The Glenn Beck Program - Expanding Our Thanks? | 11/21/18

Episode Date: November 21, 2018

Hour 1 Expanding our thanks on Thanksgiving Day? ...US Puts Sanctions on Oil Network It Says Supports Syria's Assad...Trumps actions on Russia have been very 'hawkish' = Tough on Russia...Media Trump Hate Spin '22/7'?...Flashbacks of President George W. Bush? ...Barack Obama Trashes Trump (Americans) tour?..."confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues"...Obama 'constantly' focuses on race ...No-Spoiler-Alert: Creed II?...Ivan Drago, Not as dumb as he look?... really, really smart guy?   Hour 2 Poverty, and where we really stand?...A vast majority of people think poverty has gone up?...Fact: Poverty has been cut in half, in less than 2 decades?...School Shootings have dropped dramatically? Yes, that's true and Stu explains?...the Real #'s? ...'Don't New York My Florida'? ...Caller Jason's interesting analogy on Parenting and Politics? ...People do These Things to each other all day? ...Turkey's don't need to be pardoned...then you eat them, yum!    Hour 3 More Trouble in Texas?...a very established and dull Senator John Cornyn may be trouble...Bills, Bills, Bills?...Why the GOP lack passion on anything?...9 steps back, 1 step forward? ...Record cold expected for the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade...Highs in the 20's? ...Thanksgiving Spoons! with Jeffy...chips, dips and California raspberry Coke? ...Just Say No...to Romaine lettuce?...Most common Thanksgiving 'side' dishes by region?...Salad in the West...Squash in the East?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You sound like, what that kind of intro is that? You did not sound pleased. No, I am. I actually am just a little, you know, a little, I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving. You know, because like Wednesday, it's on Wednesday before Thanksgiving, you're already in that mode.

Yes, I'm just, I'm trying not to eat in that mode today because I feel like. I'm trying not to as well. It's hard, man. It's almost impossible. It's almost impossible. There's food everywhere. And after Thanksgiving, you think, okay, then now I'll cut back.

And then there's food everywhere again because you're preparing for Christmas. And it's almost impossible. Well, Thanksgiving is a day in which you eat a lot of food. And you kind of don't care. And that's okay. Everyone kind of says, it's all right. You know, you have your one day. Now, over the years, I've expanded that from one day to $3.

65 for me. Yeah, one day becomes every day. Yeah, you beat me to the punch there a little bit, I guess. I do feel the expansion happening because I started with one and then you get to four. I feel like four is the right stew amount in a sensible world, right? Like you have, you don't eat really badly until you get to Thanksgiving. You have the Thanksgiving. And then you live out.

You party the weekend away. You come back Monday. You're eating like a human being again. Now, what always happens there, of course, is Wednesday. I mean, come on. It's Wednesday. It doesn't matter. You're basically at Thanksgiving.

You might as well eat on Wednesday. So then it goes Wednesday to Monday. And then what happens is you come back Monday and you eat okay. And then Tuesday happens and you fall off the bandwagon. And then you're like, ah, it's basically the week of Thanksgiving. So then it goes from the previous Wednesday to not the next Monday, but the money after that. And then you're almost to Christmas. Yeah.

Right. Yeah. And there's parties. There's parties. You got the church party. You got the work party. Yep. You got friends parties.

And we've got like stuff like the kids. They've got like breakfast with Santa. You've got all the little events. So then you're going through that. You might as well eat up until Christmas. Just until Christmas. And then it's, you know, left over. Between Christmas and New Year's.

It's a waste. You're not even going to be back to work. You're going to be back eating on New Year's anyway. So you might as well eat that week. Right. So then you go New Year's. And then that's when you get the New Year's resolution. It kicks in.

and you're like, okay, we're going to start. Now, you're not going to start on the second most of the time because a lot of times the second isn't a workday yet. It's too depressing a day. It depends. It depends. This year it is a work day, so you could come back on the second. Yeah.

But again, it's like a Wednesday, I think. You're not going to start your diet on a Wednesday. So you go Wednesday and we wait for that next Monday. Okay. And then you get on the scale that Monday and you're 35 pounds heavier. Yeah, you've gained about 35 at that point. Yeah. Now, the problem here is this is when NFL playoffs kick in.

So every Sunday and Sunday and, Saturday. There's games. You've got to watch them. What are you going to watch them without pizza? You got to walk with snacks. It's stupid. And then obviously Super Bowl. So then you're in your, you're February 6th or 7th in that range. Well, then it's Valentine's Day, right? Like you've got to, I mean, what are you going to not eat on Valentine's Day? Disrespect your own relationship? No. Your own marriage? Better not. You're not going to do that. So then you're eating up until Valentine's Day. And my birthday, by the way, is February 9th. So in there, I've got to, I've got to, what am I

going to do not have the cake with my kids. Right. My daughter's birthday is also February 9th. So we have two birthdays on that day. You can't, we can't read. What are you? The next day's Glenn's birthday. Well, you've got to have cake for Glenn's birthday. Oh, yeah. Because he's not going to eat it because he's on some weird diet, probably. Probably. You know, where he only eats 80 different

things in the world. He can only eat 80 things on the face of the earth. And six of them are different types of squid. Which is a weird, it's a strange diet. It's a strange diet. So, for him, on his behalf, We have to have cake.

And so we do. And then once you're in February, it's basically July 4th. So you're going to ramp it up to get ready for those picnics. What are you not going to eat? On the 4th of July, you're not going to celebrate? What are you, some sort of traitor to this nation? Right. I hope not.

I hope not. Okay, ISIS. Go ahead. Go on a diet. If I'm on a diet on the 4th of July, the terrorists win, I won't do it. I will not do it. This is only a slight exaggeration, by the way. Only a slight one.

It's not even an exaggeration for me. This is how it happened. This is how it happens. Yeah. You try, but you fail. That's the whole point of that. By the way, we do have some terrorism breaking news. Today, maybe, Pat, we can come up with things we're thankful for.

I know it's a very, you know, standard thing, right? Like where people would do that on the day before Thanksgiving. But I thought maybe instead of doing like the, I'm thankful for Mike, family and I'm thankful for, you know, that's stuff that's just boring and everyone knows you're thankful for it. Of course, I'm thankful for my family. I don't know if they're thankful for me, but, you know, I'm thankful for the news stories that I'm actually thankful for. There's actually good news out there. There are things that are positive. For example, let me give you this. Breaking overnight, the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office for Foreign Assets Control

has designated nine targets in an international network through which the Iranian regime working with Russian companies provided millions of barrels of oil to the Syrian government. The Assad regime in turn facilitates the movement of hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard for onward

transfer to Hamas and Hezbollah. U.S. sanctions prohibit material of support to the government of Syria, including shipments of oil to Syrian government-controlled ports, as well as material support to designated terrorist groups. So this is Secretary Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, says today we are acting against a complex scheme of Iran and Russia.

They've used to bolster the Assad regime and generate funds for Iranian malign activity. Central Bank of Iran officials continue to exploit the international financial system, and in this case even used a company whose name suggests a trade in humanitarian goods as a tool to facilitate financial transfers supporting the oil scheme. We are issuing an advisory today, identifying the grave risk to the community, if they participate in shipping oil to the government of Syria. The United States is committed to imposing a financial toll on Iran, Russia, and others for their efforts to solidify Assad's authoritarian rule as well as disrupt the Iranian regime's funding of terrorist organizations. It goes on and on, but basically we're taking

major steps to break up, listen again to this network. Iran, Russia, Syria, to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard who transferred to Hamas and Hezbollah. And we're shutting down a major network of financial support for all of those groups, that is a real positive. That is action. You give Trump a lot of credit here. You give the people around him a lot of credit here for identifying this and taking steps.

You know, we've mentioned this a thousand times probably by now. But, you know, a lot of times you hear Donald Trump say things that aren't so hawkish on Russia. But, man, his actions, his actions are very hawkish on Russia. Russia. I don't know if it's the people, you know, some people will say, oh, it's the people around him who are hawkish. Some people will say, well, he's trying to put a different face on the public negotiations, but in reality, he believes these things, that Russia's a really bad actor. Whatever the truth is, good. He's, he is, he's taken really good steps

here. And how long have we ignored Pat, Hamas and Hezbollah? I mean, we act as if they're allies sometimes. And they are a terrorist organization. The Assad regime, Russia, Iran, these are really positive steps. And again, they are trying to starve Iran from their money, from being able to sell oil. They're trying to starve the Syrian regime. These are a lot of good steps and steps that, you know, the president would have to sign off on. These are not minor things. Yeah, which is pretty amazing for a guy who is apparently in love with Putin or whatever the allegation is.

There's just not a lot there. is there? No. The media says this all the time. And we realize that, you know, Russia has done a lot of bad things. And at times, I have not liked the way Trump's spoken about Russia. But again, I think honestly, when you come down to it, if you ignore the back and forth of the every day and ignore the words and the tweets and, you know, I don't think any of that's important. What's happening? What's he doing? He's being really hard on what he's doing is, and they've been doing this for a long time. They've got sanctions in place. they've been pretty tough on them, even behind the scenes. And now this, I mean, what other substantive measures would you want him to take? I think he's done pretty much everything you would want him to do in his actions with Russia. Yeah. The only thing lacking maybe was the, you know, the press conference when he was with Putin. And it seemed like he sort of gave him a pass there.

Again, the words, right? Right. Yes. You know, I don't, like, it's the same thing. But his actions were really, have been good. They've been, I mean, this has been a much tougher regime on Russia than the Obama regime. Oh, by far. By far. It's such a weird thing that the Russia situation has been such a focus.

And look, I mean, they did, they will see, right? Well, when the Mueller investigation comes out, we'll see if they have anything. I mean, so far, they have, they've had stuff on Russians, right? They've been able to go after that. They've had some stuff on lower level sort of campaign people more for lying. to the FBI than anything else. But still, there's been a couple of things there. You know, the, uh, uh, you know, there's been a couple of, of relatively high ranking

officials in the, and the Trump, uh, campaign, not really the government, but the campaign. And they have, uh, they've gone after that. But, I mean, his actions against Russia have been as strong as you'd want them to be. So I'm thankful for that today. I am too. I mean, that's something freaking good. Yes. And, you know, we've always said.

From day one when he was elected, we're going to give him the benefit of the doubt. And he's the president now. So let's see what his actions are. And, you know, his actions are often pretty good. Yeah, I mean, the bottom line is, pretty good. When they're good, what should you say? They're good. Yes.

