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Glenn Beck
Well, the new York Times thinks President Trump has put a bunch of his own money into the White House to showcase luxury and how he just wants guillotines. Oh my gosh, I can't take it. I explain exactly what the because I know I was in the Oval and I talked to the President about it one on one this week, New York Times did another butt from their elbow. Also, Tim Kennedy joins me. And life does have meaning. Stu's been waiting all week to discuss assisted suicide. I but you don't want to miss it. You can get the whole podcast wherever you get your podcast. This is the best of today's podcast. A lot of people aren't living the life they want. Not because they lack talent or drive, but because they're paying so much every month in high interest debt. Meanwhile, the banks are doing just fine. You're one of those people. It's time to make a change. And please let me recommend American Financing. They can help you get started. I also recommend that you don't wait around. American Financing is, I mean, they're not a, they're not a bank. They're a family. They are a family owned mortgage company that actually sits down and looks at your whole financial picture. They work for you. Your mortgage, your credit cards, your student loans, personal loans, everything. And they'll help you come up with the best plan to tackle all of those things. They're for commissions. No, they're salary. They're salary based for you. They work for you, not the bank. Please call American financing now. American Financing.net at 800-906-2440. They're online at American Financing.net it's 8-800-906-2440. Hello America. You know we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it. But to keep this 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 leave a comment. Because every single review helps us break through Big Tech's algorith 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. Oh, where to begin, where to begin, where to begin? Louise, there's. There's so much the, the polls of the Democrats just getting worse and worse and worse that's in the news. I, you know, the media has a new conspiracy about Trump's decor on the Oval Office, which I, I saw that story. Can I start there, please? I want to start there. This really drives me out of my.
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Stu Burguiere
You were just there. You just, just there noticed a lot of these same things. Did you notice a big conspiracy?
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Glenn Beck
Oh, a giant conspiracy. I spoke to the President about this very thing. Okay. When I walked in, they left me and my wife alone in the over for about five minutes. Okay.
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Stu Burguiere
Which doesn't normally happen.
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Glenn Beck
That doesn't happen. That doesn't happen. And when he finally walked in, he said, I asked him to leave you alone in here because I knew you'd want to look around and might feel uncomfortable. So did you look around? And I'm like, oh, my gosh, I touched everything.
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Stu Burguiere
I said, yeah, better than in the Clinton administration, I'll say that.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. No, I mean, I was very, very, you know, respectful of everything in there. I didn't touch anything, but I did look at everything. And I mean, they have a. What he's done. Let me just start here. This is what the New York Times is saying, that if you look at the maximalist gold accents in which Trump has appointed the Oval Office, the sparkle conveying something more than insidious about how Trump views himself. Behold the new Sun King, the wannabe emperor who views his powers as absolute. Really? Is that what it says? Is that really what it says? Okay, now you could say, hmm, it says a guy who loves gold. Is anybody surprised by that? Is anybody surprised at Donald Trump? The most luxurious, the most golden gold of all, gold you could possibly ever imagine. Gold. Never thought gold could be this gold. Okay.
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Stu Burguiere
The thing he's, like, most famous for before he was president is gold.
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Glenn Beck
Okay? He loves gold. I would have you know the president is spending his own money doing any of these upgrades to the White House. Anything that is being done by Him. And he is doing a lot and a lot, just a lot. And every American should be grateful for what he is spending his money on and doing. And you will know more about that in the coming months. You will be shocked at some of the things that he is just saying. I'm just gonna write a check and do it. Um, but anyway, if you look at the Oval, I want to know how. How putting paintings of presidents up says I'm the Sun King. Okay. Every. I looked at all of the paintings. I wanted to know, because it says a lot about a president on who he is putting up on the walls. You know, what paintings is he putting up on the walls? Now? Some people have put landscapes on. Other people, you know, have put, you know, pictures of New York up or whatever. This president has put presidents on the wall. He has taken the. Not Rembrandt Peel. I think it's his. His father, Tim. Is it Timothy P. I can't remember what his father's name. Rembrandt Peel is the guy who did the Porthole President painting, which is also up on the. It's above the Declaration of Independence, but above the fireplace. His father did the most famous painting of. Of George Washington as a young soldier.
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Stu Burguiere
Charles Wilson Peele.
