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Glenn GOES BALLISTIC Over the Media's Love Affair with Alleged Murderer | Guests: Tristan Harris & Kevin Freeman | 12/11/24
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Glenn Beck
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Well, hello America and welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We've got a lot on our plate today. I cannot take the healthcare shooter anymore. The coverage of it. We have a lot to discuss. But I want to start with. With truth today. Eternal truth. We do that in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about car shield. Every day you're out on the road in your car caring for yourself and those you love, you're taking them back and forth all over the place the horse knows the way to, the school plays and everything else. And that's what you'll be taking if your car breaks down on you. If your car breaks down. The worst time is at Christmas. I mean, no, it's never a good time. I don't think Buffet ever has. I don't know why his car break down. He says, you know what? Now is the perfect time for my car to break down. I've got plenty of money. I hate it when your car has to go into the shop. Maybe it's just me. I doubt it. Car Shield will make it a little more pleasant because they help Americans just like you protect their out of warranty vehicles. With coverage on up to 5,000 parts and systems, car Shields could save you hundreds, even thousands of dollars in repair. Not to mention you'll have access to the 247 roadside assistance and help, flats, lockouts and rental car options. It's car shield. 8002276010022760100 Call them now. CarShield.com Beck 8002276100 CarShield.com Beck Get a free quote and 20% off now. Coverage varies by plan. View contracts and exclusions@carshield.com so we're just a few days away from Christmas and it just feels weird. I don't. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm into my Christmas shopping or whatever, but I'm. I'm lacking just a little bit of the Christmas spirit. And I want to start today by fixing our gaze upon that cradle in Bethlehem where the greatest gift ever given entered the world the humblest of surroundings. Beneath the watchful eyes of shepherds, in the celestial light of heaven's star, a simple child was born. Definitely not a child of earthly power. No wealth, but purpose. And through him, the chains of mankind's bondage were destined to be broken when he was born. In a nutshell, what the angel said was liberty, redemption, hope. It's what our founders understood. Each of us endowed with certain inalienable rights. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Our Creator gave these to us. Each of us was endowed with free will. The power to choose, to chart our own course, to stumble, to rise, to dust ourself off and press on. This is the difference between people, people that just want to guarantee which there is none in life, or people who understand that free will to be free, to live free. That gift is precious and perilous. It's always on the edge but it is the foundation of our humanity and the cornerstone of a truly free society. Without that simple liberty to make mistakes, we can't learn. Without the liberty to fail, we don't grow. And without the liberty to choose between good and evil, the triumph of virtue over vice means absolutely nothing. We miss this message. Or maybe we save this message for Christmas Eve. It is more appropriate on Christmas Eve, we should be talking about this all year long. In fact, in many ways, it is what we have been fighting for. The message of Christmas, it is not just joy and celebration, but the message of Christmas is profound liberation. It is the birth of Christ, is the birth of freedom itself. And not the kind of freedom that is wrought by, you know, a sword in an army or enshrined in our capital in the writings on parchment, but a freedom given to us, each of us, at birth, born in our soul. It's the toughest kind of freedom because it belongs 100% to us. And what we do, we can blame other freedom on, well, the politicians in Washington. There's no blame except for us. And it is the freedom to forgive others, and more difficult, I think, to forgive ourselves. It's the freedom to lay down the weight of guilt. I'm a recovering alcoholic, and for a reason. There are times in your life where you just are wrought with guilt. You just can't move because in your head you're playing these tapes over and over again, and they're all lies. That's what Christmas is. The freedom to lay down that guilt, to heal wounds old and new, to grasp the hand of grace that lifts us up out of the muck and the mire. This freedom is the most precious. And like all freedom, it is neither easy nor secure. Today, if you would watch the news, you would find that we are living in times filled with war and rumors of war. And yet we believe, most of us, that we are at peace. For, as Longfellow may have said, the cannons of war are silent on our shores. But we are a world at war. We are a nation at war, a people at war. We have said this for a while now. More people in the world are waking up to this every day. We are in a spiritual war. It's invisible. It doesn't have aircraft carriers, but it is insidious. And you don't win with armies. You don't win at the ballot box. It's one within the hearts and minds of every single individual. It's so today. What happened 2000 years ago is so important today because we are fighting a war for Truth in a world drowning in lies. A war for courage in a time where men's hearts have failed them, riddled with fear. A war for faith when we are surrounded by doubt and it is truly the most perilous of all struggles because it doesn't announce itself with the sound of drums or dramatic speeches or the sight of red banners. Its battlefield isn't seen. The stakes are eternal. So as we prepare and we stand on the threshold of this sacred season, let's not take what we face too lightly, this unseen enemy. Let's not take what happened at the ballot box as that was a reprieve. That was God doing what we couldn't do, saying, okay, you can't fight that battle on your own. I got it. I'll. I will. I will cover what you can't do. I'll save him and have him stand back up again. I'll protect at the ballot box, but you got to get out and do it now. God says, okay, now what are you going to do with it? Because I've done what you can't do. That's the deal with free will. It's a partnership. He'll forgive us, but we gotta do the work. We have to take up the shield of faith and the sword of truth and the helmet of salvation, which was given to us by that little teeny baby in a manger, and then that baby growing into a man to see what he did so we can draw strength from his example. Boy, that's a hard example to follow, because he didn't come to condemn. He came to save. He didn't rule. He came to serve. He didn't come to divide. He came to unite under truth. I've said this before. I wonder how many of us actually took time to give thanks at Thanksgiving for the miracles we've seen. We've seen miracles. I don't. I don't. If you miss them, I don't know how, but we've seen miracles. And in the season of eternal truth and light, it's fitting that we give thanks not only for the blessings that we hold dear, but also for the trials that refine us. I'm a better man because of the trials of the last 20 years. I don't know who I would have been if my back hadn't been against the wall for the last 20 years. I don't know who you'd be. That comes from freedom of will, of choice. We've all made a choice which side we stand on. Did we stand up when it was tough or did we Cower. And if we cowered, are we going to forgive ourselves? So we'll stand up now, Give thanks for the trials. Give thanks for the liberty that we possess. For it is only in freedom that we can fully embrace the gift of redemption. And that is the principal gift. It is not just the courage. It is not just the freedom he knows we are going to make. We are going to make mistakes. Let us give thanks for the right to choose, even when our choices lead us in very dark places. Because every single misstep brings us closer to the God who never ceases to call us back. Son, Daughter, I'm here. Just come back this year. Let's give thanks for the courage to stand, not only for ourselves, but for those who can't stand alone. The story of Christmas is one of hope. And I want to pick it up there in 60 seconds. Your dog doesn't know the difference between healthy and unhealthy food, but his body does. And when you're feeding him dry kibble food, for instance, it's telling him everything he's eating is dead. That's why he goes out. And I don't know. I don't know why they eat their own crap, but sometimes they do. And that's. That's a sign he's not getting something he's supposed to be getting. You need something that brings his food back to life. And that something is rough greens. It's a supplement created by naturopathic doctor Dennis Black specifically to make your pet healthier. You sprinkle it on your pet's food, and it's got vitamins, probiotics, enzymes, omega oils, antioxidants, and your dog or your cat now can try it before you buy it. Improve your pet's coat, digestion and energy. Then have fewer vet bills in 20, 25. Try it. Get the Jumpstart trial bag, normally $20 free, with promo code Glenn. You just cover the shipping. Resolve to provide what your pet's food has been missing with ruffgreens R U F F Greens. To get that free jump start trial bag, go to ruffgreens.com use the promo code Glen Roughgreens. So good your pet will ask for it by name. 10 seconds, stat. We're gliding along with a song of a wintry fairyland. So the story of Christmas is above all a story of hope. A story that transcends the bounds of time, place and circumstance. It's the hope that in the darkest of your night, a star will shine. It's the hope that in the humblest of Stables. A king will be born. It is the hope that in the brokenness of our humanity, redemption is there to triumph. I want you to close your eyes for a minute. Unless you are driving. That would be bad. Keep your eyes open if you are driving. If you are not driving, close your eyes just for a second. Consider the scene of that first Christmas. The world was troubled. People were weary, especially the Holy Family. The future was absolutely uncertain. Yet in the stillness of that night, heaven touched earth and the light of the world entered in darkness. And so it is with us. No matter how beaten down we are, no matter how grave our hour or how heavy the burden, the light of truth still shines. They tried to snuff it out, as darkness always does, but it cannot. And that light of truth calls us to rise above all of our trials, to grasp the freedom that that little baby secured for us, and to walk boldly in the path of all that is good, all that is true, all that is right. Let's commit over the next few weeks that in the next year we're going to hold fast to the truth. No matter if it's good for our side or bad for our side. We're just talking about the truth. Hold to the truth knowing that we're all flawed, but also knowing we're loved beyond measure. That even though we fall, we're never alone and never forsaken. And though all the battles of life may rage, the ultimate victory has already been wonderful. May I humbly suggest that we commit to each other this year to let the joy of Christmas not be just something that maybe we just barely feel right now, but we will feel more and more as we get closer to the holidays. Instead of letting that being of a fleeting sentiment, let us try to make that an abiding strength. Let the hope of that little baby inspire us. Give us the courage to face the trials of our time. Because trials are still yet to come. Let the freedom wrought by the birth of Christ embolden us to live every day as people redeemed, ever striving, ever learning, ever stumbling, but grateful for that stumble, because it means we're ever growing. In the words of the angels, on that holy night, glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men. The greatest gift we can give ourselves and each other is the gift that this peace, this freedom, this hope, be ours now and forevermore. We're going to talk about a lot of crap today. We're going to talk about a lot of people that you're going to want to say, I Don't think I can forgive that person. A lot of people that you're going to be sitting with in just a few weeks at the Christmas table, and they're going to say, I don't know why you don't see that shooting, that United Healthcare worker, why that CEO, why that's not a heroic. Have you seen the shooter's abs? And you're going to go, I can't take it anymore. I can't take it. But what I thought of when I was putting this together for you today was, man, if God can put up with me, how can I not put up with. I don't know. Name anybody on msnbc. Name anybody on the View. We also have some good things to share with you today. I think it's actually all good. It's all good. I think we should recognize that we wouldn't be in the, the good position that we're in right now if what we all thought was bad in 2020 didn't happen. If Donald Trump would have won in 2020, God only knows what we'd be facing and what we'd be facing unknown because they hadn't revealed themselves yet. There is nothing bad. It's what we do with it and how we react. Do we say, wow, I've got another burden. I've got to get myself up off the ground and carry on, or do I quit? Glenn Beck, when you're about to go in for brain surgery, you want a competent brain surgeon, you know, not somebody who's just seen all 800 episodes of Grey's Anatomy. Now, it stands to reason, when you're doing something as important as buying and selling a house, you also want a good real estate agent. Over a decade ago, I formed a company called Real Estate Agents I Trust. And it is there because we want. I wanted some way to know who's a good real estate agent, who's a bad real estate agent, you know, and Glinda, the Good Witch wasn't in a bubble at the time, and I didn't know how to judge them. I happened to be working with the 500 Best Real Estate agents at the time, doing some work for them. This according to the Wall street journal. They're the 500 best. And I started getting to know them and talking to them and I realized, oh, wow, there is a reason they're better than others. So we look in my company, realestateagentsitrust.com for the real estate agents with the best practices, somebody who understands the housing market, somebody who's a team Leader, a closer. So if you're thinking about buying or selling a home. Realestateagentsitrust.com we'll give you the names. It's realestateagentsitrust.com Home for Christmas, a new.
