The Glenn Beck Program - 6/1/17 - Executive Withdraw Expected?
Aired: 2017-06-01
Duration: 01:47:01


=== Paris Agreement Is About Money (11:55) ===

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[00:00:36]  The Paris Climate Agreement is about one thing.
[00:00:39]  Green.
[00:00:41]  Not green energy, not the environment.
[00:00:43]  It's about green.
[00:00:44]  It's about green money, green backs.
[00:00:46]  That's what it's about.
[00:00:47]  People can pretend it's about saving the planet and the future of humanity and the little puppy dogs and birdies and the tufted tit mouse, but it is not.
[00:00:57]  It is about money.
[00:00:58]  It's about some people getting rich.
[00:01:00]  It's about a socialist program to redistribute wealth around the globe.
[00:01:04]  America has had a higher standard of living than most of the world for a very long time.
[00:01:10]  And many years ago, there were people that said, hey, we want to bring everybody together, put them on the same level.
[00:01:16]  The socialists out there.
[00:01:17]  Well, you're not going to be able to put everybody on the same level by bringing everybody else up to America's standards.
[00:01:23]  Somebody's got to go down.
[00:01:25]  America.
[00:01:27]  It's an averaging.
[00:01:28]  Nobody moves, you don't move everybody else up to that level.
[00:01:32]  It thins it all out.
[00:01:33]  That's what socialism is.
[00:01:35]  That's what redistribution is.
[00:01:37]  Our former president proudly displayed and promoted the idea of redistribution for the purpose of fairness, as they say.
[00:01:45]  And climate, the climate argument, as much as they want to pretend it's about science, it is not.
[00:01:51]  It is another big government program that will control people for the purpose of redistribution.
[00:01:59]  That's it.
[00:02:00]  The Paris Climate Agreement is pretty obvious that that's what it's about because sure they talk about, well, we're going to further reduce emissions.
[00:02:07]  By 2025, we'll further reduce them.
[00:02:11]  But it also calls for $3 billion from America being paid to other countries.
[00:02:19]  By the way, since when do we become the bank of the world?
[00:02:23]  Why does this have to be our money?
[00:02:26]  Right, exactly.
[00:02:27]  Why does it have to be our money?
[00:02:28]  What can be as a collective?
[00:02:31]  Because we're the big dog and everybody else says we've got to get what some of they have.
[00:02:36]  And unfortunately, there's a lot of people in America that says, let's give it to them without any standards, without any control, but as part of a socialist program.
[00:02:46]  That's because we did, because we allowed ourselves to.
[00:02:49]  I mean, you and I don't think that way.
[00:02:51]  Stock Thompson in for Glenn Beck today.
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[00:03:06]  So coming up today at three o'clock, President Trump is supposed to officially say, nah, not going to do it.
[00:03:12]  Not going to be involved in the Paris Climate Agreement, which is a really good thing.
[00:03:16]  Now, I've been frustrated over the past couple of weeks because he started waffling like maybe he would be part of the Paris Climate Agreement, something that he said he was not going to do.
[00:03:26]  I didn't know with him.
[00:03:27]  Right, you don't know.
[00:03:28]  And during the campaign, he lamb-based it.
[00:03:31]  It was supposed to be one of those, you know, first day in office, first hundred days, whatever, going to do.
[00:03:36]  I gave him a little bit of a pass over the past couple of weeks because I thought maybe he's floating out this possibility he'd be malleable on it, malleable on it, because he was doing some sort of deal, right?
[00:03:48]  Behind the scenes.
[00:03:49]  Behind the scenes.
[00:03:50]  He had to put that out there in public and he was really working something else.
[00:03:54]  Fortunately, at least he is out.
[00:03:56]  I don't know what got him there, but today at three o'clock, he's going to say no.
[00:03:59]  And that's a very good thing.
[00:04:00]  Unless he says yes.
[00:04:02]  Unless he says yes at the last minute or unless he says cofefe.
[00:04:05]  Yeah.
[00:04:05]  I don't know.
[00:04:06]  Anything's possible.
[00:04:07]  Anything's possible with him.
[00:04:09]  $3 billion.
[00:04:10]  This agreement.
[00:04:12]  Think about this.
[00:04:13]  This is what we, this is the deal we made.
[00:04:16]  Everybody got in a room, essentially, and said, we want everybody to take greater control over anything that affects the environment as we see it as part of this agreement.
[00:04:26]  Lowering emissions, set these standards.
[00:04:27]  And everybody said, okay, we're all in this together.
[00:04:30]  Everybody's going to do it, right?
[00:04:31]  Everybody says, right, okay, good deal.
[00:04:34]  And some of you are going to have to pay for it.
[00:04:37]  Wait a minute.
[00:04:38]  Hold on.
[00:04:39]  We're all going to pay for it.
[00:04:40]  We're all going to put money in.
[00:04:41]  No, no, no, no.
[00:04:42]  And we'll get the United States credit card.
[00:04:44]  Right.
[00:04:45]  Not me.
[00:04:46]  That's what they said.
[00:04:47]  Imagine we all go to lunch.
[00:04:49]  We're all in on this right now.
[00:04:51]  We're all going to pay for this.
[00:04:52]  No.
[00:04:53]  No, Doc, can you pay for this?
[00:04:54]  The rich countries have to pay for it.
[00:04:56]  We're not rich.
[00:04:57]  We're not.
[00:04:58]  We're broke.
[00:04:59]  That's the point, Brad.
[00:05:00]  We are 20 plus trillion dollars in debt and maybe $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
[00:05:08]  The bill is out there.
[00:05:09]  We just haven't officially gotten it yet.
[00:05:12]  We're still running up that tab at lunch and people are going, well, you've got so much.
[00:05:16]  You got to give us some.
[00:05:18]  You've got some of these countries that are deep in oil and they're not going to pay their fair share.
[00:05:23]  We already pay 22% of the United Nations bills and provided land and everything to have the place built.
[00:05:29]  We already have provided all kinds of funds for other climate change initiatives in the past.
[00:05:36]  We've already done this.
[00:05:37]  And the Paris Climates Agreement was give us another $3 billion.
[00:05:42]  So there's tougher standards, fine.
[00:05:44]  But why is the money attached to it?
[00:05:47]  Because they could.
[00:05:48]  Because they could.
[00:05:49]  Because it's about the green.
[00:05:51]  I'm not going to let them get away with this nonsense of pretending that this is about the environment.
[00:05:56]  You want to have a discussion about this scientist.
[00:05:58]  Bill Nye, the guy, because he should in no way be connected with science.
[00:06:05]  I welcome you.
[00:06:06]  Come on this program.
[00:06:07]  Come on my program.
[00:06:08]  I'll meet you anywhere and I'll debate you.
[00:06:11]  I'll sit down with you.
[00:06:12]  I'll discuss it.
[00:06:13]  I would watch that.
[00:06:14]  I would watch it too.
[00:06:16]  Yeah.
[00:06:16]  I mean, I wouldn't have to.
[00:06:18]  I could probably sleep my way through a debate with him, but I would probably watch it out of respect.
[00:06:24]  Horrible.
[00:06:24]  And because it's not about science.
[00:06:27]  How do you argue and continue to argue that you're about science, yet you don't use the scientific method when we discuss it?
[00:06:33]  You don't actually use scientific facts.
[00:06:35]  And then you start throwing a bunch of other stuff in that doesn't have to do with science.
[00:06:40]  What does the $3 billion have to do with climate change?
[00:06:44]  Well, we've got to help, according to them, I guess, pay for the stopping of climate change in these other countries.
[00:06:51]  Right.
[00:06:52]  How about they just stop?
[00:06:57]  Yeah.
[00:06:57]  I mean, because it's about emissions.
[00:06:59]  That's what it does all these little different things.
[00:07:01]  But the big dog with any of these agreements is the amount of emissions.
[00:07:04]  That countries swear that if they abide by this agreement or others like agreements, they will go back to their home countries and they'll say, we are going to set new standards in manufacturing and the way citizens live their lives and say you can no longer pollute the earth to this level.
[00:07:20]  In fact, you've got to do some things to scale it back.
[00:07:23]  And those things are always through legislation, through government action, through control.
[00:07:27]  That's what we need.
[00:07:28]  More regulation.
[00:07:29]  We need more of that.
[00:07:30]  That's good for us because look where it's gotten us so far.
[00:07:35]  Those countries can just pass those laws.
[00:07:38]  In fact, a lot of those countries don't even have to pass the law.
[00:07:40]  They just need some dude that goes, you do what I say.
[00:07:44]  Right?
[00:07:45]  So why?
[00:07:46]  What is the money aspect?
[00:07:48]  Well, one of the things here, and I'm reading through the bullet points, is, okay, so the whole deal is about climate change.
[00:07:54]  They're saying that the climate is getting worse and we're going to drown and all that stuff.
[00:07:59]  But one of the bullet points says here says the agreement requires all countries to submit an updated plan that will ratchet up the stringency of the emission by 2020.
[00:08:09]  If climate is so important, why by 2020?
[00:08:12]  Why not by the end of the year?
[00:08:15]  Why not today?
[00:08:16]  Why not today?
[00:08:16]  Right.
[00:08:17]  So that's one of the things I don't understand about this agreement.
[00:08:19]  It's about the climate, but why does it have to be by 2020?
[00:08:23]  Well, that's their narrative all the time.
[00:08:25]  I mean, on one hand, it's like this is dire consequences.
[00:08:28]  We may have crossed a threshold there's no going back to.
[00:08:31]  That's been one of the ones recently.
[00:08:32]  We may not be able to change it back now.
[00:08:34]  Right.
[00:08:35]  Okay, if that's the case, prove it, and then we don't have to do anything.
[00:08:40]  Why would we start if we can't change it?
[00:08:43]  Why would we go through all that hassle?
[00:08:44]  Let's live it up.
[00:08:46]  Yesterday on Pat and Stew, we gave it a little sneak look at the wonderful world of Stu from tomorrow night, where Stu.
[00:08:52]  That's on the Blaze TV, by the way.
[00:08:54]  Go to the blaze.com slash TV.
[00:08:55]  He had a graph which basically showed the difference between what would happen naturally and what will happen if we abide by all of the Paris Climate Agreement changes.
[00:09:04]  And the change was 0.05%.
[00:09:08]  Is that big?
[00:09:09]  It was negligible.
[00:09:11]  Wow.
[00:09:12]  I mean, so if we do nothing, we are sacrificing 0.05% of quality, I guess.
[00:09:19]  If you want to have credibility, if you're somebody out there that's melting down about the polar ice cap supposedly melting down, we can sit down and we can talk about this stuff, but not if you're going to continue to put things like money on the table that shows it's really not about the science or whatever.
[00:09:35]  It's about the rules and regulations.
[00:09:36]  Make it about the rules and regulations.
[00:09:38]  And let's actually use the scientific method when discuss it.
[00:09:41]  I can do that.
[00:09:42]  And by the way, I don't want the earth polluted.
[00:09:45]  No, neither do I.
[00:09:46]  I don't want, you know, to dive in the Great Lakes and have it be like it was in the 50s and 60s with things floating.
[00:09:54]  I don't want that.
[00:09:54]  I want to breathe clean air.
[00:09:56]  I'm a person who conserves mainly because I'm cheap.
[00:10:00]  I mean, right?
[00:10:01]  That's what it takes.
[00:10:02]  Right.
[00:10:03]  That's fine.
[00:10:04]  I believe in conservation.
[00:10:05]  Those are all really good things.
[00:10:07]  That's fine.
[00:10:08]  But not as forced government control, number one, and not as redistribution efforts to give somebody else money, which, by the way, we already provide for and I'm already paying through the nose in every other way for.
[00:10:19]  We redistribute the money in other ways too.
[00:10:21]  For example, when it comes to immigration, the tax code, the whole child tax credit, where you can not actually pay money in to taxes, pay nothing in, but file you have a child, whatever, and you get money back that you didn't pay in.
[00:10:38]  Those are no longer taxes or a tax return or getting money back on your taxes because you have deductions.
[00:10:43]  That's another redistribution plan.
[00:10:45]  That's all it is.
[00:10:47]  So let's stop screwing around and admit what you are and what you want.
[00:10:51]  Then we can debate it.
[00:10:52]  Otherwise, you're just scamming us on this stuff.
[00:10:54]  And by the way, speaking of scam, look at the people that represent you on the climate change front.
[00:11:01]  Bill Nye, the guy, Al Gore.
[00:11:06]  Look at these people.
[00:11:07]  Al Gore on the internet.
[00:11:09]  Well, after that, though, he has this gargantuan house that we all know the failures, how he does not practice what he preaches.
[00:11:16]  And by the way, even if you do do a little bit, you're still polluting or causing more carbon pollution, as you would say, than most people.
[00:11:24]  So you've lost all credibility there.
[00:11:26]  If you believe in this stuff and you want to discuss it, fine.
[00:11:30]  But you have to start calling out people like Al Gore and the sacred cows who are clearly being hypocrites about this stuff, or we're going nowhere.
[00:11:38]  It's a good thing that President Trump is not going to take part in this today.
[00:11:41]  That's a very good thing.
[00:11:43]  Hopefully.
[00:11:44]  Hopefully.
[00:11:44]  You want to move on and do other good stuff?
[00:11:46]  We can work on that.
[00:11:48]  But not if you're not going to be serious about this and not if you're not going to be honest about it.
[00:11:52]  We'll get some calls coming up on this.
[00:11:53]  88727B.

=== Calling Out Hypocrites Now (02:16) ===

[00:11:55]  It's 888-727-BECK.
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[00:12:00]  We'll get some of those coming up next and dive more into the whole fallacy of climate change or at least man-caused climate change coming up next on the Glenn Beck program.
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[00:12:32]  It's some videos.
[00:12:33]  It's a video series that I do on all different topics, but this one has specifically to do with climate change.
[00:12:40]  And it just lays out all the facts for you.
[00:12:42]  If you want to educate, it's only a couple minutes long.
[00:12:44]  Just go to the actually Twitter.
[00:12:46]  It's at Doc Thompson Show.
[00:12:47]  You can see I just tweeted it out there.
[00:12:49]  Coming up at 2 o'clock this afternoon, I'm going to man the customer service phones at theblaze.com.
[00:12:58]  Do you have the number, right, Chris?
[00:12:59]  I do got the number.
[00:13:00]  Because Brad's going to join me on this.
[00:13:02]  I didn't tell him that, but yeah.
[00:13:03]  So he's in.
[00:13:05]  I'm all in.
[00:13:07]  Good team.
[00:13:08]  This is part of a greater story that I'm going to share a little bit later why we're doing this, but what's the number?
[00:13:13]  The number is 866-304-4978.
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[00:13:21]  866-304-704-4978.
[00:13:26]  78.
[00:13:26]  We'll tweet that out as well.
[00:13:28]  But that's 2 o'clock this afternoon.
[00:13:29]  You call up.
[00:13:30]  Yeah, you may end up talking with Brad or I.
[00:13:31]  It's the customer service line for theblaze.com.
[00:13:34]  When I'm not invited?
[00:13:35]  Subscribe.
[00:13:37]  No, no, you're not.
[00:13:38]  No, you're not.
[00:13:38]  Cal's not invited?
[00:13:39]  Cal's invited.
[00:13:40]  You're not.
[00:13:41]  Yeah.
[00:13:41]  Oh, this is about me.
[00:13:42]  Okay.
[00:13:42]  Yeah, pretty much.
[00:13:43]  That's right.
[00:13:43]  That's right.
[00:13:44]  Here's the thing: we're going to be talking with people.
[00:13:47]  Okay.
[00:13:48]  So we have to try to effectively communicate on the air.
[00:13:51]  Okay, right now, what am I doing?
[00:13:53]  Attempting to effectively communicate.
[00:13:55]  Okay, got it.
[00:13:56]  Got it.
[00:13:56]  All right.
[00:13:56]  I can feel it.
[00:13:57]  Looks like you're trying to communicate.
[00:13:59]  I know he's trying.
[00:14:00]  It's in there somewhere.
[00:14:02]  Can you trust me to give the customer service phone number?
[00:14:04]  I just didn't have it in front of me, so that was a fail on my part, clearly.
[00:14:08]  888-727-BEC.
[00:14:10]  We'll get some calls coming up on the Paris climate deal.

