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Yay! because Europe with arms has never caused any problems. Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed him up saying, quote, we have to work on the vision of one day creating a real European army. Really? One day? You know, it's been 70 years since the end of World War II, and I'm glad that you're finally getting around to it, but Trump called her remarks insulting and told them instead to agree to meet their NATO commitment.

Wait, hold it just a sec, wait a minute, weren't you the one? Wait, I thought you didn't like NATO. Hold it just a second. You just got me there. You had me at Bring the Troops Home. We are subsidizing half the planet's defense budgets. In fact, we're paying for almost all of it. World War II ended 73 years ago.

The Cold War ended two decades ago. Why do we have to hold up Western Europe's deal anymore? I mean, I like having, you know, a bargain with these people, but we're not getting a bargain. We're getting screwed. They have the intellectual, honest conversation about NATO. No, uh-uh. NATO did an outstanding job. It really did.

Without it, people in France would be speaking probably German or Russian. NATO was established to combat one enemy. All of its members had one goal to protect themselves against the Soviet Union. Well, guess what does? doesn't exist anymore. Now, Russia does and Russia has its eyes set on Europe. But unless we're actually going to talk about that, and unless Germany isn't saying, well, we've got to protect ourselves against, you know, evil Russia, and by the way, we want to buy all their gas so we can be on their heroin, I'm not interested. So why are we continuing to do this? Why are the NATO

members still subsidizing being subsidized by us. We don't have identifying interests and unifying interests anymore. Do we? Do we? Because I don't know who's for Russia and who's against Russia. I don't know who's for national socialism and who's against national socialism. I don't know how many, for instance, the UK, are you convinced that the UK can stand against the Islamic Sharia law courts that are already in its country? Because I'm not.

As far as policy goes, there hasn't been much to criticize President Trump on with the terrorists, except for the tariffs, I would say. I understand what he's doing here. First, he rocked the world by criticizing NATO during the first year of his administration. Now it looks like he's perpetuating the continued use of the U.S. military as European. and security blanket that I don't want to provide anymore. Our global helicopter parenting really has to stop. Is there a reason why Japan still hasn't rebuilt their military and relies on us for security? Yeah, they're broke.

But so are we. Enough is enough is enough. China is a very big problem, but why not let Japan take their natural place and take the brunt of containing China? Let them foot the bill. How much of the deficit and national debt could we cut by empowering Europe and Japan to take responsibility for themselves? I think it's time to re-examine and think outside of the box because our debt situation is unsustainable. And quite honestly, I want our troops to come home. I want our troops to concentrate on the problems that we have here.

And I don't mean as troops. I mean as good solid citizens. Europe and Japan, it's time to leave Mommy and Daddy's basement. I know, I know it's scary, but even in America, at 26, you're considered adults, you're what, 73? Don't worry. You'll screw it up, and we'll be here. We might give you some limited funds on a credit card to help wean you off,

but far as I'm concerned, it's time for Mommy and Daddy to kick them out of the house, the free ride is over. The best of the Glenn Beck program. You know, it doesn't take anything huge to help. You know, people feel right now, people feel like I can't do anything. And yet you can, unlike ever before. And sometimes the ability to help comes from the strangest places. If you just don't close your eyes,

If you decide to pursue, sometimes where you thought you were going turns out to be a completely different destination. A mysterious typo-ridden email or message appears in your inbox, purportedly from a Nigerian prince or a down-on-his-luck businessman. Now, most people respond one of two ways. You either ignore it, cynical yet amused, or you just fall for it and you lose the way. thousands of dollars to an obvious scam. But something else happened in early 2017. Ben Taylor, he got that message on Facebook. He got it from a man in Monrovia, Liberia.

His name was Joel Willie. In the post, it read, My name is Joel. I'm from Liberia, West Africa. I need some assistance from you, business or financial assistance that will help empower me, DAT. Well, Ben knew full well that most likely he was being scammed.

