The Glenn Beck Program - 8/15/17 - Protect the words that make people angry

Episode Date: August 15, 2017

Kim Jong Un blinked. President Trump won. ...The world changes directions quickly ...The mainstream media is burning down ...An MLK speech turned into song ...Protect the words that make you angry ...Communists, Nazis & their connection leading back to the 1920s ...Update on Priority Health & Bubby Cruzan's treatment ....Americans are treading water and need their savings to do so ...Don't give your power away to a populist cause. ... The Glenn Beck Program with Glenn Beck, Pat Gray, Stu Burguiere and Jeff Fisher, Weekdays 9a–12pm ET on TheBlaze Radio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network On Demand. Hello America, here is what you need to know today. He blinked. North Korea's Kim Jong-un. Despite all of his aggressive, crazy-sounding rhetoric, he blinked and backed down. He called off the missile launch over Guam.

This is a very big deal. And right now, the press is. is not going to give the president the accolades he deserves. Apparently, he is not so crazy Kim Jong-un, nor the president, and cooler heads have prevailed. This appears at the moment to be a big victory, I think, for Donald Trump. Several factors are involved in this decision. It's not just Donald Trump. it is that China's stance and the pending UN sanctions were coming down hard on North Korea.

The world gathered. But is there any doubt that the world gathered because Donald Trump's tough talk scared the pants off of everybody else? And they were like, this guy just might do it. It kind of goes back to my twitchy eye want in a president. I don't want him to actually have a twitchy eye. I just want all of the enemies of the world to think he has a twitchy eye. This may be one of the biggest things this president has done even bigger than the Supreme Court if we have some sort of Cold War peace. Mainstream media is not going to give the president credit, but we have to give the president credit where credit is due.

For now, on this issue, President Trump won the peace. And if your media source is not telling you that, you know what? Maybe you need to get a new media source. Enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. I'm glad you're here today. We're going to go back over the news outlets.

of North Korea. Some will say I'm being far too generous, and I will tell you this. I don't think I am for the moment. It may turn out that this is a false piece. I'm not sure, but let's root for peace. Now, let's talk about the peace that we're seemingly losing on the streets of America.

Do not believe it. do not believe the things that the media is trying to tell you right now. First of all, understand this. The media is in full-fledged collapse. It is in collapse. I don't think anybody... How can I explain this? Six years ago, I got the Disruptor of the Year Award,

which killed Tribeca. to give me. For what? For breaking the back of the media and going out on our own. Six years ago, when I told Bill O'Reilly this, he said, Beck, what are you doing? Nobody's going to watch, nobody's going to watch your show and watch TV on their desktop. And he's right.

We're all watching television now on our phones. I designed a company around trying to convince people to watch television on the internet. That happened quickly. And the world moved in that direction quickly. Not that I was leading it. I was just the first guy walking out into the darkness going, okay, hello. Is this mic on?

Is anybody listening? today, I'm already out of date. We're already dinosaurs. Now imagine if you are a network and you have all the global resources, most of that is worthless. The numbers all across the board in advertising and ratings,

they're all down on both sides. They're all down. So what do you do? Well, the media has decided what they're going to do is they're just going to feed you more anger, more hate, more division. Because after all, that's what drives the clicks. That's what people are watching. If it bleeds, it leads. And nobody is working on another theory.

It's binary. You either shout hatred from the rooftops or you're out of business. That is not going to last. but it's deeper than that before I left Fox and only my close staff knows this but every single day towards the end

every day multiple times a day what did I say, Stu, to our staff about leaving Fox and getting out of that you don't remember? Do you remember? It's all going to burn down. It's all going to burn down. We got to get out of here before this whole thing burns down.

The media. Got to get out of here before. It's burning down. And it's burning down from the sins of the past, but it's also burning down because of technology. Everything's changing. And it needs to. It's good.

But you yourself also have to say, am I in a new world or am I fighting to hold on to the old world? And I'm not talking about principles. Well, actually, I am. Are you going to go into the new world with your principles, or are you going to leave them in the past? Are you going to abandon all of your principles to be able to hold on to something that is going to slip through your fingers?

Everybody, the high and mighty, CNN, fair and balance, they're not fair in balance, we're fair and balance, we're journalists. No, you're not. You're giving me opinion from dawn until dusk. I'm trying to remember what I read on a on a on a Chiron or the lower third

what do you call those the typing on the the so for the audience knows the typing words on bottom of screen yeah the words on the bottom of the screen and I was watching I don't remember which network it was MSNBC or CNN and at the bottom of the screen

Donald Trump was talking and it was from his speech earlier in the day and it said something like Donald Trump's divisive speech there's no news in that

there's no news that's all opinion his divisive speech now we could all think that it was very divisive except if we all thought it was divisive it wouldn't be divisive now would it would be Donald Trump's most agreeable speech or the speech

Donald Trump gave that everyone disagrees with. Its opinion the night before Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. He gave a speech. That speech, part of that speech has been turned into song.

That speech is so worth your time reading. You want to talk about courage. There was one line that jumped out at me reading it again. over the last couple of days. Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

Now, this is going to sound harsh because nobody likes to hear it about themselves, but America is very selfish. We all are very selfish right now. All of us. Facebook. Whose face? YouTube. Everything is about us. We are increasingly inward focused and isolated.

Our kids are on the internet. Our kids are not looking up or out. It's all in. We don't know our neighbors. We're increasingly turning against church. Forget church. We're isolating ourselves in

little teeny communities where even our friends and our closest friends and our family is being kicked out of that community if they disagree with us. Technology is pouring gasoline on this.

Information, entertainment has become our teacher and our God. The more inward-focused a person becomes the more susceptible he is to slip into the darkness. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick. Who can understand it? When a person is too inward focused and slipping into darkness, technology and the media is there with the gasoline and the matches. Everything we're talking about right now is selfish.

It's all about my problems, my pain, my needs, my cause, my rights, my vengeance. Now more than ever, we need to develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. We need to stop asking what our country can do for me. It's interesting to me that Derek Weimer, James Field Jr.'s former high school history teacher in Kentucky, has already admitted he feels like he failed in not doing more about the warning signs he saw in last weekend's killer. Weimer says Fields was a very bright kid, but very misguided and disillusioned. I'm quoting, a lot of boys get interested in the Germans and the Nazis because they're interested in World War II. But James took it to a whole other level, end quote.

he said Fields wrote a deeply researched paper about the Nazi military during World War II. It was obvious that he had this fascination with Nazism and the idolatry of Adolf Hitler. He had white supremacist views. He really believed in that stuff. And when you're a teacher and you see one of your former students do this, it's a nightmare scenario. this is something that was growing in him and I admitted I failed I tried my best

this is a teachable moment and something we need to be vigilant about because this stuff is tearing our country apart I have to tell you I don't blame the teacher in fact I commend him for being honest honest about his influence on fields how many people want to stand up How many people have stood up and said, you know what?