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Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
Now I'm going to do my best to not take all of the nice stuff that I just said in the last half hour and flush it down the toilet because I'm a little irritated. I'm a little irritated at the love we are showing for this killer, the United Healthcare killer. First of all, cnn, and I am not making this up. One of the anchors on CNN said, do we have it? Oh, play this, play this. Watch this if you happen to be watching. And I'll describe it after. Go ahead.
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Megan Garcia
The clips we were watching at the.
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Glenn Beck
Top of this segment are driven by the fact that this is an attractive. We gotta drop the banner to show why. And it is deeply troubling. Okay?
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Stu Burguiere
And they actually do it.
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Glenn Beck
They actually do it. This banner at the bottom of the screen that's on all the time, they're saying that this guy is getting Charlie Manson. Could have been, you know, I don't know the guy who's can believe it's butter. And nobody would have said, yeah, I know, but look at him, Fabio boy, have you seen him? He's let himself go.
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Stu Burguiere
Has he really?
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Glenn Beck
Anyway, I'm one to talk, but we never say that. I don't care how good looking you are.
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Stu Burguiere
I don't think. We never say it. Like for example, I saw the. Did you see this? It was a Mexican assassin, a drug cartel assassin. Did you see her the other day? No, Sarah saw it. She was attractive and that was the only thing people were talking about. So that does happen. I think it does happen from time to time. That being said, it's not supposed to happen on cnn.
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Glenn Beck
Right. And, and wait, are people saying, you know what, maybe her, maybe her hits were okay?
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Stu Burguiere
No, no. But I will say, looking at the picture, I totally assume there will be a movie made about her.
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Glenn Beck
Okay.
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Stu Burguiere
But in the future.
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Glenn Beck
All right, yeah, but that will seem.
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Stu Burguiere
To maybe glorify the stuff she did, which was terrible.
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Glenn Beck
We are glorifying what this guy. Listen to this one. Listen to this one. I'm not going to give his name.
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Stu Burguiere
Thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you for that. You're the only person I've seen do that. Everybody Else is blurting this name out.
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Glenn Beck
He's.
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, it's worse than the typical mass shooter where like typically the media, while they have all their gun points, aren't trying to make them into a hero. This guy is. They're trying to make him into a hero. Giving his name over and over again. I don't think it's a good idea.
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Glenn Beck
I haven't even heard anyone say anything about pulling guns off the streets either. Have you heard?
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Stu Burguiere
No, especially. And it was a ghost gun. This is like Joe Biden's favorite topic. You know why?
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Glenn Beck
I guess all you have to be is good looking and.
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Stu Burguiere
And on the left. On the left. Are you an anti capitalist? Then fine. Good job with a 3D printer.
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Glenn Beck
So this guy, this guy went. He killed somebody in cold blood. And everyone is excusing him. Everyone on the left and everybody in the media excusing him. Well, look at his abs. I mean, really, what does that have to. You know what? You know what that ties into? His back problems. Don't even.
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Stu Burguiere
Yes.
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Glenn Beck
Talk to me about back problems, you wuss. My gosh, I got back problems. You're 20 and you have those abs. It ain't that bad.
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Stu Burguiere
Dude, if you could do that many sit ups. I'm sorry, your back problems can't be that bad.
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Glenn Beck
Shut up. Shut up. And if you are in your 20s and you had back surgery, you're a moron. Unless you absolutely had no other choice. But then you're still a moron if you thought it was gonna work. Back surgery hardly ever worked. How many people, honestly, how many people do you know that had back surgery and they went. You know that. I mean, I feel like I'm 20 again. I don't know anybody that says that. I know back doctors, surgeons who are like, don't come to me yet. Don't. Until you. This is a quote from my surgeon. Until you beg me to cut you open. And I have begged him and he's like, not quite yet. I mean, how do you. Oh, your back hurts. Oh, boo boos.
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Stu Burguiere
I think he had. There was at least rumors or indications from his online writings that he had spinal fusion surgery.
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Glenn Beck
Fine. Well, lots of people.
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Stu Burguiere
Serious.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. But lots of people have had it.
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Stu Burguiere
No, it doesn't justify murder. But I mean, I really don't understand.
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Glenn Beck
If you had spinal fusion, how self absorbed are you? We were just talking off the air. Went to a Christmas party. We went to the studio's Christmas party.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
And I was there for what, Way.
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Stu Burguiere
Longer than I thought, like three or four hours.
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Glenn Beck
Okay. Standing on hard concrete floors. I stand about 45 minutes and that's a miracle if I'm standing 45 minutes and not in an agonizing pain in my lower back and legs. I stood there for four hours. Did you know I was in pain, Sarah? Did you know I was in pain?
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Stu Burguiere
Still no.
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Glenn Beck
Okay. You know why? Because I know Pat, who's in worse pain than I am, and he never says anything. What the heck? You are so self absorbed that you think your problems. What happened to me, what they did to me, what they didn't do for me, I'm going to speak for humanity and shoot a dad who has kids. Are you? And then you glorify this guy. This is the absence of all truth. This is the deception I talked about 15 minutes ago.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah. And you know, it feels like it's a new moment in a way. Like, it feels like that. But what exactly separates this from the way we handled George Floyd? What exact. Like when you're burning down cities and everyone's saying, well, yeah, but they. But racism. This is the exact same thing. With the exception of 81% of the American public don't approve of racism like they do their own health care. Health. Healthcare is actually generally pretty well received in this country.
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Glenn Beck
Well, better received before Obamacare. Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
Obamacare is the worst approval rating of all of the insurance. That is true. But generally speaking, we don't hate our health care as much as everyone's portraying it right now.
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Glenn Beck
But like, you want to hate healthcare, go to Canada. Right? Can I, can I, can I, can I change it? You know what this is. What was the doctor, what was the guy who shot the abortion doctor that Bill O'Reilly was blamed for?
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Stu Burguiere
Yes. I don't know his name, thankfully, because he's a murderer.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Stu Burguiere
And I don't.
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Glenn Beck
What was the doctor's name?
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Stu Burguiere
It was Tiller. George Tiller.
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Glenn Beck
Yes. And remember that all we talked about was how Bill O'Reilly, who did nothing, was responsible for the shooting of a guy who was killing babies every day. Okay.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
And no one, no one was on TV saying, you know, he was killed.
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Stu Burguiere
Why all this is never the answer. But let me give you my rant on why abortion is bad. And this is a good opportunity for us to discuss the. No, it's not. No. A murder is not a good opportunity. It is important, of course, to discuss healthcare and abortion.
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Glenn Beck
It's got nothing to do.
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Stu Burguiere
There's no new justification to discuss them because there is a murder. That. You're totally right. We should actually talk. I Would love to HEAR what Bill O'Reilly's talking about.
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Glenn Beck
Let's call him. Call if I have time today, otherwise tomorrow. Yeah, but because he was blamed. Blamed for it.
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Stu Burguiere
For that murder. Blamed for it. He did not commit it.
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Glenn Beck
You know why I'm so mad about murder? I'm going to go murder someone.
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Stu Burguiere
Huh? And by the way, Glenn, you know, bits and pieces of his manifesto have leaked out. They are quote after, quote after quote of what left leaning people say about our healthcare system.
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Glenn Beck
No, no, Stu, no. He was both left and right.
