The Glenn Beck Program - 3/23/17 - Full Show
Aired: 2017-03-23
Duration: 01:53:18


=== Optimistic View of the World (01:56) ===

[00:00:00]  This is the Blaze Radio on demand.
[00:00:05]  The Republicans are nearing a last-minute deal to save their health care bill.
[00:00:13]  At the same time, the Republicans are working to get rid of their health care bill.
[00:00:20]  Who wins?
[00:00:21]  We'll find out today.
[00:00:22]  This is a very big, big deal.
[00:00:25]  London terror attack as well.
[00:00:28]  We have an update on what happened with Gorsuch, but nothing spectacular.
[00:00:33]  The guy is going to be our next Supreme Court justice, I'm sure.
[00:00:39]  Some technology news and a way to look at what's happening in the world with new eyes that is really quite optimistic.
[00:00:52]  We go there, begin there, right now.
[00:00:56]  I will make it stand.
[00:00:58]  I will raise my voice.
[00:01:00]  I will hold your hand.
[00:01:03]  Because we have won.
[00:01:05]  I will be my drum.
[00:01:07]  I have made my choice.
[00:01:09]  We will overcome.
[00:01:11]  Cause we are one.
[00:01:13]  The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
[00:01:17]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[00:01:23]  We're going to get into wiretapping and the president and the former president and Russia.
[00:01:30]  We'll do that in just a few minutes.
[00:01:32]  I started a book last night written by a guy who's a historian and wrote the book Sapiens a few years ago, which was a huge bestseller.
[00:01:45]  He's just put out a new book called Homo Deus, which I believe means God is gay, right, Pat?
[00:01:52]  Wouldn't that be?
[00:01:53]  Yeah, loosely translated.
[00:01:54]  Loosely translated.
[00:01:55]  Very loosely translated.

=== History of Famine and Plague (13:34) ===

[00:01:57]  So anyway, Homo Deus, a brief history of tomorrow with a tip of the hat to Stephen Hawking and a brief history of time.
[00:02:08]  I just started to read the first chapter, not all the way through it.
[00:02:11]  And the perspective that it gives you on capitalism and the Western way of life is stunning.
[00:02:22]  So if you're feeling a little down in the mouth, let me just give you this.
[00:02:28]  At the dawn of the third millennium, humanity wakes up, stretching its limbs and rubbing its eyes.
[00:02:34]  Remnants of some awful nightmare are still drifting across its mind.
[00:02:39]  There was something with barbed wire and a huge mushroom cloud.
[00:02:43]  Oh, well, that was just a bad dream.
[00:02:45]  Going to the bathroom, humanity washes its face, examines its wrinkles in the mirror, makes a cup of coffee, and opens the diary.
[00:02:53]  Let's see what's on the agenda today.
[00:02:56]  For thousands of years, the answer to this question remained unchanged.
[00:03:01]  The same problems preoccupied the people of 20th century China, of medieval India, and ancient Egypt.
[00:03:09]  Famine, plague, and war were always at the top of the list.
[00:03:14]  For generation after generation, humans have prayed to every God, angel, and saint and have invented countless tools, institutions, and social systems, but they continued to die in their millions from starvation, epidemics, and violence.
[00:03:30]  Many thinkers and prophets concluded that famine, plague, and war must be an integral part of God's cosmic plan or of our imperfect nature, and nothing short of the end of time would ever free us from them.
[00:03:44]  Yet at the dawn of the third millennium, humanity wakes up to an amazing realization.
[00:03:50]  Most people rarely even think about it, but in just the last few decades, we have managed to rein in famine, plague, and war.
[00:04:00]  Of course, these problems have not been completely solved, but they've been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges.
[00:04:11]  We don't need to pray to God or any saint to rescue us from them anymore.
[00:04:15]  We know quite well what needs to be done in order to prevent famine, plague, and war.
[00:04:21]  And usually now we succeed in it.
[00:04:24]  True, there are still notable failures, but when faced with such failures, we no longer shrug our shoulders and say, well, that's the way things work in our imperfect world, or God's will be done, or God works in mysterious ways.
[00:04:38]  Rather, when it comes to famine, plague, or war, when they break out of control, we feel that somebody must have screwed up.
[00:04:47]  And so we set up a commission of inquiry and promise ourselves that next time we'll do better.
[00:04:53]  And it seems to actually be working.
[00:04:56]  Such calamities indeed happen less and less often.
[00:04:59]  For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than eating too little.
[00:05:08]  More people die from old age than from infectious diseases.
[00:05:14]  And more people commit suicide today than are killed by soldiers, terrorists, and criminals combined.
[00:05:22]  In the early 21st century, the average human is far more likely from...
[00:05:27]  It's rare that you hear a positive spin on suicide.
[00:05:31]  It is.
[00:05:33]  That is true.
[00:05:33]  That's amazing.
[00:05:35]  A lot of people will use these stats like, well, a higher percentage of people are dying because of heart disease than ever before.
[00:05:43]  And we need to stop this crisis.
[00:05:44]  Oh, wait, don't say it, because he says it.
[00:05:47]  He says it.
[00:05:48]  In early 21st century, the average human is far more likely to die from binging at McDonald's than from drought, Ebola, or al-Qaeda.
[00:05:56]  Hence, even though presidents, CEOs, and generals still have their daily schedules full of economic crisis, military conflicts, and the cosmic scale of history, humankind, scale of history, humankind can lift its eyes up and start looking towards new horizons.
[00:06:12]  If we are indeed bringing famine, plague, and war under control, What will replace them at the top of the human agenda?
[00:06:21]  Like firefighters in a world without fire, so humankind in the 21st century will need to ask itself an unprecedented question.
[00:06:30]  What are we going to do with ourselves?
[00:06:32]  In a healthy, prosperous, and harmonious world, what will demand our attention and ingenuity?
[00:06:39]  This question becomes doubtedly urgent given the immense new powers that biotechnology and information technology are providing us with.
[00:06:50]  Let's start with famine, which for thousands of years has been humanity's worst enemy.
[00:06:57]  Until recently, most humans lived on the very edge of the biological poverty line below which people succumb to malnutrition and hunger.
[00:07:06]  A small mistake or a bit of bad luck could easily be a death sentence for an entire village or an entire family.
[00:07:13]  If heavy rains destroyed your wheat crop or robbers carried off your goat herd, you and your loved ones starved to death.
[00:07:20]  Misfortunes or stupidity on the collective level resulted in mass famines.
[00:07:26]  When severe drought in ancient Egypt or medieval India, it was not uncommon that 5 or 10% of the population poverished.
[00:07:36]  Open any history book and you're likely to come across horrific accounts of famished populations driven mad by hunger.
[00:07:43]  In April 1694, French official in the town of Beauvais describes the impact of famine and soaring food prices, saying the entire district was now filled with an infinite number of poor souls weak from hunger and wretchedness and dying from want because they had no work or occupation.
[00:08:01]  They lacked the money to buy bread, seeking to prolong their lives just a little and somewhat to appease their hunger.
[00:08:07]  These poor folks eat such unclean things as cats and the flesh of horses that have been filleted and thrown into dung heaps.
[00:08:16]  Others consume the blood that flows when cows and oxen are slaughtered.
[00:08:22]  I can just hear Jeffy's tummy rumbling right now.
[00:08:25]  Other poor wretches eat nettles and weeds or roots and herbs which they simply boil in water.
[00:08:31]  Similar scenes took place all over France.
[00:08:33]  Bad weather ruined the harvest, blah, blah, blah.
[00:08:37]  About 2.8 million French, 15% of the population starved to death between 1692 and 1694.
[00:08:44]  The following year, 1695, Estonia, fifth of the population died.
[00:08:50]  1696, Finland's turn, a quarter to a third of the people died.
[00:08:55]  Scotland suffered from severe famine between 1695 and 1698, districts losing 20% of their inhabitants.
[00:09:03]  But during the last hundred years, technological, economic, and political developments have created an increasingly robust safety net, sparing humankind from biological poverty lines.
[00:09:14]  Mass famines still strike some areas from time to time, but they are exceptional and they're almost always caused.
[00:09:22]  Now listen to this, almost always caused by human politics rather than natural catastrophes.
[00:09:29]  There are no longer natural famines in the world.
[00:09:33]  There are only political famines.
[00:09:36]  If the people in Syria, Sudan, or Somalia starve to death, it's only because some politician wants them to.
[00:09:48]  He goes on for this a lot.
[00:09:50]  He says, the Chinese, tens of millions of people, died in the Great Leap Forward.
[00:09:56]  In 1974, the first food conference was convened in Rome.
[00:10:00]  Delegates were treated to an apocalyptic scenario.
[00:10:03]  They were told that there was no way for China to feed its billion people, and the world's most populous country was heading towards catastrophe.
[00:10:10]  In fact, it was headed the opposite direction.
[00:10:13]  For the first time in its recorded history, China is now free from famine.
[00:10:19]  Indeed, most countries today, overeating is a far worse problem than famine.
[00:10:25]  In the 18th century, Marie Antoinette allegedly advised the starving masses that they ran out of bread, they should eat cake, which is exactly what's happening.
[00:10:35]  The residents of Beverly Hills eat lettuce salad and steamed toe food with quinoa.
[00:10:40]  In the slums and ghettos, the poor gorge themselves on Twinkies, Cheetos, hamburgers, and pizza.
[00:10:47]  Then he talks about how...
[00:10:50]  Better to be poor, apparently.
[00:10:52]  Yeah.
[00:10:53]  Then he talks about the plagues that happen.
[00:10:57]  The plague, the black plague, 75 million and 200 million people somewhere in between there died.
[00:11:04]  More than a quarter of the population of Eurasia.
[00:11:09]  He goes into the Black Death was not a singular event.
[00:11:14]  1520, the Spanish flotilla left the island of Cuba on its way to Mexico.
[00:11:19]  Little did they know.
[00:11:20]  One of the soldiers had smallpox.
[00:11:23]  Listen to this.
[00:11:24]  They landed in a Mexican shoreline.
[00:11:29]  Francisco had the smallpox, didn't know it.
[00:11:32]  The virus began to multiply exponentially in his body, eventually bursting out all over his skin.
[00:11:38]  Feverish Francisco was taken to a bed in the house of a Native American family in the town of wherever.
[00:11:44]  He infected the family members who infected the neighbors, and within 10 days, the entire town became a graveyard.
[00:11:50]  Town after town succumbed to the plague.
[00:11:53]  New waves of terrified refugees carried the disease throughout Mexico and beyond.
[00:11:58]  Tens of thousands of corpses lay rotting in the streets without anyone daring to even approach them and bury them.
[00:12:05]  Entire families were dead.
[00:12:07]  Half the population in some settlements was dead.
[00:12:10]  By 1520, it had reached the Valley of Mexico.
[00:12:13]  When the Spanish fleet arrived, Mexico was the home of 22 million people.
[00:12:19]  By December of that year, only 14 million people were still alive.
[00:12:25]  And within two years, that population was down to 2 million people.
[00:12:32]  He goes on to talk about all of these plagues, including the Spanish flu that killed a third of the population.
[00:12:43]  He says, with the global transportation network and everything else, Tokyo alone should kill us all because it's a breeding ground in everybody going to Tokyo or Hong Kong and they'll spread this disease within 24 hours.
[00:12:59]  It's deep in the Congo and right in Manhattan.
[00:13:04]  He said, but it's not happening.
[00:13:06]  In fact, global child mortality is in an all-time low.
[00:13:10]  Less than 5% of children die before reaching adulthood.
[00:13:13]  In the developed world, the rate is less than 1%.
[00:13:17]  This is all due to the unprecedented achievements of 20th century medicine, which has provided vaccines, antibiotics, improved hygiene, and much more.
[00:13:27]  Every few years, we're alarmed by the outbreak of some potential new plague, such as SARS in 2002, 2003, bird flu in 2005, swine flu in 9 and 10, and Ebola in 2014.
[00:13:40]  SARS initially raised fears of a new black plague, eventually ended with the death of less than a thousand people worldwide.
[00:13:49]  Ebola outbreak in West Africa seemed to spin out of control.
[00:13:54]  In 2014, the World Health Organization said it was the most severe public health emergency seen in modern times.
[00:14:01]  But by the end, it had only infected 30,000 people and only 11,000 people died worldwide.
[00:14:11]  He goes on to say, despite all of this, we still think that this is only a temporary victory.
[00:14:20]  He said, however, with the in 2015, doctors announced the discovery of a completely new type of antibiotic.
[00:14:30]  I didn't even know this, did you?
[00:14:32]  Texabiacin, which bacteria has no resistance as yet.
[00:14:38]  Some scholars believe Texabiactin may prove to be a game changer in the fight against highly resistant germs.
[00:14:45]  Scientists are also developing revolutionary new treatments that work in radically different ways to any previous medicine.
[00:14:52]  For example, some research labs are already home to nanorobots, which one day may navigate through our bloodstream, identify illnesses and kill the pathogens in cancerous cells.
[00:15:03]  Microorganisms may have four billion years of cumulative experience of fighting organic enemies, but they have zero experience fighting bionic predators and therefore would find it doubtly difficult to evolve effective defenses.
[00:15:20]  Then he goes into war, which is just as amazing, and the whole premise of this book is.
[00:15:27]  So now what I?
[00:15:30]  I mean I?

