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Glenn Beck
All right, man. There's some crazy stuff I talked to you about. Dr. Frankenstein. I'm sorry. Dr. Fauci today and his diary. Bring out the monster. Oh, the monster is him. And he's also the doctor that created it. It's going to be an interesting week with Dr. Fauci. Also, I responded to a letter from an insider who said, why my daughter loves Donald Trump. She asked me how come he's not doing anything. I can't afford gas. I can't afford groceries. I can't afford a house. Why is he not doing. So I explained that in hour two, we're going to give you a piece of that answer about the housing bill. They just passed the housing bill. President didn't sign it, but it became law anyway. He doesn't need a signature if he just lets it die on his desk. So it's law now. What did it do? What did it do? And it's the first part of a ongoing series that I will be talking about, about what's actually behind the curtain. Okay. And a conversation that you should have with your kids. I don't care if they're or if they're 80. They're going to be facing socialism. So I want. I really geared this for somebody in high school or in college. Talk to them like Socrates about socialism. I gave you the questions, and I want you to have this conversation with your kids this week and then call me and tell me what happened. That's all on today's podcast. Here it is. Turning 65 feels like you've been dropped into a constant stream of mailers and calls and ads telling you something different about Medicare. And most of it just makes things more confusing. But because this is not a small decision, it's your health care. You need to know you can see the right doctors. You need to get the care that you have to have and not pay for a plan that doesn't fit your life. This is where Chapter comes in. They don't just hand you options. They look at your doctors, your prescriptions, your needs, and they help you find a plan that actually works for you. 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Because every single review helps us break through Big Tech's algorithm to reach more Americans who need to hear the truth. This isn't a podcast. This is a movement. And you're part of it, a big part of it. So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up, help us push this podcast to the top rate, review, share. Together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now, let's get to work. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program. Okay, so two weeks ago, the biggest housing bill in decades became law. The president never signed it, let it pass without him, and that way, you know, both parties wanted it, he didn't have to necessarily agree with it, but he didn't veto it, so it became law. Now here's the good thing. Here's what it does do. If you're a company and you own more than 350 single family homes, you are not allowed to buy any more of America's existing houses. Wall street is now barred from bidding against your daughter on a starter home. That is really good news. Since February. It's been working. Since February, the number of institutionally owned homes listed for sale has more than doubled. Big institutional landlords are all net sellers this year. That's good. That will bring down the price of housing. But now let's read the rest of the bill. And this is the part that no one explains to you. And I'm working on a show that will go into great detail, but it's 90 minutes and it's. It's pretty complex, but it's stuff that I'm just learning about now. And honestly, I told Jason last night as I was. Did you get a chance to read any of it last night? I told Jason last night, I said, read it. It's not this, but it feels like we're on the road of something that gets people killed for exposing because it exposes the real game. Okay, so let me go back to this housing bill. There is an exception for build to rent. So if a company Builds a neighborhood of houses designed as rentals from the foundation up, it can own every last one of them. So American Homes for Rent now expects every dollar of its growth this year to come from new construction. The money didn't leave the landlord business. It walked through a door that Congress left open and it only took about 10 days. Now, we've been here before, and the best example in American history is a brick. The Volstead Act. You know what that is? January 1920. You remember what the Volstead act was? It made it a federal crime to manufacturers sell or transport alcohol. Okay. But it had a law to leave a door open for the farmer. You can't arrest a man for owning grapes. So it allowed a household to make a small amount of non intoxicating fruit juice at home. Well, overnight wine grapes were worthless. Napa was finished. Except somebody in California read that sentence about fruit juice and had an idea. Now listen to this. I did not know this about history. He took some wine grapes, skin, stems, pulpit, all of them, dried them out and pressed them into a block the size of a pound of butter. It was a grape brick. Perfectly legal. It's juice. And on the package printed in red, was a warning label. Do not dissolve this brick in a gallon of water. Do not add yeast, and do not leave it in a dark cupboard for 21 days because it will turn into wine. See what happened? The warning was a recipe. Now, everybody who wanted wine could buy that brick. And the recipe was in the warning label. Before Prohibition, a ton of grape concentrate sold for $9.50 by 9. By 1924, that brick was fetching $375. Okay, California vineyard acreage went up.
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Guest or Interviewee (possibly a political commentator or analyst)
How?
