The Glenn Beck Program - The Best Toxic-Masculinity Can Get? | 1/15/19

Episode Date: January 15, 2019

Hour 1  Women March Madness...this weekend?...President, Tamika Mallory Defends calling Louis Farrakhan the 'greatest of all time'? ...Gilette hypocrisy, blames today's American Man for Sins of generations (Mad Men) past?...attack on masculinity ...Theresa May's Hail Mary... bid to force Second vote on her Brexit deal despite facing huge defeat? ...BP vs. Exxon? ...TV's Tim Allen is back and better than ever? ...Steve King facing fire over offensive remarks?, House votes to rebuke him?...Kings 'last straw'?   Hour 2 Siriously Susan?...the Original voice of Siri...Susan Bennett joins, is a singer, musician, and voice talent...back up singer to Roy Orbison...Siri's voice is a Millennial now?...the future of deep fakes? ...Make Comedy Great Again with Comedian Jeff Allen...Strong male leads in TV Sitcoms are far and few? ...Target: Anti-government activism...Hate groups are about to find lawmakers eager to scrutinize them?...Flashback: Pizzagate?    Hour 3 Gay rights in Russia? Ha! Ha! Yeah right? ...A Real Classy Moment, President Trump orders Fast-food, McDonalds and Wendy's for Clemson football players ...Stu Chooses the News?...Fun with the polar shifts? ...'The First Conspiracy' with Brad Meltzer...the secret plot to kill George Washington?...In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington’s bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan? ...McDonalds is Loving it...thanks to Donald Trump?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I decorated it. And the lot is just, at this point, there's almost nothing left. I know. I know. If you didn't get your Women's March tree, it's probably too late. But for those of you decorating, remember, it happens on Saturday. Oh, my son broke one of the ovary ornaments I had. You're kidding me.

A glass, beautiful glass ovary ornament. Yeah, well, I had one. We got all tangled up. We had to have it removed. Oh, no. Yeah, but anyway. The movement has really shown signs of strife. That's what the media would tell you.

It's actually imploding. An article in Tablet magazine revealed deep-seated anti-Semitism among the co-chairs of the movement, which is kind of really kind of funny for a movement that brands itself is, you know, a haven of intersectionality. The examples just keep piling up. Just yesterday, there was another. And I really mean this sincerely. I hate to bring you the audio. but I will in one minute.

This is the Glenn Beck's program. All right. We've got just a couple of minutes of commercials in this half hour. We've kind of changed things up because I hate those long commercial breaks just as much as you do. So let's chat for a minute and then right back into the program. Let me tell you about the Palm Beach letter. There is an investment course that we had a former Wall Street hedge fund manager, Tika Tuari, create for you. This is the guy.

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If you hate Jews, you're in. If you like Jews, well, it's not that diverse. Not that diverse. Let's not be crazy. Tamika Mallory, Carmen Perez, Linda Sarsour, and Bob Bland. It's that diverse. Bob can be a part. Bob blend is an exciting name.

It is. It's hard to be, it's hard to have a sexy. You're not. going into like performance. You're not going to be like on American Idol. Like that's not your future if you're born Bob Bland. Like you're either an accountant right or you're managing some organization. Like the women's movement.

Anyway, we've learned about the anti-Semitism and that it is very common among these women. Teresa Shook, who founded the women's march, has repeatedly asked these people to step down. The co-chairs, quoting, have steered the movement away from its true course. I have waited, hoping that they would write the ship, she wrote, but they have not. In opposition to our unity principles, they have allowed anti-Semitism, anti-LGBQIA sentiment. Plus two. She didn't included the plus two. Okay. And hateful racist rhetoric to become part of the platform by the refusal to separate

themselves from groups that espouse these racist and hateful beliefs. This is the creator of the movement talking about the leadership of the movement. Tamika Mallory gave us the latest example. She continues to stand by Lewis Farrakhan. Listen to her response. And Tamika, you came under some fire for your relationship with Lewis Farrakhan and the nation of Islam. Now, he's known for being anti-Semitic, for being homophobic. But you do attend his events and you posted, I believe, a photo together calling him the goat, which means the greatest of all time.

And you are running an organization that says it fights bigotry. do you understand why your association with him is quite problematic? No, I think it's important to put my attendance, my presence at Savior's Day, which is the highest holy day for the nation of Islam in proper context. You know, as a leader, as a black leader, in a country that is still dealing with some very serious unresolved issues as it relates to the black experience in this country, I go into a lot of difficult spaces. Uh, here's where the real problem is. Uh, it's at the end of her nonsensical answer.

Listen. But let me push back a little bit. Why call him the greatest of all time? I didn't call him the greatest of all time because of his rhetoric. I called him the greatest of all time because of what he's done in black community. Hmm. Ah, okay. Here's a little taste of what he's done in the black community.

White folks are going down. And Satan is going down. And Farrakhan, by God's grace, has pulled a cover off of that satanic Jew. And I'm here to say, your time is up. So, I mean, you know, that's quite an accomplishment there. We are going to be looking into the Women's March on Thursday's television broadcast. You don't want to miss that. You want the truth about, you know, the people who are running.

the Women's March movement, have at it. The mainstream media won't give you all of this. They're not going to say anything. They will talk about if you're a deplorable how Hitlerite you are. Even though you don't like Hitler, you like the Jews, you support Israel, whatever it is, they'll still tell you that you're a white supremacist and yada, yada, yada. But Lewis Farrakhan can say these things. and they don't mind.

We do, and we have the expose coming up on Thursday's television program only on the Blaze TV. Speaking of television, I, you know, look, no, let me just say this. Gillette, you're dead to me. You're dead to me.

And I started watching this with an open mind, and I thought, okay, you know what? I agree with these things. I don't want men to be pigs. I hate. I watched Mad Men. Did you watch Mad Men? No.

Okay. So I watched Mad Men and it's like, I can't believe the world was like that. Okay? It's not like that. And if you are like that, you're a throwback and you just don't have any place. The world wasn't like that. People were not that good looking back then. Okay.

I'll give you that. All right. So listen to this Gillette ad. The Me Too movement against sexual harassment. Is this the best a man can get? that shows their commercials. Is it? We can't hide for me.

It's been going on far too long. We can't laugh it off. What I actually think she's trying to say. Making the same old excuses. Stop for a second. Stop for a second. It's showing these images of, you know, comedy shows. First of all, it's one of them is from like the 1950s.

From the 1950s. You know, we still have that happening with the women ogling the construction guy drinking a diet Coke. But, you know, it shows, it shows stuff that we all know. We all look at now and go, ick. Okay. It's showing a lot of Gillette ads from the past, you know, good for them. Now go ahead. Boys will be boys.

Boys will be boys. It has these boys fighting. Allegations regarding sexual assault. sexual harassment. And there will be no going back. Stop. So far, I'm like, okay. All right.

I mean, please don't preach to me, Gillette. But, yeah. Okay, I get it. There's nothing you would disagree with in this. And that's what pandering is, right? Like, pandering is something you say that no one can disagree with because you're trying to kiss the butt of your, of your audience, right? Here's where it goes off the rails. me go ahead because we we believe in the best in men men need to hold other men accountable

stop stop that is something my father taught me that's some i'm i'm i'm 54 that is something my father taught me so why is this a new idea jillette that men have to be men not boys the problem with Men is not men, it's boys. It's boys. It's boys that never grow in to men. I know what a man is. I was taught what a man is supposed to do. And then I was taught, no, don't do any of those things. No, no, no, no. I was taught by feminists. No, no, no, don't you hold that door open. Don't you, don't you do that. don't you stand when a woman comes to the table. No, no, no, they're just like men. Well, a man stands at a table.

If a woman would like to stand at a table when I arrive, I don't mind. I think it's unnecessary, but kind. Thank you. Wow, that's, wow, thank you for honoring me that way. I was just talking to my son this weekend. A man stands to shake another man's hand. If you're kind of sprawled out in the couch and somebody comes by and they're like, hey, dude, just want to say hi, they reach to shake you hand.

You stand up and shake that man's hand. That's what a man does. It's respect. Now, I've grown up with that. I think most American men have grown up with that. But let Gillette tell us what it's really like. Come on. To say the right thing.

To act the right way. Not cool, not cool. Some already are in ways big. Young men. For everyone. Oh, shit. And small. I am strong.

I'm strong. But some is not enough. So how we treat each other, okay? Okay. Because the boys watching today will be the men of tomorrow. Yeah, thank you, Gillette. By the way, Bick, Bick, I will always use Bick. I will never buy another Gillette product.

