Hello, America got a lot going on. The moderates took the stage last night we couldn't find them. Did you yeah. Have you got researchers always broken? I kept seeing really hardcore of radicals right, but the moderates, the moderates. We go over the winners and losers of the democratic. What do you call it debate, But the debate we've over the winners and losers also We give you some. Some technological updates and why you shouldn't ever put your hands up in a selfie. While you should never make the peace sign, why you should never give someone the finger, and it has nothing to do with. Political correctness. Also nicked APOLLO is here. We talked a little bit about the NBA gotta, really email from somebody that really says. Why are we doing this? Why are you even fighting? It's a lost cause.

Bring back to Columbus and the pilgrims and answer that, let also whistleblower audio. That has never been heard before and Micro joins us, so don't miss a second of today's podcast we had an amazing interview last night with a whistle blower. So whistle blower on the other side, to blower that worked at the United. I'm sorry at the Uk M. Sorry, Indian Embassy in Washington DC and met the democratic operative Chalupa.

Is gave us some information last night that we had no idea. We recorded something. Last night you saw the first twenty minutes of it live on the tv show and the entire Ninety minute interview is going to be released this Saturday on a podcast, but this guy. Is a ukrainian. Who knows all of the players worked, for, can and then left, because he didn't like the priorities of shokan, so there's no love lost for can he has no reason to defend him? There's no there's! No there's there doesn't seem to be an agenda here with this guy other than he would like the United States. Out of the business of, rain. We're going to tell you all about that and show you some of the things that we learned just on last night's broadcast in in just a couple of seconds. First, I want to start with the quote: moderates taking back

and standing up to the extremists. Now they didn't call zero. With Warren. Or Bernie Sanders, an extremist didn't call either of them what they did say is that the moderates came out, and still I don't know about you, but I've been trying to find the moderate ones in the debate I am found them that's because there are none Glenn. They are only moderate in comparison to each other in approach

and in these he'd towards the same destiny speed you see this over and over and over again, for example, when it comes to, I thought, the most clear example: it was the wealth tax. Yes, what tax is not your typical, like all will not? We should make sure we restrict guns for crazy people. This is a a plan that most constitutional scholars say is unconstitutional. It was specifically debated by the founders. They specifically rule that out. So it's like, if you absolutely have to go against what they talked about during the founding it's been tested in the it's already and rejected they'd, have to just you know it would have to be an activist court. That would say it's a living document an now. It means something else to justify the policy at its very base, whether it would work or not. Is it different. What the wealth taxes in case you don't understand. It's. It's goes beyond it. Taxing people's you know, income, that's an income tax, this a wealth tax,

So let's say you have: let's say you have one hundred thousand dollars in the bank or one million dollars in the bank um You not only have one million dollars in the bank, but you also have some paintings you, in a house worth one million dollars. You've got some jewelry. So, let's say you're in the end: you're worth three million dollars fall into the wealth tax now not your income tax. That is counting of everything that you own you own, jewelry, you own, a house. This is why those homes in England, besides the fact that they were so huge you couldn't run them anymore. It took too many people to run but this is why people have gone broke in. In England, and I have lost all of those houses. One of the reasons is because you have to pay the property tax. The property taxes so high. Well, we

understand that when it comes to property for a home, but we don't take add into consideration when it comes to well how many cars do you have? Do you have any jewelry? Do you have any art? say how much money do you have in savings, that's property, and so the tax takes. It takes away two percent. Of whatever it is that you own two percent you have pay on the things that you've already bought you already have, and by the way you were already taxed on the money that you pay for it it would be. A double tax is attractively triple tax because you paid it when you earned it, then you paid the tax when you bought it. Now. Just to keep it, you have to pay a tax write and the reason why it's relatively popular in polling, particularly among Democrats, is it's just a punitive class Fair tactic: it's just saying: hey, like these people, really rich, they don't need it. You do so, you should take their stuff and look at you know. People don't feel bad for