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Glenn Beck
How is that happening? The federal government outlawed wine, but it accidentally made grape farming the best business in the state. Prohibition did not stop Americans from drinking. It moved the profit from the winery to the cupboard. Now the anger in this country is earned. The living standards for middle class have gone flat while wealth at the top keeps compounding. People know something's rigged and they're right. And I've been saying this for a while, Republicans, you better get your ass in gear. Because the Democratic socialists, they have an answer for who rigged it. Billionaires. But that's not the rig. Let me show you the rig. Let's go back to housing. Let me picture in your head for a minute a highway, two lanes, same direction, same destination. On this highway, you're in the right lane, and that's the lane for money you earn by working. And there's a toll booth every single Mile. You don't even stop. It just comes out of your account before you ever feel it. You know, the. The federal, state, Social Security, Medicare, all at mile after mile after mile. Every time you drive your car, it just racks it up. Okay? The left lane is for money that comes from owning things. There are no booths in that lane. You only pay when you exit. So the man in the left lane, his thing is, don't ever exit. His money grows year after year after year, and nobody touches it because he hasn't sold anything. And when he needs the cash, he still doesn't exit. He goes to a bank and borrows against the car. Whatever he has that he has, you know, he's stored up and he's purchased. He goes and says to the bank, here, I've got this house, or I have this car, or I have whatever. Give me a loan against that. Well, a loan is an income, so there's no toll to that loan. So he's spending real dollars at full value, but he's not paying any tax. Then he dies. When his children take the wheel, the odometer resets to zero. 40 years of driving and nobody has ever paid a toll on it. Not him, not them, ever. Same highway, one lane metered by the mile and the other free. If you're patient. Now go to a home auction and watch two bidders on the same house, a family and a company. The same house, same price. May the best offer win. Who's going to win? The company is. Why? Why are they willing to pay so much more? Because this is what everybody was saying. They're coming in and they're buying all of these houses way above market price. How are they making any money? The auction was never against two bidders. One of them has a silent partner. The company writes a check for a new roof, and the partner covers a piece of it. A new furniture, new furnace, a piece of it. The insurance, the property manager, the interest on the loan, a piece of it. A piece of. All of that is paid for by the partner. And when the company sells and buys another house, the partner tells the tax man to wait. You don't get any of that. The family doesn't get any of that. New roof comes out of your pocket. Every dollar. When you sell, you have to settle up. One of them is bidding with after tax money. The other is spending, you know, more than he brought. He's spending. He's got. He's not paying taxes on anything. The company wins every time. Every single time. And the starter home disappears. And the people who are doing this, they're not evil. All they're doing is arithmetic. Now, that's not a moral failure of the buyer. It's a design failure feature of the tax code. You remember in 2016 when Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of paying little or nothing in federal income tax, and he said, that makes me smart? She didn't have an answer because there isn't one. The rules he used were the rules her donor and her use every day. So the left says, wealth tax. Tax the gains before anybody sells anything. Okay, here's what this means. At your kitchen table. Zillow says, your house went up 8, $8,000 this year. You didn't sell it. You know, you didn't get 8 or $80,000, however much it went up. You have a house with the same leak in the same corner of the roof. And now the bill arrives, and you have to find real money to pay the tax on imaginary money that you are supposedly making, but you didn't make. So it's a second toll booth on the highway where that. Where that one already had a problem and the other lane doesn't have that problem. And the right says, throw them out. Throw them out. 1994, we threw them out. Republicans took Congress for the first time in 40 years. In 2010, the Tea Party threw the Democrats out again. 2016, populists running against both parties. 2020, out they go. Different waves, different parties, different promises. Yet our debt and our problems keep growing. Why? So I want you to see how this relates to the. The guy who said, my daughter is in her 20s. She works, she's trying to find an apartment. She buying food and gas. And she's like, why is Donald Trump spending all of this time overseas doing all these other things when you know the economy is on fire? Okay, before I get fully to that, I want you just to hear this analogy. Imagine the register at your store. You run a store, and it comes up $200 short at close. Well, you fire the cashier, right? You hire somebody new. Then the next month, it's $200 short. You fire that one. Why is everybody stealing a third, a fourth, a fifth? Everyone a different person. They're all stealing from you. But at some point, you stop hiring and you look at the register. Okay, we're on our fifth cashier. Has anybody looked at the register? No one in this story is behaving badly. The wage earner works because the code rewards work. The wealthy man holds on because the code rewards him for holding. The politicians promise that, you know, we'll get them. We're going to