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Glenn Beck
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If you feel like you're a normal Democrat and you're not for Mao and Marxism and loads and loads of bodies of death because of communists, you better wake up. You've better wake up because you have in your own party you have Maoist communists and the democratic socialists of America. Remember, it was socialists of America because nobody wanted to say they were communists and even with the socialists, they were like, well, no, not really. This is 20 years ago now. They are all in. They are now doing a campaign, Free Elias Rodriguez and all political prisoners. So the guy that, what was it, last week, went and shot two Jews on the street who were just leaving a symposium on how they could help the people of. Of of Gaza. They come out and this guy shoots what is going to be a husband and a wife a week later, shoots this couple cold blood in the street and then says, free Palestine. Okay? And he's fine with it. He has no problem. Yeah, I did it. In fact, as she was crawling away, trying to get away, he takes the time because he's out of bullets, he reloads his gun so he can finish the job. Okay, this guy's a monster. Just a monster. So what is happening now? Uh, well, the Democratic Socialists of America, you know, think he's pretty neat. So in addition to his activism on Israel, he is also in favor of, and I'm quoting, the genocide of white people. Let me quote him here. Uh, lol. You'd probably have to actually genocide white people to make this a normal country. Like even a very targeted and selective rehabilitation program would probably lead to the lifetime imprisonment of tens of millions of white people. The Liberation Caucus wrote excellent statement and we are fr. We are proud to add our name to the Free Elias Rodriguez and all political prisoners campaign, the Democratic Socialists. This holds especially true for those of us struggling behind enemy lines inside the US an entity that is equal party. In all crimes committed by the Zionists, there must be consequences for genocidal Zionist imperialism. And those consequences are righteous. Do you see what's happening, Democrats? Now you can say all you want, well, I'm not a Democratic Socialist. I'm not a Maoist. You have Maoist in your ranks. And I don't know if you know this, but they don't always play by their rules. In fact, what they do is they gain control. And if. Let me ask you, how many people have a differing opinion on anything now in the Democratic Party, what happened to those people? They were run out of the party. Okay. And that's when you were still denying that they were democratic socialists in your party, that you know, and. And radical revolutionaries that were running the party, you were still in denial of that. Now they were chased out. Now you have people coming right out and saying, yeah, you'd probably have to round up, you know, tens of millions of white people and rehabilitate or just genocide them to make this a decent country. And that guy has a democratic socialist standing with him and saying he's a political prisoner for shooting two people in the streets. And these are the same people in your own party that are now fine with a shooting of a CEO in the streets. Do you see what's happening? Do you see how you're going to lose control of this? You, I think you already have. But for anybody who thinks, you know, MA is neat, you might want to crack a book. To his followers, this guy is a revolutionary God, a beacon of hope for a classless utopia. Yeah, really. Really. How about that river of blood that he set loose in China? The millions of lives drown in that blood in the name of his ideology. This is, this is, this is not just history. The Mao history, the communist history. This isn't just history that you look at and you watch it as a documentary, although strangely, nobody seems to have a problem with the communists. It's all about the Nazis. The Nazis were bad. And why do we watch those things? Because they were so evil. But Mao made Hitler look like a rookie. Quite frankly, so did Stalin. We watch those documentaries because we're fascinated, strangely, I think, by evil and how they did all of the things. But we also watch them so we can see and go, oh, I see what that is. Hey, wait a minute, isn't that, Aren't those seeds being planted again? Yes, they are. And if you care to learn history, you will see that they are being planted again. It's an alarm bell, you know, when you have a single man's dream that, that the followers are just die hard believers and say the ends justify the means. See, this is, this is a difference between Donald Trump, he's got a very bold vision, but the ends don't justify the means. I'm sorry, you can't just, you can't just round people up, you can't just silence them because that's, that's what Mao did. That's what Mao did. You don't silence people, you don't round them up. This, this is what the democratic socialists and the people of their ilk are all saying now. And this is what, this is what happens. This is what leads to the butchering of millions. In 1958, Mao had his great leap forward, a plan he said was going to rocket us to modernity. We're going to outshine the west. We're going to have prosperity. And I care about the little people, I care about the peasants, and we're going to make steel flow like rivers and grain pile high as mountains. And it's going to be neat. It's inspiring. Except Mao didn't know how to make steel, and Mao didn't. Mao didn't know how to grow any rice. He wasn't a farmer either. He wasn't an engineer. He was a madman. And so what he did is he took the, you know, the communist ideals and he put people into communes and private land was seized and every peasant was turned into a cog in his grand machine. But he did it in the name of the peasants. Okay, uh, backyard furnaces sprouted like weeds, churning out useless, brittle iron. And people starve because all the fields laid fallow. Okay, grain. Oh, it was harvested, but not for the people. Any grain that they did do, remember, he was for the little people. What he did is he exported all of the grain and the rice and everything else elsewhere so he could look like a global titan, so he could improve his image. Meanwhile, because he was so terrifying, the local officials started, you know, saying, oh, no, we. We've grown all kinds of. They were faking all of the crop numbers because they didn't. They didn't want to get held responsible for anything and end up in a camp or death. So what happens? Starvation. Parents were boiling grass to feed their children. This is 15 to 45 million people. That's not a statistic. That is a mountain of corpses, river of blood. And it all came from Mao. 1966. He does now. The Cultural Revolution. That one didn't work. But don't worry, this one will. Now. He's older, he's paranoid, he's drunk on power. He decides China's not pure enough. Oh, wait a minute. Hang on just a second. Like, maybe America's not pure enough. Maybe we have to round up and re educate people. I'm sorry, what did Rodriguez say? Oh, yeah, it was round up people and reeducate them or do a genocide on them. He wanted to get rid of capitalists because they were the ones that were holding China back, not him. So he unleashes the Red Guards. This is not a military. This is just fanatics. They're kids barely out of school who have read his Little Red Book like it was the Bible. They were just believers. They're not soldiers. But they were all ready to die for him. And he uses them and he points them like a dagger into the hearts of teachers and artists and party officials. Nobody is safe. Nobody is safe. It's a way to get revenge on anybody. So they're beaten in the streets, they're paraded in dunce caps. They're Sent to labor camps. People are allowed to stone them in the streets. And children have to deny their own parents or they face the same. They burn books. Nobody. How come nobody talks about the book burning of Ma? No, no, no. We just have. We just. We just really like Ma. We just really think he's good. How? How? In what way? How? Well, at revolutionary spirit, you know, he had a dream of a utopia and it didn't work out that time. Yeah, it never works out. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever works out. Never works out. I mean, he's inspired how many revolutions? China, Cambodia. There are the killing Fields. That one was really good. Nepal, Peru, brutal death, 70,000 dead. India, brutal death. Philippines, brutal death, 40,000 deaths there. Vietnam, well, that was a mixed one. It wasn't fully Maoist. And Ho Chi Minh, you know, he drew on Mao's tactics, but it wasn't. I mean, victory brought unification. Yeah, of course there was that famine, uh, and the repression that killed thousands of people. But that, that one was kind of mixed. Zimbabwe, that was mixed. I mean, you know, it ended white rule, but then Mugabe, you know, he starved his people, killed his people, stole from his people. Economic collapse. But that one's kind of mixed. Laos, brutal death. Bhutan, brutal death. So, out of all the Maoist revolutions, let's say 10. How many of them led to Utopia? Zero. How many led to brutal death and starvation? If I'm being really generous, 7 out of 10. Because I have to count Zimbabwe, Vietnam and Nepal as a mixed result. 7 out of 10 times. Rivers of blood, starvation, purges, endless conflict. Okay, why? Why does it always end that way? Because somebody says the ends justify the means. Somebody says, well, these people are not as important as the other. These people are the ones standing in the way, and the ends justify the means. It's just collateral damage. So, my, my, my question is for Democrats. When are you going to learn from history? When will you learn from history? When will you start saying, you know what? If you believe in Mao, I can't stand with you. What was it the Beatles say? You're watching your. What is it? Walking around with signs of Chairman Mao? Well, no one will listen to you any. I mean, this is the same story over and over and over again. What's the end game? Where's the proof that any of that works? Because I can show you it doesn't work. Where's your proof that it does work? What's the difference this time? It just wasn't done fast enough. You didn't kill enough people. You know, you didn't starve enough people. What, what is. 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Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
You know, everybody talks about freedom, but if you're drowning in debt, if your mortgage is bleeding, you dry every single month and freedom starts to feel like a fairy tale. The truth is most people never got a real financial education. They took out loans because that's what everybody said to do. And now the interest rates are crushing them and they're. And people feel like there's no way out. Well, there is a way out. And it starts with a simple 10 minute phone call to American Financing. This is a family owned mortgage company. They are not working for the banks. They work for you. So they listen and they help you take control of your money. And they've been doing it for over 20 years. And they don't sell you a loan that doesn't make any sense. They look at the whole picture. They work to help find a way out of debt faster, often without resetting, you know, any of your loan terms or anything else. You'll be able to skip a couple of payments if you have a house, lower your rate, even free up hundreds of dollars a month. The average is saving, I think $836. That's just from this audience. That's how much the average person is saving just by calling American Financing. American Financing.net American Financing.net 800-9062-440800-90624 40American Financing.net 10 seconds. Station ID. You know, let me show you, let me show you a couple of things. First of all, let's go with the Nashville Democratic, the Democrat mayor, he's now doxing ICE agents. Okay. Why? Why? He says the release of the names of ICE agents was just a mistake. DHS says there's zero chance it was a mistake. Okay, this is Freddie o' Connell and he's now doxed ice and he is in trouble because he's also, they claim, using funds to help the illegals avoid ice. All right, well, that's breaking the law, isn't it? Yes, but the ends justify the means. See, it's, it starts in little ways. How about this guy? Did you hear the story About. What's his name? Calvin Polachek. I think he has. He's a. He's a huge anti gun activist and he has talked about how he survived a 2017 active shooter situation at Dallas High School. Killed his brother, best friend, nine others. The only problem is, didn't happen. Excuse me. Did you see this story, Stu?