He was skeptical. But he responded anyway, and he said, how can I help? Joel asked him to mail Primo Electronics, cameras, computers, printers, to a shabby building in New Jersey so that he could sell those on the Liberian market and split the profits with Ben. I figured that this was just one of those African Internet scams, but I decided to play along and see where it led me. I figured the more time of his that I could waste, the less time that he'd have to spend ripping other people off. So I told him that I didn't have any electronics to send, but I did have a business proposition if he was interested. I told him that I was in the photography business, and then if he'd be willing to take pictures of where he lived and send them to me, I'd pay him for the ones that I liked.

He agreed, and the next morning he sent a few over. They were just terrible. So the result in photos that Joel sent were two out of focus blurred canopy of trees half lit by sunlight, clearly shot with a 15-year-old flip phone. So Ben responded, still warmly, and much to Joel's surprise, mailed him a rose-red Vivitar camera, instructing him to send more photos. Joel, overjoyed, replied, I've decided to really commit and devote myself to

D-I-S, dis-business, and whatever picture you want me to take. Still skeptical, Ben told Joel that his photography needed some work. Well, the pictures were a little better quality, but they still sucked. So I said to him that if he wanted to make money taking pictures, he needed to practice. He needed to hold the camera still and make sure his subject had plenty of likes. So Ben was genuinely surprised when he received, a batchful of really good, stunning photos. Eventually, Joel did get better.

Yeah, these are actually pretty good. Which posed a big problem. When he put in the work, I thought, oh no, now I've got to figure out a way to compensate Joel for these pictures. Or I'm going to be the scammer. That was Ben in an interview on CBS News. But Ben decided to design a small book with the photos entitled it by De Grace of God. Now, Ben thought that, you know, they'd sell a few copies and move on, but the sales kind of exceeded everybody's expectations. And soon, Ben had $1,000 in profits.

I made a promise to Joel that we'd split the profits 50-50 and that my half would go to charity. So I wrote to Joel and said that I wanted to give my portion to the people of Liberia and asked if there was anything in his community that I could help with. He said that there were a lot of children that were in need because their parents were so poor. So I asked, how can we help the children? And he said school materials, stationary, book bags, chairs. These are the things that children suffer for the most. He said that we should start by targeting the youngest 100 kids and that it would cost me about $500. I thought this was where we're really going to find out what Joel's made out of.

Either he's going to use that money for the kids or he's going to keep it for himself. But I still owe him money, so I decided to move forward and see what happened. Joel agreed. Ben just shrugged. He walked the cash to Western Union and sent it off into what he assumed would, you know, be the abyss never to be seen or heard from again. But after a few weeks, he received another package of photos. These photos were colorful, filled with life, poignant, enlivening. In them were schoolchildren praying.

They were saying a thankful prayer for their new book bags and notebooks and their sharp new outfits. It's all smiling. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Like listening to this podcast? If you're not a subscriber, become one now on iTunes. But while you're there, do us a favor and rate the show. Relief factor? Relief factor is something that I've been taking for about a year now.

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There's a lot here you didn't know so far. A lot here I didn't know. But I have a feeling there's more to the story. Well, she was asked by Yahoo News about who's welcome in the Democrat Party. And here's what she said. Is there room for socialists in the Democratic Party? Oh, sure. You know, I think we can get involved in, you know, what we all call ourselves.

I think there's room for all sorts of Democrats in the Democratic Party. What does that mean? I think we can get involved in what we call ourselves. What does that mean? I don't know, especially from the party that is doing is only slicing and dicing everybody into groups. Right. You know what I think we can talk about, you know, what we call ourselves. We call each other.

It's a great point. They're going to say no labels now. This is all they talk about all the time. These are the people that brought us LGBT. Talk about. Identity politicians. That's what they're all about. Plus, the better question for the Democrat Party is, are there Democrats allowed in the socialists?

Is there room for Democrats anymore in the Democrat in the Socialist Party? Right. The Socialists have taken over that party. I mean, is there any doubt in anybody's mind that it's become a party of Socialist? Yes. in a lot of people in the press, their mind. I saw an article today that cinema is a

she won because she's such a centrist. Oh my gosh. Which is, oh, good golly. Really? I mean, she definitely tried to play herself as a centrist. She's not a centrist. She's not a centrist. She's no more centrist than Beto was.

