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Glenn Beck
So how do we pull ourselves out of following the path that Europe is heading towards right now and the rest of the west is? And where is the drive and the willpower to get things done? You know, we talk a little bit about Boeing. Yeah, Boeing. Where's your willpower? I mean, we won World War II faster than you say you can build the two presidential airplanes. There seems to be a problem. And Justin Haskins joins us to talk about AI, the EU and what's coming next, all on today's podcast. By the time today is over, another American farm will shut down. And tomorrow it will happen again. Not because they did anything wrong, but because it's getting harder and harder to compete. Foreign meat imports have seen to that, at least for now. Meanwhile, the people who raise our food, our own farmers, our own ranchers, are getting squeezed out of their livelihoods. This is very bad for all of us. Good ranchers is fighting every day to change that. 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But to fight going, we need you right now. Would you take a moment and rate and review the Glenn Beck podcast, Give us five stars and lead a comment. 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 Blend Back program. So, you know, I've been watching Europe for a while now. We've talked about Europe and, And the. The. The race to death that they seem to be in. And right now you have. You have the Prime Minister of England, Starmer, you have the President, France, and you have the Chancellor of Germany. All meeting. Taking time on a train. Not to do coke. I mean, maybe, but I don't think. But to actually talk about things. And what were they talking about? A new treaty aimed at resetting British relations with the European Union. Okay. I mean, I guess that's. I guess that's, you know, great. Did they hear what the. The Swedish Prime Minister has just come out and said? This is the Prime Minister of Sweden. Quote, we do not have control over the wave of violence. And that is quite obvious. Yeah. Their prisons are overcrowded. They've got. They've been overrun with refugees that are not assimilating. And you're about to lose Sweden. And when Sweden falls, Brussels falls. When Brussels falls, France falls. When France falls, England falls, Germany falls. That. That's what's coming in our lifetime and probably not too far in our lifetime. You know, they say history doesn't repeat itself, but I'm telling you, it does rhyme. Okay? And as you watch Europe, not as a tourist watches a cathedral crumble, but as a man on shore watches a wave growing on the horizon going, I think that's coming towards us. And it's getting bigger. Not fast, but undeniable. It's not just about England or France or Sweden. It's not about immigration or economics or even culture. It's about something much deeper. A civilization that has forgotten what made it strong in the first place, what made it free. And we are down that same path, and we have a chance to change that. And there are a lot of people that are awake, but there's far too many that are not. And they're living. They're living in this dream world that we can have it all, that America can just keep going on the way it's been going on. And if they don't believe that there's another category of people and that that category is the people who are like, it's just going to be civil war. Well, bring it on. No, no. Have you seen Haiti? That's what happens with countries that go into civil war. You don't want that. Now, I un. Hercially somebody I really, really respect. She's a woman who stood against actual darkness, against radicalism, censorship, the silencing of truth. You name it, she has been through it. She just said recently an answer to the question, what is your biggest fear that keeps you up at night? And she said that Europe will collapse. She said that's very real. And it's happening. Not that it will. Not that it will decay, not that it will decline, but it will collapse into violence. You know, Europe is not just a continent, it's a cultural mirror. Because America was born out of its legacy of Athens, of Rome, of Jerusalem and even London. If Europe falls into chaos, it's not some far off event, it is a warning shot across the Atlantic. And we are no longer insulated because of this global nightmare. Remember when they said the banks are too big to fail, we got to bail them out? Why did they say that? Because all of the banks were connected to one another. So when one fails, it's catastrophic failure across the entire system. That's why Europe matters. That's why America matters. Western Europe is, is going through massive, eternal in internal pressure. And the people know it. But you know, their leaders are on a train, you know, talking about how, how can we bring Brexit, you know, to its knees. The, the real problem here is our problems are spiritual. The old guard that actually believed in liberty and faith and sovereignty, they've been replaced by technocrats and bureaucrats and a generation that has been raised to believe that nothing is sacred, that borders are immoral, that the past is shameful and the future belongs to anyone but them. You don't have a society, you don't have a civilization, if that's what the next generation believes. Now you layer in all of the stuff that makes us fragile. A fragile economy, aging populations depend, dependency on foreign energy. Millions of migrants, most of them not actually refugees, and certainly most of them have not assimilated. Many of them, especially