AI-generated song lyrics (no human speaker) (3:21)

Been beat down but I don't stay low? Got mud on my jeans still ready to go? Every scars a story that I survived? I've been through hell but I'm still alive? They said slow down boy, don't go too fast? But I ain't never been one to live in the past? I keep moving forward, never looking back? With a woman out hat in a six string strand? You can kick rocks if you don't like how I talk? I'm gonna keep on talking and walk my walk Ain't changing my tone ain't changing my song? I was born this way? Been loud too long? You can hate my style? You can roll your eyes But I ain't slowing down? I was born to rise. Okay.

Glenn Beck (4:24)

Okay. So the interesting thing about this song is that guy who's singing that was has not been talking for a long time. He has not been walking for a long time. In fact, he was not born long ago. He's not real. That's AI. The number one song on the Billboard country music chart is a. I. AI, I. I have to tell you, some of my favorite music is coming from AI right now. And I don't know how to feel about it. You know, we just. It wasn't too long ago that we thought, oh, well, it's never going to be able to do that. It can't. You know, art is the music. Art is the window to the soul. How. How is AI? If you look at some of the lyrics of this song, I mean, it talks about how he's been dragged through the mud. He's had to really stand. I mean, it doesn't know any of that stuff. None of it is real. And yet it is assembling it in a way that is so appealing. It's number one on the Billboard country music chart, if that. And this is what I want to focus tomorrow. I want to talk to you about college? And what are you telling your kids about college? What are you doing if you're in college? What are you doing if you're thinking about college? What are you thinking? Because the whole world is about to change. You know, I just heard Elon Musk say that in five years, there's not going to be phones or apps. I mean, think. I want you to think about this. There won't be phones or apps. It will just be some sort of a box or device that you kind of carry around with you. And it's listening, it's anticipating. It's AI. It's an agent AI, and it will know what you want to hear, what you want. And it will create the music you want to hear. It will create the podcast you want to hear. It will do all of this stuff for you. So we will be even in our own universe, even more than we are right now. But if AI can fake being a human and sing soulfully while not having a soul, what does it mean to be a human? I have been asking this question and been saying, Stu, since the 90s, I have been saying we have to have a conversation on what does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be alive? Because there's going to come a time when you won't know what it means. Are we there yet, Stu? Are we there?

Stu (Glenn Beck's co-host or guest) (7:20)

It's a good question. I mean, I think we know what it means to be human, but I think the ways that we have shorthanded that over the years are dissolving. Right. Like, you know, when you come up with what seems like original thought, we might all be able to acknowledge that something that AI churns out is not an original thought. But it certainly seems like it to most. And I think a lot of people care. Like, people won't care if it is made by humans or not, if they like it and they seem to like it. And while there will, I think, be a real pushback by some against this stuff, just like, you know, I have a bunch of friends who are into the horror movie practical effects world, where they are like, I like going. That's why I like to watch horror movies, because they use real fake blood or whatever the.

Glenn Beck (8:17)

Yeah, I know.

Stu (Glenn Beck's co-host or guest) (8:17)

You know, it's a weird dedication. It's not my thing. I don't care. You know, when I go to a movie, if it's CGI and it looks real, I don't care. But they love the fact that it's being made by practical effects. And if that's. There will always be Some interest in that. I think there will always be some interest in watching someone doing something manually that a machine could do easier, in some ways better. It becomes niche after a while, doesn't it?

Glenn Beck (8:44)

