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00:01:05.540 Well, here we are.

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00:01:23.020 and that is, what's coming next?

00:01:25.500 I told you when I was at Fox that the Arab Spring,

00:01:30.400 or the Arab Spring in Egypt, would destabilize the entire Middle East.

00:01:35.840 It would lead to a caliphate.

00:01:37.500 Then, that would spread up into Europe and destabilize Europe.

00:01:44.460 And once Europe was destabilized, the right and the left, the far right and far left,

00:01:50.720 would begin working together.

00:01:52.760 Not coordinating, but they would find the same things useful.

00:01:57.980 And that would begin to collapse Europe, and it would spread here to the United States. 0.86

00:02:06.320 I think all those things, I can make the case that those all have happened now.

00:02:11.260 So, what comes next?

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00:03:56.960 So when I was at Fox, I told you the Arab Spring would spread. 0.98

00:04:03.860 It would destabilize the Middle East, bringing the rise of a new caliphate, and then it would spread to Europe. 0.95

00:04:10.380 Members of the right and the left would use that chaos to their own advantage, and it would eventually spread to the United States.

00:04:17.000 Well, that is done now.

00:04:19.740 I mean, we are talking about the border.

00:04:21.760 What is it that Hillary Clinton just went over to Europe and said was the biggest problem with the destabilization of Europe?

00:04:31.780 Migrants. 0.98

00:04:32.640 Yeah.

00:04:33.040 Remember?

00:04:33.500 Which is amazing for her to admit.

00:04:34.840 Right.

00:04:35.220 They caused it.

00:04:36.520 Those migrants came from the Arab Spring and the caliphate. 0.99

00:04:40.440 So you had a crisis.

00:04:42.340 You had to get them out.

00:04:43.380 What are we debating now?

00:04:45.000 We're debating a crisis and immigration.

00:04:49.100 So the left tells Europe, wow, you guys shouldn't have done that, but they're still telling America you should do that.

00:04:57.700 Doesn't make any sense.

00:04:59.420 So that's complete now.

00:05:01.380 So what happens next?

00:05:06.560 In this year of shows, we're going to be concentrating on eight categories, and I want to spend some time today working on these eight categories and explaining them to you.

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00:05:37.400 All right.

00:05:39.380 So what's going to happen next?

00:05:42.860 Well, I don't think any of these things are going to come as a surprise to you, but it's what we need to concentrate on.

00:05:50.420 The polarization is going to get worse.

00:05:53.640 This is the political polarization, not just here in America, but all around the world.

00:05:59.120 The polarization is going to get worse, and it's going to cause more riots in the streets, more unrest, civil unrest is coming.

00:06:09.920 And you're going to see, again, the left and the right coming together because their purposes will be to collapse things.

00:06:18.720 So polarization is going to get worse.

00:06:21.080 The economies will then nosedive.

00:06:23.360 Now, these could be out of order.

00:06:25.440 The economies could nosedive, and then polarization gets worse.

00:06:30.460 But the financial system is going to be in danger again.

00:06:33.660 Some countries will collapse, like Germany collapsed in the 1930s.

00:06:37.960 Oil and the petrodollar will be weakened, putting countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia into economic chaos.

00:06:44.400 And this, as this happens, you add in to it tech, causing downward pressure on jobs and wages and communications and education.

00:06:55.420 And this will add more pressure on countries like the United States and China.

00:07:00.400 And at some point, because of all of these things, people will no longer believe in any system.

00:07:07.400 The government, the tech sector, press, all of it will be discredited.

00:07:12.760 And that's when things get really dicey.

00:07:16.780 And that's when things like the government and tech begin to merge with each other.

00:07:26.180 Now, I've laid out on the last three radio shows the sectors that we're going to be watching.

00:07:33.500 And because they're all dominoes, and I want to go over some of them with you, because I want to ask you if you are if you have experience or you would consider yourself well informed on a few topics.

00:07:51.940 And you could help us look for stories and connections.

00:07:56.900 We need you to do that.

00:07:58.820 And you can sign up and be part of our team, if you will, at research at Glenn Beck dot com.

00:08:06.360 That's research at Glenn Beck dot com.

00:08:08.400 And we'll give you some of these categories.

00:08:10.640 But, for instance, I'm not an expert on A.I., but I am I'm very well read on it.

00:08:17.620 And if if I were just a listener, I'd be like, oh, no, I know a lot of stuff.

00:08:22.560 And I watch that sector.

00:08:24.340 You know, I can contribute stories because I see stories that are never making it into the mainstream.

00:08:29.060 And I understand how that connects to the future.

00:08:32.860 You know, I am very fascinated with Russia.

00:08:35.360 And so I watch that and I I see things that are never in mainstream.

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00:08:45.580 So it's on our radar.

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00:08:52.480 I want to give you a story that happened yesterday that explains exactly why all of these are need to be watched and how any of these eight different categories can tie in and be the catalyst for collapse and true chaos, global chaos and global war.

00:09:21.000 I'm going to give you a story that just was announced or just happened yesterday during this show.

00:09:27.740 If you've been following the French yellow vest protests, well, let me just assume that maybe maybe you haven't.

00:09:34.240 The yellow vest protests started just recently because the yellow vests were upset about a fuel tax.

00:09:45.520 That fuel tax was being imposed on the citizens of France, and it was to pay for all the global warming nonsense.

00:09:55.180 Well, the people were for the global warming.

00:09:57.580 You know, we got to stop global warming.

00:09:58.820 But then once that tax actually hit them, they were like, well, no, wait a minute.

00:10:04.000 Hang on just a second.

00:10:04.940 You don't tax us.

00:10:06.920 And so they wanted that tax removed.

00:10:09.400 And so they started these yellow what are called yellow vest protests.

00:10:14.660 And it's about a thousand people have been injured.

00:10:18.400 Hundreds have been arrested.

00:10:20.000 Several people have died.

00:10:21.700 It's been ugly in France.

00:10:24.300 Well, Macron came out and he said, OK, we're taking away the the the tax.

00:10:30.880 Well, that just showed the people on the streets, the radicals, not the average people, but the radicals that were leading it.

00:10:39.960 Ah, they blinked.

00:10:41.820 We can get them.

00:10:42.700 Now, I want you to think of the people who are wearing the yellow vests.

00:10:45.660 Most of them are just like you.

00:10:47.940 The ones who are leading it are more like Antifa, more like Occupy Wall Street.

00:10:57.240 What's happened is after he blinked, the left and the right got together again, not coordinated.

00:11:05.220 They're not on each other's side, but they will both want to tear the system down.

00:11:10.200 I mean, because you say they're the leaderships like Occupy Wall Street.

00:11:13.420 But one of the big things they thought about initially was repealing the horrible gas tax that was bankrupting a bunch of French citizens because they were paying triple basically their the old gas prices.

00:11:25.500 Correct.

00:11:25.760 So it's not it was not necessarily just a left wing movement to start.

00:11:29.220 It's that the people are now seeing that opportunity and grabbing control.

00:11:34.400 Right.

00:11:34.760 Correct.

00:11:35.280 Correct.

00:11:35.700 So now what you have here is a movement that is now being copied all over Europe.

00:11:41.660 This is happening in Sweden.

00:11:43.460 This is happening in Germany.

00:11:44.880 This is happening in Belgium.

00:11:46.140 It's happening all over Europe.

00:11:47.720 It was happening in England.

00:11:49.820 This is a national movement in France that now has 70 percent approval rating.

00:11:56.800 Well, yesterday they announced that they want to collapse the bank and they want to collapse the euro.

00:12:03.900 And so they are asking this weekend to go in, have French citizens go in and take at least 20 percent of their cash out of their bank, transfer it out of the euro and into Bitcoin.

00:12:20.840 If there was a movement here in America that had a 70 percent approval rating and they could convince 70 percent of 50 percent of this population to take 20 percent of their money out of banks, that would be a real, real problem for America.

00:12:43.000 This could be one of the things that collapses, that collapses the euro, that collapses the economy over in Europe.

00:12:52.580 I don't know if it will be.

00:12:55.300 But this one story has everything in it that I'm looking for and is a good explainer on how these things can happen.

00:13:06.180 Political polarization, the distance between the media and the government, that friction between them has caused polarization.

00:13:20.280 They don't trust their government anymore.

00:13:23.140 They don't trust the banking system anymore.

00:13:25.740 They don't trust any politician anymore.

00:13:29.200 So it is bubbled over and it went into street riots.

00:13:32.500 Then they're using this power to buckle the economy. 0.97

00:13:37.140 This could bring the entire system down.

00:13:41.740 But what happens next?

00:13:45.440 Let me focus on that and the eight categories that you need to be aware of when we come back in one minute.

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00:15:28.520 Stu, do you think the average person that maybe is not listening to the Glenn Beck program has a clue as how close the world is on being totally reset?

00:15:56.240 Definitely not.

00:15:59.680 Definitely not.

00:16:00.500 I mean, look, if you look at where we are, the economy is in a pretty good place.

00:16:04.580 I think there is a people who follow politics, even if they don't understand the underlying situation, are so beat up with the polarization that I think some of them, particularly like on the left, who don't like Trump, are going to be maybe understand that or at least feel that things are out of sorts.

00:16:22.380 But that's not what you're talking about.

00:16:24.880 That's not that's that's not what this is.

00:16:26.940 There's part of it that's an ingredient to this whole mess.

00:16:30.960 Yeah.

00:16:31.400 But really, it's the sum of the parts that are concerning and the sum of the parts are some of the some of the things that we've always looked looked for.

00:16:40.340 It's the sum of the parts that led me to, oh, it's caliphate. 0.91

00:16:44.540 This this riot in Egypt is going to lead to a caliphate. 0.93

00:16:48.960 Now, some people are like, well, it wasn't a caliphate in Egypt.

00:16:52.680 No, but it was a caliphate, which you were sounding out the word while you were condemning me.

00:16:58.900 Yeah.

00:16:59.080 Remember, they used to mock you and then mispronounce the word.

00:17:02.560 Yeah.

00:17:03.240 Glenn Beck thinks it's caliphate is going to happen.

00:17:06.000 Excuse me.

00:17:06.740 What?

00:17:07.200 But anyway, so I want to I want to give you the categories that I think will help you navigate, because with self-education and information, you're going to be able to find shelter and growth and freedom.

00:17:26.760 The world is the world is going to be facing a we're approaching a crossroads.

00:17:32.200 We're either going to be as they will be shortly in Asia in 1984. 1.00

00:17:39.440 Then that's the Orwell book or in the West.

00:17:43.800 We will be living a brave new world.

00:17:46.580 Now, that's one option.

00:17:48.120 We're going to be living basically in a cage and it's either going to be a soft plush cage, self-constructed, self-constructed, or it's going to be a 1984 nasty cage.

00:18:04.680 That's one side.

00:18:06.220 The other is more freedom than the world has ever experienced.

00:18:10.140 More freedom for you than you can possibly even imagine today, because the world is changing and and the and the freedom factor that we are looking at is off the charts.

00:18:24.660 But there's not a lot of middle ground on this one.

00:18:27.800 So you want to be aware of the world of tomorrow, because you are so busy navigating the world of today and trying to figure it out.

00:18:37.320 We need to watch a few things.

00:18:39.540 And I have always said that this audience is going to be the audience that turns the corner.

00:18:44.160 If that's you, if you feel like, you know what, I want to be a part of the good future, then you need to be boning up this year on on what's happening.

00:18:56.220 So you can be the person that says, wait, wait, wait, stop.

00:18:59.460 Don't go there, because we are approaching that time quickly.

00:19:05.080 All right.

00:19:07.320 I'm looking at a few a few stories, and I want to just hit the categories first.

00:19:12.420 Civility and chaos.

00:19:16.180 It's important to look at civility as well as chaos, because you want to be in those places where civility thrives.

00:19:26.480 I mean, I'm I'm really close to just telling you where I've built my ranch, because it's where people should live.

00:19:34.400 But I don't want necessarily everybody to be in the area where my ranch is.

00:19:39.940 But you need to find places like this called California, Los Angeles, Angeles, it's angels.

00:19:46.120 It's the city of angels.

00:19:47.380 It's it's it's a place.

00:19:49.220 It's a very small farming town.

00:19:51.660 And it's important to look for places of civility and farming towns are really critical to us because they they know as farmers that I have to help my neighbor.

00:20:09.060 Because if my neighbor is in trouble, their crops failed or their their tractor or their well went down.

00:20:16.980 I've got to be over there with my tractor or my tools to help them because my well is going to fail.

00:20:24.160 My my my tractor is going to be in disrepair.

00:20:28.120 My crops might fail and I want them to help me.

00:20:32.420 So it's this it's a it's a society that is self-reliant and you rely on each other.

00:20:39.540 There are some strange odors from time to time.

00:20:42.100 Most of the time.

00:20:43.060 Yeah, if you're near milking cows all of the time.

00:20:47.220 But it's also important to pay attention to the chaos site.

00:20:51.140 And who is the yellow vest Antifa, even the proud boys in a very small way in comparison, anything that leads to instability or chaos.

00:21:05.880 You've got to be aware of it.

00:21:08.640 Also, those who are unheard or feel they are unheard, we need to double our efforts as people to make sure that those who are feeling alone and feeling unheard are not feeling unheard by us.

00:21:27.900 And I need to make sure that everybody in this audience feels heard, that that you have a way to have your voice and your opinion put out there.

00:21:42.300 That's going to be very, very important for stability.

00:21:46.840 Then the other thing is, is politics of meaning.

00:21:50.000 And like, for instance, yesterday, Donald Trump walked out of the meeting with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.

00:21:56.160 Now, I could give you an hour on all of the ins and outs of that.

00:22:01.040 But here's the politics of meaning.

00:22:03.840 If you go in to buy a car or a house and somebody says, what are you looking for?