the young men, alienated, angry. And they see the host country not as refuge, but as weak, ripe, ready. You know, when I say the host countries for these refugees, you know there's another way to use the word host. And that is for a parasite, it needs a host and it burrows itself in and it just will consume that host body until it kills it and then it'll find another host. Well, killing it to this parasite, killing it is a good thing. Killing the west is a very good thing. And this, by the way, is not conjecture. Riots in Paris, stabbings in London. Whole neighborhoods where police dare not enter. All of the things that you were told were Just rumors. They were lies, they were conspiracy theories. Political leaders afraid to even name the threat. Because now the truth is hate speech. If you think America is divided, Europe is fractured. So what happens when the pressure becomes too much and things finally break? When governments lose control? Like the prime minister in Sweden just said, we can no longer control the wave of violence. Well, when you can't control that, you certainly, civil services are shut down. What happens when you're not sending out checks? What happens when nationalism to the extreme, not the good kind of nationalism, the very dangerous nationalism, returns not with pride, but with rage. I mean, I think we've seen this in Europe a couple of times before in the last century. It never ends peaceful, not with peaceful elections and orderly debates. Now it usually ends up with some short little guy. That's how it ends traditionally in Europe. So what does that mean for us? This is what I want you to understand. Whenever you see anything happening in Europe, I want you to understand how close it is. Do you remember that feeling we all had after September 11th when those planes crashed in to the towers and then they crash in the field in Pennsylvania and then crashed into the Pentagon and we're like we are under attack. And we all realized that day how fragile our freedom and our country really was, that it could be taken from us. Overnight we seem to forget that and we go into this dream world that it'll always be this way. But I want you to understand when Europe collapses, the American markets collapse, banks probably collapse, prices through the roof, supply chain completely breaks. You're looking at a different world. And then you get the refugees because there will be millions of desperate people that are actually going to be refugees because the violence is so horrid in their European countries. They'll have to get out and they will flood people's borders, they will come across the ocean and then what do we do? Then what do we do? And when Europe falls, who fills the void? Russia, China, Iran? Don't think they haven't been thinking about this. Don't think they aren't watching and waiting because we're, you know, we're too busy with our drag shows and you know, our debating our pronouns and they're studying war. They're preparing for what they see is inevitable. In every other instance of every other civilization you hit these markers and you collapse. So, so then what? So what does that even mean? What do you do there? We have so much work to do to really be self reliant. Can you read a map anymore? Do you think your kids can read a Map? Not a chance. Can they read a map? Do they know how to read a compass? Do they know how to chart their course with the sun and stars? Not a prayer. My kids, if they get down to the start. If I get down to the stars and the sun, forget it. We're not going anywhere. But these are some of the foundational things that we, we have to, we need to educate ourself. And we don't have to start there. We should get there, but we don't have to start there. And it's not on current events. We, we have got to stop getting our news from social media. If social media is all that you read and the way you get your news, you are a danger to yourself and everyone around you because you will be convinced that you know what's going on. I see a social media. I'm on my feet all the time. How do I know? You have no idea. You're a danger. We need to study about Weimar Republic, about the Balkans, about the collapse of Rome. It's because history is not just history. It's not just a story. It's a. It's a user's manual. And when you see history, you're like, ah, don't do that. And then you can build up resistance, resilience. Not just food and water, that's. But emotional resilience, spiritual clarity. How many of us could face a massive storm, lose everything you have, everything you have not know what the future holds, and you still have your spiritual clarity. A lot of people will say, oh, I will. But, you know, as I talk to Special Forces friends who, you know, have been tortured, they all say, the ones who said, oh, I wouldn't, I wouldn't give up a thing. They all say they're the first to break because they're arrogant. They haven't really thought it through. Well, you have. What, what do you have to do right now to have spiritual clarity? Moral grounding. Because chaos isn't going to just take your house or your job. It takes the sense of who you are and puts you into a place where you're like, I'll do anything to survive. But would you? Should you do anything to survive? The third thing we have to do is after we learn and after we prepare ourselves, then we have to start standing for truth. Because the world has been hollowed out by lies. Some soft lies, some cruel lies, but they all rot. The soul and the soul of, of who we are as a nation, as a, as a civilization. And