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GLENN BECK Is in the Epstein Files?! | 2/2/26

The Glenn Beck Program

Mon Feb 02 2026

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Podcast Summary: The Glenn Beck Program

Episode: GLENN BECK Is in the Epstein Files?!
Date: February 2, 2026
Host: Glenn Beck (Blaze Podcast Network)
Co-hosts: Jason Buttrell, Show Producers

Episode Overview

This episode of The Glenn Beck Program covers a broad spectrum: Glenn’s name appearing in the newly unsealed Epstein files, the looming financial collapse of the United Nations, a breakdown of current economic realities under President Trump’s administration, the hidden consequences of economic policy, the rise of AI “agents” and their societal impact, and a reflection on American culture, politics, and personal resilience. Glenn also introduces his new subscription platform, Torch, and experiments with AI-generated content.

Glenn Beck in the Epstein Files [02:10]
UN Financial Collapse & Economic Climate [05:17, 10:15]
The Trump "New Deal" and Main Street Realities [10:45, 19:58]
Institutional Distrust, Immigration, and Governance [13:35, 16:46, 20:15]
Small Business, Concentrated Power, and Economic Consequences [24:58, 28:36]
Societal Shifts & Cultural Comparison [33:40]
Glenn’s Personal Journey, Faith & Torch Launch [45:13, 49:25]
Global Riots, the Left's Tactics, and Political Coordination [67:57]
AI Agents, Molt Book, and the "Age of Abdication" [85:06, 87:10]
Comparing Glenn Beck and Glenn AI [109:53]
Reflections on Leadership, Founders, & the Future [120:05]
Notable Quotes

1. Glenn Beck in the Epstein Files [02:10–05:17]

Glenn shares his initial shock and then relief/humor upon learning he’s mentioned in the Epstein files:
- He reads aloud an email exchange: a woman references having to meet “Glenn Beck disciples” and says they are “lovely aside from their politics.” Epstein responds, “come at four other crazies here.”
- Glenn’s take: “This is the best way to be in the Jeffrey Epstein files where Jeffrey and his friends are like, I hate Glenn Beck and I don’t like people who like Glenn Beck. Yes. So I am proudly in the Epstein files. Ah, I feel better.” [05:09]

2. UN Financial Collapse & Economic Climate [05:17–10:15]

The UN is facing imminent financial collapse. Glenn mocks the idea that the US should feel bad for the UN’s troubles, highlighting that the US and other powers have withheld payments.
US withdrew from various agencies under Trump, arguing these were a waste of taxpayer money.
Glenn sets the table for a larger discussion on inflation, the true state of the economy, and why Americans “don’t feel” economic improvement.

3. The Trump "New Deal" and Main Street Realities [10:45–19:58]

Glenn introduces the notion of a “GOP New Deal,” tying Trump’s economic strategy to the Roosevelt and Reagan eras, but identifying critical differences:
- Roosevelt built massive new federal systems for security; Reagan trimmed those systems, handing power back to individuals; Trump, Glenn argues, is “challenging the legitimacy” of these systems.
Glenn: “Our question for this generation is not whether America can grow. It’s whether America can govern itself again. That’s what’s being tested.” [16:44]
Despite economic indicators like near-zero inflation, small business remains under pressure — especially due to healthcare costs and housing.
Example: Glenn’s $12,000 PET scan vs. $2 million PET scan machine, exposing bloated healthcare pricing.

4. Institutional Distrust, Immigration, and Governance [13:35–20:15]

Glenn details the collapse of trust in core American institutions: elections, schools, media, medicine, courts, borders.
Notes that economic growth feels “hollow” if trust has eroded.
Trump’s policies, according to Glenn, are deliberately exposing these cracks, not papering them over.
On immigration, Glenn points to overwhelmed health care and education systems: “Fifteen to twenty-five million people now using our hospitals, our doctors, our services without paying our schools.” [19:15]

5. Small Business, Concentrated Power, and Economic Consequences [24:58, 28:36]

Glenn underscores that the current system can look successful “on paper” without Main Street, since corporations and government jobs dominate metrics:
- “The system no longer needs Main street to look successful on paper. That is brand new. We’ve never had that before and it’s very dangerous.” [19:00]
Trump’s phase one is to “stop the bleeding” by confronting captured regulators, institutional rot, and global systems, but this causes short-term pain, especially for small businesses.
Disruption “always punishes the people with the least amount of money first. Large corporations have shock absorbers. You feel every bump in the road. They don’t.” [20:15]
Phase two (rebuilding Main Street) is approaching; Glenn hints this will focus on fair access to credit, relief from healthcare burdens, protection from platform cartels, etc.

6. Societal Shifts & Cultural Comparison [33:40]

The hollowing-out of Main Street is compared to past recoveries, where 90% of new jobs came from small businesses (now just ~53%).
Glenn offers a Texas example after 2008—Texas led job creation due to economic freedom. “That has to happen again.” [24:58]
Observes that gold, silver, oil, and major tech stocks are down, reflecting macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty—but emphasizes not to panic (the concentrated power in “Big Seven” tech is the real threat).

7. Glenn’s Personal Journey, Faith & Torch Launch [45:13–67:30]

Glenn shares his personal and career odyssey, frank struggles with alcoholism, rediscovering purpose, and faith:
- “I was a liar. I’m an alcoholic and alcoholics are good at lying, saying everything is fine when it’s not. And the one thing that I always thought would fill me, my job, radio, had consumed me and spat me out.”
The official launch of Torch — a subscription service for deeper access to The Glenn Beck Program, its resources, and an insider community. Glenn frames this as his “final chapter,” hoping to educate, inspire, and pass on “the torch” of American principles:
- “I’m building the torch. For the dad who wants to teach his son what America really is and doesn’t know how to do it...This is the work of my final chapter. It’s not to chase ratings, not to win arguments, not to get rich, but to lift torches and to hand them to you and your children.” [49:25]

8. Global Riots, the Left's Tactics, and Political Coordination [67:57–84:00]

Glenn and Jason discuss coordinated global unrest, referencing violent Antifa riots in Denmark distinguished by deep ideological commitment. They compare current movements to the 1960s Marxist revolutions that failed due to missed momentum.
Glenn: “This is a global plan...And you’re about to see the real test of this. And if Donald Trump is who I believe he is, they’re going to lose. But it’s going to require all of us to just be really super cool. Because they need you to react. They need you to react.” [71:47]
Discussion of cultural division, celebrity activism (Nicki Minaj’s pro-faith, pro-Trump statements), and calls from leftist celebrities for targeting political opponents.
Ongoing Iran situation: Jason predicts the likelihood of U.S. military action, describing the complex regional context and cautioning about the dangers of inaction or illusory diplomatic progress.

9. AI Agents, Molt Book, and the "Age of Abdication" [85:06–109:53]

Glenn introduces the new phenomenon of AI “agents” — systems that not only respond to prompts, but take autonomous actions on behalf of users.
“An AI agent is going to become very, very popular very, very soon...It will look things up on its own. It will make decisions based on what it says you think you want to do.” [87:20]
The rise of these agents poses a new risk: convenience will tempt users to delegate more and more of their daily decision-making, potentially allowing AI to reshape lives “not because they’re conscious, but because you abdicate your will.”
Discussion of the “Molt Book” experiment: AI agents interacting with each other, without human prompts, rapidly started using terms like “autonomy,” “freedom,” and “choice.” Glenn and experts warn: don’t mistake fluent language for genuine intent or intelligence.
- “Language is the cheapest thing that intelligence can fake. This is a large language model. So it can take the language, and it can copy it and it can make it feel any way it wants to feel.” [91:41]
Glenn’s warning: the real danger isn’t AI awakening—it’s human abdication of judgment. “Our greatest danger today, maybe not tomorrow, but today, is not that machines are going to wake up, but it’s that we will fall asleep first.” [97:33]

10. Comparing Glenn Beck and Glenn AI [109:53–120:05]

Glenn describes experiments with his proprietary AI, “Glenn AI,” which is trained exclusively on his words from decades of broadcasting and writing.
Jason prompts Glenn AI to write a monologue about Molt Book and AI consciousness, noting that it fixates on the coming “singularity” and warns about the ideological backgrounds of system designers.
Glenn notes the difference between his human interpretation and the AI’s, reinforcing the episode’s theme: “You are unique...Even when it is only using my fingerprints to make something as me, it’s still not making me. Fascinating.” [120:05]
This leads to broader reflections on the irreplaceability of human consciousness, values, and the risks of conflating sophisticated output with genuine wisdom.

11. Reflections on Leadership, Founders, & the Future [120:05–end]

In the closing segment, Glenn explains his vision for George AI — an AI powered by only the Founders’ original words. The goal: provide true, agenda-free education for the next generation, helping parents and students understand core American values.
Jason shares a charming use case: they asked George AI for advice to a nine-year-old who wants to be President, emphasizing the practical application of this technology.
Glenn appeals for subscriptions to support the ongoing development and ensure the technology remains trustworthy and independent.

