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Well, seemingly, the big topic over the weekend was Tommy Larin's appearance on The View on Friday, where she announced that she is pro-choice, which is a massive change for her.
She said that she couldn't consider herself a conservative who believes in the Constitution and be pro-life without being a hypocrite.
She couldn't see the truth of the Constitution.
Well, I'm going to do my best to shed some light on that, beginning right now.
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There are two things to discuss on this Tommy Laren dust up with The View.
And one of them is her employment at The Blaze.
The other is the constitutionality or the constitutional argument for conservatives on pro-life.
And let's start there.
First of all, we have a whole bunch of different kinds of people that work here.
We started The Blaze with a show called The Real News.
Real News was absolutely fantastic.
And it was hosted by Amy Holmes, who was openly pro-choice.
So if you're pro-choice, you can have a job at The Blaze.
I don't hire people who are sycophants or who have my opinion.
I try to hire people who have a different opinion because I believe in being intellectually rigorous.
I don't want straw men.
I want people to make a real argument on the other side so we can learn from each other and we can grow.
So let's learn from each other and grow, shall we?
What is the constitutional argument for conservatives on life?
A lot of people will think that this is a new argument, that their founders never really, they never discussed this, you know.
Abortion is a new idea.
And if it's not abortion, women's rights is a new idea.
Well, I want you to put women's rights into context here.
Women's rights are important.
However, they're not the only thing to consider when another person's life is at stake.
We have to consider the other person's life when it is at stake.
The founders were really, really clear.
The preamble of the Constitution clearly states, to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
Well, who are our posterity if not our unborn children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, our descendants and future generations?
That's who the Constitution is securing the blessings of liberty for, not just us.
The founders wrote endlessly about things that they wanted to change about British common law.
Comparatively, they didn't talk about abortion often, but they did talk about it.
And that's because abortion was already illegal under British common law.
The context of the comments made in the era shows this really clearly.
James Wilson, one of the only six people who signed both the Declaration and the Constitution, he was also an original judge on the Supreme Court.
He said, and I quote, human life from its commencement to its close is protected by common law.
Life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb.
In other words, as soon as people knew they were pregnant, you couldn't do anything.
As soon as you knew, when it stirred in the womb.
Now that's something you know.
That's when they knew back then.
Yeah, that's when they knew.
We know almost instantly now.
Signer of the Declaration of Independence John Witherspoon said, quote, some nations have given parents the power of life and death over their children, but here in America, we have denied the power of life and death to parents, end quote.
State law of Virginia at the time, of Jefferson and Madison, laid it out pretty well, quote, but if a woman be with child and any gives her a potion to destroy the child within her, this is murder, for it was not given to her to cure a disease, but unlawfully to destroy the child within her, end quote.
So I would disagree that you're a hypocrite if you want limited government and yet you want the government to protect life of the unborn.
It's very, very clear.
But it takes intellectual honesty and it it takes a willingness to actually think these things through and to do more than just read twitter or facebook to get your news and your political opinions.
You actually have to study things, these things out in your mind, especially at a time period like today.
Bomb throwing is is Bomb throwing in today's world is dangerous.
Freedom of speech, it's not free.
Speech isn't free.
It comes with a very high price tag, first, being intellectually honest and intellectually curious.
Speech is not free.
It comes with another cost and usually to the other people at the other end of your argument.
The pen is mightier than the sword and it can destroy people if your aim is clicks, views and ratings.
For Tommy, this seems to be a relatively recent change.
There was a clip uh done by the Reagen to this.
The pro-choicers are supposed to be about rare and safe abortions.
That's how they avoid sounding like straight-up baby killers by acknowledging abortion is not a positive thing and a difficult choice.
Then we have Lena freaking Dunham out there wishing she could have murdered a fetus.
Wishing for the option to kill your child doesn't exactly say much about the cause, her character or the pro-choice movement.
No, i'm pro-choice and here's why I am a constitutional.
You know someone that loves the constitution.
I am someone that's for limited government, and so I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say i'm for limited government, but I think that the government should decide what women do with our bodies.
I can sit here and say that as a Republican, and I can say, you know what i'm for limited government, so stay out of my my guns and you can stay out of my body as well.
She did a uh bit last year, written by Stew.
Is this for the wonderful world of STU?
Uh yes okay, it was called Mommy's Choice.
This was mocking, a progressive video that came out where the women were saying, I choose, I choose, I choose to do with my body what I will, and so this was.
You asked Tommy to make the opposite point and and make it pretty harshly.
Here it is.
You have it.
Yeah um, It's not just Tommy, it's several women, but Tommy's among them.
I, I, I, I am, I am, I am a woman.
And I have a choice.
A choice.
A choice to work.
A choice to achieve.
A choice to succeed.
A choice to fly.
To fly.
To fly.
A choice to be anything.
A choice to be anything that I want to be.
I, I, I, I am, I, I am a woman.
And I have a choice.
I have a choice to be a mother.
I have a choice when it's the morning after.
I have a choice at one month.
I have a choice at three months.
I have a choice in the second trimester.
I have a choice three seconds before birth.
Or three seconds after birth.
I have a choice the first year when they can't sleep through the night, when they can't sleep through the night.
I definitely have a choice during the terrible two.
During the terrible twos.
I have a choice when I get sick of little league and soccer practice.
Hate soccer.
I have a choice.
I have a choice when they hit those awkward teen years.
I have a choice when they go off to college.
I have a choice on their wedding day.
Their wedding day.
I have two choices when I become a grandmother.
I'm a mother.
I am a mother.
I am a mother.
And every mother has a right to choose their child's expiration date.
No mother.
No mother should have to unwillingly suffer.
Suffer.
Suffer through a day where their child is alive.
Not one single day.
If I want them gone, they're gone.
They're gone.
It's all about women.
It's all about choice.
Choice.
Choice.
It's all about me.
It's all about me.
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. Join the movement. Join the movement. Join the movement.
Hashtag, hashtag, mommy's choice.
And that's especially funny when you know the style of the liberal spot.
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The problem here is with all of society, too much is about me, The blaze cannot be about me, Media should not be about me, It's no secret that Tommy and I don't agree on quite a lot.
But that is about personalities.
The ideas are what are important.
And if you cannot defend the idea, no matter which side you're on, if you can't defend the idea, that leads to the second part of the discussion, which is the people calling for Tommy to be fired.
That's not for you to call.
That's not appropriate to be discussed on the radio.
That's in the privacy of the office of the Blaze.
The thing I wanted to do today is defend life because instead of being about people or events, I'd rather be about the big ideas.
Dana Lash is going to join us next.
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Dana Lash joins us now.
Hello, Dana.
Hey, Glenn.
Do women have the right to abort their children in the terrible twos?
I'm just throwing that out there.
I mean, do other women have the rights to abort women that whine too much?
I mean, that's the conversation we're sure that we could ask.
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It goes all ages.
How are you doing, Dana?
I'm doing well.
I'm actually, I'm going to be doing some tactical training, so I'm going to go blow some stuff up later.
So I feel like you're going to be able to do that.
You are, man.
You are.
You are more macho than we are, that's for sure.
I mean, that's not saying very much, you know.
No.
But see last week's monologue about the opera if you'd like to investigate that one.
So she's blowing stuff up.
And you're going to the opera.
Who knows anyway?
Anyway, Dana, let's talk about the underpinnings of the Constitution for life.
Are you, would you be a hypocrite?
And I know Tommy, you know, didn't call people hypocrites.
She said she would be a hypocrite if she.
Do you believe that?
Well, I don't want to get into what other people say and where other people stand because people are going to do them.
I'm going to keep doing me.
And the position that I've always held as a limited government conservative is that it's completely not hypocritical because you cannot, you simply cannot enjoy the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness without first having the right to life because everything else hinges on your right to exist.
And that's how it always is then.
You don't have the right to have the pursuit of anything if you can't live first.
And it's not, I think it's a cop-out.
When people say that it's a purity test, you know what?
Yes, life should be a purity test.
And I think it's a cowardly position for people who lack the courage of their own convictions and they won't publicly hold that position.
That's what I think it is.
We are, I mean, you know, I was talking off air this morning.
You have to start with, is it life?
And the founders knew the moment it stirs, so the moment you know it's, you're pregnant, the moment it stirs, called the, I believe that they used to call that the quickening, then it was a child.
We're trying to go scientifically in this scientific age, we're trying to deny it's a child by denying people the right to an ultrasound.
It's really crazy to think how anti-science we have become.
But you have to decide whether that's a child or not.
Once you decide, yes, it is a child, there is no right that anyone would have to take another's life.
No, I agree with that.
It's science.
We should be the people, the party, the tent of science.
And we all know how birds are diseased.
I don't want to give anybody a talk, but we all know how conception takes place.
It's a life.
I mean, it's a life once conception is life.
That's the bottom line.
Choice occurs before conception.
If we want to talk about choice, the choice that occurs before conception.
Afterwards, it's not choice.
It's pro-infanticide.
It should be always, that should be our mantra, choice before conception.
Afterwards, it's pro-infanticide.
And choice is just a fancy word that people use to hide the fact that it is murder.
You know, that's what I've always felt too, Dana.
But from that standpoint, in order to be consistent, you'd almost have to say that you're conceding when a woman is raped then, that abortion would be legal in the case of rape and incest.
Aren't you?
Because her choice was taken away in that case.
Well, but even then, to use that as a universal measurement, I mean, according to Planned Parenthood's own statistics, and that's from the Gutmacher Institute, it's fewer than 1% of all cases.