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, yeah. I was fascinated to see because I saw the headline. Is it one of those things where there was a shooting scare and luckily maybe people survived or his brother was shot in a different shooting and he exaggerated it? I mean, I can't. It seems to be. And this is a Dallas township in Pennsylvania, not Dallas, the city in Texas, but Dallas township released a statement. They're like, not only did this not happen, there wasn't any shooting at all. And there has never been a shooting in this school district at any point ever. It wasn't like it was another year. He was referring to something else. It's gotten. No mass shootings have occurred that look anything like this in the township.
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Glenn Beck
So what would possess somebody to do this? Either insanity, stupidity, or just the ends justify the means. I can lie. I can do whatever I want because the ends justify the means. We now have 200 Democrats, 200 Democrats that now say, yeah, I knew that Joe, Joe Biden was incompetent. And I, you know, I didn't say anything. We have 200 Democrats that now claim while people were being called all kinds of names, while people's lives were being destroyed, while the guy with a nuclear football was eating pudding and drooling on himself, you have 200 hundred Democrats now openly admitting, yeah, I knew that. I just didn't say anything. Why? Because the ends justify the means. We'll put this guy in. Don't worry, we'll figure out, doesn't matter what the law is, doesn't matter what the Constitution says, doesn't matter that this is actually a violation of democracy. It doesn't matter. The ends justify the means. You cannot go down that road. You cannot go down that road. And Democrats, you are about to be eaten by radical revolutionaries. Look out. This is Glenn Beck. All right, right now we basically have one chance to write the economic ship. Uh, and if we're being honest, the odds are, you know, nobody's done this before. We've printed trillions of dollars. We piled up debt that no one, no one left, right or center seemed to be willing to touch at all. And if you think interest rates are high now, just wait until the next crisis hits. The dollar is being devalued. It's, it's, the world is unstable, quietly moving away from the U.S. you know, as the global standard. So you know what's going to happen? Well, you know, maybe miracles because we've seen them before. But we have to get serious and we have to get serious about as individuals where our money is. And for a lot of that people, a lot of people mean that means moving a portion of it, a portion of it into something real like physical gold or silver. Lear Capital has been helping Americans protect their savings now for over 25 years. And they make it really simple to transfer a portion of your retirement in, into precious metals, even inside of an existing IRA. Please hedge your bet with physical gold. Call now. 800957 gold. 800957 gold.
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Stu Burguiere
If you want to get a link to every story we talk about every day, the best place is the free email newsletter. You can sign up now@glenn beck.com.
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Glenn Beck
You know, for Democrats, if you don't think you're playing with communism or socialism, talk to the people in Washington state. Talk to anyone who is sane in Washington state. I'll give you his number. But they are going to full fledged communism, Marxism. You have, you have every giant corporation now moving out of the Seattle area in Washington state because they're going to, I'm telling you, they're going to go to wealth confiscation. They're going to do it. There is a place, Lake Washington is, you know, by Bellevue, in between Bellevue and Seattle. And it is beautiful. It is just the most beautiful place you've ever seen. And this is where Bill Gates and everybody else and when I was a kid, it was, it was not like that. It was, you know, there were still normal people that live there. And now you can't even get close to it. And there's this place in the middle of the lake and it's called Hunts Point. And it is where, you know, these are 60 to $100 million houses and they're not necessarily fancy. They just happen to be in an area where there's not very much land. And it is the place to live if you like water and you're living right on the water and it's just spectacular. It used to be that when a place would go up for sale, even when I was a kid on Hunts Point, it would never last. Okay? They'd never come up for sale. People that, they wouldn't want to sell it because you couldn't replace it. You couldn't get anything like it. And so they would they would come up for sale and they'd be gone before anybody would even know. I am told by a friend who knows that area quite well that I think he said 17 homes in Hunts Point are up for sale. 17. And some of them have been up for sale now for over a year. And there are no buyers. All of these people are trying to get out of Washington state, and nobody's buying their home because nobody. You're going to. Are you going to buy that? Hey, rich person, where are you going to move from? You're going to move to Washington? No, Washington. The property values are going to start plummeting, and you've got crazy people, not only crazy people all around you. I'm telling you, I grew up in Washington state. I grew up listening to, you know, hippies and everything else. My, you know, my friends and I remember going to a friend's house and we were standing on our front porch and, you know, we were. This is the Alex P. Keaton days. And not politically, but just, I mean, I guess a little politically. But my friends, not all my friends, you know, greed with Reagan. But we didn't talk politics. It was just, you know, we weren't hippies. And I remember standing on a front porch, and my friend was going to open up her front door. She had her hand on the doorknob, and she. Before she opened it, she turned to me and she said, I really apologize. My folks are probably in the living room getting stoned. Just never mind. We were the adults, and we opened up the door, and I'm like, I get it. And open up the door. And there they are getting stoned in the. And they're like, hey, kids, what's going on? I mean, that's where I grew up, okay? And it was crazy back then. And there's these people that believe in this thing called Cascadia, which is a communist state. Just get out of America. Start a new communist country called Cascadia. And it is Washington, Oregon. And I think they want parts of Idaho. Thank God Idaho hasn't gone nuts yet. But that's what's coming. That's what they want. And you see people like, you know, the mayor of Seattle. Do you see what happened in Seattle over the weekend, Stu, where there was this. Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
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Stu Burguiere
A little bit. You're talking about the. The mayor and this. This accusation going on.
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Glenn Beck
No, no, no. The. No, no, no. The Christian. The. The. The Christians that had a revival out in a park, and all of these revolutionaries came. They were threatening them. The police came and Shut down the Christians. And they deemed the Christians the police against their will, I think. But under the direction of the mayor, shut down the Christians, excused all the radical revolutionaries, and said, you know, it's the Christians here that are causing all the ruckus. I mean, it was. It's crazy. What's going on. Well, now, what you were talking about is the scandal that's going on with Bruce Harrell. He's the mayor of Seattle. Who. Who is the mayor of Seattle? Who is this guy? Okay. Well, he's just like you. Well, I mean, just like you. If you had been arrested in 96 for brandishing a firearm over a parking space in 1996, this. This has been out for a while. He was a young attorney, and he was. Had just been appointed to the. The housing Authority board in, I think, Council Bluffs, Iowa. And he was at a casino, and he was pulling up to a parking space. And this other couple in their family, it's a husband, wife, a mom and somebody else, they pull up and they pull into the parking space, and he gets pissed off, and they say he pointed a gun at them and they were afraid for their lives. He admitted at the time to say, yeah, I had my gun, but I wasn't pointing it at him. What are you doing just showing it to them? Hey, I just. I'm so proud of my gun. I just want you to see that's called brandishing a firearm. Okay? You can't do that. It's against the law. Well, the charges, you know, fall apart or whatever. And so he's. He's charged with it, but he. He's not convicted of it. Nobody says anything. Well, it comes up again recently, and now he's saying, no, that I didn't have a gun. They mistook my watch for a gun. Now, I'm a. I'm a watch guy. I'm a watch collector. I like watches, and I have some big watches, but I've never had anyone at any airport or on the street go, oh, my gosh, you've got a gun strapped to your wrist? No, I. It's never happened. Has that ever happened to you, Stu, where you're like, that guy's got a gun on his wrist. And you realize, no, it's just actually a watch.
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Stu Burguiere
A watch. Well, you're talking about the watch gun.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, I try not to wear that at night because people do make that mistake.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. I mean, besides the watch gun. Right. You know what I mean? Besides that watch. Okay, so that's his excuse now when it's brought up. He's like, no, I didn't have. He said at the time he did, but he wasn't pointing it at him. Now he says, no, they mistook that for a watch. Ends justify the means. I mean, if you're going to. If you're going to elect radicals, if you're going to elect people that don't, you know, they just don't care about the law, the Constitution, you know, they don't care. Well, you know, well, people just say anything now.
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Stu Burguiere
There's no even attempt to come up with stories that even sound real. No, because basically, like. And if you think about it, there's some pragmatic sense to it in our current day, which is like, in reality, like, what's gonna happen is the people who already liked you are gonna support you no matter what you say. And I just. They just. You might as well just say something and everyone's gonna like, nod along and say, well, yes, I like his other policies or I want him to succeed. So therefore, I believe his gun watch story.
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Glenn Beck
Right. Who is the guy? Is it Jesse Smollett?
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Does it say his name? Yeah, he's still saying that it was, you know, he was targeted. Still saying it.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. No, there's no consequence for any of this.
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Stu Burguiere
No, it's true. I mean, we talked a little bit off the air a few minutes ago about. This is the sort of conversation we have, which is the WNBA and the situation with Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, where, you know, again, these are two basketball players, one white, one black. The white player fouled the black player. There's some sort of rivalry that seems to be basically one way from Angel Reese toward Caitlin Clark. Caitlin Clark walks away. Angel Reese freaks out. Angel Reese's team lost by like 30 points in the game afterwards. She's doing her press conferences. And of course, as you 100% can just fill in the blank, even if you know nothing about this story, claim that there was racism, that was the reason why all of this happened. And there was people in the stands yelling racial slurs at her. She says this to a press conference. It's a major controversy. Everybody's talking about it. They're batting it back and forth. What does this mean? Can you believe this? Full investigation launched. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, remember, this is not. This doesn't happen in the woods. This doesn't happen, like, under a bridge.
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Glenn Beck
You know.
