Glenn Beck critiques government spending on climate change and arts, arguing for private funding over taxpayer support for entities like the National Endowment for the Arts. He discusses rising racial anxiety, North Korea's missile threats, and the dangers of a cashless society while defending President Trump's tax returns against media narratives. The episode concludes by warning of communist atrocities and urging listeners to secure their own financial futures against potential economic collapse. [Automatically generated summary]
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Well, Stu, as you know, I would say was not on the fence with Donald Trump.
In fact, he was so far away he couldn't even see a fence on Donald Trump.
I impaled myself on one of the posts.
Right.
However, yesterday on climate change, Mulvaney, well, you know, I like Mulvaney anyway.
Rodriguez Mulvaney, he was a guy.
He actually existed before Donald Trump.
Right.
And we liked him a lot.
He is, I believe I heard love music coming from your general.
I had to go over, open the door last night.
Like, where is that?
Where is that Barry White music coming from in Stu's direction because he heard Mulvaney?
We're going to talk about that.
Also, a new poll on race relations.
And we have Riaz Patal joining us for a few minutes today.
We're going to start there and EPA and wiretapping.
And also, it's Friday.
So we're going to squeeze your phone calls in today, 888-727-BECK.
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Let's start with Mulvaney.
Yesterday, you want to, are you, have you had your cigarette?
Have you rested enough to be able to set this up for us today?
It's a very private question.
Perfectly honest.
I'm sorry.
I don't mean to pry.
Yeah, Mick Mulvaney did a little impromptu press conference yesterday.
Yes.
Kind of with in the middle of Spicer's deal.
And he's the director of the budget, OMB.
And he's also a guy who we've liked for a really long time.
I mean, he's just a, he's a really good, he's a really good congressman, Freedom Caucus type of guy.
He's always been really good.
And so he was going through the budget and he was saying things that you've never heard anyone actually say before.
Or at least outside of your circle of friends.
Now, I just want to say this.
If you are a new listener of ours, I want you to know where I stand on climate change.
I don't believe in the man-made climate change.
I was a guy who used to piss Stu off, or at least gravely concerned, because Stu has been on this science route for 20 years.
He's a stats guy.
And when Al Gore first came out with his movie, he was, you know, Stu was like, this is crazy.
And I said, I want to see it.
And Stu, I think you, I bet you lost 10 pounds.
Well, I actually eat more when I'm stressed.
So I probably gained 10.
I went and he thought, oh, Glenn's going to buy into this and then I'm going to have to kill myself.
And that's probably true.
I got out of the movie and I called Stu and I said, the hockey stick thing is very compelling.
I want to look at the math.
And we looked at the math.
And I'm a guy who's completely green at my home in Idaho.
I am more green with my farm and my ranch than I'll bet you Al Gore could even imagine.
I just don't believe that CO2, because I remember the little thing where, and the trees go, we all forgotten that.
So this, if you are a, if you're a global warming person, this may make your head pop.
Listen.
Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the president was fairly straightforward.
He said, we're not spending money on that anymore.
We consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.
So that is a specific tie to his campaign.
Oh, my gosh.
Tell me that's a story.
To a room of reporters to say that.
Because, you know, I think there's a very good argument, even if you are an activist to say, well, the government spending billions, trillions of dollars globally to try to solve this problem is probably not a good expenditure of money.
I mean, they polled this issue and it is dead last in priorities for the American people.
But it's not only that.
It's just not effective.
I mean, look at SpaceX.
You want to go to space?
Give it to the private industry.
We're going to have men on the moon again and it won't cost the United States government a dime.
Right.
You know, if it's if it's really, truly a priority, very smart people believe in this.
And they're in Silicon Valley and they're working on things to make us more green.
And it's good.
I'm adapting some of those things.
Tesla, who will not have their home run on a Tesla battery when it is available?
It is available now.
No, I mean, one, it's really available.
I mean, it's when it's reasonably priced and when it will really.
What we will do is do what's best for our families, right?
Right.
And when Tesla, which it, by the way, has with automobiles in many ways, people really like them.
So they want to go buy them because they're great.
That's right.
What I mean is I will put the tiles up on my roof and I will have a solar.
I can't wait.
It's available now.
Yeah, but it's not reasonable now.
When it's reasonable, I'll be there.
That's not coming from the government.
That's coming from a guy who believes this stuff who can change the world.
That's the way it should work.
And of course, we should point out that too much money has come from the government on some of these particular issues.
Especially on Tesla.
On Tesla and many others.
Another solar company went bankrupt yesterday.
Oh, good.
And, you know, it was.
How much did we own of that money?
I don't know.
I just, you see the headlines so many times.
Sometimes you skip the stories.
But the point is.
All of that changes when the batteries change.
If we were going to invest in one thing, and I again don't believe we should be, but if we were going to be investing in one thing, we should be investing in research on batteries.
When the batteries change, everything changes.
Right now, your biggest problem is not the solar panels, although the solar panels can be smaller and everything else and more efficient.
It's the storage, the batteries.
And that is what Tesla's trying to solve.
And they have a home battery you put in your garage now, which is there and works.
It's not.
It's just, it's still to the point where the battery is, when the battery is right, a Tesla, you know, the one problem that I have with a Tesla is I can't just go, I can't just go anywhere I want.
It's got, what, 300 miles on it before the battery is dead?
300.
Okay, so 300 miles before the battery is dead.
That's just not for me.
I'm just not comfortable with 300 miles.
When you get the battery to extend its life, now you're 500 miles, 600 miles.
Now that car is perfect for everybody.
Or there's an infrastructure to charge it quickly.
And that is happening, right?
I mean, we're in the process of that occurring.
It just takes time.
But I mean, this is the type of thing that I, you know, because you look at many of the scientists who would be considered skeptical.
And they will say, all things being equal, that, you know, what we've done with CO2 will have some effect on the climate.
Will it be catastrophic?
Their answer is no.
And that makes them into science deniers.
The issue here, though, is look at electric cars, for example.
You know, these innovations come and 10, 15, 20 years ago, no one would have believed that a conservative talk radio show has come on the air how many times?
Dozens, and talked to you about how awesome the Tesla is.
These things, these innovations come, and the right is often considered to be anti-science when what we're saying here is that innovation winds up solving these problems without the government spending trillions of dollars.
It's the one reason why I'm against universal basic income, and I haven't heard anybody, we're going to have a conversation on this with some people who really are discussing universal basic income for the right reasons, not socialist reasons.
They say that jobs will, 50% of people will be unemployed within the next 20 years.
And so a 50, 60% unemployment rate is really horrible.
Well, my feeling is, yes, that's true.
However, that's kind of what people said, you know, with the cotton gin or with manufacturing.
Everybody was always like, well, you're going to make these chairs.
You're going to just push them out on an assembly line in a big factory.
What happens to all that?
They got other jobs.
Everything changes.
So there are many things that we're concerned about that work themselves out.
I just have a hard time with the CO2.
I don't know what happened.
Do they even still teach this in school?
Do they still teach the breathe that it is a circle that we breathe out and the trees breathe in?
Right.
Of course, yes.
And the main problem, I think, with the climate change crowd, especially Al Gore, is that they've gone from this will become catastrophic if we don't do something about it to it's catastrophic right now.
And we all know it's not.
Oh, listen.
It's catastrophic right now.
You have Al Gore.
Listen.
Now remember, I am a Bible-thumping catastrophist.
Okay.
I just want you to remember that.
I am the, that's the problem with the left with me.
I'm a Bible-thumping catastrophist who is saying the world is going to end.
Al Gore.
What is your take on the man the president chose to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who, by the way, just last week said he doesn't agree that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor?
Oh, I know.
And that's a perfect.
I know.
He's so pretentious.
So quaint, isn't it?
I know.
These people are so stupid, but they're so stupid they don't know how stupid they are.
That's the beauty of it.
That's a perfect example of the problem that I'm describing in the Assault on Reason.
But again, at some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.
We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the book of Revelation.
We are seeing every night now on the news a nature hike through the book of Revelation.
He's agonizing.
What?
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So like the four horsemen of the apocalypse are galloping through downtown Dallas right now?
I have not seen that on the nightly news.
You know why you haven't seen that?
Why?
Oh boy.
We're going to get into this later.
Oh no.
This is from the Daily Mail.
I'm just going to give you the M-A-I-L.
Oh, okay.
I just want to jeff.
Yeah, no.
Okay.
I'm just going to give you the, I'm just going to give you the headline.
Mammals shrink when the earth heats up.
Oh, no.
Oh, boy.
Horses the size of cats.
What?
Horses.
Wait until you hear this global.
The reason why you're not seeing or hearing the four horsemen of the apocalypse is very, very small.
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Mercury.
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Hello, America.
Say hello to our good friend, Riaz Patal.
Hello, Riaz.
Hello, how are you?
Good.
How are things in the world of Riaz?
In my world.
In your world.
Riaz, in case you don't remember, Riaz is, I'll say this.
He doesn't like me to point out that he's Hollywood.
But he's a guy who worked in Hollywood for a very long time.
Still do, hopefully.
Good luck.
Good luck with a career there.
Yeah, good luck with that.
Tell me about how are things going with your circle of friends because sometimes it gets a little dicey.
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You know, it's interesting.
I will say since I've last been here, there's been a bit of a pivot that I'm having more people reach out to me because I'm the only bridge and say privately, what news sources would you recommend for balanced?
I do think people are, I mean, I think it's getting so absurd that I do think there's a reaching a fever point that are going to look to find some understanding of the people.
Have you seen 180.com?
Yes.
Yes.
I learned about it here.
Yeah, 180.com is a- 180 report?
