The Glenn Beck Program - 'Sober Words and Careful Action' - 4⧸11⧸18

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00:00:15.240 Glenn Beck.

00:00:17.420 Кстати, далеко не все продукты действительно стоит брать с собой.

00:00:21.800 Например, из круп, дольше всех хранится рис в среднем до 8 лет.

00:00:25.440 What the Russian people heard after the U.N. vote yesterday?

00:00:33.900 What is it that they're saying?

00:00:38.740 It's stunning.

00:00:42.420 But let's start at the beginning. 1.00

00:00:44.060 The U.N. Security Council was in full-on stupid mold yesterday afternoon. 0.99

00:00:49.260 For those who missed the broadcast, here are the CliffsNotes. 0.99

00:00:53.260 It went something like this.

00:00:54.420 The entire world, minus Russia, demanded action on Syria.

00:00:59.360 Russia proceeded to claim false flags, then deny anything actually happened in the first place.

00:01:05.020 If you're wondering, yes, the Russian ambassador kind of contradicted himself there, but screw it.

00:01:10.720 It's Russia. 0.81

00:01:12.540 They're going to deny their ambassador was even there.

00:01:15.120 They'll, you know, leak bad Photoshop of him at a strip club with Steven Stagall and then sit back and laughs while calling everybody a Russia-phobe.

00:01:24.500 So, what really happened at the meeting yesterday?

00:01:28.880 Well, yesterday, the U.S. proposed a resolution calling for international investigators to be given access to the site of the chemical attack.

00:01:37.180 Russia, of course, proceeded to veto it.

00:01:40.180 Russia then proceeded to offer a counter-resolution calling for investigators of their own who would then report their findings to Russia.

00:01:50.900 So, Russia said, no, no, no, no, you can trust us.

00:01:54.880 We'll send Russians to investigate and then they'll report to us and then we'll tell you about that. 0.99

00:02:00.540 Well, you can imagine how that went.

00:02:02.120 That was a veto bonanza.

00:02:03.540 It was well understood yesterday that this is now going to fall on the shoulders of America, as it always does for some reason.

00:02:14.180 It was well understood yesterday that if no agreement was made at the U.N., military strikes from the United States would be imminent.

00:02:24.720 As the ambassadors left the room empty-handed, a flurry of activity began.

00:02:30.940 Airline companies operating in the Middle East received a request to change their routes for the next 48 hours.

00:02:37.280 Flight trackers showed civilian aircraft all but stopped around Syria and parts of the Mediterranean.

00:02:43.940 One hour after that, Russia began relocating their hardware and their planes and their helicopters from multiple military bases inside Syria.

00:02:53.640 Reports began coming in that the Syrian military was digging in and preparing for a strike.

00:03:02.260 Then everything went quiet last night.

00:03:06.860 It's still quiet, but it's daytime.

00:03:11.760 It's assumed that Russia had been given a short window to get their forces out of the line of fire.

00:03:16.640 But in a very short time, U.S. ordinance could be falling and it would be too close to Russian soldiers.

00:03:25.520 The Kremlin is taking this very seriously.

00:03:31.600 Which leads us back to the audio we began with.

00:03:35.900 What was it he was saying?

00:03:38.860 What was it the Russian people were hearing?

00:03:41.700 Last night on Russian state TV, the broadcaster began.

00:03:50.500 He was warning of a nuclear war.

00:03:55.000 They were broadcasting the details of what you needed to do in case of a nuclear war.

00:04:02.780 They said, don't panic.

00:04:05.420 However, this could be coming.

00:04:07.820 They said, don't panic.

00:04:37.820 They seem to be a little bit more sober about this.

00:04:42.620 Most Americans don't even really understand how close we are.

00:04:48.700 It's the opposite of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

00:04:52.760 I remember my parents talking about the Cuban Missile Crisis and how the world sat on edge.

00:05:00.880 Russia is sitting on edge.

00:05:05.120 What are we talking about?

00:05:08.260 Stormy Daniels?

00:05:12.020 Is this all a show?

00:05:14.040 Last night I went to bed knowing that the Russians were preparing for nuclear strikes.

00:05:24.200 And this morning I read this tweet.

00:05:28.200 Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria.

00:05:33.120 Get ready, Russia, because they'll be coming nice and new and smart. 0.94

00:05:39.640 You shouldn't be partners with a gas-killing animal who kills his own people and enjoys it. 0.95

00:05:45.080 End quote.

00:05:50.420 While everything he said was true.

00:05:52.460 Are there some things that should be taken a little more seriously?

00:06:04.460 The sun goes down in a few hours in Syria.

00:06:13.380 If a strike happens, it's going to come after the sun goes down.

00:06:16.880 Yesterday afternoon I tweeted,

00:06:26.720 Pray for all those in harm's way.

00:06:31.500 Perhaps we should be a little more specific.

00:06:42.660 Pray for all of those in Syria.

00:06:45.520 But I think those in harm's way

00:06:53.360 live all over the world

00:06:57.920 and in this country

00:07:01.400 as well.

00:07:13.360 It's Wednesday, April 11th.

00:07:15.620 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:07:17.380 So there's a ton to go over today.

00:07:30.380 Hello, Stu.

00:07:31.180 How are you?

00:07:32.280 Good.

00:07:32.500 How are you?

00:07:33.220 I'm good.

00:07:34.280 Good.

00:07:34.540 I mean, you know,

00:07:35.140 it's a little disturbing to have the Russians on TV going, 1.00

00:07:40.280 here's what you do in case of nuclear war.

00:07:43.160 That's disturbing.

00:07:44.060 It's also disturbing that I feel like every time we listen to clips from Russian state

00:07:47.360 television,

00:07:47.980 it sounds like another language in reverse.

00:07:51.560 You notice that?

00:07:52.880 Play it again.

00:07:53.560 Can you play that, Sarah?

00:07:55.000 Кстати, далеко не все продукты действительно стоит брать с собой.

00:07:59.280 Например, из группы,

00:08:00.420 I think he was talking about Subways.

00:08:02.540 Yeah.

00:08:03.560 Or Subway sandwiches.

00:08:04.700 Yes.

00:08:05.460 Six-inch steak and cheese.

00:08:11.320 It does kind of sound like that.

00:08:14.560 It does sort of sound like that.

00:08:15.740 I don't know.

00:08:16.000 I mean, it's such a strange thing to be in the middle of.

00:08:20.360 But remember, we talked about this a while ago.

00:08:24.180 Everyone was talking for so many years about how soft Donald Trump was going to be on Russia

00:08:29.620 and how it was this big concern.

00:08:31.820 And, you know, we talked about it.

00:08:33.160 Easily see it being the exact opposite.

00:08:35.740 Right?

00:08:35.880 Like, he could be so tough on Russia that we wind up in a conflict with Russia.

00:08:41.400 And, you know, I don't, hopefully that doesn't happen.

00:08:44.500 Well, I mean, so far, I think we're doing the right thing.

00:08:48.700 So far, we have to, we have to respond to chemical weapons being used.

00:08:54.900 Do we not?

00:08:55.460 Man, here's where my libertarian gets me in trouble.

00:08:59.820 Yeah, I know.

00:09:00.780 That's, again, that is definitely falling in the category of world police.

00:09:05.620 There's not a lot of U.S. interests involved in that.

00:09:08.860 Yeah, I should say.

00:09:09.540 The world needs to respond.

00:09:11.100 The United States shouldn't be the one always.

00:09:13.780 The world needs to respond, especially their neighbors.

00:09:18.600 And I, you know, I really, it really bothers me.

00:09:20.660 What use is the U.N.? 0.92

00:09:22.980 Oh, they're completely worthless.

00:09:24.500 Right.

00:09:24.560 Because Russia could just veto everything that they do.

00:09:26.600 Correct.

00:09:26.940 So, I mean, you know, there's no point really there.

00:09:30.260 They'll get some sort of coalition together, I think, to support this in some name-only sort of way, as it usually is.

00:09:38.060 But I guess you could make the argument that we have to draw that red line that Obama drew and then erased on chemical weapons.

00:09:46.900 Because if they become acceptable, they become something that rogue nations can use without punishment, rogue nations will start using them without punishment.

00:09:54.880 And it could very well wind up being a long-term downhill trajectory.

00:09:59.580 But, you know, that it's a long-term argument.

00:10:02.720 I don't think there's a huge amount of U.S. interests that would be served by this.

00:10:10.080 It's just we just need to make sure that other rogue regimes don't decide this is a viable path.

00:10:14.480 You could make the case that there is real U.S. interests involved in this because it's Russia, Iran, and Syria.

00:10:22.900 Yeah, it's proxy stuff.

00:10:24.100 Really bad states.

00:10:25.920 And if they are allowed to run roughshod over Syria, you know, Iran controls the Middle East, along with Russia. 0.87

00:10:34.200 That's not good.

00:10:34.820 There was talk about this happening last night, us shooting, you know, firing missiles in there last night.

00:10:39.960 And the speculation is that Russia hasn't moved enough of their stuff yet to show how—

00:10:44.980 And that's good.

00:10:45.500 We're being careful.

00:10:46.640 Yes.

00:10:46.900 A lot of people, obviously, you know, Donald Trump doesn't come into this with a military background.

00:10:51.700 But he's surrounded himself with a lot of people who have military backgrounds.

00:10:54.540 Yeah, no, he's—

00:10:55.540 He's got a really good—especially when it comes to the military, has a really good selection of people around him.

00:11:00.660 Yes.

00:11:01.520 So, you know—

00:11:02.560 They're going to be calm.

00:11:03.640 They're going to be rational.

00:11:05.900 And, you know, I think everybody, at least in the Pentagon, everybody knows Russia means it. 0.75

00:11:12.800 I mean, if we killed a bunch of troops, Russian troops, with a missile strike—

00:11:18.860 Oh, yeah. 0.87

00:11:19.060 Really big deal.

00:11:19.520 That would be a very, very big deal.

00:11:21.760 Now, both sides talk tough, right?

00:11:24.400 I mean, Russia says a lot of things that if we took as literal promises, we would be at war with them.

00:11:31.060 I have to tell you, I think, unlike Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin doesn't make threats.

00:11:38.920 He makes promises.

00:11:39.620 That's the secret to be, I think, to be a world leader.

00:11:44.780 Don't ever make a threat.

00:11:46.500 Make a promise.

00:11:47.720 If you do this, I will do this.

00:11:50.800 So let's not do that.

00:11:53.640 You know, people who make threats, there's too much bluffing.

00:11:58.940 So don't ever make a threat.

00:12:00.980 Make a promise.

00:12:02.120 I've done that in my career, and it has served me very well.

00:12:05.820 Look, you know, Glenn, we want you to do this job.

00:12:10.560 Okay, well, I'll do that, but it'll take this.

00:12:14.920 If you do these things, I will.

00:12:17.140 If you don't do these things, I won't.

00:12:20.260 And so the negotiations become very easy because you're never threatening anything.

00:12:24.920 You're just making a promise.

00:12:27.380 Yeah, I'm in.

00:12:28.880 It's going to require this, this, and this.

00:12:31.920 And then you don't have to worry about, you know, geez, should I ask for more or should I have, you know, should I have asked for less?

00:12:38.860 No, you asked for what it took.

00:12:41.500 What is it going to take?

00:12:44.400 Look at that in Syria.

00:12:45.860 What is it going to take?

00:12:48.200 Stop using chemical weapons.

00:12:51.420 And we won't do that. 1.00

00:12:52.700 Yeah, kill your people the old-fashioned way, please. 1.00

00:12:54.720 Let's be civilized about this. 1.00

00:12:56.700 Stab them. 1.00

00:12:57.380 Throw barrels out of helicopters at them, please. 1.00

00:12:59.800 Barrel bombs are completely fine. 0.92

00:13:01.860 Let's make sure they die in conventional ways because we can't take you doing it in this new way. 0.98

00:13:07.760 We want you to only murder your own civilians with barrels out of helicopters. 0.98

00:13:12.020 It is weird, isn't it? 0.77

00:13:13.440 It's a weird stance.

00:13:14.300 I mean, obviously, there's a big picture in which if chemical weapons are used routinely in warfare, it could lead to a lot more death.

00:13:23.940 But, I mean, they've already murdered hundreds of thousands of their civilians.

00:13:28.120 And we act as if the next, you know, what is it, 60 here?

00:13:31.960 60 is the thing that's going to be this line.

00:13:35.160 Well, you know, the other hundreds of thousands are dead.

00:13:37.420 They're not any more alive than the people who died from chemical weapons.

00:13:40.900 And I think there is a legitimate, this is a good test in some ways of the libertarian argument of not being involved in these things because there's not, there's not an immediate U.S. interest case per se.

00:13:55.380 So what do you do?

00:13:56.240 You're president of the United States.

00:13:57.600 And I say, President Stu.

00:14:00.320 Oh, good God, help us all.

00:14:02.400 President Stu.

00:14:03.720 Do we strike or not?

00:14:05.040 I mean, I think what I would like is to be, there's a point of leadership, right, which I would understand.

00:14:16.420 We've talked about this with Obama of leading from behind.

00:14:19.480 Wasn't that the way he, that's not necessarily a way you want to do it.

00:14:23.760 I think you'd want to make it not just our responsibility.

00:14:26.900 You know, if we're going to, and I think the strike is limited, and there's not really an easy way to go big, right?

00:14:35.900 You're not looking to take this guy out, really.

00:14:38.200 You're not looking to, this is not a regime change operation.

00:14:41.180 It's not even something that Trump is proposing.

00:14:42.600 I think probably the road, and this is the same thing that happened with Obama.

00:14:46.380 You know, there's a road here, probably the way Trump is doing this, that is the right way.

00:14:52.980 Minus the tweets.

00:14:53.820 I can tell you this, I'm not on Twitter telling Vladimir Putin to look out for missiles.

00:14:58.840 I can tell you that.

