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A lot on the plate today.
Yesterday, the first full workday at the White House.
What did President Trump do?
What is in the process?
And why is it that I didn't see this headline from Time magazine, oh, I don't know, eight years ago?
Donald Trump breaks almost all of his day one promises.
No, not really, especially after you read the story.
Seems like the headline writers like to just throw bloody meat at people.
We'll get to what he did and also, it looks like he may have selected a Supreme Court justice.
We have some insiders that are now saying we think it is this particular man.
We're going to give you all the details on who that is and what it means beginning right now.
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Donald Trump breaks almost all of his day one promises.
As candidate, Donald Trump set a sweeping day one agenda.
As of Monday evening, the vast majority of his promises have gone unfulfilled.
At rallies and speeches over the course of his campaign, as well in his contract spelled out with the American voters, Trump vowed to move swiftly to overhaul the country's approaches to trade and immigration.
He said repealing and replacing his predecessor's signature health care law would be one of his first acts as president.
He vowed to terminate what he dubbed his predecessor's two illegal executive amnesties, and he committed to push forward with sweeping ethics reforms and undue scores of environmental and other regulations.
But since he was sworn in on Friday, he's moved at a decidedly slower pace.
Anybody else find, but since he was sworn in Friday, he's moved at a slower pace?
Here's what he did yesterday on his first full workday at the White House.
This is what he did.
He withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
TPP is a thing of the past.
Here's what the order does.
He made it clear that he would not consider putting the agreement to a vote in Congress.
The U.S. will withdraw as a signatory toward the deal and permanently withdraw from any further negotiations.
The member nations closed the agreement in 2015, but with most of the Democrats against it and pro-trade Republicans hesitant to support it in election year, Obama decided to hold off asking Congress to ratify the agreement until the GOP leaders were confident it was passed.
That moment never came.
What it doesn't do, it does not mean that Trump is taking the U.S. out of trade altogether.
Indeed, Trump officials say he will consider seeking discrete trade agreements with many of the nations who were party to TPP.
The U.S. already has bilateral agreements with many already.
It was a move, a strong signal that the Trump administration wants free and fair trade throughout the world, says Sean Spicer.
The executive action ushers in a new era of U.S. trade policy in which the Trump administration will pursue bilateral trade opportunities with allies around the globe.
Good?
Everybody happy with that one?
I am.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I have my issues with him on trade.
And I think no need going into them.
I think I don't know that he's pulling out of TPP for the same reasons that you don't like TPP.
And so that one concerns me because I, you know, the way he talks about trade, but I know you like it.
Okay, so let's judge him on his actions, not what we fear.
Can we do that?
Of course.
It's fair.
So adjust on this action, not what we fear.
Because what I fear is the same thing you fear.
We start putting up trade barriers and we start moving into the things that he has also said he's going to do.
And we move into the area of tariffs and we're in real trouble.
But he hasn't done that.
On this, I think this is a good thing, getting out of TPP.
I mean, you know, there are risks to it.
China will be able to write all the rules.
Right.
So, I mean, that's, you know, obviously if our issue with is China with trade, now China is going to be writing the rules likely for this entire group of countries, which will be their negotiating starting point for anything going further.
Of course, you know, Trump would say that he's going to be able to negotiate better deals, and he may very well, he might.
So, I mean, to this one, I'm not like thrilled about that.
But I know I'm in the minority for sure.
You happy, Pat?
Yeah, I think that's a good thing.
Reinstating a ban on funding some abortion services.
Trump's order yesterday reimposes a ban initiated in 1984 by Reagan on government support for international aid groups that provide or counsel women on abortion services.
To receive any USAID, non-governmental organizations will now have to certify they do not perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning.
This ban is called the global gag rule lifted by Obama after he took office in 2009.
What it doesn't do, it doesn't affect family planning or abortion policy here in the United States.
However, Steph to start.
What the hell are we doing funding abortions anywhere?
Anywhere, but especially foreign countries.
Yeah, that's an A-plus for me.
And also, you know, it's been one of those things that every Democrat has not enacted and every Republican has.
So it was, you know, Reagan had it on, then the Clintons took it off, then Bush put it back on, then Obama took it off.
So this is very consistent with past Republican policy since Reagan.
And obviously, as somebody who's pro-life, it's important.
Third, ordering a government-wide hiring freeze.
Here's what the order does.
The Trump administration directed the leaders of all federal agencies and departments to freeze hiring of new personnel.
Any vacancies in the federal workforce as of noon on Sunday must remain unfulfilled, and no new positions may be created except in limited circumstances.
The decision is meant to counter the dramatic expansion of the federal workforce since the Clinton administration from 1.8 million civilian employees to 2.1 million.
The cost and health and retirement benefits are unsustainable, says the administration.
There's frankly, to some degree, been a lack of respect for taxpayer dollars in this town for a long time, said Spicer.
What the order does not do, the military is exempt from the freeze.
Each department or agency can also exempt any position that it deems necessary to meet national security or public safety responsibilities.
I think that's good.
Just through attrition, you will cut the size of the government down dramatically.
Yeah, I'm certainly a big fan of this one as well.
The left is based, their point is, just so we know, because it's always important to know, their argument is essentially of all the things that have expanded during the Obama administration, federal employment hasn't really expanded.
A lot of that's to do with the economic collapse and all the stuff that kind of chased that.
But he's at about, he left office about the same employment level federally as he got into office, which is sort of surprising, I think.
Really surprising.
But it did drop initially, and then it has come back up to even.
So that's just something to note if you care.
But I mean, as a principle, I think it's a good idea.
We obviously know the federal government is way too big.
And this is, you're right, a way of doing it attrition without having to lay people off constantly and have all those deadlines.
It's hard to fire people.
It's hard to fire people.
You don't want to fire good people.
When people leave, you don't replace them.
And that has to go along with obvious cuts in the structure eventually.
But there's enough fat on there that you don't have to think about that for a while.
Going to turn the federal workers against, because, I mean, how many times have we worked in a company where they just didn't hire replacements?
And then you get, congratulations, no pay increase, you get to do their job too.
And you're like, oh, crap.
So it's going to be bad on the morale of the government workers.
In progress, he has announced his intention to renegotiate or withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, with Canada and Mexico.
He is in conversations with Canadian-Mexican leaders.
Trump has made clear his intention to renegotiate the deal, though no formal steps have been taken.
He has also convened his generals and informed them that they have 30 days to submit a new plan for defeating the Islamic State group.
So these are some of the promises that he made.
Remember, he was out and he said, we're not going to fight this the way I'm going to go to the generals and I'm going to tell them, you scrap what you're doing and come up with something else.
I'm going to do that day one.
Well, this is where Time magazine is like, well, he didn't do that.
Well, he's informed them and he's convened them and he's telling them that they now have 30 days come up with a new plan because the old plan sucks.
This is similar to, I mean, to give you the difference between the way they cover these presidents, and this is PolitiFact who did this, but we talked about it.
Did we talk about it yesterday?
I think we may have.
Maybe I was on Patton Stew yesterday.
By the way, Douche Hall of Fame.
Oh, yes.
Barack Obama elected into the Douche Hall History History.
96%, though.
One of the lower numbers we've seen to get into the Douche Hall of Fame.
95.
You're in.
Yes.
It only takes 95, but it was somewhat disappointing.
Somewhat disappointing it wasn't 100%.
He was not 100%.
Or at least a 99%er.
I really expected that.
96%.
It was devastating, honestly, to his legacy.
How is he not the all-time high-vote getter?
I don't know.
Who is the all-time high vote getter?
There's a few 99%ers.
One of them is Al Gore.
Al Gore was in there.
Anthony Weiner, I believe.
Weiner.
Of course, that was at the height of the Wiener scandal.
Here's the 99%ers.
Anthony Weiner, Al Gore, Maxine Waters, for some reason.
I don't remember what she did that day.
Harry Reid, well-deserved.
Harry Reid.
Ed Schultz, 99% are in the Douche Hall of Fame.
And Nancy Pelosi.
This is hard to believe.
Nancy Pelosi.
Harry Reid, Eric Holder, are all.
99 and Barack Obama.
That says something about him.
It may have something to do with respect for the presidency, but I don't.
Could be.
Oh, if that's a factor.
Another theory is what's the reason why he has a 60% approval rating right now, which is everyone's been focusing on other people they don't like for a while.
So they've kind of forgotten about him.
He hasn't been as in the news lately.
Just think about him for a second, and you can get back.
We tried to alert people.
That's amazing.
My point, though, on the coverage was that PolitiFact gave him a true for a promise he made about his first day or first 100 days or whatever it was, that he was going to reform criminal justice.
And so when you look at the details of the promise, he said he was going to appoint a panel to look at how they should reform criminal justice.
And because he appointed the panel, they gave him a true.
Now, I looked at the- And did they look at it?
They looked at them.