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Glenn Beck
Charles Wilson. And it's the one where he's standing. You've seen it a million times in history books. And he's standing there, and he's got his hand kind of in his vest and the sword by his side, and it's. It's a young George Washington. And that hung in the Reagan Oval Office. Okay. Hasn't been seen since then, all of these paintings. One is a painting of Thomas Jefferson that hasn't been seen in a hundred years. Okay? And so what Donald Trump did is he went down into the vaults of the White House. I know because I talked to him about this. He said all of these stuff, Glenn, he said they have all these things that have been and can be used in the White House that are just in storage down in the vaults. And he said, so I just went down in the vaults. And I'm like, what? What. What do we have? What do we have? And he said, all of these beautiful paintings of all of these presidents. He said, they haven't been seen. And he's like, I don't know. This is the. This is the room of the presidents. I thought we should put presidents up on the wall. Okay? Now here's the thing that the New York Times will never understand, because they immediately go to. He's the Sun King. He Wants to behead people, and then he'll end up beheading, being beheaded. That. That's. They're immediately going to. He wants to be a dictator. When he first came in, he said, you see all the gold? And I said, you can't really miss it, Mr. President. Now, I'm not a fan of. Of. Of gold. And, you know, all of the gilding and stuff. It the way he's done it is beautiful. I personally. That's not my style, but it doesn't have to be my style, okay? And I said. I said, I think I know why the price of gold is so high. What does this cost you? And he laughed. And. And he said, you know, I'm going to leave it, of course, but, I mean, unless it's a Democrat, then I might just take all of a gilding off. But he was joking. Here's what he said to me. Glenn. This is the most important office in the world. And all of these people come from their big, huge palaces and their big, huge rooms of power that's gilded and has all of these paintings, all of the old trappings of power. He said, I want them to understand that this is the same kind of power, except it's a new power and a power beyond their understanding. So he is trying. He is doing this to the Oval Office, not to become a dictator, not to signal anything to America, but to signal something to all of the dignitaries that come into that office and sit in those chairs. You are sitting at a place of ultimate power. That's exactly what the Oval is supposed to do. That's why they built it that way. That's. That's the whole point of that office, is to project power to the world. Not to the citizen, to the world. I just. I was just with him two days ago. We had this very conversation. The New York Times. You're so full of bull crap. I can't take.
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Stu Burguiere
There was an F in there, and I thought it was going a different direction for a second in the middle of that sentence.
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Glenn Beck
It's very close today. It could happen. I'm just so. I am so sick and tired of this guy. I mean, look, this is not my taste. It's not my taste. It's not the way I would decorate it. But I understand why he's doing it, and I appreciate why he's doing it.
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Stu Burguiere
Well, I mean, he does obviously love gold, and he loves the way those are.
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Glenn Beck
That's decorated, but go ahead.
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Stu Burguiere
But. But he also knows how people in powerful positions in other nations.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Stu Burguiere
View things right like he said, glenn, I've been.
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Glenn Beck
I've been to Moscow. I've been in all of their places of power. We need to make sure that they understand that they see enough of what they believe is power. They see enough of that and then some. He's. I was. We. This conversation went on for probably 10 minutes. It's so ironic that they write this stupid story today.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Because I'm sitting there and I got to. You know what? I'm going to send you some pictures of me sitting with him and my wife at the Oval and also looking around because we are having this conversation. And you can see him having this conversation with me. I will post them up online when we get into the break. He knows exactly what he's doing. And he spoke to me about. I can't tell you everything that we spoke about because he made me sign a non disclosure. And I wish he wouldn't have because he just shows you who he is and what he's doing that makes him look good. This guy never allows people to talk about the really unbelievable, humbling things that he does. Never. Because I think he thinks it makes him look weak. And I just want to take him by the shoulders today and shake him. Go. Because the guy is a builder. He knows how to build. He knows how to build things of quality. And what he's doing to the White House is phenomenal, just phenomenal. And he's not doing it to project power. Why, if you were a dictator, why would you put all of the other presidents. Why would you put George Washington over the fireplace? Why would you have Thomas Jeff, if you wanted to be a dictator, why would you put the Declaration of Independence right next to your desk that says, we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal and. And that governments are established by men? Why would you do that? That says we don't have a king? Why would you do that? Why? Why? You know, why does he have the. What is it? FIFA? Is that how you say it? FIFA.
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Stu Burguiere
FIFA for the soccer.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. Okay. You know he has the soccer statue. The World Cup. The World cup, okay. Sitting right next to his desk. Did you know that?