It airs right, so you know- and I understand or sensible. However, there so many problems with it number one being it's not constitutionally possible number two. It also has been tried and give credit to Andrew Yang. Who is the only person who seemed to even have the knowledge that it's been, tried in multiple countries and it's been repealed by multiple european the socialist countries? They say they want to be like which you know. If you ask these socialist they will tell you they are not socialist, but the Bernie Sanders type of countries. Sweden and such have tried wealth taxes and repeal them because they don't work and they don't raise the amount of money that they thought they were going to rate right. So with that being set up. When you go, they went down the the gas Elizabeth Warren about her wealth tax and, of course, she said how it's not going to hurt anybody and it's going to raise enough money to give child care to every.

Old in America plus free at college, in for a man, she went through this litany of things that there's absolutely no way the we'll tax would pay for, and then they went around the the seven people we're up there. Now here's what was really interesting because they say the the moderates took a wrong. No, they didn't take her on now. What what they do, they, what they say and I wrote them down. They said things like I support it, but I endorse that idea, but that has to be part of the solution. But well, there's. Nobody was arguing this yeah, with the exception of Yang yeah, It was a notable exception here, but they will say. Sure that's a great thing we should do. However, we might not be able to get that done or we need to do my idea too, or renew my idea first or whatever it is, which wich all those other ideas were all raised. Taxes as well just on different things

realize that, like here's, a here's an and you know of any issue that is outwardly unconstitutional? And it's not just you know republican people saying that it is something that was specifically debated by the founders. There's different types of taxation is why we need the sixteenth amendment in the first place, to get the income tax, because that was specifically debated in prohibited by the founders and we needed to amend the constitution. Good job guys take to take a chunk of your income every week, with this is. If there is no amendment, they just want to do it, and if you want to do it, you have to change the constitution right and they're not, but they have no interest in actually rolling amendment passed. They know it won't pass and they think now, they've they've abandoned the idea. They need to change the constitution. Now it's just. We just do what we want to do, because we really want it. It's it. We don't really like millionaire. So we want to punish

We want to take money away from them and you could think that this is a good idea or bad idea, but either way it's not allowed under our system, no matter what you feel, if you feel really passionate that we gotta take, two if everybody every millionaires, Doug Savings every year, every year right, that's wonderful! However, you can't do it, so we can't even find someone who, even hey that look. The wealth tax is an interesting idea and we know we millionaires to have too much money. However, it's you know been shown in the courts to be unconstitutional. It's not something that we can get past, which you do these things. I don't think it we didn't get that it was all that, yes, that's great, but don't think we can. We can get right on politically. Well, here's the here's, the interesting thing to show you how extreme things are. This is the New York Times now. Remember we You were extremists of the tea party, because we were calling for a revolution. Remember that we were calling for a revolution we were and

My government people, because we wanted to change the government. Ok, that's how they you said everybody who was for the constitution just live with the institution and the bill of rights just enforce that. That was politically. Radical. That was uh revolution that, as dangerous. That was crazy. People thought here's the New York Times they said that, while Bernie Sanders on one side is calling for, and I'm quoting a political revolution. On the other side of Biden. Warren is calling for massive structural changes in our country. Oh ok, wow. Those are probably pretty big, eight

you're admitting now that this is a political revolution and they said Anne bye is stuck between the two of them and argument is look I'm the only one. That's gotten big things done. Ok, so he's the moderate and uh. To the times. His argument is: look you guys I can get it done? I'm the only one that can get it done, because I've gotten big things done before what year? king about Bernie is political revolution, and your Well, Elizabeth don't have enough info, in your, so called plans to be able to. Anything happen, you have to tell people the truth, and I And the guy who can tell the truth with Joe Biden I'm the guy who can tell the truth, because I've gotten things done like healthcare when we told anybody that there would be no increase of

