The Glenn Beck Program - 2/5/18 - 'Self-Hating Egomaniacs'?

Episode Date: February 5, 2018

Hour 1 The memo bomb has been dropped...dud! ...what was in that memo, that was so damaging? ...Russia is a tumor and they are doing everything they can to create chaos...pitting American vs. American ...Don't lose sight of Page, Flynn, Manafort ...Super Bowl Half-Time = Compelling..."Is Justin Timberlake the best you can do?"...Commercial Outrage = MLK and Dodge Ram ...Is inflation spooking the market?   Hour 2  What were the Super Bowl commercials telling us?...born missing limbs but ‘she’s still perfect’…'reinforcing' the good things about ourselves...Humility + Self Worth = Forgiveness…we have to understand that balance ...are we ‘sharing’ or ‘showing’ on social media? ...Being like Europe...leading the way on denying abortion ...T-Mobile's attempt at 'equality' = fail ...We're all just a bunch of ‘Self-hating egomaniacs, wearing backless hospital gowns’?   Hour 3  Progressivism is a disease…It's gender-neutral now?...Canadian National Anthem, revised... Margaret Atwood played a role…Progressives continue chipping away at our 'traditions'...Flashback to 1981: Washington Post's 'Jimmy's World' scandal?... ‘Journalists, do your job!’...Good game, bad commercials, OK half-time show …is this an alternate universe?...Did you know there was a New 'King' of Pop music? ...   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, the FISA memo bomb has been dropped. It's pretty much confirmed everything. The Republicans have been talking about in interviews for the last two weeks.

I don't think there was really anything new. There was just Republican confirmation on what we already knew. Is that why the information? was a little, I don't know, a little underwhelming. It was billed as a memo full of classified information, and I honestly tried to, I struggled to find anything that we considered damaging to national security. Well, what happened there?

That makes the Democrats, the FBI, DOJ, look kind of ridiculous trying to block its release. Why were they trying to block it? What was in that memo that was so damaging that people could lose their lives? It also makes the Republicans look a little bit ridiculous, I think, in the buildup and the hype that led to Friday's release. Don't get me wrong. The information is really interesting, really interesting. And if proven correct, it shows that there is corruption in the United States.

The GOP is accusing the FBI and the DOJ of lying to the FISA court in order to get a warrant for former Trump advisor, Carter Page. Carter Page is somebody that we've been looking at for quite a while ourselves. The FBI was looking into Carter Page long before anybody else was. They claimed that the steel dossier was listed in the initial FISA application, but the roles of Fusion GPS and the DNC and the Clinton campaign were never mentioned. That is the problem. And here's why. If it is true, then the FBI and DOJ were knowingly trying to,

were knowingly trying to pass off partisan opposition research as actual intelligence, and they hid the truth from the court, not once, but four times. They would later include things like a report from Michael Isikov. Isikov said he was shocked that his reporting was used as something to bolster the FBI and DOJ's case in the FISA court because he was only reporting on what was already out there. he was reporting on the dossier. This wasn't new reporting. This wasn't a secondary source.

Was that the way that it was presented to the FISA court? If so, that's a very big deal. It looks really bad. However, it's only half the story. And we're not going to get the other half from the Democrats. The Democrats have already written their own rebuttal memo, and they are expected to vote on that later this week and release it. I think they release it later this week.

They're going to vote, I think, today. We can also expect to hear from the FBI and the DOJ at some point as well. It's the Great Memo Wars of 2018. When is this going to end? I don't care what somebody wrote in a memo to make their side look good. I really don't care. I want the facts. transparency is the answer.

Not more memos. Transparency. If we want to know, because this is what this is all about, what did they say to the secret court to be able to get the warrant? If they didn't tell that this was opposition research and that Michael Isikov's reporting was not confirmation or a second source, it was a article on the dossier. If they didn't say where

the money came from, the fusion GPS connection to Russia, the FBI's connection to fusion GPS through its own agents and the agents, their spouses,

connected to fusion GPS and connected to the Hillary Clinton campaign. It's a real mess. If they didn't reveal all of that to FISA, then there's a massive problem with the Obama, DOJ, and FBI. It's Monday, February 5th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. Now here's what's hard. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter to the Russian part of this investigation. If the FBI did in was investigating Carter Page in advance, which I believe they were, if he went over and did things that he shouldn't have done, we have to know that. And it really has nothing to do with Donald Trump. They were investigating him before Donald Trump.

They were looking into his connections because he was being recruited by the Russians. He's a dope. So who was he meeting with? What was he saying? We have to know that. We also have to know the connections with uranium one and all of the billions of dollars that came in from Rosatom to our congressmen, our senators, and our Department of State. what was the connection between Russia and the Clintons? They clearly tried to recruit or befriend the Trump administration. We know that. It didn't happen. And it didn't happen because they didn't have the goods.

We all also know that if in that meeting they would have had the goods on Hillary Clinton, they would have taken them. Just as fast as the DNC took the stuff from Christopher Steele, they would have taken it. That's the problem. The problem is everybody would have done it if they could have. So you can't arrest people for what they didn't do, what they would have done. That's not a crime. You have to go after the source, and the source is Russia.

Tomorrow I'm going to start a chalkboard that I think we're going to, I think we might even have to go back in time and look at Russia again and show you exactly what their intent was. And it had nothing to do with Donald Trump. They would have done it if it was Ted Cruz. They were doing everything they can to make sure that we do. don't have confidence in the system that we, that our confidence in the voting system was destroyed. Our confidence in the two-party system was destroyed. And when I say the two-party system, why do you think that, I'll just, instead of calling it Wikipedia, or I mean, WikiLeaks, I'll just, I'll just refer to it as Russia.

why do you think Russia release the information about the DNC and what they did with Bernie Sanders? Why do you think they did that? They did that because they needed to break up the coalition in the DNC and not to get Donald Trump to win. They broke that coalition because they needed the infighting that the press is refusing to cover right now, which is a huge story.

They needed the press, I'm sorry, they needed the Democrats to turn on each other. They need the Republicans to turn on each other. And then those four or eight or how many groups that breaks into, they all fight with each other. That's what they want. Every bit of chaos that they could sow, they've sown. And we're ignoring it. It's really, you've got a brain tumor. And the doctor just keeps giving you first it's aspirin.

Then it's Tylenol, then it's Tylenol 3, then it's percocet, then it's a fentanyl patch. For the love of Pete, man. What's the problem? What's giving me the severe migraines? Oh, I don't know. It's a giant grapefruit tumor in the middle of your head. Russia is the tumor. These memos and everything else, that's fentanyl.

And if you've ever had fentanyl before, you know how spooky that stuff is. And it says right on the box. Or it used to. Maybe it doesn't anymore. Somebody who has fentanyl. Call me up. Tell me if the box still says this. Ten years ago, the box on fentanyl, which is a little patch that is, this is, I mean, it's a great blessing.