=== Political Storylines for Trump (15:33) ===

[00:15:31]  I go from this really pessimistic and it really is up to us whether we destroy ourselves at this point.
[00:15:38]  If we don't destroy ourselves at this point, the whole world is going to change.
[00:15:43]  Cancer will be a thing of the past.
[00:15:46]  You know the the number one killer now is what?
[00:15:50]  Cancer and heart attack.
[00:15:52]  Heart attacks didn't happen in the past.
[00:15:54]  They weren't the number one killer because people didn't live long enough for their heart to give out.
[00:15:59]  Cancer wasn't as big of a problem because people didn't live that long to have cancer.
[00:16:04]  As weird as it is, these things rising in prominence is positive right, it's.
[00:16:08]  It's longevity and also choice.
[00:16:12]  I mean what a great world it would be if we all had to choose to die.
[00:16:16]  I know that sounds bizarre, but I mean that's not how it's been throughout human history.
[00:16:20]  You just it just happens to you and you got no friggin control over it.
[00:16:23]  Now at least we have some control.
[00:16:24]  What he doesn't mention there is we seem to have replaced the actual concerns of war, famine and pestilence with the fake concerns of war on women.
[00:16:33]  War on women, safe spaces, trigger words, feeling uncomfortable this is income inequality, all that nonsense.
[00:16:39]  This is what he's saying here is.
[00:16:41]  So what are we going to pick?
[00:16:43]  Yeah, as our, as our goals, and I think what we're doing is we're a still attaching to old goals, we're still trying to uh, make people afraid of former boogeyman.
[00:16:58]  Meanwhile, we're now he's not making this point, but I will.
[00:17:02]  Meanwhile, we are also taking apart the very medical system that cured us, that brought us here.
[00:17:12]  We all complain that American health insurance is so expensive and it is, and it's out of control.
[00:17:19]  And the reason why is because we've taken it out of the free market and we've tried to do this hybrid.
[00:17:24]  The hybrid is, it doesn't work and it hasn't worked for the last 50 years.
[00:17:29]  And so it needs to be taken out of a hybrid.
[00:17:32]  But because of that hybrid, it's allowed enough oxygen for gains to be made.
[00:17:39]  And if we kill, if we snuff the life out of medical research, we're going to go backwards.
[00:17:48]  We have to be careful and not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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[00:19:27]  The Glenn Beck Program.
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[00:19:36]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[00:19:39]  So today is a big day in Washington because today is the day that President Trump either gets his health care passed or doesn't.
[00:19:50]  The Liberty-minded Republicans are standing against this.
[00:19:55]  The White House is pushing hard for it.
[00:19:58]  More on that and also wiretapping in troubles with Russia when we come back.
[00:20:15]  Mercury.
[00:20:20]  The Glenn Beck Program.
[00:20:23]  Do the Republicans hold the line or do they pass now Trump care?
[00:20:30]  I mean, if you read the reports that came out last night talking about how the Freedom Caucus was, they were all, you know, they had enough no votes.
[00:20:39]  Now they're trying to get one or two things to flip.
[00:20:42]  And Trump, being the art of the deal guy, is like, I mean, I don't think Trump cares whether X, Y, or Z is in this bill.
[00:20:48]  He just wants to get the bill passed.
[00:20:50]  Yes.
[00:20:50]  So he is saying basically supposedly the Freedom Caucus and the Freedom Caucus are the best we have, but are in there negotiating with Trump saying like, get rid of this regulation, this regulation, and this regulation, and maybe we'll come over and vote for it.
[00:21:04]  So that would mean largely that this stuff, that the bill would pass.
[00:21:10]  They only had to sway a few of them.
[00:21:12]  The issue at question is whether they can sway the Freedom Caucus without losing some moderates.
[00:21:18]  And that is a question.
[00:21:19]  They said for every Democrat you get, you'll lose two Republicans, and for every Republican you get, you lose two Democrats.
[00:21:26]  Yeah, and that might be the case.
[00:21:28]  However, the things that they're talking about taking out are pretty, I mean, for a Republican to oppose them, because some of it is like, you know, pre-existing conditions they want.
[00:21:37]  And apparently the Trump administration is absolutely not, we're not taking out pre-existing conditions.
[00:21:42]  That's not happening.
[00:21:43]  But the other side of it is they want to get rid of the requirement to cover maternity care.
[00:21:48]  Obviously, you know, that's a weird thing for a lot of people who would have no use for that.
[00:21:52]  You know, people who either can't give birth because they're, you know, men or can't give birth because they may be past the age in which they would be considering giving birth.
[00:22:02]  And so like that type of thing being taken out, I don't think is the type of thing that would take a moderate and say, you know what, absolutely not.
[00:22:10]  That's something a Democrat would say.
[00:22:13]  But whether a moderate Republican opposes this bill based on the fact that you no longer have to cover maternity care for people who are men, I don't know that that's a deal breaker.
[00:22:23]  There's some things in there that they might want to keep.
[00:22:26]  But again, it seems to be this negotiation.
[00:22:28]  What's completely bizarre about this is the complaints about the original Obamacare bill were things like, hey, you're doing this in the cover of night.
[00:22:35]  We don't know what's going on.
[00:22:36]  B, you came up with this bill and we're just rushing it through so we can get it done.
[00:22:40]  All of those things are happening with this.
[00:22:42]  All the same.
[00:22:42]  All the same things.
[00:22:44]  And if you notice that the press is only focusing on the Trump supporters that wanted universal health care, He's going to lose a lot of his support in the red states because here's Bob who voted because he wanted full universal coverage.
[00:23:03]  Right.
[00:23:03]  Because Trump said he was going to get everybody covered and the government was going to pay for it.
[00:23:07]  Now, I think most people didn't take him seriously on that.
[00:23:09]  I think most people were like, you know, he's saying it because he's making a big promise and hoping people come around.
[00:23:15]  I don't think most Trump supporters are going to bail on him because he's not giving you the universal health care he promised.
[00:23:22]  I don't think.
[00:23:23]  The question is, will most GOP supporters bail on the GOP if they do pass this water deal, if they don't do what they said, repeal it?
[00:23:33]  Well, it's funny because I've been seeing all these people on the left and in the media in particular saying, oh, look at what they're doing.
[00:23:41]  This is, yes, they're cutting some of the taxes that were in Obamacare, but they're promising less coverage.
[00:23:46]  They're promising worse insurance.
[00:23:47]  They're promising all these blah, blah, blah.
[00:23:49]  They go through the whole gamut of all these things that make things worse.
[00:23:52]  And I thought to myself, it depends on when you measure it from.
[00:23:57]  If you want to say, because let's believe all the CBO crap, and I don't, you know, there's a lot of questions with that.
[00:24:02]  But let's say they're going to lose coverage for a second.
[00:24:04]  Lose coverage from what?
[00:24:05]  From, yes, the incredibly liberal president that passed the thing that everyone named after him.
[00:24:12]  Yes, it might be a little bit less big government health care than that.
[00:24:18]  However, if you would have gone back before Obama, let's say McCain won or Romney won, everybody in this audience would be like, I'm not passing that.
[00:24:26]  That's way too liberal.
[00:24:28]  You're paying for how many millions of people of healthcare out of nowhere, out of whole cloth?
[00:24:33]  You're increasing taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars.
[00:24:37]  You're increasing regulation like crazy.
[00:24:40]  You're requiring...
[00:24:40]  Stu, this is a binary world.
[00:24:42]  You either have it or you don't, which are you going to vote for?
[00:24:45]  But I mean, this is a win for progressives either way.
[00:24:49]  Yes, it is.
[00:24:49]  The fact is, they either moved it 10 steps to the left in 2008 or they moved it five steps to the left.
[00:24:59]  There's no more conservative option coming out here.
[00:25:01]  There's nothing like that.
[00:25:03]  They have, in the Overton window, progressivism, everything we've talked about all this time, they have executed yet another incredible magic trick to say that now Republicans, the Freedom Caucus maybe, might be rooting for this plan that no one on the right would have accepted out of Barack Obama in 2008.
[00:25:22]  Nobody.
[00:25:23]  Everyone would have said it was crazy.
[00:25:26]  They all would have fought it to the death.
[00:25:29]  And now here they are saying, you know what, would be a great option if we can back off Obamacare by 15%.
[00:25:35]  It's crazy.
[00:25:36]  It's truly crazy.
[00:25:38]  Now, there's a couple of other things that are going on in this Russia thing.
[00:25:42]  And people are conflating two separate storylines and we need to separate them.
[00:25:52]  This morning I got up and I watched the testimony of Comey with Trey Gowdy, who is, by the way, just tremendous.
[00:25:59]  He is just tremendous.
[00:26:01]  He's very good prosecutor.
[00:26:02]  He is.
[00:26:02]  That's what he was born to do.
[00:26:05]  This is when he's at his best.
[00:26:06]  It is.
[00:26:07]  It is.
[00:26:07]  So he was going after Comey and he was talking to Comey because there is a statute in the law that Congress was so concerned about giving the government power through these FISA courts to go ahead and listen to foreign officials on foreign soil and have,
[00:26:30]  if they're calling somebody here in the United States, what happens if, you know, somebody who's involved in something nefarious, they call Pat, but they're not talking to Pat about anything nefarious.
[00:26:42]  Pat's just an innocent bystander.
[00:26:45]  What happens if that's released with Pat's name?
[00:26:49]  You destroy him and you cause him to look like he's part of some criminal organization or terrorist organization.
[00:26:57]  No, no, no.
[00:26:58]  Congress made a deal with the NSA, with Department of Homeland Security, Justice Department, everybody who's involved in any of this stuff.
[00:27:07]  And they came up with a deal that said, we're going to mask those names.
[00:27:11]  And there's going to be maybe 100 people in the entire country that can unmask a name.
[00:27:18]  And that person has to be at the collection point.
[00:27:22]  So in other words, if the NSA has this, you know, investigation going on somebody and they give that information masked to the FBI, the FBI can't say, let me look under the cover and see who that name is.
[00:27:39]  You actually have to go back to the original collection point and say, here's why I need this name because I think it's a guy that we're looking into.
[00:27:49]  Can you verify this guy?
[00:27:50]  They unmask it and say, yep, that's him or no, it's not.
[00:27:54]  Okay.
[00:27:55]  That's the way it works.
[00:27:56]  And if it works any other way, it is 10 years mandatory prison sentence.
[00:28:03]  Well, somebody unmasked the names of the transcripts and it was most likely an Obama political appointee.
[00:28:13]  And that's a 10-year prison sentence.
[00:28:16]  That has to be solved.
[00:28:18]  And somebody has to go to prison, unless it's like Hillary Clinton, and we don't really care anymore.
[00:28:25]  Well, she can't go to prison.
[00:28:26]  She's Hillary Clinton.
[00:28:27]  Right, I know.
[00:28:28]  But maybe it's somebody else like Clapper, and we don't really care about them either because it's James Clapper.
[00:28:34]  So there's got to be some special exceptions, I'm sure, for some of these hundred people.
[00:28:39]  Trey Gowdy is saying that person needs to go to prison because if we can't trust that you're going to keep innocent names of Americans out, then we can't trust this system at all because it'll become politicized.
[00:28:53]  He's absolutely right.
[00:28:55]  Now that is separate and that storyline is good for Trump because it looks like somebody was politically after Donald Trump and was using the system the way it's not supposed to be used.
[00:29:11]  That's different than wiretapping and everything else.
[00:29:14]  That's just who unmasked the names.
[00:29:16]  10-year prison sentence.
[00:29:17]  Somebody needs to go to jail for that.
[00:29:20]  Separate that now from the storyline of was there collusion?
[00:29:26]  Now they're saying collusion with the Russians and the Donald Trump camp.
[00:29:35]  There's been some absolute bombshells this week that have been released that the right doesn't want to talk about, and they're conflating the two.
[00:29:46]  Somebody in the Obama administration needs to go to jail for releasing names.
[00:29:51]  However, there's the story about the financial ties to Russia with Manafort and Flynn.
[00:30:00]  Manafort was getting $10 million a year from Russia and laundering this money.
[00:30:08]  Now, we've known this before Trump was elected, but we didn't have verification.
[00:30:15]  We now have verification and the documents to prove it from a Ukrainian lawmaker.
[00:30:23]  And the reason why these Ukrainians want to do this is they don't like Vladimir Putin.
[00:30:28]  They don't like Russia.
[00:30:29]  And Manafort was working basically for Putin and his puppet in the Ukraine.
[00:30:36]  And that Ukrainian, Russian-friendly party was the one writing these checks to Paul Manafort to get, his job was to get a positive spin on Russia to make sure Americans saw Russia as friendly allies and not a foe.
[00:30:58]  Well, I would say mission accomplished there.
[00:31:00]  It was worth his $10 million.
[00:31:02]  Oh, my God.
[00:31:03]  Underpaid dramatically.

