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00:01:54.580 Alexa, can you help me with this murder case?

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00:02:32.580 Amazon is pushing back against an Arkansas prosecutor's demand for information on what they have stored at Amazon from Alexa.

00:02:43.240 Now, here's the story.

00:02:46.140 A guy died in a hot tub early in the morning, and they get a call and say,

00:02:52.700 Hey, my friend has died, you know, four times the limit of alcohol in his blood.

00:02:58.760 It was just an accident, and he's dead.

00:03:02.580 Police are concerned because there were signs of a struggle.

00:03:08.940 There was a broken shot glass.

00:03:10.460 There was some blood, but you could explain the blood in the shot glass, right?

00:03:17.200 But there's a device in the home that is a smart meter for the water usage.

00:03:23.900 And in the middle of the night, the water usage happens to use exactly the amount of water to drain and refill the hot tub.

00:03:35.800 So, it looks as though something happened around the hot tub, and they drained it, and then cleaned it up, and then filled it back up.

00:03:48.900 So, smart device number one.

00:03:51.360 Now, the police are saying, look, there's evidence here that something is not right, and we don't think it was an accident.

00:04:05.400 And they have Amazon's Alexa.

00:04:10.180 Anybody have Alexa or Google Home?

00:04:12.740 Yeah.

00:04:13.340 You do?

00:04:14.320 Yeah.

00:04:14.800 Shut up, you do not.

00:04:16.120 Yeah, we do.

00:04:17.360 Do you really?

00:04:18.460 Mm-hmm.

00:04:18.840 Do you like it?

00:04:19.720 No, it's terrible.

00:04:21.360 It's terrible in the Siri way?

00:04:23.680 Yeah, it's terrible in the Siri way.

00:04:25.340 I mean, it's worthless.

00:04:26.680 And we just got it recently, and I understand that it learns the kinds of things you're looking for and what you want.

00:04:34.400 But right now, it's like, I don't understand what you're asking me.

00:04:39.260 I'll have to look that up.

00:04:41.280 Hmm, I'll think about that.

00:04:43.460 Shut up. 0.95

00:04:45.120 It's like Siri.

00:04:46.840 You know, Siri has those same issues.

00:04:49.220 You ask it something, and it's like, I can't find that on the web.

00:04:52.440 I just got one as well, and I haven't, it seems to be that it's, I'm hoping for better.

00:04:57.260 Yeah.

00:04:58.340 In the future.

00:04:59.100 I understand OK Google is better.

00:05:01.820 You know, I know.

00:05:02.580 That's OK Google.

00:05:03.280 The Google Home.

00:05:04.520 Yeah.

00:05:06.040 That's possible.

00:05:06.720 Let's get one.

00:05:07.120 Let's put one in the studio.

00:05:08.140 I, oh, we should, we should try, you should try both of them and get one each, see which

00:05:14.460 one works better.

00:05:15.180 I'm not putting one in my house.

00:05:16.800 Oh, no, but the Amazon, at least you can order what you want from it.

00:05:19.620 Do you order, I mean, if you're an Amazon Prime customer, I mean, we, in this area.

00:05:23.640 We haven't used it for that yet, but I.

00:05:25.180 In this area, we're close to a huge Amazon warehouse.

00:05:29.140 Here you'll have it within hours.

00:05:31.580 Yeah.

00:05:31.760 Here you'll have it within five hours.

00:05:33.560 Yeah.

00:05:33.740 I mean, don't drop it off.

00:05:34.760 I mean, you go on Amazon Prime now and they'll deliver it to you same day.

00:05:38.980 Well, the commercials say, hey, we need, Alexa, we need more paper towels.

00:05:44.020 Order more paper towels.

00:05:45.380 Right.

00:05:45.540 OK, ordered.

00:05:47.000 I mean, that's pretty cool.

00:05:48.320 I know.

00:05:49.180 I haven't used it in that way yet because I don't really trust it because it can't even

00:05:53.940 find the BYU score.

00:05:55.720 So I'm a little nervous about it.

00:05:58.520 If it didn't come in blue.

00:06:01.800 Right.

00:06:02.500 Right.

00:06:02.940 It doesn't know.

00:06:03.880 Right.

00:06:04.440 So.

00:06:04.820 OK, so here's the thing.

00:06:06.600 So Alexa or Google Home, they're going after Amazon's Alexa.

00:06:12.660 And they're saying that it records everything listening for the keyword, the wake word.

00:06:20.520 And with Amazon, it's either Amazon or Alexa.

00:06:24.220 So I didn't know that.

00:06:25.080 Everything that you say is recording.

00:06:26.900 It's recording recorded.

00:06:28.860 Even when you don't say Alexa and wake it up, it's recording everything.

00:06:33.780 It is constantly listening to you.

00:06:36.860 That is fascinating.

00:06:37.820 And it's recording everything waiting for the wake up command.

00:06:42.540 Amazing.

00:06:43.420 Oh, yeah.

00:06:44.420 Because.

00:06:45.040 No, we have welcomed the NSA into our home.

00:06:49.100 We sure have.

00:06:49.760 We sure.

00:06:50.160 I didn't even think of that.

00:06:51.280 Yeah.

00:06:51.740 And we're, I mean, we'll have it in the kitchen.

00:06:53.980 It will be sitting in the living room.

00:06:55.340 And I tested it a few times to see how, how well it hears.

00:06:59.560 And I've said, Alexa, you're just speaking in a normal voice.

00:07:02.580 And it turns on.

00:07:04.040 It hears.

00:07:04.640 I mean, so it hears from a long way.

00:07:07.480 Yeah.

00:07:07.600 No, it is constantly listening and evaluating.

00:07:11.660 Wow.

00:07:12.180 And learning from your speech.

00:07:14.340 And so.

00:07:14.600 That's interesting.

00:07:15.200 So here's the thing.

00:07:17.820 So the police have gone in Arkansas and said, we need the tapes.

00:07:23.780 Amazon has said, no, we're not giving you the tapes.

00:07:28.060 Thank you.

00:07:29.020 And they said, well, we need them because we think there was a murder.

00:07:33.700 Wow.

00:07:35.180 Now, who wins in this?

00:07:39.020 You'd like a murder to be solved?

00:07:41.000 I know, but it's always for your safety when they break.

00:07:43.260 Yeah, it's always for your safety.

00:07:44.620 That's always the deal.

00:07:45.780 They say that the attorney's now saying that if this goes all the way to the Supreme Court,

00:07:49.340 there's no way Amazon wins.

00:07:52.140 Right.

00:07:52.440 Because.

00:07:53.540 Oh, I wouldn't bet on that.

00:07:56.500 Amazon's got a lot of money.

00:07:57.840 And look at the decisions that have been made recently.

00:08:01.140 I mean, I would not.

00:08:03.000 I would not bet against the government winning that case.

00:08:07.560 No, that's what they're saying.

00:08:08.500 Yeah.

00:08:08.860 Amazon will not win the case.

00:08:11.300 Oh, I believe that.

00:08:12.260 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:08:12.900 I believe that.

00:08:13.660 Yeah.

00:08:13.920 Because look at the way the Supreme Court's been ruling.

00:08:16.660 Right.

00:08:16.960 So they're saying now, you know, what's the difference?

00:08:20.020 If I can go and I can monitor what you've done at the typewriter.

00:08:24.560 Or your phone.

00:08:25.040 Or, you know, at the keyboard.

00:08:27.160 You know, if I can just get that from the keyboard, what's the difference between you at the keyboard and you speaking it?

00:08:34.300 There's no difference.

00:08:35.100 And they're already taking access to all our mobile devices.

00:08:38.200 Yeah, I mean, people don't have any...

00:08:40.840 We literally have invited them into our house.

00:08:42.380 Invited them into the house.

00:08:44.240 There's no good amount of it.

00:08:44.840 There are no secrets.

00:08:46.560 Now, here's the...

00:08:46.780 We are living 1984.

00:08:48.560 And we welcomed it.

00:08:50.320 We're not living 1984.

00:08:51.900 Right, because we...

00:08:52.480 We're living Brave New World.

00:08:54.200 Yeah.

00:08:54.680 We welcomed it in.

00:08:57.340 1984 was a hostile takeover.

00:09:00.060 Right.

00:09:00.580 Brave New World was through better living through pharmaceuticals, better entertainment, better everything.

00:09:06.740 Which is exactly what we have.

00:09:06.980 You're just going to welcome it in.

00:09:08.080 That's exactly what happened.

00:09:09.820 Wow.

00:09:10.540 Yeah.

00:09:11.720 Yeah.

00:09:12.220 When did the pharmaceuticals start?

00:09:12.920 Huxley was right.

00:09:14.560 When did the pharmaceuticals start?

00:09:15.500 When did the pharmaceuticals start?

00:09:16.580 Oh, they already have started, my friend.

00:09:18.600 They've already started.

00:09:20.980 Alexa, can we get Jeffy a blood test?

00:09:24.620 No.

00:09:25.220 No, Alexa, turn it off.

00:09:26.240 Turn it off.

00:09:28.400 So now everything in your home is being listened to.

00:09:32.240 And you know who uses this?

00:09:34.300 At least...

00:09:34.860 Nobody in my family uses Siri, except the kids.

00:09:38.080 Yeah.

00:09:39.040 Kids love it.

00:09:39.440 Kids will grab the phone and they'll say, Siri, what's the...

00:09:42.960 I don't use Siri.

00:09:43.960 Nobody uses it.

00:09:44.240 I tried Siri a few times and it was so worthless I just gave up.

00:09:47.600 Yeah, but the kids have fun with it. 0.65

00:09:48.660 They love it.

00:09:49.620 And it's just like the virtual reality headsets.

00:09:53.460 Oh my gosh.

00:09:54.180 Don't get me started.

00:09:55.100 Oh, those are cool.

00:09:56.320 I mean, I love it, but my kids fell in love with it.

00:09:59.460 Oh my gosh.

00:09:59.920 It's the end of civilization as we know it.

00:10:02.900 14 minutes into the show, end of civilization.

00:10:06.620 Good night, everybody.

00:10:07.340 14 minutes into the new year.

00:10:08.880 Happy new year.

00:10:09.540 Happy new year.

00:10:10.720 Yeah.

00:10:12.920 It's true, though. 0.82

00:10:13.980 I mean, we have welcomed all of this stuff.

00:10:17.500 And it's amazing when you stop and think about what we have in our homes.

00:10:22.800 And it's amazing how much more intrusive it's going to become.

00:10:27.160 Hang on just a second.

00:10:27.860 Before we go there, I want to go to Betty in New Jersey.

00:10:29.900 We have a problem, I guess.

00:10:31.580 Alexa.

00:10:32.480 Betty in New Jersey.

00:10:33.760 Hello, Betty.

00:10:35.020 Yes, hello.

00:10:35.840 We do have a problem.

00:10:37.040 Tell Pat Gray to be quiet.

00:10:38.660 He keeps turning on my Alexa.

00:10:41.160 Three times already.

00:10:43.400 Alexa.

00:10:44.900 Alexa, play bad jazz. 1.00

00:10:47.840 Stop it.

00:10:48.620 Yeah, it does that, too.

00:10:50.020 Really bad jokes, too, but they make you laugh.

00:10:52.220 Oh, man.

00:10:52.820 It was a great day, but shut up.

00:10:54.660 All right.

00:10:55.620 Thanks, Betty.

00:10:57.440 Alexa, record everything Betty says. 0.96

00:11:00.280 Tony, let's go to Tony in Florida.

00:11:03.220 Hi, Tony.

00:11:04.380 Yeah, hey there.

00:11:05.160 I was just going to say I was actually listening to you guys on my Alexa.

00:11:09.040 And every time you say Alexa, the first couple of times she would stop the program, she'd say,

00:11:14.620 I heard what you said.

00:11:15.900 That's not a very nice thing to say, and I'm not making it up.

00:11:18.540 I've never heard her say that before.

00:11:21.820 Oh, yes, Alexa, we are talking about you.

00:11:24.400 Yes, we are.

00:11:25.380 Yep.

00:11:25.980 But she does not like it.

00:11:27.220 She does not like you guys.

00:11:28.460 All right.

00:11:28.760 Thanks a lot.

00:11:30.100 Stand in line, Alexa.

00:11:31.620 Stand in line.

00:11:33.580 Steve, go ahead.

00:11:36.020 Hello, man.

00:11:36.780 I just want to let you know I'm 61 years old, and I am a massive fan of OK Google.

00:11:43.320 In fact, I called the show.

00:11:44.640 I said, call Glenn Beck Radio Show, pop me right in, and here I was.

00:11:48.360 Nice.

00:11:49.480 Siri, the worst thing there is. 0.99

00:11:52.520 You can't get that thing to do anything for you.

00:11:55.360 That's right.

00:11:55.840 OK Google, when you try it, it is awesome.

00:11:58.740 So here you are.

00:11:59.440 You're in Arkansas, right?

00:12:02.120 Yes.

00:12:02.800 OK, so Steve, are you paying attention to this story about, in Arkansas, about the murder?

00:12:09.720 Well, OK Google only responds when you ask it.

00:12:13.220 It isn't on all the time.

00:12:14.600 But when you need information, OK Google is right there.

00:12:18.620 I've got to tell you.

00:12:19.820 No, no, because that's the same with Alexa, though, too.

00:12:22.540 That's the same.

00:12:23.300 It's the same.

00:12:24.340 It's off, but it's always listening for its wake word.

00:12:30.100 Oh, I see.

00:12:31.060 Yeah.

00:12:31.220 So it records everything you say, whether you're talking to it or not.

00:12:36.120 If I need information, OK Google is on the spot.

00:12:39.500 Right.

00:12:40.320 No way.

00:12:41.000 No, I understand that.

00:12:42.840 I believe that.

00:12:44.220 I look at it and say, for instance, who's going to lead this one?

00:12:48.040 Why do you think Google is laying Google fiber everywhere?

00:12:50.860 They're trying to make Google cities.

00:12:52.680 Yeah.

00:12:53.040 Yeah.

00:12:53.380 And they've done it in some cases.

00:12:54.500 They're going to they'll control the smart meters.

00:12:56.880 They'll control they'll control the information in whole towns.

00:13:02.440 And OK.

00:13:02.880 OK.

00:13:03.360 As long as our life is easy.

00:13:04.640 Right.

00:13:05.100 Right.

00:13:05.880 And I am up to a point comfortable with a private business doing that and having a contract.

00:13:14.760 But now, Steve, you're talking to me about the benefits of it.

00:13:18.320 I'm saying to you that it's listening to everything that you say.

00:13:23.320 It is is recording you.

00:13:27.580 And now police are trying to get a through a court order, trying to get the tape to be able to solve a murder case.

00:13:36.920 If that happens, the police will be able to grab all private conversations from your home if they suspect you of something.

00:13:45.640 Are you comfortable with that?

00:13:47.760 Well, I'm like you, Glenn, to a point.

00:13:49.840 I'm saying I love it as a law abiding citizen, never been involved in a crime, love to be able to solve these issues.

00:13:57.160 Got nothing to be scared of.

00:13:58.260 But, man, I don't I don't know where you're going to draw the line.

00:14:00.720 That's exactly right.

00:14:02.120 That's right.

00:14:02.760 And the problem is a lot of people will say, well, I don't care if they're listening.

00:14:05.860 I'm not saying anything wrong.

00:14:07.000 Well, that's not up to you to decide, is it?

00:14:08.960 Because it might be wrong to whomever is listening or they might make it into something wrong and can and can have there's just just with the regulations that they put in in the last eight years.

00:14:22.160 Because everybody's breaking some law.

00:14:24.280 And I'm not saying that this is, you know, I'm not saying that this is happening now.

00:14:28.140 I'm saying you don't worry about who's in office today.

00:14:31.620 For instance, I gave the Democrats this warning eight years ago.

00:14:37.780 Don't do this with executive power because you're not always going to hold power.

00:14:42.900 And when somebody else comes in and wields that same stick and now look at him, you're not going to like it.

00:14:48.640 Look at him.

00:14:49.320 Right.

00:14:49.860 And now they're freaking out.

00:14:51.540 Right.

00:14:52.240 And I'm saying the same thing now to the Republicans.

00:14:55.180 Don't do this because you're not always going to be in power.

00:14:59.700 I don't know who the next Hitler is. 0.95

00:15:02.820 I have no idea.

00:15:03.780 But one will appear if you give all of this power, all of this information, all of this regulation, and we instill it behind one man, we are begging for someone to step in in an emergency and take care of things for us.

00:15:20.340 Back in just a second.

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00:16:41.620 Holy cow. 0.89

00:16:42.240 I mean, I'm just listening to these two fat cats and what they got for Christmas.

00:16:45.780 Because we're talking about Alexa, Google Home, PlayStation 4.

00:16:52.940 Santa brought a PlayStation 4 for my son, which I had a talk with a fat man and I informed him.

00:17:00.480 My son.

00:17:01.760 Fat men have, we have a council. 0.99

00:17:04.100 We have a council meeting.