when truth becomes dangerous and saying it becomes a revolutionary act. You're in trouble. You have to be willing to speak even when it costs you. And more and more people are. And that's the good thing. You know, the west isn't going to fall this time when the bombs drop. It falls when the people who know better stop defending it. Because they're too comfortable, they're distracted, they're too entertained. They don't think it could happen to them. Did you see the latest poll coming out of England? Most young people have no desire to. To ever put on a uniform of their country to defend their country if it were under attack. Now, I can't believe that's true, but that's what. That's how they're responding in polls, because. And why is that? Because they don't know. They don't know what anything means anymore. You know, when the cathedrals, you know, in Europe, the cathedrals are all being repurposed, if they're not being bombed, they burn them down. Almost one a day now, and they're all being repurposed. And in many cases, they're literally being handed over to other gods. And yet too many of us are still just shrugging it off. You know, what happens in Brussels or Berlin or Birmingham, we'll never touch Boise. But rot always reaches its root. The difference, the only difference, is time. And we have some time, so we should use it wisely. Look, I hope what the president is doing is going to work. But do you know it will work? Because if you really understand how deep our problems go, I'm not sure it will work. Think of what we're facing. We're facing debt that no country has ever turned around on. We are facing a cultural rot that no country has ever turned around on. We have birth rates that no civilization has ever turned around on. Now, I don't say that to depress you. I say that to inspire you to say, okay, so what are you going to do about it? Because you could either give up or you can do something about it. We. We. We first have to decide what is worth saving, what is. We have to teach this to our kids. What's worth saving? What is good about this society, about this civilization? What's beautiful. I mean, you wouldn't think anybody would understand beauty and art when we've got. I was at a museum over someplace in Europe, in Italy, just the other day, and it was. It was rebar. It was rebar that they had rusty rebar. That's what took the time, wrapped around a cement pole. And that was sitting next to a Greek statue as Art. I'm sorry. One of those things will be found in the dust and rubble of a civilization. And they'll go, my gosh, look at this civilization. The other will go, that's dust and rubble. Throw it away. Says nothing about us except that we are a society that no longer even recognizes beauty. We are being told what's beautiful. Have you ever gone into a museum and you see things and you're like, what the hell is that? Now I go into museums and I see stuff all the time that I don't like. I wouldn't want to hang in my wall, but I can appreciate it. But I'm sorry. The cement post with a rebar wrapped around it. You know what that is? That's a scam. That is the elite probably being scammed by the artist. You know, like, you know, really is the meaning behind that one or the. The museum going, yeah, well, it's meaningless. And that's where you find beauty is in meaningless. Meaninglessness. Well, no, you don't. You don't. Everything has meaning, and if it doesn't, you should stop doing it. We all have to find the meaning in our life. That's why our kids are killing ourselves. They don't think there's meaning in anything. Well, why would they? There's no meaning in social media. There's no meaning in their friends. There's no meaning in the likes. There's. There's. There's no meaning in anything anymore. That is what we have to repair. We have to find the things that have meaning and bolster them and bring them closer in our lives with courage and conviction. Not fear, but resolve. And the time is growing shorter and shorter every day. 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Justin Haskins
I'm doing great. I'm doing really well. It's great to be back here.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, thank you. Thank you for flying in. I wanted to talk to you about AI. I know you've been doing some research on, you know, polling and there's some good news and, you know, some, I guess, some inevitable news as well. But let me ask you, how are you feeling generally about the state of where we are in AI? Is this something in Dark future we really talked about? We even talked about in the great reset and propaganda wars, but this is something I have been talking about for 30 years, 35 years, and it's here now. How are you feeling about where things are going?
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Justin Haskins
Oh, I'm terrified.
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Glenn Beck
Okay.
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Justin Haskins
I'm terrified. Stu, Stu's gonna, you know, he's the odd man out of this conversation.
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Stu Burguiere
Are you, you're not, are you not terrified?
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Justin Haskins
I don't know. Are you terrified?
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Glenn Beck
I think he's considered deeply concerned. You're not terrified?
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, of what part?
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Glenn Beck
What, what it going wrong?
