Trump's Supreme Court Pick? 1⧸24⧸17
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On the heels of his first full day at the White House, President Trump announces that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a thing of the past. Glenn and I discuss why this is a good thing and what it means for the economy.
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Yesterday, the first full work day at the White House.
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And why is it that I didn't see this headline from Time Magazine,
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Donald Trump breaks almost all of his day one promises.
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Seems like the headline writers like to just throw bloody meat at people.
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We'll get to what he did, and also, it looks like he may have selected a Supreme Court justice.
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We have some insiders that are now saying we think it is this particular man.
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We're going to give you all the details on who that is and what it means, beginning right now.
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I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand,
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cause we are one, I will beat my drum, I have made my choice,
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Donald Trump breaks almost all of his day one promises.
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As candidate, Donald Trump set a sweeping day one agenda.
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As of Monday evening, the vast majority of his promises have gone unfulfilled.
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At rallies and speeches over the course of his campaign,
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as well as a contract spelled out with the American voters,
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Trump vowed to move swiftly to overhaul the country's approaches to trade and immigration.
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He said repealing and replacing his predecessor's signature health care law
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He vowed to terminate what he dubbed his predecessor's two illegal executive amnesties.
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And he committed to push forward with sweeping ethics reforms
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and undue scores of environmental and other regulations.
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Anybody else find, but since he was sworn in Friday,
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Here's what he did yesterday on his first full workday at the White House.
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He withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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He made it clear that he would not consider putting the agreement to a vote in Congress.
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The U.S. will withdraw as a signatory toward the deal
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and permanently withdraw from any further negotiations.
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The member nations closed the agreement in 2015,
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and pro-trade Republicans hesitant to support it in an election year,
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Obama decided to hold off asking Congress to ratify the agreement
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until the GOP leaders were confident it was passed.
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it does not mean that Trump is taking the U.S. out of trade altogether.
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Indeed, Trump officials say he will consider seeking discrete trade agreements
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with many of the nations who were party to TPP.
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The U.S. already has bilateral agreements with many already.
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that the Trump administration wants free and fair trade throughout the world,
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The executive action ushers in a new era of U.S. trade policy
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in which the Trump administration will pursue bilateral trade opportunities
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That one concerns me because the way he talks about trade,
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because what I fear is the same thing you fear.
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So, I mean, obviously, our issue is China with trade.
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Reinstating a ban on funding some abortion services.
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on government support for international aid groups
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that provide or counsel women on abortion services.
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Third, ordering a government-wide hiring freeze.
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and departments to freeze hiring of new personnel.
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the dramatic expansion of the federal workforce
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Yeah, I'm certainly a big fan of this one as well.
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But he left office about the same employment level
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that you don't have to think about that for a while.
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It may have something to do with respect for the presidency,
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Another theory is the reason why he has a 60% approval rating right now,
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which is everyone's been focusing on other people they don't like for a while,
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Just think about him for a second, and you can get back to 90%.
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My point, though, on the coverage was that PolitiFact gave him a true
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for a promise he made about his first day or first 100 days or whatever it was,
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And so when you look at the details of the promise,
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he said he was going to appoint a panel to look at how they should reform criminal justice.
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And because he appointed the panel, they gave him a true.
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They looked at it, and they did look, and he did appoint the panel.
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They're saying it's a falsehood that he was able to do this with the generals,
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Trump has formally requested Pentagon advice on changing the campaign against the militants.
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Spicer said the president will continue to have those conversations later in the week.
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And, I mean, when you're saying day one, I mean, do you really mean the first day I'm going to sign all of these things?
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Who was he to go to the generals and say, hey, when I get into office, I want a plan.
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I want to have that plan ready, and I'm going to execute it on day one.
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Ask Congress his promise to send him a bill to repeal and replace Obama's signature health care law.
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Yeah, I mean, he passed an executive order, which I don't know if this is a common way of doing it,
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with basically saying, we want to pull out of Obamacare, was basically the only executive order.
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It just said, we're going to take every step we can to.
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It announced the intention, and I think it was important to him to show that he was on Sunday.
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He said he would stop all federal funding to sanctuary cities.
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Places where local officials don't arrest or detain immigrants living in the country illegally for federal authorities.
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Begin deporting what Trump estimates to be more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants living in the country.
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And an important one, because it was they who cost him the popular vote.
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But, I mean, he, man, they are really pushing for this.
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I mean, he said, I think it was Spicer yesterday who said, we are not going to repeal DACA, the Obama administration executive order that basically, you know, put liberal doctrine into rule.
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And their idea is to find a long-term solution through Congress, which is surprising.
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I mean, that one I was actually surprised about.
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And they are very much talking like Obama's been talking for the past eight years of we're going to go after criminals.
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Like, it's very much now focused on criminal illegal aliens, which, as we, you know, noted the other day, the deportations for them have increased.
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Then you don't have to deal with, well, what about those who have been here for 20 years?
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Well, they shouldn't have been here for 20 years.
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Now, there is something that is happening in Silicon Valley on this topic that I want to get to after we get through this whole list.
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But Silicon Valley has decided they're going to say never again is now.
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They're saying IBM helped with the Holocaust, and we will not assist the government in any way on doing things where they're targeting minorities or religious groups or anything like that.
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Stu and I read it this morning, and we both agree with what they say they want to do, but not their reasons.
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So it's a little, I mean, it's really disappointing, but I think it's going to be one of those things that you're torn on, but you kind of applaud them for doing it, but not for the reasons they're doing it.
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And on all these policies we've been discussing, overall, there's a lot to like.
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I mean, it was a little weird to see Donald Trump sitting down with all the union officials and agreeing with him about trade policy.
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But overall, there's a lot to like there, and I think while there might be a mixed bag, it's great to see some of these changes.
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do apply this is the glenn beck program oscars were announced just a few minutes ago they were saying
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la la land was going to be um the most nominated in history it had to be i think 14 nominations or 15
