What Do You Trust? | Guests: Vicki Barbolak, David French & Charles Duhigg | 12⧸20⧸18
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On this episode of the Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck talks about abortion, the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, the Syria pullout, the bump stock ban, and much, much more! Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator, radio host, and radio host. He is also the host of the conservative radio show "The Glenn Beck Show" on the Christian Science Radio Network.
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This is the Glenn Beck Program. This has not been a good couple of weeks for Donald Trump.
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And well-timed, if you're a fan of the president, because nobody's really paying attention to the
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news right now. But if you are, just look at what's happened in the last two weeks alone.
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Kavanaugh has gone to the side of the Democrats in the Supreme Court when it comes to abortion.
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The Russian agreement that everybody was in denial of for so long, and the president said never existed,
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that came out yesterday. He folded on the border. And not only are they not going to pay for the wall
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in Mexico, there is no wall. And we gave them $5 billion. Okay, then North Korea came out yesterday.
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North Korea said that we're not going to denuclearize at all unless you remove your troops.
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Syria, we're abandoning the Kurds again. Yesterday, the president just announced on Twitter,
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no one at the Pentagon even knew. We're going to pull our troops out of Syria. It's time for them
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to come home. Wait, what? The poor Kurds? The Christians? ISIS is not dead? They've just been
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pinned back? What does that mean? It's not been a good week. We'll give you some of the details
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I didn't even get to the bump stock thing yesterday.
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Not going to be a good day for Donald Trump fans. Yesterday, the president, by decree,
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outlawed bump stocks. Okay. First of all, let's not set a precedent of taking away anything to do
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with guns through presidential decree. We would be apoplectic if anyone else, if even if George
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Bush would have done it, let alone Barack Obama, we would be apoplectic. Now, I am not defending
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bump stocks. I don't know anybody who uses them or why you would want them. You can do the same thing
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with a rubber band or your belt loop. I mean, it doesn't matter. People are going to find a way
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around it. But you don't ban it. And for this president to come out and just at a time when
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people are not talking about this. I mean, we just gave away something that I don't care
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that you could have given away as a compromise later in Congress.
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Right. You're telling me you couldn't get a bump stock ban through Congress with Democrats?
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Of course you could. Of course you could have. Of course you could.
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Why would we force this through? And again, I think it's completely unconstitutional.
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First of all, we should set the baseline there. It's unconstitutional to do this. This is obviously
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an infringement on your ability to bear arms. Obviously. Fundamentally, it is unconstitutional.
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It's tied to another law that is unconstitutional, which is these three different statutes that come
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out against machine guns and automatic weapons, which I completely think are unconstitutional as
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well. But even if you go beyond that, let's just say we live in this world, we're in a progressive
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world where we don't necessarily follow the Constitution all that closely. And we do the
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things that just have to be done. And that's the way that's the world we live in. Even if you're
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in that world, you got to pass a law. You got to pass a law. You can't have the president just making
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up distinctions on, well, we don't like that thing. Again, in the legal statute of what a machine gun is,
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is the very clear language that a bump stock is not included. Very specifically, it says any weapon
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which shoots is designed to shoot or can be readily restored to shoot automatically more than one shot
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without manual reloading by a single function of the trigger. So in other words, you pull the trigger
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back and you hold it. That's not what a bump stock is. It isn't. And if you think, well, but I think
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that's similar to a bump stock. That's great. Then pass a law against a bump stock if you don't like them.
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I'll still argue that it's unconstitutional, but at least it makes some sense. So and here's the
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reason why I said this to the Democrats and they didn't listen. Don't go down this path, Democrats,
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because someday Barack Obama is going to be gone and you're going to so disenfranchise people and make
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people angry and set this precedent that someone else that you really don't like is going to use
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those same things against you. Yeah, we now have Donald Trump. Now, please don't set this precedent.
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You can't have the precedent of a president just saying, you know what? And something else I want to ban.
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You can't do it. Right. The next Democrat president who wants to ban whether it's magazines at a certain
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capacity, any anything they want to pick apart from your ability to bear arms. They will cite this
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bump stock ban and say, look, the president, a Republican president. Yes, did that. We did that.
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And you didn't say anything. You didn't say anything. And we didn't say anything because I don't want to
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defend bump stocks. I don't care about bump stocks. I don't know anybody who does care about bump
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stocks. But it's those battles that you don't care about that become the most important.
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Yeah, go back. I mean, there was a there's a battle in the Supreme Court that, you know,
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this is very relatively recent history about marijuana in which a someone they went they
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basically fought the Commerce Clause when it came to marijuana. And it was a case in the 2000s that I,
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you know, because it was marijuana, I don't think any conservative was like into thinking about it.
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And it was not a big issue on talk radio at the time or anything. But that was like probably one of the
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best opportunities to reverse the ridiculous nonsense the government has used with the Commerce
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Clause over a very long period of time to restrict the way or to to get their their tentacles into
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business. And you know what? The Commerce Clause is a really good example of that itself. I don't
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remember the farmer's name. Yeah. But the the court case that happened under FDR, nobody paid attention
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to. Nobody cared because it just involved a farmer and his wheat and I don't grow wheat and I don't
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care. But that's why Washington is in all of our businesses because of that one move that no one
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cared. Will Moore. I'm right around. It's Fillmore versus Whitburn. We're right in there. Willard versus
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Fickburn. OK, close. There we go. We had all of the syllables just all in the wrong order. All in
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the wrong order. OK, so that was the attorney general against the against a farmer. It's attorney
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general. Yeah. And because of that, the guy who grew his wheat on his farm, he never sold it. It was
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just for him and his family and his livestock. It never went anywhere. They said, well, it could.
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And more importantly, you are going to be feeding your family and your livestock with wheat not
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purchased. So that wheat that you would have purchased if you weren't a wheat farmer, that
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might affect the price of wheat coming into your state or leaving your state. So we have a right to
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regulate your land. Oh, my gosh. And people didn't say anything. And that's how we lost our freedom.
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And the same can be said, first of all. The bump stock thing also yesterday. Can you imagine? Well, you
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don't have to imagine when President Obama just said, you know what? We're leaving Iraq and he became
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general Obama and how upset we all were. Wait, hold it just a second. No, no, no.
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This is going to be really bad. The president yesterday went a step further. He didn't even
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alert the Pentagon. The Pentagon found out yesterday through Twitter that we were going to be pulling
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out of Syria. This is causing all kinds of problems with our allies. Russia. I know the opposite is
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being said. Trust me. Russia loves this because it is just given the Middle East to Iran. And by the
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way, Russia is saying it on their official social media accounts. Their official spokespeople are
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saying what a wonderful move it is. The idea that, you know, we're trying to act as if this is bad for
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them in some way is ridiculous. Well, they're only trying to take down Trump. Wait a minute. Last
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last yesterday, last night, everybody was saying they were in bed with Trump. So which one is it?
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Stop it. Stop it. It's been a weird. I there's a there's a thing that happens, I think, with big
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executives where you've even expressed this frustration at times, Glenn, where like you have an idea and you
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really want to do it. And everyone kind of keeps telling you you can't do it. And here's X,
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Y and Z, why you can't do it. And you haven't changed your mind, but you're ceding a little
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bit of authority to your advisors, the experts around you. And you but eventually you hit that
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point where you're like, I want it done and I'm doing it right. And it seems like Trump hit that
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point on several things this week. And, you know, Syria seems to be the main one. But this the same
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sort of thing happened with tariffs. I think he had a lot of people around him telling him, don't do the
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tariffs thing. And then one day he was just like, it's happening. And it kind of came out on Twitter.
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It seems to be the way that he makes those decisions. Now, with the bump stock thing,
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it's not his right because of the Constitution prohibits him doing what he did. However,
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in most of these situations, it is his right. I mean, he can pull out troops from Syria if he
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wants to pull out troops from Syria. And, you know, look, his entire life has been a guy who's he
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didn't want the Iraq war in the first place. Mostly he kind of supported it early on, but he switched
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on it pretty quickly. He, you know, has opposed most of the wars throughout history. And I think
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his coming in, he said he wanted to get the troops home. It's relatively consistent with where he's
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been. However, the way he's doing it is, I think, what's what's shocking here to a lot of the people
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in the military. And again, we're just letting these the Kurds down again. We just look, I want
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to end this war, too. I want this war. I want our troops to come home. We got to stop all of this
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stuff. But we also stopped with Yemen and Saudi Arabia, which has big, big ramifications that no
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one is telling the American people. Saudi Arabia is so weak right now. If Saudi Arabia falls,
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you hand the entire region to Iran to Iran. Now, Iran is also in a precarious situation,
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but Iran has the full support of Russia. And now Russia is in a precarious situation,
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but so are we. I mean, we are all on the edge and anything that adds chaos is bad. The the Democrats
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just doing all kinds of investigation and just trying to drag his butt through an impeachment
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on trumped up charges. No pun intended. If there are charges. Great. Let's hear them. Let's get it
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done with. But this chaos in Washington is bad. This chaos of I didn't sign a letter. I didn't have any
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business. Oh, I do have a letter. It is business. I did sign it. Kavanaugh. He's he's going to be great
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for the right. He's going to stop all abortions. He's just a pro-life demagogue. And then he gets in
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and he's not the border. I'm going to make Mexico pay for it. No, I'm not going to. In fact, we're not
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even going to build one. And I'm certainly not going to make Mexico pay for it. I'm going to give
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them $5 billion. All of these things are causing chaos and we've got to stop. Stop. We have to have
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something that is reliable and predictable and something we can all gather around and say, yes,
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I trust this. And right now, what do you trust? What do you trust? And don't say, well, it's better
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than this or that. I get it. I get that. But do you trust it? And we're when it comes to people
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saying that he's going to be impeached, I don't know if he's going to or not. I don't think so.