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I mean, I definitely am concerned of the impacts it's going to have.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, I'm not, I'm not.
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, you guys can hit levels of being terrified over things that I can't.
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Glenn Beck
This is why he's a great partner for me, is because when I'm like, we're all gonna die, he's like, relax.
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Stu Burguiere
We'Re just gonna be maimed.
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Justin Haskins
Okay. Yeah, no, I'm very terrified. And the reason why is because the things that we've been talking about for a long time, you especially, are happening in real time. They are no longer. Oh, and, you know, maybe 10 years, this could. No, it's happening now.
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Glenn Beck
It's here. You know, I keep saying this. I mean, it's, it's 2025, 2028. Look at what AI has done in the last 12 months. Can you even imagine what life is going to be like in 2028? The answer is no, because it's going to be radically different by 2028, by 2030. Radically different.
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Justin Haskins
That's right. Yeah. And so the polling that. That I recently conducted partnered with the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen reports to polls. It illustrates, I think, for the first time that people really are genuinely starting to get how serious the issue is really, which is great. I mean, that's great. So we asked if people were concerned about AI and essentially a little over 70% of likely voters say yes. Across the board, pretty much everyone's concerned about it. I really haven't seen too many polls that show that. So that's huge.
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Glenn Beck
We also, you know, the learning curve on this is almost straight up with the American people.
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Justin Haskins
1, 100%. We also asked, we said, do you believe that over the next decade I will be used more to empower individuals or to control them? And 33% said, in power.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Justin Haskins
42% said control. So people believe.
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Glenn Beck
The rest are like, I don't know.
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Justin Haskins
Yeah. And the rest are, I don't know. And so I think that. I think that's the good.
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Glenn Beck
That's. How would you answer that? Because I think in the net, would you say next five years, 10. Next 10 years? I know you'd say the next five. What would I say?
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Justin Haskins
You would say control. Come on.
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Glenn Beck
No, I would actually say for the first three years in power, like crazy.
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Justin Haskins
Yes.
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Glenn Beck
And then as you get further away from that control, like nuts.
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Justin Haskins
Yes. Now, I have even better news before I get to the bad news. This is rare. I usually have no good news, so I'm very excited about it. We asked people, would you support a law. Let's see if Stu will support this law. Will you support a law that, at the state or federal level, that would require developers and technology companies to design AI so that it protects human rights contained in the Constitution, such as freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression? So in other words, AI companies have to design AI with Bill of Rights in mind.
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, the Bill of Rights is already the law of the land, right?
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Justin Haskins
Not for the AI Company.
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Glenn Beck
Not for AI Company.
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Justin Haskins
AI Company's a private. Private company.
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Stu Burguiere
Do you think private companies have to live by the law?
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. No, but.
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Stu Burguiere
But they don't have to. You're saying they don't. They would have to design a.
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Glenn Beck
Design, allow free speech or something? No, no, no. It would have to be designed to make sure it helps enforce or can never violate free speech. It could never say, nope, we're just gonna shut all of you people down. It has to. It has to be trained on the Bill of Rights as one of its. I don't even. Foundational principles. Right.
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Justin Haskins
Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
Conceptually, obviously, I like the idea of that happening. I'm not sure if that's the right approach.
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Justin Haskins
Right.
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Stu Burguiere
But I'd have to put more thought into it.
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Justin Haskins
Totally understand.
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Glenn Beck
He's wishy washy.
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Justin Haskins
I know.
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Glenn Beck
By the time he decides.
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Stu Burguiere
Try to actually carefully consider your question instead of just jumping to a conclusion.
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Justin Haskins
78. Stu's in the minority on this one. 78% of likely voters, Democrats, Republicans, all age groups. 78% say yes.
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Glenn Beck
So even more. Even more good news.
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Justin Haskins
Yes.
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Glenn Beck
Stu's in the minority. I now work with a minority.
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Stu Burguiere
There you go.
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Glenn Beck
You're diverse. We're going to get all kinds of tax breaks.
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Justin Haskins
I'm not going anywhere near that. Okay, so the bad news.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Justin Haskins
All right. So there is some bad news in this. There are things that at least I'm concerned about.
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Glenn Beck
Okay. Yeah.
