The Glenn Beck Program - The Truth About The ＂American Taliban＂

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00:02:02.360 A lot to talk about today.

00:02:04.740 The slowed-down Nancy Pelosi video.

00:02:08.060 Who did it?

00:02:09.340 Who did it?

00:02:10.440 I want a full Mueller-style investigation.

00:02:12.720 Thank you.

00:02:13.080 In fact, keep Mueller on staff.

00:02:14.580 I want to launch an investigation into the slowed-down video.

00:02:17.700 If we could just keep him on retainer for like, I don't know, 15, 20 years.

00:02:21.640 Give him like 20 or 30 investigations at a time.

00:02:23.680 No more than that.

00:02:24.480 That would be excessive.

00:02:26.760 So we will talk about that.

00:02:29.440 Also, there's some people kind of defending the release of John Walker Lind, right?

00:02:34.760 The New York Times is kind of going to bat for John Walker Lind, which is, I guess, if

00:02:38.740 you're going to come up with a source that's going to go to bat for the American Taliban,

00:02:43.080 you might select the New York Times as source number one.

00:02:46.820 But yeah, they're going into that, and we can get into that here in just a moment as well.

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00:04:11.620 Finally happened in the U.K.

00:04:13.740 Theresa May resigned.

00:04:15.120 Oh, no.

00:04:15.960 And frankly, I don't understand their parliamentary...

00:04:18.240 I'm so glad you said that.

00:04:20.240 I don't get how it works.

00:04:21.740 I don't get it.

00:04:22.640 How do you not serve out your terms?

00:04:24.320 And 95% of the prime ministers in Britain don't serve out their term.

00:04:30.020 It's like, okay, we pissed us off this week, and it's windy.

00:04:33.160 He's got to go.

00:04:34.460 How does that happen?

00:04:35.280 Right, because Brexit was also responsible for Cameron leaving, wasn't it?

00:04:38.240 Yes.

00:04:38.880 Yeah.

00:04:39.500 When the vote happened, Cameron said, okay, I'm resigning.

00:04:43.100 Like, wait, what?

00:04:44.420 I can't...

00:04:45.080 What?

00:04:45.420 And then Theresa has screwed it up so much that she has to go now.

00:04:48.240 And I don't even know.

00:04:49.000 I don't know that she had a win.

00:04:50.640 I don't know that there was any way to win this, because, you know, she has to get something

00:04:54.660 passed.

00:04:55.520 So, as much as it, to me, it seems like, look, the people voted on it.

00:05:00.620 You have a system where people can vote on these things.

00:05:02.920 Yeah.

00:05:03.160 They voted for Brexit.

00:05:04.400 Do it.

00:05:05.460 You know, it's a lot more complicated than that.

00:05:07.240 And there's not really a simple, simple solution there.

00:05:10.900 We've talked to Daniel Hannon about this, who's really the only person to go to when

00:05:15.400 it comes to Brexit.

00:05:16.320 He's the only person that understands it, I think.

00:05:18.460 Yeah.

00:05:18.660 And he was really the guy who...

00:05:20.440 He was the guy who basically pushed for this.

00:05:22.520 A lot of other people have had press on this over the years.

00:05:25.140 But Daniel Hannon was the guy who really talked about this.

00:05:27.920 I mean, the first time he was on with us, probably in 2010 or 2011, he talked about

00:05:32.480 how it was his priority.

00:05:34.860 He worked in the...

00:05:35.680 He was in the European Union.

00:05:36.780 He was in the government.

00:05:37.980 And he wanted to dissolve it.

00:05:39.520 He wanted to get Britain out of it.

00:05:41.720 Right.

00:05:41.780 He actually succeeded.

00:05:43.140 And then here we are, years and years later, they're still fighting about it.

00:05:45.960 Yeah.

00:05:46.360 But it's one of those things where I just don't understand.

00:05:49.140 Like, it seems like every time something that's a priority to a prime minister doesn't

00:05:53.560 go their way, they're like, all right, I'm out.

00:05:55.360 Yeah.

00:05:56.320 I mean, I tried.

00:05:57.520 I tried for like a year, and you guys don't want to do the thing I want you to do.

00:06:01.440 So, see ya.

00:06:02.340 These coalition governments are really confusing.

00:06:04.400 I guess if you don't have enough members of your party voted into parliament, you can't

00:06:10.900 govern.

00:06:11.620 And you realize that, and then you strike some deal with some other party, and they take

00:06:16.100 over.

00:06:16.360 Then like the 14 parties all get together.

00:06:19.160 That's another thing.

00:06:19.880 I don't understand the parties, the Tory party.

00:06:21.820 I knew what the Tories were in the Revolutionary War.

00:06:24.540 Right.

00:06:24.860 I don't know what they are today.

00:06:26.480 Yeah.

00:06:26.600 She's the leader of the Tory party now.

00:06:28.100 Right.

00:06:28.440 Right.

00:06:28.780 And so, and her resignation is effective June 7th, but she's not really leaving until

00:06:35.160 maybe they find some replacement in July.

00:06:38.120 What?

00:06:38.440 I just can't understand.

00:06:39.820 I can't either.

00:06:40.660 And are you going to vote on somebody, or you just put them in there?

00:06:42.700 I think they vote, right?

00:06:43.500 I think they vote.

00:06:43.920 I think they have another election, which they can do elections at any time.

00:06:47.880 That must be, that must cost them a fortune.

00:06:50.460 Yeah.

00:06:50.660 Cause they're just like, I love when there was like, you always get this story, like

00:06:53.520 Theresa May decided she was going to call for a new election.

00:06:56.540 You're like, wait, what?

00:06:57.760 Like, wait, they don't schedule these things in advance?

00:07:00.340 It's so weird.

00:07:01.380 They're like, you know what?

00:07:01.960 Two weeks, we're doing it.

00:07:02.880 Like, it seems like what happens is whenever the prime minister thinks they've consolidated

00:07:07.140 power or are doing well in the polls, they just call for another election to try to get

00:07:10.300 more power, which is a bizarre way of running things.

00:07:14.600 That's why we left that stupid country in the first place.

00:07:17.360 And we're the minority still.

00:07:18.540 I mean, the parliamentary democracy has spread around the world.

00:07:22.400 And a lot of times we talk about that essentially being how democracy is spread.

00:07:26.340 I mean, like a lot of countries have this type of system.

00:07:28.720 It's less like our type of system, which has proven to be vastly superior.

00:07:33.980 Let's be honest about it.

00:07:35.280 Let's do.

00:07:36.320 I mean, it's just better.

00:07:38.220 I mean, again, there are a lot of problems here.

00:07:40.620 I'm not going to sit here and say that there's no problems in this country.

00:07:43.240 But the idea that like, can you imagine if like Donald Trump had a good day and then

00:07:47.780 he would just call for a new election and get like 80 senators.

00:07:50.820 And then he's like, you know what?

00:07:52.540 I want to pass the wall.

00:07:53.500 And he couldn't get enough of his bill.

00:07:54.520 He's like, all right, I'm stepping down.

00:07:56.240 Wait, wait, we elected you for.

00:07:58.180 We it's like we signed you to a four year contract.

00:08:01.520 Yes.

00:08:01.840 You know, and it was like it would be as if it's like everyone in in Great Britain and

00:08:06.440 all these other countries are like Le'Veon Bell.

00:08:08.140 Like they get signed.

00:08:08.940 They get offered these deals.

00:08:09.980 And it's like, no, I'm not showing up this year.

00:08:11.880 Wait, no, we signed you.

00:08:13.820 I'm going to sit out the parliament this year.

00:08:15.280 I'm sitting it out.

00:08:16.200 Yeah.

00:08:17.860 Wait, you can really?

00:08:19.520 It really is weird.

00:08:20.960 Very strange.

00:08:21.600 And to me, so I don't know what the Tories are all about.

00:08:24.900 The Labor Party seems to be like the liberals here.

00:08:27.680 Yes.

00:08:28.240 And the Tories are very close to socialists.

00:08:30.160 Then there's a conservative party that I don't think they're like Americans conservatives.

00:08:34.840 None of them are.

00:08:35.780 And then there's a Brexit party now.

00:08:37.660 And the Brexit party has vastly increased their numbers over the last couple of years.

00:08:43.820 And they just did a poll where if the election would have been held when they did the poll,

00:08:48.800 apparently the Brexit party was maybe in the lead, I think.

00:08:52.620 Wow.

00:08:52.720 It had more support than the Labor and Tories combined.

00:08:56.360 And that may be who takes over in July.

00:08:58.040 Maybe.

00:08:58.680 Can you imagine the frustration, though?

00:09:00.620 But you go through this whole thing where they put this up to a big vote.

00:09:04.700 You've got a situation where your entire nation steps up and does something that was thought

00:09:11.240 to be unthinkable by the entire world.

00:09:14.440 We are pulling out of the European Union.

00:09:16.220 We didn't like this experiment.

00:09:17.460 We're out.

00:09:17.820 And I thought it was a great decision.

00:09:20.000 Oh, I do, too.

00:09:20.580 I'm fully behind, you know, the Daniel Hannon view.

00:09:23.500 But the elites, you know, a lot of the elites didn't think it was.

00:09:25.740 No.

00:09:25.900 They were not fully behind.

00:09:26.880 That's what Theresa May tried to do is, you know, pull out what we're going to leave,

00:09:30.160 but we're not really going to leave.

00:09:31.620 Well, and too, I mean, May gets, you know, just destroyed by everybody here because she

00:09:36.040 has no allies left really anymore.

00:09:37.660 But, I mean, the bottom line is she had to get something passed.

00:09:40.580 So she can't just say, well, pure Brexit, you know, Daniel Hannon, you design it.

00:09:45.200 Because then none of the other people are going to vote for it.

00:09:47.020 So, like, she has to actually come up with something that everyone votes on, which is,

00:09:50.800 you know, near impossible.

00:09:52.460 So the closer we get to this sort of deadline, they have this hard pullout thing, which I

00:09:57.120 think is, you know, probably where this winds up, honestly, at this point.

00:10:00.680 And I don't think it's going to be nearly as disastrous as everyone else is saying.

00:10:04.500 But, I mean, think about this.

00:10:05.800 When we had Obamacare going on in this country, and Obamacare is, they're going back and forth

00:10:11.780 about it, trying to figure out what, you know, whether this thing is going to pass.

00:10:14.680 Because Barack Obama's got 60 senators, he can pass anything he wants, you know, with

00:10:19.600 the just filibuster proof majority here.

00:10:23.000 He can pass anything he wants.

00:10:24.780 So the Senate passes this bill.

00:10:27.500 And as they're negotiating it, a special election happens in, of all places, Massachusetts in the

00:10:34.100 middle of this.

00:10:34.580 And Scott Brown, a Republican, somehow wins in Massachusetts almost entirely to stop Obamacare.

00:10:44.280 And then the House just abandons the whole negotiation and basically takes a cork of the

00:10:52.860 rules and passes the thing that was already passed that they never planned on actually

00:10:57.900 making into Obamacare.

00:10:59.040 They just passed the old thing because they couldn't vote on it again because Scott Brown

00:11:04.100 would have made it so they could not have passed it.

00:11:06.740 And remember how we felt?

00:11:08.840 Remember how half the country felt?

00:11:10.040 It was the whole Nancy Pelosi, we're going to poll vault over this, we're going to get

00:11:12.920 it done, you'll see what's in it afterwards, don't worry about it.

00:11:15.460 That whole thing.

00:11:16.640 That pissed off the entire country.

00:11:18.580 It started, you know, the Tea Party was largely, you know, right in tune with that.

00:11:22.640 We're talking one of the largest wave elections in the last century.

00:11:25.140 I mean, it was a massive change in our country because of that.

00:11:28.880 That's nothing compared to what's happened with Brexit.

00:11:31.160 The people actually all came out and voted for it and they're like, yeah, we're not going

00:11:34.300 to do it.

00:11:36.500 So thanks for your input.

00:11:39.020 Yeah.

00:11:39.380 But no.

00:11:40.360 Yeah.

00:11:40.660 And now it's been, you know, dragging on for so long.

00:11:43.360 And it's not like that was a non-binding referendum.

00:11:46.060 It was a big deal.

00:11:47.300 It was a big deal.

00:11:48.620 And they were like, you want to get out of Brexit, we'll get out of Brexit.

00:11:51.580 And then nope, we don't want to.

00:11:53.800 The elites, we don't want to.

00:11:55.680 And the government called for it thinking it would be defeated.

00:11:59.120 And we could finally be done with this whole leaving the EU thing.

00:12:01.840 Because we'll just destroy it.

00:12:02.880 Right.

00:12:03.100 Stay will win.

00:12:04.180 And leave will lose.

00:12:05.780 And then, you know, or remain will win.

00:12:08.240 And leave will lose.

00:12:09.300 And it's one of those things where now they're like, well, yeah, we didn't really like what

00:12:12.660 you guys said, though.

00:12:13.760 Well, I know we asked your opinion.

00:12:15.500 It's like when you go to.

00:12:16.360 We didn't really want it.

00:12:16.960 Right.

00:12:17.540 It's like when you go to your wife and she says, oh, what do you want?

00:12:20.860 What do you want to?

00:12:22.200 Where do you want to go to dinner?

00:12:23.040 And she says, oh, I don't care.

00:12:24.140 And then you're like, all right, Taco Bell.

00:12:25.360 No, not Taco Bell.

00:12:26.560 Well, why didn't you say something then?

00:12:28.560 We're now in the drive-thru line.

00:12:31.020 That's basically what they do.

00:12:32.400 Yeah.

00:12:32.800 And that is a weird way to run a country.

00:12:35.080 So confusing.

00:12:35.900 It might just be time to send American troops.

00:12:38.680 And force issue.

00:12:39.760 Make them adopt our system.

00:12:42.200 You know?

00:12:42.580 It's just time.

00:12:43.720 It is weird that there's not more of a rush to adopt the American system.

00:12:50.540 I know.

00:12:51.340 You know?

00:12:51.580 Like, a lot of people will go towards democracy, towards capitalism.

00:12:55.380 But because I think America is the big bad boy on the block and they're vilified over

00:12:59.140 everything, there's very few countries who are just like, you know what?

00:13:02.620 We were kind of watching this whole America thing develop the last couple hundred years.

00:13:05.720 And it's pretty nice.

00:13:07.280 Let's do that.

00:13:08.000 It's got some issues.

00:13:08.940 But, like, I think we should get in that boat.

00:13:10.500 We have Supreme Court justices saying, you know, an African nation is better than ours.

00:13:14.880 Yeah.

00:13:15.100 So, I mean, we're not going to.

00:13:17.060 Nobody wants to be us.

00:13:18.120 And I guess because.

00:13:19.220 My guess is because it does not allow for enough government control.

00:13:23.360 If you're starting a new country and you've got the power to design it, well, you're going

00:13:26.940 to put yourself into a position of power.

00:13:28.980 That's why the founders were so freaking great.

00:13:31.160 It's so extraordinary.

00:13:32.280 Yeah.

00:13:32.500 They were just like, you know what?

00:13:33.520 We have the opportunity to do whatever we want.

00:13:35.260 And we could all be kings.

00:13:36.180 We could all rule this place forever.

00:13:38.140 Instead, let's give the power to the people.

00:13:40.320 It's something that almost no one to this day really tries to do.

00:13:44.340 To the extent where when Washington was asked to be a king, he said, don't ever bring that

00:13:48.600 up again.

00:13:49.040 Yeah.

00:13:49.420 Ever.

00:13:50.000 That's what we left.

00:13:51.180 And that's what we're trying to avoid.

00:13:52.880 And I don't want to hear that kind of talk because it might spread.

00:13:56.120 Yeah.

00:13:56.280 So that takes a pretty amazing person to shut that down.

00:14:00.460 And in the new, you know, these countries, as they design their systems, they don't necessarily

00:14:04.600 get, you know, they don't, they make themselves kings anymore.

00:14:07.180 They just, well, we're going to take control of healthcare, banking, and energy.

00:14:14.300 Because we know better.

00:14:14.980 Because we know better.

00:14:15.840 So that's like, you know, 75% of the economy will just run.

00:14:18.480 And then we'll put heavy regulations on everything else.

00:14:20.520 And we'll tell you exactly what you can and can't do.

00:14:22.620 But you guys get to vote for the next person to tell you what you can and cannot do.

00:14:26.000 That's the democracy of today.

00:14:27.720 It's bizarre.

00:14:28.180 It is.

00:14:29.120 And again, you do have that moment as much as we complain about it.

00:14:33.960 Remembering when you watch, you know, the whole situation going on in Britain, which

00:14:36.980 is one of the best countries.

00:14:38.160 Like, they're like a good example of how things are run.

00:14:40.880 You see how things are going there and you step back and you say, okay, maybe we do have

00:14:44.860 it pretty sweet here.

00:14:45.900 I mean, maybe it's not so bad.

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00:16:09.780 Okay, so yesterday the American Taliban, John Walker Lind, was released early.

00:16:15.740 After 17 of his 20-year sentence, they just let him go, I guess, because of good behavior.

00:16:21.560 And people are, including us, we're a little perplexed by that.

00:16:25.880 But the New York Times apparently has a little different spin on it.

00:16:29.180 Yeah, which you would expect, of course.

00:16:31.100 There's the Times has an op-ed talking about the release of John Walker Lind.

00:16:36.940 And they're basically making, they're his defense attorneys here.

00:16:40.980 They say, hard to imagine now, after everything that's happened in the brutal decades since,

00:16:44.580 but there was a time when we were fairly cozy with the Taliban.

00:16:47.200 Now, of course, we know this.

00:16:49.180 Famously, there's pictures of Donald Rumsfeld.

00:16:52.540 And these were trotted out constantly during the administration.

00:16:54.880 For much of the 1990s, when an earnest, bookish California teenager named John Walker Lind

00:17:00.800 first felt himself drawn to the study of Islam.

00:17:05.300 That's a nice spin right there.

00:17:06.940 You'll love this.

00:17:08.000 That's a friendly telling.

00:17:09.280 The United States lent its support to plans by an American-led group of businesses

00:17:12.660 to develop an oil pipeline that would run through Afghanistan.

00:17:15.320 This would require negotiations with the Taliban, the world's most oppressive Muslim regime.

