I think it's also one of, it's disproportionate in its funding as well.

01:35:12.240 Yeah.

01:35:12.880 It's not 20% of the Boy Scout funding.

01:35:14.800 I think it's much more than that.

01:35:17.160 This is going to hurt the Boy Scouts badly.

01:35:19.700 It is.

01:35:20.220 You know, but I mean.

01:35:21.440 But they made their bed.

01:35:22.760 Now they get to lay in it.

01:35:23.460 I mean, what?

01:35:24.960 Now you can be a girl and be in Boy Scouts?

01:35:27.320 What are you doing?

01:35:28.420 I mean, all the changes that they made were like, okay, stop.

01:35:32.380 I don't know if we can hang with that.

01:35:34.320 Stop.

01:35:34.680 And they wouldn't.

01:35:35.800 If you're a girl and you want to be in Scouts, there's no options for you, though.

01:35:38.540 Yeah.

01:35:38.680 It's called Girl Scouts.

01:35:40.340 Well, that would be great if that existed, but I'm saying.

01:35:41.900 It does.

01:35:42.380 It does.

01:35:42.900 Yeah.

01:35:43.040 They have the cookies.

01:35:44.220 Oh, yeah.

01:35:44.660 The cookie people.

01:35:45.040 The delicious cookies.

01:35:46.080 I mean, it's just, you know, the problem is that you're developing the progressive movement

01:35:53.060 is destroying anything that holds boys up.

01:35:58.740 Anything.

01:35:59.560 Mm-hmm.

01:35:59.900 And there's nothing more critical right now than grabbing onto our boys and teaching them

01:36:07.060 how to be a real man, how to be honorable, how to be decent, how to be honest, how to

01:36:12.780 be, you know, trustworthy, forthright, helpful.

01:36:16.240 All the things that the Boy Scouts were supposed to teach, and you're supposed to teach them

01:36:21.800 for boys, because boys are different than girls.

01:36:26.680 But you can't say that.

01:36:27.680 How dare you say that?

01:36:28.640 I know.

01:36:28.940 How dare you?

01:36:29.560 I know the patriarchy never stops.

01:36:31.100 And they, in my perception, they caved every step of the way.

01:36:36.400 They caved to political correctness every step of the way.

01:36:39.720 Yeah.

01:36:40.420 And so it got to the point where, sorry, we can't tolerate it.

01:36:43.840 We can't be a part of it.

01:36:45.500 I have to tell you, I was, I've been waiting for the cutoff.

01:36:50.040 I mean, I was out of my skin last week when the Boy Scouts said, okay, well, girls can

01:36:56.280 be in there too now.

01:36:57.920 What?

01:36:59.020 What are you talking about?

01:37:00.100 Girls can be in the Boy Scouts.

01:37:01.460 That doesn't make, that doesn't even make sense.

01:37:04.520 And I was just out of my skin.

01:37:06.040 I was like, you know, when is the church just going to come out and say, enough, enough.

01:37:09.360 And, you know, they, they didn't have to, I guess, because they have been saying this

01:37:15.520 now for a few years internally, they've been moving to their own thing slowly, but surely,

01:37:21.560 and they've got a gracious exit here.

01:37:24.140 And so they're, they're taking it.

01:37:25.440 And it has nothing to do with today's news because as Pat said, they've announced this

01:37:30.120 over a year ago internally to the membership.

01:37:32.640 And now today it's just finalized.

01:37:34.640 Good luck.

01:37:35.000 Drive safely.

01:37:35.860 Have fun at your camp outs.

01:37:37.360 Well, you know, we'll do something else.

01:37:38.800 Yeah.

01:37:39.780 What are you going to do?

01:37:40.560 It's really going to hurt the Boy Scouts.

01:37:41.720 I, it's, it's 400,000 people, 400,000 scouts are out of it now.

01:37:47.880 So, but you know, again, you make choices and there's consequences for them.

01:37:53.820 So do you see the people online today?

01:37:58.060 Oh, it's just who needs those religious people anyway? 1.00

01:38:01.400 Well, Boy Scouts for one.

01:38:03.900 But have you, I mean, the people that were tweeting, I can guarantee you, they don't have

01:38:10.420 a kid in scouting.

01:38:11.600 They don't write a check to the Boy Scouts of America.

01:38:14.460 They're just loud mouths on, on Twitter.

01:38:17.200 Yeah.

01:38:17.540 You know what I mean?

01:38:18.160 It's a lesson that it's so difficult for organizations to learn that, you know, maybe you should cater

01:38:23.620 to the people who actually like your organization.

01:38:26.620 And have supported you for all these years.

01:38:29.460 Yeah.

01:38:30.120 Even, you know, even though I'm not.