I played a role in this. Nobody says that after a tragedy. Nobody stands up and says, yep, yep, I saw it. And I failed to do anything about it. People often say, oh, you know, I saw it. My dog knew. Oh, man, every time I walked by his apartment door, my dog knew. But I should have listened to my dog, but I didn't.

No, this is saying I saw it, not my dog, and I didn't do enough. You know the great thing about life? I had a guy in my office. You know, let me take a break because I saw something this weekend in somebody that was such an amazing moment. He looked at God as this kind, gentle, and I think God is. But because he's also our dad, our father, he also, excuse the expression, is the biggest ass kicker in the world. Daddy loves us so much, he'll kick our ass for our sake, for our benefit. Not because he's angry, not because he's vengeful, but because the system he's, he's,

designed allows you to do the things that you want to do. But he also says, by the way, you know, snowblower should not be used on the roof. But when he tells you that and you decide to do it anyway and you fall and you break your neck and your arm is sucked into the snowblower and torn off, there's no, you don't sue God. He told you. He's mad at me. Nope, nope. He told you that was a stupid idea.

Now you pay the price. We have to be dangerously unselfish and reach beyond ourselves, reach out to the youth, the neighbors, the people who are obviously hurting and trying to shift their focus and ours outward. Evil is real. And sometimes it takes over a person, and they can't be rescued.

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I want to tell you about a couple of, I believe that a miracle is nothing more than a change in perspective. I know that to be true. I know that to be true because when I was sobering up and I was trying really hard to change and be somebody else, I prayed, and I don't recommend this, I prayed for humility. Oh my gosh. There's like an alarm bell that goes off and that one is answered every single time. Yeah, yeah, we got a kid with cancer. Yeah, yeah. We're getting around to that one. Somebody's praying for humility.

Answered every time. Because it is the key to changing your life. I'd been praying for it. And I had a friend who was a Hindu kind of karma person. and I had been talking to them about, you know, praying for humility and they thought that was wonderful. And I remember I came back and I was the operations manager of three radio stations in Connecticut at the time and the morning guy. And I was an egomaniac and, you know, everything else. And praying for humility.

And a guy came in from Clear Channel and fired me as the operations manager but couldn't fire me as morning show host because they needed me. And he gave me, he wanted me to quit. So he gave me the worst job. I mean, I was practically emptying the garbage. He was humiliating me. I said to my friend that afternoon, I can't believe it. I was so mad. And she looked at me and she said,

I thought that's what you were praying for. Isn't this a gift? Yes. A miracle is a change of perspective. What is your perspective on what's happening to you or in your life today. Mercury. Program.

Hello, America. So, there's a couple of things. The amazing way this is all being spun in the media that is making all of us believe that the country is full of Nazis and the right believes that the Nazis are okay and that the left is completely clean or that it's just the media that is stirring this up.

None of that is true. None of that is true. Do we have more Nazis in America than I thought? Yeah. Do we have more communist in America than I thought? Yeah. Are there people trying to get us to tear each other apart? Yeah.

Is the media making this into more than it is? Yeah. Is the right media also blaming everything on the media and not looking in and doing any self-reflection? As we accused the left media of doing? Yeah. But that's not the problem. That's really not the problem. But can we just, can we just take these one by one?

Does anybody really believe that Donald Trump is a secret Nazi? No. Right? No. Does anybody believe that Donald Trump is a secret clan member? No. Does anybody believe that Donald Trump is secretly in bed with Vladimir Putin, because he thinks he can control the world or thwart America or he's got some business packed with Putin that screw America.

Does anybody believe that? No. No, I don't. Stu's... No, you think... No. I'm... No.

Let me rephrase. No, let me just ask the next question. Do we believe that Donald Trump or... people around him are no different than the Democrats were when they brought in communist and Marxist, radicals, bill airs, people who want to destroy the country because they believe they can use those guys as fuel, as useful idiots for votes, for fundraising, or whatever. Do we believe that the right is just as guilty as, the left. There's definitely aspects

of that that are true. Tell me what's happening on campuses, Stu. Well, I mean, there's a great story in National Review today about how the alt-right, which should be a giant nothing, right? I mean, it should be a giant

zilch in our world. However, a lot of conservative groups, particularly campus conservative groups, gave a platform to people like Milo, whatever his name is, to, because they thought it was something, well, we'll get a lot of attention for our group. Yeah, it's kind of crazy, but we'll bring him in and it'll piss off the other side,

and we'll get some attention, and we'll get to play the victims, because, you know, it will look like people are cracking down on free speech, and we'll be able to push back on that and say, hey, we're free speech people, and they embraced that part of it, a lot of things that are good, right? I mean, like, free speech is good. We all obviously believe it. And we obviously want people to look at the viewpoints of the right. The problem is when you adopt people like this, they change your organization.

They change who you are. When you allow your principles to go out the window for a burst of attention, you give up something of yourself. And so many groups did this, many which we like, frankly, that wind up embracing this sort of mindset when it didn't feel like a threat. Now we're at a point where, you know, there's people running over people in protest lines and, and the same people that Milo was saying was the intellectual centerpiece of the movement he was talking about, the alt-right, that guy, Richard Spencer, is the guy leading these rallies and doing Nazi salutes. And, you know, so you can say there's a, at one point there was probably a point where. you could say, well, look, I mean, you know, he's not really doing that.

I'm sure he's not really that person. You know, Breitbart's got a lot of really good stories. And they do. Breitbart has some good stories. They do take viewpoints that everyone in this room would agree with. But when you allow that to infest and infect your world, it changes your world and it changes you. So can somebody tell me, Alt, right? Alt is the shorthand for what word?

Hmm. Alternative. Altometer? No. Alternator? No. Seriously, it is. Alternate.

Alternate. Somebody define alternate for me? Something used instead of something else. Something used instead of something else. So if it's the alternate right, what it's saying is, We are something to be used instead of the conservative constitutional movement. The literal definition of alternate is taking the place of. Hmm.

Hmm. So the alt-right, which the right opened its doors and said, come on in, announced we are the group that will take the place of you. And I made this point kind of yesterday when we were talking about the office where, you know, Dwight Shrut was assistant, he was an assistant regional manager, as he always tried to say. He was assistant to the regional manager. And, you know, you could look, there's varying things around the right. There's a libertarian right.

There's a, you know, social conservative right. There's different movements among the right. But the alt right is not an alternative right. It is an alternative to the right. You know, it is a, it's a different movement completely. Much as much as the left is. Yes. And alternate to the right.

It is a, it's an alt left. When you look, for Democrats, when they took in the left, it was the new left. You can read all about the new left. When you read about what the new left really is, it was to supplant, subvert the constitution and by using the vehicle of the Democratic Party

or destroying it. So they'll either get into the car and then grab the steering wheel and take that car and drive it into a crowd of people or they'll destroy that vehicle and then replace it. So it's the same thing.

And it's already happened with the Democrats. They're already gone, guys. and it's what Joe Lieberman said. Remember, Joe Lieberman was really one of the last of the good guys on the Democratic Party that had a spine. Up until he stood without court, but he had a spine. He was a good, decent, honorable man, who I disagreed with. But Joe Lieberman's not the kind of guy you're going to get into a brawl with.