=== Evidence in the Trump Campaign (03:33) ===

[00:31:04]  Oh, yeah.
[00:31:06]  And that was not disclosed anywhere.
[00:31:09]  Paul Manafort never said that.
[00:31:11]  And the same thing happened with Flynn.
[00:31:14]  He was being paid tens of thousands of dollars, and he never disclosed it.
[00:31:20]  But that is just one story.
[00:31:22]  The second story that came out yesterday was now the FBI is admitting that they are looking into collusion with the Russians going after Hillary Clinton.
[00:31:35]  And it's beyond, I mean, I thought it was collusion myself.
[00:31:37]  I thought it was wrong when Donald Trump said, hey, I hope you hack some more.
[00:31:43]  I thought that was bad.
[00:31:45]  They're now saying that they have evidence of meetings, of documents, of recordings where the Trump administration or the Trump people were actually colluding with the Russians on releasing more information.
[00:32:01]  Someone in Trump's campaign.
[00:32:02]  Someone in Trump's campaign.
[00:32:04]  More than one, it appears.
[00:32:06]  And again, I would say that that is a early level story.
[00:32:09]  I wouldn't say it's confirmed that we know there was collusion by any stretch yet.
[00:32:15]  No.
[00:32:15]  So, I mean, we have one, I guess, one source of the FBI.
[00:32:20]  And they're looking into it, right?
[00:32:22]  This is apparently what McComey was referring to when he said they're looking into this.
[00:32:25]  So there's a lot of details around this that are important.
[00:32:27]  Another one from the side of Trump and the leaks, which I think you're completely right.
[00:32:34]  You can't unmask these things.
[00:32:35]  This is one of the issues with this.
[00:32:36]  And it's what we said from the beginning, by the way, because yes, I think it's very plausible and actually understandable that a campaign person who is talking to a Russian ambassador would get swept up into communications that we are monitoring.
[00:32:58]  The problem with that is it can be abused.
[00:32:59]  And it may be a case here where it was abused, which is something worth looking into.
[00:33:04]  The other part we should point out is this seemingly happened, at least to the reporting so far, after the election.
[00:33:10]  So Trump had already won.
[00:33:11]  And while that does not mean that whoever did it gets out of their trouble, it's important to know that, I think, from the perspective of understanding what the motivation was here.
[00:33:22]  There were a lot of stories that happened after Trump won.
[00:33:24]  Remember, the Obama people did not think Trump was going to win.
[00:33:27]  Nobody did.
[00:33:28]  I mean, at least because if you're saying, I knew he was going to win, well, you should have freaking gone to a sports book and made 10 times your money on election day, then you should have done that.
[00:33:38]  But I mean, they did not think he was going to win.
[00:33:41]  So after this, there were many stories that the Obama, the insiders, were trying to preserve evidence of these things happening, thinking, in their mind, that Trump was going to come in and get rid of it and make sure that no one ever knew about it.
[00:33:57]  So that is an interesting little thing that they may have thought to themselves, well, and thinking to themselves, well, we're in the right here, and he's going to hide that evidence.
[00:34:07]  So we're going to make sure we get it.
[00:34:09]  And that should end in 10-year jail terms.
[00:34:12]  That activity, whether they think it was justified or not, should end in 10-year jail terms.
[00:34:16]  But it did not have an effect on the election in any way.
[00:34:19]  The left is dismissing the first part.
[00:34:23]  The right is dismissing the second part.
[00:34:25]  Both are valid.
[00:34:27]  And any fair-minded, justice-minded individual will address both of them and separate them from one another.
[00:34:37]  And now this.

=== Principles Over How Things Work (15:31) ===

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[00:36:00]  We play a little bit of Ray Kurzweil.
[00:36:02]  We have to get to this later or perhaps tomorrow.
[00:36:05]  Listen to how casually Ray Kurzweil talks about what's coming.
[00:36:09]  Well, we're going to become increasingly non-biological to the point where the non-biological part predominates and the biological part is not that important anymore.
[00:36:18]  Sure.
[00:36:19]  In fact, the non-biological part, the machine part, will be so powerful it can completely model and understand the biological part.
[00:36:26]  Even if that biological part went away, it wouldn't make any difference.
[00:36:31]  The non-biological part already understood it completely.
[00:36:34]  We'll also have non-biological bodies.
[00:36:37]  Sure.
[00:36:37]  We can create bodies with nanotechnology.
[00:36:39]  We can create virtual bodies and virtual reality.
[00:36:42]  Right, right.
[00:36:43]  It's a matter of fact.
[00:36:45]  I know.
[00:36:45]  And this is the guy who's the head of Selby Machines.
[00:36:49]  This is the head of AI at Google.
[00:36:51]  No more feelings than anybody in humankind.
[00:36:53]  One of the greatest minds alive today.
[00:36:56]  And one of the guys that Stephen Hawking is like, warning.
[00:37:01]  You know, just matter of factly saying, yeah, we're just not going to have biological bodies anymore.
[00:37:07]  And wait, wait, wait.
[00:37:11]  This is the Glenn Beck Program.
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[00:38:36]  Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
[00:38:40]  We have a good friend in that I think you need to hear.
[00:38:44]  Andy Andrews, he's a New York Times best-selling author, written a new book, The Little Things.
[00:38:50]  Everybody says you should don't sweat the small stuff.
[00:38:53]  He says, no, actually, actually, you should sweat the small stuff.
[00:38:57]  We begin there right now.
[00:39:00]  I will make a stand.
[00:39:02]  I will raise my voice.
[00:39:04]  I will hold your hand.
[00:39:07]  Cause we have one.
[00:39:09]  I will beat my drum.
[00:39:11]  I have made my choice.
[00:39:13]  We will overcome.
[00:39:15]  Cause we are one.
[00:39:18]  The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
[00:39:21]  This is the Glenn Beck Program.
[00:39:26]  Andy Andrews, a friend of the program, New York Times best-selling author of The Noticer and the Traveler's Gift.
[00:39:33]  And what was a great book you did about the Holocaust?
[00:39:35]  How do you kill 11 million people?
[00:39:37]  Yeah, really great.
[00:39:39]  A really great book.
[00:39:41]  And they're all things that you can read quickly.
[00:39:44]  He has a new one out called The Little Things.
[00:39:46]  And honestly, Andy, I don't know why we have you on because I've got enough to worry about.
[00:39:51]  I don't want to worry about the little things as well.
[00:39:52]  Jeffy's complaining about me during the break.
[00:39:55]  I know.
[00:39:55]  I know.
[00:39:55]  I just don't want to worry about that as well.
[00:39:58]  Actually, it's the greatest pathway to results you'll ever find.
[00:40:03]  You know, everybody, even people in first place, second place, third place, they all compete the same way.
[00:40:09]  And they all increase and decrease the same way.
[00:40:12]  And you can do that.
[00:40:13]  You can do what everybody's doing.
[00:40:15]  But if you really want to double and triple your results, it won't be how everybody else is doing it.
[00:40:22]  Because do you see anybody doubling?
[00:40:24]  See anybody tripling?
[00:40:25]  won't be how they're doing it.
[00:40:27]  Okay.
[00:40:27]  And so you always have to look the other way.
[00:40:30]  And in a world where everybody's talking about the big picture, we want to hire somebody with the big picture.
[00:40:35]  We want to be led by somebody who really has the big picture.
[00:40:38]  And a lot of times big picture people forget there's a lot of intricate little details that have to be taken care of before that big picture ever takes place.
[00:40:46]  I can't imagine those kind of people.
[00:40:47]  I've never hated those kind of people in my life.
[00:40:50]  And so the idea in reality, this is not just a little argument.
[00:40:56]  You think about it.
[00:40:57]  When Da Vinci created the Mona Lisa, he did it with the smallest paintbrush available at the time.
[00:41:03]  And when people said, well, why are you doing it with the brush like that?
[00:41:05]  That's ridiculous.
[00:41:06]  He said, because I'm creating a masterpiece.
[00:41:09]  Well, when you go to the Louvre today, you can look at the Mona Lisa through a magnifying glass and you can't see individual brushstrokes.
[00:41:17]  It is a masterpiece.
[00:41:19]  And so whatever you're doing with your life or your business or your family, you're creating something.
[00:41:25]  And at the end of it all, whether you've created a masterpiece or a disaster, it will have been done one tiny choice at a time, one decision, one moment, one tiny brushstroke at a time.
[00:41:37]  So everybody is overwhelmed by everything that is going on in the world.
[00:41:42]  everything is so big.
[00:41:46]  Does this help us to get?
[00:41:48]  Yes. Yes.
[00:41:49]  Because see, again, let me just give you an example.
[00:41:53]  Okay.
[00:41:54]  There are only so many decisions that you can make.
[00:41:57]  And I think everybody can relate to this.
[00:42:00]  You get home and your wife or your husband will say, we want to go to a movie, you want to go out to dinner?
[00:42:06]  And guys will always say, I don't care.
[00:42:08]  Yes, sure.
[00:42:09]  And I mean it.
[00:42:10]  I don't care.
[00:42:11]  Steve Jobs always wore the same outfit every day because he said, don't sweat the small things.
[00:42:19]  Just I've got to wear this because this doesn't matter.
[00:42:24]  And that way I'm saving all my decision power for the big things.
[00:42:29]  He was really sweating the small things.
[00:42:33]  He made a tiny decision that allowed him to focus on bigger things.
[00:42:39]  See, this is good news that we should sweat the small stuff.
[00:42:43]  And I'll tell you why.
[00:42:44]  Everybody thinks that have big changes in their life.
[00:42:48]  They got to make big changes.
[00:42:51]  But one time I was headed out in the Gulf of Mexico with a friend.
[00:42:56]  We're going to tuna fish.
[00:42:57]  We're going out 100 miles.
[00:43:00]  You know, you can buy that on the shelves.
[00:43:01]  Yeah, I do.
[00:43:02]  I do.
[00:43:03]  My wife reminds me of that all the time.
[00:43:04]  How much does this cost?
[00:43:05]  About $1,000 a pound?
[00:43:08]  But we were headed out and we set the autopilot going out of the pass and seven, eight, nine, ten miles.
[00:43:16]  We looked behind us.
[00:43:17]  Everything seems fine.
[00:43:18]  But when we got out there, we couldn't even find the spot.
[00:43:22]  We were miles away from the spot.
[00:43:24]  It was pretty scary, but a week later we had the autopilot surveyed and it was two degrees off.
[00:43:31]  Two degrees.
[00:43:32]  Now you think about this.
[00:43:33]  A compass has 360 degrees.
[00:43:36]  It's like 1 16th of an inch on this compass.
[00:43:40]  And for a little while, you make that change.
[00:43:43]  It looks like nothing.
[00:43:44]  But you get out there, you get down the road, you can be miles away from where you intended.
[00:43:49]  Now, if you can do that on a negative point, you can understand that a little bitty shift right now can take you different places down the road.
[00:43:58]  So what are the things that we don't sweat that we should?
[00:44:04]  Here is a particular thing that we should sweat.
[00:44:07]  And that is the why instead of the how.
[00:44:14]  You know, when we're looking at principles, there's so many people who understand how a principle works.
[00:44:20]  They can harness this principle to run their business, to run their family.
[00:44:24]  They know how it works.
[00:44:26]  But there's very few people who take the time because once it works, they've got something that works.
[00:44:32]  They don't search anymore.
[00:44:34]  They don't examine anymore.
[00:44:36]  But you get beyond the how and you figure out why that principle works as it does.
[00:44:43]  You can begin to apply that principle in different areas of your life that seem to have no relation.
[00:44:50]  But in different contexts, and this is why, you know.
[00:44:53]  Can you give me an example of this?
[00:44:54]  Because I don't think people even are looking at why on principles.
[00:44:59]  I don't think they're even looking for principles.
[00:45:01]  They aren't.
[00:45:02]  They aren't.
[00:45:03]  That's the point of the book.
[00:45:04]  I mean, to show it.
[00:45:06]  Because here's the thing.
[00:45:07]  You take how many NCAA football coaches are there?
[00:45:11]  You know, I actually have my hand.
[00:45:12]  Now, this is kind of an odd thing to say, but I have my hand in the last nine college football national championships in a row.
[00:45:18]  Because that's really kind of what you specialize in, is coaching the coaches, right?
[00:45:23]  Yeah, I do.
[00:45:24]  And with businesses, see, I'm not a celebrity.
[00:45:29]  I can't go anywhere and command great money because I don't have a Super Bowl ring.
[00:45:34]  I don't have a gold medal.
[00:45:35]  I wasn't a hero of some national disaster.
[00:45:37]  I'm a husband.
[00:45:38]  I'm a dad.
[00:45:39]  And I'm a nobody.
[00:45:41]  I actually have to have results with my clients, right?
[00:45:44]  I can't just show up and somebody take a picture of me and that's worth $50,000.
[00:45:49]  I got to have results.
[00:45:50]  And so I can't have normal results.
[00:45:53]  I got to help these people, these businesses double and triple.
[00:45:56]  Well, when you work with coaches, here's a great example of the difference in the why and how.
[00:46:03]  The vast majority of the NCAA coaches in football, they know how to do it.
[00:46:09]  They go to clinics.
[00:46:10]  They know how to do it.
[00:46:11]  They know how to teach it.
[00:46:12]  And they can have a winning record.
[00:46:14]  They can keep their jobs.
[00:46:16]  I would argue with you after spending some time with Urban Meyer and Nick Sabin.
[00:46:20]  Urban Meyer and Nick Sabin know why these things work as they do.
[00:46:26]  And so they can refine them and they know why that worked in recruiting.
[00:46:32]  And so now they can expand that to use that in a different way.
[00:46:36]  Most people stop at how because when they get there, because, get this, this is kind of a curious thing.
[00:46:43]  Did you know things can be true and yet not be the truth?
[00:46:49]  Example.
[00:46:50]  If we took a blind person and we said, okay, I know you've never seen this animal before and you never heard of it.
[00:46:57]  It was called an elephant.
[00:46:58]  I'm going to give you a few minutes with it, feel around, and come back and tell me what an elephant is like and how it could be used.
[00:47:06]  How would you harness what this is?
[00:47:08]  And a blind person after a few minutes might come back and say, okay, an elephant is flat, it's tall, it's wide, it could be used as a barrier, a gate.
[00:47:18]  Many elephants could be used as a wall.
[00:47:21]  Okay, that's true.
[00:47:23]  It's not the truth.
[00:47:25]  Until you get to the truth, the truth connotes a bottom line.
[00:47:30]  Until you get to the truth about an elephant, you'd never have a complete picture, and you would never be able to harness all the things available that an elephant is.
[00:47:39]  Okay, but most people, they get an answer, it works.
[00:47:42]  It can be used as a gate.
[00:47:44]  It could be used as a wall.
[00:47:45]  It's true.
[00:47:46]  Okay, I got the answer.
[00:47:47]  Let's use it.
[00:47:48]  And they stop at what is true when they know how.
[00:47:53]  And so there is more.
[00:47:55]  See, the truth can only be really one thing.
[00:48:00]  There can be different categories, but the truth is like the best.
[00:48:06]  Right?
[00:48:06]  The best is only, and here's something curious.
[00:48:09]  In a nation where we're so divided, I look sometimes and I think, okay, you know, Christians and atheists.
[00:48:16]  There's a totally different thing there.
[00:48:19]  Do Christians want the best for their children?
[00:48:22]  Yeah, they do.
[00:48:23]  Do atheists want the best for their children?
[00:48:25]  Yes.
[00:48:25]  Yeah, they do.
[00:48:27]  Okay, look, the best, whatever the best is, it's only really one thing.
[00:48:32]  There can be different categories, but it's one thing.
[00:48:34]  And what's curious is you can know the truth and not accomplish the best.
[00:48:42]  But you cannot accomplish the best without knowing the truth.
[00:48:49]  So give me some real life things that we should be focused on.
[00:48:56]  Okay.
[00:49:00]  Here is something that may be the most helpful thing that I could lay out for people.
[00:49:05]  And this is in this book and it's detailed.
[00:49:08]  But very quickly, you ever worked at something in your life and you worked and you worked and you worked and you were getting results, but you weren't getting the results you thought you should have.
[00:49:18]  So you formed a committee or you hired a consultant.
[00:49:21]  And maybe I should just work harder.
[00:49:24]  Maybe I should just come in early.
[00:49:25]  And it kept going.
[00:49:26]  Finally, you just said, you know, this is not going.
[00:49:29]  But then you found out a year later or six months later, wow, I didn't know the truth.
[00:49:36]  They lied to me.
[00:49:37]  Or I misunderstood.
[00:49:39]  Or, you know, if we'd have known that, because we could have worked till Jesus comes and nobody would have, we would have never made this happen.
[00:49:48]  Or had something like that happen?
[00:49:50]  Here's an odd thing.
[00:49:53]  Everywhere I've gone for the past number of years, working with companies, teams, everybody has, when I say, okay, so what do you want?
[00:50:00]  What are we going to talk about?
[00:50:01]  Well, we're going through a period of change.
[00:50:03]  Well, you know, we're starting to initiate a change.
[00:50:06]  Well, because of what the government's done, we've got some changes.
[00:50:08]  Well, things aren't happening.