If you're in pain, it's a great blessing. But if you're in pain and you take it, it's also a great blessing. great curse because the clock on you begins to tick. It says on the box, or it used to, for end of life use only. It's when they just want you out of pain, you just want to be out of pain and you're going to die anyway. Honestly, we're so far beyond, do you realize, we're going to talk about this later. Do you realize that our spending, I'm sorry, our borrowing this year? Do you know how much we're going to borrow as a country? I want to tell you this, I want you to think about that. In 2008, we had about $800 billion in circulation globally. So all of the cash, if you took every

dollar, every dime, every penny, every quarter, every hundred dollars. bill and you put it all in a pile and you started adding it up all of it up. We had about between $8 and $900 billion in cash globally. This year to keep our government running, we are going to borrow $1 trillion. We're going to borrow a trillion dollars to give you some indication on if that's a big deal or not. That's an 84% increase for. last year. Anything that takes our eye off the ball of limited government, of reducing spending, of giving money to the people, no, I'm sorry, let me rephrase that, letting people keep their money and not taking it from them, being able to guarantee some sort of transparency,

restoring the the credibility of any institution that has lost its credibility and that's really everything I mean all the way to the bakery you know the baker the baker might hate people

anything that has us take our eye off the ball is a refusal on our part to look at what is causing the headaches it's a tumor and the press is doing nothing but putting a fentanyl patch on our arms for end of life use only.

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the uranium one and the Russia connection there. Also, long before Donald Trump was even a nominee, even stepping in and saying you wanted to run before he was a candidate, we were talking about Russia and what they were going to try to do during this election. They've done it. One of the names that came up, and for the life of me, Jason, I can't remember why. Why did we first start talking about Carter Page? Because we were on Carter Page before he joined the Trump.

Trump campaign, and I think even before the campaign itself. Yeah, there was this, there was that weird string of, I want to say it was like around 2008, 2009-ish, something like that, of like heavy Russian, you know, espionage and influence. It was just all of a sudden it just came out of nowhere. Yeah. And there was the whole thing with Anna Chapman and that huge bring that the FBI busted up. And then there was this strange story of these Russians that were trying to get close to Wall Street. And they were doing everything they could

to try and infiltrate like think tanks and other people that were surrounding like our financial institutions and structures. Actually some pretty scary stuff. Well, during that time, the FBI got on, through human intelligence sources and also surveillance, they come across these Russians

that were talking back and forth to each other about this quote, unquote idiot, Carter Page. Right. And apparently Carter Page, he's, I don't know, the more you look at him, he just seems like a guy that just wants to be liked so well. He goes to Moscow and, you know, he was an investment banker or something like that with some energy companies over there.

And everyone that people, every time people talked about him, he was just the guy that, you know, just wanted everyone to think that he was a little bit more than he was. And he was doing everything. He wanted to be somebody. He wanted to be somebody. He wanted to have influence. So him saying that, yeah, I'm connected to Trump, actually made sense because he just used those types of connections to try and appear to be more than he was.

Well, he was on the FBI's radar when these two Russians were talking about him. And they were like, yeah, we're trying to get into, you know, this company and we're like talking to this guy Carter Page. And he, you know, basically doesn't know what he's talking about. It's a dead end. Well, those were SVR, the equivalent to our CIA. that was Russia's, you know, foreign intelligence service.

And what they were saying when they say is a dead end is he was all talk. Right. That he really didn't have any connections. And they mocked him, ridiculed him because he wasn't, you know, he wasn't a big deal. And they quickly figured that out. Right. But so you can see how the FBI, though, their radar shot up, though, that you already have this guy.

He's been known to, you know, Probably unknowingly. I don't think he knew exactly. I don't think Carter Page knew that he was being targeted by Russian intelligence. But because of his connections there and because of connections he was having when he was going over to Russia, which he, again, the Russians were targeting him when he would travel to Russia when he was based in Moscow. And of course, basically, you know, everybody's connected to Russian intelligence or the mafia or something in Russia anyway. but all the people that he was you know dealing with and running around with

all those circles he was in the moment he was actually signed on with the Trump campaign they were like oh whoa what's going on that gave them the probable cause to say okay maybe we should look in a little bit more right and it's not necessarily that Donald Trump knew any of this or anything the guy that Carter Page is a is a moron and that's the kind of guy that gets into trouble

yeah and then you you couple that with Flynn and Manafort, and Trump doesn't even have to be involved in any of this. And it doesn't even have to have collusion between Page and Flynn and Manafort. It's just a really big bonfire that somebody needed to look at. And we still need to look at Carter Page, General Flynn, and Manafort. Glenn, back. Mercury. So you've heard me talk a bit about Brickhouse Nutrition and their product dawn to dusk. It's fantastic.

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Listening to the Glenn Beck program. So I just want to see if I have, I want to see how I have this right. Because I think I slipped through a wormhole. I don't know when it happened, but I am dead. This is definitely not the same earth that I was on, you know, for the rest of my life.

And, or I mean, for the earlier part of my life. And I believe I've slipped through several wormholes. But this one, this one, just, let's do the math. Last night, I watched the Super Bowl. and the game was the best part. The game was actually compelling and exciting. The halftime show really lacked any kind of, you know, malfunctions.

It was good. Prince, even though he was dead, sang a duet. As I'm watching the commercials all sucked, nothing really held my attention in the commercials, then Brady loses and the Eagles win. Come on. This is not the earth we all were on just last week. I am not a sports fan and I was, I mean, it was compelling. I can't remember the last time the Super Bowl was this compelling.

And what happened to the commercials? Seriously, what happened? I mean, I had a hard time. My daughter said to me, Dad, Justin Timberlake is the king of pop. Excuse me, what? Dad, Justin Timberlake, he's like the biggest pop star of our generation. Wait, the guy. He would, wasn't he the guy in sync?

Yes, Dad. Oh, good God. And he's the best your generation can do? Wow. We are in deep trouble. We had a conversation. I remember taking my daughters. They were young.

I remember taking them to an in-sink concert. And Justin Timberlake flew over their head. And it was the biggest deal for them. And I remember I didn't get my hearing back from, you know, the 13-year-old girl screams. for about a month. So it wasn't, you know, it wasn't the best hearing experience, if you will. I really even couldn't hear him sing. I think last night was maybe possibly the first time that I've actually heard him sing.

And again, King of Pop? Are we just throwing those titles around? Higgledy-piggledy now? I mean, is it... It may just be me. I don't know. So I had a difficult time last night. I thought he was great.

Great might be a little strong. I thought he was very good. I thought he wasn't offensive. How's that? I thought he wasn't defensive. And that's a big deal for the Super Bowl, at least lately. But then we get to the commercials. And I mean, when the Danny DeVito, you know, M&M commercial is the most memorable for me.

And it's mainly because I haven't had an M&M in about two months. You know, that's a problem. I don't know what happened. Is everybody afraid to do comedy now? Is that what's happening? Is everybody just like, you can't do that? You can't do that. Danavito, you're going to point out that he's bald?

What about, you'll be sued by the bald people. There'll be riots on the street. No, it's a white guy. It's a bald, white, old guy. Everybody hates those. Oh. So that's the only thing that we'd probably make fun of. Maybe.

Is that what it is? Because I didn't, right? I was intrigued by the movie trailers. I liked the movie trailers. Thought those were good. But not. If the game wasn't good, nothing would have held me. Nothing would have held me.

