'Short-Circuiting the Second Amendment' - 3⧸27⧸18
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Summary
On today's show, Glenn Beck and Stu talk about the possibility that the shooter's wife may have been involved in her husband's plan to carry out the Pulse Nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida in 2016. They also discuss the recent revelation that the gunman's father was an FBI informant for more than a decade.
Transcript
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Do you remember the Pulse nightclub shooter? He was an angry ideologue.
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He killed 49 people, injured 53 more, and he was driven by hate.
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When he walked into the nightclub and opened fire, just before, he called 911 and swore allegiance to ISIS.
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Now, after the gunfight, police shot him to death.
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In the days after the shooting, we learned that the shooter's wife most likely had helped him plot the massacre.
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Now, don't forget these truths, because the trial of the shooter's wife has sought to erase them.
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Yesterday, her lawyers filed for a mistrial after news broke that the shooter's father was an FBI informant for more than a decade right up to the shooting.
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The media has also focused on the nonchalance that the shooter's father had in reaction to all the warning signs.
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Now, perhaps he's going to face his day in court.
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But for now, it is important that we do not lose sight of the shooter's wife.
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This case is expected to wrap up this Wednesday, and let's hope that this legal circus doesn't overshadow justice that is due.
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When the police entered the Pulse nightclub the night of June 12, 2016, they saw bodies, and they heard the constant buzz of cell phones ringing.
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Frantic calls from family, from friends, worried about the person that they loved.
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Frantic calls that would remain forever unanswered.
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Yeah, the allergy thing has been pretty brutal.
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I think it's potentially, I mean, look, we see what Vladimir Putin's doing around the world.
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It certainly makes perfect sense, and I'm willing to jump to any conclusion if it's mildly plausible.
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I'm reading The Kill Process, and it's about basically a Facebook, and they're having exactly the same problems.
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I mean, this thing is, it's amazing how well this is timed, but it's Facebook called something else, and they're just taking all this bulk data, and they're telling their customers one thing.
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Customers are like, I want to do something, but I can't get out of this because then I don't have any way to really communicate and keep friends.
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It's my only choice, and it shows how easily this data can be used and manipulated.
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The main character is actually somebody who was a product of spousal abuse, and she finally killed her husband, and she did it in self-defense.
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Now she's really kind of screwed up, and she knows how to get into the Facebook backdoor, and she's using all of the data to track people, find out who is depressed, who might be having problems with an abusive spouse, and then she uses all of the algorithms and everything else to go out and kill them.
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This is only slightly darker than the actual Facebook story.
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The Facebook thing's interesting in that, think of where we've come on that.
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You remember when Facebook first started taking over and becoming a big thing, everyone kind of talked about it as like, these things come and go so quickly.
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It's such a huge thing now and such a huge part of so many people's lives.
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You forget that what happened, like, for example, MySpace, that was a big thing for a while and then just died, and everyone was predicting that eventually the same thing is going to happen to Facebook.
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And now it's become such a big thing that you have some conservatives arguing that it should be treated as a utility, right?
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Which is another huge step, I believe, in the wrong direction.
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But now, I mean, it actually seems like this could potentially do real damage to them.
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And what they're doing to react to it seems to also do real damage.
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They're starting to try to correct problems that are really bad for them in the media and really bad for them politically, but aren't necessarily problems for their users.
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You know, like, people who go, the fake news problem, for example, like, as a good steward to the community, right, they should be aggressive to try to stop that from happening.
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However, that's not what their people, their users are asking them to do.
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They love sharing the crap out of fake stories.
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And I don't like, quite honestly, I don't like the fact that they're going to tell me who I can trust, who I don't trust.
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And now you have all these companies who have built these giant Facebook audiences to, you know, write their stories and link to them and everything.
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And they're changing the algorithm to a point that now you're pretty much only seeing pictures of your friends' kids.
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Your friends' kids annoy the hell out of you, and you don't want to see their faces that often.
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Maybe when a new one's born, you get a couple shots, and that's about it.
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I think it's more common than people want to admit.
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Because, yeah, you want to keep in touch with your friends.
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You have to read this book, because you will love this book.
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It's like, look, the point of this book is, I mean, I want to talk to the author.
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Why haven't you created this competitor to Facebook?
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Because he's like, look, you should be able to control the algorithm yourself.
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You should say, I want fewer friends, fewer pictures of my friends.
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You know, you could change the algorithm yourself.
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It's interesting, because what Facebook and so many of these sites have done is a progressive
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I mean, I know it's not the government, so it's different.
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They can do whatever they want with their product, but they're assigning to you the algorithm
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You went there because you thought you had control because of what you like and et cetera,
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But that's not turning out to be the way it is.
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Well, I remember there was a big change in the Instagram algorithm, which instead of giving
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you the pictures, the people you follow post in order, it would give you some sort of algorithm
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response that gives you the things you might have missed from four days ago and, you know,
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and didn't put them in chronological order anymore and you didn't get every post.
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So even if you chose to follow someone, you didn't necessarily get those in your feed.
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I'm here because I wanted to, you know, listen to Glenn Beck and his whatever thing he's
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I do think that like they are now coming to a point where in reaction to media criticism,
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in reaction to political criticism, that they are now trying to solve problems that their
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And that's not a good future for a government, right?
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And Zuckerberg is now laying down and saying, you know, gee, maybe we should be regulated.
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And, you know, he's lost $5 billion in the last 10 days, $5 billion in his own personal
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$75 billion Facebook has lost in the last 10 days.
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So that's a lot of money to pour down the drain.
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And you kind of wonder, gee, you were, you were thinking that you could be president of
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the United States, but now you're beginning to look like a pretty big weasel that has information
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I mean, I, I wouldn't want you in the CIA, let alone the Oval Office.
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Uh, the name of the book that I'm reading, we were just talking about is, uh, by William
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Uh, and I honestly, I don't know why they don't build this.
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So maybe I'm going to find out exactly why they, they don't build this, uh, this competitor
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to Facebook, but, uh, it's interesting to see how our, our data is being used and how
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you can find out anything about anyone and manipulate them.
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And the book I'm reading is a Peppa Pig's super noisy sound book.
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What, what happens to her, to Peppa in this one?
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Uh, and actually I will say, I, I'm going to give a little bit of a spoiler here.
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You can also listen to it because there's super noisy sounds throughout.
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You can press them before you get to the part of the book where you're supposed to press
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If you, if you're, I mean, you know, why bother opening the book in the first place if you're
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So I don't know if you saw what Bain Capital said.
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Bain and company released a report over the weekend called Labor 2030.
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He just had a little, like a dollar sign button go cha-ching every time you got to a number.
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It's predicting now that 25% of American jobs will be permanently replaced by automation
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We're, we're 12 years away from this and that's just, you know, it's, it's not going to happen
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Lower wage earners are going to be hit first and they're going to be hit the hardest.
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And that's because things that used to take humans to do them, it did no longer with AI
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It's no longer going to take a human to do that.
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For instance, the burger flipper that's already out.
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Now, if you've gone into a McDonald's lately, I mean, you can touch screen once here.
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And you know, what's great about the touch screens at McDonald's is you can order things
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Like, let's say, for example, I was in a McDonald's with a touch screen a week ago and
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You didn't put four slices of cheese on whatever you ordered?
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You could just be extra cheese, extra cheese, extra cheese, extra cheese.
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And you don't have to say, I'd like four slices of cheese.
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Well, I'm getting old and sometimes my hands shake and I don't like to correct it.
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My hands were shaking and just kept bumping the button.
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I only thought I ordered one and it was a mix up of the machine.
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I didn't catch it until I'd eaten it all on the way home.
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Anyway, so the lower wage earners are going to be hit first and the hardest.
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This is another reason why you don't want 15 an hour, 15 hour, $15 an hour minimum wage,
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because the more pressure point that the business feels, the more likely they are to replace you with a robot.