And they did look, and he did appoint the panel.
All right.
So it's a true.
Now, look at what he's doing here.
They're saying it's a falsehood that he was able to do this with the generals, even though he has basically said, look at it.
Trump has formally requested Pentagon advice on changing the campaign against the militants.
Spicer said the president will continue to have those conversations later in the week.
So did he break his promise that on day one?
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?
Do you really, I mean, he wasn't the president.
Who was he to go to the generals and say, hey, when I get into office, I want a plan.
I want to have that plan ready and I'm going to execute it on day one.
Yeah.
It's not silly nitpicking, I would say.
Ask Congress his promise to send him a bill to repeal and replace Obama's signature health care law.
He's already done that.
Didn't he?
Didn't he ask Congress last week?
He's been working with Congress for weeks.
Yeah, I mean, he passed an executive order, which I don't know if this is a common way of doing it, with basically saying, we want to pull out of Obamacare was basically the executive order.
That was on Friday.
Right.
Although I don't know what it is.
Which was day one, actually.
It's a weird executive order.
Do they usually do that?
Like, it didn't actually do anything.
It just said, we're going to take every step we can to.
It announced the intention, and I think it was important to him to show that he was.
Okay, so pending, he said he would stop all federal funding to sanctuary cities.
I love that.
I do too.
Places where local officials don't arrest or detain immigrants living in the country illegally for federal authorities.
Begin deporting what Trump estimates to be more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants living in the country.
That's an interesting one, too.
I mean, he is.
And an important one because it was they who cost him the popular vote.
Yes, of course.
Got to get rid of them.
But, I mean, he, man, they are really pushing for this.
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.
And their idea is to find a long-term solution through Congress, which is surprising.
I mean, that one I was actually surprised about.
And they are very much talking like Obama's been talking for the past eight years of we're going to go after criminals.
Like it's very much now focused on criminal illegal aliens, which as we noted the other day, the deportations for them have increased.
Yeah, and that's the easy way out.
It's the easy way out.
Then you don't have to deal with, well, what about dreamers?
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They've been here for 20 years.
Well, they shouldn't have been here for 20 years.
Deport them or remove the incentives.
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.
But Silicon Valley has decided they're going to say never again is now.
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.
And it's really weird.
Stu and I read it this morning, and we both agree with what they say they want to do, but not their reasons.
Their reasons are so shallow, 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.
And on these policies, we've been discussing, overall, there's a lot to like.
I mean, it was a little weird to see Donald Trump sitting down with all the union officials and agreeing with them about trade policy.
I mean, that makes me feel very weird.
But overall, there's a lot to like there.
And, you know, I think while there might be a mixed bag, it's great to see some of these changes.
It's unconstitutional to make you feel weird, too.
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Oscars were announced just a few minutes ago.
They were saying that La La Land was going to be the most nominated in history.
It had to beat, I think, 14 nominations or 15 nominations.
In Tide Titanic.
Tied Titanic for 14, right?
Yes.
14 nominations.
I saw that movie.
I was like, you know, all these nominations.
I was like, I got to go see this movie.
And then I saw about five seconds of the preview, realized it was a musical, and then I was cured.
It was amazing.
No, thank you.
I know this is not going to come as a surprise to anybody.
I loved it.
Oh, you've already seen it.
I loved it.
I love that.
It's a musical.
Yeah.
It's a musical.
I'm telling you, it is.
Who's the girl in it?
What's her name?
Emma Stone.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
She is brilliant.
She'll get an Oscar for Best Actress.
She was absolutely the actor is Ryan Gosling.
Ryan Gosling.
Is he a good singer?
When you watch this, you will have no idea that that guy.
I watch the edits.
I'm like, okay, how are they doing this?
Because he's playing the piano and really well.
The guy can't play the piano.
Oh, really?
He played the piano.
He took lessons for three solid for three hours a day, three solid months, and he's playing the piano in this.
And I mean, unless you're a musician, a real good musician, you would never know.
It's quite amazing.
This is a, I thought, a really, really almost a 1940s style musical.
Make it feel good.
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Go back to the Oscars here for a second because let's see how many of these we've even seen.
By the way, on Twitter, someone tweets, I didn't get past the description of La La Land.
Glenn loved it.
He might have low T, which I thought was an interesting observation about you.
I think we've established that.
I have low T.
I do have low T.
Yes, I do have low T.
But is it caused by musicals?
Is that how that?
No.
No, no, it's not.
But I mean, I don't know.
It's already been proven.
What?
That it's not caused by musicals.
Yeah, no, it might be.
I personally, I loved it.
And I think anybody who has a heart, you heartless Grinch, they weren't able to have a heart without singing it?
They had to have a talk through?
Yes, okay.
I mean, it will take you the first scene because it took me the first scene is an opening scene where they all get out of their cars on the freeway and they start singing.
Oh, is it really that?
Yeah, I hate that.
I know.
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 this.
I got past that scene and you'll love it.
Okay, so is it one of those obnoxious things where everything is sung or do they speak for long periods of time?
The first half.
Okay, so you think when you first watch it, the first song, you know, it's opening as a song.
And it's smart because it lowers your expectations.
You're like, oh, I'm going to hate this movie.
And it starts out where everybody is singing and they're all like getting out of their cars and they're like, I'm going to work today or whatever the hell they're singing.
And you're like, oh my gosh, I want to hang myself.
And then.
That happened to me yesterday on I-35, right?
Everybody jumped out and they're like, we're having fun in traffic.
And then all of a sudden, everybody at the same time gets in their cars and they drive away.
So that happens all the time.
Anyway, it's great.
So then it settles down to where it is more of a drama where the one character or the two main characters just sing something.
It's not like Molon Rouge, where they were big production numbers.
This is more, the only real production number that I can remember is the first one where everybody is singing.
You're like, okay, stop it.
The rest of it is just this love story between these two.
Then the second half almost has no singing in it.
And it's just this really cool love story.
This would be a great approach if for some reason you were constitutionally required to sing in movies, but you're not.
So you don't have to find out ways to minimize it.
You could just do none of it.
Well, it is almost like, it's almost like they started out as like a real 1930s movie.
And, you know, they were, they were like, okay, we're going to do this big Broadway kind of movie.
And then they saw the first number and they're like, nah, that's not so good of an idea.
Maybe we'll just have a couple of people sing.
Let's just do a drama.
We've already invested too much in these big numbers.
We've got to keep them.
Right.
No, I really loved it, though.
Obviously, La La Land has been nominated.
Okay.
So I'm the only one who's seen that.
The only one.
Okay.
Also, Manchester by the Sea.
I hear that.
I've not seen that.
Not seen it.
Anybody see it?
I've heard it's a very sad movie, but I looked it up.
What's it about?
It looks really sad.
I don't know.
I don't want to go see Sad movie.
I don't either.
Neither do I. Hell or High Water, which I've heard.
Yeah, I love seeing it.
That's a good movie.
What is that really good?
It's a Texas movie.
That is a Texas movie.
Remember, they went and the movie company came to us and asked us to bring some people to screen it.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
Remember?
And we screened it way in advance because they were afraid that conservatives wouldn't like it.
That's great.
Because it's bank robbers of this bank that has screwed all these people from 2008.
Okay.
And so it was like.
Is that a true story?
No.
Oh, okay.
And I loved it.
It sure could be.
I absolutely loved it.
And the audience really loved it.
It's really good.
Fences with Denzel Washington.
Looks really good.
I haven't seen it.
Moonlight, which I don't know anything about.
What the hell is that?
I don't know.
Gangs, Miami.
Oh, yeah.
I think that's got a chance to actually, if it's not going to be La La Land, which is going to be the big favorite, Moonlight, I would say, is.
La La Land's second to it because it's a love story to Hollywood.
It's their story.
It'll win.
So they will win because they'll be like, oh, I remember that was me.
Yeah.
Oh, I remember when I got out of my car in the freeway and sang.
Also, Lion, which I don't know.
And I don't know anything about it.
What is that about?
That's probably about the dentist.
Remember the dentist that killed the lion?
Who'd just be like and then nominated for an award?
Hidden Figures, which is the three African-American women who family have seen that.
My kids have seen that.
They say it's fantastic.
What's he good things about it?
Hidden Figures.
Okay.
And then Hacksaw Ridge, which you've also seen.
I have not.
Nominated for an Oscar.
Actually, so Mel Gibson said, look, it's time you guys forgive me.
And apparently they did because Hacksaw Ridge is nominated for best picture and director.
Excellent.
Talk about an uphill battle he had to fight to get that.
And that was excellent.
Have you seen it?
I have not seen it.
Who has seen it?
Just you.
Oh, guys, you have to see that movie.
Yeah.
You will love it.
It is so good.
It's so violent.
Yeah, you have a real problem with that.
Yeah, you got a problem with the violence.
Yeah.