=== Coal Sludge And Real Science (14:35) ===

[00:14:12]  One of the things that it's going to do is help promote the use of coal and sale of coal, which is good.
[00:14:19]  And I know Trump went to the coal belts of West Virginia and Kentucky and places like that and said, hey, I'm in it for you.
[00:14:25]  And people like that supported him for that reason.
[00:14:27]  That's a really good thing.
[00:14:29]  America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
[00:14:32]  I mean, we just have seemingly limitless supplies of coal.
[00:14:37]  Coal can be used effectively.
[00:14:39]  Most electricity that is manufactured in America still comes from coal.
[00:14:43]  This is something that is unique to America.
[00:14:45]  We are deep in coal.
[00:14:47]  Of course, natural gas, we are, and we do pretty well with oil as well.
[00:14:50]  This is a good thing.
[00:14:51]  There are some oil companies, energy companies that are for the Paris climate deal, which seems kind of odd.
[00:14:58]  You're like, why would they be for it?
[00:15:00]  Well, these are companies that are not invested so much in coal and are invested in other things, like solar and wind energy, which would be great if either one of them were a viable energy source right now.
[00:15:17]  I love solar energy.
[00:15:19]  I love the idea of solar energy.
[00:15:20]  You too.
[00:15:21]  Even more than wind.
[00:15:22]  So there's not this big thing that's spinning in the way and whatever.
[00:15:25]  I know it's only daytime, but you can store some of the electricity, but you get it right out of the air.
[00:15:29]  It's great.
[00:15:29]  You just absorb this right from the sun.
[00:15:31]  The sun gives a lot of life to the planet anyways.
[00:15:34]  You can't have life without it.
[00:15:36]  Great.
[00:15:36]  Love it.
[00:15:37]  Wonderful.
[00:15:38]  But it's not cheap enough yet to be viable.
[00:15:41]  It's better, better than it was in the 70s and 80s.
[00:15:44]  But those solar panels, basically, if you put solar panels on your house and you're doing it for cost cutting, where you get free electricity, by the time you replace those in 15, 20 years or whatever, it's about a wash.
[00:15:57]  Now, if they could bring those solar panels down, cut them in half, you're finally going to save money on your energy bills.
[00:16:02]  Well, and the argument is unless we give incentives to develop the technology behind solar and wind, it will never become a developed and viable source.
[00:16:11]  And the one thing people out there that believe in this man-cause climate change and support all this stuff and money goes, they say, well, listen, we've been subsidizing coal and oil and all these other things.
[00:16:21]  You're right.
[00:16:22]  We should not do those things.
[00:16:24]  But we also shouldn't subsidize solar.
[00:16:26]  We shouldn't subsidize any of those things.
[00:16:28]  If they're not viable, they shouldn't exist.
[00:16:30]  That's part of my free market philosophy.
[00:16:33]  It's the free market, basically.
[00:16:34]  Right.
[00:16:34]  If it works, fine, it'll work.
[00:16:36]  You're right.
[00:16:37]  We shouldn't have corporate welfare.
[00:16:38]  We shouldn't be giving grants to coal and oil.
[00:16:42]  Your gasoline prices will go up.
[00:16:45]  Okay.
[00:16:46]  Then that's what the price should be.
[00:16:48]  Where do you think these subsidies come from?
[00:16:49]  The government?
[00:16:50]  You know where the government gets its money from?
[00:16:52]  Me.
[00:16:52]  It's a shell game that ultimately allows them to redistribute the money.
[00:16:56]  All right, to the phones we go.
[00:16:57]  Let's go to Florida now.
[00:16:58]  And West, you're on the Glenn Beck program.
[00:17:00]  How are you?
[00:17:01]  Hey, this is a great topic.
[00:17:03]  I've got three quick points I'd like to make for Castcha.
[00:17:06]  First, if you want to watch a climate Luddite's head explode, try to introduce solar activity into the conversation.
[00:17:13]  Oh, forget it.
[00:17:15]  They can't even process solar activity.
[00:17:17]  Yeah.
[00:17:18]  Second, you didn't even touch on the hypocrisy of Al Gore.
[00:17:21]  Al Gore, after he did this chart showing it going off the ceiling, he went over to London and formed a company that trades carbon credits.
[00:17:31]  Well, yeah, and real quick to your point, most people don't realize that when they talk about this.
[00:17:36]  The carbon credits is not a real commodity.
[00:17:38]  It's something they've invented that they want to push in America because they've done in other parts of the world, like you said, in Europe.
[00:17:44]  It creates a fake commodity for the purpose of just making Al Gore rich.
[00:17:50]  Oh, it made him very, very rich.
[00:17:51]  Right.
[00:17:52]  Because all it does is change, moves the guilt around the planet.
[00:17:55]  Exactly.
[00:17:56]  Well, and the carbon credits.
[00:17:57]  The problem is if they set it up, because it's not a real commodity, we didn't dig gold out of the ground and say each piece of gold is worth this amount of money.
[00:18:05]  It's just something they say, okay, here's a billion carbon credits or whatever it is.
[00:18:09]  Who gets the initial ones?
[00:18:11]  Right?
[00:18:12]  Who gets to buy in?
[00:18:13]  Who gets them handed out?
[00:18:14]  The Al Gores, the people who are connected.
[00:18:16]  And what is your third point, sir?
[00:18:18]  I grew up in Flint, Michigan.
[00:18:20]  Sorry.
[00:18:21]  If somebody tells me the climate is not cleaner now, I tell them about when I was a kid and when it snowed, if you wanted to play in white snow, you had to get out there in the first 30 minutes.
[00:18:30]  Otherwise, it started turning little black specks and turned gray.
[00:18:34]  And there'd be sludge at the side of the road in July.
[00:18:37]  You're right.
[00:18:38]  Yeah, that's a good point.
[00:18:40]  I grew up outside of Cleveland.
[00:18:41]  It's the same thing.
[00:18:42]  Yeah.
[00:18:44]  I grew up on the Great Lakes.
[00:18:45]  I grew up east of Cleveland.
[00:18:46]  The Cuyahoga River caught fire at one point.
[00:18:48]  Trust me, a lot cleaner now.
[00:18:50]  All right.
[00:18:50]  Thanks so much for the call, West.
[00:18:52]  Really appreciate it.
[00:18:52]  Yeah.
[00:18:53]  I had to explain this.
[00:18:54]  Chris, who was in his late 20s, was not familiar with the river catching fire multiple times.
[00:18:59]  It was so polluted that a spark and it just the Burning River.
[00:19:04]  Yeah, that's how polluted it used to be.
[00:19:06]  And those things, the Great Lakes are very clean now.
[00:19:08]  Come light years in terms of being clean.
[00:19:11]  You guys are old.
[00:19:12]  Do you remember the ozone layer?
[00:19:15]  Yeah.
[00:19:16]  We're about to acid rain, all of these things.
[00:19:18]  How come we don't hear about those things anymore?
[00:19:20]  Because those were marketing tools to get us to buy into some sort of climate deal.
[00:19:39]  So I started thinking recently about all of these claims of the past about things that have to do with the environment.
[00:19:45]  And you may know as far back as the late 1800s, there were claims of another ice age.
[00:19:50]  Documented claims.
[00:19:51]  I'm sure they've been claiming these things forever.
[00:19:53]  But you can find documented claims that there's another ice age coming in the late 1800s, and it never came.
[00:19:59]  We know that global climate change at first was global cooling and then global warming and then climate change.
[00:20:07]  We know all of that.
[00:20:08]  We know the claims that by 10 years ago, we would be underwater, that we'd all be a fiery ball in the sky like the sun because of we know all of these things, right, that have been claimed in the past.
[00:20:22]  But what about things like the ozone layer?
[00:20:25]  It's still there.
[00:20:26]  Right.
[00:20:26]  What about acid rain?
[00:20:27]  Whatever happened with acid rain?
[00:20:29]  We changed everything so acid rain, did it never reach the if it was a success where everything we did fixed that, how come you don't hear the climate change alarmists claiming victory?
[00:20:42]  How come they haven't come out and said, hey, you see, we did all this stuff, it worked.
[00:20:47]  Because most of this stuff is not real.
[00:20:50]  It's at best based on theories that they're never forced to prove.
[00:20:55]  It's just we accept it.
[00:20:57]  And then the media, back in the day, it was Time magazine and ABC and NBC and these places, they would get behind it because think how wonderful it sounded on the news, right?
[00:21:07]  Coming up tonight on ABC news, tonight, what are they called?
[00:21:12]  Nightly news.
[00:21:13]  ABC Nights.
[00:21:13]  ABC News, nightly news.
[00:21:15]  Acid falling from the sky.
[00:21:18]  Do you want your children playing outside when it rains?
[00:21:21]  Acid?
[00:21:21]  I mean, right?
[00:21:23]  Yeah, nobody wants to get acid falling on their head.
[00:21:25]  That would be a bad thing.
[00:21:26]  It's through your brain.
[00:21:27]  And you can find countless examples of Time magazine with scare tactic covers and Newsweek back in the day.
[00:21:34]  It just sells.
[00:21:35]  It works.
[00:21:36]  And we know that sensationalism works.
[00:21:38]  But here's another example.
[00:21:40]  Try to find true pictures of the Pacific Ocean floating garbage pile.
[00:21:48]  It's the size of Texas.
[00:21:50]  It's easy to find.
[00:21:51]  That's what we've heard.
[00:21:52]  And if you've never heard this, this is a claim that's been made from time to time that there is a garbage pile floating in the Pacific Ocean that is about the size of Texas.
[00:22:01]  It's big.
[00:22:02]  About six, seven, eight, 10 years ago, I was trying to find something to post on Facebook about this because I was going to do a story and I just wanted a generic picture.
[00:22:10]  So I started looking and I was like, no, no, I want a picture like from the air of like all of the garbage, the size of Texas as they fly over it.
[00:22:18]  Should be easy to get.
[00:22:20]  Google images, image, like a thousand images, nothing.
[00:22:25]  Yahoo, no images.
[00:22:27]  All the images I found were little pieces of garbage, like little beads along the water.
[00:22:33]  Artist renditions of how big it is.
[00:22:36]  Oh, those are good, though.
[00:22:36]  Photoshopped things or a couple of random pieces of garbage floating in water that you don't even know if it's the Pacific, let alone an ocean.
[00:22:45]  Right.
[00:22:45]  Right?
[00:22:45]  Yeah, nothing for scale.
[00:22:47]  Right.
[00:22:48]  It doesn't exist.
[00:22:49]  No.
[00:22:50]  So all of you people out there that believe this exists, you climate change alarmists out there that believe it, how come none of you can produce or have thought to produce a short little video showing how serious this is by flying over it or sending a drone over it?
[00:23:04]  Wow, here it is.
[00:23:06]  We're so many miles up and you can see the garbage goes on for the size of Texas and the Pacific.
[00:23:12]  Yeah.
[00:23:13]  Because it's unsubstantiated claims and it works for them.
[00:23:18]  Now, I've known all that.
[00:23:20]  And over, I think it was around Christmas time, I was laying on the couch, half in the bag.
[00:23:28]  By that, I mean I was drinking tea.
[00:23:30]  Right.
[00:23:31]  And I saw some reruns of Barney Miller.
[00:23:33]  Remember the TV show Barney Miller?
[00:23:34]  Boom, And they start talking because they talked about social issues on the show from time to time, about how horrible the world is right now.
[00:23:42]  They were all stressed out.
[00:23:43]  It was a bad day.
[00:23:44]  There was a strike or something.
[00:23:45]  And one of them mentioned the big garbage pile in the Atlantic that was traveling towards New York.
[00:23:54]  But it wasn't a garbage pile.
[00:23:56]  It was a pile of sludge.
[00:23:58]  There's an island of sludge that's headed to New York.
[00:24:02]  And then I had forgotten all about that.
[00:24:05]  I remember vaguely, and I looked it up, sure enough, back in the day, they believed that there was this big sludge heading to New York.
[00:24:13]  Did it arrive?
[00:24:14]  I mean, I've been to New York.
[00:24:15]  It looks like the sludge arrived, but I think that was always there.
[00:24:20]  Yeah.
[00:24:20]  I don't think that was new sludge.
[00:24:22]  That's old sludge, right?
[00:24:23]  That's not the new sludge.
[00:24:25]  So they claimed the same thing was going on in the Atlantic in the 70s.
[00:24:29]  Big sludge pile in the Atlantic Ocean.
[00:24:33]  Yeah.
[00:24:33]  Where is the proof?
[00:24:35]  There's apparently some red sludge from Brazil, but that was back in 2016.
[00:24:40]  I think that's an entertainer.
[00:24:42]  Yeah.
[00:24:42]  That's an entertainer.
[00:24:44]  I do that red sludge.
[00:24:45]  How you doing?
[00:24:46]  All right, we're going to go back to the phone lines, talk about a little more of this fallacy of man-caused climate change and how it's really just about greenbacks.
[00:24:53]  When they say green, they mean green is in money.
[00:24:56]  The president is likely to pull out of that deal or at least announce that he's pulling out at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
[00:25:01]  Of course, we'll keep you up to date here throughout the program if anything changes.
[00:25:04]  Then you go to theblaze.com for details later today.
[00:25:06]  But let's get some phone calls.
[00:25:08]  888-727B.
[00:25:09]  We go to Virginia now.
[00:25:11]  Nate, how are you?
[00:25:13]  Hey, how are you guys going this morning?
[00:25:15]  Good, good.
[00:25:16]  Hey, this environmental question is nothing more than a geopolitical movement caused by two different belief systems that are colliding constantly and will never find peace with each other.
[00:25:27]  It's definitely a globalist reach for power and money.
[00:25:30]  It has nothing to do with our environment.
[00:25:32]  At the end of the day, I believe that our environment is going to wipe us out if we try to wipe it out.
[00:25:38]  It has a natural way of cleaning itself and getting rid of us and the garbage.
[00:25:44]  And it's about, you know what it is?
[00:25:47]  It's a theological question more than anything.
[00:25:49]  It's about those who believe in a God and those who don't.
[00:25:53]  If you believe in a God, God has given us a responsibility to take care of this earth.
[00:25:58]  Absolutely.
[00:25:59]  We have a responsibility here to make sure that the plants, the animals are well taken care of.
[00:26:06]  So for those who believe in God, we're not tree huggers, but we do have a responsibility to take care of the planet.
[00:26:13]  But for those who don't believe in a God, they are panicking because they don't have any, they live in a state of constant fear because there is no God.
[00:26:22]  And if you believe that there's no God, then you will live in a constant state of fear.
[00:26:27]  But at the end of the day, my whole point is, is that the globalist movement that's spreading across the world right now is being beat back by people like Donald Trump.
[00:26:39]  And if it's not for Donald Trump and some of the other nationalistic movements out there in other countries like Britain and other countries that are trying to fight back against this one world government, this is their easy way of trying to get their foot in the door with the globalists, I truly believe.
[00:26:54]  Nate, thanks so much for the call from the Commonwealth of Virginia this morning.
[00:26:57]  I agree with you on some of that.
[00:26:59]  It has become a religion.
[00:27:01]  We've talked about this done in time.
[00:27:02]  The green movement has become a religion to many, many people.
[00:27:05]  It's a mother Gaia.
[00:27:07]  It's a great scam, though.
[00:27:09]  It's good to take care of the planet.
[00:27:11]  I mean, it's good not to not to pollute.
[00:27:13]  It's good not to litter.
[00:27:15]  I don't think anybody likes polluted lakes or streams, but they've just taken it to an extreme.
[00:27:21]  And that's the problem.
[00:27:22]  Well, we were at the Climate Change March, whatever, a couple of months ago.
[00:27:25]  Yeah, Chris and I went to the climate.
[00:27:26]  It was on Earth Day, and we had some fun with that.
[00:27:29]  Not only we had fun, but we saw Bill Nidas on this guy.
[00:27:32]  We passed him.
[00:27:33]  I didn't recognize him until he got on stage.
[00:27:35]  But the way he was received, it was like Lady Gaga just walked in.
[00:27:41]  He was a beetle there.
[00:27:42]  I'm not kidding.
[00:27:43]  He was a rock star.
[00:27:45]  It was incredible.
[00:27:47]  I mean, I knew that some people liked him and probably supported him.
[00:27:50]  It was like, oh, my God, they were throwing their panties on stage.
[00:27:53]  I mean, seriously.
[00:27:54]  That's disturbing.
[00:27:55]  I'm just assuming with the frenzy, I'm sure somebody did, maybe a couple of little old ladies up there.
[00:27:59]  But one of the things that we saw, we asked them questions, is all they were giving us were bullet points, the same bullet points that we hear on TV, but they could not go any further.
[00:28:06]  For example, oh, how can we tax the carbon?
[00:28:10]  Well, we can tax it.
[00:28:11]  Yeah, but how can we tax it?
[00:28:13]  Well, we can make companies pay for it.
[00:28:15]  Yeah, how can you make, oh, well, there's something working?
[00:28:18]  I'm like, no, you just.
[00:28:20]  And ultimately, how does that help the environment?
[00:28:21]  And they wouldn't answer it.
[00:28:23]  The best, though, was I did a Facebook live that morning as we're walking just down and there's just this long line of people trying to get into the area where the speechifying would be going on.
[00:28:32]  And this, again, is that science march around Earth Day that was in Washington, D.C.
[00:28:36]  And I'm just going down the line and they didn't know where I'm from.
[00:28:38]  I'm going, hey, where you from?
[00:28:40]  And they're like, Michigan.
[00:28:41]  I'm like, you guys fly in last night?
[00:28:43]  No, we drove in today.
[00:28:45]  And I'm like, Great.
[00:28:45]  Hey, where are you from?
[00:28:46]  We're from Seattle.

