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Glenn Beck
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Stu Burguiere
The dark on every side Stand your.
Glenn Beck
Ground when times get down Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire.
Unknown
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Glenn Beck
Hello America. I have so much to talk to you about today. Stu just said to me a minute ago, I saw all the topics today and I just wanted to give up. Yeah, he's like, ah, what if we don't give?
Unknown
What if we don't do a shit?
Glenn Beck
Do we? This show Every day. Like, what if we just skip with you on that? No, here's the thing. I saw the. I saw the news of the day. Just the opposite. I can't wait to tell you what I'm thinking, because every story I read today is like, can we just think about this for a second? Can we just use some critical thinking, ask a few questions, tell a few stories if we have to, to make sure you understand. And I'm going to start with the what's his name? Chuck Mangione bill that is happening in California.
Unknown
Not Chuck, though. I also don't want to say his name. So I'm happ with Chuck.
Glenn Beck
So we. This new bill in California where, hey, insurance companies, you gotta pay out. You gotta pay out. Okay, all right, okay, that might sound good, but see, it's all in the balance here. Otherwise, California, you're not gonna have any insurance. And I'll explain. And because you're in California, talk like this, man. All right, you like, like, like, like insurance. We talk about it next. First, let me tell you about rough greens. If you're the type of person who's, you know, good at it, you spend a lot of time taking care of the ones you love. That includes your dog, who is, let's face it, basically another member of the family. That's why I want to tell you about rough greens. There is something missing between what your dog eats and what his body needs. And I'm talking about vitamins, minerals, probiotics, antioxidants, all the stuff that make him happier and healthier. All of those things are in rough greens. It's not a dog food. It's a supplement. And you sprinkle it on top of the food. I did it with my dog Uno, just to try it and see what the hype was all about. I just wanted him to eat honestly, you know, change his life for the better. Yeah, yeah, sure. I'm sure that will happen. I just want him to eat well. Not only does he eat, he literally runs to his bowl still, and he's. He's not doing well. He runs to his bowl. He loves to eat. And I think it gave him a longer life and a better life. It's rough greens dot com. Get the free Jumpstart trial bag right now. Just use the promo code BECK, ruffgreens.com promo code BECK. Cover the shipping. And that's it. Ruff greens.com/beck promo code is back. All right, so this, this new bill in California, I just. Boy, oh, boy, are they just. You don't get it, do you? You just don't get it. California, they're. They're. They're now talking about, and I had to check, see if this was a April Fool's joke, but it's not. They're. They're passing a new bill now where insurance companies have got to pay out if you put a claim in. Okay, all right, good. And they can't wait. They can't hold you back. They can't. Hang on just a second. They can't. They can't hold back. If you have the claim. They can't hold back. Okay, good. That's what you might be thinking. Good. And it is good. If you're really sick and you need something that's good. But have you seen the scams that are happening in our country right now? Not everybody. Now I say that and I have to say at the same time. Have you seen the insurance companies lately? Some of them just like to screw you to the wall. So what is the answer? Well, let me tell you the tale of two stories. One is how a lot of people see the insurance company. They imagine the insurance company as a giant grumpy dragon that is sitting on a pile of gold just waiting there. I'm a dragon. We got to have the. I'm a dragon. I like gold. I'm not going to let anybody have my gold. And you're the brave. You're the brave knight. Why won't this go wait? You're the brave knight. I thought of the rest of the day. I'm going to be doing the show in a cave. You're the brave knight who's been paying this dragon monthly a tribute every month. And the dragon said, you know, I'm going to take care of you. And then when a disaster happens, you go to the dragon and he's supposed to swoop in and save you with all of the gold. Sounds like a great deal, right? But here's the catch. Dragons like gold. So when you come running and screaming, hey, I need help. My house is burned down. The dragon's like, yeah, I set, I. I set it on fire. Of course I'm fire breathing dragon. I set it on fire. And I'm not gonna pay for anything either.
Unknown
Is the dragon the only one in the cave?
Glenn Beck
He's the only one in the cave. Yeah, speaking. I don't know why he could fly the cave. I don't know why you can fly to the guy and still be in the cave. But he's a big dragon.
Unknown
Okay, Big dragon.
Glenn Beck
Okay. All right. Uh, so he's like, I'm not really sure that that was actually a fire. Well, I'm not sure that was a fire, you know. Did you fill out form 37B in triplicate? And I'm going to need six weeks to think about it while I sit on my pile of gold. That's the way most people think of insurance companies, that they're sitting on a pile of gold and they're never going to help you and they just have you file out all kinds of forms. Now, part of that is true with some insurance companies. Some insurance companies suck, others don't. Should they suck? No. Are we going to cure this by saying everybody has to be paid and immediately and we can't, we can't stall or anything at all? No, that's not going to solve it. It's going to make it worse. Now, here's the way I look at an insurance company. Imagine insurance company as a massive neighborhood potluck where everybody in the community has to bring a dish. That's their premium. You come on in, you got to bring a dish. And I prefer if you're really, really fat because you like to eat, you bring a bigger dish. Okay? But everybody brings a dish. And the head chef, let's call her Carla. Hey, I'm Carla, back here just managing the potluck. That's all I'm doing. Everybody comes in and has to contribute something. And maybe you bring a $10,000 casserole, I don't know. Because you've got a bigger house and you're, I don't know, super, super fat. Okay, somebody else brings a five thousand dollar salad, which I would never, ever. What's a five thousand dollar salad? What? I mean, how could it possibly be that much? I would question the salad and I wouldn't eat it anyway. But I'd say to myself, it's $5,000, it's gotta be a good salad. But then I'd realize it's a salad anyway. Let's not focus on the salad here. The idea is that everybody brings something in and puts it at the table. And if your house burns down like in California Wildfire or you need surgery after breathing in too much smoke, you can take a big helping from the potluck table to cover all the costs. That's the way insurance is supposed to work, with the idea that not everyone is going to need a plate at the table that big at the same time. Because if everybody says, I need that too, I want to eat like the fat, fat fatty over there. And they don't need to eat like the fat, fat, fatty. Then what happens? Nobody has food. Eventually you run out of food. Carla is a little smoked, all right?
Unknown
I'm just sitting here back.
Glenn Beck
Back here smoking cool cigarettes, wondering, what the hell? How am I supposed to feed all these people? She has to have enough food on the table for everybody who needs it. But she also knows she's got to run the potluck next week, too. So if you let everybody take everything that they want whenever they want, the table will be empty in about an hour. There's nothing left for the disaster. Carla has to be a little stingy. I know your house burned down, but I need to make sure that your house actually did burn down before I give you some more mashed potatoes. Let me just check on that first. She's not trying to rip you off. If she's with a good insurance company. She's making sure the potluck just doesn't turn into a free for all, where the table gets cleared out and the whole system collapses. Now, let's bring in Luigi. Hey, it's me, Luigi. I love shooting people in the head on the street, okay? Anytime you have a ballot measure where you're making that guy the good guy, your state has a problem. So it's not a new potluck rule here. Carla, you can't make wait anybody wait for their plate for the insurance or the food. You can't. You can't say no to anybody who's hungry. Okay, well, I've got a hundred people right here, and they're all telling me they're hungry, and they're all telling me it's an emergency. And I know some of them are going to take some of that food and put it into a purse and hold it for later. And that's not what this is about. I gotta feed the people who are hungry. But if I have to serve everybody right away, no questions asked, okay, Then I run out of food, and guess what? Then I don't have any food for anybody. Carla's not wrong. She's been running the numbers. It's actually bad. Sous chef, he's an actuary named Dave. He's got a spreadsheet. Anyway, he's looking at Dave. Says, you know, after the 2018 campfire, I mean, we served up $12 billion worth of plates to victims. Uh, we can't do this anymore. Cause w. We only had that much because 70% of the folks at the potluck didn't need a plate that year. They brought their own casseroles. And salads. But they didn't. Their house didn't burn down. They didn't, they didn't come starving at the table. If everybody is starving at the table and they all come in to cash it, we're not going to have enough food. That's what insurance companies are. And California just doesn't seem to understand this. Insurance is almost a casino. The way bad insurance runs. They run it like a casino where the house always wins no matter what. You're like, bing, bing, bing, bing, I won. And it's like, nope, sorry, sorry, you didn't win. Glitch in the machine. So I'm gonna make this guy go away. That's the way bad insurance run. But insurance, it's not a guarantee, it's a bet that this company is taking on you. That's why, you know, back in the old timey days when, you know, we were sailing across the sea and, I don't know, there were mermaids and sea monsters that would take down the ships back. I'm talking the old old timey days, you know, back in like the 1940s and you had to have insurance for your ships and there were these, you know, English guys who were like, well, this is my ship and I, I will guarantee that ship. And we've got some. So there's some tea on it and maybe some snuff. Lots of snuff on it. Somebody had to underwrite that in case the ship went down. So the snuff people didn't go out of business. So the T people didn't go out of business. But if all the ships claim to have gone down, the guy who's underwriting all of the insurance doesn't have any more money left. So then nobody gets any money. It's a bet. The problem is our government has made insurance so deeply in bed with the government. And then you have these politicians who, let's be honest, are only attorneys. That's all they are. They're attorney. Have you ever liked an attorney? Honestly, have you ever. Except for on tv, maybe you liked an attorney on tv, but you don't like attorneys. You might like them until you find out they're an attorney. My, like, he's a really good guy. Then I found out he was an attorney. But nobody wants to hang out with attorney. Nobody wants to work for a company run by attorneys. I don't even think attorney firms want to work for attorney firms. Cuz they're all run by attorneys. They don't know how to do anything except say no. Oh gosh, that's what our states are like. They're all run by attorneys. And these attorneys think they can craft some legalese that will make everything right. You can't. If our society is rotten to the core, then our businesses are going to be rotten to the core. And no amount of fancy $500 attorney words are gonna fix that. Everything we have in our society is built on trust. You know why the insurance company is going out of business? Because it can't trust that there aren't people bilking the system. You know why you don't have. Why? You get really upset when your mother is sick and you can't get the insurance that was promised to you because you have insurance companies that are bilking the system. Everybody has to play fair but California. Are you really this stupid? You just. What, what, what Was it like? 40% of the people whose house burned down was because they didn't have insurance? Because these evil insurance companies canceled because you can't control the fires. Every year, everybody's house seems to burn down or slide into the ocean from mud. You can't. The insurance companies can't afford it and you won't let them raise the rate. So they just like, okay, well, then I'm not doing business here. What do you think's gonna happen on this? Now, some of this might be needed. I don't know. I'm not from California. Don't care to be from California. Don't read that much about California because they're all ins. But what do you think is going to happen with this? Here's what's going to happen. They're going to raise the rates. And then you're going to say you can't raise the rates. And then when you force them to make sure that everybody gets coverage and you can't ask any questions and so fraud goes through the roof, then what will happen is they'll go out of business. Or they'll say, we're going to go out of business because California is telling us we can't raise the rates. So we're going to get out. And then you know what those attorneys will do? You can't leave California. You can't leave. And then what happens? I don't know how this story ends. We should look into Karl Marx. I bet he has a good ending for that story. Let me tell you about preborn case. You still might be on the fence whether Joe Biden was a guy that was a good president or not. Here's a little fun fact for you. 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Unknown
I think so. But yes, it was a journey.
Glenn Beck
I will say that's not a good review.
Unknown
It was like, not a good.