00:14:59.880 But I think the short-term answer of a limited strike, ideally, with other countries involved in it,

00:15:08.300 so it's not just us policing the world yet again, at least, you know, that's at least a step.

00:15:15.200 What about you?

00:15:16.220 You don't just hit the music.

00:15:17.300 What about you?

00:15:18.080 Where's you?

00:15:18.540 Where's President Glenn on this?

00:15:20.480 I'm doing the right thing that you can just guess.

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00:17:03.620 Glenn Beck Mercury.

00:17:11.760 Glenn Beck.

00:17:13.100 So, President Glenn.

00:17:14.400 Yes.

00:17:14.780 You've had a nice commercial break to figure out this.

00:17:17.780 Actually, you have this nice box of donuts, and I'm really hungry.

00:17:19.940 Okay, all right, good.

00:17:20.460 They're delicious.

00:17:21.200 But while I'm here, what are you going to do with Syria?

00:17:23.880 I think if I was president today, I would do a couple of things.

00:17:28.680 First of all, Russia is taking this so seriously and has said, we screw it up. 0.98

00:17:33.460 We kill any Russian troops. 0.96

00:17:35.260 It's the war to end all wars. 0.71

00:17:37.340 I take Putin as a guy who means what he says and says what he means. 0.95

00:17:43.420 He's a liar, but when he makes threats, they're not threats, they're promises.

00:17:46.900 So, the first thing I do on this one is I go to Congress for at least advice and consent and say, look, this is a serious one. 0.91

00:17:58.500 This is not just lobbying over this has serious consequences, so advise and consent.

00:18:05.700 But I say to the people and to the nation, we have a problem of personal responsibility in the world.

00:18:16.380 And you know what?

00:18:17.060 I'm not going to lecture the world.

00:18:18.340 I'm the president of the United States.

00:18:19.720 I am going to lecture us.

00:18:21.080 Nobody's taking personal responsibility for anything anymore.

00:18:24.000 We're not taking personal responsibility of our families, of ourselves, of our jobs, of our economy, of our spending, of our debt.

00:18:33.000 Nothing.

00:18:34.220 Until that's fixed, we'll continue to burn the world down.

00:18:38.780 All of us.

00:18:39.960 Not a country.

00:18:41.080 All of us.

00:18:41.900 Because we're all doing it.

00:18:45.640 As this relates to the rest of the world, the United States is not responsible for you and your neighborhood.

00:18:54.960 You need to stand up.

00:18:56.640 Turkey, do not lecture us about what has to happen. 0.85

00:18:59.560 Don't lecture us.

00:19:00.580 They're your neighbors.

00:19:02.480 You need to take care of the bad guys in your neighborhood.

00:19:08.680 When you and your neighbors stop wanting us to be your sugar daddy, your protector, and your foil, the world will be a safer place.

00:19:21.400 The United States is going to fulfill its obligations, but we are not the world's policemen.

00:19:28.320 Now, we made a promise that this was a red line.

00:19:31.760 And the United States needs to be understood that when we speak, we mean it.

00:19:36.100 So, we're talking to Congress right now.

00:19:39.200 There will be consequences for this.

00:19:42.220 However, the days of the United States being the judge, jury, and executioner.

00:19:47.560 Sorry.

00:19:48.200 The police force, judge, jury, and executioner are over.

00:19:52.940 They're over.

00:19:53.520 However, you all have to pick up your own personal responsibility.

00:19:58.480 And Americans, you have to do the same thing in your life. 0.60

00:20:02.560 Because the United States government cannot be a sugar daddy, a policeman, a jury, and the problem.

00:20:12.460 And we're out of that business.

00:20:16.220 That's, I think, what I would do.

00:20:20.800 Glenn Beck.

00:20:22.800 Mercury.

00:20:30.020 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:31.780 All right.

00:20:31.940 So, yesterday, the stock market was back up.

00:20:33.720 And then President Trump tweeted this morning.

00:20:35.900 And the stock market is set now to open 200 points down.

00:20:42.900 Stop.

00:20:44.020 Stop.

00:20:44.880 Stop.

00:20:45.400 Stop.

00:20:45.680 Stop.

00:20:45.980 Please, Mr. President.

00:20:47.420 Please.

00:20:48.260 Stop with the tweets.

00:20:49.440 I think this time he's going to listen to you.

00:20:51.340 It's going to work out well.

00:20:52.900 But, I mean, you know, I want him to succeed.

00:20:55.760 I want him to succeed.

00:20:57.180 If he fails, we all fail.

00:20:59.020 There's obviously things that Trump does that help him on Twitter.

00:21:03.640 It's obviously been a big part of the formula of his success, right?

00:21:07.040 And it's certainly a big part of the reason why he became president in the first place.

00:21:11.320 You know, I just wish there were times in which he considered it as a cost-benefit analysis

00:21:18.960 instead of just a benefit analysis.

00:21:20.380 There are times that you carry a big stick and you use it.

00:21:24.060 There are other times that you carry a big stick, but you put it in your back pocket,

00:21:28.200 and everyone knows you have a big stick.

00:21:30.820 You know what I mean?

00:21:31.480 Everyone knows.

00:21:32.200 Vladimir Putin knows we have a very big stick, and we're not afraid to use it.

00:21:36.640 He knows that.

00:21:37.760 There's no reason to bully a bully that big.

00:21:42.460 Don't do that.

00:21:43.500 It's interesting, too, as it goes back to your conversation with former President George W.

00:21:47.780 Bush in the Oval Office about how each president comes in with a limited amount of options,

00:21:53.760 and they kind of will wind up doing the same thing as the president before,

00:21:57.940 even though they'll talk about these big changes in election time.

00:22:01.880 When it comes down to it, they wind up doing the same thing.

00:22:03.680 If you look at, for example, Syria as three different options, right? 0.70

00:22:07.740 You have the do-nothing option, right?

00:22:09.900 You have the go-in-and-invade option, right?

00:22:13.580 And then in the middle, you have a wide sort of swath of options called the middle path,

00:22:19.360 where you have drone strikes and cruise missiles and some troops on the ground.

00:22:24.000 Maybe a few special forces and maybe a few airstrikes.

00:22:27.900 And it kind of seems like that's exactly where both presidents, both Obama and Trump, will fall.

00:22:36.400 Now, Obama did drone strikes in places like Yemen, and we did other things in Libya.

00:22:42.180 Syria, he famously didn't do this red line and wound up out of that category on that particular country.

00:22:49.240 But in general, he landed in the middle on most of those cases as well.

00:22:52.920 But it's really interesting to me that that is the part of the conversation that you remembered,

00:22:58.280 because you said, you know, maybe it's important to remember the conversation you had with George Bush in the Oval Office.

00:23:04.680 And you went there.

00:23:06.260 I went to another part of that.

00:23:09.820 I said to him, because it was all off the record, and I couldn't, I could characterize what he said,

00:23:16.980 but I could not quote the president.

00:23:18.660 And we were talking about the war.

00:23:20.420 And he started rattling off some stats and how well the war was going for us

00:23:28.660 and what a route it was in some areas.

00:23:33.240 And I said, Mr. President, no offense, but where is this guy that I'm sitting with?

00:23:43.580 Where is this guy?

00:23:44.440 This is the president that America is wanting to see.

00:23:47.980 And he told me a couple of things, but one of them, because he was so clear.

00:23:53.600 You know how he was always like, well, you know, and he wasn't like that at all.

00:23:59.100 He was so clear.

00:23:59.960 And I remember sitting across from him and thinking, I would not want to be on the other end of a negotiating table with this man,

00:24:06.520 because he is so clear and laser focused.

00:24:09.380 And he just exudes strength.

00:24:13.140 And it shocked me.

00:24:14.760 It shocked me.

00:24:16.000 He never came away in public.

00:24:18.640 Correct.

00:24:19.560 Except right after 9-11, maybe.

00:24:21.620 Yes.

00:24:22.000 Yes.

00:24:22.540 He was that guy.

00:24:23.940 And so what I said, this is the guy that America needs.

00:24:30.560 He said, when you're president, there are things that you cannot say and cannot do because countries are watching and analyzing every move.

00:24:44.060 I make every shift of my eyes, every phrase, every word it's I'm convinced it's why he always was like, well, and, uh, you know, I have a, uh, uh, uh, issue.

00:24:57.580 You're like, what, you know, you were thinking he was looking for a really big word and to be like, and, uh, uh, uh, meet.

00:25:05.780 Um, it was because he was, I think it was because he was sorting through all of the repercussions of every word he was saying.

00:25:16.280 It's not a way to live your life, not a way to rule a country.

00:25:19.700 However, Donald Trump is the exact opposite of that.

00:25:24.960 Now we've wanted the opposite of that because we want somebody just to say, here's the truth.

00:25:30.600 But Donald Trump in his tweet this morning is going too far.

00:25:37.320 The truth is Russia, we have no issue with the Russian people, but you have gotten into bed with really bad men. 0.94

00:25:50.600 We are not trying to pick a fight with Russia, but Assad must pay a price for gassing his own people. 0.97

00:26:00.600 Have we not learned anything from World War II?

00:26:06.440 That is an acceptable, acceptable tweet because it's saying, I'm going to respond.

00:26:11.820 I have to, but it's also petting the cat of the Russian people because Putin is making us into the bad guy with his own people. 0.65

00:26:22.100 Let's not be, let's not be, oh yeah, we'll watch this.

00:26:26.480 Let's not do that.

00:26:27.760 And it's just, that's one thing that if, if, if the president could learn this one thing, he would be a much better president.

00:26:38.140 If he could just learn, there are times you must act presidential.

00:26:44.420 And when you're talking about killing people, that certainly is a time for sober words and careful action.

00:26:55.660 I want to hear from Zach in Pennsylvania.

00:27:03.660 Hello, Zach.

00:27:04.400 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:27:05.680 Hi, Glenn.

00:27:06.840 Hey, Stu.

00:27:07.300 I just want to let you know that President Glenn and President Stu will actually get us into a war based upon what you want to do.

00:27:13.880 President Zach, however, I can fix this.

00:27:15.940 Okay, go ahead.

00:27:16.720 If I was president, I would go out today and I would give a speech that would remind the American people of something that we once had, and that was called the Monroe Doctrine.

00:27:26.380 And that was the idea that our sphere of influence is our sphere of influence.

00:27:32.380 And that if you enter that sphere of influence, we will respond.

00:27:36.480 But our sphere of influence is not Syria.

00:27:39.560 That is the Russian sphere of influence, or Turkey, or Iran, or Saudi Arabia, as much as I care about the Syrian people, and I do, there is no difference between if they're killed by gas, or by a bomb, or by a rock, or by a gun.

00:27:57.760 But, yeah, there's nothing worse that is occurring in Syria today that isn't occurring in North Korea, or 15 or 20 other countries on every single day.

00:28:10.000 More people will die in Mexico today in horrible acts of violence than will die in Syria from gas. 0.75

00:28:18.600 And yet, somehow, we are supposed to go and right every wrong.

00:28:23.560 The president needs to do something that no president has done.

00:28:29.180 It is a cop-out to say, well, you have to do these things.

00:28:34.420 You don't.

00:28:35.400 He's the president.

00:28:37.880 Donald Trump could come out tomorrow, today, and say, as much as we care about what occurs in another country, the simple fact is that it is not our business.

00:28:50.460 And we will use sanctions.

00:28:52.080 We will not do business with them.

00:28:54.020 We will pull our forces out, just like I wanted to do last week, and recognize that what is occurring there is not worth the life of American soldiers.

00:29:04.300 It's not worth the life of your sons and daughters.

00:29:08.440 And that is the risk we are taking when we continue to lob bombs in areas where countries are big enough to actually hurt Americans.

00:29:17.620 So, Zach, I think you're absolutely right.

00:29:19.560 I really do.

00:29:20.840 But how does – let me clarify one thing.

00:29:25.860 You said, you know, the president can make his own choices.

00:29:29.720 Yes, he can.

00:29:30.320 But that wasn't the point of what George Bush was saying.

00:29:32.500 What George Bush said was he'll sit here and he'll hear the same advice from the same people.

00:29:39.700 So, it doesn't matter who sits in this chair, left or right.

00:29:43.500 When it comes to the world, they'll make the same choice, which is why I say shut down the State Department, fumigate, and start all over again.

00:29:53.700 Because it's the same people advising, no matter who's sitting in that chair, and they're convincing every president they have to do that.

00:30:01.960 Now, I agree – so I – it is.

00:30:04.780 And I agree with you that we have to change our behavior.

00:30:08.640 I don't agree in our sphere of influence.

00:30:12.400 You're saying that that's the Western Hemisphere.

00:30:14.480 I don't think we have a right to go down to Bolivia or Brazil and exert ourselves down there either.

00:30:24.420 That has gotten us into trouble.

00:30:26.380 The world is just a smaller place.

00:30:28.320 Our sphere of influence is the United States of America.

00:30:32.940 That's our interest.

00:30:34.540 That's what we're supposed to do.

00:30:36.720 Will we help other people?

00:30:38.800 Will we encourage you?

00:30:40.740 Can we use sanctions?

00:30:41.960 Yes, but we don't do that.

00:30:45.660 Now, here's the question, Zach.

00:30:47.900 Nature abhors a vacuum.

00:30:51.000 You cannot have 100 years of the United States in everybody's business and then just pull down – pull out without understanding that there will be a significant collapse and somebody else will fill that space.

00:31:08.200 Yes, that's fine.

00:31:11.400 But are you suggesting you do that overnight?

00:31:14.160 No, of course not, because we have alliances that we have to respect.

00:31:19.320 Part of it, it becomes the president should get on TV and say, we need – Japan needs to rearm.

00:31:26.560 The Japanese constitution needs to be changed to allow them to protect themselves without the constant need of the United States.

00:31:34.940 That Europe needs to recognize that although we will forever be there in their defense and aid, they need to be prepared outside of NATO to defend themselves.