How dare you, how dare you lecture me about bullying? About bullying. It shows two boys fighting. Well, boys will be boys calling each other names. Well, that's just the way they are. No, now, because we at this stupid razor company, we want you to know that we're pulling for the ladies, we're pulling for the victims. What the hell do you think the American ethic is?

Why do you think our armed military is different than the rest? Because we don't go in and rape people. We go in and we set them free and we try to set things right and we try to show there's respect for people. We go and rescue the Jews. We go and rescue the women. We go and rescue people because that's what men do. Boys do not. Men do.

Shut your pie hole jillette. Sorry. It's tired of it. Say a razor commercial just in case you were wondering. I know. Isn't that the point? That's part of what pisses me off. It's a razor commercial.

You're selling us crap. You lousy pieces of crap. You're selling us something. You sat around in a boardroom and like, what can we do to really reach people? I know we can do. Shut up. Stop manipulating us.

Oh. Okay. And by the way, for the people who like this Gillette commercial, all the women who are cheering, aren't you the ones that are telling us about the evil corporations? Huh. You're kind of missing it on this one, aren't you? All right. Well, I want to talk about Brexit coming up in just a second.

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They want border security. Let's just leave the border wall up. They just want border security. And the politicians haven't done it and it's kind of pissing people off. That's what's happening with Brexit. The people say, I don't want your immigration rules. I don't want, I don't want you telling us how to live our lives. We're English.

We're British. So stop telling us. how to live our life. They're, they're, ha, ha, anti-colonialists. They're saying to Europe, don't colonize us.

We're our separate culture. So that's what the people are saying. The politicians are doing exactly the same thing that they're doing here in the United States. They'll say one thing, but when it comes push to shove, they'll do another. So Theresa May has brokered this deal.

Well, nobody in their right mind wants this deal. because it doesn't give their sovereignty back. They still can't make trade agreements. They're not, they're not Great Britain. They're still in the EU, but they don't have to live by some of the rules like, you know, immigration, et cetera, et cetera. So the people feel like we do.

When they talk about comprehensive immigration reform, we're all like, no, get this done first and then we'll talk about what we're going to do after. That's exactly what's happening over in England. but they have something else going on. And that is the Irish problem. The Irish, apparently, and I didn't know this, and I don't know if I fully understand this correctly, but the Irish, to solve the, you know,

remember the Protestant Catholic IRA kind of wars that were going on, where they wanted to break away from Great Britain, the way they solved that apparently was, if you were in Ireland, you could have a British passport, or you could have an Irish passport. You could do one or the other. You could be a British citizen or an Irish citizen. Stay in the Commonwealth.

But you kind of, you know, you have self-determination and we're going to open up the borders, et cetera, et cetera. So it wasn't a problem when everybody was in the EU. But now Ireland has voted to stay in the EU. So what do you do? It's Great Britain. It'd be like if Florida decided, you know what? We want to stay in the TPP. we want to stay in this this new agreement we still want to be part of uh america kind of but we want to

we want our own thing we're not going to we're not going to do this treaty that the rest of america is doing and it's a trade trade agreement well what would happen first of all that would start to eat away at the union if if florida could do that why couldn't texas why couldn't others. And so you get on this slippery slope of you don't really have a union. So there's one problem with it. The second problem is if, if Florida was making their own trade agreements, one side or the other, America or Florida is going to have better deals on certain products. So let's say they made a really great deal with Germany, because Germany was pissed at Donald Trump or whatever. And so they started getting Mercedes.

in and they had them at really low prices, no tariffs, everything else. Well, people from the other states would go in and buy that Mercedes in Florida and then drive it out. Well, how do you work with that? Because it's part of our country. Do we have to put a border there? Do we have to have tariffs? Do we have to have new laws restricting what Florida can do?

And we have to stop Florida from coming in. And let's say, you know, the United States had cheap steel. But because Florida decided not to do it, they're going to have. to buy steel with the tariff. So how do we stop steal from going into Florida? And how about those citizens

who are like, look, I didn't want anything to do with this. I'm an American citizen. I have every right. That's what's happening now with Brexit. And it's because of the politicians making this overly complex, I think with an exception of Ireland, I think that is

a complex problem. But they're trying to go in and not do what's called a hard exit, which just says, we're out. And that's what the people want. And if they don't do this, you're going to see increased strife in England against the politicians. And it's only going to make things much, much worse. You're listening to Glenn Beck. Okay, so I start Field of Greens. Why do I start Field of Greens, Stu?

Why do I start it? Because you don't want to eat salads, Glenn. Yeah, yeah. Or any other vegetable in any form. So my wife says, you know, I found this new thing that's really healthy and I want you to eat salads for 28 days. Only salads. Nothing else. I'm like, what the, no, I feel the green.

No, I just. You don't have to do that anymore. I don't have to do that anymore. And she's like, no, that's what we're going to do. You, wow. Your spine, it's just iron. Shut up. Shut up, man who keeps purses in safe.

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As I open up my envelope that I get from the Dollar Shave Club, and I get my new razor blades from them. But I also get a little like a little toilet reader and stuff like that, which I don't get from Gillette. So, hello, welcome to the program, Pat Gray from Pat Gray from Pat Grey Unleashed, the podcast that you can hear live every day before this program and then download in your leisure and your time that you want to listen to it. Did you actually use blades now?

I haven't used blades since I was in high school. Really? Yeah. About half the time. I have what's called a newfangled invention called an electric razor. Do you? Yeah. Interesting.

Yeah. It's strange. You're going to switch to Gillette now, though, after this ad. Because if you don't, I mean, really, you hate women, right? You never use Gillette. And now I'm even more committed to not using Gillette. Yeah. Because you do really hate women.

I'll never. I'll never. I don't really care. I, I've, you know, big, you know, Gillette, clamshell. I don't really care usually. Does it have a sharp edge that I can trim my beard with? I care. Okay. I care.

And by the way, the edge. That's, that's the name of a guy. Not the flamingo. Flaming. What is the flamingo? I think the flamingo is their new pastel colored men razor. I think maybe it's for women. I don't know.

I saw the Gillette ad on the same deal about the commercial or about the, yeah, about the men's commercial. So maybe it was just an auto fill thing and it was a women's razor, but it appeared to be a man's razor. I don't care enough to even look into it. But if that's your idea of a man's razor. Wow. Wow. See, you're exactly the man they're talking to in this commercial. Am I?

Yeah. Am I? You are the person. Am I? I want you to, you know, Gillette, I invite you to my house for a while and hear the things that I teach my son and then lecture me. You are a giant corporation that is only trying to sell a product. You don't really care because you were the one pumping sweet cheeks into my living room.

For decades, you are the ones that said, hey, girls find this sexy and hot. Woo! Put your, put your cheek next to mine, sweet cheeks. And they weren't talking necessarily about the cheek on your face. Wow, that's toxic. That was a toxic rant right there. These, these guys, if it, if they could sell more razors by being pigs, they would. they would. Of course it would.

They did. Of course. Yes, that was their plan, right? They did it. And this is just like, we are unhappy with our market share of women's raisers. So here's a commercial for you about how good women are. Like, it's so transparent and awful. Well, they say that this is to sell the men's razor. But is there a guy within the sound of my voice that watches that commercial and hasn't already been raising your son to be that kind of a man? And doesn't have a visceral reaction. to how aggravating and maddening this and insulting. Insulting. Right.

Insulting. It's unbelievable. It's not even the content. No, there's nothing in there that anyone would disagree with. But that's the point. But that's what's annoying. It's like so insulting and pandering.

The disagreement comes from the sweeping indictment on an entire gender of human beings. That's the implication here is that men are bad and we want you to be better from at Gillette. But it's also. Some were okay. They said some. Yeah, they did. It's also like watching BP or Exxon do their commercials, you know, people are burning fossil fuels. Right.

Yeah. And you're like, what? Right. You're the people who've been pumping that it, literally pumping that for decades. Amazingly, they're doing that too. Yeah, I know they are. They really are doing that. But at least they're lecturing themselves.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Yes. At least BP is like beyond petroleum. No, you're not. You're petroleum. Well, but we'd like to be beyond petroleum. Okay.

Well, they actually had a legitimate Brexit. I like to have wings, too. They brexited their name. We're not British anymore. We're beyond petroleum. Right. That's amazing. It's just, it just strikes me as embarrassing.