00:22:09.440 And you say, well, I have this.

00:22:11.480 I must have.

00:22:13.320 If they say, well, I can never even get close to that or I don't have that or I'm not offering.

00:22:18.440 I'm not willing to give that to you.

00:22:20.080 What do you do?

00:22:21.040 Walk out.

00:22:21.640 You walk out because it's a waste of time.

00:22:23.380 It was a waste of the president's time because he has certain things are must haves.

00:22:29.640 That's politics of meaning.

00:22:31.600 Nothing else needs to be said.

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00:23:44.920 This is a Glenn Beck program, and we're talking about what is coming and how we want to focus this show.

00:24:00.440 And I want to bring you in quickly on what we're looking for, because I look at you as a partner on being able to chart a course for either the greatest freedom, health and wealth the world has ever seen in this next page and chapter of human history that I think we are now on the bridge.

00:24:22.660 We are in a year from now.

00:24:24.360 You're going to be standing on the other side of the bridge, and you're going to everybody's going to see this, I think, clearly.

00:24:28.840 But we're moving so fast, and we're not educating or even including the average citizen in some big topics.

00:24:36.700 We're all just concentrating on what CNN said and what Fox do and what did Trump tweet.

00:24:42.520 That's meaningless stuff.

00:24:44.760 So I want to give you eight categories that we are going to really focus on and try to put the world into context and show you what leads to a collapse and totalitarianism and what leads to freedom.

00:24:57.580 So the first category we talked about was civility and chaos.

00:25:01.380 It's important to look for, you know, the goodness index and charity and faith and religion where it's working.

00:25:09.060 But it's also really important to look at civil unrest and war and instability and those who are preaching chaos.

00:25:17.880 For instance, Iran and Russia, now Cuba and Venezuela, politics of meaning, things that really, truly matter.

00:25:29.400 Tweets don't matter.

00:25:30.800 Tweets do not matter.

00:25:32.020 But what the president is doing with the trade war in China matters, but not for reasons that most people even understand.

00:25:41.000 That arrest in Canada of the Chinese CEO, that was the thing that opened it up for me.

00:25:51.500 And I went, oh, my gosh, this is what's really going on.

00:25:54.100 And you need to understand that also money and how money is going to change, how jobs and employment is going to change our debt, our personal debt, our credit card debt, European debt, banking, banking scandals.

00:26:12.520 The way governments are going to start trapping people's money, I bet you don't even know that your money has really been trapped.

00:26:19.620 If the bank collapses here in America, you're not getting your money out.

00:26:23.120 They're going to give it to you.

00:26:24.360 You know, the government will guarantee it, but you're not getting your money out because the banks have changed the rules.

00:26:30.120 I think you watch this weekend to see if France starts to trap people's savings and their checking accounts in their banks this weekend.

00:26:39.620 The next category would be education.

00:26:42.340 What are the jobs of the future?

00:26:44.540 What are the education alternatives?

00:26:47.060 How about entrepreneurship?

00:26:49.140 Home education.

00:26:50.720 The goals of Common Core.

00:26:52.560 Common Core changed names, but the goals remain.

00:26:57.180 Medicine.

00:26:58.480 Medicine we have to look at in a couple of ways, both positive and negative.

00:27:02.620 Socialized medicine versus the free market.

00:27:05.280 New ideas on how to provide health care cheaper.

00:27:08.340 High-tech health care.

00:27:10.560 Things that we have to decide whether they're good or bad.

00:27:15.180 For instance, Humana Health Care.

00:27:16.940 Giving away a free Apple Watch if you just sign up.

00:27:20.020 Well, that's great.

00:27:21.300 Well, what they want is the information from your wrist.

00:27:25.040 Are you exercising?

00:27:26.900 Are you standing when it says stand?

00:27:29.500 Are you moving?

00:27:31.520 And that will become more and more intrusive.

00:27:34.280 Well, it's good for the free market.

00:27:35.980 Is it good for your privacy?

00:27:38.900 Also, with things like CRISPR and the complete live system.

00:27:42.700 That is coming.

00:27:43.720 And we're already seeing it in Great Britain.

00:27:45.720 We have to talk about ethics.

00:27:48.280 Ethics also plays a big role in the next category.

00:27:51.000 And that is high-tech.

00:27:53.360 Surveillance.

00:27:54.280 AI.

00:27:54.820 AGI.

00:27:55.440 ASI.

00:27:56.280 The game changers.

00:27:57.720 The biggest game changer on the near horizon is 5G.

00:28:02.580 When that happens, you better understand why that's a game changer.

00:28:08.640 And that plays right into China.

00:28:12.320 But things like empathy with technology.

00:28:16.400 Which are the first jobs to go?

00:28:19.040 By 2020, you're going to start seeing sincere, significant job losses.

00:28:24.880 Permanent job losses.

00:28:26.260 For instance, in trucking.

00:28:29.180 Media is the next topic.

00:28:31.400 The old versus the new.

00:28:33.060 This is where the disenfranchisement really happens.

00:28:36.340 What is the old media talking about?

00:28:38.280 And what are people actually talking about?

00:28:41.280 The deplatforming and digital ghettoization of the politically incorrect.

00:28:46.060 Which leads to the last topic.

00:28:48.060 And that is something I call the United Corporations of America.

00:28:51.420 Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft.

00:28:54.740 Who are they buying?

00:28:56.180 Who are they destroying?

00:28:57.520 What are they building?

00:28:58.920 Who are they hiring?

00:29:00.300 Who are they merging with?

00:29:01.680 What are they lobbying for right now?

00:29:04.300 I think it's really important that the people who are for net neutrality.

00:29:08.060 Did you know that it was Google that wrote that law?

00:29:13.240 Why would Google be interested in that?

00:29:16.720 Are they really just for you?

00:29:19.320 What are their actions overseas, especially in China?

00:29:22.640 Who are they silencing and deplatforming online?

00:29:26.040 And who's advising them on what hate speech really is?

00:29:30.460 The creepy line.

00:29:32.240 The partnership with government.

00:29:34.460 Those are the things that we have to concentrate on.

00:29:37.460 We're not going to give you all of the day-to-day little things.

00:29:43.420 Other than like what we just did with Donald Trump walking out of the meeting yesterday.

00:29:49.680 We could dissect that for an hour.

00:29:52.540 But is it worth more if you're looking for meaning?

00:29:55.980 Is it worth more than this explanation?

00:29:59.060 Pat, welcome to the program.

00:30:01.000 You walk into a store, you're buying a house, and you walk into the real estate agent, and they have a whole list.

00:30:09.000 I've got so many houses to show you today.

00:30:12.200 Good.

00:30:12.940 Do you have houses that are all under a million?

00:30:16.140 No, I don't have a single house that's, you know, they're all three million plus.

00:30:20.320 Are you somehow or another being insincere by not saying, well, I can't afford that.

00:30:31.520 I told you specifically we wanted a house under a million dollars.

00:30:36.260 I'm leaving.

00:30:37.560 Is that somehow wrong?

00:30:39.120 No.

00:30:39.340 So how is it wrong that the president said, this is a condition, I must have a wall.

00:30:46.340 Now, we can talk about everything else, but in the end, I must have a wall.

00:30:50.860 And if you say no, well, why should he waste any time?

00:30:56.580 Which is what he said.

00:30:57.740 Right.

00:30:58.060 It's a complete waste of time.

00:30:59.100 Right.

00:30:59.280 That's not a temper tantrum.

00:31:00.520 No.

00:31:00.740 That's what you do in your life.

00:31:03.180 That's politics of meaning.

00:31:04.540 Those are the ways we need to start looking at things this year and having conversations.

00:31:12.140 Anything I missed, Pat?

00:31:14.360 You got the politics of meaning, but you don't have the politics of dancing, I noticed.

00:31:18.420 I don't.

00:31:19.320 I don't.

00:31:19.860 That's in 2020.

00:31:21.640 Oh, yeah.

00:31:22.140 Okay.

00:31:22.540 He does in 2021 as the politics of ooh, feeling good.

00:31:25.280 Yeah.

00:31:25.700 Yeah.

00:31:26.120 Okay.

00:31:26.440 Well, because that's going to be fun.

00:31:27.880 Right.

00:31:28.280 When we get to the ooh, feeling good part.

00:31:29.360 Oh, yeah.

00:31:29.720 That's going to be it.

00:31:30.260 That's the fun talk.

00:31:30.840 Yeah, it might be a little later than 2021.

00:31:34.540 I don't know.

00:31:35.700 Culture.

00:31:36.240 Does culture fit into one of these?

00:31:38.020 Yeah.

00:31:38.140 I put that in spirituality.

00:31:40.220 I put that into the first category of civility.

00:31:43.740 What did I call it?

00:31:45.140 Civility and chaos.

00:31:47.740 Okay.

00:31:48.340 The civility part is what causes us to be civil to each other.

00:31:53.380 Faith, charity, empathy.

00:31:56.120 So it all fits into the civility chaos category.

00:31:58.520 Yeah.

00:31:59.080 To make sure that it's important that we look for the good places, too.

00:32:04.280 And the positive things, because I think our job as broadcasters, if we take our job more

00:32:11.240 seriously than just, hey, we've got to make money and get some ratings, our real job as

00:32:17.580 broadcasters is to help people navigate their world and find stability in their life.

00:32:25.880 If that's possible, yes.

00:32:27.420 You don't think it's possible?

00:32:29.200 It is.

00:32:30.040 It's just hard to find sometimes, isn't it?

00:32:32.740 I mean, some days it's like, is there any stability?

00:32:36.300 Is there any common sense?

00:32:37.860 Is there any common ground anymore?

00:32:40.500 There are days when it looks like there isn't.

00:32:42.980 Like none of those things exist anymore.

00:32:45.080 I know they do.

00:32:45.940 It's just hard to find.

00:32:47.080 So you know what was interesting on yesterday's program?

00:32:49.280 Yesterday, we had all the people from Blaze Media on.

00:32:51.760 Not all of them.

00:32:52.560 We couldn't fit all of them on.

00:32:54.000 But we had a lot of them.

00:32:55.340 And we had them from significant libertarians to, you know, significant MAGA people.

00:33:04.100 And what I found yesterday was similarities.

00:33:10.500 There were differences.

00:33:11.700 But the differences, I thought, were healthy differences and could be bridged where we have

00:33:19.520 taken the conservative movement and we have chopped it all up.

00:33:23.300 And I've been a part of that, chopping it all up.

00:33:26.660 And we have to come back together and embrace each other if you say, I believe in the Constitution

00:33:35.560 of the United States.

00:33:36.340 Did anybody agree with doing the wall through executive order?

00:33:43.720 Still?

00:33:44.220 Anyone agree with it?

00:33:45.180 Yeah.

00:33:45.900 Was anybody okay with doing it that way?

00:33:49.380 I think about it.

00:33:50.160 There's one person who was, right?

00:33:51.940 Was it John Miller?

00:33:53.260 John Miller, I think.

00:33:54.260 Who was saying he thought it was a viable...

00:33:57.480 But he wasn't like super strong.

00:33:59.240 He was like, I'd rather not do it that way.

00:34:00.680 I don't think there was anyone who was like, I hope he does that.

00:34:03.980 Yeah, I think it kind of goes to where you've been on, I don't see another way of getting

00:34:09.900 it done.

00:34:10.560 Right, right, right.

00:34:11.360 And it's frustration and it's leading you to a point you don't necessarily want to be

00:34:15.320 in.

00:34:15.960 But I mean, this is a long...

00:34:17.000 You know, it's understandable.

00:34:18.340 We've been talking about this for 20 years.

00:34:19.600 But would it be the worst thing in your mind that's ever happened?

00:34:21.640 Would you be heartbroken if it happened?

00:34:23.520 Can I tell you something?

00:34:24.260 I don't know.

00:34:24.580 I really think we should start talking about the wall this way.

00:34:30.600 Look, part of the reason why people are upset about free universal health care is because

00:34:38.980 we cannot afford to give health care to the entire world.

00:34:43.500 And if the entire world can just walk across our border and then go into a hospital and

00:34:47.940 get free health care, we're bankrupt.

00:34:50.620 We're already bankrupt.

00:34:51.660 But there's no way of doing it.

00:34:53.500 You can't have a welfare state and open borders.

00:34:58.560 Now, that doesn't mean you have closed doors.

00:35:01.740 It just means you have doors.

00:35:04.140 People can come in the right way.

00:35:06.120 We want that.

00:35:07.300 But those people will come in the right way and they'll make money.

00:35:11.180 They'll enhance our economy.

00:35:12.880 They'll pay into the system.

00:35:14.520 And then we can afford more than we can afford today if we just have open borders.

00:35:19.200 I don't know why we don't talk about it this way.

00:35:22.220 That it's the only way health care can be afforded at all.

00:35:28.340 I mean, it's still socialized medicine still doesn't work.

00:35:31.000 But if you have open borders, there's zero chance of this working.

00:35:35.200 The border is a real serious situation.

00:35:36.880 You know, Glenn's ongoing cascading caliphate theory that he's talked about for many years

00:35:41.920 and turned out to be completely right on.

00:35:43.420 That's why I've come up with my own cascading theory, which starts with people finally realizing

00:35:49.920 that avocado is disgusting.

00:35:52.100 I'm there.

00:35:53.020 Right.

00:35:53.220 You see, it's already happening.

00:35:54.380 It's already happening.

00:35:54.880 I don't like it when you cut it and take the pit out.

00:35:57.380 It's already bad.

00:35:58.820 But I was on vacation.

00:36:01.380 My daughter took one out that had been in the refrigerator for a day.

00:36:04.320 Yeah.

00:36:04.500 And I'm like, that is baby poop.

00:36:07.220 Yes. 0.56

00:36:07.760 Get it away from me. 0.92

00:36:08.420 It's disgusting.