Yeah. Handmade is going to come back into style at some point. Handmade, human made will come back into style. But we are going. We are going to go through a period where it's going to get really scary. Because, I mean, if a machine can. If a machine can sing soulfully and not have a soul, what does that mean? If it can sculpt beauty, generate things that can make you cry. But how does it know how? It doesn't have anything real inside of it. If it can imitate genius, then what is our genius? What does that mean? Let me start this conversation. We're going to go into this more on tomorrow's program. But let me just start this with. When you start to ask yourself, what does it mean to be a human? A machine can produce and it can produce and will produce better than you can, but it cannot care. It cannot actually care. It can calculate, but. But it cannot love. A machine can imitate suffering. It can relate to suffering. It can sing songs soulfully like it has suffered, but it can never walk through the valley of suffering. It can analyze morality, but it can't instinctively choose right and wrong because it's serving a higher power. It has no conscience. It has no courage. It has no soul. It will never put itself between danger and a child. It will never forgive because it's never really offended. It will never sacrifice. It will never bury a friend and carry that little piece of grief with them for the rest of their lives. There's something different about humans, and it is not about what we can do. It is everything about the divine spark. Only humans can look at something and say, damn it, I know all the odds are against me. All reason goes against this, but I am going to build it instead. I am going to rebuild. Only humans hear the call from deep within the the whispering of the spirit or the ancient whispers the machines will never hear, saying, live for something greater than yourself. There is something more out there. Only humans can take suffering and learn compassion. Only humans can take fear and turn it into courage and bravery. Only humans can take history and turn it into real wisdom. We are making artificial minds, but we are not making artificial life. But as these artificial minds begin to get better and better and their tools become better and better, it should not make us smaller. It should make us ask bigger questions. Who am I? Why am I here? What is the Purpose of life. The questions that man has been asking since the dawn of time. What am I willing to endure for the sake of truth? What am I willing to stand up for? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? What is the purpose of the freedom that I have right now? Is there a purpose? What's the spark inside of me that no machine will ever be able to copy? No algorithm can simulate, no code can counterfeit what makes me unique. That answer is going to be found in each of us, in each of our hearts. And it's this weird, mysterious furnace where reason meets faith and memory becomes meaning. And the divine echoes inside of us reminding us that we are individuals, that we are here for a purpose, that we can be forgiven. We can get stronger. We can rebuild. We can forget everything the world is saying and chart our own course. That's what makes us humans. And machines will not understand that being human isn't what we can produce. Because you are going to see it is producing everything. It is about what we can choose. We can choose to love. We can choose to sacrifice. We can choose to tell the truth. We can choose to stand when the world bows. We can choose to create not because we are told to create, not because we make money to create, but because there is something inside us that is so restless until we do create. A lot of people don't know that I paint. I'm an artist. I don't paint for anybody else. 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Senator John Kennedy (16:54)

Glenn, it's good to be with you, man. Thanks for having me.

Glenn Beck (16:58)

I want to talk to you about your new book, which I can't wait. But let's start with. Let's start with the reopening of the government. I think this is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. We're only reopening until January. They're gonna do this again, are they not?

Senator John Kennedy (17:17)

Yeah, maybe. Maybe they learned a lesson. I mean, here's what happened, Glint. What, seven weeks ago, the country was just rocking along, minding its own business. Our budget was about to run out, but we were talking with Democrats about negotiating a new one. And all of a sudden, at the last minute, Senator Schumer came to us and said, I'm going to stop negotiating. I'm going to tell my people to vote to shut government down unless you give me $1.5 trillion. You gut the one big, beautiful bill like a fish, and you Extend the Obamacare subsidy? Well, I mean, you know, I'd rather, I'd rather have a back alley colonoscopy than vote for something like that. And, and my, my colleagues felt the same way. So we, we told Chuck, said Chuck. Short answers, no. Long answers, Hell no. And Chuck just, I mean, his demands, Glenn, you had to have a, you had to have an Excel spreadsheet to track them. It was so unserious. And so we just sat there and we didn't give up anything. And eventually he had to go to, to five or six of his colleagues to get them to bail him out. And that's why we are.

Glenn Beck (18:43)

Was this, was this just about election? Was this just about the election? What was this for?

Senator John Kennedy (18:49)

Oh, it was politics. It has to do with Senator Schumer's politics. The, the Bolshevik wing, the moon wing of his party. He's scared of them. He should be in instead of, instead of standing up to them. I think his testicles are on back order from China because he just wanted them, he just wanted them to love him. They don't love him. They're never going to love him. Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez is either going to, if the Democrats take over the House, she's either going to be the new new speaker or she's going to run against Schumer or she's going to run for president. And her wing of the party, the Bolshevik wing, is in control. That's what's going on.

Glenn Beck (19:42)

What do you think of John Fetterman?

