The Glenn Beck Program - Living and Dying By the Algorithm？ - 7⧸27⧸18

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.

00:00:08.420 Well, you live by the algorithm, you die by the algorithm.

00:00:12.740 Facebook got straight up slaughtered yesterday.

00:00:16.120 By the time Wall Street closed, Facebook shares were down 19%, wiping out $120 billion of

00:00:27.360 the company's value.

00:00:28.600 $120 billion.

00:00:33.420 To put that into perspective, that is almost four times the entire market capitalization

00:00:39.640 of Twitter.

00:00:42.780 Wow.

00:00:44.140 This is the largest single-day wipeout in stock history.

00:00:49.940 Mark Zuckerberg himself lost over $15 billion yesterday.

00:00:54.200 Now, the official reason, and you're going to hear from business analysts, is the media

00:01:01.600 will just say, well, you know, this comes a day after executives forecast years lower profit

00:01:07.140 margins due to Facebook's concerns over privacy and its role in the global news flow.

00:01:12.600 Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah.

00:01:14.160 Well, that plays a little bit of a role.

00:01:16.480 Privacy concerns are definitely real.

00:01:18.920 You know, the Cambridge Analytica thing was a nightmare.

00:01:21.820 But the second part of the quote that I just read, where Facebook, you know, they're managing

00:01:26.140 the role in the global news flow.

00:01:27.700 That is, I believe, the entire reason why people are beginning to bail on the company.

00:01:34.420 You know, Facebook was valuable when you could go there and you could pick and choose the

00:01:42.060 type of content that you wanted to see.

00:01:45.380 You could choose what was important to you.

00:01:49.140 I don't want Facebook choosing for me.

00:01:52.600 Facebook's algorithm has been destroying media companies lately, especially the smaller ones,

00:01:58.780 and even more so, what a surprise, those that lean conservative.

00:02:03.420 The Independent Journal Review.

00:02:05.660 This was a conservative site that focused on millennials.

00:02:09.120 They had to lay off almost all of their employees back in February.

00:02:14.220 Why?

00:02:14.620 Because Facebook's algorithm was choking off their reach, and IGR is just one of the many

00:02:20.620 that are struggling because of it.

00:02:22.480 All of us in conservative media have felt the algorithm change like nobody's business.

00:02:30.300 So now, why would Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook do this?

00:02:33.920 A, it hurts their business.

00:02:35.520 B, it hurts their own business model.

00:02:39.520 It's because it's the typical progressive mindset.

00:02:42.580 It's, it's, it's, that's all this is.

00:02:46.500 Listen to this quote from Zuckerberg a few months ago when he focused, you know, where he laid out their, their, their areas of concern in 2018.

00:02:54.960 He said, and I quote, we feel a responsibility to make sure our services aren't just fun to use, but also good for people's well-being.

00:03:06.780 Oh, so we've studied this trend carefully by looking at the academic research and doing our own research with leading experts at universities.

00:03:18.440 Oh, well, if you're going to the university people, you know, you're going to be on the right path.

00:03:25.040 This is the same progressives in Washington.

00:03:29.380 It is with progressives in Silicon Valley.

00:03:32.080 It's in the universities. 1.00

00:03:34.000 They are, you know, you are just too stupid. 1.00

00:03:36.460 I don't believe you should be able to make your own decisions. 1.00

00:03:39.520 I mean, you are, you're one of the little people.

00:03:42.500 Now, sit back for a minute and let us in the university, you know, the educated egghead types.

00:03:48.600 We, we, we, we know what's best for you. 0.99

00:03:52.300 Are we too stupid to be able to pick the type of content that we feel is important? 1.00

00:03:58.880 You, you are too much of an idiot to decipher fake news from real news. 1.00

00:04:03.480 So Facebook is going to be the gatekeeper, you know, so you don't hurt yourself. 1.00

00:04:08.160 Don't run with those scissors.

00:04:09.420 I'm sorry, but that's not why I signed up for Facebook.

00:04:14.960 I don't need some progressive computer algorithm telling me the content that I should or should not be consuming.

00:04:21.080 I can do that on my own.

00:04:24.220 See what the progressives never allow to happen is let the free market fix it because it will, it will.

00:04:32.840 The free market will fix it.

00:04:34.420 And if Facebook doesn't do it, somebody else will come up and they'll do it.

00:04:39.920 Why, why is it that Facebook is the only one with the control of the algorithm?

00:04:44.100 Why don't you have control of the algorithm?

00:04:46.980 I want to see more of this, less of that.

00:04:50.040 Why?

00:04:51.900 Well, because Facebook loses its control.

00:04:54.960 Oh, I thought Facebook put you in control.

00:05:00.700 There is the problem.

00:05:05.480 Everybody is fed up being told what to do, what they should be watching, what they should be reading, what they should be saying, who they should, who they should follow.

00:05:16.680 So, someone soon is going to come along and provide the services that Facebook is denying.

00:05:22.980 The free market fixes these situations.

00:05:26.040 And yesterday, the free market fixed progressivism that was growing inside of Facebook.

00:05:33.100 You know, it's really hard.

00:05:49.820 We played this, beginning of this week, we played something from Mark Zuckerberg, where he was doing an interview.

00:05:58.360 And he was talking about how he, you know, they kept trying to say, you're the most powerful man in the world, blah, blah, blah.

00:06:04.880 And he kept saying, you know, no, I'm trying to empower others.

00:06:08.820 I'm trying to empower others.

00:06:11.000 But he's really, he's not.

00:06:13.080 But I do believe that that is his intent to empower others.

00:06:17.300 But he is sitting in a situation where he finds himself as the guy being blamed for all fake news and everything else.

00:06:27.340 Well, it's not his fault that there's fake news.

00:06:32.000 You know, we have to police ourself.

00:06:34.820 But we're not willing to do it.

00:06:36.740 We're not willing to read more than just a headline.

00:06:39.140 If you're not willing to do more work than just read the headline, and because you agree with it, because that headline makes you feel good, you immediately Facebook post it.

00:06:54.340 You share it with friends.

00:06:56.040 Well, that's how it spreads.

00:06:57.500 It's not Facebook's fault.

00:06:59.060 It's our fault.

00:07:00.980 Because we're not fixing reason firmly in our seat.

00:07:05.480 We just want to destroy each other.

00:07:07.880 And so, if you won't police yourself, then somebody else has to come in and police.

00:07:13.700 And boy, oh boy, progressives are all always ready to police.

00:07:19.960 But Mark Zuckerberg just, you know, on Monday was, you know, being thrown up against the wall by the New York Times.

00:07:28.300 Well, why is it you won't ban people like Alex Jones?

00:07:33.200 Because who am I to silence the voice of Alex Jones?

00:07:37.880 That's not my decision.

00:07:41.160 My decision, my role, as he said, was to look at what's being spread.

00:07:47.780 And if it is a lie, then our algorithm should kick in to make sure that doesn't go viral.

00:07:57.360 Okay, well, that's a good move, I guess.

00:08:02.440 However, I don't know if I trust your algorithm to know what is real and what isn't.

00:08:09.420 Because who are you, who on the conservative side is consulting you?

00:08:14.880 We know you have the Southern Poverty Law Center.

00:08:18.200 We know you have the ADL.

00:08:20.580 But who do you have on a conservative side?

00:08:24.160 You know, you look at Lila Rose.

00:08:26.260 Twitter has been forcing and just shutting her down.

00:08:31.660 She's a pro-life activist.

00:08:33.960 Just shutting her down.

00:08:36.400 Blocking her every step of the way.

00:08:38.780 But they don't do that with Planned Parenthood.

00:08:40.980 You can't have the illusion of freedom and then be so blatantly obvious that there is no freedom.

00:08:55.440 That's what the Internet is all about.

00:08:59.120 The Internet is so big because it's free.

00:09:02.160 The Facebook was so big because it allowed you to connect with who you wanted to and see the news you wanted to see.

00:09:13.360 It's not like that now.

00:09:15.480 It's not like that.

00:09:18.860 I mean, somebody is going to put you in charge again.

00:09:23.500 And if you are in charge, first thing that they will say is,

00:09:26.660 Oh, well, this is just making it easy for the neo-Nazis.

00:09:31.500 That's what they'll say.

00:09:32.760 I mean, think about how crazy it is.

00:09:34.560 Because this is what they've done.

00:09:35.900 You go to a website.

00:09:36.960 You go to, you're on Facebook.

00:09:38.140 And you go to the Blaze.

00:09:38.900 I want to get news from the Blaze.

00:09:40.340 You click like on the Blaze to get the news from the Blaze.

00:09:43.040 And then Facebook delivers to you like 5% of the things that the Blaze posts.

00:09:48.160 And it makes, you know, think about this in a radio sense.

00:09:50.580 If every day you're like, I want to go to my local station and listen to Glenn Beck on the air.

00:09:55.020 And every time you tuned in, only one out of 20 times you actually got Glenn Beck.

00:09:58.540 The other 19, you got another show.

00:10:00.500 Like, you specifically are choosing to get the information from these sources.

00:10:04.840 And Facebook is saying, yeah, but what we think is that you don't know what you want.

00:10:09.820 Stu, it is Cass Sunstein's nudge.

00:10:14.340 It's nudge.

00:10:15.140 It's progressivism in action.

00:10:16.440 I'm going to give you, yes, the fries are available.

00:10:19.180 I'm just going to make it a little more difficult for you to get to the fries.

00:10:23.820 That's what nudge is.

00:10:25.060 I'm going to put the fries in the back.

00:10:27.700 I'm not going to display them.

00:10:29.620 You can ask for them.

00:10:32.040 But if I put them in the very back, chances are you're going to go over the apples and over this.

00:10:38.240 And you'll just be like, ah, it's too far to reach.

00:10:39.940 I'll just take this.

00:10:41.460 That's nudge. 0.76

00:10:42.720 Well, that is exactly what Facebook is doing.

00:10:45.640 I'd like the Glenn Beck program, please.

00:10:48.280 Okay.

00:10:48.660 Well, you know, that's cute.

00:10:50.500 Hey, have you tried this?

00:10:51.960 Have you tried this?

00:10:53.200 Have you tried this?

00:10:53.960 Have you tried this?

00:10:54.820 Oh, here's your Glenn Beck.

00:10:56.660 Hey, have you tried this?

00:10:58.080 Have you tried this?

00:10:58.700 Have you tried this?

00:10:59.260 Have you tried this?

00:11:00.520 Have you tried this?

00:11:01.340 Your life will be better if you try one of these other things.

00:11:03.440 Right?

00:11:03.980 No, I asked you.

00:11:06.400 I want this.

00:11:07.480 None of us would go into a store.

00:11:09.840 None of us would go into a store for anything that we felt was vital.

00:11:15.640 It would if if we were going in for food or a restaurant and they hand us a menu and they

00:11:22.600 say, what would you like?

00:11:23.860 And you say, you know what?

00:11:24.860 I'd like the T-bone.

00:11:27.220 Okay, well, you know, I tell you what, let's start with this.

00:11:31.940 First, let's have let's have some soup.

00:11:34.880 No, no, I just want the T-bone.

00:11:36.480 I don't want.

00:11:37.040 Yeah, I know.

00:11:37.500 I know.

00:11:37.720 I know.

00:11:38.180 And we'll get to the steak.

00:11:39.380 Let's just have some soup and maybe a salad.

00:11:42.380 We would never put up with it.

00:11:44.100 We would walk out of that restaurant if we went into a store and we'd say, I want to

00:11:49.260 buy that suit. 0.94

00:11:50.780 Okay, well, we're going to let you try that on.

00:11:53.000 But try this on.

00:11:54.080 Try this on.

00:11:54.880 Try this on.

00:11:55.700 Try this on.

00:11:56.500 You know, you really look good in this.

00:11:58.780 No, I want that suit.

00:12:01.060 Yeah, okay.

00:12:01.540 Well, we're going to get to that.

00:12:02.600 We would never that suit store would go out of business.

00:12:06.680 That restaurant would go out of business.

00:12:08.780 All stores would go out of business.

00:12:11.280 That's what Facebook is doing to us.

00:12:14.100 Now, if you look at what the earnings were, there is no reason on paper why Facebook had

00:12:21.620 the day it did yesterday.

00:12:22.860 So this is all coming from someplace inside of the psyche of America that says Facebook

00:12:31.100 is over.

00:12:31.640 Because I want to give you the numbers when we come back.

00:12:33.360 And when you look at the actual numbers on Wall Street, their earnings, there's no reason,

00:12:38.940 no reason, no reason even for them to go down, let alone the biggest bloodbath in the history

00:12:45.680 of Wall Street.

00:12:47.820 That's phenomenal.

00:12:49.120 Why?

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00:14:09.780 So, how could Facebook have the largest bloodbath in the history of Wall Street yesterday when

00:14:19.900 its earnings were fine?

00:14:22.100 I think it's because the collective gut knows something's not right and it's not going to

00:14:26.800 last.

00:14:27.140 Here's actually what happened on the earning call a couple of days ago when they have to

00:14:34.660 announce all their earnings and compare them to the projections for the quarter.

