The Glenn Beck Program - 1/17/18 - 'Upgrade Your Mind' (William Hertling & Robert Harris join Glenn)

Episode Date: January 17, 2018

Hour 1 Way to go, Kentucky?...New requirements to qualify for Medicaid: 20 work hours/week… ‘work’ can mean volunteering or caring for the elderly ...President Trump is in top-notch health…McDonald’s diet, no effects?...Media denial...Passes physical and much more?...eating sticks of butter...Glenn's New Diet Hero? ...Calling Doctor Stu...it's cognitive test time? …Glenn is taking the mental health test, too… ‘is there a Twenty-Fifth Amendment for the show?’   Hour 2  ‘Oh, no, there goes Tokyo?’...False missile alarms in Japan…Hawaii, now this?...maybe Groot was in charge of the button…what if something actually happens??...Upgrading our minds? Continuing our conversation with author and futurist William Hertling... ‘add-on’ technology…will there be pressure to become ‘augmented’ humans? ...Liberal Democrats vs. Progressive Democrats?...Did you see the Cory Booker show yesterday? ...California just declared its independence?... ‘I support you’    Hour 3 FEMA fails, again!?...we DID help Puerto Rico…electricity trapped in a warehouse? ...Bestselling author Robert Harris joins the show to discuss his latest book, ‘Munich: A Novel’…Glenn has long been a fan...Neville Chamberlain vs. Adolf Hitler... ‘a tough old bird’… What if Britain hadn’t signed the Munich Agreement?...Technological 'doomsday' and a war like nothing we've ever seen ...Now it's Pat’s turn to take the test? ...Glenn can remember three words … and only three words, apparently The Glenn Beck Program with Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere, Weekdays 9am–12pm ET on TheBlaze Radio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network. On demand. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck. Well, to receive Medicaid now in Kentucky, if you're able, you're going to have to work for it. Oh, my gosh.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I'm not sick enough. I mean, I can work. And they're forcing me to work. For Medicaid? Yes. Kentucky now is the first state to require that all able-bodied,

able-bodied Medicaid recipients are going to have to work to keep their benefits. Opponents of helping people help themselves are getting ready to sue now. The Republican Governor Matt Bevin received federal permission last week to implement the work requirement. Now, other states have tried this before. you know, they tried to get permission from the Obama administration were denied. So the cruel, heartless Republicans are at it again. So what does it entail? Well, starting this July, if you're not disabled,

if you're able to work, you have to work a minimum of 20 hours to receive Medicaid coverage. The work requirement is broad. It could be volunteer work. It could be job training. It could be taking classes, caring for the disabled, even searching for a job. There are also exemptions for the requirement. People with medical conditions, full-time students, etc., etc. Governor Bevan said that of the 350 Kentuckians that are receiving Medicaid,

they're already working. People will also have to earn dental and vision benefits through things like working toward a GED or taking a financial planning course. Oh my gosh. What? You have to better yourself in some way or another? You have to volunteer your time and help other people just so you can get free help? What kind of monsters are we? It will soon become the standard.

and the norm in the United States of America, said Governor Bevan, and America will be better for it. Amen. Critics are already pouncing, saying this plan will seriously harm people and that it violates Medicaid law. So what? They would prefer people stay unemployed and on government assistance? You'd prefer people to not have a reason to live? I mean, if you were so sick, you can't work. I get it.

And we're here for you. but if you can work yeah I'm sorry get your ass up and volunteer at least another politician had something to say about that we must make national principle

that we will not tolerate a large army of unemployed that we will arrange our national economy to end our present unemployment as soon as we can and then take the wise measures against its return. I do not want to think

that this is the destiny of America to remain permanently on relief rolls. Jeez. What a jerk. That was Reagan one. Was that Trump or Reagan? Oh, no.

It was FDR, the hero of the left. Apparently not even the godfather of American nanny state himself wanted people to be permanently on government relief. Look how far we have fallen. Why do Americans seem to value the best ideas in all areas of life except for the government?

Maybe because in politics we're too concerned with who gets the credit. And who has control? Matt Bevan, Kentucky, good for you. We'll be seeing and watching this experiment to see if it works. It's Wednesday, January 17th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. So the president had a series of tests done on him yesterday. And his doctor said he is as strong as an ox.

Now, this is not the crazy. Remember that doctor they had on that was like, I think you're a movie doctor. You're like a doctor, what's his face from back to the future. I would like a real doctor, please. Oh yeah, this is during the campaign, you mean? And they were like, yeah, he's super mega healthy. Like, yeah, mega? Did you use the word mega as a physician? It was that type of thing?

Yeah, I just, I mean, I know you were in Columbia, but he just looked crazy. So, uh, and then they talked to him and he didn't like really examine him and he, and he, he was using strange words. He was using Trump words. It looked like Trump gave him the script to write. Yeah. And no one I don't think really believed he wasn't healthy. but there was speculation in the media for sure that I wanted the doctor question not because I didn't think Trump was healthy I just thought he was nuts so yesterday the president's results his test results were released to the press and first let's talk about his physical health here's what his doctor said

explain to me how a guy who eats McDonald's and get certified chicks and all those diet cokes and who never exercises is in as good a shape as you say he's in. It's called genetics. I don't know. Some people have just great genes. I told the president that if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years he might live to be 200 years old. I don't know. I mean, he has incredible genes, I just assume.

I mean, you know, if I didn't watch what I ate, I wouldn't have the cardiac and overall health that he has. So he is in good physical health, and you got to believe that Donald Trump loves the gene talk. Oh, yeah, this is his game, yeah. He's big on that. Yeah, he's big on the racehorse theory that, you know, hey, we breed race horses, you know, kind of a 1910, you know,

progressive eugenics kind of thing. He is all in, and so is the whole family. I love the, you can the, how can a guy eat, McDonald's and be healthy. You can be, you can actually, it's, you know what? Almost everyone in America eats McDonald's at times. You can be healthy. You can, it's funny, the same people that are like, well, yes, I put butter in my coffee,

but how can this man eat McDonald's? Well, of course, nine stacks of avocado toast are completely fine, along with coconut butter, but how dare he have a piece of chicken? And who doesn't understand the genetics thing? That there are people that can smoke, drink, and eat sticks of butter. and live to 120. Is it a good idea? No.

Does it hurt your percentage chance to live longer? Yes, that does not mean that eating these things, especially if you eat them without a ridiculous amount, that doesn't mean that you're going to be unhealthy at all. And then the diet, they have to throw the... How can he have all these Diet Coke? I don't know. Maybe him eating zero-calorie beverages is the reason he can have McDonald's.

Is that possible? Brainiac? I hate that stuff. But he did pass the test and did pretty well. I think you could look at him and say, wow, you know, he, I would hope I would be impressed by his. I would hope that I would be as healthy as he is. Yeah. When I'm his age.

Or now. Or now. I would take it now. I'd take it five years ago. You're retroactively trying to match a 73-year-old's health. That's good. I don't have the genetic predisposition to long life. That's not good.

No. The other thing was, by the way, we also found out today, apparently, Sanjay Gupta, who is a, you know, you might think of him as a TV doctor, but they wanted him to be, you know, a high role in, I can't remember, was it attorney general. No, it was, no, it was a surgeon general. Yeah, I think it was surgeon general. For the Obama administration, he was their first choice and he didn't want to turn it down. Apparently he was saying, if you look at the numbers, the guys got heart disease.

I just like, wait a minute, this doctor didn't say he. had heart disease, but Sanjay, looking at the numbers, has been able to take the code and suck out heart disease from these numbers, apparently. So we'll get more on that as that develops. How old is he? 72, 72, 73, something like. I mean, if you're 73, you know, and you're living like Donald Trump, you know, I think you kind of be, you're kind of like, you know, a little heart disease is bad for me. I think, yeah. I mean, I'm 70, 73, 75 years old. I'm, I'm 30, 75 years old. I'm thinking, oh, I've only got a little heart disease. That's pretty good.