Hang on just a second. Just because she was a member of Code Pink doesn't make her extreme. I know. And that's another thing. They are so extreme in that party. I think we could learn some interesting lessons from the Democrats and how they've won so many battles.

I mean, they've just Overton windowed us on absolutely everything. We need to start doing that on the right. We need to start insisting on. We won't. I know why? We need to. I really am convinced because people like Paul Ryan don't believe in the stuff that we believe. They don't believe in a strict.

They don't believe in real conservatism. Yeah, they don't believe in strict adherence to the Constitution. They don't believe that. And, you know, that's a cute little thing, but we got to do what we got to do. So they won't Overton window. I would love to Overton window and say, you know what, let's reset this to 1791's kind of style of government. Can you imagine? They would go crazy, crazy.

And then if you were like, okay, well, we just want to get rid of the Department of Education, they would be, oh, okay, all right, finally some sane people around. Yeah, yeah. Start with, how about zero abortions for any reason ever? Let's start there. And when babies come out of the birth canal, they're given an AR-15 at birth. Okay? Let's start there. Fully loaded.

Okay? On abortions and gun control, that's where we begin. Yeah, I think, and what we do is we start with the AK-47 is fully loaded, and then we compromise to they have to load it themselves when they learn. Right. Right. Then we're, then it's a bipartisan solution. Exactly.

Right. Exactly. And then we start arguing with them when they're, when they have a problem, with some of our solutions. You know, I think this is, this really is what they've done. Tell me, what they've done. Tell me, they have unveiled plans for guaranteed jobs, guaranteed housing. Yeah.

That is, yes. That is directly from the Soviet. Yeah, it's from the Soviet Constitution. Remember when they started saying $15 minimum wage and how ridiculous it sounded? And then I was watching something Stossel did for a reason yesterday. And it's all about. about how Amazon came out and they were getting criticized and everyone wanted a $15 minimum wage and they fought back for a little while and then they said, oh, all right, $15 minimum wage.

Then they started harassing other companies to match. Then they said they're going to lobby Congress to raise the minimum wage to $15. And of course, Stossel completely right on this point is this is just good for Amazon. If every other company has to raise theirs to $15, they're already paying $15 an hour, everyone else gets forced to raise it. It's just going to give an advantage to Amazon. And now. It's exactly what they did with the progressives in World War II.

They put out great car companies, great tire companies, great manufacturers because GM, Chrysler and Ford all got together and said, this is what we think the country should mandate for manufacturing. And so it was good for the big three because they could afford it. And they put everyone else out of business. That's what's happening again. Alex Epstein has made this case before. He wrote the moral case for fossil fuels.

We've had him on the show before. And his point is like we constantly, as people who are conservatives and small government, are arguing just for a less worse version of what the left is asking for. It's like, you look at right now, ObamaCare is a great example of this. We are like free market solutions, free market solutions, free market solutions. They're like, oh, we want government, government, government, government. So they come in and they pass Obamacare and it's all, you know, going through. And now literally every single member of the Republican Party with, I don't know, a couple of exceptions, have now taken large swaths of Obamacare and embraced it.

Three states voted to get the Medicare expansion that initially conservative states opposed. The preexisting conditions thing is part of the platform basically for the Republican Party now. It's because the Republican Party continues to hire people and elect people like Mitt Romney, who is for all of these programs. But Donald Trump's for that too. Oh, I know that. I know that. You know, I mean, this is... Well, they're like-minded, more like-minded than people would believe.

Certainly different approaches. Different approaches. Absolutely. But similar in policies. They're both really moderate Republicans. Correct. He's a nice guy that believes in big government and Donald Trump believes, you know, a hammer to get things done. Right.

But he believes in big government. Yeah. And, you know, can we talk a little bit about the tariffs because there was a new... was a new study that came out that showed where Trump lost is the parts of the country where the tariffs hit people the hardest. Yeah, it's an interesting analysis. And it's not a huge surprise. You know, the economy is such an important issue. And Trump rightly gets some credit for it. And it's been, we've been on a great run here for a while. But the issues of when we set these tariffs on China, China responded. And they targeted, remember this? They're like, oh,

they targeted these regions and they have political importance to the president and they targeted all of those. And they have now, so a lot of these farmers in like Iowa, for example, where the Republicans lost a couple seats in somewhat surprising circumstances were regions where they were exporting tons of material to China and now are no longer doing it. There was one analysis that had soybean exports, which has got to be the most boring lead-in to a story in history. But they were down 97% to China. 97. It's wiping out your whole business. From $1.1 billion a month. From about a billion dollars a month to $24 million. Wow.