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Technology is getting better and cheaper and machines are soon going to be able to do more cognitive type jobs that used to require humans.
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So now 25% in additional unemployment, 25% of America's jobs are going away permanently by 2030.
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How does the nation cope with a unemployment rate of 29%?
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These are the kinds of conversations that we should be having over the Stormy Daniels thing.
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I talked to somebody on the left who was just as upset about this as I was yesterday.
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And he was saying, you know, this news cycle is ridiculous.
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We're not talking about what's really going on, the dangers that we're actually facing.
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How does a country or a world hold itself together with 29% unemployment?
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Because that is something we're going to have to figure out.
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Now, what they're talking about is a basic minimum wage, which I'm against constitutionally.
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Because the people who are making the robotics and the AI are going to become extraordinarily wealthy.
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And they are going to be the ones that hold all of the power.
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Now, the argument is that once you take humans out of the line, for instance, once you say, well, I don't have to have a human ride a tractor.
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They don't have to they don't have to cut the alfalfa.
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They don't have to drive it because we don't have any drivers anymore because it's automated.
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The patty machine takes it and puts it out on the grill.
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You are just touchscreen ordering in and it comes right to you.
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There's not a human involved, maybe 20 in that entire line.
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And so the thinking is, is that if we have a unemployment rate, we should start thinking about having an unemployment rate and be pushing for one closest to 100 than zero.
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At least it's something that we should morally want.
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I love the idea that you would not have to work and you would be able to choose to do the things that you believe are most helpful to others, to whatever you would want to do.
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You know, we've gone through a period in which.
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And usually not nothing incredibly productive, I grant you.
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Like if we, I've heard this argument before and a lot of people make it.
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And I think it's a really interesting one, which is, hey, if we have no jobs, how do we find meaning in our lives?
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Is that where you're pulling your meaning from your life?
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So you're coming in here talking to you every day.
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But it certainly shouldn't be where I get mine, right?
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But everybody I know, especially now, they're all starting to say, I just want to, I want to do something that has meaning.
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But if you didn't have to, a lot of people are forced to do or wind up in situations where they do jobs that don't have meaning, jobs they don't want to do and they dream about doing something else.
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You wouldn't have to be locked up at 40 hours a week doing something you didn't want to do.
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So the question is, does man have the self-control to be self-ruled, in control of all of his appetites, and not having to work?
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We're talking now about Bain and Company, Bain Capital, a report that they just came out with, an analysis of 2030 and where America will be in 11 or 12 years.
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And they say we will be at an unemployment rate, if you include today's unemployment rate, of about 29%.
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They said unemployment will run about 25% more or higher than it is today, because 25% of all jobs are going to be lost and never coming back.
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So the question is, how does one live, Mike, in Florida?
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And, you know, I was actually on my way to work and listening to your program, and I find it somewhat fascinating.
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Stu talked about how wonderful it would be to not be employed, you know, to sit home on your butt and do nothing and maybe go brain dead.
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I'm 75 years old, and I had a tough run in the stock market.
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And I'm back to work part-time, and I do enjoy it.
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That's weird, because I'm 53, and everybody thinks I'm 90.
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You got to quit pushing that button for putting 10 pieces of cheese on your breakfast.
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However, you know, my question is, as the unemployment rate rises due to automation, how are people going to survive?
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I mean, the only thing that I could see is unemployment benefits from our government, which, you know, I guess that's the only answer.
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Or seek another field, perhaps out of the robotic generation.
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Well, Mike, the problem is that they're saying now that everything, even creative writing and artwork and filmmaking, everything that can be done will be done better by robotics and AI.
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There are those things that will come later and later and later.
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And the first thing that go or the menial tasks, the the average working Joe kind of task.
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And that's why we're bringing this up now, because we have to start thinking differently.
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You know, the the answers are twofold so far, and that is basic minimum income, which I'm not a supporter of.
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The wealth tax is they say it'll be one or two percent.
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Stu, isn't that what they said in 1913 about the income tax?
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You know, shockingly, yes, you remember that correctly.
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I think it's a little higher than seven percent.
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So they're saying the wealth tax will not be more than one or two percent.
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And what that is, is like property tax, except it's for everything in your life.
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And then you have to pay one percent every year in tax.
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So I don't know how that works, because that would stop you from consuming durable goods, things that last.
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You wouldn't you wouldn't want to buy those things.
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But that tax would then would be given to those who don't have a job.
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And they say that the price of everything is going to come down so much that you won't need as much money to live.
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I think more likely, at least in my opinion, than the 100 percent unemployment rate is that work just becomes a much smaller percentage of our life.
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I mean, this has already happened over the past 50 years.
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Here's where we've gone to a point from we've cut, depending on what country you're looking at, we've cut our working hours per year from between about 10 to 25 percent.
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And that has happened like we used to work 50 hours a week and now we're working 40 hours a week, whatever that is.
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And I think that I think we chip away at that for a very long time to where, you know, it's something that you do, but it's not it's not something that is the only thing you do.
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Right. Again, that won't happen with the unskilled worker that won't happen with the the the truck driver.
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It won't happen. I mean, you could slow it down like the unions did in past cases, but it you might do other things.
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If you look at it and you look at it, what's happening in France?
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Now people are starting to say they're starting to rebel and going, I want to work more than 30 hours and you can't stop me from working.
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You can't close me down on a Sunday because, you know, it's good for the economy.
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And what they're thinking is, is that there's going to be a struggle with those who have jobs and those who don't have jobs, because even though you'll if in this utopian view that they think is coming, which I highly.
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They're saying that those people that don't have a job, you're supposed to be happy.
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But what I really want to do is work on something and you have it.
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And so now there's this this class warfare of those who are working and not working, even though now we view this as something of, geez, I'll I'll give up my job.
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And so you will turn against those who have a job and there will always be someone to lead that.
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This is what happens when they redesign the matrix.
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And they when they said, you know, all these people want to be happy.
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If you think about work as something that you do, we all think about it this way.
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Now, we go to work to get the money we need to survive.
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Now, we also might go to work and we also might really like our job, but that's certainly not everybody.
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A lot of people go to work because they need the finance financial income to survive and get through the day to feed their families, to buy insurance, all those things.
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If instead work was the thing you really thought you wanted to do and were passionate about, and maybe it wasn't about money, would that be an improvement?
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The idea, you're right here, is if we got to that final point where it was zero percent employment and how would money flow, people are tossing around things like the income.
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Finland is currently doing an experiment on it.
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You know, Nixon did an experiment on it in this country.
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That hardcore right winger, Richard Nixon, talked about the income and wanted the income, minimum income for doing nothing.
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We already have, obviously, a lot of programs that do this in specific cases, but that was an idea that he tried to implement here in the United States.
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And the little bit that we have done destroys people's will.
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I mean, most people, when they, if they had a chance to not work, I mean, maybe it's just me.
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But I think on Monday, oh, I can't wait till Saturday.
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I'm going to, I'm going to clean out the garage.
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I'm going to finally clean out my closet and get that in order.
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Then I'm going to, I'll go and do something nice with my wife.
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Well, I had a kind of a version of this actually happened to me recently, which was my wife and kids went up to visit my in-laws in Connecticut, which left Stu all alone at his home for an entire, close to a week.
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Now, I will say, was there, were there more movies seen in that period than the average six-month period?
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Maybe this is because it had been a long time since I've been in this situation, but I knocked off more off that to-do list in that week than I had in the last year and a half.
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American exchange students in Italy start kitchen fire by cooking pasta without water.
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Consider this a public service announcement, as well as a lesson in cooking 101.
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Three American students living abroad in France, Italy.
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Learned this the hard way when they started a fire in their apartment by cooking pasta without any water.
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The 20-year-old students brought home pasta from the supermarket.
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And they put the dry noodles straight into a pot without any water and lit the stove.
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The pot quickly burst into flames, caused a fire.
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The group called upon local firefighters who came, kicked down the door.