No, it is a violent word.
It's so sensitive.
But you will love it.
It is one of the best stories I have seen, and it's true.
I haven't seen any of these yet.
Yeah.
None.
You know something else you won't watch?
None of them.
Not one.
You know something else you won't watch?
The Oscars.
That's true.
You'll complete the circle.
But I usually go see some of these weird, independent, offshoot movies that nobody see every year.
I usually see three or four of the best pictures.
A lot of these are not weird offshoot movies now.
I mean, Hacksaw Ridge and the one in Texas.
And the last of the nine, the last of the nine, I finally have seen, Arrival.
Okay.
I saw Arrival as well, which is good.
Which was okay.
It was pretty good.
It wasn't bad.
It was good.
So Lion is, after being separated from his family in India, five-year-old Saru is adopted by an Australian couple who raise him with great love.
As an adult, however, Saru is troubled by resurfacing memories of his birth family and employs new worldwide technology to locate them.
Wow, that sounds terrible.
That does sound good.
Oh, my gosh, does that sound good?
That sounds good.
Who is sitting in the Hollywood pitch meeting and accepted that?
Wow.
Wait, this is an interesting part of this, Jeffy, because I'm reading another description on another site.
It says, 25 years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination and revolutionary technology known as Google Earth.
Revolutionary technology.
I have on my computer right here.
That's what the movie's about.
What?
Okay, you know what this is?
You know what this is?
This is the appeal.
This is Hollywood's reaching out to the rest of the world.
And this revolutionary technology where you could get water from a tap.
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I saw a headline from CNBC, but I don't know yet if it's the same one.
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Stocks look to be futures are up 0.3% in early 2000s.
It was pig futures, wasn't it?
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I don't know.
We can't figure it out either.
We try so hard to get booted out of here.
I don't know.
So the headline was: Donald Trump will be the president of the next recession.
For eight years, we have heard about how perfect this economy is.
And I told you, the minute the next president gets into office, it will be recession is around the corner.
That's unbelievable and yet so, so believable.
Yeah.
It's, I mean, there it is.
I couldn't believe it.
When I saw it, I was like, well, I've been saying that for four years.
Whoever is president is going to get blamed for it, not Obama.
And you're right.
They never, they weren't hinting that it was trouble on the horizon.
Oh, no, no, no.
How dare you even?
Stocks are up.
What are you talking about?
How dare you even say that there might be a recession?
Wow.
Anyway, a recession is coming, and it's not Trump's fault.
It's, it's honestly, it is Bush's fault and Obama's fault.
You can't stop the natural cycle.
The Fed said they're out of bullets.
They will not be able to stop the next recession.
They said when the next recession comes, their only option is to print another $4 trillion.
And even that, they're not sure will work.
So you know, when Bush was in office, we had $800 billion of cash out in the system.
They dumped an additional four, $4.5 trillion into the system in the last eight years.
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Let me go to Ryan in Ohio.
Hello, Ryan.
You're on the Glenbeck program.
I was just, how are you doing?
I'd just like to call in and let you guys know that as an active duty combat veteran, I was actually a combat medic, and I thought Hacks All Rigs was absolutely just phenomenal.
We're one of the most underappreciated MOSs in the military, and we don't get a lot of recognition.
A lot of the combat action MOSs do, but the combat medics don't.
And I thought it was great to see a movie where they could show someone who could be with the infantry, with someone in the crap like that, and be as selfless as we are.
And I just thought it was an absolutely phenomenal show of human spirit and the way that people really can care about other people.
Did you know about this guy, Ryan, before the movie?
I did.
As a combat medic, when you go through combat medic school in Fort Cam Houston, Texas, part of the thing is they have a combat medic museum down there.
Pretty much everybody goes to it.
We go in, they give everything.
And in combat medic class, they actually teach you about Desmond Doss and the sacrifices that he gave to help others.
And it basically is the embodiment of what every combat medic should be.
The person who is there with the infantry, you're there, you're their moral support.
And then you're also their, you know, their heart and soul.
Without you, you know, everybody else there wouldn't be able to do their job if someone got hurt.
So I just really, it was, it really touched me.
I actually kind of cried during the movie just because it just kind of took me back to being over there.
So when I was talking to Mel Gibson, he said that he toned some of the things down that Dawson did because he said they're really truly unbelievable.
And what he does in the movie is unbelievable.
He said, but if we did everything that he had done, he said nobody would have believed it.
But one of the things that we talked about was I thought this was the most real prediction or depiction of war that I've ever seen.
Is that what it's like?
To an extent.
As close as you're going to get to a movie without being over there, there are some things that I still don't talk about to this day.
Even my fiancé kind of gets a little bit upset because there's things that you just don't talk about.
There's things you see.
There's things you do that you're not, you know, you're proud of, but you're not proud of at the same time.
And this for me was the closest thing to what we actually do in the heart of battle of any movie I've ever seen.
Thank you very much.
Thanks for your service, Ryan.
I appreciate it.
God bless.
Given Jeff, I can't see it now from the island.
If it's too real, it's going to bring back too many memories.
I don't even think you've ever traveled overseas, let alone fought in a war.
It's too real.
I'm not even sure if you've even seen a war movie.
It's too real, Glenn.
Yeah, I know, I know.
You're such a hero.
Well, no, I don't profess to be a hero.
I'm just doing your job.
Thank you.
Doing your job.
Yeah, right.
Okay.
In the big one, right?
Island Spice.
It was Grenada.
Grenada.
Grenada.
Yeah, that was the really big one.
Stop communism.
Dead and distracts.
Dead and distracted.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Were you there for the Falklands, too?
You sound 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.
Not with your, not with the, not with the hero medals that you surely own.
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We have a look at the new Supreme Court justice.
I shouldn't say new.
The one that we're getting some rumbles from from inside the White House that is going to be possibly the guy that Trump nominates.
Who he finally decides on, I don't know.
But if it's this guy, you're going to love it.
We're going to start there.
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Glad you're here.
We got news this morning from inside the White House that it looks like they may be close to nominating a Supreme Court justice.
And if indeed our source is correct, this we think is going to be a really good thing for anybody who said, I have to vote for Donald Trump just because of the Supreme Court.
If he does indeed nominate this guy and it turns out to be, and he doesn't become a Justice Roberts on us, which I don't think because he has a very long history, the Bushes have always nominated people who just didn't have a bad record.
They didn't have any record, but they're very conservative, but they had no record.
Well, they've been on the bench and they have no record.
They're not conservatives.
This guy has a long record of being a conservative, and Stu's been looking at him for the last couple of hours and can bring us up to speed on possibly the nominee that's going to be coming out of Donald Trump.
Yeah, it's interesting.
So the source is not ours on who it is.
It's Jonathan Carl, who has, you know, been a very good reporter.
He says, I expect Donald Trump to make his Supreme Court nomination early next week.
Sources tell me Neil Gorsuch is the leading candidate.
I got to admit, I don't know him other than I really.
We called some people that we know and got the lowdown, some people who have been doing their homework on these, all of these guys, and asked what they thought.
And Stu's been doing some extra homework himself.
What have you found?
Yeah, it's pretty interesting.
I mean, he was appointed by George W. Bush in May 2006 to the Circuit Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit.
He gives some of his background.
Hobby lobby case.
He wrote a concurrence, sided with Hobby Lobby.
Another case, the Little Sisters of the Poor case that we talked about.
Remember that?
That was the one where they had to provide birth control.
All right.
His point was 10th Circuit has shown insufficient deference to the Little Sisters' own articulation of the tenets of their religious beliefs.
That position was, of course, vindicated by the Supreme Court later on.
Simply put, in cases that closely divided his court and the Supreme Court, Gorsuch has shown himself to be an ardent defender of religious liberties, which is big.
I mean, that is one of the biggest things that we had worried about with some of the other nominees.
He seems to be good on that one.
He joined another dissent in which he disagreed with basically ruling on the correct side of, from our perspective, about the government's ability to display Ten Commandments monument in a public park without accepting all of the other offers of donated monuments.
Oh, no, well, you have to do the satanic monument you have to put up.
So he agreed with that one, and so did the Supreme Court, by the way.
Common thread of these cases is one that matters very deeply to conservatives, a sense that the government can permit public displays of religion and can accommodate deeply held religious views without either violating the religion clauses of the Constitution or destroying the effectiveness of government programs that occasionally run into religious objections.
Scalia articulated very similar views.
Gorsuch's opinions on these issues are quite thoughtful and demonstrate that he would be a natural successor to Scalia in adopting a pro-religion conception of the Establishment Clause.
Very positive.
Again, this is coming from SCODIS Blog, which is a neutral, it's not a liberal or conservative site.
It's just a Supreme Court nerd establishment.
Criminal law is pretty good as well.
This is one case.
Federal law prohibits the knowing possession of a gun by a felon.