=== Flying Greeny Airways Offsets (02:34) ===

[00:28:48]  We flew in yesterday.
[00:28:50]  And person after person after person.
[00:28:52]  And I'm like, didn't get it.
[00:28:54]  You're not getting this here.
[00:28:55]  You're telling us how horrible things are, but you're willing to fly in.
[00:28:58]  And by the way, just you being there creates more carbon.
[00:29:01]  But they made it active.
[00:29:02]  They were there standing for the environment.
[00:29:05]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:29:05]  That's all that matters.
[00:29:06]  All that carbon footprint that gets deleted as long as you stand for the climate.
[00:29:12]  Theirs is magic carbon, right?
[00:29:14]  As long as your heart's in the right place, it doesn't count.
[00:29:18]  It's negated because you mean well.
[00:29:20]  Those were the big, remember the Leonardo DiCaprio movie Before the Flood that was out last year.
[00:29:25]  It's a documentary.
[00:29:26]  I watched that.
[00:29:27]  Interesting movie.
[00:29:28]  You're the one.
[00:29:29]  I recommend you watch it.
[00:29:31]  But they suggested taking a carbon test, a carbon credit test, whatever it was.
[00:29:36]  And as soon as you start, did you take any airline trips last year?
[00:29:39]  Yes.
[00:29:40]  That's when your carbon tax footprint was.
[00:29:42]  It's one of the worst things.
[00:29:43]  Yeah, it goes way, I mean, through the roof.
[00:29:46]  Go to some of the airline websites.
[00:29:48]  A lot of them have a place where you can offset your carbon credit or your carbon creation.
[00:29:53]  You can pay a little bit more money.
[00:29:55]  Some of them have already factored it into your tickets.
[00:29:57]  Oh, yeah.
[00:29:57]  If you look closely, go to their website.
[00:29:59]  You have to dig for it.
[00:30:00]  But it's out there because they want to get the promotion from the greenies.
[00:30:04]  They want them to go, look, that airline cares about me and the environment, but they don't want to lead with it for people like me that are like, wait a minute, you charge me an extra $14 for this stuff or whatever.
[00:30:13]  But it's only $14 is for the environment.
[00:30:16]  Right.
[00:30:16]  And that would be their argument, but you could find it on there.
[00:30:18]  It's pretty crazy that it's out there.
[00:30:20]  I wonder why there should be an airline, Greeny Airways, just to see how well it does.
[00:30:24]  But you fly Greeny Airways and we offset all of your carbon footprints.
[00:30:30]  The pilots are peddling.
[00:30:31]  Whatever it takes to get it.
[00:30:32]  You're like the Flintstones.
[00:30:33]  You're on the back of the planes.
[00:30:34]  Alberta wouldn't be full flights.
[00:30:38]  Yeah.
[00:30:39]  And you got to make it rough on them, too.
[00:30:41]  You're not getting the luxury because we've got to scale back to keep it as light as possible.
[00:30:45]  Not turning on the air conditioning in the plane.
[00:30:47]  It's going to be a little warm while you're flying.
[00:30:50]  Get used to it.
[00:30:51]  Open the windows.
[00:30:52]  You'll be fine.
[00:30:53]  Don't worry about it.
[00:30:54]  All right.
[00:30:54]  Back in a minute on the Glenn Beck program.
[00:30:58]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[00:31:01]  Mercury.
[00:31:05]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[00:31:08]  More details on the Paris Climate Agreement at Glenn Beck.com.
[00:31:12]  There's also some that claim, and a story up there about some claiming that if Trump breaks this deal, it's a traitorous act of war.
[00:31:20]  Ah, well, of course it is.

=== Mitt Romney Opposes The Deal (12:25) ===

[00:31:22]  Well, even Mitt Romney came against them.
[00:31:24]  He said, you should not do this.
[00:31:25]  Well, and here's the thing, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney's a progressive.
[00:31:29]  This is what people, when Mitt Romney ran for president, not the time where he just said, okay, John McCain, take it.
[00:31:34]  What was that, 2012, right?
[00:31:36]  12.
[00:31:37]  And I was on this program and laid out the facts about Mitt Romney, and people didn't like to hear the truth so much.
[00:31:43]  I used 10 of the biggest issues, one of them being climate change, and showed what Mitt Romney has supported.
[00:31:49]  And they didn't like the truth because they just wanted anybody but Obama.
[00:31:52]  Mitt Romney supports this stuff because he is progressive.
[00:31:55]  He's a big government guy.
[00:31:57]  And Mitt Romney wants that level of control.
[00:32:01]  That's who he is.
[00:32:01]  But go to Glenn Beck.com.
[00:32:02]  You can check it out for yourself about the traitorous act of war.
[00:32:06]  It's Doc Thompson in for Glenn today and tomorrow as well.
[00:32:09]  I am amazed that here we are in, what is today, June 1st.
[00:32:14]  We are now seven months past the election, about seven months past the election, and we cannot get past the election.
[00:32:22]  In the past, and by we, you mean Hillary.
[00:32:25]  Hillary and Trump.
[00:32:26]  And Trump.
[00:32:27]  Hell yeah.
[00:32:27]  Yeah, but I mean, first of all, most people have not gotten past it.
[00:32:30]  We're still arguing the election, not what Trump's doing, whatever.
[00:32:33]  It's still about the election.
[00:32:35]  Well, if the Russians hadn't interfered, you know, is that the reason?
[00:32:38]  And the Macedonians.
[00:32:40]  And the Macedonians, we have not gotten past it.
[00:32:43]  So yesterday, Hillary speechifying again, and I don't know if she's just using this to run again or wants to be mayor of New York, but again, talked about the election, took full responsibility by blaming other people.
[00:32:55]  Here it is.
[00:32:55]  I take responsibility for every decision I made, but that's not why I lost.
[00:33:01]  Hold it, Come on now.
[00:33:05]  But changes the meaning of the sentence.
[00:33:07]  Right.
[00:33:08]  Really, Hillary, you don't, do you not hear yourself?
[00:33:12]  I know we hear ourselves differently because you're hearing through your head that other people hear you, but at least the text you're not getting, I take full responsibility for everything except that.
[00:33:24]  Right.
[00:33:24]  Right?
[00:33:25]  I have some buck stops here, but I'm not to blame.
[00:33:28]  What are you talking about?
[00:33:30]  Is she off her meds again?
[00:33:32]  Okay, start this over again.
[00:33:33]  Here's Hillary once again taking full responsibility by not.
[00:33:36]  Look, I take responsibility for every decision I made, but that's not why I lost.
[00:33:41]  So I think it's important that we learn the real lessons from this last campaign because the forces that we are up against are not just interested in influencing our elections and our politics.
[00:33:53]  They're going after our economy and they're going after our unity as a nation.
[00:33:59]  So yes, back in 98, look, I have been watching this and been, you know, obviously the target for a number of years.
[00:34:11]  She went on to blame the DNC and everybody else connected with it.
[00:34:14]  We needed the Darth Vader theme behind that.
[00:34:18]  Well, it's fun because she says that she inherit nothing, only bankruptcy from the DNC.
[00:34:25]  She didn't get their support?
[00:34:27]  Well, she got their support, but the data operation that she inherited was bankrupt on the verge of insolvency.
[00:34:34]  Insolvency.
[00:34:35]  Yeah, insolvency.
[00:34:36]  At best, it was mediocre.
[00:34:38]  Okay, so she takes full responsibility by blaming everybody and anybody that she can.
[00:34:44]  And she clearly has not gotten over the election.
[00:34:48]  It had nothing to do with the fact that she was Secretary of State when four people were killed on her watch.
[00:34:54]  The fact that the Clinton Foundation basically just was a travel fund for her, Chelsea, and Bill.
[00:35:01]  The fact that her husband is a dirtbag.
[00:35:03]  The fact that she's a progressive.
[00:35:05]  The fact that, I mean, go down the list of all of her failures.
[00:35:08]  Nothing to do with any of that.
[00:35:10]  The guys in Macedonia, they're running fake news sites.
[00:35:13]  Actually, you know what?
[00:35:14]  It may be the DNC's fault.
[00:35:17]  Because they're the ones who told people she was running.
[00:35:20]  That's true.
[00:35:21]  She would have had a better shot if they didn't know she was running.
[00:35:23]  That's true.
[00:35:24]  If they're like, wow, it wasn't Hillary.
[00:35:25]  Yeah, I may vote for her.
[00:35:27]  This is the Glen Beck program.
[00:35:31]  The Blaze Radio Network.
[00:35:51]  On Demand.
[00:36:07]  I have made my choice.
[00:36:09]  We will overcome.
[00:36:11]  Cause we are one.
[00:36:13]  The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
[00:36:17]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[00:36:22]  Sadly, we are just not able to get beyond the last election.
[00:36:26]  I can't think of another election, even 2000, the contested election of George W. Bush, who was an illegitimate president, and that narrative went on.
[00:36:36]  Most people moved on.
[00:36:39]  Bush moved on.
[00:36:40]  I'm the president.
[00:36:41]  I mean, he moved on.
[00:36:42]  It's just a couple of people, right?
[00:36:44]  But for some reason, we cannot get beyond this.
[00:36:47]  Hillary cannot get beyond it.
[00:36:49]  And Trump can't get beyond it.
[00:36:51]  Just accept what, like, I've never seen somebody win and keep protesting.
[00:36:56]  Just keep bringing it.
[00:36:56]  If you're the winner, you just move on.
[00:36:59]  Take yes for an answer.
[00:37:00]  Right, exactly.
[00:37:01]  Take the win.
[00:37:02]  It's like being a Cleveland sports fan, right?
[00:37:05]  I mean, you just deal with it.
[00:37:10]  So you had the whole Confefe thing the night before, and people are still melting down about this, trying to figure it out.
[00:37:15]  So Hillary speechifies yesterday, and we played the clip for you.
[00:37:20]  Trump then tweets out in response to Hillary, because clearly Hillary has not gotten beyond it.
[00:37:25]  Crooked Hillary Clinton now blames everybody but herself, refuses to say she was a terrible candidate, hits Facebook and even Dems and DNC.
[00:37:34]  Okay.
[00:37:35]  Yes, he's right.
[00:37:37]  But why say it?
[00:37:38]  Right.
[00:37:38]  Now, he could even be using this as a tactic, right?
[00:37:42]  To beat up on Democrats.
[00:37:43]  It's the bully pulpit to get stuff what you want.
[00:37:46]  But there's been so much of this stuff that has been less about that and more about Hillary.
[00:37:50]  It's like, dude, just seriously, just get over it.
[00:37:52]  What we saw here, he brought back crooked.
[00:37:54]  Tricky.
[00:37:56]  He brought that back.
[00:37:56]  He hasn't done that in a while.
[00:37:58]  I mean, it's accurate.
[00:37:59]  I mean, I don't disagree with this stuff.
[00:38:01]  We already land-based it this morning.
[00:38:03]  But he already said he's not doing anything about it.
[00:38:05]  So drop it.
[00:38:06]  Right.
[00:38:06]  You won.
[00:38:07]  Just move on with the Hillary thing.
[00:38:08]  You're just giving her more credence.
[00:38:10]  Now, there's going to be a lot of people to support him and say, oh, you don't understand he's tweaking them and messing with them and it's working or whatever.
[00:38:15]  Not this one.
[00:38:15]  Just move on.
[00:38:16]  There's been so much where he keeps bringing up not just Hillary, but still how big the inauguration was and how his ratings are and all this stuff.
[00:38:25]  Dude, you're the president.
[00:38:27]  We get it.
[00:38:28]  I've accepted it.
[00:38:29]  I accepted it the night of the election.
[00:38:31]  Those people that don't, the hell with them, you're the president.
[00:38:33]  Let's move on.
[00:38:34]  So he tweets that out.
[00:38:36]  Hillary then responds: people in cofefe houses shouldn't throw cofefe.
[00:38:43]  So does she know what cofefefe means?
[00:38:45]  Anyone else had said that it'd be funny?
[00:38:47]  Yeah, here's the next part about that.
[00:38:50]  Hillary, sweetheart.
[00:38:52]  Bless your heart.
[00:38:54]  Bless your heart.
[00:38:56]  Leave the comedy to the pros.
[00:38:58]  Seriously, that's not your forte.
[00:39:00]  You're more of a whiny speechifier.
[00:39:04]  Like if I went out and started being a whiny speechifier, took to the stage and was like, like this, Hillary then could say, hey, Doc, whoa, whoa, whoa, back off, man.
[00:39:16]  Leave that to the pros, right?
[00:39:19]  The annoying harpy wife, right?
[00:39:21]  She's like, hey, that's not who you are.
[00:39:23]  That's not your brand, Doc.
[00:39:24]  That's me.
[00:39:25]  That's who I am.
[00:39:26]  Or let's say I decided to help four Americans get killed in a place like Benghazi.
[00:39:34]  Oh, right.
[00:39:35]  Right.
[00:39:35]  She'd say, whoa, whoa, Doc.
[00:39:37]  I know what I'm doing.
[00:39:38]  I know what I'm doing.
[00:39:38]  I get people killed in Benghazi.
[00:39:41]  Right, exactly.
[00:39:42]  That's the type of thing.
[00:39:43]  Or let's say I wanted to start some sort of global foundation that would just take money from people and not help people, like say in Haiti.
[00:39:50]  Right.
[00:39:50]  And then I would use it as my own slush fund.
[00:39:52]  Hillary then could stand up and go, hold on a second.
[00:39:55]  You're not a pro in this.
[00:39:57]  This is what me, Bill, and Chelsea do.
[00:39:58]  Yeah.
[00:39:59]  Right.
[00:39:59]  So let me just say, Hillary, um it's not working.
[00:40:02]  That's not working.
[00:40:03]  Don't do that.
[00:40:04]  Whatever.
[00:40:04]  You see, if you and that, if you analyze the joke, it would have been funnier if she had said people in glass houses shouldn't throw cofefelder if people, people living in cofefe houses shouldn't throw rocks.
[00:40:16]  Rocks, right?
[00:40:17]  But you don't use both of them in the same bad joke formation.
[00:40:21]  Right.
[00:40:21]  People in glass houses shouldn't throw confeffe.
[00:40:23]  That's that's yeah, that would have been better.
[00:40:26]  Better still.
[00:40:27]  And the other part is then when you see it from Hillary.
[00:40:29]  It's still just not funny.
[00:40:30]  Right.
[00:40:30]  Because a lot of jokes you hear, like even if you think about a comedian, you're like, oh, I got to tell you this comedian.
[00:40:34]  You kind of hear their voice or their cadence or whatever.
[00:40:37]  When I hear it, I hear, right?
[00:40:41]  That's all that comes across.
[00:40:42]  That's true.
[00:40:43]  That is true.
[00:40:43]  I'm going to do it.
[00:40:44]  So she puts that out, which is a fail.
[00:40:47]  But then a better tweet comes out.
[00:40:50]  Is it Donald Trump Jr.?
[00:40:52]  It's Donald Trump Jr.
[00:40:53]  He responded to hers to help dad out.
[00:40:55]  Oh, boy.
[00:40:56]  This one's actually pretty good.
[00:40:58]  He says, what house is he in again?
[00:41:01]  That's what I thought.
[00:41:02]  You're trying too hard.
[00:41:04]  What house is he in again?
[00:41:07]  She brought up a house.
[00:41:09]  I know.
[00:41:10]  He's in the White House where you want it.
[00:41:13]  I didn't even catch that.
[00:41:14]  Oh, my gosh.
[00:41:15]  So she's like, people in Cafe houses, you're right.
[00:41:19]  Cafe must mean white.
[00:41:23]  I'm in the White House.
[00:41:24]  Sorry.
[00:41:25]  She just opened up the door for massive.
[00:41:27]  Oh, no, you didn't.
[00:41:29]  Yeah, that's true.
[00:41:30]  Wow.
[00:41:31]  Yeah.
[00:41:32]  That's incredible.
[00:41:33]  Cerebral humor right there.
[00:41:35]  I don't know why they could not get beyond it.
[00:41:38]  Is Hillary running?
[00:41:39]  Is she going to give this another shot?
[00:41:41]  Do you think she's going to be a little bit more?
[00:41:42]  How old is she going to be?
[00:41:43]  Like 82?
[00:41:44]  107.
[00:41:45]  Well, let's see.
[00:41:46]  She was seven, just turned 70.
[00:41:48]  Yeah.
[00:41:48]  They were both around the same age, weren't they?
[00:41:50]  Right.
[00:41:51]  So she'll be 74.
[00:41:52]  74?
[00:41:53]  An older.
[00:41:54]  I just, I can't.
[00:41:56]  More wrinkly.
[00:41:57]  More annoying.
[00:41:57]  She's been doing like the whole speeches and colleges and stuff like that.
[00:42:01]  Did you guys see that whole coughing thing that she went through?
[00:42:04]  Another coughing spell.
[00:42:05]  She always goes into this.
[00:42:06]  And by the way, on that conference, she was the whole time.
[00:42:11]  I'm like, you might want to get that checked out.
[00:42:14]  Take care, yes.
[00:42:14]  Take care of your health.
[00:42:16]  It's not that important.
[00:42:18]  Well, there's a speculation she was going to run for mayor of New York.
[00:42:22]  Do you see her doing that?
[00:42:25]  That's a step down.
[00:42:26]  I mean, I would think.
[00:42:27]  From secretary of state, you go to mayor of New York.
[00:42:30]  I know New York is a big deal, but is that really something?
[00:42:34]  Well, I mean, it's on the par because it is such a big city.
[00:42:38]  I mean, I think there's seven and a half million in the city.
[00:42:40]  It's bigger than some constituencies for governors or senators.
[00:42:45]  But anything less than the White House is a constant womp, right?
[00:42:51]  That you fail.
[00:42:51]  Yeah.
[00:42:52]  Right?
[00:42:52]  Everything is like, oh, the mayor of New York because you lost the president.
[00:42:55]  Right?
[00:42:56]  Is that the underlying thing?
[00:42:57]  I think it is.
[00:42:58]  It's like Hillary Clinton, mayor of New York, because she lost the White House.
[00:43:02]  I mean, that's.
[00:43:02]  Well, her alternative is to sit at home on the porch with Bill.
[00:43:06]  And what's wrong with that?
[00:43:07]  Oh, she doesn't want to be around.
[00:43:08]  She doesn't want to be around her.
[00:43:10]  Bill doesn't want to be around her.
[00:43:11]  Or sit around on the porch with Huma.
[00:43:14]  Right.
[00:43:14]  Exactly.
[00:43:15]  Now, Huma invited Anthony back into the house.
[00:43:18]  Wiener?
[00:43:19]  Yes.
[00:43:20]  She invited Wiener back into the house.
[00:43:21]  So they split up after his most recent transgressions and a guy, whatever.
[00:43:25]  But now, and did they actually get a divorce or were getting a divorce?
[00:43:28]  I think she filed for divorce, but then she invited him back to live by.
[00:43:32]  Wasn't he in rehab?
[00:43:33]  Yeah, I think he said he was going to rehab.
[00:43:35]  He did go to a rehab at one point.
[00:43:37]  He went to rehab.
[00:43:37]  And I remember seeing the pictures for the rehab.
[00:43:39]  He was a beautiful ranch.
[00:43:40]  Oh, it was a beautiful ranch, and he's horseback riding.
[00:43:43]  No euphemisms there.
[00:43:44]  Right.
[00:43:45]  Horseback riding and the whole thing.