00:14:39.000 So, this is amazing to me.

00:14:41.120 They were projected to get $13.36 billion in revenue.

00:14:45.340 13.36.

00:14:47.020 13.36.

00:14:47.620 Okay.

00:14:47.820 What they turned out was $13.23 billion.

00:14:51.840 So, they missed.

00:14:53.780 But, I mean, I don't know.

00:14:54.980 I feel like you'd still think you had a healthy business if you had those numbers.

00:14:59.020 Yeah.

00:14:59.240 Okay.

00:14:59.380 13.36.

00:15:01.880 And instead, they made $13.23.

00:15:04.940 Three.

00:15:05.460 Okay.

00:15:06.040 So, that's a significant thing, especially for a smaller business.

00:15:09.760 But, I mean, they're pretty close to the estimates.

00:15:12.020 However, on top of that, you have to look at the earnings, the profits, right?

00:15:16.100 What did they spend to make that?

00:15:18.320 So, they were projected to get profits of $1.72 per share.

00:15:23.560 Their actual profits were $1.74 per share.

00:15:27.140 So, the profit went up.

00:15:28.480 So, it means they exceeded estimates.

00:15:30.780 Right.

00:15:30.960 They didn't make the amount of money, but they made in profit more.

00:15:36.620 They were more efficient.

00:15:37.700 More efficient.

00:15:38.240 Yeah, exactly.

00:15:39.240 Now, the global daily users, they were projected $1.49 billion.

00:15:44.200 They got $1.47 billion.

00:15:46.000 In North America, they were projected $185.4 million.

00:15:51.600 They have $185 million.

00:15:53.920 Again, this is not a catastrophic situation.

00:15:57.540 And then, their average revenue per user, obviously, probably the most important measure, right?

00:16:04.200 When you're looking at the fundamentals of this company, if they're making money off of people,

00:16:08.560 projected $5.95 per user, and they got $5.97 per user.

00:16:15.040 So, they outdid themselves on profits and average revenue per user, and then they missed a little bit on the actual total revenue and some of the measures as far as actual daily users.

00:16:29.200 But none of these, you can say, okay, well, hang on, that's something I need to watch.

00:16:32.940 But it's certainly not something that you have a mass, you know, fire sale on.

00:16:38.520 Is that a 2% drop number?

00:16:40.580 Maybe.

00:16:41.460 I mean, because, you know, these guys, a lot of times, will look at these things and say, well, they're not growing at these furious paces that they were.

00:16:47.380 Right.

00:16:47.600 Now, it's not going to have 30% growth.

00:16:49.860 And they said they had a couple of lines, like there's some regulatory pressure in Europe with all these privacy restrictions that have restrained growth a little bit there.

00:16:59.840 There were a couple of things that they said that were like, hey, we might not be growing by 45%.

00:17:05.720 We might be growing by 35%.

00:17:07.940 Like, again, these are little things.

00:17:10.100 Like panics, right.

00:17:10.520 Can you imagine if you said, hey, by the way, my, your business is only going to grow by 35% instead of 45%.

00:17:16.600 Okay.

00:17:18.400 All right.

00:17:19.180 Thank you.

00:17:20.020 Sign up for that one.

00:17:21.060 Yeah.

00:17:21.420 So, I mean, I under, I don't like Facebook.

00:17:23.780 I don't like the things that they do a lot of the time.

00:17:26.780 But it's, I feel, I think you're right in that it's a perception.

00:17:31.080 It's a perception becoming reality about Facebook.

00:17:34.480 Again, I don't think the fake news problem is their problem.

00:17:37.900 I think they made a mistake by taking ownership of it.

00:17:41.060 When you say, hey, yes, it's our fault.

00:17:43.880 We're the ones that are supposed to control whether people decide to share things that aren't true.

00:17:48.340 That is not your responsibility.

00:17:50.600 But now it is.

00:17:51.160 But now it is.

00:17:51.780 Now it is.

00:17:52.200 You've made it your responsibility.

00:17:53.960 And I don't think that it is.

00:17:55.080 And it's not something you can control.

00:17:57.100 Because once you have an algorithm to do something, the market is going to make it an algorithm to do something else.

00:18:02.280 Yeah.

00:18:02.460 I mean, they'll just find ways around.

00:18:04.260 That's the deal.

00:18:05.660 That's the problem.

00:18:06.360 You know, that's why you have to have a moral society and a self-governed society.

00:18:12.300 Because you're never going to be able to stop it all.

00:18:14.860 They'll find a way to do it.

00:18:17.080 And now Zuckerberg has made it his problem.

00:18:20.940 Oh, you know, it's our fault.

00:18:22.560 We should have done.

00:18:23.420 No.

00:18:24.520 No.

00:18:25.200 And you're putting people out of business.

00:18:27.060 And nobody is even talking about that.

00:18:30.400 Let me go to Wayne in Ohio.

00:18:31.840 You're a publisher of a local newspaper, Wayne.

00:18:33.740 Yes, I am the only media source in the county with a population of about 50,000 people.

00:18:39.960 And about 5,000 people have proactively reached out and liked my page, presumably because they want my content.

00:18:48.880 But when I publish something on Facebook, about 500 people will see it.

00:18:53.220 And Facebook will offer me a chance to, quote, unquote, boost my post for $5.

00:18:57.800 Because they are holding my own readers hostage and straggling my content because they want me to pay to reach my own readers.

00:19:07.480 And that's the problem.

00:19:08.660 If I want to boost my reach, it shouldn't be with the people who said they want to see it.

00:19:16.500 I should be paying to boost my reach to a bigger audience.

00:19:20.260 Which is how it used to be.

00:19:21.360 Right.

00:19:21.840 And that's the way it should be.

00:19:23.500 It should be.

00:19:23.980 And another layer of this, and I don't know if Wayne is on this bandwagon or not.

00:19:29.460 But, I mean, a lot of these companies that are publishers paid Facebook millions of dollars to get access to the people in the first place.

00:19:39.140 So they paid Facebook to build a large audience.

00:19:42.220 And after they gave the money to Facebook, Facebook said you no longer can reach that audience.

00:19:46.860 I don't know how that's not a gigantic scandal.

00:19:48.840 Yeah, it's bad.

00:19:49.580 It's bad.

00:19:50.000 Wayne, good luck.

00:19:52.440 Good luck.

00:19:53.020 God bless.

00:19:53.900 Thanks.

00:20:01.080 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:03.140 You, as a member of this audience, have really done more than any other organization.

00:20:12.200 And in some ways, more than many governments have done for the refugees of the Middle East and those people who are targeted by ISIS.

00:20:22.340 And you continue to do so as part of our Nazarene Fund project with Mercury One.

00:20:27.900 I'm going to tell you about a really, we need your prayers on something, a operation that we're about to start, and we really need your prayers.

00:20:40.540 And one person in particular over in the Middle East really needs your prayers.

00:20:43.620 I'll tell you about that here in a second.

00:20:44.740 But I want to introduce you to somebody that you actually helped.

00:20:48.780 He is the only person that we could get into the United States as a Syrian refugee.

00:20:54.900 The only one.

00:20:56.320 You know, Australia and lots of other countries took lots of people, thousands of people through Mercury One.

00:21:07.200 America would only take one.

00:21:09.260 And his name is Dr. Tony Al-Khuri, and he is a Syrian refugee.

00:21:14.480 We got him in because he had already been accepted at Harvard for his doctorate or master's?

00:21:23.080 Master of Divinity.

00:21:23.840 Master of Divinity.

00:21:25.360 He is over in Syria.

00:21:27.420 He is already a doctor of pharmacy.

00:21:29.920 And he's a straight-up guy who's now an intern this summer for Mercury One.

00:21:35.840 Welcome.

00:21:36.600 Thank you very much.

00:21:37.640 Thank you.

00:21:37.980 So, your town was taken by ISIS again just this week, and nobody talked about it.

00:21:50.240 And it's a pretty big deal.

00:21:52.060 There was, what, 200 injured and over 200 killed?

00:21:55.460 Yeah, yeah.

00:21:56.460 Thank God it was not taken by ISIS, but there was a very big attack from ISIS.

00:22:02.180 It's still under the government.

00:22:04.060 But this was the first attack from ISIS to the town, and it was very mind-blowning because

00:22:12.600 the city was surrounded by the Syrian army, by the government forces.

00:22:20.120 Which are supposedly protecting your town, right?

00:22:22.480 Yes, yes.

00:22:23.280 And nobody knows how these people could enter to the city and make all this terrifying explosions

00:22:30.520 and all this stuff.

00:22:31.480 So, it was a very, very scary thing.

00:22:35.180 And, yeah, as you said, there were more than 200 people killed and more than 200 people injured.

00:22:40.680 So, did they kill the ISIS members?

00:22:43.080 We're told here in America that ISIS is over, and that's not true.

00:22:46.940 It's not true.

00:22:47.520 It's not true.

00:22:48.240 Yeah.

00:22:48.700 I mean, we've seriously impacted them, but they still, I think, do you know, I think

00:22:55.000 they have 6,000 square miles that they are still in charge of.

00:22:59.480 So, it's still happening.

00:23:01.180 Yeah.

00:23:01.400 The problem with ISIS is they have cells and people everywhere, all over the place in Syria.

00:23:10.740 And when we think they are done and nothing is scary anymore, we get surprised by another

00:23:19.540 attack.

00:23:19.940 So, it's disorganized organization, and at the same time, they have disorganized stuff.

00:23:26.080 It's very weird.

00:23:27.240 And they go back into society, right?

00:23:29.720 So, you don't know.

00:23:30.820 Exactly.

00:23:31.200 You're not sure.

00:23:32.180 Your neighbor might, all of a sudden, he comes back, and you're like, oh, hey, have you been

00:23:36.120 safe?

00:23:36.940 He might have been an ISIS member, right?

00:23:40.020 Which has got to be terrifying.

00:23:42.200 It is terrifying.

00:23:42.740 How do you trust anybody?

00:23:44.840 Yeah.

00:23:45.120 On the other hand, the community in Syria, and especially Sueda, with the majority of

00:23:53.800 people, like as Jews and as Christians, the support to each other probably helped a lot

00:23:59.400 in protecting the city for a long time.

00:24:03.060 But the problem was trust, the problem was people who came to the city without knowing

00:24:09.460 anything about them, and suddenly, it turns out to be a person from ISIS or a person from

00:24:15.640 any other bad group.

00:24:19.680 What did this audience, the support of this audience, mean to you and to others around you?

00:24:30.200 I mean, it had to have felt like no one was listening, and you were all alone.

00:24:36.740 Yeah.

00:24:37.580 What does this mean for people like you?

00:24:42.900 For me, I am very thankful for the audience of the radio and for the people who are listening,

00:24:49.580 because because of them, I am here today.

00:24:52.600 Small thing, I'm not a refugee, and this is a good thing for helping other refugees.

00:24:57.640 I came here by Mercury One to be on F visa as a student, and I didn't apply for asylum

00:25:04.320 because I wanted to be able to travel when I need to travel.

00:25:08.120 Although now, I am very thankful again for Mercury One organization to approve my work

00:25:14.320 sponsorship.

00:25:15.140 So we are now on a process of sponsorship for me as an employee.

00:25:19.920 I will be working as spiritual case manager for Mercury One, and I am so grateful, and

00:25:25.960 it's something from God.

00:25:28.400 As I got helped, I need to help others.

00:25:30.820 So I'm very thankful for the audience, for Mercury One, for all the amazing help I got from.

00:25:36.220 So I need your prayers, because I feel that through this process, I will be able to be

00:25:44.440 part of Mercury One mission as a Middle Eastern person.

00:25:48.040 And this is a big thing.

00:25:49.380 This is huge.

00:25:50.020 I came here because I had heart to my people.

00:25:52.940 I had heart to my country.

00:25:55.160 And through Mercury One and through the mission you're doing, this is going to happen.

00:26:01.180 So there's a woman I found out about yesterday.

00:26:06.380 Let me see if I have her age, but she's young. 0.80

00:26:10.900 And we are asking the audience for prayers.

00:26:13.620 And also, please, please, if you can't even donate $10 a month to our Nazarene fund, please

00:26:22.080 do this.

00:26:23.200 Operations are still going on.

00:26:24.720 There is a woman that is in really grave danger.

00:26:30.400 She is still captive and a slave of ISIS.

00:26:35.640 She has now found herself pregnant.

00:26:40.600 And when we can tell you the whole story, it will be pretty remarkable.

00:26:45.680 And we hope to be able to tell you that story with her free and in a safe place along with

00:26:53.440 her unborn child.

00:26:54.200 But she is now pregnant. 0.62

00:26:56.400 And word is she is trying to kill herself.

00:27:00.880 She can't handle it anymore.

00:27:03.440 And so we have an operation that we're undergoing right now to try to get her out.

00:27:16.100 And we really need your prayers.

00:27:18.300 But we also would like you to join us and help us at mercuryone.org and donate to the Nazarene

00:27:27.660 fund.

00:27:27.980 And we had a we had a pretty aggressive goal this year to raise an awful lot of money and we're not even anywhere close to it.

00:27:36.000 And I'm afraid that Americans think that this is all over.