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Stu Burguiere
No.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, so the FIFA guy comes and is visiting the president and I walk in and I only seen a little bit of it, you know, when the press is in there and I'm like, I think that's the World Cup. And so I go in. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable in real. In real life. And it's all gold, beautiful gold. And it's this year's cop which is happening here in America. And so the FIFA president comes in and shows him the cup and he's like, you know, we do have the World cup happening here. Would be great if you just leave it here next to my desk. And the guy is like, okay, you can have it for a couple of months. And he's like, all right. So he's got it. He's got it, I think until the, until the World cup happens. And so he has it sitting there. Why? Why? Why would he put it there? Why? Why? Tell me why? Why? Why? Why? Tell me. Anybody? Quickly.
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Stu Burguiere
My guess would be that the importance of that trophy to the rest of the world is incredibly high.
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Glenn Beck
Yes. Yes. Yes. No, it's because he wants to be a dictator and show that he could even win soccer games. No, he's showing the rest of the.
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Stu Burguiere
World this, this thing just lives here when I want it. Basically, yes.
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Glenn Beck
We are the center of the World cup this year. The world is coming to us. He's going to have, mark my words, he didn't tell me this, but mark my words, he will have the gold medals and everything else from the Olympic Games, which is also here in America. He will have those in his office. He is signaling to the world. You New York Times people are so caught up in your own self righteous, dim witted, over educated bull crap that you can't get beyond yourself. Can you not see what a negotiator is doing? Are you really that dim witted that you can't understand what this guy is doing? Are you that full of spite and hat that you can't for a second step outside of yourself and go, wait a minute, is there a strategy to this? This guy is playing a game of chess beyond your under. You're not even playing checkers, you're not even playing marbles. I don't know what you're playing. I don't know what you're playing.
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Stu Burguiere
You know, it's interesting. I think part of the reason they do stuff like this is because it fits into their narrative of who he is. And I think you could, if you kind of look at it from a surface, if you step back, I don't think you can possibly get to, hey, he wants to be a king. That's just dumb. But like, you could get to a place where you think he wouldn't put any thought into this, right? Like, I think you could get to, you know, guys tweeting mean things at people. He's, you know, he's out there, he's kind of, he's letting it fly all the time. He's a former reality show host. He's not going to care about what, you know, paintings are in the Oval Office. I can understand that view years and years ago. But, like, he's very, very thoughtful on this stuff.
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Glenn Beck
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Tim Kennedy
I am expecting exceptionally well right now. How you doing, sir?
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Glenn Beck
I am great. I'm great. What were you doing in the White House?
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Tim Kennedy
Oh, that I had, I was there for a week. The day that I saw you, we were going in to see the president and I was escorting a bunch of wounded heroes for what is the fifth and the fifth celebration now that we're doing it. And it'll be, you know, Hopefully a national holiday for Wounded Heroes Day. We'll have Memorial Day, we'll have Veterans Day, and then in between those two things, we'll have Wounded Heroes Day. Especially on the, you know, the. The right side of 20 years at war. We definitely need to celebrate these guys that have given so much, these guys and gals.
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Glenn Beck
You know, I tell you, I was out, Tim, two weeks ago, and let's just say I can't remember what days of the week they were, but let's say on a Wednesday, I'm talking to a group of people, and a guy comes up to me, and he said, I. I wanted to be here tonight, but my son, two days ago, he was in the military, and he just committed suicide. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. And then two days later, I'm someplace else, and this. This mom comes up to me, and she said, I just wanted to say hi. And she starts crying, and I said, are you okay? And she said, my son just committed suicide. He was in the military. And this has got to stop, Tim. This has got to stop. What do we need to do?
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Tim Kennedy
We have to have a massive culture shift. We have to give these young men and women purpose. We've had in just this past week. I was with Secretary Collins, who's the secretary of the va. He's an extraordinary man, a chaplain, a combat veteran man, and he loves the veterans crying. He was literally crying, talking about he's had veterans commit suicide in the parking lots of VAs. And he's like, this is what we're doing. I can't do it fast enough. But the man is pouring his heart out. His daughter is in a wheelchair from a lifetime struggle of medical issues. So he has not just the combat veteran perspective, but he also appreciates, as the father, kind of care provider of somebody that's in a wheelchair, the struggles of mobility. And so he really appreciates the whole entire spectrum of these people and their struggles, especially our veterans. And, you know, as you know, there's nothing worse than a young person or a man that is living without purpose. And these men, their service was purpose. Their. Their teams and the men to the left and the right were their purpose. And now they're searching for the next thing, you know, Afghanistan. How embarrassing that withdrawal was, that deeply hurt every veteran that went to Afghanistan, you know, and then watching the Taliban just. Just run wreck and havoc throughout the whole entire region.
