The Glenn Beck Program - The Press Got Us Again!

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00:00:17.560 Hello America and welcome to the program.

00:00:21.620 Greg Brady is clearly the greatest Super Bowl guy,

00:00:27.260 winner thing of all time.

00:00:30.420 And that's about as deep as my analysis is going to go into the game last night.

00:00:34.760 Mainly because I did what all real huge sports fans do.

00:00:39.720 I went to bed at halftime because it was clear that Jack Ryan was going to pull it off.

00:00:45.340 Even though I don't think he's been as good since Clancy died.

00:00:48.740 But it was clear to me.

00:00:51.180 And who knew?

00:00:53.080 Surprises, surprises, Greg Brady pulls it off.

00:00:56.160 So we'll get into that.

00:00:57.740 Also, the Super Bowl commercials.

00:01:01.740 Do they do that anymore?

00:01:04.780 Did anybody else notice that they were just like normal commercials?

00:01:08.440 Most of them.

00:01:10.300 Except for the ones that wanted to make a strong point.

00:01:17.280 You know, you can piss off half of the country.

00:01:21.460 That half is okay. 0.87

00:01:22.820 You can go ahead and attack that half of the country.

00:01:25.920 And you won't have any ramifications or so they think.

00:01:29.460 The funniest segment on Saturday Night Live, I think in maybe a decade,

00:01:37.860 happened this weekend.

00:01:40.280 And Donald Trump sat down with Bill O'Reilly.

00:01:43.780 A lot to talk about and we begin right now.

00:01:47.620 I will make a stand.

00:01:50.840 I will raise my voice.

00:01:53.180 I will hold your hand.

00:01:55.600 Because we are one.

00:01:57.400 I will beat my drum.

00:01:59.640 I have made my choice.

00:02:01.900 We will overcome.

00:02:04.200 Because we are one.

00:02:05.840 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:02:09.860 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:13.640 I have to tell you, I, um, uh, I'm not a Super Bowl fan.

00:02:22.640 I've always watched it for the, uh, commercials and for the, no, I know.

00:02:26.300 And for the, uh, and for the, you know, everybody getting together and having wings and eating your face off and everything else.

00:02:33.280 Um, I went to bed at exactly the wrong time.

00:02:37.020 Holy cow. 0.89

00:02:37.860 Yeah, that was quite a comeback.

00:02:39.420 Yeah.

00:02:40.460 Quite a comeback.

00:02:41.760 Um, it was, but I will tell you that there was the, the quintessential only listening to soundbites and letting those soundbites control your life example with Lady Gaga.

00:03:02.740 Lady Gaga, the, the whole thing was Lady Gaga is going to say something about Donald Trump.

00:03:08.800 Lady Gaga is going to say something about Donald Trump.

00:03:10.540 She's going to make an anti-Trump thing. 1.00

00:03:12.720 Well, where did we get that from?

00:03:15.000 Oh, I know the press.

00:03:17.520 And was it fake news or did we play into that?

00:03:22.180 Did we see one soundbite and then say, oh, well, of course she's going to make fun of, of Donald Trump.

00:03:30.320 First of all, Lady Gaga has always been, uh, about inclusion.

00:03:36.120 That's one of her things.

00:03:37.480 Right.

00:03:37.800 So she's always, there's nothing new there.

00:03:40.200 This isn't a Donald Trump thing.

00:03:41.560 She was saying those things under Obama.

00:03:43.860 Really?

00:03:44.140 All she did.

00:03:45.280 Was there anything beyond the song?

00:03:48.880 What do you mean?

00:03:49.680 I mean, her statement, she didn't make any statements about inclusion.

00:03:53.240 No, she made no statement about saying about it.

00:03:55.880 Yeah.

00:03:56.060 Last night she said nothing.

00:03:58.380 Nothing.

00:03:58.620 That's right.

00:03:59.360 So all of this came from her press conference where she said she's for inclusion.

00:04:04.500 Inclusion and equality, which she has always been for.

00:04:07.540 She's always been there.

00:04:09.120 Always.

00:04:10.220 So nothing new to be seen.

00:04:12.500 The press wanted a story.

00:04:13.980 Yeah.

00:04:14.360 And by, by making up a story about Lady Gaga, they missed one of the best stories from her

00:04:22.580 press conference last week.

00:04:24.380 Listen to what Lady Gaga said.

00:04:26.220 Forget about inclusion.

00:04:27.620 She said that in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 15, and last week.

00:04:35.380 But she also said this.

00:04:37.760 Listen.

00:04:38.060 I am going to have to say that the preparation for this show is the show business version

00:04:46.620 of the athlete.

00:04:47.340 We have our own set of criteria that we go through.

00:04:52.020 Myself and my dancers have been training for months on this.

00:04:54.840 For two months, we dedicated our time to creating the story of the show, creating the musical score.

00:05:02.380 And then we created the set, what it would look like, then we choreographed the actual dance routine, and then we choreographed the pyrotechnics.

00:05:15.940 Additionally to all of that, we go through an extensive amount of training so that I can sing and dance at the same time for the show for 13 minutes.

00:05:26.480 What I would say is that what I would say is that what you're watching at the halftime show, it's not easy.

00:05:34.240 And I say that because I want young people at home that are watching, when they see it, if you have a dream to be something big, you should go for it.

00:05:46.500 But you've got to give it everything you've got.

00:05:49.440 What?

00:05:50.440 You've got to wake up, and you've got to eat it, breathe it, see it every second of the day.

00:05:57.120 And if you do that, you might be lucky enough one day to wake up and be playing the halftime show.

00:06:05.320 Isn't that incredible?

00:06:06.580 That's great.

00:06:07.500 That is exactly.

00:06:08.500 That's great.

00:06:09.140 Here's something uniting, she said.

00:06:11.880 No kidding.

00:06:12.400 And all the press did on both sides was work us up into a lather that she's going to say something outrageous. 1.00

00:06:22.000 First of all, the only thing Lady Gaga, I think she's smart enough to realize the only thing left that is outrageous is someone not being outrageous. 0.97

00:06:32.940 I mean, that's the only thing that Lady Gaga can do that's outrageous is not do something controversial. 1.00

00:06:38.760 So we spent all of that time and energy reading those stories, talking about it, talking about before.

00:06:48.140 Is she going to say something?

00:06:48.980 She's going to say something.

00:06:49.720 She's going to say something.

00:06:50.900 She better not say something.

00:06:52.260 I hope she says something.

00:06:53.600 Instead of concentrating on what she did say, and that is, if you have a dream, go for it, but understand you have to sleep it, dream it, live it, eat it.

00:07:12.360 You have to do, you have to live it 24-7 and work hard.

00:07:16.860 And then you may be lucky enough.

00:07:21.900 You may be.

00:07:22.800 You may be.

00:07:23.920 There's still not a guaranteed outcome there.

00:07:26.480 Correct.

00:07:27.400 I mean, how great is that?

00:07:30.220 Here's somebody telling you how to achieve the American dream.

00:07:34.520 And we missed it because we wanted to talk about politics.

00:07:38.020 Why?

00:07:42.960 Why are we doing this to ourselves?

00:07:46.200 Look at the energy.

00:07:47.640 Look at how they took a soundbite and made you hate Lady Gaga. 0.99

00:07:56.060 Now, you may not like her.

00:07:57.880 You may not even know her.

00:07:59.160 But how many people that don't know her, don't have any idea of who she is, now hate her because of all of the stories that she was so passionate about anti-Trump?

00:08:10.900 No, no, she didn't say any of that.

00:08:14.840 She's for inclusion and diversity, which she has always been for.

00:08:22.120 She spoke out about it under Barack Obama.

00:08:26.620 And that's all I heard in the lead up to her performance.

00:08:29.700 Was how the NFL wasn't going to stop her from saying anti-Trump things. 0.99

00:08:34.640 That she intended on making some sort of statement.

00:08:38.780 Where do they get that?

00:08:39.700 And during the performance, there was nothing.

00:08:42.160 You tell me.

00:08:43.120 Nothing.

00:08:43.300 You tell me.

00:08:44.580 You name a rock or pop star that has started the Super Bowl halftime dressed like that with those expectations that starts it with the Pledge of Allegiance.

00:08:57.520 She started it with the Pledge of Allegiance.

00:09:03.660 And Laura Ingram immediately tweets.

00:09:06.020 Notice she left out God?

00:09:07.420 No, she didn't.

00:09:09.020 I mean, I have TiVo, so I could rewind it.

00:09:13.240 Do you not have TiVo, Laura?

00:09:14.520 Laura, she said under God.

00:09:19.940 But had to have something that we hated her for.

00:09:23.780 Why?

00:09:26.060 Have you seen?

00:09:26.700 I haven't even seen a country star start the halftime with the Pledge of Allegiance.

00:09:32.140 Not only did she not make an anti-Trump statement, she started the week before with a pro-capitalism, pro-work-hard, live-your-dreams-you-just-may-achieve-it message.

00:09:47.940 Then started with the Pledge of Allegiance.

00:09:56.300 And the flag and fireworks.

00:09:57.780 Yeah, but she didn't say she voted for Trump.

00:09:59.340 No, she didn't.

00:10:00.300 I mean, it is crazy.

00:10:02.520 It is crazy what we have turned ourselves into.

00:10:05.700 Yeah, it is.

00:10:06.400 Look at how much time we spent.

00:10:08.760 Wasted.

00:10:10.600 Wasted.

00:10:11.040 Wasted on trying to hate each other.

00:10:14.520 I don't get it.

00:10:16.220 I just don't get it.

00:10:17.240 I have had such a come to Jesus couple of months.

00:10:25.440 I really have.

00:10:26.280 I mean, yesterday I went to church and I'm listening to this sermon and this preacher, I went to Watermark Church.

00:10:40.920 Here in Dallas.

00:10:42.880 And I'm listening to this preacher, Todd Wagner's partner, JP, and he is speaking.

00:10:51.180 So Glenn Peck is, he is leaving the Watermark Church.

00:10:54.000 Glenn Peck is leaving the Watermark Church.

00:10:55.560 He's with the Watermark Church over the weekend.

00:10:57.440 Thank you, Soundbite.

00:10:58.420 Thank you, Soundbite Central.

00:11:00.340 So he's talking about, who are you?

00:11:07.780 Who are you really?

00:11:09.100 Really?

00:11:10.920 And I loved it.

00:11:12.040 He said, and don't give me that Jesus jive.

00:11:15.120 Well, I'm a child of God.

00:11:16.460 Don't stop it.

00:11:18.140 Stop it.

00:11:19.220 Way too easy.

00:11:20.940 Who are you?

00:11:22.120 And he did this amazing sermon and it ended with, he saw a movie called Lion.

00:11:33.180 Have you ever heard of the movie Lion?

00:11:34.640 I've heard of it just recently because of the awards.

00:11:37.480 He said it was fantastic and he said it ends with a stat.

00:11:42.940 80,000 people a year, 80,000 children a year are kidnapped and put into the sex slave trade in India every year.

00:11:55.200 80,000 children.

00:11:59.100 He said he got into the car and he said, I looked at my wife and I just burst out in tears saying, what am I doing?

00:12:08.820 I'm wasting my life.

00:12:11.160 What am I doing?

00:12:14.960 80,000 children and I'm what?

00:12:17.800 Going to go see this movie.

00:12:18.840 Then I'm going to go home to my house and I'm going to be comfortable and maybe we'll talk about it.

00:12:22.940 And then tomorrow I'll go to church and I'll preach.

00:12:25.020 What am I actually doing?

00:12:30.240 I have to tell you, if more of us could have that wake up call, how much time did America spend last week on either defending or hating Lady Frickin' Gaga? 0.52

00:12:52.560 Gaga is her name. 0.87

00:12:55.020 How much time did we spend? 0.98

00:13:00.340 How ridiculous. 0.98

00:13:02.200 What are we doing with our life? 0.94

00:13:04.800 Our country is burning down to the ground and we spent our time worried about Lady Gaga who started her performance with the Pledge of Allegiance.

00:13:20.360 There couldn't have been a more uniting message than what she presented.

00:13:27.500 What do you say we concentrate on bigger things?

00:13:34.820 What do you say we concentrate on real things?

00:13:38.680 What do you say we look at our life and say, you know what?

00:13:42.340 Maybe there's maybe there's maybe there's more to being alive.

00:13:50.520 Maybe there's a bigger responsibility that we all have than politics.

00:13:55.080 Somebody wrote yesterday, somebody tweeted to me, you're just afraid of the war.

00:14:02.980 What?

00:14:03.980 What?

00:14:05.800 What war?

00:14:07.680 What war?

00:14:09.160 And you're not afraid of a war?

00:14:11.940 Yeah.

00:14:12.720 That was my first thought.

00:14:14.600 Yeah.

00:14:15.060 You should be afraid of war.

00:14:16.800 Yeah.

00:14:16.900 And what they were implying was the war between the patriots and the progressives.

00:14:25.580 Oh, dear God.

00:14:28.500 So we're talking civil war.

00:14:30.120 We're talking civil war.

00:14:31.740 Anybody who is rooting for a civil war is out of their mind.

00:14:36.800 Go read history.

00:14:38.020 Just go look at the pictures of the dead bodies in the fields.

00:14:42.020 Are you rooting for a civil war?

00:14:44.080 Good times, man.

00:14:44.700 Good times.

00:14:45.080 Remember those?

00:14:45.780 Oh, yeah.

00:14:46.040 Yeah, they don't come back.

00:14:46.640 Those days don't come back.

00:14:47.140 Well, they could.

00:14:47.780 They could come back.

00:14:48.260 We're trying to make them come back.

00:14:49.160 Yeah.

00:14:49.480 Good times.

00:14:50.180 So rooting for a war.

00:14:52.020 And I said, and the message was because they hate us and we must hate them.

00:15:00.400 My message yesterday on Twitter was, we all have to remove the hatred in our own heart.

00:15:11.820 That's all that has to be done.

00:15:14.220 Not everybody's going to do it.

00:15:16.040 But you have to remove the hatred in your own heart.

00:15:20.260 You have to remove the willingness to jump to hate or have somebody talk you into hate.

00:15:30.140 I hate to go to a Broadway show tune, but in South Pacific, there's a great line.

00:15:38.420 You have to be carefully taught how to hate.

00:15:41.480 And it's true. 0.56

00:15:42.640 And it's true. 0.56

00:15:43.500 We're not born hating each other.

00:15:46.540 We didn't hate each other 10 years ago, 20 years ago, last year.

00:15:53.820 Now, all of a sudden, people who loved each other, all of a sudden, hate each other's guts.

00:16:01.020 Can't stand each other.

00:16:03.200 One side or the other is an absolute enemy.

00:16:06.360 Honey, it's not true.