their premiums and it would actually help them and save them all two thousand five hundred dollars, I'm the guy to tell them yeah. The argument really is I'm the guy who can lie convincingly, I'm the guy, who can say we're not really going for the thing at the end of the road really going for the thing halfway down road, even though we all know we're going for the end of the road eventually Did you see the real this? A spat between the two of them between with Joe Biden, where Joe Biden said, Basically, I'm the only one in fact Elizabeth I am the one who got people to vote for your cute little idea. I am the one who did it and she there was a big awkward silence. Yeah

a lot of accusations of sexism. In this moment, oh jeez, that's the big thing everyone ran to ought to be kidding, oh yeah, because he was talking down to a woman. He was, he was mansplaining how he you know he was able to accomplish this, and it was her little idea. Well, but it's true, she went on and she said I want to thank President Obama for helping rally the vote, for this basically leaving him out. He got very, very testy to me. He showed he showed the Hillary face last night. What are you doing? Don't you know that I'm the selected candidate, that's interesting? I mean look Biden did work the Senate I'll harden a lot of these big initiatives and dessert. Um credit, though, for that particular bill? I don't know how I've read reporting that he was not all that involved with that particular I took away from this is he is. He is

while she's getting the rap on stage. As a you know, Elizabeth plans are the only ones that work. My plan is the only land that works. I've got a plan for everything. Ok, his his a message to me. At least I felt was, don't you understand it's my turn. Don't you understand, I'm the only one that can win with you guys you have to have me. That's amazing, because you have to be. I mean, if you're being honest with yourself and your Democrat Democrat in thinking to yourself. We need to get Donald Trump out of office when you one of these people to beat them. No wonder they're so passionate about impeachment. I mean this is not a field in true but biting could barely get through a sentence, and he has that he he has. He is a real real problems. Warren, though, is sold tailor made for Donald Trump. It's incredible. She is still

did she stiff, she's, robotic Hillary's repetitive? She has a deer in headlights, look every single time, she's pushed Donald Trump is going to do to her on a debate stage. It's going to be devastating, have to tell you a job I'd and is going to be just his clock will be cleaned by Trump if he was the candidate Bernie Sanders, Clean, his clock, Elizabeth Warren, cleaner Clock I just don't see anyone in the top three. They could actually was stand. Donald Trump, the I think Bernie can. But his ideas are so radical that if he would go right, he would admit them right. Yeah and that's the problem with Bernie Bernie can roll in those in those circumstances by and also was a fighter, and I think it has shown himself in in particular one on one debate moments. He had.

Had moments have to tell you last night, and he just couldn't string sends it when he talked about Syria or the tax thing below. It was not because it is gonna repeal the the the tax and then you in a double it, and then he came over three ideas in one sentence: let's go to but blasted, but unless I miss, I think those two are in a different league than Warren Warren is: is the type of candidate that Donald Trump unknown? If Donald Trump can't be list before he can be, no one field, no one. If he can't be Elizabeth Warren and they're gonna run her out there as the kid did it and give him the absolute best chance possible to win this election. Well, it's amazing they. They took her on low night it's going to be a fight now for Elizabeth Warren. They were not fighting Joe Biden, I think now they all they all wanted his supporters to come over to them, and so they left him alone, 'cause he's just sinking in the polls. It is Warren now who's under attack. The best of the Glenn Beck program

hey it's and and you're listening to the Glenn Beck program. If you like what you're hearing on this show make sure you check out pat great on lease it's available, where ever you download your favorite podcasts all right. We wanted to check in with Nick APOLLO today in I really wanted to get his view on China the NBA and Lebron James I mean it just seems just seems ripe for him to pick that under the tree. Welcome to the program, Mister Nick Depalo you can find him at Nick DIP, dot com, Hynek Nick, I do I we don't have any audio from Nick. I don't know why are you there Nick most, not hearing you, it appears hearing me ok. This is why you test these things before and they worked