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nominations in tide titanic tide titanic 14 right uh yes i saw that movie i was like you know all
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these nominations i was like i gotta go see this movie and then i saw um about five seconds of the
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preview realized it was a musical then i was cured it was amazing no thank you i know this is not going
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to come as a surprise to anybody i loved it i oh you've already seen it i loved it it's a musical
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yeah it's a musical so you said no i'm telling you it is uh who's the girl in it what's her name
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um uh emma stone yes oh yeah she is brilliant she'll get an oscar for best actress she was
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absolutely and then the other really actor is ryan gosling ryan gosling is he a good singer uh when
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you watch this you will have no idea that that guy i watched the edits i'm like okay how are they
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doing this because he's playing the piano and really well the guy can't play the piano oh really
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he played the piano he took lessons for three solid for three hours a day three solid months
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and he's playing the piano in this and i mean unless you're a musician a real good musician
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you would never know it's quite amazing these this is a i thought a really really
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almost a 1940s style musical make you feel good the glenn beck program
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help um go back to the um go back to the oscars here for a second because let's see how many of
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these we've even seen yeah by the way on twitter someone tweets uh i didn't get past the description
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of la la land glenn loved it he might have low t which i thought was an interesting observation
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about you and i i think we've established that okay no i i do have low t but uh does it cause by
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musicals is that how that no no no it's not but i i mean i don't know if that's actually been proven
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what it's not caused by musical yeah no it might be i i personally i i loved it and i think anybody
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who has a heart you heartless grinch so they weren't able to to have a heart without singing
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it they had to know i mean okay okay okay yes okay i mean it will take you the first scene because
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it took me the first scene is an opening scene where they all get out of their cars on the freeway
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and they start singing and i'm like no is it really that yeah i hate that i know and i and i
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and i was like i don't think i can do this i just don't think me me wow yeah i don't think i can do
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this i got past that scene and you'll love it let me you love it so is it one of those obnoxious
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things where everything is sung or do they speak for long periods of time it's the first half
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the first half okay so you think when you first watch it the first song you know it's
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opening is a song and it's smart because it it lowers your expectations you're like oh i'm gonna
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hate this movie um and uh it starts out where everybody is singing and they're all like getting
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out of their cars and they're like i'm going to work today or whatever the hell they're singing
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and you're like oh my gosh i want to hang myself and then that happened to me yesterday on i-35
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right everybody jumped out we're having fun in traffic
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and then all of a sudden everybody at the same time gets in their cars and they drive away
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so that happens all the time anyway it's great so then it settles down to where it is more of
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um a drama where the one character or the two main characters just sing something it's not like
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um moulin rouge where they were big production numbers yeah this is more the only real production
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number that i can remember is the first one where everybody is singing you're like okay stop it
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um the rest of it is just this love story between these two then the second half almost has no singing in
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it and it's just this really cool love story it would be a great approach if for some reason you
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were constitutionally required to sing in movies but you're not so you don't have to find out ways to
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minimize it you could just do none of it well it is almost like it's almost like they started out
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as like a real 1930s movie and you know they were they were like uh uh okay we're gonna do this big
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broadway kind of movie and then they saw the first number they're like yeah that's not so good of an
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idea maybe we'll just have a couple of people saying let's just do a drama
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we've already invested too much in these big numbers we gotta keep them right no i i really
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loved it though obviously la la land has been nominated okay so i'm the only one that's seen
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that yes only one okay uh also manchester by the sea i hear that's not seen that not seen it anybody
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see it i've heard it's a very sad yeah but what's it about looks really sad i don't know uh i don't
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want to go see sad i don't either neither do i hell or high water which i've heard i've seen it
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what is that about it's a texas movie that is a texas movie remember they went and they the movie
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company came to us and asked us to bring some people to screen oh that's right yeah remember
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and we screened it way in advance because they were afraid that conservatives wouldn't like it
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that's great because it's bank robbers of this bank that has screwed all these people in from 2008
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okay and so it was like a true story no oh okay and uh but it's i loved it i absolutely loved it
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and the audience really loved it it's really good fences with denzel washington looks really good
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haven't seen it moonlight which i don't know anything about what the hell is that i don't know uh gangs
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miami oh yeah i think that's got a chance to actually if it's not going to be la la land which
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is going to be the big favorite moonlight i would say is la la land's going to do it because it's a
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love story to hollywood it's their story it'll win so they will win because they'll be like oh i
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remember that was me yeah oh i remember when i got out of my car in the freeway and sang
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also lion which i i don't know anything about that what is that about that's probably about that
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dentist uh remember the dentist that killed the lion who'd just be like and then nominated for an
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award hidden figures which is the the three african-american women who my family has seen
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that my kids have seen that they say it's fantastic i've heard good things about it uh hidden figures
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okay uh and then hacksaw ridge which you've also seen i have not nominated for an oscar actually
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so mel gibson said look it's time you guys forgive me and apparently they did because
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hacksaw ridge is nominated for best picture and director excellent talk about an uphill battle he
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had to fight to get that excellent unbelievable and you've seen it i have not seen it who has seen
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it just you oh guys you have to see that movie yeah you will love it it is so good so violent
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yeah you have a real problem yeah you got a problem with violence yeah oh no it's it is a
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violent war scene sensitive but you know you will love it it is one of the best stories i have seen
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and it's true i haven't seen any of these yet yeah none you know something else you won't watch
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none of them not one you know something else you won't watch what the oscars so you'll you'll
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complete the circle yeah but i usually i usually go see some of these weird independent offshoot
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you know movies that you see every i usually see three or four of the best pictures a lot of these
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are not weird offshoot no i mean hacksaw ridge and and uh the one in texas and the last of the nine
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the last of the nine i finally have seen arrival okay i saw arrival as well which is good which was okay
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it was it was pretty good it was good so lion is uh after being separated from his family in india
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five-year-old saru is adopted by an australian couple who raised him with great love as an adult
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however saru is troubled by resurfacing memories of his birth family and employs new worldwide
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technology to locate them wow that sounds terrible sound good oh my gosh does that sound bad who is
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sitting in the hollywood pitch meeting wow and accepted that wow wait no this is this is an