This law has given rise to a debate about how to best read what does knowing mean, right?
Does it mean that a felon possesses a gun, or does it mean what if he doesn't know that he's a felon?
For example, he has a minor thing in his past, which technically was a felony that he didn't realize.
Does that mean he should be able to, does he violate?
What's a minor felony?
They actually explain it in here.
Yeah, because a felony sounds pretty something that should pop up on your radar.
So here's it.
It says, does it apply whenever a felon knowingly possesses a gun or must violators also know they have been convicted of a felony?
This matters because lots of minor crimes might technically be felonies and lots of dispositions that seem inconsequential because they involve no jail time might technically be felony convictions.
Yes.
Well, I would agree that you would have to know you were a felon.
Right.
And so so does Gorsuch.
He says he urged the 10th Circuit to review its rule holding that it is enough to support a conviction that the defendant knew he possessed the gun whether or not he knew he was a felon.
This opinion is an example of Gorsuch's strong commitment to textualism and severe critique of using legislative history.
I mean, that's a good one, particularly to make criminal what might otherwise be innocent.
So when he says not using history, what did he say?
Contextual history?
Contextualism.
Textualism and a severe critique of using legislative history.
Yeah, so this is a guy who's going to look at the meaning of the Constitution.
So far, this guy sounds great.
Yeah, and again, here's at the end, it's worth noting, this means that Gorsuch, just like Scalia, is sometimes willing to read criminal laws more narrowly in a way that disfavors the prosecution, especially when the Second Amendment or other constitutional protection is involved.
That's great.
Gorsuch, like Scalia, has not been a friendly vote for death penalty petitioners pursuing relief from their sentences.
His position in death penalty cases is likely to be quite close to Scalia's.
This one I thought was really interesting.
Dormant Commerce Clause.
The dormant commerce clause.
What an interesting thing if you're trying to increase the power of government.
Not the Commerce Clause, but the dormant Commerce Clause.
What is the dormant Commerce Clause?
Great question.
These doctrines treat the Commerce Clause not only as a grant of power to Congress to make laws regulating interstate commerce, but as a kind of presumptive limitation on the power of states to make laws that either unduly burden or unfairly discriminate against interstate commerce.
Because as its name suggests, the dormant commerce clause cannot actually be found in the text of the Constitution.
Scalia came around to the view that it should not be a thing and refused to endorse any future expansion of the United States.
It's not a thing.
It's not in the...
Wouldn't that be great if they also came around to the separation of church and state isn't a thing in the Constitution?
It's not in the Constitution.
Well, are you talking about the separation of church and state or the dormant wall separating church and state?
Dormant state.
There is a dormant wall in there.
Scalia talked about in 2015, the fundamental problem with our negative commerce clause cases is that the Constitution does not contain a negative commerce law, which is a really good observation.
And I love this at the end.
Gorsuch, the potential judge, as talked about by John Carl from ABC, his opinions also reveal a measure of distrust towards unwritten constitutional provisions like the dormant commerce clause.
Because they kind of should.
You mean HeT doesn't seem to really put a lot of weight on the thing that's not in the Constitution because it's not in the Constitution?
They're going to hate this guy.
I know, but that's great stuff.
And that's as far as I've been able to get through so far as we've been doing this.
So how are you feeling about, you know, just the first do not project out just what he's done?
Don't project what you feel about him because of the election and what he did.
Don't project out what he might do.
Just the last few days.
And that's what we promised, by the way.
Yeah, we did.
We promised a clean slate and try to examine these things as they go.
Right.
It's really good.
So far, really good.
It's really good.
Except with the caring about the stupid crowd size and Spicer going out and actually lying and picking a fight.
Other than that.
Plus, I'm disgusted with Spicer as a pick for the White House press secretary.
I think he sucks so far.
Yeah, I think he's really bad.
But anybody who is, I will tell you, in his favor.
In that position, it's tough because we didn't like Gibbs.
We didn't like Ernest, we didn't like...
In his defense, in his defense, any man who takes the strong position that he does against Dippin' Dots is a good man.
It's an interesting, because that is probably the best part about him so far.
You may not know, but he has taken a strong stance.
Well, now, wait a minute.
I got to reevaluate this on you.
He says Dippin' Dots is not the ice cream of the future, and I happen to agree with it.
Oh, me too.
That's like a smart man.
That's like a Jetson's future.
That's an alternative universe future where Dip and Dots.
I don't believe I've ever had Dippin' Dots.
They've been the future of ice cream since 1970.
Yeah, they're not.
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It's not actually even.
The future is here, and they're not it.
The story from the AV Club lines out the lines of this battle.
His first briefing served as a trial by fire for Spicer himself.
Could he get through the entire five-minute speech to the press without slipping into an attack on his arch enemy, Dippin' Dots, the ice cream of the future?
As social media detectives have quickly discovered, Spicer has been waging a quiet, one-sided Twitter feud with the Flash Frozen spherical treat.
It started in 2010 when Spicer, still a year out from taking his previous post as communications director for the RNC, tweeted out Dip and Dots is not, capital letters, the ice cream of the future.
Amen.
A blatantly incendiary claim that flew in the face of the company's long-cherished slogan.
It's not clear what provoked Spicer's attack.
A bad trip to the zoo, maybe, or perhaps six flags, but it was still sticking in his craw a year later, which I think Pat had surgically removed.
Yes, he did.
When he doubled down on the bold claim, I think I've said this before, but Dip and Dots are not the ice cream of the future.
Dippin' Dots, the self-described ice cream of the future, filed for Chapter 11 of bankruptcy protection after fighting off foreclosure efforts by Regions Bank for more than a year.
It is to Spicer's credit, though, that he didn't content himself with mere opinions on the matter of Dip and Dots versus the future.
And where would Gorsuch stand on that one?
We don't know.
A month later, he supplied evidence linking to the Wall Street Journal article about the company's financial woes.
His foe, apparently, is slain.
Spicer laid down his sword and got back to much more important work of attacking Barack Obama for every conceivable thing he ever did.
And for a time, there was peace.
But then Dippin' Dots wandered foolishly back into Spicer's crosshairs in 2015 by failing to ship enough vanilla-flavored ice cream to a Washington Nationals game that he was at.
Within moments, the old fires were raging again.
If Dippin' Dots was truly the ice cream of the future, they would have not run out of vanilla at the Nationals game.
I've completely turned around on this.
I love this guy.
I love this guy.
Anybody who has a war against Dippin' Dots, I'm in.
That is actually really fun.
Yeah, it makes me forget all the things like you're lying to the press.
By the way, Dippin' Dots has responded and they have they.
Yes, they finally have realized that and they said they want to be friends with Mr. Spicer.
Well, I have never had Dippin' Dots before.
Have you ever had it?
No.
I have.
I will say the weirdest, I mean, you know, it tastes all right.
I mean, it's not, it's not the same.
You know, I don't think it is the ice cream of the future, first of all.
I would agree.
The worst part about it is, and it's funny, where I had this was at the zoo because my kids wanted something at the zoo.
We were at the zoo, and the worst part about it is, especially in Texas heat, when it melts, you realize you should not have eaten it.
It like turns into this weird, like brown liquid when it melts.
Really?
It just is not.
Well, kind of like a milkshake?
No.
No.
Like, really?
No.
No.
That was one of the most stern noes.
That was a warning.
Stop like that.
No, no.
Don't demean this.
Right.
No, it was more like a toxic, like a toxic river.
Like, it's much more liquidy.
It's not like cream because it's the ice cream of the future.
It's made out of something else.
I don't know.
But it comes, it looks like something that spills out of your car when your garage is parked there.
So I've never had them because they always look to me like those little styrofoam BBs that you get.
And I'm like, I don't want that.
Yeah.
I don't want that.
And I like the creaminess.
Yeah.
Right.
I can believe that you've never had them since they usually just sell at sporting events at ballparks.
Yeah.
And zoos.
And zoo likes.
The kids love them at the zoos.
Yeah.
It's not my favorite treat, I would say.
I mean, of course, I would eat them because, you know, I'm fat.
So if Dippin Dots had them last night, if Dippin Dots sent us a case of Dippin' Dots to try.
Oh, I would wipe it.
You would absolutely eat them.
Yes, because I'm weak and pathetic.
But yes, I would say the future does not seem to be defined by Dippin' Dots.
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As a general statement, I think we can agree on that.
I think we can.
I stand by Spicer on his Dippin Dots.
It's his best moment so far in the administration, I would say.
It is.
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Such a scatterbrain, too.
None of us can remember.
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I started the question.
We said that we would give him a fair shake and not looking to the past, not looking to the future, just looking right now.
Did I ever finish that?
Go around the room and you and Pat answered it, I believe.
And then we kind of got off on a tangent.
Okay.
So I'm feeling pretty good except for those things.
How are you feeling?
Pretty good.
He's exceeded my expectations so far.
