Data Centers are DRAINING Your Energy. Here's the Solution | 6/5/26

Summary

The Glenn Beck Program

"Data Centers are DRAINING Your Energy. Here's the Solution" | June 5, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Glenn Beck explores the controversy surrounding data centers and their growing strain on America’s aging power grid. Using stories, historical parallels, and candid listener calls, Beck breaks down the stakes and solutions—arguing that outright opposition to data centers is shortsighted, and that local communities should instead demand that tech giants bear the costs of the growth they drive. He also delves into broader themes: American civic responsibility, the fate of imperfect children in a utilitarian world, and lessons from history about how societies handle massive change.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Data Centers and the Power Grid

The Complaint

• Data centers are rapidly multiplying across the U.S., consuming ever-larger portions of the nation’s electricity and local water resources.
• In Virginia, data centers already use a quarter of the state’s electricity. Nationwide, their share could rise from 3.5% of total usage to 12% in just a few years.
• With these new demands, utilities like Arizona Public Service are hiking rates (proposing a 45% increase for large users, and 15% for residents in some cases), angering local communities.

The Local Backlash

• Communities are staging protests: “No Data Center!” signs across towns.
• Glenn highlights the legitimacy of the public’s concern, “This is not being done for me. This is being done to me, in spite of me.” (51:26)
• However, he warns that outright opposition is not practical: technology—and the data centers powering it—will not be stopped, only relocated (often to places like China, where U.S. standards don’t apply).

What Should Communities Do?

• “No Data Center, Unless…” is Beck’s suggested mantra. (54:15, 70:06)
• Don’t fight to block all progress; fight for the terms of progress.
• Demand that tech companies build and pay for all new power they require—and provide surplus power to the community at no cost, “Eat what you kill. You don’t eat what I kill.” (55:57)
• Use permitting power and negotiation so that local citizens benefit, not bear costs.
• Examples: Require new data centers to supply 5%-15% surplus energy to the local grid, offsetting residents’ rising costs.

The Aging, Fragmented U.S. Grid

• The U.S. doesn’t have one power grid, but three (East, West, Texas)—a historic patchwork incapable of meeting new, nationalized, tech-driven demands.
• Most infrastructure is 70+ years old and never designed for today’s needs. “A lot of what frustrates us today is not the result of a master plan. It's the result of thousands of old decisions that nobody ever went back and rethought.” (72:10)
• There are already 2,000 gigawatts of proposed projects stuck in “interconnection queues”—not due to technical limits, but paperwork, permitting, and bureaucracy. (73:45)

The Solution’s Irony

• The real bottleneck is not generating power, but permitting, regulation, and inertia.
• Beck states: “The challenge isn't finding energy, it's connecting energy.” (73:55)
• His vision: require tech giants to invest in new power (e.g., small modular nuclear, upgraded grid lines), with benefits locked in locally.
• America can build big when it chooses—he uses the Empire State Building (built in 11 months) as an example of what will—and can—accomplish. (76:31)
• “You just have to fill out the ‘unless’ because it’s different for each of us and each community.” (81:37)

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2. Historical Parallels: Diagnosing Problems, Choosing the Wrong Cures

• Beck draws on the tendency of societies to leap from correct diagnoses to disastrous solutions:
  • Lobotomies: Doctor wins Nobel Prize for “curing” mental illness by operating on brains with ice picks (citing the fate of Rosemary Kennedy as a warning).
  • Prohibition: Right about alcohol’s dangers, but the solution (statutory ban—with government-poisoned bootleg alcohol) killed thousands.
  • Mao’s Sparrow Extermination: Right that sparrows were eating crops, leading to their extermination—then famine, when locust populations exploded.

Quote (diagnosis ≠ correct solution):
“Does being right about the disease make him the guy that should cut into you? History would tell us: no.” — Glenn Beck, (19:48)

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3. Leadership, Civics, and Freedom of Speech

• Discussion on the importance of maintaining open, non-demonizing discourse even with fierce disagreement, referencing Glenn Greenwald and Candace Owens’ activity at Russian propaganda forums.

  • Beck: “Somebody needs to model how to talk to one another again... Because we get nowhere by continuing to divide ourselves.” (13:57)

• Emphasizes the necessity of teaching and understanding American history and the Bill of Rights.

  • “Any society that doesn’t know their story will lose, will fall apart. It will disintegrate. Humans run on story.” (37:16)

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4. Abortion and the Value of Human Life

The Down Syndrome Case (Main Segment: 87:19 — 112:29)

• Beck reacts to a viral letter from a couple who chose to abort a baby diagnosed with Down Syndrome.
  • Reads their public statement and online responses (not all supportive, many angry).
  • Shares his own faith perspective: life’s value, premortal existence, and the purpose in suffering (90:03 — 95:35).
  • Personal stories about having a special needs daughter, the lessons and happiness children—especially imperfect ones—bring.
  • Argues America is distinguished by not abandoning the weak: “We are the only animal on planet Earth that doesn’t abandon the weak.”

Quote:
“If I could have—in a really twisted, warped world, if I was just thinking about me—I would say, no, I don’t want any of that. But through all the pain that our children face and all the pain that we face, it is so worth it. But you have to realize that life is not about you. … We were made in God’s image. … We are the only animal on planet Earth that doesn’t abandon the weak.” — Glenn Beck (100:17)

Listener Calls (112:41 — 117:33)

• Multiple listeners share personal experiences affirming the worth and joy children with Down Syndrome bring.
• Glenn underscores: Doctors are often wrong, and choosing comfort over life and challenge robs families and society.

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5. Call to Civic Engagement

• Encourages listeners to support truth-telling outlets, rate & like content, and participate to “break the algorithm.”
• “You have a responsibility. I can provide all the information out there, but if I can't crack that algorithm because you're not participating in it, then my voice goes nowhere.” (39:20)

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6. Memorable Quotes & Moments

• “No Data Center, Unless. … You eat what you kill.” (54:15, 55:57)
• “This is not being done for me. This is being done to me, in spite of me." (51:26)
• “Resources didn’t disappear. Engineers didn’t disappear. What we’ve lost is confidence. What we’ve lost is the habit of saying yes.” (77:00)
• “If you want America to be strong in a leadership role… you must have the data centers and you must have a strong power grid. You just don’t have to have it built on your back.” (81:37)
• “We are the only animal on planet Earth that doesn’t abandon the weak.” (101:59)

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Important Timestamps

• Intro & Overview: 00:00–04:59
• On the Russia/Candace Owens controversy: 06:42–24:00
• Diagnosis vs. Solution (historical parallels): 17:36–24:00
• Start of Data Centers Section: 47:06
• Electricity, Grid, Policy Deep Dive: 54:15, 70:06, 75:45, 77:00, 80:45
• Listener Calls on Down Syndrome, Value of Life: 112:41–117:33

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Notable Quotes (Speaker & Timestamp)

• Glenn Beck: “If the homework checks out, now the easy thing is you make up a sign and you get a bunch of people together... I understand the instinct. But let me share with you what the winning phrase would be on your signs: ‘No Data Center, Unless.’” (54:15)
• Listener Chuck: “I have a Down syndrome son... He is a joy. Everybody just loves him. I can’t imagine not having a life without him... He’s been a total blessing to us.” (115:40)
• Glenn Beck: “We are the only animal on planet Earth that doesn’t abandon the weak.” (101:59)
• Glenn Beck: "Resources didn’t disappear. Engineers didn’t disappear. What we’ve lost is confidence." (77:00)
• Molly Hemingway (quoted): “Killing your baby because it wasn’t perfect in your eyes is so sad and dark and yes, evil...” (89:19)
• Listener June: “I was blessed with a niece who her parents... were told that they should abort her because she was a down's baby... she was not downs, not at all. And she is now an award-winning, big time, nationally recognized executive...” (112:45)

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Closing Thoughts

Glenn Beck weaves together the macro (America’s energy challenges) and the micro (family and moral commitments) to make a direct appeal for agency, wisdom, and compassion in a fast-changing world. His core message: Don’t reject change—negotiate the terms; don’t measure life by ease—accept blessing through challenge; and above all, assert your values in both public policy and private life.

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For more in-depth history and civics programming, check out "The American Story" podcast and supplementary Bill of Rights lessons at glennbeck.com/torch.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

Did Jason just get a promotion?

[A]

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what anybody's title is on this.

[B]

We all are just busy worker bees for you. Supporting.

[A]

That's right. See now, now you're starting. Now this woman is starting.

[B]

We're a flat organization.

[A]

We are a flat organization. But anyway, welcome Ricky. Where should I even begin today?

[B]

Well, where I be began this morning is what I always do. I, I wake up, I read our morning prep. If you're not subscribed to the morning Brief newsletter, get [e-mail] for free. So I read that and then I read any of the news that may have come in overnight that we didn't get to. And all of the trends on Google and X and I open my X and I see that Glenn Beck is trending. And I'm like, oh, crap. Anytime you're trending, it's usually not good. The last time you were trending is for George AI, where, again, people misunderstood the whole point of George AI, how hot he is and all that stuff. Anyways, this particular time, though, I really like that you were trending. You we were. You were making some great points this week about what's really going on with Russia, using some Western influencers to do their bidding in the west and create and so division and all that kind of stuff. And you've been talking about Dugan for like a decade or more, and you've always been ahead. And everyone's like, oh, my gosh, dude, it is the midterms. Why are you talking about Dugan?

[A]

And I can't tell you how many

[B]

times hit the right news cycle. I think right now is the right time, and you're trending for that. So let's get into you and Glenn.