00:27:40.960 It's not.

00:27:41.960 And it's not.

00:27:42.960 Yeah.

00:27:43.180 And it's it's are you feeling or the people that, you know, in Syria, are they feeling

00:27:49.420 the effects yet or the fear of Iran?

00:27:52.980 Because if it's not, if it's not ISIS, Iran is coming in and replacing them. 0.98

00:27:59.420 Yeah.

00:27:59.580 But the situation is we are stuck between two terrible parties and a lot of people in Syria, 0.77

00:28:05.840 to be honest, when they think about the two options, ISIS is the big monster is is that

00:28:13.880 terrifying thing.

00:28:14.960 So a lot of people, they would choose the Iranian.

00:28:19.780 Yeah.

00:28:20.240 Even as even as Christians. 0.99

00:28:22.140 Yeah, because it's it's more political situation than religious situation.

00:28:26.840 They're not killing them because of their religion, but because of their political views.

00:28:31.700 And now no one, all people are tired of politics and they want to practice their faith and their

00:28:37.540 life and their school and their work.

00:28:39.380 And probably that this is not very scary under the other big powers in the world, but absolutely

00:28:47.460 it's still terrifying with ISIS.

00:28:49.140 ISIS is a big problem in the Middle East.

00:28:52.840 I'm so glad that you're here.

00:28:54.120 Thank you.

00:28:54.720 You're a remarkable, remarkable man.

00:28:58.020 What made you want to go from pharmaceuticals to divinity?

00:29:02.620 So in 2005, when I was in pharmacy school, I and I was invited to a Christian conference

00:29:09.540 and the theme of the conference was from Ezekiel, how God is looking for men and women who have

00:29:16.800 hearts for their nations.

00:29:18.580 And I felt cold.

00:29:19.780 I felt that God is calling me for ministry and I didn't question it.

00:29:23.600 I'm not the person who is very comfortable in his life.

00:29:27.020 I have a lot of anxiety.

00:29:27.940 It's not something I usually accept in a, but that day was something I was not skeptical

00:29:33.520 about at all.

00:29:34.760 I felt that this is what God wants me to do in my life.

00:29:37.640 And I ended up in a theology school after 11 years of dreaming.

00:29:41.600 God made that dream happen.

00:29:46.200 And this, this was a big reason.

00:29:47.960 And then Mercury won.

00:29:48.980 I feel that it was a puzzle from God and God was putting all the puzzles.

00:29:52.380 And now, as I shared before, I will be working to help my people, to help my country, to

00:29:58.960 help the refugees all over the Middle East through Mercury One.

00:30:02.560 So God was preparing me and it's really great.

00:30:05.500 So glad that you're here.

00:30:06.460 Thank you very much.

00:30:07.560 Thank you very much.

00:30:08.360 Thank you, Glenn.

00:30:09.120 If you would like to help, please go to mercuryone.org.

00:30:12.400 If you can donate a dollar a month, $10 a month, whatever you can afford, please, this

00:30:19.960 is still going on.

00:30:20.920 And even if you, if you can't afford anything, the widow's might is, uh, probably the most 0.98

00:30:28.220 important.

00:30:28.680 And if that widow might is just prayers, I ask that you, um, cover our forces in the Middle 0.91

00:30:36.160 East, uh, with, with, uh, with prayers and pray for their safety.

00:30:41.780 We have already lost two people, um, uh, trying to rescue, um, the slaves from ISIS and we don't

00:30:49.300 want to lose any more.

00:30:50.700 And, um, this particular story of this one girl who now is, um, pregnant when you hear

00:30:57.580 the whole story, um, it will stay with you for the rest of your life.

00:31:02.600 Help us save her and those like her by going to mercuryone.org slash Nazarene fund.

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00:32:37.460 You know, sometimes have you, have you, have you ever watched the, um, the series from HBO

00:32:47.240 John Adams?

00:32:48.160 You remember that?

00:32:49.460 I remember it.

00:32:49.900 I didn't actually see it, but everyone says it's really, really well done.

00:32:53.720 So you should watch it.

00:32:55.080 It's really good.

00:32:55.960 Um, in this, I think it's a second or third episode, John Adams goes to France and the,

00:33:02.060 the difference between America and France at the time is just remarkable.

00:33:07.320 You know, this is the height of, you know, King Louis and, um, everybody's wearing makeup

00:33:12.540 and, um, you know, everybody's got the little, the, the makeup mole on their face and all the

00:33:20.120 guys are hoity toity and they're having lavish meals and John Adams comes from America to

00:33:27.860 there.

00:33:28.860 And I feel as though we've switched places.

00:33:32.700 I feel as though in some ways we're France at that time and other people from the rest 0.99

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00:33:43.480 And we're like, yeah, but have you seen what's going on here?

00:33:46.580 And, you know, John Adams, uh, in that scene, he's, he's like, no, no, I, I'm, I'm, I'm,

00:33:53.980 I'm a little busy.

00:33:55.020 You know, our people are trying to just live in America and we get so distracted, um, by

00:34:04.820 the things that, uh, that media tells us matters.

00:34:09.880 And when you, when you think and stop to think about this young girl who has been, uh, a captive

00:34:23.160 and has been passed around and, um, made a prize of the chieftains and raped repeatedly and

00:34:33.940 now has an unborn child and cannot do it anymore. 0.58

00:34:39.220 Just can't do it anymore.

00:34:43.340 And how she must, she doesn't know that somebody is planning to go and save her right now.

00:34:50.800 She has no idea.

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00:34:54.940 And she doesn't know anybody even knows her name or knows what's going on, how alone she

00:35:01.760 must feel.

00:35:04.800 And when you hear that, I, I was on my way yesterday, um, to do some recording for the

00:35:11.160 audio book, uh, for the new book that is coming out, Addicted Outrage.

00:35:14.920 And I was stopped in the hallway by Suzanne, um, and Tony, um, that you just heard at Mercury

00:35:21.800 One.

00:35:22.160 And they said, uh, Glenn, we have to tell you about this young girl and we need your audience

00:35:28.000 to pray.

00:35:28.880 And if they can help us, um, with donations, please ask them.

00:35:34.400 And they told me the story and just leaned up against the wall in the hallway as they described

00:35:42.660 what's going on.

00:35:43.540 President Trump is out in the Rose Garden right now, and he's talking about how manufacturing

00:35:52.380 wages are expected to rise the highest rate in 17 years, that African-American unemployment

00:35:58.980 is at the lowest in history, that, uh, Hispanic unemployment is at the lowest in history.

00:36:09.800 There are so many good things that are happening in America, and we are only focused on the

00:36:19.540 bad things.

00:36:20.640 And most of those things are ridiculous in the grand scheme of events of the day.

00:36:28.720 Thank you for caring.

00:36:30.080 Thank you for being who you are.

00:36:33.380 Help us at mercuryone.org, the Nazarene Fund.

00:36:37.640 Glenn Beck.

00:36:42.600 The Associated Press today wants you to know, hey, don't, don't be so tough on reporters

00:36:47.880 because their job is like, like, I mean, like really, really difficult.

00:36:53.240 Yeah.

00:36:53.760 Yeah.

00:36:53.900 Construction workers, plumbers, waiters, you'd never understand.

00:36:57.620 This is difficult being a reporter.

00:36:59.060 It's like, it's like having a really tough job.

00:37:01.840 You know what I mean?

00:37:02.840 It's not like working in a kitchen or something.

00:37:04.440 And lucky for us, the Associated Press has released an article titled, Mr. President,

00:37:09.660 the loud, rowdy, even rude job of reporting.

00:37:14.040 Details for us, you know, simpletons, just exactly how tough their lives are.

00:37:19.020 For one, sometimes when, when they scream, you know, demands the president, when they scream

00:37:24.200 like that, you know, the leader of the free world, sometimes he like doesn't even answer.

00:37:29.060 Can you believe that?

00:37:30.260 That's how hard their job is.

00:37:31.280 Sometimes he won't even answer.

00:37:32.460 He like, it just ignores the reporters so he can, you know, deal with his like presidential

00:37:36.800 duties or whatever he's doing.

00:37:38.180 I mean, talk about rude.

00:37:39.260 He doesn't even listen to them all the time.

00:37:41.080 Does he realize how important the media is?

00:37:43.280 I mean, if it weren't for the media, there was no, there's, there'd be no way that we

00:37:48.420 would know the opinions of a highly elite, overly educated group of mostly leftist ideologues

00:37:54.060 who actually believe that their opinion is factually, you know, undoubtedly the truth 1.00

00:37:58.480 and that everyone else is a total idiot whose backwards opinions led to the rise of Adolf 1.00

00:38:03.720 Hitler. 1.00

00:38:04.120 So, I mean, what would we do?

00:38:06.240 What would we do on Wednesday?

00:38:09.560 White House aides banned CNN reporter Caitlin Collins for shouting questions to Trump that

00:38:16.140 he did not like setting off a national debate about how the press does its job.

00:38:20.780 Okay.

00:38:21.420 That's what the, that is what the AP reported, but they didn't ban her from the White House. 0.95

00:38:27.480 They banned her from a photo op, which I don't like.

00:38:30.460 Leave, just leave it alone.

00:38:31.900 Mr.

00:38:32.120 President, you're bigger than this.

00:38:34.360 Okay.

00:38:34.580 But, but it was one event.

00:38:36.240 Collins is still a White House correspondent.

00:38:38.020 And by the way, she was a White House correspondent for a conservative website called the Daily

00:38:44.100 Caller before she joined CNN.

00:38:47.640 So it's not like she's a liberal hack.

00:38:50.320 At times, the AP article read like a, you know, a children's book on potty training, uh,

00:38:55.500 adequate dict, etiquette dictates that no questions are asked until the president makes any remarks.

00:39:00.700 Uh, but that's where aligned interest.

00:39:03.320 And sometimes the dignity of the occasion ends reporters can then ask any question on

00:39:07.540 any topic.

00:39:08.560 Sometimes they shout to make sure the president can hear the question.

00:39:12.080 First of all, she wasn't shouting.

00:39:13.880 So I don't know where this shouting thing came from.

00:39:15.980 She wasn't shouting.

00:39:16.660 She was speaking loudly.

00:39:17.860 Others in the room were shouting, but the AP is showing their true colors.

00:39:22.800 It's coordinated disdain for president Trump, who they referred to in this article multiple

00:39:28.500 times as the former reality TV star.

00:39:33.780 Oh my God.

00:39:35.380 Really?

00:39:35.960 I mean, yes, he is a former reality TV star.

00:39:38.720 We got that.

00:39:39.360 But he also now happens to be presently the president of the United States.

00:39:44.140 Imagine if we would have referred to Obama as the former anti-gay rights pothead, Barack Obama. 0.71

00:39:51.540 We could have, he was formerly a pothead and he also formerly was anti-gay rights.

00:40:03.440 Interestingly, the article does shed a little insight into Obama's own tenuous relationship

00:40:08.500 with the press a little bit, although they do it with the same bootlicking infatuation

00:40:13.660 that they maintained while he was president.

00:40:15.440 But let, let me take some of the bootlicking off the, off the boots here. 0.97

00:40:19.560 Here, here's a clip of Obama tossing a reporter.

00:40:23.520 Now, I want you to note how joyful the mostly liberal press reacts, followed by CNN's coverage

00:40:30.920 of Collins, who has an arrogant look on her face the whole time.

00:40:35.420 Listen.

00:40:35.900 You know what?

00:40:37.440 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

00:40:41.300 no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:40:43.240 Hey, yeah, listen, you're in my house.

00:40:49.560 That's the press cheering.

00:40:55.420 Come on.

00:40:58.520 It's, it's, it's not, you know what?

00:41:00.340 It's not, it's not respectful when you get invited to somebody.

00:41:04.280 You're not, you're not, you're not, you're not going to, you're not, you're, you're not

00:41:12.880 going to get a good response from me by interrupting me like this.

00:41:17.100 Dave, I'm sorry.

00:41:20.740 I'm sorry.

00:41:22.500 There's the press.

00:41:24.320 There's the press corps booing a member of the press corps.

00:41:27.000 No, no, no, no, shame on you.

00:41:32.720 You shouldn't be doing this.

00:41:33.740 Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, can we escort this person out?

00:41:41.860 Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama.

00:41:44.860 Okay, so, now there are, there are people that are not just press corps in that room,

00:41:49.940 but the news media is there.

00:41:52.880 Did they, did they chant Obama or did they not?

00:41:55.840 And more importantly, did they have a problem with somebody asking a question being thrown out?

00:42:01.240 Now, here is, here is what, uh, here's the take of the, uh, the AP.

00:42:09.960 After the president gets the images and audio he wants, the White House press aides seek to keep the president on message

00:42:16.440 and will shout to the shouting reporters hollering thank you, which keeps Trump from hearing questions in the first place.

00:42:22.900 The result is a lot of yelling, which can look and sound chaotic.

00:42:26.260 It's as if, here, they're trying to convince me that the footage we've seen of aggressive, snotty, elitist reporters 1.00

00:42:35.920 over and over and over again is an illusion created by our middle American stupidity. 1.00

00:42:42.320 I'm sorry, Associated Press. 1.00

00:42:45.980 You are not a credible source when you repeatedly call him a, uh, a former reality TV show.