00:36:08.720 It starts turning brown.

00:36:10.160 Get it away from me.

00:36:11.140 I think Jim Gaffigan says he buys them at the supermarket and just immediately throws

00:36:14.280 them out there because that's what he winds up doing anyway.

00:36:18.360 So this is a deep theory.

00:36:21.420 Okay.

00:36:22.580 Avocado is disgusting.

00:36:23.440 This destabilizes the Mexican economy, causes a new border crisis.

00:36:27.820 The wall gets built.

00:36:29.540 Mexico retaliates by closing 70 to 80% of Taco Bell locations in the United States.

00:36:34.580 This leads to a hot war, which we would call the fire sauce war.

00:36:38.820 Right.

00:36:39.300 Okay.

00:36:39.700 Okay.

00:36:40.140 Then once 300 million people or so die, there's a treaty sign which requires Spanish subtitles

00:36:47.260 to be on every television program in the United States.

00:36:49.660 That's how it happens.

00:36:50.700 And then we all commit suicide.

00:36:52.100 That's how it happens.

00:36:52.920 That's how it ends.

00:36:53.560 That's how it happens.

00:36:54.300 Wow.

00:36:54.680 When you find yourself reading Spanish subtitles, you'll know.

00:36:58.520 You'll know.

00:36:58.860 You'll know. 1.00

00:36:59.520 It all started with your avocado and your stupid refrigerator. 1.00

00:37:04.140 All right. 1.00

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00:38:39.980 So, Stu, can you help me out on something?

00:38:48.100 The Shannon Joy Show tweeted something out earlier today, and she said,

00:38:53.060 It appears some of the big talkers are softening on DACA and Amnesty, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity,

00:38:58.280 signaling that they'd essentially take a gang of eight for a few billion in border fencing.

00:39:03.600 You signaled that?

00:39:04.920 When?

00:39:05.320 When?

00:39:05.820 That's what I tweeted.

00:39:07.580 And I said, Shannon, no.

00:39:10.600 Can you give me a quote on where I said that?

00:39:13.180 Because if somebody took something I said to mean that, no, that's not what I mean.

00:39:18.960 In fact, the new deal, which Lindsey Graham is proposing now, is not just DACA.

00:39:24.720 Remember, the old deal a year ago was DACA for full border wall funding, which is something

00:39:29.100 I didn't like even then.

00:39:30.840 Now, the new deal is DACA for $5.7 billion, but the Democrats aren't going along with that.

00:39:36.980 So, Lindsey Graham has upped the deal to $5.7 billion for DACA and like three other

00:39:43.500 Democratic priorities on the border.

00:39:46.020 No.

00:39:46.380 And it's all, it's like Susan Collins is involved, and Tom Tillis is involved, and a bunch of

00:39:53.420 sort of that gang of eight crowd.

00:39:55.340 No.

00:39:56.100 No.

00:39:56.860 Look, we said, we said, we will talk about those things once the border is secure.

00:40:04.000 We had $30 billion they were willing to give us just a year ago.

00:40:09.380 Now it's $5 billion.

00:40:11.280 That's not going to get the border secure.

00:40:13.380 It's not going to do it.

00:40:15.260 No.

00:40:15.740 No.

00:40:16.300 No.

00:40:17.340 And I hope the president stays tough on this, but I don't know what he's going to do.

00:40:24.820 I mean, we're now negotiating for $5 billion.

00:40:28.260 That's not enough to get this border secure.

00:40:31.700 I'm not willing to talk about amnesty at all until you've secured the border.

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00:41:41.380 I don't want to deal with he said, she said.

00:41:43.980 I don't want to deal with politicians, and quite honestly, I don't want to deal with the

00:41:48.020 media anymore.

00:41:49.260 I'd rather go right to the person who really knows, do some fact-checking.

00:41:54.540 What is the real situation on the border?

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00:42:02.800 a half an hour, also read this great book called The Skyscraper Curse.

00:42:07.960 If you don't know what The Skyscraper Curse is, it's a theory, but up until recently, nobody

00:42:14.520 had really done the homework on it to see if it was correct or not.

00:42:18.980 When the world builds and unveils a new huge skyscraper, the economy collapses.

00:42:25.520 Is that even true?

00:42:29.900 We have Dr. Mark Thornton on.

00:42:33.840 He is the guy who wrote The Skyscraper Curse.

00:42:38.660 It's a fascinating theory.

00:42:42.020 We go there in one minute.

00:42:46.240 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:42:48.260 All right, we're going to pause here for just a minute here.

00:42:54.200 Yeah, we changed the clock around a little bit, the way we do the show in the front half

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00:44:46.820 Okay, now this guy's going to probably have to talk down to us a little bit.

00:44:50.020 We're going to pretend we're smart, but he is a senior fellow at the Von Mises Institute.

00:44:56.380 So I don't know if he can, it are several mouse Mises.

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00:45:04.560 He's an economist with the Mises Institute and the author of the book, The Skyscraper Curse.

00:45:11.760 Dr. Mark Thornton is with us now.

00:45:17.400 Doctor?

00:45:19.860 Yes, go ahead.

00:45:20.580 It's great to be with you today.

00:45:21.760 Thank you very much.

00:45:23.480 So I have always been fascinated by The Skyscraper Curse, and I've never really looked into it like you did.

00:45:32.680 Your book is absolutely fascinating.

00:45:34.900 Can you explain what the theory is first?

00:45:39.600 Well, the basic theory is that when a record-setting skyscraper is built anywhere in the world,

00:45:47.720 by the time it's completed and ready to open,

00:45:51.300 the world is going to be experiencing an economic crisis.

00:45:55.640 And so the curse is the economic crisis that is associated with the building of a record-setting skyscraper.

00:46:03.880 Now, if I'm not mistaken, it was the Woolworth Building around 19, what was it, 14, 15, something like that,

00:46:11.920 that does not fall into that category?

00:46:16.980 And that was the world's first real kind of skyscraper.

00:46:21.100 Well, you know, we've been building taller and taller for about 150 years.

00:46:25.160 And the skyscraper curse occurred earlier during the Panic of 1907,

00:46:31.180 but as the Woolworth Building was being built and it was being redesigned to go even higher to set the record,

00:46:39.640 and then when it set the record in 1913, there was no economic crisis that followed.

00:46:46.360 And so the original architect of the skyscraper curse, a real estate analyst named Andrew Lawrence,

00:46:53.180 he called the Woolworth Building a mistake of the skyscraper curse.

00:46:58.500 But when I went in and looked at the detailed statistics,

00:47:01.460 what I found is that the U.S. economy was going into a severe recession

00:47:07.260 just as the Woolworth Building was being prepared to be opened in early 1914.

00:47:14.360 But what Andrew Lawrence forgot or just neglected was the fact that World War I was starting in Europe

00:47:23.140 and all of the major powers of the world were getting ready for a war

00:47:28.400 and they were buying steel, they were buying grain, they were buying weapons,

00:47:32.420 they were buying materials, and so that reactivated the U.S. economy

00:47:37.440 and brought us out of what was one of the worst downturns in U.S. economic history.

00:47:42.280 Okay, so give me some, because I think it's fascinating, the Chrysler Building is completed.

00:47:49.960 There's actually two skyscrapers.

00:47:51.700 Donald Trump owns one of them now by Wall Street, and the Chrysler Building completed.

00:47:56.800 We have the crash of 29, the Empire State Building is completed a year later in 1930,

00:48:02.600 and we go into the Depression.

00:48:04.480 In, what was it, 1970, the World Trade Center?

00:48:10.720 That's right.

00:48:11.760 We were on a tremendous, record-breaking business cycle boom during the 1960s.

00:48:19.940 Economists from the Keynesian School thought that they had been able to do away with the business cycle,

00:48:26.600 and business cycle courses were being taken out of the curriculum going into 1970

00:48:32.240 as the World Trade Tower 1 and 2 were being built and rising in New York City,

00:48:38.580 soon to be followed by the Sears Tower in Chicago.

00:48:43.300 And what happened was, just as all this grandeur and glory for the Keynesians was reaching the pinnacle,

00:48:51.760 the U.S. went into an economic crisis, we had the stagflation of 1970 through 1982,

00:49:00.620 we had the U.S. going off the gold standard, things were so bad,

00:49:05.340 we had wage and price controls being imposed by Richard Nixon in 1971,

00:49:10.460 just as the trade towers were coming to a new record height.

00:49:15.540 And so that was a spectacular, menacing sort of example of why we shouldn't trust Keynesian economics.

00:49:26.120 So before we get into what you see on the horizon,

00:49:29.780 what I really appreciated was the theory on why this is happening.

00:49:36.880 Now, there's another theory out there that, like, for instance, the Sears Tower.

00:49:40.540 Whenever you build a tower, and I think, again, Woolworth was the exception to this.

00:49:45.400 Whenever they build a record tower, that company is at its peak.

00:49:51.420 It's all downhill from there.

00:49:53.780 And you kind of can understand that because you're thinking, okay, well, they're arrogant now.

00:49:59.040 But the way you look at this skyscraper and the things that you say,

00:50:03.500 why this happens makes total sense.

00:50:08.260 So can you explain your theory on why this is true, why it happens?

00:50:15.120 Well, you know, the people who build these buildings, they may be arrogant.

00:50:18.400 And their arrogance may have risen as a result of the position that they've risen to.

00:50:24.660 But basically, the underlying cause of all this is cheap credit, low interest rates,

00:50:30.360 artificially low interest rates from the central bank or our Federal Reserve.

00:50:34.320 And those low interest rates, in the short run, cause people to, you know, invest more,

00:50:42.100 invest in long-term projects, invest in big, spectacular projects, because, you know,

00:50:49.300 the credit is cheap.

00:50:51.280 They're making profits.

00:50:52.860 Everybody seems to be doing well.

00:50:54.500 And so the Fed can create a rosy economic scenario in the short run.

00:51:01.280 But what it's really doing is causing people to make the wrong investments in the economy,

00:51:06.680 to go beyond what would otherwise be economically rational.

00:51:11.720 And so the number one signal, the number one price in any economy is the interest rate.

00:51:18.640 And when the Fed cooks the books and reduces that interest rate for economic, political,

00:51:26.220 or whatever reason they do it for, if they do it too long and too far,

00:51:31.760 ultimately they're going to create male investments or bad investments, 1.00

00:51:35.540 like record-setting skyscrapers, which otherwise would never have been built.

00:51:40.700 So it's interesting.

00:51:41.600 It's not necessarily because it's an example of hubris,

00:51:44.240 or it's certainly not the cause of the economic trouble.

00:51:47.060 It's a symptom of something.

00:51:49.100 It's of somebody else's hubris.

00:51:50.780 Yeah, yeah.

00:51:51.120 The central banks.

00:51:52.460 That's interesting.

00:51:53.380 Dr. Mark Thornton is going to continue with us here in just a second.

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00:53:52.340 So the author of The Skyscraper Curse, Dr. Mark Thornton, is on with this on the Glenn Beck program.

00:54:12.620 And you say that the skyscraper curse is real because of low interest rates that the Fed has kind of cooked the books on.

00:54:23.620 We are now coming out of a place with the lowest interest rates for the longest period of time in the history of our country and maybe the history of the world.

00:54:33.300 What does that say on what's coming?

00:54:38.720 Well, Glenn, it's scary to me.

00:54:42.360 As you said, this is an unprecedented financial environment that we've just left.

00:54:48.280 And of zero interest rates never happened in human history.

00:54:54.240 And that's the background.

00:54:55.860 That's the background for all corporations who, you know, what their financial structure is, is dependent upon an environment of low interest rates.

00:55:05.640 And so as we leave this environment of ultra low interest rates, you can expect a lot of those bad investments, which we can't necessarily pinpoint right now.

00:55:18.320 But as we go forward, a lot of those investments that people have been making in real estate, in technology, in social media, a lot of that is going to be revealed.

00:55:31.740 And I think we're starting to see this in the business news where profit expectations haven't been met, revenue expectations haven't been met, cost of production have risen unexpectedly for a lot of firms.

00:55:47.020 And so when your revenues are coming down, your accounts receivable are backing up, and your cost of production are rising, the profits disappear and the losses start to reveal themselves.

00:56:00.000 And then, of course, you have companies that are going to have to react to that with restructuring, with bankruptcy, with foreclosures.

00:56:10.920 And I think this is a worldwide phenomenon.

00:56:14.000 It's not just the U.S.

00:56:15.480 The Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, of course, is still at it, really.

00:56:22.200 They haven't yet started retrenching.

00:56:24.860 And central banks around the world have had to match those policies to protect their currencies, or at least to balance their currencies.

00:56:33.600 And so this is not just a U.S. phenomenon.

00:56:35.540 It's a U.S.-led phenomenon.

00:56:37.700 But it's going to impact the entire world.

00:56:40.820 The people in the know realize that there's corporations all around the globe, particularly in the U.S., in Europe, in Japan, in China,

00:56:50.340 which are very, very vulnerable, and we can expect over the next two years for this crisis really to take hold.

00:57:00.000 I think we're just seeing the leading edges of it right now.

00:57:05.080 And, you know, if this were a storm that's headed our way, put it in a category one through five.

00:57:12.220 I would say it's a Category 6.

00:57:16.140 You know, the silver lining here is that this is going to be a very bad economic crisis, in my opinion.

00:57:25.720 I think the empirical information is following that opinion.

00:57:31.080 And the silver lining is that we may have an opportunity to get the world back on a gold standard or some other more sound monetary system.

00:57:41.100 They will tell you, Mark, I have talked to people in banking and very high up in economics. 0.96

00:57:49.700 And they all, I mean, they're all, in my opinion, they all believe the same crap that they all learned in the same schools.

00:57:57.260 But they'll tell you that there's no way the world can afford the lifestyle that we have with the gold standard. 0.93

00:58:04.200 That's why we got off it.