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Stu Burguiere
You know, in Madagascar somewhere. This happens on a. In an arena where that's being televised. So, of course, there are hundreds of fans around the area where this was supposedly going to happen. There were dozens of employees around this area. There were cameras and microphones everywhere. Of course they do the investigation. Of course, no one can find any evidence that if this happened at all. No one can find one example of this occurring. And then the end of the story is not a massive controversy about how this player could be falsely accusing all of these people that are fans of the other team of being racist and manufacturing claims of racial slurs? No, no. The story is a two paragraph statement from the wnba. Hey, we looked into it, couldn't find anything. No follow ups from, no follow ups from any of the journalists who were concerned about it at the time. They just, we just all move on.
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Glenn Beck
And why no follow up on the investigation of how that began? Who started those charges? What are they gonna, are they gonna pay a price for starting those charges? Shouldn't they. And didn't I see that very player sitting on the bench talking about white girls? Oh, yeah, well, that's the, in a derogatory way. Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
Hard to see many conversations without that phrase used.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
From that particular player.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, well, what about the racism there? I mean, it's just, it, it doesn't, it doesn't seem to matter anymore. The truth doesn't matter anymore. You know, I, I, somebody said to me the other day, have you seen that Donald Trump is now saying that if you're working for the government, you have to go through, I think it's 100 hour class on the Constitution. And somebody said, well, wait a minute, I don't want that, I don't want that because I don't want them doing that with dei. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The Constitution is the owner's manual. And right now we have a bunch of people that are trying to put our country together. And they've never read the instructions. And you know, it's like, it's, it's like our country came from Ikea. And you know, I can build this. I'll just put it together and it's being built upside down. The legs are in the wrong place. It's never, and you've got like 47 screws left over at the end. Okay, read the instructions. Okay. They're not in Swedish, they're in English. Read the instructions. This, this I think is one of the best things that the president has done so far. You want to work in the, you want to work in the administration, you want to work for the government, Good. You got to go take a course on the Constitution of the United States. Because that's the owner's manual and there's no excuse. Oh, I didn't know that that was in the cause. I didn't know we couldn't do that. Even though they're not even saying that. They're now saying 200 people, Democrats are now saying, yeah, I knew that he was. I knew that he was gone. But, you know, we. We couldn't lose the election. Wow. I think you need a refresher on the Constitution because none of that is part of our country. None. None of that. There's no place in the Constitution that allows that.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah. One of the ways, it's interesting they talk about that in the book of those decisions being made. Right. Why would you hide this from the American people? Like, how could you justify that? And you know, it is exactly what.
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Glenn Beck
You'Re saying and justify the means.
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Stu Burguiere
Right. And they said that one of the reasons why, especially the really close group around the Bidens, including the family and some of these advisors, basically said, number one, Donald Trump is, you know, basically Hitler. Right. Like, he's an existential threat and he's the worst thing that could ever happen to us, so we have to do anything to beat him. And the people really close to Biden believed the only person who could beat him was Joe Biden. Now, that part's another part. That's another level of delusion, I suppose, to think that Joe Biden was uniquely qualified for this victory. But he was the only person who did win in an election against him.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Stu Burguiere
So there's some. Maybe some sense to that. But as I think it was Alex Thompson, one of the authors, pointed out, it's like when you. When you exist, when those two things are true, you can justify anything.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Stu Burguiere
Right. Like if you believe Hitler's about to come into power and the only person who believed is this old doddering fool you work with. Well, of course you're gonna justify all.
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Glenn Beck
Of this if you believe that Elon Musk is evil. I can firebomb and terrorize anybody with a Tesla.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
If you believe that global warming is going to wipe the entire Earth out. I can kill anyone with an suv. This is why you can never adopt the ends justify the means. Which is Sol Alinsky. That is the motto now of the Democratic Party. More in just a second. Let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. There's always been a clear mandate in this country about, you know, you know, when your preferences or values run up against the grain of the company you're doing business with. You know, if you don't like it, build your own right. Well, Patriot Mobile took that seriously. They began with a simple idea that Americans deserve a wireless company that shares their values. While the big carriers funnel money into radical Marxist causes and lobby for policies that divide us, Patriot Mobile quietly poured its profits into something far more lasting. American lives. A struggling pro life clinic just given enough just to keep its doors open. A first responder grant that arrived in the nick of time. A school able to stay in independent and open because somebody believed they were worth fighting for. And you can be part of that without sacrificing a single bar of coverage. Patriot Mobile runs on the same networks as the same major providers. They offer excellent customer service and it makes it easy for you to keep your phone number, your phone and your freedom. So make the switch today. Go to patreonmobile.com beck patriotmobile.com Beck or call 972 Patriot 972 Patriot Use the promo code Beck for a free month of service. Patriotmobile.com flashback 972 Patriot Freedom's like a wild horse. If you don't grab the reins every once in a while, you're liable to catch a hoof to the face. And trust me, that ain't pleasant. Beck will be right back after this.
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Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
All right. Welcome to the Lenbeck Program. Elon Musk is leaving service of Washington today. I've got quite a bit to say about that. We'll probably hit that maybe next hour. Also, Mike Lee may be joining us later on the program. We also have Zachary Levi, the Wildwood Studios owner. The actor that is just, he's fantastic. I love him. Is he coming in? I think he's on phone or is he in studio? I can't remember, but he's on the phone. He'll be joining us because, you know, Google's VO3. I don't know if you've been paying attention to what this is doing this week, but is that the end of filmmaking as we know it? I mean, you could type something in and it looks like movie studio quality. If I'm an actor or I'm a filmmaker and I mean, I, I do produce an awful lot of television, it's a little concerning. We'll talk to him about that. Next is Glenn Beck. You know, I don't know about you, but we want to thank Ammo Squared for being our sponsor. If, if you're, if you're like me, you know, there's things that we've already automated, you know, toothpaste, you know, razors, you know, dog food, etc. Etc. It's just automated, comes to the house. But, you know, the one thing we hadn't done until recently was ammo. And I'm part of the Ammo Squared family now. I love this. It's the same subscription model that you use for socks and snacks and dog food, but it's applied to ammunition. You pick the calibers you want, whether it's 9 millimeter, 223, 45, 12 gauge, whatever. You set the budget. And the ammo just shows up every month automatically like clockwork. And they don't just ship ammunition either. They'll. They'll store it for you securely until you need it. So you're not stuffing boxes under your bed like you're smuggling gold bars from a failed state. But that's a different story. It's smart, it is simple, and it means you'll never get caught in a shortage, wondering, why did I buy all of that toilet paper and more and not more boxes of ammo when I had the chance? This is the easiest Way to stay prepared. I want you to go to ammo squared.com ammo squared.com and take the work out of buying ammo. 100,000 members including me. Thousands of five star ratings. They all can't be wrong. And they're not. Amosquared.com Check them out today. Ammo squared.com Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. I don't know if you knew this but anyone can get the same Premium Wireless for 15amonth plan that I've been enjoying. It's not just for celebrities. So do like I did and have one of your assistant's assistants switch you to Mint Mobile today. I'm told it's super easy to do@mintmobile.com Switch upfront payment of $45 for 3 month plan equivalent to $15 per month required. Intro rate first 3 months only then full price plan options available, taxes and fees extra. See full terms@mintmobile.com.
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Stu Burguiere
Sam.
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Glenn Beck
Down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get down Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire. The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. We have had incredible crazy, crazy leaps in AI this just this week. And if I were an actor, if I were a director, you know, I made film, I would be refreshing my my skills and also maybe my resume. What Google released this week, is it going to put the industry out of business? I don't know as I'm not in that business but it doesn't look good. Zachary Levi, he is the studio owner of Wildwood Studios and he's with us. He's actor. You've seen a lot of his movies and love him. He's been worried about this for a long time. Now Google VO3 is here. What does it mean? We're going to talk to him in just a second. Stand by. First let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour that makes this half hour with limited commercial interruption and it is the international fellowship of Christians and Jews. I want you to imagine this happening in your own hometown on a daily basis. You you wake up to sirens. You get to the bomb shelter if you have one. You're crowded in the little one with your family or if you're a bomb shelter you got to share with a of bunch people. It's crowded. Cold windows in your children's school are all taped for the shattering glass. Grocery store shelves are often empty. Power is unstable. Sometimes you go without water because the infrastructure was targeted. Again you teach your kids how to run for cover in under 20 seconds and you end each night with a question, will you be spared tomorrow? This is what life is like for so many people in Israel right now. And your gift of only $45 will help support their life saving work at the IFCJ by helping provide food, shelter and so much more. Bible says, you know, I will bless those who bless you. Supporting IFCJ is a spiritual stand, is showing up for God's people when it really counts. They can fight their own wars, but I want to make sure that they're not left alone and I want to make sure that we support them in every way we can. 888488 IFCJ 888488 IFCJ. Every single dollar helps. Don't wait, be the difference. Go to IFCJ.org that's IFCJ.org or 888488 IFCJ. Zachary Levi is with us. Hi Zach, how are you?
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C
Hey, good morning, Glenn. I'm doing all right, man. How you doing?
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Glenn Beck
I'm really good. I, but I'm not in your business. How concerned are you by what Google released this week?
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C
I mean, I'm very concerned. I mean, you and I talked about this when I came on your show last and I hate to sound like a doomer and gloomer, but this is something I've been foreseeing for a really long time. I've been banging this drum for a really long time and trying to wake people up and say, hey, listen, technology, it moves exponentially. This is one of the things that I think most people just don't understand, whether it's people in my industry or other industries. And might I say, yes, this is knocking on the doorstep of entertainment right now. But understand that AI is knocking on the doorstep of all of our industries, your industry, radio, everything in entertainment, anything that can be recorded and, and broadcast. But every industry we are, I mean, there are huge experts in many fields that say within a year, two years, certainly within five years, every white collar job will be gone and a lot of blue collar jobs are going to be right behind that. Because you have to recognize that AI is not just moving exponentially, but also humanoid robots. And the development of humanoid robots is developing exponentially. And exponential growth is something that people just don't understand. Most people see growth as, you know, kind of just multiplicative, meaning like, okay, every year it gets twice as good. No, no, no, it doesn't get twice as good. Every year it gets 10 times as good and then it gets a hundred times as good and then a Thousand times as good and so on and so forth. And so years ago I was telling people, guys, if what we have right now, you know, like for example, two years ago AI was generating images and you know, but you know, humans had six fingers. And so people said, ah, this is schlock.
