BLOGMay 30, 2017

John Kasich: Total Dork or Hip Hop Gangsta?

Yo, John Kasich is down with the kids. He's OG fly, aight? (Translation: He is an original gangster, old school-style cool, okay?) He's been friends with Bono for a long time, okay? And he knows about EVERYBODY dope on the music scene --- Lil Wayne, Kanye, Nicki Minagi, Ariana Grande. At least, that's the vibe the governor of Ohio tried to pull off on a recent stint as guest host on The View.

While interviewing the very humble (insert sarcasm) rap artist 2 Chainz, Kasich tried to connect by namedropping in what can only be called an awkward exchange.

WATCH: John Kasich Meets 2 Chainz, Acts Like a Dork

Doc Thompson, who filled in for Glenn Tuesday on The Glenn Beck Program, commiserated with his fellow Ohioans.

"Once again, people from Ohio this morning were, like, John, come on. Just stop trying to seem relevant. The only thing he didn't do there was remind you that his dad was a postal worker: 'And, by the way, when my dad was on his route, he listened to Nicki Minaj,'" Doc joked.

He ended the segment with a brilliant suggestion: Kasich Kanye 2020.

Enjoy this complimentary clip or read the transcript for details.

DOC: Doc Thompson in for Glenn Beck today. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm here with Brad Staggs on The Blaze. And Brandon Morse. We're still looking at the #KidsTerrorismBooks. Get those in. Did you see John Kasich on the view? As a born and bred buckeye.

BRANDON: Uh-huh.

DOC: I am disgraced by John Kasich. He is such a disappointment that my homeland is represented by this. But he was from Pennsylvania. That one's on you, PA. What a goof.

BRANDON: Your state's fading back into the bushes like Homer Simpson.

DOC: The only people who aren't allowed to make fun of John Kasich is New Jersey because you have Chris Christie. And you can't blame them on PA, can you? Horrible. So he's on the view with 2 Chainz.

BRANDON: Oh, 2 Chainz.

DOC: You know who 2 Chainz is, right?

BRAD: Tupac's brother.

[Laughter]

DOC: You know who 2 Chainz is, right?

BRANDON: Yes. He's a rapper.

DOC: Yes, of course.

BRANDON: He does the rap songs.

DOC: You're telling me. I celebrate his entire catalog.

BRANDON: You know that song that's really good. Hang on. It's.

DOC: Rolling in my hoopidy.

BRAD: Did he do that one too?

BRANDON: Who can forget the classic? No lie explicit featuring Drake?

DOC: I remember poll cat and the chicken house, and I think he covered wonder wall, didn't he? Really, really solid stuff. So John Kasich is on the view as a guest with 2 Chainz.

BRANDON: Nice.

BRAD: Unlikely combination.

BRANDON: Yeah, this is a sitcom waiting to happen.

DOC: So somebody at The View said here's our plan for today. Some producer said let's get John Kasich and 2 Chainz.

BRANDON: And a priest all walk into a bar.

DOC: We're going to play some of it. First, 2 Chainz is talking about helping out people in poverty impoverish people, he never saw anybody helping people in his community and John Kasich jumps in.

CHAINZ: I think it's at a point where I'm selling all of this merch, I'm doing tours around the world, I'm being very successful. So, for me, it's a point where I show god that I appreciate.

[Applause]

KASICH: Wow. You know, 2 Chainz, I've been friends with Bono for a long time, and he uses his platform to do many great things around the world, so it's great to hear you do it as a rapper. Let's talk about music for a second. You work with Lil Wayne, you work with Kanye. My daughters and I really used to listen to Kanye. You work with Nicki Minaj, who seems to be working with everybody, including Ariana Grande. So, first of all, how do you pick who want to collaborate with and secondly, is it hard to get some of these folks. I mean to get Nicki Minaj, is it hard to get them to do this with you?

CHAINZ: We've been friends for probably a decade now.

DOC: Okay. Hold it right there. Hold it right there. Number one, you know, Bono.

BRAD: We go way back.

BRANDON: This is one of this classic. Hello, fellow kids. Hi, there.

BRAD: How are you all today.

BRANDON: Are we doing the trip hop today? Are we trip hopping?

DOC: The music, I'm down with it. The new dance steps and all.

BRANDON: I'm a cool kid too.

DOC: Okay.

BRAD: I like to sit around and listen to Kanye with my daughters.