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Glenn Beck
You know, we're still. You know, we're still spending, sending $2 billion a year over to Afghanistan.
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Tim Kennedy
Yeah. Fortunately, you know, like, all of we have an Incredible cabinet and they are rapidly fixing these things, you know, but it's, it's such a mess. We were left with such a mess. And the Tulsi Gabbards and the Sebastian Gorkins, the Joe Kent's and the Mike Waltzes, they just can't go fast enough.
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Glenn Beck
I know they can. Let me ask you this about Tulsi Gabbard. I worry about her. I mean she is, I mean she is at the gates of hell. The intel community is just, it's just a den of vipers. You know, that's, that's the gates of the, of the real deep state. And you know, everything that's going on around the world is, is Tulsi surrounded by enough people to be able to pull this thing off?
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Tim Kennedy
That's, that's a really great question.
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Glenn Beck
Hate that.
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Tim Kennedy
First, yeah, she's an extraordinary woman. She's brilliant, she's passionate. She loves the constitution, she loves the uniform, she loves our country. And you know, we got killer Kent, Joe Kent, former Green Beret, Special Forces, guy that went to the agency as a guy that would go into, you know, combat operations for the agency. Lost his wife, Shannon Kent. In that same type of world we have Sebastian Gorka, Dr. Gorka, Andy Stewart, like the group at the very top of the intel community, obviously Mike Waltz, another Green Beret, a former teammate of mine. These people know that the system is fighting against them. And then the one tier down, you know, the, the like upper to mid level management of the intelligence community. They are embedded operatives that are anti everything for reform and change. So they are trying to manipulate, they are leaking things to the press that shouldn't be leaked. Screen captures of chat conversations. But they're gonna get caught. You know, between Cash Patel, Pam Bondi and Tulsi Gabbard. Those are people you do not want to be on the opposite an adversarial position.
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Glenn Beck
So I tell you, Tim, I agree with that 100%. And yet you're not seeing, I mean this is the way the audience feels. At least they're not seeing those agencies moving. And you know, I talked to the President about it on Wednesday and I said, you know what's happening? He said, glenn, you got to give it time. It's still early. And what I heard from others outside of the White House was that Congress is not giving them the people around them, that they need to be able to move quickly enough. Is that gonna change?
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Tim Kennedy
I mean, is Congress gonna change? No. Are you kidding me? Like that of vipers, as you put it. Perfectly. Yeah, they're undermining and they're currently fighting against to postpone and slow to keep that. Mark and Meier, that is the intelligence community ineffective.
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Glenn Beck
And I wanna make it clear, I believe that's the Republicans just as much as the Democrats. You agree with that?
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Tim Kennedy
I do agree with that. Not all of them. There are ones in there. Right, but absolutely. Like the fact that this is not a partisan issue, that our peer level adversaries are positioning to attack us. And there are embedded, embedded terrorist cells here in the United States that are working to kill Americans and they are currently undermining our intelligence capabilities. They should be hungry publicly. That's what they. That's absolutely what should happen. It's treason what they're doing to Tulsi Gabbard and Cash Patel.
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Glenn Beck
I agree.
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Tim Kennedy
Pam Bondi.
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Glenn Beck
I agree. We're talking to Tim Kennedy, talking to the President about the border and what's going on on the border this week. And I said, you know, if, if, if I were, you know, a Mexican citizen and knowing that my government was in bed with the cartels, I would be hoping that, you know, some special forces just show up in the middle of night and start killing people in these cartels. And he said, well, that would be news breaking if I said that would be a good idea. But, you know, I hope it doesn't come to that. But it was clear that that is on the table. I mean, that really has to happen, does it not? I mean, that is a collapsed narco state in Mexico, isn't it?
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Tim Kennedy
Yeah. The rules of war that we are going to be experiencing for the next five to 10 years are not the traditional maneuver warfare that people remember from Korea and from Vietnam and from even g what where we know who our enemy is. These are going to be businesses, these are syndicated criminal organizations that do not fight fair. And the cartel owns both the businesses, the corporations and the criminal networks that are involved in that. So, yes, it's absolutely on the table. And the group of people that are sitting on like the go button are absolute savages, Mr. Beck.
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Glenn Beck
I know. So I know some of them and they are like, and they're just like, they're just chomping at the bit to go. I know, I know that's the truth.