Exports in soybeans to China. This destroys your business if this is your business. $1 billion to $24 million. You can't do business that way. Yeah, we can. We can do it like FDR and we can subsidize the farming. Well, you're going to have to. Yeah, you're going to have to. You're going to have to. And this is why tariffs are so bad.

They're just so bad. It's really kicking in now, too. Anybody who supports the president has needs to, in the nicest of ways, urge the president has won. You've won, Mr. President. You've won. Now, let's get rid of these tariffs. And again, tariffs.

Before they ruin the economy, because if you lose the economy, you're going to lose in 2020. He's done. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. So my staff of millennials. are talking about adulting. I don't even know what adulting is. And a quarter life crisis. What the heck is a quarter life crisis?

Well, we're about to find out. J.P. Pocluda is an author of a book called Welcome to Adulting. And it is taking millennials by storm. Welcome, J.P. How are you? Hey, I'm doing so great. Thanks for having me on, Glenn. Appreciate you. You bet. Okay. So, J.P., adulting. What exactly is adulting?

Well, it is the practice of behaving in a way characteristic of a responsible adult, especially the accomplishment of a mundane but necessary task. If that sounds like I read that from the dictionary, it's because I did. It's a new word. We just put that in the dictionary last year, and so it is official. So this is something that we used to just do naturally. When you were 18, you were, at least in my household, you were kind of expected to go out and earn your own way and you know you're an adult now get out and uh and uh now we now what what why

the breakdown of this thing that has always been natural well i don't know that it's always been natural i mean i think it i think hindsight is always 20 20 when we look back on you know our own development and how we've grown up and i know what they're saying about millennials and young adults today the delayed adolescence they're lazy narcissistic i don't think that's entirely true at all Yeah, entitled and all of those things. And I appreciate, you know, it sounds like we may have a shared perspective on that. Because, you know, it seems like we all need help growing up and exist in different times and whatnot. And when I look at the future, I'm hopeful.

I think these guys, they need leaders. They need people to inspire them. But I think they want to do something great. They want to change the world. they want to do something bigger than themselves. And I hope this is a resource that helps them do that. Okay, so this is part of the problem, I think, with suicides that are rising in millennials. And it is that people just aren't convinced that they can make a difference, that their life has no meaning, that there is no purpose to anything.

And is this what the quarter life crisis is about? Yeah, I think that's absolutely right, Glenn. I think people are looking for purpose. I think they're looking in the wrong places. I think they have a thousand friends on social media, you know, a thousand Twitter followers, you know, whatever, but no real relationships, no depth and no meaningful conversations. They're not looking for hope in the right places.

And so they despair. You know, they want to be the number one and number two goals of millennials are to be rich and to be famous. And when they hit the wall, pursuing riches and pursuing stardom, they're left despairing and they're looking for more. I will tell you that wealth and fame are gigantic impostors. And what really led me to my awakening in my 30s was I, you know, I had accomplished a little bit of both and realized that's completely empty and then had no idea where to go and where to find it.

Brad Pitt says the same thing. Tom Brady says the same thing. Jim Carrey says the same thing. Russell Brand just came out with a statement saying the same thing. You know, they say my friend Todd says the rich are infinitely better off than the poor because while the poor think riches will bring happiness, the wealthy know better. And I think that's a true statement. The Fame is with fame. And these millennials, young adults and whatnot, they want to do something bigger than themselves. They just don't know how. And so there's this cry of their heart.