00:31:44.660 I went back to school a couple years ago to get my second doctorate.

00:31:48.720 So I started studying small towns and communities in a way that would try to solve their problems.

00:31:54.940 And what you learn was that when you come into an area, people will look at a problem and they'll say, we've tried to do it a thousand times.

00:32:02.400 It can't be done.

00:32:03.400 There's nothing else we can do.

00:32:05.500 None of the people will be convinced to do anything else.

00:32:08.060 And what you start to find out is when you start to talk to people, they're able and willing to do things differently.

00:32:16.420 They're able to solve problems in different ways, even if they've been ingrained in a certain way for so long.

00:32:21.680 If you give them options, they'll actually solve the problem.

00:32:26.920 That we continue to be stuck in this sense of we have got to solve every problem for every person on the planet.

00:32:36.840 We can't.

00:32:37.400 It's funny you say that.

00:32:38.320 It's actually exactly what I thought when I was only on my second doctorate, too.

00:32:44.540 We live and learn.

00:32:45.740 And I'm saying that.

00:32:47.400 Zach, thanks so much for your phone call.

00:32:49.780 He he's right.

00:32:51.200 He is right.

00:32:52.140 He is right on.

00:32:53.340 He's right on this as well.

00:32:55.660 And that is, I think the American people are willing to try something different.

00:33:02.160 I know I am.

00:33:03.120 Yeah, I'm willing to try something.

00:33:04.580 This is not working.

00:33:05.760 What we're doing.

00:33:06.460 Let's stop doing this because it's not working.

00:33:10.060 I said this to you in the break after we initially talked.

00:33:13.080 There's sort of a battle between instinct and principle.

00:33:16.160 And I think my instinct is like this is a terrible thing.

00:33:18.380 These people are suffering.

00:33:19.140 We need to do something about it.

00:33:20.740 It really my principle has been, and we've talked about this many times on the air.

00:33:23.460 If you're not 100% sure that you need to go, if you're, you heard my response.

00:33:28.460 It's like, well, yeah, I mean, there's this part and there's this part and I'm divided on it.

00:33:31.840 If you're divided on it, you shouldn't do it.

00:33:33.740 That's the principle.

00:33:34.580 That's why you have principles.

00:33:35.520 Because when you're in a moment where you have a tough decision, you should fall back at them.

00:33:40.720 And that's so I, you know, rethinking it.

00:33:43.000 And I kind of am on that idea of like, maybe we shouldn't go in.

00:33:46.120 I'm going to go with no.

00:33:47.300 No.

00:33:48.100 I've changed my mind.

00:33:49.280 I've changed my mind.

00:33:49.720 Oh, my gosh.

00:33:50.180 Well, I didn't realize I was broadcasting from the Waffle House.

00:33:53.140 Well, I mean, I'm sorry, but I figured when vibes are on the line.

00:33:57.640 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:33:58.460 Would you like some syrup with those waffles?

00:34:00.260 My fifth doctorate position was I should go in, but my sixth doctorate was no.

00:34:05.140 All right.

00:34:05.400 I want to tell you about, I want to talk to you about Bitcoin just a little bit.

00:34:09.080 I have invested into Bitcoin and I honestly, it is so hard to even invest in Bitcoin unless

00:34:19.540 you're using Coinbase.

00:34:21.060 I don't even know, Stu, you remember when we were, you remember when we were meeting

00:34:24.900 with the people from Palm Beach?

00:34:27.560 Yeah.

00:34:27.900 Okay.

00:34:28.840 And they were like, I'm telling you right now, you need to invest in X, Y, and Z.

00:34:34.740 And I was like, I don't even know what X, Y, and Z.

00:34:37.060 How do you even invest in those things?

00:34:39.960 How do you do it?

00:34:41.120 And then the explanation is unless you're an expert, right?

00:34:44.500 Yeah.

00:34:44.720 Like unless you have someone walking you through every step of the process, you're not going

00:34:48.200 to be able to do it.

00:34:48.900 You can't do it.

00:34:49.380 You can't do it.

00:34:49.940 I went home and said to my wife, hey, we, we, we need to invest in such and such and

00:34:55.240 such and such.

00:34:55.660 Never did it because my wife got on, my wife and I got onto the computer, couldn't figure

00:35:00.000 out how to do it.

00:35:01.860 That's a problem.

00:35:02.680 Yeah.

00:35:02.800 That's a big problem.

00:35:03.480 Okay.

00:35:03.760 So, uh, I have no idea what's going to come with Bitcoin.

00:35:08.000 I don't know all of the answers.

00:35:09.820 I don't know hardly any of the answers.

00:35:11.540 I know this.

00:35:12.440 I should learn about this.

00:35:14.560 I need to learn about this.

00:35:16.660 Bitcoin is really volatile and there's a lot of scams out there, but there are also one

00:35:22.600 of these things is going to shake out.

00:35:24.180 So we started looking for some experts, I don't know, six months ago, and we found the Palm

00:35:30.040 Beach research group.

00:35:31.580 Uh, Tika Tawari is the guy who came into our office.

00:35:34.840 He was very open, very transparent about who he was, what he believes.

00:35:39.400 Uh, and Stu and I have been reading his, his letter now for about, I don't know, four to

00:35:44.600 six months now.

00:35:45.860 Uh, and I will tell you, it's really, really good.

00:35:48.660 We asked him to create an education course for you that will teach you what you need to

00:35:55.160 know, whether you invest in it or not.

00:35:58.140 It to me is up to you, but you need to know how to do it and what it means, how, what, what

00:36:06.640 does all of this means mean?

00:36:08.380 Because I really believe blockchain is the future.

00:36:12.160 Cryptocurrency is the future.

00:36:14.960 So we've created a course and I want you to look at this course right now.

00:36:19.860 So go, uh, go right now to, um, Glenn Beck course.

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00:36:38.400 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

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00:36:55.360 You want to change the world.

00:36:58.500 You have to change the way we think.

00:37:01.420 And right now we're into group think and we need to start thinking again as individuals

00:37:06.340 and doing the right thing.

00:37:08.220 We have a guy who has lived this principle, put it into practice.

00:37:13.680 And I think it's changing the world and he does it without a Superman cape.

00:37:18.920 He does it, uh, quietly.

00:37:21.480 We're going to introduce you to him next.

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00:38:38.500 Glenn Beck.

00:38:40.520 The silence has begun to dissipate.

00:38:45.820 As you rise from your seat, a commotion is approaching and you can hear it.

00:38:50.200 Suddenly the room burst up with activity as the president paces through the doorway, assertive

00:38:57.500 in his mumbling, a fresh disaster on his mind.

00:39:00.040 Last night, roughly 6,000 miles from where you're standing right now in a maelstrom of

00:39:05.780 a war fueled morning, women and children fled to hospitals after the latest round of bombings.

00:39:12.100 Only this time, many of them were foaming at the mouth, clenching at their eyes, hunched

00:39:18.340 over, gasping, twitching, sobbing, helpless.

00:39:21.740 Some of them were unconscious.

00:39:23.380 Some of them were dead.

00:39:26.060 You're standing there in that room and you hear somebody say they must have used something

00:39:30.260 stronger.

00:39:31.900 Do some sort of stronger chlorine this time because it's serious.

00:39:36.080 They used something else, something more deadly.

00:39:40.400 This had to be the world of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, faced with

00:39:47.840 the news of war crimes and murdered children.

00:39:51.820 What was she going to do?

00:39:56.700 Indignation roils up in a careful way.

00:39:59.980 Maybe we call it poise or grace or something deeper or calmer.

00:40:07.100 Either way, she does it without losing the unmitigated fury of an American at the helm of a ship of 0.97

00:40:14.360 dangerous waters.

00:40:16.460 Her speech to the U.N. has largely, and to be fair, sometimes understandably, been buried under a news of

00:40:24.880 meaningless stories.

00:40:26.840 But it deserves attention.

00:40:30.860 Listen.

00:40:31.220 Who does this?

00:40:33.580 Only a monster does this.

00:40:36.780 Only a monster targets civilians and then ensures that there are no ambulances to transfer the wounded.

00:40:43.500 No hospitals to save their lives.

00:40:46.060 No doctors or medicine to ease their pain.

00:40:49.540 I could hold up pictures of all of this killing and suffering for the council to see.

00:40:54.880 But what would be the point? 0.91

00:40:58.060 The monster who was responsible for these attacks has no conscience.

00:41:03.440 Not even to be shocked by pictures of dead children. 0.98

00:41:07.520 The Russian regime, whose hands are all covered in the blood of Syrian children, cannot be ashamed 0.99

00:41:13.960 by pictures of its victims.

00:41:17.020 We've tried that before.

00:41:18.560 Every sentence she says rings with a barbed intensity, unimpeded.

00:41:27.460 She is calm and outraged, but I can't help but think, but why are these children different

00:41:36.260 than the ones who are dying or being tortured in concentration camps in North Korea?

00:41:41.140 Why are these children different than the ones that are poor and starving in South America or South Africa?

00:41:50.160 Why are these children different than the ones on our own border that are being brutally killed by drug lords?

00:41:57.720 But there is one line that she says that sticks out.

00:42:03.420 The Russian regime, whose hands are all covered in blood, in the blood of children, cannot be ashamed. 0.94

00:42:12.280 It echoed again through the auditorium of diplomats.

00:42:17.620 And the silence returned.

00:42:20.840 It's Wednesday, April 11th.

00:42:31.800 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:42:35.620 So we should mention some breaking news today that Paul Ryan is not going to seek re-election.

00:42:42.720 And this is not him stepping down from the speakership.

00:42:45.040 It's him not running for re-election to Congress.

00:42:47.660 So his seat certainly was not really in jeopardy.

00:42:53.740 He probably would have won re-election easily, as he has for a long time.

00:42:57.680 But the speakership could have been a problem for him.

00:43:00.220 And plus, it looks increasingly likely that he would be minority speaker rather than majority speaker.

00:43:06.320 And that's not a fun place to be.

00:43:07.740 So that's the speculation as to why he's bailing.

00:43:10.360 So here's the thing.

00:43:12.080 I mean, I have given up on politics because I think it's just we keep playing this thing over and over and over again and expecting different outcomes.

00:43:24.140 And it seems to be the same outcome.

00:43:25.720 And I'm more of a believer in the individual and the individual going out and doing something and just saying, you know what?

00:43:33.320 I don't care what people tell me I can or can't do.

00:43:37.040 I don't care if they tell me that it's ridiculous because it's not if we just decide to do it.

00:43:43.540 I want to introduce you to a guy, Bob Goff, who I think has a similar attitude.

00:43:49.520 Welcome, Bob.

00:43:50.340 How are you?

00:43:50.880 Thanks a million for having me on.

00:43:52.480 Good to be with you.

00:43:53.280 You're a you're an attorney from San Diego area.

00:43:57.480 Yes.

00:43:58.000 30 years.

00:43:59.000 And you are a bestselling author now.

00:44:02.140 You have a new book out called Everybody Always.

00:44:07.440 But your last one was Love Does.

00:44:10.920 I want you to I want you to give the audience for anybody who doesn't know you a sense of who you are and start with.

00:44:17.960 Start with the fact that you have no television in your house and what happened on September 11th in your house with your children.

00:44:28.040 Yeah.

00:44:28.480 Well, I was practicing law.

00:44:31.040 I had I can't tell you about me without telling you about the sweet Maria Goff, my bride of 33 years.

00:44:38.260 And then we have three kids and this whole idea of living a purposeful life.

00:44:43.100 Like we're confronted with so much information, so much tragedy around us.

00:44:48.540 One of the things that I've decided to do is I was just going to start with my family.

00:44:53.000 And so we decided to get rid of the television.

00:44:57.280 And when the when September 11th happened, I came home and I told the kids there's something horrible that happened in the country.

00:45:04.300 And and we sat around this table that we have in the kitchen and and I said, if you had five minutes in front of a leader in the world, what would you say to him?

00:45:13.700 And I love my son was seven at the time.

00:45:15.960 He said, you know what?

00:45:16.740 I'd invite them over for a sleepover.

00:45:19.260 And that actually makes a lot of sense.

00:45:21.220 You know, put their hand in the goldfish bowl.

00:45:23.680 And it works.

00:45:25.960 So my nine year old said I would ask them what they're hoping in, because I would say, like, if you find out what people are hoping for, you find out a lot more about them.

00:45:37.500 And then our 11 year old, she was the precocious when she said, I would say this.

00:45:41.200 If they couldn't come over for the sleepover, I would ask this leader if we could come over to their house and do an interview and ask them, what are you hoping for?

00:45:49.420 And get a message of hope to pass on to another leader.

00:45:52.840 So we downloaded the CIA website.

00:45:55.880 We felt like we were hacking into NORAD.

00:45:57.780 We got the name of every leader in every country, figured out their addresses and wrote them.

00:46:03.140 And we got a post office box because we did not want Ahmadinejad to know where we live.

00:46:09.880 And so we sent all these letters.

00:46:12.180 And after school every day, we would go over and get the mail out and the kids would be in the backseat.

00:46:17.760 They would ask me about these countries.

00:46:19.040 I'm like, I don't know.

00:46:19.960 That's east of here, apparently.

00:46:21.200 I'm like, so, but we always got the most pleasant nose.

00:46:25.280 And it was Tony Blair at the time.

00:46:26.720 He said, like, you know, like jolly good show, like forget it, but jolly good show about the meetup.

00:46:31.640 But then they got the leader of Bulgaria.

00:46:34.280 He wrote to them and he said, if you'll come to the palace in Sofia, I'll give you your interview.

00:46:40.440 And then the prime minister of Switzerland said, if you'll come to Bern, I'll give you your interview.

00:46:46.120 And then the president of Israel said, if you'll come to Jerusalem, I'll give you.

00:46:50.460 We got 19 yeses.

00:46:52.280 So I pulled the kids out of school.