When they're bad. What should you say? They're bad. This is not a complicated world we live in here. Yeah. Well, it is for some. It is for some. Because some have changed their minds on Russia completely.

Russia's like a friend now, a really good close personal, wonderful friend that you don't have to worry about. Well, wait. What? And now all of a sudden, Saudi Arabia is a good close personal friend of ours as well. And, you know, I don't remember during the Obama administration or even the George Bush administration, Republicans as a rule thinking that Saudi Arabia was a good close personal friend. when they had a lot of issues. We've got a lot of issues with Saudi Arabia. For one, 18 hijackers from 2001.

That's a pretty big issue. I'm not thankful for them. No. No. Not at all. This holiday season, I am not thankful for Muhammad Atta and his friends. And then there's people who actually believe that, you know, losing the house was no big deal just because the president is in office when that happened.

I mean. It is a big deal. deal. It's bad. It's very bad. Yeah. It would have been much, much better to keep the House and the Senate and the presidency and then, you know, get some things done. Yeah. But that's not going to happen now. Yeah. I don't understand either side of that. You've noticed that there's a bunch of Republicans who were critical of Trump. And I, you know, certainly I would put myself in that group many, many times over the years. but some of them cannot find their way to seeing anything the man does is positive. I just don't understand that world just as much as I don't understand the people who are like,

I can't say he does anything bad. Like, he's a human being. The media is completely obsessed with him as if he's a God. And there are fans of his that are obsessed with him as if he's a God. And likely, I'm thankful that we live in a country in which, you know, the vast majority of people want to call balls and strikes. They want to say, hey, this is a good thing, this is a bad thing. Judge the guy on his actions.

It's all you can do. Yeah. You know, be honest with what you believe and keep to your principles. And these are not hard choices. You know, I mean, unless you're going to be, you know, unless you're like, you know, if you're Sarah Huckabee Sanders, right, every day you got to go out there and you got to find something positive to say about the president because it's legitimately your job, right?

Like your job is, that's what PR people do. They come out and they say positive things. When, you know, PR, big tobacco is going on. And they're like, hey, they have emails and say, you know what? What we should do is give cancer to children. And they've got to come out and say, well, you know, look, a lot of, you know, cancer can be a positive for a lot of people. And, you know, a lot of people get donations. They get the money out of the jar next to the cash register.

There's a lot of things you're overlooking here when you're being negative on cancer. You have to do that. That's your gig. You know, it's not a gig I want. No. But I understand why you have to do it. The same thing seems to be true with just like journalists in the media on the other side of this, where it's their job every day to figure out the story of the day how to spin it badly against Donald Trump.

And I don't see any value. And that's CNN's job now 24-7. At least like 22-7. I mean, there's some shows that still, I think, take a fair line. I'd see it in some people. Tapper. Yeah. Certainly I would put Tapper in that category.

and there's a few others, but it's limited, it's too limited for a journalistic organization. Your job is not to be, you know, a Boston Red Sox fan against the New York Yankees.

Right. It's not supposed to be your gig. You're supposed to be looking, hey, that Yankee player is pretty good, that one sucks. That's supposed to be your job. Some sort of impartial observer. And if you can't find anything positive

to say about the president, then I think you're not doing that. You should be able to find both positive and negative things. and you know, and I don't want to listen to a show or an organization that can't do both of those things. Find things that are positive and find things that are negative. They both exist as it does for every human being on earth. Unless, you know, unless you're covering Barack Obama.

Then there's not a good thing that you can find about him. Well, he did that song once. Yeah, you like that song. I did like the song. He was personally responsible with his bare hands of killing Osama bin Laden. I thought that was pretty good. Remember that? He strangled him if I'm not mistaken, right?

Well, he strangled him at first, but then he let him, he released him at the last second, let him get one more breath in and then sort of bashing his head against the wall. Oh, wow. Yeah. It was pretty impressive. Yeah, that is impressive. For a president to do that? For a president.

That's unusual, too. It was, I would say, it would advise. You should not send a terrorist, a president into a terrorist organization's hideout like that. But, I mean, he was so fantastic that it was okay to send him. And what are you going to do? You could say, oh, well, we're not going to schedule the plane. He'll fly with his arms. He'll flap his wings and he'll fly across the oceans and do it.

himself and there's nothing you can do to stop that. Yeah. And I mean the man made the most difficult decision in 500 years. So, I mean... Since Charlemagne, was it? Yeah, it was. Since our Charlemagne? Yes. Triple-8-7-27-B-E-C-K. More Pat and Stu for Glenn coming up. With Pat and Stu.

Triple-8-7-27-B-E-C-K. Hey, it's wonderful that Barack Obama is back in our faces. I just... Why can't this guy take the hint? Take the cue from every other press. Well, other than Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, of course. But every right-thinking president who's ever left office, stay out of things. Move on.

You know, go do your dumb lectures or whatever you're going to do and make your $400,000 per speech and leave us alone. Oh, that's what he's kind of doing here, right? I guess this particular thing is. Although usually the presidents don't do political stuff. Yeah, I mean, you see it occasionally around. the election, right? Like the presidential candidate or some former president will go out and campaign for a couple of people he likes. You see that occasionally, but that's about the extent of it. You know, certainly, and the Bushes have been the most restrained of anybody.

Oh my gosh. George W. Bush, say what you will about him, and I have. I, you know, not my favorite president. But how restrained was he when every day they tore him limb from limb? Every day they tore George W. Bush apart. They blamed everything they could on him. They laid everything at his doorstep. And what did he say about Obama? Nothing. He didn't say anything about Obama. Nope.

He kept his mouth shut. He lived his life in Dallas and Crawford and went about his business. And the only time he really spoke out, he spoke out against Trump. Yeah, I know. It's bizarre. It's bizarre. I will say that's true. He was very restrained until 2016.

Until Donald Trump. Yeah, which is. Which kind of pissed me off. An odd choice. Yeah. I was watching, I went to see Creed 2 last night. We're going to talk about that here in a couple of minutes. So we'll give you the review without Glenn Beck spoilers in it.

And then we'll do the Obama thing. We got to share that with you. That's coming up in a second time. Yeah. But they had a preview for a movie called Vice, which is coming out. Yeah. Which is a apparently like Dick Cheney as Darth Vader. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

With what's his face who played Batman? Christian Bale? Christian Bale. Yeah. The cast, the last. looks pretty good and, you know, you'd expect it to be able to. Apparently, it plays him like a raving lunatic. Yeah. It's how he portrays

Cheney. The movie just looks like they're just blaming Dick Cheney for everything. It's like, didn't you guys give up on this a while ago? Are you still on the Dick Cheney thing? It's bizarre. Really? It's really amazing. We've got to sit through Dick Cheney previews. You're, honestly, like, they're just, it's

never ending with this with progressives. It's never ending. Yeah. It's exactly right. Oh, geez. All right. So we'll hear about Creed next, huh? Yeah, and Barack Obama. Okay. It's wonderful to see Barack Hussein Obama back in the limelight.

Gosh, I have, well, I can't say I've missed him. But, man, and I can't say it's good to have him back either. But I can say he is kind of back and omnipresent now again. And he's doing a lot of speeches because he's making somewhat of a living, you could say. from doing these speeches. Every time he shows up for an hour, he makes $400,000. Now, $400,000 an hour

is kind of a decent wage. I don't know if you're aware of that. Would you call it a living wage? I'd call it a living wage. Yes. Yes, I would. And then when Michelle shows up at a place, she makes $225,000, which is income inequality, it seems to me.

And that... That's unbelievable. It's not unbelievable. She is making $175,000 less per hour. power than he is. You know what it is too? Racism. You know why? Because he's half white. They're paying the white half more. Yes. Thank you. That's unbelievable. It is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Here's his latest thing. And this is, I mean, people say he's talking about Trump. He's really talking about all of us here. This isn't just about

Trump. Listen to how he phrases this. Right now I could take off the shelf existing technologies. we could reduce carbon emissions by, let's say, 30%. But say that. Without any, you know, it's not like we'd all have to go back to caves and, you know, live off, you know, fire. We could have electricity and smartphones and all that stuff, which would buy us probably another 20, 30 years for that technological breakthrough that's necessary. The reason we don't do it is because...

It's because... We are still confused, blind. Blind, confused. Shrouted with hate, anger. Anger, I see. Racism. Racism. Is stopping green technology?

Mommy issues. I mean. What? What? We are fraught. We are fraught. With stuff. Now, I have to say, I, I dislike this guy.

I don't hate him. I want to make that clear, I don't hate him. I don't hate anybody. No, of course not. I just dislike him with all the intensity of a billion white hot burning suns. Okay. But that's just, it's not hate. It's just extreme, extremely intense dislike.

We should also focus on the idea that this is an incredibly bad point. Right? Like, yes, first of all, yes, we have the technology to lower emissions by 30% at what cost. Right. That's the conversation here and whether it's worth doing at that cost. But the reason we don't do it is we're fraught with hate, anger, and mommy issues? What the hell are you talking about? Are we racist against green?

Like, is that the case? It's green technology? Weird. That's so, so strange. And it's such an easy explanation for every issue that progressives don't get what they want. It's racism. It's hate. It's money.

mommy issues. It's, you know, it's the, that's the, clinging to God and guns. It's the same, it's the same explanation he uses all the time. Typical white people. Typical white people who have a certain reaction to black people bred into them. Yeah. You talk about racist issues. This guy's got him in, to like the 10th power. Yes. He's got him. He does. I mean, look, it's constant focus on race. We've made this point back of the day with Glenn, right? Like, it's it's not, you know, racism is a weird thing to throw a, around and I you know the left has no problem doing it all the time when someone on the right says something is racist it's got it's the biggest controversy on earth but it'll be the

bottom line is he's constantly viewing everything through a reason the man just told you the reason we don't use solar panels is because of racism how can you deny this that's unreal exactly how he looks through about every issue and it's it's it's completely all over the left you know you look at through watch a chris matthew show he guy can't go five minutes while calling somebody racist it's just it's just the way these things happen and I don't me to on a holiday weekend tell you to watch Chris Matthews. That's not a good idea. I take that back. I take that back. That's a bad one though. That's a bad one. Oh, that's agonizing. You know, it makes me think, you know, we've been talking a little bit about Michelle Obama on a potential run.