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Justin Haskins
All right. So we asked, would you support allowing AI systems to have access to health records, financial data.
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Glenn Beck
No.
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Justin Haskins
And other personal data.
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Glenn Beck
No. If.
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Justin Haskins
Hold on. There's an if.
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Glenn Beck
Okay.
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Justin Haskins
If it meant that AI would have a better chance at curing diseases and solving other social and economic problems.
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Glenn Beck
No. No, no, no, no, no, no. Underline. No. Capital letters, exclamation point. No.
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Justin Haskins
Stu's gonna have a nuanced answer.
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Stu Burguiere
Well, I mean, how are they getting access to this if we gave it to him?
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Glenn Beck
If.
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Justin Haskins
That's the whole premise of it, Would you support allowing AI systems to have access to it?
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Glenn Beck
So do you. Wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait. Allow them to have access so I could opt out?
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Justin Haskins
Yeah, but the question is really for you. So would you want. Would you allow them to have.
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Glenn Beck
Not for everybody.
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Justin Haskins
It doesn't say that necessarily.
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Stu Burguiere
No, I, I hopefully. I mean, because there would be benefits to this. Right. Massive ones. If enough people gave them health data.
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Glenn Beck
Right. Like massive.
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Stu Burguiere
So. But I would hope enough people did that weren't me.
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Glenn Beck
But if enough people do it, then they have all of them. Once they have the data on you, you're done.
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Stu Burguiere
What does that happen? Like, what happens with that when it comes to your insurance rates?
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Justin Haskins
Right.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. There will be no insurance. There will be no insurance.
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Justin Haskins
Not just health records, financial data and other personal data.
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Glenn Beck
I would.
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Stu Burguiere
Supplying mine.
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Justin Haskins
Okay.
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Stu Burguiere
Though we could acknowledge here because, like, this is. What was it? Denmark. That does this with health data. They had the best studies that come out of Denmark. They're incredible because the government forces all of their data to go into the studies. Right, right. So, like, there's part of me that Likes the fact that we learn about.
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Glenn Beck
That if you take it and erase all of the information so it's not tracked to you, it's never. You can never sort through it. But you can now.
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Stu Burguiere
But again, I wouldn't. I would like to say no. I would hope that Justin would be nice enough to give his data so we can research on him.
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Justin Haskins
Yeah, of course. That's what stu wants. So 51% said yes. 51% said yes. And then 34% said either somewhat opposed or strongly opposed. And 15% said not sure. So people seem very willing to allow.
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Glenn Beck
This because, you know, let me ask you something. I was talking to somebody yesterday, and they said, what is happening to Utah? I mean, the reddest red counties are in Utah, and they're just going crazy. They're starting to really go left. And I said it's because too many people just think, oh, well, you know, it's all. It's always fine because it's always been fine here, and it's going to be great. And so they're not paying attention, and they're just. It's just slipping away from them like crazy. The other thing is, why do you think the NSA built the entire, you know, listening compound in Utah? Now I'll tell you why the NSA said they did. Okay. They said they did because it takes enormous amounts of water to cool those systems. And Utah had such a huge supply of water. It's the kind of dry, isn't it? It's the desert, dude. We know that's not right. It's the desert. I think they did it because people in Utah are compliant. They want to get along. They want to be good Americans. They want to do the patriotic thing and they just. They go along to get along and lands cheap, too. Trouble.
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Justin Haskins
Yeah, that's true. I agree with that. I think there's a. There's definitely some point.
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Glenn Beck
It's trouble.
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Justin Haskins
So then another thing kind of more. More bad news, worse news in some ways. Last question we asked was, many economists believe the AI will eliminate millions of jobs over the next decade. If that happens, would you support a government program that taxes big tech companies and then uses the funds to provide every American with an income large enough to pay for basic necessities like housing, clothing, and food. So we're talking universal basic income, essentially paid for by big tech because AI took a lot of jobs.
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Stu Burguiere
You want my nuanced answer on this?
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Justin Haskins
Yeah, sure.
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Glenn Beck
No, so amazing. That is so amazing. No, it's so amazing. Now may I give the nuanced answer.
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Justin Haskins
On this, let's give the new one.
