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It really all turned out to be true, didn't it? That Kavanaugh is just going to just really take the world by storm when it comes to Planned Parenthood in abortions. There's reasons to worry about Kavanaugh early. We talked about him before all this went down, and it's so far the indications are not good. Also, Andrew McCarthy joins us. He tells us a little bit about what is really happening in Washington with the president. He says, as a big supporter of Trump, that they are going to indict him.

What does that even mean? Andrew McCarthy joins us. And J.P. Sears, and maybe it's cold outside, is now sexist. It's a rape culture song. Oh, I have so many shutups in me. I get them all out in today's podcast. You're listening to The Best of the Glenback program. It's Tuesday, December 11th.

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This is the Glenbeck program. So do you remember the hand ring? Do you remember the wailing, the doomsday scenarios forecasted by the left during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation circus? He is going to end women's rights. In fact, he might end up killing all women. Do you remember the protesters that were dressed like women from the handmaid's tale?

The hysteria. It all came down to one issue. The left was scared out of its collective mind that Brad Kavanaugh would somehow single-handedly overturn Roe versus Wade and force women into the dark ages and bootleg abortions. this monster was going to destroy all women's rights. And then a little something of interest to the pro-abortion crowd came down from the Supreme Court yesterday. We begin there right now. This is the Glenn Beck program.

So, um, so the abortion thing yesterday, Supreme Court, the court dealt a blow to conservative. Wait a minute. I thought Kavanaugh was the Antichrist. Seems like we should have been the ones freaking out. Now, there were several conservatives, us included, that said, wait a minute, this guy was not on the list. Wait a minute.

This guy could be another Justice Thomas. Not Thomas, but the other guy that overturned Roberts. He could be another Justice Roberts. And why is he added all of a sudden? He wasn't on anybody's list. They're freaking out. We are all like, oh, we got to have him now. Well, I'm not sure he, I mean, he teaches with Jesuits.

I'm not sure he's a real conservative. Well, the two part, there's two parts to this. One is, you're right. You know, the list that got Donald Trump elected did not have Brett Kavanaugh's name on it. It was added after he was in office. There are still 20 names on the arrest. list that are not Supreme Court justices. Why did the list need to be expanded? I don't understand it. There were real reasons why Kavanaugh was not on that first list, and the Obamacare decision

he was involved in was a big part of that. The second unrelated issue here is Brett Kavanaugh is absolutely a qualified justice, and the attacks against him were absolutely unfair. Correct. So, I mean, it was completely fine, I think, for once he was nominated, to say he is qualified, and it is the president's decision. And I understand. all that, but he should not have been on the list. There's 20 people still on the original list that were never named to be nominated as a Supreme Court justice.

There was no reason to go off that list. The list is the big reason why Donald Trump was elected. We get hundreds of calls over the election of people saying, look, I don't like X, Y, and Z about Donald Trump, but you know what? That Supreme Court list makes me confident and we're going to have Supreme Court justices. We have to get good ones. And it's a logical

argument. But why the fact that no one paid any attention? Because Gorsuch was on the first list, and he's been great. And he was right in this case. So here we go. So the conservatives were hoping to challenge the individual state funding of Planned Parenthood, six to three vote. Court decided not to review the lower court decisions that block the states of Kansas and Louisiana

from preventing Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funding. To accept the case, the court needed four justices to vote in favor. Now, to be clear, Medicaid funding in question does not directly involve. abortions. Federal law already prohibits using Medicaid to fund abortions, but it's going to plan parenthood. Predictively, the court's four progressive justices voted against hearing the appeals. Let the money go to plan parenthood. I think also somewhat predictably, the court's chameleon conservative John Roberts voted with the progressives. But wouldn't you know it, the six vote against hearing the case came from breath.