I don't know. I don't think they can stay away from this stuff. Oh, they can't. They can't. They can't avoid it. I don't know if that would work. So I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. It's especially, it's disturbing on the week where both sides of the racial divide have come together in a fantastic movie called Creed 2. And Jason Butchrell is here with us now. Jason, welcome. Well, just to make them feel at home, we should call him Jason Betrille. Yeah.

Now, it seems like everything's right now. Yeah, in the world there. Back to Betrille. Crete 2 comes out this weekend. Actually, comes out tonight. Last night, they had preview screenings and some actually on Monday. Jason and I both went to one of these preview screenings. And I cannot say enough.

Did you go together? Holding hands? I would have liked that. But that would have been better. No. No. Unfortunately. We did not test our diversity in that way.

All right. But, not that there would be nothing wrong with it. Oh, we didn't say that. Who would suggest that? Right, no one. What are you against solar panels? No one.

Is this your opposition to solar panels driving your hatred? I'm curious. So Creed 2 is, of course, the eighth movie in the Rocky series, if you want to put it back. Wow. They had five original Rocky Fives. Nineteen 76. 1976. Best picture, if you might remember.

People forget that part. forget that it was the best picture. And, you know, there's, to me, there are two different paths of Rocky movies. There are the story-leaning ones and the action-leaning ones. And so you think of Rocky one, Rocky Two, and then the last two, which is, you know, Creed and the previous movie, which was the six one, Rocky Balbo was called. Those two, those four movies, I think were leaning story. And Rocky three, four, and five were leaning action, right? Like, there's a lot of fight scenes, a lot of musical interludes. I mean, I mean, Rocky 3 through 5 were essentially one large music video.

And in training sequence. But I love those movies. They're like my favorite movies. This one I thought was a great, great movie. I cannot oversell how much I loved it. Wow. I loved it. Wow.

It was fantastic. And I would say leaned a little bit towards the action side of it, which is harder to pull off. You know, you can get cheesy with 9 million boxing scenes and a bunch of, you know, training sequences, right? Like that can happen. there's a lot of, you know, story in it as well. It's a really well-done movie, but the action scenes are fantastic. I really like the guy who plays Creed. Oh, Michael B. Jordan?

Yeah, he's really good. You know who else likes him? Every woman in America. Really? Including my wife. Which I, I was, she was very willing to go to a boxing movie with me. And at first I was like, oh, wow, this is cool. Like, you know, hey, we're going to them. And then I realize, you know, it's Michael B. Jordan, like, with his shirt off for 80% of it.

It's got nothing. This is just a fantasy. It's interesting you thought you leaned more action because I almost leaned more like story-driven on this one. Really? Like there was a lot of action. But I mean, like, the one hit that I've seen other like reviewers of this movie talk about was they said, well, it was kind of predictable.

It's a rocky movie. You know exactly what's going to happen. But I, but they took, they took twists and turns. And by the way, we've implemented a, since Glenn is out, no spoiler policy on the movie. This is going to be tough. We're not going to tell you the entire movie during this review. I don't know. I don't know.

Jason is risky. But, yeah, no, I mean, look, Rocky is Rocky and you kind of understand the basic premise of the movie. But really well done. The story was great. I don't want to say that there wasn't, but the action was awesome too. Oh, man. They did a great job with the fight scenes. If you were, like, part of this, the new generation of just being, like, just introduced to Rocky movies, like, you know, like, Creed is probably the one you like, for, I mean, I guess for, like the newer generation.

Right. You'll be like, oh, this is a sequel to Creed. But to me, once I saw that they were introducing Drago into this movie, this was instantly what I've been wanting to see since I was a kid, which was a sequel just to Rocky 4. Like, I wanted them to continue that. Yeah. Let's just branch off and do spinoffs of Rocky 4. This to me felt like a sequel to Rocky 4. And I was like, and have you guys seen the Cobra Kai remake of the Karate Kid on YouTube?

Yeah, they did. This is with the real actors, like Daniel LaRuso and like the old school karate kid guys are back for. Not seen this, really? Yeah. No, I've seen it. Oh, it's so dope. It is like, I cannot believe that's actually good. I saw the preview of it. It's good. It just didn't seem like it could be good. But what it does is there was like this, there was like this internet like theory on, yeah, like, you know, the main bad guy. The main bad guy. That's what this reminded me of this new Rocky movie. They kind of go into the backstory of Drago. And I won't tell, oh, it's going to be rough. And so they really go into the story of the bad guy. So anyway, so that's what this is going to be rough. I don't. I don't. It's going to be rough. won't give anything away, but you actually kind of get into like why he is the way he is in this movie. You find out what happened to him afterwards. And it explains a lot. So like, like bad guys and like, you know, like Mr. T. You know what I mean? Like he was just like the typical action movie bad guy in Rocky Three. So like, okay, whatever. But this guy like, there was some depth to both like Drago and his son. Yeah, because, you know, Rocky Three and four, they were just killing

machines, right? Like he's going up against an impossible opponent. And this one, there's definitely more depth to it. I mean, it's really well done. It's really well. Watching my wife with this movie is hilarious. Because first of all, she loves Michael B. Jordan. You can tell that that's a real thing. But second, like, she, every crying,

every time you hear the sad piano come on, she's crying. Every time there's a fight in the ring, it's as if she's in there. The way she's moving her head around and closing her eyes and like reacting, get out of the way, get out of the way. No, no, no, no.

It's hilarious. It's one of those movies that can bring every emotion out. It's so well done. I cannot praise it highly enough. And I look, I'm a big Rocky fan anyway. So I would have probably liked the movie no matter what. But man, it's better than Creed, which was really good. I mean, Creed was a really good movie.

This one is better. I freaking really loved it. And there's, you know, you got the villain who basically is going to haunt your dreams for most of it. I mean, it's like a great villain in it. I mean, it's really, really well done. Yeah. And I don't like watch this. When you go to a while.

And there's always like that one Thanksgiving movie that you just have to watch. You can't miss. Creed 2 is that movie this year. You have to go see it. But when you go see it, forget about the predictability, because that's just going to happen in any rocky movie. And I've seen a couple of reviews that said, well, it was predictable. Well, of course, it's a rocky movie.

You know what's going to happen towards the end. It builds to that point. But when you watch this movie, don't just think about, like, the action or whatever. This could easily be a movie, not really about boxing. It could easily be a movie just about, like, a relationship between a father and a child, father and a son. There's three separate stories running parallel all about parenting, really. Yeah.

And that was one of the biggest things I took towards the end. I was like, oh, wow. You know, like you don't expect to see that from a Rocky movie. It's kind of like Rocky One. You didn't expect it to come out of nowhere in Best Picture. You also didn't expect to get kind of a lesson in, like, relationship between a father and a child in this movie. I was like, that blew me away towards the end.

Yeah, and it's worthy of that conversation of, you know, award-winning. type of, it's that good. I mean, it's really, really well done. And I don't, you know, because of Rocky and there's, it's the eighth movie in the series, like you don't, you wouldn't consider them. You know, you probably think they're not going to get all of the awards and everything. But it's, it's worthy of that to sort of consideration. It was really, really, really well done. So, a Creed 2 in theaters tonight. Jason, you, do you, do you get them up with a scale? Do you have, like, is there a Jason scale? Is there a buttrill scale that you work on? The betrill scale, if it goes to, I don't know, thumbs.

And I'll have two thumbs up. Okay, there you go. There you go. Two betrills, apparently. No buttrills, two betrills is the official ranking from Jason. Jason, thanks for coming on. Thanks. That's, I, you know, Pat, you saw the, and you saw the Harry Potter thing too, right? Yes.

Yeah, I liked it a lot. And my wife's a big Harry Potter fan and loved it, too. I kind of assume Harry Potter will get number one again, just because that's what happens with Harry Potter. But still, probably won two with that and Rocky, so, or Creed, too. So worthwhile movies this weekend. Yeah. That'll be fun. Yeah.

There are some things you could actually, you know, tolerate in the theater, which is nice. When football's off, you go to the theater. Exactly. Triple-eight 727 Beck is the number back in a second. Welcome. Pat Gray and Stu Bergier for Glenn on the Olympic program. You know, we were just talking about movies a second ago. The other movie that you need to see if you haven't yet is Bohemian Rhapsody.

Got to see that. So good. That's the story of Queen. Yeah. The band. So good. And particularly Freddie Mercury, who had a super interesting life. I mean, the guy was just, you know, a flat-out musical genius.

But the whole band were, they were really smart guys. Brian May, the guitarist, was like a almost a rocket scientist kind of person. Really? Yeah. And then, you know, a pretty decent guitar player as well. Yeah, he did a decent job. Yeah, he did. He built his own guitars and created a queen guitar sound.

You know, not a lot of bands have done that. Boston did that. Queen did that. And then those bands seem to really endure. But anyway, it's a great movie. If you haven't seen it yet, that's definitely worth your time on this holiday weekend. By the way, we were talking about the whole Rocky thing, the guy who played Ivan Drago, Dahlf Lungren. We kind of mentioned this. Yeah, we mentioned this the other day, but we actually found the details in between the shows.

Dolph Lungren was on a Fulbright scholarship at MIT when he was cast as, as, as, as, you know, is Ivan Drago. Wow. Now, in the movie, he basically just says, I will break you. Like, that's pretty much his only... You will lose. That's pretty much the only two things he says in the entire movie.

I think it is, right? He says two sentences. Yeah. I will break you. I will break you and you will lose. That's pretty much it. Yeah. And he's not sharing quadratic equations in the movie.

He talks more in the new one and he's good. He's good. He's good. I mean, he was really, really smart. I saw him in an interview and you, uh, recently. And you could tell he's very, very smart. When he starts to talk, it kind of, that whole this is a big dumb guy thing dissipates. Doesn't work so well. It doesn't work so well. It's like the opposite.

Like you have these endearing people who you watch movies. Then they come out and they're like protesting at Code Pink rallies and throwing like, you know, throwing things at Republican congressmen. You're like, ah, it ruins them. This one ruins him the other way. You think he's a big dumb guy that just blown things up. And I wanted him to be a big dumb guy. And he's not.

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we'll do it again Monday and all next week. And then every week after, until they tell me to stop. Right, that's kind of, that's my, whenever, when they tell me to stop, I'll walk out. You know, if my key doesn't work in the door anymore, then it will not happen anymore. That's how it works.

That's how it works in this industry. It does. We've been talking a little bit about the things we're thankful for that are actually positive some positive news in the world. We've pointed out a few of them already. Certainly Crete, too, would be one of those things I'm thankful for. But there's, let me give you this.