00:17:19.780 Government officials who had misgivings about human rights abuses in Afghanistan

00:17:22.740 largely kept their reservations to themselves.

00:17:25.400 Not long before, in the Reagan era, the term Mujahideen had a heroic ring to it.

00:17:30.680 These were fierce and noble Afghan warriors, our president assured us,

00:17:34.340 fighting with limited resources to liberate their country from Soviet oppression.

00:17:39.120 Now, of course, you get the tone of this, which is, Lind is just a teenager, no big deal.

00:17:45.320 And it was really these Republicans that we were friendly,

00:17:48.360 the reason why we were friendly with these oppressive regimes.

00:17:50.700 Um, the official stance, uh, of course, changed after September 11th.

00:17:55.580 And this is one thing I didn't know, or didn't remember, at least, about this case.

00:17:59.380 Um, all these events of September 11th were all but unimaginable in mid-2000,

00:18:04.660 when Lind, age 19, decided to travel to the Middle East to study the Quran.

00:18:09.080 So, they are making the case, and not explicitly saying, but insinuating, at least,

00:18:15.880 that Lind joined the Taliban before 9-11 by a good year or so.

00:18:21.580 So, and at this point, while certainly Osama bin Laden was known, uh, in, you know, circles of terrorism,

00:18:28.920 um, he, you know, it wasn't like the main headline of the United States that the Taliban were,

00:18:34.980 you know, was, was, was a, was a bad group of people.

00:18:36.900 And someone who's a teenager could easily think that it's not necessarily the worst thing in the world.

00:18:41.380 Now, of course, you have September 11th happens, and we should talk about maybe, uh,

00:18:45.640 I don't know if Jason's in today.

00:18:46.920 I think he is, because he was doing, uh, he was doing, uh, your show, right?

00:18:49.980 Yes.

00:18:50.740 That great unleashed.

00:18:51.660 Jason Buttrell, who was actually there when, he was there when John Walker Lind was at,

00:18:56.960 when they captured him.

00:18:58.100 He was, he was there, uh, like, when he was waterboarded, he was there.

00:19:02.880 Like, he was, he's a, you know, former military guy, and was.

00:19:06.400 Was he the one waterboarding him?

00:19:08.040 I asked him that.

00:19:08.760 Because that would be cool.

00:19:08.980 And I said, you know, I was like, if it's true, he won't tell me.

00:19:12.800 But he did say no.

00:19:14.320 But he said he was, like, I don't know if he was in the room, but he was, like, right there.

00:19:18.440 He saw the guy, he, he had, he is, we got to talk to him about this.

00:19:21.760 Oh, wouldn't you like to work with the guy who, uh, waterboarded?

00:19:24.280 Oh, totally.

00:19:24.860 John Walker Lind?

00:19:25.580 I think that'd be interesting.

00:19:27.840 I'd like to work with someone who waterboarded Jeffy.

00:19:29.600 Yes.

00:19:30.020 Uh, that would, I would really respect.

00:19:31.400 That would not be fun.

00:19:32.440 Now, we all work with people who waterboarded Stubergear.

00:19:35.720 Thank you.

00:19:36.320 Uh.

00:19:36.500 Well, and sure boarded.

00:19:37.460 And sure boarded.

00:19:38.340 Yes, that's right.

00:19:38.980 It wasn't water.

00:19:39.680 I was waterboarded with a chocolatey, um, shake.

00:19:42.640 Too chocolate.

00:19:42.940 Which was far too chocolatey.

00:19:44.100 Ah, for that treatment.

00:19:47.320 That's one to go back on YouTube and find today.

00:19:49.260 Yeah.

00:19:49.640 Um, the consequences of the decision, of course, uh, John Walker Lind are a matter of public record.

00:19:55.120 Uh, two months after the Twin Towers had fallen, six weeks after the United States dropped its first bomb on Afghanistan,

00:20:00.280 a few hundred Taliban soldiers held as prisoners of war in, uh, in, uh, fortress, stage an uprising.

00:20:06.160 Over the next eight days, all but 86 of those prisoners would die, as well as a great number of their jailers and a man named John Spann,

00:20:13.600 uh, Michael Spann, Johnny Michael Spann was his actual name, uh, who was serving as CIA advisor.

00:20:17.880 He's the first person who died in, in that war.

00:20:20.140 Um, and of course, they found that one of the people was an American, John Walker Lind.

00:20:24.800 Now, this is their take on the whole prison riot thing, which is one of the big issues with Lind.

00:20:29.940 How is this guy getting out of prison?

00:20:31.100 And he was responsible for the death of a, of a CIA agent and the first death in the Afghanistan war.

00:20:35.900 They say there was no evidence that this young American had taken an active part in the violence.

00:20:41.040 In fact, it was later determined that he had been hiding in the basement for the bulk of the conflict,

00:20:46.480 which I don't know.

00:20:47.580 Really?

00:20:47.900 I've never heard that.

00:20:48.680 Makes me laugh a little bit.

00:20:49.680 Yeah.

00:20:49.960 I've never heard that.

00:20:51.020 The Taliban and sheltered Osama bin Laden after all, and therefore, uh, every better of his regime,

00:20:55.280 no matter how inconsequential was a terrorist at well, as well.

00:20:58.140 They go out and say that basically Lind was a, a teenager, didn't even know the Taliban

00:21:03.740 was bad when he joined, had no role in this at all, gets 20 years unfairly, is their case.

00:21:09.900 Like, shouldn't even have had that.

00:21:11.640 So he gets 20 years, which was a plea agreement, and then he's released and people are going

00:21:15.800 to give him a hard time on it and he should be out of prison.

00:21:18.660 Um, that is the case of the New York Times.

00:21:20.720 Now, to me, it's interesting because, and I think, I think this is a positive for our country

00:21:27.060 and our system, and it's the type of thing that I, as much as I don't like when it goes

00:21:31.660 wrong like this, it's something I'm proud of when it comes to the United States, which

00:21:35.800 is the guy served his term, he served his time, he got 20 years.

00:21:40.460 Now, this, he did get 17 years, um, because of good behavior, but that was part of his

00:21:44.640 sentencing, uh, from the beginning.

00:21:46.600 If he had good behavior, he would be out.

00:21:49.080 They are saying it doesn't matter if he's reformed or not.

00:21:51.700 There's nothing he can do.

00:21:52.700 Trump yesterday came out and said, look, I went, I asked, is there anything I can do about

00:21:56.520 this?

00:21:56.780 And they said, no, there's nothing I can do about this.

00:21:59.980 Um, so you do kind of like the fact that the president doesn't necessarily have that

00:22:03.920 kind of power.

00:22:04.580 Yeah.

00:22:04.900 And shouldn't.

00:22:05.560 And you can, you can do that to any of your enemies as president, right?

00:22:10.380 You could say, oh, well, I think he's a real risk and then keep him in prison forever.

00:22:13.360 Yeah.

00:22:13.720 That would not be a good development.

00:22:15.160 So the fact that we're letting him out while I think in this case is really bad because

00:22:19.280 it does seem like he's not reformed.

00:22:21.540 Yeah.

00:22:21.640 I mean, even the media is not trying to make the case that he's reformed.

00:22:24.300 Yeah.

00:22:24.540 I mean, his dad is.

00:22:25.500 Yeah.

00:22:25.760 Yeah.

00:22:25.980 It's about it.

00:22:26.880 But if you look at his statements in the past few years, they're pretty G-odd friendly.

00:22:32.840 Yeah.

00:22:34.260 They're like, yeah, I'm going to get back to being radical as soon as I get out of this

00:22:38.640 dump.

00:22:39.060 Yeah.

00:22:39.580 Oh, okay.

00:22:41.320 And what do you think?

00:22:41.980 I wonder what his first thing was.

00:22:43.380 I feel like, you know, where does he go first?

00:22:45.700 It's like Wendy's or something.

00:22:46.840 Like there's something he wants to do really badly.

00:22:48.640 I don't know if it's Wendy's for John Walker Lynn.

00:22:50.500 Might be for us.

00:22:52.240 But what's the first thing he does?

00:22:53.740 And then, does this guy get a job?

00:22:56.540 Like, what's he doing for the rest of his life?

00:22:57.800 Yeah, he's going to hire him.

00:22:58.380 Who's going to hire John Walker Lynn?

00:23:00.520 Probably the New York Times, actually.

00:23:01.820 He'll probably be an op-ed contributor.

00:23:03.120 Yeah.

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00:24:33.180 We've been talking about, for Glenn, by the way, we've been talking about the American Taliban,

00:24:39.840 Johnny Walker Lind, and his release yesterday, and whether or not he should have been released.

00:24:45.060 And there's not much we can do about it now because he has been released.

00:24:48.000 But Jason Buttrell, or Buttrell, I just said it like Glenn does, right?

00:24:53.200 Well, you're in that chair.

00:24:54.240 Because I'm in that chair.

00:24:55.440 So, Jason, you were actually there, right?

00:24:57.880 Yeah.

00:24:58.520 Yeah, I was in countries at the time.

00:25:02.340 As part of the Marine Corps, I was in the initial invasion force.

00:25:05.220 And actually, I was in, right, I guess, when September 10th, we pulled into Australia.

00:25:11.700 And we were doing an exercise with Australian Marines.

00:25:13.500 And we were just kind of hanging out at, like, a sports bar, just watching TV after the exercise.

00:25:18.360 And we saw the towers come down.

00:25:20.080 And we thought it was, like, an Australian movie.

00:25:21.760 We had no idea what was going on.

00:25:23.460 Oh, wow.

00:25:23.980 Literally, like, 30 minutes later, the shore patrol came around, gathered everybody up, put us out on the boats.

00:25:28.380 We were in Afghanistan just a couple months later.

00:25:30.900 It was absolutely insane.

00:25:32.280 Wow.

00:25:32.920 But, yeah, I had gotten the intel reports that there was an American Taliban while we were in Afghanistan.

00:25:38.260 And I read everything, and we were just, like, our jaws hit the floor.

00:25:41.040 We were like, what in the heck?

00:25:42.620 And most of us just wanted a shot at him, pretty much.

00:25:45.320 We found out about the uprising.

00:25:47.560 The CIA officer that was killed at the time was one of the first Americans to go down.

00:25:53.880 And so that hit us all really hard.

00:25:56.060 And so I remember pouring over that because we were like, oh, my gosh, like, you know, this is for real.

00:25:59.800 Like, most of us, I think, had joined the military because we wanted to pay off our school loans.

00:26:03.700 You know, stuff like that.

00:26:04.680 But now this got real.

00:26:06.660 And I just remember being livid, reading about everything that was involved in that.

00:26:11.120 This guy, John Lynn, knew everything that was going on.

00:26:14.320 The people that he went, he traveled all over the Middle East.

00:26:17.440 I think a lot of people don't know this.

00:26:19.040 But when he left California, he went out searching for the radicals of the radicals.

00:26:23.400 According to his father, though, he was just trying to find himself.

00:26:26.980 Absolutely ridiculous.

00:26:27.880 And according to, I will say, according to the New York Times today, they say that, you know, look, the Taliban wasn't even known to be bad.

00:26:34.340 He joined them when, before 9-11.

00:26:36.540 So, you know, like, he had no idea that they were a bad group.

00:26:40.880 Oh, my gosh.

00:26:42.740 Oh, my gosh.

00:26:43.780 You're taking exception to that?

00:26:45.100 That's the paper of record.

00:26:46.680 Who wrote this?

00:26:47.880 John Ray of the New York Times.

00:26:49.560 He went to, he went to, he first went to Yemen, got hooked up with al-Qaeda there, went to the, went to Afghanistan, hooked up and hung out with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

00:26:58.440 Also hung out with Taliban.

00:26:59.920 Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were like, they were, you know, shoulder to shoulder.

00:27:03.580 They were the exact same thing.

00:27:05.240 To say that he didn't know what he was doing is just ridiculous.

00:27:08.000 Absolutely ridiculous.

00:27:08.840 And by 2000, they're saying that he joined in 2000 and nobody knew, and the Taliban were essentially our allies because of Afghanistan.

00:27:17.760 You know, they fought side by side with us.

00:27:21.080 Against the Soviets.

00:27:21.980 Against the Soviets.

00:27:23.020 But by 2000, people knew about Osama bin Laden.

00:27:27.240 The USS Cole by then.

00:27:28.540 And the Taliban.

00:27:28.700 I mean, you had a lot of these big attacks that already occurred, just not 9-11 yet.

00:27:32.760 Right.

00:27:32.880 But for him to not have any knowledge of the attack and the insurrection that happened, you don't buy that.

00:27:38.960 Because they are saying, in case you missed the story earlier, the New York Times is saying John Walker Lind was at the prison where the uprising occurred.

00:27:47.420 However, he hid in the basement.

00:27:50.020 Cowering in the basement.

00:27:50.460 Is what they said.

00:27:51.080 They said, yeah.

00:27:51.720 They said later determined that he had been hiding in the basement for the bulk of the conflict.

00:27:56.840 Do you buy that?

00:27:58.180 No.

00:27:59.220 Everything that I read at the time is that it was a plot amongst the al-Qaeda and the other people that were in prison there.

00:28:06.620 They had, if memory serves, they had gotten their hands on some hand grenades, I believe.

00:28:11.760 And that was their big plot was they were going to hide these hand grenades.

00:28:15.220 They all knew about it, including Lind.

00:28:17.240 He knew that this was the plan.

00:28:19.620 That the plan was to hide and house.

00:28:21.840 Man, I hope I'm not giving out classified information.

00:28:23.820 This could be dangerous.

00:28:24.760 I'm breaking news.

00:28:26.620 It's even blends out.

00:28:27.880 This is when the real news breaks.

00:28:29.300 This is a while ago.

00:28:30.200 You are absolutely not giving out classified, Jason.

00:28:33.340 Keep going.

00:28:33.660 Keep going.

00:28:34.280 More and more.

00:28:34.760 Yeah.

00:28:35.360 But so the plot was around some hand grenades that the al-Qaeda terrorists had.

00:28:40.560 Lind knew about it.

00:28:41.580 And when the plan happened, he was an accessory to it.

00:28:44.180 He was an accessory to it.

00:28:45.860 He didn't he didn't raise his hand and say, hey, they've got these hand grenades, guys.

00:28:49.860 Be careful.

00:28:50.320 We're about to attack.

00:28:51.300 No, because he was a radical ideologue that he was an ideologue.

00:28:55.760 Look, I after after they took him and after he was accessory to the CIA officer's murder,

00:29:00.940 they took him to my patrol base.

00:29:03.680 So it was it was it was a pretty cool scene, actually.

00:29:07.020 They landed in the middle of the night at our patrol base.

00:29:10.060 There was CIA.

00:29:11.280 There was two SEAL teams, two force recon teams.

00:29:13.660 They were fully dressed up, you know, in black, you know, masks and everything brought him out.

00:29:17.760 And I remember thinking, if I'm in his position, I would be scared.

00:29:21.480 You are.

00:29:21.680 He looked battered.

00:29:22.680 He his he was not he did not have a good hair day going on at the time.

00:29:27.340 He was very dirty and he was shot in the leg, I believe.

00:29:31.980 And we took him straight to a connex box, you know, like a like a shipping container box.

00:29:37.660 Yeah, put him in there and we get it got him ready for questioning.

00:29:40.820 And I remember thinking I would be scared out of my mind if I was him.

00:29:44.920 He did not look scared out of his mind.

00:29:46.620 He was an ideologue.

00:29:47.720 He looked proud.

00:29:48.980 That's the look that he gave us all.

00:29:50.780 Looked straight in the eyes and he was proud.

00:29:53.380 He was not remorseful then.

00:29:55.200 He's not remorseful now.

00:29:56.720 Yeah.

00:29:57.020 Yeah.

00:29:57.880 This is I made amazing statements for somebody who's getting out of prison.

00:30:02.920 He's talked about how he's going to get back to jihad and extremism as soon as he gets out.

00:30:07.580 Yeah.

00:30:08.340 So and the restrictions that the court put on him are just so stupid.

00:30:12.020 Did you see this?

00:30:12.860 The restrictions?

00:30:14.000 Yeah.

00:30:14.320 He can't speak.

00:30:15.020 He can't speak anything but English.

00:30:16.560 Yeah.

00:30:16.900 I guess he can't speak Arabic and he can't communicate.

00:30:19.780 He can go online and he can talk to whoever he wants but not in Arabic.

00:30:23.060 Okay.

00:30:23.240 So if he's not dangerous then why are you regulating what language he can speak?

00:30:29.000 Yeah.

00:30:29.240 You're going to assign a personal psychiatrist for him.

00:30:31.820 You can use a suicide vest but it has to be made in America.

00:30:34.920 It has to be made in America.

00:30:35.680 I think I have the same point all the time when it comes to like Megan's law where like

00:30:42.100 they're reporting the child molesters.

00:30:44.040 It's like if you need to tell me this guy is a child molester he should probably still

00:30:47.680 be in prison.

00:30:48.460 Yeah.

00:30:48.680 Like I appreciate the effort here but like if you think I need to know that this guy was

00:30:54.400 touching little kids maybe you should kind of keep him behind bars.

00:30:57.360 How did the original charge that he was given and convicted for that's I guess that's the

00:31:04.340 root of this entire problem.

00:31:05.920 Yeah.

00:31:06.180 Like why was it.

00:31:07.140 Right.

00:31:07.860 Like why.

00:31:09.000 It seemed like they went after treason too.

00:31:11.140 I think it says in here at least that they that they did go after treason initially but

00:31:15.420 and they had threatened him with three life sentences which they were going after and

00:31:19.100 then they gave him a plea deal for 20 years.

00:31:21.060 Yeah.

00:31:21.140 They couldn't find two witnesses or something which you have to do with treason I believe.

00:31:25.400 I believe there has to be two witnesses and it seems like I vaguely remember them saying

00:31:30.480 yeah we don't have two witnesses.

00:31:32.240 Which I don't understand because every like I said everything I was reading at the time

00:31:35.740 was very specific.

00:31:37.340 We knew all the places that he had been to all the groups that he was associated with.

00:31:42.260 You knew the reason why he was doing it.

00:31:44.080 At the time you're talking about like it was known who al-Qaeda was.

00:31:47.620 They had already basically declared that not basically they had already declared war on

00:31:50.920 the United States.