00:16:07.940 It is as true as Lady Gaga is going to say something really controversial. 1.00

00:16:15.640 She's going to finally put Donald Trump in her place, in his place.

00:16:20.700 Yeah, either that or she's going to start with the Pledge of Allegiance.

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00:19:21.440 I have such fear of, you know, of missing out.

00:19:25.720 On the Super Bowl?

00:19:26.920 On everything.

00:19:27.660 I always, I have that.

00:19:29.540 What is that?

00:19:31.100 F-O-B-O? 0.99

00:19:32.360 Is it FOBO or something?

00:19:33.480 Is that what it is?

00:19:34.220 Fear of missing out?

00:19:36.020 FOMO?

00:19:37.540 And I am, I am, you've never heard that?

00:19:40.800 Yes, but I've heard some other FOBO things.

00:19:43.020 Yeah.

00:19:43.540 FOMO.

00:19:44.020 Or something else.

00:19:45.160 Okay, so anyway, so.

00:19:47.400 All right, so.

00:19:50.460 Maybe that's FUBU.

00:19:52.340 It's one of those.

00:19:53.860 We probably don't want to go there.

00:19:55.260 Let's move on.

00:19:55.580 Anyway, I always have the fear of missing out.

00:19:58.020 Of just like, oh man, that could have been historic.

00:20:00.520 Last night I go to bed and of course it is the greatest Super Bowl of all time.

00:20:05.400 Yeah, when you went to bed it was, it was what, 21-3 or 28-3 or whatever.

00:20:10.240 I almost gave up on it at that point too because I was like, I was sort of rooting for the Patriots.

00:20:15.700 I didn't really care that much, but my only interest in it really was where BYU was concerned.

00:20:21.640 Yeah.

00:20:22.380 It was really, I mean, it was really, I mean, I thought it was colossally boring.

00:20:26.520 It was for three quarters.

00:20:28.520 It was, it was boring.

00:20:29.660 And then at 28-3, the Patriots started their comeback and it turned out to be, they're already calling it the greatest Super Bowl of all time now.

00:20:37.040 Now, he's the only one that has won five Super Bowls, right?

00:20:41.160 Right, correct.

00:20:42.000 He was tied at four with Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw.

00:20:46.040 And Terry Bradshaw, yeah.

00:20:47.340 And so he's the only one to win five and I mean, I don't know anything about it, but I'm just reading, it's no, he's no longer in doubt as the greatest.

00:20:59.520 No, he's, I mean, you gotta, you gotta say five Super Bowls and his statistics, he's probably the greatest of all time.

00:21:07.880 And we should probably remove the probably.

00:21:10.120 Yes, we should.

00:21:11.220 He's the greatest of all time.

00:21:12.960 I think we should.

00:21:14.340 Back in a minute.

00:21:17.340 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:21:24.880 Mercury.

00:21:26.640 This is the Glenn Beck Program. 0.97

00:21:29.200 You guys are bad people.

00:21:31.160 Why? 1.00

00:21:31.300 You're bad people. 0.88

00:21:33.280 Oh, come on now. 0.98

00:21:34.400 You're talking about the coin toss.

00:21:35.760 I'm talking about the coin toss and I, and I bring it up off air and I'm like, I think that was a great, that was a great moment.

00:21:43.020 I thought it was sad.

00:21:44.000 I thought it was really sad.

00:21:45.180 Come on.

00:21:45.680 I think they put him in.

00:21:46.640 I thought it was 91.

00:21:47.740 I know, and they put him in a bad position.

00:21:49.880 Oh, they did not.

00:21:50.600 I think they did.

00:21:51.260 It was good to see him.

00:21:52.180 There was no way for him to look good.

00:21:53.380 He just got out of the hospital.

00:21:54.360 I know, that's why they should have given him some help.

00:21:57.140 I mean, something.

00:21:58.100 He looked, I mean.

00:21:59.200 God bless him.

00:21:59.240 What they needed to do was have, you know, the president's son and his father.

00:22:07.120 They could have had W, N, H, W.

00:22:09.600 And if they didn't want to do that.

00:22:10.500 And W could have flipped the coin.

00:22:12.200 If I were W, I wouldn't have done it.

00:22:14.020 Why?

00:22:14.400 This is my dad's moment.

00:22:16.360 This is my dad's moment.

00:22:17.560 Your dad's moment has passed, and he wasn't, he's not healthy enough to have that moment

00:22:22.640 right now.

00:22:23.300 He's just not.

00:22:24.480 He just got out of the hospital.

00:22:26.160 You can't handle the, you can't handle the ravages of A. 0.95

00:22:30.460 No.

00:22:30.600 It's hard.

00:22:31.220 It's hard.

00:22:31.720 It's hard to see him like that.

00:22:32.980 I mean, being pushed out of the wheelchair.

00:22:34.440 It's hard to see him, and he was, he was alert.

00:22:36.780 He knew what was going on.

00:22:37.800 I'm not sure that's true.

00:22:38.940 Yes, he did.

00:22:39.560 When the referee turned, he said.

00:22:41.680 Yeah, the first time, the first time, he went to reach for the coin.

00:22:46.220 And the referee walked away, and he was left hanging out there in his wheelchair waiting

00:22:52.600 for the coin.

00:22:53.300 No, and he said, he said, you could read his lips.

00:22:54.980 No, that was nice.

00:22:56.120 Thank you, Jeff.

00:22:56.620 You could.

00:22:57.120 You could read his.

00:22:59.120 So mean.

00:23:00.280 Visual.

00:23:00.980 So mean.

00:23:02.040 Was not pleasant.

00:23:03.040 Was not good.

00:23:03.660 I'm glad most people didn't see that.

00:23:06.820 I mean, you talk about Donald Trump making fun of the handicapped guy.

00:23:10.740 I watched it on the television.

00:23:12.820 Yeah.

00:23:13.200 They showed him.

00:23:14.000 So bad.

00:23:14.820 So bad.

00:23:15.500 I thought.

00:23:15.940 But I thought it was a nice moment.

00:23:17.520 He couldn't flip the coin.

00:23:18.740 That's the problem.

00:23:19.360 Yes, he did.

00:23:20.220 No, no.

00:23:20.600 It kind of rolled off his.

00:23:21.700 It rolled off his thumb and rolled on down on the ground.

00:23:24.800 It rolled.

00:23:25.680 So here's the.

00:23:26.520 Can we say something nice?

00:23:28.100 Yes.

00:23:28.400 Yes.

00:23:29.260 And I mean this in a nice way.

00:23:31.580 Except it made me realize that Barbara hasn't aged a day.

00:23:40.420 But she looked great.

00:23:41.480 No, she looks the same.

00:23:42.420 She looked the same in 1989 as she does.

00:23:44.380 Right.

00:23:44.720 As she does today.

00:23:45.420 And that is amazing.

00:23:46.640 Amazing because.

00:23:47.840 It is.

00:23:48.560 She, we didn't realize she looked 90 when she was 40.

00:23:54.460 But she really.

00:23:55.520 So now that she's 90, she looks 40.

00:23:57.020 She looks 40.

00:23:58.340 Right.

00:23:59.020 It didn't work out for her when she was younger.

00:24:01.500 But now.

00:24:01.840 Now it's perfect.

00:24:02.980 Now the reception.

00:24:03.520 She can get all of the guys who are still aware.

00:24:06.500 You know, if they ever go on a, it's like a singles cruise after God forbid he passes on and

00:24:11.740 they're on a single cruise and she'll be like, she's the one because she looks 40.

00:24:16.840 Right.

00:24:17.180 Yeah.

00:24:17.500 Right.

00:24:18.180 Yeah.

00:24:18.540 But she's, she's the same age as he is.

00:24:20.180 She got a great reception.

00:24:21.520 Yeah.

00:24:21.820 I mean, they got a great reception.

00:24:22.880 Yeah.

00:24:23.060 They really did.

00:24:24.260 I mean, they gave them.

00:24:24.820 Oh, it was so.

00:24:25.440 You'd expect that.

00:24:26.080 Rolled them in 50 yards.

00:24:27.820 The music they played was just really just noble.

00:24:31.060 It was.

00:24:31.380 It was nice.

00:24:31.580 It was a nice moment.

00:24:32.820 It was nice.

00:24:33.160 Nice moment.

00:24:33.880 It was a little bit sad, but it was nice.

00:24:35.360 I know.

00:24:35.680 Because it's hard to see him, you know, age this way.

00:24:38.060 I think. 0.95

00:24:38.180 And he's sick.

00:24:39.860 I think the two of them.

00:24:41.100 I think the two of them who in politics is not sick.

00:24:45.660 I think the two of them, though, I love them as a couple.

00:24:49.200 They, they always have struck me as the kind that will go out at the same time.

00:24:53.920 Boy, that's possible.

00:24:55.280 It is.

00:24:55.720 When, when she went into the hospital, when he was there.

00:24:59.020 And then she stayed.

00:24:59.900 I mean, she.

00:25:00.460 No, they checked her in.

00:25:01.860 Yeah.

00:25:02.000 Yeah.

00:25:02.580 Because she was getting sick too.

00:25:03.860 And I'm like, oh my gosh, don't.

00:25:05.860 Are they going to take both of these?

00:25:06.940 I mean, they're going to take both of these at the same time, which in some way is.

00:25:11.100 It's hard on the family, but great for them.

00:25:13.520 Great for them.

00:25:16.020 Very notebook-esque.

00:25:17.520 Brutal.

00:25:18.460 Just brutal.

00:25:20.060 Anything else you'd like to make fun of?

00:25:21.660 Anybody else?

00:25:22.040 I'm not making fun of him.

00:25:23.300 I am not making fun of him.

00:25:25.000 I just think they put him in a bad position.

00:25:27.300 And they could have made it better for him.

00:25:29.420 And, but they didn't.

00:25:30.160 But I guess maybe that's the best position they had for him, right?

00:25:32.600 Tell me the deal.

00:25:35.280 Tell me the deal.

00:25:35.960 See, look.

00:25:36.420 There is a picture of him flipping.

00:25:38.080 It did not roll out of his hands.

00:25:40.160 He's throwing it up.

00:25:41.000 It really kind of did.

00:25:41.880 Look at it.

00:25:42.680 He's flipping it up.

00:25:43.560 It's going up in the air.

00:25:44.620 Look at it.

00:25:45.160 I saw it yesterday.

00:25:47.160 I saw it.

00:25:47.380 You're not seeing this still.

00:25:48.400 There wasn't a lot of flip in that coin.

00:25:50.640 No, there was not.

00:25:51.480 There was not a lot of flip.

00:25:52.360 Can you tell me the deal with the egomaniacs that came out without their NFL Hall of Fame jackets at the beginning?

00:26:03.140 There were like three guys that would not wear the jackets.

00:26:06.000 That wouldn't wear the jackets?

00:26:07.300 Did you guys notice that?

00:26:08.280 No.

00:26:09.100 Yeah.

00:26:09.380 Did you see when the Hall of Famers came out?

00:26:11.560 I must have missed that.

00:26:13.220 From the black universities? 0.75

00:26:15.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:26:16.020 Yeah, there were.

00:26:16.800 I saw Jerry Rice didn't wear his.

00:26:19.980 And there was someone else, too.

00:26:21.180 Yes, you're right.

00:26:21.780 And they didn't wear their NFL, you know, Hall of Fame jacket.

00:26:24.560 Hall of Fame jacket, yeah.

00:26:25.180 And it was amazing to me to see how the older guys came out and they were just like, hi.

00:26:32.000 And the younger guys, all showboats.

00:26:34.520 Yes.

00:26:34.980 All showboats.

00:26:36.580 Just, at first they refused to wear the jacket.

00:26:39.380 It appeared as though they were like, are you kidding me?

00:26:42.540 Look at this outfit.

00:26:44.180 I'm not messing with this.

00:26:45.460 I'm not messing with this.

00:26:45.480 I mean, that was for sure Jerry Rice.

00:26:47.000 I mean, he danced out.

00:26:48.200 Yeah.

00:26:48.720 And the other one did, too.

00:26:49.700 The two of them that didn't.

00:26:51.880 I gotta see who that was.

00:26:52.860 Yeah.

00:26:53.180 The two of them that did, they both walked out and they were both showboats.

00:26:56.340 Both showboats.

00:26:57.140 I completely missed that.

00:26:58.480 I must have been getting food or something, which.

00:27:01.000 You?

00:27:01.460 It was pretty continual.

00:27:02.600 Yeah.

00:27:02.840 Really?

00:27:03.420 It was pretty continual.

00:27:04.680 I'm fascinated by that.

00:27:05.800 I know.

00:27:06.200 Isn't that surprising?

00:27:07.200 Yeah.

00:27:07.480 That was a little shocking there.

00:27:09.700 Yeah.

00:27:10.120 Yeah.

00:27:10.420 So they brought out the new Hall of Fame guys?

00:27:13.000 Yeah.

00:27:13.240 Kurt Warner and LaDainian Tomlinson, those guys?

00:27:18.280 Or was this the old class?

00:27:19.040 What Glenn's talking about is they brought out the Hall of Fame players' history from black

00:27:25.740 universities that have played such a prominent role in the NFL over the years.

00:27:31.300 It was really good.

00:27:32.180 Like guys who were in the Hall of Fame that went to black-only universities. 0.89

00:27:35.960 My father-in-law said, he was watching with us, and he said, you know, when I was growing

00:27:40.720 up, he said, when I was growing up, he said, you couldn't find a black guy on the football

00:27:45.140 team.

00:27:45.520 He said, it was a, you know, it was a big deal to be black.

00:27:49.220 He said, now.

00:27:50.420 Now you can't find the white guy.

00:27:51.780 Find the white guys. 0.80

00:27:52.600 Yeah.

00:27:52.980 It's harder.

00:27:53.540 Yeah.

00:27:54.040 Yeah.

00:27:54.200 Much, much harder.

00:27:56.320 Yeah.

00:27:56.580 You know, Lem Barney, Alvin Bethea, Mel Blount, Roosevelt Brown, Willie Brown, Buck Buchanan,

00:28:00.880 Harry Carson, Willie Davis, Richard Dent, Bob Hayes, Claude Humphrey, Len Ford.

00:28:05.240 Wow.

00:28:05.500 All I keep thinking when I see these old guys, all I keep thinking is them walking out to

00:28:10.340 this and thinking, jeez, if I could have just waited 10 or 20 more years to play football,

00:28:15.940 I wouldn't, you know, be working, you know, at the, at the patent store.

00:28:21.020 Oh, yeah.

00:28:21.560 I mean, the guys who played football when it was really playing football and, you know,

00:28:26.900 now are just leading an ordinary life.

00:28:29.420 If you played in the 50s and 60s, you really wish you were born a little bit later.

00:28:34.280 Don't you think in the 70s too?