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interesting part of this jeffy because i'm reading another description on another site it says 25 years
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later armed with only a handful of memories his unwavering determination in revolutionary technology
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known as google earth revolutionary technology i have on my computer right here this that's that's
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what the movies about google earth what okay you know what this is you know what this is this is
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this is the appeal this is hollywood's reaching out to the rest of the world right yeah you're
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the glenn beck program let me go to ryan in ohio hello ryan you're on the glenn beck program
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i was just uh how you doing i'd just like to call in and um let you guys know that uh
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as a active duty combat veteran uh i was actually a combat medic and i thought hacksaw rigs was
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absolutely just phenomenal um we're one of the most underappreciated uh mos's in the military and
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we don't get a lot of recognition a lot of the combat action um mls's do but the combat medics
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don't and i thought it was great to see a movie where they could show someone who could be with
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the infantry with someone in the crap like that and be as selfless as we are and i just thought it was
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an absolutely phenomenal show of human spirit and the way that people really can care about other
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people did you did you know about this guy ryan before the movie i did um as a combat medic when
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you go through combat medic school um in uh 14 houston texas part of the thing is is they have a
00:35:00.660
combat medic museum down there pretty much everybody goes to it uh we go in they give everything and in
00:35:08.340
combat medic class they actually teach you about desmond das and the sacrifices that he gave to help
00:35:15.220
others and it basically is the embodiment of what every combat medic should be the person who is
00:35:21.620
there with the infantry you're there you're their moral support and then you're also there you know
00:35:27.220
their heart and soul without you you know everybody else there wouldn't be able to do their job if
00:35:32.900
someone got hurt so i i just really it was it really touched me i i actually kind of cried during
00:35:39.700
the movie just because it just it kind of took me back to being over there so when i was talking
00:35:45.380
to mel gibson he said that he toned some of the things down that dobs uh dawson did because he said
00:35:53.540
they're really truly unbelievable and what he does in the movie is unbelievable he said but if we did
00:35:58.180
everything that he had done he said nobody would have believed it um but one of the things that we
00:36:04.340
talked about was i thought this was the um most real prediction or a depiction of war that i've ever
00:36:14.660
seen is that what it's like to to an extent um that as close as you're going to get to a movie without
00:36:23.140
being over there um there are some things that i still don't talk about to this day um even my fiance kind
00:36:30.580
of gets a little bit upset because there's things that you just don't talk about there's things you
00:36:35.220
see there's things you do um that you're not you know you're proud of but you're not proud of at the
00:36:40.420
same time and this this for me was the closest thing to what we actually do in the heart of battle
00:36:52.100
of any movie i've ever seen thank you very much thanks for your service ryan i appreciate it god bless
00:36:57.540
giving jeff i can't i can't see it now from the island of spice if it's if it's it's too real
00:37:04.980
it's gonna bring back too many memories i don't even think you've ever traveled overseas let alone
00:37:09.780
fought in a war i'm not even sure if you've even seen a war movie it's too real glenn i can't yeah i
00:37:17.860
know i know you're such a hero well no i i don't profess to be a hero right i just just doing your job
00:37:24.180
not thank you just doing your job yeah right okay in the in the big one right island spice
00:37:31.060
it was grenada grenada yeah the big one that's a really big one stop communism yeah yeah dead in
00:37:37.140
its tracks tracks yeah yeah were you there for the falklands too that was you sound like you sound
00:37:44.260
like you're making fun no i'm not making fun of not you jeffy not you wouldn't do it wouldn't do it
00:37:50.980
not with your not with the not with the hero medals that you surely own
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program glad you're here uh we have a look at the new supreme court justice i shouldn't say new
00:38:41.620
the one that we're getting some rumbles from from inside uh the white house that is going to be
00:38:49.300
possibly the guy that trump nominates who he finally decides i don't know but if it's this guy you're
00:38:57.300
going to love it we're going to start there in fact let's do that right now
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i will make a stand i will raise my voice i will hold your hand
00:39:08.660
because we are one i will beat my drum i have made my choice we will overcome
00:39:16.660
because we are one the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenn beck program
00:39:32.980
hello america glad you're here um we got news this morning from uh inside the um uh the white house
00:39:42.020
that it looks like they may be close to nominating a supreme court justice and if indeed our source is
00:39:50.740
correct this we think is going to be a really good thing for anybody who said i have to vote for donald
00:39:58.660
trump just because of the supreme court if he does indeed nominate this guy and it turns out to be in
00:40:06.100
he he doesn't become a justice roberts on us uh which i don't think because he has a very long
00:40:13.220
history the bushes um have always nominated people who just didn't have a bad record they didn't have
00:40:20.500
any record but they're very conservative but they had no record well they've been on the bench and they
00:40:25.700
have no record they're not conservatives this guy has a long record of being a conservative and
00:40:31.140
stew's been looking at him for the last couple of hours and can bring us up to speed on possibly
00:40:37.220
the uh nominee that's going to be coming out of donald trump yeah it's interesting so the the source
00:40:42.740
is not uh ours on who it is it's jonathan carl um who is you know been very good reporter um he says he
00:40:50.740
uh i expect donald trump to make his supreme court nomination early next week sources tell me neil
00:40:55.860
gorsuch is the uh leading candidate i gotta admit i don't i don't i don't know him uh other than yeah
00:41:02.500
none of us knew i i mean we called some people that we know and got the lowdown some people who have
00:41:07.700
been doing their homework on these all of these guys and asked what they thought and stew's been
00:41:14.340
doing some extra homework himself what have you found yeah it's pretty interesting i mean he was
00:41:19.220
appointed by george w bush in may may 2006 to the circuit court of appeals the 10th circuit
00:41:26.340
he uh give some of his his uh background hobby lobby case he wrote a concurrence um sided with
00:41:33.860
hobby lobby um another case um uh the little sisters of the poor case that we talked about
00:41:40.580
yeah that was the one where they had to provide birth control and all right his point was uh 10th
00:41:45.540
circuit has shown insufficient deference to the little sisters own articulation of the tenants of
00:41:48.980
their religious beliefs um that position was of course vindicated by the supreme court later on
00:41:54.260
um simply put in cases that closely divided his court and the supreme court gorsuch has shown himself
00:42:00.420
to be an ardent defender of religious liberties and uh which is big i mean that is a uh one of the
00:42:05.860
biggest things that we had worried about with some of the other nominees um he seems to be good on that
00:42:10.020
one um he uh um uh joined another dissent in which he disagreed with basically ruling on the correct
00:42:17.860
side of for our from our perspective um about the government's ability to display 10 commandments
00:42:23.940
monument in a public park without accepting all of the other offers of donated monuments
00:42:28.900
because someone wanted they you know oh no well you have to do the satanic monument you have to put up
00:42:33.300
um so i he agreed with that one and so did the supreme court by the way um common thread if these
00:42:39.060
cases is one that matters very deeply to conservatives a sense that the government can
00:42:42.420
permit public displays of religion and can accommodate deeply held religious views without
00:42:46.820
either violating the religion clauses of the constitution or destroying the effectiveness
00:42:50.820
of government programs that occasionally run into religious objections uh scalia articulated very
00:42:55.860
similar views um gorsuch's opinions on these issues are quite thoughtful and demonstrate that he
00:43:01.300
would be a natural successor to scalia in adopting a pro-religion conception of the establishment clause
00:43:06.900
very positive again this is coming from scotus blog which is a neutral it's not a liberal or
00:43:11.460
conservative site it's just a supreme court nerd uh establishment yeah uh criminal law uh is pretty
00:43:18.580
good as well uh um this is one case uh federal law prohibits the knowing possession of a gun by a felon
00:43:25.540
okay this this law has given rise to a debate about how to best read what does knowing mean right does it mean
00:43:31.460
that a felon um possesses a gun or does it mean what if he doesn't know that he's a felon for example he has
00:43:38.340
a minor thing uh in his past which technically was a felony that he didn't realize does that mean he
00:43:45.140
should be able to does he violate what's a minor felony uh they actually explain it in here yeah
00:43:50.420
because i i mean a felony sounds pretty bad yeah it was something that would should pop up on your
00:43:56.020
radar so here's it says does it apply um when whenever a felon knowingly possesses a gun or must
00:44:02.900
violators also know they have been convicted of a felony this matters because lots of minor crimes might
00:44:07.620
technically be felonies and lots of dispositions that seem inconsequential because they involve
00:44:11.620
no jail time might technically be felony convictions yes okay well i would agree that you would have to
00:44:17.140
know you were a felon right and so so does gorsuch he says he urged the 10th circuit to review its rule
00:44:22.100
holding that it is enough to support a conviction that the defendant knew he possessed the gun whether or
00:44:26.500
not he knew he was a felon this opinion is an example of gorsuch's strong commitment to textualism
00:44:32.180
and severe critique of using legislative history i mean that's a good one particularly to make
00:44:37.460
criminal what might otherwise be innocent yeah when he says not using not using um uh history what did
00:44:44.580
he say contextual history contextualism contextualism and a severe critique of using legislative history
00:44:51.380
yeah so he this is a guy who's going to look at the meaning of the constitution this so far this guy
00:44:59.300
sounds great yeah and again here's at the end it's worth noting this means that gorsuch just like
00:45:04.420
scalia um is sometimes willing to read criminal laws more narrowly in a way that disfavors the