Exactly. I mean, you think the guy has been able to do whatever he wants for how many years. He owns a lot of the best restaurants in America. I mean, he never exercises. Doesn't exercise? He's my hero. He never exercises. He eats whatever he wants.

And he's four pounds heavier than he was a year ago. Yeah. God bless him. Especially going into that job. I mean, I would put on 60 in a week. We would have to have suit makers on constant standby. At some point, you just start building them with like release flaps. Oh, yeah.

Or you can just expand the sides. Staple the sides together because you're going to need the extra material later. Make it for someone who weighs 600 and I'll grow into it. I promise. But the other big thing about this was people wanted him to take a cognitive test. Yes. And, you know, it's a test his brain. Because everyone thinks in the media, apparently, that he just is mentally unfit to be president. Now, mentally unfit to be president is completely different than I don't like his policies. I don't like his character. I don't like his demeanor. Like, those are all things that the media obviously doesn't like, but it's completely different than whether he is mentally capable of thinking, you know, thinking in a normal human way. I think that. I think that. are times that he's mentally lazy intentionally. He just hasn't thought things through. He just hasn't. It's just, you know, I think he has changed from the personality that if you go back and

look at the videotapes in the 1980s and 90s, but I don't think that's a, I don't think that's a decline in his mental health. I think that's just a, you know, I just, I haven't thought about it in a while and I'm, you know, I'm 73 years old. Right. I'm a little lazy on that. But that's, none of that stuff would be, you would be able to detect in a mental test. So he took a mental test for the first time ever, apparently. No president has ever had to take one of these tests before. And it wasn't because the doctor was like, well, I don't, I'm, I'm unsure of this guy. Apparently, Trump wanted it done so he could prove that he was okay. Well, we have people around you going, I don't know, the 25th Amendment, we could get him out of here. I'm taking a mental test. Yeah. Why not? Let's prove that, you know, and that's obviously a ridiculous media narrative, right?

You know, the idea that he is incapable of thinking like a normal human being is completely absurd, right? We do have the test or an example of the test. Yeah. So we thought because, you know, when you're given a mental test, I don't know, the president passed it. Could you pass it? We'll give you the mental test they gave the president in a minute. So I don't know if you saw this a couple of weeks ago, but researchers found kind of a big flaw in security. with just chips that say Intel on them.

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And we were afraid that maybe I was going into early Alzheimer's or something. And so I had these tests. And they're kind of spooky in a way. I mean, they're tough. And, you know, Stu won't let me see the paper now. So I'm a little nervous about. Call me doctor, please. Well, no, I'm the doctor.

Call me Dr. Stu for today. Okay. Dr. Stu. Because you're right. I won't let you see it in advance. Obviously, that would not give us the results we're looking for. I will say this. Looking at this test, it is not a test of, let's do a deep dive and search to see if there's

anything wrong with your thought process. It's more of a test that you would give someone if you highly suspect they have dementia or they just had a stroke and you want to be able to check whether they're able to complete basic human thought, right? Like this, it's not a, it's not a type of test that, you know, you're going to read into and be like, oh my gosh, you know, it doesn't say. Do you have the whole test? Because the whole test, at least the one I took, took at least an hour.

Yeah, this is one page. We can do it quickly. Okay. It's a basic test, though. Like, if some, if, you know, your uncle has a stroke, they're at the hospital. Is there major problems with his, with his brain? All right, okay. Here's a cognitive test.

You go through quickly. This shows you can do basic processes. Okay. You want to start here? do you have a pen over there? Yeah, yes, I do. start with the first part. The first part is there's three visual tests that

won't work particularly well on radio, but we'll explain them. There is a bunch of numbers and letters for the test, for the first test. And it gives you the beginning of a path. For example, the number one, there's a line drawn to A. Then there's a line drawn to two.

You have to complete the pattern. And then a line drawn to B. That's a good, yeah. Why don't I just give you the answers? Oh, okay. One two. Okay, so he's going now to B. then B would go to three and then that would go to C three to C and then it would go to four and then it would go to D and then it would go to five

and then we go to E. Okay let me see this is not a real the next one it is this is the test is a Montreal cognitive test okay now there's another one that it says for Glenn to draw copy a box I'm sorry but this is this is not this is not an invasive test

what it is is the Montreal cognitive assessment, which is the exact thing he took. And don't, I mean, you can rush through all you want. I don't know if you're trying to prove something here. No, it's just easy. Okay, Glenn, it's easy for Glenn. Okay. Now we have his, so there's three tests here, and we're going to, we'll be posting the results

here online. How much time do we have, Sarah? Should we go through the next couple of questions? Okay. Did I get those right, doctor? I will grade you at the end. Okay, all right. Thank you for calling me doctor.

the next thing. I want you to look at these pictures. I will tell you that I just, I didn't even read the directions. They're so easy. If I have any wrong, it's because I didn't read the directions. Wow. President Trump was able to actually read the directions. I know. Well, okay, I'll read the directions. Okay, I'm going to show you a picture. I would like you to tell me what that picture is. Okay. What is that? That's a lion. A lion is the, is the answer. We can get that to my physician's assistant. The first agent was a lion. Next one. What is the, I'm showing you a picture. What is this picture? That is a rhino. A Rhino.

Rino. And finally, I'm showing you this picture. That is a zebra, a camel. A camel. This is, I trust me, this is not. Okay, lion, so writing down your answers. Rhino. Yeah.

And a camel. Okay, next up, are you ready? I'm ready. I am going to read a list of words. Oh, boy. You must repeat them. Okay. Do I have to wait for a while?

and then repeat them or I just repeat the word you just said. You're going to, I'm going to read all five words. You're going to repeat them in that order. All right. Are you ready? Okay, yes. Face, velvet, church, daisy, red. Faith, velvet, uh, daisy, church.

I'm bad at these. Okay, we're going to try it one more time. Here is the five words. Repeat them in this order. Face. Velvet. Church. Daisy.

Red. Face. Velvet. Daisy. A church. Daisy. I can't remember. Okay.

Premier is listening. We're going to need a new host. We're going to need a new host. I am, this is, I mean, I was, I've gone through more difficult test than this. I have a, I have a difficult time with some of them. I have a difficult time with some of them. I have a difficult time with some of them. We are learning things so far.

We've learned many things. In my studies of your test so far, I've learned many things. When you see the lion is actually a chicken, you'll see how troubled, how troubled we really are. Back in just a second. Glenn Beck, Mercury. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. I'm under a great deal of stress now. Welcome to the Dr. Stu program, 1-800 DRIS to you.

That's not enough number. We're giving Glenn the cognitive test that the president passed with flying colors yesterday. Yeah. And we're learning some interesting things as we go through this. Well, now he said, telling me that like there's certain grades for like how well the clock is drawn and stuff. I just made a clock face quickly and just. Okay. Here's a picture of a more detailed clock.

Here's a grandfather clock. Does that help? There's a, there's an interesting section in the instructions about people who make excuses for their incorrect answers that we can get into a little bit later. All right, okay. We are now in the next section. Next section. And here is the distance.

By the way, the president passed this with flying colors. I'm still in jeopardy here. We're going to read you a list of digits. Digits. You need to repeat them in forward order. Okay. Two. Wait, what do you mean in forward order?

The way you just gave it. In a way, I'm going to give them to you. All right. Two. Two. No. When I'm done with all five of them. Okay.

Okay. You will then repeat the five. Are you ready? Yeah. Two. Somebody write these down. Two. No, no, you can't write them down.

You need to just say. All right, go ahead. Two. I'm sorry. Go ahead. I got the first. I am about to subtract some points. All right.