Yeah.
Is it 180report.com?
180report.com where you read the headlines from the right perspective and there's a button at the top and it flips.
The website turns around and flips and it shows you the same stories from the left perspective.
Because the left is loud.
I mean, I know, like, again, saying it as someone who can step out of the echo chamber now when I take this flight.
It is so loud.
But the right also doesn't have a real credible big source.
We don't have, I mean, well, we have Fox News, but outside of Fox News, you don't have a big news team.
And we have a plethora.
And the problem is, as a producer, the plethora are competing for viewers in the same way that everyone competes for viewers.
And so they're ramping up every single day.
I mean, this Rachel Maddow thing was pure programming, pure programming.
It was a stunt.
You know people on the left in the news business.
Is there any idea of them ratcheting things down?
Is anybody thinking about don't throw more?
No, I don't believe that.
I don't believe that.
From the producers that I know and talk to at these places, it seems to be the conflict is the name of the game, that as this more absurd information comes out worse than before.
I think it's reached terminal velocity, but it's not slowing down.
I don't know how it can ramp up more.
I mean, I don't know how many more airwaves or channels or networks or video stations there could be.
It's amazing how we're not talking about anything important.
We're really, I mean, it is.
That's amazing to me.
It's amazing.
And all over the world, I have friends in France who are saying, we're so tired of the U.S. election and aftermath.
And I'm like, who is forcing everyone to consume this diet?
You have an election coming up, France, of your own, where Maureen Le Pen is one of the favorites?
Maybe you want to think about your own country.
Our side.
Every day, it's this global phenomenon of dipping into this reservoir of rage.
And it could be reservoir of anything you have.
He was with me in Thailand, and it was refreshing to actually be with people who didn't know anything about the United States.
I asked some of the kids, what do you know about the United States?
I've heard of it.
That's it.
One kid, one kid that knew about it, knew about it from a movie.
He had seen it in like a- I can't remember the movie, but some beautiful portrayal of it.
It's very simple and naive.
Yeah, so he just, I know it from the movie.
It was bizarre to be with people who had never even really, the United States doesn't affect them at all, they think.
I control my diet of snooze consumption.
I literally, there's some days I don't even look at it because I imagine the tragedy will be there the day after.
I imagine the world will still be collapsing every Friday if I wait three, four days to consume it.
But I don't because, I mean, again, I'm around a 10-month, 11-month-old daughter.
I cannot be angry all day.
And I don't believe in the, I'm angry, but I'll fake it.
Kids are resilient.
I have to tell you.
I want to meet your children.
I want to meet them all when you're in the room.
They amazingly turned out well.
I don't know how.
I don't know how that happened.
I really don't know how.
We all really are.
They are resilient.
They are resilient.
Amber and Jeffy would leave and we would all sit around going, their kids are doomed.
And somehow or another, they.
Actually, Amber usually was there for that conversation.
No, she was the one.
As he was walking away, she would just turn around and go, help me.
And why didn't you?
Why didn't you, by the way?
It was fun to watch.
It was fun to watch.
Glenn, on the Maddow thing, before we leave that, I found it really interesting to watch the coverage of her coverage.
Yes.
Which everyone on the right understandably mocked her and said, you built up this thing for nothing, which I get.
That's actually an understandable thing for the right to do.
I was surprised at how much of mainstream media, however, reported Maddow's issue with the tax returns as Maddow overhypes this tax return and to get people to view and then has nothing.
It's Geraldo's vault.
Wait a minute.
It's only Geraldo's vault if you wanted it to be zero, if you wanted him to have not paid taxes.
It is a big story to get his tax returns.
Yes, but the point is interesting.
I didn't even think that's the best.
And it wasn't just the means.
Because I would understand Rachel Maddow's audience being like, hey, they hyped us and then he paid taxes.
Because that's what she was going after, though.
I know, but the mainstream media covering that shouldn't cover it like that.
They shouldn't say, we're disappointed.
He actually paid taxes.
They're supposed to cover that neutrally.
And they did it.
It's so amused.
It's so funny now because I listen to news and I try to hear that bias.
And it really is something I'm developing.
We'll be back in just a second.
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Hello, welcome to the program.
Riaz Patal is joining us, and we were just talking during the break about this Rachel Maddow.
You know, as we look at the week in review, Rachel Maddow and her expose, she presented that she thought she was going to have a big expose.
I personally think that there is a good chance that somebody from the Trump camp put that into her box because it was a good year for him.
$150 million, $38 million in taxes.
I mean, it looked good.
She's now trying to say that, no, no, no.
I didn't make this a scandal.
If people listening and watching made it a scandal, she's actually blaming her viewers for her.
incredible nothing burger that she presented the other day.
How does the left, Riaz, how did the left react to this?
You're a circle of friends with the Trump thing.
I think they thought it was, they felt the programming stunt of it.
I think, you know, a lot of my friends are in production and producers, so they definitely felt the bait and switch.
The Twitter went out saying, I've got the return.
And then seriously, and then it was spread like wildfire.
I mean, I hope if something happens with a nuclear war, we all get the information as quickly as I knew that Rachel Maddow had a tax return.
Like I knew it within seconds.
I was there.
I was prepared.
So I think it felt like a stunt.
And I think what was so interesting about Stu said is I'm usually able to spot now those really blatant biases.
But when you said that about comparing it to Geraldo Rivera safe, that it was a nothing implies the assumption we wanted a smoking gun.
How are you journalists?
How are you objective journalists?
If you're like tune into the smoking gun, that really is more of a water pistol.
Well, is anybody talking on the left about where these returns came?
I think they definitely feel like it was leaked.
I think they definitely feel from the Trump camp.
Yes, from the Trump camp, because it shows very clearly if this is the great return, he paid taxes more than Bernie Sanders.
I've seen those tweets going on.
So to me, it does do nothing against him.
It's absolutely a pro.
Except you read something on Business Insider?
Yeah, you know, I would really, I should really get the whole details here if we want to go through that.
But Business Insider made the case that, you know, again, like a Donald Trump tax return is very complicated, and you're only getting a couple pages of it.
So we know, I know my taxes are a hell of a lot longer than two pages.
Oh, my God.
And Donald Trump's, you know, than an encyclopedia.
And so we only have a little bit of information, but of the information that they have, tax experts have gone through it and said, well, you know, there's things like a 30, I think it's $32 million of his income comes from a one-time sale of assets.
So like you're taking stuff that you own and you're selling it.
Now, that's, you know, it's your money and it is real money, but it's not like you can't replicate that.
It's one of the things.
Yeah, but how much is from interest and license and stuff like that?
And they boiled it down to $16 million.
But this is why.
Wait a minute.
But this is why people say, oh, you know, Warren Buffett pays the same income tax bracket as his secretary.
Yes, because he's not getting paid in income.
But still, there's no way for him to pay less than his secretary.
This is not happening.
Unless you're comparing income to capital gains and then the capital gains.
That's not income.
Right.
Income.
There's no way different.
He pays less income tax than his secretary does.
There's no way.
I didn't peg you for someone who wanted to go through these details today.
If you want them, we can get the story and go through them.
I mean, it's a little bit nerdy tax stuff, but and with the alternative.
The only reason why I bring it up is because I want to know, is he, this made it look to the average person that he is the billionaire that he says he is.
Yeah, and I think to me, it's very much an indication of what is happening now, which is the bait and switch between Trump and whoever's there and mainstream media.
It is watching the press conferences, which I don't watch anymore.
It's feeling like that daily tune-in of the O.J. Simpson trial where everyone watched every day because they couldn't look away.
It was so absurd.
What are you going to see?
I've seen people reporting now on another network's reporting of another network's reporting.
Like how much farther down the rabbit hole can we go in the head, seeshed?
I mean, literally actual leading today, another website reported another website, which reported this.
Tell me about the Gallup poll, your thoughts on the Gallup poll.
There's a new Gallup poll that shows that our how did they word this?
Your fear of race relationships.
Americans' worries about race relations are at a record high.
And the question was, Gallup did this, Americans who worry a great deal about race relations.
In 2014, it was 17%.
Three years later, now it's 42% and worry a great deal about race relations.
And so there was a graph on the next page that shows when it sort of started spiking.
And, you know, Stu and I were talking earlier that, you know, there's a bit of a spike after Obama, but the real uptick comes in 2015.
Two years in this election, when it comes to the same thing.
I think the seeds were planted during the Obama administration in many ways.
After September 11th, we had to grapple with, okay, how are we going to deal with the Arab world?
What is our reaction?
Are we going to trust Arabs, Muslims?
How are we going to react to that?
And I think there was a spike right after 9-11.
And then that number came down because we were like, okay, we're cool.
We're cool.
Then the nothing to see here started towards the end of the Bush administration on that.
Then I think there was this feeling of Barack Obama is either going to be really good for race relations or really bad.
Then he started in with the, you know, the police acted stupidly.
America is a racist place.
Eric Holder said we're much like Trayvon.
Yeah, and America is nothing but race cowards.
And that started to plant some really nasty seeds that I think then were harvested about 2015.
Yeah.
And you look at it really, there had been a long time decline.
We've gone over many of these numbers for many different questions, including interracial marriage and whether people live in your neighborhood.
There's a million studies, and they all show incredible racial improvement over a long period of time.
And this new poll from Gallup shows Bush administration was about 28% at the beginning of the Bush administration about people worrying about race relations.
2001.
It drops down to, at the very beginning of the Obama administration, to 13%.
And after Obama's in office, there's a slight incline, as Riaz pointed out.
But really, to me, the inflection point is a little bit before the election, and it's Ferguson.