May I address the MLK problem? The MLK commercial with the Dodge Ram. Did anybody really have a problem with this? I mean, I I did, but it's not the problem that everybody else has. Here is the commercial for the Dodge Ram that aired last night in the Super Bowl. You don't have to know about play to an Aristotlandisholm to serve. Generated by love.

And then it goes to the logo of Built to Serve Dodge, Dodge, Dodge Ram. Okay. The controversy is, how dare you? How dare you use Martin Luther King like that? How dare you use Martin Luther King? I mean, first of all, that was an inspiring commercial. I mean, anytime you can hear the words of Martin Luther King, that should be a good thing, right? The problem is, I should say, everybody's problem is, is that Dodge would use his words to sell a truck.

That's an abomination. How dare Dodge use his words to sell a truck? May I just point out? I can't play speeches from Martin Luther King on the radio. I can't say to you. I want you to really listen to this speech. I want you to really listen to this. I can't even play the I have a dream speech today.

The only day I can play that without getting sued is Martin Luther King Day. His family has such a tight reign on all of his words and all of the audio and all of the video that you literally cannot play the I Have a Dream speech except on that day. Or they'll sue you. They are as protective as Disney is with their trademarks. So it's not, don't blame Dodge. Dodge had nothing to do with it. Dodge came up with the idea and said,

going to do a deal on service and our slogan for our truck is going to be built to serve. It's a beautiful commercial. It shows people serving. It shows police officers. It shows fire. It shows people helping each other in the inner city and on farmlands. It shows people helping people in, you know, hospitals and babies and all of the stuff. It's a great stirring commercial.

And it was such a good commercial that the King family, decided to sell the rights of their father or their grandfather, to sell the rights to dodge to be able to make that commercial. So anybody who is on the high and mighty path today, how dare, how dare they use? First of all, good. How many people heard the words of Martin Luther King? I've never heard that speech before. I love that.

I've never heard it before. How many people heard that speech from Martin Luther King for the very first time last night, thanks to Dodge. So I don't understand your complaint. And if you want to take it up with anybody, take it up with a King family. Because the King family approved, and I can guarantee you cashed a check because of it.

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800-977-0542, 800-977-0542 or prepare with glen.com. Glenn back. There's a couple of things that I want to bring to your attention that are kind of difficult at times for people to understand because they feel good and, you know, don't, don't, don't, you know, pee all over the party. But it's always a careful balance. And this is something that we've been talking about for the last 10 years or longer. And that is the budget and jobs and how the monetary system works, how the Fed prints money, what it's trying to do. We've gone over shows last week. I did a chalkboard again on the velocity of money.

And that means how many times a dollar is spent by someone from the moment it's born at the printing press to the time it comes back to the Federal Reserve. So it goes from the Federal Reserve to the bank. The bank then loans that money to a business to, you know, increase, you know, and build new widgets. That money then is spent on buying something. So there's number one. The business buys something with it. Then whoever that dollar ends up in, they either put it in the bank, which they either put it in the bank, which then is return back to the Fed.

There's one. Or they spend it on something. They have to spend it on, you know, gas or food. So they spend it, let's say, at the grocery store. What does the grocer spend that dollar on? Because now we have two. If the grocer goes out and he buys something, let's say he wants to go buy a new TV.

There's three. What is the TV people? What do they spend that money on? Well, they've had a good year, and so they're going to go on vacation. There's four. When they go out on vacation, then they spend that at a restaurant, and they give it to a tip. As a tip, there's five. And it goes on and on and on.

When our country is doing well, that dollar is spent about 18 times, between 17 and 18 times, before it returns back to the place of its birth, the Federal Reserve. during the Great Depression, that number was, I think, 6.4, meaning the velocity, nobody was spending money. They were keeping their money. They would get it. They had to spend it on essentials, and then they would put it away. So it would return back to the bank, and it had no velocity. Nobody was buying anything they didn't need. It was in the mid-sixes, maybe 6.2 during the Great Depression, very low.

We're now at 5.6, and that's why they've been. been priming the pump. That's why they've been printing all this money trying to get somebody to spend it. Now, let me give you a couple of stories. We just repatriated, which means we just lowered the taxes down to, I think, 15 or, I think it's 20% for these companies like Apple. Apple has, I'm going to round around these numbers. They have, I think, about $300 billion outside of the country. U.S. dollars sitting in a bank doing nothing. They're now bringing that money back in because the taxes are low and that's why they're going to build new offices and new buildings and new products and they're hiring people and giving bonuses. The same with Microsoft, the same with

all of the big companies. The big companies have $2.4 trillion sitting overseas waiting to come home. That's why when we keep priming the pump, it's not going anywhere because people will buy things and then it will sit in a bank and it'll sit in the bank with these companies or it'll go to Wall Street with these companies. They're not spending it on you. They're not building new product because you're not buying them. So now we have two things going on. The federal government wants to do a trillion and a half dollar stimulus, which is again, they say it's for infrastructure. but it's just to get people spending money. At the same time, the government now is set to borrow a trillion dollars.

A trillion dollars. This is an important announcement that happened last week that nobody paid attention to from the Treasury Department. A trillion dollars this fiscal year. That is almost double what the government borrowed last year. It's an 84% jump. U.S. Treasury expects to borrow. $955 billion.

It was $519 billion last year. The uptick in borrowing is another complication in the heated debate in Congress of whether to spend more money on infrastructure, the military, disaster relief, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The debt is already up significantly, even before Congress, a lots more money

to any of these other areas. So what is the problem with this? I need to explain this. We need to go into what is spooking the market today? Inflation. Why is inflation a problem? Too few goods? Too much money chasing those goods.

Mercury. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck. You know, I like to watch the Super Bowl for the commercials, usually because the game is just boring as snot. and that comes, I know, from somebody who's not a sports fan, but come on. It's usually boring as not.

Last night was the exact opposite in so many ways. I thought the commercials were boring and yet maybe they weren't. The commercials last night told us something about what research tells people who are trying to sell us products. Because what they want to do is they want to continue. they want to convince you, I'm just like you. So where were they trying to convince us last night?

What were they trying to say? See, we're just like you. A beautiful newborn baby cries and fidgets in her hospital bed. She's perfect. A nurse lifts her up to comfort her. It's revealed that the child is missing both legs below the knee

and one arm. But she's still perfect. That was a Toyota commercial last night. Hitting a ball out of the park. It was a commercial for Toyota, but well, it wasn't. It was about a Paralympic gold medalist. In 60 seconds, we saw her birth. We saw her struggles to use her mechanical limbs.

We saw her failures and we saw her triumph. Now, if you believe in eugenics, you know, there's no quality of life for those born with deformities like that. I mean, but how can you possibly think that after watching Lauren thrive and go on to win eight gold medals? In that one minute, Toyota showed the world that all life matters. It's important to notice that, you know, or mentioned that there were no cars mentioned in the ad. Because that wasn't the point. Toyota wanted to reach in and say, we're just like you. They've transitioned or they are transitioning to something called a mobility company.