The scripture says that God has set eternity in our hearts. I think they're trying to fill that eternal void with all the things of this world, and they're just coming up empty. And so I think the generation, your listeners, the generation that has gone before them, needs to be patient and take time, sit down with them, continue to tell the war stories of all. tell us about the times, you know, of you growing up, the hardships that you face. Try to do so without judgment and ask lots of questions, seek to understand, become a student of your children and grandchildren, and know that they really, there is a desire in them. It may be hidden behind some arrogance and pride, but there is a desire in them to learn from you. I will tell you that I don't think there was this spread of misunderstanding between generations

when I was a kid, maybe between my grandparents and me, because they grew up in the Great Depression, but not my parents and me. I mean, there was a misunderstanding, but things in the world have changed so much that when you talk to millennials now, and I'm 54, you talk to millennials, and it is a different world. They see the world differently.

They speak a different language. They understand technology. and the world as it's going to be much better. And, you know, I think they have a reason to be a little concerned. If they don't have somebody in their life that's, you know, an older generation going, it's okay. It's okay. It's really exciting.

What you guys are facing is really exciting. And you're going to be able to change the world if you keep your head on your shoulders. Yeah, I think you're right. You have to have someone to talk to. I also think you're pointing to the right challenges with the, the information age, the boom of technology, you know, carrying a mega computer in our pockets everywhere we go. That does change a person.

And so it's interesting what you say about the gap between you and your parents being smaller. I think that that's probably, I would share your perspective. And at the same time, I think that we all go through something I like to call kind of the younger brother, older brother syndrome, which comes, I have. I picked that up from the biblical story, the prodigal son, where I think we're all kind of the older, I mean, the younger brother at some point. And someone is patient with us and, you know, embraces us and extends grace to us. And then, you know, we're with the father and all is right.

And we grow up and we overnight become the older brother. And then we just look back with judgment and we don't want to be patient with anyone else. And so I try to, you know, when I sit with someone, who's young and naive and just like I was, and I'm sure am in ways I can't see right now, just to be patient with them, seek to understand their world, where they're coming from, what is their worldview, and you'll point them to truth. So you're working now at Waterfront or Watermark Church, which is a great, great organization here in Dallas, Texas,

which I don't even know. What's the youth population there? I don't know the youth. So I spend all my time with young adults. So 20 to 35 is the porch. I say all my time. I teach on the weekends as well. Right.

It's become, by God's grace, the largest young adult gathering in the country. So what is the number one thing that they are concerned about? And how can people who are listening help them? Yeah, I appreciate you saying that. I think, well, dating, right at that point in your life, you graduated college, and you're trying to figure out how you can convince someone of the opposite sex to spend the rest of their life with you. anxiety is a huge felt need right now as you talk about just growing suicide rates and depression rates.

I think you have a generation despairing out of control. And so that's a huge felt need. But the biggest one you also touched on, Kingley, is just searching for purpose. I think they're trying to figure out, hey, you know, is there a God, first of all? And if there is, what is his desire for me and how do I find my purpose in this world? And so that is, I don't know that that's the felt need. I think the felt need can be more of the dating and anxiety, but the real need, the underlying need is, is, hey, what were you created for? And that's where I think this book, you know, the chapter two is all about purpose and finding your identity.

I will tell you, the name of the book is welcome to adulting, by the way. And I'll tell you, J.P, that if it, you know, I search for answers for a long time. and in my 30s I had a complete crash, and I lost absolutely everything. And it was only then that I was willing to look at the real answer, which is God. And, you know, he had been just this distant kind of thing that I believed in, but it wasn't really a real relationship, et cetera, et cetera. And, you know, it's not something that is being encouraged at all in a large portion of our society. now and and you know churches seem so out of touch to so many millennials i mean it's different

here in in the south but seem completely distant and god is kind of this distant idea and i we were just listening to some audio from from the wildfires in california i don't think i've heard so many Californians talk about god ever you know when you're when you are really stripped down that's when you start to find answers. That's when you, you know, in the midst of human suffering, that's where you find him. And they say there's no atheist in the foxhole. And we've seen that. We almost saw a great awakening happen with when 9-11 occurred.

Whenever there's, whenever tragic hits, we turn to the creator. I've seen the same thing in Haiti when the earthquake hit in 2010. You had the whole country coming around saying, okay, now, you know, turning from Satanism to okay, we think there's a creator, a God. And that's similar to my story, Glenn. I mean, 16 years ago, I was at a bar on a Saturday night and was kind of everything wrong with Dallas and a person was pretentious. I wanted to be a millionaire before I was 30.