Ferguson happens, and it starts shooting up, and then the election gets inflamed even more.
And now, so it's gone from 17 to 42% in three years.
So let me ask you that.
What's the question again?
Worry greatly.
Americans worry greatly.
Yeah, do you worry about race relations a great deal, a fair amount, or not a little at all in this country?
Do you worry about race relations?
Let me ask you.
Do you worry about race relations in this country a great deal, fair amount, or not at all?
Pat, great deal, fair amount.
Wow, this is so easy for me to answer.
I'd say a fair amount.
Fair amount?
Yeah.
I would say a great deal.
I say a great deal.
I'd say a great deal.
I think in this campaign rhetoric, the grouping, the labeling, coupled by the bombardment of social media, that everything was just louder in this country.
And the agenda of those, there's a real, there's forces on all sides that want this.
They want this strife so they can step in and either cause chaos or step in to solve it.
And that's why I pause because I don't know if it's real.
So much of it's not real.
I mean, like, I feel like there's less actual racial tension.
I agree.
Than ever, maybe.
I'll say I'll disagree only because I guess not just where I am, but also from my point of view, you know, being a Muslim, it comes up more often.
I go through secondary screening constantly.
Fine.
But it is brought up.
I'm in rooms, people talking about Muslims.
I walk into, that has never happened in my life.
It is discussed as a group so strangely that to me, it does.
I see people looking at me differently.
I see them asking questions differently.
But you know what?
Honestly, Riaz, Muslims were kind of, up until 9-11, Muslims were kind of, you know, like Sikhs.
You know, we didn't think of Muslims.
We didn't know anything about them generally as a population.
And so unfortunately for the Muslim religion, you know, you kind of come onto the scene in America because of 9-11.
Agreed.
But then you have in the rhetoric, Muslim ban, Mexican wall.
I mean, the talking of huge groups as one was to me the greatest flaw of Donald Trump in terms of what I'm watching his campaign, what upset me the most was the constant.
And again, people say it's words and the left and right have disagreements about this.
It's just words.
When you are these words, they hurt.
Yeah, and I have to tell you that I don't think it is words.
The problem is words.
We did not define the difference between Muslim and Islamist.
I would agree with you, and this is something you and I have talked about, that in this wanting to hold Islam as we need to protect them, we didn't really look at an opportunity to say, no, there is a very, very bad faction.
Did you see what happened with Zudi Jasser this week with Pamela Geller?
I didn't, but I saw the class.
You should read up on this.
I'd love to talk to you about it because Zudi Jasser is, I think, he's a reformer.
Radical Islam Havoc in Sweden00:03:52
And he's like, look, Islam doesn't have to be what it is in some places in the Middle East.
It doesn't have to be that way.
We need a reform.
And he's trying to cut the wood down to empower people, the theologians, to actually change it.
And the left is hammering him.
And now the right is hammering him, saying he has no chance.
And he's struggling in the middle going, there are a lot of good Muslims that live a very peaceful religion that want it to be this way.
And unless you empower those reformers, it ain't going to happen.
And I think it's, you know, even with Muslims, with blacks, I feel like the Jewish community centers and a huge proportion of my friends are Jewish in New York and L.A.
And I would say daily, one of them will post, couldn't drop my mother off to this, couldn't drop my kids.
There was another bomb threat.
It is.
It is bad.
And I think...
Yeah, nobody's paying really attention.
It's really dark.
And so to me, I'm not on the America's bad.
America's a racist.
I'm worried about raising is I feel like people are getting more uncomfortable having the uncomfortable conversations, more isolated.
I'm telling you, I'm looking at a different world in New York and L.A.
And then I fly here.
It is a different world.
The news coming in is a bad way.
The news coming in is different.
It scares me how separate it is that something is mentioned here that has no relevance or bearing there.
Literally, they don't know about it.
And then vice versa here.
That to me is the scariest.
You know, I think it was when Donald Trump was talking about Sweden in a speech, and he was talking about what was happening in Sweden.
My understanding that people are saying is about this rash of radical Islam that actually is creating havoc in Sweden.
The left was like, got into this thing of, here he is again.
He's mentally ill.
Literally, constantly, what is he talking about?
Minister of Sweden tweets.
I don't know what he's talking about.
And I'm like, he's not just throwing out a word to a huge crowd.
If he's throwing out a word, find out what he's talking about.
That scares me.
Because when a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to report it, it makes me very nervous of what can happen in our country that it's not getting covered or not getting.
And see, this is what, this goes back to Islam and Islamists, because everybody jumped on, he's crazy, he's crazy.
No, he's not.
There is a problem with Islamists in Sweden.
And everybody, I saw it.
I mean, my camera crew was almost beaten.
We had to get out of there.
There's an amazing filmmaker, Dia Khan, who created this beautiful thing about the rash of radical fundamental Islam that is taking away the rights of women today.
Literally, girls growing up now are being talked about going into marriages, forced marriages.
That hasn't existed in ages.
Right.
And it's bad.
And because he will just say Muslims instead of Islamists and the press hears Muslim and says it's he means all of them.
Yeah.
We're missing the real story.
And I feel like the rest of the country is standing here going, guys, we're talking about the people who want to kill people.
We're talking about bad people.
And I think we're, we feel like, I think the center of the country feels like we're in a family with two dysfunctional parents.
Mom and dad who won't talk, who won't listen to each other, who are just out to get each other.
And the family is suffering.
And we had talked about this, and I would love to do a study, and the university actually approached me to see about doing it, about the impact on kids from this election cycle.
That parents, I want to show liberal and conservative.
Yeah, I want to show you.
That's playing on that TV and what is absorbed by the parents.
What is the impact on the kids?
How scared are they?
How afraid are they?
That goes for our conversation about George Stephanopoulos.
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Yeah, that that's a good idea.
Where his kid, three weeks after the election, was still sleeping in, 12-year-old, sleeping in mommy daddy's bed because so afraid of Donald Trump.
I limit how much news I take in because, again, I can have access to it whenever I need it and because I do not want that anger.
I do not want that rage.
You can't have a conversation without rage now.
Riaz, always good to see you.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks to see you guys, Riaz Patal.
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Here's why we believe Jake Tapper is one of the best journalists in America.
First, he went after Obama.
Then he has asked tough questions of Trump.
Here he is with Bernie Sanders.
You've said that if this repeal and replace plane goes forward, thousands of Americans will die.
Where do you get that estimate from?
I get that estimate from the fact that studies have been done that people who do not have health insurance, who do not go to the doctor when they should, who do not go to the hospital when they need to go, in fact die.
And thousands of people die every year because they don't have health insurance.
Really?
And if you throw 24 million people off of health insurance, there is no doubt that many thousands of people will die.
Look, Jake, I have talked to doctors in Vermont and all over this country who see patients who walk in the door and they're really sick.
And the doctor says, why didn't you come in when you first had your symptom?
And when the patient says, well, I had a high deductible or I didn't have any health insurance, I didn't want to come in.
Sometimes it is too late to treat those people.
Senator, but you know that Obamacare is in dire straits.
The governor of Minnesota, Liberal Democrat, said that the Affordable Care Act is unaffordable.
According to HHS, in 2017, there's going to be a nearly 25% decline in the number of insurers participating in Obamacare compared to 2016.
We'll have to hang on for his answer.
The point is, for me, I mean, you wouldn't need Bernie Sanders' answer.
Because Jake Tapper is pushing based on the Glenn Beck program.
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North Korea.
Is anybody paying attention to this?
I know I am.
You guys following what's happening with the Korean?
It's to the north of South Korea, right?
Yes.
Yes, they're threatening nuclear war.
Okay, got it.
Tillerson is saying that everything is breaking down and all options are on the table and...
I thought they were China's problem.
I thought they were China's problem too.
They're not China's problem.
Today, Japanese kind of scattered out in the streets.
For anybody who didn't know, it was their first missile test ever.
And the sirens went off in Japan to warn of incoming missiles as a test today.
Things are changing.
And maybe we should stop paying attention to everything that Donald Trump tweets and start paying attention to what's really happening in the world.
We'll give you that.
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And Friday, we're going to have some laughs, too.
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All right, North Korea.
North Korea is a belligerent little nation, and we think that it can't hurt the United States.
And we may find out differently soon.
They have been launching missiles, and just like Iran, they launch missiles.
And by the way, they are in with Iran.
They launch missiles to a certain height and then they blow them up.
Everybody thought for a while, oh, gee, look, they're such a failure.
No, they're blowing them up at exactly the same height.
And that height is exactly the altitude that you use for a EMP strike.
It would only take three EMPs to black out the entire United States.
You could launch two from the West Coast or the East Coast and the other one from the opposite coast.
And you could black out the entire United States.
Experts warn, and the Pentagon believes this is the number one threat to America, that if somebody would launch an EMP strike, 90% of the U.S. population will die within the first year.
You want the Knight of the Walking Dead.
It is an EMP strike.
Serious threat and, other than global warming, probably the most serious threat, right?
Well, because with global warming, we're taking a nature hack through the book of Revelation.
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
While people are worried about global warming, you should worry about an EMP.
Oh yeah, so if you saw an EMP is do you remember in Oceans 11, where he said well, we need a device and?
And he was standing up and he, you know, he covers his, his twigs and berries and it goes off and it knocks everything out.
So they can, they can go steal things, and it knocked everything out for 30 seconds.
That's the one part of you know 9-11 that you should, or I mean Oceans 11 that you shouldn't believe.
Could they pull that heist off?
Yeah yeah, maybe the EMP would have knocked it out forever.
Every computer chip is fried, and so you have to replace every single computer chip.
So the the problem is, is it?