[Laughter]

DOC: Trust me, if his daughters were saying let's listen to the music, dad, you've done something wrong there, just like in Ohio. Seriously. That's not normal. It's not natural if your kids are saying dad --

BRANDON: That was representative of his entire 2016 campaign too right there. That same feeling just washed over me. I remember that now. I remember it now.

DOC: It's an embarrassment for him.

BRANDON: Like, sit down, sit down, sit down. Awe.

DOC: Once again, people from Ohio this morning were, like, John, come on. Just stop trying to seem relevant. The only thing he didn't do there was remind you that his dad was a postal worker. And, by the way, when my dad was on his route, he listened to Nicki Minaj. He knew one day she would be big.

[Laughter]

Just hearing him say 2 Chainz. In fact, let's listen to this again. When he starts name dropping. Well, 2 Chainz.

CHAINZ: I'm selling merch, I'm doing tours around the world, I'm being really cancel of. So, for me, I feel I have to show God that I appreciate.

[Applause]

KASICH: Wow. You know, 2 Chainz, I've been friends with Bono for a long time, and he uses his platform to do many great things around the world, so it's great to hear you do it as a rapper. Let's talk about music for just a second. You work with Lil Wayne, you work with Kanye. My daughters and I really used to love to listen Kanye. You work with Nicki Minaj, who seems to be working with everybody, including Ariana Grande.

DOC: Okay. Okay. Yes, how about that Lil Wayne?

BRAD: Surprised he didn't bring up 2 Chainz former name. And give him the benefit of the doubt and say Tity boi. Tity boi.

DOC: Here's the question. And John Kasich, you're welcome to call in. (888) 727-Beck. I'll have you on.

BRANDON: Defend yourself, please, sir.

DOC: You're welcome on this or my morning radio program on The Blaze radio network. Please, were you the one who said, hey, girls, I've got something I would like you to hear. Let me put this on the ol' high fidelity for you there. I've got the quadriphonic sound.

BRANDON: Mr. West.

DOC: His name is Kanye. Or were they, like, hey, dad, check this out. And you're, like, wow, it has a snappy beat, and I can dance to it. Which way was it? Who unveiled Kanye to the other?

BRANDON: Because he had to do a little research before this.

DOC: Oh, yeah. You can see he was so trying to go there.

BRANDON: He was like the Kanye. This isn't stuff he talks about.

DOC: His people were, like, governor, 2 Chainz is going to be on with you. Who?

BRANDON: Both of them?

DOC: Are they twins. Don't worry. We've done some prep work for you. Because you have a briefer. Just say Lil Wayne. I'm sorry. Say little Wayne and Kanye. Just get Kanye down.

BRANDON: As soon as you say Kanye, you're solid.

DOC: You're good.

BRANDON: If he does listen to it with his fathers, that's a horrible father. We just heard a clip of 2 Chainz music earlier, and it was pretty X-rated.

BRAD: Yeah.

BRANDON: It's a little X-rated.

DOC: Yeah, he's dropping the N word and everything else, it's typical rap music. But that's not the issue. He's just sucking up to the celebrity on the show. So they have the two of them on, and starts asking 2 Chainz questions. He's interviewing him. So how does that how do they collaborate?

BRANDON: His writing partners.

DOC: Which is, like, standard question that somebody would ask if they really aren't interested. Like, somebody wrote that question for you.

BRANDON: Right.

DOC: He was not engaging in some sort of debate on Socialist views or even music. It's not, like, oh, I love that one song. It's a who do you collaborate with and how do you choose them; right?

BRANDON: I would have had so much respect for Kasich if he actually come in --

DOC: I don't know who the hell you are.

BRANDON: I don't know who you are or what you do. Can you tell me a little bit about yourself?

DOC: Right. That's what you do. So was he a member of the cast of the view that day?

BRANDON: I'm guessing he was if he was one of the --

DOC: They normally have one guest on.

BRANDON: Right.

DOC: So the view said, who is clearly progressive, said let's go get somebody progressive to fill in, and they went and got a male.

BRANDON: Uh-huh.

DOC: John Kasich's a male; right? He hasn't started identifying differently?

BRANDON: Yeah, I don't know what he identifies as. But from what I can understand right now --

DOC: They went and got a male who shares their views.

BRANDON: Right. Who might have something in common.

DOC: He was a Republican running for president; right? I think that sums it up right there.

BRAD: Yep.