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Glenn Beck
Look at this.
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C
You know, this is never going to get good. They can't even get the amount of fingers right on people's hands. I said, yeah, yeah, right now it can't. Right now it cannot do that. But six months later it did. Six months after that you had video and now you've got video with audio that is almost indiscernible as you've been seeing with these new examples. It's almost indiscernible now. People say, yeah, but I can still tell. I go, yeah, right now you can. But six months from now, a year from now, two years from now, we're.
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Glenn Beck
Going to take the world?
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C
No, probably not even that long. No. And so people have got to wake up. And so for people in my industry, I think that, yes, we should all be very, very concerned, but everyone should be very concerned. And it's not even just, you know, like, for example, yes, this could very much replace my job. This is partly why I am building Wildwood Studios in Austin, Texas. It has always been, this is a 25 year plus calling that God has put on my life to create a better Hollywood, to give artists a better life, a better work life balance, to give audiences better content. These are all things that we've deserved for a really long time. But AI is really the kind of, I think, most galvanizing, galvanizing force in all of this. Because if we don't do something about it, if we don't hold the line, if we don't build the ark, which is really kind of what I've always felt on my life. I felt this kind of Noah calling on my life that God's like, hey, listen, a flood is coming. It's not going to be water. It's going to be something entirely different. And that is this, AI. And if, and if you can build the ark, then you can at least save as many of those jobs two by two as you can. But if you don't build the ark, then the flood just wipes everything out.
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Glenn Beck
And so go ahead, let me, let, let me interrupt you on that because I believe, I mean, I'm developing some things with AI and I've been on this for a very long time as well. And I believe you're absolutely right that you have to get, you know, you have to get into a boat because floods are coming. However, you have to, you can't dismiss it. You have to, I think, use some of the skills that it has in a positive way. Because I think it could, it will enhance. As long as you don't surrender to it, it will enhance what you can do. So are you talking about, you know, building something that has no use for AI and it's just this island, or are you saying that we'll use it, but we'll use it in ethical ways and we'll never allow it to become the master? We will always use it as a tool.
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C
Yes, that's exactly right. So I'm a firm believer, and have been for many years, that, you know, philosophically you cannot stop progress, you can only hope to guide it. That is the bottom line.
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Glenn Beck
Right, right.
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C
So it would be folly to look at new technology that by the way is going to do some really cool things in this world. Example being we're at the brink of nearly having our EarPods. You know, Apple I think will start, but other companies will be right behind it. If not simultaneously, we'll have real, real time language translation. It's going to happen, it's happening very, very soon now. That's incredible. That's something that as a human race we've all been wanting really since, I mean, since I guess the Tower of Babel. Right? The ability for all of us to be able to communicate across the world, no language barriers whatsoever. That is huge. That's a huge leap forward for mankind. Now that's going to absolutely displace what is a smaller, let's say, industry of translators, right? It's not. There are many translators in the world, but it's not the biggest industry, let's say. And I feel for those people and I think we have to be very conscious about trying to re home them in other jobs. But you always have to ask yourself, is the juice worth the squeeze? Is it ultimately worth it for the betterment of all of us? Right. So I don't think that we can't embrace AI, we must embrace AI, but we must do it in as ethical a way as possible and be mindful of what is it doing, how is it disrupting and how is it displacing jobs? Because that's the only thing that we can do now when it comes to entertainment, there's going to be all kinds of ways that we can implement AI to make the process more efficient, more enjoyable. And I have every intention of utilizing AI like that. I don't vilify it writ large, but I think that we must be very mindful about how we implement it. In still holding onto human creativity, human art and entertainment is at the brink. But I also believe, with Wildwood example being like, I think that not only is it necessary, you know, to prevent, let's say, the extinction of human art and entertainment, but there's also a market opportunity in this because similar to vinyl, for example, you know, once upon a time, all music, we all listen to vinyl records. That's what it was. And then the cassette tape came out, and everyone said, oh, well, I don't need vinyl anymore. I'm gonna go with these little, you know, rectangular plastic, you know, cassette tapes. And I'm gonna do that. Great. And then the CD came out. Even more people left vinyl. And then streaming, and now even more people have left vinyl. But the people that held on, the people that said, you know what? Yes, everyone is gonna zig, but I'm gonna zag. I'm gonna. I'm gonna hold on to this. I'm gonna keep printing vinyl because I believe that there's something special about it, unique about it. And sure enough, vinyl sales have gone up because people are looking for something that's more human, more tangible, more slightly imperfect, with a little crackle, a little, you know, whatever. Wildwood. That's what we intend to do. We intend to hold on to. We're not. I'm not trying. I can't save the entire industry. That's impossible. But I'm going to try and save as many jobs as I can and in doing so, provide audiences the alternative. And I think a lot of people are going to be looking for that alternative.
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Glenn Beck
So, Zach, I. Because I like you, I've been on this for a long time, and I have put a. A lot of thought into, because my job is, you know, at stake. Everybody's job is up.
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C
Oh, yeah.
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Glenn Beck
And I've always felt, well, there's something special about humans, that we have a different sense to us. But I don't know if you heard there was a study done of, I think a hundred thousand songs and. And they did, you know, what's called hook testing to see which tested the best. The. I think it was seven out of the top 10 were AI. And people didn't know it was AI. Seven out of the top 10. We used to say, AI couldn't, you know, can't. Art can never be done. So what is it that. That you think is going to be unique quickly? I mean, I believe that There is going to be a huge draw back to handmade individual. You know, when, when machines came out and you had factories and they started producing shirts, nobody wanted a homemade shirt. Nobody wanted a handmade shirt. They wanted one that was from the factory. But now handmade is the best of the best. So there's going to be a renaissance, if you will, of handmade and human made stuff. But what is it right now that will bridge this gap that humans can do that you don't think AI can do?
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C
Well, I think that, you know, obviously live performance, that's going to be huge, right? So people in this, in this rebound effect of people saying, ah, you know, it just flooded with ubiquitous AI content, a lot of people are going to say, oh, I want something authentic.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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C
And authenticity is the most important. In fact, there's been studies done where, you know, just from an energy level, like, you know, as humans, we have, we produce an energy when we have various emotions, right? And there's lower energy if you're sad, depressed, angry, and there's higher energies when you're joyful and happy and you feel love. But there's an energy even higher than love as they've tested. And it's authenticity that is the highest energetic level that we can all reach. And so people yearn for that. They really do.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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C
Live performance obviously is going to be that. Sports is going to have a big. A lot of people are, you know, investing in sports and live performance because that is going to hold on the longest, at least as, you know, long. As long as, let's say, you know, robots and holograms, that's going to start to kind of eat into that market a little bit. We'll see how long that goes.
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Glenn Beck
But, but ultimately I have to tell you, may I say, may I say something on that? Have you been to London and seen the ABBA experience?
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C
I, I haven't, but I've, I'm very well aware of it and I've heard it's incredible. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, no, it's, it's, it's beyond incredible. It is my son and I said, I didn't tell my daughter, who was a teenager at the time, you know, 17 years old, that ABBA wasn't really performing. We just didn't tell her. And two songs into it, I said, do you think they're real? Does it look like they're real? And she's like, what are you talking about? And I'm like, that's not real. Those aren't people. And she's like, what are you talking about? And she couldn't believe it. And the first couple of songs, my son, who was probably 18, 17 at the time, kept looking at me going, dad, this changes everything. This is not good. This changes everything. And I mean, everything is about to just turn upside down.
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C
Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's. Yeah, it's already. It's like in front of our eyes. It's happening already.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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C
And, and, and I am not one of those people. Many people that I talk to. You know, a common pushback that I get is people saying, well, it will never be able to fully replicate, let's say, you know, human emotion or, you know, we'll always be able to tell. And I just don't believe that. I mean, I don't believe ourselves. No, we are amalgamations of everything that we've taken in, right? So we're. We are. We ourselves are kind of LLMs. We. We scrape our entire lives. We scrape information from our parents, our community, people around us that, you know, the Internet, whatever, we're learning all the time, and then we are replicating from the things that we learn. AI is doing that, and it's doing it at scale and it's happening exponentially. And we're very, very close to it becoming AGI, general intelligence, which is then just a few steps away from super intelligence. And it will be. Then at that point, it will be more intelligent and more capable than not just any individual human. It will be more capable and more intelligent than the sum of all humanity. So we're stepping into some insane, insane territory. And when you start, you know, powering video agents like Google and others that will. That will keep popping up, it's terrifying to acknowledge that a lot of people just don't. They're kind of burying their head in the sand and saying, no, no, no, no, it won't happen, it won't happen. It's going to happen. At that point, I think that what we have to. And what I'm hoping that Trump and the administration are going to be working on in earnest, is legislation that at the very least requires all content that is AI generated to be watermarked. Right? So that therefore we know we can say, okay, I can't tell the difference, I don't know the difference, but just by looking and listening to it, I can't tell if it's real humans doing this or not. The difference will be that there will be some kind of watermarking that indicates that. And therefore, that is what people are going to be Looking for. In the same way if you go to the supermarket and you're looking at blueberries and these ones on the left look the same as the ones on the right but there's packaging that says these ones on the right are organic. Oh, those are the ones I'm looking for. I want the organic ones that aren't sprayed with glyphosate. I'm trying to make certified organic human made content for free range artists. That is what Wildwood Studios is going to be about. And also at Wildwood Studios we're not just going to be making and really, you know, focusing and dedicated to making human film, television, music and video games but also providing amphitheaters and live performance venues so that it's a one stop shop so people can really know when they go there they support us, they're supporting humans in that process.