00:58:05.480 We had to buy more stuff.

00:58:06.920 We wanted more stuff.

00:58:08.080 We wanted a great society.

00:58:09.420 We wanted welfare.

00:58:11.020 We wanted two cars.

00:58:12.400 We wanted all that.

00:58:13.140 We can't do it with gold standard.

00:58:15.260 What do you say to that?

00:58:16.140 Well, we can do it with the gold standard.

00:58:18.320 The gold standard is what the world, you know, we left the world of animals and, you know, wandering around.

00:58:26.440 And we discovered sound money, silver coins.

00:58:30.780 And Western civilization began to take hold a few thousand years ago.

00:58:35.600 So this is a brief time, and we need to learn the lesson that sound money, which is independent of any political wishes, is the way to go.

00:58:44.940 And I think we can see our way back in the coming crisis.

00:58:48.920 We can get rid of welfare.

00:58:50.640 We can get rid of Social Security.

00:58:52.300 We can get back on a monetary system that's sound and stable.

00:58:58.720 And I think we have a great opportunity here in this economic crisis that's coming forth to return the world to more human-directed purpose rather than political purpose.

00:59:13.660 When you say Category 6, what category would you put the Great Depression in?

00:59:21.240 I would say that's a 5.

00:59:24.440 Hold on, hold on, hold on.

00:59:25.760 You would say the Great Depression was a Category 5, and what is coming is a Category 6.

00:59:32.800 That's correct.

00:59:33.480 And, you know, one of the reasons the Great Depression became great is that FDR and even Herbert Hoover tried to solve it politically.

00:59:42.640 They tried to spend their way out.

00:59:44.240 They tried to inflate their way out.

00:59:46.340 They wanted to, you know, create all sorts of government jobs, which is the wrong thing to do.

00:59:52.620 If you allow the free market to resolve an economic crisis, you can make it much shorter and much safer for people.

01:00:01.500 And I think that we can reduce that Category 6 rating on this coming storm greatly if we were to be able to pursue a more traditional policy.

01:00:12.700 I mean, we had Wilson that scared the hell out of people, followed by Harding and Coolidge, and their recession, which was far steeper than 1929, and what led to the Great Depression.

01:00:28.840 And they solved that.

01:00:31.100 That was over in, like, 18 months.

01:00:33.400 But they stopped spending.

01:00:35.600 You're in a situation now where the world thinks that socialism is the great answer.

01:00:43.100 I mean, you're not really looking at a country that will say, you know what, we should all tighten our belts, and we're in this together, and let's all suffer together.

01:00:50.840 We're going to do the opposite, don't you think?

01:00:54.800 I'm afraid we might, but I think that there is a way out.

01:00:58.860 Harding set the standard.

01:01:01.580 He required a balanced budget in a depression.

01:01:05.060 He required that interest rates be increased rather than cut.

01:01:10.480 And so the historical record is on our side.

01:01:12.840 The free market economics works, and the socialism that we employed in the New Deal did not work.

01:01:20.580 The socialism in the Japanese bust in 1989 has not worked.

01:01:26.260 In almost three decades of pain over there and frustration, but the Keynesian doctrine has not worked.

01:01:32.780 It's only made things worse.

01:01:34.460 It's made economic crises last longer.

01:01:37.580 So let me ask you this.

01:01:39.380 One last question.

01:01:39.980 We've got only about a minute, and I could go on for a long time with you.

01:01:45.160 You say that when these buildings are, the ribbon is cut, it's underway.

01:01:51.400 Is there a building we're looking at now in the skyscraper curse that when this happens, you think that's the time?

01:01:59.980 Yes, there is, Glenn.

01:02:01.220 They're building a record-setting skyscraper in Saudi Arabia out in the middle of the desert.

01:02:06.020 It's planned to be a kilometer tall.

01:02:09.580 It's going to set the record, the world record.

01:02:12.720 And the only reason it hasn't set the world record already, it was scheduled to break the world record in November of 2018.

01:02:26.220 And it wouldn't be complete.

01:02:28.160 But only the corruption scandal in Saudi Arabia brought that project into a delay mode about a year ago.

01:02:37.340 So it would have already set the record.

01:02:42.040 So you're looking at any time you think this could go?

01:02:46.940 I think it began in November of last year.

01:02:48.840 All right.

01:02:49.320 Mark, thank you so much.

01:02:50.780 It's a fascinating book.

01:02:51.980 You should read it.

01:02:53.180 Really good, solid research.

01:02:54.920 It's called The Skyscraper Curse.

01:02:57.560 The Skyscraper Curse by Dr. Mark Thornton from the Von Mises Institute.

01:03:03.920 Back in a second with the facts on the border.

01:03:09.760 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

01:03:13.120 I don't know about you, but that kind of is a little sobering.

01:03:16.320 Yeah, it's an interesting theory.

01:03:17.920 The Great Depression was a five.

01:03:20.680 Yeah.

01:03:20.900 And we have a category six that he says has already started.

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01:04:08.040 He's a former Border Patrol chief, a career FBI official, and he served in the Marine Corps.

01:04:17.180 Mark Morgan is going to tell us what's really going on in the border next.

01:04:25.700 So I'm tired of the he said, she said.

01:04:27.920 I want somebody who's actually done the work.

01:04:30.680 I want somebody who is not politically motivated.

01:04:33.160 And in fact, if I could find somebody who's politically motivated, perhaps even in the other way, it wouldn't be bad.

01:04:40.940 If I could just get the facts.

01:04:43.380 Mark Morgan is a career FBI official.

01:04:46.580 He served as Border Patrol chief for the last six months of the Obama administration.

01:04:50.460 He was ousted by President Trump at the beginning of his presidency.

01:04:53.840 Prior to that, he was the assistant commissioner to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and a police officer at LAPD.

01:05:00.460 He served in the Marine Corps for 11 years.

01:05:05.960 And I just want the facts on what's really happening on the border.

01:05:10.420 I don't want political spin.

01:05:12.800 Welcome to the program, Mark Morgan.

01:05:15.200 How are you?

01:05:16.900 I'm doing well.

01:05:17.620 Thanks for having me, Glenn.

01:05:18.660 You bet.

01:05:19.840 Can you run down and fact check some of the things that have been said about the border?

01:05:27.260 And can you tell the American people what's really happening?

01:05:30.460 What are we facing?

01:05:32.540 Yes, I can.

01:05:33.600 And Glenn, I tell you, if the American people are listening, I mean, what you said in your opening is your introduction, which I appreciated, is exactly why I have broke my silence after all this time.

01:05:45.140 And as time went by, at first I wanted to give people deference that, hey, they were just misinformed or because they were viewing facts through their own individual political ideological lens that they were unintentionally misinforming people.

01:06:00.020 But as time went by, you know, I don't say this with happiness, but I feel that there's actually some intent behind the distortion of the facts and what's out there.

01:06:10.940 Sure.

01:06:11.200 And that's why I broke my silence.

01:06:12.600 And so I'll give you one example.

01:06:15.620 If anyone says that the wall is ineffective, that they're simply misleading the American people.

01:06:25.860 There are facts, historical data that shows that the wall, as part of a multilayered approach of infrastructure, technology and personnel, when those things coalesce together and they're provided effectively along the southwest border, Glenn, it works.

01:06:46.000 And go to the facts, you know, there was an article that was just published by the Yuma County Sheriff's in Arizona that said when the wall, when the wall, along with technology and personnel, came to his territory, he saw over a 90% reduction in immigration, and he saw overall crime in his territory reduced drastically.

01:07:06.920 That is a fact that's not made up.

01:07:09.780 In the United States Border Patrol, when I go there, again, I was there.

01:07:13.540 I don't understand why pundits are not listening to the experts.

01:07:20.340 Look, you know, so, you know, the president of the Border Patrol Council, Brandon Jodd, and the current White House, you know, they didn't want me there and they removed me.

01:07:30.980 And I'm here today, as you said, to say that they're right.

01:07:34.000 And the reason why they're right is because they've got decades and decades, and they've dedicated their entire life along the southwest border protecting our country.

01:07:42.640 And they're out there saying that the wall works.

01:07:45.140 He talked about in the Gallus, San Diego.

01:07:47.660 We could go on and on forever where it is fact, Glenn.

01:07:51.440 It's not political ideology.

01:07:53.600 It's not twisting.

01:07:54.940 That's the fact.

01:07:56.720 So yesterday, yesterday, the spin was from Nancy Pelosi.

01:08:01.500 Well, they're just going to tunnel under the wall.

01:08:03.800 Yeah, that's, Glenn, I tell you, again, I'm trying not to throw myself in the political arena.

01:08:12.240 I think it's almost impossible to talk about that issue without it being infused in politics. 0.94

01:08:16.540 But that is a ridiculous statement. 0.99

01:08:20.100 It is absolutely ridiculous. 0.99

01:08:22.200 Why? 0.95

01:08:22.280 Well, so it twists the fact.

01:08:26.560 Are tunnels used?

01:08:28.220 Yes.

01:08:28.740 Have tunnels been used?

01:08:30.720 Are they successful?

01:08:32.140 Yes.

01:08:33.240 But, Glenn, that is a minute problem.

01:08:37.440 That is a small problem of the overall problem.

01:08:41.640 And I can tell you that the Customs and Border Protection, specifically CBP, they're working every day to improve their ground sensor technology and tunnel technology, working with the Israel, et cetera, to improve that technology.

01:08:55.140 So the argument is disingenuous.

01:08:57.580 So because the bad guys changed their tactics, techniques, and procedures, therefore we should do away with other infrastructure that helps reduce the other techniques they use?

01:09:09.700 I mean, you see, it doesn't make any sense.

01:09:12.560 Can you help me with, because I think this is a humanitarian crisis, because we are so, we are sending mixed signals all the time.

01:09:22.120 People are sending their children over.

01:09:24.100 The sex trade is just outrageous. 1.00

01:09:28.880 The rape on women, you have a 30% chance if you're a woman, you're going with a mule, 30% chance of being raped. 1.00

01:09:35.740 Can you describe how a wall is actually the humanitarian thing to do?

01:09:42.880 Do you have any facts?

01:09:44.320 Go ahead.

01:09:45.260 Yes.

01:09:46.040 And, Glenn, you're 100% right.

01:09:48.620 Everything that you just said, you're 100% right.

01:09:51.460 And that's based on my experience, in fact, and the experience of a whole heck of a lot of other people who have been doing this a lot longer than I have.

01:09:58.180 Because, remember, as the FBI, I was in charge of the El Paso Division.

01:10:02.240 You know, from my office, I could see Juarez.

01:10:04.740 So I lived it for two years and worked it for two years there right on the border.

01:10:08.900 And I'm telling you, when I became chief of the Border Patrol, almost immediately, and this is back in 2016, almost immediately, you know what word I was using?

01:10:18.120 Humanitarian crisis.

01:10:19.660 And that was back in 2016.

01:10:21.380 You know, in 2014 is when the onslaught of family units and then involved to the unaccompanied minors started.

01:10:28.000 This is not a crisis that just happened today.

01:10:30.960 It's a crisis that's been going on for a long time.

01:10:33.540 And it is a dual-hatted.

01:10:35.060 It's a national security and humanitarian crisis.

01:10:38.120 And here's where the wall helps.

01:10:40.620 So, look, again, it's – and no one is – and this is where it's disingenuous, too, when people want to try as a soundbite, say, well, the wall won't solve everything.

01:10:49.180 That's absolutely correct.

01:10:50.360 But guess what?

01:10:50.960 No one has ever said that.

01:10:52.760 There's not a single Border Patrol agent in the history of the Border Patrol or any leader within the agency that has ever said the wall works.

01:10:59.580 But it is a significant part of the multilayered approach.

01:11:02.700 And here's where it will help everything that you just talked about.

01:11:06.560 By building that wall, the infrastructure, technology, and personnel, what it's going to do is take away the avenue from the cartels and from the coyotes.

01:11:15.540 They will no longer have the avenues to what I really think is the systematic abuse and torture of the people that they're bringing through this perilous craft.

01:11:26.900 I agree. I agree.

01:11:28.100 And especially what you just said.

01:11:30.740 And this is what I don't understand the pundits' political side.

01:11:35.920 Glenn, I don't understand.

01:11:37.740 It's just what you said.

01:11:38.980 These are young girls that are being smuggled as part of the human smuggling effort, and they're being forced into sex trade and et cetera. 0.66

01:11:50.740 It's horrendous.

01:11:52.200 And to think that we would not support everything that the expert says we need to mitigate that and have a positive impact on that, I don't understand.

01:12:03.980 You build that wall.

01:12:05.200 You have the technology.

01:12:06.240 You have the personnel.

01:12:07.440 It takes away that avenue from the cartels and the coyotes.

01:12:10.300 And now the only way that somebody can get in is through the points of entry.

01:12:15.700 And that gives us a heck of a lot better shot.

01:12:19.300 Talking to Mark Morgan, former Border Patrol chief, was with the FBI for a long time, U.S. Marine Corps.

01:12:24.460 So with the wall, this is something that a lot of people will bring up, Mark, is, you know, as you pointed out, tunnels could theoretically go under it.

01:12:32.220 People could saw through it.

01:12:34.360 They could climb over it.

01:12:35.360 There are ways to get past walls.

01:12:37.480 But the theory is, number one, you're going to get rid of the low-hanging fruit, right, people who don't want to do that.

01:12:42.880 Two, you're going to delay anyone who's trying to attempt that so that Border Patrol can get there.

01:12:49.240 And isn't it as well a sign, like, when you're in a country and you see pictures of the wall on television, there's a lot of people that will be dissuaded just from knowing that the wall exists.

01:13:00.760 Are those things accurate?

01:13:03.120 Again, Glenn, you know.