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And said, this is the most American story of all time.
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We're going to the home of pasta and cooking it without any water.
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What's amazing is they fought the fire with water.
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Was the pasta delicious at the end of the fire?
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Kitchen furniture, no one was harmed, but kitchen furniture were burned.
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I mean, could you not put the pasta out yourself?
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Because you'd think if you put the pasta itself out with water, then you would have had cooked pasta and things would have went okay.
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Like, there was actually a solution there, if they just had timed it right.
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Have they never seen pasta cooked on TV, a movie, a friend, mom, dad, the dead cat that returned home?
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I feel like this is something that's, if I may be a grandpa, which I am not yet.
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But it does seem to be one of these things with these millennials these days.
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We've had interns and stuff that just, like, cook stuff in the microwave with tinfoil on it.
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This is, I feel like, a basic thing of society.
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If you're going to microwave things, you know you don't put tinfoil in the microwave.
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You know, it's like that type of knowledge seems to be lacking, that sort of basic life skill, you know, to get through the point where you can get your burrito hot.
00:34:19.680
Capitalism has come up with a system in which they will develop.
00:34:24.160
They will make all the beans and the cheese and the sour cream for you.
00:34:31.620
Then they will ship it to a place right near you.
00:34:36.320
And then they've created an amazing device that instead of it taking 40 minutes to cook, will cook in, like, two and a half.
00:34:43.280
All you've got to do is not cover it in tinfoil.
00:34:51.500
So, anyway, the problem is this story went nationwide.
00:34:55.120
And, oof, the comments about America, not so good.
00:34:59.740
One poster said, this derives from the fact that in the U.S., everything is bought already cooked.
00:35:13.600
We're not even allowed to say women are allowed to go in the kitchen.
00:35:18.200
You've got to hashtag me, too, if you say that.
00:35:20.120
One warned others not to be too ironic in their comments, as one of these three could become the next U.S. Secretary of State or the next president.
00:35:34.940
I don't think ironic is the word they were looking for.
00:35:37.280
Upon hearing about the plight of Americans and their difficulty with navigating a boiling pot of water, the famed chef from some famous restaurant there in Florence offered them four four-hour Italian cooking classes.
00:35:55.020
He said, I understand there's, you know, there's a strong communication deficit on the part of this city, and they need to be taught the very basics of Italian cooking, and understanding is always necessary.
00:36:09.040
And the word is that the students are going to be able to take this and want to take this as soon as they figure out how a wired telephone works.
00:36:30.800
But we haven't elected Mussolini, which is nice.
00:36:33.900
That's at least one thing we can say that we have not done, but you did.
00:36:51.940
That was, I thought, a nice thing that we haven't done.
00:36:57.080
But, you know, I'm going to go with our side of this historical argument here.
00:37:01.700
I've got to tell you, I'm going with the pizza.
00:37:05.500
I mean, when it all comes down to it, really, they've eaten well.
00:37:11.560
And really, I mean, I, you know, I hate to use this phrase, but to boil it all down, that really is kind of where I live.
00:37:47.760
No, actually, they had the sick, twisted gall to actually ask people living in the United States if they were citizens of the United States.
00:38:02.960
The Commerce Department revealed last night that the citizenship question would be added to the 2020 census.
00:38:28.080
And by the way, being here without papers is also illegal.
00:38:45.200
This is citizenship question, not the Jewish question.
00:38:54.480
I remember where citizens used to have to travel to a city of their birth, you know, ride on the back of a donkey, even if you were pregnant for the census.
00:39:07.420
He's not going to kill all the little children.
00:39:09.580
All you have to do is put your little check mark.
00:39:13.780
I mean, the, the, the country knows why you really care about this census.
00:39:18.540
And it's not because you care so deeply for illegal immigrants.
00:39:27.000
If progressive lawmakers can weaponize illegal immigrants, they can, they can make them citizens.
00:39:34.440
What is the census for to see how many representatives you get in Congress?
00:39:42.340
It's why they've changed the word illegal and replaced it with undocumented.
00:39:46.200
When states such as California refuse to follow federal immigration policies and allow anyone and everyone to pour into their state without consequence.
00:39:54.840
They know that they're guaranteeing one certainty.
00:40:09.300
Trump is counting on that fact that non-citizens will refuse to answer this question.
00:40:14.980
That will affect the, um, the, uh, number of congressional seats.
00:40:25.600
If that reduces their power in Congress, you could then deny sanctuary states of political power.
00:40:37.360
This is an attempt to nullify the advantage that progressive lawmakers have been building for years.
00:40:42.800
An advantage they've gained by, by allowing and encouraging people to break the law.
00:40:48.120
This addition to the, to the census is a consequence for their lawlessness.
00:40:52.400
And the battle between California and the Trump administration is just beginning to heat up.
00:40:57.340
I mean, we might end up being better off in the long run if Trump does extend his wall to include California.
00:41:19.180
I'm going to lead with this tonight at five o'clock and, um, California, I'm on your side.
00:41:32.160
And, you know, Donald Trump doesn't want to count these people as citizens at all.
00:41:37.920
And, uh, that's wrong, but you're going to have to compromise because if you don't, you know, then it's just, then you're never going to be able to get anything through.
00:41:51.960
You're never going to be able to get anything done.
00:41:53.480
You know, we'll just fracture even more and you'll lose all of that power.
00:42:02.620
So I was thinking this morning, he's not going to let you count them as a citizen, right?
00:42:10.980
So how about, how about you compromise and count them as a quarter of a person or half a person or three fifths a person, something like that.
00:42:36.180
And it can slowly ease into everybody saying, yeah, they're citizens, even though we know they're not citizens now.
00:42:47.060
But if you could say they're three fifths citizens, it's not that big of a deal in a few years to say, yeah, they're total citizens.
00:43:03.620
It's better if you hold your ground right now and say, I'm going to count them as zero.
00:43:10.800
I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to count them as zero because then you'll win.
00:43:25.460
I think it's been tried before, but we'll present that idea in today's age coming up at five o'clock only on the Blaze TV.
00:43:39.880
Last night on television, we talked a little bit about Spooky Dude.
00:43:43.380
Spooky Dude is back, back to the chalkboard and looking at all of the connections because the, did anybody see that the press, CNN was actually writing a story yesterday saying these kids, these crazy kids, they get into their mystery van and then they just go around and they drive and they saw, the dog even helps them solve murder mysteries.
00:44:09.580
They, they just, the media just thinks, wants us to believe that this is just these, these marches were just spontaneous.
00:44:18.340
And is there anyone within the sound of my voice that believes that the teenagers could have pulled something like this off?
00:44:24.400
I mean, I don't even think they could have pulled off the, the plexiglass, you know, uh, podiums because I, I'm, you don't think that if teenagers were doing this, they got the busing down.
00:44:35.500
They got the permits, they got the police, you know, they have the insurance all done.
00:44:40.240
They, they got the staging and the speakers and the, and the music and, and the invitations.
00:44:47.400
These poor Parkland students who have been through so much.
00:44:51.220
You don't think one thing they wouldn't have like looked at each other and went, oh crap, we forgot the podium.
00:44:56.260
No, they even had the podiums, the really nice plexiglass ones and the, the really expertly printed signs.
00:45:14.960
Well, you are seeing an, a coordinated salt on the second amendment and you know that, but there's one story that nobody's talking about that we mentioned last week that I think is important to mention again.
00:45:35.800
And if it can be organized on a large scale, I wouldn't be opposed to taking them all away.
00:45:54.800
I'm very much against guns and if it can be organized on a large enough scale, I wouldn't be opposed to it.
00:46:02.620
Now we found out yesterday that Remington, the gun maker has officially filed for bankruptcy protection, but there's a lot of things going on with that.
00:46:14.380
And one of those things is people have stopped buying guns.
00:46:18.700
There was this huge run on guns at the very end of the Bush administration and it went through all the way for the last eight years.