There is a level there of the sort of domino's approach, though, isn't there? Where they're like, ah, you know, our pizza used to suck, but now our pizza's good. That's kind of what they're doing there. Like, they're showing their own ads and saying, but wait, wait, wait, we don't like the Dustin Hoffman has to answer today for something that he did or said while filming the graduate. Okay. Jolette doesn't have to explain what they were doing. Wasn't it Jolette that did Joe Namath?

It was one of them. I mean, they don't have to explain. They don't, they don't actually have to explain what they were doing when they were selling sex in. razors back in the 70s or the 80s or the 90s or maybe two years ago. They don't have to answer for any of that. But if I, God forbid, said something, my son said something in 1995, my life is destroyed. How dare you? It's really weird.

And I think this is a strange thing. We've talked for years. I mean, how long have we been doing the show? And we've talked about how the left and the media are pushing the boundaries. And we're losing those sort of traditional values, right? like everybody's having sex with everybody. And that's like, like, they've now combined that with like this really odd puritanical set of demands where you can't, like, you can't talk about sex.

You can't talk about any of these things. Like, you have to at the same time be way over the line and break every barrier of, of what was at one point good taste. But at the same time, you can't say anything to anybody. It's a new religion. It is. It's a new religion. These are the puritanical priest.

that will tell you what you can and cannot say. And what's so aggravating about this is you're the one always saying to us that we're too, we're too tight. We're too afraid of sex and everything else. We just want everybody to be wholesome. And well, now what is that Gillette ad? That Gillette ad is teaching your children to be wholesome. It's teaching your children. Not to ogle girls.

Not to pinch their ass. Not to whistle at them and cat call them. And it's a good thing Gillette came along because I was teaching my kids. Exactly the opposite. That's the only reason why I taught my son how to whistle. You're right? I put my kid in cat call class. I was teaching him how to be a better cat color.

I put him in construction sites so that he could learn from the workers there. Oh, that's a smart thing. That's very of all construction sites. They're all that way. All men are like that. That's what they do. Yep, right, you know. Toxic masculinity.

Amen. It's just, it's poison spilling out of these men. Just poison spilling out of them. Thank you, Pat. Thank you for saying. You're welcome. Okay. It had to be said.

Can I talk to you about a poisonous man? Absolutely. A guy who has just... You're going to have to narrow it down, though. I mean, it's all men. Well, everybody's going to know this one, Tim Allen. He is the worst of the worst. Oh, I mean, he's been pushing.

that. That'd be a bad kind of man. Our whole life. Well, ABC did the right thing by firing him. Unless you're looking for money or ratings, Fox just put them on, debuted. He had great ratings for a show that I really haven't seen talked about. I didn't know it was even, I would have watched it had I known that it was coming back. It was coming back. But here is, here's just a real quick. clip of the new Tim Allen

show as it's back on Fox. Oh, no, I'm trying to DVR my favorite show, but it's not on. Oh, well, maybe it got canceled. You know, the TV business can be a heartless bastard. Canceled, why would they cancel a popular show that everybody loves?

Maybe they're a bunch of idiots. Just try another channel. Oh, Mike. They don't just take a show off one network and put it on a different... Hey, there it is. You're right, Mr. B.

Why wrong, or is it like way better on this network? Way better. Way better. I'll be damned. I've never heard of this happening before. Well, it's pretty rare, but show must have a lot of loyal, kick-ass fans, huh? How great is that? How great is what it?

That's satisfying? Yeah. Yeah, well, if he just wasn't so toxic in his masculinity, I think. Tools. You know, he wants you talked about tools. He did. Tools. That's the men tools.

Power tools. You know what that means? Women in short shorts. Oh, my goodness. Exploited them. Oh, my goodness. Well, Gillette, thank goodness. Thank goodness.

If that show is number one, Gillette will not advertise, I'm sure. All right. Thanks, Pat. Let's talk about the ex-chair. Sitting in the ex-chair now doing the broadcast. You can have an ex-chair just like this one. Carol Merrill,

tell us a little something about it. What? I don't know what you're talking about. Well, you keep purses in safes. I thought you were the least masculine here in the room. Really, do you want to revisit your, my wife is telling me what to eat for every meal for a month and it's all lettuce? You want to revisit that one? I think I will defend.

Your immediate fold. Your honor, may I just point out, I'll defend that one all day long. compared to I bought a safe and my wife puts all of the purse. We don't keep guns. We don't keep any manly stuff in there. We keep her purses in that. Yeah, I'll just have that. You keep working on that.

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He's been actually, I think, overrated for a really long time. How about Steve King? Steve King from Iowa. Yes. Yes. I don't know exactly. We've been looking into this. Steve's always been rock solid.

I've never had a question about Steve King, ever until recently. And he's been controversial with the media for a while, but a lot of Republicans are. I've never thought Steve King, oh, he's a racist, he's a white supremacist, oh, he hates, whatever. And never, ever have I thought that about Steve King. There's something that bothers me about this whole incident. Explain what's going on. He was in, he did an interview with the New York Times in which he said, the quote was, I believe, white supremacist, white nationalist, Western civilization. When did this language become offensive?

That was the money quote, right? So they're saying basically, like, you didn't know that white supremacy was offensive. And so. But his explanation is, he was talking about, people are always talking about white supremacy and white nationalism. the Western culture, when did Western culture become offensive? And there's some reason to believe that's what he meant, and that his next sentence was, I took classes on this and they told me about the merits of it. And is that bad now?

Now, no one took a white supremacy class. No one took a white nationalist class. You did take Western civilization classes. A lot of people did. So, you know, there's some reason to believe that that's what he was referring to. And really it comes down to, on this particular quote, And a lot of people can bring up things on the side of Steve, Steve King. I think we should talk about those too.

But on this particular quote, there's no audio of it. I have yet to see the context in which it happened. I don't understand why we haven't seen the entire transcript of this interview yet. I want to see it. It may very well be that he did something terrible here and he is this bad guy. But I mean, but like there's a period, there's a comma instead of a period in this in this quote, where it says white nationalist comma. white supremacy, comma,

and Western civil, it doesn't even say and. It's just Western civilization, when did these things become offensive? Or when did this language become offensive? If you put a period after Western, white nationalism, so he's maybe referring to something else,

white supremacy, white nationalism, listen, Western civilization should not be controversial. That's a point he's making, I think most people, and most certainly most Republicans would not disagree with it. I think what he's saying is that I'm saying all of these

charges. You're this, you're that, you're this, you're that. You're a white supremacist, you know, you're a white nationalist. Western civilization is, is, remember when Katie Couric said to me, what is the white culture? Right, exactly. Okay. Remember, he's fighting that point that you, theoretically fighting that point. Correct. Katie, it's everything that you and people like you are now saying is horrible. It's Western civilization. Western civilization. Yes, people of many colors and many backgrounds and many religions and many non-religions helped formulate this. Yeah. But generally speaking, it was European. And even Tim Scott, who came out and wrote an op-ed saying how bad Steve King's comments were, says if it's Western civilization, we all agree that we can

defend that. But he's just not getting the benefit of the doubt even from people who would be friendly with him. And he's had, he's had everything taken away from him on Capitol Hill. You know, everybody, even diehard supporters of him have, have bailed on him. But I, but I wonder if it's bailing on him because I feel like this is the last straw. The last straw. It just makes it impot. It's just too hard to defend somebody. And I don't know. This particular thing doesn't, there's something I can't square with it with this New York Times quote. It doesn't make sense. We can go over the details on that. But like, you know, his his endorsement for the Toronto mayor thing was really bad to me. It was to me too. So I don't know. I don't know what's going on with him.

Reach out to him because we've had respect for him for years. And I don't even know what to think on this one. You know, it doesn't look good. But I would want somebody to give me a fair hearing. Yeah, that's true. Let's let's have Steve on and let him explain. whether you buy into it or not, at least let us give him a fair hearing. Okay, home title lock is our sponsor. And home title lock is a great company because they are the only ones who can do what they do. If you want to protect your title from home title fraud, which is one of the fastest growing crimes in America, you need home title lock. And really, it can't use anybody else because home title lock is the, they're the only people who do this.

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This is the Glembeck program. I am so excited for this interview. This is one of those things. You know, I've told you in the past, I, you know, I lived at the time when Tokyo Rose was still alive. And she had such a tale to tell. And she died. And I didn't reach out and talk to her. I mean, these people who have experienced history or making history, I mean, I've got the

greatest job in the world. All we have to do is call and go, hey, would you come on the air and talk to us? There is somebody who everyone in this audience, I think, would you say that's pretty safe to say, what, 90% of everyone in this audience? That's heard, yeah, sure. Knows this person's voice, but you know nothing about her. And you have no idea the story of how it got from her mouth to your iPhone. you have no idea. She didn't even have an idea.