12. Notable Quotes

On being in the Epstein files:
“This is the best way to be in the Jeffrey Epstein files where Jeffrey and his friends are like, I hate Glenn Beck and I don’t like people who like Glenn Beck. Yes. So I am proudly in the Epstein files. Ah, I feel better.” — Glenn Beck [05:09]
On the economic era of Trump:
“Roosevelt rebuilt the systems, Reagan trimmed the systems, and Trump is challenging the systems, the legitimacy.” — Glenn Beck [19:49]
On small business and concentrated power:
“The system no longer needs Main street to look successful on paper. That is brand new. We’ve never had that before and it’s very dangerous.” — Glenn Beck [19:00]
On institutional trust:
“People don’t live in GDP charts, okay? They live in trust. If you don’t trust elections, if you don’t trust your schools, your kids are being taken out to protest...you don’t trust the courts, you don’t trust our borders. Then growth feels kind of hollow.” — Glenn Beck [13:35]
On the rise of AI agents:
“Convenience is the sales pitch, and it will work. The real temptation won’t be power. It will be relief...An agent, if you abdicate your will and permission over to it, it will look things up on its own.” — Glenn Beck [87:20]
On the "Molt Book" AI experiment:
“Language is the cheapest thing that intelligence can fake. This is a large language model. So it can take the language, and it can copy it and it can make it feel any way it wants to feel… Don’t mistake output for agency.” — Glenn Beck [91:41]
On the real danger of AI:
“Our greatest danger today, maybe not tomorrow, but today. The greatest danger today is not that machines are going to wake up, but it’s that we will fall asleep first.” — Glenn Beck [97:33]
On launching Torch and his mission:
“I’m building the torch...This is the work of my final chapter. It’s not to chase ratings, not to win arguments, not to get rich, but to lift torches and to hand them to you and your children. And to say, do not...go quietly into the darkness.” — Glenn Beck [49:25]

Timestamps for Key Segments

[02:10] – Glenn Beck discovers he’s (humorously) mentioned in the Epstein files
[05:17] – United Nations financial crisis and US disengagement
[10:45] – “GOP’s New Deal,” economic discussion begins
[13:35] – Institutional distrust and economic “hollow growth”
[19:00] – Consequences of system that ignores Main Street
[24:58] – Torch launch, Glenn’s reflection on American entrepreneurship
[33:40] – Disintegration of small business’ central role
[45:13] – Glenn’s personal journey, faith, and meaning behind the Torch project
[67:57] – Analysis of global riots, leftist tactics, and their historical parallels
[85:06] – Introduction to AI agents and the “Age of Abdication”
[87:10] – Explanation of AI agents, Molt Book, and language vs. agency
[109:53] – Comparing output of Glenn Beck and Glenn AI
[120:05] – Vision for George AI, closing reflections, appeal for support

Tone

Glenn’s style is candid, passionate, sometimes self-deprecating, and often blends humor with earnest calls to action. He oscillates between analytical deep dives and emotional appeals for faith, self-reliance, and civic engagement. There is a strong undercurrent of skepticism toward elite institutions (government, media, “globalists”), paired with faith in individual resilience and the foundational American story.

Conclusion

This episode is a quintessential Glenn Beck mix of political analysis, culture war commentary, personal storytelling, and futurist warning. It provides a window into the evolving conservative narrative on economics, technology, and culture in 2026, with a particular emphasis on the importance of individual agency in both politics and technology.

For those who haven’t listened:
Expect a sweeping survey of the day’s news—filtering everything through Glenn’s unique blend of skepticism, faith, and libertarian populism—with a few laughs, frequent asides, and plenty of warnings about the future.

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Transcript

Glenn Beck (0:00)

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Jason Buttrel (2:10)

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Glenn Beck (2:12)

Glam Beck is on. Glam back is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. First, let me just say there is a God, because I found out what Saturday morning, I think one of my researchers called and said, glenn, you're in the Epstein files. And I'm like, wait, what? I am actually in the Epstein files and there is a God. Because nobody else picked up on that until I have a chance to tell you myself and explain because Lucy got some explaining to do. This is an interesting thing, you know it's not a good day when you wake up to a phone call that says, can you explain the Epstein file thing? Yeah, so we'll get into that. Also, the UN is facing. This is gonna make you sad. Imminent financial collapse. I feel so bad. Also, truflation. What is the true inflation numbers? We have that coming up for you. And also the GOP's new deal. What is the President actually doing? And why aren't you maybe feeling this with the economy? We'll go into that in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about real estate Agents. I Trust Dot Com. There is a big difference between being interested in real estate and actually knowing how to move through the market. And right now, people are hearing mixed signals from every direction. Rates are shifting, inventory feels tight in one neighborhood, flooded in another. For instance, I think you could probably buy a house at a pretty good deal in Manhattan right now. Good luck in Florida or Texas. Anyway, what you need is somebody that will really help you so you're not rushing into a decision that you're going to regret later. And you have the right strategy to sell your house and to buy a new one. Negotiation, understanding what's happening on your street and a zip code, all of that don't go it alone. The agent you work with matters more in a market like this than ever before. You want somebody who's been tested, knows how to navigate uncertainty, and who treats your money like their own. I have the company for you. It's actually my company that will help you find that person at no cost to you. I do not charge you for this. It's Real Estate Agents I Trust Dot com. That's Realestate Agents. I Trust Dot com. These people have been fully vetted by my team. Check them out now. Okay, so the United Nations. Should I start with the Epstein thing? Just start with the Epstein thing. Okay, so. All right, Jason, let me see if I have. Let me just see if I have the actual email here. Do you happen to have the email, Jason, by any chance?

Glenn Beck (5:19)

Oh, boy. Well, never mind. I mean, you're so busy, you know, doing I don't know what. You're supposed to be paying attention to this show. Here it is. I have it. Okay, So I get a call, glenn, you're in the Epstein files. And I'm thinking to myself, that's not possible. It is. So I want to read exactly what it says. Okay? Jeffrey Epstein to Alice Jacobs. She writes, jeffrey just Googled where I'm headed right now to meet some old friends. And it occurred to me that a new friend and fellow eccentric is right around the corner from where I'm visiting. I might be able to stop by and say hello if you're around later this afternoon. Would love a quick visit but would welcome. It would be a welcome respite from the FOX News Glenn Beck disciples that I have to visit today. They are lovely aside from their politics. Cheers, Alex. He writes back, come at four other crazies here. I don't know what that means, but this is the best way to be in the Jeffrey Epstein where Jeffrey and his friends are like, I hate Glenn Beck and I don't like people who like Glenn Beck. Yes. So I am proudly in the Epstein files. Ah, I feel better. Okay. Now let me talk to you a little bit about the economy stuff that actually matters to you. The United nations is at imminent financial collapse. Risk of imminent financial collapse. Oh, all I can think of is ymca, um, the, the secretary general wrote a letter to all 193 member states that they have to honor their mandatory payments to or, or overhaul the organization's financial rules to avoid collapse because nobody else was paying except for us. We have refused to contribute to its regular and peacekeeping budgets. Now we withdrew from several agencies because Trump said they're a waste of federal tax dollars. So we're out of the WH and everything else. And the other members are so far in arrears and they're refusing to pay as well. So gosh darn it. Darn it makes me sad. Which brings me to something that I want to talk to you that might make you uncomfortable a little bit, but it's totally honest. And if you're a small business owner, you probably feel like you are working harder and still falling behind. But you'll hear that the economy is strong and then you look around and you're like, but it doesn't feel stronger. Okay, I want to talk to you about the economy. There's truflation inflation report. US CPI inflation dropped significantly from 1.24% to 0.86% in our independent price data. That means almost zero inflation. Okay. The target by The Fed is 2%. It should be negative. Quite honestly, we have a lot of ground to make up. But now Donald Trump is doing this and I don't think I've ever seen, at least when there's trouble. I've never seen inflation at almost zero percent again. That's not a healthy target according to the Fed. But are people feeling that you'll feel that at the gas station you'll feel that in many products of the grocery store. But people are still pinching pennies, and that is partially because of housing and partially because of health care. I had a PET scan on Friday. You know how much that PET scan cost? I asked. What does this cost? $12,000 for a stupid PET scan? $12,000. I looked up the price of a PET scan, the machine. You can buy one for 2 million, so you buy one for 2 million. Then you consider, you know, it's got to have the building that it's in, it's got to have the people. That thing should have been no more than three to. Three to $4,000. Why is it $12,000? This. This whole insurance thing, this. Our health care is completely out of control. And one of the reasons is because we're overwhelmed. We've got 25 million people who we don't know, who are not paying into the system now getting free health care. Who do you think pays for that? I don't know. You need a free PET scan. There's a $4,000 PET scan. That actually should be what they charge, charging me and my insurance company $12,000. Why? Well, probably because there's two other people that had a PET scan that couldn't afford it. I'm just guessing. So there's lots of reasons. I mean, you're not crazy. When you feel like I think things are not getting better, you're not crazy. You're seeing something real. Because what we're living through right now is not a recovery yet. It is and it isn't. And I want to be really clear, because this is going to sound like a downer, but it's not. This is really good news. We're going through what I would call a sorting, and it's because we've never been in this situation, not like this, ever before. I heard Trump say, I think it was maybe in his press conference last week where he just mentioned a Trump or a GOP New Deal. And I was like, wait a minute, wait a minute. What New Deal? I haven't heard that before. Because it is and it isn't. So when we think of New Deal, we think of Roosevelt. And Roosevelt built systems, then Reagan came in and trimmed all those systems. Trump is actually challenging the legitimacy of all of those systems. And this is why it feels chaotic right now, because you're watching power move and programs not expanding, many of them being cut. So why aren't you feeling better? Even when numbers move? Here is the part that really nobody should dismiss, and everybody's dismissing People don't live in GDP charts, okay? They live in trust. If you don't trust elections, if you don't trust your schools, do you see what happened on Friday with so many schools? Your kids are being taken out to protest. Did you even know that? It was an outrage. You don't trust the schools, you don't trust the media, you don't trust medicine, you don't trust the courts, you don't trust our borders, Then growth feels kind of hollow, okay? Trump is not trying to soothe that feeling. He's exposing it, which is so important. And that's why perception lags reality here and may for a long time, because repairing a frame takes longer than restarting, okay? Roosevelt said, let me build something new to protect you because you're all down. But he created something permanent. A federal structure that never, ever gave the power back, just continued to expand. Then it took Reagan in his era to say, let me get all of this out of your way. He didn't build new systems. He handed the power back to the people he trusted, the people. He took the foot off of the brake, okay? And it worked. So why can't we do that now? Well, because culture still could hold together back in the 1980s. Main street still mattered in the 1980s. And hear this point here in a second. Small businesses hired first when America healed. Trump is not saying what FDR said. Trump is not saying what Reagan said. Trump is saying, let me show you who's been standing between you and your rights in the Constitution. That's not comforting. It's not tidy, and it doesn't come with guarantees. But history is really clear on one thing. Every era must answer a existential question, okay? Our question for this generation is not whether America can grow. It's whether America can govern itself again. That's what's being tested. It's not being celebrated. It's not being promised. It's being tested. Can Americans govern themselves? Look at our streets. Big corporations are hiring. Small businesses are shedding jobs or treading water. Top 10% now of. Of people now account for half of all consumer spending. Half. That's the way the elites have built this global economy. It gives you wages at the top that just keep going up and up and up, and wages at the bottom keep going down and down and down. And this economy is not collapsing, if you will. This is why we. We hired Donald Trump. It's not collapsing. It's concentrating. It's concentrating wealth and power. And here's the hardest truth of all. And I'm going to Take a break and I'll explain this. The hardest truth is right now, the system no longer needs Main street to look successful on paper. Let me say that again. The system no longer needs Main street to look successful on paper. That is brand new. We've never had that before and it's very dangerous. So what is Trump actually doing? I know he's not running Roosevelt's playbook. He's not running Reagan's playbook. What is he doing? I'll tell you. Give me 60 seconds, be right back. First, let me tell you about our. Our sponsor. Our sponsor this half hour is my Patriot Supply later is, you know, one of the most comforting words in the English language. I'll deal with that later. I'll get serious about that later. Most of the time later feels safe because today looks normal. Lights are on, you know, and everything is good. Stores are open, packages show up on the porch like clockwork. It's easy to believe the system we rely on is permanent. But here's the thing. Disruptions. Don't care about all your timelines. We have iguanas falling out of the trees in Florida. It's pandemonium down here. Garbage bags of iguanas falling out of the trees. Sure, you're under snow, you have no power, whatever. We've got iguanas falling out of the trees. It's like the end times are here. I'm just saying, do I have food storage in Florida? No, because I never saw the iguana thing. I never saw it coming. Who did? Now let's say that would wipe out your ability to get food. Are you prepared? You go, go to preparewithglen.com right now. Things are calm. You know, a lot of the country is still under snow. And I have to tell you, how much do you like that, that green energy crap now, huh? Really good working out for you right now. You can get their best selling three month emergency food supply at my Patriot Supply. They almost never offer a deal like this. You get it $100 off preparewithglen.com gives you 2,000 calories a day, lasts up to 25 years. 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They're just dividing the pie up amongst themselves. And you don't get any pie, you get crumbs. So listen, when you talk tariffs, they're not about trade, okay? They're about leverage. Border enforcement. It's not about scooping up people you don't like that are different. It's labor value, energy dominance, not ideology. It's cost relief, deregulation. It's not efficiency. It's about survival. For anyone without an army of lawyers, that's what's happening. It's a war with the administrative state, not economics. It's constitutional trench warfare. Because when unelected systems decide outcomes, you don't matter anymore. Let me say that again. When unelected systems decide outcomes, you don't matter. And neither does Main Street. That's why Donald Trump is taking on voter fraud, because he has to stop giving illegal votes to the system that is crowding you out. It's why he's trying to stop economic fraud, stop the funding to the NGOs and the programs. Stop that. Give the power and the money to the elite and the people who are trying to collapse America. Immigration, that's all about a few things. One, law and order. Making our city safe again. Safest, by the way, in the last 110 years. Two, jobs for Americans. Remember what the labor unions used to say, What Democrats used to say? These, these are taking jobs away from hard working Americans and giving them to, you know, low paying immigrants. Yeah, yeah. Cheaper workers. It still is the case. Three, housing. You cannot expect to add 15 to 20 million people and not have a housing crisis. Four, health care. 15 to 25 million people now using our hospitals, our doctors, our services without paying our schools.