or then you get in there and they don't like when you go to the doctor, you know, except it's in reverse yeah. You know everybody is seeing it not work. We went to the doctor and it's like it's fine. It's fine now know how would you get your car fixed and you bring it in your life. This is rattle ling when I take a left hand turn and then they go drive around with you and just look at you like you're insane. I just did this with my just did with. My wife. The other day I was like my car is making the sound what what sound is this and it was making it the whole time, while I'm saying if we were to use like what's on, I said, listen and then nothing anyway, Nick Nick APOLLO. How are you, sir tremendous gland? You look like a professor at Berkeley Teaching women's studies, I don't know what I don't know that hurdle that one I'm sweating just looking at your wrist, really what you look like you're in some, I don't even know honeymooners so welcome to the program. Let's talk about the NBA and the increase

edible statement from Lebron James first. Well, I didn't know: basketball is so big in China. It makes no sense, I looked it up. The average chinese person is five foot two They should be selling foot ladders in human growth hormones to these people that not not shoes right. These guys couldn't dock of the game. A cup of coffee in a crolla, the NBA Glen, to put it mildly, is Nikes Bich. Let's put it that way, but the middle class in China is four hundred million people, that's eight hundred million feet and they sold one hundred and fifty million pair of sneakers in China, and the odd thing not one of them was oversized three. So you know we think we are. We've been looking at the numbers and when you look at Numbers is a business person. If you just care, money. You're like are you kidding me that I we could just

business in China and we will be much better off than we are doing business in the to the world, but then there's that kind of thing, yeah, but they are killing people for their organs. Then we do that over here. No, I thought that's what I was told by Elizabeth Warren and the debates and everything left yet looked. Nike Nike should come up with a shoe next week called the Lebron an only charge, people fifty percent, because it will come without a soul. Lebron Lebron James knows about as much about China as the guy that makes the Kung PAO chicken at lean cuisine and now we're going to power forwards in the NBA for GEO Political NEWS and what next six year old girls on climate change come out? What is going on? So what do you think? What? So? What should the n b a do? Should these companies I mean, I just read a story that Google is

now doing a Manhattan project for AI with China, and you know I'm not comfortable with that. I don't think anybody who about maybe a lot of the people at Google are comfortable with that, but you would think that you would look at China go That's really bad. I think, as you just said, sold our soul to the devil for cash. It's everything that the the

says they hate and the right really does hate but nobody's doing anything. Well, you know, Nike is evil. First of all, somebody tell a brand that you know the ten year old girl chained to a loan for eighteen hours a day without a p brane making its makers- and you know, he's going to hang herself with his license. If you're, not if you're that hard up it- and maybe it's all about money, move the NBA to China, don't do me a favor, I hate the NBA. I I it's the only pro sport I don't follow. I can't follow a a pro sport where what player on what team is a term by who's hanging out with the with the Strip Club in Atlanta on Friday night? I can't stand it.

So: yeah move the whole league to try to do me a favor and in this is all because of me, Yao Ming, on main yell I came aboard. I have nine something like that. Let me let me see switch to Portland. It has become a leader now to show the rest of the world what we need to do with our bathrooms. I would well first of all put that is a bathroom I wouldn't do because they keep asking you to accommodate. Why would I go there that they're removing gland they're, removing urinals in men's rooms- and you know the reason is because women can't use them. This is the textbook definition of emasculation making guys sit down to pee, literally okay. If that's true, that's why we're moving Jarls, because women can't use them. I don't want to see anymore tampon. Just

answers. The ladies rooms, I can't use, does it it's been twenty five years since I got punched in the nose in a in a bar fight right, what I mean and and while you're at it, get rid of the breast feeding rooms. Okay, the closest I ever came to lactating was when I was trying to drink milk watching a Benny Hill re write, yeah, get rid of those in and and and the kind of condom dispensers. I'm guessing condom dispatch is going to be gone. What it, what a single guy most useful for protection, Lifelock Man, Cologne, Saran Wrap. I mean this is ridiculous, all because they can't and by the way women can pee standing up. If you know anything about the steel does yeah! We have a by the way we have a whistleblower of. Regarding that coming up in just a few minutes, you really yeah. We of. We have a guy from the Ukraine who was tasked by the Ukrainian Embassy to help the