00:42:53.560 You have an unhealthy obsession, an unending fixation with the destruction of this president.

00:43:01.220 I stand for freedom of press, but you need to take on a little more responsibility for your actions as well.

00:43:12.220 It's Friday, July 27th.

00:43:14.700 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:43:16.680 Bill O'Reilly, where do I have it wrong?

00:43:18.360 Oh, where can I start, Beck?

00:43:22.800 Where shall I start?

00:43:25.160 Let's start with the Associated Press.

00:43:27.880 Your audience should know that from the inception of the Fox News Channel in 1996,

00:43:33.260 the Associated Press tried to destroy it.

00:43:36.740 All right?

00:43:37.660 Every day, every way.

00:43:38.940 David Bowder, Frazier Moore, their TV people, just absolutely relentlessly tried to harm the network.

00:43:48.300 Why?

00:43:49.440 All right?

00:43:49.880 So you can answer that question, because you were there at Fox for a short period of time.

00:43:54.280 Secondly, the tradition of shouting questions is what made Sam Donaldson famous.

00:44:03.180 Yes.

00:44:03.460 Okay?

00:44:04.640 And he did that to Reagan, and then Reagan would put his hand up to his ear and go,

00:44:08.300 I don't know.

00:44:09.540 I can't hear you.

00:44:10.520 I don't know who you are.

00:44:11.840 Well, he didn't always do it.

00:44:12.880 May I play a clip of Sam Donaldson?

00:44:14.560 Because Sam is one of the guys who really made this famous.

00:44:18.680 And listen how the president dealt with Sam Donaldson.

00:44:22.220 Go ahead, play that, please.

00:44:23.460 Sam Donaldson.

00:44:24.980 You have it, Sarah?

00:44:25.940 Reagan.

00:44:26.760 Reagan.

00:44:27.660 Mr. President, in talking about the continuing recession tonight,

00:44:30.740 you have blamed mistakes of the past, and you have blamed the Congress.

00:44:34.520 Does any of the blame belong to you?

00:44:36.740 Yes, because for many years I was a Democrat.

00:44:40.900 I mean, that's the way the president should deal with it.

00:44:44.340 Yeah, and Dan Rauta was the same way, and Bill O'Reilly was the same way.

00:44:48.600 I never covered the White House, but I was super aggressive as a reporter.

00:44:52.560 I don't remember ever yelling anything at anybody.

00:44:54.820 I would pick my spots, but, you know, I certainly can't say I was timid.

00:44:59.920 I don't think she was yelling.

00:45:02.100 Who, Caitlin?

00:45:03.020 Yes.

00:45:03.740 I don't think she was yelling.

00:45:04.360 You know what?

00:45:04.560 It really doesn't matter, because what, and I can tell you this because I know this for

00:45:09.280 a fact, because we investigated on Bill O'Reilly.com last night.

00:45:13.400 What rankled the White House was that she was told there was not going to be any Q&A,

00:45:21.300 yet continued to be very aggressive and assertive in asking her questions to the president,

00:45:30.200 who obviously didn't want to answer them.

00:45:32.520 And then...

00:45:33.220 Would you have done differently?

00:45:34.640 I probably would have done it differently.

00:45:38.260 In her position?

00:45:39.300 In her position?

00:45:40.740 Yes.

00:45:41.300 Here's how I would have done it.

00:45:43.520 I would have asked the question, and when he did not answer the question, and kept saying

00:45:49.320 thank you, as you pointed out, then I would have said, will there be a time, Mr. President,

00:45:54.260 when you'll answer the questions about Mr. Cohen, Michael Cohen?

00:45:58.580 That's what I would have done.

00:46:00.240 And therefore, I wouldn't have come across...

00:46:03.640 Look, this is the truth.

00:46:05.600 If anyone who likes President Trump or supports him in any way despises CNN and Caitlyn, all right?

00:46:15.740 But she's not a CNN person.

00:46:18.100 She came from the Daily Caller.

00:46:19.480 No, I know, no.

00:46:20.260 But she works for them now. 0.99

00:46:21.420 And as we pointed out last week, there is a culture at CNN that demands you be disrespectful

00:46:27.460 to Donald Trump.

00:46:28.820 I talked to a CNN person this week, and I said, can you name one person on your network,

00:46:33.960 one, in a position of visibility, anchor, high-profile reporter, who's even moderate toward Donald Trump?

00:46:42.220 And it was silence.

00:46:43.760 There is not anyone, not one human being working for the corporation that is even moderate to the man.

00:46:50.800 So, the culture is, get him.

00:46:54.960 And so, Caitlyn knows that's the culture.

00:46:57.760 And Caitlyn has prospered in CNN from her display.

00:47:01.980 But for the American people, if you took a poll today, they would say she was out of line by probably 55-45.

00:47:10.640 So, you know, the point is that the press has devoted itself to removing Donald Trump from office.

00:47:17.920 That's what they want to do, and they're not going to stop doing it.

00:47:21.400 And if they can embarrass them, that's points for them, because that's the culture.

00:47:27.100 So, let me play one more clip for you.

00:47:29.780 I know you remember Helen Thomas.

00:47:31.540 Listen to this.

00:47:32.440 Play the Helen Thomas clip.

00:47:33.460 I'm going to ask you, Mr. President, your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis.

00:47:41.500 Wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime. 1.00

00:47:44.320 Every reason given, publicly at least, has turned out not to be true.

00:47:50.720 My question is, why did you really want to go to war from the moment you stepped into the White House?

00:47:56.620 From your cabinet former cabinet officers, intelligent people, and so forth.

00:48:01.820 What was your real reason?

00:48:03.020 You have said it wasn't oil, press for oil.

00:48:06.060 It hasn't been Israel or anything else.

00:48:08.460 What was it?

00:48:09.540 I think your premise, and I'll do respect to your question and to you as a lifelong journalist, that, you know, I didn't want war.

00:48:17.780 To assume I wanted war is just flat wrong, Helen.

00:48:22.380 And I'll do respect.

00:48:23.760 Now, listen.

00:48:24.300 Hold on for a second, please.

00:48:26.160 Excuse me.

00:48:27.000 Excuse me.

00:48:28.560 No president wants war.

00:48:29.800 Okay, here's somebody.

00:48:32.320 You remember Helen Thomas.

00:48:33.420 She was as slanted as they come.

00:48:36.240 Her whole thing was to take George W. Bush apart. 1.00

00:48:41.220 And who did she work for?

00:48:43.140 She worked for CNN?

00:48:46.020 No, Associated Press.

00:48:47.740 Aha! 0.94

00:48:48.520 She worked for the Associated Press.

00:48:49.880 Aha! 0.94

00:48:50.320 Okay, so, but the point is, she still worked, she was still a member, she was not, you know, she was tolerated by the president, and the president even spoke to her with respect.

00:49:06.780 Now, I personally think...

00:49:08.500 He was a different man.

00:49:09.900 Bush was different from Trump.

00:49:12.160 But there is something to be said for the office.

00:49:15.340 You don't, you know...

00:49:16.540 Oh, absolutely.

00:49:17.260 You know, that's why, you know, when the CNN reporter yesterday was told that he's not going to answer any questions, she should have backed off.

00:49:27.560 I don't mind the question being asked, but as I said, if you're not going to answer, just say, well, when will you answer?

00:49:33.200 Do you have a problem with, I mean, because, you know, we were there with James Rosen.

00:49:37.780 We saw what Obama did.

00:49:39.260 Obama was much worse to the press than this guy is.

00:49:43.580 And they didn't really say anything about it.

00:49:46.620 But only a couple of times did they kind of get upset about the way President Obama was treating the press.

00:49:53.840 I mean...

00:49:54.280 Well, they loved Obama, though.

00:49:56.420 I mean, you know, we're almost stating the obvious to your audience and the American people.

00:50:01.420 The American media, generally speaking, is corrupt and has been for decades.

00:50:08.420 Helen Thomas despised President Bush, the younger.

00:50:14.560 Sam Donaldson despised Ronald Reagan.

00:50:18.320 I was in a Washington bureau when I was working for ABC, when Sam Donaldson came storming in one day after a presidential press conference.

00:50:27.740 And he was screaming, Mommy told him to say that.

00:50:31.660 Mommy told him not to answer my question.

00:50:36.120 So maybe we should interview Mommy.

00:50:38.740 And he was talking about Nancy Reagan.

00:50:40.320 This is in front of the whole Washington bureau at ABC.

00:50:44.140 I mean, he loathed.

00:50:46.060 Donaldson loathed Ronald Reagan.

00:50:50.540 And Rune Arledge, the president of ABC, loved it.

00:50:55.340 Because he was of the show business look.

00:50:59.820 Donaldson is like Howard Cosell.

00:51:01.760 People are going to come to us to watch.

00:51:04.060 And that was the whole thing.

00:51:06.100 So if anybody, anybody in this country believes that the media is fair and seeking the truth,

00:51:14.920 I mean, you know, you must be breathing.

00:51:17.560 And I don't think, that's not my point.

00:51:19.740 I don't believe they're seeking the truth either.

00:51:21.540 They have a, they, you know, shout about their rights, but they don't.

00:51:24.480 It's a culture.

00:51:25.400 Right. 0.97

00:51:25.700 And you're rewarded for being corrupt. 0.90

00:51:28.840 You're rewarded for trying to embarrass Donald Trump or George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. 0.95

00:51:34.360 You're rewarded for that.

00:51:35.960 I'm just, my point is, as the president of the United States,

00:51:40.380 and a guy who they like to point out was a reality show guy,

00:51:45.120 find the better way.

00:51:48.000 Don't start kicking people out.

00:51:50.900 Go study Ronald Reagan.

00:51:53.060 Go, go.

00:51:53.760 I understand that.

00:51:54.680 I mean.

00:51:55.260 That's never going to happen.

00:51:59.580 Because Trump says, look, all of this energizes my base.

00:52:04.260 I know.

00:52:04.620 I know.

00:52:05.320 All right.

00:52:05.760 I know.

00:52:05.960 But I will tell you this.

00:52:07.200 I'm going to do that.

00:52:07.980 I tell you this.

00:52:08.620 That's what Ronald Reagan just did to Sam Donaldson, the clip I just played.

00:52:13.240 Yeah, it exicerated him, sure.

00:52:13.960 Right.

00:52:14.260 It not only energizes his base, but it also makes others who are in the middle go and get him.

00:52:20.120 That was great.

00:52:21.320 That was brilliant.

00:52:22.340 But it's a different time now.

00:52:24.720 It's a different time.

00:52:25.940 No.

00:52:26.400 It's just a different guy.

00:52:27.800 Just a different guy.

00:52:29.220 All right.

00:52:29.720 Back with Bill O'Reilly here in just a second.

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00:53:46.640 So, Bill O'Reilly from BillOReilly.com and also the author of the new book that's coming

00:53:55.580 out September 18th, the same day my book is coming out, Killing the SS.

00:54:00.380 It is, Bill, I'm halfway through and it is really good.

00:54:04.980 It's the best book you've written so far.

00:54:06.680 Thank you.

00:54:07.160 That's very kind of you to say that.

00:54:08.700 I appreciate it.

00:54:09.440 That's the only book I've read of yours and I've only read the, I've only read a chapter

00:54:13.620 in the middle, but so far that chapter.

00:54:15.660 What people don't know is that you have servants to read to you.

00:54:20.440 I will tell you, it's, it's really fascinating.

00:54:24.120 Not, not at what I expected at all, um, uh, but, uh, just really fascinating.

00:54:32.140 Really good.

00:54:32.520 Where do you get to the end?

00:54:33.380 The end is just going to blow your mind.

00:54:35.400 Uh, the last chapter is an amazing exposition that nobody knows about.

00:54:40.740 So, Bill, uh, let me see if I could get you to say one nice thing about the press.

00:54:45.200 Is there anything you can say?

00:54:46.900 I, and I have to be honest because I've taken a beating from these people.

00:54:52.440 So it's personal and, and, you know, I'm not asking people to believe me, but I've been

00:54:57.180 in this.

00:54:57.520 I think most people do know.

00:54:58.820 I think most people believe you.

00:55:00.500 I hope so.

00:55:01.120 I mean, you know, we've prospered everywhere we've been for 45 years and that's how long

00:55:05.640 I've been a journalist.

00:55:07.020 And in the beginning, when I went to Boston university for my master's in broadcast journalism,

00:55:11.180 I did it because of Watergate and, and because I wanted to be an investigative reporter

00:55:15.500 and look out for people.

00:55:16.900 But what has happened is that the money, the industry has overcome all ethics and the news

00:55:24.200 organizations are corrupt.

00:55:26.580 I cannot read the New York times. 0.53

00:55:29.160 Literally.

00:55:29.400 I cannot read the newspaper because it is just to me, a fiction.

00:55:37.080 They don't care about the truth.

00:55:39.260 They don't care about finding out what happened.