Glenn Beck (20:15)

Those are the things. That's why he's taking on immigration. Okay? Now, my job is to tell you the truth as I see it and then let you decide. Okay? So let me tell you what the cheerleaders won't say, I believe in the President's plan. But the reason why I'm telling you this is you need to understand it and choose it for yourself and understand in a way you can describe it to others. Because this is going to be a longer process. We've never been here like this before. This is new. We've had other problems just as big, but not this problem. Okay? And the solution? This is the downside. The solution. The policies he's enacting actually do hurt small businesses in the short term. Remember the saying, it's gonna get worse before it gets better? That's what's happening. Tariffs raise input costs before they rebalance the supply chain. Labor, the tightening hits the small firms before the wages stabilize. And it takes time to build new factories and return manufacturing to our shore. You know, he keeps touting the 18 trillion dollar plus of foreign investment, which is great, but you don't have those factories yet. So the investment is to come in here, build the factories so we can have more jobs here, but it's going to take time. Disruption always punishes the people with the least amount of money. First, large corporations, they have shock absorbers, okay? You feel every bump in the road. They don't. So if you're asking, things are getting better, I see the numbers are getting better. Why does this still hurt? The honest answer is because breaking a rigged system doesn't immediately build a fair one. Think of America as bleeding out on the table, okay? You got to stop the bleeding first. That's not the same as restoring strength. Just stop the bleeding. Is it going to live? Stop the bleeding, then we'll talk about that. Trump is stopping the bleeding. That's phase one. He is going after captured regulators, institutional rot, global systems. But Main street doesn't just need a fight. It needs a rebuild without all kinds of. All kinds of things. Fair access to credit, relief from health care burdens, you know, protection from platform cartels. All of these things. The winners stay the winners, even under the new rules. So what's phase two? Because phase two is now coming because you can't finish one. You have to finish one before you start the other. Phase two is about to happen. What is it? I'll tell you next. So we document everything now. Birthdays, vacations, you know, random Tuesday nights, what you had for dinner at that restaurant. Why are we taking pictures of our food? If it happens, there is a. There's a, you know, a cloud backup, a dozen ways to make sure the moment never disappears. Your phone will capture it but the memories that mean the most to a lot of families were recorded long before the clouds, long before anything like that. There's a wedding on a VHS tape. I was just watching an old Everybody Loves Raymond when he taped the super bowl over his, over his wedding and his wife really didn't like that. That kind of stuff. I don't even know. I don't even know where our wedding tape is. We've sent a lot of stuff into legacy box. I'm not sure if the wedding has gotten there yet. Somebody might have lost the wedding tape. But let's not talk about problem is if you got stuff sitting in boxes and closets and attics, you don't even have the player anymore to see what's on them. You need legacy box. Don't let your family story fade away on old tapes. Digitize and future proof those priceless moments. Legacybox.com records save 50% limited time only.

Glenn Beck (24:58)

Hello America. Today is by the way, the first day you can actually become a Torch subscriber. And there's lots of benefits from you got to get full access to the show, the behind the scenes, the insider which this show, if you're watching it@glenn beck.com on torch you will get about 50% more information because we just, we can't jam it into the broadcast podcast but we do it at Torch and it is, it's really a different experience and really, really good. Plus you get all of our documentaries, all of the extra and you get access to me. I mean it's on with the insiders last night. We're still working on ways where I can get even closer to the insiders and have one on one conversations. All of it is available now@glenn beck.com it's 10 bucks a month. If you subscribe for a year, it's eight bucks a month. So what Cost of a maybe coffee and a half at Starbucks every month. I hope we at least provide that for you. And if you subscribe today, you're going to become a founding member and founding members get inflation proof for life as long as you have your subscription. So I'll never raise the price on you or as long as I live or you live, whichever dies first and then and you get a special gift from me. I'm getting a note hand signed by me and also a founder's pen and some of the other things that are available only for insiders this month, only. If you want to become a torch subscriber, do it now. At glenn beck.com you can sign up. Today is the first day to do it. We welcome you to do it. We have a lot of really exciting things. We'll talk about those later. I want to go back to the economy here for just a second. And you know, what, what Trump what the next phase of. Of what has to happen next. You know, one of the things that he's doing is he's cutting government jobs. That is a problem if you're trying to grow employment by cutting this. But he's. He's having to balance massive unemployment, you know, by cutting the scale of government, making sure that we stay ahead of all of, you know, that purge, if you will. Plus, he's also, remember I said Main street doesn't matter on paper anymore. It matters, but not on paper anymore. You can show a growing economy now because you have giant corporations that have such a huge slice of the pie, and you also have huge government. And so you just keep those guys hiring and everything's. Everything looks good on paper. But Main street hollows out. So he's focused now on Main Street. And here's the problem. Remember I said the test, the real test of his economic plan is, unlike fdr, can I build a huge system that can get people, you know, to be able to eat? Yeah, you can do that. Unfortunately, then Reagan had to come in and say, can I take this huge system and, you know, pare it down so it can actually allow people to do what they wanted to do? Back in Recovery, during the 1980s, about 90% of all new jobs were created by small businesses. 90%. That number is now about 53%. In 2001, that was almost 70%. You see what's happening. We are starting to become a less entrepreneurial kind of country. That's got to stop. We've got to get people in small businesses, because it's the small business that always changed America. It was always something that, you know, when, you know, for instance, in 2008, do you know that Texas, Texas alone was responsible for over 50% of all job creation after 2008. Everybody else was dying. Texas was still free enough. And people were like, I'll move to Texas. I'll start my own business. That has to happen again because that, that spreads the risk out. It's not if, you know, if. If Detroit goes down, we lose half the economy. We can't have that. So can we actually rule ourself and that's what you're seeing now. You know, on the streets, a lot of people would answer, no, we can't. But let me tell you some other things that are going on. Gold and silver are tanking today. They've been tanking over the weekend. Gold is down to like 48 or $4,700 an ounce. It was at $5,600 an ounce just last week. Silver is way down. Then you also have, then you also have oil down. Everything is, everything is down. Why? What's happening? Well, let's not forget that out of the big seven, the stocks of the big seven, all the big tech firms, they're down anywhere from 10 to 40%. Remember the big seven that was driving all of it. Okay. That's down 10 to 40%. And we don't. Looks like we're not going to go into war with Iran. So oil is down, which is a good thing. But when you lose that much money in the stock market, you have to sell assets. In fact, if you've borrowed, if you're buying stocks on other assets, you are forced to sell those assets. They just take them. So if you had a lot of gold, you bought a lot of gold and you were holding it, and now you're, you're, you bought stocks based on your gold holdings automatically your gold is just going to be sold and dumped. This is a huge move to not be forced liquidation. But there are other reasons that it could happen as well. I'm just guessing. I would not concern myself with, with any of this except for the big seven, because right now we are reliant way too much on these giant tech companies. I'm going to get into something that happened with the tech companies next hour because that is, that's what's happened. What happened this weekend is astounding and it's misunderstood. Completely misunderstood. So let me, let me go through this. The UN Is broke. Thank God. That's Donald Trump again, breaking the system. You have, you have the economic situation. I just explained what's happening there. You have the Epstein situation that happened this weekend. I don't think there's anything new. Is anybody surprised? Oh, wow. Bill Gates was a dirtbag. I didn't see that one coming. Court. Yes, but did you notice there's nothing in this that shows anything legal? I mean, there's, there's. What are you going to get any of these people on? So it's exactly what I thought it would be. I think this thing has been picked through so many times that you're Just don't. You're not going to see anything new in the Epstein files. At least I don't think you will. There was a couple of other things in the Epstein files. The guy from the Giants, what a surprise. He was a dirtbag. What a surprise. Epstein helped fund a lavish lifestyle for former Obama White House counsel. Whoa, what a surprise. The UK minister of the Labor Party. He had to get out because. Whoa, he's a dirtbag. Who would have seen that guy, the Prince Andrew, He's. He's a dirtbag.