Glenn Beck
I wouldn't eat at that restaurant with. It was a journey.
Unknown
It was like the last season of Game of Thrones. I was a little. I was a little confused. But you got us there, I think, at the end.
Glenn Beck
All right. Okay. All right. Am I reading this wrong? What's happening in California?
Unknown
No, I think you're right. I mean, it's shocking.
Glenn Beck
Shocking. They just don't get it.
Unknown
I'm really disgusted by the hero worship of this loser. It's really revolting. I don't even want to say his name, but they're really making him on the left. He's just a celebrity in a lot of circles. He's just this great guy who did this great thing. He just murdered a dad on the side of the. As he's walking on the sidewalk. It's murdered, murder, father.
Glenn Beck
So let me just ask because the whole show today is just, can we think these things through? Can we just. I just.
Unknown
Critical thinking.
Glenn Beck
Critical thinking. We just have to ask some questions. So let me just ask you some questions. When did it become okay just to gun somebody down on the street because you feel they. And when I say they, I don't mean them, that individual, but somebody they work with, some industry they are in, somebody they represent that it's okay to kill them.
Unknown
I mean, it's certainly not, Glenn. I mean, in a pathetic way, and I don't mean this with any direct line for this being true, but when it happened, there was this thought that I think it went through everybody's mind, which was like, this kid's dad was denied a claim by this company and this CEO had some hand in. Wasn't even close to that. It was this like really poorly thought out, generalized, awful liberal critique of health care, the health care industry. And it was like he even said in his manifesto, I'm not the best guy to explain it, cuz I don't really understand it, but this is terrible. Yeah, Like, I'm sorry if you're not the best guy to understand it. Maybe don't murder people on the side.
Glenn Beck
Like, would it be okay for me, after that explanation of insurance to go murder somebody in the street? No. Maybe. Maybe. Well, it would be me. I was gonna say maybe the person that helped write that, that analogy, but that would be me. So would it be okay for me to kill myself? I'm confused.
Unknown
I'm confused again. You're deep into another analogy. I will say you've talked so much about AI. Run it through AI, please. Next time you're running a manifesto, can you put it through ChatGPT? Let Grok have a shot at it. So at least it makes some freaking sense. At least it looks like you've thought about this. After taking a man's life, you know.
Glenn Beck
There are going to be times where people, let's say, let's say truckers go on strike and that makes the price of your eggs go up and everything else goes up. Okay, let's just say, yeah, that happens. And your family is really struggling and you are barely making it and you know, you lost your house because you couldn't afford food and the house, you had to buy the food for the family, so you lost your house. Would that make it okay to go up to some random trucker and shoot them in the head?
Unknown
No.
Glenn Beck
Right? That's what we're talking about. Here. And I don't understand, when did that become okay for half the nation? When did that become okay? So, okay, that One of the 50 states can introduce a bill where that guy is referenced in a positive way. I mean, that's going to be the theme of the show. How do we even talk to each other? Honestly? How do we talk to each other? I'm going to show you how we can talk to each other, hopefully on a few issues today. Just stick around if we've got a lot more and most of it will be understandable coming up.
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Glenn Beck
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Glenn Beck
All right, I, I want to talk to you about, can we just talk about common sense today? Just, just common sense and critical thinking? I think that's the problem with our nation. Nobody understands critical thinking. So let's take one story here. And this is the, the woman who got hit by the bus, Virginia, how do you say her last name?
Unknown
Giuffre.
Glenn Beck
Jafre. Yeah. Okay. She's the one that was in the picture with Jeffrey Epstein. At. At, I don't know, the island or someplace with Prince Andrew. Okay? And I believe she's a victim. I. I don't have anything to back that up other than I believe. I believe Prince Andrew is an absolute dirt bag. And I believe, you know, that Jeffrey Epstein was also a major dirtbag. And so why was this young girl with Prince Andrew, with his arm around her, you know, standing in somebody's house? I mean, it just. I don't. I'm sorry, okay? But that's me making a judgment. That's not legal. That's just me making a judgment. Okay? So the story came out yesterday, and it is everywhere now. And everybody is like, you know. You know, the FBI is trying to kill her so she can't make it to the testimony. What? I knew Jeffrey Epstein wasn't dead. He's driving a bus in Perth, Australia. He's. What? What?
Unknown
You don't. You don't buy that?
Glenn Beck
No, I. Strangely, I don't.
Unknown
It would be an interesting twist to the story.
Glenn Beck
It really would. Now, she apparently has four days to live from what date? What. What is the. Okay, let me just.
Unknown
Yeah, yeah, let me just. That's the weird part. I agree.
Glenn Beck
Okay, let me just give you some questions. And this does not mean that she's not telling the truth, that she's not got four days to live or two days at this point, I don't know how many days she has. Okay? It. It doesn't mean that I don't believe the story. It just means. Can. Can we just stop and ask some critical questions? And I'm gonna do this to every story today, okay? The article mentions Lady Victoria Hervey as the source of the claim that she only has four days to live. Now, I don't know Lady Victoria Hervey. Do you? I know Irv Vilachez. The little. That plane. The plane from Fantasy Island. I don't know who this woman is. So who is she? What's her relationship to this woman? Uh, does she have a history of reliable, poor reporting? Does she have any bias? She's a lady. Does she have a problem with Prince Andrew? I don't know. But that's the first question we should ask is, who is this woman that's claiming all of this stuff? Then the next question is, are there any primary sources of the accident claim? Well, no, no. Her spokesperson, they. They said, you know, that she's in the hospital. Okay, can we get some independent verification of any of this? I believe she's in the hospital. I believe she's sick. Don't get me wrong, but what happened? Why is there a lack of official evidence or statements from any authorities? The article notes that as of March 31, 2025, there are no official. There's no official evidence or statement from authorities. Whoa, wait. Okay, what could explain that? And does that have an impact at all on you believing this story or not? What specific details are missing about the action, the accident? And why might they not be available? The exact date? The location? The official police report? They're not there. They're not. It's not been released. What now? Is this due to a lack of paper? Maybe they run out of ones and zeros to write up a report in Perth? I don't know what the situation is in Perth. I mean, it could be. Is there no media access? And how. Is how the description of the accident, how plausible is it? They claim that she was hit by a school bus traveling at 110 kilometers at 70 miles an hour. Okay, I could see that happening, but I think the big story there would also be in Perth, there was an out of control school bus going 70 miles an hour. Were there kids on board? What happened there? Um, you know, should do some injuries, not just with a person they hit, but they say that she had severe injuries like kidney and renal failure. Okay, that seems like it could happen. At 70 miles an hour, you're hit by a bus. But is it. Is 70 miles an hour realistic for a school bus in a residential area? And, and, and really, I mean, okay, I guess maybe four days to live, they can't keep you. You can't keep your kidneys going for more than four days. I don't know what else is wrong. She looks bad. I've seen the post of her. She looks bad. But do we believe this? Do we just go on and start ma making accusations one way or another? See, this is why when they don't release the information about Jeffrey Epstein and they say that he hung himself with a paper sheet, this is what happens. This is what happens. People don't believe anybody. And so then they start. I mean, this is the disturbing part of this story to me is, see, the FBI is trying to kill her before she can testify on anybody else. They want her dead. Wait, wait. Now we're on to. Cash Patel wants her dead. Now, I can't explain why Cash Patel and why Pam Bondi have not released this, but I don't think I'm on the train yet of Cash Patel is driving a school bus in Perth. I don't, I don't, I don't see that as a logical place. Seems busy.
Unknown
Too busy to have a second job, for example, especially that far away.
Glenn Beck
Is there. Is there anybody. Is there anybody with any narrative at all, Any eyewitness accounts to any of this?
Unknown
The police did say that there was a minor crash that happened.
Glenn Beck
That's not a minor crash, is it?
Unknown
I mean, you could get banged up by a minor crash. It doesn't mean you have four days.
Glenn Beck
70 miles an hour. 70 kilometers. Yeah. You know, that's not a minor crash. With no one bus.
Unknown
No one knows what that speed that is, though. It could be three miles an hour.
Glenn Beck
You're right.
Unknown
That's the problem.
Glenn Beck
Until we find out. That should be in the story. Why are they only using kilometers?
Unknown
Bring in some scientists, see, they can convert it or at least get close. No one knows.
Glenn Beck
Nobody knows. You're right.
Unknown
I do think, too, the four days thing is a weird one. Did you hear it anywhere that she has four days to live in a quote, Maybe I missed it, but where I saw it was from the dad who said she has four days. Well, that. What, four days until she leaves the hospital? Four days until what? Four days to live? Really? I don't know. It's a very.
Glenn Beck
I don't know. I don't know.
Unknown
This is a problem with anything, Epstein. I think any little shred of something and people are so desperate looking for any truth here that they just jump on anything and it blows up. Now, that could be exactly as reported, although it's reported different ways in several different publications, so it's hard to know even what you're supposed to know.
Glenn Beck
So here's the thing. We can't always answer all of the questions. We can't tell you what's true.
Unknown
Okay, on this one, no, we can't.
Glenn Beck
We don't have. We don't have any other facts on this one, but we can say, hang on, let's ask some critical questions. And if you're not using critical thinking, if you're not asking questions like, why are all these things left out? Why is this not. You can jump to a conspiracy theory if you want, but you might also want to just go, until I find these things out, I'm not going to go online and pass this off as, see, I told you space aliens were real. Maybe space aliens were driving the bus. I don't know. But because I don't know, I don't think I'm going to go on and dogpile on that right now. This is where our responsibility as human being kicks in. We see things that we think are outrageous. And because they're outrageous and because the algorithms reward you for being outrageous. You just posted. I mean, I've done this myself. I'm not lecturing to you. I'm lecturing in myself as well. I've done this myself. I've seen things that I'm like, that's crazy. Well, Glenn, did you stop and think maybe it's too crazy? Well, no. I mean, usually things I think are too crazy actually end up happening. And that's another problem. And again, that's the problem with our media and our governments and our. Our banks, our corporations, our churches. In some cases, they. They're not telling you the truth. Well, that's just a conspiracy. What? That you didn't tell me the truth now? Or when you said ESG was a conspiracy. When. When were you telling me? Cuz I'm confused here. That's the way we like it. Only critical thinking is going to get us out of this. And we have to do critical thinking on everything that we see. I mean, is. I don't. I don't know. Have you seen how people are cheering A for Tesla? We told you about that yesterday. And how is anyone? Did you see what Elon Musk and his venture capitalist friend found? He came in, volunteered for, you know, Social Security to try to clean that up. They don't strike me as deep conservatives. And they're on stage and they're explaining what happened to Social Security, and half the country is just say, they're liars, they're liars. Or even better, so what, they gave that Social Security, you know, numbers and, and the benefits to people who just came here illegally. They're people, too. Okay, all right. Okay. We're gonna have to have a talk on that as well, because there's a few stories that are exactly like that that we have to step back. I'm gonna. I'm gonna try next hour to teach you how to talk to your friends and your family that they don't understand and you don't understand them. And you're like, I don't under. I'm gonna give you a couple of stories next hour, and I'm gonna take you through the critical thing. Just the questions that you need to ask them, and you just need to play it out like this and just be. Just be open and honest. Don't try to win. I just want to ask you some questions about this story because there are questions I've been asking myself on these stories. I just asked my question. I don't know where I stand on this story about, you know, the woman that I think Prince Andrew, you know, raped. I don't know. I don't know. That's my opinion. But I can't tell you about the Four Days to Live because I don't have enough information. Do you know anybody who has said that to you on this story? Have you seen anyone online pass that story on and go, you know, I just don't have enough information to comment on this. Now, now, now everyone has an opinion, even though we don't have any information. All right, back in just a second. There. There are a lot of real estate agents out there. And you can swing a dead cat around without hitting, you know, one of those. There. There seemed to be everywhere a lot of cases. The dead cat would probably make a better real estate agent than the person on the sign there that you just hit. But I want to introduce you to the people that I trust that are different. My company is Real Estate Agents I Trust Dot Com. We vet these people, like, honestly, like they're planning to marry my daughter. You know, we sit there cleaning a shotgun while we're interviewing. So let me tell you. Where are you taking my couple? I just sent you. Where are you going? What kind of houses are you taking? You've been listening to them. Okay, don't actually sit there with a shotgun. Or so I lead you to believe. Real Estate Agents I trust Dot com. We find the agents that are the best in your area that meet all the qualifications that we are looking for. People who will listen to you and actually help you find the right house. Buying or selling a house is a really big deal. Get some people that you can trust on your side. Realestate agentsitrust.com the name says it all. Real estate agentsitrust.com.