And if people want to have a discussion about the fewer than 1% of all cases to stop the 99% that's being used, elective abortion, that's being used as birth control, I think it's a great argument to have.
But to use it when it's fewer than 1% as the universal rule in arguing for legalized infanticide.
I think it's a disingenuous argument.
How do you feel, Dana, about what's happening to the conservative movement becoming this populist, really in some ways, non-intellectual kind of movement?
I think there's industry conservatism and then there's the actual movement of conservatism.
I think that the industry attracts people who think that they, and rightfully, you know, they're capitalists.
I've got to give them credit.
I'm always going to trust a capitalist because you know what motivates them.
But I think that it looks like an opportunity for people to seize upon in an era of new media.
It's great to put out content and it's great to get views for it.
But at the same time, it's still a real movement.
I like populism in tiny amounts.
I don't like a whole lot of populism because I think then it tends to obscure the truth and people look for personalities instead of principle.
And you always have to fall back on principle because everything else is going to be a flash in the plan, but principle is always going to stay.
And that's something that we should be focusing on as a movement.
But I look at it and I think that the right, it's a big tent.
And these are the conversations that we're going to have when you have a big tent.
Here's the big problem that I have, Glenn.
And I know that I've spoken with you about this before.
People use the words like Republican and independent and conservative.
They use these terms interchangeably because they think incorrectly that they all mean the same thing when they do not.
And you're going to have pro-choice Republicans and atheist Republicans, and you're going to have pro-choice and atheist independents.
But one of the things that I cannot see and that I do not define conservatism as is as a pro-choice conservative because the basis of conservatism is conserving the liberty of the individual, conserving the individual.
And it all goes back to the right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
So you cannot, and if people, I'm not being a bouncer of conservatism.
I'm pointing to logic.
And if people want to accuse me of having a purity test, hell yes, by all means.
I will always use life as a purity test.
And if anyone else doesn't, I pity those people.
But yes, conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism.
It is classical tocqueville liberalism.
And if anybody who knows anything about politics 101, if they know this, this should not be a surprise to them.
This is why political theory in class is important.
This is why history is important.
This is why learning what these terms mean is important.
They are not clickbait soundbites.
They mean something.
And so, yes, it is difficult.
I got a run, Dana.
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Did we see Jimmy Kimmel and Tim Allen on Friday, I think it was?
I saw the interview in a clip, and it was he is funny, just straight out funny.
Did you see it?
Did you see it?
I didn't watch it.
I watched the whole thing.
It was really funny because he's one of the ones that he gets away with it.
He does.
He gets away with it.
But he's still very careful.
He's still very, very careful.
Because he explains that he has to be.
Here, play the short clip.
Here's the short clip.
Listen to this.
I went to the presidential inauguration.
I was invited by, we did a VIP thing for the vets and went to the Veterans Ball.
And so I went to go see Democrats and Republicans.
Yeah, I went to the inauguration.
I'm not attacking you.
You're getting this town.
I'm not kidding.
You got to be real careful around here.
You know, you get beat up.
If you don't believe what everybody believes, this is like 30s Germany.
I don't know what.
I don't know what happens.
If you're not part of the group, you know what we believe is right.
I go, well, I might have a problem with that.
I'm a comedian.
I like going on both sides.
That's amazing.
First of all, I mean, he went there.
Yeah, he did.
And listen to the way he answered that question right off the bottom.
I've been there for both.
Democrats and Republicans.
Research.
I was doing research.
I didn't study Garoya.
I just, I was amazed.
Okay, yes, I went.
That's amazing.
And that show is Last Man Standing, which is his show.
It's so good.
It's amazing because we had a lot of people in the audience call us up and email us and tweet us and say, hey, you guys got to watch this show.
You're not going to believe it.
It's actually conservative.
It's funny.
And I remember, you hear a lot of people were, you know, people will say the same thing about the most boring movie that came from some church that is awful.
So I didn't necessarily take it immediately seriously.
And one day I happened to flip on the show and it's Tim Allen, so you know it's going to be at least funny.
And it was as if I was like on vacation in another country and didn't understand the traditions.
Right.
Like it's, it's, it's actually funny and conservative in America on network television.
Amazing.
It's incredible.
I can't believe it.
I mean, seriously.
You know what's amazing is it does it.
You don't hear everybody talking about it.
We cry and scream and say there's nothing conservative.
We can't watch.
Here's the show.
Now, it's been number one for how long?
It was number one for a long, long time.
Was it not?
I don't know what the ratings are.
I don't know what it is.
It was someone had a great rating.
This is the sixth or seventh year.
So, I mean, it's had a great run.
It's had a great run.
And you don't really hear people, everybody buzzing about it.
And it's shocking to watch.
It is.
The episode that I watched was about 10, it seemed like 10 minutes of jokes about Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency.
And I'm like, what?
EPA jokes?
What is this show?
It honestly feels like something.
You watch it and you cannot believe it's on Network.
It could be one of those shows like the way Tim answers on Kimmel is like, do you watch Last Man Standing?
No.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Can you play the rest of his rant on Jimmy Kimmel?
Yeah, if you think you're the one who's going to be able to do it, which is my side, which is Democrats who pop that plane twice.
Our progression is a lot of people.
I'm not sure.
We'll have to work that out.
Did you hear the story?
It's worth seeing.
You find it at theblaze.com.
He made the point about Nazi Germany there in the 30s Germany.
And it's funny because that's a point when you make that.
You usually get in trouble.
I would not be surprised to see him get his wrists slapped for making some comparison like that because these things happen.
I don't know.
Maybe Tim Alley gets away with it.
I don't know.
Maybe he gets away with it.
I thought this was interesting, though, because this has happened to this program maybe a couple hundred thousand times or so, which, you know, you make a comment about Nazi Germany or make that comparison or say, here's the worst example of going down this road or worst case scenario, whatever you want to do.
But I'm the only one.
I do want you to know.
I'm still the only one that'll make it for both sides.
Yeah, right.
Exactly.
I'm still fair use of Nazi analogies.
I use them for both sides.
You do.
You are.
Republican Democrats do both.
Yeah, exactly.
And it's interesting because we always, we've gotten in trouble so many times.
And I thought this was an interesting story from the Seattle Times that talks about the border wall.
Now, the border wall is going into effect right now.
You know, they're talking about, they're taking solicitations for people who want to be involved building it.
So, you know, if you're a contractor, they're getting bids, right?
Yeah, they're getting bids and people, I would like to be involved in this.
One of the companies they got, it's a Canadian company called Trump Wall Solutions.
The head of this company, Albert Speer, is an interesting character you might recognize from 1930s Germany.
It was Hitler's architect.
So the whole story is about, and I would say a very positive look at the comedians who decided to do this and say, wow, what a great idea.
They really got Trump.
Like it's that feel where it's like, wow, these guys are satire.
Right.
And the symbol for their company looks very much like, you know, like a Nazi company.
It's the dollar sign together or something.
Have you seen the one that looks like a dollar sign?
No.
Yeah, maybe that's it.
I can't remember.
I saw it.
It has like the German writing, like that German font.
I mean, it looks like Nazi font, right?
Nazi font.
Nazi font, which I love.
And it's like, it's interesting in that, like, they go through this entire article, and it's almost all positive, essentially comparing Donald Trump to Hitler.
That's what they're doing, right?
Now, are they saying he's going to execute millions of Jews?
No.
What they're saying is they think their vision of this is that it's overtly down this fascist road.
However, not as far down the fascist road as Adolf Hitler, obviously.
And they ended it with this, which I thought was, this is going to be my answer to every one of these things.
Every time this pops up, I'm going to give this answer.
Asked whether it's offensive to compare Trump's, because they waited to the last paragraph to put this in.
Is it offensive to compare Trump's wall with the genocidal acts of Hitler?
Now, that would be the only part of this story that even existed if it was someone from our side.
But here it is, the last paragraph, and they answer it this way.
Satire by nature is an extreme statement.
The offense should be moderated by the fact that we are pointing to a slippery slope.
Excessive uses of power lead to tyrannical regimes.
Okay, how come that doesn't work for us?
It should.
It sure should.
Because it's true.
They're not saying he's going to execute 6 million Jews.
Let's be fair about it.
They're not saying that.
Just like we're not saying they're going to kill 6 million Jews when we compare Barack Obama's overreaching government to another tyrannical government that overreached.
Well, except for Bill Ayers, who the Weather Underground said they would kill 25 million.
That's a totally different point.
My point here is that satire should be.
You're right.
I didn't say 6 million.
I said 25 because that's what Bill Ayers said.
Exactly.
But just like that should cover Tim Allen.
And if he does get heat on it, he should just quote that because he says it.
And Kimmel laughs because everyone knows he's not comparing Hollywood to Adolf Hitler.
They all know it, yet they look for the outrage anyway.
There's a great comparison, though, actually, to the 1950s, right?
And the House Committee on Un-American Activity.
There's a big-time comparison to be made there.
And I'm pretty comfortable with just stating that because that's what they're doing.
That's what they're doing.
they're doing the same thing that happened to the left in the 50s to the right today and more of the internal but the right is also doing it to the right today Yeah.
The right is trying to silence the right.
You know, I was thinking about this.
The alt-right is trying to silence the alt-right.
There's a four-way breakup in the alt-right happening right now, which is fascinating in and of itself.
What's amazing is we're watching happen to the GOP.
What happened to the Democrats back in the 90s?
Remember when finally all the blue dogs just laughed and said, you know, there's no place for me in this party anymore.