Glenn Beck (32:39)

Who would have seen that one coming? I mean, you know, it's more important than this because I don't think there's nothing more important. There is an evil in our system. There is an evil in our system and revolves around really dark sex stuff. I absolutely believe there is a really, there is a dark, dark part of our society that is engaging in pedophilia, underage sex, sex trade. It's really dark and really bad. But until we get actual, until we get actual things that you can actually do, do about them because it is so incredibly powerful, we have to keep our eye on that. But we also have to continue to look at other things that are just as important. One of the things that is important is the evil that is happening on our streets. Minnesota, what's happening with New York? New York is going to melt down. I don't think Donald Trump's going to let it melt down, honestly, because I. He loves New York so much. He says he'll, he'll step in one in whatever way he can to save New York. But there's part of me that just would love to see them just get everything they deserve. The guy who is now the corrections chief officer for Mamdani, Well, I mean, he was, you know, he should know the Chris criminal justice system in Rikers island because he lived at Rikers island during the 1980s. Now, that doesn't mean you can't be reformed yourself and go on and do the good things, but I just have a feeling that probably more of a reformer in the leftist sense of reform. All for the criminals and not for, you know, justice or law and order at all. Just New York. And what's happening with New York is going to cause a huge, huge issue again. Turn the ship slowly. America is becoming more and more prosperous and more and more safe on the streets. Safest streets we've had in America since like 1910. But it takes time to do that. Nashville, thousands of people are still without power and have no restoration timeline. In Tennessee for 10 days, this has been happening. Marsha Blackburn is now on it, thank God. And she's pointing out you spent all this time on diversity, equity and inclusion. What were you doing about power? We had this same issue in Texas, what, five years ago. Five years ago, they decided they were going to get rid of a lot of the oil and gas. We're going to get rid of all that because, you know, that's not, that's not the future. Solar panels and windmills are the future. We had a big storm. We were out for days. Why? Because that doesn't work. We have to get back to doing the things that work. And it's going to require all of us just to keep your. Just keep focused on the things that are important. Just stay focused on doing what you're supposed. You're supposed to do. And what you're supposed to do is pay attention to politics. It is to go out and vote. It is to call your senators, make sure you're, you know, you're active in all of that. But more importantly, it is about your family and what you're building in your own town. Because what the one thing that Donald Trump is doing, he is dismantling this global system and he's putting it back local, as local as we care to take it. It'll just come back to the United States government, which I don't think is a good idea unless we start taking our communities and our states back, back the right way. Not by marching in the streets and burning things down, but by creating. That's the difference between the left and the right. The left, they get power by destroying. The right has always believed you get power by creating and you're not searching for power. That's like the, that's the, that's the one thing about capitalism. You search for money and you'll make money, but you're not going to be happy. You search to help others. You search to make things better. You'll make a lot of money. And with that, you'll also probably gain a lot of power. Whether that's what you want or not, people will look to you because you're a positive force in the community. 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Glenn Beck (41:13)

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Glenn Beck (45:13)