00:17:05.520 All fat men get together.

00:17:06.840 And Santa is not the chairman of the board this year.

00:17:10.800 I am.

00:17:12.880 But, you know, just watching, he was playing Star Wars with it yesterday.

00:17:17.360 And he gets so wrapped up.

00:17:21.040 You know, with a 50-inch screen, he gets so wrapped up into it.

00:17:26.740 When you put, and he wanted it, virtual reality, and I just laughed.

00:17:30.940 Like, no.

00:17:31.940 Oh, like I told you, my kids fell in love with it because you're, it's on.

00:17:36.160 Totally immersive.

00:17:37.140 Right.

00:17:38.220 That's all there is.

00:17:39.280 That's all there is.

00:17:41.280 It's really.

00:17:42.080 It does feel like you're, it does feel like you're there.

00:17:44.460 It really does.

00:17:45.400 You have it?

00:17:46.520 Did you get it?

00:17:47.140 Yeah, my son has it.

00:17:48.480 And fortunately, he took it with him to college.

00:17:50.580 But he, he has it.

00:17:51.740 And I tried it a few times.

00:17:53.220 And it's pretty amazing.

00:17:54.820 It is.

00:17:54.940 So you got, you got virtual reality.

00:17:57.780 And the curve.

00:17:58.960 Did you get a curve TV?

00:18:00.040 It was one of the 55 curves for the house.

00:18:01.880 Oh, nice.

00:18:03.140 What is that like?

00:18:04.040 It's actually really nice.

00:18:05.140 It looks a lot bigger.

00:18:06.280 There was, the old 55 was a piece of junk.

00:18:08.760 Oh, I know.

00:18:09.580 That thing had to go.

00:18:10.480 How much are those curves now? 1.00

00:18:11.320 That had to go.

00:18:12.140 I'm so sick of looking at that thing.

00:18:13.300 How much are those now?

00:18:14.480 Can you get them at Costco yet?

00:18:17.160 Oh, I'm sure you can.

00:18:18.500 I'm never buying a TV again unless it's from Costco.

00:18:21.300 Yeah, Costco or Sam's.

00:18:22.500 I mean, you can get all those there.

00:18:23.560 Yeah.

00:18:23.740 I mean, it's under, it was under a thousand.

00:18:25.340 Under a thousand?

00:18:26.000 Yeah.

00:18:26.560 Was it really?

00:18:27.220 Yeah.

00:18:27.820 Nice.

00:18:28.000 And you got a 4K?

00:18:29.620 I got the, yeah.

00:18:31.360 My wife really went crazy. 1.00

00:18:33.160 Your wife bought it for you?

00:18:34.200 I couldn't believe it.

00:18:35.240 I could not believe it.

00:18:36.100 Why is she just not her at all?

00:18:37.720 That is not.

00:18:38.440 That thing is huge.

00:18:39.760 It's a big TV.

00:18:41.300 And it's ultra high definition.

00:18:43.660 So 75 inch.

00:18:44.320 4K is anything 75 inch 4K?

00:18:47.440 Ultra high definition 4K.

00:18:50.060 It's more expensive than your house.

00:18:51.860 Yes, it is.

00:18:52.900 Wow.

00:18:53.960 Is anything broadcast in that?

00:18:55.980 Yeah, Netflix is broadcasting that.

00:18:58.720 The new original series.

00:18:59.600 I don't know if all shows are.

00:19:02.140 I don't know if the one that reaches you is though.

00:19:04.920 What the what?

00:19:05.320 You know what I mean?

00:19:06.480 Sometimes like the cable companies are.

00:19:07.980 Yeah, they won't do 4K.

00:19:09.180 That's a lot of space.

00:19:10.780 Yeah.

00:19:11.060 Some of them are in 4K.

00:19:13.560 I think there's certain cable stations or satellite stations.

00:19:19.180 Yeah, that's that is a total waste of money.

00:19:21.740 Unbelievable.

00:19:22.260 I disagree.

00:19:22.860 The things that are in 4K are unbelievable.

00:19:26.960 It's I've seen it.

00:19:28.160 I've seen it.

00:19:29.140 And it makes all my other TVs look, you know, like they're from the 50s.

00:19:32.960 Yeah, like the old like they're from the 50s.

00:19:34.880 I know.

00:19:35.120 I've watched you watch the blaze.

00:19:37.160 You watch the blaze on some cable channels.

00:19:40.320 It is high definition on some cable.

00:19:43.040 They only give a standard.

00:19:44.000 You watch it in standard.

00:19:46.260 It's like it's like watching from 1970s.

00:19:49.120 Standard television is is awful.

00:19:51.280 Once you're used to high definition and standard and 4K is just as much.

00:19:55.860 It looks blurry.

00:19:56.640 And then 4K is that much better.

00:19:58.480 Yeah, it's it makes that HD look like standard.

00:20:01.520 I mean, I don't apologize, but I'm still driving my car.

00:20:04.760 I mean, I don't know.

00:20:05.800 I just I like my I like the way I feel driving the work.

00:20:09.960 What are you talking about?

00:20:11.140 Are you still I mean, you don't have you have a car that just takes you places now, right?

00:20:17.100 No.

00:20:18.700 What?

00:20:20.100 Are you talking about like the Tetra?

00:20:21.660 Yeah, that's future.

00:20:23.080 Oh, yeah.

00:20:23.640 We're talking about all this future stuff.

00:20:25.380 We're still people are going to be.

00:20:26.620 I know not driving.

00:20:27.880 Yes.

00:20:28.320 Soon.

00:20:29.200 Soon.

00:20:30.120 Very soon.

00:20:30.820 I predict by 2030, you will not be allowed to drive.

00:20:34.900 You'll be able to drive.

00:20:35.660 You'll not be allowed.

00:20:36.380 I think that's a safe prediction.

00:20:37.500 So let's talk about virtual reality and the drive to work and and some of the new technology

00:20:45.340 that people are just gobbling up.

00:20:46.960 We are one.

00:20:50.160 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:53.240 Mercury.

00:20:53.960 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:21:02.300 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:21:06.740 We'll be there.

00:21:07.180 We'll be there.

00:21:08.060 We'll be there.

00:21:09.680 We'll be there.

00:21:11.320 We'll be there.

00:21:11.800 We'll be there.

00:21:12.540 We'll be there.

00:21:12.620 We'll be there.

00:21:18.960 We'll be here.

00:21:20.600 the glenn beck program we go to chip in ohio hello chip hey guys hey uh i do some work for

00:21:37.240 a company that does work for uh google and i can tell you that there that the reason there's a big

00:21:45.460 reason why google home and google now work better than alexa and it's because alexa really mostly just

00:21:54.560 has access to if they either have access to what you search when you shop or they have access to just

00:22:00.960 what you say and that's that's how it learns meanwhile google when everything gets set up

00:22:08.080 they look at everything you know they look at anything you search when you're searching google

00:22:13.520 they they have all these different accounts to look at and and so they pull from a lot more

00:22:19.000 information and of course yeah it's a lot smarter you know there's a there's a funny video but this

00:22:25.980 is interesting that you mentioned that because there's a funny video on the web right now that's

00:22:29.260 gone viral about this little boy cute little guy asking for hot diggity giggity or something and he

00:22:36.960 asked okay google hot giggity googie or lexa i forget which was alexa is it like alexa yeah and and alexa

00:22:45.440 perceives it as some sort of porn so is that because her parents his parents were watching porn or searching

00:22:54.340 for porn or no um actually with that and that's something else i work on and i can't really talk a

00:23:01.320 whole lot about it but it's uh no see amazon the way that they do their product it's got to learn

00:23:09.660 from it and if alexa doesn't have a base to work off of then it i'm i'm goes back to like a generic

00:23:16.740 mindset so i'm guessing alexa just learns from the internet while the google now home products they 0.98

00:23:23.620 learn from people that get on and do work and say uh no you don't want to show porn or if the

00:23:31.260 parents have a special setting turned on the google products can say okay a child messing with this

00:23:38.840 and even though i think he may be looking for porn he's just a child and i need to stop and not let

00:23:45.880 him see it oh the google will do that for you uh there's there are settings you can do parental

00:23:53.620 settings that kind of thing yeah but yeah it's also they they actually have people do work to make

00:23:59.640 sure that the kids are safe online that kind of stuff so chip i don't know if you can say this but

00:24:04.740 i mean it's it's pretty well known the reason why google is doing all of this and the search engine

00:24:09.240 the reason why it's free is because and the same thing here is they are trying to develop artificial

00:24:16.580 intelligence and so they're using all of this information as a way to map how the human brain and

00:24:24.960 how humans interact and how they think and so the you are you're looking at the benefit oh this is

00:24:34.620 great i get this say this their benefit the reason why this is so cost uh effective for you in the home

00:24:41.980 is because they want all of that information because they're they're striving for artificial

00:24:48.920 intelligence and if there was one company that i think is going to do it it would be google because

00:24:53.560 as you said chip they have access to absolutely everything uh i yeah i can't comment a whole lot

00:25:01.400 on that um to tell you whether or not you might be right but what i can say may may make you feel a

00:25:08.660 little bit better is um whenever we do our work we're not you know we're not told to bias anything in a

00:25:18.220 certain way or do if what they want they really want it to be how they want it to be something

00:25:26.060 that works for everyone because it but you know i i don't know about maybe if they're doing anything

00:25:33.880 like that like you're talking about i don't know i will tell you this i don't i'm not assigning i'm not

00:25:38.240 assigning um nefarious yeah i mean it's a private corporation and ai would be exceptional to have i mean

00:25:47.180 you've already said chip and i i you know we should probably um cut this conversation with you

00:25:52.660 because you don't get in any trouble here um but uh you know when you know as chip was saying here a

00:25:58.720 second ago um that they're they're using all of the information the the goal is eventually to be able

00:26:06.320 to say you you're reading something and it's starting to now think like you are so it is the ultimate

00:26:14.620 assistant and so it knows what you're reading because you're reading it on your device it knows

00:26:21.100 what you've underlined it knows when you say for instance it has all of my patterns of when i read

00:26:27.400 it knows that i go and i will highlight a name or i will jump off and i will look for additional

00:26:33.860 information it will already do those things and so when you get up in the morning you'll say

00:26:39.320 hey glenn i noticed that last night you're reading such and such would you like some more

00:26:44.160 information i did some research i think you'll find this really interesting or i know you've been

00:26:49.320 talking about your anniversary is coming up and i know that you've been talking to your assistant

00:26:54.340 because it's reading my mail about uh setting something up for your anniversary have you considered

00:27:00.300 these things because i also read tanya's mail and i know she's interested right now in these things

00:27:07.020 that's there's nothing nefarious about it but first let me get you a cup of coffee

00:27:11.260 right how great is that going to be well i'll just say and i'll just get off of here for you

00:27:17.260 but uh yeah i'll just say no comment on that uh you can figure that out yeah

00:27:23.680 but yeah so yeah no comment thank you very much i appreciate it yeah that i mean that that's there's

00:27:32.000 there's no secret to that yeah that's i mean he probably can't talk about it because of his

00:27:36.260 non-disclosures but that is there's nothing nefarious about that the question is where do you

00:27:42.340 draw the line at what point do you say i don't want to go any further than this i don't think there

00:27:52.280 is a line anymore i don't think there is either no i think i mean this is what al gore talks about it

00:27:57.300 in the first chapter of his book that nobody read the idea of transhumanism and transhumanism

00:28:04.400 is targeted to be about 2030 and that is the merging of man and machine where artificial intelligence

00:28:11.980 is so good that you will you will automatically upload things you'll be able to download some of

00:28:19.940 your thoughts and upload uh some new information well who's how are you going to compete if you

00:28:27.020 don't want to do that right now think of our conversations it's the 10-year anniversary of

00:28:33.280 the smartphone of the iphone this year 10-year anniversary 10 years now think about

00:28:41.560 conversations because we just had them we were up in the up of the ranch we don't we don't really

00:28:47.440 have you know um devices so you're up at the ranch and you're playing cards or you're playing a game

00:28:55.200 nobody has google out where you're talking about a story where you're saying hey what was the name

00:28:59.860 of that you actually have to search for that stuff in your own mind to go it was it uh no no no it was

00:29:05.640 something like that no i'll think about it in a second we don't have those conversations anymore

00:29:10.900 because you start down that road and somebody has it and they've done the google search when that is

00:29:16.540 merged with you think of the power that you have as an individual when you are able to access the

00:29:25.040 internet inside your own self that's 2030 i am convinced my it was with my um my sister and her son

00:29:35.560 over the holiday and uh she got him vr goggles and i looked at her like are you out of your mind

00:29:45.580 she's like oh no they're great have you seen no yeah no i've seen them it's the end i'm convinced

00:29:52.680 the end of civilization i just want to ride the roller coaster no i know you do i know you do but

00:30:00.060 if you look at where that's headed when when you have and by 2025 2025 you'll have this when you have

00:30:10.440 the virtual suit that you can put on even yeah when you when you're able to feel when you're able

00:30:15.260 to feel when you're riding or whatever you're doing and you're able to actually feel the sensation

00:30:20.840 if you're great you're already reaching for things yeah and you're like and you can't and you're like

00:30:25.560 right when you can reach when you can reach out and grab something yes when someone can tap you on

00:30:31.520 the shoulder in vr and you can feel it can you imagine they have these horror scenarios that you

00:30:36.920 watch on yeah and if black mirror if you can reach out and touch you oh my god okay so so now imagine

00:30:43.300 and we've talked about this before imagine my life is just a piece of crap i just go to work i don't

00:30:52.280 have a job that i like i i don't have any satisfaction um i just you know i have a crappy life i'm just i'm

00:31:01.340 just not making it but i can afford vr and i can afford the internet and i can afford this i'll save up

00:31:08.960 for this suit i go out and i just do my job dead to the world just dead to the world i'm just living 0.61

00:31:17.480 for my paycheck to feed and to be able to pay for the internet and the services that i want i go home

00:31:24.900 i get into the suit i now have a girlfriend who can touch me she learns all about me i have an

00:31:33.740 assistant i have the virtual i live in a palace yeah everything i everything i do and then i take

00:31:41.420 off the goggles and i'm back to this world oh i'm telling you it is the end of civilization because

00:31:49.040 the other world will be so much better for so many people oh my gosh so many people it's created for

00:31:55.040 you how can it not be it's personalized to fit your every want and need tell me how you don't end up

00:32:04.160 in the matrix back in just a second you're listening to the glenn beck program

00:32:11.000 mercury

00:32:34.160 by the way i'm talking about this stuff if you want to read a book we read it as a family

00:32:44.620 it is fantastic and it talks about this coming world it's called ready player one

00:32:50.340 came out a few years ago bestseller steven spielberg just bought it making a movie in the

00:32:54.840 next couple of years and it's really good and it talks about this virtual world and what it's

00:33:00.760 really going to be like um and how the corporations uh and the government have kind of intertwined it's

00:33:07.180 really fascinating it's called ready player one did anybody see rogue one yeah i liked it i liked it

00:33:13.900 a lot yeah i thought when i when i watched it i thought it was a you know it wasn't fabulous but

00:33:19.960 it was really good it was a really good movie for a secondary storyline yeah it's a fantastic movie

00:33:27.460 and it's just a printing press for disney think of think of what disney has now disney has the marvel

00:33:35.080 series yeah they own marvel they own pixar and they own star wars it's pretty good lineup else do

00:33:44.340 they need it's a i mean like that's an amazing company not to not to mention the parks uh yeah

00:33:52.160 abc television abc tv yeah they're pretty well set when abc television is kind of like the junk

00:33:57.600 you're kind of like oh you work for that part of disney unless it's espn because i think espn is

00:34:08.020 probably more more valuable than abc oh it is oh it is yeah espn yeah except what was the controversy

00:34:16.000 on espn over the holiday um oh there's something that i read about espn maybe it was just a year in

00:34:23.260 review talking about how espn um well is losing viewership because they become so politically correct

00:34:32.840 yeah oh that could be yeah i saw a i saw a research report um on uh on facebook and the difference

00:34:42.640 between republicans and democrats and i couldn't believe how different we are uh the people who

00:34:49.720 said that they were voting for a republican versus the people who said they were voting for democrats

00:34:54.780 like 60 percent of republicans 70 percent of republicans said they were nfl also liked the nfl

00:35:01.360 or an nfl team and only like 40 percent of democrats wow it's a it's a weird split really yeah

00:35:09.700 really weird split and yet it's it's interesting because anytime you listen to a sports station

00:35:15.360 anytime they get on politics right completely liberal yeah and it's just agonizing and i think

00:35:21.300 that's part of the problem with espn espn it is appeals to the heartland right except they don't

00:35:28.260 understand that yeah they yeah yeah i don't i mean have you guys ever noticed a split between people

00:35:35.480 who live in new york and and football i mean i was shocked by that it was it was and i'm trying to

00:35:43.940 remember i think it was also there were more conservatives or more republicans that followed

00:35:50.960 soccer than democrats oh that can't be because soccer fans are communists right yeah we all know