Kavanaugh. In his dissent, Justice Thomas wrote that the cases in question were not about abortion rights. He said, what explains the court's refusal to do its job here? I suppose it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named Planned Parenthood. Some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue does not justify abdicating our judicial duty, end quote. Justice Roberts, I'm sure, did this because he just wants everybody to get along. He just wants to save the integrity of the Supreme Court while what, destroying it? The point is not that Brett Kavanaugh is suddenly pro-abortion or Planned Parenthood supporter. It said he's already showing himself to be the kind of justice some of us thought he would be.

someone who like John Roberts might lean conservative sometimes but won't always side with the usual conservative block especially when it comes to things like life in other words the left the left was positive the sky was falling that women are just going to be abused and this is the lynchpin on uh planned parenthood and abortion Yeah, the sky wasn't falling. It appears it was an acorn. The best of the Glenn Beck program. I was thrilled to see how many people have been writing in and tweeting and Facebook posting, how they are joining. You know, it was Tyler Perry, Chris Rock, Kid Rock, Kid Rock, and me that went out and we did our local Walmart and care of all of the layaways.

And it was such a cool thing. And I still challenge people in my position to go out and do something amazing. Because it's really, what's great is it's not only good for you, but it's spreading. I had so much mail yesterday from people who said, I went and did this with my family. And I just, we only had, you know, $50 or we had $100 or we had $25. And it was so cool to do. So engage in that. Now, there's also a couple of things that I don't know if I don't even know where to begin.

We have 13% of Americans will boycott Christmas spending. 13% still. Boycott Christmas spending? Yeah, they say that they do not want to be a part of this whole commercialization. So they're not going to spend any money for the holiday season. 13% that's pretty high allow me to roll my eyes a little harder at that one because you know what

first of all it's not going to be 13% 13% of people are not that's just not true secondly why do we vilify commercialism so much what's so bad about it what's so bad about having cool toys and fun parts it can't be the whole holiday

and if it's the whole holiday then you're right you're doing it wrong but it was a great part of my childhood I loved getting cool things for Christmas my kids like doing it too You know, there's nothing wrong with materialism. It's like, it's like this weird, like, and I know this isn't the way you're thinking about it. But I feel like a lot of conservatives have adopted what is essentially an anti-capitalism liberal argument, which is like, oh, well, we can, you know, buying things makes it nasty and dirty, and you're sullying this season by getting involved in commercialism.

Commercialism is fine. there's nothing wrong with capitalism and conservatism and commerce they're all pretty darn great and you know the fact is if you let it become all about gifts gifts gifts gifts gifts gifts gifts gifts gifts gifts gifts gifts gifts yeah you're you're doing it wrong

that's not the whole thing but it's so part of it and that's okay so I agree with you I agree with you I didn't think you would yeah because I don't it is not about the gifts it's it's it's it's how you embrace that it's if you're making, for instance, I have grown to really not like the month of December because it has become about,

I have to go do this, we have to go do that, we have to do this, we have to do this, did you get the cards out, everybody's expecting this, did you get the presents for the people that you really don't even know? And you send those out,

and don't forget. All the parties. You've got to do this and the parties and all of this crap. That's not what this holiday is about. We've made this the most stressful month ever. Instead of just making this the coolest month ever. Just go and just be with people and help people

and give people presents. There's nothing wrong with that. Right. And I think you're arguing against being over-scheduled, which I find. And also just making it about stuff. Right, but like a card is not about stuff. A card is an acknowledgement to someone else.

Hey, I'm thinking about you in this time of year. Right. Like that's, but that is a task. It winds up being a task because you want to make sure you get it to everybody. And it doesn't feel like it's supposed to. That's supposed to be a nice gesture, right? That's not about like, oh, here's something they're going to, they're getting some cool commercial gift. Yes, you're buying the card and you could theoretically make the card.

but that's all about a message, right, to someone that you supposedly like. But how many times are you getting cards from people? Like, for instance, I get a Christmas card. Last few years I've gotten a Christmas card from Vince Vaughn. Vince Vaughn doesn't think of me in the holidays. You're not thinking of me? You know what I mean? I don't know how I got on his Christmas card list.