This is from the Wall Street Journal. Matt Ridley wrote this. This is an amazing thing. And I know you know the answer to this, but I think the second part of it is fascinating. A Swedish statistician, public health expert, began asking people the question,

has the percentage of the world population that lives in extreme poverty? has it almost doubled or almost halved or stayed the same over the past 20 years. Now, I think you know the answer there, Pat, and I think some people in the audience that might know the answer, which is it's almost halved in the past 20 years. Again, in our lifetime. And you've got to believe the perception among especially young people, I'm guessing, is that it's doubled. Right?

Poverty is doubled. It's doubled. And I think the vast majority of people might think that. But the percentage is amazing. Only 5% got the answer right. Wow. Five percent. Wow.

Now, think of the achievement that this is. It's one of the greatest achievements in human history. Okay, you've taken... Oh, definitely. The people who are in extreme poverty cut it by half in two decades? That's insane. That should not be possible. And almost every...

I don't think it was believed to be possible 20 years ago. And here we are, 20 years later, it's happened and nobody notices. Only 5% of Americans are aware of it, which is fascinating. And, you know, his story is about how people are drawn to negative news. People are drawn to think the worst. But, you know, it's kind of the fight or flight thing. I think at some level, like you're concerned about something. They ran tests on, you know, experiments on psychologists ran them on people in sort of random tests.

And they would get people who said they wanted good news. They wanted the good news. And then when they had the opportunity, always gravitated to the negative news. And maybe that's, you know, like it's a survival instinct at some level. Like you want to, you want to try to survive. And so you're worried about whatever threat might be out there. So you're looking at negative stories more, more routinely. But it is strange that we are like that.

It's hard to enjoy life when you're like that. And you look at the numbers that go through. And if you have a copy of, you got a copy of addicted to outrage over there. If you have a copy of addicted to outrage, you'll see this in the book. The stats in here are quite amazing. This is a, to see how far we've come, to see how far the globe has come, but also the United States is really amazing. People who are considered poor in the United States, the number is, I mean, we're talking about major, major things that weren't even available. Matt Ridley talks about this in his book,

The Rational Optimist, which is a book I really like. And it talks about, you. It talks about, talks about King Louis. And, you know, King Louis back in the day, what would he do? He could have anything he wanted. So what he would do is every night when it was time for dinner, he would order his servants. You're talking about the orangutang in Jungle Book? Yes. King Louis, that one? Yeah. And so he would have his big, like, king like medieval table, right? And it would be that, you know, you're a long rectangular table. And people would, he would direct his servants, night to bring him every kind of food available. So it was every, they would make all the different kinds of foods.

They would bring all the different kinds of fruits and vegetables that were available. All the foods that he could possibly want. And he was the king. He could do whatever he wanted. And so he brought everything. And, you know, he would eat, obviously, he couldn't eat all of the foods. He would eat a little bit of it. And the rest would be, you know, either been thrown away or given to the staff or whatever.

But he got to choose whatever he wanted first. because he was the freaking king. We now have that at Golden Corral. Any person who wants to spend $8 can go to Golden Corral and eat as much as they want. Every grocery store you walk into has thousands and thousands more choices than King Louis could have ever had.

Oh my gosh. And not to mention the quality of it. Yeah. Right. You know? I mean, King Louis didn't have red velvet Oreos. Really? Yeah. Are you sure?

They didn't. No wonder all those people died. Oh my gosh. Was it the place? or was it suicide? I don't know. You were just like, ah, screw it, where are the Oreos? But, I mean, seriously, like, you have more choices now, and it can be afforded by almost everybody in the United States

to go eat almost anything you want all the time. We have this giant problem now with obesity rather than starvation. That is not something has been common in the world's history. Yeah, and it's, you know what? It's still not as common in the rest of the world as it is here. No. I mean, go to Bulgaria and see if you have the choices. that the United States of America does.

No. With the constitution we have in the form of and the kind of economy we have here. Yeah. With capitalism, with the free market. That's true. It's all, it's,

all of these things are better here, right? Yes. Even in Bulgaria, you can go to a restaurant in which, quote, unquote, servants will come in servers instead of servants, but they'll come and they'll bring you food that has been prepared. And you have to order anything you want off a menu. And you don't have to do the dishes afterwards.

Right. I mean, yes, you have to. good deal. But that's a pretty good deal. This is from Addicted to Outrage. For all of eternity, man was able to stay alive without a refrigerator, electricity, radio, microwave, or color television. It might have been hot, sticky, and a lot less entertaining, but survival was possible. Today, each of these self-evident luxury items, when measured against all of human history, are owned by between 96.3 and 99.3%

of all households. I mean, these are, that's amazing. The computer, when Bill Clinton was elected. This is not that long ago. I mean, it is, it's a while. I mean, if you watch the Lewinsky thing, you realize it, I mean, just by the quality of the video back then, before HD, you realize how it feels a lot longer ago than it was. But when Bill Clinton was elected,

only 20% of American households had a computer. 20% when Barack Obama left office, more than 80% had a computer. And the 20% that didn't have one, it wasn't largely because, well, they couldn't afford a computer or the computers weren't available enough. It was because more than half had a tablet.

Oh, yeah. Almost everyone had a smartphone far more powerful than any computer even available during the Clinton years. You think King Louis had computers? No. No, he didn't. But this is just back in the Clinton years. People didn't have them. The average price of land that produces, or excuse me, the average piece of land that produces corn,

now yields 8.6 times as much corn as it did during World War II. 8.6 times as much. Wow. To think about all the people we had to feed. Think about all the environmentalists who've warned us over the years that massive people were going to starve because we wouldn't be able to produce as much food. Well, now that piece of land is doing 8.6 times as much,

which is only positive if you like corn. I understand that. You might not like it. But, I mean, feeding people is pretty freaking important. And we're able to do that like we've never been able to do it before. The portion of the U.S. population that is homeless and unsheltered. around the world it's 20% in the U.S.

0.1%. That is a stunning statistic. 200 times worse around the world. Wow. And we question capitalism? We question the free market. It's 200 times worse.

That's amazing. Amazing. That's amazing. The homicide rate in the United States has dropped by about half from the levels of the 70s, 80s and 90s. While the media constantly warns of the epidemic of rape culture,

the rate of forcible rape has dropped by over 30% since the 90s, even in Hollywood, apparently. As we talk about the caravan that's in Tijuana now, you know what the murder rate in, you know what the murder number in Tijuana? So far this year is, it's over 2,200 people murdered in a town of 1.6 million. Oh, my.

2,200. You know what the number is in 8 million resident New York City this year? No. 147. 147 compared to over 1.4 million. compared to over 2,200 in Tijuana. But we definitely shouldn't have a border wall. I want to make sure that's clear.

We don't want to keep that separate from us. I mean, it's unbelievable. And the strides that we've made in reducing crime like that in this country are unbelievable. And yes, it's still too high. You don't want 147 people to be murdered in New York or anywhere else. Of course. But that's an amazing achievement because the number used to be over 2000 in New York. It was basically Tijuana.

It was. Except more people, so the ratio wasn't as bad. But still, it was the same amount of murder. It was bad for us back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. And we've made unbelievable strides since then. Incredible. Perhaps the most surprising. And I know this as a parent of two small kids going to school.

You know, one of these school shootings happen. And, you know, you can't help but freak out a little bit. You can't help, you know, you just don't want that to happen to your kid. And it seems like it's just like this foreign thing that has come out of nowhere. And while obviously I'm not for the gun restrictions and the kind of silliness that the left suggests for such a thing. I mean, how ridiculous is this? You're going to ban, let's say you ban AR-15s, right? So then people with $1,200 to spend on guns, instead by what, three or four different guns, you know, with the same amount of money. Yes. So there's, at the end

of the day, more guns on the street. This is what happened in the 90s when they tried an assault weapons ban. More guns on the street after it than before it. And by the way, the kind of guns that are responsible for most murders in this country. Most murders are from handguns. Overwhelmingly. They're not from rifles. Right. Which is, it's just so, it's so stupid. It's such a, I mean,

it's stupid with a understandable emotional backing. Right? Like, I get it. When I see these things, I feel the same way. I have kids. I want this to stop. It's, it's heart wrenching. It's terrible. Mm-hmm. But this is, this number, I will say, shocked me more than any a number that we had talked about

as going through and putting this book together. The number of school shootings has dropped dramatically. Has dropped dramatically. The rate of students killed per million in fatal school shootings has dropped by over 75%.

That's really something. That is shocking to me. And hard to believe because you would think it's triple what it used to be. Yeah. The way the media handles this, the stories.

Yeah. And we start buying into it. You do. It's hard not to. You get beat over the head by it all the time. And the emotion is certainly there. But I mean, because you have you heard that stat on CNN or even Fox? No, no, no.

I haven't. You don't. Now this is, researchers at Northeastern, the ones put this together said that this means, quote, four times the number of children were killed in schools in the early 90s as today. Wow. Four times. And this is what was fascinating to me. I was in high school in the 90s. That's when I was there.

When I was in school, Yeah, you too. Me too. When we were in school, Pat. You know, because I think you were. Oh, I was early nights. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. But the point is, when I was in school with absolutely no fear of a school shooting ever. Oh, I know. Ever.

I was four times as likely to be killed in a school shooting than kids are today. Absolutely amazing. That is incredible. It's an amazing statistic. That's something to be thankful for. Yes.

That's an incredible improvement. as they as they summarize it quote there is not an epidemic of school shootings end quote this is not a conservative this is northeastern university yeah that's not done by the Republican Party no not at all and that is I mean that is really truly amazing and what we've seen I think and part of what explains that is we've seen a rise in the large number of like the mass incident event right where someone goes in and shoots 10 people And a lot of it was more spread out. But in a way, that's more dangerous, right?

Like, if you happen to be the incredibly unlucky person who happens to be at a school where a mass school shooting goes out, I mean, it's, I mean, the odds against it are incredible. So the mass shootings are up? Mass shootings are, I don't have the stats in here. But the smaller shootings in more places are way, way, way, way down. And so you are probably, you know, you're going to be more likely for your school to be involved in a death. back then by a ton of times. Now, mass shootings overall, the peak was actually in the late 20s, when you talk about mass shootings in general.

But, you know, there are different varieties of this statistic and you can find it. But again, they're down since the 90s, all of them. And, you know, because we've had a great amount of improvement. How about this? If you're of a certain age, you may remember being terrified of polio, right? In 1952, there were 57,879 cases of polio in the United States. In 2017, there were zero. It's amazing.