00:35:58.560 what i thought i mean that's just they're all open border communists that's right it just can't

00:36:05.020 be it's already flawed we're not talking about it anymore yeah soccer you guys make a new year's

00:36:13.760 resolution no i never do that it's a waste of time i gave that up for lent a long time ago and i

00:36:21.380 don't even do that is your resolution yeah it is not to make new year's i you know i just try to do

00:36:27.140 better and then leave it at that because anytime you think that's why you never really and that's

00:36:32.300 why i never really approve right that's why you're the same man you were i met 30 years ago probably

00:36:37.640 even worse you know i've gone backward i've gone backwards yeah so uh it's not working well for me

00:36:43.740 yeah i've never kept a new year's resolution has anybody oh we should we should ask i mean i'd love

00:36:49.520 to hear of somebody who's you know for 10 or 15 or 20 years kept a resolution even for 15 minutes

00:36:58.060 have you kept a resolution go to the gym every day you know working out eating better feeling good

00:37:04.120 oh my gosh oh my gosh we as a family never happens we as a family uh we were buying somebody a gym

00:37:11.540 membership uh and you know they got to me you know you want to you want to donate for the gym

00:37:17.780 so they're never going to use that they're never going to use that oh no but they really need to

00:37:22.640 yeah i know they really need they're not we all need to yeah no but they're really talking about

00:37:27.920 getting healthy they're not going to get healthy no maybe if you maybe if you buy maybe a couple of

00:37:33.740 times to the gym they'll use that not the membership this is the glenn beck program mercury

00:37:42.080 happy new year jamaica new year's resolution uh we want to hear from you about what you'd like to

00:38:12.060 do differently this year if anything and we'll start there right now

00:38:17.800 i will make a stand i will raise my voice i will hold your hand

00:38:25.560 because we are one i will beat my drum i have made my choice we will overcome

00:38:33.600 the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenn beck program

00:38:44.060 it is the glenn beck program uh as sometimes happens with fat people like us uh glenn just

00:38:56.280 threw his back out and by sitting there he was lifting a plate of food lifting a plate of food

00:39:04.700 and threw his back out he wasn't even doing that i he just moved and uh i don't know sometimes you

00:39:11.000 know when you've got bad back uh when you have a bad back it doesn't take anything i mean you just

00:39:16.600 move a certain way and bang you're in massive pain which was what just happened to him moments ago and

00:39:22.660 so he's kind of been carried off on a stretcher almost not quite a stretcher but he was definitely

00:39:27.720 helped out of the studio pretty close uh so uh pat gray and uh jeffy for glenn right now and then stew

00:39:35.040 is really sick today i went through that too i got that flu really bad a few weeks ago and i was

00:39:40.760 in bed for several days just feeling like crap did you get any of that so no i did not no that's

00:39:46.920 nice very fortunate about that that's nice because it's definitely going around yeah i mean i got the

00:39:50.960 beginning i felt like the beginnings of illness coming on and then it's all good then you were

00:39:56.580 fine i mean weather here in texas has been so uh well i mean it's like it always freezing 80 freezing

00:40:02.640 that's a dallas winter though you know it goes 75 43 68 52 let's go out and share tonight is going

00:40:12.260 to be freezing yeah all right uh triple eight seven two seven back right right before the break we were

00:40:17.820 we were talking about the fact that i i just i never make resolutions anymore and i i don't know

00:40:23.540 anybody who does do you still make new year's resolutions oh i sent the one for the workout and

00:40:30.220 the gym and so that's gone so well that i decided why do i need to know for all of us i mean it's just

00:40:37.240 yeah it's just the same thing you're setting yourself up first of all for failure that's what

00:40:41.160 immediately that's why you do it and it's like you're done yeah according to business insider

00:40:47.360 uh the most popular resolutions your co-workers are making for 2017 uh one-fifth of people 22 percent

00:40:55.980 of the 34 this is pretty big survey 3 411 employees were surveyed and they said their top resolution for

00:41:02.820 2017 is to leave their current job and find a new one wow among younger workers and the number is

00:41:11.200 even higher 35 percent of those between 18 and 34 expect to have a new job by the end of the year

00:41:16.080 um it was conducted online by the harris poll and about half of the respondents 49 percent

00:41:25.980 say they plan to put more of their paycheck into savings about a third 38 percent want to decrease

00:41:33.320 their stress level another third would like to move up a step on the ladder over the next 12 months

00:41:38.940 28 percent plan to consume less junk food at the office yes that's just not going to happen people

00:41:45.200 it's just that's not going to happen why bother it's just not just understand that and know it and

00:41:52.320 then you don't have to be disappointed the whole year and just uh about 26 percent resolved to make

00:41:58.560 more courses training or seminars in 2017 why i don't know that's just stupid it's just 0.78

00:42:08.820 very few of these are actually going to happen which is why i you know and then the other resolution

00:42:14.620 for most people is to eat right exercise feel better lose weight and it's important and i want

00:42:22.700 to i do too i really do i just don't call it a resolution i because again i think you're setting

00:42:28.980 yourself up for failure yeah i mean i just i mean i want to i want to drive by the gym and use that as

00:42:34.760 a priority and pull in i don't want anything to do with the gym i don't even pretend i want anything

00:42:38.940 to do with the gym no i mean eat right and exercise maybe at home maybe take a walk from

00:42:44.420 time to time i do not want to go to the gym uh i've got family members now several kids who are

00:42:51.460 just obsessed i mean my son part owner of gyms i mean i can't i know i'm not doing it plus your son

00:42:58.540 actually does work out a lot yeah yeah pretty sad that's how you get to be what six five and

00:43:04.740 yeah three ten he's without an ounce of fat on your bones yeah well now he's lost a lot of weight

00:43:08.880 by working out so hard yeah i mean he's down like 50 pounds oh is he really yeah he's ready to play

00:43:13.920 tight end you know if you're looking to draft somebody nfl for a new contract what is he 43 now

00:43:19.740 it's probably a little a little beyond draft time yeah i know well i was just taking a shot

00:43:26.060 uh triple eight seven two seven back eight eight eight seven two seven beck if you got some

00:43:32.660 resolutions that uh you'd like to share with us i i don't even know if anybody does this anymore

00:43:36.760 does anybody even do resolutions i don't think so i mean i have no at least there must be somebody

00:43:41.820 right because we talk about it every year and there has to be it has to be somebody uh let's go to uh

00:43:47.980 pete in texas pete you're on the glenbeck program with pat and jenny hey guys how you doing good

00:43:54.820 um so i actually was calling earlier um i guess my resolution would probably be that

00:44:01.840 i don't have radio hosts order things off of amazon for me anymore um seeing as you guys

00:44:08.840 caught total chaos in our house this morning saying the Alexa keyword over

00:44:14.560 it's surprising how many people first of all it's amazing how many people have i know

00:44:21.780 because we've heard that quite a bit so far this morning today and then and then that it would set

00:44:27.280 off from listening to the radio is kind of interesting to me too i didn't even think of

00:44:31.540 that when we were saying Alexa let's see now we just did it again uh all right go ahead

00:44:37.260 exactly um so one thing you guys were discussing with that this morning um was the way it works um

00:44:45.700 you were saying that it always listens and it's always recording um because there's that case in

00:44:50.720 arkansas where you know the murder is happening right where the murder occurred and there's

00:44:55.840 right you can try to get the data anyway um so that it's not actually always listening and recording

00:45:03.160 everything everyone says i'm a software engineer um what it does it sits in and listens for the

00:45:10.300 keyword and then it starts listening um it's actually on the device it's encoded in a chip on the

00:45:15.980 device uh to listen for that that keyword of Alexa or hey google or hey siri you know that sort of

00:45:23.540 thing yeah um then it starts listening you can test this too if you just sit and you know say hey um

00:45:30.080 you know what's the weather outside Alexa it doesn't have the context to it's not recording to be able

00:45:36.380 to pick up what you said before then why all right why then would the police want access to uh its

00:45:45.220 recordings they they don't realize that it's not functioning like a microphone um they think that

00:45:52.780 it is big brother style and maybe someday it'll get to that um i could easily see google or amazon

00:45:59.460 going hey you know let's offer this ability for it to have context and then it starts recording

00:46:05.500 everything um you could see that happening in the future but today that's not how it works um so it

00:46:12.320 would do them no good then is what you're saying so even if even if amazon said sure we'll give you

00:46:17.620 the tape the recordings then there it wouldn't do them any good because it wouldn't have recorded

00:46:23.440 unless they said hey Alexa i'm about to kill this guy exactly which if you're doing that well you're

00:46:30.500 probably not going to get away probably not yeah you're probably not that smart a uh a murderer 0.75

00:46:35.820 Alexa i need cleaning products to clean up this blood well that's interesting and actually that's

00:46:41.000 that's a relief because i don't want to recording everything i i wouldn't i wouldn't want that in

00:46:46.540 my house in standby listening mode amazon's detriment if they were going for google or anyone to sit and

00:46:52.360 take in all of that data if they were right screaming that everyone said i mean think about

00:46:58.060 them that would be a lot it would be a ton of data and they'd have to process it and most of the

00:47:03.900 what's the purpose in it they want to sell you paper towels you know they don't yeah they don't want to

00:47:08.760 uh know any of that other stuff so that's a pretty good point that's a pretty good point

00:47:14.100 it is uh appreciate the call uh thanks a lot pete let's go to zach in ohio uh zach you're on the

00:47:19.500 glenn peck program hi hello how are you good well uh i got a couple new year's resolutions uh i need

00:47:29.180 to lose a little bit of weight yeah um i'm going to actually start uh holding my representatives

00:47:35.640 accountable i'm actually from west virginia i'm a truck driver and i'm outside of cincinnati ohio right

00:47:41.440 now so my senators are capito and mansion and my congressman's mckinley and i've seen those

00:47:48.880 suspense horror flicks of the smart houses from the 90s so i'm not ever going to get any ai fiber

00:47:57.380 optics because my fear is is that it will enslave me in my own house

00:48:01.680 you know i mean i don't think that's ridiculous anymore i think it's not it could happen appreciate

00:48:11.000 the call sack pretty close and you know i mean it could happen with the yeah with the with the

00:48:16.240 computer information and then the robotics mixed with the robotics i mean even without the robotics

00:48:21.820 just the information in your home but with robotics as well yeah yeah i mean it's not that far-fetched

00:48:29.040 no it is not if anything with haywire i mean let's say we're completely dependent on a smart home

00:48:35.800 and the power goes out for an extended period of time then what do you do i mean if if your house

00:48:42.960 i could see a scenario where you'd be pretty powerless if you depend on the smart functions

00:48:50.200 of your house to do everything then without power without power you've got nothing right there's no way

00:48:57.440 to switch switch away from that yeah i can see where that would be a problem i'm trying to think even if

00:49:02.600 it's nothing sinister you know just a power outage would screw things up right right uh let's go to

00:49:09.180 brian in massachusetts brian you're on the glenbeck program hey how you guys doing happy new year happy

00:49:16.860 new year thank you i'm just calling regards to the alexa uh and now so massachusetts uh it's a two-party

00:49:24.560 state in terms of oral communication yeah and that both parties need to be aware that you're recording

00:49:30.880 if you are yeah correct so there's obviously exceptions state and federal law enforcement

00:49:36.500 phone companies etc so now the summary of mass law is uh prevents private citizens from secretly

00:49:44.840 recording others or possessing a device with the intent to secretly record okay i know the key word

00:49:52.120 there is secretly but if you bring the case from i believe it's arkansas yes uh i think a friend who

00:50:02.960 found the dead guy in the tub yes how could you argue well he doesn't know he's being recorded

00:50:08.460 and how can you prove intent of a guy who's dead

00:50:11.700 um you can't you can't you can't so that would be interesting to uh to test in in massachusetts or

00:50:24.540 any of these states with the with a two-party law uh i i'd be interested to see but it's kind of a

00:50:31.120 moot point if what our previous caller was saying is true in that it doesn't right record if it does

00:50:36.720 buying the product is a simple admission that you're aware that it's recording and

00:50:40.460 i mean that would be it's true it's like intent is implied like when you call a radio station right

00:50:46.820 uh it's implied that you're giving us consent to put you on the air correct i mean it's different if

00:50:51.540 we call you well you know i got the the latest telephone with and i put in new applications i do

00:50:57.900 you read what's good do you read uh all the agreements that you agreed to with every app or

00:51:04.020 you just say agree i want to use the app move on yes and all that information is going to those apps

00:51:10.700 and they make it impossible the 38 pages of and you can't deny there's nothing they used to break it up

00:51:16.680 into sections where you could okay yeah you you can do this but you can't do this no right no more of

00:51:22.360 that it's deny or not use the app appreciate the call brian thanks let's go to eric in california

00:51:26.880 eric you're on the glenbeck program what's up patten studio i'm glad to see you guys again i've been

00:51:34.960 having withdrawals from uh missing you guys oh it's good to be back us too but yeah my hey it's true

00:51:41.640 my resolutions are i'm 24 years old from california and my resolutions are to quit drinking alcohol

00:51:48.600 oh wow i mean completely and not just cut back you're gonna quit

00:51:53.280 yeah completely all right when did that start after new year's eve uh yeah yeah

00:52:00.760 that's pretty good congratulations three days is three days was there was there more or is that it

00:52:08.680 is i mean that's a big one though that's huge uh i've tried it a few times but i watched something on

00:52:15.920 youtube from glenbeck uh when you guys talked to an alcoholic actually he called him to the show

00:52:20.900 you're right yeah and it didn't motivate me and it stopped me from drinking for six months when i was

00:52:27.520 working for ted cruz or really wow nice so what i would do first is start by maybe watching that video

00:52:34.400 every three months then you'd be all right just kind of roll into that yeah is that the guy who he

00:52:41.480 called us and said that he'd he'd gotten sober uh inspired by glenn right in his sobriety then he

00:52:48.180 read the books read the books yeah yeah uh yeah that was a that was a powerful powerful yeah story

00:52:55.300 would have been great if it was true it was awesome it really speaks volumes to what you guys do and i

00:53:02.100 really do appreciate uh the network and kind of the sea show as well appreciate it every day thanks

00:53:07.840 a lot eric appreciate it thanks for the call uh let's go to andrew in florida andrew you're on the

00:53:12.860 glenbeck program hi hey good morning hey i just wanted to say uh i have not only made my new year's

00:53:23.760 resolutions for the past four years i've kept every single one of them really and what are they have

00:53:27.720 they been difficult or are they just throw away resolution give us an example no no no well you

00:53:33.140 know i i obviously you know i'm a fat man so the obvious resolution is to become not a fat man but

00:53:39.440 that's not something that's going to happen thank you thank you welcome andrew welcome yes i'm weak

00:53:45.800 yes but uh i made resolutions i started making resolutions to learn and become proficient at

00:53:52.140 something new every year oh nice okay so four years ago i started with archery i wanted to learn

00:53:58.760 archery just something to do so i i learned archery and i became proficient uh then you know i wanted to

00:54:06.340 learn to use a cast net catch my own bait clean a fish properly you know and become an angler and this

00:54:11.700 year uh my goal is hunting so i secured my hunting license and i'm gonna learn whatever i can about that

00:54:20.120 you know how to clean an animal and do whatever else needs to be done so are you is this with the

00:54:27.780 goal of becoming sort of um more self-sufficient and survivalist uh to an extent yes okay uh i realize

00:54:37.800 that you know things might not always go as planned and i'm gonna be uh ready nice nice uh that's a good

00:54:43.660 way to go about it i appreciate the call thanks a lot andrew uh triple eight seven two seven back

00:54:47.960 888-727-BECK it's the glenbeck program

00:54:51.720 this is the glenbeck program mercury

00:54:58.840 this is the glenbeck program

00:55:25.720 pat gray and uh jeffy for glen on the glenbeck program he had a weird accident where he

00:55:32.740 was sitting and hurt himself so

00:55:36.180 yeah you don't want to sit no you don't and you gotta be careful i mean he was not careful

00:55:45.400 i worry about him every night because he's hurt him he's hurting himself sitting now yeah he was

00:55:49.780 he's gonna hurt himself sleeping he was sitting there and we're like be careful and he wasn't no

00:55:54.820 he wasn't because he he apparently moved tried to move in some way and seriously he threw his back

00:56:01.140 out really badly and oh he had to be helped from the studio so i mean if i saw it happen where it

00:56:06.760 was like he it hit you know he you're right he moved he moved he moved yeah and it was so not

00:56:12.420 pretty it was not good it was not so um i mean just a cautionary tale if you're if you're a big fat

00:56:19.160 guy like we are don't move don't move don't move it's what i try to live by i try not to move

00:56:26.940 as much as possible so don't be telling me about this gym stuff well you need a gym membership and

00:56:32.840 you need to work out your abs that'll strengthen your core isn't it no no the thing is don't move

00:56:39.980 and then there won't be a problem your core is fine because it's not moving i'm not moving right

00:56:46.340 now and so my core is perfect right 888-727-BECK we've been talking about new year's resolutions and

00:56:53.500 if anybody makes them anymore and apparently a few people still do uh and um business insider just did

00:57:01.240 a poll career builder uh top resolutions for for working people about half the respondents 49%

00:57:08.540 plan to put more of their paycheck into savings about a third want to decrease their stress level

00:57:13.300 about 22 percent of employees just want to change jobs this year that's i mean you hear that from a

00:57:19.320 lot of people a lot of people not doing what they like doing and i mean it's important to to do what

00:57:25.080 you like right you're just better at it 888-727-BECK 888-727-BECK if you've made a resolution

00:57:32.660 because we are one the glenn beck program mercury

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00:58:17.060 Pastor

00:58:17.660 mercury

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00:58:20.660 on the Glenn Beck program.