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Glenn Beck
Zachary, I appreciate it. Thank you so much. And anything we can do to help you at Wildwood, let me know, please. Zachary Levi, Wildwood Studios owner, actor. He was, you know, know Chuck. He was Shazam. I mean there's a ton of great movies and everything else, so. Zachary Levi, Thanks. All right, Let me tell you about Lear Capital. The world is moving so fast, but if you are paying attention right now, you can see where it's headed. Central banks now are stockpiling gold. Major tech founders are moving into hard assets. I recommend it. Recommended. Recommended. As much as I said things in 2008, I'm telling you we're on the same path right now. Please. Every time there's a new global crisis that erupts, one thing stays constant. Gold goes up. The dollar is losing ground. You're staring down the barrel of a potential recession yet again or possibly worse in the coming days, weeks, months, years. But it's, it's coming. Please don't rely entirely on paper assets or on digital dollars. Please put your, put some of your money in physical gold or silver. Silver is still very affordable for the average person and it's going up as well. So please, physical gold or silver. If you have anything saved for your retirement, find out they can even move it into a current IRA account. Just maybe 10% of what you've saved and worked a lifetime for. Gold or silver right now, before anything else happens. 800-957-Gold. Get your free $4200 gold report. Before it's a history book. It's 800-957-Gold. 800-957- Gold. Ask him about how you can get $15,000 in free gold or silver with qualifying purchase. It's Lear Capital 800957 Gold. 10 seconds. Station ID in case you happen to be watching now on BlazeTV. Let me just play. This is something that Dave Clark just tweeted out. He said created this with Google flow, visual sound, design and voice, all prompted by using a VO3 text to video. Watch this. SUV want.
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Stu Burguiere
No, you stay on my six at all times.
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Glenn Beck
SUV in the dust. Looks like war zone. Absolutely 100% believable.
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Stu Burguiere
Stay sharp.
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Glenn Beck
These are nasty and dangerous. Stay alert. That looks like a little like a game. What the hell happened here? Where are the bodies? Okay, so this is. If you look at this, it absolutely looks like a film. It absolutely looks real. And it's just somebody typing in some props. Suv, black SUV driving in the dust. Middle Eastern village. Nobody's around, guys. Interior of the. I mean, that's all you do. And it turns into that. But I'm not a filmmaker today. All right. You know, many people struggle with pain and they've already tried a dozen different solutions. Some, some turn to painkillers because you just don't. I mean, how else are you going to tolerate all that pain? But it's such a horrible thing. Such a horrible thing. There is, there is one thing if you haven't tried, I so highly recommend its relief factor. Most of our pain is caused from inflammation in our body. In fact, most of our disease is caused by inflammation as well. This is a daily supplement. It was developed by doctors. It was designed to support your body's natural fight against inflammation. Your body has the power to do things, but as we get older, it gets weaker and weaker. And some of our pain comes from straining, from years of exercise, years of abuse, whatever, or just age. But this is a clinically backed formula that thousands of people use every day to stay active, engaged, and to move without constant discovery. Well, no matter how old you are, you're in pain. Try relief factor, please. Reliefactor.com call 800, the number for relief. 800, the number four relief. I take it every day. It's really broke the back of my pain. Reliefactor.com 800, the number four relief.
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Stu Burguiere
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Glenn Beck
Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
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Stu Burguiere
I'm thinking about what Zachary Levi was talking about and we watched that video, which is just a few sentences turned into what is, I don't know, 90% of the way to a feature film, Right? Like, quality wise, there's still a little bit of that uncanny valley gap there that you can kind of see little bit. But it's, you know, a year ago we had a conversation probably on the air where we were saying, gosh, look at this video that was just shown on the Internet. That's AI. It's incredible. Imagine what this is going to be like in a year. I would say this is better than the expectations for most people of what, the whole time of the year.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, it's all going to be that way. That next. What it will do next year, no one can imagine at this point. I don't, I just don't think we have an understanding of the, the true power of the exponential growth that we're getting now. We have no idea. So.
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Stu Burguiere
But I think it's fair to assume from just that projection of what the last year was that we're going to get there.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Stu Burguiere
It's going to be as good or better than what most human beings can actually produce.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. Wait, hang on just a sec. With an exception of. You know who's a great answer to this is Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise does all of his own stunts. So when you see a Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible, and he is, he's actually in the water, in the submarine, rolling down, he's actually in the plane hanging from the edge of it. That's actually him. And there is something to say for that. You know, you can go see all kinds of, you know, all kinds of CGI stuff and it's great and everything else, but eventually just becomes, okay, I've seen it, I've seen it. I've seen it. Every time Tom Cruise is doing something, even though I've seen people hang from airplanes, etc, etc, you know, it's really him actually doing it. It makes it even bigger and better.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I think there is that authenticity that people want. Right?
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
You know, like, for example, there is, there's a few horror movie nerds that work here. And every time one of these movies comes out, they're like, yeah, this is their. Was that a good movie? Well, yeah, the practical effects were blah.
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Glenn Beck
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Stu Burguiere
And like, I, as a person who doesn't care about the production of horror movies, I want to know, is it a good movie? Is it a good story? Was it scary? Whatever you want out of a horror movie. What they want are the fact that they made all these deaths with practical effects instead of cgi.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Stu Burguiere
Like, because they're horror movie nerds.
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Glenn Beck
They're always.
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Stu Burguiere
Will there always be that audience? Like, will there always be that desire for the organic thing he was just.
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Glenn Beck
Talking about vinyl records. Yes, there will always. But that'll be niche. Yeah, here's. Here's what I think. You know, this is not going to affect people like Tom Cruise, Joe. Joe Rogan, anybody who is at the top of their craft. You know, I witnessed this in the 1990s. I got into radio in the 70s. And so by the 1990s, I had established a name for myself, even though it was a bad name at the time, I had established a name for myself and I was good enough to be able to survive the bloodbath that radio became. And I said at the time, I remember I was. I was running several stations for iHeartra, and I said at the time, where are you going to get your farm team? How is that going to, you know, how are you going to replace the people like me? Because there's nobody up and coming. And everybody was saying it's the death of radio. Well, they've been saying it's the death of radio since, you know, in the 70s. But we didn't know. And all of a sudden, while they paired all of those people off, what remained, unfortunately, were just the top of the radio people. Okay, those guys did very well and continued on, but they cut everything else out because there was no farm club. Now, we never saw podcasting coming. Podcasting is the farm team. But now that you are getting AI and ASI and AGI, when this really hits, and it's going to hit soon, 90% of your podcasts are going to be done by AI. And you won't know the difference. Really. You will. I mean, if people are unscrupulous, you should always know what the difference is. But you look at people like Joe Rogan, people, you know, hopefully like me, that have established themselves as real human beings and are at the top of their game and have something real to offer, those people will remain. I don't know what happens to the farm club. You know what I mean?
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I think that's a real problem, and it's not just in broadcasting. By the way, if you want. If you want to see Glenn at the top of his game, I encourage you to go to X.com StudiosAmerica and look at the latest baby video that.
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Glenn Beck
No, that's not necessary.
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Stu Burguiere
He really is at the top of his game.
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Glenn Beck
I think that's how I just all AI.
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Stu Burguiere
But I think this is every industry right now. I was listening to somebody describe the legal field right now. And you will know I am not a lawyer by the way I describe this. But what do you do, how do you develop the next crop of great lawyers? Well, people come out of college, they go to law school, they come into legal firm, they're at the bottom doing basic tasks, they're looking things up, they're producing basic documents. All that stuff is already being done by AI in a lot of places. So now that experience of development is really hollowed out. So how do industries go on when that process is so easily done by AI?
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Glenn Beck
This is something that really concerns me because we already have a class system in the world that is getting worse and worse. Okay, you know, you look at, you look at companies, the top of their game. Let's Ferrari, Rolls Royce, whatever. You know, it used to be that they were making a $200,000 car, you know, and it was like everybody's like, wow, it's a $200,000 car. You know, Rolls Royce, if you go into a Rolls Royce showroom, their cars, you know, anywhere from 400 to $900,000. Okay. Rolls Royce doesn't look at that as a great car. That's their entry model. They kind of look down their nose at those cars because what they really build are $20 million cars. They may build, buy. They only build them for like 10 people around the world or 50 people around the world. But that's what they're doing. I think it was Ferrari that I just read is doing. They're doing these one offs and they're all in the millions of dollars. Okay, well what you look at what's happening, we are, we are getting a class of upper, upper, upper class. And so many companies are now looking at, well, I'm going to serve that instead of serving, you know that. And people, you know that, that are normal human beings, everybody's pushing up because the money is, is so big up at the top. You're, you now will also have these, this class of people that are accomplished and good and rock solid. When this changes though, some of those people will shake out and they'll be destroyed. Others will survive this, but they'll be. Then again in another class of people, we're just losing connection to reality, to what's, what is real life. You know, what was that, what was that movie where they were living up in the clouds, the rich people were living in the clouds and the average person were living on earth and it was really horrible. You remember? Yeah, I didn't see it, but I remember the commercial for it. Okay. It's almost like that. I feel like if we're not careful here, we're going to Leave everybody in poverty, the majority, and then there's going to be this upper class and they won't be able to even relate to each other because they're so far separated by wealth, power, access to technology. Scary.
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Stu Burguiere
How does that analysis differ from the typical liberal critique of income inequality? Quality, or does it, or it's a.
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Glenn Beck
Crossover say that we have to, they, they would say we have to regulate our way out of it. I would say that, you know, the average car now is $53,000. That's the price of the average car. $53,000. That's a year's income for a lot of people. I'm not sure that cars were a year's worth of income. Maybe they were, but I don't remember it that way. And you know, can we make cars that are good quality? Is there anybody that could make that less than that so the average person could get into it? I mean, I don't know, I just feel like everybody's pushing towards the top instead of, and, and, and forgetting about the bottom. And, and I, I just, I would hope that companies don't just focus on the top. You know, when, when, if, if I, if I were to design something and I would say, you know, you know, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna present this to, you know, people that are gonna spend a hundred thousand dollars on this, but I'm using that to be able to bring another version of that down to a lower level.