When I got onto his Christmas card list and I get a Christmas card from him. First of all, it's pretty cool. No, it's cool. It is cool. But it's like he's not thinking. about me. He's like, you know, you know, pal, it's been another year. No. And that's what I mean. It becomes a task. Correct. My wife is a classic, she loves Christmas and she's a classic over-schedualer, I would say, in Christmas. Like, so she signs up for every Christmas tradition,

and she signs up for every, you know, the kids are in every, you know, little Christmas thing. And then every year we get here and she's like, next year, we're not doing X, Y, and Z because it's too much. And it's true. We run around like crazy. Though I do love those things. I do like going to those little traditional events And I like, you know, a lot of it's just like going to see people And doing things that you wouldn't normally do the rest of the year And, you know, we have two little kids So they're in like 9,475 Christmas specials that we go to

And then there's multiple showings of those So we're about 15, 20,000 of those. But I mean, again, like, you don't trade those things. Like, you want to go do them. I don't know. I'm kind of glad that Cheyenne's not in ballet this year. I don't have to sit through the damn nutcracker twice. I just, I think because it gets stressful,

because you're just adding it on to work, right? And at times it feels like a job. Like I was on vacation last week. And I feel like I was running around more than any normal work week. You're running around to events and picking kids up and you're shuttling to the other thing. And then you got to make sure you get there on time because if you're late, you know, you'll miss it.

And then you just feel like you're, you've just adopted a new full-time job for the month. But that's not capitalism's fault. That is not capitalism's fault. Commercialism is a part of Christmas. And I don't, I really don't think it's a bad part of Christmas. I think it's great. You know, I like going to, I like going and doing the shopping and giving people gifts that they don't, you know, that you got to come up with and pick out. And especially with your kids, like the stuff that you're able to get them.

I mean, yeah. No, it can't be your only priority. I think is a better way of staying. I tell the story. I've told the story before. So I apologize. But there was one year that we hit it, the first year that we really hit it. And I grew up in a family that, I mean, I got one present one year.

And, you know, we struggled as a family. And I always wanted to do Christmas for my kids big. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And so I did. We hit it big one year. I can't remember this. I remember this year.

Yeah. The presents, I mean, I really, honest to God, I went out and I bought everything I've ever wanted to get my kids and my wife. for Christmas. I mean, everything. The presents, the presents were like, you can even see the tree, basically. You couldn't see the tree. You really couldn't see half of the tree. And, uh, and it was the most empty and hollow Christmas we've ever had. None of us recall that as a good Christmas. And we got everything we wanted. Yeah. It's not, it's not about that. It's a priority setting issue. Yeah. Right. I mean, you have to have the more important things or it's not, you're not doing it right. but the fact that you get to a little, it's like, you know, someone who is in shape might tell you, you know, eating nonstop ice cream buffets is not the proper diet.

Shut up. But a little ice cream at the end of a meal can be great. Yeah, it's balance in everything. That's all it is. It's just balance. We swing from one side to the other and we swing so far. It's the pendulum when it's in the middle is usually the right thing. You know, an all-ice-cream diet is not good.

Ice cream occasionally is good. You know, let's just say a lifestyle where you've never worked out a day in your life, in the end, is not good. This was a weird, I don't understand this part of that. I'm still working on that and convincing myself, and I can't really pull it off. A little heroin. A little heroin is okay, but if you're doing it all the time, I mean, it's just shaking. up your holiday season. Exactly right. So last night, we finished the tree. If you were listening yesterday, I was, I was abandoned at the tree, okay, on Sunday because I was, I was decorating it

the way my mother, you know, you kind of, you are just who you grew up as, and you don't really realize it. And pretty soon I found myself as the only one decorating the tree. And I was like, Hey, what happened? Well, how come is it me? And my wife from the kitchen said, yep, it's you. And it was because I'm really OCD. I'm just so OCD on things and the tree. And so I was doing it like my mother used to, which was, you know, okay, kids,

you put the big things to block the hollow parts of the tree and, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. A real planning process you had to. Planning, and it was not fun. And so last night, we decorated the tree and I let it go. And it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was actually and did enjoy it. It was very difficult once I sat down because I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't stop. And then I realized what I think it is, we have a fake tree. Mm-hmm.