n C dig up. Information on Russia and Trump so every day, they say: they said that was was happening with Donald Trump. They were actually doing. We have this guy. I talked to him yesterday for about minutes, maybe two hours and he has some amazing things to say we have that coming up in and we're not just a few minutes when you said was a blight that was still on the urinal thing. I know you and your contact to the men's room attendant? No, I don't let me did you watch the debate last night at all? I did I. This is how you know, I'm not a serious show. I kept flipping back between that and the Yankees and Astros

and but let me say this, I think Anderson Cooper may have been doing that he is so handsome is any. I would love to see him in a speedo guy is delicious, please God the debates, the debates, the democratic debate should come with a trigger warning. You know watching this could induce vomiting. I I can't the last time I saw that many loses on one stage was the Nuremberg trials and yeah Liz Warren took a pounding last night. She she It hit so bad she's, changing indian name, two wounded doc. Sure I would say no what a woman to get roughed up like that last time we want to get roughed up like that Clinton was leaving a motel six in the morning with Kathleen Willey. You are eat you? You watch that last night and you saw well. I mean that, generally speaking, if you watched any of that last night you saw Elizabeth Warren get mad. You saw an and kind of act like Hillary Clinton you saw

I didn't get mad and act like Hillary Clinton, and meanwhile Hillary Clinton is on the sideline saying you know if this goes. Done with Joe Biden. Maybe I should get back in it who does get the message. We don't want. Hillary Clinton uh, I think an I'm dead serious, but I've been saying none of those people are going to be the nominee. I really think Bloomberg is going to get in there, but I mean Joe Biden. He still one of the front runners. He did you see him. Last night he had the energy of a chemo patient. He was, he was talking about Wall Street Wall Street is clipping coupons. I I watched the Movie Wall Street ten time not once did Gordon Gekko take a pair of scissors to the penny, Saver Department, zero dollars and fifty cents in a roll, a shaman. What the hell is he talking about and then Bernie Sanders. I thought I had a miserable personality. Somebody introduced this guy to a brand muffin

he is the most unlikable he I gotta give him credit. Last week he was in the hospital having a matzo ball removed from his aorta ran. His lt is still fighting so will give him some credit, I was surprised, was surprised at how well he did last night after having a heart attack It's clear sign that nobody in his life loves him no seriously, because anyone in my life, if I were running for president and and uh. I had a heart attack. Everybody in my life would go you're not going to the debate and I'd say: I'd have to you're not going to the debate. Nobody, everybody in his family's, like yeah dad. You should go to the debate.

We don't want yeah. We don't want on thanksgiving his wife like pushing him out the door yeah right. He said there should be no such things as billionaire's too. That was the other thing that really p, b, r o yet billion. As of done such damage to this world, either Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Branson, SAM Walton, he's just a look he's a hippie he's a guy to get off his parents culturally sixty five, and he he just I it's really all based in and beat, is kind of disgusting to me. So. Where do you think this? Where do you think this ends? You think Bloomberg is, I don't think Bloomberg bloom is now saying that he wants to get in again. He might he might step back in it's just. Nobody wants Bloomberg, I don't know if, if Biden falls in as he gets older king said of biting falters, well, how much more can be for?

all three leading them is, I know his his teeth are falling out when he speaks. I mean it out Bloomberg us to get in there because they might start selling. You know fourty ounce cokes again right the theater, but he's a nannies kind of AIDS which she need any, but he's very smart and he took over did alright with New York. I was over there when he was mayor, but again Giuliani did most of the muscle work there, but you know I I don't particularly like them, but I can see him having appeal after what they're trying to do and what they've done the trump for the last eat. They kept saying how on concert and what he's the most lawless president ever didn't: Obama put a hundred sixty billion on a wooden crate and send it to take and yes, it no bomb a created, deep state and spy on Tropical who's running for, but in this guy's the most lawless. What are they talking about? Yeah? It's, it's crazy! When I, when I hear I about, have an aneurysm every time I them say that, because the press just die, wasn't looking, I mean there are already excusing Joe Biden, the quest,