00:46:26.300
Well, these gun companies, they all geared up to make all kinds of guns and everybody's buying guns and it's going to last forever.
00:46:34.280
And then Trump comes in and there was like, well, we don't have to worry about our guns being taken away.
00:46:40.700
The gun stores are hearing crickets even at this time.
00:46:44.260
Can you imagine if Hillary Clinton were in office and this debate was going on, how many guns you wouldn't be?
00:46:52.980
I'd still be standing in line the day after the Parkland shooting.
00:46:57.100
I'd still today be standing in line at Cabela's.
00:47:00.000
But because people think that Donald Trump is in, this is not going to happen.
00:47:12.640
Well, Remington is the first one to go into for bankruptcy protection.
00:47:22.760
How realistic is it, Stu, that we will sign away our Second Amendment rights?
00:47:29.920
Without a civil war, how realistic, what would it take to get America state by state to repeal the Second Amendment?
00:47:39.540
I mean, incredible amounts of emotion driven by incredible amount of tragedy that we can't even imagine at this point.
00:47:49.560
I mean, nothing, nothing even close to what we're dealing with now.
00:47:52.000
And I don't, I still think it would be incredibly difficult.
00:47:54.680
And certainly, I don't think you could avoid, in this country, a civil war if you were to take, try to go house to house and take people's guns away.
00:48:08.880
Repealing the Second Amendment does not mean all the guns are off the street.
00:48:11.260
People, I think, a lot of times are like, oh, well, that's all you'd have to do.
00:48:18.900
And many would not be turned in, you know, day one.
00:48:22.020
I don't, I think it's the way is that I would phrase that.
00:48:24.700
Now, luckily, you've already turned yours into the military.
00:48:30.560
I don't think you want to talk about your guns being, I think it doesn't seem better than the alternative.
00:48:48.460
Anyway, none of them, none of the entire collection, entire collection, because you spent a long
00:48:54.640
time acquiring, uh, you know, antique weapons, uh, many useful weapons.
00:49:01.100
And then all of them, you, you either melted or even the top gun that we got in Disneyland
00:49:10.240
Did you melt them on the way to giving them to the military?
00:49:13.860
I don't know, but I've been calling for the mystery van to come and see if they can figure
00:49:23.040
So we know that it's not reasonable to go for the second amendment, right?
00:49:34.040
Well, what you do, Glenn, is you just take little steps, reasonable.
00:49:38.220
Let's call them common sense steps to just, let's say, infringe slightly on your, let's
00:49:53.340
And then, Cass Sunstein, he would suggest, what do you do with the people then?
00:50:02.720
I'm going to show you a pretty large nudge that no one is talking about.
00:50:13.120
And I don't think you have to worry about the second amendment.
00:50:20.220
If you're you, yeah, you're going to have to worry about it.
00:50:26.120
They've already done one, three, and we're out.
00:50:29.160
Because there was a time I would say absolutely no chance of the second amendment going away.
00:50:33.220
But the way we have seen people change over the past decade.
00:50:38.380
Now, you don't even need to get anybody to change.
00:50:40.900
I'll show you the first nudge that happened last week that nobody's talking about.
00:51:04.560
I mean, well, that's the extension tax day, which I file every year.
00:51:10.260
But anyway, IRS has released their annual dirty dozen list of the tax scams and phone scams.
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This is a good reason why you shouldn't file the extension, by the way.
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Because by the time you get to it, somebody else has filed for you.
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The deal is, is that people will call taxpayers and tell them that they owe money and they
00:51:29.260
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So, if you're a progressive, how do you short-circuit the Second Amendment?
00:53:14.340
You can go through the Second Amendment and through Congress, which is going to be a headache.
00:53:19.180
You could go after the manufacturers, which George Soros said, when I believe it could
00:53:27.140
be a coordinated attack, we can talk to institutional investors and drop their stock.
00:53:43.480
Stu, name the top four or five banks in America.
00:54:02.320
If you really wanted to circumvent and crush the industry, all you'd have to do is to go
00:54:11.300
to, let's say, Citigroup and say, hey, Citigroup, don't take any more transactions from gun
00:54:28.360
And if they sell high capacity magazines, if they if they sell ARs, don't don't do business
00:54:41.760
If you could get Citigroup to do it and then you could get Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase
00:55:05.340
Last week, there was a story that I haven't seen reported anywhere.
00:55:09.220
It was reported here last week, but you need to know about it.
00:55:16.740
We are no longer going to offer any financial assistance.
00:55:21.680
There will be no transactions with our credit cards, investments, loans, banking services,
00:55:28.620
no services to stores or people that are selling guns under 22 people under 21, which is legal
00:55:39.840
If you sell high capacity magazines, you will no longer be able to have any financial services
00:55:59.780
What happens if one of those said, you know what?
00:56:11.460
May I recommend if you have money with Citigroup and you believe in the Second Amendment, you
00:56:17.000
call them and let them know, I don't appreciate your new gun restrictions.
00:56:22.820
And when you open an account with Bank of America or JPMorgan Chase or Wells Fargo, you
00:56:29.260
tell them, by the way, I'm opening up an account with you because I left Citigroup because of
00:56:36.940
You have to show the power that you have before the other three banks.
00:56:46.160
It's Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and then Goldman Sachs.
00:56:51.740
I don't know about you, but I've I've never seen the little kiosk for Goldman Sachs.
00:56:56.860
I don't it's not even I don't even think of that as a bank.
00:57:18.400
You think the American Express card is hard to buy stuff with.
00:57:27.220
But you take out those top five banks, you've taken out 10 trillion of that.
00:57:31.680
Who's going to do business if the top two, three, four, five banks won't do any kind of
00:57:39.160
commercial services for gun stores, gun providers?
00:57:56.680
So now we were talking about what is happening with Citigroup, where last week they said that
00:58:01.900
they were going to stop all financial services to any gun organization or gun store or anything
00:58:15.860
So they won't, you know, they won't take credit cards, won't accept, you know, credit.
00:58:22.760
They won't allow them to take out loans with Citigroup, do banking with Citigroup at all.
00:58:38.020
I know it is, but it's not what everybody thinks of as a bank.
00:58:42.080
Now, you can go to the smaller banks, but what are the repercussions for those smaller
00:58:49.140
And it's kind of like what the pot growers are going through right now.
00:58:52.320
You know, there's some pot growers that, you know, they can't do any financial services
00:58:57.760
with any bank because it's technically illegal federally.
00:59:05.620
And a lot of these, these, you know, pot distributors living in states where it is legal to sell
00:59:20.620
They've created their own cryptocurrency and they're asking people if you want to buy pot,
00:59:28.260
If you send the money into this cryptocurrency and then you use these tokens because the
00:59:34.820
pot growers don't have banking services and it's starting to work.
00:59:41.160
This is another reason why I can't imagine how the government is going to allow cryptocurrencies
00:59:45.740
to work because the more the government decides to screw around with you, if they start, let me
00:59:52.580
ask you this, let everything stays the same, except all of the banks say, we're not going
01:00:01.100
We're not going to do business with any firearm store anymore.
01:00:05.520
And Cabela's is on the verge of bankruptcy because they can't take credit cards or anything
01:00:11.620
What percentage of this country would transfer money into a Cabela's token or to a Bitcoin
01:00:28.560
I would do it out of principle to protect them.
01:00:33.640
It's the type of thing that if, you know, they start taking away rights, especially a right
01:00:38.440
as important as that one, I mean, there's going to be a lot of people who would do that.
01:00:44.120
And it's funny, you know, obviously the pot thing is kind of going the other way, right?
01:00:48.140
It's something we haven't had access to and all of a sudden is available in many states.
01:00:54.400
They'll probably embrace that before they embrace guns.
01:00:58.480
But you could see, you know, with Citibank doing this, it's a big deal.