01:13:05.100 You've done your homework and you've talked to a lot of people.

01:13:07.200 Everything you just said is right.

01:13:08.700 It's a deterrence.

01:13:09.480 It's a delay.

01:13:10.120 It affords the United States Border Patrol to use other operational tactics to secure the border.

01:13:16.060 And let me mention something about the tunnel again because, again, it's just an outrageous comment.

01:13:20.280 So because there may be other methods to get around it, you don't want to build it.

01:13:25.700 Again, it makes no sense.

01:13:26.900 That defies common sense.

01:13:28.020 And I know the American people are smarter than that.

01:13:30.460 Let's talk about tunnels just for example.

01:13:32.220 It is used, but it's few because you can imagine it is – it takes a lot, a lot of time, energy, and effort to build a tunnel.

01:13:43.880 That's just not something that happens all the time and it's easily done.

01:13:48.200 It's very limited.

01:13:50.060 It happens very little in the grand scheme of things. 0.96

01:13:53.340 And so, again, the argument is just ridiculous.

01:13:56.880 It's like, so because my neighbor's house has been broken into a few times, what's the point of getting my security system?

01:14:06.560 Right?

01:14:06.900 I mean, because they can still get in.

01:14:08.840 Again, it just doesn't make sense.

01:14:10.340 Mark, I urge you, urge you to keep politics out of this.

01:14:20.020 You are a powerful spokesperson because you worked in the last six months of the Obama administration and then, you know, Trump ousted you at the beginning of his presidency.

01:14:33.840 And so you have credibility.

01:14:35.980 You're not a – you know, I don't know if you're a Trump supporter or not a Trump supporter.

01:14:40.980 I don't want to know.

01:14:42.320 But I know that you worked for Obama, ousted by Trump, and you have the facts.

01:14:48.820 Please keep politics out of this because you will – you can open people's eyes and minds because you don't – if you had an ax to grind, you might be grinding it the opposite way.

01:15:02.200 So thank you for that, and thank you for being willing to take the slings and the arrows for standing up.

01:15:10.120 Can you – can you – go ahead.

01:15:12.200 Go ahead.

01:15:13.060 No, I'm just saying thank you.

01:15:14.360 I sincerely appreciate you giving me the forum because that's exactly right.

01:15:19.100 And, again, that's why I broke my silence because I don't have a – there's nothing political.

01:15:24.180 I just want to provide the American people exactly what you started off with, just the facts.

01:15:30.460 Let's talk truth, honesty, and the facts.

01:15:33.700 And I have to believe that if enough people get out there and they tell the facts, the American people will get it and understand it, and we can do the right thing for our country.

01:15:42.620 Are you up on the facts enough to tell the truth about the illegal immigrant child that died right around Christmas that – especially Ocasio-Cortez has been saying that, you know, the border guard is so bad and so wicked that, you know, in their custody this child died?

01:16:02.960 Are you familiar enough with that to be able to tell the story?

01:16:05.440 I am enough because I think there's also some historical context that's important, too.

01:16:12.180 And, again, it's hard to talk about this issue because it's so emotional and so politically charged without talking about comments like that.

01:16:18.980 But here's what I would say, Clint, is that on either side of the aisle, it doesn't matter.

01:16:22.900 But when somebody that we elected to go to represent us says such divisive things to accuse men and women that get up every morning and pin on the badge and risk their lives – and I said last night on Tucker, you know, the United States Border Patrol agents, 127 of them have given their lives on the front lines of this country protecting them.

01:16:47.500 And that's not manufactured, Glenn.

01:16:50.720 That's real.

01:16:51.920 That's real.

01:16:52.620 That's not a manufactured stat.

01:16:54.320 That's not a manufactured crisis.

01:16:56.220 And I can tell you, if you don't mind, so when I was chief, I remember going to the Border Patrol.

01:17:01.480 And the chief patrol agent, Manning P.D. and I, were headed towards the border.

01:17:06.120 It was like midnight because a whole group of unaccompanied minors had gotten there. 0.99

01:17:10.940 And I wanted to see that firsthand.

01:17:12.520 And I told them, hey, don't let the troops know that I'm there.

01:17:14.580 So we walked up, and we see this large group of unaccompanied minors.

01:17:19.100 And there was this little boy that looked to be about nine, and he's holding the hand of what I believed to be his sister, which was about six or seven.

01:17:26.560 But what I saw – and they were terrified, right?

01:17:28.920 There's this nine little boy and this girl terrified holding each other's hands.

01:17:32.620 But what I saw was the United States Border Patrol agent knelt down in the dirt, and he's talking to them in Spanish, and he's talking to them with – I mean, I'm getting choked up right now.

01:17:44.200 Because he was talking to them with the utmost dignity, respect, and compassion.

01:17:50.940 He had no idea the chief was there.

01:17:53.200 And I looked at that, and I looked at Manning Padilla, and I said, wow.

01:17:57.580 And he's talking to this little girl and boy like they were his own.

01:18:02.000 Yeah.

01:18:02.680 I've seen it myself, Mark.

01:18:04.840 I'm out of time, but I've seen it myself.

01:18:06.780 Well, thank you so much, and we'd like to talk to you again.

01:18:09.560 Mark Morgan, former Border Patrol chief on the facts.

01:18:14.320 All right.

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01:19:25.340 He is going from the richest man in the world to the fifth richest man in the world, and his wife will be the-

01:19:32.460 Tied for fifth?

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01:19:36.080 And it's getting kind of messy.

01:19:38.840 We'll talk about that.

01:19:39.640 Also, Kevin Hart, I want to just touch bases.

01:19:43.960 I love the fact that they're just eating their own right now.

01:19:47.580 Oh, yeah.

01:19:48.040 It's interesting to watch.

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01:19:55.840 Another sad piece of news, Glenn.

01:19:58.320 Okay.

01:19:58.800 The U.S. carbon emissions are out for 2018.

01:20:01.580 Yeah.

01:20:01.820 And they have surged, meaning we are closer and closer to the apocalypse.

01:20:08.200 Wait a minute.

01:20:08.540 Didn't we just close down all the coal plants and everything?

01:20:10.680 Yes.

01:20:10.920 A ton of coal plants, actually.

01:20:12.980 And it's up?

01:20:13.740 And it's up, which is terrifying.

01:20:15.800 And then the reason, I think, is the worst part of all, because it's, you know, carbon emissions have been falling in the United States for quite a while, despite the fact that we haven't signed on any international treaties about it.

01:20:26.660 Because we've been switching from coal plants to natural gas.

01:20:30.060 And not for environmental reasons, just because it's worked out better for us.

01:20:33.280 Why are we going up?

01:20:34.720 Well, it's the worst reason of all.

01:20:37.000 The carbon dioxide emissions rose by 3.4% because the economy was so good.

01:20:45.960 And it overwhelmed the coal plants closing.

01:20:49.120 That's why Occupy Wall Street, we're right.

01:20:50.740 Yeah.

01:20:50.960 If we could just go back to, you know, an agrarian kind of society, we would be able to pull our, you know, pull our plows with our horses, not cows, our horses. 0.67

01:21:04.460 And we'd all, well, we'd be hungry.

01:21:08.580 And many of us would starve to death and die of disease.

01:21:11.660 But, hey, we're the virus, so might as well.

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01:22:19.040 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:22:20.840 Three countries in the news, France, Great Britain, China.

01:22:28.680 I can see France, I can see Britain, I can see China's underpants, or something like that. 0.90

01:22:35.540 China has just come up with a new megadrone, which Andrew Heaton doesn't understand at all, and I think I'm with him. 0.97

01:22:44.900 But we begin with what's happening this weekend in France, and what it may mean to you by Monday.

01:22:53.300 We go there in one minute.

01:22:57.780 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:24:13.720 Something's Off with Andrew Heaton is the name of the podcast that you can hear daily with Andrew Heaton, and he joins us now.

01:24:32.400 Hello.

01:24:32.700 Thank you.

01:24:33.000 Good to be back.

01:24:33.500 Yeah, yeah.

01:24:33.980 Good to have you back.

01:24:34.780 How was your holiday?

01:24:36.320 It was great.

01:24:36.800 I went to Oklahoma for Christmas, and I went camping in eastern Texas, and I went up to New York to visit friends, so I had a great time.

01:24:44.020 Holy cow. 0.89

01:24:44.620 It was all over the board.

01:24:45.560 It was all over the board.

01:24:46.540 Yeah, yeah.

01:24:47.120 How was the change from, like, Oklahoma to New York?

01:24:50.520 You know, okay, so I lived in New York for six years, and I think it's kind of like if you've been stuck in a car with someone for, like, three or four weeks, you have no patience whatsoever.

01:24:59.540 That's how I was when I left New York.

01:25:01.140 Coming back, though, I had rebuilt all of that deep breathing, and I was able to handle it.

01:25:05.720 It's fine.

01:25:06.860 It's a great place to visit.

01:25:08.460 Yeah.

01:25:08.700 You just don't want to be trapped, live there.

01:25:11.120 I think you can live there if you are very young or very hot or very rich, and I am smoking hot, but I don't have enough money to make it work long term.

01:25:20.740 Can I tell you something?

01:25:22.180 When I was living there, I was very rich, and no.

01:25:25.780 Uh-uh.

01:25:26.380 No. 0.99

01:25:27.200 It makes it better, but it still sucks. 0.96

01:25:30.580 Do you need all three of those things? 0.94

01:25:32.080 Because Glenn was rich, but certainly not young.

01:25:34.020 And certainly not hot.

01:25:36.260 And you, obviously, are very hot.

01:25:37.800 Yeah.

01:25:38.200 But you're not necessarily rich or young.

01:25:40.080 And I'm 35 as of yesterday.

01:25:43.280 Yeah.

01:25:43.600 Oh, happy birthday.

01:25:44.340 A quarter of my life is over now.

01:25:46.360 Yeah.

01:25:47.160 And you know what's...

01:25:48.280 How old do you think you're going to...

01:25:48.900 I'm very optimistic, Stuart.

01:25:50.320 I'm not good at math, but I'm thinking, like, 120.

01:25:52.540 Oh, wow.

01:25:53.160 Okay.

01:25:53.320 That's my thought.

01:25:54.780 All right.

01:25:55.240 All right.

01:25:55.660 Yeah, you're not good at math.

01:25:57.160 And one of these days, you're going to find somebody to share your life with.

01:26:00.140 Mm-hmm.

01:26:00.420 Yeah, I'm working on that.

01:26:01.260 I think...

01:26:02.260 Is this the year?

01:26:03.100 This could be the year.

01:26:04.100 This could be the year.

01:26:05.080 I'll get two or three wives. 1.00

01:26:06.920 What do you look...

01:26:07.740 I, you know, I really like... 0.89

01:26:09.460 I like playful, goofy ladies. 1.00

01:26:11.720 Because I'm...

01:26:12.360 I just...

01:26:12.640 I kind of want to joke around, right?

01:26:13.860 Mm-hmm.

01:26:14.100 So that's a big deal.

01:26:15.260 I like open-minded people who are tolerant.

01:26:18.440 I don't want to...

01:26:18.800 I don't really like fighting.

01:26:19.600 I'm not combative.

01:26:20.460 Uh-huh.

01:26:20.660 And I have a lot of really weird friends.

01:26:22.640 So whoever I wind up with has to be fairly porous to other ideas coming in.

01:26:27.640 Sure.

01:26:28.140 Eclectic.

01:26:28.640 Yeah.

01:26:28.960 Yeah.

01:26:29.380 Yeah.

01:26:29.500 That's...

01:26:30.020 But you fit in with us.

01:26:31.640 Yeah.

01:26:32.060 I think I fit in here very well.

01:26:33.440 Yeah.

01:26:33.660 Yeah.

01:26:34.040 And we're pretty eclectic.

01:26:35.680 That's just...

01:26:36.340 That is an understatement, Glenn.

01:26:37.680 I think eclectic is...

01:26:39.360 Yes.

01:26:39.620 That is the minimum FDA regulation term that we have to use for this motley crew.

01:26:44.700 Well, what would you say the actual term is?

01:26:48.280 If eclectic is the minimum...

01:26:50.460 I mean, I don't know psychology that well, Glenn.

01:26:53.500 I'm sure there's some kind of term for it.

01:26:55.040 All right.

01:26:55.940 So let's start with France.

01:26:58.260 Okay.

01:26:58.980 France having riots.

01:27:01.660 You're familiar with the Yellow Vest riots.

01:27:03.380 That is their national pastime.

01:27:05.040 So yes.

01:27:05.540 Yes.

01:27:06.040 This one's pretty serious.

01:27:07.680 The 70% approval rating with these riots.

01:27:11.080 And they just changed yesterday.

01:27:12.980 About this time, they announced that...

01:27:15.640 Wait.

01:27:15.720 I'm sorry.

01:27:16.140 The 70% of the French population likes the riots?

01:27:19.480 Yeah.

01:27:19.820 They side with the...

01:27:21.460 Oh, okay.

01:27:22.000 I thought the riots were like the top political...

01:27:24.340 No, no, no.

01:27:25.220 Okay.

01:27:25.320 Yeah.

01:27:25.440 They side with the people who are rioting.

01:27:29.020 Okay.

01:27:29.240 Got you.

01:27:29.720 All right.

01:27:30.380 So the leadership came out and said, this weekend, we want to try something new.

01:27:35.100 Because we want direct democracy, which, as a historian yourself...

01:27:40.400 Works that super well.

01:27:41.960 Every time.

01:27:43.180 It's Greek.

01:27:43.880 If you want to be a Greek city-state for 80 years, it's pretty good. 0.99

01:27:47.200 Yeah.

01:27:47.480 I'd say outside of those, it doesn't work real well.

01:27:50.640 Really?

01:27:51.280 So they want to direct democracy.