in on Joe Biden's. Son last night was phrased. You know this is been come pull lately debunked. But what do you have to say about it? Did you see how we pivoted on that? He pivoted like a second basemen, turning a double play. It was beautiful. He's like we did me and my son did nothing wrong, but let's stay on Trump he's the real as good as he can do forty years in Washington, right and nice and nobody nobody jumped on him. They all all like we just we'd, say something, but He wanted his supporters to be our supporter, so we're gonna keep our mouth shut and just let him just melt down no you're exactly right. That watching of a debate on CNN, the just tossing softballs, yeah and and is no follow ups, and it's not just the tone compared to when it all and people make fun of Fox news. But when they do a debate they actually dig a little deeper, but you know

it shouldn't surprise us at after what we found out about seeing and this week I mean so. I assume that you're talking about project vera toss and when you said what we found out about CNN tell me tell me your view on this well first, what James O'Keefe is doing God's work. This guy is the greatest journalists ever but but you know, do we really have to send somebody undercover to see an end to find out they for Anti Trump would do it going to do. What are we going to do next? Infiltrate the WWE to find over wrestling is fake right right, you don't you don't have to you. Don't have to do a sting operation to find out if CNN is Krooked, just go to any delta terminal, an any airport in the country and watch people throwing their egg mcmuffins at the tv monitor. I mean it's really that easy. That's one of my biggest fears going by the way because I fly alot that I'm going to die in a plane crash in the last the last voice,

here is Wolf Blitzer, my head was city, see the face of cheating them all set. That's my like the Genie most is been on tv for ever and most People will have no idea who she is until you see here and there like oh yeah, her she does those real hard hitting. He says all right is using frozen MAC and cheese, something like that so, but how? How do we not know seen as corrupt? You know who? The voices CNN is for the last thirty years, STAR, Garth Vader Heath Slater. I don't trust a you, never trust, a news organization whose STAR Anchorman his name Wolf but he's german integrated propaganda, Wolf, Blitzer Israeli is soccer's garbled, Joseph Goebbels and and he's he's he's as crooked as a a rattle snake with scoliosis, and but he can't he keeps failing upward this guy. How many trash CNN Nbc that he goes

see and and and their ratings you know lower than a sees iq, but probably got a step in a run for president, the speaking of a see. Did you see that all of all the the squad's coming out to stand behind, Ringo Ringo's ring is not coming, which ones Rango Presley is the Ringo she's, the one that no one knows and so she's the Ringo like I'm in the squad tune? Your like, I don't even know who you are you'll, be crying racism about that she's. The one who's actually wants to decriminalize shoplifting in Boston, she's, quite a piece of work. You know these people make me but how do you really feel? so they are all getting together today, they're making a big announcement

that they are all going to be supporting Bernie Sanders? So it's no surprise but well, it is when you think about it would be a communist of supporting a socialist. So that's a section: are they really all these women of color going to support the the ninety up? I was looking at bite and and and he's right next to Bernie Sanders during the debate, the They look like a couple of statues that, like the Antifa kids want to pull down, you know there. You know what they are, the two muppets up in the balcony. Yes, two angry muppets. I hate all of this. You know we can improve the standard turn this term yeah yeah they are that's exactly who they are. At least the Muppets were funny these people, the most you millers I have ever well ask you this. Did you see what Buddha Judge said about uh? What's his name Dave Chappelle,

let me let you want committee wants to date. Him no lily play this. Listen to this part of Dave's, I'll stick in the last couple of comedy specials he did was deliberately making fun of transgender people. But I just can't stop so should that just be turned off, should he not have a Netflix deal like so I didn't. I haven't seen this special. I will say that there comes a point where you just straight up hurting people, and I don't know what goal hoping to achieve as much as there's been a lot of political correctness, especially this weird way in which it's become fashionable to attack political correctness that I think has become its own weird correctness out there Nick. That's you he's talking about you, he's that he's talking about anybody with a sense of humor he's an idiot. First of all, he standing on six phone books during that interview, it's fashionable to go after people who were trying to silence us. Yes, this is the United States is something called the