Okay. Listen to the five numbers. Yes. Two. One, eight, five, four. Two, one, eight, five, four. But I would like to say that it is, it is, uh, 5-2-1-8-5-4.

Because you said five several times before. I did say that you said five. I said two many times because you kept interrupting me. And two, two, two, two, two. Five-five-five. It's actually five-two, five-two, five-two. Sir, we can remove you from office if you want to be silly. Okay, go ahead.

There's a silliness clause in this test. All right, okay. I would like you to repeat these numbers in backward order. In backward. Put your pen down, sir. All right. I'm just finishing the clock face. Put your pen.

down. You've already failed the clock. Well, we'll see how you did on the clock. All right. Repeat these in backward order. Backward order. Seven. Sorry. Seven. Four, two. There are three numbers I just gave you. Two, four, seven. That is correct. We'll be getting the full test results here in just a moment. Yeah. See, this is not like a real test. Is this really the one they gave the president? This is the Montreal cognitive assessment. And yes, this is a test. I will tell you I've had this before. And here's how they usually go. I'm going to give you five numbers. Okay. Let me give them to you here, Stu. Let's see if I can do this with you. He is stalling to get out of it.

No, no, no. I'm getting that from my physician assistant here in the other room. 7.14, 21, 8, 3. Sam. Wait, what? You didn't tell me what we were doing. I'm saying, I'm going to give you five numbers. You repeat the back.

Okay. 7.14.21.8.3. 714.21.8. Okay. Well, that's easy because of the multiple. Anyway. So you say the test designer has a problem? That's the issue here? He's a little insane.

Okay. Hang on. I'm going to give you some more. Are you trying to delay so we don't get to the end of the test? No, no, no. Five numbers. Ready? Five three, 1749.

Five three, 1749. Give me the first five numbers that I gave you. 714-21, 8, 3. Okay. So the real tests, they keep doing this. They just keep adding five numbers and they'll give you five numbers, five numbers, five numbers, five numbers. What were the first five numbers? And you're like, oh, impossible.

I don't know. What? And again, that is an interesting distinction here between the test. The one you're talking about is let's do an incredibly deep dive to see if we can find any hint of anything that's at the very beginning stages. What this is is you just had a massive stroke. Can you do the basics? So this is. That's what the president passed.

Like you just, you just. you just in this test they had the president draw a three dimensional box okay in the test that I have seen they'll show you something like this where you're seeing like a rectangle circle square like a little antenna thing coming off the end and then it comes up and it juts out and and they don't make any sense and you and they show it to you for like five or ten seconds say remember this they put it away now draw it right and you have much more challenge I mean because it's very intricate and there's no rhyme or reason to why it's built that way. And Sarah, you would say this is a delay to try to get to take into the NOS.

Absolutely. Okay, thank you. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Now, here's,

okay, there you go. Now I'm going to read a list of letters. Please say stop clapping. Please stop clapping your hands. Now, every time I say the letter A, I would like you to clap. Okay. Okay.

That had an A in it. No. I'm going to give you a list of. of letters when I say the letter A. Got it. You should clap, ready? F, B, A, C, M, N, A, A, A, J, K, K,

Now these, I mean, is this the letter or? Yeah. F. Because they sound like. Yeah. D. D. E.

E. A. A. A. A. J. A. A.

M. This is harder than you thought. All right. Okay. All right. Well, because the K and the J, you know, if it's not the letter, it does have J. A. Y. So it has an A in it, I'm just saying.

Now the next question, you specifically warn me not to give you any math question. Yeah, I'm bad at that. You can ask the doctor. You can't say anything but blood tests. I didn't ask the, yeah, I didn't ask the doctor to not. I'm going to give you a number. A number. I would like you to subtract seven from that number.

Seven. Okay. 14. I haven't started yet. All right. Okay. The number is 21. No, I haven't started yet.

So you can't. Seven? No. Seven of six, five, four. I think we lock you off after this. Okay, go ahead. Okay, here we go. 100.

100. Subtract seven. 93. Subtract seven from that. It would be 93, 93, 92, 91. You can use your fingers. Can you really? It doesn't say you can't.

Oh, 93. 92, 91. 90. 98. No, that wouldn't be right. 89. See, 88. The best thing is,

now this isn't in the... 87, which would be wrong. See, in the test materials, there's no point where it recommends the doctor harassed the patient to try to pressure him into incorrect answers, but that is what I'm doing. 71.

Okay, none of that's right. All right, I'm going to say, I'm putting... We're going to move on. Repeat the sentence. 12. I only know that John is the one to help today. I only know that John is the one to help today. I only know that John.

is the one to help today, but the trick is, repeat this sentence, because that's what you just said. So it's a trick question. Oh, okay. Here's another one I'm going to give you, and I'd like you to repeat it. Here it goes. The cat always hid under the couch when dogs were in the room. Here goes. The cat always hid under the couch when dogs were in the room.

Okay. let's see 29 I don't even understand that question okay let me ask you this one we're looking for a similarity here for example but a banana and an orange

a similarity would be they are both round fruit yes okay yeah okay color similarities between trains and bicycles both have wheels

of course obviously not The trains have wheels. Bikes have wheels. I'm not here to judge you, sir, except for what I'm... Both are made out of metal. Okay. Watch and a ruler. Watch and a ruler.

What's a similarity there? Try to think of something that isn't, that just doesn't work. They both have numbers. They're both measurement. Don't try to justify what you're, They're both round. Okay. Now, I earlier on gave you five words.

Oh, you... You're not going to get one of these, are you? It is that. It is in here. Yeah, it was face, velvet. All I can think of is cake, and I know that's not a word, but it's got velvet in it, so I think it automatically of cake. A face, a velvet.

I don't remember. Okay. And all right. And then what, well, I'm not going to give you the date month year, all that stuff. Yeah. You know where you are. Date. Do not ask me that.

I really don't know the date. I don't know it either. I don't know the date. The 18th. It's Wednesday, January 17th. Thank you. That's why we have it at the beginning of every show. Okay.

It's Wednesday, January 17th. What year? 2018. What's today? Wouldn't it be great Wednesday? Wouldn't it be great if it was, if one of the real legitimate question is who's president? And you'd be, you'd be like, me? I just, I looked in the mirror.

What place are you in? Chair, studio, Los Cleannis, Texas, Earth. Okay, city. You got that. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. Yes, that's true. Thank you, sir. Okay, got it.

Okay, so I, we will take a break and I will go through and, and grade this for you? Could you kick me off the show? Is there the 25th Amendment that you could just kick me right off the... This has been a giant ruse to make you take this test and see if you are a mentally fit to do this program. I will tell you that is, with an exception of one of the last questions of, oh, and what were those five words? That was not... Not hard, right?

Yeah, not hard. Not hard. You know... I mean, you could easily screw one of them up. You could easily have a problem here or there. Now, Trump did very well on it. But again, he also knew if he got anything wrong, it would be a major news story. So he may be focused a little bit more than you. However, we can make it a major news story too.

No, I don't think so. I mean, I think, you know, I think somebody questioning your mental agility is, you know, if you're taking it seriously, that's a lot of pressure. Okay, well, we'll hold you the same standards then. I was going to give you a break, but we'll be having to hold you to the same standard. No, we don't need to... I think that's fair. No, I don't.

I'm going to go through just a little grading here and you do the commercial. If you can get through it. Face. Velvet cake. Orange. Trapdoor. Is this the commercial or are you... I'm just trying to remember what those words were.

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Glenn Beck. Okay. Dr. Stu Program, 1-800, DR-S-T-U. you're not a doctor and there's not enough numbers in that. But you're giving you're, you've given me the test that the president received, which is a fairly simple test. Fairly simple.

Fairly simple test. Difficult to do in pressure, maybe in front of a national audience, but no, no, I was, I thought I was pretty good. Okay. I thought I was pretty good.