And Joe Lieberman went independent.
Okay.
What was happening to the Democrats then is what's happening to the GOP now.
It's deciding whether or not it's going to be a radical party one way or another.
Is it going to be alt-right?
Is it going to be a nationalist, a populist party?
Is it going to be a conservative constitutional party?
What is it going to be?
And it didn't happen with the Democrats at the time of them being out of power.
It happened when Bill Clinton was in power.
And the same thing is happening now.
When Donald Trump is in power, it's starting to look at the look at how we were united for eight years.
And now it's fragment, Everything is fragmenting.
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It's going to decide.
It's going to settle at some point and going to decide where its real root is.
And then pieces will come back together.
I'm just, I'm not sure which pieces are coming.
He goes on to talk about privacy and your security in that interview with Jimmy Kimball, too.
It's really good.
Yeah, you know, it's really interesting.
We'll see if we can get it on the other side of the break.
What's really interesting about that is how he phrases it.
He phrases it in such a way as, you know, I got this crazy friend.
Yeah.
And, you know, it sounds to me like your crazy friend you agree with.
But he's not willing to say it.
I see him in the mirror every day.
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This government does stuff big.
I've never been to anything like that.
Was it a big deal?
It was a...
I mean, just so many people.
And when they show up, you know, the ex-president gets in a helicopter and there's jets and marines taking him this way and other, and there's parades, but it looks like a Cadillac parade.
Everything was just rows of Cadillacs.
My kids were going, is this the parade?
It's like black Cadillac after black Cadillac and then a tractor.
I don't know what was, there's no like marching bands.
There's nothing.
I like parades.
I used to like parades, which is a funny off story.
I took my little ones.
I'm not ignorant, but sometimes I play it.
We went to see the Santa Monica parade down in on Santa Monica Boulevard.
The gay parade.
I thought when it went to gay, I thought when there would be floats and stuff, you don't want to take a five-year-old to that parade.
You don't want to stand on it.
Look at the music.
Look, it's a fire truck with naked men on it.
There's no bull winkle.
No, well, there's no gay pride parades have a different tone than Disney on ice parade.
There's no ice for a woman.
There's no ice.
It's a lot of nude guys on vehicles.
And it's hard to.
So you're talking about, you know, well, you do stand-up, you go around.
The country is very divided.
What are you worried about?
I'm worried about, I have the, I have buddies that are in the security business.
I'm a tech freak.
So I have a guy that's got no, he always has battery, like cell phones that batteries come out.
Because he tells me this weird story.
He says, you put an iPhone down for a week, you shut it off.
In a week, it's dead, right?
And I go, oh, God, it's not really ever off.
He goes, no, it's never off.
They always know where you are.
And I go, oh, God.
I get paranoid just from being around this cat.
But one day I was thinking, if a government drove by down the street with like a gray sedan with a camera on it, you'd be rioting going to Washington.
But if it's white with emojis and Google on it, yay, you're waving at it.
Tim Allen.
Tim Allen is so funny.
He is funny.
So funny.
He's had quite a career.
He has.
I mean, to think that the guy started in jail.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, remember, he went to prison for cocaine, right?
Yeah.
Back in the 80s.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he's made an incredible career.
I mean, really, obviously, home improvement's really alleged.
One of my favorite TV shows of all time.
Home Improvement.
Yeah.
He is just such a, I mean, he has tapped into the psyche of being a guy.
Yeah, he has.
He's just, he just, he has it.
He hasn't.
And Last Man Standing is a big hit.
Obviously, he's had a lot of voice work as well.
Funny stuff.
Throughout the years.
Voice music.
What did he do?
Oh, he did story.
You might remember that movie.
I saw that.
Did that make any money, though?
That wasn't profitable, was it?
You see what Disney made on the movie?
I don't know if Disney does.
Oh, my gosh.
It cost him $160 million to make.
This weekend, it made $170.
Did it really?
And $350 worldwide?
Yeah.
First weekend.
I heard it was fantastic.
It's a good movie.
It is fantastic.
It is fantastic.
Did you see it?
Yeah, I saw it.
And it's definitely, there's definitely gay stuff in it.
Yeah.
You know, you know, here, from announce it, right?
Well, here, the very end.
I mean, all the way through, your kids aren't going to notice it, I'm pretty sure.
But all the way through, I'm like, this gay thing is so overblown, overblown.
It's not a gay character.
I mean, you could read it that way if you're really looking.
It's just stop it.
And I don't think the one that they say is gay is the gay character.
I didn't get that impression at all.
Why am I?
Am I supposed to assume he's gay?
Because why?
Why?
The way he talks or maybe the way he moves or that he likes Broadway shows?
I mean, I was told my whole life that stereotyping.
Oh, my.
So all the way through, no.
But then when, and I think it happens in the movie, the dresser, you know, explodes at one point when they're fighting, and the three guys are wearing women's clothing, remember?
Right.
Okay.
So the only thing is, is the two of them turn and run and the other one's like, oh my gosh, thank you.
Or, you know, has that kind of appearance of, finally, I can come out wearing a woman's dress.
So that's a cross-dresser.
That's not gay.
That's a cross-dresser.
Like, we have to have this discussion with our kids.
He's not gay, son.
He's a cross-dresser.
And then at the very, very end, while they're all dancing, the ballroom kind of shifts, and you see him dressed as a woman, and he grabs LeFou's hand like, let's dance.
Spoiler alert, by the way.
Well, spoiler alert.
We've seen the movie.
You've seen the cartoon.
It's exactly the same.
But I thought it was really good.
I thought it was really good.
That's what I heard.
Yeah, really good.
It is a statement by Disney on gay rights.
And so it should be recognized as that, no matter which side you stand on the aisle.
You just know that going in with your kids.
Yeah, it is that, but I don't think your kids are going to notice it.
But really good.
Really good.
This is the Glenn Beck program.
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Kelly Shackleford is the president and CEO of FirstLiberty.org.
He is probably the guest that everybody wants to have on this week talking about the new Supreme Court nominee and the hearings that are going on this week.
Because this is what he does for a living is look at the courts in regards to religious freedom, especially, but freedom and the constitutionalist view of the Supreme Court nominee.
This is what he does.
He looks for the case to be made.
Do the Democrats have a case to be made that this guy is out of control?
Do we have, can we take real solace in the fact that this guy won't turn out to be John Roberts?
We go to Kelly, beginning right now.
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Welcome to the program, Kelly Shackleford.
How are you, sir?
Great.
Good to have you here.
It's good to be here.
You have been looking at all of the Supreme Court nominees when they had a list of 20.
And I believe he was on your short list, Gorsuch, of somebody that you felt pretty comfortable with.
Going into this, how comfortable are you that he's not John Roberts or any of the other conservatives that we always nominate and then they always turn out to be a huge progressive?
Well, there's a few things that are different about him and what Republicans were doing in the past.
In the past, there was this Republican thing of picking people without a record.
Yeah.
And John Roberts, for instance, I mean, that was Ted Cruz's argument against him.
And.
And that's what people did.
Now, John Roberts has been really solid on most cases.
On Obamacare, twice, inexplicably, he rewrote the law.
Exactly.
So I will point out that while a lot of people are really disappointed in him, it's those two cases that they're disappointed in, not what he did on the same-sex marriage case or the live cases.
Yeah, pretty big.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
But John Roberts was a guy who had no record.
Now, that usually says one of two things.
If you're 50 years old and you have no conservative record, you're either not a conservative or you're hiding.
And if you're hiding, then how much courage are you going to have when the heat's on?
So that's why I think that was a really bad approach that the Republicans had.
That is not their approach anymore.
Really, it changed with Alito.
You had Harriet Myers being appointed by President Bush.
That didn't work.
They went back and he said, okay, I'm just going to pick a full-fledged conservative with a long record.
And guess what?
Alito got through.
They tried a filibuster.
It got 25 votes.
And I think since then now, it's changed.
So when you look at Gorsuch, he had 3,000 opinions that his name is connected to.
Either he wrote or he was on those opinions, joined those opinions.
So you see a long swath of where his philosophy has been, what he believes, where he stands.
And so that's a little different.
Chuck Schumer said, you know, there are many reasons to fear him, but the one that it looks like they're really going after is that he's a corporatist, that he's always for the corporation and is just going to sink us all because smokestacks will be everywhere.
Really silly.
What you find with Gorsuch is he doesn't really care who the plaintiff and the defendant are.
He's just going to go, what does the law say?
And that's the result.
And the funny thing is when you ask him, okay, if he's this person that you're saying he is, then what are the opinions?
And then they'll pull out two or three opinions and you'll go, wait, those are unanimous.
And you have a liberal Democrat joining him on those opinions.
So I've never seen such a weak set of attacks on anybody.
They really don't have anything on him.
And so I think their only hope is to create something in the hearing, to hope that he says something or does something.
Because I think right now they're in serious trouble at trying to stop it.
It seems like, I mean, it was a really big deal.
A lot of people voted for Trump because of this.
In fact, I would say perhaps a majority of people voted for Trump because of this.
And yet here we are in the hearings, and it doesn't seem like it's going to be a big deal.
It doesn't seem like when we were building up to Bork, we knew that was going to be a big deal and a big fight.
Is it because we're replacing Scalia that it's not that big of a deal?
Or what's happening?
I think that's part of it.
I think part of it is most people, for whatever reason, don't even know it's occurring.
We put a website up, trumpnomine.com, where people can watch the hearing, get the information.
Where does he stand?
What are his past opinions?