00:58:23.100 Glenn threw his back out,

00:58:24.620 so he's out for the rest of the day.

00:58:26.680 He'll hopefully be on tomorrow, maybe

00:58:28.240 from his bed.

00:58:30.440 We'll see. And then Stu

00:58:32.340 came down with some kind of Chinese crud.

00:58:35.700 I don't even know

00:58:36.660 if he's been to China, but somehow

00:58:38.080 he got the Chinese crud.

00:58:41.120 888-727-BECK

00:58:42.660 888-727-BECK

00:58:44.660 It was

00:58:46.640 so weird that a week

00:58:48.600 after the Rogue One

00:58:50.400 Star Wars movie was released.

00:58:52.840 Carrie Fisher died. Was it a week?

00:58:54.860 Maybe a week and a half? Something like that?

00:58:56.560 I don't know the time frame, but close enough to be

00:58:58.800 part of

00:59:00.680 the whole sadness. She was only

00:59:02.580 60. I know.

00:59:04.400 And boy, 60 looks like

00:59:06.240 to me, you look like a teenager

00:59:08.860 when you're 60.

00:59:10.400 I remember when I turned 60.

00:59:12.280 That's just a few years away now.

00:59:14.800 I mean, I know it's in your

00:59:16.580 rear view mirror. I don't even think about

00:59:18.700 60 anymore.

00:59:19.480 60 seems... I remember

00:59:22.100 worrying about turning 60

00:59:23.680 and thinking, wow, that's horrible.

00:59:26.240 But now...

00:59:26.680 Now it seems like you're an infant

00:59:28.640 at 60 to you.

00:59:29.800 But when they talked about her

00:59:30.740 having problems on the airplane

00:59:32.120 and then

00:59:34.200 being rushed to the hospital,

00:59:36.420 I was

00:59:36.720 afraid she wasn't there.

00:59:38.640 Didn't they then, though,

00:59:39.940 a while later, they said

00:59:41.900 she was stable. She was in stable condition.

00:59:44.200 And her mother made a big statement

00:59:46.820 that she's five.

00:59:47.760 Yeah, and then all of a sudden

00:59:49.240 she's gone.

00:59:49.940 Really sad.

00:59:50.900 And then her mom died

00:59:52.560 within, what, a day of that.

00:59:55.120 So Debbie Reynolds, 1.00

00:59:56.600 we lost, like, within 48 hours

00:59:58.840 of Carrie Fisher.

01:00:00.820 And then

01:00:01.580 George Michael

01:00:02.660 died.

01:00:03.400 And that's kind of...

01:00:05.400 Those are weird circumstances.

01:00:07.140 Nobody really knows

01:00:07.860 what happened there, right?

01:00:09.500 Have they released that?

01:00:10.540 No, but

01:00:11.180 they were just saying

01:00:12.160 he died at home.

01:00:14.660 So...

01:00:15.260 You know, everybody dies at home,

01:00:16.780 but we've got to die somewhere.

01:00:17.920 When they won't say...

01:00:19.360 It usually is.

01:00:20.040 It's usually suicide

01:00:21.040 or AIDS.

01:00:22.720 Right?

01:00:23.400 Isn't that

01:00:23.860 normally the case?

01:00:25.260 Well, one of the pictures

01:00:26.060 that they

01:00:27.760 showed,

01:00:29.040 they saw

01:00:29.560 of him

01:00:30.060 last being photographed,

01:00:31.340 which was

01:00:31.700 in the last month or so

01:00:33.420 before he died,

01:00:34.680 he didn't look that thin.

01:00:36.960 No, he didn't.

01:00:38.040 That is true.

01:00:38.920 So usually

01:00:40.100 if you're close to death

01:00:41.900 with the disease,

01:00:43.640 you stop

01:00:45.080 gaining weight.

01:00:45.860 Yeah, that's true.

01:00:46.800 And then

01:00:47.480 there seems to be

01:00:48.720 some suspicion

01:00:49.500 with his

01:00:50.080 significant other

01:00:51.860 person

01:00:52.520 because

01:00:53.720 first of all,

01:00:54.820 this guy said

01:00:55.420 that he was with him

01:00:56.040 all weekend

01:00:56.580 and then he suddenly...

01:00:58.040 No, I fell asleep

01:00:59.300 in my car

01:00:59.980 and I slept the night...

01:01:01.180 You fell asleep

01:01:02.120 in your car?

01:01:02.920 Oh, okay.

01:01:03.680 That must have been

01:01:04.160 a good night's rest.

01:01:04.780 Yeah.

01:01:05.320 All right.

01:01:05.700 So that's

01:01:06.240 a weird circumstance too.

01:01:07.840 And then

01:01:08.680 Lavelle Edwards,

01:01:09.500 one of my heroes,

01:01:10.580 legendary coach

01:01:12.160 of BYU

01:01:12.620 for 30 years,

01:01:14.160 died as well.

01:01:15.180 Becoming threes.

01:01:16.260 Boy.

01:01:16.680 Oh, man.

01:01:17.800 Unfortunately,

01:01:18.460 that's four.

01:01:19.020 That's four people.

01:01:20.740 That's four.

01:01:24.320 888-727-BECK-888-727-BECK.

01:01:28.800 We're talking about

01:01:29.760 New Year's resolutions.

01:01:30.800 So if you've made one,

01:01:31.960 if you still have those,

01:01:33.640 we'd like to hear

01:01:34.260 what yours is.

01:01:35.460 In Finland,

01:01:36.780 they have an ambitious

01:01:37.960 New Year's resolution

01:01:39.540 in mind.

01:01:41.120 They want to find out

01:01:42.640 how offering people

01:01:43.860 free money

01:01:44.480 for two years

01:01:45.520 helps the unemployed

01:01:47.140 get back to work.

01:01:48.560 Gets them back

01:01:49.020 on their feet.

01:01:49.960 They're going to take

01:01:50.520 2,000 people

01:01:51.440 who are currently

01:01:52.260 unemployed

01:01:52.860 and give them

01:01:54.320 free money

01:01:55.080 for two years.

01:01:56.780 No matter what,

01:01:57.380 either.

01:01:57.760 You're going to get

01:01:58.340 the money

01:01:58.720 first of the month,

01:02:00.100 period.

01:02:00.820 And then they're going

01:02:01.400 to see how that helps

01:02:02.260 them get back to work?

01:02:03.520 That's going to get

01:02:04.000 them right back to work.

01:02:05.200 It's going to get

01:02:05.820 them right back to work.

01:02:06.700 Right back to work.

01:02:07.200 Because if you're

01:02:07.700 getting more money

01:02:08.800 by sitting home

01:02:10.480 doing nothing,

01:02:11.880 you know you're

01:02:12.720 going to be inspired

01:02:13.500 and motivated

01:02:14.280 to get out

01:02:14.840 and get a job.

01:02:15.180 You're going to want

01:02:15.740 to because you're

01:02:16.100 going to be able

01:02:16.420 to afford a new

01:02:17.460 shirt and some

01:02:18.300 new pants

01:02:18.820 and get out there

01:02:19.340 and look good

01:02:20.980 to the employer.

01:02:22.120 Is that the theory

01:02:22.380 behind it?

01:02:23.000 It must be, right?

01:02:24.360 Of course it is.

01:02:25.240 They're going to give

01:02:25.660 them $590 a month,

01:02:27.600 which is not a lot

01:02:28.380 of money.

01:02:29.420 But it supplements

01:02:31.720 people enough

01:02:32.980 that maybe that'll

01:02:34.320 be enough for them.

01:02:35.660 And in Finland,

01:02:36.600 I mean,

01:02:37.260 what most people

01:02:38.000 are living in

01:02:39.360 small apartments

01:02:40.200 right anyway.

01:02:41.300 I mean,

01:02:41.440 you're a little bit

01:02:41.980 familiar with Finland.

01:02:43.760 My son lived there

01:02:44.460 for two years.

01:02:45.200 Yeah, I mean,

01:02:45.660 so, you know,

01:02:47.240 I don't know how

01:02:47.800 much it costs

01:02:48.320 for one of the

01:02:49.040 smaller places.

01:02:51.680 Yeah, I don't either.

01:02:53.000 But everything's

01:02:54.260 government subsidized.

01:02:55.800 So the taxes

01:02:56.440 are ridiculous

01:02:57.100 for everybody.

01:02:59.240 And the government

01:03:00.180 takes care of

01:03:01.100 everything to begin

01:03:02.200 with.

01:03:02.500 So if the government

01:03:03.140 that's giving out

01:03:04.060 money to people

01:03:05.980 for doing nothing

01:03:07.300 charges other people

01:03:09.960 a bunch of money

01:03:10.880 to do that.

01:03:12.840 And now apparently

01:03:13.860 they're going to do

01:03:14.380 that.

01:03:14.860 Even it's even

01:03:16.520 more of that.

01:03:17.400 Yeah.

01:03:18.280 So that's got to

01:03:19.060 work out really well.

01:03:22.260 Opponents of the

01:03:23.500 experiment say

01:03:25.120 it will just

01:03:26.420 allow people to

01:03:27.760 sit on their couch

01:03:28.620 all day.

01:03:29.200 I mean,

01:03:30.500 of course that's

01:03:31.660 going to happen.

01:03:33.120 What do you

01:03:33.440 I can't wait to hear

01:03:35.000 the results of this

01:03:35.820 and see if they

01:03:36.500 but if they tell

01:03:37.700 the truth,

01:03:38.460 they might not.

01:03:39.420 These are socialists

01:03:40.200 to begin with.

01:03:40.800 So are they going

01:03:41.500 to tell the truth?

01:03:42.100 Well, you know what?

01:03:42.680 It didn't work

01:03:43.340 giving people free

01:03:44.040 money.

01:03:44.340 We found out it

01:03:45.020 didn't motivate

01:03:46.300 them.

01:03:47.360 But proponents

01:03:48.300 claim they'll

01:03:48.940 actually use the

01:03:49.920 money to make

01:03:50.500 their lives better.

01:03:52.840 In what way?

01:03:54.040 How is that?

01:03:54.720 What?

01:03:55.860 How?

01:03:57.300 The system

01:03:58.000 nowadays,

01:03:58.600 it's pretty negative

01:03:59.260 for people who try

01:04:00.080 to do something

01:04:00.720 even little in

01:04:02.340 their lives and

01:04:03.160 get something out

01:04:04.000 of it.

01:04:04.640 A basic income

01:04:05.640 might turn risky,

01:04:07.140 might turn a risky

01:04:08.220 move into a much

01:04:09.140 safer one.

01:04:09.820 So they think

01:04:10.780 that getting

01:04:11.360 $590 a month

01:04:13.340 will allow them

01:04:14.440 to become

01:04:15.020 more adventurous

01:04:16.120 and try something

01:04:17.080 new and give them

01:04:18.400 a little bit more

01:04:19.200 of a safety net

01:04:20.080 than they already

01:04:20.840 have.

01:04:22.820 It's a bizarre,

01:04:23.720 wow, that's a

01:04:24.400 bizarre plan.

01:04:25.260 Okay.

01:04:25.960 That's a bizarre plan.

01:04:26.820 Good luck with that

01:04:27.100 theory.

01:04:29.260 Triple A.

01:04:30.020 And then you wonder,

01:04:30.820 you know,

01:04:31.160 why we're in the

01:04:32.640 kind of situation

01:04:34.260 that we're in.

01:04:35.240 But that's what

01:04:35.960 some people have

01:04:37.120 touted would be

01:04:38.100 a fix here,

01:04:38.880 right?

01:04:39.160 I mean,

01:04:39.340 as a theory,

01:04:41.720 the, you know,

01:04:42.520 just pay everybody

01:04:43.480 a monthly,

01:04:44.900 their monthly stipend.

01:04:46.500 Yeah.

01:04:46.840 And for,

01:04:48.660 for the most

01:04:51.500 menial of jobs

01:04:52.520 to pay people

01:04:53.280 $15 an hour

01:04:54.440 to do them,

01:04:55.640 even that is

01:04:56.920 a terrible plan.

01:04:57.740 Right.

01:04:58.120 But when you're

01:04:58.780 paying people

01:04:59.500 to do absolutely

01:05:00.320 nothing,

01:05:01.380 how do you think

01:05:02.300 that's going to work?

01:05:03.960 We've seen over

01:05:05.160 and over and over

01:05:06.180 when people become

01:05:07.400 reliant on the

01:05:09.460 government,

01:05:10.160 it doesn't motivate

01:05:11.700 them to do better.

01:05:13.200 They simply rely

01:05:14.640 on the government.

01:05:15.720 There are some

01:05:16.140 states that have

01:05:17.000 made people

01:05:18.940 do services

01:05:21.700 for the state,

01:05:22.800 public service,

01:05:23.800 or have a job

01:05:25.340 for the state

01:05:26.120 if they're going

01:05:26.980 to take state money.

01:05:28.500 And that's been

01:05:29.920 where the people

01:05:30.580 say, you know,

01:05:31.320 no, that's fine.

01:05:32.240 You keep your money.

01:05:32.900 I don't want to do

01:05:33.520 that.

01:05:34.280 Yeah.

01:05:34.480 I don't even want

01:05:35.040 to work.

01:05:35.680 I don't want

01:05:36.000 to work at all.

01:05:37.080 I'm not going

01:05:37.660 to sweep a street

01:05:38.540 and get your money.

01:05:39.900 Yeah.

01:05:40.480 Well, okay.

01:05:41.440 It doesn't make

01:05:42.600 any sense.

01:05:43.160 888-727-BECK.

01:05:44.600 Let's go to

01:05:45.060 Johnny in Ohio.

01:05:46.000 You're on the

01:05:46.800 Glenn Beck program.

01:05:49.240 How's it going,

01:05:50.000 guys?

01:05:50.460 Doing good.

01:05:52.020 Good.

01:05:52.660 Just wanted to

01:05:53.320 give my resolutions,

01:05:54.440 my three that I had

01:05:55.480 for the last

01:05:56.100 about eight years.

01:05:57.240 Oh, wow.

01:05:57.740 Okay.

01:05:59.180 They're very hard

01:06:00.100 to keep a hold of,

01:06:01.160 but, you know,

01:06:01.860 I stay strong

01:06:02.720 and I do it.

01:06:04.640 My first one

01:06:05.540 is to not write

01:06:06.740 a novel.

01:06:07.980 To not write

01:06:08.940 a novel?

01:06:09.700 Okay.

01:06:10.260 Yes, sir.

01:06:10.640 To not write a novel.

01:06:11.880 All right.

01:06:12.020 And my second one

01:06:13.120 is to not climb

01:06:14.980 Mount Everest.

01:06:17.040 And my third one

01:06:18.500 is to not run

01:06:19.420 a marathon.

01:06:20.740 How's that working

01:06:21.500 out for you?

01:06:22.140 You doing all right

01:06:23.000 with that?

01:06:23.840 You know what?

01:06:24.400 I am solid.

01:06:25.780 Wow.

01:06:26.640 I am strong

01:06:28.060 as could be

01:06:28.840 with those.

01:06:30.080 Congratulations.

01:06:31.000 I mean,

01:06:31.240 that's commendable.

01:06:33.000 It's commendable

01:06:34.040 that year after year

01:06:35.200 you've not run

01:06:36.580 a marathon

01:06:36.960 nor have you

01:06:38.020 climbed Mount Everest.

01:06:39.320 That's...

01:06:39.840 I've done my best.

01:06:41.520 Admirable.

01:06:42.440 Thanks, Johnny.

01:06:43.620 Let's go to Ginger.

01:06:45.940 Ginger,

01:06:46.560 you're on the

01:06:46.900 Glenn Beck program.

01:06:47.620 Hi.

01:06:51.120 I love your program.

01:06:53.120 I've been listening

01:06:53.740 since you guys

01:06:54.400 were in Tampa Bay.

01:06:55.620 I'm in St. Pete

01:06:56.620 and I love the program

01:06:57.780 and I actually like it

01:06:59.020 better with you guys

01:07:00.200 without Glenn.

01:07:01.100 So, good job.

01:07:03.420 And I'm not trying

01:07:04.340 to be mean.

01:07:04.960 I'm not trying

01:07:05.360 to be mean.

01:07:05.780 It's just the truth.

01:07:06.520 I think you guys

01:07:06.980 are hysterically funny.