Senator John Kennedy (19:45)

I really like John. He, his, his health has gotten a lot better. He, he, I sort of, he's a little bit like me. He, we don't agree on politics, but he plays outside the pocket. He says what he thinks. He's very popular in Pennsylvania now. He's not popular among the loon wing of his party. And so he could have problems in a primary, but statewide, people find him, as I do, refreshing.

Glenn Beck (20:22)

Let me just tick off a couple of other things here real quick. Filibuster. I just talked to the White House this week and they're dead serious about getting rid of the filibuster. And I said, you know, maybe reform it, maybe go back to the way it was, but please, let's not get rid of the, the speed bump of the filibuster. And they are convinced that we'll never get anything passed. And the comment was, these people that we're working against are completely unserious. They don't want the same kind of America. How do we get anything passed when they are roadblocking absolutely everything. How do you respond to that?

Senator John Kennedy (21:05)

Well, I talked to the president, I don't know, last week. I mean, he's dug in like a tick. He's. I like the filibuster. When I got to the Senate, Glenn, I didn't. But it, I finally learned that the role of a senator is really twofold. Of course, it's to advance good ideas, but it's also to kill bad ideas. And we killed a lot of bad ideas with the filibuster. I know when, when Joe Biden was president, my preference and I've been encouraging Senator Phone who I don't think he agrees with me, but we did, we passed the one big beautiful bill without a single Democratic vote. And it's a marvelous bill. And we did it through reconciliation, about which, you know, and we can do two more reconciliation bills and for seven weeks, eight weeks, couple months, we've done nothing in the Senate. We need to get up off our ice cold lazy butts and go pass another reconciliation bill that addresses the cost of housing and the cost of health insurance and the cost of living, the things that moms and dads are worried about when they lie down to sleep at night and can't. But I don't, I don't sense that the president's going to give up on it right now. I can tell you, if Thune brought it up for a vote among the Republicans, it wouldn't pass.

Glenn Beck (22:36)

It would not pass. How do you feel about the Supreme Court? Where are they going to come down on these tariffs and the role of the Senate?

Senator John Kennedy (22:49)

Well, I don't know how they're going to come down. I listened to the oral argument. I didn't go over there, but I could get it by, by audio. And they asked, they asked the questions. I thought they would the president is arguing that he's construing the statute. IPA is saying this is a foreign policy decision. And traditionally the US Supreme Court does not interfere with the executive branch when it is addressing foreign policy. The questions from the justices, with the exception of a couple, seem to be long lines of, well, why is it really foreign policy? And the statute is plain and it doesn't mention tariffs. But I learned long ago you, you never predict what, what the court's going to do based on oral argument. They'll fool you.

Glenn Beck (23:41)

What do you think the right thing is?

Senator John Kennedy (23:48)

You know, I've got real, I don't know, I've got really mixed feelings about tariffs. There's no question the president is right. That for years and years and years, other countries have taken advantage of America, particularly China. We admitted China to the World Trade Organization. I think it was December 9, 2001. China started cheating December 10. And I like the idea of reining them in through tariffs. If I had my druthers, here's what I would propose. I don't think the president would agree with me, but I would go to every one of these countries and say, here's the deal. If you reduce your tariffs to zero, America will reduce its tariffs to zero. And then we'll let our companies compete on a level playing field, and may the best product at the best price win. And I think America will win that fight. Now, the president, I can tell you, I've talked to him, he doesn't see it that way.

Stu (Glenn Beck's co-host or guest) (25:03)

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Glenn Beck (25:10)

Wherever you get podcasts. All right, well, let's dive right into the Epstein Maxwell emails. My gosh, Stu, why are they trying to cover up that Donald Trump had sex with children?

Stu (Glenn Beck's co-host or guest) (25:25)

I mean, it's as clear as as day in the emails. You know, he spent hours with one of the victims. What else could possibly have occurred in that arrangement? We don't know.

Glenn Beck (25:39)

And it's one of the. It's one of the victims. To one of the victims.

Stu (Glenn Beck's co-host or guest) (25:44)

One of the victims. That's all we know. That's all we know. One of the victims.