It's because cars are going to change. But they wanted to show that the technology that they're developing is going to help humanity. Dodge also opted to showcase their new technology, but the carmaker was heavily criticized for the commercial. It was a commercial for the Dodge Ram truck. I don't know if you've seen this or seen all of the... Oh my gosh, the outrage over it. Martin Luther King was used in the ad as speech serving as the background.

exactly the way that I don't even remember who did it last time with Paul Harvey and this is a farmer. This is the same thing. People are outraged that Dodge could use Martin Luther King's words to sell cars. I don't see it that way. Anytime we can listen to Martin Luther King, I think it's a good thing. And boy, do we need to hear his words of empowerment now? Yes, Dodge was selling their new ram truck,

but they were also selling and reinforcing what, we believe about ourselves, but we're not hearing it. That we're good. And we can serve each other. It doesn't have to be like this. In 120 seconds, the Toyota and Dodge commercials conveyed the message that advancements in technology could be used for good. But more importantly, I think in 120 seconds, Dodge and Toyota reflected who we really are and what we want to be.

It's Monday, February 5th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. So let me follow this path down the road for a second. What did the Super Bowl commercials really teach us last night? Because remember, you don't spend that kind of money without all kinds of testing. You're not sitting around in the room going, I don't know, let's throw this out and see what happens with this one. You're doing all kinds of testing.

So what did that testing apparently tell the ad makers? That Americans are tired. That Americans want hope. That Americans want somebody to articulate a vision that is good and hopeful. That we work together. We come together. That we become our greater selves again. That we are truly still the Americans that we've always wanted to be.

That's what the Super Bowl told us last night. all of those commercials, that's what they were selling to us. And remember, you can only sell something to people who believe they have a need for it. Our need is someone just saying, we're good. We are. We know it. We know it. We're good.

We're misguided. We have each gone his own way. We've lost sight of what's important. we've been convinced and some of it with reason that you know what we're not the country that we thought we were and yet at the same time we are much better than the country we think we are now it's really interesting how life is all about balance that's all it is i told my son you know he's we've battled back and forth i want to talk to you about this i've been meaning to talk to you about this i really need your help on something but i you know i took away his you know all of his

gaming and everything else and this is about two years ago and we went through it's really tough times and took it away and he finally understood but i'm not taking it away because i'm a mean dad i'm taking it away because, dude, you can't handle it. You can't handle it. You get lost in it. It's a balance. You have to be able to turn it off and go read a book. You can't become consumed by it.

But isn't that really not just games? Isn't that everything we do? Everything from our job, identifying who we are with our job, to whatever our vices. We have a problem right now that we don't. I don't think we believe in forgiveness anymore. I'm not sure we do. I don't think we, I think we just believe now that there are some people that aren't worthy of receiving forgiveness. You know, I'll never forgive you for that.

What does that even mean? It's hard to forgive, especially when somebody else, you know, is where they don't seem worthy of it. I mean, this guy, this guy, I mean, what, do you want me just to forgive him? Want me just to forgive? Yeah, well, yeah, kind of. No. The guy doesn't even get it. Somehow or another, we want people to be humbled enough. We want them. We want to see them give us the reason to forgive them. Now, imagine how ironic that seems to God. Really? Think of that. Think of Jesus in the end. Father forgive them for they know not what they do. He wasn't up there going,

These bastards, I'm never going to forgive you. I'm never, you're not humble enough. I'm not going to forgive you. Can you imagine that? No. But I think as hard as it is to forgive other people, I think it's harder to figure ourselves. We, it's, it's amazing because we don't understand balance.

It's exactly the same difficulty we have in forgiving other people. It's humility and worthiness. forgiving yourself, which is the only way to really make a change, it requires both humility and self-worth. Those things never go together. Has anybody noticed that? Humility and self-worth. If everything is going well, we begin to think, oh yeah, you know what?

We did it. We figured it out. I did it. I was, you wouldn't, honey, you wouldn't believe. I mean, I was amazing. I have just threaded this knee. like nobody else ever had. We begin to believe that it was us.

Look at me. And we become arrogant. And then when things aren't going so well, I failed. Man, I'm stupid. What is wrong with me? Man, just the dumbest. I'm the worst. Do you see your nakedness?

The snake whispered to Eve. You know what the problem with politicians? the politician is a direct reflection of us. And that's the problem today. You notice they have a lot of self-worth, no humility. They have the answer and they're not going to even consider any other answer. That's the answer. Look at what social media is doing to us.

Social media has invited us to share. But are we sharing? Or are we showing? We're not sharing. We're showing. We're showing other people. How smart we are. How rich we are.

How happy we are. How complete we are. That's what we're doing. We're showing the world what we want them to see. They don't see the rest. They see all the great things. And yet, studies have now shown between 2010 and 2018 with millennials, there is a 28% rise in suicide and a 40% increase in depression.

Why? Because we're doing the exact opposite of what that face book button says. Share. We're not sharing. We're showing. And what are we showing? We're showing lies. That's really what it is.

I'm just going to start taking pictures all worst times in my life. I think that's what I'm going to do. just when I look the worst, when my family's arguing, just start posting all that stuff. We all think, I shouldn't say that, how many of us think that we're the doctor? We're the doctor. I can fix that.

You know what? I mean, let me help you with that. Okay. It's not that hard. We forget we're not the doctor. We're in the same hospital, man. We just have different problems. But we all think that we're wearing the white coat.

when all of us really are wearing that stupid, I don't know who designed it, but we're wearing that stupid smock that opens up in the back and exposes the worst end of us. That's what we're doing. And we're all walking around in the hospital, you know, in those things with a back end hanging out going,

yes, well, I'm here to help you. Listen to me, I can help you. If we could just realize that we're wearing the surgical gown and how ridiculous we look we'd be humble. We all make mistakes, all of us. And then we try to bury them. We try to forget them, justify them,

and they gnaw at us, and they bend us, and they twist us, and they distort us. That's what's happening to America. That's what's happening to each of us. We've made critical errors. We've made certain decisions that are bending us and shaping us and twisting us out of shape.

We need a chiropractor. for our soul, man. We need somebody just to go, there, now. See, see, that's the way it's supposed to be. And if we don't stand up straight pretty soon, it won't feel right when you do. I think God laughs at us all the time.

I mean, because he sees us in the surgical gowns. He sees us with our worst end. And he's just shaking his head, looking at us going, what the hell? Here's what the Super Bowl commercials told us last night. Remember who you are. You've forgotten. Remember who you are.

Remember who you are, why you're here, and what you can be. Stop trying so hard to convince everyone else and yourself of what you are. Because you're none of those things. Here's who you are. You're a person just like everybody else. And you've got some really great things that you probably minimize. You probably don't even think because they're yours. I don't know, it just comes easy to me.

It's just, no, that doesn't. That's not as good as that. And we're all afraid of something. We're all afraid that somebody's going to see the back of our hospital gown. And our shame and our fear of exposure gets in the way of admitting we're not all that. Instead of just shaking our head and going, geez, man, we're all so much alike. Why don't we do that? Because we don't share.

All of us are frightened of something. of something. I think being found out is the biggest common fear. Being found out that, I don't know, we're not good enough, we're not smart enough. We don't ask questions because we don't want to feel stupid. We go along on things that we don't really, we don't really know, but I don't know everybody else. I don't want to be different. I'm not that smart. If people only knew that I would ever fill in the blank. If people ever found out that I fill in the blank, but that's the lie. So what are we going to do about it?