[A]

That is the curse of this program is I am always ahead. And, and I know, you know, Roger Aile said to me when I was at Fox, he's like, glenn, one of your great strengths is you're always ahead. You're always in front of the parade, but you're five blocks ahead of the parade. Can you slow down a little bit? And, and that's always the curse I have, I think, is that I'll see things like, I've been talking about Dugan literally since the 90s when I first started hearing talk. I didn't. I don't know if I addressed him, but it was an advisor of Putin that was saying that he is that America is going to break up in a Civil War into 10 different, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he is actually promoting it inside the United States. That. That was news back in the 90s. And then he became Putin's brain. And then he started writing books. I mean, he was writing books in the 90s, I think, but he started writing books. I started reading his books, and I'm like, wait a minute, what is this guy even saying? And he's extraordinarily dangerous. And I could not get anyone to pay attention because they always say the same thing. He's not that big of a deal. You know what? Neither was Hitler for a long time, okay? Neither was Hitler. This guy believes that Stalin and Hitler didn't go far enough. He has a fourth political theory that. That the Enlightenment was the mistake, not just that the Soviet Union fell, that the Enlightenment was the mistake, and that the Church and state need to come back together for Christendom. Now, I don't know anyone sane who thinks that. He also believes that you should merge with Islam. You should fight with the Mahadi, the Twelvers. He is the guy brokering the deal with the Twelvers in Iran. And Glenn Greenwald doesn't think this guy's a problem. What the hell is wrong with you? So Glenn Greenwald said yesterday it's wild to watch MAGA now sound exactly like Rachel Maddow and Adam Schiff when talking about Russia. Russian civilization has produced remarkable works of literature, science, religion, architecture, politics. It's fascinating to visit. Talking to Russians isn't sinister. Glenn Greenwald, you're smarter than this. You are much smarter than this. That's not anything that. I didn't say that. They didn't produce that there. That. You should never talk to any Russians. I said you should not be hanging out and giving speeches next to Dugan at something that is known to be a KGB or FSB operation. No, that's. That's only common sense. So I write back. Glenn, you're right. Great things come from Russian people. Russians, Russians nor talking to Russians. Russians, nor talking to Russians are the problem. I don't know what that. I must have been drunk. You're much smarter than this tweet. Assuming that you're saying. Assuming that you're saying is what I said. The problem of the full is the philosophy of Alexander Dugan and his plan to poison Western faith. Anyone who's actually read his books knows he's not for classic liberalism, he's not for individual liberty, and he is looking for a Christian prince, one that can hold back the end of days by linking arms, who will choose his prince over the American founding liberal documents and principles while linking arms, literally, with the Mahadi and the Islamic world. That's the problem. Not the Russian people or Candace or Russian art and history. But you know that I don't look for my savior of my faith, country, or culture in a man, be it Trump or Dugan or Putin. I put it in Christ and people living by the principles that he taught. And that only works when each of us have the freedom to choose as an individual. He comes for the individual, never for the collective. So he responds, you should interview Dugin. I did in Moscow. He believes the West. It's the west that seeks civilizational. Civilizational hegemony. The end of history is Western liberalism. He wants civilizational diversity. And you're wildly exaggerating his influence in Russia. I never said anything about his influence in Russia. He's called Putin's brain now. They've had some falling out, I'm sure. But he's also speaking at the same conference put together with him and Putin, and he's speaking next to Putin. So, I mean, I gotta say, I mean, he's not like a nobody. And I never said anything about his influence. I'm not worried about his influence in Russia as much as I am worried about his influence in the West. And by the way, he believes he wants civilizational diversity. No, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. Anyone who believes the Enlightenment is the problem is the problem. They think that being able to have individual liberty. That's what he's talking about, individual liberty. I'm sorry, I. I can't get into that boat at all. So I write. Sure. I've read his books. Have you? His ideas are truly monstrous. The end of modernity and everything this country is based on. I'm not in the business of giving a platform to somebody who is looking for a bigger platform. I know who he is. He clearly lays it out in all of his books. I've been following his work since the 90s. I don't know his influence today in Russia. I'm more concerned with his growing influence in the West. I have a ton of respect for you, Glenn. You're really missing the mark if you've read his books. Okay, so that was the extent of the exchange. Now, here's why I think maybe I'm trending is because I said, I have a ton of respect for you, Glenn. Can we. Can we. Can I. Can we hold two ideas at the same time? Can we hold two ideas at the same time? Glenn Greenwald is wrong about a lot of stuff. Glenn Greenwald has done a lot for freedom of speech. I have a lot of respect for what he has done in the past for freedom of speech. I believe he has been a very strong proponent of freedom of speech. I disagree with Glenn Greenwald on almost everything else. I can have respect for him and recognize that he is also wildly wrong. Here's why I said that. Somebody needs to model how to talk to one another again. If I got on and said, glenn Greenwald, you're a monster. You're an a hole, and shut up, where would we be? Glenn and I would not be having a conversation. We would not be able to explore things. And all we would have are two sides that hated each Other. I don't want that. They already hate me. You know, he already hates me, or they are hate me. You know, his. His people that are tweeting with him, my side, a lot of people will already hate him and, you know, dogpile on him. Why? Why? Let's further the conversation. Because we get nowhere by continuing to divide ourselves. That's why I've not made this whole thing about Candace Owens, because that's what everybody else is doing. And I have to tell you, I feel sad for Candace Owens because I think she had potential. I think she could have been an influence for good. I think she just chose to be an influence. And I also think maybe that there's some mental issues going on there. Maybe. I don't know. But Ricky's putting her head in her hands. I do believe that.

[B]

Can we not diagnose people live on national radio? We're not trying to start a war with Candace before.

[A]

I'm not. But I do think that there's been some like. Okay, I won't say anything. That's fine.

[B]

You might.

[C]

I mean, right?

[B]

But you know, I'm the one that gets the notifications lit up on X. Sir, it's my phone.

[A]

That's like, that's fine. I've seen. I don't. My fight is, look, my. I don't necessarily. I have to. I have to think all of this things through because I speak before I think sometimes I don't. I don't think she's mentally ill. I think she has. I think she has some mental issues. Okay. That doesn't mean you're. You're a nut job. It just means like, okay, all right. You know, we all have people in our family that are like, you know what I think? I think maybe they have some issues here. So I'm just gonna go, huh? Okay. All right. And I still love you, but you're a little light over here on a few things. I feel bad for her because I think she has really done herself some grave, grave damage. And in a way, because I disagree with so much what she's saying, I'm glad she has exposed herself. I mean, you just don't go over to Russia at this conference. You could speak in other countries. You could speak in Russia. You just don't speak at this conference. That is known to be an FSB operation. And then what are you going to tell the people when you come home to America about Russia? And then you go on to what she, you know, did like, hey, we're just exactly alike. We have the Same problems. And I think you got it going on. No, I don't. You spoke on the same stage with Alexander Dugan, and I just don't think that that's. I don't think that's going to be helpful for you, Candace. But to each his own. And you want to, you know, listen to Candace. Listen to Candace. I have no problem with that. I just think that this is getting into very dangerous territory. And. And Dugan is a litmus test for me. If you. If you want to say, well, yes, but he's diagnosed the problem. That's great. You know, in fact, let me go there. Let me go there. Let me take a quick break, and then I'm gonna come back diagnosing the problem, because that's what everybody says. Dugan, have you listened to him? Yes, I have. Have you read his stuff? Because the first parts of his book you'll read, and you'll be like, this guy gets it. You know what he feels exactly like I do. And then he'll be like, on. Then they annihilate all the people. And you're like, okay, this guy's a madman. He has diagnosed the problem. So let me go there next. First, let me tell you about real estate agents I trust. I try not to move, you know, any more often than I have to. I think it would, you know, that would be a fairly easy goal. Pick a house, live in it, stay put. Somehow or another, that happened with me. New opportunity comes along, circumstances change, and I find myself packing boxes again and wondering why I own so many things in the first place. I actually just went into my garage the other day, and I found a box that I packed when I lived in my house in Connecticut. And I'm still dragging that damn box around, and I don't even know what's in the box. Okay. Anyway, that's a packing problem and a pack rat problem. 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And he says all the things and you're like, oh, my God, thank God he finds somebody who gets it. He names everything. He names three things that all the other doctors have missed. And he's right, and he's brilliant about it. And you feel this relief, you know, wash over you. And you're like, oh, my gosh. Finally, finally somebody sees it. And then he reaches for a knife. Now, here's the question that could save your life. Does being right about the disease make him the guy that should cut into you? I would say history would tell us no. Let me give you a couple examples. 1949 Doctor won the Nobel Prize in medicine for a cure. The idea was, on its face, an act of mercy. People drowning in mental anguish that nobody could touch. In asylums that were basically human warehouses. He said, you know what? I can operate on the brain and it will help. And the diagnosis was true. The suffering was real, and the prize was real. And the suffering in America, a doctor named Walter Freeman took that idea and he's like, hey, that's a great idea. And I can actually make that surgery easier. I'll just take an ice pick through the ice socket. 10 minutes, no operating room, just an ice pick, okay? It was called a lobotomy and it was very popular. And then a strong willed young woman, 23 years old, named Rosemary Kennedy went in. She was restless, she was difficult. She was unable to speak more than a few words. She couldn't walk properly. They came in, ice picked through the eye. She was done. She was hidden away in an institution for the rest of her life. And the man who did it held the highest honor medicine can give. And he was the last guy on earth should have touched her. He diagnosed the problem. She's ill. She's in misery. She's a handful. Not an ice pick. Let me go back a few years before that. America looked at the bottle, seen the truth. Alcohol destroys families. Men drinking away the rent, Women and children paying for it. The temperance crusaders came out and they weren't lying. They said, this is horrible. Alcohol and alcoholism is horrible. And so they band together and got everybody to ban alcohol. They wrote that ban into The Constitution. And they felt righteous doing it because alcohol was a problem. And then bootleggers began stealing, you know, industrial alcohol to resell. The government did the same thing that should never be forgotten. Ordered that industrial alcohol be poisoned, deliberately, lethally, knowing full well that desperate people would drink it. But the government was like, yeah, but this is a problem. By the time it was over, 10,000Americans were dead. Poisoned by their own government in a war against something that was real. Alcohol is poison and it's bad. But they were catastrophically wrong about the cure. 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[B]

Coming up, Glen weighs in on the couple who very publicly announced they aborted their baby over a Down syndrome diagnosis. You are not gonna wanna miss this. Next on the Glenn Beck Program.