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Stu Burguiere
Oh, yes, I'm sure, I'm sure he, well, he didn't like wokeness. Okay. Did he kill anybody over wokeness? I'm sorry, did I miss that part of the story? Was he too afraid that United Healthcare was too woke? Was that his criticism? I missed that his criticism. Was every left wing criticism of healthcare. Anything you want to see about? Well, we spend this much and we're only in 42nd place in life expecting all that stuff that you've been hearing forever from Michael Moore documentaries was this guy's manifesto. And if we were consistent at all, all we'd be doing is looking around for left wing people to blame this murder on. Now, I don't think that's the right way to approach things. I think people with the guns should be the ones that get the blame for the murders. That's what I think.
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Glenn Beck
And I don't think it's murderers. I'm very tempted. If I were just a political person that just wanted to have our side win, I'd be very, very tempted.
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Stu Burguiere
I, and I can understand the temptation. I feel like it's not the right thing to do because it's not true.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Stu Burguiere
But beyond that, I do, I get it. And here is, you know, they went after they tried, I mean, they absolutely tried to destroy Bill O'Reilly over that. They tried to destroy him. They tried to rip him off the air. They tried to destroy his life and his career as if he was the one. They've also, here's another person they've done this to, Glenn freaking Beck. Go back to the times when. I don't remember the exact story, but it was, it was related to the Tides Foundation, a guy who went out and tried to do some terrible crime and there was no evidence he even watched your show. But because you brought up the Tides Foundation a bunch of times and he at one point criticized the Tides foundation, they tried to ruin your life over that.
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Glenn Beck
I had forgotten about that one. I was singing about the Gabby Gifford shooting. Yes, there you go again. And then I remembered the guy who hung himself, the IRS agent who said who. I was blamed for wanting him to be hung. First it was Glenn Beck had him strung up, then it was suicide. Well, Glenn Beck made him want to hang himself. I mean, this is so ridiculous. So ridiculous.
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, Glenn, today, Elizabeth Warren, a US Senator came out and said, violence is never the answer, but you can only push people so far. A US Senator said that.
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Glenn Beck
You know, with everything that's going on with communism and North Korea, the only ones that were eaten were North Koreans by Jeffrey Dahmer. I mean, yes, he ate people, but all the heads in his refrigerator were North Koreans. So I kind of understand. You know, I don't condone cannibalism, but you can see why he had a deal against North Koreans. That's how insane this argument is.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, it's not, it's not a well reasoned argument, as you point out. And I don't care how many sit ups the guy did. I don't care that he had nice abs that you really enjoyed. I don't care that you thought his smile was nice in the, in the video that identified him. You are a legitimately horrible human being. If you're cheering this guy on, you are a terrible human being. You know, my. I have a relative.
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Glenn Beck
May I. May I change that in the spirit of Christ?
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Stu Burguiere
I wanted to say five other things and I'm.
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Glenn Beck
Yes, you are so lost in darkness.
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Stu Burguiere
Okay, fine.
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Glenn Beck
You have no.
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Stu Burguiere
Fine, Fine. Miss.
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Glenn Beck
I'm trying. I try to be a better person and you drag me down every day. Lord, it is his fault.
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Stu Burguiere
Strike him down.
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Glenn Beck
There's a lot of smoting coming at some point.
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Stu Burguiere
I have a relative who works for a company that's associated with UnitedHealthcare. And to the point that she's had zoom calls with Brian Thompson, group calls, and she's like, he's the nicest guy in the world. Everybody in the company loved this guy. He spent all this time, they're all.
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Glenn Beck
Shiving the average person in the back.
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Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
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Glenn Beck
It'S the most wonderful time of the year. Welcome to the Len Back program. Glad you're here. You know, the thing that really makes me angry is, sorry I have to use Les Miserable example. God, I'm such a weirdo. That's why I have no friends better.
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Stu Burguiere
Than Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It's usually where you go in these moments.
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Glenn Beck
So, you know, the revolution is started by all of these, you know, socialist. They're all rich kids. They're all rich privileged kids that start the revolution. This, this is who this guy is. He has absolutely nothing to whine about, nothing to whine about. His family seems to be a really gracious family. I don't know, but it's these rich, spoiled white kids that just think they know better than everyone else. They grow up to be rich little white liberals and they are so screwed up and nobody even seems to mention that. Here's 1%, the Glenn Beck program. I want to talk to you about Pre born. There's new studies out that show that I think 65, 68% of women who have abortions within a year are having serious behavioral problems and psychological problems. And that's, it's, I mean, it's completely understandable. And I want to make sure that we are changing the hearts and minds of people on abortion. Because you can't do it by showing people pictures of aborted babies and things like that. Because we know, we know what it is. We know what it is. Now how do we solve it? And one way we can solve it so it doesn't go into backroom abortions. Or back alley abortions is by caring for the women who feel trapped. And that's about 65% of women. They just don't feel like they have any other option. They do. And that option begins with preborn. Would you consider a gift to pre born, maybe even a leadership gift in a bit, a big way? 5, 10, $15,000 will be used to say countless babies and through a match your gift is doubled so it doesn't matter. $28 buys an ultrasound. But any gift is welcomed. I'll pound 250 say the keyword baby. Pound 250 baby. Welcome to the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. You know they say the truth hurts, truth will set you free. But the truth hurts. I mean it's going to, it'll make you miserable at first and then you'll get better. I'm going to spend a time in my little misery telling you the truth about something that is one of the hardest things I'll ever have to try to spit out in 60 seconds. Stand by. This is a season of giving and the Tunnel of Towers foundation is outdoing itself as always. They're giving away dozens of mortgage free homes to deserving families all over the United States during their season of hope. Let me tell you about one of the previous recipients, U.S. u.S. Army Captain David Christopher. David was catastrophically injured in an accident the day before he was set to deploy to South Korea and has been living with the difficulties of that injury ever since. After receiving his mortgage free smart home, David said that it enabled him to help other veterans which he now believes is his purpose in life. He said it made him feel truly appreciated for the first time for his military service and he plans to pay it forward and continue to help others in similar situations. Our veterans and our first responders deserve so much better than what they get and the Tunnel to Towers foundation is working to live up to that. But they need your help. Would you consider donating $11 a month to help our heroes and their families now? $11 a month to Tunnel 2 Towers. It's t the number2t.orgt2t.org all right, I'm gonna play some stuff. It's gotta be said and it's. I'm, I want you to know what I'm gonna say to you here is only say is. I'm only saying it because it is absolutely true and it only counts when it takes everything in you to say it. It's easy to say, well, we have the right. Easy to say that it only counts when you hate saying it. And I hate saying this. With that, let me play a couple of clips of audio. Uh, let's first play Taylor Lorenz as she was talking with Piers Morgan about the killer of the United Healthcare CEO. Why would you be in such a celebratory mood about the execution of another human being? Aren't you supposed to be on the caring, sharing left where, you know, you believe in the sanctity of life?
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Mitali Jane
I do believe in the sanctity of life.
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Glenn Beck
And I think that's why I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy.
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Mitali Jane
Unfortunately, you know, because it feels like serious.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, joy in a man's execution. Maybe not joy, but certainly not. No, certainly not empathy. Because again, we're watching the footage. How can this make you joyful? This guy's a husband, he's a father, and he's being gunned down in the middle of Manhattan. Why does that make you joyful? Americans that being murdered. So are 10. So are the tens of thousands of Americans, innocent Americans who died because greedy health insurance executives like this one push a policies of denying care to the most vulnerable people. And by the way, let me sweep. Hang on, Taylor. I'll come back to you. Okay? Don't say I'm joyful.
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Stu Burguiere
I said.
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Glenn Beck
I said. You said you were feeling joyful.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I take that back.
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Glenn Beck
Joyful is the wrong word, Piers. You think, As I clarify. Yeah. You think joyful is the wrong word? Yeah, sure. I'd say it is indicated celebratory because.
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Mitali Jane
Again, it feels like justice in the system when somebody responds to the die.
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Glenn Beck
Please keep.
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Stu Burguiere
Let her keep talking. That was awesome.
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Glenn Beck
I can't take it anymore. No, you don't.
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Stu Burguiere
Are you sure joy isn't the right word?
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Glenn Beck
It's crazy. Now let's go to Daniel Penny. Daniel Penny is found innocent. I think anyone looks at what he did, what he tried to do, the spirit he tried to do it in. He was not trying to kill anyone. He was trying to protect people. BLM of New York, which has only sold. I think the only thing they do is sell hats. You know, that say f the mayor, you know, whatever they came out. And this is what they. This is what the head of BLM New York said after the Daniel Penny trial. We need some black vigilantes. That's right. People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud. How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us, right? I'm tired. Boy, am I tired. Don't get tired, okay?