It doesn't just come back online?
And it would take the United States if, if the United States were alone, the only ones, and it would be parts of Canada and Mexico too the people that would die because refrigeration stops immediately.
How many people are on life-saving drugs that need to be refrigerated?
How many people are on life-saving medication that you wouldn't be able to get because the CVS is closed for the next 45 days to a year an extreme example of why you always talk about things like my Patriot Supply, where you're getting, you're getting a food supply.
So if God forbid, something like this does happen, you at least can get through a certain amount of time.
This is not a paid ad.
My Patriot Supply has a deal going on right now for what you say, 300 bucks and you get three months of food and everything else.
Uh, I would go there.
I don't even know the number or whatever, but it's my Patriot Supply.
Um, and I would go there because I don't know what's happening with North Korea, but nobody is really paying attention.
We are walking up to a line with North Korea.
That is very spooky.
Even if they don't know, I I just want you to know.
They could take a boat, a non-military boat, and they could bring it up close to our shores, still in international waters.
Launch a Icbm two of them launch them over the United States, blow them up in space and you got nothing.
Read the book One Second After.
It was written by a military guy who was, I believe, part of Space Command for the United States and had been trying to make the case to the Pentagon and to Congress.
The Pentagon gets it, and the Pentagon says this is the number one threat to America.
The Congress won't spend, it's like $100 million to protect us.
They won't spend it.
Why?
I have no idea.
Of all the things we spend money on.
$100 million.
It's really, maybe it's $100 billion.
It's nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Literally nothing.
We waste more than it would take.
For some reason, we won't spend the money to protect our infrastructure.
The Trump budget does add $54 billion to projected spending for the military.
And maybe that's in there.
I haven't gone line by line on it.
I doubt it.
I would hope so.
But nobody is really taking this serious in political circles.
The military is.
Our planes, some of our planes, some of our equipment has everything wrapped in a Faraday cage.
But the average life stops.
And this guy is nuts.
Do you know what year it is in North Korea?
Do you know what the date is today?
What year is it?
Yeah.
What year is it?
Well, it's the same year everywhere, is it not?
No, it's the year 105.
It's 105 now in North Korea.
105?
105.
AKJ?
Measuring it from like Kim Jong.
Kim Il-sung's birth.
Il-sung's birth.
He was born April 15th, 1912.
And so, you know.
So there was no time before him?
There was no time before him.
It's 105.
This is how backward this country is.
They have concentration camps there that are horrendous, and we're not paying attention to them.
Everybody wants to look the other way.
These concentration camps are filled with people.
For instance, if you commit a crime against the state, which is the worst, you say something wrong about the state.
It's not just you.
You and your family are put into a concentration camp for three generations.
Three generations have to pay for your crime.
Wow.
That's incredible.
I mean, we're dealing with this with the American student who was over there.
It's been, I think, a year now.
And, you know, the Trump administration is trying to fire up negotiations yet again because, again, he was on an academic trip and he decided he wanted to steal a banner for a, you know, just a piece of memento from the trip and got caught and 15 years hard labor he got for it.
15 years.
Now he's already served a year and they're trying to get him out because obviously it's a completely absurd place.
But man, it is a scary place.
I said it's more.
I would love to go there.
So would I. In theory.
Like I would love to go there and see it.
It's an incredible place because it is another world on Earth.
So young.
It's only 105.
It's only 105 years old, you know, young, sexy, nubile.
But yeah, no.
But they have nuclear weapons and missiles and they have allies like Iran that would like to see us dead.
Right.
And the way to knock out the United States of America is to put us on cave dwelling status.
And that is possible.
And I would just pay attention to what is happening in North Korea.
God forbid an EMP ever happens in America.
But the second to the last thing we need is yet another war front.
We have to, what are we going to do?
We're going to protect Japan from North Korea.
Okay, what does that mean?
How does China react?
All of a sudden, we're going to be in a South Pacific entanglement as well, which will do what to us?
And how does this administration react?
What happens to us with another war front?
We should probably pay attention to that.
I mean, how can you pay attention to something like that when all of our animals are going to be miniaturized at any moment?
I mean, you know, you can sit here and say, oh, yeah, you're such a pessimist.
You're such a pessimist.
It could happen at any moment.
Okay, now I know this comes from the, I think it's the Daily Mail or Telegraph.
Scientists are now saying because of, I'm not making this up.
Scientists are now saying because of global warming, mammals will shrink.
And they, in this article, speak about horses the size of cats.
I'm not making this up.
Look it up yourself.
Mammals the size, horses the size of cats.
There are some benefits to that.
It would end all rodeos.
All rodeos area.
Is that why you're a science denier?
Because you want to end all rodeos?
I'm working on it.
I worry about the rodeos.
I like the rodeos.
Why would it end rodeos?
Well, the horses would be too small.
Yeah, but horses can ride them anymore.
Well, you can't write it anymore at your current size, but wouldn't we also shrink?
I mean, why wouldn't we shrink too?
would shrink it i would think at the same pace now see this is why you were see why did you bring this up Because you're such a pessimist.
If you really look at this, if we shrink and the animals shrink, we now have plenty of space for the people that are going to be born on the for space for them to live.
Think of the farm size that people the size of horses need.
Oh, there's people the size of cats, or we would be the size of pugs.
No, we'd have to be smaller than a pup.
Yeah, it would be a lot smaller.
What would be if horses were the size of cats?
We'd be about the size of mice.
Maybe?
Wow.
That opens up a lot of room on the planet.
Are you kidding me?
There's a lot of room.
That may be God's plan.
Everybody's like, oh, God wouldn't have made us if we were going to run out of space.
There it is.
We shrink.
We shrink.
I don't know about you, but even if we don't shrink, I'm not walking.
I'm going to find something else to ride.
I'm going to find some other some other species to ride.
I'm surprised you'd be so anti-walking.
It's so against your character.
I think it would be great.
I hope I can stay big.
I'm going to put myself, Walt Disney may be the only person who doesn't shrink in size.
Because he's frozen.
He's frozen.
So it'd be like land of the giants or the small people, whatever.
Gulliver's travels, except it would be Walt Disney.
The freezer would open up and everybody would be small.
That would be cool because it's a small world after all.
Oh my God, he's telling us in advance.
He was telling he knew in advance.
Oh my gosh.
He knew in advance.
And people will mock this.
They'll say it's silly that horses will be the size of cats and maybe it's a scare tactic.
However, the science is pretty solid on this.
Is it?
Think about it.
Shrinky dinks.
What happens?
You put them in the oven and they shrink.
This is, I mean, that's about as good evidence as you're going to have on this.
And I think it proves the point.
When you cook meat, doesn't it shrink?
It shrinks.
Yeah.
I have to tell you.
Wait before cooking.
Ever hear that?
That's because this is true.
Horses the size of cats would be cool.
I think so too.
Oh my gosh.
If we can stay our size, we have to figure out how to stay our size because we could get monkeys and sell them as a barrel of monkeys as the actual monkey.
Wouldn't that be cool if you could sell for kids the actual barrel of monkeys and then they're real size?
They're actually the size of those little monkeys.
You know, little plastic monkeys?
What?
Wasn't that one of the original Toy Story plans?
Right.
There were real monkeys.
Oh, my gosh.
And who made that?
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Disney.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my gosh.
They were telling us.
They were telling us in advance.
That's incredible.
Now, this might be fun for children, but not as much for the monkeys.
However, would it be fun for children if children were that small?
That's your issue.
You're right.
You got to solve that.
And I think we've solved children small monkeys.
Small monkeys would be fun.
Oh, you know how you do this?
We have air conditioning, right?
We stay, nice 70, 72 degrees, and at the same time, we're heating the planet up.
We're heating the planet up and making it worse with global warming, according to Alzheimer's.
So they'd be smaller monkeys.
So even smaller monkeys.
We do not want monkeys the size of ants.
No, because then they'll be all over the place.
Yeah.
And you'd not be able to get them.
They'd be in your hair and then they'd be like crawling all over you.
It'd be bad.
You need monkeys the size of mice.
I'm worried about bugs becoming like nanotechnology.
No, because they're just mammals, not bugs.
Okay.
Okay.
So it's just bugs are fun.
Okay.
Imagine like a praying mantis monkey fight.
Because praying mantis.
Wait a minute.
This is horrible.
Oh my gosh.
They're going to say the same thing.
Wait, wait.
Think of the movies we could make, all of those movies that need the like the little claymation things if we had actual monkeys and spiders remain the same size.
A spider monkey fight would be unbelievable.
But wait, think this out.
If the spiders are giant size to humans, that means in real life, not just in the movies, they're giant size to humans.
They rule the earth.
If they don't shrink, and we do, we're screwed.
They're already all over the place.
That's the case, too.
We're dead because only mammals shrink.
This is the shrink eating principle.
It's well known in science.
So fish would rule the world.
Fish would rule the world?
Well, fish and they'd rule the under the whales.
They've ruled the seas.
They're already there.
They already got that kid.
You could take on a fish.
You take on a fish, just like anything.
One monkey or one horse has trampled a person.
However, horses aren't taking over the planet.
Oh, but the whales are becoming supergroups.
Yes.
Maybe the whales know that this week, too.
They know it's not that.
Scientists are saying that supergroups of whales are starting to gather.
Maybe they know that we are going to be the size of monkeys, which will be the size of mice.
Yeah.
And we ride to our death into the seas.
I think we've explored just about every possibility.
How, how, seriously, how did they write that story in the Daily Media?
You know, how do scientists actually come out and say horses the size of cats with a straight face?
Come on.
Even if you go up four degrees, as they're predicting in the next hundred years, that's not going to happen.