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That's 1-800flowers.com promo code Beck. Glenn Beck, Mercury. Glenn Beck. Geez, if people only knew who we are. Last night, I contend the Super Bowl told us exactly who we are. Those are well-tested commercials. And the theme last night is, it's a bright future. We can be better tomorrow than we are today.

All we have to do is help one another. Listen to this from Dodge Ram. You don't have to know about play to an Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know the theory of relativity, the surge, generated by love. So what does that say to you? Well, of course, it says buy a dodge-ram truck. But other than that, well, and also that the King family sold out for money for the commercial. But, okay, let's say, what is it really saying?

It's saying you don't have to be better than you are. You just need one thing. What is that one thing he said? More in a minute. Glenn Back. Mercury. It's the Glenn Beck program. I'm going to talk a little bit about the FISA memo and the role of the press that they have seemed to have forgotten and why this FISA memo is really important. We'll get into that coming up in just a little while and a little history that I think the press might want to, you know, they might want to keep, you know, in the dark, dusty parts of the library that nobody will ever read.

Unfortunately, I'm a history freak. and I remember some of these things. So I want to go back to the 1970s with the press. We'll do that coming up in just a few minutes because it seems as though they have forgotten a few things, both good and bad that they did. I really want to, I want to focus on answers. And it's really hard.

It's really hard. It's easy to get on the bandwagon and bitch about things. it's harder to say okay well or can we do anything about that last night in the super bowl uh i really think that the super bowl commercials said a couple of things uh one we're not we're not really willing to joke about anything anymore because if we're not a society just just ripe for mockery that we're never going to be i mean we are just so ripe for just somebody hammering us for all of the stuff that we're doing right now. But nobody's willing to do it.

Nobody's willing to go there. And it's going to get crazier and crazier until we do. Until we all just look at each other go, come on, dude. I mean, let me give you a couple of things. I'll give you a couple of things. Do you know, you remember when people you say, if we could just be more like Europe? Okay, I will go for that.

Could we be more like Europe? Let me give you this. Three states, Virginia, South Carolina, Iowa, prohibit abortion after the 28th week. 20 states say it's around 24 weeks. 11 states prohibit abortion after the 20th week. As a blanket rule, abortions are legal in every single state before pregnancy has reached its 20th week. Did you like to be more like Europe? Abortion is legal in England up to 24 weeks.

there is no time limit if there's risk to the women's life. The Netherlands mandates a five-day waiting period. Clinics have to provide women with information about abortion alternatives and only after that is the abortion legal until the 24th week. Hello? A waiting period. Hmm. A cooling off period. We have it for guns, but not other things that kill people. That's weird.

That makes England and the Netherlands more restrictive than 10 states in America. Socialist Sweden allows abortions until the 18th week of pregnancy, bans most of them after the 22nd week. In that four-week gray period, women can only get an abortion if it's approved by the National Board of Health and Welfare. In Spain, it's legal in the first 14 weeks. In Denmark, abortion is available on demand up to 12 weeks. weeks after pregnancies, with exceptions of rape and women's health. In Germany, abortions after the first 12 weeks of pregnancy banned.

That makes the abortion law in Germany more restrictive than the most restrictive in the United States, including Utah. You know, where all the Mormons live. Germany is more conservative than them. Belgium. It's legal until 12 weeks. France. France. It's legal until 12 weeks. Finland, 12 weeks.

If a woman can provide a social reason for seeking to terminate her pregnancy, such as poverty, which is extreme distress or already having at least four children. In Italy, any woman has 90 days from the date of conception to request an abortion. In Switzerland, it's up to 12 weeks. Do you still want to be more? Do you still want to be more like Europe left, do you? What did we learn last night from the Super Bowl commercials? Well, did you see the T-Mobile commercial?

Did you see the babies? Here's a refresher. Welcome to the world, little ones. Yeah, it's a lot to take in. But you come with open minds and the instinct that we are equal. Some people may see your differences and be threatened by them. But you are unstoppable. You'll love who you want.

You'll demand fair and equal pay. You will not allow where you come from to dictate where you're going. You will be heard, not dismissed. You will be connected, not alone. Change starts now. And you know what? If those words didn't have deeper political meetings, we would agree on all of that. Who doesn't want fair and equal pay?

Who doesn't want to be heard? You will be heard. That's the problem. people aren't being heard. People on the left, people on the right. I'm telling you, the only ones that are heard right now are the extremists on both sides. Are you being heard? Is the person who says, I agree with those, not in the political sense, but I agree with all of those things.

Do you feel you're being heard? I don't think so. Here's what I want you to do. I want you to risk telling the truth. I'm not, I'm not, let me, let me say, I want you to risk telling a truth, but not a truth for somebody else, a truth about you.

Something, something, risk this week, risk, share, as Facebook says. We don't share, we show. We pretend in the hospital of life that we're the doctors and not the patients. We are self-hating egotomaniacs, and that's the problem. I want you to just ponder that for a while. Self-hating egotomaniacs,

is that not, does that not describe who we are right now? We think we can fix the planet through spending programs. If that's not an egotomaniac, I don't know what it is. We think we can change the world with a hazard. The greatest thing to ever live is also the worst thing that has ever lived. Man, except we just can't forgive each other and we can't forgive ourselves for some reason or another. Because the other person is not worthy. They have, no, they have not been humbled enough.

No, no, no, no. And we can't forgive ourselves because people only knew. we have to expose ourselves. We have to admit that we have to come to a place of knowing that we're good, that we are that commercial, we are that baby. We believe those things. All of us, all of us, the person that we disagree with believes those things in a non-political way.

We believe that. We have to accept that in ourselves and accept that with others. we have to find the divine nature in ourselves and others and accept it divine nature while remaining humble wow when those two get out of whack it's trouble it's trouble i'm either not worthy or i'm the best thing ever we as a country USA USA or we're the worst ever we're neither of those we're both we're both worthy

and really in need of help the problem is we forget and even even the best of us forget even nailed on a cross my God my God

why have you forsaken me geez man if that guy had doubts what do you think I'm going to have about myself if that guy had a moment of I'm all alone. Why have you forsaken me? You know who we are? We're tired.

We're poor in spirit. We're struggling. And we're divine. And we're worthy. And we're good. And we're decent. We're kind. We're gracious.

We're smart. We're equipped. We have to first see ourselves in truth. And stop comparing ourselves to other people. on Facebook. Stop living the lie on Facebook. See what your life is really like. And you know what? Do you save your Christmas

cards? Because we save our Christmas cards. We put them up on the kitchen cabinets. We look at them. We see all these families and they're all so happy and they're also great. I mean, that was the precursor to Facebook. The Christmas cards with everybody's in, you're like, geez. And then you get some somebody who writes this.

long-ass letter about, hey, this is what we've been doing this year. And you're like, oh, shut up. I barely have time to write my name, let alone a digest of what I did with my family this year and how great things are. And you start to go, crap. How can they can hold it together? They can't. They can't. They can't. They got other problems. No matter what you see on Facebook, no matter what you see on somebody's Christmas card last year. It's not. We're all wearing a backless hospital surgical gown. We are all, this is a hospital man and none of us are the doctors. We're all struggling with something.