00:46:54.520 Their teachers had a cow. 1.00

00:46:55.920 I'm like, sue me.

00:46:56.840 So there's something just really beautiful about that.

00:47:00.200 And I love that.

00:47:01.580 It's this idea of a childlike faith, like that idea that look to your kids.

00:47:06.140 You want to like do something awesome for the world.

00:47:08.880 Plug into your family.

00:47:09.980 You would, you would as an adult and the older you get the secret to staying young.

00:47:14.460 I think that's what Jesus meant when he said, come to me as a child.

00:47:18.420 Oh, bingo.

00:47:19.140 Yeah.

00:47:19.440 I mean, it's just, you still believe you haven't been worn down by the world to say it won't work.

00:47:25.880 Yeah.

00:47:26.440 And if you've been convinced that it won't work, get a puppy.

00:47:29.600 Like literally just no, you know, because then I'm convinced, you know, potty training doesn't work.

00:47:36.260 I worked it right in the middle of that.

00:47:38.020 The only thing our dog has missed is the lawn so far.

00:47:40.520 But one of the things that let the children kind of lead us and let, we're seeing that in society.

00:47:46.960 We see that over and over.

00:47:48.320 Go do that with your family.

00:47:49.700 So we went and we would go into, there's this one country.

00:47:55.100 They had just been involved in all kinds of stuff.

00:47:58.700 And the leader walks in and he said, children, you know, I'm more nervous meeting with you

00:48:04.400 than if I was meeting with the president of the United States right now.

00:48:07.460 And then he said, and when I get nervous, I get hungry.

00:48:10.620 And he claps his hand and all these servants come in with like jars of candy and ice cream.

00:48:17.260 It's just really beautiful.

00:48:18.720 There's something about this idea of leading with love and it takes a childlike faith to get there.

00:48:24.200 Not childish because most of us guys have childish nails, but childlike to just remain hopeful,

00:48:29.600 even in the face of overwhelming difficulties.

00:48:33.240 One of the places you went to was Uganda, right?

00:48:37.360 Yeah.

00:48:38.420 And we've done some stuff in Uganda because there's still sacrifices.

00:48:43.860 I've heard.

00:48:44.400 Yeah.

00:48:44.660 Human sacrifices in Uganda with these witch doctors and they kidnap children and sacrifice 1.00

00:48:51.160 them. 0.96

00:48:51.780 And it's horrifying.

00:48:53.800 It's horrifying.

00:48:54.700 And you stop it in one place and then it pops up in another place because it's still part of

00:48:59.200 their culture, but you being an attorney, you found that for a long time, there wasn't a

00:49:04.580 law, but then like three years before you got there, they had passed a law to stop all

00:49:10.220 this, but nobody was enforcing it.

00:49:12.160 Is that right?

00:49:13.140 Yeah, that's it.

00:49:13.680 Because people are afraid.

00:49:15.140 Like the judges were afraid.

00:49:16.540 Everybody was afraid, but it just takes a courageous people to make big change.

00:49:21.100 Hey, that idea to just, and we don't measure like God doesn't compare our leaps.

00:49:25.020 Just, uh, I would say for everybody listening, make your next courageous step, whatever that

00:49:30.060 is.

00:49:30.360 And so for me, I was a lawyer, knew how to try cases.

00:49:33.200 And, um, the problem with his child sacrifice, there's always a victim, but they're always

00:49:37.400 dead.

00:49:38.180 Uh, and it all changed a couple of years ago.

00:49:40.200 A little boy, I won't just say his name is Charlie's walking home from school and gets

00:49:44.380 abducted by the leader of all of these witch doctors. 0.96

00:49:47.640 And they, uh, they try to do this sacrifice. 0.94

00:49:50.720 They cut off all of his private parts and leave him for dead, but the kid doesn't die.

00:49:55.360 So for the first time we had a victim of survived and we've got the witch doctor. 0.96

00:50:00.420 So I asked, could we try Uganda's first death penalty case?

00:50:04.340 Uh, and they said, uh, you will never get a judge who will touch that.

00:50:08.200 Uh, but then we found a judge and we tried the case and the word of this conviction went

00:50:12.640 to 41 million people.

00:50:15.000 And here was the message.

00:50:16.320 You touch a kid, it's over.

00:50:18.460 There's something beautiful about that idea of like, there's no love without justice,

00:50:23.120 but there's also no justice without love.

00:50:26.160 So after this conviction happens, the boy is all torn up.

00:50:29.740 This attack happens with a machete, a doctor in Los Angeles.

00:50:34.600 Here's what happened.

00:50:35.700 And he calls me up at home.

00:50:36.820 He said, Bob, I, I heard what happened to this little kid and I can fix him.

00:50:40.300 And I'm like, buddy, you didn't hear what got cut off.

00:50:42.640 You can't fix that.

00:50:43.600 And he said, I'm the chief of surgery at Cedar Sinai medical center.

00:50:46.960 I can fix him.

00:50:48.240 And I said, what?

00:50:50.200 So I drive up to Los Angeles.

00:50:52.620 He takes out a piece of paper and he starts drawing out what he's going to do, which is

00:50:56.700 way too much information.

00:50:58.560 And I asked him, if they find that at TSA, I'm going to jail.

00:51:03.940 And I said, how much would that cost?

00:51:05.660 And he said, it'd be staggering, but I'll do it for nothing.

00:51:09.160 I'm like, I can afford nothing.

00:51:10.940 So I fly back to Uganda.

00:51:13.000 We find the little boy in the bush and my first stop is court and become his legal guardian.

00:51:18.860 And we're flying back for this operation.

00:51:22.240 And I get off the plane in London and he's holding head.

00:51:26.200 He says, father, could we just walk the rest of the way?

00:51:28.300 I'm like, oh, buddy.

00:51:29.240 And I open up my laptop to see if there's any messages in there.

00:51:35.180 This is the time when Obama's in office and there's a message in there.

00:51:38.760 It says White House.

00:51:39.960 And the message is really short.

00:51:41.240 It just says, we'd like to meet Charlie.

00:51:43.800 And I thought it was some of my friends, guys, friends like you guys that would just

00:51:48.000 like pull a bass one.

00:51:49.600 And it's legit.

00:51:51.760 And this kid that was standing in the bush in Uganda is now standing in the Oval Office.

00:51:57.240 And I think like, why does that happen?

00:51:59.720 And here's the deal.

00:52:00.840 It's that childlike faith.

00:52:02.840 And no matter what age you are, you can actually start thinking about what might be possible.

00:52:08.360 And I just want to continue to live into that, even against all of the horrific things that

00:52:14.140 are going on to remain hopeful and engaged.

00:52:18.060 Not just put smiley faces on, but just say like, so what's my next step?

00:52:22.080 What's my next leap?

00:52:22.940 Here's the thing that I think of all the time.

00:52:25.740 If I have cancer, for instance, go to a doctor over and over and over again.

00:52:30.460 This happens to people all the time.

00:52:32.040 Something's wrong, but the doctors can't find it.

00:52:34.460 If that's happened to you, you get to a point where you're like, I don't care if it's cancer.

00:52:39.040 I just want to know, you know?

00:52:41.840 And I think there is hope when there is knowledge that there is something you can do that, whether

00:52:53.040 it works or not, is unknown.

00:52:55.460 But once you know, I have no hope in a doctor who says, oh, you know, it's just a little

00:52:59.920 spot on your lung and, you know, it's nothing.

00:53:02.500 And he knows it's cancer.

00:53:03.700 Don't tell me that.

00:53:04.400 I'm hopeless.

00:53:05.420 Tell me that it's cancer and I can find hope.

00:53:09.000 We have to, we have to not just be the putting smiley faces on things and going, oh, no, it's

00:53:15.080 not so bad.

00:53:15.720 It is.

00:53:16.660 It's bad.

00:53:17.460 It's bad.

00:53:18.420 But now take us from it's bad to how to find that hopeful place.

00:53:23.280 When we come back, name of the book is everybody.

00:53:26.580 Everybody Always by Bob Goff, G-O-F-F, Bob Goff.

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00:54:57.580 Glenn Beck.

00:54:59.480 Mercury.

00:55:06.880 Glenn Beck.

00:55:07.740 We're with Bob Goff, an amazing man, and not a Tony Robbins kind of guy who makes his

00:55:17.640 living being a motivational speaker, but is truly motivational in everything that I've

00:55:22.940 ever seen him in, because he's infectious.

00:55:26.600 Courage is contagious, and so is hope.

00:55:30.560 And Bob just made the point that we need to find hope.

00:55:34.740 So how do you do that?

00:55:35.840 How do you find real hope in a sea of despair?

00:55:40.580 Yeah, I know a simple answer for anything, but the first thing that sprung to my mind

00:55:46.440 is it's a life of engagement, and that idea of engaging the people that are around you,

00:55:52.040 engaging the issues around you, but not necessarily with a petition.

00:55:55.920 Engage it with everything you've got, with your love, with your hope, with your energy.

00:56:00.680 Find these things.

00:56:01.380 We were talking about a wrong that was done in Uganda.

00:56:05.040 Engage, if you're good as a lawyer, go do a bunch of that.

00:56:08.240 If you're good at loving people, go do a bunch of that.

00:56:11.140 I don't want people to meet just my opinions.

00:56:14.100 I don't want them to actually meet me, and the way to meet me is to be curious about that.

00:56:18.080 So when you sat down, I told you, you passed a test that almost no one passes.

00:56:25.320 I think there's maybe been two people, and we've had great people in a career of 40 years.

00:56:31.920 I've had great people around that I've interviewed.

00:56:35.380 I think I can honestly say two, maybe there's been five, that have walked into the room,

00:56:43.120 said hello to me, and then said hello to Stu or the other people on the air,

00:56:47.780 but then the important thing, looked at the people who are holding the camera,

00:56:52.760 doing the makeup, introducing yourself, looking them in the eye, and engaging with them.

00:56:58.240 That rarely happens, rarely.

00:57:01.680 It's sad, but to me, it's a test of who are you really, and you pass that.

00:57:10.080 And from what I understand, you were out in the green room, and you were out in the hallway,

00:57:14.160 and you were having conversations.

00:57:15.200 You came in here, and you started looking around.

00:57:18.220 You're very observant, which I think kind of passes all of us by sometimes.

00:57:23.320 We just engage in the moment and do what we have to do with that person.

00:57:28.880 Yeah, I think each of us are looking for these same things in our life,

00:57:32.140 like love and purpose and connection, and then authentic relationships.

00:57:37.260 And if we just start skipping across the desk, we just turn our life into a bunch of transactions.

00:57:42.320 And I just don't want to be that.

00:57:43.200 I'm not a touchy-feely guy.

00:57:44.480 I'm a trial lawyer.

00:57:46.100 You don't seem like a trial lawyer.

00:57:48.840 I'm the only guy trying a $100 million case with a Mickey Mouse watch.

00:57:53.760 But I'll tell you, it'll be the third month of the trial,

00:57:56.060 and somebody in the box will say, Mickey Mouse watch.

00:57:58.760 And I'm like, I just won.

00:58:03.260 This whole idea, this overarching idea that we'll be known for our opinions,

00:58:07.240 but remembered for our love.

00:58:08.800 So I think we need to each ask, like, what are we going to be remembered for?

00:58:12.540 Okay, so I could spend a day with you, but I want to come back here in a second

00:58:19.340 and show me how you remain optimistic as a trial lawyer.

00:58:27.800 I can't think of a worse job.

00:58:30.000 I can't think of a worse job.

00:58:31.900 You're surrounded by dirt bags lying in the system, and yet you hold it.

00:58:37.540 So give me some real-life examples.

00:58:41.740 Well, I would say it's...

00:58:42.960 When we come back.

00:58:46.540 Glenn Beck.

00:58:48.540 Mercury.

00:59:00.460 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:59:02.260 Welcome back.

00:59:02.680 We are talking to an incredible guy I could spend the day with,

00:59:06.020 and he's just invited me to go TP some houses for the rest of the day.

00:59:10.880 His name is Bob Goff, the author of Everybody Always,

00:59:15.800 and one of the happier guys that I think I've ever met.

00:59:19.380 And you're a trial attorney.

00:59:22.020 And I want to get into that, but we're going to run out of time.

00:59:24.840 So let's start with one of your philosophies where one of the things that you take away

00:59:31.860 from the Jesus story, and that is, tell no one.

00:59:37.080 Yes, I love that big moment.

00:59:38.560 It's this Simon Peter.

00:59:40.220 You know, Jesus says, who am I?

00:59:42.080 And says, some say you're a teacher.

00:59:43.740 And actually, he was an awesome teacher.

00:59:45.740 Some say you're a prophet.

00:59:47.120 And he was actually an awesome prophet.

00:59:49.040 And then Simon Peter says, you're God.

00:59:51.500 And Jesus said, you nailed it.

00:59:53.840 But I love that he said, flesh and blood doesn't reveal that to you, but the Spirit.

00:59:57.440 And we've got a lot of people where faith is important to them,

00:59:59.960 and they're trying to do the Spirit's work.

01:00:03.300 They're trying to tell everybody what Jesus is.

01:00:06.000 Two verses later, he says, tell no one.

01:00:09.040 I love that.

01:00:09.960 I don't think it's supposed to be a secret.

01:00:11.380 I think he means, show them, don't tell them.

01:00:13.940 So show people what you believe.

01:00:15.440 We'll know what we believe when everybody sees what we do.

01:00:19.540 I don't care what somebody says.

01:00:21.460 I got a lot of things I believe.

01:00:23.200 But see what I do.

01:00:25.000 See what you do.

01:00:25.780 You're doing this.

01:00:26.640 You're just spreading a lot of hope for people.

01:00:28.240 So you are.

01:00:29.260 So, but do you set out to, you know, another Jesus thing?

01:00:37.440 And it kind of reminds me of you.

01:00:39.940 Pay no attention to what's going to happen tomorrow.