get the rich. We're going to get the rich. But they never seem to get the rich. This problem never seems to go away. We keep having it. And the benefit is immediate to everybody except you. Water isn't malicious. It goes downhill. My father used to teach this to me all the time. Goes downhill. Your basement floods every spring. You don't convene a hearing about the water. You go outside and you look at the grade of the yard. That's the fix. Not new people in the same seats. New rules that bind whoever sits in those seats. Switzerland put a debt break in its constitution. Chile has a fiscal rule that has survived governments on the left and the right, our own states live under balanced budget requirements. None of them got there by electing better people. They got there by binding the people they elected. So an arg a rule is only as strong as the willingness to keep it. And every one of those countries has suspended its rule. In an emergency, sooner or later, everything is an emergency. True, but a lock on the liquor cabinet was never going to stop a determined man. What it does is make him go get the key in front of his wife. There's no lock. There's no key. We're the wife going, what is. What's happening here? Two weeks ago, Congress printed a very stern warning label on the side of the American housing market. And somewhere in a conference room this morning, somebody is looking at that bill and they're reading it as a recipe. Wait a minute, they just gave us a recipe on how we can legally make all this money. And so nothing's going to change because the system is flawed and nobody wants to take on the system. No one will actually talk about the system. And that's what I want to. That's what I want to talk to you about here in the next 30 days or so. I want to talk to you about how this system is rigged, but not in the way you think it is, not in the way the socialists think it is. And if we actually want to make a difference, we have to take on that system. Now, let me get back to what the. What the insider said. The insider said, I want to read it exactly. That my daughter, she's 20 and she's, you know, living out on her own, pays her own rent, and she likes the president. She voted for the president. But she's just asked me, why is the. Why does the president only seem to care about Iran when I can barely afford gas? This is the critical thing that no one is talking about in the Media, we have talked about this, but let me give you another analogy for this. Think about your house. You're standing in water because a pipe has burst. So you patch it with tape. The water stops, everybody claps. Then the tape dries out and the basement floods again. That was the first term. What did he do? The basement was flooding. We needed jobs. We needed the economy turned around. So he knows the levers to push and pull. He can take out the tape and he can wrap the pipes and he can get water out of the basement so it's dry. But soon as he left, that tape popped open, and we're back into a worse situation because somebody wants that tape off. Okay? Now, here's the rule that you can take to the bank. And this is the problem with Congress right now. Anything one man can do with a pen, another man can undo with a pen, it has to be codified. So watch what he's doing now, because he can't get Congress to do anything. Right. You seen Congress? The bill. Whoa. We did the big, beautiful bill. Yeah. He ought to practically break your arms. For some reason. You won't do things like the Save America Act. So he knows he can't get things done through Congress. He has to fix the system. So how are you going to fix the pipe? How are you going to make sure that you're not putting tape there? Because somebody can take the tape off. You have to re plumb the entire house. When I give you the rest of this analogy, I think you're going to see exactly what's happening and why we're not seeing the dramatic change in the economy that we had in the first term. First, so much damage was done because of COVID and because of Biden that the economy cannot bounce back as fast as it can. But he's also not trying to do that because that's tape. He has to spend his first two years replumbing the entire house. Keeping yourself and your family safe means being prepared for situations that can, you know, put you or them in danger. It means being prepared for all the situations, you know, even those situations where deadly force is not needed. In fact, it's a real problem. There are more of those than you think. And if you're a gun owner, it's unfortunately easy to think a gun will provide you all the safety it needs. But you never pull a gun unless you're prepared to kill somebody. And I'm. I'm not in all situations, you know, but they can go bad fast. There is a tool for this. It's The Burner launcher. It's a non lethal alternative to safeguarding your home. That will teach somebody a very painful non lethal lesson. It's legal in all 50 states, no permits or background checks required. And it can be used by all age groups over 18. My kids carry them in their backpacks. You'd be confident that you are prepared to defend yourself against potential threats. Go to Burna.com Glenn learn more about it. Try before you buy at a sportsman's warehouse located near you. You can find that location at byrna B-Y-R n a.com Glenn now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on itunes. If you don't like Fauci, you're not going to be disappointed. I'm not going to do anything that is going to make you like him. If you do like him, you might be disappointed because he's really, truly an egomaniac monster. There is a story out now. His diary has just been released and if you read his, you read his diary. It's not really the best.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
Shoot.