[A]

Father's Day is coming up right around the corner. And every year we all go through the same exercise. We try to find a gift for dad. You know, even though most dads have spent their entire lives insisting they don't need anything, the best gifts usually aren't the flashiest ones. The thing a man reaches for over and over and over again and the things that become part of his daily life because they're well made, they're comfortable, and they're built to last. That's why I think American Giant makes such great sense for Father's Day. They make premium hoodies, sweatshirts, T shirts, everyday essentials right here in the United States. The cotton is grown here, the clothes are cut in, sewn, hill, sewn here, and the people. Let me do it again. Sorry. Threw me off about the 30. I wasn't expecting, and I should have. I'm sorry. It's my fault. Father's Day is coming up right around the corner. Let me do it again. Father's Day is coming up. It's right around the corner. And every year, we all go through exactly the same exercise. We tried to find a gift for dad, even though most dads spend their whole lives, you know, insisting, I don't need anything. The best gifts aren't usually the flashiest ones. They're the things that a man reaches for time and time again over and over, the things that become part of his daily life because they're well made, they're. They're comfortable, and they're built to last. That's why I think American Giant makes so much sense for Father's Day. They make premium hoodies, great T shirts, sweatshirts, everyday essentials made right here in the United States. Their cotton is grown here. Their clothes are cut and sewn here. And the people making them are American workers who still believe in doing the job the right way. The result is clothing that feels great the first time that you put it on, and it keeps feeling great years later. Buy American. This Father's Day, it's american-giant.com Glenn. American-giant/. Glenn, you're gonna have to just piece this up because you'll have the card on it anyway. Go back. Let me get this. Go. Go down a couple words. Go down a couple of words and prompt her. Thank you. American-giant.com Glenn. Use my name. Get 20% off your first purchase. American-giant.com glenn. So continuing our conversation here quickly, about Candace Owens and. And what she's doing over in Russia. And the. Really, the story is not about Candace Owens, but it is. She is proving everything that I'm saying is right. Ricky just got a notification. Breaking news that Russian media is now calling Candace Owens what exactly. Come on, get the bridge. The bridge. The bridge. Bridge. The bridge between. That's right. And don't think of that as the Russian people. Think of that as Putin and Dugin. Remember, Dugin is the guy who just said, if it were up to Him. He would give every enemy of ours nuclear weapons to vaporize the United States. He is not our friend. He is not our friend. So the latest is Putin himself has just asked Candace Owens to speak today at this convention. So she's just gotten bumped up another level and she's thrilled about it. Okay, you think about whatever, whatever you want, but I just, I'm. I have to speak to those who say yes, but, but Dugan and Putin have it right about our culture. Our culture is evil. Blah, blah, blah. I want you to think about the doctor and I just gave you two examples. One, somebody who diagnosed the, the pain and suffering that mental illness was causing in the United States and said, look. And everybody was like, they're right. These institutions are horrible and these people are suffering horribly and they're tearing themselves apart, blah, blah. And so the doctor who was. I think he didn't. I say, he got a Nobel Prize for a prize winning doctor, says, I have the solution. Ice pick to the eye. That's called a lobotomy. You can diagnose something and say, this is the problem and be right, but that doesn't mean your solution is right. Then I told you about the temperance movement, alcoholism. Trust me, I'm an alcoholic. I know how destructive it can be. My mother committed suicide. She was an alcoholic. I get it. It destroys everything. It's horrible. Destroys families. That's what the temperance movement said. They diagnosed the problem correctly. People get out of control and it destroys families. But then they put in a constitutional amendment and that started all kinds of stuff, including what I just told you, and look it up yourself. Most people don't know it. The United States government started poisoning alcohol with bootleggers. Yeah, well, we'll show them how dangerous it is. They poisoned. They killed Americans. Knowingly, those people should not been anywhere. The cure was wrong. The diagnosis was right. Let me give you one more. 1958, halfway around the world, Mao. He's in China, people are starving, and he makes a diagnosis that was correct right down to the single grain. He was saying, we have a problem with sparrows. They're eating the harvest. So a nation of hundreds of millions was mobilized to get rid of all of the sparrows. People banged pots and pans from dawn to dusk. The birds could never land until the sparrows just dropped out of the sky, dead from exhaustion. This is a real story. It worked. The sparrows all died. Then what happened? Then the locust came. And because the sparrows had been eating the locust, the insects ate everything in the fields. Bear the famine that followed kills. Killed tens of million more people, more than most wars in human history. Mao had the diagnosis, right? The sparrows are the problem. But his cure buried a generation. Okay, so what am I. I mean, I could go on. All of these things have one thing in common. These people were not cranks. They were not obvious monsters. A Nobel laureate, a constitutional amendment, a. A government. And the applause of the experts and the cheer of the crowd made the blade come down. That's the. The. The real test. The real test is, okay, he's right about the sickness. But what happens when he cuts into the body? What happens. What happens after that first cut? Can it ever be undone? This is the test. True and correct diagnosis earns a man your attention, but it doesn't earn him the throat. A person who can name your disease perfectly has proven that he can see. He has proven nothing about what's in his hand or where that hand will land or whether you'll be able to live with. With what's behind that hand. So when somebody shows you exactly what's wrong with you, your body, your country, your culture, your faith, and then in the very same breaths, reaches for the scalpel and says, lie down. Stay still. I. Trust me, I'm going to cut into you. Don't be hypnotized about how right he was about the wound. There's another hoop he has to jump through, and that's what's happening with Dugan. People are saying he's. But, Glenn, he's got the diagnosis, right? Yes, I agree with you. Now listen and read what he actually says is the solution. That's the difference. Let me see. Let me go to. Let me go to Jeff in Arizona. Hello, Jeff. Welcome. Hey, Glenn.

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I have a suggestion regarding Ron DeSantis, because I believe he's a man who

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can make the diagnosis, to use your

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analogy, and perform the operation successfully after

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he's done in Florida.

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I want to suggest that Ron DeSantis become the free agent governor and simply move to another state and save another state the way he has done in Florida.

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I love you. I love you so much. I have said this, and I've said it jokingly and seriously, seriously to Ron DeSantis. And he just does it. He just shakes his head, and I'm like, listen, you are. You are so good. If you want to run for president, run for president. If you don't win president, go run in another state. Go save other states, strengthen other states. And, you know, he said one time we were talking, and he said, you know, you know, I don't know how other states would feel about that. You know, stop with this carpetbagger stuff. We have to start looking at our states as needing a great CEO. We need somebody who can get it done, who can, can perform and knows how to run the apparatus of the state and get things done. That's Ron DeSantis. And if I'm a state, if, you know, if I'm California and I'm looking for the next governor, I'm looking for the best CEO, the best technician that can actually get the things done that need to get done. I don't need somebody that I like. I don't need somebody that has lived in my state the whole time. Well, he's not a Texan, he's not a Californian. He, he's, he just moved here from Florida to Iowa. Do you have anybody as good as him? If you do go, go vote for him. But if you don't, why wouldn't you take I, I 100%? I think he should go on a 50 state tour. I think he should do. He's going to have to keep him alive for a while. But I would say that he needs to go and, and run for office in another state and when he has termed out there, go to another state. Because you're exactly right, Jeff. Exactly right. Let me go to Tammy. By the way, it's Friday. Your calls are important. I want to hear your voice. Anything I got wrong, anything you want to argue with me about, anything you think I missed, whatever. 888-727-BECK. Today is your day. Tammy in Georgia. Welcome.

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Hi Glenn. You were talking about a candidate in New Jersey and you were talking with somebo you had and I'm sorry, I'm really bad with names but you had, yeah, this guy was tied to Al Qaeda and terrorist groups and had something to do with 9 11. I want to know why these candidates are not being vetted the way I think they should be. And how can we a country let somebody, or even the Congress or Senate let somebody like that try to go to the Congress or Senate?

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Well, because the, this, this is a free nation. We don't, we, you know, let me give you the extreme case. The mullahs in Iran, they're the ones who decide who can run and who can't. You never want them that you want the people to decide. You want just people be able to walk off the street and say I want to run. And then it requires then a good, decent, well informed public using a honest press to do their own homework. On those person, those people and vet them and, and say, yeah, that guy does not fit. We don't want him representing. And that's just not happening right now. This guy should have been vetted by the people of New Jersey. And you know, he is in one of these elitist districts. It's the 12th district of New Jersey. He was, he provided testimony for the Blind chic. There are reports that he was involved in the planning of the first World Trade Center. He then went in to. Where was it? Bosnia? Ricky? I don't have the information about Gaza,

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where he volunteered and served in Gaza in 2024. He actually served in the US military for a time.

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Right. And so, you know, you have to make your own decision, but he is somebody that should not get a national security clearance. At the very least, you can't give him information about our country. But you know, if the Democrats win in the House and he wins in the House, he will be sitting in some of our most crucial things. And that's just the way this democracy works. That's why, you know, we are doing it Torch. We're trying to teach American history. Do we have another episode of the American Story coming out today? Should be nine.

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We sure do. Insiders already have it. Everyone else is getting it tomorrow.

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Okay, so episode nine, Inside the First Presidency, Power, Fear and the Bill of Rights. This is perfect because next week we kick off our, our education program with the Bill of Rights. So we're telling you the story so you know our story. Any, any society that doesn't know their story will lose, will fall apart. It will disintegrate. Humans run on story. If you, if you know a story, if there's a good story that you're following, you can then understand things. You know how to make decisions because you know the story, where you came from, where you're going, why you were there in the first place, why you set off in this journey. If you lose that story, there's nothing. So the first thing we're doing is restore, Restoring the American Story with the American Story. It's a podcast, hour long episodes. There's nine of them right now. But insiders, I think you're going to have all 20 of them here shortly. And it takes you through the first, you know, 100 years of America's story. And you'll really understand in a way you never have. Then we have the Bill of Rights lessons. They'll start next week. These are actual lesson plans that you and your family can give. I mean, I don't care if you're you're 80, most likely. If you're like me, I couldn't tell you. The, the first five in the First Amendment. What are the first five rights? What are the five rights in the First Amendment? If you don't know those five rights and you can't defend those five rights and you can't say why each of those five rights are important, you. You can't defend the country. And that is exactly why our civics classes don't exist and why our American history classes are so horrible. Because if you, if you know these things, you can defend the country. If you don't, then we're just like every other place. And what difference does it make? So you, you want people like this not to be in Congress? There's a few obstacles. One, your press. So what do you do? You support people that are telling you the truth. You support and spread the word and you help gain. You know, you. When you see somebody, and I'm not talking about me at all, you're going on and you see somebody that you are like, this person is telling us the truth every day. You should be on their, on their YouTube page. You should be on their X page. You should be on Instagram. You should, like, rate, review every time. You should add comments to them. You should like them, you should retweet them. You should. You have to do that because that changes the algorithm. So you want those voices to bubble up to the top. You have to engage, okay? And that will do more damage to the people telling the truth instead of being against something before something. But you have to understand you have a responsibility. I can provide all the information out there, but if I can't crack that algorithm because you're not participating in it, then my voice goes nowhere. And it's the same with everybody. So, like, rate and review on all platforms. Support them when you can. I ask you to join the Torch? You could join Daily Wire, if that's where you get most of your news and you think that's good. Join them, help them in their effort. But then also when they are giving you stuff, use it, I urge you. We have worked. So I've worked eight months on just this Bill of Rights stuff. There's 10 lessons coming. I've worked eight months on these things, and we ask that you use them. So join us. We begin next week@glenn beck.com torch Ah,

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well, if it isn't my favorite audience in the whole wide world. I want to talk to you about food.