BRANDON: But let's face facts, guys. This is good TV. This awkwardness is good TV.

DOC: Oh, it's wonderful. It's gold, trust me. The more John Kasich can be on camera, not in office, we want him on camera, the better. In fact, I hope John Kasich runs for president over and over. Not be president. Clarification. Don't want him to be president. We just want him to run for president.

BRANDON: We can make a show out of it. We can put yakety sax on whenever he starts talking about it. Dancers behind him.

DOC: This shows John Kasich's level of failure, though. They were talking about giving back to communities and helping out.

BRANDON: Like Bono.

DOC: Like Bono does and whatever. John Kasich still has that big government handout mentality. That's who he is. When he ran for president, he said over and over again how he cut taxes and all of this stuff. He did not. He cut some taxes and raised others. You don't ballet budget when you have deficits by not bringing in more money. It's impossible. It doesn't happen. And you bring in more money in government by taxes. It was a shell game. Look, we lowered taxes overhear. We raised a bunch of taxes over here. John Kasich is likely going to run again. He's probably going to do it. So the more we get that information out before next time is good. But John Kasich still as a Republican has that big government mentality, the hand out mentality. What we need to start doing is telling the world, even the progressives out there, yes, it is our responsibility to take care among us. Us as individuals. Not the government.

BRANDON: Right. Exactly.

DOC: Because the government fails as they do it, as evident the last 240 years. Do we have more or fewer people on poverty even by percentage?

BRANDON: The war on poverty only increased poverty.

DOC: Only increased it. Not effective. And finally, we're called upon as Christians to do it or other people of faith to do it ourselves, and it's better because you're able to monitor. If I give the money to the government, and they redistribute it to people around the globe or around the country, I don't know if somebody in Texas right now if the guy in Seattle is using it properly, if he really needed it. But if I lend money to my buddy Brandon, acquaintance Brandon, it's, like, hey, Brandon, you said you needed to pay rent, but you're hanging out at the Indian casino, and I noticed you bought new clothes and doing drugs and drinking. Maybe you should have put that toward your rent. And there's ways you wasted it as well.

There's ways that are more effective and that's something John Kasich and the view and 2 Chainz don't get.

BRAD: I think Duane Johnson, Tom Hanks is going to beat him.

BRANDON: Is Tom Hanks running now?

DOC: It's going to be Kanye and Kasich.

BRANDON: Trump opened the door. I can see it coming.

DOC: It is. It's west Kasich 2020.

BRANDON: West Kasich. Oh, my god.

DOC: Doc Thompson in for Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck Program.

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GLENN: There's a difference between a revival and an awakening. We are in a revival right now, but that doesn't necessarily lead to anything. Except, oh, I have to re-learn those principles. But that doesn't mean you apply them in your life. Okay?

That's an awakening. There's been two great awakenings in American history. One brought us the American Revolution. The second one brought us the Civil War and the freedom of slaves.

We have the possibility of going into a third great awakening. That's the only thing that will save us. If you don't know the difference between a revival and an awakening. Let me give you the negative print of a godly awakening. Our kids right now, they don't have any purpose. They don't have any meaning.

They look at everything, and it doesn't -- it's not real. None of it is real. It's money. It's fame.

It's -- you know, it's ever changing truths and definitions. And they have no purpose in their life. Okay?

So they're looking for that. Because man has to have purpose in his life. Man has to search for meaning.

So they're searching for meaning. And they found a group of people that actually mean something. And they're willing to die for it. And it's ISIS.

And so they're like, at least these people believe in something. They believe it. And they're willing to die for it. I'm going to stand with them. And they put that twisted understanding into action. That's the -- that is -- that's an awakening. It's just an awakening to the dark side. And that one is already happening. It has to happen on the good side. And let me speak directly to young men: Look, you are inheriting a very loud, angry, cynical and worst of all spiritually starving and malnourished society. And you are being sold a future of cheap pleasures and hollow heroes and screens with blue light that just rob you of your strength, one distracted second after another.

And in the middle of all that noise, may I just give you one piece of instruction. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report or praise-worthy, seek those things.

Don't admire them. Don't nod at them. Seek them!

Hunt them. Chase them. Build your life around those things. A man who will do that. A boy. A young man who will do that, will become different. Noticeably different.

He will stop letting the culture feed him garbage. He stops applauding the trivial. He stops laughing at the obscene or cheering for the cruel.