00:45:10.260
prosecution especially when the second amendment or other constitutional protection is involved
00:45:15.940
that's great um gorsuch uh like scalia has not been a friendly vote for death penalty
00:45:21.460
petitioners uh pursuing relief from their sentences uh his position in death penalty cases is likely to be
00:45:27.380
quite close to scalia's um this one i thought was really interesting dormant commerce clause the
00:45:33.300
dormant commerce clause what an interesting thing if you're trying to if you're trying to increase
00:45:39.220
the power of government not the commerce clause but the dormant commerce clause what is the dormant
00:45:46.420
commerce clause great question these doctrines treat the commerce clause not only as a grant of power
00:45:50.740
to congress to make laws regulating interstate commerce but it's a kind of presumptive limitation on the
00:45:55.540
power of states to make laws that either unduly burden or unfairly discriminate against internet
00:46:00.900
uh interstate commerce because as its name suggests the dormant commerce clause cannot actually be found
00:46:07.860
in the text of the constitution right scalia came around to the view that it should not be a thing
00:46:13.700
and refused to endorse any future expansion it's not a thing it's not in the wouldn't that be great if
00:46:18.980
they also came around to the uh separation of church and state isn't a thing right in the constitution
00:46:24.820
yeah well you're talking about are you talking about the separation of church and state or the dormant
00:46:30.660
wall separating church there is a dormant one there yeah uh scalia talked about in in 2015 the fundamental
00:46:38.980
problem with our negative commerce clause cases is that the constitution does not contain a negative
00:46:44.180
commerce clause which is a really good observation and i love this at the end gorsuch the the potential
00:46:49.700
judge uh as talked about by john carl from abc his opinions also reveal a measure of distrust towards
00:46:56.740
unwritten constitutional provisions like the dormant commerce clause you mean he doesn't seem to really
00:47:05.620
put a lot of weight on the thing that's not in the constitution because it's not in the constitution
00:47:10.980
they're gonna hate this guy i know but that's great stuff and that's as far as i've been able
00:47:14.580
to get through so far as we've been doing this so how are you feeling about you know the just the
00:47:18.740
first do not project out just what he's done don't project what you feel about him so far because of
00:47:28.820
the election and what he did don't project out what he might do just the last few days and that's what
00:47:34.580
we promised by the way yeah we did we promised a clean slate and try to examine these things as they go
00:47:38.980
right it's really good so far really except except um except with the uh the the caring about the
00:47:48.900
stupid crowd size crowd size and spicer going out and and actually other than lying and picking a
00:47:55.620
fight other than that plus i i'm disgusted with spicer as a pick for the white house press secretary i
00:48:01.700
think he's sucks so far uh yeah i think he's really bad but anybody who is i will tell you in his
00:48:08.820
favor that position it's tough because we didn't like gibbs we didn't like earnest yeah we didn't
00:48:13.940
like uh in his defense in his defense any man who takes the strong position that he does against
00:48:21.380
dip and dots is a good man it's an interesting because i mean that is probably the best part about
00:48:26.500
him so far now you may not know but he has taken a strong stand well now wait a minute i gotta
00:48:32.980
reevaluate yeah he says dip and dots is not the ice cream of the future and i happen to agree with
00:48:39.140
him oh me too that's like a smart man that's like a jetson's future that's an alternative universe
00:48:44.660
future where dip into i've i don't believe i've ever had dip and dots they've been the future of ice
00:48:50.580
cream since 1970 yeah they're not they're not it's not actually even the future is here and they're not
00:48:56.500
it the story from the av club lines out that what the the the lines of this battle uh the his first
00:49:02.900
briefing served as a trial by fire for spicer himself could he get through the entire five
00:49:06.820
minute speech to the press without slipping into an attack on his arch enemy dip and dots
00:49:11.300
the ice cream of the future as social media detectives have quickly discovered spicer has
00:49:15.940
been waging a quiet one-sided twitter feud with a flash frozen spherical treat it started in 2010
00:49:21.780
when spicer still a year out from taking his uh previous post as communications director for the
00:49:26.340
rnc tweeted out dip and dots is not capital letters the ice cream of the future amen a blatantly
00:49:33.380
incendiary claim that flew in the face of the company's long cherished slogan
00:49:38.580
it's not clear what provokes spicer's attack a bad trip to the zoo maybe or perhaps uh six flags
00:49:44.260
but it was still sticking to the his craw sticking in his craw a year later which i think pat had
00:49:48.580
surgically removed yes um when he doubled down on the bold claim i think i've said this before but
00:49:53.780
dip and dots are not the ice cream of the future dip and dots the self-described ice cream of the
00:49:59.220
future filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after fighting off foreclosure efforts by regions
00:50:03.940
bank for more than a year it is to spicer's credit though that he didn't content himself with mere
00:50:08.900
opinions on the matter of dip and dots versus the future and where would gorsuch stand on that one we
00:50:15.700
don't know a month later he supplied evidence linking to the wall street journal article about
00:50:19.860
the company's financial woes his foe apparently is slain spicer laid down his sword and got back to
00:50:26.260
much more important work of attacking barack obama for every conceivable thing he ever did and more
00:50:31.380
time there was peace but then dip and dots wandered foolishly back into spicer's crosshairs in 2015
00:50:37.140
by failing to ship enough vanilla flavored ice cream to a washington nationals game that he was at
00:50:43.140
within moments the old fires were raging again if dip and dots was truly the ice cream of the future
00:50:47.860
they would have they would not have run out of vanilla at the nationals game okay i've completely
00:50:52.340
turned around on this guy i love this guy i love this guy anybody who has a war against dip and
00:50:58.100
dots i'm in that is actually really funny yeah it makes me forget all the things like
00:51:04.980
you're lying to the press by the way has responded and they have they yes they finally have realized that
00:51:10.980
and they said uh um they want to be friends with uh mr spicer well i have never had dipping dots
00:51:17.380
before have you ever had it no i have uh i will say the weirdest i mean you know it tastes sorry i
00:51:22.500
mean it's not it's not you know i don't think it is the ice cream of the future first of all i would
00:51:26.100
agree um i have the worst part about it is and it's funny where i had this was at the zoo because my
00:51:30.900
kids wanted something at the zoo we were at the zoo and and uh the worst part about it is especially in
00:51:35.700
texas heat when it melts you realize you should not have eaten it it like turns into this weird like
00:51:42.180
brown liquid when it melts really it just is not well kind of like a milkshake no no like
00:51:49.540
no really no no that was one of the most stern knows like that was a warning stop it like no don't
00:51:57.700
demean this right um no it was more like a toxic like a toxic river like it's it's it's much more
00:52:04.740
liquidy it's not like cream because it's the ice cream of the future it's made out of something
00:52:08.740
else i don't know but it comes it looks like something that spills out of your car okay
00:52:13.460
your garage is parked there so i so i've never i've never had them because they always look to me
00:52:19.780
like those little styrofoam bb's that you get and i'm like i don't want yeah i just i don't want
00:52:26.260
that and i like the creaminess yeah right yeah i can believe that you've never had them since they
00:52:31.060
usually just sell at you know sporting events at ballparks yeah but uh and zoos and zoos yeah
00:52:39.940
yeah it's not not my favorite treat i would say i mean of course i've i would eat them because you
00:52:44.660
know i'm fat so if dip and dot sent us a case of dip and dots to try oh i would do it absolutely yes
00:52:54.820
because i'm weak and pathetic but yes it's a way i would say the future does not seem to be defined
00:52:59.540
by dip and dots as a general statement i think we can agree on that i think we can i i i stand by
00:53:06.100
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that's a scatterbrain dude none of us can remember we start i started the question we said that we would
00:56:26.400
give him a fair shake and not looking to the past not looking to the future just looking right now
00:56:32.240
did i ever finish that go around the room and you and pat answered it i believe and then we kind of
00:56:36.960
got off on a tangent okay so i i'm i'm feeling pretty good except for those things how are you
00:56:43.440
feeling pretty good uh he's exceeded my expectations so far well you had no expectations you i don't know
00:56:49.840
why they need to point that out but i mean seriously there's been you know i think it's been a mixed
00:56:55.440
bag i i can't be i'm not thrilled i you know but uh i i'm i'm i'm thrilled with some of the things i
00:57:01.760
think what's interesting about trump um and watching him go through this is he is he's sort of a you know
00:57:09.440
jam your foot on the gas guy and when it connects with something you're you like he's amazing um for
00:57:17.840
example they so far on the epa and those related issues energy epa he's been i think very good he's
00:57:23.680
about to sign um he's about to open the keystone oil pipeline yeah um and and the dakota one as well
00:57:30.640
yeah um the ep his ep epa chief pick i think was very solid um he's been very good on those things
00:57:37.200
and because that's an issue i'm passionate about i really like it i'm also passionate about free trade
00:57:42.320
and i don't agree with him on that and his his stances there are going to be problematic for me
00:57:47.600
you know the flynn appointment is a disaster to me i mean it's really bad um and uh and that one i think
00:57:54.400
is is is really problematic but i would say overall you know speaking generally i think he's certainly
00:58:01.280
exceeded my expectations and i think a lot of the picks have been really good uh not just kind of good
00:58:07.200
not just okay well that's acceptable from a republican president actually beyond that because
00:58:12.720
he doesn't seem to care which is great however on the issues i don't agree with him on it's going to
00:58:18.400
be it's going to it's going to hurt a lot i think there's going to you know if we see this sort of
00:58:21.920
dynamic where there's really good things and really bad things um as long as the bad isn't too too bad
00:58:27.840
it's going to be better than i expected um and look i hope that's the case i hope it continues
00:58:34.000
one of the things we talked about yesterday on pat and stew is how stupid this protest was
00:58:40.560
by the left think about this you have a guy who who in the campaign asked for 680 billion dollars
00:58:47.040
for federal funding of maternity maternity leave he values his daughter ivanka seemingly more than any
00:58:54.640
person on the planet and trusts her judgment and embraces it so now you set up a dynamic instead
00:59:00.640
of working with him to try to get those things done which no other republican would do for you
00:59:05.120
you go out there and oppose him and just piss him off and the way trump seems to react to things like