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I don't think so. What's her name? Ann Coulter came out, said yesterday he's going to be he's not
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going to make it to the end of his term. I don't agree with that. But remember, it's President Pence.
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President Pence is steady, very conservative and rock solid. That's not Hillary Clinton.
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Never more than 60 seconds away from the program. But by the way, I don't think he's going to be
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impeached. I don't think so. But they may they may try and they may actually get an impeachment done
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in the House in theory. But I mean, it's he's not going to get removed from the Senate unless unless
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ID and they're right back. You know, we have a ton of people calling and I would like to hear your,
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I'd like to hear your thoughts. So we'll open up the phones. Pat's coming in in a minute,
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but I also want to take your phone calls. 888-727-BECK. So producers, if you can screen
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the phone calls and get them ready and line up, we'll, we'll do that. Also yesterday I had, um,
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I was, I was, it was about five o'clock and I was just finishing up and I'm, I'm walking down the
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hallway and one of our producers said, Hey Glenn, there's a comedian here that wants to say hi.
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And, uh, I said, okay. Um, who is it? And he said, uh, uh, Vicki, uh, Barbalock. And I said,
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who's that? And he said, Oh, she was on, uh, uh, she was on America's got talent. And I said, I don't
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watch any of those shows. And he said, well, she's, she's, she's the host of trailer nasty. And I said,
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I've never heard of it. Is she funny? And he said, Oh, she's really funny. And as he was saying that I
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turned the corner into her green room and there she was. And I looked at her and I went, Oh my
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gosh, I know you, you're really funny. Um, and she was a little surprised to have that come out of
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somebody who's walking around the corner. And, uh, she said, Oh, and I said, I never watch America's
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got talent, but you know how sometimes you'll just watch the highlights. And I said, my son came with
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the highlights and said, dad, you have to see this, this woman. And so we watched you and we
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watched you as a family. She's hysterical. She was in town last night. I invited her to get up early
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and, uh, come in. Um, I don't think she travels in a trailer, but I hope she lives in a motel and
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not a hotel. Um, but, uh, Vicki's going to be joining us here in about a half an hour from now.
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Um, you don't want to miss that. Also, um, there's a couple of other things that are really, um, really
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going to be good today. We have, uh, Charles, I think his name is Duhigg, Charles Duhigg. He's a guy
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who did a study back in the 1970s about anger. And he, he did it in this small little town in
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Massachusetts where he didn't expect to find a lot of anger. And he found a ton of anger. Um,
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and, and he did this whole study back then. He was one of the guys that when he saw Donald Trump
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run, he was one of the first that said that guy's going to win. And it's because of what he learned
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in the 1970s. And it's a, it's a fascinating study. I, I just, I just found it a couple of weeks
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ago. Um, and I didn't know if he was, you know, uh, you know, still willing to talk about this study
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because it's an ancient study. Um, and it's, it's going to be really interesting on how anger is
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actually good for us. If it's focused and used properly, if it's exploited, it's bad,
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but if it's a steam valve, it's good. And he found this out in this little teeny town in
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Massachusetts, like 1972 or something. That's going to be really interesting to see. Cause I
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mean, you have to just imagine that everything from then has been turned up. So, I mean, it's
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so much easier to get angry. There's so many, so many more things to get angry at. You can be happy
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and you just happen to see a tweet and all of a sudden you're set off, right? Uh, I can't, I mean,
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that's not the way the world was in the seventies, right? It shouldn't have been, but if people
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were angry then, geez, what are we now? Yeah. He kind of goes into a little bit of that. Yeah. He
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goes into that a little bit and it's again, the using, uh, and the pitting against each other
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that's happening universally now that he is, uh, that his study warned against the healthy use of
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anger is good. The politicization of anger, not so much. Pat joins us and your phone calls. Um,
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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I'm Glenn Beck along with, uh, Stu, my executive producer
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and, uh, and Pat is joining us from Pat Gray Unleashed, which is a podcast and also on the
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Blaze Radio Network. You can hear it every day prior to this program. Um, Pat, the wall,
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caving on the wall and giving Mexico $5 billion. Yeah. We can, we can't get a penny for, for the
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wall. No, we can give 10.6 billion to Central America and Mexico. Yeah. How does that make
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any sense to anybody? Pulling out of Syria yesterday, which is handing Iran, the Middle East
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and Russia, uh, and then an executive order on bump stocks. Not a good week. Not a good week.
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Yeah. I think beyond that, I think beyond that, I think depending on what he does, you, if, if
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Donald Trump would have said, you know what, everyone, even my own party stands against me
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on the wall, but I'm shutting down the government and it's going to require the people to stand up
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and let their voices be heard. Huge win for him. If he would have done that. Huge win. Even if he
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lost the wall. Yep. A huge win for him. Yep. And he, he caves after beating his chest. Really
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strange. Insanity. Uh, then Syria just pulling out without even the advisor and then bump stocks.
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Oh yeah. On an executive order. Man. Which you don't want to do. And beyond that,
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wait a minute, hang on just a second. Um, nobody was calling for those right now. Nobody's couldn't
00:25:07.680
there's nobody up in arm. You give those up when in, when you're dealing with something else
00:25:14.060
and everybody is screaming and yelling. You're like, okay, we're going to do some common sense stuff.
00:25:18.820
I'm going to sign and I'm going to sign a law. If you pass it, that will get rid of bump stocks.
00:25:24.540
That's how you do it. It was such a bad day. And I was angry enough at his actions this week that I
00:25:33.200
had to go back and check my list of the good things he's done just so I could get a little
00:25:38.160
bit of balance back into my, into my mindset. But it's been such a bad couple of weeks.
00:25:43.080
But it's been really bad. You have Kavanaugh last week going over and, and, and playing footsie with,
00:25:49.080
with Planned Parenthood. And you're like, wait a minute, have we been duped on this guy?
00:25:53.320
Right. So, um, it's been the, it's been the kind of week that we warned about during the campaign.
00:25:59.120
It is. And not to quibble with this point, cause I know, I think I know the context you're making
00:26:03.020
it, but, uh, what you described as the way to buy and bump stock is, is not the way to buy and
00:26:07.480
ban bump stocks. No, I, you start off with a constitutional amendment, which repeals or at
00:26:11.920
least alters the second amendment. I know. Then you go to the house and the Senate and the presidency,
00:26:16.960
then you go confiscate them. And then I guess you make another law against rubber bands and
00:26:21.740
belt loops. Yeah. That's your next step there. Yeah. I, good luck with it. I, this is going
00:26:25.920
to make anybody who owns one a criminal. Yeah. Um, it's, this is really not good. This is really
00:26:32.860
not good. There's also so many ways to modify, uh, a weapon. You can do it with a rubber band.
00:26:38.040
Yeah. This is dumb. It's dumb. You have 90 days, by the way, if you've 90 days to get rid of these
00:26:42.540
or you're a federal or a felon. So by the way, this is, this law, the way this works
00:26:46.480
is it puts, uh, it puts double the amount of penalty on having a bump stock. Then if
00:26:52.840
you actually take an, a loaded rifle into a school, that's how ridiculous this is. And
00:26:58.460
again, it's not a law. It's a rule. It's a rule. They're just made a new rule in which
00:27:03.980
they defined the bump stock basically itself as a machine gun, which it is not. Okay. Um,
00:27:11.420
let me go to Bill in North Carolina. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Bill,
00:27:14.520
North Carolina. Welcome. Hey, good morning guys. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. I don't
00:27:19.200
feel like I'm in the Christmas spirit right now, but we will. Hey, I think it's a genius
00:27:24.400
move what president Trump did with the bump stock. All right. And here's why he's going
00:27:29.440
to force a lawsuit. In fact, the GOA has already filed one. It's going to force the courts to determine
00:27:37.540
exactly what you're saying, that it is not a machine gun. It, it protects gun grabbing of
00:27:44.100
semi-automatic weapons in the future. Um, cause you already said you can do it with a belt loop
00:27:50.160
or a rubber band. Okay. Well, we didn't go far enough with a bump stock ban. So now we've got
00:27:56.480
banned semi-automatics. I see the Democrats doing that. Right. He's out maneuvering them by doing it
00:28:02.200
this way. You know what, uh, Bill, I would love to take that. Um, and, and maybe you're right.