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Glenn Beck
Did I lose that stupid diary? Where is that diary now? Do you have in front of you?
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
Which one?
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Glenn Beck
The diary with the quotes in his diary.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, give me some of the quotes of the diary. I just lost it.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
So on January 26, 2020, Fauci writes in his diary, now we know the market was not the source. So he's talking about the Wuhan, you know, wet market where they were, you know, cooking up all that amazing bat soup.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
Because it's natural origin. So it started in, you know, in the animals there and spread from the market. So we were told. Yeah, but this one clearly says now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier. So not exactly what we were hearing.
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Glenn Beck
The amplifier. Wait a minute, what do you mean the amplifier?
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
So I think what he's talking about there is, that's where it just kind of went on steroids and started spreading all over the place.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, because the front door of the lab is right there at the wet market. That's why. Yeah, literally like a football slow. What kills me is remember when we did this special on this and we, we showed that they, they had a lockdown at the laboratory, I think it was in November. And then they went in and they completely did redid all of the venting and the ductwork and everything. They had a complete emergency cleaning and re ventilation of that a month before we saw the first outbreak. And he had doctors that were sick from there. And you know, Fauci knew at that point. By December, Fauci knew.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
Yeah. There's additional stuff to. Just on that entry alone. And I'm reading from another summary of this. So privately in his diaries, Fauci was admitting that basically he no longer believed that the wet market was the origin. You know, and you had to be basically an idiot because Wuhan, you know, Institute of Virology is right there. But a week later knew.
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Glenn Beck
He knew all of the things that we proved six months into this.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
Right.
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Glenn Beck
Anyway, go ahead.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
And anyone that disagreed with natural origin was an idiot and deserves to be shamed. Basically, yes. So a week later, he convenes a call with 12 scientists. You want to know how many of them thought that it was, you know, natural origin spillover from animals? Out of those 12, only two. Only two. The rest of them are like, dude, doc, it's kind of. This is looking fishy here. But that is not what we heard. The consensus was from all the academic papers was that, no, this is natural origin. You know, if you think this is an outbreak, gotta be an idiot.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. And it was made to look like there were only two in the room that didn't think that, remember? Yeah, because we reported it at the time and it was made to look like two walked into that room to disagree with what the other 11 and saying, no, no, no, no. And it was the consensus. But apparently that's not it. Now, again, all of this is now according to his own diary. This is not speculation on. These are the words in his own diary. All right, what else?
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
But also to that, why would you be concerned about this not being natural origin? Why would you be concerned if this could possibly been manipulated in a lab, if you're in the United States government with control of all these funds that are going out all over the world to possibly support things like gain of function, research? Why would this concern you so much? Maybe because you were the one releasing some of these funds to places like China. Maybe, maybe that would look bad.
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Glenn Beck
So when you get into this now, we're going to show you some of the things he said. Because he's an out of control egomaniac. When you get into this part, understand this is the main thing you have to know about this guy. And here's why. He, he is the wrong kind of. He has no humility in him at all. And so when we had a law that said, you can't do this, he felt he was right. And so he was going to do it anyway and come or hell, or high water, he would find a way to do it. And then he covered it all up. So the guy who is literally, I believe, responsible for millions of dead, one guy. And it's Fauci and anyone else that was in on this project with him. But Fauci knew it, and he just felt it was too important to let the law stop them, so he found a way around it. Now, if you think that's bad, listen to some of the things that he said in his diary about his fame. Gosh, it's grotesque.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
Yeah, I mean, if. If you kind of. If you even just leave out some of his personal phone calls with people like Barbra Streisand and how he's convincing her to get an MRNA vaccine. Oh, and another little anecdote about how he's teaching Barbra Streisand how to use the Alexa device. He's also saying things like this quote. One person said that Tyra Banks was sexy, but that I was even more sexy than she was.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
Yes.
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Glenn Beck
You know, he should start another 1200 dead this morning, but, you know, they said that Tyra Banks was sexy, but I'm even more.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
But on the bright side.