Zero, completely wiped out in this country. And that's because of the vaccine that you took as a sugar cube when I was a kid. That's amazing. Yeah. Among men in the United States, if you're a dude, you're going to be happy about some of this. Death rates from colon cancer have dropped by 30%. Oh, that's another thing I would think was way up. Yeah, right?

Because now all you hear, you hear about having to get. checked every six, you know, minutes, apparently. Lung cancer has dropped by 40%. Prostate cancer, again, another one of those that you'd think was up, has dropped by 45%. Wow. Death from stomach cancer has dropped by 50% all since 1990. How about breast cancer? We wear a lot of pink socks on the football field.

You got pink socks and pink pants and that's going on and that's great. I don't like the pink. I don't like the pink uniforms in football. But, I mean, the donations. are great. Among women, the death rate from breast cancer has dropped by 35%. Wow. Wow. That's all really, really freaking good news that we never ever contemplate anymore. Definitely stuff to be thankful for. And you would never guess it. And I think part of that, though, is the 24-hour news cycle. I think part of that is there's so much news that's disseminated. And you hear about it all the time.

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No. So I probably won't see this show, but I would love to. Well, you have that condo in Syria. We might do an appearance there if you want to. Really? Are you thinking about that? If you're going to be visiting that condo at any point. I usually only go in my, you know, in the summer for my summer break. But I could make an exception if you guys are going there this winter.

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It's Pat and Stu for Glenn, AAA, B, E, CK. Let's go to Jason in Florida. Hey, Jason, you're on the Glenn Beck program. Good. I have to set you all straight on Dolph Lundgren. He's actually not a dumb man by any means as he found out, but he is a very

good actor and a very good martial artist. He did a movie of Brandon Lee prior to the Rocky series called Showdown Little Tokyo, or it might have been right afterwards. But the very good movie, he's a great martial artist, But, yeah, I've always loved him as an action star. That guy doing martial arts has got to be pretty impressive, because he's massive.

He really is. And you also see him he was in the, what it was, the expendables. Yeah. So the Saloon movie where him and Jet Lee beat each other up, which was quite humorous, watching Jet League go against him. He's a good guy. I like him. Now can I win tickets to the Tampa Glenbeck Show?

First of all, I love the fact that you've tried to hide this behind a point. So, yes, you can have tickets to the Tampa Glenn Beck Show. That's awesome. What's your name again? Jason. Jason, all right, Jason, we're going to put you on hold, and we would love to see you out there. That was all the ruse. He didn't care at all about Ivan Drago or Dolf Lundgren.

No. Wow. He just wanted to, uh, he just wanted tickets to the Tampa show. It was completely insincere. I'm a little bit hurt now. I'm kind of honored by it. Like, I like the fact that he took, he took the effort to make a rocky point. Yes, he did.

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I make a quick analogy and propose a question. I always look at Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, almost like a household that runs our country, right? Yep. So if I compare it to my household, My wife and I try to not bicker, try to not put negative things out against each other, especially in front of the kids, right? Because the kids got to know it's going good.

We got to keep the house together. Right. Anymore, it seems like the gloves are off where the divorced parents, that, hey, we're just trying to bash each other to the kids and get favoritism among the kids. There's no common ground. There's no, hey, this is going to be better for the country in the long run. So because nobody can even find anything nice about Donald Trump, right? love him or hate him, he's got to be doing something right that you could at least go,

you know what, I don't agree with him on this. I agree with him on that. Now, if my wife and I split up, we each get a separate house, we run our house how we want to. My question is, what does the country do when you got Fox, CNN, who clearly have their biases? You've got Democrats, Republicans, who want to take the country completely different ways. Well, we can't just split the country up, and you run the west side, we'll run the east side, and, you know, agree to part ways. The marriage didn't work. do we do, where do we go?

Is my question. I mean, it's a tough question, and I think, you know, there are, I always feel like, you look at like a debate like the, the gun situation. What always happens after a mass shooting, right? You have the situation where the Republicans say, come up with their solutions. Democrats say they don't want guns, right? Like, that's basically what happens every single time. And, you know, we go back and forth on whether the Democrat solution of taking away

or second amendment rights is a good one or not. Obviously, we believe it's a bad one, and nothing happens. But there's a lot of low-hanging fruit outside of the gun to be. Like, you know, like, we talk about security in schools. Like, there are very few, I think there are very few Democrats who would disagree that there should be some level of security in schools, right? Like, Democrats have kids, too. They want them to be protected. They don't want them necessarily be protected by teachers.

They might not like that, right? Like, if Republicans say, well, teachers, let's arm the teachers. And the Democrats say, let's take away all these guns. Neither one of those are possible solutions because the other side is automatically going to disagree with them. But there are lower hanging fruit. Things like mental health is another one. Like I think everybody on both sides agree that people who have massive mental health problems should not be owning firearms. And also curing that situation, because just at making it so they don't own them or can't buy them doesn't solve the solution at all. It doesn't solve the problem at all.

I mean, Adam, whatever his name was in, I was going to say his name because I do remember it, but I don't want to give these people any freaking recognition anymore. But the guy in Newtown, he had real problems, mental health, but he didn't own guns. His mom owned guns. His mom had no mental problems. But he went and stole all of her guns and shot her and killed her and then went and killed all those kids. How do you solve that with a with a restriction on mental health? It's not about it's about trying to help those people so they don't do those things, right?

Yeah. And so I think like, I do think that there's an argument to be made. where you can look more commonly for low-hanging fruit in a lot of these debates. A lot of these issues, there are elements of them that will do some, they'll give some improvement without having to go down the road of, of, of, of violating a principle. Like, you take away my second amendment rights, you're violating a principle. It's a non-starter for me.

So you go down those roads and it doesn't work. addicted to outrage has a lot of ways to it's it's a the whole book is about addressing exactly what you're talking about and um trying to find a way to to not only exist with with people who let's be honest about it a lot of times you think are completely insane. I mean a lot of views that I hear from Democrats I think are completely insane and I I find it difficult to even acknowledge them without ridiculing them or just getting incredibly frustrated. Mm-hmm.

But. A, you're going to live with these people So you've got to figure something out And B, our goal used to be Persuasion. Ronald Reagan's goal was persuasion, right? Like, Ronald Reagan's goal... He had dinner every single night of the week

with Tip O'Neill. He had breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think that's true. Every day with Tip O'Neill, seven days a week. I don't think that's true. That's how... And they fought like cats and dogs during the day. Then they went and ate every meal together.

I don't think that's accurate. I think he ate with his wife a lot. No. Never? He never had dinner with Nancy? No. Ask Chris Matthews. He never had dinner with anybody but Tip O'Neill.

And I, like the tip O'Neill thing, because Chris Matthews brings this up all the time. And in his context of bringing it up is they would work together and then, you know, that would be a way to get to bipartisan solutions, right? Like something like that. Yeah. And look at your hero Ronald Reagan, your hero got along with the left, why can you? you. I think that's the ultimate point. I don't necessarily bipartisanship to me

is generally speaking overrated. Bipartisanhip is not something to praise in and of itself. Now if you have like there's a lot of things that get voted on in the Senate that voted on 98 to nothing. So that sort of bipartisanship

is fine, right? Like if it's something that everybody agrees with and it's good. But if you're compromising your principles, it's not good. It's not good. But what is good is trying to often happen. Right. And if you have something, an argument that's correct, trying to convince someone rather than just shouting at them is really a good idea. You know, that is something that I don't think we attempt enough anymore. Like I, and I'm guilty of this as well. A lot of times I'll be talking about something I'm passionate about and it just makes me feel good that I know what I'm talking about and I'm right. You know, I mean, I think everybody does that at some level. You try to avoid it because you're a jerk basically if you do it. But you're a jerk. always convinced of something. When the Kavanaugh thing's going down, people are heated. And, you know, our side is saying, like, you can't just throw this guy, you can't ruin this guy's life over nothing. And their side is saying, you can't put a rapist on the Supreme

Court. Now, look, one of those two arguments is right. Okay? One of them. Not two of them. One of them is right. And it's hard to even give oxygen to the other side in my mind. That one is so blatantly horrible as a precedent to set down that we should just, oh, one accusation from 30 years ago, oh, yeah, obviously ruined the guy's life. Like, it's completely bonkers to me. However, when you talk to people and you say, hey, you know, you have a son, right? Like, is this a standard you want to embrace for the rest of your son's life? You know, is this something that we're... Any woman could accuse him of anything. And he's just done in his career as a result of it without looking into it any further.

Yeah. If there's no evidence and there's no corroboration, are you willing to have your son just lose his job and his livelihood over it? Yeah. Let me ask you another question. You remember growing up, and this is an interesting conversation I had with several women when the Me Too stuff was going on around the holidays last year. You go into these Christmas parties.

Of course, we're in the business of talking about news and politics. So you wind up having a lot of conversations about that. And it was the women all the time. all the time that would come up and say, I had about 20 friends who did things just like that. I had friends who came up and made false accusations against guys they liked and hated constantly because they, now this is not me saying this.

This is not the guy saying this. These are the women who were friends with other women who did this. And we all inherently know when we stop and think about it for a moment that women, this is a technicality. here. Women are people. So people do terrible things all the time. Wait, you're saying women are not perfect beings? I am saying that women are not perfect beings, period.

Wow. Why the misogyny? Full stop. Why the sexism? Let me give you an example of this. Huh. Morning of September 22nd of last year, Christopher Procopia went to work at his lumberyard in Georgetown.

He had someone stopped by to see him. That person happened to be a police officer. That police officer charged him with burglary and the intent to commit other crimes, likely sexual assault or rape. The person accusing him. The intent to commit other crimes. Yes. So they knew what was in his head? Well, I guess he didn't actually do it, right?

But he broke in with the intent to do it. All right. Okay. That was the charge. And they had some evidence. evidence. They had a witness, the woman, former high school girlfriend, and they had dated for a long time. She had not only the story of what had happened, but also an X on her chest that was carved into her chest via box cutter. And by him is what she was alleged.