What does the NRA say about him?
What are the right to life say about him?
What are the different groups that are out there say?
But I think most people had no idea that the hearings are starting this week.
They're starting today.
We won't hear from him until late this afternoon.
Right.
It's something that they don't know.
And the media, I think, is probably not playing this up because I think they realize as far as the left wing that this is not going to work out well for them, most likely.
So they're not highlighting this.
I do think you're right, though.
I think if we had the next nominee, and the rumors are it's happening soon, like within the next year.
And let's say if a Kennedy did step down, now you're talking about the control of the court because you essentially have four, when you had Scalia, you had four conservatives, four liberals, and one who kind of moves back and forth.
Kennedy was a conservative appointment, wasn't he?
He was, but he's been, he votes, he's been voting on different sides depending upon the issues.
Never trusted Kennedy.
But then you would have, now you would have, and I mean, theoretically, you would have, if you replace Kennedy, you're talking about overruling Roe v. Wade.
You're talking about, you know, a lot of huge issues now that if you had five conservatives, and by overruling, I mean they would say, this goes to the states.
This is an issue to be voted.
So you're talking about big issues.
So you can see the other side would really come out for that next seat.
Where this, I mean, really the conservatives, the best they can do is stay even with replacing Scalia.
Correct.
Now, I think they're probably going to do that.
In fact, many people think Gorsuch might be a little bit more conservative than Scalia was.
Holy cow.
But not as conservative as Thomas, but more conservative than Scalia.
How close are these guys?
I know that Scalia and Ginsburg were really close and good friends.
And I really wish Ginsburg would have spoken at his funeral because I would have liked to show America that you can be on complete opposite ends of the spectrum and still be good friends.
But how close is Thomas with Roberts?
Do they influence each other at this point?
I don't know how much they influence it, but they are friends.
But the uniqueness of the Scalia-Ginsburg relationship, I mean, they grew up in New York.
I mean, there was a real connection there.
And they're friends with one another.
They're in a very small, special group, obviously.
But guys like Thomas aren't really influenced by what other people say or do to him.
Do you think, I mean, Calvin Coolidge nominated a good friend of his who is a staunch, he thought, conservative.
He gets onto the court and he's so bad, he becomes progressive that even FDR makes him the chief justice.
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Really crazy.
Do they get in to the court?
Do you think some of them get into the court and think, well, now I have such an important position and I can't, I want a legacy.
Does that happen?
Well, yeah, I think the old cocktail circles in D.C. wanting to fit in, wanting to be accepted.
I mean, that's always what people really worry about.
I think that's one of the unique things that Gorsuch has going for him that a lot of others didn't.
And that is his mom was the head of the EPA under Reagan and was savagely attacked by the Democrats.
And he felt that sting.
It's well known.
I think he knows who his friends are and who aren't.
And so I don't think he would fall into that trap.
But I think that's the best case I've heard yet when you have.
When you have somebody, though, who doesn't have a lot of record and they go in there and then they get this social pressure, you can see that kind of thing happening.
Again, Gorsuch has 3,000 opinions connected with him.
He has a pretty strong, deep philosophy that's been expressed for many years.
Anybody can surprise us, right?
I mean, people are people, but, you know, this is about as good of a record.
I mean, we're a group that focuses on religious liberty.
We've never seen anybody with this many solid religious liberty opinions.
I mean, he wrote the lower court.
I mean, he was involved on the right side, on Hobby Lobby, on Little Sisters of the Poor, on just a number of these cases where you've heard about him later, and maybe he was in the dissent, depending upon which one it was, but he always did the right thing, wrote an excellent opinion, stood for religious freedom.
So I think he's going to be good on a lot of the constitutional issues that your listeners really care about, really solid, because he's an originalist, and he's going to follow what the text says, and he doesn't think it evolves to mean whatever he wants it to mean, which is unfortunately a common approach today.
I've heard the argument that he's made, Gorsuch has made a lot of decisions that would indicate he would be on the pro-life side of Roe versus Wade.
However, there's never been a specific ruling by him on abortion.
What is your level of concern on that?
I don't really have any.
Again, he's really solid about what does the Constitution say?
What does the text say?
He's not going to create things that aren't there.
He criticized, there's an article where he actually criticized the LGBT community for trying to use the courts instead of the legislative process and opinion.
So even if he would agree with something, he would never use the courts.
Do you think there is a constitutional case for pro-life?
I think he is more likely to say this is something left to the legislative process.
I'm asking you, is there a constitutional.
There's an argument.
people can argue under the 14th amendment uh you know that there's a there's a right to life um i think what about the what about the just what about the preamble Yeah, I mean, there are people that look at that and say, I think he would look at the original intent of what the founders were doing with those things, whether they were trying to create a substantive right.
Again, I think you're going to find that a lot of the more conservative judges are more, if it's not clearly there, then let's leave it to the legislative process.
Why is that when, you know, I quoted several of the signers of the Constitution and Declaration today that took a stand?
I mean, this was not unheard of in the day.
Abortion was a thing, and they all came out as that's murder.
Why is that not in the Constitution, or did they just think it was so plain that murder is murder?
I think that's it.
I think there are a lot of things they couldn't conceive that we would have to deal with.
I mean, same-sex marriage, right?
A lot of these things we're seeing now, they didn't even think of, so they didn't address them necessarily in the Constitution in a direct way.
I do think Gorsuch, you've got a little more on where he stands, at least personally.
He wrote a book on euthanasia.
His editor of the book was Professor Robert George, probably one of the most well-respected.
He's great.
Robbie George is fantastic.
And he went, a lot of people look at his education and see how incredible it was where he goes to Columbia, undergrad, Harvard Law School, all this.
Then he goes to Oxford.
What a lot of people don't know is why he went to Oxford.
He went to Oxford to get his Ph.D. to study under the top brain in the world on natural law, a guy by the name of John Finnis, the same guy who trained Robbie George.
So it tells you a lot about the philosophy and background.
And long-standing philosophy.
Let me ask you this final question.
Nobody is really thinking about this, but he's young enough to be dealing with this in the next 10 to 20 years.
Is he going to be able to handle or is anybody looking into the definition of life when it comes to AI?
I mean, we're moving into the realm of transhumanism, and that is going to be an issue.
Have you seen anything from him on that?
Well, I mean, I don't know how he would do.
You had to look at what legal case or circumstance.
But I think he's probably got the most extensive background to prepare him for that than any justice because, again, he studied his Ph.D. in understanding of natural law, of life.
What did he write his book on?
Euthanasia.
He is steeped in that philosophy and that whole line of thinking.
So he would probably be much more thoughtful than probably anybody we have in the board.
I wonder which way he would go on that.
Two quick things.
One, is this the first question you've had about transhumanism in your Gorsuch interviews so far?
I guess it's going to be yes.
Is that true?
Yes, yes.
We're just ahead of the curve.
I'm telling you, that will come.
It is coming.
And secondly, I was a big Trump skeptic on him making a good pick for the Supreme Court.
And that should be stated because we were out about it and I did not think it would be this good.
In fact, if it came from the list, I thought it would be on the bottom of the list.
I feel like Gorsuch is towards the top of that list.
And looking at it from my perspective, I think he did a great job with this pick.
If, let's say, name the constitutionalist, your favorite guy you want to be president, we were going for Ted Cruz, but Brand Paul, Mike Lee, whoever, any of those guys are president of the United States and they pick Gorsuch, is that a good pick for them too?
Because I think it is.
Yeah, he's an excellent pick.
He's that good.
Very brilliant.
Yeah.
I mean, there are some other people out there that like, that weren't even on the list that people go, why didn't they pick them?
But I'm not saying they're better than Gorsuch.
Wow.
You know, I think we're going to have to wait and see after he gets on the court.
But everything we see, we've got so many opinions.
We've got this steeped training background.
We've got this situation that happened in his own family where, you know, his mother was really unfairly treated by the Democrats.
So I don't think he's going to go to D.C. and cozy up to the cocktail crowd.
So there's a lot of things in his favor that, again, his manner is mild and humble.
And again, I think that's why they can't attack him.
They can't make him a bork or a, he's just, that's not his personality.
And so I think they're really desperate during these hearings to get him to make a mistake somehow, which I just don't see him do.
If you really want to know where everybody stands from, you know, NRA on down the line, go to trumpnomine.com.
That's trumpnominee.com.
You'll be able to watch the hearings, get the analysis there.
And Kelly, we'd love to have you back just to give us a highlight of what we saw, you know, starting tomorrow because the hearings kind of start today with opening statements.
Thank you so much, Kelly.
Appreciate it.
Thanks for having me.
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No, we're just, you know what?
I just asked Kelly to stage us for a couple of extra minutes.
How is he, how is he on privacy and the commerce clause?
Well, he's great on the commerce clause.
on privacy, I would have to know what the issue is.
What you're going to find with him is he's one of those boring guys that's going to say, what does the statute say?
What does the Constitution say?
What did it mean?
For instance, the NSA gathering information on everyone.
I mean, to me, the Constitution is very, very clear.
No, unless you have a warrant.
Yeah, I think he'll be solid on any sort of constitutional violations that violate the words of the Constitution.
But see, privacy has been converted into all kinds of other things.
It was the basis for Roe v. Wade.
It was, you know, so you can stretch it and turn it into something else.
What you're going to find with him, though, is he's all about what does it say.
And now, I do think one of the things that's really important, the chevron deference, I don't want to get people's eyes glazed over, but there's this approach that the courts have taken that I think the conservatives now realize was a big mistake, where they essentially show deference to bureaucrats.