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Stu Burguiere
Let them be Elon Musk. That's exactly what Tesla tried to do.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Stu Burguiere
And has succeeded in their first car. We profiled it back in the mid 2000s was the Tesla Roadster, which was well over $100,000 and was really only made for rich people. And as Elon Musk took it over, that became his focus almost entirely. Was, yes, he was making cars for, you know, that go really fast for rich people. But it was all in the goal to make low priced cars for everybody when it comes to electric.
- [80:17]
Glenn Beck
Yes. And quality. He makes a quality car now they're still expensive, but he's making a quality car. I mean, if that's the kind of car you want, it's not actually a car, it's just a, it's a battery with wheels. But anyway, if you know, it's not like you're getting a crap box, you're not getting the Yugo, you're still getting a Tesla. But he's used the upper end. That's what happened with flat screen TVs. That's the way the market works. You when you come up with something and it's going to cost a lot of money to make, but you get the rich people to adopt it first, and then that brings that price down, that is not through regulation. That's just good business sense. And it's also, I don't know, caring a little about humanity, you know, just not being just some rich, you know, greedy bastard that's like, I'm gonna milk these people. Cause I want to live like those people. And I could screw everybody else. That just comes from just being a decent human being, not regulation.
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Stu Burguiere
And I think that is the story of capitalism, really. Right. It really has. Even though not everybody.
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Glenn Beck
With moral sentiments.
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Stu Burguiere
With moral sentiments. Even though I do think over, generally speaking, people are generally good. They want to help the community, they want to help their country, they want to help their fellow man. Might not be their main goal all the time. And usually mixed into markets, there are bad actors, people who only care about profits and everything else. But the overall current of the river of capitalism, if you will it, it brings people toward that end. It doesn't always do it in a linear line, but it does bring them to that location where, yeah, maybe the rich do get richer. And that's true. And I don't think that's bad, by the way. I don't think Elon Musk being rich is bad. But it does raise the boat. So those people who used to be in the middle class often do leave it, but leave it for the upper middle class. And people who are in the lower class have a better life in the lower class, even though they might not raise up in the percentage measure. Does that make sense?
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Glenn Beck
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Stu Burguiere
The financial industry treats investing like it happens, kind of in a bubble. You get your 401k accounts, you get your retirement accounts, and they don't just kind of sit there quietly in this magical bubble. They actively participate in all sorts of things. They're kind of like votes toward what the company is doing. And of course, they are literal votes as well. When you come to the proxy voting, many of these companies that you're investing in probably use their resources to support political causes that directly go against what you believe. That's a huge problem for a lot of people when you talk about investing. A lot of people separate that from their day to day purchases. You might think, hey, wait a minute, I'm going to go in and I don't like what Bud Light's doing. So I'm not going to buy a case of Bud Light. I'm going to buy something else. And that's great. But when you talk about tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars when working towards your retirement over decades, that really does a lot more than what you buy at a store. So I would argue you should go to Constitution Wealth. Constitution wealth is a great group of people who think about this. The same way you think about is not about sacrificing returns. You got to get those returns, but you get the best advice to make sure. And they can help kind of do this all for you. Move it into places and companies that actually agree with your values. Get a free consultation today. Let them get you set up. It's constitutionwealth.com/constitutionwealth.com Blaze Summer's heating up, but.
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Glenn Beck
Plus a free measure. Blinds.com rules and restrictions may apply. So, you know, Stu said, you know, capitalism works. And, and, and, you know, we've, we've always gotten past these things, and, and we'll solve these through capitalism. In some ways, you're right. But we have something now that we didn't have back then, and that is wedge politics, cries of, of racism, sexism, whatever it is to divide people. And then when you divide them, you put them in a camp. I mean, not literally yet, but you put them in a camp and then you can do whatever you want, because they're not even real people. On the same. At the same time, you have social media showing you unrealistic expectations of how to look, how to live, what wealth is, et cetera, et cetera. And so everybody has this unreal, unrealistic view of, of life and happiness, and, and nobody really cares about one another, okay? Because it's. Nothing's real. That's the real problem with all of this. You know, if. If you lose the connection to reality and to humans, it's over. And that's the society that we're growing right now. You know, I was at a restaurant, I was taking my family out to celebrate my daughter's graduation. And I collect cars, and I have some nice cars, and I, I pulled into this restaurant, and I get out of the car, and some kids who are across the street, they go, hey, mister. And I turn around and they said, that your car? And I said, yes. And they said, what do you do for a living? And I told them, and they said, okay, got to remember that because I'm going to be rich someday. I want a car like that. And I said, you want to be rich someday? Don't ever say that again. What you need to say is, how can I help people? Men make their lives easier and better. If you focus on that and you find ways to make people's lives better and easier, you will be rich. But I guess, guarantee you won't be rich if your goal is just to be rich. This is Glenn Beck. 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And he said, great, and what kind of money do you want this to come into? I mean, what do you want? What do you, what's your goal that I could hit that would make it affordable for you? And they said, what are you talking about? He said, well, what do you want to spend on this? And they said, don't worry about that, just make it fly. And he's like, well, there's got to be a budget. No, don't worry about it. It's not about budget. You know, it is about budget. And, and he knew that that was wrong and he really, really, it bothered him a great deal. And so here's a guy who comes in, reinvents absolutely everything and then goes to Washington because he actually believes in something and he's vilified for it. I mean, I don't know of anybody that has been this vilified, you know, so, so vital to progress and what humans are experiencing and going through and, and solving huge problems. I don't think I've ever seen anybody do that and been this vilified. Here's a guy who didn't ask for the power, he didn't seek the favor. In fact, when he said, because he believes something, yeah, I think I'm on the other side. They, they tried to literally kill him for it. And all he was fighting for was the freedom to invent, the freedom to think differently, the freedom to speak your mind, and also the freedom to remain free by not becoming a slave to an out of control government and out of Control waste and out of control spending. He wanted just the chance to build something. And he knew America was the place to do it. And build. He did. He gave us the first reusable rockets. I mean, think if I would have said to you six years ago, yeah, we're going to send up some rockets and you're going to see it. Instead of just casting into the ocean, it's going to, it's going to reignite and it's going to come down and control and we're going to just grab it out of the sky. No, not only did he do that, he thought that crap up. Here's a guy who completely thinks out of the box. American made, American launched, restoring capability that we had already given away. Okay? He forced the auto industry to evolve, dragging it unwillingly into the 21st century with electric vehicles. That shattered the idea that sustainability has to come at the cost of performance or ambition. Here's a guy who, remember the Big three, didn't want him around. He had to break that entire system. And look what happened then he took a brand new platform speech that was supposed to free us up. And it had become oppressive, ossified, monopolized. It became the public square. And what did he do? He went in, bought it with his own money, and was like this, can't stand. We have to have free speech. Cracked it open and gave us again raw, uncomfortable at times, but vital free speech. It was all back into your hands now. And now with Grok and AI, he's fighting to ensure that the machines of tomorrow are actually aligned with not centralized power, but with human liberty. But for all of this, all of this, that would earn anyone a chapter in the history books of the history of man. How is he leaving Washington? I mean, think of that. He has endured the public efforts all around the world to ruin him. Coordinated efforts to deplatform, demonetize, to destroy. He's received death threats, his companies have been targeted, his cars are burned, his employees are harassed, his customers are harassed. All the while he just keeps on doing what he does. And that is, boys and girls, courage. You don't see it very often. That is what real courage looks like. Without getting angry, without being vengeful, spiteful, any of it. He just keeps going. This is, this is real courage. This is the real thing. Real high personal risk, high stakes, sleepless nights, relentless attacks and the refusal to sit down or break. He's like, no, I believe this is right. That's America. He is really. We have a few great symbols that we didn't have 20 years ago. We have some great symbols of real leaders, real examples of courage and, and innovation that we didn't have. And he's right up at the top. I mean, history is riddled with people like this. Nikolai Tesla, Nikola Tesla is probably one of them. Penniless, mocked. In at least his later years, Galileo was, you know, imprisoned because he was telling the truth too early. Winston Churchill because he was telling the truth too early. Nobody, I mean, he was cast aside until people realized, oh, the barbarians are at the gates. These are people that saw over the horizon, saw the storms of life, or saw what was capable of being. They came, they spoke up, and they paid dearly for it. Churchill said, once you have enemies, oh, good, that means you stood for something in your life. Elon Musk, as he stood up again and again, technological sovereignty, speech, enterprise, for the radical, dangerous idea that the individual, not the institution, should shape the future. I think there's going to be a time, and hopefully it's not too far in the future, when, you know, the heat is cooled and politics have moved on, that society will acknowledge not only what he's done, what he's given, but the sacrifice that he just went through. But that'll happen, you know, at a time when the real effects of everything, I mean, when. When the future that he is helping shape right now, better or worse, is really taking root. That's when he'll be recognized, once this nonsense is over. The thing I like about him, he never asked us to trust him. He never asked for our loyalty. But I think he does deserve our respect. You know, I don't care what side of that. I don't care who you voted for. How do you not recognize what this man has done for humanity? Especially if you're somebody who believes in global warming. What he's done for humanity, what he is still trying to do. The. The incredible strides that he has made and the bravery that it has taken for him just to stand up. I remember he. He walked away from his side. Didn't expect his side to leave him, but once he had a different opinion of theirs, they just abandoned him. He lost all of his friends. He lost everything. So today, as he is leaving, I would like to say, Elon Musk, thank you. Thank you. You didn't play the game, you changed the game. Thank you. Thank you for reminding me and so many other Americans that progress has never come in polite little packages. It's never been polite. The truth rarely comes dressed in approval. But I think you did some things that are absolutely remarkable and you're going to continue to do things that are remarkable. Go in strength, know that history will catch up to you. You're way ahead of the game. Thank you. Elon Musk. 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Stu Burguiere
I think at some level he's viewing it as a disappointment. Right. Like he's talked about this a little bit. You know, he wanted to get more done. Right. And I think he ran into the problem that a lot of well meaning reformers run into when they get to that freaking, you know, rats. It's very difficult to do and you have to depend on a lot of people who don't have the same interests as you. I think he should be remembered positively. I think I'll remember it positively. At least he tried to do Something and I think he did identify a lot of actual places we can improve. I don't think it's going to be honestly, when I think of the Elon Musk final story, when we watch the CGI AI movie that's made about his life with no actual real people in it later on.