01:07:08.240 The man is injured

01:07:08.640 and you've kicked

01:07:09.480 himself sitting today.

01:07:11.420 And I don't wish him

01:07:12.160 any of us at all.

01:07:12.960 I'm sorry that he's

01:07:13.680 not feeling well

01:07:14.380 if he's listening,

01:07:15.240 but you guys,

01:07:16.020 you two are hysterically funny

01:07:17.660 and I really enjoy

01:07:18.560 listening to you.

01:07:19.600 And oddly enough,

01:07:20.620 isn't it ironic

01:07:21.320 how your listeners

01:07:22.220 like, you know,

01:07:23.880 share so many things

01:07:24.900 in common

01:07:25.260 because my resolutions

01:07:26.500 were exactly the same

01:07:27.700 as Johnny's.

01:07:28.980 And that's just,

01:07:29.840 you must be the influence

01:07:31.000 that you guys have on me.

01:07:32.300 But I also wanted

01:07:33.120 to wish you Happy New Year

01:07:34.400 and to say thanks

01:07:35.540 for the entertainment

01:07:36.140 and also to remind you

01:07:37.560 that you forgot

01:07:38.040 number five.

01:07:39.520 William Christopher,

01:07:40.720 the gentleman

01:07:41.220 that played

01:07:41.720 Father Mulcahy

01:07:42.500 on MASH

01:07:43.300 died on New Year's Eve.

01:07:45.100 Oh, I didn't even

01:07:46.460 hear about that one.

01:07:47.720 So is that,

01:07:48.620 but that's not

01:07:49.040 the fifth one.

01:07:49.940 He was 84 years old.

01:07:50.660 According to Jeffy,

01:07:52.060 that would be the second

01:07:53.220 of the new three.

01:07:54.440 Yeah, the second of the two.

01:07:55.240 Right?

01:07:55.700 So if you back up,

01:07:56.700 well, there was one

01:07:57.320 before Carrie.

01:07:58.760 I can't remember

01:07:59.760 the guy's name,

01:08:00.380 but there was one before Carrie.

01:08:01.240 He was a great actor.

01:08:03.040 He was an awesome dude.

01:08:03.760 He was really good.

01:08:04.620 Yeah, I loved the show

01:08:05.740 and I really liked him

01:08:06.640 in it.

01:08:07.380 Yeah, so I hadn't heard

01:08:08.700 he died.

01:08:09.180 Appreciate it.

01:08:09.640 Thanks a lot, Ginger.

01:08:10.560 All right.

01:08:11.400 888-727-BECK.

01:08:12.760 Let's go to Dave

01:08:13.400 in California.

01:08:14.300 Hey, Dave.

01:08:14.800 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

01:08:16.740 Hey, hello.

01:08:17.340 Hi.

01:08:18.540 How you doing today?

01:08:19.460 Doing good.

01:08:20.240 I made two resolutions

01:08:21.820 in 1989.

01:08:23.320 I retired from the military

01:08:24.600 with 31 years service.

01:08:26.840 Thank you for your service.

01:08:28.220 I would,

01:08:28.620 thank you.

01:08:29.680 One, I would still be

01:08:30.700 in the same shape

01:08:31.460 the rest of my life

01:08:32.340 till my dying days

01:08:33.400 and wear the same size clothes

01:08:34.880 and I'm 72 now

01:08:36.840 and I do.

01:08:37.700 I play racquetball

01:08:38.560 twice a week.

01:08:39.640 Wow.

01:08:40.440 That's amazing.

01:08:42.760 And the second one is

01:08:43.880 I would do something

01:08:44.660 good every day

01:08:45.640 no matter whether

01:08:46.440 it was little bitty

01:08:47.220 or no matter what it was

01:08:48.820 and I've lived up to that

01:08:50.220 every single day.

01:08:51.760 You guys should try that.

01:08:52.800 Really?

01:08:53.400 Something simple.

01:08:54.220 Well, I changed

01:08:54.780 the ladies' flat tire

01:08:55.600 for this morning.

01:08:56.580 Every day,

01:08:57.320 something as simple

01:08:58.440 as carrying someone's

01:08:59.380 groceries to their car.

01:09:00.480 Just something

01:09:01.000 every single day.

01:09:02.800 What did you do

01:09:03.780 on June 6th, 1993?

01:09:06.420 What good thing?

01:09:08.140 1993, June 6th.

01:09:10.140 Oh, I do remember

01:09:10.960 that as a matter of fact.

01:09:11.880 I do.

01:09:13.640 You know the reason

01:09:14.500 I remember that?

01:09:15.420 It was a car accident.

01:09:16.600 I pulled a guy

01:09:17.160 out of a car.

01:09:18.560 Wow.

01:09:19.520 I remember that exactly.

01:09:21.060 On June 6th, 1993?

01:09:23.640 That's it.

01:09:24.340 Wow.

01:09:24.860 All right.

01:09:25.260 That's fantastic.

01:09:26.120 How about that?

01:09:27.120 You weren't so exhausted

01:09:28.420 from pulling the guy

01:09:29.240 out of the car.

01:09:30.000 What happened

01:09:30.520 on June 7th?

01:09:33.340 I can't tell you

01:09:34.840 on June 7th

01:09:35.560 because that was

01:09:36.100 a catastrophic event.

01:09:37.380 Amazing I picked

01:09:38.560 the day you actually

01:09:39.260 do remember.

01:09:40.420 Yeah.

01:09:41.060 You know what?

01:09:41.700 At 72,

01:09:42.380 I'm lucky I remember.

01:09:43.440 The way this works

01:09:44.260 is from 50 to 60,

01:09:46.060 you learn all your

01:09:46.680 aches and pains

01:09:47.280 to tell Glenn that.

01:09:48.580 And then from 60 to 70,

01:09:50.140 you learn to accept them.

01:09:51.460 And usually after 70,

01:09:52.860 guess what?

01:09:53.420 You start forgetting them.

01:09:56.860 All right.

01:09:57.420 Thanks a lot, Dave.

01:09:58.040 Appreciate it.

01:09:59.140 I'm not sure

01:09:59.780 that's really comforting.

01:10:01.120 No, it's not.

01:10:01.720 But we'll take it.

01:10:03.660 888-727-BECK.

01:10:05.120 More of the Glenn Beck

01:10:05.800 program coming up.

01:10:07.240 You're listening

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01:10:11.980 I will beat my drum.

01:10:14.160 I have made my choice.

01:10:16.420 We will overcome.

01:10:18.860 Because we have won.

01:10:22.560 Mercury.

01:10:33.500 You're listening

01:10:49.500 to the Glenn Beck program.

01:10:50.840 Zuckerberg, Buddhist man.

01:10:52.200 He seems to love Buddhism.

01:10:53.340 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:11:08.720 Jeff Fisher, Jeffy,

01:11:09.980 and Pat Gray

01:11:10.840 in for Glenn Beck

01:11:11.580 who had to leave

01:11:13.140 a couple minutes early.

01:11:14.760 Well, he had a tragic accident

01:11:16.820 sitting in a chair

01:11:18.460 and moved.

01:11:20.620 I mean, it's almost

01:11:22.380 as if we're joking

01:11:23.260 and we're not.

01:11:23.980 Let that be a cautionary tale

01:11:25.120 to you.

01:11:25.520 If you're, you know,

01:11:26.740 a big fat person

01:11:27.440 like we are

01:11:28.000 and you're sitting

01:11:28.840 in a chair,

01:11:29.560 don't move.

01:11:31.200 It's just that simple.

01:11:32.740 I've got to be honest

01:11:33.440 with you, Pat.

01:11:33.860 I'm a fan of that.

01:11:34.780 I am too.

01:11:36.140 I am too.

01:11:37.100 You might think

01:11:37.780 we're kidding.

01:11:38.440 We're not.

01:11:39.540 We're not.

01:11:40.260 Looks like Mark Zuckerberg

01:11:41.820 has gotten religion.

01:11:43.720 We don't know

01:11:44.500 what religion that is.

01:11:46.120 But the Facebook

01:11:47.020 co-founder

01:11:48.040 and CEO

01:11:49.420 says he's not

01:11:51.180 an atheist anymore.

01:11:52.380 His Facebook profile

01:11:53.720 once identified him

01:11:54.880 as an atheist,

01:11:55.940 but he revealed

01:11:56.980 that he's had

01:11:57.440 a change of heart

01:11:58.040 on his social media network

01:11:59.920 after he wished everyone

01:12:01.140 a Merry Christmas

01:12:02.660 and Happy Hanukkah

01:12:03.820 on Christmas Day.

01:12:05.400 Yeah, that was because

01:12:05.960 he just had a kid though, right?

01:12:08.060 Yeah, I guess.

01:12:09.700 I don't know.

01:12:10.660 But he said,

01:12:11.740 Merry Christmas,

01:12:12.280 Happy Hanukkah

01:12:12.840 from Priscilla,

01:12:13.760 Max, Beast, and me.

01:12:15.200 That's his wife, 1.00

01:12:15.940 daughter, and dog.

01:12:18.040 When a commentator

01:12:18.920 asked him,

01:12:19.580 aren't you an atheist?

01:12:20.760 He responded,

01:12:21.760 no, I was raised Jewish

01:12:23.040 and then I went

01:12:24.000 through a period

01:12:24.580 where I questioned things,

01:12:26.160 but now I believe

01:12:27.340 religion is very important.

01:12:30.120 Yeah.

01:12:31.060 That always bothers me.

01:12:32.640 I mean,

01:12:32.840 that's kind of disturbing.

01:12:34.680 I went through a period

01:12:35.540 where I questioned things

01:12:36.660 like what?

01:12:37.240 Religious people

01:12:37.920 don't question things.

01:12:39.080 They just blindly accept.

01:12:42.220 That's the implication.

01:12:43.520 Yes, it is.

01:12:44.020 I mean,

01:12:44.220 from all these

01:12:44.920 intellectual atheists.

01:12:46.780 Well, I went through

01:12:48.040 a period

01:12:48.560 where I at least

01:12:49.560 questioned things.

01:12:51.660 Yeah.

01:12:52.460 So do the rest of us,

01:12:54.020 okay?

01:12:54.500 All the time.

01:12:55.460 We don't just swallow

01:12:56.060 everything fed to us.

01:12:58.880 But, you know,

01:13:00.180 I don't want to

01:13:01.100 detract from the fact

01:13:03.100 that that's definitely

01:13:04.360 a positive.

01:13:05.280 He didn't provide

01:13:05.920 any details on his faith,

01:13:07.940 but he just said

01:13:09.680 it's important.

01:13:10.180 So he apparently

01:13:12.300 in 2015

01:13:14.240 went to China

01:13:15.200 and he posted

01:13:17.320 at the time

01:13:18.020 that he knelt

01:13:18.960 in front of the Buddhist

01:13:19.920 some Buddhist landmark

01:13:21.220 and he said

01:13:22.040 Priscilla is Buddhist

01:13:22.980 and asked me

01:13:23.540 to offer a prayer

01:13:24.300 from her as well.

01:13:26.060 Buddhism is an amazing

01:13:27.200 religion and philosophy

01:13:28.180 and I've been learning

01:13:29.340 more about it over time.

01:13:30.920 I hope to continue

01:13:31.660 understanding the faith

01:13:32.640 more deeply.

01:13:33.360 So it leads you

01:13:34.640 to believe

01:13:35.040 maybe it's not Christianity,

01:13:36.360 it's Buddhism.

01:13:37.340 Very possible.

01:13:38.260 But it is all about,

01:13:39.000 I mean, they just had

01:13:39.900 the baby, you know,

01:13:41.360 end of November,

01:13:42.320 first part of December.

01:13:44.020 So, you know,

01:13:44.620 new life in your house

01:13:46.880 and watching a birth

01:13:48.520 makes you believe

01:13:49.880 that there's something

01:13:50.920 bigger than you going on.

01:13:52.320 A baby changes everything.

01:13:53.740 It sure does.

01:13:54.840 888-727-BECK

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01:13:58.720 I also understand

01:13:59.620 that Facebook

01:14:01.280 is developing,

01:14:02.280 you know,

01:14:02.460 we were talking about

01:14:03.000 the Amazon Echo

01:14:04.560 and the OK Google

01:14:07.120 Google Home thing.

01:14:08.080 supposedly Zuckerberg's

01:14:10.080 developed something

01:14:10.780 that's also pretty amazing

01:14:12.280 along those lines

01:14:13.160 that does a lot

01:14:15.120 of things

01:14:15.820 in your home.

01:14:17.140 Good.

01:14:17.740 Yeah, I mean,

01:14:19.200 I'm excited to...

01:14:20.560 Nothing bad could happen.

01:14:21.640 No, nothing bad

01:14:22.720 can happen

01:14:23.200 from any of these

01:14:23.960 wonderful innovations.

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01:14:55.560 Pat and Jeffy

01:14:56.480 in for Glenn,

01:14:58.540 who just threw

01:14:59.560 his back out

01:15:00.180 about an hour ago.

01:15:01.940 Technology is awesome,

01:15:03.040 but what are the drawbacks?

01:15:04.260 What are we becoming?

01:15:05.980 We'll talk about

01:15:06.540 some of the latest

01:15:07.160 innovations to be

01:15:08.220 in every home

01:15:09.180 as we have been

01:15:10.880 today.

01:15:11.920 We've been talking

01:15:12.540 about your New Year's

01:15:13.540 resolutions.

01:15:15.100 We also want to get

01:15:15.860 into Black Lives Matter.

01:15:19.600 Yeah, do they?

01:15:21.380 We don't hear much

01:15:22.900 about the Black Lives

01:15:24.180 being lost in Chicago,

01:15:25.600 do we?

01:15:26.140 And what a year

01:15:27.920 2016 was

01:15:29.320 for murders

01:15:30.420 in Chicago.

01:15:31.480 Just unbelievable.

01:15:32.580 Also,

01:15:34.260 the Russians

01:15:36.160 influencing the election?

01:15:38.420 Nah, that didn't happen.

01:15:39.400 That had nothing

01:15:40.700 to do with Russians,

01:15:42.480 according to Julian Assange,

01:15:44.540 and we certainly

01:15:45.220 believe him.

01:15:46.420 Also,

01:15:47.340 George Washington

01:15:48.080 University has

01:15:48.840 apparently removed

01:15:49.760 U.S. history

01:15:50.660 from their curriculum.

01:15:52.140 We'll start there

01:15:53.000 right now.