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Food.

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It's very important. If you're cooking an important meal, like a big dinner or a holiday meal or anything where people are actually counting on you, you don't want to spend most of your time cooking. You don't want to spend most of the time checking or opening the oven or poking at whatever you're cooking, or second guessing yourself or wondering if whatever you're cooking is done, or worse, wondering if it's already overdone. And then, yeah, but there's a lot of stress to this, isn't there? That's the part nobody enjoys. And that's exactly what Chef IQ gets rid of. Because it is a wireless smart thermometer that tracks your food in real time and sends updates straight to your phone so you know exactly when it hits the perfect temperature without guessing or hovering or constantly checking. And it works everywhere. It works in the grill, the oven, even the air fryer. So whether you're making a, you know, steak or a roast or a full on holiday meal, you can actually step away and trust that it's handled. Which means, of course, instead of standing there stressing about the food, you can actually spend time with the people you're cooking for now. Also, if you don't like those people, you can probably just use the Chef IQ and hide in another room Anyway, if you want to make cooking a lot easier right now, they've got a Mother's Day sale. It is the perfect time to get one. Give mom something that she'll actually love and use long after Mother's Day. Chefiq.com, use the promo code BLAZE for 30% off. Right now it's chefiq.com the promo code is Blaze. This is easy to use. You're going to love it. Chefiq.com, the promo code is Blaze.

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There are only so many dad gifts available in the world before everything gets a little bit repetitive at a certain point. Every father in America owns enough novelty grilling aprons, socks with the tiny golf clubs on them and the coffee mugs with those hilarious sarcastic slogans. Those are all great, of course, but I would say food better option. Especially the food is really, really good. And that brings me to Kexi. Kexi has a special Father's Day cookie box available right now with six gourmet cookies baked fresh and shipped everywhere nationwide. And these things look absolutely insane in the best possible way. They're my favorite cookies in the world. You will love them. One of their featured cookies is their peanut butter marshmallow flavor. Combines warm peanut butter, melted chocolate and gooey marshmallow into something that honestly sounds less like a cookie and more like a controlled substance. They've also got s', mores. S' mores cookie. This is incredible. It kind of tastes like an entire summer camping trip condensed into dessert form. If you want to try other flavors, they've got so many great ones you can build your own box. If you use the promo code stew. When you do that, you'll go to kexi.com get 15% off right now. Now the the note just so you know the the code doesn't apply to special Father's Day box. That's separate thing. But These are unlimited for the holiday. You just got to make sure you order them by June 14th for Father's Day so you don't wait too long. Go to kexi.com use the code STU. Get 15% off regular orders. Now it's kexi.com k e k-s I.com the code is stuff.