Glenn Beck (25:47)

Let me, let me read what Jeffrey Epstein wrote. I want you to realize that the dog who hasn't barked is Trump. Victim. Victim spent hours at my house with him. He has never once been mentioned. Police Chief, etc. Okay, new information just released. Or is it because in 2011. 2011, that was released and everybody knew it. It's been out floating around. Here's the change in 2011. This is what it read. I want you to realize the dog, it hasn't bark is Trump. Virginia spent hours at my house with him. Why would you redact a name that is already out in the public square? It's already out. The memo is already out. The email is already out. It's been out for years. Why would you redact that name now? Well, because it makes it all suddenly new and shiny, shiny and new. If you don't know who said it, you see victim and you're like, oh, there's a victim that he was. Who was the victim? I don't know. But when you know it's Virginia, you know this is already gone. To court. This is. She already testified about this. He didn't partake in any of this. Any sex with any of it. It's true. He didn't partake in any sex with us. And I'm quoting. This is from the testimony, but it's not true that he flirted with me. Donald Trump never flirted with me. Have you ever met him? Yes, at Mar A Lago. My dad and him, I wouldn't say they were friends, but my dad knew him and they would talk. Um, have you ever been in Donald Trump or Jeffrey Epstein's presence with one another? No. Uh, what's the basis of your statement that Donald Trump is a good friend of Jeffrey? Jeffrey's told me that Donald Trump is a good friend of his. He didn't partake in any of. Any of the sex with. Any of it. Um, with. He flirted with me. It's true that he didn't partake in any sex with us, but it's not true that he flirted with me. So I don't understand that, but she goes on, donald Trump never flirted with me. Okay, so what's new about this? This is the same girl. This is the same person that. Didn't she work at Mar A Lago or she was going to get a job at Mar A Lago?

Stu (Glenn Beck's co-host or guest) (28:19)

I believe she did. Yeah, I believe she did at one point.

Glenn Beck (28:22)

So we know they know each other. We know they know each other. We know that at Mar A Lago, Jeffrey Epstein would come and he was poaching the employees, the girls there, to go work for him. And Donald Trump went to him and said, hey, man, stop it. Stop poaching people from me. That's not cool. Don't do it. Um, and then he said, oh, yeah, all right. And then he did it a second time, and he's like, you know what? You're out. I don't want you here anymore. I asked you not to do that, and you did it. Now, that doesn't mean that he knew anything about the girls or what was happening or anything else. And even if it did mean he knew something was happening with the girls, he was saying, hey, stop it. Don't take any of the. Don't take any of the girls or the women here. Don't do it. I don't believe he knew anything about any of this. But God only knows, and really, God only knows, this is not new news. Donald Trump, he might end up beating Bezos as the richest man on the planet when all is said and done, because again, they're Presenting this as new fact. A giant scandal. This Stu. I don't know if you know this. This is a. This is. This breaking news is a giant scandal.

Stu (Glenn Beck's co-host or guest) (29:46)

Yeah, I've heard Democratic representatives saying that over the past 24 hours. Like, yeah, we said, we need to investigate this. We need to have this. This is shocking stuff. It's a massive scandal. And even ABC News, I heard push back against this and say, well, what scandal, what are you implying occurred here? We know who the victim was. We know the victim. Like, why. Why did you even redact that name? And they're like, well, we always redact the name of victims.

Glenn Beck (30:12)

Like, do you really?

Stu (Glenn Beck's co-host or guest) (30:13)

When they're already out publicly? Not to mention, we should point out that this particular victim is not even alive. She sadly died. I mean, it's a terrible, terrible story.

Glenn Beck (30:23)

Terrible story. Terrible story.

Stu (Glenn Beck's co-host or guest) (30:25)

But, yeah, she passed away. She suicide. It was at least the report, I believe, but she has a book, posthumous book coming out. But like, a terrible, terrible story. But like to act as if you have to protect her identity when, number one, she's ridiculous. Number two, everyone already knows her, including the news sources who also have a policy, you would think, and ABC News has a policy that they would redact a victim that was in this type of situation. But it's already been out. We already knew who it was. So they redact it to make it look like he's with other people who have not already told us nothing bad occurred. You know, it is an absolutely awful tactic. And at least that, at least.