01:01:01.600
I mean, it is, it's, I don't think it's legal, first of all, you know, because there are laws
01:01:10.620
in at least some states that require you to sell to people who are legally able to buy.
01:01:23.660
And it's funny because a lot of these things were included by left wing.
01:01:28.620
They were started by left wing groups who said, you know, who wanted to, they just, you
01:01:32.700
know, they gave that list of like age, gender, you know, sexual orientation.
01:01:37.060
They go through the big list of things you're not allowed to discriminate on.
01:01:39.660
And the bottom line is like, you have to sell to everybody if they are legally available
01:01:44.280
It doesn't mean you have to sell liquor to a 13 year old, but you can't avoid selling
01:01:48.520
liquor to, you couldn't just say, you know what?
01:01:50.820
I think 25 is the right age for liquor purchases.
01:01:54.800
So no, everyone between 21 and 24, I'm going to say no to that's illegal in several states.
01:02:01.800
I mean, he hasn't been challenged in court yet.
01:02:06.100
You know, Dix is saying, and we're not going to sell guns to a 19 year old.
01:02:09.920
Well, 19 year olds are legally available to buy guns.
01:02:12.480
It's like, you can't say, I'm not going to sell them to a 70 year old.
01:02:17.500
That's age discrimination and they're going to get sued over it.
01:02:23.600
I don't think they should, you know, but, and it's funny because it's sort of the libertarians
01:02:32.120
And they should be able to sell to whoever they want.
01:02:33.720
However, the law, the law is the law, whether you like it or not.
01:02:37.660
I don't like paying income tax, but I still have to pay it.
01:02:40.140
Um, so these people will have to deal with the legal consequences of their new found,
01:02:45.440
uh, you know, uh, opposition, uh, to selling firearms from a store that sells them all the
01:02:53.360
So I just, I, I, I kind of like the fact that, you know, I know exactly who dicks is.
01:02:59.140
I know what they really actually believe, what they really want to do, what they will
01:03:07.940
I mean, oh, yeah, but I only need, you know, uh, you know, basketball, whatever, not going
01:03:18.920
However, the law is, I know, I know, and they're going to have, they're going to have to deal
01:03:23.940
It's funny because all the progressives who will, will now come on the side and say, of
01:03:28.000
course, you're able to discriminate on the basis of age.
01:03:34.280
And that will be the basis of their entire argument.
01:03:41.960
Well, this is why your laws, uh, you know, have consequences you don't necessarily consider
01:03:48.800
Now, look, if you've got a, uh, a constitutionally guaranteed, right, I don't know how you, you
01:03:53.060
know, this it's, these restrictions aren't constitutional anyway, and they'll be, they'll
01:03:56.700
be opposed from a constitutional basis as well.
01:04:01.120
And it will likely go to the Supreme court anyway, but I don't think even from a state basis,
01:04:05.400
you're able to do it, at least in several States.
01:04:16.680
You kind of raised the point that I was going to bring up about the, um, marijuana, the pot
01:04:21.800
industry that the banks don't do business with them.
01:04:27.020
So, um, but it creates a lot of cash, which comes with its own issues because you have armed
01:04:36.600
Um, the, the product is being, is being traveled.
01:04:41.300
Um, but I would pull out, I would, if banks stopped buying, stop doing that, I don't think
01:04:52.360
To be honest with you, I feel enough Americans have the attitude of me.
01:04:57.300
Well, kind of like Pat, the few years ago with the AR band that was supposed to be coming
01:05:02.600
and all, he went out and he was like, well, I'm getting one.
01:05:07.040
And I think this would just, I think they, the banks start doing this more and more.
01:05:11.980
It's just going to push more and more Americans to buy guns.
01:05:15.080
I feel gun owners get entrenched and, uh, they, they hunker down when it, when they start
01:05:24.860
Would you, how do you feel about Citigroup doing this now?
01:05:28.240
Oh, I think they're absolute snakes in the grass.
01:05:34.960
Anymore Glenn, anytime atrocities have been happened by government, the first thing they
01:05:41.160
do is they take away the citizens' right to defend themselves.
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Now, the left says that you have to bake a cake for a gay couple because that's the right
01:08:14.480
And I guess constitutionally now that's, you know, they said that that's what we got to
01:08:18.900
But constitutionally, I can buy a gun at the age of 20, but they say that I can't buy a
01:08:24.240
gun at the age of 20 because it doesn't yield it to them.
01:08:27.040
Are they going to represent me or are they going to represent the baker or I'm just kind of
01:08:33.260
No, I know that is, you know, here's the thing.
01:08:35.820
Have you ever really looked into postmodernism?
01:08:44.200
Postmodernism is what we're going through right now.
01:08:47.480
You know, and I, I was going to write a book on it.
01:08:50.020
And Simon and Schuster said, nobody wants to hear that.
01:08:52.340
And I said, yeah, nobody wanted to hear about progressives either.
01:08:56.820
Um, so, uh, postmodernism is this idea that is, um, that is beyond, uh, the modern thought
01:09:08.640
modernism is the enlightenment and facts and reason and enlightenment.
01:09:14.800
The, what, what postmodernism is life has no meaning.
01:09:32.720
That's what's being taught now that you are what you think that your reality is now my
01:09:39.500
reality too, because you say it's a reality that the X and the Y chromosome don't matter
01:09:45.620
Even if science says, because somebody else says, I don't think that's right.
01:10:03.240
It's why I've been saying the last few weeks, we've got to get back to the principles of
01:10:06.580
the enlightenment because that is, it's being replaced by postmodernism.
01:10:24.400
Last week, when I heard that story for the first time on your show, I called Citibank to
01:10:38.480
I would say anything to know how many people have closed their account.
01:10:47.100
Uh, well, I don't think Citibank's going to talk about that.
01:10:49.220
That would be very bad for their shareholders, but I will tell you this, if they're answering
01:10:53.040
their, their calls like that, you can bet it's quite a few.
01:10:56.280
And Marilyn, have you seen this story anywhere else?
01:11:17.220
Uh, let's, uh, we're tracing the call so we can check under your bed later.
01:11:26.340
Uh, first of all, there are banks out there in this country that are a part of states that
01:11:30.160
are republics, for instance, uh, North Dakota and also Texas.
01:11:33.740
They aren't part of our central banking system, which is what, uh, we fought a revolutionary
01:11:40.880
Uh, and, uh, as far as going back to, uh, postmodern progressives, uh, that's just a term
01:11:46.940
that we should stop using it and start calling the kettle black and call them socialists for
01:11:58.940
It's the dream for federalists and libertarians.
01:12:02.360
The more it's a, it's a welcoming, it's welcome to me.
01:12:06.800
I will tell you, Brian, that I'm, I'm with you on that, that we are entering a time of
01:12:15.480
And, you know, uh, it will require governments to become more and more hostile to people's
01:12:25.060
Uh, and you know, that's, they're not going to go quietly.
01:12:28.380
Nobody's going to lose this much power in this much money and go away quietly in the
01:12:33.100
Um, and that's the underlying tension that I think that we're feeling is the smart people
01:12:38.660
know this is coming and the smart people know, holy cow, that, wait a minute.
01:12:45.980
And they know that they're going to lose their power and their, and their ability to manipulate.
01:12:51.480
Uh, and, and so that's really what you're, you're feeling and you're feeling it even through
01:12:56.860
We kind of went to Facebook because we thought, okay, Hey, this is great.
01:13:00.380
And then they're going to, we're just going to be able to have our own newsfeed and we're
01:13:12.860
The government says that they should give to us.
01:13:16.400
They're defining what hate speech is, what fake news is.
01:13:23.100
We all know that, that Russia is trying to influence.
01:13:27.840
However, now we've got the government wanting to get involved and telling Facebook who has
01:13:35.080
all of our algorithms or has all of our information in their algorithm, exactly what they should
01:13:44.840
This has been done before when, when you started to go down the road of radicalism because there
01:13:51.740
was high unemployment and there was, you know, civil unrest, the government, what did they
01:13:57.200
The first thing they did said, control the media.