So here's your grading. Yeah, okay. Their first, you had three drawing questions. Your first one was drawing from letters to numbers. You executed that properly, with the exception of some of your lines were sloppy, but I did not take any points away from that. Oh, well, thank you.

one point there. Copy the, cube. Here's what you can do. When one point is allocated for correctly executed drawing. Drawing must be three dimensional. Check, you're right. No line is added, correct. All lines are drawn.

Oh, no. You left out one of the back lines, making you lose that point. Drawing a clock. There are three categories for the points you get there. One is contour. Is it a circle? I got to be news. I got a lot of... I was very friendly to you and it gave

you, okay, it will kind of look like a circle. really more oval, but I'll give you that one. Numbers, here's the category. It says all clock numbers must be present with no additional numbers. I thought this was about what time was it, not the clock. You only wrote two numbers, and they are not even close to the right numbers in the right places. So I did not give you that. Right.

Next up, hands. Yeah. The hour hand must clearly be shorter than the minute hand. And as you see on your paper, you know, it's not. You wrote them the exact same length. So again, you do not get that point. Because you know. I gave you two and a half points on that.

Somehow, you're lucky. Because I gave you a half point for the contour, which was not a circle. This is a circle. Next up, you said, this was a lion. You are correct. It is a lion. Right here.

Next up, you said it was a rhino. Actually, it is a rhinoceros. Oh. So I gave you two and a half points because you got camel right as well. Cake. Cake. Velvet cake.

Yes. Now, the first time I asked you the questions to repeat the words. you did not need to get them right, because it was all about the recall one. Then I gave you the digits. You got two out of two there. I gave you the letters. You got one out of one there.

The subtraction, you got one point. Somehow they gave you a point for your first weird answer, and then you just thought it would be funny. And you know what? People who think they're funny. No, I'm telling you, I will have that answer for you in about 10 minutes. Going through the whole, you got two points at the very end for your face and velvet, which I was actually impressed by.

Your final score, my admittedly very difficult grading. system gave you a 20.5 on the scale of 1 to 30. The president scored a 30 and said here's the last line of this says to be normal. You just need to get a 26. So you should be fine. Glenn, back. Mercury. Truth. Last weekend, Hawaii, yesterday, Japan. Flash message rang across all cell phones yesterday in Japan. NHK News Alert. North Korea. likely to have launched a missile. The government J alert, which is Japanese version of EAS, evacuate inside, building or underground. Okay.

Can you imagine living with those things and not knowing if they're real or not? It took the state of Hawaii almost 40 minutes to issue the false alarm. It took the Japanese five minutes, but that makes two nuclear weapon false alarms within the Pacific Theater. in just a matter of days. So what's, what's going on? Well, we happen to have some audio

of what we think the problem was in Japan. Listen. Don't push this button. Because that will set off the bomb immediately and we'll all be dead. Now, repeat back what I just said. I'm good.

Uh-huh. I'm good. That's right. I'm good. No! Now, that's the button that will kill everyone. So that's what we think. think happen, we're really not sure.

A little tip for the Japanese, baby Groot, probably not the best employee to have pushing the emergency alert buttons. After seeing the computer interface in the Hawaiian system, you know, it's not surprising that this mistake happened. I mean, it looks, honestly, it looks like an old Apple II computer. It does. And Hawaii, 1981 called, they want their technology back. But what happened in Japan?

What caused that false alarm? They don't know. The Japanese government hasn't stated yet. They say they don't know yet. If they do, they aren't telling anyone. Here's what bothers me. We really need to get a full and detailed explanation from both incidents because speculation is running wild,

and you can't blame people for filling in holes when information is scarce, especially at a time when nuclear war seems more likely now than it has been since the Cold War. But it's not the people and panic that I worry about. It is, if these continue to happen, will you believe them when they are real, God forbid? Also, the next war is going to be fought with ones and zeros, not bombs. Are we being hacked? The latest fake alert came simultaneously as Japan, along with 19 other countries, were meeting in Canada to talk about. wait for it escalating the pressure on North Korea over its nuclear program now I don't

know whether it's faulty out-of-date technology if you know if if somebody just had butterfingers like they did in Hawaii or if Kim Jong-un has weaponized baby Groot I don't know but there's a problem here nuclear weapons are no longer the modern day for a strike cyber warfare is This is hopefully not what has caused these false alarms, but we all have, we should all have that creeping thought about how these things are now all too possible in this day and age. Science fiction becomes reality between now and the next 10 years.

We better stay ahead of the curve because a brave new world approaches. It's Wednesday, January 17th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. we had we had William Hurtling on yesterday and I wanted to have him back on today to kind of finish the conversation he's written a series of four books

called the Singularity series he also has his latest book The Kill Process but but the four in the in the series of the singularity is a really good explanation and a good view

in an entertaining way to get a handle on the kinds of things that we are going to be facing. Yesterday, we were just talking about the technology that is on the very near horizon in the next few years and how that could affect us all the way from, you know, self-driving cars to personal assistance that know you really well. Today, we want to look into what's just around the corner in maybe 15 years. We're closer to what we're going to talk about today.

than we are to September 11th. We are closer to things that we only thought were science fiction than we were to the things that we grew up with just in the last 20 years. So William, Hurtleaning is joining us again. Hello, William. How are you, sir? I'm great. Thanks for having me back. Good. yesterday we started talking about what's coming 20 2030 25 and that is the the merging of man and machine

and the upgrade of the human mind and the connection to the to the web can you kind of go into that and what and how real this is sure so we were talking about neural implants and you know, I know you've talked, you've had Ray Kurtzweil on a lot. He likes to talk about the exponential trends in technology. Yeah. And I do the same thing. I have these spreadsheets that I look at technology. I look at various attributes.

How fast is my connection to the internet? How fast is my processor? How much storage do I have? How big is my computer? And when you look at these trends, one of the things that you see is that computers are getting very, very small indeed. And that means that we're on the horizon of the technology, everything that would fit in a computer is fitting inside your brain

and having the kind of direct neural connections that would allow it to be fully integrated with your brain. And there's research happening today to do this, to work with people who are paralyzed, who have no motor control because they've lost the connection between the brain and their body. so that's being restored. So there's some great medical benefits that are driving this kind of research,

as well as just the need for our ability to get information in and out of our head or our ability to augment our intellect. So let me go a couple of places with you. I have read that we are just a couple of years away from making the neural connection to like a bionic arm. So you're much more like the $6 million man, if you will, if you were my age and remember that, that you control it exactly the way you control your hand now.

Are we that close to that? We are. I mean, a great example is the cochlear implant, which is to correct deafness in people who have a defective portion of the hearing system. I don't understand exactly which part, but this is an implant that connects into the auditory nerves. that replaces the function of the ear. And what happens when they implant one of these is when it's first turned on,

people don't really hear anything. And then over a matter of days, their brain starts to integrate the signals from this implant, and their hearing gets better and better, and then it becomes crisp, and then it becomes maybe not back 100% to normal, but good enough for day-to-day life. and it's just an example of how adaptable the brain is to be able to interface with these external tools. So I know there's a guy who's a scientist now and a guy who makes prosthetic limbs. He was a mountain climber and fell, didn't have use of his legs anymore, had his legs removed, in fact, and was told, you know, you'll never do anything again.

He went back to school and decided, yeah, I'm going to walk again. And he went to MIT. And he started studying. And he started to make his own artificial legs. He is now a better mountain climber than he was before because of these artificial legs. We're getting to a point to where in the maybe, perhaps in the next 10 years, your artificial limb will be so much better than you. your actual limb that we'll have to decide whether doctors can remove a perfectly good limb to replace it. Do you believe that? I have a little bit of a hard time imagining whether or not

will remove perfectly good limbs, but I can certainly imagine that we're going to add on technology where it doesn't require moving anything, right? So if I could get an implant and I could be smarter or happier than I am today, I'm almost certainly going to do it, right? I'm not going to give anything up. And that leads a very interesting sort of reaction because what happens when you want to send your kids to school and all of the other kids have neural implants? They're all smarter. And now your kid, if you, you know, have an objection to this technology, your kid's behind everybody else. So is anybody going to do that? What if you're looking for a job and you want to going to the workplace and everyone else has a neural implant, so they're smarter.