01:00:41.640 Don't worry about tomorrow.

01:00:42.720 Don't worry about where you're going to lay your head.

01:00:44.500 Don't worry about any of it.

01:00:45.760 Just go do it.

01:00:46.780 But that seems to be your mantra.

01:00:50.840 Exactly.

01:00:51.580 Yeah, yeah.

01:00:52.040 So know why you're doing what you're doing.

01:00:54.160 So, for instance, I'm married.

01:00:56.380 We got three kids.

01:00:57.640 Two of those are married.

01:00:59.420 And I want to be a grandpa.

01:01:00.980 Like more than the worst thing in the whole.

01:01:03.840 I just want that so bad.

01:01:06.100 I'm expecting.

01:01:07.320 They're not expecting.

01:01:08.220 I'm expecting every day.

01:01:10.000 My son actually with his wife went to Hawaii.

01:01:12.800 He said it rained all week.

01:01:13.860 I'm like, yes, more wine to the cabana.

01:01:19.080 So, so one of the things, if you know why you're doing what you're doing, and I just

01:01:23.400 want to be, we were talking about being available.

01:01:25.220 So I put my cell phone number in the back of a couple million books and I get a hundred

01:01:29.420 calls a day.

01:01:30.160 It is legitimately, legitimately the last sentence of the book.

01:01:34.320 It talks about if you ever want to talk about any of the ideas, my phone number is

01:01:37.400 give me a call sometime if I can be helpful.

01:01:39.640 Isn't that awesome?

01:01:40.660 It's crazy.

01:01:41.700 People don't follow vision.

01:01:43.860 They follow availability.

01:01:45.120 And I'm never the smartest guy in the room, particularly right now, but I can be the most

01:01:49.980 available guy in the room.

01:01:51.460 And so if you know why you're doing what you're doing, how do you do that?

01:01:55.260 I just get constantly interrupted.

01:01:57.640 Like literally just constantly.

01:01:59.320 Jesus was constantly interrupted.

01:02:00.880 People are tugging on his shirt, calling his name from trees.

01:02:04.640 Like they just, just live a life with constant interruptions.

01:02:08.740 And what it reminds me over and over again is not to be efficient in the way that I love

01:02:13.500 people, but to be extravagant.

01:02:15.500 That was one of the hallmarks that Jesus had.

01:02:17.160 What does that mean?

01:02:17.980 Extravagant love.

01:02:19.040 Just not giving people a little bit, just give them your best.

01:02:22.540 I got, we took all the money from love does and just gave it all away.

01:02:25.760 And so we've been going around building schools in countries.

01:02:28.860 So, which cracks me up because my worst subject in school was school, but we're actually pretty

01:02:33.760 good at starting them.

01:02:34.600 So we've got one in Uganda, one in Iraq, one in Somalia.

01:02:38.480 We've got one going into a country that doesn't do that.

01:02:41.620 That's in two weeks.

01:02:43.320 What could possibly go wrong?

01:02:47.620 I'll check back in with you in three.

01:02:49.860 So one of the whole ideas is to fail trying.

01:02:53.060 Don't fail watching anymore.

01:02:54.640 Fail trying.

01:02:55.420 So if you see something, don't just identify with that, but to just say, what's my piece

01:03:01.160 in that?

01:03:01.820 We had guys on yesterday.

01:03:02.860 They're up in Indianapolis and they had potholes in their town and they were reading, you know,

01:03:10.640 they knew how bad it was.

01:03:11.800 And they were reading in the newspaper that the state couldn't afford it.

01:03:15.000 The city couldn't afford it.

01:03:16.000 It was $700 billion or whatever to fix all the potholes.

01:03:18.720 So they went to, they took 50 bucks.

01:03:20.740 They went to the hardware store, they bought asphalt and they just started fixing potholes.

01:03:25.620 Done.

01:03:26.160 Right.

01:03:26.640 And what is amazing about this is so far the city knows about it and hasn't stopped them.

01:03:32.220 Immediately.

01:03:32.720 I would think immediately, oh, you're, they're going to come.

01:03:36.420 They just didn't stop.

01:03:37.780 They just went out and did it.

01:03:38.900 Yeah.

01:03:39.340 But they're in their twenties too.

01:03:40.800 They haven't lived a life of don't do that.

01:03:43.940 Yes.

01:03:44.800 Yeah.

01:03:45.000 What if the, uh, as you're constantly thinking, uh, about what do you want to be remembered

01:03:49.900 for?

01:03:50.420 And I just want to be remembered for somebody who is engaged.

01:03:52.960 And here's the crazy part that God isn't dazzled.

01:03:55.500 When you go across an ocean, he's wowed.

01:03:58.040 When you go across the street, uh, when this idea of loving your neighbor, I don't think

01:04:01.980 it's just a metaphor for something else.

01:04:03.660 I think it actually means love your neighbor.

01:04:05.780 We've, we've got a mailman on our block.

01:04:08.020 He's lousy at it.

01:04:08.940 He's not a detail guy.

01:04:10.300 So we get everybody else's.

01:04:13.760 I actually, one of my neighbors was getting audited.

01:04:15.780 I had to bring it over.

01:04:16.640 I'm like, things to be you.

01:04:18.120 So, so art after 20 long years, finally said he was going to retire.

01:04:23.060 I'm like, praise the Lord.

01:04:25.140 And so we decided to make him the grand marshal of our parade.

01:04:29.520 We have a parade on our block.

01:04:30.580 Our blocks only, you know, 10 houses long on each side.

01:04:33.380 And so, uh, 800 people showed up to see art, to let him know just how much they loved him.

01:04:41.260 Even though he's a lousy mailman, everybody in the whole community knew it.

01:04:44.940 And we got a convertible.

01:04:46.480 We filled it full of envelopes.

01:04:47.860 We just said, art, just throw them in the air.

01:04:49.740 Do what you do every day.

01:04:51.060 And there was such an outpouring of love towards this guy.

01:04:56.280 He called me up the next day and said, Bob, I'm coming out of retirement.

01:05:00.560 I'm like, no, no, no, no.

01:05:04.040 But what will happen when people know that they're loved, when they actually know that

01:05:09.500 they're respected, this idea of being ready to make a defense for the hope that's within

01:05:14.960 you doesn't mean to point bony fingers at people.

01:05:17.480 They forget the last sentence that says with gentleness and respect.

01:05:21.360 And if we could just treat people with gentleness and respect, knowing that you've got beautiful

01:05:26.300 things in your life and God might be doing something different in your life than my life.

01:05:30.380 Last Saturday, there was a wedding planner that was praying for sunshine and there was

01:05:34.660 a farmer praying for rain, right?

01:05:37.300 And just to assume that God's up to different things in other people's lives and be a little

01:05:41.600 bit more patient with them as we're getting there.

01:05:43.820 Uh, but to do the things we can, uh, hope for a lot of things, but hope on the move.

01:05:49.280 People say like, love's a verb.

01:05:50.680 I think hope is, I don't know about my grammar, but I'll tell you hope on the move is unstoppable.

01:05:56.320 That's what your, your guys were doing with the potholes.

01:05:59.040 They're saying that's hope on the move.

01:06:00.820 I'm not waiting for permission.

01:06:02.120 Your life is your permission.

01:06:03.900 Somebody like birthed you and said, go now go do beautiful, immense things, but do it with

01:06:10.400 gentleness and respect.

01:06:11.980 Uh, I can try death penalty cases against witch doctors, but that old whole idea of loving 1.00

01:06:17.980 your neighbor and loving the people, love your enemy, right?

01:06:21.520 So after the trial, I started meeting with witch doctors. 0.99

01:06:24.900 I sent out word on the Bush radio that the consul general for Uganda is here.

01:06:29.140 And I command every witch doctor to meet with me. 0.99

01:06:32.300 Glenn, they came.

01:06:33.580 I've met with a thousand witch doctors and they are creepy dolls that look like me and 1.00

01:06:41.200 stick stuff.

01:06:42.740 No wonder I always have a headache.

01:06:44.500 And, uh, so I asked these guys, what do you need?

01:06:46.720 And they said, we don't know how to read or write.

01:06:49.060 So get this.

01:06:49.780 I started a witch doctor school.

01:06:52.460 We don't teach them how to be witch doctors. 0.96

01:06:54.440 They already know we teach them how to read and write.

01:06:56.960 And the only books we have in witch doctor school are the Bible and love does.

01:07:00.580 And so this whole idea, you should see our graduation ceremonies.

01:07:05.180 I mean, they're awesome.

01:07:06.800 I bet.

01:07:07.860 Yeah. 0.84

01:07:08.380 So I grab each of these witch doctors by the face and I give them a kiss on the forehead. 1.00

01:07:13.640 I want to be every witch doctor's first guess. 0.95

01:07:16.400 And I just whispered to them, like, like do good, like live your life in a way.

01:07:23.440 They're already the leaders in the community.

01:07:25.240 Live a life in a way that gives great honor and respect to people.

01:07:29.520 No, I want you to just, just, just, just take this back here.

01:07:32.420 As I understand this story, here's a guy I introduced to you 40 minutes ago, and it

01:07:38.780 started at his table with his children on September 11th.

01:07:41.940 They wrote a letter.

01:07:43.520 He first asked, what would you say to the world leaders?

01:07:46.400 They respond.

01:07:47.600 Most people would stop there.

01:07:49.060 He said, let's write and let's invite them to come here.

01:07:53.040 We'll go there and interview them and find out what they hope for.

01:07:56.040 Uh, and, uh, 20, no, 19 of them said, yes, most people would go, okay, well, we're not

01:08:03.300 going to, they went to all 19, went to all 19 interviewed while he was in Uganda finds

01:08:10.620 problems.

01:08:11.340 He's an attorney says, well, maybe I can just help.

01:08:14.360 He starts to help.

01:08:15.680 They invite you to be the, they invite you.

01:08:18.460 You think to be counsel, meaning they wanted you to be a counselor and an attorney there,

01:08:23.800 but you're actually the ambassador, not of, uh, from, uh, to the, wait, you're not the

01:08:30.620 ambassador from the United States to Uganda.

01:08:34.020 You're the Ugandan ambassador to America, right?

01:08:37.620 The console.

01:08:38.400 Yes.

01:08:38.720 Console.

01:08:39.140 Okay.

01:08:39.640 And so now you are educating which doctors and teaching them how to do good.

01:08:47.960 That's a remarkable 15 years.

01:08:51.280 What if you just live a life engaged and it wouldn't be any different than other people

01:08:54.960 like this whole idea of living an engaged life that we're not graded on a curve, just

01:08:59.680 engage the people around you, engage the people you love, but engage them with love, like engage

01:09:05.280 them with that childlike faith.

01:09:06.660 And then to see what happened, we would finish each interview with these world leaders and

01:09:10.740 they can, what do you bring to some of these guys?

01:09:12.600 Like some places, the chocolate would melt.

01:09:14.900 And so the kids brought the key to our front door and they gave it to them in a little box.

01:09:20.680 And, and we, they, they said, you know, we came over to your house.

01:09:23.600 If you ever want to come to our house, here's the key to the front door.

01:09:26.900 And you know what, somebody, I'm not going to tell you who, but they, uh, emailed, uh,

01:09:31.200 from the embassy to our kids because it's, they don't have my email address.

01:09:34.380 It's the kids doing this.

01:09:35.600 And they said, we'd like to use our key.

01:09:38.220 And they did.

01:09:39.420 Oh, you're kidding.

01:09:40.100 That whole idea.

01:09:40.720 Just engage people.

01:09:42.280 See what will happen.

01:09:43.640 Do a cannonball.

01:09:44.620 Don't put your toe on the water, grab your knees, and then just see what'll happen.

01:09:48.500 Start with your family.

01:09:49.520 Let these concentric rings go out.

01:09:51.680 If faith is a big deal to do it because faith's a big deal for you, but don't try to talk everybody

01:09:56.780 into it.

01:09:57.340 Let, let God will let people, uh, know that he's around because he's there.

01:10:02.640 Like it'll just continue to continue to reveal himself and not in mystical ways.

01:10:08.260 It'll just play by meeting loving people.

01:10:10.600 So I want to be that guy and I'm trying and I'm not quite there.

01:10:13.860 Uh, I always get my first call.

01:10:15.520 It's always five in the morning from some dude in Atlanta.

01:10:18.080 Cause it's eight in the morning there and it's five in San Diego.

01:10:20.600 I got my last call at midnight from two witch doctors in witch doctor school and they said, 0.96

01:10:26.580 uh, a little boy's been abducted and this new witch doctor's taken him into the bush 1.00

01:10:30.920 for a child sacrifice, but we know where he is.

01:10:34.260 Should we go get the kid?

01:10:35.820 And I'm standing on my bed and my boxers yelling into the phone.

01:10:39.400 I'm like, get the kid.

01:10:41.320 And four hours later, I get a text message from these two guys that used to be bad guys.

01:10:46.640 And they said, we've rescued the child.

01:10:48.880 He's with his mother in the last two words of the text message.

01:10:52.640 Love does.

01:10:53.940 I've spent my whole life avoiding the people Jesus spent his whole life engaging.

01:10:59.540 And I've just decided I'm just not going to avoid people anymore.

01:11:02.600 I'm going to engage the people who creep me out.

01:11:05.360 I'm not going to just avoid them, but I'm not going to engage them.

01:11:08.120 Is that what this interview is all about?

01:11:09.000 You're engaging people.

01:11:09.940 Oh, you want to know something great?

01:11:11.460 The cover of everybody always looks like a bunch of balloons.

01:11:14.720 I flew over to Uganda after, you know what it's like when you get a book cover and they

01:11:18.680 sent you all these samples.

01:11:19.700 They all look hokey.

01:11:20.700 So I flew over to Uganda.

01:11:22.240 I got the witch doctors to make the cover out of their fingerprints. 1.00

01:11:26.320 Wow.

01:11:27.740 Isn't that terrific?