01:14:01.540
I'll show, I'll show it to you in history tonight at five o'clock only on the blade.
01:14:05.080
By the way, uh, did you hear that they're, they developed, uh, melting resistant ice
01:14:15.400
I'm going to cover that on the blaze.com slash TV, bet you won't, won't talk about the real
01:14:39.660
This isn't something new and I don't think something that we should be working.
01:15:09.340
The FTC announced a broad investigation of Facebook saying that they have substantial concerns
01:15:15.520
about the privacy practices of Facebook in a letter to Facebook founder and CEO, Mark
01:15:21.520
Zuckerberg, a group of state attorneys, uh, stern state attorney generals demanded specific
01:15:28.200
answers about how companies like Cambridge Analytica is getting all the information of Facebook
01:15:36.460
The moves by the FTC and 37 state attorneys general, in addition to the three congressional
01:15:43.020
committees, committees that have already called Zuckerberg to testify next month about the
01:15:50.560
Facebook has also been sued by Cook County, Illinois.
01:15:53.860
The state attorney says the, uh, that Facebook violated Illinois fraud law.
01:15:58.400
One Facebook user is suing them for violation of private user privacy.
01:16:03.660
Another shareholder is suing because of the steep drop in the stock price after the Cambridge
01:16:08.640
Analytica data, data harvesting scandal was revealed.
01:16:12.520
Is this just a bump in the road or is this just the tip of the iceberg?
01:16:18.720
Because of all of the negative headlines, Zuckerberg's late effort to answer questions about the Cambridge
01:16:29.240
Facebook stock lost $75 billion in market value last week, 75 billion with a B Forbes reported
01:16:38.220
that the personal net worth of Zuckerberg dropped by $5 billion.
01:17:05.120
I mean, you'd notice it certainly, but you certainly doesn't change your lifestyle.
01:17:10.740
You're not like, Hey honey, we got to cut back on the dinners out.
01:17:16.960
Uh, we got to go pick it up ourself from Panda King.
01:17:23.760
I think, uh, when he is legitimately now, uh, fearing a downturn in his business.
01:17:36.980
I mean, I remember it because weren't we working at Fox with Rupert Murdoch when my space, he
01:17:43.340
bought it for like a billion dollars, maybe more.
01:17:46.740
And, and then like the next day, it was like, really, it felt like the next day, but within
01:17:52.680
a very short period of time, it was worth nothing.
01:17:55.020
It was worth like, I think Justin Timberlake bought it for like $25 million.
01:17:59.360
And I was like, Oh my gosh, he bought it for nothing.
01:18:02.340
It was like now the other Justin Timberlake, not the famous one bought it.
01:18:07.140
Just some guy named Justin Timberlake bought it.
01:18:10.280
No, I mean, I don't know that you necessarily feel it, but I think he's, I don't think he's
01:18:17.200
Zuckerberg's different than, you know, a lot of these billionaires out there, uh, who have
01:18:21.920
done nothing but try to, you know, like, I mean, they might care about things, but like
01:18:26.880
He's not, he's not, I mean, he, he, remember he was what, 20 years old and they tried to
01:18:31.520
buy Facebook for like $14 billion and he turned it down.
01:18:35.440
And I think I remember that turned out pretty well.
01:18:41.360
I mean, cause again, my space could happen to you in a couple of years and you have nothing.
01:18:51.440
It's where everyone just kind of, I guess because we know who he is and he's rich and he seems to
01:18:58.360
We all assume he's running, not to mention he has an incredibly, uh, well-crafted understanding
01:19:04.040
of the American people, given that the fact that he can look at everything they've ever
01:19:07.900
done at any time he wants, uh, people kind of assuming he's going to run may happen.
01:19:14.840
Last week, hashtag delete Facebook was trending, trending on Twitter.
01:19:19.280
And some wondered if this was the beginning of the end of the world's largest social networking
01:19:23.420
platform, the company is definitely black and blue and headed toward the red, but it's
01:19:30.800
probably too soon to sound the death knell for Facebook.
01:19:38.280
It'll vow to do better at protecting your data and all of your secrets.
01:19:43.840
And then your crazy uncle can get back to posting those cat memes in confidence.
01:19:58.780
I think if, if I were, if I were Facebook, I would be looking for radical changes myself.
01:20:05.040
Well, you know, it's funny because a lot of the things that they've had problems with
01:20:08.460
here have, they've already changed the policies that changed them years ago, but we're just kind
01:20:13.220
of now finding out about, I think, I think, I think radical change, um, with the giving
01:20:20.800
people control of the algorithm in some regard.
01:20:23.180
I mean, I don't like the, I don't like the fact that, um, the, you know, they have all
01:20:31.020
And, uh, and then also I, I, uh, uh, I, I really don't think I'm, I'm, uh, comfortable
01:20:39.740
with them deciding who's a trusted source and who's not, I don't want them to do that.
01:20:46.260
I mean, I think what their point is, and tell me, this is not every progressive politician
01:20:51.260
that has ever held any power, but their point is, yes, we know what you want, but what you
01:21:01.840
And they are saying, I think in self-interest here, not even like a altruistic or even a
01:21:11.000
And what they're saying is what people are doing is they're getting online and they're
01:21:14.700
angrily fighting out, uh, political issues and tweeting stories that are questionable
01:21:19.780
and that's pissing off other, their other friends.
01:21:22.620
And what it's doing is it's hurting people's experience.
01:21:25.420
Yes, they might stay on the platform longer, but when they leave, they're angry.
01:21:29.360
When they leave, they didn't have a good experience and everyone keeps talking about deleting Facebook
01:21:37.200
I bet you have too, uh, who have gone, have at least made the play that I'm going to, I'm
01:21:47.560
I have, I have greatly reduced my personal time on Facebook.
01:21:54.820
It's a chance for me to interact with, with, you know, people.
01:22:04.840
I really, you know, I don't particularly use it like that, but I hear this all the time.
01:22:09.520
My wife used it all the time and she just found herself not enjoying it.
01:22:14.980
So I think what Facebook's saying is like, you'll enjoy it more if you're all you're seeing
01:22:19.520
And I think, you know, maybe there's something to that, but they're for trying to force that
01:22:24.700
change, even though people aren't requesting it, people can, you know, they don't have to
01:22:30.080
They don't have to click like on the Glenn Beck page.
01:22:32.340
Uh, they do that because they want to get the updates from Glenn Beck.
01:22:36.100
And so if you're giving them updates that are based on news because you want them, you
01:22:42.100
know, in a, in my, you know, free market sense, they should just give you what you're asking
01:22:49.460
What do you think about the idea when they, cause whenever, you know, they suggest somebody
01:22:52.780
that I should like, it's always like, no, I don't want to like that person.
01:23:02.620
And I, I looked through all their likes and I'm like, no, I know they don't give me anybody
01:23:09.120
new, different, uh, uh, you know, out of the box.
01:23:22.500
And you're like, all right, but could you occasionally show me, I don't know.
01:23:38.780
Show me a guy who's holding maybe a club made out of bronze.
01:23:46.620
I don't know that it's necessarily, uh, as big a problem as, as it's being portrayed
01:23:53.300
I mean, I think a lot of that really wasn't their fault.
01:23:56.540
I mean, I, and, and they've tightened it up anyway since then, but people get sick of
01:24:02.000
You know, social networks are kind of like clubs, right?
01:24:04.740
You open a new one and you know, you open a new club or a new restaurant in New York
01:24:10.500
Facebook has been the one that's really made people believe that's not the case.
01:24:15.900
Well, usually, usually what happens is the club becomes popular and then it, and then
01:24:20.860
it becomes, you know, everything to everybody and then it starts to go dark and then it's
01:24:26.320
just like a biker club and you're like, okay, we've got to get out of here.
01:24:31.420
And that's what, did you see the Elon Musk thing, uh, the other day?