You had the Jaguar and the Pinnhouse condo and was, you know, a girlfriend and another, you know, several girls and all of that just in one person. And I was at a bar and someone invited me to church. And I came to Watermark and I sat in the back row and I was hung over. I smelled like smoke for the night before, you know, at the club. And I was addicted to sex, addicted to porn. And I just began to wrestle with, you know, who is God? And really seeking that out.

And I looked at all of the world religions because I thought, what are the odds? I'd be born to the right country. You know, if I was born in China, I'd be Buddhist or India. I'd be Hindu and Iran. I might be Muslim. And so I just started studying. It started from scratch. I grew up in the church, but I was just like really had a bias against Christianity.

And as I continue to explore that, I was overwhelmed by the evidence that pointed me to Jesus Christ. And when I surrendered my life to him, just as that person that I described earlier, everything changed. What I did for fun changed, who I hung out with changed, the way I thought changed, the way I talked changed, and ultimately, you know, my profession changed. And so I'm so passionate about helping the next generation reach this generation, we'll call it Gen Y or Gen Z. millennials, young adults, I want to see that gap you addressed earlier become narrower and smaller so that we can raise up because all of us, we know we're going to leave this place. And you want to leave a legacy. You want to leave people behind you that are seeking to, you know, live out their purpose in this world.

J.P., I'm thrilled to have you on. It sounds like we have a lot of shared experiences and shared belief in the younger generation. I think they get a very bad rap. You know, I've met good and bad, but I've met good and bad in all generations. This generation is looking. They just don't have anyone encouraging and anyone who is telling them truth. You know, they've been lied to, I think, their whole life. And I have great confidence in them.

So thank you so much for what you're doing. And the name of the book is Welcome to Adulting. Welcome to Adulting. Jonathan J.P. Pocluda. Thanks for being on. We'll talk again. Thanks, J.P. Glenn, thank you so much. Appreciate you. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Now we bring in Andrew Heaton to join us. He's from... What is it? Something's Off. Something's off with Andrew Heaton. Yeah, I just, I keep... And I've just never heard of a name of a show that is more accurate than that one. Thank you. It's time for the charts.

with a Heaton family right now. Yeah. It's doing really well. It's a hit in Alva, Oklahoma. Yeah. Okay, so anyway, something's off with Andrew Heaton, and it's a look at the news and kind of an enjoyable look at the news. Thank you.

Yeah, because you don't really get into all of the tit for tat kind of stuff. I think that the news has so much bile in it right now and so much, it's as if everybody everybody says, let's talk about which team is the good team, which team is the bad team. And I don't think that's helpful. And I'd rather just kind of be a release valve for everybody. Yeah. We'll talk about substantive stuff. We had a good chat yesterday about, like, you know, kind of the way the parties break down and everything.

But I kick it off with, you know, something that's a little bit more enjoyable. Well, I didn't think that it was the best thing to start the show with Animal News. No, no, animal news is great. Yeah, but I was surprised because, you know, what you told me yesterday in your podcast actually helps me make sense of what's happening in Florida. Yes, it does. Thank you. Yeah. So, you know, I do a lot of research every day. And this was from incredible publications from National Geographic. Right.

But there was a story that I read about how Florida's worried about monkeys escaped Rhesus macaque monkeys with a deadly herpes simplex bee that can jump species running amuck through Florida. And I looked into this. I mean, first of all, standard headline for Florida. This seems about right. Florida reads that they don't even read this story. They're like, of course. It's Tuesday.

We got it. Thank you. Monkeys running blues are going to ruin everybody. In 1938, this guy wanted to start a Tarzan-themed island in Florida. So he purchased six Rhesus McCock monkeys from a dealer in New York, and he dropped him off of this island. Wait, wait. Yeah, you go to New York for your...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You go to the McCock District over on 34th Street. Okay. That's right. I wasn't aware of that. Redevelopment zone. Right. There's lots of good tax breaks for that.