00:28:10.580
It's a risky game. It's a very risky game, especially with the way Kavanaugh just voted a
00:28:15.520
very, very risky game. Cause if you lose it in the Supreme court, then you're dealing with a whole
00:28:21.700
new world where confiscation and, uh, executive orders can ban anything that they want constitutionally.
00:28:28.920
Um, and I also, uh, you know, warned people when they all said that, uh, John Roberts was also
00:28:37.600
playing along. I was thinking the same thing. That's the same calls we got after John Roberts
00:28:40.940
ruled against Obamacare. Oh, it was just a strategic thing. Eventually he's, excuse me,
00:28:44.960
ruled for Obamacare. Eventually what he's leading to is a bigger deal where he's going to overturn more
00:28:49.440
things in favor of conservatives. Yeah. It's not the way this works. No, he's going to go down.
00:28:53.080
Even if it is the way it works, you don't break the constitution for a strategic point.
00:28:57.160
No, it's, it's the president's job to protect the constitution. Um, and if you believe that you
00:29:03.900
should come out and say, I'm going to sign this in because I think this is as an executive order
00:29:09.360
is illegal is wrong. I think this is wrong. I'm going to sign it in because I'm somebody's got to
00:29:16.640
challenge it. Even if he challenges it himself, make that point that you're doing that. Don't,
00:29:22.460
don't, uh, don't do it this way. Um, let me go to Ryan in Kansas. Hello, Ryan line eight.
00:29:28.540
Hello. Uh, hello. Good morning, everybody. How are you doing? Well, uh, actually, well,
00:29:34.040
that was kind of a lie because I'm sort of infuriated by this, uh, this, uh, this bump stock
00:29:38.800
move and, and the, the Syria decision, um, Syria and, and weak foreign policy was exactly the sort
00:29:45.300
of thing I criticized Obama for. And this bump stock thing would have been my nightmare if Obama had done
00:29:50.340
it. But, um, what upsets me even more than that is the number of people I've interacted with who
00:29:56.380
are absolutely the make America great again, people who will not, they won't criticize Trump
00:30:02.360
on this. And I just think if you come down on principle, there's absolutely no way that you
00:30:07.560
could be on the political right and not be upset by this with the understanding that if it had been
00:30:12.380
a Democrat doing this, you'd be livid. I wonder if there's anything Donald Trump could do that would
00:30:17.040
get these people to criticize him at this point. If not this, then I don't know what,
00:30:20.340
look, we have to be people that criticize when somebody does something wrong and praises when
00:30:26.200
they do something right and call balls and strikes. I've tried to do that. I gave the president a
00:30:32.200
fresh start when he was president. I watched his record. Okay. This is good. This is good. This is
00:30:37.880
good. This week has the last two weeks have been a disaster, an absolute disaster. Um, and you know,
00:30:45.340
you want to talk about the president, um, uh, you know, uh, foreshadowing or playing a longer game.
00:30:52.700
Yeah, it could be with pulling out of Syria, uh, uh, the, um, the ISIS thing and now the bump stocks
00:31:02.440
and, and also the, the prison thing, which I'm for the prison reform. He might be signaling to the
00:31:09.080
left. Look, I know you guys are coming in. There's a lot we can do together.
00:31:12.480
Pat, can you give us some things from the list of good things that he's done so we can kind of
00:31:16.460
throw ourselves back? Israel. Israel. Yes. Keep coming to that. Jerusalem. Gorsuch. Gorsuch.
00:31:22.940
Okay. Really good. Uh, he's, he's removed some EPA regulations that were ridiculous. He took,
00:31:28.560
he got us out of the Paris accord. Yeah. Got us out of the TPP. Uh, both of those were really good
00:31:33.500
moves. We got a small tax cut, which he calls a great big one. That's unprecedented in the history
00:31:38.720
of the world. Certainly not. Uh, but we got a tax cut. Okay. Um, then the ISIS one, I would,
00:31:45.340
I have been giving credit for a lot. ISIS has been mostly really good beaten. Yes. I'm a little
00:31:51.040
nervous though. It's back in the shadows. They just took off their black hoods and they're back
00:31:54.760
in their, uh, they're back waiting for their next opportunity. Yeah. They're not going into an
00:31:59.000
insurgency, right? Correct. And what's the problem with the Syrian move is that it strengthens them
00:32:04.360
because we're not there strengthens ISIS, Iran, Turkey, uh, and, uh, Russia strengthens all of
00:32:12.480
them in the middle East weekends, Saudi Arabia, the United States, uh, and definitely Israel.
00:32:19.940
And you guys have both been on the, you know, on the front of wanting to bring more of our troops
00:32:23.960
home. Uh, you know, this is not, you guys are not like, you know, neo-conservatives here on this
00:32:28.100
issue, but I want, I want all of our troops to come home, but I want all of our troops to come
00:32:33.160
home in a way that's not going to destabilize the entire world. Did you hear the Lindsey Graham
00:32:37.720
audio? We have, uh, this on audio here, Lindsey Graham telling reporters, uh, about, you know,
00:32:42.800
the Syria maneuver. And I mean, again, just like the, the caller just said, if Obama had done this
00:32:48.420
bump stock ban where he unilaterally, you know, started fiddling with the second amendment, we've
00:32:53.240
been infuriated. Listen to Lindsey Graham talking about Syria. If Obama had done this, we would be all
00:32:59.620
over him as Republicans. We made a good record that the decision to withdraw from Iraq was,
00:33:06.420
um, not based on sound military advice in spite of it. He did it himself, which he has every right
00:33:12.780
to do, but he needs to own it. And, uh, I don't think general Trump is going to be any better than,
00:33:19.640
uh, general Obama. Now what's confusing is those people who do not want to rule their life by
00:33:27.200
principle that just made Lindsey Graham the greatest man to ever live. And now he's saying
00:33:33.420
this against Trump. And where do you go? It's a, it's been a fascinating study of people to watch
00:33:41.080
this. It's really amazing. We are going to be fascinating. Historians are going to be looking
00:33:46.100
at this time period for a hundred years. Cause we've all been shocked for the last three years.
00:33:52.020
I mean, absolutely mind bogglingly shocked at how people have reacted to this stuff. And if you flip
00:33:58.140
on, you know, cable news, what you get is every week is a complete disaster for Donald Trump and
00:34:03.260
everything he does is a disaster. And that's not true. That's not how this presidency has played
00:34:07.300
out. However, the last couple of weeks, there was a lot to, to, to take issue with and mainly not
00:34:13.260
the things. If you flip on cable news today, they're going to be complaining about. Yeah. Cause
00:34:16.160
they don't complain about the bump stock thing. They should be all over him on that. They're
00:34:19.620
loving him. They haven't complained at all. I mean, and you know, they don't, they just don't
00:34:22.960
talk about it cause they don't want to give him any credit. Yeah. But it's the bump stock thing that
00:34:27.160
they would normally, if Obama had done it, they'd be praising him. So here's what I think is happening
00:34:31.980
with the average person in the street that is conservative. They turn on radio, they turn on TV and all
00:34:38.880
they hear about his impeachment, impeachment and Russia and his delusion and all of this
00:34:42.660
stuff. And all of the things he can never be, he can never ever do anything. Right. Then
00:34:48.940
they turn to an, including the Christmas portrait. They just did. Even that was, and the red Christmas
00:34:54.140
trees that looked like the handmaid's tale. Right. That was unbelievable. Unbelievable.
00:35:00.540
Nonsense. And so when you turn on somebody like us or rush or Sean or anybody else, and they're
00:35:07.080
saying, wait, bump stock thing, this is bad. It is natural to feel like, man, you know,
00:35:13.200
even them, even them. No, no, no, no. You've got to call the balls and the strikes. You have
00:35:19.560
to, um, because, you know, can we play another piece of audio? Do you have the audio of George
00:35:25.400
Bush and why he did tarp? Yes, we actually do. Hey, yeah. Have you ever heard this? Listen
00:35:30.620
to this from a new documentary on HBO, George Bush. They're talking about tarp. And remember
00:35:36.660
he said, I had to violate the free market system to save it. I had to abandon it. Had
00:35:40.940
to abandon the free market system to save it. Right. Yep. Uh, listen to why he did that.
00:35:47.360
Hank came in with Bernanke, with Geithner, started talking to the president about, we're going
00:35:53.780
to need some legislative authority. We're kind of out of ammunition. We needed to put capital
00:36:00.280
into the banking system. But Hank's concern about capital injections was that it would
00:36:06.920
look like the government was nationalizing or taking over the banking system. And so his
00:36:12.520
idea was to buy troubled assets. That's why it was called the Troubled Asset Relief Program,
00:36:18.440
the tarp. About halfway through the conversation, the president interrupted Hank and directed a
00:36:27.260
question. I asked her, we headed for a great depression and Bernanke, uh, said, you know,
00:36:33.740
it looks that way. And you have to make up your mind, you know, do you care? And what I cared
00:36:41.760
about was people that would be hurting. They were already starting to hurt. People getting run out
00:36:51.440
of their homes, payrolls couldn't be met. And I just could envision what a great depression would
00:36:57.240
mean. If it's bad now, imagine how bad it would really get. As we left that meeting, the president
00:37:05.600
turned to us and said, if this is Hoover or Roosevelt, for damn sure I'm going to be Roosevelt.