00:55:41.900 But Bill, do you think it's just the media corporations, which I think hold a lot of

00:55:46.880 responsibility, but it is also now, you know, when you came out of journalism school, you

00:55:51.940 weren't, you weren't indoctrinated like you are now.

00:55:55.000 No, absolutely not.

00:55:56.540 And the college experience has fallen apart.

00:56:01.880 And I had a great guy on BillOReilly.com yesterday discussing that, a professor from DePaul, a philosophy

00:56:09.400 professor, saying that the universities are, it goes hand in hand.

00:56:14.100 Yeah, no, he's amazing.

00:56:14.940 Um, so what we are now is, is a free country with a press that's corrupt.

00:56:22.820 Okay, back in just a second with Bill O'Reilly, going to talk a little bit about the effort

00:56:27.040 to impeach, uh, the president and those in charge of the investigation of the president.

00:56:33.280 We'll do that next.

00:56:35.980 Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

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00:56:46.340 Welcome to the program.

00:56:51.720 Yesterday, I was talking to, um, uh, oh, shoot from Harvard, uh, professor Alan Dershowitz.

00:56:59.600 He was on the TV show last night at five o'clock, and we were talking a little bit about, you

00:57:04.500 know, the impeachment proceedings that the, um, the, the Liberty Caucus wanted to put out,

00:57:10.800 the Freedom Caucus.

00:57:11.780 And they, they were going to impeach Rosenstein, uh, and then they backed away from it.

00:57:19.160 Now, uh, you know, his case was, these were not impeachable offenses.

00:57:24.900 Um, you don't do that.

00:57:26.640 His bigger point was, this really weakens the hand of the president if Congress falls into

00:57:34.720 the hands of the Democrats, because he didn't do anything illegal.

00:57:40.120 Bill, and he said, if you, impeachment has to be about legality, and if it's not, then

00:57:47.220 you can file the papers against the president.

00:57:50.220 Do you agree with that, Bill?

00:57:52.540 Yeah.

00:57:53.240 I mean, I, I, I think if you, uh, diminish the original intent of impeachment by using it

00:58:00.480 to punish a civil servant like Rod Rosenstein, who's obviously doing the wrong thing, um,

00:58:07.760 that you, then that leaves the door open to punishing anybody you want, including the president

00:58:13.020 with, um, a mechanism that wasn't designed for that purpose.

00:58:19.280 Um, but I like to cut through all of BS and, and people don't even know who Rod Rosenstein

00:58:24.600 is or why they're mad at him.

00:58:26.500 It all has to do, and it's very, very simple, with getting a warrant from a federal judge

00:58:33.180 to surveil the campaign of Donald Trump.

00:58:36.200 That's what this is all about.

00:58:38.100 And we know enough now to, uh, state factually that information brought to the judge, whoever

00:58:47.180 that may be, the judge is still anonymous, um, by the FBI was fallacious, was false.

00:58:52.380 So they got a warrant under false pretenses.

00:58:55.620 That's a crime.

00:58:57.560 And the Congress people want to know exactly who put the false stuff in the application.

00:59:06.960 Who did it?

00:59:08.680 Wait, what is the, wait, what's the false stuff?

00:59:11.380 I can see that they, uh, they, uh, the false stuff is that the FBI was using rumor as fact

00:59:19.500 rumor about Donald Trump and his associates working with Russian people.

00:59:26.740 They were rumors, not facts, but they were presented to the federal judge as facts.

00:59:33.280 And the federal judge did not know that these rumors came from the Hillary Clinton campaign

00:59:39.640 were purchased by her and her people.

00:59:42.640 Yeah.

00:59:42.800 I would think that the, I think it would be very easy to argue.

00:59:45.980 I'm with you, Bill, on this, but I just played the other side.

00:59:48.360 I think it would be very easy to argue that we didn't make up any facts.

00:59:52.600 They didn't lie.

00:59:53.660 You know, we, we, we didn't, we didn't tell them everything, but we didn't think we needed

01:00:00.180 to, you know, let's see it then.

01:00:02.860 Yeah, I know your application, right?

01:00:04.660 That's what this is all about.

01:00:06.100 That Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump will not put out what the application

01:00:16.440 says and who signed off on it.

01:00:17.960 So, and this is the real problem.

01:00:19.540 And I actually agree with Meadows and the rest of his group.

01:00:26.840 When, you know, when, when you have somebody in justice who is running a, an investigation

01:00:34.440 that Congress has oversight on and you subpoena, I mean, if you subpoena me, if Congress subpoenas

01:00:40.840 me and I don't show up, I go to jail.

01:00:42.720 If, uh, you know, a court subpoenas me for a speeding thing, I go to jail.

01:00:47.360 If I don't show up, this guy is not showing up.

01:00:50.780 He's not producing records.

01:00:52.080 It's why isn't he in contempt of Congress?

01:00:55.260 At least, why aren't they just throwing him in jail on this?

01:00:59.080 Well, you know, they never do that.

01:01:01.340 Number one, they very rarely back up their rhetoric with action.

01:01:06.060 They could cite him for contempt, but Holder was the former attorney general cited for contempt

01:01:12.040 as well.

01:01:12.560 I know.

01:01:13.300 On the fast and furious gun thing.

01:01:14.880 Right.

01:01:15.100 But if it doesn't, if you don't ever back it, if you don't ever back it up, contempt means

01:01:19.540 nothing.

01:01:19.960 Well, that's what Congress is, is, you know, they don't back it up.

01:01:24.900 But if I'm president Trump, I order Rosenstein to put out the documents, give them to the

01:01:32.720 congressional committee that subpoenaed them now.

01:01:36.180 Why aren't they?

01:01:37.120 If he says no, I fire him.

01:01:39.740 Why aren't they?

01:01:41.080 You know, it's speculation back.

01:01:42.640 You want me to speculate?

01:01:43.800 Yeah, I do.

01:01:44.720 All right.

01:01:45.200 I, cause I don't like to do that.

01:01:46.420 I know.

01:01:46.740 I know.

01:01:46.920 Orreilly.com where it's a no speculation zone.

01:01:49.460 The only thing that I can think of, and I don't have any information to back this up,

01:01:54.880 is that in the application to the federal judge to get the wiretap on the Trump campaign,

01:02:01.640 the FBI cited a lot of seamy stuff, a lot of salacious stuff that they heard, and that

01:02:10.780 Trump doesn't want that put out to anybody.

01:02:16.980 And that's the only...

01:02:18.520 Different than what we've already heard?

01:02:20.480 I don't, you know, I don't know that.

01:02:24.160 I, but there's no other reason on earth why the president of the United States wouldn't

01:02:29.360 say, I want the people, particularly Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly, to see how corrupt this

01:02:39.800 wiretap warrant was.

01:02:42.900 It's not this whole thing, that this is a bogus investigation.

01:02:47.620 It's a witch hunt.

01:02:48.720 It was based upon Hillary Clinton's purchasing things that aren't true. 1.00

01:02:54.120 So if that's your thesis, and certainly that's the president's thesis, put out the document

01:02:59.860 that can prove it.

01:03:00.960 Right.

01:03:01.180 We've, I mean, I have it sitting right here.

01:03:03.260 I have the 400 page application for this wiretap right here, and there is a ton that has been

01:03:12.640 blacked out.

01:03:13.580 Yeah.

01:03:14.000 I mean, a ton, page after page after page after page.

01:03:16.820 But what I have seen backs up the president's story and backs up the Republicans' memo, but

01:03:25.100 they haven't seen what's underneath the black bars, and we can't see what's underneath the

01:03:29.860 black bars.

01:03:30.360 And so, how are we ever going to get to the truth?

01:03:34.140 I don't know.

01:03:34.800 And I, you know, if the president doesn't want this out because it is embarrassing, even

01:03:42.300 though it isn't true, I mean, allegations are embarrassing, even if they're not true.

01:03:46.340 So he could order, he's within his right, to keep that redacted, to keep that stuff redacted.

01:03:55.020 But, you know, we, we, the people, the American people have a right to know whether the FBI

01:04:01.620 used false information to get a wiretap on a presidential candidate.

01:04:09.240 I mean, that's pretty big, I would think.

01:04:11.240 I would think so, too.

01:04:11.940 Okay.

01:04:12.180 So let's, let's switch topics here.

01:04:14.400 Bill, can we ask about the Cohen situation?

01:04:16.420 The Trump team now says, which is something that I think is completely correct, that Michael 0.91

01:04:22.320 Cohen is a pathological liar and should never be trusted. 0.90

01:04:25.220 I'm completely on board with that. 0.99

01:04:26.800 However, the entire, through all the years they said he was a pathological liar, they

01:04:30.680 themselves were telling us that they were, he was honest and honorable.

01:04:33.900 So, is this just one of these situations that we shouldn't take anything at face value from

01:04:40.200 what they're saying?

01:04:40.760 Everyone's trying to protect themselves at this point, and it's just...

01:04:43.180 Yeah, I mean, it's all, it's all chaos.

01:04:45.340 All I can tell you is this, when President Trump was running for president, I got a call

01:04:53.080 from him about an issue that he was interested in that I had said on the O'Reilly factor.

01:04:59.120 And we discussed the issue, and I said, hey, why don't you come on tonight?

01:05:04.120 He was a candidate at that time.

01:05:06.480 And we'll, we'll talk about it just like we're talking on the phone now.

01:05:09.640 He goes, well, I can't do it.

01:05:11.000 I'm too busy.

01:05:11.740 Why don't you take Michael Cohen, my attorney?

01:05:14.680 And I laughed.

01:05:15.600 I said, I would never put him on the air in a million years.

01:05:18.940 This is how perspicacious I am, Stu.

01:05:21.320 Perspicacious.

01:05:21.760 Word of the day.

01:05:22.720 Yeah, good one.

01:05:23.440 In a million years, I said to him, I would never put him on the air.

01:05:27.800 He said, why?

01:05:28.740 Why?

01:05:29.260 Well, you know, he got upset.

01:05:30.960 I said, because he's your lawyer.

01:05:33.100 I don't trust the word he says.

01:05:35.720 I mean, why would I put him on the air and subject my audience to him?

01:05:39.280 Now, I don't know Michael Cohen.

01:05:41.020 I don't know anything about him.

01:05:42.680 But, you know, he's what they call in New York City an operator.

01:05:47.680 And that's not a phone operator.

01:05:49.760 It's like a mob attorney.

01:05:52.720 He's a guy that's, well, that's your word, not even the law.

01:05:56.000 He's a guy that's just around, and everything he does is either to get money or to get fame.

01:06:06.060 And we all know who these people are.

01:06:08.660 I never use them.

01:06:11.280 And so all I can tell you is that this guy feels that his life has fallen apart because of Donald Trump.

01:06:20.360 And now he's going to get Donald Trump.

01:06:21.920 He's going to say anything.

01:06:22.960 He's going to do anything.

01:06:24.900 And that's where it is.

01:06:26.180 Do you find it interesting, Bill, that the media, who has had the same opinion as you and I and Glenn over the years about Michael Cohen, suddenly finds him incredibly credible?

01:06:37.780 Oh, he's deep-throat.

01:06:39.580 He is the savior of the republic.

01:06:44.060 This man goes down beside Samuel Adams.

01:06:48.060 But wait a minute.

01:06:50.380 Let's reverse this.

01:06:51.780 The people who all said, oh, he's a saint.

01:06:54.320 He's the greatest.

01:06:55.320 He is absolutely the best the president can find. 0.97

01:06:59.780 Now are like that, dirtbag. 1.00

01:07:01.380 Look how stupid he is. 1.00

01:07:02.620 He's recording phone calls. 1.00

01:07:04.720 But I really never heard anybody say that about Michael Cohen, even when he was in with the Trump people.

01:07:11.340 I mean, I never heard that.

01:07:12.680 So, it's all crazy, but you're at the media now.

01:07:17.980 He is John the Baptist.

01:07:22.980 Does anything come of that, Bill?

01:07:24.780 Anything come of that?

01:07:25.780 You know, I don't think so.

01:07:27.080 I think it's all been discredited so much, the Mueller investigation, including, that you'd have to have, you know, a tape of Putin and Trump on a Caribbean island going,

01:07:37.960 we're going to get that Hillary and you're going to help us, right?

01:07:40.780 That's right, Mr. President.

01:07:42.780 You know, you'd have to have that tape to convince the American people.

01:07:47.780 Bill O'Reilly from BillOReilly.com.

01:07:49.260 Thank you so much.

01:07:50.300 All right, guys. 0.98

01:07:51.680 Is it true that I heard the rumor that killing the SS comes out the same day as a dick to outrage? 0.96

01:07:57.800 Is that actually true? 0.98

01:07:58.940 We cannot.

01:08:00.080 We cannot be beaten by Bill O'Reilly.

01:08:02.240 We can't.

01:08:02.640 He will never let me hear the end of it.

01:08:04.780 No, he will torture you with that every time he gets on the phone.

01:08:07.040 He will torture you for the rest of the time.

01:08:07.500 Well, back.

01:08:08.200 And if I'm number one, I guarantee you, he'll be like, eh, congratulations.

01:08:14.700 You know, it was whatever.

01:08:16.420 You will just totally downplay anything.