Right, okay. Yeah, get your monkeys here. Okay. He bought these monkeys and he released him by this island and he didn't know that Reese's macaque monkeys are apparently the Michael Phelps of the monkey family. And they were there 45 minutes before they escaped into the woods of or into the sweltering swamp land of Florida. And they've been breeding there ever since.

They're up to like a, they're up to several hundred or a few thousand or something like that. And they're increasing at 11% per year. And again, I want to get back to this deadly Herpes simplex V virus. it because I this is what I was like well I mean are you saying that I mean I don't people are sleeping no it's not it's not that anybody's doing anything on towards I mean again it is Florida it's possible it's but I look to I want to be one ugly woman but I you know somebody did die from it it what no it I'll say this if you're in Florida I don't think you I think there's way more stuff to be worried about if you're in Florida than these deadly monkeys I think

they're like number eight I don't know I think you might be better off if you worry about the deadly monkey your day will be more enjoyable yes you're the monkeys are number eight, where is the Broward County election board? I think I'd put that at like number seven. I still think I think the actual systemic Florida problems far out rank, any flash in the pan elections that are going on. Right, okay. Yeah, you can't.

So if you catch this, this Herprey Cineplex B from the Rhesus monkeys, it'll, it'll give you, it does spinal inflammation and it'll either kill you or give you brain damage. And it's very difficult to get, but if you get a monkey body fluid in your eye or something like that. Like, like, like, when to throw something at you or you're performing open heart surgery on monkey out of a van. Right. Because I heard you say this last night that, you know, if you get, because one person who died from it, she got, yeah, yeah, she got, she got, she got monkey body fluid in her eye. Yeah, they didn't say what, but, you know. Yeah, I, I, I, I, I, don't know. I mean, monkeys, you know, they could have thrown something. They could, there's any

number of, we don't know, any number of situation, but it did kill her. So it is, it is a concern. Right. And they're, they're coming up with all these solutions of like, well, we can, we can, we can, we can, we can castrate every fourth monkey. Like that's a solution is to try and like we don't want to ruin the population. And the thing that I started thinking about was Florida has 29 electoral votes. It has deadly, escaped, swimming, racist macaque monkeys. And it has 29 electoral votes. George F. Will, zero electoral votes.

George F. Will, he lives in a library. He basically lives in a library with a mattress in the middle. He's a smart, educated guy. No electoral votes. Only guilty of like oblique baseball metaphors. No electoral votes go to George F. Will. And Florida gets 29. And that just doesn't seem fair to me.

Right. Right. I think I didn't get into this podcast, but I think because there is all this difficulty, Browd Cowan and everything else is going on in Florida. I think next election, Florida, if you're in Florida, you should be allowed to vote for another state, Canadian province, or astronaut. And that gets to make your vote for you. That's my plan for Florida.

kind of take them just remove the whole state a little bit from the decision-making process. Have we thought about taking the monkeys and putting them in charge of the vote? I mean, I could see a lot of elections going worse than having, you know, these monkeys. I mean, because all of those that are only truly, I mean, if you're being paid off or if you're just like casting a fake ballot, you're not going to do it if you think the supervisor are going to throw some, you know, some feces at you. And am I getting your eye and kill you. Or you could, you know, they make those investing things about like a monkey can, you know, throw a darts at a dartboard. Maybe that's how you pick propositions.

Okay. I like that. You just put the monkeys in charge. I like that. So California is another state that I think may have Reese's macaque monkeys running rampant in it. The San Francisco voter population went out to vote on Proposition C. And it passed with 59.9% of the vote. And this is this, let me, may I quote.

It's over half the vote. Yeah. Proposite. While you are bright. Wow. You are really. Thank you very much. Did you just do that on yourself?

Magda cum laude. Proposition C's victory. Now listen to this. Proposition C's victory means the homeless will have a home and the help they truly need because the city has come together in love. So is it just a resolution that we want to help homeless people or does it have force of law behind it? No, it's the large. just a tax increase in San Francisco history. Oh, okay. Okay. But it was a loving tax increase? If it was just the resolution,

I was like, I always really like it when Congress debates like if the Buffalo should be the national mammal or something, I feel like they're not, they're not messing with the economy. So maybe, but okay, but they're actually doing stuff. No, no, they're, no, they're doing this. Companies with more than $50 million in gross revenue receipts will now be taxed on any gross annual receipt revenue in San Francisco. So, and they already have that. So this is just a giant increase. It means that a company that's doing, like they say, Salesforce here. I don't know how much sales force is making in San Francisco, but they say that it will have to pay around $10 million per year, which is a little.