00:37:14.960
I just want you to put that in perspective because we are headed for the effects. Uh,
00:37:19.540
now we're going to feel the ramifications of 08, uh, and the world is feeling is,
00:37:24.160
is already feeling it and it's, it's coming. Uh, our president is going to be in the same situation.
00:37:31.600
Are you going to be Roosevelt? Are you going to be Hoover? Are you going to abide by the principles
00:37:36.680
that we have? Or are you going to fundamentally change us, um, for, you know, compassionate
00:37:43.460
reasons or, or whatever, it's going to be an extraordinarily difficult choice, but America is
00:37:49.180
on the verge of changing. We must stand for the bill of rights right now, speech, right to protect
00:37:58.040
yourself, right to assemble, right to privacy. Those things must be unchangeable and defended
00:38:06.000
and never weakened, especially over the next five years.
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I never watch America's got talent. Uh, I just don't watch TV generally speaking. Um,
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but my son came to me with YouTube and said, dad, you have to see this woman. Uh, Vicki Barbalock
00:43:06.120
is her name. She was, uh, she's 60, you're 60 years old. I'm the 61 this year. You're 61. Okay. Uh,
00:43:15.100
and she came out on stage and I don't remember who it was, Naomi Campbell or somebody said,
00:43:19.380
what are you going to do? And she said, I'm a ballerina and she's clearly not a ballerina.
00:43:24.840
And she followed that with, no, I'm kidding. Uh, I like to eat. Uh, so I'm not a ballerina. Uh,
00:43:31.080
and it went on from there. Uh, and she, you came back, I think two times after that.
00:43:37.020
I think there was, you know, I think there was like four more shows till the last final.
00:43:41.200
Okay. And you are now going back for the champions show champions. Where are they now?
00:43:46.840
I'm like, I'm in the driveway. I haven't left. I just got out of there.
00:43:50.700
So you now like you really, you, you are from California. Yeah. Um, you've been a comedian,
00:43:56.440
uh, 20 years, 20 years, and you kind of found yourself in a place to where you were too old for
00:44:01.540
your own club club. I mean, yeah. I mean, I didn't start till I was like nearly 40 and I didn't know
00:44:06.760
that was not a good idea. Luckily, or I wouldn't have started, you know, I probably would have that
00:44:11.760
cause I am an idiot, but I mean, and so, you know, I was, I was having a great time doing it,
00:44:17.200
but when I would go, no matter what would happen to me, like e-television would say I'm in the next
00:44:21.640
breakthrough from the comedy store. I would go to these agents in Hollywood and they go, well, we,
00:44:26.640
we, you're too fat. You're too old. You're too, we, there's nothing we can do for you. And so,
00:44:31.420
and so, I mean, I, I just, I just kept hoping something would happen, but I just, you know,
00:44:35.920
I see Steve Martin said, you get so good. They can't ignore you. And that was my only plan.
00:44:40.120
Just keep doing it. Keep loving it. But I kept thinking maybe Steve was wrong. Then America's
00:44:45.300
Got Talent happened. And what happened? That show has such a gigantic reach and the people it brought
00:44:50.860
to me. Uh, it just, then Hollywood had to come around. You are without being politically incorrect.
00:44:57.120
I mean, you are clearly politically incorrect, but without trying to be politically incorrect,
00:45:01.660
you are just so natural. You just feel like somebody that everybody knows.
00:45:07.240
I've, you know, that's fun about what I'm doing is I am like meat and potatoes comedy.
00:45:11.640
I'm the middle of the road. I'm a Midwestern Miss Mitzi, the owner of the comedy store. She goes,
00:45:17.520
Vicki, are you from the Midwest? And I said, no, but my parents, my mother is from Iowa.
00:45:22.740
And my uncles are my heroes and they're from Iowa. She goes, I can tell you a very Midwest sense of
00:45:29.160
humor, you know, but I've never lived in the Midwest, but that is, that is, I think who I am
00:45:32.880
in the middle of America. Your dad. Yeah. My dad played for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played for
00:45:38.220
the Steelers. I'm not bragging back. I just wanted you to know what the daughter of an NFL football
00:45:42.100
player looks like. This is no padding. This is natural. So yeah. And so he had, you know,
00:45:48.620
he'd been hit around a lot, you know, leather helmet time for him, 1950, 51. And so as I grew
00:45:54.860
up, he was daffy and daffy and daffier, but he was just lots of fun. And you know, he, he was just a
00:46:01.040
great dad, but he was totally daffy. So where do you get this from your dad or from your mom?
00:46:08.480
Cause you're. I think, uh, you know, I just, I was also a little fat little kid. I was like hugely fat.
00:46:13.900
I was like 220 at 12. And so that was my birth weight was 104 pounds. So I mean, I was always
00:46:20.500
really let yourself go now. So, so my, so my life was a child that was bullied and I would make the
00:46:27.580
fat jokes first. So fat jokes were defense. I learned that in my whole life that I, anything
00:46:32.400
good happened to me came because I could make people laugh. So it was always something that I did. I
00:46:37.320
worked for my parents at their carpet store for 20 years and I didn't care if people bought carpet for
00:46:41.520
me, but if they didn't laugh at my joke, I was devastated. So, I mean, it was all, I've always
00:46:46.260
been about making people laugh. And it, it, the stuff in your, the stuff in your act, for instance,
00:46:53.760
you know, you never drink alone. Yeah. Like, you know, I, I'm very proud of that. A lot of the
00:46:58.800
other moms, they would sit around and drink all day, but I was disciplined because you don't only
00:47:02.860
alcoholics drink alone. I read all the pamphlets. I would always, I always waited until the kids get
00:47:08.380
home from school. That's, you know, sometimes I call in a fake dental appointment, you know,
00:47:12.840
when I'm so parched, but I did my best. Right. Right. Uh, and, and, and when you, when you took
00:47:20.140
your kids on field trips. Oh yeah. That's another thing. My mother, you know, like for the last
00:47:24.300
generation, I think of women that party 24 seven, you know, and I got kids and I'm thinking party,
00:47:28.700
but the party was over. Right. I didn't know my mom and her friends always, always brought
00:47:33.060
class on field trips. I mean, I'm like, I'm going to get on a bus sober with first graders. Not now,
00:47:37.780
not ever. I don't care what they do to me. Right. So I go on my daughter's first field
00:47:41.640
trip and I take out my flask and it is, it's not a big algae flask. You know, it's a very
00:47:45.820
pretty, it's a little two ounce or it's not. Okay. How loaded could you get off of two ounces
00:47:49.780
anyway? Right. Right. But I take it out and I take a little flat, you know, sip and all
00:47:54.280
the other moms on the field trip, they just go ballistic. They're like, you know, she's got
00:47:58.200
a flat, she's got a flask, you know? And I'm like, calm down. You know, biatches, I'm not
00:48:03.640
driving the bus. I am not driving. Relax. So how much of your life is true? How much,
00:48:13.380
how much is, how much is, for instance, do you watch The Marvelous Miss Maisel? I do
00:48:20.480
watch it. I think it's one of the most brilliant shows ever. It's so great. It's so great for
00:48:24.720
women. I, I, are you Sophie, uh, um, the, the Sophie character, put that on your plate
00:48:32.460
that is completely, are we going to find out you're living in a mansion? Yes, you are.
00:48:38.840
If I keep going, I'm going to buy a triple Y, you know, that's pretty much, you know, and
00:48:43.660
the thing about the drinking alone, that was my mother. Every day I came home from school,
00:48:48.400
my mother would sit there with her decks, deck of cards between her legs, her mu mu one
00:48:52.180
inside out with a large amount of safety pins here in case 30 people needed a safety pin
00:48:56.360
on every given day. She was a president of the PTA. She was a treasurer of the women's club.
00:49:01.100
She was all those things. And she, you know, would, we'd come home and the first beer would
00:49:06.700
open, boom, when we'd walk in that side door. And my mother was a fun woman. I started when I
00:49:12.720
started standup telling that story that audiences got worried for me that I had this terrible childhood
00:49:18.060
with a crazy alcoholic mother. It wasn't like that. My mother was a blast and she was,
00:49:22.700
it wasn't like that. So I took that story of my mother and I put it on me. And I mean,
00:49:27.580
I do love to party. I'm not lying about that. Boxed wine is my life. But it's, but so everything
00:49:34.340
in my, everything that I, that I talk about is coming from a truth that I know, you know,
00:49:40.140
and you, but you do live in a beautiful trailer. Glenn, you cannot dynamite me. I've waited five
00:49:46.080
years to buy the second best trailer in my trailer park. And I would like, look at their
00:49:49.880
trash can for like five years. I'd like, what's in there? I knew they liked Applebee's. That's all
00:49:54.640
they knew. And then one day the trash was empty and I called the trailer park realtor, Les. He's
00:49:58.680
like 90. I'm like, Les, I want to buy this trailer. He loaned me the money. I started AGT at the same
00:50:04.560
time as trying to get this dream trailer. It all worked out. But I mean, I mean, I, this, I am so proud.