01:08:20.840 So, please, you know, buy his book because it is really good.

01:08:23.800 But mine is coming out on the same day.

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01:09:07.060 All right.

01:09:07.800 If you remember, July of last year, Bitcoin had just crashed by 40%.

01:09:15.800 And Tika Tiwari comes out.

01:09:18.480 He writes the Palm Beach letter.

01:09:20.560 And he said, it's, you got to get into Bitcoin right now.

01:09:24.140 It had crashed 40%.

01:09:26.280 It was $1,850.

01:09:28.800 That's when I got in.

01:09:30.700 Okay.

01:09:30.980 He said at the time, Bitcoin could get into $10,000. 0.73

01:09:34.140 And people thought he was nuts.

01:09:35.580 We were in the middle of a horrific bear market on this.

01:09:38.740 It looked really bad.

01:09:40.200 By the end of the year, Bitcoin hit $19,700.

01:09:45.840 Okay.

01:09:46.520 Then it crashed.

01:09:48.820 Tika has just come out and said, another big event is happening.

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01:10:51.680 Glenn Beck.

01:10:53.660 Man, if you live in California, I want you to listen to the next hour.

01:10:57.980 Because I'm going to give you some information on your state and what your state has done to you.

01:11:08.360 Just on energy.

01:11:10.380 You know, there's a heat wave going on.

01:11:12.400 And it's a little different in Texas than in California.

01:11:16.920 In California, they're talking about there's a heat wave.

01:11:19.000 Could be 90.

01:11:20.980 Oh, could be 90.

01:11:22.820 Spent 110 for a week.

01:11:25.020 Like, basically, there's a heat wave.

01:11:27.280 If that's what you describe as a heat wave, Texas is in a heat wave from about April until Halloween.

01:11:36.560 It's just miserable this summer here.

01:11:39.320 And I haven't.

01:11:40.280 Have you heard any talk about brownouts or blackouts or anything?

01:11:43.640 I have not heard anything about it.

01:11:44.820 No.

01:11:45.120 I've heard people say, oh, my air conditioner just went out.

01:11:47.900 And I had to wait two days before it could get fixed.

01:11:50.660 But that has nothing to do with the state or the electricity.

01:11:53.540 In California, they were saying, turn off your lights at night.

01:11:58.180 Oh, and just only use them during the day.

01:12:00.800 That's when I need my lights.

01:12:03.100 Turn them off.

01:12:04.200 And the case is always you can't have, you know, growing clean energy without giant government subsidies.

01:12:14.780 And if you're going to favor things like fossil fuels.

01:12:18.380 Well, I mean, Texas is pretty clearly an oil state, natural gas, lots of it here.

01:12:23.160 Also, the number one wind power state in America.

01:12:26.000 Yeah.

01:12:26.120 When you hear the comparison, because I asked the staff, I said, give me, I want you to look into California and find out, you know, how exactly, how exactly do they get their power?

01:12:36.560 Where does their power come from?

01:12:38.000 How much are they paying for it and compare it to Texas?

01:12:42.420 And it is remarkable.

01:12:45.180 It is absolutely remarkable.

01:12:47.420 And it shows you why the progressive state just doesn't work.

01:12:53.500 There is no progress in a progressive state.

01:12:56.640 In a progressive state.

01:12:57.760 You are you are you become a slave to a giant system where Texas has the most modern.

01:13:04.960 We have our own power grid.

01:13:07.320 We have so many different forms of electricity being generated here and so many different power companies.

01:13:13.120 You can basically pit them against each other.

01:13:16.720 It's it's remarkable what's happening here in Texas in compared to California.

01:13:22.120 And I want to show you what the progressive disease, how it rots the body in California when we come back.

01:13:32.900 This hour, I'm going to compare the the the prices and the stability of electricity in California versus Texas.

01:13:44.140 And it is stunning.

01:13:46.580 It's stunning because we're both having a heat wave.

01:13:49.180 Our heat wave is, you know, one hundred and ten.

01:13:53.180 California is almost up to 90 this week and they have rolling brownouts and blackouts and we don't.

01:13:59.480 Why?

01:14:00.460 And how much are you paying for that stability of that electricity, California, compared to us?

01:14:05.520 We'll explain that coming up in just a second.

01:14:07.340 But as I was looking into California, we found something else.

01:14:10.280 The California state auditor just released a report of their findings after a 12 month audit of state employees.

01:14:17.360 It took a year.

01:14:19.880 One employee at the DMV was discovered that she slept at her desk every single day. 1.00

01:14:28.660 Sleeping, doing nothing, sleeping every single day.

01:14:32.500 The auditor found that this employee wasted two thousand two hundred work hours between 2014 and 2017.

01:14:39.360 2017.

01:14:40.180 Now, now, now, now think of this.

01:14:41.780 This went on between 2014 and 2017.

01:14:46.720 Her sleeping at her desk every day.

01:14:51.260 How fast would you be fired if you were sleeping at your desk?

01:14:54.440 So when somebody said, you know, she's not doing anything, she wasn't fired.

01:14:59.260 She was transferred to another position.

01:15:02.040 She still continues to sleep at her desk and still gets a paycheck from the state of California.

01:15:09.500 Now, think about that, Californians.

01:15:11.660 Every time you wonder, why is it taking so long?

01:15:14.200 Because she's sleeping.

01:15:17.480 The audit goes on.

01:15:19.060 They found that some state employees had actually used funds.

01:15:22.600 And I actually there's a part of me, because I don't pay taxes in California, that actually kind of appreciates these people.

01:15:31.700 They found that state employees had actually used funds to build a tiki bar on the back of a state owned building.

01:15:40.620 Two other government employees at a different location wasted fifty one hundred hours and cost the state over one hundred thousand dollars in salary for work not performed.

01:15:50.520 Now, that one, I don't like.

01:15:53.480 The tiki bar, at least they were doing something.

01:15:57.200 You know, at least they were doing something.

01:16:01.240 None of them have been fired.

01:16:03.560 Now, let me ask you.

01:16:05.160 In your place of business, would you be fired?

01:16:08.140 Of course.

01:16:10.300 This is the difference between the free market and the government. 0.56

01:16:13.700 You can suck at your job in the government and keep your job and then retire with benefits.

01:16:22.500 But one of my favorite lines in Ghostbusters is where the university is going to kick us out. 0.73

01:16:28.660 So we'll just go out and do it in the free market.

01:16:31.340 You don't understand out there.

01:16:33.680 They actually expect results.

01:16:36.740 It's Friday, July 27th.

01:16:41.880 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:16:43.880 What's wrong with a tiki bar on the back?

01:16:46.300 I'm totally better than what the rest of the government's doing.

01:16:49.800 You know what?

01:16:50.080 If I'm if I'm working at the DMV and somebody's like, hey, let's build a tiki bar.

01:16:54.940 I'm working at the right DMV.

01:16:56.760 Yes.

01:16:57.160 You know what I mean?

01:16:57.920 All right.

01:16:59.620 Matty Greenspan is a guy that you actually started following this week because he he's a he's an analysis for cryptocurrency and and also, you know, other things, you know, Facebook, et cetera, et cetera.

01:17:14.800 And early this week, he said opened a large sell position on Facebook at an all time high before their earnings announcement tonight.

01:17:23.160 This was a good bet.

01:17:24.380 And he said, pure speculation, definitely not trading advice, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point.

01:17:32.420 Well, it should have been it should have been advice because he's done quite well for himself.

01:17:37.480 We have Matty on the phone now with us.

01:17:39.080 Hi, Matty.

01:17:39.400 How are you?

01:17:40.940 Yeah, how's it going?

01:17:41.940 Pretty good.

01:17:42.940 Good.

01:17:43.300 It's better for you.

01:17:44.260 Yeah, not as good for you.

01:17:45.040 Not as good for me as it is for you.

01:17:47.480 It was a was a fluke.

01:17:49.240 OK, can you walk us through how you came up with it?

01:17:53.260 Because you decided this is before the call.

01:17:55.740 Everyone's really positive.

01:17:57.000 Facebook at all time highs.

01:17:58.620 You decide to go the other way.

01:18:00.220 And can you describe the trade and what you did?

01:18:03.920 Yeah.

01:18:04.380 So I was just looking at the charts.

01:18:07.340 All time high was 214 at the time dollars per share.

01:18:11.740 I was just thinking this is a lot of hype around this earnings announcement.

01:18:15.080 And even if they come out with fantastic numbers and beat all of the analyst estimates, the next day there's going to be a hangover from that.

01:18:24.580 Right.

01:18:24.740 Because stock traders like to think long term.

01:18:28.240 You know, I personally I deleted the Facebook app for my phone.

01:18:31.560 I still have an account, but I deleted the app for my phone.

01:18:34.140 I know a lot of my friends have done the same.

01:18:36.140 A lot of people don't use it as much anymore.

01:18:38.160 I mean, they have a great service and all.

01:18:40.340 It's just I don't know.

01:18:41.880 People are just not using it.

01:18:43.260 So I have a strong feeling that my children might not have a Facebook account.

01:18:48.500 Yes.

01:18:48.920 So long, long term, I don't I don't see it there.

01:18:52.620 So I said, you know what, even if they have a great earnings report, we might we we still might gap down the next day.

01:18:58.940 And then little did I know I was about to take in take part in the biggest stock crash in U.S. history.

01:19:07.140 OK, so now you took a position using one point five, eight percent of my equity with a five X leverage.

01:19:16.180 Explain what that means.

01:19:17.640 Explain what that means.

01:19:20.000 So of the total equity in my account, I used about one point six percent of all of it.

01:19:27.600 So I'm a very diverse trader.

01:19:29.200 I have a lot of different investments in my portfolio.

01:19:31.140 If you look on my portfolio or there's a link in my Twitter bio, you can actually see everything that's in my portfolio that I'm holding at the moment.

01:19:39.660 And basically, that means that I was using one point six percent of it.

01:19:43.400 And of that money, I was using five times leverage, which basically gives five times the buying power on the money that I was using.

01:19:51.000 And so if you trade, if you would have been wrong, it meant you would have had to pay those extra four dollars, right?

01:19:59.800 For every dollar you bet, you would have had to you would have had to cough up if you were wrong.

01:20:05.240 So the way that the platform works on eToro is let's say you allocate a thousand dollars to a trade.

01:20:10.140 So basically, you're going to have a stop loss somewhere in there, which will basically stop you out before you lose the entire one thousand dollars.

01:20:18.740 Now, if I don't know if you're really wrong and the markets closed like it was last night and the market gapped up, there's a small possibility that some of that, you know, might have come out of the rest of your equity.

01:20:31.320 But that's a really far fetched scenario.

01:20:35.000 Most likely, if you allocate a thousand dollars, even if you're on high leverage, that's about what you can expect to lose, given where your stop loss is.

01:20:42.380 All right. So if you would have done this with a thousand dollars, how much is that thousand dollars worth today?

01:20:49.980 Oh, I haven't done the math.

01:20:51.460 Well, let's just come up with something that maybe you have done the math on if someone and definitely not what you did, but someone like you, if they would have you just fill in the numbers, somebody like you, definitely not you.

01:21:05.820 Right, right, right, right, right. So if you do a thousand dollars and you're and you're expecting to take a hundred percent profit, that would be a thousand dollars of profit if you and so that would that would basically be how it works out.

01:21:19.740 That's what I'm asking. What I'm asking is, how much money did you make? Seriously?

01:21:25.900 It wasn't a lot. It wasn't a lot. Maybe, you know, enough for a for a nice a nice weekend away. Not not enough to buy a house yet.

01:21:35.620 It's an amazing trade, though. And I was interested to Maddie on your looking at cryptocurrencies because that's you're known for that, if I'm correct.

01:21:44.660 And, you know, we've been talking a lot about cryptocurrencies. We've followed the whole the whole run. I mean, it really is. It's an exciting sort of situation. And people have made ridiculous gains like this in a lot of the cryptocurrencies.

01:21:58.540 But also, I mean, you know, the last year has been, at least since the beginning of the year, been really, really scary. What do you see in coming forward with that?

01:22:06.380 So, well, cryptocurrencies are very new. Bitcoin specifically, if we look at it on the entire time frame, it goes through these kind of boom and bust cycles.

01:22:20.360 So because it's something that's so useful for everyday people and because it's coming online so quickly, basically what you get is you get these these periods where so many people are interested in buying at once that the price can surge, you know, quadruple digit versus like thousands of percentage points within a very short amount of time.

01:22:45.220 And what happens is at the end of that, you know, it has to come down at some point, come back down to reality.

01:22:51.680 So generally speaking, after a thousand point rally, you'd expect to see even a 70 percent or 80 percent plunge after that.

01:23:01.460 But usually it doesn't return to the, you know, the where it was before.

01:23:05.600 So it just maintains a little bit of the gain after the entire boom and bust cycle.

01:23:10.060 Are we headed towards a boom cycle, do you think?

01:23:12.380 I'm very optimistic.

01:23:16.200 I hope so.

01:23:18.580 Certainly it would be better for everybody involved if we saw more steady inclines.

01:23:25.020 Yes.