00:28:36.400 70s, I think the, I think the salaries really started to kick in in the 70s because while

00:28:40.940 it was hundreds of thousands instead of tens of millions, it was still commensurate with,

00:28:46.940 I think, what, what they have today.

00:28:48.640 You know, if you were to adjust for inflation, you'd find that $400,000 in 1978 was like 4

00:28:56.320 million today, probably.

00:28:57.480 I mean, they made a lot of money in the 70s, made a lot of money, but the 50s and 60s guys

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00:30:19.740 You know, is there a company that does a better job at, we love America, God bless our troops,

00:30:34.800 and fathers and sons make memories together than the NFL?

00:30:39.440 I mean, the stuff, the commercials that they run, the way they present themselves, at least

00:30:45.320 on the Super Bowl, it is, it's always.

00:30:49.220 They're pretty good at it.

00:30:50.020 Yes, they are.

00:30:50.560 They're really good at it.

00:30:51.780 Yes, they are.

00:30:52.500 Really good at it.

00:30:53.800 They didn't get to be a $10 billion a year industry by doing things poorly.

00:30:58.480 And they've really been innovators in television.

00:31:02.980 They've come a long way.

00:31:04.260 Oh, yeah.

00:31:05.060 Yeah.

00:31:05.340 What was the helmet cam thing?

00:31:06.980 Is that new?

00:31:08.260 As far as I can tell, I don't think I've seen it before.

00:31:11.420 Yeah, where you're looking through the eyes.

00:31:12.740 Where it's like the player's view or whatever it was.

00:31:15.280 How are they doing?

00:31:16.120 Are the cameras in the helmets?

00:31:17.780 I don't know.

00:31:18.780 I don't know if that's a CGI thing.

00:31:21.300 I assumed it was, but it looked like it was.

00:31:23.800 No, I don't think so.

00:31:23.840 It looked like it was a distorted, like a really bad distorted picture.

00:31:27.340 Yeah.

00:31:27.560 But they go right through, like at one point, they went right through Matt Ryan's eyes

00:31:31.740 and showed what he sees on the field.

00:31:33.400 I couldn't believe one time I saw what, from the perspective of Tom Brady and when he was

00:31:40.820 throwing a pass, and I'm like, how are you even seeing that?

00:31:46.940 Yeah, it's incredible.

00:31:47.640 I mean, it is really incredible.

00:31:50.560 Yeah.

00:31:51.180 Really incredible.

00:31:51.640 To see the field the way they do, it's so much easier when you get the bird's eye view.

00:31:55.200 Yeah, you're like, he's wide open.

00:31:56.860 Come on.

00:31:57.560 Why can't you see that?

00:31:58.800 Right.

00:31:58.980 Well, you've got seven, six foot, nine guys in front of you. 0.98

00:32:02.880 That's why.

00:32:04.000 And you have to make a snap decision and anticipate where they're going to be.

00:32:08.120 Before your head's torn off.

00:32:09.640 It is amazing.

00:32:11.180 It really is amazing.

00:32:12.380 It's pretty incredible.

00:32:13.520 Yeah.

00:32:13.880 And the speed of the game is so fast.

00:32:15.620 Oh, man.

00:32:16.200 You get just a teeny sense of that when you get that player's view.

00:32:19.920 So that was another innovation that's pretty cool.

00:32:23.560 And it seems like they just got the overhead camera that kind of slides up and down the field.

00:32:29.500 And now they've got the inside look.

00:32:31.180 That's been around for a while.

00:32:32.000 Yeah.

00:32:32.400 One of the cameras, the cameras on the pylons during the playoffs and stuff, those were great cameras.

00:32:40.040 They got some great shots.

00:32:41.360 They got some great camera shots.

00:32:43.140 Five years, those are all yesterday.

00:32:45.540 I mean, why they're not using drones now is beyond me.

00:32:49.020 Right.

00:32:50.220 I mean.

00:32:51.160 Well, they talked about drones, the company that supplied drones.

00:32:55.920 So they had them available.

00:32:57.580 No, no, no, no, no.

00:32:58.200 No, no.

00:32:58.460 That was for Lady Gaga. 1.00

00:33:00.620 Oh, maybe it was.

00:33:01.680 Yeah.

00:33:02.020 For the drone.

00:33:02.500 You know, the flag in the sky?

00:33:03.840 Yeah.

00:33:04.140 Those were all drones.

00:33:05.100 That Pepsi logo.

00:33:06.280 That was a, those were what, 2,100 or 21,000.

00:33:09.020 I can't remember the number.

00:33:09.800 It was a huge number of drones and all programmed by Intel.

00:33:14.040 So when you saw the flag behind her, those were drones with lights on them.

00:33:19.320 Was it really?

00:33:20.260 Yeah.

00:33:20.700 It looked like CGI.

00:33:22.200 That's what I thought it was.

00:33:23.380 Yeah.

00:33:23.600 I said.

00:33:24.080 I thought only we were seeing that.

00:33:25.680 No.

00:33:26.320 Wow.

00:33:26.840 That's cool.

00:33:27.260 I said to my, I said to my wife that.

00:33:29.280 Are you sure?

00:33:30.120 Positive.

00:33:31.020 The, the, the thing that was, that was the most impressive, but everybody just blew

00:33:37.620 off as CGI was the drones.

00:33:39.500 Those, that flag, the Pepsi logo, all of that was, those were drones.

00:33:44.640 I thought for sure the Pepsi logo was CGI.

00:33:47.020 No.

00:33:47.040 But it wasn't live.

00:33:48.440 It wasn't live?

00:33:49.960 That part wasn't live?

00:33:51.320 No.

00:33:51.580 No.

00:33:51.620 Because, uh, the FAA regulations wouldn't let them do it.

00:33:55.100 Oh, you've got to be kidding me.

00:33:57.920 Still pretty cool.

00:33:59.760 Yeah.

00:34:00.260 Really, really cool.

00:34:02.160 I don't think.

00:34:02.580 That's what it was saying.

00:34:03.140 The drones from Intel.

00:34:04.480 Intel did all that.

00:34:05.580 Yeah.

00:34:05.820 She, uh, Lady Gaga at the top of the stadium also wasn't live.

00:34:10.200 Was it?

00:34:11.240 It couldn't have been because you didn't see the shot.

00:34:13.820 You didn't see the drop.

00:34:14.580 Yeah.

00:34:14.840 You were like, why wouldn't they do the drop?

00:34:16.740 Right, because that would have been the coolest part of it, which jumped down, but then they

00:34:20.080 cut away from it, and then they showed her later being lowered.

00:34:23.200 Yeah.

00:34:23.520 So, I'm pretty sure the top of the, uh, stadium was not live.

00:34:28.400 Couldn't have been.

00:34:29.300 Oh, that's, that's why we didn't see the drop.

00:34:31.300 Yeah.

00:34:31.520 That's weird, because they made such a big deal out of saying they opened it for Lady,

00:34:35.820 well, they had to open it for the fireworks.

00:34:37.900 Right.

00:34:38.980 Because they said, you know, it was pretty weird to see this thing closed for the game

00:34:42.240 and then open just for the halftime.

00:34:44.360 And then they closed it back up again.

00:34:45.900 They closed it back up again, so they did open it, but it had to be for the fireworks.

00:34:49.960 Had to be.

00:34:50.580 Yeah.

00:34:52.180 I am surprised you didn't know that about the drones.

00:34:54.200 I didn't know that about the drones.

00:34:55.500 I thought that was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

00:34:57.560 Yeah.

00:34:57.660 That's amazing.

00:34:58.220 It would be a lot cooler in person, too, I think.

00:35:00.820 Yes, and live.

00:35:02.940 Yeah.

00:35:03.660 You know, so that.

00:35:04.280 No, but I mean, if, I mean, if you saw that, I mean, you know, you'll see that now.

00:35:08.160 Can you imagine?

00:35:08.860 I mean, that's, think of that.

00:35:10.980 Think about what it takes, what kind of computing it takes to make sure those things can go

00:35:18.260 in the right design, move quickly, and not crash into each other.

00:35:23.460 I mean, that's really impressive.

00:35:26.640 Really impressive.

00:35:27.800 It really is.

00:35:28.720 Again.

00:35:29.140 Is it worth doing, or do you just put up CGI, since that's what everybody thought it was

00:35:33.200 anyway?

00:35:34.540 I mean, they probably spent a fortune trying to make that happen.

00:35:38.220 Just to prove that you could do it?

00:35:39.560 Intel.

00:35:40.000 Put it up CGI.

00:35:41.040 Intel.

00:35:41.560 They do it, they do it, they're on the lunch breaks.

00:35:43.780 I mean, I thought, I thought it was worth it because I just, I mean, I just thought it

00:35:50.400 was cool technology.

00:35:51.840 Yeah, it is.

00:35:52.920 I mean, there's no question.

00:35:54.640 That's, again, that's, that's the NFL innovating.

00:36:00.300 They, they, they just do that.

00:36:02.180 Think about, think about the halftime shows when we were growing up where they were bands

00:36:09.040 that used to do those things on the ground. 0.68

00:36:11.720 You know, like the Ohio state band, isn't it the Ohio state that does all the, yeah,

00:36:15.620 it's been a while since the Ohio state marching band got out there.

00:36:19.460 But remember when we'd watch those and we did that school, now they're flying drones up

00:36:24.500 above the stadium to do that.

00:36:26.560 I was just watching, you know, some Superbowl retrospectives that they do on the NFL network

00:36:31.300 and they showed the halftime show of, of Green Bay, Kansas city.

00:36:35.200 I think it was, and it was some, I don't even think it was a high, a college band.

00:36:40.120 I think it was a high school band from Green Bay to went out and performed at halftime.

00:36:45.000 It was like, really?

00:36:47.160 The high school marching band?

00:36:48.580 They won the state marching band championship.

00:36:50.860 Now here for the Superbowl.

00:36:52.300 Come a long way.

00:36:53.380 I mean, a long way.

00:36:55.640 How much does it cost to sequester Lady Gaga for two months of rehearsal? 1.00

00:37:03.940 I don't know.

00:37:05.220 They claim that she wasn't paid, right?

00:37:07.540 Oh yeah.

00:37:07.860 They do say that.

00:37:08.720 I mean, but all that money, right?

00:37:10.400 I mean, they're putting up, they're designing the show and they're putting the, they're putting

00:37:14.120 the bills.

00:37:14.960 And you know, the, the numbers all bode well for doing the halftime shows.

00:37:21.480 Artists have done quite well with sales and.

00:37:25.440 Yeah.

00:37:25.680 For a billion people to see you for 13 minutes.

00:37:28.400 It's like, how did Jimmy Kimmel get the Oscars?

00:37:31.640 Shouldn't that be Jimmy Fallon?

00:37:33.720 Yeah, you would think so.

00:37:34.700 I mean, Jimmy Kimmel, remember when he was just the guy who was, what was the beer drinking

00:37:38.960 show that he used to do?

00:37:40.960 The Man Show.

00:37:42.200 Yeah.

00:37:42.500 Remember when he used to do The Man Show?

00:37:44.080 Yeah.

00:37:44.520 Now he's, you know, now he's somebody.

00:37:47.260 And it's kind of like, he's one of those guys that you're like, how'd that happen?

00:37:52.200 How'd that happen?

00:37:52.860 I mean, I'm glad for him, but how'd that happen?

00:37:55.900 Seriously.

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00:38:32.800 Hello, America.

00:38:33.680 Welcome to the program.

00:38:34.900 People are still trying to take Lady Gaga and make it into something that, you know, 1.00

00:38:42.420 half the country could hate.

00:38:44.540 I don't know.

00:38:45.140 I think her starting with the Pledge of Allegiance was pretty uniting, myself.

00:38:48.060 But some people are saying, totally missed the boat.

00:38:52.260 She doesn't, she doesn't, they don't see that she was making massive political, yeah. 0.99

00:38:58.700 With the song?

00:38:59.800 I guess.

00:39:00.480 The only political statement she made was with the song Born This Way.

00:39:03.780 Yeah.

00:39:04.080 So wide.

00:39:04.760 I mean, you know the song.

00:39:05.580 But that didn't, that came out six years ago.

00:39:08.000 Long ago.

00:39:08.580 2011.

00:39:09.360 It's one of her hits.

00:39:10.880 The right proves it doesn't understand subtleties in art.

00:39:14.720 Okay.

00:39:15.580 Okay.

00:39:16.000 Okay.

00:39:16.240 Whatever.

00:39:16.520 All right. 0.82

00:39:17.400 Well, I'm going to do my best to hate Lady Gaga just for you guys on Twitter today. 0.79

00:39:22.340 Again, like you said earlier, her name is Lady Gaga. 1.00

00:39:25.680 Who cares?

00:39:27.640 It's really amazing.

00:39:29.220 Who cares?

00:39:30.260 Something we should care about that I'm also getting blasted for.

00:39:35.640 And I'll, I'll, there's a couple of things that were said this weekend that I'll wear as a badge of honor.

00:39:42.800 One is coming out and saying, you know, I disagree with Donald Trump on what he said about the United States in comparison to Putin.

00:39:51.800 I'll let you decide his interview with Bill O'Reilly right now.

00:39:55.760 I will make a stand.

00:39:58.960 I will raise my voice.

00:40:01.260 I will hold your hand.

00:40:03.500 Because we are one.

00:40:04.500 Because we are one.

00:40:05.460 I will beat my drum.

00:40:07.840 I have made my choice.

00:40:10.160 We will overcome.

00:40:12.420 Because we are one.

00:40:14.300 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:40:18.100 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:40:21.900 Let's, uh, let's take this first.

00:40:28.860 Um, Richard Spencer tweeted a picture of, um, of Brady kissing his wife after the Super Bowl.

00:40:39.840 Okay.

00:40:40.540 Uh, and he tweets, for the white race, it's never over. 0.81

00:40:45.140 What?

00:40:46.320 What?

00:40:47.280 What?

00:40:48.300 What does that mean?

00:40:50.060 For the white race, it's never over. 0.93

00:40:51.720 I said, what? 0.55

00:40:53.280 I have no idea.

00:40:54.520 Um, but Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro, we tweeted and said, I'm not in favor of you being punched in the face, but you're not making it easy.

00:41:04.900 Uh, I, uh, I tweeted something, um, uh, Spencer, you know, he's the guy who leads the alt-right.

00:41:11.920 He's absolutely a neo-Nazi.

00:41:14.140 Um, but he's a, you know, he's a new kind of neo-Nazi.

00:41:17.560 He's, he's, he's the new happy, smiling, um, new and improved. 0.93

00:41:21.700 You can love me, neo-Nazi. 0.62

00:41:24.120 Uh, and he said, nobody listens to Glenn Beck anymore.

00:41:28.100 And so I saw that and I, I tweeted back.