Well, you had no expectations.
I don't know why they need to point that out.
But I mean, seriously, there's been, you know, I think it's been a mixed bag.
I can't be, I'm not thrilled, you know, but I'm thrilled with some of the things.
I think what's interesting about Trump and watching him go through this is he's sort of a, you know, jam your foot on the gas guy.
And when it connects with something you like, he's amazing.
For example, so far on the EPA and those related issues, energy, EPA, he's been, I think, very good.
He's about to sign, he's about to open the Keystone oil pipeline.
Yeah.
And the Dakota one as well.
Yeah.
His EPA chief pick, I think, was very solid.
He's been very good on those things.
And because that's an issue I'm passionate about, I really like it.
I'm also passionate about free trade, and I don't agree with him on that.
And his stances there are going to be problematic for me.
You know, the Flynn appointment is a disaster to me.
I mean, it's really bad.
And that one, I think, is really problematic.
But I would say overall, speaking generally, I think he's certainly exceeded my expectations.
And I think a lot of the picks have been really good.
Not just kind of good, not just, okay, well, that's acceptable from a Republican president.
Actually, beyond that, because he doesn't seem to care, which is great.
However, on the issues I don't agree with him on, it's going to hurt a lot.
I think there's going to, you know, if we see this sort of dynamic where there's really good things and really bad things, as long as the bad isn't too, too bad, it's going to be better than I expected.
And look, I hope that's the case.
I hope it continues.
One of the things we talked about yesterday on Pat and Stew is how stupid this protest was by the left.
Think about this.
You have a guy who in the campaign asked for $680 billion for federal funding of maternity leave.
He values his daughter, Ivanka, seemingly more than any person on the planet and trusts her judgment and embraces it.
So now you set up a dynamic, instead of working with him to try to get those things done, which no other Republican would do for you, you go out there and oppose him and just piss him off.
And the way Trump seems to react to things like that is, oh, you thought you're getting that?
No way.
He will step back and build a wall around himself and say, screw you.
You're going to go out there and protest me with 3 million people?
Screw you.
you're never getting any of those things now.
That's a terrible tactic, but it can be.
Unless you're playing for long-term discord.
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I guess we should look at the regulations and wrap up the Obama administration with a look at some of the craziest things that they did.
For instance, removing he and she from all regulations to avoid gender norms.
They actually took the time to do all that.
That's an important step.
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I know it was.
It was.
Gender normity.
The Department of Transportation authorized pigs to fly as emotional support animals in 2012.
Well, that was good if you need it.
Yeah.
Right.
If you have a pet pig that's a rules were intended to eliminate discrimination against disabled persons when they fly, and the official guidance okayed potbelly pigs weighing up to 300 pounds to come on the airplane with you.
Well, that's a potbelly pig.
How come you're going to be a little bit more like to get around?
How comfortable are you with a 300-pound pig?
Why are you looking at me?
Sitting.
Let's see.
One major regulation from Obamacare was adding calorie requirements to menus in restaurants, but defining what constitutes a menu was not easy.
The rules were blasted as impossible to comply with and carried criminal penalties for not labeling food correctly, estimated cost the industry $1.7 billion.
The regulation was so specific that it announced that seasonal pumpkin spice muffins would have to be labeled, but not crushed dried peppers, which are considered a condiment that is exempt.
Definition for menu reached 171 words.
The definition of a menu reached 171 words.
Final regulation applied to things that are not on menus, such as advertisements and coupons.
And also, a thing, having calories on menus has been shown in study after study that it doesn't actually do anything.
In fact, it does.
Makes it worse.
The Pat Gray principle is that it actually makes people eat more.
Show me two things of, you know, like equal desire.
And one of them has more calories than the other.
I'm looking for the one with more calories.
That's got to be better, right?
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Obviously more delicious.
Honestly, I look at those menus and I'm I, you know, when it gets around 1,800 calories and I'm like, okay, I'm not going to have that.
There is some theoretical limit.
Right, 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.
And you end up having it.
Yeah, I mean, only 700 calories?
Oh, I thought it was, I thought it was an easy 1,200.
I was at a restaurant.
I actually like that they're on the menus.
Yeah, I don't mind it.
I just don't like that it's a federal regulation.
Me too.
But I was at a restaurant the other day and I was like, I should get something healthy, like a salad or something.
And I wanted to get a pizza.
And then I looked at the calories on the menu and the salad was like 910 calories and the pizza was like 670.
Oh my gosh.
Wait a minute.
The salad was more than the pizza.
The towel was more than the pizza.
So I want to go find that menu.
I'm going to eat there every day.
Right.
Like I, the pizza, you're going with it.
I wanted the pizza and the calories on the menu convinced me I should get the pizza.
So Obama's regulation actually made me buy pizza.
My only problem with this really, honestly, is that it's mandated.
Yes.
I would like it if every restaurant did it on their own, but it should not be a federal regulation.
It's horrible.
Another mandate.
They mandated that businesses allow miniature horses as guide animals.
Thank God.
Finally, how long have we been pushing?
So the potbelly pig and the miniature horse.
The miniature horses as guide animals.
Well, in New York or Chicago or even Dallas, how many miniature horses do you see guiding blind people around the house and downtown?
I mean, it's I see it all the time.
I mean, I see it all the time.
Four times yesterday alone.
It was finalized.
The government included a provision that store owners should let miniature horses in if they are used as guide animals.
Yeah, that was the problem, obviously.
That was the problem.
People.
So you're like, guide horse.
Get out.
Come on.
You're going to have a guide horse in a grocery store?
How many guide horses?
No, anybody don't hang on to horse.
Of course.
Why not?
Ponies and full-size horses are not covered in restaurants.
Okay.
Thank God.
The guide horses, the miniature guide horses.
Shetland pony, right?
Wouldn't a Shetland pony be a penny?
No, the miniature Shetland pony, maybe, but I don't think a Shetland pony would be.
That's a pony.
They poop all over the place.
No, they're mini horses.
If a miniature horse has been individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of the individual with a disability, then that horse must be covered by the ADA.
I will say that's incredible.
I had no idea that this is actually a real thing.
I remember seeing lots of pictures of it.
That's great.
The Guide Horse Foundation says there are, quote, thousands.
The Guide Horse Foundation.
Which I don't know, you know, that's a pretty wide amount.
It could be 2,000.
I saw a heart-lifting story about a lady that couldn't survive without her guide horse.
And it was the horse travels with her everywhere, like on a plane.
A plane, driving in cabs and cars.
I mean, it's good that there's regulations to help her.
Well, the horse fits in a cab?
Yeah, it's a miniature little horse.
It's a small horse, Pat.
That's not the Lone Ranger, right?
It's still bigger than a mastiff.
It's a big dog.
It's a big dog, right?
It's just a big dog.
It's a dog, yeah.
I would say it's about the size of a big dog.
Size of a greyhound, maybe?
No, no, no.
Greyhounds aren't that big.
Like a mastiff?
Is it as big as a mastiff?
No, I would say it's smaller than a mastiff.
It's pretty small.
I mean, some of them are pretty small.
Wow, they're only that big.
Yeah, some of them are pretty darn small.
About the size of an average dog, like you know, a golden retriever.
Oh, well, then I don't have a problem with the clippity.
The clippity clop in the kitchen.
Do you want some of the benefits of having a guide horse?
Sure, yeah, absolutely.
I do.
Long lifespan.
Long life.
They can live to be more than 50 years old.
You're kidding me.
So you don't have to.
A horse?
You know, dogs are only 8 to 12 years.
Yeah.
Cost effective.
Training a guide dog can cost up to $60,000.
Yes, they can.
As you would know.
Dogs are smarter than horses, though.
Only, uh, they're, uh, yeah.
I would say this.
No, that's not true.
I'm talking about Secretariat.
I saw a movie just the other day.
I saw the Magnificent Seven the other day, and Denzel Washington looked at the horse and said, get out of here.
And the horse did.
Wow.
This is interesting.
It's a little horse, though.
Based on Obama's legislation, this is interesting that this is here because one of the arguments for a guide horse is better acceptance.
Many guide dog users report problems getting access to public places because their dog is perceived as a pet.
Most people do not associate a horse as a pet, and guide horse users report that they are immediately recognized as a working service animal.
Because you're not just walking your head.
Can I tell you something?
I walk into any place in, I walk into an airport with a horse.
I'm kind of glad that I may be blind, so I don't see people looking at me like, what the hell is going on here?
I don't think the first response of the concierge at a, you know, at the Ritz Carlton is going to be saying, oh, it's a guide horse.
I think he looks at you and says, what the hell are you doing with a horse in here?
And I think that happens at the Ritz-Carlton or the Holiday Inn.
Yeah.
And maybe the Holiday Inn faster than the Ritz-Carlton.
I will say one real benefit of the guide horse appears to be that they wear sneakers.