01:38:32.180 This is a charter member.

01:38:33.380 Right.

01:38:33.480 The LDS Church is a charter member, meaning they were there at the beginning and they

01:38:38.940 helped charter them.

01:38:40.140 They have poured millions into the Boy Scouts.

01:38:42.660 Over a century.

01:38:43.320 Over a century.

01:38:44.420 And I know you've written the checks.

01:38:45.920 We do the Friends of Scouts thing every year.

01:38:48.220 I've written the checks, even though I didn't really care that much about Boy Scouts.

01:38:52.440 I wanted my sons to become Eagle Scouts, but they didn't care that much about Scouts.

01:38:57.380 But even so, continued to support and pay money into it.

01:39:01.660 And millions of LDS people did.

01:39:05.440 And so, when it gets to a point where you just, you've made so many decisions that are

01:39:10.740 contrary to our belief system, it's time to part ways.

01:39:17.520 Yeah.

01:39:17.840 I want my son to be an Eagle, but, you know, what does it mean?

01:39:22.740 The point of it is because there's a set of principles, because it's difficult.

01:39:26.580 Because there are rules and laws for you to follow, and it means something.

01:39:31.560 When you open it up to, you know, just anything and everything.

01:39:35.240 Yeah, like you change the whole point.

01:39:36.520 There's no point in the organization unless you have those principles.

01:39:40.140 Yeah, and the Boy Scouts don't even have cookies.

01:39:42.340 Right.

01:39:42.600 So, now you've given me no choice.

01:39:44.540 I mean, if you had cookies.

01:39:46.640 At least if you had thin mints, we might consider staying around for a while.

01:39:49.940 Right, right.

01:39:50.140 But you don't.

01:39:50.860 It's the only reason why I give to the Girl Scouts. 1.00

01:39:53.260 I want the damn cookies. 0.99

01:39:54.540 It's not really giving to the Girl Scouts when you're buying their cookies. 1.00

01:39:57.840 No, it is.

01:39:58.820 It's not exactly charity.

01:39:59.500 They could be shopping Satanism, and I'd be like, oh, you got the cookies?

01:40:06.180 Are they the thin mints?

01:40:07.540 Do they taste like the other thin mints?

01:40:09.380 Honey, I know this is for the devil, but it's a thin, just one box.

01:40:14.200 The other thing it does is cut down on campouts, which I'm always in favor of.

01:40:20.900 Oh, my gosh.

01:40:21.300 I'm always in favor of that.

01:40:22.400 I'm really happy about that, except the church is going to come up with something.

01:40:25.620 I know they are.

01:40:26.440 Oh, I know.

01:40:26.960 They're going to come up with something that's like, every family should do this.

01:40:30.300 No, not my family.

01:40:32.300 It's good families.

01:40:33.900 Every family should.

01:40:34.820 What if it's like sitting on couches?

01:40:36.480 Then, okay.

01:40:37.320 Yes.

01:40:37.580 They don't do that.

01:40:38.480 Right.

01:40:38.820 No.

01:40:39.020 They don't.

01:40:39.500 They don't do that.

01:40:40.540 We've been pushing for that.

01:40:42.140 There needs to be a night where we all just sit on the couch and don't talk to each other.

01:40:47.320 Don't talk to each other.

01:40:48.400 Maybe put on a movie.

01:40:49.780 Right.

01:40:50.020 And everybody shuts off.

01:40:51.180 Right.

01:40:51.720 And eat until we pass out.

01:40:52.620 And if we can't agree on the movie, everybody just go to your own personal device.

01:40:58.820 Well, yes, of course, obviously.

01:41:01.920 It's amazing how often that happens.

01:41:03.600 I know.

01:41:03.960 Do you have a problem?

01:41:05.040 I mean, I'll say to the family, hey, you want a movie night?

01:41:08.840 Let's watch a movie.

01:41:11.180 No one can agree on a movie.

01:41:13.760 That is only 100% of the time.

01:41:16.820 Right.

01:41:17.340 Only 100%.

01:41:18.240 100% of the time.

01:41:19.940 No one can agree on the movie.

01:41:22.860 And so we'll spend an hour talking about the movie.

01:41:26.000 And I'll say, well, okay, it's bedtime now.

01:41:27.620 Right.

01:41:28.240 Right.

01:41:28.580 No movie.

01:41:29.040 It's gotten to the point where I don't even suggest let's watch a movie.

01:41:31.580 I am.

01:41:32.420 I'm to that point.

01:41:33.440 Yeah.

01:41:33.680 It's a show.

01:41:35.100 It's a movie.

01:41:36.100 It's anything.

01:41:37.020 No one will take one for the team.

01:41:39.880 Right.

01:41:40.780 Yeah, that's true.