00:41:30.800 I am, I wear it as a badge of honor that nobody, you know, listens to me.

00:41:34.720 I think that is great. 1.00

00:41:36.400 Take your neo-Nazi crap and go elsewhere. 1.00

00:41:39.200 Um, you wouldn't believe the number of people that, um, were defending him. 1.00

00:41:46.600 Uh, that, you know, he helped Trump get in.

00:41:51.440 Uh, okay.

00:41:52.680 Yeah, that was one of our problems.

00:41:53.980 Yeah.

00:41:54.140 I'm not sure that's true, but, uh, it is one of the problems.

00:41:57.900 It is one of the problems.

00:41:58.900 We, we can't defend the indefensible.

00:42:02.060 The other thing that, um, uh, I'm getting heat on, and I can't believe this, uh, I guess

00:42:08.700 if you're one of these people, then I guess we should have a conversation.

00:42:14.320 Um, what Donald Trump said to Bill O'Reilly, uh, in the interview after the Superbowl is indefensible. 0.89

00:42:23.320 They're talking about Vladimir Putin being a killer.

00:42:29.480 Listen to what he said. 0.88

00:42:31.260 I do respect him.

00:42:32.220 Do you?

00:42:32.620 Why?

00:42:33.440 Well, I respect a lot of people, but that doesn't mean I'm going to get along with him.

00:42:37.400 He's a leader of his country.

00:42:40.060 Uh, I say it's better to get along with Russia than not. 0.99

00:42:43.220 And if Russia helps us in the fight against ISIS, which is a major fight, anti-Islamic terrorism

00:42:49.020 all over the world.

00:42:50.340 Right.

00:42:50.740 Major fight.

00:42:51.340 That's a good thing.

00:42:52.160 Will I get along with him?

00:42:53.520 I have no idea.

00:42:54.500 It's very possible I won't. 1.00

00:42:55.880 Putin's a killer. 1.00

00:42:57.740 A lot of killers. 1.00

00:42:58.900 We've got a lot of killers.

00:42:59.880 Why, you think our country's so innocent?

00:43:02.040 Whoa.

00:43:02.500 Oh my gosh.

00:43:03.160 Whoa.

00:43:04.440 I mean, I-

00:43:04.900 Oh my gosh.

00:43:05.580 I guess all the-

00:43:07.560 Wow.

00:43:07.960 The new right that we don't really identify with, we'll jump all over that and be happy

00:43:12.940 about that?

00:43:13.640 I- I don't-

00:43:15.200 If that were Barack Obama saying that?

00:43:17.460 In defense of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, there are a lot of now people on the right

00:43:22.900 that will, and are, defending that.

00:43:26.180 It's-

00:43:26.560 It's indefensible.

00:43:28.200 Indefensible.

00:43:29.100 If Barack Obama would have said that, all of the people who are defending-

00:43:32.800 All hell would be breaking loose on the right today.

00:43:34.320 Absolutely.

00:43:35.560 Most outrageous thing the president could say.

00:43:37.440 He's- he's siding with Vladimir Putin, and he's saying that-

00:43:42.340 He's anti-American.

00:43:43.260 He's- he's equivocating with us.

00:43:45.640 He's saying that we're the equals?

00:43:48.120 Right.

00:43:48.600 And-

00:43:48.840 How dare you?

00:43:51.600 Does he have any idea what Vladimir Putin has done?

00:43:56.480 What Russia does to its political opponents?

00:43:59.240 There's no equivalency there.

00:44:00.960 None.

00:44:01.760 None.

00:44:03.180 None.

00:44:04.440 And again-

00:44:04.780 It's obscene.

00:44:05.620 Ronald Reagan would never say that.

00:44:07.440 Ronald Reagan, it's his birthday today.

00:44:09.840 Ask him.

00:44:11.280 If he were around.

00:44:13.020 Ask your memory what Ronald Reagan would have said about somebody who said that.

00:44:17.280 You know who would have said that?

00:44:18.340 Ted Kennedy.

00:44:19.980 Back in the 80s.

00:44:21.360 Yeah.

00:44:21.500 That's the kind of stuff Ted Kennedy would have said.

00:44:23.840 Yeah, you think we're so innocent?

00:44:25.880 And no, I don't think we're so innocent.

00:44:27.480 But I don't put us in the same category as Vladimir Putin.

00:44:30.940 And if we are in the same category as Vladimir Putin, then we're in more trouble than I think we are. 0.98

00:44:37.860 If that's what our presidents do, just kill the people that disagree with him in elevators and throw him out of windows. 0.74

00:44:45.500 And didn't this guy get elected on the premise that America is the greatest country on earth and needs to return to that position in the world? 0.98

00:44:57.000 I don't understand this.

00:44:57.600 And then he says this?

00:44:59.840 It's completely inconsistent with everything else he's ever said.

00:45:04.040 And yet, I'm sure that will make no difference.

00:45:06.700 Oh, you should have seen the tweets.

00:45:08.380 I can't believe it.

00:45:09.160 You should have seen the tweets.

00:45:09.860 I can't believe it.

00:45:11.600 But it's us.

00:45:12.560 It's us.

00:45:14.300 It's, I mean.

00:45:15.640 Wow.

00:45:17.740 Truly, truly amazing.

00:45:19.820 The guy can take on America, and it's fine.

00:45:22.280 The guy can side with Putin, and it's fine.

00:45:25.240 He can side with, what's his face, from WikiLeaks, and it's fine.

00:45:30.600 That guy was one of the most dangerous people in the world a few years ago.

00:45:34.780 Now, he's our best friend.

00:45:37.140 He's our best friend.

00:45:39.440 Wow, it doesn't make any sense.

00:45:40.720 Here, Anna.

00:45:42.280 I don't get it.

00:45:43.000 What's your problem with that statement?

00:45:44.560 The U.S. is guilty of killing innocents.

00:45:46.960 Where's your common sense?

00:45:49.120 There's a huge difference between the unintentional killings of civilians in a war zone and Putin's murders, okay?

00:45:56.600 Are you telling me what we did in Nagasaki and Hiroshima was unintentional?

00:46:01.480 Dresden, Tokyo, learn your own history.

00:46:04.620 We know it.

00:46:06.060 That sounds like somebody on the left.

00:46:08.120 Nobody, nobody on the right attacks what we did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II.

00:46:16.080 A war we didn't start, by the way.

00:46:18.780 Here's one from Christy.

00:46:21.380 America has been innocent in the last eight years.

00:46:24.400 We gave billions to Iranian terrorist dictator, major cover-up in Benghazi.

00:46:32.000 Have you seen the entire O'Reilly Factor interview?

00:46:35.980 What POTUS said in full context?

00:46:38.180 Because we know you don't like out-of-context videos.

00:46:40.720 That's in context.

00:46:42.000 There's no way else to...

00:46:44.080 How much innocent blood has America shed in abortions? 1.00

00:46:48.620 There is a lot...

00:46:50.880 There's a big difference.

00:46:54.280 Yeah.

00:46:54.560 That's what I like about Trump.

00:46:57.860 He doesn't try to tickle our ears.

00:46:59.440 He just says what we have to hear.

00:47:01.760 We would...

00:47:02.200 Really?

00:47:03.080 Jeez.

00:47:04.480 I mean, it's pretty amazing.

00:47:06.360 Trump is right, Beck.

00:47:07.620 If they call you only by your last name, you know they mean it. 0.78

00:47:14.680 They're either O'Reilly.

00:47:15.600 No, you shouldn't even read it out loud after that.

00:47:18.940 Obama did say that in many words.

00:47:20.700 Relax, Glenn.

00:47:21.420 This is how a non-polished politician talks.

00:47:24.760 It's nice not to see the polish. 1.00

00:47:26.980 Obama did say it, and we went nuts over it.

00:47:30.500 But he was a politician.

00:47:32.020 Donald Trump's not a politician, Pat.

00:47:34.300 I see.

00:47:34.620 And so he's just not polished.

00:47:36.560 I see.

00:47:36.820 Oh.

00:47:37.800 Oh.

00:47:38.520 Okay.

00:47:39.480 At least Trump didn't go on an apology tour.

00:47:44.360 I mean, what are we doing?

00:47:47.500 What are we defending?

00:47:48.580 People were defending Richard, Spencer, and Milo.

00:47:56.160 Yeah, Bonopolis? 0.62

00:47:57.400 Yeah.

00:47:58.000 Mm-hmm.

00:47:58.760 I mean, what are we turning into?

00:48:03.980 I don't know.

00:48:04.780 I mean, you can support this guy, and we've tried to since his election,

00:48:11.800 because we've wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.

00:48:15.180 But you don't support...

00:48:16.200 But you don't have to support every utterance coming out of his mouth.

00:48:20.480 Do you?

00:48:21.580 When did that begin?

00:48:23.300 When did it start that everything he says is sacrosanct,

00:48:26.840 and you can't say word one against it?

00:48:28.580 When we decided to play teams.

00:48:31.200 When we decided that it is a team sport, and that's it.

00:48:36.780 I'm sorry. 0.84

00:48:37.620 That's ridiculous. 0.98

00:48:43.960 Ridiculous. 0.99

00:48:44.580 I went to Los Angeles last week, 0.98

00:48:47.520 and I can't tell you how many people I met who would tell me,

00:48:51.560 I'm done with the Democratic Party.

00:48:54.480 And I would think, I really thought, you know, with some of them,

00:48:58.200 that it was because, you know, they're not socialist enough.

00:49:00.280 No, some of them are actually saying, because they're in bed with a socialist.

00:49:05.340 I had one guy tell me,

00:49:07.240 Wow.

00:49:07.780 Between the Marxists, Bernie Sanders, and all of his gang,

00:49:14.500 and the DNC trying to put into place Keith Ellison,

00:49:19.960 I'm done with them.

00:49:20.740 We've been begging for that.

00:49:24.980 Where are the normal Democrats?

00:49:27.380 Right.

00:49:27.740 The American Democrats.

00:49:30.120 And they are there.

00:49:31.840 They are there.

00:49:34.020 They just need to hear common sense.

00:49:37.540 We have the greatest opportunity handed to us right now.

00:49:41.240 Right now.

00:49:42.420 You don't have to change any of your principles.

00:49:44.400 You don't have to buy into any policies that you don't like.

00:49:52.020 Don't buy into any policies.

00:49:53.540 Don't change your principles or your policies.

00:49:57.820 Just stick to common sense and decency, and you'll win.

00:50:03.100 You'll win.

00:50:05.200 At least you'll win the hearts of people.

00:50:07.840 And that's the first thing.

00:50:08.820 We never win the hearts of people.

00:50:10.140 And right now, the left is looking at us going,

00:50:13.700 How are you guys for this?

00:50:15.880 See?

00:50:16.560 They are the people that we thought they were. 1.00

00:50:19.020 They're just these heartless bastards. 1.00

00:50:23.640 There's no way you can approve Vladimir Putin. 1.00

00:50:29.020 And I believe that there are enough Democrats out there

00:50:31.860 that didn't approve Vladimir Putin

00:50:34.040 when their side was saying all of the good things.

00:50:37.280 And if not, let's at least find the handful of people

00:50:42.680 that still live with common sense.

00:50:46.420 I think there is a silent majority out there.

00:50:50.380 The real Reagan revolution is yet to come.

00:50:54.060 I really think there is a silent majority out there

00:50:57.180 that is tired of the Democrats and tired of the Republicans.

00:51:00.680 They're tired of both of them.

00:51:02.240 And they just...

00:51:03.180 I gave a speech last week.

00:51:06.160 I was invited to something called...

00:51:09.560 Shoot.

00:51:11.720 Upfront. 0.99

00:51:13.040 It's the biggest venture capitalist convention in Los Angeles.

00:51:21.680 And everybody who's anybody, I guess,

00:51:24.820 who's a venture capitalist...

00:51:25.820 I don't know that world.

00:51:27.120 So everybody who's anybody is there.

00:51:29.260 I met some pretty stunning people.

00:51:31.520 It's not necessarily a friendly crowd

00:51:38.100 for someone of my opinion.

00:51:40.260 I started my speech with...

00:51:42.660 Which is weird, because you would think

00:51:43.840 venture capitalists are, I don't know, capitalists.

00:51:48.640 Right.

00:51:49.880 That's the second part of venture capitalists.

00:51:52.920 I know, I know.

00:51:55.020 So I go out and I'm speaking to these guys.

00:51:59.520 And I mean, Robert Downey Jr. spoke like two people before me.

00:52:05.840 Then this professor gets up and he talks.

00:52:08.920 And he actually made me look, you know, positively optimistic.

00:52:14.480 And then I get up and it's an interview.

00:52:18.600 And I start the interview with,

00:52:21.200 okay, so let me just ask everybody in the audience,

00:52:23.660 raise your hand if you think you hate me.

00:52:26.500 Half the audience, at least half the audience raised their hand.

00:52:29.360 I bet it was three quarters raised their hand.

00:52:32.320 I said, okay, what do you hate me for?

00:52:34.140 According to the article that I read, it was pretty overwhelming.

00:52:37.180 It was.

00:52:37.640 It was not a friendly crowd.

00:52:39.660 It was not a friendly crowd.

00:52:40.960 They weren't fans.

00:52:41.780 Yes, no.

00:52:43.440 And I said, so how many, and now why, why?

00:52:47.260 Because you've seen some clip, you've seen something on YouTube.

00:52:50.860 Do you even know who I am or what I really believe?

00:52:55.940 The response from this speech was remarkable.

00:53:03.780 And I got to the end.

00:53:05.160 So what do we have in common?

00:53:06.900 Because I didn't change a single principle, not one.

00:53:10.020 I've changed my approach and I've, and I've said, let's listen to one another.

00:53:16.900 Let's not hate one another.

00:53:18.460 Let's not worry about Lady Gaga songs.

00:53:20.580 Right.

00:53:21.380 Let's just, let's, let's see where we can come together.

00:53:24.900 Cause there's so much we can do before we actually have to be at each other's throats.

00:53:29.300 Um, I ended the speech with, okay, so this is where I am.

00:53:34.900 This is, this is who I am and what I believe right now, that it doesn't have to be this

00:53:39.700 way, that I'm tired of hating the other side.

00:53:43.860 I'm tired of, of having to worry about politicians and politics and the president.

00:53:50.120 And I don't want to live this way anymore.

00:53:53.860 And I want to find Americans who feel the same way.

00:53:57.480 Raise your hand.

00:53:58.180 If you feel the same way, almost every single hand went up.

00:54:02.080 Now I read a story today, the one Pat's referring to, that is like this glowing, uh, uh, article

00:54:13.080 about how I reached the crowd in, and it's not from a conservative, how I reached the crowd

00:54:20.340 in, uh, in a completely amazing way and, um, hadn't seen anything like it.