He's not the kind of guy who's going to say, yeah, and you know, what? Like Elizabeth Warren did, we're not left enough. We're not tough enough. We're not loud enough. That's not Joe Lieberman. And what did Joe Lieberman do? He left. Here is a vice presidential candidate who said, I cannot be a part of this party anymore because there's no home for me here. He didn't run to the Republicans because he doesn't believe in that. He said there's no home for me here at all. when a good, decent man like Joe Lieberman had to leave, we all should have known that is the end. Who is the alternate that is now supplanted everything you knew?

Who's in charge now? It's the Uber left. And they welcome them in, and you're seeing them get more and more and more extreme. To the point where Democrats had a controversy earlier this year and whether they were going to give any money to anyone who was pro-life. Even if you're a Democrat on every other issue, if you weren't pro-life, you're going to get any money or support from the party.

And that's how far they've gone. I mean, their biggest successes, you know, and governorships and things like that over the years, a lot of them have been pro-life. Pro-life Democrat is a tough thing to beat. Because if you have kind of that social thing with the pro-life side, you can get enough Republicans in the boat and it's hard to beat those guys.

You know, that happened in Pennsylvania. It's happened all over the country, really. And that has slowly been phased out to the Democrats disadvantage. I mean, the fact that they've been so harsh on that particular issue has turned so many potential voters off over the years. I mean,

thankfully, honestly, in many ways, because Republicans might not win any elections. And so what is the alternate to the right? The alternate is to go fully to a European system that the left

is communist and the right is nationalist, populist, Nazis. Socialists on both sides. The right and the left of Europe, they're both socialists. They both

believe in giant government. It's just, are we going to be communist or are we going to be national socialists? those are your ends and that's what's happening you are seeing the ceiling of the fate of the

United States Constitution and Democrats and Republicans alike should be able to come together and say I don't want to stand with the Anafah people because I know who they are they are communist and anarchists that's who they are

they are not defenders of free speech they're not defenders of the republic they're not defenders of freedom. They are communist and anarchists. I don't want to stand with them. You look to the alt-right. They are national, nationalist,

populist, socialists. And they have no problem marching with a Nazi flag. How are we so divided? How are we so divided? We had a 50-year war against communism. and we had the biggest war the world has ever seen against Nazis.

Wait, what? How is America confused? There are enemies on the left and enemies on the right. They are very small fractions of this country. They are not the center of this country. And when I say center, I don't mean the mushy middle. I mean the people who still have strong principles and values that we disagree with and will argue until the day we die most likely.

But the middle of this country says, I'm not a communist and I'm not a Nazi. I'm not a black nationalist and I'm not a white nationalist. I'm sick of all of this. That's who we are. That's the center of this country. No, you can't be in the center. I proudly stand in the center of that group because the center is the center is the furthest place from the communists on the left and the Nazis on the right. I'm proudly

as far away as I can be from either side. And yet, the media on both sides, because they win, we lose, but they win. They are trying to make you feel like the other side is nothing but communist or the other side is nothing but Nazis. It's not true. And you know what guys? If it is, then we need a civil war. But it's not

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You know, Stu, you gave an interesting analogy of the Altrundt. right and compared to Dwight Shrewd. Real quick. Recap. Dwight Shrewd used to say, I'm the assistant regional manager. When he was actually assistant to the regional manager, he was trying to puff his chest out, right? The same thing here with the alt-right. They say that they're the alternative right. They're their alternative to the right. Correct. And that's an important distinction. Now, you made that point, but you forgot that later in the series,

Dwight did become the assistant district manager. Yeah, regional manager. That is true. That is true. I don't know what that says about our society. Hopefully nothing. I'm hoping it says nothing about our society. I think it was temporary, however.

Which so maybe, you know, maybe, maybe eventually he'll lose that case. And may I just say, temporarily having Dwight Shrewt in charge of the Constitution and the movement to protect it might not be the best of ideas. I'm just saying. When we come back, history repeats itself. This is the Glenn Beck program.

Mercury. Right now, here's what you need to know. In the aftermath of the encounters over the weekend with the Nazis, many people have started calling for silencing of voices. This has happened before. This has happened before in America. It has happened before all around the world.

But it also happened in Germany to silence those who disagree. First of all, the refrain here in America is free speech does not protect hate speech. I've got news for you. Maybe you don't understand what free speech is all about. Free speech, the only kind of speech that needs to be protected is the speech that nobody likes to hear. You can't say, you know, we're going to protect all of the scientists, except for the scientists that the church disagrees with. Free speech means everybody. We have to protect the words that make people angry.

angry. But that requires us then to do our part and not be angry. Dismiss that speech for what it is. Free speech absolutely protects so-called hate speech. And if your media source is not explaining that today, then it's time for you to find a new media source. This is the Glenn Beck program. It was 1926 when Berlin was called the Reddest City in Europe besides Moscow. Wait a minute. Berlin, the reddest city besides Moscow. But it went to the left.

I mean, that's the left. It went, I'm sorry, to the right. It went to the Nazis. How could it be in 1926, by 1933, the communists were banned. They were gone. What? In 1926, the Nazis were a joke. And then some things happened.

Then because there was pain in the Weimar Republic, and because there were foreigners in the Weimar Republic and there were the banks in the Weimar Republic, which of course we all know were run by Jews in the Weimar Republic. Because they had gone through a war and they were promised by their churches that this was a righteous war that God wanted Germany to fight.

The church was powerless. The communities, were broken up. By 1926, it had already been 10 years in recovery, really, of World War I, which tore the country apart financially, demoralized the country, and just bankrupted everything. So, in 1915, was the last time. that people had seen the German Republic being what they thought was a good German Republic.

And in that time, beginning in the late 1800s, a new philosophy of collectivism was taught in all of the universities. So by 1926, anybody that was coming out of the universities knew that socialism was the scientific way. socialism that is what it's not capitalism capitalism capitalism is already an old dusty tired idea in america yeah but have you seen the poverty in america well if you were being honest you would say yes and it's nowhere near the misery and the poverty in europe and in russia and there's not millions dead in America. Not because of poverty, but because the government is killing them. The Nazis hated the communist, but they did a couple of things.

1926, they realized, we have to emphasize our socialist part. We're not communist, but we believe in the Marx philosophy. We believe in socialism. We just think it needs to be state-run, not workers of the world. it needs to be run by this new idea called a dictator. Remember, dictator wasn't a bad thing at the time. Just somebody who knows better than everybody else because the government is too big, too lumbering.

Nobody can get their arms around it. Nobody can manage all of this with the people. We need a good, strong manager who's just going to tell people, shut up, we're moving this way. But we need one with a heart, one that recognizes that the workers, the German workers, not the international workers.

