Saving Our Country Is a Dirty Job | Guest: Mike Rowe | 2⧸22⧸22
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2 hours and 1 minute
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Summary
Glenn Beck is back with a brand new episode of the Glenn Beck Program. He talks about the latest in the Ukraine crisis, Russia, and much, much more. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator, bestselling author, and radio host. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NPR, and many other media outlets. He is also the host of the conservative radio show "The Glenn Beck Show" on SiriusXM Radio.
Transcript
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is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
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that has dedicated itself to tell you the truth
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I don't think I could even get close to that word.
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people in our country everybody in the world is
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watching you you are a very well educated man and
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you also pay attention to what's going on I try is this
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why you were one of the original people asked to host the daily show no I think
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that I mean that was a long time ago I know but you would have been
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fantastic well it would have been a different show yeah and I don't know
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there would still be on but no I was actually hired twice to host that show I
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auditioned the first time got an offer and over the weekend ESPN let Craig
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Kilbourne out of his contract and they changed their mind and then a year later
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when Kilbourne left Comedy Central called again and said look
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everybody here loves you we're going to bring you back 99% sure it's yours the
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only way you don't wind up hosting the daily show Mike is if this is a direct
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quote is if this cheap-ass network somehow comes up with a big pile of money
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for Norm Macdonald or Kevin Nealon or John Stewart but that's never going to
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happen three days later John signed a four million dollar deal I was like I
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can't believe it so I crawled through sewers for 12 years instead what was it
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like to to know we really want somebody else but that's not gonna happen that's
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well again it's that whipsaw effect of certainty and uncertainty it's it's you
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know Lucy is holding the football and Charlie Brown is running at it you know
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and now first time you know he falls on his back and you know that's his bad
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second time he's got nobody to blame but himself you know third time so so look
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that did you think it was gonna happen the third time no the third time I didn't
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wait around for the third time I thought look this is just go another way the the
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universe is giving you a sign you know what they did they actually offered me a
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correspondent role and at the same time Dick Clark offered me a game show for the
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FX network and so I I hosted 40 episodes of a game show nobody ever saw I would have
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gone with Dick Clark too how do you not I mean she's Dick Clark did you meet him oh
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yeah what was he like what a genius that guy was well he he was just before the
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stroke oh yeah yeah this was 1997 90 98 maybe I guess he um he was insouciant in
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that way that pretend that some members of the audience not me of course you don't
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know what you sip is insouciance right okay it's Google let's do it's it's it's good
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it's um it it's a it's a level of relaxation that many people try and
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imitate but you can see when people are faking it on TV right Dick Clark was
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really relaxed he was so comfortable with who he was as a host and he he so
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completely understood how to do his job that it relaxed everyone around him and he
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brought that same sensibility into being a producer and that's why Dick Clark
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productions really is still standing long after he's gone he um he gave me some
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terrific advice he only said one thing to me we did 40 episodes of the show called
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no relation and uh after the first episode he said hey Mike I I just love
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everything you're doing your instincts are really good one bit of advice when you
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walked out on the stage you said hi everybody I'm Mike Rowe welcome to no
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relation and you went through your thing here's the thing I know you're
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talking to everybody I know we're broadcasting but they're home right you're
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just talking to them mm-hmm just say hi and I thought son of a gun that's why
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you're Dick Clark yeah you know hi it's Dick yes to see you it bothers me so much
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that's one of the earliest things I ever learned bothers me so much when I hear
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people say hi ladies and gentlemen or hi everyone it's it's a wasted
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opportunity it is because I feel as though I have a I could feel this at Fox I feel
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it here I feel one person I don't feel a crowd you're so good at this
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instinctively and it's so it's it's a hard lesson to teach but people in
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broadcasting have grown suspicious of of beginnings and ends and so when you come
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into your show you're right you're almost always finishing up doing something else so
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the the listener has this sense that okay you're not just sitting here waiting
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for somebody to say action even though we kind of are yeah right other things are
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happening other conversations are going on and so the degree to which you can
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incorporate any level of genuine behind-the-scenes activity goes straight to
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authenticity and Dick Clark knew that too yeah and so did dirty jobs let me let me
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switch to micro works because tomorrow you begin awarding these scholarships right
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yeah so how a how do people apply and what is the what's the process how do you
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select these people there's some hoops to go through but not a lot we award work
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ethics scholarships and which means what which means we're affirmatively looking
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for people who are not interested in pursuing a four-year degree but learning a
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skill that's in demand people who are excited about showing up early staying
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late and doing whatever it takes along the way to distinguish themselves on the
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job boy those are rare they are rare rare but when you find it boy when you find it so
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we've been doing this now foundation's been around for 14 years we've been handing out
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scholarships for about six or seven we try and do at least a million a year and
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tomorrow this year we actually raised more so I've got a decent chunk of money
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and we're looking for people to go to microworks.org fill out a work ethic
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scholarship application you have to make a case for yourself I want to see video I
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want to see an essay right I don't care about your GPA but I do care about your