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Glenn Beck
The bright side, I'm the sexiest guy man alive. I mean, it's just. It's horrible.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
And following up with that quote, I. I kind of feel like I should say dear Diary quote. Dear Diary, press still hot and heavy about me. Multiple stories per day, directly or indirectly involving me. Oh, yes.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, my God, it goes on.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
Multiple entries like this, where he talks
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Glenn Beck
about, he talks about. And, you know, they got a sighting phone call today. They asked me to be on Dancing on the with the Stars. Can you maybe pay attention to the millions that are dying? I found some other ones here, Jason, that, you know, the press doesn't have yet. Death just crossed 70,000. Tragic, of course. But on a lighter note, a woman in line in the pharmacy recognized me and started crying. Not from the virus, but because she was meeting me. I signed her N95. She said, I'll never wash it again.
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Guest or Interviewee (possibly a political commentator or analyst)
See?
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Glenn Beck
April 9th. Another 1800 dead today. Tough, huh? But the Washington Post just called me the most trusted man in America. I'm thinking about having that embroidered on my lab coat. August four. Another 1200 lives lost overnight. Devastating. But on the upside, my Wikipedia page just hit a million views in 24 hours. I've asked the NIH committee communications team to start tracking Fauci mentions per death. It seems important for historical records. I mean, the guy could have written those when you read his diary. He could have written those. He was that out of touch. Do we have the InStyle magazine cover?
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
It's on my computer now.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, well, I don't think people can see your computer. I tell you what, why don't you just come over and lean over his shoulder?
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
I think they can bring it up.
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Glenn Beck
Can you bring it up? Anyway, so there's a picture of. There's a picture of Fauci, and He is on InStyle, the COVID and he's got his sunglasses on. He's sitting by the pool. And it's grotesque when you see it. It's absolutely grotesque.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
And now reading these diaries and knowing how infatuated he was with all the attention and fame, the look on his face right there.
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Glenn Beck
Just look at that.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
Makes me nauseous.
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Glenn Beck
Look at that. I have to tell you, he's coming to Washington to testify in front of Congress. Rand Paul is going to be there. It should be interesting. Now, here's the thing. He can't incriminate himself because he is already pardoned for everything he did in the last 10 years. So there's nothing that they can get him on. He could go on and say, yeah, five years ago, you know, I was doing X, Y, and Z. I have nothing to do with it now. And there's. There's nothing anybody can do about it. However, my guess is, and I could be wrong, my guess is he's going to plead the fifth. And here's why this is a problem. He can't incriminate himself for past crimes. So if he pleads the fifth, that would be covering a new crime. And what's going to happen is Rand Paul is going to ask him all of exactly the same questions that he asked the last time or the last 10 times he testified. And Fauci was very specific on how he answered everything. Well, we now have all of the evidence that he was lying, but he's covered because of Joe Biden and the auto pin pardoning him. So what Rand Paul is trying to do is get him to say, is that. Do you still stand by that? Yes. Can you tell me? I'm going to ask you the same question. Can you tell me, were you doing any of these things? He would have to answer no. If he answers yes, that's a new crime. Okay. Or if he answers no and stays considered assistant, it's a new crime. And so what he's going to say is, I think I plead the fifth because he either has to and he's too much of an ego. He either has to say, no, I was lying to you, and that he won't get prosecuted for that. I was lying to you. Nope, that's not true. I don't. I don't believe that he won't go to jail for that. However, he has too much of an ego to say he was lying. And so the only thing his attorneys are going to say to him is, then, good, just plead the Fifth. Plead the Fifth. If he pleads the Fifth, we know he was lying because that's the only reason why you would do it, because that's the only new crime.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
I'm curious about the gain of function question that I know Senator Paul's going to ask him. I feel like that would be the easiest one to where you've got a lot of data to back up the fact that this. They were funding what looks like game function over there.
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Glenn Beck
The reason I say looks like they change the definition.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
There's so many ways you could weasel out of that, right?