You know, is there pressure now for you to get a neural implant? So that's a really interesting place to me. So I asked Ray Kurzweil that question, and he said, no, everybody will get one because they'll be cheap. And I said, but what about people who don't want to get one? And he looked at me almost confused and said, why wouldn't you want one? And I said, well, because there will be people who say, I want to be natural. I want to be, I want to be authentic.

I don't want to be connected to all of that all of the time. And he really didn't see that happening, which was odd, I thought. And he said, well, it won't cause a problem anyway. And if you really think this through over time, if augmenting the human brain is really effective, you will not be able to function in society. as non-augmented. And I don't see how not being augmented at some point doesn't become child abuse.

You know, doesn't, you know, people would do not want you driving on the road when there's a bunch of self-driving cars because you're a danger. In a society where the natural person can't understand what everybody's talking about, don't you become a danger? Don't you have to be limited? Sure. One of the great things, right, though, is society is pretty large. We don't all have to participate in exactly the same society. So even today, you may see some people who are going to make intentional choices

about not having certain technology, not participating in a consumer or materialistic society. I think we're going to have to, we'll see even more of us. We're going to see the growing divide between people who opt in to all the latest and greatest technology can do, bringing us a long time. So what people call sort of the postmodern era, sorry, the post-human era, right? Or people who want to maintain that natural state. When people say that the end of humans could be 50, 70 years away, I read that two ways. Well, first I read it as, well, because homo sapiens won't exactly be homo sapiens once we start upgrading.

then you're something else. You're not a pure homo sapien. But after reading your book, I'm afraid that, you know, they actually mean that, that humans will not exist in 50, 70, 100 years. Where do you stand on that? I think there's a pretty good chance

that we will either not exist or will be so changed that we, can't imagine that from where we are today. I mean, I was having a conversation with my kids just two nights ago. They're all of an age where they don't remember the pre-smart phone error and how we spent our time and they just can't picture it. And so what they imagine is everyone's just always got their head buried in a phone. That's just what people do.

That's how it has always been, right? And they can't remember that difference. as we move forward, as people are augmenting as they're upgrading their minds, which I'm sure is going to have all kinds of amazing benefits, right? It's like every other piece of technology. It's going to be amazing. The temptation is going to be so strong. And yet we really, from where we stand today, we can't imagine what that new world is going to look like.

Have you made a decision whether you would upgrade? Well, you know, I'm one of these people. I see both the pros and cons. Yeah. I think I would go down that path. I think it will be an interesting adventure. And yet at the same point in time, you know, I know that there will be things that we give up as a result. I want to take you next to the basic question of what is life?

Because I think that is one of the main things that we're going to have to answer with robotics. Is that life the moment they say, I'm alive, I can think. I'm self-aware. Is that life? Is that not life? We're going to download, we're going to map your brain, and we're going to download you and put you into a machine because your body is beyond repair. And, you know, so you'll live on forever. Is that really life? We get to that next.

William Hurtling is the author of several books on technology. And the series of the Singularity series is the one that Glenn started with. The latest book is called Kill Process, which is a separate storyline. William Hertling.com is where you can find it or at H-E-R-T-L-I-N-G at Hurtling on Twitter. Highly recommend the series. Just get it at Amazon, the Singularity Series. When it comes to your mortgage, buying or refinancing, you need people that take away stress, not add more. And that's why there's American financing.

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The Avagodro Corp is the first one, AI Apocalypse, the last firewall, and the Turing exception. They are really good, take place over the next 40 years and kind of show you the things that we are facing in a novel form. And it's really exciting and really enjoying. And you will really learn a lot. Without giving away anything in the end, let me give away the end of the last book. you have people digitizing themselves and and going out into space because the world has been lost to technology and and to AI. Is that how do we deal with the idea of that's not life? That is life.

How do we deal with that with computers and and with robots? because I think that's the first place we're going to see it. Yeah, obviously we're going to have robots or AI. They're going to talk to us, and they're going to say, hey, I'm alive. Don't turn me off. Right. Now, if your computer said that to you today, you would know that that's not real. But they're going to keep saying it, and the AI is going to keep getting smarter.

and one day there's going to be an AI that's going to really seem like it is alive. And then we really have to think about two things, which is what does it mean? What is our relationship to this other thing, right? Is it something we own? Is it our servant? Is it a person? Is it a friend? What does it mean for them to be turned on or off?

But what does it also mean for us? So an example that I actually got from Daniel H. Wilson, the author of Robopocalypse, an example he likes to give. So imagine that you're out, you're with your kid, and you get really frustrated at your car, and you kicked the car because you were frustrated that it wouldn't start or something. And your child saw that. Now, they might think it's a little bit odd,

but they're probably not going to be too traumatized by you doing that because you're dealing with an inanimate object. Now, on the other hand, imagine someone gets frustrated with the family dog and they kick the family dog. That's going to be a whole lot more traumatizing for that kid to witness, right? Because we empathize with them. So what does it mean if you have an AI? That appears to be alive, right? Your kids are going to think it's alive. I mean, think about how kids interact with technology today.

It is. Right? They're going to believe it. And so how trauma inducing is it to them to think about, like, turning off their AI friends or their robotic dog reaches the end of its life and we throw it away. Everything is about to change, and I can't recommend highly enough. Read the Singularity Series by William Hurtling. It's available Amazon. The Singularity Series started today.

It's a great read. Beck, Mercury. This is the Glenn Beck program. The founders of the new group, New California, took an early step towards statehood on Monday after reading their own Declaration of Independence from California. They say California has become ungovernable. And they said, what we'd like to do is take most of the current-day California, including the rural counties,

and leave all the coast and the urban areas to, you know, California, California. They said the current state of California has been governed by a tyranny. After years of overtaxation, regulation, and monoparty politics, the state of California and many of its 58 counties have become ungovernable, citing a decline in essential basic services, including education, law enforcement, infrastructure, and health care. The group says they hope to model their split over what happened in Virginia, becoming the state of West Virginia. The authority comes in Article 4, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, and New California wants to be the 51st state.

I will tell you that I don't have a problem with this. I worry that we are dividing ourselves into groups where we just don't need, we don't even understand each other. So we're becoming balkanized. But, you know, I, I just don't understand, you know, there's people that want to, you know, they want the socialism and everything else. Good. I'm fine with that.

I'm fine with that. Leave me alone. You know, you want to have your socialistic thing. Go do your socialistic thing. You want to be a state? great we're not going to bail you out if it fails what part of socialism do you think allows them to leave you alone none that's the problem that's the problem if it was leaving you alone it wouldn't be socialism correct unfortunately you're right they're like you know there are there have been experiments in

history we did this on one of the chalkboards of you know several weeks ago where they went into the people who initially experimented with the idea of socialism and they did it in a way that was not Stalin-esque, it was not Castro-esque. It was, hey, really good things. We're going to all

live together and we're going to do things to help each other and it was presented with a smiley face. And it was done unlike socialism is usually done, which is they say it's going to be great, but in reality they wind up murdering all their citizens. These were

generally speaking good people. They were people who with good intentions, who tried this with the best of hopes. Yeah, they did drive out the old people. They didn't kill them, but they drove them out. Once you weren't able to work, and once you were of a certain age, you had to leave the community and go away from the family.