I won't tell you her name yet. I'm just going to tell you that her Twitter handle is Seriously Susan. Seriously. Susan. In one minute. This is the Glenn Beck program. Okay, there's about 7 million people getting hit with a flu this time of year.

If one more person asked me if I've had a flu shot. No! I haven't. a flu shot. When did this become an absolute must? I mean, it's not a bad idea. I don't mind, you know, I just, when did this become a must? We didn't have everybody crying over flu shots when I was growing up and we all pretty much survived. When did this, when did this happen? You take flu shots all the time? I do get them every year, yeah. Every year. You get them. But I don't think it's, I mean, there's been years. I haven't. Right, right. I mean, I get them sometimes. I don't get them sometimes.

Why is everybody making such a big deal? Did you get your flu shot? No, I didn't. You should have a flu shot. Why should I have a fluja? Is it like, is it something really, really bad this year compared to last year? Get off my back about the damn flu shots. I've got other things I'm worried about. Like I haven't changed my air filters yet. Nobody's asking me, have you changed your air filter yet? No.

You should. Change your air filter. You know what? I hired a company to send me air filters so nobody ever has to ask me. Have you changed your air filter yet? Typical rich person thing. He just gets to get people to come and do all of the stuff for him. No, no, no.

You can just, you can go right now to filterby.com and you can actually save money by by having your filters delivered directly to you. And then nobody has to say, have you, have you checked your filter yet? Have you had your flu shot? No. Leave me alone. Go to filter by. They're going to leave you alone.

They're just going to send you a filter and then you see it on your porch. You're like, oh, I got to change the filter. Nobody has to say. anything filterby.com. You know, we wouldn't have all these problems with stupid people if we just didn't have all these stupid people. I'm just saying filterby.com. Filter by that sounds a little anti-human, doesn't it? It does. It does. Good thing we have Siri on with us next. Filterby.com. That's filterby.com. Susan Bennett is her name. Susan Bennett, the original voice of Siri, welcome to the program. How are you? It is so, first of all, I want to get into your history,

but just answer this. You didn't even know you were going to be Siri, did you? And when you actually got a phone call from a friend who said, I just got this new Apple iPhone, it sounds just like you. Yes, it was an email and fellow voice actors, so he recognized my voice. And he said, And yeah, this sounds just like you. Isn't that weird? I want to get into this whole story with you. But let's start at the beginning. You've been a voice actor for a long time, which is, quite honestly, my dream job.

You don't have to think. All you have to do is just read the words and just think about how they sound the best. That's fantastic. You don't actually have to come up with like stuff. If you can roll in and do it, I'm sure that's not the actual case. It's probably... No, that's the way I want to believe it is. Okay. Susan, that's the way it is, right?

Just say yes. Oh, yes. You can believe that if you'd like. Why do you sound like Siri talking down to me when you say that? Well, yes, Siri does that. Okay. So the original Siri did that. So you were actually working in studios and the voice actor didn't show up and you're like,

I can do this, right? No, actually, the time said, Susan, you don't have an accent. I bet you could read this copy. So I read it and said, oh, yes, I can do that. And as a true freelancer, I was excited to find another out living. Because you were a backup singer for Roy Orbison. Correct. I mean, like, that's like, that's amazing.

Coo Ciri was like a backup singer. Oh, and I got to sing a duet with him in concert. I played the Emmylou Harris part. Yeah, it was exciting. We traveled all over the world. And Bert Baccarac? Yeah. So, like, you have serious musical chops.

Well, that was... Do you sing anymore? Oh, yes. Yeah, I sing all the time. My husband and I had a band together for close to 25 years. I was two when I started. Holy cow. And, yeah, we still play together.

And right now, the only consistent thing we do actually is we're... And we play nothing but 60s and 70s rock and soul music. That's cool. And everybody in the band plays by... ear, so we find. We should, I mean, we have calls for bands from time to time. We do fundraisers and stuff. Are you still for hire?

Oh, absolutely. Are you kidding? Oh, yeah. Are you any good? We're always for hire. Are you guys good? Well, I'm not going to say we're not good. Okay, all right.

All right. All right. So, all right. So you started doing commercials. And can you give us any things that you've said that we might have heard pre- Siri? because you did stuff from McDonald's. It's just, you know, and in the past, when, you know, before technology allowed all voice actors to just worship together.

Yeah. Back in the day when we would actually, well, sometimes that wasn't the case because sometimes we would, you know, improvise things and let's use that. So, so you did, you know, you did the loudspeaker announcements over for Delta Airlines for their gates. you did Macy's McDonald's, Goodyers, Papa John, IBM, Coca-Cola. You also were the voice of a lot of GPS is where you're like, at the next, go ahead, say it, at the next safe spot.

Get a quarter of a mile. Oh my gosh. That's amazing. That is so wild. Do people ever like get into a car with you and just be like, that's weird? That's just weird. Something that some people really, really don't hear

as acutely as. you might think, altered the original Seraphone 5S. And I was one of the few people that really thought that it was different. Most people didn't recognize the change at all. And it turns out that they did not get another actor at that point. They actually

just manipulated my voice you know, with computers. So this is... ...audiologically to sound just a little bit different. And finally, a series of millennial now. Okay, so your voice is not being used at all for

Siri now. No, I'm done. I've had my, I've had my stint as Siri. It's over. Wow. So now, this is the, this is the really interesting part to me. Um, because you didn't, like when you, when you did GPS or you did loosen technologies and, you know, for the operator, press, go ahead, say one of those things. Please press one. Right. Okay. All other calls, just hang up. And when you did things for the GPS, like at the next, you know, next light turn, you actually had to say those things? Well, which is, and people go, wait a minute, all the theory voices, well, you have to remember that I do not speak ever. And so we didn't, we really had no idea. Wow.

We recorded all of these sentences in the language. For instance, can you remember any of those? Oh, of course. What, wait, wait. Ask Fossa. Ask Fossi. Wait, wait. Say him again?

Cow hoist in the tub hut. They're just trying to get the sounds. Oh, wow. And we read just, that was actually very, very tedious, and, you know, I think I actually had a little brain damage during that.

Well, I bet you did. But you had no idea who was actually on the other end buying this. No, we were sort of told that we were just doing generic phone messaging. I guess it's a combination of nigh-old, but the way I look at it is we sort of, we sort of,

were in the middle of that business as usual and doing business. So we really had no idea exactly what we were doing. Right. You know, it was a little troubling at first. And then it's sort of like anything else in life that you're surprised by, something you don't expect it, adapt, for me, especially at this particular time in my life. So I want to talk to you, take a one-minute break, Susan. Then I want to come back, and I want to talk to you about because you didn't record it,

You basically handed one thing that is uniquely you, your voice. And it's saying things that you never said and how that plays in a person's head. And also, should there be a law? Should there be something that says, hey, a voice is unique? I mean, I think this is the future, actors, old actors, anybody. if you don't own the rights to yourself, you can now be manipulated and you could be a movie star, but it's not you. And I want to talk to you about that. Susan Bennett, the original voice of Siri when we come back. All right, one minute and then we're back with Siri.

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did that play games with you? Yes, yeah. It is kind of a troubling thing, but I think even more troubling than that is because of just the ability, they can basically make you sound like you're saying anything. Even recently I put together, I wanted to put together a speaker demo,

and I was working with a video editor, and all of a sudden he said, well, you're saying this, but we can fix that. I'm going, what? Oh, no. So you mean we can't, so we can no longer trust anything we hear or see, this is not good. Yeah. So, you know, basically, you know, I try not to take it personally because it's sort of just the way our culture seems to be going.

I don't necessarily think it's a good thing. Yeah, I don't either. I mean, as somebody who I watch technology and I've been concerned about deep fakes that are going to be a problem starting, I think, 2020 real problem. And that is the manipulation of video and audio. So where you cannot believe your eyes and ears, they can make me say anything and you won't know. I wouldn't even be able to tell.

I mean, like, wait, I never said that. When did I say that? And the deep fakes are getting so good. That just changes our whole world, doesn't it? Yeah, it really does. I find it quite appalling. I mean, even to the point where I, I've done so many interviews, and I appreciate doing a live interview because many times interviewers take a direct quote and just sort of make it their own and end up saying something that I didn't actually say.