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Pass it on. Crank the game. Glam Back is on. Glam Back is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. There's a lot to talk about today. It is Friday and I want to squeeze your phone calls in as well, 888-727. But I need to take care of a couple things. I teased last hour that I was going to talk about this couple that has just aborted their down syndrome baby. And I was going to talk about that last hour, but I just have to be in the right frame of mind for that. I will get to it today, but it took up most of our meeting early this morning about 5am our producers were all meeting and we were all talking about it. And it's very emotional and I just, I need to be in the right frame of mind for that. So that's coming up before the end of the show today. I promise. Something else that I promised that I would do by the end of the week was talk about the data centers because there's a huge movement and I get it, I get it with what's happening with these data centers. I'm pissed off and I have, have hard, hard lines on these. However, we're handling this incorrectly and I think it's because we don't, maybe, maybe we don't see the full picture. So I want to show you the full picture. I want to do a deep dive here this hour on the data centers, what the complaint is, what, what we are facing, what the strain is on, on electricity and what the problem is on electricity. When I get to the third point, you're, you're, you're, it's not going to improve your mood because the answer is already there. It's already, literally already done. We just have a government that just can't get out of its own way. And we'll talk about that coming up in a minute. First, let me tell you about chapter There are a few things in life that, you know happen as predictably as, you know, this. You turn 65 and suddenly every day there's another letter, there's another postcard, another brochure telling you why this or that Medicare plan is absolutely the one you can't live without, you know, and after a while starts to feel less and less like healthcare and more like a marketing competition, which it is. That is the problem. This is not a decision you should be basing everything on, on which is the shiniest flyer. You want to know which plan actually fits your needs, your doctors, your prescriptions and your budget. All those flyers, all these people that are selling you Medicare, they're all being paid by certain providers to convince you that they're the ones that you should be with, okay? They're not. They're, they're, they're pushing you into a. An insurance company. Chapter doesn't do that. Chapter was actually founded by a guy whose parents were screwed by people like that. And he got so mad and he was in Silicon Valley and he's like, it can't be. It's not this hard. You know, I can develop a system that can search all of the Medicare plans and then have an advisor there that can say, okay, tell me what your system is. Tell me what you need. Tell me your prescriptions, tell me, you know, what's, what's your health like? What are you dealing with, with doctors and everything else. Put it all in a system and it will find the right one for you. It's complicated enough. Please let chapter make it easy. I just want you to hit £250. Say the keyword chapter. £250, keyword chapter. Please go there. Okay, so there's a story coming out of Arizona. It's happening all over the country. Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, sits at the center of the firestorm. APS is proposing a 45% electricity rate increase for extra large energy uses, energy users and a almost 15 increase for residential customers. And no one is happy. Oh, I bet they're not happy. I wouldn't be happy. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You're gonna, you're gonna jack my. In my, my electricity rate up by 15% because these users, these, this data center is coming in. Screw the data center, okay? And that is totally understandable. Totally understandable. The water thing, totally understandable. I want you to listen here because there's, there's. I'm going to give you a solution even if you're against them and you don't want them. I'm going to give you a solution because it's a solution is not what I saw. I was in Logan, Utah over the weekend and I'm driving down the street and I say, I see all these people all good parted, you know, Red blooded Americans want to do the right thing. And they're saying, no data center. No data center, no data center. And I thought that's. That's not, that's not the way to do it. And let me explain. So first, imagine you're driving down the highway. You've driven down this highway a hundred times. You know, there's a soybean field or, or whatever. Six months later, that field is gone. And in this place is a building the size of dozens of big box stores. No windows, giant fences, security cameras, power lines running from every direction. And you're like, it's a data center. And if your first reaction is, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, who approved this? Oh, I get it. A lot of people look at these things and feel like something is happening around them instead of happening with them. And then their electricity bill keeps going up, and then they keep hearing warnings about the strain on the grid or the water. And then they see some of these massive factories appear on the edge of towns. And that feeling is real. And they're like, wait a minute, do I even count? Okay, I want to name that feeling because it's true, it's valid. And I have it, too. The feeling is this. This is not being done for me. This is being done to me, in spite of me. That's how a lot of people feel. I feel that way. So you're not paranoid, you're not irrational. Let's look at the numbers. 2023 data centers used about 3.5% of all electricity consumed in the United States. 3.5 by 2030. Some projections put that number about 12%. In Virginia, data centers already consume roughly a quarter of the state's electricity. So the other numbers I just gave you forget about 25%. One industry in Virginia. Okay, so when you look at one of those buildings, you think something enormous is happening here. You're reading the situation absolutely correctly. Trust your gut. Then do your homework, and then check your homework. And if the homework checks out, you know, now, now here's the easy thing to do is you make up a sign and you get a bunch of people together and you stand at a fence or your city hall or whatever, and you say, stop. No data centers near me. Not in my town, not in my country. I understand the instinct. But let me share with you what the winning phrase would be on your signs. No data centers. Unless that way you're not an obstacle to overcome, you are showing the way to overcome the obstacles that you have. Otherwise, I guarantee you, with the amount of money and everything that is available. You're going to be steamrolled. They're going to build the damn data centers. They're going to. So don't be steamrolled. Get the data centers built the way you will accept them. Now how that is, I don't know. If you are just against the data centers, I can't help you because I think you're wrong on that. And you know, God bless you, you stand up for what you believe. But I think you're wrong. Because if we stop building, what have we accomplished? Because technology does not stop. Demand does not stop. Do you know who's funding a lot of different, of a lot of different groups that are standing up against the data centers in the United States? China. China is funding a lot of this. China is responsible for a lot of the stuff that's on the line. So the question becomes, if you don't build these data centers, where does it happen? Okay. The projections on the global data center growth, the United States and China, they will account for the overwhelming majority of all of the new capacity expected over the next several years. Together they will represent 80% of the growth. That is where the race is. And I want you to understand you can choose a different path. I want you to know I'm not trying to convince you to do the data centers, I think they're right. But you can choose another path. But I want you to know what it is. This is not a choice between data centers and no data centers. It's a choice about who builds them. It's a choice about who develops the technology. It's a choice about who sets the standards. Now I could be wrong about where AI takes us 10 years from now. I think it takes us someplace not so great unless we control it. And we're in control of our own government. But nobody knows where this ends. But we do know it's inevitable. You're not going to stop it. But if this technology becomes as important as many people believe it will, then America must be shaping it. So let me ask you the hard question. If you don't like the idea of the data center in, in your county, how do you feel about your grandchildren being under the thumb of an all powerful AI that comes from China? Because those are the stakes as I see them. And not because China automatically wins of America slows down. Not because history is predetermined, but because leadership doesn't stay vacant. If you choose not to build, you're leaving a void. Someone will open that up. Someone will build them. History always Has a way of filling empty space. Okay? So now the fear in you, which is legitimate, stands up as it's fine. But not on my back. Not with my water. Not with my electricity bill, not with the lights flickering in my house. No, you are 100% right. I stand with you. That's the part we can solve. However. So here's my view. You don't say no data centers. What you say is no. No data centers. The key phrase here, what should be on all your signs, is no. Unless. No data center. Unless the tech company. If you want 10 gigawatts of power, then you provide the 10 gigawatts of power, and I never pay for it. In fact, you could even say you want 10 gigawatts of power. You build the power plant, you pay for it. And because we're allowing you to do it, you have to produce 12 gigawatts of power. 15 gigawatts of power. And you give that 15 gigawatts of power and you put it into our power grid for free. Now you have something you can negotiate, by the way. This is. This is the. All you're saying is eat what you kill. You don't. You don't eat what I kill. You eat what you kill. That's a conservative principle. You don't drain the well that everybody drinks from. You need water, Go find water. You need water. And we don't have enough water for what you're going to use. Put your damn data centers in space. It's absolute zero. You don't need water. Now, we're already seeing companies sign agreements tied to new power generation, including nuclear projects opening the facilities that have previously been shut down. Good. That's the model. If you need massive amounts electricity, then you go bring the electricity. You build the generation. You strengthen our grid. You pay your bill. Don't hand it to me. I'm just trying to cool my. My house for my family in August. I'm just trying to heat my house in the middle of the winter. Don't talk to me about your problems at the data center. You're. You're going to wipe some of us out for our jobs because of AI. I'm sorry, but the price is going to be pretty high for you. And you pay it. You want the data center? Then pay it. It's unreasonable to say no data center. It causes too many other problems. Now, here's the other thing. Not every project being announced is actually going to get built. One recent analyst estimate estimated that roughly a third of the planned data centers Will be delayed or canceled because of power constraints, equipment shortages, construction bottlenecks, whatever. Reality still matters. The power system has limits. It cannot be put on to the power grid. It cannot take it. Supply chains have limits. Construction crews have limits. Reality will always send you a bill. Remember that. Do not pay for somebody's dream if it's not based in reality, because reality always will send the bill. So when you hear predictions about endless growth, unlimited expansion, relax a little bit. Future has to obey the laws of engineering. So here's where I land on this part of it. And I want to break this up, this deep dive into three parts. Standing in a field, standing in front of a building screaming, no, no, no, no, no, not ever is not going to solve this. You are valid and you are correct in feeling the way you feel. Communities should not accept whatever arrives in their community without asking questions. You should be very skeptical of these gigantic data centers. Both instincts. Ms. Something really important. America has always built big things. Railroads, dams, factories, power plants. The question is not whether or not we would build. The question should be, will we build it wisely and not on the backs of the people. That's the question. The answer is build it. But build it on terms that make sense. Bring the power with you, Solve the water problem, Pay your own way. And because of what damage you're going to do to our job market, you might have to pay a little more. You might have to make. You might have to cut our electricity costs in half. Hire local people. Leave the community stronger than you found it. We've never succeeded hiding from the future. We've succeeded by shaping it. Americans don't run from what's coming. We build it. We steer it. And we're smart enough to do that. America will be fine. But electricity is bigger, a bigger bottleneck than you, you think. If the race is really about power, then we have to talk about two things that nobody is talking about, nobody understands. I'll give you a continuation of this deep dive here in just a second. First, let me tell you about our sponsor. Our sponsor this half hour is my patriot supply. When you think somebody really ought to be ready for this, the problem is that. 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Most Americans think there's an American power grid and there is not an American power grid, at least in the way most people imagine it. What we actually have are three major grids and they're old and old timey. They're bad. You have the eastern grid, the western grid and Texas. I love this. You have three electrical neighborhoods in one country. Now before somebody turns this into a conspiracy, it's not. It's just history. That's all it is. 100 years ago, nobody sat down with a giant map and designed a national system from scratch. The power grew town by town, company by company, state by state. One utility connected to another utility, one region connected to another region. Some places built ties, some places didn't. And over time, the decisions hardened into the map. We still Live with today. The map wasn't designed. It was just accumulated. And that's an important distinction because we're. We're living with something that's so outdated. A lot of what frustrates us today is not the result of a master plan. It's the result of thousands of old decisions that nobody ever went back and rethought. They still aren't. Let me give you an example. The Texas power grid, when it failed during the winter storm of 2021, millions of people lost power for a long time, and people in Texas were really upset. And there are a lot of reasons for the failure, whether equipment, planning decisions, green energy nonsense. And people still argue about the detail, but the fact remains that Texas has limited electrical connections to the neighboring grids compared to most states. And this is both good and bad for Texas. But when the system came under extreme stress, there were limits on how much the outside could help. Okay, think about that. America had the power, just not where it needed to be. The electricity existed. The pathway didn't. That's not just a Texas story. That is the American story. Because much of our transmission system built decades ago. The power lines are approaching or exceeding the age where they were originally designed for the system built. This was built, and I think it was built to last 70 years, and we're past that now. Okay? And the fact that they're still working is remarkable. But they were not planning for artificial intelligence. They weren't planning for data centers that were demanding gigawatts of power. They were planning for an economy. You know, Honestly, in the 1960s, they built for the world they knew. So how do we. How do we get to a modern system? Well, the answer is actually already here. This part's going to drive you out of your mind, out of your mind. I'll tell you the final piece of this deep dive on data centers and electricity. Next page four, by Super Sure Insurance Agency, llc, a licensed insurance agency. All right. Most business owners don't spend their days studying insurance policies. 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All right. I'm doing a deep dive on the data centers and I want you to know my phrase here is I understand the concerns and I validate them. And I believe you're accurate in those concerns. Returns. I'm. You are accurate in your belief that you're going to get screwed. This thing is going to be built on your backs with your money. That's why it's not effective to say no. It is effective to say no. Unless. And you fill in the unless. Unless. Unless you're putting more power in to our grid and you're building your own power system for what you take. But for the right to be able to have this big huge data center in my community, you're going to put 5% more power into us because my electricity is not going up. Because here's what the, here's what the electrical companies are saying. We have to upgrade the grid as it is, okay? And everybody is tying it to the data center. And in a way they're right. But in a way they're not right. The grid was built decades ago and it was never meant to. It's all aging out, okay? It was not meant to last longer than it already has. And so we have been delaying and delaying and delaying and nobody wants to pay for it. Nobody wants to pay for it. And it is decaying on us. So our power create. Our power grid is absolutely archaic. But that is the human way and the American way of doing things. We never do it the right time. You know, when we'll think about hardening the grid, you know, when we'll think about putting protection around the, the, the generators that we have and the, I can't remember the name of the, the trans transformers. You know, when we'll start putting protection around the transformers, when Al Qaeda takes and comes in and they shoot six of those things around the country and they collapse our grid, that's when we'll say we should put protection around those. We should have done that a long time ago, but we never do those things. So we should have upgraded our grid a long time ago, but we didn't. Because you only do it because you're human and you're an American. You only do it when it's a crisis, when you absolutely have to. So the power grid problem with these data centers comes in America. The, the, the builders of America know we have to have these data centers, and so it's a crisis. And so now the power companies are saying, well, we're going to have to upgrade our grid. So they're going to do it. And that's where you're going to get that 14% increase. No, no, no, no, no. Use this to your advantage. Cities, Facebook, you know, Tesla or whoever needs these, you know, Google, you need a data center. Microsoft, you need a dentist. Here's what you're going to do. You're going to upgrade our grid. You're going to put 5% of the energy you create into our grid. So we're going to not only get a new grid, we're also going to get a reduction in our, the average citizen's power. And you can build your data center. You don't do that. You don't have a data center. We're not doing it here. Okay? And sometimes your bluff will be called, sometimes it won't be. Sometimes you'll win. But enough of cities do that. And stop saying no. But say no. Unless you meet these conditions, you're going to start winning. Otherwise, they're going to steamroll you and bulldoze, bulldoze you. Now, here's the part that's going to really hack you off. As of 2025, more than 2,000 gigawatts of proposed energy projects are waiting in interconnection queues across the country. 2,000 gigawatts. Think about this. These are projects waiting, not producing power, waiting. Some of them are waiting just to be connected. Some of these projects are waiting to be built. Some of them maybe shouldn't get built. But the scale of the backlog should tell you something important. The challenge isn't finding energy, it's connecting energy. It's permitting, it's approvals. It's planning regions, it's studies, it's paperwork. Sometimes the hardest, hardest part of building a power project is not the engineering. It's just getting past the damn paperwork. And that's where we have ourselves in trouble every time. We have made it so easy to say no, we've made it so difficult to say yes. Now, there are reasons to review things. There are reasons for environmental studies and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, okay? Reasons. Communities need to have a voice, must have a voice. I'm not arguing for bulldozing people. I'm arguing for a system that can still build things. In America, we can't build things anymore because if everything can be stopped forever, then eventually nothing gets built. And if nothing gets built, the country, it doesn't stand still. It falls behind. Nothing is static. Nothing will be this way unless you're preparing for the future. Remember where we started? We started with data centers and artificial intelligence and power demand. All of that sits on top of one basic question. Can America build enough electricity? That's the question. Not can we invent. Can we innovate? We've proven those things. Can we build tam? Can we build? Can we connect? Can we move power from where it's where it is to where it's needed?