That is not going to happen.
You're not going to have horses the size of cats.
Really?
Are you a scientist?
Yes.
Well, on this side.
A more legitimate scientist that's going to have to be a sound.
Listen, after a 0.7 degree temperature change for 1,000 or maybe 5,000 years, who will be laughing then?
Mr. Scientist.
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Let me just show you.
You know, Pat cuts us off and we're talking science, horses the size of cats.
That's what scientists now say because of global warming that is coming.
Let me just say he cuts us off.
For those of you who care about science and investment in science, let me just give you this.
I believe roller skates are a thing of the past.
Why roller skate when you can strap a horse to the bottom of your foot and have them gallop?
Good thing.
It's an interesting question.
What if they gallop in opposite directions?
Well, you train them.
You don't just put wild horses on your feet.
These are trained horses to replace roller skates.
Think, man.
No, you're right.
That was stupid.
It's a really good idea.
Good thing that you didn't let me stop this line of thinking.
Genius.
Right?
Genius.
Right?
Yeah.
It would be fun.
A little galloping below your feet.
Seriously.
It would be fun.
You'd have to be able to get them.
You'd have to put like rubber shoes on them or something because the noise, you know, the galloping of.
You're adding.
You're adding a large increase in cost maintenance-wise, however.
You're going to have to feed your roller skates.
I mean, that is a grass.
Remember, the horses have gotten smaller.
The grass hasn't.
Your lawn is like a billion acres to these tiny little roller skating horses.
Wait, so the horses are also on roller skates?
Well, that would solve the problem of the sound.
We haven't fully worked through everything, I guess.
It's a bad idea.
Just go with that.
Okay, wild gear change.
The trouble with communism.
Coming up next, part four of our series on communism.
the glenn beck program the glenn beck program The story of America is really one of self-reliance and optimism and profound faith.
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not only in the context of religious freedom, but also in the unprecedented faith in the ability of human beings to control their own destiny.
And while the spirit of personal responsibility was extraordinary, strong with our founders, great patriots like Thomas Paine argued for redistribution of wealth right off the bat.
Alexander Hamilton wanted a central bank.
Well, they wound up losing those battles, but there were plenty who kept on fighting.
The Constitution of the United States kept those dogs at bay for a better part of 200 years.
But eventually, those seeking a different path than the ones the founders settled on realized the only way to really defeat the Constitution was for the people to stop reading it.
Progressives realized victory required changing history.
And to defeat them, we have to correct that.
Progressives know how powerful history is.
When these truths are told and the lies get corrected, the game is going to be on.
It's pulling the mask off the monster like Che Gruevera.
Che may make socialism and communism look cool and trendy, but the reality couldn't be more horrific and disgusting.
These related political philosophies are not hip and are certainly not taken lightly.
Karl Marx defined socialism as a pit stop between capitalism and communism.
It isn't an end point.
While sometimes this change happens slowly, it always ends badly.
And perhaps never worse than with Chairman Mao.
Mao used his power to crush the Chinese people.
The majority of his crimes came in two distinct waves.
The chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Lee Edwards, explains.
From 1959 to 1961 was the so-called Great Leap Forward, which was actually a gigantic leap backwards in which he tried to collectivize and communize agriculture.
And they came to him after the first year and they said, well, Chairman, 5 million people have died of famine.
And he said, no matter, keep going.
And the second year they came back and they said, 10 million Chinese have died.
He said, no matter, continue.
The third year, 20 million Chinese have died.
And he said, finally, well, perhaps this is not the best idea that I've ever had.
A survivor of the Mao regime, Zheng Chang, recalls.
When he was told his people were dying of starvation, Mao said, educate the peasants to eat less.
Death have benefit.
They can fertilize the land.
Mao's approach turned from brutal indifference to revenge.
With the Cultural Revolution, his mission was to destroy both enemies and intellectuals.
Professors, teachers sat in the corner with a dunce cap on them.
They were made to get down on all fours and bark like a dog.
Zheng Chang and her family also found themselves in Mao's crosshairs.
My father was one of the few who stood up to Mao and protested the cultural revolution.
My mother was under tremendous pressure to denounce my father.
She refused.
So as a result, my mother was made to kneel on broken glass.
She was paraded in the streets where children spat at her and threw stones at her.
She was exiled to a camp.
When her father wrote to protest the cultural revolution, he paid the ultimate price.
My mother tried to stop him.
My mother said, you know, do you want to ruin the lives of our children?
So he said, you know, what about the children of the victims?
As a result, he was imprisoned, tortured, driven insane.
He was exiled to a camp and died prematurely, very tragically.
As a victim of Mao's crushing rule, Zheng Chang's father was not alone.
Some 65 million Chinese died under Maoist communism.
And Mao just didn't care.
And he said for all his projects to take off, half of China may well have to die.
By a ratio of three or four to one, we certainly can say that Mao was the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century.
Which makes this comment by former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn so incredibly disturbing.
Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Seitong and Mother Teresa.
Dunn's comments, once again, highlight the odd treatment that leftist totalitarianism receives by too many in our society.
Communism is looked at as something we can borrow from liberally, even today.
But the truth is that it is among history's most proficient killers.
According to the Black Book of Communism, published by Harvard University Press, nearly 100 million people died under communism in the 20th century.
It all flows out of this idea that the communists think that they can create a new society.
And anybody who gets in their way, they will cut down, they will kill, they will imprison, and they will eliminate in pursuit of that goal.
This was an idea shared by more people than you would think, including Nobel Prize winner and famous playwright George Bernard Shaw.
Sir or madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence?
If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
And this was actually somewhat subtle for Shaw.
He'd also foreshadow some of the worst atrocities in our planet's history.
He wrote, I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly.
In short, a gentlemanly gas, deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.
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People like George Bernard Shaw were convinced that overpopulation was this terrible, terrible problem, particularly because the unfit, the genetically less desirable, were swamping the good genetic types.
In the late 19th century, there are almost the cream of British intelligentsia embracing eugenics well into the early 20th century, saying that thousands, millions had to be marched off into gas chambers and liquidated.
George Bernard Shaw's great line where he says, you know, we should do it while playing lovely classical music as we march them into the gas chambers.
The idea, a lot of people seem to think that this concept of the gas chamber as a tool of social policy was invented by the Nazis.
It wasn't.
It was, you know, in a, and I mean this in the most disgusting, evil way, it was perfected by the Nazis.
But this idea of using things like gas chambers to kill off millions of people so that the rest of the good guys could prosper and move to the sunny uplands of history was immensely popular.
With 100 million killed, communism exists in a very exclusive club, alongside the planet's worst communicable diseases like smallpox and the bubonic plague.
But it's not just communism.
It's the truth of any government with too much power.
Some government is of course necessary, but too much is suicidal.
Every all-powerful government has elements of what Marx called the revolutionary holocaust.
The relentless pursuit of nirvana and the price it's worth paying to get there in human life.
It's only by understanding history that we can stop this from happening again and again and again.
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It is remarkable to me, absolutely remarkable to me, that we do not pay attention to China and Mao, that we don't, we don't know it.
He was the biggest killer.
Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin.
Mao makes everybody look like a rookie.
And because that's on the other side of the earth, because it's Asia, and so we don't think they look like us.
So we see ourselves.
I don't know what it is.
Because the underlying philosophy is still popular.
Yes.
And still encouraged by way too many people.
It could be.
And, you know, it tends to be excused for whatever reason.
Everybody should have on their shelf.
And I know this is really bad, but you have kids.
Everyone should have on their shelf the big, the black book of communism.
It is the truth on communism.
It is the documented record of 100 million deaths.
And, you know, your kid starts talking about Marxism, throw the big, the black book of communism on the desk.
Say, I want you to read this.
Then you come back and tell me about communism.
It is the truth, and it's all scholarly.
And it is the scholar's book on the effects of communism and recognized, I mean, can be used for scholarly papers.
It's not a conservative point of view.
It is just the facts of communism, and it is terrifying.
Every home should have it.
Anyway, pass it on to your friends.
You know, somebody who, you know, is talking about Marxism and communism, share that cereal with it.
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Movie's opening up this weekend, Beauty and the Beast, which I will not be taking my family to.
I do not want them to engage in any kind of see on screen the sexual perversion of bestiality.
And I know they're two consenting adults, if you will, but sorry.
One's a beast.
One's a beast.
What is the beast to human year ratio?
I don't know.
So you've got the age-ism thing going on.
She's a young girl.
He's how old in dog years or whatever he is.
And I just don't like the idea of man and beast.
I don't.
I'm sorry.
No.
Everyone has their preference, I suppose.
Wow.
Yeah.
Jeffy, did you want to chime in on that?
You know, if the beast says it's okay.
Why the anti-beastism?
Well, the beast, let's be honest about it.
If the beasts talk, there'd be a much better argument for bestiality.
Right?
Like, if the beast were like, you know, look, I got to be honest with you, this sounds like a great idea.
If the beast could talk.
Right.
It would make a difference in this argument.
Right.
If Mr. Ed were real and he could go, hey, look, I'm just as much to blame.
Yeah, look, I started it.
We were both into it.
It would make a bit of a difference, I would say.
Right.
But I don't think there'd be any argument.
It's a good thing they can't talk because that prevents the whole thing from that stinking road.
Well, it's just too concerning a taunt.
You can't stop love.
Okay.
That's true.
There you go.
Well, no, wait a minute.
Hang on just a second.
If monkeys, right, had human intelligence, are you going to tell me you're going to be anti-monkey?
Well, it depends on what you mean by anti-monkey.
If you mean, am I going to get with a monkey?