So Congress passes a law and they say, we'll let the bureaucrats figure out how to apply the law.
And then they massively violate people's rights.
They make regulations.
Yeah.
They make regulations, including criminal type things.
And then the court says, well, we have chevron.
We defer.
We have chevron deference.
He has been really strong in the other direction on that and saying, oh, no, that's not, no, we protect our Constitution against these sort of bureaucrats.
Better than Scalia on that issue.
Better than Scalia.
And that's where people like Mike Lee are going in Congress.
Exactly.
The other thing you were mentioning off the air is that there may be another justice opening this year.
He said Kennedy.
But are we pretty sure on that?
We have a pretty good idea.
The rumors are there's going to be another.
Because I've heard as soon as like 10 months.
That's very, very possible.
I think we very well might have another one of these before a year from now.
So Kennedy may be stepping down then.
He could be.
Yeah.
I mean, he probably wants to step down under Republican.
He's reported under a Republican.
If you wait too late towards the end, then it gets stalled up.
As every liberal in the audience is saying right now with Merrick Garland.
That's exactly too close to the end.
You might not even get a vote.
So that's now, and of course, that's talking about people voluntarily stepping down if there's other stories.
There's health issues.
So that could be even more.
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Did you see Angela Merkel's visit to the White House?
Wow, was that Frosty?
Angela?
Angela.
Is it Angela Angela?
No, it's Angela.
It's Angela Merkel.
The handshake scene was...
Oh my...
But they did shake hands at another point, right?
Yeah, but she leaned over and she's like, we have a handshake.
And he didn't even turn it back to her.
Yeah, but it was awkward.
It was like, I've never seen that.
I have.
Remember when Obama was sitting there with Benjamin Netanyahu and you could tell they didn't want to sit there?
With Trump, Angela was kind of happy.
She was bubbly.
She was fine.
But Trump looked pissed.
I don't know what happened in the meeting.
You know, there was a, you know, he said that Germany hasn't been paying their fair share with NATO.
And then he went off on this thing about, you know, trying to negotiate a better deal with Germany.
Well, Germany doesn't make the trade agreement.
It's the EU.
And she said to him, apparently, several times, you're under the false understanding that we negotiate our trade deals.
We don't.
It's the EU that negotiates the trade deal.
And he's like, yeah, well, we need a better deal with you and with Germany.
Again, it's not us.
It's the EU.
And apparently that didn't sit well with her.
And it didn't sit well with him.
But even the photographers at the very, you know, handshake, we need the handshake shot.
They're all looking for the regular handshake, Zach.
And he was having none of it.
Can we not piss off Germany?
That never goes well.
Just never goes well.
All of it's moved because we've already pissed off North Korea.
And they've vowed to reduce us to ashes.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Korean People's Army, this is her statement, will reduce the bases of aggression and provocation to ashes with its invincible rockets tipped with nuclear warheads and reliably defend the security of the country and its people's happiness because as you know, the people in North Korea are exceedingly happy.
They've never been happier.
No, they never been happier in those labor camps.
They love the labor camp.
They would 100% full employment in those labor camps.
That's right.
And okay, so I'm sorry.
I'm asking you to concentrate in your camp for a little while.
We all know it's jobs, jobs, jobs.
And that's what it's all about.
I will tell you this.
I mean, we make fun of North Korea.
This guy is just nuts enough.
He killed his own brother, right?
For no reason.
For no reason.
And it's an unclear.
And openly, right?
Openly.
Yeah, he's killed his uncle.
But he went, I mean, that thing in the airport, there's no reason to do that in the airport unless you wanted everybody to see.
There was seemingly no reason to do it, period, anywhere for any time.
The guy wasn't seeking power.
He lived somewhere else.
He was like the Playboy brother.
Because he's a brother, a stepbrother, first of all.
And he had no designs on the throne of North Korea.
He did not want to go back.
He did not want to become the leader.
He just wanted to go gamble and drink in his peace.
He was not interested.
And they killed him anyway.
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I mean, and think about this.
Very rarely, I think, in our history, do we have a foreign government overtly and constantly threatening nuclear annihilation?
of the world's superpower, really with very little repercussion and really very little fear.
This is a nuclear power.
I've talked to somebody who is over in North Korea and you go through their history of North Korean-U.S. relations, and we are absolutely the aggressor.
They're people.
I mean, you read that, read that statement again and read it in a cartoon voice, Pat.
I mean, you listen to this statement, and it sounds like something from a superhero movie.
The Korean People's Army will reduce the bases of aggression and provocation to ashes with its invincible rockets tipped with nuclear warheads.
Right, with its invincible rockets next time on North Korea.
And we will reliably defend the security of the country and its people's happiness.
I mean, it's crazy.
It sounds like an episode of Batman.
Yeah, it does.
And, you know, how do you get people to believe that?
You shut off all information.
I would love to go to North Korea.
I think you said this last week, just because it is like going to the moon.
They have no idea what is happening in the rest of the world.
None.
And so he does this because he's made us into the chief bad guy.
And it gives his people, you know, something to think about.
Oh, man, if we could just stop the oppression, we'd be good.
It's not about him.
It's about us oppressing.
Yeah.
I mean, and it would be incredible to see because it's like, you know, it is really like going to another planet.
I mean, the architecture and everything, the way the people act and how they're terrified.
I mean, there was a documentary that happened, this is a few years going back now, where they went, they snuck cameras into North Korea with doctors.
And so the doctors go over there and they have these charities that go over there to repair.
I think it's cataracts.
It's something that every other nation on earth.
We pronounce it here, Cadillacs.
Cadillacs.
Every other nation on Earth has a minor surgery and you're fine.
Like it is there.
These people just go blind because they have no ability to ever correct this very easy problem.
So doctors go, I think maybe Doctors Without Borders go in and just do eye surgeries and then leave.
And they brought in the cameras and it was so bizarre to watch these people as they will sit there every time they would get the surgery.
They would see these people were blind and now could see.
I mean, that is a moment that, you know, historically has some significance.
I think there's a song.
I was once blind and now I can see.
It's a pretty overwhelming experience.
In fact, it's the example of the most overwhelming experience you can have as a human being.
And these people would have the surgery, see for the first time, the first thing they would do would walk up to the giant paintings of, at that time, I think it was Kim Jong-il and thank the painting of Kim Jong-il.
The only reason they couldn't see is because of Kim Jong-il.
But they walked up and thanked and bowed before the painting to thank him for healing them.
That's how crazy it is.
Bizarre.
Bizarre.
I mean, he's the reason it was happening.
If they had any connection with the rest of the world and allowed capitalist inventions and innovation to be there, every one of those people would have seen years ago.
And yet here we are, these people, such a bizarre effect.
So am I taking it too seriously?
Because I really, I'm very frustrated with the press because nobody's really paying attention to North Korea.
I think this is a big deal.
The whole thing is really frightening.
The CIA believes them to have 20 nuclear warheads.
20.
I mean, I doubt that they can even reach mainland America with those.
But, you know, you can launch an EMP attack from a boat, from a submarine, from pretty much anywhere near the coast and do serious, serious damage.
The EMP thing is a legitimate concern.
And I don't know why we don't guard against it.
And it goes back and forth, too, of how scared you are on that is kind of based on where you fall in the debate between the government is incredibly efficient.
And as Tim Allen points out, they know the location of your iPhone after it's been turned off for two weeks.
Or are they the people who let a guy jump the fence and walk around the White House property for 16 minutes?
Before discovering he's there.
I don't know which one they are.
When they came out, it was 16 minutes.
That's just astounding.
Incredible.
How on earth is that possible?
How inept.
Did you see?
Did you see, though?
They announced yesterday there are going to be some changes at the White House Secret Service.
You think?
Oh, you think?
How many times do we have to have somebody break in?
Well, good.
I mean, they were breaking in all during the last president, now breaking in and just, what, setting up a tea party for 16 minutes?
How is that possible?
I don't know.
I have to tell you, if somebody brought, I mean that I don't have Secret Service protection.
If someone climbed my fence and was walking around my house for 16 minutes, other than Jeffy.
than Jeffy.
If somebody did that, I would get a new security company.
And I would expect, you know, I'd be like, okay, well, I don't have Secret Service.
We're talking about the Secret Service.
They have the problem with the Secret Service is all they think about are ways to spend money.
They don't, they don't, they'll solve every problem.
More men.
More cameras, more this, more that.
They don't think things through at all.
They just solve it because they have lots of money.
No one is ever saying, hey, hey, hey, slow down on the Secret Service spending there at the White House.
Spend.
What is it?
Spend away.
What is happening?
Well, we said this before, too.
I mean, look, in an actual security environment, there would be people all over that lawn all the time.
And the only reason we don't do that is because we don't want it to look like a police state.
Not true.
Not true.
There is no way you could have trip wires with lasers that could set up.
What would happen if they set off an alarm?
Yeah, you would become.
Right, right, right.
But you don't have to have actual physical people on the lawn.
But I mean, if you're, we're talking about the president of the United States here.
If you do what you have to do to secure that environment the best way that you can.
We don't do all of those things because understandably, I'm not even criticizing this, but like understandably, you don't want like a million agents out of a lawn all the time because it just doesn't look right.
It doesn't look like it.
No, but look what happened after 2001.
I mean, you didn't have access to Pennsylvania Avenue, that portion of it, at all.
I mean, you couldn't go anywhere near the White House.
And now it's so bad that people can walk around for 16 years.
We don't have laser technology.