=== Change Happens in a Heartbeat (05:20) ===

[00:50:09]  Everyone wants to talk about change.
[00:50:11]  And it occurred to me that we must not be very good at this.
[00:50:16]  And yet, every part of your life, boy, that's an essence.
[00:50:20]  That's a little atom starting everything.
[00:50:23]  Everything.
[00:50:23]  I mean, oh, you're going to get married.
[00:50:25]  Great.
[00:50:25]  Well, things are going to change.
[00:50:26]  Ah, you're married.
[00:50:27]  Things changed, didn't they?
[00:50:28]  Okay.
[00:50:29]  You have problems in your marriage?
[00:50:31]  Things change.
[00:50:32]  You want it to be good again?
[00:50:33]  Well, things got to change.
[00:50:34]  Whatever.
[00:50:35]  Your child doesn't behave like you want him to do.
[00:50:38]  Things got to change.
[00:50:39]  Oh, you want him to behave even when he's away from you?
[00:50:41]  Things really have to change.
[00:50:43]  Everything has changed.
[00:50:44]  And yet we're horrible at it.
[00:50:46]  And the reason we're horrible at it, you talk about a tiny little thing.
[00:50:50]  The three things everybody believes about change are three beliefs society has about change.
[00:50:56]  The things that we employ with every change.
[00:50:59]  What are the odds all three of them would be wrong?
[00:51:02]  But all three of them are wrong.
[00:51:04]  Number one, people think, well, you know, you've got to have time to change.
[00:51:08]  It takes time to change.
[00:51:09]  No, it doesn't.
[00:51:10]  Change happens in a heartbeat.
[00:51:12]  It may take time to prepare to change.
[00:51:14]  It may take time to get sick of it long enough to change.
[00:51:17]  But when a change occurs, it happens in a heartbeat.
[00:51:21]  Number two, people say, well, they got to want to change.
[00:51:24]  If they don't want it to, it's probably a deep desire to change.
[00:51:27]  Nope, that's wrong too.
[00:51:29]  You and I could spend some time together and we've come up with many different instances in our lives where we were fine.
[00:51:34]  We're bopping along merrily, happily, and some new information came in and we went.
[00:51:41]  And we turned, we did a 180.
[00:51:43]  Yeah, but you still wanted, you still made the choice to accept the new information.
[00:51:50]  But there was not this long period of desire.
[00:51:53]  All right, now, but I'll show you something here.
[00:51:55]  The third thing very quickly is that this rock bottom thing.
[00:51:58]  People think, well, you know, he thought he was at rock bottom, but he wasn't at rock bottom.
[00:52:03]  You really got to be at the rock bottom before he changed.
[00:52:04]  Well, that's not true either because how many times we heard somebody, we said, what happened?
[00:52:08]  I said, well, I heard this guy on TV.
[00:52:10]  You know, I read this book.
[00:52:11]  I had a conversation.
[00:52:12]  I went home.
[00:52:13]  I poured it all down the sink.
[00:52:15]  Never had it again.
[00:52:15]  They were like, really?
[00:52:16]  All the money we spent on rehabbing you and you heard some guy say something.
[00:52:20]  Right.
[00:52:20]  Really?
[00:52:20]  All right.
[00:52:21]  So here's the crazy thing.
[00:52:22]  There are two things that I cannot find.
[00:52:26]  Glenn, I would love for you to research this for me.
[00:52:28]  I can't find any instance of a nation changing, a people changing, a culture, a family, an individual, a company, a team.
[00:52:36]  I can't find any instance of true and lasting change that didn't have these two things.
[00:52:40]  Number one, what's in it for me?
[00:52:43]  I'm not talking about a greedy thing.
[00:52:45]  I'm just talking about, okay, we've been doing it this way.
[00:52:48]  You want us to do it this way?
[00:52:49]  Incentives, right?
[00:52:50]  Some incentive for them to work.
[00:52:52]  How does this affect us?
[00:52:54]  And the second thing is proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
[00:52:56]  Not a mathematical proof, but the kind of proof where people hear something they hadn't heard before or hear it in a way they hadn't heard it and they go, hmm.
[00:53:03]  Well, that makes total sense, doesn't it?
[00:53:05]  I don't know that I'll ever think of it anyway again.
[00:53:07]  And here's the deal, man.
[00:53:09]  When proof beyond a reasonable doubt collides with what's in it for them, they will change in a heartbeat.
[00:53:16]  And they will never look back over their shoulders.
[00:53:19]  And so this is true of you and me.
[00:53:21]  This is true of behavior in our child.
[00:53:23]  You know, when we look at our childhood, I mean, at least Du, when my daddy said to me, because I said so, well, there's a reason that didn't work long term.
[00:53:33]  What does that have in there for me?
[00:53:35]  It ain't got nothing in there.
[00:53:37]  As long as you're in my house, and all this kid's thinking is, okay, I'm not always going to be in your house.
[00:53:43]  Okay.
[00:53:44]  But we want long-term change.
[00:53:46]  And so that's why the smartest thing I ever did with my kids is to make sure that they knew about 11, 12, 13.
[00:53:53]  I wasn't buying them a car when they turned 16.
[00:53:56]  I'm not buying them a car.
[00:53:57]  Whatever money you have when you turn 16, that's the car you're going to get.
[00:54:00]  So they had to figure out, do they just save money from grandma?
[00:54:04]  Do they get a minimum wage job?
[00:54:08]  Or do they start their own business?
[00:54:09]  You start your own business, you probably buy whatever car you want.
[00:54:12]  But you start your own business, baby, it comes with some challenges here.
[00:54:17]  All right.
[00:54:18]  And so I never had to say to Austin, don't wear that.
[00:54:24]  Don't wear that that way.
[00:54:25]  You don't need to talk that way.
[00:54:28]  Because all I had to say to him was, you know what, when you think about it, that might seem a little disrespectful.
[00:54:34]  Not to everybody.
[00:54:35]  You know what you're wearing there?
[00:54:37]  It's not right or wrong.
[00:54:39]  It's not right or wrong.
[00:54:40]  It's not a sin.
[00:54:41]  But there's probably 30, 40% of the people out there that they don't like that look.
[00:54:46]  And if you, you know, in doing what you're doing to earn money, it requires that people accept you.
[00:54:51]  It requires that they work with you.
[00:54:55]  And if you want to go out into the world cutting out 30, 40% of your opportunity, feel free.
[00:55:02]  Wear whatever you want to.
[00:55:03]  But it's whatever car you want to drive.
[00:55:06]  Andy is going to be with us this afternoon on the show, 5 o'clock, full hour.
[00:55:11]  He's going to be teaching this.
[00:55:12]  And I have a lot of questions on how this relates to the country.
[00:55:19]  The Little Things is the name of the book.
[00:55:21]  Why You Really Should Sweat the Small Things by Andy Andrews.
[00:55:25]  The Little Things.
[00:55:26]  And we'll see you tonight at 5 o'clock on the Blaze TV.

=== Goldline Addiction and Markets (02:45) ===

[00:55:30]  Now this, Donald Trump versus Janet Yellen.
[00:55:33]  The clash is getting closer to happening.
[00:55:35]  The markets have been looking for some progress from Trump's promises on tax reform and regulatory rollbacks.
[00:55:44]  The uncertain fate of the healthcare vote has thrown into question the ability to get the rest of its agenda implemented in a timely fashion.
[00:55:52]  Did you see what's happened to the stock markets in the last couple of days?
[00:55:57]  The stock markets baked everything in, and now they're starting to lose faith that this stuff is going to happen.
[00:56:04]  And now they're starting to say, wow, maybe this is overinflated, where four weeks ago it was fine.
[00:56:13]  The markets have shrugged off the rate increase from the Fed on March 15th, but it is not going to shrug off the next one.
[00:56:23]  May I suggest that you call Goldline now, do your own homework, ask them about their free cashless society risk report.
[00:56:31]  Ask them about why gold and silver might be right for you and do your own homework.
[00:56:36]  Read the details, read the risk information, and then make your own decision.
[00:56:41]  Things are changing.
[00:56:42]  It doesn't have to be bad, but this might be one of those little things that could prove to be a huge and good change for you and your family down the road.
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[00:57:21]  New research shows the increasing mortality rate among white Americans and most acute among the less educated.
[00:57:31]  Black deaths are plummeting.
[00:57:34]  Hispanics are going down.
[00:57:36]  The white with high school education or less is going through the roof.
[00:57:40]  And it's in contrast elsewhere, France, Germany, UK, Canada, Australia, and Sweden.
[00:57:49]  All of that is going down.
[00:57:50]  U.S. whites going up.
[00:57:53]  Is that tied to the opioid situation, which is really a big deal?
[00:57:58]  Don't know.
[00:57:58]  They don't have an answer yet.
[00:58:00]  They say it is due in part by increases in deaths, what they call deaths of despair, alcohol, drugs, and suicide.
[00:58:10]  So maybe that is playing a big role, but that's through the roof.