00:54:27.780 And they were worried about inviting me in the first place, but how the crowd completely

00:54:34.620 transformed.

00:54:36.220 Now, what does that tell you?

00:54:39.560 That tells you that we can either keep hating each other.

00:54:43.720 We can either keep bashing or there's a good portion of us, both left and right, that know

00:54:52.480 we're better than Vladimir Putin in Russia.

00:54:55.280 We don't kill our reporters.

00:54:57.780 And I'm tired, I'm tired of the arguing back and forth.

00:55:04.440 There is so much we can do together.

00:55:08.180 If we just try, as I said to the crowd, you think all conservatives are like Milo Yapanopoulos

00:55:17.580 or whatever his name is. 0.94

00:55:19.120 You think that that's who we are, racist provocateurs. 0.96

00:55:26.520 We think you're all Occupy Wall Street protesters that want to burn down the Starbucks. 0.81

00:55:32.300 But I don't know a Democrat who, or I mean, a Republican who is a racist, who just wants 0.99

00:55:39.900 to shut all white people down and make sure that gays never leave their house. 0.95

00:55:44.740 And I don't know a single Democrat that actually wants to burn down a Starbucks. 0.99

00:55:50.180 Why are we letting the two parties convince us that that's who we are?

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00:58:13.560 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:58:16.600 You know, any wannabe dictator, any of them, Barack Obama, any of them, that want me on my side,

00:58:24.280 they'd make the day after Super Bowl a holiday.

00:58:26.700 I'm just saying.

00:58:28.440 I'm just saying.

00:58:29.480 I think it should be, I mean, I don't even drink.

00:58:32.200 The poor people who were drinking last night.

00:58:34.140 We're pretty close to being there.

00:58:35.800 Yeah, we are.

00:58:36.500 To where the day after Super Bowl.

00:58:37.580 We are really close.

00:58:38.480 I would love to see our productivity on this day.

00:58:42.340 It's got to drop a lot.

00:58:43.560 Yeah, I bet you there has to be a study on the cars that are made on Super Bowl.

00:58:48.360 You know how they always say, don't buy a car that was built on a Monday?

00:58:51.500 You do not want a Super Bowl car.

00:58:52.800 Yeah, I bet you don't want a Super Bowl car.

00:58:54.840 No way.

00:58:55.900 Like, isn't this?

00:58:56.780 A post-Super Bowl car, you're doomed.

00:58:57.940 The steering wheel is where the tire should be.

00:59:02.040 It's road.

00:59:04.040 That was made in the fourth quarter of the game, so.

00:59:07.780 I just don't think you want one of those cars.

00:59:10.520 Back in just a second.

00:59:13.440 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:59:37.660 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:59:44.500 Oh my gosh, the Lady Gaga controversy is still continuing.

00:59:47.240 I can't, I mean, it's Lady frickin' Gaga, man.

00:59:50.000 I know.

00:59:50.520 They're now saying, because she sang, this land is your land, that was, that was, that

00:59:55.700 was Woody Guthrie.

00:59:56.320 We're the ones who pointed that out!

00:59:57.720 I know.

00:59:58.040 Every time I say that's a leftist Marxist song, the left says, no, it's not.

01:00:02.000 How dare you say that about that?

01:00:03.320 Now they're, now they're all tweeting, that was a leftist Marxist song.

01:00:06.840 She was speaking right to us.

01:00:08.240 Oh, stop it.

01:00:10.140 First of all, she didn't sing those lyrics. 0.97

01:00:12.260 No, she didn't get to that part.

01:00:13.220 She didn't get to that part of the song.

01:00:14.680 So if you want to say it was the tip of the hat, great, whatever.

01:00:17.760 And then you don't know the, you don't know the meaning behind the other song or, you know,

01:00:21.160 her hit.

01:00:21.700 She, that's been out for six years. 1.00

01:00:24.260 Six years.

01:00:24.640 That's old news.

01:00:25.940 We got it.

01:00:26.840 Of course we know the meaning behind it.

01:00:28.380 Oh, we got it.

01:00:29.180 We just don't care.

01:00:30.920 It's Lady Gaga. 0.99

01:00:34.420 I don't care.

01:00:35.000 I want to enjoy it.

01:00:37.280 She was great.

01:00:38.340 She was fine.

01:00:39.820 She started, even if she did the Marxist lyrics of the song, she started with the Pledge of

01:00:46.000 Allegiance there.

01:00:46.980 Something for all of us.

01:00:48.020 And did you hear what she said to the youth of this country?

01:00:50.840 Work hard and you might, you might make it big.

01:00:55.120 She didn't guarantee the outcome.

01:00:56.940 Oh, it was great.

01:00:57.860 She didn't say you're owed it.

01:00:58.720 She didn't say just, you know, graduate from school and you'll get a mansion and a Maserati. 0.98

01:01:04.160 No, Twitter is, Twitter is saying today how stupid I am for not seeing that she's all 0.96

01:01:08.060 for, because of the Woody Guthrie songs, that she's, she's all for wealth redistribution. 0.99

01:01:14.660 Really?

01:01:15.120 She didn't say any of that.

01:01:16.440 Say, well, listen to what she said last week behind stage.

01:01:19.440 I am going to have to say that the preparation for this show is the show business version of

01:01:28.020 the athlete.

01:01:29.520 We have our own set of criteria that we go through.

01:01:33.180 Myself and my dancers have been training for months on this.

01:01:36.480 For two months, we dedicated our time to creating the story of the show, creating the musical score.

01:01:43.580 Didn't just happen?

01:01:44.080 And then we, apparently not.

01:01:46.380 Created the set, what it would look like.

01:01:49.020 Then we choreographed the actual dance routine.

01:01:51.520 Listen to this.

01:01:52.120 This is so important.

01:01:52.920 And then we choreographed the pyrotechnics.

01:01:59.420 Additionally to all of that, we go through an extensive amount of training so that I can

01:02:03.800 sing and dance at the same time for the show, for 13 minutes.

01:02:07.660 What I would say is that what you're watching at the halftime show, it's not easy.

01:02:16.660 And I say that because I want young people at home that are watching when they see it.

01:02:22.860 If you have a dream to be something big, you should go for it.

01:02:28.620 But you've got to give it everything you've got.

01:02:31.480 You've got to wake up and you've got to eat it, breathe it, see it every second of the day.

01:02:37.800 Love this.

01:02:38.280 And if you do that, you might be lucky enough one day to wake up and be playing the halftime show.

01:02:45.500 Okay.

01:02:45.740 So now, does Lady Gaga and I agree on everything?

01:02:48.140 No, of course not.

01:02:49.740 Do I think Lady Gaga is a Glenn Beck fan?

01:02:51.780 No, I don't.

01:02:53.080 I'm actually a Lady Gaga fan because I appreciate, I remember my daughter's coming to me saying,

01:02:58.720 Dad, you've got to go see her show.

01:03:00.400 You will appreciate the amount of work that she does and how smart she is.

01:03:06.500 And I have.

01:03:07.300 Do I agree with her on everything?

01:03:08.920 No, but I don't have to agree with Lady Gaga and she doesn't have to agree with Glenn Beck.

01:03:15.640 What is this deal where we have to hate each other?

01:03:18.860 I'm telling you, there is a new time coming.

01:03:23.040 There's a new time coming.

01:03:24.580 And maybe it's just with me and 10 people.

01:03:26.940 I don't know.

01:03:27.840 But there's a new time coming.

01:03:30.540 It might be just you and the guy who wrote this venture capitalist article.

01:03:34.620 Might be just the two of you that are having this love affair.

01:03:37.620 But he, is this the same guy that, is this the guy that invited you to the summit?

01:03:43.200 Yes.

01:03:44.440 To the upfront summit, which is a big venture capitalist thing, the biggest one in Los Angeles.

01:03:49.420 It's by invitation only.

01:03:52.500 And nobody turns down their invitation.

01:03:55.680 He asked me to speak and just wanted to do an interview.

01:03:59.180 And he said in this article, doesn't he, that he was worried about.

01:04:03.400 Yes.

01:04:03.800 And he said, you know, if I was worried, imagine how worried Glenn should have been knowing what he knew, that he was coming into really hostile territory.

01:04:11.800 And this was not like his home field.

01:04:14.340 There was a definite disadvantage in the home field.

01:04:17.420 But he, he says here, Glenn Beck owned his past communication style.

01:04:24.060 He didn't say you've changed.

01:04:26.420 He didn't say you've completely reorganized your ideology.

01:04:29.860 Notice, notice, I mean, this is what the, this is what the right and the left of the extremes are both saying.

01:04:37.120 Glenn Beck's changed.

01:04:38.540 The left wants me to, the extreme, and the right wants to discredit me, the extreme.

01:04:44.280 He didn't say that.

01:04:45.400 So I've owned my past communication style.

01:04:49.880 Which is absolutely true.

01:04:50.900 Right.

01:04:51.380 And he wants to move beyond that.

01:04:53.080 If we can't accept somebody who reaches out like this with open arms, even if we don't agree on policy, then we have no hope for healing.

01:05:01.280 It's, it's so true. 0.98

01:05:03.080 So true.

01:05:04.100 I, for one, am ready for the embrace.

01:05:06.720 So it might be, it might be just the two of them.

01:05:08.900 I will tell you, I met a lot of people who, um, it's, it is happening.

01:05:15.400 I would have never seen this possible.

01:05:20.280 I was the one who stood in Birmingham and said, it's not going to be possible.

01:05:26.620 Uh, I'm telling you, it's happening.

01:05:30.460 Don't miss the train.

01:05:32.880 Don't miss the opportunity.

01:05:34.800 I know we are way ahead of a lot of people, but I don't think we're way ahead of, I should say, we're way ahead of other leaders.

01:05:50.100 They don't get it.

01:05:51.320 And I don't know if they ever will, but we're not ahead of a lot of people.

01:05:56.040 The average person wants this to stop.

01:05:59.960 They don't want to hate each other.

01:06:02.080 They don't.

01:06:03.420 I don't.

01:06:04.940 You want to, don't you want to stop hating Lady Gaga?

01:06:09.080 Don't you want that taken off your plate?

01:06:11.600 You got to hate Lady Gaga today. 0.98

01:06:13.380 You got to say something on Twitter, on Facebook and take a stand on Lady Gaga.

01:06:17.060 The thing is, you want to just say, I don't care.

01:06:19.760 And that's where I've always been with Lady Gaga. 0.99

01:06:21.860 I don't like her music.

01:06:23.320 Oh, I don't like her.

01:06:24.520 I don't like her politics.

01:06:26.300 So I just don't care what she says.

01:06:28.620 She doesn't, she doesn't have a lot. 0.97

01:06:29.760 She doesn't sound a lot like Boston.

01:06:31.320 So I can understand.

01:06:32.000 But it's not even, but, but this is anything like Boston.

01:06:34.420 But this isn't even, I don't care what she said.

01:06:37.200 And she said something bad.

01:06:38.320 This is no, you know, I disagree with her politics, but I like what she says about X,

01:06:45.060 Y, and Z.

01:06:46.040 So while I don't care what she says about politics, I actually like her.

01:06:50.220 Can we get to that point?

01:06:51.980 That's where we used to be, Pat.

01:06:54.080 That's a big stretch.

01:06:56.960 It's where we used to be.

01:06:58.380 It's where we used to be.

01:06:59.380 And I'm not saying for those people who are the extremes on either side, I don't think

01:07:04.660 you can.

01:07:05.080 I mean, I mean, the ones who need us to hate each other, I don't think you can get there.

01:07:12.120 The ones who say this is a war and it's always going to be a war.

01:07:16.180 No, it doesn't.

01:07:17.300 It doesn't have to be.

01:07:18.500 It doesn't have to be for most people.

01:07:21.100 It doesn't have to be.

01:07:23.260 And you're certainly not going to convince the next generation that capitalism is a good

01:07:29.660 thing when they're already on the socialist bandwagon.

01:07:32.040 And you're certainly not going to convince the next generation by saying, yeah, and Lady

01:07:36.980 Gaga, I hate her. 1.00

01:07:41.160 By the way, did you see the Audi commercial last night? 0.99

01:07:46.620 The Audi one?

01:07:47.380 Yeah.

01:07:47.780 Yes.

01:07:48.420 It was.

01:07:49.240 The one on women equal pay? 0.94

01:07:53.020 Yes.

01:07:53.180 Did you see that Audi corrected themselves?

01:07:56.920 Because I saw that commercial and I thought, because it starts with, what am I going to

01:08:00.800 have to say to my daughter?

01:08:02.640 Am I going to?

01:08:03.560 And I kept saying all during the commercial, I don't know.

01:08:05.880 Tell her the truth.

01:08:07.060 I don't know.

01:08:07.480 Tell her the truth.

01:08:08.080 You could tell her the truth.

01:08:09.280 You could tell her the truth.

01:08:10.320 You could tell her the truth.

01:08:12.020 This inequality of income is bogus.

01:08:14.740 So look up.

01:08:15.480 Even according to the Washington Post.

01:08:18.020 Look up the Audi response because people started to tweet that.

01:08:22.960 And Audi said, when you take into account time at Audi and equalize all the conditions,

01:08:34.500 women are paid the same as men. 0.94

01:08:37.440 That's Audi.

01:08:38.800 No.

01:08:39.320 I mean, they debunked themselves within 20 minutes of running the ad.

01:08:43.720 Unbelievable.

01:08:44.460 It's incredible. 1.00

01:08:45.220 So they spent $5 million on a stupid ad that doesn't even apply to real life. 0.99

01:08:49.880 So now, I watched, and I have to say, I watched this with a side eye. 1.00

01:08:56.340 And I didn't watch it all the way through because I thought I was going to hate it.

01:08:59.500 The 84 lumber thing?

01:09:02.060 Do you see that?

01:09:03.240 I didn't see it on TV.

01:09:05.020 What is it?

01:09:05.400 It's illegal aliens getting on a train, heading toward, apparently, the United States. 0.68

01:09:11.880 Then they camp out.

01:09:13.000 The coyotes are howling.

01:09:15.100 It's just a mother and her child.

01:09:17.380 And they don't make it to the United States, right?

01:09:19.100 Heading for the U.S.

01:09:19.900 And we don't see the outcome, necessarily.

01:09:22.140 Okay.

01:09:22.860 So everybody was outraged by this.

01:09:24.800 They send you to a website.

01:09:26.340 Right.

01:09:26.820 Their journey, which they have complete the journey and watched the entire journey.

01:09:30.780 Again, again, this is people, now here's 84 lumber, knowing that no one is going to watch it.

01:09:38.160 And so they're making the point and you either love them or hate them.

01:09:46.060 Did anybody actually go to the website?

01:09:48.680 No.

01:09:49.080 Because I saw the ending of it and I have zero problem with it.