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Hey, good to talk with you. I did not watch the game, so I didn't see any of the commercials. However, it just strikes me that what you're talking about in the commercials that you reference, there seems to be an underlying theme of, let's make America great. Now, where have I heard that before? Somewhere. Well, I think that's, I mean, I mean, I would prefer not to turn it. it to politics, but I don't think that's the same message.

You didn't see the commercials. It is about making America great, but how, Dennis, do you make America great? Hopefully go back to the way it used to was. All right. I'm not sure what that means, but okay, Dennis, thank you for your call. I guess you're right if you mean we go back to the principles that made us good. The only reason why America is great, we're not great because of our, you know, industrial might. We're not great because of any of that. We're great because we're good.

We've always been a place to where people come and they say the Americans are just different. They're kinder. They're more open. They're more helpful. That's why we're great. We're good. And when we're good to one another, we can accomplish anything. And I think that was the message last night. in the commercials. It wasn't political. Even though somebody might have wanted to make it political on either side wasn't really political. It was hey, let's find our core and let's be good again.

Glenn Beck. Mercury. Courage. Truth. Glenn Beck. Progressivism is a disease, I think. It's a disease of the mind that once it takes hold,

it's over for you. I believe is terminally ill with progressivism now. The U.S. prognosis is really a critical condition ourselves. Canada's Senate approved changing a line in their English version of their national anthem, Oh Canada. They wanted to make it gender neutral. The second line of the anthem will now be true patriot, love in all of us command, rather than the oppressive and insanely offensive, old version.

true patriot love in all thy sons command. So now that their anthem isn't sexist anymore, and I am not kidding you, I am not kidding you, in Sweden, the lions, okay, on their shield, I'm trying to think of a way to say this, the lions on their shield, their crest of their country, which is, I don't know how many centuries old, they have these lions on the shield,

and it's easy to paint. It's harder to do it with sculpture, but they actually did it. They carved, they went and they painted over, or they took a chisel and knocked the genitals off of all of the lions. Because women said it was oppressive. Look it up. Canadians, now that you're not sexist anymore, feel free to sing your national anthem at any time.

Somehow I doubt that the Canadian senators checked with the people. because that's not the way progressives operate. They just do it. Most Canadians, I would bet, preferred leaving the anthem alone. You know, they've had a song that way for over a century. Nobody is dying because of sexism over the stupid national anthem.

This is why we didn't have a national anthem until FDR. Canadian feminist author Margaret Atwood was one of the people behind this effort. Now, she wrote the novel The Handmaid's Tale. You know, you can look that one up or insight into her feelings on tradition and faith and, you know, conservatives. She's very, very subtle. But I will tell you, I've defended her recently because she said enough of the Me Too movement, this is getting dangerous. Even she has some common sense.

She's the one that, you know, got them to remove this offensive line. This is the dark side of progressivism everywhere. It presumes to know what is best for you. But it's always the agenda of a very few forced on the majority. Sometimes the agenda or feelings of just one individual. That's when it becomes a dictatorship. But that's where everybody is headed. I mean, the world over.

Progressivism claims to say, we're going, what? We're more free. Are we? We're more free now because you're free. forcing us to live a life that you agree with. You're forcing me to say the things that I may not agree with. That's more free? Yes, we're more free and more healthy. That's what brings Michelle Obama dictating what your local school, what your cafeteria has to serve. Or a mother in Webster Parish, Louisiana, who got student-led prayer banned from her daughter's high school.

wasn't a problem with anybody who's a problem with her well now you can't do it respect for tradition as a stabilizing enriching agent in society is one of the key diverging points of the left and the right in the U.S

and decades of progressivism chipping away at the things like religion the flag the constitution patriotism in general all the way to the last president's apology tour it has created an enormous backlash from heartland

Americans on both the left and the right to the point where a whole section of Trump's State of the Union speech was a lecture on respecting the flag, respecting the anthem, respecting the motto, respecting our traditions. It's sad that we have sunk so low that the state of union has to be turned into a

stinking prep rally. Nothing like going to those pep rallies and we did it. We were USA, we USA, USA, Go Bulldogs. We were a pep rally. That's it. it's easy to laugh at the Canadians for wimping out on the national anthem. But look out, progressivism is a persistent and progressive disease. Don't think that it can't happen here.

It's Monday, February 5th. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. You know, last hour I talked a little bit about arrogance. Self-hating egomaniacs. And we either believe the worst in our sense. or we believe that we are just we there's nothing can conquer us as people we're either the best or the worst and and sometimes that combination gets really dangerous when when the worst people begin to believe they're the best and quite honestly it's it usually

happens because they want to fit in individuals want to fit into a group it's really hard not to be popular. I mean, it's so much easier. It really is. It's so much easier to be popular. Just go along with the crowd. What? Just go along with the crowd.

Standing up for something. Standing against something. That's really difficult. And you would think that, you know, the people who have been forced to live their life in a closet, for whatever reason, you would think that they would be the first to say, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

let's not shove other people in the closet. You would think that with the arrogance of the press, that they would remember what made them arrogant. It was their successes. Okay. What were your successes? Well, we exposed what? You exposed what?

You exposed people of going wrong. But here's what the press believes. They expose a party for going wrong. They expose one ideology for going wrong. To watch the press bend over backwards over something that is really quite simple. And when I say press, I mean press on both sides. I heard people on the right say that everybody, you know, everybody needs to be, this whole thing needs to be dismissed.

There's nothing to Carter Page. There's nothing to Flynn. There's nothing to Manafort. Hold on just a second. Wait a minute. I don't get that from that memo. What I get from that memo is the government has gone wrong. What I get from the memo, if it is accurate,

is that the government has become so arrogant and they are so, they are so in bed with the press and the left, that they believe that they can get away with anything. that they can go to a FISA court, a secret court, and leave really important things out, and no one will care. And the press is so arrogant that they just don't think that their side could ever do it. They're so blind. Have they watched their own movie, The Washington Post?

If you haven't seen that movie, you should. It's really good. And it's really, I think it's really fair. The Tom Hanks character is there like, holy cow, Jack Kennedy, I thought Jack Kennedy was a friend. No, no, he wasn't a friend. As it points out in the movie, he was keeping his,

he was keeping the people that could make his life and excuse him of a lot of things very close. That's what happened, Bill Bradley. That's what happened. And he figured that out in the movie, but apparently the people in the press don't get that. Why? Because they have an agenda.

So the Washington Post, they expose all the president's men. They expose Watergate. And what was Watergate? Watergate was not about a break-in. It was about spying on your competition and then using that information and trying to twist it and use it in the press.

Then, after the break-in was discovered, then it was about the president. instructing the FBI and justice department to go rogue and start to use resources to obstruct justice to make sure that this was all covered up. It was the cover-up that was the problem. Now, I don't know about you, but boy, man, a lot of this sounds familiar. What is this really about? It's about Russia trying to get information and then using that information in the press to affect the society, to get us all to not believe. in the Democrats or the Republicans and to start fighting against each other.

And did the FBI and the DOJ do exactly what they were doing in Watergate? Now, if you listen to any of the punants this weekend, you absolutely not. That's not possible. How could you possibly say that? Well, I don't know. It's happened before. What makes you so sure it's not happening now? I mean, I want the facts.