That's pretty awesome.
So the clippity clop is gone.
Right.
I can't do the news of the day anymore.
Miniature horses used as guide dogs.
Wearing sneakers.
Wearing sneakers.
Other guide animals.
They're not pretending to be a dog.
No, yes, true.
That's an important distinction, Jeffy.
They are not pretending.
They're not dressed as dogs.
It's not a miniature horse.
No, it's a dog.
They don't come from the dog side of town.
This is, they are horses.
They're not half breed.
No, no, no.
Yeah, okay.
Okay.
All right.
Excellent vision, great memory, calm nature, focused demeanor.
I want one of these.
Safety conscious, high stamina, and good manners.
They say please and thank you.
Which is nice.
Do they still poop piles in the house?
Guide horses are very clean and can be housebroken.
Horses do not get fleas and only shed twice per year.
Horses are not addicted to human affection and will stand quietly while on duty.
That's sad.
It really is.
No trained dog, though.
No.
Service dogs are pretty good about that.
No, not if you show them affection.
They want your affection.
Like German shepherds, that's your family.
For whatever reason, when you spoke German to your dog and said, plots.
It plots.
Whenever anyone speaks German to somebody in the right tone, you do what they say.
Good boy.
Mother In Law Contract Bonds00:14:49
All right, some of the other regulations.
Regulating Christmas lights.
To extend their hand to Christmas lights, the Consumer Product Safety Commission regulated that Christmas decorations are a substantial product hazard if they didn't meet the government standard for wire size.
The final rule applies to stars, wreaths, candles without shades, light sculptures, blow-mode-molded plastic figures, and animated figures, but not any solar-powered products.
Let's see.
Navy inspected bathrooms for degrading images of women.
Military is not exempt.
Under orders from the then Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Navy had to search sailors' workspaces to make sure they didn't have pin-up calendars that could be degrading or offensive to women.
No, wouldn't want that.
Bathrooms were inspected for any unprofessional calendars.
In 2014, in 2014, the Obama administration regulated the methane emissions from the dairy industry by 25%.
It targeted cow flatulence.
California followed suit last year, comparing himself to Noah from the Bible.
Governor Jerry Brown announced new regulations that regulate cow farts that dramatically reduce methane emissions by 2030.
Are the cows abiding by this new regulation?
I'm not really sure.
How do you do that other than killing the cows?
I don't know.
Maybe what you feed them.
If you feed them certain things, that wouldn't result in no pork and beans for the cows, right?
Yeah, I mean, pretty much they're eating like alfalfa and hay.
They're eating grass.
Obviously, pork and beans.
But I mean, what are we feeding cows that give them the flatulence?
Grain, right?
I don't know.
Maybe, I don't know.
What are they eating?
You don't feed them grain.
You feed them alfalfa and hay.
That's what they eat.
They have flat teeth.
Diet alfalfa and hay?
I mean, locale.
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Yeah.
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So we need to get a miniature horse in here.
Right?
A trained miniature horse.
One that's potty trained.
Sounds great.
They're already trained.
They can lay down over there by the fireplace.
Or horses lay down.
Yeah, they can stand up.
No, they don't curl up.
Something's wrong if they lay down, right?
Yeah.
No.
No, I've seen horses lay down.
Not on their side.
They just kind of.
No, something's wrong with them when they lay down.
They don't normally.
Yeah, they sleep.
That's why they keep dying on me.
think so.
This is a lifetime goal to get a...
No, I'm just curious.
Maybe we can get a pot belly pig in here, too.
Get them all in here.
Let's get them all in here.
I honestly would like to see a miniature horse guide dog.
Or horse, guide horse.
Whatever they are.
It'd be cool.
It would be.
would be somebody who do they have the little blind handle things on them so you They must.
They must.
A guy I know has a pig as a pet.
No, not a service animal, just a pet.
It's a pig.
And apparently, good temperament.
Very nice.
A little messy, at least early on in the list.
It's a pig, yes.
Apparently, the review is a little messy, potentially getting into biting furniture and things of that nature.
That's not a problem.
That's a terrible surprise, is it?
No.
It didn't stun me.
No, it's the reason I don't have a pig.
Right.
And they, I mean, like pig farms make dairy farms smell wonderful.
Oh, yeah.
How bad is the pig stool?
Smell.
You know, I didn't get into detail on that with him.
Well, I mean, that's.
I don't like your type.
That's where I go right off the bat.
I mean, you know, the horse would be cool, but he's pooping in the house.
There was apparently a lot of that.
I will say he didn't.
I didn't notice.
I didn't actually get any of these, you know, the levels of smell with him, but he did say there was a lot of going in the house.
Oh, no, I couldn't do it.
No way.
No, couldn't do it.
I mean, I guess that was part of the problem, right?
I don't know why you'd want to figure out that, but I guess a lot of people really like it.
You got a house trying to be.
It takes a little time.
That's like you, Jeffy.
No, I'm not.
It took a long time.
But once I got there, Stu.
Or when you get there.
I mean, I will tell you that we used to have a bunny rabbit when I was a kid, and we house-trained the bunny rabbit.
I don't know how we did it, but we house trained the bunny rabbit.
And I used to love having a little bunny hopping around, but there's a difference between a bunny and a pig.
A bunny is kind of like a bunch of people.
That's kind of cute.
The pig is like you're living with a pig running around the house, right?
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We'll get to that also more on what has been happening with the regulations and the Supreme Court nominee, which apparently Donald Trump is going to talk to Congress about today or some of the leaders, Mitch McConnell, in the Capitol.
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How that works as he goes through Congress, we'll see.
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I want to talk to you about something that I saw over the weekend at a funeral that I attended.
It was Pat's mother-in-law who passed away.
And my friend of 30 years got up to speak.
And I don't think I've ever seen him like that.
He had a hard time talking about her because of the amount of love that he has for her.
And I thought, you know, here's something that is never said.
And it bothers me.
I love my mother-in-law.
And Pat loved his mother-in-law.
Mother-in-laws get a really bad rap, like stepmothers get a really bad rap.
And I think it's just because of the mother-in-laws we love to laugh at, like The Mom on Everybody Loves Raymond.
But to me, it's a lot like the mother-in-law or the way that fathers are portrayed on The Simpsons.
And it's something that should be corrected.
Something that should be 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, just like there are bad stepmothers.
But there are also really good stepmothers.
Tanya doesn't, I don't think, get the credit that she deserves.
And I don't think you understand this until your kids get older or until you go through it.
Walking into somebody else's family, I don't think I could do it.
Maybe I could.
But that's really hard, especially with all the family dynamics that go on.
Pat said he never called her mom because it just didn't feel right, but she was.
That was closest to the way I felt about her.
Yeah.
But I already had a mom.
Right.
So.
And I've never, and I'm not condemning anyone for this, but I've never understood when my mom died and my dad remarried, and I got my stepmother, Dee, who is, to put it mildly, a horse of a different color and doesn't necessarily give stepmothers a good name.
I had a really hard time, really hard time.
And I wasn't allowed to talk about my mom after she died.
I moved in with my dad and we weren't allowed to even mention my mother.
So we never talked about her after her death.
And it was really hard.
But as I got older and I was in my 30s and I remarried myself, I realized that she had been my mother, good or bad, for longer than my mother had.
And the only reason why I wasn't calling her mom is because I already had one.
But I don't think moms are just the ones who give birth to you.
Moms are, my mother-in-law is my mom.
My father-in-law is my dad.
And I love it.
I know how much I love being called dad by my kids.
And when my son-in-law sometimes calls me dad, I love it.
I wonder if sometimes we're a bit too stingy with mom and dad because the way Pat spoke about his mother-in-law, the in-law part, what that's saying is there's a contract that makes her my mother.
And she was far beyond a contract, a legal contract.
Maybe it's just me, but I sitting there, I looked at my daughter as Jackie was giving the tribute to her mom.
And I looked at my daughter and I thought, someday you're going to have to do this to your mom.
And how hard that's going to be.
And then I thought, I may have to do this for my mother-in-law or my father-in-law someday, if the family would ask.
And how hard it would be just as hard, if not harder.
We never had a funeral for my dad.
We never had a memorial service for my dad.
We had nothing.
Three Weeks After Husband Died00:08:52
I don't think that's good.
Was that part of his wishes?
Yeah.
Really?
We have not been allowed to participate in the mother-in-law has the ashes and so nothing.
It was because of that situation.
Yeah.
And it's weird.
It's really weird.
And we all kind of have said to each other, well, you know, we'll keep him in our own way.
I don't know if that's healthy.
No, I think the service is part of the healing process.
I know.
I sure got that feeling, Pat, when I was watching you.
Yeah.
Didn't feel like I was healing at the time, but, you know, I didn't hold it together as well as Jackie and her brother did.
They were pretty composed.