00:31:51.880 Yes.

00:31:52.020 Um Osama bin Laden it was like had declared war because we were in Saudi Arabia.

00:31:57.160 We had the embassy bombings by then.

00:31:58.320 I mean we had a lot of stuff that had gone on.

00:31:59.660 USS Cole had gone on by then.

00:32:01.460 It was no secret.

00:32:02.420 No.

00:32:02.660 It wasn't we called him the American Taliban but he was also running with al-Qaeda.

00:32:06.260 You know the people that had just attacked us.

00:32:08.300 How can you not charge him with treason?

00:32:09.600 Why do you need two witnesses?

00:32:10.800 I wonder if some of this isn't because uh we apparently waterboarded him.

00:32:15.500 Right?

00:32:16.040 It wasn't that the big deal that that there was some mistreatment of him.

00:32:19.620 Did you?

00:32:20.060 Were you the one that waterboarded him?

00:32:21.680 I was not.

00:32:22.260 Okay.

00:32:22.680 No I was not.

00:32:23.260 Dang it.

00:32:23.680 See I was hoping because you're filling in for Pat Gray Unleashed this week you're so

00:32:26.520 tired that you might just blur it out.

00:32:28.560 That was the big design of the second.

00:32:30.500 It's okay Jason.

00:32:31.180 You could admit it.

00:32:32.920 You ever been actually waterboarded?

00:32:34.680 Yes.

00:32:35.000 As part of training or whatever?

00:32:36.180 Yes.

00:32:36.580 Pretty much everyone that uh.

00:32:37.980 It's kind of unpleasant.

00:32:39.100 A little bit.

00:32:39.620 From what I understand.

00:32:40.560 A little bit.

00:32:40.940 Well it's um.

00:32:42.000 Does it feel like you're drowning?

00:32:43.040 Absolutely feels like you're drowning.

00:32:44.380 You fit.

00:32:45.180 So weird.

00:32:45.660 So enhanced interrogation techniques.

00:32:48.260 Have I talked about this before?

00:32:49.780 No no no.

00:32:50.220 Talk about it now though.

00:32:51.060 Okay so enhanced interrogation techniques that everyone's hitting on.

00:32:54.920 Um.

00:32:56.040 People have called it torture.

00:32:57.180 I've seen what happens in torture.

00:32:59.360 In country.

00:33:00.560 This is not torture.

00:33:01.720 This is.

00:33:02.640 That's what I've always said.

00:33:03.720 Psychologists have looked at this and they said.

00:33:05.020 Man I don't want anybody to do it to me today.

00:33:06.820 Right.

00:33:07.500 But there's a big group of things that are.

00:33:09.300 There's a reason to do it to me today.

00:33:10.540 Like I don't want to go on a treadmill today.

00:33:12.140 I don't know if that's torture.

00:33:13.640 Right.

00:33:14.280 It's close.

00:33:14.800 Yeah it's close.

00:33:15.660 It's close.

00:33:15.920 There's a big.

00:33:16.500 At certain.

00:33:17.180 At a certain elevation.

00:33:18.580 You know once you get a certain degree.

00:33:20.000 You know you're on level 10 or 12.

00:33:21.720 Then it becomes torture.

00:33:22.660 Yes.

00:33:22.960 But I mean like there's this large group of things.

00:33:25.500 That are unpleasant but not torture.

00:33:27.540 Right.

00:33:27.740 And we just like to group everything into the torture realm.

00:33:30.940 Because we want.

00:33:32.300 You know man the American press wants to vilify the U.S. military all the time.

00:33:35.860 So you essentially.

00:33:36.560 You essentially put a towel over their face.

00:33:38.960 Right.

00:33:39.260 And then just pour water on them.

00:33:40.580 Yeah.

00:33:41.000 They lean back.

00:33:42.000 Yeah.

00:33:42.140 And you pour it over.

00:33:42.960 And that's the entirety of it.

00:33:44.720 Yes.

00:33:45.680 But it's supposed to.

00:33:46.600 It plays off of fears.

00:33:47.800 So like psychiatrists have looked at this and said there's a certain few things that everybody

00:33:51.020 in the world if you're a human being a normal human being non-psychotic is scared of.

00:33:55.260 And some people aren't scared of the same stuff.

00:33:57.220 So there's a progression.

00:33:58.480 They don't go straight to oh we got this guy let's go immediately to waterboarding.

00:34:02.760 Waterboarding is one of the final steps.

00:34:04.340 Right.

00:34:04.360 There's like the barking dogs is one of them.

00:34:06.140 Right.

00:34:06.300 Like blindfolded with barking dogs.

00:34:07.680 Right.

00:34:08.020 And again that's on one of the extreme measures.

00:34:10.620 Remember the naked pyramids?

00:34:12.100 Yeah.

00:34:12.280 That we made the prisoners get into.

00:34:14.020 But one of the things is you bring them in.

00:34:15.220 And then take a picture of them.

00:34:15.460 Right.

00:34:15.660 You bring them in at night.

00:34:16.600 Right.

00:34:16.800 You put them in a shipping container.

00:34:19.420 I mean those are steps.

00:34:20.360 Right.

00:34:20.600 Right.

00:34:20.780 Okay so you're exactly right.

00:34:22.660 So one of the first ones is some people get scared just by someone.

00:34:25.780 Well it actually starts out with nothing at all.

00:34:27.280 Just offering something.

00:34:28.720 And some of them get right in.

00:34:29.640 If that doesn't work then they you know give the appearance that they're like you know

00:34:34.280 the good cop bad cop and scream at them.

00:34:36.340 Sure.

00:34:36.480 Some people can't handle someone screaming at them like a drill instructor.

00:34:39.280 And they fold instantly.

00:34:40.820 Then it goes forward.

00:34:41.800 Scared of the dark.

00:34:42.700 Some people are scared of the dark.

00:34:44.120 Some people are scared of loud animals.

00:34:46.260 Some people are scared of real loud music.

00:34:48.320 You've maybe seen movies where they like turn up.

00:34:50.360 Oh yeah that's like the sleep deprivation is part of that too.

00:34:53.100 It slips something.

00:34:53.400 Exactly.

00:34:53.720 It all goes all into that.

00:34:55.380 And then eventually usually people just end up giving you whatever they want right

00:34:59.340 right in those first few steps.

00:35:00.660 Eventually it leads to playing Barry Manilow for them.

00:35:02.880 And that's the ultimate.

00:35:03.740 That's a step too far.

00:35:04.860 Everybody breaks.

00:35:05.620 That's classified.

00:35:06.660 You can't say that's the ultimate.

00:35:07.660 Oh did it.

00:35:07.980 I knew you guys were going to back me into this.

00:35:10.620 So waterboarding it does and you had the situation happening here.

00:35:14.100 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:35:14.740 We'll come back to that in a second.

00:35:16.460 Sorry.

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00:36:43.140 Been talking about the release of John Walker-Lynn, the American Taliban.

00:36:46.120 Don't confuse the American Taliban for Gaddan, the American, who was a spokesperson for Al-Qaeda.

00:36:55.740 You might remember this frightening warning.

00:36:59.480 Pull every last one of your soldiers, spies, security advisors, trainers, attachés, and so on.

00:37:07.300 Out of every Muslim land from Afghanistan to Zanzibar.

00:37:12.200 Should so much as one single American soldier or spy remain on Islamic soil,

00:37:17.000 it will be considered sufficient justification for us to continue our defensive jihad against your nation and people.

00:37:25.300 Oh, wow.

00:37:25.860 Okay, so it's not that guy.

00:37:27.660 That's not John Walker.

00:37:28.980 That guy's gone.

00:37:29.880 We lost him.

00:37:30.940 We lost him.

00:37:32.080 And so maybe I broke that a little too quickly.

00:37:35.000 Yeah, why don't you read it?

00:37:35.820 There's a bomb coming where Gaddan, the American, is in the vicinity of him.

00:37:42.520 I hope he's protected.

00:37:44.000 No.

00:37:44.720 Ooh, the bomb went off.

00:37:46.800 It killed him.

00:37:47.940 Oh, wow.

00:37:48.380 He's gone.

00:37:48.780 We lost him.

00:37:49.300 They didn't even bring him to surgery?

00:37:51.040 No, there was not enough left to operate on.

00:37:55.540 That's sad.

00:37:56.260 Yeah.

00:37:56.440 Well, I mean, we found out today that John Walker Lind, a normal American teenager, just looking.

00:38:03.660 He was trying to find himself.

00:38:04.940 Just a frightening boy.

00:38:06.100 Joined a group that were our allies, the Taliban.

00:38:08.880 Right, at one time.

00:38:09.660 And in the end, was wrongfully accused of a prison riot when he was just a coward.

00:38:16.460 Just for falling in with the wrong crowd.

00:38:17.980 Yeah, that's sad.

00:38:18.680 That's all he did.

00:38:19.460 Who among us hasn't?

00:38:21.720 We're sitting here with Jeffy right now.

00:38:23.800 Yes.

00:38:24.340 It's easy to do.

00:38:25.540 It's easy to do.

00:38:26.140 The wrong crowd.

00:38:27.200 It is.

00:38:28.560 So we've learned that from the media today.

00:38:30.540 And we've also learned that it is now time, in case you were setting your calendars to this fact,

00:38:36.480 it is now time for everyone to switch sides again on Julian Assange.

00:38:40.820 Oh, good.

00:38:41.200 So if you were wondering, wait, what in the pool.

00:38:44.420 So whatever side I'm on now.

00:38:46.060 Because, yeah, whatever you're on now is probably you'd want to go to the other side.

00:38:48.760 Because it started off that liberals loved Julian Assange and conservatives hated Julian Assange.

00:38:54.500 And then in 2016, when the Hillary stuff was going on, conservatives started loving Julian Assange and liberals hated Julian Assange.

00:39:03.640 Well, now the Trump administration has charged Assange and now they hate Julian Assange.

00:39:09.240 But now the liberals are saying, wait a minute, you're attacking our journalist protections.

00:39:14.040 We love Julian Assange.

00:39:15.860 So whatever side you were on, make sure, make a note for later on today, you're supposed to flip-flop and argue the exact opposite side.

00:39:22.940 All right.

00:39:23.360 And again, plan your next vacation from whatever position you're on now on Assange for about six months.

00:39:29.720 And where are we on Russia?

00:39:31.220 Are they good or are they bad this week?

00:39:33.740 You know, I don't know the answer to that.

00:39:35.020 We'll have to check.

00:39:36.660 We need websites to just tell us what side it's supposed to be on.

00:39:41.060 It's amazing to see the left and the journalists go back and forth on these things.

00:39:46.180 And, you know, both sides do it to some extent.

00:39:48.840 But there's never a point in which they acknowledge previously they felt the exact opposite way.

00:39:53.360 Oh, no.

00:39:54.080 Never.

00:39:54.600 They just go on as if those times didn't occur.

00:39:57.180 And people, generally speaking, in their audience are just like, okay, well, there you go.

00:40:01.240 I guess that's the right way now.

00:40:02.700 Remember the Comey deal when we were supposed to like Comey and then we hated Comey?

00:40:07.540 Comey was another big one.

00:40:08.740 Comey was a big one.

00:40:09.420 I mean, people didn't even know it was the change day.

00:40:13.320 It really was.

00:40:14.220 On a What's-His-Face's stupid television show, he didn't even know.

00:40:17.280 He didn't alert the audience that it was change day.

00:40:19.400 It's amazing.

00:40:20.060 So he mentioned Comey's name and the audience is like, yeah, no, no, we hate him today.

00:40:24.740 No, no, we changed.

00:40:26.320 It was amazing.

00:40:28.080 It really is incredible.

00:40:29.520 I don't remember this.

00:40:30.900 I remember, let's go back in ancient history now, John Kerry running for president.

00:40:36.820 He basically loses the election, arguably, because of one commercial that Republicans

00:40:42.200 play incessantly where he says, I did vote for the $86 billion, $7 billion before I voted

00:40:47.500 against it.

00:40:48.540 Remember that whole thing?

00:40:49.740 Yes.

00:40:50.080 Like, I don't think anyone cares about those flip-flops anymore.

00:40:53.580 Like, the flip-flop is dead.

00:40:54.960 It's just like, what is the thing we're supposed to believe today and argue it as passionately

00:40:58.300 as possible?

00:40:59.340 And you see this in the media.

00:41:00.460 You see it in, you know, all in politics.

00:41:03.600 There is no longer a position that's held by the party.

00:41:07.580 Like, there's not a consistent position.

00:41:09.380 And right now, like right now, and we made this point yesterday.

00:41:12.520 I would love to see this happen.

00:41:13.480 Right now, sure, it seems like Republicans are pro-life and Democrats are pro-choice.

00:41:17.120 I want Donald Trump to come out and just be like, you know what, I'm pro-choice.

00:41:20.180 You'd see the media making every argument about babies that they could come up with.

00:41:24.980 They'd be like, these poor, innocent children.

00:41:28.260 If that gets us a win, I'm almost bored.

00:41:30.620 Can you believe Trump's disregard for human life?

00:41:33.420 That's what they'd be saying.

00:41:34.080 Yes, it would be amazing.

00:41:35.960 And global warming is another one.

00:41:37.640 They'd just be like, do you believe this?

00:41:39.200 I mean, Donald Trump thinks SUVs are warming the planet?

00:41:42.340 This guy's insane.

00:41:47.120 One of the great things about the American system is, of course, the innovation that it's provided.

00:42:04.120 And healthcare is a big part of this.

00:42:06.020 I mean, creating new innovative drugs to fight diseases, new innovative treatments.

00:42:11.320 I mean, that is why the American system is better than all these other socialist systems.

00:42:15.300 And it's the only reason any of these other socialist systems can handle it is because they take all the stuff that we made and they put it in their system.

00:42:23.880 Well, it's nice.

00:42:24.420 When you have a country that's innovating like this, it's easier to have a socialist healthcare system.

00:42:29.800 However, we don't want to go down that road.

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00:42:36.220 We've already had too far of a push towards socialism here.

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00:42:41.380 There's a big thing about price fixing when it comes to medications, which is going to stifle innovation.

00:42:46.120 You know, look, we know that one of the great things about this is innovation.

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00:43:15.720 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:43:17.560 Featuring today, Pat, Stu, and Jeffy.

00:43:22.440 Glenn's back on Tuesday after Memorial Day.

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00:43:28.560 Yesterday was a big day.

00:43:31.060 Nancy Pelosi bashing President Trump.

00:43:34.040 President Trump responding, of course, because that's what he does.

00:43:37.120 He has to.

00:43:37.760 He has to.

00:43:38.560 It's a must.

00:43:39.000 And then, of course, there's this big controversy over the posting of Nancy Pelosi videos where somebody, I don't know who, but Rudy Giuliani tweeted it out and said, what's wrong with Nancy Pelosi?

00:43:51.560 They slowed down the video so it sounds like she's drunk when she's talking.

00:43:57.420 It is a fun trick to do on anybody.

00:43:59.480 It is.

00:44:00.060 Anytime you slow down just a little bit, the audio, it just is hilarious.

00:44:04.140 The first one is her slowed down, and then it quickly goes into the actual sound.

00:44:09.760 We want to give this president the opportunity to do something historic for our country.

00:44:20.480 Okay, so it sounds like she had a nip or two.

00:44:24.900 Just a little nip, this party.

00:44:27.400 And then here's the actual video.

00:44:28.680 We want to give this president the opportunity to do something historic for our country.

00:44:36.000 Okay, so clearly somebody's trying to make her look bad.

00:44:38.760 I don't know who it was, but because somebody in the Trump administration or the Trump team tweeted it out, now they're blaming President Trump for it.

00:44:47.620 Right.

00:44:47.980 I don't think he's sitting at an edit bay right now slowing up her audio and video clips.

00:44:54.280 I think he probably has a little too much on his plate to be doing that.

00:44:57.640 And he would tell you, I don't need to do that.

00:45:01.220 You're right.

00:45:01.980 I don't need to do that.

00:45:03.460 I mean, was it Giuliani that shared it?

00:45:06.300 Giuliani shared it, right.

00:45:07.660 And he thought that it was real and thought that there was something wrong with her, which he realized it was, and he took it down.

00:45:14.020 Yeah, he took it down.

00:45:14.500 Well, because we've played many Nancy Pelosi clips that weren't edited or altered in any way, and she does this.

00:45:21.820 She slurs, and she sounds like something's wrong with her.

00:45:24.800 Yes.

00:45:25.080 We've talked about that in the past.

00:45:26.440 So, it's kind of logical to think that that was a real audio or video.

00:45:32.360 Yeah.

00:45:32.640 I always thought it wasn't this time.

00:45:33.940 Yeah.

00:45:34.360 So, I don't think it's a – again, these things turn into international incidents all the time.

00:45:38.420 Yes, they do.

00:45:38.800 Because of the media.

00:45:39.820 Right.

00:45:40.000 Not because they're real.

00:45:40.860 Because they see it as an opportunity to bash the president and the administration and say how evil Republicans are.

00:45:48.740 When, of course, damn.

00:45:49.900 Like, you're telling me – go online.

00:45:51.840 You're just telling me Democrats aren't sharing fake stuff all the time.

00:45:54.060 Of course they are.

00:45:55.200 Of course they are.

00:45:57.060 But, you know, this is – you do open yourself up to it.

00:46:02.120 Especially if you're Rudy Giuliani and an attorney, you probably should be a little careful online with what you're doing.

00:46:08.080 I mean, you're representing the president of the United States in personal matters.

00:46:11.720 You probably don't want to be sharing fake videos.

00:46:14.020 I mean, you probably want to – before you hit send, you probably want to look at it one more time.

00:46:17.740 Yeah.

00:46:18.120 That's all.

00:46:18.500 Take a break.

00:46:18.880 That's all.

00:46:19.240 You know, but, I mean, this is the world we live in now.

00:46:21.880 This would have been interesting commentary in 2008.

00:46:25.740 All right.

00:46:25.880 Like, it's 2019.

00:46:27.840 You know, celebrities are doing this all the time.

00:46:30.220 Politicians are doing it all the time.

00:46:32.320 We have just entered that world where people aren't careful anymore.

00:46:35.120 I remember when Glenn was doing the TV show, and we started out – I can't remember if it was CNN days or Fox days, and he was in the middle of writing something on the chalkboard.