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Glenn Beck
No, no, no, no. If you define it the way Rand Paul has ended, the way the United States always has. But when Fauci testified, if you remember right, the NIH went in and changed the definition. After his testimony, they changed the definition to match what he said. So, no, you know, the only game you're playing is the game he set up.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
Okay, so now I'm less optimistic than I was before in the insider segment about why. Well, the way you're describing it, right, there sounds like there are ways that they can be like, well, based off this definition.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, that's what he's going to do. Because that's what he did towards the end when they were like, that's not. That's not even the definition. That's the official definition. I don't know how you define it, but that's how we define it. And that was the game he played. The only chance I think I'd like to have Rand Paul on because he's been thinking about it. I think the only way you really get him here is if he perjures himself, because that's a new crime. But I think he's too smart to perjure himself. He would listen to his attorneys and plead the Fifth, but he is so arrogant. That's his Achilles heel. In his arrogance, it could be his downfall. You're listening to the Best of Glenn Beck. Need a little more.
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Jason (Producer or Co-host)
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Glenn Beck
Let me tell you what Tim Kaine said on DSA Growth and how the Democratic socialists Don't bother him. As they are growing into the Democratic Party. Cut 4. Do you think they have a space within your party?
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Guest or Interviewee (possibly a political commentator or analyst)
I do think the Democratic Party has always been known, and mostly this is good. Sometimes it's not as a big tent. And so I don't think that somebody says, I'm a DSA candidate. I don't think you should use that to throw them out. Why would you do that? Candidates have to rise and fall on their own merits. And so, you know, whether you're a DSA member or a third way Democrat or, you know, I just call myself a small D Democrat. People have to.
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Glenn Beck
If this were. If this. If the question were about communists or Nazis, would you say the same thing? It's not right. So if somebody calls themselves a member of the National Socialist Party, you know, we just judge them on their own merits? No, you wouldn't say that. Because the National Socialists stand for something. The Democratic Socialists of America stand for the destruction of the Senate, the Constitution. I mean, this is in their platform. So if you're running on a platform that wants to destroy the free market system, wants to abolish all prisons, wants to abolish the Senate and the presidency and the Supreme Court, no, you can't be a part. That's not that. We have nothing in common. Now, you can run that way, and I'm not going to condemn you. It's a free country. You can believe whatever you want. But no, no, no. There are standards. But Hakeem says this. Cut five. The Democratic Party is not a cult of personality. We're a coalition of public servants. Our diversity of thought, perspective, and life experience, like what Bob brings to the table, is a strength, not a weakness. We are one big tent united by a strength. If they are really, truly one big tent, how come there is no one allowed to be in the Democratic Party and run who is pro life? Why would you be welcoming people who are anti dei? Would you be welcoming in your big tent somebody who says, yeah, I'm against dei. I'm against, you know, what Fauci did and what our teachers unions did, closing down the schools. I think that was a mistake and I can't forgive the teachers union. Would they be allowed into your party? Most likely not. We've seen them cull everybody over the years. They've. They've narrowed it way down. You have to be in this little deal. But you are welcome. If you're against the American system and Constitution, that's okay. Not abortion, not anti di Di. But if you're against the system of America you're in. See, I'm not sure if I'm. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but these are the questions that we have to ask other Americans. And I'm not sure anymore Americans can think. I'm not sure Americans can reason anymore. You know, Socrates, the Socratic method is just to ask questions. And, and you know what he found? If you ask questions enough, even though they're honest, you'll eventually the elites will kill you. And that's what happened to him, because nobody wants to hear those questions. But it says something when you're talking to an individual, and especially your son or daughter, and you can't have a simple question and say, look, I know you think I'm going to try to talk you into Donald Trump or whatever. I'm going to try to make you into conservative. I'm not. I just want to ask you some questions because I've been hearing about socialism from you. And so I just, I want to ask you a few questions. And if you get, if you start to get uncomfortable, let's just take a break for a second and just, you know, laugh about something and then we'll come back to it. Because I'm not. I'm not trying to convince you anything. I just want to ask you questions. And here's the first one. When you say socialism, do you mean the government pays for, like, Denmark, 60% of stuff, or that the government owns things? Because those are two different countries. So which is it? Is there private property, or do you want just bigger safety nets? Question number one. If it just means the government pays for some things, then we've already been a socialist government since 1790, and the argument is over here. Then we're just, we're not saying let's get rid of everything else. We're just saying, okay, we need to argue on taxes and how big that safety net gets. Is