amendment? I can't believe this guy was in the military. I I I really can't probably just wanted to take showers with fellas. Okay, all the latent heat dots, a joke relaxed when people of open minded, but I I can't he's more radical little bomb. He hides it with his little boys, regular hair cut and it's three dollar clip on tie, but he you know. What, though, can I just say this, I think, is the most intelligent one of the people there on stage. I guess I I can't stand what he stands for, but I am, but I actually for he is the most intelligent one up there. He could be the guy who rockets to the top. If everybody else Bloomberg is sticking with Bloomberg. Blank can I plug get drunk yeah quickly, yeah yeah November, eighth and Ninth Kansas City Comedy Club November, twenty second, the historic Rich there in Brunswick, Georgia and November twenty third, the theater in Tifton Georgia and I loved it land turtle neck. And I do not

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Howard how's life going life is good. You know it's a it's a bit like falling down the stairs, making all kinds of progress taken, some bumps and bruises on the way. But overall I'd, be a fool to complain: yeah how's, your mom she's great, thank you. She just finished her second book she's, now officially insufferable getting an agent, you know all of it. It's all easy micro in our New York Place Studios. Yet this book is actually living in many ways: the life I would love to live MIKE and that is paying homage to Paul Harvey, who is a hero of mine,

and I understand he was a hero of yours, the books dedicated to him. It would have happened without him, and I know we've talked about this before, but you know I was. I was trying to figure out the right intro for the book and I was thinking about a true story that happened to me back in the eighties, where I I I was late for a flight and I've driven to be W. I airport, and I knew I could make it to the gate. You know this is before TSA went crazy in and nine eleven everything else. I had about thirty five minutes, but I couldn't get out of the car, because I was stuck to my seat and I was stuck to my seat because Paul Harvey was in the middle of the rest of the story, and I truly I had to sit there until I heard the magic words you know and now you know the rest of the story. So the the way I heard it is is the same basic format. It started as a as an attempt

to compress time on planes, so I by rote most of these on planes and in diners here and there, and and that's that's, how it started. It was a hobby that got a little out of hand and and now it's a book, so who does your research? You know Paul Harvey. Most people don't know this, but he would come in in Chicago he would come in in the dark he had to about twenty minutes of broadcast twenty five minutes a broadcast a day, but, could come in early in the morning in the dark and he wouldn't leave until at least six o'clock at night, everyday, of his life it struggled for yeah struggled for every word that he pounded out himself on the typewriter. No it's extraordinary, but but it was the suit and tie part that

me guys not radio, and he he dressed like a news anchor right and he took you know he took his opinion and commentary really really seriously and and that kind of storytelling combined with that kind of a voice. Look, I could never hope to fill the shoes, but following in his footsteps, has really been an honor and yes, this podcast has has found an audience and I'm you know I'm tickled to death by that, and you know I don't. I don't think I told you this before, but not long after the podcast started. I got a letter from his son Paul Harvey Junior. Who who wrote a lot of the rest of the story, and I have thought of no, you know he's listened to it. There's going to be his season to the s here is going to be at a junction. He wrote, and he told me that his father was no doubt looking down and giving two enthusiastic thumbs

and he included a really generous check to my foundation and as Let's go Glen that you know. I know you've been paid, similar compliments, but that's that's about as high as the cotton gets yeah uh. I'm, I'm never going to be in the radio Hall of Fame because of Paul Harvey I was hosting the national broadcast for the induction ceremony for Radio Hall of Fame. I've never told the story on the air stews. Looking at, like the don't tell the story, I don't care anymore, don't do it but I was, I was asked to do the broadcast the induction ceremony. It's a missional nationwide broadcast, and and so I agreed to it, and the guy the from the music, came up to me with four minutes to go, and he and we're running early you need to fill for. Like three minutes,