00:50:10.360
I live on top of the hill. Look at F. That's beautiful.
00:50:12.340
So you're, you're out of the slums. You're, you're looking down on the people.
00:50:15.700
The old trailer part of the, I call that part of the park, the ghetto. I always call this
00:50:19.560
the Heights. I don't talk to anyone below the lake, which is actually a drainage ditch
00:50:24.580
made to look like a lake, but I don't speak to those people anymore. I wish I could, but
00:50:29.320
I cannot. But you, right. Well, you're in a different class. They can look up on the hill
00:50:32.960
and be inspired by what you've done. That's what I try to say. Don't give up your dream.
00:50:37.220
So, um, you know, if you sold your high class top of the hill trailer park, uh, you know,
00:50:49.060
trailer there in California, you could probably live in a 20,000 square foot home here in Texas.
00:50:55.680
You know, I love, you know, I always had a dream seven years ago, my friend, uh, Brett Frank,
00:51:00.840
who lives in Denton, he saw me in Hollywood, flew me out here for his birthday party in Denton,
00:51:04.540
his 30th birthday. I two-stepped all night. I had the time of my life. He and I took my promo pack
00:51:09.720
over here to the Dallas improv seven years ago, asked him if I could do a set there.
00:51:14.480
They never, you know, got back to me. It took me seven years to get here.
00:51:17.820
I've always wanted to be in Texas. I, something mystical and romantic. And ever since that night,
00:51:22.660
and you know, Denton was on the border, but I mean, I love it here. I would love to have a place
00:51:27.740
on a lake here, a trailer. I would, you know, it'd have to be, I don't have to be a trailer.
00:51:31.620
I don't like drywall. I'm going to make that right now. I just don't feel comfortable around it.
00:51:36.500
I like to be slightly off the ground. See, in this part of the country though,
00:51:40.680
you're the first to be sucked up. You know what? You're right. In this part of the country,
00:51:43.940
I'm going to take it back. I'm going to have to do, I'm going to have to get, I'm going to have
00:51:47.100
to face it. Right. I don't want to get blown to Kansas. Right. Or you could have an underground
00:51:51.140
trailer. Part of your trailer is underground that you go for safety. Back in just a second,
00:51:55.780
we're with Vicki Barbalock. She is the winner of America's Got Talent top 10. She is now going
00:52:02.380
to be in the champions edition on NBC. It begins January 7th. One minute. We're back.
00:52:10.660
Let me tell you about a filter by filter by is you have filters in trailers, Vicki.
00:52:17.980
I actually do. Do you? Do you trade? Do you do? Cause we never remembered it.
00:52:23.160
We installed one. Oh, she's more handy. Do you feel a little emasculated right now?
00:52:30.000
I'm usually do. Yes. Because I didn't even know where the damn filter thing was.
00:52:36.500
Filter thingy thingy? Yeah. Yeah. You know, they come in. I think I've actually bought and sold
00:52:41.500
houses without ever changing the filter. I think, you know, when it's time to change the filter,
00:52:46.540
I don't know where it is. I don't know how to do it. They call someone. Yeah. Anyway. So we now
00:52:51.120
have filter by filter by all of the filters are made here in America. They're shipped right to
00:52:55.260
your door. So you don't have to go to Home Depot or Lowe's. You don't even have to think about it
00:52:58.640
shows up at your door and you're like, Oh, I got to put that into the thingy, uh, you know,
00:53:04.480
in the closet. And so you do, and you don't have to worry about it again. It's filter by filter,
00:53:26.580
So Vicki is on tour now. She's going to Tacoma. Oh, Tacoma. I used to live by there. Now it's been
00:53:34.500
30 years, but so pretty. Yeah. It's beautiful. And a lot of trailer people, a lot of trailer
00:53:39.400
people. You love it. Uh, then you're going to Portland. Yeah. Are you crazy? I'm excited
00:53:45.140
to the Portlandia where it's weird. The voodoo donuts. Yep. Uh, good luck. Women and women
00:53:52.180
first. Good luck. Women and women first while you're there. Oh, I'd love that. What's that?
00:53:56.840
It's the Portlandia is the show. It's a sketch show. And, uh, I don't know, maybe their most
00:54:01.380
famous sketches is a feminist bookstore. Yes. Oh yeah. It's a real bookstore there. And it's
00:54:07.020
insane. I love that sketch. It's going to be, yeah, I'm so excited. Uh, then Nashville,
00:54:12.540
Tennessee at Zaney's, uh, Huntsville, Alabama, the standup live, uh, stardom comedy club in
00:54:18.600
Hoover, uh, Hoover, Alabama. I can't wait to get there. Naples, Florida off the hook. Uh,
00:54:23.620
and then Rochester, New York, uh, comedy at the Carlson. That's just in January. Yeah. And then,
00:54:28.500
yeah, it's crazy fun. I mean, I'm really excited about going around. It's what I always dreamed
00:54:32.160
of doing. People go, you know, are you tired because you're the 61? I'm like, no, I get
00:54:36.600
so much energy and it was really fun here in Texas. And then I'll be in a San Antonio tomorrow
00:54:41.880
night, which is a dream for me. I like a bucket list thing. So I would imagine some people compare
00:54:48.000
you to kind of Roseanne. Yeah. Um, how do you feel about that? Well, all fat people look
00:54:52.760
like, and she, um, she didn't live in a trailer and we have brown hair. And in fact, you know,
00:54:58.420
I, when I first met her, she left the comedy store before I came into the comedy store.
00:55:02.200
And I always was worried when she saw me, would she feel that I'm, you know, hacking her? But
00:55:07.260
I was doing this show called funniest mom in America. She was the host. I was like, Holy crap.
00:55:12.160
She's going to, Ooh, is she here the night I auditioned? They said no. And then I heard of this
00:55:16.040
hacking laugh and I, I knew it was her. And she came up to me and she was so kind. She said,
00:55:20.880
I love you. And she totally got that. We were different. And, and, and I wrote for
00:55:26.020
her and, uh, she was really good. You did write for her. Wow. So it was wonderful. Yeah. I
00:55:30.700
hear, um, she's not easy to work with. I, you know, I, I, I, I just, you know, I just
00:55:37.240
realized we weren't going to be best friends because she was who she was. She was, you
00:55:40.380
know, Roseanne and I was a little me. So I would just send her this stuff and she
00:55:44.280
would send me a check and she was kind and she had me open for in Vegas once. And it
00:55:49.300
was, yeah, it was, uh, so are you, um, are you somebody who, uh, I mean, you win
00:55:55.300
the million dollars or whatever it is and you, um, you know, you're a big, huge
00:56:00.200
star and you're going cross country. What, what, what, what's going to change
00:56:04.200
about you? You know, I, I, you know, I, I don't know that that's much going to
00:56:09.880
change. I think because this big success hit me when I'm 60, I think that you're,
00:56:14.840
it's just different than it if you hit your earlier. I mean, I got my
00:56:19.520
grandkids a go-kart for Christmas. That was like a dream come true. I'm
00:56:23.420
going to say that. But other than that, I mean, like I, I'm going to, I'm not
00:56:27.160
leaving my trailer. I might get another trailer in LA when I'm working there, but
00:56:30.300
I mean, my whole, I don't think I've been so happy doing standup. I've been
00:56:35.180
just so happy the last 20 years. What did you do before that? I worked for my
00:56:38.620
parents' carpet store for 20 years. I mean, it was crazy. I mean, it was just,
00:56:42.660
they, my parents just, it was the craziest time. And that's why comics go,
00:56:47.360
comedy's a struggle. It's so hard. I'm like, try working at a carpet store with
00:56:56.280
Because they would, they would sleep at the carpet store.
00:56:59.100
Our carpet shop was attached to a liquor store. Literally by the wall was a
00:57:02.540
liquor store, the wall, liquor store, us. So my parents, like we would start drinking
00:57:06.180
in the afternoon. They'd pass out about nine o'clock when we closed. People would come
00:57:09.920
in in the morning. The door wasn't locked. They just walk into the shop.
00:57:12.640
Mom and dad would be sprawled out on the carpet rolls. Are you open? Oh yeah. Can
00:57:16.220
we help you? There was not even a blink. And we sold only seconds and
00:57:20.380
irregulars. I mean, that's, you only shopped there if you were desperate or
00:57:23.640
super rich. And you know, it was just, it was my dad, every morning had a pep
00:57:29.000
talk in his office. I'm going to hire nothing but a-holes. I'm going to take an ad
00:57:32.540
under A. That was our, that was our morning pitch. It was.