01:11:29.020 But engage people.

01:11:30.440 And they're like, what's this about?

01:11:31.820 I'm like, well, actually, I'm going to go write a book about loving people and loving

01:11:36.260 the people who creep you out.

01:11:37.380 And you guys used to creep me out a lot.

01:11:39.060 You still creep a lot of people out.

01:11:41.020 But I'm learning from you.

01:11:42.400 You're actually teaching me more about love because I'm learning about you and your life.

01:11:47.620 And I see who you're becoming, not who you used to be.

01:11:50.580 And it's starting to change me.

01:11:52.020 They've actually taught me.

01:11:53.200 I don't know if I've taught them anything.

01:11:54.500 They're teaching me a time.

01:11:55.500 I have to tell you, Bob, and I don't know if you take this as a compliment or not, but

01:11:59.020 I have worked with or I have been around and worked with some of the biggest spiritual

01:12:06.620 leaders of multiple faiths in the last 20 years and have met the worst and the best. 1.00

01:12:16.740 Billy Graham, one of the best.

01:12:19.540 I won't list some of the worst.

01:12:21.980 You may be the best preacher I've ever met.

01:12:26.500 And it's not because you're preaching.

01:12:27.800 It's because you're doing it.

01:12:30.060 And that's the secret.

01:12:31.480 If we just stop preaching to each other and we stop trying to get each other baptized

01:12:38.180 or trying to fix everybody's life by selling you X, Y, or Z, just live it yourself.

01:12:46.780 People change.

01:12:48.220 Isn't that crazy how that works?

01:12:49.600 You know why you're doing what you're doing.

01:12:51.860 I dressed up to come visit with you by taking off my baseball cap.

01:12:55.780 I wear this Boston Red Sox hat, not because I'm a Red Sox fan.

01:12:59.540 I haven't even gone to a baseball game, but one of the reasons I wear it, my neighbor across

01:13:04.060 the street was a big Red Sox fan and she was going to be with Jesus by the end of the week.

01:13:08.840 So we made a deal.

01:13:10.000 I said, I will wear your Red Sox hat for the rest of my life and represent the socks here.

01:13:14.960 But every time Jesus walks by you, you need to mention my name.

01:13:21.000 There's this verse about you that says, I knew you not.

01:13:23.340 I'm like, Carol.

01:13:23.920 So if you know why you're doing what you're doing, why you're engaging people in conversations,

01:13:29.580 why you're doing this, it'll give a lot of clarity to your life.

01:13:33.360 You're amazing.

01:13:34.160 Thank you so much.

01:13:34.940 Oh, thanks so much for having me, for making me feel so welcome and for spreading a lot

01:13:39.040 of joy and hope to people.

01:13:40.260 Thank you.

01:13:41.480 Bob Goff, everybody always.

01:13:44.340 If that doesn't sell everyone in this audience on buying this book, I don't know what, what

01:13:52.620 would, boy, one of my favorite interviews of all time.

01:13:57.380 Thank you, Bob.

01:13:57.840 Good for you, Drithi.

01:13:58.580 Thank you.

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01:15:05.260 Glenn Beck Mercury.

01:15:10.580 I don't think I've, I've rarely met a man like that, and especially a man who gives

01:15:22.180 out his own cell phone number in the end of his book and says, just call me, and he

01:15:26.320 means it.

01:15:27.020 I mean, it's the same phone number that he gave out in his last book, and he still has

01:15:30.000 himself five times in the makeup chair.

01:15:32.480 People called him.

01:15:34.040 Just randomly from around the country.

01:15:35.560 It's legitimately in the back of his book.

01:15:37.080 That's great.

01:15:37.640 We're going to call him before the end of the show just to see if he takes our call.

01:15:40.800 That's crazy.

01:15:42.520 Bob Goff.

01:15:43.560 Look him up.

01:15:44.560 Listen to his, his talks on, uh, at TED Talks, uh, and, uh, grab his book.

01:15:50.720 Remarkable.

01:15:51.520 We live our life the way he lives his life.

01:15:53.860 The whole world changes.

01:15:56.340 Glenn Beck.

01:15:58.340 Mercury.

01:15:58.740 Mercury.

01:15:58.860 Love.

01:16:05.580 Courage.

01:16:07.280 Truth.

01:16:08.920 Glenn Beck.

01:16:10.840 Who knows?

01:16:11.920 Maybe it's just that the media is tired of reporting on high school students going on

01:16:16.420 marches.

01:16:17.620 Maybe they're just tired of, of people that are taking issues and making them political

01:16:23.340 in school.

01:16:24.900 But somehow or another, I doubt that.

01:16:26.880 Something tells me that there is an ideological bent to the quiet, the total silence.

01:16:33.100 Shh, shh, listen.

01:16:35.700 Not a word about the pro-life march happening right now in America.

01:16:43.640 What?

01:16:45.120 You haven't heard about it?

01:16:47.820 How's that possible?

01:16:50.100 Students at more than 200 schools around the country are joining in.

01:16:54.160 Sure, over the last week, with the chaos of Syria and Facebook and the FBI raids, there

01:17:00.460 is a, oh, a larger trove of newsworthy content, I guess.

01:17:05.300 So, so media has moved on from the Parkland shooting and the, the, uh, consequent month-long

01:17:12.700 parade of anti-gun mania, right?

01:17:15.340 Well, they really haven't.

01:17:19.980 And it hasn't stopped the media from reporting on Planned Parenthood or the women's march.

01:17:25.060 The pro-life nonprofit Family Research Council has encouraged students to join the march.

01:17:31.540 In a statement, the group contrasted the nationwide outrage and media coverage, and yes, there is

01:17:37.120 an overlap that followed the Parkland shooting, resulting in the March 14th walkout.

01:17:41.760 They say, quote,

01:17:42.400 Hmm.

01:18:12.380 So, why the silence today?

01:18:26.340 Kids today are standing up for life.

01:18:31.020 Kids today are taking on their own administration, which the media said was so very important and

01:18:37.960 courageous and worth covering.

01:18:40.220 But the media has failed its test, as it does day after day.

01:18:48.740 But there is hope in the country, because there are those people who are willing to be grossly

01:18:56.240 outnumbered, mocked, ridiculed, called names.

01:19:02.400 Because they'll stand for what is right.

01:19:05.500 It's Wednesday, April 11th.

01:19:14.320 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:19:17.960 So, it was a little bit awkward yesterday, occasionally tense.

01:19:21.920 It was kind of funny, sort of dramatic.

01:19:24.220 Then really awkward again.

01:19:26.680 There were times that I screamed at the screen.

01:19:30.420 There were times I just shook my head in disbelief.

01:19:32.520 It was almost as entertaining as the movie about Facebook, the social network, except it was twice as long, had really bad lighting, and there were way more old people in yesterday's episode. 0.88

01:19:51.460 It was Mark Zuckerberg testifying in front of Congress yesterday, and I'm not sure what he was doing.

01:20:01.920 Are you, Stu?

01:20:05.120 Not sure what he was doing?

01:20:06.640 I mean...

01:20:07.600 What was he doing?

01:20:08.620 Did you hear him when he was asked, are you responsible for the content?

01:20:12.780 Yeah, and he said yes.

01:20:13.720 I mean, I think he was saying that, and the buck stops here, right?

01:20:17.340 Which is what we would want him to say.

01:20:19.480 Yeah, except every attorney, every attorney, anybody who is...

01:20:23.160 I mean, how many pictures have been posted that are copywritten pictures?

01:20:28.700 Right.

01:20:28.860 How many times have people posted something that has a copyright or a trademark, and you can't do that?

01:20:35.320 How many times has somebody posted something completely irresponsible since we began this monologue with, you know, 1.2 billion users?

01:20:47.240 You can't keep up with that.

01:20:48.760 No, of course not.

01:20:49.080 That's a lawsuit.

01:20:50.040 That could bankrupt Facebook.

01:20:52.420 Yeah, I think his general point was, we have to do more.

01:20:56.340 I think you can make a legitimate argument it's really not their fault at all about these data breaches.

01:21:01.980 I think you can make a legitimate argument.

01:21:03.760 And it's one that, I don't know, if I'm CEO of Facebook, I might make. 0.96

01:21:07.260 I certainly would make arguments like, you know, I'd sit down and I'd say, hey, thanks a lot for asking me these questions, but it's none of your freaking business. 0.96

01:21:16.080 You know what? 0.99

01:21:16.800 It's none of your freaking business. 0.98

01:21:17.780 I run a private company. 0.99

01:21:19.180 Get out of my face. 0.99

01:21:20.480 That's the real answer to politicians when they come peering their, you know, they're trying to get their grubby hands on his business, and they want to regulate it.

01:21:27.900 And he was like, well, my attitude is that we're not against regulation.

01:21:31.400 We're against bad regulation, but we're fine with the good stuff.

01:21:35.560 You know, there is no good stuff.

01:21:36.700 There is no good stuff.

01:21:37.880 You know, and that's, I think, one of those situations where he needs, I would have wanted to be, and I'm sure he wanted to be a little bit more aggressive, but he stayed back.

01:21:48.400 For example, like for the data, they gave, they had an agreement that you signed to get on Facebook.

01:21:55.460 Then you agree to share your data with the third-party app.

01:22:02.060 Facebook has an agreement with the third-party app that says don't share your data outside of the uses that we've agreed with.

01:22:08.920 Then that third party shared it with another company.

01:22:11.140 That's the breach.

01:22:12.120 It wasn't Facebook's breach.

01:22:13.500 It was the third party's breach.

01:22:15.880 Now, his answer to that is like, well, you know, we should be responsible.

01:22:19.640 We should be holding these people up to, in reality, I think he could have made a legitimate argument that that was not his fault at all.

01:22:25.640 No, I don't even think make a legitimate argument.

01:22:28.440 I think, let me just take this with another product or service.

01:22:32.400 You go and you buy a truck.

01:22:34.100 You have an unspoken agreement that the truck is going to be used the way trucks were built to use.

01:22:42.740 You buy the truck from the dealership.

01:22:45.260 It's a GM truck.

01:22:46.860 You then go take that and you drive that truck through a crowd.

01:22:51.520 Is the dealership responsible or is the truck, is GM responsible?

01:22:57.680 No, and they didn't even have a contract saying, hey, I won't drive this truck through a crowd and kill people.

01:23:06.020 That's just implied.

01:23:07.140 This one, there was a contract.

01:23:10.060 You, not the Facebook thing that everybody just clicks on.

01:23:13.360 One where it was, hey, will you share your information with this company?

01:23:18.440 Yes.

01:23:19.120 So you said yes.

01:23:21.020 Then the company, they clicked.

01:23:24.160 I won't share it with anybody else, but they did.

01:23:27.500 They're the driver of the truck.

01:23:29.200 How is Facebook responsible?

01:23:32.120 I think you're totally right.

01:23:33.260 And what Zuckerberg's argument yesterday was, was, look, we probably shouldn't be selling trucks to people who might drive into crowds.

01:23:41.440 Well, how the hell do you know that?

01:23:42.420 Minority report.

01:23:43.900 Yeah.

01:23:44.140 And that seems to be the road they're going down.

01:23:46.480 He's talking about how AI is going to be implemented within, they think, five years to eliminate hate speech.

01:23:52.360 But listen to what the hell does that mean?

01:23:54.380 Here's Zuckerberg talking to Ben Sasse, who says, can you define hate speech?

01:23:58.900 Listen to this.

01:23:59.500 You may decide, or Facebook may decide, it needs to police a whole bunch of speech that I think America might be better off not having policed by one company that has a really big and powerful platform.

01:24:12.960 Can you define hate speech?

01:24:14.660 Senator, I think that this is a really hard question.

01:24:20.400 And I think it's one of the reasons why we struggle with it.

01:24:23.000 There are certain definitions that we have around calling for violence or...

01:24:30.660 Let's just agree on that.

01:24:33.700 If somebody's calling for violence, that shouldn't be there.

01:24:36.300 I'm worried about the psychological categories around speech.

01:24:39.180 There are some really passionately held views about the abortion issue on this panel today.

01:24:43.660 Can you imagine a world where you might decide that pro-lifers are prohibited from speaking about their abortion views on your platform?

01:24:50.800 I certainly would not want that to be the case.

01:24:54.300 But it might really be unsettling to people who've had an abortion to have an open debate about that, wouldn't it?

01:25:00.340 It might be, but I don't think that that would fit any of the definitions of what we have.

01:25:08.080 Now, Ted Cruz asked him about Planned Parenthood, asked him, you know, have they ever been banned?

01:25:22.220 Are you doing anything on pro-life?

01:25:24.040 Have you ever kicked any pro-life people off?

01:25:26.560 Zuckerberg is in...

01:25:28.540 He doesn't have a real definition of hate speech.

01:25:31.760 And here's the problem.

01:25:33.220 Do not fear AI.

01:25:35.640 Don't fear AI.

01:25:36.920 There's no reason to fear AI.

01:25:39.240 Fear the goals that AI is given.

01:25:44.160 So you have Mark Zuckerberg.

01:25:46.960 Well, we're going to have AI and it's going to police hate speech.

01:25:50.620 Okay.

01:25:51.820 That sounds, well, spooky to me, but I guess good to some, but sounds really spooky to me.

01:25:59.940 How do you define hate speech?

01:26:01.640 Well, I mean, there's lots of, I mean, you know, calling for violence.

01:26:07.840 Okay.

01:26:08.420 All right.

01:26:09.520 How do you define hate speech?

01:26:12.080 What are you teaching AI?

01:26:15.000 You can't come to me and say, hey, well, AI is going to take care of a lot of this.

01:26:19.340 And then tell me you don't really know what hate speech is.

01:26:22.380 Define it.

01:26:22.860 What is it you're putting into the program?

01:26:25.580 What are you teaching AI is hate speech.

01:26:30.920 Right.

01:26:31.400 I mean, we can't decide on that.