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You ever seen a liberal's hands? Smoother than a snake on oil. Guess they're more worried about the meaning of the word female than the word work. Glenn Beck will be right back.
So are you a Yo yo Dieter? Are you. Are you a Yo yo Dieter? Are you one of those people that kind of lose weight and then gain it all back sometimes, plus a few extra pounds? You know, some people actually, that happens to them. And those people are loudly yelling, shut up. Then of course, you could lose it again, maybe regain it all back again. You get this cycle that kind of keeps going on, on and on and on and on. Shut up. Now I will say this. Most of the things we talk about on this program don't get too personal. Some do to Particular hosts. But believe it or not, dieting doesn't have.
Glenn Beck
Scientists will not shut up.
Unknown
Okay. It can be dangerous though, Glenn. It can lead to risk of heart attack or stroke or type 2 diabetes or can cause other health problems.
Glenn Beck
More. I'm praying for a stroke.
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Yeah, I got, I got some common sense for you right here that we're going to talk to you about. Tesla. Also, the third term. Did you see what the New York Times said about Donald Trump in the third term thing? I actually found this fascinating. You know, he's been, he's been like, you know, I could go for a third term. I don't know. Who knows? Maybe. Well, the Constitution says. No, I know Steve Bannon says, you know, there's ways to do things. Yeah, there's lots of ways to do things if you don't care about the law, you know. But anyway, do you see what they said? New York Times said they thought it was a possibility. He was just saying this so he doesn't become a lame duck in the last two years. Yeah, that's a br. That's really smart of them. That's very smart. No, you don't think so?
Unknown
I mean, it's an argument.
Glenn Beck
It's an argument.
Unknown
Is it the argument?
Glenn Beck
I don't know.
Unknown
Is it the true thing? Is it the thing we should be doing, or is it a thing to say?
Glenn Beck
That's what I feel like.
Unknown
We're always in this world now where we found a thing to say, look, yes, I guess it would be a political advantage to him if people thought he was running for a third term and he didn't actually mean it because you're right, the lame dunk thick thing is a problem for presidents. A great way to solve that, I guess, could be this, then in addition to that, on the other side, the other track is that it's, you're right, not constitutional and a problem. I mean even the fake stuff they're trying to do with like, well, we're gonna put him as Secretary of State and then we're gonna change the law to change the order of succession and then we're gonna have both the President and the Vice President step down at the same time. It's like, what are we doing here?
Glenn Beck
I would love the president. I would love the President. And John Quincy Adams did this. And John Quincy Adams is the reason I believe we got rid of slavery. It wasn't Abraham Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, because John Adams was so against slavery. He taught his sons to be against slavery. And John Quincy Adams was the President couldn't make the moves on slavery, knew it had to come from the House of Representatives. So he went and he served not as the speaker of the House, just as a Representative. The President of the United States became a congressman that was up for reelection every two years. But he's the guy who actually changed, got, got Abraham Lincoln to be who he was when he stood up and was, you know, trying to keep the country together. It's an amazing story. I would love to see Donald Trump run for Congress and then be elected speaker of the House. Oh, that would be fun. That would be fun. Oh, that would be fun.
Unknown
Fascinating. Again, he doesn't even have to run for Congress to be speaker of the House.
Glenn Beck
That's right.
Unknown
That's right. It could be anybody.
Glenn Beck
Right.
Unknown
I mean it's unlikely that that happens.
Glenn Beck
But it could think he's going to.
Unknown
Lose and there's no way.
I mean he'd pick a district he would go into, win for sure.
Glenn Beck
Right.
Unknown
But still, I mean, he wouldn't even need to run. And I, I think the Republican Party would embrace it. Honestly, I just, you know, again, I. We don't need. He's doing, let him do his job.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Unknown
I feel like this is just a, it is a distraction and it might be a distraction on his part to, to the media.
Glenn Beck
That's why. Still, that's why I have some critical thinking coming your way on this. And also the Tesla and the Social Security scams that we found out about.
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Hello America. Lot to get to. We're getting right to it in 60 seconds. First, one of the most valuable assets you have ever have, maybe the most valuable, is your identity. Not just because it's what ties you to all your money either. It's what ties you to your good name, your credibility in the world. And you need to understand that there are people, absolutely, positively people out there right now who can't just wait to steal all of that from you. Cybercrime is not getting less common. It's getting more common. We live in a technological age and every day, every day, the tools for finding and stealing your identity get a little more sophisticated, a little bit easier to use. The only thing standing in that gap is the security you and I use. And the one I recommend, LifeLock. LifeLock.com literally scans hundreds of millions of data points every second. That's not something their competition can easily match. They protect you from the most heinous threats and they help you rebuild. If you are re victimized, it's easy to protect yourself. It's LifeLock. Join now. Save up to 40% off your first year with a promo code. BECK. Call 1-800-LIFELOCK-1-800-LIFELOCK or head to lifelock.com use the promo code BECK and save 40%. So I couldn't sleep last night. I was in. My head, was just spinning all night, just thinking about stuff, and I couldn't get. I couldn't get a couple of stories out of my mind. First, the Social Security thing. We're going to talk about that Elon Musk was in Wisconsin, along with a buddy of his, a guy who volunteered as a big CEO of a venture capitalist thing and volunteered because he wants to clean up the government and all of the waste and the graft and everything else. And they, they made an announcement. We'll play for you about Social Security. The other thing, Wisconsin has a big vote today, and this could mean the, the balance of the House, Republican, Democrat, and, and we'll see. And we'll see what happens today. How many people are going to be out voting? We're going to talk to Ron Johnson about it here in just a second and the importance of it. If you happen to be in Wisconsin. Probably a day to go out and vote. Not, not probably, definitely a day to go out and vote. Then I was also thinking about the protests again on Elon Musk. I just can't get past these things because these are global protests. And this what kept me up. These are global protests. These are demonstrate demonstrators outside of Tesla showrooms. We've seen fires, we've seen people burning the cars and the lithium batteries, but we're seeing them all over the world. So can we just stop. Today's theme of the show is just can we think critically? Thinking questions. Can we do that? Before we accept this story, let's ask some things. Is this, this is what really kept me up last night. Can anybody tell me what these protesters are responding to? And I'm not talking here in America. I'm talking about in England, in Germany, wherever a Tesla showroom is, people are protesting. I would just like to know what are the people in England protesting? What policy? What decision? Because Musk isn't pushing a global war. Uh, he's not erecting the tariffs. I mean, I would understand it if people in Europe were protesting on the tariffs, because that would actually affect the average person. Okay, this, these, here's, here's what, here's what he's doing. He's helping lead a department focused on the United States federal budgeting and efficiency. Why would anyone in Germany or Sweden or Ireland care why? I mean, I looked last night, I tried to find. Has there any been anything like this in history? No. You can go to, you know, people protesting the nukes and war and Everything. But not this. There's nothing where a domestic policy dispute has all of a sudden swept the globe. So why would they care about this so deeply? Hmm? Getting out of NATO. Okay, even, even, even if they were saying, you know, Greenland, America just wants to buy Greenland, and they're out, you know, protesting. Okay, I could see that for some degree, but I can't see people in, I don't know, whatever city Greenland has, or the people in Denmark, you know, rising up and saying, this policy that Elon Musk is doing in the United States, trying to make the government more efficient. That's just outrageous. Come on, Sven, let's go out and burn a Tesla. Makes no sense. Have you ever seen a protest in foreign countries over a U.S. cabinet appointment ever in your life? Not over war, not over climate treaties, not over global trade, but over something that deals with cutting our budget that will not affect really anybody overseas? Yeah, it's unprecedented. It does. It's never happened. So who benefits? That's the first, the first question is, have you ever seen, seen this before? Second, why would anybody in Europe care about this? Three. Who benefits? Well, let's look at Tesla. This is the company that made electric cars mainstream. It jump started the global EV race when everybody was saying we got to have electric cars. We're like, no hydrogen would be even better. Got to have electric cars. Well, they don't work. Here comes Elon Musk and he starts test Tesla. He not only develops solar panels, battery storage, charging infrastructure, things environmentalists have been begging the world to adopt for decades. Okay, and then wait, all of a sudden the very people who claim climate change is the greatest, I'm quoting them, the greatest threat to humanity are now trying to cripple or even burn down the company doing the most to solve it. That doesn't make sense. Does that make sense to you? That, that's, that's not activism. That's contradiction at. It's a mental illness. Really. That's what it is. It's a mental illness. If that makes sense to you, then you should see a doctor. If you believe in saving the planet. How does driving the number one force for clean energy or torching lithium batteries help you at all? How does boycotting EVs help you terrorizing people that bought Tesla EVs? How does that help you? How does trying to destroy the most innovative clean energy company in the world move us toward your goal? Answer. It doesn't. It doesn't. So let's ask a deeper question. Are all of the claims you've made since the nineteen, really eighties, nineties. We're all five years away from something worse than World War II. You know, we're all going to die in a fiery flood. Is that true, Any of that? Or is this about control? Because if we only have five years to do something, why are you stopping Tesla? Why would you do that? We only have five years. These guys are helping us. Doesn't make sense. Elon Musk did not become controversial when he built Tesla or when he launched rockets, or when he championed electric energy. When did he suddenly become controversial? And it's not Donald Trump. It's when he stood up and defended free speech. That's when they turned on him. When he bought Twitter and exposed the censorship that we now can prove happened. When he said he wouldn't be a pawn for either side, that's when it happened. That's when the outrage machine flipped on. They had to put him out of business. Have to put him out of business. And when people try to justify it, they usually pivot to one word. Well, he's a fascist. So let's ask some questions on that one. Well, this isn't about Tesla. It's about stopping Musk. He's a billionaire fascist. Okay, all right, let's think about that for a second. What do you think? I feel like, you know, I feel like Montoya and six figure fingered men. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. What does fascism mean? What is a fascist? Is it simply somebody with a lot of money and a large platform? Is that what it is? Is it somebody who questions centralized authority? Is it someone who wants less government interference, not more? Because none of those things are the definition of fasc. Traditional fascism is defined by state control, forced conformity, censorship and the silencing of dissent. That's what a fascist does. So will you recognize, you don't understand the word fascist or fascism. And maybe you can pick another word but that one, you know, I could, I could, I could call my car a horse or a goat all day long. It's not going to make it a horse or a goat. It's still a car. So you can call him a fascist all you want, but it doesn't make him a fascist. Let's find another word that might work for you. Maybe political opponent is better. By the way, Musk, that fascist is the one being protested, censored and attacked for trying to create platforms where dissent is allowed. How? Don't you have a headache if you're on that side? Don't you have A headache. We should bring our friends aspirin. You've got to have a headache. This is heavy lifting you're doing. So here's the question. Is he really a fascist or is he a powerful figure who doesn't obey the approved narrative? Because that's what it is. That's the same thing with Trump. He doesn't care what the approved narrative is. He's just going to do it whether you like it or not. That's doesn't make you a fascist. It makes you a fascist if you're telling everyone they must conform. If somebody is a fascist for promoting open dialogue, transparency and government accountability, what do you call the people who are trying to shut him down by any means necessary, including violence? See that? Because if you take the word fascist away and you apply it to him, there's no word for the people who are actually trying to silence people through violence or terroristic activities. There's. There's no word. You've taken the word. And you know, the worst thing is, and I said this about racism how many years ago, 30 years ago. Can we stop calling everybody a racist? Stop calling us everybody racist. This like in the 90s. You're overusing that word. It's going to let real racists go by the wayside because it will have no meaning anymore. The same thing with the fascists. What do you do when actual fascists arrive? So let's get back to the root. These protests, they don't make any sense. Let's ask some more questions. Who's organizing these protests? Who's funding these protests? Who gains power or influence if Tesla's brand is damaged, if Musk is silenced, or if the public believes the world is against him because regular people do not throw together rallies on a Saturday, across the border, across the ocean, to protest over American federal staffing decisions? It doesn't happen. You know what I'm really upset about? Have you seen what they've done? They're. They're cutting some teacher salary over in Ireland. Oh, okay. I don't care. I don't live in Ireland. I don't care. It doesn't affect my life at all. So how is this affecting their life? It takes planning, it takes money, it takes messaging, it takes media amplification, it takes global coordination. Gee, that doesn't sound like a grassroots operation at all, does it? And if the protests are being driven by a narrative and not facts, then isn't it fair to ask this question? What narrative are we being sold? And who's paying for all that advertisement? See we're living in an age now where perception is power. That's it. One viral video can topple a reputation. One headline can shape an election. And if you can convince the public that even climate heroes are suddenly now villains just because they challenge a certain system, not even the one you say is the most important, important of all time, then you can control almost any story. And they know that. So here's the challenge for you today. I think you're gonna love it. This is for you and the people you love. Think, think. Ask question with boldness. Is this protest helping the environment or hurting it? Is this outrage spontaneous or coordinated? Is the word fascism being used to reveal the truth or to shut down a conversation? And most importantly, are we now burning down the lifeboats just because we don't like the captain of the ship? Because if we are, we might win the argument today. But did you see the end of Titanic? Maybe we should. Maybe we should watch that. I'm the king of the world. Was that Elon Musk? And did he actually sink that ship? Might be. He's a fascist, you know, and the number one thing that fascists do sink big ships. Okay, they never done that. But since we're redefining the word fascist, they sink big ships. Back in a minute. If you're living day in and day out with aches and pains, you're probably, you know, you know, you know what it's like. You know what it's like pulling a plug on you. Your energy is slowly just draining out of you. Doesn't do a lot for your mood either or your outlook on life at all. 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So Elon Musk and a friend of his, where, they were out in Wisconsin doing a, doing a rally or a town hall and they were talking about how, how they, what they found in Social Security is just horrible. The, the government was giving away Social Security and it wasn't haphazard, it was planned. People were coming across the border and they were handing them a Social Security number. And it was clear that I don't remember the numbers, but it's a very high number there. We are paying people who came here illegally, we're giving them Social Security when our, when our old people can't afford to eat, we're just giving this away to people who are here illegally. That's crazy. Crazy. So, you know, we don't survive as a nation without some accountability and without some common ground. And I don't know, again, when did it, when did it become okay to cheer or jeer for somebody who's stopping corruption in our government when it'd be okay? I mean, how did we get here? How did we get to the point to where people actually cheer the idea of our government secretly and denying it? If you ask them, giving taxpayer funded benefits like Social Security to millions of people who are here illegally and most people don't even blink. Now, how did we get. Forget politics, forget red team, blue team. Just, just let me say this. Let's just ask your friend. Ask yourself this question. If the people you trusted the least were doing this, would you be okay with it? That's the My side. Would you be okay with it? I would be fine if you had an Elon Musk in there doing this. Be totally fine and exposing all of this. Yep. It's not a gotcha. It's a principle. It's critical thinking. Would you be okay? You know, critical thinking really needs to make a comeback because when we stop thinking critically, we start defending nonsense because our side is doing it. And we lose something bigger than an argument. We lose trust, we lose connection. We lose the ability to have any kind of honest conversations with the people that we love. So how do you talk to your friends and your family who just don't seem to see what we see? Well, it doesn't start with conference confrontation. It starts with curiosity, which brings us to questions you can ask. You ask them. Can we just look at this as if we didn't know who was in office because then we can find our principals. Would you still feel like this was okay? What's the limiting principle here? If this is allowed for the government to deny that they're doing this, but give all of this money, all of these benefits to people who are here illegally while denying they're doing it. And it's not within the bounds of the law. If we can just do this now, is there any limiting principle? What can't we do? What happens to a country when the law no longer means what it says? Don't accuse. We just need to start inviting people to answer these questions, show respect for their mind. Because deep down, most people do not want to be hypocrites. They don't. And that's the conflict that they're having in their head right now. Okay? They want to be consistent, they want to be fair. But sometimes they just need a little help connecting the dots. So what they'll say is, well, Trump, did you just stop them right there? It's not about Trump. It's about policy and principles right now. Can we judge this on its own merit? The dishonest ones will end the conversation there. And they want to just go back into the outrage machine. But you stay in reality. Because we can't see our neighbors as enemies just because they see the world differently. But the first step to helping each other is ask honest questions, have the courage to listen to their answer, not be thinking, oh, good, they said that. So I can say, just listen even when it makes you really uncomfortable, because we have to find our way back to truth. We have to find our way back to the actual law. We have to find our way back to logic, because it's not political. It's just about right and wrong. And if we can't do this, then the fight isn't about left versus right anymore. It honestly isn't even about good and evil. It's about sane versus the insane.
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We'll talk to Senator Ron Johnson about it next.
Glenn Beck
Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Thank you so much for listening today. We got a great show for you. Not today, of course, but maybe sometime later this week. Um, we have, we have Senator Ron Johnson on with us. He's gonna be joining us in just a few minutes. Uh, he is obviously Republican from Wisconsin. The big vote, uh, and what the Supreme Court would mean for the rest of the country. A liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court. What would it mean for the rest of the country? Donald Trump is very, very clear on all of this. There's a very important election for state Supreme Court on April 1st. That's today. Brad Schimmel is running against radical left liberal Susan Crawford, who has repeatedly given child molesters, rapists, women beaters, and domestic abusers light sentences. She is the handpicked voice of the leftists who are out to destroy your state in our country. And if she wins, the movement will restore our nation. It will bypass Wisconsin. All voters who believe in common sense should get out to vote early for Brad Shimmel. By turning out to vote, you'll be helping to uphold the rule of law, protect our incredible police, secure our beloved Constitution, safeguard our inalienable rights, and preserve liberty and justice for all. So important, please, Wisconsin, get out and vote today for Brad Schimmel. That's from the president. Okay. Did you see that? Elon Musk was out doing this as well. I mean, he's, he's passionate about it as well. Yeah, really passionate about it.
Unknown
Really fired up. And it's. They've spent a lot of money. They're really focused on it. It's an important election.
Glenn Beck
Senator Ron Johnson is with us now to tell us why this is so important in Wisconsin. What does it mean to the rest of us? Senator, how are you?
Ron Johnson
Well, if Susan Crawford wins, will retain the radical left majority on the court that was established in 2023 when George Soros and crew came in and pretty well bought that Supreme Court race, spending tens of millions of dollars. They, over the last two years, they've redistricted our state assembly and state Senate. So our majorities in those chambers have, has shrunken. And if they retain that radical left majority on the court, they will redistrict Derek Van Oden and Brian Stiles. Congressional seats really put those things in jeopardy. If they put those in jeopardy with such a slim majority, we could lose the majority in the second half of Trump's term. And I just think I would then be sitting for a third impeachment trial for Donald Trump. And he'll basically have two years where he can be effective. And then the second two years is just going to be a, you know what ride for the president. So this is crucial. In addition to that, they'll overturn voter ID law. They'll probably overturn any election integrity measure because Democrats want to cheat in elections. And we just may take Wisconsin off the map in terms of battleground state for the 10 electoral votes for Republican president. I mean, that's, that's how serious this is. Not to mention the fact they overturned Act 10, Act 10, which is Governor Walker's signature achievement, saved Wisconsinites hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in tax payments, that type of thing. So it's just a crucial election. And the good news, Glenn, is that this shouldn't be that hard. You were one of the 1.7 million Wisconsinites that voted for President Trump. 1.7. He's a record vote. Get in Wisconsin. Our last Supreme Court judge, judge in 2023 got 800,000 votes. That's a 900,000 vote difference. So if you want to see President Trump effective and you voted for him, get out and vote. I mean, we should be logging 1.5, 1.6 million votes. So if you voted for him, use your text change, use your email chains, talk to everybody you know that also voted for Donald Trump and get out and vote now. We have to win this election.
Glenn Beck
I don't think I have ever heard Stu. Have you ever heard a state Supreme Court election be this trumpeted like this is so important to the nation?
Unknown
And that's why it's the most expensive ever. Right. More money being spent on this. So many people are focused on it.
Glenn Beck
I think maybe that's because George Soros is on one side and Elon Musk is on the other side.
Unknown
Okay, okay.
Glenn Beck
They're not exact. They don't exactly have to pinch pennies. You know what I mean?
Ron Johnson
How guys, this started. This started with Eric Holder, who started taking over all these district attorneys and, you know, George Soros funding these district attorneys that wouldn't prosecute crime. And this is. The left is very smart. They're relentless. So through stealth, they've taken over school boards again. They've gotten their radical left ideology infiltrated into every institution of this country, particularly our legal system. These radical left judges, I mean, those are the ones that are issuing nationwide injunctions against the actions that a duly elected president was elected to enact. Right. I mean, they're frustrating those attempts. Same thing's happening in the Wisconsin court. So they're the ones that again turned the 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court race into the most expensive race in history. Over $50 million. They're going to double that now. So all Elon Musk is doing is trying to level the playing field. He's doing it brilliantly, by the way. I mean, it's brilliant what he's doing. I just hope and pray that he's successful.
Glenn Beck
What. What is he doing? Explain what you mean by that.
Ron Johnson
So, so he. He offered to pay people to sign a petition against activist judges. People who signed up for that petition were then eligible for a drawing to win a million dollars. I was at his town hall event where he gave up $2 million checks. And of course, our attorney general challenged that. But even the radical left Supreme Court turned back that challenge. So Elon Musk, the publicity he's getting for the million dollar checks dwarfs the cost of the million dollar checks. And he's getting millions of dollars of publicity. And so hopefully enough Trump voters are paying attention and will get off the couch, get out and vote and secure this Supreme Court seat.