I don't want all of this. I don't want people drawing conclusions on what's true because I don't know what's true yet. But I know it's true in the past. Our founders knew the First Amendment had to be protected. But that halo of justice that the press gets, man, it's, I mean, it's a little tarnished.

Let's just put this in the best terms. Journalists, even the very best are human. In 1980, the same Washington Post with the same editor, Bill Brad, Ben Bradley, He wanted to expand the readership of the Post into the black community. And so the paper made an effort to hire more minority journalists. One of them, her name was Janet Cook.

She was a black female reporter from Ohio. She was an aggressive reporter. She was a good writer. She was a fast rising star. I mean, she was, I mean, the Washington Post was in its heyday. And it had a very competitive environment. and she really wanted to break a big story and win a Pulitzer Prize. So she went, she was asked to write a story about DC's growing heroin problem.

And she thought, this is great. I'm going to win a Pulitzer on this one. So she went into the inner city of D.C. She went to the places where heroin, the epidemic at the time, was the worst. And she learned that she was, you know, that the children were heroin addicts, and she was appalled by this. And then she found a little boy, eight years old, heroin addict. His name was Jimmy.

And she knew she had her hook. She could see the Pulitzer. She wrote her feature story called Jimmy's World. And it blew away all of the editors at the post. Bob Woodward, who is then the assistant managing editor. editor. He's the guy who said, this has to, this got to be a front page story. Quoting, Jimmy is an eight-year-old and a third-generation heroin addict. Prococious little boy with sandy hair, velvety brown eyes and needle marks frecking the baby smooth skin of his thin brown arms.

He nestles in a large beige reclining chair in the living room of his comfortably furnished home in southeast Washington. There's almost a cherubic expression. on his small round face as he talks about life and clothes and money, the Baltimore owes, and heroin. He's been addicted since the age of five. The readers were hooked and appalled and saddened. The mayor's office instructed the police. We've got to get this boy medical treatment, but Jimmy had disappeared, gone underground. No one knew where he was. Cook said, Ben, you don't understand. I promised them anonymity.

I promised them that this wouldn't happen, and now it has, and they've gotten out. Also, mom's boyfriend had threatened the boy's life if they discovered his whereabouts, because he's not going to prison. People were even more outraged. Now what was going to happen to Jimmy. A few months later,

Cook on her dream. She won her Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. She had to submit some autobiographical information to the prize committee, but there was a slight snag there. The committee contacted the post when they couldn't verify that Cook had graduated from Vassar College, magna cum laude. Turns out she only attended Vassar her freshman year. She actually graduated from the University of Toledo with a BA degree,

not with a master's degree, as she told the Pulitzer Committee. So they called her in for an explanation. Unfortunately, for her, the Washington, Post had some real problems and they knew they were brewing here because her resume lies were the least of her lies. After hours of grilling, she finally confessed that Jimmy's world was entirely made up. A little sandy brown-haired boy with big, beautiful eyes, needle marks on his arms. None of that was true. So here's the Washington Post. The paper that uncovered Watergate, the biggest political scandal in American history.

They failed to even vet her resume. It was published a front page Pulitzer Prize winning feature story that was 100% made up and nobody caught it. Well, that can't happen. How could the same place produce a golden standard of journalism during Watergate and the worst-case scenario of journalism with Jimmy's world? the answer is we're all human we're all human remarkably neither ben bradley or bob woodward resigned over the incident this is a different time and maybe the all the president's men halo maybe that helps save them

i tell you this story not to say see it's all fake news because it's not we have to get past this idea that one side of the isles news is always false sometimes it's It's true. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's true in the newspapers. Sometimes it's true about the journalists. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's true about the government. Sometimes it's not. But we know this. If there isn't someone standing guard that says, you know what, I'm going to vet that. You know, hang on just a second. I'm just not going to go, you're my friend and I love you and everything, but I got to do my job. That's something that's not right here. Journalists, do your damn job. and America will be a better place for it.

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I mean, what happened? This is not the way it's supposed to work out. We'll talk a little bit about that and the messages that we found in the commercials that I think are interesting this year. And the game itself coming up in just a second. Glenn, back. Mercury is the Glenn Beck program.

What kind of parallel universe do we live in where the game is really good and exciting? The commercials are bad. Half time is good and non-controversial. The Patriots lose and the Eagles win. Oh, and a dead guy did a duet during the halftime. Which people are upset by. Yeah.

I mean, it's not like Prince is deep. I think he said that he didn't want that. He was a popular pop star who died of an overdose. I mean, well, he didn't want the duet thing being done, but that's sort of not what he did. He just projected him on a big sheet. He sang with him. I thought it was great. That's a duet.

I loved it. I thought it was great. I mean, it was amazing because how did the prince estate lose control of that? Yeah. So they couldn't stop it. And Martin Luther King with that Dodge Ram commercial, his family, you know this. If there's anybody that they should be pissed off at, it's the King family. They're the ones who okayed it.

They sold it. Right. Yeah. Or at least okayed it. They made money from that. They made a lot of money from that. I refuse to hear that. Yeah.

Well, it's true. A lot of people do refuse to hear it, but they need to. Really? Yeah, it's not Dodge. You should be pissed off at. It's the King family. So did you see that they had? to grease. They actually use

Crisco to grease the light poles in Philadelphia. Yeah, so people wouldn't climb up them. Yeah. And they did anyway? Yeah, they did anyway. I don't know if you saw this. They turned over cars. They set things on fire. Yeah, I mean, they did, they did five million dollars of improvements

to Philadelphia last night. But I'm, yeah. Yeah. You get that joke if you lived in Philadelphia. Yeah. Wow. I've never understood, though, the setting your city on fire because you won the Super Bowl. I don't get that.

No, and I, you know, I watched last night, I tweeted this out. I just love dummies on tape. You know, I love people who are doing something illegal, and they're like, here, give me on Facebook. It's not going to work out well for you, dude. It's just not going to work out well. I'm glad they do it, but it's stupid.

It's wildly entertaining. Yeah, it is. Wildly entertained. Did you get the feeling last night that this was the real life Apollo Creed, Rocky Balboa. Yeah. All the way through it. I'm like Tom Brady is Apollo Creed. He's the guy

who's supposed to win. He's got everything. And here comes Philadelphia. With a guy with a second or third string quarterback who does incredibly well and pulls it out for him. Yeah, it was like Apollo Creed and Rocky. So can I ask you a politically incorrect question? Mm-hmm. What happened? I mean, Philadelphia, what happened? With third, with third string, what happened? Is this what's been going on? You know, they're, they've all come together. And I'm not saying this is God making them win. But they all came together and united around something. They did. Bigger and better. Yeah. Well, that's what we were just talking about this in the other room. I mean, this has been a really spiritual year for the Eagles. And it may have bonded them together in a way that,

Other teams weren't bonded together. And I'm not saying that God wanted them to win the Super Bowl. I don't think he cares. But for them being on his side, you know, it doesn't hurt, right? I mean, when you, when you commit your life to God, good things are going to happen. You know that. Well, I mean, you know, I'm just thinking of, you know, Lincoln, Martin, Luther King, Paul.

Jesus. I mean, yes, good things all happened in the end. But, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't like they were like, hey, I'm going to Disney. It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to win the Super Bowl. Yeah, it's not, you know, Paul wasn't like, hey, hey, and after they hang me up, they crucify me upside down, I'm going to see Mickey Mouse. There were some good times in between, though, for Paul. There were some good times in between.