And, you know, I just really try to not think too much about it because it's, it is very troubling. and and I feel very bad for really famous people, you know, the, the Georgia are attributing, you know, things that they have said to them that were not true. So that's one of the things, that's one of the things, very strange place in our culture. We are. That's one of the things deep fakes are doing. They're taking celebrity faces and they're imposing them on, you know, on sex acts and X-rated videos. And you can't necessarily tell that's not joy. George Clooney. Well, one of the things I think is a problem is that, you know, that a lot of people believe this stuff because I think that too often we've given over particularly, just in

general, I think that people, in a way, with all these digital devices that we have, you know, we just, we just tell Siri or Alexa to do this or do that. And we don't really have to think about it. I think it especially children. I have a friend who has grandchildren. She says, oh, my God, she said, they tell Alexa to do everything. She said, these girls don't even know how to turn on a light bulb. You know, they tell Alexa to do it.

And I think that we're losing a lot by not going through the process things. Yeah. You know, back in the dark ages when I was growing up, you know, you would go to the library and you'd look things up. That's right. Now you just ask Siri. There's no process of, I don't know, I think that's kind of... Susan, so what's up for you next? What do you hope to do next?

Well, I just hope to do more of what I'm already doing, which is Siri appearances and speaker events, which I really enjoy, and it's not so very much, it's to go to some pretty exotic places like Croatia to do more of those. Well, maybe we should find out, have you do some, uh, uh, this is the Glenn Beck program, uh, kind of stuff. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. You have to pay for that.

No, I know. No, no, no. I mean, that's what I said. We'll have to talk to you about that. I knew. Let me, let me give you the number of my agents. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I, I'm very well aware of that. No, I don't enough freebies. No, I, no. I, I, no, I, believe me, I know. Susan, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you. You bet. Bye-bye. She's great. Yeah. That's going to be a weird position because, I mean, you know, we didn't, like in my mind, if you were the voice of Siri, like, you know, you're just getting a $25,000 a week Apple check that from royalties that are coming in. And that's not really what happens here, right? She didn't, she didn't say any of those things. It's the algorithm. It is a deep fake that we've been talking about. But it's, you still know with the voice of Siri that it's manipulated somewhat. But very soon, you're not going to be able to know that it's manipulated. I mean, listen to when she was saying the Siri stuff.

I mean, that's her. Yeah, that's her. It's crazy. Just crazy. Back in just a second. You're listening to Glenn Beck. American Financing Corporation, NMLS-182334, www. www. nmls. Consumer Access.org.

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especially if we have daughters or we're married to a woman. Let's play the first half of this Gillette commercial. Is this the best a man can get? Is it? We can't hide for me. harassment is taking over... It's been going on far too long. We can't laugh at all.

What I actually think she's trying to say. Making the same old excuses. Boys will be boys. Boys will be boys. But something finally changed. Stop. Stop. So far? No problem. Okay.

I don't... Still pandering from a razor company. Yeah, well, I haven't gotten there yet. haven't said anything you're watching this and you're like yeah yeah yeah you know it's gone on too long and that kind of stuff boys will be boys and bullying and all of that stuff bad don't disagree with the goal here no of course here's where it goes wrong go ahead regarding sexual assault and sexual harassment once but she says you know and there will be no going back Because we, we believe in the best in men.

Men need to hold other men accountable. Smile, sweetie. Come on. To say the right thing. To act the right way. My cool, my cool. Some already are in ways big and small. I am strong. I am strong.

But some is not enough. So how we treat each other, okay? Okay. Because the boys watching today will be the men of to... Jolette, the company that has been talking about sweet cheeks since the day I was born, they are now lecturing me about the grotesqueness of our society. you've been pumping in the bikini-clad girls going, oh, yeah, look how smooth his face is forever. Please don't lecture me.

And don't lecture me on what we have to teach our sons. I've been teaching that my whole life and my father taught that to me. Luckily, I'm not the only one a little upset about this. Jeff Allen is calling in. Hello, Jeff. How are you? Fine, man. How are you guys?

Well, you know, I just, I'm trying to keep my blood pressure down, and this nonsense just doesn't end. Yeah, it doesn't. It keeps going. So I was talking to Tammy, and I realized this all began with the 19th Amendment. It's the way we could repeal that and start over. It started with the 19th Amendment, and you want it repealed? Yeah, if you can, and Tammy said, well, it's probably not going to happen because there's too many women in Congress. Right, right.

Right. By the way, should we say that's a joke? So we should we put that out to the next joke. No, I don't think he is joking. Did you think he was joking? I heard it. I heard it myself. I don't think he was joking. My gosh. Exactly. I, you know, I just, isn't that what you taught your son, Jeff? I sat my boys down when they hit that age when they started dating. And I said, that's somebody's daughter, somebody's future mother. And I said, if you had a sister, would you want some, uh, shit manhandling them in the backseat of a car. And no, it was a, it's a, it's a common sense discussion. Right. And there's a difference between. You know, yeah, the, the guys who don't do that are still boys.

They never grew up. They're still boys. Men do that. Oh, there's millions of boys who, who shave is what I call them. Yeah. And they're out there, but I don't think it's, you know, the majority. So is this? And like you said, I don't need to be lectured by a commercial.

I know. Is Gillette just trying to sell razors, more razors to women? Or do they think this will work for men? Well, they're growing every bird. Every last one of them. Yeah, I know. There's a reason to grow up here now. And maybe they're going after the transgender, the changeovers.

Yeah, could be. Jeff Allen is a comedian. He has been out on the road for CRTV. and The Blaze on Make Comedy Great Again. How's the tour been going? Well, we're off until February 1st. We're going into New York, February 1st and 2nd. But we did.

Is this like some sort of sacrificial animal that you guys are that we're just putting you into New York? Yeah, exactly. Well, I thought that was odd. Go to Northeast with a tour called Make Comedy Great again. And it's a non-political. uh, tour. So I, I, I didn't understand. It's not my job to create the title.

Right. Right. Right. Okay. Okay. Um, did you see that, uh,

Tim Allen's show has, uh, has debuted now? Absolutely. And it's on our queue, man. We recorded every week. See,

I didn't even know that it was back on. Uh, I just don't watch enough television to get the commercials for all of that stuff. Um, I knew that he was going to, but I didn't know it debuted. And, and it's doing well.

Yes, it should. It's a very good show. And it's funny because it's one of the few sitcoms in history where there's a strong male lead. Back in 2001, I did a pilot for Castle Rock, and one of the reasons they were going to do the pilot with me is because we pitched a strong male lead in a sitcom. And the head of the studio, he was 55 years old at the time. And he said to me, he goes, you know, it's so unusual. And he said it used to, sitcoms used to have strong male leads

that he remembered years ago. I guess he started with all in a family, and that's when things started getting kind of absurd. But yeah, I said I can change a diaper, I can do all that other stuff without looking like a bumbling idiot, you know. And obviously it didn't get picked up.

Right, but you know, Tim is one of the guys who is, I mean, you would say almost the, the stereotypical guy that Gillette should be preaching against. His act has been that. And yet he hasn't been affected by this at all. In fact, if anything, maybe being made stronger.

Right. Because there's a desire, I guess, a desire for it. I mean, whether they want to come out and publicly admit it. But I think strong men are attractive. I really do. Okay, we have that on tape. Yeah, you got that on tape. We have that on tape now.

Yeah, we have that. I'm attracted to strong men. If I went that way, Mike Lowe, I just... Right, right, right, right. Tim, or Tim, Jeff, it's great to... No, no relation to Tim Allen. That's kind of sad, isn't it? No, I get that all the time.

I had a guy get me a job somewhere, and the guy comes over to me, and he goes, so how's your brother Tim doing? I go, what? Who told you that? And he goes, your friend did. And this guy was a pastor. I said, you lied to a pastor. You'd never deny the reality.

Jeff, you just say, yeah, he's doing great. He's doing great. He's thinking about playing here, you know, if you book me a few more times. I appreciate it. All right. Jeff, great to talk to you. Jeff Allen, comedian at large, and you can find the tour actually in New York coming in February, but also on Blaze TV.

A lot of comedians making comedy great again. Also, returning for a new season is Stephen Crowder. Stephen Crowder is back, I think, on Friday. Is he not? It's Thursday, isn't it? I think it's the 17th. Yeah. And he's going to be sharing some more personal things, and it should be quite a season with Stephen Crowder.