And fake trees, because we have, when we got a, when we spent our Christmas up at the ranch in the mountains, we get a real tree. In Texas, you don't want a real tree. First of all, you have to mortgage your house to get a real tree. And second of all, it's like a, you know, it's like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree. All the needles just fall off the minute the clock strikes 12. All the needles fall off. It's been dead for so long. Anyway, so we have a real tree when we celebrate Christmas up at the ranch because we could just go out and cut one.

I'm not like that at the ranch. I'm not like that at the ranch because the tree is imperfect. The tree is just like, I sat down on the couch and I looked at this damn tree and I thought, how did I ever like this tree? It's like a perfect cone. And I realized it was that's not what a Christmas tree is supposed to look like. It is supposed to just be like, you know, the handmade stuff and the stuff and it's just kind of imperfect. I mean, so much of it is tradition, right? Did you grow up with all real trees?

I didn't. You had fake trees? We had fake trees. Really? Fake trees. That's surprising coming from you. I know. Because I love the fake trees, man.

There's so much easier. They are. So much better. But I don't know. It just doesn't seem. as authentic maybe. I don't know. No, it's true. You're trading convenience. Yes, you are. Authenticity. You are. I'm not always opposed to that trade, however. Neither am I. Not always. Not always. 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.

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And I know that you're a Trump supporter so you don't have an axe to grind. And so when you say, I think he's going to be indicted because this is the way this is being written, it carried some weight and I wanted to talk to you about it. How are you, Andrew? Andrew. I'm doing just great, Glenn. How are you? I'm, I'm great. I've been, and I don't know if other people feel this way, but I'm been really confused with all that's going on because it's all leaks or speculation. And, you know, I'm just waiting for the thing to, just when the shoes drop, then we'll talk about it. But you are a federal, a former New York federal investigator, sorry, prosecutor.

and so you used to write the things like you just read from Cohen's what do you call it? The sentencing memorandum. So you used to write it and those things and you say this is very telling. Can you explain? Sure. I think, Glenn, you're right to be suspicious when you hear the leaked information because obviously the people who leak. are telling you they're sort of mining the parts of the story they want you to hear and holding back other stuff. Whereas when they do these court filings, this is a 40-page document that is customarily filed about a week or two in advance of the imposition of sentence by the court.

You get a full flavor of what the government's theory about the cases and where they're going with the investigation. and it seemed to me that this sentencing memo is more directed at President Trump than it is at Cohen. Sentencing memos are interesting in terms of legal filings because they're not kind of dry legal issue-oriented submissions. They're almost like jury arguments, except they're meant to persuade the sentencing judge. so they tend to be more forceful and colorful and sort of filled with their prosecution theory. And here, this one reads in the part of it that deals with the campaign finance laws as a testimonial to the importance of those laws to the integrity of the system and how they are meant to make sure that the rich and the powerful don't usurp all of the power in the system. system and designed to fight against public cynicism about money in politics.

I mean, it almost seemed to me like it was drafted with the president in mind more than Cohen. And then I look at the other attendance situations or attendant circumstances that you have here. Number one, they didn't really need these campaign finance counts on Cohen. His sentence is really driven by the bank fraud and the tax fraud. accounts, these add negligibly at most to his case, but they're obviously critical in connection with Trump. At the guilty plea allocution, they gratuitously had him say that he was directed by Trump in connection with these payments. That is not something that was necessary to the

factual basis for Cohen's own plea. And ordinarily, prosecutors in public proceedings do not go out of their way to implicate uncharged people in felonies. So it seemed to me they were sort of reaching to do that. And it doesn't, I don't see that they have any other purpose of doing that, except that they want to lock Cohen in on this version of events, and this is their chance of doing it. And then the other thing I would point to is they have given immunity, I believe, to four different people. in this campaign finance investigation.

Campaign finance is not a very serious felony in the greater scheme of things. They've given immunity to two people connected to the National Enquirer, and I believe two people connected with the Trump organization, which relates to the structuring of the reimbursement payment to Cohen.