We don't have ground sensing technology.
And apparently they don't.
We don't have motion detectors.
I mean, that's crazy.
And the scary thing about this is, look, this person just seems to be a disturbed person who jumped the fence and was not a serious danger.
However, how many times can we teach the lesson that people can get up to this freaking building?
How many times?
This goes for Obama.
It goes for Trump.
How many times are we teaching these really bad people that we know exist and we know want to do things that are terrible?
How many times can we tell them just walk on up?
I mean, I honestly send a terrorist.
God, the guy was there for 16 minutes with a backpack.
And Trump was home.
He was there.
It's terrifying.
I mean, honestly, like, I am much more of the opinion, like, you jump that fence, whether you're disturbed or not, you're shot 10 feet.
You take three steps and you're dead.
And I would sit here on the air the next day when they say, wait a minute, this person was just disturbed and they were still 200 feet away from the White House.
So what?
Don't go near the fence.
Honestly, I would sit here and defend Secret Service for doing those types of things because it's that important.
This is the president of the United States.
We cannot afford something terrible happening.
And the fact is, we have taught terrible lessons to our real enemies, and we need to take care of that.
Hopefully, that's what Trump's doing.
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It's quite fascinating what is happening on the Hill today.
It is a lot of really important stuff going on.
James Comey, who, if you remember right, was a hero of the left, then a hero of the right, then a hero of the left again, I believe.
And now we're not sure what's going to happen today.
But he goes from good guy to bad guy on each side, depending on what day of the week it is.
He just testified that there is an investigation, an ongoing investigation of Russian ties to any campaign in the last election.
So this is the first time the FBI has admitted this, but they are looking into ties to the Trump campaign and apparently the Clinton campaign as well.
Yeah, I think they were trying to keep it broad and say, yeah, they did say the Trump campaign part as well.
Other side of that, too, is they also said there is no evidence that the Russians hacked any votes.
Now, you might say, well, obviously we know that, but this is a big thing.
We've talked about how the kind of echo chambers talk to themselves.
The left hears this stuff all the time, that the election was hacked.
And to any normal person, the election was hacked.
That means you changed the vote totals so the wrong person won, right?
They are saying that did not happen.
No evidence of that happening, which I knew, but I think that might be big news to half the country.
He also said that there was no investigation that included wiretapping in the traditional sense, but Trump would say that he used wiretapping in quotation marks.
And so he didn't mean that literally.
But Comey did say that there was no wiretapping involved with Trump at the Trump Tower.
However, he did also go on to say, but we don't have the answer if there were other non-conventional wiretapping means being used.
Yeah, it left it open to potentially there could be something else, but there was not.
I mean, if you want to take, again, the Trump tweet literally, they are saying that did not happen.
Now, since the Trump tweet came out, it's been brought up.
I think they're put in quotation marks.
Exactly.
Okay.
But I actually think he's.
I do too.
I think it's ridiculous to hold him to like he was talking about a conventional wiretap at only this building.
I mean, I think the bigger part of that, however, is Obama ordered it, which we still have zero evidence over.
And they all say that that can't be done anyway.
Whether you believe that or not is a whole other story, but still.
That's a real big thing.
And the other big thing to me on the whole wiretapping is our ally, England, you know, that the English did it.
And immediately the English come out and say, no, don't involve us in this.
We did not do that.
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What a surprise.
50% of Canadians are hate mongers.
Did you know that?
50% of Canadians say illegal immigrants are making us less safe.
It's okay for them, though.
They're a different country.
We're the ones who can't say that.
We can't.
You're right, Pat.
It's only all come free in America.
You're right, you're right.
We'll talk about that.
Also, the FBI has arrested a Twitter user who sent a seizure-inducing GIF.
Did you read about this?
A guy who sent somebody on Twitter a GIF that caused him to have an epileptic seizure.
We'll talk about that right now.
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Unsealed Complaints and Hidden Stories00:02:10
So this is a really amazing story.
Kurt Eichenwald.
He's a journalist who writes for Vanity Fair and Newsweek.
He tweeted on Friday the FBI had arrested a man suspected of purposely sending him a gift that triggered an epileptic seizure.
The Department of Justice confirmed the statement that John Rain Ravello, 29 of Maryland, was arrested Friday on federal charges of cyber stalking a Dallas victim.
That victim, presumably, is Eichenwald, though his identity wasn't released in the statement.
Eichenwald has written openly about his epilepsy in the years past.
In December 2016, Twitter user with the handle at JewGoldstein sent him a strobing gift, which induced a seizure.
According to Eichenwald, the tweet came with the message, you deserve a seizure.
So he opens it up and it has several pictures with the flash before it and a strobe.
Like Mary can never go to a concert, my daughter Mary.
And she really wants to go to concerts.
And sometimes, you know, we'll go to one of these mega churches or something and they'll have all the flashing lights and she'll have to put her head down.
Otherwise, she could go into a seizure.
So this guy knew what he was doing.
And apparently he was doing it because he was a Donald Trump supporter and didn't like what this guy was writing.
Wow.
And this is just these stories you don't know.
This is confirmed that it actually happened this way?
Or is it this is what's his case, I assume?
Whose case?
The guy who sent the tweet.
Nothing.
The complaint was unsealed today.
It's amazing.
Following his initial appearance, according to the affidavit, Ravello's Twitter account contained direct messages from Ravello's account to other Twitter users concerning the victim, the Justice Department said.
Those direct messages included statements by Ravello, including, I hope this sends him into a seizure.
Immigration Debates and Social Drains00:06:19
That's pretty clear.
That's pretty clear.
You know, I know he has epilepsy.
Let's see if he dies.
Yeah, okay.
Okay.
So I don't know why.
That's pretty solid.
Yeah, that's pretty solid.
That's pretty solid.
That's pretty solid.
Let's go to Canada because we're not allowed to say these things, but the peace-loving cheese-eating population of Canada, I don't know why they're eating cheese.
Because they're near Wisconsin, at least part of the country.
Do they eat a lot of cheese?
Do they make cheese in Canada?
You know why they're called cheeseheads, don't they?
No, that's Wisconsinites, but nothing to do with Canadians.
No, it does.
They're called cheese heads?
And where I came from, they were called cheese heads.
Really?
Yeah.
No, that's Wisconsin.
I've never.
I grew up in Washington State, you know, and we called Canadians cheeseheads.
I don't know if people still do.
I don't know why we called them cheeseheads.
I don't either.
That's kind of weird.
It was wrong.
It was wrong of us, but we did it.
Okay, Urban Dictionary says cheese head is, in your usage, a Canadian who, because of the significantly higher price of cheese in Canada than the U.S., makes periodic trips into border towns.
Oh, my God.
Large bottles.
There you go.
Oh, my gosh.
No wonder.
So like on border towns, because I lived up by the border.
I knew that.
There were places where they just couldn't keep milk in stock.
It's still like this.
You can't keep milk in stock.
They'll have, you know, they'll order gallons and gallons and gallons of milk, and they still can't keep them in stock because the Canadians come down because it's so much cheaper and they just buy the milk.
It's an interesting commentary on that tariffs and taxes, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
I wonder what you'd learn from.
But what's also happening in Canada is that because some of the illegals here have been scared off by Donald Trump, they've crossed the border into Canada.
And the Canadians, surprisingly, aren't liking that.
And so 48%, almost 50% of Canadians say, yeah, we need to step up deportation.
Let's get the illegals out of our country.
Now, if we do that, we're the worst people alive.
We're the worst living human beings.
How dare you try to get rid of people who shouldn't be in your country in the first place?
How dare you?
Once they break into your house, they're there, and you need to take care of them.
Yeah.
Amazing.
How can you, you can protect the White House.
You put a fence around that and rightly so, right?
But the rest of the country can be completely unprotected.
Doesn't make any sense.
Completely unprotected.
I'm starting to do Brian Lilly up in Canada with Rebel media up there.
And he was saying that, you know, they're noticing a big change up there because Trump has obviously been outwardly, hey, don't come here if you're illegal.
Where to contrast that and look wonderful to the world, Trudeau has said the opposite.
Hey, come on.
We want you here.
Come on in.
So they're getting those problems are starting to go that direction.
What problems are those racist?
What's that?
What problems?
problems associated with illegal immigration.
As if there were any.
Yeah.
Racist.
What kind of problems would those people?
What are you talking about?
Well, especially they're particularly bad when you're a country like Canada that makes our welfare state look like nothing.
When you have everything guaranteed, I mean, because we obviously have a problem and we're going the wrong direction when it comes to entitlements and paying for everything.
They're already there, right?
We are shooting towards them, but they're further down this road.
So illegal immigration is more of an issue in a country that has those things built in.
We've made this point before, and libertarians will make this point at times because a lot of libertarians are pretty much open borders.
And their point essentially is you can't be both.
Because I mean, if you have the libertarian state where you don't pay for anyone's anything, then maybe you could argue, you know, some of these things are okay.
I will tell you, if it wasn't for the danger that we face, if this was, you know, 40 years ago, I would be fairly okay with that.
Maybe.
It'd still be rule of law.
I still would be rule of law.
But I would say, you know, there's no danger necessarily coming over the, I'm just trying to think out loud.
Maybe you shouldn't.
Yeah, maybe 50 years ago.
I'm not sure.
Maybe you shouldn't think out loud.
The thing that really puts this on the front burner is the thing that puts this on the front burner is the danger that our society is threatened with, with jihad and the gangs.
Well, and drugs, yeah.
Right, so if we decriminalize drugs, we also said no free anything for anybody.