01:23:25.720 Because that would be that would basically give it a better case for a use case scenario.

01:23:29.840 Anybody who bought, you know, in December at $20,000 per coin is right now kind of sitting on their hands and buying or biting their nails or both at once.

01:23:40.420 Maybe flexible. 0.99

01:23:41.300 Or have teeth in your butt, which would be weird. 0.99

01:23:47.880 That would be very strange. 1.00

01:23:49.920 Exactly.

01:23:50.520 So it would be a better case for this, for the for the store of value and to be used as money.

01:23:55.500 However, the way it's worked out in the past is that every cycle is a little bit less percentage wise than the previous cycle.

01:24:02.560 So over time, as we reach full market penetration, we should see a lot of that volatility leveling out.

01:24:10.660 But we won't.

01:24:11.620 That could be years away.

01:24:12.860 And if you are if you are somebody, do you believe this is still at the place where it can be generationally it can create generational wealth or or at least, you know, is it?

01:24:26.480 Yeah, my grandfather in 1920 bought AT&T.

01:24:31.020 Is it that kind of thing?

01:24:32.100 Well, it's more of the kind of thing where you have now an alternative to central bank slash government money.

01:24:42.460 No, but I mean, I mean, far as a stock, you know, if if your grandfather bought, you know, AT&T in 1920 and then just sat on it.

01:24:52.500 You know, that's a that's a great, you know, generational wealth creation item is if if you buy Bitcoin now and you just sit on it, it does it do you think it has that kind of potential?

01:25:07.440 Well, judging from the past and obviously past performance is not an indication of future results.

01:25:13.800 But over the last five years, it's done I haven't done the math, but probably somewhere along the lines of all of that AT&T stock in the last hundred years.

01:25:24.640 And but you don't think we're at the end of it.

01:25:27.880 It doesn't seem like it to me.

01:25:29.620 I mean, anything is possible.

01:25:30.860 But at this point, it seems like we're at the low in the cycle.

01:25:34.400 We've seen a thousand point rally.

01:25:36.060 We've seen a 75, almost 75 percent drop.

01:25:39.080 Now we're kind of evening out.

01:25:41.980 Yeah, I could go a bit further.

01:25:43.800 But most of my clients are accumulating at these prices.

01:25:47.800 Can I let me go back to Facebook here for a second?

01:25:50.560 I think Facebook has, you know, has has is a thing in the past.

01:25:56.300 Nobody nobody who's young is using Facebook anymore.

01:26:00.240 And they kind of took on the responsibility to be the arbiter of what's true and what's not.

01:26:06.140 And that's not really their role and can't be done.

01:26:10.140 Uh, and it just it feels like it's over.

01:26:15.980 Do you think it is?

01:26:18.180 Are you are you going to now reinvest in Facebook?

01:26:20.940 Are you done?

01:26:22.700 Just just just think about it.

01:26:24.500 I mean, very likely three months ago, you know, Mark Zuckerberg was sitting in a war room thinking about his path to the White House.

01:26:31.080 Um, for me as an investor, I tend to invest in things that I personally identify with.

01:26:40.460 Um, as far as stocks are concerned, they're going to be usually brands that I'm using or I agree with their long term vision.

01:26:46.760 Um, and you don't now with Facebook.

01:26:52.460 That's clear.

01:26:53.440 No comment, sir.

01:26:56.240 Matty Greenspan from eToro.

01:26:58.000 Uh, also, you can follow him on Twitter at Matty Greenspan, M-A-T-I Greenspan.

01:27:01.720 Thanks a lot.

01:27:02.160 Yeah, thanks a lot.

01:27:02.700 I'd like to also answer your previous question.

01:27:05.100 Do you, uh, would you be fired if you got caught sleeping at your desk?

01:27:08.560 I believe I would not.

01:27:10.040 And I've seen studies that show this is a healthy concept.

01:27:12.620 I agree, too.

01:27:13.740 I'm going to bed.

01:27:14.680 Uh, healthy for you or healthy for the business?

01:27:21.340 For both.

01:27:22.240 There we go.

01:27:22.980 There's various studies.

01:27:24.200 Thanks a lot for having me on.

01:27:25.200 Have a great day.

01:27:25.560 Thanks, Matty.

01:27:26.080 Bye-bye.

01:27:29.720 I'm a little tired.

01:27:31.000 I gotta be honest, Glenn.

01:27:32.240 I'll join you.

01:27:32.900 Yeah, I would love to.

01:27:33.740 We should have him back to talk about the concept because I actually, uh, I mean, we run our business, uh, like this to where, you know, if you,

01:27:42.960 if you, you're, you're in charge of your own day, you do however you do.

01:27:47.200 You just have to get it done.

01:27:49.740 That's not the way it's happening at the DMV.

01:27:51.920 You know, sleeping on the day.

01:27:53.220 They're not getting their work done.

01:27:54.580 It's not like, oh, I slept all day, but I got everything done.

01:27:58.520 No, that's not what's happening.

01:28:00.040 They're not getting the job done.

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01:30:00.920 So, uh, Kim Jong-un, uh, has returned the remains of American soldiers, uh, which we've been

01:30:10.500 trying to get done for a very long time.

01:30:12.940 Uh, they have just arrived, um, uh, back in the United States.

01:30:17.960 It kind of bothers me that some have been, you know, uh, returned home with a UN flag

01:30:23.640 wrapped around the box.

01:30:27.280 It was a UN soldier, maybe.

01:30:29.140 I mean, we weren't fighting under the UN flag there, were we?

01:30:31.920 God help us.

01:30:32.840 Were we?

01:30:34.920 It's a good thing.

01:30:35.620 I mean, even if this leads to nothing, which is still a very reasonable possibility that

01:30:40.960 this thing falls apart.

01:30:42.040 And, and, you know, Trump has been quite clear about that.

01:30:44.440 We don't know where this is going to be in a year, but it's worth a shot.

01:30:46.960 I mean, there have been a couple of things that have come out of this that are positive.

01:30:51.880 Yeah.

01:30:52.080 Such as this.

01:30:52.860 Yeah.

01:30:53.540 Auto war beer.

01:30:54.500 All right.

01:30:54.880 Like there was, you know, that was, there was some interesting reporting on that this

01:30:57.680 week as well, but it's a, uh, there has been something that has come positive.

01:31:03.400 That's tangible.

01:31:04.580 Yeah.

01:31:05.220 And it's great for the families.

01:31:07.220 And, you know, if it leads to nothing, we at least got that, it's worth a shot.

01:31:12.240 So, um, what are you doing this weekend? 1.00

01:31:14.200 I, I, I've got to record this stupid book. 1.00

01:31:17.260 This book is the bane of my existence. 1.00

01:31:19.360 Well, it's, you know, it's the longest book you've ever written.

01:31:21.720 Yeah.

01:31:22.220 Isn't it?

01:31:22.740 By 468 pages.

01:31:25.860 They, they sent it to me and they said, okay, we want you to go and try to edit it down.

01:31:30.160 So I cut 20 pages and then added another, uh, 120.

01:31:34.780 Uh, uh, so they were just like, okay.

01:31:37.820 Uh, so, uh, it's the longest book I've ever done.

01:31:40.200 And I, I haven't read my own, my own book for the audio book in a long time.

01:31:44.760 This one, I really feel passionately about, uh, and I, I, I want it read in my own voice,

01:31:50.720 but it's 35 hours, 35 hours.

01:31:56.060 So like every waking moment I have like this weekend, I'm going to go see mission impossible

01:32:01.740 and then I'm going to record the book.

01:32:04.500 So every waking moment you have outside of the Tom Cruise movie.

01:32:07.200 Yes.

01:32:07.580 Okay.

01:32:07.940 Every waking moment.

01:32:09.620 No, I know. 1.00

01:32:09.960 Cause we, uh, Pat and I did the audio book for, I think it was arguing with idiots. 1.00

01:32:15.480 We voiced it. 0.99

01:32:16.780 And what a process that is.

01:32:18.840 Just never stops.

01:32:19.820 And it's, it's annoying because you're reading a book, but you, when you read a book, you

01:32:25.020 know, you silently, you're reading it in a different way than you would read it when

01:32:29.480 you're actually sort of performing for an audio book and there, but you also can't ad

01:32:35.180 lib at all.

01:32:36.080 There's no, it's not a normal way of speaking.

01:32:38.160 So you're reading a book word for word exactly.

01:32:40.960 And as soon as you screw one up, they stop you and they make you redo it.

01:32:44.120 Yeah.

01:32:44.440 Not me.

01:32:45.120 Yeah.

01:32:45.320 Well, yeah, you're just, that was the deal.

01:32:46.340 That was the deal.

01:32:47.000 I said, I'm not stopping.

01:32:48.560 I'm going to change it.

01:32:49.500 And they're like, well, we really can't really cause it's my book.

01:32:52.320 Right.

01:32:52.880 And they're like, well, you really shouldn't.

01:32:55.340 I mean, it would be different than the book.

01:32:57.780 Good.

01:32:58.040 Then you have two different versions.

01:32:59.480 It's great.

01:32:59.960 Double the product.

01:33:00.380 I mean, both of them.

01:33:01.860 And so there is, there is some ad libbing.

01:33:05.960 Much to the chagrin of Simon & Schuster, there is some ad libbing in this.

01:33:11.200 And it's, I think it's better that way.

01:33:13.160 Yeah.

01:33:13.340 It's a little funnier as well.

01:33:15.200 By the way, you can, you can grab it online now.

01:33:17.700 It doesn't come out until September 18th, but you can grab it online, both the hard copy

01:33:22.180 and the audio book, Addicted to Outrage.

01:33:25.460 You can get it at Amazon.

01:33:29.480 So, uh, the last couple of weeks, we've had a heat wave here in Texas, been 110, and it

01:33:38.200 is just hotter than the places of hell.

01:33:41.600 And anybody who says, well, you know, these times are really tough.

01:33:45.960 The times have never been this tough.

01:33:47.680 Really?

01:33:49.400 Try, try just living without the American invention of air conditioning and refrigeration.

01:33:54.580 Uh, no, thank you.

01:33:56.700 I don't know how anyone lived here before there was air conditioning.

01:34:00.740 Oh my gosh, it's hot.

01:34:03.140 So, I was thinking because in Texas, we have, uh, we, we have our own power grid and we also

01:34:13.120 have competitive pricing because we have more than one power company.

01:34:16.640 It's not all state run and, you know, regulated and everything else.

01:34:19.580 So you can, there's competitive pricing.

01:34:22.580 So you can kind of pit the, the, uh, electricity companies, uh, kind of in some ways, uh, against

01:34:30.100 each other.

01:34:32.300 However, because it is the free market, they, they price it on demand.

01:34:37.500 So if you're, you know, it's 70 degrees and, uh, it's in the middle of the summer and there's

01:34:43.380 light all the time and it's, nobody's really running their conditioning, you know, the power

01:34:48.960 is pretty cheap.

01:34:50.440 If you're in the winter and everyone's running their heater, uh, or you're in the summer and

01:34:56.680 it's 110 and everyone is using air conditioning, then the price of energy goes up.

01:35:02.900 But that's what gives us the stability of not having blackouts like California, because 1.00

01:35:08.880 we don't guarantee our electrical companies a profit.

01:35:13.960 Sorry, we don't guarantee it, but we also don't restrict you from charging.

01:35:19.000 So the free market works.

01:35:20.600 And so I've been, I've been looking into the difference between California and Texas because

01:35:25.160 we don't have even a, we don't even have a fear of rolling blackouts.

01:35:28.920 The national average price for electricity is rounding to the closest number, 10 cents per

01:35:37.800 kilowatt hour.

01:35:38.820 That's the national average.

01:35:41.620 California's electricity is, is five cents higher.

01:35:46.020 It's 15 cents a kilowatt hour.

01:35:49.000 So 50% above average.

01:35:50.540 Yes.

01:35:51.000 Okay.

01:35:51.760 In Texas, the, uh, Texas has eight cents per hour.

01:35:57.860 So 20 cents or 20% below average.

01:36:01.260 Correct.

01:36:01.880 Wow.

01:36:02.680 Think of that.

01:36:03.540 Now they have all of the, you know, we, I mean, they're, they're Silicon Valley.

01:36:07.480 They've got all the high tech.

01:36:09.140 They have everything else.

01:36:10.060 They're all super, super green.

01:36:12.240 They have all of the resources that Texas has, except they're not using any of them.

01:36:17.880 Texas is the largest state that is a net exporter of energy.

01:36:25.860 California, on the other hand, imports more electricity than any other state.

01:36:30.380 29% of its total energy comes from another state.

01:36:35.160 You want to talk about being dependent.

01:36:38.120 It imports wind and hydroelectric power from Oregon and Washington.

01:36:42.040 It also imports nuclear coal and natural gas power from Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, because

01:36:47.340 they won't build a coal plant and they won't build a nuclear power plant.

01:36:50.800 But, you know, that makes them feel good, except it costs them a lot more because they're just

01:36:55.940 buying it from somebody else who's building a bigger coal plant or, you know, nuclear power.

01:37:02.020 California doesn't have any coal reserves or production.