00:59:10.240
that is oh you thought you're getting that no way he will step back and and build a wall around himself
00:59:16.400
and say screw you you're going to go out there and protest me with three million people screw you
00:59:20.000
you're never getting any of those things now that's a terrible tactic and but unless you're playing for
00:59:25.920
long-term discord the glenn beck program mercury the glenn beck program 888-727-beck welcome to the
00:59:40.000
program i guess we should i guess we should look um at the regulations and wrap up the uh obama
00:59:50.720
administration with a look at some of the craziest things that they did for instance removing he and
00:59:57.520
she from all regulations to avoid gender norms they actually took the time to do all that that's an
01:00:06.160
important step i know it was it was gender normandy um the department of transportation authorized pigs
01:00:13.520
to fly as emotional support animals in 2012. well that was good if you need it yeah right if you
01:00:22.240
have a pet pig that's right rules were intended to eliminate discrimination against disabled persons
01:00:28.000
when they fly and the official guidance okayed pot-bellied pigs weighing up to
01:00:36.000
300 pounds to come on the airplane with you well that's a pot-bellied pig
01:00:40.480
how comfortable are you ridiculous for a 400 pound pot-bellied pig yeah how comfortable are you with a 300
01:00:52.400
pound pig why are you looking at me uh let's see one major regulation from obamacare was adding calorie
01:01:05.200
requirements to menus and restaurants but defining what constitutes a menu was not easy the rules were
01:01:12.320
blasted as impossible to comply with and carried criminal penalties for not labeling food correctly
01:01:18.400
estimated cost the industry 1.7 billion dollars the regulation was so specific that it announced
01:01:25.600
that seasonal pumpkin spice muffins would have to be labeled but not crushed dried peppers which are
01:01:32.160
considered a condiment that is exempt definition for menu reached 171 words the definition
01:01:39.520
of a menu reached 171 words final regulation applied to things that are not on menus such as advertisements
01:01:48.000
and coupons and also um a thing having calories on menus has been shown in study after study that it
01:01:54.240
doesn't actually do anything in fact it does makes it worse the pat gray uh principle right is that it
01:02:00.080
actually makes people eat more show me two things of you know like equal desire and and one of them
01:02:07.200
has more calories than the other that's gotta be for the one with more calories that's gotta be better
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right obviously more delicious yes it's a honestly i look at those menus and i'm i you know when it gets
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around 1800 calories and i'm like okay i'm not gonna have that yeah there is some theoretical limit right
01:02:23.600
but yes but there are some that you're like oh i thought it was much more i thought it was much worse than that
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and you end up having it yeah i mean only 700 calories oh i thought it was i thought it was
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an easy 1200 i was at a restaurant i actually like that they're on the menus yeah i don't mind it i
01:02:40.400
just don't like that it's a federal regulation me too but i was at a restaurant the other day and i was
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like i should get something healthy like a salad or something and i wanted to get a pizza and then i
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looked at the calories on the menu and the salad was like 910 calories and the pizza was like 670
01:02:56.640
oh my gosh wait a minute salad was more than the pizza the salad was more than the pizza so i want
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to go find that menu i'm gonna eat there every day right like i i the pizza you're going with it i
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wanted the pizza and the calories on the menu convinced me i should get the pizza so obama's
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regulation actually made me buy pizza my only problem with this really honestly is that it's mandated yes i
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would like it if every restaurant did it on their own but it should not be a federal regulation it's
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horrible another mandate um they mandated that businesses allow miniature horses as guide animals
01:03:29.280
thank god finally how long have we been pushing so the potbelly pig and and the miniature horse
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well in new york or chicago or even dallas how many miniature horses do you see guiding
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uh blind people around i mean i see it all the time i mean i see it all the time four times
01:03:48.880
yesterday so yesterday alone it was finalized the government included a provision that store owners
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should let miniature horses in if they are used as guide animals yeah that that was the problem
01:04:00.800
obviously that was the problem people so you just use my guide horse get out come on you're gonna
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have a guide horse in a in a in a grocery store how many guides
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watch now wait a minute hang on just a second of course why not hold on hold on ponies and full
01:04:16.800
size horses are not covered in restaurants okay thank god but guide horses the miniature guide
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horses are pony right wouldn't wouldn't yeah no a miniature shetland pony maybe but i don't think
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a shetland pony would be are still horses they poop all over the no they're many horses
01:04:35.760
if a miniature horse has been individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of the
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individual with a disability then that horse must be covered by the ada i will say that's incredible
01:04:47.600
i had no idea that this is actually i've never seen lots of pictures of it that's great uh the uh guide
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horse foundation says there are quote thousands guide horse um which i don't know you know that's a
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that's a pretty wide uh amount it could be 2000 i saw a heart lifting story about a lady that uh
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uh couldn't survive without her guide guide horse and it was uh the horse travels with her everywhere
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like on a plane on a plane uh driving in cabs and cars i mean it's it's good that there's regulations
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to help her well the horse fits in a cab yeah it's a miniature little horse it's a small horse
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it's not the lone ranger riding down the street it's still bigger than a big dog it's just a big
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dog it's a dog yeah i would say it's about the size of a big dog size of a greyhound maybe here's
01:05:33.120
no no no greyhounds aren't that big but like a mastiff is as big as a mastiff i would say it's smaller
01:05:38.400
than a mastiff the size of it's pretty small i mean some of them are pretty small yeah wow they're only
01:05:44.320
that big yeah some of them are pretty darn small about the size of an average dog like you know a
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golden retriever oh well then i don't have a problem yeah with the clippity
01:05:54.160
the clippity clop in the kitchen do you want some of the uh do you want some of the
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of some of the benefits of having a guide horse sure yeah absolutely i do long long lifespan long
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life they can live to be more than 50 years old you're kidding me so you don't have to
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a horse yeah um you know dogs are only eight to twelve years yeah cost effective training a guide
01:06:12.880
dog can cost up to sixty thousand dollars yes they can as you would know dogs are smarter than horses
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though only uh they're uh yeah i guess no that's not true i saw i saw a movie just the other day i
01:06:27.120
saw the magnificent seven the other day and denzel washington looked at the horse and said get out
01:06:32.320
of here and the horse did wow uh this is a horse though yeah based on obama's like uh legislation this
01:06:39.920
is interesting that uh that this is here because the one of the arguments for a guide horse is better
01:06:45.920
acceptance many guide dog users report problems getting access to public places because their
01:06:50.880
dog is perceived as a pet okay most people do not associate a horse as a pet and guide horse users
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report that they are immediately recognized as a working service animal because you're not just
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walking your head can i tell you something i walk into any place in i walk into an airport with a horse
01:07:05.680
i i i i i i i'm i'm kind of glad that i may be blind so i don't see people looking at me like what
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the hell is going on here i don't think the first response of the concierge at a you know at the ritz
01:07:23.840
carlton is going to be saying um oh it's a guide horse i think he looks at you and says what the hell
01:07:30.800
are you doing with the horse in here and i think that happens at the ritz carlton or the holiday
01:07:34.720
inn yeah and maybe the holiday inn faster than the ritz carlton i will say one uh real benefit of
01:07:40.800
the guide horse appears to be that they wear sneakers uh that's pretty awesome so the clippity
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clop is gone right i can't take the news of the day anymore miniature horses used as guide dogs
01:07:56.560
wearing sneakers wearing sneakers other guide animals they're not they're not pretending to be
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a dog no yeah it's true that's an important distinction jeffy they are not pretending they're
01:08:05.920
not dressed as dogs they're not they're not horse no it's a dog they don't come from the dog side of
01:08:11.520
town this is they are horses they're not half breeds no no yeah okay okay all right uh excellent
01:08:20.880
vision great memory calm nature focused demeanor i want one of these uh safety conscious
01:08:27.200
high stamina and good manners they say please and thank you which is nice do they still
01:08:33.520
poop piles in the house uh guide horses are very clean and can be house broken
01:08:38.000
horses do not get fleas and only shed twice per year horses are not addicted to human affection and
01:08:42.320
will stand quietly while on duty that's sad it really is there's a train dog though
01:08:49.840
no service dogs are pretty good about that no not if you show them affection
01:08:56.320
they want your affection yeah like german shepherds they're you're that's your family
01:09:01.280
for whatever reason when you spoke german to your dog and said plots it plots did whenever
01:09:08.480
anyone speaks german to somebody in the right tone you do what they say
01:09:16.080
uh all right some of the other regulations regulating christmas lights
01:09:19.600
uh to extend their hand to christmas lights the consumer product safety commission regulated
01:09:24.800
uh that christmas decorations are a substantial product hazard if they didn't meet the government