01:27:53.760 They want to make up their own laws.

01:27:55.500 And they're going to try to collapse the euro beginning this weekend.

01:28:01.700 Real quick.

01:28:02.240 That could work because, like, one of the problems of direct democracy is ultimately the people

01:28:06.420 with the most free time around the country.

01:28:08.220 Because if you have a job, you don't have time to, you know, go online and write laws.

01:28:11.400 But everyone in France only works three months a year.

01:28:13.880 So they might actually be able to make that work.

01:28:15.900 That's impossible for them.

01:28:17.080 All right.

01:28:17.440 So they're telling people, go in, take your euros out of your bank account, and put it

01:28:22.660 into cryptocurrency.

01:28:23.280 They're saying that they'd like you to take everything out, but just take at least 20%

01:28:28.640 out.

01:28:29.600 If that happened, if you got 70% of France to take 20% of their money out and cash it

01:28:37.180 out of euros, you could have an economic disaster on your hands all across Europe.

01:28:44.040 Are they trying to create a run on the bank?

01:28:45.940 Are they trying?

01:28:46.340 Yes.

01:28:46.760 And that's hopefully going to lead to the collapse of the euro.

01:28:49.920 Correct.

01:28:50.520 I would be amazed.

01:28:52.360 Ambitious.

01:28:52.760 France became the champion of cryptocurrency and brought down the euro.

01:28:57.200 That is not a prediction I had for 2019.

01:28:59.300 It's Mr. Robot season three.

01:29:01.000 It happens, though.

01:29:01.640 Look for that.

01:29:02.560 Good, good.

01:29:03.400 I've got a plan for what France should do.

01:29:05.780 Really?

01:29:05.920 Because when last I was reading about this with any great degree, at the time, I don't

01:29:10.580 know if they've dealt with this, but at the time, the police were threatening to join

01:29:13.140 the protesters.

01:29:13.900 And at that point, it's kind of game over.

01:29:15.580 Because the only folks that are keeping marginal order in France are the police.

01:29:19.180 Because these have gone from protests to riot.

01:29:21.220 There's a qualitative difference, right?

01:29:22.820 So I thought, if I were Macron, what would I do?

01:29:25.940 And I came up with a brilliant solution.

01:29:27.360 Okay.

01:29:27.660 As the government, you go on strike.

01:29:33.240 That's right.

01:29:33.800 You go, we're joining you.

01:29:35.180 We agree.

01:29:36.360 We are.

01:29:36.800 We, I, President Macron, I am going on strike.

01:29:40.140 I am not going to work anymore.

01:29:42.300 None of my cabinet's going to work anymore.

01:29:44.260 We're with you.

01:29:45.060 And then what happens?

01:29:45.740 Who runs the country?

01:29:46.260 And the answer to that is Germany. 0.81

01:29:48.660 And I think that's ultimately, ultimately what France needs to do is outsource its leadership

01:29:52.820 to Germany for right.

01:29:54.060 Right.

01:29:54.680 You know, I think if our government went on strike.

01:29:57.320 They've done that before.

01:29:58.020 You know, they've outsourced their leadership to Germany before.

01:30:00.100 It did not work out as well.

01:30:00.920 Third time's the charm.

01:30:01.340 Okay.

01:30:01.680 Yeah.

01:30:01.880 You know, if, if, if our government went on strike, you know, if, if Trump and Pelosi

01:30:07.520 and Schumer said, you know, we can't agree on anything, but we're going on strike.

01:30:11.700 I think the American people would cheer.

01:30:13.900 Yes.

01:30:14.380 I think that could be a fairly popular thing.

01:30:17.020 Yeah.

01:30:17.280 I think everybody would be like, okay, like all of Washington goes to the Florida Keys,

01:30:21.620 just a bunch of museums for a while.

01:30:23.040 That could be a lot of fun.

01:30:24.080 Right.

01:30:24.360 I think that would be a very good thing.

01:30:26.160 There are real issues with this shutdown though, because, you know, you, there are some serious

01:30:29.820 things that are going on with it.

01:30:30.840 Obviously the people who are out of work, you have the people, you know, like these big

01:30:34.280 parks closed and there's businesses nearby that are, you know, based on the traffic that

01:30:38.100 goes there.

01:30:38.600 You have a flood insurance coming up for renewal.

01:30:40.580 There's also food stamps.

01:30:42.060 But I think the thing that might turn people around on this is no longer can craft breweries

01:30:47.620 get their labels approved by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, which apparently

01:30:52.280 they have to do.

01:30:53.400 So no new varieties of craft beer coming into play.

01:30:58.560 I think that could actually cause enough pressure to shut down the whole debate.

01:31:03.600 This is how long I've been an alcoholic.

01:31:05.540 I first thought, when did craft, the macaroni and cheese people start making beer?

01:31:11.020 Oh man.

01:31:12.280 Macaroni beer.

01:31:13.320 That sounds like a, like a very popular, horrible idea for about six weeks of like, oh no, Wisconsin.

01:31:18.960 We love beer.

01:31:19.620 We love cheese.

01:31:20.320 So macaroni beer.

01:31:21.100 It's three cheese beer.

01:31:23.640 The more you talk about it, the more it's true. 0.53

01:31:26.080 Now I want it.

01:31:26.800 You can't just say it.

01:31:27.680 That could be kind of a good Viking thing.

01:31:29.060 I mean, they have beer cheese, which is delicious.

01:31:31.360 It's true.

01:31:31.580 Yeah.

01:31:31.820 Okay.

01:31:32.020 This could be a thing.

01:31:33.280 We may have just created a giant.

01:31:35.120 Somebody at craft is going, we are getting out of the macaroni and cheese business.

01:31:40.560 You're welcome.

01:31:41.080 Yeah.

01:31:41.620 Yeah.

01:31:41.840 So if, um, I mean, because this is a serious thing with our economy, China's economy, if Europe would collapse, you know, I have, I'm doing this seriously with some of the war gamers that we, we, uh, talk to who are the allies and who are the access powers?

01:32:00.240 I mean, if Europe would go into chaos, is there anyone within the sound of my voice that bets against Germany?

01:32:08.380 No.

01:32:08.760 Germany.

01:32:09.280 Well, didn't Germany kept an independent bank too?

01:32:11.740 Like they, like for years now, I mean, like it's since the invention of the Euro, we're like, we're just going to keep our bank just in case, in case something happens.

01:32:19.020 So like they can like tomorrow, they're good to go.

01:32:22.460 Uh, and also their economy.

01:32:23.800 I mean, like it was like, I used to live in the UK and, uh, and there's, there's still a little bit of, of anti-German resentment.

01:32:29.160 And the, some of the older folks are like, I thought, I thought we defeated these people and they've taken over, uh, cause their economy is so good.

01:32:35.120 Uh, Germany, well, their economy is good unless France and Italy and Spain and everybody else goes down.

01:32:41.620 Their economy is what 50 or 80% export to the Euro zone.

01:32:49.100 Okay.

01:32:49.660 Yeah.

01:32:49.820 That makes sense.

01:32:50.480 If that goes down, Germans are in trouble.

01:32:53.760 Would it, would it necessarily follow that if the currency implodes that the, the trade zone would as well?

01:32:59.160 Uh, yeah, well, yeah, I think, I mean, I think they could, I don't, I don't think they'd have the Euro.

01:33:04.960 No, they wouldn't have to, but the Euro, as we would know, it would be over.

01:33:09.680 That would just be, that's what they promised.

01:33:11.620 It would make trading more difficult for sure.

01:33:13.240 Cause you'd have to, yeah, I mean, they would all trade with each other, but the promise of the European union is over.

01:33:19.760 It's peace and prosperity.

01:33:21.280 That's what they guaranteed.

01:33:23.940 Well, I don't have either.

01:33:25.220 So what are we doing in this?

01:33:27.520 Do we have an idea of how serious these things are when it comes to these protests?

01:33:30.840 Cause I think like you get that sense that like, this happened many times where like anonymous and they would be like in four hours, we're going to destroy Mark Zuckerberg's toilet.

01:33:40.240 And you're like, and then it never happens.

01:33:42.800 They threaten things all the time.

01:33:44.560 He's still going potty in his toilet.

01:33:46.420 It's still working.

01:33:47.400 Right.

01:33:47.620 Do we know that?

01:33:48.380 I mean, we're going to pull out 20% of our money and put it in Bitcoin to collapse a Euro.

01:33:52.280 Is that, is that a legitimately threat?

01:33:54.520 They have 70% approval rating.

01:33:57.380 That's kind of the scary part.

01:33:58.500 Yeah.

01:33:58.900 So if let's just say Occupy wall street or Antifa had 70% of the country behind them.

01:34:06.140 And then you had in that 70%, you had another 70, 80% that was like, yeah, I don't have anything else better to do, but just do whatever they say this weekend.

01:34:19.640 If 70% of that 70% would go in and take 20% of their money out of the bank, that, that would be very harmful.

01:34:29.180 They, they would, the, the French government.

01:34:31.620 Right.

01:34:31.780 But that's an impossible.

01:34:33.920 That's right.

01:34:34.420 Like that's, that's asking all the people to put their money where their mouth is, which is usually a division in polling.

01:34:40.060 Yeah.

01:34:40.460 Between like, Hey, do you want more stuff?

01:34:41.840 Yeah.

01:34:42.040 Do you want higher taxes?

01:34:42.880 No.

01:34:43.560 Okay.

01:34:44.260 Well, those are, those are right.

01:34:45.840 Irreconcilable.

01:34:46.360 Yeah.

01:34:46.560 But like when you're poll people, yeah, when you're talking about collapsing the Euro and collapsing the financial system, you know, I think there's just more people that are like, um, wait a minute.

01:34:58.560 I'm not sure.

01:35:00.360 Cause that, that affects my paycheck, right?

01:35:03.340 Right.

01:35:03.720 That could affect, that could affect, how do I cash football games?

01:35:06.100 It could affect wine.

01:35:07.780 I do.

01:35:08.640 It wouldn't surprise me if it brought down the Republic.

01:35:10.620 Uh, the, cause we're on, we're on Republic 5.0, right?

01:35:13.740 Like this, it just, this, like the last one, De Gaulle's last one.

01:35:16.200 It started up, but they, they reboot a lot more frequently than we do.

01:35:18.960 They're like, they're like an old computer.

01:35:20.280 Yeah.

01:35:20.520 And it's also not, uh, uh, it's not just France.

01:35:24.820 Remember the yellow jacket thing has spread all over Europe, including England.

01:35:30.120 So if you, if you had a good portion of people, I don't think it's going to happen, but if you had a good portion of people do it this weekend, it could make a real run on the banks.

01:35:38.320 And that's the last thing that you want more with Andrew Heaton here in just a second.

01:35:41.920 And then the rest of the broadcast first for one minute, let me just pause here and tell you about American finance.

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01:35:59.840 If you have not refinanced yet and you, uh, have a, uh, a floating, what do you call that?

01:36:06.220 A interest rate, adjustable rate, get out of that adjustable rate because it is going to go up.

01:36:13.760 They've been talking about raising the rates for a while.

01:36:16.200 And that's been part of the, you know, part of the reason, yeah, they've raised them already.

01:36:19.240 And they're going to raise them more, although they're getting nervous because of the economic problems.

01:36:23.880 Both of these are good reasons to make sure you lock in a good rate.

01:36:26.500 Now you really want to be on stable ground and the people that will do it are the people who do not make a commission on what they're selling.

01:36:34.520 See, that's what the difference is.

01:36:36.440 When you go to a bank, you speak to a loan officer and the loan officer is going to decide whether or not they're going to give you this loan.

01:36:43.580 No, you're talking to a salesperson who is selling you a loan.

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01:37:34.860 You know, I think if you're looking at Europe, everybody would bet on the Germans, right? 1.00

01:37:40.140 The Germans and the Italians, you want to get them together only for dinner. 1.00

01:37:45.560 Yeah.

01:37:45.780 You tell the Germans, you bring the dessert. 0.88

01:37:48.280 You tell the Italians, you bring the main course, and you're good.

01:37:53.080 That's the only time you want to put those two peoples together. 1.00

01:37:56.580 The best idea is to keep them in different rooms while they're eating so they don't talk.

01:38:00.080 Yes.

01:38:00.820 Don't, don't, there's no, don't, no, there should be no marriages or anything. 0.99

01:38:04.720 If you're worried about World War II, I feel like Germany did the heavy lifting in World War II.

01:38:08.280 I'm not as worried about, about Italy.

01:38:10.340 Well, Italy on their own, sure.

01:38:12.800 You know, Italy's not going to be able to.

01:38:16.500 I've been there a couple of times.

01:38:17.560 I love Italy.

01:38:18.340 It's a, it's a wonderful country.

01:38:19.520 The people are friendly.

01:38:20.400 The people are beautiful.

01:38:21.660 That said, though, I feel like watches are purely fashion statements in Italy.

01:38:27.120 I took a train from, it was the German part of Switzerland.

01:38:30.900 I took it down from wherever I was, Interlochen, to Milan.

01:38:35.280 And the, as I'm on the train, the announcer comes on and goes, passengers, if you apologize,

01:38:39.240 the train will arrive eight minutes ahead of schedule.

01:38:41.540 And I was like, what?

01:38:42.200 Why are you?

01:38:42.560 And then conversely, when I got on the train from Milan to Venice, we stopped for two and a half hours.

01:38:48.240 And I, I.

01:38:49.600 No apology.

01:38:50.320 No, no, I, I finally, like, and they'd oversold the ticket.

01:38:52.820 So I'm just standing in a vestibule and I, I, I grabbed a conductor and I was like, I'm

01:38:56.140 sorry to bother you.

01:38:56.800 What, what, what's going on?

01:38:57.860 And he goes, oh, I can't do a good accident.