01:09:53.380 I've never gone to a website for the rest of the story.

01:09:57.640 I don't care enough.

01:09:58.660 Correct.

01:09:59.140 Really?

01:09:59.540 I'm going to see the rest of the story of this commercial?

01:10:01.820 Correct.

01:10:02.120 No, thank you.

01:10:02.880 Well, then what you're going to do is you're going to be on tweeting about how much you hate 84 lumber.

01:10:08.620 Except I didn't.

01:10:09.820 Right.

01:10:10.120 I know.

01:10:10.460 I know.

01:10:11.060 So here's the thing.

01:10:12.440 They go out and they're, you know, catching a train and then they're, you know, they're obviously going to cross the border illegally.

01:10:20.180 They get there and there's a giant wall, a huge wall and the music changes.

01:10:27.640 And it's like, oh, mom looks at her daughter like we came all this way and we're not going to be able to cross illegally into America. 0.99

01:10:36.620 Darn it. 0.99

01:10:36.960 And I'm watching that part and I'm like, okay, all righty then. 1.00

01:10:41.620 Okay, we get it.

01:10:43.260 And then what happens?

01:10:44.680 The daughter hears a noise and so she goes around like the wall kind of bends and she goes around and she's like, mom, come here.

01:10:52.840 And there is, and I quote, a big, beautiful door.

01:10:59.240 In the wall.

01:11:00.240 In the wall.

01:11:00.880 And it's closed and the daughter pushes on the door and the light, like God's light, streams through the door and they walk through the door.

01:11:12.260 Now, I don't know about you.

01:11:13.840 I could spend the day hating 84 lumber or I could take President Trump at his word that it's going to have a big, beautiful door.

01:11:23.820 I don't mind people coming through a big, beautiful door.

01:11:26.780 Do you?

01:11:27.300 Not legally, no.

01:11:28.360 No.

01:11:28.920 No.

01:11:29.220 It was showing that you can't come through unless you come through the door.

01:11:35.260 I'm fine with that.

01:11:36.920 Yeah, that's good.

01:11:37.760 What's the problem?

01:11:38.520 That is not the impression you're left with when you see the commercial.

01:11:41.160 I know.

01:11:41.600 I know.

01:11:42.300 So is 84.

01:11:43.560 That's a really weird tactic.

01:11:44.960 Yes.

01:11:45.400 Is 84 lumber, are they just trying to get you to talk, get the free advertising that they have by playing into our anger and our fears and everything else?

01:11:59.300 Now, there's not a border guard on the other side of the wall when it opens up.

01:12:05.000 It's just desert still.

01:12:07.580 But what's the point of a door?

01:12:12.040 To go through it?

01:12:13.180 Right.

01:12:14.640 You build a wall.

01:12:15.220 You wouldn't build a giant wall and then put a door there if you weren't meant to go through that door.

01:12:20.220 Right.

01:12:20.480 Just do it the right way.

01:12:21.820 Yeah.

01:12:22.600 I hold my lamp beside a golden door.

01:12:25.060 We don't have a golden door.

01:12:26.600 So you got the impression that the point of the ad was, yes, we want you to come here legally.

01:12:33.900 We want you to come here.

01:12:34.920 If you do everything that you can, you won't give up the will to come here.

01:12:42.700 We want you here.

01:12:44.580 Just come through the door.

01:12:46.440 Now, that's what I got from it.

01:12:48.060 That's a good message.

01:12:49.040 That's a great message.

01:12:50.200 That is.

01:12:50.580 And yet, go to Facebook, go to Twitter, guarantee you, 84 Lumber, being bashed or being upheld as these great saviors.

01:13:03.060 Oh, look, they're for illegal immigration.

01:13:05.220 No, they're not.

01:13:06.440 No, they're not.

01:13:06.880 At least that's not the impression I got.

01:13:08.620 Of course, maybe I'm just not as smart as those on the left and I don't understand art.

01:13:13.460 Well, you don't hate Lady Gaga and you're supposed to.

01:13:16.040 Right, I know.

01:13:16.520 So clearly you don't understand.

01:13:18.720 I know.

01:13:19.000 Did you listen to her song, Born This Way?

01:13:21.460 Right.

01:13:22.300 Well, I've got a real problem with that, I'll tell you that right now.

01:13:26.920 Man, I've been fuming over that song for the last six years.

01:13:30.600 I still can't get over it.

01:13:32.780 I can barely sleep at night because of it.

01:13:34.440 I know.

01:13:35.220 I can't even sleep.

01:13:36.660 She did a song I disagree with.

01:13:38.680 Man, I got to hate her. 0.97

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01:15:00.400 888-727-BECK.

01:15:05.000 So glad you're here.

01:15:06.680 Yesterday, or last week, I had some conversations with some people who are Wall Street guys.

01:15:15.600 And then I had conversations with some billionaires.

01:15:19.580 You'll never guess which ones were optimistic on Wall Street and which ones were saying, run for the hills.

01:15:28.260 I heard two radically different opinions within two hours of each other.

01:15:36.160 And I can't find a bridge for them to meet anywhere.

01:15:40.100 Because one was the Wall Street guys were telling me that, oh my gosh, $4 trillion, dumping $4 trillion in the system, that's nothing.

01:15:49.020 That's nothing.

01:15:49.800 That won't affect us at all.

01:15:51.140 It's fine.

01:15:52.100 It's fine.

01:15:52.580 Don't worry about it.

01:15:53.380 Get in the game.

01:15:55.220 Yeah.

01:15:55.560 I'm like, what?

01:15:56.240 It's fine.

01:15:56.780 Where have we seen this happen before where it's worked out?

01:16:00.320 Oh, well, this is different.

01:16:01.680 Well, this is different.

01:16:02.560 Oh, there it goes again.

01:16:03.120 Talking about history.

01:16:04.180 Blah, blah, blah.

01:16:04.820 I mean, it was amazing.

01:16:07.000 Why is it different?

01:16:08.340 Why is it different?

01:16:09.600 Oh, because our economy, the fundamentals of our economy.

01:16:12.000 Oh, yes.

01:16:12.740 Right, right, right.

01:16:13.300 They're different.

01:16:13.800 Fundamentals.

01:16:14.200 I mean, we could literally wall America off and we would be totally fine.

01:16:21.360 It's the rest of the world that will hurt.

01:16:22.600 Not us.

01:16:23.020 We're going to be, we're good.

01:16:24.400 And the depression is a once in a lifetime event, which everybody who lived through it

01:16:29.820 is now almost dead.

01:16:31.880 So.

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01:17:03.220 Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:17:05.520 So glad that you have joined us today.

01:17:07.380 A lot to talk about.

01:17:09.140 Touch on the Super Bowl, some of the commercials, and some of the things that are happening around

01:17:14.480 politics.

01:17:15.000 But I really want to tell you a tale of two cities yesterday or last week.

01:17:21.940 I experienced two radically different points of view within an hour of each other.

01:17:28.580 And I brought in somebody I trust to tell me which way I should really be leaning.

01:17:38.060 One is catastrophe.

01:17:39.820 One is not so much.

01:17:41.660 I want to hit with the not-so-much point of view that I heard last week and see if he

01:17:47.640 can make heads or tails of it.

01:17:49.540 We go there right now.

01:17:51.040 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:18:12.680 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:18:19.160 I am just looking at the headline today.

01:18:26.120 Any news polls, any polls that are negative, this is according to Donald Trump, are fake

01:18:33.960 news.

01:18:34.520 That's the latest today.

01:18:35.940 Any negative polls are fake news.

01:18:38.980 We can either live in a fantasy world or we can actually embrace the truth.

01:18:51.660 It's amazing to me how so many people now on the left are saying we are at the point of

01:18:59.100 catastrophe, that the West is about to collapse, that the dollar is about to collapse, that everything

01:19:08.000 is on the verge of destruction. 0.99

01:19:10.720 When they said anyone who said that before under Barack Obama was a lunatic. 0.95

01:19:18.400 And now what do you have?

01:19:20.120 Now you have a group of people on the right who have suddenly lost all perspective and say

01:19:27.380 that this is going to take care of it, that Donald Trump can take care of this.

01:19:34.280 It's $17 trillion in debt.

01:19:38.500 Sorry, deficit.

01:19:43.780 The real, wait, that's debt and then the deficit is $150 trillion.

01:19:50.920 Yeah, the debt is $20 trillion.

01:19:52.080 One way or another we're screwed. 0.99

01:19:54.420 We're absolutely screwed. 0.99

01:19:57.660 I went to Los Angeles last week and I met with some investors. 0.97

01:20:04.260 I met with a group of stock market guys who were telling me that I'm nothing but hot air,

01:20:12.740 that there is no way anything that I say is coming is coming our way.

01:20:17.460 And I wanted to believe them badly.

01:20:20.580 I brought in Chris Martinson.

01:20:23.000 He does peak prosperity dot com.

01:20:25.140 He happens to be in town for the last next couple of days.

01:20:28.420 And I wanted to talk to you about what these guys said to me, Chris.

01:20:33.820 They said, yes, we've printed $4 trillion, but it doesn't matter.

01:20:39.060 That's nothing in compared to our GDP.

01:20:43.420 That's just a blip.

01:20:45.640 They said that the market is connected to fundamentals.

01:20:52.400 And I said, where?

01:20:54.240 And they said, everybody agrees that it is fundamentally sound.

01:20:58.220 The stock market, those numbers are not inflation. 0.88

01:21:00.660 You're crazy for saying that.

01:21:01.900 One of them actually said, quote, if we have bad trade barriers, it's not going to matter. 0.95

01:21:12.380 Quote, America could practically wall herself off and we would be fine. 0.99

01:21:18.940 I've never heard.

01:21:20.020 Those were like 1930 answers if I've ever heard them.

01:21:26.140 Do you have thoughts on any of those?

01:21:28.920 I think your microphone is off.

01:21:31.180 Can somebody turn his microphone on, please?

01:21:34.580 His pack.

01:21:36.940 I've not heard anything so optimistic.

01:21:41.260 And I wanted, they said it was such conviction.

01:21:43.980 I wanted to believe them.

01:21:46.560 Do we get another microphone in?

01:21:49.240 It might be.

01:21:49.860 He's not potted up in the other room.

01:21:51.740 Or is he not on?

01:21:53.240 Have you spoken?

01:21:54.680 Yes, he has.

01:21:55.760 Yeah, he's not up.

01:21:56.940 He's speaking, so it's not up.

01:21:57.880 You need the fourth.

01:21:58.680 Well, this would be really good.

01:22:00.320 This would really be good.

01:22:01.620 There we go.

01:22:02.220 Yeah.

01:22:02.740 That's it.

01:22:03.500 Are you there now?

01:22:04.980 Or not.

01:22:05.840 No.

01:22:06.820 Can we get another microphone in here, please, Tom?

01:22:12.180 I don't know.

01:22:16.400 Nope.

01:22:17.440 Somebody need to take his, take Jeffy's mic here.

01:22:19.580 Take Jeffy's mic.

01:22:20.360 That's a dream come true.

01:22:22.280 Taking his microphone.

01:22:23.600 You don't know what kind of disease it is all over.

01:22:25.380 You don't have to take it down.

01:22:26.320 Just grab his mic and clip it to your shirt there real quick, Chris.

01:22:29.680 Okay.

01:22:30.180 So I've never heard anything so crazy as we could print $4 trillion and it's not going

01:22:40.120 to matter.

01:22:40.460 I have a lot of thoughts about this.

01:22:44.940 Look, the central banks have been printing money like crazy and it's really benefited a

01:22:49.400 very small select crew of people.

01:22:52.260 And this is something that's really driving me crazy.

01:22:55.920 Because look, all the social tensions we're seeing, one of my key theories on this is that

01:23:00.640 people are right to be angry.

01:23:02.180 They're right to be concerned.

01:23:03.460 Yeah.

01:23:03.620 But they're fighting each other, not understanding where the shocks are coming from.

01:23:08.620 Right?

01:23:08.900 So they did these studies in the 40s where they would put a rat in a cage and shock the

01:23:13.200 rat and it would be miserable, but it would, it would, it would handle it.

01:23:16.880 The trouble began when you put a second rat in the cage.

01:23:19.680 Now they still administer the shocks and they look at the other rat and they say, oh, it's

01:23:22.800 you.

01:23:23.520 And they fight.

01:23:24.780 Right?

01:23:25.220 Because they don't understand where the shocks are coming from.

01:23:27.520 The shocks that people are experiencing are very real.

01:23:31.840 Get out of the, you know, the super uber wealthy Wall Street, big money managers and

01:23:35.560 talk to Main Street.

01:23:36.500 And what you find is, no, it's getting harder and harder and we can't get by in two incomes.

01:23:41.200 And yes, my health care costs are spiraling out of control.

01:23:44.700 And yes, the groceries do seem to be more expensive.

01:23:47.640 And no, I can't afford college anymore.

01:23:49.400 Those are real.

01:23:50.480 Right.

01:23:51.180 That's all very real stuff.

01:23:52.620 So for these ivory tower or, or super wealthy people to be going, I don't see any trouble.

01:23:58.020 Of course they don't.

01:23:58.940 What's amazing is I then an hour, within an hour, I was sitting and had an hour with a,

01:24:04.320 a very large billionaire.

01:24:07.340 Um, and I, first thing I said to him, he said, how's your day?

01:24:11.280 And I said, oh, it's been amazing.

01:24:13.300 I just met with these guys from wall street that said everything is good.

01:24:16.620 Now this is a guy who's generally on the left.

01:24:19.840 He's a Democrat.

01:24:20.600 And he said, is, are you kidding me?

01:24:24.760 This thing is on the verge of collapse.

01:24:26.140 And I said, is this a new thought for you because of Donald Trump?

01:24:30.340 And he said, no, that the fundamentals are all wrong.

01:24:34.200 And here's a guy who again has his own money at stake, not somebody else's who is saying,

01:24:41.200 no, it's, it's, this is, this is not going to be good.

01:24:44.100 Yeah.

01:24:44.720 Well, Glenn, I get to talk to wealth conferences a lot.

01:24:47.560 These are family offices, private equity, uh, pension funds, people who are managing large

01:24:52.560 amounts of money and they fall into two classes.

01:24:54.760 Like you just mentioned, they fall into managing somebody else's money and managing their own

01:24:59.280 money.

01:24:59.860 These people, they're pretty happy.

01:25:01.980 They think things are good, but they have to tell that tale.

01:25:04.120 That's their, that's their job.

01:25:06.400 The people who are managing their own money are very worried.

01:25:08.940 They're getting very defensive.

01:25:10.580 Uh, they're pulling out of the markets.

01:25:12.220 They are going to cash.

01:25:13.360 They're going to gold.

01:25:14.100 They're doing things like this now because they're worried about what they see.