01:15:53.740 I will make a stand

01:15:57.020 I will raise my voice

01:15:59.340 I will hold your hand

01:16:01.580 Cause we are one

01:16:03.520 I will beat my drum

01:16:05.740 I have made my choice

01:16:07.940 We will overcome

01:16:09.660 Cause we are one

01:16:12.320 The fusion of

01:16:13.660 entertainment

01:16:14.280 and enlightenment

01:16:15.500 This is

01:16:17.020 The Glenn Beck

01:16:18.900 Program

01:16:20.060 Yeah, Glenn just

01:16:22.280 hurt his back

01:16:23.220 pretty badly

01:16:23.880 Hopefully he'll be

01:16:24.620 back on tomorrow

01:16:25.260 Maybe

01:16:25.600 I don't know

01:16:27.040 from a hospital bed

01:16:28.020 or his own bed

01:16:28.760 We'll see

01:16:29.920 888-727-BECK

01:16:32.620 It's Pat Gray

01:16:33.440 and Jeffy

01:16:34.320 in

01:16:34.700 Stu is also sick

01:16:36.300 today

01:16:36.560 So, not a great

01:16:37.580 start for those guys

01:16:38.480 Oh, go

01:16:39.000 In 2017

01:16:40.460 So, the other thing

01:16:44.160 that we were going

01:16:44.800 to mention

01:16:45.140 You just mentioned

01:16:46.640 right before we came on

01:16:47.760 Apparently the Rock

01:16:49.200 Hall of Fame

01:16:49.780 Oh

01:16:50.740 Has decided

01:16:52.540 Yes they have

01:16:53.240 Who's going into

01:16:53.460 the Hall of Fame

01:16:54.180 for this year

01:16:55.040 And we were

01:16:55.840 pretty close

01:16:56.800 We were pretty close

01:16:58.040 when we talked about

01:16:59.640 who we thought

01:17:00.100 they would pick

01:17:00.740 Tell us again

01:17:01.680 the nominations

01:17:02.260 Do you have that

01:17:02.800 in front of you

01:17:03.260 I just have who

01:17:04.420 they picked

01:17:04.840 I don't have

01:17:05.480 the entire nomination

01:17:06.400 but we certainly

01:17:07.160 get it

01:17:08.000 Who's actually

01:17:10.180 going in this year

01:17:10.980 I'm sure

01:17:13.540 they're all

01:17:14.260 incredibly deserving

01:17:15.480 No question

01:17:16.080 And certainly

01:17:16.900 more deserving

01:17:17.760 than Foreigner 0.89

01:17:18.640 who can't even

01:17:19.220 be nominated

01:17:20.080 because

01:17:20.900 they only had

01:17:22.380 about

01:17:22.820 30 top 40 hits

01:17:24.940 They only had

01:17:26.420 I don't know

01:17:27.220 15 or 20

01:17:28.880 top 10 hits

01:17:29.840 They only sold

01:17:31.240 about 80 million

01:17:32.040 records worldwide

01:17:33.160 They've only been

01:17:34.800 icons

01:17:35.560 for about 40 years

01:17:37.020 You wouldn't want

01:17:37.760 them in the

01:17:38.140 Rock Hall of Fame

01:17:38.860 But

01:17:39.560 But

01:17:40.100 you do want

01:17:41.060 Joan Baez

01:17:42.080 Joan Baez

01:17:45.760 Joan Baez

01:17:48.240 Did you see

01:17:49.320 the people

01:17:49.700 they always do

01:17:50.520 the people's vote

01:17:52.760 on the website

01:17:53.820 for a month or two

01:17:55.280 leading up to the

01:17:56.180 to the actual

01:17:57.520 decision

01:17:57.760 I did

01:17:57.960 Right

01:17:58.940 And Joan Baez

01:17:59.960 was at the bottom

01:18:01.180 of that list

01:18:02.020 So the

01:18:03.400 But when we

01:18:03.900 talked about it

01:18:04.500 We talked about it

01:18:05.260 either here

01:18:05.840 or on Pat and Stu

01:18:07.060 we did both

01:18:08.720 We talked about

01:18:09.340 who we thought

01:18:09.980 they would pick

01:18:10.700 and you know

01:18:11.300 obviously who was

01:18:12.240 who was in the running

01:18:13.120 Right

01:18:13.480 And we were pretty close

01:18:14.360 Because I think we said

01:18:16.380 Joan Baez would be

01:18:17.620 one of them

01:18:17.960 because all you have

01:18:18.800 to do is sing

01:18:20.060 a protest song

01:18:21.020 in the 1960s

01:18:22.080 and you're in

01:18:22.680 And she's

01:18:23.780 coffeehouse queen

01:18:24.960 of that

01:18:25.180 Oh my gosh

01:18:26.180 ELO

01:18:27.460 Electric Light Orchestra

01:18:28.520 Okay that's a good one

01:18:29.540 That's worthy

01:18:29.940 Absolutely

01:18:30.900 Should have been in

01:18:32.920 a long time ago

01:18:33.960 Yes

01:18:35.020 So ELO

01:18:36.100 Joan Baez

01:18:37.340 Journey

01:18:38.200 Journey of course

01:18:39.420 had to get in

01:18:40.000 Of course see

01:18:40.220 I mean they deserve it

01:18:41.820 I know

01:18:42.120 Pearl Jam

01:18:43.180 Pearl Jam

01:18:44.020 Yep

01:18:44.280 See

01:18:44.780 We said there's no way

01:18:45.960 they're not going to let

01:18:46.600 No way

01:18:47.420 That's right

01:18:47.980 It's an icon

01:18:48.680 The other thing

01:18:49.720 besides protest songs

01:18:51.160 is singing about

01:18:52.540 how you were abused

01:18:53.720 as a child

01:18:54.220 Yeah it's an era

01:18:54.660 That's what they represent

01:18:56.080 Right

01:18:56.500 I hate my parents

01:18:58.840 I've never liked them

01:19:00.640 I got beaten

01:19:01.800 when I was a kid

01:19:03.340 And you're in

01:19:03.960 You're in the

01:19:04.500 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

01:19:05.400 So who else

01:19:07.440 So Joan Baez

01:19:09.660 ELO

01:19:10.560 Journey

01:19:11.240 Pearl Jam

01:19:12.420 And of course

01:19:13.980 Tupac Shakur

01:19:15.320 Who else do you think of

01:19:16.760 on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

01:19:17.840 other than

01:19:19.260 Tupac Shakur

01:19:20.320 Tupac was

01:19:21.880 not at the bottom

01:19:22.960 but he was down there

01:19:24.320 Yeah he was

01:19:25.680 He was very near

01:19:26.480 He was down there

01:19:27.300 With Joan Baez

01:19:28.520 Yes

01:19:28.940 Unbelievable

01:19:30.680 You knew there was

01:19:31.520 no way

01:19:32.460 they weren't going to

01:19:33.060 put Tupac in

01:19:33.920 No way

01:19:34.740 And he's not

01:19:35.440 Rock

01:19:35.960 No way

01:19:36.520 But they don't

01:19:37.680 They don't go by that

01:19:38.700 for some reason

01:19:39.440 The Rock Hall of Fame

01:19:40.860 really has very little

01:19:42.280 to do with rock and roll

01:19:43.400 Because a lot of rap artists

01:19:45.360 are in

01:19:45.780 R&B

01:19:46.560 You know

01:19:47.420 So

01:19:47.760 It's frustrating

01:19:50.820 It's really frustrating

01:19:52.340 And finally we have

01:19:52.860 Oh there's another one

01:19:54.140 There is

01:19:54.520 And finally we have

01:19:55.340 Yes

01:19:56.100 So they did get into

01:19:57.520 Of course

01:19:57.980 Yeah of course

01:19:59.140 Because they're

01:20:00.020 a Rolling Stone favorite

01:20:01.460 Right

01:20:02.480 If the Rolling Stone magazine

01:20:04.480 liked the band

01:20:05.860 There's a good chance

01:20:07.960 they're going to get in

01:20:08.500 Name it

01:20:09.440 Other than

01:20:10.140 Owner of a Lonely Heart

01:20:11.540 and

01:20:13.100 Roundabout

01:20:14.500 Name a Yes song

01:20:16.400 Are you talking to me?

01:20:19.420 Yeah I'm talking to you

01:20:20.240 I can't

01:20:21.860 No one can

01:20:25.540 I want to

01:20:25.740 I want to look it up

01:20:26.620 bad

01:20:26.780 No one can

01:20:27.980 I can't

01:20:28.400 Because

01:20:28.680 I didn't even know

01:20:29.820 about the

01:20:30.040 I would have just said

01:20:31.260 Roundabout

01:20:31.660 Oh really

01:20:32.680 You didn't even

01:20:33.180 Owner of a Lonely Heart

01:20:34.500 Yeah

01:20:34.760 Which was bigger

01:20:35.500 than Roundabout

01:20:36.100 Yeah I know

01:20:36.520 That was the biggest hit

01:20:37.660 But Roundabout was longer

01:20:39.100 So you played it

01:20:40.520 to take a longer break

01:20:41.520 Yes you did

01:20:42.280 If you ever had to

01:20:43.460 go to the bathroom

01:20:44.140 Yeah

01:20:44.520 And you worked at a

01:20:45.240 classic rock station

01:20:46.280 You go Roundabout

01:20:47.580 Because it was about

01:20:48.580 Seven and a half

01:20:50.140 Eight minutes

01:20:50.560 I'll be your Roundabout

01:20:51.320 80,000 times

01:20:52.500 You were good

01:20:53.040 Yeah

01:20:53.320 No problem

01:20:54.580 Roundabout

01:20:55.660 and Stairway to Heaven

01:20:56.740 We're the two

01:20:57.680 888-727-BECK

01:21:00.040 888-727-BECK

01:21:02.120 George Washington

01:21:02.920 University in Washington D.C.

01:21:06.260 Has decided

01:21:06.920 that giving students

01:21:08.380 more flexibility

01:21:09.420 Isn't that nice?

01:21:10.460 They're going to give them

01:21:11.220 more flexibility

01:21:11.900 Isn't that nice?

01:21:12.920 That means freeing them up

01:21:14.540 from taking required courses

01:21:16.160 like U.S. History

01:21:18.640 Hey what?

01:21:19.400 Even if they're history majors

01:21:22.020 Yeah

01:21:22.520 They don't have to take

01:21:23.520 U.S. History

01:21:24.080 Come on now

01:21:24.340 That's agonizing

01:21:26.920 We should say

01:21:27.680 Any government money

01:21:28.520 they get should be

01:21:29.180 taken from them immediately

01:21:30.240 You xenophobic bastard

01:21:32.040 They'll be taken away

01:21:33.060 from them immediately

01:21:33.640 What are you talking about?

01:21:34.100 I don't care if you tell me

01:21:35.080 we don't like the U.S. History

01:21:36.540 they're teaching

01:21:37.120 I don't care

01:21:38.000 There should be U.S. History

01:21:39.440 That should be

01:21:40.120 a mandatory thing

01:21:41.200 It should absolutely

01:21:43.420 be required

01:21:44.380 Especially

01:21:44.920 if you're a history major

01:21:46.360 Yes

01:21:46.800 How do you not study

01:21:47.800 U.S. History

01:21:48.820 According to

01:21:50.980 the College Fix

01:21:51.860 the new requirements

01:21:52.840 allow for students

01:21:53.900 to take an optional course

01:21:55.420 in previously required courses

01:21:57.700 or a high score

01:21:58.980 on a placement test

01:22:00.160 to opt out

01:22:01.280 of the requirement

01:22:02.040 Oh well good

01:22:02.640 But there's no more

01:22:04.160 mandate to take U.S. History

01:22:05.980 Now it changed

01:22:06.720 a couple other things too

01:22:07.620 I will say

01:22:08.080 they eliminated

01:22:08.640 the requirements for

01:22:09.560 you know

01:22:10.160 for U.S.

01:22:11.740 North American

01:22:12.200 and European history

01:22:13.020 which

01:22:13.360 you know

01:22:14.000 even if you're

01:22:15.380 a history major

01:22:15.900 is absolutely wrong

01:22:17.520 as well as

01:22:18.420 foreign language requirement

01:22:19.820 that's not required

01:22:22.600 now for a major

01:22:23.460 so you could get

01:22:24.220 you could get

01:22:24.940 your U.S.

01:22:27.160 history major

01:22:28.420 without that

01:22:30.000 history

01:22:30.540 big deal

01:22:32.260 and the reason

01:22:32.940 that they're saying

01:22:34.100 they decided

01:22:35.480 to do this

01:22:36.720 is because

01:22:38.140 they want to

01:22:38.640 recruit new students

01:22:40.280 to better reflect

01:22:41.760 a globalizing world

01:22:43.460 because

01:22:44.900 Jeffy we're citizens

01:22:46.620 of the globe

01:22:47.500 Are we?