01:38:59.420 But he goes, I'm sorry, the train made a wrong turn.

01:39:01.880 And I was like, it's a train.

01:39:04.240 It's on a, I could steer the train.

01:39:06.560 I can absolutely steer this thing.

01:39:07.480 I didn't know there was a steering wheel in the train.

01:39:10.100 How did you mess this up?

01:39:10.960 That was where I was like, yeah, I'm not worried about you guys.

01:39:12.740 You guys can do whatever you need to.

01:39:14.360 So, I mean, you would, if you look at all of them, like, you know, the, the British 1.00

01:39:19.600 are just, eh, you know, France.

01:39:22.700 No, Spain maybe is somebody that you have to worry about.

01:39:27.460 Ireland.

01:39:28.280 No, Scott, Scotland seems like, you know, they're, you know, the reason why they throw

01:39:34.860 those posts.

01:39:36.860 Oh yeah.

01:39:37.060 The, the, the timber costing.

01:39:38.300 Yeah.

01:39:38.560 Have you ever seen that?

01:39:39.640 Yeah.

01:39:39.840 So they, they're, they, they, they, they say, Hey, uh, we're going to put our toughest

01:39:44.200 guys in a humiliating skirt and make them throw a tree.

01:39:48.580 And they did that because England wouldn't allow them to have any swords or any weapons

01:39:54.240 of any kind.

01:39:54.940 So they're like, all right, well, we can't train with weapons.

01:39:58.680 So, hey, knock the branches off that tree. 0.82

01:40:01.920 See how far you can put, uh, uh, throw it.

01:40:04.880 But honestly, that's how they kept, you know, trained.

01:40:08.680 They seem like a fierce, uh, opponent, but they really, you know, ever since Braveheart,

01:40:13.740 really not.

01:40:14.900 I, you know, I think they're, they're plucky opponents, but they have warm hearts deep down.

01:40:18.620 That's what, one of the things I love about Scotland when I visited, cause I, I lived there

01:40:21.600 for a couple of years and I go back every year.

01:40:23.020 You're Scottish?

01:40:23.720 Yeah.

01:40:24.280 Ethnically.

01:40:24.660 Yeah.

01:40:24.800 I'm English, Scottish, and a little bit of German.

01:40:26.320 Uh, and, uh, my, my, uh, on, on, on my dad's side of the family were McGills, which

01:40:30.980 means, uh, son of a stranger. 0.93

01:40:33.220 So bastard, I don't know why we just keep that name. 0.99

01:40:37.340 The McBastard family sounds a lot more fierce than McGill. 1.00

01:40:41.620 Yeah.

01:40:42.320 It's down to the McBastard.

01:40:44.160 Which, which castle are you going to attack?

01:40:45.900 Toe Williger Castle or McBastard Castle?

01:40:48.860 Fortress McBastard.

01:40:49.900 It sounds like it'd be kind of, that'd be a tough weekend.

01:40:51.960 I'm going to go after Castle, Castle McGillicuddy.

01:40:54.660 Uh, yeah, I, I used to live over there.

01:40:56.720 Uh, I, there, what's fun about Scots is that they, they're very friendly, but they seem

01:41:00.740 homicidal.

01:41:01.660 So you'll, you'll walk up on the street and go, hi, how are you?

01:41:04.460 Oh, I'm great.

01:41:05.500 How are you?

01:41:06.840 Uh, I'm fine.

01:41:08.420 I think you should meet some of my mates.

01:41:10.020 Come with me.

01:41:10.420 And you're like, this is where I die. 0.99

01:41:11.420 I'm going to get stabbed in an alley. 0.77

01:41:12.620 And then you go in and it's like, all right, this guy's from America. 0.97

01:41:14.620 We're going to buy him paints.

01:41:15.600 And then you do it.

01:41:16.020 You've got a bunch of best friends.

01:41:17.040 It's great.

01:41:17.780 Uh, and then the, the saying in Glasgow, uh, I didn't live in Glasgow, but in Glasgow, the

01:41:21.180 saying is that it's so friendly.

01:41:22.640 They'll stab you and then they'll drive you to the hospital.

01:41:24.240 Uh, so it's like, it's simultaneously violent, but cool.

01:41:26.960 So, you know, I, I, I know somebody who grew up in Scotland and, uh, he said, we weren't

01:41:33.100 really even afraid of the police.

01:41:34.940 He said the police would come, police would come.

01:41:37.320 He was, you know, he was a rough and tumble kind of guy.

01:41:39.300 And he said, we were in, you know, some bad parts of Scotland where you don't really want

01:41:43.380 to be.

01:41:43.700 And he said, uh, you know, we'd be in fights and stuff and the police would show up and

01:41:47.560 we'd just all turn around.

01:41:48.480 We'd stop fighting and I'll turn around and go back up, back up.

01:41:51.940 Cause they don't have any guns or anything.

01:41:53.700 And you're like, what are you going to do back up?

01:41:57.960 Yeah.

01:41:58.440 I think I would, I would be somewhat careful, but the other thing too, though, is that remember

01:42:02.340 all parties in this equation are drunk.

01:42:04.200 So the, the, uh, the cops might well be on their third pint, which is perfectly acceptable

01:42:08.680 at 11 o'clock in the morning.

01:42:09.880 Right.

01:42:10.300 And so like, you don't know, it's, it's kind of a loose cannon.

01:42:12.460 You gotta be careful.

01:42:13.200 So what are you covering, uh, on today's, uh, podcast?

01:42:16.240 Uh, today we're going to cover, uh, gridlock and the underlying reasons behind it.

01:42:21.420 Uh, yesterday was a really cool episode.

01:42:22.820 Have you ever had Dale Brown on?

01:42:24.360 Uh, I think you, I think Brown. 1.00

01:42:25.980 Yes.

01:42:26.280 I think I have, uh, he runs a security firm out of Michigan.

01:42:29.160 Like he runs a private security firm and he was fascinating to talk to because he, uh,

01:42:33.680 like he, he runs a, like kind of, there's kind of like a chunk for everybody in this

01:42:37.280 one, because if you, if you're libertarian, it's like, yeah, I'm going to have my own private

01:42:40.520 security force, but he doesn't use guns.

01:42:42.200 Cause he finds that they, uh, accelerate violence and things.

01:42:44.960 So like, if you're okay, you're a little bit more wary.

01:42:47.460 Um, he was cool to talk to.

01:42:48.740 Uh, and then tomorrow we're planning to have on Jonathan Haidt, uh, which I'm really looking

01:42:52.380 forward to.

01:42:52.840 I think that'll be a fun chat.

01:42:53.900 Have you ever talked to him before?

01:42:54.900 I've met him a few times.

01:42:55.920 I've not interviewed him, but his books made a big impact on me.

01:42:58.820 Yeah.

01:42:59.000 Me too.

01:42:59.580 Me too.

01:43:00.100 He is, uh, he's a fascinating guy, especially when you, you start at the beginning where he

01:43:05.440 kind of thought he was the typical progressive liberal and then went, Oh no, not so much.

01:43:12.700 I mean, still, we're not in the same, you know, we're in the same neighborhood, you know,

01:43:17.280 we can live in the same neighborhood, uh, with each other, but you know, not in the same

01:43:22.080 necessarily house, if you will, politically speaking, but he's a fascinating guy.

01:43:26.360 I think he's, I mean, he probably votes Democrat, but I think the, the big distinction is, yeah,

01:43:31.320 he lives in New York, but the, um, having talked to him, having read his book, he doesn't view

01:43:36.220 political, uh, deviation as a form of Harrison.

01:43:40.000 Yes.

01:43:40.620 Which is really important.

01:43:42.520 I think he has a way out.

01:43:44.000 That's on the podcast.

01:43:44.960 That's tomorrow's Andrew Heaton.

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01:45:00.240 So I'm reading about Jeff Bezos and his, um, uh, his divorce from his wife, which is really sad.

01:45:11.860 They've been together for how long?

01:45:14.040 25 years.

01:45:15.220 25 years.

01:45:17.200 And, uh, they've had a great relationship for, as we know, on the, you know, on the outside, had a great relationship.

01:45:24.660 She's been there the whole time.

01:45:27.100 Every time I've ever heard Jeff Bezos and his wife, uh, talk about marriage and things.

01:45:32.080 Now, this is obviously years ago.

01:45:33.860 They've always given the impression that they're real partners and, you know, like, I couldn't do what, uh, I couldn't do what Tanya does.

01:45:43.020 Tanya couldn't do what I do. 1.00

01:45:45.280 Together, we can support each other and we, we make it together.

01:45:51.040 Um, and I don't know if it's like that with all marriages, but I've always gotten the impression with Bezos.

01:45:57.540 It is like that.

01:45:58.580 Because she was around before Amazon.

01:46:01.260 He was, he was a millionaire.

01:46:02.400 I believe it was four years after they got married.

01:46:05.160 Yeah.

01:46:05.340 He was first a millionaire.

01:46:06.600 Remember, this guy is the richest man in the world.

01:46:09.880 $147 billion.

01:46:11.440 So she, I think she, you make a great case that she absolutely deserves half of everything. 0.96

01:46:17.740 Oh yeah.

01:46:18.240 I think absolutely.

01:46:19.320 It was certainly there's, you don't have a prenup in that situation.

01:46:21.980 They, they both had nothing.

01:46:22.920 Yeah.

01:46:23.280 And they came to the relationship, uh, without lots of assets.

01:46:26.280 So they don't have a prenup.

01:46:27.880 And you know, you're talking $147 billion.

01:46:30.920 Billion.

01:46:31.480 Billion.

01:46:31.940 He's the richest man in the world.

01:46:33.740 So she's going to be, you know, getting something like 73 and a half billion dollars, which is a lot to get.

01:46:42.040 Do you think you even fight over that?

01:46:43.660 You're with somebody for 25 years.

01:46:47.440 Do you think you even fight over that or just say, here's half. 0.84

01:46:52.520 You know, you hope it's like that.

01:46:53.940 I mean, they did release a very nice statement.

01:46:55.800 You know, our relationship is changing, but we'll still be friends type of thing.

01:46:58.740 Yeah.

01:46:58.980 Um, which indicates maybe it's, you know, I mean, he's going to walk away with 73 billion dollars.

01:47:03.960 He's still in a decent spot.

01:47:05.600 It's more than I have by a significant amount.

01:47:07.900 It's more than how much, for instance, how much let's say, let's compare him to somebody who has, you know, $50,000 worth of wealth.

01:47:16.320 So, you know, you, you might make $50,000, but, you know, you've got, uh, you know, between what you have invested in your house and your car, if it was paid off and a 401k, then she got around 50 grand.

01:47:30.720 Yeah.

01:47:30.860 Which is decent.

01:47:31.640 I like it, you know, depending on what stage of life you're in.

01:47:33.680 That's a lot more than many people have.

01:47:35.460 Let's take his $174 billion.

01:47:39.020 147.

01:47:39.500 Yep.

01:47:39.780 Okay.

01:47:40.020 What is him going out and going, oh, that's a million dollars.

01:47:44.800 Yeah.

01:47:45.240 Give me four of those.

01:47:46.860 How, how much is a million dollars to Jeff Bezos compared to somebody who has $50,000?

01:47:54.980 So if you have $50,000, wow.

01:47:58.060 Uh, so he's 147 billion.

01:48:00.460 A million dollars to him is the same as 34 cents to someone who has $50,000.

01:48:06.560 Oh my gosh.

01:48:07.900 34 cents.

01:48:11.020 Oh my gosh.

01:48:12.360 That's incredible.

01:48:13.280 So you literally could go in because if you have $50,000 and 34 candy is 34 cents a piece,

01:48:21.320 you just go grab a handful.

01:48:22.800 You might even put a bag full in there.

01:48:24.440 And you're like, I don't care.

01:48:26.660 Think of that.

01:48:27.640 Yeah.

01:48:28.120 I mean, look, if you go out and buy Bugattis, you know, like, yeah, give me one in every color and, uh, make a color up too.

01:48:38.320 Yeah.

01:48:38.580 Come up with a device that will create a new color never before seen by the human eye.

01:48:43.600 Yeah.

01:48:43.940 I mean, think about this.

01:48:45.000 We talk about someone with $50,000. 0.99

01:48:46.520 Think about a normal, holy crap, that guy's rich person. 0.66

01:48:50.340 Someone with a million dollars, a million dollars, a millionaire, right? 0.98

01:48:54.580 Mm-hmm.

01:48:55.280 To a millionaire.

01:48:56.800 The difference between Jeff Bezos spending a million dollars to a millionaire, that's like $6.80.

01:49:02.820 Oh my gosh.

01:49:04.620 It's a value meal, right?

01:49:06.040 Like, it's an extra value meal.

01:49:07.480 You wouldn't even think about it.

01:49:08.900 Oh my gosh.

01:49:09.260 So that goes back to, and again, you know, a best advice I ever got on money was somebody who said to me, how much is enough?

01:49:19.540 Now, this is a guy, you know, who I think helped invent styrofoam.

01:49:24.100 So he had a lot of money.

01:49:26.580 And, uh, I said, I don't know.

01:49:28.720 And he said, you have to decide because it will never be enough.

01:49:32.980 If you're really successful, it will never be enough.

01:49:36.580 And I remember saying to you when we first started out, you spend what you make.

01:49:40.900 Yeah.

01:49:41.340 It may seem like, oh, if I could just make $100,000, you're going to be in exactly the same situation if you don't think about it going in.

01:49:50.600 And really plan and be disciplined.

01:49:51.860 Right.

01:49:52.200 Otherwise, you're going to make $100,000 and you're going to be like, I thought this was going to free my life up.

01:49:56.420 No, you just bought more stuff.

01:49:58.240 Mm-hmm.

01:49:59.120 The bills go up, the house gets a little bigger.

01:50:01.680 Correct.

