This is a stage show or watching. What do they want in the end? I don't know, but they'll use every tool at their disposal to get it. Right. Good afternoon Michael Malice here. Let that be your welcome for the next 45 minutes.

We have with us a really special guest.

Glenn Beck, a man who needs an introduction.

Glenn, we have a lot to talk about your new book.

Politics is in a state of fluxed in the way that I like it.

But before we get started, my understanding

is I read something that you're being downright presidential.

You had some health issues?

Well, don't you see I have a tag on my ear?

No, I don't know where you heard that, but I have, I had kidney stones removed last week,

and so I'm about an hour and a half away from getting the

stent removed which is causing me all kinds of pain and we'll just take it from

there it's just it's nothing big deal, no big deal.

But not big deal, kidney stone, this is on your Instagram,

I believe, by the way, this isn't like office.

Yeah, okay.

But kidney stones from my understanding is like,

some of the, I had a friend who was a mom and she goes I'd give

birth any day of the week again instead of having a deal with a kidney pain.

You know I was I was in the I was in the hospital last week you know in in the emergency room coming in and I mean it's the only kind of pain that can make you vomit really quickly and it's it's I had two nurses say I would give

birth so fast this this is the worst and it really is a it's pain like you don't understand and you feel your kidneys for the first time unless you're punched in your kidneys you don't really even feel them, but when you have kidney stones my gosh do you understand the role of the kidneys and the crippling role it could play?

Would you have any advice for people because the thing is when people have to deal with a crisis,

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