00:57:41.220
My dad started, uh, he managed carpet stores when I was little and they moved
00:57:45.520
him every year. And finally, when I was 19, uh, he opened up our first shop in
00:57:49.900
Oceanside and, uh, and that's why, that's where we stayed.
00:57:53.520
And how long have you lived in California then?
00:57:59.200
California, I grew up on the West Coast. I grew up in Seattle.
00:58:02.160
And California 40 years ago is not California today. It's not.
00:58:07.160
It is not. I swear, my little enclave of Oceanside is protected by Camp
00:58:11.240
Pendleton Marine Corps Base, which I love because, you know, at any given day
00:58:14.220
there's 30,000 gorgeous Marines walking around. I mean, I think because we have
00:58:18.540
the base there, our town stays a similar, like, it doesn't gentrify to the level
00:58:23.300
of the other beach towns around us. So I'm just so grateful to be,
00:58:26.980
in Oceanside. It's a little, like, when I go to LA to work and stuff, it's like,
00:58:30.560
yeah, but I mean, um, for where we are, it's like a secret little spot. I mean,
00:58:37.220
I think it is with, with San Diego as well. I mean, it just,
00:58:40.660
Camp Pendleton changes the, you know, the seals and the, yeah, it just stops the
00:58:47.720
Yeah. I'm so lucky in my son-in-law's a retired gunny. So I get to be at the
00:58:52.040
beach at Camp Pendleton on Christmas day. We always spend Christmas at the beach at
00:58:55.780
Camp Pendleton. I'm like, I mean, I just, in the Marine Corps car washes, ladies, if
00:59:00.380
you visit San Diego, don't go to the zoo, go to the front gate of Camp Pendleton. You
00:59:04.240
sit in your car, 12 Marines wearing little green shorts, wash your car. It's
00:59:08.940
And that is, uh, that's what you might do for every sun, every Saturday,
00:59:15.660
every summer long. That's where you will find me. Right. Cause I'm a giver.
00:59:21.540
You're tremendous. You're just tremendous. Thank you so much for having me on big honor.
00:59:28.640
Uh, it is, uh, it's, it's great to see somebody, uh, who is pursuing what they love
00:59:35.320
because they love it. And for no other reason, and then hitting it. And I'm, I'm just thrilled.
00:59:42.380
No other reason. I mean, you have the trailer on the hill. I mean,
00:59:47.300
I had a double wide dream and comedy made it come true.
00:59:50.980
Where can people go to find out where to find you if they miss the dates?
00:59:53.620
Uh, well, the, on my Vicki Barbalak Facebook page is always my calendar and I am, I have
00:59:59.180
a website. It's called Vicki Barbalak comedy.com. It's, uh, on the brink of teeter, but it
01:00:05.200
hopefully it'll work. If you guys look into it, Vicki Barbalak comedy.com or my Facebook
01:00:18.240
Yeah. Vicki Barbalak trailer nasty. And also I am a, uh, ordained a wedding minister.
01:00:25.620
Are you a minister of the, uh, leopard cloth of the leopard?
01:00:29.480
Yes. And I offer a 29 95 half hour honeymoon as part of my service. I have a wedding van.
01:00:37.680
And so the 20 minute, did you say 30 minute half hour honeymoon, 29 95. I have, I've kept
01:00:44.120
that price, uh, stable. Right. Yeah. Right. And that's in the back of the van. And it's a,
01:00:50.120
it's a wonderful experience, uh, for the happy couple.
01:00:53.540
And you can renew your vows too. And you, for, I do a lot of anniversary renewals. I do,
01:00:57.760
you know, anniversary parties and we can also offer the 29 95, you know, maybe we should have,
01:01:02.960
maybe we should, maybe we should have like, we do next year. If maybe we could get you back. We,
01:01:07.820
we should do like a bowling out. I mean, it's not a van, right? But we could, you know,
01:01:13.300
it's a national show. So maybe we could do like a bowling alley wedding and you could officiate.
01:01:17.620
Absolutely. I have, I would love to do that. I have my own bowling shoes and back.
01:01:21.760
So you're ready. So we should, let's do that next year. You come back. Okay. You, you can,
01:01:26.620
and we'll find the perfect couple for the bowling alley wedding. I love it. Somebody is going to want
01:01:31.400
to get married next year in a bowling alley on this show. Keep us in mind. Yeah. Vicki. Thank
01:01:36.540
you so much. Thank you so much, Glenn. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.
01:01:40.200
You can find her at Vicki barbalock.com. Vicki barbalock, find her at Facebook. And if she's
01:01:46.800
coming near you, make sure you see her. She is great. You're listening to Glenn Beck.
01:01:57.780
All right. Uh, you want a good night's sleep? Don't take my word for it. Uh, because we're
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all different. Uh, and you know, even my body is different now that, you know, I'm Rubenesque.
01:02:08.880
Uh, and, uh, what I hadn't noticed. Thank you. Yeah. That's so kind of Christmas. I've noticed
01:02:14.980
you've put on a few LBs, but, uh, you're letting yourself go. Thank you. Um, but any, but anyway,
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you, the Casper.com, uh, it's a great mattress for me. It might suck for you. Everybody's different.
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your money. Going to a mattress store is just ridiculous. I've never slept in my clothes. I can't say
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code back Christmas. Last night I was watching, uh, Levin TV on, uh, on, uh, blaze TV. And, uh,
01:03:18.260
and, and Mark was talking about this on the air a bit of the, the idea that the president is pulling
01:03:23.280
out of Syria and everybody found out over Twitter at the Pentagon, uh, just not the way you want to
01:03:29.040
run a country or a war. And, uh, uh, it's, it's wrong. It's, isn't, this is not going to lead to
01:03:34.980
anything good of David French on. We wanted to talk a little bit about being deplatformed and social
01:03:39.840
media and what it says about us, et cetera, et cetera. Um, but he was, uh, he's a, uh, a veteran
01:03:45.780
of, uh, operation Iraqi freedom. And, uh, so I wanted to get his opinion, uh, because he has written a lot
01:03:52.280
about ISIS over the years as well, his opinion on us pulling out of, of Syria, uh, and what this,
01:03:59.700
what this means. Welcome to the program, David. Oh, thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it.
01:04:04.180
Sure. So your thoughts on what happened yesterday? Uh, it's stunning and it's a terrible mistake.
01:04:12.660
Uh, it's a very dangerous mistake. Uh, it's stunning in part because just days ago,
01:04:19.180
the administration had reaffirmed its commitment to our Kurdish allies and to completing the mission
01:04:25.080
of destroying ISIS. And people have to understand when you talk about ISIS, there's the caliphate,
01:04:30.800
you know, this, or their attempt to create a nation state that has been largely, the caliphate
01:04:35.080
has been largely wiped out, but ISIS, the terrorist organization still exists. And to put this into
01:04:40.620
perspective in 2011, when Obama wrongly pulled out of Iraq, this is something that, that, uh,
01:04:47.040
the conservatives were deeply concerned about when he did it. And when he wrongly left Iraq,
01:04:51.360
there were only about 700 members of Al Qaeda in Iraq left in our country, only about 700.
01:04:57.400
The best estimate of the remaining strength of ISIS in Iraq and Syria is between 20 and 30,000.
01:05:05.180
And so to say that it's done, that the job is done is just not factually correct. It is wrong.
01:05:11.180
We, we knew this in world war II. I mean, when the regime collapsed in Germany, we didn't stop.
01:05:17.960
We went werewolf hunting. Uh, we went looking for those that were called werewolves, self-described
01:05:24.060
werewolves that were the Nazi believers that went back into the communities and were not going to let
01:05:30.180
this thing die. We, we knew we had to kill them and stop them. Well, you know, this would be about
01:05:36.020
like, uh, declaring the end of the Afghan war right after the, right after the Taliban fell,
01:05:43.100
even though we knew, we knew that Al Qaeda was still out there. Um, yeah, the, the capital cities
01:05:50.180
of the caliphate have fallen and that's been, and Trump deserves a lot of credit for continuing that
01:05:55.340
military campaign and stepping up that military campaign that began under Obama. But now to pull
01:06:01.180
out before that job is done and then as, and then to make it worse, the people, there are three
01:06:07.200
entities most likely to gain three American, uh, enemies of the U S that are most likely to gain
01:06:13.260
from this ISIS, of course, um, Russia and Iran. This is something that we're going to strengthen our
01:06:20.060
enemies. We're going to betray our allies. And to what purpose this is, this had been one of the most
01:06:25.820
successful American military interventions since nine 11. I mean, we had with, uh, very, um, light
01:06:34.180
casualties by comparison to other American military interventions, toppled the heart of the caliphate,
01:06:39.860
uh, empowered Kurdish allies, held the line against Russia and Iran and put ISIS in headlong retreat.