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Every problem I've just described was created by people. Now here's the good news. It was created by people. That means it can be fixed by people. People can fix it. What? The situation we're in is not some law of nature. Permitting delays are not some natural consequence. Transmission bottlenecks aren't a law of nature. All of these things are choices. And choices can change. We built the greatest industrial system on Earth. We electrified a continent. We powered factories that won world wars. We built dams and pipelines and transmission lines and railroads and highways. And we were the country that built the skyscraper. Why was it called the skyscraper? It's called the skyscraper because they were so massive. At the time, it appeared as though they were scraping the very essence of the sky. That ability didn't disappear. Do you know how long it took us to build the Empire State Building? 11 months. 11 months. Why? Because we wanted to do it. Resources don't disappear. They didn't disappear. Engineers didn't disappear. What we've lost is confidence. What we've lost is the habit of saying yes. We instead have trained ourselves to say no. So here's the goal. Build more generation. Upgrade the lines we already have. Build new transmission where it makes sense. Connect the regions that can help each other during emergencies, but allow it to cut off in case it's a trip. Make sure the biggest new power users pay not just for the capacity they require, but because of what they're doing to our culture, to our nation, to our world, to our jobs. They might have to pay a premium for that. Right. Do that and the entire conversation changes. You're not arguing over scarcity. You're arguing on how can we build abundance for everyone and not build it on the backs of the average person. Listen, in a century where power increasingly means economic power, military power, technological power, national power, abundance matters a lot. I live in the middle of the mountains. My ranch is in the middle of absolutely nowhere. And I thank the Lord for that. Live in a town of 450 people.

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And I just love it. I just love it. The people are rooted in the earth. They're just down to earth. They're just good, solid citizens. And I love it. I don't have power in my mountain ranch. And quite honestly, I don't want to bring the power lines. I can. It cost me a fortune, but I can bring the. I don't want the power lines. I don't want that because I know that what that will do to where I live. I'm like the only one that lives in this canyon. So I don't want to invite a bunch of other people by bringing, you know, electricity into it, because that's the thing that's stopping it. But I've. I've had to generate all my own electricity. You know what my biggest problem has been? Not. And it's coming from me. I have a pretty big imagination. Not a big enough imagination. I've built it for, okay, what's it going to take to run the house the way I want to run the house? And I build it. And then I'm like, oh, I got to add a studio. Before, I wasn't even thinking about putting a studio up here. I got to add a studio because I'll be up there for a few weeks. I add a studio, I have to upgrade the power. Then I say I'm actually going to be here during the summer months where we're using a heavy load for air conditioning and everything, because I didn't have air conditioning planned for the house originally. But now if I'm going to live here, I need some air conditioning in the summer months, which is going to put a drain on the system. And I'm going to be putting broadcasting every day. So I'm going to need more power. Every time I make a move, I have to upgrade the power. If you're smart, you, you do exactly opposite of what I did. You say, what are the absolute wildest possibilities that can happen? Let's build for that. That way we don't have to keep in nickel diming. I can't tell you how much money I've spent on power generation. Anybody who says, oh, you could live off the grid, you just get some solar panels. You're a, you have no idea what it takes to have stable electricity. And if we screw around with our power grid, you're going to find out what it's like not to have stable electricity. It's bad. It puts you into the stone age immediately. Believe me, I've lived it. I know America can still, as a country do big hard things. If we want to survive, we have to think.

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Let's dream for way beyond the power grid that we need today for these data centers. Build it. One last point on this. Talk about demand, talk about the grid, talked about bottlenecks. All of that leads to one question. If we know we need more power, we know there are projects ready to build it, why aren't we building faster? Why does everything in this country take so long? Because right now, more than 2,000 gigawatts is sitting there waiting. 2,000 gigawatts. What are we doing? Why? It's not the lack of ideas. Engineers, they're all just waiting for permission. What are they waiting for? Permission. Hear me carefully on this one. Not every, not every idea should be rubber stamped communities. You have to stand up for yourself. Property rights matter more than anything else. Environmental reviews, decent ones, real ones matter. Good reasons to examine these projects. The question is whether we've built a system that can still say yes when the answer should be yes. That's why you shouldn't just march and say no. You should say no unless the answer should always have a way to find a way to yes. Because we have to have these. I'm sorry, but if we want to be. If you want to be France, then don't build these. And the France that is today, or maybe even tomorrow, if you don't have a problem being Mexico, then don't build these. But if you want America to be strong in a leadership role and you want your children to be able to deal with the future that is coming whether you like it or not, you must have the data centers and you must have a strong power grid. You just don't have to have it built on your back. You just don't have. You have all the power. They built this Thing with your knowledge, with your data. They're still building it. With who you are, your data and what you use. Don't let them get away with it for another second. No, you're not building it that way. Unless. You just have to fill out the unless because it's different for each of us and each community. All right, back in just a minute. Sponsor. This half hour is pre born. One of the things that has always fascinated me is how quickly a person can change their mind once something that's been theoretical up until now actually becomes real. It's easy to talk about an idea, it's easy to discuss a theory. It's easy to keep things at arm arms lengths when it, when it feels abstract. But when it's real, everything changes. And that's what makes an ultrasound so powerful. A woman can walk into a pregnancy center feeling overwhelmed, frightened, unsure what to do next. But. But she feels like she's running out of options. She feels alone. And then she sees that ultrasound. She sees and hears her baby. And it's not abstract anymore. It's a child. It's a heartbeat. It's a life. If you're a business owner, you might just consider a larger donation to claim a write off this year. A donation of $1,000, $10,000, $15,000 would sponsor a full ultrasound machine for a needy clinic. And you'll help save babies lives for years and years to come. Imagine the blessings from that. Also you get a tax deduction. One of them reaches eternity. The other one only reaches your IRS form. But get involved today. Dial pound250, say the keyword baby pound250 keyword baby. Or go to preborn.com beck that's preborn.com beck sponsored by Preborn. Most of us just want to work hard, raise a family and live in peace. That's not political, that's human. Glenn Beck will be right back. Let me go to Christine in Tennessee. Hello, Christine, how are you?

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Hi Glenn, how are you?

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I'm great.

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Hello.

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Thank you for listening.

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Yeah, go ahead.

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Well, I appreciate you putting the American story together because I conned my husband on vacation last week when we were in Sedona to take a four hour drive to get a helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon where it drives, it flies down into the. And it was supposed to be an hour long. Well, we drove four hours out there for a 15 minute helicopter ride and then we had to drive back home. So I had to pull something out to make it worth it. And my husband gets bored very easily so I Said, I have an idea. I'm a Torch member. So let me pull up the American Story podcast because he's huge history buff and he was literally riveted the entire time. So I need.

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Oh, you're welcome. Thank my staff. I, my, I have my staff, the production staff that put that together and made it come to life. And the writing by Nathan Nipper. I mean, I played the smallest role of narration, but it is, I mean, it is such a good story. If I had history like that, I would have known American history from a kid. I would have been, I would have been absolutely hooked on American history. So I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.

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It probably would change the whole course of the country because of, you know, what they've done to our education system. If it was exciting like that, people would be more engaged and they would know the truth.