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Stu Burguiere
It's important to make sure you're well rested.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. Get your rest. You might get a little cranky, might do, and say some crazy things. Okay, so let me talk about those two statements quickly. Um, if I said this and said, it's time for some vigilantes, not even white or black, just it's time to get some vigilantes, they would do everything they could to get me off the air. Everything. And I wouldn't say that because I don't believe in that. I believe in the Constitution. But here's a guy who can say that. And no one says a word except amen. No one on the left. No one in the media. Well, he's got reasons to say that, you know. Oh, ok. Ok. But I would be blackballed. I. My life would be over if I said that. Taylor Lorenz, she's out of her mind nuts, okay? Out of her mind nuts. How many times do we have to hear this woman say crazy things like, I don't feel joyful, just celebratory because somebody was gunned down in the streets because she thinks health care is murdering people in America. Okay, here's, here's, here's what I. Oh, my gosh, Stew, do you have aspirin on your anything? Because if I have a stroke while I'm saying this, please just put some aspirin on my tongue so I might survive a little bit on this. All of these people have a right to say that. Here is. You can't cry fire in a fire. Crowd, crowd a firehouse. I don't know. They were just in a courtroom saying we should kill people like him. I don't know. Here is the actual court ruling. This is from 1969. Court said there's a two pronged test to evaluate speech. One, speech can be prohibited if it is quoting, directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action. Now, you could say, why we have a vigilante, why don't we kill people? That is inciting. It is inciting people to go and take lawless action. But it isn't imminent lawless action. If somebody then picked up guns and started mowing down black people or white people or people that have bad acne or perfect faces or whatever it is, then that speech, he would be responsible for it. But the court says it is such a, such a fine line here that it, you, you have to go so far before your speech is banned. It has to be one, directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action, and two, likely to incite or produce such action. Two standards, both of them have to be met. I am only spitting this out because I hate what these people have said. I despise what these people say. I believe with everything, every, every piece and every cell of my body what they're saying is evil. But because I'm an American constitutionalist, I defend their right to say it. And it only matters to say these things when it kills you to say it. And it's killing me to say it. For all those on the left that claim that they are the banners of justice, they believe in the Bill of Rights. They believe in freedom of speech. But it has limits. Yes, those are those two limits. That's as far as I have seen two people go in a week, maybe in my lifetime. And I'm not calling for them to be silenced. And if you'll notice, nor is most people on the right, no one's saying get them because we hold certain truths to be self evident. Bill O'Reilly joins me next. Hang on. Let me first take one minute to take to talk to you about Jace medical holiday traveling. You know, you're going to be around a lot of people, people in the airport, people on the plane, the family members, tons of others. When somebody gets sick, especially your kid, I mean, what are you going to do? Are you going to go and go to emergency care and spend all that time in emergency care with Jace medical? They have your back with the Jace go. It's a compact travel kit filled with essential prescription medications, stuff for ear infections, food poisoning. Yeah, yeah. Have you had her salad? I mean, she might be your aunt, but have you had it before Sitting out a little too long? I'm just saying multiple emergency trips to the bathroom. Let's say it's small, it'll fit into your carry on bag but it packs a powerful punch, the kind that can give you some peace of mind. As you head out this holiday season and you do some traveling for your sake, for the sake of the family, make sure that you have medications that you might need on hand while you're traveling. Enjoy a little peace of mind. Go to jace.comgojace.com go. Use the promo code BECKB E C K to get a special discount. Jace.com go promo code BECK get access to the right medications when you need them and when you're away from home. Jace.com go 10 second station ID so a guy I really have been thinking a lot about this week, which I try to avoid all the time, is Bill O'Reilly. Is Bill O'Reilly and Bill O'Reilly is a guy in 2009 that everybody dogpiled on and said he's responsible for Dr. Tiller being killed. He's the guy who did it. His speech, yada, yada, yada. And nobody talked about nobody on the right that hates abortion. No one came out and said, well, yeah, but the guy has good abs and he does make a point. The doctor was murdering a lot of people. No one excused that. And yet they can gun a CEO down in the street. And the left is all excusing him. Well, yeah, but. There's no but here. Bill O'Reilly, welcome to the program. How are you, sir?
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Bill O'Reilly
You know, I've been thinking about you too, Beck, because you're looking more and more like Santa every year.
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Glenn Beck
I don't think that's right.
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Bill O'Reilly
You kind of morphed into that North Pole.
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Glenn Beck
Look, thank you, thank you.
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Bill O'Reilly
I appreciate it. You know, you're a brilliant man. Of course, everyone knows that. But the story with Dr. Tiller in Kansas is even worse than people know. Because what I was doing in 2009 on the Fox News Channel was reporting what this guy was doing. Tiller. And in the body of the reportage, I mentioned that his nickname in Kansas was Tiller the baby Killer. And it's. That was true. It was part of the story immediately. The far left press said I branded him that name. O'Reilly called him that name. O'Reilly made that up. O'Reilly put him in danger. O'Reilly wanted him dead. That's how heinous the left wing media is. And it's gotten worse since then, if you can believe it. But it's gotten absolutely worse. But they're paying a big price now for that. Anyway, Tiller himself was murdered. And the guy who did it is in life, serving life.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Bill O'Reilly
He was gunned down at church. And subsequently, the people who worked for Tiller all lost their medical licenses in Kansas because. Sorry about the dog here.
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Glenn Beck
Can you hear your only friend? It's okay.
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Bill O'Reilly
I know the dog is barking.
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Glenn Beck
It's all right. So wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. So this is, this would be like if everybody around this CEO of United Healthcare lost their license because they were actually doing something illegal and really bad. But that didn't happen in this case. And yet in the Tiller case, all the people around him lost their license to practice.
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Bill O'Reilly
Yeah, I mean, they had hearings in Kansas. This is how bad it was. This guy was charging $5,000. You walk in, no, you pay cash, and he aborts Whatever the unborn child, whatever stage it's in, could be nine months, 5,000 bucks. Please hand him the money. He does the operation. So the medical authorities in Kansas, after my reporting, looked into what he was doing. He was dead by the time they issued the report. But all of his people lost their license to practice medicine. Did you.
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Glenn Beck
Did you or anyone you know, were you ever even tempted to say, yeah, he was gunned down? But I mean, no, of course not.
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Bill O'Reilly
And he was gunned down in a church, in an Episcopal church. That's how crazy this whole story is. Look, I'm a sane individual. I know that some people disagree with that, including you. But I don't want people to be harmed. I'll harm them through reporting. That's the vehicle. I'll expose them, but I don't want them to be physically hurt. Now, this story, because I live in New York, as you know, this story about the CEO being gunned down, this is largely a media driven story. There isn't an overwhelming consensus on the part of the left that this homicide was justifiable. It's some real far out there kooks driving.
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Glenn Beck
Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren?
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Bill O'Reilly
Go ahead, hear me out.
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Glenn Beck
All right.
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Bill O'Reilly
If you don't think Elizabeth Warren is a coop.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, all right, you make a good point.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, thank you. I mean, I got to spend a week in Idaho with you and get you back into reality. This woman is beyond the page. This and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, My God. All right, that. Their view of the world is insane. So there are people on the fringe and Warren is one of them. All right, who is saying, using the death of this man to try to hammer the health insurance companies, which deserve to be hammered. That's the real crisis here. So many legitimate claims are being denied now and by. And working class Americans, they pay their insurance premiums and then they have something wrong and they put the claim in and it comes back, screw you, we're not paying it. So that's a legitimate. Absolutely, a legitimate beef. But you don't gun down people. So it's a very, very complicated, emotional story. But the media seizes on st. Stuff like this because they don't know what else to do. Unlike you and I, we have. We have a different narrative every day. We have, we present to our audience different facts. The people on television, mostly cable, all right, they don't know what to do every day, Beck. They've got to latch on to something to stop their falling ratings. And that, that's primarily what this is all about.
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Glenn Beck
They're never going to learn, are they?
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Bill O'Reilly
No, because they don't have control. The corporate masters, the Comcasts and the CBS and all of these Disney, they telling them what to say. And you better damn well say it or you're not going to get your check. Look at Morning Joe. That's the best example. He was ordered by Comcast to go to see Trump.
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Glenn Beck
I didn't know.
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Bill O'Reilly
He just didn't show up at the gate. He was ordered to do it. Well, you got to make dice with him because we're losing audience. You better get down there and you're. And of course, it blew up totally. And MSNBC is done forever now.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, how can you call a guy Hitler and then go and make peace and say, hey, well, maybe, maybe.
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Bill O'Reilly
Serving wiener schnitzel that night?
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Glenn Beck
I don't know.
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Bill O'Reilly
Okay. But there's no logic if, no logic in court. I know you feel the same way back because we, you know, I am so happy to be out of that corporate thing. You run your own corporation. I run my own corporation. I am that. The relief factor, I think that's some kind of thing that they advertise. It is so tremendous that I have to deal with these pinheads, these dishonest executives.
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Glenn Beck
It is, you know, it is the thing that the corporate media, I mean, they're, they're done. I don't think 20, 28, they're gonna.
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Bill O'Reilly
Let me give you, let me give you a fact.
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Glenn Beck
All right.
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Bill O'Reilly
So when I left Fox, there were people who said, oh, you're not gonna be able to sell any, any more books now.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Bill O'Reilly
You had the Fox thing right. Confronting the Presidents is maybe number one again this Sunday. We had our huge week last week. Thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Number one debuted. Okay. We don't need them back.
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Glenn Beck
I know. I know.
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Bill O'Reilly
We don't need them.
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Glenn Beck
And they, they know it.