We don't like the rest of the people. We want to take care of Germany first. So to appeal to the Russians, the first thing that they did was they made their flag red. They added the red surrounding the Nazi symbol. Showing the communists, we're just like you. We believe in the same basic idea of a state,

run government for the workers. That's why the Nazi flag is red. Then they injected something that the communist couldn't because the communists were really kind of seen as outsiders because the communists were seen as Russians. And the Russians idea was workers of the world unite. They wanted a global revolution and it would all be overseen in Russia. Well, the Germans didn't like that. The Germans didn't want that.

The Germans cared about the German workers. And so that's what the national socialists did. The Nazis, the national socialist. We're just communists just like you, except we care about Germany first. We're national socialist instead of international socialist like the communists. We believe in the German worker first. We believe in putting German needs ahead of every other country. And if any other country doesn't like it, screw them.

And so as we know by 1933, the world had changed. But that idea caught fire. As did communism. Communism, remember at this time, well, communism was discredited, but the New York Times hit it from America. Communism was already in the business of just slaughtering people and letting them starve to death. But the media covered it up. By 1933, this new idea of a dictator, like Mussolini, a benevolent dictator, or a strong nationalist dictator who believed in socialism, like Adolf Hitler, became very popular. And here in America, it wasn't any different. There was the German Boond movement.

The German Boone movement started out as you had to be of German descent. You had to be from Germany. but it moved into something much bigger than that. In fact, it got so out of control that there were special trains that were chartered for the Nazis or the American Boond movement out to Long Island. From Grand Central Station,

you'd get on the Nazi train. There are pictures of this. Google it. And you, well, you can. And look for the pictures of the trains with the Nazi flags and symbols on them. The American train. companies, you know, said, yeah, we're going to do a special train because they're paying for it.

Remember, Nazism wasn't what it was. You know, it wasn't what it is today. They hadn't killed millions. It was a new idea, a better society. Take care of the family. Take care of the country. It morphed into later America first. Populism, socialism, nationalism, is very appealing.

They used to fill Madison's Square Garden on a regular basis with Nazi propaganda and I believe today you could, if anybody would rent to them, probably fill Madison Square Garden with Nazis. But you could do

exactly the same thing with communists. In fact, you could fill many stadiums with communists. You'd find most of them to be in the universities but you could easily fill stadiums with communists today. And to

Antifa, which you're now seeing dressed in black in the streets of Berkeley or etc. etc. They were, wait a minute, the ones in the end in Germany that were fighting against the Nazis, not for freedom, but for communism. Those were the first ones, rounded up. The communists. And they killed all the communists. Antifa was on the front lines of stopping the Nazis. Oh, so they're guys. No. No. They would have rounded up all the Nazis and killed all the Nazis. Both guys. Bad. We've seen it before. I'm going to take you one place further in history. I'm going to play something that you've never heard of before. It was produced in 1943. It's outdated in the way that it is being, you know, that it was filmed. But, but, but,

But I want you to listen to all of the words. I want you to hear all of what's being said and dismiss the way it's packaged because America has been in this very place before. We do that when I come back. First, our sponsor this half hour is My Patriot Supply. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Secretary Mattis discussing North Korea said, you don't shoot at people in this world unless you want to bear the consequences. He followed that with. And if they shoot at the United States, assuming they've hit the United States, if they do that, then it is game on.

Now, yesterday, we know that North Korea blinked. You may not actually know that because the media is obsessed with dividing us. And I mean that, I'm sorry to say, both the right and the left are dividing us. And nobody's giving you facts or perspective. It's all hate. Did you miss that North Korea blinked? Did you hear anybody in the media on the left actually say, hey, Donald Trump's tough talk, whether I like it or not,

may have just worked. North Korea has backed down and they've canceled the missile test that they were going to fire at Guam, which would have been something that I think, if they would have done, I don't think we, I don't think we would be living in the same world. They back down. That's good.

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It's 1943. We're at war with Germany. We have made friends now internally with the communist, because remember the communists want to wipe out the national socialists. And so we're now friends with the communists. It's the only reason why you don't have this kind of propaganda happen against the communist until after the war. Because we're friends with the communists. We need them to win against Germany. The German Bund movement goes on, and it is gigantic.

in the Northeast, gigantic. In California, there are 25,000 Nazis, and I don't even remember where they were living, but there was a group of Nazis, about 25,000 in California. Because nationalist, national socialism, and populism is easy to make popular. But I want you to listen to this,

and I want you to hear that this is a film made in 1943. It sounds like a government propaganda film. It's kind of like, you know, and that's why, kids, you'll go blind if you, okay? It's ridiculous in its presentation, but listen to the message and the message of the speaker. Listen. I see Negroes holding jobs that belong to me and you. Now I ask you, if we allow this thing to go on, what's going to become of us real Americans? I've heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to get it in America.

This fellow seems to know what he's talking about. What are we real Americans going to do about it? You'll find it right here in this little pamphlet. The truth's about Negroes and foreigners. The truth's about the Catholic Church. Do you believe in that kind of talk? That makes pretty good sense to me. And I tell you, friends, we'll never be able to call this country our own

until it's a country without. Without what? Yeah, without what? Without Negroes, without alien foreigners, without Catholics, without Freemasons. What's wrong with the Masons? I'm a Mason. Hey, that fellow's talking about me. And that makes a difference, doesn't it? These are your enemies!

These are the people who are trying to take over our country. Now you know them? You know what they stand for. And it's up to you and me to fight them. Fight them and destroy them before they destroy us. Thank him. Before he said Mason, you were ready to agree with him. Yes, but he was talking about...

What about those other people? But in this country, we have no other people. We are American people also. What about you? You aren't American, right? I was born in Hungary, but now I am an American citizen. And I have seen what this kind of talk can do. I saw it in Berlin. What were you doing there?

I was a professor at the university. I heard the same words we have heard today. But I was a fool then. I thought Nazis were crazy people, stupid fanatics. But unfortunately it was not so. You see, they knew that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country. So they split Germany into small groups. They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation.

Of course, that was not easy to do. They had to work hard to do it. You see, we human beings are not born with prejudices. Always they are made for us, made by someone who wants something. Remember that when you hear this kind of talk, somebody is going to get something out of it, and it isn't going to be you. I have to tell you, while it is left, Masons, he's talking about Masons. Should have included the Moose Lodge.

I know. while it seems ridiculous in its presentation, it is absolutely 100% timeless in its truth. Timeless in its truth. They know they cannot defeat a united people. So you have to divide it. We know this from the words of the advisors of Vladimir Putin. We know that's what he's trying to. to do. We know that that's what the alt-right is doing all around the world. They are finding

their little niches. We know that the new left described this in their manifestos, including the manifesto of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. We know that in 1959 there was a gathering of communists and the communists said we've got to go in to the universities. We have to go into the universities and show them

and show the people that they are oppressed. They don't know they're oppressed. Everybody is oppressed and in their oppression they are finding happiness. We have to remind them that they are oppressed and show them who their oppressors

are to divide and conquer. When we're watching the media, and it's a choice between the Nazis or Antifa, reject both of them. And when you see people

groups of people being called Nazis or communists, we need to begin to reject that. We are dividing ourselves. The Glenn Beck program.