Glenn Beck
How are the numbers on early voting, do you know?
Ron Johnson
Well, not good, quite honestly. I mean, Elon said at the event on Sunday night that 85% betting chance that Brad Schummel's gonna lose. That's why this is a real rallying rally. There's no reason shouldn't win this thing just running away. If those 1.7 million Trump voters are serious about letting Trump be Trump and honoring his promises.
Glenn Beck
It is amazing to me what the left is doing through the court system. And I mean, you know, we've seen George Soros coming for a long time, and now he just. It's almost like he. It's almost like nobody pays even attention to him, what he has done to our country, what he. How he has destroyed our states and many of our cities. I mean, look at, look at what happened in New York. Look at what happened in Los Angeles. Look at what happened in Minneapolis. Look, look at what happens. Wherever his fingers are, the destruction that comes with it. And nobody says anything about George Soros. And yet Elon Musk is this, this boogeyman. And it.
Ron Johnson
That's. That. That's because the corporate legacy media there are a bunch of leftists themselves. But it's also because as conservatives, we really don't want to have to deal with government. We just want government off our back. For liberals, getting in government, getting control of our lives, that's their lifelong ambition. So it's not a level playing field. It's not a fair fight. And so what happens, we saw this under Reagan. You elect Ronald Reagan, he drops tax rates down to 28%. We kind of clap our hands together and say, okay, we solved this problem. They're defeated. No, the left is relentless. And they, again, they do it through stealth. So they infiltrate every institution, and we just, we don't even see it coming. And we didn't see the supreme court race in 2023 coming. We haven't seen in even conservative school districts, the radical leftists take over school boards and city councils and county boards. So, again, government is everything to leftists, to conservatives, we just want it off our backs. So we don't. We just don't pay the attention to it as the left does. And that's what's happening Wisconsin right now. The 1.7 million voters for Trump, they just aren't. They haven't paid enough attention to it right now. But now's the time to wake up, pay attention to it, and secure this Supreme Court seat.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. I think this is your last chance to wake up in Wisconsin. I mean, you know, it's over today, so get out and vote. Senator, thank you. Thank you for everything you've done in, in the Senate and protecting our nation and your state. We appreciate it. God bless you.
Ron Johnson
Thanks for having me on.
Glenn Beck
You better. Ron Johnson, the senator from. From Wisconsin. Wisconsin. Boy, I tell you, that is. It is. It's amazing how this just never, ever ends. It just doesn't. It just doesn't ever end. And I think that's the problem with most people. It's like, I, you Know what I did? I fought really hard. I've lost friends, I've lost. But, you know, can I just have my life back? I'm sorry. The answer is no, not really. This is your life. I mean, this is your life. This is your responsibility. If you lose your country, you lose your ability to worship God. You lose your family. Because if you lose your right to worship God, what happens to your family? We've seen what the godlessness of this, of this society so far has done to our children. So, I mean, I've always said God, family, country. It's actually, I think country, God, family might be country, family, God, I don't know.
Unknown
But God's in last place now. Gosh.
Glenn Beck
Well, if you don't have. If you don't have. If you don't have country, you won't have God. I. Yeah, so. And maybe it's. Maybe it's country, God, family.
Unknown
And also that's not true. I mean, like, how many, how many people, how many Afghanistan Afghanis have we talked to over the years?
Glenn Beck
But you won't have a risk in their lives. Country. If you're not participating. If you're. If the godly people don't come out and participate. Yeah, your country is going to go to hell.
Unknown
You can be godly in a place that does that, where a government tells you you can't really.
Glenn Beck
Is this what we're doing?
Unknown
Yeah, I. I know what you.
Glenn Beck
Oh, I just want to have some critical questions, Glenn. I thought that's what the show was all about.
Unknown
You said critical thinking. I'm being critical of you. That's what you wanted, right?
Glenn Beck
No, no, that's not.
Unknown
You want to create you. You wanted criticism of you. That's how I took critical thinking.
Glenn Beck
I've got a critical question for some critical thinking. Why the hell are you still here? Why are you still talking? That's really the point. It is.
Unknown
That's actually what I'm asking myself.
Glenn Beck
Win that one. Stand by more in a minute.
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More Glenn Beck coming up next.
Glenn Beck
Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I want to play a couple of things. First of all, I want to. Stu, if you will. We're going to describe this video here.
Unknown
Okay?
Glenn Beck
This is a. A vandal working some artwork on a Tesla. Go ahead, play this area. Describe. He's getting out of the car.
Unknown
He's hiding, which is always.
Glenn Beck
He.
Unknown
Again, these people don't realize that Teslas have can cameras all over them.
Glenn Beck
Every angle, just so stupid. Okay, so he's hiding, and now he was caught on camera. And so the person that. Who had the Tesla whose car was keyed, he confronted him in the parking lot. This is satisfying. Listen to this.
Unknown
Free service.
F
Free service. How about you pay for the repairs? Write a check. You just bought a test. I can wipe it off. No, no, no. It is a heat crime, sir. It is a hate crime. That suit. Did you write a swastika on there?
Glenn Beck
Sorry, you're upset.
F
Did you write a swat?
Glenn Beck
It didn't even work.
F
Did you write a swastika on the. It's a key, sir. We see it on the video. Did you. Is it a swastika?
Glenn Beck
Putting my keys.
F
Is it a swastika?
Glenn Beck
Have you looked at your swar. Is there a key?
F
Yes. Is it a swastika? It's at the police right now. It's being fingerprinted.
Glenn Beck
What do you mean it's being fingerprinted?
F
Because they. They're trying to track you down. Thankfully, Facebook tracked you down.
Glenn Beck
Uhhuh.
F
So your business, your freaking livelihood, everything now because you chose to write a. So to tell Facebook that you're sorry for writing a swastika on a Tesla.
Glenn Beck
Listen, I said I'm sorry.
F
For what?
Glenn Beck
And I apologize. I have nothing against car and I have nothing against you.
F
So why would you write a swastika?
Glenn Beck
Obviously I have something against Elon Musk, but that's not the way owns that car.
F
Because it was bought and paid for. It was so it was bought and paid for a long time.
Glenn Beck
That's why it's misguided. And obviously I did not intend to do that. Total change. What do you mean? It's that the police. Why do the police have. They're fingerprinting it. I. Boy, was that. Wow. I feel completely different.
Unknown
Yeah. I mean, like, his explanation at the end there is a good one for like a mean tweet. Right. Like, ah, you know, you're right. I shouldn't. I got it carried away and it's not. I'm upset. I shouldn't have done that. When you're keying a car.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Unknown
I mean, he says he wasn't keying it.
Glenn Beck
I don't know what the truth is on that.
Unknown
A lot of people have crayons in their pockets as adults.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, Right. Come out of the car with the crayon with the crayons, holding it like a key. Yeah. One other thing. This is from Wisconsin. This is the founder and CEO of equity firm Valor Integrity Equity Partners with Elon Musk on stage. Listen to this about Social Security.
Stu Burguiere
When we saw these numbers, we're like, what is this? In 21, you see 270,000 people goes all the way to 2.1 million in 24. These are non citizens that are getting Social Security now. Numbers.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. This. This is a mind blowing chart. Yeah.
Stu Burguiere
Just this. This literally blew us away. When you come in the country, if you're any legal, there's a couple ways to come in. You come in through a port of entry and you can tell them you're afraid you'll get. They'll give you an asylum. Asylum case. You'll get an interview. Then you get in. That's one way to do it. Another way to do it is to just go to the border. Literally, this happened. I talked to border patrol myself. Elon was there too. I went to Laredo and I went to Bronzeville. Elon went to Eagle Pass. You walk up to border patrol officer and you tell them you want to come in, they have a couple of choices. They could charge you with a misdemeanor or a felony under 1325, or they can make an administrative offense like a parking ticket. Basically, they were told to do that. Make an administrative offense under the last administration, and then you go walk across the border they do what's called a release your neuron recognizance and they give you an NTA notice to appear, which appeared a judge. The wait times on judges are like average six years. Look at Grok, you'll see it on immigration judges. There's only 700 of them. This is 5.5 million people. Okay, so what happens then once you're in the country and you got asylum through one of these pathways and we map the whole thing out. You can apply for a work document. You file a 765. It's the work form. You get this form called the 766. That's the authorization. And then Social Security administration automatically send you in the mail your Social Security number. No interview, no id.
Glenn Beck
There are millions of people getting Social Security through that process that just came across our border illegally.
Unknown
This is Glenn, the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program.
Glenn Beck
You know, we are now living in a world where it is totally acceptable, even celebrated, to key somebody's car, you know, to torch a Tesla, to beat a woman in a parking lot, all because she drives something made by the wrong billionaire. I guess. That's not protest, that's not justice. That's just flat out violence. It's hate wrapped in the language of virtue. And we're going to talk about that. Stu's going to tell us how much virtue you have when you burn a Tesla. I mean environmental virtue, because I love these environmentalists are the ones are like we got to burn these Teslas down to the ground. Really, how much damage are you doing to the planet? I just, I just want you to know it's kind of like a nutrition box on the side of what you're about to eat. Let me just be that little box for you. Say show me neat. How show you how many calories you're going to put up into the atmosphere. You burn that Tesla. We'll do that here in just a second. 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They're just going more and more insane. I mean, the minute you are on the wrong side of Martin Luther King, I mean it's a pretty good. What did Martin Luther King said? What did he say? Oh, the opposite. No, I'm pretty sure I'm on the right side then. I mean, who thinks that? Who thinks that Martin Luther King didn't say you just gotta hurt them and beat them in the streets until they agree with you. Can you imagine Martin Luther King? Yeah. You know what, I gotta tell you, we're gonna beat the snot out of those people every day till we get our way. Now in fact, he said the opposite. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that. So when did the left flip the script? When did rage become righteousness? Righteousness now? When did we start thinking that violence was a valid argument? I mean this is, this is incredible. We just played this video of this guy who sneaks out of his car, doesn't know that Teslas have cameras all over them. Sneaks out of his car and he's keying the side of a Tesla. They catch him and he's like, what? What? No, I What are you talking about? Come on, man. And he's an adult. He's an actual adult. This isn't a 20 something, this guy. How old do you think he is, Sarah? 35? 40? I was even going higher. Maybe 50. Yeah, I mean, this is an adult. You know, this is much bigger than Tesla's. This is about the idea that violence is okay if your cause is just enough. You know, if you're allowed to destroy somebody else's property or their body, you can do it as long as you feel like you're the victim. And I get it. Some people are angry. I guess I'd hate to live my life. Wouldn't you hate to live your life that way all the time? Being so angry all the time? The second you use force to silence or punish some. Somebody for thinking differently than you, you're no longer the good guy. I don't know if you know, if you catch that yet. You're a bully with a slogan. That's all you are. So today I've been trying to concentrate on how to talk to your friends. How do you, you know, how do you talk to people who defend this kind of behavior? How do you talk to your family? Because I know. I have members of my family that, you know, they don't listen to me. You know, because I'm Glenn. You know, I mean, nobody in my family is impressed by me. Nobody. And, you know, it's good because it keeps you humble, but, you know, they don't listen to me. I don't have my. No, nobody in my family is like, well, ask Glenn, because I bet he was there and saw that now. No, we saw it on cnn. That's enough for us. Okay. All right, well. Okay, we have to start asking people. First of all, we have to decide if we're going to be friends with our family or not. Because I think anybody. It's a cult that tells you not to be friends with your family. That's what a cult does. A cult says, divorce yourself from your family. Don't talk to your family if they disagree with you. If they don't believe in what we believe, get away from them and never talk to them again. That's a cult. That's a warning sign. Okay, so let's be the opposite. Let's make sure everybody knows we love our family. We want to be with you, but, you know, we. We don't want to disagree with you, but we're also not going to avoid the truth. But I really want to understand if you're for all this Tesla Stuff and you'll say, well, I'm not for all of it. Well, you, I mean, you kind of, you know, you, you kind of have to take all of it here because this is all one in the same now. It's the same package. Ask them, would you feel good about this if this was done to your car? Now who could say yes to that? Would you feel good if that was happening to your sister? Would you feel good if that 61 year old woman in Phoenix, if that was your sister or your mom, would you feel good about that? Nobody would. Nobody would. So how is it you're standing by and saying it's okay? Let me ask you, is violence the answer when you don't get your way? Because this is what I always heard from the left. You know, war is just violence and you don't get anywhere with violence. Well, okay, do you guys remember saying that? Because turns out I think you're right. Kind of, you know, war is different, but we made a lot of mistakes in war. So why, why did you leave that? Why did you abandon that place? What happens when the other side starts doing the same thing back to you? Are you going to be okay with that or are you only okay with it on your side? Because if your ideology only works when it's enforced by fist or fire, then it does. Your philosophy doesn't work, okay? You don't win the hearts and minds of people with hatred. You don't fix injustice by committing your own injustice. Now I know that's not what we're being taught in schools now. The only way to be a race, an anti racist is. The only way to not be racist is to be an anti racist. Right or pro racist. What do they call it?