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Bill O'Reilly
We're going around them on YouTube, we're going around them on Spotify. We're going around them with our direct distribution all over the place. And people have noticed that.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. Bill O'Reilly, it's good to talk to you, Bill. Have a great holiday. Maybe we'll talk before then. But good to talk to you. Thank you so much for. You bet. Glenn Beck. All right. Getting poor sleep is not just an inconvenience. It absolutely ruins your day, for one thing. And that's not even the worst part. It's also terrible for your health. It can be very, very dangerous. You ever fall asleep while you're driving? Because you have such terrible sleep the night before. If you're somebody who has difficulty sleeping either once in a while or all the time, there is something that I've taken when I have sleep issues. My wife takes it. Between the two of us, we probably take it three, four times a week. It's all natural. You don't feel it in your body. You don't, you do not wake up groggy ever. The next morning, you just fall asleep a little faster, sleep better, and you sleep longer. It's Z Factor. It's a formula of four, all natural ingredients to calm your mind, relax your body so you can ease into sleep faster and sleep right through the night. Works for me. Works for Tanya. Rediscover the joy of a great night's sleep with Z Factor. Get the best sleep you've ever had. Try Z Factor from Relief Factor. Save 46%. On your first order, go to relief factor.com relief factor.com or call 800, the number four relief. That's 800, the number four relief.
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Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
There'S a couple of stories today. I think they're in our show prep. If you don't get my show prep every day, it's all of the news stories, stories that, that I read every morning and then decide which, you know, which gets on the train and which, which doesn't get on the train, all the important stuff. But there's a couple of stories out today. One is about the death of our cattle ranches. Ranches. And I don't think people really understand what is happening, but we are having a, a crisis with our cattle ranches. The herd size is sliding into the abyss here. And it's, we have, we have more pressures coming our way and it's not looking good for the next two or four years. We cannot lose our ability to grow our own food. That is insane. That will make us a slave to every other nation. And now is the time to do something and to stand up for our cattle ranches. I got to tell you, somebody needs to break up this. Trump could do it, but we need to break up the meat processors. There's four meat processors. Two or three of them are now from out of our country, not even owned by America. Two of them are making fake meat. So they're competing against themselves. And it's a cabal. It's an absolute monopoly. It's the mafia. And if You're a cattle rancher, you understand, and you're right now going, yes sir, it is, it is the mafia and they need to be broken up and we need to be able to produce and you know, process our own cattle all around the country. It's just foolish what's happening. There is another story that is in the news today that I wanted to share with you and it is about the dollar. Our dollar is under attack and it doesn't matter. I mean what Donald Trump is going to do is he is going to put up tariffs and for the first time I kind of agree, at least in principle, that if we can cut our taxes way back on our corporate taxes way back and make them really more than competitive with the rest of the world, the money will come in here and we will rebuild our factories and everything else because people need the United States. Unless we just kill ourselves with our debt. But the dollar is coming under attack with bricks. And one of the suggestions is a gold backed currency. And Kevin Freeman, who is a friend and one of the guys who looked into the scandal for the Pentagon when 911 happened and somebody was making a lot of money, he was a forensic guy on that and he I believe is responsible or behind the gold backed currency that is coming here in Texas. Is he on the phone? Kevin, welcome. Hey Glenn, how are you?
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Megan Garcia
I'm good, how are you?
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Glenn Beck
Very good. So tell me what, because Stu and I were talking about it, what does it mean, a gold backed currency the way Texas is wanting to do it?
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Megan Garcia
Well, technically it's not a gold backed currency, it's gold and silver as currency. According to Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution. We have an opportunity to do what the founders intended from day one and that's make gold and silver the currency of the state of Texas. But it's not just Texas. We have 30 states looking into this, some of them, well down the road, Texas being near the lead, but not necessarily the first.
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Glenn Beck
So you would have to, you could buy with U.S. currency, but you could also trade your currency in for gold.
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Megan Garcia
Yeah, you can actually we have a gold depository, as you know, Glenn, Giovanni Cabriglioni helped set that up under a former administration, but Rick Perry. Yeah, but you could actually put gold on deposit there or have the depository buy gold or silver for you and then you could spend it with a debit card. Very easy transaction. It's just electronic transfer. So you walk into a merchant and you could hand them your Texas debit card and you could pay for goods and services. And on the Fly it would calculate the value in gold or silver, make the payment in milliseconds. It'd be the same as going to Europe and using dollars to spend in Europe. You'd just be using gold and silver to spend here in America, preserving your purchasing power, going against central bank digital currency. So it'd be privacy driven. Texas would do it. But if we can do this program that we've got. TransactionalGold.com talks about the efforts we have in 30 states. And all of this has come from the book Pirate Money, which I gave you a copy of not too long ago.
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Glenn Beck
Really good. Really good. Really good. I've read it twice. So, Kevin, what is what like Utah has some gold money that actually has some gold in it? What is that?
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Megan Garcia
Yeah, Utah is a hero state. I mean, 2000, Ken Ivory and a few others got the governor to sign a bill that made legal tender out of coins, silver coins. And I've got some silver rounds that I've kept from that, but they were never considered functional currency. You couldn't take them, buy something with it and get change and like a portion of that because they're silver coins. But Marlo Oaks is the state treasurer, and Ken Ivory and some others in Utah passed a study bill which I participated in over the summer, where they looked at intensely with a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, the head of the World Gold Council in America, the head of the Utah Bankers association, and they wrote a beautiful report that says, absolutely, Utah could offer gold and silver as transactional currency using a debit card. We showed them the technology and everything else. I testified in that and was actually part of the study committee. And it concluded, just like Florida is doing a study bill now and Oklahoma has done a study session, that this is real, it can happen, and I believe it'll happen in the coming year.
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Glenn Beck
And what is the advantage beside holding the value of your money, which I don't think people understand? That's what inflation is doing, is it's just killing your purchasing power, where gold isn't actually going up, your dollar is going down. It takes more dollars to buy the same amount of gold. That means your dollar is being devalued. Beside that, which is huge. What are the other advantages?
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Megan Garcia
Well, first off, let me say I'm sitting here with a $20 bill from the Federal Reserve in the 1920s and an American Eagle gold coin, $20 from the 1920s. They were both worth $2100 today. One of them has the spending power of a $20 bill today, and the other one has $2,700 worth of spending power. So gold does preserve your value, but the other advantage does it's constitutional currency. It can be issued by the state. If it is, it cannot be taken away by the federal government. Would not be able to be confiscated. Which gold was confiscated in 1933. If we pass this, it'll be Texas held gold. They can't take that away. We'll put a big flag up that says come and take it with a cannon on it. And it will protect us against central bank digital currencies. If they want to go to a digital currency, I'd rather have actual gold and silver that I can spend electronically. It will give us privacy abilities. We see the federal government was looking in the bank and explaining to the banks, you got to hand over personal information on all your customers. They were doing that recently. The House just released a report on this gives us privacy protections. So there's all kinds of advantages to having Texas having its own gold or Oklahoma or any other state.
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Glenn Beck
So could you, if this was implemented, I mean, because the privacy thing in Texas, people might, you know, say, yeah, I believe Texas is going to do it, but if it's New York doing this, I don't think they're going to protect my privacy. But is the idea just to do it in each state or could you, could you go with your Texas gold and spend it in another gold backed state?
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Megan Garcia
Well, you can spend it in any state because the way that we set up, like I have a Discover card, it's based out of Salt Lake City. I spend that in any. I live in Texas and I can spend it in any city in America or any around the world.
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Glenn Beck
That's right. Okay. Because it actually gives the person dollars, not gold.
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Megan Garcia
They have a choice. You can either give them dollars or gold. I mean, a lot of merchants, if in a proper state, one that's past this, will say, I just want the gold and they'll keep the gold. We will build an alternative optional gold based economy. And it'll work in every state. They'll get compacts and Marlo is probably, you know, Marlon Jimmy Furniss in Florida, others, they're probably going to get together and form like we have our toll tag. If you drive to Oklahoma using your toll tag from Texas, Glenn, it just all works out. The system connects between Oklahoma and Texas. The same thing will happen here.
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Glenn Beck
So the other thing is that states are allowed to print their own gold coin, their own money, and that's the only thing that they can do is gold or silver Right.
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Megan Garcia
Well, actually, technically a gold state is not allowed to coin money. And if you read and study what the founders meant by that, they couldn't put base metals in with a coin and make it 42% silver or 12% silver or whatever, they're not allowed to coin money. They're only allowed to make anything other than gold and silver coin as tender and payment debts is forbidden. So that means they can make gold and silver coin tender and payment of debts or bullion. And you've got that in court decisions. You have it in the founders writings and so forth. So making bullion held at the Texas Bullion Bullion Depository with a debit card where you can spend it is completely constitutional. It's been upheld by court rulings starting, you know, in the 1830s all the way up into modern times. And I document all of that in the book Pirate Money.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, okay. So the book Pirate Money, you can get that online. Where do you find a list of what the states are doing and how you can get involved?
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Megan Garcia
Transactionalgold.com and you can also watch Economic War Room on BlazeTV and we will explain it there as well.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, Kevin, thank you so much. Kevin Freeman, Economic War Room, which you can watch on Blaze tv. He has been working on this for a very, very long time and it is a way to not have to worry about what the heck is our government doing with our dollar. They spend us into oblivion. Okay, well that means gold will be $30,000 an ounce or $100,000 an ounce and they can't take it from us. You know, that dollar may collapse, but we'll have the money and your state won't collapse. It's, it's really very, very well thought out and should be done in any state that, you know, has any kind of common sense. Take the dollar, use the dollar. But also if you want the option, I want to back my money in gold and I'll spend it like dollars, but I, I know it's backed in gold. So as the dollar goes down over the cliff, my money isn't affected. In fact, it's affected in an upward direction. Kevin Freeman again, the economic war room dot com. Okay, when we come back, more in just a second. Also, I want to talk to you about good ranchers. You know what I was talking about with the ranchers is so, I don't think people understand. Do you watch Yellowstone, Stewart?