You don't want to miss that, only on the Blaze TV. BlazTV.com. If you haven't signed up, you need to. um blaz tv uh... uh... com use the promo code beck and you're going to save i think ten percent do it now promo code beck blaze tv offer code b e c all right uh coming up next hour is brad uh... melzer one of my favorite guests uh of all time he is a history buff um he did the what is the tv show his

tv show that he does uh... Yeah, this is horrible. We've talked to him about it a bunch of times. Yeah, history decoded. And he's just, he's got this great mind and loves history as much as you do as much as I do. He's got a new book and I think it comes out today. It's called the first conspiracy, the secret plot to kill George Washington.

If you're a long time listening, you know what a fan of George Washington I am. I don't even remember this story. It's a new novel out, the plot to kill George Washington. You know a book about George Washington? I did. Yeah. The first conspiracy. This is the stuff.

I mean, George Washington was into the secret, you know, spy stuff and was using that. And a lot of our CIA is sprung from the stuff George Washington was doing. And this is the secret plot to kill him. That's coming up in next hour. You don't want to miss it. Brad Meltzer. All right. If you're looking to hire somebody for the job, you know you have to get the right person and you'd probably like to get it pretty quickly.

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You know, as we talked to it yesterday, the country is not as divided as we think it is. You're the people that you live around are not as divided. It's Congress. The parties are far more polarized than the American people. They're just kicking people out that have common sense. For instance, does this sound like common sense? This sounds like something a mainstream party would,

say. Right now, we need to change the dialogue and find a balance in U.S. domestic terrorism strategy. So far, wow, so far there is nobody paying attention to the links of the trend of anti-government activism to Timothy McVeigh and the bombing of the Alfred Murray. building in Oklahoma. That event served as a touchstone for over two decades. And it is making a cottage industry with right-wing hate. That's why Bernie, Benny Thompson, the representative from Mississippi, who is now in charge of Homeland Security, is going to have hearings, as

soon as Congress comes back in because we really need to look at terrorism. And it's not the terrorism of 9-11. It's not the terrorism of al-Qaeda, but it is the terrorism posed by right-wing extremists. This is what they're going to use their power for, right? Investigating the president and calling every right-wing or a terrorist. That's what the Democrats are going to do with their newfound power. This is terrifying. This is terrifying. They're going to start looking at anything that they deem as a conspiracy theory, anything that they deem as right-wing hate,

and they're going to start looking at the speech and those who are perpetrating this. And who's going to be called? Who's going to be called for the hearings? It's going to be interesting to find out. I mean, they will go after, I mean, they're going to go after. certainly you'd think the Alex Joneses of the world, right, in that conspiracy world, the Pizza Gate people, all of those sorts of groups,

but then they're also going to try to, I'm sure, loop in people who aren't close to extremists. The guy who went into Pizza Gate had been lied to. Okay. But even he, when he went in, said, oh, wait a minute, this isn't what I thought. He didn't go in and kill people. No.

No. I mean, he should go to jail. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he should go to jail, and he did. But he didn't kill a bunch of people. Here's, here's, uh, here's, uh, here's Representative Thompson's, uh, quote. He wants to find a balance in U.S. domestic terrorism strategy, uh, because so far, we have focused too heavily on the threat of homegrown Muslim terrorism

and too little on the rise of the far right white nationalist and anti-Semitic groups. Would that include Lurz Ferrican? Would that include the women's march this weekend? Surely they're going to include that. Surely they would include that. Will that include Antifa? Of course not. They are only looking to the right. This is outrageous.

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won't really listen to the message at times you know they'll take the pictures and they'll spread it across the internet it will be bad for me but I believe in something and I know you believe in something and we can argue about wedding cakes all day long or we can look at what's happening in Iran and we can look at what's happening in Russia. They are killing homosexuals in Russia. They are taking their driver's license away in Russia. I spent an hour and the headperson at Glad in New York had no interest. She just kept bringing it back to wedding cakes and I said, people are dying. Yeah, well, wedding cakes. Oh my God. I have never been more frustrated in my life. I open up to any organization that I may disagree with and you may disagree with me on 90% of whatever it is we say, but we have to stand for life.

There is something now that is happening in Russia, in Chechnya, and it is so bad, the LGBTQI-I-2. Did I get them all? A. A. Plus. That organization over in. Russia has to have their their identity obscured and their voice altered to be on the air anywhere in the world. What's happening is in Chechnya, the Russians are scooping up homosexuals and they are torturing them and killing them.

It's being called the beginning of a genocide of homosexuals. Why are we not talking about this? Why is it that our political class and our media is so hyper on toxic masculinity, so hyperactive on we've got to have 90-some genders? We must have bakeries serving cakes for every event under the sun. And you can still believe all of that. And you can still all do that. But is that the priority?

when there is a beginning of a genocide happening, shouldn't the world stand up and say, hey, this is wrong. But did you hear that Kevin Hart joke from 2009? Because that is, wow, that was offensive. I'm glad they were all over that. So we have that going on. Currently.

Currently. Now, this was five years ago. It's only gotten worse. And now the people who are standing up for gay rights in Russia are so afraid. to stand up because they're going to be taken next if anybody finds out. That's just getting worse and we continue to ignore it. Then there's this.

Pakistan was the first Islamic country to come out against what China is doing to the Uyghurs in China. Up to between a million and two million, up to two million, definitely a million, Muslims have already been picked up by China in this one province and put behind bars into concentration camps. What's happening to them is so horrific. It's just a re-education camp. That's all it is. But it's sleep deprivation, life deprivation. It's torture.

There we had one woman who escaped three times and finally escaped from China, came here to the United States, spoke. No one covered it. And she said, we are being forced to drink things that make us bleed from every orifice. The women are. She said, we're being sterilized. She said, I can't prove it. As I just got here, I'll go to a doctor. But they're making us drink things that makes us sick and bleed from every orifice.

This is genocide. The Chinese are just saying, well, you know, what it is. We're just trying to make these Muslims like normal and usable Chinese citizens. Oh, that's all you're doing. Why is no one talking about this? Now, when I said at the beginning of the hour, how much is a human life worth? We know in Pakistan, it's a road. It's a highway. It's a highway. It's a literal highway. They came out and they condemned China. China came back to the leadership of Pakistan and said, hey, we'd like to do some more trade with you and we'd like to build a literal highway that we can, it'll help with trade for you and for us and it's going to be

great for business. Well, they did. And now all of a sudden they're saying that, no, these are, these aren't concentration camps. There's nothing to worry about with China. We talked to them. Hey, have you seen the new road we're building? Why aren't we talking about the homosexuals and their real plight? The real plight of homosexuals? Why aren't we talking about that? Because we've sold out for a political agenda. We've sold out because we have to make Donald Trump look like an anti-gay president, even though he's the most gay friendly president this country has ever had. Certainly ever elected. Ever elected. I mean, we've sold out for what?

For political purposes? For a wedding cake? We will look and turn a blind eye to people who are being tortured and systematically killed because of their lifestyle. We'll turn a blind eye because we want to make sure we prove a point on wedding cakes. We want to make sure that that baker makes wedding cakes for anybody, at least anything. anybody we're protecting. But nothing. Silence in the media.

Silence from the organizations here. Silence from the, the mosques here in America. Because, well, we've, you know, the West is just so evil. America is just so evil. America, sure, we can come here. We can say things like this country should be destroyed in the country. because that's just how evil we are.

But we'll remain silent. Or if we're Pakistan, we'll just condemn Israel that lives with Muslims in their own towns, treats Muslims in their hospitals, exactly like they treat Jews. We have to call them the great Satan, but China will build a road. And so we're not going to say anything about our own people. Did we say concentration camps? I think we meant recreation centers. That's a rec center. It's a nice gym.

It's got a volleyball court. It's got a swimming pool with lanes. It's like you can really get some good exercise. It's good for the heart. How healthy. Do you know why Western civilization is so important? Do you know why we can't wipe Western civilization off the face of the earth? Because this is what Western civilization strives to do.

to stand up for those who can no longer stand up for themselves. That's what we do. You want to talk about toxic masculinity? Let me tell you about the Navy SEALs. They're pretty masculine. You know what they do? Stand up for the women and rescue the women who are being systematically raped and abused and killed and buried in graves nowhere to be found. we're talking about Western civilization that says care about your enemy, love your enemy.