01:06:46.080
And before it's all, before it's all done, you just leave and you do it by shocking your own
01:06:51.840
generals. Uh, that doesn't make sense. Why did it happen? Uh, well, we have to crawl into the mind
01:07:00.980
of Donald Trump. I mean, I think, I think part of, you know, from the beginning, he has, um, expressed
01:07:07.940
deep skepticism about America's, uh, military actions, involvement overseas. He has been talked
01:07:14.540
out of on multiple occasions, headlong, uh, and precipitous retreats in Afghanistan, in Syria. Um,
01:07:23.240
you, you just get the feeling that it's what he wants to do and that he's been repeatedly talked
01:07:27.920
out of it by the people around him, but he's just going to go ahead and do it. Yeah. Right. Okay. Um,
01:07:34.780
let's talk about something that I think David, um, the conservatives and all Americans should be
01:07:40.740
very concerned about, um, right now, but I'm going to really be focusing on it in, in 2019.
01:07:47.000
And that is the silencing of, uh, voices and, and social media. You, you wrote a, um, an article,
01:07:55.460
social media idealism collides with human nature. I think that headline says it all. Explain that.
01:08:03.660
Yeah. So essentially what I'm talking about there is the frustration that the social media companies
01:08:11.340
are now feeling with how their, their platforms are used and they're clumsy. And sometimes, uh,
01:08:18.240
they're clumsy and sometimes, uh, censorious attempts to bring that plat their platforms in
01:08:23.500
alignment with their vision. And so what they imagined was, you know, they're going to create
01:08:28.140
these platforms. They're going to bring the world together and not just bring the world together,
01:08:33.340
but, and transmit and communicate their values that, you know, you had these, these Facebook,
01:08:40.500
Twitter, et cetera, executives, almost all of them uniformly progressive who believe that
01:08:46.140
these platforms would accomplish progressive things in the world. But it turns out when you
01:08:51.420
create a platform, when you create a true marketplace of ideas, you also empower a lot of voices you don't
01:08:56.980
like, uh, and a lot of voices you disagree with. And particularly on Facebook, it's very interesting.
01:09:02.960
If you look at the top publishers on Facebook in the political context, time and again, it's,
01:09:08.040
it's conservative time and again, it's Republican. And that's not what Zuckerberg built Facebook for.
01:09:14.860
And they have, and they've done everything they can to hurt those platforms and to hurt the traffic
01:09:22.340
trying to, I mean, for me, I have what? 3.2, uh, million Facebook, uh, likes and fans and followers.
01:09:31.820
And, uh, I, they, they want me to pay to be able to reach the people who said, I want the stuff from
01:09:39.420
him. I mean, they're doing everything they can to limit the voice. Yeah. You know, I, the, the,
01:09:46.820
and the problem is they, they want, they want two things. They want, they want it all and they can't
01:09:52.260
have it all. So what they want is to reach every person in the world. And then they also want to
01:09:57.900
spread and inculcate a particular set of values. Well, if you make your platform a, a, a value
01:10:05.300
transmission device, you're going to limit its reach. Uh, and so they keep on trying to square that
01:10:10.940
circle. They keep trying to say, well, we want everybody on there, but we really truly only want a
01:10:16.500
certain kind of expression on there. You can't have both, but they flail around often trying to
01:10:22.520
have both, or at least limiting, trying their best to limit the spread of ideas that they dislike.
01:10:28.360
Uh, and, and this is a real problem. It creates an, you know, almost an unbearable amount of tension
01:10:33.100
because on the one hand you have conservatives saying, Hey, you know, treat us equally, just
01:10:38.120
treat us, you know, we don't need special treatment, just treat us equally with other perspectives.
01:10:42.580
And then you have progressives who happen to be, you know, in their peer group,
01:10:46.160
essentially saying, what are you doing? You're all progressives. You want the progressive value
01:10:52.400
spread. And you, and you, I think you also have a third group of, of, uh, people that are both sides
01:11:00.560
that look at these really hideous things from anti-Semites or whatever. Um, and, and say,
01:11:08.900
you got to get rid of, you got to get rid of them. But the, the correct answer is I can't get rid of
01:11:14.980
anybody. It's a platform. I can't get rid of anybody. Well, yeah, the correct, I think,
01:11:20.820
and I've been a long arguing this, that the correct way to look at this is to not try to reinvent the
01:11:26.360
wheel, but take America's 200 plus years of experience with the first amendment and, and
01:11:32.340
apply it to these social media companies, not by force of law. And I don't, I don't want Congress
01:11:37.440
saying you have to apply first amendment principles, but I'd say Twitter and Facebook voluntarily
01:11:42.980
applying first amendment principles and core to the first amendment jurisprudence is the idea of
01:11:49.560
viewpoint neutrality. In other words, if we're a platform, the rule, whatever rules we put in place,
01:11:56.000
they're going to be viewpoint neutral rules. We're not going to privilege a point of view
01:12:00.640
and suppress another point of view. We're going to, we're going to create a marketplace of ideas.
01:12:05.980
And I think that that's the way through this wilderness. Um, but because they have not done
01:12:10.780
that and because they have put their thumb on the scales, you know, sometimes to get rid of really,
01:12:16.700
truly bad people, no question, but because they have put their thumb on the scales, they're opening
01:12:21.900
themselves to endless charges of double standards because those double standards are very, very real.
01:12:27.260
And it, I, I'm trying to decide, uh, Facebook, Google, um, you know, all social media and these,
01:12:37.340
and these big platforms, YouTube, um, are they, are they creating a hostile, uh, civilization?
01:12:47.320
Are they just empowering that hostile position or are they just revealing who we really are?
01:12:55.120
I think it's revealing and empowering. So I, I don't think people are, uh, people are people,
01:13:02.960
but what, what, um, Facebook has been able to do, what YouTube has been able to do is essentially
01:13:08.740
take all of the flaws of human beings, all of, and, and often all the virtues of human beings as
01:13:15.240
well, but all of the flaws of human beings and put them right in our face all the time. So that if,
01:13:22.040
you know, let's say you have neighbors who live five doors down, who have bad ideas about politics,
01:13:28.760
you might not ever encounter them pre-Facebook, pre-Twitter, but now everybody's bad ideas and by
01:13:35.360
bad ideas, the ones you don't like are thrown in your face constantly all the time on these
01:13:40.700
platforms. And I think what it does is it sort of takes our natural emotional reaction to being
01:13:46.360
exposed to things we don't like makes it relentless and then sort of over time turns it up to, you
01:13:52.680
know, 11 and, and it's, uh, it's the only way to really escape it is to turn off social media
01:14:00.040
entirely. But then you get that sort of nagging feeling that what am I missing? Am I missing
01:14:05.080
these developments with my grandkids? Am I missing these developments with my friends on the West
01:14:09.780
coast? So you turn it back on for the friendships. And then there it is again,
01:14:14.240
all of the things that you dislike. And it's, and, and I think it just takes who we actually are
01:14:20.080
and just throws it in our face all the time. And it makes it worse.
01:14:25.120
It's a great point. Cause I mean, think about the holidays come around, like whatever, you know,
01:14:27.760
if you have a holiday party that you go to once a year and you know, a couple of people there that
01:14:31.900
you don't like are going to be there and you sort of dread it for like weeks going into that party,
01:14:37.360
we are exposing ourselves to like six or seven hours of that party every day where everyone we don't
01:14:43.300
like is always talking to us. That cannot be healthy longterm, David.
01:14:48.080
No, you know, it's interesting. If you look at some of the charts of anxiety and depression,
01:14:54.960
especially amongst younger people in the country, the rates of anxiety and depression,
01:14:59.080
they started to really spike around the time that the smartphone became ubiquitous. And of course,
01:15:05.980
it's not the phone itself. It's what's on the phone. And what's on the phone is social media.
01:15:10.000
And you can even see a sharp rise and political hatred that is tied to a couple of specific core
01:15:16.820
correlates with a couple of specific events. And one of them is widespread adaptation of the
01:15:22.080
smartphone. And so, you know, these, that when you, when you feel like you cannot avoid,
01:15:27.820
or that this good thing that you like also carries with it, this kind of poison pill in the middle of
01:15:33.420
it, um, that, that plays on your insecurities that plays on your emotions that sometimes your
01:15:40.300
deepest beliefs. Um, yeah, it can be toxic. David French, uh, national review, great article,
01:15:47.480
social media idealism collides with human nature. Thanks, David. We'll talk again. Have a great,
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01:17:03.420
Welcome to the program. Uh, we have a great guest coming up in a second. Um, I want to see
01:17:08.860
if we can reschedule. I just got two emails at glennbeck.com. Um, and, uh, one said, uh, Glenn
01:17:16.960
yesterday, Hillsborough County, uh, deputy did the most horrible thing imaginable. He murdered
01:17:21.960
his wife, daughter, and six-year-old granddaughter before taking his own life. We are all devastated
01:17:27.280
and trying to gather some sense of reality after this surreal tragedy. We're asking for
01:17:31.840
nothing but prayers. And all I want is to try to help prevent others from going through
01:17:36.460
this. Um, please do a show that focuses on helping people who are considering suicide.