There's nothing free here.
You got to work for all of it.
Open borders isn't as bad as you would think as it is now, except for the jihadists that want to come and kill us.
So you take care of the drug thing.
You take care of the drain on our society.
You just can't have both.
You can't say, I'm for open borders and free stuff for everything.
Free, come on in.
You can use our hospitals.
You can have our doctors.
You can have free food.
You can have welfare.
We'll give you a house.
You can say that, but it doesn't work.
It doesn't work.
Leads to total collapse and chaos.
Correct.
It just doesn't make any sense.
And that's the problem.
We have both of those.
And again, we're the only country on earth that is expected to just welcome all of it.
Just, yeah, well, whoever wants to come into our country illegally, come on in.
We'll take care of you.
Everybody else can have quotas on immigration.
Everybody else can ask something of the immigrants, like what do you bring to us?
What skills do you have?
Okay, if you have no skills and you have no reason to be here, we're not going to allow you to be here.
Everybody else does that.
But we can't.
I just don't understand that.
Let me change gears.
Welfare Systems Lead to Chaos00:08:04
Over the weekend, Beauty and the Beast broke five records.
It was the top domestic opening of all time for a film-rated PG.
Wow.
Wow.
That's amazing.
$135 million was Finding Dory in 2016.
This one is Beauty scored the top opening of all time for a PG film internationally.
180 million led by China, 44.8 million.
Up next was the UK, 22.8 million.
Fifth biggest for any film and the biggest for a PG title.
Seventh number seven launch of all time for any movie.
It barely beat out the final Harry Potter movie at 169.
Ranked number seven.
I wonder what the, I wonder what the beauty could even come in this weekend as high as 174 million, which it would then tie Iron Man.
It wound up at 170.
170 million.
And it only cost 100 and only, but it cost 160 to make.
So domestically, it's at 170, but worldwide, it's already at 350 million.
That's incredible.
Look at the worldwide openings, biggest worldwide openings.
Am I out of step here, not at all being interested to see this?
No, you don't have kids this age yet.
What's the right age for that?
Because I would think for a Disney special, I would be thinking, I mean, kids are certain they went to Disney on Ice Minister.
These kids are perfect age for this.
So I'd think they would be.
How old are the kids?
Five and four.
Yeah, a little young.
But this is a PG movie, so which makes you think they're not going after it.
No, this one is a little tough for little kids.
Like Cheyenne, Cheyenne went, and she was okay.
She is, what, 10 or 11 now?
And she is, she's very sensitive.
She's super sensitive.
She's super sensitive.
And so she didn't, she barely made it into this one.
Like she would have never been able to see King Kong.
King Kong would have, she would have never been able to sleep again.
And she, you know, she can watch the regular, you know, Beauty and the Beast, but this one is the wolves are scary.
The Beast is scary.
This is why I don't know why, again, and this is, I do not run a movie studio.
I don't know if anyone knows that.
And this might be the reason, but like it just doesn't seem to me to be, in a formulaic sense, something that would make a lot of sense to spend $160 million on because you're targeting it at a little bit older than you think the general target would be.
So this is for teenagers is the target?
This is it for Beauty and the Beast though.
I think it's for everybody because everybody remembers the cartoon.
You either went to it as a kid or you took your kids to it.
And so there's a huge audience.
Whatever it was in Disney who said, let's open the vault and make them all live action.
I think it is the smartest thing I've ever seen any entertainment company ever do.
And they've done a bunch of these, right?
Jungle Book, they did.
Oh, yeah.
They're all brilliant.
Yeah.
They're all Cinderella.
They're all brilliant.
I've seen none of these films.
And this is why I'm not the target.
By the way, I watched last night of Passengers.
You know the movie Passengers?
Yeah.
Do you remember what the girl's name was that woke up, that he woke up?
I don't know if.
Aurora, right?
Right.
Yeah.
Did you connect that?
I didn't.
I didn't at the time.
To what?
Right.
Sleeping Beauty.
Her name is Aurora.
And I was watching it last night, and I'm like, Aurora, that's Sleeping Beauty.
I wonder if that was intentional or not.
But imagine it was.
Yeah, probably.
Also broke the biggest debut of all time for a female-fueled film.
A female-fueled film?
That's an actual category?
Did they burn women to make the cameras run?
What does that mean?
Now you're starting to interest me.
No movie fueled at this level by females of all ages has ever opened such big numbers.
Hunger Games, 158.
Okay.
Twilight, 142.
And those were the best series.
Right.
Wow.
Well, I'm glad it passed up Twilight because what a horrible, horrible movie.
Horrible series.
That whole series is.
Horrible phenomenon.
Are you kidding me?
That whole series is great.
Am I kidding you?
Yeah, you kidding me?
The Twilight was horrible?
No, I'm not kidding you.
I don't even want to hear it from you.
You don't?
No, I don't.
It's too late.
Who had to go sit through that movie with their wife?
Whose wife said, that's horrible.
I'm not going to go.
And whose wife said, mine.
And whose wife said, I love this.
I want to go and I want to see everyone on opening yours right.
So don't talk to me about how bad it was.
Just because you suffered through it doesn't mean it would take that doesn't take the horribleness out of it.
Did you enjoy them at all?
It wasn't a slightly different.
Your horribleness, though, is different, isn't it?
Your horribleness is different.
Because I didn't have to sit through the horribleness.
I didn't read the books.
I didn't see the movies.
Right.
But your horribleness was because of vampires, right?
You know, like vampire movies.
Yeah, that.
And it's just the whole theme of it, the whole thing.
I just didn't like any of it.
It feels like it was like a vampire movie aimed at teenagers, too.
Do I have any perspective on any of these movies?
I feel like I'm talking to a totally different world.
I don't understand any of these trends.
What's going on?
Oh, my gosh.
He's turning.
By the way, Beauty and the Beast opening Worldwide Weekend, number 14 of all time.
And I will say, none of the ones ahead of it, exception of number one, really interest me at all.
Wait, wait, wait.
You want to say that's that?
14 when it comes to all-time worldwide opening worldwide.
So there have been bigger movies than 350?
Real quick.
14, Beauty and the Beast.
13, Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides.
12, Iron Man 3, 11, Captain America Civil War, 10, Spider-Man 3.
9, Transformers, Dark of the Moon.
8, Avengers Age of Ultron.
7, Marvel's The Avengers.
Listen to this.
Listen to this.
It's all.
Is Marvel one of the greatest ever?
Six, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Five, Furious Seven, 397.
I saw the preview of the good, so great.
That was the one after he died, right?
Seven was the latest one after he died.
Yeah, the Duet looks really good, too.
Number four, Batman versus Superman, Dawn of Justice.
That is an abomination.
That makes me question America.
Number two.
And the world.
Number three, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part two, $483 million opening.
Wow.
Number two, Jurassic World, $524.9 million.
Wow.
Number one, shouldn't surprise you.
Star Wars, The Force Awakens, $529 million opening weekend world.
Was that number one?
No, that's number seven.
Number seven.
So that's the newest one of the latest relaunches.
Do you remember how big Star Wars 1 was when it opened?
Now, I will say, I don't, these do not appear to be inflation adjusted.
So that could be a big part of that.
It's why you're seeing a lot of recent ones.
But Twilight.
Yeah, if you go to Inflation Adjusted, it's probably still Gone with the Wind.
I was going to say, Gone with the Wind was like 26 cents a ticket.
And I don't remember what it was, but like almost everybody in the movie, like everyone in the movie saw it.
Yeah, everyone in the United States had to see that like one and a half times.
It was something crazy.
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Pat is very upset today.
There's one thing that would really hack him off.
It's the happiest countries list.
And we go to that when we come back.
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Just looking at the happy index, this is the happiest countries in the world.
Now, if you had to guess before you even heard what the survey says, where would you guess the United States to be?
Right behind North Korea.
Yes.
Yes, you would.
Especially when the report is produced by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
You know, we're not doing well in that.
No.
Why?
There's no code words in that.
No code words at all.
No, no code words at all.
No.
This is a report about how socialist your country is.
Okay, so I actually agree with this.
I actually agree with some of this.
For instance, on the scale of the saddest countries, Rwanda is fifth from the bottom.
Yeah, that's fine.
You know, Syria, 152.
Tanzania, 153.
The Central African Republic is 152.
No one has ever confused the Central African Republic for Disney World.
You know, South Sudan is 147.
Yemen is 146.
It's pretty accurate on the bottom of the scale.
So I personally think that it is fairly accurate on the upper side of the scale as well.
And hear me out.
Hear me out.
Hear me out.
Norway, Denmark, Finland maybe, the Netherlands, and Iceland, maybe.
But definitely Norway, Denmark, Netherlands.
I can see because A, it's a very, it used to be a very homogenized society.
Everybody pretty much looked the same.
Everybody, you know, they were just all the same.
So it didn't have that conflict that comes with a melting pot.
And they view themselves as a home for refugees because of World War II.
They view themselves as a country that gets along and they love everybody and they don't get into people's faces and we share everything.
They have this mentality that we do not have.
And they revel in that.
They pride themselves on that kind of an attitude.
So when you're coming to them and saying, hey, do you trust your government?
They generally do.
Does your government have that safety net in case you're in trouble?
And they definitely do.
Absolutely.
Are you happy with your surroundings and the people around you?
Yeah.
I mean, that's who they are.
Are you okay with living in 700 square feet of living space?
Yes, they generally are because they don't know any better.
Right, they generally are.
Do you consider you and your fellow citizens generous?