01:24:34.640
So he, Elon Musk is on Twitter, uh, and he starts bashing Facebook in some way.
01:24:40.460
I guess he has some, uh, he has a little, a bit of an issue with Mark Zuckerberg dueling
01:24:46.640
And he tweets something like, what's Facebook, you know, just kind of wrecking Facebook.
01:24:51.200
And someone points out to him, Hey, uh, Elon, uh, why don't you delete a Tesla and
01:24:56.800
space X's Facebook page, which have millions and millions of followers.
01:25:00.220
Then if you don't know what it is, and he responded, okay, I'll get to that right away.
01:25:06.280
He's just deleted his Facebook pages from his major companies.
01:25:09.520
And I think they had like between the two of them, six or 7 million followers.
01:25:15.000
Uh, it's not a good business decision, but I mean, he, again, this is why, this is why
01:25:23.340
It's, you know, when I was a kid, it was called screw you money.
01:25:28.940
It was called something else, something else money, but, uh, had a different letter at
01:25:32.960
And other letters after, uh, but, uh, that's what it was called.
01:25:38.560
So you could, you get at any time you go, you know what?
01:25:45.960
And that's, what's so great about being a billionaire.
01:25:49.980
That would be the advantage of having, you know, even a couple of thousand dollars in the
01:25:54.640
Most Americans can't, most Americans can't come up with $500.
01:26:07.240
I mean, from, I feel like I want to fact check it.
01:26:11.420
I'm going to say, I feel like I want to fact check it.
01:26:22.400
Give me something here, Sarah, just to, while we have Stu, who doesn't believe me.
01:26:34.160
This is a little different, as usual, from the Glenn Beck.
01:26:48.240
No, and you did see a story about this, and it is a $500 surprise expense would put most
01:27:17.820
Because, I mean, I think that's why you have credit, right?
01:27:20.820
So if you have a circumstance in which you don't have the money, you're able to come
01:27:25.020
Does it surprise you that people don't have $500?
01:27:30.260
And that's just the United States, where things are relatively good.
01:27:45.540
But $32,000 a year is not thought of as a high salary in the United States, right?
01:27:56.120
And if you make $32,000 a year, you are in the richest 1% in the world.
01:28:04.420
The whole thing about, we've talked about this before, progressives love to bash the
01:28:09.280
wealthiest 1%, but all their union members are all in it when you look at it globally.
01:28:14.440
And where does it, if they treat these things the same way as they do here in the United
01:28:20.180
States, it's take the money from those rich 1%ers and give it to everyone else.
01:28:24.180
And it's funny, the progressives here don't mention that stat all that often, but you know
01:28:32.720
You know, what's really weird, Stu, is you know how the unions have lost their hold on
01:28:38.120
America, do you know that those unions have branched out to other countries?
01:28:44.620
In fact, they like to go to the poor countries.
01:28:49.080
You know those rich people making $32,000 in America?
01:28:55.600
And they have organized people, and these are mass movements around the world to try to
01:29:04.360
Now, it's not easy, but I don't know how they do.
01:29:22.600
We were talking about Facebook, talking about Zuckerberg was a billionaire, and he has all
01:29:26.860
this money, and we talked about whether that would affect him.
01:29:34.840
The average person doesn't have screw you money.
01:29:39.800
I think the government should pass out screw you money.
01:29:52.960
Except we're the ones getting screwed, strangely.
01:30:01.720
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Were you with them the other day when they came in?
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They make the name brand safes for all of these other companies, and now their name is becoming
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so popular and so important that, like Cabela's, it now says Cabela's by Liberty.
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Liberty Safe is just this little company that could, that just thought, you know what?
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I mean, Ryan Seacrest, as we know, can pretty much make money on anything.
01:32:22.700
He's the executive producer of all the Kardashian stuff.
01:32:25.300
So, you think he's made money off American Idol?
01:32:27.520
He laughs at you when you bring up American Idol.
01:32:43.520
And so, I mean, if you could get Kim Jong-un to sign, and then you can kind of follow him
01:32:48.180
around the world for all of his adventures, I think it could be a really good show.
01:32:51.640
Isn't it weird that Dick Clark was replaced, really, kind of by, like, the same guy?
01:33:01.840
Because he could just do everything and has his hands in everything?
01:33:04.400
Yeah, he just has his hands in absolutely everything.
01:33:06.240
They both started in music, and they're both kind of like this clean-cut, behind-the-scenes
01:33:12.480
They have one really big show, but then, you know, they're the puppet master behind...
01:33:18.560
And now, we do Kim Kardashian, then we rule the world.
01:33:25.500
Uh, I was, uh, amazed at the coverage of the Kim Jong-un to China thing, because they
01:33:33.160
The initial coverage was, we saw a giant 21-car train.
01:33:43.940
And we think, who on earth would be in that train?
01:33:51.040
Well, who's, you know, it's kind of like, if you're in LA, and you see somebody driving
01:33:56.040
an old, you know, steam automobile, you know, that's probably Jay Leno.
01:34:02.120
In this case, you see somebody in an old-timey train, not because he thinks it's cool, it's
01:34:08.220
because that's the best they can do, it's Kim Jong-un.
01:34:14.280
I mean, I think, uh, there does seem to be some discussions going on, uh, ahead of the
01:34:21.060
potential Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un, as he's discussed.
01:34:24.380
You've also seen the, uh, the interesting China trade discussions, which is like, they're
01:34:32.620
And then the news came out yesterday, it's like, God, maybe we won't do tariffs.
01:34:51.420
Oh, the lesson is, always have a cool 21-car train that's really old that you could go to
01:35:27.040
You go right to Jason, who is our head writer and head researcher, specializing in foreign
01:35:43.160
A lot of people have been saying, you know, Donald Trump, he's not tough on Russia.
01:35:52.900
Probably the biggest thing that we've done against Russia since the 1980s.
01:35:58.820
1986, I believe, was the last time we took such strong retaliatory measures.
01:36:04.340
I don't remember either, but it was during the Reagan administration and the height of
01:36:13.400
Obama expelled a bunch of Russian diplomats, which everyone thought was, you know, going
01:36:17.640
to be, you know, the linchpin that was going to kick a lot of stuff off.
01:36:21.980
The Trump administration actually, you know, before they were actually in office, kind
01:36:26.100
of sounds like they got Mike Flynn to convince Kislyak and the Russians that, hey, don't worry
01:36:32.340
That's actually the only time the Russians did not retaliate back with some kind of reciprocity.
01:36:37.960
Every other time that we kick out some of their spies, diplomats, they respond, you know,
01:36:49.180
Putin's spokesman, Peskov, said that they were looking at ways to do it.
01:36:53.540
And then Putin personally would give the order.
01:36:55.580
I think the last thing I saw was that Putin said that this was like gross blackmail or something
01:37:04.820
I think we're up over 130 some odd Russian diplomats or spies have been ejected from their
01:37:13.440
We shut down a actual full on consulate in Seattle to include in this.
01:37:23.820
NATO 10, France 4, Germany 4, Poland 4, Canada 4.
01:37:28.340
I'd waste the entire broadcast going through all this.
01:37:32.300
The only people that are denying that this chemical attack that happened on UK soil, that
01:37:37.480
it was the Russians, are the Russians, which is pretty much how they play it.
01:37:48.440
I think that the last time that they responded pretty heavily was after some sanctions.
01:37:56.700
So now I think, and this is kind of interesting how Trump administration actually targeted Russian
01:38:04.360
Now, that's kind of like an unspoken thing within the spy world is that, okay, we're going
01:38:09.220
to allow you to play your little spy games in our country as long as you allow us to play
01:38:35.360
So, Stu, you were saying earlier, and I find this really interesting because a lot of people
01:38:38.920
say you should go after the oligarchs, but that might actually help Putin because he's
01:38:46.240
trying to repatriate all of the money that these oligarchs had taken out.