00:46:45.180 And, like, the chalkboard is, like, a difficult thing as – it doesn't seem like it would be difficult to do.

00:46:51.000 But you're right.

00:46:51.580 Glenn's in the middle of doing a TV show.

00:46:53.820 He has to look at all the elements that are coming up, like what video is next and what order are these things going on.

00:46:59.100 He's doing a monologue, and he's writing on the board.

00:47:02.280 And I can't remember what word it was, but he misspelled a word on the board.

00:47:06.720 And there was a reason – I can't remember what it was at this point.

00:47:09.520 But it was something, like – it was either misspelled in the script or, like, he did, like, a Ron Burgundy and just wrote it the way he saw it.

00:47:15.600 I can't remember what the situation was.

00:47:17.680 It was not a word he didn't know how to spell, but he just screwed it up on the air.

00:47:20.860 And that haunted him for, like, years.

00:47:23.380 Like, I miss – I mean, you know, it was like Dan Quayle misspelling potato back in the day.

00:47:28.140 It was, like, a big deal.

00:47:29.220 Everyone was like, oh, can you believe this guy can't spell words?

00:47:32.280 That's why he's still a little sensitive.

00:47:34.000 Oh, he's very, very hesitant to spell –

00:47:36.180 About writing things.

00:47:36.940 Every time he does it with chalkboard, he makes sure someone checks it to make sure, you know, and when you –

00:47:41.920 You can't blame him.

00:47:42.340 Yeah, I know.

00:47:43.040 And that's something that should happen.

00:47:44.060 I mean, I'm not a Glenn Beck apologist like you, Stu.

00:47:45.880 But, you know, you can't blame him.

00:47:47.780 Right.

00:47:48.200 And so – but now?

00:47:50.120 I mean, it doesn't feel like – people make mistakes that are much worse than anything from the old days.

00:47:55.960 And no one cares.

00:47:56.640 Oh, yeah.

00:47:56.880 I mean, because it's constant.

00:47:58.180 You're constantly berated.

00:47:59.620 Like, there was a time where you thought maybe celebrities had some level of intelligence.

00:48:02.780 Then you see them tweet.

00:48:04.220 And you're like, okay, well, we know they're idiots.

00:48:06.380 Like, we thought – we were wondering if they're – yeah, they're idiots.

00:48:09.480 That is acting.

00:48:10.360 When they act like – when they're playing the role of a doctor, they're not really a doctor.

00:48:14.600 What?

00:48:14.700 You kind of get to the sense of that pretty quickly when you see them spell.

00:48:18.320 Yes, you do.

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00:49:27.260 More vitriol, of course, from the left, directed at President Trump.

00:49:40.660 Nancy Pelosi wants an intervention for him, which, I mean, I guess that's okay to say about the president when you're the Speaker of the House now.

00:49:50.540 If that had happened during the Obama years, as with every single story, all hell would have broken loose by now.

00:50:01.640 The Speaker of the House would have been vilified if they would have said an intervention is necessary with Obama

00:50:06.900 and make him sound like, you know, he's crazy or he's insane or just completely out of control.

00:50:17.220 You'd be a racist.

00:50:18.200 They used to throw that label out at us when we criticized him for anything, and our criticism was never anything approaching what the Democrats do to Trump now.

00:50:29.800 It's unbelievable, the hatred.

00:50:31.400 That's really the main use, I think, of identity politics at this point.

00:50:34.540 A lot of people talk about it in terms of like, well, they will try to give money to minority groups so they get minority groups' votes,

00:50:42.220 or they'll try to give benefits to a certain minority group, or they'll talk nicely about them to try to get their votes.

00:50:49.220 And that's, of course, part of it.

00:50:50.600 But the other side of it is, I think, more the real use of today, which is if you have someone who's in a protected group,

00:50:59.120 you always have the defense of saying no matter what the accusation is, it's based on race.

00:51:05.120 Or it's based on, right, like, if Pete Buttigieg, right, becomes president of the United States, and he has a crappy tax policy,

00:51:12.540 when you say he has a crappy tax policy, they'll say you don't like gays.

00:51:15.900 So they don't actually have to defend the policy.

00:51:17.800 They'll just say you are a hater of gays, or you're a hater of women, or you're a hater of African Americans, whatever the group is.

00:51:24.440 And so that becomes the catch-all for every single defense of every single thing that someone does that is in this protected class.

00:51:33.860 It's, like, the main reason why you don't want Joe Biden to be the nominee,

00:51:37.320 because he's basically the only one in the field that has a chance to win that isn't in some protected group, right?

00:51:45.380 I mean, you pretty much can go through the entire list.

00:51:47.560 I mean, you have, obviously, you know, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Klobuchar, she's a woman, Cory Booker, and then Elizabeth Warren, of course, is Native American.

00:51:57.080 So she's in a protected group as well.

00:51:59.940 One 1024th protected.

00:52:02.140 Uh-huh.

00:52:02.480 Right.

00:52:02.860 So I think that there is a—it works on both sides.

00:52:06.580 This is why the left loves to embrace it.

00:52:09.000 They don't have to make arguments about their points.

00:52:11.080 They just say you're a racist, and it's a catch-all for every single argument.

00:52:15.180 And Buttigieg had something interesting to say about the president, which I don't know that this is true, but he said it as if it's proven fact.

00:52:23.900 Do you think he should have served in Vietnam?

00:52:26.420 Well, I have a pretty dim view of his decision to use his privileged status to fake a disability in order to avoid serving in Vietnam.

00:52:36.280 You believe he faked a disability?

00:52:38.800 Do you believe he has a disability?

00:52:40.540 Yeah.

00:52:41.140 Yeah.

00:52:42.540 Yeah.

00:52:42.980 At least not that one.

00:52:43.940 He, he, he, um—

00:52:46.260 Chris, that's making fun of other people, which is okay.

00:52:48.900 Uh-huh.

00:52:49.540 Well, he jumps in.

00:52:50.460 This is actually really important, because I don't mean to trivialize disability, but I think that's exactly what he did.

00:52:55.980 Wow.

00:52:56.660 But, I mean, there's no—

00:52:57.660 Is there any—has anybody stated a fact that he didn't have bone spurs when he had claimed to have bone spurs back in, what was it, the late 60s or early 70s,

00:53:10.220 when it was time for Vietnam service?

00:53:13.860 I think that's why he wasn't drafted, but I'm not aware that he faked that.

00:53:20.480 I think that's—I think I would say that's generally thought to have been the case, but I don't know that there's evidence of it.

00:53:27.020 Like, he—he—there was something else.

00:53:29.720 I can't remember what the—there was another thing right around there where he was—he did—he passed some physical or something like that around the time,

00:53:37.980 where then he went for another one and got bone spurs after—like, it was something like that.

00:53:41.740 Like, I can't remember what—do you remember what it was, Jeffy?

00:53:43.480 No, I was trying—I was trying, as you mentioned it, in that story, because that was with his father—

00:53:48.300 Right.

00:53:48.720 —was still around making some choices for son Donald at that time, too.

00:53:53.660 Yeah, they were—but, I mean, again, first of all, it's ancient history, right?

00:53:59.020 Second of all, there was a lot of that that went on in that era.

00:54:01.940 You know, the draft, to me, is a terrible, terrible thing and should not be—it's ridiculous to me.

00:54:07.960 Shouldn't ever come back.

00:54:08.360 Shouldn't ever come back, and I hope it doesn't.

00:54:10.200 So, you know, there were plenty of people on the left.

00:54:14.880 And honestly, I mean, at that point, Donald Trump is probably a Democrat, right?

00:54:18.580 I mean, he's probably, at that point in his life, not even a Republican.

00:54:22.860 But, yeah, a lot of people did that.

00:54:24.420 And especially a lot of people with lives that were privileged did that.

00:54:28.160 There was—you know, that did occur.

00:54:29.880 It wasn't a good thing.

00:54:31.200 But a bigger story there is that we should not be taking people unwilling to join the military

00:54:36.700 and throw them in the middle of our battles.

00:54:38.760 That's not a good idea.

00:54:39.660 That's not something—I mean, you want to talk about last resort area.

00:54:44.860 That's where the draft should live.

00:54:46.420 I mean, you know, maybe if you're in—you know, maybe if the Nazis are currently bombing Kansas,

00:54:51.980 maybe that's something you may—and I will say, at that point, you're not going to need to draft anyone.

00:54:56.700 There's going to be plenty of people willing to fight there.

00:54:59.640 But, yeah, I mean, that is part of the situation with war, right?

00:55:02.040 Like, that's part of the—when you're going to send the military to war, this is why you actually make sure you make a good case of it.

00:55:08.720 And you make sure that you've convinced the American people that it's the right thing to do.

00:55:12.480 Because if you don't, then you have situations like this where, you know, people aren't volunteering enough

00:55:17.880 and you feel like you need to institute draft.

00:55:19.440 The draft should not be something that happens, though.

00:55:21.360 But I would think that that's one of those things—if you're in the military,

00:55:24.920 do you really want to be fighting next to someone who is like,

00:55:28.440 I'd rather not be here.

00:55:30.320 I don't believe in this cause.

00:55:31.960 That does not seem like the type of person you'd want next to.

00:55:35.420 Now, a lot of people who were drafted fought valiantly, and many went and died, you know, during the draft.

00:55:42.760 And their service should be honored.

00:55:44.280 I mean, they really should.

00:55:45.420 But, I mean, I don't think that's a good generalized policy for a military.

00:55:48.960 You want people to be really into it.

00:55:52.120 You want people who are going—

00:55:53.100 Yeah, who have chosen to do it.

00:55:55.000 Exactly.

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00:57:17.980 Things are kind of heating up on the Democrat side.

00:57:22.160 Apparently, in Iowa, there's a dead heat now between Biden and Bernie Sanders.

00:57:27.900 Wow.

00:57:28.180 Well, as far as the town halls that all these cable channels are doing, here's how badly Beto O'Rourke is doing right now.

00:57:35.680 First of all, he's doing so badly, I think we mentioned this briefly yesterday, that no other candidates are doing any opposition research on him anymore.

00:57:46.500 Wow.

00:57:47.080 He just all stopped it.

00:57:48.420 It went from dozens to zero.

00:57:51.960 There are no research projects right now on Beto O'Rourke.

00:57:56.320 And, like, as inexplicable as the rise of Beto O'Rourke is, to me, the same can be said about the fall.

00:58:03.300 About the collapse, yeah.

00:58:03.880 There's no real reason.

00:58:05.340 He didn't do anything horrifically wrong.

00:58:08.060 He didn't have a major scandal.

00:58:09.860 He didn't have a giant gaffe.

00:58:11.540 People were just like, yeah, we really like you.

00:58:13.340 And they were toying with him to get him into the race.

00:58:15.720 And as soon as he got into the race, like, yeah, we actually ate your guts.

00:58:18.220 You know what I think it was?

00:58:19.640 I think it was that little, I'm getting in my car by myself, and I'm driving around the country, stopping in at weird places, and I'm going to find myself.

00:58:29.740 Yeah.

00:58:30.080 I'm going to find myself.

00:58:30.700 But that was before he got in.

00:58:32.220 Yes, it was.

00:58:32.900 And he got in and immediately was at, what, you know, 12% and 15%.

00:58:36.840 Yeah.

00:58:37.280 I mean, he was second or third place when he got into the race.

00:58:40.420 And just every day, another poll comes out where he's one point lower, and there's only so many days that you can pull that one off.

00:58:46.680 I mean, eventually you get to zero.

00:58:48.260 And I'm not sure it's about his policies because he doesn't have any.

00:58:51.120 Right.

00:58:51.460 Well, he has one.

00:58:52.260 He wants to bring about gun control.

00:58:54.040 Here's what he said the other day about eliminating guns.

00:58:59.760 That weapons of war designed for use on the battlefield are no longer sold into our communities, so they don't end up in our schools or our synagogues, in our churches.

00:59:08.740 We can save even more of that.

00:59:10.860 Two more steps that I want to take.

00:59:12.540 Red flag laws.

00:59:13.800 And not just do it town by town or state by state, but do it nationally so that anyone who exhibits a tendency to harm themselves or to harm somebody else can be stopped before they do that.

00:59:25.580 And then the last part, let's make sure that we invest in the counseling and the mental health and the therapy necessary for people to get the care that they need.

00:59:33.720 Do you support mandatory federal licensing for guns, gun owners rather, in the United States, similar to what you hear from Cory Booker?

00:59:43.080 I think that's something that we need to look at.

00:59:45.680 And I'm grateful to Senator Booker for taking a bold approach to a very urgent problem that we have right now.

00:59:52.980 But I would start with those four steps that I just outlined.

00:59:56.940 There's consensus there.

00:59:58.240 There's agreement.

00:59:59.000 We're going to be able to make progress.

01:00:00.560 But, yes, I think this is something that should be debated.

01:00:03.120 We should have a full hearing on that.

01:00:04.780 And if it makes sense to the American public, then let's move forward.

01:00:07.800 Okay.

01:00:08.300 Yeah, we'll do some polls.

01:00:09.320 And if it turns out people, like, if they're popular, then I'll be for them.

01:00:14.220 If they're not popular, I'll be against them.

01:00:16.700 Yeah, that is, I guess, if you were going to say the one big problem right now, it's that.

01:00:20.580 He keeps saying things like that.

01:00:22.040 Yeah, he does.

01:00:22.420 You know, like, if the American people like it, we'll move forward.

01:00:25.220 It's not what the Democrats want to hear right now.

01:00:27.240 Not at all.

01:00:27.940 They want to hear, like, I want socialism whether people want it or not.

01:00:30.940 Like, that's what they want to hear.

01:00:32.040 And you're going to get it.

01:00:32.840 You're going to get it with me.

01:00:34.060 Yeah, exactly.

01:00:34.840 They want someone who's going to, you know, the way they see Trump, right?

01:00:38.580 They see Trump doing whatever he wants to do, which is, of course, not true.

01:00:41.360 But that's what they, that's their vision of him, and they want that action on their side.

01:00:45.420 You know, Beto, one of the big things you could say about him is he does not have an extensive amount of policy plans.

01:00:52.540 No, he doesn't.

01:00:53.140 And that's one of the reasons why he's fallen.

01:00:55.800 I mean, if you see, if there's one candidate who I would say is in the middle of a, I mean, Biden, obviously, he's in a category of his own right now.

01:01:02.240 I mean, it's his to lose.

01:01:03.480 But if there's another one of these lower candidates that's having a bit of a moment, I would say it's probably Elizabeth Warren right now.

01:01:09.240 And the reason is because, I mean, she's got a policy for everything.

01:01:13.020 She's got a policy for everything, and people like talking about that they care about that.

01:01:17.380 Now, in reality, of course, they don't.

01:01:18.880 None of these people have actually read any of the policies.

01:01:21.220 But her brand of being the person who comes up with a new policy for every issue is very attractive to a Democrat who thinks the federal government should do everything for you.

01:01:32.720 I mean, you know, Beto talks about that.

01:01:34.160 I don't want to go state to state.

01:01:35.380 I don't go town by town for these rules.

01:01:36.980 I want it to be federal.

01:01:37.700 Well, of course you do.

01:01:38.700 That's the entire definition of your philosophy.

01:01:41.480 It's the exact opposition of what the country was built on, federalism, which is where we did go state to state and see what works.

01:01:47.540 And other states would pick that stuff up.

01:01:49.000 You want to do everything federally.

01:01:50.480 And you know what?

01:01:51.280 When it comes to the Second Amendment, you have no wiggle room.

01:01:55.280 I mean, you have no wiggle room to let me think infringed.

01:01:57.280 When you want to ban semi-automatic weapons, which includes handguns now.

01:02:01.180 Now, he did say, yeah, he didn't actually say that, did he, in that clip?

01:02:04.520 He wants to ban semi-automatic weapons.

01:02:06.300 He said weapons, we got to get these weapons of war on the street, which is an even dumber thing to say, because everything is a weapon of war.

01:02:13.320 I mean, go watch it.

01:02:15.000 Every time, watch the Arab Spring.

01:02:17.440 They're freaking throwing rocks and glass bottles.

01:02:19.400 Those are weapons of war.

01:02:20.360 When you need a weapon in war, you use anything as a weapon of war.

01:02:23.600 It's a meaningless description.

01:02:27.480 People are like, oh, well, that means weapons that were designed for war.

01:02:31.120 Every weapon can be used in war.

01:02:33.520 A handgun, every single war that has ever been fought since the invention of a handgun has utilized handguns.

01:02:40.940 Every single one of them.

01:02:42.360 Of course they have.

01:02:43.460 If you're just sitting there like, ah, you know what, my big scary AR doesn't have any bullets left, but I'm not going to fire this because it's not technically a weapon of war.

01:02:51.460 Like, that's not something that occurs with a soldier.

01:02:53.380 No, it is not.

01:02:54.080 Right?

01:02:55.160 So it is a meaningless thing.

01:02:56.580 I mean, semi-automatic weapons bans, again, that's basically every gun people use.

01:03:02.120 Like, it sounds like a scary word to a lot of people.

01:03:04.660 And I know in this audience, most people are going to be familiar with the difference between an automatic weapon and a semi-automatic weapon and, you know, a hunting, modern sporting rifle and all these things.

01:03:14.860 I could say that growing up in Connecticut, largely, like, I don't think I would have, you know, if I wasn't in this business, I wouldn't have any interest or knowledge about what a semi-automatic weapon was.

01:03:25.020 I would just think bad, scary.

01:03:26.460 That's what people in Connecticut think, which is why they were able to pass, you know, a massive bill restricting gun rights in Connecticut.

01:03:34.140 You know, I think there's a, it's certainly not everybody in Connecticut, of course, but I know, I mean, I didn't come from a gun household.

01:03:41.480 My dad was in the military, but I didn't come from a household that knew anything.

01:03:44.840 We didn't have guns in the house.

01:03:46.380 It was not part of our culture at all.

01:03:48.400 And so, you know, people just don't know what these terms mean.

01:03:51.740 So you throw out banning semi-automatic weapons, people think, good, we're going to get rid of those school shooting guns.

01:03:57.340 Well, no, this is basically every gun operationally that people have for self-defense, right?

01:04:03.260 I mean, you have shotguns, you know, which would fall out of that definition in most cases.