I see so, can you do it and I said yeah and then they went five hundred and forty three and I doubt night had to fill for three minutes. In the time that he said. Do you can you fill and me saying yeah? I remember that Paul Harvey was in the front row and boy, man, I said. Let me just say this on a personal note: it's a dream come true. I'm standing here on stage in Chicago in front of Mister, Paul Harvey and Sir. It is you that introduced me to the magic of radio. Who's. You when I was eight years old, I heard your voice say Chicago O'Hare two hundred and eighty eight dead and I said could smell the smoke of the plane. I could hear the sirens, and it's that that convinced me that the Power of storytelling in radio is, unlike any other from Chicago Goodnight K.

I did I walk off stage and the guy comes up to me. He says you, son of a bich, and I said what, You will never be in the hall of Fame. Never for what you just did, and I said what did I do? he said you knew sitting at the table is the head guy. Who was the ceo of Eastern Airlines on that crash? I said how How would I even know that this guy high, who was the ceo of that ad? That wound opened up, I did do is a Phil and say something nice about Paul Harvey. So thanks, Paul wow that yeah, that that is a terrific, Sorry. By way of comparison, I can only offer this as I sat in the long term parking at B dubs

Ui in one thousand nine hundred and eighty five listening to Paul Harvey, I finally got to hear the magic words and the rest of the story ran to the gate, an missed my flight by ninety seconds was it Eastern airlines? What is wrong with you? No it wasn't. It was in fact united. And the plane was still there Glenn. I could see it, but they had closed the gate and it was one of the first arguments I ever had in public that I felt like I needed to apologize for because I kind of lost it. They literally pointed to the plane, to said no, it's gone and I and I put in the place to be, but I see it and no it's it's all. It's gone yeah so that the books

me that ten tell me your favorite story in the book. Well, it started as a collection of fifty of these Harvey ask tales. But what happened? Was we cut it down to thirty five? Because my mother, having read it's look! These are all terrific Michael, but you know it's a very lazy way to write a book just putting stories together that you've already read on your podcast, and I said well, thanks mother. What do you suggest she said well, how about a little connective tissue in between these? These biographies I started trying to answer the question. Why did I write about whoever it was? I just wrote about, and I try to make that answer somehow rhyme with an event from my own misspent youth and what what came out was kind of an accidental memoir. So the book itself goes back and forth between autobiography and biography, mystery and memoir. So you get

rest of the story, kind of thing tempered with my own, take on why it is, I think I might have written about a famous person who I've never met. Mike. How is your life changed since you? You left a regular tv show. I mean you had lots of money in the bank and you didn't even I think you owned a toothbrush, but really nothing else. You were always traveling. Have you set down what is what is your life like now? Well, I still have access to literally hundreds of dollars. Glenn- and I will travel. I was on the road last year about two hundred and twenty days. The Micro works foundation happily has explode, were eleven years old. Now we've given over

One million dollars in work ethic scholarships to kids who are willing to learn a skill in master trade as legacies go from dirty jobs, I'm awfully proud of that yeah. There's a show on Facebook called returning the favor. That's a straight up. Unapologetic celebration of bloody do gooder ism. That now has four hundred million views proud of that uh some bud got to do it, which follow dirty. Jobs, found a home for a couple of years, inexplicably on CNN and then against. What I'm sure you'll agree are impossible. Broadcast odds wound up becoming the number one show on the Trinity Broadcasting network has made so that that's that it's simply not possible, and now this podcast has a hundred and twenty million downloads, and it's become a book that I'm to old is going to do well and so look, I'm I'm embarrassingly fortunate and still busy still brushing my teeth.

Still earning more than I spend definitely got good. Alright sounds great MIKE great talking to you. Thank you. So hey and I haven't ruined my career yet in the National Broadcasting Hall of Fame. So, there's still time for that too. Okay right now, because you're an inspiration, because you are an inspiration, inspiration, ok MIKE thank you, so much Micro League thanks a lot about the name of the book is the way I heard it by MIKE Rowe it's available everywhere. Today, the blaze radio network on demand