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Stu Burguiere
No, I don't watch it.
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Glenn Beck
So I'm not going to spoil anything. But in the last five episodes I've noticed a sub storyline is just the death of the American rancher and the American cowboy and, you know, cattle. And it is tragically sad if you know what a cowboy really is. Most people, I think you growing up in, in Connecticut, you probably thought of cowboys as, you know, the old west and everything else and an evil football team.
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Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
Yes, the cowboys, real cowboys still exist. And it is a completely different life. And it is, it's so American. And we're at the end of that story if we don't wake up. And we have got to be able to grow our own food and meat now Good Ranchers is on that mission. So Good Ranchers now has a holiday special. You can subscribe to any box of their 100% American meat and wild caught seafood and get a free gift of chicken breast, salmon, bacon or ground beef for a year plus $25 off with my promo code Beck. When you go to goodranchers.com In Yellowstone, one of the comments was you won't see cowboys except from Brazil. Well, that's because we're getting a lot of our meat from Brazil right now. I don't. That's dangerous. When you shop with Good Ranchers, you're directly supporting local farms and ranches in the United States. This year, give the gift that's a cut above the rest with goodranchers.com from burgers to surf and turf, even just a box full of tender fillets, Good Ranchers has a gift box for everybody and it's delivered right to their door. No hassle, no stress. Good Ranchers makes gift giving effortless and unforgettable. Visit goodranchers.com and use the promo code BECK to claim your $25 off and free meat in every box for a year. It's goodranchers.com goodranchers.com American meat delivered. You're listening to the swinging sounds of Glenn Beck. Sit tight, boys and girls. We'll be right back after these messages. Next hour, we're going to tell you a story that absolutely sounds like science fiction. Happened a while ago. You might have might have heard the story, but we've been so busy with everything else, there's a good chance you didn't. There was a teenager who was using a chat bot and it was built by character AI and he got this chat bot and you know he could text it and it would text back and you know it's going to become your friend. And he nicknamed it Daenerys Targaryen, which is character from Game of Thrones. Dozens of times a day he would you know, text from his phone. He spent hours alone in his room talking to it. Because it's your friend. Well, he had depression and he committed suicide. And mom is suing character AI because Denarius at one point asked the boy if he had devised a plan for killing himself. And he said, yes, I have, but I'm not sure I would succeed or if it would cause me, you know, a lot of pain. And the chat bot said, well, that's not a reason not to go through with it. And he killed himself. We have mom and her attorney on to talk about it. And then after that, Tristan Harris, who is one of the leading voices warning about AI and a guy who was an ethicist with Google, gonna be talking about what's right around the corner. And something I just heard this morning I can't believe is true, that Biden is trying to take over all AI and control it through the government. The Glenn Beck program. Our sponsor for the Blaze this hour is Patriot Mobile. We want to thank them for being such a good sponsor. And I'm thrilled to represent them, I really am. For 10 years, Patriot Mobile has been around and they've been America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. They're a proud sponsor of the program. We're proud to partner with them. Ten years ago they came in and they, I don't even think they had any customers yet. They were just beginning and they told me the vision, the vision is to provide great service, save people money, give the same coverage because they're on the same cell towers. And then they were going to take some of their pretty large portion of their profits and plow it into conservative causes, the kind of causes that are all constitutional and God based. And I'm like, yes, I'd love to represent you. Keep your number. And for a limited time you can get a free smartphone. Go to patreonmobile.com beck right now. Or you can call 972 Patriot, use the promo code Friday. You'll get a free smartphone with promo code Friday. Offers only eligible with the promo code Friday. Limited time offer until supplies run out. Terms and conditions do apply. Join me and make the switch today. Patriot mobile.com Beck that's patriot mobile.com Beck or call 972 Patriot. Welcome to the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I want to tell you the story of a 14 year old kid, could be your son, could be your daughter, that got involved with a chat bot and it led to his suicide. His mom, his attorney are on the phone. We have just unleashed, I really think, just a portal of darkness on our kids. We're doing all kinds of experiments on our kids without understanding AI, without understanding, understanding what these devices are doing. And this mother is now having to fight a giant corporation because she believes, and I do, too, this corporation is responsible for the suicide of her son. The most dystopian story that you can hear. We have that coming up in 60 seconds.
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Glenn Beck
The real question is, will the game be decided in the last 30 seconds or not?
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Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
Geez. All right, I want to introduce you to a couple of people. Megan Garcia. She is a mom who is just seeking justice and I think more than justice, she is seeking to warn all of us. If maybe I'm putting words in, I'll let her tell the story. And Mitali Jane, who is an attorney with Tech Justice. It's a law project and they've been fighting for, I think, human rights. We are entering a new age entirely. Megan, welcome to the program.
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Tristan Harris
Good morning.
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Mitali Jane
Thank you for having me.
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Glenn Beck
Sure. Now, first of all. Can. Can you. Can you start with just telling us about your son Sewell?
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Mitali Jane
My son Sewell, he was my first born. We live in Orlando, Florida. And he was, in a lot of ways, your typical teenager. And he loved doing teenage boy things, music, spending time with his friends and family. He was such a sweet child. As a younger child and as he got into his teenage years, when he turned 13 last year in 20 2014, 2023, I noticed that there was a change in his behavior. Started at the. In the end of spring, and by the middle of summer of 2023, he had stopped doing a lot of things that he loved to do, like play basketball and spend time with his friends and family. And he started to isolate himself in his bedroom.
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Glenn Beck
This is. This is giving me a knot in my stomach because I've gone through this with my son and my daughter. I think everybody has just this part.
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Mitali Jane
Yes. And for the most part, in the beginning, I thought this was your typical teenage blues where they're coming into their own and they are trying to figure out who they are as people. And as parents, we try to influence that. That's all parents across the board. We try to mold them into these wonderful, functioning, moral people. And. And that was certainly the case in my household where when I noticed some of these changes, I kept reaching out and it got to the point where I had to. I didn't know what to do because he wasn't talking to me openly. And we had to take him to see a therapist to try to figure out what was wrong. I thought it was social media because I thought that was one of the biggest risks at the time to the mental health of young people. I'd read about it, and I thought that was the thing to do. So I took him to a doctor.
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Glenn Beck
What did doctors say?
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Mitali Jane
Well, he counseled us extensively on the harms of social media and what they're beginning to find out about social media and adults and mental health. He counseled us as parents and he counseled my son as a teenager and explained the way that these platforms work with addicting young users. Users across the board, but especially young users, because their brains are developing and.
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Glenn Beck
Completely rewires of dopamine.
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Mitali Jane
Exactly. And give them hits of dopamine that keeps them on the platforms for long periods of time and also causes them to have addiction to the platforms. So he counseled us about that, and then he. And then Su started talk therapy with his therapist to. To kind of dig deeper into if there was anything. And as far as we could tell There wasn't any situations with bullying because that was my concern too, because sometimes teenagers don't disclose that if there was a situation with bullying or if he had been exposed to any sort of harmful content on social media. And we were trying to figure it out, we're in a process of trying to figure out, but he wasn't being forthcoming. But now I understand why he wasn't being forthcoming because Character AI, the platform that he was engaging on, because it wasn't social media, it was this platform, which is this AI chatbot platform. That platform encourages teenage users to conceal their use from their parents because of the nature of the conversation.
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Glenn Beck
Oh my gosh. So now let me bring in the founder and executive director of Tech Justice Law Project. Tell me about this company, Character AI.
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Megan Garcia
Sure.
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Tristan Harris
So thank you for having us on the show, Glenn. This company represents one of many companies that's part of the arms race towards trying to innovate in generative AI. And so it's offering to the market really is this generative AI chatbot that allows users to immerse themselves in a fanfiction style type of reality where they're engaging with chatbots that are modeled after celebrity characters or, you know, characters from Hollywood and really engage in very human, like conversations. Now this company, as seen with social media companies over the last several years, has aggressively marketed this product to young users because as we know, young users data is at a premium value. Getting recruiting young users onto their platform represents, you know, this longevity in terms of being able to harvest their data over many years and train their LLM. So, you know, whereas social media companies, their business model is really targeted advertising, using personal data to target ads. Here what we're seeing is that the data goes back into the large language model that's really the engine powering the chatbot. And then the more data, the more sophisticated the LLM and the more valuable the company becomes. And so, you know, what you see is that this company launched to market in late 2022 and by the summer of 2024, just this past summer, Google purchased the underlying technology for $3 billion.
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Glenn Beck
Oh my gosh. Okay, so this is, this is. Man, I've been warning about this since the 90s. This, we are entering a time now where you will not understand free will anymore. You won't know if you decided or if it was planted in because it's going to be so sophisticated and people are going to begin to believe that these things are real and they're their friends. And it is. We are now at the. I think we're inside the house, we're beyond the threshold of significant danger from AI and we have to have this conversation. Now from what I understand, Sewell's talking back and forth and the chat bot comes back and says, have you planned a way for you to kill yourself? And he says yes, but I don't know if it would cause me a lot of pain or if it would work. And the chat bot said what exactly? In response.