Without Western civilization, I don't give a flying crap about the homosexuals in Russia because I'm not one of them. And those organizations here in America, well, they're trying to take us down. They're trying to shut me up for what I believe. so I don't care about those guys. No, I care about all human beings because they're my brothers and they're my sisters in God. That's Western civilization. Where is it in these organizations?

Where is your Western civilization? Where is your, dare I say it, Christ-like attitude for the people who are actually suffering today? because I got news for you. That baker doesn't make your wedding cake. Fine. That says more about him than you. You can still go get a wedding cake someplace else.

And why would you want him to be forced to make your wedding cake anyway? You already know who he is. Stop wasting your time. Get married and then spend your time trying to save lives. I didn't hear anything about this on the news today. I did hear, though, that the president served McDonald's at the White House. I mean, that is so low class of him. Can I tell you something? Can I tell you something?

That story I actually like. Oh, I love it. I love that story. It's my favorite moment of the entire presidency. Because he's better than Gorsuch. It's better than Gorsuch and Kavanaugh put together. I love the fact that he slammed a bunch of Wendy's and McDonald's and Burger King on the table. Me too.

I love it. I think they should do that all the time. I think they should next time, I don't care if the entire government is back. I want the same people who were making the food last time have them deliver on silver platters. McDonald's and Burger King and Dominoes, bring in some Taco Bell. I love that. I think it's fantastic.

That's America, man. It is. It is. And it's like, you know, we're not those, we're not a country of titles and kings and nobility. We're just working people who go in and, yes, we all have McDonald's. We all have Burger King.

We all have Wendy's. Not all of us, because I know there's some veg. But I mean, I want a state dinner like that. I want, that's what I want. Right. Like, I want visiting dignitaries to sit down to, you know, to a freaking burrito supreme. I want. I want the other countries around the world go. These guys are just such simpletons. I mean, they don't know what fine dining is. We know what it is. We know what it is. And once in a while, it's nice to have fine dining.

But most of the time, and especially when you're on a budget, this is what Americans eat. Yeah, have that back at your palace. When you come and visit us, it's, it's. It's going to be Brooklyn style from Pizza Hut. Get over it. I love that. I do too. I love that. And the only reason why we're talking about that is because we're also talking about the real things, politics of meaning, where people's lives are at stake.

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Okay. So I think if I'm going to die, I want to do it the funest way possible. Okay. So let's talk about this polar shift. Let's talk about the polar shift. Okay. Are you following this? No, I've only heard you talking about it.

Okay. So the polar shifts is something I've followed for about 20 years and just, you know, just lightly. And I have absolutely no idea what any of it means. Okay. I know what it could mean. I know what theories are from the past. But I, I'm not a, you know, I'm not a sky is falling on this one. I just find it fascinating.

So the poles, the northern south pole, it's not fixed. And it drifts every year. Okay. And it drifts because we have a iron core and then a molten core around that iron core. Well, that's kind of like, you know, taking copper wire and wrapping it around iron and then taking a magnet. I mean, it's creating energy, okay? magnetic force.

So you get your poles north and south. Because the world is, is molten just beneath the surface, it can shift. Okay. And it can, it can move and it can make the polar magnetic field move. The magnetic field generally stays in the same kind of area.

It has, you know, in the past few hundred years, been as North Pole has been as low as, Ohio, believe it or not. But it's been a long time and it takes centuries to move, blah, blah, blah. Well, the polar shift is moving rapidly. In fact, it's now last year it moved 55 kilometers.

It's now, I think, in Siberia. Okay, the North Pole. If you're standing on the North Pole, you are actually south of the magnetic pole. Okay? Because the magnetic pole, did that be right? South? Everything would be south. Yeah.

So you're south if you're standing at the, you know, where the pole is, you know, the red and white striped one. Right. Right. If you're at, you're at Santa's Village, right? Right.

You are not actually at the North Pole at that moment because of the magnetic changes. Correct. Now, the problem is, is that our GPS is run with magnetic north. Okay. So the further,

it's built to be. able to withstand stuff, but they had to go in and have an emergency reset this last year because it's moving so fast. I mean, nobody's, I don't think anybody's seen it move 55 kilometers before. So it's, it's moving so fast and doesn't show any sign of slowing down. Well, our GPS had to be reset because otherwise we'd all be driving in the Pacific Ocean at some point, because it's like, it's, it's all off. I find just that fascinating.

Now, here's the part that they think is, this is, you know, these are just theories. They think that this has happened before that the polls got so far out of whack that they, that north and south actually was east and west. Okay. So north and south would be up and down on a map and east and west would be, no, east and west would be up and down and north and south would be left and right on a map. That's bizarre. Bazaar. And they think that because everything is sitting on this molten core, that at some point, and this may have been why the cognates broke up, at some point the thing got so far out

of whack that it actually, the mantle slid on that molten core. And so what was at the equator was now north and south, which would explain why you have, of like fossilized tropical plants found in Antarctica because it used to be on the equator. Well, we're headed towards now a polar shift of some sort. And what's fascinating to me is,

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nine other bestselling thrillers, including 10th Just, the first counsel, the millionaires, the president's shadow. In addition to fiction, he is one of the only. authors ever to have books on the bestseller list for nonfiction, advice, children's books, and comic books. I think I'm the only one on that list with you except for comic books. You beat me with comic books. You have the love for it, so that counts.

Yeah, I know. I didn't until my son. Sure, because you can give your kid that first hero. Yeah. And it's, and I think in the 90s, it felt like we didn't need that hero. Well, I think that's what happens is in all times, if you look historically at the time of the Great Depression, the heroes that we look to were heroes that were Tarzan and Flash Gordon were the most popular. Because they were designed to take us elsewhere. We wanted to escape the Great Depression. And then World War II starts encroaching on our shores and we get scared as a country.

And we don't even know how to fight. We're scared. We need someone to come save us and Superman gets invented. It sells a million copies. And 9-11, same thing. thing happened. We were once again a country, America, we were scared, worried that someone's coming after us. And the first movie that broke through the public consciousness was Spider-Man. And right now, even a decade later, 15 years later, we're still a country that's, we're starving for heroes. There's no politics about it, whatever side you're on. We are looking for a hero. And all times throughout history, it's not just there's a need for hero, that's where they're created to. And so I actually, this is, as you know, my nerd study of it. And I think

it's no coincidence why we look to, whether it's Neil Armstrong or Mr. Rogers this year or even George Washington, where once again a culture that's starving for humility, for modesty, all of those three have something in common. There's a reason why people are looking to them again. We have a need. You've written a new book called The First Conspiracy, the Secret Plot to Kill George Washington. You read enough history to know, for instance, Edison was not a, he was a bad guy. did some good things, but also did some bad things. And you can look at people, and you can pretty much find that with almost all of them. And people say, well, I don't believe in any of these heroes, and these people were, you know, actually really good.

Because a lot of times history is wrong and only tells one side. But you can find it if you look. Sure. I cannot find the dark side of George Washington. Yeah, no. George Washington lives up to the hype. And I always say, people will always write to me. Right, one of the few.

I mean, every time I do one of the kids' books, everyone always writes to me, well, this one did this and this one did that, and this one had an affair. And I say, listen, I'm just telling you right now, if you're looking for perfection in people, the only person that's perfect, the only thing that's perfect is God.

So there's your standard. Yeah. And I feel like George Washington sets that standard for us at a different level, which is why the thought of a secret plot to kill him, begs the craziest question of all is what happens to us if it worked. So tell me,

we don't exist for one. I agree. Tell me about the plot, because I mean, I've written a book on George Washington. I love George Washington. I've studied him. Not really familiar with this.

Yeah, this is a, I found this story, Glenn, in nearly a decade ago in a footnote where all the great secrets always wind up hiding. And I was like, a secret plot to kill George Washington is a, real? Is this fake? Is it internet nonsense? What is it? And I was so struck by it. There was in 1776, just to be clear, let's talk about it up from, a plot to kill Washington. Some say to kidnap him. Some say to kill him. Either way he dies, because back then if you kidnap someone, at the lower level,

we would trade you back to the British, but at his levels, you got hanged. And they caught that guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, very quickly. And so they round them up. George Washington gets wind of it. They round them up. They build a gallows. They take one of the main co-conspirators. They Hang him in front of 20,000 people, the largest public execution at that point in North American history. George Washington brings the hammer down. It's like, do not mess with me. I'm George Washington. I'm going to be on the money one day. That's an actual historical quote from the time. But what I couldn't shake is, why don't I know this story? And there's two reasons. One, I went to Pulitzer Prize when an author Joseph Ellis. And I said to him, you know this story?