=== Len Beck Future Plans Revealed (05:08) ===

[00:43:47]  And I was like, wow, this is quite the punishment.
[00:43:49]  Can I go to that one?
[00:43:50]  I know.
[00:43:50]  I'm like, wow, had I known that, I'd be texting all kinds of crazy stuff today.
[00:43:54]  He's on the hook for a few years in prison.
[00:43:56]  Now he is, yeah.
[00:43:57]  Now, the last one's the one that got him, the 15-year-old, and just the creepy factor of the baby laying next to him or whatever.
[00:44:03]  Yeah, it was super creepy.
[00:44:04]  That is just bizarre.
[00:44:06]  Let's put the kid on the crib.
[00:44:08]  So last week, before he took some time off this week, Len Beck had a big company-wide meeting and laid out some future plans that he has for us.
[00:44:19]  We discussed it on our morning radio broadcast, TheBlaze.com.
[00:44:22]  We had him on.
[00:44:22]  Talked about some of the things that he's working on and kind of brought into focus all these different ideas that he's had and what the future is.
[00:44:30]  You know, Glenn's kind of a futurist.
[00:44:32]  He's a catastrophist about the future.
[00:44:35]  But he's a futurist.
[00:44:36]  He's a futurist.
[00:44:37]  He loves technology.
[00:44:37]  He loves to look at that stuff.
[00:44:39]  And some really interesting ideas and a way to look at stuff, especially when you see all the struggles that we've had with splintering of the right and Republicans and, you know, what ends up making things better ultimately.
[00:44:50]  What's going to make our lives better?
[00:44:52]  Really interesting stuff.
[00:44:53]  Well, as part of this meeting, Glenn says, hey, what would be really cool is if a lot of you that are like newer to the company, especially, or maybe people you've been here, if you really don't know our audience, you got to meet our audience.
[00:45:07]  And he goes, you know, it's different if you're on the air, whatever, because like Brad and I, Chris, you, you know, we'll come in contact with the audience.
[00:45:15]  We do events.
[00:45:15]  We go out and speechify.
[00:45:16]  We do different things.
[00:45:17]  We're happy.
[00:45:18]  We hang out with them.
[00:45:20]  He goes, but a lot of you probably don't interact with our, you come to work, you write stories, you do something, you produce something, you go about it.
[00:45:27]  So what would be really interesting is if some of you went up and spent some time on the customer service phones.
[00:45:34]  Also knows the complaint lines.
[00:45:36]  Customer service phones.
[00:45:38]  Not that, I mean, they're really dead because there's no complaints, I'm sure.
[00:45:41]  Everything's perfect.
[00:45:42]  That's what I'm assuming.
[00:45:43]  Okay, we're going to be bored.
[00:45:44]  Right.
[00:45:45]  So I'm like, hey, that sounds cool.
[00:45:47]  Glenn said it.
[00:45:48]  Well, I'll go do it.
[00:45:49]  Sure.
[00:45:49]  I mean, I meet our audience all the time.
[00:45:51]  We interact on Twitter, right?
[00:45:52]  We're pretty close.
[00:45:52]  But I'm like, sure, Glenn said it.
[00:45:53]  Sure.
[00:45:54]  I got to keep my job.
[00:45:54]  I'll listen to his.
[00:45:56]  I mean, I'll.
[00:45:57]  I mean, that's a great idea.
[00:45:59]  Sounds like a wonderful idea.
[00:46:00]  I'll go and do this.
[00:46:01]  So I go to Brad.
[00:46:03]  I was like, hey, you want to go do this?
[00:46:04]  And Brad goes, Yes, I'd love to.
[00:46:06]  When?
[00:46:07]  No.
[00:46:08]  The first recipe spot was, you think he was serious about that?
[00:46:12]  I was like, I think he was probably pretty serious.
[00:46:14]  He jokes a lot, you know?
[00:46:15]  He jokes a lot about it.
[00:46:17]  So today at 2 Eastern, we're going to man the lines.
[00:46:19]  It's 866-304-4978.
[00:46:22]  You got questions, comments?
[00:46:24]  We'll let the cat out of the bag as much as we can.
[00:46:27]  866.
[00:46:29]  We'll see.
[00:46:30]  Depends on how much rum we have.
[00:46:32]  We already got the rum punch lined up for it.
[00:46:34]  We're not going up there unarmed.
[00:46:35]  Okay.
[00:46:35]  Yeah, we got a whole little party.
[00:46:36]  We're bringing it.
[00:46:37]  And sales knows you're coming up.
[00:46:38]  No, they have no idea yet.
[00:46:39]  So you just need to take over.
[00:46:41]  But once we bust out the rum and also the food, we think they're going to be acceptable to us hanging out with them for a while.
[00:46:48]  So the number is 866-304-4978 this afternoon.
[00:46:52]  If you want to, it'll be two to three-ish Eastern.
[00:46:54]  These are course spells.
[00:46:56]  I think it's Cofefe, roughly.
[00:46:58]  A couple letters missing.
[00:47:00]  But I'll tweet out a link to the number as well.
[00:47:02]  I think we're probably going to try to do this next week, a couple of days too.
[00:47:05]  Brandon Morse that we had on, some other Pete writers, theblaze.com.
[00:47:09]  Michael Palka probably will be on with us.
[00:47:12]  Jeffy is MIA.
[00:47:13]  I don't know where he is, so he's not probably going to be on.
[00:47:17]  So I have a sign-up sheet for the staff.
[00:47:20]  I was like, because it's not just us.
[00:47:21]  Hold on.
[00:47:22]  So I'm like, hey, go ahead and you just put your name so you can go up because, you know, got to kind of coordinate it there.
[00:47:26]  Any space?
[00:47:27]  How do we have time for all this?
[00:47:30]  Because I believe in Glenn Beck.
[00:47:32]  Oh, my God.
[00:47:33]  I believe in Glenn Beck's message and transition moving forward that we too can join together and create good.
[00:47:39]  Is this working at all?
[00:47:40]  No.
[00:47:41]  So I put it up there.
[00:47:42]  There's nobody else that has signed up yet.
[00:47:44]  Duh.
[00:47:45]  Hold on.
[00:47:46]  Where is this sheet of paper?
[00:47:48]  It's out on the glass out in the main lobby there.
[00:47:51]  Okay.
[00:47:52]  Oh, is that your excuse?
[00:47:53]  You didn't see it?
[00:47:54]  Okay, I see where you're going with this.
[00:47:55]  All right.
[00:47:56]  It's at Doc Thompson Show on Twitter.
[00:47:58]  Please follow me and we'll tweet out the number.
[00:47:59]  So two to roughly three Eastern Times will man the customer service phone.
[00:48:03]  I don't know what we're supposed to do there.
[00:48:05]  I'm not even talking to people.
[00:48:07]  I think it's more of a just gently listening as a shoulder to cry on.
[00:48:10]  I can't even listen to my wife, I know.
[00:48:12]  I'm not going to listen to, you know, she's like, blah, blah, blah.
[00:48:14]  I'm like, okay.
[00:48:15]  Just remember this or paying customers.
[00:48:17]  Okay, so lots of room.
[00:48:18]  Got it.
[00:48:19]  All right, back in a moment.
[00:48:20]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[00:48:23]  You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
[00:48:30]  This is the Glenn Balk program.
[00:48:33]  Hey there, it's Doc Thompson in for Glenn Beck today, joined by Brad Staggs.
[00:48:36]  It's The Blaze Brad on Twitter if you want to follow him and Chris Cruz, real Chris Cruz on Twitter.
[00:48:42]  TMB listener number Q10 tweeting, try the Hillary excuse with your boss.
[00:48:47]  See how that works out for your job.
[00:48:50]  Yeah.
[00:48:51]  Is that going to work out for you?
[00:48:52]  It's not going to work out well at all.
[00:48:54]  Yeah, it's I take full responsibility.

=== Race Matters In Raw Deals (08:32) ===

[00:48:55]  It's somebody else's fault.
[00:48:56]  Yeah.
[00:48:57]  Peter Cobb tweeting at Doc Thompson Show.
[00:49:00]  Occupation, climate change scientist?
[00:49:03]  Oh, BS artist.
[00:49:04]  Got it.
[00:49:06]  Got it.
[00:49:07]  That's how you know.
[00:49:08]  A well-paid position.
[00:49:09]  Yeah, Jen tweeting.
[00:49:11]  Nat Geo is saying that the ozone hole is almost closed.
[00:49:15]  So they're actually talking about it.
[00:49:17]  But then she went on to mention that, but that may also be bad for us now.
[00:49:21]  Why?
[00:49:21]  Now we have too much ozone now.
[00:49:23]  Yeah, you don't want too much ozone.
[00:49:25]  So what is the perfect number?
[00:49:26]  I don't know what's perfect, but you got to get right to the media area.
[00:49:29]  Seven is the perfect number.
[00:49:30]  Yeah, write that down.
[00:49:31]  So there'll be a test on that later.
[00:49:33]  You don't want too much ozone.
[00:49:34]  You don't want too little ozone, Chris.
[00:49:36]  And that's what makes it so difficult.
[00:49:38]  And that's the reason we need to redistribute our funds around the world.
[00:49:41]  Yeah, they actually did.
[00:49:42]  They came out now and said that it's closing, but that may be bad for us.
[00:49:46]  Yeah.
[00:49:48]  Even thunderstorms cause, what is it, the gas that will eat away at the ozone?
[00:49:52]  Right.
[00:49:53]  How do you know?
[00:49:54]  So now God is against nature?
[00:49:56]  I think so.
[00:49:56]  I think it is.
[00:49:57]  Oh, my God.
[00:49:58]  God hates people.
[00:50:00]  For good reason.
[00:50:00]  You have the stories that come out during television sweeps where it's like, new report says chocolate bad for you.
[00:50:06]  New report says chocolate good for you.
[00:50:08]  And then the same thing about wine and whatever.
[00:50:09]  Salt.
[00:50:10]  That's what this is.
[00:50:11]  It's just, again, something that'll sell newspapers.
[00:50:15]  Grant money.
[00:50:16]  Get people to click on it.
[00:50:17]  Grant money.
[00:50:17]  I think it's all about the grant money.
[00:50:20]  We always do that whole grant money.
[00:50:21]  What's that money going for?
[00:50:22]  Yeah, let me go study fallacies for ducks.
[00:50:25]  What?
[00:50:26]  Right?
[00:50:27]  So, LeBron James supposedly had his property in Los Angeles vandalized, that somebody spray painted something on it.
[00:50:35]  And do you know what the full thing is?
[00:50:36]  I know it was supposed to be the N-word.
[00:50:38]  It's supposed to be the N-word, yeah.
[00:50:39]  The gate of his home.
[00:50:40]  The gate of his home, but was there more to it or just N-word?
[00:50:43]  No, it seems, I think that was all it was.
[00:50:45]  So he came out and talked a little bit after his game about being black in America.
[00:50:50]  And I have just a little clip of his speechifying to play for you.
[00:50:53]  Here it is: LeBron James.
[00:50:55]  No matter how much money you have, no matter how famous you are, no matter how many people admire you, you know, being black in America is tough.
[00:51:10]  And we got a long way to go, you know, for us as a society and for us as African Americans until we feel equal in America.
[00:51:24]  And being black in America is tough.
[00:51:29]  Equal to what?
[00:51:31]  I guess other people, other races.
[00:51:34]  Being black in America is tough.
[00:51:36]  Everybody else that's not black, it's not tough for you.
[00:51:39]  Are you sure?
[00:51:40]  According to LeBron James, listen, if you're white, Asian, Native American, Hispanic, it's not tough for you.
[00:51:48]  Your life is wonderful.
[00:51:50]  It's perfect.
[00:51:50]  There's no challenges you face.
[00:51:52]  When he's saying that, is he including himself on that?
[00:51:54]  That as a black man, life is tough.
[00:51:57]  Yes, absolutely.
[00:51:58]  Okay, because that's the reason he said about money.
[00:52:01]  He goes, it doesn't matter how famous you are, how liked you are, how much money you have, any of this.
[00:52:05]  If you're black, it's tough for you.
[00:52:07]  Okay, can I be that tough?
[00:52:08]  Because he's worth $340 million.
[00:52:11]  It sounds awful.
[00:52:12]  Can you imagine?
[00:52:13]  Can I trade spots with him?
[00:52:14]  And wait a minute.
[00:52:15]  That makes no sense.
[00:52:16]  Hold on.
[00:52:16]  Chris Cruz is Hispanic.
[00:52:18]  Yes, I am.
[00:52:19]  Yeah, you emigrated here from some foreign country.
[00:52:22]  What country was that?
[00:52:23]  Puerto Rico.
[00:52:24]  Wow.
[00:52:24]  So you were kind of an American, but not a real American.
[00:52:27]  Yes.
[00:52:27]  Okay, gotcha.
[00:52:28]  So you immigrated here from Puerto Rico.
[00:52:30]  Yes.
[00:52:31]  Okay, gotcha.
[00:52:32]  Would you trade your race if you got the 300 million?
[00:52:36]  Yes.
[00:52:36]  For $300 million, you would change your race.
[00:52:38]  Because that equals to $23 million a year.
[00:52:41]  Yes, I'm in.
[00:52:41]  So far in your life, you mean?
[00:52:43]  Yes.
[00:52:43]  Okay, gotcha.
[00:52:44]  Would you learn English for that money?
[00:52:45]  No.
[00:52:46]  Okay.
[00:52:47]  Is that part of the contract?
[00:52:48]  That is.
[00:52:49]  Yeah, that's right.
[00:52:51]  When you came here, did they make you take a test, learn English?
[00:52:55]  Obviously, not the English part.
[00:52:56]  Did you have to pay back taxes?
[00:52:57]  No, no, the same test you took.
[00:52:59]  Is that what it is?
[00:53:00]  Yeah.
[00:53:01]  So, Brad, would you trade races for $300 million?
[00:53:07]  I don't think so.
[00:53:09]  I mean, it's hard to say because it's no.
[00:53:11]  I mean, it's the part that bothers me about all this, no matter how many people admire you.
[00:53:18]  Well, let's take that.
[00:53:20]  If millions of people admire you, how are you kept in the middle of the middle down?
[00:53:25]  Yeah, throw the money out for a second.
[00:53:27]  You're right.
[00:53:28]  Your attitude is you live in a racist place in America.
[00:53:31]  America's racist, therefore, racism, they don't like you, or there are problems.
[00:53:35]  But they're half of your problems are taken away because of money, and then the other half is people admire you.
[00:53:40]  What's the problem?
[00:53:41]  It makes no sense.
[00:53:42]  So you wouldn't, for $300 million, you wouldn't trade races.
[00:53:47]  I would.
[00:53:48]  I mean, would you?
[00:53:50]  $300 million?
[00:53:51]  I'd do it for $3 million.
[00:53:52]  What's your lowest?
[00:53:53]  You'd still have to say that.
[00:53:53]  I mean, I wouldn't be Hispanic for $3 million.
[00:53:56]  Don't get me wrong.
[00:53:56]  But most other races are crazy.
[00:53:58]  Right.
[00:53:58]  I don't want to do that, Chris.
[00:53:59]  I mean, you know.
[00:54:00]  Mal, for $300 million, would I be a woman?
[00:54:03]  I might do that.
[00:54:05]  So you prefer to change your gender.
[00:54:07]  So you prefer to go a woman.
[00:54:08]  Why not?
[00:54:09]  They still trade racists?
[00:54:11]  Never.
[00:54:11]  Oh, my God.
[00:54:13]  Wow.
[00:54:14]  That's shocking.
[00:54:16]  No, I would absolutely change for it, and it would not take $300 million.
[00:54:20]  How much?
[00:54:21]  It depends on the race.
[00:54:22]  So HRA has a category of money?
[00:54:24]  Well, yeah.
[00:54:26]  I just found out how hard it is for black people.
[00:54:28]  It's going to take more, according to them.
[00:54:29]  Give me some Asian.
[00:54:30]  Oh, Asian's easy.
[00:54:31]  I already live with a bunch there.
[00:54:32]  I'm practically Asian now.
[00:54:34]  I already have all the downsides with none of the upsides.
[00:54:38]  I don't have the intelligence or any of this stuff or whatever, but I have to deal with all the craziness.
[00:54:42]  But you could drive, though.
[00:54:43]  Yes, that is true.
[00:54:44]  That's true.
[00:54:45]  So, I mean, but I feel like with $30 million, if I was Asian, I could hire a driver.
[00:54:49]  So, you know, there's all those things there.
[00:54:52]  So back in a moment with more of the Glenn Beck program.
[00:55:15]  Program.
[00:55:16]  So, even during off the air during the commercial break, we were discussing the LeBron James situation, and a bunch of people that work on the staff here are commenting on it, whether or not they would change races for money.
[00:55:29]  It's absolutely wrong, of course.
[00:55:31]  If somebody vandalizes your property, it doesn't matter what they put, it's vandalism.
[00:55:35]  It's wrong.
[00:55:37]  And if you're putting a racial slur or anything that's trying to just be a jerk, a bully influence somebody is wrong.
[00:55:44]  And of course, that's not going to be nice or fun for LeBron James or his family to see that.
[00:55:50]  But you know what?
[00:55:50]  I don't believe most of America is racist.
[00:55:54]  We will talk about racial things.
[00:55:56]  We were joking about race before the break.
[00:56:00]  That's okay.
[00:56:01]  We're all different.
[00:56:02]  We're all different, and that's all right.
[00:56:04]  I don't hate people.
[00:56:05]  I absolutely don't.
[00:56:07]  Some.
[00:56:07]  There's three I hate.
[00:56:08]  Around here, there's a couple of people, but that's not based on their rate.
[00:56:11]  That's just based on the fact that they're jerks.
[00:56:13]  I mean, that's how it is.
[00:56:15]  We are all victims at times of things.
[00:56:19]  Some people, you likely will be given a raw deal because of your race, and some people are racist.
[00:56:24]  Some people are fat, ugly, stupid, handicapped, whatever it is where you are not able to perform at the same level as somebody else.
[00:56:33]  I can't throw a football 60 yards.
[00:56:36]  You know, I'm not athletically inclined.
[00:56:38]  I'm not particularly bright.
[00:56:39]  There's a lot of things that you've vouched for that, right?
[00:56:43]  Yes, not particularly bright.
[00:56:44]  LeBron James, you're rich.
[00:56:47]  You've been given more than most people, even white people on this planet.
[00:56:50]  White people, first of all, born in America, you've been given more than most people.
[00:56:54]  Stop playing the victim.
[00:56:56]  That's not fun.
[00:56:57]  It's not nice that people did that to you.
[00:57:00]  You could have come out and said something like, hey, there are racist people out there.
[00:57:05]  The guy was a jerk, but America's been pretty good to me.
[00:57:08]  And thank you for that.
[00:57:10]  We're just moving on.
[00:57:12]  The more, in some ways, we continue this narrative of constantly bringing this stuff up, the worst it's going to get for us.
[00:57:19]  The worse it's going to get for us.
[00:57:21]  Let's move on.
[00:57:22]  Treat people well.
[00:57:24]  Laugh at yourself.
[00:57:26]  Laugh at each other.
[00:57:27]  That's it.