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Tim Kennedy
We're in conversation with the cartels right now and the cartels are saying, hey, we don't want to die. We don't want to be walked off the face of planet which we know is about to happen. So, you know, are there other options where, hey, what if we stop Human trafficking. What if we stop fentanyl production entirely? What if we, you know, sex slaves? What if, what if all that just goes away? What if we stop and seal the border on the south side? What are you going to, like, would we maybe be allowed to transport, you know, some cocaine and some marijuana? I'm totally fine with this. If we stop fentanyl, we stop human trafficking, we stop gun smuggling and we stop the invasion of our border, like, and we don't have to do a whole bunch of killing, you know, whatever. But they're, they know they're on the brink of. I hope they do the chance of existence.
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Glenn Beck
I hope they do the, you know, when you, when you look at what is, what is happening there and what they're bringing over here, it just, it has to stop. Dead in its tracks. Dead in its tracks. It has to stop and it has to stop soon. I mean, you know, the President is dealing with these courts and which I think is just judicial insurrection, as Mike Lee puts, puts it. And it's got to stop. The President has to protect our borders and has to protect our cities. This is, you know, this is the Opium wars done to China by the English, you know, 200 years ago, 150 years ago, and now they're doing it to us. That's what's happening. Tell me about the Christians and genocide that you believe is on the horizon.
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Tim Kennedy
Just yesterday after back at the White House yesterday, listening to some briefs about there's some brilliant companies that are able to do predictive modeling using literally every public and classified source of information. And there's these events that are pretty predictable. They predicted what was going to happen in Afghanistan, predicted what was going to happen in Ukraine. Well, they see regionally that on the very near horizon, as soon as like late summer, we are going to see real instability throughout centcom, the Indo Pacific region. And some of those things, some of the catalysts that are the date, the data points are what are the killing of Christians. And it's happening all over centcom.
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Glenn Beck
And explain centcom. For anybody who doesn't know what CENTCOM means, explain that.
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Tim Kennedy
If you just imagine the Middle east starting kind of in North Africa and Western Asia and everything that has lots of deserts and lots of Muslim countries just by coincidence. There's also Israel sits in centcom, one of the few non Muslim democracies in that whole entire region. And you know, the Houthis and Hamas and Hezbollah and then in former countries like in Syria and Iraq, Afghanistan, those places, it's just a massacre of Christians right Now.
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Glenn Beck
This is the best of the Glenn Beck podcast. It's a compilation of clips from various episodes. If you want to dig deeper into this interview, check out the full podcast episode.
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Stu Burguiere
So who wants to kill Themselves? No, I know I do. I've been working with you for 20 years.
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Glenn Beck
Not the way to start.
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Stu Burguiere
That's how I wanted. No, I wanted to bring this story to your attention, Glenn, because I thought it was fascinating and right up your alley in a very dark and weird, twisted way.
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Glenn Beck
All right, good.
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Stu Burguiere
So it's a story of Daniel Kahneman. He's known, pretty famous thinker.
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Glenn Beck
He probably came up with condiments named after him.
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Stu Burguiere
Daniel Condiment? Yes, he came up with relish. It's the first one. And they named all the rest of the condiments after him. No, he was technically a psychologist, but he was kind of known for his work in behavioral economics. And his probably most famous work was a book called Thinking Fast and Slow.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
Which is a great book, actually.
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Glenn Beck
Great book.
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Stu Burguiere
Fascinating book. And basically breaking the way we make decisions down into a fast way, which is like instinctive and reactionary, and a slow way, which is slow, methodical, logical. And a lot of times we think we're making decisions on the logical path when we're actually making them on. Yeah, on the fast path. And so it's a great book. He was also half of the subject of Michael Lewis book called the Undoing Project, which is another really good book, and it's about behavioral economics is kind of where he, even though he wasn't necessarily an economist, that's where he was kind of. He wound up winning the Nobel Prize in economics. So he passed away recently.
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Glenn Beck
That was somewhat of a big deal.
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Stu Burguiere
A big story in that world. However, now we're getting the results and the sort of behind the scenes of what happened to this guy wasn't hit by a bus. Was not hit by a bus. He wasn't, you know, walking, you know, in the wrong place in Ukraine. He wasn't, you know, caught up in a tsunami in Japan.
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Glenn Beck
Drop dead when a house fell on him?
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Stu Burguiere
No, that's a good guess.
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Glenn Beck
All right.