No, I'm not.
If that's anti-monkey, yes.
You're married.
And you weren't.
You're married.
And you don't have, you have some strange anti-monkey thing.
So I dismiss you.
But are you saying somebody who is like born going, I love monkeys?
Well, I mean, and the monkey was the initiator and could talk and had human intelligence.
Well, the news and science documentary series, Saturday Night Live, investigated this program fairly recently when they were able to attach electrodes to a dog's head and then the dog could communicate to humans.
I love that.
And communicated some disturbing things about the owner, which looked a lot like Scarlett Johansson, which was kind of weird.
But the That's good.
They're hit and hit or miss.
They're having the biggest ratings they've had in over two decades.
Are they really?
Yeah.
The ratings are huge.
Well, that's Trump will do a test.
They're doing something with Jimmy Kimmel and not Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live for the first time this spring.
I think the last four episodes are going to be coast to coast.
And so they're going live coast to coast.
So it'll be 8 o'clock Pacific time that you can watch Saturday Night Live.
And that's weird.
No, and Jimmy Kimmel is doing it too.
So you'll be able to watch Jimmy Kimmel at 8 o'clock Pacific.
Sorry, Jimmy Fallon, 8 o'clock Pacific.
No, I didn't know that.
And they have a new daily, because they're trying to take advantage of this, obviously.
They have like a weekend update primetime show.
They're going to try to.
They're going to try, yeah.
Which I think they've tried before unsuccessfully.
Yeah.
I mean, look, I don't think Trump would even be disappointed by this, right?
I mean, he's the guy who loves the ratings.
No, but he hates this.
He hates this.
I think he likes that it brings, that when people talk about him, the numbers go up.
He'd be smart to embrace that.
If he made it appear like, you know, it doesn't bother me at all.
I think what Alec Baldwin is doing is funny.
I mean, it would drive them nuts.
It's different than the Alex Jones reaction to being mentioned on Saturday Night Live this past week, in which he challenged Alec Baldwin to a fight and said he was going to, what, break his back?
Oh, did he rip his shirt off before he said that?
Unfortunately, no.
I should have him on because we have to show you.
He is a great impressionist.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
He nailed impersonations, and we'll have to share that.
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Man, we are going back.
I mean, we're going way back.
These cuts are taking America back.
I mean, it is.
We are going to be like on horse and buggy stuff.
You can't cut like this.
You just can't cut like this.
The cuts that the president has proposed go back starting at the second term of Obama.
Were there cars then?
I don't even know.
That's where they start.
Oh, my God.
And they go all the way.
They bring us back all the way to the second term of Obama.
That's how DEW this and so much more right now.
I will make it stand.
I will raise my voice.
I will hold your hand.
Cause we are one.
I will be my drum.
I have made my choice.
We will overcome.
Cause we are one.
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You know, I have to tell you, this budget stuff is absolutely crazy.
He's only proposing taking the budget back to the second term of Obama.
And it is like the end of the world.
It's an apocalypse from that.
It's crazy.
It shows how far we've come since 1920.
Because much of it good, but some of it is not very terrible.
For government, it's not.
You know, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, they first came and they had the depression of 1920.
And it was deeper than what would come in 29.
Right.
And so they said, the way to fix it, cut the regulation, cut spending, and cut taxes.
The first year.
First year, they cut it 65%.
The budget.
The budget from $18.5 billion to $6.4 billion.
Then year two, under Coolidge, another 50%.
After Harding, another 50%.
Another 50%.
Wound up being about an 80% tax.
I think he did it a third time.
Like three years later, he cut it like 25%.
I think they'd stop keeping track because they're like, it's just there's no budget anymore.
Yeah.
I mean, and what happened?
The roaring 20s.
Roaring 20.
The most prosperous decade in world history.
And progressives will blame the 30s on the 20s.
No.
It wasn't.
You're going to have problems.
People are going to get out.
But what happened was the banking and Wall Street, they just started selling stocks that were worth nothing.
And Coolidge.
And they started selling land.
Coolidge warned them on that, but they wouldn't listen to him.
He's like, well, I'm the president.
Wall Street is not my deal.
That's not my business, but you're running into trouble here.
And he knew it.
And he tried to tell them, but they wouldn't listen to him.
And he wasn't going to take executive action on it because that's unconstitutional.
And he didn't do things that were.
They warned about, you know, the real big problem was Florida, these land deals in Florida, you know, where just like 2008, it was all land deals.
You could literally go on a train to Florida, to Tampa or to South Florida, especially.
You go to South Florida, you get off a train.
There in the train depot were brokers to buy land.
And you could get off the train, literally buy land in the train depot, turn around and sell it for almost double in the same train depot.
Really?
Oh, land was crazy, was absolutely crazy.
And then about 1928, I think, a giant hurricane came and wiped everything out.
And all of these, all these people and all these people said, well, I didn't know about hurricanes.
That's crazy.
Right.
And they just sold all the land.
And so the land value collapsed overnight.
In a couple of weeks, we're featuring Calvin Coolidge for a week.
And most people don't know about him.
You are absolutely going to fall in love with Calvin Coolidge as we do that week.
And you know what?
It's crazy.
He may be America's greatest president.
Yeah, I think he was at least the 20th century's greatest president.
There's no question he was a 20th century president.
He might be better than Washington.
He is no.
It's close.
It's close, man.
It's close.
So, Calvin, I will tell you this.
Calvin Coolidge, if you liked Ronald Reagan, you will understand why Reagan was who he was.
He was Reagan on steroids.
Yeah, Reagan was, Reagan grew up during Coolidge.
And so he saw and he learned.
He went right to the big deal or the New Deal.
But when he, in the 50s, when he started to wake up, he went back and looked at Coolidge and went, oh my gosh, that's the answer.
And it was while he was alive.
And almost everything Ronald Reagan did was modeled after Calvin Coolidge.
And Reagan said Coolidge was his guy.
His favorite guy, his favorite president.
Something else you'll like, Stu, is the same thing happened to him that happened to Bush, happened to H.W. Bush, happened to so many conservative presidents who try to appoint a conservative to the bench, went completely off the rails within a year.
It was one of his really good friends.
He was extremely conservative.
And within a year, he was siding with the progressives on the court.
Happens every time.
Within a year.
And it never happens the other way.
You never get a Ruth Bader Ginsburg who goes to the United States.
I think that's why you have to be able to, you have to be able to impeach them.
You have to be able to impeach them.
Because what happens is they get there and then they start thinking, you know what, I am the one who can make the difference in the whole world.
That's not your job.
Your job is not to make the difference in the world.
Your job is to interpret the Constitution.
Period.
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And they get there and then they think, I have such a burden and responsibility.
I don't need to bring about social justice.
No.
No, you don't.
No, you don't.
You need to bring about equal justice under the Constitution.
Yes.
By the way, the hearings for Neil Gorsuch are next week.
Yes.
Oh, so that's going to get ramped up in a big way.
And Monday, we will have Monday, I think we have somebody coming on that will tell us a little bit about what to expect because the hearings, we will cover the hearings.
Oh, the Shackleford is going to be.
Yeah, and he is coming in.
Yeah, I don't know if he's going to be in.
I know he's going to be on.
Okay, yeah, Kelly Shackleford is the guy.
And he'll tell us what to watch for and then recap every day for us next week.
And I'm pretty sure, too, Glennbeck.com is going to have something every day, like a different piece of analysis, looking at the big rulings that Gorsuch has looked at, his perspective on different issues.
If you want to go really in depth next week, Glennbeck.com is going to have tons of stuff there about Gorsuch.
Are you going to another opera in the meantime over the weekend?
Oh, that'll be nice.
You're going to hit the opera scene again.
You know, just because I do a father-daughter date and I do things that my daughter wants to do, you know, I don't know why you have to mock me for that.
Well, we've seen you online.
You're woke Glenn Beck, right?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what it is.
Yes.
And so you've now, this is you opening up to new cultures.
Yeah.
No, I've gone to operas since my daughter started getting into it.
Oh, yeah, the whole thing's bullcrap.
But you've been doing this the whole time.
Yeah, so, okay, so let me tell you now, this is the third installment.
This is the third time I've gone to the opera with.
Yeah, because the last time we heard about this, I think it was the nose in the world.
The nose in New York at the Lincoln Center, which was Kennedy Center?
And all they did was sing about a nose the whole time?
No, a nose with feet that came out of the nostrils.
Oh, that's right.
It was really great.
I am convinced.
I am convinced that that is somebody who was high with his friend and went, you want to screw with the people that all think, oh, I understand what this is all about.
We're going to write the dumbest, craziest, and we're just going to say this is what it's about.
And you watch.
They'll all jump on.
Because I watched that thing and I went, come on, people.
And the people were like, oh, isn't this brilliant?
It's a nose with nostrils coming out so it can stand up and walk around and it's singing about communism.
No, it's not wonderful.
And to be clear, it was feet coming out of the nostrils.
Yeah, that's how it walked.
Okay, so anyway, so that was the last one.
Before that, I saw the Wagner Ring cycle.
I don't know which one, but it's the famous one, I guess, with the tree and the sword.
That's all I remember from it.
It's like, where is my sword?
Where is my five hours of where is my sword?
It's right there.
See the tree?
It's the only other thing on stage that isn't the tree.
Oh, my God.
That was at the Met.
That was, yeah, that was a good idea.
He was apparently very, very nearsighted.
Oh, my gosh.
Where is my sword?
Shut up.
I almost ran up on stage.
Here, here it is.
So Madam Butterfly comes to town here in Dallas.
And my guess is.
Is this a traveling Broadway thing?
I don't know.
Don't know.