But yeah, I think it is an important part because it gives you the opportunity to talk about their lives, to express how much you loved them, and to get all that out.
I've never seen you like that.
I've rarely been that way.
She was really something.
She was one of the best people I knew I've ever known.
And so, you know, like I said, I never heard her say a bad word about anybody, even in jest, until the week before she died, five days before she died.
She said the whole family was gathered in the room together.
We were just talking to her and kind of reminiscing and just spending precious moments that she had left.
And my daughters were, my two oldest, well, all three of my daughters were there.
My two oldest were both pregnant.
And my oldest daughter got up.
She's nine months pregnant.
She just had the baby on Sunday.
So she got up and started walking out of the room.
And my mother-in-law said, Amber, you look like a chicken bean.
She walked out of the room.
Might have been the drug, the morphine.
It might have been the morphine.
It might have been the brain tumor pushing down on some part.
I don't know what a chicken bean is.
Nobody knows what a chicken bean is.
And I think she meant something entirely different, but it was really funny.
And we just shared this laugh together.
And as Amber walked out, she looked at all of us and just said, I just called her a chicken bean.
Yeah, you did.
And none of us are really sure why.
But it was the meanest thing we ever heard her say about anyone in her life.
And I don't even know what it means.
So I think she meant something else, but it was fun.
And it was just a nice moment.
Our last really fun moment that we got to spend with her.
So it was worth it no matter what she meant.
Do you remember the listener that we had, Rinda?
Rinda, Labor of Love.
Yeah.
She was on the program.
Can you?
In fact, wasn't she the founder or one of the founders of Labor of Love?
No, no, but she was an early member.
All right.
I think she's, I don't know.
I think she's just one of the early members that has been really instrumental.
And she has been, she's been on this program before because she's just this super do-gooder that has done so much and so amazing with her life.
Here's a clip from when she was on with us.
And tell me about it.
You were three weeks.
Three weeks.
I think that God wanted me to go on that trip to Israel.
I was afraid of flying.
I went totally by myself.
And I wasn't afraid.
Three weeks after your husband.
Not Israel.
My husband was alive when I went to Israel.
But we had planned, and I had planned to go to Joplin with all my friends.
And then three weeks before Joplin, my husband died of a sudden heart attack.
And how long were you two married?
16 years.
Everybody thought I would just fall to pieces because we were so incredibly close.
But we had made vows to help each other get closer to God when we got married.
And we did.
We did that.
And the minute I saw him, because I found him, was that how much I was going to miss him?
And I called, had my daughter-in-law call Susan and say that I couldn't come to Joplin.
But as it turned out, I was able to go because I couldn't just sit by myself and feel sorry for myself.
And the thing about it, I tell everybody that God knew I needed this group before I could ever even have imagined that I would need them.
And the day that I got to talk to Pat, both of us had lost incredibly.
She had lost her whole house, and I had lost, you know, my husband.
And Pat, when we sat there and we just sat and were able to talk, and she reminded me of my mother who passed away when I was 18 years old.
And she was an incredibly soft person to talk to.
And we connected, and it healed both of us, just like Agios, and how incredibly sad he was at the beginning of your book.
And all of us are incredibly hurt like that at some time.
Yes, we are.
But that has helped me heal.
Rinda is a woman that was standing on the mall with many of us on 828.
She was a face in the crowd, and I didn't know her.
And then we met briefly in Israel the next year when she was part of the crowd on 8-28, and she was part of Red Basse.
And Joplin happened.
And she, I think she, I think you're right, Pat, that she was one of the co-founders.
She went to Joplin.
This is three weeks after her husband died.
She went to Joplin to help.
And she, because she was listening, and she thought, I can't just sit here and feel sorry for myself.
She went to restoring love and was deep in the volunteers with Labor of Love.
And she went to restoring love or restoring unity in Birmingham and marched with us.
A remarkable, remarkable woman, and one that time is kind of forgetting.
A woman who would make pie in her Dutch oven over the fire and would quilt, I mean, like artwork quilting.
A sweet, dear woman who could make you laugh until you cried, who never tried to point herself out as perfect, was always really truly, truly humble and kind, and was looking to help others.
She's been battling cancer for quite some time and lost her battle over the weekend.
And she has left a huge gaping hole in our audience.
There have been two listeners that we have lost in the last three years that have impacted each of us.
One of them actually moved down here to Dallas with us.
And we would see him once in a while.
But he, just in his spirit, when we would see him, he was the happiest, happiest man we'd ever met.
He was a guy who was homeless up north.
And Renda, who, when we first met, was, in a strange way, timid, never been anywhere like on an international flight all by herself, but full of courage.
And we watched her blossom and become a true leader of many, many people.
Anybody who crossed her path, we will miss you, Renda.
God bless.
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Could you do that?
I need to be convinced this is not creepy.
The president signed an actual executive order making the day he was inaugurated retroactively and like a national holiday that we can't celebrate because it already happened.
Well, is it for every year?
This is why I'm trying to make sure that no, I think it's just a one-day thing.
Just a one-day thing.
Retroactively.
What did he name it, Stu?
Give me one minute.
I think it's National Patriotic Devotion Day.
It's scary.
That's spooky to me.
That just is spooky to me.
It's not spooky at all.
I can see other countries.
I mean, let's ask the floor crew, too.
Raise your hand if you think that's at all spooky.
Yeah, okay.
Two for, two against.
All right.
A new, it's the 45th president proclaimed January 20th, 2017, his inauguration day, to be a national day of patriotic devotion.
Trump made the proclamation, quote.
Does that mean to him, then?
Kind of?
No.
Don't worry, listen.
Listen to the.
All right, let's hear the body of the work there.
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We are one people, united by a common destiny and shared purpose.
Can I ask, when did nationalism become okay?
November 7th, right?
Wasn't it?
Seriously.
When did it?
I mean, people write about this new nationality.
We've always been super patriotic.
But we're not shingoistic.
Yeah, but we were never.
When somebody would say we were a nationalist.
When does patriotism become nationalism?
I don't know.
I don't know.
When you lose reason when you lose reason.
So I don't know, but people are throwing around that we're a new nationalist country, and I don't like that.
That's not good.
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It is day two of Donald Trump in office, and it looks like we may have a winner in the Supreme Court justice nominee.
The word is from, who is it from ABC?
John Carl.
John Carl, that we have a justice that they're ready to appoint.
And if it is indeed this guy, it's good news.
Yeah, Neil Gorsuch.
He is very much seemingly, by everything I've read, in the mold of Antonin Scalia, not only to the point of the things he believes about the law, but also even in his writing style, which you'd say, who cares about that?
I just want to make the right decisions.
But have you read Scalia's opinions?
They're by far the most entertaining and interesting ones that were on the Supreme Court.
So I want somebody like that that can actually make that stuff interesting because it can be a slog to get through at times.
He was one of the best.
So, you know, everything I've read about him so far, and I'm going to dive deeper into it today, seems to be that it would be a good choice and maybe better than some of the others on the list.
So can I switch gears?
Kind of.
Is anybody ever going to sue AESPN for being wrongfully terminated?
I don't know.
It's a good question.
I don't know.
Maybe it should.
This latest thing, where who was it that made the comment about Venus Williams?
Adler.
Yeah.
Richard Adler.
Yeah, and he's a tennis commentator.
Former professional tennis player from the 70s and 80s.
He was doing a Venus Williams match on ESPN 3, which we've, I think, decided yesterday was just the website.
So he's doing a website coverage of Venus Williams.
It's got to be heavily.
Oh, there had to be over eight people watching at the time.
Over?
Over.
Are you comfortable with over?
I am.
I'll take the under.
But so he is doing, you know, Venus Williams is an aggressive.
Venice on an app?
Are you telling me more than eight people aren't going to that?
So Venus Williams is a very aggressive player.
Aggressive players.
She's very aggressive.
She plays in sometimes different ways, right?
Asymmetrical would be one way of putting that.
Or guerrilla warfare.
The guerrilla effect.
Guerrilla tactics.
Yes.
Okay.
As in gorilla, not the ape or the monkey or whatever.
Gorilla, G-O-R.
It's G-U-E.
Yes.
R-R-I-L-L-A.
So it's not, it has nothing to do with gorillas.
So he described her aggressive style as a gorilla effect, meaning, again, not the animal, but the tactic.
And people on social media got upset.
The eight people or more that were watching the tennis match got upset and started tweeting about how could this guy call her a gorilla?
Oh my God.
Which is a Spanish word.
Yeah, what he used was a Spanish word.
What they thought he meant was the animal.
Right.
And in a racist way.
And there is a very different thing.
These are two completely different words.
When we talk about guerrilla-style tactics, we're not talking about our armed forces who are all a bunch of gorillas that are makes sense.
No, it is guerrilla is a Spanish word which means asymmetric warfare, which, you know, you've got, you're playing by the rules.
These are guerrilla tactics.