Are they just this is where I dropped the funny thing. Are they giving out vouchers for rental apartments? Are they building homeless shelters or where's the money going to go? Did you hear what I said? They're taking the money. I heard that back. Propositions. They're going to love.

This victory, now that they've done this, this means the homeless will have a home and the help they truly need. And love. You didn't even say the love part. Say the love part. That's the best part. Because the city came together for love for those who need it most. It might to understand then that they just came up with a tax plan without a spending plan? I mean, like, I'm actually, that never happens.

I'm very impressed if someone actually was just like, hey, you know what? We feel like we might spend money in the future so we're going to tax. now like usually we do it the other way around well no they i mean they have they have they have a plan they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've uh they've doubled the money that they're spending now on the homeless problem to 300 million dollars but i want to show you how effective it is um in the overall rate of homelessness in san francisco in 2004 was 8,640 now i think i've been to san francisco i don't go with a higher number now they may be using an anarchist okay because i think there's than 8,000.

But in just that short period of time, just 13 years, they've dropped that down to 7,499. So, you know, they've gotten, you know. So I just want to make sure I understand. Their position is they've lowered the homeless population in San Francisco in the last 13 years.

That's their position. Okay. Yeah. That I don't believe them at all. So just still we're clear. Well, I mean, I don't know if they're counting the people who are living in tents as homeless now. I mean, that's a big one.

So, you know, and that's, and that's one of the things that they're doing with the money is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, they are doing love. Oh, well, they, they are sending in, I'm not making this up, they are sending in maid service. Really? Yes. Yes. Well, to the, to the, you know, to the cities. Yeah. Really? Yeah, because the homeless can't, you know, be expected to clean it up.

So, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to play devil's advocate here for a minute. Okay, go ahead, yeah. Let's say, you're a, you're a big city on the West Coast, and you spend a ton of money on. dealing with homeless problems, it might just attract more homeless people. I mean, like, it might suck them out of other cities, right? I don't think that's a devil's advocate. That's just, I think that's the truth. Oh, okay. Well, so in which case, like, you know, they're being compassionate in this regard. Like, there's a difference between shifting the problem versus creating the problem, I guess is what I'm saying, right? Well, but they've clearly already

indicated this is about love. So we know it's a good motivation. And if there's one thing, the government's good at doing, it's loving you. A large corporate body of bureaucrats that You can't meet or fire can love the hell out of you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Every year I get my birthday card from the government and I get my Christmas card for the government. I just filled with love.

Unlike the 60s, this is not free love. However, this is very expensive love. Yeah. So now let me ask you this, speaking of love, you are, you are looking for a love of your life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm 34 and ready to, you know, I thought I'd be on my third wife by now. I'm on zero. Yeah.

I feel like I need to step up my game. Yeah. And this is a serious deal. I mean, don't you think that Andrew is kind of like those guys, everybody has a friend like this? You're like, he's really nice. He's really nice guy. And I don't know why he, I don't know why women are just repelled by him. Yeah.

But he can't ever seem to find a date. You know, I hear what you're saying. I think I'm more like Prince Harry. That I'm just, I'm so unobtainably up there that it scares people. people. Is that what it is? They're intimidated to date or make out with them. You hear that from like Victoria's Secret models a lot.

When I was in high school. That might be the problem is I'm not, I should just be dated a Victoria's secret bomb. Just a second. I'm trying to imagine you in underpants and wings. There you go. Nope, don't think that's, you're welcome America.

That's the same problem. Just like a mere cat that can fly. Remember, government has led the way here. They pay for love. Have you considered this? I should go to San Francisco. Get one of those love subsidies. Right.

Okay. Thank you very much. Andrew Heaton. There's something off with Andrew Heaton is the name of the podcast. We invite you to listen to it and subscribe. Last night was very funny. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you, Andrew. The Blaze Radio Network on demand.