01:25:17.680 And in fact, the people I know personally who are the most worried at this point in time

01:25:23.460 are the people who have the most time in the markets.

01:25:28.140 Hedge fund managers who've been doing this for 30 years, eating, breathing, sleeping.

01:25:32.180 These guys don't sleep 24, seven, three 65.

01:25:35.380 There's a market going on.

01:25:36.320 They've been tapped into it their whole lives and they're very worried right now.

01:25:39.540 His point was, don't play the market.

01:25:45.880 Just put your money with Apple and Google and these blue chips that are not going away.

01:25:54.100 Catastrophic failure.

01:25:55.280 Nobody can plan for.

01:25:57.440 Um, he said, but these blue chips are, are not going away.

01:26:02.220 And I love this line.

01:26:03.980 The great depression is a once in a lifetime event.

01:26:06.440 And I thought, well, yeah, and everybody, almost everybody who lived through that is

01:26:11.500 dead now.

01:26:12.600 So it's a new lifetime to experience.

01:26:16.380 What do you say to a blue chip companies?

01:26:19.660 They're not going away.

01:26:21.900 Why not just leave your money in?

01:26:23.780 You don't know the top or you never know the bottom.

01:26:27.100 Well, I have a position that it's time to be pretty defensive right now.

01:26:30.660 And here's why.

01:26:31.200 Uh, we can clearly see that a lot of the gains in the stock market have been due to central

01:26:36.500 bank printing.

01:26:38.080 And so the first question we have to ask is, look, can the central banks just keep printing?

01:26:42.780 Maybe, maybe they can.

01:26:44.040 You know, that's a valid point.

01:26:45.160 We can take it from that point, but not from a fundamental standpoint, right?

01:26:48.480 When we look at stocks today, they are the most expensive they've ever been when we

01:26:52.520 compare the price of stocks to the amount of revenues that they're actually generating

01:26:56.500 at this point in time.

01:26:57.340 The most in all of history, eclipses, 1929, 2000, 2007.

01:27:03.780 So if you like buying stocks at the top or at the most expensive they've ever been, you

01:27:07.720 have to have a good story that says, and here's why that's okay to do today.

01:27:12.080 I don't think it's sufficient to say, well, it's worked out in the past, so it's going

01:27:15.840 to be okay today.

01:27:17.120 I think people have to be very defensive.

01:27:19.260 And that's admittedly a contrarian point of view.

01:27:21.740 Not everybody goes for that.

01:27:22.760 Maybe that doesn't sound as optimistic as some would like, but the base data says this

01:27:28.960 is a really unusual time in history.

01:27:31.700 We've never been here before.

01:27:33.560 So when we're doing something brand new, I like to say, all right, what are we doing

01:27:37.060 new and where could this lead?

01:27:39.740 So if we took a chart and we said, show me the price of all the equities in the world,

01:27:44.740 and then let's compare that to the central bank balance sheets.

01:27:48.040 These two things work in perfect lockstep.

01:27:50.500 They're going up together.

01:27:51.620 So all we have to really ask is, can the central banks print forever?

01:27:56.780 Well, they can, as long as they're all willing to sing Kumbaya, hold hands, and there's no

01:28:01.840 differences.

01:28:03.360 But could we imagine a situation where Europe starts to depart from the United States, starts

01:28:08.600 to depart from Japan, starts to depart from England or the UK?

01:28:13.120 I can, particularly in this environment.

01:28:14.840 I don't know how anybody looks at this political environment, looks at Europe potentially fragmenting,

01:28:20.340 looks at the relationships that Trump is now establishing on a trade basis, if not a diplomatic

01:28:25.060 basis, with all these other countries and says, oh, this will be fine.

01:28:29.360 No worries.

01:28:29.960 So what do the other countries have to do?

01:28:31.860 I don't understand.

01:28:32.820 What do you mean they split from us?

01:28:35.020 It's the all of a sudden somebody says, I'm not going to play this game anymore.

01:28:39.620 And where do they go?

01:28:40.700 Because if they're not going to play this game, they're not getting their gold back from

01:28:44.020 us.

01:28:44.640 I mean, Germany's not getting their gold back.

01:28:45.860 So what do they do?

01:28:47.340 How do they how do you eject?

01:28:49.160 Because this is the this is the question that I get from people who know the central banks.

01:28:55.660 Who's going to be the one who spits themselves out because they'll be destroyed first?

01:29:01.440 It might be Switzerland, for all I know.

01:29:03.500 They have a different central bank.

01:29:05.040 Their central bank now has assets, meaning they've bought Apple.

01:29:08.160 They've bought Google.

01:29:09.980 They've bought all kinds of assets, as well as other debts of other countries.

01:29:13.420 And the central bank now has a balance sheet that's more than 100 percent of the GDP of

01:29:18.700 their country.

01:29:19.260 That would be like the United States central bank, instead of four and a half trillion,

01:29:23.140 having more than 18 trillion on the books.

01:29:25.860 So they're way over the tips of their skis.

01:29:28.300 And all that has to happen for literally the central bank of Switzerland to bankrupt the

01:29:32.000 entire nation is for those bets to start going against it.

01:29:35.280 Now, I could imagine them saying, you know, and sitting in their suits in their little

01:29:39.460 oval offices with the nice dessert trolley on the side.

01:29:42.200 I don't want to be responsible for bankrupting my entire nation.

01:29:45.580 And they might say, I have to depart from this.

01:29:47.640 I can't play this game anymore.

01:29:49.340 It's too much.

01:29:50.360 But who's going to let them do that?

01:29:52.320 That's again, the wall is who's going to let Switzerland do that?

01:29:56.420 Because they know if they do it, then it's going to collapse everything.

01:30:00.800 So who's going to?

01:30:03.660 They're not going to block the door for Switzerland to dump all of that.

01:30:08.520 That's a that's the million dollar question, maybe the billion trillion dollar question.

01:30:12.100 Right.

01:30:12.360 We don't know how this is going to play out.

01:30:13.640 But look what's happening now with Greece central bank unable to cope with the banking

01:30:17.820 situation in Greece, Italy.

01:30:19.400 Their banking system has non-performing loans of 20 percent of GDP.

01:30:23.600 They can't possibly pay it back.

01:30:25.940 Germany doesn't know what to do about how would they would they risk bailing out the

01:30:30.020 Italian banks under this political environment where populism is on the rise, which is mostly

01:30:34.280 this.

01:30:35.560 Hey, every time you fat cats get in trouble, you bail yourselves out.

01:30:39.580 And every time the little people get in trouble, you tell us that we have to pay for this and

01:30:43.400 tighten our belts.

01:30:44.620 So you were on, I don't know, a couple of months ago.

01:30:47.120 We talked about we talked about bonds, municipal bonds, people, you know, the the the pension

01:30:56.740 funds and how these cities are not prepared to pay these pensions back.

01:31:04.220 They're just it's not going to happen.

01:31:05.740 And you said once that catches on, once people really understand that, then the panic will

01:31:12.440 ensue.

01:31:13.220 How long before that happens?

01:31:15.100 I would submit it's already afoot, even in Dallas, where the police pension fund is known

01:31:21.540 to be insolvent and they had to block the gates because police were retiring early, taking

01:31:26.660 out their lump sum distribution, which was encoded.

01:31:29.160 That was the that was the rule they agreed to.

01:31:31.020 They said, when you retire, you're going to put all this money in.

01:31:34.020 We're going to manage it for you.

01:31:35.020 When you retire, you either take a stream of payouts or a lump sum.

01:31:38.580 They started taking a lump sum because the police who were retiring could see that this is an

01:31:42.900 insolvent fund.

01:31:43.540 I better get mine out while I can.

01:31:45.800 And they had to stop that.

01:31:47.140 They gated the fund and said, you can't do that anymore.

01:31:49.460 And that's going to spread.

01:31:50.740 So, look, you mentioned a key thing before looking at 20 trillion in debt.

01:31:55.320 It's just federal debt.

01:31:56.300 Once we add in all the corporate debt and household debt and all those unfunded liabilities,

01:32:01.280 the underfunded pension funds, the United States is carrying a load of debt that's measured

01:32:06.840 in the hundreds of trillions of dollars.

01:32:08.880 It's literally eleven hundred percent of GDP.

01:32:12.300 No country has ever dug out from a load that big.

01:32:16.780 So, you know, when I was at a conference recently, I thought John Malden said it best.

01:32:20.740 He said, people ask me if I'm worried about Social Security.

01:32:23.700 I said, no, I don't worry about it because it won't be paid back.

01:32:26.320 Nothing to worry about.

01:32:27.620 Right.

01:32:27.760 Here's the operative question in this story is who's going to eat the losses?

01:32:32.240 And right now, the people that you're talking to, they're being, I think, misled badly by media.

01:32:38.120 That's basically trying to say this is all resolvable.

01:32:40.980 It's OK.

01:32:41.760 We'll get through it.

01:32:42.620 And meanwhile, you watch the people who know the system best were removing their assets from the system really as fast as they can.

01:32:50.480 And that's what bothers me most.

01:32:52.260 So the average person who doesn't have anything, average person, maybe something in their 401k.

01:32:58.620 Get it out of your 401k, put it into some sort of hard asset.

01:33:04.880 The basic advice I would give is if you have any nonproductive debt, like you've got auto loans, student loans, maybe high credit card bills, pay those all off.

01:33:14.860 Because that's what the lessons of the 30s taught us was the debt was the stone cold killer in that story.

01:33:20.180 You know, Bank of America went from a cheesy regional bank out of San Francisco area to a national behemoth because they had money to buy broken mortgages.

01:33:28.620 And they bought a lot of farmland and other things like that.

01:33:31.360 So it was the debt on the farmland that hurt the farmers most.

01:33:34.620 And so in this story, I say, get out of debt.

01:33:36.740 Just don't have it if you can.

01:33:39.280 To have some cash reserves, absolutely have those built in.

01:33:42.440 And if you have a 401k, you can't take it out for tax reasons.

01:33:46.260 So when we come back, I want to ask you about the debt thing again on the because my grandfather used to always say the people who survived the Depression were the people who had money.

01:33:55.400 But that's not the same as just being out of debt.

01:33:59.560 Right.

01:34:00.060 And I want to talk to you about that when we come back.

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01:36:13.500 You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:36:15.480 Chris Martin is here, and we were just talking about what you should do if you happen to believe the economy is not going to do well.

01:36:25.700 And you said, in the Depression, the lesson was, be out of debt.

01:36:32.660 Is it enough to be out of debt?

01:36:35.260 It's not enough.

01:36:36.120 It's a great first step.

01:36:37.700 Debt is that stone-cold killer.

01:36:39.560 If you can't make your debt payments, you lose whatever it is the debt was associated with.

01:36:43.440 Right?

01:36:44.020 So you might lose your car, your house, whatever that is.

01:36:47.600 So being out of debt is really important.

01:36:50.180 I know that's not an option for a lot of people, but still it's something we should aspire towards, and it's something that would make a huge difference.

01:36:58.000 But being out of debt plus starting to build up cash is really important.

01:37:02.800 And then you can use that cash to buffer the storms when they come or to pick up the assets you want at a future point.

01:37:11.140 But cash is really certified.

01:37:12.440 It's going to be a great, I think, for a while.

01:37:14.700 It's going to be a good asset to hold on to.

01:37:17.000 And then I think there's another part of the story coming, which is, look, the Federal Reserve printed like crazy.

01:37:21.660 They rescued Wall Street.

01:37:23.040 They drove financial prices up for stocks and bonds.

01:37:25.960 That's what they meant to do.

01:37:26.840 So what didn't happen was they didn't get the economic patient revived again.

01:37:31.760 You know, yes, we see new jobs coming, but you dig under the jobs data, and they're all part-time jobs.

01:37:36.200 They're all low-paying jobs.

01:37:38.060 They're not the kind of jobs you say, yeah, that's the future.

01:37:41.200 You know, that's really going to drive us to new prosperity in this country.

01:37:44.980 We saw corporations get incentivized to buy their own shares back, right?

01:37:49.180 So this is happening.

01:37:52.680 The Fed has been printing money and dumping it.

01:37:56.520 It hasn't been working for the little guy.

01:37:58.600 You say there's a part two.

01:38:00.440 We'll get to that when we come back.

01:38:02.060 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:38:15.980 All right.

01:38:16.340 So Chris Martinson is here from peakprosperity.com, and we're talking a little bit about the economy and what is to come.

01:38:27.520 And there is this weird switching of musical chairs where the right is now convinced that everything is fine, and the left is now convinced that we're on the precipice.

01:38:39.060 And I'm happy to say I haven't changed my position in two presidents.

01:38:45.640 What was coming in 2006 that we felt coming is still coming.

01:38:51.440 We propped it up.

01:38:52.800 It's still coming.

01:38:53.440 It's going to be worse.

01:38:55.220 You said that there's two parts to this.

01:38:58.740 There's the downside, right?

01:39:01.700 And part two?

01:39:04.380 Well, economically, there's first the downside, and then the Federal Reserve has to print more and more and more.

01:39:09.100 They're going to keep trying the same thing over and over again, and it's not really going to work.

01:39:12.560 I haven't changed my position over a couple of presidents either because there's deeper structural things that we need to attend to, and that's part two.

01:39:20.800 That's the part of the story I'm actually excited about is can we finally have the conversation to say, who do we want to be?

01:39:28.580 You know, where do we want to go as a country and have that vision and really bring that forward?

01:39:33.060 Okay.

01:39:34.020 Before we get there, tell me, they've printed all this money, and it all went to the Wall Street fat cats.

01:39:40.840 Okay.

01:39:41.060 I was just told by Wall Streeters that this is not true, Glenn.

01:39:45.060 They're not buying back their own stock.

01:39:46.560 The fundamentals are sound, and I said, you're starting to see the beginnings of inflation.

01:39:50.820 There's no inflation on chicken.

01:39:52.940 There is inflation in the stock market.

01:39:55.060 That's inflation.

01:39:55.880 That is inflated money, funny money, had by all the fat cats.

01:40:00.200 They're dumping it in there.

01:40:01.680 That's making the stock market go up, and everybody feels good.

01:40:04.700 But the average person didn't get that money.

01:40:07.240 Banks never lent that money to go try to get a business loan.

01:40:12.420 Now you're saying that they're going to print again.

01:40:14.340 Where are they going to give the money this time?

01:40:16.240 This time it's got to go to Main Street.

01:40:18.040 They've tried giving all this money to Wall Street.

01:40:19.980 They'll keep doing that.

01:40:20.760 The Federal Reserve and the other central banks are scared to death of even the most minor market correction.

01:40:27.940 When the markets start to go down even a little bit, they come out and they use words,

01:40:31.140 and I think they might even be using other means to drive the markets back up again.

01:40:34.780 They're scared of that, but it hasn't really worked.