Where was it?
Nicaragua?
Was it Manawa Niyarawa?
Yes.
Where they used to talk about the guerrillas.
The gorillas in Nicaragua, correct?
Right.
And this is probably the word that we used because it became politically incorrect.
If I hear one person say to my kids one more time, sit down on the floor, crisscross applesauce, I'm going to punch him in the face.
It's Indian style.
Sit down, crisscross applesauce.
Shut up.
Crisscross applesauce.
You've never heard that?
I haven't heard that.
Oh, you say to a kid now that has been raised in the public school, you say, sit down Indian style.
They'll have no idea what you're talking about.
I don't know what you're talking about.
You say to them, sit down, crisscross applesauce.
That's Indian style.
What does applesauce have to do with it?
I think it just rhymes.
Okay.
So would spaghetti sauce.
You're right.
Why isn't it spaghetti sauce?
Crisscross spaghetti sauce.
I have no idea.
It is in Italy, yeah.
It is in Italy.
Okay, so anyway, what was it that we called it?
Wow.
Because it wasn't guerrilla tactics back in the Revolutionary War.
We fought like Indians.
We used Indian tactics.
And I bet you that at one point in American history, it was cool to say, you fought like the Indians.
Had someone been watching on ESPN 3 and seen George Washington or heard George Washington say.
He would have been fired.
She's playing tennis like an Indian.
Right.
What's important here, though, is that ESPN is not saying they think he might have meant the animal, gorilla.
They know.
They know what he said.
They believe what he said.
And then they still went to him and made him apologize, which he did.
Then they'll release a statement saying during an Australian Open on ESPN 3, Doug Adler should have been more careful in his word selection.
He apologized, and we have removed him from his remaining assignments.
Now, the story from the- ESPN is the worst.
He is the worst.
What cowards.
This story from Heat Street says he was fired.
I don't know if that means he was just fired from this particular assignment or if he's actually gone 100%.
They fired him completely from his job.
I mean, that's just sheer cowardice.
It's unbelievable.
What the hell?
He didn't even do anything wrong.
And that's been the case in virtually every instance like this that we've talked about, including Chink in the Army, which the guy in the Armor didn't mean that.
Look at this.
They're comparing it.
Adler's faux pas echoes the 2007 controversy surrounding famed radio commentator Don Imus, who characterized the Rutgers University women's basketball team as, I'm quoting the story, rough girls and nappy-headed hoes, end quote.
That's nowhere near that.
That's not, are you kidding me?
Nowhere near that.
That's not echoing that.
Guerrilla Tactics is talking about a war tactic.
Generals talk about guerrilla tactics.
It's not a slur.
It's a term.
has nothing to do with the animal it's like in chink in the armor even i i think is honestly because the chink in the armor basically he said that about an asian basketball player if you remember right so So that is, that first part is a slur.
Right.
So the point was he shouldn't have used this phrase because they thought maybe he thought it applied to him in some racist way.
This one, they're saying it's actually, he didn't even use the term.
Yeah.
Right.
They're not even saying he did Chink in the Armor.
It's like something that sounded like Chicken.
We know he didn't mean that, and we know that that's not what he said.
We just want to, we want to punish him because it's what people thought.
But because there sounded like words, we're going to fire him.
That's insane.
It's not really what people thought.
First, what happens is somebody tweets it.
So how does Twitter?
So how does Fox Sports take, I mean, I've never seen a network so ready to be taken as ESPN.
ESPN has, I mean, if you look, if you look at the psychographics of just Twitter feeds of those people who said they were for Democrats and those people who said they were for Republicans.
If you look at the Twitter feeds.
it's stunning how the left does not connect in the same way to sports.
Like, you know, if you were on a Twitter feed and you also liked the NFL, the NBA, and everything else, you were most likely a Republican.
And it was a big, big divide.
Big divide.
How does ESPN, if that's true, if that plays out across everything, how does ESPN survive?
Because you would think the people watching would be the least likely to be politically correct.
Yeah, I mean, I think they did a good job for a really long time and is slowly not, you know, drastically, like it's not moment to moment.
It's very slow progress here and it's gotten really bad.
And I think, you know, Fox Sports One, for example, has been taking a lot of their personalities, particularly the outspoken ones, because ESPN is constantly folding every time there's a controversy.
That's why you can't, that's why Disney cannot own anything other than the movies and the parks.
Can't.
They own ABC, which causes them to be absolute cowards.
We know for a fact that that's why I was hired by ABC.
I never made it on the air after the press announcement.
Right?
Remember?
And that was because they went and they pressured the parks.
And the same thing you know is happening here.
Somebody just has to say, we'll boycott Disney.
You can't hurt the parks.
Don't hurt the mouse.
You can't have that situation and expect people to be in reality at all.
They're living in fantasy land.
I mean, that is, it's one of the most unbelievable stories.
It's almost as if it's a parody.
So I ask you, why can't he sue them?
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I don't know.
I mean, he apologized, which probably would not be in his favor.
Right.
But of course, he was probably trying to keep his job and arrangements alive.
Where else are you going?
I mean, you know, I guess you go to tennis channel, maybe, but you're going to get hired after this.
I mean, I don't know.
It's shame on Venus Williams.
Yes.
Yes.
Thank you.
That's the other part of that.
She stayed out of it.
I never comment on this kind of stuff.
Well, maybe you should.
Well, you should.
You should.
You should.
That guy wasn't doing that.
He didn't do that.
You know he didn't do it.
You should step out and say, ESPN is being ridiculous.
Hire this guy back.
He didn't say anything racist.
He didn't do anything wrong.
You can't fire a guy because people on Twitter heard another word than the one he said.
That is insanity.
How do you speak to people who aren't listening?
How do you program to people who are not intelligent?
How do you program to people who will hear what they want to hear, complain because they're not intelligent enough to know the difference between the two, and then not open enough to when hearing the truth to say, oh, I'm sorry, I was wrong.
Ask MSNBC how you do all that.
They're the experts.
I will say that the only person who can write that wrong is Venus Williams.
She needs to be able to stand up and say, come on, ESPN.
She needs to be the one.
It's really bad.
That's really sad.
The only person I've ever seen in that situation actually do something like that was Tiger Woods.
And this is many years ago, but the same type of thing happened where a commentator said something controversial.
And it was much more clear than it had some racist undertones, at least.
Also like a fried chicken comment.
Something like that.
And he came out and he said, you know what?
I know them.
It's not that big of a deal.
I know he didn't mean that.
I know his heart.
I've known him for a long time and everything should be fine.
Lit him off.
You know, dismiss this one.
And this is before he had all Tiger Woods in a really camped down the controversy.
Went away.
It died immediately.
Yeah.
I mean, that's hard to do for a public athlete because I'm sure they'll be criticized by their friends or other activists that follow them on these social networks.
But I mean, it's important to do.
The truth actually is supposed to matter.
I don't know if it does anymore, but it's supposed to.
Now this.
A Nobel Prize winning economist at the World Economic Forum, the meeting in Davos, said the United States should follow India's lead in phasing out currency and moving towards digital economies.
I'm telling you, this is going to happen.
This is going to happen.
It may seem like something crazy from the future, but it is.
Did you see what happened with Tesla?
Tesla took one step back to make two steps forward.
They say that by the end of the year, the Tesla car is going to drive itself coast to coast without anybody in it.
To show the grand experiment that...
Is it legal to do that?
Can they do that?
I don't know.
I know they're doing everything they can to dot the eyes.
They want to be the first out with a fully driverless car.
They just, you now can turn on the full boat up to 45 miles an hour.
So now the Tesla that you have, they've just downloaded the software.
They're recommending that you get the cameras adjusted on the car and it will take you wherever you want to go.
Just put it into the system and it will take you automatically up to 45 miles an hour.
Wow.
That's amazing.
The car is out there now.
That's what Tesla drivers are driving right now.
So the world is changing.
And we thought driverless cars would be a thing way down the road.
It's here.
I believe the same thing is going to happen with digital currency.
When that happens, the governments of the world have full control over you.
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You're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.
This is the Glenn Beck Program.
I think we're about five episodes away from the season finale of his story.
And tonight is Frank Capra.
Frank Capra is a fascinating figure.
And we talk a little bit about the struggle that Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart both went through on It's a Wonderful Life.
This was a very important movie for both of them.
For one thing, it was July, and it was supposed to be snowing and it was hot.
You're screwy.
That's what you are.
Why aren't we filming this in December?
Jimmy Stewart actually had a really hard time during that.
Yeah, he actually, it seems like, did he not like the movie at first?
And he had PTSD.
Oh, from, yeah, because he wasn't sure.
Yeah, he had just gotten back from the war.
Both of them had been doing war service.
Right, yeah.
And they just got back from the war and had serious PTSD.
Yeah.
And it wasn't like Jimmy Stewart just entertained troops when he was over there.