He will become a curator of -- of real, lasting beauty in an age that has forgotten what beauty even looks like.

When other men are chasing down or holding up cynicism, this man holds up hope!

When everyone around him is chasing dopamine, he chooses discipline. When others will blame their circumstance, he'll take responsibility for his own action. When the world worships the shallow, he goes and searches for the deep!

You want to know what the secret of becoming strong is, or becoming trusted, or becoming the kind of man that your future wife, your future children, your future nation can depend on?

Here it is!

You become what you seek. If you seek trash, you become trash. If you seek virtue, you become a man of virtue. You seek excellence, and your life will begin to shine, not loudly, but steadily. Like the steel glow of a blade being forged.

That's who you'll be.

The world has a plentiful, seemingly never-ending supply of angry boys. We don't need any more addicted boys.

We don't need any more distracted boys. The world needs men. Whole men. Clear-eyed men.

Men whose souls are anchored to something higher than the algorithms, trying to own them!

Build a life worthy of admiration. Forget about the applause. Fill your mind with words that make you wiser. Fill your days with work, hard work, that makes you stronger. Fill your home with beauty that lifts every soul who walks into it.

Have your home a place where people walk in and go, man, I say so great here. I just love it here. I don't know what it is about your house. I just love it. It's the spirit that's there! Because you built it! You protect it.

Protect your integrity like a watchman on the wall. Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't steal. And when you fail, and you will, stand back up again.

Because a man who seeks the virtuous, is not a man who never fails. He just -- he just becomes a man who refuses to stay on the ground.

If you seek things that are lovely and pure, trustworthy, praiseworthy, you'll become a kind of man this age almost never produces. A man whose very existence is a rebuke to the darkness.

That's your calling. That's why you were born.

Not to be lost. Not to play video games. Not to give up. Not to say, there's no hope. Not to end up in the trash bin of human history because you've -- you've taken so many drugs, you can't stand up straight anymore.

You're not destined to be alone.

You were destined for great things. You are destined to find an amazing woman!

Believe me. I didn't think I would ever find an amazing woman. Because I didn't think I was worth it. I didn't think I was worth it.

And until I started understanding how God works. That, yeah. I'm not worth any of the stuff that I have.

When you realize, it's all a gift. It's all a gift. And even if you work your brains out, you may not ever get all the things that you want. But you're going to have everything you need. Once you realize, carefully selecting friends makes a difference. My mother used to always say, show me your friends. I will show you your future.

It's true. Be careful who you select as friends. Watch your language. Watch what you're putting into your brain and what's coming out of your mouth. Because the brain is so amazing. It's being turned to mush. Did you know that there is a new study that just came out. I have to tell you about it next week, maybe.

New study going out. It is -- it's AI. And it has access to social media, and they have found that the AI -- the AI that is scrolling through social media all day, just to keep updated on everything that's going on in social media. It's getting brain mush. It's actually becoming dumber. It's become less effective!

It's a machine. What do you think this, flesh and blood, this thing is going to do?

We say life is meaningless. And life is the only thing that has any value. And yet, we spend all of our time, on things like social media. And that has absolutely no value.

But we think that's life.

I'm not that smart. I've just lived a long time. And I've made so many mistakes.

And I decided at one point, I'm going to stop saying, it's somebody else's fault. I'm going to start saying. Maybe -- what did I do to create that?

What did I do to attract that?

Why does this thing keep happening to me?

Why is it that I always find myself involved with these same kind of people?

Because, Glenn, dummy, it's you!

What you think, it's like -- it's like think of yourself as a -- as a beacon. It's just -- you're a beacon. Your GPS pin, that is constantly saying, here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

Except, it's transmitting more than just your location. It's -- it's transmitting what you're looking for, who you are. And it's attracting other dropped pins to you. It's saying, "I like this. I think this way. I believe these things. I am afraid of these things."

Whatever it is, you're thinking. It's constantly putting that out.

And saying, here I am. Is there anything else like that?

Anything else that can reinforce that? Anything else that can live like this?

Because that's me. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

That's why you keep finding yourself in exactly the same situations. Nothing will change, if nothing changes!

And the only thing that you can change, is you!

Seek the things, that have virtue.

Seek the things, that have beauty in music, in -- in art, in life, in architecture, in clothing! Whatever it is. Look for real, lasting beauty and value.

Find the things that are true! Truly true.

Universally true. Find the things that uplift. Seek those things!

And you will change your life and your world!

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