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Glenn Beck
What is your choice? I said this, I've been talking about this forever. Remember Stu, how many times and in our books we have talked about universal basic income for decades now. And I kept saying it's going to happen. You have to have another plan. What's the alternative?
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Justin Haskins
Yep.
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Glenn Beck
And we're now at this place where again I say, what's the alternative?
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Justin Haskins
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Glenn Beck
So our in studio producer, Sarah, Sarah Sullivan, been working with me for 25 years, just about five years. And I love talking to her because she's, I mean she drinks a lot because, you know, she has to listen to this every day. And we got into the break and what did you just say to me? I said that you can say it's not depressing all you want, but it's depressing. And, and that is, you know, that is that. That was me trying to explain to you what, what the truth is. And sometimes the truth can be depressing. You're right. However, let me refill me. Rephrase the optimistic part. Why is Boeing, why did we order two seven four sevens in 2018? And now Boeing is saying they could come at 2028, which is a 10 year period, two planes, but it may not be out until 2020, 35 or 36. How is that possible? How is that possible? I'll tell you how. They have forgotten who they are. That's all that is required. You know, and I don't think the workers have because I, look, my family, much of my family worked at Boeing. Still does. They're, they're working every day at Boeing and they love Boeing. They don't like what it's become because they, they know what it used to be like because of their parents or our grandparents. And they know what Boeing is capable of. The, the reason why it takes this from Boeing and we're accepting it is because all of us have become like this. We have become a society where no one says, yes, we can, we can do that. Yes, we can. Nobody says that except if it's used by a politician to use as a slogan to promote dependency on a government. Because what they're really selling you is no, you really can't. But with the government you can. That was, that was, that is not America. It's not America. We have to remember who we are and what the secret is. And the secret is remembering the principles that Got us here in the first place. And then saying, yeah, I can do that. I can do that. I can do anything. You've been convinced that you can't or you're not allowed to. What are you talking about? Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Boeing. Shame on you. Shame on you. Every employee should be going in and saying to the management, shame on you for shaming us. Shame on you. You become so much about, I don't even know what the numbers, corruption, dei. I don't even know what your problem is. Boeing. But it didn't start with the workers. It started in the home office. It starts on the floor where all the elites are gathering. You've made it about something else other than building airplanes. And, you know, people will think that they have no way to change things. Imagine what it was like in World War II. In World War II, you are. You're just ahead of a company, and you, you can't. You can't turn things around. Okay, yesterday I, I bought something. I traded. I collect watches, and I traded almost all of them in for one watch because this watch is so important historically, and I'm wearing it today. And it's called the POW watch because it comes from POWs. Back in World War II, the. The President of Rolex didn't know what to do, didn't know how he could help. And he's reading about all the prisoners that are in POW camps in Germany, and he wants to do something, so he sends. He sends the. The head guy, the. The head POW of the camp, like a box of watches. It's like you give them out to whoever you think deserves them or needs them. And, you know, and don't worry about paying. Don't worry about paying us back. Well, he's doing it as a gift. But what happens? These are some of the first, like, Daytona's. This is before the Daytona was ever made. The chronograph on the front. So the guy gets it and he's like, wait a minute. Now we have a precision way to time things. We can time the changing of the guards. We can time how long it takes for them to come around, and we can find the averages. We now know time because we have a precision timepiece. The guy at Rolex, he had no idea what he was doing. If you've ever watched the movie the Great Escape, that's a true story. We have many of the pieces over at the museum. We have a piece of the. The pedestal that the, that the old Franklin stove sat on that they had to move as they Were digging. We have a ton of the stuff that they used. But one of the most important things they used was a watch just like this one, a POW watch. There's only a handful of them left. Why are they important? Because it was the watch that helped them escape. Helped them escape. It didn't do the work for them. The first thing they had to remember is they're not POWs. They're not. They are British and American and French soldiers and they are meant to be free and they're meant to get out of there. Now there were people who were like, no, let's not do that. It'll just cause so much trouble. Thank God the most of them said, yes, we can, we're going to do it now. Boeing. Let me just give you this stat. As you, as you're