She said he did it. He had no freaking idea what was going on, however, because he was nowhere. near her at the time that she said that this happened. Now remember during the Kavanaugh thing, oh, at the time, what does that time matter? What does the day matter? What does it matter what time this happened? Of course, she can't remember exactly, but that doesn't matter. Well, here's a reason why it does matter. At the time this was going on, he happened to be at a northwest Austin, Texas hotel about 65 miles away from the accuser's home. And of course, you can certainly say that all you want. But he happened to

have a selfie at the time with his family that was posted and dug up and that is what got him off. He went through the arrest process. He was accused of rape. This woman apparently did not like him and wanted to

had a vendetta against him and made a false charge. He's now walking free and everything's fine because she was lying about him according to the court. And so we believe survivors doesn't really apply in that particular case. It would not be a good policy in that case. Not a good policy. Or how about the woman,

Anna Iers, who was a journalism major and a member of the student senate at Ohio University, she found some threatening notes, Pat. She was, they were harassing her. They said, they said that she should, should not be allowed in the student senate. They said that, that she was, I think it's because of her sexual orientation. And the only minor issue was this. And this is just a minor issue. She wrote the notes herself. Which is, you know, always what happens in this situation.

I mean, we could go through these all day. Yeah. People do these things to each other all freaking day. All the time. And I think everybody knows this. So if you can talk to someone and say, hey, this is, you know this is. and not go after him and scream at them about Brett Kavanaugh, but try to bring it into another place so they think about it differently.

You wind up having a lot more success. And only changing people's minds are going to get us back to the constitutional principles. We don't have enough. You saw this in the Senate. You know, the Democratic Senate, House, popular vote, as they're still calculating it with all the last votes, looks like it will be the largest in history. Ooh.

The worst electoral defeat in history when it comes to popular vote in the House. Wow. That is a big deal. Yeah. And so you can't just have your base. You've got to be able to convince people who will listen. And we need to get better at that. AAA 727 B-E-C-K.

With Pat and Stu today, PETA is upset with the president right now because turkeys don't need to be pardoned. And President Trump did, in fact, pardon a turkey yesterday, right? The 39-pound white wonder named Peas the turkey. But PETA's comment was, turkeys don't need to be pardoned. They aren't serving five to ten for armed robbery. No, but they are going to wind up on a plate somewhere if the president doesn't pardon one of them.

Like the one he didn't pardon? Is that really, does the one that doesn't get pardoned? I think they do eat it. Yeah. I think they kill it and eat it. Very strange. It's a weird tradition.

Yeah. Because I think most people just would, like, if you're eating meat, you want to basically avoid idea of how it got there. I don't like thinking about it, it's living years. I don't like that. Maybe other people don't care, but I, you know, like even if I have steak, I don't

want to think of the cow walking around eating grass. I don't think most people do. I don't think that's, uh, that's ideal. It's not pleasant. And it's not one of the things that kind of sort of turned you off of me, right? Yeah, I didn't like the idea that, because I felt that way, the same way as, as you. I, I just didn't like the idea that I was essentially just ignoring it. Like I was just like, oh, well, if I don't think about it.

Nor it. Right. Yes. I didn't feel consistent. You went a step further and actually did something about it. It just didn't feel consistent. Like, if this is bothering me, why am I continuing to do it? See, I don't dig into it that deeply.

That's, I think, I would think most Americans are probably on that path, which I, you know, I certainly understand. It's not something you want to think about, you know. So tomorrow you'll eat. Oh, I've got some. Tofurky? Not Tofurkey. I've got a craft thing from Minneapolis I got sent in. It's a long story.

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He's probably going to run for president, but his backers are begging him. If you don't run for president, at least run for another Senate seat in Texas. And John Cornyn is up for a re-election in 2020. So he might be running. I kind of think he might beat Cornyn. You know, with Ted Cruz, Ted's. ideology and Beto's ideology. It's a big gap.

Right. Yes. With Cornyn, it narrows. Yeah, it's still a gap, but it's still a gap. It's not as big. But nowhere near as big. And so I think he had like 10 or 15 million left over from his campaign. So he's already got some pretty good seed money for whatever, whatever office he runs for. It's interesting too.

This is something, as we've looked back at the election results that we were talking about a little bit earlier, off the air in that, you know, Democrats did really well in this election. I mean, this was not only just every single time you have a president in power, the opposing party usually gains seats that's well known. This is still one of the, it was one of the, it was one of the, is a top tier performance over the past century. Wasn't as good as the Tea Party wave. Wasn't as good as 1994 for the Republicans.

But it was one of the best that they have done in the last century, either party. It's a, depending on how you look at it, it's about third or four. best in the in the past you know between 60 and 100 years wow and so it is a they did very well in the house i mean they gained looks like it's going to be about 40 seats in the house they're going to pick up the only thing they didn't get were the high profile positions and that was was interesting and i Florida Georgia and Texas right and so the ones they focused on in big ways did not come through right which is great great Florida in both the Senate and governor Georgia governor, Texas Senate,

you know, a couple of others you might throw in there, Indiana Senate, Missouri Senate. But really everything else popped for them. Right. Everything else they got. And it was interesting because the way the election night unfolds, I said this before, when you have early results, a lot of times they tell the story of the night,

where you will say, okay, Republicans doing worse in these three places. Therefore, you can kind of set the climate of what the election is and say, it looks like this might be a good night for Democrats. Oddly what happened last night is

three of the exceptions to the rule were the first ones that came out. The Florida results. You know, Republicans started doing well in

Florida. I would also throw in the Indiana Senate where Republicans far outperformed expectations as compared to

polling. It was supposed to be basically a toss-up race and they won it fairly relatively easily. Yeah. That started,

came out first. In Kentucky, there was a House race that was supposed to be a 50-50 race that the Republicans did well in. When those races all came out as the first thing, I think it really gave me the impression that the Republicans were going to do pretty well. And they did defend the Senate. There were some good stories, some individual stories. But actually, the Democrats did worse in the high-profile races. And that brings me back to the Texas Senate thing. If it's Beto Cruz, that's super high-profile race.

And people have strong feelings about both Beto and Cruz. I don't know that people have strong feelings about John Corny. No, I don't think they do. He's just there. He's just there. He's not the worst. He's not the worst Republican in the Senate. No, but he's nowhere near the best.

Yeah. But he's not the worst. You know, he's not Susan Collins, right? He's not like someone who, you know, he's just very establishment and kind of just dull. That may actually help him. Maybe. Because he doesn't, you know, there's not as much passive. maybe against John Cornyn as there was against Ted Cruz.

Also, by the way, a lot of passion for Ted Cruz and not a lot of passion for John Cornyn. So that would be kind of an interesting one. It would. That was one of the interesting stories of the election is that Republicans did not do well overall, but did do well in the high profile races, which is a strange combination of factors. And what it did was kind of create the mindset in even the mainstream media, which is allied with the Democrat Party. that there was no blue wave because they didn't get the ones they really wanted,

like Beto and the Florida seats. And so they started saying, nah, this didn't really turn out to be a blue wave when it kind of did. It sort of did turn out that way. What's what, 45 seat different now? 40, yeah, about 40 seats different. Wow.

That's a big advantage from how far ahead were Republicans before it? 30 some? Yeah, so they're going to be up. It looks like about 235 seats for Democrats in the House. Wow. When all of this stuff settles. Because some of these California races, there's a recount going on in Georgia right now for one house seat. They're, you know, Mia Love did, it looks like lose.

AP is called that race now that Mia Love did lose it. After coming back, taking the lead and then losing it afterwards. It's, you know, there's been a bottom. California, there's a couple races out there that are still open. There's a couple technically in New York that are still open. But generally speaking, it looks like it's going to be $200, 34, 235 seats, maybe an outside shot at 236,

but it's going to be in that general vicinity. Remember, you only need 218 to have the majority. So it went, I mean, if you look at it, if you want to go back and make the case, it is a blue wave, you can make it. I mean, it's there. They did very well in the House popular vote, one of the best in history.

They, of the last, I think it's 14 midterm elections. Democrats did better in the House than 11 of them. So they were like second or third, I think it was. of the last 14 races as far as House seats picked up. Now, my definition of a blue wave, I don't think it rises to that definition solely because they had winnable races in the Senate to take it over. In the environment they got, which is a Democrat plus, they think almost nine points. This is one of the largest popular vote advantages for a party in any midterm, almost nine points.

That is a, that's an environment where there's no excuse for losing, dramatically with incumbents in Missouri and with Hyde Camp and in with Donnelly in Indiana and Sally. Nelson in Florida. Democrats should not lose four incumbent races that were supposed to be toss-ups by, with the exception of Florida, relatively large margins. I mean, those three races weren't competitive. Hyde Camp, McCaskill, and Donnelly.

They weren't even competitive, really. They were pretty large margins. And you look at that and you put it against Beto coming within three points in Texas. Those results don't really make much sense. You know, remember, Rick Scott was a, most of the polling was down three or four points going into that election, won up winning. Yeah. You know. Yeah, Gillum was up by six, I think, toward the end.

Six. Six. I was more. And lost. I thought the Scott race was very close to a toss-up with Nelson. But the Gillum, Desantis thing, did not look like a touch-up. toss up. It looked like a lean Democrat, and he wound up winning it. Actually, winning it, you know, handily. So it is a, it's a weird one, you know, it was a strange election. I don't, to me,

a lot of analysts do believe that it was a blue wave. Certainly a lot of the media likes to make that case. It was a convincing win for Democrats. I don't think it was a blue wave. That was a missed opportunity for them. In that environment, for the Republicans to likely end this with 53 seats, is a is not a good result. It's a game in the Senate. So it's a game. Did better in the Senate. Now that is to walk that back a little bit, that was a lot of structural stuff, right? I mean, because you had, there were 35 seats up for election in the Senate race for the election.

And Democrats won 24 of the 35. So that's a really good result for Democrats. Wow. The issue. And by the way, in addition to that, the majority of those seats were in red states. So they went 24 of 35 with the majority of the playing field being in red states.

That's not a bad result for them. But they missed out on key races that easily could have swung the Senate. They could have had the Senate in the House relatively easily if they just didn't massively underperform in three or four races with incumbents. So that is a...

I don't think you can put it in a blue wave category when you blew that opportunity. But it was a convincing win. Yeah. And it hurt. And it's going to... to matter in the next two years because, you know, there's not going to be a tax cut, certainly.

No. And some of the rest of Trump's agenda will probably be derailed at this point. Although Republicans had the majority in both the House and the Senate and they have had the executive branch. They still don't get anything done. No, not really. I don't know why they're not using this time right now. I don't know what. I don't either.