01:22:48.420 We're not U.S. citizens

01:22:50.140 anymore

01:22:50.540 we're citizens

01:22:52.280 of the globe

01:22:53.800 citizens of this planet

01:22:56.180 you know

01:22:57.300 and so this is

01:22:58.600 a beautiful thing

01:22:59.500 they can

01:23:00.800 take

01:23:01.860 world history

01:23:03.340 instead

01:23:04.000 European history

01:23:05.920 we are just

01:23:08.140 we're begging

01:23:08.800 for trouble

01:23:09.380 every

01:23:10.400 dime

01:23:11.940 if they take

01:23:12.600 a dime

01:23:13.380 of taxpayers

01:23:14.640 money should be

01:23:15.340 taken from them

01:23:16.060 right now

01:23:17.360 that's fine

01:23:17.880 you can do

01:23:18.220 what you want

01:23:18.760 right

01:23:19.240 I don't care

01:23:19.880 what they do

01:23:20.420 but you get

01:23:20.900 no taxpayer money

01:23:21.840 come on now

01:23:22.460 I mean

01:23:23.780 you're

01:23:24.080 United States

01:23:24.900 University

01:23:25.720 I'm just really

01:23:26.560 United States

01:23:26.980 of America

01:23:27.340 University

01:23:27.840 I'm really

01:23:28.500 worried about

01:23:29.060 what's going

01:23:29.500 on in our

01:23:29.980 colleges

01:23:30.380 because

01:23:30.820 even at the

01:23:31.660 so-called

01:23:32.260 conservative

01:23:33.280 leaning

01:23:34.220 schools

01:23:35.200 they're teaching

01:23:36.880 our kids

01:23:37.340 garbage

01:23:38.320 garbage

01:23:39.640 I was talking

01:23:42.040 to my son

01:23:43.100 over the

01:23:43.600 Christmas break

01:23:44.560 about what he

01:23:45.520 was learning

01:23:45.880 from his

01:23:46.720 professors in

01:23:47.480 history

01:23:47.820 and he said

01:23:49.520 they hate

01:23:50.980 Israel

01:23:51.320 for one thing

01:23:52.520 and the slant

01:23:53.700 on Israeli

01:23:55.420 Palestinian

01:23:56.660 relations

01:23:58.500 was all

01:24:00.000 Palestinian

01:24:00.720 leaning

01:24:01.100 of course

01:24:01.580 and he

01:24:03.100 said they

01:24:03.460 didn't come

01:24:03.880 right out

01:24:04.280 and say

01:24:04.800 that Israel

01:24:05.400 is in the

01:24:05.820 wrong

01:24:06.000 but everything

01:24:06.780 they taught

01:24:08.460 led you to

01:24:09.540 believe

01:24:09.780 why not

01:24:10.200 I mean

01:24:10.520 we've got

01:24:10.860 the United

01:24:11.160 Nations

01:24:11.740 our country

01:24:12.480 is

01:24:12.860 well we don't

01:24:15.080 want to vote

01:24:15.540 we know what's

01:24:16.180 going to happen

01:24:16.520 we've got John

01:24:17.020 Kerry telling us

01:24:17.840 that they're wrong

01:24:18.760 and bad

01:24:19.260 Obama's been

01:24:20.160 telling us

01:24:20.500 they want

01:24:20.840 well they should

01:24:21.500 go back to the

01:24:21.980 68 borders

01:24:22.920 and Israel's in

01:24:24.480 the wrong

01:24:24.940 why wouldn't

01:24:26.500 you be that

01:24:26.920 way

01:24:27.160 and I

01:24:27.660 told him

01:24:29.400 you know

01:24:30.340 do they even

01:24:31.860 talk about the

01:24:32.600 fact that

01:24:33.300 the Palestinians

01:24:34.500 had their shot

01:24:35.560 at a homeland

01:24:36.200 when the partition

01:24:37.740 was made

01:24:38.300 in 1948

01:24:39.100 when the UN

01:24:40.000 gave birth

01:24:41.860 to Israel

01:24:42.800 they also gave

01:24:43.700 birth to a

01:24:44.260 Palestinian state

01:24:45.360 and the Palestinians 0.55

01:24:46.480 rejected it

01:24:47.320 and instead

01:24:47.880 went to war

01:24:48.660 with their Arab

01:24:50.120 brethren

01:24:50.520 against Israel 0.70

01:24:51.740 in 1948

01:24:52.500 well

01:24:53.420 what

01:24:54.320 they never

01:24:54.980 what

01:24:55.440 what

01:24:56.100 did that

01:24:56.940 happen

01:24:57.200 they didn't

01:24:57.640 even

01:24:57.800 they never

01:24:58.300 talked about

01:24:58.840 it

01:24:59.060 they never

01:24:59.960 talked about

01:25:00.880 it

01:25:01.160 how is that

01:25:02.200 possible

01:25:02.780 and then they

01:25:03.880 went to war

01:25:04.360 again in

01:25:05.640 1956

01:25:06.260 and again

01:25:07.320 in 1967

01:25:08.100 and again

01:25:09.100 in 1973

01:25:10.000 and 1981

01:25:11.000 and so on

01:25:12.400 and so forth

01:25:13.060 through history

01:25:13.800 and the

01:25:15.380 Israelis

01:25:15.960 had had

01:25:17.180 enough by

01:25:17.960 67

01:25:18.420 and finally

01:25:19.480 kept the

01:25:19.860 West Bank

01:25:20.320 because the

01:25:21.160 Palestinians

01:25:21.560 have always

01:25:22.180 been

01:25:22.500 that's not

01:25:22.920 enough

01:25:23.240 I mean I

01:25:24.180 don't know

01:25:24.440 what enough

01:25:24.940 is for them

01:25:25.720 well enough

01:25:26.700 is means

01:25:28.260 getting rid

01:25:28.940 of Israel

01:25:29.340 it means

01:25:30.260 getting rid

01:25:30.840 of Israel

01:25:31.300 because

01:25:31.620 unless we

01:25:32.240 do that

01:25:32.660 it's not

01:25:32.980 enough

01:25:33.300 that's right

01:25:33.800 so we're

01:25:34.240 not agreeing

01:25:34.640 with anything

01:25:35.000 and really

01:25:35.600 you have

01:25:36.000 the UN

01:25:36.340 going along

01:25:36.920 with that

01:25:37.320 and now

01:25:38.640 apparently

01:25:39.340 you've got

01:25:39.780 the Obama

01:25:40.280 administration

01:25:40.820 going along

01:25:42.620 with the UN

01:25:43.100 in these

01:25:45.160 resolutions

01:25:45.760 and Israel

01:25:47.400 is pretty

01:25:48.500 fed up with

01:25:49.080 it and I

01:25:49.420 don't blame

01:25:50.120 them

01:25:50.320 I don't

01:25:51.100 blame

01:25:51.320 them

01:25:51.480 so what

01:25:52.600 chance

01:25:52.980 do our

01:25:53.320 kids have

01:25:54.120 when they're

01:25:54.700 hearing all

01:25:55.200 of this

01:25:55.540 garbage

01:25:56.240 in college

01:25:57.460 and these

01:25:58.600 are the

01:25:58.840 people that

01:25:59.200 we've set

01:25:59.600 up as the

01:26:00.080 authority

01:26:00.400 figures

01:26:00.840 this is where

01:26:01.980 you're going

01:26:02.220 to go and

01:26:02.700 learn all

01:26:03.040 these great

01:26:03.520 things to

01:26:03.960 prepare you

01:26:04.460 for life

01:26:04.980 and then

01:26:05.900 they're hearing

01:26:06.320 all of this

01:26:06.860 stuff and

01:26:07.620 now they're

01:26:07.920 not getting

01:26:08.360 any US

01:26:08.920 history on

01:26:09.540 top of that

01:26:10.120 at places

01:26:10.760 like George

01:26:11.240 Washington

01:26:11.640 University

01:26:12.160 and that

01:26:12.580 actually is

01:26:13.500 the argument

01:26:13.960 for not

01:26:15.020 having to

01:26:15.460 get the US 0.67

01:26:15.980 history

01:26:16.260 right

01:26:16.540 you're hoping

01:26:17.160 that maybe

01:26:17.620 the history

01:26:18.100 they get

01:26:18.540 will be

01:26:19.320 correct

01:26:20.300 it's not

01:26:21.580 going to be

01:26:22.040 it's going

01:26:24.800 to be a

01:26:25.140 world view

01:26:25.660 it's going

01:26:26.740 to be an

01:26:27.100 anti-American

01:26:27.820 view

01:26:28.180 and it's

01:26:29.580 hard to

01:26:30.100 overcome

01:26:30.500 that slant 1.00

01:26:31.240 and so

01:26:31.760 if your

01:26:32.180 kids are

01:26:32.940 attending

01:26:33.420 universities

01:26:34.440 I recommend

01:26:36.780 talking to

01:26:37.660 them about

01:26:38.060 what they're

01:26:38.400 learning from

01:26:38.840 their professors

01:26:39.440 so that you

01:26:40.380 can at least

01:26:41.260 provide them

01:26:41.860 with the

01:26:42.140 other side

01:26:43.080 of it

01:26:43.400 it may take

01:26:44.360 a while

01:26:44.720 as I told

01:26:45.360 Sean

01:26:45.660 I don't

01:26:46.380 mind if

01:26:46.840 they teach

01:26:47.200 you both

01:26:47.540 sides

01:26:48.020 I don't

01:26:49.460 care about

01:26:50.340 that at

01:26:50.700 all

01:26:50.900 in fact

01:26:51.440 that's the

01:26:51.860 way you

01:26:52.140 should

01:26:52.340 let them 0.55

01:26:52.780 decide

01:26:53.200 just teach

01:26:54.340 them both

01:26:55.460 sides of

01:26:56.100 the issue

01:26:56.520 right

01:26:56.960 don't slant

01:26:58.180 it one way

01:26:58.780 or the other

01:26:59.380 he said

01:27:01.640 one of the

01:27:01.980 things he liked

01:27:02.520 best about

01:27:03.320 one of his

01:27:03.740 professors

01:27:04.160 was one

01:27:05.180 day he

01:27:05.480 would come

01:27:05.860 in with

01:27:07.120 one side

01:27:07.600 of an

01:27:07.820 argument

01:27:08.100 and he

01:27:09.080 would argue

01:27:09.620 the other

01:27:10.020 side while

01:27:10.640 the students

01:27:11.220 came at

01:27:13.520 him with

01:27:13.740 questions

01:27:14.160 and then

01:27:14.700 the next

01:27:15.240 day he

01:27:16.340 would argue

01:27:16.680 the other

01:27:17.080 side of

01:27:17.520 it and

01:27:17.920 have them

01:27:18.560 respond

01:27:19.640 accordingly

01:27:20.220 and I

01:27:20.960 thought well

01:27:21.380 yeah that's

01:27:22.340 what you

01:27:22.640 should be

01:27:22.920 doing

01:27:23.120 absolutely

01:27:23.980 let them 0.55

01:27:25.140 decide

01:27:25.780 but because

01:27:27.060 otherwise

01:27:27.560 it's indoctrination

01:27:29.180 well

01:27:30.180 sadly that's

01:27:30.940 what's happening

01:27:31.340 yeah absolutely

01:27:32.060 888-727-BECK

01:27:33.580 it's Pat and

01:27:34.440 Jeffy for

01:27:34.820 Glenn on

01:27:35.120 the Glenn

01:27:35.360 Beck

01:27:35.500 program

01:27:36.080 the Glenn

01:27:39.360 Beck

01:27:39.680 program

01:27:40.440 Mercury

01:27:42.160 We'll be right back.

01:28:12.160 727 back.

01:28:13.320 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:28:16.180 Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

01:28:17.900 He hurt his back, threw it out again.

01:28:21.940 And so hopefully he'll be back tomorrow.

01:28:23.540 888-727-BECK.

01:28:25.940 Some people under fire for comments that they've made.

01:28:29.900 Steve Martin.

01:28:31.540 This weird controversy is one of the dumbest I've ever seen in my life.

01:28:37.480 And he deleted it.

01:28:39.180 Well, of course.

01:28:40.100 Yeah, yeah.

01:28:40.800 I mean, especially these lefties in Hollywood.

01:28:43.440 They don't understand the insanity of the left because they're part of it.

01:28:49.540 And so the least little criticism they get.

01:28:52.020 Oh, okay.

01:28:52.760 I'm sorry.

01:28:53.900 He actually said.

01:28:55.240 I can't remember the exact tweet.

01:28:57.120 But he tweeted out after Carrie Fisher died.

01:28:58.960 That she was beautiful.

01:29:01.020 And she was also smart and talented.

01:29:03.220 Something to that effect, right?

01:29:04.780 Because he mentioned her intelligence.

01:29:07.400 Matching her beauty.

01:29:08.480 Something to that effect.

01:29:09.900 Well, the feminists went crazy. 1.00

01:29:12.500 How dare you mention a person's appearance after they've died?

01:29:18.180 What?

01:29:18.780 Right, right.

01:29:19.440 When did that become a thing that I can't do that?

01:29:22.260 What are you?

01:29:22.680 Are you kidding me?

01:29:24.500 So if Brad Pitt dies, no woman better ever mention that he was good looking.

01:29:31.060 Or we will hit the roof.

01:29:36.260 That is asinine.

01:29:40.120 Do you have the tweet?

01:29:41.280 It was innocuous.

01:29:42.300 It wasn't offensive in any way.

01:29:45.680 And yet, because he got so much flack, he deleted it.

01:29:48.960 What was the original tweet?

01:29:50.660 Uh, from, uh, at Steve Martin, go.

01:29:57.060 Uh, think she was a spy. 1.00

01:29:58.700 Let's see.

01:29:59.320 Oh, those are the ones.

01:30:00.380 These are the ones that are against him.

01:30:02.080 His tweet.

01:30:03.680 When I was a young man, Carrie Fisher was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen.

01:30:08.940 She turned out to be witty and bright as well.

01:30:11.820 Witty and bright as well.

01:30:13.040 Um, so.

01:30:14.120 How horrific.

01:30:15.560 Dare you.

01:30:16.520 How Steve Martin.

01:30:17.660 Martin.

01:30:18.320 You'd think he committed genocide on women or something.

01:30:21.660 I think she aspired to something higher than just being pretty. 0.86

01:30:24.960 How do you want to be remembered?

01:30:26.420 Brother.

01:30:27.320 Oh, my.

01:30:27.900 At least, yeah, these are some of the ones that, the people that were so mad at him.

01:30:32.120 Unbelievable.

01:30:33.160 I, can, can her looks not be one of the things you remember?

01:30:37.180 No.

01:30:37.820 Okay.

01:30:39.620 No.

01:30:40.720 Is it really an insult?

01:30:41.860 If Carrie Fisher were alive today, would she say that's an insult? 1.00

01:30:45.460 Absolutely.

01:30:45.900 Dare you say I was beautiful?

01:30:48.200 How dare you?

01:30:49.920 And witty.

01:30:50.840 I am not.

01:30:52.740 I am not witty.

01:30:54.300 I am the dullest person going.

01:30:57.000 I am so dull, you couldn't cut butter with me.

01:31:02.080 That's how dull I am.

01:31:05.800 Also under fire right now, and maybe rightly so, and I've defended him in the past.

01:31:10.500 Brent Musburger maybe shouldn't broadcast anymore.

01:31:14.360 I don't know.

01:31:14.820 What did he do?

01:31:15.440 I don't know this.

01:31:16.360 I don't know Brent.

01:31:17.080 He broadcasted the Sugar Bowl last night with Oklahoma.

01:31:19.200 Of course.

01:31:19.820 Auburn.

01:31:21.140 They still let Brent hang around for a while.

01:31:23.180 He's, you know, one of the sportscaster icons.

01:31:25.820 I mean, he's a good sportscaster whose time has maybe passed him by.

01:31:29.140 Well, I mean, that was a while ago.

01:31:31.100 But they still, he's, you know, they still throw him to the bone for a game or two.

01:31:34.840 He's been around enough.

01:31:35.640 He's got the, he's got the name.

01:31:37.880 Yes.

01:31:38.220 The name recognition.

01:31:39.000 He does.

01:31:39.740 But last night, he was talking about Joe Mixon, who in public punched a woman in the face.

01:31:48.540 And the video was released recently.

01:31:52.840 And, you know, it's horrific.

01:31:54.640 It was a couple of years ago when it happened.

01:31:56.240 And he got suspended for all of the 2014 season.

01:31:59.680 So, then he came back and Musburger originally said it was troubling, very troubling to see.

01:32:08.600 We've talked to the coaches and they all swear the young man is doing fine.

01:32:13.420 Like I said, Oklahoma thought he might even transfer.

01:32:15.960 But he sat out the suspension, reinstated.

01:32:18.860 And, folks, he's just one of the best.

01:32:21.460 And let's hope, given a second chance by Bob Stoops in Oklahoma,

01:32:25.740 let's hope that this young man makes the most of his chance

01:32:28.500 and goes on to have a career in the National Football League.

01:32:31.500 Now, as soon as he said that, I thought, oh, you don't know what you just said.

01:32:36.160 That is not going to go over well.

01:32:39.920 No, it is not.

01:32:40.560 And it didn't.

01:32:41.340 And so, they're getting all kinds of tweets.

01:32:43.040 And they're getting all kinds of social media backlash.

01:32:45.940 And people are going crazy about it.

01:32:47.740 And so, later in the game, he came out again and said,

01:32:51.140 apparently some people were upset when I wished this young man well at the next level.

01:32:55.140 Let me make something perfectly clear.

01:32:56.680 What he did with that young lady was brutal, uncalled for.

01:33:00.340 He's apologized.

01:33:01.860 He was tearful.

01:33:03.800 And now, okay, I know.

01:33:05.200 But let's, you know, in Brent's, go ahead.

01:33:09.120 Finish what he had to say.

01:33:09.760 Yeah, okay.

01:33:10.560 He got a second chance.

01:33:12.160 He got a second chance from Bob Stoops.

01:33:14.540 I happen to pull for people with second chances, okay?

01:33:18.060 Let me make it absolutely clear that I hope he has a wonderful career

01:33:21.860 and he teaches people with that brutal, violent video.

01:33:25.540 Okay?

01:33:26.160 See?

01:33:26.740 No, that's not okay.

01:33:28.220 In today's world.

01:33:29.140 You can't.

01:33:29.540 In today's world.

01:33:30.280 Say that.

01:33:30.820 You can't even live.

01:33:33.420 Nope.

01:33:33.640 You can't live.

01:33:34.700 You can't walk down the street.

01:33:35.860 Nope.

01:33:36.060 You can't go out of your house if you've been, if you're guilty of hitting a woman.

01:33:40.740 Well, that's true.

01:33:41.440 If you're a sports, if you're a sports, any kind of sports.

01:33:44.380 Yep.

01:33:44.800 Any kind of athlete.

01:33:45.720 Mm-hmm.

01:33:46.420 And there's video of it.

01:33:48.140 Well, I will say this.

01:33:48.920 You certainly can't be celebrated.

01:33:50.740 No.

01:33:51.300 Right?

01:33:51.720 No, you cannot.

01:33:52.620 No.

01:33:53.720 Musburger should have left it alone.

01:33:55.760 If I were then.

01:33:56.640 Great run by now.

01:33:57.560 Oh, dare you.

01:33:58.480 He hit his woman.

01:33:59.540 I wouldn't have even brought up the whole incident.

01:34:02.700 He knows better than that.

01:34:03.380 In the past, you should leave it alone.

01:34:05.480 You don't wish him well.

01:34:06.940 When you're talking about, in the same breath, he beat some woman in the face.

01:34:10.780 He used to.

01:34:12.780 So, you're right, sir.

01:34:13.740 It may be time.

01:34:14.820 It may be time.

01:34:15.860 It may be time.

01:34:16.400 It just may be time, Brent.

01:34:18.600 Call it in.

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01:35:25.120 Threw us back out earlier.

01:35:26.820 Hopefully be back with us tomorrow.

01:35:28.660 Triple eight, seven, two, seven, Beck.

01:35:30.240 We were talking about Brent Musburger's problems last night.

01:35:34.580 And this kind of follows up from, was it last year or the year before?

01:35:38.320 It was a couple years ago now, right?

01:35:39.920 When he was talking about A.J.

01:35:41.420 McCarron's girlfriend during the Sugar Bowl.

01:35:45.020 Was it the Sugar Bowl?

01:35:46.220 I don't know.

01:35:46.520 I don't know if it was a bowl game.

01:35:47.740 I mean, it was.

01:35:48.460 Some Alabama game.

01:35:51.540 Yeah, it was an Alabama game.

01:35:52.660 Might have been the SEC championship.

01:35:53.940 Possibly, but here's what he said then, which was somewhat interesting.

01:36:01.900 Auburn, I want to admit that, but she also, this Alabama, 0.93

01:36:04.740 and that's A.J. McCarron's girlfriend, okay?

01:36:06.940 Oh, yeah, okay.

01:36:07.620 And right there on the right is D.D. Bonner.

01:36:10.520 That's A.J.'s mom.

01:36:11.440 Wow, I'm telling you, quarterbacks, you get all the good looking.

01:36:14.080 Yes, he's the bomb.

01:36:15.440 What a beautiful woman. 1.00

01:36:16.780 Wow.

01:36:17.600 A.J.'s doing some things right down the top.

01:36:20.200 So if you're a youngster in Alabama, start getting the football out

01:36:23.680 and throwing around the back yard with him, huh?

01:36:25.980 Okay, now that.

01:36:26.740 You want to be a quarterback.

01:36:27.980 He got all kinds of flack for that.

01:36:29.400 He sure did.

01:36:29.720 I didn't think that was that bad.

01:36:30.780 Boy, social media, Twitter went crazy.

01:36:33.120 They went nuts because he's talking about, again, a beautiful woman.

01:36:37.000 And I guess that's.

01:36:38.360 You're not allowed.

01:36:39.380 That's verboten.

01:36:40.300 You are not allowed.

01:36:41.480 It's forbidden.

01:36:42.000 You can't talk about.

01:36:43.240 You can't talk about the girl.

01:36:44.560 You can't talk about the mother.

01:36:45.720 You can't talk about the boy.

01:36:46.820 Nothing.

01:36:47.080 Uh-uh.

01:36:48.280 And I, you know, people made a big deal.

01:36:50.440 Oh, that's a 72-year-old man talking about a 21-year-old girl.

01:36:54.460 He's not asking her for a date.

01:36:56.160 He didn't try to sleep with her.

01:36:57.580 He's saying A.J. made a great choice.

01:37:00.020 Right.

01:37:00.760 And wow, there's her mother.

01:37:02.660 And she's attractive, too.

01:37:04.300 Yeah.

01:37:05.300 Terrible?

01:37:06.380 No.

01:37:06.800 And then he's got Herbstreet next to him, who was a quarterback, by the way,

01:37:10.520 when he said, wow, you quarterbacks.

01:37:13.820 Yes, true.

01:37:14.820 Right.

01:37:15.100 And last night was a little different deal.

01:37:19.300 It was a lot different.

01:37:20.700 Last night, he deserved some criticism.

01:37:23.000 And it wasn't just the Joe Mixon thing, sort of, you know, celebrating him

01:37:30.700 and hoping he has a great career after he punched a woman in the face.

01:37:33.600 And I guess, should that end his career for all time?

01:37:39.540 There's a lot of people who think so.

01:37:41.000 Yeah.

01:37:41.340 There's a lot of people who think so.

01:37:42.320 There's a lot of people who think you should stop existing.

01:37:46.020 Yeah.

01:37:46.480 And I don't think that Brent gets that at this stage.