=== Women's Rights and the Draft (10:38) ===

[00:58:16]  But, I mean, our drug addiction in America, we are off the charts in drug addiction.
[00:58:26]  And, you know, I don't think, again, I think we are focused on all of the wrong things and missing the little things that could change our lives.
[00:58:42]  The Glenn Beck Program.
[00:58:49]  The Glenn Beck Program.
[00:58:53]  If I have to, I can do anything.
[00:58:59]  I am strong.
[00:59:04]  I am a woman.
[00:59:07]  Such was the popular refrain from singer Helen Reddy, among others, in the 60s and 70s.
[00:59:12]  I am woman was one of the biggest hits in 1971.
[00:59:16]  For thousands of years, the roles of men and women had seemed to be pretty well defined and, for the most part, accepted.
[00:59:23]  Generally speaking, men were the hunter-gatherers and women were the nurturers.
[00:59:28]  But society changed, and it took some time to adapt to that change.
[00:59:34]  And as transitions can get, this one was occasionally rocky.
[00:59:39]  There was a time in between when popular culture made it seem that the most important task a woman had was just to make a good cup of coffee for her man.
[00:59:50]  Your coffee, sir.
[00:59:52]  Thanks, beautiful.
[00:59:53]  You're welcome.
[00:59:56]  How can such a pretty wife make such bad coffee?
[01:00:00]  I heard that.
[01:00:03]  Judy, what brings you over?
[01:00:04]  Oh, Mrs. Olson, Frank crabbed about my coffee again.
[01:00:08]  Oh, is coffee a problem?
[01:00:10]  Sure is.
[01:00:11]  I can't make good coffee.
[01:00:12]  Good coffee's no problem.
[01:00:14]  It's used the coffee with better flavor.
[01:00:16]  Folgers, Folger's coffee?
[01:00:19]  And for the love of heaven, whatever you do, don't let the little lady drive.
[01:00:24]  Depending on how you drive and your car's condition, you can get incredible mileage from the Goodyear Custom Wide Tread Polyglass Tire.
[01:00:30]  I've got 32,000 miles on my tires.
[01:00:33]  I've got 41,000 miles on my polyglass.
[01:00:36]  But polyglass means more than mileage when your wife has to drive alone.
[01:00:45]  When a woman's at the wheel, polyglass means more than mileage.
[01:00:51]  In the midst of all the social upheaval over the roles of men and women, ads and attitudes like these just ignited the spark of social change that led to the feminist movement of the 60s and 70s.
[01:01:04]  One of the most famous protests during the movement took place in Atlantic City.
[01:01:08]  It happened during the Miss America pageant in 1968.
[01:01:12]  To the feminists, the annual television beauty pageant seemed a gross offense.
[01:01:17]  Miss Illinois is Miss America.
[01:01:24]  We are going to sing your song.
[01:01:38]  Inside, one set of young women accepted the chauvinist baubles.
[01:01:43]  Outside, others carried on with more consciousness raising.
[01:01:51]  Women were everywhere burning their bras and demanding equal rights.
[01:01:55]  We threw bras and girdles and stockings, high, high-heeled shoes and cosmetics into the trash can.
[01:02:04]  The press loved it, and we learned very early on that the press liked crazy things.
[01:02:11]  So let's use the press.
[01:02:13]  As legendary and worldwide as the bra burning event was, it is interesting that the actual bra burning never really happened.
[01:02:23]  We didn't burn any bras.
[01:02:24]  They would have happened if they had allowed us to have a fire.
[01:02:27]  The stunts got the coverage they wanted, but at some risk to their reputation.
[01:02:32]  For those who think that the women's liberation movement is a joke vaguely connected with burning bras and getting in the men-only bars, may I disabuse you of that notion?
[01:02:46]  It is about equal pay and equal opportunity in the job market.
[01:02:51]  Protesters tossed their underwear into a large trash can labeled the freedom trash can.
[01:02:57]  But without permits, the clothing was never burned.
[01:03:00]  They're real rebels.
[01:03:02]  The movement was definitely still making news.
[01:03:06]  In America, they'd started to burn their bras and a women's movement had already begun.
[01:03:11]  We thought, if they can do it, we have to do it in Holland.
[01:03:15]  But the coverage wasn't always popular.
[01:03:18]  50 years ago today, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote.
[01:03:23]  On this anniversary, a militant minority of women's liberationists was on the streets across the country to demand equal employment.
[01:03:30]  It turned out there really weren't a lot of would-be be liberated women willing to stop their work for the day in New York.
[01:03:36]  Early demonstrations tended to be small and the onlookers were by no means always sympathetic.
[01:03:41]  It seemed that almost no one was opposed to women having equal opportunities for employment and compensation under equal circumstances.
[01:03:50]  But with abortion on demand thrown in on top of it, along with many questions of equal access to all public bathroom facilities and the even more concerning prospect of women being drafted into the military service and placed on the front lines of battlefields, the ERA amendment became much, much tougher to sell to the American people.
[01:04:11]  William Buckley discussed some of these issues with ERA opponent Phyllis Schlafly.
[01:04:16]  The state of Connecticut ratified the so-called Equal Rights Amendment.
[01:04:21]  The proposed constitutional amendment passed overwhelmingly by the Senate and the House holds that, quotes, equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex.
[01:04:34]  That doesn't sound particularly subversive, and I would therefore like to begin by asking Mrs. Schlafly to state her principal objection to ERA.
[01:04:42]  Well, it's the very innocuous wording of the amendment that is the reason why many people didn't realize in the beginning what unfortunate consequences it would have.
[01:04:51]  But fortunately, the amending process calls for a full-blown debate in the state legislatures around the country, and this is where we find out some of the things that were not originally realized by many people who voted for it.
[01:05:04]  We find as we look into the matter that ERA won't give women anything which they haven't already got or have a way of getting.
[01:05:12]  But on the other hand, it will take away from women some of the most important rights and benefits and exemptions we now have.
[01:05:20]  What would be an example of that?
[01:05:21]  Well, a great glaring example on which there is full agreement between both the proponents and the opponents is the matter of the draft.
[01:05:28]  Women are exempt from the draft.
[01:05:30]  Selective service says only young men of age 18 have to register.
[01:05:34]  But the Equal Rights Amendment will positively make women subject to the draft and on an equal basis with men.
[01:05:41]  Nor could you have a system whereby the women would get all the nice, easy desk jobs and the men get all the fighting jobs.
[01:05:48]  It would have to be equal across the board in combat, on warships, and all up and down the line.
[01:05:54]  Vice Chairman Ann Scott.
[01:05:56]  There is no question that if the Equal Rights Amendment is passed, the women would become subject to the draft.
[01:06:01]  However, I think that we have a situation now where the draft is going by the boards.
[01:06:07]  And furthermore, I think the question is not one of the rights of women here, but it is the question of the draft.
[01:06:13]  Clearly, no sane parent would want to see either child, either a son or a daughter, subject to the draft.
[01:06:20]  But if women are to be citizens and citizens are to be subject to the draft, then women should take the responsibilities as well as the rights of citizenship.
[01:06:28]  But it's not simply a question of being subject to the draft.
[01:06:30]  is also a question of denial of opportunity.
[01:06:33]  There are many situations in which women could benefit from the draft.
[01:06:37]  They already are in the service.
[01:06:39]  You might become a war hero.
[01:06:41]  Why not?
[01:06:43]  No matter how enlightened society was or wasn't during the 1970s, the idea of America's daughters being drafted into military service and placed on the front lines of a combat situation just didn't fit well for most Americans.
[01:06:58]  Despite some impressive and possibly unlikely supporter over the years, including the Republican president of the United States in 1975.
[01:07:07]  Women's liberation is truly the liberation of all people.
[01:07:11]  Let 1975, International Women's Year, be the year that ERA is ratified.
[01:07:21]  Obviously, 1975 was not that year, even with Gerald Ford's endorsement, nor was any other year.
[01:07:29]  Without the passage of the Constitutional Amendment, did women's rights falter and die?
[01:07:36]  Are women more oppressed than they ever have been?
[01:07:40]  Or do they have more rights and freedoms than at any other time in the history of all mankind?
[01:07:46]  We explore those questions in the next episode.
[01:07:50]  Tomorrow on the Glenbeck program, in chapter four of The War on Women, you'll learn how the left distorts facts to gain the female voting bloc.
[01:07:58]  Listen live or online at Glennbeck.com slash serials.
[01:08:03]  Again, not an excuse to not look at the atrocities, if you will, today or the things that we can improve on today.
[01:08:15]  But when you look at where women were even 100 years ago to where they are today, I mean, to think that women now, baby.
[01:08:28]  They've come a long, long way.
[01:08:30]  They've come a long way, baby.
[01:08:31]  Yeah, I mean, no, but 200 years ago, women all over the world were treated pretty similarly to the way women were treated in Afghanistan today or in Iran today.
[01:08:48]  They have come a long way and things are pretty balanced.

=== Patriot Supply Sanity (03:47) ===

[01:08:54]  You know, I just watched Mad Man, an episode of Mad Man a couple of weeks ago.
[01:09:02]  I'd never seen it before.
[01:09:03]  Oh, wow.
[01:09:05]  To see the way women were treated in the 50s, holy cow.
[01:09:11]  It jumps right out.
[01:09:12]  I mean, it's a fair face.
[01:09:14]  I really, I was watching it and I thought, what would it be like to be able to go into a time machine and go back to that era?
[01:09:20]  And they've, I mean, that show did it.
[01:09:22]  Yeah.
[01:09:23]  I mean, it's really, really strange.
[01:09:25]  And it would just be shocking.
[01:09:26]  I think you would, I think several times a day you would be like, whoa, what, what, what?
[01:09:32]  I mean, just shocking how far we have come.
[01:09:36]  And it's nice once in a while just to recognize that and see, wow, we've got some room to go, but wow, we've made a lot of, and it is this country that has made the progress.
[01:09:51]  For the most part, it has been this country and this system of freedom and constitutional freedom that has provided a roadmap for the rest of the world.
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[01:10:58]  I mean, he certainly wasn't like a senior citizen.
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[01:12:27]  All right, we have something we absolutely have to have to play.
[01:12:31]  It's got to go to Alex Jones, doesn't it?
[01:12:33]  Yes.
[01:12:33]  Yes, it does.
[01:12:34]  This is the thing you guys are on.
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[01:12:39]  Yeah, I know that.
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[01:12:41]  What is this now?

=== Bragging About Texas Fights (02:04) ===

[01:12:42]  Oh, this is, well, this is him telling you that he's not, he's not arrogant.
[01:12:48]  I mean, I don't want you to think that, and he doesn't want you to think that.
[01:12:51]  And he's never thought he was.
[01:12:53]  Well, sometimes it appears that way.
[01:12:54]  He's mentioned it a few times.
[01:12:55]  And I'm not bragging.
[01:12:56]  It's just that I didn't believe in Santa Claus at two and a half, and nobody had to tell me.
[01:13:00]  I'm not bragging here, but not everybody's family found in Texas.
[01:13:03]  Again, I'm not bragging to say that things I've coined become popular parlance.
[01:13:07]  I'm not bragging, but aren't those some big pecs?
[01:13:09]  I'm not bragging when Jeff Bridges calls me.
[01:13:11]  I knew Vladimir Putin listened on a routine basis.
[01:13:13]  That's not bragging.
[01:13:14]  I'm not bragging.
[01:13:15]  I really have read thousands of books.
[01:13:16]  I know what I'm talking about.
[01:13:18]  I'm not some pseudo-intellectual here.
[01:13:20]  I'm not bragging.
[01:13:21]  And I'm not bragging.
[01:13:21]  I mean, it's a fact, folks.
[01:13:22]  I can think 50 levels up, okay?
[01:13:24]  And I'm not bragging today on Mr. Cool.
[01:13:26]  The only reason I've always been the coolest guy around.
[01:13:29]  When I was 12, and I'm not bragging, this is a normal behavior.
[01:13:31]  I was going after women.
[01:13:33]  I mean, I'm not bragging, but I was 14 dating college chicks.
[01:13:36]  I'm not bragging.
[01:13:37]  I can't help it.
[01:13:38]  I start just saying, here, here's $50 bills.
[01:13:40]  You ladies all have whatever you want.
[01:13:42]  This is big, big, big mojo.
[01:13:44]  Okay.
[01:13:44]  I mean, I'm not bragging.
[01:13:45]  I mean, I'm not bragging.
[01:13:46]  I just want you to get the news flash here.
[01:13:47]  I am the person that popularized the term false flag.
[01:13:49]  The truth is, I'm extremely vicious.
[01:13:51]  Yeah, I'm not bragging.
[01:13:52]  A lot of men are like that, but I mean, I'm, you know, I'm crazy.
[01:13:55]  I mean, it's, you know, I got tricks a thousand times more vicious.
[01:13:59]  The problem is I don't want to release this stuff on the earth, and I'm not bragging.
[01:14:02]  I'm like a gorilla.
[01:14:03]  I'm not bragging.
[01:14:04]  I mean, it's like a war machine if I get in a fire.
[01:14:06]  I'm not bragging.
[01:14:07]  I mean, I'm not bragging, but I would literally have just absolutely devastated all those people in about 10 seconds.
[01:14:12]  If I was to hit somebody 20 times, they'd probably die.
[01:14:14]  I can punch pretty hard.
[01:14:15]  I'm not bragging.
[01:14:16]  I'm not bragging.
[01:14:17]  I'm just an average guy, but I got in fights in high school.
[01:14:20]  Punch me, I punch you back.
[01:14:21]  And then I slam your head in the concrete.
[01:14:23]  I'm not bragging, but I'm not bragging, but I come from super Texas heel billy, you name it.
[01:14:29]  Basically killers.
[01:14:30]  I'm very proud.
[01:14:31]  I'm not bragging, but I've seen your herdia.
[01:14:33]  Oh, man.
[01:14:35]  What the wow?
[01:14:36]  He's the most fascinating character.
[01:14:38]  He really is.
[01:14:39]  He really is.
[01:14:40]  He is a meltdown on in Royd Rage just waiting to happen.