I mean, the one thing I heard, and Mike Lee is a big proponent of this bill, and it looks like it has bipartisan support, is the incarceration changes, the sentencing changes for criminals where they'll change a lot of that. And there are some real problems with that system. I think it's something, that's something you can get done with the Democrat Congress, right? Like, I don't know why we're rushing through. It's great. If it's a good bill, it's a good bill and you pass it. But like, why aren't you going for the things that you're not going to have a chance to get done? next Congress. You know, House has passed 100 bills plus. Many of them are really good. Why isn't the Senate voting on every single one of these before the end of their term? You've got two months. Every single one of these should come up for a vote. And if it's a good bill, they should pass it. That's why there's not the passion for the Republican Party that there probably could be.

Because they just, they leave us cold every time. And they don't fulfill the promises. You know, the things like, you know, getting rid of Obamacare and replacing it, repeal and replace, which they didn't do. A large permanent tax cut, which they didn't do. You know, there's just too many things that they leave undone when they could have done it. And they could have done something substantial with the border. They could have gotten the wall built. They didn't do that.

Yeah. There was an interesting story I was reading the other day from Jim Gertie at National Review. The wall continues to be built. Oh, really? Slowly. Okay. And it's amazing, you know, we've had a lot of fights about the border wall. However, there are some, an 18 foot high steel wall is being constructed in areas

across the border. 18 feet. 18 feet. Now this is not. I thought we were going 40. I thought we were 30 or 40 is what I thought. And it wasn't, it was a beautiful wall. It was not this wall.

Yes. And the reason for. that is it's not the Trump wall. Oh. This was passed in previous legislation that is continuing to be being built. Under previously passed legislation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection continues to pay contractors to replace sections of spotty or insufficient fencing with 18 foot tall walls. Okay.

The tall steel bars with the gaps so you can kind of see through and what's going on on the other side. And so they are in the middle of doing that and there is some improvement. Now, taking a chain link fence, for example, turning it into an 18-foot steel wall is an improvement. Like, that's, I'm happy with that change. But it has nothing to do with, you know, what people voted for in 2016. It is all stuff that was actually passed previously under... And it's not in addition to what...

They're just fixing portions. They're improving it. Yeah. Which is, I mean, not insignificant. Right. This is not what we asked them to do and what they said they were going to do. That was another, uh, eat our underwear moment where we said if they got a wall over 90% of the border, we would eat our underwear.

Yes. So far, we're pretty safe on this one. Really? They're not close to 90. No. Okay. Not even. What are they, like 85?

No. Now they're... Seventy-five or 76, 77%. Previously, there was 705 miles. Okay. Okay. With a 1,954 mile total border. Okay.

So this is obviously not... We were talking about whether they can close that to 90%. Or it was 95%, I think, but we'll say 90 for the... I feel confident in this one. Yeah. But, uh, but, uh, It was 705 miles. And as of now, it's a 705 miles, which is an incredible...

Wait, that sounds like the same number just said a different way. I said 705 miles. Right. And then now it's... It previously was 705 miles, but now it is 705 miles. So that's pretty impressive. Yeah, that's still the same amount. Yeah, I mean, and this is, you know, that there's blame to be shared on this one.

But again, you're not getting one mile of that. fence come January. Oh, right. Yeah, that's right. You're not getting one. That is not going to happen. Now's the time. Wow. To push this thing through. And again, we're not seeing any of it. They've made no effort to do that. No. That I know of. The only time they made an effort to do it was, hey, we'll give a bunch of millions of people amnesty and give us some wall funding. And everybody was on board for that for a little while and then the deal fell through. I don't like that deal either. No, not at all. I mean, that's not what.

That's certainly not what people voted for. You can't take nine steps back to take one step forward. That doesn't help. It's not, that would not be a good deal. And that one, there has not been a lot of, there's not been a lot of improvement on that front, I will say. AAA-727-B-E-C-K with your thoughts. It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

Apparently it's going to be pretty cold tomorrow on Thanksgiving Day for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Could be one of the coldest ever, maybe the coldest ever, maybe the coldest parade ever. They're expecting a high tomorrow of 26 degrees

in New York. Now, the coldest Thanksgiving day ever was 1901, the parade in 1901 where the high was 26 degrees. So it would tie the record if it doesn't get any warmer

than that. Plus, they said the wind is blowing so hard that the blue. some of the balloons may not be able to fly like they usually do. And the chill temperature is going to feel like it's five degrees. That's just not pleasant. That's not. No.

No, thank you. Plus, I get to enjoy the hassle of the traffic. Oh, wow. Now how much would you pay to go? I went to,

as you may remember, Pat, the Super Bowl last year in which the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the New England Patriots. surprising you haven't mentioned that much. Yeah, 41 to 33 in a little city called Minneapolis. Was it chilly there? Wow.

It's amazing to me that they put a civilization in this location. This seems to me to be like one of those things that you, I don't know, you take a saw and you saw around Minneapolis and then you get a big plane and you lift it up and you bring it down somewhere near Florida. Because holy crap. In fact, it's so like you can even say, well, Stu, you're just a wuss. And the answer, of course. Yes, of course. It is true. I am a complete wuss.

Even though I grew up in the Northeast, I hate the cold weather so much. But like, Minneapolis has admitted this. Okay. They have basically just turned the whole city into a mall. First of all, Mall of America, right? Everyone knows Mall of America, which is a giant city that's inside. Largest in the country. Right.

Like, it's just, they have an entire amusement park inside of a mall. Right. This is because people would rather die than walk outside to shop. so they put all the shopping indoors. But even the city itself, and I had never been there before this past year when the Eagles beat the Patriots 41 to 33 in the Super Bowl,

there are bridges basically everywhere. So like when you're walking from one, when I'm leaving the game, walking back to where I parked, which it was near Target Field, which is where the twins play. So from where the Vikings play to where the twins play, you walk inside the entire time.

And you're walking through these bridges that connect the buildings. you're walking through like hotel lobbies and like office building lobbies. Like they're so aware of how cold it is. They're like just screw it. Make everything indoors. The whole city is now indoors unless you're in a car. Yeah.

I mean, it really is an amazing thing to see. And I don't know how people do it. I don't know. Like people will say the same thing about Texas because it gets to be hot. And I do not understand. Like I can deal with the heat. I cannot deal with that cold, man. That is hell.

And standing outside for a stupid parade for that long? No, thank you. No, thank you. I can't even get my kids interested in the parade. We put the parade on every year in the background when you're getting ready to leave for Thanksgiving dinner. And then point out really cool balloons. Oh, look at that. Where's your favorite character?

Giant balloon. Three seconds of interest. I don't know if that's because it's 2018 and everyone, you know, they have YouTube videos and things. There's some more impressive things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In 1940, there wasn't a lot of other really super cool things.

And so you're like, wow, look at the size of that Snoopy balloon. It's larger than you would picture Snoopy in other circumstances. Bigger than normal. That particular Snoopy is not only large but floating. And it seems like some people on the ground are dragging it along. That is really something. Yeah, we don't have that kind of awe anymore. A little bit jaded now.

Yeah. By technology, I think. But still, you know what? Two million people every year show up for the parade. Maybe that won't be the case this time because it's going to be so stinking cold. But it's all global warming. Just so you know that. Oh, it is?

It's because of global warming. Wait, the cold is? It got, it's circular. It got so hot. It went all the way back around a cold. Oh, wow. And that's where we are now. I didn't know the temperature was.

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Jeffie, we have a special edition of Spoons. Now, if you're not a long-term fan of the program or the network, you might not know spoons, but Spoons was a segment we did and gained about 50 pounds during during the Pat and Stu show. You've all lost weight since we stopped doing the spoons. It's weird. It's weird. Oddly surprising. It started us, you know, we should try some strange different foods just for, you know, a cute little segment.

And then it went from, you know, well, let's just eat every day. And it was named spoons because it was the only word, Jeffie, could say. At the time. Spoons. Yes. So, we named it that. We did. So we have a Thanksgiving-themed spoons.

Should we start there, Jeffrey, before we get to your stories of the day? Okay. All right. So we have a full Thanksgiving dinner. in potato chip form. Wow. We start with turkey and gravy, flavored potato chips. Nice.

Limited time only at 7-11. Oh, that's disappointing. I can only get this for the Thanksgiving season. What about Christmas? This one, I'm not going to partake. Well, you're not? No, this is not going to go down my... Why not?

It's just flavored. It's not actual meat. You know. Okay, so this is Thanksgiving and gravy. Yes. So this is your main meal. And potato. I would say mashed potatoes in there.

Turkey is great. Because, you know, it's potato. How's that blend? The face of Pat does not look particularly pleased with these potato chips. I mean, it's not bad, but I'm not really getting turkey and gravy from it. What are you getting? Can you describe? Potato chip salty and...

Kind of blech. Yeah, it doesn't... I mean, it's certainly not screaming turkey and gravy. Is it to you, Jeffrey? No. No. They had a sausage and peppers chip for a while at 7-11. 7-11 is like, they're becoming like food laboratory.

over there. They're just constantly coming out with new crazy flavors of chips and stuff. So if you're near one, it's worth stopping by every once in a while just to check what crazy thing they've come up with. Turkey and gravy, eh? What do you think? It almost just tastes like a normal potato chip to me. I'm not getting it. I don't get turkey and gravy. Okay. So what's your, you have a, our scale was 1 to 18.

What is your scale? I look at nine. Nine. Nine. Nine. And then for dessert, we have pumpkin pie flavored potato chips. I want this. Okay. I kind of want this to be good. too. Sweet potato chips are not something you dive into

that often, but I'm kind of excited about them. I'm definitely getting pumpkin from this. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's pretty good. Diet is pumpkin-flavored potato chip. As advertised. Guy, Jeffrey, are you like pumpkin buy? I've had a couple slices over the years.

Have you? Yeah, just a couple. Just a couple. It's a while. Over the holidays, you know. Yeah. I mean, look, am I diving into this bag, you know, twice a week with With lunch? No. No. But at one time,

if I were to have like a Thanksgiving party and you put out a bowl of these things, I think it would work pretty well. I actually like them. I don't know. That's good.

And it is pumpkin pie. Much more so than the turkey and gravy thing. Much more so. So yeah. This I would eat. Yeah, I give this a 14. I on scale of 1 to 18. Yeah, I'll give it about it.

14 sounds about right. All right. We have a couple more things here before we get to the Jeffie's stories of the day. A brand new soda from Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola California Raspberry. Okay. Now, this is much different than an Arizona raspberry soda.