So, you know, it wasn't, you know, there wasn't a death camp. But we're talking to the socialism scale. Don't call me out for these minor, minor infractions. You're right. You're right. infractions. This is a happy one. This is one of the better ones. But what they found out is that, you know, without incentives,

without making people, without people wanting to better themselves because there was no hope to better themselves. That was the design of the system that the society fell apart over and over and over again. One of them was even here in Dallas, Texas, one of the first examples of that. Is that the tower? The Heritage. Is it the Heritage? No. What's the name of that tower in downtown? Reunion town. That's right. Thank you. That was the name of the town. Reunion. And it was a so right downtown Dallas.

It was a socialist utopia. And it failed miserably. Failed miserably. And it was talented people and people with good intentions. It is the reason why Dallas is the city that it is because all of these talented socialist utopians that had real skill and real intellect, they came and they tried it. And when it failed, they all started leaving and they were like, okay, that doesn't work. Let's try something else. And they went towards, you know, capitalism and freedom.

And they built Dallas. Yeah. And that one worked. Yeah. And that's the story of socialism over and over and over again. So it would be, like, we certainly have elements, flares into socialism that other states try. We know that in California. And, I mean, you know, Vermont had, you know, had.

massive experiments into socialized healthcare and many, you know, we are, obviously our country at some level has done that as well. You can have these little things, but they all, they affect everybody. These little socialist plans that eat up one, two, three percent of your economy and they just continue to grow all the time, wind up really affecting people and hurting the growth of an economy and hurting people and lives. But I go back to, I don't, I mean, look, if, if Californians want to try it, you get all the best land. You get all the, you got all the coastland. You get everything, you get all the sweet parts.

Well, I think the mountains are a sweet part too. And, you know, where you can actually grow food is also good. But you take that. Take it. I mean, I really would. if we could have a peaceful civil war, and I think most people in our country that are a real constitutionalist would say, you pick the states, give us 25, give us the worst 25.

Give us the ones that you just say, give us, you're tired, your poor, your huddled masses. We'll will show you because I have absolute confidence that when people are left to do what they can do, they'll change the world. So give us the worst 25 states. We'll live there. Now, don't come in and don't blame us when it goes bad for you, because it's going to. But why are we all having to be trapped under this socialist umbrella? Why are we all forced to live like, you know, the way half of us don't think we should live?

in fact we have a we have a study out done by a democrat presented to the democrats begging them stop it you're out of step with the american people you're out of step with the democrats yeah remember after romney lost there was this big postmortem and it was like look this is what happened we weren't liberal enough on immigration they had this being like that is kind of what this happened here right It's a study of what, hey, wait a minute, the Democrats lost. Why the heck did they lose? They shouldn't have lost this election. Everyone said, Hillary is going to win.

Why do they lose? And you kind of look at this and you say, well, maybe it's because you're taking everyone who isn't a hardcore Bernie Sanders supporter and tossing them to the side. You know, I mean, you're embracing that hardcore left thing. We saw this with Tom Perez when they talked about basically kicking everybody out that was not a pro choice candidate. We don't want you running as a Democrat unless you are pro

choice. And like that is, sure, that's 90% of them anyway. But, you know, there have been major politicians for the Democrats, some of the most successful politicians that have been pro-life Democrats. At least they say they were. And now you're saying, well, we're going to reject that chunk of the population. Is it a huge chunk? I don't think it's a huge

chunk. But I don't think it's more than that. We're going to get into this research tonight at 5 o'clock on the Blaze TV on my show at 5. But again, it was done by a Democrat trying to convince the Democratic Party, you're going the wrong way and they're not listening. But I think it's more than just, you know, pro-life. It's a rejection of God. It's a rejection of traditional common sense, not traditional values,

traditional common sense. It's becoming a rejection of science. and it's becoming so radical that I think the Democratic Party in many ways scares many Democrats. They're not going to say that out loud, but I think there's parts of it. When they see what's happening in the college campuses,

I think the average Democrat looks at that and goes, that's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah. And the pathway to the lunatic fringe is just getting paved every day and making it easier to go that way. Look at, Cory Booker yesterday. I mean, Corey Booker is in the middle of an essentially his audition for a 2020 run, Senator from New Jersey. And he looks like a complete lunatic harassing a woman in the Trump administration about immigration and DACA and all of these other things. And he's trying to be more animated because he knows. To win a primary, he's got to be as crazy as possible and look like he's got to out-left Elizabeth Warren. He's got to out-

out-left Kamala Harris. He's got to out-left all of these crazy people, Bernie Sanders. All these people that are already there, he's got to figure out a way to get to their left. And the only way you can think of doing it is waving his hands around and making his eyes big and yelling at a woman, which I thought was bad from Democrats. I thought you were supposed to, I mean, I thought that was mansplaining. It seems that what Cory Booker did yesterday was mansplaining if a Republican did it. For Corey, I guess it's okay. Here's a clip of what Cory Booker said yesterday. I hurt. When Dick Durbin called me, I had tears of rage when I heard about this experience in that meeting.

And for you not to feel that hurt and that pain and to dismiss some of the questions of my colleagues saying I've already answered that line of questions when tens of millions of Americans are hurting right now because of what they're worried about what happened in the White House. That's unacceptable to me. And I've got a president in the United States whose office I respect. who talks about the countries of origins of my fellow citizens in the most despicable of manner. You don't remember. You can't remember the words of your commander-in-chief.

I find that unacceptable. I mean, if you see this video, if you haven't seen it yet, his eyes are wide. He's putting angry face on. He's trying to, I mean, he's screaming at a woman in front of all these people. and it's interesting because, first of all, tears of rage. Did you really? Here's a guy. Donald Trump, every day they spend calling him essentially Adolf Hitler.

He's a dictator. He's insane. But, you know, we're supposed to believe that they believe that. And at the same time, if he changes the terms of their immigration negotiation, we're supposed to believe they're so surprised by that that they fall into. tears of rage. Come on. This person's either completely insane and unpredictable and you should be expecting these things

or the opposite. We're going to get really upset that they change his mind in negotiation. Obviously, this is one of those ridiculous grandstanding appearances that we get from senators all the time when they try to run for president. And the other thing is, too, what is he criticizing her of at this time? that she isn't answering the questions because she said she's already answered them. You're really that upset

because someone said actually I've already answered that question. She's not saying she's not going to answer it. She's saying she's already covered that material. You're really going to get that upset over that. It's clearly overacting. It's a guy who's trying to build up a pathway to this, fake anger so he can get donations

so he can get a little buzz from the grassroots. He's trying to build himself into a thing. And it's so obvious he's trying here because he's trying so hard to convince you

he's mad right now. It really comes off as pathetic. I think he's going to connect with a lot of people on the left and not necessarily just the far left. I think he's going to come. You watch. I think he's going to turn out to look very, very balanced and very, you know, normal, middle of the road. That performance is going to get him balanced?

No, I didn't say that performance. But I think he's, I think that's the way he's going to be viewed by a lot of people on the left. And the problem is, is that our extremes are so far. I mean, we're talking Marxists, atheists, revolutionaries, people who are telling us that men and women, that designation doesn't even exist. exist. We're talking crazy things. And on the other side, it's hard to defend some of the things that said by the right and are being defended by the right. So you have all these people on both sides who are saying, nobody's representing me. Nobody's representing me. I don't agree with them. I don't agree with them. That's the opportunity. Now, who is going to occupy that space?

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Mercury. Courage. Truth. You can imagine the air was thick with tension as FEMA agents arrived. U.S. Army Corps of Engineer, their armed security detail, they entered the warehouse. They were on a mission to see if the rumors were true. They couldn't be true. Hundred days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island, half of the population is still living without electricity.

Have you seen the satellite pictures? We're a hundred days. That's a third of the year in and we still, people don't have electricity. Despite the aid, construction materials, everything that we sent, still they haven't rebuilt very much and they haven't restored the electrical grid. So there was speculation that the Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority, or Prepa for short, had been hoarding these materials. Our teams went into the warehouse and it was easy for them to see this was true. It was filled to the brim with equipment and resources. That explained why FEMA agents were so perplexed by the lack of everything that the people needed in Puerto Rico.