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Stu Burguiere
It's actually much, much, much, much worse than that. Okay, so March 19, 2024. He wound up actually dying on the 27th, but he was communicating with some people on March 19, and he was explaining how he was going to die. Now you might say, okay, well, I mean, we kind of tease the assisted suicide part of this. You know, he's got cancer, he's got some debilitating disease. It's just gonna be terrible. Can't take the pain anymore. Whatever. Right?
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Glenn Beck
Not the case.
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Stu Burguiere
Was it not the case?
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Glenn Beck
Not the case.
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Stu Burguiere
In explanation, Professor Kahnemans included a letter that his friends would receive a few days later. Quote, I have believed since I was a teenager that the miseries and indignities of the last years of life are superfluous. And I'm acting on that belief. I am still active, still active, enjoying many things in life, enjoying them, except for the daily news, and I will die a happy man.
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Glenn Beck
Okay.
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Stu Burguiere
But my kidneys are on their last legs. The frequency of mental lapses is increasing, and I'm 90 years old. It's time to go. End quote. Okay, so he goes through an assisted suicide process here and kills himself over the fact that he's occasionally having mental lapses, but still has a great life and is enjoying many things and going through life positively.
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Glenn Beck
Can I stop you here?
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Stu Burguiere
Yes.
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Glenn Beck
I am torn on this stuff so badly.
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Stu Burguiere
Are you?
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, because the libertarian. Yeah, because the libertarian in me is like, whatever, dude. Your life. However, the God part of me says, you're not God. You're not God. Life is sacred, and you should be grateful for every second that you have.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah. And I think that's certainly where I land on it, because as a person who's a libertarian, I think that's really only hitting the legal part of this conversation.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Stu Burguiere
Right. Like, you could sit here and say, well, people should be able to kill themselves by the way. They do it all the time, and you can't really stop them. It's really hard to stop them. A lot of those circumstances, very tragic. But it's really difficult to stop someone from jumping out of a building or jumping off a bridge or injecting themselves with something or overdosing.
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Glenn Beck
Sure.
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Stu Burguiere
This happens.
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Glenn Beck
Sure. Especially when the president says, put ammonia right into your veins. Right.
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Stu Burguiere
How many people did that? Immediately rushed out and injected bleach, even though he didn't say that at all.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Stu Burguiere
So from a libertarian stance, of course, we would frown upon that decision. But legally, it's difficult to stop people. There's, of course, a different situation when you're talking about having doctors assist you in that process.
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Glenn Beck
You know, what I really like is it harkens back to the old timey Germany days, you know, where the doctors are, like, they put a little bit of this in your vein, then you'll. Sleepy. Sleepy.
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Stu Burguiere
Right.
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Glenn Beck
You know, it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. And then you die.
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Stu Burguiere
And then you die. So what I find fascinating about this is Multiple things. Number one, just how we're just turning off what we used to believe was the sanctity of life.
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Glenn Beck
So hang on just a second. Isn't this the same guy, or is there another guy that said this week about being. Just feeling useless, that I don't really have a purpose anymore?
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Stu Burguiere
Could be. Could be the same.
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Glenn Beck
And I thought that's really, you know, that it's not a reason to kill yourself. You know, you feel useless. You feel like you don't have a purpose. You should find one. You should find one because there is a purpose in life.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
And that's kind of the goal, is to find your purpose, you know, no matter what it is. And if we're just shutting ourselves off because there's, you know, I don't really feel like there's a purpose. How many of our teenagers feel that way right now?
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Stu Burguiere
And that's really awful.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. And by the way, Canada will let you off yourself if you're a teenager and you feel like, you know, I just don't have any purpose or will to live. Okay.
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Stu Burguiere
If you're feeling, you know, meh.
- [35:42]
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
If you hit the meh standard, the.
- [35:45]
Glenn Beck
The official diagnosis has to be meh, and it has to be met. That has to be met by two doctors. Two doctors. I mean, Germany had three, but Canada is as only requiring two.
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Stu Burguiere
Good job, guys. Don't live up to those Nazi standards. There's one other detail to this that was revealed to me only after I printed the article. I want to give you that in a second, but listen to a little bit more of this. Despite his advanced age, this person who wound up killing himself was still capable of research and writing and could still enlighten audiences on how to make better decisions. Apart from his intellectual gifts, he was healthy enough to participate in friendship and family life. Why did none of this give him sufficient reason to continue to live? The answer, we believe, can be found toward the end of an interview we did with him. He surprised us by denying that his work had any objective significance. Other people happen to respect it, and they say that it's for the benefit of humanity, but I just like to get up in the morning because I like the work. We push back, arguing that there are objectively good things to do with one's life. But he resisted. I feel like I live my life well, he said, but it's a feeling. I'm just reasonably happy with what I've done. I would say that if there's an objective point of view, then I'm totally irrelevant to It. If you look at the universe and the complexity of the universe, what I do with my day cannot be relevant.