I don't know.
Let me preface it with You're not going to want to go after I describe what I've seen, but if opera was like this, I would go more often.
It was really amazing.
It was really amazing.
The people that were singing were just, this woman, I guess, is the person that you want to see as Madam Butterfly.
I didn't even know what the story was about.
You know, I read it in Wikipedia on the way.
And it was really amazing.
But may I just say this?
If your story is about a 15-year-old, beautiful, delicate flower, a girl who is virginal, young, soft, beautiful, delicate, little, frail youth, glowing.
And so she comes out in the first act.
The first guy comes out.
He's supposed to be an American, and he's a big, hairy Italian opera singer, singing in Italian.
And he's the American, and he comes out and he talks about, oh, my beautiful flower, she's coming, she's coming.
I can't wait to see her.
I'm going to marry her.
She's not going to know it's a fake.
No, don't marry her like that.
She's a beautiful flower.
So delicate, don't crush her petals.
No, no, no.
I'm going to marry her because I love her.
Even though I want to lead back to a parry call.
That sounds awesome so far.
So I'm waiting for this beautiful, delicate little flower, and it's a 40-year-old opera singer.
And she comes on stage.
She's like, I'm the little flower.
And I'm like, no, honey, you're not.
No.
No, you're not.
She's somewhat rotund as well.
She, I would just subscribe to her.
Orbulent opera singer.
Okay.
Stick some horns on her and you got yourself the standard opera singer.
Okay.
She is so.
Oh, man.
She's bigger than the American guy.
Okay.
And she's like, oh, I'm so young and small and fragile.
No, you're, no, honey.
No, you're not.
So then she's singing to the guy who's going to marry her for just, and then her uncle comes and they've got all of these Japanese family, these relatives who are strangely all white people.
And they all come on and they're all singing, we're the family at the wedding.
We just love the wedding.
And then the uncle comes and the music changes and it's dark.
Are they really explaining this, by the way?
Like we're the family.
It's almost, yes.
It's almost that.
Yes.
Okay, exactly.
So you don't have a problem.
It's not deep.
What I found is the lyrics are not deep.
They're just saying the thing that's happening.
Sometimes.
A lot of times.
Okay.
Most of the time.
It's not real subtle, you know?
And now it may be the translation because you're watching the translation up above the stage.
You're not even watching the show.
Well, yeah, you're kind of watching it.
You're looking up and you're like, okay, that's okay.
That's what she's saying.
Wait, you didn't translate it.
They translate the translation.
Wait, what did she just say?
She didn't translate that.
Do they normally do that?
Do they normally have to be missed?
Opera is really weird.
Like, they don't, like, there's no microphone.
Yeah, I thought you just had to know it or not.
Yeah, no, some don't.
And they get really snotty and they're like, you don't know it?
But we in Dallas, we want to know what our opera says.
New York was like that, too.
We want to know the words.
Yeah, New York was like that, too.
By the way, I went to the symphony with my other daughter and her father-daughter date on Saturday.
I almost broke my neck getting up so fast.
I couldn't believe it.
I'm Comfram ready to, you know, it's the pops and the orchestra.
And the guy comes out and he shakes the hands of everybody.
He's like, okay.
And then he stands up and he's getting ready to conduct.
And he just walks up.
And all of a sudden, as he walks up to the platform, everybody jumps to their feet and he points and there's a snare drum roll.
And I'm like, what the hell?
And all of a sudden they start playing the national anthem.
I couldn't get up fast enough.
I'm like, oh my God.
Everybody was standing up.
I thought, wow, welcome to Texas.
Never have I, they don't do that in New York.
No.
The national anthem?
What?
Wow.
Anyway, so then the uncle comes on and the uncle is mad because she gave up her religion to marry him and become a Christian.
And so he's mad.
And all I can think of is he's also an enormous black man.
The uncle.
The uncle of the beautiful flower who is not Japanese.
She's Chinese.
She's not 15.
She's 40.
She's not delicate.
She's sturdy.
Sturdy.
You're thinking casting, maybe.
I'm thinking casting is not a problem in opera.
I think you're supposed to.
Just voice quality.
Is that what they're going for?
Yes.
I don't know.
I don't know, it's the only place where you, I mean, what, it's all that.
That's all it is.
It's about the music.
I really want to know the history of opera.
Did it just start out?
Because the acting is horrendous in almost every opera I've ever seen.
It's just horrendous.
Because it's not about that, right?
It's about just getting out of it.
I think it's the singing.
It could have been a musical, right?
A Broadway, though.
I mean, it would be a Broadway play.
Could it be?
And I apologize to everybody who's a musicologist and knows anything about the opera.
I apologize.
I'm talking about the three people out there like, oh my gosh, let's know this.
Did it start?
Because this is the way I thought it may have started.
The guy wrote the music and it was like, hey, this is great.
Let's get together Saturday and we'll all sing this and hey, invite some friends and blah, blah, blah.
And then they did that for a couple of weeks.
And then somebody said, you know, it'd be kind of cool is if we dressed up like the, like the people.
And they're like, oh, you got to make costumes.
Okay, we'll dress up kind of like, you know, kind of like a Star Trek convention where people are dressing up.
They're like, I'll dress up as the character.
And then eventually they're like, you know what?
I should pick up a knife or a fake knife and pretend it's that.
Okay.
And then it just started to, well, somebody said, you know, I could build a set and we could kind of, cause you're pretending, why don't I pretend?
But nobody ever thought, let's actually do a real performance.
It's really about the singing.
The rest of it is just because we had extra time on our hands.
I'm not sure.
Surely that's in a history book somewhere about opera.
Either that or they just have the bet the worst directors, actors, and everything else.
Not good casting people.
No, not good casting people.
But really good.
Yeah, because your initial thing was awesome.
No, it was incredible.
It really was.
It doesn't sound it.
I know.
I know.
I would take you to it, Pat, and I bet you would like it.
No way.
I bet you would like it.
You liked La La Land.
You did.
I bet you would like this, Pat.
That's only because I'm so varied in my tastes.
I'm so deep.
This is the Boston.
This is a foreigner.
This is the Dallas Opera Company, I guess.
I don't know anything about it.
But this is the Dallas people.
I don't think this is traveling.
Maybe she is traveling.
I don't know.
But this is absolutely tremendous.
It's really, really good.
I'm sure they'll thank you for that review.
No, they're never going to listen to it.
None of the guys are going to listen to this review.
So I just safe to say.
And it's really hard.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
It actually, I know they're not listening, so I'm not saying this because they care.
It was really good.
I went home, I woke up Tanya, and she said, how was it?
And I always complain about going to the opera.
And I said, this one, honey, we got to go.
I want to go again.
Now, they may not let me in.
I may have to wear a disguise, but I want to go see this one again.
It was really, really good.
Really good.
And I'm clearly not the biggest of opera fans.
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Wow.
We're just talking about the opera is a wild place to go.
I mean, on a Wednesday night in Dallas, Texas, a few people in tuxedos.
Every guy was in tie and jacket.
I mean, it was really formal.
That's unusual because in Dallas.
You don't do that for anything anymore.
No.
Even Broadway, nobody dresses up.
No, no, no.
Especially in Dallas.
In Dallas, it's there's cowboy black tie, which means you wear a black tie, a shirt, a tux, you know, top and jeans.
I mean, we don't even do black tie here.
And it was black.
I mean, it was amazing.
And the theater here, it's like the Windmere Theater or something.
How many theaters have we been?
We've been in some of the most beautiful theaters in the country.
This is by far the most beautiful theater I've ever seen and paid for by private money.
Wow.
It is beautiful, beautiful, unbelievable theater.
Must have cost those rich people a fortune.
If only Foreigner would play there, I'd get to see it someday.
They'll take anybody.
I asked him, I said, you rent this, rent this place out.
And she's like, yeah.
No, only in Texas.
Yeah, we've done even birthday parties here.
I'm like, who the hell has their birthday party here?
I want to know that.
Wow.
Wow.
Ross Perrot.
Wow.
Yeah, probably that would be somebody like Ross Perot.
back in just a second.
So looking at the budget, the president's budget, he's got he's cutting the National Endowment for the Arts.
And why not?
Progressives and liberals are all up in arms over that, yelling and screaming.
We have to have the arts.
Well, then fund them.
Then fund them.
Fund them.
No, look, here's the thing.
We were just talking about going to the opera.
I am a weird, you know, conservative in this audience.
I'm sure.
I'm sure there's just a handful of us that like to go to the opera, and that's even in all liberal audiences as well.
Right.
They'll just pretend they like to go to it.
We're just courageous enough to go, what?
No.
So I like going to use the arts.
I love going to museums and everything else.
I use the arts.
I want them paid for by the people who are using them and who like them.
People like art.
It's the same thing.
People like art.
People like art.
They'll pay for it.
It's the same thing with sports.
I don't want locally funded through tax dollars, these massive stadiums and arenas.
Correct.
Those should be privately paid for.
Correct.
And they will.
Look at, here's what, and this may not be correct in its entirety, but I'm sure it's pretty correct in its spirit.
And if it's not this opera house, it's one of the other big art projects.
But I know that when Rick Perry was governor early on, remember the Boeing thing?
They didn't go to Texas.
And one of the reasons why they didn't come to Texas and they picked one of the Carolinas.
They picked it over Texas because the wives said, oh, I don't want to go to Texas.
There's no art there.
There's no real art society there.
And we had art and everything else, but we weren't known for our art center.
And so Rick Perry went to all of the, you know, town fathers, all of the really very wealthy people and said, look, the state's not going to use state money.
But if you want to grow this state, we need to have arts.