01:04:11.380 Revolvers?

01:04:12.060 Revolver.

01:04:12.500 I mean, do people really use, I guess they do.

01:04:15.020 I mean, some.

01:04:16.160 But, I mean, most people are just going to have a semi-automatic weapon.

01:04:18.200 I haven't seen a revolver other than in a gun store for a long time.

01:04:22.100 Right, people like using them at the range.

01:04:23.860 They like using them to shoot.

01:04:25.240 But they're not, I mean, they're not the prototypical American self-defense firearm.

01:04:29.300 No.

01:04:30.020 That's going to be a semi-automatic handgun or, you know, maybe a shotgun.

01:04:33.260 But still, it's like they're talking about banning.

01:04:37.280 They're going way beyond anything Australia did or anything the British did.

01:04:41.720 This is, you know, it's gun control at a level we haven't seen in a long time.

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01:06:16.320 There are 24 candidates running for president of the United States.

01:06:19.980 If you missed Bill de Blasio getting in late last week.

01:06:23.300 No, I didn't.

01:06:23.780 That was a huge...

01:06:24.640 Big story for you guys?

01:06:25.480 Big, big, big story.

01:06:26.840 We're all over Bill de Blasio.

01:06:27.780 Oh, we've been tingling ever since.

01:06:29.100 I was in New York when this happened, when de Blasio announced.

01:06:31.800 Man, I bet you the excitement.

01:06:32.980 They hate him.

01:06:34.940 And I'm not talking about just conservatives.

01:06:36.600 I'm talking about liberals.

01:06:37.720 Really?

01:06:38.160 Can't stand the guy.

01:06:39.640 Yeah, he's tearing that city into the ground.

01:06:40.940 It's funny.

01:06:41.660 I was talking to one guy who is pretty left.

01:06:44.400 And he was saying, it's, you know, he was basically admitting, like, look, de Blasio is basically

01:06:49.420 a socialist.

01:06:50.180 But the New Yorkers actually like the socialism.

01:06:52.960 They just don't like him.

01:06:54.060 They don't like him.

01:06:54.640 They think he's doing a terrible job.

01:06:57.140 He's, you know, and it's not because he's, too many big government policies are being passed.

01:07:01.040 They just think he sucks.

01:07:02.500 Yeah, they don't like him.

01:07:03.240 He's never in office.

01:07:04.220 They always run stories about him never showing up at the office.

01:07:06.940 He's always taking naps.

01:07:08.380 He's at the gym.

01:07:09.680 They just hate him.

01:07:10.500 And this is so consistent with who de Blasio is and who they see him as, which is a guy

01:07:16.120 who cares more about, you know, now he wants to become a big, you know, national figure

01:07:20.000 and he doesn't care about running the city, which, you know, has major problems.

01:07:23.940 You know, he can't seem to get anything done.

01:07:27.260 And, like, he announces his...

01:07:29.020 Police Department hates him.

01:07:30.720 Oh, it's really, it's basically universal.

01:07:33.620 The next day, I think it was the New York Post's headline was, Everybody Hates Bill.

01:07:38.320 That was legitimately the headline of the local paper.

01:07:42.380 So, he's number 24 in this race.

01:07:44.900 And I don't...

01:07:45.500 I think he'll remain there.

01:07:46.320 Yeah, well, yeah, that's probably true.

01:07:48.280 So, I want to give you...

01:07:49.380 I would like to get your guesses on this because this is an...

01:07:51.540 It's an amazing race and I could give you all 24 names, but it would take the rest of

01:07:55.320 the show, basically.

01:07:56.600 So, let's do it this way.

01:07:58.160 There's a new poll out with...

01:08:00.320 That goes through the Democratic primary.

01:08:02.180 It comes from Monmouth University, one of the, you know, most highly respected pollsters

01:08:06.120 out there.

01:08:06.560 And they asked people, who are you going for?

01:08:09.240 And they gave them all 24 names.

01:08:10.960 So, they're all on the list.

01:08:12.280 This is one of the rare...

01:08:13.120 A lot of polls will just poll the top names.

01:08:14.920 They gave them all 24.

01:08:16.360 So, how many would you say are at 0%?

01:08:20.840 Out of the 24.

01:08:22.160 How many candidates are at 0%?

01:08:26.080 I'm going to say 12.

01:08:30.320 Yeah, I was going to say 10.

01:08:31.940 12.

01:08:32.280 You guys are right there.

01:08:33.320 11 candidates...

01:08:34.440 11.

01:08:34.740 All right, 0%.

01:08:35.920 Quickly, Eric Swalwell.

01:08:37.620 Okay.

01:08:37.880 Seth Moulton.

01:08:38.900 Yeah.

01:08:39.920 Wayne Messam.

01:08:41.280 Yeah, nobody knows who they are.

01:08:41.980 Nobody even knows who Wayne Messam is.

01:08:43.800 No one knows who these people are.

01:08:44.360 He's the mayor of Miramar, Florida.

01:08:46.460 Thank you very much.

01:08:47.020 Oh, yeah, that's right.

01:08:47.840 Yes, he is.

01:08:48.600 Yeah.

01:08:48.900 Mike Gravel.

01:08:50.180 Oh, yeah.

01:08:50.480 If you remember him, he ran in 2008, I think.

01:08:52.500 And had...

01:08:53.120 It was famous for a very awkward commercial where he stood in front of a pond and stared at

01:08:56.960 the camera for like a minute and a half.

01:08:58.980 That was like really the only thing he was known for.

01:09:01.320 He's back in the race.

01:09:02.220 He's 87, I think.

01:09:04.520 Oh, wow.

01:09:05.160 87 years old.

01:09:07.060 Bullock, Ryan, Inslee.

01:09:09.220 Steve Bullock, the governor of Montana.

01:09:10.840 Yep.

01:09:11.400 Sorry, yep.

01:09:12.120 Awful.

01:09:12.780 Is he?

01:09:13.400 Yeah.

01:09:13.700 He's trying to run as a moderate.

01:09:15.180 You don't think that's going to work?

01:09:15.940 I don't think so.

01:09:16.760 Okay.

01:09:17.360 Nor do I think he's moderate.

01:09:18.620 No.

01:09:19.620 Tim Ryan, Jay Inslee, John Hickenlooper, Kirsten Gillibrand is the one that really stands

01:09:25.320 out at zero percent.

01:09:26.820 Wow.

01:09:27.060 I mean, she was supposed to be, if not a top tier candidate, a second tier candidate.

01:09:31.740 For sure, yeah.

01:09:32.460 And at zero percent, if there's one person I would point to who this is...

01:09:37.200 I mean, Beto, you could definitely make the point.

01:09:38.940 It's been a disaster.

01:09:39.920 But at least he had a high point.

01:09:41.840 Gillibrand has been basically one percent or zero percent since she got in.

01:09:44.860 And she's a senator from New York.

01:09:46.500 Like, there's a case here, you'd think, she made big waves with her calling for, what's

01:09:51.920 his face, Al Franken to resign.

01:09:53.700 And that's wound up hurting her.

01:09:55.080 Wow.

01:09:55.280 Because, you know, Democrats don't want the Me Too rules applied to them.

01:09:58.760 No, they do not.

01:09:59.460 They want that replied to Republicans.

01:10:00.680 It's very specific.

01:10:01.800 That's for sure.

01:10:02.640 So then you have John Delaney, who's been running since mid-2017.

01:10:06.640 And who is he?

01:10:07.400 He's a congressman.

01:10:08.500 He was a congressman from Maryland.

01:10:09.980 He's no longer.

01:10:10.440 Was?

01:10:10.460 He's not even that now.

01:10:11.180 No, he's not even that.

01:10:11.920 I think he, the beginning of the year, like, he didn't run for re-election, I think.

01:10:16.780 So as of 2019, he's no longer in the race.

01:10:19.180 But he's been running since 2017.

01:10:20.740 That's because everybody was clamoring for him to run for president.

01:10:23.200 Yeah, yeah.

01:10:23.420 There was no sense of running for that office.

01:10:24.680 John, when are you going to run for president?

01:10:26.980 Yeah, they did.

01:10:27.700 They were.

01:10:28.540 And then Michael Bennett, who is one of the most recent guys who got in, a senator from

01:10:32.360 Colorado, also at zero percent.

01:10:34.200 So now you've got 11 of the 24 at zero percent.

01:10:37.880 But you didn't mention Marianne Williamson.

01:10:39.940 Does she have one percent?

01:10:41.140 You know what?

01:10:42.980 There's no way.

01:10:43.940 Well, let's go to the next group here.

01:10:45.340 And Tim Ryan?

01:10:46.560 Tim Ryan is at zero.

01:10:47.400 No, Ryan was on the list.

01:10:48.040 He mentioned Ryan.

01:10:48.460 Okay.

01:10:48.680 So how many candidates, again, 11 are down at zero percent.

01:10:51.440 How many are at one percent?

01:10:53.940 Oh.

01:10:55.380 Sheesh.

01:10:56.040 24 total candidates, 11 at zero percent.

01:10:58.620 How many are at one percent?

01:11:00.200 I'll say five.

01:11:01.860 Yeah.

01:11:02.300 I'll stick with five.

01:11:03.280 That sounds about right.

01:11:04.060 Very close.

01:11:04.740 Six.

01:11:05.400 Okay.

01:11:06.000 Six candidates at one percent.

01:11:08.220 Are you ready for them?

01:11:09.180 Yes.

01:11:09.740 Andrew Yang.

01:11:10.720 Okay.

01:11:10.940 Oh, yeah.

01:11:12.080 Marianne Williamson.

01:11:12.840 No, he's got the Yang gang.

01:11:14.160 The Yang gang.

01:11:14.280 That's only one percent of the population?

01:11:16.580 He's waiting to make his move.

01:11:19.160 And it is not one percent of the population.

01:11:20.600 It's one percent of Democratic primary voters.

01:11:22.560 That's true.

01:11:23.480 So one percent for Andrew Yang.

01:11:24.880 Yes, one percent for Marianne Williamson.

01:11:27.060 If you don't know who she is, she's like a new age guru that basically she has a lot of

01:11:32.580 associations with Oprah.

01:11:33.600 She used to go on the Oprah show a lot.

01:11:35.120 Yeah.

01:11:35.240 She's the Kardashian family.

01:11:37.760 So she has like a celebrity situation.

01:11:40.300 If she's going to win the election, right, like the only path for her is like Oprah and

01:11:44.500 Kim Kardashian both endorsing her and like campaigning for her.

01:11:48.940 They're not doing that right now.

01:11:49.620 That would probably get her up to two percent.

01:11:50.880 Yeah, maybe.

01:11:52.140 Tulsi Gabbard is at one percent.

01:11:53.820 I feel like I feel like they I've seen her doing quite a few interviews the last week

01:11:58.960 or so.

01:11:59.360 I feel like they're trying to really push her until she's trying to make a move.

01:12:03.080 I don't know that it's working.

01:12:04.140 She's a really weird candidate because I mean, she's a very strange set of viewpoints.

01:12:08.380 Yes, she does.

01:12:09.060 She's very like photogenic.

01:12:10.920 She looks good on camera.

01:12:12.080 She and when you when when you see her in interviews, she sounds like the most boring

01:12:17.160 think tank foreign policy wonk you've ever heard.

01:12:20.280 Like she's very serious, monotone and she also has a very strange history for Democrats

01:12:26.200 and that her dad was a big time like anti-gay rights campaigner like decades ago and she

01:12:31.960 was, you know, appeared at events with him and yeah, I don't know.

01:12:35.780 You know, again, she's a former military.

01:12:40.140 I mean, she's got that going for her.

01:12:41.340 She's really strong on that.

01:12:42.460 And she's like the there is there are a lot of fan clubs out there these days.

01:12:46.360 You go on Facebook, you find the fan clubs.

01:12:48.000 You can go and join the groups.

01:12:49.060 There's not a lot of members of the Bashir al-Assad fan club.

01:12:53.420 It's basically just Tulsi Gabbard, I think, and David Duke, those two.

01:12:58.420 And by the way, in the past, David Duke has actually endorsed Tulsi Gabbard, David Duke.

01:13:03.220 Oh, she's, of course, rejecting that endorsement as most do.

01:13:06.660 But that is she's a weird candidate.

01:13:08.900 Bill de Blasio also at one percent.

01:13:11.380 Julian Castro at one percent.

01:13:13.540 That's been a disaster, too.

01:13:14.880 You want to talk about another guy who's made no impact?

01:13:16.840 Yeah, because he was supposed to be the next rising star in the Democrat Party.

01:13:21.160 He was Buttigieg five years before Buttigieg, basically.

01:13:23.900 Except he was mayor of a much larger city in San Antonio.

01:13:27.980 And he wound up being a HUD secretary.

01:13:29.500 Yeah, HUD secretary.

01:13:30.500 Cory Booker at one percent.

01:13:32.160 That's a disaster.

01:13:32.900 Wow.

01:13:33.240 Good.

01:13:33.920 Yeah.

01:13:34.240 I mean, a Cory Booker absolutely sucks.

01:13:35.740 Nobody deserves one, you know, really, really minuscule support more than Cory Booker.

01:13:43.220 Nobody deserves it.

01:13:44.200 I mean, one percent is too much.

01:13:45.560 Yeah, it really is.

01:13:46.660 If you miss it, we did, you know, we've been doing these candidate profiles, the Socialist

01:13:50.040 Spotlight on the Glenn Beck TV show.

01:13:52.420 Go back and watch the Cory Booker one.

01:13:54.140 I mean, some of the dealings with him in Newark are fascinating.

01:13:58.860 Really?

01:13:59.220 I mean, he, like, started his own tech company while he was mayor.

01:14:03.540 Oh, wow.

01:14:03.640 And, like, he got it funded by all these big, you know, big names and multimillionaires.

01:14:08.860 It wasn't even a tech company, right?

01:14:10.420 It was just like a tech company that we've already been doing.

01:14:14.680 Oh, yeah.

01:14:15.000 And they still gave him money.

01:14:16.120 It was like a – I think he wanted it to be like a progressive search engine, I think.

01:14:19.360 Yeah.

01:14:19.540 It was some weird idea.

01:14:20.780 And Google still gave him money.

01:14:21.500 Oh, they gave him a fortune because, you know, and then, of course, lots of people

01:14:25.600 who benefited from his treatment in Newark also gave him money, shockingly, as these

01:14:29.440 things turned out.

01:14:29.960 It's worth going back and checking that one out.

01:14:32.000 So that's the six.

01:14:32.880 Booker, Castro, de Blasio, Gabbard, Williamson, and Yang at 1%.

01:14:36.440 Okay, next one.

01:14:37.760 Between 2% and 5%.

01:14:39.160 How many candidates?

01:14:39.640 Two to five.

01:14:40.280 So far, we have 17 candidates at 1% or less.

01:14:44.480 Beto's between 2% and 5%.

01:14:46.220 Yeah, right?

01:14:48.020 Beto is between 2% and 5%.

01:14:49.340 He's at 4%.

01:14:50.400 Kamala Harris between 2% and 5%.

01:14:53.720 No, Kamala Harris, not between 2% and 5%.

01:14:55.360 Oh, wow.

01:14:56.440 Okay.

01:14:57.100 There's two other candidates between 2% and 5%.

01:14:59.360 Can you name them?

01:15:01.840 Wow.

01:15:02.500 I don't know that I can.

01:15:03.840 Buttigieg?

01:15:04.420 He's got to be a lot farther than that, right?

01:15:05.800 No, he's above that.

01:15:06.820 He's above that, right?

01:15:07.940 Oh, you know what?

01:15:08.720 I was going to say 2% and – I should probably say 2% and 6%.

01:15:10.940 I actually wrote that down wrong.

01:15:11.940 Sorry.

01:15:12.260 Well, Stu.

01:15:12.660 Sorry, 2% and 6%.

01:15:13.060 Now you've screwed the whole thing up.

01:15:15.280 I did.

01:15:15.680 I did.

01:15:16.060 It's my bad.

01:15:16.320 That changes everything.

01:15:17.340 It sure does.

01:15:18.080 We have to go bad.

01:15:18.660 There's three candidates between 2% and 6%.

01:15:20.360 My bad.

01:15:20.920 Sorry about that.

01:15:23.400 So, I can't come up with two more, I don't think, because –

01:15:27.200 Is Klobuchar in that group?

01:15:29.920 Klobuchar, yes.

01:15:30.540 3% for Klobuchar.

01:15:31.760 Wow.

01:15:31.860 So, 3% Klobuchar, 4% O'Rourke, one candidate is at 6%.

01:15:35.400 6%.

01:15:35.880 She's just a bad person.

01:15:37.900 Can you guess who's at 6%?

01:15:40.480 Yeah.

01:15:45.660 Elizabeth Warren?

01:15:47.420 Did we already guess her?

01:15:48.180 Did you guess, Jeffy?

01:15:48.500 No.

01:15:48.860 It's not Elizabeth Warren?

01:15:49.780 It's not Elizabeth?

01:15:50.560 No.

01:15:51.460 And Kamala Harris has got to be higher than that.

01:15:53.720 Right.

01:15:53.900 And you say Kamala Harris.

01:15:54.600 So, I'll give it to you here.

01:15:55.860 Pete Buttigieg.

01:15:57.120 6%.

01:15:57.520 Oh, yeah.

01:15:57.540 Okay.

01:15:57.780 There you go.

01:15:58.140 Yeah, Pete.

01:15:58.580 I was giving more credit than that.

01:16:00.740 Yeah.

01:16:01.140 I would have thought of him –

01:16:02.300 I said Pete before you changed the numbers.

01:16:03.840 That's why I got it wrong.

01:16:05.780 I feel like the shine has come off a little bit on Mayor Pete at this point.

01:16:10.040 You don't like him, though.

01:16:11.160 I don't know.

01:16:11.980 I mean, I think he's actually a pretty good candidate.

01:16:15.160 Again, I think he's –

01:16:15.780 I think so, too.

01:16:16.220 I think he'd be a terrible president.

01:16:17.460 All these disclaimers.

01:16:18.460 I disagree with virtually everything he says, but –

01:16:20.780 But he's pretty well spoken.

01:16:21.900 He says it well.

01:16:22.480 Yes, he does.

01:16:22.980 He's a smart guy.

01:16:23.760 He's a Rhodes Scholar.