01:26:32.580 The Atlantic can't.

01:26:34.540 It disagrees with itself that first they're hiring for a salary.

01:26:38.820 Kevin Williamson.

01:26:39.580 The next day they're firing him because they think he's engaged in hate speech.

01:26:43.280 This is one organization.

01:26:45.080 They can't even make up their own mind about one person in his commentary.

01:26:48.400 Here's Ted Cruz going up against Zuckerberg on this.

01:26:51.560 Do you know of those 15 to 20,000 people engaged in content review?

01:26:55.700 How many, if any, have ever supported financially a Republican candidate for office?

01:27:02.060 Senator, I do not know that.

01:27:04.200 Your testimony says it is not enough that we just connect people.

01:27:08.500 We have to make sure those connections are positive.

01:27:11.700 It says we have to make sure people aren't using their voice to hurt people or spread misinformation.

01:27:18.080 We have a responsibility not just to build tools, to make sure those tools are used for good.

01:27:22.920 Mr. Zuckerberg, do you feel it's your responsibility to assess users,

01:27:26.580 whether they are good and positive connections or ones that those 15 to 20,000 people deem unacceptable or deplorable?

01:27:34.760 Senator, you're asking about me personally?

01:27:36.980 Facebook.

01:27:37.380 Senator, I think that there are a number of things that we would all agree are clearly bad.

01:27:42.660 Foreign interference in our elections, terrorism, self-harm.

01:27:46.780 I'm talking about censorship.

01:27:48.640 Well, I think that you would probably agree that we should remove terrorist propaganda from the service.

01:27:53.860 So, that, I agree, I think is clearly bad activity that we want to get down, and we're generally proud of how well we do at that.

01:28:02.900 Now, what I can say, and I do want to get this in before the end here, is that I am very committed to making sure that Facebook is a platform for all ideas.

01:28:12.140 I will tell you, I sat in a room with him two years ago, and I know, you know, people disagree with me on this, and that's fine.

01:28:21.780 I sat with him, and I looked the man in the eye, and I could, we do not agree on policies.

01:28:28.520 We do not agree on politics.

01:28:32.160 It's very clear, but I will tell you this.

01:28:37.380 I truly felt, he felt it was impossible and suicidal to get involved in politics because it's a global company.

01:28:51.220 And he said, we are dealing with one, what was it, 1.2 billion users.

01:28:59.460 We cannot keep up with it.

01:29:02.340 We cannot, what is deemed hate speech in one place is not hate speech in another place.

01:29:09.440 How could we possibly keep up with it?

01:29:11.980 How could we possibly keep up with all of the candidates?

01:29:15.300 And why would we do that?

01:29:17.500 And it was a real point of frustration that I felt he had been wrestling with himself long before any of this happened.

01:29:27.940 He was wrestling with, he wants to do the right thing.

01:29:31.860 He wants to create a better world, whatever version that is.

01:29:35.980 And we may disagree with a better world and what he believes is creating a better world.

01:29:41.480 But he has wrestled with this, and he doesn't see, he doesn't feel that it is, that it is possible to do it.

01:29:53.240 And I think he's right on that, although that's not what he expressed yesterday.

01:29:56.220 That's not what he was saying yesterday.

01:29:57.080 He was talking about hiring people all over the globe.

01:30:00.100 Because, you know, if you are in Uganda, hate speech is a lot different than it is in the United States.

01:30:05.280 You can't just look for the same slur translated.

01:30:07.520 Whatever hate speech is in Uganda is totally different than what it is here.

01:30:12.060 If this is the road that they're going to go down, they're going to put themselves out of business.

01:30:16.320 Yeah, because they're doing things that their customers don't really want.

01:30:19.220 Politicians want it.

01:30:20.400 The media wants it.

01:30:22.080 What their customers want is, I followed a page.

01:30:24.560 I want the stuff from that page.

01:30:26.440 I made a choice to click like.

01:30:28.620 Give me the stuff they say.

01:30:30.180 That's what they want.

01:30:31.080 What Facebook is now saying is, we know you say that's what you want, but we know what you want better than you.

01:30:39.280 We think you want better connections, or we think you want less passive media content.

01:30:44.160 We think you want, you know, seeing pictures of your friends' kids rather than reading a news story about Syria.

01:30:51.900 And so we're going to prioritize that content over others.

01:30:55.240 They're playing with their algorithm.

01:30:56.600 And again, it's their right to do this, but they're doing things that are playing to the media, playing to politicians, and not playing to their customers.

01:31:03.420 No, you know what they're doing?

01:31:04.120 Remember I said Facebook is the replacement for television, television news, for radio, for the telephone.

01:31:14.800 It's the way we communicate with each other.

01:31:16.880 It's the way we get our news.

01:31:18.100 I said that about five, six years ago.

01:31:20.100 This is what it is.

01:31:21.640 It is now becoming a utility, and people are using it as such.

01:31:25.580 Well, what do those utilities always do? 1.00

01:31:28.140 Those utilities always say, well, I know best.

01:31:31.980 For instance, they are becoming a news source, but they're becoming CBS News, which said, we know what is right.

01:31:39.840 We know what you want, and so we're going to give you these stories.

01:31:44.720 The other stories we're going to disregard with, for instance, the stories about the walkout at schools on abortion.

01:31:50.980 Who's covering that?

01:31:52.200 Well, Facebook has given you the opportunity to cover that.

01:31:56.360 Whether you do or not, you have the opportunity.

01:31:59.720 But if they use their algorithm to skew things, then even if you follow somebody who you know would be the guy who would bring that story up,

01:32:09.680 you may not see their tweet about it, their Facebook post.

01:32:14.540 They're becoming the old media.

01:32:16.840 Sarah, could you please play the audio that we played at the beginning of the show from Russia?

01:32:28.820 I want to play this.

01:32:30.140 This is shocking audio.

01:32:32.180 I know what you're thinking.

01:32:40.700 How can you say that?

01:32:42.860 Okay, so here's what this is.

01:32:45.020 This is audio from state-run television last night, and it is saying, prepare for possible nuclear war with the United States.

01:32:54.060 Okay?

01:32:55.020 We were talking about Stormy Daniels.

01:32:56.600 They were talking about possible nuclear war, and in that, they were saying, you need rice, you need some sort of an oat, bring powdered milk, and get to the nearest fallout shelter.

01:33:11.140 Should we say to do that?

01:33:13.060 Don't panic.

01:33:14.300 Just be prepared.

01:33:15.520 That's what Russia is thinking about when it comes to Syria.

01:33:21.100 We're not even thinking about it.

01:33:23.660 Look, I don't know what's coming, but I have to tell you.

01:33:27.020 Listen to the Russians on this one. 1.00

01:33:29.100 Be prepared for any eventuality, and don't panic.

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01:34:13.640 Glenn Beck Mercury.

01:34:22.900 Glenn Beck.

01:34:24.400 One thing's for sure, Glenn.

01:34:25.620 Mark Zuckerberg really liked the questions he was being asked.

01:34:29.480 Senator, this is an important question.

01:34:31.320 Senator, that's a great question.

01:34:33.400 Well, Senator, this is actually a very important question.

01:34:36.060 I'm glad you brought this up.

01:34:37.060 Senator, that's a good and important question here.

01:34:40.200 Senator, I think that this is a really hard question.

01:34:42.960 Senator, those are all important questions.

01:34:45.340 Senator, this is a really big question.

01:34:48.240 Senator, this is a very important question.

01:34:51.300 Senator, I think the core question you're asking about AI transparency is a really important

01:34:57.320 one.

01:34:57.840 Yes, that's a good question.

01:34:59.000 Yes, Senator, this is a good question.

01:35:00.480 I think you raised an important question.

01:35:02.000 And for the witness, Mr. Zuckerberg, the hearing is adjourned.

01:35:06.340 There you go.

01:35:07.980 Good questions.

01:35:08.740 It was a good series of questions.

01:35:10.880 Mark, I'd have to tell you, I wish I could say that about your answers, but I can't really

01:35:15.880 say that about your answers.

01:35:17.160 I thought he actually did okay.

01:35:18.500 He did okay.

01:35:19.340 He just, I don't know what he was, I just don't know what he was going for.

01:35:23.740 When you say, well, I mean, you know, look, he believes in, you know, bigger government

01:35:28.280 than I do.

01:35:29.080 But when you're running a company to say, you know, I welcome regulation.

01:35:33.140 No, no, I don't welcome regulation.

01:35:36.960 And we kind of talked about this off the air yesterday.

01:35:39.160 You welcome regulation.

01:35:40.580 And then you say, well, it just depends.

01:35:42.680 It has to be the right regulation.

01:35:43.880 It doesn't really mean anything.

01:35:44.960 And he kept saying that over and over again.

01:35:46.760 What does it mean?

01:35:47.660 Well, the right regulation to him is probably, you know, regulation that helps him and hurts

01:35:53.180 his new competitors that are coming up, which is, of course, what regulation does all the

01:35:56.520 time.

01:35:57.000 It blocks the little guys from being able to get on board with that regulation.

01:36:02.640 And he actually did mention that.

01:36:04.380 You know, a lot of this regulation is going to stop smaller companies from being able to

01:36:07.420 correspond with it.

01:36:09.040 It always does.

01:36:11.000 Yes, it always does.

01:36:12.920 Back in a minute, some really disturbing news out of Russia.

01:36:17.100 Glenn Beck, Mercury.

01:36:29.640 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:36:31.700 It's a couple of things that are, I think, disturbing in the news today.

01:36:34.840 One is, as we played for you just a few minutes ago, what the national broadcast was in Russia,

01:36:41.000 last night, where they were saying store food and water and powdered milk and know where

01:36:47.900 your nearest bomb shelter is, because we may be on the eve of nuclear war with the United

01:36:53.800 States.

01:36:54.220 But don't panic.

01:36:55.340 That was the message on their news last night.

01:36:58.780 Our message on Syria was nothing.

01:37:01.400 We need to understand what we're dealing with here.

01:37:05.360 The Russians have already said two years ago, the world is already in World War Three.

01:37:13.320 It just doesn't know it.

01:37:15.000 And the West won't pay attention.

01:37:17.200 So they have been laying this groundwork for a long time.

01:37:20.620 But I want you to see what the statement was from Russia.

01:37:24.300 Now, remember, what President Trump is doing is sending missiles over to teach Assad, the 0.99

01:37:33.180 animal, a lesson.

01:37:35.320 Don't use chemical weapons.

01:37:38.500 OK.

01:37:40.520 As long as no Russians are hurt, maybe we're OK. 1.00

01:37:44.920 But is that true?

01:37:47.780 Listen to this from Russia, from Russian ambassador to Lebanon and said, if there is a strike by

01:37:52.980 the Americans, then we refer to the statements of Vladimir Putin and the chief of staff that

01:37:57.280 the missiles will be downed.

01:37:58.640 You've heard that all over the media today.

01:38:00.760 But he adds, and even the sources from which the missiles were fired.

01:38:06.380 Now, does that mean that if a Russian troop were attacked or just firing of the missiles?

01:38:19.940 Can you verify that?

01:38:21.480 What is the caveat here?

01:38:22.720 Because listen, because they did kind of clarify, but I don't think it makes it better.

01:38:26.620 Yes, a smart missile should be aimed at terrorists, not at legitimate Syrian government, the legitimate 1.00

01:38:32.120 Syrian government that is fighting international terrorism on its territory.

01:38:36.380 So, I mean, of course, our idea of what is a legitimate terrorist target and theirs are

01:38:41.520 quite different.

01:38:43.080 I mean, and they believe anything associated with the Assad government is not a legitimate

01:38:47.700 target.

01:38:48.560 Now, of course, that's what we're actually targeting.

01:38:51.260 Yeah, we believe we're targeting their bases in any place that helped them disperse chemical

01:38:57.400 weapons.

01:38:59.060 Which, by the way, were removed many years ago.

01:39:01.540 Yes, of course, by Russia.

01:39:03.660 So we're fine.

01:39:04.680 And we are in a the world is we may be in a Cuban missile crisis, but we're completely

01:39:11.660 unaware of it.

01:39:12.600 We better wake up and and say our prayers here that cooler heads prevail and whatever

01:39:20.460 is coming is executed properly.

01:39:24.820 Because I don't know about you, but I don't want to go to war with Russia.

01:39:28.000 I can't believe we're back here after all the diplomacy between Rocky Balboa and Ivan

01:39:31.680 Drago.

01:39:32.640 You know, they all that hard work that they did to bring the two countries together.

01:39:36.320 That was a movie.

01:39:37.340 It's a documentary.

01:39:38.280 Yeah, it was.

01:39:38.940 And it was just why not?

01:39:40.700 Why not?

01:39:41.380 It's written by Sylvester Stallone.

01:39:42.840 It wasn't it didn't really happen.

01:39:44.260 Pat is here.

01:39:46.120 Welcome, Pat.

01:39:46.820 Pat, you were disturbed yesterday by Zuckerberg.

01:39:49.600 Yeah, well, not by him specifically, more the Congress, more the senators, more the American

01:39:56.020 government that thinks it's their business to dictate to a private owner what he should

01:39:59.880 be doing in his business.

01:40:00.880 Because the only one who made any sense really was Ted Cruz, because he cited a specific

01:40:06.020 law.

01:40:06.780 And I'm not familiar with the law.

01:40:08.860 Neither was Zuckerberg.

01:40:10.900 But but Ted was.

01:40:12.440 But Ted was.

01:40:13.040 Ted, of course, knew.

01:40:14.300 And I think it must be a law based on receiving tax breaks is what it sounded like to me, because

01:40:19.760 if you're if you're biased, you're not going to get the tax breaks because you're not, you

01:40:23.940 know, you're not neutral.

01:40:25.260 And that's what he was trying to get at.

01:40:27.000 Are you neutral or do you consider yourself a biased organization because here's all the

01:40:31.240 conservatives that you've censored?