01:40:37.140 When you look at overall economic growth, worldwide, United States, it's not there.

01:40:42.060 We're still accumulating debt at more than twice the rate that the economy is growing.

01:40:46.300 Try doing that.

01:40:47.080 Your credit card is growing at twice as fast as your income.

01:40:49.760 It doesn't work.

01:40:50.500 It's a math problem.

01:40:51.720 So to get around that math problem, they're going to have to give money to Main Street.

01:40:54.900 And I'm talking like complete tax holiday next year, a check from the Federal Reserve, something like that.

01:41:00.400 For everybody?

01:41:01.400 Everybody.

01:41:03.980 They'll have to do something like that.

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01:41:07.140 I mean, it would be hard to be disappointed on a tax holiday.

01:41:12.420 Yeah, it would.

01:41:12.940 A complete tax holiday, that would be really hard to say no to.

01:41:17.520 And they expect us just to then dump it into the system.

01:41:22.280 And I not only would expect people to do that, I'll encourage them to do that.

01:41:25.680 As soon as that tax holiday comes, run, don't walk, and make sure you know what your buy list is going to look like

01:41:31.180 because that's when we're starting down to Act 2 of this story.

01:41:34.420 Inflation, hyperinflation.

01:41:35.220 Which is hyperinflation and all of that.

01:41:36.700 Okay.

01:41:37.260 Because when they start dumping, you know, this is one of the guys, one of the guys said,

01:41:41.300 Glenn, these corporations are going to get, you're going to get tax breaks,

01:41:44.800 and these corporations are going to repatriate their money. 1.00

01:41:48.100 And I said, that's $15 trillion repatriated to the United States.

01:41:53.600 Where's all that money going to go?

01:41:55.400 It's either going to go to the stock market or they're going to start building factories and everything else.

01:42:00.700 Then that's $15 trillion that is going to be seeping through the system.

01:42:06.600 How do you not have inflation?

01:42:09.380 And they said that wasn't a concern.

01:42:11.420 And I didn't understand the math on that one, but that's what the experts told me.

01:42:15.700 Now, look, everybody fights their last battle.

01:42:17.160 So when we say inflation, people think back to the 70s where you had a wage price spiral.

01:42:21.640 I'm thinking 30s.

01:42:23.020 Or 30s.

01:42:23.780 Right.

01:42:24.200 Right?

01:42:24.500 But we're not having that world.

01:42:25.960 So you're absolutely right in identifying, look, when you dump money into a market, you get inflation.

01:42:30.220 But we are getting inflation.

01:42:32.340 We are.

01:42:32.680 To the people who got the money.

01:42:35.440 Sure.

01:42:35.840 It's the stock market.

01:42:37.100 Right?

01:42:37.300 Look at the trophy properties in Manhattan and San Francisco and London.

01:42:41.040 Look at the price for rare gems, fine art, Gulfstream fives.

01:42:45.520 All very hard to come by.

01:42:46.840 Trophy islands.

01:42:47.760 Right?

01:42:48.380 They dump the money in to the fat cats and they've bid up everything they care about. 0.71

01:42:52.740 Right?

01:42:52.960 All of those things I just mentioned through the roof inflation.

01:42:55.780 But people aren't recognizing it because we don't measure that when we look at the inflation measures.

01:43:00.340 We measure chicken.

01:43:01.720 This next part of the story is they start pushing the money in to the people.

01:43:05.820 And that's where we get the other inflationary parts.

01:43:07.860 Now, the real question is, does the rest of the world say, yeah, I'll continue to hold U.S. dollars under that circumstance?

01:43:13.760 So, you have corporations rushing their money back.

01:43:16.440 Hey, but maybe the Bank of Iraq says we don't want dollars anymore.

01:43:19.760 We don't like what you're doing.

01:43:20.680 They start selling.

01:43:21.700 China starts selling.

01:43:23.180 That's when you start getting the external inflation that comes back into this country.

01:43:27.380 Because we've been great exporters.

01:43:29.680 Fantastic.

01:43:30.300 Of dollars.

01:43:31.160 We've done a lot of that.

01:43:32.520 And we're just kind of hoping that that won't stop.

01:43:35.220 Like, everybody will just continue to want to hold our dollars forever and ever, no matter what.

01:43:40.020 And that's an assumption that really needs to be tested.

01:43:43.760 No, preferably not in my lifetime, but it's going to be tested.

01:43:48.100 It's going to be tested.

01:43:50.320 You just said that coming to this realization has been the best thing in your life.

01:43:58.460 Really?

01:43:58.980 Because it always makes me really miserable.

01:44:01.280 I mean, I look at it and think, holy cow, I don't want to go through that.

01:44:06.720 Who cares?

01:44:07.160 And what's the use?

01:44:08.380 Yeah.

01:44:09.280 Right.

01:44:09.840 What's the use?

01:44:10.520 What am I going to do about it?

01:44:12.980 So, listen, there's a lot of things I can't control in this story.

01:44:15.640 I can't control what the Federal Reserve is going to do about money printing.

01:44:19.500 I have some ideas.

01:44:20.400 I think I know what they're going to do.

01:44:21.300 What can I do about that?

01:44:22.120 Nothing.

01:44:23.000 I can, however, control my exposure to the dollar.

01:44:26.440 So I have a lot of my assets out of the dollar.

01:44:28.920 I have a lot of gold, a lot of silver, own real estate, tangible things.

01:44:32.960 Because we've seen this story before, right?

01:44:36.360 From 1918 to 1923 in Austria, they went through the Weimar hyperinflation.

01:44:40.860 They write books about it and they talk about it as if the great wealth destruction, the middle class, was wiped out.

01:44:46.920 And they still talk about it.

01:44:48.340 Oh, it's a wealth destruction.

01:44:49.480 But not if you understand what wealth really is.

01:44:52.640 Wealth is productive farmland, factories, hotels, the productive enterprises of the nation.

01:44:58.120 Those didn't go away because they went through a hyperinflation.

01:45:01.360 But who owned them?

01:45:03.020 That changed a lot.

01:45:05.120 So, yes, in this story, it's already happening.

01:45:07.280 You know who the largest landlord in America is right now?

01:45:10.520 It's the Federal Reserve.

01:45:11.840 Government, yeah.

01:45:12.560 They own $1.75 trillion in mortgage-backed securities, which makes them the largest landlord in America.

01:45:17.780 Where did they get that $1.75 trillion to own more real estate than anybody else in this country?

01:45:23.820 Well, they printed it out of thin air.

01:45:26.460 We should be talking about that.

01:45:28.280 So this ownership is going to change a lot.

01:45:30.280 So this is my advice to everybody is watch the trends, understand this is coming, and then own real assets.

01:45:37.180 But doesn't the ownership of more property in America by the Federal Reserve,

01:45:44.280 isn't that just now, once again, the rich getting richer?

01:45:48.380 I mean, this income, what was it, somebody last night was doing income redistribution for the Super Bowl.

01:45:58.680 That's not the answer.

01:46:00.560 But there is a problem here.

01:46:02.720 And I don't know how to solve that.

01:46:05.320 You do have the uber, uber fat cats, not the guys that are living in the fancy houses in most towns,

01:46:13.700 but the uber, uber billionaires that are up at the top of this banking problem and Wall Street problem.

01:46:23.880 There's where they're sucking up all of the money. 0.99

01:46:26.520 Right.

01:46:26.640 So how do we solve that without riots in the street?

01:46:33.860 But we're getting there already because they have that sucking sound is them sucking the economic oxygen out.

01:46:39.140 Let's look at like rental prices in all the major cities have been going up at 8, 9, and 10 percent for the past five or six years.

01:46:47.480 And the reason for that is you have big, giant private equity companies.

01:46:50.260 They get to borrow at 1 percent, so their rate of mortgage is a 1 percent mortgage,

01:46:54.580 and they're competing against you or I who might want to try and buy that apartment so we're not renting it.

01:46:59.220 But our cost of capital is 4, 4.5 percent on a mortgage.

01:47:02.660 So they borrow at 1, unlimited, and buy up all these things because they can make that number work at 1 percent.

01:47:09.020 And for you, it's harder to make it work at 4 percent.

01:47:11.760 Right.

01:47:12.260 So they just have access to capital, and this is what Janet Yellen and the Central Bank of the United States,

01:47:18.320 this is what they're defending.

01:47:20.140 This is what they're saying has had no economic harm, that they haven't been driving this wealth gap that exists in America,

01:47:25.740 but it's happening structurally because we haven't been able to face it as it exists.

01:47:30.400 We can't borrow the money that they can borrow.

01:47:33.340 Right.

01:47:34.080 It's a totally unfair playing field.

01:47:35.700 It's shaped like this.

01:47:36.800 So how do we fix that?

01:47:38.340 How does that fix it when they hold all the cards?

01:47:43.520 Well, this is a very big topic, but in my mind, we have to first confront the problem,

01:47:49.140 understand it for what it is, and I think this is almost a cultural piece.

01:47:54.480 I think it's time to actually not say, oh, it's this big private equity company,

01:47:58.300 but let's call out the CEO of that company, and let's make them understand that we're watching them.

01:48:04.560 I mean, maybe public shame used to be a feature, right?

01:48:08.460 CEOs used to be ashamed to take more money than their workers back in the 50s and 60s.

01:48:13.680 It was a thing that you wouldn't do that.

01:48:15.780 Today, we've become shameless in this regard.

01:48:17.660 I don't necessarily have, I mean, I don't have a problem.

01:48:22.140 You know, if you're the wealth creator, like I'm the wealth creator here.

01:48:27.640 Everybody is working for me.

01:48:29.640 We all know key man insurance.

01:48:32.460 I die.

01:48:33.240 The company dies.

01:48:34.160 So, why should I not make more than the people who work?

01:48:40.380 Well, let's separate people who actually are generating, creating value and people who are skimming.

01:48:45.300 All right?

01:48:45.780 What I'm talking about, these people are just running skimming operations.

01:48:49.240 They don't create anything.

01:48:51.360 They're just running a skimming operation.

01:48:52.820 I might pick on, for instance, in the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare.

01:48:57.760 They went after everything.

01:48:58.900 I'm getting killed by this, by the way.

01:49:00.440 A 61.5% increase this year, 25% last year, right?

01:49:05.640 And that's also dialing my way down through the bronze plans and, you know, all kinds of, like, deductible increases, all that.

01:49:11.900 When I, where my anger, if not rage, comes up is when I open it up and discover that the CEO of Humana Healthcare took home $66 million last year.

01:49:21.520 $66 million.

01:49:22.940 And that's just him.

01:49:23.660 You look at the rest of the C-suite, they might have skimmed a billion dollars out of this.

01:49:27.040 They weren't asked to contribute anything to this story.

01:49:30.440 Right?

01:49:31.500 You would have to have over 4,500 families at my level paying into that system just to pay that one person's salary.

01:49:38.300 What did he actually do?

01:49:40.360 He skimmed.

01:49:42.220 This is, so there's a level beyond which, which is, there's a tougher story we have to get to here, but that's just gone off the rails.

01:49:48.440 You ever see that old game show where they put somebody in a plexiglass thing and dollars around and they're trying to grab them as fast as they can?

01:49:54.520 I feel like that's the part of the story we're in.

01:49:56.860 That's what it feels like.

01:49:57.640 Everybody's just grabbing money as fast as they can because we all know that you can't print your way to prosperity.

01:50:03.500 The money machine turns off at some point, so you might as well grab as much as you can while the fans are still blowing and the money's swirling.

01:50:09.500 Isn't that, I mean, that's market value though, right?

01:50:13.060 I mean, if his company is willing to pay him $66 million, then pay him $66 million.

01:50:20.480 Because who's else going to do it?

01:50:21.740 Because they can make, they can make $65 million someplace else.

01:50:25.660 So how do you solve that?

01:50:26.640 Isn't that the free market system?

01:50:28.320 I'm not sure how you get around that.

01:50:30.640 How do you, you can't make it equitable for everybody.

01:50:34.220 It's never going to be.

01:50:35.380 That's not capitalism, that's communism.

01:50:37.700 We can make it equitable if it's bad for everybody, but we can't make it equitably good for everybody.

01:50:43.860 So the CEO of a major corporation is going to make a heck of a lot more than a worker with less education, with less skill.

01:50:57.380 And I'm concerned because there are some, you know, there are things, you know, some of these CEOs, you know, the banks really bother me.

01:51:04.280 Because they know exactly what they're doing.

01:51:06.600 They know exactly what's happening.

01:51:08.040 They know the game that's being played.

01:51:09.420 They know that it's not going to work.

01:51:11.000 And they're not warning anybody.

01:51:13.000 They're out there while they're taking tons of cash.

01:51:16.880 However, I hate to say, you know, CEOs, because how do we know?

01:51:21.720 I mean, that just gets into the mob mentality of get them.

01:51:25.720 Well, in this particular case, I'm talking about a highly regulated industry.

01:51:28.920 So in my state, and I live in Massachusetts.

01:51:30.900 There's your problem right there.

01:51:32.040 I know.

01:51:32.240 It's highly regulated.

01:51:34.060 Well, it's regulated to the point that in my state, there's no competition allowed, right?

01:51:38.740 I can't buy certain levels of insurance because they've been lobbied out of my state.

01:51:42.880 Correct.

01:51:43.540 But that's not the CEO's fault.

01:51:45.020 That's the government's fault.

01:51:46.120 Well, no, the CEOs create this.

01:51:48.060 Yeah.

01:51:48.660 I will tell you, I'm actually, I'm with both of you here.

01:51:53.180 It is the government, Pat, but it is the CEO's.

01:51:56.600 What did Bill Gates just say his biggest problem was?

01:52:00.440 His biggest problem was that he didn't feel at the time he created Microsoft that they needed the government.

01:52:07.160 His deal was, I'm going to create what I create.

01:52:09.060 You do your job.

01:52:09.880 Leave me alone.

01:52:10.440 Where Apple went and they partnered with the government.

01:52:14.460 He said, Microsoft is paying the price right now because they didn't feel they needed somebody to go in.

01:52:21.660 So you're kind of like the free market.

01:52:24.980 If you have a fiduciary responsibility, I'm the CEO.

01:52:30.640 I'm going to go.

01:52:31.500 If my business competitor is going the other direction and they're going to the government, my fiduciary responsibility, isn't it to go to the government as well?

01:52:41.240 I mean, we just, this whole system.

01:52:42.880 Yeah, but again, that's government intervention and it shouldn't be there.

01:52:46.480 It shouldn't be there.

01:52:47.140 You're right, but how many people have the principles to be able to hold fast, especially when you have shareholders beating you down the door?

01:52:54.720 I mean, I don't have an answer.

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The Glenn Beck Program - February 06, 2017

The Press Got Us Again!

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