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Uh huh. And that is exactly what the progressives knew then. And it's exactly what we know at the Torch and it's why we're doing it. Our summer of education really kicks off next week, but you can get either wherever you get your podcast or the full thing up to, I think episode 15 at the Torch with your membership, Glenn beck.com you're going anywhere this summer. You gotta be a Torch member because the history you will learn will be so fantastic. Glennbeck.com torch 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. 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We have a meeting about 5 o' clock in the morning every day of all of my producers. And everybody comes to the story and they pitch me, glenn, you should talk about this. You should talk about this. Don't forget about this. And this story came and everybody started with this story and said, glenn, you got to talk about the down syndrome couple. And it consumed almost our whole meeting. And it's a very emotional topic, especially for anybody who has children of special needs, which I do. And so I want to take it on. But I, I ask the Lord for a blessing of grace and kindness as we discuss this and understand it. Because this is, this question is what separates us from the animals. This question, this story. And so I want to talk to you about what it means to be human. We'll do that in 60 seconds. First, Patriot Mobile. Patriot Mobile might just become your best new friend. Most friendships require a certain amount of, amount of work. 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So go to patriotmobile.com beck right now 972patriot gain a new best friend that'll never ask you to take him. Pick him up at the airport. Promo code Beck Free service for a month. Month. It's patriotmobile.com Beck 972 Patreon okay, so there is a couple and I don't want to make it about the couple. I just want you to hear their reasoning. They said this week my wife and I made the very difficult decision to terminate to the pregnancy due to down syndrome. Notice they said the difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy. A little cold, but okay. When I Quoting When I first was confronted with this news, I was shocked, but optimistic. If they're a little slow intellectually, we'll make it work. I saw nine to be apparent come what may. I just didn't fully understand what down syndrome entailed. Once we made it public, it became clear what most people don't know what down syndrome entails. And no, it's not the same as autism. Down syndrome? Really? 50% of babies with down syndrome have heart defects, 75% will have hearing challenges. Over 50% will have vision problems, impaired immune function, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, delayed physical development, poor muscle tone, structural issues with face, decreased lifespan, etc. Sadly, the list is long. Look, feel free to look it up. Down syndrome isn't a blessing. It's objectively crappy from a health perspective. I didn't realize how rough it is for the child, let alone the family. More often than not, they would be fully dependent on others for the rest of their life. Miscarriage risk is also close to 50%, which makes matters worse, they may never see the light of day and put Ashley at further risk. We spoke with doctors, friends and family and genetic counselors and learned that up to 90% of women terminate their pregnancy after learning the baby has down syndrome. This is way higher than I expected. I thought it'd be lower given that I hear so many people say they kept or would keep the baby. I believe that most terminations happen privately. It feels shameful. A lot of judgment being cast. You never think you'd be in this type of situation until it happens to you and then things change. Well, you didn't really believe anything. If things change when you're in the situation, then you didn't really think it through in the first place. To all my fans who have weighed in on this topic, who have autism, down syndrome, any other conditions, we appreciate you. You matter a lot. We're glad you're here. I commend you and your families for having the strength and courage to push forward. As for us, we made difficult decision. We believe the long run will be beneficial for our family. Thank you. We had a choice. It will take a little time to move on, but we're excited to try again the future and hopefully have better outcome. Love you guys. Thank you for understanding. Okay, let's just say the responses are not so understanding. Molly Hemingway's wrote in said killing your baby because it wasn't perfect in your eyes is so sad and dark and yes, evil. Even if we didn't know how wonderful people with down syndrome are. I pray you find Jesus. Life is beautiful. Kylie Mann, you're evil. Jessica o', Donnell. You didn't terminate the pregnancy. You murdered your own baby. Life is full of choices and you made the wrong one. Okay, Full disclosure. I come at this from a different place. Two reasons. I practice a faith that believes in what is called the premortal existence, that we were in heaven with God before we gained a body, that there is a purpose for us to gain a body. Just like there was a purpose for Jesus to gain a body. And we came down here to be be shrouded in flesh so we could learn how to learn how to wield the power of our spirits. Learn we have such power. We are not God, but we have the power like God in us. And to wield that and to be able to have all of these desires and passions and then to be able to go no, to have free choice and to know how to make the decisions that actually God would make and to wield real power with compassion and decency and love. That's why we're here, to learn all of that. My faith also believes in the literal war in heaven that, you know, there was a war and it was. Lucifer was like, I'll get all the credit. You give me the credit. I'll make all the decisions and I'll bring everybody home. And Jesus was like, no, I will go and I'll sacrifice myself for their sins. So I will wash them clean so they can come back into your presence. And God chose the plan of salvation, chose Christ and said, that is the one. Lucifer gets upset, has a war in heaven now think about a war in heaven. How do you, if you are there in front of God, how do you get a third of the angels who have been worshiping and singing praise, how do you get them to say, yeah, I'm on your side, I'm not going with God. How do you do that? The only way I can imagine this happening is if you start saying things like, look at what he's saying. He will sacrifice him for something he didn't do. His, his, his chosen one. He will make him suffer on a cross. He will then take all of his children, send them down, some of knowing some of them aren't going to make it, knowing they're going to have life of misery and pain and everything else. And you say, lucifer, you're going to take all that away. You'll just make all of the decisions and everybody will come home and it'll be happy and it'll be great. God is horrible. That's how I see it happening, because I see it happening today. That's the same argument when somebody says, no, you shouldn't make the choice, we'll make the choice for you. That's why I believe free will is the answer on everything. You have free will. Now, there are certain boundaries that we say, no, you can't do that. Just like God says, there are certain boundaries. Thou shall not kill. We have the same certain boundaries, but it's up to the individual to choose. And it has to be that way because that's the way God intended it to be. That being said, the ones who fought the most valiantly and I don't know what a war in heaven is actually like, could be words, I don't know what it was like. But the ones who fought the most valiantly, that didn't need to be tested as hard as maybe I need to be tested. Those who fought on the front lines and cast Satan out, those are the ones that don't need to be tested. And they are the ones that are born with, let's say, down syndrome. Have you ever met a Down syndrome kid? Have you ever met them? They are. Their default is love. Their default is kindness. I worked with Special Olympians for many years when I was young, and I will tell you, and this is the proper use of the word, they are not the ones that are retarded. We are. When I use the word retarded, I'm usually talking about people Who I think are smarter than I am. They are just so arrogant or so blind that they've become slow and they're retarded. I never would refer to anyone with cerebral palsy or down syndrome or anything as retarded, because they're not. As another disclosure, as a father of a daughter with cerebral palsy who has taught me more than anyone I know, she is my hero. The way she deals with things, her spiritual connections, the way she's disciplined herself, the things she's overcome. She's my hero. I don't say that enough to her. We were standing in Auschwitz, and there's this room in Auschwitz where they take all of the things from disabled people and it was all in one pile. It was crutches, it was legs, it was wheelchairs, it was anything, you know, arms, fake arms, whatever. And she stood there with me and she got really quiet. I had to back up. I had to go actually stand by a window. It was so overwhelming for me because watching her look at that and I could see her thinking it through. And she turned around and she came up to me and she said, dad, they would have killed me, wouldn't they? Yes, they would have. The joy and the glory that my bot. My daughter has brought into my world and others worlds. Everybody who meets our family, they always say she is the greatest. We're secondary. And has it been hard? You know what the hardest thing is of having. And I can imagine with down syndrome, you know, the hardest thing is seeing your child left out of things. Seeing your child not understood. Seeing your child around people who. And sometimes yourself. I'm speaking about me. Sometimes not having the patience, that's the pain that comes because you see it in them and you see your own shortcomings. If I could have. In a really twisted, warped world, if I was just thinking about me, I would say, no, I don't want any of that. But through all the pain that our children face and all the pain that we face, it is so worth it. But you have to realize that life is not about you. We are animals. We are. We're animals. That we are exactly the same as animals, except for one thing. We were made in God's image. Whether that is he's got arms and legs, I think he does. But, you know, whatever. You can be a space octopus. I don't really care. We'll find out when we get there. We have his characteristics. We have the ability to have his characteristics. We have the ability to think. No animal can think like we can think. We have the Ability to make choices. We are the only animal on planet Earth that doesn't abandon the weak. I pretty sure all the other animals do. They'll either eat the weakest, or they'll let something else eat the weakest. We don't. You have been given such a tremendous gift, and I hate this phrase, God will never give you more than you can handle, but it's true. You just have to be willing, Mr. Phelps. This is your mission. If you're. If you choose to accept it, you're being asked to do an impossible mission. Do you choose to accept it, or do you say no? It's. This life is about me. I want my life. I want my life, and I want it on my terms. I want to be happy. I want to be free to create. I want to be free to be without that burden. I want ease. And you can mask it any way you want. You can even say, well, but they suffer. Look up, Baby Nower. It's all just look up Baby Nower. The first baby. That was the beginning of the Holocaust. It was how it was. Hitler saying, look at this child. Can't hear, can't see, can't speak, probably will have no intelligence. I think it didn't have arms or something, this child. And the parents were like, we don't know what to do. We don't know what to do. And Hitler's medical doctors said, there's no life for this child. It's not worth living. It's too hard on the state and too hard on the parents. And they killed it. And they killed it on the front page with compassion. That's your choice. That is your choice. Once you start going down that road, that's your choice, and it's who you will become. And you'll become more and more like an animal and less and less like a human being. You know, I'm a recovering alcoholic, and there's a reason that I. Well, several reasons, but one of the main reasons that I think I was an alcoholic is because I didn't understand happiness. Let me explain that here in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about Rapid Radios. I noticed something about modern life. You know, we have more ways to communicate than any other human in history, and yet somehow another we're like, can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? On these phones and apps and texts and emails and. And video calls and direct messages and group chats and all of this stuff. Can you hear me now? I. You know, I sent that to you. You didn't get that? No, no. When we need to reach somebody quickly. Let me turn that annoying situation into something like Rapid Radios because all you do is turn it on. You hit a button and you speak. And that person is on the other end. There's no typing out messages with your thumbs, no waiting for somebody to answer. It's just there. Push to talk. It's simple. It's really built for business. But I love it for family, especially if you're. You're trying to keep touch with family members around or you're traveling someplace. Stay connected, you're hiking someplace. Rapid Radios easy way to communicate with all the user without all the usual hassle. Ship fast from their headquarters in Michigan. It's Rapid Radios.com Rapidradios.com Rapid Radios communication redefined. 10 seconds. Station ID. This couple. It's not like they didn't. They didn't say that's not a baby. It's worse. They didn't say that's not a child. They said that's a life. But it's not a life worth living. That's worse. And why isn't it a life worth living? I think for most people because it will interfere with their happiness, their plans. Let me tell you about happiness. I had a stinky childhood. Everybody did. So I'm not going to bore you with mine. Everybody had a difficult childhood one way or another. And we can all sit here and whine about our childhood, how we were raised, what happened to us, whatever. I don't believe in any of that stuff. You get over it or you don't. And for a long time I didn't get over it. And I started drinking and drinking and drinking and I found all of. I, I made a goal for myself that I was going to be successful in business and I was going to, I was going to chart my own course and everything else. And I started when I was 13 years old. By the time I was 30, I was an alcoholic. I was. I had accomplished so much. I had been rich, I had been poor. I had been mildly famous, I had been mildly successful. I had all of the bling. I had the cars, I had the houses. I had everything. And I was miserable. Miserable. And I sobered up and I met a good woman. I found God. I got married, I had more children. And I still had hard times. But I found moments of happiness, real happiness. And you know where I found them? Every time in my family, which is the hardest thing I've ever done. Raising my children was the hardest thing by far. I, I have to tell you, while I'm doing It. I would have done anything to not do that because it was so far out of my ability. It was so far out of my comfort zone. It was so far out of my abilities. I thought my, my capability. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm the worst. Don't. I don't want to do this anymore. But let me tell you something. There is nothing that brings me more happiness than my family. There is nothing that I wish I had more of than children. I wish I had more children. I wish I was a better parent. But there is nothing that brings you happiness eternally. You will understand this, and you will understand it the older you get. There's nothing else but family. Cherish that. Don't kill it more in a second. Having a dog just makes life a little better. They're ready to forgive you for just about anything as long as you scratch them behind the ears. And believe me, when I was having, having, you know, the worst times of my time with raising my kids, I would look at my dog and be like, uno. Why can't they just be more like you? You know, you know, cats, they look at like they're evaluating whether they want to put you in the freezer or eat you now. I mean, it's. Anyway, dogs are different. They don't care what kind of day you had or whatever. They just, you know, they're happy. But you want to feed them the best, you want to care for them, you want them around as long as possible. So you, you feed them kibble food and you think you're doing a good thing and it's easy and it's, you know, inexpensive, etc. Etc. And you think it's okay. But it's, it's been, it's processed food. Highly, highly processed and then baked at such high temperatures, everything good for them is baked out. They spray it with flavor so the dogs like it, but their bodies know. And you can't live that way. They can't live that way. Add the supplement all of the live nutrients that they need with rough greens. R u f f greens.com you'll see a difference in your dog almost immediately. Get their trial bag right now. It's free. Just use the discount code. Beck. Pay for the shipping. Roughgreens.com promo code. Beck.

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You missed Glenn's overtime segment on Torch yesterday. You missed a lot. Get it now only@glenn beck.com Tor.

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Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Thank you so much for listening. I'm taking phone calls here in. In fact, let me do it. Let me start here with June in Michigan. Hello, June.

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Hi. Hi, Glenn. How are you today?

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I'm great.