=== Stop Playing The Victim Role (06:01) ===

[00:57:28]  That's the key.
[00:57:29]  That's the secret.
[00:57:29]  Have a sense of humor.
[00:57:30]  You'll live longer.
[00:57:33]  Yeah, things like race are also influenced by education, economic situation.
[00:57:38]  Those are part of it.
[00:57:39]  We're big supporters of the entrepreneurial spirit on the Morning Blaze.
[00:57:42]  If you're not familiar with the program, go to theblaze.com slash doc.
[00:57:45]  If you tweet with the hashtag building America and you have a business, we scroll through those and we'll set up just free interviews that end up promoting your business because we like to help people out.
[00:57:56]  That's what we do.
[00:57:57]  Joining us now, Martin Lindstrom, the author of Small Data, The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends.
[00:58:02]  Hey, Martin, how are you?
[00:58:04]  I'm good.
[00:58:05]  And you?
[00:58:05]  Doing well.
[00:58:06]  I love the idea of trends and people who talk about trends because that's really what it takes if you're in business or even if you're just promoting yourself at work or trying to get better jobs.
[00:58:17]  If you know trends, you know where to fish, right?
[00:58:20]  You know where the fish are going to be.
[00:58:22]  Absolutely.
[00:58:23]  And I think what it helps you to do is to be one step ahead of everyone else.
[00:58:27]  So it's a matter about picking up those small clues around you and then basically translate that into a new direction five minutes before everyone else realizes this is a direction, right?
[00:58:38]  Yeah, absolutely.
[00:58:40]  Give me some example of some of the trends that you think are on the horizon.
[00:58:45]  Well, I think there's three challenging trends.
[00:58:48]  The first trend is that we are not present anymore.
[00:58:52]  And that will be the next big trend.
[00:58:53]  And let me just give you an example.
[00:58:55]  And be honest here now, Doc.
[00:58:56]  But have you tried that you're standing in a bar, you're waiting for someone to show up, the person is late.
[00:59:02]  And the first thing you do is to grab your phone and do something with it, anything with it, so you don't look like it.
[00:59:06]  Martin, Martin, please.
[00:59:07]  I don't go to bars.
[00:59:09]  Those are negative places.
[00:59:10]  Alcohol, I don't associate with such people.
[00:59:13]  I mean, when I go to church, I will do that if they're late with the sermon.
[00:59:18]  No, yeah, we all, we grab our phone.
[00:59:19]  If you're bored for a second at the doctor's office or anything, the phone's on, right?
[00:59:24]  Exactly.
[00:59:24]  And that is the issue because there are three major consequences of this.
[00:59:28]  The first thing is we don't connect with people anymore.
[00:59:31]  I mean, I spoke to a bartender the other day and he told me he never speaks to his customers anymore because they're on the phones.
[00:59:37]  The second thing is we don't see things anymore.
[00:59:40]  We don't observe things anymore, which is a bit bad because that's where we learn.
[00:59:45]  But the third thing is even worse.
[00:59:47]  We never get bored anymore.
[00:59:49]  And boredom or that pause in our life is the foundation for creativity.
[00:59:54]  So what we're seeing happening right now is that being present is disappearing.
[00:59:59]  And the counterbalance to that will really be us being more present.
[01:00:03]  That means people go more on cruise ships.
[01:00:06]  They are actually right now going more on theaters.
[01:00:08]  They're going more to concerts.
[01:00:10]  Concerts is going up 15%.
[01:00:12]  People going to the pharma markets is up 17%.
[01:00:15]  So the next big trend is really to be present.
[01:00:18]  And people will pay a fortune to be present because we're never present anymore, right?
[01:00:23]  Yeah.
[01:00:23]  So if your mind is, that makes a lot of sense.
[01:00:25]  So if your mind is occupied on all this stuff that we have to think about, and we have a lot more stuff to think about now every day, I mean, just trying to remember all the codes for all your passwords for your computer and everything, and all of this stuff we have to do.
[01:00:37]  Everybody's got to be on social media and multiple platforms and all of this.
[01:00:41]  If your mind is filled with all that stuff, you're not going to have time to just think, what could I do that would be creative in this area?
[01:00:50]  No, exactly.
[01:00:52]  When I wrote the book Small Data, I actually wrote it in a swimming pool.
[01:00:55]  And it's crazy.
[01:00:57]  I would have thought the papers would get wet or the computer would short out.
[01:01:02]  I know you're that intelligent.
[01:01:03]  I'm pretty impressed by now.
[01:01:06]  Waterproof paper.
[01:01:07]  It'll be the rage for writing books in swimming pools.
[01:01:12]  You know, I call it the water moment.
[01:01:14]  And the water moment, some people have in water, some people have it on the shower, some people when they're running, when they're in the car.
[01:01:20]  But people feel this is an unproductive time.
[01:01:24]  Do you know what?
[01:01:24]  You couldn't be further from the truth.
[01:01:27]  You actually need to have a break with yourself.
[01:01:29]  And that moment will help you to reflect on things.
[01:01:32]  It gives you a pause.
[01:01:33]  Because here's the issue.
[01:01:34]  Think about it.
[01:01:35]  The first thing we do when we wake up in the morning is to grab our phone, right?
[01:01:39]  So we're at work in the bed.
[01:01:40]  And let me just remind you, the main purpose of, well, to be in the bed is two purposes, but not three, right?
[01:01:46]  Right.
[01:01:47]  And then we go to the bathroom.
[01:01:49]  Now, listen to this.
[01:01:50]  This is crazy.
[01:01:51]  We did a study the other day with young kids, boys from the age of 15 to 18 years of age.
[01:01:58]  And this is so crazy.
[01:01:59]  One-third of these young kids were on the phone in the shower, right?
[01:02:05]  Write in books.
[01:02:06]  Write in books.
[01:02:08]  Of course.
[01:02:09]  Paper-based, right?
[01:02:10]  Yeah.
[01:02:10]  And then what's happening is we're doing our work in the bathroom.
[01:02:14]  We're doing our work when we have our breakfast.
[01:02:17]  We're doing our work on the way to work in our car.
[01:02:19]  And then we do our private stuff at work, right?
[01:02:23]  What's so fascinating about this and scary is we never have a transformation moment anymore.
[01:02:28]  We never transform from one state of mind to another.
[01:02:31]  And you know what's happening with your computer.
[01:02:34]  We never reset it anymore.
[01:02:36]  It's just on all the time.
[01:02:37]  And we all know if we don't do it, it gets slower.
[01:02:39]  Well, that's the case with our brains.
[01:02:42]  We actually get slower right now.
[01:02:43]  So we need to create these transformational points in our lives to become more creative, to become more present, and actually to connect with people more.
[01:02:52]  And that is the biggest downside right now.
[01:02:54]  So you asked me what is one of the trends.
[01:02:56]  It's definitely that.
[01:02:58]  And I think one of the things you have to do is to find your personal water moment.
[01:03:03]  And that helps you to pause for a second or two during the day.
[01:03:06]  Hey, Martin, this is Brad.
[01:03:07]  I'm here with Doc.
[01:03:08]  And I'm familiar with some CEOs that do something called creative fitness, basically, where they'll have a logic problem that they have to solve, and they'll go off and do something like knitting, something that uses the other side of the brain.
[01:03:22]  Is that along the same lines?
[01:03:23]  Does that give your brain the same break?
[01:03:26]  It does, because here's the issue.

=== Chicken Cage Syndrome Explained (04:03) ===

[01:03:30]  It's actually called the chicken cage syndrome.
[01:03:31]  And let me just explain this for a moment.
[01:03:33]  A study was done around seven years ago, which showed that if you put a chicken into a cage and it stays in that cage for half a year and you one day open the gate and you sort of push that chicken out, the chicken will walk out on this beautiful green grass with the birds singing and after 10 seconds it will go 180 degrees back into the cage.
[01:03:53]  And I call that the chicken cage syndrome.
[01:03:55]  And we're all more or less suffering from that, particularly when our daily life is so packed with duties where we almost act like robots because we have no space to be different.
[01:04:05]  So what the CEOs are doing, what these creative talents are doing is to free themselves up from going back to the chicken cage and force their mind to be different.
[01:04:14]  And I think in many ways, coming back to the small business theme, I think this is in many ways what a business leader had to do because this is the way you point out a trend before everyone else.
[01:04:25]  Because if you stand in a cage, well, it's a little bit like you can't see the forest with just trees.
[01:04:31]  You see it from your own angle.
[01:04:33]  But if you jump out of that angle and see the world completely differently, that's where you see business opportunities.
[01:04:39]  And I think, I guess the best way to illustrate that is really to take you back to a brand like Lego.
[01:04:45]  You guys are familiar with Lego, right?
[01:04:47]  Yeah.
[01:04:48]  So in 2013, 2012, the LEGO company was close to bankruptcy.
[01:04:54]  Can you believe that?
[01:04:56]  And back then, the Lego brand had learned that there was something called the instant gratification generation.
[01:05:02]  It was these young kids had no patience for anything whatsoever.
[01:05:06]  So of course they wouldn't have the time to play with Lego bricks.
[01:05:09]  Now guess what?
[01:05:10]  The executives are basically concluding using big data and all this stuff that forget about the small bricks.
[01:05:17]  Let's create gigantic building blocks so you can build a castle in Lego in half an hour rather than six hours.
[01:05:24]  So they do that.
[01:05:25]  They change the size of the Lego bricks.
[01:05:27]  And December 2013, the sales drops with 31% and the entire management goes into panic.
[01:05:34]  Now what you normally would have done then is to think, well, let's create more big blocks and stuff like that.
[01:05:39]  But the Lego team did something differently.
[01:05:41]  They jumped out of the chicken case.
[01:05:43]  And the way they did that was to move into young kids' bedrooms, literally.
[01:05:49]  So they end up in the home of an 11-year-old kid, a German kid.
[01:05:53]  And as they're sitting on the bedroom floor, they ask this kid one simple question.
[01:05:59]  What are you most proud of?
[01:06:00]  And this kid, he pauses for a second.
[01:06:03]  He points at himself.
[01:06:04]  And on the shelf, there's an old worn-down pair of sneakers.
[01:06:08]  And of course, the team from Lego is completely perplexed.
[01:06:10]  They thought he would say it's only PlayStation or Nintendo or something, but he doesn't.
[01:06:15]  So he takes down this pair of sneakers and of course they ask him why.
[01:06:19]  And the kid is replying back, well, I'm the best skater in town.
[01:06:23]  But the evidence I have for my friends is the wear and tear on the side of the soul.
[01:06:28]  You see, when you're a really good skateboarder, you slide down this skateboard and it creates a wear and tear on the side of the soul.
[01:06:36]  And exactly that angle indicates that I'm number one.
[01:06:40]  And of course, the team from Lego realize that very second that this is the revolution for Lego.
[01:06:46]  This is the answer which is turning around Lego.
[01:06:49]  Because what they realize is if these kids have tens, if not hundreds, if not thousands of hours of time to fine-tune the angle of the soul on a sneaker, why wouldn't they have thousands of hours to play with Lego?
[01:07:01]  So out of this, they change the size of the Lego bricks back to the tiny bricks.
[01:07:06]  They invent the Lego movie, which as you know, two years ago was number two in the US.
[01:07:10]  And they also team up with Haripotter and Star Wars.
[01:07:13]  And today is Lego not only the number one toy brand in the world, just recently it was announced to be the biggest brand in the world.
[01:07:21]  And all of that began with an old worn-down pair of sneakers.
[01:07:25]  And this is really my message to both of you guys and all the listeners, that we see the world from one point of view.
[01:07:32]  You have to wake up.