01:50:02.100 You know, the car gets a little nicer, but still, you're still spending $10,000.

01:50:04.880 But if a million dollars, if a million dollars, uh, to Jeff Bezos is like $6 to a millionaire, doesn't it make it a little easier to go, yeah, she's been with me for 25 years.

01:50:21.240 Take half.

01:50:22.300 Especially that, right?

01:50:23.480 Like, I mean, first of all, Jeff Bezos isn't like, you know, he's not exactly the rock, right?

01:50:28.100 Like, I mean, he's a, he's a, he's not like the sexiest man on earth.

01:50:32.380 At any point, he will not be named that.

01:50:34.720 So, to get, to be with someone, you know, like.

01:50:37.700 I don't know, a lot of people find the cologne with the smell of money.

01:50:42.600 Yes.

01:50:42.980 No, that's.

01:50:43.460 Well.

01:50:43.580 Very, very hot.

01:50:44.460 And that's the thing. 0.91

01:50:45.180 Like, here's someone who spent time with you for 25 years when you weren't a millionaire, when you weren't rich, when you were just this kind of, you know, nerd.

01:50:52.800 Right?

01:50:53.220 Like, you're a really smart guy who might have a good future.

01:50:56.880 And she sticks around for 25 years.

01:50:58.380 They had four kids together.

01:50:59.660 It's really sad.

01:51:00.540 Yeah.

01:51:00.980 So, I feel like you're right.

01:51:02.620 I think there's a chance that he's like, look, I can deal with $73 billion and she's great.

01:51:06.360 Like, I don't think that's out of the question.

01:51:07.840 And it's going to the kids anyway.

01:51:09.120 It's going to wind up going to the kids anyway.

01:51:10.420 Yeah.

01:51:10.640 I mean.

01:51:10.820 So, they wind up going from the richest, if this happens, the richest person in the world to tied for the fifth richest people in the world.

01:51:19.780 And yes.

01:51:20.140 It's not bad.

01:51:20.600 And the empire is still going.

01:51:21.860 And it's still going.

01:51:23.080 I mean, we.

01:51:23.780 Now, let me ask you this.

01:51:25.220 A guy that stable that has a marriage for 25 years, he now, he was, I don't know if he was caught cheating, but he was cheating.

01:51:35.220 Yeah.

01:51:35.340 That's the other part of this, which is really rough.

01:51:37.140 I mean, 25 years and then he's been in an eight-month affair with a television anchor who was married to like a super agent in Hollywood.

01:51:49.600 Like one of the biggest agents in Hollywood.

01:51:51.940 So, it is.

01:51:52.380 So, she was married too.

01:51:53.340 Yeah.

01:51:53.560 It's going to be.

01:51:54.340 Oh, this is ugly.

01:51:55.560 Yeah.

01:51:55.720 This is going to be your TMZ programming for the next two years.

01:52:00.200 But I think it's interesting just because, I mean, this is a unique guy who's probably, we were talking about this off the air, I think.

01:52:06.400 There's probably better positioned in the world of business than anyone in the world.

01:52:11.120 Think of this.

01:52:11.480 Not just the richest, but like.

01:52:13.040 Best positioned.

01:52:13.900 Amazon and the Washington Post, right?

01:52:16.440 Like.

01:52:16.540 You have, you are living in Washington, D.C.

01:52:19.240 You've moved your headquarters to D.C.

01:52:22.260 Clearly because you want the political clout.

01:52:27.460 You're going to be there making, lobbying, making new laws.

01:52:32.680 I mean, that's really the world that we live in today.

01:52:35.560 It is, it's, it's cronyism on, I can't even say steroids.

01:52:41.580 I don't even know what, you know, what kind of steroids this would be compared to.

01:52:47.540 But, so he is in with the government.

01:52:49.960 One of his biggest clients is the Pentagon.

01:52:53.780 He has a company that everybody pretty much trusts.

01:52:57.100 It's not like Google.

01:52:58.480 I mean.

01:52:59.320 It's not, yeah.

01:52:59.960 You would put an Apple, you would put an Amazon, you know, Echo into your house faster than Google.

01:53:08.980 Yeah, they do seem.

01:53:09.940 Even though Google is better probably at that particular device.

01:53:14.200 Maybe, yeah.

01:53:15.080 I mean, it definitely seems like they are, they have less of a creepy vibe.

01:53:18.800 Correct.

01:53:19.020 Than, than the Google.

01:53:20.200 So people are less creeped out by you.

01:53:22.720 And yet they probably shouldn't because your fingers are in every single pie.

01:53:28.100 Everything.

01:53:31.360 He's got the Washington Post.

01:53:33.500 So he's, he's influencing media.

01:53:37.360 Who's better positioned?

01:53:39.420 I mean, I can't think of anybody.

01:53:42.040 He is in an amazing position and it's, and he's not, he hasn't hit the I'm Bill Gates.

01:53:47.380 I'm going to give away all my money phase.

01:53:49.020 Like, I'm sure that happens at some point.

01:53:51.120 Now he's giving away a giant chunk here.

01:53:54.320 And I hope his relationship is worth it.

01:53:56.940 Yeah.

01:53:57.260 Yeah.

01:53:57.520 That's really not charity.

01:53:58.860 No.

01:53:59.200 She must have been really good.

01:54:01.380 Apparently.

01:54:02.220 Yeah.

01:54:02.500 Something was fantastic about her.

01:54:04.240 Maybe she's a great chef. 1.00

01:54:05.460 I don't know.

01:54:06.240 Perhaps that's it.

01:54:07.140 That's amazing.

01:54:08.240 That's amazing.

01:54:09.540 That's a lot of money.

01:54:10.140 So now the question is, does this, if you were a, a big shareholder, I mean, somebody who really was invested in him, a guy going from a 25 years of stability.

01:54:22.800 Now, maybe you know that he's really been a dog the whole time, but 25 years of stability now into a, I'm free.

01:54:32.820 Uh, what do you think that does to Amazon? 0.99

01:54:38.740 Would you think people are worried at all about, uh, Jeff Bezos?

01:54:45.240 He, he, he, he, he could say, we, we want to do SpaceX.

01:54:49.980 We're going to Jupiter.

01:54:52.060 You don't want stability when it comes to instability when it comes to your money.

01:54:54.980 No, you really don't.

01:54:55.940 You really don't.

01:54:59.760 All right.

01:55:03.220 I want to tell you about, uh, Goldline, uh, who's our sponsor this half hour.

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01:55:50.780 He almost said shark NATO, but he stopped before that.

01:55:53.220 Yeah.

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01:55:54.560 I said, where would you put the great depression category five?

01:56:02.920 Oh, and he said in November, he thinks we're already in it now.

01:56:07.140 It's this, this is the edge of the storm that we're in.

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01:56:59.580 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:57:01.780 Sometimes we don't recognize the good things in life and we really, we really should.

01:57:08.160 There's a lot of great things.

01:57:09.620 There's a new stat out about America and something that has gotten much, much better recently.

01:57:16.620 Yeah.

01:57:16.900 Over the last 25 years, we have now hit a 25-year milestone of a quarter century of consecutive

01:57:23.720 decline in the cancer rate in the United States.

01:57:26.700 A quarter century.

01:57:28.640 And it's amazing.

01:57:29.780 And you would think that there's no way possible for that to happen because, oh, our food's

01:57:36.220 giving us cancer.

01:57:36.900 Our medicine's giving us cancer.

01:57:38.460 Our sky is giving us cancer.

01:57:40.200 Right.

01:57:40.440 I mean, that is one thing to, every time you see these health claims on Pinterest and,

01:57:44.660 you know, Instagram, think about this for a moment here.

01:57:47.640 The rates are dropping so dramatically.

01:57:49.100 If every new thing they introduce is giving us cancer, why does this continue to happen?

01:57:53.440 I mean, it's, it's so much of it.

01:57:55.000 It's just such nonsense.

01:57:56.580 Well, we're getting, we're getting better at detecting and curing it though.

01:57:59.720 Yeah.

01:58:00.040 Well, that's part of it too.

01:58:00.960 And, you know, honestly, like still a lot of people die from cancer.

01:58:04.100 600,000 cancer deaths, which is just in just in one year.

01:58:10.440 However, one of the reasons for that is, I know it sounds weird, but it's actually positive

01:58:14.420 is that, yeah, I know 600,000 people are dying.

01:58:17.580 Celebrate.

01:58:18.040 The reason is a lot of people are now living long enough and surviving other things that

01:58:23.120 they're getting old enough that they're actually getting cancer.

01:58:25.240 Like they're surviving the periods where people used to get it in their forties.

01:58:28.400 Well, now they might get it in their eighties, but they're living through all the things

01:58:31.740 that, that were threats before getting all the way to their eighties.

01:58:34.620 And then they're getting cancer and dying from cancer.

01:58:36.500 So it's good to you that the people who are 80 are dying.

01:58:39.760 That's what I'm hearing.

01:58:40.740 More people, longer lives, better outcomes.

01:58:43.840 Yes, it's good in a weird way.

01:58:45.300 Right.

01:58:45.480 Yeah.

01:58:45.740 It's like, just like, it's like the obesity thing.

01:58:47.620 Like obesity epidemic.

01:58:48.820 Well, that's terrible.

01:58:49.520 Well, we're kind of like, isn't it good that we're all kind of like choosing to die now?

01:58:53.300 Like now we have to sit there and say, you know what?

01:58:56.020 We get to get really, really fat and we're going to eat lots of hamburgers and French 1.00

01:58:59.240 fries.

01:58:59.760 And that's going to be the thing that kills us.

01:59:01.940 Yeah.

01:59:02.080 It's much better than starvation.

01:59:03.080 Did you see my tweet to Bernie Sanders yesterday?

01:59:05.120 No.

01:59:05.640 So Bernie Sanders said, let me see if I can find it real quick.

01:59:08.320 Bernie Sanders tweeted something yesterday about how many people in America are starving.

01:59:12.780 And that just, that just, that struck me as odd.

01:59:17.940 How many people in America are starving?

01:59:20.580 And so I, I posted, I can't find it.

01:59:24.420 I posted, you know, to Bernie, you should, you should have spent some time with my mother

01:59:29.580 because she, she always taught me the difference between starving and hungry.

01:59:36.500 She used, my mother used to always say, you're not starving.

01:59:39.320 You're hungry.

01:59:40.620 Yeah.

01:59:41.340 There's a difference.

01:59:41.940 And Bernie, there's also a difference between what you need and what you want.

01:59:48.440 Yeah.

01:59:49.020 I mean, look, the United States of America is one of the greatest success stories when

01:59:52.860 it comes to fighting hunger in global history.

01:59:54.820 If it's not the most free market is in, in, in global history.

01:59:59.440 There's never been, we're having a problem with obesity now.

02:00:02.660 See, the thing is though, Bernie Sanders is old news.

02:00:04.640 Elizabeth Warren is the new Bernie Sanders.

02:00:07.440 And in competition, we have word today that it looks like Kamala Harris will be running 1.00

02:00:11.740 for president.

02:00:12.360 It's expected that she will be announcing, uh, on or around Martin Luther King day.

02:00:17.020 Um, she needs to get out ahead of us. 1.00

02:00:18.460 Good, good thing, good thing that there won't be any race involved. 0.94

02:00:22.500 No, no, there definitely will not be an issue with this campaign.

02:00:25.300 Sure.

02:00:25.720 Sure.

02:00:26.200 Which is interesting.

02:00:27.360 I actually did a poll yesterday on Twitter and I said, you know, I asked this to one of

02:00:31.180 our guests yesterday, if you had to pick three, it three draft picks out of this democratic

02:00:34.560 field, the potential democratic field, who would you say are the biggest threats?

02:00:38.220 Like who are the ones that are the most likely to actually win the presidency?

02:00:42.600 And it was interesting to see.

02:00:44.220 There was a lot of, uh, I thought it was surprising amount of love for Joe Biden in that one.

02:00:48.600 I would say it would be Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, number two. 0.72

02:00:51.820 I, yeah.

02:00:52.340 And Beto was another one that was up there as well.

02:00:54.680 I would put Beto three.

02:00:55.680 Those are the three that I had, I thought, because Biden is the only one in his category,

02:00:59.360 right?

02:00:59.740 He's, he's got that long history.

02:01:01.700 He can, I think, fight with Trump a little bit and maybe survive it, um, where, and he's

02:01:07.500 also not seen as a communist.

02:01:09.500 He's just seen as a Democrat.

02:01:10.940 Now that fair or unfair, uh, where Kamala Harris, and I think at some level Beto as well, are 0.67

02:01:16.620 seen as real far to the left and, uh, Beto tries to hide it.

02:01:21.260 Kamala less so.

02:01:22.620 Um, but this is starting to heat up.

02:01:24.460 We're going to, we can have 30 candidates in this thing.

02:01:26.380 I think she's going to be, well, yeah, but I mean, can we, maybe tomorrow we should look

02:01:31.580 at the 30 candidates because how many of them are actually serious?

02:01:37.840 I mean, it's going to be great to watch.

02:01:39.680 Oh, we are on the right side of this one this year.

02:01:41.720 Oh my gosh.

02:01:42.280 I'm going to love that.

02:01:43.280 It's going to be fun to just watch all of them climb over each other.

02:01:46.140 We had to Stalin. 0.70

02:01:47.220 We had 30 of the best conservatives I've seen run last time.

02:01:52.780 This is Stalin city. 0.80

02:01:55.640 I'm going to, it's going to be great fun.

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The Glenn Beck Program - January 10, 2019

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The Glenn Beck Program - January 10, 2019

Ready Set, Reset？ ｜ Guests： Mark Thornton & Mark Morgan ｜ 1⧸10⧸19

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Ready Set, Reset？｜ Guests： Mark Thornton & Mark Morgan ｜ 1⧸10⧸19