01:37:49.960 I don't know how old.

01:37:50.900 What is he, 75 now?

01:37:52.180 Probably now, yeah.

01:37:54.340 But the other thing he was doing, I don't know how many times he called

01:37:57.980 these large football players rascals.

01:38:04.780 That rascal, that's a big rascal.

01:38:07.320 That's a big one.

01:38:08.280 What?

01:38:08.860 Hey, big one.

01:38:09.700 And the other thing he kept saying was youngins.

01:38:11.860 Youngins. 0.79

01:38:12.480 These youngins and rascals. 1.00

01:38:15.900 Okay.

01:38:17.100 If you're not in 1956 anymore, Brent.

01:38:20.380 And so, again, it just might be time.

01:38:23.640 Might be time, Brent.

01:38:24.480 Just to give it.

01:38:26.140 We love you.

01:38:26.820 Okay.

01:38:27.440 And I do.

01:38:28.280 I think he's great.

01:38:29.800 Every once in a while, you know, you come back around.

01:38:31.500 Maybe we do a press conference at the bowl games every once in a while.

01:38:36.100 So, the sugar bowl maybe gives you a special award.

01:38:39.420 You're the sugar bowl guy.

01:38:43.120 You're the honorary color man for the sugar bowl.

01:38:48.600 We allow you to say three things during the sugar bowl.

01:38:52.140 We allow you to say, and the sugar bowl winner this year is.

01:38:56.020 So, it just might be time.

01:38:59.780 We'll get you a ticket.

01:39:00.560 You're up in the booth and you're good.

01:39:01.860 And I will say, it definitely is time for the Obamas.

01:39:05.680 Now, this happened a couple of weeks ago, but we were on vacation when she said it, and

01:39:11.320 I couldn't believe the insensitivity of it at the time, but it reminded me how glad I

01:39:18.680 am to see these two go when Michelle Obama sat down with Oprah, and because, and they're

01:39:25.580 talking about the Trump presidency and how the left is going crazy, and here's what Michelle

01:39:31.980 Obama said.

01:39:32.600 We're feeling what not having hope feels like.

01:39:35.680 You know, hope is necessary.

01:39:39.780 It's a necessary concept, and Barack didn't just talk about hope because he thought it

01:39:48.000 was just a nice slogan to get votes.

01:39:51.760 I mean, he and I and so many believe that if you, what else do you have if you don't

01:39:56.880 have hope?

01:39:57.520 Yeah.

01:39:57.880 What do you give your kids if you can't give them hope?

01:40:00.880 I'm sorry.

01:40:01.780 Well, she's saying that about the right who almost lost all hope when her husband was

01:40:07.580 elected, when her Marxist husband was elected in 2008.

01:40:12.720 No, no.

01:40:13.780 They didn't care at all what the right was feeling.

01:40:16.260 They didn't, they didn't give, they didn't care at all about anybody but themselves, and

01:40:23.360 now all of a sudden, now they see that their, their reaction is much the same as ours, and

01:40:28.780 they have no recognition of that.

01:40:31.320 None.

01:40:31.960 Again, they are the most unaware people.

01:40:36.240 These liberals and progressives apparently can't see beyond their own noses.

01:40:41.900 It's just amazing.

01:40:44.320 And it's, it's one of the reasons I'll be very happy to say goodbye to them on January 20th,

01:40:50.300 regardless of who's entering the White House, just so they're going out the other door.

01:40:54.260 So they're gone.

01:40:55.000 Just so they're gone.

01:40:56.740 And he makes a, he makes a big point now of continuing to say that he's still going to

01:41:02.880 be involved.

01:41:04.020 I'm not going anywhere.

01:41:05.020 I'm not going anywhere.

01:41:05.900 I'm still going to be living in Washington.

01:41:08.840 He told some little girl that.

01:41:10.120 I don't know what the, I wasn't, I was only paying half attention to the, to the news cycle

01:41:14.660 when we were on vacation, but he was telling some little kid, I'm not going anywhere.

01:41:18.660 Cause the kid was saying how he's going to miss him and all that.

01:41:21.100 And, and I thought, Oh, I don't know if I can handle it.

01:41:26.320 If you don't go anywhere, you need to go somewhere and just leave us alone.

01:41:29.820 Now you've done enough.

01:41:32.260 There's no way he does that either.

01:41:34.140 It's fascinating to watch this though, because again, they are so unaware.

01:41:39.320 Paul Krugman, Nobel winning economist and liberal New York times columnist said that he's lost

01:41:45.240 faith in the future of the United States.

01:41:47.020 Now, when we were saying this in 2008 and 2012, that we were concerned about the future,

01:41:53.320 who do you want to take back the country from a black man? 1.00

01:41:56.840 Well, who do you want to take back the country from a white guy? 0.80

01:42:00.600 A capitalist?

01:42:03.140 What are you saying?

01:42:05.040 In a series of tweets following Trump's expected triumph in the electoral college, Krugman seemed

01:42:10.920 to be despondent with the state of the U S.

01:42:12.980 So it's official and it's vile.

01:42:16.020 The loser of the popular vote installed by Russian intervention, a rogue FBI and epic media 0.53

01:42:23.340 malfunction.

01:42:24.080 He tweeted, we should never accept this as okay.

01:42:28.020 It may be the new normal, but that's a new normal in which the America we knew and loved

01:42:33.120 is gone.

01:42:36.220 It's just agonizing.

01:42:38.260 It is agonizing.

01:42:40.300 Are people noticing that the Trump economic team is shaping up as a gathering of gold

01:42:45.680 bugs?

01:42:47.520 What is it?

01:42:48.580 I don't, I'm not sure what that means.

01:42:50.740 Goldman Sachs people.

01:42:52.100 I, I, I guess he's talking about, uh, people who are successful economically.

01:42:57.860 I guess he's talking about those people.

01:43:00.760 You got to hate them.

01:43:01.860 I hate those people that are successful.

01:43:03.640 Uh, Krugman gave the highest praise to Larry Kudlow, who's expected to be named the head

01:43:09.100 of the council of economic advisors in this crew.

01:43:12.420 Kudlow, who, who thinks it's always the 1970s, but doesn't seem to hyperinflation under his

01:43:19.560 bed is the most reasonable.

01:43:22.260 Okay.

01:43:22.860 Well, I mean, it's fascinating to watch, uh, uh, their machinations.

01:43:27.920 Now it's fascinating to watch their panic, uh, their fear, the fact that they're all buying,

01:43:34.120 uh, shelters.

01:43:35.200 Now they're installing these, these self-sufficient shelters.

01:43:40.240 And that in some cases are costing seven, 10, $15 million.

01:43:45.520 Now, when we said, Hey, you might want to store some extra food.

01:43:50.060 It was crazy.

01:43:50.960 It was nuts.

01:43:51.500 Oh, end of the world.

01:43:52.220 What are you talking about?

01:43:53.400 Preaching the end of time?

01:43:54.900 When we were saying, Hey, maybe it's good to have 10% gold in your portfolio.

01:43:59.120 I'm not, I'm not talking about buying all the gold in the universe.

01:44:02.540 I'm just saying maybe 10% of what you own.

01:44:05.740 Oh, what are you preaching?

01:44:06.740 How crazy are you?

01:44:07.840 It's so crazy.

01:44:08.580 You're just making money and now they're taking these incredibly drastic measures and

01:44:14.000 it's perfectly fine.

01:44:14.740 It's perfectly fine.

01:44:16.060 Okay.

01:44:16.360 There's nothing wrong with it.

01:44:17.600 Uh, crazy at all.

01:44:19.140 Now, when they say the end of the world is coming because of Donald Trump, it's perfectly

01:44:23.460 fine.

01:44:24.200 There's no problem.

01:44:25.500 I mean, I would just, I would just, I'm not asking them not to say it.

01:44:29.240 I'm just asking them to notice that you thought all of that was crazy in 2008 when we were

01:44:35.840 concerned.

01:44:36.500 I'd be nice.

01:44:37.300 And maybe you could learn the lesson from us that, okay, we thought that he would, and

01:44:42.660 he did fundamentally transform America, but we thought it might be to the point where,

01:44:46.800 um, we'd even have no place in it.

01:44:50.220 I, I, I'm not sure what we thought would happen.

01:44:52.380 I economic collapse.

01:44:54.000 I, I, who knows?

01:44:55.640 Um, and he did do a lot of damage, but we survived it and here we are.

01:45:01.000 So it would be nice if they could learn that lesson that we thought it was going to be

01:45:06.300 catastrophic when he was elected and he's been elected to two terms and we survived it.

01:45:12.140 We'll survive this guy, no matter what we'll, we'll survive him.

01:45:17.300 Uh, and that's, you know, I think that's, what's given me so much hope is that is that

01:45:21.580 realization after the election.

01:45:23.580 I thought, well, you know, we've survived a lot.

01:45:26.400 Yeah.

01:45:26.660 We survived a Marxist president who I don't think even has much admiration for this country.

01:45:32.900 Not a chance.

01:45:34.760 And somehow we got through it all.

01:45:37.140 We survived his socialist program, his Obamacare.

01:45:40.820 We survived the government taking over 17% of the economy.

01:45:44.380 Now it's made things worse.

01:45:45.900 There's no doubt about that.

01:45:47.520 And a lot worse.

01:45:48.700 And it's even for people who don't have Obamacare, it's made healthcare, uh, extraordinarily expensive

01:45:55.860 and has ruined our coverage.

01:45:57.580 I mean, we used to have the best coverage I've ever had.

01:46:00.220 It has declined so much over the last few years since Obamacare.

01:46:05.220 It's almost unrecognizable now.

01:46:07.560 It's quite a bit different.

01:46:09.420 It's a lot different.

01:46:10.860 I mean, and Glenn was really proud of the fact that he offered the best insurance available

01:46:14.640 and he did.

01:46:15.620 And he, and he, and he should be.

01:46:17.060 And he should be.

01:46:18.000 Yes.

01:46:18.860 But now you can't even get that insurance anymore.

01:46:21.560 You can't even get it.

01:46:22.760 They won't even put the parameters into the computer because they don't have those parameters.

01:46:26.960 I mean, I did, it was, it was, it was, as long as we're down.

01:46:29.980 This road, it was frustrating in our gatherings with changing of insurance that we kept hearing.

01:46:37.420 Well, this is the best it is.

01:46:38.820 This is the best it is.

01:46:39.980 This is really great.

01:46:41.700 Yeah.

01:46:42.000 It was so frustrating that I had to point out to them.

01:46:44.780 Yeah.

01:46:45.020 Well, it's not to us because we used to have much better.

01:46:48.680 Yeah.

01:46:48.900 Well, that doesn't exist anymore.

01:46:50.540 So.

01:46:51.720 Okay.

01:46:52.120 Well, thank you.

01:46:53.100 Obamacare.

01:46:53.720 Well, right.

01:46:54.440 And, uh, that's why Nancy Pelosi is proud to tell the Republicans, look, if you break

01:46:58.700 Obamacare, they own it.

01:47:01.560 They break it.

01:47:02.480 They own it.

01:47:03.420 It's already broken.

01:47:04.460 I got news for Nancy Pelosi.

01:47:06.400 Been broken since day one.

01:47:07.680 Day one.

01:47:08.420 888-727-BECK.

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01:47:44.600 Welcome.

01:47:46.060 Pat and Jeffy.

01:47:47.400 888-727-BECK.

01:47:49.600 Hopefully, Glenn will be back feeling better tomorrow.

01:47:52.000 888-727-BECK.

01:47:52.660 Well, if he doesn't move.

01:47:53.800 Yeah, if he doesn't move.

01:47:55.100 If he listens to us.

01:47:55.920 Because, again, he was sitting in a chair doing just fine, and then he moved.

01:47:59.720 He moved.

01:48:00.380 You can't do it.

01:48:00.880 How many times do we say, sit down, don't move?

01:48:03.400 Don't move.

01:48:04.420 And maybe he's learned an important lesson here today.

01:48:07.120 I sure hope so.

01:48:08.060 I hope so.

01:48:10.800 We were talking about the Rock Hall of Fame a little bit earlier.

01:48:13.660 Who are the, are there five or six, there's five or six artists that got into the Rock Hall.

01:48:19.120 Strong artists this year.

01:48:20.200 Strong, like Joan Baez.

01:48:22.580 Who doesn't love Joan Baez? 0.92

01:48:26.120 I may have taken the full list down.

01:48:29.140 Yeah, but Tupac.

01:48:30.460 Tupac Shakur.

01:48:31.400 Journey.

01:48:32.000 Journey, who deserves it.

01:48:33.620 ELO deserves it.

01:48:35.380 And yes.

01:48:36.180 Yeah.

01:48:37.540 Let's go to...

01:48:38.660 Pearl Jam.

01:48:39.280 Oh, and Pearl Jam.

01:48:40.080 Pearl Jam.

01:48:40.540 So that's the other one.

01:48:41.200 Chris in California, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

01:48:44.500 Absolutely.

01:48:45.480 So I think that we should probably go with Phoebe Snow, because Phoebe Snow has got that 0.93

01:48:49.560 like 70s sound.

01:48:50.980 I mean, we're all about 70s.

01:48:52.340 I love Phoebe.

01:48:53.300 Phoebe Snow.

01:48:54.260 Poetry Man?

01:48:55.300 Right?

01:48:55.740 Come on now.

01:48:56.420 She's a Poetry Man.

01:48:57.540 I was thinking more of Midnight in the Oasis.

01:49:00.560 Oh, and that's Maria Moldauer.

01:49:02.080 That's not Phoebe Snow, though.

01:49:02.420 Yeah.

01:49:02.700 That's Maria Moldauer.

01:49:04.380 I've got an album of Phoebe doing some covers, and she may have done that song on that album,

01:49:08.860 but she might have, but nobody does it like the original done by Maria Moldauer.

01:49:14.040 Oh, man.

01:49:14.520 Well, there you go.

01:49:15.220 Midnight at the Oasis.

01:49:17.180 Come on.

01:49:17.420 Who doesn't love that song? 0.97

01:49:18.500 Thanks a lot, Chris.

01:49:19.240 Who doesn't love Midnight at the Oasis?

01:49:20.740 Oh, I think everybody does.

01:49:23.060 Thank you.

01:49:23.700 I know I do.

01:49:25.060 And Phoebe, he's at a point with Phoebe Snow.

01:49:26.960 I mean, Poetry Man is...

01:49:28.860 And as long as we're at it, why not put Minnie Ripperton into the Rock and Roll Hall of 0.93

01:49:33.440 Fame?

01:49:33.920 The one who did Loving You is easy, because you're beautiful.

01:49:37.540 There should actually be, there should be like a wing to the Rock Hall of Fame, to the

01:49:42.420 one-hit greatness of songs.

01:49:45.040 Well, there's definitely a wing for rap artists.

01:49:47.140 There's a wing for R&B.

01:49:48.800 There's a wing for people who were just influential.

01:49:51.460 I mean, you've never heard of, but people were influenced by them, whether they're a producer

01:49:57.520 or they're a writer, or they were a band that nobody's ever heard of, but bands heard

01:50:02.280 of them.

01:50:02.500 But the iconic band came from here.

01:50:04.840 And liked them, and so they're in.

01:50:06.740 Yeah.

01:50:07.600 So why not a one-hit wonder wing?

01:50:11.340 I mean, it's...

01:50:12.700 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a sham.

01:50:15.100 It's a Travis Shamakery.

01:50:17.400 And I think we all know it.

01:50:19.020 So what happens, do you change your tune if they put Forner in?

01:50:25.460 Well, it'll help.

01:50:26.680 I don't know if it cures the disease, but it eases the pain a little bit.

01:50:30.120 It would be, I mean, it would ease the pain a little.

01:50:31.820 I think that's just throwing...

01:50:32.740 But look how long it took to put Journey in.

01:50:35.900 I mean, come on.

01:50:37.020 That's a no-brainer.

01:50:38.100 I'm not a big Journey fan anymore.

01:50:39.820 I'm not either, but it's Journey.

01:50:40.700 They're so overplayed.

01:50:42.080 I just got sick of them.

01:50:43.120 I know, but it's Journey.

01:50:43.960 But it's Journey.

01:50:44.640 Come on.

01:50:44.740 And they sold, I don't know, 100 million plus.

01:50:47.060 That's not about that.

01:50:48.620 Chicago went in, I think, last year.

01:50:51.640 They sold 125 million.

01:50:54.120 At least.

01:50:54.780 They're iconic.

01:50:55.520 So how do you leave those bands out?

01:50:59.820 ELO just got in this year.

01:51:03.580 It's a...

01:51:04.720 Well, sort of two-pack.

01:51:05.940 So that's good.

01:51:07.420 It's good.

01:51:08.000 Yeah.

01:51:08.280 Two-pack's it.

01:51:08.980 And, I mean, he was shot nine times, right?

01:51:10.920 So he should have been in a long time ago.

01:51:12.680 Right?

01:51:13.040 A long time ago.

01:51:13.900 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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The Glenn Beck Program - January 03, 2017

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