=== Wake Up From Your Viewpoint (04:34) ===

[01:07:33]  You have to go out of that chicken cage and start to pick up what I call his small data.
[01:07:38]  And these are really seemingly insignificant observations you pick up in the daily lives, which actually each of them represents an amazing opportunity or a trend which just no one has seen because they're too busy on the smartphones.
[01:07:52]  We're going to go ahead and tweet out a link.
[01:07:54]  It's martinlindstrom.com and the book is Small Data, the Tiny Clues That Undercover Huge Trends.
[01:07:59]  The Lego story is just one of many like that that's going to help you as you look for future trends to brand yourself, help your family, or start a business or further your business.
[01:08:08]  Martin, thanks so much for joining us.
[01:08:09]  Really appreciate it.
[01:08:11]  You will welcome.
[01:08:12]  All right.
[01:08:12]  We'll tweet it out again.
[01:08:13]  It's martinlindstrom.com and the book is small data.
[01:08:15]  Back in a moment on the Glenn Beck program.
[01:08:19]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:08:24]  Mercury.
[01:08:28]  This is the Glenn Beck program.
[01:08:31]  Okay, tweeted out the links to Martin Lindstrom's book, Small Data.
[01:08:35]  I think he's fascinating.
[01:08:36]  I think trends are fascinating.
[01:08:37]  I think he's right on about it.
[01:08:38]  You have to get that time away where you can just walk around and just kind of rinse out your brain.
[01:08:45]  Yeah.
[01:08:46]  To that point, if I remember right, the story of the guy or people who mapped the human genome, at least the idea and how they would do it, he got while just driving down the road on a fall day and the leaves were blowing and somehow the leaves and the way they were connected made him think about how to do it.
[01:09:07]  Brad, where do you think we're going with social media?
[01:09:10]  Here's, and that's probably the trillion dollar question.
[01:09:14]  Yeah.
[01:09:15]  There's nothing new under the sun.
[01:09:16]  We know that.
[01:09:18]  And everything becomes new again, but it's never exactly in the same way.
[01:09:23]  Anything that becomes new again always has or usually has a new shift, a new focus.
[01:09:28]  There's always something slightly off.
[01:09:29]  Social media is not going away, but I think it is going to shift and we're going to do more things in person.
[01:09:36]  And I don't think it's going to be, all right, turn your phones off.
[01:09:39]  There'll be a bunch of people who claim these getaways and whatever.
[01:09:42]  If we don't turn our phones off because we need them and you're still going to be hanging out with people, what happens?
[01:09:48]  Where are we going?
[01:09:48]  Well, that's just it.
[01:09:49]  And like you said, everything old is new again.
[01:09:52]  That's the way people used to get together in person.
[01:09:55]  Right.
[01:09:56]  And then social media made it easier to stay in contact with people you didn't see all the time, but then you don't see people face to face.
[01:10:03]  That's where I think face-to-face is where we're going because we didn't go face-to-face to social media.
[01:10:08]  We went face-to-face to letters.
[01:10:11]  Letters became eventually phone calls, right?
[01:10:14]  Long phone calls and everything else.
[01:10:16]  So I think we're still going to be doing these things.
[01:10:18]  You and I may hang out face to face, be having a meeting like you do now, but I'm engaged with a bunch of people online that are around the globe or whatever else I'm doing.
[01:10:26]  We already do some of that.
[01:10:27]  What's the next big step in person?
[01:10:30]  Malls are dying.
[01:10:31]  I think, in fact, Stu on this program talked about how dead the mall was right before Christmas.
[01:10:36]  They're almost dead.
[01:10:37]  Next two years, it's going to be gone.
[01:10:40]  Human interaction.
[01:10:41]  What a concept.
[01:10:42]  Yeah.
[01:10:42]  And if you go out to dinner, I mean, they try to get you out of there to flip the tables.
[01:10:46]  Where are you going?
[01:10:47]  What are you doing?
[01:10:49]  10,000 baby boomers retiring a day.
[01:10:51]  Entire generations taught to hang out at coffee shops and use social media.
[01:10:56]  What will our future in-person interaction be?
[01:11:00]  And how do we use social media?
[01:11:01]  That may be the billion-dollar question.
[01:11:03]  Doc Thompson for Glenn Beck today.
[01:11:08]  Glenn Beck.
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[01:11:35]  I will make a stand.
[01:11:38]  I will raise my voice.
[01:11:40]  I will hold your hand.
[01:11:42]  Cause we are one.
[01:11:44]  I will be my drum.
[01:11:47]  I have made my choice.
[01:11:49]  We will overcome.
[01:11:51]  Cause we are one.
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=== We Are One And Overcome (09:15) ===

[01:12:07]  Also joined by Real Chris Cruz on Twitter.
[01:12:10]  It's at RealChris Cruz from the Morning Blaze and at the Blaze Brad.
[01:12:15]  Brad Staggs is here.
[01:12:16]  We're all part of the Morning Blaze.
[01:12:18]  If you want to find out more about us, go toblaze.com/slash doc.
[01:12:22]  We have an update on Cofefe.
[01:12:24]  We know what it is.
[01:12:26]  You do?
[01:12:27]  Some of us know what it is.
[01:12:29]  Select group.
[01:12:30]  A select group.
[01:12:31]  Okay.
[01:12:31]  Yesterday, President Trump's spokesperson, press secretary, Sean Spicer, had a press conference and was asked about it.
[01:12:39]  But it's interesting how it comes up.
[01:12:42]  Listen carefully to all the little nuances when he's asked about it.
[01:12:46]  And when he answers, listen to the reaction from the people in the room.
[01:12:50]  Here's Sean Spicer.
[01:12:52]  People should be concerned that the president posted somewhat of an incoherent tweet last night and that it then stayed up for hours.
[01:13:02]  No.
[01:13:02]  Why did it stay up so long?
[01:13:04]  Is no one watching this?
[01:13:06]  No, I think the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant.
[01:13:11]  Blake.
[01:13:16]  Blake.
[01:13:16]  What does he mean?
[01:13:17]  Blake.
[01:13:18]  What is Kofe?
[01:13:19]  Blake?
[01:13:20]  No, it's Blake.
[01:13:22]  The president and a small group of people.
[01:13:25]  So do you know what it means, Chris?
[01:13:27]  I don't know what it means.
[01:13:28]  And you're not in that small group of people.
[01:13:30]  If only we knew what Kofe meant.
[01:13:33]  If only.
[01:13:34]  If anybody can tell us.
[01:13:36]  The president would tell us.
[01:13:37]  Can the president tell us what Kofefe is?
[01:13:39]  Mr. President, are you willing to share that with us?
[01:13:43]  Good morning.
[01:13:44]  How is everybody?
[01:13:46]  We're doing fine.
[01:13:47]  It's a very cofefe day.
[01:13:49]  It is.
[01:13:49]  It's a tremendously cofefe day, I have to tell you.
[01:13:53]  I mean, I just want to.
[01:13:54]  It really is amazing.
[01:13:55]  I just want to make sure I'm using that properly to say it's a cofefe.
[01:13:58]  You know what?
[01:13:59]  It is one of those words.
[01:14:01]  It is so flexible and so malleable.
[01:14:04]  You could use it in any conceivable way.
[01:14:06]  That's the beauty of cofefe.
[01:14:09]  I could define cofefe, but I'd rather direct it.
[01:14:13]  I just want to say one very, very important thing.
[01:14:16]  Yes, sir.
[01:14:18]  Jared Kushner, Jared Kushner, he's been in the news a great deal recently.
[01:14:22]  I just want to say this because, you know, you have such a tremendously huge audience.
[01:14:26]  Yes.
[01:14:27]  And I know how much they like me.
[01:14:29]  I hardly know Jared Kushner.
[01:14:31]  I'm not really sure what he does here at the White House.
[01:14:33]  I've only seen him at a few meetings and speaking once or twice to Ivanka.
[01:14:38]  So I really don't know who he is.
[01:14:40]  Okay, let's get back to Kofefe.
[01:14:41]  Okay.
[01:14:43]  Well, I'm glad you clarified that because he's been in the news, you know, supposedly some backdoor deals.
[01:14:49]  He just lurches around the White House.
[01:14:51]  I have no idea who this guy is.
[01:14:53]  He pops up at me.
[01:14:54]  By the way, he never says a word.
[01:14:56]  I've never heard this guy speak.
[01:14:58]  Ever, ever.
[01:14:59]  I have no idea what he is.
[01:15:00]  He could sound like Mickey Mouse for all I know.
[01:15:02]  So my question is: there's a small group of people that really get the nuances of Kofefe.
[01:15:09]  Are you at liberty to say who those people are?
[01:15:11]  I mean, who's in it?
[01:15:13]  It was the three of us holding the orb.
[01:15:15]  That's when he came to us.
[01:15:18]  I was right to us.
[01:15:19]  I told you it was the guys who were holding the orbs.
[01:15:23]  You know what?
[01:15:23]  And I found out, you know, that orb takes you to another place in time.
[01:15:27]  It's a multi-dimensional orb.
[01:15:29]  And it's kind of one of these things where you're subtly back in history and all this stuff.
[01:15:34]  And the word cofefe came right to me.
[01:15:36]  And it can be, and by the way, by the way, it's such an amazing word.
[01:15:40]  You say cofefe, cofe.
[01:15:43]  You can pronounce it any way you like.
[01:15:44]  That's the beauty of this tremendous, tremendous word that was given to me by the people who rule the universe.
[01:15:52]  It's so crucial.
[01:15:52]  I didn't know that.
[01:15:54]  Now, Michael Palka, who has appeared on this program, in fact, he'll be filling in a couple days next week, and he does noon to three on the Blaze Radio Network right after this program.
[01:16:04]  He suggested the other day that that may be, and how can I put this delicately, a private word that you share with Melania that may or may not reference one of your or her body parts.
[01:16:17]  Like kind of a pet.
[01:16:18]  Listen, listen, listen.
[01:16:19]  First off, it's disgusting.
[01:16:21]  That's disgusting.
[01:16:22]  I would never name anything on me French.
[01:16:25]  That has a very pronounced word.
[01:16:27]  So it is a French word.
[01:16:31]  Like Willie or Johnson or something like that.
[01:16:36]  Okay.
[01:16:37]  So it's not something you would share in an intimate moment with your wife.
[01:16:40]  No, And unfortunately, I haven't really had any intimate moments recently.
[01:16:44]  She seems very angry at me, and I can't figure out why.
[01:16:47]  I'm the President of the United States leader of the free world and she's always angry at me.
[01:16:51]  I really don't get it.
[01:16:52]  You know, we didn't need to have a chance to talk to you guys.
[01:16:55]  They're so tough.
[01:16:55]  They're so tough.
[01:16:56]  I can rule the world, but I can't figure out chicks.
[01:16:59]  It's so very annoying.
[01:17:02]  So we didn't have a chance to talk to you last week after you came back from your long trip over in Europe.
[01:17:09]  Was that an incredible trip?
[01:17:11]  Was that the single most successful presidential trip in the history of presidential trips?
[01:17:17]  Did you see?
[01:17:17]  I went to Israel.
[01:17:19]  Yeah.
[01:17:19]  And then I went to the Middle East.
[01:17:21]  It was tremendous.
[01:17:22]  It was so amazing.
[01:17:23]  I went to the Wailing Wall.
[01:17:24]  And by the way, by the way, is anyone Jewish in the studio?
[01:17:28]  Not in the room right now.
[01:17:29]  Has anyone been to the Whaling Wall?
[01:17:32]  No.
[01:17:33]  Let me tell you something about this wall.
[01:17:35]  Tremendous wall.
[01:17:37]  Thousands of years old.
[01:17:38]  No Mexicans in Israel.
[01:17:40]  So perfect.
[01:17:43]  Incredible.
[01:17:43]  And by the way, no whales either.
[01:17:45]  No whales.
[01:17:46]  Yeah, that's a surprise.
[01:17:47]  You would think there would be more.
[01:17:49]  Well, they told me they were there thousands of years ago when Israel was underwater.
[01:17:53]  So likely then.
[01:17:53]  So it was been a successful wall then.
[01:17:56]  It's been very successful.
[01:17:57]  It was very successful.
[01:17:58]  Great place.
[01:17:58]  I got to keep the little beanie that they gave me, which I thought was nice.
[01:18:02]  Interesting, interesting.
[01:18:02]  Yeah, that's.
[01:18:04]  I saw you.
[01:18:04]  There was, you know, you stepped to the front of the crowd when the prime minister of Montenegro was there, and you kind of gave him the yellow, come on, you're Montenegro.
[01:18:12]  Get in the back look.
[01:18:14]  Oh, no, no.
[01:18:15]  I gave him, hey, I don't like you.
[01:18:17]  Get in the back.
[01:18:18]  Oh, okay.
[01:18:19]  I don't even know where that is.
[01:18:20]  I just didn't like him.
[01:18:21]  I didn't like him.
[01:18:22]  And he was blocking my way.
[01:18:23]  And by the way, by the way, that guy had dandruff.
[01:18:27]  Oh, I didn't know.
[01:18:27]  Oh, okay.
[01:18:28]  Well, that's, yeah.
[01:18:28]  Yeah, it looked to me like you were saying, hey, you know, the cool country's up front, Montenegro.
[01:18:33]  You're lucky we let you in the room.
[01:18:36]  Let me tell you, let me ask you a question.
[01:18:38]  Where is Montenegro on the map?
[01:18:40]  Where's Montenegro?
[01:18:41]  Wow.
[01:18:43]  By the Balkans, right?
[01:18:44]  It's next to Italy.
[01:18:46]  I don't know those either, but frankly, you don't know where it is.
[01:18:49]  It's not one of the top 10 countries.
[01:18:51]  And I don't think I should be standing here behind a guy who sounds like he's an island in the Bahamas.
[01:18:57]  Right.
[01:18:59]  I was going to say it's close to Florida.
[01:19:00]  It's right there.
[01:19:01]  It's about 90 miles.
[01:19:02]  It's from the 19th century between Puerto Rican Cuba.
[01:19:04]  I don't know where Montenegro is, but I bet you there's a bunch of restaurants in that country with this in this country with that name.
[01:19:10]  Probably.
[01:19:11]  Now, also on your trip, was that right after for Memorial Day where you were singing the national anthem?
[01:19:18]  And they were playing the national anthem, and you sung along right there, even though you're on stage.
[01:19:23]  Tremendous singer.
[01:19:24]  I am so talented in so many ways.
[01:19:27]  You saw me dancing in Saudi Arabia with the swords.
[01:19:30]  So I can, I'm a triple threat.
[01:19:32]  I can sing, I can dance, and I can lead the free world.
[01:19:37]  I just thought it was nice to see a president sing along with the national anthem.
[01:19:42]  I think that showed some passion.
[01:19:44]  He was singing and dancing like a fancy.
[01:19:46]  You were kind of moving, yeah, back and forth.
[01:19:49]  You know, I love, love, love this country.
[01:19:52]  Tremendous country.
[01:19:53]  I wouldn't want to lead any other country in the world, especially Montenegro.
[01:19:57]  This is the one I want to lead.
[01:19:59]  Well, I mean, if Francis Scott Key, he could put it together.
[01:20:01]  I mean, that's something that's got a snappy beat, and obviously you can dance to it.
[01:20:05]  You know, you know, and it's not an easy song, not an easy song.
[01:20:08]  I think it's a four-active range.
[01:20:09]  So I'm, you know, I was practicing.
[01:20:11]  I called Mariah Carey.
[01:20:12]  She helped me out.
[01:20:13]  Oh, that's nice.
[01:20:14]  Well, you're certainly connected.
[01:20:15]  Okay, coming up today at around 3 Eastern, we've heard that you're going to officially pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
[01:20:22]  Oh, don't say pull out.
[01:20:23]  I don't like that.
[01:20:24]  Okay.
[01:20:24]  I don't like that.
[01:20:25]  How about take back?
[01:20:27]  Withdraw.
[01:20:28]  Oh, that's good.
[01:20:29]  Okay, good deal.
[01:20:29]  I like that.
[01:20:30]  I like that.
[01:20:31]  Pull out.
[01:20:33]  I understand.
[01:20:34]  So the Paris Climate Agreement, this is not a good deal.
[01:20:37]  You seem like you're waffling for a while, but now we're going to be done with this.
[01:20:41]  It's over.
[01:20:42]  It's over.
[01:20:43]  Anything that's done in Paris, other than like a romantic weekend, is a waste of time.
[01:20:48]  Is it the name that's really throwing you off that it's the Paris Climate Agreement?
[01:20:51]  I mean, if it was like the Trump Climate Agreement or New York, I would sign that in a second.
[01:20:57]  By the way, I love signing things.
[01:20:59]  I think you know from the beginning of my administration, I love saluting, signing, tweeting, touring.
[01:21:05]  I don't like agreeing with a bunch of other people on climate.
[01:21:09]  I don't like doing it.
[01:21:10]  I don't like doing it.
[01:21:11]  Chinese are, you know what?
[01:21:13]  And here's the thing about climate control.
[01:21:18]  I want to be in charge of this.
[01:21:19]  And I can't be in charge if everyone else is already in agreement.