=== ISIS Caliphate Mentality (15:47) ===

[01:14:47]  It is.
[01:14:47]  But I don't ever watch him.
[01:14:49]  I just hear, I mean, please tell me I'm not paying for you to put those clips together.
[01:14:53]  Oh, no, people are on this bandwagon.
[01:14:55]  People are on this bandwidth and are doing this for us.
[01:14:59]  All sorts of sites that we've mentioned, but it's amazing because now that he's so, you know, he's become a little bit of a popular culture figure, I guess.
[01:15:10]  It's funny.
[01:15:10]  We've been playing these clips forever.
[01:15:12]  Yeah.
[01:15:12]  Because they're just, he's literally the funniest person on earth to me.
[01:15:16]  I can't believe he's.
[01:15:17]  Unintentionally.
[01:15:18]  Oh, yeah.
[01:15:18]  Never, never intentionally.
[01:15:20]  would be the greatest comedy show if you weren't watching something in full-fledged meltdown.
[01:15:27]  If you weren't seeing somebody that you're like, oh my gosh, this guy's dangerous.
[01:15:30]  He means it.
[01:15:32]  He will bash your head into the sidewalk and kill you after he rips his shirt off strangely for no reason.
[01:15:39]  Well, the PECS are not right.
[01:15:40]  He's not the PEC.
[01:15:41]  You're right.
[01:15:42]  The PEC.
[01:15:42]  Huge.
[01:15:43]  Mercury.
[01:15:58]  This is the Blaze Radio On Demand.
[01:16:03]  Joel Rosenberg is a trusted advisor when it comes to things like the Middle East, Iran, Turkey, Russia, way ahead of things, way ahead of the Caliphate, way ahead of Turkey, I mean, sorry, of Russia being an enemy and mocked relentlessly for it.
[01:16:27]  Now, almost 10 years later, he looks like a real prophet on some of the things that he warned about.
[01:16:34]  He's got a new book out.
[01:16:35]  It's a novel called Without Warning.
[01:16:38]  And he joins us right now.
[01:16:42]  I will make it stand.
[01:16:44]  I will raise my voice.
[01:16:46]  I will hold your hand.
[01:16:49]  Because we have won.
[01:16:51]  I will be my drum.
[01:16:53]  I have made my choice.
[01:16:55]  We will overcome.
[01:16:57]  Cause we are one.
[01:16:59]  The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
[01:17:03]  This is the Glenn Beck Program.
[01:17:10]  Welcome, Joel Rosenberg, to the program.
[01:17:15]  He's got a new book out called Without Warning.
[01:17:17]  It's a novel.
[01:17:18]  And you might, because I know how long novels take to write and how long they're in production, when you saw the new Kiefer Sutherland TV show, you must have gone, oh, come on.
[01:17:29]  Well, yeah, Kiefer's doing a good job with Designated Survivor.
[01:17:33]  I actually started this.
[01:17:34]  This is a trilogy.
[01:17:35]  And Without Warning is the last in the trilogy about ISIS capturing chemical weapons in Syria and plotting a series of genocidal attacks.
[01:17:44]  As the series unfolds, it's against Israel, it's against Jordan, and now in this book, against the United States.
[01:17:50]  But I began researching and writing it in 2013, Glenn, at a time where I had not heard of ISIS.
[01:17:56]  Al-Qaeda in Iraq, of course.
[01:17:58]  But I met with two former CIA directors, Jim Woolsey, Democrat, Porter Goss, Republican.
[01:18:04]  And I said, what keeps you guys up at night?
[01:18:05]  What are you worrying about?
[01:18:07]  I need a new threat for my thrillers.
[01:18:11]  Give me something downstream.
[01:18:13]  Both of them separately said Al-Qaeda in Iraq is becoming something different.
[01:18:18]  It's becoming more dangerous.
[01:18:20]  I'd focus there.
[01:18:21]  So I did.
[01:18:22]  And of course, as you know, by January 14, the president of the United States, President Obama, was telling us, it's a JV team.
[01:18:29]  It's not a big deal.
[01:18:31]  And two years later, ISIS is considered genocidal.
[01:18:35]  But that's why I started this series.
[01:18:37]  It was a little ahead of where we were.
[01:18:40]  And ISIS grew faster than I thought.
[01:18:42]  But it is a monster.
[01:18:44]  You're a guy who taught me a lot about the caliphate.
[01:18:47]  You're a guy who taught me a lot about the 12th Imam, the connections with Russia.
[01:18:56]  And we haven't seen each other in a very long time.
[01:18:59]  The world has changed.
[01:19:00]  Well, back at the time that you and I were spending the most time talking about the rise of the caliphate.
[01:19:06]  I mean, at one point, back when you were on CNN, we did a week's worth of programs.
[01:19:10]  And you recall, I mean, you got hit worse than I did, but the caliphate.
[01:19:15]  I mean, come on, don't be ridiculous.
[01:19:17]  That's seventh century.
[01:19:18]  Nobody talks about this.
[01:19:20]  Look, you know, if you just read what the radicals say and you believe them, you will look prophetic or prescient, but you've got to be willing to say it ahead of what everyone else thinks because it's just not current.
[01:19:35]  But now here we are, and the fight to take down the caliphate is the fight.
[01:19:42]  What are you thinking about what's happening in Turkey?
[01:19:45]  Well, Turkey's turning to the dark side.
[01:19:47]  I mean, it's challenging because they're still a NATO ally, and in some ways we do need them.
[01:19:52]  But under Erdogan, you've got a guy swinging to a militant Islamist perspective.
[01:19:58]  Saying he's going to send people in basically as a population bomb into Germany.
[01:20:05]  Well, and look, for the last several years, he has allowed a wave of foreign fighters to come sweeping through Turkey into Syria that are some of our worst enemies.
[01:20:15]  Now, he's tamped down on that.
[01:20:18]  But this is, what you're watching is a man who sees himself as a modern sultan trying to rebuild not just the caliphate, but really the Ottoman Empire.
[01:20:29]  We are living in a world where, you know, you and I talked about, you mentioned the 12th Imam.
[01:20:36]  We are not just dealing with militant Islamists.
[01:20:39]  We are, and he's one of them.
[01:20:40]  But we're dealing with apocalyptic Islamists.
[01:20:44]  In Iran, the leaders of ISIS, they're not just trying to be, they're not just radicals.
[01:20:49]  They are trying to bring about the end of the world as we know it through genocide.
[01:20:54]  Now, Iran has a longer-term objective, build nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them.
[01:20:59]  We'll do genocide later when we get those.
[01:21:02]  ISIS is saying, you know, forget that.
[01:21:05]  You got a car.
[01:21:05]  You got an M16.
[01:21:07]  You got a sword.
[01:21:08]  You can start slaughtering now.
[01:21:10]  And this is genocide against Christians, Yazidis, Shia Muslims, anybody that disagrees with them.
[01:21:16]  But this is not radical Islam.
[01:21:18]  This is what I call apocalyptic Islam.
[01:21:21]  We do have a president now who at least was willing to say radical Islam.
[01:21:26]  And neither of the last two presidents were willing to do that.
[01:21:28]  I was on CNN International a couple of days ago, and they asked me about the Muslim ban.
[01:21:36]  And I said, I have a problem with any Muslim ban.
[01:21:40]  I don't have a problem with an Islamicist ban.
[01:21:43]  The problem is, is that Even George Bush, no one is willing to say there's a difference between a Muslim and an Islamist.
[01:21:53]  And it's hard to find, and I don't know what the difference is, and the population of Islamists over in the Middle East is wildly high.
[01:22:03]  That's right.
[01:22:03]  Then you have to divide, though, out political Islamists and militant Islamists.
[01:22:08]  And I would still say that number, I think, is knowable.
[01:22:12]  You look at extensive polling as I have with a number of Middle East experts.
[01:22:17]  And we think the number is about 7 to 10% of people who are willing to tell pollsters over the last 15 years, I support suicide bombing.
[01:22:26]  I support, more recently, the Islamic State.
[01:22:29]  They are willing to say, I support violence against innocents to achieve my religious or political objectives.
[01:22:37]  So the good news is 90% are not willing to use violence.
[01:22:43]  And I think you're only talking about maybe one in four in total who are Islamists.
[01:22:49]  But one in 10 are willing to support violence.
[01:22:54]  That's in a world of 1.6 billion people, that's 160 million people.
[01:22:59]  If you put them all in their own country, the Islamic Republic of Radical stand, you know, for it, it's the ninth largest country in the world, half the population of the United States.
[01:23:08]  That's what Without Warning does.
[01:23:09]  This series sort of takes you into this world, not in an op-ed, not in a Washington speech, but in entertainment, try to connect with the popular culture to create a high-speed, you know, adrenaline pumping thriller, a clancy-esque thriller, but that takes you into the mindset of people who are hell-bent on not only killing us, but bringing about the education.
[01:23:34]  Are we making any progress against ISIS and radical Islam?
[01:23:38]  We are.
[01:23:38]  And I think you have to separate it out into two categories.
[01:23:41]  Let's focus on ISIS specifically.
[01:23:43]  We're definitely taking land back in Iraq.
[01:23:46]  About 60% of the land has been retaken by U.S. coalition forces.
[01:23:50]  That's good.
[01:23:51]  We're going to take back Mosul.
[01:23:53]  That's good.
[01:23:54]  We've taken down about 400,000 plus Twitter accounts.
[01:23:58]  That's good.
[01:23:58]  So we're making progress.
[01:24:00]  But if you ask the American people, we just did an exclusive poll to find out, do you think we're winning?
[01:24:08]  Progress is one thing.
[01:24:09]  Winning is another.
[01:24:10]  Most Americans say no, we're not winning.
[01:24:13]  And I don't think we are because the idea has gone from al-Qaeda in Iraq, which was bad enough, to 120 countries being recruited into ISIS.
[01:24:21]  They've killed more than 1,200 people outside of Iraq and ISIS.
[01:24:25]  They've just killed again in London.
[01:24:28]  And I believe they're coming here.
[01:24:30]  In fact, I think that what Without Warning does fictionally is says, as you win in Iraq, don't think that that reduces our threat level at home.
[01:24:39]  It actually increases it for the time being.
[01:24:42]  because these foreign fighters start leaving the field of battle in the Middle East and they redeploy.
[01:24:47]  And a foreign fighter doesn't walk in with a Yemeni or Syrian passport.
[01:24:52]  They would walk in with an EU or American passport.
[01:24:55]  How do you deal with what the American people do?
[01:24:57]  Because I think under this president, with the lack of trust in the press, with the lack of, I think we're approaching the Bubba effect moment that the military has been worried about to where Bubba has just had enough.
[01:25:14]  I don't trust the government to keep us safe.
[01:25:16]  I've had enough.
[01:25:17]  I'm taking things into my own hands.
[01:25:20]  With something like you propose in Without Warning, you know, a decimation of the capital during the State of the Union.
[01:25:28]  I'm not proposing that.
[01:25:29]  No, no, no, I know, but no, no, no.
[01:25:30]  I'm envisioning it.
[01:25:32]  You're telling me just for Southern New York.
[01:25:36]  Enough troubles.
[01:25:37]  Right.
[01:25:38]  So as you lay this out, how did you envision the people's reaction?
[01:25:43]  Because I'm afraid we're approaching 1941 kind of mentality.
[01:25:48]  We could easily be swept up into put them all in camps.
[01:25:52]  Well, yeah, well, that's it's a okay.
[01:25:54]  So that's a challenging question.
[01:25:56]  Several things.
[01:25:57]  First, over the last 15, 16 years since 9-11, if you chart out the growth of gun purchases in the United States, it's off the chart.
[01:26:06]  That's not just because of radical and apocalyptic Islam.
[01:26:08]  That's also because of violent crime here in the United States, drugs, and people are like, hey, the government is not keeping me safe.
[01:26:15]  And that's the one job that I absolutely want it to do.
[01:26:18]  So that's one thing.
[01:26:20]  But we did, in this new poll, and I'll send you the link.
[01:26:23]  Maybe you guys want to look at it more carefully because it's fascinating.
[01:26:27]  We asked people, do you want your leader to say that we're at war with the religion of Islam?
[01:26:33]  I was worried to ask that because I thought, you know, what if we get this effect where it's 30, 40, 50%?
[01:26:38]  There's only one in 10.
[01:26:40]  Yeah, I would say.
[01:26:40]  That's bad, but it's not, you know, it could be worse.
[01:26:44]  One in three say, no, no, no, don't mention Islam.
[01:26:46]  Call it violent extremism like President Obama.
[01:26:50]  But the plurality, well over 40%, said, no, call it, I think it's 46%.
[01:26:56]  Call it radical Islam.
[01:26:58]  But our leaders should be clear that most Muslims are not our enemy.
[01:27:03]  In other words, you want to mobilize Muslim majorities to help us in this fight, not alienate and, at the worst case, radicalize them.
[01:27:13]  So that polling tells me that we're not at the stage where people are going to war with, you know, locally with Islam.
[01:27:22]  But I think you, look, I've had a lot of criticisms of the president.
[01:27:26]  I think that you have.
[01:27:27]  I'm just, listen, I was a never Trumper until Thursday before the election.
[01:27:36]  And I finally concluded, all right, look, it's true, he's got all these liabilities, but it's him or her, I'm going with her.
[01:27:43]  And Mike Pence is a personal friend, and he loves my novel.
[01:27:47]  I have to tell you, I don't fault anybody for that.
[01:27:49]  I really do.
[01:27:50]  So just for context.
[01:27:50]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:27:52]  He's still making a lot of mistakes.
[01:27:54]  But in the area of ISIS and radical Islam, I give the president a lot of credit.
[01:27:57]  He's putting in an excellent national security team.
[01:28:00]  He gathered 68 countries together yesterday.
[01:28:03]  He's calling it out as radical Islam.
[01:28:05]  Now, I'm calling on the president to give a major address and define that term.
[01:28:10]  Because you and I all know what we mean, but the American people have never heard an American president say it.
[01:28:17]  And I don't think that the current president realizes that a term that he embraces is actually not a term that most Americans have heard from a commander-in-chief's lips.
[01:28:28]  And they certainly haven't heard it defined by the press.
[01:28:30]  Exactly.
[01:28:31]  Right.
[01:28:31]  So you have an opportunity.
[01:28:32]  He has an opportunity to go over their heads, the press's heads, and talk to the American people.
[01:28:37]  What's the threat?
[01:28:38]  Last year, for example, 37 people in the United States were arrested on ISIS plot charges.
[01:28:44]  37.
[01:28:45]  That's free a month.
[01:28:47]  What I just mentioned that ISIS is drawing from 120 different countries.
[01:28:52]  So he can lay out facts like that, but then he needs to be clear.
[01:28:55]  Look, 90% of Muslims are not our enemy.
[01:28:57]  We need to work with them, mobilize them to help us and to protect them.
[01:29:04]  Exactly.
[01:29:05]  So I think that's the challenge now, and I think that's the opportunity.
[01:29:09]  Okay.
[01:29:09]  So the name of the book is Without Warning, Joel Rosenberg.
[01:29:13]  He writes fantastic novels.
[01:29:15]  Let me switch gears here quickly while within a couple of minutes we have left.
[01:29:19]  Russia.
[01:29:22]  Russia is not a friend.
[01:29:24]  And there is something going on in America where we are conservatives are suddenly saying, ah, Putin, he's not so bad.
[01:29:32]  Russia's not so bad.
[01:29:33]  Listen, well, you've always been precious in a lot of ways.
[01:29:38]  That's my next novel.
[01:29:39]  So we'll talk about that more next year.
[01:29:41]  But here, no, it's an urgent problem now.
[01:29:44]  Look, my family were Orthodox Jews on my dad's side that escaped from Tsar Nicholas II when he was encouraging the killing and the raping of Jews in the 1900s.
[01:29:56]  I see Vladimir Putin not as a Soviet era guy, even though he was trained by the KGB, not as a, you know, he's not Hitler, he's not a fascist, but he is a czar.
[01:30:07]  He wants to rebuild the glory of Mother Russia, and that means imperialism.
[01:30:12]  That means taking back territory that he believes is his.
[01:30:16]  The guy has got no controls on him.
[01:30:19]  We did a poll, again, where I try to do some polling to sort of check on, spot check, where are we?
[01:30:25]  I write about these things, but okay, what do the American people really think?
[01:30:29]  In January, we found that 71% of Americans believe that Putin is a clear and present day.