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Good. Calling in with a unique perspective, kind of in a. Very much in agreement with yours. Yeah, everybody's got a choice and you get to make good or bad choices and then you get to live or not live with the consequences. But my unique perspective is I was blessed with a niece who her parents, after an amniocentesis test and other tests some years ago, and by that I mean decades ago, were told that they should abort her because she was a downs baby. So pretty sick doctor who apparently didn't understand like the rest of the world what a light downs babies and others are to us and what they do for our society, which is beautiful things. But they chose not to abort my niece, who turns out she was not downs, not at all. And she is now an award winning, big time, nationally recognized, award winning executive in her field. So imagine the years of joy of which they would have been robbed if they had listened to that terrible advice of death. And I just think the science is no more, it's no more foolproof now than it was then because these stories, there are many, many stories like this. I mean, God forbid that my parents scientifically now could have found out that I was going to have two cancers as I was aging and oh, just go ahead and abort me because it was going to be really painful and hard and I wasn't perfect. I mean, come on, it's sick. And I'm not speaking from a place where, wherewith I have not experienced because I myself at one point had an ectopic pregnancy. And because I feel so strongly about this, I did not let my doctor touch me until he proved to me that the baby had already passed. Yes, I knew what the risks were. They were completely explained to me. I knew entirely the risk and I took it because I. Because I valued life and not just my own. And I believe that God rewarded me in later years for that decision. And I think that yes, we all have choices and we have good choices and bad choices and life is never perfect, but we definitely suffer consequences from bad choices and we definitely get to enjoy the consequences of good choices. And I believe that firmly. So I'm in agreement with you on that.

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June. I thank you for sharing all of that. That blessings. Thank you. Let me go to Chuck. Hello, Chuck. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. You there, Chuck? Chuck is currently experiencing an emergency alert. Chuck, are you, are you there?

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I'm here.

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Or a bad hearing aid. Can you Hear me, Chuck. Hi. Go ahead. Yes.

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Yeah, I have a. I have a Down syndrome son and he names Derek. He's been a total blessing, a joy. I'm sorry. Very emotional to our family. Everybody loves him. He was about 41 years old. He just. He is a joy. Everybody just loves him. At death and table. I can't imagine not having a life without him. I can imagine making that choice to abort him. I just can't. My wife could not imagine even doing that. And he's been a total blessing to us. Oh, yeah, we love him. Sorry I'm emotional. We love him to death and he just.

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He is our joy.

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Thanks, Chuck. Let me go to Marty. Hello, Marty.

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Glenn. This is such an honor to speak to you and to speak about this subject. I have a daughter with down syndrome and I have a son who's on the autism spectrum. And my son actually does a little writing for the American story. But back to my daughter. What a gift. She's 30 years old, will be 30. She keeps telling me she's going to be 30 pretty soon. She's been such a blessing to our family, not just to me, but people around her. And like you said earlier in your monologue about this, these kids bring more to other people than they ever do. I'm glad she is what she is. She's accomplished more in life than I could ever think to accomplish. And I believe all her cousins and her brother feel the same way. And you have done a wonderful service for this, for this group of people today, Glenn. And I feel sorry for those people who started, who your story started with, for making that decision, because I think it's going to haunt them for the rest of their lives. And I don't mean that in a bad way, but they've given up an incredible gift.

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Marty, thank you for saying it exactly the way you just did. This was my. My reaction. We have to separate our first reaction. Sometimes your first reaction you should trust and you should go with. Sometimes your first reaction is just emotional and you should not go with that. And I agree with all of the people that reacted online and said, you just killed your baby, you just killed this blessed kid. All of this stuff, you're selfish. That was my first reaction. But that. That will only close hearts, that will never open hearts. My second reaction was not about a response. My second reaction was, I can see how they. I can see where they are because I. I've kind of been there myself. Not on this situation, but I've been there myself where I want to do me And I can justify that in a million ways. How many times did I say, I know I'm away from the family a lot, but I'm doing this for the kids, I'm doing this for the family. Family. I don't know how much of that is true. You know, I get to the end of my life, and not to the end of my life, but, you know, in the last, you know, few chapters of my life, and. And you start to review and you're like, okay, I'm not sure that what I've done is more important than what I could have done with my family. I'm not sure when I said, because there are times that I do believe strongly that I, I'm. I am doing this to save, to play a role so I can at least go home and say, I did everything I could to save your rights, Lord, that you lended. You lend to us. But I don't know if that excuses me from all of the hours and all of the things that I've had to do to travel and be away from my family. I mean, my kids will sometimes. And partly because I, you know, don't carry a phone, but they will sometimes go to my assistant to schedule time with me. Do you know how horrible that is as a dad? You know how horrible that is? That's not right. That's not right. And how much of that was done because I have an ego. I had a goal. I had, you know, So when I had my second thought when I saw this story was, they're going to so regret this. And they may not regret it tomorrow. They may not regret it in 20 years. But there will come a time, and especially if they ever realize doctors are wrong. When my daughter was born, the doctor said she will not feed herself, walk, understand speech, be able to communicate out. And she's none of those things. We were told by the doctors she will be bedridden for the rest of her life. And if they would have told me that I was 18 years old, I think. No, 20. 20 years old. I'm just a stupid kid. And if they would have told me those things back then, I would have said, we can't. That's. We should terminate. We should terminate. They were wrong. They were wrong. You don't know. And even if those things are true, you don't know what those things lead to. I was talking to somebody the other day that shared something with me that was very personal and, and, and really horrible. And they said, I don't know why I'm telling you this. I. I've never told anybody this before, and I said I could be wrong, so you're gonna have to pray about this. But maybe it's because you should share this. It's. It's been a long time. And maybe holding it inside is stopping you from blessing other people, because other people have gone through exactly, or are going through exactly what you went through, and they feel alone. They don't know how to handle it. And somebody like you saying something will make a lot of people go, wow, I'm not alone. Or I can make it because they made it. There's so many things that we don't understand, and we won't until we get to the other side. And I'm convinced the things that we think in life are meaningful. I think most of those things are bull crap. I think most of those things, we're going to the other side go, really? That didn't count for anything? That didn't. That didn't really. I really thought that was something important. Nope. It's decisions like this. And I would. One thing that I have learned, and I don't know if you've listened to me for a long time, I don't know what changes you hear in me as. As I get, you know, more seasoned, but one of the things is I've stopped deciding what's good and bad because I don't know that. I don't know that. I mean, I. I don't mean good and evil. I mean, this is going to work out well, or this is going to be. This is going to work out horribly. We're supposed to judge good and evil, but not, not. Not look at things and go, well, that's just gonna. Not. That's gonna turn out, you know what, that, baby, that we shouldn't do that because that's just going to be horrible. That's not my place to say. I have no idea. That's a. That's God's stuff. Not mine. Not mine. And I wish we could get more people to understand there are things that you just have to let go. My dad said to me once, he said, you know, son, life is nothing but a series of choices. And you try to make the best choices that you can, but know that those are your choices. And when things happen in your life, some of them are caused by your choices. Some of them will not be. But even when those things are happening, they're not happening to you. And all that remains is your choice. How am I going to deal with this? Am I going to let this drag me down? Or am I going to find joy in this some way? Am I going to find lessons in this that make me stronger? And then you make adjustments. So life is nothing but a series of choices, consequences and adjustments. I feel bad for these people because of the adjustment that someday I think they're going to have to make in their own thinking because the consequences. Are going to haunt them. Because you never know. You never know what could have been. All right, back in just a minute. Let me tell you about Relief Factor. When something is working, we tend to stop thinking about it. Your auto, your water heater works great. I'm not giving it a second thought. Your car starts every morning. Perfect. Your body feels good. Same thing. Then something changes. Maybe your knees start hurting when you stand up. Maybe your hands feel stiff. Maybe you notice things are not working the way they start, are supposed to, and it requires more effort. And that has your attention. That's the reason why I talk about Relief Factor. It's a daily supplement developed by doctors to help support your body's response to inflammation. I'm not the only one who's given it a try. Over a million people have tried it. Two thirds of them gone on just like me to order more month after month. I take it every day. When your body is working the way it's supposed to, you can focus on living your life instead of thinking about what hurts. If pain's been holding you back, find out why so many people like myself make it part of their daily routine. Relief Factor three week quick start. See how it can work for you. Reliefactor.com relief factor.com call 800 for relief 800. The number four relief. Glenn Beck is back after this. All right, I'm gonna leave you with something. This is a guy who I think is one of the funniest people I have ever heard. He is Irish. His name is Garen Nun, I think. Or Noon, I don't. I don't really know his. I just watch him on Instagram and I am such a fanboy boy. I mean, I wouldn't be able to speak around this guy because I think he is so damn funny that I would just. I wouldn't know what to say to him. My wife and I pass these back and forth every day. We are watching something he does. He just did something announcing that the Irish have fallen. Now he's Irish. The F word is an art form to him. And for some reason, when the Irish say it, it's just not offensive. I don't know why. Maybe it's just me But. But he just announced that Ireland has officially fallen. Listen to this edited version.

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Civilization has fallen. Ketchup and mayo sachets are to be banned in Ireland. What's next? Tiny jams? Miniature little marmalades? Is nothing sacred? Complimentary condiment sachets are the only thing that separate us from the episode. The EU has gone too f far with this one. That's it. Ireland is leaving. We're starting our own thing. And we're bringing plastic straws back as well. Now we have to walk up to refillable dispensers holding a little cup probably made out of f paper. Stop making things out of f paper. We built the f pyramids. This is humiliating. You c. I'm not gonna let you control my sauce like that. Apparently this is just phase one. They want to control everything. Look at all this. I don't even know what happened of it. Is seasoning. What the f is that? Coffee creamer. Do you mean milk? You listen and you listen. Milk stays. I'm not putting a powder into my tea. I'm not Pablo F. Escobar. Going to a restaurant in 2030 is going to be bleak. Please remove your shoes before stepping into the slop pit. Enjoy your dirty water. We can no longer clean it as the bacteria that causes dysentery is seeking reparations. If you feel the need to yourself to death, please do it in the designated yourself to death zone. And they're also planning on doing it with tiny bottles of shampoo and soap from the hotel.

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You.

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That's the only bit of theft I get to engage in a civilized human being. I'm not sharing a soap bottle with a previous guest. They've had their hands between I with a mat jam. This is described stressful and it must be stopped. Follow me. I'm delicious.

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Oh, he is delicious. I'm sorry to fanboy geek out on that guy, but I just find him hysterical. Just hysterical. And read about him. His story is amazing. What he has overcome in life is just. He's an amazing guy. Not a comedian, a musician, but he is the funniest guy guy I have found online.