And we need them in Houston and we need them in Dallas.
And right now, just in Houston, I'm trying to remember there are more, there are more theatrical presentations in Houston than anywhere in America outside of Broadway.
It also has the largest theater district outside of New York and maybe Los Angeles, but I know that they're either second or third in the country.
So it's crazy.
Now, this opera house that I went to, Google, if you're by your computer, Google, what is it?
Windspear?
Yeah.
Yeah.
W-I-N-S-P-E-A-R. R. Windspear Opera House.
I went into this and I love this.
By the doors, it said, you know, the Judy and Philip Mensch glass foyer on the glass.
And then it was the, you know, Bill and Trudy Geraldson wall.
And everything was named in it.
You walk down, you sit down, and even the stage was named, the so-and-so family stage.
This unbelievable chandelier that's made out of, it's almost like a Superman's cave.
These big long ice crystals.
It's what it looks like.
And they're just hanging over the audience and it's beautiful.
And you're like, boy, I'm glad I don't have a seat upstairs because that thing's right in the way.
Or maybe you would want a seat upstairs because that thing is in the way.
So they say, you know, this, I don't know who does the voiceover work there, but she's got this beautiful voice.
And she's like, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Wind Sphere Opera House.
Tonight's performance is about to begin as we remove the Pat and Jackie Gray chandelier.
And named after somebody.
I just assumed it was you, Pat.
Yes.
By the way, this also proves that you should never donate money to get yourself named something after you because no one knows what your name is after.
Yeah, that's right.
They leave the opera house and they name it after their friend.
Right.
And so then all of a sudden the chandelier starts to go up and it goes up all the way.
These tubes go all the way up and they go into the ceiling and then the ceiling, those lights start to sparkle and it looks like a nighttime sky with stars.
Really cool.
Really cool.
Yeah, it's on YouTube.
It's pretty cool.
Right.
It's really amazing.
Anyway, the point of this is every dollar came from private people.
Every dollar, it was not a state or a bond project.
I don't want the Dallas Rangers to, I don't want to pay a dime for the sports project.
I don't want to pay a Dallas dime for the Dallas Cowboys or Dallas Rangers.
Shut up.
I believe they've turned down money.
They've turned down money.
I don't want to pay for my taxes to go to the sports stadiums.
Yep.
I am, you know, as you know, a huge sports fan, as is Pat.
And shockingly, the sports stuff is a little bit more relatable than the opera, probably to the audience at large.
But you know what?
That's what they'll say.
They'll say, oh, well, look, Gino, football, they could just make all that money because the, you know, because of the NBA or whatever that is that they, you know, lots of money in Cheetos.
We can't do that.
Well, yes, you can.
Well, first of all, if you can't do it.
It choose the popularity.
Yeah, it's the popularity of one versus the other.
More people watch NFL football than go to the opera.
So it just stands to reason.
But you're going to have some rich elites who love the arts, who love giant chandeliers that are sucked up into the ceiling before the performance.
And you know what?
I'm okay for it.
I don't begrudge them of that.
I pray Bill and Judy or whoever their name was.
It's great.
The Wind Spear family named after them, I would be so glad to have my family.
What's wrong with the private funding there?
There's nothing wrong with it.
And it's the way to go.
However, it is.
The left is freaking out over the budget because the National Endowment of the Arts.
The big tweets about this.
One guy was like, did you know that they would have cut the National Endowment of the Arts?
Milania's security costs three times more.
You know, it's a central part of our function as a government to protect the First Lady of the United States.
It's not a central part to let you paint.
Okay?
That's not a central part of our plan as a federal government is to make sure you can sing at high octaves.
Protecting the life of the First Lady of the United States is in that realm of reality.
And it's all of this.
The other one was, they want to cut the funding for things like NPR.
I bet they didn't know that NPR has its highest ratings in history.
What a great time to cut the funding then.
Right.
What a wonderful thing.
They've proven they don't need the funding.
Cut it.
If they're cut into military.
If they're so popular, the fans will fund it.
This is what makes me so mad about the NPR thing.
NPR is more popular than most stations.
They have the best signals in every market.
So it's not a fair.
The government dishes those out to us.
Right.
So it's not a fair playing field by far for any NPR station.
They're getting government funding and they can make money.
There is nothing wrong with them now selling and making money.
They're on YouTube.
Not YouTube.
They're on iTunes.
Go get their podcasts.
Why aren't they selling their podcasts?
And if they are, why are we still paying for the thing to create the podcast?
And you know how they staff these shows?
For example, Radiolab is one we've talked about, which is very highly produced and very well done as far as technically speaking.
They have for a bi-weekly show, one bi-weekly show, 15 people working on it.
Look at that.
For one show every two weeks.
Wow.
15 people for one show every two weeks.
Well, could we do that?
We would never be able to do that as a commercial entity.
It makes absolutely no sense.
How many people do we have on the daily, on the daily thing that is a serial?
Yeah.
I mean, and everybody is doing it as a secondary job.
There is no one that has solely done that.
And still, it is the most expensive thing on commercial radio.
And we're doing maybe five people on that.
Eight times as many shows.
Yeah.
So again.
And quite honestly, they're not as good.
Well, but you have 15 people working on one every two weeks.
You can do those things.
I know that.
We don't have 15 people, but it's still good.
And I'm sorry, but there is no reason why we can't, why we have to fund the arts, why we have to fund the NPR and PBS.
I use PBS.
I like PBS.
I pay for PBS every time I watch one of their shows.
I pay for it.
It's called Netflix.
It's called Amazon.
Cable.
They pay for it.
Subscriptions.
Yeah, cable subscriptions.
I'm giving them money.
Yeah.
And you know what?
If they can make a show with, and it's actually, I think it's 15 plus five actual other extra producers.
So it's 20 total, I think, or at least this article I just read.
I mean, that's why it's so good.
Well, of course, right?
I mean, but if you can make that commercially viable, fine.
You don't get to take my money and put it into that show, which is great, but I don't listen to.
That's a ridiculous premise for the federal government to be involved in.
And it's a ridiculous premise to fund arts, which are things people like.
There are more people who are paying to participate in arts.
They go to classes to do it.
They go to music schools to learn it.
They go to all these people who fund these things with their own money all the time.
To act as if this thing that is so popular that people actually enjoy that we have to dump money from the federal government in these things is nonsensical, especially when you're $20 trillion in debt.
If we had a $20 trillion surplus, maybe you could make an argument for it.
Stu, you're so stupid.
You're never going to get people to pay money to go see something controversial or edgy.
Or for instance, can you imagine in Dallas, in Dallas, trying to get people to watch something sung in Italian that makes an American sailor look like the bad guy who's basically raping a 15-year-old girl.
Can you imagine Texans paying $500 a seat to see that?
Well, wait, it was sold out.
Yeah.
And you know what else?
If they don't, let it die the death it deserves.
You know what?
If you have a small group of elitists who want to fund opera and they're the only people on earth to do it, fine.
If no one will go, fine.
And if you have a small group of people that want to fund the National Football League, fine.
And you know what?
If the National Football League has no one watching it, let it die the death it deserves.
You know why?
Because somebody else will come up with something better.
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Yeah.
Well, go watch something else.
And this is an entertainment product.
And yes, it's part of the culture, but it is not something that is needed for the United States government to be funding.
It's really important.
I'll tell you, go look at the arts section.
You go downtown Dallas.
Have you ever walked by this theater?
The art section downtown, this whole strip of arts that are right there by the freeway, it's absolutely stunningly beautiful and all paid for by private dollars.
People will do it.
What I don't understand.
And go look it up in your New York library, given to you by John Astor.
That's the library.
That's who gave it to you.
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You know, we're just talking about people are going to kick and scratch and scream on these budget cuts because they're going to displace a lot of people.
And, you know, when it comes to rough.
It's relatively minor, but yes.
When it comes to the, let's say, the cutting of, let's look at cutting of Planned Parenthood, cutting of NPR.
If I'm at NPR and I know it takes 15 people to do this show, you know, which could not be done in commercial radio, and I know those 15 people are gone, the number one thing I'm going to be doing shows about is how important NPR and PBS and right?
I'm screaming from the top of my lungs.
I've got all the PR, everything I can do to make sure you know how important this is.
All those people are freaking out.
If you go to Planned Parenthood and Planned Parenthood, 95% of their money is made through abortions.
They're going to fight tooth and nail to protect it.
Right.
And they're going to tell you, because they know that's the culture of death, they emphasize all the life-giving or the health-giving things that they do, which are scants.
Usually they just direct people where to go.
The services are not had there as a rule, but they'll tell you how important.
Oh, we've got prenatal care.
No, they don't.
We've got mammograms.
No, they don't.
But they'll tell you where you can get one.
Yes.
Nobody else can do that.
The internet is pretty good.
It's called Google.
It's called Google.
And that's been solved.
And it's just as free.
In fact, it's more free because you don't have to drive to get there.
And it's interesting because if they did do mammograms and they did do prenatal care, there would be probably zero people on earth actually opposing their funding.
I'm not opposing any funding of any women's clinic that's doing mammograms.
I don't know.
I mean, there's arguments to be had from a libertarian perspective what should be funded by the government.
And we've had those before.
Yes.
But I mean, it certainly would not be controversial as Planned Parenthood is.
It's about the life issue, clearly.
Right.
And there's no reason, again, they keep bragging like, well, Planned Parenthood donations are as high as they've ever been.
Good.
Do it yourself.
Stop making me pay for your crap.
And just remember, eight years ago, we had politicians promising that no dollar would ever go to fund abortions.
Now it's like they've always had abortion money and all of a sudden we're trying to change the world on them.