Mercury. The Glenn Beck Program. Hey, we have an update. Yesterday we received an email from a request to Priority One and their Media Relations Department. Remember, Priority One is a health insurer that a couple of our listeners have up in Michigan. And they have a son who was diagnosed with the same disease that Charlie Gardend. had over in England. And we were not excited, but we were relieved to find out that another patient with Charlie Gard's disease was not born in England, but born here in America,

where a free market system could actually give him the care that he needs and maybe this story will end differently. Well, we were talking to the family and we found out last week that all of a sudden their insurance company is doing exactly the same thing, that the nationalized health service over in England did, and that is deny coverage. Say you have a geneticist here in Michigan, that's good enough. No, the expert in this field is in Boston, and we have to go and get an appointment of Boston. So yesterday on this program, we offered a chance for priority one to come on and tell us how great they are and tell us all the things that they're doing and explain to the parents

why they felt they knew better than the geneticist in Michigan who they want the child to go see, why the health insurance company thinks they know more than that geneticist who says, I don't have the skill, they must go to Boston. So we reached out and we gave them the opportunity and they said, Keith, our producer Keith Malinac, thank you for reaching out, but we have to decline this interview. In the interest of confidentiality, it's our policy to keep concerns about coverage and care between ourselves and our members, so I bet it is.

Please know that we have dedicated doctors, nurses, and clinicians on staff who work closely with our members to ensure that they have access to the care and treatment they need. Our members' health and safety is always our first priority. Of course it is at priorityhealth.com. That's right. Though, again, are we? No, hang on just a second. We have another email. This one came in to the dad of the baby.

This is from the father. Hey guys, want to let you know, priority health called me today after the program. And they've approved our first visit in Boston. They said every other visit will have to get prior authorization, but it would be coordinated with our in-state geneticist. They just don't want to pay for us to have labs done or other tests done in Boston if we can have them done close to home and the results can be sent to Boston. Thanks so much for the help.

We're forever grateful. That's totally reasonable. This is a good, happy ending for the moment. Yes, for the moment, this is great. Priority Health seems to be doing something that is very reasonable. And we're happy that priority health is at this time giving the Cruzan child the treatment that he needs with the doctor. that he needs in this free market system where we try to do the right thing. Okay, let's look at some other things that we haven't had a chance to talk about.

First of all, can we spend a few minutes on North Korea? Backing down, as I said at the beginning of the program, we have to give Donald Trump credit where credit is due. I was extraordinarily concerned about his rhetoric with North Korea. However, I have been telling you in the last couple of weeks this is either going to be a disaster

or he could be remembered as Ronald Reagan because calling evil by its name and not flinching sometimes when you're not dealing with a madman like I think we are in Iran. That's a different situation. Sometimes it just might work. Well, he coordinated with Nikki Haley to get the UN to put tough sanctions on. He pulled off a miracle with China where China said, yep, we're backing you.

And they're going for the tough sanctions. And yesterday, North Korea coming under all of this pressure said, okay, we're not going to fire a test mistle towards Guam. Now, we still have a long way to go. But that's a win. That's a huge win. And I believe the credit needs to go to Donald Trump. Everybody else can say, well, it goes to the UN Security Council.

That's not true. If it wasn't that the Security Council and the rest of the world was freaked out beyond belief that this guy just might do it. Yeah. He brought them all to the table. And I'm sorry, but the president of the United States. States needs to be somebody who says we're going to do something and have our enemies going, I don't know, guys, he just might do it. He's serious. That's real diplomacy. That is coming into a room and not making threats, making promises. You do this and we're going to leave you alone.

You don't threaten us or shoot at us. We're not going to shoot at you. How about that? And that's what the president did in terms that North Korea's leadership could understand. And apparently there's some adults in North Korea's leadership because they understand. You know, they can't win a war with us.

They can't. I mean, could they strike a blow somewhere? Maybe. But they couldn't win a war with us. Here's the problem that nobody's really talked about is North Korea is about to enter a massive famine. They had one of the

worst summers that they've had in decades for crops. And they have no food. And they're not being allowed to export anything. And they have no food. It's, it's somebody said to me, who was it? Was it on the year? Was it the guy we had on last? That wasn't. Somebody was saying that they were talking about, you know, why didn't people, you know, you were cold and freezing to death, why don't you just go get some some wood and build a fire? Because everything had been stripped

clean. Everybody in the country is looking for firewood. There's no trees left around you because everyone has done it. And that's kind of the situation that North Korea is going into. When your people are starving to death,

leaders need distractions and they need to blame it on somebody else. So we're not out of the woods on this one. But perhaps it will humble them enough to maybe allow us to say, you know what, you're going to give up some of that stuff and we'll send you some food. I think it's guarded optimism is the right way, right? Like, you know, saying it's a win, I think, is not.

It's a win for now. It's a win for now. It's a win. It's a win. It may end tomorrow, but today it's a win. The way he backed off was taking a picture in front of the map of the American air base in Guam. Right? Like, I mean, this is...

Don't care. The threat is still there. Yeah, he's trying to say face, but, you know, whatever. Right, but we'll see. If he actually, I mean, if he doesn't launch anything for a while, I think we could say this a win. However, this is how, and this is why I'm a little skeptical on the story generally, is that this is how they've done this every time. Right.

They pushed the American people and the American government to the wall, and they've gone as far as they can, and then they stop. And then they back off for a little while. And then two years later, we're back in the same exact thing. So hopefully this is a weird. China helps. China says, no, we're not going to get involved.

And then in the end, they give us some help. And it's over. Look, you've kicked the can down the road. Yeah, we have done that. But at this point, there is no better option other than saying, let's go to war, which is, I believe, not a wise, winnable situation. If we were the first to strike, China has said they're against us.

Russia would be against us. And it would bankrupt us, let alone the millions that could die. No one believes, no one in the Pentagon believes this is a, we lob a couple of missiles off of our ships and we call it a day. This is actual war unlike anybody has ever seen since World War II. So this isn't Pakistan. This is totally different. And Pakistan would be really bad too.

You know, no, but they also have nuclear weapons and a lot more of them in the better ones. I don't mean Pakistan. I mean Afghanistan. Oh. Yeah. Plus, next week, we've got a joint military operation planned with South Korea, which could ratchet things right back up. And would you say that you... Well, that's why they said that they were going to fire it at Guam because they wanted these exercises to stop. We do it every year. We do these exercises every year.

Now, should we this year? Might be prudent not to. Maybe. Maybe. I'd hate to, I mean, I, you know, I don't want to be so prideful that we say, well, I'm not going to give them a win. I'm not going to let them see. You know what? If that's what it takes, that's what it takes. We don't need to win. We know who we are. We know who we are. And we know what we're doing. As long as the rest of the world knows, you know, we don't mind. We can kick his ass. without the exercise. Yes, we can. So we're capable of doing that. If that's what it takes this time or to delay it, I don't have necessarily a problem with that.