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Glenn Beck
That's the quote I was referring to.
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Stu Burguiere
Oh, okay.
- [37:08]
Glenn Beck
That's the quote I was referring to. Yeah. Can't be relevant. I have no relevancy, really. I was just with a. How old is Trump? 81. Seriously, how old is he?
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Stu Burguiere
No, he's not that old. He's in the 70s.
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Glenn Beck
79.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, he's almost 80.
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Stu Burguiere
Oddly, you looked older in the interview, which was interesting.
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Glenn Beck
Shut up. I felt older around him, but the guy is like. I mean, you want to find a purpose? Look at that guy.
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Stu Burguiere
78, by the way.
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Glenn Beck
78. Look at the purpose on that guy. I mean, I think this is maybe the most important purpose of his entire life.
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Stu Burguiere
He's done a lot.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. And he's done a lot. And your life has no meaning whatsoever. You have to find it. That's your part of the deal. God gives you life, then you find out what the purpose is.
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Stu Burguiere
And you think about so many younger people especially. We've talked about the Jonathan Haidt book several times about this sort of empty feeling that younger people have because everything.
- [38:03]
Glenn Beck
Is all about buying stuff, being famous. All of the things that are empty, they have no meaning. You know what gives you meaning? And I know this sounds horrible. Work. Work.
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Stu Burguiere
It's not horrible to say that work gives.
- [38:24]
Glenn Beck
Part of what gives you meaning is. I don't like work.
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Stu Burguiere
I don't like it either. I mean, gosh, look at my resume. I've been with you for a very long time.
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Glenn Beck
I don't like any work. For me, at least, I don't like it. I don't like hard work. Hard. But there is something about doing something, Getting up every day. This is something I say to myself. He's like, I don't know. Get your ass out of bed, make your bed. Go find something to do. No matter how meaninglessly meaningless it is. Find meaning in it by doing it well. You're gonna make a hamburger. Make the best damn hamburger anyone can make. You will come home beat to snot, tired. But you will find purpose in your life just by doing things. That's. That's. I mean, I'm sorry. That's just what has to be said. Boy, am I getting to be that old where I'm like, that kind of old, grumpy man. Just get off your ass and do some. Get a job. Get a job.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah. That is crucial. You'd like, by the way, David Boson's book. It's called Full Time work and the Meaning of Life. And that's exactly what the book's about. Is about.
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Glenn Beck
It's true.
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Stu Burguiere
You do find purpose in this, and that's good.
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Glenn Beck
You know, my son and I, we. We went out, I don't know, a couple years ago and I, I'm not a. It's gonna come as a surprise to you. I mean, because you look at me, you're like, well, that is a. He is a hard working man. I don't do a lot of manual labor. Never have.
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Stu Burguiere
You're kidding me. But you own a ranch.
- [39:51]
Glenn Beck
What do you mean?
- [39:53]
Stu Burguiere
There's a horse in the middle of our logo. You're riding horses around a big.
- [39:57]
Glenn Beck
I do. And I have people that saddle that horse, bring that horse to me. You know, I go, I go up to farmers and I shake their hands and they're like, what the hell? I just, I mean, my wife's hands aren't as soft as yours. And I like, I haven't worked a day in my life, Jack, so. But I don't. I. Annual labor. Don't like it. Avoid it like the plague. Always have. But my son and I, we went and we had to go build fences, you know, you know, on the ranch. And then we had to take down and we had to sand these gates down and, you know, get all the rust off them and paint them everything. It was the best week either of us. We worked so hard all the whole time. We would come in and we could just barely sit at the table and eat. And both of us look at those pictures of those times and go. That was fun. We weren't thinking that at the time, but it, There is something about that. There is. You know, it's. It's like how everybody looks at their worst time of their life. Oh, this is such a struggle when we. Just barely. But when you get past it, you go back and you look at it and go like, those were actually good times. Those were good times. Wouldn't want to do. They always say this. Wouldn't want to do them again, don't want to repeat them. But those were good times. Why? Because that struggle, you learned something about yourself. You, you, you were pushed into areas that you didn't. You didn't know you even had. That's what gives you purpose. That's what, that's what teaches you, is the hard things, the hard work, the hard knocks, all of this teaches us something. And our society has rejected it 100%. I don't want to do that. That sounds hard. I Don't want to do that job. That sounds hard. You're going to make me take a test? That sounds hard. I got to do what. No, that sounds hard.