I don't think they gave four people immunity to tighten up the case on Cohen that they didn't need. So both of the tea leaves. Okay, so what does that tell you they're going to do with Trump? Well, it seems to be they're going to indict him. One of the things, one that I should have said was that I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about what these two campaign finance accounts allege.

Most people, I think, believe that because Cohen had a $2,700 limit, as a normal contributor, that these payments were way above that limit, and that's why he had to plead guilty. But very interestingly, the first of the counts is not that Cohen made an illegal payment. It's that he caused a third party, namely the business entity that controls the National Enquirer, to make a payment that was illegal for the National Enquirer to make. And the point here is, the theory is, even if a transaction would be legal as to you, if you did it yourself, it is still illegal to cause a third party to do something

that would be unlawful as to that third party. and it seems to me that that answers directly what Trump's lawyers have been saying about this, which is that the president, because he was the candidate, did not have a limit on what he could spend on his own campaign. Now, I've always thought that was kind of a flawed explanation because there's two parts of they're important to campaign finance. One is the limits, but probably the more important one is reporting. So even a candidate has to report what he spends. But for our narrow purpose here, if Cohn is being directed by Trump, and they have Cohn plead guilty to causing a third-party entity to make an illegal contribution,

it seems obvious to me that Trump also has to be guilty of that. So it seems it at least looks to me like that is the theory of it. Right. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. All right. Let me give you a couple of things here. Stu. You can choose the news because I'm just not going to be able to get through everything.

Facebook has filed a patent to calculate your future location. That one is fascinating. Yes, it is. The new exercise guidelines, not bad news if you don't, if you're like me. Let's see. That's tempting here. Right. Because it's that time of year where I, every time I pass a place,

of cookies. There's no more cookies on the plate when I walk by it. It's really, it's amazing. How can it be so hard to not eat a cookie? But it is that hard. And what the trade war in China is really all about. What do you want to do? Definitely not the boring trade war thing. Well, tell me that you got to tell me the exercise thing.

Okay, so here's the exercise thing. Okay, for the first time in 10 years, new rules on exercising. Remember, I think we're in butter is okay again. aren't we? Butter was okay, then it was bad, that it was really bad, then it was okay, then it was bad again, and I think we're back to butter is okay.

I think you're right. Okay, so it's a little slower, but for the first time in 10 years, they've come up with new exercise guidelines. And when I say they, I would have had to read the story a little bit more deeper to know who they are, but I think we all know

that's what they want you to believe. I do think that's the problem with so much of this reporting, especially on health and food and stuff, is that it's not necessarily, that the study is bad or has no value. It's that the media is so horrible at reporting it, where they just take, like, there's a study on four mice that indicated something slightly.

Change the way you eat. Like, that's not what any of those things are supposed to do. Right. Okay, and this is all framed as good news, okay? The new exercise guidelines aren't increasing the recommended amount of exercise for teens and adults. Okay, that sounds like good news. But they're not decreasing them either.

Wow. So that sucks. However, they do change the definition of exercise a bit, so it is easier to hit. This comes from the Journal of American Medical Association and the Department of Health and Human Services. And if you're not hitting the guidelines that were released in 2008, don't feel bad. Eight and ten people are like, I don't give them flying crap what they say. but here's a subtle but important change. They no longer define exercise as an activity that last at least 10 minutes.

So now, how many minutes is it? No, it doesn't, just any kind of heart rate increase. You can count that time for any length of time. So now, if that's true, sex counts for most people. There you go. You know, you can. I will say, too, I'm not going to. start exercising more, but I am going to be closer to the minimum amount of exercise I need to do.

Correct. Because zero is closer to whatever they're saying now than 10. Yes. So if you just park a little bit further away, you know, from your office, that counts now as exercise. And that's a good thing to do if there are no spots that are closer than the one that you're going to. That's right. That's right. They say you don't have to go to the gym for 10, 15. or 30 minutes, which I don't have to worry about crossing that off my calendar, because I'm not doing it now.