No, and we've been training along for all these years. And South Korea obviously is better than we're giving them credit for overall, right? I mean, that was some of the articles we saw coming out last week, that South Korea was saying, hey, you know, we're not really that bad. Yeah, and one of the biggest, I think they're the fourth largest army. world. They're well trained. And you know what? Then that is the best news ever. Let's come home. Let's come home. Why are we still on the border? If they are saying, we're the fourth largest army in the world and we got this, could thank you. Why don't we come home then?

There's no reason for us. If they're strong, we've given them 50 years to strengthen themselves. good. Good. Yes. It's hard not to feel that way. It honestly is. Let's, you know, let's just mind our own business,

bring our troops back. We did our job there 60 years ago. The end! Do we have to continue to pump billions of dollars into their economy with 37,000 troops over there? I don't think so. You know, we're still running things and I don't want to say IBM,

like compact computers in 2017. We're this company that is so far out of date with the way the world behaves and the way, I mean, all of our treaties, all of the, everything we do, all of the bases,

everything we do was built for the world of 1950 to maybe 1980, the world's changed. And if you have the fourth largest army, good luck. Yeah. Godspeed. And now this.

I'm going to give you just a few headlines. This is from just the last 24 hours. Autonomous cars could impact nearly 16 million jobs in the U.S., this according to the Commerce Department. The U.S. restaurant industry is stuck now in the worst collapse since 2009. There is a used car glut going on. Now, think about this one. This is the lowest price for used cars since 2009. Now, is it perhaps because the United States encouraged everybody

by giving them big rebates and tax dollars to go out and buy cars to prop up? up the industry, that now we have the glut of all these used cars coming on, and the new car market is also way down, and all of these cars and trucks are starting to sit on the lot and begin to rot, because they're just continuing to push cars out, and people aren't buying them right now. And one more. There's a money laundering scandal in Australia, their largest bank. And Australians are now calling and saying, you know what, enough is enough. It's time for no cash in Australia. This is really where we're at. The things that are going on, forget about nuclear war with North Korea. Look at the price of housing. It's bigger than it was,

or a bigger bubble than it was in 2008. Look at the debt. It's the biggest personal debt the world has ever seen for Americans. Look at the debt of our countries. We now have more in CDOs and all of those things that caused the problem by far, much bigger problem than it was in 2008. And our banks are bigger than they were when they were too big to fail. So how are you prepared? Well, I will tell you, you can do a lot of things, but, you know, the world always returns to the truth.

Always. And it always returns to something that is stable that you can count on. The world has always gone back to gold. Right now, people are trying to convince you that, oh, gold will, you know, it'll never go back to gold, because we'll always have this system. or we'll always have a digital system. That's where it's going. Well, it might be. But I guarantee you the minute things go down,

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and that this is the worst slump of restaurants. It's not just because America is struggling, and America has its highest debt, but there's also something else happening in restaurants. We are fundamentally changing, as people. And I want to get into that just a little bit. Next. We're talking in the break about

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First of all, restaurant sales are at the lowest slump they've been at since 2009. Same thing with car sales. We want to talk about that and talk to you a little bit about what does this mean for the economy. What is this saying about America? and I'd like to take it someplace else. What does it say about the future? There are changes that are happening that you need to be aware of. And there are the kinds of structural, cultural changes that we've been talking about for the last few years.

The future is here. The things, and I just really kind of realized this over the last couple of weeks, but especially in the last, probably last five days, it's really come become clear to me that the media is in full-fledged collapse and it's not the only industry. We want to talk about that. Also, let me bring up speed on this one thing, because this should be a bellwether for you. It's been out now for 17 days, and Al Gore's movie has only brought in $2 million. Why?

his claims have been disproven for the most part and most I think most people or most Americans believe that the earth has warmed but they don't believe in A the solution and they certainly no longer believe in the naked hysteria that Al Gore is trying to create people are dismissing Al Gore and if your news source isn't telling you this

or reflecting that truth, it's time to find a new one. Entertainment and Enlightenment. This is the Glen. The restaurant industry hasn't reported a positive month since February of 2016. Let me say that again.

The restaurant industry hasn't posted a positive month since February 2016. This is a stretch now to 17 consecutive months of being down. Sales have risen in 12 markets declined in 183, with the Midwest, the worst region in the U.S., suffering a 3.6 to 5.2 decline in sales and traffic. Even the best region, California, had a decline in sales of 0.7% and traffic down 3.6.

So let me tell you a couple of things. First of all, let me tell you about culturally what's happening. Talking to a friend of mine who owns a big chain of restaurants here in Texas. And I said, so how's business? And he said, in store or out of store? And I said, what do you mean? He said, in store, it sucks. He said, the traffic is down.

He said, sales are up. He said, if I had to rebuild any of our stores, he said, I would build them with a very small eat-in section and a very small parking lot for customers to stay. And I would build a huge takeout section where you can just come and pick it up and go on your way. He said, restaurants are changing. Now, this is a guy who runs these great family restaurants, really great, fun family restaurants. And they're really good. people are changing and it's all the way

to things like Blue Apron that Stu does advertising for you are not going out you want something easy, quick and you may want to eat it at home but you don't want to hassle with it you don't want to cook it if you don't have to

you just want to grab and go because everybody's lifestyle is fast and you don't want to sit necessarily in just certainly not a Fridays or an apple bee. The apple bees of the world are over. Oh, yeah.

Those old style restaurants, those are all going to be gone. It's interesting, too, with the takeout part of this, is if you remember when we were in New York City, this is now going back to six years, there was a company called Seamless that we would always order from. And it was amazing. It was in New York.

You'd order it. They would bring the food to you. And they still exist. I think they merged with another competitor, Grubhub. It started off with Seamless and Grub. Bob, that's what they did. Now, you have Uber eats. So Uber, with all their infrastructure, has gotten into that game. There's companies like DoorDash, who do a similar thing as well. But does Uber make the food? No. You pick it up for you at a restaurant and bring out. So it's takeout food,

right? But the one, I got, I got something in the mail the other day that was. Mail? What is that? I'm sorry, go ahead. Go ahead. I'll look that up later. It's in the Constitution. Check it out. but it was called Amazon.com slash restaurants. Nice. Amazon.com slash restaurants. I come with my prime membership because I'm good with that. You know what it does.

Shockingly. Is there anything Amazon is not going to take over? I know. Yes. Wow. Google. Yeah. And Apple.

And Facebook. And Facebook. Right. Look, here's the thing that we all need to be aware of. There are four companies that we're all going to be working for no matter what you do. The United States of America and the world is becoming more of a corporate nation than ever before.

When all the dystopian lefties said, oh, you're just working for a corporate America. It's never been more true. And we're giving it to them because they provide great services. Amazon is changing our life. Apple changed our life. Google changed our life. Netflix, to some extent, has changed our life. If you look at just Amazon Prime,

now how long has Amazon Prime been out for video? Well, video was something they added later. Amazon Prime was before video. Okay, so Amazon Prime with video has been out probably five years, and I've been aware of it maybe for two, three. Okay. Yeah. Amazon Prime now has more subscribers than every cable company combined. But isn't that a little distorted, though, because that's all of the Prime members not, I mean, with.