Yeah. Yeah. Between the road and the hanging upside down. There's some good things that happened. Can I ask you something? Once you've been crucified, doesn't that kind of kind of, you know,

all the good times leave? You know, you're looking back on your life, you're like, those are good times. It ended in crucifixion, which wasn't always the best. So what happens to Tom Brady now?

I think he goes to another Super Bowl next year. I think that's what happens to him. He'll be back for his ninth next year and probably win that one. They just can't be stopped. The Patriots just can't be stopped. I don't understand it. I would just like to remind you that less than 24 hours ago, they were stopped.

Yeah, but they were in it again. I mean, they have lost three of these now, but they won five. So they'll be back again. It's already eight in 14 years. I'm a little sick of them. Can I ask you this? Can I ask you this? Did you have any idea how screwed up we were?

as a nation. Did you know that Justin Timberlake is now known as the King of Pop? No. Oh my gosh. Yes. Yes. Yes. I got the lecture of my life from my children last night. From Mary who is 30, all the way down to Cheyenne,

who is 12. But Justin Timberlake is the King of Pop. That's what they call him. Dad, he is the biggest star of our generation. He is our Michael Jackson. They call him the King of Pop. No, they don't. No, they do not. Justin Timberlake. I can name one song. I knew the one.

Bring sexy back. That's about it. I don't even know that one. I didn't know the trolls one because we haven't watched that. Oh, I've watched trolls, so I knew that one. Wow. Yeah, I watched that last night. I thought, you know, he's good, but I'm like, he's the king of pop now?

Really? That guy? Wow. The in sync guy? The king of pop guy needs to have better audio people because his audio was really bad last night. That's weird because I didn't know. Uh-uh. No, I didn't. I watched the whole thing. Didn't, didn't catch it. Didn't catch it. Yeah, it was out of phase and too low and it was just really bad. The king of pop should ask for better, better audio people, I think, next time. I thought it was

pretty good. I yeah, it wasn't bad. It wasn't terrible. And I did like the Prince thing, which I guess I'm not supposed to. And I like the thing when he went up into the crowd with a little kid, you know, that little kid's a star now and stuff. That was cool. I couldn't help but watching, watch that kid. He took a picture. He took a selfie. But then here's Justin Timberl.

The Super Bowl. The Super Bowl. He's on camera next to Justin Timberlake, who I don't know if you know this is the King of Pop. And he gets his selfie and then he spends the rest of the time looking down at his camera. And looking at the photo or I don't know what he's doing. What Timberlake is right there. next to him. Yeah, he's looking at his phone.

That's how we live now, right? Right. We live through our phone. Dude, he's right next to you. This is happening in real time. I know you got your picture. How about exploring, you know, seeing the rest of it. Interact with him. It was crazy. Yeah. It was crazy. That is

where we are, though. I see that. You see that all the time. People go to Disneyland and live it through their phone. I just want, I'm just not, I just like to live the moment. I don't Of course, I'm not the right person for that because I never use the phone.

And neither do you. So we're not the right people to be talking about this. No. But when you think about who else could there be for King of Pop for that title, I don't have to give that title out. I guess not. Look, if there's a plague,

okay, if there's a plague and there's only like a hundred of us left and Pat and I are the most talented you don't name me or Pat the king of pop. You just don't. I don't think we have to tell anybody that. There's no kingdom that must be given over once the last king dies.

You know, it's just doesn't work that way. Could I ask you a question about the Trump investigation and the FISA memo? Yeah. What are your thoughts? I thought it was anticlimactic as usual. I thought the, I mean, what are the memo? really tell us. And now they're doing

an anti-memo memo against that memo. Yeah. And that's probably not going to be a big deal either. I just didn't seem to have a lot of there there.

It's really interesting because I was watching the news and I didn't relate to either side. Yeah, I don't have it. I watched it on Fox and I thought, okay, I'm going to get some information on Fox. No, I really didn't. What I got was,

this is the biggest thing of all time and all investigations must end and Donald Trump should be given a second term as an apology. It was like, wait, what? Then I flip over and the mainstream media is just as bad. There is absolutely nothing to this. This shows that Donald Trump is the guy we thought he was. No, it doesn't say that either. No. It didn't say much of anything to me.

It did about Carter Page. Yeah, but he was under investigation prior to the campaign. I know. I know. But it goes to, it only goes to this, and this is nothing to do with Trump, that you had Flynn, who was doing nefarious things. Yeah, and we already know that. Yep. You had Manafort doing nefarious things,

and you had Carter Page who may have been doing nefarious things, but he's so dumb that he may not have known it. Oh, my gosh. So it shows that Russia was trying to talk. target exactly, let me flip this away from Trump, exactly the way they were trying to target Hillary and according to the FBI, a vast number of people in Congress and in the Senate for uranium 1. They have a real network that is trying to infiltrate at the highest levels. That's what that shows. And that's what we should be focused on. Correct. But we're not. Not at all.

No. Nobody's even talking about that. Nobody's even worried about the fact that the Russia are involved in our system. And I don't think we're going to go anywhere with this. I don't either. I think both sides have just drawn this impossible line that it either means nothing at all or it means everything. No. No, this memo doesn't.

Release the actual FISA documents. By the way, you know how they said, this is this is going to hurt national security people might die because of this. What? Can you? I can't. No. You read the whole thing, right? Yes. There was nothing redacted. There was nothing. There was nothing to see. There was no names. There was nothing. Nothing security was at all.

Nothing. So why was the DOJ and the FBI so upset? Why did they say this was so dangerous and so reckless? What, what, what was in it? They just didn't want it released, right? Which kind of makes the case. It does. Doesn't it? Yeah, it does.

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to preface us with, I'm at work, and I don't listen to you very often, and I think it's a bit of serendipity that I happened to listen to you a while ago. The first thing I heard was MLK saying something about having a heart full of grace. Yeah. And then you talked about being honest with yourself, and you went on on that line for quite some time. I served our country in the second of the 75th Ranger Regiment. And I've been honest with myself, ever since I got out, I've hated myself. I've despised myself. And I'm a husband and I'm a father.

And what you said, you know, it's hard for people to reach me at a certain level because I don't want people to because I like to keep people away from me except for my wife and my daughter. I'm not a huge people person. I don't like people, and I think it's because I don't like myself. I've never really had an epiphany moment in my life. I certainly never expected one from Glenn back. But that's what happened.

I had to pull my truck over, and it moved me to tears to realize how much I can't stand myself and how much... of an issue I have being the kind of person that I need to be to guide my family, and all because of the fact that I don't serve anymore, and I feel useless. I feel emasculated, and I have no idea how I got to this point today. I have no idea why I'm at this point right now,

because I certainly didn't expect it, and I certainly didn't expect it at the time that it happened, but I'm glad that it did. I just wanted to let you know that. I just have to tell you, you're not alone, brother, and I have been in exactly your place. I've been there, and it gets better. It really does. Now that you've recognized it, now you can start taking baby steps, and a year from now, you won't recognize how great your life is.

Thanks for calling. Glenn, back. Mercury.