Glenn Beck (31:12)

I think litigation should follow again. I think he should sue them again. Anyone who is presenting this as new information. ABC did their job. Congratulations for abc. They did their job. They pointed out this is not new information. Why would you. Why are you releasing this now? And you're redacting a name? This, this, this email is already out. You're presenting this as a new scandal, and you redacted that name. This is completely dishonest. The news media shouldn't even run with it. They shouldn't have even run with it. They should have said old news, old news. And if you did run with it, you should handle it the way ABC handled it. Wait a minute. Why. Why would you redact the name that. There's nothing new here? What do you mean there's a big scandal? There's no big scandal. She's already testified against exactly opposite of what you're believing. Jeffrey Epstein over the victim. Now, I just want to make sure we understand the Democrats here. You're taking the word of Epstein over The victim. Oh, okay.

Stu (Glenn Beck's co-host or guest) (32:19)

And Epstein doesn't even say that anything occurred. That there's not. It's just. It would be something. You'd have to jump to a conclusion to accuse Donald Trump of something like this. And we know what happened because the victim said nothing, Said it was nothing. In fact, it wasn't even a flirtation, which, by the way, you know, even that, you might think it's creepy wouldn't even have been a crime, but it wasn't even flirtation. So I. It's just a disgrace in every single way.

Glenn Beck (32:53)

All right, so let me. Let me take you here. Let me take you here. If you remember, when the shutdown first started, what did the Democrats say? The reason why they did the shutdown, not them. Why Mike Johnson and everybody else wouldn't negotiate. Why wouldn't. Why wouldn't the Republicans negotiate? Because the heat was on to release the Epstein files, and they didn't want to have to do that. So they shut the government down. Okay. They wouldn't negotiate. You didn't hear any of this.

Stu (Glenn Beck's co-host or guest) (33:28)

It's incomprehensible. It doesn't make any.

Glenn Beck (33:30)

I know.

Stu (Glenn Beck's co-host or guest) (33:30)

Any sense at all. But that is probably what they said.

Glenn Beck (33:34)

So the government is open. And what does Mike Johnson do? Yesterday he said the House is going to vote on a bill to release all of the files related to the late financier, convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, next week. He said on Wednesday that a discharge position to bypass leadership and force a vote on the bill hit the benchmark for needed signatures. It's been designed, decided by him, to expediate the vote for the bill, which under the current rules, could have been delayed until at least early December. So as he says, as soon as that petition hit the needed 218 signatures, I brought it up. Unanimous consent. Let's go. Release it. So he's pushing this forward. Good, Mike. Release all of it. Thank you. Get it out, Lance. This boil. I mean, if anybody thinks that you're ever going to get the truth on this in the first place, it's madness. It's madness. Everybody. I mean, so many important people were involved in this, and it was in the hands of the Democrats for the longest time. Okay, so they had all of this information. You don't think it was all picked through? And. And if there was anything about Donald Trump, you don't think that would have come up between 2020 and 2024? There's nothing in there about Donald Trump. I mean, you. These people are so stupid. This time we got him, boys. This time we got him. No, you don't. It's. It's like you're Wiley Coyote. This time we've got the Roadrunner. No, you're never going to catch him on this. It doesn't work. There's nothing there. The guy was the most investigated person in the history of the world and you got nothing. Now it's good to come out, but if you think you're going to catch a bunch of people on the left, you're not going to, because they had it, you know, in their possession. You don't think all of the names were taken out. You don't think things were destroyed. If there was anything. I believe there was something, but I don't believe there's any names in it anymore. You're not going to get the truth on this one. You're just not going to get the truth. But release everything that we have. Everything. Oh, by the way, also in the Epstein emails, how come nobody's talking about this one, Stu? This one is from Michael Wolf to Jeffrey Epstein. And then Jeffrey Epstein responds. So Michael Wolf writes, what's the thumbnail on Nussbaum Foster? And Jeffrey Epstein writes back, nussbaum, White House counsel, Hillary doing naughty's with Vince. Now, Vince Foster killed himself, you know, and then he killed himself in the White House and then drug himself across the street to the park. I mean, I don't know. The Vince Foster thing is so old and it does. But why is nobody talking about that one? Why is no one talking about that? Also in the Jeffrey Epstein email bundle, abc. You don't feel it's necessary to bring that one up, huh? Interesting.