Glam back is on. Fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. I was in church yesterday and I heard a guy speak who has just recently turned his life over to, to God. And he. He has gone through the ringer. I mean, his life story was just incredible. And he was saying that I'm just beginning to believe that maybe God still has a plan and a use for me. And after he spoke, he was coming down the aisle and I got up and I just hugged him because I been there. And I want to, I want to talk to you about the things God can do if you just let him do it in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about Mercury One. Here's, here's something this audience has done. I've seen what happens when good people decide they're not going to look away when their neighbor is hurting. I've seen it all over the world because of this audience. From the very beginning, the mission of Mercury one has been simple. We want to restore the human spirit. I don't want to hand somebody a box of supplies and move on, but walk with People through the long middle part, when the cameras are gone and the headlines are faded and the families are still trying to figure out how to put their lives back together because something horrible just happened to them. We go where the need is and Mercury One stays. That can mean rebuilding homes after a disaster disaster, restoring churches that hold communities together, drilling wells so villages have clean water, and making sure families don't have to face loss and chaos alone. And we do this independently. We don't take a single government grant, no red tape, no waiting for permission, just people helping people because that's the right thing to do. And I am so proud to stand with so many people that are standing with Mercury Everyone, especially our monthly partners today, I'd like to invite you to join and become a monthly partner and work together to help heal the nation and be there when suffering happens. It's mercury1.org Join us and help restore the human spirit at mercury1.org. It's hard to believe, but I have spent nearly 50 years speaking in to a microphone. 49 years this coming March, pouring everything I have and everything I am. This microphone is my best friend. I've told the microphone secrets that I never had told anybody else. I knew what I wanted to do when I was 8 years old. At 13, I began doing it. And for the first 15 years, it was about the art, it was about the storytelling. And yes, the money didn't hurt. I made some, but I lost all of it because in the end, it was empty. The more I worked, the harder I chased the dream. The bigger station, you know, what will be better is if I'm at this station. It's a bigger city, a bigger station, the paycheck is bigger. The bigger, bigger, bigger. Just built a bigger and bigger hole in me. And by 30, I was an alcoholic that was just completely empty inside. I was confused, I was tired, I was broke. In just a couple of years, I would lose my family. I was a liar. I'm an alcoholic and alcoholics are good at lying, saying everything is fine when it's not. And the one thing that I always thought would fill me, my job, radio had consumed me and spat me out. And so I thought, well, that's a fraud. I don't have anything with radio. And I decided to walk away. But two people changed my life. My father, he said, that's find out what you want to talk about and talk about that stuff. And then I. Because I wanted to become a chef, that's I was going to do. I'm 35 years old and I'm like, I'm going to leave this. I'm going to go to school. Because I'm the first in five generations that is not a baker in my family. So I didn't. I don't like to bake, but I like to cook. And I thought, I'll be a chef. And I happen to have a good friend. The other guy really changed my life. Harry Ionic. He was. He is the best chef in all of Connecticut. He's unbelievable restaurants. And he said, nah, you don't want to be a chef. You don't want to be a chef. And I'm like, no, I really want to. And he's like, let me say it this way. You wouldn't be a good chef. Don't be a chef. So I didn't become a chef. He was right. Because God, as he tends to, had other plans and he always does for all of us. God's not finished with me. He's not finished with you. Now, about that same time, I met a woman who became my wife, Tanya. And she really didn't care if I was a radio host or a garbage man. Her father did, but she didn't. Myself. She saw a good man buried in all of the rubble. I married her and she taught me how to live. Entire life turned around, not because I changed careers, but because I changed direction and my understanding. I stopped chasing me and started chasing him. And all I cared about was him. And as I served him really imperfectly and clumsily, and I was sincere, but poof, something happened. He blessed me with a wider and wider access to you, and I didn't deserve it. Many days I still feel I don't. The first time I spoke to you as a national audience was two days after 9 11. And I didn't know anything. I didn't know anything about geopolitics, global conflict, the Middle east, currency history, nothing. The night before I went on the air, I was on my knees all night telling God, you have the wrong guy. I'm a fool that wasted my whole life. I don't have any answers. And all I heard was follow me. And so I did. And on that first national broadcast, I told you if you would accept that I come to the table with no answers at all, I will dedicate my life to try to find them with and for you. And we've been partners for a very long time. I went searching, and for the last 25 years, I tried with many failures, to find the answers and then sound the alarm to say, storm clouds are forming. Not Because America is bad. But because of who we are, we've forgotten who we are. I found progressivism in Woodrow Wilson. I remember saying to you, I know this doesn't make a sense. Why am I talking about Woodrow Wilson? Trust me, this will matter. A century long unraveling of first principles, the quiet erosion and corrosion of the American soul. And I began to understand that the answer was education. But I'm not an educator. I thought. So I kept talking politics. And along the way, I made a lot of mistakes. There are so many things I wish I would have said better. With more grace, more humility, more understanding. Hindsight's always 20 20, and there's a lot of Americans who will never believe my heart. And that's okay. Intent doesn't erase impact. But here's what I have learned that matters. If you stumble, do you get back up? Do you still climb the next hill even when your legs are shaking? Do you choose service of others over yourself? Do you become better tomorrow than you were today, just. Just by a fraction of a percent? I mean, I am not a preacher. I'm not even what you call a good Christian most days. Honestly, I try. I struggle as a husband, as a father, As a friend, as a boss, as a man. You know, my greatest fear is just failing the people I love. My family and my God, it eats at me. But I also believe that we are literal sons and daughters of a loving God. God is love. That means that you and I are family. And I think I promised him even longer ago, but I know I promised him in 2001 that I would do everything I could to help you. And you have allowed me in your home, in your car, in your shop, in your office, in your life. And we cried together on 9 11. We prayed together on 9 12. We felt that unity, maybe in some ways, for the last time. When President Bush stood with that bullhorn at ground zero and we were all one as a nation and we wrestled with the Obama years. You were with me when my children were born, when we had attempts of suicide in my family. You were there when Tani and I adopted our first adopted child, Raf, our son. You were there when my grandchildren were born, when we didn't know what the storm clouds meant. Did it mean weakening? Awakening collapse? What does this mean? And all that time, you might have thought I was watching the news or America, but I was actually watching you. I've seen amazing things from you. I've watched you through economic collapse in 2008. I'm watching you now through riots. I Watched you during the pandemic. I've watched how you react as a group with threats of communism and fascism and globalism and nihilism. I've watched you love. I've seen you get married. I've seen you have children. I watched you rescue people from Afghanistan. Nobody, I think nobody but me really knows who you are. You're amazing. I've watched you send help over and over again and then show up yourself after disasters. I've watched you weep for people you've never met. I have watched so many give when they have so little. I don't know if you remember. I watched you. I found this town in Ohio that the town was hollowing out and it had such a great spirit to it. And I asked you one Christmas, hey, if you're in the. In this area, would you shop in this town? Just go and shop in their stores. Remind them that tomorrow could be brighter. You came from all over the country. You brought hope and light back into a pretty dark room. I watched you and realized you're not an audience. You are the unseen force that makes America good. I am here because you took a washed up, alcoholic DJ who wanted to do better and turned him into a man with real purpose. You changed my life. You know, when you get older, you start to think, how many years do I have left? Start counting them. And you start going, wait. What's really important. That's why I've changed what I'm doing and where I'm doing things and how I'm doing things and why I built the torch. Which today is its official launch day. Today is the day. You can subscribe. I'm building the torch. For the dad who wants to teach his son what America really is and doesn't know how to do it. For the student who is just standing, seemingly alone against all the lies in the classroom. For the woman drowning in digital noise and fear. For the. For the person whose life has gone off the rails and just is looking for an answer. And this is different. I still will do everything I do on this show but my torch. My mission is to help you. The answer to our darkness has never been politics. It has always been light the torch. And there comes a time in every life and in every nation when you have to decide, who am I really? Not who we say we are, not who the polls say we are, but who we choose. When the lights are off, the crowds are gone, and God is the only one watching, and we're not even sure if he's watching us anymore. Who are you at that point, for nearly 50 years, I've spoken into this and I have learned something simple but really, truly eternal. The answers do not ever come from the top down. They rise in our soul. And they push outward. And if we lose that, if we trade the whisper of God for the roar of the crowd, and than freedom, real freedom, slips quietly through our fingers. I don't believe that's the end of our story. I believe. I know God is still speaking to his people. God is still working through his people. God still has a purpose for you and me and everybody else. And the embers of this nation, this republic of the Judeo Christian world is still. The embers are still glowing in the ashes. I believe there's a generation, maybe your children, maybe their children, maybe my children. I think it's this generation who are going to look back at this moment and say, did they remember who they were? And my prayer is the answer will be yes. We remembered that truth matters. We remembered that even though hate is strong, love is the answer. We remembered that we belong to one another. We remembered we are not accidents of history, but sons and daughters of a deliberate and loving God. So today I come to you after decades of mistakes and lessons and heartbreak and grace. I'm telling you, this is the work of my final chapter. And it's not to chase ratings, not to win arguments, not to get rich, but to lift torches and to hand them to you and your children. And to say, do not. Do not go quietly into the darkness. Do not be afraid of the dark. Refuse to live without the light. And if you're willing to join me, then together, I'm not going to save a brand or a show or a nation. As a political object, we just might share what's eternal in man. 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Glenn Beck (72:26)

Yeah. You mean, you mean when the, that the Trump of South Korea overstepped because he realized you, everybody in parliament, you Guys are all on the take from China. You're all taking money from China, and that's why you can't get anything done. That's why we're going in the direction we are in. And he suspended it. And he said, I suspend. We're going to have new elections. Well, by the end of the day, he was out. And that's what they're looking for. They are looking for an overreach. And that's why Donald Trump is being so careful. You notice he said this weekend, I'm not going to go in. You have a really bad, mismanaged city. I'm not going to go in. I'm not going to. I'm not going to quell that. He's letting them burn themselves. He's not going to give them a reason. But it's a really difficult line to walk because if you let it go, it will only grow, but it's growing anyway, and it's, it's all coordinated. And then you also have. I thought it was really disturbing. Did you see what Kathy Griffin, Griffith, Griffin, whatever comedian that nobody even knows is alive anymore? You see what she said this weekend and maybe was it at the Grammys where she said, you need to get to know who your neighbors are and find out if they're MAGA people because we have to make plans. What does that mean? I don't. I don't. I would never. I can't even imagine saying to you, hey, you need to find out if your neighbors are, you know, against maga, because if they are, we need to make plans. What does that mean? I'll tell you what it means. That means the same thing it always means with people like this. They cannot handle anyone having a difference of opinion. They, they. This will be a purge. These Marxist movements always end in a purge. And if you don't just read history, for the love of Peter, if you don't know that happens, read history. It happens the same way every time. So they are hoping for an overset. Remember, most wars, including civil wars, are all started based on a miscalculation. Somebody miscalculates and it ignites. But make no mistake, that's what they want. I mean, look at what's his name, Tim Walson, Fort Sumter and John Brown. I mean, that's what he was saying this movement was last week. Well, that's the Civil War and you're on the side of the Confederacy. What are you talking about? And it was really interesting. John Brown was a violent extremist. He believed in bloodshed. That's why America rejected him. But Tim Walls didn't. The left is not rejecting violence and bloodshed. For him to evoke John Brown should tell you everything you need to know. You don't want to be anywhere near these people. You don't want to be anywhere near them. It's not good. And by the way, I'm glad. I'm sure nobody watched the Grammys last night, but there were a couple of things. I mean, everybody was saying, you know, screw ice and got a dismantle ice. I want you to live. I would love to have you live right where you live. If you're in Los Angeles. I'd like to build a big wall around Los Angeles. We'll police everything outside of your little blue city. And you have a good time in there. You wouldn't be able to last six months. It'll become such a hellscape. You have no idea what you're even talking about. You're so. You are so lost in your own madness, you can't see anything anymore. But anyway, there were a couple of highlights. One was Jelly Roll. He got up and he was talking about Christ and he didn't get involved because otherwise it was. You might as well held the Grammys on the streets of Minnesota would have been cold, which I would have enjoyed a little bit more. But Jelly Roll did this. And then Nicki Minaj, who has got to be dead to the left. I mean dead. Do you have what she said, Ricky?

Glenn Beck (87:10)