Although that will lower your exercise. Now they're swiping the calendar vent off. You're right. So I am exercising. Well, no, I can't cross it off. I could put it in and then cross it off, and I'm doing double the exercise. They say it's still 2 to 2.5 to 5 hours of moderate intensity exercise or 1.25. no, this is per week, or 1.25 to 2.5 hours of vigorous intensity exercise per week.

Five hours. Like, week is the seven-day one, right? I know. I can watch five hours of television or Netflix, but I can't walk for five hours. That's just... They do keep... I feel like I don't know if these studies are actually showing this or they're just dumbing it down. Like, there was a study that came out a few years ago that said it's as effective to do 10 minutes of high-intensity exercise.

as it is to do like 45 minutes to an hour of lower intensity exercise. And it seems like, wow, like 10 minutes. Of course I can do 10 minutes. And I mean, I, that's kind of makes some sense to me, like, because it's high intensity. But the other part of me just thinks they're just like, well, let's get them to do one minute. If we say 10, maybe they'll do one. So do you, do we, they're just so round and blubbery. Can we at least, you're not all Santa Claus guys.

We just don't want to look like the cartoon wallie. You know, you don't want to look, because I think that's what we're all going to turn into. So when you're looking at the high-intensity exercise, do you remember when we first met Ray Kurzweil in 2006? Yes. Ray Kurzweil is a, you know, futurist. He's a transhumanist. He takes, like, 600 tablets of different minerals and everything else a day.

Yeah. Yeah, he's like, I mean, you'd be swallowing pills all day, all day. Would you get full by that? I don't know. I feel like he wouldn't want to eat anything else. You'd just be filled with pills all the time. So he's taking all of these supplements every single day, and he really watches everything. And he invented this exercise machine that is a total body workout.

And I remember looking at it because he said, you do use it for five minutes a day, and you got everything you need. And the guy's in really good shape. And when I met him in 06, he had just started. looking at his about five years before, started checking his, uh, his actual physical age, uh,

of his tissue. I don't even know how you do this. Uh, but he had gone back eight years, in physical age when I had seen him the, the next time. This is the thing that's something like the Sky Mall magazine, isn't it?

It was like one of those devices where you're, it might have been one of those, but he, but I think he came up with it and he uses it every day. And everybody then said, oh, no, that's nothing. Because you can't, do it for five minutes and that won't help you at all. And he was a guy going, yeah, no, it helps a lot.

Do it. So I'm only fat because the government said I couldn't not be fat in five minutes. And that was too late. This is a good show to blame the government for stuff. So I'm with you on this one. Amen, brother. Thank you very much. Okay.

Back in just a second as the program continues, we look at what Facebook is now doing to predict where you're going next. Oh, this sounds like fun. Hello, China, and George Orwell's 1984. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. You have the Google CEO today testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, and they said, well, you know, we don't have a political agenda. you don't have a political agenda really did you watch your your meeting the day after the election

when you all got together and said you know hey we think the world's going in a different direction but there's more we can do what are you what are you talking about in some ways i almost feel like they actually believe it in that it's not a political agenda it's just right and wrong yeah it's a religion right it's like you know it's global warming is a good example of this right like it's it's not a political agenda to say that when you just spend 500 trillion dollars to stop global warming. It's just we have to, or we're all going to die. What you're not seeing there is there is

a political agenda that you're not no, it's science and we're right. Well, yeah, but what you're saying your solution is, there's a lot of debate on that. But they don't see it that way. It's the same thing with like, when they're talking about deplatforming people, right? They're taking, well, you said

something that was bad about Sharia law, or you said something that was bad about transgenderism. Well, they don't see politics. in that because it's so obvious what's right and what's wrong. To them, they're in a bubble where 100% of the people around them agree. So this is

not a political issue. It's why Jack can go to Burma. They're killing Muslims. They're killing Christians. They're just, they're erasing whole populations. And he's fine. He's fine. Oh, it's beautiful. And I'm here for meditation because

it's a perfect place to meditate and figure out what the next good thing is we can do. Well, here's an idea. Don't go to Burma. Here's an idea. Go to Burma and speak out about the atrocities that are happening. How's that one, Jack? I mean, I don't need even to meditate on those ones.