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Stu Burguiere
That connects directly to what Andrew Cleveland was talking about yesterday. At this time. He's talking about murders. He was taking positives out of murders because it turned into art. And all these incredible thought experiments and ways that we learn and evolved and. And you could. You could find it everywhere. That's part of life, right?
- [42:17]
Glenn Beck
Yeah, it's what. It's what will save us in the end. Should all of this. Should all of this just come apart? Okay. And I hope it doesn't, but should the next four years show that. Yep, they gave it a college try, and it just fell apart. And we're in really bad times. What will. What will be? The difference will be those who choose to say, this is going to be for our own good. Good will come of this. I don't know what shape. I don't know how. I have no idea because I'm not God, and I can't predict what's coming next. But I know this will turn out to be good. Those people will survive and they will be happy. Those who look at it and like, everything's horrible and I can't do anything, and we just need help. Those people will destroy themselves and any opportunity to get out.
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Stu Burguiere
Hmm. Very true. Let me give you this last paragraph here. Professor Kahneman signaled concern that he did not end his. If he did not end his life when he was clearly mentally competent, he could lose control over the remainder of it and live and die with needless miseries and indignities. One lesson to learn from his death is that if we are to live well to the end, we need to be able to freely discuss when a life is complete without shame or taboo. Such a discussion may help people to know what they really want. We may regret their decisions, but we should respect their choices and allow them to end their lives with dignity. So I printed this story out so we could talk about it on the air, and I didn't notice this detail until I printed it out. Which was the author of the story, One of the two authors, a name from the past, Glenn Peter Singer.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, my God. Is that guy still alive?
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Stu Burguiere
He's still alive. And have you thought about shortening his life? Yes, A lot. Apparently, he has not taken that path quite yet. Peter Singer, a name that you may remember. We've talked about him 100 million times, going back many years.
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Glenn Beck
A hundred million years.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah. If you're a Long term listener. You'll remember his name. He was the guy who advocated for a period of 28 days after birth to be able to abort your child. Abort your child.
- [44:41]
Glenn Beck
And he did apologize for that.
- [44:42]
Stu Burguiere
He did. He did apologize.
- [44:43]
Glenn Beck
He said that wasn't long enough. It should have up to two years. He said, until a child can realize that there is a tomorrow, they're not really a human.
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Stu Burguiere
Right.
- [44:51]
Glenn Beck
And so until they say to you, what are we gonna do tomorrow? You can kill them. That's honestly. And by the way, he was professor of ethics, maybe he still is. Chair of ethics at Princeton University.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah. Not just some gu.
- [45:04]
Glenn Beck
No, Princeton University. And you can kill your child until they say, what are we gonna do tomorrow, dad?
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Stu Burguiere
He said killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person. Now that might indicate that he thinks that a newborn baby is not a person, which is basically what he's saying.
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Glenn Beck
Well, he's also saying it at the end. You're not really a person. Once you decide you're not a person, you're not a person.
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Stu Burguiere
And this is deep into left wing thought here. This is, these are, these are prominent people who are discussing and by the way, some of them acting on this way of thinking about life, which is, it's really not much of value.
- [45:40]
Glenn Beck
Here's the scariest thing. They're the people also that are advising the biggest minds behind things like AI. Yeah, these people talking to AI and setting the priorities of AI and telling it what's, what is life? I mean, this is these. We're living in a hellscape. We really are. We're living in a coming hellscape. If we don't wake up pretty soon and we in this president doesn't win and we don't finish the transition, we don't seal this, this, this cave of darkness, back off. You know, we did that in 1945. It needs to be sealed off again. We let it survive because we said it was our ally. And we let it survive and go into China and Russia and we let them, we let them kill millions of people there. And we, we still play footsie with it. And that's why that cave opened back up. And all that darkness has spilled back into our culture and we got to push it back. This is, this is, this is your purpose, Pushing back on darkness so the light can prevail because darkness is, it's alive and it is pushing hard and we have to be stronger. Look, we win. All you have to do is turn on the light and that dispels darkness. Have you even found your light yet? Turn it on. Push the darkness back where it belongs.
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