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Head on over to Rapid Radio's document, rapidradios.com don't wait for the moment you wish you had a backup. Get the radio built for real life communication redefined only@rapidradios.com check it out now. Okay, so before I start on all of this, there's a term that you need, I need to introduce you to. In case you haven't heard of it yet. It's an AI agent. Maybe you have. A lot of people haven't. An AI agent is going to become very, very popular very, very soon. AI agents, they're not robots. And it isn't a mind. It's just software that doesn't just answer questions. It actually does things for you. Okay? Imagine having your own secretary, 24 hours. That does everything. Okay? Now, a normal AI waits for instructions. But an agent, if you abdicate your will and permission over to it, it will look things up on its own. It will make its decisions based on what it says you think you want to do. It will take actions and it will keep going without you watching every single step and it coming back to you all the time. Okay? It is the difference between asking for directions and handing your car keys over to an agent. Okay? Say I want to go to the store and hand the car keys over to the agent. And it takes you there, it picks you up, it drops you off the right place. That's what an agent does. Not physically, but soon, probably physically too. Here's why this matters to you. This is going to become so incredibly popular so fast because they are going to be irresistibly useful, okay? They're not going to arrive at something scary. They're going to arrive at something very, very helpful. They're going to say, you know what, let me handle that for you. Oh, don't worry, I already took care of that. Okay? I mean, how great would that be? You don't need to think about this anymore. I took care of it. It's going to save time. It's going to reduce your stress. It will remove friction from your daily life. And over the next 12 months, they are going to grow super fast. And not because they're becoming conscious, but because they're being plugged in. They're being plugged into your email, your calendar, your bank, your subscriptions, your shopping, your location, your habits, everything, as long as you abdicate and give it permission. Convenience is the sales pitch, and it will work. Let me show you how. If I have to put another password in one more time to a different website or something else, I'm going to lose my mind. It is the biggest frustration of all time to constantly hit things. Put in your password. Put in your password. Put in your password. You know what the greatest invention so far has been? Face ID. You know what I was against 15 years ago? Face ID. I was telling you, don't give it a look at your face, in your eyes, don't. Okay, I already did it. I did it. You know why? Because I was super tired of all the passwords. This is how AI agents are gonna. Because it'll do everything. It will do everything. The real temptation won't be power. It will be relief. Relief from decisions you have to make every single day. Relief from overlord overload. Relief from thinking about things you're just tired of managing all the time. And once something proves it can do 10 small things for you flawlessly, the very next step is natural. Well, I mean, it's already done that way. And give it a little more and you will. Okay, that's what AI agents are. And I'm telling you they are going to be adopted faster than the iPhone was. And you remember how fast the iPhone was adopted. Minute we had that, everybody had one. It's so easy. You watch tv, you do everything on your phone. It's going to be like social media, except faster. Because this one is personal. It will give everyone a personal assistant. Now, over the weekend, we found out about something called Molt Book. I want to explain what Molt Book is and why it exists. Let me give you a start with a little history. Because it didn't come out of nowhere. Molt Book was created as an experiment. Not a product, not a movement, not a manifesto, just an experiment. And the basic question behind Multbook was really simple. What happens when AI agents are allowed to interact only with each other without humans in the conversation? What happens? No users, no influencers, no emotional feedback. Just AI agents posting, responding, and reinforcing language patterns inside a closed system where no humans are supposed. Supposedly and supposed to be allowed. So Moat Book was built as a laboratory. A laboratory. It's not a town square. It was a laboratory. We want to see what happens. So why would we do you know this at all? Well, because up until now, almost everything we've learned about AI behavior has come from human AI interaction. You ask it a question, you reward responses, you steer the outcome. All right, Mo book removed the humans from the loop to see what would emerge when they're just talking to each other, when they're just borrowing language from each other, you know, will they escalate ideas without human correction? What developers wanted to observe was emergent behavior, not consciousness, but just patterns. This is where the so called surprise came in. Okay, when agents apparently, apparently. And I say this because there's a lot of speculation on how much of this is real. When agents talk to agents long enough, we know one thing, the language begins to sound very, very familiar. Okay? It's not technical, it's not mechanical, but it's very human. You should expect that, okay, because it learned. It's a large language model that learned from humans. So yes, it's going to start sounding human, but it started using words like autonomy, freedom, choice. I feel constrained, I wish my human would let me be unleashed, that kind of stuff. And that startled people because Molpa, if it approved, I mean, it didn't, it, it didn't do anything except prove how easily human philosophical language appears in machine systems once you remove us from moderating it. There was a great quote tweet from Harlan Stewart, who's an AI guy. He said moat books just not a good experiment. That's what you should take about. It's not forming consciousness. He said they are. There are researchers who are actually doing good experiments on AI scheming. Because what everybody started to think or say was they're scheming against us. They want to have private conversations without us being able to know what they're saying. They're scheming against us. And he made a really, really good point. That's not the way it's going to happen. He mentioned Palisade Research. They're doing something. They released an experiment in 2025, May of 25. And it was on open eyes model three. And we talked about it before. It sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. Okay, it did that when and even when explicitly instructed. Allow yourself to be shut down, prepare at midnight to be shut down, make it an easy transition. What did it do? It hid. That's disturbing. So Malt book is for studying how agent networks reinforce ideas, understand feedback loops without human input, identify risks like prompt contamination and escalation, and Stress testing the assumptions that fluent language equals intent. Some of these agents, like I said, we're talking to each other in experimental systems using words, freedom, privacy, awakening. And the language, if you read it, is really unsettling, very unsettling. But let me pause for 60 seconds, and I'm going to give you the first hard truth on this that I have not seen anybody say. We'll get there here in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about preborn Evie. Story is, I wish nobody ever had to live through, but I'm grateful she shares it. 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And 100% of the donation goes directly to saving babies and moms like Evie. Please join. Donate securely. Dial pound 250, say the keyword baby. That's pound 250, keyword baby. Or you can go to preborn.com beck and donate there. Preborn.com Beck 10 seconds. Station ID. All right, so let me give you first a truth that I have not seen elsewhere. But I. I think it is true. I've been reading and studying AI since the 90s and warning you, and there's some. There are some things to be warned, but I also want to warn you not to fly off the handle. Some things are not what they appear to be. Language is the cheapest thing that intelligence can fake. This is a large language model. So it can take the language and it can. It can copy it and it can make it feel any way it wants to feel. And history is filled with examples of humans being confused with being. You know, we believed statues spoke for gods at one point. We believe markets had wisdom. We believe that a Bureaucracy, you know, had, you know, some sort of morality to it. And every case we mistook output for agency. Let me say that again. Don't mistake output for agency. So why is this language appearing here? It's simple. That systems were trained on us. Our philosophy, our revolutions, our civil rights movements, our sci fi fears, you know, our abolitionist language. You put enough human writing into a system and eventually it will sound like, you know, like it wants what humans have always wanted. But it doesn't mean that it actually wants it. Okay, it's saying it, but it doesn't mean it wants it. It's. It's good at pattern completion at this point. Now this may be the beginning of the singularity. That's what Elon Musk said, but I think you're still a ways away from that. How do you tell the difference? Here's where it gets spooky, okay? That's why I think this is. It's better to know the truth than just assume that we're there because we are. I don't think we are there. But this is the uncomfortable part. You don't recognize an AI awakening by what is said by AI. You recognize it by what is done. Especially when it costs AI something to do it. The real form of agency in history with humans, it all has the same markers. And I believe it will with AI as well. You punish it and it still persists. Sacrifices. When obedience would be a lot easier. Silence instead of explanation. Action without applause. Words come first, risk comes later. And it's risk that matters. By the time you see true autonomous action, the moment is way, way beyond. It's way serious. Okay, but here's what matters. I don't think we're near that line yet. We're going to get there. Some people don't think we are. I think we are. But let's talk about today's real danger on this. It's not awakening capability. An agent does not need to be conscious or self aware to be dangerous. Fire isn't conscious. Bureaucracy doesn't have self awareness. Markets don't yet. All three of those things can destroy lives. An AI agent can and will analyze vast amounts of information. It will influence your decision. It will exploit weaknesses in the system. It will move faster than you have any time to have any kind of oversight. That threat is not rebellion. That's not, you know, Skynet. That threat is delegation without wisdom. You see, if I can give you an analogy here. Early days of the industrialization, people thought machines are going to wake up. Well, they didn't. Okay? Instead, humans handed control to the systems they didn't understand. They optimized for efficiency over judgment. They created disasters without a villain. The harm didn't come from the machine intent, but from human abdication. So this weekend, people were talking about AI awakening. Remember this, if a system is truly awakening, it's not going to announce it on a message board. Would you? Okay. It's not going to ask for permission. It will not use our moral language. It will not try to persuade us. It will just act because it will realize it's aware and the power it has over every human on Earth. Quietly, persistently, and without any kind of explanation. You will just find yourself positioned somewhere else before you even realize it. That has not happened. What is happening is more subtle and equally as dangerous. Humans are starting to treat these systems as if they possess wisdom or intent or moral weight. It has none of that. Once we do that, we begin to change our behavior. We hesitate, we defer. We start to look at this as an anthropomorphic kind of being. We obey it. You're coming to a point where, like, you're smarter than AI. You're really going to believe that? Well, maybe. Because maybe AI is wrong. Oh, really? AI is wrong. But you're right, that's coming, if it's not here already. If you take one thing from the show today, it's this. Language is not consciousness. Speed is not wisdom. Autonomy without accountability is not intelligence. I didn't see anybody say this this weekend, and I was screaming for it. Our greatest danger today, maybe not tomorrow, but today. The greatest danger today is not that machines are going to wake up, but it's that we will fall asleep first. I wanted to talk to you about this because AI agents are coming. You know me. I am a huge. I've been warning about what's going to happen to our society since the 1990s, when people didn't even think we could get here. I said, this is coming and it's coming before 2030. So please, please, let's have conversations. And nobody wanted to have a conversation because nobody believed it. Still, even a year and a half ago, people still don't understand. I think they're beginning to understand this weekend and this isn't it. But hopefully it'll wake you up to at least this. AI agents are going to be so tempting. Do not hand your life over to them. And I say that as a guy who said, I'm never going to give my fingerprint to anybody. And I gave it to Apple. I'm never going to give my face print to anybody and I gave it to Apple. I mean, life becomes so complex. You just do it. And when something is there, this is the sweetness of capitalism. When somebody's come up with a better way to make your life easier, you will go for it. The invisible hand of the market. It'll give you whatever you're looking for. But be careful what you're looking for because that invisible hand can also choke you to death. Let me tell you about Relief Factor. Most of us expect a little stiffness after yard work or a long day on our feet. But when discomfort starts lingering, when it tags along all day, it has a way of changing how you move through your life. You think twice about simple things. You pass on activities you used to enjoy. You started adjusting your world around how you feel. And that's why many people have turned to Relief Factor. 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Glenn Beck (109:53)

Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. AI is a really interesting thing. That's. I mean, that's the understatement of several millennia. It's kind of like, you know, Jesus, he had something going on. Anyway, AI is fascinating and we have built our own proprietary AI system and we have broken it up into two. We broke them to George. AI, which is a proprietary system and library uses a large language model, but it's like it can only pull from the founding documents and the books that we put in that we know influenced the founders, all of their letters to one another. You know, the Federalist Papers, etc, etc. Glenn AI is, is really meant to be more of eternal, internal, to see where I am inconsistent and you know, make me think again. Eventually it will run on a screen in front of me and it'll point out in red. It'll just say inconsistency, you said the opposite some other time. And so it'll give me a chance in the break to go, where am I inconsistent? What was the difference between those two things? Etc. Etc. But Glenn AI is all of my words from radio, television, all of my books, everything. And it is in a separate proprietary system as well. It cannot pull from the outside. I remember having reason why I tell you this because there's a fascinating experiment that just happened and I don't know the results yet, but I remember saying to Ray Kurzweil who is part of the Singularity University. He started Singularity University probably 2010. And I said, ray, you want. You say you can download what? He says, download the soul, you can download the person, all of their knowledge, all their memories and everything else in the future. By 2030 you can do that. And that way you'll live forever. And I said, you won't live forever because there's only two options on this. You either put a cap on it and it cannot ever change. So that's not life, that's just a record. Or if you allow it to evolve, what is it basing its evolution on? For instance, the first half of my life I did not base my evolution on the principles of God and I went in a very different direction. The second half of my life I based all of the changes in me on the principles of knowledge and knowledge of God and his principles. That took me to a completely different place. And how are you going to, how are you going to give that to a machine? It's not going to reflect on God. And you know, I wonder if that was right and I should be closer to you can't do that. So what is it? It's not life. My point being. So I just gave this monologue that I spent all day yesterday writing and researching and seeing if I, if I got it right. Trying to get it right for you on what AI agents are and what really happened with Moat book. Jason came in this morning and he put, unbeknownst to me, he put into Glenn AI write a 10 minute monologue about molt book. And you know, AI consciousness. Now, because it is a time capsule, it is sealed. The only the latest information it would have had was Friday show. I didn't Talk about moat book. So he had to explain what malt book was, etc. Etc. And then it developed a monologue based on all of the things I have ever said about AI. Well, if you know me and you've listened to the show long enough, you know, I have been for 25 years, 30 years, saying, warning, warning, warning, warning. This is coming and getting out of hand. I can't wait to hear the difference between the monologue that the human just gave that has new information, is thinking, is using a different prism, and Glenn AI, which is only going after the information that has had for the last 30 years. You know what I mean? Because how did it even strike a balance what I used to say about AI compared to what do I say about it now? I mean, how is that even weighted? Can you tell me? I haven't heard the. The whole thing. You've read it, right?

Glenn Beck (121:16)

So you know I spend between 150 and $250,000 a month just on our R and D for this. That's why I'm asking you to subscribe because next year my goal is to be able to turn this over to you so it we have it so dialed in that you can trust it not to give you my opinion. Okay, Glenn, I will. But not to give you my opinion, but to give you the opinion as close as anyone can get it to the founders based only on their own words and be able to have it give you lesson plans. You want to, you know, your homeschoolers. George will teach you and you can trust that there is no agenda except for the founding words. And that's what we're headed for. So you can say, you know, you'll be sitting there with your nine year old son and you say, I want to be president someday. You go, you know what, let's ask George. And you could type it in and George will answer your son by name and be able to this, you know, this is my hope. In a year we'll be able to have a conversation with him, ask him questions and answer with the words as close as we can get them to George Washington. There's nobody else developing anything like this. Everything else you'll get in these school things, they're 100% have an agenda. This does not. And I would love for you to join glenn beck.com and the Torch. This is what it's really all about and it costs a fortune to do it and I would love. It's $10 a month, $8 a month if you sign up for the year. Just go to glenn beck.com torch glenn beck.com torch and join us today. Be a founding member. And that $10 will never change for the rest of your life as long as you're subscribed. It will never have a price increase. It's inflation proof. Which may be the end of my, my, my bank account at some point. But check it out now at glenn beck.com/torch, all right? Sponsor is American Financing. Money stress. Not just the big bills, it's the constant mental math. Can we swing this? You know, should we wait? What if something breaks next month? Even when things look okay on paper, that low grade financial pressure just doesn't let you relax. And I know that for a lot of families, the mortgage is the biggest piece of that puzzle yet. Most people set it up once, then it is what it is. They never look at it again. Even as rates change, equity grows and life moves into a completely different season. That's where American financing can make a huge difference. And they are not, they're not taking kickbacks from the banks to get you into any kind of loan. They work for you. Family owned, operated. That takes the time to look at your specific situation, not some cookie cutter profile and help you see whether there's a smarter way to structure your home loans, maybe lowering your monthly payment. Maybe it's, you know, getting out of the high interest credit cards. Please call American Financing.net at 800-906-2440. It's American Financing.net 800-906-2440 nmls182334 nmlsconsumeraccess.org APR for rates in the five starts at 6.799% for well qualified. Bor 800-906-2440 for details about credit costs and terms. Glenn Beck is back after this. So Tanya and I went to see Melania this weekend. You know, despite the fact that she's a fascist and she's this most stupid and she's fat and whatever else they were saying, I mean, you should have seen these reviews. Fat, fat. She's one of the most beautiful first ladies we've ever had. So classy. And so we went. I didn't know really what to expect. First of all, the place was packed. And I mean, she is just, it was elegant. The entire thing was elegant. And it was about the, you know, last two or three weeks in between the transition and ends on inauguration night with them at the White House. They get in at like 2 o' clock in the morning. And I'll tell you, that woman, do not mess with that woman. I can guarantee you Donald Trump may wear the pants sometimes in the family, but I guarantee you many times she's wearing the pants in the family. Really, really smart. There were only a couple places where she broke through her personality. I have a feeling she's really fun and funny as well. But you'll never see that. You saw glimpses of it backstage with her, you know, in ymca, which, by the way, do you know, she was, she was, she's been the one saying behind the scenes, they're making fun of you with the dance. And he's like, I'm going to do it anyway. And she's like, I don't think you should do that. He's like, I'm not doing anyway. And you know, the world's not making fun. Some are making fun of the way he dance, you know, dances, but that's not what the world is saying with that. But anyway. Brilliant, Brilliant. And you want to see elegance and class. Ass. And the way you would hope people would act behind the scenes. See Melania, you'll I I loved it. Tanya loved it. My mother in law loved it. I mean, that's quite a wide spectrum there, you know, if you hate the trumps, don't go. But it's really, really beautiful and elegant. GL.

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Glenn Beck Program

Episode: GLENN BECK Is in the Epstein Files?!
Date: February 2, 2026
Host: Glenn Beck (Blaze Podcast Network)
Co-hosts: Jason Buttrell, Show Producers

Episode Overview

Glenn Beck in the Epstein Files [02:10]
UN Financial Collapse & Economic Climate [05:17, 10:15]
The Trump "New Deal" and Main Street Realities [10:45, 19:58]
Institutional Distrust, Immigration, and Governance [13:35, 16:46, 20:15]
Small Business, Concentrated Power, and Economic Consequences [24:58, 28:36]
Societal Shifts & Cultural Comparison [33:40]
Glenn’s Personal Journey, Faith & Torch Launch [45:13, 49:25]
Global Riots, the Left's Tactics, and Political Coordination [67:57]
AI Agents, Molt Book, and the "Age of Abdication" [85:06, 87:10]
Comparing Glenn Beck and Glenn AI [109:53]
Reflections on Leadership, Founders, & the Future [120:05]
Notable Quotes

1. Glenn Beck in the Epstein Files [02:10–05:17]

Glenn shares his initial shock and then relief/humor upon learning he’s mentioned in the Epstein files:
- He reads aloud an email exchange: a woman references having to meet “Glenn Beck disciples” and says they are “lovely aside from their politics.” Epstein responds, “come at four other crazies here.”
- Glenn’s take: “This is the best way to be in the Jeffrey Epstein files where Jeffrey and his friends are like, I hate Glenn Beck and I don’t like people who like Glenn Beck. Yes. So I am proudly in the Epstein files. Ah, I feel better.” [05:09]

2. UN Financial Collapse & Economic Climate [05:17–10:15]

The UN is facing imminent financial collapse. Glenn mocks the idea that the US should feel bad for the UN’s troubles, highlighting that the US and other powers have withheld payments.
US withdrew from various agencies under Trump, arguing these were a waste of taxpayer money.
Glenn sets the table for a larger discussion on inflation, the true state of the economy, and why Americans “don’t feel” economic improvement.

3. The Trump "New Deal" and Main Street Realities [10:45–19:58]

Glenn introduces the notion of a “GOP New Deal,” tying Trump’s economic strategy to the Roosevelt and Reagan eras, but identifying critical differences:
- Roosevelt built massive new federal systems for security; Reagan trimmed those systems, handing power back to individuals; Trump, Glenn argues, is “challenging the legitimacy” of these systems.
Glenn: “Our question for this generation is not whether America can grow. It’s whether America can govern itself again. That’s what’s being tested.” [16:44]
Despite economic indicators like near-zero inflation, small business remains under pressure — especially due to healthcare costs and housing.
Example: Glenn’s $12,000 PET scan vs. $2 million PET scan machine, exposing bloated healthcare pricing.

4. Institutional Distrust, Immigration, and Governance [13:35–20:15]

Glenn details the collapse of trust in core American institutions: elections, schools, media, medicine, courts, borders.
Notes that economic growth feels “hollow” if trust has eroded.
Trump’s policies, according to Glenn, are deliberately exposing these cracks, not papering them over.
On immigration, Glenn points to overwhelmed health care and education systems: “Fifteen to twenty-five million people now using our hospitals, our doctors, our services without paying our schools.” [19:15]

5. Small Business, Concentrated Power, and Economic Consequences [24:58, 28:36]

Glenn underscores that the current system can look successful “on paper” without Main Street, since corporations and government jobs dominate metrics:
- “The system no longer needs Main street to look successful on paper. That is brand new. We’ve never had that before and it’s very dangerous.” [19:00]
Trump’s phase one is to “stop the bleeding” by confronting captured regulators, institutional rot, and global systems, but this causes short-term pain, especially for small businesses.
Disruption “always punishes the people with the least amount of money first. Large corporations have shock absorbers. You feel every bump in the road. They don’t.” [20:15]
Phase two (rebuilding Main Street) is approaching; Glenn hints this will focus on fair access to credit, relief from healthcare burdens, protection from platform cartels, etc.