Because I never heard this story. You wrote the biography on him. And he said to me, this is a story about George Washington's spies. That's why it's secret. That's why you don't know it. He said, you can find the exact number of slaves at Mount Vernon that George Washington owned. You'll never find all his spies. He said, by its nature, Brad, what you're searching for will forever be elusive. And the other reason why you don't know it is because of when the hanging took place.

June 28, 1776. Now, guess what else is going on in the world on June 28th, 1776? You're a week away from the Declaration of Independence being signed. June 28th is when the first draft, one of the first drafts is handed in. Correct. The British are literally coming. And with headlines like that, when you're studying that period, this gets obscured. It just becomes a footnote.

So his secret, and you make this point in the book, his spies really go on to inspire us. And we don't know anything about them or very little. but they go on to inspire even the CIA. Yeah, no, that's one of my favorite parts is we thought we were investigating this secret plot to kill George Washington. But what we realized is we found something far bigger, which was we found out that George Washington, one of the first things he did is he created his own secret committee. And the secret committee was called, because if you have a secret committee, you've got to give it a cool name. So it was originally called the Committee on Intestine Enemies.

That's a terrible name. And then they settled on the far better name, the Committee on Conspiracies. And the Committee on Conspiracies, as you saw in the book, is run eventually by John Jay, becomes eventually at the end of the war, the first Supreme Court justice. But what John Jay does, and is researching this plot, is he slowly, you know, they go in the middle of the night, they're pulling people out of their houses, they're interrogating them, they're shaking them down for information. What they're really doing is they're building America's first counterintelligence agency.

And you ask any historian today, you say, you know, what's the pre-executive? precursor to the CIA and people say, oh, the OSS. And that's the formal one. But the real precursor to it all is this moment in 1776 in the plot to kill Washington, because that's where it all starts. And they're using civilians, just like the CIA did it. They're using civilians, not always military people, gathering intelligence. Was this uncommon, though? I mean, weren't kings doing that forever? Yeah, but we weren't. You know, George Washington, when we started, he wanted a good offense, wanted a good military, and he knew we needed a good offense. But what he learned in this period of time right at the beginning. And this is 1775, 1776. At the start of it, we always think of

the end. We think of George Washington 2.0 as the war goes on. But in the beginning, this is where he realizes that, wait, I just don't need a great offense. I need a great defense. There are people coming at us. We need information to see what's coming that we're not going to see on a battlefield, that there's a whole other battle being fought. It's this moment that inspires his later building the culpring, his later expanding the committee on conspiracies. In fact, right now, in Langley, Virginia, at CIA headquarters. To this day, there was a room dedicated to John Jay, who they call the founding father of counterintelligence. It all starts here in this moment. And so I love, and you see these parts of things that I, and again, you and I have talked about

this offline and on air plenty of times, but there were so many parts I didn't know. George Washington had his own private bodyguards, which I never, I'm like, how did I not know this? And what he had done is he asked all of his top regiments, he said, give me your four best men, and he narrowed it down. He wanted what they called drilled men, and drilled men were the best of the best. They were actually even a certain height, a certain build, a certain moral character, the kind of person you really want on your side you can trust. George Washington personally narrows it down to about 50 people, and these become what they call the General's Guard. They call them the Commander's Guard, but the name that

sticks are the lifeguards, because one of their jobs is guarding George Washington. his life. It's also amazingly where we watch come from. That's where it comes from. Is that where we get life card? I don't know if that's the official term. I haven't trust me. I thought and I got to look it up. But that, I honestly do think it may be where the term comes from. But it comes from the lifeguards. They guarded his money. They guarded his papers and they guarded his life. These are the ones they went home with him. These were the original secret service. But these are the men who turn on him. For the men on the life guards, except bribes and want money and basically decide we're going to go to the

other side. You know, when you have Alexander Hamilton, you can, you kind of can see why he turns. You don't, you don't necessarily agree with him, but you can see, oh, man, what a stupid mistake that was. What a stupid mistake. Human error, right. Yeah, just a series of human errors where, where he turns. Yep. Um, uh, what is, is it Washington's error? No, it's not, you know, it's not a, it's not a, it's not a, it's not a, it's not a, it's not a, Benedict Arnold. I know he meant, though. I knew he meant, yeah.

Benedict Arnold, you know, has this, you see all the slights, and so, you know, it's ego and hubris and all the other things that go along with any great fall. With this one, it's not that at all. It's nothing personal. You know, and I think it's, you know, we in America, as you know, we take our heroes, we dip them in granite, we build statues of them, and we do them a disservice. Because they're not human anymore.

They become these lowercase G gods, which is horrible. and we're worshiping the wrong thing when we do that. And anyone you look up to, as you know, I've talked many times, whether it's George Washington or Rosa Parks or Dr. King, had a moment, any hero you've ever loved had a moment where they were scared and they were terrified. They didn't think they could go on. And they keep going forward. They choose to go forward.

And what happens in this moment, what we also do with the revolution, as you know, is we tell the story that we all gathered around democracy. We held hands. We marched forward as one and we beat the great. fighting force, the British that the world had ever seen at the time. And again, it's a great story. It's not the real story. It was so much more complex. We weren't, you know, we think we're divided now. We were so divided back then that there were nearly in New York City in 1776. There were nearly as many loyalists on the British side as there were on the Patriots side, on the American side.

And it was the same in our own military. Our own military, you had, you know, all these different regiments. So one of my favorite scenes in the book is you have the Massachusetts Regiment, is meeting the Virginia Regiment for the first time. It's in Harvard Yard. George Washington is there. And, you know, these guys from Massachusetts, they look at the uniform of the Virginians. They have some frilly thing on the uniform. You know, we don't even have one uniform that we're fighting. And some guys are showing up in work shirts. And some guys don't even have shoes. So they're not unified. A fight breaks out. And George Washington comes racing him and grabs two of them by the neck. And he's shaking him and basically saying, stop fighting with each other.

We're on the same team. And if ever there were a metaphor for where we are today, there it is. But to me, what you have back then is you have allegiance is always shifting. Because here's the one thing that happens is it's not a sure thing that we're going to win in those early days of the war. In those early battles, we're getting crushed. And in those moments, the one thing that's true them and is true now is no one wants to be on the losing team. And so you have the governor of New York at the time, a guy named William Tryon, who basically is maddie's lost his job as the British governor. He was appointed by the British.

He basically starts bribing people and seeing who can he turn. And when you have, as you know, when it looks like America's not going to do well, and you may not pull it out, and you got no gumpowder, you got no shoes, guess what? They go, you know what, I might take that money to switch. And the plot was exactly that. their big grand plan. When you read the first conspiracy is you'll see their, and we don't know every single detail because, of course, the plot was awarded, but their plan was they're going to blow up bridges, they were going to steal our cannons, and they were to come for Washington, and it was all going to happen just as the British arrived in New York. That end that moment, they were going to

give whatever the signal was going to be, and, you know, it sounds like something out of episode three of Star Wars, right? But they were literally going to turn and switch, and the people who were on, that we thought were on the Patriot side, were going to be revealed, traitors and kill everyone there. The name of the book is the first conspiracy, the secret plot to kill George Washington. Brad Meltzer is the author, and he's going to be doing a podcast with us as well, so you'll be able to hear the story and grab the book. It's available everywhere right now.

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I just thought that was spot on. Yeah. You know who else liked it? Clemson. Because it's delicious. That's why they liked it. I mean, that's the real way to do it. I really feel like he should just turn that into a thing.

Every time someone comes by, that's the food. They're going to have to figure out something again because I would think that by the time they had it all presented on the table, it might have been a little cold. And I like it. You're going to have to develop a system there? I like the fact that he said, you know, the first lady and the second lady, you know, could have made salads for you. But you wouldn't have really necessarily believed that. You know, like if if you were the president or if I were in, if I were the president, you know, we'd make spaghetti. People would believe, yeah, my wife made the spaghetti because that's what she does.

You know what I mean? You don't see Melania in the kitchen making sales. You know she can. But I like the fact that he said, yeah, she was going to do that. But then we decided, let's just go to McDonald's. Yeah. I just love that. I'd want to be clear that that is not what my wife does.

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There's so much food Why am I here? Why aren't I at McDonald's right now? That's the only thing Ever since we started talking about the story I am just my mouth is watering for fast food And I'm willing to taste test to see which one I like better. The president could announce it. It's research.

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