01:38:51.080
And actually, the theory is that it actually will strengthen him within his own country
01:38:56.240
because A, all these oligarchs will have to bring the money back into Russia.
01:38:59.820
And B, he will show, he will have more control over them.
01:39:07.560
So, I mean, these are not easy problems to solve, you know, but it does seem that the
01:39:12.180
Trump administration has taken a good hard turn on this and the people he's surrounding,
01:39:16.760
I mean, certainly Bolton coming in is a move in that direction.
01:39:20.260
I actually heard this piece of analysis, however, on CNN, I think it was yesterday, and they said,
01:39:29.080
Is this showing a hardening of a position by Trump?
01:39:31.760
And I don't remember who it was, but they said, yeah, well, it definitely is showing that.
01:39:35.880
However, we still have not seen Trump tweet about Russia like this.
01:39:42.500
I mean, he tweets about everything and he has, he will not tweet about Russia.
01:39:53.260
You actually want him to tweet about more diverse topics?
01:39:58.500
And the idea is, I am thrilled with a world in which Donald Trump has the right policies
01:40:08.860
And now the media has come to a point in which they're criticizing him for not tweeting.
01:40:17.940
Well, the deal is, is if somebody says it on CNN, does anybody know it?
01:40:26.500
All right, Stu, down to the dwindling few minutes left in the program.
01:40:36.120
As, as I gave you the opportunity, I think last hour or the hour before cat returns home
01:40:45.440
Uh, well, two days after he was buried, uh, man drowns to headline number two, man drowns
01:40:55.640
Police say, and, uh, and headline number three, holy cow.
01:41:04.340
I have, I kind of want the dead cat story because I'm wondering if this is a pet cemetery
01:41:16.120
You think that the cat may have come back to life?
01:41:18.320
Well, that's what happened in the documentary pet cemetery.
01:41:21.300
That, that was a, that was a Stephen King book.
01:41:25.640
Is that, was the book magically moving on my television, Mr. Beck?
01:41:31.440
The Robinson family said goodbye to their beloved cat, Willow.
01:41:38.120
They buried their, their cat under a tree in the backyard.
01:41:43.700
Johnny and Katrina Robinson watched as their sons, Josh seven, buddy four, sobbed over their
01:41:54.840
Uh, you see, there was a bad storm, winter storm and, uh, the rain and the snow.
01:42:01.560
And Johnny was worried about the cat every night.
01:42:09.420
And they sobbed and they, they cried every night.
01:42:12.540
They hadn't, dad said, I haven't seen my son cry for a long time.
01:42:24.040
They had to skip school to mourn the animal, but dad set them down and said, you know, this
01:42:29.680
is what happens with cats sometimes and the animals and they, they're lost.
01:42:42.540
That's when really, yeah, that's, that's, that's like, if I could feel it breathing or
01:42:47.280
I can, I just, I just know he's, I just know he's alive.
01:42:51.060
So they put missing posters out all over the, all on the trees and the, and the fence post
01:42:59.660
It's when dad was driving home one night and he saw a very flat patch of black and gray
01:43:08.760
He pulled the car over and it was Willow, the cat run over flat.
01:43:17.820
He came home, showed the kids, Hey, look at the cat.
01:43:33.640
The little buddy, four year old wouldn't give up.
01:43:45.820
Dad and mom discouraged him, said, you know, he's not coming back, son.
01:43:50.440
Until one day they noticed that the kid, the cat food had been eaten.
01:43:58.040
It was just a few days after the memorial service.
01:44:00.700
When they had, when they had buried their black and white striped cat, but there Johnny in
01:44:08.640
the backyard, along with buddy seven and four holding the gray and white striped cat meadow.
01:44:18.480
Apparently in the neighborhood, there's another cat that looks just like theirs that had been
01:44:22.200
hit by a car and, uh, so they buried somebody else's cat.
01:44:36.820
You want to try to bury the dead thing that is, that belongs to you.
01:44:43.380
Well, I remember him being a little more fluffy.
01:44:51.860
Have you ever taken your car in for an oil change and a mechanic finds something wrong
01:44:56.460
and surprise, you're hit with a big repair bill?
01:44:59.840
If, if you have, you know, if you have a $500 problem that just pops up on you, most
01:45:09.620
So you need to put it on a credit card or something else.
01:45:15.400
Good thing, though, is you get to help out the banks by paying them some interest.
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So when that check engine light comes on, you have that sinking feeling in your chest.
01:45:32.260
If your car breaks down, they take all the surprise away.
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There is a great story out of upstate New York where this couple who had a, you know,
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a wedding venue, a place where, you know, you hold your wedding reception.
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They didn't want to hold, you know, gay wedding ceremonies there.
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So they decided that they're going to, you know, let anybody use it.
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Um, but a, a good portion of the, the, um, the cost is going into a donation to the family.
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That's, uh, that's, uh, General Boykin's place.
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So there, so they said that, you know, that we're just, we want to celebrate and we want
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And so a portion of your, uh, of your, uh, money will be going to the family research council.
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And that way they, you know, they can still do it, but you're going to be, you're going
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That's like me going and saying, uh, yeah, I'd like to have my, uh, I'd like to have my
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We're just going to, you know, we'll give your money to a Soros organization and, uh,
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We, I actually had this idea a while ago that it would be fun to do a weight loss competition
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where like, Hey, you got to drop some, some weight.
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Um, but if you don't drop the weight, you have to donate like a bunch of money to some
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Cause that would really make you not, I mean, you'd really think about maybe not having that
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No, I didn't do it because I did not want to make a large donation to Planned Parenthood.
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I was thinking, no, I am absolutely against Planned Parenthood, but no, I'm not going
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So, uh, I'm going to give it to Planned Parenthood and tell them to use it only on other services.
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Uh, I, there's another cool solution to this too, uh, on this, um, you know, marriage
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thing where, you know, a place is hosting marriages and, and they have to, you know, they want
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to be able to choose, uh, who they do business with.
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Um, but you should probably just be able to do the things you want to do, um, and maybe
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not have to create art for others and bring people into your venue.
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If you don't want to, that's another way of looking at it though.
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I, uh, I just, I can't leave today without playing this.
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This is one of the speeches from, uh, the March for life and, uh, and for our lives.
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And I, and I think this is, well, you got to hear this speech.
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Our kids are getting shot up and the moment we speak up, we're scolded that we are not
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It is as, it is as if we need permission to ask our friends not to die.
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Lawmakers and politicians will scream guns are not the issue, but can't look me in the
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Some people thought she was maybe crying there, but she wasn't.
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I just threw up on international television and it feels great.
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No, no, I'm guessing it didn't feel great, but, uh, thank you for sharing.
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There's a bit too much love for international television among this group.
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Uh, yeah, no, I think, I don't know that I, I mean, again, take away a lot of their really
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terrible points, which we could, you know, look, we spent two days doing that, right?
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You wrote an entire New York times bestseller called control on these arguments and we all
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know they're really bad arguments, but you know what?
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A 17 year old shouldn't be able to debate you on guns.
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I mean, I certainly couldn't at 17 years old, but the idea that they should be continually
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pushed in front of the media, that the media should continue to demand that they're on 24
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And that like, you know, the families are encouraging that.
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Like, I, I don't think as a parent, and I can't put myself in that position, but as a
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parent, I would not want my kid out in front of international media every single day.
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I'm trying to remember they were interviewing one of the CNN anchors.
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And, uh, and he had done an interview and, and, and listen to what they say about pushing
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Do you think in showing these kids so often, as often as we, we all do, we're doing actually
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them a disservice because the policy is actually what's going to change this.
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The passion I fear will just sound like noise after a while and people will tune it out.
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Disservice is, is a strong word, but when I was interviewing David Hogg, uh, only 10
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days after the massacre, uh, there were a few times I wanted to jump in and, and say,
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But I did once, but you know, the rest of them, not so much.