01:16:24.600 He's got the military history.

01:16:25.860 He looked really good on that town hall, man.

01:16:25.920 He looked really good on that town hall.

01:16:27.400 And he also has, I think, an elevated protected group status.

01:16:33.180 Yes, he does.

01:16:33.880 There's something –

01:16:35.000 At this point, we've already had female presidents run.

01:16:38.040 We've had female vice presidents run and almost win.

01:16:40.780 The first gay president, I think, means more to the average Democrat sort of voter than

01:16:46.460 Cory Booker, another black president, right?

01:16:49.120 I think, again, this is how they make decisions.

01:16:51.320 This is not how I make decisions by any means, but this is how the left makes decisions.

01:16:54.380 And I think being able to say, we put the first gay president on the ticket is going to mean

01:16:59.860 something to a lot of voters.

01:17:01.240 So I feel like he's a very big vice presidential candidate possibility.

01:17:05.620 Oh, yeah.

01:17:06.260 And he's also, I think, still has potentially another run in him here.

01:17:10.120 Okay.

01:17:10.620 So now we're up to – now I'm going to make sure before I tell you.

01:17:13.400 Okay.

01:17:13.980 There is one candidate at 10%.

01:17:17.280 I'm going to say that's Kamala Harris.

01:17:20.300 Good guess.

01:17:21.160 Yeah.

01:17:21.340 It is not.

01:17:22.740 It's Elizabeth Warren in this particular situation.

01:17:24.820 She's at 10%.

01:17:26.240 All right.

01:17:26.620 Then Kamala's more than – wow.

01:17:27.820 Next up is Kamala.

01:17:28.800 She's at 11% in third place.

01:17:31.360 And as you'd expect, Bernie Sanders at 15.

01:17:34.080 And in first place, as he always is right now, Joe Biden, 33%.

01:17:38.760 It's not even close.

01:17:39.700 Not even close.

01:17:40.400 It really is a race of one.

01:17:42.320 Will Joe Biden screw this up is really the question.

01:17:44.880 It's Joe who's white and the 23 dwarves.

01:17:49.880 The 23 dwarves.

01:17:50.640 That's what it is.

01:17:51.360 It really is.

01:17:52.100 Joe Biden, the 23 dwarves.

01:17:54.100 Now, we've seen this – I like that.

01:17:59.540 Joey Caucasian.

01:18:02.420 We've seen this before, right?

01:18:03.500 Howard Dean had a huge lead at this point in a campaign.

01:18:06.360 Yeah.

01:18:07.020 Actually, it wouldn't even be this point.

01:18:08.500 It would be another –

01:18:09.000 So did Hillary, by the way.

01:18:10.080 Rudy Giuliani led big.

01:18:11.520 Yes.

01:18:11.820 Yeah.

01:18:12.720 Hillary led big.

01:18:13.660 It's easy to see Joe Biden losing this.

01:18:16.220 Sure is.

01:18:16.660 Although, if he runs a good campaign and doesn't – if he becomes gaff-proof somehow and he runs a good campaign, he would be able to walk to victory.

01:18:25.000 The question is, of course, will that happen?

01:18:27.060 I think the answer to that is no.

01:18:28.260 I mean, Joe Biden is going to have a bunch of bad moments in this campaign.

01:18:31.200 He's incapable of –

01:18:32.320 Who do you think wins it then, the nomination?

01:18:35.260 I mean, I still think Biden's the favorite by any means.

01:18:37.660 For sure.

01:18:37.960 The interesting question is to go into the rest of the field and say, who could you pull out of there that could make a serious run at this thing?

01:18:43.480 That would be somebody else, right?

01:18:44.160 And so I would say – and I've been saying for a while, I think Kamala Harris might be that person.

01:18:48.440 I think she's a – she gives the socialist side of the argument a much better face than a Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

01:18:54.700 And I think she's dangerous.

01:18:57.360 Yeah.

01:18:57.560 I think if you're going to go down – let's say Biden were to falter.

01:19:00.820 Another one – I mean, I think Buttigieg would have some sort of run potentially.

01:19:03.800 I think Klobuchar also would.

01:19:05.200 She has a pretty decent case for a candidacy.

01:19:07.200 I mean, she's one big in Minnesota, which is basically a purple state at this point and an important state.

01:19:12.760 It's from the region where Donald Trump kind of stole their blue wall as they look at it.

01:19:17.580 And she can also give that – those moderate vibes.

01:19:20.380 I mean, we had Mike Lee in here, and we asked him about every candidate that was in the Senate that he worked with, and we said, who's the closest to the Constitution, if you had to say one?

01:19:27.600 And he, without hesitation, said Klobuchar.

01:19:29.480 Oh, wow.

01:19:29.940 Yeah, I mean, like, so – you know, it means something coming from Mike Lee.

01:19:33.540 Yeah, definitely.

01:19:34.040 So, you know, if Biden were to fall away, like, a Biden-Klobuchar sort of ticket could be very likely, I think.

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01:21:11.200 So why is Joe Biden so far ahead in this race?

01:21:15.420 Is it because he's more moderate than the others?

01:21:17.880 Or is it just because he was Obama's vice president?

01:21:23.140 Because Biden has run several times, and he's never been this close to the nomination.

01:21:29.580 He's got to be because he's Joe Biden, right?

01:21:32.200 I mean, he wanted to run on his own, which is why he made a point of asking Obama not to endorse him.

01:21:38.440 Yeah.

01:21:39.200 Because you don't want a top president.

01:21:40.920 That was a great moment when he was asked, hey, why isn't Barack Obama endorsing you?

01:21:45.320 Well, I asked him not to.

01:21:48.220 Really?

01:21:49.220 Yeah.

01:21:50.000 I wanted it to be fair to the other 23 candidates.

01:21:53.020 That's dumb.

01:21:53.600 You should try to win.

01:21:54.480 Yeah.

01:21:55.220 It's such a lame.

01:21:56.840 Yeah, I didn't want him to.

01:21:58.080 And he didn't really want.

01:22:00.980 And then he started saying he didn't want to endorse, and then he stopped himself.

01:22:05.140 Stopped himself.

01:22:05.380 It was so bad.

01:22:06.540 I think if you really think about this from the average person in America, they probably know who two of these candidates are, which are Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.

01:22:17.660 That's probably accurate.

01:22:18.900 Do you think the average person knows who Kamala Harris is right now?

01:22:22.960 No.

01:22:23.240 I mean, probably not, right?

01:22:24.560 As these debates start, they will start to know.

01:22:26.820 And I think that will change.

01:22:28.400 So I think it's largely that they know who he is, and I think it's largely name recognition.

01:22:33.920 Though that will change once these debates start.

01:22:36.040 We're only a few weeks away from them.

01:22:37.620 I mean, the first debate is a few weeks.

01:22:38.700 That's exactly a month from now.

01:22:39.760 A month.

01:22:40.560 A month from now.

01:22:41.200 That's insane.

01:22:41.800 Wow.

01:22:42.320 And it's February 3rd is Iowa.

01:22:44.480 So that is, we're going to have, you know, all these months, the whole second half of this year is going to be filled with debates and all sorts of stuff, commercials and everything.

01:22:53.260 And it's not even the election year.

01:22:55.540 No.

01:22:55.880 Think of that.

01:22:56.620 No.

01:22:57.500 You're already debating a year and a half out?

01:22:59.920 Wow.

01:23:00.520 Really early.

01:23:01.320 They did not seem to learn any of the lessons that I would have wanted Republicans to learn from last time, which is like, you don't need 647 debates.

01:23:08.640 Like, you don't need them every other day on every other network and ask all the same questions.

01:23:12.440 They're going to go through all of this, and it's going to be a nonstop dish of candy for us because there's going to be so much material.

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01:24:04.840 We got an amazing story about a university that's been kicked out of their sports conference.

01:24:14.140 It's amazing.

01:24:14.900 Sure.

01:24:15.400 The reason, well, it might astound you.

01:24:19.180 And then again, maybe not.

01:24:21.400 As a matter of fact, we might as well just jump into it.

01:24:27.220 The University of St. Thomas, they're a Division III school.

01:24:32.020 They're being kicked out of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference because their teams are too dominant.

01:24:42.380 We're sorry.

01:24:43.160 You're too good for us.

01:24:44.700 And we're sick of it.

01:24:46.760 So we can't beat you.

01:24:47.900 We want you out.

01:24:49.620 They're like, well, wait.

01:24:51.000 We'd like to stay in the conference.

01:24:53.360 Nope.

01:24:53.860 If you stay in the conference, the conference is going to dissolve.

01:24:57.600 Wait.

01:24:58.260 Wow.

01:24:58.700 I mean, how dominant have they been?

01:25:02.720 Do we know?

01:25:03.580 Because I don't follow the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

01:25:07.520 I don't follow it as closely as I should.

01:25:09.640 Back in the day, I used to watch every game.

01:25:12.340 But now it's more like no games.

01:25:14.760 Really?

01:25:15.220 Yeah.

01:25:15.460 It's a slight change in approach.

01:25:17.760 Yeah.

01:25:18.160 I'd say that seems like more than a slight change.

01:25:21.000 Really?

01:25:21.200 Yeah, it does.

01:25:23.000 ESPN said St. Thomas has won six MIAC football titles since 2010.

01:25:29.300 Okay.

01:25:29.680 So it won six out of eight or maybe even nine now.

01:25:34.940 Right.

01:25:35.460 And they reached the title game in 2012 and 2015.

01:25:39.560 But they also said the school's overall athletic program has been on a winning streak.

01:25:44.020 St. Thomas finished 10th nationally in the Learfield Directors Cup.

01:25:50.660 That's where they take all the sports and add up how you did in each sport.

01:25:56.280 And then the school that did the best in all of those sports wins the most points.

01:26:00.800 You're acting as if we don't know what the Learfield Directors Cup is.

01:26:04.500 I didn't mean to insult your intelligence.

01:26:06.340 Oh, the audience.

01:26:07.080 There's millions of people going, we know, Pat.

01:26:09.180 We know what the Learfield Directors Cup is.

01:26:13.740 Obviously.

01:26:14.180 Why don't you explain the Heisman Trophy to us now?

01:26:20.840 According to St. Thomas president Julie Sullivan, she said,

01:26:24.140 the league's decision is extremely disappointing.

01:26:27.040 But out of the school is committed to finding a new athletic conference.

01:26:29.860 Although our athletic conference will change, one thing will not,

01:26:32.660 our commitment to continued academic and athletic excellence.

01:26:36.420 I mean, according to this, they were one of the founding members of this conference.

01:26:41.040 That's crazy.

01:26:41.560 A founding member since 1920.

01:26:44.520 And we're going to kick them out.

01:26:45.460 1920?

01:26:46.760 I mean, they've been in this conference for that long,

01:26:48.980 and they're kicking them out because they're too good?

01:26:50.740 They won 47% of all the MIAC championships, both team and individual sports.

01:26:56.400 Not even half?

01:26:57.420 From 2003 to 2018.

01:26:59.780 So not even half.

01:27:00.620 That's a successful program.

01:27:01.820 It's a successful program, but it's not.

01:27:03.380 But it'd be like the Big Ten kicking Ohio State out of the Big Ten.

01:27:08.100 Yeah.

01:27:08.440 I'm sorry.

01:27:08.920 We can't compete with you.

01:27:09.840 We don't want you here anymore.

01:27:10.300 SEC kicking out Alabama.

01:27:11.340 I'm okay with that.

01:27:11.860 Right!

01:27:12.100 You know what?

01:27:12.640 I'm all right.

01:27:12.720 You're okay with that?

01:27:13.380 Yeah, let's go.

01:27:13.720 Of course.

01:27:14.240 I would support Alabama getting kicked out of college football.

01:27:18.480 So maybe we should reevaluate our stand here.

01:27:21.240 Because it is annoying when that team constantly wins.

01:27:23.260 You have every right to get rid of this school.

01:27:25.460 Every right.

01:27:26.260 Thank you.

01:27:28.120 I mean, it is annoying when a team constantly wins, right?

01:27:30.960 I mean, the Golden State is again in the finals this year.

01:27:33.020 And people are, you know.

01:27:34.080 Tired of it.

01:27:34.540 They're tired of it.

01:27:35.200 They don't want to say.

01:27:35.960 New England Patriots.

01:27:36.980 Yes.

01:27:37.420 Tired of it.

01:27:37.900 I couldn't be more sick of the New England Patriots.

01:27:40.280 Thankfully, the Philadelphia Eagles were there to make sure they didn't win multiple

01:27:43.920 Super Bowls in a row.

01:27:45.200 As we all know, everyone thanks God for the Eagles.

01:27:48.380 Do they?

01:27:49.380 They do.

01:27:49.740 Do they?

01:27:50.380 But it is one of those things.

01:27:51.980 It is annoying.

01:27:53.560 And I'm sure as a college where you're losing all the time to the same colleges, I could see

01:27:59.200 it being irritating.

01:28:00.420 But that really should just motivate you to be a better program.

01:28:03.140 Thank you.

01:28:03.380 Yes.

01:28:04.080 Or you drop out, right?

01:28:05.740 Like, if you're really that frustrated with it, you drop out and join a crappier conference.

01:28:09.120 Go to a weaker conference.

01:28:09.980 It goes back.

01:28:10.620 Now, according to this story, it goes back to one particular game.

01:28:14.540 Now, we talk all the time about teams shouldn't hold back.

01:28:16.980 You know how angry they are with coaches who reach 50 points and they're winning 50 to

01:28:21.780 nothing and then pull back.

01:28:22.920 Oh, I hate it.

01:28:23.720 I'm all for running up the score.

01:28:25.520 In 2017, St. Thomas played St. Olaf College.

01:28:29.980 And when you bring those two teams together.

01:28:31.940 You can throw the record books right out the window.

01:28:33.960 And you have to because St. Thomas beat them 97 to nothing.

01:28:37.780 And this is football?

01:28:39.020 Yes.

01:28:40.240 I mean, that's a defeat.

01:28:41.920 Yeah.

01:28:42.080 You know, you would say, we need to go back to the drawing board.

01:28:44.620 And that apparently was the catalyst.

01:28:46.360 Well, that should have been the catalyst for St. Olaf to maybe leave.

01:28:50.340 Leave.

01:28:50.900 Or get their football team to be a little bit better.

01:28:55.440 Maybe you recruit better.

01:28:56.820 Maybe you work them harder.

01:28:58.060 Maybe, you know, you try harder then, right?

01:29:01.180 Well, we'd like to try harder only with St. Thomas out.

01:29:04.380 But, because really the whole point of sports, it's, you know, it's supposed to be something

01:29:10.840 where it's pure competition, pure merit, right?

01:29:13.960 Now, of course, we all know that that's not always the case anymore.

01:29:16.900 But, I mean, that is the idea of it.

01:29:18.800 It's one of the, it's the last bastion of any merit-based activity in the world.

01:29:24.180 And we're even losing this.

01:29:25.640 And we're losing that.

01:29:26.720 That's why I think, you know, a lot of times conservatives complain about the same sort

01:29:30.840 of thing, like the trophy, the free trophy culture, and everybody gets an award, and all

01:29:35.180 of that.

01:29:36.040 And it's not because we care all that much about, you know, who gets trophies.

01:29:42.420 It's about caring about the authenticity of competition.

01:29:47.220 You have to have competition that's merit-based and pure, or there's no reason to do it.

01:29:53.920 And, you know, a lot of these sports leagues, when it comes down to the way the salary cap

01:29:58.480 operates, and people switching teams to go play with their friends, and all of this craziness

01:30:03.000 that goes on in these leagues these days, it winds up, you know, it's putting a little

01:30:09.340 bit of pollution into that world.

01:30:11.240 And you don't want it there.

01:30:12.240 Yeah.

01:30:12.700 We're just, we're enabling whiners.

01:30:14.900 Yeah.

01:30:15.580 And losers, really.

01:30:18.220 Because if you keep losing in this conference to this school, as you said, that should be

01:30:25.560 motivation for you to work all that much harder in order to get better so that you can come

01:30:31.880 back and beat these guys the next year.

01:30:33.580 Or close the doors of your program.

01:30:35.600 If you're going to lose 97 to nothing to everybody in your conference, maybe it's time to just

01:30:38.540 close the doors and not do anything more.

01:30:40.000 It's like back in 19, I think it was 1920 or 22, somewhere in there, when Georgia Tech

01:30:44.860 beat Cumberland College, 222 to nothing, and Cumberland College decided, okay, you know

01:30:50.400 what?

01:30:50.640 We're not going to play football anymore.

01:30:51.960 Yeah.

01:30:52.340 And that's a good decision.

01:30:53.480 That was probably a good decision on their part.

01:30:54.340 It was a great decision.

01:30:55.240 If you don't want to be humiliated, you either strive to do better, or you quit.

01:31:01.180 Good old-fashioned quit.

01:31:02.560 Yeah.

01:31:02.800 You know what?

01:31:03.220 At 222 to nothing, it's hard to blame them on that one.

01:31:05.600 Yeah.

01:31:05.800 You know?

01:31:06.220 If you lose 17-7, you should probably try harder.

01:31:09.720 You lose 222 to nothing.

01:31:11.420 You're probably not a very good program.

01:31:12.820 Yeah.

01:31:12.960 I will say, Pat, I'm a little disappointed that you didn't remember it was 19-16.

01:31:16.940 It was 16?

01:31:17.640 Okay.

01:31:18.140 All right.

01:31:18.500 Was it 222 to nothing exactly?

01:31:20.320 Yes.

01:31:20.800 And I think this was a game where, I think it was this game where they, the team on offense,

01:31:27.940 one of the reasons why the score was so high, the team that was losing was angry about it,

01:31:32.720 so they were just not trying.

01:31:34.120 They stopped trying at one point.

01:31:35.500 I think it's this game.

01:31:36.340 It could be, there's another game that was the same similar type of blowout, and they just

01:31:40.940 stopped trying, because they were just trying to prove a point, like, go ahead, score another

01:31:44.500 freaking touchdown, and then they would just take the ball and not even try?

01:31:47.260 See, that might be the wrong attitude as well.

01:31:48.900 That might be, too.

01:31:49.480 Yeah, that might be.

01:31:51.060 They should just get out of the league at that point.