01:41:41.460 And going back to the artificial intelligence conversation we were having earlier, the fact

01:41:45.200 that Netflix can't find the right movie for me yet, the fact that I have to scroll that

01:41:50.260 long to find something shows we've got at least a couple weeks until the apocalypse.

01:41:55.020 Right.

01:41:55.200 Because if they can't figure that out yet, I mean, maybe it's an unsolvable equation.

01:41:59.520 You know what?

01:42:00.140 That's a really good thing.

01:42:01.200 There is something that Netflix should work on because all my family has their own little

01:42:06.700 Netflix, you know, icon.

01:42:08.620 You know, Rafe watches his, Cheyenne watches her, mom, dad.

01:42:12.620 So it knows.

01:42:13.460 It's worth twice the amount of money if it can say, I got a movie all of you will like.

01:42:23.140 That would be amazing.

01:42:23.820 You're going to like this now.

01:42:24.940 Yeah.

01:42:25.000 Instead, their algorithm is such that, you know, hey, you just watched Lost in Space.

01:42:31.160 Maybe you'll like Debbie Does Dallas.

01:42:33.320 No.

01:42:34.060 That's not the same thing at all.

01:42:35.760 And you know what?

01:42:36.680 You put one thing in there.

01:42:38.620 You put one thing in there that you're just like, I watched something like old industrial,

01:42:45.600 you know, education films from the 1950s.

01:42:48.040 I was trying to get something for something that I was writing and I saw this and it was

01:42:52.240 like old commercials from the 1970s and I'm like, oh, okay.

01:42:55.260 And it's all it is.

01:42:56.560 It's just like 90 minutes of commercials back to back.

01:43:00.460 And so I just now because you watched commercials of the 70s, I've got this whole list of things

01:43:08.200 that I'll never, ever watch.

01:43:10.640 I'll be like, no, no, I didn't like that.

01:43:13.740 That was homework.

01:43:14.940 I didn't like that.

01:43:16.980 Yeah.

01:43:17.120 I'm you're much more industrious than I am and that I have only one sign in.

01:43:22.440 Under my name.

01:43:23.480 And you know, the kids sign in under my name.

01:43:25.180 Oh, screw everything.

01:43:25.900 So now like my recommendations is it's either movies for four-year-olds or Hitler documentaries.

01:43:32.520 It's the only two things.

01:43:35.180 Recommends.

01:43:36.220 So which one, which one do you end up watching?

01:43:38.460 All right.

01:43:46.480 The June Fed meeting is coming up June 12th through the 13th.

01:43:51.700 Economists overwhelmingly predict the Fed is going to raise rates.

01:43:55.980 Hmm.

01:43:56.360 I find that hard to believe.

01:43:57.940 Did you see what happened in Argentina today?

01:44:00.580 It's a minor, minor increase in the cost of your goods and services.

01:44:04.820 Biner.

01:44:05.460 Argentina is suffering now from massive inflation as well.

01:44:10.360 And so to control the price of the Argentine peso, they rose interest rates to 40%.

01:44:20.920 It's not a big deal, though.

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01:46:01.040 Glenn Beck.

01:46:03.040 Thanks so much for tuning into the program today.

01:46:05.100 So do we have a pool update?

01:46:07.560 I see you're here.

01:46:08.160 You didn't electrocute yourself trying to change the light bulbs, I assume?

01:46:11.600 I don't have it.

01:46:12.260 Me, personally, I don't have an update on that.

01:46:16.080 Are your pool lights working?

01:46:17.640 Yes, they are.

01:46:19.180 Let's leave it at that.

01:46:20.580 I definitely don't want to leave it at that.

01:46:22.740 Why are...

01:46:23.300 Well, you know that I took the pool lights out.

01:46:25.980 Okay.

01:46:26.900 Trying to, you know, do the stuff that, you know, a husband's supposed to do.

01:46:31.460 Change the light bulbs.

01:46:32.420 That's you.

01:46:33.120 Right.

01:46:33.380 That's your MO.

01:46:34.120 That's me.

01:46:35.440 I am the king of the honey-do list.

01:46:38.420 Okay.

01:46:39.220 And so I started to change the light bulbs in the pool.

01:46:42.360 And, you know, first by calling someone.

01:46:45.440 And they said, it's $2,000.

01:46:47.000 And I said, that's insane.

01:46:48.560 Right.

01:46:48.820 And I hung up the phone.

01:46:50.240 So then I thought, how do you get the pool lights out?

01:46:52.820 Lo and behold, there's YouTube.

01:46:54.100 So I YouTubed how to change pool lights.

01:46:57.460 And I...

01:46:57.920 It's always a good thing to YouTube.

01:46:58.980 Underwater electricity.