They do have raspberry in the machines where you can have all the crazy flavors, the freestyle machines. There's a raspberry variety, but I've never seen it in a lot. But it's not California Raspberry. Right. It's like Arizona Raspberry or something. Or Nevada Raspberry. She doesn't even count.

It's too soon to make a... No, I won't make the California joke. Oh, right. California Raspberry. Yeah, please don't. Okay, here we go. Oh, yeah. Definitely a high raspberry taste.

Yeah, it's an absolute raspberry feel to it. A penetrating raspberry flavor. That's good. That's pretty good. Yeah, it's very sweet. Again, it's regular Coke, and I don't... I'm a big artificial sweetener fan, if you don't know that. So it's a very...

This is definitely not Code Zero. Very sweet. Very sweet. But the flavor is pretty good. Yeah, I'd give it a, you know, 12. Yeah, I'm in that right. I'll go 11. 11 on that one.

You know, raspberry is good. I used to get up in the morning and have raspberries and milk with my grandma. And that's where I like raspberries. Wait, and Coca-Cola. What did you do? You got up in the morning and had raspberries and... You got up in the morning and had breakfast. And I don't really like it in Coke.

Well, first of all, you've drank almost the entire bottle. I'm trying to wash away the turkey and gravy chips. Raspberrys and, is that a normal thing? Raspberrys and milk? I have never heard of it, but that's not surprising when it involves Jeffie. All right. It's so good. We also have several flavors of M&Ms.

You can get these as well at your local convenience stores. Okay. Some of them are not. We're going to start with a kind of a palette cleanser here. The crispy M&M. Here. Crispy M&M is if you don't know. kind of an Eminem.

I've never had crispy Eminem. Almost like a malted milk ball. Almost in the middle. It's not quite, it's that same consistency, like of a whopper in the middle. Oh, yeah. I like them.

They're good. They're light. Oh, that's good. They're crunchy. They're pretty delicious. We use that as mainly, because those have been around for a while. We use that as a setup here for the winning flavor for M&Ms.

Really good. The crunchy mint. 16. 16? Mm-hmm. I like them. Crunchy mint Eminems. Ooh, these might be really good.

Now, I'm a big fan of the Mint products. Me too. And as we're, you know, as we're about to gorge herself for a day, we've got to give you some new options. Mint M&Ms, they used to have these. These are the mint crunchies. You know, they're kind of like a peppermint patty. Yeah.

Only crunchy. Yes. Yeah, very similar. But the taste is really similar. Same kind of chocolate, same kind of minty flavor. Good, though. But good, yeah. I like it.

I'm a fan. You know, these are like a 14. Yeah. I'll give it a, I'll give this a. 15. I like those. But notice we're not getting any numbers from Jeffie because he really can't do it. We say that the highest number he knows is 18, but he really can't count

all the numbers in between. So he doesn't really know. I mean good, not good? That's good enough, right? No. It's actually not, but and these are what? Final flavor is strawberry nut M&Ms. Oh, well, I don't like nuts. So you're not a peanut Eminem guy? No.

Oh. Trying these out here. Have you had the carmels? I don't know where I'm jumping ahead to Eminems, but Eminem. I like the strawberry flavor. It tastes like an ice cream sundae. I'd rather have it without the net peanut in it, but it's pretty good. Mm-hmm.

Very good. These are all good. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, Eminem's... I'll give that a 15. Yeah. I'll give it a 13.

Is there a bad Eminem? Well, I don't like pretzels. A lot of people like the pretzel Eminems. I do not. I hate pretzels. It's amazing how many flavors of Eminem's there now are. I would agree. It's incredible.

You don't have to, like, look hard to find them. bunch of crazy flavors of M&Ms. The carmoles are great. Yeah, they are. Those are so good. So good. Those are dangerous. Those are dangerous to have around you.

Now, so overall, I would say I like the pumpkin pie ones. Absolutely. And I like the... I recommend all the flavors of the M&Ms. Yeah, they're all. The crunchy mid ones, I think might have been my favorite out of those. I like that a lot. For sure, the crunchy were my favorite.

And then the California raspberry Coke was not bad. Decent. Yeah. Decent. See, this is the sort of information you're getting from this. program. Powerful. Yeah.

Powerful information. Don't let your money on this. No, the turkey and gravy is not worth it. I mean, think about this is Jeffrey saying don't eat a potato chip. That's amazing. Well, I mean, it's in front of you. You have to eat it. I open the bag.

I'm going to finish it. None of these are rules. You don't have to finish them. You don't have to eat them when you're in front. This might be part of the issue with you. You put it on your plate. You eat it. That's the rule.

You don't have a plate. You're eating it out of a bag. You open the bag. That's the rule. That's a law, I think. I'm pretty sure that's a law. This is the sort of insight you get on chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. And it's no surprise that the word fat is in the title when you hear that sort of information.

Do you have some stories for us? Just a couple. You know, I'm kind of sad. You know how big I am on. We've got done trying these food. How big I am on salads. Oh, on salads. And I love salads, especially for Thanksgiving, especially for Thanksgiving.

I mean, nothing says Thanksgiving like a salad. What? You know that. But the Centers for Disease Control are telling you, look out, romaine lettuce, all of it. Throw it away. They're making a big recall again. No matter where it comes from. Doesn't matter.

No matter where you live. Doesn't get rid of it. Because we just ate romaine lettuce last night. You did? You're supposed to. Big outbreak of E. coli. I didn't know until after we ate it and then I saw this story. They're telling people to throw away any romaine lettuce that they already have in their homes.

Don't buy it. Pull it off the shelves. 32 people in 11 states have been infected. 13 people have been hospitalized. One person developed a type of kidney failure. Now, remember, they had the big breakout a few months ago. And that actually killed people. Five people lost their lives a few months ago.

I don't think I even heard that. From romaine lettuce? Yes. For the E. coli breakout before earlier this year. So if. I don't know what they're doing. Iceberg lettuce is okay. Yes.

That's all right. Just romaine. Now, yeah. The recall is just Romaine. Now, on the safe side, I would say don't eat any. No salad at all. No salad at all vegetables. That's going to hurt my Thanksgiving dinner.

Oh, yeah, me too. Me too. You know, I don't. Now, I say this warning about staying away from vegetables last for the next couple years, right? So if your wife is asking you to eat vegetables. For me, this is extended to kale because that's also a leafy type of substance. All vegetables, I think are on the table here.

Spinach. To remove from your life. Yeah, you can't eat that. Brussels, broccoli, greas. Broccoli, green. green beans. Oh, yeah. That extends to all of it.

By the way, there's a survey that came out about the most disproportionately common Thanksgiving sides by region. So what are the what are the sides on Thanksgiving that are regional in nature? Some of the, like there are, this is a clear case for you might need to move in my, my opinion. Yeah. You know, I saw this. I don't know that I believe it.

Well, there's another this. The whole western half of the United States, basically, is salad. Yeah, that's why I don't believe. What? Salad. Salad. Now, what, that is the most generic salad? Salad.

The main common side that you relate to Thanksgiving and that, but no. Salad. I've lived in the West most of my life. That's untrue. It is the most disproportionately common. No to that. So, like, everybody might have turkey. Everybody might have mashed potatoes, right?

But the most disproportionately common is salad in the West. Now, that just means that people in the East aren't eating any salad, which is I think one point in the East's favor. You know, no kidding. So the, the northeast is squash. Yeah. Oh. Now, I've seen that here or there, but I was not a popular one.

And I grew up in the Northeast. No, thank you. No, no squash. No, even just like butter, not squash? No. No. You know how you. If it has the word squash after it, I don't eat it, Jeff.

No. Acorn squash, though. It's an acorn squash with brown sugar. Nope. Melted and butter. No. Well, I think because of the romaine issues, I'm going to stay away from squash. just to be safe. It's a really good safety tip.

Thank you, Stu. I'm going to follow your lead. In the northern sort of central area, you know, Minnesota, 12 or 13 Dakotas, that area is green bean casserole. Which, I, okay. That's pretty much.

That's, what? Oh, I like green bean be cassero. So nasty. That's the only way that the crunchy fried onion people make a living. It's true. I don't like onions and I don't like green beans. You know,

not doing it. Ohio to sort of Michigan, Wisconsin. There's a reason I eat, you know, the brickhouse nutrition field of greens. Yes. There's a reason. There's a reason I eat. You don't want to eat actual vegetables. You don't eat actual vegetables. Hide the taste of them.

In the Ohio, Michigan Wisconsin area is rolls and biscuits. That's pretty good. Texas is cornbread in our sort of region around Texas. For Thanksgiving. And that's surprising that it's not farther down south all the whole South is corned because they're big fans.

To me, the Southeast has this thing one. That's mac and cheese. Oh, wow. Mac and cheese on Thanksgiving is a wonderful addition to your Thanksgiving. It is a good addition. You got to have it. I lived in the South for quite a while, and I don't recall that as being a prominent side. My friend, I hate to break this to you.

You live in the South right now and have for the last several years. And I still don't recall back. Triple-8-7-27-B-E-C-K. Stu's got some statistics on world improvement. Just to kind of make you feel good about things heading into Thanksgiving. Be thankful. One of the unbelievable improvements in the world is you can make potato chips taste like pumpkin pie. How is it possible?

They're pretty good. How is it possible? I don't know. It tastes like salty pumpkin pie. Is it magic? What kind of magic is it work here? I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. Unbelievable. More world improvement too is Taco Bell now open in London. as of Friday. So if you travel in London, I mean, Taco Bell is international now, man. Well,

London's known for their Mexican food. That's true. They're not. All right. They will be now. So in the era of capitalism, we have gone from 94% living in extreme poverty

to 10% from 94 to 10. Wow. In the era of capitalism, we've gone from 17% having basic education to 86%. Oh. Literacy. We've gone from 12% to 85%.

globally. Do you live in a democracy? We have gone from basically 0% with the exception of the United States and get democracy kind of wide term there. From 1% to 56%. Vaccinations from 0% to 86%.

Child mortality from 43% to 4%. Wow. Worldwide? Worldwide. That's amazing. It's an incredible improvement. Yeah. And something to really be thankful for.

Something has to be done. Yep. And also, pumpkin pie potato chips. How do you make it taste? I mean, it's a potato chip. How does it possibly taste like pumpkin pie? I don't know. Unless you go to 7-Eleven, you won't know.

That's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Happy Thanksgiving. Glenn, back. Mercury.