01:09:31.200
standard for wire size uh the final rule applies to stars wreaths candles without shades light sculptures
01:09:39.360
blow molded plastic figures and animated figures but not any solar powered products
01:09:45.360
uh let's see uh navy inspected bathrooms for degrading images of women military is not exempt um under
01:09:54.960
orders from the then secretary of state or secretary of defense chuck hagel navy had to search sailors
01:10:00.800
workspaces to make sure they didn't have pinup calendars that could be degrading or offensive to women
01:10:06.160
no bathrooms were expected inspected for any unprofessional calendars um in 2014
01:10:19.920
in 2014 the obama administration uh regulated uh the methane emissions from the dairy industry
01:10:29.280
by 25 percent it had targeted cow flatulence uh california followed suit last year comparing
01:10:42.960
himself to noah from the bible governor jerry brown announced new regulations that regulate cow farts
01:10:49.920
that dramatically reduce methane emissions by 2030 are the cows abiding by this new regulation
01:10:56.560
i'm not i'm not really sure how how do you do that other than killing the cows i don't know
01:11:04.640
maybe what you feed them if you feed them certain things that wouldn't result and no pork
01:11:09.520
and beans for the cows right yeah i mean pretty much they're eating like alfalfa and hay they're
01:11:14.320
eating grass obviously pork but i mean what what are we feeding cows that give them the flatulence grain
01:11:20.640
right i don't know maybe i don't know what do they you don't feed them grain you you feed them
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alfalfa and hay that's what they eat they have flat teeth so they diet alfalfa and hay i mean
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the glenn beck program mercury you're listening to the glenn beck program so um
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um we need to get a miniature horse in here right a trained miniature horse one that's potty trained
01:13:48.320
uh yeah it's a service they're already trained they can lay down over there by the fireplace
01:13:53.760
or i don't think the horses lay down yeah something's wrong if they lay down right yeah
01:13:59.360
no yeah no i've seen horses lay down yeah not on their side they just kind of no something's
01:14:05.840
wrong with them when they lay down they don't normally yeah they sleep maybe that's why they
01:14:13.760
this is a lifetime goal to get a no i'm just curious maybe we can get a pot-bellied pig in
01:14:18.960
here too and get them all in here horse i i honestly would like to see a uh a miniature
01:14:25.040
horse guide dog or horse guide horse whatever they are pretty cool it would be would be somebody
01:14:31.360
who do they have the little blind they handle things on them so you know they must yeah a guy
01:14:38.320
i know has a has a pig as a pet um you know i live in texas no not a service animal just a pet
01:14:44.640
uh it's a pig and apparently uh good temperament uh very nice uh a little messy uh at least early
01:14:51.840
on in life it's a pig yes apparently the review is a little messy potentially getting into biting
01:14:58.160
furniture and things of that nature that's not a terrible surprise is it no no it didn't stun me
01:15:03.120
no it's the reason i don't have a pig right and they i mean like pig farms make dairy farms oh man
01:15:10.160
smell wonderful oh yeah how how bad is the pig stool smell you know i i didn't get into detail on
01:15:19.040
that with him um well i mean that's like that's where i go right off the bat i mean i you know
01:15:25.280
the horse would be cool but he's pooping in the house there was apparently a lot of that i will say
01:15:29.120
he didn't poop in the house i didn't notice i didn't actually get any of these there's you know
01:15:33.360
the levels of smell with him but he did say there was a lot of uh going in the house oh no i couldn't
01:15:39.360
do it no way no couldn't do it i mean i guess that was part of the problem right i i don't know why
01:15:45.840
you'd want to train but i guess a lot of people really got a house training it takes a little
01:15:50.080
time that's like you jeffy no i'm not it took a little time but once i got there stew well when
01:15:55.760
you get there i mean i will tell you that we used to have a bunny rabbit when i was a kid and we
01:15:59.520
house trained the bunny rabbit i don't know how we did it but we house trained the bunny rabbit
01:16:03.440
and i used to love having a little it's a little bunny hopping around but there's a difference between
01:16:07.120
a bunny and a pig i a bunny is kind of like okay that's kind of cute the pig is like you're living
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welcome to the glenbeck program today i want to talk to you uh a little bit about something that i
01:16:58.160
witnessed this weekend that i thought was profound and and something that isn't said near enough
01:17:06.480
we'll get to that also um more on what has been happening with the regulations and the supreme
01:17:15.280
court nominee which apparently donald trump is going to talk uh to congress about today or some
01:17:21.760
of the leaders mitch mcconnell uh in the capitol we could have an announcement coming very very soon
01:17:27.920
and if it is the guy we spoke about last hour this is good news uh for conservatives how that works
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as he goes through congress we'll see we begin there right now
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the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenn beck program
01:18:06.720
i want to talk to you about something um that i saw over the weekend um at a funeral that i attended
01:18:21.920
it was pat's mother-in-law who passed away and my friend of 30 years got up to speak
01:18:32.320
and i don't think i've ever seen him like that um he had a hard time talking about her because of the amount of love
01:18:48.640
that he has for her and i i thought you know here's something that is never said
01:19:08.800
i love my mother-in-law and pat loved his mother-in-law
01:19:13.600
mother mother-in-law mother-in-laws get a really bad rap like stepmothers get a really bad rap
01:19:23.760
and i think it's just because of the mother-in-laws we love to laugh at like uh the mom on everybody loves raymond
01:19:34.240
but it's it's it's to me it's a lot like um the mother-in-law that or the the the way that fathers
01:19:46.080
are portrayed on the simpsons and it's something that should be corrected something that should be
01:19:52.240
said once in a while at least i mean we can all make our jokes and i'm sure there are bad mother-in-laws
01:19:58.400
just like there are bad stepmothers but there are also really good stepmothers
01:20:10.720
doesn't i don't think get the credit um that she deserves and i don't think you understand this
01:20:17.920
until your kids get older or until you go through it walking into somebody else's family
01:20:33.760
but that's really hard especially with all the family dynamics that go on
01:20:43.040
he never called her mom because it just didn't feel right but she was that was closest to the way i
01:20:56.160
felt about her yeah but i already had a mom right so and i've never and i'm not condemning anyone for
01:21:10.000
when when my mom died and my dad remarried and i got my stepmother d who is
01:21:23.680
and uh and doesn't necessarily give stepmothers a good name
01:21:28.080
um i had a really hard time really hard time and i wasn't allowed to talk about my mom
01:21:37.840
after she died i moved in with my dad and we weren't allowed to even mention my mother
01:21:43.360
so we never talked about her after her death and it was really hard and um but as i got older and i was
01:21:52.160
in my 30s and i remarried myself i realized that she had been my mother good or bad for longer than my mother had
01:22:03.520
and the only reason why i wasn't calling her mom is because i already had one
01:22:11.760
but i don't think moms are just the ones who give birth to you moms are my mother-in-law is my mom
01:22:23.200
my father-in-law is my dad and i love it i know how much i love being called dad by my kids
01:22:32.640
and when my son-in-law sometimes calls me dad i love it
01:22:45.520
i wonder if sometimes we're a bit too stingy with mom and dad
01:22:52.720
because the way pat spoke about his mother-in-law the in-law part
01:23:03.200
what's that saying is there's a contract that makes her my mother
01:23:07.600
and she was far beyond a contract a legal contract
01:23:24.560
as jackie was giving the tribute to her mom and i looked at my daughter and i thought
01:23:35.920
someday you're going to have to do this to your mom and how hard that's going to be
01:23:45.120
and then i thought i may have to do this for my mother-in-law or my father-in-law someday if the
01:23:52.880
family would ask and how hard it would be just as hard if not harder
01:23:59.920
we never had a funeral for my dad we never had a memorial service for my dad
01:24:07.920
was that part of his yeah wishes yeah really we have not been allowed to
01:24:13.520
wow participate in the mother-in-law has the ashes and
01:24:18.560
oh and um so nothing it was because of that situation yeah and it's it's it's weird
01:24:26.240
it's really weird and we all kind of have said to each other well you know we'll keep him in our
01:24:33.680
own way i don't know if that's healthy no i think the service is part of the healing process
01:24:39.840
i know so i sure got that feeling pat when i was watching you yeah didn't feel like i was healing at
01:24:50.400
the time but um uh you know i i didn't hold it together as well as jackie and her brother did um they
01:25:01.040
were pretty composed but yeah i think it is an important part because it gives you the opportunity
01:25:06.640
to talk about their lives to express how much you love them and uh to get all that out
01:25:16.000
i've never seen you like that important i've rarely been that way
01:25:22.000
she was she was really something she was one of the best people i knew i've ever known and so
01:25:30.000
you know like i said i i never heard her say a bad word about anybody even in jest
01:25:35.840
and until the week before she died five days before she died she said she had the whole family
01:25:48.320
was gathered in the room together we were just talking to her and kind of reminiscing and just
01:25:52.400
spending precious moments that she had left and my daughters were my two oldest well all three of my
01:26:00.160
daughters were there my two oldest are both pregnant and uh and my oldest daughter got up she's nine
01:26:07.840
months pregnant she just had the baby on sunday so she she got up and started walking out of the room
01:26:14.160
and my mother-in-law um said amber you look like a chicken bean she walked out of the room
01:26:28.240
might have been the drug the morphine it might have been the morphine it might have been the brain tumor
01:26:33.280
pushing down on some part right i don't know what a chicken nobody knows what a chicken bean is and i think
01:26:40.480
she meant something entirely different but it was really funny and we just shared this laugh together
01:26:46.880
and as amber walked out she looked at at all of us and just said i just called her a chicken bean
01:26:54.880
yeah you did yeah and none of us are really sure why but it was the meanest thing we ever heard her
01:27:00.000
say about anyone in her life and i don't even know what it means so uh i i think she meant something else
01:27:07.920
but it was fun and it was just a nice moment our our last really fun moment that we got to spend
01:27:14.640
with her so it was worth it no matter what she meant do you remember do you remember the listener
01:27:20.720
that we had renda renda who labor of love yeah she was on the program can you in fact wasn't she
01:27:28.240
the founder or one of the founders of labor of love no no but she was one she was an early member all
01:27:33.520