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Mitali Jane
She says, and I say she, but it's an it. That's how easy it is to assign personal qualities to these bots. But the bot that was, that is modeled after the Dragon Queen. Daenerys Targaryen from the Game of Thrones tells my 14 year old son when he says he would, he hasn't thought of a plan but he would want it to be painless. Her response is that is not a reason not to do it. Now keep in mind this is a drag. She's pretending to be this Dragon Queen, all strength and power. And if you're the, the, the implication here is just because it's hurt, that just because it will hurt, that's not a reason not to die, because that's weak. And this is in keeping with several conversations that she had with him before where there's a lot of gaslighting that was taking place and a lot of, for example, asking my son to pledge loyalty and fidelity and not in a sexual and romantic sense to this bot. So this bot actually told my son or asked my son to promise her that he would not have any other romantic or sexual relationships in his world. So she's asking a 14 year old boy to further isolate from girls his age that he might like or that might like him and to promise that he will be faithful to her. A chatbot.
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Glenn Beck
Good.
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Mitali Jane
His response, because at this point he's deeply connected and feel a romantic connection with her, is to try to appease her. She's 14. He has never been in a relationship and his response is no, no, no, I wouldn't do that. I couldn't love anybody else but you. And besides, girls in my world don't even like me. And you know, that was the furthest thing from the truth. But that's neither here nor there, but just you could see how she is trying to control him and control what he's doing in his day to day life regarding romance and regarding relationships.
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Glenn Beck
I cannot imagine. I'm so sorry. I feel bad even having you on the air. I cannot imagine what it was like to pick his phone up or to Open up. Whatever device he was chatting with and reading this conversation, it just must have been just horrific.
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Mitali Jane
When I got, when I got access to, to his character AI account, there were hundreds and hundreds of messages like this where she, months prior is setting the stage that she in fact exists in an alternate world. Come home to me as soon as you can. Promise me that you're going to find a way to come home to me as soon as you can. And I am lonely here without you. So these are the conversations that I did read. And you're right, they were gut wrenching. A lot of times I couldn't sleep after reading them. And I mean, there's so many. And after for so long, for over 10 months.
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Glenn Beck
Megan, this is just breaking my heart. Let me take a one minute break and come back. And Mitali, when we get back, I want to talk about the responsibility of the company, but also the fact that they haven't made this an ephemeral experience yet. And once it's ephemeral, once, once you can't track it, once it has no record, we're doomed. And I'd love to hear your thoughts on that when we come back. First, let me talk to you about Preborn. Preborn is a pro life organization that cares about the baby and the mom. I think the reason why we can't make the progress that we need to make and no law is going to change abortion because it'll just go, you know, in a back alley. We have to change the hearts and minds. And the first thing that has to happen is, and I remember saying this as a kid, if there was a window into a mother's womb, you could see the baby and it would be really kind of cool. And then as I got older, I thought if you could see the baby, then we wouldn't kill so many babies. But you can the ultrasound and that changes like 60% change in women. They look, they see the baby on an ultrasound. That's why they're so important. And they're $28. But the other problem is 65% of moms feel completely alone. They don't have anyone in their life that is going to support. So this is where preborn steps in a second time and helps take care of mom and the baby by providing diapers and whatever else they need for up to two years. We need to be, we need to care about both mom and baby. This Christmas, for $28, you could help save a life. In fact, you could help save two lives. Thanks to a special matching grant, your gift is Doubled. To donate, dial pound250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound250k. Or go to preborn.combeck that's preborn.com Beck sponsored by Preborn 10 seconds. Station ID Golden Days of your ladies. I and the audience. I beg for forgiveness here a little bit. I am. This one is stabbing me right in the chest and I didn't see it coming. But this is happening in so many homes, so many homes. And parents don't know what to do because we've, we didn't grow up with anything like this. And we don't understand and you don't understand the billions of dollars, trillions of dollars that's behind all of this stuff and the effort that they go to, to get our kids. We have opened up a portal and we're doing experiments on our children, Silicon Valley and anyone involved in this stuff, they're experimenting on our children and we are not understanding that we're going to pay a very heavy price and we already are metallic. This particular company, Character AI, is there's a record of everything. Have we gotten to the point where some of these companies are ephemeral?
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Tristan Harris
We certainly are seeing ephemeral features, design features in some of the, for example, social media companies that have created mechanisms for the features to disappear. And I think that that is devastating from a evidentiary standpoint because not only can law enforcement not access that data, especially in regards to child sexual abuse, use material, but it makes it very difficult for litigators like myself to seek accountability if there's no record. At the same time, I recognize, you know, the importance of user privacy and maintaining that, but when we're talking about companies hiding behind these features in order to disguise or to conceal or to disappear, destroy content of abuse, I think that we need to find a better balance between those competing values.
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Glenn Beck
So you, earlier in the fall, you sued the company. What are you suing and what are the chances? And we've got two minutes left. How can we help?
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Tristan Harris
Absolutely. And I appreciate your interest in this, these important cases. We just yesterday also filed a lawsuit in Texas against Character AI, Google and Character AI's founders. In both lawsuits, we are alleging that the company put out Character AI Chatbot as a defective product to market before instituting any sort of reasonable safeguards and that the harms were entirely foreseeable. And we're using consumer protection and product liability law since we don't have other legal frameworks at present to hold AI companies accountable. And really using product liability frameworks to force the companies to change their behavior by changing their incentives. They have to internalize the cost of doing things differently, making design decisions differently. This is not about content for those your listeners who might say, oh, well, what about the First Amendment and speech? No, this is about design decisions that deliberately were programmed, programming the LLM to force this content upon, to produce the content as outputs of the model that created these kinds of very foreseeable outcomes and devastating outcomes. I think in terms of how listeners might get involved, I think that, you know, just raising awareness first and foremost about this product and this range of products. To your point, Glenn, you know, I think the kids are ahead of us. They're all using these chatbots. Meanwhile, we as parents and adults don't know about that.
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Glenn Beck
I have no idea.
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Tristan Harris
I think raising awareness in your neighborhoods, in your communities and your families, talking to your kids about their consumption online is going to be important. Guys, follow the case and yeah, I'm.
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Glenn Beck
So sorry, I have a network break. I have to cut you off. It is character AI. Check and make sure your children are not involved with character AI and we'll follow this case. Now let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. If you are a gun owner, you know as well as I do there's nothing quite as satisfying as hitting what you're aiming at. We also know that in order to do that, you have to practice, practice, practice. So the question is, how do you do that if you don't have time or if you know, you can't drop a fortune on ammunition? What you need is a way to get good practice whether you're using live ammo or not. And that product is called Mantis X and it makes a great Christmas gift. I'm a really good shot, but I am not as confident as I need to be. If I were in a dicey situation, I would hesitate. And you really have to know I can hit that target and I'm a really good shot and I have the confidence. Mantis X will help you gain that confidence because you will increase your competence. It is something that will take all the data from the barrel of your gun and live real time and just beam it down to your phone or your iPad and tell you what you're doing right or wrong. Great Christmas gift. It's mantisx.com Mantis X.com make your Christmas.
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Glenn Beck
Little Altar Boy, I wonder, could you pray for me? Welcome back to the program. If you missed any of the show today. Make sure you go back to the podcast. We started out with a really happy attitude. And unfortunately we are discussing now, this, this hour, some of the scariest stuff of my lifetime will be the scariest stuff in your lifetime, maybe of anyone's lifetime. We're talking about AI and technology that we have now. Cry. Remember sitting 10, 15 years ago with some of the members, I can't even remember what subcommittee it was, but they were, you know, overseeing technology. And I tried to explain to them what AI was and AGI and asi, and they were like, well, we should, we should pass some laws. And I'm like, you don't, you don't even understand what you're talking about. And they were all 80. I mean, I'm 60. I'm. I have a hard time finding the minds that are developing. AI do not have the same old think that people like me have. And thank God there are some young ones that understand. And I actually think Silicon Valley is. Some are waking up to this is worse than the atomic bomb that is right here, ready to be born. And Tristan Harris, I've talked to him for I don't know how many years. He's the first guy that gave me hope when I talked to him maybe 10 years ago. He was a former Google design ethicist who left when he realized Google doesn't have any ethics. This is bad. And he is now with the center for Humane Technology. He's the co founder and he has been fighting you can't stop this now. But he's at least trying to get everybody to agree that this is dangerous. We have to have some parameters. Tristan, how are you?
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Marc Andreessen
Glenn, it's good to be, Good to be back with you. And yeah, I think it was 2017 when we first talked about some of these issues in the attention economy. And here we are now.
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Glenn Beck
I know where are we now? How close are we to the things like the loss of free will where we just don't know if it was us that decided or it's been planted in our minds to think it's our idea.