Yes, they do.
They're generous because they pay high taxes.
Right, but they also look at generosity.
I think they also look at generosity as being the, I think they view themselves as the humble little America.
Bring your wretched refuse to our shore.
I think they look at themselves as we take in all the undesirables and we love everybody.
But that really wasn't the case until recently.
Until this refugee crisis in the Middle East, they weren't, you know, they were, like you said, homogenized.
They're all the same.
Right.
How hard is it to get along when you're all the same?
No, it's not hard at all.
It's not hard.
That's why I think it's pretty easy to be the happiest countries.
Yeah.
I suppose.
And it is also looking for the Marxist kind of countries.
Yeah, because here's the criteria.
They have a healthy balance of prosperity as conventionally measured, whatever that that means.
I don't know what that means either.
Right and social capital, meaning a high degree of trust in society, low inequality, and you know that's where they're gonna.
We're gonna get dinged with that because massive inequality.
They don't even have inequality.
A because the government takes it all yeah, but also because everyone's the same, yes.
Is there a trust in your society?
Yes, because everyone's the same.
Yeah, definitely.
And they say, we're falling due to inequality.
Obviously, because that's what they like to harp on.
Well, there's people who make a billion dollars while others make seven dollars an hour.
Yeah, but the people who make a billion dollars employ the people who make seven dollars an hour.
Otherwise they'd make zero dollars an hour, oh my gosh.
So listen to the rhetoric.
The United States can and should raise happiness by addressing America's multifaceted social crisis.
Well, why don't I just go live in Liberia or Togo?
I don't know?
Yeah, I think it was Togo, I think it is.
I'm so fascinated about the Iceland thing.
I mean, their entire economy collapsed.
I think our economy collapsed, theirs like legitimately, they lost their current.
They rewrote their.
They rewrote their constitution on twitter.
Twitter yeah, they were looking for suggestions on twitter.
Hey what uh, should we put in our constitution?
Remember when the founding fathers did that, they wanted everybody to write something down, put it in a hat and just drew stuff out there.
I mean unbelievable, what do you?
I mean?
You know, somebody said to me the other day, they said uh, it was George.
I think it was George Lang somebody yeah, I think it was George Lang.
Um, he came over by the way yeah, a good friend of ours and he came uh, he came over to the house last sunday and he had, he went to church with us and then he um uh, spent the afternoon, we had dinner together and he stayed the night and he was saying um, how much he enjoyed the day with the family.
He said it's just, it was just so great to be with a family, and he said it was uh um, what did he call it?
Uh, an immigrant philosophy.
I think, and in some ways it's true, America has lost its, its roots to the family, and you'll see it with Mexican immigrants, you will see it with the old Italian immigrants Asians Asians, where the family comes together still yeah, and so you know a lot of these countries.
They haven't lost that we have.
We've replaced a lot of that yeah, but I don't think that's what they're basing this on, right?
They're not basing it on family values.
That's the last thing they care about.
Read the first one again.
The first one was the first, the first, the first criteria, yeah, first high criteria, I think.
Balance of prosperity as conventionally measured yeah, social capital meaning a high degree of trust in a society, low inequality and confidence in government.
And of course, the socialists have confidence in their socialist government.
Not necessarily Venezuelans don't no, but I mean, the European socialism is different.
Yeah well, I don't know if it translates.
See, I don't think so because it doesn't translate into Spain.
It doesn't translate into Greece.
It doesn't translate into Italy.
It doesn't translate into Germany.
It translates into the Netherlands.
That is one place where it seems to work until it doesn't.
And they're trying to get out of it now because of finances.
The math doesn't work.
But in that part of the world, it did kind of work.
But it doesn't translate outside of that.
I mean, probably because you're too cold to go out and pick it or march.
You're just like, oh, whatever.
It's cold outside.
You know, a couple of things.
First of all, socialism can be nice for a country for a very short period of time.
I mean, a lot of people getting a lot of money.
The overwhelming majority of people aren't rich and aren't the ones paying for it.
So until the entire society breaks down, you have some positive moments in theory.
To me, you're fighting long term for your country, so you don't want to do that.
Secondarily, you're right.
Like the sort of idea that everyone is uniform does help in some ways as far as strife, but it's also not worth the trade-off.
I mean, I don't want that trade-off.
I mean, it's not something that I think is a good idea.
But it's amazing to see these countries that are up at the top of that list.
And I keep going back to this, but think of how bad this was.
This is Iceland again.
I'm fascinated by this.
Now I'm going back and looking at all my notes on this.
Is this the meat thing where they didn't even have meat in McDonald's?
No, this is just stock market.
Remember that?
They couldn't even afford meat at McDonald's.
Nobody could have told me that.
So that they can make hamburgers.
They don't grow their own beef for McDonald's, and they had no currency.
Well, cows can't live in that kind of cold.
Yeah, cows can't live.
How do you send Jeffy there?
You watch how long he lives.
That's really about cows.
Yeah.
Yeah, but whatever.
So because they had this big thing where they got in, they were, you know, they were just, they were fishermen.
Everyone was a fisherman, basically there.
And so they wound up expanding into international finance in a big way, which really helped their stock market for a while until people who were better at international banking wound up beating them down with it.
But so our stock market before the financial crisis was at about 14,000 and change and fell to about 6,600 at the bottom.
14,000,6,600.
So you're talking a pretty big drop there, 60%.
Their stock market in mid-2007 was about 9,100.
It fell to 200.
Wow.
9,100 to 200.
Can you imagine yourself?
I mean, they blew up their entire currency.
They had to rewrite their constitution.
That is a financial crisis.
I mean, what we dealt with in the United States and the rest of the world dealt with was nothing compared to Iceland.
I think they weren't.
I mean, I've not been to Iceland, but aren't they still pretty much fishermen?
I think they've gone back to a lot of that, yes.
It's apparently a great place to visit.
Like, it actually is pretty amazing to visit.
And, like, it's a really nice culture and it's an interesting place and welcoming.
And there's a lot of great things about it.
However, you know, it depends on what you're doing.
And the names of their cities are all 26 letters long.
It's really cool.
You know what's amazing?
You know, try this on for size.
You're India.
How do you feel?
You're India.
You're at 122 and Pakistan is 80.
Wow.
That's amazing.
I mean, if I had a choice of which country I'm going to, I'm going to India.
I read this.
What were the two again?
It was India.
Pakistan was 80.
India, 122.
Bangladesh is at 110.
Wow.
Jeez.
Commentary on India there.
Sri Lanka, 120.
Bangladesh has a natural disaster about every 15 minutes.
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I mean, when we look into the happiness of Iceland, it's not possible.
It's just not possible.
They're like seven or eight places ahead of us on the happiness scale.
We were 14th.
I think they're sixth or seventh, whatever.
And this is a backward country.
I'm amazed by this story.
They should be taken over before they hurt themselves.
So the naming thing is really fascinating.
So, you know, in the United States, Glenn Beck has a daughter, Hannah.
It's Hannah Beck.
That's not how it works in Iceland at all.
Well, they don't have last names.
They don't essentially don't have last names.
They have last names, but the last name is essentially a formation of the parent's first name.
So Hannah Beck here would be in Iceland, Hannah Beck daughter.
No, it'd be Hannah Glendaughter.
Hannah Glendaughter.
Sorry.
Hannah Glenda.
Their first name.
That's the first name.
So Hannah Glendaughter.
He could also be the wife's first name, potentially.
Or you could do, some of them are both first names, which is a very strange.
Hannah Glenn Tanya daughter.
Right.
Well, yeah, kind of.
Then you have when you get married, you can't take the other person's name.
Of course not.
That can't happen.
That's not legal.
And then thirdly, if you want to name your, so you go through this process when the baby's born, you don't name the kid for multiple months.
Okay, this is the tradition is you have to get to know them first before you name them.
Right.
They come into their name.
They come into their name.
So they start out for the first few months as boy or girl, which, by the way, is hateful.
I don't know if they know that.
Right off the bat, that's hateful.
Well, you're assigning a gender to them.
That's not right.
How could you possibly know at three months what their gender is?
There's no way to know.
No.
But so they call them boy or girl for like three months or longer.
And then when you come up with a name, if it's not on the normal name list, you have to submit the name to Sven.
I think that one's on there.
Sven Wilhelm's son.
You have to send the request to the Icelandic Naming Committee before being allowed to name your child.
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For example, because it has to fit the Icelandic alphabet.
And they rejected, for example, Pedro because no Icelandic word ends in O, which I mean, we're hateful here.
We're the hateful.
They've rejected all Pedros and we're the hate mongers.
Wow.
Incredible.
Maybe that's why they're happy they have no Pedros there.
Well, I would say that.
And who's doing the work that all the Icelanders won't do?
I don't know the answer to that.
There is no work the Icelanders won't do.
Yeah, that's because the only work is fishing and they do that.
Right.
Okay, so now we are number 14 on the list of happy places.
So I went, of course, right to HuffPo to find out the 45 things we can do to be happier instantly.
Oh, good.
Oh, I got a few of them.
Number 45.
Look at the bright side.
Right.
Wow.
That's really deep.
I like this one.
You want to be happier?
Lower your expectations.
That's number 42.
I actually fully agree with that one.
I'll tell you what.
I actually really do agree with it.
Want to be happy?
Take a selfie.
Oh, God.
I've seen my selfies.
No, no.
That makes me happier.
Yeah, yeah.
Want to be happy?
I like this one.
Recite a positive mantra like, the only thing I have to do is follow my bliss.