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Glenn Beck
This would be a small footnote.
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Stu Burguiere
This is a small footnote. I think in it, I mean think about the brain implants and SpaceX and all these other things. We were talking about cars last hour and the cheapest you said was it $53,000 is the average price now.
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Glenn Beck
Is the average price of a car now. And how does that compare? Stuff throughout history, inflation adjusted.
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Stu Burguiere
Part of the increase is people trading into larger vehicles, SUVs and everything else. So that's kind of why that price is so high really as far as inflation goes. The only time you really see inflation anytime recently, as opposed to the same car trying to buy the same car over and over again, an equivalent vehicle is the Biden collation era, that post Covid era, but into the Bidenflation era. There is a real rise there. It hasn't increased all that much but still has gone up as far as the average price goes. What's interesting about Tesla right now, I can go on Tesla. I'm looking at their inventory right now available in my area. I can buy a brand new Model 3, brand new for $34,990. That car has a 363 mile range at least. You know, that's the advertised amount. It's you know again a decent looking car. It's the new model like they had a new redesign which is model three.
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Glenn Beck
That's their, their smallest model. Right? That's their entry model. Still some decent space.
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Stu Burguiere
Like again.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, yeah, they're great.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
All the technology, everything is the same.
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Stu Burguiere
And what I think is undersold here is the fact that that car is now available to way under the average purchase price. There's things to like about electric cars, things I don't like about them. But for example, and we lose sight of this over long periods of time of how this stuff improves the model 3. $34,990 is faster 0 to 60 than the Ferrari Testarossa was.
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Glenn Beck
What? Wait, what?
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Stu Burguiere
That was a car that everyone in the world.
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Glenn Beck
You mean in the 80s?
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Stu Burguiere
Ferrari, Ferrari Testarossa.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, Testarossa. The first World Series, first real supercar.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, like the car.
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Glenn Beck
The car.
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Stu Burguiere
And I mean obviously faster. Yeah, faster than any car produced in the 80s. This is the entry model of Tesla. Now, of course, you'd also have to acknowledge all the safety features are way better, all the technology in the car is way better than anything that Ferrari could even theoretically produce in the 1980s. And that improvement gets lost in what is the average car price?
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Stu Burguiere
These cars are improving all the time. Cars that are way below the average purchase price are much, much better than they were five, 10, certainly 40 years ago.
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Glenn Beck
But do you have to pull the engine out every 25,000 miles?
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Stu Burguiere
No, no, unfortunately of a Tesla, no, it's very low maintenance.
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Glenn Beck
I mean this is. If there's, if there's a problem with the transmission, does it cost you $75,000? Because that, I mean, unfortunately not. That's a real.
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Stu Burguiere
No, no.
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Glenn Beck
Wow. Why would you want a Tesla then?
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Stu Burguiere
They can't replicate that at all, it seems.
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Glenn Beck
Wow. But I mean, that's, that's amazing.
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Stu Burguiere
And by the way, we should also note the car drives itself. That's another advantage.
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Glenn Beck
You know, if I'm looking at a $53,000 car, I don't know why I wouldn't buy the Tesla. If you could handle electric, you know what I mean? Yeah, I don't like electric cars. And anyway, but if you could handle electric, why wouldn't you? I know, 35,000 versus 53,000. If you wanted just, if you wanted a, you know, like a Ford, that's a four door, isn't it?
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Stu Burguiere
It is, yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. So you just wanted a four door car, you know, something you're just going to use to get stuff done around, you know, town and etc. Etc. If you don't need an SUV, why wouldn't you do that?
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, like I think about the way this is all changing. Like I have relatives who can't drive anymore, older people who have eyesight issues and things like that. How close are we though to being able to like, hey, just get the Tesla and it'll just drive you everywhere. I mean, it's not quite there. They're not quite legally approved for you to basically just not do anything. You're still supposed to be able to be there to react. But like, I think a lot of, I think a lot of people as they age are in that position where they don't necessarily want to be in control of the car all the time, but probably could hit that standard. And that standard's gonna go away as well where you're not even gonna need to put your hands on the wheel and think about how that could improve the lives of someone who, you know, maybe doesn't have relatives around.
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Glenn Beck
You know, my daughter Mary, she's never had her license because she has seizures. Yeah. So she can't have her life, so she has to Uber everywhere. I mean, that would be great when. When she doesn't have to have a license, she doesn't have to have Uber. That. That's a perfect car for her. And how many Americans are there that are either old or just have a reason they just can't drive? I mean, that's a fabulous. And $20,000 less than the. The average car.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
That's fantastic.
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Stu Burguiere
It's incredible. And I think that's the thing is you.
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Glenn Beck
If. If.
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Stu Burguiere
Go ahead.
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Glenn Beck
If you're ever, you know, got a warrant against you, you know, it'll take you right to jail. So it'll be negatives.
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Stu Burguiere
I will say we all love Elon, but, man, we. I remember Glenn taking calls from people, be like, I'm not gonna put that easy pass in my car. They'll know when I go through toll booths. Now, every single thing about your life is monitored.
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Glenn Beck
Do you know that Some cars. I don't know about Tesla, but some cars will. Will send a message in the middle of the night back to the factory. So the algorithm on the car's engine can be adapted. It'll say, this is how the car was used today. And it'll make the different changes in the algorithm for the engine to make it a better performing car for you. And it's calling and giving what you did, where you drove everything, every night. Every night, you don't even know it. You're asleep every night of that world.
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Stu Burguiere
I think.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, I know. It's pretty incredible. Pretty incredible. But, yeah, don't get that easy pass because they'll be able to track you wherever you are. Okay, back in just a minute. It's Friday. This is Glenn Beck. You know, some people see a dark and foreboding headline and panic. Others see that same headline and go, yeah, now what's the difference between the two? Well, I can tell you. Most likely it's preparation. Most likely it's something that, you know, there's people that think about things and then go, okay, if this happens, I got to do this. And so they're ready. You know, market swings, currencies fluctuate, politics shift. Through it all. People who sleep well at night are the ones who made a plan before the storm rolled in. And for millions of people, that plan includes physical gold or silver. For over 25 years, Lear Capital help Americans turn uncertainty into strategy with precious metals that hold value and the rest of the system starts to wobble. You can roll over a portion of your IRA or your retirement into gold or have it delivered right to your door. Either way, you're moving part of your savings into something tangible, which I cannot recommend highly enough. It's something real, something that's outlasted every paper promise ever made. Please call Lear Capital today. 800-957-Gold. 800-957-Gold. Get your free $4200 gold report. Call 800-957-Gold. Do it now.
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Stu Burguiere
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- [113:04]
Glenn Beck
Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
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Stu Burguiere
So, Glenn, do you think.
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Glenn Beck
When you're.
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Stu Burguiere
Looking at the Doge legacy and you look at Elon's legacy, and when I, you know, legacy, I don't mean the actual legacy of what seems like about 40 children at this point, but I'm talking about his. Talking about how he will be remembered by the public. The Doge cuts are. They're gonna send some little sliver of them in a separate bill now to Congress.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. This pisses me off.
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Stu Burguiere
$8.5 billion. Now, of course, it's much harder to pass a separate bill, and it's only $8 billion. Who do you blame for this?
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Glenn Beck
The GOP. The GOP?
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Stu Burguiere
What does that mean?
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Glenn Beck
I think that very few of them are serious about it. Some of them are. Mike Lee is very serious about it. Rand Paul is very serious about it. Chip Roy, Thomas Massie, Chip Roy Massey. They're. They're all serious about it. But that's, you know, there's a handful of them, and the rest of them, you know, are either too stupid to get it. I mean, we've spent a lot of time on our debt this week and what it means and what's coming if we don't get serious about it. And, you know, there's $190 billion that, that Musk, you know, said we can cut all this stuff and nobody wants to do it. I mean, if you can't, if the Republicans can't cut the easy stuff, what good are you, really? Honestly, what good are you? I mean, there should have been, you know, it would have been nice to get up to 900 or 900 million or, I mean, billion or a trillion dollars in cuts that. That would have said to the world were serious, and it would have put us on a completely different course than the one we're on right now. And, you know, Donald Trump is going to do his best to grow us out of this, to set up the conditions for AI and everything else and bring manufacturing back here to America, yada, yada, yada, to try to grow our way out of. Of this debt. But it, it, you have to cut. And, you know, I'm, I'm just sick of the Republicans. Just sick of them. Sick of them. They don't. Okay, so wait a minute. You needed to have the House and the Senate and the White House. Well, you got all three now. What's your problem? You don't have big enough spread. You're not doing anything. You're not doing anything.
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Stu Burguiere
Well, they're continuing much of the spending from the Inflation Reduction Act. That's something that's. Yeah, yeah.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, you can't cut that out. You can't cut that out. You can't say we're gonna go back to the spending that we had in 2019. Can't do that.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah. Or at least, yeah, just. We'll even increase the spending for all the programs that existed when Joe Biden took over. But the stuff that he passed that is brand new, that people aren't used to and depending on for years and years and years and years, we're gonna get rid of the rest of the spending from those programs. You can't even do that. I mean.