01:31:52.720 Well, this attitude has become so prevalent that it's even entered the NFL, where you

01:31:56.740 got people making $5, $10, $15 million a year on defense to stop an offense, and then

01:32:02.740 they still expect the offense not to try hard.

01:32:04.960 They said, why didn't you take a knee when it was 27-0?

01:32:09.280 Hey, that wasn't nice that you threw a pass.

01:32:11.540 They kicked a field goal with a minute left in a 24-10 game.

01:32:15.940 Come on!

01:32:16.600 You're like, wait a minute.

01:32:17.220 That's like, they should be doing that.

01:32:18.840 I'm sorry, isn't your team payroll like $400 million?

01:32:22.620 Stop them!

01:32:23.980 Stop them.

01:32:25.040 It's crazy.

01:32:25.780 I hate it.

01:32:26.480 It's crazy.

01:32:27.400 It's such a weird, I mean, and it gets folded into sportsmanship, and I think it's the

01:32:32.820 exact opposite of sportsmanship.

01:32:35.020 If you are taking, and I understand this when it comes to young kids.

01:32:41.880 A lot of times this is where this stuff begins, but it's like, what is more insulting to a

01:32:46.120 professional athlete?

01:32:48.040 Either kicking an extra field goal, or literally giving up and saying, I'm so much better than

01:32:54.100 you.

01:32:54.340 If I try, it will be embarrassing for you.

01:32:56.560 That seems to be worse.

01:32:57.800 Much worse to me.

01:32:58.540 Yes, yes.

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01:34:23.560 Harvey Weinstein has apparently reached a settlement with some of the women he apparently abused.

01:34:28.640 Right?

01:34:28.920 Is that in lieu of trial?

01:34:31.460 Allegedly.

01:34:32.240 Allegedly.

01:34:32.840 Apparently.

01:34:33.520 I'm sorry.

01:34:34.760 Allegedly.

01:34:35.240 Allegedly abused these 80 women.

01:34:37.800 It is a fact, though, that nothing's been proven against him.

01:34:40.160 It's true.

01:34:40.620 So far as I know.

01:34:41.280 And he denies it all.

01:34:43.160 He denies any wrongdoing.

01:34:44.700 Of the cases, those cases will still go to trial.

01:34:50.240 Two criminal cases.

01:34:51.320 Yeah, the criminal cases are still going.

01:34:52.800 One of them was a rape, alleged rape.

01:34:57.560 That one is problematic for him because there is audio of him kind of saying he did it.

01:35:02.580 So that's a bit of a problem.

01:35:04.700 Oh, wow.

01:35:05.080 Now, of course, he'll say, well, what I meant was and come up with some other excuse or explanation.

01:35:11.560 It did pretty much seem like he was going along with the fact that he did grab her several times at the very least.

01:35:17.280 But so the Weinstein thing is this is really the company, right?

01:35:21.640 The company is settling with these women.

01:35:23.240 And there's 80 people who had allegedly alleged that he had done things to them.

01:35:29.880 And this this is basically becomes a pool of money that they can get claims from.

01:35:35.360 And it was paid from corporate insurance.

01:35:37.360 So none of this money comes from Harvey Weinstein.

01:35:40.160 And of course, he's obviously paid already with the entire the entire company.

01:35:45.440 I mean, you know, what was it?

01:35:47.100 Four days after all this happened, he got fired.

01:35:49.000 And within a couple of months, the company was dissolved.

01:35:50.920 It's gone.

01:35:51.800 Yeah.

01:35:52.100 So this is just kind of a fallout from that, which is a pretty big deal.

01:35:54.980 I mean, it's weird because people look at this and say, well, he's not getting the punishment he should get for these things.

01:36:01.760 And I can understand that, though.

01:36:04.340 It's not really your choice.

01:36:05.660 It's the woman's choice, right?

01:36:07.020 Like we like to take the woman's.

01:36:09.280 We say like this is all about me, too, and empowering women.

01:36:11.660 But don't let them choose to take a bunch of money.

01:36:14.220 Make the don't let them choose what they want to do.

01:36:16.600 If they want to take a bunch of money, they should be able to take a bunch of money.

01:36:19.360 Right.

01:36:19.680 Like, I mean, you know, a crime is a crime and there's a criminal process for that.

01:36:23.280 But this is this is not this is not that situation.

01:36:25.700 No, it is.

01:36:26.120 But we've also seen in this Me Too movement that they want the bunch of money and then they will still be able to tell on them later.

01:36:33.140 And I that is one thing that is has not been discussed as much when it comes to the whole Me Too movement,

01:36:39.780 which is, look, humans are awful.

01:36:44.740 OK, they're really awful creatures.

01:36:47.380 Look at me when you say I did look at you, didn't I?

01:36:49.380 That was almost instinctive.

01:36:51.100 They're really awful people and they do awful things to each other.

01:36:53.520 And this goes both ways.

01:36:55.040 I mean, you know, we were just talking about football.

01:36:57.000 Tyreek Hill, who is the star wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs, sort of at this moment, he still is.

01:37:04.100 He's been indefinitely suspended from the team because of these clips of audio where he seems to be being abusive to his wife and talking about potentially being abusive to their it's his girlfriend.

01:37:16.260 I don't know if it's girlfriend or his wife, but and also their child.

01:37:19.740 And, you know, it looks really bad.

01:37:21.820 And then they release a competing tape where she's basically admitting he did nothing wrong.

01:37:28.380 So, I mean, yeah, but like we don't know where this one turns out.

01:37:32.460 I don't know the ins and outs of it well enough.

01:37:34.200 But the bottom line is women are also humans and women are also awful at times.

01:37:38.080 And so are guys like everybody does, you know, terrible things.

01:37:42.100 There's examples of it all over the place.

01:37:44.300 And at times, the legal system of the United States and even the victims benefit from a system that they can go and say, look, I don't want to go through the court system.

01:37:58.820 I don't want to be dredged through the mud.

01:38:00.300 I don't want to go in front of everybody and tell everyone my deepest, darkest, most the worst moment of my life.

01:38:06.140 I don't want to explain it.

01:38:07.680 And they have these settlements for those reasons.

01:38:10.160 And now we're like, well, they shouldn't be able to have those settlements.

01:38:12.400 They shouldn't be able to choose that direction.

01:38:14.840 Well, they should be able to choose it, you know.

01:38:16.940 And I think that part of it, if that goes away, you're going to wind up having every woman who has a legitimate claim be dragged through the courts by really wealthy people.

01:38:26.860 And it's going to be a terrible outcome at the end.

01:38:29.420 So, I mean, that's a whole other part of this.

01:38:31.780 But I think the Weinstein situation is going to play out in ugly fashion over the next year.

01:38:36.700 This settlement, I mean, this is like they're reporting $44 million is the pile.

01:38:41.800 Well, that's what it's being reported.

01:38:43.820 You know, that's pretty good.

01:38:45.520 It's a lot of money.

01:38:46.480 That's a lot of money.

01:38:47.760 But it's still only part of what's going to happen to Harvey Weinstein here.

01:38:50.520 Oh, yeah.

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01:40:00.580 Speaking of Harvey Weinstein, some new movies are released this weekend, including Aladdin.

01:40:16.680 Any interest in Aladdin?

01:40:17.660 Oh, the Will Smith thing?

01:40:18.960 Yeah.

01:40:19.260 Oh, good God.

01:40:20.320 That looks terrible.

01:40:20.860 Yeah, he's the genie, right?

01:40:21.500 Yeah, he's the genie.

01:40:22.080 I don't think I've even seen a trailer.

01:40:24.200 I have.

01:40:24.780 Oh, my goodness.

01:40:25.720 It looks bad.

01:40:26.640 This is one.

01:40:27.540 Really?

01:40:28.280 Like a disaster?

01:40:29.220 It looks to me, it's just like the end of the Will Smith career.

01:40:33.220 Wow, you look that bad?

01:40:33.780 I'm sure that's not true.

01:40:35.400 I mean, like, I don't, it's designed for children, but it's like him as a goofy blue genie.

01:40:40.400 Well, you're going to try to be Robin Williams, right?

01:40:42.400 Yeah.

01:40:43.460 That's a tough order when you're not Robin Williams.

01:40:46.420 And you're not a comedian.

01:40:48.800 Don't try that.

01:40:49.720 I mean, Will Smith could probably pull it.

01:40:51.520 He'll probably do fine.

01:40:52.840 He'll probably make a lot of money and he'll be fine.

01:40:54.320 But, like, it's hard to, it's going to be hard to take him seriously in the next role.

01:40:58.540 Like, I just, I don't know.

01:40:59.820 It got 60% on Rotten Tomatoes.

01:41:03.200 I think that's the critics.

01:41:04.800 And then according to Google users, 92% liked it.

01:41:09.260 That's pretty high.

01:41:10.340 Yeah.

01:41:10.960 It's pretty high.

01:41:11.380 It just looks to me to be horrible.

01:41:12.900 But I have no interest in this genre.

01:41:15.400 Yeah, it's not a stew type of movie.

01:41:17.080 I mean, it's not an adult type of movie, right?

01:41:19.100 It's a movie for kids.

01:41:20.820 No, yeah.

01:41:21.460 Yeah, live action.

01:41:22.180 But for me, you know, it's Pokemon, Detective Pikachu.

01:41:26.740 That's what I'm looking forward to.

01:41:27.780 Me too.

01:41:28.500 Now, my son is very into this.

01:41:30.400 Is he?

01:41:30.700 Now, he's seven.

01:41:31.600 Is he a Pikachu thing?

01:41:32.080 Yes.

01:41:32.700 He went through a big Pokemon phase.

01:41:35.040 And it saw the preview of this movie at another movie we were at.

01:41:37.820 And it was very excited to see it.

01:41:39.180 I am not as high on it.

01:41:41.260 I am so glad.

01:41:43.200 I don't have small children to have to take to this.

01:41:45.680 I am so glad.

01:41:47.760 Then there's something called.

01:41:49.020 This is, Pat, though, where the dine-in theater becomes a big thing.

01:41:51.680 Because I can go to any movie that's at a dine-in theater.

01:41:53.700 As long as there's food.

01:41:54.700 Just shovel food down my mouth the entire time.

01:41:56.660 You can pass it by me.

01:41:56.840 Yeah.

01:41:57.860 You know?

01:41:58.420 And not to mention, I mean, you know, this is not going to be necessarily your forte here, Pat.

01:42:03.500 But, of course, the full bar of being available makes Aladdin pretty good.

01:42:07.480 I got to believe there's a certain amount of drinks in which Will Smith's performance is excellent.

01:42:11.060 And I got to tell you, a couple of those movies, you put your feet up in those movies, you're sleeping gone.

01:42:17.380 I've fallen asleep before.

01:42:19.040 Especially at a movie with the kids.

01:42:20.740 Because if you're not, you know, some of them are good.

01:42:22.860 Daddy, daddy, watch.

01:42:23.680 Yeah, I am.

01:42:24.480 I am.

01:42:25.080 Yeah.

01:42:25.540 Yeah, my kids, like, wandered off into Hostel Part 2.

01:42:28.420 He's in another part of the theater.

01:42:29.800 I'm, like, having to sleep on a chair.

01:42:31.780 That happens.

01:42:32.100 Did you see the new theater?

01:42:33.440 They're opening up in, I think it was Switzerland.

01:42:36.560 And it's basically a bedroom.

01:42:38.760 You lay on a bed.

01:42:40.380 It looks like a bed, anyway.

01:42:41.860 And they've got, they come in and they change it every single showing, apparently.

01:42:46.060 And, I mean, it literally reclines into a bed.

01:42:49.400 Sounds like places I've opened up.

01:42:51.140 I don't know how you stay awake with that.

01:42:53.600 No, you just fall asleep.

01:42:54.580 That kind of comfort is just, it gets too comfortable at some point.

01:42:58.500 They're doing all sorts of these weird things.

01:42:59.820 Have you heard the new, this is off topic, but I've been seeing commercials for this lately.

01:43:03.400 And I think it's actually a thing, which is the Capital One Cafe.

01:43:07.820 Yes.

01:43:08.280 Yes.

01:43:08.560 Why would you want a bank that's a cafe?

01:43:10.560 Right.

01:43:11.040 I don't understand it.

01:43:12.140 Because you don't want to just go into a bank and bank.

01:43:13.640 Right.

01:43:14.020 Because they're like, we're reinventing banking.

01:43:16.480 Right.

01:43:16.720 And what it means is, I guess you go and you get a coffee while you're opening an account?

01:43:19.780 Like, it seems to be the legitimate pitch.

01:43:21.280 That's so weird.

01:43:22.000 I will say I'm intrigued enough to walk into one of them, if I could find one.

01:43:26.240 Because I want to know what they're trying to do.

01:43:27.640 I think it every single time.

01:43:28.940 I think, do I want that in my bank?

01:43:31.020 Right.

01:43:31.220 I don't know that, I'm looking for that.

01:43:33.580 And they don't seem to ever say they're serving anything.

01:43:35.860 It looks like a cafe, and they say the word cafe, but then they just talk about signing

01:43:40.020 up online for bank accounts.

01:43:41.800 And I'm like, well, I can do that.

01:43:42.860 Well, I've reimagined a bank into a coffee shop.

01:43:45.720 Oh, well, I've already, I'm going to, why don't I just go to a coffee shop?

01:43:49.580 Because you're not going to be able to bank there.

01:43:51.180 I don't know if you can bank at the bank.

01:43:53.280 Like, this is like.

01:43:53.960 Because it's now a coffee shop.

01:43:55.500 And if you're going to combine two things, I'm not, I don't think bank and cafe are

01:44:00.920 the way I would go.

01:44:01.700 Like, there's a place near where I live, and it's like one of these, like, strip malls.

01:44:05.760 And I don't know if it's a Robert Kraft establishment, but there's a massage place in the strip mall,

01:44:10.880 and next to it is a donut shop.

01:44:13.120 But on the sign for the complex, it just says massage donuts.

01:44:17.020 And I'm like, donuts and massage is a solid combo.

01:44:19.360 You aren't lying, it is.

01:44:20.580 Like, I just want to be, you're getting a massage, and people are just feeding you donuts at the

01:44:23.520 same time.

01:44:23.980 That's the sort of combination you want.

01:44:25.560 KFC, Taco Bell.

01:44:27.120 Right?

01:44:27.400 Like, they're all, they're in the same thing.

01:44:29.040 You go in there, you can order whatever fried chicken thing you want, and you get a bunch

01:44:31.980 of tacos.

01:44:32.680 Like, that's a solid combination.

01:44:34.340 Yes, it is.

01:44:34.560 Yes.

01:44:34.860 I feel like bank and cafe is not the direction we need to be going.

01:44:37.700 What if you could go the other way on the bank cafe, where it starts as a cafe, but

01:44:41.480 we also do banking now.

01:44:42.900 Like Starbucks.

01:44:43.620 Starbucks.

01:44:44.160 Just open up a bank.

01:44:44.780 We're just, we're reimagining a coffee shop, and we're going to give you banking, a banking experience

01:44:51.740 here as well.

01:44:52.860 Yeah.

01:44:53.220 It'd be interesting to see if that worked out.

01:44:55.140 My guess is no.

01:44:56.000 I know it's not a movie, but have you started watching Chernobyl yet?

01:44:58.940 No.

01:44:59.180 I have not.

01:44:59.880 So good.

01:45:00.480 The first episode is really good.

01:45:01.540 I know there's three episodes released on HBO now.

01:45:04.880 I think I'm two in, and they both are really good.

01:45:07.360 I really enjoyed it.

01:45:08.220 But I see where IMDb ranked it as its top rated show now.

01:45:13.040 Oh, wow.

01:45:13.280 9.5.

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01:46:47.140 It's Pat Stewen.

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01:46:50.940 And we've been talking about this.

01:46:52.960 You guys mentioned the Chernobyl movie.

01:46:55.040 Is it a documentary?

01:46:56.880 It is a...

01:46:57.340 No.

01:46:57.780 It is a live action.

01:46:58.820 It's like a series.

01:47:00.000 A mini-series on HBO.

01:47:01.420 Oh, okay.

01:47:01.840 A limited series.

01:47:03.000 So it's like maybe...

01:47:05.860 I think it's six or seven episodes total.

01:47:07.900 I think only three of them are out so far.

01:47:09.580 And it just goes through the entire Chernobyl thing from like...

01:47:12.060 It starts the day the meltdown happens.

01:47:14.780 And this is an event I'm absolutely fascinated with.

01:47:17.700 I mean, it is legitimately...

01:47:18.320 Oh, it happened, actually.

01:47:19.300 Yeah.

01:47:19.620 It's legitimately on my bucket list of I need to get there.

01:47:22.920 Now, the problem with Chernobyl is it might be the last thing on your bucket list.

01:47:25.640 Because you go there and then you don't come back.

01:47:28.380 No, it's actually completely safe to humans.

01:47:31.880 And like, they're not moving people back into the area for multiple reasons.

01:47:35.020 No, but animals have moved back.

01:47:36.240 I just saw that on one of my nature shows.

01:47:38.040 Yes.

01:47:38.540 And they said it is unbelievable how the animal kingdom has just moved right back in.

01:47:45.800 And there's abundant life there now.

01:47:49.400 Yeah.

01:47:49.680 There's plenty to eat.

01:47:51.100 You know, the greenery has grown again.

01:47:53.120 And it's not like The Simpsons with Mr. Burns where every fish has three eyes.

01:47:56.600 No.

01:47:56.760 No, they're just fine.

01:47:57.740 They're just fine.

01:47:58.380 You know, later on, physicists have said that the bottom line is they actually probably

01:48:03.960 should not have issued a mandatory evacuation of the area even when it happened.

01:48:08.760 And the thought was at the time...

01:48:10.360 I don't think we understood it at the time.

01:48:12.060 No, we didn't.

01:48:12.460 We thought it was going to kill a lot more people.

01:48:14.320 And one of the things that Chernobyl, the series does really well, is highlight the real

01:48:20.540 heroic activities of the people who were there working at the plant and in the surrounding

01:48:25.420 areas.

01:48:26.160 I mean, they basically rushed into a burning building like you'd never seen before.

01:48:30.780 And just to protect the people around them.

01:48:33.040 It was the government that was the complete disaster, as you'd expect.

01:48:36.100 No kidding.