01:40:33.940 And so I thought that was pretty legitimate.

01:40:36.200 But the rest of this stuff, Congress has no business dictating to a private business

01:40:42.600 owner.

01:40:42.940 I'm not a fan of Zuckerberg.

01:40:44.940 And I don't have a real love for Facebook either.

01:40:49.980 No, no. 0.99

01:40:51.720 But you're a monster on Facebook. 1.00

01:40:53.080 Monster. 0.97

01:40:53.420 I mean, you're one of the biggest, most prolific posters in Facebook.

01:40:57.000 I don't know if Facebook would exist without my post.

01:40:59.680 No, I don't think it does.

01:41:00.880 You know, I think it's back to like a just at Harvard.

01:41:03.420 It just goes back to that.

01:41:05.340 Lindsey Graham yesterday demanding that that Mark Zuckerberg identify whether or not his

01:41:15.240 business is a monopoly.

01:41:17.280 Well, what do you mean whether my business is a monopoly?

01:41:21.760 There was something called MySpace before me, which I just did better.

01:41:26.380 We're doing the same thing.

01:41:27.280 Only people like it better.

01:41:28.560 And it's not my fault it went out of business.

01:41:31.000 Not to mention there's 2,500 other social networks, many of them with very large reaches.

01:41:36.180 But he wanted to know if there's somebody doing exactly what Facebook does.

01:41:39.900 Well, if not, start it yourself, Lindsey. 0.52

01:41:43.220 I did.

01:41:44.260 Well, I didn't, but I stole it from my roommate.

01:41:46.920 And maybe you should steal something from your roommate and you can start making money

01:41:52.200 off of it.

01:41:52.640 I mean, it's, it's, it, to me, it's, um, uh, it's amazing that he was asked, why did

01:41:58.080 you buy Instagram?

01:41:59.560 Yeah.

01:41:59.760 None of your business.

01:42:00.540 Why I bought Instagram?

01:42:02.140 Why do you think I bought Instagram?

01:42:03.780 Because it was successful and we thought it was a good investment.

01:42:07.600 What do you mean?

01:42:08.020 Why did I buy Instagram?

01:42:09.300 What a bizarre question for a supposedly conservative senator, which we all know he's not.

01:42:16.760 Well, no, but there is a, there is a difference between a progressive conservative.

01:42:20.240 No, I don't think so.

01:42:21.160 And even live Lindsey Graham.

01:42:22.440 I do.

01:42:23.260 I think of progressive.

01:42:24.520 I don't think you're conservative if you're progressive, but we've, we've always, we've

01:42:28.280 always disagreed on that.

01:42:29.440 I think you can be socially conservative, uh, and big government.

01:42:33.920 Yeah.

01:42:34.200 Yeah.

01:42:34.400 And he is.

01:42:35.000 He obviously is.

01:42:35.720 Yeah.

01:42:36.480 And so, uh, he, he needs to be telling him none of your stinking business on many of these

01:42:42.940 questions.

01:42:43.800 Yeah.

01:42:44.460 Graham, Graham asked him what we tell our constituents.

01:42:47.440 Tell him it's a private business and it's none of your business.

01:42:49.840 And if you don't like Facebook, don't, don't post it.

01:42:52.440 Don't do anything on it.

01:42:53.040 Don't become a member of Facebook.

01:42:55.240 Uh, how about that?

01:42:56.660 Tell him not to frequent it.

01:42:57.000 Oh, you can't live without Facebook.

01:42:58.640 I don't know.

01:42:59.140 We did pretty well without it for a long, long time.

01:43:01.560 Well, for the first 7,000 years of human existence, we didn't have Facebook.

01:43:06.120 Really?

01:43:06.520 Yeah.

01:43:07.120 Well, early on we had, well, 6,000.

01:43:09.600 No, the earth is only 5,000 years old.

01:43:12.180 Oh, okay.

01:43:14.000 So I don't think I buy that.

01:43:16.220 I don't think I buy that.

01:43:17.420 There's a part of me that wants a little bit, like not a hundred percent there, but

01:43:21.480 you know, 20% to towards like the pharma bro guy, that guy just went to prison that you

01:43:27.280 remember, he like bought that drug and he just raised the price by like 60,000%.

01:43:32.120 And then like every time people would ask him, he would answer just like that. 0.97

01:43:35.520 Screw you. 0.97

01:43:36.420 Hey, just, you know, you kind of want Zuckerberg to just kind of stand up on the table and just 1.00

01:43:39.780 grab his crotch and be like, eat this and walk out. 0.99

01:43:42.260 So I will, I will tell you this, I will tell you this, I, I went and I looked back at the 0.99

01:43:46.860 Howard Hughes testimony because Howard Hughes, before he went nuts, um, they came after him

01:43:52.900 and they were coming after him because of Pan Am.

01:43:54.940 He had TWA and Pan Am was the big, uh, uh, competitor Pan Am was in bed with, with senators

01:44:03.320 and, and, uh, you know, had all kinds of payoffs happening in Washington and they wanted to shut

01:44:09.300 down TWA.

01:44:11.440 And so, uh, during the war, uh, Hughes, who was an aircraft builder, Hughes aircraft, um,

01:44:18.360 he got all kinds of government money to build, you know, specified planes that some of them

01:44:24.800 were crazy.

01:44:25.520 The spruce goose is one of them.

01:44:27.300 The spruce goose should never have flown, but they were looking for something light, something

01:44:34.580 that could be made out of material that we had an abundance of.

01:44:38.060 So he said we could try lumber.

01:44:42.180 Now you're making a wooden plane that was five stories tall.

01:44:47.680 The wingspan was a full city block.

01:44:52.340 Okay.

01:44:53.320 That thing is not going to fly.

01:44:55.620 Well, the war ends.

01:44:58.020 Spruce goose is still, still being worked on, hasn't flown.

01:45:01.620 And they're saying, you were just, you just, you defrauded us.

01:45:04.960 You defrauded us.

01:45:06.520 You were just getting rich off the taxpayer and they were just trying to smear him to

01:45:12.180 hurt TWA.

01:45:13.520 Now it's a great testimony, but it's not as compressed and as full of fireworks as the

01:45:20.680 drama, you know, as the, as the writers made this drama in the aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio,

01:45:26.680 but the spirit is there.

01:45:27.860 So here's how, here's how Howard Hughes dealt with the inquisition in his day.

01:45:35.480 Listen to this.

01:45:35.980 I might've been willing to sit back and take a certain amount of abuse simply because,

01:45:40.580 well, well, I am only a private citizen.

01:45:45.200 Whereas you are a Senator with all sorts of powers.

01:45:49.340 So he walks out and it really does happen in the movie where he walks out of, I mean,

01:46:18.980 it happens in the movie, but it happened in real life too.

01:46:21.380 He was done.

01:46:22.580 He was done.

01:46:23.440 He's like, I don't answer to you.

01:46:25.140 I don't answer to you.

01:46:27.040 Yeah.

01:46:27.260 I'm doing business and you are feeding everyone against me.

01:46:31.500 All of the questions in advance.

01:46:33.580 Will you give me the questions?

01:46:35.740 Well, they were like, no, we're not, we're not, that's out of order.

01:46:38.600 That's out.

01:46:39.000 We're not, you're, you're telling me you're not giving them the questions in advance.

01:46:43.300 Can I get the questions in advance?

01:46:45.400 Like everybody else here?

01:46:47.120 I mean, he took them to task.

01:46:49.100 That might be the last time a private citizen took Congress to task and reminded them.

01:46:55.580 I don't, I don't work for you.

01:46:56.820 You work for me.

01:46:57.920 I don't have to kowtow.

01:46:59.360 I don't have to tremble in fear here.

01:47:02.060 You're not my overlords because that's now pretty much our thought process.

01:47:08.960 When somebody goes before Congress, has anybody ever since Howard Hughes treated it this way?

01:47:15.920 I don't think so.

01:47:16.820 Remember when they were really coming after us and there was rumor that they were going to call me to testify in front of Congress.

01:47:23.220 And I said on the air, oh, let me, because I would have said that.

01:47:28.460 Okay.

01:47:29.160 But as it started to get serious, my attorneys were saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

01:47:36.120 And I'm like, oh no, let me at him.

01:47:37.480 Let me at him.

01:47:38.120 No, because they create all of the rules.

01:47:41.720 Yeah.

01:47:42.360 They create all of the rules.

01:47:44.100 They can say anything, bring you any topic.

01:47:48.820 And if you say one thing wrong, you can go to jail.

01:47:52.940 This is why they don't want Trump to testify with Mueller.

01:47:55.760 It's not because he's colluded with Russians.

01:47:57.740 It's because they control everything.

01:48:00.660 Right.

01:48:00.820 And he says one thing wrong.

01:48:02.220 And obviously he's not always exact in his language.

01:48:04.800 It's that old, it's that old, why would I be bothered by this?

01:48:09.940 I don't have anything to hide.

01:48:11.060 Well, you don't know what they'll consider something bad.

01:48:14.180 Yeah.

01:48:14.560 That's why you have something to hide.

01:48:16.380 Yeah.

01:48:16.600 You don't know what they're going to make out of what you say to them.

01:48:18.960 Yes.

01:48:19.600 It's terrible.

01:48:20.020 And Howard Hughes, I think, got away with it because he had so much money.

01:48:25.000 Yeah. 0.97

01:48:25.400 And he was also bat crap crazy. 0.77

01:48:28.280 Pretty much. 0.98

01:48:28.560 But he had so much money, he didn't care.

01:48:32.360 He just didn't care.

01:48:34.200 And the problem here is Zuckerberg is like-minded with a lot of these guys.

01:48:37.740 He believes that the government has a hand in his business.

01:48:41.000 Yes.

01:48:41.600 So that makes it a lot worse.

01:48:42.680 Yes.

01:48:43.440 Thanks, Pat.

01:48:46.980 A little embarrassing there for Glenn, obviously.

01:48:49.180 That clip was from a movie.

01:48:52.720 Unbelievable.

01:48:53.300 Wait a minute.

01:48:53.720 Didn't you just-

01:48:54.420 So that's Pat Grandley.

01:48:55.780 She's coming up on the Blaze Radio and TV Network.

01:48:58.420 I mean, Glenn, get your facts straight.

01:48:59.540 It was just a movie.

01:49:00.540 Watch the-

01:49:01.340 Leonardo DiCaprio playing a fictional character.

01:49:04.080 I got it.

01:49:04.520 Watch.

01:49:04.820 Go to YouTube.

01:49:05.480 They're just not-

01:49:06.500 They're longer and not quite as dramatic.

01:49:08.700 But just go to YouTube and look for Howard Hughes' testimony in front of Congress.

01:49:13.340 Yeah, you can watch the real testimony.

01:49:14.780 Yeah.

01:49:15.060 And he was.

01:49:15.660 He really was.

01:49:16.480 He wasn't quite to that level that you hear from Leonardo DiCaprio.

01:49:19.380 But he was after him.

01:49:20.100 The exchange when he's saying, you're going to give me the questions?

01:49:23.000 Because you're giving them the questions.

01:49:24.160 You're going to give me the questions in advance?

01:49:26.500 I mean, it's really tense.

01:49:28.780 And he is not afraid of Congress.

01:49:31.600 It was nice to see.

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01:51:07.600 Mercury.

01:51:15.560 Glenn Beck.

01:51:16.800 Okay, so I want to tell you about a new politician getting into the race.

01:51:21.940 Eric John Schmidt.

01:51:23.420 Those good new leaders are...

01:51:24.740 Yeah.

01:51:25.200 He's running for city council in West Hollywood.

01:51:30.440 And he has decided that he wants to be completely transparent.

01:51:35.880 Great.

01:51:36.520 I mean, that's what we want out of our politicians.

01:51:38.940 We want them to be hiding anything.

01:51:41.260 TMI here on this one.

01:51:43.560 Schmidt released his profile, Dudes Nude.

01:51:47.740 His profile page is...

01:51:50.460 OnDudesNude.com?

01:51:51.520 Yeah, I'm not sure, but it's...

01:51:54.100 His is Need to Be Nude.

01:51:57.140 Oh.

01:51:57.780 And he provided links for everybody.

01:52:00.140 Oh, that's good.

01:52:00.540 He's got 23 photographs, some showing him nude and some showing him engaged in sexual activities with other men. 0.88

01:52:06.480 He also posted six videos of himself having sex.

01:52:10.820 And a profile that opens up with the statement, I'm the luckiest guy in the world. 0.92

01:52:15.420 I've had a lot of hot sex and never got an STD.

01:52:18.240 I'm drug and disease free.

01:52:20.940 Wow.

01:52:21.200 Hashtag life goals, huh?

01:52:22.360 Right.

01:52:22.720 So he says, I'm 100% transmerit and I only have good intentions.

01:52:28.900 I'm not running against anyone.

01:52:30.220 I'm running for their seat.

01:52:31.820 I have nothing negative to say about others and I never will.

01:52:34.600 That's the verbiage you want to use in that particular circumstance.

01:52:37.060 Don't say that.

01:52:37.960 I don't think that will hurt my campaign any more than it would be a candidate stamp collecting hobby.

01:52:44.180 I mean, they're pretty much the same.

01:52:46.560 Well, I might disagree.

01:52:47.440 My hobbies do not affect any other part of my life.

01:52:50.540 I think it will help my campaign for people who believe the human body is art.

01:52:56.320 Plus, it shows that I believe in transparency and I'm not afraid to express myself.

01:53:01.060 I'm not a nudist.

01:53:02.360 I don't do everything nude, but I am an exhibitionist. 0.92

01:53:05.680 I am kind of shy, but I also like other people watching me have sex. 0.97

01:53:11.640 So what a way to launch your campaign. 0.93

01:53:14.100 And in today's America, he just might win.

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The Glenn Beck Program - April 11, 2018

'Sober Words and Careful Action' - 4⧸11⧸18

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