that what you mean by socialism? You say the system is rigged. I have my own opinions because I think it is rigged. But I want to know from you, rigged by whom? Who are you handing. Who are you handing the rig to? Who. Who is rigging it? And. And who is going to unrig it? How does that work? You say you're for socialism. Okay, what does a loaf of bread cost today? In the ballpark? You don't need an exact figure. It's not a. I'm not trying to embarrass you. You don't even know the price of bread. I'm trying. What is, what does A loaf of bread cost today or anything? What's it cost now? Tell me the name of the person who decided that price. Who is deciding the price of bread? Anyone? One name. Corporation? Anybody? So if no one set the global price of bread, how did it get set and how did it stay? Roughly right every day in every store for your entire life, do you know what's causing the price of bread to go up? Have you considered inflation? What is inflation? Can you name one country where the state took ownership of the means of production and the poor got richer? And I'm not trying to be cute. I want an example, and I'll take the best one you got. But where is the place where the poor got richer? And let's look into that. When the border opens, any border, any decade in this country, which direction do people run? Who built the wall and which way were the guns pointed? I know things are bad. They are. And I'm not denying that they are. But I want to see if we have any perspective. Would you rather be poor today or rich in 1900? By the way, one of you has antibiotics, the other one doesn't. Would you rather be poor here or poor in Africa? If you and I both make an agreement, we both make a trade. I walk into your store and I make a trade, and we both walk away happy. Who got hurt? Someone has to decide what your work is worth. Do you want it to be you and the person paying you or a third man with an army who's never met either of you? You know, one example that I learned as I was getting ready for today's show and trying to find examples of. Of the free market. You know, when Mao came into China, all these people starved and they were starving on the farm, and it was because he just told them to do things that farmers just. They know, they know that won't work. So 18 farmers in a starving commune met at night in China, and they divided the collective land into family plots. Okay? Every household kept whatever it grew past the state quota. So they all had to have a quota. But it was not working with a commune. They were not making even the state quota. They were starving. So they got together at night and they said, let's divide this up. We're going to keep it to ourselves. But you keep your plot. Is this my plot? Is this my plot? Your plot is this. And divided up 18 different ways and then said, you keep whatever you grow on that land. You have to hit the state quota. But then you don't share that with anybody other. No other Farmer. Okay, you keep it. Most of them couldn't sign their names, so in secret, they press their thumbprints into the paper and they added a clause. If any of us is executed for this, the rest will raise his children until they're 18. Okay? Because they expected to die for the crime of private property. So now the harvest comes. Well, it is so far above anything the Commune had ever produced. It couldn't be hidden. And they expected now China is going to come in and they're going to kill us. They're going to kill us all because we have. We. We took this as private property. Well, it took a couple of years, but they didn't get what they expected. Instead, the household responsibility system became national policy for China. They still didn't own the land, but it was the largest reduction of poverty in recorded history of the human race that was underway. They took land that none of them owned, and they said, just for our purposes, you own this square, I own this square. Whatever I produce, I keep. Whatever you produce, what is that? That's the free market system. You keep what you produce. By the way, that thumbprint, that contract, it survives. It's now in the National Museum of China. And we're just putting it up on the screen. That's it. These poor farmers that were starving to death decided to risk their lives and say, private property is important. That's not private property in China. They still don't own it. They have a lease, I think, of 10 years, and the state, if any of them misbehave, the state can just take it. So they still have to be loyal to the state and do everything the state says, but they can lease that land, which I guess some people would be fine with. You know where the problem is? America was built on private property. We were built on that. And everything, all private property is going away now. You know, at least we are a lease and rent kind of society. And unfortunately, the housing thing, that housing bill that just went through, is going to encourage more people to. To rent. Well, then you never own. And if you don't own, you don't actually own an asset that can appreciate and so you can't get richer. You're always paying just to survive. And that's what's happening in China. Okay, Ask your kids these questions and just try to have a rational conversation and listen to them. Don't try to teach them anything. Listen to them. Ask the questions and listen again. Don't argue. Your goal is to have a rational, reasonable conversation so you can hear where they are and you can hear, can they still think you can push back and say, have you thought of this? Or when you ask, it's better to basic question on their answer when you say this. I'm trying. I just want to understand. Do you mean X, Y and Z have that conversation with your kids and then later this week, let's talk about it. Let's have you call in and tell me what happened with that conversation with your kids. Just ask them those questions, Ricky. Can we just. Can we tweet those out? I'd like to invite you to have a conversation with your family and then come back later this week and tell me how that went.