01:48:36.800 It really, I mean, you know, this is a...

01:48:40.600 It's not a...

01:48:41.120 People tried to make this into, see, this is what can happen with nuclear power.

01:48:45.020 No.

01:48:45.440 No.

01:48:45.740 See, this is what can happen with awful government.

01:48:47.600 This is what can happen with communism.

01:48:49.000 Yes.

01:48:49.120 I mean, they basically were running a giant reactor without a containment facility.

01:48:52.300 Now, that would never happen today, even in places like Russia.

01:48:55.420 I mean, no one would operate a nuclear power plant, anything like Chernobyl.

01:49:00.660 And the other times that we've had issues with, and scares with nuclear energy, they have

01:49:07.620 been nothing but a giant testament to the success of the way they've protected people.

01:49:13.540 In Three Mile Island, the worst exposure to radiation at Three Mile Island was a full

01:49:17.940 chest of x-rays.

01:49:19.960 A full set of chest x-rays.

01:49:21.940 And that's why thousands of people died?

01:49:23.840 No, no one died.

01:49:25.020 Zero people died.

01:49:26.380 No, he's talking about three...

01:49:26.660 No, three Mile Island.

01:49:27.960 Three Mile Island, yes.

01:49:29.000 Zero people died.

01:49:30.020 Nuclear disaster in the history of this nation.

01:49:32.640 That's actually true, but also zero people died.

01:49:37.080 And, you know, Jeffy and I have joked about this.

01:49:39.780 We used to do this on Patents 2 all the time with Fukushima.

01:49:42.200 But again, zero people died.

01:49:43.640 Update on Fukushima.

01:49:44.220 Fukushima, zero people died.

01:49:46.880 Did you scare the one?

01:49:47.900 Yes.

01:49:48.360 Yes, we did.

01:49:49.180 Yeah.

01:49:49.640 I think we're starting to see some Fukushima animals in the ocean when we speak, my friends.

01:49:53.820 That's not even a thing.

01:49:55.280 What is a Fukushima animal?

01:49:56.500 I mean, people get confused between the actual nuclear meltdown and the tidal wave.

01:50:02.480 Right, the tidal wave killed lots of people.

01:50:03.960 Killed lots of people.

01:50:04.600 The tsunami killed a lot of people.

01:50:05.780 Yeah.

01:50:06.180 10,000 or more.

01:50:07.220 Yeah.

01:50:07.460 It was a terrible, terrible incident.

01:50:09.000 And yet, they try to vilify nuclear power.

01:50:12.580 At the same time, they warn us about climate change.

01:50:15.140 Nuclear power would be like the easiest solution to climate change known to man.

01:50:18.900 It's an unlimited amount of emission-free electricity.

01:50:22.680 And they're like, no, you can't do that.

01:50:24.860 That's the easiest way to spot an actual environmentalist and a person who's using it for political gain.

01:50:31.540 If they will tell you, you know what?

01:50:33.180 Yes, nuclear power, please bring it on.

01:50:35.880 They are a real environmentalist.

01:50:37.440 They actually care about global warming.

01:50:38.780 There's a whole group of people who are on the far left who really care about global warming but are advocating for nuclear power.

01:50:45.940 And at least you can take them seriously.

01:50:47.880 Like, here is, okay, we have this amazing technology that has killed, in its entire existence, 59 people.

01:50:54.900 All of them at Chernobyl, basically.

01:50:56.500 I mean, people have fallen at plants and stuff.

01:50:58.420 But I'm talking about actual meltdowns.

01:51:01.220 What about the China syndrome when that happened?

01:51:03.720 That was a movie.

01:51:05.260 Yeah, that was a movie.

01:51:06.620 No, I specifically saw that documentary.

01:51:08.420 Yeah, you saw it in the hallway here.

01:51:09.660 Isn't that the one that – no, that was the – what was the one that was filmed here?

01:51:12.160 There's another nuclear disaster movie that was filmed here in the studios.

01:51:15.220 We're in Dallas.

01:51:15.820 Silkwood.

01:51:16.160 Silkwood, yes.

01:51:16.660 Silkwood.

01:51:17.080 With Meryl Streep.

01:51:18.160 With Meryl Streep.

01:51:19.280 Who you love.

01:51:20.060 Oh, I hate getting –

01:51:21.080 She was great in that movie, though.

01:51:22.660 She is terrible in all movies.

01:51:25.960 But the Chernobyl thing is excellent.

01:51:27.840 If you think Chernobyl is interesting, it's worth watching.

01:51:31.260 If you just like good television, it's worth watching.

01:51:33.080 But let me give you a third reason.

01:51:34.340 If you happen to be considering voting for, let's say, a Bernie Sanders, if you know someone who happens to be the type of person who might pull a lever for Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren or anyone else who thinks, you know, AOC, Democratic Socialism is the way to go.

01:51:50.040 So it's a must-watch for them because you see exactly the way these governments operate.

01:51:57.080 You sure do.

01:51:57.800 It was – it's amazing how much you see.

01:52:01.380 It's like, oh, my God.

01:52:02.520 Yeah, because, again, when you prioritize the collective over individuals, you get this mindset.

01:52:08.780 And let me give you a great example of it.

01:52:10.000 This is from episode one of Chernobyl.

01:52:11.860 And it is – to set the scene here, the meltdown has happened.

01:52:17.440 They realize something serious is going on.

01:52:20.000 But there's a disagreement as to what they should do about it.

01:52:22.200 And how bad it is.

01:52:23.140 And how bad it is.

01:52:24.020 Like, a lot of the people there are like, look, it's nothing serious.

01:52:27.900 We've already contained it.

01:52:28.760 Everything's going to be fine.

01:52:30.040 And then there's just the inkling of other people who are like, hey, like, it seems to be a lot worse than you're saying.

01:52:36.920 I think we should evacuate our families.

01:52:38.420 We should get people out of here.

01:52:39.460 And they're like, no, that's going to cause a panic.

01:52:41.800 And they're in the middle of this back and forth.

01:52:43.860 Who's going to win?

01:52:44.540 The people saying it's not a big deal or the people who are worried about their families.

01:52:50.020 And so as this is all happening, there's an old-time socialist.

01:52:55.300 A guy who's been around a while.

01:52:56.700 You know, he's kind of sitting in the back room.

01:52:57.920 He's just watching all this happen.

01:52:59.500 And as the arguing sort of builds up, he taps his cane on the floor.

01:53:03.220 And everyone just drops silent to listen to what this old-school guy is about to say.

01:53:07.900 And listen to this speech and play it to anyone who wants to vote for Bernie Sanders.

01:53:13.980 Because this is how it always ends up.

01:53:17.040 Listen.

01:53:17.760 Sometimes we forget.

01:53:20.840 Sometimes we fall prey to fear.

01:53:23.000 That our faith in Soviet socialism will always be rewarded.

01:53:34.460 Now, the state tells us the situation here is not dangerous.

01:53:39.520 Have faith, comrades.

01:53:43.200 The state tells us it wants to prevent a panic.

01:53:46.580 Listen well.

01:53:47.700 It's true.

01:53:52.280 When the people see the police, they will be afraid.

01:53:56.520 But it is my experience

01:53:58.620 that when the people ask questions that are not in their own best interest,

01:54:05.500 they should simply be told to keep their minds on their labor

01:54:09.420 and leave matters of the state to the state.

01:54:17.180 We seal off the city.

01:54:20.420 No one leaves.

01:54:22.820 And cut the phone lines.

01:54:25.600 Contain the spread of misinformation.

01:54:27.140 That is how we keep the people from undermining the fruits of their own labor.

01:54:39.720 Yes, comrades.

01:54:42.460 We will all be rewarded for what we do here tonight.

01:54:46.800 Who?

01:54:47.020 This is our moment to shine.

01:54:55.020 I didn't think about it.

01:54:56.380 Chilling.

01:54:57.040 It is chilling.

01:54:57.760 I didn't realize somebody from Great Britain was in charge of the Soviet Union.

01:55:02.180 Yes.

01:55:02.900 That's interesting.

01:55:03.480 There's a number of us.

01:55:04.520 They infiltrated.

01:55:05.640 They are pretty British.

01:55:06.500 Yeah.

01:55:06.920 But it's really well done.

01:55:08.740 That they were the head of the Communist Party.

01:55:10.480 A bunch of people from England.

01:55:12.300 I didn't realize that.

01:55:13.100 Yeah, it's amazing, though.

01:55:14.180 The two parts of that were...

01:55:15.700 Hello, comrades.

01:55:16.460 Flats.

01:55:18.140 Fly me.

01:55:18.680 It's a beautiful day.

01:55:22.940 When he says, when people ask questions that are not in their best interest.

01:55:28.580 Yeah.

01:55:28.760 That is the way socialist governments...

01:55:32.080 Keep your mind on your labor.

01:55:33.680 And they say, when they want to do things that will undermine their own labor, that is

01:55:40.160 how communists and socialists think about these things.

01:55:43.260 Because once you commit to this, once you commit to, we are the experts, we will run things,

01:55:48.940 we will tell you how it is best to live, what you need to do, how you can control the economy.

01:55:54.560 Once you get there and it starts failing, all you can do is double down and control.

01:55:58.800 So when the state wants something done and people are panicking, seal off the city.

01:56:06.420 Don't cut all the phone lines.

01:56:07.920 Don't let anyone know.

01:56:09.160 Don't let these people undermine their labor.

01:56:11.920 Yeah, but let anyone know, Stu.

01:56:13.840 That's so harsh.

01:56:15.340 We just wanted to curb misinformation.

01:56:17.380 Curb misinformation.

01:56:18.380 That's the way...

01:56:18.920 There's always a justification.

01:56:20.660 And when you get to this point, when you are dedicated to socialism, like, I mean, how

01:56:25.340 many of the 24 candidates are, I mean, certainly none of them talk that deeply in an overt fashion.

01:56:31.900 But I mean, when you're an ideologue like Bernie Sanders, when you went to the Soviet Union

01:56:35.500 on your honeymoon, you are so dedicated to this.

01:56:39.180 Yes, you are.

01:56:39.720 That this, that protecting socialism from people perceiving it to fail, if he was able to implement

01:56:47.560 this, which if he gets to be president, he will do a lot of it.

01:56:51.300 And he will over, I think he'll get rid of the filibuster.

01:56:54.060 I think he'll do whatever he has to do to get these policies in.

01:56:56.740 And if he does, he will do anything to protect it.

01:57:01.600 Anything.

01:57:02.380 Because it's all about the collective good.

01:57:04.460 We must protect socialism.

01:57:05.980 Because if this fails, they'll go back to that individualism, individualism stuff.

01:57:10.020 They'll go back to the old American system.

01:57:11.560 We can't let that happen.

01:57:12.980 And that's what the Soviet Union was doing there.

01:57:14.960 It was, yes, it was about a disregard for human life, which is the way people normally

01:57:19.260 talk about it.

01:57:19.920 But in reality, more than that, it was an unending dedication to that idea of socialism.

01:57:26.840 It doesn't matter if a few people die here.

01:57:29.680 Who cares?

01:57:30.360 The bottom line is, we will be rewarded for our eternal dedication to Soviet socialism.

01:57:37.620 And the scary thing is, what contributed to that?

01:57:40.840 A disregard for human life.

01:57:43.140 They didn't care.

01:57:44.080 It meant nothing to them.

01:57:45.260 They worked together.

01:57:46.060 And is that not pervasive in the Democrat Party?

01:57:49.220 Mm-hmm.

01:57:49.980 They're essentially a death cult now.

01:57:52.820 They don't seem to care about human life either.

01:57:55.620 They completely disregard it.

01:57:56.780 That's why it's not a big deal that they can do an abortion in, you know, right up to and

01:58:02.260 including 40 weeks.

01:58:03.780 Or after 40 weeks.

01:58:05.240 Yeah, whatever.

01:58:06.060 After, after.

01:58:06.900 It doesn't matter to them.

01:58:08.480 Don't even call it a heartbeat.

01:58:09.800 It's a, some sort of pulse.

01:58:12.920 Yeah.

01:58:13.200 Some fetal pulse.

01:58:13.940 Flickering pulse.

01:58:14.660 Flickering pulse.

01:58:15.160 That was the, that's the one they're using now.

01:58:16.840 Flickering pulse on an ultrasound.

01:58:18.360 Jeez.

01:58:18.800 I saw someone post something that was like, it said like, pregnancy does not make my body public

01:58:25.740 a property.

01:58:26.980 It's like, what, what kind of weird way is this to look at the world?

01:58:30.960 Like, we, what we're saying is the other person is not your property.

01:58:35.160 Just like my son right now, I can't just go kill because he's not my property.

01:58:39.760 He's an individual.

01:58:40.760 He has his own set of rights.

01:58:42.960 Uh, and I love this idea that like the left somehow tries to make the argument that what

01:58:49.420 they really want here is the government not to be involved in things.

01:58:53.520 Who the hell are you people?

01:58:54.900 I know we were all there for Obamacare.

01:58:57.780 You're saying healthcare has nothing to do with, with the public sector, but you know,

01:59:02.180 it's not public property.

01:59:03.040 That's a right.

01:59:03.480 Why, why is every one of my decisions when it comes to healthcare regulated by thousands

01:59:09.420 of things that I can and cannot do?

01:59:11.740 Why am I paying for everyone else's healthcare if it's not their property, if their health

01:59:17.020 is not my property?

01:59:17.920 Because it certainly seems like you are willing to bring the government into every other healthcare

01:59:23.480 interaction, except the one that you falsely call healthcare, abortion.

01:59:28.840 It's the one you, they keep calling healthcare when it's not, and yet they want us involved.

01:59:33.140 The only thing they want the libertarian principle carried out in is abortion.

01:59:37.040 It's amazing.

01:59:37.480 So you're saying that's a good thing?

01:59:39.520 Yes.

01:59:39.900 Yeah, I thought so.

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02:01:07.620 It's kind of interesting, although unfortunate, as far as I'm concerned.

02:01:11.720 CBS won the late night, late show war for the whole season.

02:01:17.620 Really?

02:01:17.940 For the first time since 1994-95.

02:01:20.520 With?

02:01:21.640 Yes.

02:01:22.500 Stephen Colbert.

02:01:23.660 I can't believe he was in first place.

02:01:25.820 He's in first place.

02:01:26.080 I can't either, because I don't like him.

02:01:28.240 He's not that funny.

02:01:29.660 I don't like him.

02:01:30.440 No.

02:01:30.800 And it's a one-trick pony.

02:01:32.100 He just tries to make Trump jokes all day.

02:01:34.260 You know, it's interesting.

02:01:35.100 There's kind of competing evidence going on with that, because, you know, when he first

02:01:39.220 started, Colbert, he was getting destroyed by Fallon, and he was not doing lots of political

02:01:44.060 stuff.

02:01:44.700 And then the Trump thing happened.

02:01:45.800 He started doing the political stuff, and that has been his rise.

02:01:48.580 It seems to have worked.

02:01:49.620 So for late night, it seems to have worked.

02:01:51.320 For MSNBC, sort of works.

02:01:53.260 CNN, totally not.

02:01:54.780 Doesn't work.

02:01:55.000 Right?

02:01:55.360 Yeah.

02:01:56.060 And I think you mentioned ESPN as well.

02:01:58.580 Yeah.

02:01:58.860 ESPN.

02:01:59.320 We talked about this the other day.

02:02:00.760 The president at ESPN put a stop to the political talk on ESPN.

02:02:05.180 Good.

02:02:05.940 Thank you.

02:02:06.900 That's what we've been saying.

02:02:07.860 And when you turn to ESPN, you don't want to hear a bunch of left-wing politics.

02:02:11.840 Who wants that?

02:02:13.260 No one.

02:02:14.880 And so he put his foot down and clamped down on it and said, no more.

02:02:18.220 No more.

02:02:18.640 Remember the two people who were doing the SportsCenter thing?

02:02:22.800 The woman who was just basically calling Trump a racist?

02:02:26.120 Jemele Hill.

02:02:27.080 And she went to, I think she's at the Atlantic now.

02:02:29.800 Good place for her.

02:02:30.860 You can't have Kevin Williamson working there.

02:02:32.740 God forbid.

02:02:33.560 He's a well-known, great writer that's conservative.

02:02:37.420 You can't have him there.

02:02:38.500 But Jemele Hill, completely fine.

02:02:40.340 Right.

02:02:41.040 Which, again, you should be able to have, I mean, Jemele Hill can have a job expressing

02:02:45.760 your opinion.

02:02:46.340 But SportsCenter is a terrible place for it.

02:02:49.600 Terrible.

02:02:50.400 I mean, it was just agonizing.

02:02:51.660 It was just a nonstop social justice parade.

02:02:54.580 It's like, I get that that's part of the conversation in everything in life.

02:02:58.520 Right?

02:02:58.700 Like, God forbid you have a conversation that doesn't involve race.

02:03:02.060 I know.

02:03:02.920 I just like, it has to, and again, it's the same thing we were talking about earlier.

02:03:06.560 It is an excuse for everything.

02:03:08.700 And then what I love is, we need to have a conversation about race.

02:03:11.740 A conversation.

02:03:12.440 What?

02:03:12.760 That's all we've been doing for the last 30 years.

02:03:15.900 What's the difference between Brooks Koepka, the golfer, and Tiger Woods, the golfer, at

02:03:20.060 the same point of their public prominence?

02:03:22.160 Brooks Koepka has won four of the last eight majors.

02:03:25.000 Nobody knows what his name is.

02:03:26.880 Right.

02:03:27.220 Right?

02:03:27.360 Four of the last eight majors.

02:03:29.500 Tiger Woods was an absolute phenomenon.

02:03:31.720 They're both dull as a board when it comes to an interview.

02:03:35.600 You know?

02:03:36.220 But Tiger Woods had that extra thing that people liked.

02:03:39.220 Does that mean, I mean, you can put race into every single one of these issues if you

02:03:43.420 want to.

02:03:43.880 It's silliness.

02:03:45.320 Just look at it.

02:03:46.260 Just judge people by the content of their freaking character.

02:03:49.260 It's a bizarre request, I know.

02:03:54.360 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

02:03:57.360 You're listening to Glenn Beck.

The Glenn Beck Program - May 24, 2019

The Truth About The ＂American Taliban＂｜ 5⧸24⧸19

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