01:47:00.140 That's a good idea.

01:47:00.880 That did cross my mind, but I turned off the power.

01:47:04.440 And so I turned off the power and I take the pool lights out and everything is fine.

01:47:08.600 Until I open them up and then I'm like, the gasket, I'm not sure.

01:47:12.900 The seal, we are dealing with water.

01:47:15.660 I got to eventually turn the electricity back on and the lights might work.

01:47:21.980 But then what happened?

01:47:25.000 I don't...

01:47:25.680 I mean, do I have one of the kids test the water to make sure it's not electrified?

01:47:30.140 You know what I mean?

01:47:30.880 Yeah.

01:47:31.200 It's a good thought.

01:47:32.240 So I thought, you know, I'm going to go to Leslie's pools and I'm going to talk to them.

01:47:37.220 I'm going to go a step further than YouTube, you know, for the kids.

01:47:41.960 Well, I get a note.

01:47:43.240 I'm talking about this on the air.

01:47:44.720 And my wife writes and says, you're talking...

01:47:46.420 Why are you talking about this on the air?

01:47:48.680 And I'm like, what's it to you?

01:47:51.740 And she said, because we got them all lit and they're in...

01:47:57.480 We put them all back.

01:47:59.600 Okay.

01:48:00.020 Now that happened during the show a couple of days ago.

01:48:03.940 She didn't do it.

01:48:05.660 My 12-year-old daughter did it.

01:48:09.780 I mean, I'm just not allowed to be a man.

01:48:12.620 I'm just not allowed to be a man.

01:48:14.720 I mean, it's really...

01:48:16.140 The way you act, you are not allowed to be a man. 1.00

01:48:19.980 Shut up. 1.00

01:48:20.180 I will agree with you on that. 1.00

01:48:21.480 Come on.

01:48:21.900 You thought I was perfectly reasonable to say, hey, now let's hang on.

01:48:25.080 Let me just go to the pool supply place and make sure we got new gaskets and everything else.

01:48:29.120 Right?

01:48:29.880 It did seem like it was a sane thing to do.

01:48:32.700 And then your wife put your daughter in extreme danger.

01:48:36.780 Well, that's the way I see it.

01:48:39.080 That's the way I see it.

01:48:40.080 So you're the good parent here.

01:48:40.940 Again, you're the victim.

01:48:41.860 Thank you.

01:48:42.380 This is how it works.

01:48:43.300 Thank you.

01:48:43.640 Now, can I tell you another person that probably shouldn't YouTube things?

01:48:49.140 A woman had no idea she was pregnant. 1.00

01:48:55.320 For the first six months, she decides that she's already got a trip to Germany planned.

01:49:04.000 And so that's not going to stop her.

01:49:05.540 And besides, her due date is three weeks away.

01:49:08.820 Right.

01:49:09.480 Cancellation fees, all that.

01:49:10.640 You don't want that.

01:49:10.980 Yeah, you don't want that.

01:49:11.580 So she's 22 years old.

01:49:12.540 She's traveling alone.

01:49:14.440 She has a 17-hour stopover in Istanbul on her way to Germany.

01:49:20.420 Well, then her water breaks. 0.99

01:49:22.520 And she's like, I am not giving birth on the floor of an airport in Istanbul, which I hear they're really clean and very nice.

01:49:32.440 Anyway, she... 1.00

01:49:34.420 It's one of the best birthing airports in the world.

01:49:37.320 Oh, seriously.

01:49:38.600 Seriously.

01:49:39.560 So she first feels like she's got these contractions.

01:49:43.400 Maybe it's because she had salmon on the plane.

01:49:45.800 You're on your way to Istanbul.

01:49:46.940 Don't eat fish.

01:49:47.980 Okay?

01:49:48.200 Don't eat fish.

01:49:49.220 This woman just really doesn't make a lot of good choices. 1.00

01:49:52.020 So she's at the Istanbul airport.

01:49:54.200 She gets stuck in the customs queue and she finally, you know, convinces somebody, I'm going to have a baby.

01:50:04.660 And so they rush her through and she goes to a hotel.

01:50:10.320 Now, me, I'd go to a hospital.

01:50:12.200 But she went to a hotel.

01:50:14.200 While she's on her way to the hotel, she's YouTubing how to give childbirth. 1.00

01:50:20.900 Okay?

01:50:21.640 She goes to the hotel.

01:50:24.080 She is running a warm tub of water.

01:50:28.720 She doesn't make it.

01:50:29.860 She gives birth by herself in Istanbul on the bathroom floor.

01:50:35.980 Not at the airport, but at a very nice hotel.

01:50:38.940 So our American standards, you know, they were intact.

The Glenn Beck Program - May 09, 2018

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