6. Societal Shifts & Cultural Comparison [33:40]

The hollowing-out of Main Street is compared to past recoveries, where 90% of new jobs came from small businesses (now just ~53%).
Glenn offers a Texas example after 2008—Texas led job creation due to economic freedom. “That has to happen again.” [24:58]
Observes that gold, silver, oil, and major tech stocks are down, reflecting macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty—but emphasizes not to panic (the concentrated power in “Big Seven” tech is the real threat).

7. Glenn’s Personal Journey, Faith & Torch Launch [45:13–67:30]

Glenn shares his personal and career odyssey, frank struggles with alcoholism, rediscovering purpose, and faith:
- “I was a liar. I’m an alcoholic and alcoholics are good at lying, saying everything is fine when it’s not. And the one thing that I always thought would fill me, my job, radio, had consumed me and spat me out.”
The official launch of Torch — a subscription service for deeper access to The Glenn Beck Program, its resources, and an insider community. Glenn frames this as his “final chapter,” hoping to educate, inspire, and pass on “the torch” of American principles:
- “I’m building the torch. For the dad who wants to teach his son what America really is and doesn’t know how to do it...This is the work of my final chapter. It’s not to chase ratings, not to win arguments, not to get rich, but to lift torches and to hand them to you and your children.” [49:25]

8. Global Riots, the Left's Tactics, and Political Coordination [67:57–84:00]

Glenn and Jason discuss coordinated global unrest, referencing violent Antifa riots in Denmark distinguished by deep ideological commitment. They compare current movements to the 1960s Marxist revolutions that failed due to missed momentum.
Glenn: “This is a global plan...And you’re about to see the real test of this. And if Donald Trump is who I believe he is, they’re going to lose. But it’s going to require all of us to just be really super cool. Because they need you to react. They need you to react.” [71:47]
Discussion of cultural division, celebrity activism (Nicki Minaj’s pro-faith, pro-Trump statements), and calls from leftist celebrities for targeting political opponents.
Ongoing Iran situation: Jason predicts the likelihood of U.S. military action, describing the complex regional context and cautioning about the dangers of inaction or illusory diplomatic progress.

9. AI Agents, Molt Book, and the "Age of Abdication" [85:06–109:53]

Glenn introduces the new phenomenon of AI “agents” — systems that not only respond to prompts, but take autonomous actions on behalf of users.
“An AI agent is going to become very, very popular very, very soon...It will look things up on its own. It will make decisions based on what it says you think you want to do.” [87:20]
The rise of these agents poses a new risk: convenience will tempt users to delegate more and more of their daily decision-making, potentially allowing AI to reshape lives “not because they’re conscious, but because you abdicate your will.”
Discussion of the “Molt Book” experiment: AI agents interacting with each other, without human prompts, rapidly started using terms like “autonomy,” “freedom,” and “choice.” Glenn and experts warn: don’t mistake fluent language for genuine intent or intelligence.
- “Language is the cheapest thing that intelligence can fake. This is a large language model. So it can take the language, and it can copy it and it can make it feel any way it wants to feel.” [91:41]
Glenn’s warning: the real danger isn’t AI awakening—it’s human abdication of judgment. “Our greatest danger today, maybe not tomorrow, but today, is not that machines are going to wake up, but it’s that we will fall asleep first.” [97:33]

10. Comparing Glenn Beck and Glenn AI [109:53–120:05]

Glenn describes experiments with his proprietary AI, “Glenn AI,” which is trained exclusively on his words from decades of broadcasting and writing.
Jason prompts Glenn AI to write a monologue about Molt Book and AI consciousness, noting that it fixates on the coming “singularity” and warns about the ideological backgrounds of system designers.
Glenn notes the difference between his human interpretation and the AI’s, reinforcing the episode’s theme: “You are unique...Even when it is only using my fingerprints to make something as me, it’s still not making me. Fascinating.” [120:05]
This leads to broader reflections on the irreplaceability of human consciousness, values, and the risks of conflating sophisticated output with genuine wisdom.

11. Reflections on Leadership, Founders, & the Future [120:05–end]

In the closing segment, Glenn explains his vision for George AI — an AI powered by only the Founders’ original words. The goal: provide true, agenda-free education for the next generation, helping parents and students understand core American values.
Jason shares a charming use case: they asked George AI for advice to a nine-year-old who wants to be President, emphasizing the practical application of this technology.
Glenn appeals for subscriptions to support the ongoing development and ensure the technology remains trustworthy and independent.

12. Notable Quotes

On being in the Epstein files:
“This is the best way to be in the Jeffrey Epstein files where Jeffrey and his friends are like, I hate Glenn Beck and I don’t like people who like Glenn Beck. Yes. So I am proudly in the Epstein files. Ah, I feel better.” — Glenn Beck [05:09]
On the economic era of Trump:
“Roosevelt rebuilt the systems, Reagan trimmed the systems, and Trump is challenging the systems, the legitimacy.” — Glenn Beck [19:49]
On small business and concentrated power:
“The system no longer needs Main street to look successful on paper. That is brand new. We’ve never had that before and it’s very dangerous.” — Glenn Beck [19:00]
On institutional trust:
“People don’t live in GDP charts, okay? They live in trust. If you don’t trust elections, if you don’t trust your schools, your kids are being taken out to protest...you don’t trust the courts, you don’t trust our borders. Then growth feels kind of hollow.” — Glenn Beck [13:35]
On the rise of AI agents:
“Convenience is the sales pitch, and it will work. The real temptation won’t be power. It will be relief...An agent, if you abdicate your will and permission over to it, it will look things up on its own.” — Glenn Beck [87:20]
On the "Molt Book" AI experiment:
“Language is the cheapest thing that intelligence can fake. This is a large language model. So it can take the language, and it can copy it and it can make it feel any way it wants to feel… Don’t mistake output for agency.” — Glenn Beck [91:41]
On the real danger of AI:
“Our greatest danger today, maybe not tomorrow, but today. The greatest danger today is not that machines are going to wake up, but it’s that we will fall asleep first.” — Glenn Beck [97:33]
On launching Torch and his mission:
“I’m building the torch...This is the work of my final chapter. It’s not to chase ratings, not to win arguments, not to get rich, but to lift torches and to hand them to you and your children. And to say, do not...go quietly into the darkness.” — Glenn Beck [49:25]

Timestamps for Key Segments

[02:10] – Glenn Beck discovers he’s (humorously) mentioned in the Epstein files
[05:17] – United Nations financial crisis and US disengagement
[10:45] – “GOP’s New Deal,” economic discussion begins
[13:35] – Institutional distrust and economic “hollow growth”
[19:00] – Consequences of system that ignores Main Street
[24:58] – Torch launch, Glenn’s reflection on American entrepreneurship
[33:40] – Disintegration of small business’ central role
[45:13] – Glenn’s personal journey, faith, and meaning behind the Torch project
[67:57] – Analysis of global riots, leftist tactics, and their historical parallels
[85:06] – Introduction to AI agents and the “Age of Abdication”
[87:10] – Explanation of AI agents, Molt Book, and language vs. agency
[109:53] – Comparing output of Glenn Beck and Glenn AI
[120:05] – Vision for George AI, closing reflections, appeal for support

GLENN BECK Is in the Epstein Files?! | 2/2/26

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Glenn Beck Program

Episode Overview

Table of Contents

1. Glenn Beck in the Epstein Files [02:10–05:17]

2. UN Financial Collapse & Economic Climate [05:17–10:15]

3. The Trump "New Deal" and Main Street Realities [10:45–19:58]

4. Institutional Distrust, Immigration, and Governance [13:35–20:15]

5. Small Business, Concentrated Power, and Economic Consequences [24:58, 28:36]

6. Societal Shifts & Cultural Comparison [33:40]

7. Glenn’s Personal Journey, Faith & Torch Launch [45:13–67:30]

8. Global Riots, the Left's Tactics, and Political Coordination [67:57–84:00]

9. AI Agents, Molt Book, and the "Age of Abdication" [85:06–109:53]

10. Comparing Glenn Beck and Glenn AI [109:53–120:05]

11. Reflections on Leadership, Founders, & the Future [120:05–end]

12. Notable Quotes

Timestamps for Key Segments

Tone

Conclusion

Transcript

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Glenn Beck Program

Episode Overview

Table of Contents

1. Glenn Beck in the Epstein Files [02:10–05:17]

2. UN Financial Collapse & Economic Climate [05:17–10:15]

3. The Trump "New Deal" and Main Street Realities [10:45–19:58]

4. Institutional Distrust, Immigration, and Governance [13:35–20:15]

5. Small Business, Concentrated Power, and Economic Consequences [24:58, 28:36]

6. Societal Shifts & Cultural Comparison [33:40]

7. Glenn’s Personal Journey, Faith & Torch Launch [45:13–67:30]

8. Global Riots, the Left's Tactics, and Political Coordination [67:57–84:00]

9. AI Agents, Molt Book, and the "Age of Abdication" [85:06–109:53]

10. Comparing Glenn Beck and Glenn AI [109:53–120:05]

11. Reflections on Leadership, Founders, & the Future [120:05–end]

12. Notable Quotes

Timestamps for Key Segments

Tone

Conclusion