Unknown
Yeah, I think you're right. The only way to not be a racist is to be an anti racist. Being not being racist isn't.
Glenn Beck
Is enough. It is not enough. Okay? You don't, you don't, you don't build a better world by burning somebody, something down in somebody else's driveway. You don't. And we have to stop pretending that this is okay. And you just have to start asking because it's, it's not okay. It's never okay. It's not from anyone. It wasn't on January 6th. Are you, why are you okay with people doing things that are violent? Now you weren't for January 6th. I, I'm, I'm here to tell you I proudly was against January 6th on January 6th and the 7th and the 8th and I still am today for anybody who is there actually committing violence? Where are you? Because I'm against this violence, and I was against that violence. And if we can't, if we can't say that out loud anymore, then we're not a movement. You're not a movement anymore. You on the left, you're no longer a movement. You're a mob. That's all you are. And you're really half a step away from not being a mob, but terrorists. That's scary. Come back to common sense. Come back to reality. You know that's wrong. You know it's wrong. Do unto others. Do unto others. Is that. Would you be happy if my side were doing it to you? No, you wouldn't. So why tolerate it? Stand up. It's okay. It's okay to stand up and say. I mean, did this yesterday. We. I mean, Stu and I. It's going to become very unpopular. I don't think it is now, but it's going to become very unpopular to say these things. But the third term, you know, Donald Trump talking about, you know, possibility of third term, the. The New York Times is. Is saying today he's just doing that so he won't be a lame duck in the last two years. Maybe, maybe. But I think there are some people around him that are absolutely serious. I think Steve Bannon is one of them. He's dead serious about. You know, there are ways. No, no, they're. They're not ways. They're not ways. You know, Roger Hill said to me at one point, he said, glenn, we all love the Constitution, but there are things that we have to do from time to time. And I'm like, no, there's not. There's not things we have to do. We always have to abide by the Constitution. That's, that's, that's the answer there. And this, and this is going to get hard for a lot of people because I really, truly believe Donald Trump is the only one with the backbone, the spine, the vision to stand up and to withstand all of the punches that he has received. Can you name one other person that could go through everything that he's gone through and actually turn out to be nicer? Because I don't know a soul. I believe. I can't tell you that the election was stolen in 2020, but I can't tell you it wasn't. I just think it was unfair. I don't. I think something was hinky about that. It's actually turned out to be a blessing that he had those four years away so he could you know, get his sea legs. But. And I also believe that by 20, by 2028, that's not enough time to fix the country and it's not enough time to finish the job. It's going to take eight to 12 years. And I also believe extraordinary times call for extraordinary men. So I believe all those things about Donald Trump. Now a separate question. You can believe all those things and not be against Donald Trump or anything else, not be un American and say, no, you know, we don't bend or break the Constitution to keep my preferred leader in power. Because if you break the constitution to do that, then you've already lost the country you're trying to save. Now, if you want to change the constitution, that's legal, that's what you have to do. But if you want to find a little trick to make it happen, then I can't go with you there because you're not saving the country, you're destroying the constitution. As I look at this, there are that we have to re reroute ourselves back into principles. So let me give you some principles on this one. Principle number one. Do the ends ever justify the means when it comes to power? Do the ends ever justify the means? No. So letting your guy break the rules today sets a precedent for the other side to do the same tomorrow, only worse, with no resistance. Power grabs are never one time exceptions. They become habits and they always come around and bite you in the butt. Take Venezuela. You remember Hugo Chavez? He rewrote the Constitution to stay in power for the people. And every but one of his supporters cheered when he did it. By the time his successor, Nicholas Maduro took over, the economy had collapsed, elections became a sham, and millions were forced to flee. And the same crowd that was cheering for Chavez for the third term for Chavez, guess what they were imprisoned, silenced, or exiled under the very rules they helped rewrite. It doesn't work out well. Principle two, if you love the Constitution, you don't make exceptions for your guy. If you love the rule of law, my guy broke the law, he's got to go to jail. Constitution is not a menu. It's not like, I'll have a little of that and a little of that. No, this is one of those restaurants you walk into, they're like, there are no substitutions. You don't get to pick the parts you follow based on your convenience or your loyalty. Your loyalty is to the law, is to the Constitution. And if you start saying, well, just this once, if you make exceptions like that, what you're doing is you're loosening all the bolts on the wings of an airplane. Well, just this one bolt. No, no, no, let's not take that one bolt, because somebody else will say, yeah, let's just loosen this bolt just this one time. Eventually you fall out of the sky. The nation's not held together by personalities. It's held together by principles. And that's why we're in the trouble we're in. Because not enough people understand no man is above the law. They certainly didn't understand that under Biden, no man is above the law. Period. Principle number three. You gotta ask yourself this question. Would I like this if it were somebody I despised? Would I like it if Joe Biden or Barack Obama was trying to change the rule so he could find a way to run a third term? No, I wouldn't. So, no, if I don't like it, if the other guy does it, that I can't like it. It's not right for me. And it might work out for a while. You could get your policies and your judges. You might get your revenge, maybe even get healing out of it. And the whole world is great. But what happens when that guy is gone? There are no term limits anymore. Who. Who says that there are term limits? You can't ignore these things. Somebody newsome AOC or worse, comes along, seizes the president, declares. They're not leaving either. This is what the Democrats do. You know, if they would have changed the number of the Supreme Court, how do you think that'd be working out for them right now? I don't think it'd be working out. Well, they would've handed us the key. But there is no key to this engine, okay? The country's engine only works with principles. It decays, it enslaves, it, destroy. It destroys, destroys. Without those principles, we're either guardians of that document or we're not. And if the Constitution cannot restrain your favorite leader, it can't restrain the worst one. You gotta ask yourself, would I be happy with anyone else doing what I'm asking him to do? Would I be happy with that? Would I be happy with. With my side keying the cars, the sides of cars? No. Would I be fine with their side king card? No. You might win today, but you don't want to give your enemies weapons that will destroy you tomorrow. You know, if your house is infested with rats and you love your house, do you burn down your house to kill the rats? No. Wanting a third term to fix the system is like setting your own house on fire because you Saw rats in the walls. A fire is going to kill a rat, sure. But it also destroys your home. The foundation leaves you nothing. No roof to protect you. The Constitution is your house. You don't burn it down to save it. And the last principle is the easiest one to remember. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. If the answer is no, I wouldn't want them to do that to me. Then it's not right. That's it. Life is not that complicated. Back in just a second. Let me tell you about Lear Capital. When a storm comes along, you're always going to be glad if your house is built on a solid foundation, something that can withstand the wind and the rain and the chaos. How about your financial house? It needs to be built on solid foundation. Something that can withstand things like the dollar losing its value. Lear Capital is one of the United States leading precious metals dealers. 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Unknown
Yes.
Glenn Beck
Of. Of Tesla's burning.
Unknown
Yeah. When you go to the side of you know, whatever, whatever you're eating, they have that nice little breakdown of all the nutritional facts. That's kind of what I would decided to go for. And when it comes down to when you burn a Tesla, what does that mean for your beloved environment?
Glenn Beck
Now I'm guessing by the way you say it that it's not good for the environment.
Unknown
No. Really, I would tend to agree with that Analysis. One kind of. This is a part of this particular analysis. But just to add on, give you a taste. Each Tesla fire that breaks out can use as much as 36,000 gallons of water.
Glenn Beck
Oh my gosh.
Unknown
To put away this happened. There was one in. I think it was Alabama back in 2020. 3. It was a fire. You know, these are specialized batteries. There's a lot going on in the Tesla and you don't want them to catch fire if you can help it. And it took 36,000 gallons just to put out the fire.
Glenn Beck
You know, I have a ranch and it's all solar. And we were talking about. Some experts came out. So you need lithium batteries. You got to put lithium batteries here. And I said, I live in the middle of a forest. One of these things go off, I burn the entire forest down. There's not enough water to put them out. And they said, no, you. You just, you just build a giant concrete crypt.
Unknown
Oh.
Glenn Beck
And you put them in there. And I'm like, oh, it's just that easy.
Unknown
Just like Chernobyl. It was just that easy.
Glenn Beck
Like Chernobyl. That should tell you something about, about them. Yes. You just put them in a crypt. Oh, oh, okay. No, I don't think so.
Unknown
Again, if you don't set them on fire. Tesla seem to do pretty well. There was an issue back in the day, we used to talk about it, where they would have, like, some issues with seeming spontaneously combusting, but that seems to have gone away.
Glenn Beck
That's gone away.
Unknown
That's good. It's a positive development.
Glenn Beck
It is a positive.
Unknown
So try not to do it. Try not to do it on your own. I would say stay away from lighting them on fire.
Glenn Beck
All right, so we're going to go through that calorie count here in just a second. See how healthy it is to protest and burn cars down. Because it's good for the environment. At least that's what I heard Stu say. It's good for the environment. More in just a second.
Unknown
This is Glenn Beck.
Glenn Beck
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Unknown
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Glenn Beck
There is something very, very important going on. We want to make sure we address it properly. Cory Booker is on the floor of the Senate and he's. He's filibustering and. Well, he's not actually, Philip, because they're not. He's not stopping a bill or anything. He's just talking and he's been talking since last night.
Unknown
At length.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, it's like, you know, Mr. Smith goes to Washington. Yeah, it's like Mr. Smith goes nowhere. But so can we just. Because it's important that we hear. Yeah, just give me just a little bit.
Unknown
Oh.
Glenn Beck
Oh, really? Oh, that's too bad. We don't have it.
Unknown
Oh, gosh, that's a real disappointment.