sitting there thinking we can't complete this airplane, Glenn, it's really complex. Let me just give you a couple of stats. There were three escapes. What were they? Tom, Dick and Harry. I think that's what they're called. Three different escapes. Okay, let me just give you the stats on one of them. They dug a two by two foot hole. I mean, this gives me claustrophobia thinking about it. They dug a two by two foot hole underneath the floorboards of one of the. One of the, you know, barracks. Barracks. They had to hide all of that. And they dig a 2 by 2 foot hole. They first have to dig that 30ft down. 2 by 2 foot hole, 30ft down. Then. And by the way, they don't have shovels. They don't have any of that stuff they're making whatever it is they use then in that 2 by 2 foot hole. Then they have to start digging 336ft horizontally so they can get out from under the wire and arrive at the other side. Hey, 336, two by two. Just think about removing the dirt. How do they remove that much dirt without getting caught? And it might be easier when you're pushing dirt up from the, from the hole for the first 30ft. But what happens when you're going 300 and what was it? 336ft horizontally. How do you get that dirt out? They had to design almost a train track that was bringing that dirt out for every inch. They did. Every inch of dirt had to be removed. And they couldn't just take it out in, you know, wheelbarrows and dump it someplace. How could they move that much dirt without anyone knowing that they were moving that much dirt? They devised a system in their, in their pants. To where each of them could put a little bit of dirt in their pants. And then when they got out to the yard and they would walk around, they would slowly let that dirt fall onto their shoes and onto the ground as they walked. And then they just kind of kick it into place. Do you know how much dirt that was? And they never got caught. Shame on you, Boeing. You can't. Oh, you can't finish a couple of planes, huh? You know how long it took them to do that with no tools, no electricity, no lights? Can't get caught covering it all up. 10 months. 10 months. It's called the Great Escape. That's. That's a really cute, uplifting story. But did you know AI is going to be able to tell us what our pets are saying? Okay. All right, I want you to. I want you to know that what Sarah says is right. Nobody's ever come back from this. But no one had ever escaped from Stalag 13. No one had ever done it. No one had ever crossed the Rocky Mountains. Nobody had ever gone to space. No one had ever gone to the moon. We are a nation of. That's never been done before. That's what we do. That's who we Europe. That's not you. But that is us. Because every single one of us, someplace in our family history, somebody. If you've been here, you know, prior to it, maybe 1920, if your family was here prior to 1920, you came over on a boat. Do you know what that was like? I don't want to go on a boat back then, especially if I was, you know, in the chattel class. You know, my family, they came over here in the 1800s, and I can guarantee you none of them were up on the top deck of the boat. They were all down, you know, shoveling poop out the window. I don't know what they were doing, but it wasn't pretty. And now I'm going to piss this away when they worked so hard to get us here to have these. See, that again is the problem. Once you forget why people came here in the first place, once you forget and are told, no, you can't, you can. Yes, you can, if the government will help you. But you can't do it on your own. Once you're taught that and you forget who you actually are. This is why family heritage is so important. Read about your family, figure out who your family, do, your family tree. There's somebody in there in my family. When I got my family tree back, this is what the person said to me. I would like to tell you that there's somebody famous or great in your family. But we went back generations. There's, it's. It's littered with nobody's. However, I found two heroes in my family. Two. And they're not heroes by anybody else's standard, but they are mine. I had two. And a great great grandfather and a great great uncle that fought in the Civil War. And they were on the right side. Now, because they're my relation, they were caught like the first week and they were put into Andersonville. The worst, most notorious. I mean, you want to talk about Auschwitz, that was Auschwitz of the South. They were put there where thousands of people died. It was horrific. One of them died, the other one survived. And according to his wife was never the same from it. I can imagine. But they fought on the right side and one of them survived. And nobody survived Andersonville, but he did. You have to find your strength someplace. You have to find who you really are. You have to find. And you'll find it usually when you find God, who you really are, and the strength that you actually have inside of you. And then if you happen to be part of a group, Boeing, you need to look at each other and go, come on, man, is this us? For the love of Pete. Maybe it's because I grew up in Seattle. You're Boeing. You're Boeing. That's what you want the world to think of you. Boeing used to lead the way. You're either gonna lead the way or get the hell outta the way. Give us our money back for those planes and we'll find some company that will build them here in America. What are you doing? Either do it right or get out of the way. That's the message that should be heard from Boeing employees to their bosses, like now.