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Glenn Beck
No, you can't. You can't. The money that hasn't even gone out, you can't say we're not gonna send that out. You can't even say that.
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Stu Burguiere
They don't. Can't say that.
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Glenn Beck
What good are you.
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Stu Burguiere
Some of that they've pulled back on. That's true. And of course, there are a lot of good things in this bill. I mean, I think you'd agree with, you know, at least continuing the tax cuts. I know we'd both like more.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Stu Burguiere
But like, if you let those expire, that would be devastating to the economy.
- [116:48]
Glenn Beck
Devastating.
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Stu Burguiere
What do you make of the criticism from some. This goes mostly towards the right, who.
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Glenn Beck
Are more.
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Stu Burguiere
Hawkish on the budget and such that. Look, it's true the Republicans did not put this in this bill, but Donald Trump could demand. This is in this bill. And there's no sign that the Republicans would not take him up on what his demand was. There's no reason to believe they would say no to him if he demanded it. He has not made a big deal publicly pressuring lawmakers to include the Doge cuts.
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Glenn Beck
So I do have. I do have concerns about that. That, I mean, you Know, he should have pushed harder for that. I agree with that. I'm not sure that the Republicans would have gone along with it because, you know, if you, you, you do have a, an argument. First of all, you cut. You have all of those Republicans that are part of the game there and have their favorites and they don't want anything cut. Okay, sorry, gang. Everybody's going to have to lose something. I think if he would have made this his priority. Priority, it would have. It would have happened. But I don't think that is his priority. It. His priority is elsewhere. And there's some things in this bill that are going to strengthen his priorities. For instance, tariffs. And that was, you know, he was more focused on that and I think more hopeful that maybe the Congress would do their job and they, they'd care about the spending. But he's not a guy ever that has ever talked about debt or deficit. He does not believe there's a debt or deficit that is too big. He believes the problem is that the economy is not roaring. So let's open the economy and we'll make that money in tax revenue and we'll be able to afford these things. I don't happen to believe that. I believe it to some degree. I think we have to. We must make cuts. But that's never been his thing. Tariffs always have been. He's never talked out about the debt and deficit to any real degree. It's not his thing.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, that's not, he didn't run on that initially. I mean, you know, he cares about it now.
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Glenn Beck
The Republicans have.
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Stu Burguiere
Republicans have. Over the years.
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Glenn Beck
The Republicans have. Yes.
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Stu Burguiere
Let me ask you about the Musk relationship there, Elon. There's definitely, I think, a clear effort by the media to portray this departure by Musk as this adversarial sort of situation that they've grown apart. They don't like each other anymore. There's been leaks about Trump saying that he was angry at Musk for trying to get some briefing on some China issue, that a lot of the people inside the White House didn't like Musk. And some of that that's possible. Yeah, that's. That certainly is true at some level. Do you, do you think that they. They still get along? Is there this separation?
- [120:06]
Glenn Beck
I think Donald Trump and. Yeah, no, I think those two get along. They're thick as thieves. I mean, I think they are in many ways two peas in a pod. They understand each other, unlike, I think a lot of people could understand either one of them. And I think they are friends. What's what's interesting is because he's, what, a month away from his July 4 goal. He said he was leaving in July. He said, I hope to have this done by July. And, you know, you know, I'm not going to be staying for very long. And then on the anniversary next year, July will have cut X number amount. He's, he's a month away from this July. And I think he just got frustrated and I don't necessarily think necessarily with the president maybe, but I don't think so. He just got very frustrated. Like, you know, nobody's serious. Why would I take all of the hits that I'm taking right now? Why would I put my car company in danger, SpaceX in danger, you know, risk the reputation to everything that is I hold sacred and dear to do all of this hard work and sleep on the floor. I mean, he was sleeping on the floor to sleep on the floor, to right the ship on this. And nobody's serious. Screw you. I think that's where he is. That's where I would be. Screw you.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Not doing it anymore.
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Stu Burguiere
It seems like that's part of it. I also think that there's a, you know, we were talking about some of the people in the White House and in the surrounding apparatus that don't, don't appreciate Elon Musk. Some of that's been public. A lot of it, I think, is behind the scenes. You're now getting that his departing, the hit pieces, things being leaked about Musk, the recent one today, this is in the New York Times, that Musk was using drugs at high levels. Listen to this paragraph. Mr. Musk's drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that he was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it. Now, how many people have taken photos, Glenn, of your medication box? I would say that's not common unless it's not common trying to destroy you in the media.
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Glenn Beck
Right. Right.
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Stu Burguiere
So is that what this is? Basically, they're just now everybody who had a problem with Musk while he was there, now that he's out, they all think they can leak stuff negatively to the media to destroy him.
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Glenn Beck
Let me give you another perspective on why they are trying to destroy him. The people in the White House In a situation like this, and really any real powerful situation, you. Everybody jockeys for position. I want to be next to the boss. I want to be next to the boss.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
A new guy comes in, has not played the game. Nobody really knows who he is. He doesn't play by the rules. And he'll just go right into the White House and he'll just walk right into the oval and go, yeah, I didn't talk to any of those guys. Listen, I want to talk to you about this. That must drive the career people out of their ever loving mind. It's gotta drive them crazy. What is he, what is he saying to the President? We've been working, all of us have been working so hard to get the President to go, this, this, this. And what did he just say? What did he say? That's, that's the real problem, I think, that the people in the White House have with Donald Trump is his access and his ability to connect with Donald Trump one on one without any filter in between. They like filters. People like filters between the top and access to the top.
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Stu Burguiere
Well, we learned about this with Joe Biden when he was president. Even his own cabinet secretaries couldn't come see him.
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Glenn Beck
I love that filter. Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
A different kind of way of doing it. Is there a part of this, too, that's just germane to the way Trump has kind of constructed his White House, which is like, you know, I think a lot of good things come out of it where he has a bunch of different sort of factions. Right. And he has a bunch of people around him who really.
- [124:32]
Glenn Beck
You mean like a team of rivals?
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Stu Burguiere
Like a team of rivals, right. He has that. And I think there's at its best, there's really good things that come out of that.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Stu Burguiere
When people really care about the country are arguing the best things that the best policies to go forward and the best approaches. And on the downside of that is there's always people who are just out there to cut everybody else's throat so that they can get closer to Donald Trump, so that they can have that access. Is that what's going on?
- [125:00]
Glenn Beck
Partially, yeah, I think so. I really, I think Elon Musk is probably pretty pissed because he realized a lot of people aren't serious. And I've just risked a lot, you know, if Donald Trump got in and all the people that he had trusted that he put around him, and they were all like, no, we're with you 100%. And it was the same kind of situation it was last time. I think he'd be pissed. I think he'd be really pissed. You know, who the hell can I even trust now? He risked his life. I think Elon Musk is risking his life to stay, but he's certainly risking his career and his companies and everything all around the world. He's got a bad name now. And I just think, you know, if I'm risking my life, my fortune, and my sacred honor and you're. None of you are serious, I'd say screw you in a heartbeat. And I think that's really what it comes down to myself. All right, back in just a second. When a first responder runs toward danger, when a soldier steps into harm's way, they are not thinking about the mortgage payment. They are not thinking about how the bills will be paid if something happens to them. They're thinking about the job, the mission, the lives on the line. And when the unthinkable happens, when a hero is lost in the line of duty, it should never be the family that pays the price. That is where Tunnel to Towers, the foundation, steps in. They honor the sacrifice by protecting the home, the family, the children. They'll pay off mortgages for fallen first responders and military heroes. They provide smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans. And they stand by the families left behind, not just with words, but with action. These families are not strangers. They're our neighbors, our brothers, our sisters. They are the families of the people who put on a uniform so our families can sleep in peace. I can't tell you how proud I am to represent Tunnel to Towers. I believe. I really believe in these people and I believe in their goals. And it's a. A1 charity. Never forget the sacrifices of our country's greatest heroes. Donate $11 a month, will you? Just $11 a month. Tunnel to towers@t2t.org makes all the difference in the world. T the number two t.org t2t.org you want the truth unfiltered? Pull up a chair, my friend. You're in the right place. This is Glenn Beck.
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Glenn Beck
Foreign texting back and forth with Palmer Lucky lately. Hopefully he'll be on the show here in short order, but we got a schedule, you know, get our schedules aligned. But there's a story about him going back to work with Zuckerberg at Meta and. Oof. Are you, are you bothered at all by some of the defense tech that they're working on now? Because that's what Palmer Lucky has gone into now is defense.
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, look, you have to be. It's just like we were just talking about with, with Tesla's, like there. A lot of that technology is amazing. One of the great reasons why Teslas are good is because of how connected they are. However, you know, and I think the same thing here with defense. I want the best defense technology. I want the ability to be able to do all these things to our enemies. But we've seen so many times how it winds up being used by the government, and that is really concerning.
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Glenn Beck
So Lucky revealed the first product will be a military helmet called Eagle Eye. Its equipment will give army soldiers access to advanced augmented reality systems that make them superhuman. Don't know how I feel about that one. I mean, I want to give him every bit of technology, but I know that China is working on stuff too, and boy, I, I think we're going to be close to drone drone wars or Droid Wars, Clone wars, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're right.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, I do think that, I mean, and you know, I, I think that is coming. It's, it's just, it's similar to AI in the way that you have to win that battle. You can't not fight it. If we all.
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Glenn Beck
I know.
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Stu Burguiere
If they don't go down this road and have the best technology, particularly with the military, we're screwed. But you better have bright lines.
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Glenn Beck
I know. I just hope that we don't have another big global war, because I'd like to see. I'd like to. I'd like to live in a world where none of this technology has to be unleashed, you know, because I think we are in for a huge shock on the next big war that we would fight on. On just how different. Everything that we've always thought about war, how different it's going to be. This is Glenn, Becky.