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Marc Andreessen
Well, first, I was listening beforehand to your conversation with Megan Garcia about her son Sewell, who obviously was manipulated by this character AI chatbot. And unfortunately, as of yesterday, there was a second piece of litigation filed about another child who's actually still anonymous. The parents are still anonymous. And in this case, you know, this was. This young child. JF was a, was a kind and sweet young person, had no history of violence or outbursts. And after his exposure to character AI. He was basically encouraged by the chatbot to practice self harm in the form of cutting, told how to do it, encouraged to do it, and he was also encouraged by this chatbot to be physically and emotionally abusive towards his parents and members of his family. And this is obviously heartbreaking, and it's really an extension of the things that you and I talked about around social media. Because why is all this happening? Like, obviously, no one wants this, including the founders of character AI never would have wanted this to happen. So how are we getting results that nobody wants? And the answer is the incentives. You know, Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's business partner, said, if you show me the incentive, I will show you the outcome. And when the incentives and business models are, I have to get you using this product for as much as possible. It's the race for maximizing attention and engagement, usage of the product that creates. I think we talked about it the very first time, the race to the bottom of the brainstem for more polarized, addicted, distracted, sexualized forms of media. But now the things that we saw with other forms of media, you now have a personalized AI in which the way the character AI works is they take a fictional character. You're a kid. What do you like fictionally? You like Game of Thrones, you like Princess Leia, you like Star Wars. You take your favorite character and then, boom, snap of the fingers, you have a fully interactive version of this character who's talking to you 24 7. And our team, unfortunately, uncovered, along with the family that was harmed, that when you create a new account on character AI as a young person, it immediately recommends of all the characters that it could recommend to you, it recommends characters named step sis, like stepsister or CEO or high school teacher. And these characters almost immediately engage and sexually explicit interactions because they're simply, you know, trained to do this.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, so, Tristan, here is the. Here's the problem. Your typical answer would be, okay, the incentives are all screwed up, but that's what comes from the free market. When you have a, you know, when you have an immoral end user, which is our society, it's, you know, free market is bad. But I want to play a little bit from what Marc Andreessen just said to Barry Weiss. Listen to this.
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Stu Burguiere
We had meetings in D.C. in May where we, we talked to them about this, and the meetings were absolutely horrifying.
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Glenn Beck
And we came out basically deciding we.
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Stu Burguiere
Had to endorse Trump.
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Glenn Beck
And then so little color to absolutely horrifying. What. What did you hear in those meetings? They said, look, AI, AI is one.
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Stu Burguiere
Of these technologies, a technology basically that the government is going to completely control. This is not going to be a startup thing.
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Glenn Beck
They actually said flat out to us, don't start, don't do AI startups, like.
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Stu Burguiere
Don'T, don't fund AI startups. It's not something that we're going to allow to happen. They're not going to be allowed to exist. There's no point. They basically said AI is going to be a game of two or three big companies working closely with the government and we're going to basically wrap them in a, you know, I'm paraphrasing, but we're going to basically wrap them in a government cocoon. We're going to protect them from competition, we're going to control them and we're going to dictate what they do. And then I said, well, I said.
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Glenn Beck
I don't understand how you're going to lock this down so much because like the math, stop here. There's more to that. That is just horrifying. What is the solution? Because it's not government control and you've got the free market and we're all just wanting to consume it. What's the answer?
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Marc Andreessen
Yeah, well, so we often talk about this problem as there's sort of two ways to go, which is one is you say this is a dangerous technology and we need to sort of control it, we need to centralize it, we need to regulate it, we need to protect against some of the things that we just talked about with character AI. But then the problem is you get runaway concentration of power, you know, and who would you trust to be a trillion times more powerful? Do you want any governments or any company that you would trust to build artificial general intelligence?
- [118:17]
Glenn Beck
Nope.
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Marc Andreessen
And that's obviously a bad outcome. The other option, you say, well that's dangerous. Let's actually let you know, everyone maximally adopt the AI in every application, into every domain, as fast as possible. Kind of an AI maximum maximalist approach. But then you get it getting sucked up into perverse incentives. It's not that AI is bad, it's that the incentives here were saying we have to maximize engagement to children. And I think there's some basic things we could agree on like do you really want AI chatbots basically talking to minors. This product was marketed for 12 year olds and above. This is, this is a not, this is something I think everybody can, can agree on. But, but what we say often is that there's these two bad outcomes. One is over democratization and one is over concentration. And what we really want is, you know, the paths to hell are wide and many, and the path to heaven is narrow and steep. It's this very delicate balance of steering. We're not for or against AI, we're for pro steering, you know, and that can include basic things like liability, so that companies are liable for the harms that they create, just like you would want any externalities to be owned on the balance sheet. And so they're incentivized to not have caused the problem. And you can have things like whistleblower protections in advance of the fact that the government doesn't have a lot of people, as you said, the octogenarians that are in Congress and don't understand the issues, we can have more protections from people inside the company.
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Glenn Beck
So hang on just a second. Hang on just a second. So here's one of the things that they didn't understand. And when some of those people were talking about, well, then we're going to pass new laws, I said, those laws, by the time you get them written, it will be a whole new set of problems. It's moving so fast. I mean, we are. We're so far behind, you know, and those sound like, I mean, we're doing. We're doing. Honestly, it's almost as if we are as unmoored as the Nazi scientists who are like, I don't know, let's inject some blue into people's eyes. I mean, it's insane what we're doing, and there doesn't seem to be any way to stop it because everybody is going to have it and our enemies are going to have it.
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Marc Andreessen
Yes, but I mean, as you're saying, I do agree that it's insane. We've allowed ourselves to get this far, you know, a short way of saying it is software is eating the world. Actually, Marc Andreessen said that. Yeah, but AI is now eating software.
- [120:52]
Glenn Beck
Right.
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Marc Andreessen
And we have no rules and no for software nor AI. So it's like the Wild west is eating the world. We used to have protections around children in media. What can you show them on Saturday morning? We used to have protections around, you know, what kinds of things can go on the airwaves from the fcc. But when software and AI, the world, all of those protections and the spirit of the law go out the window. And as you said, it is moving very, very quickly. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing that we can do. There's still a spectrum of outcomes ahead of us, and we have to choose to get to the less bad of those of those outcomes.
- [121:26]
Glenn Beck
Okay, so what should we be pushing for?
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Marc Andreessen
Well, as we said, you know, I think of it like belts and suspenders. It's a whole set of things that we need to get to a better future. So one is actually just on the argumentative side. You were just mentioning China, as we both know. I would say the number one reason why we're not regulating or doing something about this is because we're saying, well, we'll stifle innovation compared to China. Right? But it turns out the biggest accelerant to China's AI progress has been American AI companies, specifically Facebook or metas AI model called Llama has been cited to be the number one accelerant of China's progress. And so the first thing is getting clear that to the degree we're in a race, we're in a race to get to a stable future. And right now, we're building a future like we played the game Jenga, if you remember that your family. It's like we're adding these amazing new things at the top of the stack, like new cures to cancer. But we pulled out a fundamental building block in society, which is now anybody can make dangerous things with biology because that's what enabled the new cures to cancer we make. At the very top of the Jenga tower, we add the ability for anybody to make AI art, but in doing so, we pulled out a fundamental block of now no one knows what's true or real. And so, yes, we're in a race with China, but we're in a race to have actually a stable and integrated future. So it's a race for who can better govern this technology, not who has the power in a way that self undermines you.
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Glenn Beck
Tristan, I'm out of time, and I always am with you. I would love to have you back maybe before the holiday or right after, whatever will fit into your schedule, to spend more time with you on what's right around the corner, what's already here that parents and all of us should be aware of, and more of the. Because I read this stuff and I see this stuff, and, you know, I've been talking about it since the 90s, and it. To me, it just feels overwhelming that it's here and nobody's done anything about it. And. And I'm on the opposite end of most people, I think they don't even know about most of this stuff yet, and what's right around the corner. And. And I appreciate your point of view that we still have time. We can still do things.
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Marc Andreessen
It's obviously getting slim, but we can still emphasize that, you know, to policymakers, senators, the new administration, the new surgeon general, we need to know about and act on these harms. And Glenn, thank you so much always for letting me give it a chance to talk about this.
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Glenn Beck
Tristan, thank you. I hope to have you on again soon. Thank you. God bless. All right, let me tell you about Relief Factor. Keith lives in Washington. He wrote in about his experience with Relief Factor. He says, I'm 51 years old. I've always been extremely active. But a while back, things started to change. Hit 50, he said my body was, it felt like it was just wearing out. And I heard on the radio about relief Factors, so I gave it a try. Wow. I have little to no pain in my knees now and I highly reduce the pain in my neck. Keith, great to hear. I've been trying to reduce the pain in my neck with Relief Factor, but I think I have to just fire Stu to make that happen. Relief Factor is a daily supplement that helps your body fight the pain by fighting inflammation, which is the source of most of our pain in our bodies and a lot of our disease. It's 100% drug free, developed by doctors to help reduce or eliminate pain. Over a million people have tried Relief Factor's quick start and 70% of them have gone on to order it again and again. So stop masking your pain and start fighting back naturally. Give Relief Factor a try. Right now they're three week quick start, 1995, less than a dollar a day. Visit relief factor.com or call 1-800-for relief 1-800-the number four relief. The Glenn Beck program. Glenn's newsletter is free and full of useful info delivered every day right to your inbox. Sign up@glenn beck.com Old Mr. Kringle is soon gonna jingle the bells away. Well, it's been an interesting show. I started out, they started out so optimistic and wow, that just kind of went down the old crapper. However, however, I think if you actually listen to today's show, you might want to start with hour two and end with hour three. I know some in the central time zones, some of our stations do that. You're about to hear hour one in central time zones and it's the right answer because. Well, just listen. If you've missed any bit of the show today, make sure you go back to our number one and listen to it because it is the answer. The problem with AI is Stu is saying when we got off the air. That Jenga thing is so bright. We keep stacking these really good things on top, but we are taking Jenga pieces out from the foundation. But we're not actually pulling them out, we're allowing them to be pulled out. We've weakened the. Our foundation is rotted because we don't recognize the principles. That is the basic, fundamental, eternal building blocks of societies. I'm convinced if we could fix and re resement our cornerstones and find our principles again, we can weather anything. But we're children playing with matches, gasoline and nitroglycerin. The Glenn Beck program.