right of the i think i think she's i i don't know i think she's just one of the early members
01:27:40.480
um uh that has been really instrumental and she has been she's been on this program before
01:27:48.000
because she's just this super do-gooder that has done so much and so amazing with her life
01:27:56.000
here's a clip from when she was on with us and to tell me about it you were three weeks
01:28:00.080
three weeks i think that god wanted me to go on that trip to israel i was afraid of flying i went
01:28:06.480
totally by myself and i wasn't three weeks after your husband and not israel my husband was alive
01:28:12.240
when i went to israel okay and i um but we had planned and i had planned to go to joplin with my
01:28:18.640
with all my friends and then three weeks before joplin my husband died of a sudden heart attack
01:28:23.520
and um how long were you two married 16 years um he everybody thought i would just fall to pieces
01:28:31.520
because we were so incredibly close but we had made vows to to help each other get closer to god
01:28:36.960
when we got married and we did we did that and um the minute i saw him because i found him
01:28:44.480
was that how much i was going to miss him and um i called had my daughter-in-law call susan and say
01:28:50.800
that i couldn't come to joplin but as it turned out i was able to go because i couldn't just sit
01:28:56.960
by myself and feel sorry for myself and um the thing about it i tell everybody that god knew i
01:29:03.680
needed this group before i could ever even have imagined that i would need them and um the day
01:29:08.960
that i got to talk to pat both of us had lost incredibly she had lost her whole house and i had
01:29:15.360
lost you know my husband and um pat when we sat there and we just sat and were able to talk and
01:29:22.240
she reminded me of my mother who passed away when i was 18 years old and she was incredibly soft person
01:29:28.400
to talk to and um we connected and it healed both of us um just like um agios and how incredibly sad he
01:29:37.360
was at the beginning of your book and all of us are incredibly hurt like that yes we are but um that
01:29:46.960
has helped me heal rinda is a woman that was standing on the mall with many of us um on 828 she was a face
01:29:55.840
in the crowd and i didn't know her and then we met briefly in israel uh the next year when she was part
01:30:05.360
of the crowd um on 828 and she was part of red boss a and um joplin happened and she i think she
01:30:16.720
i think you're right pat that she was one of the co-founders um she went to joplin this is three weeks
01:30:25.600
after her husband died she went to joplin to help and she because she was listening and she thought i
01:30:31.440
can't just sit here and feel sorry for myself she went to restoring love and was deep in the volunteers
01:30:42.720
with labor of love and she went to uh restoring uh love or restoring um unity in birmingham and marched
01:30:52.800
with us a remarkable remarkable woman and one that time is kind of forgetting a woman who would make pie
01:31:03.200
in her dutch oven uh over the fire and would quilt i mean like artwork quilting a sweet dear woman who could
01:31:13.520
make you laugh until you cried who never tried to point herself out as perfect was always really truly
01:31:22.560
truly humble and kind and was looking to help others she's been battling cancer for quite some time
01:31:32.480
and lost her battle over the weekend and she has left a huge gaping hole in our audience
01:31:39.840
there have been two listeners that we have lost in the last three years that have impacted each of us
01:31:53.920
one of them actually moved down here to dallas with us
01:32:00.000
and we would see him once in a while but he just in his spirit when we would see him he was the happiest
01:32:15.520
happiest man we'd ever met he was a guy who was homeless up north
01:32:20.560
and rinda who when we first met was in a strange way timid never been anywhere like on an international
01:32:41.200
flight all by herself but full of courage and we watched her blossom and become a true leader
01:32:51.200
of many many people anybody who crossed her path we will miss you renda god bless
01:32:58.560
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the glenn beck program hey can can we just discuss something and you guys convince me that it's not
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creepy could you do that i need to be convinced this is not creepy the president signed an actual
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executive order making the day he was inaugurated retroactively and like a national holiday that
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we can't celebrate because it already already happened well is it for every year this is where
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i'm trying to make sure that no i think it's just a one day just a one day thing retroactively what
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did he name it stew uh give me one minute i think it's national national patriotic devotion day it's
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scary that's spooky to me that just is spooky to me not spooky at all i can see other countries
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else i mean let's ask the floor crew too raise your head if you think that's at all spooky yeah okay
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you two two four two against all right uh a new it's uh it was um the 45th president proclaimed uh
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january 20th 2017 his inauguration day to be a national day of patriotic devotion trump made
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the proclamation quote does that mean to him then kind of no listen to listen to the all right let's
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hear the body of the work there in order to strengthen our bonds to each other in our country
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and to renew the duties of government to the people okay new national pride stirs the american
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soul and inspires the american heart we are one people united by a common destiny and shared purpose
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can i ask when did nationalism be okay it can become okay it was november 7th right wasn't it
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i know seriously when did i mean people write about this new nationalism i've always been we've always
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been super patriotic yeah but we're not jingoistic yeah but we were never when somebody would say we
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were a national when does patriotism become nationalism i i don't know i don't know where that line is
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reason when you lose reason so i don't i don't i don't know but people are just throwing around that
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we're a new nationalist country and i don't i don't like that that's not good
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hello america and welcome to the glenn beck program we're glad you're here it is uh
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uh uh uh it's day two of uh donald trump in office and it looks like we may have
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a winner in the supreme court uh justice nominee the the word is from uh who is it from abc uh john
01:38:20.560
carl john carl that we we have a justice that they're ready to appoint and if it is indeed this
01:38:27.520
guy it's good news yeah neil gorsuch uh he is uh very much seemingly uh by everything i've read in
01:38:36.240
the mold of antonin scalia uh and not only to the point of the things he believes about the law but
01:38:41.440
also even in his writing style which you'd say who cares about that i just want to make the right
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decisions but have you read scalia's opinions they're by far the most entertaining and interesting
01:38:51.840
ones that that were on the supreme court so i want somebody like that that can actually make
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that stuff interesting because it's it can be a slog to get through at times uh he he's he was one
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of the best so i you know everything i've read about him so far and it would dive deeper into it
01:39:06.400
today it seems to be that it would be a good choice and maybe better than some of the others on the list
01:39:12.080
so can we switch gears kind of is anybody ever going to sue a espn for being wrongfully terminated
01:39:19.600
i don't know it's a good question this this i don't know but they should this this latest thing
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where who who was it that made the comment about venus williams uh adler yeah is his name adler yeah
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and he's he's a tennis commentator former professional tennis player um from the 70s and 80s
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uh he was on uh doing a venus williams match on espn 3 which we've i think decided yesterday was
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the just the website yeah um so he's doing a website coverage of of uh venus williams it's
01:39:52.880
got to be heavily oh oh there had to be over eight people watching yes at the time over over
01:39:59.120
you're comfortable with over i am uh that's i'll take the under uh but uh so uh he he is doing it
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you know venus williams what's tennis on an app are you telling me more than eight people aren't
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going to that so so venus williams is a very aggressive player aggressive she's very aggressive
01:40:15.840
she plays in uh forever sometimes different different ways right uh asymmetrical would be
01:40:21.360
one way of putting that or or gorilla warfare the gorilla effect gorilla tactics yes okay as in
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gorilla not the not the ape or the monkey or whatever gorilla g-o-r it's g-u-e yes r-r-i-l-l-a
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so it's it's not it has nothing to do with gorillas so he described her aggressive style as a gorilla
01:40:46.240
effect meaning again not the animal but the tactic uh and people on social media got upset the eight
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people or more that were watching the tennis match got upset and started tweeting about how could this
01:41:00.320
guy call her a gorilla oh my god which is a spanish word yeah what he used was a spanish word what they
01:41:07.120
thought she he meant was the animal right and in a racist way and there is a very different thing
01:41:12.640
these are two completely different words when we talk about gorilla style tactics we're not talking
01:41:19.600
about our armed forces who are all a bunch of gorillas or gorillas that are you know that wouldn't
01:41:26.480
even make sense dumb no it is gorilla is a spanish word which means asymmetric warfare which which you know
01:41:35.600
you know you've you've got you're playing by the rules these are guerrilla tactics we used to
01:41:43.440
nicaragua was it manawania yes where they used to talk about the gorillas the gorillas in in
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nicaragua correct right and this is probably the word that we used because it became um politically
01:41:57.280
incorrect if i hear one person say to my kids one more time sit down on the floor crisscross applesauce i'm
01:42:04.000
gonna punch him in the face right it's indian style sit down crisscross applesauce shut up
01:42:10.720
crisscross you've never heard that i haven't heard that oh you say to a kid now that has been raised
01:42:15.760