Uh-huh. Right. It's not just video. However, if Google is laying the fiber, so. everybody has great fiber and great access all across the country, you're not going to get, you won't have a cable company. Right. And I think Netflix actually now is, I think they just beat out cable.

I think the last poll, the last child I saw where they were just, they just beat out. And may I say this, they're not, all of these companies are much more interested in things that can sell global. globally. Netflix, America now is a secondary market for Netflix. As long as they create good content. I don't care. I don't care, right? We're all that way. But I want you to know, think of this. You see a company like Blue Apron. You see Grubhub. Let's use that one. You see Grubhub. Amazon says, well, we can provide that better. We got drones. Okay. They just start doing it.

doing it. Because they have all of the money and all of the resources and they can do it right and they just get bigger and they gobble everybody's idea up. I mean, it's almost, almost a return to serfs and lords because the reason why the world stopped innovating was because there was no such thing as a copyright or a patent. You had an idea the king could just swoop in, claim it to be his, make it better, sell it all around the world, he got rich, you got nothing. Now, in this version, it's a little bit better for the person who created it.

Because of American law, because of the American Constitution and patent and copyrights, because of that, if that's ever weakened, you become a serf to the lords. And it's happening in everything. Now, there's, so there's one thing that's happening with restaurants that is cultural. And that is, we just, we don't necessarily want to go out. Our houses have movie theaters in them, some of them now.

Our houses are becoming... I mean, even the average, you can go to Walmart and get a 50-inch screen TV for $250. And you can get the first-run movies, what, two months after they've hit the theaters? If that. Sometimes a lot earlier than that. There's a lot of incentive to just stay home now. Right. So you can stay home, and you can have everything,

delivered to you, that's changing us culturally. So that means that our restaurant experience is going to change and I don't think people really have a handle I don't know if I've said this on the year

so stop me if I have. The Tribeca Film Festival awarded us the Disruptor of the Year Award. How many years ago? Five? Six years ago? Five or six years ago. For disrupting television, for being the person who said,

I think people are going to watch me or TV, my kind of TV, on the internet. Nobody believed that. Nobody believed that. I bought the movie studios in Los Kalinas and we spent the kind of money we did

for these sweeping shots and beautiful sets because we had to convince people that it wasn't a cable you know, access kind of thing, that it was a good quality broadcast. You don't have to do that anymore. Six years ago, Bill O'Reilly said to me, Glenn, people are not going to watch television on their desktop. You're right.

Nobody even has a desktop anymore. Okay. They're one. They're not why. He was right. They're not watching it on the desktop. They're watching it on their phone and even smaller screen. And we're watching television and movies and networks on our phones and our iPads.

The world has completely changed. And it dawned on me, you know, over the last few months that the world that I said, you're going to live in a world where if you can't reinvent yourself about every five years, you will go out of business and you won't have one career. You're going to have multiple careers because you're going to do something and the entire industry is going to change

and you're going to have to start all over again. So that's going to cause extreme tension in people's lives because they don't like that kind of upheaval. Let me give you an analogy from the 1800s. Why do we have the Federal Reserve system? How did we get that past the American people? A centralized bank, a group of shadow banks run by J.P. Morgan and Aster and all of these shady figures.

How did that happen? People wanted stability. Why did they want stability? What do you mean by that? What did the Fed? The Fed, how does the Fed's stability? Well, because the economy was up and down a lot before that. And the value of your dollar was so up and down, 20% inflation. Three years later, be 20% deflation. They could obviously control that.

Yeah. They were to smooth that out a little bit. So in a way that we don't understand 100 years ago before the Fed, we would have literal depressions as deep as 1929, as deep as 19, 1920, We would have deep depressions, but they would last between anywhere from six months to 18 months. But the average person could be wiped out overnight, and they would have to start their whole life over again. People were tired of that. That's why we had the argument of let's go to silver instead of gold.

It's the people's money, with all kinds of things. In the late 1800s, there was a depression that was so bad, the United States government had to go to Aster and J.P. Morgan and say, we're out. We either borrow money from you guys and you back the United States Treasury or we're done as a country. And so J.P. Morgan went to the other billionaires at the time and said, guys, we have to pool our money together. Otherwise, the country is over.

And it literally was over. when that got out and then coupled with another quick but sharp depression the politics were easy you just have to tell people I'm going to stop your pain

we're entering that kind of period of pain except it's not going to be just our dollar because that's going to be the last card to fall I think is the stability of our money that will be the

one where it where it is massive change to try to create something stable. But what's coming right now, part of the tension that we're feeling that no one is talking about in the media is this underlying feeling that you know this can't last. And it has not, it doesn't have everything to do with the constitution or the political climate. It has everything to do with these systems of Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. It's all it's all disrupting to the very core

of traditional business. It's disrupting and destroying them and in a good way it should be. What's coming is better stuff. But businesses are going to find themselves in business and heroes and out of business and

nothing five years later only to pick themselves back up again and start something new. and then it will be adopted. Somebody will rush in. How do you compete against Google? How do you compete? Facebook just found a company in Israel that had an app that could track the most used apps.

They bought this company and nobody understood why. They bought this company for just that tracking ability that they could track the apps. So they bought this whole company for that and then took that information which was public and made it private. That way they can see what is everybody doing? That one seems to be catching speed. Go out and buy it. It's good for the serial entrepreneur. Right now, it's not going to be good for the average person.

Let me back up after this. We're going to take a quick break. And then we're going to come back. And I want to talk to you about the other side of that. That's one side of this friction that you're feeling now, and this is what's happening with the restaurants. But there's another side that directly affects you today. And we'll talk about that here in a second. First, Casper.

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We are becoming less willing to go to the brick and mortar place to get whatever it is we want because it's so easy, and this is why things bode well for Amazon, they are so frictionless. I don't have to put in my credit card number. I don't have to tell them my address every time. I don't even have to go to the website. I can now say, Amazon Echo, I need fill in the blank, and it will be there. It's at your door. It's at your door.

That is becoming the norm. That is going to be the future, should economic trends continue to be survivable, that is the future. That is the future. But there's the other side that directly revolves around you and directly affects you today. and we'll get into that next. All right, so I want to go, I want to take this, the restaurant industry, stuck in the worst collapse since 2009. Now, this can't include Irving, Texas, where we are.

There's some, yeah, there's some, and I want to get into, I want to get into this. Okay, so what we're talking about, calculated on a two-year basis, sales in July 2017, down 4.2 compared with July of 2015. In other words, there's been no growth for two years. Same store traffic. But this is in chains, right? Yes, I'll get to that. Same store traffic is down 8.7% for the same period.

This is the weakest two-year growth rates in over three years. Additional evidence that the industry has not reversed the downward trend that began in 2015. This is according to black box intelligence. The economy keeps growing. at a moderate pace and job gains remain strong. But the consumer seems to be on vacation literally and figuratively. Okay. So let's look at this.