=== Rebuilding Mother Russia Glory (04:28) ===

[01:30:35]  This January.
[01:30:35]  This last year.
[01:30:35]  This January.
[01:30:36]  Now, what's interesting is this was a bipartisan, well over the majority who believe that Putin is a threat.
[01:30:43]  However, Democrats were higher, liberals were higher at seeing Russia and Putin as a threat than conservative Republicans.
[01:30:52]  Something is going on.
[01:30:54]  And again, my view is to take these concerns and then rather than just write op-eds about them, to sort of outflank and go into the popular culture and use novels to try to take people on a, again, an adventure ride where they're not planning to learn, but they are.
[01:31:15]  Are you more optimistic or less optimistic than you were five years ago?
[01:31:21]  Well, that's tough because as a Russian Jew, I'm a pessimist by nature.
[01:31:25]  As an evangelical, I have hope.
[01:31:29]  So, look, when it comes to radical Islam, I'm encouraged by the current administration, the people that are in there, their seriousness.
[01:31:36]  When it comes to Russia, I'm getting nervous, but I want to believe that Mattis and Pence and Mike Pompeo, who's a friend, and Dan Coates, these are good, serious people.
[01:31:50]  The president is taking a weird approach towards Russia.
[01:31:54]  And I hope that that's a tactic.
[01:31:58]  So do we all.
[01:31:59]  But, you know, time will tell.
[01:32:01]  So do we all.
[01:32:02]  Joel Rosenberg, the name of the book is Without Warning.
[01:32:05]  You can get it in bookstores or Amazon.com, wherever you buy your books.
[01:32:09]  Without warning, well worth a read, Joel Rosenberg.
[01:32:12]  Thanks.
[01:32:12]  Thank you, Gladys.
[01:32:13]  Great to be with you.
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[01:33:48]  Mercury.
[01:33:52]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:33:58]  There's a great story at Glenn Beck.com on the five possible outcomes for Judge Gorsuch and his confirmation process.
[01:34:06]  The Democrats roll over, the nuclear option, the two-speech rule.
[01:34:12]  A Senate rule mandates the Senate can stay in the same legislative day until filibustering senators give up on their efforts.
[01:34:18]  Essentially, a way to tire out the filibuster and exhaust the objecting minority to run out the clock.
[01:34:25]  Confirmation then would only require the 51 votes.
[01:34:29]  Punt, while highly unlikely, this would occur for whatever reason.
[01:34:32]  President Trump withdraws the nomination, which I don't see him doing.
[01:34:37]  And then the fifth option, Democrats actually like Gorsuch.
[01:34:42]  He's a reasonable judge who was confirmed unanimously 10 years ago.
[01:34:48]  If Republicans and Gorsuch sway a handful of Democrats, he could push through the supermajority.
[01:34:54]  I think that's actually real likely.
[01:34:57]  I think he's just going to win.
[01:35:00]  He's going to be nominated.
[01:35:02]  Or confirmed.