=== Trump Climate Agreement Signing (14:36) ===

[01:21:23]  Do you see what I'm saying?
[01:21:24]  No, I do.
[01:21:24]  Well, I'd have to ask you before I'd agree with that.
[01:21:26]  If you're talking about controlling the climate, I mean, do you have control of the thermostat at home or does your wife?
[01:21:32]  I mean, what is a thermostat?
[01:21:34]  What is a thermostat?
[01:21:35]  That would kind of throw everything off then a little bit to do whatever.
[01:21:38]  But hey, we appreciate you taking time out of your day to visit with us, though, and explain what's going on.
[01:21:42]  It's always so incredible, and I'm doing such an amazing job.
[01:21:46]  Everything in this country is going so great.
[01:21:49]  Jobs are up.
[01:21:51]  The economy is doing great.
[01:21:53]  The stock market is through the roof.
[01:21:56]  People are much more attractive.
[01:21:57]  Have you noticed how much more attractive people are?
[01:22:00]  Since you've been elected, you mean, or sworn in as president?
[01:22:04]  Have you noticed how happy and attractive people are?
[01:22:06]  I think that's tremendous.
[01:22:07]  That's one of those real, that's one of those intangible benefits of my presidency.
[01:22:12]  People are happy and attractive, and a lot of women have been losing weight, which is really tremendous.
[01:22:17]  If you could get Rosie on that, then I think you're talking re-election.
[01:22:24]  You're not talking who I think you're talking about.
[01:22:25]  Yeah, Rosie O'Donnell, if you could get her to shed a few pounds, I think you got a shoe-in for re-election.
[01:22:32]  I can't believe you brought her up.
[01:22:33]  I can't believe you brought her up.
[01:22:35]  Okay, that's fine.
[01:22:35]  All right, we're out of time.
[01:22:36]  We're out of time.
[01:22:38]  Keep waving to me, Seify's.
[01:22:40]  All right, well, thanks so much for checking in.
[01:22:42]  We appreciate it.
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[01:23:25]  There's a story at theblaze.com about Joe Piscopo coming out and talking about Kathy Griffin's failures where he blasts.
[01:23:32]  Anybody remember Joe Piscopo?
[01:23:33]  He was on Saturday Night Live back in the day.
[01:23:35]  I always enjoyed him.
[01:23:37]  Lots of the people that have come through Saturday Night Live, I didn't think do a good job.
[01:23:41]  He was great impressions.
[01:23:42]  Great impressions, great and Johnny Dangerously.
[01:23:44]  I mean, always liked Joe Player.
[01:23:46]  He's a successful guy.
[01:23:47]  Would you say successful?
[01:23:48]  Yeah, I mean, he didn't have as much success as some people, but you know, as far as like the string of movies and whatever.
[01:23:53]  But yeah, he did okay.
[01:23:54]  And I guess he has a radio talk show in New Jersey now and is a conservative or more conservative, right-leaning libertarian conservative.
[01:24:02]  So I don't have anything bad to say about Joe.
[01:24:04]  I think he's probably a great guy.
[01:24:06]  I'd actually like to meet him and we'd be willing to talk to him on the air.
[01:24:09]  But his website is either one of the best parodies ever or a complete and utter failure.
[01:24:17]  I cannot figure out if they did it intentionally as a great joke because I mean, he's a comedian, you know, or if this is just a failure of website.
[01:24:26]  And we stumbled across it because of this story that's ablaze about Kathy Griffin.
[01:24:30]  We went to his website and I don't know if he outsourced it to Botswana.
[01:24:35]  The people don't speak English.
[01:24:37]  I think Puerto Rico.
[01:24:38]  Puerto Rico is that.
[01:24:39]  Yeah, Chris.
[01:24:40]  Chris is like, what is wrong with this site?
[01:24:41]  It looks perfectly fine.
[01:24:42]  I know.
[01:24:43]  You guys said this is wrong.
[01:24:44]  I'm reading it.
[01:24:45]  It makes great sense to me.
[01:24:46]  I mean, everything, even the links to like linked stories and products that are sponsoring it seem like questionable.
[01:24:53]  It's like the Basomatic and stuff.
[01:24:55]  What to look for when buying the best vacuum sealer for your kitchen.
[01:24:59]  Okay, there are people on that.
[01:25:00]  Things to avoid when buying a chicken plucker for sale for that huge entertainment party.
[01:25:07]  So he has chicken plucker advertisers on.
[01:25:09]  Okay.
[01:25:10]  All right.
[01:25:10]  There's one about an under-the-counter ice maker.
[01:25:14]  Under-the-counter ice maker.
[01:25:15]  And I would think they're jokes, except within the individuals.
[01:25:19]  There are links.
[01:25:19]  There are links to take you to Amazon to buy a chicken plucker.
[01:25:23]  Okay, I didn't know there was such a thing, but okay.
[01:25:25]  But when you go through just the different parts, like there's different categories: home, media, events, charities, AM970, the station he's on about, and contact.
[01:25:32]  And you click through them.
[01:25:33]  We're going to share just some of the little pieces on it here.
[01:25:36]  And again, this is not making fun of Joe.
[01:25:37]  Joe seems like a great guy.
[01:25:39]  Yeah.
[01:25:40]  Does a good job.
[01:25:40]  But his website, I don't know if he's actually read through it.
[01:25:43]  If you outsource somebody, like, okay, it's up there.
[01:25:45]  I mean, so under early life, it talks about where he was born and different things.
[01:25:50]  But then it talks about him in high school when he started getting involved in entertainment.
[01:25:55]  He goes, while he was in high school, he was active in the drama club.
[01:26:00]  So he started his ambitions in working in the entertainment field while he was still young.
[01:26:05]  He started his ambitions?
[01:26:08]  Yeah.
[01:26:08]  That's when his ambitions started.
[01:26:10]  Yeah.
[01:26:11]  While he was in his high school drama club, he was well known for abilities to play the various parts more creatively.
[01:26:19]  The various parts?
[01:26:22]  Do you like the radio show description?
[01:26:25]  By the way, it's Cal who is part of the Morning Blaze as well.
[01:26:28]  What's the radio description?
[01:26:30]  If you listen to AM Radio, then you have probably heard Joe Piscopo talking on his radio show.
[01:26:34]  He bought the morning radio program AM970.
[01:26:37]  This is his talk show where he discusses many different kinds of topics that vary a lot in stories and guests.
[01:26:42]  If you need to listen to a radio show during your morning commute, you really should try and have a listen to Joe Piscopo's AM970.
[01:26:48]  Lots of words going on there.
[01:26:50]  This radio has got all the current news.
[01:26:53]  Lots of characters, but the same words.
[01:26:56]  Because radio, listen, and Piscopo a whole lot.
[01:27:00]  You even get entertainment topics covered too, and you can get to listen to Joe's smooth voice and smart wit while tuning to AM970.
[01:27:10]  This is so labored the way it's written.
[01:27:13]  It is very.
[01:27:13]  I don't see what the problem with this.
[01:27:15]  Sounds great, doesn't it?
[01:27:16]  Sounds a lot of information.
[01:27:17]  It's good.
[01:27:18]  It's JoePiscopo.com.
[01:27:19]  We'll share some more with you, but if you get a chance, we'll send out the link on Twitter so you can see for yourself.
[01:27:24]  You got to let us know on Twitter, is it legit and just outsourced or something?
[01:27:30]  And so it's available on the internet.
[01:27:31]  What's that?
[01:27:32]  According to the page, it's available on the internet.
[01:27:34]  Are his websites available on the internet?
[01:27:36]  No, you can listen to Joe Piscopo without fail on his radio show every morning if you go to the radio channel AM970 on the internet.
[01:27:42]  You can also tune into his radio show using the internet.
[01:27:44]  There's also a SoundCloud page where you can stream his radio show over the internet.
[01:27:48]  This internet radio stream makes it convenient for you to listen to Joe's radio program on the internet.
[01:27:53]  And you can listen to his program anytime you want on the internet.
[01:27:59]  Are we sure it's on the internet?
[01:28:01]  But did you know without bringing any harm to the bird, a good chicken plucker for sale will assist in removing the feathers from your birds?
[01:28:09]  I did not know that.
[01:28:10]  The speed and accuracy of this machine to pluck out the feathers of birds are attributed to the sophisticated technology of the machine.
[01:28:16]  The machine plucks out the feathers neatly and executes this task within a short time duration.
[01:28:21]  So it is neatly then.
[01:28:22]  It is very neat.
[01:28:23]  And it apparently doesn't harm the birds.
[01:28:25]  Well, that's good because you're about to cook them.
[01:28:27]  I'm glad to see how that ties in with the AM970 radio program of Joe Piscopo.
[01:28:32]  Yeah.
[01:28:32]  Wow.
[01:28:32]  I can get a chicken plucker for 200 bucks.
[01:28:34]  You guys better not refresh your page because I think we just crashed it.
[01:28:37]  I think we just crashed it.
[01:28:38]  Oh, boy.
[01:28:39]  Darn it.
[01:28:41]  I was going to read the contact line.
[01:28:44]  Did we just crash Joe's pitch?
[01:28:46]  We did.
[01:28:47]  Did you screen grab it earlier, like I told you?
[01:28:49]  No, I did not.
[01:28:49]  Wow, you jerk.
[01:28:50]  I told you to screen grab it.
[01:28:51]  We've got like four or five of the tabs open right now, so we can just.
[01:28:54]  Okay, what about the contact?
[01:28:55]  Oh, my gosh.
[01:28:56]  I don't have the contact.
[01:28:58]  Oh, that was such a good one.
[01:29:00]  And it goes on and on.
[01:29:01]  Every one of these has these long minutes.
[01:29:02]  Do you got any more to share?
[01:29:03]  The examples, whatever.
[01:29:05]  I think the main one had some, or Cal, you might have as well.
[01:29:08]  And again, I don't even know if Joe knows about it.
[01:29:10]  If it's legit, if you just outsource it.
[01:29:12]  I hope it wasn't like, yeah, my wife put up the site for me or something.
[01:29:15]  Joe Piscopo has got a lot of upcoming events that you can attend.
[01:29:18]  If you need to know the details about his favorite live shows and performances, you can check out that information on this website.
[01:29:24]  You can see a calendar list of all of his events through this website.
[01:29:28]  So by checking with that calendar, you should be able to know what is going on with Joe Piscopo.
[01:29:33]  You will never need to miss an event at all if you follow Joe Piscapo's career through this calendar of events.
[01:29:39]  Is the calendar up?
[01:29:41]  There's no calendar.
[01:29:42]  Oh, my God.
[01:29:43]  So all that hard work of constructing those perfectly fine paragraphs.
[01:29:48]  And there's no calendar.
[01:29:49]  Perfectly fine paragraph right there.
[01:29:51]  Fans of Joe Piscopo can certainly know about what all there is to know about whatever show of Joe is coming.
[01:29:58]  Period.
[01:29:59]  On the calendar.
[01:30:00]  On the calendar.
[01:30:01]  If you need to reach out to Joe Pisco by mail, you can send snail mail to his address.
[01:30:04]  And they list a Broadway address in New York.
[01:30:06]  So you can address all physical mail to that location.
[01:30:09]  Be sure to include a return address with your mail if you want Joe to know how to reply back to you.
[01:30:13]  Contacting Joe through email would be the most convenient to do so.
[01:30:17]  Email is the fastest way to reach out to Mr. Piscovo.
[01:30:19]  Just be aware that the email address is Joe's representative.
[01:30:22]  So it may take a while for Joe to get back to you.
[01:30:24]  Nevertheless, your word would surely reach him.
[01:30:28]  There's all kinds of like just periods and random middle parts of the sentence.
[01:30:34]  God bless you, Joe.
[01:30:35]  I hope you're doing well.
[01:30:36]  I got to know if this is legit.
[01:30:38]  If it's not a parody, please claim it is.
[01:30:40]  They just go even bigger because it's gold.
[01:30:42]  It's gold.
[01:30:43]  And we welcome Joe.
[01:30:44]  If he wants to call in, we'll set up a time to talk to him.
[01:30:47]  Not mocking him.
[01:30:47]  I just think the sites really got me wondering what's going on with him.
[01:30:56]  You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
[01:31:00]  Mercury.
[01:31:04]  The Glenn Beck program.
[01:31:06]  Yeah, we crashed the site.
[01:31:08]  We crashed the site.
[01:31:09]  It's so pushy.
[01:31:10]  Even the blaze.com contacted me.
[01:31:11]  It's like, are you guys sense like, yeah, sorry?
[01:31:13]  Yeah, sorry about that.
[01:31:15]  I'm sure it'll eventually be fixed sometime today.
[01:31:17]  But if you want to have fun, just go through and check it.
[01:31:19]  But it looks like it was one of the standard, like somebody wrote it elsewhere.
[01:31:23]  Yeah, a friend of mine just sent me a text that he can hear the keywords in there.
[01:31:28]  So it was written by an SEO guy from another country.
[01:31:30]  SEO.
[01:31:31]  Search engine optimization.
[01:31:32]  Do they use the word Piscapo?
[01:31:34]  A lot, apparently.
[01:31:35]  Yes.
[01:31:35]  Over and over.
[01:31:36]  You're looking for Piscapo, you're going to find it at joepiscopo.com.
[01:31:40]  Right.
[01:31:41]  Yeah, it's just funny the way it, are they doing that because the words are mentioned a lot there?
[01:31:45]  Yes, yeah.
[01:31:46]  It's keyword loaded, essentially.
[01:31:48]  So the more you mention the words, if people do keywords for stuff, it'll come up.
[01:31:52]  It's all about ranking.
[01:31:52]  When you do Google searches for specific words, certain words rank higher than others.
[01:31:56]  So the more you use and the more you list them, it'll rank you higher for that keyword.
[01:32:00]  Like Piscopo is a keyword.
[01:32:01]  But if you're looking for Joe Piscopo, I don't think that's JoePiscopo.com.
[01:32:06]  That's what I would think.
[01:32:07]  And all the other stuff, I mean, are you searching for those?
[01:32:10]  I wouldn't think.
[01:32:11]  And plus he's got a radio show and he's famous, so I'm not sure you would have to do it.
[01:32:14]  And that is on the internet.
[01:32:15]  Yeah.
[01:32:16]  Yes, internet.
[01:32:17]  Yeah, because nobody else out there uses the word internet a lot.
[01:32:20]  I think the SEO salesman came along and joined.
[01:32:23]  Okay.
[01:32:23]  Right.
[01:32:24]  Works for me.
[01:32:25]  I mean, amazing amount of typos, spaces in the wrong pace, punctuation.
[01:32:31]  Double space.
[01:32:32]  Triple, quadruple space.
[01:32:33]  It's really bizarre.
[01:32:35]  And he's going to, is there his word that he's going to run for public offer?
[01:32:38]  Yeah, so that was speculation a while ago that he could maybe even run for governor, I think it was, governor, senator.
[01:32:46]  I can't remember which it was.
[01:32:48]  For where?
[01:32:48]  New Jersey.
[01:32:49]  Okay.
[01:32:49]  Cali, remember who was governor?
[01:32:51]  I think he was governor.
[01:32:52]  I think it was governor.
[01:32:53]  I don't know if that was Joe putting it out there and had a team or if other people just speculated, but you got a guy who with a big name who is one of probably the few celebrities that live or have a connection to New Jersey that's not progressive, right?
[01:33:08]  And has a lot of upcoming events that you can attend.
[01:33:10]  And what I found out about those events.
[01:33:12]  If you need details about those favorite shows, you can check out that information on this website.
[01:33:16]  So I just retweeted earlier today on our morning broadcast, people were looking for Joe Piscobo campaign slogans.
[01:33:23]  Actually, singular if you're using the hashtag Joe Piscopo campaign slogan, if you have one.
[01:33:29]  What was the really good one?
[01:33:31]  From Denny.
[01:33:32]  He tweeted, a vote for me is a vote for Joe Piscopo.
[01:33:40]  Well, apparently the waters are being tested for Senator Al Franken to run, other SNL alum to run for president.
[01:33:50]  And had you asked me prior to Donald Trump, I would have said there's no way he gets elected.
[01:33:53]  Now, who knows?
[01:33:54]  It is anybody's game.
[01:33:55]  Anything goes Jerry Springer.
[01:33:57]  Right.
[01:33:57]  And you've got Franken, who is crazy left.
[01:34:02]  Joe Piscopo, who is on the right.
[01:34:05]  I mean, he's got a lot of the right ideas.
[01:34:08]  But can you imagine Al Franken running for president?
[01:34:10]  No.
[01:34:11]  No.
[01:34:13]  And for Piscopo, at least the one thing you'd know, he would not be on Twitter all the time.
[01:34:17]  Because he's certainly not on.
[01:34:18]  Because when you click on his Twitter link on his website, it goes nowhere.
[01:34:24]  By the way, if you notice, there's a Facebook link that pops out on his website.
[01:34:28]  You click on that.
[01:34:29]  It's the wrong Joe.
[01:34:31]  Oh, no.
[01:34:32]  Wait, what?
[01:34:32]  On the Twitter?
[01:34:33]  No.
[01:34:33]  So when you go to JoeEpiscopo.com, there's a flash ad that says, like my page.
[01:34:39]  Right.
[01:34:40]  But it links to the wrong Joe Pisco.
[01:34:42]  Joe.
[01:34:44]  Wow.
[01:34:45]  Actually, I just clicked on it.
[01:34:47]  It says resource limit is reached.
[01:34:49]  This website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit.
[01:34:54]  Please try again later.
[01:34:55]  You know what that is?
[01:34:56]  That is whoever he's paying to a house's website.
[01:34:59]  Has a limit of people who can watch it, and now we just crashed it.
[01:35:03]  We just cost you a lot of people.
[01:35:04]  You should be getting a phone call for $100 a month.
[01:35:06]  Exactly.
[01:35:07]  Exactly.
[01:35:07]  Joe's like, how come our web bill went up to $14,000 yesterday?
[01:35:12]  It's usually like $14 a month.
[01:35:15]  I mean, we paid that guy in Montenegro 12 cents to design this and host it for 17 years.
[01:35:21]  Why is it so much money?
[01:35:23]  And I said, I would love to talk to Joe about this stuff, and I wish him well.
[01:35:27]  We reached out.
[01:35:27]  Maybe you hire a social media person.
[01:35:29]  Yeah.
[01:35:29]  You know, that might be a lot of fun.
[01:35:30]  You reached out via Snail Mail, the email, the internet.
[01:35:34]  The pigeon.
[01:35:35]  Did you do that?
[01:35:36]  Did you find all that contact information at joepiscopo.com?
[01:35:39]  I did.
[01:35:39]  Tweets coming in.
[01:35:40]  Oracle of the Matrix tweeting at Doc Thompson Show and at Jersey Joe Piscopo, J-R-Z-Y Joe Piscopo on Twitter, is a wordy fellow.
[01:35:50]  He's a wordy fellow.
[01:35:52]  Wordy.
[01:35:53]  Is that a play I'm worthy?
[01:35:55]  I think you just mean that he's rather chatty.
[01:35:58]  Does he tweet a lot?