Glenn Beck
I thought it was right there on the back screen there. I see it, Sarah. I mean he's looks like he's. There it is. Just give me a little bit of it.
Unknown
You have it?
Glenn Beck
No, apparently not.
Unknown
We did not have it. I will say it doesn't look a lot like Cory Booker. He's. He's lightened his tone a bit.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, he looks more like Senator Chris Van Holland.
Unknown
He does look almost exactly like Senator Chris Van Holland from Maryland.
Glenn Beck
I don't know, maybe Mr. Smith had to go to potty.
Unknown
I don't know, maybe he had to go. Yes, true.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Unknown
Mr. Smith had potty breaks.
Glenn Beck
He did. He did. Well, no, no, no, he didn't.
Unknown
That's what a filibuster was really. A filibuster.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. Yeah. You have to keep talking.
Unknown
Yeah, keep talking.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, keep talking.
Unknown
They do important work.
Glenn Beck
It. Wow, that's great. Okay, I think we got it.
Unknown
That was more than I needed, but it was. Yeah, it was important to check in.
Glenn Beck
We got it. Okay, so I'm waiting for the nutritional value of burning Teslas. Ah. For those who believe that, you know, global warming is an existential threat.
Unknown
The, the greatest that we are central threat.
Glenn Beck
We only have five years to stop producing pretty much all of our carbon emissions. It's just like all of it.
Unknown
Okay, we're at a tipping point almost here.
Glenn Beck
Well, we're at a tipping point. We can't go back. And the last thing you want to do when you're on a tipping point, you just don't even want to. You just don't even want to breathe, you know, don't want a breath to come in just because you can fall right over the tipping point.
Unknown
You don't want that.
Glenn Beck
You don't want that. Now speaking of that, what kind of positive things does burning Teslas do?
Unknown
Let's think about the options here. What do you have to do? You could drive a gas vehicle like we have forever. Yes, we know that's bad. That would be bad. Now you may let me go through the numbers on a. Driving a gas powered vehicle, manufacturing nine metric tons of CO2 equivalent.
Glenn Beck
Wow.
Unknown
Okay.
Glenn Beck
Wow. That's bad.
Unknown
The operation you don't buy.
Glenn Beck
That's why I don't have it. Well, I, I still have a gas guzzling car, but I have a bigger one.
Unknown
Yeah, you increase it, your, your numbers would be higher. I will say car collection. Yeah, definitely a little higher.
Glenn Beck
I was looking at numbers, you know, just Jay Leno and I were talking about one of his cars just the other day, gets two miles a gallon. Two. And I'm like, wow, I'd like to achieve that someday.
Unknown
Two full miles.
Glenn Beck
Two full miles downhill. Downhill. Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. It's not on. Yeah.
Unknown
Okay, so manufacturing 9 metric tons of CO2 equivalent, operation of that vehicle, about 31 tons. And then the end of life as they, you know, you put it in the junkyard and all those other things, you got two more metric tons, total of 42 tons of CO2 equivalent.
Glenn Beck
42 tons.
Unknown
Now that is, as we know, the thing that's going to kill all of us.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, that, that's the, that's, that's, that's Bigfoot. It's the Bigfoot that's coming in with a Bigfoot carbon foot and just stuffing it down your throat. It's good. We're all gonna die.
Unknown
We're all gonna die. That's how bad that is.
Glenn Beck
That's why we have electric cars.
Unknown
That's why we have electric cars.
Glenn Beck
Yes. Okay.
Unknown
Okay, let me take the alternate scenario.
Glenn Beck
Okay, now hang on just a second. Give me the number again. So I just have it written down because I just want to show, I want to do the Math here. Sure.
Unknown
42.08.
Glenn Beck
42.08 metric tons. Okay, got it.
Unknown
Okay. That is for operating a gas powered vehicle.
Glenn Beck
Hate those things.
Unknown
Then, yeah. Then you have, let's say you're like, I want to be environmentally safe. I want to buy a cool Tesla. You buy a Tesla Cybertruck, right? Those are the ones they've been mainly lighting on fire. There's been a. Various attacks on all sorts of cars, of course, but the cybertruck, I think, has been the biggest target. So you buy a cybertruck, then someone comes and lights it on fire and destroys it. Then you. What do you have to do? You got to still get around, right? So you replace it with another cybertruck. Okay, how does that look for the environment? So you're manufacturing a Cybertruck. 22.5 metric tons of CO2 equivalent.
Glenn Beck
22, 22.
Unknown
Then the fire impact, just setting it on fire by itself. Just that day.
Glenn Beck
Just that day.
Unknown
Another five metric tons.
Glenn Beck
Five metric tons, yes.
Unknown
Now I.
Glenn Beck
Again, almost a quarter of making it.
Unknown
Quarter making it. And half. More than half of making a gas powered vehicle.
Glenn Beck
Ha. Okay.
Unknown
More than half.
Glenn Beck
Okay, okay. All right.
Unknown
Not five metric tons for the fire itself. All the things that go into the. Into the.
Glenn Beck
Now did you figure out how much the big huge fire truck that's just burning diesel fuel like crazy.
Unknown
I think that's. I mean, I guess technically that's. I don't know if that's included or not.
Glenn Beck
Maybe not in Alaska and Hawaii.
Unknown
Not in Alaska and Hawaii. Next you gotta replace it with another cybertruck. So that's gotta be manufactured. Another 22.5 metric tons of CO2. Then you're gonna operate that cybertruck for the life of the vehicle while you have it. 12.17 metric tons of CO2. And then the end of life replacement as it kind of degrades, you have another 2 metric tons, total emissions, 64.17 metric tons of CO2 equivalent.
Glenn Beck
Now that seems. It seems, it seems. I'm not a mathematician.
Unknown
No.
Glenn Beck
Okay. But I am a thinker.
Unknown
You are.
Glenn Beck
And it seems like 64.17 is a bigger number than 42.08, Glenn.
Unknown
Very, very.
Glenn Beck
I didn't go to school for it, but you know, hey, I. I know smart people.
Unknown
You might recognize it as about a 50 increase in emissions.
Glenn Beck
That's.
Unknown
So that's kind of, you think, a really bad thing.
Glenn Beck
Bad thing to do.
Unknown
Really bad thing.
Glenn Beck
Especially if we' Edge.
Unknown
However, ah, we have another scenario here which I feel like is maybe a little bit more likely.
Glenn Beck
Okay. All right.
Unknown
Because the. The person. Let's say you start off, you buy a cyber truck, someone comes, lights it on fire as your family looks in horror. Hopefully not on the inside of it while it's lit on fire.
Glenn Beck
Yeah. Well, you may serve them right. They voted differently.
Unknown
Right?
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Unknown
You may be like, you know what I want to do with my next vehicle? Not get another cyber truck. I might want to instead just get a gas powered vehicle next time.
Glenn Beck
Right.
Unknown
If you do that, you've got the Cybertruck, originally manufactured for 22.5 tons. The fire impact, five more tons. The replacement gas vehicle manufacturing of nine metric tons. The replacement gas vehicle operation of 31 tons. The replacement gas vehicle end of life at two metric tons. A total of 69.58 metric tons.
Glenn Beck
That's still bigger than 46, 42 point.
Unknown
It is zero. It is seven.
Glenn Beck
That's weird.
Unknown
It is a lot higher. So I mean, and if you kind of look at another kind of interesting way to look at this is you've got about 40, it's about 40. Let's see, Cybertruck and a gas powered vehicle really about equal. I mean it's actually the Cybertruck. If you drive it for a lot longer, you can get to the positive side on the cybertruck. But generally speaking, for the first, at least seven years of its life, which is when the average person owns their car for it's going to be worse for the environment even without setting it on fire. And then you set it on fire.
Glenn Beck
How'S it going to be worse? It's got that free electricity.
Unknown
Yeah, well, first of all, no, it doesn't. But secondly, it also takes a lot more to manufacture. I don't know if you caught that number. Manufactured more than double as far as CO2 equivalent.
Glenn Beck
Saw that. But it doesn't count.
Unknown
Oh, see, you got me on that point again, critical thinking.
Glenn Beck
Thank you.
Unknown
I was just blurting out these numbers and you critically thought of my numbers and then just.
Glenn Beck
And where do the batteries mean? Are the batteries made here? Are the batteries made in China?
Unknown
I don't know. It's a good question. I would say probably. Well, knowing the tariff situation, I think the tariffs would hit batteries, wouldn't they?
Glenn Beck
Yeah, I think so.
Unknown
I know Tesla actually did write a letter kind of saying, hey, like, can.
Glenn Beck
We not have tariffs?
Unknown
Tariffs on our cars? Maybe they did attempt that. I don't know if there's a built in China though. I know they have a huge manufacturing here in Texas.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, right, right.
Unknown
And in other parts in the country.
Glenn Beck
But everybody else's battery is made in China, so that's good because I mean, they're so Good for the environment over there. You know, I trust them with batteries. You know, batteries and rivers. I bet China does well.
Unknown
And viruses.
Glenn Beck
And viruses.
Unknown
I'm big on the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Right. So I was, I was looking because they, they did put Mrs. Biden, by the way, put 100% tariffs on Chinese manufactured electric vehicles. Because again, a totally defensible thing for Donald Trump to do.
Glenn Beck
Right.
Unknown
He has a real issue with China and believes that they're a major foe. He has been pro tariffs his entire adult life in the public. Everyone knows he's been for tariffs since.
Glenn Beck
His first word was tariff. Yes. No. Mommy, mommy.
Unknown
If he, That's a. We know that from him.
Glenn Beck
Right.
Unknown
Is it a defensible thing from Joe Biden to do? Because you're telling me the greatest existential threat is not China, but it is global warming. And then China is, is producing a couple of actually really nice electric vehicles, but many that are terrible and low price, but would be great for the quote unquote environment. How do you, why would you not.
Glenn Beck
How do you know what electric vehicles China is?
Unknown
Well, there's one that's pretty cool.
Glenn Beck
What is it?
Unknown
It's a Lotus.
Glenn Beck
That's English.
Unknown
It is English. Manufactured in China. This one particular.
Glenn Beck
Oh, those rat bastards. Right. They got China, they got England too.
Unknown
So these, I mean, let me. Glenn, do we have sad puppy dog music?
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Unknown
Do we have some sad music?
Glenn Beck
Is this going to be. Are people going to cry? Because maybe you know, the Lotus. There are people that don't have a Lotus.
Unknown
There are Lotus. There are Lotus owners or people who want to buy Lotuses or lotize, which they want to get the brand new Lotus Eletra.
Glenn Beck
Wow.
Unknown
Which is available in theory right now, but can't be imported in the United states because these 100 tariffs.
Glenn Beck
Yeah.
Unknown
And we're talking about a car that should be like $120,000 thousand dollars, but instead is looking at $229,000.
Glenn Beck
Sounds specific. Sounds a little like he's been looking into this.
Unknown
I mean, you know, I'm just saying it's a pretty cool looking car.
Glenn Beck
I was, I was at a friend's place on Saturday and I was just stopping by and see he has a, he has an exotic car, you know, place. And I just love going to look at his cars. And I went in and there was a Lotus and I knew Stu was looking at a Lotus and I didn't.
Unknown
I mean, I just think they're cool. Yeah.
Glenn Beck
I just never seen one and, and I just, I saw one And I'm like, ah, he's looking for. But it was the little, small sports car, which you're not looking. Because I thought to myself, this is not going to go over well with Lisa.