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And all of our governments are corrupt. government inefficiency, idiocy, and corruption, all at the expense of citizens. How many lives could have been improved, even saved, if Prepa just did their job and would distribute the materials to Puerto Ricans? It's Wednesday, January 17th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. If I can geek out just a little bit, today's kind of an exciting. exciting day for me. I've wanted to talk to this guy since I read his first novel, Fatherland, which is one of my favorite books of all time. I just love it. And, you know, I've never been big

enough to be able to get him on. He also did, I can't remember the name of the book, The Code. I'll have to ask him about it. Another great book. Lots of great stories and great novels from Robert Harris. He is the author of a new novel, Munich, and it is all about the Munich Treaty and Neville Chamberlain and what happened with Hitler, but he takes it the way he always does and works a new storyline into it. Welcome to the program. Robert Harris. How are you, sir? I'm very well, Glenn. Thank you for having me on. You bet. Are you over in London? No, I live just outside. Not far from Oxford in the country. It's a thrill to have you on.

I want to talk to you a little bit about the book, but I don't want to spoil it for anybody, and don't spoil it for me because I'm halfway through. But, you know, it revolves around Neville Chamberlain, and I'm not a real fan of Neville Chamberlain, and he gets kind of a bad rap. why are you what what what is your attraction there and i it i seem to think that you are a fan of his well i wouldn't which are really quite opposite to bbc television about the 50th anniversary of

the munich agreement so regarded it as a terrible defeat people that don't look far the land as you mentioned but i always had in my the back of my mind a desire to write a novel about the munich agreement and i had the idea of writing it from the september 1938 decided I'd also have on Adolf Hitler's to follow these two by the first-hand account of both hits. So how much Robert of the novel is really close to true? For instance, the plot to kill Hitler at that point. Was that going on?

It really pretty well is true. Apart from these two Hartman and Hugh Leggett. The point was that Hitler decided, at the beginning of the summer of 19, 1938 to the map. The army came back and said they could reckon they could do this in about five or six weeks. And he threw the plans back at them and said, I want to get the German army, took fright at this. It's crazy skis, as the Germans realized. Yeah, I was surprised when Chamberlain arrives in Munich that there were, you know, the Oompa bands that were playing, you know, the popular tunes from England, that the crowds cheered him. I always thought of the Germans not for peace, and that's not what it was.

The historical record about that, Hitler's curious about this. One of the reasons that are on the memoirs of Albert Spears is, what did Hitler feel about Munich and loudly whenever he appeared? There was one of the reasons why I think he drew back. So as I was reading this, and you really kind of spell it out, very colorful, The appearance of everything with Hitler was strong and militaristic and streamlined. And, you know, Mussolini is there, the same thing. And here comes a guy who kind of looks like a walrus and another guy who looks old and frail coming to the meeting.

Those two guys must have seen the English as complete, things of the past and just weak. I think that that's true in their smart uniform. It was a tough old bird. He said that about him too, and Prime Minister. And he was quite vain.

Hitler was on war. And he drove Hitler mad. The pretext to this new state of Czechoslovakia in 1990 at Matherland. French would have been legally obliged, felt obliged to stand by France. So it would have been like the first sensational. I'm sure we can arrange for them where the majority said, you can't fight a war

on detail. The novel, in February 1945, 1938, September 1938 would have been the perfect time. And throughout the war, Hitler felt he was fighting it a year too late. To invade France in 1939. He'd wanted to invade the Soviet Union in 1940, 12 months behind. And in that time, the British... Yeah, have you seen the movie? darkest hour yet? Yes, I have. What'd you think of that?

I thought it was by Gary Oldman. Because I'm sympathetic to Chamberlain, slightly more than most people are, I know, the Bath of Britain, 39. Chamberlain at that time was the leader of the talk. And most people think that Chamberlain wanted to do a decisive voice in 1940. Decided to not even hear what...

Is there... When you're looking at today's world, and you're seeing everything that's going on. Your job, and you've been so good at this, you look at history and you see missed opportunities or chances for things to have been different. What do you think we're going to look back over the last 20 years and say,

if this event was understood at the time, it would have changed things. People went wrong. And another of the quotes at the front of my book is from a great British historian called F.W. Maitland who said, you must all roughly how the Nazi regime would go.

You can only even understand, let alone, and the reality on which most of it now reminds me rather of that. I don't know. I mean, my Munich novel is that they can see,

you know what I mean? Yes. And nobody can quite grasp it. Yeah. You can feel it. You can feel it coming. Robert, do you have a second? Can you hang on while we take a quick break?

Yeah, absolutely. Okay, hold on. Robert Harris, the author of the book, Munich. It is out now. It's a novel. He's a tremendous writer. If you've never read a Robert Harris book, you should. And you can start with Munich, the novel.

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Glenn Beck, Mercury. Robert Harris, the author of the new book, Munich, the novel. He is one of my favorite writers. And Robert, I don't know how much time did you, how much time did we schedule you for it? I've got all the time in the world. So, you know, I'm a pleasure talking to you. I have two things.

And, you know, what I love about your books is, for instance, Chamberlain, I have a new look at Chamberlain. And I have to go back now and really study him again. again and see them in a different light and see the peace in our day in a different way. But you've done this to me a few times. One of the things that really was a pivot in my life was your book Conclave. I love that book. And the speech that the guy who ends up being Pope gives about certainty is something that I think everybody,

in the world should hear. I read that part and I thought, oh my gosh, that is the problem. Do you remember that part of the book? From the point of view of it, I've always been interested and what they try to do. And this character really came on because he was having to be plagued with doubt, and he has to give a scene by a billion people. So hang on, I want to. Without doubt, without doubt, there's no faith. I want to pick it up with there. And then also another one of your books, the Fear Index, which another one that I think everybody should read.

Robert Harris, new book, Munich. More in a second. This is the Glenn Beck program. Noted author, Robert Harris, the author of the new book, Munich, the novel. It is about the Munich Accords and Neville Chamberlain

and Hitler duking it out. And what we kind of misunderstand stand. I'm finding out as I'm reading this. Neville Chamberlain's, you know, we'll, we have peace in our day. That was the Munich Treaty. And Hitler saw that as a loss. It's a great thrilling novel that I think you really enjoy. Robert is one of my, one of my favorite authors. I fell in love with his stuff with Fatherland, which came out in the 90s. And I'm a little upset that you can't buy on Kindle anymore. But Fatherland, I've also, I've read five or six of your books, Robert, and one of them I want to talk to you about is the Fear Index. A minute ago, you said, you know, you were concerned about technology and how that's going to change us. And the Fear Index is AI gone crazy, and it makes you look at AI in a completely different way. Yeah, it's a... And who's Frankenstein's monster also in Geneva.

And pretty frightening, super financial control, how it affects all our lives. And in a way, the world has never really... Well, it's very... I mean, the Fear Index is very hitchcockian, in a way, where it's just an average guy kind of caught up into something he doesn't understand is much, much bigger than, you know,

anything he possibly imagined. And halfway through, I'm thinking, I believe all of this is possible, even if it's not done by AI, with the tracking and the data that people have. I mean, some government becomes like, you know, Nazi Germany. This isn't going to be hard to manipulate and hard to do to people. It will be some form of cyber war. And in this country, certainly, if, for example, ATM machine, a city like London, which is said to be only five meals away from start, That is that there's only enough food in the supermarket. It's really 24-hour resupply.

How does a scenario anymore? What is a writer, if I said to you, which one's the more believable scenario? North Korea launches. Putin, through, you know, nefarious ways, kind of cobbles together the old Soviet Union and is deeply embedded in all of our systems and turns us against each other, or financial doomsday that just kind of traps all of us into something ugly. If they launched any sort of, if they may look it, or the way things go, Crimea.