=== Rejecting Stupid Health Care Bills (14:51) ===

[01:35:03]  Yeah.
[01:35:03]  I mean, there's nothing that I have seen that is objectionable about this guy.
[01:35:08]  And I don't think Americans are paying attention to it, but you don't have anything on this guy.
[01:35:15]  How about the fact that he wants people to freeze to death when their trucks break down?
[01:35:20]  Couldn't talk about that.
[01:35:21]  Wait, wait.
[01:35:23]  You know what?
[01:35:23]  It's really cold and your truck breaks down.
[01:35:26]  Yeah.
[01:35:27]  Okay.
[01:35:28]  What would you do in that situation?
[01:35:29]  Because this is what Al Franken asked him the other day.
[01:35:32]  And he said, what would you do in that situation?
[01:35:34]  Because he ruled on a case that this was a particular situation.
[01:35:38]  And then eventually, because he left the truck and went to, I guess, go warm up and came back.
[01:35:43]  They wound up firing him, the company.
[01:35:46]  And Neil Gorsuch said the company's allowed to fire people even when the reason's really dumb.
[01:35:54]  And you believe that?
[01:35:55]  What do you want to do?
[01:35:56]  Freeze to death then?
[01:35:58]  He's frozen.
[01:35:59]  He wants people to die.
[01:36:00]  He's freezing people.
[01:36:02]  That's important to me.
[01:36:03]  Neil Garcich wants people to die.
[01:36:06]  He wants people to have charge over their own business so they can make decisions.
[01:36:12]  Crazy.
[01:36:15]  The Glenn Beck Program.
[01:36:16]  The Glenn Beck Program.
[01:36:25]  Hello, America.
[01:36:26]  Welcome to the program.
[01:36:27]  I would like you to call in right now and just answer this one question.
[01:36:32]  How do you want the Republicans to vote today on healthcare?
[01:36:36]  Repeal it or reject it?
[01:36:40]  Which one?
[01:36:41]  Is that the choice?
[01:36:43]  Repeal what?
[01:36:44]  It's voting or Trump.
[01:36:46]  I'm going to vote for it.
[01:36:46]  Yeah, take the Trump care and vote for what you have or negotiate until the last minute, but still take this or reject it.
[01:37:00]  And if Obamacare was Coke, this is Coke Zero.
[01:37:05]  Right?
[01:37:05]  It's just, it's Obamacare without caffeine.
[01:37:08]  That's all it is.
[01:37:08]  Well, Coke Zero has no calories.
[01:37:10]  It's a delicious product.
[01:37:11]  I love Coke Zero.
[01:37:12]  So I would not call it.
[01:37:12]  What number should I call it?
[01:37:14]  I would say the free market is Coke Zero.
[01:37:16]  There's actually a product in the middle.
[01:37:17]  It's Tab.
[01:37:17]  It's Tab.
[01:37:18]  No, Tab's delicious.
[01:37:19]  Tab is not delicious.
[01:37:21]  I have some.
[01:37:23]  They still make it.
[01:37:23]  888-727-BECK, Jeffy.
[01:37:26]  888-80.
[01:37:27]  727BECK.
[01:37:30]  There's actually a weird, there's a Coke, there's a product called Coke Life.
[01:37:35]  Yes.
[01:37:35]  Have you ever had it?
[01:37:37]  What does it do?
[01:37:37]  Estevia.
[01:37:38]  It gives you life?
[01:37:39]  Well, sort of.
[01:37:40]  There's also, it has like, instead of zero calories, like a can of Coke is 150 calories.
[01:37:45]  A can of Coke Zero is zero calories.
[01:37:47]  A can of Coke Life, I think is like 70 or 90 calories, maybe 60, something like that.
[01:37:53]  It's in between.
[01:37:54]  And you think to yourself, well, why would I either have the real one or have the one where you're saying, okay, I'm going to sacrifice maybe a little taste or whatever and have zero calories?
[01:38:04]  Why would you go with the one that has like 60 or 70 calories?
[01:38:07]  This is what we're saying about this stupid bill.
[01:38:10]  Yes, we got that.
[01:38:11]  There's a great soda reference here.
[01:38:14]  I don't know if we've really found it because we're starting with Coke.
[01:38:19]  This is like starting with Mr. Pib.
[01:38:22]  You got to start with Mr. Pib.
[01:38:25]  You have to start with diet, Mr. Pib.
[01:38:27]  Pib Zero?
[01:38:28]  Is that what you're saying?
[01:38:29]  You got to start with diet, Mr. Pib.
[01:38:30]  You actually have to start with a glass of urine.
[01:38:33]  And then.
[01:38:34]  And then work up to what?
[01:38:36]  Really?
[01:38:36]  Urine from the most healthy person you can find.
[01:38:42]  It's still urine, gang.
[01:38:44]  Yeah, it is.
[01:38:45]  It's healthy, though.
[01:38:46]  It's healthy.
[01:38:46]  Healthy.
[01:38:48]  888-727-BECK.
[01:38:50]  Have you heard anyone who is because a lot of people who are politicians are saying this is going to happen like Sean Spicer yesterday, this bill is going to happen tomorrow.
[01:38:59]  There is no plan B. Like that is what they're saying because that's what they have to say.
[01:39:03]  But have you heard anyone who thinks this is actually a good bill?
[01:39:06]  I've heard a lot of people dancing around it.
[01:39:08]  They're doing exactly even the advocates are doing what the Democrats always do.
[01:39:12]  Oh, it's not a perfect bill.
[01:39:14]  There's no perfect bill.
[01:39:16]  I'm so sick and tired of that excuse.
[01:39:18]  It's not a perfect bill.
[01:39:19]  Why didn't we?
[01:39:21]  Why don't you craft something, much, much better at least?
[01:39:24]  Theirs was.
[01:39:25]  They got everything they wanted.
[01:39:27]  No, they wanted a single payer.
[01:39:29]  No, no, no.
[01:39:30]  No, that's not what they set out for.
[01:39:32]  Public option.
[01:39:33]  That was not included in the final Obama.
[01:39:35]  But that's not what they set out.
[01:39:36]  They said they did want public option.
[01:39:37]  That was a big deal.
[01:39:38]  Yeah.
[01:39:39]  Now, Obama during the campaign said he didn't want it, which might be what you're remembering.
[01:39:43]  Yes.
[01:39:44]  I mean, out in the public, they didn't want it.
[01:39:46]  No, he said he did want that.
[01:39:47]  He didn't want the mandate, which he got the mandate.
[01:39:50]  It's a very confusing process, as we all know.
[01:39:52]  The point being, though, is like it's not, you know, this is something that if we went from our old system, direct, forget Obamacare for a second.
[01:40:00]  If we went from our old system to the GOP proposal, first of all, the GOP would never have proposed it.
[01:40:06]  No.
[01:40:07]  And secondly, Republicans would have thought it like crazy.
[01:40:10]  We all would have said, this is a glass of urine.
[01:40:14]  And everybody was healthy from Johnny United.
[01:40:17]  You put some pure cane sugar in it, but it's still urine.
[01:40:21]  I don't know why.
[01:40:22]  I don't want the pure cane sugar urine.
[01:40:24]  I don't want that.
[01:40:24]  I don't want it.
[01:40:25]  I don't want it.
[01:40:26]  No, but this is.
[01:40:26]  Yeah, you degraded from the stevia or whatever, and this is actual sugar, but I know.
[01:40:32]  I'm sorry.
[01:40:33]  Let's go to Leslie.
[01:40:35]  Leslie, take the deal or reject it.
[01:40:41]  Reject it.
[01:40:42]  Did you vote for Trump?
[01:40:43]  Did you vote for Trump?
[01:40:45]  No, I didn't.
[01:40:46]  I voted third party.
[01:40:48]  Okay.
[01:40:48]  All right.
[01:40:49]  Thank you so much.
[01:40:50]  Leslie, Tony in Pennsylvania, take the deal or reject it.
[01:40:58]  Say reject it.
[01:40:59]  I was a Donald Trump voter.
[01:41:02]  Real quick, thanks for your history stuff.
[01:41:04]  I really enjoy it.
[01:41:06]  Thank you.
[01:41:06]  I listened to my 25-year-old son who did not vote for Donald Trump.
[01:41:11]  Wow.
[01:41:12]  Wow.
[01:41:12]  Good.
[01:41:14]  So you're saying reject this deal?
[01:41:17]  Yes.
[01:41:17]  Yeah.
[01:41:19]  Well, I say repeal and then don't do anything else.
[01:41:22]  Maybe I look down the line.
[01:41:25]  Okay, no, no, no.
[01:41:25]  I'm just, wait, I'm specifically talking about this bill.
[01:41:30]  You're in Congress today.
[01:41:32]  Do you vote for the bill or you just say, no, this is garbage?
[01:41:37]  I'm going to say it's garbage because it doesn't do enough.
[01:41:40]  Now, Trump wants it, obviously.
[01:41:42]  Trump is using a lot of political capital to get this done.
[01:41:46]  He is trying to make a deal with the Freedom Caucus.
[01:41:49]  He's a master dealmaker, too.
[01:41:50]  I mean, I'll be surprised, honestly, because that's the way it always happens.
[01:41:53]  I'll be really surprised if they don't pass it.
[01:41:56]  Because even though we're hearing they don't have the votes, they always come up with the votes to pass a bad bill.
[01:42:01]  Somehow, Congress, yeah, there's never a chance.
[01:42:06]  Good bills, it never happens.
[01:42:08]  Bad bills, they always find the votes.
[01:42:10]  We have no votes.
[01:42:11]  Everybody, it's like they've all been vaporized.
[01:42:15]  We can't find them.
[01:42:16]  The voting begins.
[01:42:17]  They all vote for it.
[01:42:18]  And the thing about Trump, which if you want this bill passed is a real positive, is he doesn't have a real ideological tie to anything in this bill.
[01:42:28]  He wants to get rid of Obamacare and he wants to fulfill the campaign promise.
[01:42:32]  I think he wants to get it done.
[01:42:33]  But like, you know, the fact for him, like this regulation or this regulation stays or goes, isn't incredibly important to him.
[01:42:39]  So he's willing to bend on that stuff to get something done.
[01:42:42]  Now, I'm not particularly excited about that.
[01:42:44]  But if you like Trump and you like this bill, I think there's a real argument that, you know, hey, this might happen because of those things.
[01:42:51]  Let me go to Jim in Ohio.
[01:42:53]  Hello, Jim.
[01:42:55]  Hey, Glenn, thanks for taking my call.
[01:42:56]  You bet.
[01:42:58]  Yeah, I would vote for it.
[01:43:01]  Wait.
[01:43:02]  Hang on.
[01:43:02]  Is that Dickinson?
[01:43:04]  Have we lost you, Jim?
[01:43:05]  Are you there?
[01:43:06]  I think he said he was going to vote for it.
[01:43:08]  Sure sounded like it.
[01:43:09]  Marissa in Pennsylvania.
[01:43:11]  Hello, Marissa.
[01:43:13]  Hey, everybody.
[01:43:14]  Thank you for taking my call.
[01:43:15]  Sure.
[01:43:16]  And I would say tell Paul Ryan to pound salt.
[01:43:19]  Reject it because it's junk.
[01:43:22]  It's junk.
[01:43:24]  I don't know how Paul Ryan waits.
[01:43:25]  I don't know how we've been waiting.
[01:43:27]  We've been waiting for so very long to do this.
[01:43:29]  The Republicans have been talking about it for forever, it feels like.
[01:43:32]  And this is what they came up with.
[01:43:35]  My eight-year-old could have done a better job at writing a redeal and a replacement.
[01:43:39]  Do you feel betrayed by what the promises were during the election?
[01:43:45]  Not particularly because I didn't have too much faith in what Donald Trump was talking about anyway.
[01:43:50]  Look, I'm glad that he's able to get in there and get Obamacare.
[01:43:56]  At least it's coming up and it'll get to his desk for a vote.
[01:43:59]  I mean, for eight years, we couldn't even get that far.
[01:44:02]  So I guess this is progress.
[01:44:05]  But I don't have much faith or I don't have very high expectations of Republicans in general or in Donald Trump in particular in terms of being a conservative because he's not, and for the most part, nobody in Congress, none of the Republicans are conservative.
[01:44:21]  I always appreciated Rand Paul and Mike Lee and Ted Cruz way better than Donald Trump, of course.
[01:44:29]  And either one of those men would have done by far and away a better job at getting a better-looking bill.
[01:44:36]  But at least Donald Trump, I mean, you've got to give him credit where credit is due.
[01:44:40]  He's at least getting something started.
[01:44:42]  But it's only a beginning.
[01:44:44]  This is a very infancy stage.
[01:44:46]  This cannot be The final replacement.
[01:44:50]  Thanks, Mercer.
[01:44:50]  I appreciate it.
[01:44:51]  What's interesting is they passed something much, much, much better than this a couple of years ago.
[01:44:55]  Oh, yeah.
[01:44:55]  When they knew it wouldn't go through.
[01:44:57]  When they knew it wouldn't go through, they passed it.
[01:44:58]  Much better though.
[01:44:59]  Go ahead, Gary.
[01:45:00]  Hey, hey, Glenn, this is a bit simplest thing.
[01:45:03]  Okay.
[01:45:03]  Repeal only, send it back to the states via the 10th Amendment and be done with it.
[01:45:11]  I'm good with that.
[01:45:13]  So you're saying today, if you were in Congress, you'd say no to this bill.
[01:45:17]  No to this bill.
[01:45:18]  Send it back to the states.
[01:45:20]  It's not in an enumerated powers under the federal constitution and be done with it.
[01:45:25]  Thanks a lot, Gary.
[01:45:26]  I appreciate it.
[01:45:27]  Let me go to Mike in Pennsylvania.
[01:45:28]  Hello, Mike.
[01:45:30]  It's unconstitutional.
[01:45:32]  Reject it.
[01:45:33]  Thank you very much.
[01:45:36]  That was the guy from the CIA saying, you know, I'm coming to kill you at three.
[01:45:42]  Reject it.
[01:45:44]  By the way, Massey made this argument on the air with us yesterday, Thomas Massey from Kentucky, who said, look, this is supposed to be a negotiation.
[01:45:53]  And if the negotiation doesn't really start until one side says no.
[01:45:57]  And if conservatives say no, they're going to have to come back to the table and try to figure out how to make this acceptable to conservatives, which is a big difference from what they have now.
[01:46:07]  Whether you can get that stuff by the Senate is a whole other issue, but that's not the House's responsibility.
[01:46:11]  The House's responsibility is to pass the best bill possible.
[01:46:14]  You can figure out the details later, but instead they're trying to manipulate all these moderates to vote for it and try to make it this thing that everyone can accept.
[01:46:23]  It's like, well, pass the right thing.
[01:46:25]  Why don't you pass the right thing?
[01:46:26]  And if you have to back off of the right thing later, then maybe that has to happen to get the votes.
[01:46:32]  However, why not start with the right thing?
[01:46:35]  Why not begin with, I don't know, let somebody else.
[01:46:39]  Yeah, why not go for it?
[01:46:41]  We're going to have this opportunity again.
[01:46:43]  Should you keep your feet on the ground though?
[01:46:44]  I wouldn't as you reach for the stars.
[01:46:46]  Reach for the stars and then float off into space until your head pops.
[01:46:50]  That's a bet.
[01:46:51]  Either that or stay here on earth and continue to watch what Tom Samson recommends.
[01:46:55]  I know.
[01:46:55]  He didn't have to live in these times, did he now?
[01:46:57]  No, he didn't.
[01:46:58]  No, he died.
[01:46:58]  He died before we got here.
[01:47:00]  Before we got here.
[01:47:01]  So he was like, keep your feet on the ground.
[01:47:03]  I prefer reach for the stars, float off into space until your head pops.
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[01:48:20]  You know, we're just sitting here talking about if we had to vote one way or another, I would vote.
[01:48:28]  I don't care.
[01:48:29]  I know.
[01:48:30]  I don't care.
[01:48:30]  I don't care.
[01:48:32]  You're going to screw it up in the end either.
[01:48:33]  Yeah, I mean, if they reject it, you know, they're going to screw it up later.
[01:48:38]  If they do it, they're going to screw it up.
[01:48:42]  Even if it turns out to be good, they're going to screw it up.
[01:48:45]  So it's just like, why care?
[01:48:47]  We're so politically dead inside.
[01:48:49]  No, it's so dead.
[01:48:50]  We've just been so beaten over the last year and a half.
[01:48:53]  Because there's nobody good to root for.
[01:48:55]  Mike Lee is the only guy that is really untarnished in my head.
[01:49:01]  Now, I know there's other guys, but he always comes to mind.
[01:49:07]  Yeah.
[01:49:07]  He's the only guy that I'm like, okay, well, Mike Lee, I trust him.
[01:49:10]  Yeah.
[01:49:12]  I think it's a healthy thing, though, honestly.
[01:49:13]  It's like the ability to be able to just let this stuff go, man, it makes your life better.
[01:49:20]  I don't know.
[01:49:20]  I mean, in a purely selfish way, I don't live or die by this stuff anymore.
[01:49:26]  I don't.
[01:49:26]  Nope.
[01:49:28]  And I'm also able, I have no, like, I want these bills to be good and I want our taxes to go down and I want people to have better health care and have regulation.
[01:49:36]  But you know, none of that's going to happen.
[01:49:38]  I have no faith in any of them to accomplish it.
[01:49:42]  I read all the stuff I'm supposed to read.
[01:49:44]  I do all the work.
[01:49:46]  And then I get to the end of it and I'm like, whatever.
[01:49:49]  I mean, there's just, I just don't, I just don't care anymore.

=== Letting Stuff Go for Better Life (03:24) ===

[01:49:54]  When it comes to politics, how many times I've said that this week?
[01:49:58]  I just don't know.
[01:50:00]  I just don't care.
[01:50:02]  My brother was visiting and he's super into the political stuff right now.
[01:50:07]  And he'd ask me stuff about it.
[01:50:10]  I don't care.
[01:50:11]  I just don't care.
[01:50:13]  That's really bad.
[01:50:15]  It is.
[01:50:16]  That's really bad.
[01:50:18]  Especially in our line of work.
[01:50:20]  I just want to point that out.
[01:50:21]  But like you said, we're still doing the work.
[01:50:23]  We're still informed.
[01:50:25]  We're still reading it.
[01:50:25]  I'm still doing it.
[01:50:26]  But I can't watch all the stuff.
[01:50:28]  I can't keep talking about it.
[01:50:29]  I can't watch the news.
[01:50:30]  I watch clips.
[01:50:31]  Oh, man.
[01:50:31]  I can't read Fox News at all anymore.
[01:50:33]  No, I can't watch any news.
[01:50:35]  I read a lot, but I can't watch any news.
[01:50:38]  I go home.
[01:50:39]  My father-in-law has all the news channels.
[01:50:40]  I mean, he runs through all the news channels.
[01:50:42]  So I catch bits and pieces of them.
[01:50:44]  I can't.
[01:50:45]  I can't sit down and look at it.
[01:50:47]  I can't.
[01:50:48]  I can't.
[01:50:49]  And by the way, when you do analysis of these things, the best thing to do is to not have emotion tied to them.
[01:50:55]  Oh, yeah, no, our analysis will be much better.
[01:50:58]  We absolutely mr. Spock right now on that.
[01:51:00]  Oh, yeah.
[01:51:01]  Oh, yeah.
[01:51:02]  I am Spock.
[01:51:03]  Oh, yeah.
[01:51:03]  We could say they're voting today and they're going to vote to vaporize half of Congress.
[01:51:10]  That's not going to vaporize half of Congress and be like, fascinating.
[01:51:14]  Pure energy.
[01:51:16]  It's like, it's totally fascinating.
[01:51:20]  I have no emotion over that.
[01:51:23]  It would all be vaporized.
[01:51:25]  Removing the emotion from those moments actually helps your analysis.
[01:51:30]  It does.
[01:51:30]  It does.
[01:51:32]  Because someone tweeted to me the other day of like, well, would you guys care about politics if Ted Cruz was president?
[01:51:38]  Probably more.
[01:51:39]  And you know what?
[01:51:39]  And that might not help our analysis.
[01:51:41]  You know, I probably would have more of a rooting interest, and that wouldn't help.
[01:51:46]  It is how beaten we've been by the whole situation and the whole, I mean, we had 17 candidates and they picked number 17.
[01:51:57]  But it doesn't just start from that.
[01:51:59]  It really doesn't.
[01:52:00]  No, no, it's just.
[01:52:01]  It's just the last eight years.
[01:52:03]  And before that, the last four years of the Glenn, no matter what.
[01:52:08]  Eight of them were fully acceptable.
[01:52:11]  Let's just go back.
[01:52:13]  Let's just go back to Fahrenheit 911.
[01:52:16]  We've been doing this and actually caring since Michael Moore was fatter than me.
[01:52:24]  I know we were that long.
[01:52:26]  The Florida election, the stupid Chads.
[01:52:29]  I mean, that was a very hanging chad.
[01:52:31]  Yeah, the hanging Chads.
[01:52:33]  By the way, that was a joke.
[01:52:34]  The one person who did not laugh at it was your wife.
[01:52:39]  Just to point that out.
[01:52:40]  She's going, yeah, he is fatter than me.
[01:52:43]  In fact, the whole room is fatter than Michael Moore.
[01:52:47]  You look at Michael Moore and I'm like, he's looking pretty good.
[01:52:54]  What happened to him?
[01:52:55]  I mean, I remember it being side-by-side pictures on the TV and me looking bad.
[01:53:02]  He looks pretty good.
[01:53:04]  What happened?
[01:53:05]  That's interesting.
[01:53:05]  It's fascinating.
[01:53:07]  Pure energy.
[01:53:08]  During care.
[01:53:08]  Don't care.
[01:53:09]  Don't care.
[01:53:14]  This is the Glenn Beck Program.
[01:53:18]  Mercury.