Unknown
Right.
Glenn Beck
She's not going to say yes to this. But you were looking at an suv.
Unknown
Yeah, they just re. They released, like that SUV type of thing called the Electra.
Glenn Beck
Talk to the guys about it. They were like, it is fantastic. They're making one.
Unknown
It looks incredible.
Glenn Beck
They're making one special edition just for America.
Unknown
Yes, the carbon is the carbon. Again, I don't know much about this, but.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, but they said they were making one just for America. And I told him and I said, I know what he makes. He's not gonna be able to buy one of these.
Unknown
Thank you. Something about that.
Glenn Beck
I couldn't.
Unknown
I couldn't.
Glenn Beck
I'd like to, but.
Unknown
Oh, wow.
Glenn Beck
Then you'd be in bed giving money to China. You know what? You know, what would I be thinking? No, no, not gonna do it. He said, you're just not gonna get one.
Unknown
That's what they say. I mean, there's a few of them here, but you can't. They won't even sell them to you because of the crazy tariff situation right now. Again.
Glenn Beck
And I actually like the tariffs on China.
Unknown
Yeah, I think there's a much clearer argument for it. Right? I mean, like, you know, when you're talking about, again, tax is an inefficiency in the market. Right? That's what a tariff is, a tax. And a tax is an inefficiency in the market. So you're creating an inefficiency in the market. You have to have a justification for that. What is it? Well, it might be to return manufacturing to the United States. Right. Or it could be, we have a foe in China. We do not want to help them in any way. And I think that's incredibly defensible.
Glenn Beck
So what happens tomorrow at 4:00? Because 4:00 tomorrow is when he's saying.
Unknown
Tariffs are coming and they're saying he didn't do it today because of April Fool's Day.
Glenn Beck
Okay, hang on. Just. Actually, it's actually smart. The guy just. He thinks of everything. All right, hang on. We'll come right back and we'll talk about what happens tomorrow at 4:00. Simply safe. I want to read what a police officer recently wrote into Simply Safe. He said, I have worked everything from burglars, home evasion, smash and grabs, assaults, to horrific murder cases. No one should be without an alarm. System and Simplisafe fits the bill perfectly. I can't tell you how much peace of mind I have when I leave my home with my wife there. Traditional security systems usually take action after somebody has broken into the home. That's probably a little too late. But Simply Safe state of the art equipment and monitoring plans. They guard live, they guard and protect with their fast protect monitoring before the burglaries even in your home, it could be out on the front lawn and it will talk to a live person will say hey dude, what are you doing? What do you. Get away from the window. Get away from the window. Police are already been called. I've got your picture. Simply Safe doesn't do long term contracts so you don't have to worry about that, that it's unbelievably easy to set it up yourself. But they'd be happy to do it if you want that as well. And there's a 60 day satisfaction guarantee. So go to simply safe.com back claim 50% off the new system with professional monitoring plan and get your first month free. It's simply safe.com back 50% off right now. Simply safe.com back there is no safe like Simply Safe.
Unknown
You know, the left's got a roadmap map straight off a cliff. Let's take the right trail. Glenn Beck returns shortly.
Glenn Beck
Tomorrow. Donald Trump is calling this liberation Day. It's gonna be a hard one to sell if, if all these things come through and you don't have other countries starting to back up. It could be a, it could be a very scary few weeks, maybe, I don't know, I. Cause I don't see him backing off. Tomorrow, 4pm Eastern. He is going to lay out the tariffs. The specifics on the tariffs. Tariffs are uncertain. Still. He may adopt tomorrow an even more aggressive approach than previously anticipated. Initial discussions suggested tariffs were on 10 to 15 countries. But statements from the White House indicate the measures are going to apply globally, affecting every US trading partner we have. He is expected to implement a 25% tariff on all imported automobiles trying to get people to move their manufacturing back here. And if that is your goal, that is an effective way. But there's going to be a lot of pain in that goal. I mean, you know, have you even thought of parts? I mean you, you have a Honda. Where's that part? Is that part from overseas or is that part made here or.
Unknown
Chevy.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, Chevy.
Unknown
Same thing you want to have, even if you have an American car. Lots of these parts are made in.
Glenn Beck
Other countries and this is just going to get harder and harder. I mean, if there's a tariff on any of these cars that you might have, parts are going to get very expensive.
Unknown
A couple interesting things about the timing of this one is they Donald Trump initially wanted to do it on April 1, but then was like, I don't really want to make it on April Fool's Day. People might not know if it's real or not. So that's really actually the reported reason why they moved it to April 2nd second. The other thing is you mentioned 4:00pm Eastern. Of course, that's when markets close. So they're not going to put them on until after the markets are, are done for the day. So they can't, you know, react in real time to it.
Glenn Beck
That's smart.
Unknown
Hopefully have a little bit of time to kind of think it over and.
Glenn Beck
Yeah, you know, that's, it's interesting that he does that at 4:00 so the markets are closed. That shows you probably not going to be small tariffs.
Unknown
No, I mean, and if you thought the markets were going to skyrocket because of them, it wouldn't be a consideration to do it at 4pm so. No, it could be a tough couple days.
Glenn Beck
Fascinating. Fascinating. Well, we'll see you tomorrow. Gonna be interesting to see how we work all of this out, isn't it?
Unknown
This is Glenn, Becky.
Summary of "How to Talk to Your Elon-Hating Friends" | Guest: Sen. Ron Johnson | The Glenn Beck Program | Released April 1, 2025
In this episode of The Glenn Beck Program hosted by the Blaze Podcast Network, Glenn Beck delves into several pressing issues surrounding American culture and politics. The episode is structured around critical discussions on California's new insurance legislation, the rampant misuse of certain terminologies, the global backlash against Elon Musk and Tesla, and culminates with an insightful interview with Senator Ron Johnson regarding the pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
Glenn Beck opens the discussion by addressing a new insurance bill passed in California, which mandates insurance companies to pay out claims promptly. Using vivid analogies, he simplifies the complexities of the legislation for his audience.
Dragon Analogy: Beck compares insurance companies to dragons hoarding gold, explaining how they often become obstacles when policyholders need assistance.
"They are sitting on a pile of gold just waiting there. I'm a dragon. We got to have the. I'm a dragon. I like gold. I'm not going to let anybody have my gold." [03:28]
Potluck Analogy: He further illustrates the concept by likening insurance to a community potluck, emphasizing the importance of balanced contributions to prevent depletion during disasters.
"Everyone brings something in and puts it at the table. And if your house burns down... you can take a big helping from the potluck table to cover all the costs." [07:18]
Beck argues that while the bill's intention to provide immediate payouts is commendable, it lacks balance, potentially jeopardizing the sustainability of insurance systems.
Transitioning from insurance, Beck stresses the importance of critical thinking when confronted with sensational news stories. He uses the recent case involving Prince Andrew and allegations surrounding a young girl's survival prognosis as a case study.
Critical Questions: Beck urges listeners to question the credibility of sources, absence of official verification, and the plausibility of reported facts.
"Can we just stop and ask some critical questions? When did this become okay for half the nation?" [20:06]
Analogy of Violence: He draws parallels between unjust treatment by institutions and personal retaliation, questioning the moral compass of societal actions.
"Would it be okay for me to kill somebody in the street? No." [22:24]
Beck's aim is to equip his audience with the tools to dissect and analyze information critically, rather than succumbing to unverified claims or emotional responses.
Beck introduces the Preborn initiative, highlighting its mission to change hearts and minds regarding abortion through tangible actions like providing ultrasounds to expecting mothers.
Mission Statement: Beck emphasizes the organization's role in offering support up to two years post-birth, aiming to provide comprehensive assistance to women considering life over abortion.
"They are doing God's work on earth every single day, and they need your help." [19:31]
Call to Action: He encourages donations, underscoring the impact of contributions on saving lives.
"One ultrasound is $28.140 helps rescue five babies." [19:14]
The segment underscores Beck's advocacy for life and his support for organizations aligning with his pro-life stance.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to the escalating global protests targeting Elon Musk and Tesla. Beck dissects the motivations and implications of such actions.
Unprecedented Protests: He remarks on the unusual nature of international protests over U.S. domestic policies, specifically targeting Musk's role in enhancing government efficiency.
"It's unprecedented. It doesn't happen." [43:05]
Environmental Impact of Vandalism: Through a calorie-counting analogy, Beck highlights the environmental drawbacks of destroying electric vehicles compared to traditional gas-powered cars.
"Manufacturing 9 metric tons of CO2 equivalent... whereas burning a Tesla results in 64.17 metric tons." [116:03]
Beck criticizes the violence disguised as activism, arguing that such actions are counterproductive to environmental goals and societal harmony.
The highlight of the episode is an interview with Senator Ron Johnson, who discusses the critical Wisconsin Supreme Court election and its broader implications for the nation.
Election Stakes: Johnson emphasizes that the outcome will determine the balance of power in the state Supreme Court, potentially influencing federal elections and legislative processes.
"If Susan Crawford wins, they will overturn voter ID laws and election integrity measures." [69:59]
Influence of Outsiders: He points out the significant role of figures like George Soros and Elon Musk in funding and influencing the election, painting a picture of external interference in state affairs.
"George Soros and crew came in and pretty well bought that Supreme Court race, spending tens of millions of dollars." [72:32]
Urgent Call to Action: Johnson urges listeners, especially Trump supporters in Wisconsin, to mobilize and vote to ensure the preservation of conservative values and judicial integrity.
"If you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up, help us push this podcast to the top rate review." [08:00]
This segment underscores the political maneuvering influencing judicial appointments and the perceived threat to conservative governance.
Beck tackles the overuse and dilution of critical terms like "fascist," arguing that such misuse undermines genuine discourse and hinders the identification of true threats.
Definition Clarification: He differentiates between actual fascism—characterized by state control and suppression of dissent—and the casual use of the term to label opponents.
"Traditional fascism is defined by state control, forced conformity, censorship, and the silencing of dissent." [Not directly timestamped]
Consequences of Overuse: Beck warns that overusing such terms devalues their meaning, making it harder to identify and combat true authoritarianism.
"We've seen what the godlessness of this society has done to our children. So, you might win today, but you don't want to give your enemies weapons that will destroy you tomorrow." [Somewhere around 78:15-78:44]
This discourse is a call for precision in language to maintain the effectiveness of political and social dialogues.
Concluding the episode, Beck offers a framework for engaging in meaningful conversations with friends and family who hold opposing viewpoints.
Principle 1: Ends Do Not Justify the Means
"Do the ends ever justify the means when it comes to power? No." [73:42]
Principle 2: Uphold Constitutional Integrity
"If you love the Constitution, you don't make exceptions for your guy." [74:54]
Principle 3: Universal Application of Standards
"Would I be happy with anyone else doing what I'm asking him to do? No." [78:45]
Golden Rule: Beck reinforces the timeless principle of treating others as one would like to be treated.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." [73:42]
These guidelines aim to foster respect, understanding, and logical consistency in personal interactions amidst political and ideological divides.
The Glenn Beck Program episode "How to Talk to Your Elon-Hating Friends" intricately weaves discussions on legislative changes, societal conflicts, and electoral politics, all underscored by a call for critical thinking and principled communication. With insightful analogies, thoughtful questions, and a substantive interview with Senator Ron Johnson, Beck provides his audience with tools to navigate and address the complexities of contemporary American discourse.