I got them pretty quickly. Ooh, that one just came to me. Wow, and I'm still not meditating. Today, we have Google testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee about what do they do? What is it they do? What are you? Do you tracking people?

Are you banning people? You blocking people? They're going to bring up today that Google employees sought to block Breitbart from Google AdSense less than a month after President Donald Trump took office. Now, this is, this according to leaked emails, internal emails, where they were just saying, we got to stop Breitbart. And that is, that goes right in line with what, you know, they were talking about in that Google meeting. you know, that big corporate meeting.

They were very open about it. And it doesn't have to come from the top. It can come from just a group of people in, you know, in a room that just says, hey, turn this down, turn that down, change the algorithm a little bit. Nobody up in the upper end even needs to know. Not right. It's only one person, right? I mean, you know, we saw that with, what was it?

It was on Twitter. Didn't they ban Donald Trump one person on their way out of the building because they were leaving? Yes. And that's a minor example. They were able to turn it around pretty quickly. But of course, those people exist. They exist in every organization. Both sides.

Yeah, especially when you're told all the time that here's a guy who wants to kill all immigrants and gay people and all the horrible things that Trump and every Republican is accused of. Of course you have to stop them. It's the only right thing to do. Right. And it's, and it would happen on both sides. If we had a side. I mean, if we had, if we had a Google or Twitter or Facebook, I imagine that there would be people that would want to do that as well. To the other side.

We got to stop. Got to stop and shut down the Antifa voices. Because it's just the right thing to do. Right? So it's human nature. And they just, like all progressives, they just deny human nature. It's in pretty critical places. Now, Facebook has just filed for a patent to calculate your future location.

They have several patent applications. for technology that uses your current location data to predict where you're going and when you're going to be offline. The Facebook's postperson says that doesn't, just because we filed a patent doesn't mean that we have an, you know, an intent or is any indication that we want to follow you while you're not offline or predict where you're going. Might be a problem with our patent system, by the way, if that is a legitimate excuse. Like, we all know that they do have some use for it, but like, you shouldn't be filing patents if you have no intention on ever using them. It's like, oh, well, I came up with an idea that theoretically could be possible. Let me patent it so that someone when they actually come up with the idea in 20 years has to pay me a bunch of money or can't use it at all. Right.

That's why so many, I mean, this is, that's just a separate issue, but it is a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's, is a, it's, it's, the, the application is called offline trajectories. and it's a method to predict where you're going to go next based on your location data. Technology described in the patent would calculate the transition probability based at least in part on your previously logged location data associated with a plurality of users who were at the current location. It will also use the data of other people you know as well as that of strangers to make predictions. So it's going to be able to predict you based on what you've done before. It will also predict you because it will go out and look at your friends and what they've done. But also, if I'm reading this right, it will look at your friends and where they are. So if your friends are gathering at some place and you're driving in the general area,

likely you're going there. Okay. You're still not convincing me this is a good use of technology. What do you mean? It's just going to make it easier. It's going to make our lives easier. So you get ads and places where you don't even have the internet. That sounds horrible.

I don't like when I get them when I do have the internet. No, they just need to know where you are at all times. Oh, that's it. That's it. That's it. I mean, because a lot of this, stuff is, I've noticed this with like, you know, like Uber and Lyft type of apps and where they will, you know, you go a certain way, a certain amount of times, they say, oh, this must be

your house. This must be your work. The one that's really funny is the, we have the GPS in my wife's car and it now draws new roads on the map because if we go to a place where they don't have a road mapped a certain amount of times, it realizes, oh, there must be a road there and then draws the road on the map. It's actually remapping kind of in real time, which was very funny because one time I was driving down the street and I looked over and I saw this circle on the side of the road. And it kind of looks like almost like a dirt road when they draw a new road on there.