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attendance I care about your references and I ask for these things you need to
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sign the sweat pledge skills and work ethic aren't taboo you need to agree to
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12 tenants that I put out there years ago and not everyone agrees with them and
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every year Glenn I wind up telling angry parents who don't want their kids to sign
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the sweat pledge that it's entirely possible this particular pile of free
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money might not be for you okay and you know I can do you really have parents that
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say oh I I would give anything to to have my children really understand hard work and
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it's really hard because nothing in society is showing that nothing in society
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is showing that well we've affirmatively identified work as the enemy as the
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proximate cause of our unhappiness and that's a logical thing to do if you define
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your boss as the wretch who is making you do things that you don't want to do it
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all it all follows the same sort of self-defeating course but it starts with
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saying if you're unhappy if you're not satisfied with your job it's the jobs
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problem right that's where job satisfaction that's why it's such again the
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language fools you into thinking the job has some power to satisfy you if that
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were the case well all stock brokers would be happy and all garbage men would
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be miserable but that is far from the case I have to tell you I this back in
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the 90s I was working at three stations and I was I was running them and mainly
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into the ground but I was running them and in stupid verify right I was there for
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anything else yes he's accurate on that and they wanted to fire me but my contract
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for the radio show was so big they didn't want to pay it out so they just wanted to
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make me miserable and so they fired me and I went from the top guy and the guy who
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came in said I want you to make all the dubs and that is a production job that is
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the lowest on the ladder that's what I was doing at 14 years old and at first I was
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really upset about it and I happened to be talking that day I went to my friend
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who was very very spiritual and said and she said why are you so upset isn't I
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thought you were praying to be humbled and I'm thinking to myself yeah but not
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like this not this way and and it totally changed my point of view and I came in
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the next day and I said thank you these are gonna be the best dubs anyone has ever
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done and it drove him out of his mind which I can tell you did add a little joy
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to my life sure unexpectedly I didn't think he would be joyful but it was true
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you choose and if you choose to look at it as something I don't want to do or if
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you choose to look at it something this I'm gonna learn something from well look
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if you think there's a difference between a good job and a bad job or a
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clean job and a dirty job then then you might as well throw dr. King out the
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window too right I mean the dignity of being the best street sweeper you can
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possibly be isn't limited to the business of sweeping streets it's that's such
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good advice because it opens the door to so many other things that's if I don't
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think that's been more true than it is right now it's certainly never been more
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important but it's also never been more suspect because people can't look at the
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ladder they only look at the rung and they forget that the most important rungs on
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that ladder are the ones at the bottom they're the ones where you start and so
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if you arbitrage the dignity out of dubbing tapes then you have to ask
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yourself well what happens if the tapes don't get dubbed and watch the trickle
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effect all the way up to the guy who's got the big fat contract who suddenly
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can't throw to a break in a proper way or who suddenly right so it's all
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connected and we've we've gone about the business of disconnecting ourselves if work
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is a mosaic and I believe it is we're a quilt that's held together then we're
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held together by by that same thing so when we talk about essential jobs versus
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non-essential or blue collar versus white collar we set ourselves up for certain
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so we seem to be having trouble trouble defining Ukraine even anymore these are
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now just pro-Russia regions that he is not not not Ukrainian regions that are pro-Russia
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it'd be like taking South Dakota and Canada just rolls in and is like yeah a lot of
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people really liked us up here yeah they're pro they're pro-Canadian regions
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of not even of America yeah it's just pro-Canadian regions right that's no it's
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called South Dakota yeah North Dakota yeah CNN is that's how they're describing
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them which is kind of started this conversation off the air where they
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legitimately call Putin to orders troops into pro-Russia regions now they they
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included eastern Ukraine on one of their bill at least they included that on one
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of them but like isn't isn't this like if Vladimir Putin was writing a banner
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wouldn't he call these just pro-Russia regions what does that mean I mean I don't
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know what the polls are he rolled into three regions of the Ukraine right and
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then he signed a treaty I think with himself right yesterday there was this
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big treaty signing thing he's got all these documents and he's signing it like as a
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big momentous moment what is it I give these three regions of Ukraine to me it's like what
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it's a good gig if you can get it oh my gosh yes because he's named the people who get to
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lead these regions he's empowering them they're obviously puppet regimes essentially of a region
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that is still part of Ukraine and now they're like well look if they come in any farther then
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we're really gonna get upset yeah like what happened the whole minor incursion thing was a
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typical Biden guy if you mentioned this earlier he just blurts out something which is he believes
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is true but he isn't supposed to say it's like if a robber comes in and they only are in your living
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room and your formal dining room and you're like ah well they're only robbing that part of the house
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so the police really shouldn't come I mean that's probably happening in Minnesota but I mean no they're
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robbing my house even if they're only in two rooms of my house they're robbing my house that's a
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minor incursion I know it's just your kids bedrooms don't worry about it you're right you're right
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you're right you're right you're right this is the Glenn Beck program