01:37:05.280 They phased out almost all of the use for coal generating electricity within the state.

01:37:10.740 And the critics will say, oh, well, now, wait a minute.

01:37:15.340 They produce an awful lot of clean energy, which is true.

01:37:18.300 They're third in the nation in generating hydroelectric power.

01:37:22.880 They're ranked first in producing solar and geothermal power.

01:37:27.280 However, California is the most populous state at 39.5 million.

01:37:33.380 And solar and geothermal power only provides for about 15% of the electricity used in the state.

01:37:40.220 So you have to have more power than that.

01:37:44.840 Over the last 20 years, if you've been paying taxes in California, you have paid $171 billion

01:37:54.940 over the national average.

01:38:00.080 In large part because the state, you know, says we got to have renewable energy and we have

01:38:05.320 to have, you know, we got to get rid of coal.

01:38:07.960 We got to get rid of all of these.

01:38:10.220 Renewable energy, great on paper, but 60% less reliable.

01:38:16.520 So California, every time people turn on their air conditioning, they're afraid, oh, man,

01:38:22.560 it's going to get hot and we're going to have rolling blackouts or brownouts.

01:38:25.720 That's because the state of California, you know, has cut itself off at the knees because

01:38:32.020 of the Clean Energy Pollution Reduction Act, which requires the state to get 50% of its electricity

01:38:38.600 from renewable energy sources by 2030.

01:38:41.620 Good luck.

01:38:43.240 Los Angeles set to use its end of imported coal power by 2025.

01:38:47.540 What are you, what are you replacing that with, California?

01:38:53.800 And because of this, they say it's progress.

01:38:58.100 But I'm sorry, energy is part of progress.

01:39:03.180 You can't have progress without electricity.

01:39:07.080 California leads the nation with over 450 power outages a year.

01:39:16.220 Okay, so they import contributes to high power, high power costs for consumers.

01:39:26.960 43% of its electricity comes from natural gas.

01:39:29.780 But California imports 90% of the natural gas it uses.

01:39:34.480 California is playing a game with their neighbor states.

01:39:37.340 They're saying, we don't want to have coal, but they, you know, they, they're the model

01:39:41.520 child.

01:39:42.560 Oh, my gosh, we are so clean.

01:39:45.160 But underneath the table, they're just paying somebody else to be dirty.

01:39:48.500 And I guess that makes them feel good.

01:39:52.240 Another part of the California power game is they're, they're patting themselves on the

01:39:57.200 back for being, you know, leading the country in renewable energy.

01:40:00.860 Yeah, well, what about transportation costs?

01:40:03.880 As, as the elites are starting to take down Elon Musk, who gave you the electric car, which

01:40:10.800 you still have to plug into a wall.

01:40:12.740 That's weird.

01:40:13.720 Transportation accounts for 39% of the state's overall energy consumption.

01:40:18.900 And guess what?

01:40:20.480 Planes, trains, and automobiles run on fuel, fossil fuel.

01:40:26.560 California, listen to this stat, accounts for one fifth of the nation's jet fuel consumption

01:40:33.020 alone.

01:40:34.640 One fifth.

01:40:39.020 Meanwhile, in Texas, the free market approach to energy production has managed to, you know,

01:40:44.720 both increase the use of clean renewable energy in the state and lower electrical electricity

01:40:50.640 bills.

01:40:51.880 Why are people moving to Texas from California?

01:40:54.340 California, because of things like this.

01:40:56.560 California is the number one producer of solar and geothermal power.

01:41:02.140 Guess who's number one in wind power?

01:41:04.660 Texas.

01:41:06.300 And we have oil, too.

01:41:07.840 And natural gas.

01:41:08.880 Here's the thing.

01:41:12.240 You can't stop using one thing until you can replace it with another and you can invest in something

01:41:24.260 new and be, you know, on the cutting edge, but not before you have a safe place to land.

01:41:30.780 I mean, I appreciate taking care of the environment and California is one of the most beautiful states in the U.S.

01:41:41.860 and one of the most beautiful places on earth.

01:41:44.620 It's fantastic.

01:41:45.920 But you're, you know, look at Los Angeles. 0.99

01:41:50.000 It's a garbage dump. 0.97

01:41:51.260 And you are the ones who are saying that you're so clean and green. 0.99

01:41:56.500 You have to start using common sense.

01:42:01.360 You have to start using the free market.

01:42:04.640 There is no progress without power.

01:42:07.800 I'm not a slave anymore.

01:42:09.800 In Texas, I'm not a slave.

01:42:11.380 I'm not a slave to, you know, the government here.

01:42:16.720 My business is not a slave.

01:42:18.500 My business is not a slave to taxes.

01:42:20.500 My business isn't a slave to energy costs.

01:42:22.800 And I'm not a slave to, to the, the whims of mother nature either.

01:42:32.700 I don't have to, in Texas, I don't have to worry about, oh man, I'm going to be home and

01:42:38.940 I'm not going to be able to use my TV, my lights.

01:42:43.040 I mean, what is the point of living in a civilized society, living in, in a modern first world country?

01:42:50.660 If I'm, if I'm experiencing blackouts and rolling brownouts, like you would expect in 1.00

01:42:56.760 Africa, the United States of America, you it's California, the home of Silicon Valley, and

01:43:04.560 you're still having rolling blackouts and brownouts, California, you got to wake up, man.

01:43:14.660 You got to wake up.

01:43:16.100 It's not 1978 anymore.

01:43:20.660 Now, if we can only cure the giant straw problem we're having in the United States and the

01:43:34.660 world.

01:43:35.460 Right.

01:43:35.820 Globally, 500 trillion straws are used by each person every day.

01:43:40.620 That's too many straws, guys.

01:43:41.860 500 trillion straws.

01:43:42.660 He's using so many straws.

01:43:43.980 Okay, so what did the, what did the fourth grader say that is now quoted as the actual

01:43:48.060 fact that the United States uses 300 million straws?

01:43:51.440 That's 500 million straws a day.

01:43:53.020 A day.

01:43:53.500 By the way, again, that sounds like a joke, what you just said.

01:43:57.140 What did the fourth grader say in his research?

01:43:59.500 It's legitimately from a fourth grader who called companies and estimated what the total number

01:44:06.260 of straws were.

01:44:06.860 And it's being quoted by major media sources.

01:44:08.760 Okay, now to put that number into perspective, all of the Disney parks, now think of the

01:44:14.380 number of people that go to the Disney parks.

01:44:16.840 A lot.

01:44:17.220 A lot of people.

01:44:18.140 Okay?

01:44:19.420 All of the Disney parks worldwide, their whole thing is just to sell sodas and things to drink.

01:44:28.220 Sure.

01:44:28.460 They use 115 million straws a year.

01:44:35.220 A year.

01:44:36.300 A year.

01:44:36.860 A year. 0.96

01:44:37.360 I mean, think of just how ridiculous this is. 0.90

01:44:39.100 You know, there's probably not a human being in the United States that consumes more soda 0.97

01:44:43.320 than I do.

01:44:44.300 Probably not.

01:44:45.360 I mean, I use more, I drink more soda than, it was more than double the amount in a study

01:44:52.340 where they used an excessive user of soda.

01:44:54.720 I drink double the amount of what they said an entire household was excessively.

01:44:59.500 So, I am like, I use more straws than anyone in America.

01:45:04.100 Right?

01:45:04.640 You'd think.

01:45:05.540 Yet still, I don't think that I use straws at the pace that you would need to have.

01:45:12.140 Because it's basically like two straws a day for every single person.

01:45:15.700 And it's like, well, two straws a day, certainly possible, certainly people do it.

01:45:19.620 But the average for every person in America is two straws a day.

01:45:23.560 I can't tell you the last time I used a straw.

01:45:25.200 Maybe a week ago.

01:45:26.620 Cans, you have.

01:45:27.580 Now, if I go to a drive-thru or something, yeah, that's when I use it.

01:45:30.180 That's when I use it.

01:45:30.740 But, you know, are you really going through two straws a day?

01:45:33.840 No.

01:45:34.140 Most people are not.

01:45:35.200 Most people, the number's not even close to that.

01:45:37.780 And I think everybody.

01:45:38.160 And by the way, that would include all babies, all old people. 0.99

01:45:41.620 Yeah.

01:45:42.320 Everybody.

01:45:43.420 Everybody in America.

01:45:45.380 All ages.

01:45:46.260 All races have to use two a day for this number to be accurate. 0.99

01:45:49.240 And there's some weird thing that happens in our society where people get on these little runs.

01:45:53.440 They get on these, like, these frantic sort of passions where all of a sudden now plastic straws are the enemy.

01:45:59.500 It's such a tiny piece of all of the problems they're supposed to cause.

01:46:04.260 Not to mention their replacements, largely paper straws, are the worst creation mankind has ever.

01:46:11.020 Worse than any horrible weapon.

01:46:14.220 Worse than any man-made biological disease.

01:46:17.640 Like, it's nothing.

01:46:18.320 I cannot stand paper straws.

01:46:21.000 But I thought this was amazing.

01:46:22.460 They came out with the biggest polluters when it comes to ocean plastics.

01:46:26.700 The United States, 300,000 metric tons of mismanaged plastic waste in the global waters.

01:46:33.840 It's really bad. 0.94

01:46:34.880 300,000 metric tons is a lot of garbage. 0.92

01:46:37.780 Now, Brazil is slightly higher at 500,000 metric tons.

01:46:41.920 Bangladesh at 800,000.

01:46:44.280 Nigeria at 900,000.

01:46:46.780 Malaysia at 900,000.

01:46:49.100 Thailand at a million.

01:46:51.200 Egypt at one million.

01:46:53.460 Now, remember, United States is 300,000 of this.

01:46:55.820 Sri Lanka at 1.6 million.

01:46:59.500 The Philippines at 1.9 million.

01:47:02.980 Indonesia, 3.2 million.

01:47:05.060 Now, you're talking 10 times what the United States is putting in the waters.

01:47:09.380 And we're the big problem here.

01:47:11.120 And China leads the list. 0.95

01:47:13.300 8.8 million.

01:47:15.600 We're at 300,000 metric tons.

01:47:18.700 Now, that is a big difference.

01:47:21.400 We are not the problem here.

01:47:23.040 Now, part of the Chinese and some of these other countries' waste is we ship a lot of 1.00

01:47:29.380 our plastics to China to be recycled, which is funny because recycling is one of the things

01:47:36.400 that's causing the plastics to get in the water in the first place.

01:47:40.700 It's supposed to cure all these problems, I thought.

01:47:43.400 But, you know, so China is getting a hold of our garbage and then dumping it in the water. 0.99

01:47:47.020 I don't know how it's our fault.

01:47:48.320 I don't know how we're responsible for that.

01:47:50.040 I thought they were supposed to recycle it.

01:47:51.180 Right.

01:47:51.380 Wait a minute.

01:47:51.540 Do we know that they're dumping our stuff in the garbage?

01:47:55.040 I mean, in the ocean?

01:47:56.080 That's the defense because people will say, well, wait a minute.

01:47:57.940 You can't say that China's the leader.

01:48:00.600 I mean, we're shipping our plastics there.

01:48:03.840 To have them be recycled and reused into something.

01:48:07.400 I'm completely blaming China for that.

01:48:10.060 If we thought...

01:48:11.000 No, if it's one of these things like, hey, you want our stuff to recycle?

01:48:15.840 Wink, wink.

01:48:16.920 Then I have a problem with it.

01:48:18.280 Right.

01:48:18.520 But it's not.

01:48:18.920 It's like if you put your garbage out in front of your house and then the garbage company

01:48:22.240 came and just dumped it all over your neighbor's lawn down the street, that can't be your fault.

01:48:26.660 Right.

01:48:27.020 I thought he was taking it to the dump.

01:48:28.980 I didn't know he meant the Johnson's house was the dump.

01:48:33.600 I had no idea.

01:48:39.580 All right.

01:48:40.460 I want to talk to you a little bit about your filter in your air conditioning unit.

01:48:45.400 If you are running your air conditioning, anything like we're running it here.

01:48:50.920 Have you ever used your air conditioner this much?

01:48:56.180 Have I ever?

01:48:57.280 I can't.

01:48:58.060 I guess we both lived in Tampa.

01:48:59.600 It's on all the time.

01:49:00.880 All the time.

01:49:01.320 Right.

01:49:01.540 So it just doesn't stop.

01:49:03.680 Anyway, you have to replace your air filter because it's sucking in all of the dirty air.

01:49:09.540 And this is what makes your air conditioning break down.

01:49:13.920 So replace your filter.

01:49:16.100 Do it.

01:49:17.020 Now, you can go to filterby.com and get your filter and they'll deliver it to your house.

01:49:22.180 They'll put you on a schedule so you don't have to forget about it.

01:49:24.880 They carry over 600 sizes.

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01:49:48.080 Thank you so much for listening all week long.

01:49:51.060 Thank you for tuning in today.

01:49:53.460 And thanks for watching us on The Blaze.

01:49:56.000 We'll be back on Monday.

01:49:58.060 Whole new week of shows.

01:50:00.460 Enjoy.

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