01:17:42.060
Um, so I read this and then I, I click on the very next, uh, email. Glenn, my name is, I'm
01:17:53.560
not going to give you his name. I'm 25 years old. I've been listening to you since I was 19
01:17:57.540
nearly every day. Um, I've been listening for the last few years. Uh, and I know you don't
01:18:09.020
know me, but I have depression. Some days are incredibly difficult to get out of bed.
01:18:14.740
The past several weeks have been perhaps the worst of my life. Suicide is never far from my
01:18:19.740
mind. I'm working on it. I recently switched medication, started seeing a new therapist,
01:18:24.700
and I'm hoping for the best. My days consist of constant prayer and pleading with my maker for
01:18:31.060
understanding and some sense of peace and hope. This doesn't affect you, but it affects me
01:18:37.180
greatly. Most days lately, your show has been the only thing allowing me to get through my
01:18:42.680
mornings and my day at work. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for what
01:18:47.640
you do, for what you and all of you do, the messages you share. I admit it's not typically
01:18:53.980
the stories and information that lift me up. I, uh, I, some days, uh, I do notice it's a bit
01:19:00.120
doomsday-ish. Um, but knowing that I can tune in and listen to you with compassion and humor,
01:19:06.400
uh, with Stu helps me forget about myself even for just a couple of hours. Words cannot express
01:19:12.780
how grateful, uh, I am. And even includes, yes, I'm even grateful for Jeffy. I had real sympathy
01:19:22.660
for him until then. I, I did too. Yeah. I did too. Yeah. Um, I, I want to address, uh, both of these,
01:19:30.340
uh, next hour. So please stand by, please stand by.
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The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program.
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I don't know what it's like at your house, but at my house, it's nothing but going over lists and
01:19:54.480
running around and, uh, making sure you're at the right place and we're at the school for the right
01:19:59.880
thing. And, and the kids are prepared for this. And we've, we've got our shopping done for this
01:20:05.040
person. And have you sent out the fruit basket for this? Have you written the card for so-and-so
01:20:10.360
it's nonstop. It's nonstop. And in this rush, we sometimes miss the things that are right next to us.
01:20:31.700
So we are, uh, we're, we're hitching a trailer to the back of the truck and we're going on a
01:20:37.720
little Christmas tour, uh, as a, uh, as a family. And one of the things that we're doing is we're
01:20:42.800
bringing in car games with us. And one of them is, uh, say anything. It's a great game that your
01:20:48.820
family can play, whether you're driving, whether you're sitting around the table, uh, and anybody
01:20:53.820
can play. And it is just a fun game called say anything. You find it at the toy section at
01:20:59.560
target. I think it's, I don't even know 20% offer it's on discount now at target. Um, but, uh, it's a
01:21:05.560
fun game and you really will laugh hard. Uh, you will go off on all kinds of tangents. It's one of
01:21:12.120
those games where somebody will say something, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what? What do you
01:21:17.600
mean? And in a good way? Um, and there's no politics, so it's great. It's called say anything
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it's available now at target. Get it for the holidays, you know, surrender, surrender. Don't
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talk politics. Don't, don't, don't try to win at the table. Just say anything, have fun, go get it.
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Toy section. Now at target it's on sale. It's called say anything.
01:21:55.480
So, uh, just a few minutes ago, I, I looked down at the email and, um, and I got a couple of letters
01:22:03.440
in from, um, um, from listeners. And one of them, uh, is in Hillsborough County. Uh, that's in
01:22:11.140
Florida. And, uh, he says, Glenn yesterday, my cousin Hillsborough County deputy did the most
01:22:18.360
horrible thing imaginable. He murdered his wife and his daughter and his six-year-old granddaughter
01:22:23.420
before taking his own life. We're devastated and still trying to gather some sense of reality
01:22:29.640
after this surreal tragedy. I'm not asking for anything but prayers, but I do want to try to
01:22:37.420
help prevent others from going through this. Please do a show that focuses on helping people
01:22:43.700
who are considering suicide somewhere out there. Someone else is hiding anguish and maybe we can
01:22:49.860
help them before it's too late. I read that letter and then that, and I usually don't read listener mail
01:23:00.940
during a show. Uh, but for some reason I click on the next one. And the very next one is from a guy
01:23:08.140
who says I'm 25 years old. I've been listening since I was 19 nearly every single day. Um, and I have
01:23:17.280
depression and some days it's incredibly difficult to get out of bed. This, the past several weeks
01:23:22.720
have been perhaps the worst of my life. Suicide is never far from my mind and I'm working on it.
01:23:30.980
Most of my day is, it consists of prayer and constant pleading with my maker for understanding
01:23:37.880
and some sense of peace and hope. Back in the 1980s.
01:23:51.580
I went through clinical depression and it's different. It's there's,
01:24:00.220
there are people that, and we all go through this. There are people that look at the holidays.
01:24:11.240
It's the most wonderful time. Well, sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's not the most wonderful time
01:24:17.240
of the year. Sometimes for some people, it can be the worst time of the year because
01:24:25.000
maybe you grew up with great parents and it was just the greatest holiday and they
01:24:35.100
decorated and you remember as the perfect tree and the family would get together and
01:24:40.400
you can't recreate that for some reason. Maybe your family is broken up or maybe your kids are typical
01:24:48.640
teenagers or maybe you've lost your job. I remember being so broke I couldn't afford anything
01:25:01.040
for Christmas. I remember Christmas Eve alone, a divorced guy living in this hellhole. Carpet smelled
01:25:15.320
like soup. And I was laying down on the floor, feeling bad for myself on Christmas Eve because
01:25:21.200
I was all by myself. And I realized this is not going to end well for me. And I had to choose.
01:25:33.980
Some people, their Christmas was not happy as a child.
01:25:38.540
Some people, their Christmas was not happy as a child. People have lost loved ones. This
01:25:45.540
is the first Christmas since fill-in-the-blank passed away. We have a friend, we have two that lost
01:25:58.820
their husband or wife just recently. I can't imagine. I can't imagine losing Tanya and how everything
01:26:17.280
in my life would remind me of her. And how hard that would be. I can't imagine losing a child.
01:26:26.700
I really, I can't imagine it. But if that's what, if that's what you are feeling or if that is
01:26:43.100
the kind of Christmas or holiday you're experiencing, I'd ask you to back up and
01:26:56.400
re-examine Thanksgiving. Think about Thanksgiving. The pilgrims come over here. About half of them die
01:27:07.140
in the boat. They're just dumping their children into the sea after they die. Imagine that.
01:27:13.940
they get here. It is such hostile territory that they can't grow anything. Another half, half
01:27:29.100
of the half that is left die through the winter. Starvation, sickness, cold. Imagine having nothing.
01:27:41.160
you are starving. You are starving and you're in the northeast and you are freezing and you're all
01:27:48.220
huddled under a blanket and there is no such thing as medicine. You're just praying to make it to the
01:27:55.460
next morning and your child or your wife freezes to death. One of you starts to get sick and you know
01:28:04.740
that's a death sentence. You're trying to feed your child. You got nothing. Where is God? We came here
01:28:14.360
for God. Where is God? Half of us died on the way here. Another half are dying in the next eight months.
01:28:20.900
Where is God? Where is God? And when it was over, when it was over and they could plant crops and they could
01:28:34.700
plant corn, they stopped after the harvest to say, thank you, Lord. Only a quarter of them were left.
01:28:47.500
Thank you. And it was such a celebration that we still remember it today.
01:28:58.840
Yesterday I talked to Eric Bolling and he's struggling with his faith and I ask that you pray for him
01:29:03.600
and his wife. But someday Eric will, let me say this. One of the reasons why Operation
01:29:17.280
O-U-R, the Underground Railroad, where we're rescuing children that have been enslaved or kidnapped and
01:29:26.380
forced to be either slave labor or sex labor, is because of a little kid named Gardie.
01:29:35.600
Still looking for him. They still think he's alive.
01:29:47.420
One of the congregants in that church was mad at the pastor.
01:29:53.260
And so to get revenge, kidnapped his child in the middle of church.
01:30:21.100
He couldn't sleep in his own house for a year because he thought,
01:30:25.860
How could I sleep anywhere but under the stars?
01:30:28.520
How could I sleep in a bed when I know my son doesn't have a bed?
01:30:34.080
And he walked all night trying to find his son every night.
01:30:44.160
The horrors that this kid has gone through if he's still alive.
01:31:06.820
And the thousands of children that have been saved because of my son.
01:31:20.000
my son and I might have even said to each other,
01:31:35.400
He said, I can never actually say it's worth it
01:32:03.000
that's when you know you're on pretty safe territory.
01:32:38.760
And I want to speak to anyone who has a loved one
01:32:43.840
or is themselves going through another kind of depression
01:33:01.940
And I think gold is going to start playing a pretty important role
01:33:14.520
both politically and I think economically throughout the world.
01:33:52.860
and find out if gold or silver is right for you.