It was a circle. It was like a well-defined circle and there was lines all around it. I'm like, what the heck is that? And I pull up and I realize it was Krispy Cream. It was where my wife had gone to Krispy Cream with a kid so many times it thought it was a road. Oh my gosh. It really happened, which is I don't think, probably not good for the diabetes future of my children. But you know what? Seriously, if that happened, think of the implications. If that happened and you did have a problem with Wade or something else,

and your health insurance would be alerted that you are going to Krispy Cream. A lot. That's a great point. And that is all that data is so valuable to them that they will do everything they can to give you things so that you will give that data to them. right like you know there's a new um uh google phone service out um and i you know this struck me as interesting as you've been so don't do it don't do anything google do not don't have an android don't use google chrome i got to put you i keep saying this i got to put it in my google calendar

remind myself to get myself off of google yeah i know but it's true like they have um the phone service and it had like a uh a cool feature to it i think it was like there's like thousands of like Wi-Fi hotspots that you automatically get access to if you sign up to their plan. And I was thinking to myself, you know, I use so much freaking data. It would be great to have, just be able to hop on Wi-Fi when you're at some, you know, wherever these things are. It's kind of a cool thing. And you don't have to learn all the passwords.

It just automatically does it. And you know what's great about that is Google pays for all of those access for your data. So they're just paying it out of the goodness of their heart. They just want your life to be easier. And so this giant corporation is just paying. those billions of dollars to give you all of those free Wi-Fi hotspots all over the world for everybody because they're just those, they're good, they're good people. Or they found a way to make more money off of you because your information, they'll have

greater access to your information. Hmm. When you think it's the second one, Stu. Hmm. You're just negative. I'm just being negative. I know. And it's true. I mean, like, I think these things a lot of times do actually make your life better.

And because of that, we are losing. It's brave new world. Yeah. You said this before. You said this when we were doing our stage tour. You know, China is doing 1984 and we're doing Brave New World. And it's true. We're doing this completely willingly.

We're giving them all the technology. We're giving them all the information so they can use with their technology. And, you know, it improves your life by like, 187th of a percent and we're like, eh, all right. So they know where I am all the time. Right. And now predictive technology. Remember I told you, what was

yesterday? There was a new thing out now that shows that they can predict. There's this new scan that can predict, they've only tried it on animals, where an animal is going to move next. And it's an incredible thing. Just look it up. Through brain waves, right? Brain waves. And so they're

shooting this thing at an animal and it can see their brain. And the way it sees it, it distorts the animal. It actually like sees the movement of the animal before the animal moves. Okay. And they can predict all kinds of behavior on this. Well, this is here there, here's Google saying, hey, we're going to have predictive technology too, just based on what we know about you and your friends, et cetera, et cetera, on where you're going. Just look at France. What's happening in France? This is the closest to a revolution that France has had. for a long, long, long time.

This could end in actual revolution in France. You think with all this technology that the governments are not going to say, hey, we need to know where these people are. Of course they will. I mean, China's already way down that road. If you tried to have a revolution in China right now, especially in a major city, you'd have no chance of being able to pull it off. Now, again, like, revolutions are a lot of times not so positive.

but most times most times there's one example I can think of that was pretty good here in America yeah American revolution

I think it's the only one that ended this way well ends with the people who started right I mean it's one thing ends with the original goal yeah and the original people

and why a lot of times we saw this in with the in Egypt and throughout the Arab awakening where it was it winds up being some other powerful

group that's not the first powerful group but not the kids the teenagers don't wind up taking over and they're like, oh, we're really passionate about this this week and then now we're being crushed by the new government next week. We talked about this yesterday on the news and why it matters.

That this is what's happening in France could very well be what happened in Hungary. You know, it was top down, bottom up, inside out. And you want that, you want that, that core of protesters to rise, cause chaos in the streets to make everybody say to the government, you got to stop this. so the government does. Little do they know the government is not necessarily on their side. And it comes down, clamps down, and you have communist Hungary. So that's exactly how it happened in the 1950s.

They did not want to be a Soviet satellite. But there were riots in the streets and enough people in high places that said, you know, we've got to do this. We have to do that. And next thing you know, the Soviet tanks are rolling in. And they're a communist Soviet satellite. We could see this, except this time they have the technology to stop anybody who is even literally even thinking that that's a good idea.