I was reading your book. I think the West do anything, no, not really. They put on sanctions, but that was it. Yeah, as I'm reading Munich, and he's talking about that. And that's all I could think of is this is exactly the same argument that Putin was making. And for most Western people, the Crimea seems to be Russia's backyard. You know, you assume that it was really part of Russia. Most people would have thought there's no appetite really to fight or you like that,

just as I don't think there was much in 1938, 20 years after the first fight over that issue. And that's one of the things you've got to think about, Munim. Yeah. Chains is trying to avoid it. But I think in the end he did do a service, even if, in a country a year. The name of the book is Munich, a novel. The author is Robert Harris.

Robert, thank you so much. God bless. It's a bit of pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. That's one from my bucket list. Love that guy's writing. Yeah, you had a little glimmer in your eye when that, uh...

Yeah. That was a big one. I like him. I read, I mean, I love his books. The Chamberlain stuff, I never had, you know, you never hear a positive take on never, chamberlain anymore. Never, never, never, never, never. It doesn't happen.

But, I mean, he's right. Obviously, obviously, he delayed. I mean, he even said it may have been unintentional. Yeah. But delaying that war for another year was a big part of the reason why they were able to at least get through it. Yeah, it's really interesting when you see it a little more colorful than what we normally look at. Name of the book, Munich. Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed.

What's on your mind today, Pat? The president's health. Did you see the press conference yesterday? I did. It started about 245, ended three and three. and a half minutes ago. I could not believe the grilling that guy got. First of all, he said some stupid things, right?

I mean, the guy's completely healthy. He is an excellent health, but he's obese, and there's a potential for heart disease. I don't know. It's problematic to me. I don't know. But the questions went on and the dumbest. How many times does he eat at McDonald's?

Does he ever, does he ever order a hot apple pie for dessert? What do you mean he doesn't exercise? Our last president was a Greek god. Could have played in the NBA or the pro golfers tour. This guy does nothing. 90% of us do nothing. When was the last time you exercised? I don't exercise.

I don't do it. I believe the last time I really exercised was what day is it? It is Tuesday. Ninety-two. And the day was important. I think it was a Tuesday in 1992. We'd also point out it's Wednesday. Oh yeah, you're right.

I don't know. Did you pass the cognitive test? Is it already? Yes, it is. Wow. See, I need the cognitive test, I guess, because I don't even know what day it is anymore. But the questions were amazing. And they just, they wouldn't accept the fact that he doesn't have dementia because they

deemed that he does a long time ago. And so they just kept going. I thought that was really smart of the president to take that test. So did I. You know, it's obvious that no one really took it seriously. Now you took the exact same one. No.

Today? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I didn't pass. It's an example of this test. Yeah. And it's called the Montreal cognitive assessment.

Right. It's not like a... My guess is it's not the hardest cognitive test available. No. No. I've had dementia. You know. I know you've had some serious ones.

I've gone to Columbia and also had one at the Mayo Clinic. And, you know, they were, you know, at the time we were worried about the early onset of, of, of, I can't remember it. Wow. This is showing. It's happening. Yeah. And, and so, you know, the test is, if you're really concerned, the test is intense. Well, you want it to be challenging.

Yeah. And it takes an hour. And, you know, it's not like this. This is like, this is like, hey, Terry Schiavo, you just woke up from a coma. Yeah. Is that a cow or an octopus? I mean, it really. It relates.

Let me give you a few of these here. I'm going to show you three pictures. You have to tell me what these things are. What are those things? Okay. That's a dog. Oh, no. It's a lion.

Oh, no. And a llama? Art bark. I mean, you know, it's legitimately like a drawing of a lion. Yeah, that's too easy. But some of them, they can be a little bit more. challenging, however. And there's 30.

He said there were 30 and he got 26. I think I got 30. Did it get all 30? It's a point system. For example, you'd get you'd get, you know, if you got all three of those pictures, right,

you'd get three points. Okay. So did you know it was a rhinoceros? Did you know it was a camel? Did you know it was a lion. I actually, I know you did. But you get all three of those. Give him the math one.

Give him the math one. This is impossible. Okay. Glenn thinks this is impossible. No, no, ready? Ready? I got to do it to him. Watch him.

Watch him. Watch him. He's just going to sweat. All right. Take 100. Take 100. Minus 7. Oh, my gosh.

42? He couldn't do it either. Now, they. I got the first one. I got the first one. I got a calculator out. I've got a computer right here. I got the first one.

I got, I think I got 94. And then I, then he said subtract seven again. And I'm like 81. I don't know. That's exactly right. Right. Oh, it is right. It's definitely right.

There's no question. Okay. So again, to get three points, the full score for that question, you'd have to get 100. Then you'd have to get 93, 86, 79. If you go, you, and then you have to get to 72. Yeah, it's four. You have to get four right. You have to get all the way to 72 to get.

But again, these are not hard questions. By the way, there's six points of the 30 are available for these, for these six questions. Are you ready? What city are you in? Now? Yeah. That's a great question. Hi.

Pocatello, Idaho? Nope. What place are you in? What place? What does that mean? I don't know. Like building? I'm in an uncomfortable place right now.

It's really introspective answer. It really is. Thank you. Thank you. What day is it of the week? I didn't know that one. And you got that one wrong. So you actually are failing.

I didn't know. What's the date? I was lucky to get January. No kidding. Date month and year. The other three. So you get six points basically for knowing the basics about your surroundings. You know what they don't ask him,

they should have because it would have been fun is, who's the president today? Yeah. That's true. All right, I'm going to give you five words. Repeat them back to me. Okay. Repeat them after I've listed the five.

I will say the five. After you listed all five? Then you're going to have to repeat the five. I got tripped up on that part. Yeah. He had a lot of problems with this. Face, velvet,

did how they do. Yeah, I did. I got all of them right. I got three. I honestly got three. For real? I am really, it's weird. On these tests, I do, and it makes sense, if you know me, I do really well visually.

I do really well in stories. Like they do, they'll tell you things and they'll tell you a long ass story that is just poorly written. I will tell you that. And then they say, tell it back to me and see how many things you miss. they'll say, you know, what color was the sweater? And the sweater had really nothing to do with the story. I'm good at stories. I'm good at the way I think.

When it comes to just random words, for some reason, I have a really difficult time. Now you correctly named those five words, which would give you on the test zero points. Why? Because this is the real question. Now repeat those five words. After all that time.

It's actually five minutes. That's kind of hard. Yeah. Yeah. Face, velvet, uh, spoons, broccoli, tomato. I don't think I got two.

I think I got more than he did. I think I think you got two for sure. You may have had the third one. Now they have a suggestion. And I couldn't get, I couldn't get all five to begin with. I got three. But five minutes later, I still had those three baby.

Yeah, which is impressive. So did Trump get them all? Supposedly he got a perfect score on the test. Wow. Now again, you have to, you have to fact there's a couple factors you could take into that one all this does is essentially prove that he is thinking like a human being which is pretty obvious he is but yeah i mean um it's you know he didn't have a stroke but secondly i think too like if you're prepared for it you've

probably seen example tests oh they don't you know like i'm sorry your your staff is not letting you walk in there for the first cognitive test in the history of the presidency of the united i think that's true you don't think that's true yeah it might be it very well might be true but i don't think he's crazy. I don't think he's... I don't think he has dementia. He doesn't have to mention. No, he doesn't. But he knows the five, unlike what we did with Pat, who didn't know I was going to ask him again about the five questions. He knows that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, but thank you. Pat. Thank you. Pat. Thank you. Pat Gray unleashed on the Blaze Radio and TV network and on iTunes and Stitcher and I want to talk to you about Goldline. Goldline is offering something if you just call right now. Um, they have their new year kickoff sale.

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