There's a couple of things that I think are happening. First of all, let's look at who this is measuring. The ones that are really getting hit are the chain restaurants. Fine dining is up. Independent restaurants are up. Yeah. Casual dining is slightly up, almost flat. It is the casual chain and fast that is down. Now there's a couple of reasons for this.

If you want to look, you now have new independent restaurants, people coming online, new independent local stuff. grab and go at every grocery store now. And it's so convenient. It's so good. It's good food. Okay. The meal replacement kits like Blue Apron, that's really taking off all across the country. And convenience stores and food trucks that are not crappy.

I mean, it used to be like I couldn't tell the difference between the actual meat and cheese and the plastic container it's in. You know, it's not that way anymore. It's not the case anymore. It's not the case. So, you know, remember, we grew up in the time when Tang was considered a yummy alternative drink. Well, if it was good enough for astronauts, my friend. Thank you. It was good enough for me. Okay.

So there is something to be said on why that is declining. Those kinds of restaurants, they're outdated. The, you know, the idea of a TGI Fridays where you have to have the, like, office space, the certain number of, you have to have 15 pins on your apron. Pieces of flare, Glenn. Sorry, pieces of flare. Those days are so far in our rearview mirror. Yeah.

And you just don't go there anymore. It's just not the place that you go to. However, in the center of the country, a lot of people go to Applebee's. A lot of people go to these restaurants. That where you're in a metropolitan area, it always killed me in Times Square. There is an Applebee's and...

A Fridays for sure. And a Sabaros. You can have the best Italian food you've ever had in your life. And there's a Sabaros there. Right across the street. Right. I understand. I understand that in the mall food court. I understand that in places, you know, in the middle of the country

where you don't have a great Italian restaurant, literally three doors down. That's just as cheap as Sabaro. That's what's happening. Those chains that you can get better food easier. There's a burger and fries place in Times Square, too.

Okay, all right. That is fantastic. Okay, so there are those reasons. But there's some more to this that I think is really intriguing. One of the clearest indications that households are spending cautiously is the softening of the big ticket purchase. In July, for the 11th month out of the last 12, vehicle sales were below the rate posted the year before.

Home sales are still trending up, but now expanding at a decelerating pace. The Americans seem to be on vacation literally and figuratively. Well, that's not the entire picture. You have to remember that our personal savings rate, we talked about this what last week, that our personal savings rate is at the lowest it's been since 2008. The U.S. personal savings rate, the revision of this, has now wiped out $250 billion from what the Department of Commerce calculated as a,

healthy personal savings backdrop. $250 billion has just been wiped out of our banking accounts because we are not saving it. We're spending it. So we are now spending and we are not saving. Households are currently maintaining their lifestyles by reducing their savings rate. And they are also restraining spending on discretionary goods. They are waiting for the wage. increase to come for the 80% of America that hasn't seen it yet and those are the people that are eating at Applebee's they're waiting for that wage increase now let me tie these two things together started at the beginning of the hour with restaurants this is what's happening people are eating different culturally we're changing Google Apple Amazon they're starting to pick things up you have

things like blue aprons. So those things are changing. And those things are good. However, they're going to displace a lot of people. Now to this half, 80% has not seen the wage

increase. They're not seeing prosperity in America. And they are now spending their savings just to tread water, if they're lucky enough to have savings, just to tread water and keep their lifestyle, they are now spending themselves into the highest debt we've ever seen,

and two, the lowest savings we've had since 2008. The last time we saw this was right before the crash of 2008. This is why anyone who says it's them. I'm going to stop them, whoever that is, from the Mexicans to Silicon Valley, because that one I'm promising you will come. When your job is replaced by AI, your truck driving jobs are replaced by self-driving trucks,

someone in Washington will say it's them. That's what they're saying now about manufacturing. It's why that argument works with a lot of people, even though economically it doesn't seem at all feasible to bring back these jobs. It's not going to. The idea that someone will say it works, Because the average person doesn't have time to see the future. They don't have the conversations.

Would you write this down, Stu? We have to start concentrating on those conversations with the actual people. So actual people who are making these, I want to start talking to people who are thinking of ways that will affect over half a billion people. somebody who is working, the people who are working on things that will actually change our lives. Those conversations need to be heard by the average Americans so they are not duped into, we're going to bring your job back because the job is not coming back.

It's just not. This is not 1980 or 1990 or even 2005. It's not. It's a world of 2025 being designed right now. But I want to warn you. When was the last time this worked in the world? It worked when unemployment was out of control and people had no money. Could we play what we played?

This is from 1943 and this was something produced by the government because the German Nazi movement was actually taking root here in America. And I just want you to hear, now this is so wildly outdated in its production and presentation. But the words remain true because this is how we're getting people into these fringe groups, be them the communist anarchist on the left or the Nazis on the right. They are dividing and they're using what we just explained. They're interpreting this and saying, I'll protect you. How? Listen.

I see Negroes holding jobs that belong to me and you. now I ask you if we allow this thing to go on what's going to become about us real Americans I've heard this kind of talk before but I never expected to give it in American this promise to say to know he's talking well

what are we real Americans going to do about it you'll find it right here in this little pamphlet the truth about Negroes and foreigners the truth about the Catholic church do you believe in that kind of talk this whole thing you can replace

you know, the truth about conservatives. You'll read it right here in this pamphlet. The truth about the free market. You could just change out whoever you want. The truth about whites. The truth about blacks. The truth about gays. The truth about straight.

The truth about whatever. This is what's happening right now because people who want something know that you are feeling oppressed. They know. that you can barely afford to go to Applebee's. And you need somebody to hear you. You need somebody to recognize this. You need somebody to tell you it's okay. And quite honestly, it is in human nature.

We all want someone to blame. In this case, blame progressives in the best meaning of that word, not the political progressives, but those who are building progressives. those who are changing the world through new ideas. That's who's to blame, but that's also who's to thank. Somebody is going to get something from you. If you give them your power,

and it's going to become increasingly difficult, it's called populism for a reason. It becomes popular. Whatever is popular to say, whoever it is popular to blame, And what will become more and more popular is a handout, socialism, government control, make the pain stop. That's going to become very popular. And it's going to become popular in your own personal life, no matter what you do, or for people who are building businesses.

You are in competition with Amazon and Uber. Amazon makes everything easy to buy. Everything. I want to watch a movie. Oh, and I want my dinner. Oh, and I need to do my shopping. Oh, gosh, and I also got to get some school supplies for the kids. I've just said that to Amazon Echo. It didn't ask me anything like my address, my credit card number, nothing. And it will all be at my house between an hour and two days from now whenever I, I say, Amazon Echo, I need that in the next two hours. Amazon Echo, I need that tomorrow.

You're in competition with that. Everything that you do that isn't delivered like that is a hassle. That's who we're all in competition with, no matter what you do. So your product had better be far superior than what they can deliver in an hour. Or they can deliver to you right now. without asking you a single question. Our sponsor, this half hour, is ZipRecruiter. You don't have all day to look for the perfect job application.

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