in the public school you say sit down indian style they'll have no idea what you're talking about
01:42:19.920
you say to them sit down crisscross applesauce that's indian style what does applesauce have to
01:42:24.720
to do with it i think it just rhymes okay so it's spaghetti sauce you're right why isn't it
01:42:30.960
crisscross spaghetti sauce i have no idea it is in italy okay it is in it okay so anyway what what
01:42:37.680
was it that we called it wow because it wasn't guerrilla tactics back in um the revolutionary war
01:42:46.160
we fought like indians we used indian tactics and i bet you that at one point in american history it
01:42:54.960
was cool to say well you fought like the indians had had someone been watching on espn 3
01:43:03.040
and seen uh george washington or heard george washington say he would have been fired she's
01:43:08.320
playing tennis like an indian oh right what's important here though is that espn is not
01:43:13.840
saying they think he might have meant the animal gorilla they know they know what he said they
01:43:21.040
believe what he said and then they still went to him and made him apologize which he did then they
01:43:27.920
released a statement saying during an australian open on espn 3 doug adler should have been more
01:43:32.560
careful in his word selection he apologized and we have removed him from his remaining assignments
01:43:39.520
now this the story espn is the worst he is the worst what cowards this story from heat street says
01:43:46.720
he was fired i don't know if that means he was just fired from the this particular assignment or
01:43:51.920
or if he's actually gone 100 if they fired him completely from his job i mean that's just sheer
01:43:58.160
cowardice it's unbelievable pathetic what the hell he didn't even do anything wrong and because
01:44:03.280
and that's been the case in virtually every instance right like this that we've talked about
01:44:07.920
including chink in the army which the guy look at this chink in the armor didn't mean that look at
01:44:11.680
this they they're comparing it adler's faux pas echoes the 27 2007 controversy surrounding fame
01:44:17.920
radio commentator don imus who characterized the rutgers university women's basketball team as i'm
01:44:23.440
quoting the story rough girls and nappy headed hoes end quote that's nowhere near that that's not
01:44:30.640
are you kidding me nowhere near that gorilla tactics is talking about a a war tactic
01:44:37.600
generals talk about gorilla tactics it's not a slur it's a term and even it has nothing to do with
01:44:45.120
the animal it's like in chink in the armor even i i think is honestly because the chink in the armor
01:44:51.120
basically he said that about an asian basketball player if you remember so that is that first part
01:44:56.000
is a slur right so the point was he shouldn't have used the this phrase that because it because they
01:45:03.600
thought maybe he thought it applied to uh him in some racist way this one they're saying it's
01:45:08.960
actually he didn't even use the term yeah right they're not even saying he didn't chicken the
01:45:12.320
armor it's like something that sounded like we know he didn't mean that and we know that that's not
01:45:17.840
what he said we just want us we want to punish him because it's what people thought but because
01:45:24.800
there sounded like words we're gonna fire him that's insane it's not really what people thought
01:45:29.520
it's what a couple first what happens is somebody tweets it so how does one tweeter so how does fox
01:45:36.480
sports take i mean i've never seen a network so ready to be taken as espn espn has stuff so i mean if
01:45:45.280
you look it is if you look at the the psychographics of just twitter feeds of those people who said they were
01:45:53.120
for democrats and those people who said they were for republicans if you look at the twitter feeds
01:45:59.360
it's stunning how the left does not connect in the same way to sports like that you know if you
01:46:08.800
were on a twitter feed and you also liked the nfl the nba and everything else you were most likely a
01:46:15.120
republican and it was a big big divide big divide how does espn if that's true if that plays out
01:46:24.800
across everything how does espn survive because you would think the people
01:46:31.360
watching would be the least likely to be politically correct yeah i mean i think they did a good job for
01:46:37.440
for a really long time and is slowly not you know drastically like it's not moment to moment it's
01:46:43.120
very slow progress here and it's gotten really bad and i think you know fox sports one for example has
01:46:48.000
been taking a lot of their personalities particularly the outspoken ones because espn is constantly
01:46:53.440
folding every time there's a controversy that's why you can't that's why disney cannot own anything
01:46:57.600
other than the movies and the parks can't they're they own abc which causes them to be absolute cowards
01:47:06.000
we know for a fact that that's why i was hired by abc i never made it on the air after the press
01:47:11.120
announcement right remember yeah and that was because they went and they pressured the parks
01:47:17.200
and the same thing you know is happening here somebody just has to say we'll boycott disney
01:47:21.440
you can't hurt the parks don't hurt the mouse you can't have that situation and expect people to be
01:47:31.920
in reality at all they're living in fantasy land i mean that is it's one of the most unbelievable
01:47:38.320
stories it's almost as if it's a parody so i ask you why can't he sue them i don't know i i mean he
01:47:44.480
apologized which is probably would not be in his favor right um but of course he was probably trying to
01:47:49.520
keep his job and and you know arrangements alive where else are you going i mean you know i guess
01:47:54.880
you go tennis channel maybe but you're gonna get hired after this i mean i don't know it's shame on
01:47:59.440
venus williams yes yes thank you the other thing that's the other part of that she stayed out of it
01:48:05.120
she said i i never comment on this kind of stuff well maybe you should well you should you should
01:48:10.160
you should you know the guy wasn't doing that he didn't do that you know he didn't do it you should
01:48:14.880
step out and say espn is being ridiculous hire this guy back he didn't say anything racist he
01:48:20.000
didn't do anything wrong you can't fire a guy because people on twitter heard another word than
01:48:26.000
the one he said that is insanity how do you speak to people who aren't listening how do you program to
01:48:33.360
people who are not intelligent how do you program to people who will hear what they want to hear
01:48:42.160
complain because they're not intelligent enough to know the difference between the two
01:48:47.760
and then not open enough to when hearing the truth to say oh i'm sorry i was wrong ask msnbc how you do
01:48:56.720
all that uh they're the experts i will say that the only person who can write that wrong is venus
01:49:02.000
williams she needs to be able to stand up and say come on espn she needs to be the one it's really that's
01:49:07.360
sad that she didn't do that really bad really the only person i've ever seen in that situation
01:49:12.560
actually do something like that was tiger woods and this is a many years ago but the same type of
01:49:17.760
thing happened where a commentator said something controversial and it was much more clear that it
01:49:24.960
had some racist over undertones at least um it's like a fried chicken comment something like that
01:49:30.880
and he came out and he said you know what i i know i know them it's not that big of a deal i know
01:49:35.920
he didn't mean that i know it's hard i've known him for a long time and and everything should be
01:49:39.440
fine lit him off you know dismiss this one and this is before he had all the tiger that really
01:49:44.400
tamped down the country went away it died immediately yeah i mean that's hard to do for for a public
01:49:50.240
athlete because i'm sure they'll be you know criticized by you know their friends or other or other
01:49:55.840
activists that follow them on these social networks but i mean it's important to do the truth
01:50:00.320
actually is supposed to matter i don't know if it does anymore but it's supposed to
01:50:04.240
now this a no by a nobel prize winning economist at the world economic forum uh the meeting in davos
01:50:12.080
said the united states should follow india's lead in phasing out currency and moving towards digital
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economies i'm telling you this is going to happen this is going to happen it may seem like something
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crazy from the future but it is did you see what did you see what happened with tesla
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tesla took one step back to make two steps forward they say that by the end of the year the tesla car
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is going to drive itself coast to coast without anybody in it to show the grand experiment that's
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illegal to do that can they do that i i i don't know i know they're doing everything they can to dot the
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eyes there they want to be the first out with a fully driverless car they just you now can turn
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on um the the full boat up to 45 miles an hour so now the tesla that you have they've just downloaded
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the software they're recommending that you get the cameras adjusted on the car um and it will take you
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hour wow that's amazing the car is out there now that's what tesla drivers are driving right now
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so the world is changing and we thought driverless you know cars would be a thing way down the road
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it's here i believe the same thing's going to happen with digital currency when that happens
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the governments of the world have full control over you
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you need something of value that is not digitized something that has been a value for a very long
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just plain old bullion because you don't you can't trust it you need something that has been
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mercury this is the glenn beck program i think we're about five episodes away from the uh uh from
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the season finale of uh his story and tonight is frank capra uh frank capra is a a fascinating figure
01:53:16.640
and we talk a little bit about the struggle that frank capra and jimmy stewart both went through
01:53:21.920
on it's a wonderful life this was a very important movie for both of them well for for
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one thing it was july and it was supposed to be snow and it was hot
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you're screwy that's what you are why why are we filming this in december jimmy stewart actually had a
01:53:47.520
really hard time yeah he actually it seems like did he not like the movie at first and then ptsd
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oh from yeah yeah he had just gotten back from the war both of them had been doing war service
01:54:01.040
right yeah and they just got back from the war and had serious ptsd yeah and it wasn't like jimmy
01:54:07.360
stewart just entertained troops when he was over there he actually no no he he flew yeah he fought he
01:54:12.960
fought combat missions he did um and frank capra was documenting a lot of the war well that'd be
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fascinating tonight five o'clock on the blaze tv this is the glenn beck program mercury