=== Clarifying Joe Piscopo Rumors (11:01) ===

[01:35:59]  No.
[01:36:00]  He has a lot of fun.
[01:36:01]  That's 140 characters.
[01:36:02]  That's why.
[01:36:04]  Let's see.
[01:36:04]  Danny tweeting: the infinite number of monkeys with typewriters missed Hamlet, but made Joe Piscopo a website.
[01:36:15]  You know, the old you put enough monkeys in a room with typewriters, eventually they'll bang out Hamlet.
[01:36:20]  They will bang out Piscopo.
[01:36:22]  They're like, we're going to get to Hamlet next.
[01:36:23]  First, though, Piscato's got a website.
[01:36:31]  What's this?
[01:36:31]  Andy tweeting.
[01:36:32]  I knew it at Doc Thompson Show and hashtag TMB is taking over at Glenn Beck program.
[01:36:36]  Heard it straight from the horse's mouth.
[01:36:38]  I know.
[01:36:38]  You mistakenly said the wrong show.
[01:36:40]  Yeah, you're not supposed to highlight it by tweeting the stuff out there.
[01:36:43]  I mean, I said my tweet.
[01:36:43]  I tweeted it out.
[01:36:44]  And he tweeted it out.
[01:36:46]  Yeah, you're the one who retweeted it, though.
[01:36:47]  I saw you.
[01:36:48]  Retweet it out there.
[01:36:49]  I make one mistake.
[01:36:50]  There you go.
[01:36:50]  Are you sure you're still on the air?
[01:36:52]  Yeah, you know what my one mistake was?
[01:36:54]  What?
[01:36:54]  Having you as part of the team.
[01:36:55]  That was my one mistake.
[01:36:58]  Let's see.
[01:36:59]  Not Cofefe tweeting.
[01:37:01]  Try reading everything on Joe Piscopo's website as if you were a mobster-wise guy.
[01:37:06]  Then it makes sense.
[01:37:07]  Oh, oh, oh.
[01:37:09]  Because he was.
[01:37:10]  Joe's done many, many shows and live concerts.
[01:37:13]  See?
[01:37:13]  Film and so much more.
[01:37:15]  See?
[01:37:16]  You can find a lot of pictures of his work on his website.
[01:37:18]  See?
[01:37:20]  Yeah.
[01:37:20]  Bye, Ayana.
[01:37:22]  Browse through this gallery if you know what's good for you.
[01:37:24]  See?
[01:37:25]  Oh, my gosh, that actually works.
[01:37:27]  Not Cofefe, genius.
[01:37:29]  That's awesome.
[01:37:30]  Little thing, he did Sinatra.
[01:37:33]  He did Sinatra and the Sinatra Impression.
[01:37:35]  This is how rumors can start to clarify.
[01:37:37]  Technically.
[01:37:38]  But didn't he, like after that, didn't he become a bodybuilder?
[01:37:43]  You were talking about that.
[01:37:44]  Yeah.
[01:37:44]  That was him, right?
[01:37:45]  That turned into like a I kind of remember.
[01:37:47]  At least he had worked out and did some of that.
[01:37:49]  I don't know how big.
[01:37:50]  But he was in Johnny Dangerously.
[01:37:52]  He did some other movies like that, too.
[01:37:55]  Trying to think if there's anything else we know.
[01:37:56]  He was in the music video for Keeping the Faith with Billy Joel.
[01:38:00]  Right.
[01:38:01]  I'm sure that paid him.
[01:38:02]  And he always reminded me of Huey Lewis.
[01:38:04]  Just in the face, they looked a lot alike.
[01:38:05]  I'll give you that.
[01:38:06]  I'll give you in a general sense or whatever.
[01:38:08]  Mark tweeting, website developed in Montenegro.
[01:38:12]  Joe Piscopo's website developed in Montenegro.
[01:38:15]  I got a Joe Piscopo's campaign slogan by the Beard of Patriot.
[01:38:19]  A vote for Joe is a vote for Joe.
[01:38:21]  So don't be a Joe Schmo and vote for Joe.
[01:38:25]  Piscopo.
[01:38:26]  Joe Piscopo.
[01:38:27]  Gotcha.
[01:38:27]  That's, yeah.
[01:38:28]  Yeah.
[01:38:28]  Wow.
[01:38:30]  It's Piscopo Otomis.
[01:38:34]  Is that what it is?
[01:38:35]  I have a Piscopal, I don't even, I can't even.
[01:38:41]  Careful.
[01:38:41]  Oh, Piscopomentum.
[01:38:43]  Oh, Episcopomentum.
[01:38:44]  Yeah, it's like the guy that Jeffy supported during the cafe.
[01:38:51]  Oh, yeah.
[01:38:52]  Oh, my gosh.
[01:38:54]  Jim from Virginia.
[01:38:55]  Yeah, he's from Virginia.
[01:38:57]  Yes.
[01:38:57]  Gilmore.
[01:38:57]  Jim Gilmore.
[01:38:58]  Gilmore.
[01:38:59]  Gilmomentum, I think.
[01:39:00]  Gil Mentum.
[01:39:00]  Gil Momentum.
[01:39:01]  Yeah, I forgot who he was going to.
[01:39:03]  Yeah, Jim Gilmore.
[01:39:04]  He was at my wedding.
[01:39:06]  Wait.
[01:39:08]  He was a guest at my wedding.
[01:39:09]  Either I'm that important or Jim is not important at all.
[01:39:14]  Either Jim was slummed or I'm really important.
[01:39:17]  Can you say that you had a presidential candidate go to your wedding?
[01:39:21]  Now I can.
[01:39:21]  You're right.
[01:39:22]  I had one in attendance.
[01:39:23]  What gift did he give you?
[01:39:25]  I'm trying to remember what it was.
[01:39:27]  Oh, it was a couple of gifts.
[01:39:29]  Oh, one of them, I want to say it was like a crystal vase type thing.
[01:39:35]  Okay.
[01:39:36]  But then his wife also did, I'm a big history fan, obviously, and love Virginia.
[01:39:40]  His wife was responsible for during the administration, they redid the governor's mansion, I think, in Virginia.
[01:39:47]  And there's a book they produced about the restoration or whatever.
[01:39:50]  So there's one of those as well, which is really kind of cool.
[01:39:52]  But he and his wife, Roxanne, are awesome.
[01:39:53]  They're very nice people.
[01:39:55]  And we've gotten to know them.
[01:39:57]  So I got the invite.
[01:39:58]  You still have the vase or did you sell it on eBay?
[01:40:00]  Oh, that's long gone.
[01:40:01]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:40:02]  We would have sold the book, but they didn't sign it.
[01:40:04]  That's not about them.
[01:40:05]  That's just about me being cheap.
[01:40:06]  So, you know, whatever.
[01:40:07]  Exactly.
[01:40:08]  Oh, okay.
[01:40:09]  Steve tweeting hashtag Joe Piscopo campaign slogan.
[01:40:12]  Vote for me because Eddie Murphy ain't running.
[01:40:18]  And then Chumley was going down the same Eddie Murphy line.
[01:40:20]  He put Merry Christmas, damn it.
[01:40:22]  That's Eddie Murphy, but everyone always liked him better anyway.
[01:40:28]  All right.
[01:40:28]  Let me get a break in.
[01:40:30]  But the hashtag is Joe Piscopo campaign slogan.
[01:40:32]  And hopefully at some point, we'll get in contact with Joe and he'll come out and tell us about this.
[01:40:38]  And as I said, if this is not a joke, run with it.
[01:40:41]  Make it even more of this.
[01:40:42]  Go with it.
[01:40:43]  This is deep.
[01:40:43]  It's better than any real legit, like if you're going to run campaign website.
[01:40:48]  Oh, yeah.
[01:40:49]  Just make t-shirts about your website.
[01:40:51]  Just go full board.
[01:40:52]  Like confefe.
[01:40:53]  Go confefe.
[01:40:54]  Absolutely.
[01:40:54]  Well, and we learned that people are not that interested in facts.
[01:40:58]  That's what we've learned over the, and we're moving towards idiocracy.
[01:41:02]  So you might as well just put up the fun website, right?
[01:41:04]  I had a teacher in high school that used to say, don't confuse me with the facts.
[01:41:08]  He was being facetious, of course.
[01:41:10]  Now it's the norm.
[01:41:11]  Now it's the norm.
[01:41:12]  There it is.
[01:41:12]  Doc Thompson in for Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck program.
[01:41:16]  Glenn Beck Program.
[01:41:18]  Triple H 727 back.
[01:41:20]  Mercury.
[01:41:25]  Glenn Beck Program.
[01:41:27]  Coming up at 2 o'clock Eastern Time today, a couple hours from right now.
[01:41:32]  I'm going to be manning the Blaze customer service lines for some reason.
[01:41:36]  I don't know why Glenn wants us to.
[01:41:38]  Apparently, he's not going to be able to do that.
[01:41:39]  We're not connected to the customers, to our.
[01:41:44]  But anyway, Brad's going to join me, some other people around the Blaze.
[01:41:47]  So if you get a chance, call up and just chat.
[01:41:49]  Just tell them what you're thinking, I guess.
[01:41:51]  I don't know why you're calling either, but just don't yell at me.
[01:41:54]  You would just, yeah, call and say hi and chit-chat with us if you're bored or something.
[01:41:57]  866-304-4978.
[01:42:00]  Again, they didn't tell us to talk about this on the air.
[01:42:02]  I just figured we might as well have fun with it.
[01:42:04]  866-304-4978.
[01:42:06]  And that's 2 o'clock Eastern time today.
[01:42:07]  We'll probably do some next week as well.
[01:42:09]  We're going to crash the phone lines just like we crashed Joe's website.
[01:42:12]  There's an easy way to remember that phone number.
[01:42:13]  Of course, it spells out Kofifa.
[01:42:18]  866-304-4978.
[01:42:20]  I'll tweet out a link to it.
[01:42:21]  Let's go to the phone nines now.
[01:42:22]  Triple H727BECT in California.
[01:42:25]  Welcome to the program.
[01:42:26]  Hi there.
[01:42:27]  Hey, guys.
[01:42:28]  That was some of the funniest stuff I've heard on the channel.
[01:42:31]  You're welcome.
[01:42:32]  Thank you, sir.
[01:42:33]  But I just wanted to tell you that that is a blog, actually.
[01:42:37]  The real Joe Pisco website is if you Google it, and I was telling your screener, it's Joe Piscopo, and it has a slash, and it says official website, and it starts www.jopiscopo.com, PHP 56, and that's a legit website.
[01:42:52]  So all the way down.
[01:42:54]  It's easy to remember, too.
[01:42:56]  You can see it.
[01:42:58]  It's PHP and it's got 770 characters.
[01:43:01]  And you go all the way to the bottom and it actually says 2016 Joe Piscopo.
[01:43:05]  So he doesn't even own his own name on this then.
[01:43:08]  Somebody else grabbed it?
[01:43:10]  Yeah, the dot com.
[01:43:12]  I think they're sitting on it because that is not even close.
[01:43:14]  Because if you go all the way down, it says blog, alt contact.
[01:43:17]  And I clicked on the link, a contact, and I got the same message about the server.
[01:43:23]  And then I was like, there's an official website if you Google it.
[01:43:26]  And I think your screener logged on to that and it's actually pretty nice.
[01:43:30]  It's actually.
[01:43:30]  Yeah, we'll check it out.
[01:43:31]  I wonder then, this is fascinating me then.
[01:43:34]  So, somebody put in this much effort, that many words on a site for Joe Piscopo?
[01:43:40]  Yeah, I don't know.
[01:43:41]  Not only do that.
[01:43:44]  Actually, I did find the real website.
[01:43:45]  Did you find it now?
[01:43:46]  It's really nice.
[01:43:47]  Is it good?
[01:43:47]  Yeah.
[01:43:48]  It's almost the same when it comes to the tabs.
[01:43:51]  Wow.
[01:43:54]  It's fascinating.
[01:43:56]  Oh, my gosh.
[01:43:56]  T, thanks for the information.
[01:43:58]  This is really interesting stuff.
[01:44:00]  This is yeah, it looks great.
[01:44:03]  The same pictures being the same pictures and it's laid out a little bit different.
[01:44:06]  It's beautiful.
[01:44:07]  It's really a pretty website.
[01:44:08]  Oh, we definitely have to get to the bottom of this.
[01:44:10]  Okay, so maybe this faux Joe website.
[01:44:14]  Okay, so here's the thing.
[01:44:15]  Is it like the bane of his existence that he's like every day he's like, damn it, they have JoePiscopo.com.
[01:44:21]  And now we're like publicizing.
[01:44:22]  He's like, I hate these guys.
[01:44:24]  I hate them.
[01:44:25]  Okay, so this is the amount of, okay, fine.
[01:44:27]  This is fake.
[01:44:28]  Then why is it on his Twitter handle?
[01:44:30]  So is that Twitter fake also?
[01:44:32]  It's verified, though, isn't it?
[01:44:34]  No, it's not verified.
[01:44:35]  On the real website, you can get a chicken plucker for sale for that huge entertainment party.
[01:44:40]  Can you?
[01:44:40]  I don't know.
[01:44:41]  Oh, okay.
[01:44:41]  I was going to say.
[01:44:42]  So what is the purpose of this?
[01:44:44]  Are you deep in chicken pluckers?
[01:44:46]  And you put up this whole site to get people randomly to mistakenly go to joepiscopo.com and you the exclusive advertiser of chicken pluckers?
[01:44:54]  Bob Schmedley, the chicken plucker king of the world, has put up a website.
[01:44:59]  Right.
[01:45:00]  Do you see what I'm saying, though?
[01:45:00]  There's got to be a motivation.
[01:45:02]  Are you just screwing around?
[01:45:03]  Okay, if you're just loving Joe Piscopo, where you went out and bought JoePiscopo.com, nothing against Joe.
[01:45:08]  He's a lesser celebrity.
[01:45:10]  I mean, I'm far lesser than he is.
[01:45:11]  But, okay, so you liked him.
[01:45:13]  You remember him?
[01:45:13]  You bought his name.
[01:45:14]  So you throw up the website.
[01:45:15]  It takes time and effort.
[01:45:17]  Yeah.
[01:45:17]  And then even if it's formatted out, like your buddy said, where this stuff just gets dumped in.
[01:45:23]  Right.
[01:45:24]  What's the point?
[01:45:25]  They still had to put in all the information about the website, the station he works at, and all this stuff.
[01:45:30]  That's a lot of work for what's the return.
[01:45:34]  I mean, if you were selling Joe Piscopo mugs, I can see that.
[01:45:37]  Oh, my God.
[01:45:38]  We're going to intercept him and we're going to sell the most Piscopo.
[01:45:40]  You got to look and see if he's been married before.
[01:45:42]  Is he divorced and remarried or something?
[01:45:44]  Is this an ex-wife thing?
[01:45:45]  Oh, yes.
[01:45:46]  Yes.
[01:45:47]  On his thing, it said he was divorced.
[01:45:49]  Oh, he's on his second marriage right now.
[01:45:51]  I wonder if it's the ex-wife or somebody that disliked him, disgruntled employee where you're like, I'm going to own JoePiscopo.com.
[01:45:59]  Okay, we've got a reply back from Joe Piscopo's Twitter.
[01:46:03]  What Chris is trying to say is we got a reply from Joe Piscopo.
[01:46:06]  Thank you for interpreting it.
[01:46:07]  And he goes, haha.
[01:46:11]  What?
[01:46:12]  Ha ha.
[01:46:13]  That's the reply.
[01:46:13]  What do you mean?
[01:46:14]  I don't know.
[01:46:15]  Are we being trolled?
[01:46:16]  Okay, I think somebody's getting us on this thing.
[01:46:18]  All right, more on this tomorrow morning on the Blaze Radio Network.
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[01:46:30]  Okay.
[01:46:31]  I don't know what to say after that, this has all been very, very odd.
[01:46:34]  At least I'm not Al Franken.
[01:46:36]  That's his.
[01:46:37]  That's the best campaign slogan.
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